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TH E LONG ISLAND TRAVELER THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 68th Year THE LONG ISLAND TRAVELER \Home Newspaper of the North Fork\ Established 1871 PtmLlSHED THURSDAYS AT 80UTH0LD FREDERICK C. HAWKINS. Owner and Editor WALTER B OAOEN, Associate Editor Display Advertising Rates on Application Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post oAce at Southold, N. Y., un- der the Act of OongresB on Marob I, 1879. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 Editorial s Our Fire Laddies Most rural sections have volunteer fire departments, sup- ported by taxation. These departments are manned by volunteers, lads who join and serve the cause, lads who are just as enthusiastic about getting to fires and working hard to put them out, as they are to appear in parade. Many of us old fogies are wont to criti- cize the appropriations for new uniforms, new firehouses, new ap- paratus, etc. But since our new and modern fire house has been completed and the results in efficiency and in community spirit have been demonstrated, we hear hardly any criticism.. Our fire laddies will work hard at any fire, even if one of their most se- vere critics is the victim. This shows their good sportsmanship. The volunteer fire- men of this district have saved thousands of dollars for the in- habitants and, what is more, have given us a sense of security we should not otherwise have. If your oilstove blows up or a bonfire gets out of control, you always feel that the local firemen will take care of you.. And they will.. All honor to the volunteer smoke-eater. And if he can have a little fun now and then out of his membership, more power to him. V HeadlineM Here are some of the headlines in a moderate liberal paper of July 13th. \Italy Summons Grandhi Home to Post in Cabinet.\ \Italy's Blackshirts Grew by 900,000 in 9 Months.\ \Armed Fascists Now Number 1,309,477 Men.\ \German Expert Going to Moscow to Conclude 600 Mil- lion Credit Plan.\ What will Japan say to this? \Alien Expulsion Gets into Full Swing\ \Two U. S. Wo- men Among Non-Germans Affected; Espionage Drive Seen.\ \Britain Raises Arms Budget $369,720,000.\ \Hungary Jails 12 as Spies.\ Woman and Eleven Men Sent to Jail for from 3 to 13 Years.\ \Four Seized in Equador Uprising.\ \Harlan Miner Slain, 5 are Shot as C. I. O. Pickets Battle Troops.\ \300 Picket Lone Toiler, WPA Gives Him Raise.\ \Hitler Demands Data on British Bomber Flights.\ \Reich Creation of New Balken Bloc Reported.\ \Britain Facing an 'Immutable Japanese Policy'.\ \Japanese Admiral Defiant.\ \Ciano Confers with Franco.\ \Court of Appeals Says Brother May Sue Sister.\ (Could it be that there was an insurance company holding the bag?) \Moscow Secret Police Seize Myerbold's Wife.\ All of which leads us \o ^sk: Are thew so-calM \Chris- tian Nations\ following tWe rules lai4 down \iy t^ f«undfr of Chrirti^ty? Also, it siwgwts »noth^ qucstiq^^: ,When dealing with countries formerly Christian but now attempting to st«mp out all Christianity, should we use Christian principals? It is our idea that when a Feuhrer, a Duce, or a Stalin is at- tempting to usurp the functions of God Almighty, it is time to call a halt. And this applies also to the un-Christian nation on the other side of the Pacific. Perhaps it would be just as well if we took a firm stand and didn't turn the other cheek. group, which would make the property tax free and bring little money to the community.. Another rumor has it that Father Di- vine, who has recently purchased much land in the country, was angling to get it for another heaven for his angels. • This may sound ridiculous but bear in mind it has happened elsewhere, ev- en on the Hudson opposite President Roosevelt's estate. We wonder which group the Long Islander and its stooge, Supervisor Kreutzer, would prefer? —Northport Observer, July 13, 1939 THE WEEK'S CHAFF By Senator Ford i I see that Father Divine Is spreading his wings again. His heaven's main office Is located near Hyde Park, but he's opening a branch ofBce in Newport. Maybe he's trying to inject \A Little Bit of Heaven\ into political and social life, and it's going to be in- teresting to sae if he can even get to first base. A few years ago one of Father Divines h:avens caught fire and burned. Now, when a heaven looks like help is needed from a fire department, there's something Inconsistent about that par- ticular heaven, to say the least. But that fire was dry ice compared with the way those Newport