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Evening star., 1940-06-23

ent government Spain has changed three times Portugal
has gone from monarchy to republic Russia has undergone
two complete changes and Holland wholly reconstructed
Sweden acquired her present constitution in 1909.
We watched the birth of Switzerland. Belgium. Norway
Bulgaria, Liberia and all the South and Central American
republics In thres Greece win her independence
In late maturity Estonia. Finland LatV1a Llthu-
ana Hungary and Yugoslavia being We wrapped
Czechosovaka in her swaddng clothes and mouned her
death We watched the birth and death of Poland the Trans
vaa Republic the Federated State of Austria and ndepen
dent Denmark We appauded the organization OF the Kepub
lie of China Since the hundredth birthday of our Const
ton revolutionary constitutions have been adopted IN the
old monarches of Japan and Siam and Turkey has had
thorough house cleaning.
In the past fifty the map OF the territorial Unted
States has scarcely changed while that of Europe has been
largely redraWn more than once.
IT high that forgot this nonsense about youth
As nation adolescence long past We IN the posi-
o today not of child young man but OF wise father
among dstraught children To the desperate young nations
of Europe counselor for advice based on
long experience the OF peace and government win
the consent of the governed.
We can no longer Europe for help and we need not
The Europe that gave help to ancestors is gone We
borrow the young PHILOSOPHERS of ascsm or national
socialism communism because have no proof that they
will work To Americans fve ten or twenty years are no
test of practical political scheme Today 1t IS Europes
turn to borrow from philosophy of government that has
stood the test of century and half Today statesmen
abroad talking of federation like the one our original
thirteen states adopted - to keep the peace of Europe
So it is our maturity power of Independent thought
our democratic understanding that must defend For we
are longer young caow experimental or in doubt
about Constitution If deude ourselves that we are
it is because ignorant of our own history.
What youth have the eternal youth of nation born
of the Wilderness We carved out of other
nation as were most of the nations of Europe We have
drawn strength not from other but from the SOIL
Back in l778 while still in the midst of our struggle
for independence, French prophet oresaw our destiny
This people,, said Robert Twgot, rs the hope of the
human race It may become the model 1t ought to show the
world by facts that be free and yet peaceful and that
they may dispense with the chains in which tants have
presumed bind them under preext of the public good
For hundred and fifty years America has moved toward
ment of that prophecy If is to be fulfilled entirely we
fully of the gains we have made and see through
our own empty illusion of "callow youth.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

SISTER PLANET. Last month, as the
planets moved in their courses, astron-
omers obtained their best and bright
est view of the planet Venus. May 20
was the date of maximum luminos-
ity.'
Now the situation is reversed. On
Wednesday, Venus will have moved to
its nearest point, mere 26,OOO,OOO
miles away. Its location at that time -
between the earth and the sun -
makes it invisible to US But were there
any astronomers on Venus they would
be preparing now for their view of our
earth at its greatest brilliance
Such an imaginary astronomer might
we'll think that this handsome planet
would be fine place to live. For unless
his telescope far surpassed any that we
have even dreamed Of, he would have
no way of knowing that the thing of
beauty in the sky above him is. in
reality, world torn with strife and
hatred and war
Evening star., 1940-06-23


