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Hoosier Vagabond By Emie Pyle

. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 8.—We know Rene Belbenoit so well now that we no longer look upon as a “figure.” To us he isn’t an escaped convict, nor a Cause—he is merely a man, who

Not a day has passed but that in the evening our opinion of * | Belbenoit was finer than the day before. When he arrived here he was |tired, worried and excited. His mind was still flushed from his recent journey, and he was filled with an almost hysterical zeal for his mission of abolishing Devil's Island. | Then we saw him settle into : homesickness, -and lonesomeness, ; land a sort of hurt feeling over ; : [some uncomplimentary reviews of his new book. We saw him later peel off his despair, and start to feel the beautiful things around

- him—the green and lovely country, the flowers, the

warmth, the people. And now we see him as he is—mentally at ease, Interested like all of us in little unimportant things. The hysteria is gone. He speaks seldom now about his plight, or about Devil’s Island, or his book. We talk long hours about all manner of things, and he tells us interesting stories, and we laugh a lot. It isn’t

- true that Belbenoit can no longer smile. He probably

smiles more than I do. He seems happy.

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Cheered by Wife's Letter

He is considerate, and polite." Not a fawning politeness, but that of the gentleman. And he is humble. He has no feeling at all that his fame has made him “important.” | Belbenoit had his first letter from his wife today, and he was as pleased as a child. It was written in French—three pages on the typewriter. She told him that “March of Time” had been trying to find him, in order to make a movie short. So it will probably be done here. Belbenoit is settled now in his new apartment, and

Our Town

LAST WEEK The New Yorker got around to givIng us a piece about Mildred Dilling, the Harp Lady. It’s bully good reading, especially the part that mentions Mildred’s first harp, the one she was brought up on in Indianapolis. The New Yorker says that Mildred’s first harp « was one “which had formerly belonged to Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army,” leaving you to believe that that is all there is to tell. Shucks, thai's only the beginning. When Mr. Dilling left Marion to bring his family to Indianapolis, one of the first things he did was to go in search of a music teacher for 12-year-old Mildred who had her heart set on playing the harp. He picked Mrs. Louise Schell-

| schmidt Koehne for the job. Mildred had no harp

at the time, nor for some time after, which accounts for the fact that for the better part of a year she

| turned up every day to do her practicing at the Schell-

schmidt Studio, then on Ohio St. The Dillings lived in the apartment house just north of the Murat Theater which wasn’t much out of the way and made it kind of handy for Mildred. : : Well, a monh or so before it came time to celebrate Mildred’s 13th birthday, her parents came to Mrs. Koehne with the news that they wanted to surprise their daughter with ~ harp, one she could call all her own. Not only that, but they commissioned her teacher to buy one. Mrs. Koehne went to Chicago, to Lyon & Healy, saw a dandy second-hand Erard harp

“for sale ($400) and snapped it up. Sure, the very

one The.New Yorker mentions as once having be-

‘longed to Commander Evangeline Booth of the Sal-

vation Army. The harp was sent in care of Mrs. Koehne and for a couple of weeks after that she had

- all she could do to keep it hidden from Mildred until

She Wept for Joy

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On the morning of the birthday while Mildred was reciting her lessons at Knickerbocker Hall, Mrs.

: Koehne had the harp carted over to the Dilling apart-

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The surprise party was scheduled for that afternoon. A dozen girls showed up and when Mildred appeared everybody yelled “Surprise”’—that

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—In talking with the press, Democratic National Committee members attending

* their meeting here fell all over themselves to approve

a third term for President Roosevelt.

That is natural. These committeemen were elected to their positions by their respective state delegations at ithe 1936 Democratic National Convention, a thoroughly Roosevelt body. They represent organizations which have been built up with Federal patronage. For what they have and for most of their munitions of politics, they are indebted to this Administration. They have come up with Roosevelt and they are not sawing themselves off from him prematurely. Besides, it doesn’t look quite ‘right, under their code, to seem to be biting the hand that feeds them. To declare against a third term before the President has indicated his position would smack of ingratitude toward the giver of all good things in Washington. Nothing queers a politician more quickly than to be caught

- in the role of ingrate.

- So until Mr. Roosevelt speaks, a good many national committeemen will trumpet for a third term.

