Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1940 — Page 15

THURSDAY, SEPT.

12, 1940

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

ABOARD S. S. WASHINGTON, Off Central America, Sept. 12.—Perhaps you would like to be introduced to 10 people who sit at the Captain's table on

1S vovage At the Captain's left sits Mrs. I. J. Harvey. Mr. Harvey. Then Miss Betty Ann Harvey. The Harveys are sweil people. In fact we're all swell people. Even I'm swell people, until somebody proves otherwise. The Harveys live in New York, in an apartment only a couple of blocks from Capt. Manning's. Mr. Harvey is an oil man. He knows a lot about the Mexican oil business, and has been much in Mexico. They are all returning from Honolulu, which means a total of nearly three weeks at sea for them. Mrs. Harvey says she is sad &lmost unto death when a sea trip is about to end, and vet the minute she gets home she's perfectly nappy and contented to stay there. Betty Ann is 18, and a student at Vassar. She is, 1 think we've all decided, the loveliest person on th=2 boat. She is quiet, but when she says something there's a brain behind it. She is utterly graceful— when she walks about the deck it is like water flowing. Next are Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hardie of Los Angeles hey were married just the night before the sailed. Mrs. Hardie's name was Linda Parker, her sister is Cecelia Parker of the movies, and Linda isn't in the movies, too, I have no idea, he 1s that beautiful. Maybe she just hates movies. Hardies are on their way East, where Mr. > wil] give himself a honeymoon gift by re-enter-ollege and getting a deferred degree. The Hardies the kind of people who make wonderful remarks have their same crazy kind of humor, which Lord help us. We've already a friendship last a long time.

Along

Lee and Katie Miller write about them, because they ) be close personal friends of many years’ and Mr. Miller furthermore is the gent who v known as my boss, so I'd better be careful

the

"hen

"he

11] likely ) OO Boss

re are and it's a

for me to

Miller is another one of those old Hoosier boys,

Inside Indianapolis

I'RAFFIC sir, a fir traffic believe vellow

HAS gone to pot in Indianapolis. YesWhy, we even had a in the morning yesterday, not The chaps who put down those signs in the wee hours had Capitol and Washington all blocked off and autos were tied up all four ways a block long. And, then

SU=Ciass

paint

at 6 o'clock

pot. jam or reet

as if that isn't enough, it happened at 4:30 in the afternoon at Maryland and Capitol. There was no policeman in the middle of that grand, x-corner take-vour-life-in-your-hands intersection and just about 150 cars were lined up, each row waiting for the other to make the first break Finally, all six rows broke at the same time They darned near had to call

Ot squad

About Nancy Mavtens—

SICALLY SPEAKING, Indianapolis has way in 10 vears. A lot of folk never ncy Martens the credit she deserved. When arted her concerts back in 1930, good music was arious luxury. But it didn’t scare Nancy Marmade it pay. She brought Anderson, Paderewskl, Ponselle, Pons, Heifetz and a others considered good music in Indianapolis her 1 province and she had her little family spats the other musical groups every once in a while. never prevented her from attending, hearing plauding the presentations of rival impresarios. nger once herself, she made it a point to take countless youngsters who wanted good music ldn't aflord it. She gave the ushering jobs musical students and she was always giving 2 for 21 Martens’ death has

come

the last

1d she us

tickets

deprived her of the

Washington

ASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The Senate has passed ich would provide the Export-Import Bank 000.000 for economic defense in the Westisphere. The House recently passed a simibut hitched to it was authority for the RFC to lend $1.500,000,000 for defense » in this country. That provision the Senate removed, leaving the measure standing on its own feet as one for hemisphere economic defense There

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has been little public interest in this measure, and perhaps that is natural at this moment when anxiety is so deep for the heroic people of London now resisting one of the most barbaric attacks in history. To think of trade matters amid such agony is almost impertinence. Yet time is and we have much to do over here to protect adequately against unfavorable events. Much: must be done while Germany is busy fightbecause the moment the pressure of battle relaxes Berlin will necessarily turn aggressively toward trade recuperation. We are allowed a brief respite preparation

