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14 EVENING NEWS, Hamburg, Tuesday. December 11. 1945 On the Welcome Mat New York CAVALCADE By LOUIS SOBOL King Features Syndicate. Ina. "These Days" COLLECTIVE GUILT By GEORGE E.

SOKOLSKY (Copyright. 1945. King Features Syndicate. 11 North MarKet Square. Harrisburg.

Published every evening except Pa Sunday THK HATKlOl COMPANY, established February 15. 1917 It is impossible to generate synv ula for a Carthaginian peace for Germany is the corruption which VANCE C. McCORMICK President CHARLES H. MORRISON Treasurer and Business Manager HOMER E. MOYER Advertising Manager DEAN HOFFMAN Editor V.

HUMMEL BERGHAUS. JR. Managing Editor pathy lor the twenty JNazis on trial at Nuernberg. Had they is giving the crime of genocide been shot by summary court-mar legal respectability. Mr.

Jackson has chosen twenty tial or killed by Murder, I am Address communications to THE EVENING NEWS, Editorlsl. Business or Circulation Departments, not to individuals. Call Bell 5252. Same number reaches all departments. Single copy 3 cents, 15 cents per week, delivered.

Entered as second class matter at Harrlsburg, P. O. Under the Act of March 3, 1879 sure that nobody would have mourned their loss. Unfortunately, the individual creatures are not on trial; they are symbols of a new Germans who are being tried to establish the law, enacted by no one, that the planning for war and the making of war, to say nothing of losing a war, is a personal TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1945 sweet -home. mz tfpSpi2 theory of the law, already given a name, genocide, the murder of IN STAMFORD JTEW YORK, Dec.

11. Smalltown reporter covers Bigtown scene Mike Arlen, the writer, who has been limping all over town because of his last auto accident, almost lost his voice in another one the other afternoon, on his way to visit Buzz Meredith and Paulette Goddard. Car skidded over a bridge, hung over the river, ready to drop but Mike scrambled out just before the auto dropped. Lou Mayer, the boss of Metro, was saying only a few days ago: "After all this excitement is over, people are going to learn the difference between inflation and genius." Smart man, that Louis B. eamg heaps of money by knowing how to harness genius.

pRANK HUNTER, the former tennis champion, and Irving Netcher, the department store heir who got himself into the picture OTAMFORD, continues to parade its spineless gov- an entire nation, of a whole peo crime. Ihe twenty are in a "master trial." Should they be, as they obviously will be, found guilty, ple. And the trouble about that 3 ernment before the Nation. One of its big industries is strikebound. Pickets surround the plant.

When the is that if it is made good law by Mr. Justice Jackson, it might be some 400,000 Germans, of whom perhaps 150,000 are in the American zone, will ipso-facto be guilty applied universally. Thus, Supreme Court Justice for participation, under orders, in Jackson, weary of the tried pro president sought to enter his office, pickets ganged up on him, blockaded his path, while the city police stood passive in the street and the mayor teetered doing nothing to protect an American citizen in the exercise of his rights as a property owner. A second' chapter in this farce of municipal govern cedures of Anglo-Saxon jurispru dence, lays foundations for prece. dents which send shivers down the the crimes of the twenty.

This is called "collective guilt" which heretofore has been practised principally by Hitler, and also, to some degree, in the Soviet purges. It has never been tolerated in an Anglo-Saxon country where only an individual may be tried for his actions. At any rate, the American Army is not going to stand spines of all fighting men, including our own, who, to be any good at all, must not reason why; theirs but to do and die. If, as Mr. Jus ment found the power plant deserted by the workers, the because his wife is one of the fa pipes in danger of freezing, the whole plant endangered.

Thereupon the executives of the company found their way tice Jackson maintains, planning war makes a military officer a murderer and each staff officer mous Dolly Sisters, aren't going to hunt together any more as they have for nigh on to 15 years. Seems as if they never had any luck together. Last week Frank 150,000 Germans, who were tried to the boilers and for a number of days have been maintaining temperatures. Newspaper stories tell of the slim by proxy, against a wall to shoot them in cold blood. went eff a-hunting on Gardiner's fare these executives have at their disposal but also of Mr.

