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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14
Draft Lottery Was
Solemn Ceremony


You have read good deal about
the historic drawing of the draft
numbers in Washington. Perhaps
you listened to the ceremony over
the air. But there was one thing
you couldn't know. And that is that
you people back home were repre-
sented there-you fathers and moth
ers Of the boys whose numbers were
chosen and the rest Of the folks who
will depend on those boys to bull
wark their liberties If war should ev-
er come to America.
Most of us who were there, / mean
the newsmen. the photographers,
the broadcasters and the officials
who took part. including President
Roosevelt, were just workmen. We
were building something for you.
We knew that all that was happen
ing was going past us out over the
nation.
But there were two people pres
ent who, by their spontaneous acts,
represented you. One was a man
and one was woman.
The man was Clarence Dykstra,
director of the selective service syS-
tenn. His face told story to me as
expressive as any word spoken or
anything done in the whole impress
sive ceremony. He stood there just
back of Mr. Roosevelt and when the
President addressed the boys over
the country whose numbers were
about to be drawn l watched Dyk-
stra's face-the bronzed cheeks, I'M
wrinkled except for two burrows that
drop from the kindly brown eyes to
the strong and kindly mouth. Those
eyes were filled with tears.
knew he was thinking of the
people over the country and the sac
rifice 1t would mean to them when
in a few days from now home ties
are broken.
And those people of whom DR..
Dykstra must have been thinking
were suddenly personalized by a
woman's voice in that solemn gath
ering The woman you probably read
about who uttered that exclamation,
clearly audible to everyone present
and to the listeners to the radio,
when the first number, her own sons
number. was read out by the Presi-
dent.
It wasn't a scream she uttered.
It was just the vocalization Of an
emotion that any mother would feel,
that many mothers did feel, when
that number and the others were
drawn. When she came to the micro
phone later on she was calm and
quiet, said she was glad. Like ev-
erything else that happened that
day there was nothing theatrical
about her conduct. Just an average
under-middle-aged mother talking
about her boy. But the moment she
spoke, to me she became the most
important person in the room be-
cause she represented all the moth
ers Of the nation.
Do you recall how good a guess
Washington newspaper correspond
ents made on the election?
Well, a poll of so of them went
81 Roosevelt. Twenty-Five Willkie.
That was six days before election.
The 50lst Parachute battalion has
been swamped with volunteers but it
isn't so easy to get into this outfit
even If you have the required dem
onstrated soldiery qualities" plus
agility, athletic ability, more than
average intelligence, and daring"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

To prove we are manufacturing
munitions, look at the new
shrapnel sized lip sticks.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14
Lesson for November II

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

toric day Of October % was permit
ted for few minutes to play the
part of blind destiny.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14
JESUS CONCERN FOR LIFE
AND HEALTH

LESSON TEXT-Luke 7:2.l5.
GOLDEN TEXT am come tb.A
they might have life. and that they might
have 1t more abundantly. John l0:lO
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

1t is the pedestrian who really
needs the automobile insurance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

"Jones seemed awfully cut up at
the Browns table last night"
THAT doesn't surprise me;
Brown told me he was going to have
him for dinner"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

The 50lst Parachute battalion has
been swamped with volunteers but it
isn't so easy to get into this outfit
even If you have the required dem
onstrated soldiery qualities" plus
agility, athletic ability, more than
average intelligence, and daring"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

Do you recall how good a guess
Washington newspaper correspond
ents made on the election?
Well, a poll of so of them went
q Roosevelt. Twenty-Five Willkie.
That was six days before election.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-11-14

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The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21
Its progreSS!

