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Monday, September '6, 194S DECATUR HERALD AND REVIEW 6 By The Way Jus their crews transferred to more active units of the navy. "The Mighty Mo" is available for ceremonial duty. Despite changing fashions in fighting ships, there's something about a super-dreadnaught which gives it dignity and prestige beyond the reach of the largest airplane carrier. Even in the Atomic age, following upon the heels of the Air age, there's something about a broadside from a first class battleship which is respected around the world. As the U.

S. S. Iowa went into the mothballs one light carrier and eight destroyers came out The navy explained the tion as the result of "revolutionary develop- merits in underwater warfare." Underwater warfare usually would refer to the operations of submarines. It is now known that the Russian navy is well furnished with 'submarines captured from the Nazis and finished in Soviet yards. The Nazis were' well ahead of us in submarine design and use in World War II.

But since the end of that war the United States has conducted several atomic tests and in one of them the bomb was exploded under water in the midst of anchored warships of various type and construction. The navy, of course, knows the results of those tests and can be expected to modify its operations in the light of that knowledge. So once again the experts are saying that the super-drednought. the floating fortress, the battlewagon beloved by the older admirals is doomed. That may be true.

But the first class warship has been doomed before. It 'was doomed by the submarine, by the dirigible, by the bombing plane, by the aircraft carrier and, finally, by the atomic bomb. The infantryman has been doomed, too, and rendered "obsolete" by a succession of new developments in the weapons and tactics of land warfare. But the foot soldier is the main-stay of the army and the battle-wagon still is the naval base around which the newer, more glamorous naval craft gather when far from the friendly shores of home. INTERPRETATION Editorials.

As Henry W. Longfellow might have written it, "Learn to labor and to wait tor the whistle." The composer of "On the Road to Man-dalay" died the other day and Rudyard Kipling, the poet who wrote the words, is long years dead, but the baritones who ting the song seem to live forever. Labor Day, 1948 After several weeks of comparative calm on the industrial labor front the Labor Day weekend was ushered in to the accompaniment of major strikes on both coasts, and in both major unions. There was a C. I.

O. maritime workers strike on the West Coast and an A. F. of L. teamsters' union strike in New York City.

As a result of those serious walkouts Labor Day speakers will be obliged to revise their prepared addresses. There will be a steady barrage of Labor Day speeches today because this is an election year and the labor vote is substantial and a large share of it is as yet unpledged. The new strikes will be discussed today in appraisals of the Taft-Hartley labor man-agemcnt relations law which has been in force for a little more than a year. The Taft-Hartley law is a major issue in the current presidential campaign. While jurisdictional disputes are at the bottom of some strike situations the' controversies usually deal with wages, and the demand for higher wages is based on the ever rising cost of living.

In most cases those wage disputes are settled according to an agreed pattern, a formula which takes into account the amount of increase in living costs since the- last round of wage boosts. It is reasonable to believe that should prices level off, wages would follow suit because labor is now enjoying the highest wages in history, in dollars. On the eve cf Labor Day 1948 the Bureau of Labor Statistics offered some data which will be read with satisfaction by labor and by the friends of labor. The bureau noted the increased productivity of workers in industry, not merely the total volume of production, but an increase in production per man-hour. During the war years when there was a demand for production at whatever cost, the emphasis wa: upon volume.

Efficiency, unit costs and man-hour production were secondary considerations. During the post-war years the critics of labor have complained of time-wasting, of slow-downs and of doing less than a day's work for a good day's wages. Such criticism has been heard in explanations of the sky-high cost of construction, both commercial and home building. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that in 19 of 31 selected industries production pej man-hour increased substantially in the year ending In 1947; that the increases ranged up to 35 per cent better than in the war production years. The nation's industrial plant is capable of record production and the wages now being paid should provide the proper incentive.

