Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1941 — Page 17

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941

' Hoosier Vagabond

LONDON (by wireless) .—Tex Bradford walked into my room at 7:30 and said he had only a few minutes. He jerked off his coat and threw it on the bed, and asked if he could wash up. He left at 2:30 the next morning and hadn't washed up yet. Tex is one of the t many Americans over here serving a with the Canadian Army. He's a Ta NX good old boy from down in Texas. : He looks exactly like Texas. too, : X and it's a shame he can't wear a be we 10-gallon hat with his uniform. a? ¢ He doesn’t smoke or drink, but ig) RY. how he can cuss! He says alcohol t (WEEE. doesn’t mix with nitroglycerin, and a" using nitroglycerin is his normal business. For by vocation and hobby Tex is an oil-well fire fighter, He says there are only three men in America doing his kind of fire fighting. And he says he’s the best-looking one of the three. Tex loves fires more than anything on earth. He almost goes ereXy thinking of all the wonderful fires here in London, and him wav down in southern England ‘drilling recruits But Britain is beginning to wake up to Tex. He has a technical education and a lifetime of experience that are wasted on the drill ground. So now he is frequently called to London for a week-long stay to make speeches and confer with fire fighters. When he's in the city he pays his own hotel expenses. He makes about 30 appointments -a day. When he leaves a message for anybody he signs it With a rubber stamp that he carries in his pocket. He already knows every important name in the city. He goes around in the rough battle dress of a Canadian sergeant. but admirals and generals don't faze him a bit You ought to hear Tex talk. He says more words in one hour than anv human being I've ever met. Likes a Good War He carries with him constantly an immense black briefcase that weighs 50 pounds. He calls it Bradford University. Tt is a traveling encyclopedia. No matter what subject or name you mention, Tex will dig In there and find some reference to it Tex closed his big oil-field fire-fighting business in Corpus Christi last summer, stored all his equipment. sent his family to California. went to Canada and joined up He did it because he was in Germany after the last war and he says Germans are not the people he wants to run the world. Also, he has an itchy foot. Mrs. Bradford knew the minute war was declared that Tex would get in it sooner or later. So she was resigned to it. They

By Ernie Pyle

have three sons—one working in Death Valley, one in college and one in high school. Tex was born in Australia, of Texas parents. asked him if that made him American or Australian, and he said: “If your cat went next door to an oyster shop and gave birth to a litter, would they be oysters or Kittens?” ¥ Personally I'm just a stranger here myself and I

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have no idea

At any rate Tex is a Texan. He fought with Pan-|

cho Villa in Mexico. He has been on the Panama police force. He was a friend of Jack London in California. He battled Hoover's soldiers the night they burned the Bonus Army out of Washington, even though he wasn’t in the bonus march and didn't believe in it. He has never collected his own bonus from the World War. He is a fanatical admirer of President Roosevelt, and donated three months of his time in 1936 to help re-elect him. % He has been an engineer superintendent at a CCC camp in Shiloh Park, Tennessee. He has followed oil fields on every continent on the globe. He has gone to military school and six or eight universities and | taken dozens of correspondence courses, and he wishes he could live 300 years so he could do all the things he wants to.

A Warning to the Nazis

Tex is rough-fibered and rough-minded, yet he is informed on every subject under the sun. He uses unusual words and uses them easily and correctly. His mind seethes and foams. He can't tell a single thing without telling 20 other things along with it. Tex is busier than two dozen bird dogs. He is

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just fighting this war to a standstill. He wrote more | than 700 letters to senators and congressmen wging | them to hurry with help for Britain. He carries a| hundred indexed file cards of the names of people he | must see in London. He is a friend of Maj. George Fielding Eliot, of Pat Hurley, of Congressman Dick

Kleberg, Frederick Delano. Dale Carnegie. He admires Lowell Thomas. He loves to make public speeches. | Tex weighs 190 and has a chest like an ox. He lets | vou hit him with all your might right in the stomach, | and it is like hitting a stone wall. He marches 14 miles a day carrying a 70-pound pack and comes home | ahead of the column, doing a jig . | Officers tell me Tex is one of the greatest inspirations the Canadian Army has. He is tough and he is smart. And he is burning for a fight. Yet TeX is as bald as an owl. he is slightly deaf, he wears glasses to read with, and he is a grandfather. Germans. arise and flee from this transplanted | scourge of the plains!

