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AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1945
Japanese Jailed
General MacArthur has had extraordinary
success in rounding up the chief war crimin
als in Japan. The Yokohoma prison is reported
all but overflowing with men who played lead
ing roles in the Pacific war. Others have
taken their own lives and General Tojo, who
alone accepts responsibility for the war, has
a cell awaiting him as quickly as he can be
moved from the hospital where he is recover
ing from a self-inflicted wound.
The roundup in Japan is in sharp contrast
with the European roundup where enemy
chiefs took to the tall timber generally and
did their best to escape capture. But Japanese
and Germans have one characteristic in com
mon: they take advantage of every opportu
nity to deny war guilt. One and all, they are
striving to dodge personal responsibility. This
may not be so easy, particularly in the Pacific
where General MacArthur has begun to bear
down heavily.
The General’s declaration to the Japanese
premier that Japan must consider herself a
beaten nation with no power to negotiate with
the conquering powers is fully as heartening as
vj 0rd that he has caught most of the men on
s war criminal list. Japan will do what she
told to do, he advised Higashi Kuni, the
.em'er, and we may well believe that he will
ce to it that she does.
It can only be hoped that General MacArthur
makes even greater speed in bringing Japan
. nder complete control, with elimination of
’;sr war-potentials, and adds Hirohito to the
■var criminal lists for trial at no distant date.
V/hile it may have been best to use the em
cror as a go-between for a time, that time
ght soon to be past.
John McCormack
John McCormack is hardly more than a
tradition to the younger generation of music
lovers, but among old timers who were the
younger generation thirty or forty years ago
he is a blessed memory. Announcement of a
McCormack concert in any American city
brought out such throngs as no public hall
could accommodate. To the technique he had
acquired by years of training he added a tonal
.texture of such delicacy and flexibility as has
seldom been heard by any audience anywhere.
He was capable of giving a good perfor
mance in dramatic compositions, but the con
cert rather than the operatic stage, to put it
in the language we have become so familiar
with these recent years, was his best field of
operations. He was never so good as when
singing the better songs of his native Ireland.
Now he is dead. He had been giving con
certs for the British Red Cross when his wan
ing health broke, two months ago”, and al
though he seemed to improve somewhat dur
ing enforced rest, he lacked the constitutional
resiliency to throw off his illness. The end
came on Sunday. The world is poorer with
out him.
Surplus Beef
With much of the world’s population entire
ly without or possessing only a small part of
the meat customarily consumed, Denmark re
ports from three thousand to four thousand
tons of surplus beef weekly, which it cannot
distribute because shipping is lacking.
Who’s to blame?
There is an actual surplus of shipping in the
world. Much of it was to be used in transport
ing Allied forces and supplies from Europe to
the Far East, but Japan’s surrender did away
with that. Other ships in great number were to
be employed in the same service between
United States Pacific ports and, presumably,
the Philippines, but Japan’s surrender cut this
number tremendously. There is no reason tc
doubt that cargo carriers have been available
in European waters to move every pound oi
beef Denmark produced. The surplus seems
indefensible, in view of the need.
The United Nations set up an agency foi
etting food and clothing and other necessities
of life into the most needy areas of war-tort
Europe. It has been in existence for a Ion*
time. Certainly it has had time to effect etfi
cient organization.
UNRRA has been on the job long enough ti
have its work fully systematized and ready ti
take advantage of every chance-to use avail
able transportation, Is UNRRA to be blaroei
for this Danish» beef surplus? Perhaps not, bu
the burden of proof rests upon it if it is t
-rr.e out of this unfortunate situation scatht
* »
World Police Proposed
The United States Navy recently proposed a
plan for fifteen bases for the national security,
in distant islands of the Atlantic and the Pacif
ic. Not to be outdone, the War Department now
proposes a United Nations police force in both
Europe and Asia for world peace.
It is a bold plan, based on the belief that the
United States, Great Britain and Russia “each
is sincere in its efforts to form a United Na
tions military force with power to control the
military situation in Europe and in the world,’*
and also that this united policy will continue
indefinitely.
In the European theater, the War Depart
ment proposes:
1. The combined chiefs of staff should locate
its headquarters in central Europe either at
Prague or Vienna or at any other convenient
place in or near Bohemia.
