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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 17
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TIME HAS PROVED
MARK TWAIN
WAS WRONG
WHEN HE SAID:
“Everyhod, talks about the weather
hut nobody does an ythin gv about pf
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IN put the weather in its place!
toore the Clouds and the wan win-
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Divorce Week
Last week. amid a swarm of holiday
conventions, (hes S. Youth Movement
reduned itseff ta an abeurdity. It was a
weck of carne-( debate about war & peace,
of quarrels among friends and enemies.
From it emereedl a fact that the recent
hevday af the American Youth Congres«
had ebseured—vauths differ among them-
selves as much as with their elders, At
weel’s ond. its difference: s clorified, Youth
sorted itself inte a variety of organizations
and gatoped? ardentis in att directions,
Their tne-up, reading from deft to right:
‘ Americon Student Unien, organized in
138 bye Communists, Suctalists and mave
erick liberals, by last week bad lost mast of
is fellow travelers, was deft mocly Com-
pbast. The remnant’s Joudest crv: no aid
te Hritain, Recause Fle anur Roncevelt had
| advocated compulsory youth wark camps,
delegates last week diverced her (by mu-
fiua consents. They also d manded that
[the U.S. ally iteeté with China and the
Soviet Union, wired Pro~ident Rousevelt:
yuu CANE PULL A WILSON ON US,
—Youth Committee Against Wor was
ferneed twa sects age by Socialist seces-
sunists from ACS. U. te convened in Madi-
een, Wis. gata conl welcome. Barred from
(the Universite of Wiseunsin (of which
conscripts Director Chorence Peek stra
is presifenti ord thy Fiet Congregational
Church, the ceoventinn eventually met in
la hetel, heard ain iselatiotist speech by
Senator Burton KS Whee ler, demanded
repeal of conscription”
™4 Student League for Progressive Action
woastta oched list weck by anather group
of ALS. UL secessionists. led by “liberals
froiy or ord and Swarthmore, This group
introduced itsclf at a joint conference of
duternational Student Service and the
Nations Student) Federation in’ New
Nranswich, Nv The League's plitfom:
wih short-efewir te Britain and China,
support of the New Taal, a demand that
Noe neclaniiy her war ans
Americon Student Defense League
was recentfy started at Harvard. At the
New Brunswick copterence Jast week it
announced ifs expansion to six other col-
letes. Jts progesin: all-out aid to Britain,
repaidless of mek of war,
“iqternationol Student Service, Mrs.
Roosetelt's new friend, is a 20-vcar-old
enliof see oawhorkh fact fall eanraaniesd
relief agency which last fall reorganized
itself (Time, Sept. 2337. Its joint con-
ference with National Student Federation
was heralded in the Communist Wem
Masses as “TherPlot Against Youth.” But
its conference turned out ta be more
plotted against than plotting. First leftists
tried to pack its mecting, were repulsed.
Then the two new Leagues (above) used
its platform to announce themselves, At
week's end, 1. &. §. tried to join forces
| with N.S. F. by offering it a subsidy, was
rebuffed on the ground that its offer was
“not altruistic.”
Neotel Student Fede-ation itself,
4-C
is a long-cstablished organization of collezc
student councils, made its first plunge inio
politics six years aco when it helped found
the American Youth Congirss, Last week
it recunsidercd. Despite a plea by A. Y¥. C.'s
Executive Secretary France? Williams,
who admitted that A. V. ¢. tnade
mistakes but nevertheless denied that iis
funds ‘come fram Moscow,” N. SF.
votcd 87-fo-24 te wilhdraw from AL ¥. CC.
because of its Cunsavery iepittation” and
beiaie it representaiive. |
N.S. FL also plumped for full economic
aid tu Britain.
ational Foundation for American
Youth is GenewDunney's five-nonth-eld
utch-foe of the Youth Congress. It re-
cently publi-ted a handback for vouch
callod~diiue to Stop the Junior Firth
Colunin,
Tvav after New Year's, same under
eraduates went havk to their canipuces 19
study. oo
_—oo we
Schock’ $ Gitt
Clarence Schoyk is short. stocky and
devout, Jonks like a Penn-slvania Dutch
Dr. Dato. Fifty-three vears ago Le started
an oi] business with his father in Mt. Jax,
near Lancaster, Pa. Now Sehuck Inde-
pendent Oi Co, has 14 whole-a'e plants
and a dozen cascline service siations, is
valued at Si oen.caa.
Keventh Mr. Schenk, 73, became can-
tee
Wiis Pia
cerned about the furure ef 2) his busi-
news. 2) his thowes, Trough muarricd, br is
childle-3. Mureaver, he believes that the
system of inheritance is un-Chiristian. “Ii
we abolish oil inhesitance of property and
if we fixed a Limit te earning power” he
often said. we would be able to solve all
our economic probleinss, . 2. After rea-
sonable provision for women & cuidren. 2
man’s vstuie should ea to th: general
welfare,”
Sir. Schock cost shout fur a scheme to
itunes perpecuanien of his business aval
put his money to Christan eraplowment.
Lost week he thought he had one, We con-
verted his bu ines~ into a trust and pre
vided (hat, except fur a modest livieg rar
hinsed7 and wife. Hts income should go te
public schoels in the districts served by hi-
company (mostly in Lancaster, Vork sud
Dauphin Countics There were no string
cn hew the money shuuid be weed. But
each school district's share depended on
1) the number of its punils,
2) the amount of oif its citizens bought
from Schock Independent Oil Co. -
The more oi] taxpavers bought, the
more SICQ would prosper, ond the
more relief taxpayers would get from the
burden of supporting their schools, Las
weck he sent te 62 school beards in Lan-
caster County the first installment of prof-
its from his new trust. The gifts totalled
$20,000, ranged from $20.28 to $5,042.96.
Said Mr. Schock: “I have no ax to
grind. . . . Hf the public continues to pa-
tronize the company, the sum will ln
abundant.”
tun thines:
r40 inings.
Vesteé. Tans 12 Tad
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