Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1941 — Page 21

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 194] TI The Indianapolis Times

Hoosier Vagabond

(Editor's Note—This dispatch was written before this week’s heavy fire-bombing of Cardiff.)

. CARDIFF, Wales (by wireless).—The very first sight that greets you as you walk out of the railroad station in Cardiff is the city’s big municipal stadium. It sits quite alone, surrounded by a grassy park. It is like some of the fine stadiums at home, with a great steel - trussed grandstand, roofed over. It cost a lot of money, and the people of Cardiff have packed it on big soccer and rugby days. But Cardiff should have known better than to erect this deadly war machine right out in the open, for you can’t fool Hitler. He knows all about the airplanes and tanks and battleships they’ve been building out there on the cricket field. And so he has blown their nice subversive stadium all to hell. . Outside of that you don’t see much bomb damage around Cardiff. Oh, if you set out deliberately on a “damage tour” of the city you could pick out quite a total of wrecked houses and burned stores. But if you are just wandering around like ‘a tourist the bomb wreckage doesn’t smack you in the face around every corner.

Wales Is Mountainous

I would say that among the big cities of Britain Cardiff so far has suffered very little. . The sizes of British cities are always amazing me. Cardiff, for instance, is a city of a quarter of a million people. And did you ever hear of Newport? I'm sure I never did. Well, it’s only: 10 miles from Cardiff and its’ population is 100,000. Wales, as you know, forms the west central part

By Ernie Pyle

of Britain. It is noted for its coal mines, and somewhat for the bad condition of its miners. And Wales is mountainous. To my great surprise I have found that there afe mountains on this island rising as high as 3000 feet. The mountains are only thinly

populated. | The bulk of Wales’ population of more}

than two million is settled along the southern coast. The Welsh people don’t look or dress differently than Americans. They are noted as singers, but I've not yet heard anybody singing in Cardiff. You see an amazing number of bicycles. Late in the evening when people are on their way home from work you can hardly get across the street for the bicycles. on :

Shelters Are Different

I had always supposed that Cardiff was a dirty, grimy, smoky, coal-mining city. To my amazement it turned out to be very light and clean, much more so than most English cities. The streets are wide, there are vast parks and lovely buildings, and as you go around yoll somehow pick up a vague feeling that Cardiff has everything in hand. : Cardiff is full of defenses. More street obstructions are noticeable here than in most of the places I've visited, Every city seems to have its own special type of street barricade with which to stop the German invaders if they come. Pfliblic shelters are different in Cardiff too. Everywhere else the street shelters are made of a tancolored brick, but in Cardiff most of them are concrete. There i$ very little public sheltering in basements here. The big street shelters are preferred. In the residential sections these shelters are built right in th middle! of the street. In case the bombing gets hot, people Have only to run out their front doors and halfway across the street.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

DIRECT FROM THE old coin box, we've got some * information for the pinball machine suckers, First, the devices are rigged in the back tighter , than a time bomb. You've got about as much chance of beating them as you'd have of selling skiis to Haile : Selassie. Second, they “pay out” $10 for every $15 fed in. But that $10 doesn’t worry the owner, for he knows the “contestant” will put it back in, giving the machine a net profit of just about 100 per cent. No matter what glowing odds the flashy board quotes, more than likely you'll back away broke. ‘If youre still skeptical, we might add that’ this information comes from a man who owns a string of the come-on nickel rob- ‘ bers. “What do you think I've got ’em for, my health?” the owner asked with irrefutable logic. He wished ‘ to add, however, one point close to his heart. “They're not gambling,” he declared, “How could they be? You can’t win.” :

So Watch It, Colonel!

COL. FRED ARMSTRONG had been driving out daily to Methodist Hospital to see a sick friend. Each day he made a left turn at 16th and Illinois Sts, which is strictly against the books. But came the

day when he got caught. “What's. the matter? Don’t you believe that sign?”

the policeman reprimanded. “Sorry,” said Col. Armstrong. “I know I'm wrong. Give me a ticket.” . “Well, I won't this time. But’ you'd better watch out, The next policeman might be above the draft age, Colonel.”

