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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 193 THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS Tin SouHt'i Greafwt Newtpaptr NewYorkOaybyDay'THE COAL BN Voice of the People if Sirminham Ncros ESTABLISHED MARCH 14, 1SBI AMrltl THE BIRMINGHAM LEDGER April. 1920 colorful seasons in the Great Smokies, with goldenrod in bloom, the gum trees wearing the mature colors of Autumn and masses of poke-berries illuminating the picture. Everywhere, of course, the dreamlike blue haze, whioh gave the range its name generations ago, overhangs the resplendent picture. The view from Newfound Gap at the Tennessee-Carolina line is described by a recent visitor as unequaled in America. Facing the east, one looks down into the Cherokee Indian Reservation; on the left is Mt.

LeConte and on the right, Clingman's Dome, the tops of which are almost loat to vew in the mantle of blue haze Nashville Banner. Uutm st Matter at the Btnnmgham Rat Undtr Act of Congrats March Expressions from readers upon topics ot current or general interest are welcomed. Writing should be on one side ot the paper only and should not exceed 500 words. Anonymous communications will not be printed and letters unaccompanied by sett-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned. The News reserve the right to shorten letters ef excessive length.

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Stwaotyaer and Electrotyarr Union No. 94 and Printing Pmsate and AuUlant Union No. 121. Every Mother's Prayer When School Begins Now that school has begun again, the ne- Swimming Pools Are Popular Swimming pools in Birmingham and in the surrounding district were kept in good condition this Summer, said E. E.

Erwin, director of the division of rural sanitation of the Health Department. "All of the pools seemed to have an unusually good attendance. Water in the pools was tested at regular intervals and they were kept in safe condition. Despite the fact that most of the streams about the Birmingham district are contaminated, a great many persons continue to swim in them year after year. One of the swimming pools in territory outside of the city made a big improvement this Summer.

The operators put in a pipeline about a mile long to bring a very good water supply from a big spring to the pool. When the water was treated at the pool, it was exceptionally good. Most of the operators have shown diligence in trying to maintain their pools In good condition." Mora Gymnasium! Are Provided One of the biggest handicaps we have had with our Winter athletic programs has been the lack of gymnasiums," said R. W. Shelton, director of recreation for men and boys.

"When we get our three new community buildings, which are included in a WPA project already approved, that handicap will be overcome. We can then carry on a program of varied athletic activities suitable to the needs of the communities. Each of the three buildings, to be located in Willow Wood, Harrison and Central Parks, will have a gymnasium, which will serve also as an auditorium and will have space for spectators. We can then organize basket ball, volley ball and indoor baseball leagues. It will be possible to arrange seven games of basket ball a day.

The junior boys can play three games in the afternoon and the older boys and men can play four at nights. Residents of the communities in which these buildings are located will be given first preference in the organization of these teams. Great 8mcky Park Praised The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is going to be one of the show places of this part of the country, said S. P. Brabson.

"The government is now spending a considerable amount of money building roads to make the park more accessible to tourists and visitors. They are preparing camp sites and making other improvements which will make the park much more attractive to campers and vacationists. So far they have not built any cabins, but are providing attractive camp sites. They are building observation towers on some of the higher mountains. I spent my vacation cemping and fishing there this Summer.

1 was there while Birmingham was having its hottest weather and had to sleep under a blanket every night. The climate and scenery are fine. I caught-aome nice bass and bream, but others in the party got a number of fine rainbow and speckled trout. I didn't fish fof them, however. tinued to oppose the president during the election year he would be uselessly barking his thins.

Senator Byrd is aware, says Mr. Dabney, that Roosevelt will be renominated, irrespective of anything he might do to prevent it, and has decided to get on the bandwagon early in the game. There are several other Democratic senators like Byrd who have been unsympathetic with some New Deal policies. There are Tydings, of Maryland; George, of Georgia; Bailey, of North Carolina, and Byrds senior colleague, Senator Glass, wrho have opposed Mr. Roosevelts policies at times.