Production and more production should force high prices down. Hybrid corn isn't so tall as the corn raised by farmers in years gone by and next year, we suppose, the corn crop will be in good shape if it is ankle-high by the 4th of July. The Hunch That Failed Accusations that the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt made concessions to Joe Stalin in various war conferences that are now embarrassing the United States are being given support in reports by men who were there. At first the accusations were dismissed as inspired by hatred of the President and sniping after he was dead.

The secret papers of Harry L. Hopkins, Roosevelt's confidant, have added another chapter to that provided a week ago by William C. Bullitt, former American ambassador to Russia and to France when he told in a Life magazine article about confidential talks with the late President. Mr. Hopkins part of the story as told by Robert E.

Sherwood appears in Collier's magazine. Mr. Bullitt says he urged the President to. make lend-lease aid to Russia conditional upon Soviet commitments to respect the boundaries of Eastern Europe. Mr.

Roosevelt Is quoted as saying .1 have hunch that Stalin is not that kind of a man .1 think that if I give everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won't try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace." The Hopkins papers reveal that at the first meeting with Stalin at Teheran Mr. Roosevelt gave Russia the Chinese port of Dairen without Stalin even asking for it. The latest chapter in the Hopkins papers tells of turning over the Kurile islands and the south half of Sakhalin island to Stalin who asked for them in the Yalta conference in 1945. That was two months before Germany was defeated and almost six months before the Japanese war was ended with the fall of two atom bombs. There are those who declare President Roosevelt's faith in Stalin and the Soviet Union was shaken before he died.

Perhaps he realized, as many do now, that giving everything possible was one of the biggest mistakes of his administrations. It was the hunch that failed. A husband and father of our acquaintance says he, too, might be glamorous with a toupee, caps for his teeth, a girdle, lipstick, artificial dimple and a marijuana cigaret just before going before the cameras. The-Battlewagons Again The XT. S.

Navy counts 15 modern battleships but only one of them, the U. S. S. Missouri, familiarly known as "the Mighty Mo," is in active service. The other 14, including the U.

S. S. Iowa, sister ship to the Missouri, are assigned to the Zipper Fleet. That is, they are on the inactive list Their guns are shrouded in plastic cocoons and their machinery coated with tons of protective grease. They could be readied for service within weeks in the event of an emergency.

Meanwhile they lie at anchor, U.S. Needs New European Policy BY WALTER LIPPMANN LITTLE MORE WAS to be expected at this time than the tentative and precarious arrangement about Berlin which may now have been arrived at For in the larger conflict be- tween East ana wesi I'W I there is a stalemate. Neither side is prepared to decide" the issue by war. Neither side is com- npltprf to surrender on the A I vital issues. They are too.

irreconcilably divided to Lippmsuin ment In the diplomatic negotiations of this summer both sides have recognized the existence of this stalemate. Both have realized that they need to prolong the stalemate and that all they could agree on was that this was not the time for the showdown. The conflict will, of course, continue. But the diplomats probably have succeeded in avoiding the showdown, for which no one was ready, and in holding the conflict just below the level of open and uncontrollable violence. There may, therefore, be a pause.

That at least is the optimistic view, and if it is correct, there may be time to prepare and improve our position before the next crisis develops. I venture to believe that we can do that if we grasp the opportunity, which is still open to us, to define clearly and con-'cretely a doctrine addressed to all the nations and states of Europe on the expansion of the Russian Soviet Empire. The doctrine would call not for the containment of Russia by America in the center of Europe but for the retirement of Russia from Europe and the restoration of Europe to the Europeans. I hold that such a declaration would clarify the real issue of the conflict, and would in the course of time exercise an influence on events not unlike that of the Monroe Doctrine a century and a quarter ago. The Monroe Doctrine declared our intention to end the expansion o'f alien empire over the two American continents.

