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Shall They Starve?-
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Dec. . 5,—Are the British blockade? - Couldn't they, escape famine ‘and pestilence if Hitler returned the
food stolen\for | his armies and ersatz military factories? - hese are the first questions
= provoked by the British propa- . ganda against Herbert Hoover's
plan’ for European: relief ‘along ~ World War lines. * According to the British, thete is. no food shortage in Europe which Hitler cannot correct. Ac-= cording to Mr. Hoover and other relief . experts about 37 million sufferers, including 15 million ghildren, face famine in Finland, i Belgium, Norway, Holland arid central Poland. : Mr, Hoover ‘does not yet include the French, “because of the present obscurity of their! food and political situation.” According to the American Friends Service Committee, there are from 5 to 10 million sufferers in unoccupied France; others report a similar number in occupied France. - Prime Minister Chuschill first tried to kill the Hoover ‘plan: with this| statement: “We know that in: Norway, when the German troops ‘went in, thete: were food supplies to last for
country, usually produced sufficient food for her people. . Moreover, the other countries which Herr Hitler has invaded all held considerable stock when the Germans entered and are themselves very substantial food producers, \
Wheat Crop Belo Normal
“If all this food is not available now, it can only be because it has been removed to feed the people of Germany and to give them increased rations.” (And for manufacture of war materials, he added later) | Leaving aside for a moment the German theft angle, the British argument that the occupied countries are ‘relatively self-sufficient is refuted not only by ‘relief “investigators but also by official
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G) conquered : Ri € ri ‘or is that only Hitler ptopa- - : ganda to break the.
We know that Poland, though not a rich -
Siaijsties. inclding those of the U. S. ‘Department of
Agriculture, “Taken as whole, the 325 million pecple in Europe now: outside of ‘Russia normally Jring in
approximately 15 per cent of their: food : from the|’
outside,” Mr. Hoover poihts out. “All this is now effectively stopped by the British blockade. Moreover, the inevitable effect of war ‘is degeneration in farm production because of the mobilization of manpower, lack of fertilizers and the destruction of battle.” - Added to the 15 per cent shortage dug to. blockade, is a serious crop reduction. According to the Department of Agriculture: § “The 1940 European wheat crop, exclusive of the Soviet Union, is tentatively estimated at 20 per cent below ‘that of 1939.”
Still the British Minister of Econdinic: Warfare’
insists ‘that “there would be no famine on the continent = provided the” Nazis = distributed fairly the available food.” Since there is a demonstrated shortage of more than 30 per cent—15 per cent imports and 15 to 20 per cent’ crop reduction—the British Government is' really arguing that Europeans can
live on 70 per cent of their low normal if it is evenly
divided.
Disease Menaces All
Even in tipies of péace and plenty, the city poor are closer to hunger than the farmers. Obviously in
the chaos of wartime, with broken transport and: mal- |.
«distribution of scarce food, the poor will starve first. And the weak. And the babies. The growing hunger and disease in many’ ‘occupied areas are attested by reports of military men, diplomats, journalists and refugees. Hoover, from his wide relief cxposionsen describes what happens: “When the food supply falls to famine levels people don’t lie down and die from: starvation: Long before they get to that point théir physical resistance is so lowered: by malnutrition that they die of disease. Thé children weaken first, and the women and old men next. “These conditions are already beginning to show up. In Brussels. the bread ration is only 7 ounces per day per person,-being about one-half the normal. In Warsaw, typhus has already appeared.” Both Germany and Britain have a selfish interest in stopping the plague béfore its spreads.
NEXT—Would Hoover . er Rellef. aan Hitler?