Jackson made this point in Island with Winston Guest. Brad on the general level is to be held accountable for every act of those for whom he is responsible, who is to be hanged for the hurling of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki? A law, if it is to serve a useful purpose, his speech: Dresser, Hugh Fenwick and soma other pals, and they brought down their determination to see it through. The answering jibe to this situation is a threat from "We ask that the general staff and the high command, as defined the strikers that once these maintenance executives leave the as Mr. Jackson says, must be ap- in the indictment, be condemned as a criminal group, whose exist plant for any reason or other, they will never get back plicable, without discrimination, to any nation, including those which now sit in judgment. If ence and tradition constitute And Stamford's city government puts up with that kind of standing menace to the peace of the world.

membership in the Nazi party, in time of peace, may be made a No law could possibly be sound 10 bucks. Netcher went off to Woolie Donahue's place in Long Island and shot down 36 ducks. Now they're going to get together and throw one hunk of a big feed. rIIOLLIE and Mollie Berns got back from the Coast and heaved a big get-together over at 21 the other night made everyone wear black ties and the gals had to come in their low-cut gowns. Some of the folks who indulged in soup and souffle were Martha Scott, Tex McCrary, Fran- which indicts, in this manner, an administrative agency of a recog crime retroactively, may not the time come when membership in the Republican or Democratic or Communist party not be so de nized government.

Certainly, the anarchy. Unless it is yellow all through it will proclaim its determination to guarantee to its citizens every last clause of their constitutional rights against any attempts at interference. The most pitiful spectacle for free Americans to witness is the capitulation of government to individuals or groups which thumb their noses at public authority. Many an eye is trained on Stamford as well they should be. Soviet judge must be frightfully clared as good law? The fault is not Mr.

Jackson's. It is a piece of that mad ferocity, invented ostensibly by Henry Mor- port for the selection of an Amer embarrassed at this dictum since his country was, even in war years, an ally of the government of which this general staff was a part, and for much of its history in fact, while it was actually, according to the indictment, planning this war cine Ccunihan Riordan, Clyde New-house, Maggi McNellis, Walter genthau, called a "hard peace," but which, in reality, is a revival WASHINGTON SLANT OF DAVID LAWRENCE ican city is not without significance. As for the exact location inside the United States, this is a secon-ary matter. The primary task is of the savagery of the Roman conquest when the leaders of a con this administrative agency was American 11. to insure the continued interest of WASHINGTON, Dec, quered people were dragged in constant daily association with press is the the governments that now try freest in the whole world.

ATOMIC POSSIBILITIES THE Moscow publication Izvestia reports that Russian scientists in Armenia have succeeded in knocking protons out of lead atoms by means of cosmic rays. Being sadly unscientific, we cannot guess what effect, if any, such a discovery might have on the technique of atomic fission. But let us assume that this reported discovery or a them including the United States Here in the United States news through the streets of the Eternal City, chained to the chariots of the more fortunate. And Hannibal's Carthage was salted over on the No one can defend the conduct and always will be the logical country to house the headquarters Young, Bill Corum, Bob Ritchie, the I. Netchers, the Wallie Har-woods, Pat Smart, Faith Dawn, the II.

Lustigs, the Ferdie Mayers, Bill Seeman, Kitty Clark and a lot of others. Your faithful reporter wore his snazzy tux, built in 1937, ar.d everyone remarked how very unbecoming it was. QORIS (PEE WEE) DONALD-SOX, who was once the fetch-ingest chorine in town and then got herself married to a nice fellow is back in New York again papers, radio and press associa tions actually gather and distrib curious assumption that the tougher the conqueror, the more of these men as individuals, but genocide is bad law whether practised by Hitler or an Allied court. The sacrifice of fundamental legal principles for political opportunism is a repudiation of civilization. Yet there has development of it should add significantly to present kn owl- eternal the peace.

ute more news about what is happening in the world and publish more today than does the press of any other country. Likewise, the edge of the atom. Suppose Russian scientists should dis of an international organization to preserve peace. But for some strange reason there has been circulated here and in London in the last few weeks propaganda designed to place the headquarters in some European country. been no peace in the centuries since.

