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Show P to 1 the star of time Aflds the tn American not hope, America dying io - gfJf.lM to it ntta li giine. IVqL 4 No. WMhlaxtM Kld Mas ifevuMwavf a fkaaaaad Na402) 217 KEITH BLDG. - Was 4648 .. 18111 nUDAY, PEB 2. 1940 rnn. ' eClty. Utstaunder the Act of Kucha PLEA AND A WARNING BY JOSEPH W. LaBlE NEWS ANALYSIS rrg KLY World Sympathy Through Harsh War Measures; Csa yon anamr OWjtow mbout Am Am By lollotcins tottoTpel Japan Protest Sea Action Love of Country and Appreciation of Liberty One of the most sincere and patriotic Americans we have ever known wrote as follows, afters brief : in In the morning we visited Independencestay Philadelphia Hall, that president if a monntalnons Eare-pea- a country, jut died. What country? 2. Edwin Carewe became famous as a movie director. Why was he In the news recently? Ignace Paderewski, pianist, has just been named president of what hen optatees are expressed In these columns, they gnnOBS NOTE-WJtaie ef nx sews uwlyK ud net necessarily of this newspaper.) ll .Ralaassd hr Western Newspaper Union I world-famo- 4- Earl Russell Browder, D. g. Communist leader, waa tried an a federal charge of passport fraud. What waa the trials oat-com- 5. Wang Chlng-we- i, an Oriental, la about to become head of what government? m IV XJXUT1IGOW Then is trouble is CRAIGIE LOTHIAN the Losvlends mud Rumania, too. 1. gwttxsiland. S. He died. 1. Poland-ln-exil- cated in France. BRITAIN: GREAT V.S. Trouble Irg.S. public opinion once favored against Germany, It kid shifted by late January until aiost Americana looked with equal Reason: jui.m on both aides. British interference with American flipping, seizure of mall and ree y tail to recognize the zxe thrown around the Western hemisphere. To make It worse, all protests by Secretary of State Cordell Hull had been rejected peremptorily, until finally Mr. Hull lipped back with an aide memoire. in gist: That U. S. vessels were being held up by the contraband control three times as long as Italian flips, therefore the U. S. could There was charge discrimination. every sign that this protest like othIn Wasb-hgioers, would be rejected. British Ambassador Lord Lothian saw unhappy times ahead. 300-mil- neu-halit- Q Indian Trouble GANDHTS demands for India broke into print when Britain begin demanding war assistance from fee empire. Lord Linlithgow, viceroy. thought after the war would be time enough to talk about Indian This provoked a dependence. tom of protest, but Gandhi y K.- - MOHANDAS. cau-houl- urged a Lord Linlithgow, cam-piig- n. vas willing be wss still relieved, to discuss terms. But playing with dynamite. Japanese Trouble Already irked because Britain bas been friendly with China's ftbel" Gen. Chiang Kai-sheJpsn'i ire was heightened when a warship stopped a Jap paa-l- r sel in the Pacific, remov-- I German merchant Bailors be-f- a returned to the Reich via Buasla. ext day Tokyo gave British Am i government lo- 4. Browder wee sentenced to four bassador Sir Robert L. Craigie a years in prison. Be appealed. note demanding amends, calling the A Japans puppet government In incident an unfriendly act and China. warning that repetition would agh gravate Japans sentiment. Next day, when a British POLITICS: vessel halted Japan's Teats Slam, Break Ambassador Craigie found thousand 7 am Manured that, with tho am. of Japs milling around his emditiont now confronting tho notion end while the bassy. press bleated dissatisfaction now permeating the against his country. minds of the bis anti-Britis- people, candidacy would result in ignominious defeat." Lowland Trouble 17HEN Winston Churchill made a speech demanding that Netherlands and Belgium Join the sill in fighting Germany, the press and government of these countries shouted angrily. To plicate them without losing Britain's point. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain next spoke, saying Britain was ready to help Belgium, but would reserve the right to decide when help was needed. Far from placating the neutrals, this speech only irritated them more. In The Netherlands all parties joined in telling Britain to keep quiet In Belgium it was loqdly proclaimed that the government can decide for itself when and If it needs ' help. Rumanian Trouble has RING CAROL of Rumania neutral decautiously spite British wooing. But in when German troops were reported occupying the southern part of Russian Poland the British struck again, confident Carol would accept their aid gratefully. Instead they got the shock of their lives: Pressed by Germany to fulfill oil contracts, Rumania clung to neutrality and barked at British-Frenc- h oil firms operating there. She insisted they provide their share of petroleum to help Rumania fulfill her contracts with Germany, thus providing oil to run Nazi planes to bomb English-Frenc- h territory! y, a N. LUND, (Better read this and clip it for reference) Pmtjmet score Is 100. DsducitO ZotnU T question missed. Sew 80 is excellent; 60, goad; 60, avenge; JO or lets, poor. L Giuseppe Motts, five times Thus, before his United Mine Workers convention at Columbus, did C. L O. President John L. Lewis score Franklin Roosevelt. Since