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I.IMX McPherson Passes ELIMINATION of Melville R. McPher- as a member of the Michigan Tax Commission by Governor VanWagoner. will not come an a surprise to the people of Michigan and there ran be little quarrel by the people with the governor's choice in naming successor. As a member and chairman of the tax commission for 14 years. Mel McPherson has had a long and at times stormy record in an important state post.

He has quarreled with Republicans and Democrats, alike, and won recognition as the outstanding stormy petrel of most state administrations, through which he has served. He has always enjoyed rather important support for purposes he espoused, from the agricultural Interests of the state, because of his vocation as a dirt farmer and. as such, he will continue to hold his membership on the state board of agriculture, at least until 1945 when his present term In this capacity, however, will not enjoy the glare of the political spotlight as frequently as he has as a member of the tax commission. His duties will be more of a routine order, with little opportunity for making the state headlines, at which he has been such an adept In the past. Those who know Mel McPherson can hardly picture him as a contented occupant of his new role, but maybe the passing of his membership on the tax commission, marks the beginning of decline for one of most spectacular poli- cal figures of the past.

Mark E. Older, assessor from the city of Flint, has been named by Governor Van- Wagoner to succeed McPherson on the tax commission. The new appointee has had a wide experience In tax matters and should make a valuable member of the state body. As now constituted Chairman John Libcke, of Detroit will represent the Interests of Michigan's most populous city; Mr. Older will be classed as an while Alvin E.

Richards, of Marquette, will represent upper peninsula interests. Personal problem of high rents and housing shortages. The workers have erected crude tar paper shacks in many localities, all of which mars the appearance of the roadsides and offers a threat to the public health because of poor sanitation facilities. In Michigan, rural zoning law, passed by the legislature shout six ago. offers an opportunity for communities to prevent the development of these shanty towns.

In Ypsilantl, about thirty from Detroit, a township zoning ordinance has hern adopted to keep down shack developments, especially In the city's outskirts nearest Detroit. Washtenaw county, in which Ypsilantl Is located, is considering a health ordinance as a companion guard with the township zoning ordinance now In effect. During the depression, similar shanty town developments resulted on the outskirts of Escanaba and other cities as families sought to lower their living expenses. Zoning laws had not been enacted to permit communities to prevent such slum building, but It appears that communitbs will make an effort to prevent a recurrence during the current defense boom. Is He Washed Up? America First committee has been placed on the spot by Charles A.

Lindbergh's slur against the Jews of America in his Des Moines speech, which has caused an unfavorable reaction throughout the country. The committee has been sponsoring the noted flyer's speaking appearances, and its leading members are now worried over the possibility that their organization will be labeled as anti-Semitic. Good Americans cannot stomach appeals to racial prejudice. Organizations and Individuals who resort to such un- American and un-Christian practices finally bring ruin upon themselves. We have the Ku Klux Klan, Father Coughlin and others as examples of what Americans think of those who traffiok in intolerance.

There is an increasing amount of evidence that Lindbergh either consciously or unconsciously absorbed a goodly portion of the Nazi philosophy when he was feted by Hitler and Goering during his visit In Germany. The flyer and his wife been proclaiming that democracy Is In the decline and that totalitaranism is the of the Now, he follows the Nazi pattern of making scapegoats of the Jews. Lindbergh has laid himself wide open. His usefulness to the America First committee in the future will be about nil. Other Editorial Comments Conventions Bring Money average delegate to a convention spends $17 a day for a three-day session.

according to an interesting article appearing recently in the Milwaukee Journal. Conventions are a growing American fashion. In 1930, there were 14,000 national conventions in the United States; in 1938, there were 20,000. In addition, there are thousands of regional, state, distiict and county gatherings held annually. Americans like to go to conventions.

It gives them an opportunity to learn how their fellow tradesmen are conducting their business, but uppermost in their minds is the opportunity that conventions offer for a change of scenery and recreation. For most of them, a vacation. Communities go after conventions because the spending by delegates means extra business for the hotels, restaurants, gasoline stations and storps. Recause of itB outstanding facilities, Escanaba is often selected as a meeting place by organizations. and the volume of trade brought here annually by conventions augments the tourist business considerably.

