Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1940 — Page 13
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1940
Hoosier Vagabond
ABOARD S. S. WASHINGTON, In the Atlantic, Sept. 19.—We're getting mighty close to home now. We're past Cape Hatteras, and still that Ole Devil Sea is as meek as a lamb. Never have I made such a smooth voyage. I don't believe there's been a wave two feet high since we started. We did run through a couple of black tropical rainstorms, and the lightning one night was wonderful and fantastic, but the ship never did any dancing. That Girl is good and sore, because she likes for it to storm and kick and get emotional. But a calm sea suits me fine, and the calmer it is the finer I'm suited. Among the many things I like about this ship is the price list of ordinary things you have to buy aboard, such as cigarets, refreshments, haircuts. You know how most doggy hotels stick up the price on drinks and cigarets. And ships do, too. But on this liner, the most luxurious American liner afloat except one—prices are exactly the same as tone regular prices ashore. Cigarets are 15 cents; drinks cheaper than usual. Of course it's smart business because people actually buy more, and furthermore it creates good will. But most ships and hotels don’t realize it, apparently.
The Captain’s Dinner
One trouble about traveling on a big liner is that vou never pay for anything when you get it. You just sign for it. So you buy too much. And then the last day out comes that hideous moment of reckoning. If these columns suddenly end the day after we to New York. vou will know that I'm held in bondage in the Washington's galley, peeling potatoes my shipboard bill. When I get all peeled up, start writing aga. Yes, we did stop in Havana the afternoon and all night. The less said about Havana I'm concerned I've never been in a place where veu were so constantly beset—every few feet; every few seconds—by thousands of people trying to sell
get for I'l We were there half
the better, as far as
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
WHAT THE COUNTY Court House needs most, it turns out, is a Pied Piper. It all developed at yesterday's meeting of the Tax Adjustment Board when George Kuhn, the taxpayer-member of the Board, got pretty caustic about the Court House's appearance, “On a $20,000 a year allowance,” he said, “the Court House ought to be kept a lot cleaner.” “Yes, it's bad,” agreed County Auditor Fabien Biemer, “why we have rats over there this big.” He stretched out his hands as if he were telling a prize fish story. “Well, we don’t have any over the jail,” broke in Sheriff Al “we Keep SIX cais over
at Feeney, there.” “How's chances over at the Court Mr. Kuhn said Al, “we've just got a litter of six ittens. No reason you can't have ‘em when they up.” The Conquest of Switzerland!
ABOUT A WEEK AGO, a Butler professor cussing German conquests with his international reclass remarked: “And Switzerland has been absorbed by Germany within the last 48 hours.” Several students, believing they had missed the item in the papers, tried to get whispered verification from their classmates but it seemed that everybodv was in the dark. For several days now thev've kept a close watch the front pages but they haven't been able to 1d a news story. The students are still wondering wnether it was a slip of the tongue or whether the professor really has a scoop.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The matter of throwing
German control or industry is receiving
the spotlight of publicity upon German Interest in American
growing attention here
By Ernie Pyle
souvenirs, lace, beads, toy castanets, bottles of rum, feelthy pictures; by people begging, by little boys looking cross-eyed for a coin; by men blowing smoke out of their ears and swallowing cigarets, for a tip. After two hours of it I gave my own ears a couple of wiggles, fought my way across the sidewalk, came back to the ship, and stayed there. The captain's dinner on the Washington is held the second night before you get to port. On same ships it’s the last night. But on this one they have it two nights before, in order to give people time to pack their evening clothes. (Personally, we need 30 seconds.) If you've never been through a captain's dinner at sea you've missed something. It's just like New Year's Eve, except there aren't any lampposts to lean against. The dining-room tables are decorated, and beside each plate is a crazy paper hat for you to wear, and a squawker to blow, and a few toy balloons to blow up. A special menu is printed, and the orchestra plays big and loud, and the whole place is a bedlam, and everybody gets chummy.
