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Friday, May 5, 1944 Cbttortal of pafeerstftelb Caitforman ALFHED A I. 1D1TOR AND PUBLISHEE Entered in post office at Bakersfield, California, aa second class mall under the act of Congress, March 3, 1879. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to tt or not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the local news published therein. The Bahersfleld Callfnrnian Is also a client of the United Press and receives Its complete wire service. REPRESENTATIVES West-Holllday New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland.

Denver WASHINGTON', D. BUREAU Frederic 3, Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. By carrier or rnall (in advance) In postal zonrs one, two, three, per month. 85c; six months, 95.10; one year, $9.00.

By mail in postal zones four to eight, per months, $1.05. BILL ITH unemployment compensation allowances sharply reduced but with government loan limits increased, the I. Bill of Rights" has been approved by the House Veterans' Committee. Already the bill has passed through the Senate. The bill has the endorsement of millions of voters and was fostered by the American Legion.

As the bill now stands for consideration in the House, probably next week, it provides a maximum of $20 weekly for a period of 26 weeks during the first two years after a soldier receives his discharge, providing he is unable to obtain employment. Government-secured loans may be made up to $1500 for homes, farms, or small businesses. These are the major changes made by the House committee. In the Senate, unemployment maximums were $25 a week for 52 weeks and the top loan was $1000. The House would impose no "top" for hospital construction, arguing that as many hospitals should be built and staffed as are necessary to care for the war's maimed and injured.

There seems to be but scant doubt as to the ultimate passage of the bill, but debate may take some considerable time. Proponents of the measure are urging its immediate passage, pointing out that a need for some such legislation is imperative right now as thousands of men are being discharged from the armed services and many of them need aid of a nature provided for in the bill. From the tremendous amount of publicity attending the forthcoming invasion of Europe it is assumed that this undertaking is imminent. Casualties will become rife as soon as the action is initialed and this, reasonably enough, should serve as a spur to Congress in its consideration of the bill. OFFICER REDUCTIONS NEXT fall 15 of the original 26 olficer- candidale schools will be eliminated from the government's officer-training program, the War Department has disclosed, and also announced that the need for junior officers has decreased with the Army's attainment of full strength, something more than 7,700,000 officers and men.

The largest number of graduates for the officer-candidate schools was recorded in December of 1942 when the class totaled more than 23,000. Now the classes are less than 2500. The War Department has also emphasized that it is screening the current officer personnel for "the elimination or demotion of misfits." There is only one officer-candidate school left overseas and it is in Australia. This trend of reduction in OCS schools indicates that it more difficult henceforth for enlisted personnel to rise from the ranks. Wartime casualties will make necessary certain replacements, however, and the elimination of more than 60,000 officers from the Army now may provide some opportunities for younger men.

Remaining officers in the armed forces now know that their efficiency will be on a more competitive basis, in all probability, than hitherto because of the War Department's announcement of its screening process for eliminations. Now the great demand seems to be for young men in the lower age brackets. STATE PRISONS ORE work for prison inmates without commercial competition and a merit system for prison guards and administrators are two tenets of a sensible policy announced by Richard A. McGee, appointed director of the state prison system by Governor Warren Sp his expeditious move for reform. "A good correctional system can never be built without a career system for employes," Director McGee said.

Useful work, too, is one of the best means of rehabilitating a criminal. It also serves to reduce trouble in prison administration. '-'v The director asserted that less than 50 per cent of the inmates of a prison can be employed for maintenance work and the rest should be employed in production which cannot ordinarily be sold in commercial competition. The state must be the main customer of prison production. At FdJsom, the there has been too much idleness among the inmates, and that inevitably breeds trouble.

It is understood that the women's institution in Kern county at Tehachapi will continue with Alma Holzschuh as superintendent with a board of trustees administering paroles for the women inmates. SAND AND WOOD wo items iit the news this week will probably have significance of increasing importance with the years. They are even now of great importance because they concern two very common materials, sand and wood. Because of its brittle, fragile nature, the use of glass until recent years has been limited. Modern glassmakers, however, have devised techniques which produce tough glass, hard, and far less frangible than the glass we know of conventionally.

New truck tires contain imbedded cords of flexible glass, giving them increased toughness and wearing qualities. Glass is being more extensively used now as fabrics and particularly for flexible, soft, fireproof curtains. A new glass can be healed red hot and then dipped into water without breaking it. Cheap glass water mains are becoming a possibility, as well as glass pipes, ending forever danger of corrosion. The news story concerning glass is very important, for glass is made from sands and its source of supply is almost illimitable.

