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VOL. XLVIIi NO. 116 Who "Was" H. L. Mencken? Louisville Magazine lets fly with both barrels all people! H.

L. Men- cken, Unless he has acquired with age a sensitiveness to criticism of himself which he never had before, Mencken could not have been annoyed. But we'll bet he was a little startled. Even now, when ne is almost 70 and his once great vogue, as Collier's notes with ponderous satisfaction, has passed, a pot shot or two at Mencken might be expected now and then from what he used to deride as the Bible Belt, or the Sahara of the Bozart. But to find himself taken seriously in the present quarter at this date must amuse him.

Collier's editorial writer was looking over "A Mencken Chrestomathy," a recently published collection of Mencken miscellany. He came upon an article on war published in the American Mercury 20 years ago, and, boy, did it burn him up! The article was a cheap and crude piece of iconoclasm. Mencken in his time wrote more than one spuriously cynical article about which the same thing could be said. But it's late to be hot and bothered about any of them. He has turned out a lot of good stuff, too, including his charming reminiscences in late years.

Collier's man reports: "Not long ago this writer, with a copy of 'A Mencken Chrestomathy' in his hand, struck up a conversation with an intelligent and well-informed college student. The young man, a veteran, glanced at the book several times and finally asked, 'Who was That completely disposed of Mencken, in Collier's mind- However, two things strike us about it. In the first place, a more natural initial inquiry from even an intelligent and well-informed college student would have been, "What does "chrestom- athy' mean?" In the second, is any college student will informed if he knows as little about modern American literature as to have to ask, "Who was Mencken?" Young Willkie's Advice To GOP The late Wendel.L. Willkie, Republican nominee for president in 1940, left a son, Philip who resides in the old town of Rushville, and is a member of the legislature of his state. Philip Willkie is a modest young man but he felt the urge to give a bit of advice to the Republican party after viewing the returns of state elections this month.

So he wrote a letter to tne New York Herald-Tribune which has attracted nationwide attention. Election results, he wrote, "follow the pattern which, with few exceptions, has ben consistent over a 20-year period. The exception this year was Alfred E. Driscoll, re-elected governor of New Jersey." Party spokesmen have made the most of their party's success in New Jersey. Philip looks into the question of why Driscoll won and concludes that it was because the governor had developed, in his three years in off ice a "signi- ficent program." The New Jersey governor made a record of progressive measures while holding down the cost of government: "Driscoll has taken the lead in a long overdue reform of the courts and enactment of a new constitution.

He has developed a real housing program applying to all citizens as well as veterans. Segration in the state guard has been abolished and a civil rights program with teeth in it has been enacted. "Both workmen's and unemployment compensation rates have been increased. An industrial health insurance program covering a million and one-half workers has been adopted. Gov.

Driscoll has shown, while carrying out such a liberal and a progressive program, an ability to keep down tax rates." New Jersey voters who have endured much boss-rule corruption appreciated what their governor had done and cast their ballots accordingly. It was as simple as that. The long-accepted theory that government should maintain order and let each individual look after himself is undergoing change, the young man states. "We have adopted the idea of social responsibility that the conditions under which men live and their ultimate fate are a problem of government. Conditions have changed.

We are no longer a rural and small-town country. Most men do not acquire a house and a few acres and thus find relative security. Responsible Republicans recognize these facts Senator Taft has shown that he recognizes it by his stands on health, education and housing." Young Willkie believes all the Republicans who were important aspirants for the presidential nomination last year recognize economic and social facts of today, "but when they talk, they sound like they don't." Their appeal is to the class voters whose votes they are going to get anyway. The young man believes that "most people are not concerned with the overwhelming fear of socialism, slatism and the welfare state. They are concerned with living.

their take- home rent, grocery bill, the kind of home in which they live" and what will be their situation in old age. Away with generalities and platitudes, advises Young Willkie, let the party leaders and candidates talk to the people about the things the people are interested in. One can imagine stalwart party men taking offense at the young upstart's audacity. They will recall that the boy's father who received the presidential nomination in 1940, had been a Democrat most of his life. They will wonder if the reconstructed Democrat was really reconstructed when he burst upon the political scene, snatched the nomination and was branded as the "Wall Street candidate" in the campaign.