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

RADIO HAMS (the chaps who operate licensed

short wave amateur stations) are great at sitting up all hours of the night, you know, carrying on conversations with fellow hams all over the world. Since the outbreak of the ‘war. however. all the U. S. amateurs—there are about 6500 of them—have been pointedly told not to carry on any business with foreign friends under threat of a $10,000 fine and some time in the bastille. Most of the boys have been watching their p's and cq's as a result. Well, just to illustrate how things are, one of our Indianapolis hams was sitting up late the other night trying to raise some pal when he got an answer The other chap gave his number with the prefix “W.,” the U, S. signal The other chap talked in perfect English and first discussed ham business and such. Then the conversation took such a queer turn our local boy 3 » » . : : friend got suspicious and started answering just plain and-‘‘no.” And do you know that when this other chap signed off, he inadvertently gave his call letters with a “D’—the German signal? It just goes to show you.

Washington

WASHINGTON. March 20.—Labor rapidly is becoming a severe bottleneck in war production. Tt will be a most stubborn one. Demand for skilled workers is about to outrun the supply, by far. In face of that urgent situation, some of the old craft unions are desperately trying to preserve their restrictive monopoly of the skilled-labor market. They are, in some cases, persisting in squeeze plays that are nothing more than labor-union profiteering at the expense of the Government's emergency. Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, is trying to find some way under the anti-trust laws*of moving in on these abuses, although he received not too much encouragement from Justice Frankfurter’s opinion in the Hutcheson case, which condones jurisdictional strikes as having been a useful weapon for labor in the past. It 1s a question whether the labor government which we now have, in effect, will produce effective co-operation from labor in this crisis. Certainly some union practices are proving exceedingly embarrassing to an Administration which, notable for its successful work in behalf of labor, now desperately needs help from labor,

Inefficiency Is Charged

I am not talking about wages and wage increases that may be necessary to meet increased living costs, but about profiteering practices as flagrant as those which we expect the Government to break up when they occur on the part of management. In Army construction work at Ft. Meade, the carpenters’ union took charge of employment of carpenters, There were not enough union carpenters available. So the union okayed the hiring, selecting the nonunion men who were to be permitted to work. They were charged $58 for temporary work rights— the equivalent of the regular initiation fee, They were required to pay a fixed sum each week into the union. But they were not given union membership

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Paging Cloud, Y. T. |

BELIEVE IT OR NOT. the Center Township As-| sessor’s office has turned up another Indian,

Thunder Cloud and the Assessor found him by going through the automobile registrations. Cloud, ¥Y. T., has a car they'd like to assess. . .. Lieut. Col. H. Weir

Cook of Indianapolis, we learn, flew an Airacobra | (P-39 to you experts) from St. Louis to Dayton the other day in an hour and five minutes, a mere 339 | trict The mail bag | must come up to the State commit-

miles an hour cruising average. . . .

carries an inquiry as to why “the whole fire depart-|tee through That's the secret/agreed at last night's patronage

ment” answers a downtown call. of all fire fighting. Sure, on 99 calls all you need | perhaps is one truck instead of 15, including hook- | and-ladder, salvage, rescue, police, etc. But you may need them all and more on the 100th. Do it right the | first time and you'll never have one truck answering | a four-alarm fire,

A Bit of Star Gazing |

YOU MAY WONDER where the high school bas- | ketball stars you'll see Saturday at the Fieldhouse axe going to college. Well, Washington's Leroy (Hook) Mangin has just about decided on Indiana. The | same is true of Carl (Hump) Campbell, Kokomo’s | over-age ace. But Branch McCracken is stymied down at Mad- | ison. Capt. Don Server of the Cubs has been coached | by Ray Eddy, a Purdue graduate using Lambert methods. Server alse has a sister at Purdue now. Guess where he will go to college?