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 7.—The other day a friend wrote in to remind me that Great Britain had not always helped us. Me was puzzled therefore to understand why I should favor helping Britain now. The answer is on practical grounds. Britain has : usually played with us, but sometimes against us, depending upon how she figured her self-interest. I think we should be equally practical. Our policy .should not rest on the false foundation of brotherly love, of which there is very little between nations. I am

for playing America’s game just as

hard as is Senator Wheeler. The difference which arises is whether the best game for us now is to support the British. For many years I favored, as iia have Middle-Westerners, an isola- * tionist policy. So long as a balance of power existed in ‘Europe, it seemed that we could get along hoeing our own row. We left the job of holding the world in balance to the British and it has developed that they «can’t handle it alone. Their power, which kept the sea roads open all over the world, is desperately . threatened now. If the seas are closed to them, they will be closed to us also except upon such terms as Berlin and Tokyo see fit to grant. No one can have observed recent events without realizing that the totalitarian terms will be vastly harder than British terms have been.

Isolation Termed -Failure

Our isolationist policy has left a wide gap through which the tripartite powers have made a desperate drive for world supremacy. They are close to winning it. England is the only power left making a last ‘stand before they face us on both oceans. A policy that has permitted that situation to develop must go .down as a policy that has failed. It has left only one beleaguered island standing as a buffer, a thin margin of protection. The Isolationists would gamble on the chance tha¥# Hitler, once he had conquered England, would not be interested in the Western Hemisphere, just as the French gambled that #fitler would never try to reach Paris. A policy which has produced that

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—The young people who came here yesterday afternoon from the Lawrenceville, N. J., school, were most interested in what they saw. They spent the morning visiting the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House. One of the boys is going to come down for the summer to work in a New Jersey Congressinan’s office. I suggested niildly that I did not consider Washington a perfect summer resort, but that did _ not dampen his ardor in the least. I hope he will find much to interest him.

John Brainerd McHarg ‘from . Rochester, N. Y,, showed me some beautiful slides yesterday afternoon. His hobby is taking colored photographs and developing ; or - uses in the teaching field for these slides on all types of subjects. A few friends came to dinner last night. This morning I was glad to awaken to a beautiful day, for we are off by plane to Miami Fhere we are going to spend a very peaceful week, I hope. I have a letter from an English woman I am quoting here in part: “As an English woman, may I say how much I appreciate the great kindness and generosity shown by the people of the U. S. A. in our war effort. It is an inspiration to know that we have such friends. . . . We wil] stand the blood and tears if your great. country will share the sweat. My son, who is a ‘Worcester’. cadet, goes to sea.in . (he: will

® ° stl be mot quite 17), “My husband is an Mnthusiastic

"its might will have the final say.

RCA and Indianapolis

SPEAKING YESTERDAY to the Real Estate Board, T. W. Massoth, personnel director for RCA, told why his company decided to establish its big plant in Indianapolis. : In the first place, said Mr. Massoth, Indianapolis has a greater percentage of American-born residents than any Eastern city the firm might have. chosen. Secondly, he added, Indianapolis is known as a city of homes. Quietly, we're patting ourselves on the back.

“Boom Toumn 1940”

HAROLD) PORTER of the Unemployment Compensation IDDivision information service has the lead article in the current Employment Security -Review. He's titled his story “Boom Town 1940” and it’s all about Charlestown, Ind., and what happened when the big powder plant moved in. The same issue of the Review carries a technical article on employment placements by Ben Deming, supervisor of the Indiana State Enmiployment Service. Indiana, ou know, is he home of authors.

Around 'the Town—

STREET SCENE last night at Illinois and Washington: Mayor Sullivan waiting for‘a streetcar. The Mayor dogsn’t care much to use the official City autos he’s entitled to. . . . Among those soaking up the Florida sun or on the way back: Russe Hartman, Louis Yager, Willis Coval and Bill Kingdon, all realtors. Among those recently returned from the Southlands! Raymond Franke, Norris Shelby and Al Thompson, all realtors, too. . . . Loren Fisher, John Herron Art School graduate-Prix de Rome winner, is in New York working on a co-operative project with other Prix winners. Mr. Fisher, you may know, is a Hoosler, son of a village blacksmith and his favorite art subject is the horse. The word we get from his friends here is that New York hasn't made much of an impression on him. Where he'd really like to go on his Prix funds is South America.

