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HARRISBURG HEARS
"By BERNARD B. BLIER
The most burning question before every alert and objective thinking
American are these.
ties?
chaos ?
the last depression and lead the way to settled tranquility ?
hopes and believes that the United
States perforated as she is with in-
dustrial greatness, will profit by her
legislative and administrative mis-
takes that followed the first world
conflict. Also, that industry and
labor have learned that only
through co-operation will they both
accomplish their social and material
ends. But above all, we must plan
to meet the multitude of problems
that will arise out of this present
conflagration. Only in this manner
shall we achieve the proper balance
and be in a position to absorb the
terrific shock that will electrify
every man, woman and child in our
country.
Out of Washington, in the pages
of Dave Lawrence's non-too-liberal
weekly, the United States News,
comes a welcomed story. It reports
that high ranking personages both
in and out of government are de-
voting some attention to domestic
and international planning. The
leading advocates of this method of
post-war ‘“‘cushioning” are William
L. Batt, industrialist now heading
the materials division of the Office
of Production Management, Profes-
sor Alvin Hansen of Harvard and
the National Resources Planning
Board through its director Charles
W. Eliot.
These gentlemen are now study-
ing the seven most important prop-
ositions that may mean the margin
between comparatively normal days
or such a complete collapse of our
monetary structure that even the
sharpest experts cannot now visual-
ize. The all-important subjects start
with international trade, internat-
ional loans, the new. international
order and then swing into our do-
mestic sphere with continued full
production, the public debt, taxes
and tariffs.
A recent pamphlet of the National
Planning Association, a voluntary
group headed by Mr. Batt, favors
the adaptation of war controls to
peace machinery over attempts to
creat new blueprints of a world
order. This pamphlet explained: “In
looking toward the future . . . paper
schemes for the outline of unions
and federations will have little
working importance compared to
the residue of experience in the
British and other allied missions, in
the co-operating American agencies
and in the joint committees and
secretariats which have already de-
veloped.”
It must be remembered by all
these leaders in post-war planning
that all the common people of our
country and the rest of the world
desire, is the opportunity to earn a
mortal living. If these planners are
successful in providing this oppor-
tunity, then the good earth will find
that all the causes of national and
international friction will be re-
moved.
Even though the all-important
general election in early November
is still upper-most in the minds of
our state politicos, this week saw
old names mentioned again for the
Democratic nomination for Gover-
nor in the spring of "42.
Uncle Joe Guffey, Pennsylvania's
junior Senator at Washington, was
prominent along the gubernatorial
track. It was bigger news to find
that several of the lads from Phila-
delphia advancing the silent am-
bitions of Emma Guffey’s brother,
were known to be committed to the
fast melting candidacy of Luther
Harr. They let it slip that Luther
expected to obtain all his support
from Guffey’s henchmen, Stern,
Greenfield and company. If Joe
places all the bets on himself next:
spring, well it means that the for- |
mer Secretary of Banking will be!
out in the cold. Then again, Harr's
friends said that Luth’s new job as
counsel to the Bituminous Coal
Commission is not paying publicity
dividends of the type that a pros-
pective candidate for the office of
governor should attract.
F. Clair Ross, Tony Biddle and Bill
Bullitt found themselves guberna-
torial subjects of more than one po-
litical writer during the past fort- |
night,
Perhaps the beginning of a state-
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God and man the Son!
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What will happen upon the termination of hostili-
Will America and the whole world be again thrown into economic
Or will some group come to the fore with knowledge gained in
This writer
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
I been reading about
this Mr. Ickes. He is our
Oil Dictator. Also he has
designs on being Power
Dictator. He is strong for
dictating. He has been out
in the Pacific Northwest.
