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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL . rNATIONAL . KALTEXBORX SAYS , . Enemies Stalemated After 6 Months Because Defense Outshines Offense AFFAIRS RtvitwtJ CARTER . by FIELD By II. V. KALTENBORX Soled Radio Commentator. believe Many politicians Democrats Iwve great advan. . tage in late convention wane Expect economy nave to AT THE end of the first six months of war we find that the major belligerents have not yet begun to fight, while the 'A a$ major neutral powers have begun to fight for peace. Small .wonder that the late Senator Borah called this a "phoney" war. Only in Finland is there a half-yea- e, isa wnicn Dutton-ircn- S t points, too. It can U .T and plain .j bias fold. Or it can be a narrow roll collar as iu tL trimmine. o- - KWvoc- a t fi BRITAIN GUARDS THE SEA multiple gun aboard a enemy raiders. anti-aircra- ft or indirectly through the Nazi leaders are apprehensive about s. casualties in the propaganda battle. They impose severe punishment on anyone who listens to a foreign broadcast. The British and French, on the other hand, have enough confidence in their people to permit them to listen to whatever Dr. Goeb-bel- s orders said. More Activity on Sea. At sea, a war of movement has been possible. This is why there has been much more activity at sea than on land. Britain's control of the sea has again demonstrated its importance. The German fleet is bottled up. Except for submarines, the German navy and the German Merchant Marine have been swept from the seas. The Near Eastern Franco-Britisarmy of half a million men under the leadership of General Weygandt is now waiting in Syria, ready for instant action against Russia or Germany in any part of the Balkans. This army may yet prove the decisive military factor in this war. Allied victories in Palestine and Turkey presaged the collapse of the Central Powers in 1918. commerce - raiders Germany's were swept from the seas much more quickly than during the World war. The Graf Spee lies wrecked in Montevideo harbor after being put out of action by the combined efforts of three small British cruis- h THE AUTHO- RIf. V. Kaltenborn attained eminence in the radio news field during the European crisis last autumn, when his frequent and accurate reports over the Columbia network were aivaited each day by millions of listeners. A native oj Wisconsin, he worked many years on the Brooklyn Eagle before entering the radio news field as a sideline in 1922. For more than 30 years he has been a keen student of international politics, a background which makes his extemporaneous analyses over CBS among the most accurate heard by the American audience totlav. Hi iamnn.t hrnnAcast from n hnvstnrlc in Sj)ain is the first radio description of actual warfare on record. During last autumns crisis he literally lived at the CBS studios in New York, prepared to go on the air at a moment's notice. W ther popular nor efficient. The Fin- ers. The Deutschland, her sister nish people are literate, sturdy and thought it best to possess a strong sense of social and return to a safe German harbor. pocket-battleshi- well-organiz- half-yea- OS ASC t long ta r L.i short or three-quartfait length borne oi committee, Some simple and unhampericg tIS was Communistic influence Nazi-tho-ugh ior noui wear, in gingham of them thought it was u.uus". Others of these. jusi les which it was part of a radical plot govthis of aims at the overthrow left the wing and regarded ernment, ers of the Roosevelt aaminisiranu.. as part and parcel of the plot. Ag er --"- other up freaks these letters, almost witnout exception, were irom wnmiau. wuum they had not been tney blades mathe congressman. date worried convention have for its mand The point is that this tanaticai mi neuvers. It is part and parcel, o. to as of some 500, excited enougn of the uncertainty nority course, Grlntlan will Roosevelt D. to write letters to their congress whether Franklin. Rice me on fk that K.,. .i soia run ior a imraj term, uui uum man, and so completely from of real danger to this government I so bapp uncertainty and the determination subversive influences that it would the Democrats to do their nominatlets ire unseu tnem, ing AFTER the Republicans name be utterly impossible to Viir pives the New Deal a would be almost certain to vote in a tr, nd unit against their congressman's if he were to fail to vote "It mig It is not a fair advantage. It is funds to the Dies com is more to give not sportsmanship, but politics jcx coul( never fair or sportsmanlike. In fact mittee. Jut few Moreover, it is not so long since the word "politics" in Washington is fcday jus of these partisans of the Dies