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Hm lUmw»|| P—pit 8—U—i. fUmwrll g. C- TliirWay. May 27. 1997 S^5£ fc Ssl about: Curing Stott*ring. C HIN LEE. ARIZ.—Away up here in the Indian country Irrin S. Cobb comes a newspaper, saying some expert at correcting hu man utterance has turned up with a cure for stuttering. But why 7 By his own admission, nearly all stutterers can sing and most of them can swear fluently, thus providing superior emotional outlets in two directions.. One of the smartest criminal lawyers I know deliberately cultivated a natural impediment in his speech. In court room debates it gave him more time to think up either the right questions or to figure out the right answers. And one of the most charming voices I ever heard belonged to a Louisiana girl whose soft southern accents were fascinatingly inter rupted at intervals by a sudden stammer—like unexpected ripples in a gently flowing brook. • • • How to Relax. D EFORE I started out here, feel- ing somewhat Jumpy after wrestling a radio program for six months, Jimmy Swinnerton, the art ist, who’s one of the most devoted friends these high mesas ever had, advised me to try stretching out on the desert sands as a measure for health and complete relaxation and a general toning up. '‘Just lie down perfectly flat," he said. Then he took another look at my figure. “Anyway, lie down," he said. So today I tried it Another friend. John Kirk, the famous Indian trad er, helped me pick out e suitable spot on the Navajo reservation that was forty miles from the nearest habitation. But the ait* I chose was already pre-empted by a scorpion with a fretful stinger and an irritable dis position that seemed to resent be ing crowded So I got right up eg sic la fact. I got up so swiftly that Kirk said it was impossible to follow the movement with the hie It was like magic, be Crowned King and Queen of England London.—Still arrayed in their regalia of the most glorious coronation the world has ever seen, King George VI and Qneen Elisabeth are shown on the balcony of Buckingham palace as they responded to the cheers of thousands of their subjects who gathered outside. Between thorn are the Princesses Elisabeth and Margaret Rose. International News Radio photo. American Peeress Paying Homage to George VI Washington,! ' Digest A, NationdLTopics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART MIOSAl l r t jS fcM X A S <' 1 N11 ill W petur thing ' HY the hurry. Sonny Boy* 1 see you eimoot doily You're roortng through populous streoU or skidding on heir pin turns or whirl ing et sixty pervious mile# so hour eround the kinked end snaky twiets at mountain roads like some de moniac bug roctng along the epJie at e rolled rattler If I am on# la eey. you probably have pruned yourself for this sense lees speeding on that moot danger- ot all mixed Uppiee the fear* mbmaliou at alcohol and gaaoliae Or perhaps, like the blind mule at the folklore tale, you Just ituraily don’t car* e dem One , is plain: Despite the high per centage of mortality your breed is on the increase So. agam. echoing the question which the coroner must frequently ask at the inquest, why the hurry. Sonny Boy* It can't be that anybody wants you beck at the place where you've been or that anybody else will be glad to see you at the place where you’re going Really now. Sonny Boy. what is all the hurry about? • • • Civilisation's Predicament. FEEL it my duty to call atten tion to the following warning, re cently published: “The earth is degenerating In these latter days. . . bribery and corruption abound. . . the children no longer obey their parents. . . it is evident that the end of the world Ife approaching!” However, it should be added that ^his prediction is not, as might be assumed from its familiar ring, the utterance of some inspired ob server of the present moment. It is a translation from an Assyrian tablet, dated 2800 B. C. So, if the fulfillment of the doleful prophecy has been delayed for 4,- 737 years it seems reasonable to assume that it may be some months yet before civilization flies all to pieces. • • » Waning States' Rights. A S I watch commonwealth after commonwealth below the Ma son and Dixon line tumbling over one another to embrace centralized authority in exchange for federal funds for local projects, I’m re minded of a trip which a friend of mine out here just made. He’s a descendant of the Lees and he decided to pay a pious pilgrim age to the last remaining strong hold of the late Southern Confed eracy. So he went to the only two states liiat voted last fall for states’ rights, making his headquarters in the ghost city of Passamaquoddy. He reports that, in both Maine and Vermont, the secession senti ment is getting stronger all the time end that there's a growing tendency to name boys for Jeff Da via rathar than Ethan Allen or Neal B Dow. IRVIN A COBB. Hold Seats All Night for Coronation Washington.