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"Hoosier Vagabond . By Ernie Pyle

(Ernie Pyle is on vacation and at the request of readers we are reprinting some of his favorite columns.)

GLEN ELLEN, Cal., Oct. 19, 1939.—Charmian London shared with Jack London the greater part of his

adult life. From what I have read their marriage was not a noteworthily happy one. . Yet on her side of it

there was a consistent and compassionate understanding.

Today Charmian London still lives on the great 1200-ranch| where Jack spent his last few

years and where he died.

But she did not stay in the] She built another)

old house. house of her own after Jack’s

death, about half a mile from

the ranch house.

It is of stone, a minor castle. It sits absolutely inclosed by, Mrs. London lives there She is in the East just

trees. alone. now, and we did not see her. They say she is a charming woman. And they _ say she has a rippling command of the English lan-

guage that is like nothing you've ever heard before,

She wrote a two-valume| biography of Jack London. It was an expensive work—$10 a set. 8 8 8

"Gifts From Polynesians

Irving Shepard, Jack London's nephew who runs the London ranch, took us over to Charmian’s house. The place is packed with stuff from the South Seas—gifts sent back to Jack by the hospitable Polynesians aftef his cruise in the Snark. Charmian was on that trip with him. :

Great wooden sculptures, some almost life size, stand around the walls. The curtains are of Hawaiian tapa cloth. Every room is a Polynesian exhibit room; And in the basement are stored tons of South Sea stuff—the overflow from upstairs. | Charmian built a library into her new house, and in it is Jack’s personal library of nearly 15,000 vols umes. They cover every subject under the sun. You

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I GET MUCH, if not most, of my wide knowledge of people around hete because of my ability to sit through things. You could pick up just as much as 1 do if you had the patience to sit the way I can. | The other day, for instance, I sat more than two hours of the hottest day of the week, on the hardest bench anywhere around here, watching the. graduation exercises at Butler. You never saw so many graduates. I'll bet there were more than 400. I thought the thing never would end. l Maybe you know, without my telling you, that a college commencement, analyzed in terms of the theater, lacks variety, not to puti too fine a point on it. After you've seen one student graduate, you've just about seen everything the show has to offer. ” 2 2

Suppressing an Urge That's probably why |after seeing the same act repeated half a dozen times, you feel an urge to sneak out. I didn't, though. I kept right on sitting, hoping that, maybe, something would turn up to make my sitting worth while. ! I even entertained a hope that maybe in the last minute the bursar or registrar, or whatever they call the villain in academig/ circles, would turn up, point out a flaw in a student's record and beat him out of his diploma. I wonder -why nothing like that ever happens. Probably for the same reason that a fiddler never busts a string in the middle of a concerto. I've been sitting through violin recitals for nigh on to 50 years, in some of the wettest weather, too, waiting for something like that to happen and it never does. Sure as shootin’, though, it’s going to happen one of these days. It's the only reason why I keep going and sitting through violin recitals. | The great number of graduates wasn't the only reason wk the Butler Commencement took up so

Washington

CHICAGO, June 14.—Talk of the desirapility of a deal with Japan is spreading through the Middle West, stimulated by .the Chicago Tribune and followed up by other oracles. The idea is that, to prevent the totalitarian powers from ganging up on us, we should : ‘detach Japan and make an ally of her. Then, if it became necessary to face Germany, we should have Japan a loyal friend at our back. If we are taken in by that " argument, we will have learned nothing from the disastrous experience of Britain. It amounts . to a proposal for appeasement. The propesition is the product of fear. . Because we are afraid, we would try to appease Japan. How? By selling out now, By ' turning adrift to the tender mercies of the yellow race Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies and all way stations. In order to buy Japan's friendship and support, we would put the seal of our approval upon such a betrayal. We would scuttle our every international jdeal. For our treachery we would gain nothing but a Munich, to last until the day when Japan wanted ‘something else that had not been included in. the bargain.

