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Friday Morning. June 30, 1939. i THE NASHVILLE T'E A FIVE Fleet May Sail Quietly to Hawaii as Warning to Japan Pacific Treatment SUNFLOWER STREET By' TOM LITTLE and TOM Proposal Would Give i Strength to Diplomacy Walter Winchell on Broadway ii. Reports of Japanese Indignities Suffered by Americans iwo Years Ago uu ri ng Nanking Seizure May Be Revealed The Washington Merry'GoRound I By DREW PEARSON aid ROBERT S. ALLEN I Rest Best By Allan Roy Dafoe, M.

D. Personal Physician to. The Dionne Quintuplets Perhaps one of the reasons I have so much to say about rheumatic fever Is the fact that I had an attack of It when I was a boy. I was only 10, but I shall never forget the pain it caused. I never had anything like it before or since.

I was afraid to have people come near me tor fear they would touch the I was fortunate, though, for my father was a doctor of a good many years' experience. He wasn't worried about the pain, but he was afraid that my heart might become involved. So he kept me in bed for six weeks. The first two weeks I didn't care about getting up, but that last month was awful, for I was over my aches and pains and was feeling fine. I never knew time to drag so.

But my father brought me through the attack without damage to my heart. I know now that only that long period of rest in bed kept me from having a bad heart and think of that every time I attend a case of rheumatic fever. If I have trouble keeping the boy or girl in bed, 1 tell them the story and I find that it helps keep them quiet. Yes, it is the long stay in bed after this disease is apparently cured that is hard on patient, a 4 MaTS of the 48 states. In fact, the demand has been such that Miss Inglis is wondering whether there will be any little Czechs left for her.

If the federal government really rolls up its sleeves and investigates Louisiana, it will find ft situation which makes Tammany or Pendergast look like peanut-pushing politicians. New hot spot for graft is the Louisiana unemployment and pension system, In which employes have charged that work-era living outside the state ao-tually drew compensation In One affidavit which has come OTHER LETTERS TO THE.TENNESSEAN Supreme Court Keeps Up ENV HAD SUCH oooo Results When He CHANGED HIS NAME THAT 5USI PIDBJ) 10 TRY IT ten. mi.bthMir. he. WaMiicMt General Craig, Good and Faithful Servant WASHINGTON, June 28 The question of tending the United SUtea fleet now 'stationed on the Pacific Coast to Hawaii ha been under confidential consideration In highest quarter.

Behind the proposal obviously la the deeire to back up diplomatic notea to Tokyo with more than mere diplomacy, alio to give support to the British. The plan would be to tend the fleet no farther than Pearl Harbor, but thle is expected to have ft salutary effect upon the Japanese, who are not afraid to twist the British Lion's tail, but dont want to copa with United States naval might simultaneously. The plan also I be to transfer the fleet very quietly, orf group at a time, without too much fuss being- made about it Silent, unexplained ship might make ft lot stronger Impression on foreign navies than those accompanied by -spectacular Whit House announcements. JAPANESE INDIGNITIES The State Department has been carrying on some diplomat-to correspondence with Japan regarding publication of American protests over the treatment of American citizens when Nanking wfts occupied nearly two years go. The protests show that American citizens then were subjected to some brutal manhandling by the Japanese perhaps worse than that given the British around Tientsin, today.

I Quite naturally Japan doesnt want the correspondence published. However, the State Department probably will go ahead anyway, at least to the extent ef publishing the American Consul's reports to the State Department In. order to observe diplomatic niceties, the actual notes to Japan and Japan's replies probably will remain confidential. Chief of course. Is the State Department's desire to arouse American public opinion regarding Japan.

MOTHER OF 20,000 The oddest one-man lobby in Washington is run by a red-headed woman. Ten years ago, Agnes Inglis, unmarried daughter of ft Presbyterian pastor, adopted child. Today she trying to manage the adoption of 20,000 children from Germany and Csecho-Slovakia. She has no intention of being mother to all of them, but certainly she is mother to the bill before Congress which would admit them to this country. If she influences Congressmen, is with a different technique from the Buckner show girls.

She is a bit too stout for the nightclub lobby, and she maintains stoutly that she Is not a lobbyist Her only trick is to wear the same hat day after day. When hearings began on the bill (to set aside immigration quotas for admission of 10,000 children a year for two years), Miss Inglis appeared in a yellow bonnet Day after day she came, always in the same yellow bonnet She has a personality not easily forgotten, but ahe wanted to make sure. "I was afraid if I changed hats," she said, "they might think I wasn't there." That indicates the persistence of this red-head, prospective "mother'' of 20,000. Her biggest selling point With congressmen la that there Is no cost to the government. Already, thousands of offers have com In from homes ready to take ft child or two apiece homes in every one Side Glances: I I Washington, signed by J.

