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PAGE FOUR The Portsmouth Herald (Established September 23, 1886.) ALL POriSITIOUtn 31 A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE FOR GREATER PORTSMOUTH'S INTERESTS Largest Circulation in SouHieoitern New Published ovury evening, Sundays antt Holidays excepted. ey The Cftronlcle and Gazew Publishing Company at 82 Congress Street. Entered us second-class matter at the postotttco at Portsmouth, N. H. By mall pe- year If paid In otherwise.

Delivered by carrier In city $4.00 per year. Communications should addressed to Tao Herald. J. D. Horrford, Publisher-Editor What's America's Worst Falling? HARPER'S BAZAAR'S a swel magazine.

NANCY BALE'S a grand Between them they've pulled a four-alarm riot. You'll find it in the September issue of H. B. The name? "American Failings." Well, what's your guess? S'pose you were elected to act as Judge and jury, what would you select as our No. 1 National Weakness! j-.

1001 1090 Stumped? Then listen to these in- W. Hartford, Publ.iher.Ed.tor, 1891-1938 remarks fay Nancy Hale Member ol Associated Press. The Associated Press Is I According to Nan, our chief failing exclusively entitled to the use lor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and T-ISOM'T TSTP AT nNVl also the local news published hereto. All right of publl- WE DASNT BE ALONh! cation of special dispatches herein. Is also reserved.

boast that we're He-Males-The Portsmouth Herald assumes no financial rwpon- 1 Whpn etbilltles tot typographical errors In advertisements but and emancipated Females, wnen THE PORTSMOUTH, N. HERALD, SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 5, 1940, The Cup That Cheers reprint that part of an advertisement In which the typographical error occurs. Advertisers will please notify the management Immediately ol any error which may occur. National Representative Tilt Julius Mothewi Special Agency Boston New Torlc Detroit Chicago The Herald's Platform 1.

Keep the United States of America out of war. 2. A non-partisan citizens' ticket for better municipal government in Portsmouth. 3. Increased community and civic interest on.

the part of Greater Portsmouth's residents. Saturday Evening, October 1940. Foreign Correspondent Soldiers are always in line for citations for bravery. Because of the catastrophic nature of today's bomb warfare, Britain has also established medals for civilians who have demonstrated special courage in air raids. Now it's about time to give recognition to those newspaper correspondents who stick to their posts though the heavens fall-which they just about do.

During the last few years journalists have fallowed the course of war from one stricken front to. another. From bombed cities they have sent out their daily grist of news to the Associated Press, the United Press, International News Service and other news-gathering agencies. It has been no picnic. Censorship hides much of what goes on, but'from dispatches from London it is evident that the task of maintaining press communications with, the United States is not only difficult but extremely hazardous.

Reporters wear no magic talismans, nor do they have charmed lives. The very nature of their duty exposes them to greater risks than the average government official or civilian in London. In fact, the AP headquarters itself has been bombed and there is reason to believe that the staff does not know from day to day where its work will be conducted. Britain is not the native country pf these men, although they probably sympathize with its cause. It is just a job the correspondents are doing, and one not too highly paid at that.

About the greatest guerdon they can win is a by-line for their stories. TllP "whirp mnpvc" -mill comes to winning the wilderness or inventing gadgets, we lead the world. But, says Nancy Hale, there's one vulnerable point in our Big Bold Front. WE'RE AFRAID TO BE ALONE. It's probably, says she, a hangover from our kiddie days when we weren't happy unless we had an audience.

Young nations, as well as baby humans, are like that. Th6y want to show off. But how can you show off, unless you have Someone To Show OS To? They want to lead busy-izzy lives. But what's the use of being unless there's someone to applaud? And so, Being Alone is the worst thing we Americans dread. Says Nancy again, but in my much cruder wording.

We're afraid of facing ourselves plumb scairt, that's why we dread Being Alone. We've always lived in herds. Like cows. We've never been accustomed to being by our own opinions managing our own lives. We depend on the popular mass reaction to tell us what to say how to feel what to buy.

And so our reactions and decisions are as stereotyped as million wads of gum. Which is not only a pity but tragedy. For the rest of the world)you who dasn't! (Copyright 1940) isn't like that. Even during its war- torn terror, the Old World preserves its desire for privacy its respect for solitude. Even with bombs bursting overhead, the Old World knows that a man must come to know and come to be an Individual in solitude and quiet meditation.