The Upper Room Daily Sun readers are fairly familiar with the story of a Kansas town, Hanover, which realizing the need of a country doctor, took effective steps to meet the need. Our reporter on the Hanover situation wrote so many stories about it, I wondered if our readers were getting bored with so much attention to a small town incident. A meeting would be held and a committee appointed and the reporter, armed with a camera, was on hand. Matter of fact, Hanover's hospital and clinic building, now nearing completion, was part of a Kansas health program which has gained nationwide attention. National magazines have carried accounts of how the health problem is being tackled.

The Kansas town has a doctor and soon will have a physical plant to work in. Mankato, has completed its clinic building, financed by public subscription. Kansas University medical school recently announced its graduates would be required to spend 11 weeks with physicians in towns under 2,500 population. Wisconsin and Oklahoma have similar programs. The idea is to get a wider distribution of doctors to serve communities otherwise unserv- ed.

I read that in Kansas the population has grown 25 per cent in 40 years, but the number of doctors has declined nearly 30 per cent. The country doctor, general practitioner, still has a place in the medical scheme of things which fact is recognized by urban specialists, whose numbers are increasing. What relation there may be between the improvement of health service in small communities and the profession's uneasiness over the proposed national program, I do not know. I do know that what happened in a nearby small town was highly significent as a typical incident in a movement which is attracting coast-to-coast attention. The news sense of the reporter was better than mine.

It made news of a more satisfactory kind than a love nest murder trial. It is in order to call attention to the fact that now is the time to do your Christmas shopping. Consulting calendar, I learn Christmas Day this year comes on December 25. Note the date and count the days. Incidentally, Christmas is a religious holiday.

M. Barbs Bt HAL OUCHRAN A Michigan man ate a peck of apples at one sitting. He probably had just received a doctor bill. It's no wonder college students are against war. Every time they write home for money they get a taste of it.

Aquatic Creature Answer to Previous Puzzle OUT OUR WAY Williams HORIZONTAL 1,5 Depicted fish 8 It is six to twelve inches 12 Hodgepodge 13 Malt drink Indigo 15 Race course circuit 16 Mohammedanism 18 Self esteem 10 Correlative of either 20 Feared 28 Great Britain (ab.) 23 Pleasant 25 Part In play 27 Glance over 28 Mineral rocks 29 Lieutenant (ab.) SO Mixed type 31 Greek letter 38 Behold! 83 Foreteller 35 Otherwise 39 land VERTICAL 1 Law-makers 2 Visigoth king 3 Bite 4 Accomplish 5 Comfort 6 Feminine name 7 Conduct 8 Note of scale 9 Unit 26 Bird 10 Trifle 33 Cruel person 11 Spheres 34 Card game 1C Not (prefix) 36 River in 17 Pronoun Texas 20 Artificial teeth 37 Expunged 21 Tiny globules 42 Italian river 24 More peaceful 43 Impolite 44 Followers 45 Numbers 46 Comparative suffix 49 Eternity 51 Droop 53 Pint (ab,) 55 Virginia (ab.) 4Q Ambary Chinese Reds Begin Education Reforms SAN FRANCISCO The Chinese Reds have begun to remold their higher educational system, but obviously are going slow. In a broadcast heard here by the Associated Press, the Peking Radio said curricula for colleges and arts and sciences had been revised. "This marks the beginning of the reformation of the old educational system in universities and colleges in China," declared the broadcast, Dialectical materialism, historical materialism and what the Reds call "new democracy" are required subjects. Russian is required as a foreign language course "whenever possible." White House Will Have Extra Room WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 President and Mrs.

Truman are going to have room for extra guests when they move back into a safe and modern White house in late 1951. They'll have space, too, to store all those things that people don't like to throw away. They will find it expanded into a 77-room mansion with a story basement when the repair job about to get underway is ally completed, The present 150-year structure be completely renovated inside, has 69 rooms and no ment. Engineers disclosed today eight additional will built on the top-or fourth. possibly for uMjfey I'VE HEARDA LOTTA GUYS SAY IP SPLrt TH 1 END OP A AN' PUSH IT IN TH 1 HOLE AM' TWIST IT IN TH' RABBrrS HAIR XX) CAN PL) UU HIM OUT-AAAYBe 1 AIN'T COIN' ft STOP RK3HT NOW BEMJAMIN FRAMKLIM IS THIS eUV'S HERO AND HE'S AULUS TRYINJ TO CO LIKE FRANKLIN) USED TO TAkE NAPS WHILE TH' DUMBER OVER STLlFP HE'D LEARNED YEARS BERPRE WOULDN'T THE SEAT OF Out of the Past U.

