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Show 1 t No.385) 36. (Old VOL 3 No- - Keith Bldg, Phone Wag 4648 7 1 Published Weekly by C. N.Lund intelligent review by reliable columnist T Wo1l-lnfriti- BY JOSEPH W. LaBINR Europes Biggest Problem; British Taxes Set New Record GROVER CLEVELAND BEBO-DOLWorld war draft dodger fled to Germany, revealed in hie New York trial that ha had returned to the U. S. twice (1829 and 1835) under falaa passport. BIERCE BUTLER, U. & Supreme court Justice, was seriously m with a bladder ailment FRANCIS J. GAVIN, e northwest railroader, was made President of the Great Northern line. Rumors said that Robert E. Woodruff might be the Erie roads next chief. king CHRISTIAN X, Danish monarch, was abed with a heart attack. Aim 111. at Washington, was Virginia' a aged Sen. Carter Glass. Jo I ia these oolomni, they optaliM an analyst sad art UMHsrilE this newspaper.) .Mwwd by WHtm Newpapr Union. NOTE-W- heu few at too lew old-tim- the WAR: Finance Gnat Britain entered the World d nr in 1914 with tax649,000, rate to six bill-Indebt, railed her In the pound (or SO per cent) nd probably spent 11,078,000,000 Munda (about $55,000,000,000) to lick SaKiiaer. In 1930 Britains record im budget was 1,322,444.000 Jound. of which 180,000,000 pounds Host of this nitoba borrowed. whet bothered for defense, but most on September 1, Britisher shen they declared war on Adolf n n-t- ni Hitler, was d their current public debt IS thnoa pound!, 1,200,000.000 greater than 1914's. To sir John Simon, chancellor of he exchequer, fell the financing job. Up to the house of common! Sir John carried hie first war budget, they were in disastrous April, ioit. Moreover, losses were atm gninj wn Tmo chart). What ha did not point out la that Britain has fewer boat at sea now than on September L Eastern Front After a y siege, during which waa bombed and burned into an unspeakable Inferno, Hnn whleh thousands of civilians died from bomba, bullets, peotihn bonemeat diet Warsaw surrendered and tha war In Poland was Western Front super-abundanc- RUSSIA: Dance Master Down from the western aklea at Moscow dropped a passenger plana bearing German Foreign Minister Joachim von Bibbentrop. SignifiAttar a month of seesaw fighting cantly, perhaps, he gave no Neal Prencb-British during which troops salute nor did hla hosts offer a Comapparently had tha upper hand munistic clenched flit Otherwise (thanks to Germany's the was familiar, for whan with Poland) tha battle of Slag-trie-d von setting reached the Kremvs. Maglnot apparently got un- lin hoRibbentrop found It overrun with Balkan der way. Frtneh pressure waa and Baltic statesmen of tha type heaviest near Zweibruecken in tha Adolf Hitler used to summon from Saar region, and at leait one report Austria, and Poaid that heavy French cannonadland. This must have worried von ing imaahed a hole in tha main Sieg- Ribbentrop; Russia, having split Pofried line between Merzlg and land's loot with Herr Hitler, was Certain it was that heavy emerging as a dominant eastern Eu-artillery assumed new importance, for the French war offlet admitted enemy shells were falling in small towns behind the Maglnot line. For tha moment. Premier Edouard could tell his council iff ministers that the situation waa "most Czecho-Slovak- ' DOMESTIC: Repercussions SIB JOHN AND BUDGET U. S. Uxpty era eee be thankful packaged in the ancient ease Tim photo) which exchequers have wed for yean. Preliminarily, common knew the war of 1030 would coit mm than tha last conflict; would poisibly last longer, and would puitively bleed tha British taxpayer to death. Sir John thereto aurprlied no one with hla aUy budget: To raise 70,000,000 extra pounds this year, and 148,000,000 extra the next Steal year. Sir John assessed teomea at seven ah tilings in the Pound, or 35 per cent; until next Uareh 31; for the full 1940-4- 1 fiscal year the rate la seven shillings slx-- 9. or 37 per cent American taxpayer should have enjoyed tha comparison: W ttCO per year: Americas British with two children. Mom $ wrijd couple, no JjUMrea hS-- L gw. MMI Nona 40 w SfiSJ " T0.0S i wa children' Til .SI SO J We.iee 120 yaar: towMbhi- bo children - 3.7 1,360 ' S71JM 71.11 W.U 1,101.00 1,3ms Neanwhila fireside economists do-wfhow Adolf Hitler wa faring In luu. DIwegarding hla pre-w- ar and his funny financing, it waa tood gum that even should these wiaelea be overcome the aUles de would