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FIVE Morning February 1939. THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN A Humanitarian Proposal By ERNEST LINDLEY' SUNFLOWER STREET By TOM LITHE, and TOM SIMS The Wash ington Merry'Go'Round 11 ii i i in Kennedy Rushes Back as Crisis Increqses; Last Minute Move by U. S. Possible'4 In Effort to Avert World War By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN Walter 1 Winchell on Broadway Durante and Merman Back on Broadway In McEvoy Play THE NEW YORK SCENE The First Nightst The watchmen In a sour alarm oa "One for the Money," the week end's contender. Most of the observers fait It smacked too much El Morocco ad Ubbing to be worth the price.

Mr. Lock-ridge of The Sua regretted It wasn't as urbane- witty as it 0 -VI wanted to be au A tA Ifor the banter Inns goes oa the zebra lounges McEvoy i jjust Love Someone," which is a sort of police blotter record of the Floro-dora Gals, got walloped across Its crinoline ruffles "Mrs. O'Brien Entertains," alias George Abbott's Irish Rose, came in Wednesday night "peopled with the usual quota of razzle dazzle performers. The sentinels generally condemned it as comic-strip story telling r-Sars In Your Eyes," a I ana, some instances, even to play on the streets. THEIR LIVES UNSAFE Now even their uvea have become unsafe.

During and after, the pogrom of last November! thousands of children, some of them tots without any identification, were hastily put on trains by their parents and shipped to the border. Great Britain, waiving vlsa regulatlona, provided refuge for 2,100 of them, and has mads preparations to take 6,000 mora. Others founds haven in Holland, Belgium, -and France, which la already overcrowed with refugees. In the February 11 issue of Collier's, Quentin Reynolds describes the behavior of a grouo of Jewish children when they discovered, on their arrival in England, that they were allowed to go near the grass: "And so when tfily heard the incredible news that no verboten signs existed at Dovercourt they gave happy cries and rushed out onto the acres of pasture land that are theirs at Dovercourt They sat on the grass and rolled in It like kittens rolling in catnip. They tore tufts of It and pressed it against their cheeks.

This was the first freedom any of them had ever known." SOME HOMELESS Some of the children left In Germany are homeless, their parents having disappeared Into concentration camps. Some have been chased out of orphan asylums. With the confiscation of "non-Aryan" property, following on the gradual confiscation of Jobs, thousands of persons are literally on the edge of starvation and among them are young children. In ratio to the whole persecuted TfoIR TIMES Lrffll fxusm han vou Wmm PRIM, I AIS DAT 1 (i DEREfc fDERES JUS' ONEa MJl 11 1 t5UB OF US OF ME IN MV if IN OUR, a JsM FAMBLY SO I MAS 111 IV A 'ALL J)E 5ENS I 1 1 yivw SYLVESfeRPRlM AMD EEN MEENt 'NLay embroidered 15 U. S.

May Well Offer German Children Sanctuary WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 Hu manitarian Impulses so often get caught in buna alleys that it Is chserluc to see bi brought forward plan which is both irresistibly 'humane and, in J. its main outlines, thoroughly practical. This is plan to afford sane tuary in this country for a limited number of German refugee children of. every rae and creed.

The idea was set "orth a few week's ago by 49 of this outs finding Mundelein Catholic and Protestant cburcbV men. of the United States, lnclud-i ing Cardinal Mundelein, as token of our sympathy and aa symbol of our faith in the of human brotherhood. WAGNER RESOLUTION In line with that Seni- ator-Wagner has introduced a resolution whl undoubtedly (Will also have R-l puDiican ipon-f sorship authorf 1 1 of immigration visaa to a max-1 10,000 German children 14 years old of younger during each of the years 1939 and 1940 These would be in addition to the 27,370 imrrti gration visas that an be issued annually to Germans of allege, under Isting law. Wagner We can no jonger offer refuge to the oppressed of all nations and all ages, With millions of unemployed on our hands, there Is good reason Ifor examining with the greatest care any proposal to relax our present immigration restrictions. But the objections to letUng down the bars A met and women of working age do not apply to children.

