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Show BEAVER PRESS wKat News Scenes and Persons in the Current ii in 4 Third Term National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart : (TIENTSIN EAST f M WWM.gKWlwWW' Washington, D. C National Press Building- j been y s ' ft 3 if I it I I was a period In his early life when the keenest medical minds said he could not live and if he did live t - vw , r? f would be a hopeless invalid. But Dr. West was made out of the same mold from which came the founders of our nation and from whom, as founders, the traditions and the methods known now as the American way have grown. It was Dr. West who devoted. Indeed, dedicated his life to the organization and development of the Boy Scouts of America. It is now an organization of more than two million boys and there are some six million who can be called alumni because they have grown too old to remain in the ranks of active Boy Scouts. I mentioned earlier that this was an army of peace, an army devoted to the maintenance of American traditions. No better proof of this need be given, if any were needed, than the notorious fact that representatives from the three total-iaria- n states Italy, Germany and Russia are missing from the en1 Mrs. Elizabeth Walker Harrison appears before the senate claims committee to ask a pension for her campment In two of those states mother, fighting between Lord Harrison, widow of the late President Benjamin Harrison. the Boy Scout movement has been Chinese Mary shows a deOrient. in the a war Photograph around major and Japanese troops Peiping presaged superseded by a dictator's decree tachment of Arthur commissioner Sir Gen. Wauchope, high Japanese troops arriving at Tientsin. which forces regimentation and milfor Palestine, under whose direction Eritish troop reinforcements continue to enter the Holy Land in view of the youth. They are of itarizing possible trouble between the Arabs and the Jews. being trained for war. Happily most countries still pin their faith to the virtues summarized in the Scout law the boys promise not to die Chicago Cadet Is but to live, not to cringe but to West Point's First blossom, by holding themselves ever trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendArthur W. Overbeck, who was ly, courteous, obedient, cheerful, cited by Gen. Malin Craig as the thrifty, clean, and last but not 1 man of the. 1937 graduating least to maintain a reverence for No. of class the West Point Military God. So, I think I can be pardoned for the feeling I have that in this encampment lie the seeds of a continued free America, waiting the time to take root and bloom Into manhood. It is from these and from these alone that we can hope to maintain in our beloved nation a political system which warrants neither Communism nor Fascism; which desires liberty and peace and which challenges the cockeyed theories that government must care for the people rather than the people 4 t " f IF t ' care for their government. It seemed to me, therefore, to be something of a sour note that the National Youth administration which set up a hideous looking, boxlike structure near the center of Through many years residents of the capital city from which literature could be distributed to the Boy Washington and visitors to the tal of the nation Scouts. This structure looked for Budding have gloried in a all the world like a soft drink stand at a cheap carnival and I, perfor Future greensward borders the Potosonally, resented the action of Namac river within the District of Cotional Youth administration officials academy. He led 298 future genHonoring the memory of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died sudlumbia. It is a justly famous park, who ordered its construction. I felt erals in his class with a general denly in Washington at the age of sixty-fouPresident Roosevelt cabimade more beautiful by such state- this way because the National Youth average for four years of 94.6. He net officers and members of attended congress the state funeral 'in the structures as administration is monument the to ly predicated upon is the first cadet from Illinois to senate chamber. Funeral services were held later at Littie Rock Ark George Washington and the great the very theory that I have just graduate with top honors. where the body was interred. citadel of beauty erected to the mem condemned a theory that govern ory of Abraham Lincoln. And, to ment must serve as a father for add to this beauty is the vista across everybody and that it must lay Good-h- v the river where stands in grandeur down rules to which all must subKEEPS COOL the beautiful home that was the scribe. It is the nearest thing to residence of Robert E. Lee main- the regimentation that is going on in taining throughout the years the nations under dictators that exists respect that a nation has for a great in our government today. military leader. It reposes, or seems to repose, in peace and quiet as do Cabled dispatches from Russia inthe thousands of men who rest in dicate again that the dictator, Sta- the hillsides of Arlington National ''n 3 determined