Our Good Customer

The direction of our trade interest at the moment own in a few kev figures. In 1939 Canada and tin America took 35 per cent of our exports. Our exports to Latin America this year are up nearjy 50 pel over last vear. Last year Europe took 40 per cent of our exports, but now these have all stopped, except to Britain. Eastern Asia received 10 per cenit of our exports last year while present conditions

preciou

ourselves

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Obviously, exist, Latin America and Canada are carrying the burden of our TE trade, aside from the military exports to For the present Latin America is mainly we can count on for peace-time trade in volume.

that

any

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday.—I started my morning vesterday with the feeling that I would accomplish a great deal. I can’t say that I actually did, though I kept at it. I never left my desk at the cottage from 10 o'clock until nearly 1, when Diana Hopkins and I motored back to lunch at the big ¥ Po 1 house. : : At work again in the afternoon, but about 4 o'clock the sky began to clear. Diana and I drove to the top of the hill to invite a little two-and-a-half-year-old girl who lives there, to come down and play for a while. Someone had told me that little Ruth Bie was really lonely, for when their car drove up the other day, she opened the door and said: “No little girl in here?” I thought, therefore, we should provide her with a little girl as a plavmate for a while yesterday afternoon, even though Diana is so much older. We put in a little exercise before dressing for dinner and we had a most hilarious meal in which mv husband suggested that if at any time it became a little difficult to chronicle the affairs of the day, 1 should go back to the past and pick out amusing incidents of various kinds. He proceeded to pick them out for me and I feel sure that the tales would

and Mrs. Miller is one of the few people in the world | who were actually born in Washington, D. C. They|

decided tc take this trip just a couple of days before |

sailed. So they packed up, flew clear across

and here they are,

the boat the continent, tiful, too. Last vear they went to France on their vacation, got caught by the war, and finally came back on this very same ship. They were in tourist then, and now they're at the Captain's table, and every day I'm try-| ing to leave the impression with Mr. Miller that it’s all because of me. A little $2.50 raise never hurt any man, you know, Then there are That Girl and myself, which makes nine, and last but not least, because I've left him to} the last on purpose—is the Admiral. He's the most | wonderful man on any ocean.

The Admiral is W. B. Franklin. His brother used to

be president of the United States Lines, and now his nephew is. The Admiral is around 75, he's about 6 foot 3. has the longest legs of any man I ever saw,

short steel-gray beard, lives at the University Club in|campaigning until after Oct.

Mrs. Miller is beau- |

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0 EMPHASIZE REGISTRATION

Active Campaigning Secon- | dary to Effort to Get All Voters on Book.

By NOBLE REED Leaders of Republican and Democratic organizations in Marion

o County have decided to delay active 1 to

New York, has made the round trip just for pleasure, direct all forces on registration of and I don’t care how smart you are or what you say, |

the Admiral comes back with something better.

Quick on the Comeback

He has a foxy grin, and doesn't even have to think] up his remarks. name him, “Benjamin,” lin. So she said to him: for short.”

“I think I'll call you Benjie

voters during the next three weeks. It has been estimated that be-

| tween 30,000 and 50,000 Indianapolis

{voters are either registered im-

One of the girls on board decided to Properly or not registered at all.

since his last name was Frank-! Branch offices for the registrations

will open in various wards of the

{city and county tomorrow and con-

And the Admiral replied “That's all right, provided |

you call me Benjie dear!” In the last war, manded the great Pelham Bay Naval Training Station, and got the Navy Cross for it. He has a story originating in his plebe days at Annapolis that is one of the most fantastic things I've ever heard. He and eight other voung students, on a lark, had daggers tattooed on their right shoulders (the Admiral rolls up his sleeve and shows you). Today, half a century later, Admiral Franklin is the only one of them still living. the other eight is dead—by suicide! Buti the Admiral doesn't seem inclined to take the hint. He dances at night, with a twinkle in his eye, and goes ashore at every stop, and always has a toast to propose, and if there is a most popular man on the ship, he is unquestionably it.

opportunity of seeing and listening to what 7 very pportunity of ing and listening to what may ver: ‘agreed

well be her best concert series—Rachmaninoff, Robert Viroval, Gladvs Swarthout, The Coolidge string guartet and Muruel Kerr, toine and John Carter. When you're listening to these artists this winter, remember the woman who made it possible.

