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FOUR THE MONTGOME RY ADVERTISER VTURDAY, JULY 1 0, 1948 lacking, and constitutional guarantees do Tell It To Old Granfcma Burck FLYING SAUCERS, Eetabltshed lsIS PukllsAea' Every Wert Day ay Trig ADVtWTHtH COMPANY Entered al the PoatoffiGe at Motinomery, tmal Oaea Mail Matter Untr Aet of Cor of March Jnt, U7 i yv The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons OOMI of the heart-breaking stories told by people who participate in those Tell-Us-Your-Problems radio programs aren't true. A few days ago a woman appeared on a program and stated that was working as a cleaning-woman to raise funds for her husband, who was accused of a crime. She vowed her faith in his innocence, and her determination to work until she has enough to hire a good lawyer. Mrs. Sam Leibowitz, wife of the judge and ex-criminal lawyer, heard the pro- telephoned the station and volun-eered to help.

Leibowitt offered to supply an able lawyer who'd work without a fee The "cleaning woman" never returned the call. gIR LAURENCE OLIVIER "Hamlet," one of the most memorable pictures ever filmed, will have its American premiere in Boston on August 18 William Cropper, the painter, is sketching and making text-notes behind the Iron Curtain. The Leftist Gropper is in Poland and will arrive in Moscow soon. He'll make the paintings and write his full texts after he returns to New York. RONALD SCHILLER, the foreign correspondent, attended the inauguration of President Romulo Gallegos, of Venezuela.

Schiller knew only a fe Spanish words, but he improvised some words which, in most cases, cor. -yed his thougths to his Venezuelan listeners. He would add "ado" or "ada" to a French or English word, and hoped in this wav to achieve its equivalent in Spanish. This system worked successfully for a few diys, and then was quickly abandoned when, at a cocktail party, he backed into a Venezuelan lady, and apologized: "I'm mucho embarazada. He learned that he had said: "I am very pregnant." JjKR the first time in many years, a New York law firm has purchased an entire building in which to house its offices.

Because of the shortage of space in office buildings, the law firm of Schwartz and Froelich bought a six-story-and-penthouse building at 70th Street and Madison Avenue Johnny Green, whose song-hits include "Body and Soul," has written a new series of piano pieces called "Materia Medica." They will Tbe published in the Abbott Laboratories magazine In preparation for the new draftees, the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Club is trying to raise $50,000 by public subscription. The clubhouse, at 283 Lexington Avenue, New York, entertained more than 100,000 servicemen last year. AN AMERICAN ambassador was in the Stork Club last night, and mentioned the praise he had received from the country where he is stationed. "That won't help you," he was warned. "When the new administration takes over, another man will become ambassador" "I'll bet that after January I'll still be ambassador," he insisted "Men often contribute large sums to political campaigns, expecting to be rewarded with ambassadorships, his friend reminded him.

"I'll take your bet. How much?" "Make it $25,000," replied the ambassador. "But I warn you how do you know I haven't contributed that much to the Republican campaign?" "gDDIE DAVIS, the musical comedy writer who just returned to Broadway after a long stay in Arizona, announced: "First I'll go to Lindy's for the biggest order of -pickled herring you ever saw. Then I'll go to Reuben's for the biggest order of chopped chicken liver you ever saw. Then 1 11 go to the Stage Delicatessen for the biggest corned-beef sandwich you ever saw.

And then I'll go to Hanson's Drugstore for the biggest bottle of bicarbonate of soda you ever saw" The newest quiz-favorit in nightclubs is Pageant's "Are You Sure You re Not A ii fi i T- Cal Washington Calling R. F. HUDSON H. W. HUOSON.

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)O0 Montae surest. AT IT AGAIN Resumption of fighting in Palestine yesterday marked another United Nations fail-Vrt and underlined the difficulty of making V. N. decisions effective by persuasion alone. It added strength to the argument ef those who take the realistic view that TJ.

N. armed force is necessary, to be used as a tast resort when aU other measures fail. The day may coma when we will have a World erf animation commanding such universal prestig that its decisions will be followed as a matter of course, as citizens Of civilised country obey the decisions of their courts. But that day is not yet with lis. Resumption of fighting between Arabs and Jews leaves the U.

