Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1937 — Page 11

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

EW YORK, March 27.—All of us famous explorers have to get back into New York about once a vear to confer with our publishers. Tlave to keep up our literary contacts and discuss our forthcoming books, don’t vou know. So no sooner dig I hit town than I beat it over Park Ave. my He was quite surprised He had never seen me before, fact, he isn't my publisher. In fact, IT haven't got a publisher. 1 just made this up. But I did talk to a publisher, and I asked him a lot of insidedope questions about the book business, and he gave me the answers. I thought they were interesting, and mavbe you'll think so too. We'll put them down in question-and-answer form. Q—Does it seem to a publisher that everybody in the world is trying to write books? A—Almost. My publisher gets 66 manuscripts in an average week, and Some of the big houses get As many as 400 a week. My publisher says an editor's heart gets mighty heavy sometimes, for most of the unzollrited manuscripts are private personal tales of frustration, sadness, or misunderstanding. He Says that most of the book manuscripts submitted have some merit, but not enough. X—What chance do you have just mailing in a boak manuscript cold? A—None. Q—-What percentage of submitted book manuscripts get published? A—.001 per cent! That figure should put a crimp in some of us literary aspirants. Q—Do vou have a better chance working through an agent? A—Yes. My publisher never reads anything unless it comes in through an agent or a friend. Q—What percentage of books published break even make money? A-—About 30 per cent. Q-—~How many are pure original inspiration of the hor, and many are written on assignment? A-—-About 80 cent original inspiration. Most all novels

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Royallies on Sliding Scale —What is the average royalty to the author?

Q Usually, for a first novel, it's 10 per cent of retail price on first 5000, 12'2 per cent on next 5000, and 15 after that. Royvalty starts with very first book sold. So, an author of a first book that sold 2000 copies at $2 would get $400. Big people like Shaw and Wells start right off with 15 per cent or more. Q—How many copies must a book sell for the publisher to break even? A-—A big house, with a big list of hooks (so the overhead can be split up among more books) can sometimes break even with as few as 1000 Depending on the quality of book and size the concern, it runs from there up to 5000. Average 2000-3000 @—What is the average sale of the worst books, the ones vou hardly hear about? A—-—My publisher says he heard of a book once that didn't sell a ingle copy, though he can’t prove it. An awfully punk sale would be about 100. My publisher's worst effort sold only 200.

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id »n 4 Publishers Guess Wrong O —IDO publishers often guess wrong-—turn down sa « book to have it appear later as a best-seller? A-—Yes, they all do it now and then. My publisher's shame was in turning down the Abbe Kids’ Around the World in Eleven Years.” He savs he thinks the reason was that nobody around the office happened to have any children of the Abbe kids’ age, and hence couldn't appreciate the book. Q—Whyv publish such a vast number of books that seem obviously doomed to flop? 1s there hope for each one? A—Usually there is hope. My publisher savs fiction is absolutely guesswork, Q-—-Are many people willing to pay to have their own books published? A—Yes. About 500 a year, out of the 6000 published. Q— (To My publisher) I've just written a book that will make “Gone With the Wind" look like an also-ran. Will vou publish it? A—No. Q— (To my publisher) Have you ever personally written a book? A—Yes. It flopped.

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By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

\ ASHINGTON, Friday—And here we are in Washington! When we sank into our berths on the train last nicht, after a crowded hut very Kindlv farewell in Knoxville, Mrs. Scheider and 1 exclaimed: “How ndd it will he to find ourselves at home and have no one pay andy attention to us.” But we spoke too soon, for we forgot the number of voung people who visit Washington around Easter time As we

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this morning, there was a crowd of voungsters all labelled and with little sticks in their hands ready to start on ome trip, or else finishing their visit to the Capitol. Thev caught sight of us and there was a wild rush for the gate through which we had to pass. The Associated Press was there too in the guise sf a voung lady, who came, 1 think, primarily because che knew we would bring her some messages from her friends in Oklahoma. She only left there before Christmas, and I imagine it was rather nice to know that the newspaper fraternity in her own city had asked after her. Much mail awaits here and many questions have to be settled, for the coming week promises to be a busy one. I am glad of this little interim of quiet before the President gets in tomorrow morning.