thought little about them at the moment. knew
all this about the infancy of America by heart In the sixth
grade had read in schoolbooks about the brave young
nation that have grown hearing speeches about
the land reading editorials explaining that "a certain
reckssness must be expected from young country and
had taken them for granted.
But suddenly began to think.
1t occurred to me that lot of myhoogsts had been writ
ing history That tradition had been handed out by
old schoobook printed about the time of Betsy Ross
and that had been copied in other coobooks ever since
That caoonsts congressman political writers and the gov
ements OF European nations were thinking OF our America
if actually short pants. at least brave young man
going out fight Indian.
But the fact is that with single exception the United
States the oldest nation earth And this true even
disregard the changes wrought by the present war and
20 back to the quo that existed when hostes began
In all Europe and ASIA only England still has more or less
the same national pattern the basic constitution that
it had in 1885, when present United States was born
Japan lays claim unboken dynasty but Japan emerged
from feuals during the life of the United States The other
nations that alive in 1889 have changed many OF them
beyond all recognton gone from empires to republics from
monarchies to relationships New powers have risen from
ashes and fallen away again to dust
Maybe we have no boast of this matter OF
age We have been protected from change by oceans and
friendly neighbors We have plenty of natural wealth within
borders that has tried to take away from u.s.
For generations had plenty of free empty land jobs and
opportunity everyone But the fact remains that IN 1910
we thoroughly mature We have grown stout certainly
since 789 But the pattern of body precisely the same
The great constitution drawn for by the WISE tree men OF
that league of nations with which began has enabled us
to expand into empire but into single nation with its
scheme of government unchanged.
In THIS long life have many things happen to the rest
of the world The United States eighty years old
when Germany born Before that the German empire
was handful less independent or less anag
onistc states And even the great empire that Bismarck
forged collapsed in less than fifty years of our lifetime BE-
coming republic in 1918 and totatarian state under
dictator in 1888.
In 1870 Italy became united nation for the first time
since the Roman Empire three months after we had celebrated
our eightyirs birthday Before 1870 it composed of
provinces independent kingdoms that had been violently
ouarresore In 1922 when the nation the verge OF
revolution taken by the Fascist party and made
into totataran state under dictator who scapped its
constitution.
In l776 the people of France virtually an absolute mon
Evening star., 1940-06-23

PASSENGER. As we have said before,
fact often outdoes fiction. Consider,
for example, this bit from recent news
item:
"A cricket, first insect to fly across
the Atlantic as recognized passenger.
arrived at LaGuardia Field yesterday
on the Pan-American Airways flying
boat, American Clipper"
The cricket had been given to one
of the passengers just before the plane
took off. 1t travelled in a tiny cage of
wire and wood.
We are saving the item to show to
our own Jimmy Cricket the next time
he starts boasting about his Further
Adventures. 1t ought to put him in his
place!
LOGIC. Like many American tour
lists, Lewis Cotlow, president of the
Adventures Club of New York. Won
dered why it is that Mexican poems al
ways ride on burros while their wives
walk along behind He stood it as long
as he could Finally he stopped a
peasant and asked him the reason. The
poor Mexican looked very surprised as
he replied: But se,lor, my wife doesn't
own burro." M.
Evening star., 1940-06-23

RArELY before the total war Il was sitting
with a group of Europeans. discussing
- world affairs. ''Of course" said French
man. 'you here in America. have much in your
favor You are a young nation An Italian
doubted if such youth was altogether an advan
tage, especially in judgment of the rights and
wrongs in a dispute between the powers of
Europe. and an Englishman suggested that We
were likely 10 make snap or ''callow" decisions.
These words were so familiar to me that |
thought little about them at the moment knew
Evening star., 1940-05-03
World Fumous Fish
Returned to Museum

Miss M. Courtenay-Latimer, Gu
rator of the museum in East Lon
don, South Africa, sighed with relief
when Latlmeria Chalumnae, world
famous fish, was unpacked and put
back into its glass case.
In 1888 she obtained 1t from a
trawlerman who had pulled it
wriggling from the sea. She recog-
nized 1t as a living specimen of a
fish which science said became ex-
tinct 100000 years ago. The for
midable task of skinning and
mounting the fish fell to Miss Lati-
mer. Her prompt action saved the
specimen for study. Several months
ago it was found to be still oozing
oil and was sent to Capetown to be
remounted. All the time it was
gone 1T was a great worry to its dis
Coverer.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Draft-RooseveIt Move
Gains in Pennsylvania
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, May ga
"draft Roosevelt" movement was
underway today among Pennsyl-
vania Democrats, apparently united
in support of the President for a
third term regardless Of factional
differences over other matters.
The movement was given a push
when more than 200 county leaders,
who helped their term boosting
senator Guffey win denomination
last month, unanimously adopted a
resolution yesterday lauding the
Chlef Executive as "a representative
OF true and sincere democracy"
They added:
I'VE believe for the safety of the
Nation itself, for the preservation
Of the ideals championed by our
beloved President, for the continu-
alton of benefits that have accrued
to all the citizens of the Nation,
capital as we'll as labor, it is in
dispensable that the one who led
the Nation out of bondage should
continue to be its leader"
The resolution was similar in tone
to one adopted by the Democratic
State Committee-representative of
various factions-before the primary
Il was one of the first to urge that
President Roosevelt be reelected"
Senator Guffey told his aides, add
ing that "the time now has come to
draft him, regardless Of his own
feelings in the matter"
Evening star., 1940-05-03
u. ). Should Arm
But Work for Peace,
Wheeler Declares
Tells Democratic Students
Nation Must Be Wary
OF Foreign Propaganda
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FULTON. Mo-, May 3.-Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana,
warned Americans last night not to
be led into the European war
through sentiment and propaganda
but to prepare adequately to pro-
tect their liberties, shore lines and
boundaries.
"Keynoting" the National Student
Democratic Convention at Westmin-
ster College here, Senator Wheeler
declared American youth is vitally
concerned today over two questions
Jobs and war.
Remember" he said, peace was
the slogan OF all parties in 1915, but
war followed the election"
The Montana Senator, himself an
announced presidential candidate
If President Roosevelt does not run,
recalled that the last war left bitter
scars and the next one can have but
one result-"the destruction Of the
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Cosmopolitan Club Told
Of Tuberculosis Fioht