N. with the alter- native of letting them fight it out or taking 1 Itrong steps to bait the slaughter. Although both sides rejected proposals i Qt Count Bernadottt, the U. N. mediator, 1 looking toaptrmanent settlement, the I Jews accepted his request for a SO day ex- tension of the truce to allow time for more talks.

The Arabs declined and resumed 1 fighting. The United States has declared in favor strong action, including force if neces- aary, if the Arabs refused to extend the i truce. The trouble is that our Palestine policy has been so vacillating that nobody knows today where we will stand tomorrow. Russia for once is siding with the United I Btates in favoring steps to make the Arabs SNcalm down. But Russia's motives are very much in question, with fears freely expressed that her real aim is to gain a foot-jj hold in Palestine and adjacent countries.

It adds up to an uncertain and distressing picture, with final solution still far away. I EXCEPTIONS MAKE NEWS In London, a man has sued a doctor who I he says told him back in 1942 that he had only few months to live. He claims that In consequence of this gloomy forecast he i went out of business prematurely, arrang- lng his affairs in anticipation of death that nas so xar lauea to materialize. Most people, we imagine, would be too overjoyed that the dire prophecy went wrong to think of trying to make the doctor pay for such a happy mistake. It is well to remember also that It is exceptional cases like this that make the headlines.

We hear less of others, where somber Warning from the doctor, accompanied per-haps by disregarded admonition that the patient mend his ways, is fully verified by the course of events. PRIORITY IN DENMARK An American real estate man, back from ft trip to Denmark, tells of a condition there that must sound like Utopia to worried not amount to a hoot if they are habitually kicked aside by whoever is on top at the moment. TAR BABY TRIMAN AND THE COPS Two days ago the sergeant-at-arm for the Democratic Convention announced that he had hired 80 uniformed policemen and 60 private eyes to control gallery demonstrations. This, now and then, struck The Advertiser the act of calling the cops to nominate the unwanted candidate, Truman. But the hiring of a police force did not strike Lawyer Albert Pickett the same way, not at all, and he has written to the following effect: Editor, The Advertiser: Your editorial condemning the action of Democratic Convention ofticials in taking steps to control the galleries omrts consideration of the most important fact.

Consequently, notwithstanding the heat you manage to generate, you are or so I fear--completely wrong. For your information, the persons who are supposed to se ect a nominee for the office of President of the United States, the delegates to the convention, do so as representatives. Some 22, for instance, represent the population of Alabama. Each delegate, therefore, speaks for about 100,000 persons, most of them too far away or too busy to participate personally in the proceedings. The people in the galleries, on the other hand, represent no one other thgn themselves.

If anyone not a delegate could, by virtue of his proximity, money, pull, or muscle, gain entrance to the hall and shout down those who represent the people, then we would have a government by mob rule rather than representative government. If a demonstration from the gallery should be allowed to influence the votes or actions of those on the floor, then it would be equally proper for someone, having just been defeated for constable in South Dakota, say, but having an aunt in Washington who will keep him for a few days, to gain entrance to the Senate gallery and snout down, on a question of foreign policy, one Senator Vandenberg, who happens to hold a mandate from the people of the tate of Michigan. A like equivalent situation would be to allow the home crowd to call the balls and strikes. The fact that occasionally they have been able to frighten and influence the umpire does not make the practice right. It may be remembered that a number of years ago, at a convention held in New York City, the denizens of New York's East Side.

Brooklyn and the Bronx endeavored by sheer lung power to force the nomination of Al Smith. On that particular occasion the delegates resented the exhibition of hoodlumism directed at them, and nominated John W. Davis instead. The audience in the galleries should by all standards of right be approximately as quiet as the radio audience outside. If it has been the custom in the past for them to demonstrate, then all I can say is that like many another custom yet it is high time it was stopped.

Otherwise there is danger that some day there may be little use for us here at home to elect delegates at all, and the business of nomination of a president will then degenerate into a shouting match between factions composed of those who live in or near the convention city and those so circumstanced as to be able to go there the show. ALBERT J. PICKETT Montgomery. The essential remark of The Advertiser's editorial was its nonpareil exasperation that Truman has made of himself a tar baby which the party can't let go. The calling of the cops simply was a keen reminder of our unshakeable attachment to Tar Baby Truman.

Otherwise and now joining the issue with Lawyer Pickett it struck us as gross presumption that a party leader should act in the capacity of a deputy sheriff. The galleries, or so we suppose, are over 50 per cent visitors to the convention city. They come from all over the U. S. They are Democrats of such ardor that they travel far and spend a lot of money to participate in the proceedings of the convention.

