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1 if 10 BROOKLYN EAGLE, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941 NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG billion OVCR. Lindbergh Action Regrettable; Patriotic Service Comes First RAY TUCKER'S LETTER citizen should be willing patriotically to give the Government the benefit of any special abilities he may possess. Hence we feel that Colonel Lindbergh should have risen above personalities and, regardless of Presidential criticism of his course in opposing the Administration's foreign policies, continued In the Air Corps Reserve, ready to serve in his chosen field whenever the call should come. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's resignation as colonel in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve is most regrettable.

Unquestionably Colonel Lindbergh is well equipped by training and knowledge ta render unusual service to his country in the sphere of aviation, now recognized as of paramount military Importance. In a time of crisis, when the future of the nation may be at stake, every Churchill's Speech Typical of the English Who Are Always Magnificent in Defeat f' i If A FIGURE THAT NEEDS TRIMMING LETTERS TO THE EAGLE Letters must bear the tiflnaturet tni tiimtn of the writer but names will be permitted at the discretion at the editor. Contribution! should be kept as short at ponible but the editor reserves the right ta cut them down ta meet requirement at spaca. FROM WASHINGTON The recalcitrant attitude of striking workmen on national defense Jobs has astounded even Labor Secretary Perkins' hard-boiled conciliators. Their written and verbal reports to their superiors present picture of legal sabotage which is almost incredible.

In strike after conciliators and management representatives have reminded spokesmen for the employes that the factory was engaged In work involving material for tanks, airplanes, destroyers, powder factories. They have begged the men to continue operations pending settlement of the dispute. The Invariable reply has been' that the Importance of the plant to national defense meant nothing to them. Their only interest was in forcing the owner to "sign that contract. If you don't, well close you down for good." The Allis-Chalmers strike, for example, delayed construction of destroyers and production of powder, of which there Is a fearful shortage for both the Army and the Navy.

But it was not settled until the Federal Government intervened. A new note in contracts up for renewal is the C. I. O. demand that management of the plant be turned over to the workers.

Under provisions skillfully phrased, the owner would have hardly any voice In the conduct of his establishment. And an even more menacing threat Is the employe representatives' reiterated assertion that "Well show you who is' running this country." Still a third cause for concern at Washington is the fact that most strikes are led by workmen with foreign names and background. President Roosevelt surprised his own naval experts when he disclosed that the neutrality patrol has been extended 1,000 miles out from the American shore line, and may be advanced even further toward Europe. It was news also to the South American countries which have agreed to co-operate in the establish- ment of a hemisphere defense zone. Official maps on the walls of key offices in the State, War and Navy Departments appear to contradict the President.

When the offshore neutrality area was first created departmental officials drew black lines on their maps to delimit the sector in American warships would operate. In every instance the lines were drawn only 300 miles out to sea. Within that area the patrolling ships were supposed simply to keep a watch on unfriendly vessels and to notify the Navy Department of their appearance and position. In recent months there have been hardly any reports of German ships In western waters. F.

D. own advisers are unable to reconcile his flat declaration against convoying or escorting with the public statements of Secretaries Hull and Knox and Mayor LaGuardia. The President admits that they were speaking for him, and the plain meaning of their words is that we must "get American-made weapons to Britain" and also to China. Congressmen who once writhed under the Presidential whip which Tommie Corcoran wielded by proxy, now are taking revenge on the young man. They won't let the lawyer-lobbyist get a foothold on Capitol Hill.

When word reached Chairman Truman of the Senate National Defense Investigating Committee that Hugh A. Fulton, the committee's lawyer, was a Corcoran protege the Senator put the question straight to the D. of J. man. "No, slrree," replied Mr.

Fulton. His denial enabled him to retain the job. The report arose from the fact that until recently Fulton was executive assistant to John T. Cahill, Tommle's friend, who was United States Attorney in the Southern New York District. It was he, just before his resignation to take the committee job, who obtained the indictment in Philadelphia of former Senior Judge J.

Warren Davis of the Third Circuit, the ex-movie magnate William Fox, and the Scranton lawyer, Morgan T. Kaufman, on charges involving the admixture of private and judicial business. 25 YEARS AGO IN BROOKLYN April 29, 1916 Thousands witnessed the opening of Prospect Park's new granite and brick menagerie building. Park Commissioner Raymond V. Ingersoll conducted the ceremonies.

The Third Home Defense League in Brooklyn was organized at the Hamburg Ave. police station. More than 150 applicants were accepted. Fulton St. crowds were swelled by 3,100 Long Islanders who came to Brooklyn for Annual Spring Shopping Day.

BROOKLYN EAGLE '(Trade Mark Eagle Registered! (Founded by Isaao Van Anden In 1641 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAOLZ PRANK D. SCHROTH, President and Publisher W. P. CROWEIX, Secretary and Treasurer Eagle Building. Johnton and Adams streets Brooklyn, New York TELEPHONE MAln 4-8200 Subscription rate by mall for the Brooklyn Eagle In the United States, one year, (11.00 Entered at the Brooklyn Postoffic at Second Class Mali Matter appraisal of defeat and of difficulties ahead.