The other technological advance noted in a news story this week is a new process of impregnating woods chemically. Soft woods can become hard and hard woods almost like steel through this process which makes woods impervious to moisture and unaffecled by temperatures in ordinary use. Poplar can be made as hard as maple and maple can be made harder than ebony. Colors of wood can be changed by mixing dyes with the material used in impregnation. Sawdust, through the process, may be molded into useful arliclcs.

Melhylolurea is the new chemical agent used in effecting these marvels which, after the war, will have very common use. From Files of 1 ne Oalifornian TEN YEARS AGO (The Californlan, this date. 1934) Bill Henry, sports editor of Los Angeles Times, will address Rene gade football banquet Thursday. A crowd of 40,000 Is expected at the Legion air circus Sunday a which time women pilots and stunt fliers from all over the west wil provide thrills. Mrs.

Dwight L. Clarke will present a recital for Woman's Club Monday. Perry Blackburn and Joe Derusha Kern orchardists, have won a Unitec States patent on their nectar peach which ripens In June. Eighteen new cases of measles, 17 of German variety, were reported today by the health department. TWENTY YEARS AGO (The Californian, tills date.

1924) A Berlin shopkeeper, sentenced to prison as a trigamist, informed the court that he preferred 20 years in jail to being compelled to return to any one of the three. Mrs. Clifford Renshaw was elected delegate to the P. T. A.

convention in Pasadena May 20. Taft trustees last night voted that gambling must go and ordered that the resolution forbidding games of chance be stringently enforced. H. A. Cravath has been named president of Bakersfield Club.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Norman, April 26, a son, Charles Edward.

William Eissler has been selected serve on the constitution and bylaws committee of State Builders Exchange. FOR STARVING CHILDREN OWAP.D E. KERSHNER, chairman of Ihe council lo provide food for European children, Ihousands of whom are starving, issued a public statemenl of gratitude today to every memher of Ihe Senate and House for the unanimous passage of bills which urge child feeding in Nazi-dominated Europe. "Experience," he said, "has shown it can be done without aiding Ihe enemy and with great benefit to our friends and Allies who endure every form of torture to help us in Ihe struggle against the common foe. Strategy and humanity unite in urging immediate action." Mr.

Kershner said that the approach of the invasion emphasizes the importance of sending foodjjefore communication becomes impossible and declared that when the tortured Allies are called upon to make a last effort against the enemy it will give them solid encouragement to provide a little food for their children. RANDOM NOTES Increasing difficulties are being experienced here, Farm Bureau officials report, in operating farms, particularly small farms, due lo the fact that more men have been called by the draft. There is now something of a critical shortage among dairy milkers, it was reported. The Farm Bureau will ask the five Kern county Selective Service boards to meet with them at a date to be determined later and discuss the issues. THIRTY YEARS AGO (The Californian, this date.

1914) Mother's Day has become a universal custom and will be observed here by various clubs and churches Sunday. J. C. Payne who has been ill several weeks with blood poisoning, is improving rapidly. Mr.

and Mrs. M. C. Newlon of West Truxtun avenue are the parents of a son born yesterday. Marriage of Bell Wllliard to Kermit Roosevelt is scheduled for June 11 in Madrid.

E. S. Shelton was named president and Alice Hunt vice-president, when Kern County Christian Endeavor convention was held here Saturday. FORTY YEARS AGO (The Californian, this date, 1904) Headlines: 17,000 Men Killed in Second Big Battle; Slavs Claim Victory; Japanese Landing to Northeast of Russian Stronghold In China. Dave Coffee and a crew of carpenters will leave tonight for Burlingame to do some building on the W.

S. Tevis home. Born May 1, 1904 to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Norris a son.

Mrs. Ella S. Houghton gave a party this afternoon in honor of her sister, Mrs. Alex Mills of Los Angeles. Kern Woman's Club met today in the library.

Program subject was "Baby Day and Cradle Songs." FIFTY YEARS AGO (The Californlan, this date, 1894) Formation of a British Club for Bakersfield ir, in the offing. District Attorney Ahern is building a new residence adjacent to the home of S. C. Smith. George Maschmeyer brought his five weeks old lynx to town today and sold it to a saloonkeeper in Kern for $10.