cemetery. Hand to rid the Soviet Heavy In this peaceful setting for ten i of Stalin ot anyone and evthoudays, more than twenty-siwho eryone sand boys the leaders of the fu- be opposed to him. The officialmay anturewere congregated in a Na- nouncements of the Soviet tional Jamboree of the Boy Scouts government tell of the "liquidation" of America. Tents were everywhere. of numerous Individuals who have in the Uncounted boys khaki shorts, objected to Stalin's tactics or who which is their uniform, flitted about are seeking to revise the Soviet the city or held various maneuvers system. "Liquidation" in Russia or staged dramas of the ages in a means that those Individuals were t great arena. Among them was a executed by a firing squad. A dead and the not number was sprinkling, man can cause no harm to the asmore than a sprinkling compared to pirations of a dictator. the boys, of the scoutmasters and The Stalin administration armature men who constitute the leadranges for the "liquidation" of its ership of this groat army of youth. H"t summer cill:-- (.ause no dis. opponents by coercion of confesBut let me hasten to say that It is sions and this is followed . ..1 v "l ne causey snows up by now rasv it... s in hnnn "t.v to seventeenina ..i..t an army of peace, not an army of what the Soviet calls a trial in a of a now ' .i..jii.i!-ui.HiKO tit Sf Vino4canvas clothes basket susnendeH r,n th,. ,.',' " " 3 ., WUUDU ,,u strife. ... - . '. .: !.( court of justice. The courts of Jusuc " J" '''"Ct, -Alike r'"-"v'., ' ,n;,p,. rhi, ugnienmK reel, iho devices were on ,iiv,,t-.I hope I may be forgiven for intertice are owned and controlled by me er i,nrri.-- or worried. ... ... Summer International Homefurni.shmi jecting here an expression of my Stalin: they decide as they are told chaiulii-- Mart in lie ; w.t .. !.. iv,Chicago enjoy hot It has been my to decide and there is no such thing persona! feelings. weather and the b: tth lot to work hard from the time I as an .iray. court in beRussia impartial put off swaddling clothes. The work cause the government owns the I have done and the experiences I courts and names the Judges who J have met had a tendency to make are to do the government's bidding. me callous, somewhat cynical. But Private advices from abroad seem I must confess that on a half dozen to show that there Is a very serious occasions as I wandered through uprising underneath the surface in this tented city, I gave thought to Russia. Thousands of Russians have my own boyhood and to two boys growii tired of having one man defor whom I am responsible, I felt termine whether they shall live or a swelling of pride, a satisfaction die and they yearn again for a of heart, th;i t 1 live in a nation system of courts which will dewhich has given me the right to termine their guilt or innocence in liberty and progress. accordance with honest evidence Moreover, there came to me the presented and not in accordance thoughts of the future of my own with the way the governing clique two boys and the millions of others wants justice administered. future lenders of a just like them As the Russian Judiciary is conhoTHs forth such possibilnation that structed under the mailed fist of ities as are best evidenced by the Stalin, courts are a farce. Without of these twenty-sincampmcnt such a court however, thousand then within the range a dictator couldstructure, not perpetuate his of my vision. own power. He must have control if the courts In order to carry out Then, no tribute to these fjture unuer me 01 law an 01 tne leaders of our nation and to the whims and guiie fancies and hatreds that nation which bred he A nation of free people possesei. Tribute them can or will does not long remain free after its be complete with- courts become to West subjected to the diout mention of rection and control of one man. . " 11' f Dr. James E. West, Chief Scout vn who can administer Justice inipres.sivc array e British mihtatv mil'! ! j c lured v Executive. Dr. West was an orphan Judges Jerusalem. of Outbreak 3 between the JeW.,. Arab vZXm without fear or favor are the first fighting V ;,s a mendatmns of the Bntish royal commission that boy. Worse, he was a cripple. And to liberty. rcu.lt of the to add to these handicaps, there perquisite with a British neutral C Western Newspaper Union. ,e between them. Neither - u.n a partition. This article shall Washington. be devoted not to politic nor to affair of the ernment of the tion exclusively but to the future the future leaders. It shall be, to that extent, a discussion of fundamentals about which I think there can be no controversy. First, let us take a quick survey. In the Capitol building of our own nation there Is raging a bitter debate between two schools of political thought. The question Is whether there shall be a law passed that will give to the President of the United States the power to appoint additional Justices to the bench of the Supreme court wheii and if present sitting members reach the age of seventy-fiv- e and refuse to retire from active work. In Spain, a bitter political warfare moves on apace. It Is over the question whether