Cameron Nelson of -Bastrop, an interviewer for the Louisiana State Employment Service, says that "unemployment compensation has been paid to claimants where there is grave doubt as to whether the claimant ever worked at all." The affidavit also states that "there is a system now employed here in Louisiana by which forged signatures, or pay-orders without any signature whatever, are used to secure the issuance of unemployment compensation MERRY-GO-ROUND When newsmen asked Henry Wallace if he favored a third term for Roosevelt, he said, "In the third chapter of, Ec- vmi will tflnd the line. There is a time for all things." ICountered a newsman. Now is the. time for all good men to come to the aid Jof the party." Dr. George ji3W.

Calver, who ures the ills of members of Congress, post ed in Capitol of fices his 'Ten mmandments Warren of Health." The first was "Eat the second, "Drink Plentifully." In his pains to add "(of Hyde County, North Carolina, has officially decreed the week of July as "Lindsay Warren Week" in praise of the congressman from that district Across the greensward of the Burning Tree golf course, Colonel Johnson competes against Colonel Johnson. Or, to put It another way. Assistant Secretary Johnson plays against Assistant Secretary Johnson. One is Col. J.

M. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce; the other, Col. Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War. Louis says J. M.

is the better man. So They Say That old simile "as packed as sardines In a can" doesnt mean much in June. Not at least in comparison to Coney Island. Tony Oalento says Gene Tun-ney is his favorite fighter. Pardon, Tony, but aren't you forgetting Tony Galento? The Ceecho-Slovakian pavilion at the New York Fair has been formally dedicated.

Any day now, some other exhibiting nation will be demanding part of the building for a front porch. By Calbraith ax if Hugh Johnson I Says field goal, isn't exactly a dolt. Craig did such unpredictable things all his life In every campaign in which our army engaged during his service except, as I remember, Pershing's Mexican expedition. He wasn't made chief of staff on his pull. He didn't have any.

It was unavoidable on comparative written records. He had greater variety of service than any other officer available and an unblemished record of lent, not to say "brilliant," Under his guidance the army has made more progress than at any period since the war. Its morale is higher and its popularity with the civil population is greater. Dead wood has been goughed out and the general staff and the corps of general officers are uniformly better than I have ever known. Intangibles like these are hard to measure but if such results aren't "brilliant." I don't know the word for them.

NATIONAL GOOD FORTUNE Craig Is as much at home with a roomful of top sergeants or private soldiers, as in a party of lieutenant colonels. He took a lot of silly "side out of the army parents and physician. Sometimes the pressure, the home becomes so great that the doctor la almost forced to let the child, get up. If the persuasion becomes too great there are certain laboratory tests which can be brought into play to show whether or not the heart has been affected. Usually the pulse is much higher than it should be the number of whit corpuscles in a measured quanity of blood Is above normal, and frequently the temperature will run 'a degree higher than it should.

The most important test is to draw a small quantity of blood into a narrow tube and set it aside to see how long it takes the cells in the blood to fall to the bottom of the tube, leaving clear liquid above. When the child Is suffering from heart damage and the infection is still active, the will be much more rapid than In normal people. In almost every case of acute rheumatic fever in a child between the ages of five years and 15, there is some damage done the heart. The only safe way to treat such a case is to see. that the child remains quietly in bed for weeks, or even months, until the heart has returned to as close to the normal state as it wi'll.

Remember the man symptoms: Vague pains in arms and legs, too many head colds, paleness, loss of appetite, llstlessness. When you see these, take the child to the doctor for, caught in its early stages, the disease can usually be disposed of without, much trouble. to be wrong. I think I'm fairly familiar with all the old signs and sayings of the older people and I never heard of rain on the first day of the month meaning rain on each of the first fifteen until I read that article in the paper. i Here is the correct weather sign as approved in the hills of West Tennessee: "If it rains on the first day of the month it will rain on at least fifteen days during the month." And, believe you me, this sign or rule lacked a lot of being proven false during the month of June.

HAROLD A. SMITH. Jacks Creek. SPEECH UN LTD. To the Editor: Replying to "Free Speech, by Mr.

Ralph Gregory, and Voltaire's quote. All history is cluttered with myth and there is no doubt Voltaire said much more than he wrote, with his In fluence doing much to alter and correct the institutions he chal lenged. In my travels I found England with the greatest free speech of any country, and the I Britons, the most -law abiding of all peoples. Let the Nazi and Communist The more they rave the quicker the masses will see the shallow hollowness of their doctrines and realize our present condition (which is not so good) is a better blessing than totalitarianism. Forbidden fruits always seem sweeter.

