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FTTCHBURC SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1940 Duly. SuntUy. by THE MNTTNEL.

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Washington St of ownership by the municipalities the way for us to play our part in New England's defeat, our being one of wveral which arc being considered as auxiliary or secondary fields in the Northeast. ii the tune comes after the emergency is pAst that Fitchburg and Leominster find the airport has been a financial burden, and has not patd its way, both aues will be free to dispose of the obligation. Meanwhile, we will have had the satisfaction of doing our part for national defense and at the same tune exploring all possibilities for local development of air transportation. PABOLE5 AND TERRORISM Mr. Average American a complacent sort of person with -an amazing faculty for sealing himself up in his own smugness, like a silkworm in its cocoon.

He can read day after day, over a period of seven jears, about the insidious growth of a European government which functions through terrorism. Yet he never does more than shake his head in protest until that same government gives the command that sends its armies sweeping westerly, ever, closer to Mr. A. American's home. It is this same mind-your-own- business complex that prevents him No.

1 Menace--The Unconscious 5th Column the ravages "of crime in his own land until he lands in the hospital ALMANAC JULY 17 because "1 thought he was only Sun Length of Dav 1456 fooling when he told me to hand Sets 8 18 Moon Sets AM over my money" All etudes must be lighted at 4S P. Full Moon. July 19 5h W. I ait Quar. July 27.

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E. "IN ALL EARNESTNESS The nation last night heard the answer to the question, it has been asking collectively since November, 1936--or did it? Sen Alben Barkley of Ken- turky, Democratic convention chairman, was the medium through which this tremendously important answer was communicated--or was he? President -Roosevelt, after Yesterday the citizens of Massachusetts were newspaper accounts of a youthful gang which had shot its way from one end state to the other, leaving behind a trail of theft, injury and death. Two of the youths were identified, and both were found to have been paroled from prison within recent months For one youth it was the second parole; for the other, the third In the last analysis the true responsibility for this demonstration of terrorism lies with the people. It is only the natural consequence of a willingness to tolerate an inadequate system of parole. Only I deep-rooted changes in this system Among New Bookt years i deep-rooted changes in tras system of his own counsel on question of -whether he would at- inals who have conclusively lost tempt to defy one of the most an- their right to live as free mien in a cient and sacred of American traditions.

said ''in all earnestness and sincerity" that he had no wish to be nominated for a thircTlerm or did he" 7 Tfie plain truth, judging from the manner by which the president gave his is that the third-term issue is still wide open, with this one imnortant change in the situa- civilized land. tion. air clearly to be hopes It is now dazilihgly clear that the president is first a politician and last a statesman; that he is mote Here and There Have the American republics learned the lesson of Europe? Has the spectacle of TSurope's small countries, jealous and fearful, willing to unite, and then falling one after another into the hands of conquerors, brought home anything to the Americas' We are going to find interested in preservation of the ou The Havana conferences will New Deal than preservation of the tell, by the end of July, to what nation, and that his "answer" to the extent the American republics have learned the lesson of co-operation The United States has taken the lead, patiently and painstakingly, for 10 ears in fomenting a united west- cm hemisphere--in creating a new- Pan Americanism in wh ch the Monroe doctrine should be not a mere policy of the United States but a (fig" 'ArriericaS moat important question Amenoa has been asking is colored with personal ambition of a nature that Americans assuredly will not encourage today. Sen. Barkley himself struck the note that established the key in during the presidential campaign.

He charged the Republican party with responsibility for every weakness in the national apparent in the Havana meeting. 1 On the record, it is -conclusively defense that exists today--a charge that United States pohcy in re- that is not only stupid but com- gar the Americas has nothing to nictely false By juggling the Re- i do with continental hegemony--in publican record to attract the pla adits of a politically ravenous audience, he performed the amazing tnt.k of eliminating 12 Republican ears. Sen Barkley and other friends of tfw New Deal have not bothered to explain the contrast in ihe world situation as of 1920-1932, ween the Republicans were in power, and the world situation since 1933, when the TterrfocraEs "came If is" this difference, however, which supplies the complete answer to the flat statement that cannot be claimed by those who were simpler language, we do not want to run the two Americas as a set of "branch offices' controlled from Washington Japanese and German action in Asia and Europe have no similarity to the Monroe dcrtrhie of 1823 or of today Did the Japanese hold conferences with China, Siberia, Manchuria, Indo-Chma, Australia, and the Dutch East Indies in an effort by joint and equal action to avert infiltration- from, abroad and-to de-, vise better means of trading and living together'' To ask the question answers it. Did Germany hold similar conferences in Europe for the same reasons? We heard of none. then in power in this nation (i the i Pan Americanism of today is some- Republicans) that anything substan- t.al was done to build up or even maintain the minimum requirements of our national defence equipment." The Democratic party, two days of convention, has furnished the basis on which the American peoole vyll decide all earnestness and how the nation will be governed in the critical davs ahead.