By Raymond Clapper

situation Within 20 years must be put down as a

* failure.

If the American people are as intelligent as I believe them to be, I think they know our policy has not worked, Yet the country is being asked to retain this policy, The appeal is made to fear—fear that we will beconie involved in war, fear that we will offend Hitler, fear that. England might out-trade us, fear that we shall lose our democracy, fear that the budget can’t be balanced--a wholesale lot of fears, large and small, which if they prevailed could reduce the American people to & state of cowering paralysis.

Middle. Western Sentiment

Our, difficulty is rooted in deep isolationism. We clutch this dream delusion, we toady to it, nurse it, allow it t6 become a bogeyman that twists our thinking. Isolationism had our Government so buffaloed that for years we would not officially reply to communications from the League of Nations. Not! all people in the Middle West are taking the shortsighted and fear-ridden view’ of some of the Senators from that region. For instance, from Huron, in South| Dakota, neighbor to Senator Nye’s North Dakota, there comes an editorial which appeared in the Hurohite on Oct. 7, 1939, the year the war began. It is an appeal to recognize frankly that our policy of holding #loof from world affairs has not brought peace. It recognizes that force and the threat of force will rule the world for some time to come. . . The editorial continues: “When peace again comes to this world it must be a peace in which America in It must be a peace which ‘will permit us a freedom of movement and commerce in this world which will allow us adequate trade to keep our people employed. It must be a peace that will assure us, for as long as man can see, our freedom and independence, both here and abroad. And we must maintain that peace.” That passage was carried daily at the masthead for a yedr, and must therefore have had considerable community support. There must be many other such instances in the so-called Isolationist belt to indicate that people are now alive to how this country’s longrun interest should be protected and are not frightened into self-defeating paralysis by such appeals to fear ‘hysteria as isolationist Senators are making.

I By Eleanor Roosevelt

member of the Home Guard. Our two countries seem to be agreed on one great point—that the leader of this world is not named Hitler and that his book is not called ‘Mein Kampf’ There is tremendous hope and faith in that for the future.” This is. one of the many which have come to me expressing gratitude for the help which American citizens have sent them. I think there has been very generous giving on the part of our people to all the various | charities which have undertaken to do a variety of work for the sufferers in Europe. I wish, however, we could succeed in doing for every group what is now being attempted in the Chinese | chiaritics. There they are co-ordinating and raising | their, funds jointly. I imagine the central body répresenting all the different interests will decide, ag the money comes in, where it should be allocated according to the needs. Thig js-a plan which I should like to see followed by all pther groups, particularly in the case of those doing work for Great Britain. From the point of view of ‘shipping, it is so important that no space should be taken up by anything which is not really needed in ‘Greut Britain at the present time. | The money which is available should be spent on the, things which are going to be of the greatest help at the moment. These needs change and a centra} group, constantly in touch with the people in England, as well as the agencies here, would be in a better position to decide than any one individual charity. It means,” of course, a sinking of individual preferences . and personalities in the ‘interest of doing what 18 mos; needed at a particular moment. This is difficuls. to co, but I hope we caggachieve it, 2

Leland

J ELAND STOWE begins today to answer questions asked by readers concerning the series of articles he wrote following his return from the European battle fronts. Some readers asked questions on topics far removed from the subjects of Mr. Stowe’s, articles and these were not answered as they were considered outside the scope of the series. Additional answers will be published tomorrow.

By LELAND STOWE

WHAT is the difference between Communism, Naziism and Fascism? CHARLES N. CREWDSON, Auburn, Ky. A. The difference between Communism, Naziism and Fascism is the difference between cyanide of potassium, strychnine and a large dose of laudanum. All three have precisely the same effect upon parliamentary government, free dom of speech and of the press, and business enterprise. As between Red Bolshevism and Brown Bolshevism (which is what Nazi-

ism really is) Red Bolshevism is *

notoriously inefficient, whereas

Hitler's Brown Bolshevism is terribly and formidably efficient. Lots of people can’t seem to get it through their heads. A lot of people in Europe who didn’t get it through their heads are now dead or in concentration camps or being bossed by Nazi troops of occupation. It seems to me it ig much more important for Americans to do a lot of thinking about what the differences are between any of these isms and our own way of living and our own system of government. We may not have very much more time to think Ehou this as an academic queson.

