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Kitfimond II la Tuesday feepf TimtwttrynnrxTtrryrc r7ftnnrappcriflr0nmtrxjuim Sirbraoitd Sitncg-Bigpatrlj VitaNivs Dabncy Editor John Stcwart Bryan President and Publisher IN A booklet entitled For Americans Only written by Samuel Fetten-gill and Paul CL Bartholomew I find some quotations w-hich will surely interest the future historians of this period in our history rBHCBIRIO! IUTEM ratr Dail a Kiiii4t Sic wfe Imi! air Sr wk kaai aa'T IV Hwor I o'ia: lauv a RaBr Ska afc lailv a SV Sialar Ml lie vk ITU II lUlb-filiKlt 1 1UMMI llr IHl IMr IVa Bails aM Buadav 111 f-M 1 fill Bail (a't a aa 4 a 2 ZM a baxiar im ij I (aa 13a And again: are in for a profound revolution Those of us who realize the inevitability of revolution ar anxious that it be gradual and bloodless instead of sudden and blood' I have often encountered Mr Wallace talking of the revolution but never have I read any statement from him saving what the revolution is against: what tt is for and what it can effect that cannot be effected by the orderly and appointed process of constitutional change and legislative enactment ITAHIIMIKU Its' MbM la mr i Vri tmaim lidiiM Ui-Ml b'ml 'M Pom lir HI m4 CteM Mall Man HKIfUU ur TMC anwatTUt Mm aM ta ka far biMacaiiaai af ava a'ckaa oaliiH ar BN annia la Rw apa and aaa iaa Iwu ana MMutM bn a nifta tt laauburanaB mmsl Sum-cSm ara jm lawraO Ta'aahaaa I af A4ft)Maa iBNUiano: T-Firnw-Wi fa la Fames (Kaurm will ha furntfnwt saaa faacrci S-Mmmismt a Ball ant aicaarad la laraitwa is aeirk rsrnf arrir aiaftw It will astonish them to find that it the leading liberals of this age or the men who appropriated that descriptive title w-ho led America and urged America on toward state socialism paternalism and totalitarianism upon the length of your residence within the confines of the State Voters becoming of age within the calendar year in which an election is held have w'on a victory over the poll tax forces Other classes of voters who consider the law undemocratic and unfair are fighting for its modification and still others for outright repeal of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting-all with what appears to be steadily improving prospects of success There is a quotation from Vice-President Wallace who recently paid the penalty of being too frank: will not be Socialists Communists or Fascists but plain men trying to gain by demo cratic methods the professed objectives of the Communists Socialists and Fas cists" THERE are quotations from some men more lucid about the ends and aims of the revolution Taul Torter of the shipping dirismw of the Labor Bgard sees the revolution as one against private property He says: natural resources such as minerals forests and water-power sites all banks insurance companies ard public utilities and all basic industries such as mining and the manufacture of steel automobiles and textiles shall be public property All owners of stocks bonds mortgages land buildings or equipment affected shall be required tS surrender them in return for commonwealth "The w-ar is but a step in the Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt What is the revolt against? Is it a revolution of the have-nots against the leaves? Why do we need a revolution in -the United States of America when our Constitution provides unlimited methods of revision and amendment of our w-hole political structure? Is this a revolution against constitutional democracy in favor of some sort of absolutism masquerading as democracy? Do we want a democratic dictatorship something fashioned on the Russian plan? Clifford A Durr Federal Communications Commission adds to my enlightenment: see in operation a new kind of profit system which is net capitalism and a new king ef private enterprise which is not based on private initiative It is a system in which the government provides the capital and assumes the risk The government pro-vidcs the market and says what and how much shall be Vice-President Wallace comes from the farm country He knows his farmer I believe that his father was owner and publisher of one of the country's great agricultural papers What he says about farming is something from the horse's mouth as the saying is On what the revolution will do to the farmer his words have w-eight He tells us: Tt may be necessary to make a public utility out of agriculture Every field would have its permit sticking up on its post It w-ould be necessary for Congress to get a very large appropriation so as to have a police force of half a million men to keep down the Half a million men could keep the farmers in subjection and make them do the will of their bureaucratic bosses If ou favor these improvements you are entitled to call yourself a liberal THOMAS LOMAX HUNTER A LVIN II HANSON economic ad- visor of the Federal Reserve System and National Resources Planning Board is quoted as predicting: -will surrender to the administration the power to tax Will appropriate large sums of money will surrender its power of directing when and how-the money will be spent Other extraordinary powers such as to effect great social reforms will be delegated to the administration w-hich will retain most if not all of its present wartime What does Mr Hanson mean by the term Is not that just a euphemism for dictator? Could anything more completely erect a dictatorship in America than for Congress to surrender its function into the hands of the executive w-hich has already appointed a court w-hich knows no law-superior to the executive will? TfeSO ElOSL' Voice of the People What New City Tax Sources? TIE problem of where to find more adequate