Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1940 — Page 21

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“in charge,

Hoosier Vagabond

A FELLOW. re urning to. his homeland from.

: oA La sees a with ‘bulging eyes. Of course.

“I haven't. been to Shangri La, but I have been to iriamba and to Paso Caballos and, yes, even to utiapa. At least I've been away. I do hope somebody noticed it. And having returned, once ' again we pick up the threads of a million trivialities that worry the life out of Americans. America is certainly a country full of answers. Everybody you meet has everything all figured out. The thing is sort of catching, and has filled even me with a great desire to pontificate. So today I'm going to tell you _. what I think about certain mat-

ters. Here we 89: i RESIDENTIAL POSSIBIL“Which one is it that comhose needed qualities of experience, depth, sincerity, plisbility of: ey dignity? Yes, which one it? Fhooey. Cordell’ Hull is the only one of ‘the lot— Demoonat, Republican -or Bull Moose—that . rd walk

; drous d the corner to vote for. =

- TERM—Are you still worrying yourselves -

sick about that? | Well, over in Shangri La we look at

it this way—Ameriga is a democracy, and the people elect their own President, and they don’t elect somebody they don't want, so what difference does it make what Mr. Roosevelt would like to do? The peo-

. ple are going to decide, aren’t they?

Confused by War

THE WAR—I{ looks just as confused to us as it does to you. It must look even more confused to the people in it.” It wouldn’t surprise me to see it end tomorrow, for I think both sides are scared stiff. It also wouldn't surprise me to see them turn loose and. wipe each other| off the map, for pride is an awful, thing, and it’s hard to be a loser. HITLER—It Is the opinion of us down in Shangri . La that whether 'Hitler wins or loses, he went too fast’

and overplayed: is hang oy Segting into war. Down

R' MELVIN HUNTER tell it, "Charles H. Black started building his first automobile early ‘in 1894 and had it|/running on the streets of Indianapolis that same year. To prove that he had something pretty good, he eb around | supper time and .drive them ‘home. That's how Benjamin Harrison and Tom Taggart ° got to ride in the first automobile. And to their everlasting credit let it be said that they weren't Fea to ride with Mr.

"Black. ~ : That sante ‘year, too, with the Jhelp. of a railroad, Mr. Black | took his-car to Chicago. Melvin | Hunter was invited to go along. The sight of ‘a buggy moving along Wabash Abe, at a spanking pace with no horses to pull it and apparently with nothing on board to give it motion was too much for the Chicago police to understand. -Sure, the cops ordered the two Indian-. apolis men to pull up at the curb. Try as he w uld{ Mr. Black ‘couldn't impress the police, in which respect he wasn't any ‘better than you and ge. Instead of cracking under the strain, however (Jike you and me), police gave him [the idea of looking up the Mayor.

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First Driver's License?

Mr. Hunter, and asked the two strangers what he could do for them. Mr. ‘Black explained that he wanted a permit to drive a “horseless vehicle” on the streets of Chicago. . | “A horseless vehicle! . What the hell is + tliat, ” asked Mayor Harrison stroking his beard vigorously. (Mr. Hunter remembers every detail of that interview). After listening to Mr. Black's description of a horseless vehicle, Mayor Harrison said he saw no reason why he shouldn’t grant the request. Mr. Hunter suspects that this was the first driver's license ever issued in America. r. Hunter [remembers two other incidents con-

5 Wisconsin’ Ss Presidential

J wy will not be lost Republican politicians. atever a good many of them k of Mr. Dewey, and some

h ingry for a ‘candidate who canj votes. ‘overcome ‘numerous objections as 0. youth, inexperience and licies. Whatever Mr. Dewey's status. .may have been a few, days. ago, he now is on his way £ and it will take a nowerful Hes combination to beat him in the convention.

‘Wisconsin was a difficult testing ground. It is a

strongly independent” state, ‘Where voters pick and]

choose.