2. Arrangements should be made with Czecho
slovakia for the stationing of the European
contingent of the new United Nations army in
Bohemia.
3. In addition to the United Nations armies,
the combined chiefs of staff would work out
plans for an air force and a naval force and
the suggestion is made that a British fleet
should be initially utilized as a United Nations
Atlantic fleet.
4. Two United Nations naval bases might he
established, one in Schleswig-Holstein, on the
Kiel Canal, or in the vicinity of Cuxhaven, and
a second in the North Adriatic on the Istrain
Peninsula at Fiume, Pola, or Trieste.
5. There then would be taken under the con
trol of the United nations headquarters four
routes of communications and supply — road,
rail, or water—from the military headquarters
of the United Nations in Bohemia, one to each
of the two proposed United Nations naval bases,
another up the Danube Valley to France, and
a fourth to the east to join Russia. These four
routes to the United Nations headquarters
should furnish the necessary access across
Europe from the north, south, east, and west
to all nations having need of such access.
j.he proposal for the Pacific, in general, is:
1. The Asiatic contingent of the United Na
tions army to have its headquarters in Korea,
with arrangements to be made with Korea
for stationing its troops there.
2. A United States fleet to serve as the initial
Pacific United Nations navy, with United Na
tions bases convenient to Korea but so located
as to control the sea communications of Ja
pan. Port Arthur or one or more of the islands
of the Nansei group, the Pescadores, or one on
Formosa might each be considered.
3. After the withdrawal at an unspecified
date in the future of the Allied occupation
forces in Japan, it is then visualized that the
United Nations army, made up of American
Chinese, Russian, British, Australian, and In
dian troops and stationed in Korea, would take
over the control and inspection of Japan deem
ed necessary by the United Nations.
Wildcats On Their Way
This comment has been withheld a few days
in order to learn more about the public reac
tion to the' play of the New Hanover High
school football squad in its first game of the
season, when it defeated the New Bern team.
The purpose was to find out what measure of
public support the home team could count on
throughout the balance of the playing season.
We are happy to find that so far as our in
quiries have indicated the Wildcats, as we fa
miliarly call our gridiron high schoolers, have
the whole town among their fans and can count
on a degree of moral support they have lacked
for several years in games that lie ahead.
This is not due to any particular star playing
against New Bern, for they fumbled passes
continually, but because they were in there
playing for all they were worth all the time.
Wilmington may be sure that as the season
advances and the players become more and
more familiar to the style of play in which
they are being trained they will make an ex
cellent showing against the stronger teams and
whatever the record for the entire season.
New Hanover High school is on the way ulti
mately to a state championship.
Coach Brodgon and his assistant, Tom
Davis, are ably preparing the way for that.
Give Us Shirts
The Army .has declared $21,000,000 worth of
winter clothing surplus property and turned
it over to the Commerce Department for dis
posal to the public. The trouble is none of it
is needed in the south. We can hardly use
Arctic sleeping bags or jersey-lined trousers,
snowshoes or skis.
On the day the first atomic bomb was drop
ped a group of radio and press repre
sentatives assembled at Rocky Point heard a
War Department staff speaker say that
among special orders placed with southern
mills was one for fifteen million khaki shirts
for troops in the Orient. The need that ex
isted for such a quantity there then certainly
does not exist now. Why couldn t this material
be released for civilian manufacture, with
an inch or two added to the shirt tails, and re
lieve one of the heaviest* shortages men gen
erally have had to put up with during the
war?
Even half of fifteen million shirts for the
| southern market would be a boon.
If we are in for a great era of industrial
prosperity, we may be sure that men will not
i hang around the grocery store on a mere
) sation).—Lt.-Gov. Wilbert Snow of Con
$20 to $25 weekly (in unemployment compen
l necticut.
t Pedestrians should remember that ap
> proaching cars may be coming half again as
. fast as in wartime and that extra care and
agility must be used to avoid being stryck.—
Jackson, Miss., News.
Fair Enough
(Editor s note.—The Star amd the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
By WESTBROOK PEQLER
(Copyright, 1945, By King Features Syndicate.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—The American
broadcasting company, formerly the Blue Net
work again attracts attention to its interest
ing editorial policy as expressed by commen
tators o f emphatic left-wing bias, including
that spectacular imposter, William Gailmor,
whose mental health is suhject to a doubt
raised by himself as an excuse for his crimi
nal acts.