Mr. Lewis had already blasted at Candidates Gamer and McNutt, this latest attack only heightened suspicions that CL L O. win favor the Democratic candidacy of Montana's Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Next day he explained his speed:: I intended (it) to be a distinct jar to professional politicians in the Democratic and Republican parties. I Intended it to serve notice that labor was not to be taken for granted. " But though John Lewis thought the New Deal had broken faith with la-- ', bor, his mine workers did not necessarily agree. Introduced at the convention were at least 45 resolutions urging a third term for the President. Observers wondered whether this indicated a coming break In the strangle hold Mr. Lewis has held over his unionists. grand historic building around which cluster ao dear memories many of the past. It waa with feelings of awe and veneration that I trod those sacred halls. I saw the Liberty bell encased In I love liberty and hold sacred the names of those heroes glass. w ho staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor that it might be born and live. I would have embraced that old cracked bell but could not touch it for the glass that protected it. Such love of country should be in the heart of every one WHO WOULD NOT HELP TO SAVE? Who among all the true, honest and patriotic sons and daughters of America, if they understood the dangers that lie in wait would not do all in their power to 60 live and to bo act that their governmentb preservation might be assured? And who among them would not willingly die to keep away destructive external and internal troubles that would disrupt it? The hour has struck for patriotic action. If the right course ia not pursued now then the present year and the next will witness the moat terrible national tragedy. We believe that to be forewarned is to be forearmed, and therefore we tell the truth as we see it. We would save America at any coBt. Suppose a person knew that there waa a plot to assassinate the president and bomb the government buildings; what kind of a citizen would it be who would not give out the warning? So after having given out so many warnings, we give this, the final warning, and trust to our readers to help broadcast it to the people of our beloved America. THERE WILL NOT BE PEACE People are crying Peace, and Keep us out of war. But there will be no permaneot peace and no keeping us out of war. Not yeti America will become ao involved in the present World war that it will be brought to her shores and her bordeia. The enem.es will come fighting from both coasts and from the Mexican border. In these instances the attacks might easily be repelled were it not for the internal troubles that will arise. These internal troubles will be an Armageddon between labor and capital; and adding fuel to that will be the efforts, by force, of several rebellious groups, to take over the govern ment; there will be trouble to the txtent of armed conflict between some of the states. Severe racial troubles are v immi-t nent. THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN the first strokes of internal trouble will likely be the halting of all transportation facilities, through strikes and wilful breaking down of tbe arteries of commerce Thi n will follow the destruction of all leading utilities. Through ihese measures the country, almost over night, can be paralyzed, and the great centers will see such destruction of property and life as is hardly imaginable now. The avenues of information will be closed, and the worst of all financial panics will be on. Many lines of manufacturing will cease and commotion and confusion will be everywhere. What is left of government will be powerless to set matters right. This is not to occur in the distant future hut now this year and next and the nextl The Bill of Rights will practically be set aside. All this might be averted if tbe people would unite as one man and turn to an enlightened program of Cooperation and pruduction for use; call in all the countrys technicians to replace the One of JAPAN: Treaty Lapses In a single week the Tokyo government found Its relations with two major nations approaching the crisis print Tbe English were persona non grata for having searched Jap ships (See GREAT BRITAIN). The Americans were regarded disdainfully because abrogation of the 1911 trade pact went into effect placing commercial relation! between politicians; by living righteously; by keeping the laws of the the two nations on a by following the great Way Shower of Galilee. Creator; baste. THE STORM IS UPON US Peace talks between U. & Ambasaction is short. The storm is about to for time The saving sador Joseph Drew and foe Japanese break. We appeal to labor to set its house in order, to avoid foreign office were ended abruptly while Tokyo sat on Its hands, hopextremes and not permit itself even to think of destructive ing for the best Obviously there methods. We appeal to capital to be just and to cease its in new a treaty was no chance for tiie near future, because state deunwise practises. Better to give in to reasonable demands and partment had Japan right where It to sacrifice