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This Week in Washington
(PUBLISHER’S AUTOCASTER SERVICE)
Washington, D. C.—Regardless of
the announced purposes for which
the President has called the Con
o-iess to convene in an extraordinary
session on November 15, it seems
certain that the international situa
tion created by the Administration’s
outspoken attitude toward Japan,
and American participation in the
Nine-Power Conference in Brussels
on October 30, will hold the atten
tion of the Senate to the exclusion,
for a while at least, of the specific
legislation which the President has
asked.
While there has been no open op
position in Congress to Secretary
Hull’s activities, there has been a
strong feeling among a large group
of Senators that any sort of inter
national cooperation by the United
States held the seeds of possible
“entangling alliances.” This isola
tionist feeling resulted in the Neu
trality Law, which the Administra
tion did not want, at least in any
such form as it was enacted, and
which Mr. Roosevelt ignored com
pletely when he took the steps
which have led America, for the first
time since the Peace Conference at
Varsailles nineteen years ago, into
into an international conference in
which a war and its possible conse
quences are the subject of discussion.
This is not at all to the liking of
many Senators, who feel that it may
be a first step toward bringing this
country into European quarrels, if
not into membership in the League
of Nations. They are expected to
voice their protests loudly and vigor
ously as soon as the Senate meets
on November 15.
Davis Ready to Trade
But Ambassador Norman H.
Davis, who has been named as the
United States representative at the
Nine-Power Conference, will have
some trading material in his luggage,
which may be used effectively to
further the progam of Secretary
Hull and the Administration, and
result in improved foreign trade
conditions for this country. And that
is the prize which Mr. Roosevelt
hopes to grab off by American par
ticipation in the Brussels conference.
There is no desire or intention on ;
the part of the Administration either
to put an embargo on trade with
Japan, or to do anything which
would involve the nation in an armed
conflict. Even if there were a situa
tion calling for armed interven
tion in China, this country could not
undertake it without the coopera-1
tion of Great Britain, and the British
navy is busy at home, keeping guard :
of its country’s Mediterranean route
to the Far East. But if the other
members to the Con
ference choose to adopt Mr. Roose-1
velt’s suggestion of a “quarantine” I
against aggressors—meaning Japan !
in this case—Ambassador Davis has
authority to agree on behalf of the
United States. And a unanimous
agreement by the nine powers to iso
late Japan from all foreign trade
intercourse would, it is believed
here, speedily end her aggressions in
China.
Why Japs Would Quit
For Japan is not in financial con
dition to carry out her plans for the
conquest of China if her foreign
trade is cut off. It might hurt Ameri-
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can trade for a short time, since
Japan is our largest customer for
cotton; but cotton is being sup
ported chiefly by the Government
now, and further support would add
little to the present distress. A Jap
anese economic quarantine would
shut off practically all of this coun
try’s supply of silk, which would
result in a boom in the rayon mar
ket. But lacking her supplies of cot
ton, oil and metals which she has to
import, and the cash from her sales
of silk in which to pay the cost of
maintaining an army in China, Japan
would, officials here believe, throw
up her hands and cry quit, on any
fail terms the other nations laid
down.
It is quite definitely believed here
that no international consideration
of the Japan-China situation would
have been possible if the United
States, as one of the signatory na
tions to the Nine-Power Treaty,
had not been willing to participate
in the Brussels conference. Realiz
ing this, the State Department be
gan some months ago to bargain
with European nations, especially
Great Britain, as to the price of our
participation. If they really wanted
us to help settle the Japanese mess,
coming at a time when they were
busy trying to keep Europe from
breaking out in a new World War,
what would they pay us for our
help?
Will America Play Ball?
What did we want? they asked.
The answer, conveyed quietly to the
British Foreign Office last Summer
by the Under Secretary of State,
Sumner Welles, was that we wanted
a trade agreement with Great Brit
ain and her colonies and depend
encies, so far as they are controlled
by the Crown, which would bring
about substantial reductions in world
tariffs and remove trade barriers
which now give the British too great
an advantage in world markets.
Ambassador Davis’s trade goods
are believed to include an agree
ment, in principle, for new reciprocal
tariffs which Great Britain, to which
the British are ready to agree, also
in principle, as a part of the price
of American participation in the
Brussels Conference.
Germany and Italy are members
of the conference. They have both
hinted that they might be persuaded
to abandon their isolationist policies
and play ball with the rest of the
world if they could borrow some
money, somewhere. It will be part
of Norman Davis’s job at Brussels
to tell them that under the Johnson
Act they can’t borrow any more
from the United States, but that
maybe that law can be repealed. For
insiders who claim to know what is
going on in the minds of high offi
cialdom in Washington say that
there is hatching a plan to bribe not
only Germany and Italy but also
Japan by making loans from
American’s enormous gold reserve,
in return for trade agreements bene
ficial to this country and promises
to quit threatening war and scaring
everybody half to death.
Some of all this is going to come
out on the floor of Congress, and
it may start such a hot debate as
to overshadow the farm bill, the
labor bill and the rest of the Presi
dent’s program.
EARLY COUNTY NEWS, BLAKELY, GEORGIA
Today and Tomorrow
(Continued from preceding page)
Europe when the Democratic scheme
of civilization will be again threaten
ed, as it was in 1914. Then we will
have to decide whether we can stand
alone as a Democracy, or whether we
are justified in going to war to pre
serve our concept of human liberties.
We don’t face that alternative yet.
In Asia our problem is whether
our national security is menaced
by the aggression of a totalitarian
State against an essentially Demo
cratic State. So far nothing appears
to me to justify this country in
taking part in that war, either.
DEMOCRACY . . . threatened
Some ideas are dangerous things.
They spread around the world and
sound plausible in the ears of people
who do not see their implications.
The idea of a completely planned,
organized and orderly state of
society appeals to many who do not
count the cost. I do not mean the
money cost, but the cost in things
of more value than money.
The idea of a civilization in which
everything is done by rule is as old
as the first attempts of humanity to
live together in communities. It
works, however, only when there
is the power of force to make people
obey the rules. There are some rules
on which the vast majority agree,
mainly rules against murder and rob
bery. Even a Democracy admits the
use of force to compel the observance
of those rules. But a Democracy
cannot tolerate the use of force to
regulate people’s thoughts or their
expression, or to compel people to
labor or live under conditions pre
scribed by the State. Only Fascism
can do that.
I think America needs to guard
against the spread of the Fascist idea
as much as we need to guard against
a foreign armed force.
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A HALF CENTURY AGO TODAY
Some Things of Interest That Happened
Fifty Years Ago.
(Excerpts from Early County News
of October 27, 1887.)
CANE GRINDINGS are now in
full blast, although the drought cut
the cane crop short in this section.
* * *
TUESDAY night a burglary was
committed at the store of Mr. H. Q.
Frazier.
* * *
MR. A. F. HOLT visited Albany
Monday.
♦ * ♦
CHARLIE LASSETER is in Blake
ly visiting his aunt, Mrs. S. E. Bird.
* * *
COL. R. H. POWELL was up to
Fort Gaines last Friday.
* * *
BORN unto Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Jordan, on the 16th, a baby boy.
* * *
MR. R. W. DAVIS was over from
Calhoun county last week.
♦ * ♦
MRS. M. L. McDOWELL, of Cle
burne, Texas, after visiting the
family of Mr. W. L. McDowell, has
gone to visit relatives in Fort Gaines.
♦ ♦ ♦
MISSES Mattie and Nellie Holmes,
of Bluffton, were in Blakely last
Wednesday on their return from
Rome, Ga.
* ♦ *
JUDGE WILLIAMS held the first
session of County court last Wed
nesday.
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BLAKELY cotton market: Mid
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♦ * *
THE Georgia Legislature adjourn
ed sine die last Tuesday. The two
sessions which they held cost the
State of Georgia $200,000.
* * *
CEDAR SPRINGS NEWS, by H.
G. A., says: “Wagons pass through
here constantly loaded with negroes
going up to work on the Blakely ex
tension.” “Mr. James Roberts, of
Twilight, accompanied by his sister,
Miss Susie, spent Sunday here with
relatives.” “Miss Fannie Brooks and
Mrs. O. E. Hall visited relatives here
last Sunday.” “Miss Lizzie Lee has
returned from a visit to relatives in
Atlanta.” “Mrs. R. H. Brooks is visit
ing the family of Mr. J. L. Brown.”
“Miss Mattie Stinson, of Alabama, is
the guest of Mrs. E. H. Kellum.”
“Dr. J. H. Crozier has sold a half
interest in his plantation here to Prof.
R. T. Rutherford.” “Prof. J. L. Kelly
has been re-elected as teacher of the
Cedar Springs Academy.” “A wee
Miss arrived at the home of Mr. J.
S. Mosely the past week.” “Mr. J.
W. Fort is visiting in North Carolina.”
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