Farley Looks to Hull

And National Chairman Farley will continue to assume that there is to be no third term and will look favorably in the direction of Secretary of State Cordell Hull as the man destined to emerge as the nominee,

But the situation has reached the stage where

"it will be necessary for Mr. Roosevelt to take himself

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out of it by definite action of his own, or else be prepared to see the Chicago convention draft him in

‘My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Yesterday morning and afternoon I presided at two closing sessions of the National Youth Administration conference. Some of the young NYA girls told their stories, typical of s0 many more. What has remained with me most vividly is the horrible feeling that such a vast army of young men and women are untouched by this program. Of course, the organized Youth Corps, who are in constant touch with these young people, feel their plight passionately. Many of the leaders of the Youth Corps are young people who could easily obtain jobs which would pay them far more than. any youth organization could possibly pay them. Because of what they have seen, however, and because of the idealism of youth, they

: stick where they think they can help their own

generation. The older people, sympathetic as they are, still do not feel the problem the way the young people do. I think they do not quite understand the intensity of feeling shown by the youth leaders and

i are rather frightened by it.

‘These young people show they are somewhat frightened by the fact that they cannot find answers to their problems and are in need of reggsurance.

| works every day on his third book. He is just putting on the finishing touches, and in two weeks it will be finished. : | Then he plans to go into the jungle for a month. He'll put on old clothes, and get a horse, and just

live in the jungle as he used to. The point in this is|-

to catch butterflies. " Belbenoit has already started to make friends. He has been out to the home of some local French people for dinner. And the Nicaraguan Minister, ‘who had read “Dry Guillotine” and wanted to meet the author,

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Small Farm His Ambition Two or three times a week Belbenoit goes to the

movies. Day by day he likes Costa Rica more. There |

has been one story in the papers about him, but he intends to keep himself inconspicuous. As long as the war lasts, he intends to speak no more about Devil's Island. France is still his country, and the least he can do to help is to interrupt his campaign against the prison colonies for “the duration.” :

He says his ultimate ambition is to have a little]

farm somewhere—preferably on Long Island. In fact, he and his wife had i bought a small home at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., and they intended to move out there this summer. Of course that is off now. Belbenoit left his famous “Dry Guillotine” manuscript in New York with his wife. It is the one written on cigaret papers, pieces of paper bags, any old scrap he could lay hands on. It is for sale, and he has been offered $1500 for it. But he won’t let it go for that. He feels it is worth at least twice that. And from now on he will need every cent he can get. | : He kpows how to conserve his money. He has put himself on a budget of 300 colones a month—$54— and that includes rent, meals, cigarets, movies, everything. We are glad that we were here when Belbenoit ended his flight from the United States, for he needed friends. We are glad, too, for ourselves, For we know now, without question, that Rene Belbenoit is one of the world’s true people. :

By Anton Scherrer

is to say, everybody but her mother. Mrs. Dilling, you see, was standing in front of the harp all this time to keep it hidden from Mildred. She was afraid to open her mouth for fear that any change in her position would reveal the secret. And if you skeptics don’t believe there is anybody big enough to hide a harp, allow me to say (1) that Mrs. Dilling was a rather large woman, and (2) that the harp wasn’t the very big kind they use for concert work. Finally, when Mrs. Dilling couldn't stand the excitement any longer, she stepped aside and revealed the surprise. There stood the harp in all its glory with a big red satin bow tied to its pillar. The ribbon was an contribution on the part of Mrs. Harkrader, a milliner on the Circle. She had a perfect right to be in on the celebration for she was Mildred’s

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Soon as Mildred saw the be-ribboned harp, she broke down with, joy and so contagious were her tears that everybody in the room had a good cry. 2 2. 8 |

Some Other Prize Pupils

After that, Mildred worked harder than ever. When she was 18, Mrs. Koehne presented her in a graduate recital in the little auditorium of the Athenaeum. On that occasion she played ‘Am Springbrunnen” by Zabel and ‘“Priere” by Hasselmans. Both pieces are still a part of her repertoire. For that matter, she still has her Indianapolis harp. It’s one of the 32 items in her collection of harps, one of the finest of its kind in America. Mrs. Koehne had some other prize pupils, too. There was Alice Singer, for instance. She came from Muncie and studied six years, after which she went to Paris and studied with Henriette Renie, the same beacher who gave Mildred Dilling’s playing its final polish. Marjorie Call, another prodigy, came from Roachdale and studied nine years with Mrs. Koehne. Then she tried for a Curtis Institute scholarship and won it. She studied six years with Carlos Salzedo of Philadelphia. Today she is Mr. Salzedo’s| wife. Mrs. Koehne’s latest find is Judith Meyncke an Indianapolis girl. She looks exactly like Shirley Tem-

ple. When she came to Mrs. Koehne three years ago,

she was so little that she had to start on an Irish harp. She now handles a real-for-sure one (medium size). Not long ago she won two medals for her work on Block’s Children’s Hour. And last Saturday in the finals, doggone if she didn't win the first prize ($25). :