Henry Morgenthau's form the American people in the UNO. This cannot be accomplished by removing the seat of the new organization to some small country in Europe where secrecy will have the maximum opportunity and the doctrine of "open covenants openly arrived at" can be so easily ignored because of the handicaps of communications and the remoteness from the American people. Reproduction Rights Reserved LWEXTS NEW DOORKNOB PORTLAND, Ore. Fire and water collaborated with Rowland Ott to make a better doorknob. Ott, washing his hands when his house caught fire, nearly was trapped in (he bathroom when his soapy hands could not turn the slippery doorknob.

with her baby. Her man. a first cover a method of making atomic bombs which would avoid the tremendous installations and tremendous expense of the present method which, we gather, form an important part POLITICAL GLEANINGS American press is less influenced by its own government's policy even in foreign affairs than is the British or the French or the Russian press. The one way to make sure that the truth is getting out to the peoples of the world is to By CHARLES G. MILLER lieutenant, is off to Berlin.

Lloyd Douglas, the writing man, who sold a lot of copies of his last The propaganda is not openly in of our "secret." HPHE stories of the death of John The witness was asked by the lavor oi any large country in book, "The Robe," isn't coming to R. K. Scott, outstanding crim chairman what his duties consisted but the usually What then? The Russians would have a "secret" of their own. It might be that the present keepers of the atomic New York after all as planned, but is on the "small" country. The line let the American publicity system of, and replied that at times when he passed through the hall of the has settled down in Las Vegas because he has the miseries with secret then would be seeking rather than offering knowledge.

operate to its maximum, just as it of argument, curiously enough, insists that if the United Nations inal lawyer of Philadelphia, tell of his years devoted to legislative work and of his leadership in the Republican organization in his home city. For a long period he arthritis. House a member would complain of Faye Emerson and her husband. You don't sacrifice yourself because the other person is worth it, Organization is located in Amer Elliott Rosevelt, were saving the Then and there Ott vowed to invent but to satisly your own conscience. other afternoon thev hope friends ica, it will be influenced too much by American publicity and Amer was leader of the Fourteenth Ward a door knob opening a door by slight pressure instead of the usual twist.

He did. Labor trouble (in this atomic age): Neighbors quarreling on the ican politics. its being too hot. He then would open a window. At other times, the witness said, a legislator told him it was too cold, and then, the witness declared, he would walk into the rotunda and later return to the hall to ask the member about and he was elected to five sessions of the House in a period of 20 years between 1899 and 1919.

He served his district in Congress for won't mind sitting down with them now that they've been tossed out of the Social Register. Faye says she guesses that at family gatherings they'll have to wait till tha side of a volcano that will blow up tomorrow. If you write a better para This type of comment then proceeds to urge that some small country in Europe be chosen so did in San Francisco. This correspondent was at the Paris peace conference and has observed the workings of other international conferences since that time. European governments still feel that the press must directly or indirectly follow the pattern set forth by the professional diplomats.

It was the American press which made a vigorous, though unsuccessful fight for full publicity at the Paris peace conference, and the position has never been abated since. that the organization will not ap two terms, 1914 and 1916, and he was a member of the State Senate Jimmy Roosevelts sit down first. the temperature. pear to be "dominated" by any na because they're okay again in the "What would the member say?" in 1936. graph, it will be stolen to go in a dictionary of jokes, and a popular magazine will use it and give credit to the dictionary.

It is nice to help others. To ludtre the "good old days," tion. inquired Scott, THOUGHTFUL THIEF EUGENE, Ore. This burglar had the situation well in hand. When a sporting goods store was broken into one recent night, the robber took along a package of meat to feed the bird dog kept in the store at night.

American m-nufacturcrs plan to prorirr-e rcit. more in None of the biographies, though, JO more unrealistic statement of "He would usually say things tells of his temporary break with were just right." the old Penrose organization in 1913, following the session when he HpHE committee dug out the fact 1 1 gressman was on the payroll as a 1946 thon in and total of t'ie UniM States was a floor leader of the organization. In that session he was chairman of the Judiciary Special Committee of the House and he turned If the United Nations selects a site in the Unitod States, it will be a death blow to some of the devotees of power politics who like to play shrewd international games House elevator man but he never may be w-orVi ni billon dollars, as compared bi'Mon in 1939, had come here to operate a machine. His pay was $6 a day and independent, a condition which if accordiriT to Distribute and pursue secret maneuvers be known at the opening of the ses he paid a Harrisburg man $2 a day to run the elevator. sion, would have barred him from any chairmanship in those days.

note the character of the people who survive from that period. Contentment means mental sleep. To find an age of genius, look for a time of violent disagreement and discontent. But America will return to the pre-war system: men sweating to make money, and every second store a shop for ladies. Beware a borrowing friend who won't take your advice.