Otherwise, he's just another Charlie McCarthy. YOU CAN'T COME TO KNOW YOURSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A CROWD. YOU CAN'T GROW TO BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU'RE FOLLOWING A MOB. IP YOU WANT TO MEAN ANYTHING, OR BE ANYTHING, YOU'VE GOT TO DARE TO BE ALONE. Our fear of solitude--that's our greatest American weakness.

We're afraid to vote until we know it's a popular cause. We're afraid to buy a new fail suit or dress--or eat or dance--until we know it's the accepted fashion. We're afraid to move unless the nation is moving with us. IN SHORT, WE'RE A NATION OF COPYCATS AND CRYBABIES! It wasn't always like this. Once we Americans had the strength of our convictions.

Once we dared to think for ourselves act for and dare an old and burned-out world to challenge our young initiative. And won on that challenge. BUT I WONDER HOW MUCH I WE'D DARE TO BE ORIGINAL TODAY! HOW LONG CAN WE DEFY THE INSIDIOUS PROPAGANDA OF MORE SOPHISTICATED NATIONS? HAVE WE REALLY WHAT IT TAKES TO BE OURSELVES? OR ARE WE JUST A BUNCH OF CARBON COPIES? Chew it over for yourself. Check if you've the courage. And the meantime-Salute to Nancy Hale! Who dares a i to face the answers.

And shame on Memories (gulp) Memories From the "10 years ago" files of the Associated Press: "President Hoover tonight chided those who take a pessimistic view of the future business, in reiterating his own opinion that the depression is but temporary." Thought For the Day A axis is all right but you must admit that it will be difficult to get the wheels all rolling in one direction. Around The State Methodists To Meet Concord--Laymen and ministers of the northern district of the New Hampshire conference of the Methodist church will meet af-the mill machinery in America, the 48- spindle built by Samuel Slater and operated by him in Rhode Island in 1790. Here are two Massachusetts men shipping to Smithsonian by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.

Here is William T. Evans' collec- field stations at Mt. Wilson, Table With the appearance in newspapers of new additions to the Smithsonian institute from New England, we learn every year of our debt to the place. Here is the city of Lowell presenting the oldest piece of cotton- Methodist church here next Friday for an all-clay conference on activities of the church. Talk On Citizenship Nashua--The importance of good citizenship was stressed by Miss Eleanor Greenwood, national chair- mountain, California; Chile and Tyrone, New Mexico.

It is said, and truly, that credentials addressed "Friends of the Smithsonian institution" will open doors, even in semi-barbarous countries. For Americans are eager that what happened to Russian scientists in the years 1917-22, and hap- Washington Capital chatter: Census figures recently released put Washington, D. 37th in the list of states in the matter of population. That leaves 12 whole states which haven't as many people as the District and makes, more laughable than ever that legislative quirk which doesn't permit residents of the District to vote, to have representatives in either chamber of Congress, or to govern themselves. The District population exceeds the combined populations of Delaware, Wyoming and Nevada.

These states, together, have six senators, three representatives and nine electoral votes for president and vice president. But the District can't even elect.its own dog-catcher. I'm not trying to start anything, but the same blueprints that served as model for the 1936 inaugural stands will be used in 1940. The secret came out the other day when the joint congressional committee in charge of inaugurations told David Lynn, capitol architect, to get busy. That put Mr.

Lynn on the spot. Should he build Roosevelt stands or Willkie stands? Being something of a philosopher and nothing of a politician, Mr. Lynn got out his 1936 plans, dusted them off, and decided they would do in any event. The '36 stands were uncovered, provided accommodations for 17,000 persons. President Roosevelt approved of them four years ago, so Mr, Lynn, without even looking at the national polls or holding a moist finger in the political wind, figures he couldn't possibly be more than half wrong.

Here's the story about Rep. Sam Rayburn's gavel. It was given to him six years ago by two youths who made it in a Dallas, high school. When it was presented, Mr. Rayburn expressed his gratitude and added that he would use it when he became er Louls eaker of the house The late Hei Rainey was then speaker and there were 13 representatives in point of service (always an important matter in selection of the speaker) between him and Rayburn.

Freer gallery is the famous "Peacock room" and paintings etchings by Whistler. In 1939 the Smithsonian and man of the Junior American Citi-1 ord made was at Ormand Beach, zens' club of the DAR, in two assembly meetings of junior high school students here yesterday. Add Football Names WILL and WOOD are backs for Columbia. WHITE. GREENE and GRAY are University of Tulsa linemen.

