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Reactionary Policy
Seen by Jackson as
Aid to ’Fifth Column'
Warns Against Ban
On Free Speech in Talk
Before New York Bar
By the Associated Press.
SARANAC INN, N. Y„ June 29 —
Attorney General Jackson said to
night that a “reactionary national
policy in this country” would be the
“greatest aid a fifth column could
hope for.”
1:5 an address prepared for a
meeting of the New York State Bar
Association, Mr. Jackson spoke of j
the “necessity of a social and eco
nomic policy in the Nation which
will not leave millions hopelessly
outside of its benefits and comforts.”
Cautioning against suppression of
the right of free speech and similar
grants of the Constitution, the At
torney General had this to say:
“An arbitrary power invented to
serve a cause frequently ends by
being turned against its creator.
Fritz Thvssen (former German in
dustrialist) is wandering in exile and
his great properties confiscated un
der a law he favored because he
thought it would be used only
against Communists.
“The propertied classes of the
United States should not forget the
lesson which his experience af
fords.”
Could Be Rounded l)p Quickly.
Discussing the methods for deal
ing with subversive activities, Mr.
Jackson said that in event such
action became threatening, the “core
of the disloyal elements in this coun
try could be rounded up quickly and
put where they would not constitute
a danger.” This, he said, was pos
sible through the co-operation estab
lished between the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, the Army and Navy
Intelligence Departments, “together
with the intelligence services of
friendly foreign powers.”
“So long as we are in no immedi
ate danger and are moving under a
reign of law.” he continued, "they
do not need to be apprehended and.
indeed, could not lawfully be ar
rested merely because we suspect
that in an emergency they might be
dangerous. Should an emergency
arise, we would take no chances.”
Must Avoid Mistakes.
Mr. Jackson urged Americans to
avoid “mistakes w^hich give aid and
assistance to any fifth column.”
■'First1, we must permit no tamper
ing with our civil rights, for the first
break in that bulwark will provide
the opening wedge for those who
seek the breakdown of our demo
cratic system.
“Second, we must prevent law
lessness and mob violence, for by
destroying law and order we create
the confusion in which the fifth
column thrives.
“Third, we must not alienate the
alien who wants to be loyal, for by
so doing we drive him into the camp
of the fifth column.”
Employers have asked the Justice
Department if they should discharge
all aliens, Mr. Jackson said.
“The in just discharge of aliens
may serve only to make them sus
ceptible to the urgings of fifth col
umn organizers, Mr. Jackson said of
this.
London
(Continued From First Page.)
taken prisoner—358,080 in Belgium
end 600,000 in the battle of France, j
Lord Strabolgi's action against Mr. |
Chamberlain and Lord Halifax came j
just one day after' the declaration j
of a neutral diplomatic source that '
a peace move was “in the air,” and
that Soviet Russia’s "natural con
cern” over Adolf Hitler’s intentions
might put Russia on Britain’s side
at a peace conference table.
But, this source added, such a
thing could come about only if the
British “install a genuinely leftist
government which does not try to
make a catspaw of the Russians.
"Mr. Neville Chamberlain has
found it necessary to give an inter
view to the Americantpress denying
In his letter, Lord Strabolgi said:
that he is in favor of asking Ger
many for peace negotiations. * * *
“Unfortunately, the past of these
two statesmen is so identified with
the appeasement policy that, so long
as they are in the inner war cabinet,
the German propagandists will find
credence for their fairy tales about
suing for armistice. * » *
“If Messrs. Chamberlain, Halifax
and Hoare could see their way to
retire for a space from public life
It would be the greatest service they
could do to their country and to
the cause for which we are fight
ing. and an act of high patriotism.”
Threat to Sea Supremacy.
Neutral sources declared that a
direct threat to British sea suprem
acy was implicit in the possibility
that Germany had seized four
French men of war—which would
give her a 6-to-3 edge over Britain
in these fast craft with the striking
power of dreadnaughts.
These sources said that if Ger
many has in fact added the 35.000
ton Richelieu and Jean Bart and
the 26,500-ton Dunkerque and
Strasbourg to her battleships Scharn
horst and Gneisenau she might,
with sufficient air and undersea
auxiliaries, be able to challenge the
British battle line.
Gen. de Gaulle, who is forming
ft French legion to fight on at
Britain's side, but hope of any con
siderable French support appeared
to be fading.
Vernon Bartlett, commentator for
the News-Chronicle, predicted the
defection of most of the French
and added:
“Faced with the possibilty that
the French African colonies now will
surrender, the British government
must be prepared to fight two wars,
the one west of Gibraltar and the
other east of the Island of Pantel
laria. the Italian fortress between
Sicily and Tunis.
Dispatches from Cape Town re
ported that thousands of persons,
in meetings arranged by the gov
ernment's opposition, had urged the
Union* of South Africa to seek
"without delay” an “honorable”
pelioe with Germany and Italy.