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used to pick up prominent people

Mr. Black's run-in with the

Carter Harrison was in fine fettle ‘that day, says

That quality will,

By Ernie Pyle

ere, -we. know how thoroughly he was "already condering the world simply by pe etration. . If. hed een’ patient he’d have had it in another generation without firing a shot. WAR WRITING—We haven't seen an ‘Englishge newspaper for months, but we have read ie magazines, I like those long explanatory articles Life. It seems to me the best are by Frederick Sondern. Jr.. | THE DEPRESSION—When Sd nds of vacationers taking it e in Florida, you wish they'd at least have the grace to shut up about it| costing them so much to take care of the 10 million bums (to, them) . who are disgracing our country by being ott. of work.

see these thou-

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ch to.me is the most remarkable thing that ever ‘happened in any country. - years past, I still wake up in the night thinking out it,-and have to put my head under the pillow. | PELLOW-COLUMNISTS—I don’t know her and she doesn’t ‘know me and it means. nothing either way. but. it see to me Dorothy Kilgallen - writes a Righty good column. WATER~It seems funny to dr water out of the tap again. Down in our Shangri La you don’t de that, or you'll get your stomach full of screaming ttle meemie-weemies and have to go to the hospital. | MY FOLKS—They got through the winter all ght, with a few heavy colds but nothing. worse. The ew oil heater worked fine. - My Aun Mary was hinking about going to Finland to drive an ambuance, but the armistice stopped that. AUTOS—The ads for the new cars make me smirk. [hey all seem to be rushing madly over to canvasopped convertibles. Ha! We've been driving. one for our years, and feeling very sporty and exclusive bout it. LOVE—Love it's wonderful. | So is peace. And now. And sunshine. And pretty girls. And Mrs. osevelt and Westbrook Pegler and Camel cigarets nd U. S..Steel and Arrow shirts and Old Dutch leanser. Mighty glad to be a your fine couni sir,

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nected with the Carter Harrison interview. When the permit was issued, Mr. Harrison reached for his hat and went with Black and Hunter to where the horsehing for himself. He didn’t change his mind after he aw it. You bet, it surprised the police. | And in the course of that same interview; says Mr. unter, Mr. Black discovered that, once upon a Himes. e and Carter Harrison went to the same school. may have had something to do with Mr. Sonsois readiness to grant a driver’s license. Upon his return from Chicago, Mr. Black did some-. thing as amazitf® as anything in his career. By the ay of an illustrated catalog, he told the world that he was in the business of building automobiles. Mr. unter has one of the old catalogs. I saw it with my own eyes. 2. 8 = ; Y:* . > Mr. Black Gives: Up 1 The catalog cover carried the announcement: “The C. H. Black Manufacturing Co. Builders of Hydro“|Carbon and Electrical Equipped Vehicles for Business|. and Pleasure: Motors, ‘Batteries, Spark. Coils, Bodies or Running" ‘Parts—Finished or in the White, 44S. Pennsylvania “St.” : 1 The inside of the catalog had pictures and deserips tions of something like half-a-dozen automeébile ‘models, including a “Physician's Phaeton” ($800); a “Dos-a-Dos Trap’ ($750): a “Business Wagan” ($600) ;. a “Light Delivery” ($750), and a “Wagonette” | ($1300) which was described as ‘being big enough to hold 10 people. All these models, were one-cylinders. In’ 1898, however, Mr. Hunter with his own hands ‘made the first two-cylinder around here. It went into a truck for a furniture dealer in Elwood. After three or four years of automobile building, in the course of which he made at least one example ‘of each cataloged model, Mr. Black moved his shop

Ito Ohio St., just east of Delaware, and stopped mak-

ing cars. He réturned to his old trade of carriage‘maker. ‘As for Mr. Hunter, he stayed 16 years with Mr. Black. When he went into business for himself, Mr. Hunter made the body for the first gasolineoperated patrol wagon in Indiana. The police up in Peru ordered it. It surprised me, too.

