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THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 194

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ON A TRAIN IN ENGLAND (By Wireless). —You can go from Scotland back to London, some 400 miles,

on an overnight sleeper, . Or you can take a sleeper to

the industrial Midlands, which is where I'm going. * English sleepers are much nicer than most of ours. : Every berth is in a separate compartment. It has a washbowl, lots of mirrors, baggage racks, shelves, and room enough for even a circus giant to undress. The compartment is air-condi-tioned, and you can keep both warm and fresh all night without opening a window. If two people are traveling together they get two compartments wtih a connecting door, When the conductor awakens you in the morning he does so with a tray of hot tea and : a package of cakes. Before the war they say it was unheard of for one Englishman _ to speak to another on a train, But the war has broken that down. I have now made five trips by train, and only on one of them was I in a compartment where people didn’t talk. It is now quite good manners for men in uniform to start talking to each other. _And as for me, after I've said a few words one of my fellow passengers is always sure to ask if I'm from Canada. I say no, America, and then we are off. They are all interested to know just what the American public is feeling about the war. But I tell them I don’t know, since sentiment apparently has changed since I left the States.

Scots Know Our History

You'd be surprised how much they know about us in Scotland. I was actually ashamed, for I hardly met a Scotsman who didn’t knew twice as much American history as I do. This new familiarity on the trains is still a little hard for some aristocrats. The higher they go in the “ scale, the less talking they do. oe The other evening I was in the dining compartment of a train, along wtih two naval officers, an army colonel and a Polish officer—all obviously gentlemen. And from the time I went in until I was having coffee more than an hour later, not a single word was spoken by any of us six men sitting there

beside each other. Finally, toward the end, one of the naval officers

By Ernie Pyle

offered the other a cigaret, and then offered one to me. We took a few puffs, and I said it was a good cigaret. The other naval officer said he liked it too. That was the sum total of that evening's conversation. But between York and Newcastle I was in a compartment with a middle-aged civilian, an officer of the merchant marine and a viry young commissioned officer of fusiliers, and we all talked our heads off. The civilian said he had traveled this 30-mile stretch of railroad -every day for 20 years. He lived in one town and worked at a factory in another. The night before he had been roof-spotting at his factory. The merchant-marine officer was serving in convoys around the British Isles.” He had been in Baltimore, Florida and Los Angeles, and said he'd like to live in America five or six yesrs but not permanently. The young army officer wes more than 6 feet tall but looked as if he should hive been in high school. Yet he was a veteran of Dunkirk, and he told us about those hectic days. | He said he went two days and nights without sleep or food, but didn’t miss erthey of them.

Tolerant of the “Conchies”

We were riding through & blizzard as we talked, and the train was nine hours late, These two men had been on the train 18 hours without anything to eat, and they were about starved. The young fellow said he never got half as hiingry at Dunkirk as he was now. i Both of these young men had been through stuft on land and sea where their lives for the moment were not worth a dime. Yet the thing that seemed to impress them most about the war was the way London takes the bombing. Thev had both been there on leave, and they said they could hardly believe the way London stands up te it. Also we got to talking @bout conscientious objectors. ‘They're called “concliies” over here. These 'two young~fellows in uniform were completely tolerant of the conchies. They felt that if a fellow was sincere he should be allowed to do some kind of non-military work. There was no bitterness in them at all against the conchies. The English are really proud of each other. Half a doze: times when I've béen talking to strangers they’ off on the generdl subject of how Britain pulled herself together. And half a dozen times I've heard this same expression: “They said-we were decaient, end soft from easy living and the desire for peace. But I guess we're not

decadent yet.”

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

YOU MAY PUT it down now in your future book that Wendell Willkie will have no part of a job within the Administration, defense or otherwise. Unquestionable information has it that he would be deeply offended even by such- an offer. Mr. Willkie’s present goal is national unity on foreign policy— not a public office. Coincident with his appearances here and in Rushville, it was learned authoritatively that he would take a job under only the two following conditions: 1. An emergency which would make duty inescapable. 2. A condition which would make Mr. Willkie’s services indispensable. - (And you probably remember what the G. O. P. candiET date said during the campaign about any one man being indispensable.) We learned that Mr. Willkie, to maintain his “independence,” went so far as to go to a Cabinet member and ask him to head off any job offers he heard of before they had a chance to reach Mr. Willkie. In other words, as far as Mr. Roosevelt goes, the man who failed to get that job last November definitely is not looking for work,

Education, How Art Thou?