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Wdlils Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town
VIRGIL SHEPPARD, STATE Welfare Department
; assistant administrator, has always been rather skep-
tical about these stories that husbands desert their
' wife and children so that the families can get on re-
lief. The other day, driving up from Scottsburg, Mr. Sheppard picked up two young, neat hitchhikers. During the ride to Indianapolis, he struck up a conversation. “Where are you going,” he asked. “I'm going up to Canada,” one replied. “I've got a rich uncle up there apd I'm going to let him take care of me.” “What about your family? asked Mr. Sheppard. “Oh, the wife and kids are going to get some of that State money,” answered the young man,
t iors Mr. Sheppard started thinking e was, compounding a felony. As he t of the Welfare Department; he saw rner. He climbed from his car and hurried to the’ officer. “See that man over there. He's running awly from
¢ his wife. Is that as law violation?” Mr. Sheppard
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50 very. good, and. we enjoyed our ‘evening /meal on the:
. asked.
“I don't know,” said the policeman, but he walked up to the young man and started talking to him. . - “Why, 1 didn’t that,” the young man told the officer. “He's got the story all mixed up.” And then he walked away. Mr. Sneppard still wants to know if it's a law. violation. But ’t so skeptical about those stories any more.
That, Traff ic Problem Again
SAFETY BO Te! MEMBERS are in a quandary over the traffic situation. They want to cut down the City’s traffic mortality rate but they don’t want to offend’ anyone in process. They were talking it over the other day. One mem-
ber asked:
“Why is it that we have 86 traffic deaths in Indi-
Wash ngton
” WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—The Administration is
learning that the better way to get along with Congress in these delicate affairs connected with the war is by man-to-man dealing. . The method has just been tried in connection with 3 /{the Administration’s desire to use its idle $2,000,000,000 stabilization /fund in assisting other nations to ‘resist totalitarian powers, The re|sponse in Congress was immediate ‘and co-operative. Even hardshell Republicans melted under the un‘usual experience of being treated ‘las fellow beings by the executive | branch. -
The stabilization fund was | created by the so-called profits from the gold revaluation of 1934. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has almost For a while the fund was
permitted to be secret.
=. used to keep a balance between the franc, the pound
‘and the dollar, but the fall of France left this tripartite stabilization agreement inoperative and since then Secretary Morgenthau has been sitting on his $2,000,000,000
A Pledsant Surprise
China needs financial help from us in her struggle to hold Japan back. This wasn't entirely a stabiliza-
tion matter, but Secretary Morgenthau thought it
was an important proposition, and the handiest place to.get the $50,000,000 he was ready to advance to
* ghina was the stabilization fund.
While having the power to go ahead without consulting anyone, Secretary Morgénthau felt under moral ‘obligation to consult with Congress. So he and Sec‘retary of State Hull asked to appear before a joint
; ig of the appropriate House and Senate com-
y Day
TON, Ter. Wednesday.—It was interesting oil men wandering in and out Jur “hotel as they gathered in Abilene tion. There is a ‘long, lean, Texas Euan who. reminds me always of Will Rogers. Qne imagines that they all possess the qualities which were so attractive and lovable in him. . They . look like people who can stand sun
and wind, who are at home oun‘
horseback and ‘in far places by themselves. They give one a great sense of security in the future of our country, . In Dallas, Tex., we spent.a little over an hour yesterday in the railroad station before leaving for
Houston, A reception was held for .
me in the station by the Wonien’s Democratic Luncheon Club. The members. prought me flowers and were most kind in 10 welcome me, s | Buckner présented us with something very Mr Mune ich the chef of our dining car cooked for dinner. It was venison sausage. I confess I what it- would be like, but it turned out to
train. “By the time. ‘we arrived at Houston, I felt as
. : arbitrary - control over ‘the dso of this fund. Its operations are
anapolis,, while in Kansas City, a larger city, there are only 25 deaths so far this year?” “Well,” one official said, “our Police Department makes just as many arrests per capita as the Kansas City police. So the traffic law enforcement is all right up to that point. But we can’t get the courts to cooperate—"
Then deciding that they were right back where|
they usually wind up in discussing traffic, the Board members decided to drop the matter again for the time being.