Socialites are burning up. The strike epidemic is spreading too. There are so many strikes being called these days that you'd think Bob Feller was pitching. Maybe we need new umpires. We could stand a few national um- pires who would call 'em as they see em instead of making decisions accord- ing to the number of votes Involved. I've been wondering if there'd be so many strikes if the union lead- ers' pay stopped during a strike the same as the workngman's does. Senator Ford Score a beat for the Traveler, over a Metropolitan Daily. The New York Sun ran our pun \I'm Danzig with Tears in My Eyes\ the week after it appeared in our Ironic Column. Hurray for our side! ********* Eurcpaan news is still of a Jittery nature. It's possible that we won't have to fight Hitler, but we have to listen to him and I don't know which is worse. The German \Furore via radio and press, continues to take pot shots at our stand in world affairs. The way Adolidi has been popping ofl, you get a vague impression that he does not care much for our Mr. Roosevelt, which should be considered quite a compliment to'our President. «*****••* The stock market took a strong upward turn and every fel- low with a little loose change in his pocket is listening to his barber again. Americans are like that. They like to get trimmed over and over again just to prove that they can take it. New Deal Administrator Seeks to Destroy or Control Weekly Newspapers of This Country Speech «f Hon. Ancust H. Andresen «f Minnesota in (be Howw of Rcproicntatives Monday. Jnly 10, 19M \The Lowest Category*' When our neighbor, the Long Islander, uses words in de- scribing the type of individual who may use the fresh air, hills and sunshine of the Kahn estate, we are at once impressed with the inconsistency of its position. Each week feature in its pages are words of Christian Doc- trine teaching the duty of charity and the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. But when it comes to the Kahn estate being used by a welfare group of employees of the City of New York as a rec- reational and rest center for its pensioned, its sick and those who are weary and heavily burdened and need rest, the same news- paper complains editorially: \If the object of the Sanitation Department is what it purports to be, this is to be made temporary habitat of folks who ordinarily can't afford a vaca- tion. That means simply that the finest land in Hunt- ington is to be placed in the LOWEST CATEGORY.\ These words mean that when land is used for the rest and recreation of people who may not be able to pay all the cost of a restful vacation out of their own pockets, the land is pushed down into the lowest class; it likewise means that those in the lower income brackets of workers who will use the Kahn estate are also in the \lowest category.\ Can the Editorv of the Long Islander reconcile his words with those of the humanitarian, Walt Whitman, who founded his newspaper? We refer him to the immortal words of Whitman in \For Thee, oh, Democracy\ and \Blades of Grass.\ People are bound to come out here from the conjested metropolitan areas; that is why we have built our fine roads and parkways and have Chambers of Commerce to invite them. Many of these people, their friends and relatives will establish their homes with us. All this works for good citizenship, the growth of rural communities and better business. Witness the thousands of dollars this new enterprise is bringing into Huntington and the hundreds of local people it has hired to work. This is the way to reduce our relief rolls. How much better it would be to receive those people as good neighbors in a true Christian and friendly spirit rather than tell them that because their income is small and their families Urge, they are in the lowest category. Well founded rumor has it that if those employees of New York City had not purchased the Kahn estate for themselves and their families, that tt was going to be turned over to a religious Mr. Speaker, I take this time to call attention to a ruling that has been made by the Wage-and-Hour Division of the Federal Government. In an at- tempt of the New Deal to secure con- trol of or to destroy the free press in this country the Wage-Hour AdnUnte- trator has issued a ruling which takes £way the exemption from more than 8,000 we^ly country newspapers that were exempted in the wage-hour law passed by the Congress last year. The Wage-Hour Administrator has ruled that if any of these small weekly country newspapers with a circulation of 3,000 or