This and That— WHO . Why, ness in Charlestown, nitions plant), In with a vou would ing in and

SAID enterprise m this country is gone?

Ind. (the site of the new mu-

load of trailers and is them like

selling

Kurt of boasting

can't find anyplace to live. Pantzer, we learn, has been doing a lot about how the dry weather rhododendrons. « . « He was them, by golly. . . Kurt say, ever since he got A lo of relief

taking personal care of! hasn't said a word, they last month's water bill, . this week when thev learned they would be able to take the same exemption as the men in the Guard. Resignation the week The Marine Corps Block's arcade, . . . in New York looking over the latest shipments: Messrs. Miles, Trinz, Buckner and Staufenbeil, the Mesdames Manlove and Ward and the Misses Manning, Matz, Dickey, Friel, Birmingham, Konrath, Williams, Goldberg and Taylor. .., . Don Stiver, head of the State Police, is worried about his brovher Michael, head of the London branch bigger American advertising firms and from whom Don hasn't had a word since July. We've just received a copy of a lelter sent Chief Morrissey by an anxious East Side parent, calling his attention to

of in

Display Reserve exhibit

(And “Our Town”)

Admiral] Franklin built and com- |

And every one of and party workers “active cam- |

and slowly strolls the deck |

(defeated by

tinue until the deadline, Oct. 7. G. 0. P. Workers Meet

Last night several hundred Repubmet at Murat

next three weeks. County Republican

that paigning was useless if all voters are not registered: properly.” He said a recent survey disclosed that the “Republican Party would be lack of registration

alone.”

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man Ira P. Haymaker

George L. Denny, veteran Republican worker, presided and James A. Collins, candidate for Congress, spoke. Earlier, Democratic County Chaircalled all ward chairmen and candidates into

conference on the same thing.

Ezio Pinza, Josephine An-

candidates to devote all their time in the next three weeks on registration work Addressing the Republican organization workers last night were

All county Democratic

{James A, Collins, Republican candi{date for Congress from the Twelfth

i District;

fry nominee we've just been told that the biggest busi- |

1s that owned by a woman, who moved |

canned goods to the felks who are pour- |

wouldn't spoil his prize |

| consuitutional government’,” of Reserve Army lieutenants heaved a big sigh!

h | velt, family |

A lot of Indianapolis buyers are |

Charles M. O. P. Lieutenant Governor and Maurice Robinson, Eleventh District Congress candidate. Mr. Collins described this campaign as the “most important since Abraham Lincoln's campaign in 1960.”

Dawson,

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Attacks Third Term

“The slogan then was Union’; the slogan

the ‘save he said. Mr. Collins also attacked the third term campaign of President Roosedescribing it as “over-<shadow=-ing all other issues because it strikes at the very foundation of our republican system of government.” Mr. Dawson said the time has come to one-man

‘Save today 1s

control at the

| House.”

He urged return to local self-

,government by elimination of some iof the 94 boards and commissions

of one of the «

|cannot do,”

‘teen-age boys in that area using bee-bee guns. . . .|

We'd add that they're used on the North, South and West sides, too, and that the bee-bee is one toy that ought to be barred in all cities,

