Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1940 — Page 7

SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 1940

‘Hoosier Vagabond

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Well, the Old Sea Rover is off again. Today he girds his lumbago about him, grasps his guidebook in trembling hands, snuggles deeply into his new winter underwear, and moseys away for—Europe. Yes, it's Europe at last. I don't know exactly where I'm going, and I'm not even sure why I'm going. All'I know is that a small voice came in the night and said “Go.” And when I put it up to the boss he leaned back in his chair and said “Go.” And when I sat alone with my so-called conscience and asked it what to do, it pointed its finger and said “Go.” So I'm on my way. The idea is to get to London. The first step will be to get across the Atlantic. I had intended going by Clipper. Even had my reservation, and the ticket in my pocket. But right now the Clipper service is so badly jammed up by too much mail and winter weather and what not, that I found I could get to Lisbon quicker by steamship. So the first leg of the journey is an eight-day crossing of the Atlantic on the American Export Line to Lisbon.

No Gay Adventure, This

When you leave Lisbon depends on Fate, the Weather, and Great Britain. You fly to London on a twice-a-week line run by the British Gg¢vernment. You go when they're ready for you. It may be a week. It may be a month. It will be just my luck to die of old age in Lisbon. ; The plan is to spend about six weeks in England, and be back in America by late January. That, too, depends on Fate & Co. You come back when you can get back. They're running a war over there and they don’t call intermissions for obscure newspapermen to go out and smoke. Never before have I set out on a long trip with anything but elation in my heart. It is not so with this trip. This one is grave. I've wrestled it over through many a long night. It is no lark, no gay adventure. It will be tough and I know it. My one great hope is that I have the character to take it.

- By Ernie Pyle

I go alone this time. That Girl and I both would prefer that she go too, but it is impossible. When you read this I'll be in mid-Atlantic, so the columns will be out of the paper for a while, until I can get on the other side and get my feet on the ground. ; The first week’s columns will probably be about the boat trip, and how seasick I am. After that, everything will have to come through censors, and over disarranged mail services and crowded radio schedules. I am undoubtedly the most correctly dressed reporter who ever left America’s shores. Every stitch of my wartime journalistic attire I have taken right out of the movies. If Joel McCrea could see me he would have to do “Foreign Correspondent” over and let me co-star with him.

“I Know I Will Be Scared”

| My new raincoat is the most dashing of trench | coats, with epaulets on the shoulder and a wide flare to the skirt. My corduroy sports jacket with the leather buttons will be the envy of all London. My new brown shoes are of the jodhpur style—high loose anklets, strap and buckle, and lined with sheepskin. My muffler, my gloves, even my long cotton drawers— thev are all of the latest cut. If my career as a foreign correspondent simmers into a dismal failure, it will be because of my face and my brain, and not because my duds aren't, snappy. i But truly, I approach this job with fearfulness. TI| know I will be scared. I know I will be cold and miserable most of the time. I know I will feel small and in the way among a people who are so relentlessiy doing a job of life and death. And I fear most that all these things in combination will leave me unable to do good writing. | I don't know how readers will take this trip. I have had no clue from my friends. 0 Some say, “You were the one who didn't write politics or war. Now look at you.” Others say, “So you're getting some sense at last. You should have gone long ago.” And still others say. “You damn fool, what are you going over there for?” And a few have said, “How I envy you. an arm to go myself.” So I don't know.

I'd give

But the voice said “Go.”

Inside Indianapolis - (And “Our Town’)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Arthur L. Trester, popularly known as the “czar” of Indiana high school basketball. More has been written about Arthur Trester in the last 20 years than any other man in Indiana sports, most of it on the uncomplimentary side. Mr. Trester is. commissioner of the organization called the Indiana High School Athletic Association. He has held the job for the last 27 years, but prior to 1929 he was the permanent secretary, which amounted to the same thing as commissioner. Mr. Trester is now in his upper fifties, a big hearty man, 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighing about 210 pounds. His hair has that middle age spread, billiard ballish on top with a graying fringe around the sides. He hee has steady, wideset eyes and a chin that's both square and prominent. Sober in appearance, he smiles more than he frowns, however, and he laughs heartily over witticisms. He is partial to grays in his dress. Aside from walking, he is strictly a spectator sportsman, but he keeps in shape by abstaining from smoking or drinking and by keeping amazingly regular hours.