I just saw a Tacoma pa-
per. The paper says that
he told them there that
he wants to make their
country the Greatest Em-
pire of Public Power ever
known. Brother, that boy
takes in territory. But he
is having trouble out
there with Tacoma and
Spokane—also he is hav-
ing trouble back in Wash.,
D. C. Mr. Norris back
there wants to do a little
dictating too, on his own
hook. Mr. Norris claims
he is the daddy of public
ownership of Power. Just
why he should be proud
of something like that is
beyond me.
Public ownership is 100
per cent Socialism, but
nobody tells us that in
their speeches—you gotta
look that up yourself in
Webster. Webster don't
beat around the bush.
Yours with the low down,
JOE SERRA
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wide draft movement in the favor of
the former governor, George H.
Earle was initiated during the week
by Johnny Dent, the very liberal
and crusading senator from West-
moreland county. Dave Lawrence,
national committeeman, ex-Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth, former
beloved friend and now legendary
foe of Senator Guffey, immediately
seconded Dent’s enthusiasm. with
the remark that “Earle would make
a great race.”
Another applicant for the job,
who may be “drafted” to the utter
dismay of the Guffeyites, is Tom
Kennedy. At a convention in
Scranton recently, District One of
the United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica went on record to demand that
their Tom be slated as labor’s can-
didate for the highest office in the
state.
Well, there are seven months be-
tween now and the spring primar-
ies. Did anyone ever hear of George
Earle back in September of ’'33 of
Charles Alvin Jones in the same
month in ’37. By the way, Charles
Alvin was one Democrat that was
remembered when the clouds of bat-
tle subsided, he now reclines on the
Circuit Court bench with a life long
job. What happened to Charlie Mar-
giotti? I believe that it will be
necessary to render this mystery to
the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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NEWS IN THE WORLD OF RELIGION
1
According to Dr. Mark A. Dawber
of the Home Missions Council of
North America, some of the threats
to the “American way of life” that |
call for the mobilization of the
Christian people of the land to take
action for its defense are: the facts
that 85,000,000 people are putside)
and youth are without religious
training; that there is an annual
crime bill of fifteen billion dollars;
that there is a liquor bill of five!
billion dollars annually; that 96
great cities house 45 percent of the |
nation's population. |
The exiled government of Nor- |
way, with headquarters in London,
England, has appropriated a fund of |
nearly $250,000 for the support of |
the 450 missionaries of the seven-|
teen Norwegian Lutheran mission. |
ary societies who have been ‘“or-|
phaned” since the invasion of Nor- |
way more than a year ago. These |
men are serving in Central China, |
Japan, India, South and Central Af-|
rica. This action of King Haakon
and his cabinet has been annogaced |
by the Rev. Dr. J. A. Aasgaard of |
Minneapolis, president of the Nor-!
wegian Lutheran Church of America, |
who was charged by the Norwegian !
government with administering this |
fund. According to Dr. Aasgaard
this is an ‘“‘outstanding manifesta-
tion of governmental solicitude for
foreign missions. This action is un-
precedented in governmental decis- |
ions.” During normal times the an-
nual contributions of Norwegian
missionary societies total $1,250,000.
“The average run of people you
know are saying that this world is
a great machine, that everything is
material and sensory, and that it is
science that proves that this is so,”
said Industrialist C. L. Emerson of
Altanta, Ga., recently.
thirty years behind the times. Real
scientists are now saying that the
world is composed of energy and
thought, and that nothing is mater-
ial and mechanical—if the investiga-
the church; that 30,000,000 children '|
| the recent discoveries of
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a community institution”
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in all Brazil. This school will offer
a college degree in three major sub-
jects—home economics, nursery
school education, and social service.
The college has opened with fifteen
students in the freshman class.
The counting of one-fifth of the
world’s population in India is being
completed. Some say the census
will reveal a population of over
400,000,000. India is overtaking
China. “In India a man’s religion
is a very important matter,” says
Missionary Donald F. Ebright, of
Cawnpore, United Province. “As
was feared, the Hindus and Moslems
have been terrorizing village Chris-
{ tions and forcing them to enter
themselves as Hindu or Moslem.