If he wastes borrowed money, it is because he regards it as a gift. Once more our servants in Washington, playing politics and squabbling, prove themselves too small to be trusted in time of crisis. "Typical German thoroughness" comes in handy. A Nazi couldn't even commit a crime without writing down the evidence that would hang him. Clerks to committees, that had the problem could be made.

For everyone who has the slightest familiarity with international affairs knows that no nation hesitates to speak frankly through its delegates no matter where the international conference is held. If anything, the host country is under the special obligation to refrain from doing anything that could be construed as exercising undue influence. There is one argument and it is the only argument for locating the United Nations Organization in America. European governments have always been interested in world problems but the people of the United States have Aunt Het Rt ROBERT OUI1.LEX hind the scenes. The American Government, with its professional diplomats, has at times catered to the same point of view.

There will be less chance of diplomatic secrecy not met at, all during the first TNTO that committee found its way a resolution demanding a three months of the legislative ses bluebook listing. a howl when Andre Ba-' rrche in the rewsreels, commenting on the Army-Navy game, 'vivs a buildup to Red Barber and whose picture do they show in a clor-eup but Hairy Truman, the Prez! Dave V'ynn is getting out of tha Navy where he was cameraman and correspondent. Dave says that while in England he barged in on G. Bernard Shaw and talked himself into the bearded man's esteem. Shaw sent him over to his own publisher, Richard Cowan, who set him up in a house with two stenographers.

Tha result was he turned out two books, "The World Is My Oyster" and "Up the Other Sleeve," which tha firm has published. Saw this verse on a tablecloth over at Lum Fong's: "A is for Atom, and if it's turned loose The 25 other letters will be of no use!" mm sion, were paid $7 a day, testimony showed. Several said that if a thorough investigation of the House employes and their duties, producing international complica committee meeting were called it and raised the question that the was their duty to see the committee room door was unlocked before the House was much over-staffed with loyal party adherents sometimes meeting. called "workers." Both houses of tions if American public opinion is fully informed. DUSSIA is suspicious of other countries and her suspicions will not be diminished if the United Nations headquarters is put in the atmosphere of European rivalries and imperialism.

The Russians The caretaker of the members' the Legislature then had too many locker room was a Philadelphian who was paid 7 a day, seven days payrollers, and Scott decided that it would be a good idea to find out been only intermittently interested. If the United Nations Organization is to succeed, it -must THE ONCE OVER The Sitting Era By H. I. PHILLIPS Released by the Associated Newspaperi a week. He was called to the wit just what were the duties of the ness chair and testified that he had have the searchlight of full pub know because of their experience at San Francisco that an interna been to Harrisburg only twice dur ing the session.

Those days hap House staff. Chairman Scott started a series of public hearings that ran for some weeks and brought out in tional conference held in America pened to be paydays at the begin licity playing on it all the time, so that American public opinion will be constantly informed and ready to play its part in influencing set-J tlements that mean peace. gives them the fullest opportunity ning of the session after that he had his checks mailed. to present their views to the press of this Country. The Russian sup- TRAINS SKUNKS AS HOBBY DALLAS.

Ore. Mrs. Sadie Red- "TTHO looked after your work in 'the locker room?" he was asked. dekopp is capitalizing on her hobby of domesticating skunks. She catches the skunks while babies and trains them, claiming they like to be petted formation that resulted not only materially in reducing the number of House employes but subsequently, also cut dovTi the number of Senate employes.

NE of the witnesses called by Scott was supervisor of heat and ventilation. Both houses had "Bill fools himself easy. He's a crank about honor, and he loves his wife, so he figures it's natural for a woman to lie more than men." Publisher! Syndicate JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. GUEST Protected by Tha George Matthew Adami Servlc BOASTFUL GRANDPA "Jim Wilson," the witness re plied. "I pay him 2 a day." "Isn't he the doorman at the Or- and play like kittens.

She says tha demand for the skunks exceeds the supply. Says he knows all that Santa My grandpa says that he could pheum Theater?" (Now the State Theater), Scott inquired. knows, grow such an official, a job that went back to the early days of the old Capitol when heat was secured llson was called. He said that And are the children being good, And do they eat the things they on nights when there were shows A set of whiskers white as snow And do, if need for him there wuz, 'Bout everything that Santa does. should from fireplaces.