TWIN-CITY AIRPORT Acceptance of. the Fitchburg- Leominster airport by the two cities as a gift proffered by the present owners will tie the communities to no long-term commitments but will temporarily offer them an opportunity to share in the national defense effort in a patriotic way and also to test out the possibilities of aviation development here. aid is assured In deference to the needs of defense, the Washington government is waiving ihe requirement that municipalities contribute at least a sum equal to 25 per cent of the federal allotment. The WPA project will directly help our unemployment situation, and meanwhile we better airfield. be acquiring a The better airfield may faring to both Fitchburg and Leominstfir new industrial opportunities.

It may not No one is prophet enough to tell. But we do know that the war in Europe and our preparedness effort in this country will give aviation a tremendous boost The possession of an airfield today is for what possession of railroad service for a town or city when the railroads were first being built. Not every community on a rail line saw prosperity. Some grew only to fade away again into relatively unimportant non-industrial villages. Yet few, if any, inland coTimumties that did not have rail service in the early days grew in size or industrial importance.

Aside from what a twin-city municipal airport may bring us materially, it is. for the immediate present. a question of furnishing a field that will be linked with the air defense of New England. Acceptance thing duplicated nowhere else in the world. The specific questions to be discussed at Havana include activities of alien groups endangering common American democrat.c ideals, joint defense measures, and united action to meet a foreign trade situation which may bring with it a threat of foreign political domination.

The American nations are all free. They can unite freely on these matters or not. If they do not wish this, they are within their rights, and the United States will not question them. It has for 10 years been offering and urging co-operation on equal terms, and 'living up to that ideal in its own foreign relations. Specifically.

it believes that all the American nations should act jointly to prevent European possessions in this hemisphere from changing hands as the result of mere military conquest. But if other American nations do not care to assume their end of this responsibility, let no one say that it is "imperialism' 1 for the United States to protect its own safety and interests by whatever means remain available. With admirable solicitude. Admiral Nomura of Japan is going to make a visit to Japanese residents of Davao (Philippine Islands) and the Dutch East Indies. He goes, ac- cordina to the imperturbably bland Japanese announcement, "to inquire after their health" S.

Commissioner Francis B. Sayre says that the Japanese residents of Davao appear to him to be "pretty We hope this is true. We hope Admiral sojourn in Philippines, and that nothing eventuates from journey that could possibly have later ill effects on the health of Philippine residents either native or of Japanese extraction. We hope Admiral Nomura is provided with suitable escort, befitting hi' station and -mission, while in the Philippines And as for us---why, we feel fine, too, thank vou! All through the long years of subnormal business, it ha-? been the heavy construction industry that lagged most. Plant was overbuilt, we said, and the worst of heavy construction works lifts the building industry to the highest point in many years.

Engineering News-Record lists such awards as 69 per cent higher than a year ago. Part of this is due, of course, to the acute necessity of building new NEW YORK, July 17 --Talbot plants for the government is, of Ihe, ment program. But not all. Several large power plants and other private industrial building helped swell the total. True, this- stimulation is partly the work of the lash of war conditions in Europe.

But even this quickening of the blood-streain of purchasing-power may go far toward restoring economic health American road signs notwithstanding, the French will tell you there's no justice of the peace. Defense tax is proposed of $1 for Manhattan By GEORGE TUCKER Goldsboro, N. C. News-Argus, and every now and then he likes to take a run up to New York. On his last outing here he went out to the fair, realizing as he got off the train that his pass book had just two tickets left.