Some groups have been told that if
they did not record themselves as
i Hindu they could not graze their
goats and cattle on village land, nor
get wood from the village trees, or
would have to leave town. We may
expect for some time these ‘census
refugees.” The cause springs from
communalism. It is expected that
all Hindus must agree politically
with all Hindus, all Moslems with
all Moslems. There can be no ad-
"vance in India until the tyranny of |
communalism ceases.” i
“One of the evidences of China’s |
HARRY LEE SMITH
tion is carried far enough. When
science
have been fully understood by the
man on the street, he will abandon
his reverence for machines
worship of the five senses. e will
find that the scientists have merely,
by great effort and bit by bit over
the years and centuries, proved by
their own methods some of the prin-
ciples which Jesus Christ proclaimed.
. The universe is not a machine.
It is a spirit.”
Colegio Bennett, Methodist school
in Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated this
year the first junior college for girls
Many of our
loans are to meet
eollege and school
bills.
Personal
Loan
Department
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=e his
unconquerable spirit, according to |
competent American observers, is |
the way in which bombed Crungking |
is rebuilding. Damaged buildings!
Lieve been patched up though other |
thousands have been torn down to |
make room for new and broader |
roads and fine lanes. The Y. M. C.
A. dormitory, which once accommo-
dated 350 residents, has been re-
paired and is now ready to reopen.
In place of the old auditorium a new |
one, seating 900, has just been com-
to its movie shows and other events.
In the meantime a fund of a hun-
rency) is being raised locally to
western district where it is proposed
to center most of the association ac-
tivities.
“As members of the
Church and believers in democracy,
we have a special responsibility for
refugees and all victims of war,” the
Church Conference on Social Work
!said at its recent meeting in At-
lJantic City. “Christian refugees
coming to this country offer us a
snecial opportunity and responsibil-
|ity. They need our friendship and
our understanding, and the agencies
working with them should have our
support. Also, as Christians, it is
our responsibiity to resist race
prejudice and to develop among all
people such tolerance and under-
standing as shall make possible a
world of peace. In the world of to-
day with all its needs, Christians
must with tireless purpose work out
the everlasting values of justice and
love.”
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tributors on this page are
allowed great latitude in
expressing their own opin-
even when their
opinions are ai variance
with those of The Post
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THE SENTIM
By EDITH BLEZ
ENTAL SIDE
Just this past week I came across an article in one of our leading mag-
azines which delighted me very much. The article was written in answer
to a letter written by a young American housewife who insisted that
keeping house was robbing her of all her time, all her energy, and that
she was fast developing into a drudge
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POETRY
"Frost Tonight”
Edith M. Thomas
Apple-green west and orange bar,
And the crystal eye of a lone, one
star .:.%.
And, “Child, take the shears and cut
what you will;
Frost tonight—so clear and dead-
still.”
n
Then I sally forth, half sad, half
proud,
And I come to the velvet, imperial
crowd,
The wine-red, the gold, the crimson,
the pied,
The dahlias that reign by the gar-
denside.
The dahlias I might not touch till
tonight!
A gleam of the shears in the fading
light,
And I gathered them all—the splen-
did throng—
And in one great sheaf I bore them
along.
In my garden of Life with its all-late
flowers
I heed a Voice in the shrinking
hours;
“Frost tonight—so clear and dead-
still”
Half sad, half proud, my arms I
fill.
Indian Summer
These are the days when birds come
back,
A very few, a bird or two,
To take a backward look.
on
The old, old sophistries of June—
A blue and gold mistake.
Oh, fraud that can not cheat the
bee,
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief,
Till ranks of seeds their witness
bear,
And softly through the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine!
Roads
Rachel Field
A road might lead to anywhere—
To harbor towns and quays,
Or to a witch’s pointed house
Hidden by bristly trees.