We nearly fell out Of our editorial chair
last week after reading copy of the Cum
berland News. Believe it or not, the paper
ran an editorial warning that freedom of the
press. freedom of speech. religion and the
right of assemblage and petition being at
tackled Eternal vigilance is needed to main
tain these rights said the editor.
Such an editorial in the Cumberland News
indeed represents progress
II this kind of thing keeps up may even
find some morning that the Cumberland News
has CUTS enough to attack the Cumberland City
ordinance which forbids distribution of news
papers or any other literature between the
hours of o'clock at night and 9 o'clock the
following morning.
or course the local editor has dread of
coming anywhere near to Cumberland when
he attacks wrong in the abstract
But. if ever he does dare to criticize the
local dictators whom he supported at the last
election we will not fall out of our chair-but
right out of the Office.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21
Radio Forums:

The local radio station WTBO is conduct
ing what it portends is an open forum under
the title Of Town Meeting of the Air. The
programs are presented each Sunday.
The station invites listeners to submit tele-
phoned questions to those participating in
the debate.
On the occasion of the program in which
the freedom of the press was debated we tele-
phoned two questions Copies of them APP
pear in our news columns.
Neither of the questions were presented,
but the station kept soliciting questions even
after these had been telephoned nl
Then the station invited criticism O: the
program. A letter was sent drawing attention
to the failure to presen, the questions. The
letter received neither acknowledgement or
answer.
1t is our opinion ,hat the Sunday afternoon
programs are NOT open forums, but merely a
pretense 1t is further our opinion that the
station is not sincere in its solicitation for
questions and criticism.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21
Election H0Oey

During the recent campaign the morning
Cumberland paper took delight in reprnting
the patent poppycock which local amateur
politicians inflicted upon listeners to the local
radio station.
One Of the prize examples was the speech
OF d we'll known South Cumberland orator in
tres and blamed the Roosevelt, policies for
their disappearance.
He said in part, We need only to look at
our local plants and industries which have dis
appeared under the Roosevelt regime to
realize something is terribly wrong with the
management of our Government, Republic
Steel Company. better known as n & C.
Taylor Fin Plate; Footers Dye Works; two
glass factories the Tannery; r. D. Johnson
Milling Company. two busy silk mills, Kelly
Springfield Tire Company went through bank
rup,cy and is now owned by the Goodyear
TIRE and Rubber Company employing about
$50. less than half the number employed
seven years ago. and ours is only one OF many
such communities
The Voice Of Labor being inclined to forth
rightness. terms such a speech as the product
OF an ignorant or distorted mind. Now that
the campaign is over it might be well to coldly
examine the speech.
The tin mill closed down because it was
outmoded and improbable. tannery officials
are authority for the fact that neither labor
difficulties government restriction closed
the local tannery. to assert that Footers Dye
Works closed owing to New Deal policies is
too absurd to warrant an answer while the
local silk mill was even the beneficiary OF an
RFC loan during the New Deall
There was another local business closed
down which the speaker must have over
looked. Two years ago the Cumberland
Daily News, Republican newspaper,
quietly closed up shop and took refuge in
the Democratic camp of the Times and
Alleganian Company. How did the radio
speaker come to miss this business fail
ure? Could not his vivid imagination
have charged that off to the Roosevelt
policies also?
We think this is good time to show up
these political ballyhoo artists who deliber-
ately set out to make msstatements in an eff
fort to confuse the voters during the heat Of
election campaigns. 1t is also fitting to remem-
Der that we have local morning paper which
can find room in its columns for lengthy re-
porting OF such trpe.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

The news that the President has not seen
fit to reappoint J. Warren Madden as chair
nan of the National Labor Relations Board
GENES as a disturbing item to a large section
of the labor movement. 1t also comes as
very surprising action in view of the results of
the recent election.
The most bitter of Madden's opponents are
found in the ranks of the reactonary Smith
COMMITTEES which Investigated the NLRB
Labor has inclined to the belief. and produc ed
credible evidence. that the investigation was
really sponsored by the labor hating bosses of
the nation and their stooges.
h. Therefore. the failure to reappoint Chair
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

man Madden must be interpreted as a sur.
render to those forces which were dscredited
at the presidential polls. The vir:.< section Of
organized labor has paid tribute to the fine
work of J. Warren Madden and urged his re.
appointment. Administration spokesmen dur.
ing the campaign laid great emphasis on the
gains made by labor under the MIRA
This paper supported President Roose-
welt in his reelection campaign. But let
US say at this early stage that il is to be
regretted that the predatory forces who
were shut out of the front door of the
White House seem to have found way
in through the back door.
Labor counts Chairman or now ex-chair.
man, Madden as d man who performed hi.
real duty.
His reward should be carefully noted By
all OF organized labor who has regard for
faithful public servants.
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21
Credit Unions are True
COOperativeS