No one Will be deprived of a Job. In fact; the money spent In caring for these children will provide more employment for American citizens. Both branches of the labor movement have Indorsed the plan in prin ciple, TWO OTHER REASONS The plan looks practical for two other reasons. OA, la jltbat there are Individuals and agencies in this country who are eagtr to care for theae children, tot see that they are fed, clothed, housed and educated. No child would be given an immigration; visa until satisfactory provision for Its care has been guaranteed a reapon- sible American citizen or private agency.

Thus, within ths maximum of 10,000 a year for jtwo years the number actually admitted would be restricted tol the number for which responsibility Is voluntarily assumed In jthis country. The plan looks practical at the other end because the children are ready to come or to be sent-The young of the persecuted ml-j nortty groups have long since lost the chance to enjoy a normal childhood. They are unable to ob-Vln a proper education; they are forbidden to play In the parka. By am a louse." And I doubt that the house dick of the New Deal, In his private thoughts, approves himself as heartily as he does In public. If he does, he is an egomaniac.

Harold can't see It that way! but he is in the same position aa the press. It just Isn't possible for him to belt the New Deal for its faults, or himself for his, as hard as he belts the press, even though they be apparent to htm in his private reflections. Moreover, in criticising the press, he restarts to the same practices that he condemns in the press. For example, he has pleaded' guilty to two "overstatements" in his debate with Frank Gannett but did not bear down on the' fact that le, like the press, has a duty to check his information, particularly when it is delivered in malice as these two "overstatements" were. And, although he accuses the press of undue sest in refuting his "overstatements'' his position as a party to the row disqualifies him as a Judge of the permissible degree of sest TRUE OF THE PRESS He also quotes, as gospel, the opinion of Time magazine that a cigaret story which was widely used but also widely disused, was likely "to scare the life out of tobacco manufacturers and make tobacco users' flesh creep." Is there some special quality in Time magazine which makes its off-hand opinions unassailable or does Ickes credit this opinion merely because It serves his purpose in debate? After all.

Time, too. Is of the press which he assails generally, and Its back cover this week Is devoted to a cigaret ad and he WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-There Just on thing behind the precipitate return of Ambassador Joe Kennedy to his post' at ths Court of St James's. The crisis Europe la getting closer. cot a phone call from the President la Palm Beach, hopped plane, arrivsd In Washington at a.

had a long talk with Roosevelt, hopped on to New York, and sailed on the Queen Mary next morning. What had happened In Europe Was the crumbling of Spanish resistance more quickly than was expected. With Mussolini now able-to use Spain as a base for cutting France off from North Africa, he is more likely to put the screws en France immediately. The President Is rery pesslmls-tlo about the enUre situation, and la inclined to credit reports which various people- have brought back from Europe, that nothing but a miracle can head Off a world catastrophe. The possibility of soms last minute move by the United States to head off a showdown.

Is not entirely out of the question, though still In the nebulous state. At any rate, Roosevelt considers It wise strategy to have one of his ablest ambassadors on the Job In London before the storm breaks. JIMMY'S CHATEAU When John Balderston, crack newsman who turned playwright. went to Holly- his caah, grao bought 'three houses for Investment purposes. i One he fitted out for the up- per class Holly- iw renter, complete with family portraits tbrought from land.

Another he fitted -jout for the lower "middle jrentpayer and third for the "Hollywood underprivileged. Roeeevslt James Roosevelt has Just rented the third, or underprivi leged house, -which has con firmed the movie people's impression that Sam Ooldwyn Is paying him only $900 a week, which is starvation wages for Hollywood. The late Frank B. Kellogg, when Secretary of State, always used to read the late New Tork World, because he said be marveled at the uncanny accuracy of John Balderston, The World's London correspondent. NEW KKK Talk In the corldors of the Capitol indicates that an Insurgent wing of the Ku Klux Klan plans a revival of that organiza- quon with new Hl.wOt MMjt A MAW purpose.

