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4. Sanitary sewage disposal systems
5. A centralized police force.
between those that now exist.
8. Construction of more sidevsalks.
1. A modern concrete highway leading from Dallas and connect-
ing with the Sullivan Trail at Tunkhannock.
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WASHINGTON
PARADE
By
RAY JOHNSON
and
WALTER PIERCE
~ Washington, D. C.—Or the “Der
ed Village”, although a lone Con-
essman was seen on Pennsylvania
; Avenue and there are still a few cor-
pondents trying to make sense of
at has been happening here in the
9 days since our seventy-fifth ag
egation of lawmakers met on Jan
fifth.
Bhey passed some laws. It is dis-
d, the Wagner Housing Act,
instance, but it was so distorted
ectional wrangling that the sen-
‘ator may not recognize it. A mill:
on and a half dollar work relief bill
got through and so did the feeble
host of a measure to aid tenant
armers. The Supreme Court retire
ment act permitted the appointment
of Senator Black. Some tax-dodgers’
‘devices were stopped, but tax-exempt
securities were carefully overlooked.
The president fired a parting salvo
Iling what he thought and Congress
s gone home to find out what the
ple think and meanwhile the col
umnists and radio commentators are
ing everybody what they ought to
think. Washington is getting a quiet
chuckle over the change of face of a
umber of them who were fervent
supporters of the New Deal last fall,
but who began to think it was all a
‘mistake in the spring—chiefly it is
purmered because they all expected
pointments, but where there would
have been room for them except on
‘the WPA writers’ project nobody
Jnows.
With the battle of Washington
ver for the moment the foreign
squabbles are bringing the neutrality
question to the front. The observers
of far eastern affairs do not hesitate
‘to say that if we don’t sell shells to
China now we will be firing them
out of our guns sooner than we think.
Tt seems to be the concensus that once
Japan has at her command all the
vast natural resources of China, the
Pacific might well be named the Yel-
dow Sea, and the days of foreign con-
cessions in places like Shanghai and
Hongkong will be numbered.
The European landscape is still
‘shimmering in the war heat, espec:
ally since “Pirate” submarines and
planes have taken to annoying the
French and British shipping in the
Mediterranean. But Portugal's break
with Czechoslovagia because t he
‘Czechs wouldnt sell them munitions
“is purely a newspaper scare because
‘the munitions, the story goes, were
‘meant for the Spanish rebels.
‘Gazing out at the now peaceful
Potomac this correspondent thinks
the palm for “viewing with alarm”
“goes to the elderly and conservative
senator who, hearing in the closing
‘days of the session of the appoint
ment of the wife of the governor of
Georgia to the senate, scurried about
giving thanks that the Supreme Court
vacancy had been filled before the
idea of appointing wives had had a
chance to seep through the White
House doors.
IFIBBER MCGEE
"The human mind is just
like 2 radio station.
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but most of ’em
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MR. GIBSON’S VIEWPOINT
The line between imperialism and foreign trade
is a very faint one, and we think Frank Murray
Gibson, who has been spending the summer at Ide-
town and who is bound now for Tokyo, Japan,
presented a helpful viewpoint in an interview in
last week's Post.
There has been a growing tendency recently
to insist that our countrymen who choose to linger
in Shanghai or Ethiopia or Madrid are only fool
hardy and that they selfishly involve United States
in somebody else’s war. It is possible that our fer-
vent passion for peace has carried us too far, and
that our refusal to risk entanglement is an injus-
{tice to nationals who have earned the right to fair-
er treatment.
Mtr. Gibson raises an interesting question. He
argues that the men and women who sail from
America to foreign ports, such as Shanghai, are,
in the majority, on business errands. If they were
sight-seers they could avoid the danger spots. Fur-
thermore, they perform a very valuable service to
their fellow-countrymen by opening foreign mar-
kets which create new jobs for workingmen at
home. They are a potent force in the national
economic structure.
Why, then, when, in the line of duty, such
business men and their families are exposed to dan-
ger, should we refuse to risk enough to protect
them? It seems that Mr. Gibsons point is well-
taken. America, as a nation, will find it diffi-
cult to escape the responsibility it has to the men
and women it sends out as commercial salesmen.
Similarly, Mr. Gibson does a great deal to justify
alien administration of such spots as the Interna-
tional City in Shanghai, which, although it is a
part of China, is governed without any interfer-
ence or authority from the Chinese.
The International Settlement, Mr. Gibson ex-
plains, was nothing more than a swamp. when
China agreed to turn it over to England. China
had no part in the development of that twelve-mile
area as a modern tity. The boundary between the
International Settlement and the native city today,
Mr. Gibson says, separates a clean, modern city
rom the most squalid native conditions. What
then, he asks, has China done to deserve any share
of administration of the International Settlement?
It is not difficult to guess, either, what would hap-
EDITORIALS
pen to the International Settlement if China's
graft-corrupted system were given a foothold.
Mr. Gibsons opinions give us a glimpse of a
viewpoint to which most of us have little access.