WILL AMERICA FIRST EXPLAIN? (Milwaukee Journal) Will the "America First" committee, under whose auspices Lindbergh has made so many speeches, repudiate te attack he made Thursday night on a group of American citizens, the Jews? Or will they prefer to forfeit any claim they have to be recarded ns citizens who in truth put America first In their hearts and not something else? Lindbergh's attempt Is obvious, even If we had not had Its prototype In Hitler's Nazi tactics. On the filer's visit to Germany, Hitler seems to have sold Lindbergh an even larger bill of goods than had been supposed, impressing him not only with the magnitude of German armament and orpanlzatlon, but with the Hitler type of appeal to prejudice. The right of Lindbergh to dispute the president's policy has been asserted in these columns over and over again. Rut he is offensive to anyone who ever undertakes to say that any group of American citizens must take a position, or must remain silent because of Its racial origin. The kind of mind that makes an attack on Jews when that suits its purpose will as easily make attack on some other Swedish, for instance, or the Irish; or on some other religion- the Woman Catholic or the Quakers.

This Is what the Ku Klux Klan did in the years rirht after the World war. And not for America, but by Individuals for the purpose of gaining power. The best thing Lindbergh said was: "No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution the Jewish race suffered In Those words must be as nearly harsh as anything he has ever said about the Nazis. Rut how insincere to say such a thing and follow It Immediately with a threat and an appeal to prejudice like this: of agitating for war the Jewish groups in this country should he opposing in every wav, for they will bo among the first to feel its Tolerance is virtue that upon peace and strength." This is nothing but an attempt to capitalize on prejudice he believes already exists and to threaten greater prejudice. Jewish citizens of America must subordinate their rights as citizens In order to be Swedish Americans, English Americans, Irish Americans will then kind- tolerate them.

And a man who was so long and comfortably absent from his country calls this Americanism! What of other America Firsters. are they going to accept this use of Hitler tactics in a speech made under their auspices as a fair sample of their kind of Americanism? If so. no sympathy need be felt with them as they view their losing cause. The America First movement was remiss in not condemning Senator Nve for hip thinly' veiled attempt in his St. Louis speech of Aug.

1 to appeal to and arouse anti-Jewish sentiment. Rut Nve was more slippery and less forthright. What Lindbergh said must be answered and repudiated by spokesmen for America First. Or else it must be accepted as the kind of thing they stand for. Lindbergh is an incident, a man who from the first has shown a lack of understanding of American democracy.

As his effort meets lees applause and more boos, he turns, apparently in fury, to the Hitler arsenal of debate. Rut other America First speakers hold high office and probably intend to seek such office again. Will they answer and repudiate the most offensive attack on American ideals made by any American during this era? Appear HANTY towns are appearing along the highways outside of cities where defense workers are endeavoring to solve the the METERS A TAX? (Muskegon Chronicle) The contention of opposition to parking meters that such in effect constitute a special tax on the motorist for use of streets after he once has paid his taxes is exploded by a little reflection as to actual results. The argument overlooks the fact free parking spaces still be available for those who wish it as at present. Steadily, as traffic has increased, have motorists been compelled to park farther and farther from downtown.

Parking meters would be placed only in a limited area in the business section. Hence free parking will be available just as it is today. In fact, such free parking spaces will be more readily available through relief afforded as more motorists find parking space downtown due to more rapid turnover. So much for the argument the motorist will be penalized by the parking meters. The Washington Merry-Go-Round RY AND ALLEN group of Congressional leaders who conferred with the President before last historic broadcast got a much broader picture of the reasons behind the ultimatum than the President gave over the air.

He grimly informed his Capitol Hill chiefs that Hitler no longer could be trusted to respect the neutrality of American vessels anywhere in the Hitler. In fact, had Issued serret orders to "fire on Indeed, the President added gravely, the Fuehrer went so far as to Instruct U-boat commanders to "search American vessels. "We can have only one answer to Roosevelt said, in effect. "For our own safety, we must beat Hitler to the punch when we encounter him on the high seas. That Is why American ships and planes which encounter German submarines and raiders, In waters that we deem necessary to our defense, have been ordered to shoot The President went Into some detail explaining incident of the American battleship that was stalked by a Nazi submarine, to which he referred briefly in his broadcast.

"This happened before the Greer incident and It Is further confirmation of our contention that, despite Nazi denials, the Greer was fired on first. "I have a complete report from the commanding officer of the battleship, which was In the North Atlantic. This report shows that the sub maneuvered for four or five hours to get the battleship in a position where it could be torpedoed. There Is no question about the Intention of the sub commander. He w'ould have sunk the battleship If The President held that, In the light of this and other recent experiences.

