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peo WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939 IT'S THE SAME OLD STUFF NOTHER school developing since the fighting broke out is one which contends that this war is different; that it isn’t just the same old mess of European power politics. | To them we again urge a reading of history. Does this for example have a familiar sound—or doesn’t it? “It (the Congress of Vienna 1815) destroyed the Dutch Republic . . . lumped together the Protestant Dutch with

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

U. S. Seems Headed for Some Sert Of Jolt No Matter What Happens, According to the War Analyists.

EW YORK, Sept. 20.—It would appear, from the preaching and writing of those who profess to know most, that this nation is doomed to some melancholy fate whether or not we revise our present neutrality and whether or not we permit ourselves to be drawn into the war on the side of those who represent, in a general way, the American sentiments. I will take first the proposition of those who think we should, as a starter, help the Allies by selling them anything they can pay for. It is admitted that

even if we should adopt this kind of neutrality they |

might be licked, anyway, and it plausibly, 1 think, that should they lose this war, | with or without our help, the enemy would begin to crowd us from both sides. Col. Lindbergh regards the two great water hazards to the East and West of us as presenting too great a carry for any weapons, and he shoula know as to that. but he seems to ignore the use of | political germs by the brown and red Bolsheviks of Germany and Russia. He seems to ignore also the process of political | nibbling by which Hitler began his attacks on Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, a process already

the French-speaking Catholics of the old Spanish (Austrian) Netherlands, and set up a Kingdom of the Nether- | lands. It handed over not merely the old republic of Vienna, but all of north Italy as far as Milan, to the German- | speaking Austrians. French-speaking Savoy is combined | with pieces of Italy to restore the kingdom of Sardinia. Austria and Hungary, already a sufficiently explosive mixture of discordant nationalities, Germans, Hungarians, Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs, Rumanians, and now Italians, was made still more impossible by confirming Austria’s | Polish acquisitions of 1772 and 1795.” And so on. Or: “After the middle of the 19th Century, this world of new powers and old ideas, this fermenting new wine in the old bottles of diplomacy, broke out through the flimsy restraint of the Treaty of Vienna with a series of wars... The game of great powers was resumed with zest—and it continued until it produced the catastrophe of 1914, “The Tsar of Russia, Nicholas I, was the first to move toward war. He resumed the traditional thrust of Peter the Great toward Constantinople. ... “The designs of Russia were understood to clash with the designs of France in Syria, and to threaten the Mediter- | ranean route to India of Great Britain, and the outcome was an alliance of France and England to bolster up Turkey and a war, the Crimean, which ended in the repulse of Russia. . . . The next phase of interest was the exploitation by the Emperor Napoleon III and the King of the small | kingdom of Sardinia in north Italy, of the inconveniences and miseries of the divided state of Italy, and particularly of the Austrian rule in the north. The King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel, made an old-time bargain for Napoleon's help in return for the provinces of Nice and Savoy.”

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And so, on and on. The quotations are from Wells’ “Outline of History.” Twin stuff to what we have been witnessing, in our day, to what we are now witnessing, and shall witness. There's nothing new or different about it. It’s the same game. Only the players have been changed by time. It’s not our game.

HOW AND WHY? T'S a small incident. But— The Safety Board yesterday awarded a $1307 contract for traffic signals. Four bids were submitted, three of them identical in | price and other stipulations. The one finally accepted was | one of the identical bids. We have no quarrel with the company and we'll take it for granted that it was the best bid. But how did the Safety Board know? And why didn’t it let out a roar of disapproval and demand new bids ?

IF PEACE OFFER COMES

ITLER’S harangue at Danzig sounded anything but peaceful. But it is generally interpreted as presaging definite peace offers, either by Hitler directly to England | and France, or through Mussolini. Having polished off Poland, and having made a private arrangement with Russia for a fourth partition of that | unfortunate country, Germany is now in a position to turn to England and France and ask what the fighting is all about. The Allies entered the war to fulfill their mutual de- | fense pledges to Poland. But Hitler can now say, with tragically ample evidence to support his contention, that the Polish state exists in name only. He may ask England and France whether they want to keep on fighting, or whether they prefer to discuss settlement. If such an offer is made, the thing for us on this side of the Atlantic to remember is that the offer is not being | made to us. It is not our war. And if a peace of some kind should be arranged, it will not be our peace. It can be taken for granted that Premiers Chamberlain and Daladier will consider any proposition, first and last, in | light of the interests of the British and French Empires. | But whatever the decision, it will be theirs. And it is up to us to mind our own business.

