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FEATURES EDITORIALS 1 future when most first-class travel will be bv air." i i ESTABLISHED 16 PUBLIC OPINION CHARLES R. -NICKLA8. Editor The Census The National Whirligig News Behind the News FLASHES of LIFE (By The Associated Prs) By TUCKER 7 aoLt YXjfSvl iM I 1 II Aa i ft LS SS I 'S JS SJ -r Jr A I HOLLYWOOP 1T OCCOPATIOMAL MAZARP -r Alt -LLii: 0O tA wets- ilAtfAlt, EVENING SMILES "I'm leaving, ma'am," announced the maid. "But why. Mary?" asked the astonished mistress.

"I can see no reason." "I can't bear that young man who calls on Miss Ethel." "But he doesn't call to see you," explained the mistress. "You've nothing to complain of." "Oh, no." said Mary. "The neighbors might thmk he does!" Exchange. "Did you ever do any public speaking?" asked the man in the largest rocker. "Wfell," replied the chap on the three-legged stool.

"I proposed to a girl in the country over a party line." Exchange. Answers to Today's Do You Know Bedford. SIDE GLANCES CQPR 1VtO By Ut SERVICE INC. T. RFC.

PST JL I noose have I I 0r if cI SSsS lilt '-r ,11 w' 4 minisfcrative agencies. F.D.R. has sent word to House leaders that the broadened Hatch act must be killed. He has also ordered that the Walter-Logan act, which curbs the New Deal commissars, should be smothered in committee. Likewise he has instructed his Capitol Hill friends to spike the Barden amendments weakening the wage-hour law.

In view of the presidential intervention, the behavior of Congress will be worth watching. If the boys and girls" buck and defeat F.D.R. on these three labor issues, it will signify that F.D.R. is, in the opinion of practical politicos, a "back number." INDICATION" The Republicans' confidence that they will capture the House next November has already precipitated a sharp clash for the majority leadership. The G.O.

like the Roosevelt-Garner Democrats, are warring among themselves over an office they may miss. The principal warriors include Representative James W. Wads-worth of New York, young Charley Halleck of Indiana, Harry Engle-bright of California, Representatives Tom Jenkins and John Taber, an extreme conservative from northern New York. Although still a congressional youngster, the most likely winner is the smart and eagy Hoosierite Mr. Halleck.

Farley Democrats scoff at suggestions that the Republicans will carry the House. But the G.O.P.'s card index, which tabs Democratic House members who won by 5,000 or less, and who are therefore vulnerable, pointis toward Republican control of the low chamber. A PLAN The National Power Policy Committee is charging against a stone wall in its attempt to obtain a $200 000.000 appropriation for building public utility lines as a national defense move. The scheme impresses Congress as a domestic dodge rather than a war measure. Although the Committee, which is managed by Benjamin Cohen, ha asked for only $200,000,000 so far.

the eventual cost of the project will amount to at least $600,000,000 a figure which the Cohens and Gor-corans never mention in public. Their long-range plan and they hope to put it over before F.D.R. quits the White House is to take over the private utilities and make them an integrated unit in a fed- eral power system managed and operated from Washington. NOTES Practical politicos figure Jimmy Cromwell's outburst as Ambassador won't hurt him any as a New Jersey senatorial The Labor Department's conciliation service got a voluntary budget boost, from Congress to add eight new conciliators to its staff. American charitable institutions sent about $40,000,000 to foreign countries during 1939.

Whisky production in the U. S. dropped to a post-prohibition low in 1939: 87.000.000 gallons as compared with the banner 245,000,000 gallons distilled in 1936. NEAL O'HARA SAYS: NEW YORK. March 29 Thoughts while thinking: In "persuading" a small nation to their way of thinking, the Nazis play their cards skillfully and a club is always trumps.

Meanwhile Britain and France are trying to order $125,000,000 worth of goods to make them the Balkin' Balkans. Czarist Russia was called the bear that walks like a man and today only one thing prevents Stalin from being called the bare-faced liar that walks 1'ke a man and that's his mustache. One of the year's funniest, mono-logs must have been Mussolini explaining to Hitler just why his axis pal, Italy, has fortified its German border at the Brenner Pass. One of the compensations of being the Norwegian minister to either London or Berlin is that it keeps you out in the open air just running to the foreign office to file a new protest against neutrality violation. There's still some doubt which is the year's best laugh, "Pinoechio" or the puppet government that Japan is setting up in China.