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BATISTA—CUBA'S STRONG MAN

Head of Family

Who Admires Roosevelt

Bv HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Staff Writer HAVANA, March 27.— “Monda mas,” says the shoe shine boy of Batista, the army sergeant who, single-handed, took over a natien. Monda mas means * big they all have to say hello to him”—and they do. Thanks to the reciprocity treaty with the United States, Cuba is more prosperous than it has been for Vears. The most winter tourist season in years is drawing to a close. The wealthier citizens are returning to palatial homes on the outskirts of Havana that have been vacant for three years. The University of Havana has reopened its doors. Batista straightened out the Army and police, He has built roads and hospitals for lung diseases so prevalent in Cuba. Who is this man who in three vears transformed Cuba from a shooting gallery to a country that, from outward appearances, is orderly and marching straight ahead? Fulgencio Batista is a Fascist, of course, but he doesn’t go in for isms. All he knows is Cuba. He never has been out of his native land. He is like a child who instinctively does the right thing. His head is not cluttered up with theories and doubts. He the hard-headed and practical football coach adapting his system to the material at hand.

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ATISTA combined the Army and the police. He explains that he keeps a large part of his Army of 13.000 in uniform only to maintain discipline. These soldiers supervise public works, guide farmers and teach school. Batista is 36 and a striking figure of a man. A sergeant a little more than three years ago. he has the poise of one born to command. Perhaps that is one of the more remarkable things about him. Unlike Mussolini and Hitler, forever stiff and severe, Batista always is relaxed and perfectly at ease. Again unlike the European leaders, he has a keen sense of humor. Batista stands five feet eight and one-half inches and weighs 185 pounds. He has a tan that makes winter sun-seekers envious, and the high cheekbones of the Indian. Indeed, the opposition, which considered him an upstart at the outset of his regime, hinted that Indian blood courses in his veins. It also was whispered that he was part Negro, and that he originally hailed from Peru. But Batista claims to be pure Cuban. Little, however, is known of him before his entrance into the Army at the age of 18 in 1919. The colonel asserts that he was born of poor parents in the small town of Banes, situated in the last. eastern province of Oriente. But when political enemies got to digging into vital statistics there they found that they had been destroved ” on n

ATISTA is an inspiring speaker

and superb showman. He combs an ample head of jet black hair straight back. He has rather narrow brown eves which dart around for approval after each important statement. He is an immaculate dresser and wears a wrist watch and a ring similar to that of American Army officers. Batista prefers to be interviewed through an interpreter for fear

that otherwise some statement might be misconstrued, but occasionally switches to English that is somewhat confused once he warms up to his task. He also has a smattering of French and Russian. He smokes big, black cigars as though he enjoved them, and will hoist a glass of beer with vou, Batista has a beautiful wife and two children. Mirta, a girl of 10, and Ruben Fulgencio, a 3-year-old son whom he calls “Papo.” Batista has a splendid grasp of the international situation, Privately, he leans to the Revoltas, as he calls them, in the Spanish civil war, but says that the outcome is nothing to Cuba. What Cuba is interested in is having the war come to an end “Cuba inherited many of the defects of Spain,” asserts Batista, “but we have no more trouble. I feex. “Governments must be made to fit countries, so the Hitler reign in Germany must be what that nation needs,” reasons Batista. His only objection to it the Nazi persecution of Jews. From his remarks you gather that he believes Mussolini comes closer to having the right idea. Although his military dictatorship is certainly closely akin to fascism, Batista insists that fas cism wouldn't work in Cuba,

