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Today's Match i "SLEEPING TABLETS P. EC. and the Staff Itt Wishingtoa Views The 0RLD AT-LARGE with CHARLES P. STEWART Indignant Reader Blaming The Oldsters For Seeking War Only Morning Newspaper In Fayett County, Pennsylvania. MeroW Pennsylvania Newspaper Publlsfterg Association Owned and pisSilfhed aaiiy except Sunday an Legal Hollcaj-s by Unlon'oiva 21-23 Perm Street.

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Va.J In Advance S7.50 Per yw THOUGHT FOR 'XHE DAY Most people have a majric capacity for victory, but no technique for defeat. Mali rates in territory beyond Uiat fcr Xesr thus, defined; In Advat "You. old blankety-blank-blank-blank," an indignant reader writes to me, "are the ones who get us in- The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re-publlcatlon of news credited to Jt or not otherwise credited In the paper and ulso thr local news published Herein. All. rights of publication tit special dispatches herein are also reserved.

Unsolicited manuscripts or photographs will not wars, jj you were of military ge as I' am, you wouldn't be fresh about ft. It's you blankety -blank old dodoes wno atir up the. animals, snd then draft us lads to fight, 'em, while you sit back comfortably and maybe make money but of it." What aroused this chap's ire Charles P. Stewart the- baby of the group. He's 4ft.

Next to the youngest is Senator "Gerald P. Nye, author of the neutrality act', at 49. Senator Burton K. Wheeler is leader: of the isbla-tion element. He's 59 no spring chicken.

Senator Robert A. Taft is comparatively juvenile 52. Senator Bennett Camp Clarke's a year younger. Senators Robert Rey- -nolds and Arthur H. Vandenberg (the former's the new chairman of the military affairs committee) are 57 each.

Senator David Walsh, naval affairs committee chairman; is 69. Senator. Henrik Shipstead, at 60, is relatively infantile. Senator Arthur Capper's- an outright Quaker. He's 76.

Senator Hiram W. Johnson, as isolatiorustic as they make 'em, is 75. Senator William J. Bulow's 72. Senator George Norris is the only: surviving solon who voted against our entrance into the last World war.

This time he did vote for lease-lending, but he's anti-convoys. The old Nebraskan is 80.:: So my correspondent doesn't offer a very strong argument in sup- port of lus contention that "the blankety-blank-blank old guys" are the ones who involve us in wars, because they know "blankety-blank'-well" that they won't have to do'-the fighting that 'that 'part Of It will be put up to his generation. It's highly improbable, that the maximum draft age ever will be boosted above 40, but, if it should reach that figure, it wouldn't miss Senator Claude Pepper by much. He's only 41. At least he's young enough not to have outgrown a fellow feeling for the lads who are caught' by conscription.

But Claude's as bellicose an individual as there is in his house of congress. Senator Josh Lee, anotherstrong interventionist, is only eight years Claude's senior. short, if the United States senate's any criterion, all jntUca-tions are that the younglings are the scrappy bunch: that the oldsters have had enough experience to keep out hostilities if they possibly, can manage it. Furthermore, it's traditional that each succeeding generation is ambitious to have its own generation's war. My generation had its' war back in I914-'1S-and tliat was sufficient, so far as we're concerned.

It's the upcoming generation that sn't atisfied yet. The lad who wrote that vituperative letter to me" appears to be an exception, but he's wrong about the jf the-. United States senate proves CUFF NOTJES Add to the town's comely debs: Jean Barton, daughter of the Russell Bartons. The man who likes clockwork precision but doesn't watch the tickers: Dr. J.

Nelson Mowls, city superintendent ot schools, The other day Dr. Mowls was etlll in his office 14. hours after breakfast, Comrade Hart Moore reporting that Mrs, Marie Horn of Phillips deserves Matchbox orchids for her high number of returns during the recent Poppy Day sale. "She was the lady in pink selling all those soldier-boy tokens in front of KrogeiJs," Mr. Moore adds Explanation: Coach A.