less engage in job printing, a part of which may go into interstate commerce, the exemption wUl not ap- ply. This means that every weekly newspaper in the country, numbering from 8 to 10 thousand, will lose their exemption under this ruling. It is an outrage that we have an administration in Washington seeking to destroy the press and seeking to set aside the Intent of Congress, which definitely had in mind complete ex- emption for all country weekly news- papers in this class, in every respect. Something s^iould be done about it by this Congress in the way of amending tlie wage-and-hour law to take away the authority of the Administrator to destroy the rights of t h e American people. This ruling of the Wage and Hour Administrator comes without notice or hearing. For him to deliberately set aside a clear and definite leglalative Intent on the part of Congress may be plainly termed as a bureaucratic \steal\ of the rawest character. Congress clearly intended, a n d so stated In the law, that weekly newspa- pers having a circulation of less than 3,000 subscribers were exempt from the provisions of the Wage and Hour Act. Members of Congress realised the low and limited income of country-weekly newspapers and tlierefore provided the exemption for the weekly newspaper plant as a complete printing unit, so that this type of American free press tnigl^t continue in its historic function of building a better America for the preservation of our traditional democ- racy. If th0 W^ge and Hour Administrator does iMt rescind his ruling, a large percentage of the country-weekly press will be forced out of business because of inability to meet the additional fi- nancial (^ligations. The inevltaUe n - suit will be closing down of printing plants, throwing thousands of faithful employees out of work and the taking away from hundreds of small Ameri- can cities and villages ^ i r commijnity builder—the country'pweekly nevspapev. Does Administrator Andrews intend to \crack down\ on all country-weekly newspapers? Tl^py are »ll in the same class—getting out a weekly paper and doing Job printing. Or does he intend to only punish and penalize the week- ly newspapers which are now opposed to the policies of the New Deal? Can it be possitde that he now wants to use his arbitrary authority by making an illegal and unfounded ruling in or- der to whip eight or ten thousand weekly newspapers into line for future political purposes? Does he intend, by his ruling, to control or destroy the country press? His agents are now \cracking down\ on a small weekly newspaper in Minnesota. Will you be the next, Mr. Editor? Interpretations of l a w s should be made according to the intent of Con- gress and not according to the ideas of a Washington bureaucrat whose sole aim may be to secure more power. The ruling of the AdminUtrator as to country weeklies should be rescinded immediately; and if this is not done. Congress should act at once to take away from him all discretionary power to m a k e interpretations of any law placed under his Jurisdiction. It is not my purpose at this time to argue the merits of the wage-and- hour law or any other social or eco- nomic act. I do, however, feel it my duty to call to the attenticm of Con- gress the attempt now being made by the Administrator to control or destroy the weekly press of this country by bureaucratic ruling contrary to the in- tent of Congren. Oddi and Ends [ s o IT »jj A dictator is a man who will get away with murder Just as long as the people will let him do it. Patience is supposed to be a virtue, but there are times when it ceases to be. The man who gives you a kick in the pants for no reason at all should not be let off with an apology. If he is right, he shouldn't apologize. If he is wrong, he should get a good thrashing. This time of year the weather, as it affects our interests materially, will afford certain e d i t o r s material for much copy. But what will they do the rest of the year? You can't talk about the weather 12 months of the year edi- torially. Emotional adolescents are not neces- sarily low in Intelligence. They may be bank presidents, public officials, or to turn to another class, statesmen, even poets, musicians or ball players. A partnership can survive if one mem- ber only is an emotional adolescent, but if all members are adolescents, the partnership is headed for the rocks. When two great tire companies claim that more farm tractors are equipped with the tires of each than any others, who are you going to believe? It has been computed at a certain well known college that each lecture costs the average student 31.2 cents. And some of these students complain that it is too high because they can attend a movie for a quarter. Well, as one educator, practical ani^ hfird- headed, summed it up: \It is a very dull boy who, at the age of fourteen, doesn't know more than his father.