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PR ROOSEVELT Batista's idol, and the Cuban leader hopes to visit the United States at the first opportunity. “America gave us our independence and must help us live,” he savs. “Cubans are not much for saving. They spend all they earn, If America will keep it possible for her people to buv our sugar and tobacco, we will spend nearly all of this money in the States. We import practically evervthing we use and wear from the States.” Batista's principal interest now is having the favorable sugar treaty renewed when it expires in September. This amazing man works 18 hours a day. If someone wants to install a telephone booth he has to see Batista, Batista left home at his mother died. “I suffered as much as an old couch,” he savs, very seriously,

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Harry Grayson (left) talking with Fulgencio Batista.

and the interpreter explains that that is an old Cuban saving Young Batista worked on farms and sugar plantations and in railroad shops. “Early I obtained firsthand knowledge of my countrv's labor problems,” he said Batista added that the way to beat sit-down strikes is to adjust relationships between employers and emplovees before there is any reason for them. He points out that many owners of Cuban sugar plantations have been sent to jail for 180 days for failure to observe “social laws,” but unhesitatinglyv asserts that he would drive out sit-down strikers if they demanded more than the emplover agreed to give them, Batista was tutored bv his mother as a child and had a grade school education After that, he educated himself. n n »n FTER enlisting in the army, Batista read of Alexander the Great and Napoleon, and dreamed. He sought knowledge and came to the conclusion that the best way to get it in the service was to learn stenography and telegraphy. He became the fastest stenographer and telegraph operator on the island. Through this he became the kev man in the army's signal corps. As the reporter at many courts-martial, he made his first contacts with revolutionary figures During all his life, injustices were paraded before Batista, first as a poor boy and then through messages and trials. When the revolutionary movement started against President Gerardo Machado, Batista within the organization began to develop his program of bettering the armed forces. Many days before Batista struck on Sept. 4, 1933, he conferred with a group of sergeants and corporals with the idea of asking for a number of improvements in the army and better treatment of the classes and soldiers by officers, General Machado fled, Aug. 12, 1933, after which Batista decided to throw out all officers who had been partial to Machado. It took considerable nerve for a sergeant to tell 500 Army and Navy officers that they were washed up. After all, Batista was just a mutineer, a bandit or whatever you might have cared to

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call him. One pistol shot then, and Batista might have been just another casualty instead of the dictator and chief of stafl of the Army that he is today. Feeling that thev would be permitted to meet at the National Hotel without molestation on account of it being American-owned, the deposed officers assembled there. Batista gave them 72 hours to come out At the 73d hour, he opened fire on the $6,000,000 structure. The officers surrendered after a bombardment that lasted eight hours, during which the hotel was damaged to the extent of more than $300.000. Practically all of the senior offi-cers-—16 colonels and majors— were Killed as they stood in front of the hotel waiting to be transported to Cabanas, the modern fortress adjoining Morro Castle.

n ” » ATISTA quickly moved to take Cuba out of the anarchy and disorder that reigned following the flight of Machado. The Communists took charge of several sugar plantations and an Army captain led an uprising at Pinar del Rio. Batista drove out the Communists and made short{ work of the captain, The worst uprising against Ba-

tista took place Nov. 8, 1933, Sev= eral members of the aviation corps tossed bombs on Camp Columbia, one of them falling near Batista's residence More than 50.000 1000 soldiers were stacked against Batista's outfit in this movement, but the hig boss squelched it in 36 hours. He filled the jails with prisoners and executed aboul 100 rebels, Machado closed the University of Havana to prevent public dem-= onstrations bv students, Batista reopened it But there are no public demonstrations under his regime Batista wanted a 9-cent tax on each sack of sugar. the money to go toward the building and support, of rural schools to be con=trolled by his Civic Military Institute. President Miguel Mariano Gomez called this unconstitutional. pointing out that an appropriation already had been made for educational purposes So Batista removed Gomez and changed the Constitution. Dr. Frederico Laredo Bru, president, succeeded Gomez, He will be president until the next general election as long as he gets along with Batista. So must whoever is elected as his successor,

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Electoral College's Move

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Npecial Writer

YASHINGTON, This effort jam through Supreme Court plan 1 refer with alarm to the attempt now being made to round to the Blectoral College bhehind the Roosevelt plan, a move, friends. fraught with peril liberties. The Roosevelt court plan itself mild and conservative. It does not link with the Constitution, nor with the powers of the Court. It, deals only with the personnel seeking to offset the influence of an accidental holdover majority of

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ing, and they have executive secretary, It is developing just like the For vears a mayor was just a mayor. But now the) are organized into the “U. 8 ference of Mayors” and have become the most powerful lobby here in connection with relief appropriaMayors are now conscious of their collective strength.

