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1. Who delivered the famous
Cooper Union address?
2. What great river has its flow
controlled by the Assum dam?
3. In what year did Hitler be-
come dictator of Germany?
4. What is the official language
of Liberia?
5. An anodyne is a medicine that
does what?
6. What person in fiction had the
“Old Man of the Sea” clinging to
his shoulders?
7. How far do the Appalachian
mountains extend?
8. What is a yashmak?
9. How many South American
countries have no seacoast?
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Washington Digest
Civil Service Strives to Keep
Politics Out of Defense Work
Rearmament Story
Has Two Sides
There are a lot of stories cir-
culating about inefficiency in re-
armament work. Some tell of men
who are employed in industries
where they are pitifully inexperi-
enced.
That’s one side of the defense sto-
ry that you hear a good deal about
these days. But it isn’t the only
side. I heard the government’s
side of the defense hiring story the
other day from Arthur Flemming,
one of the three-member civil serv-
ice commission.
“The United States civil service
commission,” Mr. Flemming said
to me, “is faced with the heaviest
load in its history.”
Today the civil service commis-
sion is the “central civilian recruit-
ing agency for the entire defense
program,” as Mr. Flemming de-
scribed it and when I had finished
my interview with him I took two
of the most hopeful thoughts away
with me that I have been able to
nourish in the 25 years since I be-
gan watching the failures, faults and
foibles, as well as the achievements
of the Washington “side show.”
The first thought was this: we
have a fair chance of keeping poli-
tics, scandal and disgrace out of
the defense program, such as we
had in the last war, if it is humanly
possible to do it. And second, if
this is done, we may take the great-
est step in our history toward clean-
ing up the rottenness of the patron-
age system that is the curse of de-
mocracies.
Perhaps I am over optimistic. But
here are the facts as I learned them.
In the first place the civil service
commission has recruited, exam-
ined and certified 240,000 workers
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IMPORTS
During the first year following
the outbreak of war in Europe,
total imports into the United
States increased because of a
marked expansion in this coun-
try’s purchases of raw material,
according to a report, “War and
Its Effect on United States Im-
ports,” issued by the U. S. tariff
commission. These raw mate-
rials originate principally in
Asia and to a lesser extent in
Canada and Latin America.
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A vigorous campaign is going on
on the part of educators to teach
democracy. An Educational Poli-
cies association for five years has
been working for the improvement
of democratic citizenship. Recently
a wide study of 90 schools was made
and the report is fascinating read-
ing. It reveals six entirely different
ideas of what democratic education
was.
Not merely the teachers and pu-
pils but people in the community
were interviewed in preparing this
important survey.
between July 1 and November 23 of
this year. There were 176,000 place-
ments alone in the war and navy
departments. Most of the workers,
of course, were employed in navy
yards and arsenals. Take Water-
vliet, for instance, up in Connecticut
where they make the big guns. That
arsenal has^a hard time keeping 120
men busy normally; now it employs
3,000.
The civil service commission staff
has been enlarged for the emer-
gency recruiting from 1,800 mem-
bers in June to 4,000 today. Be-
sides the force in Washington there
are 13 district offices and 5,000 lo-
cal secretaries; one in every first
and second class post office. These
secretaries, who are usually postal
employees, have information on ex-
aminations and requirements of po-
sitions open. Here the persons who
want jobs can go and find out just
how to apply for them.
Red Tape Slashed
To Increase Efficiency
But there is a side of this recruit-
ing work that does not show up in
figures. It is the spirit which is evi-
dent from the attitude of the com-
missioners themselves and the whole
staff. There is no clock-watching
here. Hours mean nothing. Red
tape has been slashed. There is one
objective—to get the best men and
women available for Uncle Sam and
to get them quickly.
“The best example of the benefits
of the system,” Mr. Flemming ex-
plained, “is the skilled worker who
has worked up through the service
and who, though he could easily
secure higher wages in private busi-
ness, is loyal to the government
and prefers to stay in the federal
service.
“One of the outstanding examples
of these men is John C. Garand.
Long before the national defense
program got under way this man,
one of the key figures in our de-
fense, was working inconspicuously
in a drafting room in the armory
in Springfield, Mass. Now his name
is known around the world as the in-
ventor of the Garand rifle.”