By Raymond Cond

the voters liked Dewey in general more than Van- | denberg. It was essentially a choice between two men, with issues obscure. One primary does not decide a nomination, But a poor showing would have done no end .of damage to Mr. Dewey, because he has had to carry the liability of his youth and inexperience in national affairs. Until Senator Taft and Senator Vandenberg démonstrate similar vote-pulling strength, it will be impossible any longer to laugh Mr. Dewey off with the crack ‘that he is still in knee pants.

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The. Roosevelt Vote

President Roosevelt's Smashing majority over ‘Vice President Garner was expected and it adds nothing to what was already known, namely that the voters go for Roosevelt. It does not make a third term any more likely than before, because no one has ques-

against! any. other individual candidate. , But to | infer [from the Wisconsin result that he would win a ' third-term election is going too far. Add Mr. Garner's ' vote to the Republican vote and Mr.. Roosevelt would have trouble carrying Wisconsin if the election vote

His Wagers No Help

The vote is very much in the nature of a per-

sonal triumph for Mr. Dewey. Some of his man

agers were in the amateur class, and the inside ‘stories of some of the arrangements, or lack of them, on Mr, Dewey's recent tour sound like an account of an amateur theatrical. They even took: the

“trouble to denounce “certain newspaper columnists,

whose opinions are made to order for a price,” apparently thinking that newspapermen play "the game the way politicians do. There was no sharp cleavage on issues .to i

_tinguish Dewey and Vandenberg, especially after Mr

Dewey shifted’ his emphasis on foreign policy towar a more isolationist line. The result apparently turne to a considerable degree upon the question whether

My Day |

SAN "FRANCISCO, cal, Thursday. —Here we ‘con oh e yesterday's description of my day in the i valley. e saw another type of migratory labo: amp; Where ¥ individuals own whatever they pu

piece of land. Here each one has hii own water pipe, but it is fre -quently immediately next to th outside toilet. The shelter pu up by the individual is built of boxes, scraps of tin, even hags, in fact, dnything which can b picked up for .nothing is used. When one individual move out, he has the right to sell t strange conglomeration to another. One young man, who wa sweeping in his yard, told x that he had moved in the day before and had paid $27 for what I saw. He, his wife and thre chilldien were planning to live there and he had job! ‘The tato harvest is about to begin. Men hay been out of work a long time but now digging pota: “toes offers work again. We visited the Kern County camp where the count -authorides take some’ responsibility, The land is “free, they pit in water and electricity and peopl are given sites on which to pitch their tents. In thi camp there ie recreation hall with a WPA work attempt is made to have a plann

Tegreation, program and .to give! some instruction |

were cast in the same proportions as in the primaries

* .It| is no more feasible for Mr. Roosevelt to run than | before the Wisconsin primary. He would still ‘have to face a fight from the forces of Vice President Garner and. National Chairman Farley: And now Mrs. Roosevelt ‘has said" that :she is opposed to a. third term . unless: there is some extraordinary emergency. No President can force a third-term nomination against the quality of opposition that will be offered at the convention, and go before the country in an appealing light. Mr. Roosevelt has allowed himself to be placed in an equivocal position by permitting his name to go into the Presidential primaries. But I think that in time it will devélop that his purpose in permitting this was not to run

himself but to prevent other factions from obtaining :

a dominating: postion in the convention. :

By Eleanor Roosevelt

weaving and rug wighing. There are also some fs and a washing machine installed by the county. There ‘are more toilets and even a few. showers, but the tents are pitched on the ground and in wet weather it is deep in mu "Several. people yesterday had to change their sites because they were flooded out. Their pitiful belongos 5s were stacked up waiting to be moved. In hot ther, all these camps must be well nigh unbearable. This county camp, of course, is better, but even here living conditions are hardly what we call decent. Outside of almost every little village or town, many of which look as though they had sprung up themselves in the last few years, you will find on the outskirts the type of private and squatters camps which I described in yesterday's column. . We visited the Mineral King Ranch, which is a co-operative farm leased by 13 families near Visalia. These families live in| inexpensive houses. They do real farming. and have a chance for a really worth while life, if they have the wisdom to stick together and believe in the goodwill of their advisers. Finally, 1 saw two Government camps, one at Shafter and one at Visalia. For migratory workers, these camps indicate possible standards for decent existence, There is a nursery school for ‘the youngsters, there are playing grounds for the elders, there are clinics and, . in Shafter, a co-operative store.. Above all, they are * run 'by the people themselves so that democracy may - be seen in action. OW