It would be fatal to assume that American vessels are any more secure from attack than Rritlsh warships. "We can only assume." he said, when a Nazi sub or raider is in the vicinity or within firing distance of an Amerlcnn ship, it is there for one purpose only to sink the American ship." After reading his address to the Congressional group, the President Invited criticism. Rut except for one or two clarifications no changes were made. One suggestion produced a merry interlude in the otherwise grim conference. It came from House Foreign Affairs Chairman Sol Mlotn, famous for so diligently promoting the anniversary of George Washington.

When the President read that part of the speech reviewing the measures against piracy taken by Presidents Adams and Jefferson. Rloom remarked: "Why you mention George Washton? He sent a strong message to Congress on the necessity of protecting our vessels in time of There was a loud laugh from colleagues. Most favorable comment on the speech came from Senator Tom Contially of Texas and Representative Clifton Woodrum of Virginia, acting Speaker. Roth warmly complimented the President's speech and predicted that "all true Americans will applaud Note: The Washington message to which Rloom referred was sent to Congress December 7, I79fi. and dealt with the necessity of protecting our sovereignty on the seas during the war between France and England.

It stated in part: "To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force, organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression. This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party as may first or last leave no other option." Mrs. Roosevelt may soon work for the Government for one dollar a year. That is, she will if Mayor Fiorello LaGuardla persuades her to take charge of the Division of his Civil Defense Administration. Mrs.

Roosevelt Is intensely interested in civil defense and several months ago, seriously considered visiting Rritain to study civil defense measures under actual war conditions. Recause of matters of state, this plan did not materialize. Actually, behind the scenes, Mrs. Roosevelt has been very active in the Civil Defense Administration. LaGuardia confers with her frequently and several of her suggestions have been followed.

She is especially interested in bringing women into a prominent role In the CDA and at a recent press conference gently criticized LaGuardia for not doing this. The shaft went home and he is now using it as bis chief argument in urging the First Lady to take charge of Division. Note: The dynamic little New York mayor is telling friends that he has no intention of quitting as Civil Defense Administrator. South of the Border Doing right probably would be a more popular if it were wrong. lot put too much faith in moonshine just because it's aged in the woods.

Many a house is haunted because the overdue. Answers To Questions BY FREDERIC J. HA SKIN A reader enn get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Escanaba Daily Press Information Rurean, Frederic J. Haskln, Director, Washington, D. C.

Please enclose three (it) cents for reply. Q. How much land Is controlled by Germany? J.H.R. A. The total area of Axis-controlled territory is 4,092,804 square How long has England had an income tax? E.J.R.

A. There has been an annual property tax in England since 1697 and an income tax since 1842. What is the religion of the descendants of the Rounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island? E.M.R. A. They are Seventh Day Adventists.

Q. Who said "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you LUS. A. This epigram was coined by Anthelmo Hrillat-Savartn, famous gastronome of France. INTO THE PAST Q.

What was Houdinl's real name? J. A. The magician was named Ehrich Weiss. As a man thinks, so he he can persuade his wife to agree with him. About the time a man begins to enjoy himself he needs a shave again.

The big advantage in getting in on the ground floor is you don't have to climb. Q. Where was George Rernard Shaw educated? J.T.L. A. The writer was self-educated after his fourteenth year.

He says: am an educated man because I escaped from school at fourteen, and before that was only a day-boy who never wasted the free half of my life in learning lessons or reading Q. When was the first Gilbert Sullivan opera produced in the United States? G.W.R. A. On the night of December 1. IS79, the Opera Company produced H.M.S.

Pinafore at Ford's Fifth Avenue Theatre with Gilbert as stage director and Sullivan conducting the orchestra. Q. Why is a rain coat called a mackintosh? M.R.T. A. It is named for Charles Macintosh, who in IS23 produced rain-proof garments by sewing a thin sheet of rubber between two of cloth.

Q. Has the Russian Government at any time exercised sovereignty over any part of California? R. A. In IS 12, the Russians founded a post on Rodega Ray In California which they held until 1841. They traded and hunted for furs from this post.

Q. Was Fanny Crosby, the hymn-wrlter, born blind? J.D.H. A. When six weeks old. she lost her eyesight during an illness.

Q. What was the inspiration for Rachmaninoff's Prelude in Sharp Major? C.G.B. A. It was inspired by hearing hells of the Kremlin on a festival day. As the hells rang out.

all the city bells answered until the air was filled with the clanging sound of bells. "Well-dressed men should have 10 note. Some lawyers dress well on one. Reing easy to do keeps you from being well-to-do. An assistant often turns out to be just another person for the boss to help.

