The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 4

Monday, February 5 194(3. THE DECATUR REVIEW PAGE FOUR Across the Rubicon Gallup Poll THE DECATUR REVIEW What Will U. S. Do If JapanStarts Retaliation? 'The Community Paper" her dominion in China, Americani By WALTER LIPPMANN Negroes Favor The Democrats By Institute of Public Opinion Princeton, N. J.

In the last presidential election the great majority of those Negroes eri nrincinally in north ON JAN. 26, when our treaty relations with Japan came an end, we crossed the Rubicon wh.ch separates diplomacy that relics on Kl argument from diplomacy ern communities turned their backs on the party of ADranam votfl for Franklin D. About Town PADLOCKED lips are not becoming to the German people. One hundred years ago there was formed in that country the Burschenschaft, an association of students at the German universities, having as its objective the fostering of patriotism and Christian conduct, as opposed to the low standards then prevailing. Not many years ago men from the United States thought that they had attained to greater degrees of intelligence in their chosen professions if they rounded but their training by post graduate work in Germany.

Now, with their speech and opinions controlled, the people of that country are but slaves in the shadows of the free spirits of their ancestors. In our midst we are accustomed to speak with men of German descent whose conversations and opinions hold much of merit. In 1848, hundreds of people came to this country from Germany that they might find freedom of spirit and speech. Many of them settled in the Ohio Valley, where they established themselves in business and the respect of their communities. Later their children, carrying on in the same spirit, moved still fsrther west and settled upon the prairies of Illinois.

Roosevelt As the Republican par ty gathers in a series or iincum the nation next Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST WINTER FRIENDS Into my garden the pheasants come And the quail and the blue jays altogether, The air is filled with a noisy hum And bright with the color of crest and feather, And somehow the winter seems to me Not nearly so bleak as it used to be. I've cleared a space on the frozen ground For a shelter warm with a leafy cover, And there where I scatter the corn around. Dozens and dozens of small birds hover. And the winter doesn't" seem quite so long When it's broken by beauty and bits of song.

There's a cardinal spending the cold months here. Not the least bit fearful of wind or weather, And it's hard to picture in words the cheer That comes with the flash of his crimson feather. But because of his presence it seems to me Winter isn't as harsh as it used to be. ures, actual or become part of the discussion. The country, apparently, has not yet understood how serious this is; for nothing spectacular has happened since Jan.

26. Nevertheless, week, one of the problems that will not be overlooked is the problem of winning the Negro vote oan will be permitted to trade in China. But in a polite and uncompromising way, hn lets us know that we can-not even discuss the conquest of China or the Japanese empire which is being founded by that conquest. This leaves us in a position which may, I think, be defined as followft We have ended our commercial treaty relations with Japan in order to induce Japan, under the pressure which we are now legal, ly free to apply, to agree that the substance of the Nine-Power Trea. ty of 1922 is negotiable.

We are not insisting on the letter of the treaty but upon our right to nego--tiate about it. Of the other signatories beside Japan and the United States, one is China herself. The other six are Great Eritain and France which are at war in Europe, another is Italy which has recognized Japan's conquest, the others are small European neutrals. Thus we find ourselves engaged in a two-power dispute with Japan over the substance of a nine-power treaty. Whether or not this wag foreseen or intended last July by Senator Vandenberg, the Sena'e committee, and by the department, this is the consequence.

again. How much chance do tne xiepuu- licans have? While it is still a long way until election day, the recent surveys of the American Institute of Public Lippmann the situation in Not only tne acme -have Japan and the United States taken positions that are exceeding- Opinion show: 1. That the average Negro voter is still anxious to see the Democrats win in 1940. ly difficult 10 recum-iie has been removed me unu-i which prevented their conflict of i from being 2. But that if the presidential held today the Re publican candidate might gather a interests arm iuc brought to a show-down until there ua a romnulsory cooling- larger share of tne JNegro volk ui Governor Landon did.

jn 1936. IIOV4 I I J.n-i. 1 off period of six months. Allies Get Most From Balkans By DEWITT MACKENZIE Of The Associated Press The Balkan entente Rumania, Jugoslavia, Greece and Turkey which carries the key to the backdoor of the European war, last night wound up at Belgrade a three-day conference which on the whole must give the Anglo-French brotherhood considerable satisfaction. True, the secretive representatives of this powerful quartet departed under shelter of a smokescreen which concealed most of the things we would like to know.