KEEP IT SECRET

ERTAIN Army and Navy officers have suggested that some of the data to be compiled in the 1940 census | would be invaluable if it should become necessary to mar- | shal the nation’s military and economic resources for war. | Census officials, rightly, are disturbed by these suggestions. They fear that Congress may order individual census returns made available to other branches of the Government concerned with plans for emergency mobilization. Such an order might conceivably be useful to the | Army and Navy, but it would almost certainly destroy the | value of the census. That value depends upon the willingness of individual | citizens to answer truthfully the questions asked by the | census takers. The vast majority of citizens have been will- | ing to answer truthfully in the past because they had assurance that their answers would not be disclosed to any offi cials except those in the Census Bureau, who are sworn to secrecy. But many citizens, given reason to suspect that their answers might be placed before a draft board, for instance, would be tempted to give false information. Let the Army and Navy find what value they may in the census statistical summaries, to be compiled from all the answers with no individual citizen identified by name or in any other way. But keep the census accurate by assuring every citizen that what he tells about himself will be kept in strictest confidence.

| semitic societies.

| millions of men and women now engaged in war and | vet to be engaged in it, on both sides.

in operation here in the works of the mock-patriotic anti-American Bund and the various native anti-

sh & ¢o O take the most optimistic view of the pro-Ally element, it is certain that even if the Allies should win they would never be able to pay for the war by any method compatible with the ideals and the system for which they are fighting, nor does it seem worth arguing that they could smoothly demobilize and reabsorb into peaceful occupations the

And. for a solution, they would be compelled to adopt in some guise but without important difference the very vices which they are fighting to exterminate. They may win the war, but they will lose |

the cause, and, on losing it, would naturally find them- |

selves in conflict with us in the same way that the present totalitarian states are in conflict with us now. I now consider the belief of those who would shut down on war exports to the Allies and attempt to isolate the United States. This policy would just about guarantee the defeat of the Allies. " 2 & Be in the field, enslaved at home, the British Russian monster and, presumably, Japan were to turn

and French would be of no help to us if the Nazion the last of the big democracies. It may be doubted

is argued, and |

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says—

Blundering Statecraft of Allies

Has Led Two Nations to Disaster And Imperilled Their Own Armies.

ULSA, Okla, Sept. 20.—Far beyond any actual military developments, startling as these have been, is the bone-headed blundering of British and French statecraft in all this dreary business. It sets an all-time record. Soldiers are at the mercy of so-called statesmen, The best of generalship engaged with one ‘military enemy is helpless if the political power that w.shed it into the fight did not consider or prepare it to defend against a sudden attack by another and more power. ful enemy on its flank and rear. Never have soldiers been so let down by statesmen in the histery of the world. The “peace-loving” nations sacrificed Czechoslovakia to their blundering--guessing wrongly that Hitler would not march. They encouraged Poland to hopeless resistance, promising aid, but guessing wrongly that Russia would not march. They gambled madly on war when they were not ready for war. They staked what? Not their own countries and armies, but Poland and her armies—and now these are gone the way of Czechoslovakia and her armies. Y They didn’t know or guess what Russia and Ger. many were doing. They did not guess what both wer doing with Japan. Yet they risked the existence of two other nations on their ignorance and unreadiness.

O what next? More guessing and more unreaciness to deal with the outcome, The guess now. is that the German-Russian ceal includes the return of the smail and helpless Baltic states to Russia, the. partition of Rumania as well as Poland between Germany and Russia, with a sop to Italy somewhere-~and God-knows-what for the Balkan states and Turkey, It will be difficult to impossible for those nations to resist alone, and how can they now depend on promsices of assistance from Britain and France? This is the kind of selfish. double<crossing game that we are told we can’t keep out of if Britain and France do not conquer, because “our destinies are so closely interwoven with theirs.” They blundered themselves and Europe into war and this advice to us amounts to saying that our: getting into or keeping out of it depends not primarily on our own policy, interests and statecraft, but pri-"

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that they would turn on us actively, but would let our svstem and liberties die of that isolation in a world | otherwise dominated bv them, assailed from both sides by the air-borne bugs of their economic and political

| plagues. But we would expect them to attack, and |

with that in mind would prepare to fight, with the |

| result that we, too. would abolish unemployment by |

absorbing the jobless into the Army and Navy, the

| gun foundries, munition works and fortifications, as |

they have done. : The American debt and taxes being what they are,

| the change over to such a way of national life would | compel a gradual surrender to Hitlerian economic

heresies, and the national enthusiasm for arms and | unity would sacrifice the very liberties which this | effort was intended to defend

Business By John T. Flynn

Licensing of Investment Counsel Urged by Security Commissioners.