Mr. Churchill's speech, though not the kind of talk that would appeal to a Nazi audience, was just the kind of thing best suited to hearten his. English audience. It must have had the same effect on Americans, who are not people needing to be coddled by wishful thinking or encouraged by minimizing the difficulties ahead. To Americans, as to English, there is something infinitely worthy of respect in.

a leader who, promising that his people will give a good account of themselves, declares: "More than that It would be boastful to say. Less than that it would be foolish to believe." to acquire the Taylor estate at East Isllp for park purposes. The result was the beautiful Heckscher State Park, which will stand forever as a monument to the philanthropist. A Victory for Brooklyn It is most heartening to learn that the plan for the Brooklyn regiments in the New York Guard to parade on Memorial Day in Manhattan rather than in their home borough has been changed as a result of protests to Governor Lehman. The original orders have been rescinded by Major General William Ottmann, commanding officer of the Guard, so that the local parade along Bedford Ave.

and Eastern Parkway will have Brooklyn troops participating in accordance with time-honored custom. The veteran groups are to be applauded for their alertness in noting the oversight and promptly taking it up with the authorities. Indeed there was no excuse for ever planning such discriminatory arrangements in the first place. The Real Test The Army, after a series of tests from a mobile pigeon loft in Rockefeller Center, has found that trained carrier pigeons are not confused by the wind currents set up by tall buildings nor by traffic, noise and all the other features of midtown life. But the pigeons won't have passed the final test till they can wing their way across the Brooklyn Borough Hall maze without getting lost.

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty "Are we lucky, Mom! his mother only let other fivol" That the Nazis should pour scorn and heavy Teutonic satire upon Prime Minister Churchill's speech is not surprising. They have never understood the English character, which is never more magnificent than in adversity, never more steadfast than when the going is worst. The difference between the two peoples becomes all the more striking when one considers how differently Hitler would have spoken had he been in Churchill's place. The Fuehrer deals in exaggeration, in hysteria, in outright falsehood and flamboyant threats. Mr.

Churchill, typically English in his expression of bulldog determination, is measured, almost brutally frank in nls realistic The Valorous Greeks Doubtless the Greeks could have obtained better terms from the Nazis had they been willing to lay down their arms and sue for peace when the Yugoslavians cracked and the fight was obviously lost. But they did not so choose. Instead they decided to fight to the end to give their British allies at least a fighting chance to escape with their equipment. Indeed, the Greeks, who knew they had lost all, cheered and threw flowers upon the tired British warriors as they trudged through the streets of Athens en route to embarkation points. Greece has been overwhelmed, but no one can say, as was said of some countries, that it was conquered by telephone.

Against great odds they gave a remarkable, Inspiring account of themselves. Absent in Greece, also, were the loathsome details of treachery and treason which have smeared every other single conquest the Nazis have made. When the final peace is set down and the seals fixed, Greece will be remembered generously. A Worthy Effort Within certain limitations, the blind today are able to be self-supporting, useful citizens. The time is past when they were fated to become objects merely of pity and compelled to subsist on the few copper coins that dropped in a tin cup.

Today, under modern teaching methods, they can take a worthwhile place in community life. It is to furnish the funds to provide the blind of Brooklyn with special Instruction and to purchase equipment and materials for them that the three principal religious faiths of the borough today are opening a three-day bazaar and entertainment at the St. George Hotel. The affair marks Brooklyn's twenty-seventh annual Week for the Blind, and is a splendid example of how Catholic, Jew and Protestant are co-operating for the good of the community. August Heckscher August Heckscher achieved many business successes before death ended his career at the age of 92, but he will doubtless be best remembered for his philanthropies.

In spite of the spectacular manner in which he piled up a huge fortune in Manhattan real estate after a dramatic career in coal and zinc mining, his gifts to charities gave him far more enjoyment and satisfaction. He was deeply interested in the elimination of the slums, but his favorite benevolence was the aid of underprivileged children and destitute old people. As Mr. Heckscher lived for many years at Huntington, he took a special interest in Long Island and there are many reminders of his beneficence both in his home town and elsewhere. In 1925 Mr.

Heckscher gave the Long Island State Park Commission $250,000 Sees Only Three Alternative U. S. Course of Action Might Toko To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: It was disappointing and unpleasant In New York recently to hear many thousands of presumably American 'citizens cheer at the claim of Colonel Lindbergh that England is now defeated. The incomparable filer and amateur statesman declares it a fact. However, nothing in the Colonel's past education or experience makes him a competent military or naval observer, or a political economist of even the second order.