Instead of revealing private discussions which (we believe) might have indicated the trend of the war, the conferees were rigidly neutral and most cautious in their public statements. Still, the atmosphere on the whole would seem to have been rather fsvorable to the Allies. This takes into account the understanding that unhappy Rumania, for whose oil and other resources the belligerents are bidding and threatening, will continue to maintain an open-door policy towards Germany at this juncture. The substance of the announcement made at the conclusion of the conference was that the members of the entente intend to stick to a policy of armed neutrality which will insure their independence and territorial integrity. They mean to safeguard their neutrality by developing commercial and economic cooperation which will render them less dependent upon either of the belligerents.

Now that type of neutrality happens to suit the purposes of the Allies better than it does Herr Hitler, although England and France undoubtedly could figure out a scheme which they would like more. The point is that Hitler has been placing great dependence on the rich resources of the Balkans to help him escape the Allied blockade which already has shut off all his sea-borne supplies. Politico-economic domination of this area is necessary to insure control of supplies a domination which Hitler had only a few months ago but which has been slipping from his grasp until we see the present independent attitude of the Balkan entente. a in a NT.onro voters in all of thn states where their political sympathies are important, the In these towns would be bombed and that important industrial works in the Saar valley would be destroyed. He needs these cities in the coal and steel area to help carry on the war.

Bombing cities is a kind of warfare that both sides can resort to and in the end it may shake the morale of the folks at home but it does not stop the armies in the field. Should Hitler order French and British cities to be bombed he knows that by the same order he is including German cities. stitute asked a careiuiiy seieciuu cross-section: "Which party would you like to see win the presidential election in November?" and. in oonpral Ho vou approve or disapprove today of Roosevelt as President? As the following figures show, Silk Bubble Bursts. On Jan.

8, 1940 in New York City, spot silk was selling at 4.35 a pound. On Jan. 30 it was selling slightly under $3 a pound. This tells the story of bursting of the Japanese silk price bubble in Japan. Eleven months ago the price of silk was $1.83 a pound in New York.

On Dec. 28 it hit a high of $4.38 a pound. Manufacturers and retail merchants in this country watched that year long advance and wondered what was going to happen this year. They didn't know what the price of silk stockings and other silk goods would be if prices continued upward. It all came about because of speculation in Japan.

Fortunes were made and lost in Japan, the New York market merely following Japanese quotations. Because of the China war silk production was curtailed due to loss of workers. A war boom was expected in the United States with prices advancing as- in the other war. Since the United States takes 85 per cent of Japan's silk exports there was prospect of getting rich off the United States. Whether it was a lack of boom prices in this country or the natural result of speculation, the silk speculation bubble burst.

Where prices will become stabilized is as yet unknown but for a time, at least, manufacturers and merchants in this country will not have to worry about silk prices going higher. The Racket Business. New York City residents are learning some more about the cost of doing business in that city which they must at once surmise has something to do with the cost of living. The new information came with the opening of the Louis (Lepke) Buchal-ter trial in which he and three others are charged with running a racket in the flour and baking industry. The head of a flour trucking company testified that his company had paid a gang from 1930 to 1936 in order to avoid strikes.

The men representing an "association" told this trucking company officer that the association controlled the unions. There were continual strikes for which the company paid to have them stopped. At one time the company was paying one cent a barrel tribute to the gang or about $250 a week just to avoid strikes. Often it cost S500 to have a strike called off in a trucking company or in a bakery concern. These were not so-called legitimate strikes but strikes simply to get a payment from the concern.