It can scarcely be said that they might "shout down those who represent the people" for they are the people. Tar Baby's protector called the cops because, as he himself said, he knew the galleries were going to chant, "We Want Ike." He was, then, calling the cops to prevent citizens (Democrats at that!) from paying tribute to the smiling man who led this republic to the greatest military victory In history. Gallery demonstrations are organic elements of nominating conventions, enjoying as much sanction as the invocation and commanding as much acceptance as "smoke-filled rooms." For the approximately 100 years this country has been holding conventions, bawling, bellowing and chanting have been recognized and legitimate tactics for influencing a nomination. At the recent G. O.

P. convention there were numerous foreign correspondents, all of whom wrote extensively and entranced to reassure their countrymen that the shouting was all part of the game From coast to roast U. 8. editorial writers commented on these foreign dispatches, saying that the surge and turbulence of conventions was all a part of the glory of U. a.

democracy. The amount of stram a candidate can generate In the convention hall is always a yardstick by which his popularity is judged. It is sought, it is planned for. Convention disorder Is convention order. The final sanction of gallery demonstrations is the example of the delegates themselves.

Nobody at a convention causes more commotion than the official delegates with their snake dancing around the hill, the waving of their banners and their defiance of the chairman's gavel. The Siasxen delegates' demonstration, for example, featured a pretty young majorette Jolng a mesmerizing bump-and -grind on rhe chairman's table. The Advertiser Lawyer Pirkett. to believe that any We Want Ike" chant could be more con-luclve to the spirit of stampede than the manifestations of that young woman. llUm to the tetter muit entry complete udfne 94 Oreil drill tAt writer, few Ma' be aura ci lie Wj iixretxtn.

Uueri it less (Am 200 Wfit er lirert prel-eeentt. Utter mey it rait BROTHERS, YOU DONT KNOW EDITOR, The Advertiser: I went to church today. A stiff usher assigned me to a seat. No one greeted me. In fact no one seemed to be aware of the presence of others.

The women came in dressed as never before. No dresses or hats were alike. The church filled from the rear. The choir was marshaled in and the rest of the service began with ceremony, the monotony of which caused me to lose interest and drop back in my mind SO years or more. We went to church in a wagon.

The roads were mostly sand beds ana the distance far. The congregation began arriving about the same time, and with time to shake hands with everybody and exchange the latest bits of news end gossip. The women aU had dresses made from the same bolt of cloth. The church filled from the front row, women with babies taking the front rows. The choir was the congregation.

The singing came from the heart and soul. Women would sing alto and soprano and the men only tenor and bass. The minister preached what he believed to be the Gospel regardless of who was present. He was not afraid of being displaced. No one else would have the job.

My mother, like ell other women with babies would prepare a satchel in which would be among other things for the baby, some teacakes, a baked potato or a soda cracker. Soda crackers were luxuries then. If the child began to fret, there was a quilt used as a cushion on the wagon seat, put down on the floor of the church and the baby placed on it and given a teacake, potato or something. I have seen more than a half dozen quilts on the church floor at one service. Brothers, if you are too young to re-, member this experience, you doivt know what real religion is.

ALMON STRAIN Elba, Ala. A SHOWGIRL AT Editor, The Advertiser: A little old lady, Mrs. Juliett Olin, 90 years old, of Montgomery, stole the show recently, at the Alabama Conclave of Writers, at the University of Alabama. Like a picture from an old book of the past, Mrs. Olin, known to her writer friends as "Honey and Honeychile," stepped to the platform several times, clad in a beautiful white embroidered organdy dress.

Around her tiny neck she nearly always wore a band of black velvet ribbon, above which her white hair shown with a gloss, a 18-year-old girl would envy. She had kindly eyes which took in everything she saw. And she always carried a green ostrich fan. The writers of Alabama, and their neighboring states, Florida, Tennessee and Georgia, were delighted with her. "I didn't know I would get to be a showgirl," Mrs.

Olin told her audience once when they were introducing her. "And don't think you have to introduce me because I am 90 years old. Anybody can live to be 90." "What am I learning? Why everything and I'm having a lot of she answered once and added, an impish look coming into her eyes, "Why I'm getting where I can even endure the long speeches!" Mrs. Olin writes beautiful poetry. She brought some to the Conclave, among them were "The Golden Wedding 1884-1934," Clio, "The Spectral, Tarsier," Gipsies, "The Tree Shrew," "I Love," "American Rainbow'," "To My Mammy," (a sonnet).