BONER plays tackle for Bucknell GOODNIGHT is a Hardin-Simmons halfback. BLOCK plays center for Tulane. CARRIER is a first string Wesleyan back. BANGER plays with Syracuse. RUSH is a Purdue end.

RANK plays for Marquette. Tourist Trade Gains Concord--Retail spending of travelers in New Hampshire in 1939 was 5.3 per cent above the total for 1935 according to a report recently released in Washington. The 1939 total was $23,991,000. Plan Airport Work Manchester--A crew of about 100 WPA workers will start work here the first engine to speed two miles, jn today Jn much ot Eu in less ihan a minute. They are the shgjl Mt Por late F.

Stanley, designer and emment Qff Fred Marriott, "driver, and tne rec- the world by revolution wasted I their time in re-discovery. in January, 1906. acquired the world's largest jewel, a 350,000 carat, flawless topaz. The average ring topaz by comparison five carats. This was dis-.

covered in the rich mineral province in Brasil and is pale blue on the outside, pale sherry color in- And last week the first camera, ever made in America left its 100- I year-old home in Virginia to join Gift of an Englishman who had never been in the United States-- Smithsonian institute which Here is a place for all New Eng- tne ranks of epoch-making inven- I Monday on. preliminary work for much. the we, with all our countrymen share, observes its 94th year. people. When James Smithson sat down I and wrote that he bequeathed his entire estate, half-million dollars, "to the United States of America to found at Washington, under the name of Smithsonian in- stitution, an establishment for the increase and.

diffusion of knowl- edge among men," he founded landers to visit. Here is a place always at his service, even in his own Traome. The Smithsonian institute is truly all things to ail Recent Notes on the Smithsonian In the spring of 1928 was depos- called a geranium. Good Old Autumn i This is the season when experts go out on a limb and hope nobody is lugging a saw. Could be, Ya Know Don't know whether there's any Form Slopes Group significance, but a large Manches- North Conway-More than historians much pf the inside of the war, but it is the reporters who furnish the day by day accounts of actual events.

In the kind of warfare now being waged, they stake their very lives ter coal company came out with a On the Chance Of getting the dav's new? three col advertisement this If a soldier earns a dltingmshed se. vice cross, there should be an equiva- am wnlch win meet st. Anseim lent citation for those who perform the tonigllt essential task of keeping the rest of considerate the world informed of what is happen-; "Be careful of my polished hard- ing in the War ZOne. wood HOOK," cautioned the housewife as she opened the door for the 1 the creation of a new army air base at the Manchester municipal airport. Two Fined In Dover Dover--Two men were found guilty and fined S20 each plus costs Of court here yesterday on charges of issuing false statements to the N.

H. Unemployment Compensation division in connection with petitions for compensation. To mention a few things, out of that legacy has come America's leading scientific 'library. Out of it have come over a million specimens for schools, 1,500 expeditions throughout the world, answers to thousands of questions, the largest bird collection in America. 600 Sciences that have benefited are metereology, astronomy, mathematics, physics, geology, chemistry, anthropology and such aspects of biology as, for instance, a detailed study of trees and shrubs of Mexico.

Let Us Shun Hate The world is trying to conduct war and at the same time keep its everyday life on an even keel. This means that the kindly heart is" more necessary today than it has ever been. As we read of the bombings we find ourselves glorying in But'Mr. Rayburn did become speaker and when he rapped for order on his first day in the speaker's chair, he was swinging the gavel which six years ago he promised Charles and Clary Bates would be used for that purpose. Incidentally, the Bonham, representative is now the third ranking member of the government (he outranks the cabinet' members, the chief justice of the supreme court and governors of all states), which, with Vice-President Garner back in town gives Texas something of an edge in ranking Don't think there was anything funny about that resolution of Senator Thomas of Oklahoma calling for a national survey of air-raid shelter possibilities.

The senator's to 26 governors and 17 mayors of coastal and border states and cities have' brought a swamp of approving replies. And now it leaks out that the War department will be out soon with a pamphlet on how to prepare bomb shelters and air raid warning systems. The pamphlet will be preceded by a statement or foreword explaining that it is not meant as even a think what men have sacrificed in hint that there is any likelihood of any city order to give us modern systems of being attacked from the but that this tions. The seed vessels of the geranium are shaped like the bill of a crane. The plant received its name from this fact, for in ancient Greece a crane's bill was into human relationships.