something now rather thai to sacrifice all a little wanted her. If the present reprilater. If conditions are not changed the country must prepare mand proved Insufficient to make for the worst. Those who can should get out of the large centNippon quit Interfering with U. 8. rerights hi the Orient there stiU ers and find what safety there may be in the country districts mained the highly potent embargo They should form themselves into small groups, each group to weapon. on which to raise their sustenance. AiHmufh the senate foreign relaget possession of some land was there indicated with tools, seed, food, clothing, themselves committee tions NATIONAL DEBT They should supply little chance for an embargo (which tSOflOOJIOOfiOO mextr such for safety as there will be are the etc. The one sure place would hamstring Japans war in estiin section of the countiy where here administration this from ductions mountains and valleys China), there was plenty of presmates already In the milL With sure forthcoming from U. & church to the do least damage and distur-are likely the perilous times enough such reductions congress groups. Why, they demanded righthopes to avoid both new taxes and eously, should American scrap Iron banCe WHY IS IT? a boost in the debt limit be used to kill Chinese? Also In congress: these coming? It ia because the country are things Why lived the natural law of economic life; not have C Tb aid Finland without taking re- THE WARS: its and people j sponsibility, the senate banking and Russo-Finnisbecause they are out of harmony with the divine law; because h currency committee rigged up go veined by an archaic and Babylonic system of they Helsinki claimed 20,000 Soviet finesse formula" to increase the And it is therefore that the stern hand of Destiny is Export-Impo- rt banks revolving troops fell when the Finns repulsed finance. task of destroying all that is not in harmony with the to set the of be to invasion Still Russias strongest fund by $100,000,000. for mankind to follow, and the order which the Creator meant the adopted by congress, the measure war northeast of Lake Lagoda. Great Friend of Man Red casualties to data: for the making of a clean place for would let Jesse Jones give Finland to He comes when in move reign and rule. and legionnaires for While foreign stand 100,000. to an extra $20,000,000 a swarmed Into Finland from Scandiv purchases. However, since only third of the present $10,000,000 loan navia, tha Baltic states, Hungary, SONG. Eugene Middleton and Cad R. Richard NATIONAL A has been used. Banker Jones doubt- the U. S. and elsewhere, the denational song and have submitted some verses still had no adequate aie hying to compose a ed whether Finland would be Interwho want later. attention bombers, Finns Soviet The receive ested. Reason: fense against which will civilians munitions, not food and clothing enjoyed a field day strafing towns, M. the house ways and means com- In small mittee, proa and cons continued Allied-Germa-n and Arkiea, the Sharecroppers, the We read about the Okies fighting over the reciprocal trade dein the country. We know Britains Only four days after act, which expires June L A breach illiteracy and degeneracy prevelent with was evitorpedoed was Grenville the stroyer remedy a remedy that could elela agricultural opinion the cause and we know destroyer E denced when Farm Bureau Presi- a loss of 81 men, the We know it will be difficult In the North sea vate them to useful citisenahip. dent Edward ONeal testified for the m)r.a went down bottom. to the on crewmen by the graft and greed of a trade program while National carrying 175 twenty-thir- d to remove the wrongs brought acknowlher Jsoon waa as there is some light Tsber aa spoke But L, It Grange Master few brivileded parasites. the war beedged naval losa lines of some inhuman, decree the we against it view westget On the and hope in gan five months ago. The house okayed $40 to SI a to the slaughter. was lead them peace-futo all wants who wretch ern front, meanwhile, qwrtjmHlng Martin Dies L life that he Menckens II. Mr. in time Investigating committee, Surely there was a would be hard It about North Dakotas G. P. Sen. GerCharistianity. waa taught something ald P. Nye was named to the senate MISCELLANY: of mass the entertain God to a is thougt there to refor one who felt foreign relations committee Borah Protest is and fault being poor only desiring whose William complace the lata Senator murdering people In Home the Fascist press esthere is no nation better for that than of Idaho, whose remain! were Orazio, which liner the that sento live and learn, and plained corted back home to Boise by 10 reached have that poor men were worth saving believed might sea, at Lincoln burned America ators following state rites in Wash- Barcelona safely had it not been him will never die. Franklin D. for Love ington. from bondage. by French warship. mankind is worth caring for and conferences on stopped diAs U. Hitlers Adolf Hooscvelt believes common under A At Berlin, die. the proposed St Lawrence seaway never will battleship the pocket love for him were adjourned, congressmen from rection. Deutschland was renamed Luetsow alinterested