There is little doubt now that these men will all join Senator Byrd in party regularity in 1936, for the same reasons which led him to get on the bandwagon. How Can Best Judge Recovery? Must we judge recovery by the export trade of this country? Must we judge it by the production of the heavy industries? Must judge it by the cost of foodstuffs? Must we judge it by the number of persons gainfully employed? Or must we judge it by the way people feel and act in their everyday intercourse with each other? In last Sundays New York Times is a very short dispatch from Topeka. and all that it says is contained in one paragraph: Good humor is returning to the highways. State highway patrolmen say that whereas motorists for the last two Summers were abrupt, gruff and unsociable, they now' are affable and willing to stop for a chat. Filling station attendants corroborate this.

They report that there is more leisure driving this season. So that is how we should judge recovery. If people are happy, if they are willing to stop and pass a word with the filling station operator, if they are courteous when reprimanded by the state police, certainly they must be feeling better, financially, spiritually, mentally. For who could be cheerful at a filling station if he knew that he was spending his last dollar for a gallon of gas, and who could chat amiably with the police if he wras uncertain that a square meai awaited him at the next town? We have been judging recovery too much op a purely material basis. We have been getting many headaches from reading statistics on the number of bales of cotton sold in the foreign market, on the increase in tourist travel, on the production of steel, of automobiles, and so on.

But we have seldom stopped to ask, Are you feeling better today? Is your waistline expanding? We have been too nearsighted, too much interested in mere figures to inquire if our next-door neighbor had a goodmeaI last night, or if he finds life a little more bearable, after all. It may be as Kin Hubbard remarked: Its pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an wealth have both failed. But maybe recovery brings happiness, and certainly recovery is on the w'ay when people are showing good humor again. eessity for special care on the part of automobile drivers in watching out for children hould be constantly borne in mind.

There Is no better way of putting the appeal for careful driving than to reproduce Jesse Wil-more Murtons poem, Prayer of a Modern Mother. which is the prayer in every moth O. MeINTVR 6 lilt Hr Th Sirmmahim Htwt iy The McN.ufM Syndicate. Inc. NEW YORK.

Jascha Heifetz has attained the peak of hia musical career and ia likely to stay there for a number of year. His astonishing draw at the Stadium concerts some weeks ago surpassed any event ever held there. For two successive evenings his audiences numbered more than 18,000 each. The vast gatherings that heard his concertos with the Philharmonic realized they were hearing an artizt who is neck and neck with Kreis-ler as the greatest violinists of their day. The magnificent silences followed by outbursts of cheering formed a dramatic emotional contrast.

Since Heifetz came to America a boy prodigy, he has grown steadily in the esteem of music lovers and critics. The past few years perhaps since hig marriage to Florence Vidor, the movie star have brought forth increasing 'heart," beauty and fire to his playing. Doubtless he is now at the top. The violinist is still in his early 30s and has two lovely children, a boy and a girl. When he is not on tour he divides his time between Balboa, and a Park Avenue penthouse and plays in all corners of the globe.

Added to his genius is a keen sense of humor. Fifty-Second Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, continues to be the most astonishing restaurant block New York has ever known. In a mushroom growth, it has in a two-year stretch added 18 eating places to the blocks pioneers Tonys and No. 21. Many are open-fronted with sidewalk tables.

And quite a number prosper solely on overflow trade. The next block east is also becoming cafe conscious and six Frenchified places have opened. I hear Will Rogers, so fidgety on terra firma, was as composed as a statue flying. Its the only way he found to relax. He did not even chew gum.

Also he was without slightest flying fear, being somewhat a fatalist. The thing that worried him most in air travels was his daily newspaper dispatch. He was not satisfied unless he delivered the piece, country boy style, to a telegraph office in person. Often he scribbled it on an old envelope. Western North Carolina, a correspondent reveals, leads in outlandish names for little out-of-the-way places.