Formal Dress With Exceptions
Before dinner, Capt. Manning gave a little cocktail party in his quarters for us lucky people at his table. I had just about run out of clothes by this time. So I appeared in formal dress. with the following exceptions: My “dress” shoes were simply a pair of black oxfords with those summer perforations in them; my one pair of black socks was in the laundry, so I wore white cotton socks; my dress shirt was spoiled, so I wore a regular white shirt; my white coat was dirty and wrinkled, so I wore it anyhow. When we got to the Captain's quarters, I said: “Captain, can you tolerate a man in white cotton] socks and a dirty coat?” ! And the Captain said, very seriously, “I'll lend you’ a pair of black socks.” . So I said, “Thanks, white socks don’t bother me if! they don't you.” And the Captain said, “I sure dont give a darn.” So we all had a wonderful evening, and life would} he more or less perfect, if it could just consist of onej captain's dinner right after another, even in White socks. | Gee, I'll hate to get to New York tomorrow!
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Evervbody's scared to ask him but us. How about it, Prof? {
Some Good Signs
THE SUBJECT of signs is always one that tickles us. For instance there's the unusual window decora- | tiens this week at Music Appreciation headquarters | up on North Penn. Strung from wires that reach | frem top to bottom of the window are hundreds of fluttering music notes, cut from colored paper, and | beneati these tiny figurines playing various musical! instruments and arranged to suggest the seating of | a symphonic orchestra. Then there was the call from a friend who said! he saw a man, all alone, driving a car, yelling, shout- | ing and honking the horn in a one-man celebration | up N. Illinois St. The car bore a sign: “Just| Divorced.” Add to that the sign on a dilapidated truck jounc- | ing along W. Maryland St.: “Don’t laugh, girls. You'd ock bad without paint.” And then there's the window sign on Indiana | Ave.. “Utmost Beauty Shoppe.” '
The Subject of Short Skirts
THE DRUM MAJORETTES out at Butler have hecome fashion-conscious this year and the whole] campus is talking approvingly of their decision to] shorten their skirts a full three inches for the big] scason z2head. But it's all put in very practical terms by the six | pretty lassies who appear with the band. Or, maybe | we should say eight. You see, there are two leaders to lead the six majorettes who lead the band. The | girls say that their knee-length skirts last year in-| terfered with their acrobatics and decreed that they | had to ccme above the knee. What's more, the dean of women approved.
So there.
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By Raymond Clapper
heavy stock ownings in certain essential production | here. Senator Wheeler desires to ferret out such toreign | ownership and foreign pooling arrangements. Some |
CITY SCHOOLS SEEK 96-CENT LEVY FOR 1941
Tax Board Can't Locate Ettinger to Press Fee Questions.
Shunting aside the County general fund budget temporarily, the Tax Adjustment Board today began consideration of the 1940-41 School City budget. Study of the County budget was laid aside when the board members were unable to find County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger. They wish to question him about the fees the law permits him to pocket in addition to his salary. The $6,783,000 School bugdet for the next school year was explained by Harvey Hartsock, School Board member, and Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan. Proposed Levy 96 Cents
The budget, Mr. Hartsock said, is $27,000 under what was spent andj $87.000 under the appropriations for | the 1939-40 school year. The proposed levy is 96 cents, the same as the current rate. Mr. Hartsock said the only increases in the proposed budget are $81,000 to raise salaries of teachers getting less than $2000 a year; $17.000 for school maintenance costs and $90,000 for more personnel due to building additions. Superintendent Morgan said the only possibility of making a reduction would be in the teachers’ salary increases. He added, however, that these increases merely were included to equalize salaries slashed in 1931 and 1933. The teachers, he said, asked the School Board for about a million dollars in pay increases.