They present an old problem in a light somewhat
different from that to which we stay-at-homers
have been accustomed. ;
It is a fair viewpoint, even to those of us who
despise imperialism, and it is worth considering in
our efforts to avoid war without sacrificing prin-
ciple.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
How fierce the visage of youth, how timid the
coy young miss as the generation which will be
running things three decades from now joins the
straggly line headed for the school house.
The first day of school! Let no adult who
ever slung a bookstrap across his shoulder or quak-
ed before the new teacher underestimate the impor-
tance of that day of days. :
Here comes legendary Little Willie, his face
a shining pink, his clothes starched and stiff, walk-
ing bravely away to the educational wars, while
Mother stands, moist-eyed, the strangely silent
house behind her. Willie's growing up.
One million—two million—three million—five
million—15 million—25 million boys and girls, in
Dallas and Shavertown and Harvey's Lake and all
the other cities and villages in the United States,
marching off this month to their public school.
One and two-year veterans, proudly initiating
beginners into the mysteries of going to school; the
school bully, starting early to establish his position;
the new girl, shyly watching her classmates-to-be
chalking the first hop-scotch squares of the year;
awkward grammar school kids, taking plenty of
time; smart high school girls, reporting on the sum-
mer’s adventures; lazy-looking high school boys,
dragging their heels and effecting a sophomorish air
ME this is the army of youth that goes back to
school this month.
Over them the finger of fate hovers, here
marking a coming president, here stamping a fu-
ture public enemy, there branding the girl who is
to give the world a cure for cancer. With them
lie the hopes and fears for tomorrow.
They are the army of youth, called back from
their leisure, to partake again of education.
THE RIGHT TO WORK
Recent activities of John L. Lewis and his
Committee for Industrial Organization have ‘de-
veloped some queer incidents. At one point a group
of girls of the Menoanite sect, who were prevented
by their religion from joining a union, were told
that as long as they paid their dues they need not
belong to the union.
At Hazleton, 1,137 of the 1,425 employes of
a silk company, where a strike had been called,
presented a petition to the mayor demanding the
right to return to work with property protection.
And the United Mine Workers’ local chapter, hav-
ing nothing to do with the silk industry but being
the union of John L. Lewis, replied with a full-
page ad. One paragraph read as follows:
“Any member of the United Mine Workers
who has a wife, daughter, sister, brother or son,
who is a signer of this petition should, and will pay
strict attention to this statement, for on it depends
his membership in the United Mine Workers of
America. This organization will not permit any of
its members to continue to hold memberships, who
allows any member of his family to scab in an open
shop, such as the Duplan Silk Mill. Let every
mine worker beware, for he will not be allowed
to enter any mine or colliery if he permits any
member of his family to return to work in the Dup-
lan Silk Mill, unless signed by a legitimate labor
“organization.”
This, we think, is strange stuff for America.
KINDNESS PAYS DIVIDENDS
Beware of easy ways to progress. During
your lifetime you will see many false prophets, hear
many offers of something-for-nothing. Maybe some-
where there is an undiscovered path to quick suc-
cess. But whenever any such a way is offered you,
ask yourself one simple question: “Whom will it
harm?”
Remember that your secdtity and your pro-
gress often depend on how well others succeed.
Through those long years behind us it was in-
variably the man who tried to profit by harming
others who found himself losing what he had hoped
to gain.—Contributed.
In 1843 an acre of land on Shang-
hai’s Bund could have been purch-
ased for as little as $68. In 1862 it
was worth $117,000. By 1927 it sold
for $476,000, and in 1935 it cost
$1,428,000. Such was the testimony
money (which talks) could offer as to
the safety of Shanghai real-estate un-
til a few weeks ago.
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Shanghai is the fifth largest city
RIVES
MATTHEWS
land has enough potential dynamite
closer home than Shanghai. In the
Mediterranean, there's Mussolini lick-
ing his chops over Ethiopia and
Spain, and even closer is Hitler, all
ready to make more treaties into
scraps of wallpaper whenever the
time seems ripe.
x= x x
Poor old England has her hands
full. As long as they are full, it
seems to me the peace of most of the
in the world, but it is first in the big
heart of Alexander Woolcott. It was
that sybarite of scribes who once
pointed out that while most Ameri
cans hoped their reward for exem-
plary lives would be a paradise not
unlike Paris, it was his prayer that
Shanghai would be his reward when
it came time for him to die.
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Judging by the cables, Mr. Wooll-
cott can have his record, plus an op-
portunity to die, simply by waddling
off to the International Settlement a-
longside the Whangpoo as fast as
boat and plane can carry his genial
bulk. Right now, I imagine, an acre
on the Bund can be picked up for
Bund which now serve as “acciden-
tal targets for Japs and Chinese.
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So far, the King’s Navy has left
things to the silk hat
trouser boys. The Japs, according to
reports, are sore because they’ve been
asked to pay for all the broken win-
dows in Shanghai while the China-
boys, on the other side of the con-
flict, haven't been asked to pony up
for a thing.
To the fire and brimstone type of
and striped
costly ships to the Orient
a show of naval strength.