A meeting of the Klan a "kouncilium" Is privately scheduled for May, when an effort will be made to unseat Grand Dragon Hiram Evans, elect a new leader, and revise the pur-o of the Klan. The backers of this move Evans ment want to purge the Klan of the bad odor surrounding it However, chldf aim of the new program will be a selective antl-Jswish campaign, in which what the Klan selects aa "respectable' Jews of honorable family will be passed ever, while "dangerous" and will be. singled out for oppression. UNDER THE DOME Newsmen who write critically of the Dies committee receive anonymous typewritten letters Side Glances kTerover baa nerer aDowrd I'M mailed in Washington warning them "when he (Dies) gets through with you, you will wish you hadn't written that" Salaries of most government com missioners are 110,000 a year, but the six members of the moribund Tariff Commission receive while ths five members of the Maritime Commission get $12,000 each Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Andrews received this letter from a San Francisco worker: you want soms real Information about law violation In this plant put an ad In one of the local papers saying, 'Want mora dope. Andrews' When the Governor of South Carolina takes the oath of office he swears that be will not duel or take part in a duel during his term, of office NEW BUILDING PROGRAM Under secret consideration In the Inner circle is a new public works program to be tied up with the large-scale health plan recently outlined to Congress by the President.

This building plan would call for an outlay of 11,500,000,000 or $2,000,000,000 for the construction of clinics and medical centers in small towns and rural areas. The money would be spent during a three to five-year period. The need for such medical facilities is extensive. The Special Committee on Health and Welfare, which formulated Roosevelt's health program, reported that the lack of clinics and hospitals throughout the country was one of the greatest menaces to the health of the nation. Such a building program Is no new idea for White House advisers.

Several years ago serious consideration was given a proposal' that the WPA build clinics with men on work relief. The health program has revived this Idea, and there is a strong possibility that It will be submitted to Congress this spring. An enthusiastic of the plan is Attorney-General Frank Murphy, who launched such a program in rural Michigan during his term aa governor. Others advocating it are Secretaries Ickes and Hopkins, who carry great weight in Roosevelt's councils. YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS Latest crime statistics of Super-Sleuth J.

Edgar Hoover show that the CCC camps, plus boys' clubs and the T. M. C. A. have had an appreciable effect In eradicating youthful Seven years ago, the most dangerous crime age was 17.

That is, more crimes were committed by youngsters of that age than by older men. Three years ago the greatest criminal age had moved up to 19, Today, however; the most dangerous criminal age is 21. In other words, youngsters gradually are being educated away from crime. BRIDGES' MYSTERY MAN Considerable curiosity is being displayed In the privacy of the senate cloakrooms over a "mystery man" in the office of Sen. H.

Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. He is E. C. Converse, repotted to be a Call-f a I a n. Although he has a desk in Bridges' office and writes most of ths senator's speeches Bridges attacking New Deal policies and projects, particularly the TV Converse Is not on Bridges' congressional payroll.

Also, the two men took a bouse together this session after living In aa apartment last year. Bridges also uses Converse's luxurious ear. As Bridges is not a wealthy man his colleagues are wondering who. If anyone, la financing Converse and why. By George.

Clark himself to become entirety "I sal v4 Schwartz's lilts, was Thursday's festival. It fetched Jimmie Durante and Ethel Merman back to the bazaars, which was good deed enough. The show waa liked heartily, one of the commentators suggesting Dwlght Wiman Dursnte that Producer "has married It appears another that a leftist revue is one which slams the gangster nations and a sophisticated ditto Is ona that slams our own land. Ths Msglc Lantsrns: The Hall Johnson Choir giving the big oompah to "St. Louis Blues" gives that flicker its high moment of excitement.

Mai ne Sullivan Is winsome In her swing maneuvers and there's always Dorothy Lamour la her 'customary 33 cents worth of I Staves'' la an expose of the that being a kid Is a stiff way to make a living. Soma of it makes you mad with tha state of things, but too often the its horrors Chevalier story oversells Tailspln" is the usual heart-tn-your mouth teaser about how If airplanes go up high enough they might fall. Alice Faye, Connie Bennett and Nancy Kelly are as pictorial as the flying shota Chevalier comes to us this time as a furrlner. flashing his grin through a little Job of charm Called "With a Smile," a V. Some of those nominations for for the Academy statues are so It -1 allleh murht that tt do a set- ter nlan to Swarthout award them according to tha rules of Bingo "Ambush" supplies aa answer on what to do with yourself some hour, with wit In the patter and La Swarthout for tha ayes and the story to lull you to sleep.