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‘No More Munichs

If Japan is determined to extend her domination in the Far East, at least let it not be done with our approval, as part of a deal with us. Let us not be a party to it in a craven act that, would instantly be a tip-off to the totalitarian powers that we had lost our nerve as completely as the British lost theirs in the. early 1930's when Japan went into Manchukuo,

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday—I reached the White se yesterday in time to greet my luncheon guest, entered at the same moment. The afternoon a succession of callers, among them a group of Club representatives, who brought me two deli- | * cious locking packages of products from the newly formed Atlantic County, New Jersey, Women’s ‘Market. I have ordered them sent to Hyde Park, for I always ‘feel that there I am better able to appreciate special things of this kind. A group of colored people also came to talk over |conditions ‘at the National Training School for Girls. The percentage of white girls sent to this institution is apparently] grow- . : ing less and less, so we have an opportunify for making this an outstanding model institution for the re-education of young delinquent cclored girls. The present appropriation is entirely inadequate and has resulted in the staff not being able to do a good job. Too much is expected of them and ‘therefore no real program of education or rehahilitation can be carried on. { I wish that I could feel that this Administration would ‘leave an improved condition in - District of Columbia institutions as a memorial to the interest ‘by the wives of the members of Cemgress and

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can easily pick out the books Jack took with him on the cruise of the Snark, for they are splotched and faded from! salt spray. The library has copies of Jack's hooks in scores of

| languages, some of which we couldn’t even make out.

The library has secret closets, opened by removing a few books from a shelf. Back in these closets are Jack’s scrap books and rare volumes. Mrs. London has been in Europe this summer. She before the war started. She went over because German publishers owe her much money on royalties from Jack’s books, and the only way she can get it is to go over there and spend it. ” 4 2 :

Books Burned by Hitler

This summer they would give her all she needed to travel about Germany. Or even to nearby countries and back to Germany. But they wouldn’t pay her way from one outside country to another. And they never would give her an accounting of royalties due her. Now that the war is on she probably will never see any more royalties from Germany. Jack’s books were among those Hitler burned, for Jack was a Socialist. But back to the old ranch house, half a mile away, where Jack London died. It has been open to guests now for five years. There is room for 22. guests in private rooms and in cabins out under the trees. Rates run from $5 a day single (including meals but without bath) up to $66 a week for two people (including meals, private bath and twin beds). Most guests come here the first time because it is Jack London's place. But there was one man this summer who was different. He was from the East. He came up for dinner with some San Francisco friends. As most guests do, he got to talking with Irving Shepard about the ranch. Said the man: “Say who was this Jack London anyway? I hear everybody talking about him.” “Don’t| you really know?” said Jack London's nephew. “No,” said the man, “I never heard of him.” “Why,” said Irving, “he was the greatest bricklayer in California.” “Is that right,” darned!”

said the man. “Well, I'll be

By Anton Scherrer

much tinte. There was the marching and introducing, too. - For lexample, every graduate insisted on marching to the platform, after which he had to be introduced to'the dignitaries. It was not unlike a girl's presentaticn at the Court of St.-James than which there never was anything more exhausting. Invariably, the graduate was introduced by his or her full name—no initials, mind you. Mrs. Elfrieda Marie Nordsieck Korff was one of the graduates and when you multiply this sort »f thing by 400 or more, you get some idea of the time it takes to run off a Butler Commencement. " FJ n

Patience Is Rewarded

Not until the graduate was properly introduced by his full name did President Robinson hand him his diploma, Before the performance was half over, Prexy’s right hand gave out. It slowed up the graduation considerably. To continue, he had to use his left hand and, right then and there, I observed that Butler's. hpresident isn't ambidextrous, a discovery I couldn't possibly have picked up had I not had the patience to sit through the whole show. Later when Hilton U. (for Ultimus) Brown introduced, the Mayor of Indianapolis, I made a still greater discovery. The Mayor, in case you haven't heard, was decorated with the honorary degree of LL. D.- Conforming to the Butler time-consuming ritual, he was introduced as Reginald Hall Sullivan. At any rate, that's what it sounded like from where I sat. : I hope it surprises you as much as it did me. Up until the day of Butler's commencement, nobody in Indianapolis knew what the H. in Reginald Sullivan's name stood for. Not even a man as close to the Mayor as Russell Campbell, his secretary, had the slightest inkling. The last time Mr. Campbell asked Mr. Sullivan about the H. in his name, he was told to mind his own business. Mayor Sullivan was the last on Butler's program to get his degree. I want to stress the point because it does a lot to buttress my thesis. For example, had I not had the patience to sit through to the end, chances are I never would have learned the Mayor's real name.