EW YORK, Sept. 20 —Some officials think that a man who calls himself an “investment counsel” ought to have a license from the state. That is what some of the security commissioners who have been talking about the investor's troubles at Skytop, Pa. think. Probably the two most bewildered men in America today are, first, the fellow who has no money at all to buy his breakfast and, second, the fellow who has more money than he needs. This second man doesn’t know what to do with the surplus funds he has. self, he doesn't know whom to ask. Once upon a time people were told to “Ask your banker.” Millions asked their bankers and lost their shirts. A lot of the worst ones are no longer in banking. But the fellows who are left are Just as bewildered as their customers, because they are not investing their money The truth is that investing is a highly scientific and expert business now. One great trouble is that people have heen given a wholly erroneous idea of investment. Once upon a time when a man invested money he put it into real estate which he managed himself or at least kept a sharp eye on. Or he invested in a business with some man he knew—a business he could see and keep his eyes on.

A Fool's Notion

But now men have come to suppose that to invest means simply ringing up the broker or the banker and telling them “to buy a hundred shares of Can” or “50 shares of Steel.” They know nothing about Can or Steel, they do not know how to read a corporate statement. They do not know how to investigate the can or steel industry. They do not want to know. They think of investing as something which will not use your time or cause you any trouble. That

| foolish notion is at the bottom of most of the cor- |.ja,,,

porate abuses and all of the corporate losses of the last two fatal decades.

No man should invest in corporation shares unless |

he knows himself how to study and examine them— or his access to ithe advice or someone who does know these things. Who knows them? Certain men call themselves investment counsel and will give this advice for a fee Some of them are wise counselors. Some of them are little better equipped than their clients Warren Martin, of the Indiana Attorney General's staff thinks the solution in part, at least, is to license investment counsel. If that is done, then it means extensive tests must be applied first to determine whether a man is really qualified or not.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

VER the airways from New Mexico an appeal has been sounded. I hope it will eventually reach the ears of every woman in America. Voiced by Mrs. Mary C. Phebus, president of the Albuquerque Woman's Club, it calls upon all organized

| feminine groups to join together in a firm stand | to prevent a repetition of the American Folly of 1917.

Right now there are few mothers willing to tolerate the thought of another foolhardy venture overseas. We are as one in our strong desire to remain at peace—neutral, if not wholly in thought, at least in action. But unified thinking is ineffectual unless we can make our opinions known and devise some

| way of forcing Congress to listen to them.

If women—qualified voters of a Republic and part

creators of the nation—are willing to settle down | at their bridge and luncheon tables or behind their

typewriters, while hot heads, profiteers and demagogs run our sons once again into the abbatoirs of Europe, then we shall deserve the misery we are bound to endure. The time is past when we can say, “Let John attend to that” For John has already demonstrated his gullibility when Mars beckons. A great many of our Johns are precisely as practical about war as a child of six playing with tin soldiers. Practically all the major wars of history have peen fought in that little spot upon. the earth’s

surface where another now rages—and how few of

them ever even settled anything? As Mrs. Phebus of Albuquerque reminds us, this is a crucial moment in feminine history. How much power do we actually possess in this great democracy of ours, and what does our emancipation mean if it cannot release us from the danger of participating in foreign wars, which come from quarrels that are

none of our making?

The Hoosier

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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WANTS FARM WORKERS UNDER SECURITY ACT By Senior

Someone tell us why the farm

laborer and other low wage work- |

ers are exempted from the benefits of the Social Security Act. They get about three to five hundred a year Are they expected to provide for old age on that income when the standard of living is set at $50 a week and up?

They may get old-age aid when man the humiliating task of walk- | |65 by sighing away their surance ing around the Circle with a sign on {and property vights and submitting his back reading, “Please keep our

to other disgraceful requirements In contrast, the people pay the school teacher (we'll assume the work is equally essential) a generous salary, guarantee a permanent job and a generous pension on retirement. ,

The Government is carrying the|

farmer, has set the banks and rail-

roads on their feet, put the trainmen in a privileged class, created jobs for thousands of politicians. Cities and most private industries

And, not knowing him= |are paying generous pensions on re-

| tiring their employees.