LepUe and others are accused of being the leaders of this racket. Other businesses i have been held up for weekly payments by racketeers. Unless they pay there are broken windows, goods destroyed, strikes and even violence and murder. It was the breaking up of these rackets that gave Thomas E. Dewey his start to prominence.

Rackets in every line of industry in scores of cities are costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This situation, it will be recalled, was precipitated by the Vanden-berg resolution of July 18 last. For the sake of the record it may be useful to reprint the text of the Vandenberg resolution Res. 166). "Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the government of the United States should give Japan the six months' notice required by the treaty of 1911 for its abrogation, so that the government of the United States may be free to deal with Japan in the formulation of a new treaty and in the protection of American interests as new necessities may require.

"Resolved further. That it is the sense of the Senate, that the government of the United States! AS FAR BACK as the minds of men now living can remember there has been a Myer in the paint business in Decatur. Frank C. Myer's paint store stood for many years upon the site now Occupied by the Citizens building. His father was one of those who came from Germany at the time there was such a desire to break away from militaristic Another man who served this city well was George Augustus Stadler.

He was but two years of age when his father, George Adam Stadler. who had served for nine years as a soldier in the German army, became concerned in a rebellion which incurred his government's displeasure. That same year George Stadler came to this country with his parents. The journey was made in company with General Franz Siegel who later served in the American army and in many other ways became a commendable citizen When George Stadler had completed his education he taught school for three terms and then came to Bement in 1874 where he took a position as a clerk in a general merchandise store. He progressed in business there and later came to Decatur and started a grocery store at the present site of Greiders cafeteria.

Some years later he owned the furniture store which was purchased by Weilepp Stuckey. In 1899 he was elected Mayor of the city of Decatur. For 12 years he was one of the board of managers of tne James Millikin university. It is a situation in which nor.e of the alternatives is agreeable. What we should like to do, of course, is to wait until a victory of the Allies in Europe makes it possible for the British and French to return to the Far East and thus to re-establish a practical basis for a general negotiation.

But the Japanese see this even more clearly than we do, and, therefore, it is the highest degree unlikely that they will allow things to drag along until the end of the European war. If the Allies are going to win, the Japanese must be so firmly established in China that they cannot be dislodged except by a war for which the Allies, even as victors, will have no stomach. If the Allies are going to lose, or are going to fail to win, the Japanese must exploit the opportunity whicti they would find in the catastrophic anarachy that would then exist all over the world. So. though we may wish to wait, it will be prudent to assume that Japan will be moving rapidly, and that once the stalemate ends in Europe, the Japanese will move decisively.

Something of this sort must have been in Mr. Arita't mind when he declared that the effect in Asia of the European war would be "tremendous." should ask that the conference of Brussels of 1937, now in recess. should be reassembled to deter Decatur Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1930 Official figures released by President M. E. Penney show 439 students registered for the second semester.

This is 60 or 65 less than for first semester. Expenditures totaling approximately 50 million dollars on the highways of Illinois are planned for 1930, Governor L. L. Emmer-son announced in Springfield. A permanent executive committee of five to study, coordinate and devise methods of handling Decatur juvenile problems was formed.

On the committee are Dr. J. A. Melrose, William Harris. Dr.

A. F. Goodyear. Miss Mary V. Love and Mrs.

R. C. Augustine. It is rumored then Dan Dinneen, former mayor, will be a candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket. Mr.

Dinneen said he had been asked to run, but had not decided yet. mine, pursuant to the express provisions of the Nine Power Treaty of Washington of 1922, whether Ja; pan has besn and is violating saic treatv. and to recommend the ap- propriate course to be pursued by the signatories. This resolution, as Senator Van the average Negro voter is more likely to be a Democrat and a Roosevelt supporter than the ordinary voter throughout the country. (Figures for "all voters" are from the latest Institute surveys): Favor Favor Demo- Repub-crats licans Negro Voters 66 34 All Voters 54 46 Approve Disapprove of of Roosevelt Roosevelt Negro Voters 82 18 All Voters 63 37 Institute tests show that the average Negro voter was jarred loose from his Republican associations in 1932.