S. Reds' Chameleon Quality Big Reason For Battles BY PETER EDSON Eds. Note: Peter Edson, Washington correspondent, turns the spotlight on the "chameleon" quality of American Communism in today's article, 3rd in a series of twelve which shows how the Communist party established itself in the what's behind the current trials and where the fight may lead. BY PETER EDSON The chameleon quality of American Communism is the principal reason for three decades of war against it without a decision. The party's policies veer with the political winds, indicated by Moscow weather vanes.

The leadership prospers and is purged, according to the Kremlin's whims. Today's Communist may be blatant about his status; tomorrow's may be underground, hidden from all but his colleagues and known only by the infiltration he is able to manage. The basis for much of this is to be found in the party's first 10 years 1919 to' from 1929, hen Moscow's captains in the field followed their orders to hold a line, but waged bitter internecine strife. Between 1919 Edson the American Communist Party emerged in Chicago with a membership of 60,000 (the Communist Labor Party claimed 6000) 1922, operations were entirely underground. In August 1922, the leadership was called to a secret meeting in a wood near St.

Joseph, Mich. But the Department of Justice knew of the meeting and raided it. Seized were a barrel of party papers, supposed to have been burned but in the hands of U. S. agents before the order could be carried out.

The party's furtiveness was then intensified. Three Walacki, Polish intellectual; Joseph Pogany, a Hungarian, and Boris Reinstein, one-time Russian-Socialist of Buffalo were sent by Moscow as the new high command. Shortly after their arrival, they were heartened by a more liberal sentiment. President Harding pardoned Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist convicted of espionage.

The Lusk committee ceased to exist in New York. The raids of Attornev General Palmer were repudiated. Came Out Of So, in 1923, the Communists came out of their holes, renaming themselves the Workers' Party. The membership was then in the neighborhood of 12,000, only 1000 English-speaking American-born. To such as William Z.

Foster, who had been indoctrinated on a 1921 trip to Moscow with Ella Bloor, this offered rich ground for conquest. Foster had been successively a Bryan Democrat, Socialist, anarchist, Wobbly and AFL organizer for Samuel Gompers in World War I. He played the foreign- horn, led by the Finnish Federation, against the homebreds in the third Communist convention, in Chicago. When the smoke lifted, the American by Jay Lovestone, Ben Gitlow, Charles E. Ruthenberg and others had been routed, Foster rode high, as head of the executive committee.

He followed the Moscow line without deviation, listening respectfully to the emissaries sent from the Kremlin to show the American bourgeoisie how proletariat rule should be set up. The first Foster-dictated effort to "bore from within" came in the same year, when the Commies supported a federated Farmer- Labor Party. An effort was made to take over the Progressives in the following year, but "Old Bob" LaFollette was a smarter man than they figured him. He disowned any Communist who sought to support him, forcing the leftists to go for themselves in the national elections Poster for President, GlHpw for Vice President, The results did not seem auspU clous to the public Communists polled only 300,000 votes agaimt fcOpkOOO for the Progressives. Put the party chiefs were not unhappy.

The vote had been poUej Ifl a very respectable, At the parly's W9 wnvention, the Ruthenberg'Lovestone-Gitlow bloc gulled fast one. G. I. Gmwv was wot from MOSCOW Mexico as the Kremlin "Rep" to U. WJMI to faction's case before Foster knew he was here.

Gusev persuaded Stalin to make Ruthenberg the boss and Foster found himself virtually on the sidelines. Under Ruthenberg, the party began to develop a few national policies to place alongside the imported ones. International Publishers was established, to build up a stable ot American propagandists. The Negro found organizes at his doorstep; the Army, Navy and National Guard were infiltrated; young collegians loyal to this new politics were ordered to take military training and study tactics. The Daily Worker, founded in Chicago with an original investment from Soviet funds of was moved to New York, together with party headquarters, and several hundred thousand dollars put into offices and a printing plant.