Q. How tall is Victor Mature who appeared in "Lady in the H. A. He is six feet three inches tall. 10 YEARS AGO Los Angeles Aiinee Semple McPherson married a champion and defender in 230-pound David H.

Hutton, New York and Los Angeles baritone. Effective today, C. B. Milroy ot the division highway office has been transferred to to take the position of superintendent of maintenance for Raraga county. A daughter was born Sunday to Mr.

and Mrs. Julian Pederson of Chicago. Mrs. Pederson Is the former Clio Dewey of Escanaba. Miss Jane Glavin leaves Saturday for Washington.

D. where she will resume her studies at Trinity college. Miss Helen Snyder Is leaving Friday for Appleton, where she will attend Lawrence college. 20 YEARS AGO Marmaduke Christie will leave tonight for Ann Arbor, where he will attend the University of Michigan. Construction work on the new- still house at Delta Chemical company plant in Wells is nearing completion.

the Roscoe Arbuckle picture which was scheduled for showing at the theatre here, has been cancelled by the management because of the public resentment against the motion picture actor following his involvement in the Virginia Rappe case. H. A. Waterbury. formerly in charge of the Merchandising Service here, has taken a position as advertising manager with the Marinette Eagle Star.

Officers of the senior class of the St. Joseph high school were elected as follows: Milton Tonne, president; Walter Sheedlo. vice- president; John Pollock, treasurer; Geneva DeVost, secretary; Edna Stein, reporter; and Florence Nolden, assistant reporter. 30 YEARS AGO H. A.

Barr, Seattle, for many years agent for the North Western railway in Escanaba. and also for several years superintendent of the docks, is visiting with friends in the city. Mrs. P. W.

McAdow of Punta Corda, is the guest of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tyrrell of Brampton. Frank J.

Kraus, foreman for the Morning Press, has left for Milwaukee to attend the Wisconsin State Fair. W. W. Reese of the Edward C. Oliver Real Estate company of this city returned from after closing a deal for the purchase of 60,000 acres of land near that city.

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, with a number of the directors of the Canadian Pacific and Soo Lino railways, passed through Gladstone Thursday night on a special train for the east. Valentine Folio, who engaged as a teacher at Bark River, returned to Escanaba today to visit his parents. bean milk with magnesium chloride. dilute acids or other coagulants, then draining and pressing.

It is extensively eaten in the Orient. Hol lywood Column Hollywood Henceforth there will be two Bill Boyds and two Roy Rogers in the entertainment and maybe in pictures. all cowboys, too. Among the people likely to be confused by the duplications are the members of some future jury which may have to decide whether a performer can be deprived of the use of his real name. In the case of the Roys Rogers there was little doubt that the Republic star was on a limb of a synthetic family tree.

His real name is Leonard Slve, and he was sued for $150,000 damages, plus a restraining injunction, by the Roy Rogers who for at least 20 years has been a whistling cowboy of vaudeville and radio and a few pictures. Leonard Slve has made what is described as a satisfactory settlement, and both men will go on using the Roy Rogers name. World Affairs Reviewed BY PETER EDSON NEA Service Staff Correspondent So the United States is going to wipe out you think that's something new. Well, It Isn't new at all. President Roosevelt's announcement that henceforth U.

S. policy would demand the sweeping from the seas and the blasting from the ocean of any armed vessel which would dare Interfere with the freedom of movement of American merchantmen, while dramatic and world-shaking In its significance and potentialities, is nothing more than the restatement of a law. duly passed by Congress In 1819 in the days of President Monroe and sitting around in the statute books ever since, waiting to be used again, if necessary. That time has now apparently come. The title of this law is "An Act to Protect the Commerce of the United States, and to Punish the Crime of It begins like this: it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives In Congress assembled, that the President of the United States be, and hereby Is, authorized and requested to employ so many of the armed public vessels, as.

in his judgment, the service may require, with suitable instructors to the commanders thereof, in protecting the merchant vessels of the United States and their crews from piratical aggressions and depredations. be It further enacted, that President of the United States be, and hereby is, authorized to instruct the commanders of the public armed vessels of the United States to subdue, seize, take and send into any port of the United States, any armed vessel or boat, the crew whereof shall be armed, and which shall have attempted or committed any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation or seizure, upon any vessel of the United States, or Its citizens, which may havt been unlawfully captured upon the high seas." And so on. Now It takes considerable stretching tc make this old law of 1819 fit the present situation. So far, three U. S.

merchantmen have been sunk. The first struck a mine off Australia. The Robin Moor was tor pedoed in the South Atlantic. The Steei Seafarer was sunk in the Red Sea by bombing or torpedo planes. Were those really acts of piracy? One American-owned ship operating un der the flag of Panama, the S.

