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SENATORS DEBATE TO EMPTY
CHAMBER
Big words, such as “momentous,”
“historic,” “crucial,” have been
common in describing the senate de
bate on the lend-lcase bill. Defend
ing themselves against the charge
of filibuster, the opposition main
tained that the issues are so grave
that national interest demands
weeks of discussion.
Daily throughout long weeks the
front pages reverberated with the
senate’s embattled thunderings. The
headlines and crackling statements
have given the impression of fierce
struggle. But the reality was far
different.
There was no blood shed. The
senate never presented a more
peaceful, more indolent appear
ance. If a great battle was raging,
there were few signs of it on the
floor of the “greatest deliberative
body in the world.”
Most of the time it looked more
like the lounges of a ritzy club than
a council chamber where history
was being made. At times there
were no more than a half dozen
members in the chamber.
* • •
TURKS VS. BULGAKS
Inside reason why the Turks
jsigned a non-aggression pact with
the Bulgars has been given U. S.
diplomats by the British foreign of
fice. It is this:
Some months ago the British
.themselves suggested that the Turks
and Bulfurs sign a treaty of friend
jship and non-aggression. But nego
tiations dragged. Then suddenly,
just at the wrong moment from a
psychological point of view, the pact
was completed. Its announcement
do the world was construed as mean
ing Turkey would not penetrate Bul
garian soil to oppose Germany.
The British say this interpretation
[is all wet.
Tip-off to the situation is that the
British have been rushing reinforce
ments to Salonika to backstop the |
Greeks and the Turks—if they co
operate. And co-operation in the
(Balkans usually goes to the strong
est side.
* * *
DRAFTED INDIANS
There are about 700 Seminoles in
.Florida, divided between north Flor
ida farms and the southern Ever
glades. In recent years many tribes
[men have left their swamp homes
Ito set up lucrative tourist shows
along the Tamiami Trail, featuring
iwrestling matches between Indians
and crocodiles.
Came the draft, and Seminoles of
|llu» swamps and farmlands alt reg
istered. But the tourist-show Indi
ians were told by white friends that
;they weren’t subject to the draft,
since they never made peace with
!the U. S. government, owed it no
; allegiance. So they went on a draft
| strike.
And selective service officials, not
anxious to disrupt Indian relations,
have refused so far to turn their
names over to the department of
justice for prosecution. Upshot is
that Everglades Seminoles are leav
ing the swamps in droves, thinking
they, too, will be exempt if they
live on the Trail.
Word also is spreading to their
brethren in the north on stock farms
provided by the government, that if
Seminoles want to escape military
service the thing to do is to open a
tourist show.
On the hot spot is kindly John
Collier, commissioner of Indian af
fairs. But fearing cries of discrimi
nation from other tribes, he has
served notice that slackers will be
prosecuted if they don’t fall in line.
* * •
UNDEPORTABLE PRINCESS
“Will anybody take a deported
princess?” This, in effect, is the
plea of Attorney General Jackson
regarding Maria Waldenburg-Schill
ingsfurst, Princess Stcfanie Hohen
lohe, a German who came here from
England on a Hungarian passport.
The department of justice has or
dered her deported, but has found,
to its embarrassment, that it’s im
possible to deport somebody when
nobody will have her. Jackson has
deported her by act of law, but can’t
get her out of the country.
England won’t have her. So she
will have to rerpain in San Francisco
unless Germany decides to take her
back, in which case she might get
there byway of the Pacific and
Vladivostok.
As a result the justice department
is drafting a bill for submission to
congress, whereby an undesirable
alien could be held in custody, or
restricted freedom, or parole—de- ]
pending on the character of the per
son.
• • •
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Thenar department isn’t adver
tising it, but it has assigned one of
the army’s brainiest officers, Maj.
Gen. Robert C. Richardson, to make
a detailed survey of its press rela
tions and organization.
Most sensational specimen of iso
lationist propaganda barraging con
gress is a postal card with a nail
fastened to it, and the statement i
that a vote for the lend-lease bill
“will drive a nail into the coffin of
every American boy.” The cards
bear a Chicago postmark.
General
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Washington, D. C.
DEFENSE LABOR PROBLEMS
There are two important propos
als to check the threatened succes
sion of strikes which could paralyze
defense production. One is Mr.
! Knudsen’s proposal to extend the
j principles of the Railway Mediation
I act, which requires a “cooling off”
i period before any strike can be
| gin. The other is that of Assistant
Secretary of War Patterson, which
would reconstitute the World War
Taft-Walsh bpard which relied upon
distinguished "fnediation and impar
tial determination of issues backed
up by public opinion and indirect
use of other governmental war
powers.
