Evening star., 1940-02-10

Not Arms" and mo Brass Hats in
G. c. c."
Votes for Washington were recog-
nized by mule-draWn cart bearing
the slogan: "All vote except thieves,
murderers, imbeciles and residents
of Washington"
Another picturesque slogan was
huge post card addressed to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House,
from the American Student Union.
Two rows over the relation of the
congress to Communism disrupted
the citizenship meeting last night at
the Departmental Auditorium, where
police elected two young men from
New Jersey. A third protestant,
Archibald Roosevelt, grandson of
Theodore Roosevelt, left the meeting
of his own accord in anger and in
dignation, while his cousin, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, looked on
without word.
Hip, hip, tarara.
Congress, your duty is clear.
We don't want big palaver,
It's Youth Act year"
Thus the young men and women
sang today, drawing attention to
their chief interest in Washington
the passage of the so-called Amer
lean Youth Act, which would pave
the way for the appropriation of
$500, 100000 to make permanent the
National Youth Administration and
underwrite a scheme of jobgiving
and vocational training for unem-
ployed young men and women.
John L. Lewis to Speak.
1t was at 2::30 pm. that the dele
gates were to assemble in the Inter-
departmental Auditorium to hear
President Lewis of the c. I. O.; NAL
colin Cotton Dobbs. executive secre-
tary of the Council of Young South
erners, and Joseph Cadden, execu-
tive secretary of the American Youth
Congress, discuss various phases of
the question of jobs and training
for jobs.
Mr.. Lewis speech will be picketed
by the Maryland Congress of Young
Republicans. John Benson. presi-
dent, said in Baltimore, because the
c. I. o. chief represents the Com
munist idea and breaches Com
munistic principles" Mr.. Benson
said the Young Republicans will
carry signs reading: why be the
tail on the red Trojan horse?" and
Delegates wake up. Don't be
stooges for Moscow
There was a certain spirit of
jubilance among the delegates today
because of their successful hurdling
of the threat to disrupt last night S
sessions over the Communist issue.
With the aid of policemen, boos
and sternness from the chairman
of the meeting, the delegates over
rode attempts to force a vote on
resolutions condemning the Russian
invasion of Finland and calling for
the custer of Communists from the
Youth Congress.
The demonstrations resulted only
in the custer from the meeting of
two of the protestants, who were
taken into temporary custody, be-
ing held in a guardroom at the rear
of the Interdepartmental Audito-
rum These two were Stephen Nc
Arthur of the Young Democratic
Club Of Kearney, N. j., and Peter
M. Tropea, Beaumont Democratic
Club, Jersey City, N. ].
Mr. Roosevelt, s2l, Harvard, 1899,
was sitting in the front row, just
in front of the Presidents wife,
when, during the affray leading to
the election of Mr.. Tropea, he
leaped to his feet and demanded in
the name of democracy the right to
present the Finnish resolution. o.
K. Armstrong, member of the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the
American Legion and friend of
Mr.. Roosevelt's father, pulled him
back into his seat. Mr.. Armstrong
explained later that he was present
as a disinterested observer of the
proceedings.
Mrs. Roosevelt Placid.
Mrs. Roosevelt looked on placidly
during the feverish disorder and
stayed to the very end of the meet
ing, which lasted from pm. to II
pm. The resolutions were never
presented.
Later, Mrs. Roosevelt remarked
that Il think it is peculiar to get
up in a meeting with an arranged
program and say, I want to speak ;"
She sat between Bill Hinckley,
former Youth Congress chairman,
and Mrs. Hinckley, who are her
house guests.
The chief speaker of the eve
ming was Attorney General jack
son, who mixed with appreciation
of youths demands sly verbal pokes
at the Republican party over the
Communism question. Abraham
Lincoln, Mr.. Jackson said, would
have aided the youths.
Then, for the benefit of the 1000
persons present who knew that
John D. M. Hamilton, chairman OF
the Republican National Commit
tee, had refused an invitation to
attend the sessions of the Youth
Congress, Mr.. jackson said:
What seems surprising is that
the political party which has been
trying to wear Lincoln's garments
now refuses to associate with a1y