Although tuberculosis has dropped
from first to seventh place as q
cause Of death In the last four years,
1t is necessary to wage a constant
relentless battle against 1t, DR.. J..
Winthrop Peabody, president Of the
District Of Columbia tuberculosis
Association, told the Cosmopolitan
Club yesterday at the Carlton Hotel.
DR.. Peabody described the Christmas
seal campaign as invaluable in the
drive against the disease.
The group paid tribute to the work
Of its members in the WASHINGTON
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Lord Marley Predicts
British Dictator

MONTREAL, May 3 canadian
Press).-The Deputy Speaker of the
British House Of Lords, Lord Marley
believes that when this war really
enters its serious stages" Great
Britain will set up a stricter form
of government.
In Montreal for lecture, Lord
Marley said that this form of gov
ernment would be one of rigid
control, dictatorial in a sense, to
stop all profiteering and bring the
entire nation under its domination
The English people will choose
this form OF government" he de-
clared. There will be no need for
an election"
Evening star., 1940-05-03

Board Of Trade, including James z.
Collihower, newly elected president
Of the trade body; Fred A. Smith,
first vice president, and Henry Owens
and Russell Lamar, committee chair
men.
A joint meeting Of the club with
the Norfolk, Va, and Baltimore
Cosmopolitan clubs will be held
May 16. w. A. Edelblut, president,
presided.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
present republic and the birth Of q
totalitArian state"

present republic and the birth Of a
totalitarian state"
"As q Nation we are at the cross
roads Of peace and war. Those Of
us who remember too well the tragic
saga Of 1917 recognize the mileposts.
Only one is lacking; since enact
ment Of neutrality legislation, there
is no talk Of maintaining the free
dom Of the seas, and, therefore, less
likelihood our ships will be sunk :
II was against our entrance into
the first World War, as I am op-
posed to our entrance into the Sec
ond World War and as I will be op-
posed to our entrance into future
wars. This does not mean am op-
posed to preparedness. I am for 1t.
We should be fully prepared to pro-
Evening star., 1940-05-03
City Gosh Neurs Zero

When the city hall doors in Hay
ana, Cuba, opened on recent
morning only a cents lay lonesome
ly In the treasury vaults. City ON
cials explained that the city had
paid 100000 to the police force
and taxpayers were not paying as
expected, but funds probably would
roll in soon.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
To Crown May Queen

Primary grades Of the East Silver
Spring Elementary School will hold
a spring program tonight, at 8
O'Clock, at the school. The enter
tainment will include the crowning
Of a May queen.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Germans Seek Auto Market

Private motoring having been cur
tailed. in Germany, German auto
manufacturers are seeking markets
in Southeastern European countries.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

Public bath prices have been in
creased in Toxic, Japan, to keep
bathhouse proprietors in business.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. c. FRIDAY MAY g. 1s4

tect our liberties, shores and boun-
daries. We should be prepared but
work and pray for peace"
Evening star., 1940-05-03
A an Aid in Treatment Of
Kidney Trouble

prescribed Mountain Valley Mineral Water
from Hot SPRINGS, Ark. II 10 delicious tt
drink. msn-Iaystive and net carbonated
Phone Met. 1862 for . case today.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
From HOT SPRINGS, Ark.
l405 < St. NV. Ne. 1861
Evening star., 1940-12-03
Bedtime Stories
Nv THORNTON w. BURGESS.