Now It Can Be Told—Or Can It?
AT A PRESS LUNCHEON on Nov. 4, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra management dropped a hint that, within three or four days, they would have an announcement of “tremendous importance.” So important in fact, that not even an inkling of its ‘subject matter could be divulged.
But it seems the announcenrent was made to some orchestra officials “in strictest confidence.” It may be assumed that these officers in turn passed along the information to a select circie—still in strict confidence. Pretty soon practically everyone in town knew that
the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was going tol
make records for RCA<Victor, Now w€ hear that the contracts are signed and re-
turned and Conductor Fabien Sevitzky already has|
selected the first composition to be recorded. This is just to let you know, confidentially, that one of these days it probably will be announced officially.
Just a Few Statistics MYRON SCARBROUGH, a Butler sopHiomibls. is a
statistics demon. He made this November report on|
himself| today: “Slept 268}% hours, was asked for matches six times and kissed 28 times”. . A Republican City Councilman who wants a low auto license number was stumped. With the Democrats still in control at the State House, he didn’t stand much chance. He wrote to the Mayor about his problem, and the Mayor wrote to Frank Finney. It looks like everything is going to be all right. .. . The girls over at the State House are all a-twitter. The reason: Somebady told them a legislator was all set to introduce a bill to bar married women from State jobs.
By Raymond Clapper
mittees. They explained what was proposed and why. It was a -sensational innovation and the two committees| celebrated the new spirit of co-operation by unanimously approving the proposition on the spot— Republicans going along against their former judgment after hearing the full confidential explanation of the reasons why this move seemed advisable. The Administration has ‘tried several other methods. You remember the destroyer deal. After White House denials that anything of the kind was in’ the wind, President Roosevelt shattered the Washington calm one day by sending to Congress a message announcing that he had done it.
Mr. Morgenthau Learns
Long before that, before the war began, Secretary Morgenthau had a bitter experience. He was in secret negotiations with the French for planes and|8 was getting away with it neatly when a plane crash |@ in’ California exposed the presence of a French buyer aboard on the test flight. Congress went into a stew and finally Roosevelt had to call the military committees to the White House to explain all.” But by that time they were so embittered that when he said something about our real frontiers being across the Atlantic, it was seized upon to set the country into a frenzy of suspicious. discussion. Out of this kind of stuff was built up the campaign charge that Roosevelt was trying to get us into the war. Secretary Morgenthau apparently had his Jesson in the French plane incident and this time he consulted Congress first. - Although not always treated as such, Senators and Representatives are human beings. They respond when - treated with consideration. In many things
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that will have to be done, there will not be time for}
legislation, or the matters in hand will not be suitable for legislative treatment. Yet by the method! used by Secretary Morgenthau in this instance, executive action can be taken in an essentially democratic way.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
though we hai had quite a long day, but I must say that hours spent on the train give one an opportunity: for reading rarely obtained elsewhere. I finished, a whole book, which I had carried in my brief case for some weeks before returning it to the Junior Literary Guild with my criticism. Yesterday we went through some hilly sections of Texas that had a| certain amount of water, It does make a great difference to the countryside. I am struck by the fact that on .the outskirts of nearly all small towns and big ones, there are Hoiises which look}. very. much like some of the California migratory camps. The houses are made of scraps, apparently, bits of corrugated iron, even heavy cardboard is used and it looks as though they were built on the dump heaps of the towns. It. can not be very healthy for people to live in them. One wonders how conscious the town authorities and the town people are of these conditions on their outskirts. I suppose this is partly the result of
being a new country, where people ‘came either to be-|
gin life for the first time on their own, or to begin it “over again, if, for some reason, they have failed elsewhere. Modern conditions do not make the pioneer} way of living as safe as it once was. However, I can
not help feeling that there should be some better way juries
of meeting this problem in modern society than the one which seems peevaleny in many pass. of: the country.