By Raymond Clapper

or as the French lost theirs when they permitted Hitler to reoccupy the Rhineland. Don’t think that a deal with Japan would not be recognized as a tip-off to all Latin America, a tip-off that the third great democracy also was on the run. Are we to invite every Latin American country to begin saying of us, as the little nations did of Britain, that they cannot depend upon us? Of course the idea of a deal with Japan is stated

“$n neat, seemingly safe terms. So was Munich. Yet

Munich turned the balance fatally against the Allies. This is world revolution, not only war for conquest. It is a revolution to overthrow capitalist democracy everywhere, to overthrow the system -set up through British leadership and to supplant the British domination and pattern with German domination and pattern.

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We Must Be Strong

This is not old-style 19th century imperialism any more than was the unsuccessful Communist try at a world revolution. Britain has been mistress of the world, why not Germany? Why not destruction of the old capitalist democratic governments? Once it sounded like ballyhoo. But Germany is sacrificing thousands of lives to achieve it, and the great stakes are almost within her grasp. When France and England have been crushed, only the United States and our system on. the Western Hemisphere, plus what we may take over from the British Empire, wiil be left standing in the way. : In this situation we can trust nobody but ourselves. We can trust only our own force. We want none of the false sense of security that a deal with Japan would give Us. Japan is playing the same game as the other crowd and we should be toolish to deceive ourselves. We must make busy being the strong neighbor in the Western Hemisphere., No neighbor now is a good neighbor unless he is strong. We need guns, not treaties.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

the wives of Administration officials. I cannot say, however, that I feel that any of us could leave here

tomorrow with a sense of great accomplishment.

In the afternoon, my old friend, Mrs. Anne Winter, who for years was my grandmother’s companion, arrived to spend the night at the White House with her friend, Miss Marie Voydi, who is an attendance officer in the school system of New York City. Mrs. Winter is a character and the President always enjoys hearing her tell of things which have happened to her during the eighty odd years she has lived. She is a gallant spirit and nothing ever seems to daunt her. * Miss Thompson and I worked all evening, though for a part of the time she was a little discouraged with me because I kept falling asleep, which I think is the effect of returning to a fairly warm day and the relaxing Washington climate. : 1 held my last press conference this morning, but 1 promised if I came back for anything of special interest during the summer, that I would call a special meeting. I hope that most of the ladies of the press will have some holiday and enjoy relaxation such as I look forward to and which is necessary for us all. : ; I have a number of guests coming to lunch today. A little later this afternoon, I am going to visit the local Red Cross headquarters to see what they are doing. I hope I may be of assistance to the Red Cross in Poughkeepsie and in Hyde Park during ihe next few weeks. fa

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of American naval policy. Three important doctrin-. al shifts are plainly visible: 1. A declining reliance on the British Navy as this country’s “first line [of defense,” and a growing conviction that our naval defense must be able to stand alone. | 2. Increasing belief that if there is to be no |“two-ocean navy’ we must at least have a more powerful Atlantic squadron than at present. | 3. New acceptance of the importance of naval aviation. Commenting on the first, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, says: “We might have her (England’s) good will, but that: might be all we would have” He warns that we should be ready “to take care of ourselves without any assistance from anyone.” : Congressional belief that the’ present Atlantic squadron is inadequate was expressed in recent hearings, and Admiral Stark conceded that under a two-ocean attack we “might be driven back on our haunches.” Both on Capitol Hill and in the sprawling Navy Department offices on Constitution Ave. there is agreement on the need to drive with all possible speed toward increased fleet air power. The dreadnaught . West Vir-. ginia slid down the ways at Newport News on Nov. 19, 1921, and though this event was not to he duplicated for nearly 20 years, the day’s newspapers paid scant heed. They wrote, instead of the Washington - Naval Conference and a visit by Henry Ford to President Harding.

PARK FUTURE,

Board May Modify - Policy To Meet Requests for More Playlots.

