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Show THE TEMES-INDEPENDENT, Six Serious Situations Face America Victorious If Hitler Is Completely By DREW PEARSON ROBERT (Released by Western and ALLEN Newspaper Union.) WASHINGTON. -The authors of this column have received many inquiries as to whether, in their opinion, the United States will be dragged into the war. Obviously, this is a question extremely difficult to answer. However, we have endeavored to set forth below the circumstances which are almost certain to exist after Hitler is completely victorious Europe as it now seems in he The Blitz Training Camp -By will be. SITUATION NO. 1 is the strong probability that there will be no lenient peace. France and England, if conquered, will be made to feel the conqueror's heel. One reason for this is that Hitler, himself, knows how easy it is to rearm if the conquered nation is given half a chance. It may be that his friend the duke of Windsor, as reported since the duke left his liaison post with the British army, will be reinstated on the throne of England, but if so he will be a mere puppet. It is important to note that the United States has leaned heavily, though indirectly, upon the British fleet for this protection. SITUATION NO. 2 will be a Nazi search for raw materials. They will get some when they take France and England, but not nearly enough. France probably will cling to her most important areas in Africa, and may even set up a new government there. Britain should be able to keep enough of her fleet to make it difficult to penetrate the Red sea to India. Japan will take Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, thereby cutting off the United States from vital tin and rubber. Meanwhile, the richest, least populated, weakest continent in the world lies just a short airplane hop across the South Atlantic, protected only by a century-old shibboleth called the Monroe Doctrine. SITUATION NO. 3 will be local Nazi governments in Latin America. Carlos Davila, former president of Chile and now exiled in the United States, long ago counseled the state department that if Hitler ever was victorious in Europe, South American governments would emulate him. Davila is one of the shrewdest statesmen South America has ever developed, and already the speech of Brazilian President Vargas, inferentially approving Italy's stab-in-back, clearly shows that Davila was right. Vargas has received several millions from Roosevelt's Export-Import bank, entertained Roosevelt personally during his good-will trip to South America, sells 70 per cent of Brazil's coffee crop to the United States. Brazil is this country's traditionally closest friend, turned over its fleet to the U. S. A. during the Spanish-American war and during the World war. But today, 50 per cent of the Brazilian army is Nazi, and if Vargas had not approved Italy's war entry he might have been out of power. Similar Nazi sentiment exists in Uruguay, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. For example, the state department has just received a confidential telegram that 6,000 Chilean Nazis actually are under arms. SITUATION NO. 4 which is all-important. Latin American nations can set up local Nazi governments without violating the Monroe Doctrine. Once those governments are established, they can invite German and Italian military advisers or police forces, grant them naval and air bases. And if the United States attempts to stop this, it will have to oppose the local Latin American government as well as Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, both of which have large groups of immigrants in South America. If, for instance, the United States should send armed forces to Brazil to prevent a German naval base from being established there, other Latin American nations again might raise the cry of ‘Yankee imperialism."' The Latins are clannish, and we might easily find the entire continent up in arms against us, siding with the Nazis from whom we are defending them. SITUATION NO. 5 is a squeeze play on trade. The most important thing to remember about Europe economically is that Hitler today controls the biggest market in the world. Not only Germany, but Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium must order goods through his barter system. In other words, if Brazil wants to Going Places NOTES | Only one woman was wife and mother to a President: Abigail Adams. Since the War Between the States 7 of the 15 Presidents were born in Ohio. They were all Republicans, as follows: Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison, McKinley, Taft and Harding. Since 1922, every President has had a double-o in his name: Coolfdge, Hoover, Roosevelt. Rooms with Are at Premium, and Men Wear Caps, and Roads Are Cornelius Vanderbilt Plentiful, and Where the Cana- dian Border Makes People War Conscious. INTO DETROIT where automotive plants have been turning out tanks, mechanized caissons, infantry trucks and a dozen other things for the army at top speed for some time. Back in February when I was last here some of the big factories were working on army trial orders even then. Their proving grounds were cluttered with weird objects bobbing around, rolling over and over, climbing steep banks and even fording rivers. Four years ago out in Manchukuo I saw Japanese army tanks doing the same thing; and that summer while crossing Russia, I remember how amazed I was near Chita to see tanks ‘‘swimming'' a river. I reported this to the U. S. army intelligence corps in Washington upon my return and they pooh-poohed the idea! Yet while covering the Soviet army maneuvers near