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EUREKA, Cal, Oct. 14.—California, ‘here we are! What, no bands? No parades?. No keys to cities? You'd better be careful how you; treat me, California. Why, every time we go-to Florida .. woh well, it’s all right this time. But you'd better be careful. When you come ‘into Cali-
look through your baggage, to see
‘hidden among" your spare shirts.
of inspection. ‘I remember years ago at Yuma the inspectors were so nasty and inconsiderate you'd have thought we ‘were’ international smugglers. - Then théy got easier, and for %a Ns a while we could cross into California with little more than a hello tothe inspectors. In fact, our baggage hasn't been opened for about
- two ‘years.
But today they gave us the once over again. Took every single bag out. of the car (and we have lots of them, full of a wonderful accumulation of junk). It was quite a job. . t : . But the inspectors were so perfectly swell about
+ it, so friendly and courteous, that & fellow just couldn’t ¢ get mad. And after it was all over, we sat and chatted
with ohe of the inspectors for 15 minutes, till people behind us started honking. . _P. S.—They found neither on us.
The Redwood Forests ’ :
I don’t care how widely traveled: you: are, nobody
fruit flies nor weevils
~ has really seen all of America until he has driven
through the redwood forests. Aa It’s impossible for me to picture the redwoods in words. But you have the spookiest-feeling when you drive through there where it’s so dark, with those great trunks rising around you so thick and so straight up and so big around, ie ;
You don’t feel they're trees at all. You feel as if
Our Town
TUCKED AWAY (in Holland as we were, it was pretty apparent-on:Sept. 1 that Germany was get-
“ting ready to pick on the Poles. The effect was
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“which everything stands
‘A War of Paradoxes. .
Atrality legislation. is
almost instantaneous and before I knew it I found myself sharing the emotions of the Dutch. The | transition from normal life to the abnormal life of war makes pne, for the moment at least, cyriously responsive to experience. One is alert to sounds. To sights, too. One looks at the most ordinary objects as though expecting to :see in them some recognition of change. The sky, for instance, takes on a new appearance, a new significance, as if it were an entity, variable, alternately reassuring or-
limited to the external. congeience; too. Sorta purges .and purifies’ it. Indeed, the “scare of. war, I discovered, lifts one .into a region “of unnatural clarity. There is the same thin, moticnless atmosphere from which shadows are absent and .in ut exactly as it is. To see it in this light, war is monstrously ugly.
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ominous. Nor is this sensitivene: It does something to yo
At any raté, it hurt like everything to see acountry as placid and peaceful as Holland turned over to soldiers. Her own soldiers, to" be sure, but nevertheless soldiers. For no other reason than the fear that somebody is going to pick on her. Not only the fear that Germany may one. day violate Holland's neutrality, but the possibility that the English may establish an airbase on her coast. .* That is*one of the paradoxes of the present war which, as you probably know" without’ my telling you, .is a war full of paradoxes. The -Dutch, .as 1
Washington
, Oct. 14.—The real test on neunot the: arms embargo. Appar--ently that will be repealed easily.. But:the restrictions on American shipping—in_ thé. so-called “carry” pro--vision—are in danger of being riddled by an aggressive shipping lobby. ° - These resirictions as originally drawn were too tight to be practicable. . They were eased to permit Latin American trade to include British and French possessions in that .area. Now it is
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ish and French: possessions in the Pacific should be exempted on the entirely reasonable ground that shippirg in the Pacific is scarcely in any-danger. But pressure: is- on to spring the restrictionsieven wider. Some of the shipping lobby organizations advocate no restrictions whatever. They want American shipping free to go into any belligerent pert. - There are at present no restrictions, the “carry”. section of. the existing law having lapsed May 1 Watch for an attempt to throw this whole question into a snarl that
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U. S. Generous to Shipping
Of course the Government is interested in protect
ing and building up our Merchant Marine as ‘a national necessity. That is why the Government has pumped ‘more than $3,000,000,000 into the Merchant Marine since. 1917. « Because of the -Government’s
anxiety to spare no expense in order to establish a _
Merchant Marine on_the seas, Washington has been easy picking for the shipping lobby. °’ “Because the Merchant Marine
My Day
WASHINGTON, Friday.—Last night we attended.
