Show Views of the Nations Nation's Press Wars like other periods of ot upheaval produce their own literature Some of Churchill's addresses are likely to become classics resounding down the centuries to come But wingIng winging winging wing- wing Ing through the gray mists of censorship through the barrage of information and so forth have come like a shining arrow these words of ot otan an aged Scotswoman When the raid air-raid warning sounds I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-third Twenty Psalm Then I put up a wee bit o 0 prayer Then I take a wee drap drapo o o 0 whisky to steady my nerves Then I get into bed and pull up the covers And then I tell Hitler HiUer to go to hell Of Ot course these lines are not classic not classic not yet anyway But they have hav the simplicity if not the grammatical correctness that is supposed to belong to greatness and they express more lucidly and briefly than any writing we have so far come across something the axis partners have yet to take in Now this something has been reduced to three-letter three words maybe they'll get it Meanwhile Meanwhile Meanwhile Mean Mean- while there Is a new mark to shoot at in the battle for literary honors New New York Herald Trib Trib- une Consider the Spartan case of Robert P. P Levis veteran Republican Republican Republican lican leader of the Eleventh assembly assembly assembly as as- district of ot New York county He toiled years weary-years in a fruitless vineyard At last this fall he found himself nominated nominated nomi nomi- for sheriff He proceeded to campaign vigorously for the theoffice theoffice theoffice office against another district leader Dan Finn of Tammany Hall On the stump party duty compelled him to advise the electorate to vote for county reform proposition No 1 Neither Neith Neith- er of his pleas was In vain And so on election night Mr Levis learned a that he had been elected sheriff and b that the elective office of sheriff had been simultaneously abolished by the adoption of Proposition No 1 There must be parallels in history but we cannot recall an apt one at the moment New moment New NewYork York Sun |