The Front Paget! That waa a hair-raising cable Augur, The Times' London boy, sprang Wednesday morning. That the financial squeeze oa the Ratxle Is so serious that they may have to give back the Sudeten to the Czechs. The old gsg about giving N. Y. back to tha Indiana only on the level! Wlllard Espy took aa- awful fan out of Papa Mencken and the rest of the Baltimore Sun bigglee In The Nation.

As good as called them old fogies and their sheet a has-been The blggeat fights these days, according to the papers, are between people who have different Idea oa how te keep America at peace Winchell has Bernla and F. D. R. has Congress Wo wish tha newspapers would quit referring to, Jackie Coogan as "Tha Kid" Tba guy's almost bald! -New Tork must be a restless, homeless kind of city," ruminates Geoffrey Teebutt, In The Times mag, "that kerbs so many thousands Jostling on Broadway" On the contrary, Mr. Tebbutt, take B'way away from suem and 'they'd REALLY be homeleea r.

The Herald Trlb, la la column-long editorial. Instate tba slums-dwell-lag Mexicans are to be pitied, but that Haywood Broua has aa right to give them that pity. it I2v" '5E population of Germany, the number of children Is surprisingly small, especially among the Jews. Th best private estimates avail able Indicate that during the last six years, since Hitler came Into power, the Jews have almost ceased having children. In all of old Germany, the number of Jewish children under the age of six Is estimated at only 7,000 out of a total Jewish population of approximately 320,000.

In the years 6 to 14 are 20,500. In addition to the children of the confessional Jews, there are. 't course, those of the other "non- Aryans" persons who in many Instances are of the Protestant and Catholic faith but have been found to have had one or more Jewish grandparents. Among the children who need sanctuary are also some of purely Teutonie stock whose parents are in political disfavor. AGENCIES READY Including what used to be Austria, it is estimated that there remain in Germany between and 000 distressed children In the age group under Some of them Mrtalnlv I ikkcu care 01 TTlln this, country without harm to anyone, and with Immense satisfaction to those who provide the foster homes.

In the course of time, the narents Mrs. Coolidga 0f some will be able to reestablish themselves In other lands and so resume the care of their children. Private Individuals and agencies in this country are ready to work out the details of the arrangements for caring for these children who are In desperate need. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has broken her rule of silence on all matters Involving legislation td express her approval of this plan, as one of the women of Northampton, Mass, who want to take care of 25 children.

Former President Hoover has indorsed the proposal. The main thing that seems to be needed is the stamp of approval! of Congress. i voted to personal advarMeemeaU, such as announcements of losses or bequests. As early as 1800 the agony column was also a medium for matrimonial advertisements. It Is sometimes known as the personal column.

Q. Is there a stairway In the Leaning Tower of Pisa? M. E. R. A.

Tha Leaning Tower has a spiral stairway wHhln, which la built with increased height on the sldee of the lean and decreased height on the sides opposite the lean, thus throwtngy a greater weight of masonry oa iff side opposed to the lean, Hambone's Meditations AUIY LOOK LAK EVY TiME I onrs our cr AH SET COMIH tACK IM ket aMSMash3 Johnson Says Answers to Questions By FREDERIC J. HASKiN Hair bnougr Good for the Press, Good for Country, Hard on Ickes NEW TORK, Feb. 11 This running debate with Harold Ickes on the freedom of the press is going to be good for the American press and for the country, as 'well. It will emphasize the faults of the press and the tricks and Insincerities of statesmen and politicians, too, and the people, being apprised of wrongs on both sides, through these mutual recriminations, will bear down with the pressure of their will and compel more tidy behavior all around. The criticism of the press should come from the press itself, but, although we are nicer now than ever before and the best press in the world.