the dinner at the National Women’s Democratic Club, which I imagine really opens their season. This club offers ‘Democratic women-all over the country, who ; ashington, an opportunity for any informacome 10°: gto tion or assistance that they may need. It caters: to women not only on business bent, but also those seeking diversion in the nation’s capital. I think the club . will ‘gradually. become a center where women from all over .the country may meet, become ac-
with the Democratic Party as it functions in other parts of the country. : r I was surprised in talking to some Democratic women from ‘ different parts-of the United
States,
or e JO Committee and the National Democratic
nize a money raising day for the National
Club, that many of them felt they could not undertake this burden because of previous local financial campaigns or because of some other work for the party which had been going on during previous
nths. : Y . To is happens to be a country where .the two-party '{s necessary to the proper functioning of our ‘democracy. ‘Therefore, it seems to me that when the
women. in. eit
‘fornia you have tbstop at an in spection station snd let:the man -
if you've got amy: frult ‘flies or boll weevils or: rotten tomatoes -
We've gone through all stages look especially good. And we couldn’t even find the
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What Price Profits? generally aceepted that the Brit- = J “neutrality legislation solely as a matter concerning
- tors for profits come ahead of the necessity of keep-
Rr . "+" .would be fatal to any private interest .to undertake. is “so important ‘a
quainted with each other, and.
“and appreciation of these arts adds greatly to find that when the call had come to them .
either party are asked to makg a special’
they are spirits or: werewolves, something half-human and half-ghost. Everybody I've ever talked to has had that queer feeling about driving through the redwoods.” ‘You wouldn't be surprised to see an immense
gnarled wooden hand reach out and snatch you away into nowhere. v I go mR . 8.8
In our travels-we use the American Automobile As sociation hotel ‘directory, and have found it excellent. But orice in a while it makes a mistake. - ; In a small city in Washington State the AAA book
listed’ two hotels. The first was expensive and didn’t
second. So ‘we stopped at a gas station and asked.
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Fe LR # ”» to His Vocabulary like. He told us where the second listed hotel was, and then asked if we wanted to see somebody there. We said no, we wanted to stay there. “You don’t want to stay there,” he said. “It’s just a second-story walk-up dump. Why, that’s where all the fry cooks stay.” _ “Fry cooks” was a new one on us. From now, all poor hotels will be fry cooks’ hotels to us. P. S—~We stayed that night in the town’s No. 2 hotel, which was modern and delightful indeed, and wasn’t even in the AAA book.
“When we stop a day or two in a hotel for me to}
write my pieces, I always have to leave finished columns and parts of columns lying around when I go out: to eat. T
"I always feel a little self-conscious about: it, since 1 know the maid: will be in to clean up, and I've never
know ‘whether maids are supposed to read what they|
see lying around or not. ‘Well, they are. For in Gold Beach, the other day, ‘the maid came in while I was out, and right out of a clear sky she spoke to That Girl as follows: . “Say, I didn’t get to finish reading that column on Newport yesterday. I sure do like the way he writes. Has he got any more around I could read?” ‘So 'yah yah, yah to all you people who've been telling.your friends that I'm not really as good as Shakespeare.
By Anton Scherrer
have reason to know, have a bitter hatred for the Germans, but they aren’t scared of them nearly as much as they are of the English. Anyway, it’s no secret that Holland has most of its army mobilized not on the German frontier as you'd suppose, but along the sand dunes of the North Sea, the prettier part of the country which in times of peace is covered with-so many tulips that Holland can spare enough to share them with the world. Now that I look back, I am mindful, too, of certain things that happened the first day of the war. The price of fish went up right away. The fishermen were scared to go out and catch them!: Almost immediately, too, all postoffices, banks and museums were hidden behind sandbags. In the meantime, 24,000 “soldiers poured into Haarlem, the town where we were staying. Amstérdam, only 15 minutes away by train, had an army of 100,000 waiting to be sent to the front. ree “ . : ” ” ”
Even Humor Is Grim
It was. that way all over. Holland. The soldiers took possession of everything—trains, airplanes and most of the: motor cars—leaving me no alternative but to: believe that, maybe, I was a Dutchman for the rest of my life. It was pretty grim stuff. Even
the humor in the .streets was grim. It took the shape of a ghastly Dutch joke: What is the difference between Communism and Naziism?
Answer: It's colder in MosCOW. 2% -Evefr-more -alarminlg was. the behavior of. the children. The first day of the German-Polish war, the; Dutch boys started marching in the streets. Little kids not more than five years old. Everyone was equipped with a homemade wooden sword. Next day. the girls joined them. Somehow, the girls had wangled ‘their mothers into giving them bedspreads which turned out to be just the right size for military tents. The kids of Holland were still playing war when I left. - Heaven only knows what the world is coming to.