| CONFUCIUS. SAY—Reminds me of tree-sitting, Even though tree-sitting: A

You 1940 convertible- SE are just sheep. |

By Anton Scherrér

ess vehicle was parked. He said he wanted to.see the|

tioned his popular strength within the party as|

‘groups for additional recreational

| would form a basis for the board's

{annually receivés| numerous peti-

Barrymore Tells U.S. of Need Se To Be Glamorous

(Second of a Series)

By Douglas Gilbert

Tes Special Writer OHN BARRYMORE. has always been an antic. Since he was a young ham he has generally regarded

“his private life as public -

an actor to keep bringing his name before the public, first by the demecnstration of his talent and likewise by other means that. may suggest to people that he is an interesting ' and glamorous character.” ~The Revenue Bureau said: no,’ but Jack never quit as a Merry Andrew. Today he considers a man a sucker .if he takes: him serjously. The only thing he seems ever to have had any regard for is “Hamlet” and. his: role. - in ‘Tolstoy's - “Redemptioti” 2 And. of “Hamlet” he once rer : “It’s ‘a tough play on the roadis: You can't slip a local gag in it.” “% . ‘The ad libbing in his current show “My Dear Children,” the: turkey he clowned into a hit, has been. received with gleeful sur‘prise by his gullible audiences. It is old stuff with Barrymore. _ Ethel once dragged him in to sub for Francis Byrne, an actor who * supported her in Clyde Fitch's “Captain Jinks of the Horse Maripes.” Byrne's mother had died. Jack went on for him and forgot his lines. “Hell, he said, to the horrified actor who faced him. “I've dried up. Where do we go from here?” In one of his early plays he had a beautiful death scene, the lines of which read: “And now goodby, goodby. Give my love to all - your dear ones.” But if some explosive asthmatic in the audience annoyed him, he said: “And now goodby, goodby. Give my love to all your dear ones. And don’t forget Uncle Luke's cough. He was

Collier;

+ “miean. ‘Bu

"Courtesy the Harvard Library:

~ the darunedest. hacker I ever

heard. » LH fe : ® ‘8 8 E ! oh have developed his ad lib tendency from Willie with whom Barrymore’ served a long apprenticeship, first, in the “Dictator,” which the pair played in New York, London,

‘throughout America and Austra-

lia. Collier was a grand trouper and Barrymore freely admits he

learned much: fromr the great

farceur. His family believed, and those who are left probably ‘still believe,

‘that he needed more discipline -than ‘learning.

A recalcitrant

youth, he had small patience with ‘even the puny restrictions Uncle John and his parents attempted BL

ct.’ houg] ‘he"tersely sums up his attitude toward his actor family’s Philadelphia household in a sen-

‘tence, revealing as well his indifference to the theater.

“They were forever talking shop, in conversation: nine feet high,” he said. | In turn, Uncle John Drew spitted him nicely in 1906 when Jack was on his initial tour with Collier. That, few need be reminded, was the year of the San Francisco earthquake, or fire. Jack was in town with the play the “Dictator” and the first shock tumbled him, terror-stricken, from his bed. Hastily donning a few clothes he rushed to the street and almost into the arms

of a company of United. States -

Marines, who promptly put him to work with others, assisting the wounded, removing the dead and clearing the debris. Some weeks later | when the semblance of or@er was restored, Jack wrote a lengthy letter to his sister Ethel describing his

sufferings and the harrowing de-

tails of which he was a part.

wilful, he was never =

She dutifully read it to John ~ Drew and when she came to the . part wherein Jack told of his ~lahor undef the direction of the marines Uncle John interrupted.