Along with voters in all walks of life, he crossed party lines eight years ago to help elect the first Democratic administration since Woodrow Wilson's. In the 1936 election, the Institute's present survey shows, approximately 76 per cent of the Negro voters interviewed (who voted at all) voted for Roosevelt, while 24 per cent were for Landon. Obviously, there has been a substantial movement on the part of Negro voters toward the GOP in the last three years, as shown by the number who now say they would like to see the Republican candidate elected in November. The trend is shown in the figures: Charge 'Demo- "Repub-'in cratic' lican' Vote 1936 Election 76 24 Today's Survey 66 34 -10 The indicated Republican gain denberg points out and as every one knows, was not approved by the Senate committee on foreign afairs. But a canvass of the com mittee showed that it was favor able to the sense of the resolution, and a few days later the state de IT WAS of such people as these whom Whittier spoke when he said: "They make the rugged places smooth, and sow the vales with grain.

And bear, with Liberty and Law, the Bible in their train. The mighty West shall bless the East, and sea shall answer sea. And mountains unto mountains call, 'Praise God, for we are L. C. T.

partment served the notice of ab rogation upon Japan. Senator Van denberg publicly applauded the ac tion and was widely praised in the newspapers for having taken Twenty Years Ago 1920 Andrew J. Veech, wealthy land owner in Oakley township, died. He was 84 years old and had lived in that neighborhood all his life. Commissioner Alex Van Praag presented a motion to the city council "to enlarge the transfer station but the motion did not receive a second.

Daut are planning to build two more greenhouses, each 37 by 300 feet at a cost of $19,000. Cemetery superintendents are having a hard time getting enough men to dig graves during the present "flu" epidemic. a strong line. The Vandenberg resolution is still the most concise statement available of the policy which led to the present situation. The read er will note that the resolution con tains two parts, the first calling for the abrogation of the commercial treaty of 1911, the second for col Isctive action to uphold the Nine- Power Treaty of 1922.

The inconvenient part for us ii that, having ended our treaty relations for the purpose cf impressing the Japanese, we shall become increasingly unimpressive they now go forward to do everything to which we object. We have threatened to act, and in foreign relations where the vital interests of great powers are involved, a threat which is not carried out may be quite as dangerous as one which is carried out. It would be as dangerous to let the Japanese army think we are pacifist bluffers as it was to let Ribbentrop and Hitler think the British were pacifist bluffers: it may incite them to do things that the American nation would find intolerable. On the other hand, in carrying out a threat against a great power there is always the likelihood of reprisal, and that makes war a real possibility. So when there is involved something as great as China is to Japan, a threat is either a bluff which, when called, incites to greater aggression; or it is not a bluff but an act which, when resented, may result in war.

Now, it must be remembered that the American dispute with Ja among Negro voters since 1936 is only slightly greater than GOP gains among all classes of voters, pan does not turn on the matters Lights of New York LOSS: Before going back to her little old home town to have her tonsils removed by her family physician, a young professional woman not only bought a lot of silk things for hospital wear but also had a beauty specialist add to her glamor. The operation was a success and soon the patient demanded a mirror. To her surprise the nurse refused to bring one. Naturally she wanted to know the reason, but didn't get it until after she had become quite upset about the matter. Then the nurse, who'd had a conference with the doctor explained that "something terrible" had happened.

"It's your beautiful eye lashes, she continued with her hand on the patient's shoulder. "When I washed the vaseline from your eyes they came off on the cloth." Despite her sore throat, the patient laughed. Those eyelashes had been pasted on by the beauty specialist. There is another aspect of moment. Both the Allies and the Germans have been striving for control of the Balkans because of the vast strategic importance of this ancient battle-ground of Southeastern Europe which may easily become the scene of major fighting.