By Raymond Clapper

But two factors make that The first is that America off from most of the normal European markets where nearly half of its foreign The result of that is to cause a backing up of many! export commodities, and the effects have been severe. Secondly, hard the moment she is released from war, desperate plight of Latin American countries will mak: them easy victims for cut-throat pressure trading by Germany. This insecurity of our becomes a most important problem requiring prompt attention by wus. Unless the situation is relieved | and protected now, our current

even

war stops South American countries will be sucked

will Jorce it. How Fund Will Be Used

Roughly, that is why the Administration has asked | Congress to allow an additional half-billion to the Export-Import Bank. These funds would be used in| a variety of ways. export crops, sacrifice competitive dumping in which we, too, would suffer. The funds would be used also to finance establishment of industries, such as the steel plant in Brazil, copper manufacturing in Chile, and development of other industries which would work to the general economic advancement of those countries, and In turn make them better customers of ours. Most of the Republicans in both Houses opposed the measure as a waste of money. They regard it as money to be poured down the rathole. Yet, though part of the capital never comes back, it may be a worth-while expenditure. It will not erough to spend $4.000.000,000 on a second Navy, other great sums on air strength and bases, only to have the enormously rich continent of South America tie in to the European economic system under arrangements prejudicial to us.

trade went. !

trade with Latin| : : ! olitical le , America is bound to shrink rapidly, and as soon as |P al leader

that are overrunning Indianapolis.” “These boards are reaching out all over the State telling locally elected officials what they can and he said. Mr. Robinson attacked {he Roosevelt Administration as “dictatorial

in its tendencies.”

{ . {rade insecure. Marion

the British blockade has cut Latin open {general

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Germany will need to drive her exports |

and the | : {Republican organization will

duct a mass meeting field day pro- |

“Germany has a legislative body but Hitler tells it what to do,” he said. "In the United States. ! President tells Congress what to do.”

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The Women's Division of the County Willkie Club will campaign activities at a meeting at the Claypool Hotel tonight. Mrs. Helen A. Munger. who was named chairman of the division yesterday, will pre- | side. The Seventh

its

District Women's con-

| gram at Cascade Park near Bloom-

i 13 1 y trade with Latin America |\28ton all day tomorrow.

The principal speaker will be

(Mrs. Wilma Sinclair Levan, one of

{Ohio's most widely known woman

More than 500 southern Indiana

: | women are expecte . toward Europe'economically because mutual interests expected to attend

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State Senator Albert Ferris, Milton, Ind., ! the National Republican Committee to act as field man in Indiana to {organize farmers for the Republican

They would be used for financing | C2MPaign.

to permit orderly marketing instead of |

CAMACHO DECLARED

MEXICAN PRESIDENT

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 12 (U.

|—The Chamber of Deputies or)

{Avila Camacho is the President-elect |

be | and | |—A * | Mexican political leaders,

|officially declared that Gen. Manuel

of Mexico, overriding the Presi-

(dential claims of Gen. Juan Andreau

Almazan.

EL PASO, Tex, S Sept. 12

‘highly important”

(U.P.). meeting of followers of Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan. unsuccessful presidential candidate, may be hed today.

By Eleanor Roosevelt TRAINMEN’S BOARD

make everyone forget that I was not temporaneous activities! : Ve happened all of us to be listening to the radio the otner night when between young Sumner Gerard and James Lanigan. They stated their reasons for voting for Willkie and Roosevelt, respectively, and were cross-examined by two eminent elder gentlemen. All of us were amused, for we have known Sumner Gerard's family for many years. His flow of words is certainly inherited, but he did not think quickly enough when he was asked if anything in the debate had changed his mind so he would vote differently in November. He almost said his vote would go to Roosevelt. The irfsistence of the gentleman who wanted Jim Lanigan to name a breadline which he had actually seen and could recall in his personal experience was funny. The fact that Mr. Lanigan is 22 and probably would not have recognized a breadline if he had seen one at the age of 14, did not seem to dawn on the gentleman. I remember, morning after morning, passing a breadline outside of a certain Roman Catholic Church. which stands halfway down the block between Sixth and Seventh Aves. in the tl in New York City. way to the corner and stood three deep. use of recalling such things, however?

writing con- |

the debate was going on|

Jirties | | candidate for Presiden’.

That breadline often went all the audience but saved What is the | When the Northern Hotel burned

Thev were ‘here last night.