By Raymond Clapper

cards. They had paid for union membership but were not permitted to have it. When they went off the job, they were still nonunion men. In this way the tight monopoly and restricted union labor supply maintained by the carpenters’ union was maintained. Investigation turned up numerous workmen who said they also had been compelled to kick back part of their weekly pay té union leaders—a kind of sideline shakedown fot the privilege of working on Government war work. Incidentally the construction job was estimated to require 1100 men. It took 8000. Some additional work accounted for part of this unexpectedly large labor force, but Government investigators decided that mostly it was inefficiency that compelled the hiring of many times the number of men that had been thought necessary.

Unions Fear Influx

Department of Justice officials say that labor unions have been functioning as private civil-service employment bureaus for the Government in this

His | name is Cloud. Y. T. The full name 1s Young

vacation

Rep. Frank Millis, majority leaders, also returned on the same

issues had been series of conferences earlier,

several

ting a neat revenue for the union kitty but of maintaining a restricted union-labor supply. We are as dependent upon labor supply as upon industrial facihties, William 8. Knudsen expects a | 607% expansion in ‘labor needs. Undersecretary of War Patterson says that before this year is out more than 5000,000 new jobs will be made. In addition the Army will draw off 750,000 men for military service. This means that thousands and tens of thousands of skilled workers must be trained. But labor unions are so apprehensive about this influx of competing workers that Secretary of Labor | Perkins pleaded with them this week not to become alarmed. She thought trained workers would not necessarily remain competitors after the emergency, but with training might more easily switch to some other field. Industrialists have had to serap many of their old ideas under the impact of this emergency. It seems inevitable that labor will be compelled to scrap some of its practices which, during a time of unemployment, were aimed at restricting the labor supply. Unlimited expansion of it now is necessary. iy that or a dismal collapse of war-production S.

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Be Talked; Martin Heads Visitors.

VERN BOXELL Republican agreed on the patronage problem, turned their attention to national affairs today. Party heads from several Midwestern states will attend a twoday conference in the Columbia Club beginning tomorrow. Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, national chairman, and Franklin P. Waltman, national publicity director, are to arrive tomorrow morning for the session. Arch N. Bobbitt, Indiana’s State chairman, has arranged an elaborate program, with the theme a stronger national organization for the 1942 Congressional elections. Several addresses and discussions centering on organization problems are scheduled.

Chairmen Invited

Another topic of major interest will be consideration of a national committee executive director to succeed D. M. Hamilton, who has resigned. Mr. Bobbitt and Kenneth S Wherry of Nebraska have been mentioned most frequently for the post, with the Indiana leader high-

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Indiana's leaders,

ly rated on the basis of the party's

success here last November. Of the 30 state chairmen invited to attend, several have notified officials they will be here and other acceptances were expected today. They include Mr. Wherry; James B. Griffith of Wyoming; Glenn W. Martens of South Dakota; Ben L. Berve of Illinois: Thomas S. Yates of Kentucky: James F. Torrance of Pennsylvania; F. L. Gullickson Wisconsin; Leslie B. Butler Michigan; Ma). Henry Leonard Colorado; Ed. Schorr, Ohio chairman, and Hugh Huntington, Ohio committee treasurer,

Line Up Job Seckers

Meanwhile, Hoosier county chairmen began lining up their job seekers for recommendations to dischairmen All ‘applications these sources, it was POW -WOwW. The six elected G. O. P. State officials are to have the final word in filling all State jobs made available to the party after May 1 by the Legislature's “decentralization” program. This represented a victory for the office holders. who turned down an earlier plan to have a committee of five district chairmen to handle all patronage. Lieutenant Governor Charles M. Dawson, Secretary of State James Tucker, Auditor Richard James and Treasurer James Givens will be the chief job dispensers under this ®tup. Each is a member of two of the four boards created by the Assembly to run the State government, with Democratic Governor Henry PF. Schricker a minority

member of each.