By Luduwell Denny .
This is the sixteenth installment of
circle of the National Socialist Party. 2's 2
prayers. ‘He watches the p moisture dripping from the
from human society. ‘He ‘has ‘acquired the most curious habits. He can only get to sleep if his ‘bed has been made in a particular way. . The quilt must lie
folded exactly -as prescribed. Men whom he trusts must make the bed.. Is he afraid of poisoning, of some. secret contrivance, poison on the pillow, an infernal machine in the mattress? Himmler busied himself ,in the early days with a poisonous white powder. Strewn on the pillow, it would be inhaled in sleep and injure the lungs, bringing a painful death. Goering is naturally brave; Hitler is not. He is excessively nervous, and _insanely self-important. He has “nothing of the brave ‘man’s readiness to challenge and defy fate. He sees to it that he is guarded like a precious antique. If he exposes himself to any risk, the protective arrangements are perfection. - The onlooker may imagine that Hitler is taking a risk; he is not. He: is timid and sensitive. He has to force himself by much preparation to put on a bold front. For everyihing he needs to be worked up. ' He must prepare beforehand for the smallest action; he must screw himself up to it. He was fond of posing as a martyr and :dwelling on the idea of premature death. At such times he would seem to be giving up. He was then full of compassion, but only for himself. » ” o
LL the more astonishing are the explosions of his “deters mined will,” his sudden activity. Then he neither tires nor hungers; he lives with a morbid en- . ergy that enables him to-do almost miraculous things. Everything abeut him is jerky and abrupt. He is entirely without balance. And in this respect he shows not the slightest improvement as he grows older: He has no natural greatness, even in
City Hall— ¢
ANTI-SABOTAGE |
Municipal Utilities Outline Program of Protection In Wartime.
By RICHARD LEWIS
A program to safeguard munici-pally-operated utilities from sabotage has been suggested to Indianapolis and other Hoosiér cities which own utilities by Louis Geupel, water works superintendent of Evansville.
Mr. Geupel outlines a four-point procedure to protect the utilities which, he says, are the backbone of defense industry operations. In ded tones, the superintendent advises: “We believe everyone realizes|: that the trend of the whole world
bat or assisting just short of war. In such a condition of public mind, water works, electric, gas and other public utility men are thinking of the future of their plants.”
erators to keep stores of spare parts on hand, to, investigate citizenship and loyalties of employees, | to check carefully on all\visitors to plants and to establish a committee of local officials to deal with emergencies arising out of sabotage. Copies of Mr. Geupel’s sugges tions, first read at the recent meet‘ing of the Indiana Municipal League, lave been sent to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and executives ‘of the Indianapolis-owned Citizens Gas and Coke Utility.
Bidders Are Leery
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Sts., scerie of ‘a new. residential development. ? The members settled back in their] chairs as Martin H.. Walpole, the Board's : executive Seerstary, sonor‘ously announced the bidding open. . Nothing happened. Concerned, Board members investigated. They
cause . of an alleged, question = ‘waivers property ETS signed for the improvement. When the waiver question is cleared up, the Board’ ‘learned, the contractors will - hid.
CRASH INJURIES FATAL
(TU. P.).—Mrs, Laura Dickerson, 25, of Crawfordsville, died yesterday of inreceived in-an automobile acSident ‘Saturd
mdnths:old d Shise: Marjorie Jean,
“time.
DRIVE PLANNED|
is toward’ war, either actual com-|
Specifically, he advises utility op- |i
Works Board members yesterday |||: assembled in public session to hear| § bids on’ a. sewer .and walks. for| Brouse St. between 30th and 34th|
found that local contractors weren’s| sure of payment for work done be- |
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 5|
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Hitler Heavily Guarded; Lives i in Constant Fear
(INSTALLMENT SIXTEEN)
“The Voice of Destruction,” in which an
intimate associate of Adolf Hitler from 1932 to 1933 reveals how he outlined his * policies and told his plans for world domination in eonversations with the inner
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ITLER loves solitary walks.- The mountain forests intoxicate him. These walks are his divine service, his
assing clouds, listens to the
pines. He hears voices. I
have met him when in this mood. He recognizes nobody then: He wants to be alone. There are times when he Regs
the vastness of, his new and vast rooms.