tax sources has bothered cities and towns ever since tax segregation was written into the Constitution And it is more serious today than ever in the opinion of Harold I Baumes executive secretary of the Virginia League of Municipalities In fact he considers it of the greatest problems confronting cities and Cost of the government of municipalities has steadily increased over a period of years as has the cost of State and Federal government But the cities are practically confined to a tax on real estate for their revenues In few instances have real values of real estate kept pace with the increases in its assessed valuation and in some communities property already is said to be carrying a heavier burden than it can stand Mr Baumes says that his report to the convention of the league in Roanoke shows the aggregate assessed values of locally taxable property real and personal in cities had increased from 1932 to 1942 but that in the same period the estimated true value locally taxable wealth in the cities had declined from $2142 per capita to $1881 per capita During this period services and facilities rendered by the cities and towns were increased and taxes were hiked sometimes by higher tax rates sometimes by increased assessed valuations and sometimes by both Both the Federal government and the State government since the advent of the New Deal have been doing for the cities and towns many things which they formerly did for themselves Yet in spite of this the trend of taxes has been upward the chances are that history will repeat itself and that it will continue upward The problem of additional tax sources for cities and towns was given some consideration at the last session of the General Assembly In consequence cities and towns were allotted more State aid for schools and a larger slice of ABC profits to spend as they see fit Yet the cities and towns continue to maintain that they are having great difficulty in making ends meet as a result of being limited to a tax on real estate as their main source of revenue And we shall hear more about the matter when the next Assembly convenes What suggestions have Ma Baumes and his associates for correcting the condition of which they complain? Graveyard Ballots Sowing the Seeds of War? ALLIED armies are already on German soil but it is acknowledged that no over-all policy has been worked out for Germany particularly with respect to her industrial regions A controversy over this among members of the Roosevelt Cabinet has erupted carrying with it the tidinzs that so vital a matter has been permitted to drift past the time when a well-thought out policy would have been helpful to General Eisenhower Secretary or the Treasury Morgen-Thau's plan for the complete destruction of German industry was the spark which touched off differences between himself and Secretary or War Stimson with Secretary or State Hull occupying a somewhat indeterminate position somewhere inbetween The positions of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill on the issue are not clear MR Hull conceded yesterday that there has hern no mutual understanding among the United States Britain and Russia with respect to this matter While Messrs Roosevelt and Churchill appear to have discussed the question at Quebec recently It is not even rlaimed in Washington that the Soviet position on the question is known What is to he done with the huge industrial installations in the Ruhr when the Allies enter that region a short time henre? Until more information is rereived concerning Allied long-time plana for the Ruhr this matter will have to he left up in the air Possibly no harm will he done in consequence for the issue can probably he left unsettled until the three major Allied powers agree upon a policy It appears certain however that publication of Secretary Draconian plan will stimulate the resistance of the whole German people and make the rrtmplete conquest of the Reich more difficult His proposal to rede the Ruhr and the Saar to France and East Prussia and Silesia to Poland with reduction of what is left to a nation of small farmers having a population of only 40000000 to 50000000 certainly will make the Germans fight harder Nobody in his right mind wants to let the Germans off without adequate punishment for the rrimrs they have committed against civilization and certainly all will agree that if they are allowed to retain their heavy industry it will have to he strictly supervised and controlled for an indefinite period Germany ought to he treated in such fashion as will be most conducive to the maintenance of world peace The question Is whether the Morgentiuu policy will serve that end It remains to bn demonstrated in the first place that the annihilation of German industry will not fatally disrupt the economics of Central Europe It remains to be demonstrated also that the cession of such wholly German areas as the Ruhr and the Saar to France will not rouse the German people to the lame sort of irredentist fury and determination which Hitler played' upon so skillfully in the years before 1939 In short Mr Morcenthau should present such evidence as he has that the countries surrounding Germany can be prosperous if Germany's whole economy is wrecked and that his plan will not make a third World War inevitable He would retort no doubt that he 1 contemplates the strictest control over the Reich for generations to come But the burden of proof should be upon him to demonstrate that such control will not lapse into nominal supervision after a decade or twp Once control was re- Jaxed following a Carthaginian peace such as he proposes the ground would