J. Everhart, admitting he's a race-track devotee, like the and explaining that horse racing proves precision and coordination be "so" necessary in any branch of sport." One who hears some of the best original jokes of the day: Will Peril, clerk to Draft Board Six here. A local draftee showed up on the wrong day, but insisted that he be away to military camp the same morning "because I've quit my job, sold my tools, my girl gave me a send-off dinner and I have nothing else to do but Jeave for the Army today." He had to wait his turn Overheard on the 'phone Sunday evening: "It's raining like Hitler in Brownsville." Frank Tencate says to the Matchbox: "Let's start a nationwide something or tho other for some goc cause." 0. Frank, we said. And the said Mr.

Frank explains that England has her "There'll Always Be An England," so why not a new slogan for the U. MIKKOFlGltAftLS Short cuts generally take longer. No one ever got anywhere by fault finding. Poor work will never earn you a good reputation. Too often the hurrying, motorist arrives, not at his original destination, but at the mortuary.

WORTH IIETEIAASO Although we are a comparatively new nation, our Stars and Stripes may today claim antiquity among national flags, tor it was on June 14lh. 1777, that the American Congress resolved: 'The Flag of the United States shall be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; the union shall be 13 stars, while in a field ot blue, representing a new constellation." Old Ctory Is older than the present flag of Great Britain, established In 1801; than the present flag of Spain, established In 1785; than the French tri color, decreed in J7IM; than the existing flag of Portugal, established than the flag of the Empire of Germany, which was established in 1870; the Su edish-iN'orwegian ensign; the re- cent flags of the old empires of China and Japan; or the nags of all the South American states, which nave generally been modelled on Old Glory. Old Glory was first unfurled in a land engagement at the battle of Brandywine, September It, .1777. Paul Jones claims the honor of having been the first lo displav the Stars and Stripes on a naval vessel --the Alfred. He Is.

also credited with having obtained for our flag the first salute granted to it in Europe. Thr? first vessel to carry Old Glory' around the world, appropriately enough, was the good ship Columbia, which, under the command of Captains Kendrick and Gray, circumnavigated the globe In Trade Or Profession? The American Medical Association, which has been fined $2500 by a District of Columbia court following conviction of anti-trust violations, announces its intent to appeal. It would be well to have a definite decision on the important point raised at the trial. This is whether the practice of medicine is a trade, as defined by the Sherman Act, or a profession. Mr.

Assistant Attorney General, took unprecedented action in proceeding against the defendant organization on the former assumption. The Association was accused of interfering with a group of Government employees formed to obtain medical service by a monthly advance fee, similar to the hospitalization service which has proved so popular and advantageous in Philadelphia and other cities. The evidence showed thai individual physicians in Washington, members of the American Medical Association, did actively oppose the operation of the Group Health Association was their right. The prosecution charged that physicians who lent their co-operation were threatened with expulsion from the American Medical Association. This ch argii denied by defense witnesses.

But the main point, as has been said, has yet to lie finally established. A system of low-cost medical care for persons of scanty or moderate means is distinctly in the public interest and should have ample legal protection. Aut it is not clear that the way to gu about it is to impose the status of a trade on a learned profession, the great majority of whose members are rendering a service to the public that cannot be measured in dollars ami cents. was a published remark of mine to the effect that, we wouldn't be "attacking" the by sending armed escorts to protect shipments of our stuff Britainward'. My reasoning was that our escort craft wouldn't initiate any trouble.

All they'd do would be to resist if they were' attacked, and it pretty generally is agreed that: we're entitled to. defend ourselves. Even our most ardent isolationists take that position. Escorting our shipments might get us attacked, but it doesn't' seem to me that we'd be doing the attacking. I.

know what my angry corre-apondent means, though. His thesis is that a Wt of decrepit old coots hi congress, in parliament or in some "other legislative body start wars, they're too venerable to take an active part in, and then put It up to the younger generation to do the actual scrapping, bleeding and dying on "the float or in the atmosphere. It's a charge Tve heard made before. Perhaps it's been true- some of the Mm. But take a look at our most-strenuous anti-war alignment on Capitol Hill at present.

