Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-09-11
BY KATE SMITH
We're All americans

| AS singer and commentator
ave had my say via radio to mil
lions of Americans both at home
and abroad. From time to time
I receive gracious invitations from
editors to express myself as re-
porter on topics of the day. I al
ways welcome such opportunities
and more so now, for I feel that
not enough is being said on behalf
| of America for Americans.
Not so long ago I introduced
new song of America titled Were
| All Americans which your editor
thought should be the title of this
column. The lyrics of this song
which made recently for Columbia
Records, reads:
*We're all Americans,
| We're proud to bear the name;
Our nations fathers wove a flag
By the light of freedoms flame.
Now waving bravely overhead,
1t tells us what to do;
We're all Americans,
All true blue.
Permission by Collwill Corp.
1t is that flag which gave us our
birthright. 1t is that spirit which
gave us our courage. 1t is that free
dom which made our land great
democracy. 1t is that something
faith perhaps-which is found in
the following stories:
Youthful america
Pm thinking of a child, a little
girl of IL. An average American
girl, her name is Mary Esther
Wheatley, from Hamburg, N. Y.
Marys daddy was an aviator. His
was hazardous job for he flew the
untried planes he was test
pilot. Making aviation safe for
America was his vocation. One day,
not long ago, he made his last flight
for his ship crashed in San Diego
bay. The heaviest heart in the world
was Mary's, but slowly she recap
tured the faith which had always
made her brave and understanding.
She wrote the following lines:
They say my father died /. he
did not die,
Why just tonight I heard him fly
above my roof
They say he folded his wings at sea
but daddy would have
wanted me
To doubt these things. You can't
fold wings
That for lifetime have been spread
to fly above a first child's
head!
Tonight when all the world is still,
I'll lean upon my window sill,
And listen for you, Daddy Bill,
And though the whole world fails
to note
A fast-approaching dying boat, with
ghostly motors in his throat,
I'll hear it come, and I shall be
Proud proud that you flew east
On wings that no one else
can see!
americans at Home .
Everyone is talking these days
about our national defense effort;
and hundreds of thousands of loyal
Americans are figuring out ways,
great and small, to help. Knoxville,
Tenn, has figured out one
that seems to be very substantial
contribution For several years,
Knoxville was the first major city
in the Tennessee valley to use cleo
tricity generated by the IVA. But
now, instead of an unlimited use of
electric lighting, the city has re-
sorted again to Pickering oil lights.
The Aluminium company's plants
at Alcoa need all the power they can
get. 1t is IVA power. Since some
body has to conserve it, Knoxville
has taken the lead in setting an ex-
ample. Merchants are turning off
their window display lights and signs
at night One store in the downtown
section substituted oil lanterns in it's
display windows; and strung them
around the stores marquee. A flo
rist has resorted to candles to light
his windows. A cafeteria also uses
candles to light the restaurant for
it's Family Night.
Under the impetus of these pub
lie demonstrations of power saw
ings, more and more ideas for cur
failing power have been originated.
A Is per cent curtailment of con-
sumption is the goal.
4 Foreigner abroad in america
Last month hearts of all Ameri-
cans were touched with great sor-
row at the passing of Ignace Jan
Paderewski. A magnificent pianist,
a supreme master of music, his
technical skill was enhanced by his
warm personally and generous ma
ture.
Polish by birth and Loyalty work.
ing all his life for that land he
loved, still Paderewski was an in
ternationalist citizen of the
world Even when he was i'll and
weak, even when he no longer played
the beautiful music that has delight
ed millions through the years, he
gave his remaining strength toward
the rehabilitation of his countrymen.