Q—If Stalin considers Hitler his greatest potential foe with whom a military showdown is inevitable why doesn’t he join Great Britain while they are still resisting with great power? MAURICE L. BRENNER, Chicago. A—Stalin doesn’t join Britain now against Germany because he knows that the Soviet war machine and Soviet production: and transportation need every month they can possibly gain to build up the Red Army's strength for a fina] day of reckoning. Stalin also has no desire to contribute to an early defeat of Hitler. The longer the war the more seriously weakened both Germany and Britain will be. Obviously that is the most important way to increase Russia's strength in contrast to the other powers.

If Hitler should seem fo be on the verge of actually conquering the British Isles you might find Stalin suddenly swinging into action in the east for the sake of keeping the balance and. keeping Britain in the war. But Soviet Russia wouldn’t take that kind of chance until there is absolutely no other alternative left,

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—Why don't the British bomb the Rumanian oilfields? What are they waiting for? JOHN J, ROVNAK, Campbell, O. A—Untily German troops occupied Rumania at the end of October, the British had refrained from bombing Rumanian oilfields because Rumania had the status of a neutral country and the British did not want to be in the position of being accused of aggression in the Nazi fashion. A good many people think they should have bombed Rumanian refineries despite that fact. > By refraining from doing so all through last summer and autumn the British sacrificed possibly an important military advantage, but won the support of an overwhelming majority of the Rumanian people, who now are most anxious that Britain and her allies should win the war. With Bulgaria also occupied by German troops, British bombers

“The British Government and people have demonstrated very clearly that they have no intention of resigning themselves to a ‘Vichy’ status.”

may be paying regular visits to : Rumanian oilfields before long,

Q—Have German technicians and military experts been invited to Russia to assist in her industrial expansion? A—There have been occasional reports to this effect, but always vague and completely unconfirmed. I doubt very much that there are Nazi technicians and military experts in Russia at the present time.

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Diplomats Blunder

—Why doesn’t British diplomacy succeed any better than it- does in the Balkans? Do people question an ultimate British victory? THE REV. C. HARRISON BECKER, Morrison, Ill.

A—Ever since the war .began the British people have been paying heavily for the mistakes and blunders of British diplomats in the Balkans over a period of years. One trouble with British pre-war diplomacy in the Balkins was that several British ministers in these countries failed to win the friendship and confidence of Balkan leaders. A still more serious error, in the minds of many observers in the Balkans, was the British tendency to save pennies at every turn in trade and other relations with Balkan Governments, Failure to spend 50 or a hundred million dollars in the Balkans two years ago has cost the British very dearly. Despite these past errors, it is nevertheless true that most of the Balkan peoples still expect an ultimate. British victory and heartily hope for it.

-Q—In case of German hegemony over Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria is there decided interference in internal political or Governmental affairs or does the internal economy function

s¢much as usual?

A—In all these countries the Nazis rarely interfere openly in internal politics but: follow the much more effective tactics of bringing pressure behind the scenes. If any minister resists “co-operation” he seldom lasts very lang. Key ministers in these three Governments are either pro-Nazi by conviction or by pressure. They have no other choice. Internal business, industry and agriculture go on functioning but function primarily and almost exclusively to meet German requirements and to fulfill Germany’s war needs. This is not exactly “business as usual” but it is the only kind of business the Balkan: people

- can have.

Question of Freedom

Q—If England would retire from European affairs would Hit-~ ler come to terms with her and then turn his attention to Russia? A—If the British were so naive or foolish as to trust Hitler's word,

of course Hitler would be the most delighted person: on earth. That ‘would give him time to build up his war strength even further, carve off a huge slice of Soviet Russia and then gobble up the British Isles at his leisure.

. It isn’t a question of Britain retiring from European affairs. For the British it is a question of retiring from freedom for the rest of their lifetime.

Moreover, if you live within 25 miles of the continent of Europe, how are you going to retire from European affairs? The only method I can see would be to move the British Isles into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and

probably that wouldn't be far

enough.