Zonta Honors D. C. Woman
B? the Associated Press.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL
PARK, Colo., June 29.—The 1941
convention of Zonta International
was awarded to Memphis, Tenn., at
the 20th annual Zonta Convention
today. The new president is Mrs.
May Moyers McElro.v of Washing
ton, who will succeed Dr. Helen
Pearce, Salem, Oreg.
A
Wendell Willkie—New Star in Our Political Sky
A Glance at Career of Hoosier 'Peck's Bad Boy/ Who Rose
To Utilities Fame and Then to Presidential Nominee
This is the first of a series of <6
three stories about the new star
of American politics—Wendell L.
Willkie.
By MORGAN M. BEATTY,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
One clay back in 1937 when the
New Deal utility scrap was making
Washington weather stickier than
usual, I had to get some informa
tion about Commonwealth & South
ern, the big holding company Wen
dell L. Willkie runs.
A utility representative in Wash
ington said:
"Sorry, I can’t speak for C. & S„
but I’ll pass on your questions.”
Then the phone rang.
"This is Wendell Willkie.” said
the voice, crisp like iceberg lettuce.
"But I didn't know you were in
Washington, Mr. Willkie.”
“I’m not,” he snapped, "but when
a reporter wants my side of this
scrap, I'm ready to give it to him.
Shoot! ”
Prom his New York office right
next to Wall Street, Wendell Willkie
rattled off his answers.
"Call me any time,” he finished.
And as I wrote my account I won
dered, as a lot of people have lately,
what manner of man this Willkie
was.
Joked About Boom.
Mr. Willkie is the man who joked
about a presidential boom while
others were desperately trying to
launch theirs. He's the fellow who
actually shooed away able young
men who insisted on throwing up
good jobs to help Willkie bring down
the moon, but finally failed to dis
suade them.
He's the tobacco-chewing, fist
slinging young man who once chal
lenged the Bible on the campus of
Indiana University, about-faced, lis
tened to the Methodists, and ulti
mately chose the Episcopalians.
Mr. Willkie's the rough and tumble
Hoosier who went to New York a
dozen years ago with a chip on
his shoulder for bankers, and fired
all but one out of Commonwealth
Southern swivel chairs. Then
he turned right around and accepted
an invitation to lunch from a group
of Morgan partners.
They fooled him. Instead of try
ing to tell him how to run his
business on the strength of their
small stock holdings in his com
pany. they just talked about flowers
and the weather. And there he
sat with a useless chip on his
shoulder.
And Wendell Willkie's the man ■
whose slim, lively wife prefers to
stroll down the street with her
husband to doing most anything
else.
Was Peck's Bad Boy;
The biography broadcast from
the Willkie-for-President head
quarters is, in the words of William
Allen White, the slickest literary
goose grease that has burdened
the second-class mail in some time.
It skips part of the lofty hokum
usually used to doll up a candidate,
cheerfully paints Willkie in his
youth as Peck's Bad Boy, whom no
mother would take as a model for
her son.
“He was always in trouble,” it
says, “fighting, tipping over neigh
bors’ privies, using his Sunday
school text cards from the Methodist
Church to play a gambling game
with his five brothers and sisters.”
WENDELL WILLK1E AS A BABY, BOY AND MAN.
This modest, tree-shaded home is where Wendell Willkie was born February 18. 1892.
—A. P. Wirephotos.
I
But in its more serious passages, 1
the campaign biographer is also
earnestly eager to give you a por
trait of a “big shot” utility execu
tive who undeniably is a self-made
man.
It tells you how the ailing B. C.
Cobb, executive of Commonwealth,
called the able lawyer from the
Middle West to New York at three
times his Midwest income and in
1933 made Willkie the boss of the
whole show at $75,000 a year.
“No wonder,” the biographer adds, i
“that Wendell Willkie believes there
still is opportunity today in Ameri
ca.”
But the biography might have
left off the next sentence:
“He has no powerful friends, no
personal influence, no ‘pull.’ ”
No man who has done the things
he has done, or possessed the Willkie
fire and dash could help but attract
friends from many walks of life, as
well as make a few enemies along
the way.
When the Willkie boom was in its
Infancy an old lady wrote a Phila
delphia newspaper that to her way
of thinking the Lord had sent us
(presumably the Republicans) Wen
dell Willkie.
William L. Harman, vice president
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works
and head of the Pennsylvania
Willkie-for-President Clubs, adds:
"I regard this as a semi-religious
movement, and we are trying to get
it on a revival basis.” To which the
Republican convention said "Amen!”
Coffeyville Higl
Missed Prophec
By the Associated Press.