We subsidize the farmer to raise

{60 cent wheat, then a salesman | makes 15 thousand dollars a year selling the flour, The inner circles |of labor as well as the industries

| are absorbing more than their share

blocs or we have not the intelli- | gence to run this government except {on the downgrade.

” » ” [CRITICIZES POLICY (ON CLEANING CIRCLE

* | By a New Dealer

{mittee want Do tell. | “heerd” it: { Men work four nights cleaning the Circle,

lonly way the City ean economize’

{One would think we lived in a hick {wind and seasons, mountains and only

| either hog-tied by the cliques and |

week | greatest \ That is the novelists. Pantheist and mystic, his {reluctant soil, the inhabitants have

| | | So the Mavor and the civic com=-| American readers two years ago. mountain country of Giono’s native

and left us with some 10 million un-

(Times readers are invited | employed. |

: hat . ‘ to express their views in Let us lead our minds and re-

sources into other channels such as! better working conditions for labor, | better care of the aged, and last, but not least, less taxes on business 50 | it can put labor to work at decent | wages and not to the destruction of | all we possess that is dear to us. | = = ”

{PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY HELD GREATEST NEED By H. B. L., Elwood, Ind. + + + The great need in the world today is practical Christianity, but | so long as a people are willing to] follow blind leaders of the blind in- | FROM WAR BOOM stead of reading the Bible for | By Frank J. Critney, Edinburg, Ind, themselves, we will find ourselves in The gentlemen who seem to be the same condition Europe is in. the leaders in the demand that Americans boast of their ability

Congress change the Neutrality Law | to read and we have no excuse here so we can sell war supplies to Eu- | for our own internal troubles such | rope surely can’t see very far into | ,¢ we have all witnessed since the the future. If they would only use other World War It would be good, common sense they could see uch better to pray to the true it will only lead us into another neavenly Father to guide us in our scrape like the last war. They claim | ghipityal and corporeal problems it will stimulate business so that We | than to pray to Wall Street for a can do away with unemployment joan in this land blessed with overand all relief agencies in a short | production and trade barriers so we time. can't get the good things produced A war boom never did any coun- until we first borrow the money to try good for long. In fact, just the puy it. opposite can be expected. The s0-| Shall we continue to pray to the called depression or recession which | financiers, the earthly gods, for has been with us for the last nine|loans and further huge indebtedyears is the brain child of the war ness, or shall we pray to the boom of 1917-18 and has raised our heavenly God to deliver us from national debt some 20 billion dollars |servitude? |

these columns, religious cons Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

troversies excluded.

withheld on request.)

Circle clean.” 8 .#% SEES ONLY HARM

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HE Song of the World” in-)As in “The Song of the World,” the troduced Jean Giono to background is the wild, isolated

the Circle to be kept Almost unheard of in this country, | Basscs-Alpes. This is the way I in France has long been acclaimed

High up on a windy plateau is! “a pagan genius’ and perhaps the! the forsaken village of Aubignane. | of contemporary French |Unable to wrest a living from its

writings personify naturai forces-- one by one departed, until at last three remain—Fanturle the

| town instead of one of the largest rivers—in relation to the universe hunter, old Gaubert the smith. and

| cities of the United States Do they think trash and debris do (hot collect on the remaining nights?

{To keep the streets clean they must with work every night. Any child could mountain water and warm with the only

figure that out. . So the Mayor dec

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and the destiny of man. |Old Mameche, still lamenting the A second translated novel, short husband and son who have died] and almost plotless, but “flowing | tragically years before. Finally, | the clear tonic beauty of | Gaubert leaves, Mameche dies, and Panturle is left. Almost mad scent of damp, rich earth” is now | with loneliness, through the long (Viking). | winter he reverts to an existence

of primitive savagery. Then with the spring comes Arsule, forlorn victim of man’s brutality. Quite simply she and Panturle take up|

Side Glances—By Galbraith

[life together; Panturle turns to | farming, and the village experifences joyous rebirth when through |Panturle’s efforts the earth tri[umphantly yields a rich harvest | again, [| Written before “The Song of the | World,” “Harvest” has been a| | much-read much loved classic for | (almost a decade in France, “It| |could have been conceived and written only in a nation which [loves freedom and where individual man, suffering and struggling as he is still free.”