be more than ripe for a terrific war of revenge Again Mr Wallace: are not going to use the whole Russian political and economic system here in the United the list of 14 puts them at the top of the list and tells the timber grower he must favor them or suffer the penalties provided in the statute The excuse for the passage of the Seed Tree Law was that it is supposed to he in the public interest to have timber growers grow pine in preference to other species which is incorrect ALFRED AKERMAN Triplett Childs: Roosevelt's Wizardry Dewey His Choice Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir: Editor of The Times-Dispatch: Sir At page 76 of the Aug 21 1944 issue of Life it is stated that Senator Truman was to his original office with the aid of 50-000 illegal ballots filled out with names taken from graves of the dead This was well known at the time of his nomination as Vice-President Truman never resigned or gave the slightest evidence of regret so the New Deal by his nomination has given its approval to such Such being the case the drive to eliminate the poll tax is difficult to understand Ballot-box stuffing being an approved New Deal procedure why it be simpler for them to prowl through graveyards for enough names to assure the election of their candidates? ARTHUR DEW Richmond Will you please give a room for a few words standing for Ihc 43 minutes necessary to read his address Although some of the men around him were fearful it would feed the gossip about the Mate of his health In reality of course hthas not walked since his illness 23 years ago For public occasions until recently he put on steel and leather braces which made it possible for him to support his w-eight with assistance on his hips Wearing those braces was always something of an ordeal Sometimes there were mishaps As on the occasion of his speech in Philadelphia in 193 when he fell flat on his face out of sight of the audience just before he was to go on the air Need a Minister Editor of The Times-Dispatch Sir: In your recent column of the Voice of the People headed an article written in connection with the City Council having a minister open their meeting with prayer in the Need of Brother you said it those boys of the City Council and Board of Aldermen really need prayers and it is my opinion that they actually need more than one minister to set them straight judging by the things they these days What should be done is to employ a full-time minister to preach them the real Gospel then before they go into session let him admonish them to realize that they are in positions of trust Maybe the minister- can show them "The way" which they sorely need The trouble in securing a minister at $3 will be that no minister will be able to stand their line of stuff very long and $3 is far too small a fee Why it will be an insult to offer any minister five bucks to go down there and hear that stuff Why not locate an evangelist and let him preach to those fellow say six months pay the evangelist any price he wants he will deserve it then those boys may feel more like Christian gentlemen and do the right thing which the voters of Richmond want and expect them to do Of course it will be plenty tough on WASHINGTON In his speech on Saturday night the President proved himself once again the political master of his time In form content deliver- it had all of the old Roosevelt wizardry Watching him you felt that here was the virtuoso back again at the keyboard Paderewski say in his late prime getting everything nut of the instrument from the classical to a touch of boogie-woogie It's been a long time since FDR appeared before a wildly cheering political audience like the one the other night At first he was a little cautious This looks almost like a new experience But as he warmed up you could see him begin to enjoy it Two or three times in pauses to let the roaring applause subside he turned to William Green with a look of delighted triumph You could sec his lips forming the words "They liked that didn't Green's rubicund face was wreathed in smiles throughout most of the performance He with Dan Tobin head of the Teamsters and the official host together with Dave Beck of Seattle strong right arm led the cheering It take much leading But now and then when there were signs the roar would subside one or the other w-ould gesture to the diners in the big ballroom to keep it coming Due Some Consideration Editor of The Times-Dispatch Sir: I have just read an account of the talk made by Mr Wallace in which he made known many fears Aren't we conservatives entitled to a share in the government? Surely we work pay taxes send our children to school and fight for our country Now why should Tom Dewey or any other person at the head of our government wish to create a chaotic condition? It just doesn't sound right We know that the government which governs best governs least and we are awfully sick of regimentation bureaus CIO's and such The servicemen are going to vote for the man to head our country whom they consider will take them back to wives kiddies and homes with the least possible delay That man who can best head this is Thomas Dewey a grand fellow one who knows the common man and who will conscien-tiouly try for a lasting durable just peace for our country The small farmers and businessmen of our country have suffered much from the New Deal it high time an administration were elected that will be a safeguard for Americans everywhere? WAYNE BARNHART Camp Peary the preacher but he is equipped rking for that kind of business working I read with interest the article in your paper in regard to soldiers over 38 being