Both plans have been remarkably
successful. Secretary Patterson’s
worked almost perfectly in the last
war. Mr. Knudsen’s idea would re
quire a new statute and a new kind
of labor board to add to the rest—
as would Mr. Patterson’s. But the
secretary’s plan could be put into
effect immediately by an executive
order.
Would either or both work? No
body knows. What is needed is not
so much more new schemes and
bureaus as better men. One reason
why the Taft board worked so well
was that its chief was a former
President of the United States who
even earlier had been international
ly known and highly respected as
secretary of war and governor gen
eral of the Philippines. Moreover,
he had been a great federal judge
of most liberal principles, noted for
a record of absolute justice.
Finally, he was Big Bill Taft, a
great humanist, who could frequent
ly just chuckle and laugh the bel
ligerance out of angry contestants.
That kind of man could make almost
any plan work today, but whero are
we going to find him? The great J
men of that generation seemed to
! regard no job as being beneath their
i dignity if the country needed to
have it done, and there were more
such men in those days.
Our labor mediation organization
[ now is an unplanned and chaotic
mess. Twelve states have their
own labor boards and conciliators.
They insist on acting each within its
own state. The department of labor
has a similar service. It doesn’t
like to be left out. The National
Labor Relations board has another
which horns in when possible. Mr.
Sidney Hillman of OPM has another
which is very active. The war de
partment has been urged to engage
in settling strikes. Now if we adopt
Mr. Knudsen’s or Mr. Patterson’s
suggestion—or both—there could be
five, six or seven separate govern
mental horners-in on any threat
ened dispute.
• • ♦
CHURCHILL’S ACCURACY
Winston Churchill’s running con
troversial on the period from 1914
to this date is abreast of the best
in English literature of any age, in
vigor, style and content. That may
add unduly to its fascination but it
doesn’t subtract at all from its sub
stance. It is an advocacy very
cogent in logic, thoroughly docu
mented in every case. In all his
dozens of controversies about Brit
ish policy and defense, convincing
ly buttressed by compelling facts
and figures.
This isn’t to say that he was al
ways right. Sometimes, at critical
moments, he was so right that his
logic and action decided favorably
to his country the ultimate issue of
the earlier war—as for example,
his mobilization of the fleet in 1914.
Sometimes he was very wrong, as
in the Antwerp excursion in 1914 |
and in the Narvik disaster in this
war.
The adventure at Gallipoli also
proved disastrous, but he argues
well that it need not have been so.
To what extent he was responsible
for the 1918 thrust through Salonika,
which broke the Central Powers, is
not clear but he certainly favored it.
Many students will always believe
that the 1939 declaration of war
over Poland was one of the most
hideous mistakes in timing in all
history but, however he favored it,
his was not the principal responsibil
ity.
So much for whatever the unfavor
able side of the record may be.
Turn to his position and pleading
from the opening of the Versailles
peace conference to this day, and
especially the record in his books,
“The Aftermath,” “Arms And the
Covenant” (published here in 1938
under the title “While England
Slept”), “The World Crisis,” and
“The Unknown War.” The two
books first mentioned are for fore-
I sight, statesmanship and even clair
voyance among the most remark
able in literature.
If this voice had been only partial
ly heeded from 1933 to as late as
1937, the present world catastrophe
could certainly have been avoided.
He stated and proved his ccse in
advance in economic, military and
diplomatic policy. His predictions
on the military effect of the occu
pation and later fortification of the
i Rhineland and almost every other
principal Nazi development, now
! seem almost uncanny in their cor
; 'redness. His facts and arguments
were faithfully transmitted to our
‘government, where they produced
jno more effect than on his own.
»?r*»TC”To,vr rni T PM * T PERRY, GEORGIA
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Kathleen Norris Says: j
What Price America?
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Gather the youngsters into your house for debate and coffee and doughnuts, once
a week. Let them know that under their own constitution they can introduce any
changes they wish; that it is the miracle and privilege of democracy that it can
change and develop with the changing world.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Democracy can only
v/ork if the members of
that democracy work for
it. Democracy can only be
proved a success, among the
varied types of government the
; world has tried and is trying, if
every one of us wakes herself
out of the slumber of centuries
and asks herself what democ
racy is, and whether it’s a good
thing, and whether it’s worth
fighting for.
And when I say “fighting” I
don’t mean with guns and
bombs, for my own profound
belief, after more than twenty
years active service in the
cause of world peace, is that no
gun and no bomb ever did any
thing to defend democracy or
establish anything else that is
good.