Hunt for Ettinger
Meanwhile, the Adjustment Board members hoped to locate Mr. Ettinger for questioning sometime this afternoon or tomorrow. The board is seeking to induce the Clerk and three other elected officials profiting personally from fees to use some of the proceeds from the fees in paying the personnel of their offices. If they refuse, the hoard has indicated, some of their employees’ salaries may be cut from the budget in an effort to force the officials to pay the salaries. Board members received an estimate that the Clerk, in 1938. received $26,000 in fees and salary.
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HIS is what they said: R. B. Radcliffe, dealer of 1250 Oliver Ave. in City ment. Conduct our political institutions as a business. Government should be conducted by businessmen who know the value of ef-
Realizing that the fee system can be eliminated only by action of the Legislature next yvear, the board members feel their only possibility of remedying the situation at this time is to force the officials to use the fees in running their offices. Reports on estimated fee collections by the Sheriff, Treasurer and Recorder also were received by the board. In addition to his salary, it was estimated, the Sheriff receives about $4000 in fees, plus an unestimated amount of saving from the per diem allowance for feeding prisoners. The Treasurer, besides his $6000 salary in 1937, received $9560 in delinquent fees, plus an estimated $23,000 in 50-cent demand fees on delinquent taxes, according to the report. The Recorder, in the last half of 1937, received $1167 in fees, in addition to the annual salary of $4000. The attack on the fee system was started yesterday during the board's, consideration of the County budget ernment for next year.
eliminate waste
ficiency.”
ration should be
what I mean.
BOSTON, Sept. 19
out the
“Make political jobhold-
“Fix the streets, cut the weeds, hire a traffic engineer, build the Indiana Ave. bridge, sponsor a slum
clearance project.” is Indianapolis
These are some of the things representative citizens would do if they had a crack at being Mayor, They said so in a Times survey. the theory most citizens take their municipal government seriously, The Times asked the citizens—a cross section of them—for their municipal pro-
Their replies weren't dictated by . political considerations. out of their own experience in this
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Joe Schmid, downtown realtor: “I'd run the City Hall as a corporun. waste. There's too much inefficien~ cy. I'll give you an example of
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“More than a year ago, I noticed that the tinwork on the Tomlinson Hall roof was rusting. I called the attention of City officials to it. They said they'd paint it. The job hasn't been done yet. Now the tin will probably have to be replaced, Call that efficiency?” Miss Janet S. Rosenthal, assistant manager of a downtown
bookstore: “I'd take the necessary .
steps to create a municipal housing authority to clear slums. Id do everything I possibly could to erase the slum sections we have and to move slum dwellers into a clean, decent housing project.”
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LIVER P. WITHERS, a druggist of 1243 Oliver Ave.: “I'd cut down the number of political jobs, see that work was done efficiently. I'd see that the streets are maintained. It's cheaper to maintain them adequately in the long run than to let them deteriorate.” Homer Petero, Democratic committeeman in the second precinct, 12th ward: “If I found a political jobholder who wasn't indorsed by his committeeman, I'd fire him. I'd pick the jobholders from the precincts — on the basis of the ~ommittemen’'s recommendation. And I'd see that they worked.” Harry Speyers, a salesman: “I'd try a new method of relieving traffic congestion during the evening rush hour. My plan would be to shut off the traffic signals outside the central “usiness district and put police on the main thoroughfares leading out of downtown. I'd keep the traffic moving out as fast as possible.” Mrs. Laura B. Young, garage owner, at 319 E. New York St.: “I would pay particular attention to the cleaning of small streets and alleys. To those without front
Our America
SECOND SECTION
WILLKIE RUNS
INTO QUESTION OF ‘JUST HOW?’