Or, rather, take a look at 'em in the senate. The representatives are a bit too numerous to analyze. Those senatorial Isolationists could perfectly well afford to be interventionists, so far as. they themselves are concerned. There isn't one of 'em of draft age, or ever likely to be, no matter how high the maximum age limit may be lifted.

No, they're isolationist, not on their own account, but on count of their children and grandchildren and a few great-grandchildren. Senaier Robert M. LaFollette is Oil: The Main Problem Literary Guidepost ment of Justice. Two pipe lines already projected, it Is pointed out, involve outlays that wouid be prohibitive for individual companies. (One, It is estimated, would cost 60.000,00.

and the two about The companies would like to undertake them as a Joint enterprise, but this far they have been reluctant to go ahead because, with the Madison case in mind, they fear that their action might be construed as monopolize undr tiie anti-trust laws. It the necessary clearance could be obtained from the Justice say, construction of the lines could be completed in from six to nine months. Tf, as the companies maintain, such misgivings constitute the only barrier to pushing ahead on tills vital enterprise, there would seem to be no reason why there should be any further delay. There could not be a better time or a better place for the Administration to begin that wholesale slashing of useless red tape which Is certainly going to be imperative in the months ahead we are to make a success- of our all-out effort on behalf of the democracies. HUMAN SIDE OF THE NEWS with EDWIN HILI Battle Of Crete Unhappy Recapitulation Of Much of Our History KKKVITIKS Nt-vei- we read, What an New York Heraid-Tribune Last Thursday's observation by Secretary Ickes that It might b.

necessary to resurrect the "gasltw Sundays" of World War days took on added significance over the weekend. For on Saturday Mr. Roosevelt announced from the temporary White House at Hyde Park that he had appointed Mr. Ickes to a new defense post having to do with the gasoline and oil supplies. 'The Secretary of the Interior, who has been Federal oil administrator for the last several years, now becomes Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense.

His task, too quote from the President's letter of appointment, win consispin "making ptttroleum products available adequately and continuously. In the proper forms, at the proper places and at reasonable prices to meet military nod civilian needs." Although, as Mr. Tckes says, it may be ncceswiry before long to ration the civilian use gasoline this will not be as in the case of tecl or aluminum because of any nhortafse lp supplies. Supplies of petroleum today are approximately twelve times what they were at the time of our entrance into. the World War, and shutdown refinery capacity alone at the present time is about a.i large as total refinery capndty was in 1917.

Nevertheless, there is a very real bottleneck problem In oil and Kasoline. Thta is the problem or providing transportation for about 100.000,000 barrels of oil annually front the Texas and mid-continent oil fields to the refineries on the Atlantic coast. The problem arises otit of the action of the government itself in the diversion of twenty-five tankers which normally ply between the Gtiir porKs and the Eastern seaboard to the "shuttle Kervlce" between the Caribbean ports and Canada, and In the prospective diversion of another twenty-five In the near future. It is agreed that present railroad facilities are totally Inadequate to make up tins deficiency actual and potential in tanked captcity. and that the only solution is the construction of new transcontinental pipe lines.

The problem from the standpoint of the companies, concerns the attitude ot the Depart By John Selby -THE PRINCESS," by Phil Strtmr; (Farrar Itinehart: Phil Stong has done another of his hearty novels, this one about Iowa and called "The Princess." It ii more than merely -hearty, how-. ever -it is heart-warming in spite of Mr. Stong's super-lusty prose. Mr. Stong Is one writer who believes every sentence should pack a punch.

Sometimes at the end of a page his reader is punch drunk Mr. Stong is interested in people, not only as literary material, but as parts of a complex national whole. And the section of the nation which has been kindest to him. and which he loves best, is Southeastern Iowa. He writes best about that rich land and for that reason among others "The Princess" is one of his best novels.

