The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-02-25
Fair Enough
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
Copyright, 1916, BY King Features Syndicate)

copyright, 1916, BY hmg FeatureS Syndlcate)
| thought this discussion OF site for the
United Nations plant was to be conducted on
high, gentlemanly plane but some of those
buns on the other side of the debate had to
get nasty about it so let's everybody grab a
chair and play their way.
In the first place that bunch of cosmic nooch-
ers had plenty of nerve to pick the prettiest
countryside in the New York area and more.
over, zone which in the next 20 years or
so would provide home sites for many more
thousands of Americans who work in New
York but like the sight and sound of bird
and to look on trees and flowers and hills
and would not willingly condemn their chill
dren to the dirty associations and influences
that are encountered in the public schools of
New York And don't anyone give me that old
Democracy line either about the spiritual
benefit of association with other social and
racial "groups'' or I will bust you right back
with the fact that none of the five children Of
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who has been sound
ing that prattle for years and years. nor she
nor their old man, either, ever spent an hour
in public school but were carefully segregat-
ed from the lower classes in fastidious pay
joints
To hear some of the abuse of those who live
in and beyond the Westchester Greenwich
area, you might think they were nothing but
heads who would wreck the peace of the world
ana sacrifice not only the rising generation
but the little that remains of civilization to
protect their mean little investments. Well,
Tor those who like it, bridge is no less legiti-
mate than forms, conferences, councils and
congresses which are the pleasure of so many
OF those sallow-ninded takers who would like
to make us address the chair and go through
some committee every time someone wants to
rIe ~ fhoc
muters in the wars Of their respective genera
tons will stand comparison with those of any
other group OF equal numbers, not excluding
Franklin D., Henry Wallace and Sidney Hill
man. The same proposion of their sons went
to this war, too, and will just help myself to the
arbitrary assumption that, if peace and civil
ization did depend on the cession of this parti-
cular site and no other site on earth for the
realm of the u N. O., every one Of these
Americans would gladly yield and shove on
down the road with the bedding and the bird
cage in the wheelbarrow.
But no reason has been given why the u. N
O. must have this patch and no other and so
the suggestion that the citizens who don't want
to move are jeoparadizing anything but some
Interior purposes is abusive nonsense More
over there IL no excuse for gouging out of the
living body o. the United States, and alternating
it, any section that may finally be selected I'm
OSI 1CCIplOC1ly we give luG cIlDdSS1eS VI OLIl-
err countries mild type of autonomy but the
ground they stand on is still part Of the District
of Columbia and there were no complaints but
on the contrary, suppressed cheers when some
of them INDUCED in humane abuse Of our hos
pitality to peddle few hams Of liquor under
prohibition.
The correct place where this organization
should have its plant distinctly is nowhere near
New York or Washington, which are infested
with formidable quantity and variety of or
CARNATIONS devoted to interference in our poll
tics and the confusion of our opinions. There
are hundreds of these il-mannered and ar
rogant things all devoted to some religious,
racial or national interest abroad and to the
proposition that every American boy owes
Democracy a duty to 60 to series of wars
in their behalf They are so influential that
even the Republicans are afraid to tell them
where to 90 with their demands lest they
alente the segregated Foreign" vote in the
metropolis They print propaganda by the ton
the telephone directory is crawling with them
and the u N. O. in the Westchester- Greenwich
site would be marvellous convenience for
them and menace of equal magnitude to the
American boys who will be of fighting age in
the next 10 years.
Lincoln, Neb., wanted this plant and, al
though Lincoln never had chance for obvious
reasons, she would be good selection. Travel
Is an absurd objection considering that per-
sons coming from the ends of the earth would
have only few hours more to 60 and if it is
the lack of plays and movies presented by our
communist producers and saloons and rich
trash for night-life that makes site undesir-
able, then why not be honest and reopen Paris
as the political plague spot and brothel Of the
world?
We have thousands Of miles of government
reservations in the West which could accom-
mediate the U. N. o. for all it's legitimate pur
poses and let anyone who objects on the ground
of cold or heat consider whether a Russian or
a Finn could reasonably complain o. the cold
in, say. Wyoming, or an Arab of the heat in
Arizona.
Well, there I go again, raising my voice
and hollering like a barker at Coney
Island kooicil out I know Westchester-Green-
wich people and the ones who have been de-
nouncing them are mainly lot OF old FOOLS VINO
are ready to die anyway and don't care what
happens to whom and lot of suitcase trade
who never would take the care ana respon-
sibility of decent homes but feel free 10 ABUSE
good citizens for unwillingess to ABANDON
theirs.
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