We ought now to declare our intention to use our influence to bring to an end the un-natural and intolerable expansion of alien empire over the continent of Europe. I have little doubt that our influence would mount if we made this, rather than contain- r.ient, our declared objective in Europe. For then we should be identified with the liberation of Europe, with the pride, honor, and hopes of the Europeans, and not as I think we are today with the idea that the European continent is an expendable object in the struggle between Russia and America, and not with the idea that the Europeans who value freedom must take sides with us as the 'lesser of the two unpleasant evils offered to them. This is not the first time that the Rus- sians have moved westward into Europe. Russian armies were on the Rhine in 1735 and in 1747.

They looted Berlin in 1760. In 1814 they were in Paris. Russian armies have occupied Romania ten different times in two centuries. A hundred and fifty years ago the Russians had a foot.iold in Malta in the center of the Mediterranean. Peter the Great very nearly established the Russian power on the Adriatic.

The Russians have occupied Poland and Hungary not once but several times. But always Europe resisted them. Always in tne end the Russians were compelled to retire. I submit that in this respect, if we have the vision and the courage, history can be made to repeat itself most of progressive Europe, 'including much of Europe now under Russian domination, is resisting the pressure of this alien non-European power now intruding upon the European community. It seems to me.

therefore, that we are complicating matters unnecessarily by allowing it to appear that Europeans must choose between communism and Americanism. Our position in Europe would be sounder and stronger if we made ourselves plainly and simply the champions of European independence, if we made it unmistakably clear that our paramount objective was to liberate the continent from the domination of non-European, and therefore alien, powers. We are an anti-Communist power! We are also an anti-Socialist power. Wei can rally part but not all of Europe to anti-Communism. We can rally much less of Europe to anti-Socialism.

But we can rally most of Europe, including Communists In many lands, to the simple and elemental thesis that the Russians should go back to Russia and leave Europe to govern itself. This surely is the crux of the quarrel between Tito and Moscow even to Communists in Yugoslavia prolonged domination by Russia has become unbearable. If we made, ourselves the champions of a policy of evacuation and withdrawal from Europe, we should, I believe, enlist the emotions which are stronger than the Communist ideology the spirit of nationalism, the tradition of a thousand years that Europe is distinct from Russia, and the deep, universal, human hatred, of armies of occupation and their agents. The declaration of such an American doctrine about Europe would not, of course, be a substitute for the constructive elements of our present European policy that is to say, the recovery program, European union, the guaranties against military aggression, and the program of re-armament to keep in being a p6werful striking force. All our plans and hopes of European union encounter the elementary fact that Europe cannot unite before it has recovered its independence.

A divided Europe, one half of it dominated by the Russians, the other bait supported and protected by the United States, is not a Europe which is likely to find the moral force to construct a new European crder. We should dissociate ourselves entirely from the idea that we are in Europe to perpetuate this situation. We should Identify ourselves with the realization, that "Europe will first have to be united in a struggle for the independence of Europe Second Thoughts By David V.FtlH HENRY McLEMORE, the newspaper columnist, has been traveling with Mrs. Mc-Lemore in the Orient and recently arrived in Kashmir, in India. Naturally they wanted to see the Shalimar, celebrated in the familiar "Kashmiri Song," by Laurence Hope.

The McLemores were not certain about the real nature of the Shalimar. The opening lines of the Hope poem "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, Where are you now?" suggested that it might be a river or a lake. Mrs. McLemore wondered if the Shalimar might be a great big bottle of perfume. But when they had arrived at the Shalimar, they found it to be a summer residence surround- ed by a lovely garden.

McLemore reports that the pale hands were not in evidence. Once upon a time, when We were much younger, we dared to guess where those pale hands might be. And since this is a holiday we shall take advantage of anyone who happens to be reading in this space today to reprint from our notebooks a sonnet which we "must have perpetrated some 20 years ago. In answer to the query "Where are you we wrote: Perhaps they fondle pearls strung 'round her throat As by the mirror of some calm lagoon She stands and looks upon the same old moon That looked on us as we were wont to float Upon the bosom of that silvered lake; Or are they clasped in prayer before some shrine Entreating Buddha, with a power divine, To bring me back, or else her heart must break. Or it may be that those pale, lovely hands Beside the Ganges wash a husband's shirts.