strangle him. One-b- ii 1938 Imports of $2,000,-'MIO- O would bo cut off, Including Per cent of his hlgh-te- at gasoline; cent of his grain and all hla taro-thir- y. end ts anti-Ne- Deal- ers, congress was given power which the Presi- dent alone enjoys under the present act, to de- cide when a foreign war exists. every In other provision CORDELL HULL No comment rubber, wool and tin. Even were left isolationists o that Jdlty, Ms friendship could not be g tfd to offset this loss, for the with little to fight except the bane of embargo vs. wr wiU keep German fie-P-? Having started the ball huqr. thus barring exchange rolling, the White Housa left neumanufactured " mw trality severely alone. Secretary products. t altruistic. of State Cordell Hull, asked tor hla opinions, answered Sen. Arthur At Sea that ha had complete confidence" in the legislative branch i,Jr rth 1fh,lumn no particular comboth Norway and Den-- and that ha had ment to make. 8rd c,nnonadlng at sea, oe- Next day tha aenate foreign relaspotting aircraft over tione committee okayed boomng stopped sending It to the floor for Lbut atarted with new Any debate. Both Britain and Berlin This was war's effect on government On business, the effect was a fearsome upsurge that may soma day boomerang. Items: C On the farm, the department of agriculture found ail lardera full to bunting (July 1 wheat supplies were 275,000,000 bushels over a year ago). The years agricultural income, once expected to elump far below 1038'a $8,000,000,000 mark, may now bo only 100,000,000 shy. Flour output high. reached a C Railroads everywhere placed BBITAMI'B smppiNG LOSSES new equipment orders. Typical was "wiaea leenl down, loo. tha Burlingtons bid for 14 locomotives. A 22.4 per cent rise in 8ttl8, then b waa forecast for 1039'a last Pres, quarter (compared with last year).1 between the steel mills, America's No. Ih'. Plane ? BrIU,h industry, operated at 03.2 per heavy been destroyed cent of capacity, dangerously near baiulf and the taportrthTJ?Jdlir dam,ed or the 85 per cent mark whleh steel Hw admiraU.Uin r,t rd men consider a practical leveL wlnton Churchill, that a cB. . Oil production wea up. A typiVUck h,d becn cal lata September week brought 2,681,000 barrels, a gain of 258,000 Church- - barrels over tha preceding seven hlrd'!fhU8 of commona that days. had submarines 4L Electricity production rose, about 13.7 per cent NbLd?lrojred nd that bout g third what In a week. "tor there similar ' waa rig- - fast-dyin- K Van-denbe- rg Sf"8 2Jly y, iSE ear-ladin- eoiwvtatoiy. rol0088 ClK ' lMiSp0p!r bLcrm"V,a 4 VIACHESLAV MOLOTOV Heir Hitter. Tie "Black Adolf gee bloc" which would smash Hitler's hope of Balkan expansion. Rumania, between two Area, was and away from leaning Moscow-wis- e Berlin. Bulgaria's special envoy to Moacow-Sofl- a the Kremlin established a airline to bo followed by a trade pact Jugoslavia had a representative there, too, on a secret million. The only fly in this ointment waa 25 exHerr von Ribbentrop and the with him from came Who perts" Berlin. While Dictator Joaef Stalin like any stayed in the background master mind should. Premier Vlacfaeslav M. Molotov Ger-mcalled the tune that made big dance aa violently aa tha little Balkan and Baltic states, men fact that Hitler! men corn to Moscow, and not Stalins men to Berlin, offered good evidence month that Russia has grown in one and overgrown sulking silent, a from European figure hoy Into a dominant must tear. which dor Fuehrer this suspicion Only strengthening agen-cy- ! waa tha official German new ny report that Runia hastoagreed bring in an attempt Belch and the tl) between rfrm Sto,. Obviously Herr Hitler waa effort to end frantically aparing no had weekend The previous the war. feeler from Benito brought a peace had been Mussolini, but the result Therefore Germany had and begged Riuita Into even though the the peaco effort, waa a loas this for price in eastern prestige German to observers International that Adolf Hitter had found to rjlri Sing dcctod himself playing with fire, be yet may Fuehrer Der that the fire of Joaef Stalina con-ium- by Communism. Less Affected by Selfishness and Mass Emotion Than City Folks; President Puts Republicans on Spot; Embargo Faces Long Debate in Senate. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press e, WNU Service, National Bldg.,-Washingto- WASHINGTON. The lata Lord g Balfour, one of the really British itsteamen of two decades ago; ones uttered on observation to present condition!. During the early days of 1017 before American force had begun to weigh heavily la the balance of world hostilities, Lord Balfour sold to a group of American newspaper editors and publishers: The central powers will be defeated in thia war, but tha test will come after peace hai been enforced by arms. The teat will be whether the peace we have thus gained will bo worth having whether we can preserve liberty and democracy. I bellove we will be aide to sustain that peaco and preserve teat freedom; and I believe, moreover, that It will bo tha people of rural America of tha farms and the small towns that will lead the world back to aano thinking. With tha congress giving consideration to President Boosevelt'a urgent request for repeal of the arms embargo aa a means of preserving our neutrality In the present European conflict, but with propaganda stirring up emotions on all aides, there aeema to be a need for that "sane thinking that Lord Balfour mentioned. And, os I said above, it la made to appear that the people of the farms and the small towns ore going to have to lead the way again; they have that responsibility because they obviously will bo leas affected by lelflshneas, racial interest, foreign influence and mass emotion that upsets thought on Issues of thia kind. Whether we are able to stay out of this war or whether we get into it, the Individualist that is tha resident of the small town or the form has the Job of preserving our traditions and our civilize where; that has a bearing on the final easting up of accounts people will point be judged from the books. We sincerely pray that it will not Embargo Debate May be from our books that they will be judged. Clarity fsaucs in Public Mind It is said that in the ropean power that must be watched. Great Britain and France were confident that if left alone, Russia would give Germany more trouble than despite their kiss over Poland's prostrate tom. First there was talk in Moscow diplomatic circles of a sphere of influence division in which Russia would control the Baltic, and Germany the Balkans. But later it looked like Russia waa taking everything: Esthonlaa nervous Foreign Minister Karl Setter scurried to Moscow with explanations of why an interned Polish submarine had been Hewed to escape, later sinking a Russian freighter. Hla explanation end soon Sowas unacceptable viet troops, warships and planes encircled Eifoonla. Under this pressure, and while Moscow radio attacked the Eathonian government, the little nation aoon found It wiaa to sign a mutual aisistancs pact which grants Russia the right to maintain naval and military bases on isisnds off the Eathonian west Latvia and Lithuania, her neighbors, wondered which would be next. Turkeys Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu waa there, too, and soonthen wera sound reports of a RussRumanlan-Bulgarian-Turki- People of Farms and SmallTowns Will Lead Way to Sane Thinking THE TROUBLE WITH THE WORLD The trouble with the people in thia little world is that they dwell, for the most part, in a false realm of material elements. In the place of the gold of their hearts, they have established a standard of gold and minerals which constitutes the money that controls them. In the place of a thought of acquiring greater spirituality, they have placed a standard before them of acquiring more land, more wealth, more material things In the place of thinking how they should love their neighbors and even their enemies, they are living in an attitude of hatred envy, jealousy and greed. They want to deny unto other what they do not have themselves, snd they want to destroy and make suffer those who do not agree with them am whom they have learned to hate and envy for various material reasons. And so we find that they have been dwelling more hours each day in the realm of material things than they have been dwelling in the kingdom of the soul. And so' it does not matter how often they assemble in synagogues, churches or tion. ' cathedrals and ring songs of praise and divinity; it is what they Having made such a sweeping do in between theee hours snd what they do to solve the statement concerning these responsibilities, I wiU attempt to show worldly problems that show what they really think and believe. what the facts are, what has been going on in Washington and elseThat