John C. Garand, Mr. Flemming
told me, was born in Canada and
came to this country when he was
10 years old. When the World war
broke out he enlisted in the artillery
and was assigned to the bureau of
standards in Washington to do ord-
nance work. After the war Garand
took a civil service examination for
draftsman and was sent to the ar-
mory in Springfield. He perfected
a number of inventions and finally
produced the Garand rifle. Loyal
to the civilian service of the United
States as he had been to the armed
forces, he patriotically turned his
patent over to the government. His
rewards are simply the promotions
he has won. He is now senior
ordnance engineer. You’ll find him
at his desk today.
We know that in stupid blindness,
fried lines of hatred and revenge in our hearts, and that the war fever is crossing
the ocean to touch us and infect us with the madness that is reigning there. But still
the miracle of the Christmas Child lives on. He is still near, with His eternal promise
of peace and forgiveness and love.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
r | ^HE best thing that we can
say for the old world is
that once in its history a
Man was born who spoke
strange, unbelievable, startling
and inacceptable truths.
The reason we know that what
He said was true is that although
for twenty centuries all sorts of
brilliant and scientific men
have been trying to prove that
He was mistaken, still, in that
tribunal that is the heart of the
people, these words of His live
on, and grow more and more
brilliant with time, and for
every voice that denies Him, a
hundred other voices speak up
loudly in His defense.
That fact is the one miracle that
the world has known. All other mir-
acles stem from it through the acts
of His followers, or like wars and
scientific discoveries and astronomi-
cal prophecies turn out to be no
miracles at all.
It sometimes rather amuses me
when young unbelievers challenge
the Bible stories of miracles. The
sick man at the pool was only a
hypochondriac, they say, he could
always have picked up his bed and
walked if he had wanted to. The
water made wine was always wa-
ter only the wedding guests were in
an amiable mood and thought it
wine. The blind man was a fakir;
he wasn’t blind.
His Name Marches On.
Why, what more do these skeptics
want than the living, blazing, un-
equalled miracle that Christ’s name
is today-in our modern, whirling,
mechanized world, in this country,
whose simplest everyday fact was
undreamed in His day? When as our
first human landmark, we speak of
the miracle that was—and is—the
Master’s eternally old and eternally
new story, what episode in all his-
tory comes second? What other
event deserves to be mentioned even
in remotest connection with it?
For here was a baby born in pov-
erty, reared as a carpenter’s son
in a small oriental town, growing
to manhood unknown, His friends
equally humble and obscure, His
early death marking Him as a crim-
inal.
No press, no influence, no power-
ful adherents to defend His name.
No written word of His to live and
justify him. And yet in America
today large numbers of papers,
printed daily, carry that name as
their inspiration and reason for be-
ing, and it is safe to say that no
daily journal ever is printed with-
out that name.
Substitutes Love for Hate.
The law this Man laid down to a
few idle villagers and fisher folk
was a terrible law. It was terrible
in its newness, its courage, its impli-
cations. For it stripped man of re-
venge and substituted forgiveness;
it stripped him of self and substi-
tuted neighbor; it stripped him of
hate and substituted love.
And man was afraid. Afraid, even
in that simpler day, to follow the
Master’s law as he had followed the
Master’s feet. He is afraid today.
Our churches will be crowded, this
Christmas day, and such churches
as are left amid the smoking black-
ness that once was beauty and ac-
tivity and prosperity in Europe, will
be crowded, too. There will be be-
wildered heartache here; there will
be bitter sobbing there. But not any-
where will there be voices strong
enough to preach His law. Forgive
CHRISTMAS
The approaching birthday of Jesus
recalls His teachings to a forgetting
world. Kathleen Norris believes that
they contain the only cure for the ter-
rible misfortunes which man endures
today. She advises everyone to ob-
serve a sober Christmas, and forget
about world affairs in a heartfelt
prayer for love and charity toward our
fellow men. She feels that the world
will not have peace until it proves it-
self worthy of peace.
Merit System Increases Efficiency of Rearmament; U. S,
Foreign Policy Awaits Clarification in
Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address.
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jw to usa it than th a mnnkpvs j “You may remember,” he wrote,
“that I’ve only slipped you one tip.
Years ago I told you that we had a
hillbilly by the name of Sammy
Snead who was on his way up with
the greatest swing in golf. That
was before anyone knew anything
about Sammy Snead. You printed
what I wrote to you. Now I’m tell-
ing you that Jackie Hunt of Mar-
shall college is a better football
player than Sammy Snead is a
golfer.