Harmony Prevails

Dr. C. T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Mrs. Marjorie Roemler Kinnaird. Supreme Court Reporter, are the other two G. O. P. office holders. Mr. James and Mr. Dawson did not attend last night's session although they arrived from a week's in Miami, Fla, about 9 p. m. Senator William Jenner and floor

plane along with James Bradford, Marion County chairman, and

Joseph Daniels, local attorney who |

was host to the party. Harmony was indicated by brevity of last night's committee meeting. lasted less than three hours. of the controversial ironed out in a

It Most

including to town

seekers, came

Scores of job legislators,

with their district leaders to push

their efforts to land the choicest

posts.

NATIONAL G. 0. P. JOB

FOR BOBBITT URGED

A resolution urging appointment of Republican State Chairman Arch N! Bobbitt to an executive position with the G. O. P. National Committee was adopted last night by the executive board of the Republican Wage Earners’ League. The resolution asserted Mr. Bobbitt, by. his services, has ‘brought the State of Indiana back into the Republican column,” has demonstrated ‘high ability for political organization,” and under his chairmanship, the “Indiana Republican State Legislature established an outstanding record for economy.”

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HERE TO DRAFT NATIONAL AINS

Successor to Hamilton to.

of Schricker's first suit to contest of [validity of the G. O. P. “decentralof lization” laws may be delayed for

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SECOND SECTION

Seek Solution to Patronage Problem

Members of the G. O. P. State Committee met at the Claypool Hotel last night to discuss State House patronage—a problem new to most of them. They found, just as did the Democrats, that there

are more job seekers than jobs.

Three of the district chairmen who attended are (left to right) Ewing

Emison, Vincennes, Seventh District; Edwin O'Neal, Hagerstown, 10th District, and Ralph Gates, Columbia

City, Fourth District.

DELAY SEEN IN U. S. Is Building 'Gibraltar’ At Newfoundland Air Base

By TRACY RICHARDSON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent RGENTIA, Newfoundland, March 20—The Yanks have brought

SCHRICKER SUIT

10 Days Allowed Defense Attorneys to File Answer of GOP.

Henry FPF

the

‘Action on Governor

at least 10 days, This is the legal period allowed attorneys for Republican leaders to appear and file their answers to the suit brought in Circuit Court here Tuesday. Governor Schricker has asked for speedy ‘action on the suit which attacked specifically the new laws abolishing the Attorney General's office and providing for appointment of an interim attorney until a new officer is elected in 1942. The new law which becomes effective April 1 takes away from the Governor the power to appoint the attorney and places it in the hands of a Republican-dominated board. The Governor's suit charged that this provision of the new law is unconstitutional. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox will not have jurisdiction to act on the case until defense attorneys appear. After that Judge Cox can set a hearing for the case. The suit asked that Judge Cox, if he finds the new law unconstitutional, issue an injunction to prevent Republican officials from interfering with the functions of the present Attorney General, George N. Beamer.

ENSIGN'S FINE CUT, HE HEADS FOR PORT

After warning traffic violators that they can expect no mercy in his court, Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers today eliminated the davs and reduced the fine of a reserve naval ensign and told him to get back to the Navy.

Ensign Robert T. Reed, Salem,

the | Ind., had appealed from a Munici-

pal Court sentence of 10 days in and fines totaling $106 on charges of reckless driving, speeding 74 miles an hour in College Ave. and having no driver's license. Judge Meyers said: “Your jail sentence ought to be tripled in this case, for endangering the lives of our citizens, but since you are ordered for Naval duty, the sentence will be eliminated.” The judge warned Reed that “we will throw the keys away on vou if you ever come back here and try that again.” Criminal Court records show that during the recent crackdown on traffic violators in Municipal Courts, the number of cases appealed to Criminal Court have greatly increased, “Persons appealing their cases to Criminal Court cannot expect leniency,” Judge Meyers said. “Their sentences probably will be tripled when they get up here.”

HOLD EVERYTHING

the war to Argentia,

Not that bomb and shell have blasted this small community.