If that means anything, self-criticism, except in mediation, never Is completely frank. You try hitting yourself on the chin with all your might and you will find that at the instant of the impact, as they say In golf, you will pull the punch. Not even Joe Louis, great hitter that he lsjcan hit himself hard enough to loosen a tooth or score a knockdown. ANOTHER MATTER Hitting someone else Is another matter and the press can rip and tear with complete abandon and, also, with ocmplete honestly, in attacking evils outside Itself. In his own thoughts a man may express harsh opinions of himself but something In human nature prevents his saying publicly, Nome Colling Game: Secretary Ickes and His Blasts NEW YORK, Feb.

IS In three separate broadside blasta within a few days. Howling Harold the Honest, Secretary of the Interior, administrator of PWA, dancing dervish In particular to the new caliph of Baghdad on the Potomac, apostate In chief of the Republican Party, defender of the faith and protector of the poor, has blowa this columnist out of the water. In a Chicago speech, a Collier's article and at least one pre conference the great Ick of the Fourth New Deal has poured out the vtala of his syn-thette vitriol on most newspaper iltAM AnjI Mtllimniata tint f- Ucularty on me. I think I am" a sucker to answer. I know Harold; he la a publicity hound.

He would prefer bouquets to brickbat but rather than be out of the news, ho would rather have brick-bats than nothing. A SURE FIRE LURE Writers have to hunt hard to find orchids for Old Sourpuee but his recent assault on the whole Fourth Estate Is sure-fire sucker-lure to keep him in print for days as witness this column. You cant help liking the Ick if you know him -Just you must like any buffoon of the dumb, dead-pan lumbering variety. He says his attack on ma to because called him the administration harlequin. My apologies to Harlequin, who was aa artistic, delicate and somewhat pathetic Merry Andrew.

But the word I atreesed was clown. There is a vast difference and clown la the word for Harold. When, after a record baptism of dead-cats, taken aa a sort of whlpplng-boy for the First New Deal. I left NRA. Ickes began to get.

the eats left over." He went proudly to (he President to anaovnee that he was now the Hugh Jehasoa at the Mew Deal Hugh Westbrook Pegler was Just saying that the advertiser's money gives him an editorial power in the press. As for the accuracy of Time's opinion in this case, I am smoking a cigaret at this moment although I have read now and then, for years, medical articles about the effect of tobacco on the heart, throat, and lungs and was hammered with lectures by itinerant reformers on the pernicious coffin-nail when I was young. He doesn't prove that, this story would make tobacco users' flesh creep or deter them from smoking, and I submit that this press opinion on which he places so much reliance falls in the category which he condemns as the work of "loose-writing Individuals." Yet, he likes it fine. COMMON KNOWLEDGE (The fact that the cigaret story, although widely used, also was widely disused, he interprets as censorship by the advertiser against the public health. But it was fearsomely described in a magazine which carries cigaret copy and other editors which put it on the spike" have thought nothing more sinister than "Everybody knows clga-rets aren't good for you." It certainly wasn't good news.

One editor edits Time magazine. Another edits a daily in South Bend, or Rutland. Their problems of space and their editorial Judgment vary. Ickes has sounded off in two big blurts this week, one In Collier's, the other on the air before a radical organization of lawyers. It is impossible to answer both la one piece, and I expect to talk back further from day to day on the points ha raises.

guage or sentiment or even tried to influence It, he Is no longer honest Harold. I make only two exceptions. One great govern ment official did aak in a letter to mo that I atop criticising him and another wlgged mo unmer cifully for what I said. The first was Ickes and the second was the President. EFFORT TO DISCRIMINATE Ickes' attempt to discriminate between "good" and "bad" news papers and "fair" and "unfair commentators reduces through out to an impertinent official at tempt to castigate criticism and elevate praise or colorless neutrality on public questions.

It la exactly like Hitler, whose at titude oven toward our President, our press and Ickes himself Is, "I can take the hide off you but dont you dare criticize me Soma of my colleagues like Arthur Krock will resent being placed on the Ickes honor roll. Arthur was a far more effective critic than But he used the rapier of satire rather thaa a broad ax and Ickes wouldn't understand that Mora aa the Ick tomorrow. in Life about a modern Jesus. He Is rather a furtive character. He doesn't seem to be either a god or a man.