“Sounds _ reasonable,” he said. oIt would take an act of God t get him out of bed and the United, States marines to. put him to work.” Laziness Jack has developed to a virtue. 2 o ”

HEN Barrymorereturned

from Australia the season-

ing he had undergone, although recognized in the profession, still was unapparent to the reviewers. He had been styled “capricioys,” “whimsical” and (zounds) a “pupet.” . But it is virtually impossible to discourage an actor, still less a Barrymore, and he kept on—indeed, took aver the lead. from Arnold Daly in “The Boys of Company B.” Those were. ‘the lush days. of tie théater when a player like Daly, assured of town engagements, could hoot at the road. Something piddling in a piece called “Toddles” followed (briefly) and thereafter he won his “C” for Cohan by playing a song and dance man in a “Stubborn Cinderella.” ‘Such is the sectionalism of America it ran two years in Chicago, but in the uncouth if . highly descriptive argot of Broadway .it was a ‘“‘stinker” in New York and most of us got little chance to observe the Cohanesque Barrymore cavort—to music. After Cinderella closed, such frou-frou as “Princess Zim Zim,” the “Fortune Hunter,” “Uncle Sam,” “Half a Husband” and ‘Believe Me, Xantippe,” interspersed with’ heavier roles in the “Yellow

Ticket,” and “Kick In” (which he

loathed), paid his room rent, soul hire, and weekly tab at the cor-

ner pub. He was still to become

established.

* And soon he was with “Justice”

—the name of Galsworthy’s great

Left—A vintage Barrymore; dashing they called it “in 1900. Center: Our hero in curls for the girls in “Stubborn Cinderella.”

Right—But gaze at this! Elaine should have known him then (1920), :

play. Falder, the defaulting clerk. A “self-effacing performance,” said the reviewers. It may have been in the play. But the.result actually

brought him to the fore as one of .

America’s greatest actors. “Justice” was a flop in its try--out performances; never being able to. live down—on the road— its unfortunate opening in New Haven. Barrymore, as Falder, was shown in one scene | imprisoned behind. bars which, of course, for stage purposes were wooden.’ Laying into the role with scen= ery-chewing vigor; Barrymore in-

advertently ~ broke the wooden .

bars, spoiling the scene. : 2 a =a

N New York, “Justice,” opening:

in ‘April, 1916, at the Candler Foeass (now the Harris, a 42d

t. grind), was a smash, acclaimed” for its: writing as eli as Barry-

more's: perfor Jack was “now Hight up there and, trading on his and the play's success, he teamed with Lionel for production of the Du Maurier ‘Peter Ibbetson.” Curiously, proucers shied from it and, as a last tab, Jack went. to Al H. Woods, whose specialty was bedroom farces. 7. “But ‘what kind of a play is it, Jack? asked the skeptical Al “Can't: ‘you tell me something about it?” “Well,” said Barrymore, “there's onie scene in it where Lionel calls me a ——— and I hit him over thé’ head ‘and. knock him cold.” “0. K.,? said Al. “Ill take it.” That ‘was 1917. The following year he began the series of his greatest roles with Tolstoy's “Re-

demption,” under Arthur Hopkins,

who subsequently presented | the star, as he now was, in “The Jest,” “Richard III” and, after the unfertunate interlude of “Claire de Lune,” “Hamlet.” “Claire -de Lune,” which was written by Michael Strange, Bar-

an Actor,” HC

In it he played William only: beeause of ‘his off ]

4 PE because he ha

Photo from Bartymore's «cg nfsssions of courtesy of the Bobbs-Merrill 0. 3 § y

rymore’s second wife,’ whom he married as Mrs. Leonard Thomas (Blanche Oelrichs) and is now Mrs, Harrison Tweed, the mother of Diana,’ Barrymore's aughter, rates mention in passing. Besides playing in Ethel), John designed the scenery for the first and second acts and the male costumes, while Ethel composed some of t e incidental music.