But

had they, they could have brought no more profound changes than

the reality of what is happening,

Until now Argentia has been almost immune, because of its isola«

tion, to war's general effects on Newfoundland. Now the Yanks are taking over, The U. 8. Government is building a big naval base and air field here, forging a North American Gibraltar to guard the Eastern approaches to the United States. Generations ago a ship filled with Irishmen sailed for America looking for freedom and a new home. Storms delayed them, buffeted them into the Bay of Argentia, starving, Their descendants are still here—not starving, but never prosperous. And today they face being moved from their homes, their houses to be torn down, the graves of their dead to be moved to another part of the country, There are arguments. The tears and sweat and toil of the descendants of those Irish immigrants seem to have endeared to them this part of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. Suddenly this place—that has gained them nothing much more than a harvest of toil, tears, and children— has acquired an additional value, They realize now the depth of their love for their erude twostory, flat-roofed homes,

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HE Government is going to provide new homes for these people, Every person that I talked to—except the natives themselves—agreed that it was the best thing ever to happen to them. In the summer, they say, it is a most beautiful country, but as 1 saw it with the wind swirling snow through the air and trees under the white mantle it just looked dreary and forlorn and friendless. On the dock, natives of Argentia were working, facing the same cold icy blasts they had so often faced in their fishing boats, only now they are getting 40 cents and better an hour for their work and not gambling on a haul of fish, but the sure thing of the U. S. paymaster. A year from now, or less, this moon shaped bay that is decp and almost land-locked will be a scene of well regulated activity, Hills will have been graded down. Docks will have been built and dredged out to accommodate the largest ships. There will be dry docks for repairing them, Barracks will stand where now are the houses of the original inhabitants, And a short distance away hangars will shelter bombing and fighting planes that could, if necessary, hop off and drop their bombs in Europe and still be able to return to their home base, They are already half way to Europe, these peaceful invading Americans, * B®

T QUIDI VIDI, Newfound- , land, Uncle Sam ig taking no chances, lest history repeat. Once before, during the French and

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(Uncle Sam's stiff upper lip, 56 (6 speak, is that northwesternmost North American island, Newfoundland, There the VU. §. air and naval hase, soldier of fortune and writer, ahout it in this article.)

Tracey Richardson, tells vou

English wars, the North American continent, was attacked by the landing of French troops at Quidi Vidi, To prevent a potential enemy from launching an attack from this point again, the U, S. Army is building a permanent outpost for American defense on a 400-acre site here acquired from England last fall. Quidi Vidi, lake and village, is just north and a hit west of the narrows that form the entrance to St. John's harbor, It is where the people of St, John's hold their annual boat regatta, one of their most important sporting events, There is a little settlement on the shore of the lake, mostly fisher folk. There is a church and a store. Newfoundlanders consider Quidi Vidi the choice spot of all sites selected for American bases in

their country. » ww O one here knows just how big this American base is going to be, They get the plans piecemeal. But it's going to be big, judging from the plans already on hand. Quidi Vidi, it is understood, will be the main ex-

ecutive headquarters for the American troops in Newfoundland. A short way beyond Quidi Vidi, the Canadians are going to build an airport to be used jointly with the American forces as a landing field. The question of moving people from their homes does not enter the picture here, as it does at Argentia. The biggest question for the people of St, John's is how they are going to absorb all these Americans info their scheme of life. The normal population of St, Johns is less than 40,000, Already they have thousands of Canadians and their own soldiers to think of, in addition to the Americans. Until the adjustment takes place, the work going on here will upset things. Already there ic a shortage of apartments and houses. Principal natural difficulty for an invading enemy force in New= foundland would be transporta= tion, It is difficult enough in peace= time. Here they run two trains a week over the 547 miles of narrow gauge railway between Port-aux-Basques and St. Johns and it stops at every station. Tanks would find it almost im possible to cross the natural bars rier of lakes, rivers and moun=tains. Airplanes would have to do the work with hombs, Troops would have to land from transports to hold the bombed area. » » ” ANDINGS, particularly at St. 4 John's, would be anything but easy, The narrow entrance to the harbor has been the grave of many a fine ship. HugZe sub-

is huilding a great strategic | (that the title must cover all subject

matter in a law, and it is generally agreed by all interested State offie cials that there iz ne hope of this law being effective.