—President Roosevelt, from the time he was Assistant Sec- *■ .. retary of the Navy Budding in the Wilson ad- fAc Navy ministration, has always been re garded as a friend of the military forces of the United States. He has never been a fanatic about his posi tion but has held consistently to the view that the military services must be protected against continuing po litical attack which would destroy their usefulness. Likewise, Mr. Roosevelt has constantly argued for a policy of building up the army, navy and marine corps. Since he has been in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt has taken care always to see that sound poli cies of development were invoked as regards the military services and his interest in the navy in this di rection has been marked. In con sequence, the President has brought about a program of building in the navy that, examined from any an gle, must be considered as having established a splendid first line of defense for our country. Whether one favors a big navy or a small navy, I think it must be admitted that the navy is the first line of de fense and so the President, being fully acquainted with developments throughout the world, has seen to it that our navy ahall be in a strong position ss our first line of defense. It may be, as some critics of the President contend, that the hun dreds of millions expended under Mr. Roosevelt's policies constituted too much of a fund in this direction; that we have no need for a navy aa large as that now contemplated, and that the creation of a large navy in dicated a policy at aggression by the United States. My own feeling is that these objections are not well founded. The turbulent situation la intemaUonaJ relations, both in Eu rope and in Asia, seems to warrant a definite move on the part at the United Steins to be equipped In other words, who is there that would wish our nation again to be caught i without any worthwhile fighting ' unite ready for action as we were i In IfilT? Further. although are are a peaceful nation, we must avoid a repetition of the 1917 that characterised the up at our armed forces at One reason for the comments that I have Just made on the navy and London.—Under the famous lions guarding Lord Nelson’s monument at Trafalgar square, early comers held seats all night that they might have a good view of the coronation procession, international New* Radiophoto. Commoner Is Crowned Queen London.—The archbishop of Canterbory is shown here placing the crown open the head of Queen Elisabeth, in Westminster abbey. It was the first time ia 154 years a commoner had heea crowned Qneen af England She is the farmer Elisabeth Bowes Lyen, daughter at the earl af Strathmers. UtematWAal News Chair of State .v.-.;. y..j i?: i‘ ^ London.—While sitting in the chair of state. King Georga VI makes responses to the prayers of the archbishop at Casterbery. laterasUoasl News NamirmiUf volt's policie* w Lnm the fact that we have a new neu trality law It waa passed Just a day ahead of the eapireticm of the temporary neutrality law that waa opera in* during the past year or This new law probably la as good aa any neutrality law that can be written. It represents the work of men in congress who are very se rious » their desires to create ma chinery that will keep us out of war, or at least will slow down our en try Into international conflict. It lays down prohibitions against the sale of hundreds of items by American citizens or American cor porations to any nation which the President may bold to be a “bel ligerent’’ nation, which is the way diplomats describe a nation at war. Tfie law has a further important and interesting provision. It re quires that if any belligerent wants to buy products in this country, commodities that are not prohibited by the neutrality law, it must come to our shores and get them and must pay for them before the boat leaves. Thus, it has come about that the new law is called the “cash and carry" neutrality act. That title sounds very satisfying. It sounds as though we will never make loans again as we did during the World war—loans never to be repaid except in some minor in stances—and that none of our ships will become the targets of foreign gunboats because we are transport- big munitions of war to any bellig erent. Surely, this phase of the law will in a measure retard our en trance into any war and it will at the same time reduce the excite ment in this country incident to the manufacture and sale of muni tions of war because of the profits accruing under such circumstances. But, it strikes me that, after all, this neutrality l^pr is likely to be a rather futile gesture. Having ob served governmental action over an extended period of years, I refuse to kid myself. I will not say that the new neutrality act will keep us out of war because, very definite ly, it