(Copyright 1940. McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) It is reported that more than 35,000 hours have been logged by the 9,310 students in the Civilian Pilot training program, without a serious accident of any kind. All American transport planes carry carburetor heaters to prevent ice forming on that mechanism while in flight. Tine biggest bomb now built for the U. S.

army weighs about 2.000 pounds. BOOTS AND HER ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM PENSACOLA, Fla. Prince Morris, a Negro mortician, opened the door of his ambulance, but slammed it hard after one quick look. He beat a path to police headquarters and breathlessly explained he had seen the form of a white person in his ambulance stretcher that should have been empty. Investigating officers found a slightly tipsy gent who explained: "It looked like a pretty good place to get out of the rain." NICE JAIL HAVERFORD OP) Jailed on a burglary charge, fight fan William Evans, 32, struck a bargain.

Protesting that the jail in nearby Norristown, the county seat, has no radio, he agreed to plead guilty tomorrow if authorities would permit him to remain in the lockup here to listen to the Louis-Paychek heavyweight championship fight broadcast. The officials agreed and Evans returned to his cell. WEDDING BELLS KANSAS CITY 'PI Two hours after a church ceremony before 200 guests, Carl S. Cleveland and his wife, the former Mildred Allison, told their parents they had been married a year. Cleveland and Miss Allison, his high school sweetheart, were married while he was a Junior at Nebraska University.

Lincoln. "I thought my folks would object to our marriage as long as I was in school." Cleveland explained. "They wanted us to have a big wedding, so we arranged this one for them." PLOWING PLEASURE PANA, 111. (Ft Farmer Walter Klentworth mixes business and pleasure with his plowing. He has equipped his new electric tractor with a radio and hears the daily market report, and other broadcasts while plowing in the fields.

HONEST GLENN RICE LAKE, Wis. (P) City Treasurer Glenn Hartel, after collecting $110,000 in taxes, found his books were four cents off. He went through the receipts and tax roll three times the job took three days before he found that he had credited a taxpayer with $3 69 instead of $3.73. Regulating Billboards The New York Assembly has before it a bill to regulate billboards along the public highways. It automatically eliminates those signs which are dangerous because they may easily be mistaken for safety signs; the type, for example, which flash the word are constricted to look like a policeman and those which display lights intermittently.

As for the its! of the wide range of billboards, the proposed law would leave the question of their going pretty much up to local communities. The community, under the terms of the bill, is given the right to determine scenic highways from which signs shall be eliminated. Perhaps that is the best solution yet to the problem of the unsightly, of the dangerous or the otherwise objectionable billboards. Lancaster New Era. reaches conomv "Reduce Government probably the most popular political slogan, was a plank in the platform of Mayor Roger L.

Putnam of Springfield, Mass. Claiming practical economy would cut budgets ten per cent, he demonstrated by giving up the personal automobile and chauffeur supplied by the city. BUDDIES I ill sfi'm''! 1 It kJ. ti CRYPT OF CIVILIZATION The current bulletin of Oglethorpe University is devoted to the story of the Crypt of Civilization, that im-asrination-stirring project originated at the university by its president, Dr. Thornwell Jacobs.

In a sealed crypt hewn out of granite under the administration building is a complete cross-section of our civilization as of 1936 in the form of phonographs, records, movie machines, thousands of feet of film, many books and pictures and models of modern scientific devices. There will be a key to the English language to assure ready interpretation of the material in case English should not be extant in 8113 when the crypt will be opened-. The date of the operung was not selected by chance. It was computed from tine first fixed date in history 4241 B. C.

In 1936 Dr. Jacobs was thinking of this remote date and got to wondering how much of our present life would be understandable to people 6.177 years hence. Telling of the project, he writes: "Adding this figure to 1936 brings us to A. D. 8113.

The probability is that by that year the record of the present generation of citizens of the United States of America except for that sealed in our crypt will have been as completely- destroyed as the record of the contemporaries of Menes." Equally as startling a.s the conception of the crypt is the metal card of admission to the opening in 8113, which the university archivist offers at $1. The card sets forth that in consideration of the gift, "any descendant of the above named contributor, of the 187th generation, upon presentation of this card, will be admitted to the opening of the crypt on Thursday, May 28th, A. D. 8113 noon." What sort of people will gather at Oglethorpe University if there is an Oglethorpe six thousand years from now? How will they look, talk, act? Will the weather be good at noon on May 28th, 8113? Or will the assemblage stand around under what then serves for the umbrella? Will people still like to listen to windy speeches on such occasions? Altogether the metal admission card represents the longest term investment in history. It's something to give your children with a warning not to let it become mislaid with last year's Christmas Seals.