Even when it reads like a legend rather than like a story from life. "The Princess" has a flavor of legend, particularly when Mr. Stong picks up his story tas he does quite often) and mates it around his bead, and makes it snap bke a bull-whip. Arnhold, who is his heroint and the center or the book, is- almost incredible at first, and maintains to the last a kind or inhuman perfection that can be irritating. Old Jafce is likewise almost too gusty, too strong.

Weldon, who is the Princess' long-put-off suitor, remained a stranger to this reader to the last. And yet these, and all the others of Mr. Stong's populous book, are likeable and amusing and sometimes touching In the extreme. For Amhold is the child of her mother's late maturity, and the mother dies when she is bom. The daughter is left to the efficient care of her much older brother and or old' Jake, the professional reprobate.

It is unconventional but good care, and it turns Amhold a kind or female paragon who can run a farm and a communitv and make everybody like it Her career reads like a refined version of all the crackcrbos tales in all the corner groceries of the author's home county. The important thing about it all is that reading it is great fun That happens to be the important thing about fiction written for entertainment, too. Mr. Stong must have enjoyed writing The Pnn- unite. -They were vital and resourceful people, in those pre-Christian centuries.

I remember flndinst, embodied in a heavy and learned British archaeological treatise on Crete, a casual observation that they were the inventors of the safetv pjn about 2,000 B. C. Somehow they always bounced back after all their self-made disaster. They all but lost their prized art of writing several centuries before the Christian era and then, alter several more centuries, it came back to them, but with adap-Utions and embellishments rrom Semitic writing. The men from the sky descend on a tiny epitome of planetary stupidity, sagacity, folly, creativeness heroism and.

above all, the ever-enduring will to JiTe And ZUS mU5f. be angry and jealous to see his Thunderbolts just added in this merely man-made bedlam 'Copyright. 1341. King Features' Syndicate. Inc.) The Grab Bag Ojve-Minute Test 1.

Of what country is Labrador dependency? 2. What is the 10th wedding anniversary called? 3. What act was passed -in tha United States to curb political activities of federal Job holders? Words Of Wisdom Good qualities are the substantia! riches of the mind; but St is good breeding that sets them, off to ad vantage. Locke. Hints On Etiquette If you are a young woman going to a strange city to take a Job, it is wise to make your temporary headquarters at the Y.

W. C. A. or a woman's hotel until you find a permanent place or residence. Onc-Minule Test Answer 1.

Newfoundland. 2. Tin wedding. 3. The Hatch act.

nation of It's been passed on lo us that termites are reported advancing into the northern region. Won't they get a shock, though, when they go to work on their igloo! A doughnut machine factory burns, causing S-! damage. Gran.lpappv Jenkins hopes the firemen had presence of mind to bring along their containers of fire house coffee. The Uig Ten baseball league managers In Fayette county recently held a novelty con-lest. with a nice cash award being made One of the entrants was Tony's Shoe Shop or Repuhlic.

Tony had written on the bottom of his entry blank, before the contest hail closed: "We're not the Almlghtv hut wc enn your sole." And Tonv won the prize, Add defense is curl ailment: F. president of the Baldwin County Ai.ikim.i) Fishing Rodeo, has aimiamred that the lath annual deep sea rodeo srt for August hail been cancelled, hecause "we cannr.i justity in our nun hearts the presentation of this year's rodeo, two days of fun. when world conditions are what (hey nre." Then, loo. obseivers pointed out, bv August boats and gasoline may be at a I LINK Add to things you oughla' know: Peace, we are reminded, has Its horrors, too. wait until the war ends and all those Kurojw-m generals and admimls floofl the market with iheir memoirs.

A STAKE IS sirr From thr Ft. ini5 Aim.vi rvrry American claim to timie h.v had his en issur. Wc havr KiioyevcSt. I Knox pjismon. H'i''' t'-ms and now Mrs.

FtevrrU. K'f "hRH C.oab:, from Joe Saiiy Rnnd and ir.f LVftnna Uv.zhv.x Vet imo rdi thl. of and fury cm.vr Words proem! not he.m the Sphinx Ci.v.v.rr. or T.y 0 the find on the stale of The Greek Tragedy Although the -evacuation of Crete has been regarded primarily in the light of an incident in the war between Germany and Great Britain, it marks a tragic step in the struggle of the Greek people against the German tiger and the Italian jackal. In Crete, as on the mainland, the Greeks fought furiously.