SOME WAY OR ANOTHER a report got out “about a national defense course for the “cream of the crop” of the prospects at Technical High Schools. The city schools offices were plagued with calls. The “cream of the crop” wanted to know how to get in on it. : : The staff got busy. John Mueller, city director of special school services for youth; Edward Greene, Technical High School vice principal, and Bill Evans, director of publications, checked around and around.

Washington

- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Without attempting any world-shaking contribution to the Lend-Lease Bill debate, it may be permissible to report a little episode

out of forgotten history. An account of the incident was dug out of our diplomatic correspondence by researchers for the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. I put that in so that if you don’t like it, you’ll know it’s propaganda. If you do like it, you can call it history. In 1798, a few years after our war of independence against Great Britain, the struggling little American Government became concerned over possible French aggression. We needed cannon to fortify the harbor of Charleston, 8. C.

' The American Secretary of State, Timothy Pickering, began negotiations with authorities in London and Halifax, asking whether - they would sell, lend or give to the United States 24 cannon then resting in Halifax Harbor. On Sept. 6, 1798, Lord Grenville, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, advised the American Minister in London that the cannon would be lent, on condition that they would be returned whenever the British needed them. President John Adams agreed to those terms and ordered the Secretary of the Navy to arrange for convoying the cannon to Charleston Harbor.

Acting on Self-interest

! The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the + Allies doesn’t argue that we should pass the Lendi Lease Bill now to reciprocate for the 24 cannon, but

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cites the incident to suggest that the method now proposed is not new and dates back almost to the beginning of our national existence. That's the end of the propaganda. The incident interests me not because it provides

My Day,

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.—I gave the last and formal luncheon at the White House yesterday, and in the afternoon I attended a tea given by the Episcopal Church Society. Lady Halifax was in the

receiving line, and the photographers, as usual, took this occasion to take as many pictures as they could. I should tell you something about an effort which the National Council of the Protestant Churches is undertaking. Eighteen churches have set up special national committees for the relief of refugees and victims of war. They are going to make their appeal for funds and will earry on all their activities through a co-ordinating committee, and the actual work will be done through already es- - tablished agencies. Though these funds are being raised by the

- Protestant churches, there will be no discrimination,

‘either racial or religious, in giving aid. March 2 the Sunday when this drive for funds will culminate, though as a matter of fact, there will be a continuation of the work all through the year as long the need exists throughout the world.

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But they still couldn’ make heads or tails of what

that course is. We hear, though, that it's really a red-hot course.

Here We Go Again!

WERE NOT SAYING from whom, because they said not to, but we've heard that the belt-highway-around-Indianapolis specter is about to arise again. That is all, except that the truck people never have been satisfied with the way theyre routed through the City and obviously would welcome any belt highway talk, to say nothing of a belt highway. “oe Bill Brown, that chair-thumping, table-tapping, whistling one-man band from Commissioners’ Corner in the Court. House, had to turn down a concert request the other day. “Sorry, I just took a chew,” said Bill. (If you don’t recall Bill anc. his musical propensities, see last Monday's “Inside.”

Around the Town—

Sheriff Al Feeney is fre: back from Hot Springs bathing in Arkansas and feeling mighty fit. Said he made it a point not to read any Indianapolis newspapers so he could forget zll. . . . Fabian W. Biemer, deputy county auditor, is getting so wrapped up in comic strips he’s buying those awful 25-cent bound volumes. . . . Nifh Dienhart, Airport chief, was gazing at the lighted globe in Col. IZoscoe Turner’s new office. He whirled the globe around until it stopped at Japan. Then he made this lasting add-comment-foreign-affairs statement: “That Japan sure is a small outfit to be causing so much trouble, isn’t it?” . . . Chief Morrissey’s sear¢hing for fifth columnists goes on unabated. Every day one of Mr. Morrissey’s spy chasers gets on a Cldypool Hotel elevator and rides up to the top and goes into WIRE's offices. “Hiya, toots, how are you?’ the policeman grills the pretty telephone operator. Okay,” says the operator. The policeman rides back down. The station has passed another day, safe from Nazism.