Do You Remember? news items In Public Opinion of 25 YEARS AGO Sewing Club under the auspices of the educational department of the Civic Club closes its season; many prizes awarded at exhibit. W. H. Stover of the Indian Queen Hotel who recently lost valuable diamond finds it in his effects when they are returned from the laundry. Weddings: Ralph B.

Kennedy of Greason and Luia V. Bushman of Kennedy street; James B. Taylor and Julia Ann Rhodes, both of Edenville. Grip epidemic now in Chambers-burg; one physician reports he made 84 "grip calls'' in one week. 15 YEARS AGO William Sheets, "city undertaker," makes report on his work: Carcasses of 64 dogs disposed of.

24 for borough and 40 for individuals; 82 cats, 64 for borough and 18 for individuals; 29 chickens buried; total, 175. Application for charter for incorporation for the proposed Cham-bersburg Real Estate Company is made by John H. Karns, Fred B. Reed and Charles M. Davison.

Deaths: Fred G. Johns. Lancaster; Mrs, Madeleine Spahr, Milton Wright Home. B. Wycliffe Griffin, student at Ursinus.

wins first prize in contest of Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Oratorical Union at Harrisburg. His subject, "The Cry of the Children." Remarkable Remarks The duty of this government is clear to wage war in all domains. Premier Paul Raynaud, head of new French government. I want everybody to know that I have coined a new word. It's "Tobey-hoo!" Dr.

Vergil D. Reed, chief assistant director, Bureau of the Census, commenting on senatorial criticisms of the census. I'd like to debate with Gene Tun-ney on boxing. Li'l Arthur Johnson, former heavyweight champ. Let's swap horses and stay on this side of the stream.

Republican slogan proposed by Senator Arthur Vandenberg. The future of opera and of great music is in America. Edward Johnson, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company. TODAY'S ANSWERS TO CRANIUM CRACKERS 1. Seven states do not have capital punishment Maine.

Michigan, Minnesota. North and South Dakota, Rhode Island and Wiscon sin. 2. Kidnaping, under federal law. may bring not less than 10 years or death, if the jury so directs.

3. Grand larceny is the theft of property above a fixed value usually $25 to $50. 4. Arson may bring the death penalty in these six states: Ala bama. Delaware.

Illinois, Virginia and North and South Carolina. 5. Libel is injuring by means of publication, white slander is injury by word of moutli. franklin IBrpdsilxini Established 1739 Merged May 15. 1S3X Uallni Spirit 184" Merged Ausrust IS.

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I have no need of you. I Corinthians 12:21. Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed that man should ever stand in need of man. Theocritus. CONSTRUCTIVE OFFER By suggesting- that local sponsors of money-raising enterprises may avail themselves of the free checking service of the Chamber of Commerce, president H.

S. Appenzella.r has opened the way for the pro-jkv-pI that the Chamber's might with benefit, be coordinated with a system of municipal registration of solicitors. Under this plan a local organization wishing to retain the services of an individual or a group of individuals to solicit sell on a profit-sharing basis would refer the agency to the Chamber of Commerce for verification of its integrity. Such verification would also include an estimate of the proportion of the receipts which would accrue to the sponsoring organization. If the Chamber's report was acceptable to the sponsors the solicitors then would be referred to municipal authorities for reparation.

An identification cer- ti; tt would be furnished and the wovld be cleared for a town- ca; under favorable cir i p'an may seem to involve an amount of red tape, but it avert a lot of the un- pssmcness that frequently crops dnrmg or in the wake of solicitations or sales campaigns. Besides it pieces no burden on the sponsor; In turns the routine work over to others and thereby avoids th' possibility of unfavorable re tion on his organization. It would vitably save businessmen many liars in donations and money paid out for advertising space in pro grams the proceeds of which all too often are apportioned on a lop-sided basis. And it would assure the back ers of the enterprise not only a fair share of the profits but a good pub lic reaction. Such a proposal has enough in its favor to warrant serious consideration.