ALFRED L. ROBERTSON. Westmoreland. STONY HEART To the Editor: I should like to say to F.1 of Athens, that Albert Hines is such a wary fish that it will take an old maid angler who is smarter than I am to catch him After reading Grade's letter to him in this morning's Tennes sean. too, have an idea that all the girls are going to try to catch him after the meals he has been cooking.

But if a pretty girl of 18, who Is endowed with more worldly goods that I pos sess, can't hook him, then I am afraid there is no chance for an old maid like me to sink my line into his stony heart MART ANN JONES. PURE FOOD To the Editor: Why have pure food laws if they are not enforced? One can go to grocery after grocery, and find food that if Inspected by the pure food officer, would be thrown out If we have pure food officers, why don't they get on the job and clean out these places that sell their stale food to people as fresh and pure, when they know at the time that they are fooling the public? KATIE LEE HALL 608 Russell Street. Hambone's Meditations ALLIY hcap'o' times Vo Friem'S Trt'ows you DOWN CA'SE PET 6fTJ 71AHE.D KEEPiN' YOU mh ii an Criticism at Its Top As Exemplified in A Few Remarks THE PRIVATE PAPERS Or A CUB REPORTER Twe Broadway producer re cently journeyed to the San Francisco Fair, where they put on "a revue. It was something less than seensational As a matter ef record, the fiasco lost over 160. 000, but the billing carried many mentions of the magic name.

Ziegfeld" And so a critic let go with both guns in this devastating manner: "If Zieg feld," he wrote, "could hav seen last night's debacle, he would have reached out from his grave and pulled the producers' in with him!" Newspapermen last night wer gabbing about picturesque report ing in the old days W. L. Lawrence, they said, then with the World and now with the Times, was assigned to cover the Beaux Arts Ball, which was cos tumed in the Renaissance Period. Lawrence's lead was: The Immortal Beatrice Menken danced with Dante at the Beaux Arts Ball last night" But the composing room and the proofreaders to a man omitted th in the word immortal Then there's the one penned In the Milwaukee Journal on Dec. 7, 1934, by Richard S.

Davis, after covering a Gertrude Stein lecture "Gertrude Stein," ha reported, "is a stein is a hiccup and where is Emil? Emil go easy go easy Emil on foaming collars and a dime is a dime is money!" The execution of kidnaper Franklin Pierce McCall was handled expertly by Steve Trumbull of the Miami Herald in this way: "A young fellow who had failed dismally with life tried desperately here today to turn in a mas terful performance with death. The actor was Franklin Pierce McCall, and the performance fell short of Its goal. For life's last act with the kidnap-slayar of little 'Skeegfe' Cash was an audacious protestation of innocence, which his audience could not reconcile with fact." The numerous reports that Ed- i die Duchin was planning to embrace another re- 1 1 curate Ripley's Odditortum, due soon at 48th and Broadway, calls its address: "1600 Oddway" Bing Crosby wants the 4 Ink Spots for his next flicker. Their one recording: "If I Bing Crosby Didn't Care" did that Overheard in th Stork last night, when an actress panned often by a critic who was seated alone) said: Ther he sits- with all his friends!" Although the League of Nation is considered passe, its health organization is functioning; very well. It dispatched an anti-emall-pox brigade to embattled China, and a typhus squad to Spain In short, the League is more successful in keeping microbes from killing people than it la In keeping people from doing the same thing Wonder what those Congressmen who voted asainst actors think about when they look at the statue they recently accepted for the rotunda of the Capitol the miniature of Will Rogers? The other day before the N.

T-Post changed publishers, and George Backer took over th Job, a stranger walked into th editorial rooms lessly with ft brief case under a wing. Ha looked furtively to his then to hi right some of tha staff, who figured him ft crank com to blow up tha i newspaper or something "Where is th Villard publisher's of-demanded the stranger flee?" 'Well." stalled an assistant editor, a littl scared, "just what did you wish, and have yon an appointment?" 'That' alt right, my boy," smiled Oswald Garrison Villard, "I one owned this place." Ye, th visitors to th Fair liav finally com Not only has business In the Broadway theaters, cafes, hotels and th Fair swelled, but her la added proof Yesterday th following reparte was eavesdrooDed: didn't you Just love tha Trylon and Ferris Wheal!" ejaculated on Sweet Toung Thing In gingham frock To which her girt friend corrected: "Tou mean, Trylon and Periscope!" In New Tork, ft 27-foot python, suffering from ft toothache, attacked three attendants. It could hav been much worse, though, if the anak had ft pain in fteca, 'flv -1 or a Tax Dodging Racket? To the Editor: There appeared in your paper a communication from Mr. Ben Wells suggesting a special court to assist the Supreme Court in its labors. This thought upon his part proceeds from the fact that in one particular case fifteen months elapsed between the date of his conviction and the beginning of his sentence.