The credit union can pcrfo!n.
these services satisfactorily b
cause. first, 1t is truly cooperaliy,
second. its overhead is necessarily
low because as usual thing rent
light. and heat are donated b.
some individual or by the organ
ization around which the crcd..
union is formed; third. BY far tEc
greater part Of the direction and
committee work is done By per-
sons who donate their services
for the common good; fourth,
credit unions bring the facilitics
for saving directly TO the mem
bers and their very convenience
promotes thrift; and NTH. a we'll
run credit union approaches the
credit problem Of the borrow.ng
member with a sympathetic IN
derstanding. Frequently this &c
suits in not only relieving PIE il
immediate financial needs. but in
the proper working out of do
nestle finances so that borrower
is turned into a saver.
Credit unions supplement rathc:
than duplicate the functions .:
commercial banks. They often b.
come good customers Of these in
situations and through education
in thrift encourage their mem
bers TO become customers.
Actual experience OF credit un-
ions which have been operating
IS years in the United State
seems to show that 80 per cent Of
their potential membership even
tually joins and that the funds
which are saved by these mem
bers are largely made use Of in
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

Insolvency is the time-bomb
which can eventually destroy the
American system" - Pres. Rob-
ert M. Hanes Of the American
Bankers Assn.
Okay. brother. but won't you
let us know how to keep solvent
on $i8 n week?
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

g. Rubber Co. has signed its first
union contract with the United
Rubber Workers (cIo).
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

LOS ANGELES - CFP) The
local plant of the Firestone Tire
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21

10 20 these same members.
How = Federal Credit Union
Operates
The credit union should be so
set up that II provides an easy,
convenient. and safe place In
The voice of labor. (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942, 1940-11-21
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which its members may &C.
cumulate money in small sums.
II should likewise furnish credit
facilities TO them for provident
and productive purposes at the
lowest practical rate Of interest.
Continued on PAGE Three
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Mcclellan and Cooper
7 House Members
Win in Tennessee
Landslide Victory Gives
Senator Nomination for
Fifth Straight Term

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Aug. "A landslide
Democratic primary victory headed
Senator McKellar today toward a
fifth consecutive term.
Backed by the powerful Memphis
organization of National Commit
teeman E. H. Crump, Senator Nc
Kellar and Gov. Prentice Cooper
won by topheavy majorities in yes
terday's party voting. Gov. Cooper
is seeking his second two-year
tenure as Governor.
Democratic nomination usually
leads to victory in the November
general elections as far as major
Statewide Tennessee offices are
concerned.
Returns from 1899 of the States
2,278 precincts gave Senator Nc
Kellar 204,003 votes to 12,076 for
John r. Neal, Knoxville attorney,
and 5720 for Claude Toler ofsParis,
his other opponent
Gov. Cooper polled 215,62l, COM
pared with 40,043 by George DEM
pster, Knoxville manufacturer, and
2l8l for Bailey Wray. also of Knox
vile.
No heated activity marked the
campaign and the balloting was
light
TennesSee's seven Democratic Rep
resentatives also were nominated,
four without opposition.
Victor in the hardest fight was
Representative Byrns, 37-year-old
son of the late Speaker. Mr. Byrns
ran up 1924 votes against 9,l09 by
R. M. Atkinson, his predecessor;
1869 by w. D. Hudson, State util-
tiles commissioner, and 784 by
Monty Ross, Nashville attorney, with
all but seven of the 5th districts
206 precincts reporting.
Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga
defeated John S. Wrinkle in the
Sd district by a count of 22,937 to
1852 in 1913 of 234 precincts.
In the 9th district Writ Courtney
received 1920 votes in 238 of 26l
precincts, while Leon F. Stone got
4,400.
Albert Gore, Carthage; Heron
Pearson, jackson: Jere Cooper,
Dyersburg, and Clifford Davis, Mem
phis, were renominated without op-
position in the 4th, 7th, 9th and 9th
districts, respectively.
Robert Walker and Clay James
won congressional nominations in
the 1st and I'd districts, which are
traditionally Republican.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
MehI Becomes Chief
Of Commodity EXCHANGE