Western People Ask Him for Specific Formula in Curing Nation's Ills. By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.—Wene dell L. Willkie, the touring political evangelist, has suddenly come to grips with reality as his travels bring him through the Southwest and onto the Pacific Coast. He is traveling through what has,
{in the last eight years, been Demo« | cratic territory. He has frankiy | recognized this in talking to the many thousands of people who have seen him and heard him ask for their votes, There is, of course, a reason for this party allegiance. It is because
This is anybody's hot seat. Right now it is occupied by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. What would you do if you were sitting in his place? By Richard Lewis F 1 were Mayor, I'd . .. ‘Reduce taxes. . . . waste,
driveways, glass and nails in allevs are annoying and destructive, There would be less dust if these were cleaned regularly.” = ” n RNEST HORNE, salesman: “I'd build that Indiana Ave. bridge if I didn’t do another thing. I'd try to give relief to the people who live out there.” Clyde Wiley, automobile me= chanic: “I think we ought to copy from the larger cities and set up a one-way street system for rush hour traffic. The New York City traffic light system—a light every few blocks—might help avoid these traffic tie-ups where cars fill up the block and overflow back into the intersection. I'd hire a traffic engineer to work things out.” John Ban, mailman: “First thing, I'd get rid of the weeds on vacant lots.” Dr. David Berry, physician: “It seems to me that other large cities handle their traffic with much greater {aciiity than we do. Some improvement should be made in traffic. Our streets are in bad shape and ought to be fixed. And
they ought to discourage garbage |
collectors from the practice of beating the garbage cans out of shape.” Mrs. M. Muench, 3228 College Ave.: “I'd enforce the laws as they are written, or take them off the books. I refer to sale of liquor and truck traffic regulations. I favor the building of a belt highway to route trucks around the City.” Miss Sylvia Sapirie, secretary: “I'd make it my business to inform the taxpayers that they get more from their tax dollar than for any other dollar they spend.”
{ Franklin D. Roosevelt has been re | garded by a majority of people out {this way as a President who has been considerate of their interests, {who has at least helped to clothe {and feed them. Used to Direct Relief The Southwest, with its bare exe panses of plain and desert and mountain where inhabitants are few but problems many, has always had a close kinship with the governe ment at Washington. It has looked to the Government for opening up its lands to cultivation, for financial assistance in reclamation, drainage and irrigation. Republican members of Congress jout this way have always accepted {the idea of help from the national Government and have taken the position that this is part of the { Government's function. In recent years the Government has been fcalled upon to undertake much di= i rect relief in this region. And in California, Mr. Willkie be= comes conscious of another problem that is troubling this great state— {that of the restless migrants who | have streamed across its borders and squatted upon the state and overe | burdened it. Mr. Willkie says repeatedly that he can cure the unemployment and {travail by starting the wheels of in- | dustry to turning again—so that the | unemployed, as he phrases it time the
jatter time, “will disappear as | mist before the morning sun Just how is he going to do this? { That is the question one hears {more and more from these people jout there as the Republican nomi= ( nee speaks to them,
They Want Formula They want him to be more specie fic, and this demand comes from Republicans who want him to be elected, from Democrats who have tired of the expenditures and exe periments of the New Deal which still leave so many millions unems=
ployed. But the masses that flocked away from the Republican Party to Mr. Roosevelt want assurances rather than blithe promises to do
Save America to Save ie Life's Greatest Treasure
By FANNIE HURST
{ “Mr. Roosevelt promises you the | moon, I promise you jobs.” Over {and over Mr. Willkie has repeated that. But might this promise not
also be ‘the moon,” they ask, unless
Ee. AUTHOR OF “BACK STREET,” “IMITATION he has the formula? i % OF LIFE,” “FOUR DAUGHTERS,” ETC.