other most two with good pit coupled frequently Someu here in the North sea a committee were being thoroughly i:tchers words in revamping the old quotawatches British mine sweeper for by an institution propagandized harness. tion, "All's fair in love and war." in addition to certain racial tey eve: Assuming two major parties, the which, animosities, preached Americanism for to the be normal ought practice netic mine sown by the Germans influComing to hold its conven and the dangers of subversive matin 1Y . a proved very destructive for the first party tell power as is Dies ences. reaping, wants "In ad what it the country few weeks in which it was used. tion, of fact, where Hiram W. Evans ter e name its and its in to do learn, platform, Then more effective and other Ku Klux Klan leaders umber methods and the establishment of candidate before the opposition goes sowed. There is no attempt here to fcg up which were through the same motions. narrow rooters and the From the Civil war on until the say that the Jhese w carefully patrolled reduced the sucfirst election of Cleveland this prac old Klansmen are the same groups. place an cesses of Germany's tice was followed, of course, be They are not. But the preaching of are gooc airplanes. cause the Republicans were in pow' the Klan built up a sentiment which "The British Also Unsuccessful. er. When Grover Cleveland s sec is tinder for the sort of stuff the feplacin On the other hand, the British ond term was been has Dies committee bringing reaching its end there tides it have been no more successful in was the same uncertainty that there out. Wll be their raids against the German is now as to which way the party in In fact, it was suspicion of a simi"itepptoj Both British and German the Klan and the navy. power would face in the coming elec' larity between tears, ocsubmarines have destroyed an movement which resulted in tion. klso." casional warship, but these forays the Dies with link to the up Cleveland was for "sound money" attempt I "Why have been costly to the submarines gold. Not until William Jennings Jew baiters, which embarrassed Vant w: attempting them. The British and Bryan stampeded the Democratic Rep. Frank E. Hook when the letFrench claim to have sunk between convention with his famous "crown ters bought by Gardner Jackson tpafte: I aske 40 and 50 German submarines since of thorns and cross of gold" speech proved to be forgeries. lading the beginning of the war. The Ger- was the in of the then party position Wave May Wane She old mans admit the loss of less than made clear. Of course it was Economy also tailored enough or chambray; half this number. Yet whenever a power jnake i As Campaign Warms Up not the course of the administration for the street, in thin wool, flat submarine is lost, the entire crew The administration was defeated in "We The probability still is that the crepe or d print. is lost with it, and it takes five that convention. "tion th now economy wave rising on CapIt has just the detailing you like, r hac years to train men to handle a subWhich is the sort of exception itol Hill will wane. If it does not if marine under war conditions. you have size to consider- -a ready which seems to prove that there is the whole is presidential campaign bodice deftly gathered for correct Talk about the Germans building no great importance to the question 'began not only as to candi- bust fit, beneath a smooth one submarine a day is nothing of whether the party in power meets unpredictable quanti but as to issues. dates a skirt, and can't more than talk. It is more likely first or last. President Roosevelt put forward a a waistline drawn in .Yanke by a sash that the Germans are completing budget message which certain Re bow or buckled belt. Everything .more a Much Depends Upon What anywhere from six to ten publicans, including Alfred M. Lan- - about it is slenderizing as well as some is which month, just about the rate Roosevelt Decides to Do don, characterized as "phony." Most smart. I und' at which they are being destroyed. This year the same uncertainty observers agreed that the whole idea Bell Pattern No. Barbara Ijust a Already Planning for Peace. to was off over the Democratic course. the evil day is merely put hangs colleg designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, No one knows whether Roosevelt that later on in the session defiThere is, then, nothing decisive in lot, 46, 48, 50, and 52. Size 38 r44, action at sea or in the air. Defense will be the nominee whether it will ciency appropriations, for instance mat4l4 yards of long equires be for Roose is stronger than attack. But what relief, would have to be made erial without somebody with short