states fliks Ohio, New (Continued on page the after slipping home through wM go York, Minnesota, Michigan and name old Its blockade. for lied 55,000-to- n began itirrinf up lntercit to one of Germany's new n appropriation to build the deep day-to-d- CONGRESS: but Yes, .? Oo budget should bo I Aink expmdi CrWM saw flat bmesnso f do not know!" frank rotation w the.ppsrently secretary of the treasury more than ha had promised months earlier, yet it made HI headlines. On budget-balancidecreased he expenditures prob-- ! outspoken than the but not on new taxes. has T any administration ugested what kind of lTT10 congress should enact this ses-and Henry Morgenthaus state-beftbo house appro failed to clarify w tC; 0j ar ee JjWrt news was Mr. houW h ytSS Korgen-th- at the federal hflMd flve bO- - ,bove tbe present with which sr a,nAer,i,iy 345,-K- 0 It la fi- hothat them "was SJ?1 danger inTolved, in this audience apparently otherwise. Trimming dea-h- k' w reM (Si Wd $n.4W,000 TREND Lgow win m Mowing ... WCCLTIJEE rtfaiVrf Wi a reamor- - J Periods. Cause: Bfri!!ultur farm fooaide7i tionof it ltive c Seo-- Henry Wet trol over the cSStI.T,0N8 1 la broadcast wave with the North an watori, ir'2na afiroement 5ssfcp5isa,itur free ptoch tio: Paiy is' ji.,r , ni MM:! absolute right. Purd Mnlor rum- - fr.hl'.rir:'" - ry tin fSwr. hfeW.000 b1 commissioner Wina be eased by an t t More From R. mid-Finla- Brandon reso-i..iin- w L a , fourl Published Weekly by C. N.Lund 1171 EDITORIALS WORTH READING Britain Loses U. S., ffltttfM is underwrit- ten by a divine promise. Its government shall not perish while the world stands. Waves of sin and rebellion may hurt, but never destroy. $1J0 PER YEAR Brueharfs Washington Digest Momentous Question Faces U. S. In Matter of Helping Finland Places Our Country at Forks of National Policy; Possible Involvement in Current War Seen as Great Peril; Other Nations blight Come Begging. By WILLIAM BBUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Waihlngton, D. C. WASHINGTON. The question of aid to valiant little Finland is a proposition that Is getting right close to home. Whether we like It or not, it can hardly be denied any longer that the proposal to extend money help to the Finns has brought the United States to a fork in the road of national policy. It ta accepted as William a fact that our sym- BrBckr pathiea as a nation and aa Individual human beings are with the Finns. There can be no question that almost all persons hope that the butcher, Stalin, and his dastardly schemers meet ultimate destruction. That is the hope. The end, of course, may not be whet we hope, but it ta no sin to hope for results with which we agree In the matter of freedom Tha for any distressed people. amazing thing is that tha Finns have accomplished as much as they have. Nor has anyone of common sense paid any attention ever to the Stalins preposterous lies of the reasons for the Russian attack. right-thinki- And, further, does anyone hold the conviction for a minute that there would not be a veritable deluge of propaganda In this country in behalf of loans to Norway or Sweden or even England and France, ones the Ice ta broken by help to Finland. The second point, therefore, ta that If a precedent ta established by extension of aid to Finland, It ta surely possible that loans to the others would follow. I said It waa possible; I believe it ta probable. What then become of the Ironclad Johnson set? That law, pushed through by Sen. Hiram Johnson, the California Republican, makes it Impossible' for any government to borrow money within the United States if that nation has not paid its war debts to the United States. Finland, of course, ta the saly me af the World war borrowers that has even attempted ta repay Its borrowings aad so a ioaa to Finland does no violence to to Jofcasea act Yet, I have a feeling that if tha lea la broken, and passionate appeals are made for help for the others on the side of freedom if those thing! come about, I am very doubtBut those filings are behind us. ful that supporters of tha Johnson There la confronting us, now, today, act will be able to hold the line Our naa momentous question. agalnat the on rushing waters of tional decision must bo of momenwhich our own governtous importance. This Is so be- propaganda ment would quickly employ. we are at aa I stated above, cause, President Roosevelt, I believe, tiie forks of the road of national was a bit tricky in tiie way he prepolicy. sented tha proposal for e Finnish Moreover, we cannot be blind ta loan to congress. At first, we writthe faet that tbe question st aid ta ers were informed from mysterious Ftalsnd comprehends n decision sources that there was a drive unwherein domestic matters are just der way at the Capitol that was to aa vital as those involved In the in- lead to a loan for Finland. Thera ternational relationship concerned. were quick denials of that from conI think we can forget about the gressional quarters. amount iff money involved. After Preoident Avoids an Open 11, the $80, 000,090 that would be loaned la a mere drop in the bucket Frank Recommendation when measured by the gigantic toEventually, the situation was clartals