is the teat true and unfailing. Di-ladl- er Dramatic volumes might have been written last month about how Europes war whipped the alow stream of U. S. life into raging river filled with whirlpools, quicksand beds and bottomless pita. At Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Malr filed a notarised document forbidding her two cons from participating in any activity called war. The IT. S. fleet began secret battle games In the Pacific, a vast naval training program waa planned at Hawaii's Pearl harbor, and President Roosevelt urged a cessation of foreign purchases of war materials that the U. S. might create Its own reserve. While Texas Rep. Martin Dies waved the flag to forecast ail Communists and Fascist! in government Jobs would soon bo ousted, while the American Legion in convention cut its foreign tie with the Federal Inter allies del Ancien Combattants, of the people (in a while Gallup poll) said they don't believe German news reports, congress wrestled with neutrality and appeared to be making progress on a proposal to lift tha arms embargo and aubitituta Franklin Roosevelt's administration waa winning, thanks to smart handling of the Issue by Sen. Key Pittman and colleagues. To placate BruetrYeWaMttonge We have plenty of good adverting space for the candidates for city office to tell their story to the people. Watch page 4 la n. satisfactory. PER YEAR a N. LUND, By H ATE by Adolph 8orengon knew the fate, In store for those who hate : rwd Were we conseioue of the feet That every hateful act la poiaonoua torture, to the aoul, and brings u suffering untold An antidote I m sure we'd find In love and actions that are kind MUST HAVE VI8IONED SALT LAKE , T believe that a man should be proud of the city in which he livdig ana that he should ao live that hia will be proud city that he lives in it. Lincoln. Its not what you take out of your town but what yoj put into it that makes s good citixen. WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED FOR LIBERTY Leaden of men should listen to wisdom wisdom of the heart. Of knowledge there is but there is a famine of the wisdom of the heart out of which are the issues of life. The leaden who are driving their people to murder other people, believe that they are finding a place In the sun. But not so When the barbarous mass murder is over and the perpetrators are dead and gone to forgotten and unhallowed dust, the stand of the Polish defenders of home and native land, their spirit and their martyrdom, will be shining lights to flood mans pathway to perfect freedom. They died hoping that Liberty might live. And Liberty is still the fondest dnsm of patriots the world over. H all minda could be opened to behold all that people have suffered for Liberty there would not be any need of wars to preserve it. What heroic struggles! "Men have gone to the stake for it, And scorched in the cannons breath; And women have writhed in torture, And welcomed the arms of death, ' That Truth might live to serve mankind And higher paths of Freedom find. that made news Is (EDITOR'S il NAMES to Pay for New Conflict $1.50 EDITORIALS WORTH READING THROUGH CONSERVATIVE EYES You Must Read This Writtr sd WFF.KLY NEWS ANALYSIS How . WHAT HAS MAN DONE WITH THE GIFTS? The Creator of all thing gave man dominion over the earth and handed him a free gift of everything in the univese, including the with which to create UnivenalCreative Principle the Life Prihciple child the earth. and on woman for abundance every man, aQ of creation that God hag this with done gift What human ha i what The pment children? Th all Hi towed happened. on be of the of became economic living, wrong retabotuhip competitive lyitem few take the to Gods free gift to enabled has in created society, k ha emtehrei the detriment of for wealth to it mankind and to all ue get of the bountw nature of who are deprived the many jut became a few the from sharing and mane are keeping nature's corralled retource have is universe its the and which all mankind, resources, free to in God' gift conaiting of all areation. The present cooipetitative system of living ii unchristian and vidoni made thereunder in all of it aspects because all deal and transactions of others of and the explottotioa involve the always r""ipnlhn money to make a gam. Plenocracy President Boosevette appeal for repeal of the arms embargo was predicated upon hie conviction that such action