From reports here and there, the third-term issue is having some ef
of these require American companies to supply all] ne" {presentation to the organization's
patents to their foreign cousins. Some arrangements | REPUBLIC CREOSOTE (22d annual nationsd convention.
have required reports from the American company | : 1 | of military articles manufactured, so that Germany FIRE INVESTIGATED! The anti-Fifth Co Umn Campaign | knew at all times what our Army and Navy were | proposal was a major part of the] getting : ; An investigation of a fire at the report of the national chairman of | Every morning I look out of In Germany everyone must register with the Gov-| Republic Creosoting Co., where athe Legion's committee on law and my window, which is a city winernment every foreign security, patent, license or strike has been in progress since : : | dow, and gives on one of the most other property holding abroad. Proceeds are subject Aug. 12. was started today by the Order, Judge Richard Hartshorne | gramatic views in the world. to government disposition. Usually the German [State Fire Marshal's office. of Newark. N. J. It is a view as startling as that citizen is paid off cheap in marks and the German| The fire occurred at the firm's 80-| An estimated 3000 Legionnaires; of a Tibetan monastery torn out Government takes the full dollar value at this end |acre tract at Minnesota St. and and auxiliary members—vanguard of the rock of the top of the and destroyed several|of 300,000 due here for the og} Himalayas or of the Grand Canyon streaked
pind 5 Pra (Tenth of a series of articles by 24 famous | fect out in this country among fF authors) Democrats, but this is perhaps more in the middle class, which does not face the problem of finding some= thing to eat. Mr. Willkie has put the issue efe { fectively, it is generally conceded, His allusion to the one-man rulers lin the rest of the world—Hitier, Stalin and Mussolini, who have | come up in periods of economic dis« tress—seems to have its weight Perhaps still more effective, bee | cause it is simple, is the mere ques
Enough 1s known to indicate that a considerable German interest exists, probably amounting to nearly $500.000,000. ¢ It is in the form of corporation ¢ stock holdings, and other interests such as patent rovalty agreeMuch of it 1s covered up there is even more mystery as to the use to which the proceeds of these investments are put Undoubtedly some of it 1s used to finance propaganda and to subsidize {rade in Latin
towns, Cape Cod fisheries or Oklahoma oil lands. All of them part of the American case! Down there, out there, I say to myself, intangible and real; remote and intimate, lies the American dilemma. And valuable beyond any of the wealth in
and puts it to its own use. To allow this to con-| Tibbs Ave her soil, her banking houses,
tinue without some scrutiny by the American Gov-|thousand dollars worth of creosoted | vention opening Monday—already
America. Since all owningzs, wherever located, of German citizens are considered the property of the Reich and subject to its orders, the question becomes one of public interest. Senator Wheeler, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, 1s seeking Administrasupport for a Senate investigation of the ramifications of German ownership. Study also is being given to the matter within the Administration. The Range Finder Episode from the episode in which the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., which has close relations with the German Zeiss Co. and which holds a monopoly on certain patents for Navy equinment. notified the Navy Department that it would be compelled tc delay for six months delivery of ranze-finders for two new cruisers unless Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold withdrew his anti-trust suit against the company. Trust-buster Armold went to town on this and the company paid a $40,000 fine and proceeded promptly with the Navy range-finders. The incident 1s one of those that Senator Wheeler had in mind in asking for a Senate investigation of the whole question of German tie-ups in American industry Information Indicates to Senator Wheeler that German and other foreign corporations exert a measure of control over some of our most important defense industries. German chemical interests have
My Day
WASHINGTON, Wednesday. —I spent all day yesterday in New York City. I planned to come to Washington in the early afternoon, but since my husband was away, I decided to take the midnight train down. The day was divided between such extremely feminine activities as having my hair washed, and seeing various gentlemen on a 3