' OPENS 2-DAY SESSION

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Sept. 12 (U. P.).—The Indiana Legislative Board of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen today opened a two-day executive session at which President Roosevelt was expected to be indorsed for a third term. Martin H. Miller, Indianapolis, state representative of the board, said a resolution indorsing the President probably would be passed today or tomorrow. The board was expected to clean up its agenda before the Sunday morning opening of the convention of the brotherhood itself and the auxiliary.

FIRE OUTDRAWS THOMAS BILLINGS, Mont. Sept. 12 | P. ) —Norman Thomas, lost his clothing

not pleasant to think about and thank God they are |to 3C0 persons while 10,000 watched |

gone. e -

the $200,000 fire.

“eliminate bureaucracy and | State |

the |

has been appointed by |

(U. Sociaiist | his |

Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst.

By Ernie Pye). WEEK DRIVE 3 The Senate Jester’ Takes His Final Bow BOOK BELIEVES

CUT PLAUSIBLE IN 1941 RELIEF

Disagrees With Biemer’s Stand That No Abatement Is in Prospect.

relief chief was assailed

A defense of township poor by Fabian W. Biemer, deputy County Auditor, by taxpayers representatives at the County Tax Adjustment Board

rates

t | hearing today.

« + « His 28-year service embraced many stirring events.

| ploymen

fap act

(rion

| poor (ally limit his spending { explained,

'From Applesauce to Selling Apples,’ Ashurst |

Explains in Telling Colleagues of Defeat

THOMAS L. STOKES

Special Writer

By Times \V ASHINGTON, Senator Henry Ashurst of Arizona has been many years the Senate's jester, A jester, never a clown A master of self-analvsis, he has fold on himself—and thus in the same breath he has told on every man who becomes a member of the Senate. He has punctured many stuffed shirts. He has been the Senate's guilty conscious made vocal. Never did he play his role better than in the hour of personal defeat. Never did a jester with a broken heart perform better before his majesty than did the tall and courtly Senator when he rose before his colleagues to philos~ ophize over his defeat after 28 years in the Senate. There was tragedy in the performance. Senators who a few minutes before had gone to him, one by one and two by two, to express their regret at his defeat, sat sobered and serious as he rose. The Senator glanced around. Here, on every side, were the associations of long years. This has been Henry Ashurst’s life, his kingdom, as it is of every man who sits for long in this legislative bodv. It breaks a man's heart to leave it all. Here he saw the Woodrow Wilson Administration flower in a profusion of social and economic reforms. Here he voted for the war to save demoeracy, and watched the frenzy of aroused patriotism sweep through the chamber. Here he heard bitter words over the League of Nations. Here he saw an era of reform smothered by a war and wither away in an era of callous materialism as prosperity became the watchword. Here he heard men in high office denounced for corruption and here he sat when a Cabinet officer was sent to jail, the first in American history.

Sept. 12 Fountain for

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ERE he saw the economic system in wreckage, and saw another era of reform begin so auspiciously. Here he again heard bitter words over social and eco-

nomic reforms and over a plan to reorganize the Supreme Couit Here again recent has heard talk of war here he stood up boldly against conscription It mu have seemed to him that the cycle was starting all over again. Yes, history place as he around. And the friendships of vears And here, above all, he was a player in a great drama No more. Quietly he began to tell of his defeat by saying that he had just sent—"not at public expense —a telegram to a gentleman in Arizonia. He had congratulated him, told him he would make a fine Senator, and said he would go home and campaign for his election in November. A smile curled about his lips as he continued: “About 7 clock this morning the telephotrie rang and when I answered it a woman who had lived in Arizona more than 56 years spoke. She said, ‘Senator, I am distressed to see that vou are defeated. What are you going to do for a living now?’ ” The same old Ashurst. A chuckle pattered through the chamber. . I said, ‘IT may rest then practice law.’ “She said, ‘oh, Senator, a lawyer?” The chairman of the Judiciary Committee smiled.

of days, he

ana

all about the and looked

was stood

a vear and

are vou

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OMING down in a taxicab a young man driving me asked the same thing. I do not know why they have such solicitude about my subsistence.