By Raymond Clapper
part of our national interest, the Government not| .only has spent these huge funds to make it possible
for ships to operate, but it in return requires operation of ships: on routes considered” essential to the national : economic. interest. And now, the risks of sea commerce are so great that the shipping. interests themselves, ahd the marine insurance people, are urging Congress to set up Government shipping in-
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From all of this it would seem that to view the |
the prosperity of the shipping industry overlooks other considerations. ‘The same considerations which lead
the “Government to subsidize the merchant marine]
also justify it ‘in restricting the operations of this merchant marine if national security appears to.require it. Our entry into the last war was precipitated by the threat to sink American ships in belligerent waters. Should the desire of private shipping opera-
ing American ships and American seamen and passengers out of danger zones? re “Senator Bailey of North Carolina is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee which handles shipping legislation and he is being worked on by shipping lobbyists. He ‘favors no restrictions in the Pacific, but he won't go the whole way with those who would scuttle all protective legislation. Turning one of the lobbyists away the other day, with courage Which could be widely emulated in Congress; Senator Bailey said: “No private interest whatsoever could get in between the people of the United States and the interests of their peace. It
to do "so, and I have shown that to all of them.”
By Eleanor Roosevelt
effort for some party activity, it is part of their obli-| ‘gation as citizens’ to ‘do so. You may be collecting ‘money which seems unimportant, but you are also
obliged to give reasons for the need of that money. It is an opportunity to get across the ideas of the various parties and that is fundamental to the proper functioning a¢ citizens in a democracy. It seems to me: the women should be the first to grasp this fact and should give their full co-operation with the sense that they are performing not only a party- obligation, put an obligation to the country which functions under a party system. © =~ : : This morning I had an opportunity of talking with a number of ‘people on various types of educational programs. - I am much interested to find that the labor unions are now recognizing the -value in adult education of giving people a knowledge of various arts and crafts. The possibility of creative work is important to the cultural life of our people. He 1. attended the luncheon of the B'nai B'rith Auxfliary of the District of Columbia, which celebrated its first birthday. The organization as. a whole is 96 years old in this country and this auxiliary is'a ‘very vigorousibaby. The record of work accomplished during this first. year took my breath away. I only wish that every organization would put forth as much Suierey and enthusiasm, for we would have remarkable res ts. ; ? ua s LK In a few minutes we are leaving for New York City
Hoosier Vagabond . - 8 Erie Pyie
The. gas station man looked at us sort of funny|
Adequate Navy Is U.S. Need
(Last of a Series)
By David Dietz Scripps-Howard Science Editor ! 2 EHIND the apparent stalemate upon the Western Front, there is much activity. Both sides are rushing more men into position. Most feverish activities, however, are on the diplomatic front. The foreign ministers of the little nations are rushing to Moscow each time Stalin snaps his fingers. . Behind closed doors in all ‘the chancelleries of Europe a desperate game is being played. : Armies, . peoples, the fu-
ture of whole nations are
the pawns in this game. Out
of it in the next few weeks may come the answers to many of the present questions: What Italy will do, how far Russia will go i helping Ger - : many, whether or not the war will break ‘out -on a new sector: of the Eastern Front, perhaps in Rumania? Meanwhi 1 e, American -policy is being" decided in two important places. -One is Capitol Hill in
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Washington, where Congress de-
bates. the neutrality law. The other is Latin America, where the Pan-American Conference has just ended in Panama City. In the preceding articles of this series, I have. sought to analyze the resources of the nations and
to evaluate the bearing of those:
facts upon the realities of the European situation. In this closing article I want to discuss the Western Hemisphere in similar fashion. First of all, it is obviously in our
war. President Roosevelt has said, plainly, that he hates war and that he intends to do everything in his power to keep us out. He has shown his impatience with questions which implied that he did not mean exactly what he said. ' ° The. basic principle of our national policy, therefore, should be to stay out of the war. : We can do this and yet recognize the fact that the great majority of
Americans wish to see England-
and France win the war. In fact, we must recognize the existence of that sentiment, for as Ex-Presi-dent’ Herbert Hoover pointed. out in his interview with Roy W. Howard, the chief danger of a war party -in- this country would arise from the notion that France and England faced. defeat and that
ropean war to save civilization. 2 #2. 8
mination to stay out of war,
best interests to stay out of the-
America had to enter the. Eu-
BZ coupled with our deter-
it would seem-that two things ‘are’
necessary. The first is the main-
tenance of an adequate navy. The second is the formation of a common front with Latin America along economic and defense. lines. Thomas L. Stokes, Scripps-How=
ard staff writer who reported the Pan-American Conference at
Panama City, noted a remarkable
tions of this continent. * “Adolf Hitler's ears must burn
- emanating from this Inter-Amer-
isters,” Mr. Stokes cabled. “The conference, by word and -act, is
and Nazi ideology away from the Americas.’ ” Pan-American unjty will be car ‘ried ‘beyond the stage of .a cooperative defense plan and that “sincere attempts will be made in the months to come to expand and increase trade within the Western Hemisphere. From the discussions at Panama City, the fact that the U. S. Navy is the Western Hemisphere’s. most . important line of defense becomes even clearer than it was: before. The decision to establish a “watery Maginot line” for the Amer-
icas means that a new. burden is. being put upon the American”
Navy. ; Fie we ET us look at the U. S. Navy for a moment and compare it
with those of -other nations. Ac- |
cording to the figures of Maj. George Fielding Eliot and Maj. R. Ernest Dupuy, the following was ‘the state of affairs in 1937: ; ‘U. S. NAVY: 15 battleships, 29 cruisers, 84 ‘submarines, 247 destroyers and the like. A total of 375 fighting ships.