nap; which would more than offset all the about the economic front? That is velt approves and cuts being made in the early money sleeves; 4 yards withor bias fold, probably the most important front who promises to I The 3A yards braid bills. of all and the one that will be domiarry on the Roose or J Char! yard contrast for collar. But congress took the bit in its or nant long after the war has ended. velt policies, Ibe oi Sewing The to order Send consome whether and of your Hull is State first shot out of the box teeth, Already Secretary New 149 ; there Circle Pattern Dept., the house appropriations committee negotiating with the neutral powers servative like John .tougl to work out a plan of economic re- Nance Garner or saw the President's cut and went Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, jors. him one better, lopping off appropri Calif. Pattern 15 cents (in coins). construction. The plan must be Jesse H. Jones will I T ations tor two of the President's pet ready for instant application on the be named. hard is of It if the armistice is and pos entirely day agencies, Europe slashing deeply into i dees not to sink in to ehaos when the sible that this unthe shipbuilding estimate. This last, f Cniv s certainty will confighting ends. of the total comprising i"Chi Jesse Jones cuts, was not very reassuring to an Every country in Europe, neutral tinue right up to the Her Is Amazing Relief of honest budget balancer, because the and belligerent alike, has mort- day the Democratic Conditions Duo to Sluggish Bowdi "authorizaapproved gaged its future. Only if the New convention meets. It is within prob- committee world remains out of the war and ability that the preferential prima- tions" for shipbuilding later on. In ' ' M3MSSES in the Democratic party will short, it provided that this cut of fao stands ready to lend its resources ries mild, thorough, refreshing, invigorating! bilkrai pendable relief from sick headaches, for European reconstruction is there prove nothing either as to nominees $75,000,000 should be made in the tired feeling when associated with coMtipatu NRfromjw any hope of true peace. Europe was or platforms. In fact, it is con- budget for the year beginning July WltfcOUt RISK geta25cboiof druggist. Make the We wa ready for revolution before the war ceivable that the primaries might 1, 1940, but "authorized" the mari- If aot delighted, return the box to us. came and will be much more ready indicate overwhelming support for time commission to spend the mon refund the purchase Roosevelt and a third term, and that ey later. price. Th.f . I.I,. for it when the war is done. Get NR Tablets today" after Roosevelt has declined then, KffftSffiZ Presumably, after Senator Dick What After Collapse? to run, a conservative might be and Representatives Tom and Harry France and Britain count on eco- nominated because of the sheer have done their economizing, and nomic pressure to bring about the weakness of the individual left Greatest Flatterer curried favor wing with such voters in all e collapse of Germany, but one won candidates. is the greatest of their states as are excited about ders whether they have asked them All of which, should it develop, budget Rochefoucauld. balancing, the more press- flatterers. La selves, what then? Will they march will certainly put the Republicans on ing needs, especially those with a into Germany at the head of a vic- the spot. They would want, for inpolitical motive, will receive torious army, establish a new Kaiser stance, to draft a very different potent attention and a new Junker government? Or platform if the nominee were Roose- That's whatfrom the lawmakers. nearly everyone exwill they stand aside while Germa- velt than if the nominee were Garpects. moveCommunist ny's underground ner. They might plan the campaign ment itself and calls out along wholly different lines if they Sharpshooters Awaiting an for assistance to the Red brethren were to fight Robert H. Jackson May Warn of Disordered Developments, Guns Ready wt in Moscow? Kidney Action na than if they were to fight Sen. Harrv But the sharpshooters oil co Modern life with it hurry There is the third possibility of or Flood Byrd. Vic Donahey would attacking !L Irregular habits, improper the administration on Wi those liberal forces and that iwr a are ganizing spending present drinking its risk of exposure necessity for one sort of vji to tion throws heavy itrain on have either been driven out of Ger attack, Henry iuuisc penectiy A. Wallace quite an of the kidneys. They are apt JeoJ aware of this, and u many or driven under cover within other. filter to fail and and other impurities from the waiting for the deGermany, and helping them to