“The young taxicab driver said, ‘Senator, what are vou going to do for a liwing now?’ I said, ‘I think I will sell apples.’ He said, ‘what do you mean by that?’ 1 said, ‘well, for 30 years I have successfully distr.buted apple sauce in the Capitol. I ought to be able to sell a few apples now’.” Back in 1933, when constituents poured in letters threatening Senator Ashurst with defeat because of his support of President Roose-

velt's bill wrote back “Some time ago I astonishing, and for a while, (0 myself, the distressing discovery that the perpetuity of the American Government did not absolute=lv depend upon the re-election of Henry Fountain Ashurst to the Senate But it is doubtful if, like other politicians, he really expected the dav. Yesterday he said to his colleagues: “I am sure some of you would like to have me describe the sensatfon which comes to one in defea 1 hope you may never experience it, but I commend it to you “The first half-hour vou imagine that the earth has slipped from beneath your feet, and that the stars have paled end faded, and in your heart you wonder what the Senate will do without vou and how the country will get along without you. But within another hour there comes a peace and a joy to be envied by the world’s greatest philosopher.” Was the Senator bluffing? did it right nobly.

economy ne

made uae

n n » ATER, chatting ~ papermen, he thought perhaps the real reason for his defeat was that he had been in the Senate too long, that the little troubles of constituents had piled up. (His opponent charged that he spent too much time here in Washington.) “An old ship,” barnacles. “The troubles were mostly tronage troubles. You boys have written some nice things about me. But that makes a man a big fellow here.” He said this egotistically. “The bigger a man Wasaington, the cmailer at home. If that fellow's so big, they say, why can't he give me this judgeship, or that postmaster job, or get that water in here that we need?” And so Henry from the picture.

with n1ews-

he said, “gets lots

of pa-

with humor, not

gets in he gets

Ashurst passes

He made a speech |

Washington

Mr. Biemer told board members that poor relief will have to continue in Marion County for vears to come. There are no signs of its abatement, he said. The statement was challenged by William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president, who asserted that a “substantial reduction in relief costs next vear should be expected in view of rising em-

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Walsman Upholds Book

Mr. Book's position was upheld by Albert F Walsman adjustment board chairman, but was questioned by Paul Q. Richey, taxpayers’ repres sentative on the board Mr. Biemer contended that that heaps of unpaid relief still are on township trustees is proof that the relief load 1s diminishing. Mr. Book replied that this condi= exists because the trustee 1s bound by a budget and that a relief tax rate does not actueThe law, he trustee to to care of the

the hills desks

not

rot

permits the spend whatever is necessary for the needy, regardless amount of money available, The Chamber executive said a determined effort would be made at next year's session of the Legisl ture to amend the law to require that the trustees operate within budgets. Such an attempt failed last year.

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Four Rates Approved

the track of township hudget requests without serious di= gressions, the board tentatively ap= proved four township rates, includ= ing poor relief, as submitted hy the trustees. The rates tentatively ap=nroved were:

Keeping on

Proposed 11 Rate

$1.11 1.15 1.39 1.81

ih Rate £1.07 Decaiu ‘ 1.19 Pike oe Jee ens 102 Franklin 1.84

15-Cent State Levy

(outside)

Expected to Stand

| four

{under

The 1941 will be fixed State Board State House It is expected that remain at 15 cents worth of property, has been in effect for years. Members of the Treasury Board met yesterday with Governor Town=send for a preliminary discussion on the levy. They studied the re{quest of K. V. Ammerman, Indianlapolis, president of the State Teach=ers’ Retirement Board, for an increase in the teachers’ retirement fund levy from 24 cents to 36 cents due to changes made in the teachers’ retirement law by the 1939 Legislature. Mr. Ammerman explained that the old law the state paid In four-sevenths and the teachers three-sevenths. Under the new ’ the amount of teachers contributions is increased approximately 57 per cent, and an increase to 36 cents in the state levy would be required to maintain the ‘ratio of to three the levy for the fund were increased it would cut deeply in the state general fund, it was pointed out, since now approximately 10; cents of the 15cent levy is fixed by statute for specific purposes, leaving only 47 cents of the levy for the general

state property tax \ at a meeting Lhe of Treasury at the Sept. 20

rate will on each $100 the rate which the past eight

the

law

If retirement

| fund

Americanism Should Mean a Concentration | Of the Best in Humanity, Adamic Says

By LOUIS ADAMIC

Author of America,”