tion
Interest arose partly
a variety of subjects. In the evening I went again to see Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in “There Shall Be :No Night,” and took with me several people who nad not seen it before. Seeing this play for a secord time, still 5 for me an exceptional experience. All the discussions and thoughts on the situation of the past few months seem to be crystallized and clarified by the type of acting which springs from a depth of understanding and faith which must help us all. These are times to shake strong men's souls and those who can help us deserve our deepest gratitude. I arrived in Washington this morning to find a most beautiful autumn day. it is a joy to be greeted -
ernment would be to allow these particular private | foreign holdings to be used for special purposes by! the German Government,
A Way Out Suggested |
No such monkey-business is permitted among Americans holding property in Germany. Earnings | from American corporations doing business in| Germany are blocked and held there. They cannot | be taken out of the country and can be used there only for approved purposes. The obvious course is for the American Govern- | ment likewise to block the earnings of German in-| vestments here, impound them and allow them to! be used to pav off Americans who cannot get their] earnings out of Germany. It would be turn about, but fair play. | Such action would check the use of these German | earnings for propaganda and for subsidizing trade competition against us in Latin America. The method | might be to make compulsory the registration of such | property and to deposit the proceeds in Government | custody to be paid out in settlement of blocked | American earnings in Germany. When post-war | trade 1s resumed, such funds might be usable tor | purchase of American goods for export to Germany. | But before legislation is undertaken, it would seem desirable to dig out the facts through a Senate investigation. The full story undoubtedly would serve an educational purpose here. |
By Eleanor Roosevelt
by so many smiling faces. Even the White House itself is beginning to look more cheerful because the new white paint is making it shine, in spite of the places not yet touched which in comparison look extremely grimy. I had an opportunity to talk over various household activities with Mrs. Nesboitt, the housekeeper. and with Mr. Crim, the head usher. Then Miss Charl Williams, of the National Education Association, came to see me. She had a charning silver tray made and on it ‘has had reproduced a letter written to her by the President in commemoration of her many years of service in the Democratic Party. She was the first woman national vice chairman in| our party. She also told me of a delightful and in-| teresting visit she had paid in Nassau to the Duke; and Duchess of Windsor. Because of her interest in educational problems! of the South, coming as she does from Tennessee, she thought of certain problems we might discover in connection with the countries where we acquire bases | Of course. they will not be our problems, for we only, administer to our own naval bases. But we will] naturally know much more about many problems in these islands, which may have some bearing on conditions in our own country,
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County Officials’ Fees
the following estimates. CLERK
1937 ...$ 4800.00 Insanity-Hospital Fees...... 6,325.00 Registration—Clerk Service 1,000.00 2 Transfer Fees Member Board of Canvassers Transcript Fees: Change of Venue Appeal ceraneiinans Removal to U. S. Court.. Recording Transcript ang bonds ............ Gross Income Warrants ... Unemployment Comp. ..... Election Contests—Fees ... Naturalization on Fish and Game ...... Witness Fees
1938 $ 4,800.00 7,935.00 1,000.00 3,526.20 1,000.00
979.25 292.00 87.75
1,167.50 ‘e 401.00 89.50
46.50 1,580.00 187.50 40.00 22.50 26.90 48.55
$21,572.15
67.00 1,162.25 24.00
27.50
$15,120.75
$5,000-$10,000 annually. SHERIFF
1937 1938 $ 4,800.00 2,037.95 2,410.97 1,944.83 29,736.24 11,401.60
Execution Fees Gross Income Writs, etc.... 2,520.28 Transp. Prisoners 2,626.58 Board—Local (36c per day) 33,485.53 ” —Federal (80c per day) 5,598.00
$49,609.09 $52,331.59
TREASURER
1937 $ 4,400.00
1938 $ 4,400.00 1,600.00 10,218.68
Salary ..... Ex-officio Cit Delinquent Fees .......... (6% on personal only)
9,560.44
$15,560.44 16,218.68
annually. RECORDER
1937
$ 4,000.00
Salary ‘ ..* 1,167.00
Fees
$5,567.00 *From July 7 to statute.