The Park Board's future expansion policy will be linked to the Park Department's 1941 budget request, Board members indicated today.

ment has ceased to expand its material resources, it has been increasing activities and recreation. Faced with requests for additional playground sites, however, the Board may modify its policy to inyear, members said. Miss Gertrude V. Brown, Board member, urged others to “think about a policy of expanson for next year.” z > “We have been able ‘to extend our recreation this year,” she said, “but we must determine whether we can gontinue to extend it next year before we complete our budget estimate. I should think what we should first decide is whether the expansion should develop along physical or recreational lines.” ’ Board President Jackiel W. Joseph and Aibert Gisler, vice presiident, said they did not feel that the recreation budget should be increased next year, since it was increased last year to provide $10 raises for summer playground workers. More playground personnel also was added. ) While the discussion was not conclusive,” Board members agreed that any increase requested for next year would be balanced by decreases so that the net budget requirement would be about the same as for this year. They also decided tentatively to avoid the purchase of additional land on the North Side to provide a playground for School 84 pupils. They agreed to seek the consent of property owners to utilize a playground space adjacent to the school which is owned by the City, but which the City is enjoined from using lor play purposes. They said they believed the sentiment of property owners who had sought an injunction 10 years ago restraining the City from converting the vacant ground into a playground might have changed. Play space was requested recently by 400 North Side residents including members of the School 84 Parent-Teacher Association.

WINS HARVARD SCHOLARSHIP John A. Frantz, 17, of 3516 Watson Road, a graduate of Park School, has been granted a scholarship by Harvard University. Also receiving a Harvard scholarship is Gerhard Nellhaus, 16, of R. R. 6,

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BUDGET LINKED

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(Third of a Series) By Charles T. Lucey and Lee ©. Miller

ASHINGTON, June 14.—Glaring weaknesses in the United States Navy as a result of a 20-year building holiday, and the jarring lessons of the new kind of war being fought in Europe, are leading to critical reappraisal

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A credulous United States threw away most of its shipbuilding tools and slept peacefully after that Washington conference had made 5-5-3 the best known numerals in the world. It woke up 15 years later holding the bag, its navy loaded with aging men-of-war and the rest of the world riveting armor plate for dear life. = 2 8

ODAY the admirals, traveling up to Capitol Hill as Congress pours out billions for defense, give Congress a disquieting picture of inadequacy and oObsolescence, of ships lacking speed and guns lacking range, of bottle= necks blocking a building race. Supposedly favored by President Roosevelt's “big navy” bent, the sea force has been given three and one-half billions since 1932. But today it is well behind that of Great Britain and threatened in size by Japan's. Of 371 combatant vessels in the U. S. fleet, 277 are over age. A battleship, by the rule-of-thumb of past treaties, is over age when it is 28 years old, a cruiser at 20, a destroyer at 16, a submarine at 13. There is much talk of ‘“hemisphere defense”—and yet Latin America could contribute to this defense only about a half-dozen battleships, some of them very old. They might add 10 or 12 cruisers, about 30 destroyers and perhaps 20 submarines. Theré are several hundred planes among the South American republics, but the number equipped for modern aerial warfare is not considered great. The softening - of the United States’ naval power dates from

Jobs for June Graduates Avoid Hollywood Until Experience Fits You For Specialized Work, Studio Aid Warns

By J. G. MAYER Studio Manager and Director of Personnel, Metro-Golkdwyn-Mayer Studios

Hopefully turned toward Hollywood are the eyes of thousands of young men and women all over the country as they graduate this June to begin the task of cutting a niche for themselves in the industries of the nation. Not in the spirit of throwing cold | water on young hopes, but with the sincere desire of informing them exactly what conditions are, I hope I may save many of them

Mr. Mayer and heartaches. In the first place, motion picture production is highly specialized.

GIFTS TO RED GROSS SWELL TO $47,862

New gifts’ ranging from $20 to more than $900 today increased the Indianapolis Red Cross war relief fund to $47,862.81. The $20 gift was from this year’s 8A Class at School 70, the proceeds of a recent entertainment. Another $909.90 was received from State employees through the Governor’s office, boosting the group’s contribution to $1525.56. Other donations announced today were from the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana employees, $137; WIBC, $100; two gifts of $100 and another of $25 in memory of Frederic M.

Ayres; employees of the home office| ‘of the State Life Insurance Co.

$76.56; Paul N. Harris, $50; MillerWohl Co. employees, $46.50; Paramount Optical Co. and employees, $2550; Edward E. Petri Co. E. D. Kingsbury, Altrusa Club, WFBM, Inc., and Earl B. Barnes, $25 each.