Here, too, the 'Anglo-French pair seem to have played in luck. It was emphasized in entente conference circles that Turkey, guardian of the Dardanelles straits strategically one of the most important spots in the whole world is the promised ally of England and France if fighting develops in that section. It further was emphasized that Greece, friend of England, was drawing still closer to Turkey. It should be noted that Turkey, which has assumed the leadership among Irak. Iran and Afghanistan, also has pushed forward in the councils of the Balkan entente.

At this moment Turkey is a prime factor to be reckoned with in trying to forecast the outcome of the European upheaval. One could almost see the spirit of the late President Kemal Ataturk sitting in at the council table of the entente in Belgrade during the past three days. This man. whom many current historians character-ize as the greatest cf all the dictators of modern times, left a legacy of friendship for En-rland to his country when he died just over a year ago. In Turkey at that time it was said that he swore by England because he felt the British policies were dependable.

He laid down a policy of neutrality, and kept a wary eye on Germany, but it was understood 'hat if it came to war, Turkey-would go with Britain. however, and so the Republicans covereu by the commercial treaty of 1911. There was no need to abro cannot be sure that the trend represents any special change in the Negro voter's position. Thirty Tears Ago 1910 Horace McDavid. former Millikin athlete.

resumed his position as principal of the Cen- tralia high school. He has been studying law since September. W. T. Ferguson defeated JC.

E. Weston in a 600-ball pool match-for the championship of the city. Local bank deposits totaled S7.473.102.80, an increase of more than a million from the previous year. There are 110 persons taking the examination for U. S.

census enumerators here. Music stores here put on sale 1.000 copies of the song. "You Can't Tell Who's Your Friend Anymore" composed by Howard Wil-hite and Ike Lowry. gate that treaty as such. The dispute turns on the political treaty of 1922 which Japan has violated.

If Senator Vandenberg's resolu tion had any meaning, it meant that the commercial treaty should be abrogated in order to induce Japan to negotiate about the political treaty. Everybody knows that this is what it meant. This is what the state department meant when it acted on the sense of the sena tor's resolution. To this action on our part Mr Arita, the foreign minister, replied last week in a speech to the Japanese Diet Mr. Arita's language is moderate and courteous.

But his position is uncompromising in that he is unwilling even to con Fifty Tears Ago 1890 P. H. Hunt of Decatur expects to bid on some of the extensive brick paving to be done in Detroit' this year. Two representatives of the Ohio Shoe Co. have arrived in Decatur to investigate the offer made by Decatur for the factory to move here.

Robert Mueller, who has been travelling for the Mueller company, will hereafter have full charge of the office. Adam Blenz has telegraphed from Spokane Falls. for money, saying that he wants to invest in a meat market there. STREET SCENE: A gray-haired Negro pushing a rickety cart piled high with old papers A vegetable peddler singing the merits of his wares in a rich baritone'. A milk wagon horse standing with its forelegs on the sidewalk solemnly eying passers-by Youngsters playfully throwing ashes, taken from a convenient can, at one another A fat woman, her arms loaded with bundles, shrieking as she skids on a bit of ice A shawled woman slipping out of a saloon with a foam-crowned pitcher A blind man tapping his way along slowly and chanting monotonously, "Pencil.

Please buy a pencil" A girl in a thin coat and skirt taking a discarded newspaper from a corner trash can and hurriedly turning to the "Help Wanted" columns. sider the possibility that the United States, or any of the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty, has any right to be heard on the question of the territorial integrity and political independence of By the Way WHAT'S IN A NAME? Perhaps the good people of Niles Center, the town west of Evans-ton but usually considered part of Chicago, thought about this when it was suggested that the community should have a new name. According to those who signed the petition for a change, the name of Niles Center had a comic, rube-town ring to it. In the search of a new name it appears that Ridgeview holds first place and Oakton is in second. If the people of Niles Center had consulted the official postal guide they would have discovered something that put their community in a class by itself as there is only one Niles Center in the United States.