True to the great Greek tradition, they preferred death to dishonor. They knew, almost from the beginning, that theirs was a hopeless struggle. Rut tmt a man among them urged surrender. For the duration (if the war Greece has no choice but to do as the conquerors order. This for Greece is nothing new.

The Greeks have been overrun before without yielding. For centuries they were oppressed by the Turks. When, at last, the chance came to throw off ihc foreign yoke, they showed that the Greek spirit was still strong ami proud. With it they built the modern of Greece. Thanks to this same spirit they threw back the Italian invasion of 1M0.

It took all the might of the new German war machine to capture their mountains and islands. It is this same, spirit and pride which will nourish the Greek people during the period that must be endured before Hit-ierism is finally bealeti. The people have little on which to live. Their disappointment is great that the enemy forces were so completely overwhelming. As the disarmed and disbanded soldiers struggle back lo their bare fields and stark homes they are Ixwverl down by the extent of the disaster.

But bit by bit the truth will come home to them that they won the admiration of the world through their gallantry. Many Greeks died. Many more are suffering and will suffer greatly, these deaths and this suffering will not be in vain. Greece in chains Greece wiji again be free. During the roming months of darimrss the Giw-k people will draw strerigth from the knowledge that the world awaits ihe to help them regain their independence.

In losing it they have earned it ten times Greece hns. proved worthy of the best that was 'in ancient Greece." Events of Yesteryear From Herald files In A Lighter Vein Daedalus and Icarus, the Wright brothers of Crete, would note today considerable improvement over their wfcs wings, and surely thev woidd be -impressed by the parachute army dropping from the sky. As to the incidental killing, they might not be greatly Interested. The hand-to-hand grappling would take them back to the old davs, as it does us, farther back than we of the modern world like to think. In fact, the battle of Crete is an Unhappy recapitulation of all too much of our history, all too many or our yesterdays.

Cretan peasants, whose people knocked' off fighting centuries ago, are hiding in the great Dictaen cave, the legendary birthplace of Zeus. There, in their ancient lore, their great King Minos received the tablets of the law from Zeus, and the Hellenic world the Dictaen Cave has been somewhat like the -ML Sinai oi Israel. Perhaps the Cretans saw prophecy in the night of Icarus and Daedalus, and showed sagacity in arranging the law deal in a cave, instead of on a mountain" top. It might be a lot safer. The bombs and the parachutists drop on one of the earlier cradles of civilization.

Archaeologists conclude that the first Neolithic settlement there wa? about 14,000 years ago. There is much evidence that the art of writing was first practiced on the Llarui of Crete 2.000 years before the Phoenicians copied and elaborated their hieroglyphs and symbols on clay tablets. About four miles inland from Candia. where bombs mingle the debris of many saperimposed civilization? if that's what the? were are the latter-day excavations which have uncovered the v.vt artd imposing PaJace of Cnossus. One of it most interesting details is a council chamber with a carved gyprcm throne.

There these innocent ancients were establishing law and order and. like dna from Ume to lurse the rscnU ecraivaient ot war." as Willi wa called Per a lew eer.turies they demin-ated th. Aesran by Kd rather trn arms. They were isciatioRisas and never took a hand the Peiopcrmesisn arvd Per-siar. wars iieked them and the- lc archaeoiogists was wars or thqcL- ewn rnakinp.