TOWN MEETING The citizens' committee which sponsored the Gates report on the recreation facilities and needs of Chambe-rsburg and has called a meeting for tonight in the courthouse for the purpose of considering the report, has a right to expect a representative gathering at the meeting. In view of Dr. Gates' comment on the recreation programs in the churches, the latter should find tonight'? meeting of particular interest. Said Dr. Gates: "The total church recreation program in the community is perhaps more varied and extensive than in the average community." We venture that not until the Gates survey was made did many of our people appreciate what the churches were doing in this important field.

Various interpretations may be placed upon this condition, but it should be clear that the churches have stepped into the breach to help fill a need to which others have been indifferent. Official Ciiambersburg, as embodied in borough council, may be expected to be represented at the meeting. All of the many organizations mentioned in the report have a real interest in the discussion and the outcome of the session. It is not over-stating the case to say that tonight's gathering in the courthouse may mark the turning point, in our community approach to a problem that has been asking solution for a number of years. AIRLINE SAFETY Domestic pir lines of the United States this week turned the calendar on a full year of service without a fatality or serious injury to a passanger or crew member.

The lines flew passengers 87,325,145 plane miles and not even a bystander was hurt. This record gains all the more in impressiveness in view of the youth of the aviation industry p.r.r commercial flying. Comparison with other forms of transportation is not. in order, bur. the airlines are entitled to all the credit they ca.n obtain from their great achievement.

The general public will agree with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's s-a "mcnt that the record "indicates that the day is not very far in the RAY PROSrECT American business and industry will hit a post-depression low in March and April. Business is bad. despite all attempts to conceal the economic doldrums.

The production index figure, which reached the all-time high of 128 in December, has slumped to about 100 for the current month. Except for such specialties as airplanes and machine tools, there i5 no foreign buying. Domestic unemployment, despite columnists' arguments, still amounts to nine million or ten million people. Obviously American business and industry are suffering, despite almost eight years of New Deal reforms. Washington's most expert economists are privately predicting a serious Summer slump.

They would not be surprised if the production index figure dropped as low as 90 by June 38 points below the December high. Under 6uch circumstances the Democrats, whether led by F.D.R. or somebody else, face a licking in November. ROBOT America's feverish rush to produce planes for the Allies has resulted in the manufacture of faulty accessories and engines. The Army and Navy have had to reject thousands of dollars' worth of material which did not meet specifications.

The shortage of airplane mechanics is chiefly responsible for army -navy difficulties, and for the rejection of the product of the inexpert. The lack of trained craftsmen is the principal bottleneck, and that defeat cannot be remedied for a long time. It takes three or four years to train an airplane mechanic. Uncle Sam has tried to meet tills technical shortage. Factories making planes for the Allies have streamlined their production plants.

The individual workman does not turn out an engine all by himself; he only handles a single gadget of the engine which slides past his post. In short, he has become a robot. SAFE Bob Taft is quietly corralling more presidential delegates than the political layman realizes. As of today, the moonfaced Ohio Senator has a commanding lead over his rivals. Bob, to be frank, is not an attractive personality.

He is dull and unimaginative. His greatest asset is Mrs. Taft. who is a charming person and campaigner. Neverthe less, he is making headway here, there and elswhere.

He will probably show up at the convention with more delegates than Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg probably 300. Nobody eirse will equal that total. The G.O.P. convention is still three months off But if you feel inclined to make a little bet.

lay a few nickels or bucks on Bob Taft of Ohio. a SIGNIFICANT President Roosevelt has mobilized every ounce of power and prestige a Chief Executive commands in order to. defeat three bills designed to clean up American politics and wash up ad- -4 Highlights From Latest Books Joining the parade of disillusioned intellectuals, John Chamberlain, reporter, editor, literary critic, outlines in his important book, "The American Stakes" 'Carrick Evans: $2.75 what he thinks America should have learned about its own future from Europe's experience during the last 10 or 20 years. And from its own. Chamberlain is among many whose faith in "blueprint futures" has been shaken.

Here's how he puts it: We are all a shell-shocked generation. One by one. as the world stumbled in war or creaked at the joints because of the chalk deposits of a capitalism that seemed irre versibly to be running toward monopoly, we created our compensatory private Utopias. Regardless of quarrels between gradualists and revolutionists, near ly all of us has some neat blue print labeled "socialism." or "communism," or "basic communism," or "co-operative commonwealth" tucked away in the back of our minds. We were, in very truth, "escaping" in the name of "realism," for getting that new institutions al ways grow out of old institutions, that society never succeeds in breaking cleanly with the past, that no sound or workable systems are or ever can be "pure." And one by one, as the great single modern example of a society created to blue-print order fumbles in the Finnish swamps or shoots its generals, we are turning in revulsion from our escapist illusions.