There is one town of Nile in New York state and four "Niles," one each in California, Kansas, Michigan and Ohio. Other than those there was ho competition as to name. There are two postoffices with the name "Ridgeview," one in South Dakota and another in West Virginia but the prefix "Ridge" is quite common, in addition to there being six towns by the name of Ridge. There are 36 in the postal guide including our own Ridge Farm in Illinois. As to Oakton, there are two of them now, one in Virginia and one in Kentucky but there are 175 communities with postoffices that start with the word "Oak" including the four towns of Oak.

It would appear that Niles Center is dropping a distinctive name to get in with the great common herd. Those State Barriers. Indiana. Iowa and Wisconsin made arrangements last week for automobiles registered in these states to get across state borders without trouble. There is not much trouble about private passenger cars any more in any state but when it comes to trucks you have to know the laws and agreements of 48 to avoid trouble.

Indiana and Iowa signed reciprocity agreements for both trucks and passenger cars but in the case of Wisconsin only passenger cars were agreed upon with both Iowa and Indiana as Wisconsin has a law requiring fees from out of state trucks. Only recently Wisconsin and Michigan ended a warfare that had lasted many months with numerous drivers arrested at the state border in northern Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan agreed on private automobiles and under certain restrictions permit trucks for private business to cross the border but trucks for hire are different. There are se-eral conditions but in general freight trucks must have a license for each state. The question of using roads built partially with Federal aid money was brought up with no definite decision.

It would appear that the Federal government, because of its stake in these roads, would take a hand in these annual border disputes. 1 Many states believe they have a right to expect compensation from out of state freight trucks and buses for the use of right of way. There may be merit in the contention but some uniform action is needed to clear up the jumble. A Two-Way Attack. Germany's intensified air attack on shipping in the North Sea is believed by many to be a forerunner of bombing raids to be made on cities when better flying weather comes in the spring.

Military experts do not know but they are inclined to believe that Hitler will continue to direct his air attacks at military objectives. Small incendiary bombs of great force have been perfected which permit an airplane to carry several hundred at one time. An entire large city could be set on fire within a few minutes. The military answer to this is that the nation that starts this kind of warfare must expect to have some of its large cities destroyed in return. There are many large and important German cities within 100 to 300 miles of the Franco-German border.

Hitler knows China. He assures us that when Japan has completed and consolidated Let no one think there is any cheap and comfortable way out of this dilemma. The fact is that it is a dilemma which cannot be resolved by running away from the Japanese and must not be resolved by running head on into them. Ho' then, can it be resolved? The answer is that it cannot be resolved as long as we make the pretensions of a great power in world politics and at the same time conduct ourselves as if we were a feeble, little nation. It cannot be resolved until men with influence and responsibility, like Senator Vandenberg, realize that the United States lies in two oceans, and learn to think of our security with a mind that remembers always the two oceans.

The historians of the future will consider it one of the classic ironies of history that on the eve of a great war, the United States was precipitated by "isolationist" leaders into challenging the vital interests of a great power, and then induced by these same leaders to believe that it could safely deal with the consequences in one ocean regardless of what happened in the other. INSURANCE: Ed Hart told me about three high school lads who got on a trolley car on Webster avenue. Two of them started riding the third about not dropping his nickel in the farebox chiseling a ride in other words. The young fellow's face reddened at the charge. "I did pay my fare," he announced.

"Do you think Td want anything like that on my conscience with examinations today: And I went to church yesterday, too!" Ed is keeping a sharp lookout for the lad. He's curious to know if he got passing marks. There is yet another factor which would seem at this moment to be in favor of the Allies. It is understood that the entente conference looked graciously on Signor Mussolini's intervention in the affairs of the Balkans with the idea of creating a neutral defensive unit and preventing any invasion by either Russia or Germany. Jugoslavia, which apart from Turkey is the key state of the Balkans strategically, apparently has decided to cooperate with Italy at least to some degree Jugoslavia also is headed towards closer cooperation with Hungary and with Bulgaria, the latter being the only Balkan state not in' the entente.