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By ANTON SCHERRER

TOMORROW being what 1t is, today is a good time to talk about the old bells of Indianapolis. 1 don't know how it strikes other oldtimers, but it seems to me that we used to have more bells around here, I'm sure of it because, when I was a kid, we had not onlv the church bells to to, but the fire-engine house bells, besides. Today, bell in a church, let a fire-engine house, Indeed, the

situation is so lamentable at present that it wouldn't surprise me to learn some day that the decline of civilization dates from the time they stopped ringing the church bells, 1 can’t notice any improve= ment in the fire department either since they did away with the bells. Well, anyway, the town was full of bells when I was a kid, and among the earliest I can remember was the one in Christ Church on the Circle. Th was pretty old when 1 got around to it. Indeed, it was just the other day I learned that the old bell is now 77, going on 78, and that it cams to Indianapolis by way of Troy, N. Y If that's the case, it's probably a Meneely bell. What's more, it's probably related to the one in the tower of Independence Hall in Philadelphia which replaced the old Liberty Bell, I have reason to believe that because the Meneelvs of Troy turned out the Philadelphia bell, And it doesn’t hurt my argument to know that the Meneelys just about had the bells

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AN the bell in Christ good one, which gives me a chance to tell what, it takes to make a good bell. Tt takes 78 per cent copper and 22 per cent tin, Silver is no good, although there is a notion abroad, especially among poets, that it gives a lovely sound. There's nothing to it, A gold hell may he all right, but nobody ever got around to it, They probably never will, with the Democrats in tha saddle, To go on: A bell, when struck, must have a certain pitch followed hy what the trade calls a “hum note.’ Tn a good bell, like the old-fashioned one in Christ Church, the hum note is in exact harmony with the strike note, 1 hope you're following me. Weight, too, plays a hig part. A 2000-pound hell, like as not, will be in the key of F, and goodness anly knows what the combined weight of the Westminster Peal amounts to, I'll tell vou this much, however A Westminster Peal consists of four bells attuned to the first, fourth, fifth and sixth notes of the major scale,

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Bells Cast Here Once

FTER that, vou wouldn't think that anvhody outs side of the Meneelys would ever try casting a bell. Well, that's where you're wrong again because there was a time, believe it or not, when bells wers cast, right here in Indianapolis. I happen to know that, because the one in St, Patrick's campanile, near Fountain Square, carmes the imprimatur of Dickson & Schneider, who used to have their shop at 110 (old style) S. Delaware St. The St. Patrick's bell the one that used to hang in fire headquarters on Massachusetts Ave. and it's just enough to make me suspect that maybe all the old fire-engine house bells were made right here, Anvway, the St. Patrick's bell weighs 1060 pounds, It works out somewhere around the kev of G.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"ARCH 1937 will be long remembered hy many women who can never in their lifetime get to Washington, Hundreds of thousands of them have driven across the country from little towns and farms to see and hear Mrs. Roosevelt, the first First Lady within our memory to journey into the hinterland to speak with them.