He Lives by the Rules

THE NUBBIN OF ALL criticism about Arthur Trester revolves about one essential fact. He lives by the rules. To him there are no degrees of wrongdoing. He will not compromise. Nor will he reply to criticism. His attitude is that a rule's the rule and if you break it (for no matter what reason) you pay the penalty. Typical is the fact that each member of the IHSAA Board of Control, which hires him, is entitled to six complimentary tickets. If they need another or two more, they've found it does no good to ask Trester. They have to get their extras the best way they can—like any other basketball fan. | As a result, high school officials throughout Indigna fear and respect him. Actually, he is not the “czar.” The Board of Control holds that distinction. The. Board makes the rules and takes all the actions. Mr. Trester does the investigating and on occasion

Washington

~- WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—There’s redcap trouble again over that charge of 10 cents a parcel that you pay in most railroad stations when you travel now. The Wage and Hour Administration has looked into the operation of the. system at Union Station here and finds that the terminal company is making money out of it while the redcaps get only the minimum. It isn’t anything world-shak-ing, but the whole business of trying to fit the redcaps all over the country into the Wage and Hour Law has been a headache to the redcaps, the railroads, the Wage and Hour Administration and the traveling public. Those who try to bring about social and economic reforms have the hard job, as the Wage-Hour Law experience well shows. It is much easier to oppose all change, to sit tight. Because when you start out to reform something, you first have a bitter

Anything for Efficiency

issues temporary suspensions until the board can meet and act. Nothing has any effect on A. L.| Trester and when he makes up his mind, nothing can | change him—not even threats to legislate him out | of office (one such bill was submitted to the Legislature). .

Just a Homebody AS COMMISSIONER, he has handled millions of |

- dollars for the IHSAA and in 27 years has never lost |

a penny. He always invests the association's money |

in Government securities. = He is pretty much of a homebody and likes regularity in his meals. He goes to bed religiously at 8 o'clock, unless he is out in the state dedicating a] gymnasium or attending a dinner. He has more speaking engagements than he can fill. He takes | long walks both morning and evening near his home, | 4746 Broadway, and there is nothing unusual in his taking an “eye-opener” jaunt at 6 in the morning. He enjoys attending high school and college basketball and football games At tournaments, though | he can have any seat in the house, he usually gets| up in the balcony and sits there impassively, munching on peanuts and peanut brittle.

MR. TRESTER has what amounts to a mania for cornbread and milk. He is likewise fond of fruit and often stops at market to buy three dozen or more oranges at a time. . : He was in his young days superintendent of schools in Alexandria. Martinsville and La Porte and he keeps well informed on all phases of school work. particu- | larly administration. He: feads a lot and can be] found {requently browsing around magazine and bouk shops. He likes to drive his car on trips and while he travels fast. he is careful. He keeps his car in top shape and it's fenders are dentless. He seldom goes | to movies, but he likes good ones. i He hates beating around the bush and he doesn't | care much who gets angry. He wants everything in | writing. And he falls for any gadget advertised as an aid to efficiency. On that score he is a Neo. 1 sucker.

By Raymond Clapper

highly paid employees and to many whose work was really professional and beyond control of the time clock. After Col, Philip Fleming became Administrator that was changed. Employees receiving more than $200 a month were excluded from operation of such provisions, which was a sensible distinction because the Wage-Hour Act was meant for the bottombracket people, most of whom had no union to help them, :

The Cincinnati Plan

The redcap who takes your luggage was a problem, because he lived by tips, was paid no wages. The Wage-Hour Administration ruled that tips were not wages and the redcap union began to move in to collect back wages. As a result of that threat, the Cincinnati plan was developed by John Hollister, law partner of Senator Robert A. Taft and one of the Willkie advisers in the recent campaign. Representing the Cincinnati terminal management, he devised the parcel check charge of 10 cents a piece. The fees all go to the employer. The redcap is paid the minimum wage.

He'd 'Save' U. Hitler Thought

(INSTALLMENT SIX) Today's installment continues Hitler's discussion of bis plans in the Americas, which began in yesterday's installment, and particularly deals with his views regarding the United States. The author was a close associate of Hitler from 1932 to 1935 and was President of the Danzig Senate, until forced to flee because of a break with Hitler.