"I believe, 'I is my favorite," Honeychile confided. "To be successful as a writer, lawyer, mother or any other, you must have a universal mind a writer or person in any other trade is limited without that," she said. "There are three things essential to success. They are integrity, intelligence, and industry. You cannot fail if you have them," she vehemently added.

'The young people? Listen," she said, "character and intelligence are valuable wherever you find them. I see intelligence and character that would challenge any generation. We need them now more than ever before and the young folks are carrying on with them." Mrs. Juliett Olin, alone with Mrs. Elizabeth W.

Sheehan, of Montgomery, and Floelle Y. Bonner presided over the unveiling of the President's portrait at the Conclave. Mrs. Olin has been a member of this organization 25 years, being a ha member. Montgomery was well represented and from her cultural city came two of the Conclave's officers this year, first vice-president, Mrs.

Edna H. Duggar and second vice-president, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Sheehan. But anyone would do well to pattern after Montgomery's Mrs.

Juliett Olin, who is truly remarkable at 90 vears of age BESSIE HILL McCORD Gadsden, Ala. Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson Be CauUous of Blind BIRMINGHAM JT IS EASY to live by a blind faith in your child, because it relieves you of concern for his personal welfare. And yet this is a very unwise way to rear your child. Take, for example, the 12-year-old boy who has already had four different formal cai in the Juvenile Court.

He is a nice-looking boy with a good mind, but his life has become warped by an unstable lystem of values which he has developed in the absence of wise parental guidance and training. In addition to truancy, misconduct and being general nuisance in school, the boy has been involved with one of his two special friends in about 25 eases of burglary and grand larceny. Hu loot included pencils, foun tain pens, cameras. Davldsoa watches, tools, knives, stamp pads, cigarettes, an electric dull, money and an attempted (heft of an airplane. When caught recently he and his friend uere in an airplane with parachutes strapped on and readv to try to get the plane off the ground.

In a motor vehicle company a gallon of paint was poured out over a desk and across the floor and the place left in a general upset condition. Through all these activities the father seems to know nothing about the child's behavior. He had utmost faith in the child, but it was a blind faith. He believed everything the child told him, but he did not know the kind of character the child had been developing while he was doing othrr things The boy would tell the father he was going to the church, or to club meeting, or (o some other place he know to be acceptable to the father The father believed it all. hut be failed to check and S'-e "hrther Ihe child was doing those things His faith in the bov was not has-d on understanding, as a basis of rrV 'nfidenre, but on blind belief that the boy truthful Now the boy is in the Tiovs' Industrial School end the father admits his failure to do much with him.

The outcome could Mr- Lee! JL kmm Berlin Impasse Poses Grave WASHINGTON. 'pHE authorship of diplomatic notes is never made known. But in the stiff note sent by the American government to Moscow the phrases of one of the authors should be readily identified by those familiar with his skill in using forceful language. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has long had a close and friendly working relationship with Under-Secretary of State Robert A.

Lovett. Scarcely had Vandenberg returned from the GOP convention in Philadelphia before the two sat down together to frame what may prove to be one of the key documents of American foreign policy. Leaks deliberately arranged by the foreign offices in Paris and London disclosed that 4n the opinion of the French and British governments the note was "provocative" and that it was toned down on their insistence. Consequently, some of the warmer Vandenbergian phrases may have been eliminated. This was not, of course, a new role for the senator from Michigan.

It was a continuation of the bi-partisan foreign policy that he has made a working reality since the war's end. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey claims to have initiated the bi-partisan policy in his 1944 presidential campaign. While Dewey may have technical priority for this claim, he was acting under wartime compulsion.

Since the lid has been off since the end of the war, it has been Vandenberg who has done the tough, day-to-day spade work. The senator is in agreement with the administration's firm stand on Berlin. He believes, along with Secretary of State Marshall and Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany, that to be forced out under Soviet pressure would be to weaken the U.

S. position in Europe irreparably. LONG with almost everyone else, Vandenberg assumes that the present crisis will be resolved short of war. That is one of the phenomena of this curious Summer. Everyone goes about business, pleasure, and politics as usual.