Or in a dismal hut soothe kiddies' 'hurts And never tire to do her lord's commands. Perhaps 'tis well I don't know where you are "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar." LIFE Magazine offered recently a series of piStures captioned Life of the Gladiolus" and we can hope that no Life reader thoughtlessly left the magazine open on a table where there might have been a bouquet of young gladioli. THOSE were interesting statistics on the earnings of physicians in 1947. The average annual income was $9,884, according to a survey made by a medical economics journal. In 1935 the average was $3,792.

Gross incomes of $50,000 were reported by 2.8 per cent of the doctors and 0.1 per cent grossed Highest gross was $180,000 reported by "a specialist in proctology." After a quick look in the dictionary, we fee! certain he earned it. AN INNOCENT girl without a dime but with big blue eyes and long lashes marries a man of considerable wealth and everybody swoons with delight. Cinderella! How wonderful and how deserving. A handsome young man without a dime but with muscles and a dimple in his chin marries a comely 'young woman who has two or three farms and a portfolio of gilt-edged securities and you hear oatty whis1 pers "He married her for her money." The heel! OF THIS Oh Yes AND THAT: A halfback candidate at the University of Illinois is Paul Douglas. He shares his name with a well known radio announcer, an actor, the president of a university and the Democratic nominee for an Illinois seat in the U.

S. Senate What have we been- reading lately, except "The Loved Oh," here and there in "Lincoln Runs For Congress" by Donald W. Riddle. We must read more about John J. Hardin, a contemporary of and a man of exceptional promise.

He was killed while leading his regiment in a desperate charge in the Battle of Buena Vista. One hundred years ago there were various men in Illinois who surpassed Abraham Lincoln in ability, in attainment and in popular appeal. Eventually all of them will be celebrated because "they knew Lincoln." Captain L. O. Trigg, Eldorado newspaper editor who has sponsored the Illinois Ozark tours for many years, is now Colonel Trigg.

This day we shall sail out of the Illinois Valley Yachy (Ivy) club in Peoria. That is, we shall hang on for dear life, while a sleek Star class boat dashes up and down One of these days we must buy a white cap. A couple of books we have been hauling around for 30 years are on the list required by the Heiress to the Felts Millions, a high school sophomore. Gosh, college just around the bend. About time we were robbing a bank.

Almost time to put out bulbs again. In the meantime we must relocate some flower beds and arrange for some contour plowing on the front terraces. Don't look for us the rest of the week. But we'll be seeing you all too soon. 25 Years Ago in The Herald Respecters of the 18th Amendment experience great difficulty in getting their favorite beverage.

Water, in European cafes, according to Dr. Lynn Barnes and Dr. T. Harley Marsh, who have returned from attending the Baptist World conference in Stockholm. In a move to test legality, of the order requiring children to be vaccinated before they are admitted to school, all those opposed to vaccination are asked to meet in the Y.

M. C. A. library at 7:30 this evening to outline a campaign. The meeting is called by Guy Hawkins.

TOKYO Yokohama is a charhal house, the canals and' water front are filled with dead and the stench from decomposing bodies is unbearable, according to refugees arriving here from that city. Thousands drowned in the canals seeking refuge from the fires that followed the series of earthquakes. BY EDGAR A. GUEST LABOR All we have to boast, All our pride in' things, All we cherish most Out of labor springs. Men who paint or write, Howsoever skilled.

Serve with lesser might Than the men who build. Men who forge with fire, Fashion wheel and gear, Raise the temple spire, Plane and vessel steer, Men who mine and mould. Work with steel and stone. Give us all we hold And are proud to own. Every' fiel dof grain Proves the willing hand; Unploughed, 'twould remain Bleak and barren land.