Among them: Rip Shin Hollow. Dog Hobble Ridge. Frog Level, No Business Creek. Buzzard Roost, Skull Knob, Grinning Eye, Burnt Cabin Branch and Sway Back Hill. Henry Mencken, so far as I know, has been the only campaigner against authors and publishers who dish out books without index.

His fulminations against indexless volumes have done much to promote their inclusion the past few years. He believes any book that carries more than 15 names of actual people should list them alphabetically in the back. Incidentally, Mencken's endorsement over a decade has been an enormous factor in sales of books. Even when his praise was confined to the limited circulation of The American Mercury it resulted in a word of mouth spread that often fostered best sellers. He was first to forecast the popularity of Sinclair Lewis.

He saw talent in the first crude efforts of Jim Tulley, the life-termer Ernest Booth and many others. Despite omnivorous reading, he reads slowly, and often when a volume takes his eye will reread several times before going on to another. What the newspaper editorial room knows as the lobster trick is perhaps the professions most inglorious post, and yet in ways vastly Important. The origin of the term is vague and ha3 many versions, but is descriptive of the watchman on guard, as a rule, from 1 a m. until the arrival of the regular morning staff.

The man on the lobster trick is often a one-man editorial force, executing a score of different tasks. If a cataclysmic story breaks he is the general in command, routing the various departments and starting the first motions that in a short time will have the presses awhirr with extra editions. Sometimes he is one who has served in the highest posts at home and abroad, but on the down grade prefers anonymity of the lobster trick. From a feature story: During the lawn party the actress Peke stepped on a lighted cigaret and with a yelp began" scratching a hole in the ground. We tried to hold back, but step away from those guy lines, please just have to let go; Hot diggedy dog! IN PRAISE OF THE PRESIDENT To the Editor The News: Again our noble president has proved himself to be a statesman of rare qualities with deep spiritual insight.

Again he saw our helplessness, our bondage, and felt for us, and his great heart and mind found the open door which would lead his people back to the glorious freedom we have always enjoyed as Americans. With a full heart we thank God for this freedom from relief jobs into which thousands have been thrust because they were powerless to help themselves. All of us are grateful indeed for the help held out; it was the best and only way to save the people from wreck and starvation. But our president was not satisfied. He must lead us back to freedom, and the time came that he must make an upward move, and he made it.

Another great load was lifted from our hearts when he saved us from the terrors of another war. We are beginning to feel safe and secure from all that alarms. He is the greatest president the United States has ever known. MRS. WILLIAM NESPERLING.

Birmingham. ALABAMA AND THE PWA To the Editor The News: Based upon information published Sunday in The Birmingham News-Age-Herald, the relief administration in Washington is about to wreck completely the public works program in Alabama. It appears that the majority of the projects approved in Montgomery and forwarded to Washington are being rejected by Administrator Hopkins after receiving the approval of Secretary Ickes Department. This action will eliminate projects of a constructive nature, such as water works, sewers, schools, courthouses, hospitals and other types of permanent construction. The public often confuses the WPA under the state direction of Thadt Holt and the PWA under the direction of H.

S. Geismer. The WPA pays the minimum monthly wage of $19 to common labor. $27 to semi-skilled labor, and $35 to skilled mechanics. It justly has its place in an emergency.

The PWA pays the prevailing wages in the community, thereby giving a living wage to competent men in need of employment. The PWA applicant is required to pay 55 per cent of the cost, with the federal government giving 45 per cent. After Alabama has signified her willingness to pay this share and thereby receive constructive projects, we now find that the relief administration, with the stroke of a pen, is about to wreck completely this part of the recovery program in Alabama. Practically every county and many cities have made applications for PWA funds and the aid of the press is imperative to assist in the salvage of Alabama's share of this work. In many counties and cities the people have voted to levy taxes and issue bonds so as to receive these improvements, give labor employment at a living wage with a sufficient number of hours to make progress possible, and all are now threatened with being completely rejected.