ABOUT the United States, Hitler had his firm, preconceived opinion which no argument could shake. This opinion was that North America would never take part in a European war again, and that, with her millions of unemployed, the United States was on the brink of a revolution from the outbreak of which only Hitler could save her.

In June, 1933, I was present at a dinner-table conversation in Hitler’s flat in which he gave expression to this view. Later, however, I had frequent occasions to hear the same view expressed. One of the guests suggested that it’ might be of decisive importance for Germany to win the friendship of North America. Certain members of the German

government at that time had 1

publicly emphasized the unique value of friendly relations with the United States, and for this reason had some misgivings about the anti-Semitic policy of the Reich. “Whose

friendship?” Hitler

| brusquely interposed. “The friend-

ship of the Jewish jobbers and money-bags or that of the American people?” He expressed his contempt of the present government of the United States. “This is the last disgusting death-rattle of a corrupt and outworn system which is a blot on the history of this people. Since the Civil War, in which the Southern States were conquered, against all historical logic and sound sense, the Americans have been in a condition of political and popular decay. In that war, it was not the Southern States, but the American people themselves, who were conquered. In the spurious blossoming of economic progress and power politics, America has ever since been drawn deeper into the mire of progressive self-destruction. A moneyed clique, which presumes to be good society and to represent the old families, rules the country under the fiction of a democracy which has never before been so nakedly exposed as a mass of corruption and legal venality. The beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed by that war, and with them also the embryo of a future truly great America that would not have been ruled by a corrupt caste of tradesmen, but by a real Herren-class that would have swept away all the falsities of liberty and equality.”

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HAT word “equality” seemed to lash him into a fury. “Equality of whom?” he shouted. “Of the descendants of old Spanish ruling families and of Swedish settlers with the degenerate

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will be easier than to produce a revolution in North America,” Goebbels

interposed. “The ferment goes on under a cover of democracy.”

masses from Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, with all the scum of East Baltic and Balkan Jewry? But I am firmly convinced that in a certain section of the middle class and the farmers, the sound fighting spirit of colonial days has not been extinguished. We must awaken that spirit. It has not yet been destroyed. The wholesome

aversion for the Negroes and the colored races in general, including the Jews, the existence of popular justice, the naivete of the average American, but also the skepticism of certain intellectual circles who have found their wisdom vain; scholars - who nave studied immigration and gained an insight, by means of intelligence tests, into the inequality of the races—all these strains are an assurance that the sound elements of the United States will one day awaken as ‘they have awakened in Germany. National Socialism alone is destined to liberate the American people from their ruling clique and give them back the menas of becoming ‘a great nation.” Hitler had grown animated. All other conversation died away. “I shall,” he continued, “undertake this‘task simultaneously with the restoration of Germany to her leading position in America.” “In what sense, my Fuehrer?” asked Goebbels. : “Have you forgotten that the

Johnny Gets His Gun

declaration of German as the national language was lost by only one voice in Congress? The German component of the American people will be the source of its political and mental resurrection. The American people is not yet a nation in the ethnographical sense; it is a conglomerate of disparate elements. But it is the raw material of a nation. ‘And the Yankees have failed to create a nation from it! They have instead kept their noses in their moneybags. Today this is being avenged. Their difficulties will become insuperable.” “Do you mean,” I‘asked, “that the German-American, rejuven= ated by National Socialism, will be called to lead a new America?” “That is exactly what I mean,” Hitler returned. “We shall soon

have an S. A..in America. We shall train our -youth. And we shall have men whom degenerate Yankeedom will not be able to challenge. Into the hands of our youth will be given the greatest statesmanlike mission of Washington which this corrupt democracy had trodden under foot.” -

[Note: The S. A. is Hitler's elite guard, as distinguished from the S. S., who are the brown-shirt troopers.]

Rookies Will Get Thorough Drill on How ic Use Rifles

One of a series taking a draftee into Uncle Sam's new army.

