Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1940 — Page 13

Peace Feelers

. (Third of a Series)

. + WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Our Government is so much afraid of “Hitler peace feelers that it is already trying to build up public resistance through counter‘propaganda. :

“It coesn’t fit the’ American spirit, the American

urpose, the American security to talk appeasement in a world like this, where force and force alone determines the fate of nations,” says Secretary of the Navy Knox. : . William Allen White, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which has become the advance “education” column fgr Roosevelt foreign policy, says: “In the next few months we face the danger of a cowardly : | compromise with Hitler and his clan.” Such “appeasement,” he adds, would be “treason to demécracy.” . The Administration's present effort to counterac ' ‘Hitler peace feelers does not mean that the door As .closed permanently. It merely means that, in the Roosevelt-Churchill judgment, the tie to consider a negotiated peace has net yet arrived; and that if and when it does arrive,.the Government wants to dicker secretly instead of having its hand forced by public pressure.

America Wants Peace

In the recent campaign both Presidential candidates were forced by public sentiment to reiterate peace pledges. The American will to peace is so strong it can be rallied behind the President easily any time he decides to press for peace abroad. Meanwhile, his problem 'is to keep the American public sympathetic to British rejection of any compromise offered by Hitler. Pro and con arguments exist, whether the determining factor is to be humanitarian, politicaldiplomatic, or economic—or a confused combination of all, : Humanitarian— Pro: “There never was a good war or a bad peace” is the extreme position. Stop the suffering and death. Make democracy work at home, and let totalitarianism abroad destroy itself. Con: Life is’ dear but liberty is more precious.

i By Ludwell Denny

Life is not worth living unless Hitlerism is destroyed.

A Nazi compromise .would be no peace, no. freedom.

Political-Diplomatic— Pro: The sooner the war is stopped, the less Hitler will get, If it is a fight to the death, he has a ‘better chance than Britain. He may end up with al} of Europe and Africa and partial mastery of Asia, not to mention the position then of the Western Hemisphere. The longer the war continues the more likely the United States, now an indirect belligerent, is to be drawn in—despite campaign pledges against sending Americans abroad. Con: A compromise peace would bring Britain into the Hitler orbit in fact if not intame,; and leave the United States alone to fight Pan-Germany and Japan soon. The argument that democracy could survive an armed truce better than totalitarianism is wishful thinking.

The Economic Side

Economic— Pro:. Our war boom is a fatal shot-in-the-arm. Unless we soon stop this most powerful of economic opiates, it will kill our democratic system. The depression of the 1930s was the result of the last war, and in our present weakened condition we cannot recover from another. If the war continues, soon we shall be giving Britain the supplies we are now nominally selling her (nominally because her gold is worthless when added to our unused gold hoard). We would be left with inflatiod and debt heavy enough to break our already cracking capitalist system. That is a surer road to totalitarianism ‘in America than any uncertain Hitler invasion. Con: We are getting rich in the war trade and in new hemisphere bases and power. We will grow richer relatively as both the British and Nazi empires exhaust themselves. The United States can continue to fight Hitler through Britain, without the destruction of our own country. If Hitler wins, we shall still be better able to meet him in the future than now. He will have a destroyed Europe on his hands, while we shall be the strongest power the world has ever seen. If Britain wins, we shall be rid of the Hitler menace at a net profit; while exhausted Britain will not be strong enough to dominate the Anglo-American alliance which probably will then rule the world. | ons Such are the arguments. -

NEXT—Watch Bevin for the Sigal

~ (Ernie Pyle is en route to London)

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

IN SPITE OF the fact that he has been negligent about sending Christmas cards to his friends the last few years, W. Rowland Allen, the popular personnel man at L. S: Ayres, felt that he still rated pretty well “awith his cronies. . He felt especially that way the other day when he received a beribboned and bedecked Christmas package, liberally sprinkled with “Open Immediately” stickers.

Rowland, infused with the warm glow that always comes on such occasions, immediately envisioned something tasty in the way of edibles and eagerly unwrapped it. What the box contained was 50 super-special Christmas cards— all engraved “William Rowland Allen” and all ready to be placed in the mail.

First Things First . ‘THE MAYOR'S OFFICE was all confusion. Secretary Russell Campbell was on the telephone trying to locate Controller James Deery, who was carrying a $25,000 check Hizzoner was to sign. The assistant secretary was taking a complaint

frp an angry citizen on another phone. ) Five taxpayers were sitting around, waiting for a

- ~~" )chance to talk personally with Hizzoner.