will not. Let us see why. There are a thousand and one acts that a for eign nation can do to insult our na tional honor or dagnage our citizens and their commerce. These are called "overt" acts. When an overt act is committed, it is so easy to for get about the high principles stated in the present neutrality law. It can be repealed and a declaration of war substituted for tt almost within twenty-tour hours. There have been a good many millions of citizens of the United States come onto Look at this earth since tho Fact* the armistice of 1918. Among these are undoubtedly many who win learn of the present neutrality law with a feeling of safety; who will think that nothing now can happen and their mothers, wives and sweet hearts will feel they need not worry about the time when these younger generations of men will have to march away, with drums beating and flags flying, never to return. For their peace of mind, the pres ent neutrality law certainly is help ful. My suggestion is, however, that they look the facts in the face. When one of these overt acts is commit ted, in we will go regardless of the neutrality law. I might advert to some of the things that happened between 1914 and April 6, 1917. President Wil son, a sincere advocate of peace, did the best he could to prevent our participation in the World war. It was a matter that actually brought about his re-election in 1918 because his campaign leaders used the slo gan, “He kept us out of war." Events came through with such startling speed, however, that a month after he was inaugurated for his second term, he was standing on the rostrum before a Joint aeasion of congress asking for immediate passage of a resolution placing our country in the war on the aid* of the Allies and against Germany and the Central Powers. Two days later we were formally in the fight and then, once ere were made a bellig erent by the decision of our govern ment, It became “a war to make the world safe for democracy." I think I need not review all of the vanoua slogans that srers em ployed in the national propaganda to ooildtfy our nation behind ita mil itary forces. There were many at them. The nation waa naaatjr Asn per rent behind the government in a war to end all wars. Hundreds hundreds of miliione of dollars borrowed from our citizene who bought, first, liberty bonds and later, victory bonds For the first ttane In later bietory ef our notional at which nations with which toted m the war. of these funds was in the bauds af e drunk en sailor, ashore for the first time in the year Nor to there miictsm to be mode of that spending be cause we were not prepared for war, Bo. whiio I do not now forsos# our panic ipat ton to any conflict wtthio the nest few year*. I am quite con vinced that Mr Roosevelt has pur- ' sued an abeoluteiy sound program m advocating a strong navy and a strong army. It will serve us well and will cost us very much less than if this building up procesa had to be accomplished overnight as it was to 1917. It may be surprising to a good many people to know that our army at present ranks as num ber 17 in the list of armies of na tions even though our country is one of the largest and one of the richest m the family of nations. My belief ia that if our navy ia made to rank with the greatest and plans are worked out as Mr. Roose velt is trying to work them out so that our army will be poeeible of expansion, taxpayers' money mil be much better spent than through boondoggling or wasted through useless development of theoretical schemes. * * * As the battle over President Roosevelt’s proposal to pack the Su- c preme court of the Supreme United States with Court six new judges grows in heat, it becomes increasingly evident that members of congress are looking to the political aspects of the situation to a greater extent than obtained in the early stages of the fight. This circumstance certainly is working to the advantage of those who op pose the President’s scheme and it is interesting to look tt the picture from that angle. My observation of congressional activities in the past leads me to be lieve that every President must ex pect in his second term a certain amount of defection, a certain amount of running away, among the supporters who stood by him un flinchingly during his first term. Of course, most of his stalwarts will stick by him through thick and thin but it always has happened that a rather deep fringe of his party will begin to balk or duck when they reach the second lap and know that the head of their party will not seek election to a third term. The reason must be quite obvious. All members of the house and one-third of the senate membership have to seek.votes in their home districts every two years. With a President in his second term, the interest of these candidates for office must turn to what their voters thm|r riUs er than what the President