I. U. BANS WORK TO

TRUSTEES’ RELATIVES

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June 14.— Relatives of employees of the State Board of Education and trustees of Indiana‘ University will not be employed by the university after this month. Crd This new regulation by the board was announced today by Ward G. Biddle, board secretary. The trustees also decided that all future employees must pass a physical examination. They decided also that in the event of marriage of two employees, one of them will not be rehired at the beginning of the next fiscal year. Pi ;

disappointment

| Flame and smoke belch from the guns of the U. S. S. California in night firing practice during recent war games off the Southern California coast.

the Washington Conference, which gave us a navy equal to Great Britain's and having a 5-3 ratio over Japan. When we went in for disarmament by example the example was ignored. The 5-5-3 ratio applied only to capital ships and aircraft carriers. In the three years following, England laid down 142,000 tons of warships in types not covered by the treaty—cruisers, destroyers and submarines—and Japan laid down 185,000 tons. This country laid down none, and only in 1926 started to build a few cruisers. By 1930 the U. S. had begun 83,000 tons of warships to 338,000 tons for England and 333,000 tons for Japan. The 1930 London Naval Treaty extended naval limitations to all types of combat vessels, but the period of pact violations was beginning and soon Japan pulled out of the naval®reaties. In 1934 she had built 466,000 tons of fighting ships to England’s 546,000 and this country’s 288,000. » ” ”

TT year Congress passed the Vinson-Trammell naval expansion A program, but actual building came slowly in the next few years. . “We found ourselves confronted with the possibility that we might be called on to defend our= selves and our interests simultaneously "in both the Atlantic and the Pacific—a possibility that could not safely be disregarded.”

The 35,000-ton battleships North Carolina and Washington were laid down in 1937 and 1938 by a nation which had almost forgotten how to build such men-of-war, Three = more 35,000-tonners, the South Dakota, Indiana and Massachusetts, were begun in 1939, and in February of this year the keel of a sixth, the Alabama, was laid at Norfolk. The mightiest warships theration has ever ordered, the Iowa and the New Jersey, 45,000 tons each, are to be started in a few months. In - Government and private yards, thousands of workmen are engaged in the long drive to add these ships to the battle line. Double time has been ordered in Government yards; three shifts are likely if skilled workmen and tools can be .marshaled. But with all this speed, the country can’t send new battleships into the fleet as rapidly as existing ships reach over-age limits. More than half our battleships —eight of the 15—will have reached something like seagoing senility by the end of 1943. The last of the eight giants being built can hardly join the battle line by that time. 3 Already the Texas, Arkansas and New York are over age. The Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada join them in ;1942, and the Mississippi in 1943. Of the dreadnaughts a-building,

Every position is held by a person trained and experienced in the particular work he or she performs. A college education is valuable. But in practical use it is nothing more or less than a tool, which may be used to advantage only through the experience of the person using it. Many engineering graduates apply, for instance, for work in the sound department. Their technical training is only a foundation. The experience in the particular problems that go into sound recording is absent. An engineer’s diploma alone does not make them of any use. Sound engineers come from long training, much of it in practical telephone work. The graduate’s local telephone company should be his attempted take-off-for such work. Girls who have studied design want to design costumes. This, too, is a very specialized calling. Training in the theater and in big

} TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the first President of the German Republic. 2_Where are the Black Hills? 3—When it is autumn in Argentina what | season is it in the United States? 4—Name the largest province of Canada? ’ 5—Were, Noah Webster Webster related?

6—What was the baptismal name of “Buffalo Bill?”

7—What is the total full membership in the Congress of the United States? :

8—Which suit in playing cards, has a one-eyed king? Answers

-1—Friedrich Ebert. 2—Southwestern South Dakota. 3—Spring. 4—Quebec. 5—No. 6—William PF. Cody. 7—Nihety-six Senators, resentatives—total 531. 8—Diamonds.

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costume houses should be their starting work. In every department—wardrobe, make-up, set designing, sound, electrical—the work calls for persons experienced in their lines. Even in the acting field, the Cinderella, story is a myth. ‘Aspirants should try the Little Theater, or some good professional training such as Union College's Mohawk Drama Festival, for experience first. Every day we receive applicants for work. “Willing to try anything and learn,” is the usual plea. The applicant doesn’t know what he can do in a studio, or what he wants to do. He just wants a job. Kindest advice I can give the average graduate, and the most truthful, is “Stay away from Hollywood until your experience: in other work fits you for usefulness there.”

