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Show MOAB, UTAH A Book Shelf for Pennsylvania Colony of 5,000 Amish The Study Corn, Considering Mass Trek to Maryland By H. ROTHERMEL (WNU Word Ely Service (Released Jugglers Culbertson: Prince Charming "A dream of a often stands be- tween a man and a woman; an ideal yardstick a woman picks up in her childhood and with which she clubs her husband" . . . Jan Struther in "er book, "Mrs. Miniver'': ‘You "Cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past". . R. Roelofs Jr.'s: "A straight line is the shortest distance between two points but it hasn't any interesting angles" . . . Suggestions for a Hitler's office wall from Time and Your Life: ‘‘Neighbors can make friends but only enemies can make allies". . . ‘A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it." Story Tellers A letter from a Britisher to his small son refugee-ed to the States will break the hearts of those who read it. In Good Housekeeping... The price of trying to be a good American is listed by Dale Kramer in ‘‘The American Fascists'' (Harper's). He cites the shameful figures that in New York only 106 Fascists were prosecuted in 1939-against 127 who were fighting them! . . . Many mags are now covering the muddy ground of dictator stooges in the| U. S. and others on the bund-wagon. Most of the data isn't new, but it must never stop being news. The best way to put them on the spot is to put them in the spotlight. Headliners Bob Hope's eyebrow-lifter: ‘‘Motion pictures haven't developed a comedian" . . . What about a feller named Cholly Chaplin? . . . Dorothy Lamour's remarkable remark: **Men are not all alike'"' . . . Except, she means, when they're alone with a gel in a keb . . . Cary Grant's grunt: ‘I get mad when people stare at me whenl eat'. . . Lissen, Cary. When people lose their interest in actors-actors invariably stop eating. Memos of a Girl Friday Rudy Vallee and Francisca Sims, the Conover beauty, are more than a telephone conversation. Tells chums they may marry. EXCESS PROFITS TAX The federal excess profits tax as it is likely to pass, is a monstrosity. It might well be entitled "‘A Bill to Prevent New Enterprise and Destroy Small Businesses." I know a company that was organized in 1928 with a capital of about $3,000,000-just in time to get the full effect of the 1929 avalanche and what came after. It was to make a completely new product. The long, lean, hard years ate much of its capital away. Its stockholders have never had a cent out of it. But they stuck and it struggled miraculously and lived. Two years ago it began to click as a result of a long hopeless struggle for sales and improvement of product. Under this tax bill it will be taxed up to 40 per cent on its excess earnings for its fiscal year 1940 over the average of the preceding four years, during which its earnings were slight or minus, plus a normal tax of approximately 20 per cent. That will take easily 33144 per cent of its earnings. This company's business will gain nothing by the armament program. On the contrary, it will be hurt. Such a large yearly cash outlay from its meager quick assets will seriously embarrass its operations and prevent any normal expansion of its business. Its only chance to recoup its year's losses, perfect the original factory equipment on which it was planned, and provide reasonable margins of safety was out of earnings. Now that chance will be impaired, if not destroyed. It gains nothing by its permissible alternative of choosing a basis of graduated tax on the ratio of earnings to invested capital, because that capital has been so whittled away by its years of losses that this ratio is necessarily high. Stockholders whose investment has been sterile and declining for most of 12 years and who had just begun to hope for some recovery, will have to abandon their hope and may begin to fear for the company's survival. This is just another case among thousands of similar ones that could be cited. Another class is that of recently organized service comThe Treasury Dept. and tax men | panies with small capital and no have a wonderful stunt to trap tax record of earnings. This tax law evaders who gamble heavily at the will be a practical barrier to any tracks and who report not being progress or prospect of success for able to pay . . Those suspected them. have their photos taken by hidden A large and heavily capitalized candid cameras (usually in back of company that has had reasonably a coat lapel). good returns for the last four years will be affected to no such murderMontes and Fernandez, the Rainous degree. Indeed, in view of this bow Room dancers, are delightful. terrific load in new or small comBut they may bust up because she peting industry, such a company wants to continue at the Met Opera could well afford to lower both price House . . . Andy Anderson's moider and profit to keep its earnings below yarn, "‘Kill One, Kill Two" which is any "‘excess'' at all and thus destroy going big, got his atmosphere writand monopolize the business of all ing it during his