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Englishman familiar to all readers of
English novels, the recent events in
Shanghai would doubtless call for
several salvos of Vickers’
maybe the reason why Downing
Street so far prefers the telephone
to torpedoes is because English tax-
payers don’t want to send their very
Sir Victor out of a hole.
he'd pay up his back taxes, we'd see
Then again, it may be that Eng
world is fairly well assured. Of
course, if Germany and Italy would
promise not to pull a fast one for a
while, England could steam off to the
East and give the Japs the beating
they seem to deserve.
* % %
Possibly the key to the problem
now lies in the pocket of Comrade
Stalin, a sly Oriental himself, who
may be waiting for his moment to
send airplanes over from Vladivos-
tok to Tokyo (three and a half hours
flying time away) when’ the Japs
have lost their first wind in China.
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The Japs are always pointing out
best. But
just to help
Maybe it
any song Mr. Woollcott could sing.
If you've ever heard him let the sun-
light trickle in around his tonsils,
you'll agree with me no song of his
is worth anything like $1,428,000.
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Shanghai is another headache, and
a big one, for poor old England. Her
stake on the Bund is by far the big-
gest. And it’s an ironic fact that the
biggest stake in Shanghai belongs (at
least two years ago it did) to a smart
young financier named Sir Victor
Sassoon, an English Jew, whose great
grandfather left Bagdad to make a
fortune in India.
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The irony lies less in the fact that
the navy of a young man who num-
bers among his many titles that of
Defender of the Faith may have to
defend the property of a Jew, but
that His Majesty's Navy may be call-
ed upon to protect the huge invest:
ments of a tax-dodger. Tax-dodger
Sassoon left England with about
twenty-nine millions a dozen years or
so ago and settled in taxfree Shang-
hai. There he is supposed to have
doubled his fortune four or five
times by shrewd deals in Shanghai
real-estate and by daring to build
Jthose towering structures along the
NOW, ALL TOGETHER, PULL!
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that they have more people than they
can take care of on their pretty little
islands, so perhaps the Russians may
be able to help them limit their popu-
lation. In view of the belligerent at-
titude of Nippon’s militaristic rulers,
maybe the time calls for a little dis-
ciplinary action from a first-class na-
tion.
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If a schoolboy bully is slapped oft-
en enough, he ceases to be a bully,
and thus becomes a more desirable
member of society. It seems to me
the Japs need to be slapped down.
When they are, there will be a lot
of cheering from the sidelines. It
will be funny to see the U. S. S. R.
saving the world—for what this time?
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There is a new picture magazine
out now, called Pic. I'm waiting
for one called Mustn’t Pic.
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Pending their return to England,
the Windsors might call their home
“Elba Room.”
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The other night at a theatrical
party, Frances Farmer (“The Burnt
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New York, N. Y.—Mr. Spangl
Arlington Brugh, otherwise FHibilye
woods Robert Taylor, rode into the
town this week and was promptly
taken for another ride by the dailies
that have had the stem in stitches...
They put him under the spotlite from
the way he ate corn on the cob to
how he grew hair on his chest, and
the girls got in his teeth and in his
hair and there were even a couple
under his berth when the Berengaria,
Berry” of you're sophisticated, pulled
out for Europe But it was all
grand publicity, and he took it with
a grin—although they do say he was
in a fog having just become Mr. Bar
bara Stanwyck Heady which he would-
n't admit the French Casino
opened........ our ‘eyes are still dazzled
and our tongue is still twisted by the
most splendiferous show the bored
boulevard has seen in—well, so far
this week But we got a shock
when we went out to meet the girls
and two of ‘em were Bloomer Girls
b'gosh, straight out, of the Gay
Nineties Only the bloomers
were star-spangled mosquito netting
shia which it seems is what the well-
dressed dancer wears in the desert—
not the American, the Arabian—they
are Aicha Laido and Maida Ben Mo-
honned—but “Ben” means “son” and
it don’t sound right to us Then
we got a tip that Valerie Tuck, the
Englisher, had been a stenog and had
won a figure competition book-
keeping we thought but it turn-
ed out that’s English for beauty con-
test American figures show that
Broadway producers took a licking
last season but the public saw
some grand shows and the producers
are coming right back again because
a hundred thousand Legionnaires are
due here in September Jack
Dempsey tells us he will move his
place to Broadway And Katie
Hepburn swears it won't be Howard
Hughes—even if she did take him
ome to have dinner with the folks
and to look at a million dollar yacht
afterwards The political trick
that ensures ex-Mpyor Jimmy Walk-
er a nice fat pension didn’t rouse
any resentment along the Whited
Way even if Jimmy doesn’t come
around as often as he used to
because he was a personality that
makes him news—a dozen years after
he first romped into the city hall........
And where do the Republicans send
those bewildered old gents they run
for mayor—after election? ........ Any
way, the present race is a yawn ever
since Herr Hitler's Nazis came out
for Senator Copeland It makes
the election sure—for anybody else....
And our favorite places just at pres-
ent are the Tavern-on-the-Green in
Central Park for cooling off during
the day—and Jimmy Kelly's, down
in Greenwich Village, for warming
up at night The shows there al-
ways have a new wrinkle—but not in
the costumes—because there just ain't
enough to wrinkle.
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