It was one of those books that may be refilled after the last ticket is used. To get his refill in a hurry, Mr. Patrick used one ticket entering the Fair grounds. He promptly left each letter over" six in people's the grounds through an exit and That noise you hear comes presented the book for re-entry, using up the last ticket. It was at the moment he presented the book the second time that he realized, to his amazement, that he was using -last" Francisco fair.

from all those hyphens being dropped back east Japanese want U. S. marines to manne'r, which is to say, "So sorry, please" on the right hand while repeating the offense with the left. Wife of Massachusetts man named Drinkwater sues for divorce on grounds of intoxication, or failure to live up to his name, Since they overlook no details, it is assumed the Nazis have already informed tank units that vehicles travel on the left hi London streets. Letter Box A Splendid Record To the Editor of The Sentinel: I am quite confident that you are interested in what is going on in Fitchburg in medical circles.

There appeared -in the New England Journal of Medicine this week an article by Dr. E. Adams, representing the staff of the Burbank hospital, reporting on the work on appendicitis during the last three years under the new surgical regime. This will be interesting to you as well as the- people of Fitchburg--at least certain summaries of it. In a total of 172 cases there was a mortality rate of 1.7, you will also be interested to know that the average death rate from appendicitis ranges between five and seven per cent.

This is truly a splendid three-year's work. It is just one more evidence of the splendid constructive work that has been done by Mr. Bullock, and I rather thought it was a matter that you would like to her about: probably if there had not been quite a number of delays in these few deaths, it might even have been lower. I am taking the, liberty of sending you this journal and you will note the article on page 55 Russell MacAusland (W. R.

MacAusland, M. Boston, July 15. One of our favorite waiters in Manhattan is Julius, who has been at the Pennsylvania hotel "Nineteen years and eight months, Julius is the sort of picturesque old i Manhattan character you don't for- I get. He looks like the man who carries the drum in the Spirit of '76. He Jhas a special dessert which he makes himself whose ingredients are rum, strawberries, and ice cream.

It's a Russian dessert. He would be proud to fix it for you some night, if you are there, and ask him to. Another tip for those enjoy "an occasional" splurge" tinctive cuisines is this. Let Mirj at the Coq Rouge fix you a perfectly swell dish which contains lobster and ttaa. It hasn't even got a name.

It's just something Miro thought up. There are other ingredients, but then Miro won't talk. It's his secret and it is something worth keepiag. In Washington By JACK STINNETT CHICAGO, July 17--Notes from the cuff of. an old shirt-worn at-Chlcago: Was there ever a convention like this one? Td say All the delegates were angling for second place.

Paul V. McNutt even had a 30-by- 20 foot picture of President Roosevelt hanging in his headquarters. You could ask headquarters of half a dozen other candidates and never find out whether they were running for president or vice-president. The McNutt headquarters, by the way, themselves deserve more than a paragraph. Acres and acres of red, white and blue bunting, draped along the walls of a palatial suite, any room of which, with its crystal chandeliers, might have been used for a grand ballroom for the annual So They Say! Neutrality no longer depends on words unless they are spoken from the mouths ol Minister Cristobal Saenz of Chile.

who loves his soft thing more than he does his Ingersoll, editor of PM. Our age needs a form of good will which will not only tolerate differences but which will gladly use them -for the enrichment of life. --Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland. The sociable and the solitary, anfl cxtravert and introvert, have the same excellent opportunity for happy wedded life if they select mate with opposite' ploymcnf. centered in the heavy) Ernest W.

Burgess, University of construction industries, seemed to Chicago sociologist. To broadcast there engineer. But Kate If you have tears to weep, prepare to weep them now. Weep for poor John McCartney, who left the other day for Lake Placid and a season of toil. As you know, Kate Smith has a daily 15 minute broadcast penod.

must be an is broadcasting from her summer home on Lake Placid. Therefore, Johnny is off to Lake Placid for three months, to work just la minutes a day. And what then, John? "The day after I get back," says John, "I leave for my vacation." Strange how the name of Judgs Crater bobs up in the diary of Manhattan. Every few months he is supposed to have been seen in some remote sector of the world. In New York his disappearance and whereabouts is as rruch a mystery today as it was twelve years ago.

One night he was here, in the flesh, smiling and handsome. He had dinner at a Broadway resturant Some time during the dinner he got up, excused himself, and walked out into the street. Not a single solitary human who ever knew hinv or has his interest at heart, Jcnows where he went or what happened" Jo him. Yet, it hasn't been so long ago that someone 'recognized him in Death Valley. Another account I have talked with men who are sure that he is in China.

