Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1941 — Page 7

GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Says:

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Washington, D. C. ARMS PRODUCTION Our snail’s pace arms production doesn’t need any declaration of an emergency or new legislation to speed it up. It needs just one thing, authorized and responsible management and leadership in the government itself. That seems so plain as not to need argument. Even a very small industrial effort needs that. Nobody would drehm of starting one without that. Mr. Knudsen says that the public is “sold’’ to the necessity for speed and production, but that industry and labor are asleep. Almost at the moment he was saying that, another member of the rearmament advisory overhead, Mr. Nelson, was tolling us that the trouble is that the public is apathetic, asleep. This is not to criticize these gentlemen. They haye done marvelous jobs of making without straw such bricks as we have 'manufactured. Tiie “straw’’ that management of a great effort needs is authority. They haven’t got it. But did anybody ever hear of any determined effort on their fcart tp get it? It is well known that there has been' none. In the absence of such an effort, perhaps we should look twice at these indictments of the public, of labor and of industry—especially When pne of these authorities says that the public is to blame while the other feels that the public attitude is satisfactory but that industry and labor are the goats. Whenever a man, or a group of linen, step into the driver’s seat, t .ere is only one goat when the-bus doesn’t run. It is the man at the irois. If he didn’t get the right line or has accepted a faulty • ! era tor, it doesn’t lie in Insmouth to blame either the passengers or the rest of the crew. Mr. Knudsen is right about the public attitude. The public has been far ahead of government for defense from the very start, ahead of both congress and the executive department. It balked at nothing. It is ready for any sacrifice. ? As for labor and industry, they are the public, Their response at such a time depends entirely upon government leadership of them. are b p lead, swing and heel horses of this team. They can haul the load d-1 every ounce of their weight Son the traces. But they can’t set it he pace and direction without a guiding intelligence and inspiration ta* spark the effort. There is no hanging back on the industrial side. T 'is never been more willing'and eager since World War I. The solution of our problem n’t vreside in wqrds and gestures . i laws and new, strange and unAmerican devices. It resides in work and common sense and competent leadership. + + ♦ TERRIBLE URGENCY ** Just now, in the highly successful ' p-herding process of forming m* re or . less panicky public opin-. :• n, there are three principal shibdmieths or sloganeered conclusions floating about Washington:, o first is*a sort of hushed whisthat the next 120 days will decide the fate of the world, including ours. This is the “terrible urgency’’ mystery and out of it grows a second that we should begin financing the British Empire over this short! crisis by gift or loan, secured or otherwise to the extent of about $2,000,000,000. A third, somew r hat inconsistently, is that this is a struggle to an absolute knockout between Hitlerism and democracy, that we must get into it with force of arms, and that it must go on until one or the other ’ is wiped completely off the slate. No matter which of these conclusions or any variation or opposition of them is held, there seems to be i difference of opinion whatever that we must get our industry into on all-out, high speed war production immediately and that we are g it. So let’s skip that. We ought to take a long look, however, at this proposal to finance the British Empire, We can’t reach a decision on the basis of any 120-day crisis or any $2,000,000,000 estimate. Britain has plenty of resources here to get all that we shall have to give for many times 120 da5 r s. -If this is to be a long war to the destruction of Hitler on the continent and we now concede the amount of interest or obligation necessary to warrant financing this phase of it up to $2,000,000,000, we are hooked—inextricably involved. There is and there can be no limit on the billions we must spend. When you get into a war, you don’t count costs. That isn’t all. Helping by supplies to enable England to resist invasion, to maintain the British fleet and shut Hitler up on the Continent of Europe, as Napoleon was blockaded, is one thing—largely a matter of maintaining naval and air supremacy. Invading Europe and destroying Hitler is quite another thing. He has a superior army with all the equipment accumulated during years of Napoleon blew up through interior revolt but, compared with the grip that Hitler has taken on his conquests, Napoleon was a sissybritches.

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Halifax Named British Envoy to U. S. As Eden Gets Foreign Minister Post; U. S. Defense Set-Up Revised in Effort To Speed Up Industrial Production

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SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND—A “Pioneer” squad is shown marching to work after a night raid on a Midlands town. The duty of these men is to clean up the debris and make roads passable. They also demolish parts of buildings left standing by the bombs but which might constitute a hazard. Often they work right through the raid while bombs dropj

BOSS: Becomes Servant Selection of Viscount Halifax as British ambassador to the United States was a case of the boss becoming the servant and vice versa, for Anthony Eden was named as most likely candidate for succession to Halifax's post as foreign secretary. j Halifax left the cabinet, the last of the Chamberlain appeasement

crew, a man ' for whose scalp the BriL ish anti - Chamberlainites had howled for months withou l success. Washington con ceded the great ability of the new arn bassador, and predicted success for him here, while admitting that American public opinion at the outset might

recall his appeasement tactics before Munich. It was announced that Britain might add the post of minister to its staff in Washington. Both ambassador and minister had been the custom in Britain’s Paris office, but hitherto Washington has had only an ambassador.