When we industry and transportation, it makes us pause in admiration. But how much happier is the world today than it was when people traveled by oxcarts? Not a great.deal. And the reason is that advantages business firms and professional men 'And with all this, it is a place of have been lined up behind the organization of a new Eastern Slopes Region, here at a series of meetings recently. plumber. safekeeping for all our treasure, from Eli Whitney's cotton gin to Colonel Lindbergh's medals.

It is unique in that it is an institution in no wise belonging to I our government or capable pf being governed politically. Many retaliations. The hateful thing about of that sort make neither the indi- war is that it can, in a year, stir up hatreds which cannot be quieted in a century. What we need today is not more programs for human betterment; we need more people, who know how to be. kind and generous.

We don't need efficiency nearly so much as we we do--we need a little more brotherly helpfulness instilled is just part of our defense program. "To become a good tennis player," writes an expert on the game, "learn how to breathe." Shucks, answers Grandpappy Jenkins, he learned that 'ie was a couple of seconds old. one's self to the people and situations round about us. One of the greatest needs today is to carry a spirit of tender-heartedness and loving appreciation Into a world that is fast bursting into the flames of hatred. "Don't worry, ma'am," came the I me establish great foundations reply, "I won't slip with these hobnailed boots Fuel Advantage In the rising interest in the rate of airplane manufacture in the United States, it is just as well to note that in one phase of aviation America is already better prepared than any other nation.

That is by reason of superior methods of refining its abundant petroleum into high quality fuel and lubricating oil. Gasoline is rated according to its octane number. The higher the number, tne better the operation of the motor that it fuels. Air speed is not possible with gasoline of low octane rating. Regular gasoline which motorists buy at filling stations averages around 75 in octane rating.

Ten years ago it was only 65 or less. American aviation gasoline has advanced even more rapidly. Most of it has a rating of 100 and refiners are working toward the" 150 level. Germany's aviation gasoline, ranges from 67 to 87. It means Ameri-! can planes have a 13 to 33 per cent bet-! ter performance than German planes and can carry lighter fuel loads because I of less consumption.

Incidentally, Britain has access to American petroleum products. That may be part the explanation of British plane performance that matches the German. The Indispensable' Boys' Chorus today. This one was unique in coming before that time, and unique it remains today, in trust, to the government and people of the United States. Giants and Their Work If Washington, the first city of our country, becomes the world center of science, education, art and literature, much can be said of the Smithsonian's place in making it so.

And nothing in Washington will attract more mentality or more curiosity or more visitors than Smithsonian institute. Mental giants have gone to its making. Joseph Henry, world- famous professor of physics at Princeton, was its first secretary. Others have been Spencer Balrd, said to have possessed three men's knowledge; Samuel Langley, Charles Walcott and the present secretary, Dr. C.

G. Abbott In fact it may be said that all who took part in this center of learning are unusual; from Smithson who, in an age of war, conceived the idea of helping an enemy country, to Major the one-armed hero, who dared the first passage of the Grand Canyon, strapped in his boat. Smithsonian searches the face of the earth from pole to pole. It engages all nationalities in its search. As an example there is the work of Schuman, German scientist on extreme ultra-violet rays, and Dr.

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Inc. 10 28 M4 75 Years Ago--Oct. 5, 1865 The front of the state house in Concord is said to be near completion. Brackett' Hutchins, well-known local man, died yesterday. 50 Years Ago-- Oct.

5,1890 The Moscotte Boat club made a.trip to Sagamore creek yesterday. Room- No. 8 in the Franklin block has been fitted up as headquarters of Ward 2 Republicans. Samuel Caswell of Kittery, age 87 dies. 25 Years Ago--OcL 5, 1915 Grace L.

Forsaythe of this city named Grand Mistress of Finance at annual meeting of Grand Temple, Pythian sisters at Laconia. Mrs. Castellman of Louis, purchases "Melrose Villa" at Rye Beach from Charles L. Austin of Boston. Crews of the U.S.S.

Hannibal and U.S.S. Leonadas hold concert and dance at the sail loft in the ordinance building at the Navy Yard. 10 Years Ago--Oct. 5, 1930 New England 40 and 8 organization backs Charles Perry of Kittery Point postmaster for National head. Miss Julia Lucey has resigned as 'ca'shier at, the Olympia theater..