Q—What do you mean when you say “Scandinavian Twilight” and the phrase “There is no twilight in Finland?” ANDREW STALL, Chicago. A—As I wrote in one of my dispatches, I did not choose the phrase “Scandinavian Twilight.” I suppose: my editors meant that Scandinavia, like much of Europe, is darkened by the clouds of subjected or enforced acquiescence before Nazi military might.

As to Finland, there is no twilight in this sense. The Finns, although they had to accept a cruel peace, have far less pressure upon their free parliamentary government today that Sweden has, under cover but unceasingly, from the Nazis. In other words, Finland, thanks to her remarkable resistance, has emerged the freest country in the north. If Hitler wins the war, of course she has slight prospects of remaining that way, but this is true at the present time. ” = =

No More 'Vichy'

—1If the United States gave the aid to Britain that she asks, and if in giving this aid we weakened our own defense, what assurance would we have that England would not sell us out, if given the chance to make a deal with the Axis? D. W. HITCHINGS, Canfield, O.

- A—The greatest guaranty that we have that Britain will not sell us out is this: Britain cannot possibly sell us out without selling out her own freedom and independence and her whole position as a first-class power in the world. For nearly nine months now the British Government and people have demonstrated very clearly that they have no intention of resigning themselves to a “Vichy” status, If the American Government wants written guarantees from Britain that she will not make a deal with the Axis I do not doubt that Washington can get them— provided we are willing to give equally important pledges that we will .deliver the tools with which Britain can fight regardless of the risk involved. : Of course no government can ask guarantees from another wtihout being willing to do some guaranteeing of their own. It looks to me like that is a question the American people will have to decide sooner or later.

Q—How are conditions in Den mark: Have they enough food, clothing? CHRIS J. ANDERSEN, Indianapolis. A—I haven't been in Denmark since early in the war so regret I am not qualified to answer this question from any personal observation,

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Finland Strategic

Q—For what reason, in your opinion, did Russia wish to overrun Finland? Was it merely a show of supposed strength? DR. JACK STERN, Chicago A—Russia wished to conquer all of Finland for several reasons. Foremost, I should say, in order to obtain a strategic’ position across the northern shores of the Baltic and to greatly improve the Soviets defenses against Germany. Secondly, the Kremlin had its eye on the

rich iron mines in northern Sweden.

If they couid have occupied all Finland they could have invaded that part of Sweden and cut off all iron ore shipments to Germany very swiftly — something which would have been a severe blow against Hitler's continuance of ‘the war.

Q—How do you explain your statement that Stalin fears to make any move that may displease Hitler, with your admission that. the occupation of the Baltic states, part of Poland and Bessarabia by Russia caused anxiety and alarm in Berlin? : J. VOGEL, Chicago. A—What Stalin fears is making any move that may provoke a direct clash with Nazi Germany. In order to purchase Russia’s neutrality just before the war began, Hitler negotiated thé Berlin-Mos-cow pact. As a price he had to give the Soviets a free hand in the Baltic states, eastern Poland and perhaps in regard to Bassarabia. Possibly Hitler did not expect the Red Army to occupy these places quite as rapidly as they did. More likely he was reconciled to gaining time in the east while his hands were free in the west. * But when the Soviets began to fortify their extended frontiers and showed a tendency to push further into Rumania, Berlin was naturally concerned. When that time came: Berlin reacted energetically.

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Tactics Correct

—Why did Hitler not strike at Russia before becoming involved in a war with the Allies?

A—I1f Hitler were’ to succeed in his ambition to rule all Europe his first and most important job was to destroy the power of France and Great Britain. He has known for‘ years that he could deal with the Soviets whenever he chose. After all, Germany's military might was much stronger by virtue of making Russia a temporary partner and source of supplies. Events have shown that from a military standpoint Hitler was

, totalitarian ideologies,

right when he decided to strike in the West first. ” o »

A 'Fight to End’

—DO you think that there would - have been a negotiated peace last summer if Presi= dent Roosevelt had not stiffened Churchill's back by the over-age destroyer deal,: the %ransfers of rifles and other munitions, and. encouraged him with promises of: other aid? v WASHINGTON Q. LOYDE, : Los Angeles. A—I think when France capitulated last June that the Churchill Cabinet in London decided immediately that it would fight to the end. It did not wait for initiatives from Washington. - I ‘do not think that Hitler would have obtained a negotiated peace with Britain last summer, because both Britain's leaders and her people realized very clearly, that any negotiated peace would . merely mean for them the same fate as that which: now reduces. Reatice to impotence and sufferg.