with which the Roosevelt ad- ified. Mr. Roosevelt sent identical ministration has made the nation letters to tiie speaker of the house familiar. So, the Intrinsic worth and the president of the senate. He of the aid can be passed over. called attention to American sympathy for the plight of the Finns. American Involvement in He indicated that the bulk of the War Is Crux of Quettion people hoped that. If anything should Succinctly stated, the question happen to Stalin, it would be somewhich lies In the background; the thing of consequence. But he avoidfootpad that awaita an opportunity ed an open, frank recommendation. to slug unsuspecting innocents; the The President made a ease In his r that must be watched argument for the loan, yet he did for Is American Involvement in the not follow the usual course of makcurrent world war! That ta the ing a recommendation. It waa unusual restraint on tha Presidents heart, the crux, of the question, though I believe It ta not as appar- part something quite different than ent as it Is real. It must not be he always had done theretofore. What Mr. Eo evett did aa tha overlooked. I am unwilling at this moment to proposal for a Planish Ioaa, thereassert as a personal conclusion, fore, was to say to eaagraaa, to efthat granting iff a $80,000,000 loan fect: I ass far aach a leaa bat tha wiU lead definitely to the brink of respsasihMty ta years aad if It has American participation In that Eu- a had Bareback or if it gets as tat have ta take the ropean catastrophe. But I am more troeble, yse win unwilling to declare a conviction The Presidents course respecting that we can remain out of the bloody maelstrom If such a loan la made. hie letters on the Finnish loan had It is a situation no fraught with the unexpected reaction of recalling hie repeal of the laagen to ear Mure, as a aatlan, armsposition concerning Most persons will embargo. that almost anything can happen. It may be said that a gift of mon- remember how vigorously the Presinsisted on repeal of the arms ey that ta what It will result In for ident s. the chancel of repayment seem to embargo because, as he wrote such a statute ta unneutral. be nil will do no more than cause a fresh wave of hatred for us on the It will be recalled, moreover, Mr. end his spokesmen in conpart of the Russians and Germans. Roosevelt with a great show of paeaid gress end us it this Let supway picture that this nation must do pose the decisiorf of congress ta to triotism loan the money: Russia end Ger- nothing st all that will involve us in ta distinctly Europes a war many etart a vigorous press and trouble. that the United attack upon propaganda We will be called every Distinction Between States. Selling sort of vermin that has a name, if Goods and Lending Money the propaganda follow the usual It seems to me there ta a distincRussian or German pattern. Ignorant citizens of the two countries will tion to be drawn between permitting be driven to angry passion, willing the warring nations, or any of them, to do anything to punish America. to come here and buy supplies and The chain of events moves to the pay cash on the barrel-hea- d for open sea. An American ship, not them, and the course that ta not bound for warring countries, guilt- suggested. They buy them, pay for less Insofar aa war rules ara con- them, cart them away In their own cerned, is sighted by a Russian or hips that are manned by sailors German raider. Our ship goes of their own nationality. To make a down. American blood has been loan of United States government money to one iff the warring powspilled. And, the next step? ers, however, is a national and not Other Nations Then Might a private, act. It ta official. It repCome Begging Help From Ue resents a determination of policy by Now, let us examine another pos- the constitutional methods that are sibility. It is this: if we extend finan- prescribed. These same methods ere cial assistance to the Finns, does It used in the declaration iff war. There are numerous other phases seem likely any of the other nations Norway or Sweden, if they of less importance. None of them get into the Baltic trouble, or Eng- strikee me. however, as affecting land or France wiU overlook the the inescapable conclusion of the opportunity to beg help from uiT dangers inherent in the proposition. As I said at the beginning, 1 am not willing to assert that extension HELP FOB FINLAND of the loan will bring about entrance into the war and that no other result ii possible. I certainly The crux of the question is the am not going to say that refusal iff possible involvement of U. S. in the loon will keep us out. There are war. so many possibilities, so many things Sympathy of American people that can happen, that I believe we is with the Finns. will be better off if we do not mako But national policy Is Involved. that loan. My position ia selfish, Loan to Finland would stort 1 have consistently aradmittedly. other nations seeking financial gued that it ta a (lireign wsr not aid. ours. Surely, we cannot help ourSelling goods and lending monselves by allowing our aympathle ey entirely different propositions. to control our Judgment man-kille- at eon-gres- 1 |