In other words, -it would seem thPt II Duce is getting ahead with his nlan. There are those who think he is friendly at heart towards the Anglo-French allies, and there are those who think he may not be. Whatever may be his feeling however, it is all to the good rom the Allied standpoint to have him acting as sentrv at the entrance to the Balkan peninsula. Thus, on the whole, it would seem that the Allies did fairlv well for themselves out of the entente From Other Editors KANSAS, A STATE OF MIND. Quincy Herald-Whig: Ten years ago, when Kansas was observing her 69th birthday.

Margot Asquith had asked, what is Kansas? William Allen White attempted to answer her with the information that Kansas was a state in the general shape of a rectangle, 400 miles long and 200 miles across and that the census gave her a few less than 2.000.000 people with an unbelievably large per capita wealth and com-mcndably even distribution of this wealth. The thing looked so simple that an observer would conclude Kansas was just one of the 48 states of the union. But these are only outward aspects. Kansas. White said, was not only a state of the union but.

like Boston, a state of mind, a neurotic condition or psychological phase. It is a symptom of something not dreamed of in one's philosophy. When anything is going to happen it happens first in Kansas. It is almost superfluous to list them but there is abolition, prohibition, populism, the Bull Moose, the exit of the roller towel, the appearance of the bank guarantee, the blue sky law, the adjudication of industrial disputes all came out of Kansas. Like Webster said about Massachusetts one can now say of Kansas, "There she is." It will be no secret to the Japa nese that the United States can were still half a dozen houses there.

Murfreesboro is one town that has completely disappeared from the county. It was laid out near the Lorton Trading Post northeast of Decatur, the trading post being the first center in the county established to conduct trading with the Indians. There was a saw mill, grist mill, a store and several houses but Murfreesboro failed to live after Decatur was established. The Madison district is another place where a town was started in Macon county. Marion and Franklin, other early communities in the county, failed to grow into towns.

Martinsburg south of Murfreesboro, also failed to survive. We have a Cross Roads school in the county that gets its name from a community that expected to grow into a big town in early names. This town was at the intersection of two state roads one going from Springfield to Paris and the other from Shel-byville going north. Most of these early towns died when railroads failed to take notice of them- O. R.

K. laKe no risks in thp Pacific Ocean. certainly no risk that ronlrf nossihlv lead to war, as long as the out come ol the naval war in the At-lantic is in doubt. To become involved in thp Orient without absolute certainty that the n-uanuc ucean is securely in the hands of our friends wnufri hp in QUESTIONS: Bob Hawk, who conducts one of those radio quiz programs, maintains a suite of offices where 12 girls do nothing but sort mail. More than 500,000 letters have been tallied and 1,290.000 questions indexed.

Analysis shows New Yorkers are sports minded; questions from New England trend toward history and, curiously Mid-westerners ask the most cosmopolitan questions. Sixty per cent, of those who mail quiz queries are women. Three per cent of the questions' are gags and the leading question more than 6.000 have sent in is, "What three Presidents were assassinated in office?" L. L. STEVENSON.

IN MACON COUNTY there once was a community of Dan-town near Argenta. There is no other Dantown in the nation, according to the postoffice guide, although there are plenty of cities and towns starting with "Dan." Also near Argenta was once the town of Newburg. It once had 150 people living there. Even at the turn of the century when we lived in Argenta there commit the unpardonable blunder of advancing into danger without safeguarding our rear. And since the Japanese know thic nr.

soon find that we have 'entered a Coin-machine manufacturers recently developed a coin-onerated milk dispenser and a coin-operated book vendor. period when, for our safety and our self respect," we shall need more competent leadershin than we aro now getting from Washington..