Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated features service NEW EW YORK dr frank kingdon resigned as president of the university of newark to serve the cause of 0 american unity against if freedom j f still cn c n various open and d hidden embodies our disruptive hope and faith forces ta tain taia industrialists have become dollar a year men for military rearmament dr kingdon is perhaps the first man to give up his job to work for intellectual rearmament with others he built the citizenship educational service to advance tolerance cooperation pan and allaround all around american solidarity theodore roosevelt Is its chairman and dr kingdon is 13 educational director american unity was the subject of dr kingdoms King dons address before the institute of public affairs at charlottesville lottes ville va recently A few days ago this writer happened to be present when dr kingdon was conversing with a new york citizen of distinction and influence who maintained that democracy was both decadent and impotent in his charlottesville lottes ville address dr kingdon said the other day I 1 was arguing with a self confessed fascist I 1 happened to lo use the word freedom he immediately scoffed saying sayin 9 freedom for what freedom to be unemployed ed freedom to starve he knew that the he word was one of the signal sig nal words of human history he could not meet it squarely so he tried to tie it up with au all kinds of other words having unpleasant definitions in order to destroy its own appeal by transferring to it their dismay his was a deliberate effort to empty of meaning a word that is packed with hope and faith his performance was typical of the planned and concerted attempt to destroy the foundations of our thought so that we shall crumble before a vigorous onslaught from the cause with which he has allied himself in the above address dr kingdon assays essays such words as christianity freedom religion propaganda isolation in the interest of tolerance and unity such is one ot of the unique endeavors of the citizenship educational service dr kingdon tall urbane school man and cleric was born bom in london and came to this country in 1912 at the age of 17 he was educated at university college school london and boston university IN N BRAZIL there is a saying that president getulio vargas is is so clever that he can take off his bis socks without removing his shoes some president vargas wh such deft proof brazil senses direction of wind dilated when he eased brazil noiselessly into a dictatorship in 1937 currently his swing on sterile democracy and his indorsement endorsement indor of european dictatorships as vigorous peoples fit for life is big news in the western world heeling quickly as it does the italian aggression there are germans in brazil who have indicated similar views about sterile democracy president vargas has seemed much more able and plausible than most dictators lie he given to casual shooting or hanging and lie says very little and this in a low voice never in a sports or on a balcony ile he built his 1930 campaign on a bare knuckle fight against the plutocratic coffee barons of the sao paulo ife he was badly defeated ile he yell ive been robbed but instead gathered a few of his old gaucho friends and quietly took over the country for four years years he ruled by decree and then set up a liberal constitution tit ution written by the national assembly he proclaimed his allegiance to liberal government and the democratic ideal he governed effectively and is credited with having cut down debt and upped production reared in a prairie town he enrolled in a military college but was diverted to the law and like many of our own politicians reached the national congress with a start as district attorney attorn ev |