Interested citizens and public officials should bring this immediately to the attention of our senators, congressmen and our governor in hopes of reaching the ear of President Roosevelt, or it will be too late for Alabama to benefit through the PWA program. CHARLES H. MCAULEY, Birmingham. Architect. The Alabama Press TO THE RACKETEERS OF ROMANCE An orchid to Gov.

Graves lor signing the heart balm bill of Senator Edgar Russell, of Dallas. Hereafter there will be no civil suits in Alabama for breach of promise, alienation of affection or seduction. The measure passed both houses by large majorities, and in the end Gov. Graves signed it, saying. There have been a great many abuses, and I think this will stop them.

Thus the racketeers of romance must find another access to fortune. Good sense went into the enactment of the Russell law. Montgomery Advertiser. THE COTTON PAVING BV NgNRY VANCE ILLUSION SHATTERED WHILE YOU WAIT WHEN I was just a little tad, Knee-high to a duck, I used to think the gambler had A lotta luck. But when I grew te be a man, And saw the dollars in his till, I learned that as a rule you can Attribute his success to skill And if the skill will not suffice.

He'll then resort to loaded dice. The administration was insistent on first putting industry under the oxygen tent before agreeing to give it a "breathing spell." Once upon a time, you know, it looked as if industry would never breathe again. The big drop of 1928 knocked the breath plum out of it. ADD PARADOXES The faster a man travels on the road to hell, the less chance he has of plunging off a curve. STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY i If you want to see An elephant squirm In pain, just call it A pachyderm." A political corpse ia usually a double-crossing victim of the non-accident type.

NIT My wife is a switch hitter. WIT- How zat? NIT She knocked off the right and left doors of our garage. ADD ONE-SENTENCE DESCRIPTIONS He looked like something somebody had made an example of. It'll take all of us at least another month to get rested up from vacation hecticity. ADD EPITAPHS Courage galore, Bullet-proof vest; He is no more Machine gun nest! No parade was ever worth the tedious wait you experienced because of its delay in starting.

An oyster bidding another oyster adieu: Bivalve." The trouble about a worm turning is that he hasn't auy hand to hold out. ADD INEVITABILITIES When Greek meets Greek, So we are told. It's the body scissors Or the strangle hold. Then there was the guy who was so dumb that he bet currency so he would have only paper losses. SEXTON AT FUNERAL "I guess thats get-tin tolled! Another sure sign that business is on the upgrade is that the Chairman of the Bored is showing interest again.

OLD DOLLAR BILL TURNS POET The Lost Chord, When last seen, Was jumpin' 'round On a accordeen. ADD DOUBLE PLAYS Pressure to Bear. OUR OWN DICTIONARY RECOVERY Deficit Debacle. By the time Mussolini's men get through with the Ethiopian temperature they 11 mark it up in the summary as too hot to handle. ADD DOUBLE PLAYS Jiggers to Jitters.

TWO-WORD 8TORY OF THE EXODUS Moses moseyed. Wonder how long it will be before they call the wrecker for a certain political machine in Louisiana? Noah was the only man in the world who ever figured that two pair beat three of a kind. COMES THE DAWN Lies of great men oft remind us. Though their pathway is sublime, They should really be in prison On a rock pile doing time, ADD SIMILES As obsolete as an automobile with a vacuum tank. A hurricane is like a braggart.

It usually blows itself out before it gets where it's going. OLD DOLLAR BILL SEZ The best simile ever I heard was; As busy as a hind-ketcher. You can always tells a rassler by the fact that he has went in for ear-conditioning. Then there was the girl who was so proper she always insisted on saying "Nantookit." There are few drinkers left who can remember when they used to put stoppers in bottles. ADD SIMILES As Wilde as Oscar.

Few realized how much Jack Doyle, the Irish pug, weighed until he hit the floor. In the old days when you got a policeman's nanny, he always had his billy to fall back on. Few dictators ever die of old age. FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS A mass of barbed wire. They postponed the war in Ethiopia when Selassie and Mussolini thought up some new names to call each other.