A painting of a loaf of bread by Mrs. L. S. Rogers will be given to winners in the bread baking contest at Reich's Opera House Tuesday. Doctor Lemke has returned from Tehachapi where he was called to kill 22 glandered horses.

On his way home he met a man driving two of the diseased beasts and he put them out of the way. SO THEY SAY Today we feel that the world will be so weakened after this war that it surely will have learned its lesson. Yet In 1919 we thought the world must surely have been con- vlnced that not even to the victor could war bring rewards to outweigh its Ambassador Lord Halifax. How many more of these nights of terror shall we have to endure before the invasion controlled Paris radio. In fighting this war, it is well to keep in mind that if freedom fails here, it cannot be secured anywhere in the A.

Farley. TAKE MM THE LADY Copyright, 1941, NBA Service, Inc. CHAPTER VIII Courtright was better dancer than Link was. "Young man," she said, "you must have learned this wearing snowshoes." "I thought I was good," said Link amiably. He tried to be casual, and asked, "Have you known Miss Greer long?" "Norma?" said Courtright.

"Son, her father proposed to me before he met her mother. I was fool enough to turn him down." Courtright sighed and squeezed Link's hand, apparently in tribute to a devilish memory. Link said, "Norma's old man was okay, eh?" "He was a rascal." Courtright laughed deeply and pleasantly. "But you take a woman my age, a woman who is the wreck of an idealist, she begins to think the rascals make the best husbands." Link wondered what she meant by a rascal. He might as well ask her.

"What do you mean by rascal?" he asked. Benny Goodman's music was coming out of the radio. Courtright did a special shake in response to a drum roll. "Rascal," she said. "Well, he came to the east in the old days.

He wasn't too careful of other people's property. He even lost my savings once. To make as much money as he made, you had to sprout a set of horns." "That's the kind of horns I'd like to sprout," Link said. "Is her father still alive?" "He died In a plane accident about five years ago," Courtright said. She looked up at Link thoughtfully.

"You're like him, I suspect," she said. Link returned her to the table. There was a cup of hot sake at his plate. He picked it up. The act made his head swim.

"Yippee," he murmured. He felt detached from his surroundings, like a spook. A moment later, he blurted, "Excuse me," and lurched to his feet. He'd overestimated the adaptability of a famine-ridden stomach. Norma Greer took Link by the arm.

"I think I saw a balcony over here," she said helpfully. The balcony which they found was open gratefully to fresh air and the stars. "Are you going to be sick?" Norma asked. "That's not a kind question," Link muttered, embarrassed. "Nonsense, I know how you feel.

A stomach will just take so much." Link wished his head was clearer. "How," he asked, "would you know about stomachs?" "What do you think I am?" "You're not a prisoner of war?" "But I am," she said. "I am in jail. I'm an interned Chinese national." Azaraski had come out with them. Now he seemed satisfied Link was to survive the stomach upset.

Leaning over the balcony rail, Azaraski whistled. Two soldiers with rifles came running in the garden below. Azaraski waved at them, and told them in Japanese to keep an eye on the balcony. "Now you an stay out here," Azaraski told Link in English. "They won't be taking a pot shot at you." Azaraski went inside.

Link looked at Norma. "I'm sure proud of my weak stomach," he said. "What's there to be proud about?" "Why, without it, we might have been enemies all evening," he explained. "Look here, you're not hinese." "I am a naturalized Chinese citizen," she said. "But I was born fn Oklahoma." "Oklahoma," Link said.

"I fig ured it to be Iowa, Missouri pr 111 nois." He was delighted with everything He felt so good that it was a littl silly. "Courtright," he said. "Is she ia terned, too?" "Yes." "Courtright seems to be quite a person," Link said. "She was tell ing me she knew your father well. "She has known the family a long time." She changed the subjec rather abruptly.

"How are you feeling?" "Fine. A lightning Link assured her. He added, "Abou the lime I left home, they wen breaking out in a rash called zoo talk. In zoot talk, to invite a gir to dance, you asked her to give with the feet. Want to?" "Are you in any condition?" sh asked doubtfully.

"I'm fine," he said. At first their dancing was awk ward. It dawned on them that they were both out of practice, and the; laughed together, then they go along better. The phonograph ran out of rec ords. Link maneuvered Norma on on the balcony again.