By Raymond Clapper

any kind of precedent for present-day action. I believe in acting according to what our self-interest seems to indicate, not on the hasis of precedents, big or little. The incident reveals the close affinity of interest which existed between the United States and Great Britain in those early days, a few years after Cornwallis surrendered and about 14 years before the British burned the White House and the Capitol. We have had our good times and our bad times with Great Britain, but, like a family that quarrels

sometimes, there is always underlying a sense of

community of interest tliat has usually come back into play whenever either party was threatened.

A Reclistic Policy

Whenever we have ha¢ trouble in sustaining the Monroe Doctrine in this Hemisphere, it has been at a time when the British Government for some special reason was ready to see it transgressed. Throughout most of the period since .vionroe, Britain has been as eager to prevent other nations: from encroaching in the Western Hemisphere as we have—Britain for her own special reasons and the Uniied States for our own special reasons. Long before the Civil War, Britain snatched the Falkland Islands and British Honduras. The United Slates was too weak to prevent it. Cleveland had to take a belligerent stand when Britain sought to disregard the Monroe Doctrine in the Venezuelan boundéry dispute. From then on the menace of Germany kepf Britain sufficiently uneasy to cause London to play a close parallel policy, even to the extent of abaiidoning the Anglo-Japanese alliance after the World War. Britain's policy has bgen one of self-interest, as ours should always be, Although England had just fought us and was soon io fight us again, there was no hesitation about supplying us with cannon when that would help hold b:ick her old enemy, France, in 1798. It was a realistic policy. This Administration, believing it to our #dvantage to hold Germany back now, is trying to be similarly realistic by helping Britain to do the job.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

They do not look exactly like custom made shoes, but they are comfortable, and people who have a

. gift with handcrafts will probably find this a new

craft to be developed which will prove useful to people not, much concerned witly fashion. Last, night, the Presidént and I, with several other guests, attended a performance in Washington of “The Man Who Came to Dinner” with Alexander Woollcott playing the part of “Sheridan Whiteside.” It was one of the few times I have ever seen the National Theater packed, no empty seats were to be seen. I have seen this play before, but there were some changes in lines, ¢nd when Mr. Woollcott acts it himself, his appearance adcs greatly to the flavor of the sceneés. So far as I am concerned, Mr. Woollcott is one of my favorite guests and I hope he will always consider himself not only welcome, but sought after. However, if one incurred his displeasure, the imp in “The Man Who Came {5 Dinner” might conceivably come forth even in my raost welcome guest. Between the play anid the supper, which we had for the members of the cast after the performance, I went in for a few siconds to the ball given for the Thrift Shop, a most successful entertainment ‘over which Mrs. Willlains always presides. To end the evening, I took tha train for New York City, where I arrived. this morning to attend the meeting of the United States Committee for the Care of

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pation of Bulgaria, even though any Russian regime ‘has close ties of kinship and interest with the Bulgarian people. : The Soviets are playing

for time. They need time and a lot of it. The last thing

‘they can afford is an armed clash

with Nazi Germany, yet they know all too well it seems bound to come some day or other. Last June, while France fell, the pretenses of Nazi-Soviet amity and the Berlin-Soviet pact were being scrupulously maintained by officials in hoth capi« tals. It is interesting, however, to know what the Soviet secret service was chiefly concerned about at that time. - Regarding that, I have something in hand which it was impossible to include in dispatches from the Balkans. It is “confidential copy 193” of a Soviet Intelligence Report covering the period from June 20 to June 30,

in my presence from the original Russian by an American who had lived in Russia for years.

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How the Nazis Operate HE report cites the strengthening of German divisions in East Prussia and the construction of Nazi fortifications oppo-

site the borders of Soviet Russia. It adds that, according to reliable information of the Fifth Bureau of the Red Army, a Ukrainian National Youth Organization has been created (by the Nazis) and “is intended for activity on the Eastern Front in case of war against the U. S. S. R. German authorities offer encouragement to members of this organization. They are provided with work without waiting and unemployed members are provided with living quarters and free board. ... Volunteers are being registered among Ukrainian youth desiring to enter the German Army.” The report further states that a so-called Russian National Committee (PHK) has been created in “Warsaw with Nazi aid; that PHK conducts anti-Soviet activity and espionage against the Soviets, “especially in the Ukraine and Caucasus”; that the headquarters of the Russian National Committee, in Berlin, is headed by the former White Russian Gen. Bishuvski and its leader in Warsaw is named Vorzekovski. While this Soviet secret service report was being written, the Red Army, profiting by Hitler's pre" occupations in occupying France, walked into Bessarabia and planted its outposts close to the natural defense line of the Carpathians and along one side of the mouth of the Danube. Obviously the Kremlin was trying to protect Russia against a further Nazi invasion, designed to “liberate” the Ukraine while gobbling up its gigantic breadbasket. Fr