The late Huey Long's bodyguards will certainly have a tough time getting references for the next job. FINIS The snooper snoops, and snoops, and snoops, And snoops, and snoops, and snoops Until somebody comes along And knocks him for a row of loops. TODAYS LAST 8HOVELFUL It is beginning to look as if the League of Nations is only a bush league. Rippling Rhymes BY WALT MASON 1935 by George Matthew Adams ALL FORGIVEN WHEN Hiram G. Buckshaw was living, we thought him the cheapest of skates; we viewed him with eyes unforgiving, and counted his pestilent traits.

He never seemed willing or able to care for his nieces and aunt, the grub was but scant on his table, and all of the females were gaunt. He always was eng. to borrow two bits or a buck or a quid, the which he would pay back tomorrow, and always his promise would skid. In all modern method of shirking, as leader he never would yield; he loafed when others were working, he slept when the rest were afield. Thus all through existence he teetered, the object of corn and disdain, and then in the end he out-petered.

in poverty, anguish and pain. His system in life was so rotten excuse can scarcely avail; but all of hia faults were forgotten when once he was dead as a nail. Then down by the willows we laid him, down there by the myrtles and haws, and no one was there to upbraid him or tell what a piker he was. Men labored to think of some phrases, some stars they might place in his crown. His whiskers were finer than blazes, his beard wrs the biggest in town We criticise, harshly and blindly, the wayward or foolhardy chump, but view him serenely and kindly when once he has gone to the dump.

Quips and Quibblings ers heart as school begins: They are so small, dear God! The school is blocks away Their steps so prone to lag At bits of color in the street Make keen the eyes of drivers, Stay The grinding wheels of trucks Spare us from tiny splintered bones, From flesh, like blossoms, Crushed upon the stones. Let every automobile driver in Birmingham read this prayer, even memorize it at ny rate, remember its poignant appeal. The good driver, it is frequently remarked, drives not only for himself but for the other fellow as well. That is to say, he watches where he is going, and he watches where the other fellow', motorist or pedestrian, is going. Not only does he see to it that he does not run into anyone: he sees to it also, to the best of his ability, that no one runs into him.

He sees to it that no pedestrian gets into his way- without allowing him time enough to low down or stop until the road is clear. When school begins there is more need than ever for motorists to drive for the other fellow as well as for himself. Little children cannot be expected to be so watchful of traf- fic as grown-ups. Drivers must watch out for them. They are so small their steps to prone to lag at bits of color in the street.

Guard well their safety! No Political Assassination In All Alabama's History London newspapers, commenting on the laying of Senator Huey P. Long, have remarked that there has not been an assassina-1 tion of a political leader in Great Britain in more than 100 years. It is a record of which the British naturally are proud. Alabama can point to an even better record in this respect. There has never been a political assassination in this state and Alabama's statehood dates back to 1819, considerably more than a century.

Alabamians can be proud of that record, especially in view of the fact that there have been a good many political assassinations in the United States, especially in the nineteenth century. Several states have shameful records in this respect. Three of our presidents have been assassinated, or almost one in every 10. An at- tempt was made on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly before he was inaugurated.

Theodore Roosevelt was the object of a would-be assassin's bullets, and was wounded. In many countries today political assassinations are fairly frequent, This is particularly true of Latin American and South American countries. In some European countries political assassinations still take place. Not long ago the king of Jugoslavia and the foreign minister of France were killed to- gether. There are not many countries that can The entire world, and particularly the South, will follow with keen interest the progress of the cotton paving experiment to be conducted at Riley Field, Fort McClellan.

The world will be concerned with the potential advantages in this new cheap type paving, but the South has a far greater stake in that it envisions a new market for its great money crop. Use of cotton fabrics in cheap types of paving is not an original idea with Congressman Sam Hobbs, but the nation at large will be indebted to him if this project he has instigated proves the material benefits anticipated. Experiments have been under way for several years on cotton paving for secondary roads bearing light traffic, but it remained for the air-minded representative of Alabama's Fourth Congressional District to first realize its peculiar adaptability for airports. Its cushion quality, combined with the black surface, which does not refract light rays and confuse aviators while landing, are two factors that add to its major consideration that of low cost. The process is quite simple.