It might lead past the tailor’s door,
Where he sews with needle and
thread,
r by Miss Pim the milliner’s,
With her hats for every head.
It might be a road to a great dark
cave
With treasure and gold piled high,
| Or a road with a mountain tied to
its end,
Blue-humped against the sky.
| Oh, a road might lead you any-
where—
To Mexico or to Maine.
But then it just might fool you
and—
| Lead you back home again!
|
Five Bare Boys
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| By Robert P. Tristram Coffin
|
(Reprinted from October Good
Housekeeping).
Five bare boys leap out of their
pants,
They run in old male arrogance
Along the springboard, and they
dive,
Rampant, shining, ‘as alive
In the air as on the.ground.
Each makes an arc of treble sound
And vanishes in silver bubbles. |
A bird sings low; there are no
troubles
In all the world; the world
stands still.
But up the boys come, and they spill
Water and laughter, arch their tails.
Five small hard and happy males,
They gleam naked, blare like horns,
Sharp and beautiful as thorns.
They drown the bird out, rankle
white,
Five slender barbs of appetite,
And the universe can spin
On its handsome way again.
Amy Lowell
Greatly shining,
The Autumn moon floats in the thin
sky;
And the fish-ponds shake their
backs and flash their dragon |
scales
As she passes over them. J
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Wind ‘and Silver
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who had no time for music, for read-
ing, no time at all for any of the
things she had enjoyed before her
marriage. The young wife resented
the fact that marriage had greatly
retarded her cultural growth and
her mental outlook had become ex-
ceedingly dull. The woman who
wrote the answer, who by the way
is one of our leading novelists, came
right back at the young woman and
told her that it was absolutely her
own fault! She had no one to
blame but herself!
The author contended that like
hundreds of young married women
.this young woman who had married
'a man of moderate means, had the
crazy and very usual idea that her
house was more important than her
husband, her family or her mental
growth. She said she was sick of
housewives who could really afford
a servant to do the hardest work
but complained that they could find
no one who could do the household
chores to suit their fastidious tastes.
She pointed out that European wo-
men of the same standards always
found someone to do the hard work
and they didn’t worry if the work
was not done perfectly. They made
up their minds to find time to enjoy
their married life and they didn’t
develop into drudges because
they would not permit themselves
to become too much interested in
dust and soiled clothes and buttons
to be sewed on. If the servant
wasn’t perfect the European woman
didn’t worry too much. She made
the best of the situation and man-
aged to enjoy her home, her out-
side interest and her family as well,
without the usual American head-
ache about dust and waxed floors
and highly polished furniture and
clean linens.
How right the author is. How
very right she is! How many times
have you and I heard that dreary
sentence: “I simply cannot get any-
one to do my work to suit me, con-
sequently I do it all my self.” But—
the women who are guilty of such
chatter forget to-add, “I am always
tired, my disposition is terrible and
my family complains that I am al-
ways finding fault.”
It doesn’t really matter that a
house be in perfect condition all
the time. Certainly we like clean-
liness and order but must every
corner be spotless all the time?
Must we be constantly thinking of
the laundry, the house cleaning and
clean closets and shiny silver?
A house cannot become too im-
portant! It is important to be a
good cook, much more so than an
immaculate kitchen floor or highly
polished furniture. Your family will
think much more of you if you look
attractive and if you have a smile
for them. You owe it to your fam-
ily to have time to be yourself. You
owe it to them to have time on your
hands. You owe it to them to en-
joy outside interests.
The author of this very sane ar-
ticle insists that the ordinary Amer-
ican housewife is better dressed
than any other woman in the world,
and that she enjoys more luxuries
than any other housewife in the
world. Isn't it time it was said of
the American housewife that she is
the most cultured woman in the
world and that she is the most men-
tally alert woman in the world?
Isn’t it about time we stopped at-
taching too much importance to our
homes? Which counts more a per-
fectly kept house or a mentally
alert housekeeper ?
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