COFFEYVILLE, Kans., June 29 —
Sly hints of romances which never
blossomed and praise for his athletic
teams—drat that poultry show any
way—are chronicled for Wendell
Willkie in yellowing pages of the
Coffeyville High School year book
for 1914.
Then the Republican party's 1940
presidential nominee was a popular
professor of history and. in the year
book’s own words. “Fresh from the
University of Indiana.”
Then the name listed below a pic
ture of a somewhat lean-faced man
read “Lewis W. Wilkie.”
(The use of one L in the name
follows the year book copy.)
He was quite a man—professor,
adviser to the Y. M. C. A., organizer
of the debating teams, coach of "the
best track team ever turned out of
C. H. S.” and also mentor of the
basket ball team—but drat that
poultry show.
That year his basket ball team
played 10 league games, winning six.
Losses Are Explained.
“The loss of the other four,” the
vear book dutifully explains, “being
due to lack of practice caused by
oocupation of the coliseum by the
poultry show and the poor referees
that are bound to show up ever so
often.” *
His students fancied romances
between their history professor and
three women members of the
faculty. One writer in the year book
suggested a telephone between his
i School Annual
ies on Willkie
room and that of one teacher. "It
would save time.” (The students
guessed wrong—he went back to
Indiana and married a Hoosier girl).
The man who has promised the
Republican party an “aggressive
fighting campaign” was gaining a
reputation 26 years ago as an
energetic orator. One caricature in
the year book presents him as an
animated pepper shaker addressing
a school assembly. The artist label
ed him “The ‘Pep'-per Can of C.
H. S.”
Debated on Presidency.
In listing all faculty members
under a heading: “What a High
School Is For” the answer given in
his case was: “To make speeches
in chapel.”
The question he tossed at his
first debating team was: “Re
solved—that the President of the
United States shall be elected for
a term of,six years and be ineligible
for re-election." The negative side
won.
Somewhere there’s a writer who
must be blushing over this imagined
bit of correspondence appearing in
a "Chaperon” column of the year
book:
“Dear Chaperon—Can you send
me an address where I can secure
a blue tie to match my eyes. Mr.
L. W. Wilkie.
“Don't worry about that. Try to
get a soft hat to match your head.”
G. 0. P. Women Want
Willkie for Keynote
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 29—The
National Federation of Women's
Republican Clubs will ask Wendell
L. Willkie, the party's presidential
nominee, to make the keynote ad
dress at the second annual conven
tion, September 18-25.
Mrs. Joyce Arneill of Denver pre
sided at a meeting of the Advisory
Board today which will select the
convention site after Willkie's cam
paign schedule has been arranged.
The federation pledged ‘'unani
mous support” to the presidential
and vice presidential nominees.
Electrification of large sections of
the Italian State Railways system
halved the road's consumption of
coal in the last 10 years.
The author of the class prophecy
predicted events for 1940. It even
described an imagined visit to the
White House to see the President.
But the man the prophecy named
wasn't Mr. Wilkie. It was one of
his students.
Home Town Seeks Willkie
For July Tomato Festival
By the Associated Press.
ELWOOD, Ind., June 29.—If Wen
dell Willkie makes his formal ac
ceptance of the Republican presi
dential nomination on the steps of
Elwood High School, as tentatively
planned, he will speak under an in
scription reading, “The hope of our
country.”
Elwood residents say the inscrip
tion was there—over the arched
doornay of the brick and stone
building—when “Win” Willkie was
one of the school’s bright, but not
exactly model, pupils. One of his
old teachers, kindly Miss Mary Cox,
recalled that “Win” shone in liter
ature and history, but didn't care
for algebra. Despite his dislike for
algebra, he was graduated at 15.
Elwood, known principally as a
-tomato-growing center until Will
kie's nomination thrust it into the
spotlight as his birthplace and boy
hood home, would like to have its
most famous son deliver his accept
ance speech on July 26, the opening
day of Elwood’s annual tomato fes
tival.
Willkie promised several weeks ago
that, if nominated, he would come
home to Elwood for his formal
acceptance.
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Chicago July 10
Woman delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention in Chi
cago will have plenty to do besides
casting votes, according to advance
information from Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Conkey, official Chicago hostess for
the convention.
Breakfasts, lunches and banquets,
arranged by various Chicago groups,
will keep the woman delegates en
tertained.
National Chairman Farley has ap
pointed five national committee
women to the convention Commit
tee on Arrangements. All veterans
in Democratic organization work,
the committeewomen are Miss Helen
Hanson of Maine. Mrs. Emma Guf
fey Miller of Pennsylvania, Mrs.
Lyon Childress of Tennessee, Mrs.
Mildred Rees Jaster of Ohio and
Mrs. Henry Grady of California and
the District. Mrs. Grady, Mrs. Mil
ler and Miss Hanson are also vice
chairmen of the Democratic Na
tional Committee.
Convention Opens July 15.