Yet if you take the headlines from Berlin at their face value, American policy-makers are walking on the edge of an abyss that drops down to the most terrifying depths. The key, it seems to me. lies in a phycho-logical factor that is shared by the U. S. and the Soviet Union.

It is the belief that, since neither country wants war. ft i a MARQUIS CHILDJ Banger each side can carry the challenge a long way. There verv (rave rlaneer in this at titude. Both sides may be emboldened to go so far that there can be no turning back short of armed conflict. If it were not for the conviction that each side will do everything to avoid a war, the controversy might not be pushed to such lengths.

Vandenberg has left for his home town, Grand Rapids. He will stay there until the end of July and then he and Mrs. Vandenberg "hope to go on a Scandinavian cruise. They are planning now to leave for Great Britain about August 1 and join a holiday cruise there. The senator needs a vacation and most Americans would agree that he richly deserves one.

The session of Congress that ended on the eve of the Republican convention saw him in the middle of one struggle after another for the great objectives of a responsible foreign policy. TJIS final success was in the adoption of the resolution preparing the way for far-reaching cooperation with Western Europe. First steps are now being taken in conferences with Western European ambassadors, looking to political and military support within the framework of the United Nations. At the same time, in a last-minute appearance before the Senate appropriations committee, Vandenberg saved the ERP appropriation from Representative John Taber's meat ax. Then came the GOP convention.

That the party did not turn to him in the midst of a deadlock was a source of immense relief to Vandenberg. What his role will be in January, assuming Dewey's election, is still a matter of speculation. Since Philadelphia, he has had several long talks with John Foster Dulles who, it has been assumed, would be Dewey's secretary of state. But it is possible that Dulles, a reserved and retiring man, will not want this difficult and conspicuous position. Vandenberg has repeatedly said that he would prefer to stay in the Senate where his position as chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee makes him a key figure in policy-making.

Certainly, millions of independent voters, who would have chosen Vandenberg over Dewey, will regard him today as the leader of his party in the foreign field and they will be disappointed if Dewey does not work with him. (C) 1948, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc Times Dispatch South still trains In each of the categories listed. Yet it is important to note that genuine progress has been made. If the South's position is still at the bottom in all the aforementioned fields (snd it is not certain that such is the case), we are not as far behind as we were. Take, for example, the matter of per capita income.

In 1929, the South's per capita income wss 55 per cent of the national average, by 1940 it had risen to 59 per cent, and by 1B45 to 69 per cent, according to figures published in The News and Observer. Obviously the South's poor statistical showing in various categories is related to the fact that the population of this region in 1938 was 29 per cent Negro. To say that is not to criticize the Negro, for a race which is only two or three generations removed from slavery cannot be blamed if its living conditions, its health and its earning power are ell well below those of the whites. One reason why the South is improving in the above mentioned statistical indices may reside In the fact that whereas the region was 29 cent colored in 1938, it is now only 22 per cent This 7 per cent drop, due mainly to wholesale migration of Negroes during the war years to the North and West, nevertheless has not reduced the South's overall population That population is now some greater than it was a decade ago. TN ADDITION to this population shift, which has its own impact upon the South's economy, there is the impending srrlval of the mechanical cotton picker on a mass scale When that happens, we shall see thousands of human cotton pickers forced out of agricultural employment Many of the recent emigrant to the North and West belong to this class, and some may have gone in anticipation of approaching events Wider distribution of the colored population could have the effect of easing racial tensions in the South, since a dispersal of the Negroes throughout the nation would reduce the number now resident below the Potomac, and would at the American parents looking for a place to -4 Spotlight On Advancing South live.

He reported that all vacancies in reported rental property in Denmark are filled on ft priority system, families with children getting first call. It is easy to understand the feeling of frustration on the part of wedded couples Who have made contribution to the per- a i re oi hi petuatlon of the race and who find chil- Criminal? Bob Mannegan, wno maae Truman president, won't attend the convention. VESTERDAY MGM announced its plan to make a movie based on the Hoffman murder trial. Hoffman, a Staten Island motion picture operator, was acquitted after several trials. While he was in Sing Sing he was divorced.

After his acquittal he issued a statement criticizing his wife for divorcing him and marrying another man The movie will have no phony happy-ending for the ending really is a happy one. A short time ego Hoffman and his ex-wife were re-married, and now, with their children, they're living happily ever after. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Spreading Out The Dallas Morning Newt Small cities derived a big boost from the recent war. War plants had to be scattered over the country. This was partly for security, partly for convenience.