S. Sessa was torpedoed and fired on without warn ing off Greenland. Was that an act oi piracy? In addition, two U. S. vessels of war have been Involved.

Two torpedoes fired on the destroyer Greer, carrying mai to Iceland. In July, an American battle ship was followed by a submarine whosf periscope was visible, but the battleship was not attacked. Were those acts of piracy? Under International law, before a vessel can be declared a pirate, two things are necessary. First, the vessel must be acting without a commission from any sovereign state. Second, it must be a private vessel.

If either of these factors is lacking, the international lawyers would say that the crime of piracy has not been committed. A warship or armed public that might be stretched to in elude submarines and bombing planes BOYD BOYS MIXUP The case of the Royds is more acting under the authority ol a foreign complicated, however. One is the power. Germany or Italy, could hardly he "Hopalong star and the No. 2 sagebrush next to Gene Autry.

The other is a Texas and Oklahoma radio favorite who has been signed to star in a series of western pictures for Producers Releasing Corp. Bill Royd is his real name. The elder Royd, 43. has been in movies since 1919, most of the time billed as William Royd. A termed a pirate within that definition.

And nothing can be done about the ship that struck a mine, because there is no knowledge of who Is responsible for laying the mine. It would follow from this that it would be improper, as well as a violation of international law, for one of the armed public vessels of the United States, a destroyer on patrol duty, for instance, to fire Q. What is bean-cured? L.A. A It is a kind of soft vegetable chee.se prepared by treating soy- When did Billy Sunday, the evangelist, play professional baseball? C.S A A. From 1S83 to 1890 Billy Sunday played baseball on the Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia teams of the National League.

other William Royd, a stage actor now dead, and changed his first name to Bill. New' Yorkers, though, sometimes have trouble identifying the Johns Cromwell, one of whom is a top movie director while the other is an actor who mostly sticks to the eastern stage. The name rightly belongs to each of them, and both declare rather testily that they intend to keep right on using it. Eastern visitors are puzzled to find here the John Kennedy they saw in plays is now Arthur Ken- few years ago he tangled with an- upon any armed public vessel of any country with which the United States was not at war. However, and the international lawyers are always good at figuring out a or a there are certain International treaties and agreements, attempting to govern the procedure of submarines, and some of these can be made to fit the present case.

In 1922, at the Washington conference on the limitation of armaments, a first attempt was made to limit the actions of submarines to what might be called a code of etiquet, fixed rules to govern attacks upon merchant vessels in time of war. nedv of the screen. The young Pfanpe never this one, so it never man, who made his debut here as Jimmy Cagney's brother in "City for changed name to avoid confusion with John Kennedy, a stage manager, and John Kennedy, a radio commentator. GOOD TIME BY ALL This department attended a party on Stage 9 the other evening, a shindig celebrating the completion of "Four Jacks and a Queen." with all the members of cast and crew invited, and with Producer John Twist and Director Jack Hively footing the bill. went into effect.

In 1930, another attempt was made to get this under control in drawing up the London Naval Treaty, but again ranee, plus Italy, refused to go along. Then came the Spanish Civil War. and with it a number of instances In which submarines of unknown nationals lacked merchant vessels. Sinkings were rather frequent, particularly in the Mediterranean. The Rritish suffered from this so heavily that in 1937 they called an International Conference in an effort to get new rules drawn up to govern this near- plracy.

The government of Soviet Russia Life catehes nr with both mdi- responsibility for .1 viduals and as it has with the pinkincs or Russian the world today. Robert V. Searle, secretary, New York Federation of Churches. If Spain is a traitor to democracy. then we must be against Spain.

Soley Guell. Costa Rica, on Spain's plea for a "Holy against Russia. It was very bad in Belgium You do not look at little children because it will hurt. They are starving. refugee, just escaped from Belgium, in London any and Italy refused to sit in.

Lines for Living Ry Barton Rees Pogue 1 A COLD If someone sniffs in the Hebrides. I wrinkle my nose and prepare to sneeze! If someone coughs in Alcatraz. I'm bound to echo the cough he has! If water runs from eyes in Cork, My eyes will run like the Falls in New York! In the philosophy of Nazism we face not merely godlessness, but godlessness which even now is in If someone blows his nose in Wales, grave danger of carrying out its due a never fails! ruthless program. Justice Frank Mur- In other if a cold is loose, phy, U. S.

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