'This is swell," he said. "I like it." "I guess we both do," she said "You're not very mad at me anj more?" "Not very." "That's good," he said, and he kissed her. The response to his kiss was dis appointing. Rather, there no response, and that disappointed him It was distinctly a G. I.

kiss. The effect on himself was blurred It was a long time since things ha( blurred from kissing a pretty girl "Lord!" he muttered. "Good old Link! Good old come-out-bounding and barking Link!" "I'm not angry," Norma said. "I can tell you aren't," Link said "I should have known ahead of time you wouldn't be angry. They never are." "You mean they never take you seriously?" "Yes.

Why is that?" She examined him thoughtfully in the moonlight. "Sometimes, i might have been your she said. Link felt uncomfortable. "One day I want to do that again that time with permission," he said She did not comment. She took his arm and they went inside.

Azaraski apparently had been on the verge of coming out to get them "Sorry folks," Azaraski said "Party's over. Getting late, you know." A servant brought Norma's wrap nnd thoughtfully handed it to Linl for him to hold. Norma stood with her back to Link as he helped her on with her wrap. Link wanted to go woof! into the pleasant wheat of her hair. He didn't.

But he certainly was in spired. Link said a goodby that soundec much calmer than he felt. The two women left in a separat car. Azaraski gave Link a quick trip back to Niji prison. The sol diers in the other car followed them back.

Link changed out of the new uniform, back into the ragged outfi he had worn for weeks in the cell In the dark and smelly cell, Link felt around in vain for his blanket Someone had stolen it. That was a serious crime. Baldwin had stolen the blanket He returned it. "So you got Baldwin said. Link grinned in the darkness.

got electricity," he said. Which was exactly how he felt. Continued Tomorrow il ID T7- Jhe Viewpoint EDITOR'S should limited to 150 words; may tttack Ideas bui not persons: must not be abusive and should be written legibly and on one side of the paper. a Californian Is not responsible for the sentiments contained therein and reserves the riaht to reject any letters. Letters must bear address and signature though these will be withheld if desired.

FOREIGN POLICY Editor The Californian: In a speech in Columbus on May Governor Bricker stated: "The New Dealers do'h't understand the apanese any more now than in pre- 3 earl Harbor days when they tried a program of appeasement to landle the Japanese situation. They permitted the Japs to fortify man- ated islands in violation of treaties and failed to take notice of Japanese )lans which led to the disgraceful This, of course, is a serious problem for the Farm Bureau and its officials. Its existence also demonstrates but one of almost innumerable difficulties faced by draft board members. Draft boards work with little publicity, dogged, conscientious groups of men in almost every instance. If the general public knew of the problems these patriotic units solve in the course of their unpaid tasks, it would be surprised.

Perhaps some day wliQii the war is over someone will constitute himself an historian of the draft board operations and an astonishing amount of "human interest" material will be disclosed. For years these draft board members have served, making donations of millions of hours to the war effort. Their interrogations of millions of selectees doubtless have revealed a vast amount of material which, if it could be assimilited by a writer of genius, would make an epic study. Co-operating with the draft boards here have been such agencies as the Agricultural Extension Service of the University of Cali- fornia.the Farm Bureau, and the high school agricultural department among others. The need for soldiers is still reported as pressing, yet farm agencies also aver that the problem of agricultural labor is becoming more acute with each draft shipment.

od 1 wood (By ERSKtNB JOHNSON)- ui ma You've never heard of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys? The farmer's son who went to a barber's college and wound up playing a $5000 fiddle as the leader of "America's greatest western dance You haven't? AVell, confidentially, we hadn't heard of Bob Wills or his Texas Playboys, either, until we met the gentleman today. But we know all about him now. Yes, sir. How he walked into a Hollywood violin maker's shop and bowled over the old gent by planking down $5000 cash lor that violin. Also, all about his eight uncles and seven aunts and his grandpappy who were fiddlers, too.

Only they don't fiddle for money. They just They aren't acquisitive like fiddle. Bob. Bob Wills, a short, barrel-chested, semi-bald gent, is the latest phenomenon in the musical world. In fact, he's been doing all right for the last nine years, in 1936 he paid an income tax second only to Paul Whiteman, who was tops in the flats and sharps department.