I mean fighting with God’s own
weapons of brotherhood, service,
sympathy, understanding. These are
wisdom, understanding, counsel,
fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear
of the Lord—all of which are the
true weapons, and the powers of
evil can never stand against them.
Democracy Challenged.
Our fight for democracy must go
on in our homes, through the little
daily jobs that we have to meet and
solve, and unless it succeeds there
it is going to fail in the world. For
never since its very beginnings has
it been challenged as it is challenged
today.
A democracy—which in our form
is a republic—means that the people
rule. They look at their candidates,
they decide which ones they like,
and they put those men into power.
Fascism, Nazi-ism and Communism
mean that the people are told what
to do, eat, spend, wear, think and
i say. Monarchies and Czarisms and
oriental rule also meant this. The
thin little fringe of places and peo
ples who believe in democracy is
diminishing now to a very small
percentage indeed. Unless we de
fend it it will vanish from the earth.
Good men and wise men from the
days of the Greeks and Romans
have been dreaming of world repub
licanism, world democracy. Plato
dreamed of it, Sir Thomas More
dreamed of it. Washington saw the
great vision, and through bewilder
ment and desertions, treason and
poverty and failure and despair,
brought it to birth. We possess it.
What Is Freedom Worth to You?
But how much do you care about
Jt? How much is it worth to you
that America shall go on as Amer
ica, free of speech, free of press,
free to worship God in her own way?
Do you care enough to read one
or two books of the thousands that
are being circulated now, telling you
what other countries are doing, and
how their ways differ from ours?
Are you willing to say some evening
in the near future: “George, let’s go
to that meeting, or that rally, or
that lecture or that debate, and see
what these candidates are like and
what they are promising and plan
ning?”
Do you care enough to know the
answers to your children’s questions
when those children speak airily of
the superior methods of Russia, or
slightingly of the greatest country
in the world, which is their own.
If you don’t, if you still think the
most absorbing problems in the
world are those of getting the spare
room blankets cleaned and being
sure the lower pie-crust is good and
crisp, then you don’t deserve to be
an American, you don’t deserve to
live in a democracy, and you’re do-
STICKIN-TRE-MUD?
// your most absorbing problems in
the world are those oj meal planning,
getting the attic cleaned or seeing that
young Teddy wears his rubbers, then
you don’t deserve to live in a democ
racy. At least, that's the way Kathleen
Norris feels. Her view is that you
should exercise your mind — study,
read, discuss, digest the world changes
going on about you. Don’t miss this
straight-to-the-point argument.
ing your bit to aid the totalitarian
governments.
Every Voice Needed.
Don’t think that because you live
on a limited income in a rented
house and run just a little over the
budget every month that your voice
isn’t needed and isn’t valuable.
Great national changes don’t neces
sarily come from privileged men.
Lincoln, Napoleon, Stalin, Mussolini,
Hitler and countless others knew the
sharp touch of poverty and lived the
first third of their lives in obscurity.
The reason the dictators have
gained so strong a hold is because
nine-tenths of the men and women
they rule are abysmally ignorant of
what is going on, of their own rights
and powers. Don’t keep yourself in
that group unless you want to see
our own country menaced by the
forces that are honestly convinced
that the dictators’ way is the right
way.
Our share of citizenship now, as
American women, is to demonstrate
just what is true democracy, to per
fect our own system. It is for us to
do away with unemployment, pov
erty, slums, to discourage false phi
losophies, to upbuild the faith of our
great forefathers.
If you can do that for the smallest
spot in the smallest of our towns or
villages, you will be doing an in
calculable service to America. The
ways of doing it are infinite.
First Line of Defense.
Study unemployment and housing
and hospitalization and sanitation in
your own community, for instance.
Find out why youngsters in high
school and college are taking to Eu
ropean ideas; gather the youngsters
into your house for debate and cof
fee and doughnuts, once a week.
Stop lamenting that undergraduate
morals are something deplorable
and the half-baked Communism
those children are talking is really
frightening, and do something about
it. Let them know that under their
own Constitution they can introduce
any changes they wish; that it is
the miracle and privilege of democ
racy that it can change and develop
with the changing world.
Women who are unwilling to make
this effort, to uproot themselves
from the age-old laziness of not
thinking or acting at all in national
and international affairs, women
who don’t know the names of their
representatives in Washington, nor
how those representatives are vot
ing on questions of vital importance
to every wife and mother, needn’t
be surprised or horrified if Ameri
can democracy really does totter un
der oppression from abroad. War
naturally destroys democracy for
the time being; the individual can
not have any opinion in war; he
obeys, and he does nothing but obey.