Communism of the Russian sort or Fascism of the Italian brand should be the dominant Influence in the government of that nation. In the Far East, along the Russian border, troops of the Japanese emperor and of the Russian dictator, Stalin, glared at each other. Their controversy also involves political bases. That controversy also Is complicated by economic conditions. It is a powder keg. Back In Europe, we find a dictator, Hitler by name, persecuting citizens of Germany almost without end. A political question there is involved and it is complicated deeply by religion and race. Hitler and his minions seek to destroy, first, the Catholic church and, second, the Jews. Somewhat set off by the great Alps, although woven intricately into the whole picture, is another distorted and disturbing condition. In Italy, Mussolini, having most of his people under his steel boot, is now preparing for new crusades. He has ordered all steel producing units in Italy to increase their production to the maximum so that war material will be available. Mussolini wants more territory; he wants to expand the influence of Fascism and he wants to build a gigantic world power in a military way with Rome as the center and with him as Uie head. gov-Futu- re ixrfsi If evere Nation Honors Memory of Sen. Robinson lit that r, It's to Wash Day x r d I A r- . '" 1 . - uu-rin- M..-w- tu ) i War Clouds Threaten Peace of Holy A l b;'"und JcImJ -- Z,2 JZ After a Preside, rp-plp- , Dviut; inspire who is snuKsled w. -- throne will burst fro with a terrible yeju' claim that unless the!1 incumbent consents himself this doomed. Incidentally the m job and perquisi: would be doomed, so present ft ewart, e couldn't be blamed for privately brooding on the thoughtYou tout i, buil co, f had lane, iio ha a d s thi inhen tf, attention upon him as a suitable candi date when his idol says no to the prop !iom s nc Irvini Its. M: i not it's to osition. He might ride h, . , . ! ua.n.wisn, wnicn would bt t' T fe ref'J nicer man steering a tidal tf somebody else. Political observers havn for this. They call it 'wJ a balloon." It's an apt c3 Dauoon Deing a flimsy fe Jerry liants 'fence ut Ho (er sis r. Sa o!her ark i not air, ana wnen it ion nobody knows where it ; down if at all. It lacks boi tag gears and terminal facJ There have been cases j same comparison might ha appliad not alone to the a but to the gentleman who la J vi. I heMrs.h f4 calm. will befc I Jrrivi f HA It let's remain 1 ov a nep isinhe he wouldn't call him selfish, but you could call him hopeful, especially since there's a chance his ballyhoo may direct So ar of Jrs. 'Ji S! whe It's tional in our history that dent ever had to go ballootEj: der to find out how the wi; and that no volunteer fcir boomer ever succeeded the trip himself. do fed! to lot Ins any J I fdn' i4 I atone Modern Prairie SchMtm. TIE'RE certainly returql Ishe with modern improve: feve to prairie schooner days wit: less Americans are living otrJ i ha fee. and housekeeping on wheels I law wheels. Oi: on babies having bom were twins t you other day ? a trailer. And haps right now future president knows'- - who the d stork, th in her beak. trying to catch i? t0! ping fast, somebody's perambulating low. So it's a fitting moment tern the story of early Montana some settlers were discussEi relative merits of various m' "j'ou ie: arks d i-'- Bend, the i- and various toga, the South the Studebaker From under her battered cl net there spoke up a weafterte old lady who, with her busbar: her growing brood, had long years bumping along x ox team from one frontier ec another. "Bovs." she said, shifts! "I snuff-stic- nno (hero I let lie Is i ii loll Ee It! WUZ fur raisin' a famSj i Bt Pugs Versus Statesmei TT'S confusing to read tea. decrepit Jim Braddocio reached the advanced age four or thereabouts, is cs up, and, then, in anothercane; fta' hnt. leading to Kimnlv voung blood nreme court bench are on tK bui Inff luveniles of around sixtydoubt in their" u tot ns say, iH tw a few birthdays beyond o-i Braagendered -wreck. Mr. cu.. .nt v,. nncidprable " years to go before hebe like some se. adolescent he OW' .. . can t aeciae ...u4V,or - old n?i . t the r .v. ug juin uie loin".' the w." . home or enlist with the Boy Scouts.. -- Major Ceej Quiescent eone now no hai impTuiMf. . O (h r-- genej f" the regular army, or detailed to a civu'-nimscii laiKeaj ,.1 i berry jam. - r,tn J ,.b iam u if you want for so long wmie that makes such of the Tessie out . average V" nriva r-- &g bi"j subsides there's take his place. pi ou a c0"v wnen ne goes iin - . and lets bis as though he took off h' " with his epauieucs. .i - You see. under rnw50J the commanding officer "Jl . 4h rreat, Jie may leau flpr When the charge. front in out the top is he ... J not!" parsword? Not so you -.j . rlna he S S'tV"; m in a bombproof nine the lines ana aoi.ick of u i. runs is jie n"" the fresh air. or wi a - . Maybe, in view happens when peace should save on p"vait generals. v " -' erC,it w j R cO r, du H , t r did da always waUEin nlrl Viirknrv mi Ilk those bore such hosts of emigrants ward. They named overfaa canvas-covere- I He f |