NEXT—Youth’s Chances for | Employment.

PLAN JEWISH LEGION TO FIGHT FOR ALLIES

NEW YORK, June 14 (U, P.).— Plans for the formation of a Jewish Volunteer Legion to fight “alongside the Allies on any front” have been announced here by Vladimier Jabotinsky, president of the World New Zionist organization. Mr. Jabotinsky disclosed _ the project at a conference attended by Col. John H. Patterson, British Army, retired. Col. Patterson, commander of the Jewish battalion of

under General Allenby in Palestine, said a public announcement of the enlistment plan would be made at a mass meeting here on June 19. The public announcement will be made coincident to an appeal for funds to train and equip this army. Both Mr. Jabotinsky and Col. Patterson expressed confidence that 100,000 men could be recruited. One of the first steps necessary to recruiting here, Mr. Jabotinsky explained would be to obtain amendment of the existing United States neutrality law to permit citizens to serve in foreign armies without losing their citizenship,

GIVES AMBULANCE FOR SERVICE IN WAR

Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 14--Mrs. E. Mead Johnson Sr. of this city has given an equipped ambulance to the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in France. James Wood Johnson, formerly of Evansville, is president of the Corps, which serves with the

the British Army which fought}

| the Washington was launched only June 1, and the North Carolina launched yesterday. It will be a year before they are completed,

and months later before trials are finished and they go into the battle line. The remaining six can’t be ready before 1943 or 1944,

Great Britain tops this country handily today in tonnage of under-age combatant vessels. She was rated in recent tables at 1,144,899 tons against 1,021,270 .tons for the U. S. Tonnage for Japan was listed at 796,233; France, 513,« 327; Italy, 433,852, and Germany, 225,218. The figures do not allow for war losses. Under-age tonnage of our Navy, thus, was somewhat under the combined tonnage of Japan and Germany. Together they were credited with 305 new ships. against 150 for this country. Passed by Congess is legisla= lation authorizing an 11 per cent increase in the size of the Navy. In addition there are appropriation bills, regular and emergency, of :$1,473,000,000 to back up these authorizations. Also, the Navy will get a large but as yet undetermined amount from the newest bid of President Roosevelt for an additional $1,200,000,000 for defense. The admirals step lively for the first time in 20 years.

NEXT — Weaknesses in the Navy.

U.S. 1S CALLED HOPE OF WORLD

Kelly Reminds Flag Day Audience of Value of Life in America.

Times Special GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 14, —“In American citizenship rests the hope of America and through America the hope of the world,” National Commander Raymond J, Kelly of the American Legion said here today in a Flag Day address in Campau Square.

“Alone among the great nations our democracy stands as the ideal of liberty-striving men everywhere,” he said. “It is the last refuge of those who cry out for freedom.” “There is hardly a man living toe day anywhere in Europe or Asia who, if given an opportunity, would hesitate to migrate to this country, There is hardly a man now living in the United States, citizen or alien even among those openly critical, who would give up his citizenship or residence permanently to leave this country and to seek greater happiness abroad. “American citizenship is that priceless. “We should celebrate this birth day of our flag with a deeper ape preciation of the human and spirite ual values which our star-spangled banner represents. “Our flag stands for an Amerie can’s right to live his life freely, to worship his God, to speak his mind, to read and write as he pleases, to work where he wants, to decide for or against a given thing and stand by that decision, and to. enjoy all these privileges without compule sion, so long as they are not antie American. “The American Flag is in truth the only national ensign of human happiness left.” :

EVANSVILLE Z00’S | ELEPHANT NOW 17

Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 14. —= Kay, an elephant in the Mesker Zoo, yesterday celebrated her 11th year as a member of the colony. Almost 6 years old when brought here, the elephant then was fcur feet ten inches tall and weighed 1492 pounds. Today she tips the scales at 6250 pounds and is seven feet nine inches tall. :

KANSAN CRASH VICTIM

GREENCASTLE, Ind. June 14 (U, P.).—Anton Reinholtz, 36, of Here rington, Kas., was killed yesterday when the car in which he was riding crashed into a Monon Railroad train at Bainbridge, 12 miles north of here. The Rev. Samuel Janns of Durham, Kas., the driver; Mrs,

Janns, and the Janns’ 2-year-old son escaped with slight, iBluriss. :