He is full of resentments. A word, an association of
chance ideas, may arouse them at any Visitors have been completely dumfounded at a sudden transition in the Fuehrer from obvious goodwill to violent scolding, for some imagined slight, and defensive self-praise. In some ‘harmless remark the visitor’ will have unwittingly touched one of”
.the leader’s sore points, reopened.
some wound left by past injuries to his self-confidence and vanity. But Germany's Fuehrer is not only vain and as sensitive as a mimosa: he is brutal and vindictive. erosity. He lives in a world of in-
sincerity, deceiving and self-de- °
ceiving. But hatred is like wine to him, it intoxicates him. ' One
must have heard his tirades of -
denunciation to- realize how he can revel in hate. Brutal and vindictive, he is also sentimental—a ‘familiar mixture. He loved his canaries, and could cry ‘when one of them sickened and died. But he’ would have men against whom he had a grudge tortured to death in" the most horrible vay. He eats incredible quantities of sweetmeats and whipped cream; and he has the instinct of the sadist, finding sexual excitement in inflicting torture on others.
2' = 2 AOST loathsome of ‘all is the reeking ' miasma of furtive,
unnatural sexuality that fills and
fouls the whole atmosphere round him. Nothing in this environment is straightforward. Sure reptitious relationships, substitutes and symbols, false sentiments and secret lusts—nothing in this man’s surroundings is natural and genuine, nothing has the openness of a "natural instinet. Hitler has a room with obscene nudes .on the wall. Such pictures have no artistic intention or appeal. He revels in this type of painting. Is he merely aping Frederick “the Great” and his
‘He is entirely without gen- .
“Goering is naturally brave; Hitler is not . . . he sees to it that he is guarded like a [precious antique.”
cynicism? ‘Was that his intention, : too, when he was paying. court . to dancers—was- he trying to dupe
the world by pretending to be involved in amorous adventures
while his troops were preparing to . march on Praha, in imitation of |
Fredetick's invasion of Saxony? -. Prederick II of Prussia®is his great exemplar. He feels akin to him. He accords to Frederick II
the posthumous honor of: recogni- i
tion as Hitler's forerunner. Yet this man, so convinced of his own godlike stature, is grateful for every bit-of praise and for the
crudest flattery. He lives on praise
and recognition. He needs .constant reassurance by expressions of enthusiastic approval.
Hitler was discovered by women, society ladies whq pushed him far-
ward, when still a young. man, after the Great War. wives of some great industrialists, before their husbands, who gave him financial | support, surreptitiously supplying him with money, and in the inflation period with valuables. How much they con-
tributed to his | istock of ideas may, *
be doubtful. But it was they who pampered -him and ministered to his conceit with extravagant advance laurels. Hitler knew very well what he was about. ‘He “cultivated” these connections as carefully and calculatingly as any adventurer im _putsuit of ar Heh wife. © In the
U.S. Health Expert Goes West As Flu Epidemic Moves East
By Seton ce Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 5._Dr. John W. Oliphant, one of the U. S. Public Health Service's influenza experts, is on his way to California, from which an epidemic was moving east today into Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Phoenix and Boise, Ida., physicians reported “an alarming increase.” : The total was in the hundreds of thousands. Fifty thousand were ul in Los Angeles alone. Thousands also were ill in San ‘Francisco. Official reports of 1490 cases in California for the week ended Nov. 30 do not indicate the true situation there, State Health Officer Dr. Bertram P. Brown has informed the health service. These 1490 cases, however, jumped the
nation’s total influenza, cases io
the week to 3014, nearly three time the number ordinarily expected at this season. Other states reporting more than 100 cases during the week are South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Virginia. This may be the beginning © of the
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widespread influenza epidemic which many authorities have predicted would come this winter. The predictions are based on an influenza cycle of 25-year periods, the last r one -in the cycle being that which came toward the end of ‘the last World War. No satisfactory methods of con{rolling this disease have yet been developed. Dr. Oliphant is going to California. to determine «first whether the present cases are epidemic influenza and then, if they are, to collect strains of the virus causing the illness. At least two strains of influenza virus . have been ' identified and rabeled A and B. More strains may exist. Difficulty in developing protective vaccines against the disease may be due to the fact that there | are so many strains. There might have to be a separate vaccine for each strain of virus. The present epidemic is said to be a mild form of influenza with few cases of pneumonia and no evidence of pneumonia. deaths as yet.