spare time at its small competitors. a rear desk in the Associated Press The tendency in this legislation is "morgue". . . Willson Woodside's so blatant and so marked that one story: About the two Italians meetis tempted to question whether it is ing on a street in Rome. ‘"‘How are not a deliberate attempt to Nazify you?" asked the first . . . ‘Better, all business by driving it into great thank you,"' said the other. . . ‘‘Betunits and there by regulation and ter?'' said the first. . . ‘"‘Yes," was other encroachment convert it to the retort, ‘‘better than next year!" Hitler's national socialism or Mussolini's corporative state. No wonI suppose you know that Hitler is der small business and the great said to have warned Mussolini not middle class are almost 100 per cent to sink any British ships in the Medagainst this administration. iterranean that Hitler has sunk in the ad, i. : } | at oe i ? en oa Eee i 2 iF Py By ¢: * sea. What this New Deal doesn't seem to understand is that strength for war depends upon a far stronger The Ashland drug store on Madiand more efficient industry than we son near Thirty-second street, achave ever had. That can't be according to a customer, has this sign complished if the first step is a drasdisplayed above the soda counter: tic taxation policy that practically "Roosevelt or Willkie. McNary or destroys the profit motive. That Wallace. Winchell or Bernie. May motive is the gas that makes our the best man win. God Bless Amermeal??... . . Understand Mr. Jolson's | industrial engine go. The only investment in his new hit ‘"‘Hold On | known economic substitute for the hope or reward-the American sysTo Your Hats" totals $82,000. tem-is the fear of punishment-the system of Mussolini, Stalin and Much excitement over at WMCA. Seems that James Roosevelt's film, Hitler. There is no middle way. "Pastor Hall," opens at the Globe We can't go that way without industrial paralysis. next week, and Mrs. Roosevelt, his mama, had agreed to speak about it Very few, if any, business manover that station between 8 and 8:30 agers want to profiteer in this emer. . Couldn't be cleared, however, gency. But very few are willing to because the commercial at that time default on their trusteeships and is bought by Elliott Roosevelt! . . . | ruin the investment of their stockRecently we reported a group in the holders by accepting inordinate U. S. would start a ‘"‘Hate England!" risks and unbearable burdens. campaign. Yesterday's Trib front7 + 7 paged: ‘Steuben Club to ‘Expose' DRAFT SUPPORT British in U. S." I have some sour letters saying that the reason I am so repetitious Is this suggestion for Britain's and emphatic is that I want to be counter-attacks on Berlin too terri"director of selective service," as ble: ‘"‘Brit'sh-kriegs''? VeriI was deputy director before. I well . . . The O'Keefe quote: ‘‘Willdon't, and even if I did, Mr. Roosekie thinks it is high time FDR bevelt would rather lose an eye tooth came a postage stamp!" brought than call me to that duty. On this this phone call from Harriet Ga. bill, as on all other measures to Walsh of Syracuse: "That," niftied speed national defense. I have supLa Walsh, "might be the only way ported him as constantly as any of he can be licked!" his friends. 5 i ee abn North P i Man About Town: The Barbizo n hotel (for women) was in a dithero o the other eve'g. Phone Ops couldn't op and omigoodness it was awful: The reason-Franchot Tone was in the lobby calling for one of the guests . . . Aida Alvarez, who did Spanish dances at La Conga, and M. Rubin, the co-owner, will soon wed . Ethelyne Holt (she started a hat fad years ago after wearing a mannish fedora in a Camel ad) makes her operatic debut with Nino Martini in "‘La Boheme" on the thirtieth in Puerto Rico. Men in the war department charged with planning this effort have also had everything I could give them from my experience in the way of both support and advice, and both they and the President know that no matter who is finally charged with the execution of this law, they can rely on me for any unofficial help and support I can give, from running errands to the best this column can offer. This should be obvious because in a manner of speaking, it is my baby and I am irtensely jealous of its success. by Western Newspaper Union.) EPHRATA, PA.-The Amish people, one of America's oldest refugee groups from Europe's religious persecution, are considering moving from the Pennsylvania German country where for 250 years their forefathers have had sanctuary from the customs of the world, and defied the ways of its DEFENSE JAM-BUSTER Donald Nelson, for many years Roebuck. executive of the Sears, mail-order house, now has become one of the chief log-jam busters of national defense. Officially his job is director of procurement for the These three little Amish maids are just leaving a one-room schoolhouse similar to those ordered closed in Lancaster county, Pa., upon the erection of a new township consolidated school. The gentleman at the left is married, as shown by his whiskers. Unmarried men are smooth