The records of the Supreme Court show that less than sixty days elapsed between the hearings in that court and its decision. The remainder of the time elapsing was attributable to delay of the attorney for this party in filing the transcript of the record upon which his appeal was heard and to other postponements at the request of his attorney. The Supreme Court of Tennessee is one of the few courts of last resort in the United States which keeps abreast of its work. For the past several yeara its adjournment has been preceded by a disposition of all cases heard by it during that judicial year. NAT TIPTON.

NO HUDDLE In regard to Mr. Daugherty's suggestion that the Forum have a certain subject for each week, it reads all right but I don't believe it will work. One of the most interesting things about the Forum is to watch each day to see who will write about -what, and too, I fear, the subjects he mentioned would find many of the writers at somewhat of a loss as to what to say, for very few of the ladies (and gentlemen, if the truth were told) could write intelligibly on these subjects, and as for taxes, no matter what is said about them, or promised to you, all that is ever don about them is they ar raised. But please don't huddle all the thoughts In one channel, for who knows, perhaps some simple person would advance an Idea or make a suggestion that even the wisest might do well to consider, but that person would never dare to 'write from "research" on a subject so important HOMEMAKER. Hartsville.

RAINY WEST To the Editor: Have just read an article in The Tennessean about the weatherman proving an old rain sign Answers to Questions By FREDRIC J. ASK IN lUsdert 4j nam th saiwtr ear motion ot stiwral lon cndlns .1 with ittmpfd. sddnmed envelops 10 PrederM i. uuztn. to NsKhTill Tenncuesn Infonnstioa ftu- Q.

What was the fire loss during the last year? J. K. A. The National Board of Underwriters reports the fire loss In 1938 to be 1302,050,000, an Increase of about 10 per cent over the preceding year. Q.

How much does it cost to stop an average passenger train? J. O. McM. A. The cost of stopping and starting a 560 ton passenger train traveling at a speed of 50 miles per hour varies from about ti cents to S2.80.

Q. Please gvie the dale when the old Blue Back Speller was first printed. R. McF. A.

The first edition of what later became known as the Blue Back Speller was published In 1783 under the title Grammatical Institute of English Language. This book consisted of three parts. Part I of which was -afterward and at ill Is known -as Webster's Blue Back Speller. Q. Are there any tin mines In the United States? R.

G. N. A. There is no tin of any commercial importance mined la the United SUtea. 8lnc the beginning of statistical compilation In 1902, th tin production has mounted to only about 300 tons, all of which ttaa com frm casslterit In.

South Dakota, WASHINGTON, June 29 The retirement of Malln Craig as Chief of Staff is a national loss. He is going out west and "practice keeping his mouth shut." The general editorial comment was that he is not a brilliant but a dependable soldier. That is good enough for any man but it doesn't happen to be true. Craig is both brilliant and dependable. The reason why casual observers didn't know about the brilliant parts is that he really doesn't have to practice keeping his mouth shut.

He has don it all his life. I have served with General Craig iince we both were kids for years in the same troop of the CavaJry. He had as original a mind and as quiet antic wit as any soldier I have known. His official record is a model of propriety but if there were interpolated just a few of the Ingenious daring and colonel-shocking things, he said and stunts die pulled as a youngster to enlighten tedious frontier service, it would make Charlie McCarthy's antics read like a table of logarithms. He just never got caught.

He was practicing keeping his mouth shut. HE HAD NO PULL A cadet who, on a long end run and about to be tackled, could flash the then unprecedented play of stopping and kicking a Citizenship, NEW YORK, June 29 The fact that Americans do not loyally regard themselves as citizens of the state in which they live, but rather as American citizens, has mad for slackness in stat government and In many cases has converted state citizenship Into a tax-dodging device. New Tork, which has a personal income tax law, Is bounded In part by three states which have no such tax New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. To these three and to Florida many New Yorkers have fled to establish legal residence and escape all or part of the tax, which began modestly but has Increased steadily and last year raised 1123,472,000. In the last decade the existence of the Income tax and the lack of one in Connecticut have seriously Impaired the amiability of New York real estate In areas near the Connecticut line, and even higher Jersey, under Frank Hague, is endurable.

