HERO, GIRL, AND BATTLE

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2147, 21 April 1928, Page 7

HERO, GIRL, AND BATTLE

Public opinion in this little colony of artists and writers has been greatly aroused (wrote a correspondent to the New York "Times" from Interlaken, New Jersey, on February 11) by the publication on the front page of the "Asbury Press" of A. Lindbergh seated opposite a girl at a table on which stood a bottle of champagne. To-day the local school board voted to protest strongly to the paper's editor. The picture was taken on Colonel Lindbergh's recent trip through South and Central America, and bore the caption: "Lindy, Can This Be True?" The board declared that it made its protest "in loyalty to our young folks who are at the mercy of that which their adults pattern for them." The resolution also charges the "farming" of American youth and "regrets the point of view of anyone who would care to 'get anything' on the young man who has proved to be so truly American."

The editors of the 'Asbury Press" deny that they are trying to 'get anything' on Colonel Lindbergh or on anyone else, or that they had any other motive in publishing the picture than that it was news. They state the ir stand as follows:—"The members of the school board who consider it disgraceful seeing Lindbergh perched at a table whereon stood a bottle of champagne, do their thinking by such devious processes that we cannot follow them. If Colonel Lindbergh is liberal enough to permit a bottle of champagne on his table when he is visiting a country where that beverage is of good standing, what harm is there in publishing the fact? Lindbergh's temperance is well known but he is tolerant enough in his views not to consider the presence of a bottle of champagne on his table in a South American country as a cardinal sin."