it (with

It: flopped. “Mzimed,” as Jack erved, - “by loving kindness. i" semed

entirely filled - with dwarfs a Bari1ymores.” 2 #8 | A LTHOUGH Fine bo.

him a gold mine, loften he and. not ffi and on stage antics. Barrymore never relished runs and would close & hit show the momen he was bored or felt stale. Block-long lines‘ that send producers into ecstasy never meant a [pins to

drove them nearly crazy

He hated the “Jest,” ni 1919 hit, to wear nile green tights in his role of ‘Giannetto Malespini. “So the thing had to turn out to be a success and °I was stuck,” {he says.

But not too long. e closed the

~ show, and, ‘while Arthur Hopkins

tore his hair, the box office refunded a $30,000 advance sale of tickets. | Barrymore opened in Hemet” November, 1922, at the [Sam H. Harris Theater. "He played it 101 times, beating: Booth's run by one - ‘performanc (John. Gielgud holds the record+<132 consecutive performances, 1936-1937). Barrymore, at the close: bf7his engagement, went on tour. He'set a record at the for 0 in Philadelphia—$36,-

086.50 ‘for the week, and in Boston played to $33, 484.88. These are Follies ‘figures. But after eight weeks Barrymore closed his Hamlet’ in Cleveland. “I was tired,” he said. hat Mr. Hopkins said is unprintable. The play is a load for ny man, but Barrymore had plenty of diversion, especially in Washington where he| and Hopkins visited President | Coolidge during the Capital ru v There a e two versions of this historic meeting. One is [that Mr. Coolidge confessed to Jack that fate or“destiny frustrated his ambition to he an actor. Ba rymore’s

to*me,” said Jack, re- : incident, ‘I saw you play Hamlet. ‘1 saw E. H. Sothern play Hamlet. His clothes were prettier than yours. »

NEXT — Family life nd the

movies. -

RECREATIONAL GROUP URGED

Proposed as Segment of Park Board to Study “Citizens’ Pleas. A plan to organize a permanent

committee of the Park Board: to investigate = petitions of citizens’

facilities - was under consideration in City Hall today The idea was broachéd by Albert Gisler, board vice president, after the board named three officials to investigate the petition of South Side P.-T. A. groups for a community center. Mr. Gisler said consider these typ greater thoroug fact-finding - gro

the Board could

- whose report

‘decision. He pointed out the board: -Itions which take time to- look into thoroughly. The committee would consist of Park officials and members of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan’s committee on recreation, according to the pian. Board members, favoring the proposal, said they would present it to the advisory committee. The board yesterday named Mr. Gisler - and Miss Gertrude 'V. ‘Brown, ‘board members, and Recreation Director H. W. Middlesworth to look into. the request for the community center. :

that the City lease School 61, which .|was abandoned in February, from the School Board, as a community house to serve four South Side grade schools.

NEW - PHONES INSTALLED Times Special GARY, Ind., April 5.—The Illinois Bell Telephone Co, has announced that 737 subscribers in the Hamroond © district no longer will be forced to. use the old type crank telephones. The company has ind and bat-

stalled a new switehbo

THE STORY OF DEMOCRACY

By Hendrik Willem van Loon * (ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR)

of requests with | ess through aj:

: French had’ dutting the. prolonged dictato

The South ‘Side groups proposed :

tery system at the c a 3

of $5400), sighis of

. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE .

N case of the French Revolution

the law of Plato again func=

| tioned with startling accuracy.

The unbearable tyranny of a king had led to a revolution which had placed all the power in the hands of the people.