By MILTON BRONNER

“eYHALL we not very greatly complicate our own struggle in Europe if we do this?” inter= posed Hitler's guest. “Will not the powerful families, become our bitterest enemies? My ‘Fuehrer, I am

apprehensive that your great plans will be shattered before they have time to ripen.” Hitler became excited. “Will you understand, sir, that our struggle against Versailles and our struggle for a new world order is one and the same; we eannot set limits here or there as we please. ©- We shall succeed in making the new political and social order the universal basis of life in the world. Or else we shall be destroyed in our struggle against a peace-treaty which has in reality never existed, and proved on the very first day of its ratification that the conquerors had accidentally been taken for the conquered, and vice versa.” “Nothing will be easier than to produce a bloody revolution in North America,” Goebbels interposed. “No other country has so many social and racial tensions. North America is a mediey ‘of races. The ferment goes on under, a cover of democracy, but it will not lead to a new form of freedom and leadership, but to a process of decay containing all the disintegrating forces of Europe. The America of today will never again. be a danger to us.” : “It is a mistake to assume that

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Local Draft Boards Are Replacing Those

it was a danger to us in the last war,” Hitler remarked crossly. “Compared with the British and French, the Americans behaved like clumsy boys. | They ran straight into the line of fire, like young bits. The American is no soldier. ‘The inferiority and decadence of this allegedly new world is evident in its military inefficiency.” 5 “Nevertheless,” Hitler's guest re~ peated, “I should like to be allowed to express a most humble warning that the Americans cought not to be underestimated as

_ an enemy.”

“Who says anything of underestimation?” Hitler exclaimed an-

grily, as he rose to lead the way

from the table. ‘I guarantee, gentlemen, that at the right moment a new America will exist as our strongest supporter when we our ready to take the stride into overseas space.” “We have the means of awakening this nation'in good time,” he added after a pause. “There will be no new Wilson arising to stir up America against us.” " ” 2 NLY to those who were initi= ated were the aims and methods of Hitler at that time quite clear. This was by no means the case even with all the leading party members. the party were already rather scornful of Hitler as a visionary and a crank. That it was these very “crank” ideas of Hitler's which made it possible for him to go his own unusual and eventually self-justifying - way was at that time evident to very few. In all these very nearly insane plans, Hitler thought of the new weapon he was at that time in the process of building up quite inconspicuously, but with great firmness of purpose, against the resistance of the “experts.” I refer neither to aircraft nor to tanks, but to that ‘psychological weapon” of which Hitler had already spoken some time in 1932, a weapon which he already envisaged with great clarity and complete~ ness. In this connection, too, I recall a conversation at Hitler's dinner-table in the suminer of

The conversatio importance of in weapon. ] Hanfstangel elucidated his master’'s ideas to me as he saw them. In particular he thought it would be quite easy to provoke revolt in the Ukrainian part of Poland. From my personal knowledge of Poland, I did not feel equally convinced of this. But Hanfstangel and Baldur von Schirach, who was sitting opposite me, did not take my objections very seriously. Every state, they reminded ine, could, by suitable methods, be so split from within ' that little strength was required to break it down. Everywhere there were groups that desired independence, whether national or economic, or merely political. The scramble for fodder and distorted ambition— these were the unfailing means to

alt with the rnal unrest as a

a revolutionary weapon by which, the enemy was struck frcm the .

rear. Finally, there were the businessmen, whose profits were their all-in-all. There was no patriotism that could hold out against all temptations. 1t was all a question of money and organization. “Democracy has no convictions,” Hanfstangel proclaimed. “Genuine convictions. I mean, for which people would be willing to stake their lives. That is Hitler's fundamental discovery, and it forms the starting-point for his great and daring policies, which will always prove to be right. Fear and personal advantage will in every case. Sooner or later, lead to capitulation.”

NEXT—Hitler’s plans for world domination;

700-N ight Job Einstein Plaque

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. 22 (U. P).—An admirer of Dr. Albert

- Einstein who worked 700 nights

and traveled 3000 miles to complete a bronze replica of the scientist today presented his work to Purdue University.

The “realists” of |

fight to get your law through and then you find out that it doesn't work as had been expected, the benefits go to the wrong people, or something totally unforeseen goes cockeyed. Only those whose faith never dies can be reformers very long. The others grow discouraged quickly. Which is probably one reason why such movements as the New Deal occur rarely and move so slowly when they do appear. Ordinary human nature doesn't have the heart to stay at such a task very long. Most people have their own troubles and find those sufficient.