How Censorship Works

UST after the Soviets took Bessarabia away from the Rumanians I wrote a dispatch about the Hitler-Stalin honeymoon being over and it had a curious consequence. The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service had been. trying to obtain visa permission to send a second correspondent into Germany. When permission was sought in Berlin, Nazi spokesmen had suggested (In mid-June) that my name would be persona grata. In Stockholm I had also been surprised to receive a personal

REALTY GROUP DEFEATS BILL

Proposal to License Brokers And Salesmen Loses in Senate, 32 to 19.

Indianapolis real estate men yesterday won their fight to kill a bill which would have required the licensing of real estate salesmen and brokers.

Thirty-two senators voted against the measure when it came up for final action, while only 13 voted for it. The Indianapolis realtors succeeded in defeating a similar bill two years ago. : Northern Indiana real estate men sponsored the bill, contending that it would ‘“-~lean up the real estate business ; / eliminating fly-by-night operators.” Earl Teckemeyer, president of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, asserted that it would only “put another tax on the real estate men and would not improve the present law which requires the licensing of out-of-state operators.” The Senate yesterday, by large majorities, passed two bills concern-

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ing Negroes. One would allow Negro

pupils to participate in athletic events, including the State High School Basketball tournament, while the second would permit Negroes to join the Indiana National Guard. Other measures passed to the House yesterday by the would: Provide that registered pharmacists who are called into service in the U. S. armed forces may get their licenses renewed within 60 days after return without being subjected to penalties. Provide that firemen and policemen called for duty in the armed forces: shall get their jobs back when they return. Provide that prisoners leaving the State Prison be given a railroad ticket to any place in the state where they can get a job. At present, the prisoners are returned at state expense to the place of their conviction. A bill requiring that candidates

European Children. A summary of the work done by ‘committee th now 850 children are

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“I saw both the strong points and the weaknesses of the Red Army in action.”

invitation from Gen. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, commander of the Nazi army of occupation, offering me all facilities if I cared to return to Norway. When I had filed several dispatches about the underlying conflict of interests between the Nazis and Soviets in the Balkans, Berlin suddenly reversed itself and refused to grant me a visa -to enter Germany. Two American correspondents were expelled from Germany for writing articles of a similar vein regarding the Nazis’ anxiety over Russia's absorption of the three Baltic states of Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, These were truths which Hitler simply did not want to have aired at the time,

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The Mask Drops

EVERTHELESS, by the end of August, the mask of NaziSoviet friendship was suddenly discarded. Hitler handed aver two-thirds of Transylvania to Hungary—uniquely, for the sake of being able to control the crest of the Carpathian Mountains and to get the Rumanians to submit

. to a German army of occupation.

The Rumanian government gned away its freedom and the azis agreed to “defend” Rumania’s much-reduced frontiers—and also her oil fields. Now : there are reported to be 600,000 German troops in Rumania, and the Kremlin is worried as never before about the perpetual threat of a Nazi invasion of the Ukraine. The Transylvanian deal was Hitler's reply to Russia's seizure of Bessarabia and her annexation of the Baltic States. In Sepetember, while Nazi specialists were taking over control of Rumania’s

. 0il fields and airports. Hitler

made another important move which was cloaked with secrecy. There has been little or no publicity attached to this move and I only learned about it, on unimpeachable authority, much later when it was impossible to report the matter under censorship, ‘either direct or indirect.

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The Nazis and Finland

Y quietly the Nazis sent a sizable contingent of engineers, artillery and other officers

Wouldn't Think of

Causing Damage

CINCINNATI, Feb. 27 (U. P.).— Police are seeking a burglar who broke a .window, ransacked the home of Mrs. Roy Porter and then replaced the broken window pane with a new one before departing from the premises. He stole an automobile robe worth $10.50. :

IDAHO CODDLES CUPID SPOKANE, Wash. (U. P.)—Spokane has been steadily losing its marriage business’ to North Idaho, cities—because that state has no law requiring couples to wait three days after taking out a license. The county auditor's office reveals that issuarice of marriage licenses here showed a 42 per cent drop.