revelopment establish constitutional government Congress Was Forced to with of Yon may tuffer naerf" bcieh their guns trained by granting them a generous peace. Continue Dies Committee headache, diixinesa, getting up st ' fee on the spot where leg paina, .welling-lhat would be the hardest task, sJjW So many people object to the Dies tired, nervous, all worn out. are sure they disorder the of kidney or bladder Rumania Under Pressure. h; committee that there is general won- target is times burning, scanty or too irequ to urination. s; Meanwhile, there is more pressure der why, when the test came in the be. And thegoing " Wp gentry Try Dean's Pitt. Doaf excess bw behind the economic than behind house of representatives, the vote trying to make harmful off to kidneys pass pothe military war. Members of the to continue the committee, even to litical capital meanwaste. They hav. had more thsnW Are century of public approval. everywnw Rumanian government are beine the extent of giving it $75,000 for while by mended by grateful users for voting in the midst of a spree of cuts know all about bribed, bulldozed, flattered and ca expenses Alt: your iwtonoorj joled by both sides. Both are seek appropriation slashing, was so over- these guns of the tl Senator Taft ing to purchase Rumania's oil and whelming. k sharpshooters Rumania's grain. Each wants it so The answer is very simple. NearFor example. Sen. Rnfc art rvtA that" the other cannot have it. The ly every representative from the I; are who French and British offer gold, the South and West has learned that a think Mr. Taft isthere i a blunderer. There Germans threaten war. So far, lot of his constituents are enthusi- are even WNU W t t more, in particularly the King Carol has kept a precarious astic about the committee's work, New Deal crowd, who say his ideas balance; Britain and France con and want it continued. Not only about economy are the bunk. tinue to guarantee his frontiers and that, but a certain percentage of Standards Bureau As is often remarked about Taft's King Carol remembers the Blitz these rooters for the Dies commitkrieg against Poland. Poland had tee are very belligerent about it. economy proposals, he may not be BUSINESS organization been given the same guarantees. It is this minority, curiously enough, uu.,.B nimseu any good so far which wants to get toe for the Republican nom? On the diplomatic front, the Al- which is responsible for the size of candidacy for the money set,,u most nation concerned, but the Ohio lied powers won their greatest vic- the majority in the house for Dies. senator isis bad standards by which to judg medicine for an oppotory in winning Turkey to their The members are scared to death of nent just the same. what is offered to it, just as cause. This gives them control of a very belligerent minority they AH this is pointed Washington the government out the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, are not nearly so much afraid of a there is a maintains a Bureau of Standard strong possibility not in case of war with Russia. It also passive majority. You can have your own Bureo but one, ,t there-t,a hat congres! This is the whole essence of poliassures France and Britain comof be afraid to backtrack on Icon-omStandards, too. Just consuK tics. Let us illustrate with a typi- may that the plete dominance of the Mediterraneadvertising columns of your ,t may continue to hack an thereby discouraging Italy from cal district in the deep South, which into newspaper. They safeguara must be nameless, but whose repre- whereappropriations, siding with Germany. your purchasing power ever' the chips fa'. regardless of sentative told the writer about it. (Rtleaaed by Wei Urn Newspaper Union.) tBU Syoiet. ivmj aay of every year. Servlct.) I mine-sweepin- g ship-channe- pro-Di- es mine-layin- g pro-Di- es small-figure- shoulde- slim-hippe- r-yoke, d I 1902-- M 39-in- s three-quarte- political independence. Just as the failure of Poland's defense plan undermined morale, the success of Finland's plan of defense has given tremendous encouragement to the army, the people and the government. But the success of the German blitzkrieg against Poland and the failure of Russia's blitzkrieg against Finland depended primarily on the difference between the attacking armies. The German army was well organized, well equipped, well directed. The Russian army is poorly organized, poorly equipped and suffers from bad generalship. Western Lines Invulnerable. Already Finland's Mannerheim line has withstood an overwhelming Russian assault for more than three months. It is apparent, therefore, that the much more completely organized and much deeper Maginot and Siegfried lines would