Joseph M. Mehl, who was ap-
pointed to the Department of Agri-
culture in 1917, entered his new
position yesterday as chief of the
Commodity Exchange Administra-
ton.
Mr.. Mehl was appointed in the
department in 1917 as an investi-
gator in the Office of Markets and
Rural Organization. He has been
with the department since that time,
Evening star., 1940-08-02

The captains gig Of the Lawrence
had arrived at the landing earlier
with orders ITO wait for an officer
who was reporting for duty aboard
the Lawrence
Marine guards at the landing
said they did not know who the
officer was and the Presidents son
drove up unheralded and unan-
nounced.
He went at once to the waiting
boat and reported, then went back
to his car for his sword while a
companion brought down three
suitcases. Ensign Roosevelt paused
moment for. photograph and
Evening star., 1940-08-02
I'D. Roosevelt, Jr., Boords
Destroyer for 1roining Period

group ofneutrality patrol destroyers
based at Newport, sailed shortly
after noon.
Spick and span in his dark blue
uniform, into which he had changed
at the home of Beverley Bogert in
Newport, where he breakfasted, En-
sign Roosevelt arrived at the Coy
ernment landing in his own. car.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Lent Named Official
Of Engineer Council

Col. L. B. Lent, engineer-inventor
has been named executive secretary
Of the American Engineering Coun-
Gil, 1t was announced today. He
succeeds Frederick M. Feiker, who
resigned to become dean of engi-
neering at George Washington Uni
versity.
During the World War Col. Lent
developed plane engines and COM
manded air service troops at Lang
icy Fleld, Va, and Camp Vail, N. J..
Evening star., 1940-08-02

then went aboard and was soon
riding across Newport Harbor to
the Lawrence which was moored
off Rose Island.
Offlcers here and at the First
Naval District headquarters at
Boston said they had no record
that he had joined the Naval
Reserve.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWPORT, r. l., Aug, Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt. jr., son of the
President, boarded tha U. S. S. de-
stroyer Lawrence at Newport today
and for the next two weeks will
undergo training as an ensign in the
Naval Reserve.
The Lawrence, which, is one of a
Evening star., 1940-08-02
10000, 900 Tons of Beef

Within a few days 100000 tons
of bully" beef were loaded on ships
at Buenos Aires, Argentina, bound
for Great Britain.
Evening star., 1940-08-02

except for the period between 1921
and 1924, when he was connected
with private firm. He lives at
1912 Underwood street NV.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
BoIIpIoyers Seem Unanimous
o. Junior League Choices

No matter where you move around
this locality you run across ball
players heading North again. I've
tried to sound out as many as pos
sible to find the teams they like,
with the new season only a few
days away.
The answer almost always is the
same in the American League-New
York, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit.
The debate is much keener in the
National. The Reds have passed the
Cardinals by length or two. 1t is
after you get by the Reds and
Cardinals that the oratory takes on
q shriller note.
find quite following for the
Pirates who now are given an equal
chance with the Cubs and Dodgers,
largely on account of Frank Frisch.
But the general opinion is that
anything can happen so far as the
Cubs, Dodgers, Pirates, Giants and
maybe the Bees are concerned. More
than few ball players figure the
Giants will get away well, but will
buckle up later on with an uncertain
infleld and uncertain pitching to
bank on.
Bill Terry thinks more of his ball
club than most of the others do. But
Terry must be putting a heavy batch
OF faith in the workings of friendly
fate.
Masters Tournament Offers
Example for U. S. 6. A.
The U. S. G.. A. can take a first
class lesson from the Masters at
Augusta in building up its open
show. At the Masters all former
champions, United States and
British, are not required to qualify
I've found thousands who would
like to take a look once more at
such past stars as Bobby Jones,
Walter Hagen, Jim Barnes, Gene
Sarazen, still up with the best: Billy
Burke and others who may fail to
qualify for the Cleveland show in
June.
Former amateur champions are
exempt from sectional qualifying in
the amateur championship. Why not
place former champions from the
pro list on the same footing? 1t
would add only few names to the
list, but it would add quite flare
of color, which golf needs today.
Suppose Jones and Hagen were
paired again? How many galleries
would be larger. And I think Bob
would try it once more if the qualify
Ing handicap were withdrawn. Sc
would Jim Barnes, still fine golfer
And the dashing Haig would make Q
much more serious effort.
There still is big place for tradi-
ZION in q game that is loaded with
the tradition Of 500, years.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Buddy Scott 10 Face
Danny HasseH in
Arena Feature