By William Ferguson
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struggle for power it was the woman’s vote that brought Hitler to triumph. In the mass meetings in every town the front rows were always filled with elderly women of a certain Wpe, married and single. . _ Hitler, as I see him, ‘is a personality so exclusively ‘wrapped up in himself that he is’ incapable of genuine devotion. .And thus the more or ‘less morbjd women .-who, swarm around him and pay him homage, wonien with more than'a touch of hysteria, are a deliberately selected company. Later I. frequently ‘found with him strikingly pretty young blondes. . They sat beside him at meals. He stroked their hands. ‘He permitted himself little intimacies. The, Whole thing was playacting. ‘
en. 2. FAST Torchitectiual schemes * have been carried out at Hitler’ s orders — gavernment depart ments, private buildings,. party offices. His mania: for building is the expression of his’ constant itch to assert himself. , People have admired ‘this architecture; others have : been aghast -at its ‘dimensions and at the indifference it reveals td extravagant expenditure. It was all this, building that first set everybody! | ‘and particularly thinking people, wondering what would be the end of it:all. :°
He had, Beilin. rebuilt, and
STIVER PRESSES | POLIO AID DRIVE
Cites Fact That ‘Deaths in 11940 Are 12 Times More Than Last: Year.
Twelve times as -many: prions were stricken with infantile paralysis in 1940 as in 1939, Don F., Stiver, new State Chairman of the Indiana Committee for the National Foundation ‘for Infantile Paralysis, ans nounced today. Hed sil . Mr. Stiver began organization of the city and. county groups to raise funds for hospitalization and treatment. of infantile paralysis cases through sécial and sports events which will culminate in the birthday celebration for President Roosevelt on Jan, 30. : Mr. Stiver ‘was appointed state charman last week by Kgith Morgan of Washington, national chair-* man. Mr. Stiver pointed out that| the . epidemic of infantile paralysis which gripped Indiana this year, showed | the need’ was great for treatment facilities. He said the mortality rate has been high. where immediate thorough-going' care has not been available. A total of 662 persons were stricken with the diseage this year,
stricken in the ‘state in 1939 and only 17 in 1938. | Fifty per cent of the proceeds from the activities sponsored by the local groups of the National Foundation will be retained here while
j thegremaining’ 50 per cent will go to
the national organization pyrinecipally to further the work at Warm
Springs; Ga. |
THEY'LL DANCE, THEN
BEGIN ARMY SERVICE
Preparing to don their uniforms next month .for. a I's. active service in the field, mentbers of the
113th - Fleas r Regiment, Inational” Guard, will hold a
“farewell” social | ‘function Saturday night, The Tciansigolis unit of the 38th
: Division,. will hold a military ball . at toe ‘new. .Pield Artillery Armory, 12015 8S.
Pennsylvania St, St, fom 9 p.m. tola.m.’ Jaiy Price s orehestra: furnish the music. and other Peises wl be diva 1 to guests. tr £1 le
b AUXILIARY. NATIONAL.