be similarly invulnerable to attack. And whereas Russia has a superiority of something like 20 to 1 against Finland, the forces lined up on both sides of the French frontier are practically equaljn fighting strength. In considering the progress of this war, we are too much inclined to dwell on military factors. Yet durr the military ing this first Iron; has been less important than the diplomatic front and the economic front. There has even been a more continuous exchange of ammunition on the propaganda front than between the fighting armies themselves. Radio and loudspeaker systems have made it possible for belligerents to talk to one another incessantly, directly on the fighting lines 1 sty one uir.g decided recommend it, and this simple dress has lots of other5' fanaucal in their letters. Brought Out Various Lines of Reasoning Thpir line of reasoning, he said, elements ht ihe subversive theDies throttle to were attempting u... Desli tor Large Wom was critical of the irs-u-oru air-rai- Why? al cnt Now Russia mighty admit that she has gone to war against little Finland. When the war began no one expected Soviet Russia to participate in military operations and no one expected Finland to be invaded. On the other hand, everyone expected an immediate d by hundreds of bombing-plane- s on the capitals of Europe, and for weeks the headlines spoke of the coming big offensives on the Maginot and Siegfried lines. Neither the raids nor the offensives develr of oped during the first Defense Is Major Factor. The primary reason is that in modern war, defense is stronger than offense. The war in Spain showed the world that air attack on large cities is tremendously destructive, but it also showed that it is not likely to be decisive. The expense in planes, fuel, bombs and aviators who do not return is apt to offset the military advantages gained in any mass bombing flight. And the effect on neutral opinion of the killing of thousands of women and children, together with the destruction of historic monuments in cities far away from any actual righting zone, might well be disastrous. The fear of such wholesale airraids led France and Britain to surrender at Munich. Now, after a year and a half of additional intensive preparation for they no longer fear German attack. They are prepared to meet it and could make it so costly that it would probably not be repeated. The successful defense of the Mannerheim line against the most highly concentrated Soviet military effort showed the strength of defense fortifications in modern war. Why Poland Was Weak. The two great surprises of this war so far have been Poland's weakness and Finland's strength. Poland's weakness arose from a lack of national unity and domination of the illiterate masses by an aristocratic caste. In the larger sense, the government of Poland was nei- - CEreTd I . Fashion No one really WASHINGTON. the Democratic high com- and military effort major Soviet does not even fighting. presidential campaign warms up... Belligerent mi norities forced congress to continue Dies committee. had a lot or II p, Nazis Stress Warfare. But raiding with surface ships is a minor factor in Germany's sea warfare against Britain and France. The Germans remembered how close they came to forcing a decision with their submarines during ihe World war. They had from 60 to 75 submarines ready when the war began. For the first few weeks of the war, they used these to excellent advantage. Then the protective measures which Britain developed during the World war and since became effective. The larger ships were sent out in convoy; airplane patrols were created; minefields against submarines were established and all the resources of the British navy were mobilized against the On the whole, they have proved effective. In six months, the British have lost 550,000 tons of merchant ships. At the same time, the French lost 75,000 tons and the neutrals 0 tons. This makes a total of a little over 1,000,000 tons. Losses Not Important. But nothing in these losses produced by mines and submarines even suggests the possibility of n decisive result. The British merchant marine alone totals 21,000,000 tons. The British claim that deducting from their losses purchases and new construction, their net loss in six months of warfare has been less than 200,000 tons. It is also probable that the losses will decrease rather than increase, since at sea as well as on land defense is proving itself stronger than attack. Already submarine torpedoes are far less successful in destroying shipping than mines. The new mag- at 350,-00- r; 0UT0FS0RTS! four-fifth- IPO tert-t- ho itlSH3S3l Self-lov- 1 over-taxe- d w rrt CI D SI IMS A the of A , y; J- - |