discharged This subject is highly controvcrsal interesting to all men in this i age bracket and should be to the public at large Please note this article says a deadline w-as set for soldiers overseas at Aug 1 1943 This is all true but the article neglects to refer in any way to the important date of Feb 28 1943 In short if you were 38 on or after March 1 1943 you were not eligible to apply for an overage discharge although time was granted to Aug 1 1943 for those 38 or older on or before February 28 Arguments based on these facts alone should Rive the overaged serviceman some consideration Langley Field VETERAN rIE decision apparently Is not to wear the braces again which means that the President will not again balance himself on those steel contraptions for 43 minutes or an hour to make a speech Having worn' them scarcely at all for two years he finds it more uncomfnrt- able than ever to have them on The effect would seem to be like that of putting on a pair of tight shoes when you've gone barefoot all Summer At the age of 62 the President refuses to put up with this discomfort for form's sake any longer His associates say that one reason for the failure of the Bremerton Navy Yard speech was because he felt so ill at ease standing to deliver it Ilis associates who see him from day to day believe his health is as good a that of any man his age To those of us who sat close to him Saturday he seemed to be very much his old campaign self full of the joy of battle Occasionally he ad libbed to strengthen the forre of what he was saying and as his custom has always been he made it sound in the reading even more informal and easy than the text itself I laving discovered he could "turn it again the President w-ill revert In the next six weeks to the campaign role on other occasions He is the veteran fire horse responding to that old familiar fire bell MARQUIS CHILDS among those w-ho have and knoweth That money will be well spent and I will wager any amount that 99 per cent of the voters will be only too glad to pay that minister for his work provided he actually gives them some religion FRIES Richmond UP and down the long head table were others in the AFL hierarchy: and subtly almost without seeming to Roosevelt made much of their presence This he said was renewal of an old bond confirmation of a friendship that nothing could interrupt It was his way of countering the too warm embrace of the CIO Referring to the Informality of the occasion the President remained seated throughout the speech Now that the customary campaign rumors about his health have been revived some of them identical with those circulated in 1932 this fact may be exploited If only in the whispering campaign The President himself decided against Propagation of Trees Mr Roosevelt's First Speech An Editorial from the New York Times Editor of The Times-Dispatch Sir: In a former letter which you were kind enough to print in The Pcglcr: Case of Mr Hvtle their own legal experts and there would appear to have been only negligible ex- MniM Similar funds Cnl- Similar funds Times-Dispatch for September 21 I made some comments on your editorial of September 12 headed "Conservative In the present letter I wish to make some comment on the Seed Tree Law (Chapter 413 Acts of 1942) That law requires the leaving of seed trees when stands are cut which contain 50 per cent or more of pine trees By requiring that seed trees be left that law indirectly forbids the use of the Better Ranking TIE September 16 issue of School and Society contains statistical tables which give a more favorable picture of Virginia's system of public education than some which have been painted of late This is not to say that there was any inaccuracy in the others but it is at least mildly encouraging to find that the Old Dominion's educational ranking is fairly satisfactory in some directions given the State's low per-capita wealth and its other handicaps The figures in question are presented by Professor Raymond Hughes of Iowa State College of Agriculture and are based on the United States Census of 1940 and the report of the United States Office of Education for 1937-38 There is nothing here over w-hich Virginians can shout and toss their hats into the air for the best ranking achieved by Virginia in these tabulations is twenty-first among the 48 States At the same time this is far better than the standings of forty-first forty-fourth or even worse given us of late in other categories by students of our educational system Here are the rankings accorded Virginia by Professor Hughes: Percentage of all people 25 years or older who have completed four years of high school or better thirty-fifth percentage with four years of college or more twenty-sixth percentage who have attended college from one to three years twenty-first percentage who attended high school four years but went no further thirty-seventh percentage of youths 18-21 years of age who were in colleges as undergraduates in 1937-38 twenty-ninth Arkansas seems to make the worst showing in the country on thp basis of these criteria with Kentucky next and all the Southern States except Florida are below Virginia on the list Furthermore Virginia makes a better showing than Pennsylvania Rhode Island or Maryland This State seems to have had a strong tradition for many years which calls for a substantial proportion of its population to finish high school and to attend college This must account in part for the relatively good showing made by Virginia in Professor computations Our worst performance as was recently demonstrated is with respect to expenditures for elementary and secondary education