Just what Eden has been up to in Egypt and the near East has never been made clear, but it must have been successful, because lobservers pointed to the fact that B. E. (before Eden) things had been at a standstill in the eastern Mediterranean sector, and after Anthony arrived on the scene, of a sudden the British rose up, pelted the Fascists, and sailed them Way hack into Libya. - effort against the Dodecanese islands also.was crowned with a great deal of success, and Eden is, believed to have had a finger in that pie as well, ISo now he is to be Drought back as foreign minister frofiri his present p’bst as secretary for (var, rand this will be odd, for he will go"f)ack into a job he held under Chamberlain, and which he vacated because he openly expressed himsjelf as- out of sympathy with the then premier’s appeasement policy. SECONDS: In the Ring Italy was not, perhaps, knocked out of the war by but her seconds, at any Irate, jumped into the ring. Presence of- large numbers of German troops was confirmed in many quarters. Purpose of these was a bit dubious, but consensus was that some would be used in actual fighting in the Battle of Greece and the Battle of Africa, and that others would be employed to bolster home morale. Germany, in admitting official aid to Italy, let it be known that Axis partners must stand together, and that in sending aid to II Duce’s tottering armies Germany was but repaying aid sent to her by Italy in the form of “hundreds of pilots and planes for cross-Channel bombing.” It was too early for the general effect of these reinforcements to be noted in the war reports. British mechanized forces, backed by naval guns from the Mediterranean and by naval and army planes from overhead, pushed on rapidly into Libya.

HIGHLIGHTS ... in the week’ s news

A few years ago America was overbuilt and real estate was going begging. Today a housing shortage is one of the bottlenecks of defense , industry. Here are a few reports: Seattle (plane center) reports “this time next year they’ll be sleeping in tents.” Rock Island, 111., (arsenal) has an acute shortage of housing.

The fall of Salum forced an entry into Italian territory, and the British, using the German tactics of the fight through Flanders, shot ahead down the coastal roads 175 miles within 'the border, completely Surrounding and cutting off some 20,000 troops in Bardia, principal port. Bardia was placed in a state of seige, and the British main forces after leaving sufficient men to prosecute the f-eduction of Bdrcfia, later to be reinforced from , the rear, pushed on toward Tcjbruk and Derna. Marshal Graziam and his main forces were still able to keep ahead of the British, but the latter claimed enormous numbers of prisoners, killed and wounded Italians, totaling around 30,000, great booty, all accomplished with a British loss of only 1,000. Just where the Germans w’ould enter the picture in the Battle of Africa was not clear, with the British naval forces apparently in charge of the coastline and unmolested, and the better ports either in British hands or under siege. CLAUSE SIX: , And National Defense When President Roosevelt wants to do something drastic and final and something that has not been done before, he has'a system all his own. - He calls his legal advisers in, tells them what he wants to do, and then has them find a law for it. He has created a new job, called the Office for Emergency Production Management, and put into it William S. Knudsen, wizard automobile production man, with instructions that he is to be the “czar” for U. S. defense, and all lights extending before him will be green lights. Knudsen took the job (which he almost had before the new order) grabbed his new authority, and told America to “roll up its sleeves go to work’’ building planes and munitions.

Viscount Halifax

“There must be no appeasement,” he said, and he called the war in Europe “irreconcilable” in character, and asked the nation to “recognize the full gravity of the crisis” which resulted in additional power being given to his organization. One writer said that, seven months ago, when Knudsen was given the defense chairmanship, he gave that funny half-smile of his and asked President Roosevelt “who’s the boss?” The President said “I am.” And Knudsen took the job, it was said with misgivings. These misgivings have been more than justified in the defense industry lag. Now, it is held, Mr. Roosevelt has said to Mr! Knudsen, in effect, “I was wrong before. Now you are the boss!” And now Knudsen will go ahead with full authority. As to Clause Six, and the part it played, some of the Washingtonians questioned the President’s authority to give Knudsen supreme power. He pointed to the Second Reorganization act. Now, that act did not give the President this power specifically, but acting under its authority the President issued an executive order ((which he WAS empowered to do). Clause Six of this order read: “(6) In the event of a national emergency, or threat of a national emergency, (the President may create) such office for emergency management as the President shall determine.”