\ Yes, the average college student knows more than any one, but a few years after graduation, he finds his knowl- edge considerably diminished. Then he begins to acquire wisdom. Somebody has said that life is like a roller-coaster — a lot of ups a n d down s and breath-taking moments, ending just where you started. Jones boasted that he had been in every hospital in town. But said his friend: \Surely you couldn't have been in the maternity hospital.\ \But I was,\ said Jones, \I was born there.\ Julius Streicher, N a z i leader, an- rounced a great scientific discovery. He said, addressing a conference of the German Health movement: \History's greatest physician is our Feuhrer!\ Lapp dealers, ha^d and Company, furniture a the following ad in the Wilburton Mountaineer: \You get the girl, We will do the rest We'll pay the preacher An<} furnish your nest.\ The reason why a woman wears furs in the summer and a low neck dress in the winter is because she is a woman. We are quoting this, ladies, so take it fcur what it is worth- Get t h e H a b i t . . SHOP A T Washington White's Phone 317 GREENPORT 120 Main St. A Fishermen's Supplies Bait, Etc. BENJAMIN MOORE'S HOUSE PAINT Olson's Boat Paint Husircii of tlhcr Hardware Itcmi Inapcctiea Bcquestcd Caulkins: \I can see good in every- thing.\ Young Neighbor: \Can you see good in the dark?\ When his wife asked Henry why they couldn't take an ocean voyage, Henry, who had to supply the where- withal, r e p l i e d . \Beggars can't be cruisers.\ And here is another of the old fables: The Monkey and the Fisherman A monkey was sitting up in a high tree when, seeing some fishermen lay- ing their nets in a river, he watched what they were doing. The men had no sooner set their nets, and retired a short distance to their dinner, than the monkey came down from the tree thinking he would try his h a n d at the same sport. But in attempting to lay the nets, he got so entangled in them that being well-nigh choked, he was forced to exclaim: \This serves me right; for what business had I, who knew nothing of fishing, to meddle with such tackle as this.\ And that Is true today. LEHIGH VALLEYI LV ANTHRACTf l The Coal that satisfies All kinds of Building Material Lumber, Timber, Monidiiiff, Sash, Doors, Glass, Hardware, Paint, Oil, Roofing, Tile, Brick, Etc. MASONS' SUPPLIES GOLDSMITH & TUTHILL NEW SUFFOLK PHONE PECONIC 6424 SOUTHOLD PHONE 3767 The SAFETY SENSATION of 1939 N^w Firestone Champion Tire Now on Sale F. Harold Sayre Chrysler and Plymouth Saiet and Service Tel. 3532 SOUTHOLD, N. Y. Sweltering Hot Outside ? Use Your Telephone All of US have two arms, two legs, two eyes, and a body to which they are all attached. And most of us have brains. But how few of us put our brains to proper use! Then we wonder why some other fellow, endowed ex- actly as we are, gets along so much better. Perhaps with all these things he has a little spark of ambition and a willingness to toil long hours until he achieves success. John Rustgard, of Alaska, Mayor of Nome, U. S. Attorney General of Alas- ka. does not believe that poverty is caused by technological processes, the gold standard, overproduction, or the manipulation of prices by Wall Street. He says: \I know several families who live well and lay by something every month on an income of $100 per month. I know many more who earn three times that and are always behind with their bills. The fact is that some are so constituted that they can save no matter how little they earn, while others can save nothing no matter how much they earn.\ \You can't be meticulous And still be frowsy Yet anything pediculous Is definitely lousy.\ (Consult Mr. Webster.) An outing at some cool spot? Just reach for your telephone and some friends together. AND when you're away on vacation — don't forget the telephone can keep you in intimate touch with the folks back home at small cost — especially every night after 7 p.m. aod all day every Sunday wheo Loog Distanc* rates to most places are reduced. SUH KCtP US HUSTLIN6 M. ^^•••-•TW^nfrvCi^J Wlua the thermometer is high, save your i-nergy— shop by telephone and have your order ddivwed to your door. NI W YORK T l i l P H O N i COMPANY I