Gailmor may be recalled as an habitual
automobile thief who finally was run down
by the New York police but escaped prison
oh a charge of grand larceny, first degree,
by presenting medical testimony that he was
suffering from a “compulsion neurosis.”
Therefore, he was placed under glass, as the
saying goes, for about one year and emerged
in a new character under a new name, having
been William Margolis, a renegade rabbi, in
his original self.
Gailmor s past, his character, the commu
nist background of his radio sponsor and the
pro-communist quality of his interpretation of
the news have been thoroughly presented
hitherto in these dispatches. That he is a liar
as well as a thief and a man of questionable
mental balance*has been revealed by the
American Broadcasting Company, itself, one
of whose officers stated that in his original
application for the responsible and potentially
dangerous job of news analyst, he declared
himself to be a man of no religion and con
cealed the facts that he had changed his
name, that he had a criminal record and that
he had been detained as a patient suffering
from a mental disorder.
Later, when officers of the A. B. C., then
the Blue Network, were presented with proof
of his past, and they, in turn, confronted Gail
mor, he argued that he could not be a com
munist because he was a man of thorough
religious training and deep belief. He had de
nied his God for 30 pieces of silver, more or
less, in applying for the job, not that it was
necessary for him to do so, but only because
it served some purpose of his own. Then, to
decontanynate himself of a strong suspicion
of communist inspiration, he embraced him.
On the night of August 9. following Presi
dent Truman’s address to the nation on the
Potsdam conference, Gailmor took the air at
the A. B. C.’s local New York station to “in
terpret” the news. He "interpreted” Mr. Tru
man’s remarks as a rebuke to the American
press, or some undefined portion of the press,
who wrere accused by Gailmor of encouraging
Japan to fight on against the American forces
and obtain an. ‘‘easy peace.'
“Smoke from the atom-bomb obscured the
view of target Nagasaki,” Gailmor said, in an
"address so incoherent as to support the medi
cal opinion that he was not quite right men
tally and to impugn, as well, the later opinion
that he was cured. “Smoke from the stench
bombs of some of our super-patriots has been
getting into the eyes of a good many people
over here. The same experts and headline
hawkers that cried out against the no-mention
of Japan in the Potsdam communique are still
shrieking. There is no shame for those who
prate and publish on the presumption that
the public is moronic and without memory.”
He seemed to be arguing that in a few
days’ skirmishing in Manchuria, Russia’s
fight against Japan had equalled the Ameri
can effort and sacrifice since Pearl Harbor.
However, as herebefore observed, his “inter
pretations,” like all communist and nazi de
clarations, themselves require interpretation,
and often defy it. At this point, it served the
renegade’s purpose to show solicitude for
“American lives” whereas, in an earlier dic
tum he has been less humane. On that oc
casion, he had said it mattered not to him
how long the war should last because Hitler’s
obliteration would be cheap at any sacrifice.
As to Gailmor, himself, that sacrifice, of
course, was to be strictly vicarious. Weighing
200 pounds, according to his police record,
and now 34-years old, he was somehow con
veniently immune. And yet, as one who had
escaped prison on a plea of mental unbalance,
the American Broadcasting Company’s distin
guished student of affairs, professing never
theless to be well again, contrived appoint
ments t o lecture hopefully t. o better young
men whose nerves had been jangled in battle.
The selection of an unregenerate and whin
ing police character for such a mission was
an affront to disabled soldiers for which, un
to now. it has been difficult to place responsi
bility. We do know, of course, that under the
Roosevelt-communist axis, the Army’s patrio
tic aversion to communists was overcome to
the extent that pro-communists, if not prov
able card-holders, were admitted to the com
missioned ranks. We know also that the thief
here discussed was a member of the Holly
wood - Broadway - night club delegation at
the salad party in the White House for Roose
velt’s fourth inauguration.
“When the black smoke of the yellow Jour
nals gets in your eyes,” further said our ana
lyst, “there’s nothing like a little distilled fact
for an eyewash—,”
My subject in this discussion is the policy
of the American Broadcasting Company in
continuing to present Gailmor as an Ameri
can of sound judgment and passable reputa
tion as to honesty and truthfulness, knowing
him to, have been a mental case, a thief and,
by its own experience, a deliberate and griev
ous liar. The press could not have chosen
a more desirable critic representing the
A. B. C. in its competition with the Panted
.word, for Gailmor’s entire character not only
condemns him but turns the cri >£i
“the yellow journals” to the radio chain which
presents his pro-communist prop g .