| | must,

FOR PEACE

By DOROTHY JEFFERS COYLE For peace in a tortured, troubled

policy of Britain and France. If that is so, we are in We are not an independent sovereign nation, but the tail of an unpredictable, undependable

| and particularly crazy Kite,

” ” F course, it is not so. This Is a war of Middle Europe, Since Charlemagne bequeathed his empire, these lands have been fought over, captured and recaptured by the very races now fighting. In our colonial period, whenever they fought, we fought —as in the French and Indian Wars—not because it was our business but because we belonged to them. We don’t belong to any European nation now, unless we sell ourselves down the river, The two greatest absurdities being voiced today are that to keep out we must get into it, with its cor ollary that to preserve our liberties and democracy we must set up a war-power government-which would be the end of both

Spy Hunt

By Bruce Catton

F. B. I. Tracks Down Every Lead, Often With Humorous Results.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—-A Washington resident called the Federal Bureau of Investigation the other day and implored the G-Men to have a gander at queer goings-on in the flat next door to his, in a rather tony downtown apartment building A “There are lights on in that flat until 3 o'clock and after, almost every night,” he announced. “Who=ever's in there talks German all the time. Must be a bunch .of spies. You people ought to look into it.” The FBI sighed and went forth to check .up. b In the end, it found--as it had anticipated—no cause for alarm. The flat, it developed, was occupied by a gentleman of German birth who was very fond, of card games—penny ante, pinochle, and what-not.: He had a number of like-minded cronies, also of German ancestry Four or five nights a week they would come in and play cards, eat liverwurst sandwiches, and maybe drink a little beer : This is just a sample of the sort of thing the FBI is getting these days. As the nation’s first line of defense against foreign espionage, it is getting a perfect flood of complaints from the citizenry. As a matter of duty, it runs each one down. as a matter of policy, it doesn't go around telling everyone what it learns. But a huge percentage of the complaints

| are pretty woozy.

The ‘G-Man Reserve’

FBI is in good shape to fight any genuine spies: that may appear. It now has a force of 800, soon to be increased hy 150. In addition, it has what practically amounts to a “G-Man Reserve Corps,” consisting of slightly less. than 500 men who have been graduated from the three-month training courses which the bureau conducts. Practically all of these graduates are members of the police forces in different American cities. The FBI keeps in touch with them, keeps them informed about what is going on—and knows that in case of need it has, in all of these different cities, regular. police officers who can go into action if needed. he bureau is a trifle disturbed at the number of people who seem to be willing to work off personal grudges by trying to turn in innocent people as spy suspects, but it takes no chances Right now it is keeping a watchful eye on all per-~ sons known to have foreign connections, and is bend! ing every effort to prevent any recurrence of the sabotage cases of the last war. It works in close cooperation with the State Department with the result that frequently the person doing the spying is called home-and that ends it.

Watching Your Health.

By Jane Stafford

BF sure the 37 hot dogs you eat this year are really hot, and that your hamburgers are thoroughly cooked, too. By following this warning from, the U., S. Department of Agriculture, you can pro tect yourself against the chances of getting a very unpleasant and sometimes fatal sickness, trichinosis, Maybe you will eat more or less than 37 hot dogs, but Agriculture officials estimate that frankfurters are consumed at the rate of about 37 a person an-, nually in the United States. Trichinosis is a world-wide disease, caused prineipally by eating raw or imperfectly cooked pork containing parasites of microscopic size known as trichinae. These little worms, which get their name from & Greek word meaning hair, because at one stage of

world We give Thee thanks. We need not fear the drone of planes Nor see great tanks Plow up our pleasant, fertile fields, ' And leave black death. We thank Thee from our deepest heart As we draw breath.

DAILY THOUGHT

A sword is upon the liars; and they ‘shall dote; a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall | be dismayed -—Jeremiah 50:36.

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HIS is the liar's lot; he is accounted a pest and nuisance, a person marked out for infamy and scorn.—South,

their existence they look like a coiled hair, get into the muscles soon after eaten in infested food. They cause soreness and swelling of the muscles and fever. There is no specific medicine for the disease, but tnere is one sure way of avoiding it. That is never tn eat pork or pork products such as sausages that have not been thoroughly cooked. The cooking destroys the trichinae. Department of Agriculture officials say that frankfurters should be cooked so that the temperature in the center of them reaches at least 137 degrees Fahrenheit. The warning about thorough cooking applies to hamburgers as well as frankfurters, because these often are made with pork as well as beef and because many persons prefer rare hamburger. Not all pork is infested with trichinae. For example, a Government study of 175 half-pound samples of frankfurters from 175 Federally inspected meat-packing establishments in 30 cities in 25. states showed that about 99 per cent of the samples contained no trichinae. Federal meat inspection is limited to establishments doing interstate or foreign business, and no study was made of frankfurters from other establishments.

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