In the current world crisis, the United States will scarcely be worth defending as a place and a sovereign state unless we as sa people and a Government also determine to do our utmost, im=mediately and in the long run, to keep alive and enhance the American idea. To me the United States is more an idea than anyGreatest Authors | thing else. Tell What And by the American idea

AMERICA | 1 mean the

body of ideals Means to Them and practices

which different people have labeled variously: democracy, equality, general welfare, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, the American Dream, the Promise of America, the American Way. I mean the thoughts, emotions and doings of people on this continent that run like a clear stream through our history from Plymouth Rock to Ellis Island, and that aimed for a better life than seemed possible anywhere on earth. I mean the Mayflower Concordat, the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, and the tears in the eyes of millions of immigrants from

“The Native's Return,” “From Many Lands,”

“My etc.

24 of America’s

This is the fourth of 24 "Our Country," written by the nation's most famous authors.

articles on

more than a score of countries during the last 50 years as they passed the Statue of Liberty, on whose pedestal are struck these words: Give me your tired, The wretched refuse teeming shore, Your huddled masses to breathe free, these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

There will be danger, I fear, in this period of stress that Americanism will be defined and interpreted too narrowly by the elements in our population which by virtue of their numbers and priority largely dominate the life of the United States. The danger will be that the idea of Americanism will become again, as it was during the first World War, too insistently nationalistic from the viewpoint of the no-longer-true idea that the United States is preponderantly an extension of the British Isles and the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Such nationalistic Anglo-Amer-icanism will not be all-inclusive.

your poor, of your

yearning

Send the

It will leave out tens of millions | Country.”

and their Amerand daughters

of immigrants ican-born sons who are not of the Anglo-Saxon strain, but who come or stem FE from central &: Europe, Scandi- ; navia, Italy, Pol- : and, the Balkans, the Near : and Far East, ; Mexico, and {i Africa. And leav- i: ing them out, it } is apt to weaken their current eagerness to add their energies to the defense effort. Americanism must be stated or re-stated so it will be all-inclusive, as something that is the monoply of no one strain in this country, but a happy concentration of some of the best aspirations and tendencies of humanity at its best nearly everywhere at one time or another. Americanism, as I see it, is a movement away from primitive racism, fear and nationalism, herd instincts and mentality and superiority and snobbery: a movement toward freedom, creativeness. a universal or pan-human culture.

Louis Adamic

A comparison of the two Americas of today is made by Mary Roberts Rinehart in the next article of this series on "Our

'5—Which

Governor Townsend said that an extensive study will be made before determining whether the teachers’ retirement levy will be increased or left as it is a* present.

REPORT U. S. SUB DAMAGED HONOLULU, Sept. 12 (U. P) U. S. 8. Shark, one of the Navy's newest submarines, is in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, reportedly damaged in a collision with the aircraft carrier Yorktown, it was learned reliably today

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Is there any stipulation Constitution regarding ligion of the President? — Name the states on the Pacific Coast? 3—For which government agency do the initials FDIC stand? 4—What part of the earth is called the centrosphere? is the largest the world?

the re=-

in the

statue In

|6—Did Russia or Japan ask for an

armistice after the 10-day battle in Mongolia in the fall of 1939?

|T—The Major League record for the

most home runs by an individual in a season is 60, 58, or 56? |8—Which country owns Wake and Midway Islands?

Answers 1—No.

|2—-Washington, Oregon and Cali-

| 1

fornia. 3—Federal Deposit Insurance Cor= poration. 4—Interior. 5-—Statue of Liberty.

| 6—Japan. | T—Sixty.

8—The United States.

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