Every path that leads Homeward, day gone by; Everything man' needs Labor must supply. Vain the gifted pen, Brush and lovely song. But for all the men Making labor's throng. Brick and steel and stone Piece by piece were laid. Everything we own Men who work have made.

(Copyright 1948) Decatur Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1938 Popeye II, piloted by Archie Foster, and Head Pin, skippered by Chester Cook accompanied by Robert Colbeck, tied for first place in yesterday's Labor day handicap sailing races at Lake Decatur. In the drawing, Foster won the trophy. Decatur police and sheriffs deputies took instruction here yesterday from I. E. Nit-schke, F.B.I, man assigned by J.

Edgar Hoover, in -the use of firearms in combatting crime. Twenty Years Ago 1928 Schools opened with a registration of 11.007 pupils. First steel in the Staley viaduct was put in place today. Art Morrow successfully defended his Country club title by defeating Glen Shafter 6 and 4 in 36 holes. In one of the most striking and colorful parades Decatur labor and delegations from surrounding towns celebrated Labor day here, yesterday.

v- Word was received of the death of Ida McClelland Stout, talented Decatur sculptress, in Rome, Italy. Thirty Years Ago 1918 About 75 people of Decatur and vicinity, who spend winters in Florida, held a picnic at Fairview park and formed an organization with A. H. Hill, Decatur, as president: James C. Peck, Cerro Gordo, vice president; and Mrs.

William C. Burley, Cerro Gordo, secretary-treasurer. After several attempts to settle the championship title in the Commercial baseball league, the Staley team won, defeating Mueller's 2-1. Kotzelnick pitched for Staleys and Dressen for Muellers and each allowed two hits in six innings. Decatur and Macon county's first army draft contingents left for Camp Dodge.

Ia. In the group were William E. Knodle, Bert S. Guynn, Richard Llewellen, Guy Dickerson Guy Bundy, Sam Morthland. Harold Holland, Clarence Bowers, William T.

Mills. Fifty Years Ago 1898 The Fifth regiment, of which company of Decatur is a unit, was to leave Camp Hamilton, Wells farm, near Lexington. yesterday for Springfield, where the troops are to be mustered out from Camp Lincoln. Yesterday was a big day for the 3.537 young people who reported for duties at the ward school and high school buildings at 9 o'clock in the to start the fall term. Louis Steinbach has donated to Turner park two fine alligators.

One is four and a half feet long and the other is fdur feet long. James M. Lindsay has been elected delegate to the meeting of the State Federation of Labor, Sept. 27. From Other Editors RIGHT, LEFT.

RIGHT, LEFT Christian Science Monitor: A correspondent wants to know what we mean by right rightist left and leftist. Despite the constant use of these words in the press, he writes, he has not found a single acquaintance who could define them for him. This is not altogether surprising. A definition is' not quite as simple a matter as it was when, the terms came into use to describe the conservatives who sat to the right of the presiding officer in a European legislative chamber and the radicals who sat to his left Today we Tiave the spectacle of extreme rightists or Fascists who in some respects seem closer to extreme leftists or Communists than either is to the moderate conservatives or progressives just right or left of center. The issue is further complicated by the word "liberal." In the classic English sense it is used of one who stresses individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism and who today is somewhere to right of center.

In the new American sense it is used of one who stresses social justice and a controlled economy and who today is somewhere to left of center. In the fullest and trues sense it may mean one at the center who balances the freedom of the individual (R) against the requirements of society (L). rights (R) against duties (L). stability (R) against change (L), special privilege (R) against forced equality (L). To the reactionary and revolutionary alike the center position is a milksop one, blowing neither hot nor cold.

To the individual who tries to hold it however, it requires the toughest, clearest, kind of thinking, the cour-age to espouss values either to the right or left when the whole tide of current emotion is running the other way. The right, in general, looks to the past The left in general, looks to the future. The liberal center both reads history and dreams dreams. It is the hinge between yesterday and tomorrow. It puts its faith in today.