What she had to sav didn't much matter to these women, Thev wanted to find out what Eleanor Roose= velt really looks like, what kind of clothes she wears, how she fixes her hair and whether she in any way “set, up with herself” as the country vernacular goes, Well, their curiosity has heen appeased Their verdict is favorable. They like the President's wife as much as they thought they would, and her friendliness quite won their hearts. Some of them were a bit put out because she did not. appear in startlingly stylish togs with that “beauty shop” look they so often associate with great and fortunate people. Probably none would have been so pleased with her if she really had. but they are still a little surprised over her lack of “make-up.” To them the First Lady, who could have everything she wants—or so they believe—ought to want the usual things that women desire, Mrs. Roosevelt's naturalness is her greatest asset. She is the perfect extravert type, concerned far more with outside things than with herseif. This is the reason she is such a happy, useful citizen. It is to be hoped that many of her feminine ads mirers will emulate her in certain ways. For exs ample, the President's wife invariably calls herself “Grandma” when she speaks of her children’s children.

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of what I learned about my own countrv, I should OF R, \NQU L 3 Y 0 P, \LES N E a : . 2 say every state in which I have been needs a soil { The secretary of the Electoral srosion program extending over a long period of time, | || College, a Mr. Doyle of Philadel- the Bit In § icine a In addition, it seems to me that in many states an By MILTON BRONNER | cited the jealous interest of the pointed to the fact that the figures |DPhia, has written all of the Presi- | the bit in its teeth after a Presidenintensive program in sanitation and in better stand- NEA Service Staff Correspondent | Arab states of Irak, Arabia, Egypt | showed Arabs were actually moving dential electors chosen in the last | tial election and say that ards of living needs to be inaugurated. ONDON. March 27.—Tomorrow | and Trans-Jordania and is a mat- |into Palestine from outside lands. election, Pune i Maine | ;,)0 didn’t know what was best for | It seems to me there is little knowledge about (Rs millions of Christians through- | ter of muttered RO oe npuas Thus in 1922 there were 589.177 Mos- Ey Tei Sor uy 2 pen them and shove in man ordinary rules of sanitation in many of the rural [out the world will celebrate the |©f India, which has 70,000,000 of the lems, 83790 Jews and 71,747 Chris- tO WOrk oO i 2S OA | That is power enough to tei 3 districts in the South in which we have been. The | Resurrection of Him who brought Moslem faith. tians. In 1936 there were 848342 Tn and line up support for | } Power enous" Yo venipL any 3 Clair . ay pads ’ . 7 ; ” resident, p ame holds true of some ‘of the poorer districts in |men the divine message of peace on m NOvermer. IDE: h f < Nosiens, SHS Jews and 106,474 | the Tsim FErOup. {he cities. learth and good will toward men, Oovernment issued the famous Christians. Furthermore, it has the example | And vet on that same Sunday the | Balfour declaration, with the full| Serious conflicts resulting in mur- lof the Supreme Court which exerts | land that saw His birth and Where | ®PProval of the American Sn. ges arson and ambush have a num- price to get the Roosevelt plan, | Very last ounce of power which it | He lived and died will be enjoying | ment. Its aim was to secure for ber of times marred the recent his- One price that would be too hich | 15 Sven by the Constitution and in only an uncertain, temporacy peace the Allies the powerful influence tory of the country. In the summer i he the rejuvenation of the |Addition some power which man, and verv little good will ” [of the Jews throughout the world. [of 1929 such an outbreak occurred . ’ | persons assert is not in the Consti- \ g : . li r~ | Wheh Jews Electoral College. Anything might | The Holy Land—holy to three | Later the French and Italian gov- n Jews held a meeting at the tution, Tee ; Ay their | Wailing Wall . .» | happen once the Electoral College | great monotheistic religions, Chris- | frhments gave the declaration their Ing Wall in Jerusalem. Before bavs discovered that they had some Also, this is a time of general un- | | tan. Jewish and Moslem-—which hus | anbrc Cel ch Gover t WA Nien ad over, 133 JEWS | influence in national affairs. Watch | 'St. Labor is asserting new powers | | so often been dved with men's blood It said the British Governmen and 339 wounded. There | is all of vou who are so fearful |'m the sit-down and is attempting | to force new concepts of property

What a relief it is to hear the word-—after the baby-talk names so many grandmothers call thems selves, No matter by what name she mav be called a Grandma is a Grandma, and she can't do anything to change the fact,