Now comes a school teacher from New York who thinks she saw him in Mexico two months ago, sitting in a country store smoking a pipe. Every Try Sparkler Wins? Among the minor hardships due to the U-boat blockade is a shortage of pipe-cleaners, production of which- is not considered by the British government an essential industry. Disgruntled smokers are being assured by old-timers, however, that nothing serves better than a well-chosen feather. -Springfield Republican. As one wanderer put it: "Reminds me of Babylon." But when I asked him if he'd ever been to Babylon, he said no, it was jnst those pictures he used to see in his grandma's illustrated history of the McNutt has picked "God Bless America" as his theme song when the Democratic national committee did likewise.

Whereupon McNutt told his entertainers to learn something else I can't tell you -what they learned. Sounded like an Indiana medley to me. And persons passing within earshot would yell: "We want WilMe!" Best crack of the convention: "Say, looks like there's some sort of contention in-tOTttn Tvhat pose it is?" "1 don't know, but from the looks of things, I think it's got something to do with the school teachers," Over in the Blackstone, where the all-important resolutions committee held all their conclaves--on the same floor and just across the hall--was a glass-panelled door on which was lettered in gilt, "The Sulking Room." I told Garner and Farley about it, but they didn't seem to think it was funny. Somebody else, and I won't say who, that I send a telegram immediately to "Cotton Ed" Smith, the recalcitrant senator from South Carolina, and tell him that his room -was waiting. In case you didn't know, "Cotton Ed" took a walk and is trying to build it into a parade.

Biggest surprise (to me) at the convention: When Maury Maverick, the mayor of San Antonia, went before the resolutions committee and made a regular old Texas ears-bender for a vigorous, active, fightin' foreign, pohcy plank in the Democratic platform. Talk about turn-coating! Just a few years ago, in Carnegie Hall in New York City, I heard Maury, congressman then, make a riproaring speech about keeping out of foreign entanglements and preserving peace at any price. I don't mean to insinuate that Maury is wishy-washy. I'm just telling you what phenomenal things have happened to one of our dyed-in-the- wool pacifists because of the foreign situation. Biggest surprise (to most Democrats)" was when Guy Warren, the Texas oil man, opened his Palmer House headquarters for the "Nominate WilUrie" campaign.

One delegate said, "Say, what's that guy wants do, eat his cake and eat it? Wfllkje already has been nominated -And-a-half- in replied: "You're tdlin' us!" Biggest build-up to a terrific letdown was when that Milton, donkey, "Boston Curtis," that had been named a Republican precinct committeeman, hotfooted into the Stevens lobby, "to return to the Democratic Ail the boys had been tipped off and were planning to make a big story out of it When the donkey walked in he had on a blanket advertising a jeer stube. Cafflnf AH Critics Pals Don't hate the critic who says your work is rotten. You can't hope to improve so long you think rotten work good--Miami Herald, By JOHN SELBY "A PROGRAM FOR PROGRESS," by John Stnchey; (Riadorn: $3). In mi John Stncbey published book called "The Coming Struggle for Power" which stul (in Modern Library edition) sells in fair quantities. But ceven years have pawed smce the book was published, and Mr.

Strachey's 1933 stringencies have' become, the light of those seven years, considerably less stringent. Mr. Strachey has mellowed bit, is bit older, hac experienced a good many among them a mild difficulty with the United States authorities because of hia allegedly too pink beliefs. Today he recants in part, and advances new proposals in a book he calls "A Program for Progress." He retreats in that he has come to believe that an intermediate stage in the march toward control of British American economies by "the people" may be both necessary and profitable. He is offering program inder which, without resorting to pure socialism, progressive governments in the two greait English- speaking countries may soundly advance--with an altered capitalistic structure--a program which essen- i controlled by a government strong enough to control also the national economic bases of such expansionism, Any simplification of his idea does it injustice.

We have been told, at least in England, that the arma- i ment, program will cure unemployment" has done so Germany, although there the armaments and armies are committed to wars of conquest which shall in turn furnish ever new fields of exploitation--until either the world is gobbled down, or the classes condemned to live poorly revolt Mr. Strachey would concede a rigidly controlled economy, in -which, however, the public works--would-be things of social value to the people. This is much like President Roosevelt's program, he admits, and he adds that the New Deal has succeeded in just the ratio that it has McKENNEY ON BRIDGE bridge wdl mttnhlo at Convention Hall in Aibury Pkrk, N. ttw week hfpqqmj Aug. 5, for the an- 1 0 4 3 A 3 4 5 4 ATI A 5 1 AKQ109I4 893 4J1069 SMrtk North past Pass I IN.T Pate Pan 17 nual world and national championships.