* GREAT BRITAIN: 15 battle-
- ships, 57 cruisers, 54 submarines, / : one-half of the world’s supply.
194 destroyers; etc. Total, 320. FRANCE: 7 :-battleships, . 19 cruisers,, 80 submarines, 76 -destroyers, etc. Total, 182. . GERMANY: 5 battleships, 9 cruisers, 36 submarines, 27 destroyers, etc. Total, 73. (One would guess, however, that Germany has increased its number of submarines since this compilation was made.) ITALY: 4 battleships, 26 cruisers, 74 submarines, 63 destroyers. Total, 167.
Critics of our Navy insist that.
unity of sentiment among the na-
from the vocal and psychic darts
ican Conference of Foreign Min-
‘saying in effect to Hitler, ‘Keep: your > submarines and airplanes
It is .assumed, of course, that -
l, 0.0. F. ELECTION ENDS STATE SESSION
New officers to head the: Grand Lodge of Indiana, Independent Orderiof Odd Fellows, for the coming year were elected yesterday at the final business session of the twoday state convention at the .Odd Fellow Building. Installation followed. i Fred Major, Decatur, was named Grand Master, and Dawson Smith, Madison, Deputy Grand' ‘Master. Paul Ferguson, Lebanon, was elected Grand Warden; Elmer A. Weeks, Columbia City, Grand Trustee, and Clyde Flory, Bloomfield, Grand
was made by Charles Brown, Iowa
conference at the Hotel Lincoln.
ciation. These: included the proposed appointment of a- national council ‘with delegates in proportion to the number of Library Association members within each state. -
‘Votes For Federation
The joint conference voted in favor of establishing a single federation representing all libraries in the United, . Sates s Mr. Brown : praise ndiana’s rary program Representative. : ; | for its “spirit of individualism” and] Henry" E. Roesener, Indianapolis, | “development of independent thinkand Frank ‘McConaughy, Franklin, [ing . ~ were . re-elected Grand Secretary |. Each group elected officers during and Grand Treasurer, respectively.|the:conference. Miss Jane Kitchell, All elections, except those of Grand | Vincennes, was named Indiana Warden and Grand Trustee, were | Library Association president, and uncontested. Mrs. George K. Bridwell, BloomingA guest of the convention was|ton, was elected to the same office Judge George S. Starrett of Co-|by the Library Trustees Association. lumbia, Mo Siang Sire of the 'Sov- Ofticers Listed ereign: Grand Lodge of the Inde-| _ . . ‘ A pendent Order: of Odd Fellows of ‘Other . new Library Association the World. © | officers are Miss Mary Louise Fitton, nt : . ‘+ |Hanover College, vice’ president; EAMIL AR Ma | Miss: Ella: Hodges, Mishawaka, secFRANKLIN MOBILIZES ‘retary, and Miss: Susan. "Erlewine, AD \AIAL | Kokomo, treasurer. FOR : WAR ON RATS "Elected tor Trustees : Association xh : e ~. . |ofces were Z. M. Smith, Greenfield,
: .|vice president, and Mrs. George. C. Baum, Akron, ' secretary-treasurer.
Times Special ; : FRANKLIN, Ind, Oct. 14—Johnson County residents are making preparations for one of the largest wholesale rat poisonings in recent years. + Fry The invasion of the rodents
‘Muncie, © Miss: May
Webb, Hunt, 1 : Childs, Madison, Mrs. Charles Gart-
lein, Connersville, and Mrs. Frank B, Park, Kendallville. ~ N
PL ER re ————————————————. n —— a pINJURED IN COLLISI
aroused farmers and businessmen| BL N, Ind., Oct. 14 (U, P). and they mapped the anti-rat cam-|— Daniels, 58, received, a brain paign. Rat bait—420 pounds of it|conc n yesterday when he was —already has been ordered from |thrown out of an automobile which
the office of S. B. Scott,
and tomorrow night I shall attend a meeting and
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Indiana Library Association and Indiana
Executive ‘board’ members include’
colli ed with another car at an in JIL ‘ete a
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much must be done to modernize many of our ships. Even so, Uncle Sam’s: Navy looks pretty good. It. looks even better if we shall, in the future, as in the past, depend upon the British Navy :to he our . defense also. This, of course, obviously: would no longer be true if
_ Great Britain went: down. in. de-
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.-.In the first ‘article I called attention to the amazing superiority.
which the United States enjoys over the other great powers, namely - Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan, in
the possession of the sinews of
war, -the so-called: “great essen- . tials» and “critical raw materials.” Let .me repeat ‘those facts briefly before going .on:to a discussion of our. strategic weaknesses. : gs 8 . OT: only do we have sufficient .* supplies to meet our requirements of the -great essentials, food, power, iron and steel, ma-
. chinery, chemicals, coal, iron ore,
and petroleum—but our ordinary
- demands are:equal to those of the other: great .powers combined in
every.case except food..
In addition, we ‘are able to export. machinery, coal: and petroleum. * . In other words, to say that the United States is self-sufficient in any of these commodities is anather way "of saying that the United States produczs and has The same thing is true of the" “critical raw materials.” Here we: find we can meet 100 per cent.of - our own ‘need for copper; sulphur, cotton, zinc and phosphates,’ more than 90 per cent of our lead and mica, about 75 per cent of our nitrates, 50 per cent of our aluminum,. wool and mercury. We are dependent upon imports
_- for, 100 per .cent or nearly 100 per
cent of the following critical raw materials: Rubber, manganese, nickel, chromite, potash, antimony
Urges ‘Democratization’ Of Library Organization
An appeal for “democratization” of American library organization
State College librarian, before the Library Trustees Association
Mr. Brown, speaking at the close ‘of ‘the conference yesterday, outlined tentative plans for reorganization of the American Library Asso-
SCHOOL SAFETY UNIT
T0 MEET THURSDAY =
Joan Izor, Jack Jelliffe, Carolyn
The Indianapolis Safety Education ‘Council is to hold its first meeting of the school year at 3:30 p. m. Thursday at the World War Memorial, William A. Evans, - council chairinan, announced today. The meeting is .to be attended by three new members and one council member, who was reappointed this year by Superintendent of Schools DeWitt S. Morgan. So ‘New members are Miss Mary McGee, principal of School 2; Murray Dallman, principal of School 81, and Charles Youngman, principal ' of Lawrence -E. Stafford, « principal of ‘School 75, was reappointed. Retiring from the council are L. E. Hall, principal of School 16; W. B. Johnson, principal of School 50, and Miss Maude Price,
third Thursday of every month durI g ‘the school year. 4 heal
| RECALLS MEN FROM MARS | NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (U. P).—
Police Inspector Arthur W. Wallander today prohibited ‘a ‘“blackout” at the World's Fair tomorrow because he was afraid some people ght not be aw
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principal - of. School 78. vie : A The council plans to meet. the
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Above, part of the U. S. - Navy, America’s first line of de-
fense. Below: Scene at the ‘opening of the Pan-American | . Conference in Panama City.
