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Quoddy's 400 Scarcely a Ripple In This Large Problem of Youth: Five Million Are Jobless in U. S.

UODDY VILLAGE, Me. Sept. 28.—In case you're getting alarmed, this is the last of these articles on Youth. After today I will step back into my role of old man, and | sit off somewhere and pull my whiskers. |

But since youth we have always with us, and since youth right now is in a pretty kettle of fish, it seems to me you'd better listen out this last bit of information on the young squirts of the land. Do you know these things below? They come from a survey published by the Public Affairs Committee, Inc. They show that nearly half of our young people are up a stump. 1. There are 21000000 youngsters in America between 16 and 24. 2. Three million of them are girls who have married; four million are still in school; 9 million have jobs, and—there are no jobs at all for five million who need work. 3. One-third of all the unemployed in America are between 16

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and 24. 4, The number of young people is still gairing in this country, but experts say it will reach a peak of 21,900,000 in 1944 and then drop off. 5. Half the babies born in Michigan in 1935 were born to families on relief. That the background on which the National Youth Administration set to work in 1935. Today the NYA is employing about half a million young people, most of them still trying to go to school. This project at Quoddy is something the NYA is tinkering with in an effort to do something permanent for those five million who are out of school and need work. { Up here the officials are optimistic, because they | are close to their work and can see individual results. In THEORY, the whole thing is wonderful. Without question the boys come out of here better than they went in. They have learned how to work under foremen. They come out in better physical shape. They know the fundamentals of three trades. | They have important general knowledge they didn't | have before. And in nine cases out of 10 I believe they are stimulated and go out with more of the confidence and earnestness to which youth is entitled But in ACTUALITY, it takes a better man than I am to decide whether it is worth the cost. It costs around a quarter of a million a year to run lace, giving an ‘“‘exploratory” trade education to ) boys a year. The Quoddy administrators sav the final proof of the project's value will be in: how many of the youngsters find jobs. But I don't think that's the final proof at all.

What About the 4,999,200? These 800 are the merest drop in the bucketful of 5,000,000. And if every Quoddy ‘‘graduate” should get a job, the most you could say would be that 800 bovs have been given the opportunity over the other 4 993.200. If all wouldn't

5,000,000 were thus trained by NYA, that mean that all 5.000,000 would get jobs Youth surveys have shown that an education won't get you a job where no job exists When vou get to thinking about it like this, you | just have to wander clear away from work statistics nd try to figure the hazy values of maintaining the | haracter of a people Quoddy officials admit that one of problems is what-the-heck attitude bors. Manv have never had work, and complete discouragement Others have known nothing but the dole since they reached working age, and interested in knowing anvthing else. “The Quoddy school feels it expel attitude the crea in them a new earmestness for And that seems to me about all the Government can do for youth, directly. Of course the finest thing | the Government could do for youth would be to mend the system so there would suddenly be jobs for everybody. But that’s another horse

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By Thomas L. Stokes Times Special Writer WW ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Twenty years ago a red-headed young Irishman, just turning 30, was busy at the job of building ships to ‘help America win the war’— vou recall the phrase—as assistant manager of the Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. in Massachusetts. In that capacity he came to know, and to admire, an Assistant Secretary of Navy, only a few years older, by the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt. “I saw then that he was a man who would do things,” said the younger man some vears later, recalling the Roosevelt of that day. “He was doing them then.” But he certainly could not visfriend in the White House. Nor could Joseph P. Kennedy raise the curtain of history and imagine himself as Ambassador to

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The Pigeons in Paris—and Praha, London and Berlin—Are Almost a Sure Bet to Prevent War in Europe. VACATION NOTES: PARIS I PARIS—While I'm at it, I might as well clear up the political situation. Take

it from me, there isn’t going to be any next war. For the simple reason that by the

1—Ambassador Kennedy is pictured with members of his staff leaving the American Embassy in London, Left to right are Lieut, Col. Raymond E. Lee, military attache; Herschel V, Johnson, Counsellor of the Embassy; Sir Sidney Clive, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, and Ambassador Kennedy.

2-—Ambassador Kennedy is shown leaving the English Foreigh Office.

