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EDITORIAL
I le Meant
What He Said
The eighth anniversary of Hit
ler’s assumption of power in Ber
lin was January 23. This is not
exactly a holiday for other, coun-,
tries, regardless of how tlx; Ger
mans may have f It about it, but
in view of what has happened
since, it can scarcely be igmor
el. No other single event of the
decade has cost the world so
much.
When Hitler assumed ’the Ger
man ehancel’orship, few read the
significance of the day. So astute
an analyst as H. V. Kaltonborn
wrote (New Republic, Feb. 15,
1933), “H is sworn to obey the
Constitution and is likely to do
so. The time for a Fascist coup
d’etait is past — the March 5 el-,
ection — will not give Adolf Hit
ler the opportunity to establish
his long-heralded Drittes Reich.”
Many others, no less wel-inform
ed, felt the same way. This was
to be just another phase in the
disorderly history of pcst-war
Germany.
It was, unfortunately six years
before Europe began to take
Adolf Hitler seriously. The world
did not take him seriously when
he said at a mass meetng shortly
after becoming chancellor:
“We want a break with what a
rotten brand of d mocracv has
produced and rea'ize that all that
is great can be produced only by
the strength of individual person
ality and that all .that is. to b
preserved must be entrus. d
again to ability and individual
personality, while the parliament
ary-democratic system must be
fought.’’
The average read r shrugged
and added mentally, “in Ger
many.” And he didn’t care much
what happened within Germany,
especially since it had been t€' -
lering on the edge of going Com
muxist anyway. So we all turned
to our own domestic troubles,
which were plenty.
Had Hitler confin-d himself to
abolhning parliamentary govern
ment within Germany, nobody
wou d have cared much except
those Germans who still loved
liberty (and there were some).
But n xt came the effort to ex
tend it to Czechs, Poles, Norweg
ihns, Dutch, Belgians, French
and Danes.
Thus the smallness once again,
of our complex world. An ob
scure and rather ridiculous-ap
pearing po.itician conxesto power
in Germany in 1933, and at the
end of 1940 nine nations grovel
in the dust of conquest and a
coral atoll in the far South Seas
is shel.ed by a passing raider.
So far echo the repercussions o*
that January 23, 1933.
Now at last we learn that when
Hitler said, just before becom
ing chant llor, “the parliament
ary-democratic system must be
fought,” he meant just that.
High Court
Getting To
Be Y ounger
By Alexander George
AP Feature Service Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. — With
the retirement of 78-year-old Jus
tice MoReynolds on February 1,
the personnel of the Supreme
Court has become the youngest
in more than a century.
The average age of the re
maining justices is 58 as compar
ed to 71 four years ago when
President Roosevelt launched his
unsuccessful fight to revamp the
court.
McReynolds is the sixth elder
ly Justice to 1 ave the high bench
since 1937. Justices Vandevanter,
Sutherland and Brandeis also re
tired. Death took Cardozo and
Butler.
First Court Youngest
Back in 1818 the average age
of the Justices was 57. but th
youngest court was the nation’s
first one. The six Justices who
began serving in 1789 averaged
49. In the early days of the re
public a few “youngsters” in
their thirties and many men in
their forties were appointed to
the high cour*. This has been at
tributed to the dearth of judicial
talent and to a widespread tend
ency then to r gard the court as
a distinctly third-rate branch of
the national government.
Chief Justic Hughes now will
be the only member of the court
past 70— the age at which Presi
dent Roosevelt sought congres
sional authority for compulsoi’y
retirement of a Justice.
Hughes will be 79 on April 11
yet few men are rated his super
ior in whiplash clarity and pre
cision of mind. President Roose
velt n ver has indicated that the
Chief Justice step out.
Justice Stone will be 70 and
become eligible for retirement a
full pay of $20,000 a year on
October 11, 1942. Justice Douglas
42, is the ”b3by" of tb. court. A
Justice at 40, he is the youngest
man elevated to the Supreme
bench since 32-year-old Joseph
Story, of Massachusetts, came to
the court in 1811.
On th.. basis of his youth.
Doughs has the best chance of
bracking the long-time term re
cord. Four men share the honor
at 34 years each. They were Jus
tice S tv, Chief Justio Mar
shall, Justices Stephen J. Field
of California and John M. Harlan
af Kentucky,
Requested To Quit
Justice Field, reported to be “in
a condition of approaching sen
illy" at the age of 81, was pri
vat ly requested by fellow mem
bers of the court to resign in
1897. Justice Harlan was delegat
ed to convey to Field the message
that Field himself had carried to
Justice Grier, 78 years old.
Harlan tried to temper the
blow by lecal ing Field’s unpleas
ant errand on the previous oc
casion. Field’s answer was report
ed to have been the gruff exclam
ation:
‘‘Yes, and it was the dirtiest
deed of my whole life.” Field re
signed but under protest.
The great Oliver Wendell
Holmes, whose intelleciual vigor
and clarity in his late eighties J
we^e international.y rcogniz
J, was the odest man to sit or.
the Supreme Court. He was go
ing on 91 and had been on thfc
high bench 29 years when he re
sign.-d in 1932.
Camouflage Plants Are Being
Discussed For Defense Program
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON, Feb—The fore
man of a huge airplane factory
wa ks through the shop, tapping
this man and that on the should
er. "As part of the defense pro
giam,” he says “we’re having a
camouflage drill. Get up on the
loot and play a round of go f.”
Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But
..ike the word of a group of Pitts
burgh steel firm officials here to
di-euss plant construction pos
sibilities with the National De
fense Commission, something
lik. that can happen in a few
months in Texas. Here’s how:
Work already has started a.
Hensley Fie’d, near Dallas, ac
cording to J. Gordon Trumbull,
-tee company engineer, on a 20
acre, all blackout, camouflaged
plant for the North American
Aviation Company. Construction
pi a - call for a dummy golf
coins, on the 20-acre roof. And
what could make the camouflage
so effective as having a couple of
foursomes apparently dubbing
around in case .enemy scouting
panes were out searching for
possible objectives.
W'.THOUT WINDOWS
Walls of the plant are to be of
prc-fabricated, corrugated, splin
ter proof steel. There will not be
a window in the building. Exits
and entrances will hav. double
doors, like storm doors, so that
under no circumstances can light
escape from the building. Inside
the corrugations of the walls will
run the tubing for air-condition
ing and wires for fluorescent
lights which will illuminate the
int rior night and day.
The plant is the second struc
ture built along these lines by
the Pittsburgh firm, the other be
ing the Allison airplane engine
p ant at Indianapolis. The com
pany also hasa number of plants
in Liverpool, England, wb re the
structures have been tested un
der actual war conditions.
According to cabled reports
from London, one of the chief
benefits to the building under
boir.b-fire is that wb.n direct or
cl-cse hits blow out the walls,
damaged sections can be replaced
almost instantly.
SEE CONSTRUCTION RECORD
The Texas plant, officials say.
will be completed in 105 days
from the time work started, be
. v d to be a record for con
struction of a factory of such
size.
The Dallas plant is just an
other step in the use of pre-fab
ncated steel in the defense pro
gram. At Quantico, Va., the Ma
ine Corps base, 100 .nlisted men
and their families soon will be
c eupying the first defense hous
ing program homes built of pre
fa. neated welded steel panels.
a he same construction is be
ing used in 100 twelve-family
apartment units for shipyard em
ployees at Newport News, Va.
These houses are demountable
under roofs of she:t steel panels
and, except for outer sidewalls of
a bestos shingles, over insulation
board sheathing, are completely
ot s.eel.In the case of the Quan
tico two-family units, ten men
working eight hours can get one
ready for occupancy in a single
day. Each side of the 48-by-28
foot buildings contains a living
room, combination kitchen and
dinette, two bedrooms and a
| bath.
ALL CAN BE MOVED
All of these buildings are de
i mountab e and could be knock
’d down and transferred to other
1 communities with little loss o>t
time.
The Defense Commission has
uner consideration still a third
pr. fabricated steel housing pro
gr. m, the designer of which
• clan..s he can hous. 700,000 per
sons in six months.
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llOI LYWOOD STAK-Ll'I'ES
By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD CExcusivet —
During that brief spell between
pictures fi inland’s favorites
spend their idle moments relax
ing in the heart of the desert
unci r a broiling winter sun —
Some stars who find IheiT sum
nun filled with movie work go
la Palm Springs during the win
,cr to vacation.
Hollywood likes this vacation
wondt riand because informality
is .he keynote—s acks and swim
ming >.runks being the correct ap
paid at all timis — Swimming,
horseback riding, tennising, golf
ing, badminton playing, ping
ponging, as well as every other
conceivable outdoor sport are
just a few of the pastimes.
January is graduation time in
Hollywood — Some of the fea
tured play, rs who have been ele
vated to full-fledged stardom as a
result of their work in 1940 films
include: Ronald Reagan, James
Stephenson, Virginia Gilmore,;
Brian Donlevy, E ddie Albert,
ilrenda Marshall and Dennis Mor
gan.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Chas. Olsen, his heirs, ex
ecutors, administrators and as
signs.
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have expend
ed during the y-ar ending July
1st, 1940, two hundred dollars u>
labor and improvements upon J
the Sand Hill Association Placer
mining claim, situated on the
r ght bank of Snake River about
three and one half miles north-1
westerly from the mouth thereof
and tlir town of Nome in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, Territory of Alas
ka. in order to hold srid mining
■*laim under the provisions of U.
S. C. Tit. 30 Sec. 28. and amend
ments thereto concerning annual
iab >r upon mining claims, being
the amount required to hold said j
claim for the period ending July.
1st, 1940.
And if, within nin ty days af
ter the publication of this Notice
you fail to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, which amounts one I
hundred dollars, your interest in
Pie property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made
tlv. required expenditure to hold
said claim.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, the
3th day of December, 1940.
John Carlson, Co-owner
Publish Dec. 6 13 20 27, 1940,
Jan. 3 10 17 24 31, Feb. 7 14 21
18, 1941.
® ^ PLANE S POW E R—Close-up shows build of crankshaft that takes the pounding
of 12 cylinders in Allison plane engines being turned out at rate of 350 a month in Indianapolis.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Light snow and light freezing dr izzle tonight and early Saturday
ending before noon. Generally cloudy Saturday afternoon with
little change in temp-rature. Winds will remain northeast with
velocities of 15 to 20.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:60 pm Today
Highest temp — 27 Lowest temp — 19 Precipitation — 0.04
Total precip this month 0.56 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 0.75
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight __..~ _ 23 77 NNE 12 Pt Cldy
Bam ——-—— ~—— -—•- - 22 92 NE 20 Snowing
12:30 p m.... 27 92 ENE 16 Drizzle
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:02 a. m. Sunset 4:32 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp-5 Lowest temp — -26 Precipitation _ 0
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