Legislature unconstitutional last week when it was found the title of the law had not been corrected to include the provision

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SHORT PHRASE GIVES HOPE OF

SALVAGING TAX

State May Get $1,000,000

If “in Lieu of’ Doesn't Spell Repeal.

Three little words—"in lieu of”«=

in a 1037 law have given harried State officials $1,000,000 State,

hope of truck taxes

salvaging

in for the

The hope is slim, but it is enough

to cause Ed Stein, commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, ask Beamer for an opinion.

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Attorney General George Here is the situation:

The Legislature passed a law ree

pealing the 1837 Truck Tire Tax Law which netted the state £1,600, 000 annually.

Provides Higher Scale i Then the Legislature passed ane

other law which repealed not only the Truck Tire Tax Law the weight an [to make up for all but about $500,« [000 of the funds to be lost by repeal of the tire tax

but also unused 1033 and 1035 truck

tax laws and provided for

increased scale of license fean

Repeal of the weight tax laws was provided for since they were stil} on the statute hooks. They had heen superseded, not repealed, by the 1937 truck tire tax law which simply provided that the tire taxes should be collected “in lieu of” the weight taxes. This second law passed by the was discovered to be

that through an error

for increased license fees. Courts have held time and again

See Loss of Revenue

Highway Commission officials

immediately envisioned the loss of $1,600,000 truck effect next Jan. 1,

the inte

when goes

in revenue

tire tax repealer

Then interested parties began

studying the 1837 law which was repealed by the first law passed by the Legislature and they found that

it simply served “in lieu of” the 1933 and 1935 weight taxes. This gave them a ray of hope, They think that the old weight law may still be on the books. That law provided that operators of freight carrier trucks must pay a tax of 60 cents per hundred pounds on the gross weight of their vehicles. The tax netted the State approximately $1,000,000 annually.

Up to Supreme Court

Some lawyers say, however, that courts have held that the use of the words “in lieu of” in a later law has the same effect as specifically repealing the old law, They contend that because of these rulings the old weight laws are not on the books and the State “is just out” $l 600,000, The matter will be up to Mr, Beamer and perhaps the Supreme Court to decide,

2 ALLEGED BOOKIE SHOPS ARE RAIDED

Led by Sergt. Charles Burkett, police last night raided two alleged bookie shops in the 100 and 200 blocks of 8. Illinois St. They seized several racing forms, tore the teles phones from the walls of one place and left without making any arrests, Several persons in each establishe ment were questioned, police ree

ported, At the Old Log Tavern, 3758 N,

Keystone Ave. police arrested five

persons and confiscated dice, several punch boards and some cash Isadore Rosen, 25, of 2258 N. Mew ridian St., was charged with operate ing a lottery and gift enterprize, and Mrs. Ruby Haas, 25, an employee,

was charged with keeping a gaming house and gaming. were charged with gaming.

Three patrons

Sam Freije, 47, was charged with

violating the Slot Machine Act after

police seized a pinball machine in

his drug store, 2101 N. Harding St.

DIENHART FAVORS

PROPOSED AIRLINE

Sanction of a new airline through

Indianapolis from Memphis to Des troit would be a boon to local aire

travelers, I. J. (Nish) Dienhart, aire

port superintendent, said today.

The Chicago and Southern Aire vesterday filed an applicaw

For these reasons, it was added, | he should receive the national ap- | pointment so that “the Republican | Party may have the benefit of Mr. |

merged rocks on either side of the passage make it dangerous. The new bases are to he per-

tion for the new route, which alse would connect St. Louis with Tndi« anapolis, Mr, Dienhart said it usuals

My Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —I hope those who came to dine with me last night in the interest of the Young Men's Vocational Foundation. Inc.. found the evening worth while. The stories which were told by the various speakers seemed to give a very good idea of why we should be interested in lending a helping hand to “boys who come out of our training schools, and even out of our' reformatories, Beyond that, everything that

was said seemed to emphasize the importance of knowing conditions under which the youth of our country are growing to maturity In our communities. We must try § to see that no economic and com- : { munity conditions are so bad that : they inevitably create problem boys and girls. There are strange things happening in this country. I was reading a digest of the news the other day, and was amused to see a grouping of papers that have had similar slants on various questions lately. Tn the group were the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Worker, Social Justice. the Tablet, the Liberator and the Vindicator. All these publications of late have been harping on the beauties of peace and the necessity of saving our republic for ourselves. Some of them pin ‘our danger on the international bankers, some of them on the present Administrat:on, but in the main all of them harp on the same line, What a queer combina-

tion of bedfellows in the journalistic world this! makes! Sometimes I think a few people are becoming N trifle hysterical. To bear this out, I shall quote here | a few lines from a letter which I have just received from a lady. There is nothing peculiar about this letter. The writer just assails the President and the present Administration and, incidentally, me. for starving the little children of the democracies of Europe. Tt demands a negotiated peace with Hitler and says it is no more possible to restore the conquered nations in Europe to their freedom than it would be to restore to England her original thirteen colonies. She assures me that she is of British descent, with Huguenot blood running in her veins, that she is a Colonial Dame, and a member of the order of the descendants of colonial governors. She even dares to identify herself further as having four colonial governors of Carolina on her badge. All this to prove that she is no Nazi-lover, but tor America first and that she does not wish to police the world. She ends with her personal, not very flattering, appraisal of the President. Nothing in this letter, of course, is very odd. Just from my point of view, it is untrue, There is no reason in the world, however, why she should not express her opinions, no reason why she should not write the letter and no one would question her right

to do so. But here comes the hysterical line: “I dare not sign my name for fear of a concentration | camp.” 1 haven't yet heard of any, have you?

Bobbitt's services in the whole nation as well as in Indiana,”

| William L. Yager is president of |

the League.

OWNER OF 2 STATE NEWSPAPERS DEAD

CHICAGO, March 20 (U, P)— Hugo E. Scheerer, 50. owner of the Princeton (Ind) Clarion-News and Daily Democrat, died today at his Winnetka home from complications which followed a hip fracture in July, 1940” He was secretary of the Michigan League of Home Dailies for 21 years, treasurer of the Chicago Representatives Association for over 18 years, and president of Scheerer & Co. of Chicago and New York, newspaper representatives. Burial services will be held from Montrose Chapel Cemetery in Chicago March 22. He is survived by his wife; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Scheerer; his daughter, Doris,

and two sisters, Beatrice Hamilton, |

Chicago, and Allyne V. Nugent, Lincoln, Ill.

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COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICL INC TY. M REG U 5 PAT OFF.

“Now don't you wish you'd saved your money, like me?”

manent, with the temporary barracks and buildings now under construction gradually being replaced by permanent structures, The people of Newfoundland regret the war, but out of it they visualize a great good for their island. American money, push and the necessities of war are going to do a lot towards modern= izing transportation in Newfoundland, and the natives know that when the war is over these same improved lines of communiciation will be there to serve in the de« velopment of the natural wealth of their island, For a non-military peopl, the fishermen, lumbermen and business people of Newfoundland are getting militarized in a large way. Apparently they like it.

RAIL PENSION TOTAL UP WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. P). -~The Railroad Retirement Board today announced that payments for annuities, pensions and survivor benefits alounted to $113,733.000 during the 1040 fiscal year an in-

crease of 10.1 per cent over 1039.

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ly took six months for the Civil Aeronautics Board to act on an ap plication.

northeast directly with the southe west,” he said. “We get hundreds of calls a week asking for connec tions either to Detroit or the southw west.” Chicago and Southern now ope erates lines from Chicago through St. Louis, Memphis, Shreveport and Houston. Regular 2l-passenger Douglas DC-3, similar to those op= erating regularly through. here, would be used on the new line, .i was said.

MRS. WILLKIE FINALLY, TO MEET FIRST LADY

WASHINGTON, March 20 (U. BP), —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs, Wendell 1. Willkie, wives of the 1040 Presidential rivals, will meet for the first time at the ans nual stunt party of the Women's National Press Club on April Fool's Day. They will be honor guests of the club.

“The new line would connect the °