Your Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Fditor Journal

TS British surgeon on the Tsland of Malta whe, in 1861, first definitely described undulant fever, determined that it was spread through the milk from infected goats. When the number of goats decreased, a decrease also was noted in the number of cases of undulant fever, A person usually comes down with undulant fever 12 to 21 days after he has been exposed to the germ. The disease begins, like most infections, with a feel« ing of sickness, chilliness, and fever, then there is weakness, sweating, and continued fever. Between periods of fever, the temperature may he normal. Since this disease is not common, it sometimes is diagnosed as typhoid fever, influenza, tuberculosis, or malaria; and the doctor may even suspect inflammas tion of the appendix or the gallbladder. There are certain tests, however, which prove whether the disease is undulant fever, One of these is a blood test, which the laboratories of most state departments of health now are capable of performing satisfactorily. The doctor merely sends a specimen of blood to the laboratory, which then determines whether the patient has undulant fever, Prevention of the ailment depends, of course, on knowledge of the manner in which it is transmitted, If diseased animals are eliminated from herds, possis bility of infection will be reduced although not ene tirely banished. Certainly pasteurization of milk is important—particularly pasteurization of goat milik since this frequently is not under so strict control as is cow's milk. The danger to workers in packing plants from ine fected hogs may be averted hv suitable sanitation. Because of the general resemblance of undulant fever to typhoid, it is customarv to treat the disease along the same lines and to prevent transmission by the same methods as are applied to typhoid fever, From time to time various vaccines and serums have been developed for the treatment of undulant fever victims, As vel, however, there seems to he no evidence which establishes definitely the value of | any of these preparations,

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PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

CCORDING to Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, there are two chief obstacles to human advancement. One is the fact that man complacently accepts outworn traditions and folkways, and the other is that he seldom questions the “fundamental verities” of history. Prof. James Harvey Robinson would free man from all this and reveal the knowledge which has grown out of our own age of science and intellectual emancipation. HUMAN COMEDY (Harper), meaning the “drama of man as devised and directed by mankind itself,” is a group of essays offering an analysis of man from the historical point of view. A great deal of the material included in this book appeared previously on the pages of prominent magazines; its reappearance in convenient book form discharges Prof. Robinson's “responsibility in truly masterly fashion.”

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O introduction is needed to Cecil Roberts, author of “Gone Rustic” and “Gone Afield.” In his new book, GONE SUNWARDS (Macmillan), he turns his attention to Florida, and gives us another of his charming geographical essays. A large part of the book is taken up by the author's decision to leave dreary, rainy England for the sunshine of Florida, and with his life aboard ship on the vovage there. Rut the most interesting part of the book is that in which Mr. Roberts tells in his rambling, conversational style of his experiences in Florida—in Miami, most popular of plaverounds, and in exclusive Palm Beach, “City of Supreme Self-Satisfaction.” Mr. Roberts, a keen observer, gives us delightful pictures of the customs and history of Florida and of its natural beauties. The total result will give the reader a happy evening imagining or remembering the joys of that sunny state.

