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Show Prevailing Opinions . Comment of the American Press Germany. Nof 100 Per Cent Nab!' What or how numerous the "German freedom party" I ws do not know, but at least it waa abl to bootleg President Roosevelt' -quarantine" speech Into Germany Ger-many and to distribute some pamphlets containing it. Thus at least some Germans were given at least one Item of Information of what the ouUide world wa thinking think-ing and doing. To thi extent the quarantine -on knowledge, which the nasi leader regard aa a dangerously dan-gerously contagious disease, waa broken through. Thi is only one of many item of Interact, some of them not large In themselves, which leak out of Germany to ahow that the spirit of unrest under th dictatorship is beginning to find form and organisation. or-ganisation. In th beginning of the nasi regime that spirit extended extend-ed even to the higher command of th army, which mad no concealment conceal-ment of th fact that th militarists militar-ists had helped Hitler to power in the hop of eon trolling him. Except Ex-cept in a negative way, there is little evidence that they have sue-. seeded in doing so, but area acting a a preventive balance wheel is something. Paradoxical a it may a em. I) ia more than likely that It is the army which has prevented prevent-ed Hitler from carrying aay of hi mad schemes ta the point of war. Unless th army ha since 1 become, more sincerely loyal to Hitler personally than it was In th beginning, it could, at th opportune time, carry out it original orig-inal intent ithr to control Hitler or to relax it viguanc on other movements which might lead to bis removal These are straws In a wind which mav prove only a passing breeie. But In the very nature of things, sooner or later and not too much later these personal dictatorships must break under th strain of an impossible task. A free government may bungle thing and (till last. A hereditary monarchy may have some reign of Innocuous mediocrity nd continue con-tinue te be accepted. A dictatorship dictator-ship must be absolute or nothing. It dares not fail or weaken. And. finally, it always does fail or weaken. Then, if th time 1 rip, th people resume a much liberty a they are willing to tak th responsibility re-sponsibility of xrciing.an ' Francisco Chronicle. Power of Suggettion Mother: "I don't think the man uptair like Johnnie t play en his drum." Father: "Why?" Mother: "Well, this afternoon be gave Johnnie a knit and asked him if he knew what wa inside th drum." W eat Point Pointer. Postpone Itl A movement I afoot, led by a butcher' trad paper and backed by Representative Emanuel Cel-ler Cel-ler of New York, to hav tha turkey tur-key declared the national symbol sym-bol in place of the eagle. "The eagle," argue th paper, "ia a bird of prey, swooping down on hi victims. That is not representative repre-sentative of the American spirit. "Th turkey, on th other hand. Is a bird whose history Is blended with that of the American people from the days of the Pilgrim fathers. fa-thers. It is a peaceful bird, but handsome and majestic." There's a good proturkey case here, although we've noticed that even if that bird of birds doesn't swoop he is inclined to strut. The biggest objection comes from the New Yorker, which asks whether it mightn't be considered seditious to eat th national bird. Let' stick to th eagle. It would be terrible if we had to stand up and sing on Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing and Christmas. Instead of sitting sit-ting down and eating. San Francisco Fran-cisco News. Anything to Pleas "We have everything on the menu today, sir." th waitres said. "So I see." th customer said. "How about a clean on?" Tha Smith Card. |