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Mrs. Betty: Bassett national president of the U. War
; barman ead, liere tomorrow.
onal: dent, will make, s ‘and Sailors
65 . of. them dying. Only 56 were’
busied himself with plans for the reconstruction of Vienna. Vast plans, and all’ merely ‘incidental, casual additions to armament exs penditure ran almost two hune dred billion marks. : When he had completed the work of rearmament, Germany should put on a new face, he often said. The scale of it all might be gauged from. the new party buildings. But building plans had to give place to the great problems posed for Hitler. by foreign policy and the military situation. He could only -devote leisure moments to building plans and models. He sat now poring over maps and strategic plans, playing the never= ending game, the never-ending gamble, of his foreign policy. - Strategic and political: moves, ‘and deliberate working on opponents’ nerves' in “psychological warfare,” were but. the elements now of a vast building plan of another sort, that of a new world empire. A new. and remarkable political method miade its appear- . ance. Germany and the world looked on passively while this man threw to the winds all the rules of diplomacy. The ruler of the country stayed ‘at his mountain seat in remote southern Bavaria; and the administrative machine and the foreign diplomats had to make the best of this hindrance . to their labors, rikle Cw HE mountain seat grew into a remarkable building, in which Boys’ dreams or the fan tastic ideas of detective story ' writers found concrete realization. «In a rocky ravine, concealed and shut off from the world, a lift rises several hundred yards. It leadsto a glass-walled building, hidden away’ in the rocky wilderness of the Bavarian Mountains, looking across to the Watzmann. Here, high above the world, far beyond reach, the German Fuehrer sits enthroned. It is his eagle's eyrie. Here he looks out to eternity. He has converted his dreams into reality. But with him also are troubled dreams of the past and torturing doubts as to the fue ture. Again and again he is con= vulsed by paroxysms that bring him near to imsanity. ‘But now, he cannot, sleep for agitation, he is no-longer alone. He presses a button, and ‘aids-de-camp come hurrying in. Often he only wants yoling men to come at night from their beds; they must help their master to forgét the fear and anxiety and solitude . that ‘are torturing him, They. sit or stand around the fire in. the huge : “ignorant, une comprehenditig, unfeeling; they bandy jokes and. stories, banal or indecent. Their task is to divert Hitler's thoughts, to help him to stop thinking and worrying.
NEXT—“The New Machiavelli.”
Blockade Fails | To Stop the Mail
A document arrived recently. for Mr. Wellise K. Hui at his Chinese Gift Shop, 5642 E. Washington St., Irvington, which was mailed : from Shanghai, China, Wwov. 7, ‘made the trip by. Clipper plane, and for which the postage
| cost $58.65 in Chinese dollars.
‘The postage in American mon-
| ey, at the present exchange rate, was approximately $3. In ijt were papers stating da shipment of goods for store had been made, together with invoices for duty. Mr. Hui said that although the Japanese claim their blockade is 100 per cent effective, he reg= ularly receives shipments of Chie nese merchandise, but that oce casionally there. is delay in ‘delivery, . He also states that money for relief is arriving safely in China.
GIANT SUNFISH CAWGHT SANTA CRUZ, Cal, Dec. 5 (U, #P.)<-Capt. Sammy . Pennington, . navigator of a deep-sea barge, had the luck to catch a giant sunfish weighing 1400 pounds, the largest ever known. to be landed in these waters. Sunfish, as a rule, do not exceed 1000 pounds.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
{—Which is the largest ocean? 2—Which state is nicknamed “Gare den State”? 3—What territory did Thomas Jefe ferson | acquire for the United States? 4—In which city did Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrate his telephone? 5—A recently developed substitute for silk used to manufacture stockings is —? » Stan a moving object Foveic tion without coming to I
"Which Vice: President. ‘of the United States was arrested and tried for treason soon after he retired ‘from office and, after a lengthy rl, was acquitted?
, Answers
1—Pacific. 2—New Jersey.