Most of the woman delegates are
expected to arrive the Saturday be
fore the July 15 opening of the con
vention. A staff from the Washing
ton headquarters of the Women’s
Division of the Democratic National
Committee will go to Chicago July
10 to open headquarters for the
Women’s Division in the Hotel
Stevens.
First event on the woman dele
gates’ convention program is a din
ner at the Palmer House July 13 for
national committeewomen. State
vice chairmen, delegates and alter
nates.
Mrs. Conkey to Be Hostess.
On July 14 Mrs. Conkey, who is
Democratic national committee
woman from Illinois, will be hostess
at lunch in the Palmer House for
national committeewomen.
The delegates, alternates and na
tional committeewomen will get to
gether again for a breakfast on July
16, sponsored by the Illinois Wom
en’s Democratic Clubs.
Chicago alumnae of Theta Sigma !
Phi, women's honorary journalism j
fraternity, will hold open house for
visiting newspaper women in the
press lounge of the Stevens Hotel
during the convention.
Selection of Willkie
Praised by Edison
By the Associated Press.
CAMUEiiN. in. J.t JU11C —fuiun..
Secretary of the Navy Charles A. j
Edison praised the selection of Wen
dell L. Willkie as Republican presi
dential nominee today and said the
Navy would be in "good hands" un
der the guidance of Col. Frank
Knox.
Mr. Edison, who resigned from
President Roosevelt's cabinet to run
as Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of New Jersey, came here to
speak at the dedication of the Vet
erans’ Memorial Junior High School
in connection with the meeting of
the State Department of tne vet
erans of Foreign Wars.
“I think, undoubtedly, the best
man won,” said Mr. Edison, re
ferring to the recent Republican
convention, in an interview.
Of the appointment of Col. Knox,
as his successor, Mr. Edison said:
“I feel the Navy is in good hands
and I know Col. Knox has a big
job ahead of him."
He said the defense program is
“running according to schedule, but
(Jbngress has wasted a lot of time.”
He Asked for It
DURHAM. N. C.. June 29 <£»>.—
Superior court officials blinked and
stared at a man who walked in and
asked to be indicted for perjury.
He told Judge W. C. Harris he
had testified falsely in another case
and that his conscience had been
bothering him.
After hearing his story Judge Har
ris sentenced him to 12 months.
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Adventist Elder Hits
Bills Which Suspend
American Rights
Can't Save Democracy
By Adopting Hitler's
Methods, He Says
Declaring the constitutional rights
of Americans should not be sus
pended at any time in the operation
of our Government, Elder Charles
S. Longacre, associate religious sec
retary of the General Conference of
Seventh-Day Adventists, last night
characterized a number of bills
pending in Congress as "un-Ameri
san.”
Elder Longacre spoke on religious
liberty at the annual camp meeting
of the Potomac Conference of Sev
enth-Day Adventists on the Wash
ington Sanitarium grounds in Ta
koma Park. Md.
“I do not believe we can adopt
Hitler's methods in fighting Hitler
and preserve our democracy,” the
speaker said.
The fact that there are nearly
100 resolutions pending in Congress
which would change the Constitu
tion fundamentally shows a tend
ency to draw away from American
ideals, he asserted.
Sees Threat to Freedom.
Several of the pending bills are a
direct threat to freedom of speech
and of the press, Elder Longacre
declared.
“The right to dissent is a sacred
right and should be sacredly guard
ed,” he added.
Opposition to legislation calling
for compulsory Sunday observance,
proposed deportation of aliens who
at one time belonged to some radical
organization, even though they
have withdrawn, and a proposal to
allocate $900,000,000 for public edu
cation also was voiced by tha
speaker.
He also objected to the bill which
Includes pastors, priests, churches
and employes of religious institu
tions under the Social Security Act.
Such a measure would introduce
force into religion, he said.
Hits Taylor Appointment.
The President’s appointment of
Myron Taylor to the Vatican was
protested by the speaker because,
he said, it gives exceptional prestige
and influence to one denomination.
At services yesterday morning,
Elder Meade Maguire spoke on mis
sion work and several thousand
dollars were collected for missions.
A. W. Spaulding of the General
Conference and Elder A. B. Russell
spoke at services yesterday after
noon.
The camp meeting, which has
been attended daily by about 3,500
persons, will close tonight with serv
ices at 8 o’clock, when Dr. Ben G.
Wilkinson, president of the Wash
ington Missionary College, will
speak.
D. C. Willkie Committee
To Meet Tomorrow
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tee will hold an executive session
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Hibbs Building, to plan election ac
tivities in the District, it was an
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man.
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includes Roger Robb, former Assist
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C. Fishback, surgeon; Reeve Hoover
and S. Blackwell Jones, business
counsellors, and E. Courtlandt Park
er and Gregory S. Prince, attorneys.
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