By Raymond Clapper

an ugly fight. If he keeps silent, he can be drafted. There is sufficient organization strength to do that. It would mean a struggle in the convention, and probably a walkout by part of the party. The picture left by this fight would not be a pleasant one. It will be difficult for Mr. Roosevelt to retire after his name has been voted upon in any of the state primaries. It has been filed in Illinois, for instance. Other Democratic candidates are not likely to be filed there against him. So, unless Mr. Roosevelt is prepared to go through with a renomination, he will have to withdraw his name in Illinois before the primary. Otherwise he leaves the Democratic voters with no opportunity to indicate their preference with regard to other candidates. It is not fair for Mr. Roosevelt to remain in the Democratic primar’ unless he intends to permit himself to be renominated. ? ss 2 8

Doubts Third Term Demand

A number of National Committeemen say that in|

their states Democratic voters want Mr. Roosevelt to run again. Several of them say that this sentiment extends far beyond the regular party workers and into the rank and file. . I do not in any sense underrate the politician’s knowledge of how his people are thinking. At the same time these statements are difficult to accept. I have been out in a number of states, not only this year but in several previous Presidential years. For instance in 1936, as I went around the country, the demand for Mr. Roosevelt’s re-election was unmistakable. I found evidence of it on every hand. Using the same methods, seeing the same types of people this time, and many of the same persons, I have not found a clamor for a third term. On the contrary much was said against breaking the thirdterm precedent. It is a deep-seated tradition and I do not believe the country is ready to overturn it.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

| I wonder if the older groups will be able to meet this challenge. A continuing committee is to be appointed to carry out the findings agreed upon during these two days of conference. I hope it will lead to work in many communities that has never been done before. - In'the evening, I attended the National Democratic Forum on Peace, Unity and Co-operation, conducted under the auspices of the Women’s National Democratic Club and presided over by Mr. Denny of the New York City Forum of the Air. It seemed to me a very successful meeting and Senator | Walsh, Mr. Ernest Lindley and I remained to be questioned, even though the Postmaster-General, Mr, Farley, had to leave after his speech. The Senator from Massachusetts gave the right note of importance and knowledge to the meeting. Mr. Lindley, in his| capacity as columnist and writer, spoke on the subject from the point of view of the average citizen, and gave the note of humor which was needed to lighten the evening. I left the club at about 10:30 and went down to the Navy Relief Ball, held in the sail-loft in the Navy Yard. Here they had transformed the entrance so that you seemed to be entering the old Charleston Navy Yard. The young men and girls were dressed in the costumes of the Sixties. The Navy Relief Society is very proud of the fact that, through this organization, the families, widows and children of th in need who are in any way connected with the Navy, have been kept off {re public relief rolls, : : Ci

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Times Special Writer

Japanese Fire Schools In Attack on Chinese Culture, Says Dr. Judd

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NOTHER step in the Japanese program for destroying China is the thoroughgoing effort to wipe out every

vestige of culture.

Not content with pillage, rapine and

slaughter, the Japanese turn to blowing up schools and

universities.

their aim is to keep from the any knowledge of Chiang Kai-shek, the revolution and the great traditions of China.

This is a commandment in the military bible of the Japanese. No learning shall remain. For in the past it always has been China's superior scholarship that has conquered her conquerors. : ~ “But I'am not so sure that this will be the final outcome of this war,” commented Dr. Judd as he continued the story of China’s struggle. “In the past she has been conquered by inferior people who have been overwhelmed eventually by her tremendous culture. Now she is being conquered by a nation which is superior in military force and in its own eyes is superior in every other respect, too. “Japan, cognizant of China's facility for absorbing other people, has determined that this is not going to happen to her. She is going to be sure that there is no superior scholarship left in China. “When the Japanese went into Manchuria eight years ago,” he continued, “there were only 100 institutions ‘of higher learning, and now there isn’t a single one left—for the Chinese. There are 30,000,000 people without even a senior high school, and there will never be one—if Japan has her

way.

“As one Japanese official said to me, ‘You westerners don’t use your heads. You use your hearts. You take the Philippines, Great Britain takes India. You capture them and open a lot of schools! You take the people whom you are trying to subjugate, give them the knowledge of historic struggles for freedom, develop in them ideas of liberty, train them, and give them the" ability to organize and rise up and throw you out. What do you do that for?’ “There is no sentimental care

INDIANA PACIFISTS PLAN TO ORGANIZE

Plans for a state-wide organization of pacifists will be laid at a meeting Saturday at the Central Y. M. C. A. under the sponsorship of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, New York.

The meeting will be one of a series of Christian pacifist conference being conducted throughout the nation. E. K. Higdon will be chairman of the meeting, which will open at 1:30 p. m. Seminars and their leaders will include: Political action, Paul Harris Jr. of Washington, D. C.; work camps, pacifist training camps and stutignt peace service, Olcutt Sanders, Columbus, O., midwest field secretary of the Student Peace Service, and Mrs. Henry J. Richardson, Indianapolis; economic reconstruction, arle Brooks; pacifist education for men of draft age, Bob Belcher, West Lafayette, Ind. Mr. Higdon said the meeting i$ being held “in order that Christian pacifists may come into a clearer awareness of the spiritual resources which are theirs and into an understanding of the tasks for which they have peculiar responsibility in such times as these.”

HOMEMAKERS’ GROUP WILL MEET FEB. 15

The executive committee of the 28 Marion County Homemakers’

The group will meet with Miss Janice Berlin, Marion County Home Demonstration Agent, in her office in Room 441, the Federal Building. Dates for all club activities in 1940 will be set. and complete plans for projects in clothing, house furnishings and home management. The committee includes Mrs. Anthony Ackerman, Mrs. Ruby Daubenspeck, Mrs. Oscar Forsythe, Mrs. J. BE. Dickerson, Mrs. Lee Ras-

{mussen and Mrs. Albert Gr

Clubs will meet at 1 p. m. Feb. 15.|P2

In pointing this out Dr. Walter H. Judd declares that

mind of every growing child

in the mind of military Japan.” Dr. Judd declared. “Its forces are destroying a nation’s culture.” From the air, he continued, they drop incendiary bombs on - the universities. As they pass through villages they set fire to the grammar schools. Foreign missions, too, are the object of -gunfire—his own medical compound was struck by shells. Teachers are slain, books are "burned, students are tortured. in public’ places. , 2 8 =

NE of the most devastating methods Dr. Judd discovered through the visit of a terrorstricken old Chinese man.

“A Japanese sergeant wants to take my little girls away,” the old, man sobbed. “He wants to send them to Japan.” “What does he want them for?” asked Dr. Judd. “He says it is so they will be taught the right things,” the old man replied. “And they are only 9 and 11.” : “You bring. them to me,” said Dr. Judd, with a comforting smile. “I'll take care of them in the compound. You must tell the sergeant that I took them. And - when he drags you up here—as he surely will—you must demand that I give them up.” Well, the frightened little girls were brought to the compound. Less than an hour later the sergeant came blustering up withthe old man. “Give me my daughters,” the old man cried. “I want my children. Give them to me!” It was this protest that saved the old man’s life. It was Dr. Judd’s firm refusal to capitulate that saved the children from a harrowing trip far from their homes. After this experience Dr. Judd investigated and he found that hundreds of Chinese children had been taken from their homes and

One married woman in five in South Bend is working and suburpan areas are attracting more and more city dwellers, the first detailed tabulations of the special census taken in St. Joseph and Marshall Counties, Indiana, showed today.

Special enumeration of the two counties—both chosen as representative of metropolitan and rural life throughout the nation—took place last August to test proposed questions and enumerating techniques for the nation-wide population census beginning April 1. Commerce Secretary Harry L. Hopkins today revealed that South Bend and neighboring Mishawaka showed population losses as compared with 1930. : : South Bend’s 1930 population was 104,193. The 1939 figure was 100,087, a 39 per cent decline. Mishawaka ‘showed a 2.2 per cent decrease— from 28,630 in 1930 to 28,008 in 39. wr : he outskirts ‘of both cities, however, picked up sharply, indicating a movement of persons seeking the advantages of suburban and rural living. Figures for the rural nonfarm population in St. Joseph County revealed a 19.9 per cent gain over 1930 and the populsiion) of Plymouth, largest city in rshall Conty, was 5509, compared with 5290 in 1930. The population of the rest of Marshall County was 20,348, comred with 19,787 in 1930. Marshall County is chiefly rural. Secretary Hopkins said census experts believe the population shift in South Bend is an advance indication that the 1940 census may show similar trends in many cities. Good roads which enable residents to travel easily into town for shopping and work, cheaper housing in rural areas rear cities and other advantages of suburban life are believed to