Sammy Jay had started forth to
make his regular round of morning
calls. Now Sammy jays way of
making calls is very funny. Sammy
doesn't fly right up openly and say
Good morning; how do you do?"
the way most folks would. Not a bit
of it. Sammy steals up to the home
of the one he is going to call on.
He steals up very slyly and cautious
ly. taking pains to make no sound.
He peers and peers and listens
that he may find out all he possibly
can before he shows himself. In
this way he learns a great many
things never intended for him to
know.
1t was in just this way that Sammy
approached the home of Happy
Jack Squirrel this particular morn
ing. He came so silently and he
kept so we'll hidden that not even
the quick ears and sharp eyes of
Chatterer the Red Squirrel dis
covered him. So it was that Sammy
Jay saw Chatterer disappear in
Happy Jacks house.
"Aha!" exclaimed Sammy to him
self. Happy Jack must be away
and that RED scamp of a cousin of
his is up to mischief. I'll watch a
bit and see what is going on"
So Sammy Jay remained in hid
ing and watched. Presently he saw
Chatterer appear in the doorway
0F ~, -,
mouth was fat hickory nut Chat
terer looked this way and that way
and seeing no one, he Scampered
down the tree and away. In a few
minutes he was back Then he did
the same thing over again. Sammy
watched him take nut after nut.
My goodness, thought Sammy
IF Happy Jack doesn't come home
pretty soon he'll find an empty
storehouse when he does get here.
I think I'll go look for him and put
a flea in his ear" BY this, Sammy
meant, of course, that he would
tell Happy Jack what was going on.
So Sammy flew silently about in
the Green Forest looking for Happy
Jack Squirrel and presently he
caught a glimpse of Happy Jacks
gray coat. 1t was evident that
Happy Jack was very. very busy.
Sammy kept quiet and it didn't take
him long to find out what Happy
Jack was doing. Happy Jack was
taking nuts from a storehouse and
carrying them away. Sammy knew
without being told whose storehouse
that was. He knew it was the store
house of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Sammy began to laugh. He
laughed until he lost his breath.
Il guess I won't say anything TO
Happy Jack" thought he, because
he isn't losing anything after all.
Here are these two cousins robbing
each other and each thinking him
self very clever and smart. It's
the funniest thing I've ever seen.
I wish I could be in both places
at once when they discover what
has happened"
Evening star., 1940-12-03
POINTS FOR PARENTS
Rv EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE

A 1rise mother 1riH not try to COM
pete 7rith Mother Nature lCho urges
small children To promote Their
physical Development BY constant
QctirttN
Evening star., 1940-12-03

Now, Baby, you le' go! I'm goin'
t. wipe the dishes fer muvver, count
want Santa Clause to see how
good I are! You been good all year,
but amt got much time now!
Evening star., 1940-12-03

When camels were taken into new
parts of Australia recently many
horses which had never seen ship
of the desert before dropped dead
from fright.
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
Greatest Issue Living
Voters Ever Faced

The two great political parties Of
the United States have made their
choice of presidential candidates.
Only Mr.. Roosevelt can speak
with authority in defense of New
Deal activities and purposes. And
only Mr.. Willkie, among the or
position, has brought to bear on the
New Deal, criticism which has been
uniformly pointed, intelligently,
soundly reasoned, and based on
philosophical rather than partisan
principles.
There can be no question but
what the New Deal has vastly
broadened the powers of government
over the people-over individuls and
industries alike. That is the New
Deals basic philosophy-a central
lied government in Washington
exertlng its influence over almost
every phase of life, 1t is exactly
this which Mr.. Willkie opposes "a
Jeffersonian in tradition, it is his
thesis that the State is basically the
enemy OF Individually freedom, and
that the least possible government
is the best possible government for
the governed.
Next November the people will
determine whether or not the trend
of the last eight years, with govern
ment grown great and powerful and
costly beyond all peace-time prece-
dent, is to continue-or whether we
are to return to the tradition Of lib
eral, localized government and self
rule as envisioned by the founders
of the nation. This is undoubtedly
the greatest issue that most living
voters have ever had to decide upon.
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
"See Your West" CalsO
Program Very Popular