> And just at that moment, Hizzoner himself walked in, hung up his hat, walked over to the window and ty: “I want to join the Red Cross.” d aliough, the Mayor's office is central headters for the Red Cross,’ not a membership card

ould be found. A messenger was hurriedly dispatched and ret post-haste. Hizzoner paid, sighed and lean ack ready for business.

- Washington ” WASHINGTON, Ngv. 27—Lord Lothian is an astute diplomat and he probably will discover quickly that this is not the time to .open a campaign for repeal of the Johnson Acf and of the Neutrality Act restrictions which prohibit loans to England. Financial aid to Britain isn’t nearly so important right now as planes, munitions and ships. England’s financial difficulty concerns dollar exchange rather than her real assets, which are slill enormous. Ways can be found to adjust the exchange difficulty without opening up the provocative issue of repealing the Johnson Act, which already has stirred violent Senatorial opposition. The real question is whether the United States can supply enough war material to enable the British to'stay in the war. Britain’s fate now depends upon our industry. Whether Britain can gain mastery of the air will depend upon whether we can give if to her. Britain alone is no match for German war industry. Unless we can provide the difference, Britain- is in a losing race against Nazi war production.

‘Aid to Britain at Peak

‘Returning to Washington from a trip home, Lord . Lothian called on President Roosevelt and said later: “My discussion of conditions was optimistic—providing we get some help from you.” That was an understatement. It is not some help that Britain needs’ but a lot of help, much more than we are giving. We are sending Britain 26 new flying fortresses—that is, when they are finished. The last of them will notsbe ready until March. Those - are the planes Britain must have to increase her long-range offensive bombing of Axis centers. We are still some time away from producing 1000 planes a month. Britain's share of those is not enough to + enable her to overtake German production. . President Roosevelt says that, for the moment, aid to Britain has reached a peak. He remarks that if anyone could show him a way to turn out airplanes

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Tuesday.—Yesterday was a _ © busy day, First we said goodby to a friend who is ". off on a naval reserve cruise and then I went up to spend an hour’ with Mrs. William Brown Meloney, an ever courageous and ever inspiring’ friend. .o i Next I went to Mr. Douglas Chandor’s studio on E. 57th St. to see the portrait which he has painted of my daughter-in-law, | Ruth, Elliott's wife. It is a charming portrait of a very charming young woman. He has caught her beauty and her sweetest expression, and there it is ‘on canvas for her children to enjoy.” We change with age, but beautiful portraits can remain to remind us of the days when youth radiated its own special charm all about us. There is a portrait at Eyde Park

of my mother-in-law as a young woman, done by .

Pierre Troubetskoy, which is, I think, one of the most distinguished and beautiful paintings I ‘have ever seen. It does full justice to a beauty which was then at its height. Today, next to 'the portrait of Ruth, Mr. Chandor has a portrait of my mother-in-law. The beauty of the young woman is still : apparent so many years later. The face today is : gentler, Jess rigid, but the lines of the aristocrat are : #till in gvidence n-spite of the passage of gears. ;

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Coffin-for-Heller THE “What-to-serve-dinner-guests” problem has been’ solved, at least: temporarily, for the Edward P. Gallaghers. Mr. Gallagher came home from a Michigan deer-hunting expedition the other day with a seven-point buck. . . . Tristram Coffin has taken over Dick Heller's old seat at the Governcr’s office and although he doesn’t have any patronage troubles to bother him there still are plenty of personnel problems he must iron out. His predecessor, incidentally, is opening a ‘“5c-t0-$1” store in Hilisdale, Mich. . . . Window dressers are putting up the 1940 version of Block’s annual Christmas bells. They're smaller this year—red, with a soft, fluorescent glow.

Matter of Life and Death

SUPERIOR JUDGE HERBERT WILSON’S decision in the case of Dr. Heil Crum and his “etherator” is due any day now: There are some persons, it seems, who can hardly wait. i Judge Wilson says he’s had at least a dozen telephone calls from persons in Central Indiana who own similar boxes, all of them wanting to knpw when he wili give his ruling. : The boxes, they assure him, are under lock and key. One woman was particularly anxious. “I've got scores of people waiting for treatments,” she said, “and theyre going to die pretty soon if I don’t get them.” :

The New Training School

FIFTEEN OF THE city's leading industrialists met at City Hall yesterday to discuss a training school for their night watchmen. : It’s all part of Chief Morrissey’s, defense program to train adequate guards. Lieut. Carl Ashley, just back from the FBI school, will be instructor for the course.

By Raymond Clapper.

faster, then the situation with regard to aid to Britain would be different. The implication is that our production is the bottleneck. We | are not a belligerent in this war, in the

‘part of the. But we have now become as much a

part of the British war machine as the industries that are being bombed in the English Midlands. British production probably is at or near its peak. England therefore depends on us for further increase in her war-machine strength. The British public has been nourished on the expectation of rapidly expanding aid from America. That hope sustains England's morale, As the English see it, we are a silent partner in the war. If we fail her in supplies, we shall be blamed in England for losing the war.

How|Can We Speed Up?

That, it seems to me, is the situation that has developed, the role into which we have been placed. In a short time it will take the form of the pointed question: “Is the United States going to let Britain down?” . The issue comes up not only with regard to planes and munitions but with regard to ships. Are we to stand by and see England fail for lack of shipping? Some in this Government who are opposed to opening up the Johnson -Act repeal issue would like to revise the Neutrality Act to permit our shipping to go to Britdin’s aid. As one official puts it, “I think it is time 'we stripped down to the waist.”

more completely away from into war work. ‘ : These are some of the questions that will be discussed during the next few weeks preparatory to the new session of Congress. ‘

non-essentials

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Next to the two family portraits, there stood a portrait of Mr, Herbert Hoover, which is as good as any I have seen. On the easel nearby, the portrait

‘of a ine boy with his shirt open at the neck was

arresting and made one want to know the child. Af r the studio visit came a little Christmas shopping and then lunch with my cousin, Mrs. Henry Parish, Here an hour melted away and left me surprised to discern that I should have been at our house |in 65th St. to meet the truck that was to take some cases of the President's papers up to Hyde Park. At 4:15 I managed to come rather breathlessly into the Commodore Hotel to meet with some of the women who are taking part in forum discussion today at the Womery's Centennial Congress. I am supposed to preside and keep them all talking. I only hape I shall do it as well as Dr. Wirth did in the Chicago University Forum on the Air last Sunday. . We had a rather hurried dinner iast night and then we went to the Columbia Broadcasting Company where, in an empty studio, a group of ‘young people met to discuss a new organization—the committee of 30 million young people. I think we could have spent | many hours together and carried on an increasingly animated discussion about the function of youth organizations, but the studio in which we were, was needed at. 10 o'clock, so we broke up and bout. our. various occupations. : : RE

Democracy Dead, Hitler Says

INSTALLMENT NINE

Voice of Destruction,” in which Hermann Rauschning, close associate of Hitler from 1932 to 1985, tells of the Dictator’s intimate discussions with the inner circle of the National Socialist party.

“T’HE era of democracy + is over, inexorably finished,” Hitler said. “We have been drawn into a movement which will carry us along with it whether we like it or not. If we resist, we shall be annihilated. If we stand aside, we shall die off. It is a choice between taking action or being destroyed. Democracy is no longer the suitable political ‘medium for the great decisions of

the coming years.

“It is my historical achievement to have recognized this. My policy only seems dangerous; it is not -really so. Success will be mine because I have fathomed the weaknesses, including Marxism, of all the spurious great men of democracy and liberalism, The opposition to us is dismally helpless, incapable of acting because it has lost every vestige of an inner law of action. “Democracy is a poison which disintegrates the body of the nation, and its action is the more deadly the more naturally strong and healthy the nation it infects.” The German people, he resumed, had had to be rescued from all dangerous and contaminating contact with this political pestilence, democracy. They would have perished otherwise. “Today we :do not yet know what the-end will be. We are only at the beginning. But we desire revolution. We shall not retreat. Fully conscious of what I was doing, I burnt all bridges in my foreign policy. I will compel the German people, who are hesitating before their destiny, to walk the road fo greatness. I can attain my purpose only through world revolution. For the German people, there is no other way. Relentlessly they must be driven to their greatness, or they will fall back into timid renunciation.” 8 &F NLY by accepting the inner law of the new world order,

he continued, could the German

people become the world people who would give their name to the coming era. After this vast stirvey, Hitler returned to the more prosaic problems of every day. He accepted unreservedly my view that Germany must provide no excuse for any other country to proceed against her. It was necessary, he considered, that all arbitrary acts should be avoided, and that an absolute national discipline should make any “incidents” impossible. - Apart from this, he was prepared, he said, to make any agreement that would publicly guarantee him a measure of rearmament. “I am willing to sign anything to facilitate the success of my policy. I am prepared to guarantee all frontiers and to make

SEES THREAT T0 HOME RULE

Evansville Attorney Speaks As Municipal League Opens Session.

RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 27 (U. P.). With return of peace and national security, local government may pass away, Col. Louis L. Roberts, Evansvill city attorney, told the opening session of the 41st annual convention of the Indiana Municipal League today. “We have accepted that which was never intended,” he asserted.

“Namely, that local municipal governments exist at the sufferance of the state. : “If local self government is to survive it can only do so because of its greater competency and an appreciation by those governed that it is the best expression of democracy in action.” :

Stand May Be Reaffirmed

Mayor W. Vincent Youkey of Crown - Point, executive secretary, indicated that the group would reaffirm its stand against usurpation of local autonomy by centralized state government. The league long has been a champion of home rule. He said that the league’s major program points called for greater return to local units of state-collected taxes, relief from state taxes on municipal property and functions, and a broader share of final authority in dealing with strictly local problems. Governor-elect Henry F. Schricker will speak tomorrow. Lieut. Gov.Slech Charles Dawson also will atten ’

Hogan to Speak

will deliver the keynote address ‘at a dinner tonight. He will discuss “Self Government.” Daniel .W. Hoan, for 20 years mayor of Milwaukee, Wis.,, will speak on the “Role of the Municipality in National Defense Efforts” at a luncheon tomorrow,

Harry Hogan, Ft. Wayne banker,|

! ‘Theater parties and outings have|

This is the ninth instalment of “Ihe.

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* SECOND SECTION

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faced me. “I could partition Poland when and how I pleased, - But I don’t want to. It would cost too much. If I can avoid it, I will not do it. I need Poland only so long as I am still menaced by the West.” “Do you seriously intend to fight the West?” I asked. ris He stopped and looked at me. “What else do you think we're arming for?” he retorted. I said that I thought this would surely call forth a hostile coalition against Germany which would be too strong for her. » o ”

Ts is what I have to prée. vent. We must proceed step by step, so that no one will im= pede our advance. How to do this I don’t yet know. But that it will be done is guaranteed by Britain’s lack of firmness and France's internal disunity.” Hitler then began to talk about his favorite subject, the pacifism of Britain and France. I have heard times reiterate his une

_ shakable. conviction that Britain

“Why should I not make an agreement in good faith today and unhesitatingly break it tomorrow if the future of the German people demands it?”

‘non-aggression=pacts and friendly ‘alliances with anybody. It would

be sheer stupidity to refuse to

make use of such measures merely because one might possibly be driven into a position where a solemn promise would have to be broken. There has never been a sworn treaty which has not sooner or been broken .or become unfenable. There is no such thing as an everlasting treaty. Anyone whose conscience is so tender thaf he will not sign a treaty unless he can feel sure he can keep it in all and any circumstances is a fool. Why should one not please others and facilitate matters for

oneself by signing pacts if the

others believe that something is thereby accomplished or regulated? Why should I not make an agreement in good faith today and unhesitatingly break it to-morrgw-4f the future of the German people demands it? ' “I shall make any treaty I require,” Hitler repeated. “It will never prevent me from doing at any time what I regard as necessary for Germany's interests.” gE ® 2 =

[Events in this chapter occurred in 1934. Germany had concluded a 10year peace pact with Poland. Nazi officials had takem an oath to support Hitler. In June came the blood purge.]

T WAS not till later that Hitler allowed me ga more intimate insight into his foreign policy. The time was the beginning of 1934, and Hitler had just returned to Berlin from a mid-winter visit to Berchtesgaden. I had not yet had any opportunity of reporting .to him-on the results of my visit to Marshal Pilsudski. Hitler listened to my report, making no

Hoosier Goings On

criticisms at first. Now and again he would ask 'a question. I considered it possible that Hitler might be influenced towards a moderate policy of economic and political penetration of Central Europe, and I saw-sighs of, this in his Polish policy. At length he asked me bluntly: “will Poland remain neutral if I take action against the West?” This was a question for which I was not prepared; it seemed to me at the time without practical significance. I.therefore answered with some hesitation that this must depend on the extent to which the reduced tension between Germany and Poland could be developed , into a genuine identity of intBbests and political co-operation. Hitler agreed. : “But what will be Poland's attitude when I force through the Austrian Anschluss?” I replied that I believed it was in the interests of Poland for German expanionist,_ ambitions to be deflected from Polish territory as long as possible. Certainly I had received from my conversation with Marshal Pilsudski the impression of a very real desire on the part of Poland for a permanent understanding with the Reich. * 8. 8 ITLER had allowed me to talk on. Whether or not he was really listening, I do not know. But at this point‘ he broke in

“Naturally,” he remarked, “I

ALL ABOARD

Evansville Man Has Own 'Trolley'; * Lost Hog Can Be Had for Feed Bill

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By FRANK WIDNER,

EVANSVILLE STILL has a streetcar line and it is owned, operated

and kept in repair by a. single man. Construction and maintenance o materials are taken from cheeseboxes and Its a miniature streetcar line o

f the trolleys is cheap because the

milk cans. and built by Robert Wolff.

Mr. Wolff, who filled his basement with tiny cars, track, subways,

waiting stations and even miniature street lights, has been building the cars for five years. One system which he completed and which ran on a three-rail track, has been dismantled to jpake way for a new line that doesn’t take up so much room. So far, the route of the new trolley is but a couple of feet, for Mr. Wolff has added a new fgature to his streetcdrs—a trolley wire to replace the three-railed

track. Mr. Wolff sold his original model to admirers in other cities and has settled down to a rapid program of expansion for his new

e. : He has started work on a second car. The first one recently com-

pleted is known as the “Birney

Safety Coach.” Tools to make the cars include a hacksaw, tin snips, pliers, etc. The motors -are purchased from factory-built electric toy trains. 2 8 = :

' Whoever lost a big fat hog near Kokomo last week can get it back by contacting State Trooper Virgil Cardwell, but must pay a heavy feed bill,

Officer Cardwell turned the.

hog over to a farmer living near where it was found straying. Since then, its food consumption has reached an all time high and the bill is still mounting. a. HERE'S GOOD news for school children in Gary. ! The Gary Teachers’ Union has announced that it will provide in-

formation for Puraiite ait ithe 2a

been arranged for wives of officials.

the administration is anxious to discuss the question of a shorter day. with individuals or groups. o ” 2

Some 300 members of the First Christian Church in South Bend sat in the church the other night and heard a verdict® that the church was “not guilty of criminal negligence” but “guilty of some negligence.” The decision was reached during a mock trial at which Attorney Alfred E. Martin was judge.. Defense attorneys charged the membership with being negli-

.gent in support of the church,

community programs and attendance at church services. “Judge” Martin sentenced the congregation to “one year of hard work” and required that every member report every Sunday to the pastor.

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: “WE'VE FOUND your car,”

Muncie police told Ira Serrin, manager of the music department in a downtown store there the other day. “My car?” he replied. “I didn’t even know it was stolen.” Investigation revealed that Mr. Serrin had taken his machine to a parking lot and had told the man in charge to “put it away as I don’t know when I will use it

"It is believed the thief; whoever he might be, overheard the conversation and helped himself self.

should prefer an eastern policy of agreement with Poland rather than one directed against her.”

“The struggle against Versailles,” he said, “is the means, but not the end of my policy. I am not in the least interested in the former frontiers of the Reich. The recreation’ of pre-war Germany is not a task worthy of our revolution.” :

“Do. you plan to attack Russia with ‘the assistance of Poland?” I asked him. “Perhaps,” he returned. “I rather thought your previous remarks implied that,” I said. “Soviet Russia, however, is a difficult problem. I doubt if I shall be able to start anything there. . “I have little use for a military might and a new Polish great power on my frontiers. A war with Russia would not be in my interest.” In that case, I replied, Poland would hardly be likely to surrender any of her western terri-

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it in my power to force her to: neutrality. It would be a! simple: matter for me to partitions Poland.” I asked Hitler what he meant. “All our agreements with Poland have a purely temporary: significance. I have no intention of maintaining a serious friendship with Poland. I ¢'» not need to share my power wit, anyone.” He placed the room in silence for some minutes. “I could at any time come to an agreement with Soviet Russia,” he said at last, as he paused and

SCHOOL REPAIRS VOTED BY BOARD

Sets Aside $1798 for Painting at Ripple; Four Janitors Named.

In a brief session last night, the Indianapolis School Board appropriated $2800 for replacement and repair work, approved other expenditures totaling-$5000 and named four janitors. On recommendation of Ray Wakeland, superintendent of buildings and grounds, the Board approved construction of 70 primary grade tables at a cost of $490, increased lighting facilities at School 66 at a cost of $286.90 and approved construction of 150 new window shades for. Crispus Attucks High School at a cost of $250. The Board also voted $1798 for interior painting at Broad Ripple High School. A. B. Good, business director, was authorized to pay $512.90 for architectural services and contractors bills on the new Howe High School gymnasium. . Other expenditures approved were $208 for steel for targets at the new Shortridge High School rifle range; $770.25° for magazines for high schools and $3551.18 for magazines for the public libraries. New janitors named were Harold D. Hoard, Spurrier G. Crickmore, John W. Williams and Neal Oberdorf. L. L.. Dickerson, City librarian, reported the public libraries took in $017.19 in cash collections last month and 288,593 books were lent, a decrease of 3.3 per cent from September.

BELGIUM IS ‘HOSTILE’

LONDON, Nov. 27 (U. P).—The Belgian Embassy spokesman said

{last night that the refugee govern-

jilum is “in a state of result of

aly as a friendly acts, in-

. failed, I shall succeed.

vas quite incapable of waging another war, and that France, in spite of her magnificent army, could, by the provocation of ine ternal unrest and disunity in public opinion, easily bg brought to the point where she would only: be able to use her army too late or not at all. I objected that we might find ourselves grievously mistaken in our belief in the ime pofence of Britain and France. Hitler laughed scornfully. He would not live to see Britain again at war with Germany. “Britain needs a strong Germany. Britain and France will never again.make common cause: against Germany.” “Do you intend to break through the Maginot Line,” I asked, “or will you’ march into Holland and Belgium? If you do the latter, you will certainly bring Britain in on the side of France.” “If they have timer*to come in,” Hitler refurned. *“Besides, I shall neither break through the Magi- ° not, Line nor enter Belgium, I © « shall maneuver France right out of her Maginot Line without lose ing a single soldier.” I must have looked skeptical, for Hitler added triumphantly: “How to do it is my secret! Of course,” he continued after a

- pause, “I shall do everything in

my power, to prevent co-operation between Britain and France. If I succeed in bringing in Italy and Britain on our side, the first part of our struggle for power will be greatly facilitated. Anyhow, we don’t for a moment pretend to bee lieve that this degenerate Jewish democracy has any more vitality than France or the United States. It will be my mission to see that at least an effort 1s made to inherit this disintegrating empire peacefully, so that conflict can be avoided entirely. But I shall not shrink from war with Britain if it is necessary. Where Napoleon Today there is no such thing as an is-

tory. / “Then I shall force her. I nave: land. 1 shall land on the shores “ of Britain.

I shall destroy her towns from the mainland. Britain does not yet know how vulnerable she is today.” “But supposing Britain, France and Russia make an alliance?” “That would be the end. But even if we could not conquer then, we should drag half the world into destruction with us, and leave no one to triumph over Germany. There will not be another 1918, We shall not surrender. :

NEXT—Continuing Hitler's plans for the domination of Europe. diy

Cat's Vitality Really Amazing

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 27 (U, P.).—The vitality of a black-and= white cat that survived a foure day journey here from Chicago, ‘locked in a refrigerator railway car, amazed yardmen in the Union Pacific yards today—but that’s not all. Y Two hours after the cat was rescued from her traveling prison and given warm bread and milk,: she presented her rescuers with four healthy kittens. Freight Clerk Joseph H. Sharp was une decided what to do with them.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is a popular slang term fop doughnuts? 2—What valuable medicine is obe tained from the bark of the cinchona tree? 3—Was the first successful none stop transoceanic/ flight from America to Europe made by British, American or Italian fliers? 4—Labrador is under the ‘jurisdic« tion of ? 5—Who was the first president of the Reconstruction Finance Corp.? 6—Which is greater, the polar or equatorial circumference of the earth?’

Answers 1—Sinkers. » 2—Quinine, 3—British. 4—Newfoundland. 5—Charles G. Dawes, 6—Equatorial.

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