People haven't heard much about Bob because he concentrated his fiddling down in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas, where he is the Harry James of the barn dance circuit. But now he is moving into the big time, packing 19,000 people into such places as the Oakland Civic Auditorium. Bob Wills and his boys may be from Tay-xus, but they'll hit you over the head with a piano stool If you call them a hillbilly band. Wills drawls a little but doesn't sound like a movie version of a western fiddler. "We're hep," he says.

"We're the most Sure, versatile we give band In America, 'em western music like 'Mama Don't Allow Is down Fiddlin' Around and 'Liza Jane, 1 but we give 'em rhum- bas, too. And when there are jitterbugs In the Joint we get 'em BO happy they can't stay on the floor. We lay It on like they want It." Wills sneers at those gents who think the secret of a 1 western band's success is a leader who wears a big hat and a loud shirt. "They don't know what the score Is," he said. "You gotta give 'em showmanship.

You gotta work the crowd from the bandstand." Sure, Wills and his boys wear western clothes and boots. But no loud shirts and no ten-gallon hats, see. And who ever heard of a western band leader fiddlin' on a $5000 violin? Bob bought it in Hollywood about six months ago. Before that he fiddled on a $3000 job. "I gave that away to a friend of mine down in Tay-xus." Yes, sir.

Wills is In the big dough. Has a home in Hollywood, a farm in Tay-xus, a dairy ranch in Oklahoma and a lot of stocks and bonds. Also two horses which he has shipped wherever he goes. And when he goes riding he is sitting on a silver saddle which cost him another five grand. "For a fiddler," he says, done all right.

I'm lucky, I guess." Wills started fiddlin' as a teenager down in Amarillo, Texas, where he was born on a farm 38 years ago. It came sorta natural-like, with all those uncles and aunts fiddlin', too. First it was country dances, just Wills and a gee-tar player. Then pappy sent him to a barber's college In Fort Worth. "I caught a freight to get there," he remembers.

But as a barber in Fort Worth he was more in demand as a fiddler at week-end dances. "That was during the depression," he said. "Haircuts were 15 cents. I made more money in one night playin' the fiddle than I made all week cuttin' hair." So Wills left his barber's chair for good and organized a band. That was 14 years ago.

Seems like western band leaders all run for governor of Oklahoma, eventually? but -Wills ain't gonna run for any political office. They asked him about it once down in Tulsa, but Wills grinned and said: 'No politics for me, buddy. I'm a fiddler." And as a' fiddler, Bob Wills is doing all right. (Copyright, 1944, NBA Inc.) attack at Pearl Harbor and took no steps to protect ourselves." It appears that Governor Bricker's hate for the New Deal has blinded him to certain facts regarding oui prewar foreign policy with Japan. It is now common knowledge among all clear-thinking peoples that it was their own complacency furthered by the complacency of such leaders as Burton K.

Wheeler, "Ham" Fish and others that caused us to get caught short at Pearl Harbor. "America First" also played a large part. The people had plenty of warning by the state department of the impending disaster but we had been lulled to sleep with a feeling of security. Japan was a little island thousands of miles away, sweet scented with cherry blossoms, and besides, our navy could wipe out the entire Nip fleet in a few short weeks. Was it the New Deal that gave the people this feeling? No! It was a group of super-patriots who, knowingly or unknowingly, instilled into the American people a false feeling of security, and we were gullible enough to swallow it.

It would appear that Governor Bricker is out to make a political football of our prewar Japanese foreign policy. If this is the case he should stick to facts, rather than words of criticism, because it will be recorded in history that Cordell Hull knew of the Jap menace but was helpless to act in the face of so much opposition from the very people he served. Cordially yours, E. M. R.

Bakersfield, May 2, 1944. MANY FIRE CALLS Editor The Californian: Well, we all have too much money, even the government, to spend. I was working at the auto club Wednesday. I heard something panting and roaring west on 99, the red devil Tojo, I guess. Four county fire cars were after him.

In about a half hour two more were after him west on 99. In about 30 minutes two more went south on 99. I suppose the red devil Hitler had broken loose. In the meantime the city was out with three or four'trucks, all short of help. There were 11 fire trucks out In hours.

I think the cost per truck is about in hours, besides what damage the fire did. Too darn much carelessness. I think our grandchildren will have enough to pay up now so let's be a little more careful red devils Tojo and Hitler and see if we can't those red trucks off the streets and highways a little more. I just icard 1600 or 1800 acres of good feed burned yesterday. L.