When one is rude enough to question his publicity agents oa such matters, they begin talking about spirits and ghosts and beautiful Ideas. They dont arena to bo sura whether he la alive, or whether be was ever alive. The truth is, bs Is not oven "a man of genuine distinction, not to apeak of being the saviour of a sweaty, grimy world euch aa this. There' Is the Jesus of the-New Testament. He Is both Lord and Christ He has lived 1 centuries.

He la calm, majestic. He was and la real. He talked. He talked of kings and thrones, of the poor trying to snake clothing from new patchea and old garments. Today strong saea weep aa they think at Uinv The old sourdough secretly loves his dally panning.

A DECOY COMPLAINT His decoy complaint Is that newspapera and commentators are unfair because they dont give the same space to both sides of political controversies. In the same breath, his' complaint against me is that he says I have defended the New Deal aa fervently as I have attacked It What that bolls down to Is that anybody who doesn't consistently and blindly support administration policy Is a rink-stlnk, and anybody who does Is a Daniel come to Judgment You could no more consistently support that darting bat In the twilight than you could support a vanishing eel In a barrel of tapioca. It takes too much agility. He accuses me of submitting to censorship. If he means that not all papers buy my column or that some which buy It dont publish it dally or that some, "light" for cut it, I am equally Indignant.

But if ho means that anybody has aver tried to dictate or altar Its lan Religion Rntoi may nostra the eaiwar any auwtloa of a emaral nature aratflns lth a etamp. 44km nnlopa le Pretoria I. Hukla. Tb SMhTill TntBMtaa. laienuUea Bern, Wuhtnttoa.

P. Q. How many boys have attended Girard College for orphans in Philadelphia E. W. D.

A. Nearly 13,000 boys have attended the college since It was opene4 oa 1348. Q. Please give the number and principal nationality of Immigrants entering the United States by way of San Francisco. J.

H. A. For the last fiscal year S10 immigrants entered the United States through the port of San Fraucisco. Of these 2nd were from China, 21 from Great Britain, 132 from Germany, 7 from Italy 29 from Scandinavian countries, 63 from Australia and New Zealand, 126 from Central America, IS from Poulh America, and 87 from tba Philippines. The others came from varloua countries In very man a umber.

Q. What la ths name of the organization that la offering a prise for a novel by school teachers? J. H. A. The Dial Press, New York City, le offering a 11,000 prise for the best 'original novel submitted by school teachers.

The novel must bo about teachers and only those la the publlo school system are eligible for the award. Q. Is there a pink ageratumt W. B.H. A.

The variety known as Fairy Pink which is aa AU-Amerloa selection. Is a soft shade of aa moa pink. Q. la there any limit to the amount of the national debt? J. F.

R. A. The national debt Is limited by taw to 45.000.000,00a Q. What la aa agoay columaT J. H.

A. This Is a term oftea applied to the aoluma la aewtpapers de By REV. NOEL SMITH Faster First Bsptlst Church, Ashland City In 1835 David Strauss found, or Invented, a Jesus. For a few years he did a landslide business. Today be lies on the bookshelves unworshlped and unmounted.

He is never disturbed, save occasionally by a hfusemald's duster. Joseph Renaa found one in Franco. He was attractive, in some respects positively beautiful. Like the Odors of sweet incense, he soon vanished before the raw winds of reality. A few years ago a rather prominent gentleman discovered a en us at a luncheon club.

He exploited his odd find as "The Man Nobody Knows." Ia all the world's history no character was ever so appropriately earned. Today wa hear a great deal The Story Teller! Gabby Hart-net the Cubs' catching manager, le labeled "BasebaU'a Greatest Catcher," In Warren Brown's BE Piece. That's, how Detroit hailed Mike Cochane just before It took his Job away from hlna Zorina. we jhaa spark- plugged "I Married aa Anger for 40 weeks, Is captioned "A Kami Ooldwyn star" In Stag, which should answer the aame sf ereea a.