It is here that especial attention should be directed to raising standards Once these standards are raised Virginia should be able to take her place as one of the upper bracket Commonwealths in the field of public education She is a long way from being able to do so today dear-cutting method of penses collected in all unions under Communist control ostensibly in the behalf of various persecuted individual comrades have become Communist party funds On September 12 Mr Hyde received a letter from the executive committee of his local ordering him to appear at the next meeting and answer charges conduct" on the job There was attached a copy of a letter from the business agent to the secretiry which said two fellow-workers on the dock had heard Mr Hyde make "sewral statements regarding unions and their activities which we do not conshier proper from anyone seeking Ms gave us an adequate army of our own and Lend-Lease which laid the basis for the present Grand Alliance These measures were all adopted by Democratic votes They w-ere all opposed by a majority of Republicans in Congress The tally of Republican votes on them runs as follows: On repeal of the Arms Em-bargo Senate: 8 in favor 13 against House: 21 in favor 143 against On adoption of Selective Service Senate: 8 In favor 10 against House: 24 in favor 135 against On the passage of Lend-Lease Senate: 10 in favor 17 against House: 24 in favor 135 against Even when the question of Selective Service was raised for the second time almost on the eve of Pearl Harbor and after General Marshall had gone to Congress to plead personally against the disruption of the new American Army in a moment of great peril the Republicans in Congress voted In the Senate: 7 in favor 13 against In the House: 21 in favor 133 against These were even larger Republican majorities against a most vital measure of than when the question was first Mr Dewey has a good case to make -on many important points but it will be a better case if it stays on the record NOW and again the criticism is made of these dispatches that they are not specific but general in' their condemnation of oppression of the individual worker by the union system which Mr Roosevelt built up as a political auxiliary of his party General charges are protested but on the other hand specific cases when they are presented in detail are minimized as trifling irregularities painful to the individual victim but inevitable in a system embracing millions of workers At the risk of evoking the latter answer I should like to present nevertheless the case of an American worker-on the San Francisco docks as he told it to me during my brief visit there with Governor campaign party It is one that could he multiplied by thousands and I would point out moreover that the denial of political freedom and freedom of speech inherent in this case affects millions of American citizens The man identified himself as Hyde until recently a clerk employed to check cargoes going into ships bound for the war in the Pacific He was drawing $13930 for a seven-day week for work w-hich w-ould not tax the intelligence of an eighth-grade alumnus nor the strength of a girl Hyde was not a full member but pro- from a bationcr working under permit union governed by a Communist on a vital war job in defense of his own country Maiden Votes Freed Federal judge a barksdale has handed down a ruling In Roanoke to the effect that persons becoming 21 years of age between January 2 and November 7 of this year may register and vote without the payment of a poll tax The ruling was made in the case of Dorothy Bentley Jones who became 21 years of age in May and who was denied the right to register by IIazeltine Settle until she had presented a poll tax receipt for 1943 the first year for which she would be assessable Attorney-General Abram Staples took the position that the Constitution contemplated that the General Assembly would levy a poll tax on each person for the year in which such person becomes of age but conceded that aince this had not been done the tax could not be collected as a prerequisite for voting It has been the practice in the past for registrars to demand a poll tax receipt for the tax assessable on January 1 of the year following the calendar year in which a person becomes of age Opponents of the poll tax estimate that the practice now held illegal has deprived a million persons in the past of their vote Yet regardless of the ruling in Roanoke a person becoming of age prior to November 7 must register 30 days in advance to the election if he or she is to vote This means that registration must take place on or before October 7 Once you register you do not have to register again But you must be registered and must vote in the precinct in which you live and if you have moved your residence to another precinct you should secure a transfer to your proper precinct Otherwise you may be prohibited from voting If you are 21 years of age and duly registered you may vote on November But you must have resided in the State for at least one year in the city or county for six months and in the precinct in which you offer to vote for 30 days Furthermore if you are a new voter not affected by the coming-of-age ruling mentioned herein you must have paid all State poll taxes legally assessed or assessable for the preceding three years the number of years for which the tax la assessable being based MR first speech of the campaign did not discuss Dumbarton Oaks or American policy toward Germany about which many unofficial reports are being circulated or any other of the major questions which must soon be faced and settled in