If not attractive, to Individuals who earn salaries In New York but, as non-residents, need not schedule other IT MAY BE TECHNICAL Residence In these tax-fre neighbor states may technical, and even fictitious. It la advisable to lease house or apartment and vote In the place of refuge, and some of the refugees make a point of holding motor licenses In Jersey, Connecticut or Pennsylvania. But in some brackets of the New York Income tax the saving Is sufficient to pay the expense of the hideout or In ft few years even to cover the outright purchase of a country dwelling. Under Hague the government New Jersey is about as bad In certain respects as any that tlfls country now has to offer, but th threat of an Income tax la ft powerful bat In the dictator's hands, and he had only to wave It once during the recent campaign for pari-tnutuel betting to subdue moral qualms In his numerous refuge population. INDECENT COMPETITION Other state hare entered Into an Indecent competition for the shyster law business and th board -end-room money that come to divorce colony, and although factory-mad divorce and humanized it.

It is a pjece of national good fortune ihat his successor. General Marshall, is cut from the same cloth. It is a great virtue in soldiers to keep their mouths shut or as they say "eat their own smoke." Nobody ever did that better than Perahing and nobody ever had more to eat what. with impossibly stultifying orders in Mexico and constant Allied sniping and lack of. cooperation at home in the World War.

His example perfected Craig's education in keeping his mouth shut IN THE LAST YEARS For, in his last year or so of service, he had to practice lockjaw. The Internal War Department stew with the Assistant Secretary of War running around and cutting under both the. Secretary and the Chief of Staff and trying to Corcoranize the army made an almost impossible situation for a soldier whose loyalties must run undivided to his chief. It kept Craig's soul constantly in the wringer. It wore him down physically, mentally and nervously and made his mountain of work doubly hard to do.

But nobody ever heard a peep out of him and nobody ever will even though, If he started squawking, he could make more commotion than a flock of homing geese. "Well done thou good and faithful servant: Enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord." and pay them- little respect and no loyalty. State governors and governments elected at the rate of, sayf 25 every two years cannot be high-grade on the average. The politicians are almost all professional meal ticket operators, and the governments exist as much to support the machines as to perform the motions of governing. There just isn't enough character and ability on the loose to provide 48 good governors every two or four years, or even half that number.

So state citizenship, which may be changed as easily as a man may change wives and at much less expense, means nothing but pecuniary advantage at best and certainly this is not a matter of patriotism, or loyalty except In rare Individuals, notably fox-hunting Virginians. They think they are something special, and indeed in some way they are. A strong central government need not be a dictatorship. It could be, but, after all, the people have to repose authority and responsibility somewhere, and the state governments are not responsible now. They grow more Irresponsible and expensive year by year.

Lift in a pound, he commanded them to stay on the job Until he returned. Likewise lovers of peace must keep up the fight until victory Is certain. Many peace conferences will yet be called and many protocols will be signed, and pacifists will continue to ery "Peace, Peace!" when there is no permanent peace but some day swords will surely beaten Into plowshares and spears Into pruning hooks and nations will no longer war. Th gospel of patience la th comforting gospel of victory-peace, and we find It running lengthwise the ministry of Jesus who filled each day with wholesome living and upbraided his follower for mortgaging th present to th future "And when he had foretold many thing he encouraged them, saying. In your patience, shall win your souls." rair enow i.

by WESTBROOK PF.GLER appear to be legally good In all th states, some of them are morally indistinguishable from Russian divorce decrees. This Is probably the lowest of all the abuses of state sovereignty. Nevada frankly boasts of her vices and advertises herself as an almost taxless state and a refuge for tax-weary citizens of other states, with particular appeal to California. But Florida out-dirtied Nevada once when a rich old villain who had brought material benefits to the state, resorting to peonage of Florida citizens in the process, bought a law which enabled him to divorce his afflicted wife and then had the law repealed. That didn't affect Florida's relations with other states or vice versa, but It did show the depravity that can be expected of state governments because people regard them as unimportant units of government Reli ion REV, S.

R. HATCHER 'aster, South End Methodist Church Permanent peace is inevitable and will arrive by and by. Study, the great parables that constitute the heart of Jesus' teachings. They are parables of patience and peace and love. Th sower sows the seed and awaits the harvest; th housekeeper sweeps the floor until she finds her cola; -the shepherd reeks the wild until he finds his sheep; and the sorrowing father longs for his prodigal boy.

The keeper of the vineyard prunes and wait and la reluctant to cut down th barren tree. When th disciple thought th restoration of David's kingdom was Imminent Jesus told them of nobleman who, before taking ft long journey, called together ten of his servants, and after giving to each "The nicest thing shout being sway st csmp la the wsy it makes the boys back borne suffer.".