shaven. Taking pictures of the Amish is for alrisky business sometimes, though the Plain People will not cause anyone's arrest, they might take personal action when they feel aggrieved, and permitting their picture to be taken is against the law of the church. | Appalachian foothills the col- | ony of the Plain People which now has grown to more than 5,000 members. Buttons Too Worldly. The horse and buggy still is their mode of transportation. The black, widebrimmed, low-crown hat still covers the head of the men. Only the black poke bonnet is worn by the women. The -__. suits still are made of black cloth, and held not with buttons (which are worldly) but by hooks and eyes. Married men still wear long Old Testament beards. The women and girls wrap themselves in fathers were brought before justices ' black woolen shawls and wear long They paid | flowing gray skirts that sweep to | of the peace and fined. the roads. The children are dressed _ the fines and still the children were | absent. Some of the fathers were exactly like their parents. Their mode of living has not | sent to jail, but it made no difference to the determined parents. changed. Neither gas nor electriciWork Before Education. | ty has come to their home. Their | | stoves still burn wood cut from their Mediation settled some of | own wood patches. Their food still problems, finally. Several of jis the wholesome but substantial one-room school houses were the the re| fruits and vegetables from their own opened and in outlying districts the ground; their meats, sides and quar- | Amish bought school buildings them| ter sections from their own hogs and | selves and hired their own teachers. | cattle. | Their farms are large and rich. | Their crops are diversified. Crop | failure is an unheard of happening. | Horses and cattle are pure blooded, | the storage bins are extensive and well stocked. Fear Modern Education. There has been only one threat of encroachment, but this threat has thrown terror into the midst of the Amish fathers and mothers, for the threat is education of the children. The Amish fear that with education will come discontent with the old| way of life that so long has held them together. Already one colony has been set up in Maryland. It is a long trek from the hills of Pennsylvania to the flat acres of Maryland's eastern shore, especially when the journey must be made by horse and wagon. But more and more families are visiting there and looking over the ground. Cause for the migration began three years ago when school directors of East Lampter township, Lancaster county, ordered erection of a consolidated school, and the closing of 16 one-room school houses, mostly in the Amish district. First protest came from the Amish when it was learned that the school was to be built with funds borrowed from the PWA. Then it was revealed that because the consolidated school building was to be further from their homes than the one-room buildings, the children would ride there by automobile bus. Finally the Pennsylvania legislature raised the age when children could quit school to 16 years. Amish Never Borrow. All this is opposed to Amish tradition. The Amish-man never borrows. He buys and pays for what he wants, or goes without. He won't ride in an automobile, for that is an invention of the devil. And his children, he believes, should not be educated beyond the three R's. First there were appeals to the school board, then to the governor, afterward to the legislature and finally to Washington. Everywhere the Amish lost. Most amazing of all, the matter finally was taken to court. So far as is known this is the only time in history that an Amishman ever went to court asa prosecutor. Among other things with which the Amish will have nothing to do are courts. But no progress was made. Came then the method the Amish have used in other trying times; they just ignored the whole matter. In this case they ignored the schools. Children were kept at home. Amish Divorce ‘Habit' In one of the buildings there are 23 pupils. Each pupil is a Stoltzfus, the name of one of the first five | families that came to America. The teacher? You guessed it. His name is Stoltzfus. But still the Amish are not satisfied. They would rather have their children on the farm at an earlier age. ‘‘The children should learn to work before they become accustomed to easier ways,'' old Elam Stoltzfus told me. ‘‘Work, work, work. It's the old way. The old way is best.'' He pointed toward his own green fields, ripe with hay, winter wheat, and young corn. Guernseys were lowing in the meadow. Great Percheron horses stood in the barn yard. His finger stopped at the two high, Swiss-type barns, each many times larger than his house, a usual feature of the rich Amish farms in this district. So more of the families are casting eyes toward Maryland. Maryland has a lower school age, and the governor has promised not to interfere with them. Machinery Not Makes all will go. Laziness. Some who have visited the new colony have returned. They say the soil is sandy and the fertilizer will