the field of international policy It was frankly a political speech described in advance as such by Mr Roosevelt and so delivered Ifit was effective as a piece of political argument it was not only because Mr floosevelt is still a craftsman in the use of the English language and its delivery over the radio but because Mr Dewey had left several barn doors wide open Mr Dewey has a case to make against the Roosevelt administration He makes that case to cite one example when he attacks Mr Roosevelt's slipshod methods of administration and condemns the division of responsibility and the duplication of authority which have produced a series of private and public wars in Washington among high officials of the government But he does not help his case when he charges as he did recently at Dos Moines that the administration absolutely nothing to prepare the American people for the A charge of this kind delivered at a point where the -record of Mr own party is extremely vulnerable merely gives Mr Roosevelt a wide-open opportunity for a counterattack as he proved on Saturday Just when the administration should have begun to make military preparations for the war and whether its early expenditures for that purpose were adequate are questions which can fairly be debated But (here cannot be much debate about the fact that there are three measures over and above all others on which the preparedness of the American people for the war depended These measures were repeal of the Arms Embargo witHout which our present allies w-ould have gone under leaving us alone to fight Germany and Japan at a time of their own choosing Selective Service which tion The seed tree method has little or no advantage over the clear-cutting method In some conditions either method may bring on a stand in which pine and other good species make up the bulk of the stand but neither method can be depended on un- less the new stands are thinned from time to time to control the inferior species that nearly always creep in The Seed Tree Law is not only unsound from the standpoint of silviculture but it is also unsound from the standpoint of economics The market puts a higher value on two other conifers and 10 hroadleaf trees than on the loblolly and shortleaf pines that the Seed Tree Law seeks to favor The fact that the consuming public is willing to pay more on the stump per 1000 board feet for 12 other species than for loblolly and shortleaf pine' does not in- itself prove that any or all of the 12 other species ought to be preferred to pine by all timber growers: for soil rate or growth local market and other considerations enter into the choice of species by the timber grower But the fact that the general market here in Virginia has spoken in favor of those 12 other species creates a presumption in their favor The Seed Tree Law arbitrarilv takes two species from the bottom of HYDE appeared and was charged I with having declared his intention to give S3 to Tom Dewey's campaign fund bocaiLe he had received two notices of assessments of $1 each for Mr Roosevelt's campaign fund collected by Sidney Hillman's Political Action Committee the current guise of the Communist party These contributions to Mr campaign fund were compulsory AH workers failing to contribute to the fourth-term campaign were subject to dismissal from their vital war jobs at a time when Paul McNutt the War Manpower Commissioner had Issued an illegal order reezine men and women to their job and forbidding them to transfer without permission of the Roosevelt government Mr Hyde's defense seems to have been dispirited and desultory- He merely said he w-as opposed to the collection of compulsory payments to President campaign fund and added "nobody is going to lell me how to vote My people have been in this country since At that one or the union officials said: "Oh so you think you are better than we and Mr Hyde made no answer WESTBROOK PEGLER MR HYDE w-as a member of the Ship Association a subsidiary of the Longshoremen's Union of the CIO whose president is Harry Bridges the Australian Communist After a long and expensive investigation and hearing paid for by the loyal American people through their taxes a deportation wrier was issued against Bridges but it has been suspended and in time if President Roosevelt should be re-elected it will be cancelled and like the Russian Communist wife of Earl Browder who also was ordered out of the country Bridges will be allowed to go to Canada and and presently to acquire citizenship Incidentally Mr Hyde like many other Americans has been compelled to pay two assessments of $1 each for a for Bridges although Bridges defense w-as conducted by the Communists employing the services of 20 Years Ago Today A MYSTERIOUS INTRUDER posing as a power inspector robbed a dormitory at West-hampton Cellcge PRESIDENT COOLIDGE ordered the Attorney-General of the United States to probe charges of political corruption in Philadelphia THE HENRICO COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD) sold $135000 worth of bonds for school improvements UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY appealed to the four synods which control it for more funds for the library Sometimes one wonders about stories of the Fuehrer's paperhanging past The fellow seems too dizzy to have worked on ladders Letters to the Voice of the People will be held to 200 words except in the rarest and most extraordinary cases Unless accompanied by adequate postage unused letters will not be returned- As automatic as the reaction of book sales to a censor's ban is the effect of a Nazi peace feeler on our determination to see things through.