Stole Leadership That was in 1927 Suddenly Ruthenberg died. Foster immediately moved to steal the leadership. In his book, "I Confess" Gitlow says the Fosterites faked a deathbed request by Ruthenberg that Lovestone be made titular head. Most of the leaders were summoned to Moscow, where T-ovestone was made secretary. Foster was given equal status in order that he might be ready to 10 Years Ago Mr.

and Mrs. J. Beck hud entertained Mrs. Nellie Snydc-r of Lincoln and Mrs. Vesta Beck dinner at Burton's in honor cf Mrs.

Vesta Beck's 80th birthday. Miss Bertha Starn, Beatrice school health nurse, had accepted appointment as a member of the national education association's advisory comittee on international relations during 1939-40. Miss Irene Faultier of Chadron spent Thanksgiving in Beatrice with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Faulder and Helen Faulder who was here from Washington, D.

visiting her parents. 20 Years Ago Walter living on West Court street was pleasantly stir prised Thanksgiving hen his two sons and Mrs. llobnrt Diets: and his daughter Mrs. Ben TeSelle and her husband and his five grandchildren, Earl, Ruth Lawrence, Norman and Norma TeSelle of the Firth vicinity came to spend the day with him Mr, and Mrs. C.

J. Hiatt had gone on an extended trip through the southern states and expected to spend part of the winter in San Antonio, Tex. Arlington Brugh was down from Crete for a visit with his parents. Dr. J.

R. Leibee and family drove to Lincoln on Thanksgivint' day to witness the Nebraska-Iowa football game. 30 Years Ago The victors were dividing the spoils. England took 70 percent of Germany's ships, France got 10 percent, Italy 10 percent, Japan eight percent and the Unitodj States two percent. That mnde better and happier Europe.

Ulric "Babe" Lang, son of Mr By Oalbrafth COPR. ir MA stuvicf. INC. T. M.

"She's been struggling for days with her Christmas list- she knows so many boys, and isn't sure which ones will send her presents!" father, T. L. Harsh and Reisie was to stay and attend school hero. 40 Years Ago Prices for livestock at the public sale of George W. Fink at his farm three miles northeast of Holmesville were higher than Misses Betha and Bessie Harsh! usual.

The "sale was cried by Col. of Omaha were visiting theiri F. E. Kinney of Liberty and the and Mrs. Joseph Lang and Miss Wilmn McClary of Omaha hadj been married November 13 at Auburn.

should be loath or careless about carrying out his orders. The ticket for 1928 was Foster- Gitlow again. The showing was terrible, 48,000 votes. Moscow was not amused. The leaders were called "home" again.

In May, 1929, in the throne room of the czar, both Lovcstone and Foster were publicly pilloried by Stalin himself as unprincipled opportunists, weak diplomatists, and poor servants of the new order. All mentioned in the excoriation were told to sign it as a confession of guilt. Only Foster and Max Bedacht submitted. Lovestone and seven others were expelled and Foster again became general secretary. Lovestone and Gitlow tried to total sum realized was $6,537.

Mr. Fink had purchased a farm near Quinter, Kas. Johnny Kopecky, the tailor on lower Court street, had organized a five-piece orchestra. He was an able violinst- Miss Hazel Fall and Miss Ruth Nichols who had spent their vacation in this city, had returned to Lincoln to resume their studies. assume control if Lovestone form an American Communist Party free of Soviet domination, but a bare one per cent followed them out of the old organization.

By 1935 the so-called right-wing was dead, with Lovestone and Gitlo beginning to taste the bitterness of disillusionment. Lovestone is now an adviser to the A. F. of L. garment workers union.

Gitlow has made statements against Moscow and this year was Illinois' chief investigator in a Red inquiry. There, in digest, is a story much more confusing in its detail. It traces a political movement's first decade, in which what happened among the party chiefs was so involved with deception and intrigue that the great mass of the American people could not pos- sibly know what it was it was supposed to be fighting. Tomorrow: The political growth of U. S.

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