. and tin, These are our strategic
. weaknesses. . eit But. here, as Dr. Brooks Emeny has pointed out in his authoritative “The Strategy of Raw Materials,” many. of our difficulties disappear as long as we can count on South America and all of them disappear if we have access to British-controlled supplies. In" addition, ‘there are certain other raw.materials of less. critical importance which America must import. . Dr. Emeny gives the entire list .of raw materials, both critical and otherwise, which we must import as follows: Manganese, chromium, nickel, tungsten, tin, antimony, mercury, platinum, mica, nitrates, rubber,
silk, jute, manila fiber, sisal, wool,
cattle hides, camphor, iodine, nux vomica, opium, quinine, shellac, coconut shells, coffee and sugar. ” ” 8 OST important of this list, says Dr.. Emeny, because of its importance to the: steel industry is manganese. Incidentally, it is interesting ‘to note* that Russia is the largest producer of manganese and the only Great. Power "which is self-sufficient. But India ranks second as a producer and: Great Britain can get: manganese ‘ from - India, the -Gold Coast: and the Union of South Africa. In normal‘ times the: United States. gets . its : chief -supply in equal amounts from Russia and Brazil ‘and lesser - amounts from India, Africa, Chile and Canada. In time of war, our chief supply would be Brazil, buttressed with smaller amounts from- Chile and Canada, and perhaps, British possessions. At any rate, our life line’
SHORTRIDGE BATON CLUB TAKES IN 39
~The - Shortridge High School Baton Club has added 39 new members, it was announced today by Miss Geraldine Trotter, sponsor. They ‘are Paul Ashley, Earl Breech, Frances Burbridge, Ethel Cooper, Joseph Delk, Carol Doub, Barbara Easterday, Robert English, Elinor Faucett, Nina Fleming, Vir-
nia Gammon, Jean Gannon, Helen Heidenreich, Martha Hofmann,
Jones. i John Jones, Betty Kehn, Myrene Liverett, Eva. Lou Marsischke, Mildred Ogle, Jerry Motley, Jean Ober, Joan Parr, Viola: Peacher, Betty
Poole, Joseph Rutledge, Ellen Saga-|-Sidney = Sakowitz, Robert} Mary Elizabeth Smith, Betty}
Silver, Snyder, Mary ' Stadler, Loreen Thomas, Robert Vernon, Doris WalKer, LaVay Williams and Gordo: Wilson. : 5
SALVATION ARMY’S
~ COMMITTEE. NAMED)
'1—Dr. Dirk Jan de Geer. |
Harvey A. Grsbill, attorney, wos elected chairman of the .Salvation Army Legacy and Bequest Conmimit-
tee at a meeting yesterday at the
Columbia Club. ~~ _ °° Thomas D. Stevenson, attorney, was elected vice chairman. Members
|ot the committee are Vayne M.
Armstrong, William Harrison, Harvey B:. Hartsock, Ralph K. Kane, Pony ‘Neal, Donald M. Ream, and Walter G. Todd. Frederick E. Schortemeier, James A. Collins and Jars. Yaekey. were ‘ratified "as ex-
‘members of the Central Ad-|
to South America is the controlling factor. ' :
“Our chief source of chromite is '
Southern ‘Rhodesia, with Cuba: our
_ second most impottarit source.
‘The bulk of our ‘nickel comes from Canada, a -situation which ‘should cause us no ‘worries over
. matters of war strategy.
Our tungsten comes mostly from China. We'get small amounts from Europe, India and Bolivia. : Tin comes mostly from the Malay States, antimony from China, Mexico and Bolivia. Chief sources - of platinum are Great Britain and Colombia. ‘Our ‘chief source of mica is India, of nitrates, Chile. Rubber is a critical raw material of ‘the: utmost significance. Our chief sources are the Malay States and the Dutch East Indies.
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N conclusion we may note Dr. Emeny’s analysis of the situation. He says, “It is evident that of the 26 different commodities, the problem of procuring which in time of ‘war is’ considered’ sufficiently difficult by the War Department to: warrant, their being classed as ‘strategic,’ no more than five or six- of: these are vital concern.” . : He urges the advisability of the United States accumulating stock Pils of manganese, chromite and. in. He points out further that many
~ of our needs can be met by
Canada and South’ America and finally that. we have no strategic worries as long as the British and we are on the same side. : In conclusion, therefore, it would seem that the United States is safe
“so long as it maintains ‘its own | Navy and amicable relations with |
South America.
By staying out of war, we can
devote ourselves to the advance-
‘ment of the arts and sciences and | prepare ourselves to play the role |
of leadership which the world will need in the reconstruction. after the end of the present war.
NEW INDIANA STRIP "MINE: TO OPEN SOON
Times Special KINGMAN, Ind, Oct. 14.—~Offi cials of the F.C, Morgan Co., of Indianapolis, indicated: today that the marketing of coal from a.four-foot vein found’ in farming territory east of here would begin in about a month. The company is pushing operations and expects to strip about 2,000,000 tons in 10° years.
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