BERMUDA —The British have taken from the SS Excambion Oscar R. Stabler, 35, the ship’s barber, a German-born naturalized American citizen. MALTA—Prince Philip of Greece is first member of the royal family to join the British armed forces. He’s 19 and has been assigned to active duty on a battleship.

THE KANKAKEE VALdLEY POST

By Edward C. Wayne

He Said ‘No’

VICHY , FRA? CE. Shorvn here is Fernand Di Brinon , French ambassador in Germanoccupied Paris , uho acting under orders of the French Chief-of-State Philippe Petain, delivered to the Germans , France's refusal to make any changes in the French cabinet or to take back the ousted Pierre Laval.

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AIRPLANES—At San Diego, Consolidated Aircraft corporation announced a $14,000,000 building project doubling its present capacity. WINE At Livermore, Calif., Schenley Import corporation gave impetus to the American wine industry by purchasing the Cresta Blanca Wine company. PRODUCTION—At Washington, the Federal Reserve board reported that during November industrial production hit a record high,/132 per cent of the J 935-39 average. ARMS—At Washington, British officials completed a master list of $3,000,000,000 in new war orders to be placed in. the U. S., including 12,000 combat planes. GREEK: Aims Revised The Greek war cry of “Tirana by Christmas” had to be revised, when Italian resistance stiffened, and the skirted Evzones had to fight ahead every inch of the way at, bayonet point. Whether it .was German reinforcement or not was not clear, but-as the Italians neared the hopping off places they fought harder and the Greek advance, while continuing steady, was not as spectacular. The Greeks reminded one of a football team nearing the goal-line and ! meeting a stiffened defense. Enormously important objectives had been achieved, however, Pogradetz on the north,and Argirocastro on tlie south, Porto Edda and other vital points having fallen into their hands. ■ Maps, showed a good third of Albania taken back from the Italian invaders. Immediate objectives were the port town of Valona, and the inland bases of Te pel ini and Chifnara.

Greek generals claimed the Italians had moved out of Klisura, but that the Greeks -were not entering the town until the Fascists had been stormed from their positions on the heights to the rear. Former Greek army officers now in the United Slates placed utmost importance on the conquest of Tepelini, an important road junction point. They stated categorically that if the Greeks capture Tepelini, further Italian resistance in Albania would be impossible. On the other, side, experienced military men pointed out that beyond Tepelini and toward the coast line the Albanian plains, and it was in this territory that the Fascists’ mechanized forces, especially, if aided by German tanks and dive bombers, might succeed in halting the Greek advance. The British fleet boldly ranged up and down Italy’s private Adriatic, bombing Valona with thousandpound naval shells and receiving no answering fire. The outcome still was in doubt, though dispatches continued to favor Greece. HOOVER: Speaks Again Herbert Hoover, announcing himself as definitely and forever out of politics, took the speaker’s stand again to appeal for a general U. S. sentiment in favor of making plans to feed Europe’s hungry—without letting any of the food get into German stomachs. The former hero of Belgian relief told the people he believed this could be accomplished, but that it would not be the work of a week or a month—but would require months of planning before it could be carried out.

Millions of men, women and children in the overrun, countries of Europe will be facing real hunger, cold and starvation before the next harvest, and if lives are to be saved, said Hoover, America must do the saving. HooverLs statement as to the imminence of starvation went unchallenged, and news dispatches from Shanghai, for instance, told of 12,900 bodies being found, dead from star vation, more than two-thirds of them Chinese children, in six months alone in the one city.

HOW TO SEW

by Ruth Wyeth Spears

IT WAS a bride of ten years who * reminded me of blanket protectors. I say bride because her home still has the immaculate freshness of a bride’s house. Her wool blankets have never been washed or cleaned, yet their soft light colorings show no sign of soil. She brought out some long pieces of cotton material; “I baste these over the tops of the blankets,” she said ‘‘and change them every few weeks.” I thought of some dainty bed linens that I had seen all trimmed in flower sprigged cotton print. Why not make flowered blanket protectors to harmonize with blanket colorings? Here is one that would go with either rose or blue. It is easy to hide Pasting stitches that fasten it temporarily to, the blanket by slipping them along in the pink or blue binding as shown. One length of material as long as the width of the blanket will make a pair of these protectors.

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