He serves in the ranks or in the
munitions factories, he kills, is
wounded, dies, without one moment
of freedom. This is inevitable.
A Plan Necessary.
But when the wars are over—and
someday they will be ended, then it
will be for us to build a new Amer
ica, even as they will have to begin
to rebuild shattered Europe. And
that will be the time for us to de
cide between a dictator who will tell
us that he knows exactly what we
must do, or follow a wise and safe
democratic plan of our owm.
s6*o*4
WrHl.Phillipr r
MV WNU S«rv«i
PRIVATE PURKEY WRITES
AGAIN
Dear Ma—
Well when I first got called in the
draft 1 was told no soldiers wud be
sent to Europe and that I was just
going to get a year’s training just in
case but everything I here on the
radio sounds like I am not up here
just for fizzical kulshur. I see the
lease-lend bill is all but past and all
I am still wondering is if I go with
the lease.
• • •
Nobody in my divishun seems to
no what the lease-lend bill is all
about except that it is for all aid to
England short of war and the boys
say you can be a midget in this
army and not be too short for war,
so I gess if war comes there is no
way out for me, mom.
* * *
I am still getting a lot of instruck
shuns in how to saloot and from all
emphassiss
put on sa * oot ‘ n S I
M/rmtm gess there are
some people who
' are 80 °ld'f as h-
MW fr ened they think
I || this war is going
fifc o to be as polite as
miUTBIH the i as t on e. lam
gradually getting used to going
around with a gun. At first this
felt very funny as all my life I was
brung up to avoid weapons.
• * *
The life here is pretty confining as
I sed before and how I wud like a
week end auto trip to no place spe
cial! It wud also be a big kick to be
abel to talk back to people whenever
I wanted to like in sivilian life. Up
here if you talk back to anybuddy
you wind up in the gard house.
* • •
I got reprimmandid for smoking
cigarettes while marching. The cap
tin was very sore and sed it wuz
against the rules and he sed it was
bad for my lungs also. What made
him sore was when I asked him not
to worry about my lungs but start
worrying about my feet.
* • •
Well, mom, now I know why they
went over my teeth so carefuly in
the draft test. I
doctors made so
much fuss about
my teeth but it is
since I got some
of the beef the
army uses in beef stew. The cows
they get it from must be half ele
phant, ma. I wish Mr. Nuddson of
the defense bored wud do something
about getting sharper knifes for sol
diers.
« • *
If this army life dont do nothing
else for me, mom, it will make me
appreshiate good coffee. I gess they
use tobacco leaves for coffee in the
army. The boys say the cook dont
know how to make coffee which I
gess has ben true all through the
history of armies and navies and I
dont see why the U. S. dont have a
secretary of coffee just like a secre
tary of war so a cup of java will
taste like a cup of java and not like
a hot brake smells.
* * •
I still got that chance to join a
tank corpse like I wrote you but dont
worry as they are still using ice
wagons for tanks and I wud look
pretty going to war in an ice wagon,
wudn’t I, ma?
Well this is all for now so I close
with love.
Oscar.
• • •
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to
lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupa
tion
That is known as the Children’s
Hour,
I see there beside the loudspeaker
The innocent, sweet little dears
While stories of gangsters and
bump-offs
Are brought to their infantile ears.
From four until seven they sit
there—
Enslaved by the programs’ ap
peal,
And hear of the gats and the gun
molls
And terrible mobsters who squeal.
Cowboys and horses and rustlers,
Love and the wages of sin,
Kidnapers, death and destruction,
Maniacs, arson and gin.
The serial, ah, how it grips ’em!
Enveloping all in its power;
If the kids ain’t in jail when they’re
fifteen
Then no thanks to the air “Chil
dren’s Hour.”
—Mary Holland Gordon.
• • •
Probably whenever anything
goes wrong with Hitler he ex
claims, “It must be something I
hate!’’
• • •
We take no stock in Fiorello La-
Guardia’s statement that he will not
run for mayor of New York again.
His auto siren is in too good shape
and his fire helmet isn’t nearly worn
out.
* • •
Add similes: he looked as bat
tered as if he had been protect
ed by the Nazis.
mmamsam-’ ■
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Better that we should err in ac
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The storm is so much better than
the calm, as it declares the pres
ence of a living principle. Stag
nation is something worse than
death. It is corruption also.-
Simms.
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