HOLD EVERYTHING

into Finland. Ostensibly they were to superintend the transport of supplies northward to German forces in Norwegian Lapland, but it is reported that many Nazi officers had other instructions, too. At any rate, these German army ‘technicians are now in Finland. If the Soviets should attack the Finns again, they must reckon with Nazi military experts who are on the spot and must do so at the risk of immediate German intervention. It cannot be accidental that this move was taken at the same moment that Hitler was blocking— in reality, threatening — Stalin along the Rumanian Carpathians and the lower Danube. The Kremlin is too wise, and also too frightened, to misinter.pret- two synchronized developments of this sort. Meanwhile the Germans have formidably increased the size of their three separate armies along the Soviet. frontiers, one in East Prussia, a second in Poland and the third in Rumania. Simultaneously, upon reliable information leaking out from Ber= lin into the Balkans, the Nazis have transferred most of the Maginot Line's movable military equipment eastward to the Vistula. Along the old Polish-Ger-man frontier, where they had already started fortifications long ago, Hitler is now completing an “East Wall” barrier which is intended as a second and impregnable line against Russia.

The Picture Is Clear

2 0a these events in the totality of their effect, the

* handwriting on the wall is very

plain to the occupants of the Kremlin. They have no illusions about Hitler's ultimate intentions in regard to the Ukraine and southern Russia, perhaps all the way through the Caucasus to the extremely rich oil fields of Baku, along the shores of the Caspian Sea. The desperate game of check and countercheck between. Nazis and Soviets in eastern and southeastern Europe has swung preponderantly in favor of Hitler. Stalin has accumulated a series of outposts from the Baltic to the Black Sea, but the strongest Srsiene positions: have gone to

{ HELD AS POLICE AID UNIAR CLUB

Sergt. Martin Fahey and a squad of police last night entered the Uniar Works Club, Inc., 1105 Prospect St, and Sergt. Fahey asked Ray Riche, said by officers to be the manager: “Have you any slot machines here?” “Yes,” police said Riche answered. Sergt. Fahey and his squad then went into a rear room and took possession of 12 machines. Riche was under arrest on charges of violating the Slot Machine Act. Police reported that: several couples who were dancing when they entered, continued to dance during the raid.

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_ Since last summer the Soviets have been removed completely

as a weighty offensive factor in

the second World War and the Kremlin knows this to be true. The best that Stalin could hope for, since September, was to get thzough the winter without being challenged, to gain time in which to fortify feverishly in defensive positions all along the GermanRussian frontier. But the Red Army, crippled at

-the top and despite the courage

of its Russian peasant soldiers, is very far from being a first-class Army. Behind it railroads, communications and supplies can only function under terrific strain and at the cost of constant disruption. According to the best information obtainable in either Moscow or the Balkans, the Red Army would be most dangerously menaced by a mechanized, motorized blitzkrieg. The Ukraine, in fact, might well -be the cheapest and perhaps the last important blitzkrieg victory that Hitler can now hope to gain anywhere in Europe. This explains why the Kremlin, a word which in Russian means citadel, is today more than ever a citadel of fear.

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Any Deal Is Welcome

OVIET RUSSIA stands on the defensive, playing for time and trying to maneuver some avenue of escape, For the sake of escape Stalin is capable of making almost any kind of a deal imaginable. . If he becomes convinced that Hitler will slash off a great slice of southwestern Russia and shatter the Soviet regime, Stalin may encourage the Turks to defend the Dardanelles at all costs, If he should face the danger of the ‘British Isles being knocked ' out, Stalin may very well throw Russia’s weight—one way or another, but chiefly indirectly—to equalize the struggle. If Stalin one night should wake up in a cold sweat of terror, who can tell? Perhaps he would make a deal with Hitler and let Nazi engineers into Russia to reorganize industries and transportation. The record of the past seven months in the Balkans can leave no doubt that Moscow knows that its greatest potential enemy, its most uncompromising and also its

nearest enemy, is Nazi Germany, '

If Hitler fails to invade Britain ' .

this spring and must find some= where a blitzkrieg victory of great : propaganda possibilities, the ' Ukraine still looks like his best ! bet. It seems certain that every= | thing has been prepared for this !

move, if Hitler can discover no

other promising outlet for violent military action. | So Stalin, despite all his cunning, is compelled to stand upon ' a very hot spot. Can he be shaken down into acquiescence of sure render? Or will Stalin struggle and wriggle to avoid becoming another Mussolini with a Nazi ring through his nose? |

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Russia Cannot Stdy Out! !