Curiously the usual sources were mysteri
uuriousiy, me , nr0VJde verbatim
ously unable or unwdhng to P commentary
transcripts o f this Pa” b t yd Noble,
from the thief of the A.B.C.. dug up
its president, °H P^son Mr. Noble was
the copy and mailed it along ^ #neas(f.d uiis
one of those who n ned 0{ his charac
thief when he had be the denuncia.
ter and retained him renown *
tion and his confession.
We eannot teach de™°p[a ^hoV^ve "empty
can way of life to a Tunderstnad.U
SETA”
If we are to lear" ®afethQur concern for pre
of war, it is to naod b ]anees of power and
serving the delicate rBj values. —Rabbi
deepen our concern tor york city.
Nathan A. PenlmanJrfJ
Indians in the as* many'm*'the Pale
RAMPARTS THEY WATCH
Red Cross, U. S. Duties
In Disaster Emergency
If disaster should static Wilmington, the Red Cross disaster head
quarters is the Woodrow Wilson hut, Fourth and Princess streets,
with telephone numbers 2-1104, 9208 and 9294. There will be some one
on duty at all times, just prior to, during and immediately following
any disaster.
At the time of an impending storm the weather bureau advises
the Red Cross chapter chairman. J. Henry Gerdes, that it is time
to move people off the beaches. Mr. Gerdes notifies the disaster
chairman, E. W. Carr who alerts the remaining members of the dis
aster committee. If Mr. Carr is not available, C. C. Holmes and the
Rev. Mr. Mortimer Glovier, vice-chairmen, act in his stead.
The transportation committee under T. J. Baird and the housing
committee under H. R. Emory assisted by Paul Allen, are the first to
go into action. All evacuaes are housed in a center at Maffitt Village
where the Canteen commdttee under Mrs. E. C. Hines prepares and
and serves meals which have been purchased by Mrs. R. P. Smith,
chairman of foods.
In the meantime the staff assistants under Mrs. W. H. Hender
son have been assigned to. key posts and the motor corps has deliv
ered supplies and equifjrment to designated places.
Following is a table ivjhich shows the functions of the Red Cross
as related to those of the governmental agencies:
Governmental Responsibility to
Persons Within Jurisdiction
I. Protect persons and property.
1. Warning o^impending danger.
2. Enforced evacuation.
3. Rescue and First Aid.
4. Maintenance of law and
order.
5. Fire precautions and protec
tion.
6. Designation of hazardous
buildings and areas.
7. Public health and sanitation.
a. Water Supply.
b. Biologicals.
c. Control of communicable dis
eases.
8. Care of the dead.
9. Traffic control.
II. Render usual services (ex
panded as necessary.)
1. Welfare and health.
2. Public institutions.
3. Transpor.ation (Public.)
4. Communication (Public.)
5. Removal of debris from public
property.
8. Salvage unclaimed property.
7. Inspection of buildings, for
safety.
III. Restore public property.
1. Public buildings.
2. Sewage systems.
3. Water systems.
4. Streets and highways.
| 5. Other public projects.
The Literary Guidepost
BY CHARLES HONCE
The Wrong Man, by H. C. Hailey
Doubleday, Doran; $2).
Back about 1924, H. C. Bailey,
English novelist, gave over the
writing of romantic fictions and
started turning out detecttive
stories concern ng a roly-poly little
sleuth named Reggie Fortuue.
His* character “took” botjh in
England and in the United Sfaates,
and Bailey forgot about his'tcgrical
romances and steadily allied
himsell to Fortune’s career. After
a flock of short stories he launched
an occasional novel about, the
same individual.
Next, he conceived another de
tective figure — Joshua Clunk, a
shady London lawyer, who contin
ually nibbled sweets, sang hymns,
and in spite of his public imputa
tion, did good for his fellcKvman
by solving murder cases and right
ing borrific wrongs.
Today “Clunk appears in a geav
novel, “The Wrong Man,” which
brings the total of the Fortune and
Clunk books to 28—with no end in
sight.
The current item has to do with
black market operations in war
time England, with a few usoubed
murders and assaults thrown in.