will help ua to stay out of the conflict Ho argued that there was no reason for the sate of cotton and an embargo on a processed product like gun cotton; that It was viUy to permit the sale of aluminum and forbid the sale at airplanes made from aluminum, and ao oa It would be more nearly true neutrality, he asserted, if we said to any and all belligerents that they could coma hero and buy anything they want provided only that they pay cash on the barrelhead and haul their purchases away in their own ships. But white the President was making a good case for his position, he also waded into rather muddy ground by calling attention to the fact that much additional employment will be created here by war purchases of unlimited variety. Hie thread of thoutfit, therefore, can hardly be described as a plan to take the profit out of war. It may be secondary to the great human desire for peace, but tha profit phase surely was evident. Be that as it may, the senate la determined to debate the proposal at great length. It faces a long drawn-ou- t struggle, and the value of that wiU be, as many senators have stated, to clarify tha issues In the public mind. That is to aay, there will bo a crystallization of sentiment brought about by the debate. Mr. Roosevelt called in congrei-ionleaden, both Democratic and Republican, for a White House discussion of the plan. He explained publicly and to the members of tho conference that party politics should bo adjourned that this waa no tima for politics. WHAT GRIM USES SCIENCE IS PUT TO. The most marvelous progress ever made in the world's hishas been wrought bordtory has been made by science What has the seven seas, snd miraculous. It conquered ers on the life healthier and made has air. It and the happier, tht earth few which a that years ago was has accomplished longer. It theschei-vemenWere Gods to for accomplish. believed possible only of science used solely for human welfare humanity But alas, might easily find the ne earth and the new heaven. to. is now It is uses the it are being terrible put and sad how is on earth the used and It kill to air destroy. the used in to bring armies of soldiers snd non combatants down to death! to lay cities in ruin and to strangle commerce. It is used on of life the great deep to make ships go down with their cargoes and supplies. It is being used in a thousand ways to bring destruction and ruin and leave in its wake famine and pestiWell may people say lence which it had all but conquered thou wandered there, hast science "O the with poet: Reaction to Conference To waft us home the message of despair? Oil le Favorable to President Northern the Company. about We told you so, long ago, ts star-eye- d al U and thera ore signs that a Republican effort will bo mada to offset the move. Now, thera la another thing cropping up. Beneath shouts of patriotism and declarations that wo must avoid getting Into tho raging mad-nes- s overseas, there is a feeling' that congress ought to remain on tho Job straight through tho winter.' Tho determination of the Preaidant and hia spokesmen in congress is to limit action in the extra onion to tha subject of repeal of tho arms embargo. If that ia all tha actual work that ta accomplished. It would require only o short time. On the other hand, there aeema to be a foaling that Mr. Roosevalt should . not bo left with oil of the responsibility of a war threat hanging . over heed. Since tha entire membership has been called back here, tha observation hia been frequent that they ought to stay on until tha regular session begins In January to be iff help to the President aa' lightning-lik- e changes take place in the situation abroad. One heari a great deal of discussion among senators and repra-- . sentatlves about our nations fin an- -. rial and economic condition. They suddenly have realized the fact that there exists a national debt of mora . than $45,000,000,000 almost $20,000,-000,0more than foe total of foe . debt when foe World war ended. It la not a pleasant thought, but It must be faced. ' v! $ u' 00 Turn to Rural America to Lead Way to Sana Thinking And as to foe government ltselt attention lately has been caned to' : tha fact that there are now 027,187 persons on the government payroll. Contrast that with 017,780; which was the greatest number employed' ' by foe government at any time du ing the World war, Tha military; and naval forces are not Included