HERE fear dominates the actions and policies of a totalitarian dictatorship it is ime possible to prophesy. It merely appears logical to expect that Stalin and the Kremlin will ate tempt to avoid becoming the oute right prisoners of Hitler and Nazi Germany so long as they can possibly contrive to create any other alternatives. Soviet Russia will keep on manipulating for a long war and for the preservation of her none combatant status so long as there is the slightest hope of these obJjectives being achieved. { , Opinions differ as to the Soviets’ chances of remaining on the fence indefinitely. Personally, I do not believe that prominent Nazis in Berlin were insincere last July. At that time they were already writing off Britain as conquered and occupied and describing Russia, to certain pro-Nazi military, experts, as “the next victim.” ; It may well be that the Hitler timetable will have to be reversed before another year is out and the Soviets moved up to the position of the first “next victim.” After months observing the deep-seated conflict between Nazi and Soviet ambitions and interests, it is my own conviction that Soviet Russia wil be drawn into the World War, unless. she’ surrenders to Nazl dominance without a fight. In either case, it would seem truly doubtful that the Stalinist regime can survive the present conflict. |

Tomorrow: Hitler's alternatives,

You'll Hardly Meet a Sassier

Lot Than Our Fox Squirrels |

By JOE COLLIER

A CITY-BRED fox squirrel is a traffic-wise smarty compared to the wilder woodsbred fox squirrel and there may come a time when their habits are so different that they will have a separate set of scientific names. Since probably no city in the county has so many fox squirrel per capita of human population as Indianapolis, C. R. (Pink) Gutermuth, Indiana Commissioner of Fish and Game, decided the other day to give the matter a think. During the latter part of March or the first part of April, new fox squirrel families will be born and’ the population increased by 150 per cent. These new squirrels will be reared to think it’s safe to (1) sass a dog, (2) brave traffic, (3) sass people, (4) break into attics and climb around on spouts and (5) accept food from total strangers. ? » » ” NO SANE WOOD squirrel parents would ever encourage any of these things, says Mr. Gutermuth. A dog, to them, means he is backed up by a man with a gun and that’s bad news. So they run from dogs. People are things to hide from, and the squirrels believe their choicest situation is to be neither seen nor heard. On the other hand, Mr. Gutermuth knows a city-bred fox squirrel personally that will climb up a tree just barely out of reach of the neighbor's dog and turn around and sass the dog until the dog, beaten and tired and humiliated, gives up to go dig a bone,

HE KNOWS another that will perch on a tree and sass people as they go to work in the mornings, and another that will hide lessly from people, leaving his tall stick out just as evidence he doesn’t really care a heck of a lot. In the woods, these things dur-

rels into the woods at shooting time, they would get bumped off so fast they would have no time to repent their foolishness. ! On the other hand, if you would bring some woodsbred fox squire

rels to Indianapolis and free

them, they would either die of fright. and starvation or would wind up as traffic victims, Mr. Gutermuth says. Relatively few of the city smarties get hurt in traffic, and most of them cross and recross streets many times a day. A mamma squirrel has been known ‘to carry her babies, one by one across a busy street and install them in a new home safely.

» ” ” . AND COUNTLESS hundreds of the little rodents are so used to human beings they will take nuts from human hands, impudently discarding without opening those they know to be bad. In general, the squirrels do no damage either in the city or the woods. They have poor memories

they are about the country’s best reforesters. The nuts they forget sprout and become trees. ; . Although now and then one gets cross, they generally are cone genial. : Even so, more than one police run has been made on account of a cross squirrel. Last year, one of them succeeded in keeping a fame ily out of its house for two or

three hours. Just by double-dare

ing them to enter. The police got in on this case, and the squirrel fled, after giving * them a piece of its mind. ga

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