leak away. Then they look at the children, some going off to the new consolidated school to hear radios, to see dances, where there are opportunities for vocational study, even to learn about tractors. "‘Tractors,'' snorted Elam Stoltzfus. "I never knew one to give fertilizer or to foal. *"‘Work is what does it, work with the hands and the rich earth. Machinery makes people lazy. You don't need high school learning to plant corn and harrow potatoes, and our children don't become lawyers, or doctors, or even preachers. We do our own preaching and our own praying. "A boy goes to the eighth grade. That's all the education he needs to become a farmer. The girls should learn to cook and preserve our vegetables and berries before that. Otherwise neither the boys nor the girls ever learn to work. They get worldly ideas. *‘Why, I've heard stories recently about some of our boys being out driving on the roads after dark! There's no need for a man to do that. A youngster should be getting his rest for the day ahead, and a married man ought to be with his family." Recently a group of Amish visited Pennsylvania's new governor, Ar- Increasing DETROIT, MICH.-For a "Friend of the Court," Edward Pokorny has hard theories on some legal proceedings, particularly divorce cases. Pokorny, who has been Friend of the Court of Wayne county for the past 22 years, stoutly insists that one separation, ‘"‘except in the gravest of cases,"' is sufficient, and warns that "divorce is becoming a 2 in U. S. habit to some people." He is formulating a law, which he plans to present to the legislature, holding the quota of divorces to one per person. "Divorce may be the so-called safety valve of society,'' he Said, "but there comes a time when even a 800d safety valve must, of necesSity, be shut off." thur H. James. They said more of the children were being forced to the consolidated schools. They wanted the governor to re-open more of the old one-room buildings. But the governor didn't give them much encouragement. ‘You go home and behave yourselves, the way you always have,"' he told them with a chuckle, ‘‘or 'll come down there from Harrisburg and pull your whiskers."' Even in levity the remark didn't set well with the dour Amish. So eyes are turned again toward Maryland. Meanwhile Pennsylvania, fearful of losing the families that have had much to do with making Lancaster very nearly the richest farming county in the nation, isn't quite satisfied either. Like the Amish, the great commonwealth itself doesn't know exactly what to do about it. Bevwrda Islands a U. S. Naval Base During Last War WASHINGTON.-The Great Sound of Bermuda, proposed site of a United States air base, is familiar to American travelers, according to a bulletin from the National Geographic society. ‘‘All cruise ships enter the sound and navigate carefully through its island-studded waters to reach the harbor of Hamilton, Bermuda's capital and chief port,'' says the bulletin. "The largest and westernmost of three sea-lakes enclosed by the 150 islands of the Bermuda group, the land-locked great sound offers about eight square miles of sheltered water, varying in depth from 18 to 66 feet. Its greatest width is some 3% miles. Two strings of islands extend into the sound from the southeast. The southernmost string cuts off a southern subdivision of the sound into Port Royal bay. The northern island chain, including a little ‘fraternity row' named from Alpha to Omega, partitions off the ship channel into Hamilton harbor, which is in effect an eastward extension of the sound. Darrell's island, in the northern group, is base for Pan-American clipper planes. "At the northwestern side of the sound's entrance stands Britain's little watchdog of the mid-Atlantic fortified Ireland island, with the barracks, half-mile dockyard, floating dock, and repair shops for the ‘America and West Indies squadron' of the British navy. "On January 16, 1918, Bermuda temporarily turned over two islands to the United States to serve as Base 24 for the U. S. navy in the World war. Agar's island, at the eastern entrance from the Great sound into Hamilton harbor, and the small island southwest became Uncle Sam's fuel and supply base, with occasion al use also of White's island. Some of the American vessels were based at Ireland island with the British navy. "The United States-Bermuda base was a stop-over for the American ‘splinter fleet,' the ‘peanut armada' of 120 wooden submarine chasers only 110 feet long which combatted submarine warfare in European waters. "Without capacity for fuel for the entire transatlantic trip, the subchasers put in at Berm uda for supplies and repairs both going and coming. One of the six sub-c hasers which the United States lost during the war ran agro und and sank in the Great sound. "A base in the Great Soun the United States a Rie post 640 miles east o f the nearest point on the America n coast, at Cape Hatteras. Bermuda is 673 mi Norfolk, 697 from New sg from Boston, and less than Washington. ah os The next earliest possible delivery. day word came back from