An American Army colonel joins
the flatfoot ranks as a sort of as
sistant to Clunk.
Bailey is the type of detective
writer who continually reviews the
evidence from everybody’s view
point, and his plots sometimes are
pretty complex. This reader, who
always has been a Bailey fan,
would prefer a little more narra
tive, and is frank to say that he
likes the author’s short stories bet
ter than his novels.
The Portable Murder Book,
selected and introduced by Jo
seph Henry Jackson (Viking:
$2).
“It has been observed with some
truth, that everyone loves a good
murder.”
That quotation from F- Tenny
son Jesse, who has turned out
many a good murder tale herself,
heads Mr. Jackson's Introduction
to this latest anthology of real life
murder cases.
The authors represented are
among the modem classic practi
tioners of their trade — Edmund
Pearson, Alexander Woollcott, Wil
liam Roughead, William Bolitho.
John Rhode, Dorothy Sayers,
Chrstopher Morl&r, H. B. Irving.
Red Cross Responsibility to Dis
aster-Affected Persons
1. Assist in warning.
2. Voluntary evacuatior*.
3. Moving personal property.
4. Rescue and First Aid.
II. Provide emergency necessi
ties of life.
1. Medical, nursing and hospital
care.
2. Food.
3. Shelter.
4. Clothing.
III. Render emergency -services.
1. Transportation of dia^ter suf
ferers.
2. Transportation of supplies and
equipment.
3. Relief communications facili
ties.
4. Welfare inquiries.
5. Survey of family needs.
IV. Rehabilitate families.
1. Temporary maintenance.
2. Medical, nursing and hospital
care.
3. Repairing, or rebuilding of
homes.
4. Household furnishings.
5. Agricultural and other occu
pational assistance.
I. Advise and refer individuals
and families.
HUGE FUND READY
TO AID JOBLESS
With an unemployment insur
ance fund of over $105,000,000 in!
North Carolina, it is expected to
prove a strong defense against
economic upset, both for the com
munity and for those workers
who may be laid off, officials of the
State Unemployment Compensa
tion Commission said yesterday,
as New Hanover county enters the
reconversion period.
Unemployment insurance could
pour as much as $3,130,000 back
into the country’s stream of com
merce over a period of about four
months, a survey by the commis
sion reveals. This flow, of course,
would not be kept up over any pro
longed period.
Under the North Carolina unem
ployment insurance law, weekly
cash payments are made to job
less workers who come under its
protection—and most workers in
business and industry are protect
ed, provided they work for firms
employing eight or more persons.
Not protected by the unemploy
ment insurance law are agricul
tural and domestic workers, gov
ernment employes and non-profit
organizations.
Approximately 24,462 workers in
New Hanover county hold jobs pro
tected by unemployment insur
ance, according to figures of the
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission, and their estimated year
ly wages total $62,469,607, or about
$1,224,892 a week. If ten per cent of
them, or 2,446 workers, were laid
off it would mean that wages
amounting to over $122,000 a week
would stop. If 20 per cent were
laid off, the wages loss would come
to more than $244,000 a week.
This wage loss would soon be
reflected throughout the county’s
whole economy and a small-sized
depression might get underway.
Unemployment c o m p e nsation
payments to jobless workers, how
ever, will do much to counteract
any downward trend. If 20 per
cent of the workers are laid off
and are qualified for unemploy
ment benefits, their weekly pay
ments might total $97,840 or 40.1
per cent of their weekly wages,
and a substantial cushion for them
and for the community as well.
If 40 per cent were laid off, un
employment insurance would pour
$195,680 a week into the county
trade channels through the work
ers’ spending for the necessities
of life.
Unemployment insurance pay
ments would go only to eligible
workers who are will and able to
work if jobs are available. They
would be required to register for
work every week, and accept re
ferrals to suitable jobs. Thus busi
ness and industry are assured of
s ready labor supply, as its plans
for new work take shape, it was
said.
ORGANIZATIONS APPEAL
WASHINGTON, Sep.. 17— yp) _
Forty-seven American organiza
tions petitioned President Truman
today for prompt increases in fopd
shipments to Europe to avert
starvation.
Representatives of 26 of the
group* presented the petition to
the President with the warning
that only American aid could pre
vent anarchy in Europe this win
ter.