For I want to do Is to hymn the virtue of a mixed economy, not in terms of presenting an argument for chaos or the status quo, but in terms of indicating the proper com ponents of a permanently workable dynamic balance. I am not advo cating anything very exciting or original: most of the genteel people who think vaguely of a "middle" way between communism and fascism already believe as I do. But the glamor of the all-or-nothing approach to our social problems must be exposed for the shoddy tinsel that it is. ARCHBISHOP ENTHRONED IN MILWAUKEE DIOCESE MILWAUKEE. March 29 Pi Tall, stately Moses Elias Kiley.

S. T. who in his youth labored as a carriage factory hand and as a Bos ton street, car motorma.n. yesterday was enthroned as sixth archbishop of the Milwaukee diocese. He succeeded Archbishop Samuel A.

Strifrh. now of Chicago, as spiritual advisor overseer for 4oi.000 Catholics in the 17 counties of the diocecs. soMeesii, AMM CAWLfAA, fUfif Pungent Paragraphs I 4. To be provincial, the earth's bad weather reached even the sun. New York Sun.

A town in France has named one of its streets after President Roosevelt Rue d'Roosevelt. That's what the anti-New Dealers are doing in the United States rueing Roosevelt. Republic Bulletin. Carole Lombard suggests appendectomies for dictators bothered with world problems. Others feel decapitation might better cure dictatorial headaches.

Harrisburg Patriot. When two prominent and squabbling national figures like Senator Tobey and Secretary Hopkins get dowTi to matching their honorary-law degree, it approaches the small boy boast of "My father can lick your father." Washington Star. FUNDS SENT TO FINNS WASHINGTON. March 29 A) The American Junior Red Cross ha cabled $3,000 to a relief fund for Finnish children. 0S.

3-29 3 By Martin MENi Kc Oife- By GALBRAITH pip 5rT 1 Everybody Talks About Hoover Here is one man everybody in town talks about tonight. His name is Herbert Hoover. Meet a baseball writer, and he tells you ten hundred hard-boiled writers stood up and cheered Hoover until they were hoarse. Meet a social worker, and she tells you women who haven't gone out all Winter flock to any meeting where Hoover will speak. Everybody talks about Hoover, apart from any politics.

Everybody is happy to find him in good health in good spirits mellow and wrapped up in his daily work. I talked to an eminent psychologist about it, and he said: "Yes, it's pleasant to see it because it's a tribute to our own inherent sense of fair play. It proves our respect for the qualities which count. Lots of us who were blaming Hoover in '29 are beginning to realize the whole world came tumbling down around our heads it just wouldn't be human nature to blame ourselves and say we all had a hand in it. We blamed Hoover." There is a moral in Mr.

Hoover which may be even more important than any political questions which confront us. The moral is a man's ability to suffer much to face even unfair criticism and abuse, and serious misunderstanding, and yet come out of it without any bitterness in his heart without any hate or even self pity. Here is just one mild illustration. Mr. Hoover read in a national publication that he had never written one of his own speeches yet, he knew he had written hundreds.

His friends urged him to deny it to speak out against it. in order to check other malicious gossip. Mr. Hoover said. "I'm too busy doing today's work." I And in time, he read an apology In that same periodical they had been fed mean gossip wholly unfounded.

He heard himself called a cold manlacking in warmth and humanity. He lived to hear even his critics say. "We realize now there was very little to smile about in those days when he was President. Maybe the worried look about which we complained simply demonstrated he knew better than any one else just how much of our w-orld had gone to pot." And he lived to hear those who called him cold recall his great work of compassion in 1920 fighting pain and hunger and death. He lived to answer the same call when it came from Finland.

Everybody talks about a new Hoover. Maybe we are all viewing him with a new perspective. The hate and passion and fears are ebbing dowTi judgment is more calm considered more reasonable. But, above all here is a man who had to live eight years which might have embittered nine men in ten he comes back mellow happy busy with malice toward none a bigger man than he ever was. Gabriel Heatter in The Newark Star-Ledger.

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