LOUIS F. BUDENZ, former editor of the Daily Worker, Communist tabloid of New York City, was back testifying before the House un-American committee last week. Budenz deserted the Communist party and is now a professor. He has told the congressional committee and the F.B.L much about the Communist set-up and how it works in this country. The Daily Worker reported Budenz's a.

-pearance last week before the committee and in the -few paragraphs referred to him as "renegade Louis F. "the F.B.L stoolpigeon." 'turncoat Budenz," "finger-man," and a "know it all." 1 IN THE NEXT TWO or three weeks someone is certain to talk about Indian Summer. Dcn't you believe it Indian summer does not arrive until late October and frequently in November. By Indian summer standards of years ago there had to be a heavy frost before there could be any Indian Summer. MEYER DAVIS, millionaire society bandleader, says that when he played the dreamy waltz, "Now is the Hour." at debutante parties on Long Island, the conversation dropped down to whispers as the couples glided over the floor.

At the Republican national convention when he played it there was wild yelling and stamping of feet All for the same songl MUTUAL BROADCASTING system is going to eliminate any radio program that listeners to answer a telephone to win a prize. N. B. and Columbia networks announced that for the present they would continue with the "give away shows" that use the telephone. Edgar Kobak, president of Mutual, said the action was not connected with the Federal Communication commission's proposed new lottery regulations but is in compliance with the recently adopted code of the National Association of Broadcasters.

Presumably the other networks will be getting around to change by the first of the year. There has popped into language of the radio networks the term, "buying an audience," in reference to the shows calling persons on 'the telephone. Eventually there will be sharper and plainly understandable rules regarding prize awards but at the present it appears that some of the programs whose jackpot awards run up around $20,000 will continue on the air. THE NATIONAL SAFETY Council is asking every one to be "fire-sighted" as cooler weather approaches. It is a timely warning it will be leaf-burning time, grass may catch on fire, sparks may blow into a house and yon may get too close to a fire on a picnic roasting wieners.

And do not go to bed unless you are sure the fire is out TWENTY FOUR musical shows are in the process of being prepared for Broadway knowing. Each will cost at least That means nearly five million dollars will be invested in these shows and practically all of it will come from "angels" those men who have money to invest and will not feel it much if they lose. Most of these so-called angels know that a big majority of the shows will flop or at least will not last long enough to pay back the investment, but they will take a chance. Most of the angels are in the upper brackets and may deduct as much as 82 per cent of their loss from income tax returns if the show is organized as a "limited partnership." BY THE WAY since it is Labor day Til labor just the same as any other day. Kaiser-Frazer and Hudson are reported having plans for a lower priced car, one that will compete with Ford and Chevrolet but Ford and Chevrolet are also reported to have plans for a cheaper car and all of them will wait until the steel market is favor-fable.

At present everyone is bidding for steel. the Great Gildersleeve returns to the air Wednesday night Mary Lee Robb will be the niece, "Marjorie," replacing Louise Erickson. are the days when mother gave John and Mary each a quarter fcr their lunch if they are to have more than two items in the lunch. (Lunches served at school may be different). warning signs on the streets about schopl crossings are there to be obeyed.

OTTO R. KYLE Words By FRANK COLBY Words to Watch Many of our pronouncing errors are due to misplaced accents. Because English is made up of borrowings from almost every other language in the world, it is not possible to set up any reliable rules to tell us where the accents should fall. There is no way out of the difficulty except learning each individual word. The word hospitable is often heard as "hoss-PIT-uh-b'l," a pronunciation that is more or less current in England.