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‘Test Census Shows Boost In Popularity of Suburbs

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Nanking’s Rockefeller Auditorjum, which was shattered by Japanese shells,

A Chinese girl student preaches behind the lines to villagers, impressing on them the necessity. of resisting the Japanese to save their country, Left, Mrs, Walter H. Judd, who taught Chinese students in the mission in Shousi Province of which Dr. Judd was chief surgeon,

sent to Japan. There they would be trained in Japanese schools and encouraged to marry Japanese. It is another phase of the cold-blooded army program to keep from the children any knowledge of the greatness of their motherland. But the more fiercely Japan fights to destroy the Chinese mind the more feverishly the nation clings to it. To Dr. Judd and to his wife who was in the mission one of the most inspiring spec-. tacles in the whole war is the: sight of Chinese refugees streaming down the road with books under their arms. They may not have food and their shoes may be worn. But they have their books of poetry and philosophy, their magazines and pamphlets of the New China. Out there in the West they will open them again under the trees —and from these books will spring the universities that the Japanese have destroyed. ; 2 = = a OU have to see the faces of these wandering students to understand what I mean,” Dr. Judd continued. “It has been a terrible journey for them. Hour after hour and day after day of trudging down dusty roads. Half starved and weary. Yet there is an eagerness, almost a joy about them. For they have their books, and these books once more will bring China back to its feet.” As a matter of fact, this enormous mass movement is helping to create a new literature in China— a literature rich in experience and feeling, he believes. The mixing of rural people with the on-moving

The percentage of females 14 years old and over in the South Bend labor ranks increased from 28.6 per cent in 1930 to 31.1 per cent in 1939. Much of the increase was attributed to a sharp rise in the number of married women working or seeking work. In spite of the slight decline in the total population, . married women in the labor ranks numbered 4568 in 1939 as compared with 3577 “gainful workers” in 1930. These

stituted 19 per cent of all married women 15 and over in 1939, whereas only 15.1 per cent of the married women in 1930 were “gainful workers.” : The census figures revealed that in the age group from 14 to 19 more than one-third of the men and nearly 40 per cent of the girls in South Bend’s labor force were out of work and looking for a job and another 6.1 per cent of the men and 1.2 per cent of the girls on NYA and other emergency work projects. : Youths aged 20 to 24 fared better in the labor market, with 21 per cent of the male workers and 14.2 per cent of the women in this age class totally unemployed. Over one-half of the unemployed youths under 25 years had never held a full-time job lasting as long as a month. : . Of the total South Bend labor force, 5.7 per cent of the men and 1.3 per cent of the women were on public emergency projects, including WPA, NYA, CCC and state and local work relief programs. Almost 11 per cent of the men and 13.4 per cent of the women were totally unemployed and seeking work. : Aft the time of the census 83.4 per cent of the men in the labor force and 85.3 per cent of the

urban folk is calling for the con=stant exchange of stories, and stories always find their way info the bulk of literature. Major Evans Carlson, United States Marines, wandered for more than a year among the Peoples’ Army in the Northwestern

part of the country. With him, .

part of the way, went five youths —a novelist, a poet, a dramatist, a journalist and a photographer. Each took a multitude of notes. When they returned to their home village each recorded in his own medium all that he had seen. This, said Major Carlson, is happening all over Northwestern China. A renaissance is developing—a renaissance fired by Japanese powder.

Major Carlson speaks Mandarin fluently. He recorded one of the new songs that was being sung by a group of Chinese boys. The tune, he recalls, has the same swing as songs like Over There and Tipperary. It reveals the spirit of defiance that is growing 'in what the Chinese write:

We have no food, we have no clothes, The enemy will send them to us, We have no rifles, we have no artillery, The enemy will make them for us. Here we were born and here we | were raised, : Every inch of the soil is ours, Whoever tries to take ‘it from us Him will we fight to the end.