Bethle"Sorry, but you will have to hem: wait.'' For some unexplained reason the said nothing to the defense navy commission about Bethlehem's delay, even though the commission has the power to compel compliance. Instead the navy tried to handle the situation itself. But after two weeks of unsuccessful effort, the navy finally went to Nelson, who in addition his procurement duties aids the | awed | defense commission. Nelson reached for a telephone, secretary of | called Walter Tower, the American Iron and Steel institute, and said, ‘‘I hope we don't have | to get tough, but when an order goes out marked ‘expedite,' it means just that. I want immediate action on that order.'' Twenty minutes later, Eugene Grace, potent boss of Bethlehem, | personally telephoned Nelson and assured him it was all a mistake. x * « ~ BRITAIN'S FOGS The most important development during the last few days of bombing London is the realization by British and American observers that bad weather is not going to help the defense of London, but instead will hinder it. Second important development is the realization that Britain's only real defense is retaliatory raids against Berlin. This means, of course, more long-distance bombers -almost all of which are now obtained from the United States. It has been generally expected that with the arrival of foggy weather, London would be safer because Nazi raids would have to abate. However, there was considerable cloudy weather over England last week, and during it, Nazi bombers had a field day. What they did was to use the clouds as a shield and drop their bombs, without aiming, all over London. On clear days they had tried PAIN c ) ' Sl \ See Dae a book shelf, here is proof of smart one will look, especia yp it is matched with a chair cove in the same material. The of the chair are painted green' wy | so is the old kitchen table w ‘Jo has now become a desk. The low tone is repeated in the ble with and an old brass lamp and 9g ie desk things carry out the g ol and yellow color scheme, A #™ like this one would be attractiygs 4! almost any room, even the p t © room or the kitchen. This box} . so rough that the oil cloth jg was necessary. A box of sm othe wood could be painted inside; ask o* NOTE: One homemaking cd F. D. R. AND ARGENTINA There has been a lot of publicity regarding Roosevelt's conference with Argentine diplomat Leopoldo Melo over buying Argentine beef. Actually the conversation covered a lot of things besides meat. Roosevelt promised that this country would substantially increase its imports of Argentine products; first because Argentina has _ suffered heavy loss of her European export market and faces an acute depression; second, because Argentina continues to buy from the United States, but this buying must fall off if she cannot sell here to obtain dollar exchange for purchases. Discussing these problems, the President told Melo that the defense program would require heavy purchases of wool for uniforms, hides for shoes, and canned beef for the commissary. Though the government would not buy direct from Argentina, the buying from domestic sources would create a new demand for imports, substantially benefiting Argentina. There was also discussion of using a part of the new Export Import bank fund of $500,000,000, about to be voted by congress, for trade with Argentina. Note-Latest export figures show that Argentina has now become the leading foreign purchaser of American passenger cars. * re RFD department erence number to expedite it for the William Penn, to found in the |}together navy the It is made @_y © Sine sent a very important order to Bethlehem Steel corporation with a pref- progress. men's | thick, QOS SSSA States treasury - in other words, in charge of government purchases. For these many generations they have lived much as did the first five rugged families of 200 people who fled to America from the German | Palatinate on the invitation of | | | | | | | really hang at all. box screwed to the wall, an you never thought of slip-coye United Recently | By RUTH WYETH SPEa4 CHOOL again, and this ska/ shows a quiet study corne one girl. 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Under these circumstances, there was only one way for the British to locate the enemy bombers-by means of sound detection and radio directions from the ground. However, these radio directions must be three dimensional to be effective, and there is such a wide margin for error that looking for a bomber in the clouds is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That is why British planes simply did not go into the air when the weather was too cloudy. It is important to note that the same handicap applies to Berlin. In other words, the British raiders will be equally aided by foggy weather over the German Capital. So the war of nerves and indiscriminate bombing is likely to get worse. Note-One thing which caused the downfall of France and the lowland countries was the collap se of morale plus fifth column activi ties. However, U. 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