Q—Why not stand together and fight now with Great Britain and with the co-operation of other democracies, instead of being left in the end to fight alone against a world-victorious Nazi Germany?

AZON GELMAN, Chicago.

A—For some reason most of the people of Europe, from the Scane dinavians through Holland and Belgium all the way to the Balkans, have preferred to wait and fight in their own back yard. A: great many Americans still seem to think that this would be the .best policy for us.

It 1s my conviction, arrived at with reluctance. and only after France's military power was destroyed, that the costliest and most dangerous choice the United States could now make would be to let British resistance be destroyed. If we do that, it will be a miracle if we escape the fate of France in the course of time,

Millions Dislike Dictatorship

—Do you find that the ideology of naziism or fascism and communism is as prominent in thinking of the average man in Europe as we are led to believe, or is this another way of conduct« ing politics? A—I am not certain that I get the exact meaning of your ques= tion. If you are asking whether the average European is sympathetic to one or another of these I would say that this is very far from being the case. There are tens of millions of Europeans from one end of Europe to the other, including many Ger= mans and Italiars and probably a great many Russians, whose greatest desire is to see these sys tems of dictatorship destroyed. The Nazis, Fascists and Stalinists have most of the weapons, include ing that of propaganda, in their hands at the present time, but have by no means succeeded in converting the majority of the European masses.

NEXT: More Questions and Answers.

520 BEEFSTEAK DINNER TONIGHT

Illinois Governor Due at 5 P. M. to Speak at Columbia Club.

Governor Dwight H. Green of Illinois was scheduled to arrive here by plane at 5 p. m. today for his address tonight at the Columbia Club’s 52d annual Beefsteak Dinner. Arrangements for the traditional affair, which will start at 6:30 p. m.,

were made under the direction of Benjamin N. Bogue, club president. Seated at the speakers’ table, besides Governor Green and Mr. Bogue, will be C. Walter McCarty of the Indianapolis News, who will act as toastmaster; Ernest M. Morris, national Republican committeeman from. Indiana; Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson; Arch N. Bobbitt, state Republican chairman, and the following Columbia Club .directors: Harry S. Hanna, Rorger G. Wolcott, Irving W. Lemaux, John A. Brookbank and Ernest D. Snider. Two hundred thirty-four club “veterans” who have been members for 25 years or more, have been invited ‘to attend as guests of honor

and will be seated gb . reserved

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LEGION HEALTH PROGRAM READY

Director Seeks Facilities of Schools for Use in Summer Time.

The American Legion is ready to swing into action on its musclebuilding national defense campaign, Frank McCormick, chairman of the national committee on physical education and recreation, said today. | : On his way from New York to tee Big Ten Directors’ Conference at Lafayette, Mr. McCormick, who is also athletic director for the University of Minnesota, stopped at the National Legion Headquarters here. The most important thing,” Mr. McCormick said, was to convince school officials throughout the country that they should hire physical education teachers on an all-year basis and make school facilities available to children and adults in summertime as well as during the school year. . : The Legion hopes to bolster the moral fiber of the nation and thus aid national defense through a pro-

of physical education, “vrs fyi: active people

Earlham Votes On May Queen

Times Special ! RICHMOND, Ind., March 7.— Three co-eds have been nomie nated as Queen of the May for Earlham College's Old English May Day. ‘ . They are Miss Marjorie Baker, Richmond; Miss JoAnn ; Tipton, Ind., and Miss Beatrice Peter, Philadelphia, Pa. Final balloting was to be today.

ADD 2 EXECUTIVES T0 SCOUT STAFF HERE

Two executives have been added to the staff of the Indianapolis and Central Boy Scout ‘Council by Homer T. Gratz. b The new members are Floyd K, Dawson, now assistant scout executive at Lagrange, Ill, and C. Rusby, assistant scout executiv at Springfield, Ill. ; ‘ Both executives are Eagle scouts and have served as assistant scout masters and scoutmasters. additions increase the staff here to six members or one executive for each 1000 scouts. Mr. Gratz said that the increase in staff is in line with recommendations of he Dip boy (Soot council whic