The terrain to be paved is graded and osnaburg is laid flat on the ground. The osnaburg which is a loose-j weave, cord-like fabric is then treated with a tar substance. The cotton strands absorb the liquid, which is a preservative, and the treated fibers serve the same purpose in the asphalt paving that steel performs in concrete forms. Over this gummy cotton surface a light layer i of asphalt is spread. Thats all there is to it.

The paving is impervious to weather; the cotton fabric can be laid on a giVen till, yet will not crack as does paving laid on dirt or gravel bases. Congressman Hobbs has estimated that if the airports of the nation adopt this cotton paving process for runways, it will consume 1,000,000 bales of cotton all of which must first be processed in textile mills. Another 1,000,000 bales can be used in paving the farm-to-market roads, for which an appropriation of $50,000,000 was made by the last Congress. If these tests prove successful, and constructing engineers are confident they will be. Congressman Hobbs has performed a service to the South that will not soon be forgotten.

That Calhoun's Fort McClellan was chosen as the scene for the experiment, and will be the first airport in the world to use cotton paving, should be remembered by people of this section when they have the opportunity to favor Mr. Hobbs at the next election. Anniston Star. Rumblings Of The Veterans Lobby Are Again Being Heard With plans under way for the American Legion convention in St. Louis this month, the demands for the bonus can again be hea with increasing loudness.

Many of the delegates have already announced that they will go to the convention with one idea in mind to make plans whereby they may force through Congress and over the presidents veto a bonus bill next January. Everyone known, ever since the presidents statesmanlike message vetoing the bonus bill last May, that Congress would have to face this measure again as soon as it convened in 1936. There has been much speculation on whether or not the president will be able to muster a sufficient number of votes to sustain his veto. An announcement from Hyde Park Monday indicated that Mr. Roosevelt was considering stopping off at the convention in St.

Louis to speak to the legionnaires on the bonus question. Whether this will be good political strategy and whether his personal appearance before them will have the desired effect are both open to question. The veterans are for the bonus, first, last and always. and they intend to leave no stones turned in their fight for it. At the present time are spending about billion dollars a year for veterans of all i wars, which amounts to about one-fourth of the governments normal budget.

At the I current rate of progression, says an edito- BY ROBERT QUILLEN 'America' Moat Quoted Paragraphs i33. Publlahere Syndicate You can tell when a church member begins to get rich. He stops being a generous giver. There is just as much confidence as there ever was. The difference is that new people have it.

Some of the rich must be preserved. Nobody else can afford to inherit the big estates. When a married man feels lonely, his wife can't cure him. He is working up an excuse for a jag. Man isnt at his best when he's upright.

His good resolutions are made when he's lying down I aUnight. What a surprise to find that the dreadful super-holding company is just a little fat man. Money isnt everything. But apparently it was everything that made a lot of important citizens important. Three welcome words that are final proof of recovery: Keep the change." Americanism: Worshipping a mere man until his head swells: turning against him because he let the swelling show.

You can tell a born underling who knows he is one. He tells the boss about the faults of others. It isnt hard to corrupt a married man. You just get some good-looker to start feeling sorry for him. In other words, when a member nation is attacked, the league will see that it gets robbed as gently at possible.

The great nations now have everything needed to prevent aggressive warfare except courage, honor and manhood. National policy: The maximum of decency that any nation can pursue without hurting big pocketbooks. 25 Years Ago Today Aa Recorded In Tht FlJaa Of Tht Birmingham New Of Thl Sunday No paper iMued. iion And The Constitution In a talk to the Constitution Club of Wayne, in Du Page County, Charles W. Hadley, of Wheaton, formerly chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, called attention to the meaning of the constitution for the churches.