What kind of thinking is it that decides that the Americas are free from actual invasion if well defended at home when we know that long-range bombers are being built in this country with over 7,500 miles of cruising radius? Or that denies the proximity of the West African coast and the danger of eventual Nazi control of air fields in Central and South America by the usual methods of stealth, subtlety and chicanery? What kind of thinking is it that can rationalize all the events of the last two years into a conclusion that the Americas have nothing to fear if they defend themselves? Have we not seen every form of aggressiveness used, economic, political, as well as the usual answer of German "culture," brute force? Have we not been promised a treat In world economic domination by advocates of the "New Physicians tell us of the uselessness of trying to heal the effects of infection unless the focal point is removed. Will not Nazlism and its philosophy of force have to be removed at Otis Wilton's dog had six pups and im Keep one, so sne gave me tne its source to free the peoples of the world from its constant threat? Our choice seems to be one of three: 1. Beat Nazlism now with Britain's help and her navy. 2. Let Britain fall through our default now and then later be goaded into an unequal war by totalitarian tactics.

This means fighting Hitler without Britain and with the Japs pounding our back door with a "navy almost equal to our own. Then also we will find most of the British and all of the French navy in Hitler's hands. This is the situation Hitler dreams of. 3. Swallow all pride and make a humiliating deal with Hitler and his cut-throats along the lines suggested by our foremost American ap-peasers.

This would bring us within the orbit of the "New Order," and much of the American way of life would pass. We know Hitler's contempt for democracies. Which choice? R. B. IRWIN.

Pleasantville, N. April 24. Change in United States Attitude Toward Aggressor Nations Urged To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Lindbergh Is a man with initiative. He has the courage to at least express his own mind rather than to follow the ideas of another or a group of individuals who are out to help Britain with war as their ulterior desire. Let us arm and be prepared to defend ourselves against aggressors.

We have a substantial guarantee against aggressors if we begin right now to be less provocative. Let us gain experience from the last World War. America did not enjoy an ounce of gratitude for the American blood that stained the battlefields of Prance. Let us be practical. This is a practical civilization.

We have no friends in Europe. This is the time for Americans to rally around the Lindberghs. DANIEL E. GIANCOLA. Brooklyn, April 24.

Says Civilisation Must Saved By U. S. From Dictatorship's Blight To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Now that the tide of war has turned black for England and her allies and military reverses In the Balkans have given Hitler the upper hand, the die-hard Isolationists like Senators Wheeler and Nye and Lindbergh are all the more agitating for a "hands-off policy. Let Nazlism and Fascism, the black forces of Nihilism, and destruction, have their way. It's none of our business what transpires in Europe, so long as we are safe, with the Atlantic and our remoteness as our protection, so they say.

Far-seeing Americans who see beyond the boundaries of the immediate present, realizing what a Hitler-dominated world will look like, will all the more redouble their efforts to give full possible help to England and the democracies to win the war. She Is the last remaining bulwark of freedom and civilization, and it would be the blackest day in history If she is allowed to go down to defeat. The people of the United States ought to and will accept their destiny to save themselves and the world from the blight of the dictatorships. LOUIS M. OOREN.

Brooklyn. April 24, 'The Modern Thomos Jefferson' To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Thank God, we have an American like Charles Lindbergh, the modern Thomas Jefferson, fearless, honest and true to his own country. MARGARET KRUSE. Richmond Hill, April 24. A FACT A DAY ABOUT BROOKLYN Brooklyn in the eighties and nineties was in the throes of a bicycle raze, which resulted in the organization of many bicycle clubs, some of which made national records.

The Long Island Wheelmen, the third bicycling organization to be founded on Long Island, was organized in 11183 and had its own clubhouse at lit Bedford a great distinction, since it was the only wheel club in the old City of Brooklyn that could boast of it. The membership was about 140, and the members were called "the gray coats" because of the gray uniform adopted by the club The Prospect Wheelmen, which won the prize for the ten-mile championship, was organized in 1SS8. Other prominent clubs were the Brooklyn Ramblers, the Brooklyn Roadsters, the Bedford Cycle Club, the Montauk Wheelmen, the Bedford Wheelmen, the Brooklyn City Wheelmen, the South Brooklyn Wheelmen, Bushwick Wheelmen, Pioneer Cycling Club, Bedford Y. M. C.

A. Wheelmen, New Brooklyn Wheelmen and the Clergymen's Cycle Club. MANHOOD By EDGAR A. GUEST These things all men admire: Real courage under fire; Clean living; strength of will; High faith, and hard-earned skill; Soul's depth and breadth of mind; The grace of being kind. These things all men will praise: Greatness with simple ways; True sympathy which shows Knowledge of hurts and woes; Good nature that can wear Under life's fretful care.

How in opinion climb? How make the most of time? How come to manhood's goal? Work with both heart and soul, Seeking again, again, All that's admired by men. Honor, temptation proved, Faith steadfast, stanch, unmoved) Speech gentle, thoughtful, kind; These show the tolerant mind. These since the race began Always have marked the man I.