“I know his schedule isn’t what
Minnesota or Michigan faces. But I
know what he can do. I’d like to
see him, on equal terms, play
against Harmon or Kimbrough, for
I know he can do more things bet-
ter with a football. He can run
with either and outkick and outpass
both. And you can’t find a better
defensive player.
“Hunt is in the same spot Dutch
Clark once held. ‘A great player,’
they said, ‘but no schedule.’ Dutch
Clark is still the all-time All-Ameri-
ca quarterback in your book and al-
most every other book. Hunt is
bigger and faster than Dutch Clark,
and can do everything as well.”
No Fake Ballyhoo
This is no fake ballyhoo for Jackie
Hunt, whom I have never seen. But
when Doc Spears, coach of Dart-
mouth, Minnesota and Oregon, now
I at Toledo, who has seen Hunt play
1 two years, adds his testimony, you
have to listen.
Doc Spears doesn’t believe there
is a better all-around back in Amer-
ica. And he has no exceptions.
“One of the greatest,” is the Doc
Spears tribute.
Hunt went to Marshall college
knowing it would be almost impos-
sible for him to make an All-Amer-
ica for this one reason—the sched-
ule. The important question would
be asked—“Hunt may look good
against V. P. I. and Toledo and
Wake Forest, but let him try to
run against Big Ten teams. What
then?”
There is something to this angle.
But I know several pro coaches who
would just as soon have Hunt, when
he graduates, as either Harmon or
Kimbrough—except for the matter
of publicity and gate receipts.
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The Child Is Born Again
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.!
By BAUKHAGE
/National Farm and Home Com-
mentator.)
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Washington is a nervous and jit-
tery place these days with winter
running in and out so fast that the
squirrels in the park hardly know
whether to bury nuts, eat them or
just watch the ones that walk by.
Part of the atmosphere of sus-
pense is due to wondering what is
going to come out of those notes
which the President took with him
when he sailed away from his fish-
ing-and-inspection trip and which he
is still working on.
When he left, men who usually
know at least something of what
the White House is thinking about,
told us:
“The President has closed his
mind to any additional aid to Brit-
ain now. There will be no change
in the present program. We will
try to send more supplies but there
won’t be any change in the nature of
the help that we’ve been supply-
ing.”
Most of us who observed Mr.
Roosevelt closely at his last con-
ferences before he left thought we
saw confirmation of this statement
in the way he answered questions
on the subject, the tone of his voice,
his look, his gestures.
Some of the people clamoring for
more active participation in Brit-
ish efforts went so far as to say:
“He’s walked out oh us.”
But hardly had the Tuscaloosa
weighed anchor than things began
to happen which made us wonder.
There was the widely printed sto-
ry that the United States was pre-
paring to send American merchant-
* men with supplies right through the
war zone to England. Another that
American warships would act as
convoys, at least part way.
Discuss Financial
Aid to Britain
Then there was heated contro-
versy concerning financial aid to
Britain. After a meeting of depart-
mental heads admittedly for the
purpose of “exploring” the subject,
Jesse Jones, federal loan adminis-
trator, said that he considered Brit-
ain “a good risk.”
Senator Johnson of California
came right out and said he expected
a drive to repeal the Johnson act,
which forbids loans to defaulting na-
tions, at the next session of con-
gress. He said he would fight it.
These were some of the signs
which seemed to point toward the
consideration of new and drastic
methods of helping John Bull.
But still the people who made
their original predictions to the ef-
fect that the President wasn’t plan-
ning action, certainly none that
might involve us in the war, held
their ground.
At this writing no one professes
to know what form the notes in the
President’s portfolio will take. We
can only wait for the inaugural ad-
dress, the budget message and the
report to congress on the state of
the nation. When we know what
these state papers contain it will be
interesting to look back and see
who was right, the people who, like
Senator Johnson, said we are “edg-
ing into war” or those who believed
that the President had set the Ship
of State on a neutral course and
then lashed the helm.
your enemies. Do good to them that
hate you. Render not evil for evil,
but return evil with good.
There is a jungle story of monkeys
who found a string of priceless 1
pearls. Pearls naturally meant noth- ;
ing to the monkeys, but their leader - - -
knew that something about the lus- , Harmon and Kimbrough, from Rea-
1. Abe Lincoln.
2. Nile river.
3. In March, 1933, when the
reichstag passed an act giving him
absolute power.