"Has is one tournament in which it does not pay to make a mistake! I recall interesting hand front last tournament. hand was well but, and because of ha no trump bid West opened the of Dummy played low, and had obaerved the rule of fourth best, hi too would have played low. Hi made the mitfake of going up with ht ace, however, only to have Soutb trump. South led (he king of East refuted to win and a was eonttnued. Eatt won with tht- ace, and made his tecond by leading back the queen of Naturally South ruffed and picked up the trump.

He then led the five of cluba went up with the ace and returned the jack of discarding CM of his losfijg diamonds. West won, but the ace of provided an entry to that declare! could discard his third diamond on the ten of hearts. four-odd was made for a top score on tht board. East should never have led heart, and declarer would have been unable to establish a heart for discard. Four Million the economic factors involved.

There are a number of keen analyses in Program for Progress," notably one of the "Nazi economy in' which its cleverness and, indeed, soundness is established while at the same time its faulty direction. is pointed out It js agpar- wfiatever-one may think ot Mr. Strachey's plans, fee has gained a good deal of ground by losing a good deal more. A kind of socialistic appeasement program, in other words. Memories (PM) Looking back over the past week of great and doubtless dire happenings--the rumors of a dubious peace, the mutterings of wider and vastly more cataclysmic wars we find that the things we remember are the small, irrelevant things.

Not the whereabouts and the ultimate allegiance of the French fleet, not the panic in nor the evacuation of Hongkong, but that perately holding on to his pants after his suspenders were broken in a crush at Philadelphia. Not Russia's Bessarabian grab nor the rumors of Nazi gains in Argentina, but an editor resigning from the Nation on moral grounds. Not the mining of the Panama- canal but that story about the breakdown of the White House elevator; and what the president said about it at his press conference. (He said he hoped the shut-off of power had no connection with what had happened in Philadelphia.) Finally, and Tsest of all, we remember--not Westbrook Pegler's or General Hugh jirst- hand way Mrs7 Roosevelt began her column on the day when the Willkie furor was at its height: "The weather continues to be the strangest I have ever- known 1 Time Speeds On (Toronto Register) Eighty years ago eastern cities hi this country were taking their first steps toward mechanized transportation. They were installing horse car lines.

And jt was a tremendous innovation. The question naturally arose, how fast should a horse car run? Conservative city councils passed ordinances limiting the speed to five miles an hour, which they explained should be fast enough for anybody, because it was faster than an ordinary man walks. Another journalistic suggestion was that tracks be made of such width that buggies could run on the same rails. That would be very useful in muddy weather; there were, oi course, few paved or hard- surfaced streets. The floors of the cars were covered with straw to keep feet warm in cold weather.

Millions of Americans now living rode in such cars and appreciated them. Now they drive at 60 miles an hour, ride in trains at 90 miles an hours, fly at 300 miles and may soon be doing 1000 m. p. h. so high above the earth as to be invisible on a clear day.

And this within one human life. And our minds become adapted to it, even-if our nerves don't. Sard Record To Beat The other day one oi the perfection seekers of this office TTM We told him that was no There were several times in our grammar school days when we wrote the same sentence 100 Salem Evening News. Rivaling The Ladies "No matter what the todies wore yesterday at the Westchester Bath club, no ore was more beautiful than Prince Serge Obolensky with bis tropical flowered Dixie TSghe, in the New York Post t' Britain's Live They're now calling Mr. Churchill "Public Energy No, Montreal Star.

NATION FRANCE 1,988,000 POLAND 620,000 BELGIUM 545,000 NETHERUN 331,000 GERMANY 243,000 BRITAIN 92,300 W5RWAT 59,000 KILLED 70,000 1 60.000 1 10,000 6,000 50,000 21,400 4,000 WOUNDED 318,000 160,000 35,000 165,000 33,900 CAPTURED, MISSING 1,600,000 400,000 I 500,000 37,000 50,000 Europe's casualties for 10 months of war have passed the four million mark, but the estimated 200.00Q-300.0W killed small compared to the killed in four years of World war Figures in chart are based on official and unofficial government reports and on latest available estimates. They include both battlefield and civilian air raid casualties, but do not include Italy's estimated 4500 casualties. The count for Germany is based on official Nazi reports, and may be actually much "higher. Powerful Animal HOKIZONTAL IBong cf the beasts of the forest 5 It belongs to the genus Leo. 9 Its male has ashaggy 13 To cancel 15 Gibbon.

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