Thermostats had been in use in the Capitol for years or during matinee afternoons he could not be in the locker room. Qffy Iears Jgo But when we ask him how it's before the Scott inquiry and there My grandpa, who is very proud, "Who did the supervising then?" "I turned the work over the boot were no logs to carry into the legislative halls and no places to Insists his laugh is just as loud As Santa's an' hi tummick shakes black." done, How Santa knows us every one, And what we want, he says "Well! Well! I promised Santa not to tell." The report published in New York Just like the jelly grandma makes. put them had the supervisors brought them in. "What did you pay him?" "Fifty cents a day." newspapers that former President My grandpa, as his nose he blows, "General Miles testified that although the Secretaries of Navy and War had on October 11 ordered a joint Army-Navy intelligence board in view of the Jap crisis, nothing was done until after Pearl Harbor. Asked why there were no meetings in those two months of great danger he replied that there was no agreement on a place to sit." News item.

"There in a nutshell," declared Elmer Twitchell today, "you have the story behind the Pearl Harbor disaster and a good many of the Other mishaps and troubles, past and current, in the land of the free and the home of the exasperated. A place to sit it's objective Number One in too many places. "Right there you have the main cause of most of this Country's headaches. The old stand-upper, the old timer who used to act fast and get things done, even if it took a little overtime, is extinct. We are in the Sitter's Era.

"Sitting, or debating where to sit before doing anything, got its big development with the growth of bureaucracy in the Nation, State and city governments. You could go to Washington any time in the last decade and see sitting and discussions of sitting developed to a fine art. "Some of the tallest sitting in the world history was in full swing. As Miles indicates, things had reached a point where the sitting was so good that the sitters were getting fussy. They all had different ideas about where the sitting was the best.

"It was true in the Army and Navy Departments as In all others before Pearl Harbor. Nobody in the Army or Navy had done any sitting since, in fact they showed the world how to do a big stand-up job. And none of our fighting boys did any sitting. But the sitting situation on the home front is still bad and getting worse. "What this Country needs more than anything else are 'No Sitting' signs everywhere.

"I don't care where you look: Washington, New York, Chicago, San Francisco Government or business Federal office or private citizen's office There's too much sitting and too little action. The best thing that could happen to America would be to be stripped of its office chairs." Elmer was quite hot. We reminded him that he was sitting in a super-upholstered office chair while talking. "I know it," he sighed. "There aje no exceptions.

It's Harrison was to marry Mrs. Dim-mick, the niece of the late Mrs, DOUBLE TROUBLE By BILL MacLEAX Benjamin Harrison, was of interest in this city because Mrs. Abbie Briggs, of North Second street, this "Pomts Purely Personal" section of The Patriot, contained the following items: "Editor Thomas C. Zimmerman was in this city on business," and also that his Reading Times was one of the best newspapers of that city. Additional personal notes read: H.

Patrick is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for school director in the Eighth Ward; W. Scott Hem-perly, of this city, has been chosen city, was an aunt of Mrs. Dimmlck's. Mrs. Briggs declared that she knew nothing of the rumored engagement The annual meeting of the Bay Shoe Company was held at the of.

flees, on East State street, and the a member of the advkstory commit following directors were elected: W. F. Bay, Adam Reel, Charles B. tee of the Pennsylvania Railroad relief department; Senator McCar- if I '11 DIDNT VOU HEARME TELL 11 YEAH, BUT lXOU THINK -iM A BOY.1! JEANNIET06ET0UT0FM DIDN'TOVJ YOU'RE ANY bjJi MOVE BACK.vJEANNlE A'l1 Iwt MYLI6HT? r-lf'l It rr DIFFERENT UW 11 IN MY LIGHTS jljlP SP JEAMMIE? lC jdK. JT Fager, T.

T. Wierman, H. S. Kelley, George W. Reily, J.

G. M. Bay, Casper Dull, J. C. Durban.

rell recently secured a verdict for $31,000 In the courts of Jefferson County in favor of James V. Fenn, formerly of this city; County Solici The body of the Rev. W. J. Stevenson, former pastor of Grace Methodist Church, who died in Philadelphia, was buried in the fam tor Miller and Richard V.

Cox have returned from a hunting expedition; the Sisters of Mercy return ily plot at Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore. The services were at their thanks for ihe liberal donation of $50 from Haldeman O'Connor to tended by Mr. and Mrs. M. W.

McAlarney, Mrs. Hugh Pitcairn and Miss Pitcairn, of this city. ward a library in the House at Mercy.".