S. CROSS. 530 Goodman street, Bakersfield, May 4, 1944. JNe WASHINGTON, May primary success of the two strongest pro-Roosevelt senators in the south, Pepper, of Florida, and Hill, of Alabama, is being interpreted nationally as the crushing of the anti-Roosevelt movement there, and endorsement of the fourth term. Overdrawn generalities frequently become popular interpretations in the hasty public mind, but the facts behind this one require some specific division.

In truth, these primaries, in their background detail, furnish an interesting understanding of the southern political anomaly which always has puzzled the rest of the how the south could talk one way and vote another, how it could elect pro and anti-Roosevelt legislators with equal ease, or always be threatening to bolt Mr. Roosevelt and never doing it. Here is the how and why, as I gather it: Senator Pepper made few speeches. Those he made were not important or particularly fiery. He stressed mainly the point that he was for the war before even Mr.

Roosevelt (originally espousing lend-lease) and he also urged the army to keep the richest beach hotel as a hospital although the army earlier had turned it down on the ground of cost, again turned it down during the campaign. His leading opponent was straightforwardly against the fourth term, while Pepper clung to the Roosevelt coat-tails. He play down, and out, his distinguished record as the original instigator also of the poll tax repeal movement in Congress. His opponent tried to make something of this distinctly pro-Negro leadership, and there was in circulation a picture showing Pepper with Negroes at some meeting out west. But three weeks before the voting date, this issued dropped entirely out of the discussion, for some reason or other.

There were 60,000 federal employes in Florida, about one-third of whom may have been recommended by Pepper for their jobs. As a senator, he rather runs a personal service bureau for Florida. To help him also, a rich Canadian came in and did much entertaining, and the Roosevelt political groups contributed pressure on the radio and in all ways possible. The same elements were involved in Alabama, except that Hill had once or twice voted against Roosevelt policies, particularly farm sub- sidies, and his hold on the coal tail was looser, but equally secure. In both cases, these men had the backing of the state machines, the "Ins" in local politics.

This is generally a controlling factor a one- party community. It can elect pro or anti-Roosevelt men, those pro or anti nearly anything, with equal ease. This time, Miami's Representative Pat Cannon, an anti-fourth" termer, won along with Pepper. In view of this machine factor, the size of the opposition vote is surprising. As Democratic politicos here put it: "They had trouble." Florida and Alabama In recent years have been electing men more favorable to the Roosevelt policies than, for instance, Georgia, South or North Carolina or Texas.

It is erroneous, therefore, to say the south expressed itself In these results. Undoubtedly, a majority of primary voters in other southern statea may be for the fourth term, depending largely on what course the Democratic leaders in those states agree upon, but anti-RooseveM senators presumably also will be re-elected. The main theme, of both Pepper and Hill seemed to be that their reelection would help to win the war. They did not contend that anyone who was against them was against the war, as some politicians foolishly have attempted. More by inference than direct contention, they tried to create the impression that their election would better aid victory, samehow by supporting Roosevelt, but they were not specific about any means they would employ.

Their opponents were not against the war, or against war policies. This may be the basis later of Mr. Roosevelt's fourth term campaign, but in a two-party two-machine nar tional race (the Republicans have a majority of state machines), the debate may be freer and more open on that subject. In short, these two primaries seem plainly to mean that the controlling political authorities in those two states want to protect their status quo, are not going to take up the anti-Roosevelt movement now themselves or let in those who would, but similar machines throughout the south may maintain theirs in their own respective dual ways. It is still the same old south which has preserved its status quo for 79 years, but it is "having trouble." (World eoriyrlRht, 1044, by Klnn Features Syndicate, Inc.

All rights reserved. Reproduction In full or In part strictly prohibited.) WasL in it (By PETER EDSON) Col minn Trial in Washington of Elizabeth Billing, William Dudley Pelley, Joe McWilliams, George Sylvester Vierick and 26 other defendants on charges of seditious conspiracy to incite disloyalty in the armed forces is dead serious business, appearances to the contrary. Nothing could be further from the truth than the easy assumption that the trial is a "sedition show" just because defendant Lois de Lafayette Washburn was photographed giving the Hitler salute and thumbing her nose at the cameraman, or because defendant Edward James Smythe had to be brought to trial in a fishing shirt by the FBI, or because of the legal antics of some of the 22 clamoring defense attorneys. To reduce the proceedings to a farce so as to secure a mistrial would no doubt be good tactics for the 30 defendants. But for the public to get the impression that this trial is a farce would be as unfortunate as it would be wrong to assume that the defendants are a bunch of harmless isolationist crackpots whose pre- Pearl Harbor acts and utterances are now of no consequence.