The ultimate fact of the matter is just this—the Chinese will not co-operate with the Japanese in attitude, thought or politics. “There simply are no traitors of

$143,069.397 LEFT FOR PWA PROJECTS

Public. Works Administration projects . uncompleted in 21 states including Indiana total $143,069,397, according to D. R. Kennicott, director of the projeets. By April 1, the start of the second quarter. of the present production program, and at the present rate of construction, there will remain 303 projects to be completed, representing $95,636,194 of work yet to be done. = This announcement came simultaneously with that of the consolidation of three PWA regions which now have headquarters in Chicago under Mr. Kennicott.

there will be a total of $11,659,750 distributed -among 49 projects and in the next quarter there will be $7,084,276 distributed among 28 projects, according to Mr. Kennicott.

CATHOLIC COLLEGE SOLD TO NAZARENES

DANVILLE, Ill, Feb. 8 (U. P.)— St. Viator College, a Catholic institution for more than 30 years, today became Olivet Nazarene College, when trustees of the latter voted to purchase the buildings and grounds of the Catholic school in Bourbonnais, a suburb of Kankakee, Ill. The Nazarene Board of Bishops is expected to approve the transaction soon. While the purchase price was not disclosed, it is known the physical properties of the college have a valuation of approximately one million dollars. on The decision ended a search of the Middle West for the site of a Nazarene educational institution to replace Olivet College, located near

‘| Danville for 25 years, /A ‘disastrous fire on Nov. 19 destroyed some of its|

buildings. The 45 trustees meeting here represented 744 Nazarene

women were employed in private or regular governmental pursuits.

SECOND SECTION

During the Jan. 1, 1940 quarter |

on importance in this w ir,” Dr. Judd declared. “There are|no Benedict

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BY what about Wang Chinge wei?” he was asked. Wang, you will recall from rea cent headlines, was formerly ale lied with Chiang Kai-shek, but recently lie has announced that he will form a Central China ‘puppet state under Japanese domination. | “Perhaps he is a traitor. That may be true, but I'm not so sure,” Dr. Judd replied. “Old Wang is wise and shrewd and he is Chinese. Perhaps he helieves that the greatest strategy| is to stop this destructive warfare immediately before the nation is exe hausted. Then he foresees, per=haps, a long period of secret rearming in the interior at the end of which time an indomitable China would be ready to attack again.” l nN It simply is not in keeping with the Chinese character to be a traitor to his home, Dr. Judd explained. “What would his descendants say?” the doctor asked. “His descendants would be covered with shame if in looking back they should find a traitor among their ancestors. And the opinion of his descendants is of para mount = importance | to every Chinese. | A few minor details, Dr. Judd admitted, have gone over to the Japanese. But in their hearts— and in their actions as well—Dr, Judd seriously doubts whether they are faithful to their masters, Once he was talking with a judge whom he had known for years. “I am now the Japanese puppet magistrate,” the old man said, “and probably. the Chinese in the free areas would call me a traitor, But the fact remains that the young fellows can go into the hills while we older people cannotido that. #‘We have got to give concessions. We must stay here. And, besides that, we feel that the people are better off if there is some= one to act as a cushion between them and the Japanese military. “So,” continued the magistrate with a smile, “I collect the taxes.

But I manage to get at least 30

per cent out every month to the guerrillas. And the Japanese have not got a single Chinese working for them that is loyal.” How, asks Dr. Judd, can the Japanese ever hope to wipe out such resistance? :

NEXT: The Chinese Army.

HOME ECONOMICS SESSION ARRANGED

Marion County home economics teachers will meet at Ben Davis High School at 10 a. m. Saturday in connection with the third Marion County professional meeting.

Mrs. Thomas Ayton, State Fair clothing judge, will speak on “Judge ing Clothing Exhibits.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—The Catskill Mountains are in New Hampshire, New York or Vermont? 2—What species of bird is largest? 3—Where is the principal produc= tion center of the motion picture industry in the United States? 4—1Is it against the law to wash an American Flag? i 5—Name the sciences which describe and classifies the different kinds of mineral matter, constituting

the material of the earth’s crust..

6—The capital of Iran (Persia) is Baghdad, Riga or Teheran? 7—What is the I. R. A. of Ireland?

Answers

1—New York. 2—Ostrich. 3—Hollywood, Cal. . 4—No. a 5—Mineralogy. 6—Teheran. T—Irish Republican Army.

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