3—President Roosevelt looks on while Mr. Kennedy is sworn in as Ambassador to England by Associate Justice Stanley Reed of the Supreme Court.

and that includes practically ev= erybody in Europe. There are some who, sincerely in the interest of peace, would have us intrude further to help bring it about; some who would go even so far as to revise the Neutrality Act so that England and France might get war ma=terials from us in event of war. Other sincere peace advocates would keep our hands entirely off. Within the whirl of these conflicting viewpoints President Roosevelt, Secretary Hull and Ambassador Kennedy must chart a course.

The President's influence is less and, at the same time, the avenues by which this country might be drawn into war fewer by virtue of the Neutrality Act, which automatically imposes an embargo on war materials with the declaration of war, and the John= son Act, forbidding foreign loans to those nations which owe us—

davs, with a “Get me Washington” and “Get me London” for conferences as the crisis develops. President Roosevelt has sought to use his influence for peace. Joe Kennedy sits at the London end, with a background of handling large business affairs, big Government jobs here. He is a practical man of sound sense, good humor and patience.

land have a way of becoming Anglocized. Joe Kennedy's Trish background should be some protection. He becomes a highly important ficure in the ne:t few critical days. ” % 5% OR this reason, he and Secretary of State Hull are reaching for their telephones these

2 = # OE KENNEDY, who went to England to do a peace-time ® and peace-promotion job, to help revive world trade by negotiating a reciprocal tariff treaty, to assist in stabilizing currencies and in= ternational exchange, to use his influence to stop the armaments race, to rcettle the world war Cameras worth $3,372000, optical| debts suddenly finds hidaself in | «t y ~ Je 18 glass worth $318.000, photographic | the mids of a yar res: “ . oe | He's a typical sort of American paper worth $444000 and other op- | : : on - | —a fellow who can make big tical goods worth $746.000 were : ok et wide variety of synthetic organic wrought into the United St fr money out of the stock market, \ La | brought into the United States from | | 5 d : compounds ranging from dyes to eX- yermanyv in 1937 | then turn around and ° a |by a famine in chemicals and other |jacves The industry could be ex-| id bang-up job of regulating it, [materials made then only in Ger- panded to meet our vm thas] Much of this equipment repre= | who can be tough as they make many—so nearly selfsufficient re-|,eegs: it already meets current sented goods that compete with | them-—and then weep publicly |garding major chemical Products american demand and does some American products of similar grade, | and uhashamed, as he did When | that no serious crisis would result. | exporting. but RO aps of ns he said farewell to his associates American scientists are still de-| Tn 1014 however, the world syn- 2nd ns ik Syreaniiol on leaving his first Government pendent on German technicians, |thetic-dye industry was almost en- | mPossible to duplicate here. job as chairman of the SEC. however, for various high grade op- tirely in German hands. Utter con- Specialized laboratory apparatus, There's the Irish in him. tical goods and scientific equipment, fusion resulted in the United States, |particularly in the glassware field, Mothers and fathers think of particularly of specialized types, and [partly because German patents con- is in many instances made only in| the Kennedys’ sons and daughthey might find their sources of tained only part of the necessary the Reich. | ters—nine of them-—and feel bet= vital apparatus dried up overnight. formulas or else formulas that were| At one time the United States was | ter. And those who are familiar | One leading import from Germany deliberately misleading. Th addition, [dependent on Germany for many of | With the influence of ambition last year Was potash—$6668.000 American chemists lacked the ex- its better surgical instruments, but| recall that Jae Kennedy would 'worth of it, up more than $4,000,000 perience for immediate application the situation has changed in recent| like very mueca to be President | aver 1936. But, if Var made it neces- of such accurate information as they | years, of the United States. sary, the United States ‘could get could get. | (Copyright, 1938) He's under the test now.