‘The “people, totally untrained §

for the job that awaited them, ‘had, as always, followed the easiest way out—they allowed them-

“selves to be swayed by breast :

beating ‘orators of ‘the Cleon type and indulged -in an orgy of violence and bloodshed. In the end, the ever-present but quiet major-

ity of decent people were carried | - to a point of exasperation where

they were willing to follpw the ‘leadership ‘of any one ‘at all who would promise them a return to

"_peace, order and public safety.

This explains the rise of Na- | poleon Bonaparte, who was made “dictator of the French nation be-

‘cause conditions under which the been forced fore p

of the people had become +53

lutely ‘unbearable,

- The great French experiment in self-government started under the

when the representatives of t people were called together by t King. It came to an end in the year 1804 when, by ‘vote of 3,572,329 to 2569, the French peo Je ratified the decision of thei liament to proclaim Napoleon

best of auspices in the year he ki

Bonaparte hereditary emperor of

the French. other side of the Atlantic Ocean,

. another younger and more vigor .ous experiment in self-govern-

was beginning to come into: its

The rebellion of the ‘people of

‘the 13 American colonies against

‘| the mother country had not orig-

inally been inspired by any particular love for Democracy—at least not on the part’ of its lead€rs. But all of them--to a greater or less extent—had

seau’s ideas. about the. ha al

At that precise moment, at the .

come under the - “influence of Jean Jacques Rous-

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They succeeded in making a going concern: of what no one in Eu-

rope had ever deemed possible—a goverment, of ‘the people, by

people and for the people.

the

¥'lings of a working wife h

was Thomas Jefferson, who put

his faith in the ultimate common sense of the average citizen, just ..as. enthusiastically as Hamilton (who represented the -other ‘ex--treme) placed his confidence in those “rich and well-born” who

- were to be the backbone of this

new nation. 8 ” »

N the end, the “many” won out over the “few” and the United States became the first large scale democracy. This result was due to circumstances which no one had’ been able to foresee in

, the year the Declaration of Inde-

. pendence informed a politely surprised world ‘that another nation,” having found its master to be a neglectful shepherd, had decided to get rid of him: and to intrust the safety of the flock to 4 leader of its own choosing.

That newly arisen class of in_dependent land-owners, untrams “meled by precedent or tradition—

.courageous men and women, con-

_scious of being masters of their ‘own fate — bestowed ae our

cratic @spect which it has. managed to mantain in spite of all those forces which in a wealthy country will invariably place the balance of -power into the hands: of the rich.

These frontiersmen were not deeply interested in political theory. They did not really care whether their country was supposed to be a representative form. of government or a republic or a true democracy.

: They were willing to fight at the drop of a hat if anyone dared to challenge their right to run their own affairs as best pleased them or most fully suited their interests, By and, large, and in spite of endless difficulties, they succeeded in making a going concern of what no one in Europe had ever deemed possible—a govern‘ment’ ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people.

-NEXT—After or 3000 years, - it Is. finally realized that democracy ends in disfatorship unless losely |

HE'S NO VAGRA =

WIFE HAS INCOME

NEW YORK, April 5 (U. P).—A man may not be; charged as a vagrant if he lives on the earnings of

‘his wife, Magistrate Charles Solo-

mon today had ruled in Brooklyn. ‘ He dismissed such a c¢omplaint

5 against Frank Paisano, 34, [rie the : {remark:

_*“Any man who lives on the earn- | a Visibl means of support and is not a vagrant within the Beniss. of the law.” -

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE |

1—Where is the aan settlement?

2—Must bottled-in-bofid whisky be at least three, four or ve years 4 old? i 3—Where did Gen. Lee surrender

to Gen. Grant? 4—Does the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge in California have a ' single span, or six spans? : 5—Name the Democratic | Whip: of the Senate? | 6—What is the nicknam for the small statuettes presented an- . nually to outstanding Im players by thé Academy of Motion | Picture Arts and Sciences? :

3-—Appomattox Court House, Va. 4—Tt has six spans. : 5—Senator. Sherman Minton of Indiana. 6—*Oscar.” No.

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