The freedom of religious belief which it guaranteed was unique in its day, and although a liberalizing policy spread gradually to other parts of the civilized world, the present day condition of the churches in many great countries shows how freedom of conscience in religious faith has been impaired or destroyed by dictatorship. Under our democratic constitution preserved as such no form of dictatorship ia possible. That constitution must first be overridden or destroyed. "Even under a constitutional morr archy liberties may be protected. It has been a historic inevitability that when religion and government have been joined either the state has dominated the church or the church has dominated the state.

An all-powerful government means to be all-powerful and it seeks uniform compliance in all things. For religious liberty it matters very little whether you have a church state or a state church. In the most liberal government of this sort nonconformity is put under many disabilities and in the least liberal it is suppressed. Absolutism seeks to make all men alike. It must do so because when it has expressed its will all must obey.

There cannot be two opinions about anything. Religion being such a profound influence in life, directing so many of the acts of men, it is essential that dictatorship have control of the spiritual life. The dictator may, as in Russia and wherever collectivism gets the upper hand, regard all religious belief as subversive and put it under the severest penalties, educating children away from it, closing the churches, and forbidding most of the ministrations of the clergy. The collectivists follow the Marxian doctrine that religion is an opium administered to the people by exploiters who are thereby able to keep them in economic serfdom. The Russians naturally followed the advice of Marx and proceeded to extirpate the church, destroying it physically as well as spiritually.

Proletarian Mexico has been severely repressive of religious life, reducing the clergy to a fugitive condition and forbidding services and destroying sacraments. The Reds in Spain pursued the same course. Religion it sent back to the catacombs whenever collectivism gains the power to deal with faiths and creeds as it wishes to do. Under a different type of dictatorship Germany is found offering another method of oppression. The Nazis endeavor to establish a strange and eccentric state religion, in its most extreme enthusiasms turning to paganism, and all the churches are put under compulsion to adopt and preach the Nazi creed, TTiey resist ltd suffer.

The clergymen are persecuted. Freedom of worship ana liberty of conscience are impaired or destroyed. Germany churches are in the trenches defending rights which the imperial government had not taken away. When the constitution prohibited the state establishment of religion and guaranteed religious freedom, England had an established church and nonconformists had not escaped from many disabilities imposed upon them by government which had tried to be dictatorial. America had been populated in part by people from all parts of Europe who had been unable to enjoy full civil, political and economic freedom because of the creed they preferred and the churches to which their conscience led them.

England was by far the most liberal of the large European countries, but its record had been one of savage repression of all but members of the dominant church. Religious intolerance in the days of Cromwell offset the revolutionary gains and Englishmen painfully struggled over a long course of years for what they might have had much earlier if they could have permitted religious freedom. Americana may believe that their very nature would protect them from the loss of religious and other liberties, whether or not they were guaranteed by the supreme law. That ia a complin. entary thought and for many it is true, but Americans are not free from emotional fevers and they can act in prejudice and in passion.

Any large body of citizens, any majority in any community, may In the heat of an intense conviction of right seek to impose Its beliefs on the minorities. A religious conviction can be the most intense of all. It may seem a duty to compel conformity to the belief of the largest numbers. Freedom in religion is the exercised privilege of the freest people. As soon as they begin to lose liberty along any front they are preparing themselvea for the losa of the right to order their own lives In all respects.

Including th right of worship, as they choose. Th churches should be the stanchest defender of the greet charter of their free and independent existence. Chicago Tribune. AMERICANIZING GREAT BRITAIN On cure for the noise of wireless sets cornea from America. The plan is that, after reasonable representations have failed, one rings up the offender every morning about 3 o'clock to tell him how much his radio has been enjoyed.

This continues until he desist. It teams to be a rheckmat. From a letter in Th London Timet. boast a record like Great Britain's. And there are all too many states in this country that are unable to show a record like An Interesting Political l)melo)mirul In Nirginia rial in The St.