/in rougher ages, has only recently | Viewed with favor the Sablich- [YoY V6 mown Atal Sen, that our liberties will be destroyed again received its blood-bath and | ment in Palestine of a “National ut, | pefore we realize what is happening, | Tights into existence. Every group | there is no telling when the horror | Home for the Jewish People,” but it | RUT the worst of all took place wavs Sw Pe ‘lis on the march to powar, 3 ; i rent say that nothing should ! last year. The Arabs were an- | Someone is always saving that LEST 1 wi dy WIN be Sterved agin, NE Ey S ; menaces to our liberties sneak up on | I the Electoral Coliege catches | It is a case that has at wits, be done to prejudice the civil and £€red by a mew proposal about a ‘us from behind. Maybe this is it, | this fever, it might in time become | end the men who run the British religious rights of non-Jewish com- | Legislative Council. They also pro- | "Consider ‘what the Electoral Col- a point of honor with every set of | Government, which in turn holds | munities. Later the mandate, in| fessed fear at the increasing num- I . is It has been a defunct grou Presidential electors to uphold the | the mandate which President Wil. | almost identical language, prom- | Per of German Jewish immigrants. | iy en who have become rs constitutional prerogatives of the | son wisely refused to take for the |ised the same thing with the same | The Arabs started with a nation- Of men . identi | College by an assertion of independ- | : J ESL Yow _ | wide strike. They ended up with ciphers in our Presidential election : : ry eB United States. | reservations as to non-Jewish ele | wholesale destructi l- (machinery. Tt still persists only to |€hce in choosing the President. Today it is doubtful whether un- | ments. | onies. oe ruction of Jewish Lo 3 on 12 > # ; Let Roosevelt stir up the Supreme yu : S, ing of orange orchards, conform to the letter of the Con Court. But beware of awaken der any circumstances Great Brit ” # | killing and wounding Jewish settlers |stitution, a mere vestige of the past. [our Ub beware of awakening a ain would give up the land once so LMOST from the first, difficul- land, finally, ambushing British |For many years it has exerted no thirst for power in the slumbering misruled by the Turk. For Pales- ties arose. Prior to the war, | troops. England first took energetic | power whatever, Bletibral College. : tine is an important link in the | Apap Christians, Arab Moslems and | measures by increasing its armed » » That way, a5 they are saying scheme of the British Empire. Palestinian Jews lived in more or | forces to 30,000. The Arabs called . about almost everything now, mad"Wn less peaceful relations. Now fear, | off their strike and then England | HE framers of the Constitu- ness lies, HAT is plaguing the British | economic jealousies, political ani- | did what it had done a number of | . tion i rast Yo PEvBie 10 today is the conflict in prom- | mosities began to spring up. times before—it named another elect a President. nstead they ises they made during the World The Jewish Agency, cet up largely | Royal Commission to investigate the | provided that the people would HEARD IN CONGRESS War to the Arabs and the Jews, and | by Zionist organizations, consulted Palestine problem. | choose Presidential electors who Rep. Maury Maverick (DD. Tex.), each of these has its world-wide re- | with the British officials and ar-| The Jews asked for the right to |in turn select the best man for the | after Republicans blocked his repercussions. The pledge to the ranged for the number of Jewish | have increased migration of their Presidential office. Tn time, the | quest that a speech by Assistant Jews affects a race scattered all emigrants to be allowed into Pales- | people. The Arabs practically [electors waived their Constitutional | Attorney General Jackson he over the globe; which sees its core- | tine each year. | asked that Palestine be given its prerogative and became mere rub- printed in the record: No objection | ligionists ground to dust by Hitler Tel Aviv, an all-Jewish city—the | independence as Trak was. An in-|ber stamps, always casting their to wind and air, but a great speech, in Germany and little better off in | only populous one in the world—be- | vestigating commission has not vet | votes for the Presidential choice in- no! no! no! . Because a speech Rumania and Poland; which has came the largest in the Holy Land drafted its report. Then Parliament dicated by the people who elected intimates lawyers and courts are [contributed of its monev with open | with over 130,000 people, | Will debate it. There for the moment | them. not sacred, should it be suppressed? | hand SO that unfortunates could The Arabs took alarm. They be- | rests the fate of the tinv land! Electors never got together, never | The record is full of many tiresome |settle in the ancient land of their [gan to fear that they would ulti- | which is just a bit bigger than | gained any sense of group-con- | things. Why should not a good, inpeople; and that cherishes the mately be in the minority. | Vermont, but which aside from its | sciousness and above all never had | formative, intelligent and progresdream of a restored Zion. Far from Palestine being made a | immortal story in the Bible, must | a sense of power under the Con- |sive speech by a high official be inworse place for the Arabs, the Jews | be unique on earth, | stitution although the power al. serted?

The pledge to the Arabs has ex-