Buddy Scott's opponent next
Monday night at Turner's Arena in
the 10round feature match will be
Irish Danny Hassett, an East Phila-
delphia heavyweight, who a few
years ago boxed Lou Nova to draw
in New York City.
Hassett, just %, is handled by
Herman Taylor and Pete Moran,
leading fistic figures in the Quaker
City.
Scott. winner of 70 out of IS pro-
fessional fights, has a chance to
win himself a good outdoor shot,
should he beat Hassett. But the
Philadelphian isn't in the habit of
losing fights. Only seven weeks ago
he whipped George Brascia, the Ar
gentine, in a 10-rounder in Phlla-
delphia and on the Tony Galento-
Lou Nova card upset Sonny Jim
McVey, highly regarded Pittsburgh
colored heavyweight.
Scott already has beaten one
Philadelphian. He whipped Nick
Fiorentini at the arena five weeks
ago and proved to fans he had Iosa
none of his old-time cunning. Buddy
weighs 180 pounds and can lop of
poundage so easily he plans to shoot
at the light-heavyweights also this
summer.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Nice, Easy Chairs Won't Offset
Poor Match, Riverside Finds
As Few See Momukos Bow

ring circles, but the public has easy
chairs and good lights at home.
What 1t wants is better matches.
Jannazzo Too Speedy.
Mamakos' next bout should be
with Gen. Thomas statue or some
similarly immovable object. He
knew he was fighting somebody but
didn't get close enough to eaten the
name. Jannazzo worried him like
a hornet, singing him with lefts
and occasional rights to the head
and fading away with ghostly ease
Steve was willing, he kept coming
but always arrived at the scene of
action too late. Jannazzo had fired
his two-fsted salvo and backed of
when the Greek arrived at the same
place. Steve left the ring with a
badly chopped mouth and huge
"egg" over the left eye.
It was split decision. DR.. o. U.
Singer voted for Mamakos. How he
arrived at that decree is a mystery
that ranks with the Archibald
Jeffra verdict handed down by
Frank Schuyler. He isn't often
wrong but he batted 900 last night
for Steve wasn't in the fight after
the second round. He merely made
a good target for Jannazzo's stac-
cato stabs.
Almost as surprising as Singers
ballot was Sammy Magro's inability
to dispose of Ell Brookman In the
eight-round semifinal after twice
having the District welterweight on
the way out. Brookman's ruggedness
revealed a glaring fault in Magro's
make-up-that he must have a set
shot to be dangerous. AS long as
Brookman was on top, crowding
him and forcing the issue, Sammy
was in fog, but at arms-length, at
which distance he could crank up
and take aim, Magro was an ex-
tremely dangerous character. He
had Brookman in distress in the
fifth and eighth rounds, but couldn't
put him away.
In the preliminaries-all four
rounders-Joe La Monte scored a
technical knockout over Bob Wat
kins in 40 seconds of the second;
Manuel Roas outpointed Pedro
Cisco and Phil Ensenga defeated
Frankie McKenna.
Evening star., 1940-04-11

Alvin Gillem, close-in attack man
on West Points lacrosse ten, will
oppose his alma mater" next
Wednesday when Maryland meets
the Cadets on the plains. Young Gill
lem picked up his knowledge Of la
crosse at Maryland, where his father