Most of the war plants stuck and were put to peactime uses. It was easier for many an industry to buy a distant war plant at a bargain Chan to build an addition next door. Besides, many industrial leaders discovered that decentralization was as good for their business as for war production. A survey of this trend has just been made by the National Industrial Conference Board. Its report shows that sonce 1940 two-thirds of all new manufacturing operations have been started in smaller communities, most of them in the 10,000 to 100,000 population range.

Before 1940, nearly half the plants built or acquired were in cities of 100,000 or more. Geographic diversification gives some degree of insurance against bottlenecks, walkout and other interruptions of production. The smaller cities offer lower costs of living and more stable employment conditions. In some cases the new plants offer access to new markets or tap new sources of raw materials. Texas has been one of the biggest gainers from this trend and can gain still more by making other manufacturers aware of the advantages of locating branch plants here.

8AD SPECTACLE The Raleigh Newt end Observer Vhe 80th Congress was guilty of a number of sad performances. The saddest of all was the skeleton of a housing bill by which it sought to create the impression that something was being done for veterans and others in need of housing. The saddest part of this performance was that even the Republicans in Congress wanted to pass a real housing bill. The Senate did so and the House was prepared to do the same thing, if it had a chance. A group of reactionary House leaders kept the bill from even coming to a vote in the Mouse.

same time give our Northern end Western friends a greatei appreciation of the difficulties which arise with any blracial civilization. At all events, the South has made iin-poitant forward strides in the past decade Serious problems remain, course They can he solved, insofar as solutions are possible, if we address ourselves to them with determination, ability and tolerance. It is good to have the Raleigh newspaper's encouraging balance sheet, and to see tint the South is marching steadily ahead. dren a handicap whpn hunting for living quarters. No doubt about It, some children are noisy and "destructive," but the same i may oe likewise truwiruny averred or cer- hl lain arttillt Tr inmf npnnl the rrlea of hi children at play, or even the doleful sound-lng off by a baby at an unpropitious hour 1 less disturmng man me racket kicked up by adults enacetl In throwing a big one.

The former at lra.t are natural dis turbances by those who are not supposed to know any bettrr. The Richmond fPO WHAT extent has the South advanced in the past decsde? The question is asked and answered at least in part by The Raleigh News and Observer, which has just published an excellent symposium on the subject. The reason for its examination of the South at this psrti-cular moment hinges on the fact that exactly 10 years ago President Roosevelt called the South "the nation's No. 1 Economic Problem." As Editor Jonathan Daniels says in an article appearing in this special section of his paper, "it is not easy to measure precisely a decade of progress, or anything else." He points out that in 1938, when Mr. Roosevelt enunciated his famous dictum, "the New Deal wss five years old, much of TV A was already built, Huey Long was three years dead, the Scotts-boro case was seven years old And other things also had happened, notably in Europe, where Hitler had just grabbed Austria, and was on the way to grabbing Czechoslovakia.

The Second World War was slightly more than 12 months away. Now that the South has passed through the war. along with the rest of the world, and the major fighting has been over for nearly three years, the moment seems opportune for an analysis of where the South stands. Such an analysis is necessarily tenative, since many imponderables are Involved, but certain conclusions can be drawn, even though there is disagreement as to whether the South ever was Economic Problem No. 1." ACTUALLY, there wss considerable basis for such a characterization decade ago.

The South had the nation's lowest per capita Income, the most inadequate educational facilities, and the worst health and housing In the country Complete and up-to-date statistics In all these fields are hard to come by, so that it is difficult to say definitely whether the have been different had the father done more than assume the easy part, "He is all right" D) LATIN AMERICAN EXAMPLE ,4 Prom Panarra comes word that one ft Arias, after apparently winning the pre.si-dency in the recent election, ha for Wi tffuge to the Canal Zone He apparently doe not stand In with the military, even receiving the most though credited tli 0 Totes. Prom Peru dUpatch announces the suspension of ronntltutlonal guaran- tees following disturbances. J.i The argument that we ought to go alow on measures to abridge the liberties of citi-tens finds a talking point in conditions In the countries to the south of us. Many I Latin American countries modeled their constitutions after that of the United Btates. and have wonderful institutions, on paper But respect for due proces of law la often.