4. English.
5. Relieves pain.
6. Sinbad.
7. From Quebec province to Ala-
bama.
8. A double veil worn by Mo-
hammedan women.
9. Two, Bolivia and Paraguay.
?T"'HE off-trails of football that
rarely lead to the major head-
lines can take you into a country
just as interesting as Minnesota,
Stanford, Texas A. & M., Boston
college and Tennessee.
For example, during the late
World Series in Cincinnati I ran
across a number of
old - time football
players who told me
about a back by the
name of Jackie Hunt
of Marshall college
in Huntington, W.
Va.
“I played against
George Gipp,” one
old-timer said, “and
I’d rather have Hunt
than Gipp.”
“I played against
Cliff Battles,” an-
other reported, “and I’ll take Hunt
over Battles. He is just as good a
ball carrier, a great kicker, a fine
passer and a star defensive back.”
When good football players tell
you about a fellow who is better
than Gipp and Battles you begin to
take notice. So two months ago I
crawled a trifle out on the limb for
Jackie Hunt.
Being on the off-trail, away from
the beaten pack, Hunt was hard to
follow. But he was the big factor
in beating V. P. I. and also in
scoring 19 points against Wake For-
est, a team good enough to beat
North Carolina, 12 to 0. Picking up
what I could here and there, (after
all, there are over 400 college teams
playing 200 games each week), I
discovered Jackie Hunt was doing
all right.
The next investigation discovered
that he was the leading ^scorer of
the country, well ahead of such peo-
ple as Harmon and Kimbrough and
the rest.
About Jackie Hunt
About this time I ran into Jock
Sutherland, the Dodger mandarin.
“I know about Hunt,” Jock said.
“We wanted him at Pittsburgh. He
was the best high school back in
America that year. Big, fast, pass-
er, ball carrier and kicker, loaded
with exceptional football spirit. But
Hunt wanted to stay in his home
town at Huntington with Marshall.
He felt that Huntington was where
he belonged. Even as a high school
player he was an outstanding star.”
More than a few leading colleges
tried to explain to Hunt that he
could take the headlines away from
gan and O’Rourke. Hunt wasn’t in-
terested in headlines. He loved foot-
ball, but he wanted to play at home.
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chattering and squawking, his noisy could do about everything, this West
people Virginian let nation-wide fame roll
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preached was rare; that in those
simple words lay the secret of life,
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orders. He seized upon his prize
ing to the monkeys, but their leader
trous rope of shining white globes
was rare. So through the tree-tops
he went, waving his find, chattering
and squawking, and after him came,
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knew what to do with their pearls.
If man HAD known there would nev-
er have been a war; there would
never have been poverty and slums,
with all that they breed of suffering
and crime and sickness. There
would never have been kings nor rul-
ers, for the greatest among us would
have been our servant, and it would
have been the noble object of the
leaders to see how humble, how
helpful, how like the Master they
might make themselves.
We know how different has been
the world’s story! We know that
hate and greed and fear are reach-
ing their fateful zenith today, and
that in all Europe there are only a
few nations left where one may dare
voice even the name of Christ. We
know that in stupid blindness, we
have been building Maginot lines
and Siegfried lines of hatred and re-
venge in our hearts, and that the
war fever is crossing the ocean to
touch us and infect us with the mad-
ness that is reigning there.
Pray for Guidance.
But still the miracle of the Christ-
mas Child lives on. He is still near,
with His eternal promise of peace
and forgiveness and love. However
full of mistakes the past, it can be
wiped away by the simple prayer
that brings to Him a child’s heart
and a child’s trust. We don’t know
the way out of the darkness. We
have lost faith in ourselves. But
the way is always there. And the
promise is always there; “ask and I
ye shall receive. Knock, and it shall
be opened unto you.”
A sobered Christmas, a quiet
Christmas,—not like our usual joy-
ous holidays. But perhaps to prove
someday the most fruitful of even-
tual good that the world has known
since the first Christmas Aof all.
So I think our prayer this Christ-
mas should be only a prayer for
guidance. Not that dictators will
die and guns will succeed and con-
querors be humbled and ships be
sunk. Not anything about great
world affairs at all.
But that in each one of our hearts
a new spirit will be born at that
star-lighted hour when the Child
Himself is bom anew.
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