Thinking of that kind is just as loose as the charge, reduced to writing and a printed pamphlet by defendant George E. Deatherage, that this is a "Moscow trial" "another example of the introduction of the Soviet system in the United States under the New Deal" "that the New Deal is Jewish" "that what is known as the fraternal order of B'nai B'rith is the secret police arm of the Jewish Kabul international in character part and parcel of the political police of the Soviet Union." If the utterances on which these 30 defendants stand charged with onspiracy were no worse than opposition to the New Deal and a fourth term for Franklin Roosevelt, as is claimed, then there would be real cause for fear that civil liberties were endangered. But sedition is not mere domestic political opposition. Sedition is only one step short of treason. The United government and its face the task of shaping a foreign policy that will represent not just the aims of any one political party, but hopes of the majority for future peace.

This is no new problem. The idea has been long aborning with both major political parties. The ideal is expressed in the Republican declaration at the Mackinac Island conference last summer, in the Ball-Burton- Hatch-Hill bipartisan drive to interest the country In postwar international collaboration to preserve peace, in the Fulbright and Connally resolutions. Realization of all these statements of principle is at hand now in the series of conferences just beginning, under Secretary of State Cordell Hull's leadership, between the department of state and the committee of eight Democrats, three Republicans, one Progressive. The laudable purpose of alljthis is to keep future foreign policy determinations out of politics.

The danger of defeating this purpose is as great today as In 1919 and 1920 when United States participation In a world-wide program to keep the peace was actually killed by the political isolationists. In the leadership and following of people holding the expressed beliefs of the 30 defendants now on trial in Washington there is a similar isolationist sentiment still alive today. American isolationism can be more dangerous after this war is over than it was before the war began. To kiss off the sedition trial as a side show and a burlesque is to mlsa its real meaning. an a.

A nswers What was the difference be tween the major and minor proph W. F. A. The major prophets, according to Jewish belief, received direct instructions from God, and were given political authority transcending that of kings or military rulers. The minor prophets did not have the power to command obedience as did major prophets, How many diamond cutters are here in this T.

F. A. There is no accurate count of he diamond cutters in the United States but the number is estimated at 5000. Though a great many are oreign born, within the last few many Americans have taken up tearing the business. Q.

What is the average length of tride of Gilbert Dodds, the runner? VI. O'B. A. The average length in a one nlle race is seven feet. The -averse of Gunder Haegg is eight feet nd Boricon and Woodruff, runners recent years, used a much longer tride than Dodds, Q.

How many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius have been recorded? When vas the N. S. A. There have been about 50 erup- ions. The earliest of which there knowledge was that of A.

D. vhich was vividly described by Pliny he Younger. Q. When was golden giant corn irst R. A.

Golden giant corn was pro- need by Dr. Fred DeLue of Needam, in 1906. It is a cross golden bantam and howling mob orn. Q. What was the weight of the lueprints used for the construction the U.

S. S. R. A. The blueprints weighed 42 tons.

What is the annual turnover in he American book-publishing bust- E. F. A. It far exceeds 100,000,000. Q.

In what part of Arizona are the most fossils O'M. A. The Smithsonian Institution says the limestone layers at the top of the rim at the Grand Canyon station show more fossils than perhaps any other part of Arizona. They consist of small shells, corals, and" the like which are not very conspicuous to the average visitor. Q.

Is the name Gabriela Mistral a C. M. A. The name of the distinguished poet who uses this pseudonym is Lucila Godoy. She explains her choice of names as being due to her passion for the tempestuous wind of this name.

Q. Did Lincoln have tears in his eyes when he left his home town to become B. S. A. Carl Sandburg writing of the episode says Lincoln "looked almost as he had at the Bowling Green burial services when tears had taken the place of words." Q.

When did the term best-seller first come into E. F. A. The term came into popular use through the American Bookman which in 1895 began to print each month a list of six books in most active demand in book stores. Q.

What is -the daily cost of feeding a soldier while in this country? B. A. The cost of feeding a soldier in continental United States, is now' 69 cents a day. Q. When a skunk is alarmed does it pat its front or hind feet on the L.

A. Its front feet. Q. When was the hand'salute first used in the C. H.

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