For every 100 men inducted into
the TJ. §. Army, there have been
170 tooth extractions and 740 fill
ings.
WAR STILL GOING
ON TO THOSE ON
OKINAWA ISLAND
By RROBBIN COONS
(Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon)
OKINAWA — (A*) — Somehow the
war doesn’t seem a thing of the
past out here.
Okinawa is still foreign soil for
thousands of American boys whom
war took from their homes The
war won’t really be over for them
until they return home.
In the rain, which is frequent
and heavy, Okinawa is particular
ly gloomy.
The grey tombs blank, impassive
against the hillsides; the pines
weighted and dripping; the grey
forbidding skies ready momentarily
to loose another torrent to wash
down the red clay paths through
the green hills, to make rivers of
the lakes in the boggy gullies, to
make soup of the company streets
and thick, heavy glue of paths
where no coral had been laid. Coral
roads slick, and ditches muddy
streams...
Outside the ship’s service the
noon line-up of enlisted men, slosh
ing in the clinging mud moving
slowly to the counter. Here they
buy, among other things, the “lat
est’’ news from the States. They
joked about it, working knee-deep
ended, and as it adjusted itself to
peace.
Some of the youngsters who
bought papers and magazines went
back to move their tents — they
were flooded out. They laughed and
joked about it, working knee-ee- in
in their private lake, moving soak
ed cots and bedding and gear...
No, somehow the war doesn’t
seem "over” — on an island where
there are no night clubs or race
tracks, and movies a/e the great
and only entertainment and beer a
ecvete luxury.
We attended a little ceremony
honoring a dozen or so fliers who
had gained postwar security here
—and before victory. It was in a
dreary drizzle, and the words we
heard were old familiar words as
we stood around the flag-draped
shapes, and the faces of those
around us were strained and tired
— war-weary, war-hating, war
stricken, yet angry faces. The men
under the flags had had their post
war plans made for them—in the
crash of their plane en route to
Japan. They hadn’t known the war
was nearly over.
But the enlisted man, sloshing
through Okinawa’s mud, or choking
through the dust clouds that will
follow, doesn’t get angry, not often.
Might be because he knows the
folks back home, who know t h e
war is over, are his old neighbors
and friends. And he’s not blairvg
them.
Organizations Appeal
For Food For Europe
MANILA, Sept. 17.—(/P)—Philip
pines President Sergio Osmena—
himself accused by one political
opponent of indirectly profiting
from his son’s alleged collabora
tion with Japanese—said today
that he intended to expedite trials
of accused collaborationists.
Formation of a People’s Court
will be speeded and “vigorous"
prosecution assured, he said in an
interview.
There have been delays and ac
cusations of leniency, and U. S.
Secretary of Interior Ickes last
week sent a warning that unless
prosecution was hastened there
might be no American financial
aid to the war-smashed islands.
Osmena himself was quickly de
fended in the Senate after one
Senator had demanded his resigna
tion in connection with allegations
that five of his sons collaborated
with the Japanese.
Andre Tardieu, French
Politico, Newsman Dies
MARSEILLE, Sept. 17.- W -
Andre Tardieu, former Premier of
France, died Saturday night at
his home at Menthon on the Rivera.
He was 68.
Tardieu was prominent in let
ters and journalism as well as in
politics. He served in four govern
ments before becoming Premier in
1929. His own cabinet fell in less
han four months.
Daily Prayer
FOR A NATIONAL SPIRIT
Errant minds, in days lately
gone, led many of us astray from
simple loyalty to our own Coun
try; but now our hearts have turn
ed again, in love and devotion, to
this our own, our native land; the
land of our fathers and the larm
of T^y providential watchcare. In
crease, we beseech Tljee, 0 Judge
of the nations, our passionate fidei*
ity to this dear land. Open our eyes
to the lessons of Thy hand in her
history. Make us aware of her min
istering role as the good neighbm
of all who are in need. Teach
thn high privileges that are oum.
May love of America surge ever
in our hearts as a master purpose,
enlarging our spirits, enlivemn,
our minds and sanctifying
common activities. Bind toge'ue.,
we beseech Thee. O God of our
fathers, all the diverse elemen s
that dwell within our borders; arm
give us a common rmnd of go<
will and brotherly helpfulner..
Thus would we save our Natl '
for her highest mission, and t
the service of the world. Arne..
W.T E.