Best usage in America avoids the second-syllable accent for tt places emphasis on the sound of "spit" which is extremely unpleasant Be sure to say: HOSS-pit-uh-b'L The word incognito, "with identity concealed, as with an assumed name," is almost invariably heard on the radio as, "IN-kog-NEE-tuh." But it has no sanction whatever. The word should be accented on the second syllable only, thus: in-KOG-ni-toe. Watch the word theater (the British spelling is Not "thee-AY-ter." which is dialectal. The word is from the Greek theatron, "seeing place." Accent the first syllable only: THEE-uh-ter. The word dirigible is frequently heard as "duh-RIDGE-uh-b'L" a pronunciation that is frequently used by the English.

In American, usage the accent properly falls on the first syllable, which has the approximate sound of the word "dear." Say: DEAR-i-ji-b'L Q. I'm a whodunit addict Several times of late I've seen the word "hood" used in designating gangsters, gunmen, and other underworld characters. Why K. R. Answer: An author of detective fiction states that this particular "hood" is a shortened form of "hoodlum." Therefore "hood" rhymes with "mood, food," not with "good, nood." (Copyright, 1948) When we are momentarily dismayed at the large number of spies, traitors, narcotic addicts, corrupt public officials and hoodlums in the news headlines these days, it is comforting to remember that the population of the United States, at latest account, was approximately 144 millions.

The worst fate that could happen to a Communist in this country is to be deported to Russia, the land he has been describing as Utopia with some of the better features of Paradise. Louisiana Names Another Long There is no evidence that Louisiana is tired of the Long family or that it soon will be. The state weathered all the adverse publicity given the late Huey Long and last February elected his brother. Earl K. Long, governor of the state.

Now they have selected Russell Long, son of the late Huey, to go to the United States Senate, a position held by his father. There are those who think they see in the Russell Long vote a change in the attitude of the state toward the Long family. There was a total of 500,000 votes cast and Russell Long had a majority of less than 10.000. That is a substantial amount in comparison with the 255 vote margin Coke Stevenson received in Texas out of nearly a million votes, but Earl Long carried New Orleans last February by more than 38,000 votes whUe RusseU Long lost the big city by more than 25.000. What went wrong is not yet explained for Eail Long was the sponsor of Russell Long.

Perhaps New Orleans citizens have discovered they made a mistake in making Earl Long governor. Some other cities also rejected Russell Long but, like his late father, he had enough rural votes to overcome the adverse vote of the cities. What Earl Long does as governor probably will have more direct effect on the people than what Russell Long does in Washington. To date there is no report that Earl Long is the idol of Louisiana because of his administration. Bignews in the bulletin from Wash-' ington reporting that a young woman disrobed on the roof of the Capitol, seems to be that the gal was a brunet.

Mr. Billopp "AFTER LABOR DAT" The cream of all vacationers are those who boast that they will return home "after Labor Day." Ordinary vacationers have taken their vacation so long ago that they have forgotten about it. Probably it lasted a week or two weeks at' best Even at that the vacationers had to watch their pennies. If they fished they fished for sunfish. If they hired boats they rowed them.

No doubt they went to resorts where they could come to dinner in their shirtsleeves and without a necktie. On the other hand, returning "after Labor Day" suggests a suite of rooms with bath and a view. It brings to mind speedboats, guides, dude ranches, salmon fishing, yacht-, ing, dinner in evening dress and after-dinner dancing to the music of a name band. It is inconceivable that people who will return home "after Labor Day" would think of going away for less than a month. To save time they very likely flew to their destination.

And think of the important people they must have met If the people who will return home Labor Day" have a daughter of marriageable age the chances are you will shortly hear of her engagement to the only son of the president of a nationally known corporation. Of course even ordinary vacationers could arrange their vacation so they will not return home until "after -Labor Day." Then friends who hear about it will assume they, too, must have come into an unexpected fortune and have been living- in the lap of luxury. But, as a rule, somebody who ranks them in the organization will have put in for the time ahead of them. So a great many people go through life without ever returning home "after Labor Day." It certainly would be nice to try it once just to see what it feels like and study the expression on friends' faces. CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP.