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Newspaper Page TextUmingm , m^go-bound iw%Es/ASEN Washington, I). C. FOREIGN TRADE MONOPOLY More alert minds in the Roosevelt administration have been doing some very careful thinking about what is going to happen to Ameri can trade in the future. The pic ture is far from optimistic. Here are some of the things they have concluded: After this war is over it is almost inevitable, if Germany wins, that the world will be divided into four great trading areas. They will be: 1. Japan and China, comprising about 450,000,000 people and falling under the totalitarian domination of Japan. 2. Germany, which will exercise life and death rule over about 400,- 000,000 people, including all the na tions of Europe. 3. Russia, which will govern the trade of about 200,000,000 people. 4. The United States, Canada and South America—if we can still keep the latter under the Monroe Doc trine. These will represent about 350,000,000 people. In the first three of these economic areas, foreign trade will be com pletely controlled by government monopolies. For instance, Germany operating on a slave wage scale and a socialized system, will be able to cut prices and undersell the Unit ed States throughout South America. Already Germany is offering steel in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires lor September delivery far under prices quoted by U. S. steel mills. Japan, which is sure to industri alize China, also will pay slave wages, and will do the same. U. S. ALTERNATIVES Therefore the United States, in order to continue any kind of export trade whatsoever, will have to do one of four things: 1. Reduce wages to a level approx imating the starvation standards paid in Germany. 2. Reduce profits, or eliminate them altogether, if German prices are to be met. 3. Subsidize industry and virtually take it over, as under the Nazi, P’as cist, and Soviet systems. 4. Create a foreign trade monop oly. This is what the Russians have done for more than a decade, and what the Nazis have been doing more recently. All exports abroad are sold through the government and im ports are purchased the same way. It is this last system which New Deal advisers consider least objec tionable of the four, and upon which they are concentrating. Naturally, the handling of U. S. exports and imports through a gov ernment monopoly is a long, long way from the Hull trade treaties. • • ♦ CHICAGO CHAFF The Utah and Florida delegations were divided 50-50 between men and women—the only such at any major convention. Dr. Francis Townsend, old-age czar, attempted to put the bee on Democratic platform-makers and candidates ns he did at Philadel phia, but with no better luck. The only one to give him a tumble was McNutt, whom Townsend was boost ing for vice president. Chief pluggers for the “little busi ness” plank in the platform, prom ising loans and protection against big business, were Sen. James Mead of New York, Chairman Adolph Sabath of the house rules commit tee, Dr. John F. Carruthcrs, head of the National Small Business Re search bureau, and James G. Daly, president of the National Small Businessmen’s association. Strange pre-convention visitor to the national committee headquar ters here was John Raskob, chair man from 15128 to 15)32 and with A1 Smith a bolter in 1936. Raskob spent a half-hour conferring privately with Farley. Two most photographed women at the convention were Evie Robert, photogenic wife of the secretary of the national committee, and stately, white-haired Mrs. Mack, national committcewoman from the Virgin islands. Two other unusual visitors were Mrs. Alice Longworth and Forrest Davis, goateed newsman, both ac tive in the nearly successful G. O. P. presidential campaign of Senator Taft. No wonder one of the first things the national committee did was to enact a rule limiting the number of delegates at future Democratic con ventions. This one has 1,094 votes and 1,896 delegates. Three states sent veritable armies of delegates, each with a minute fraction of a vote. Texas, with 46 votes, sent 135 delegates: Mississippi, with 18 votes, has 108 delegates; and Montana, with six votes, has 26 delegates. One Mississippi district with two votes elected 58 delegates. Pride of Jim Farley at the con vention was his attractive, 15-year old daughter, Ann, who acts as one of his secretaries and takes her duties very seriously. Women played a big role in the Chicago convention; in fact their most important at any national po litical convention. In addition to a record representation of 500 out of 2,000 delegates and alternates, the women also were well represented on all the important committees. Eighteen women leaders in various fields are acting as an advisory com mittee to the platform makers. I /^General HUGH s. I JOHNSON klj Jour: Un'l«lK»,ilur« J WNl’Svnkt Washington, I). C. DEFENSE FALLACIES The President was right in saying that the American people are pre pared for any sacrifice for total de fense. It should have begun long ago. But dancing a merry madrigal and tossing off billions like bay leaves isn’t total defense. Mr. Roosevelt’s futile solution for every problem from unemployment to ag riculture, from business depression to defense, is to ask congress for blank checks for billions. On the very face of this message, defense appropriations must have been wholly unplanned. It takes, or it should take, much time and study to blue-print and then undertake an industrial production progress of even $1,000,000,000. But this is the President’s own time table of what he has asked—and when. January, 1940 .... $2,000,000,000 May 16, 1940 .... 1,182,000,000 May 31, 1940 .... 1,277,741,170 July 10, 1940 .... 4,848,171,967 Total $9,307,913,137 * • * Nobody is going to complain about what defense costs. Nobody ought to complain about the belated awak ening of our great American Dala dier or the sound diplomatic, mili tary and naval strategy both of dem onstrating that we intend immedi ately to make ourselves invincible and of proceeding to do so. But this roman candle jugglery with bil lions isn’t going to fool anybody but the American people. For what is this money to be spent? For “naval expansion,” for active and reserve equipment of a “land force” of 2,000,000 men and for 19,000 airplanes—all “to repel aggression against the United States or the Western hemisphere.” But we “will not send our men to take part in European wars.” How about results from the bil lions already authorized? “Excel lent progress . . . Every week, more and more is being delivered.” That sounds exactly like the guns and munitions we have “on hand or on order.” The trouble with every phase of this message is that it reveals noth ing except a hint that there is no plan. That the magnificent figures were picked out of the air, and that actual progress is too piffling to be described any more definitely than in the Dr. Cone pollyanna abraca dabra “every day in every way I grow better and better.” • * ♦ Is there any military or naval opinion that we can or should pre pare to repel aggression anywhere on the Western hemisphere? It is not on record. A realistic approach to our defense problem reveals that, while we can and must become supreme and impregnable about as far as the Equator with such strength as would be a serious threat to any incursions further south, we can’t underwrite all the weak, un democratic, unfriendly Latin nations between the Equator and Cape Horn. The strictly military problem does not require 2,000,000 men and, if it did, it would be folly to provide facilities to equip them in short or der. War changes equipment too fast. If you gear a tool up to equip a million men in two or three years, you can equip the next million in six months. If you try to equip the first 2,000,000 in so short a time, you risk mountains of obsolete equip ment and acres of idle plants. A promise not to send Americans abroad doesn’t mean anything if your policy invites foreign war. The American people should not be fooled into thinking that rearma ment is “excellent.” It is not. It could not be. It would be a miracle if we began to get balanced equip ment in 18 months, and this adminis tration is neither manned, equipped nor organized to produce industrial miracles. ♦ * • PROTECT REFUGEES If there are any effective legal restrictions preventing child ref ugees from England coming to homes offered them in America, they ought to be removed. There is a more cogent question. Some institutions for the care of homeless children have experienced a marked seasonal rise in applica tions for adoption around the gra cious Christmas season. At varying later periods the little darlings don’t seem so desirable. On this ground, usually, the insti tution that gave the child will take it back, but what is going to hap pen in a similar situation with these piteous fugitives? Heaven knows we have such a terrific burden in taking care of the millions of our own destitute that we are not making a very good job of it, and few if any of their children are being guaranteed a home. But the plight of little children under bombing operations is more than persuasive—it is compelling. Many good and responsible people are offering to assume the financial and personal burden of receiving these kids. But doesn’t confidence in the whole scheme require provision | now for that possibility? HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA _ ■ Kathleen Norris Says: Mother Was Finn Once; You Be Finn Now (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Jji n ow, ■l PL I ' Yc^ On every political and social question they disagree. By KATHLEEN NORRIS IF EVERY husband was an unselfish angel, wives wouldn’t so often be con fused with questions of where their own duty lay. If every mother and father considered their growing chil dren as individuals, with sepa rate entities and rights, how much simpler the paths of those children would be! In short, if men and women weren’t faulty, stupid, blind hu man beings at all, but strong, self-reliant, self-sacrificing su per-men and women, my mail bag would be considerably light ened of the problems young wives and sons and daughters write me, as they attempt to ad just life to suit themselves, and themselves to get along in life. One of the eternally unsettled questions is how much a daughter owes her father and mother when she becomes a money-earner and they are settling down into old age. “Philippa” describes her perplexi ties in a spirited letter. “I’ve been married six years,” writes Philippa, “and have a son of four and another baby coming. My husband is an eye specialist, and whether that’s a profession that ac tually affects the nerves, or whether Brownie would be nervous anyway I won’t pretend to say, but the fact remains that he is very often tense, exhausted and irritable. Not with me, but sometimes with Browning junior, or the dinner, or the tele phone or a hundred other trifles. Mother's At Our House. “My mother has lived with us since my father’s death three years ago. She always had a comfortable home, two good maids, a car, clubs, garden, everything. All this van ished with my father’s death, for he left barely enough insurance to pay bills, and from the funeral she came home with me. I have one brother, but his wife is not congenial with my mother, and he has four children and a crowded home. “With a small boy to raise, and a busy husband whose meals are al ways movable feasts, I really have much to do. But Mother is exacting, and she will not concede anything. If friends come in to play bridge with her they often stay for a long rubber until dinner time. If she wants to shop I must go with her. If Brownie speaks sharply to the small boy, Mother instantly defends Browning junior, saying that Daddy has come home cross. If I arrange a dinner Mother vacillates, first say ing she will be present, then saying she may not. “She often goes dow r n to the kitch en with critical suggestions for Anna. At the table sometimes she quietly refuses everything, and sighs. This makes my husband fu rious, even though I've told him that Mother has had a full meal at someone’s tea, an hour earlier. On every political and social question they disagree; Mother occasionally saying softly ‘you’re entirely wrong,’ after it’s all over. Stresses Poverty. “My mother wants to discuss ev ery small move of her life with me, read me long letters from old friends, ask me to telephone to make beauty parlor or club engagements. A cottage that she owns brings her in $25 a month, when rented, that is all she has. My husband most generously puts $5O in the bank for her every month, and sometimes my brother manages to add 5 or 10 dol lars to that. But she talks of her MOTHER-IN-LAWS Kathleen Norris offers advice to a newly married girl whose mother is threatening to break up their home. Her mother came to live with them, hut is making herself unwelcome by continually directing their lives and in terfering with their plans ; she is even “ protecting ” their little daughter. Miss Norris believes this problem can be solved in such away that they will all he far happier. poverty continually, and reminds all our friends that Paul left her noth ing, and but for Phil and Brownie she would starve. It hurts me to have my father’s memory belittled, and it hurts Brownie to be continu ally smiling off her lavish praises in public. “At any suggestion of her mov ing to separate quarters she all but collapses. It never has been seri ously suggested, but her constant ‘where would I be but for these dear children of mine?’ gives me the chills whenever I nerve myself to propose it. When an old friend was ousted by her children a few years ago Mother said ‘ln Fanny’s place, I’d kill myself.’ She meant it, too. “Things are very bad just now because she resents my having an other child. I was quite ill when Browning was born, but it was be cause I had had severe flu and was badly run down. Now I am in per fect condition, and hope for sev eral more children. Will you tell me what I can say or do to smooth out this really uncomfortable situa tion?” A Threat to Happiness. I can only tell you, Philippa, what I have told countless other young wives in this column. Your mother doesn’t belong in your home any more than does any other inconsid erate, selfish old woman. Her pres ence there is a threat to your hus band’s affection for you, and your own married happiness. When your mother was prosperous and had an establishment and servants, it nev er occurred to her to save, to plan for this hour. She enjoyed luxury and extravagance; she expected al ways to be protected and important. Well, life isn’t like that. All of us outgrow our usefulness and im portance, and the only thing to do is to realize it, to get out of the children’s lives. To love, to help, to advise when they need you, that is the great privilege of age. But to fasten parasite-like upon them, blandly upsetting their domestic ar rangements, blandly delaying and complicating household affairs, com plaining, criticizing, spoiling the children, requesting endless favors, commanding bored interest—this is to do for your own children a dis service that even their deadliest ene mies would not attempt. This good lady should move her self and her affairs to the cottage aforementioned, and see her daugh ter only when that daughter can find time to run in for visits. If the long-suffering son-in-law can make that monthly allowance $75, which under the circumstances he will probably be only too eager to do, then Mother can live quite comforta bly, and enjoy real independence for the first time. Solution Requires Firmness. All the time she will know in her heart that she DOESN’T BELONG IN HER DAUGHTER’S HOUSE. All the time she will remember per fectly that she couldn’t stand her own mother-in-law, 30 years ago. All the time she will be aware that Brownie is steeling himself to force Philippa to keep to her resolution to get Mother to move out, and that Philippa and Brownie will have an angry battle of words about it when they are alone. ■T Fhl.Phillipr w* M> WNU Servia. HITLER AND NAPOLEON (“Hitler Visits Tomb of Napoleon." — headline) Napoleon—Stop staring at me! Hitler—l’m not staring at you; I’m looking at what I thought was a reflection. Napoleon—Go away. I’m tired of tourists. Hitler—l’m no ten, Nappie, it’s time you and I met. We have ev erything in common. We are two of a type. Napoleon—Do you realize you are talking to the most famous conquer or in history? Hitler—That’s the very question I was going to ask you. You were good for your time, but you’re out classed. Napoleon—By whom, may I ask? Hitler—Even if you didn’t ask, I’d still tell you. By me! Napoleon—Who are you? Hitler—l am Adolf Hitler. Napoleon—Hitler? Hitler? I once knew a sausage maker named Hit ler . Hitler—l am the conqueror of most of Europe. In two years I have taken nine nations. Napoleon (bored) —I wish I knew what you smoked. Hitler—ln two months I took Den mark, Norway, Belgium, Holland and France. Napoleon Nobody ever takes France. It’s purely an illusion. Hitler —Believe it or not, I have captured France. Napoleon (derisively)—You and who else? ____ enough during those years at St. Helena! Bah, the world must be softening up. You don’t look like a conqueror. Hitler—You don’t look any too hot yourself. Napoleon—Go on with your story. You say you have conquered nine nations? Hitler—l have the world at my feet. Napoleon That’s what I was crazy enough to think once! Re member it’s only a short trip from your feet to your throat. Hitler—And do you know what I am going to do next? I am going to capture England! Napoleon—Take a tip from me and forget it. I once had that idea. Hitler—l shall capture the Brit ish isles and destroy the British em pire. Napoleon—Would you mind re peating that? Hitler—l shall capture the British isles and destroy the British em pire. I shall be boss of Europe and of the world, the greatest conqueror of all time! Napoleon (beckoning)—Come on in! I’ll move over! • • • RACE CHART STUFF Bold Turk . Not out since November Key Ring Should find opening Sailor’s Yarn Unreliable Skagerrak Tough spot Stalagmite Dropping down Ceiling Zero . Seldom comes through It seems that the 24 garment workers who have been playing in “Pins and Needles,” a revue staged by the garment workers’ union, have retired from the garment industry and joined the Actors Equity as pro fessional entertainers. Now if some actors would only shift to the gar ment business all would be well. » * * A correspondent telling of the flight and return to Paris of refugees tells of one man who clung to a heavy Paris telephone book coming and going. When asked why he re plied, “I don’t know, I just grabbed it up. I guess I might as well throw it away now.” Maybe the French phone books carry those instructions ‘How to Get a Policeman.” * • * Sonja Henie has been married and the Office Cynic says it is going tc be a great letdown to her when her husband finds the refrigerator out of order and yells “Say, do you know anything about ice?” * * * CAN YOU REMEMBER— Away back when you could boast that you were “working like a Tro- j jan” without drawing any hard looks? * • • Uncle Sam is going in for “Panzer Division.” (Samzer divisions would seem better.) He will build tanks almost as big as Nazi ones and ca pable of at least 50 miles an hour Nobody can beat him in the auto motive field, and we predict that he will not only turn out super tanks, but do it in colors. tali m Mr ‘‘Si* 1 KK.i Blit your home that luxurious air and at little cost, too. Cro chet these scarfs (there are two sizes, 18 by 60 and 18 by 36 inches) for buffet, dining table, or dress er. 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