Their tir.y island" was split upon into many itt states, so many that it seems amaairs that such a arra couid contain them all. There was many an ear-day Chunec SUeit whe warned thetn that thry msjt vsite perish. Bet khcy neter could achiever even the feebjs; begteuin? of unity and they majntehwi a serial dog-fight for centuries; and semehew. ic the Kddst of it aQ there was boki en-terpnse in the arts, in architecture and coratani aspijBtkai and esper-inient in Jaw, mcrajjty and behavkmr. But they jost jculdat WIIEN COLUMBUS WAS BORN From tbe London Times The exact year of the birth of Christopher Columbus, which has hitherto been undetermined and generally placed as "somewhere between H30 and l-iSti." has new beea established ixyorsd doubt bv the researches of Professor Rtchard Hen-rag, the historian, of Genoa, amcng court documents cases in which Columbia was invoked.

Hitherto U-te and 14-17 have been considered the moft probable years, but Pro-luor Henning has shown that Columbia was a witness in a law suit in October. H7C, when he gave hi? a IS. Ke was in a scces-id lawsuit in August. 1479. and then thai hr was 27.

There twe statement? on oath, nine vears apart, shew yat OoSurnfeus must have bttn bom in September or Oc-tober, 15K As he died on May X. I50G. he did not cuite reach the ace of St. TOOK tun CHANCE Friday, Jime 4, 1926-Solemni2ed yestercay was the marriage of Nellie Newcomer and Lewis D. Williams Ray Conn, of Conn.

Wah-ler and Stroup barber shop was convalescing at his home in Wikon avenue following an illness in Uu-ontown Hospital George i-oicura. Umontown World War vetfran. had been appointed chief e.jicency engineer for the Carnegie ceci Company at Braddock. Thnrpdaj, jane 4 1331 Gwendo-Jffle Taylor returned to her duties -i the X-ray labcratcrv of Union-town hospital after several davs in SL Paai iiinc, where she attended ute ar.r.urJ cdnven: ion of the American Society of Radiographer Mwtfts Mason. Edca "cunniiwhanC rtcda.

Baker. Helen aowc, Evciyn Caroline Edxard re members of the ctaa espstai Nurres schcol who partkipatrvi oppajs exercises at the Nurses' ome. MoClei-aixitown read Spnen Janowskj-. na-Jve of Eden-' v'v Prafced by a ew Jork ror braveJT N'-York eg police, drewnir rtcUft 5STHta ngahefe bte. oi wS New Bven, conn.

A SCOTTISH PILOT'S GUIS. -Prom. The TSrv.e A Clr-av -i who rA-enemy action has left ha htr pounds, -BiSerfet-free fcan thr jm-mcnt the deration thf.trar.- AX UMBEELLA FAMINE OS' NANTUCKET Prora the Boston Glebe" A Better, JHsn.who arrived at Nantucket to" downpour fad knowing tit had torn traveling around to do thought he would invest to an urobreila had. to think again. There vzznl lor saSc the fciand.

When the late Ccnan Doyle was asked if he 3trw wherj he began a mystery story, how was' coming out. he replied. "Of course I oa One could ret possibly steer course if one did not knew ht destination." r.v of ice to univc BnuQ aaj fhippfc! from. Bion te. bv thr American M-hc- Mad.va.var.

Until the 'onrtn-of cer.fcry ail tee tvt-d in Bra- Zil Jtou the CnHed St.Mes. The storv. Terns ts suit pot ulr. and fsvr-and-ten-ctnt torr rrnientty carry It. been more, than Xf -iartuaprs, and is tjmiitd to have over 60,000,000 Rpii.

Hart is one of ihe-worid' dreadtj prlaoa'! at Ursa, alortKoiia. Th; ceils art oaJTrSn foor feet lot by two and one-half feet hlh, pOed or. om; another lr. a (hingeon. prtscmera are ehaiiwd (XTmarrfnUj In thtm and cannot ait up.

island or tUcWi, Death in a wckouw Tdatoe. Stephen Doeglac wooed Mary Todd and kt; Lincoln ifoocd her -won- Dowlas and UncxZn ran against one another for the ad Ueeehi woa, but Douae toori Unooin at his inauguration and held Ju 'Nxt time we have a date, set excused from marri' TODAY COMMON ERROR Do not say. TYdc is bmrlrmg, he wants out;" ay, -nants to go out," duty! I'm worn out from w.tlkincr ud and ortt out from walking up and.