Protecting the Poorly Paid

The wage and hour legislation was put through only after a long, hard fight, and preliminary defeat. Eventualiy it was enacted because it seemed the only way to bring protection to the most. poorly paid and most brutally exploited occupations. But after the law became effective it was discovered that the time-and-a-half penalty was applicable to

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday.—Life in the country has peen fairly uneventful. I had a few friends at lunch and ‘dinner, a walk and a ride and time to sit and read by the fire. How delightful it all is, but just around the corner lies plenty of activity, so I can revel in this without feeling really lazy. On Sunday I shall have to leave here to broadcast on the Chicago University hour at 1:30 p. m. This discussion is being arranged so that the public may have a better understanding of the meaning of Art Week, which begins on Monday the 25th. I must devote the rest of this column to telling you of some of the things which poeple have been writing me about of late. . First and foremost, I have a really serious letter from thé Audubon Societies. More than 30 years ago, they led the fight to stop the slaughter of wild birds for their plumage. It appears we ladies in those days used too many pretty feathers from wild birds on our hats and in other decorative ways. Now the National Audubon Society has conducted an investigation and

The plaque was the spare-time work of Nick Mars, 34, a Purdue graduate, now employed as an electrical engineer in the Sharon, Pa., plant of Westinghouse. The plaque will be hung in the Purdue Memorial Union Building. Mr. Mars, a Greek immigrant, has read all of Einstein's works. He made four trips to Princeton and New York to see Dr. Einstein while working on the plaque.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Reuter’s is a British news agency, Manhattan night club, or a marionette theater in Vienna? 2—How many ciphers must be added to the figure one to make a

Linked to Foreign Isms.

ORANGE, Tex., Nov. 23 ‘U. P).— Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee Investigating Un-Ameri-can Activities, was resting today at his home, but he said he soon would “take industry by industry and publish the names of all employees with Communist, Nazi and Fascist affiliation.” ? Rep. Dies said he had been informed that Germany officially was amused at his recently issued “white paper,” but the attitude belied concern. “It isn’t a laughing job,” he declared. He said that his agents had raided the offices of one organization and found orders from high Nazi officials to a German Consulate in this country to have him investigated. 2 Mr. Dies arrived here yesterday for a “few days rest.” He said he would leave next week for New Orleans to begin a nationwide tour, continuing his investigation of alleged Nazi, Fascist and Communist propaganda dissemination and activities. “We have beter information to work with now than ever before,” he said. “We have the names of all persons in this country involved in Communist, Nazi and Fascist activities who are employed by American industry, I intend to take industry by industry and publish the names of all employes with Communist, Nazi and Fascist affiliation, beginning about Jan. 1.” Mr. Dies said he hoped to force government action and the dismissal of foreign agents by their employers. In addition to names of foreign agents, Dies said, he would have their records and their relation to “foreign ideologies.” he

That plan went into effect here last April. : In five and cne-half months’ operation the terminal company made a gross profit of $22,877, or more than $4000 a month, out of the parcel charges. The company says the net profit is only about $2700 a month. Profits also showed up in the St. Louis terminal, but there the management split the kitty among the redcaps each month, not desiring to profit out of the parcel charge arrangement. The redcaps complain that they get almost no tips under the present charge system and that the minimum wage is actually a maximum. Doesn't give an ambitious and energetic redcap a chance to get ahead. It has been suggested that the railroads could pay all their redcaps the minimum wage at a total | cost for the whole country of about $2,000,000 a year. | forget all the annoyance over parcel charges. and let the porters keep their tips as velvet. The idea doesn’t impress the railroads but they may hear about it some more. oh

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Assuming that John Q. Citizen, drafted for the army, has been put into a set of draftees learning to be infantrymen, it is quite natural that one of tha first things taught him is how to handle the rifle itself, how to load it and how to fire it. It is impressed upon him that he is handling a valuable piece of Government property for which he is responsible. His rifle has a number and he must remember this number. He turns in the weapon to his platoon officer at night. He is taught tHe name of every part of the rifle. He learns how to take it apart and put it together again. That is necessary in gase the weapon jams some time. He must know how to fix it. He must also be careful to clean it from dust and dirt and sand. . He must learn how to sight and to aim the weapon. Then one fine day he is taken wut to the rifle rarge and allowed to blaze away with real ammunition. He will get plenty of this expensive exercise. because a soldier is no good if he does not know how te shoot and shoot to good effect. Next he will have bayonet drill and training. He must learn how to defend himself agdinst the bayonet thrusts of a possible enemy soldier and how to take the counteroffensive with that weapon, so terrible in smashing running attacks upon the foe. : Since the last European war, the use of poison gas in warfare is a possibility. For that reason John will be taught something about lethal gases and how to detect them. There will be added to his equipment a gas mask. He will learn how to adjust this life-saving apparatus, and to do-so quickly and effectively.