in' tha figures given. These facta were! mentioned to me at tha Capitol foo' other day because some members j were looking to conditions after another war. It was explained that! there was very little contraction of; tha governments size after foo World war and that was more than1 ' offset by expansions In tho lost1 six years. In other words, a war will place an additional drain upon' tha government, which la foe peo--' pie, foot wiU become a permanent thing. Thus we see that minor matters, as well aa major questions, are hav- ing an effect upon the thinking of foo country. While they ore not so intended, ill of the' many governmental changes and plans and conditions turn conversations to foo subject of war. So, we come back to tho original statement. From o long period of observation at people, it seems to me that those folks who form foo backbone of America are likely to be less influenced by foe various things I have mentioned than Is tho case with tho folks in tho cities. Tho part iff rural America which will provide foe balance of power in derision to stay out of war, or go in, will be able to think dearly. tame and Inaane Ideologiea Hava Their Origin in Citiee To refer again to Lord Balfours statement, It can be eeld foot he foresaw exactly what baa happened in the United States. It is necessary only to recall that an of foo lama and Inaana Ideologiea through which we have passed since foe World war have had their origin in cities. Movements for foie and that and the other program or plan coma from hotbeds In thickly populated areas. It Is to bo admitted that they gained much more Hd-wa- y than any one thought possible. They ore again on tha way out, however, because such things hove no appeal to foe typo of citizens to which Lord Balfour referred. When foo situation in Washington is summed up as of this time, therefore, one ean properly oak whefo-o-r It makea any difference what congress doe about tha arm embargo. The things about which wo must worry make up combination package. They arc little things, when taken separately. Together. they constitute national policy. If each of theao Uttla things tends to Involve tho United States Just a little bit more each time, then we are going to get Into differences with foe belligerent nations. While aU of foie ta happening, however, none of ua can escape foe thought that It la up to foe United States to preservo civilization as we now know it, and our Job Is cut out to ua when the European war is over. It la not peace only to foe sake of peaco; but a policy designed to help save something out of foo European ruins to Tha general reaction to the conference with congressional leaden appean to have been very favorable TUNE YOURSELF TO THE HIGHER LAW. to the PniidcnL The public thought lawake become world of the will the people IIow and when on inclusion of former Governor Brotherhood? What is all their Landon of Kansas and CoL Frank with tune in perfect and to their Buffering and their little seasons Knox of Illinois, Republican nomstriving and achieving, for the presidency and vice not make for Brotherhood? Nothing! inees do of joy worth if they presidency in 1030. however, was or state, head to one com- quite different Mr. Roowelt adAll people of whatever color, creed vertised the Invitation to theao genhead to one current-producielectric all lights mon sourco just as to tha conference aa evirelated that harm or injury tlemen dence of hia desin to adjourn policenter, and are so closely Urn. tb.t tics. That ballyhoo did not tako all. 1- - U not h to one nunt injur, or h.rm to and do all thatjhin his power hold very well. Many observer heart his ever soul looked into wondered how the President figured with the Golden Rule? that Messrs. Landon and Knox could lies to put himself in harmony have anything to say about national FAITH HAVE LET US policy which is the excluiivo responsibility of congress. They were "That Truth shall triumph at the last defeated, discredited as leaders, by As round and round we run, the voters in 1938. Thus, critics And ever the Right comes uppermost suggested that Mr. Roosevelt with And ever is Justice done. politics adjourned had played an exceedingly smart brand of politics benefit of ng D. C. and Messrs. Landon end Knox swallowed the bait in tho fashion of amateurs. Tho President has put the whole Republican party on tho spot, with tho aislstanca of its mam-bo- x, aU. . ' |