The County Tax Adjustment Board, in its investigation of persona! fees received by various County officeholders, has received
Does not include profits from marriage licenses, estimated at
1939 $ 4,800.00 1,116.25 1,475.70 1,526.57 28,730.90 12,562.40
$50,211.82 1939 $ 4,400.00 1,600.00 13,035.31
19,035.31
Does not include treasurer's demand fees esitmated at $20,000
Dec. 31, 18937. Limited to $2000 per year by
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with as many colors as a bottle of sand purIn a children’s sand store. It is of New York, my view, of Kudson of New
sades, of docks, Kitchen, s kK y scrapers, apartment houses, brownstone dwellings, petty shops, family wash lines, pent houses, ocean liners, churches, school houses, warehouses, motion picture houses, old houses, new houses, gas tanks and subway kiosks. Dimly, on the opposite side of the Hudson River, the view is of country houses set back in forestry, bridges, automobiles crawling like ants along macadamized roads, and streets of working men’s dwellings, standing in rows, like paper dolls cut from a folded newspaper. It is the American scene down there, as dear, as close, as fa-
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| miliar and desirable to me as the
American air I breathe these 18 stories above the city street. It is the American scene, I say to myself, and out there in all that medley of human behavior, ambition, desire, love, hate, hope, courage and fear, is the design of my country, which stretches from coast to coast to and from north to south, its shape that of the United States of America. It would be difficult, even allowing the straight northerly line, to fashion a picture frame exact-
| ly the shape of that map. The
jutting of Florida and lower California, the serrations of the Great Lakes, the indentations of the Gulf of Mexico states, would make it a jig saw carpentry job to fashion such a picture frame. But within that framework lies the problem and the answer to the American case. And from my window, my little sector of it is every hit as authentic as the Kansas wheat sector, the Nevada Mohave desert sector, the Wisconsin dells, Pennsvlvania
coal fields, New England mill
her commmunities, is her integrity as a democracy. Beneath her surface turmoil and torment, fear and hysteria, politics, cross purposes, selfishness and self-fulness, that integrity remains the paramount issue. Imbedd>d even in this one tiny sector of szene outside my window is a spot of protoplasm which is the sources of the life of our nation. And you cannot define it any more than you can define life itself. It squirms with the beginning of our American ideals and ideas. It is the source of our high love of freedom, our uncompromising demand for the dignity of human living, our sanctifications of tolerance, humanitarianism and the right to live and let live. Out there, you willy-nilly peliticians, pecking up your grains of gain, you Democrats, Republicans, pushing eahc other about, you interventionists, isolationists, New Dealers, rich men, poor men, beggar men, doctors, lawyers, mer-
chants, chiefs, there is one thing | this |
that matters above all in great emergency of our national life. America. Concentrate on it. Save it and thereby save yourselves, your children and the greatest treasure that any nation can claim for its own—a democratic way of living. Lying out there, stretching from coast to coast and from north to south is a scene that must be conserved within the jig-saw framwork of democracy. It is the case for America! Upon your ability to subordinate all issues to that, lies our future.
America has imported too many ideas and fears from Europe says Robert P. Tritram Coffin, who advises us to try being Americans, in the next article of this series on “Our Country.”
NEW NAVY QUOTA SET |
Its September quota of 100 al-|
ready filled, the U. S. Navy Recruiting Station here announced today a new quota of 29 additional enlistments has been set for the
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Siete, Twenty men enlisted yester=ay.
| tion: “If you accept 12 years, then { why not 16 and 20 and 24?” { This seems to start the crowds to | thinking. Mr. Willkie, it would appear, is { going to have to be more specific | about what he proposes to do if he is to break into the bedrock of Roosevelt strength, of which vcu notice so much from the train win dows in the crowds that come out to see him—men in overalls and women in bargain-basement dresses,
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
|1-——Are there wild lions in Siberia? [2—Should a visit of condolence be returned? |3—Which canal connects the North Sea with the Baltic?
4—What is the minimum United States Senators? 5—What was the nickname of Ede ward, son of Edward III of Enge land? {6—Is white elothing cooler than black in the direct rays of the sun? T—During the administration of President Roosevelt has the farm population of the U. S. increased or decreased?
8—What is the score of a forfeited game in football?
age for
Answers 1—No. | 2—No. 3—Kiel. 4—Thirty. 5—*“Black Prince.” 6—Yes. T—Increased. 8—1 to 0.
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