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| time the statesmen get around to the next | war, the pigeons of Paris, Praha, London | and Berlin will have everything pecked to pieces. | With everything pecked to pieces, and nothing left to plunder, what in heaven’s name is the use of getting excited about another war? That's what I'd like to know. Take the pigeons of Paris, for instance. Right now, they're hard at working eating up the Opera House. In another six months, there won't be any Opera left, provided, of course, that in the meantime the pigeons don’t lose their appetite for that sort of architecture. There won't be anything left of Notre Dame, either, Indeed, there won't be anything | left of Paris, and that goes for the other capitals as | well. I lug in the other capitals because I'm old | enough to know that if there's any one thing you | can be absolutely sure of in this topsy-turvy world, | it is that pigeons behave pretty much the same, no | matter where you go. Well, with nothing left of Paris (or Praha, London and Berlin, for that matter) what's the use of capturing them? Which brings me to the point of today’s piece, namely the discovery that the next war can’t possibly take place until Paris and the other capitals are worth capturing. Funny that nobody thought of that before. I had no idea when I started today’s piece that it would be so easy to dispose of the next war. Well, that leaves me just that much more room to attend to other things just as important. The policemen of | Paris, for instance. For the most part, the cops of | Paris are disgustingly thin. Apparently, they don’t pick them for poundage the way we do in Indianapolis. They're awfully young, too, to play the part of cops. Some, indeed, don’t look a day older than 16. On the other hand, the Paris taxidrivers are pretty antique—somewhere around 60 years, I should say. It works out, of course, that in the matter of | having things their own way, the taxi drivers put | it all over the police. And the department stores! Thev do more business | with their stands on the sidewalks than they do | inside their stores. It's a fact. The outside of a | Paris department store looks exactly like our market on a busy day. With this difference, however, that you can’t buy anything in a Paris department store between the hours of 12 and 2. That's when everybody, including the department store personnel, is | out on the boulevards sipping aperitifs, a liquid concoction which comes as close to tasting like quinine as anything I know of.

Those Important Week-Ends

Besides having his two hours off every hoon, the Parisian workman insists on having his week-end holiday, too. So much so that many establishments | don’t find it worthwhile to open on Monday. You have no idea what the week-end holiday means | to a Frenchman, Or for that matter, to a Frenche | woman. Just to cite one example: The other night in the Rue Saint-Lazarre 1 ran | across a woman exhibiting a performing turtle which |

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i lifted its right or left paw in obedience to the word of command, and even produced a creditable imitation of a prancing horse—at any rate, the kind of horses they have in Paris. When the performance was ended. the owner of course, made a collection— “for my week-end holiday,” she said. I had no idea I was going to start today’s piece | with pigeons and end with turtles. Well, it just | goes to prove that with the way things are going, it [looks as if the animals are going to inherit the | earth Gosh, T wish I knew how the Indianapolis base- | ball team is doing.

Jane Jordan—

Beware a Woman's Desire to Rule Masquerading as Love, Man Is Told.

Eee JANE JORDAN-—About 14 years ago I was married. My wife and I lived together for four years and then decided to part. She went to another | state and has been there since, We parted friends | and neither of us ever applied for a divorce. Not | that we were still in love, but just that neither cared | to marry again. Now two years ago I met a woman | who is my wife's opposite in almost every respect. Where my wife never cared whom I knew, this woman | is fiery jealous of every woman I come in contact with. I have tolerated her attitude for two years because | she is good company when all other women are ex- | eluded and because she too was married and sepa- | rated from her third husband. I felt it was unfair | for me to go with single girls when I was married, but here was a companion in the same boat. I was | not interested in any other girl, Then she got a divorce and now refuses to continue our arrangement | unless I get mine. All she can think or talk is matrimony. 1 realize that is usually every woman's aim in life, but can I depend on her jealous and suspicious accusations to be love? Can it be that she is so devoted to me that the very idea of my even being friendly with another woman is intolerable to her? Would she get over it after we were married or could 1 expect all the rest of my life to be a target for some petty, jealous suspicion every time I even looked at some other woman? Will she get over her jealousy or is that a sigh of the love I never knew in my wife? What would you suggest? CLEVE,

” » ” Answer—If three other men couldnt stand her jealous, suspicious nature, what makes you think you could? As I often have pointed out in this column, there are two kinds of jealousy—one founded on fact and one on fancy. It is the kind founded on fancy which is to be feared, for it is malady of the personality. You say that you have not been interested in any other girls during the two years that you have gone | with this woman, yet she has invented plenty of rea- | sons for jealousy. Such jealousy is indicative of a desire to rule masquerading as love. What would happen when you could no longer smile and leave when things got too hot for comfort? Irrational jealousy is not always directed toward the partner in love, but is sometimes fired by the third party in the case. Whatever the cause I do not pelieve that vou have found the love which moves the sun and stars, but only a woman who fears that others do not love her as intensely as she loves herself. JANE JORDAN,

Pat vour problems in a letter to Jame Jordan, who will answer vour guestions in this column daily,

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