Sent Home.

Weak eyes, bad teeth and other physical . defects barred approximately one out of every 11 of the first 175 draftees sent to Ft. Harrison from serving in Uncle Sam's army. Army doctors rejected five of the first 75 sent to the Fort Tuesday and | 11 of the 100 sent Wednesday. These men were examined and passed by their local draft board doctors. Local draft boards are replacing the men who were rejected. : The ~ final contingent of 110 draftees to fill the state's first call for 395 will be inducted at Ft. Harrison Monday. The third contingent of 110 men, inducted yesterday, were to be sent to Ft. Thomas, Ky., late today. quintillion? Thirteen Marion County men will{3—1Is the Cotton Bowl in Memphis, be in the contingent inducted Mon-|, New Orleans or Dallas? day. They are Edgar J. Coryell, 245|4—In which state are Yosemite N. Delaware St.; James E. Kratoska, Falls? 1737 W. Morris St.; Edward J. See, |5—During whose Administration 316 E. South St.; Bernard B was the Federal Reserve System Morgan, 752 Fletcher Ave. inaugurated? alter R. Owen, 1453 S. Talbot |6—Give the approxi St.; Vernon E. Starker, 1116 Wright value of pi juste Humeies) St.; Chris H. Stickan, R. R. 20, | Box 8; George R. Zahn, 1806 S. Answers Madison Ave. 1—RBritish ni ; Lewis P. Meushaw, 5544 Guilford 1 Brith news agency Ave.; John A. Alvis, 745 E. 49th 8t.; |3—Dallas. Lemuel E. Vaughn, R. R. 17, Box |4—Califernia. 53; Alfred E. Loeper, R. R. 10, Box 5—Woodrow Wilson. 6—3.1416. |

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2 DIE IN AUTO PLUNGE NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (U. P.).—A question of tact or information to The Indianapolis Times

young physician and his sweetheart plunged te their deaths early today when their automobile bounced over; Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13th St, N. W., Washing= ton, D. C. Legal and medical

a 14-inch string piece of Pier 69 and fell into the East River. They advice cannot be given nor can extended research be under:

taken,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

For time may be of the essence if there is actual war.

NEXT—Art of concealment.

LOCAL WOMAN’S SON IS KILLED BY AUTO

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov, 23 (U. P.) —Funeral arrangements were being completed today for William H, Steeg, 60, president of the Acme Coal and Lime Co., who was killed last night when he stepped from between two parked cars into the path of a car driven by William Bathe. ’ Surviving are his mother, Mrs, Anna Steeg and one brother, Ernest Steeg, of Indianapolis. §

SOUTH BEND YOUTH KILLED SOUTH BEND, Ind. Nov. 23 (U, P.).—Joseph S. Wozniak Jr. 24, died last night in a local hospital of internal injuries suffered when he was crushed between a box car|{were Dr. Albion A. Bernstein, 27, and a loading platform at the and Helen Ayers, 22, formerly of

Studebaker Corp. plant. .' Altoona, Pa. a nurse. - .

finds that they must start a new campaign. They ask the women of the United States to help them. We ladies are guilty, of course. If we realized that we were stamping out so many beautiful wild birds and destroying the species for all time, we would not be very happy, no matter how becoming our headdress might be. But most of us buy such things with little thought as to what lies behind the product. There are always some feathers which are permissible to wear because they can be obtained without injuring the birds. If we dress these feathers up with very nice names, which modern advertising surely can do, we will be just as happy wearing them as if they were some of those banned by the Audubon Society. I hope, therefore, that the Audubon Society’s crusade will be very successful and that all of us who like to think we are well dressed will shun the use of feathers obtained by killing wild birds. We should look askance at anyone who cannot say: “I bought this before 1940,” and hope that if such a lady buys feathers of the banned variety we can at least say of her that fashions are against her. I realize that the manufacturers of feathered goods will have to use their inventive genius to please the public in some other way, but they have done it before and they can do it again. :

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