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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