Several hundred thousand color
photograph reproductions have
been given away by The Califor-
mia Company. marketers of Calso
Gasoline throughout the Rocky
Mountain States, according to an
announcement today by R. |. & e.
F. Starr, the company's represen-
tatives in Browning.
Reproductions of famed West
ern scenes. including the Western
National Parks, have been dis
tributed during the past few
weeks by all Calso Service Men.
These pictures have been
mailed by Western residents and
tourists to friends all over the
United States and even to foreign
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
JACK DUNCAN
Editor and Publisher
A weekly newspaper published every
Friday ut Browning. Glseier County,
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove

just picked up a paper where it
says, In Sacramento, California,
that the new SRA boss there is
gonna keep the travelling expenses
of his men down to 6 bits for break
fast, and bits for lunch, and one
dollar for dinner.
Boy, l wonder that what they
been getting under the old boss.
That SRA must he an eatin' outfit.
They should be a big help to this
Mr.. Wallace. in cleaning up the sur.
plus which he keeps being excited
about.
But Mr.. Wallace. l reckon. will
not lie stewing so much now about
surpluses. or vice versa. Since he
got to running for vice-president he
is to busy elsewhere. And especial
Iy in louisiana see where they
are oiling up their shootin' irons for
him. l would not crave to be in
his shoes. lie ruined the sugar.
cane farmer, they say-also nearly
all other farmers.
But to get back to our SRA--it
sure has got me acknowledgements
ly those 6 bit breakfasts, and 6 bit
lunches and one buck dinners
boy!
Yours with the lowdown,
10 SIERRA
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09

for clear thinking rather than
emotional thinking
The standard polls indicate that
while the American people are al
most unanimously in favor of ad-
equate preparedness. they are alsu
overwhelmingly opposed to belliger-
ent participation in the European
slaughter.
Industry does not want war be.
cause. If for nc higher reason. it
knows from its experience in the
last World War that it results in
ruinous taxation and depression.
1t will do all in its power to avoid
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
Shotgun Wedding
Minneapolis Star-JournaD

minneapolis Star-Journal)
Franklin Roosevelt has been keep
ing company with the 1910 demo.
cratic presidential nomination ever
since the latter was old enough to
begin thinking about dates.
OF course Franklin was a friend
of the family more like big bro
ther than a suitor-and nobody
thought much about it at first. But
it gradually became plain that the
nomination just wasn't getting to
meet any of the nice boys who would
have been eligible suitors, because
whenever they came to call, there
was Franklin sitting on the front
porch with his feet on the railing.
And when any of the boys did act
like they might ask for her hand
Franklin managed to convey to the
family the impression that they
weren't good enough for her, and
that she was still far too young to
think of surrendering her heart.
As the months heightened into
years and the nomination grew from
girlhood to young womanhood, it be-
gan to be assumed that she'd surely
marry Franklin, For he continued
to monopolize her attention, sitting
around on the front porch or drop
ping in for dinner.
Finally, with spinisterhood star
ing her in the face, the family decid-
ed it was time to set 3 date, and
proposed one in July. Franklin,
when consulted, said he thought
August or September would be
much better, but that July would do
if the family insisted.
FDR still hadn' t popped the ques-
ton, but lot of his iriends-like
Hal Ickes and Harry Hopkins, who
hardly knew the family at all-step-
ped in and began taking charge of
the wedding arrangements, and peo-
pie said it must be all right, and
Franklin must be intending to 60
though with it.
Even SO, there was some gossip
about the possibility that he might
not show up at tine church on the
day set for the wedding.
And as the bridal party congre-
gated at the rear of the chuch and
the organ broke into the rolling
strains of "Oh. Promise Me- and
W it'll all the fellows-Frank Hague,
Ed Kelly, Ed Flynn. Joe Gaffey and
the rest of the gang waiting out
side to throw confetti and rice and
old shoes, Franklin stepped to the
side of the bride-to-be, and whisper
ed in tones audible throughout the
church;
Remember. I'm only doing this
because you proposed to me-
Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
Aids Defense Funds

More than $4,000 went into
the national defense tax fund
from Montana during the first
month, according to a report by
the Helena internal revenue
office. The capital stock tax
took in SIS, O96; cigarets. S.. 237;
licquor. s4.504; occupational tax
es. 81, 1873 and admission taxes,
$64. Additional receipts, from
the tax on stocks of goods on
hand July I. are expected during
August.