Louis Post-Dispatch, in 10 I years or so, we shall be spending about two billions annually, and as the veterans get older, a greater sum than that. Even the richest country in the world cannot survive I exactions like that." The Springfield Republican observes that I "it ia our history that war veterans get what I they demand sooner or later." The danger of an organized minority such as the legion I cannot be exaggerated. The fear now is that the veterans lobby, working on con-! gressmen afraid of their seats, will get the bonus next year. However, it is believed by a good many competent observers that this minority is not so powerful as is often believed. There are millions of people in this country who are firmly against immediate cash payment of the bonus, and their vote may command more respect from congress-! men than the vote of a disgruntled minority.

As times improve, many of the veterans i themselves should relax their insistence on immediate cash payment, and become more content to wait for the bonus to be paid at I itltors To The Smokies The Great Smoky Mountain National Park last year attracted more than 400,000 visitors and the number this year is expected to exceed that decidedly by the time vacation season ends. Visitors there in June this year showed an increase of 32 9 per cent and in July a gain of 22 per cent. During May, June and July a total of 174.428 visitors entered the park and studied casually or intensively its unrivaled wonders of scenery and natural beauty. The fact becomes more and more apparent that the Great Smoky Mountain Park is destined to be decidedly the most popular in the entire federal system, something to be readily understood. It has the attractions and it is easy of access to a large portion of the country's population.

A report on the park attendance for July has just been made public In Washington. The Washington Post records that automobiles from 44 states, the District of Columbia and Canada entered the park boundaries during the month. Most of the cars of course came from Tennessee and North Carolina, but various other states were well represented: Illinois, by 627: Georgia, 1 529; Indiana. 474: Kentucky. 455; Michigan.

385; Florida, 334. New York, 265, and Pennsylvania, 223. The federal government is busily engaged In continued improvement of the park area. There are now 15 CCC camps within the area and be-1 tween 300 and 400 miles of roads and trails are under construction. The Tenneieee highway to Newfound Gap to meet the Carolina highway leading Into the Qualla Creek Reservation is being reconstructed and one trail known as "the grandstand" of the Smokies, and another to the I top of Cllngmans Dome, the highest peak In the park, are being marked.

Though Washington is figuring already on the 1 season visitors to the park, this does not mean 1 that visiting the park has halted (nr the year. Far from It The early Fall la one of the most Back From Greenland Both book lenders and book borrowers should be interested in a little story that comes from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. It appears that Alderman G. H. Carr, of that city, made one of Admiral Pearys polar expedition in 1893-94 and took with him to while away the long Arctic nights the two volumes of Stanleys "In Darkest Africa.

Pause a moment to appreciate the exquisite intelligence of the selection. Before Mr. Carr lay a Winter in the frozen wastes pent up within the icy walls of an igloo. No radio to remind him of his good fortune nothing but seals and polar bears and the conversation of companions long since become bores. What better antidote could be conceived than a vicarious exploration of steaming Jungles vocal with the myriad life of the tropics and bright green under a blinding sun? Apparently it proved to be too good.

One gathers that the admiral, observing the silent ecstasy of the reader in the light of his whale oil lamp, borrowed those books In any event. Mr. Carr missed them and for 41 years believed tint he had lost them in Greenland. To his amazement they turned up this week In the custom house at Prince Albert in a percel addressed to him from Washington. Mr.

Edwin Stafford. Peary daughter, had found them among the admiral's effects end forwarded them to their owner. To book lenders the Incident suggest a series of morals. No. 1: Sec always that your name and, of course, your address are properly Inscribed on the flyleaf.

No. 2: Dissemble the rapture or your reading. No. 3: Never de spair; the forgetfulness of a borrower is not necessarily hereditary. As for book borrowers, there it relief in thl demonstration that books do find their way home, to why worry? Or do you? New York Herald Tribune.

he will support Mr. Roosevelt next year, thus allaying the fears that Mr. Byrd might be one of the ringleaders in the formation of a coalition ticket, as tome political commenta- a had predicted.