Otpor in Siberia that same year I had seen more than 4,000 men dropped out of airplanes by parachutes. Returning to Detroit in the fall I told Bill Stout about it. Stout is the father of Henry Ford's_ Stout-Metal-Plane, and is the grandfather of all transport ships in this country today. Stout said it could be done, but he doubted the feasibility of this maneuver. Asked me how much Vodka I had been drinking when I saw the feat! THERE WAS an interesting article in the Saturday Evening Post recently asking if Hitler had been training troops for mechanical warfare in Russia for the past six years. The article was well worth reading. Personally I think he has. Moreover, I think during the recent winter months he has had his able technicians advising with the Soviet, and is being reinforced by the U. S. S. R. at this very moment. Thus Henry Ford's prognostication, the end of May that his company could turn out 1,000 planes of one-design a day, if needed, is all the more interesting. Some will doubt Ford's ability to do this. During the last war Ford did, however, turn out one sub-chaser a day and one eagle-boat a day-a then almost inconceivable feat. And he has turned out as many as 10,000 of his cars daily, so seemingly nothing is impossible for the man. Last summer I noted the German infantry was riding in Ford touring cars. Five men to a car-two in the front seat, three in the rear. They had their guns stacked behind the front seat. Every other car towed a field piece, and many of these field pieces, according to my notes, were stamped "made in USA." Also in case we forget too rapidly Ford had assembly plants in the Soviet, in Holland, in Germany and in Italy I believe. ; ™ = ACROSS THE RIVER from Detroit lies Windsor, a semi-sleepy Canadian city. Here are many of the assembly plants of American manufacturers with goods to sell in the Dominion. Odd that within a mile everything should be so entirely different. Some Say we.are not close enough to a foreign border in the United States to realize what it must be to live in some of the European countries today. If you live in Detroit you are conscio us of the war, if you take an outing in Canada you are doubly so. Kathleen Norris Says: DETROIT IS AGAIN a_ busy metropolis. The streets are filled with people; shops crowded; hotel lobbies overflowing. It's as difficult to get a room overnight in Detroit as it is in Washington, D. C., today. Of all of our big industrial cities Detroit and Pittsburgh are the most foreign looking. Half-closing my eyes I can imagine myself in the German Ruhr, in the erstwhile Belgian Ardennes, in the Russian Ukraine, in the Polish Caucasians. The men all wear caps. They tell me there are more caps sold in these two cities than in all of the rest of the United States combined. Most of the women cover their heads with shawls or bandanas. During the recent recession these cities were the most morbid of the nation. The largest government relief projects were in operation here. But today the scene has changed completely. Boom-times are back with a bang.. And it looks as if they are here to stay for awhile. * * 2 MICHIGAN CITIES and _ towns along with probably a great many others throughout the nation are now forming Home Guard outfits in great haste. Gun clubs are drilling once or twice weekly at Skeet, which is a mild form of Parachutist interference. Practically every American in this region goes duckhunting, deer-hunting once or twice a year. Therefore, there are hundreds of thousands of good shots. It is doubtful if Hitler should invade this continent; but if he does Michigan at least will not be caught unawares. a * * UP AT PONTIAC, Mich., where many General Motors products are produced, the rumor is that gas masks are coming off the belts. Some wiseacres will tell you we will be able to supply half the nation with masks before 1941. Yet if Hitler is really using his ‘Paralysis Gas" as some foreign correspondents claim he is, one wonders if our military masks will do the trick too. a a * THESE MICHIGAN INDUSTRIAL CITIES are connected by ribbons of cement, in a veritable hub-like fashion. On them there is a constant flow of trucks, cars, pedestrians. Tiny lakes honeycomb the countryside and are the mecca for fishermen. Near them bait is sold by enterprising youngsters. One section up here is undergoing a "‘baitwar."' For miles along each side of the highway signs read "Crawler s, Hoppers, Worms and Gliders-2 bits a dozen. * * Az TRAILERS, house-cars, landyachts fill the Michigan camps. For awhile the vogue of the rolling -home went out of existence, but it is back again with a bang. Many are homemade. Others are more fancy. They sell all the way from $400 to $4,Q00, and are occupied by some of the most amazing people I have ever had the good fortune to meet. For nine years now I have been an ardent trailerite myself. I have twice encircled the world in my own land-yacht; and some of the most interesting days I can remember have been consumed in cruisin g the highways and byways of the world thus. In this country my yearly mileage has been in excess of 75,000. HOW.-'0 Don't Be Scared by Your Own Children (Bell Syndicate-WNU sacrifice a million men-perhaps more-on the Western front because he knows if the war lasts longer than September 1, his raw materials won't last. Also he knows that the United States is in a preparedness race, and that within another 15 months we will be in a far stronger position to defend the Western hemisphere. Today, on the other hand, he knows we are pitifully weak. Therefore, it is more than likely that he will move fast. Nazi propaganda and undercover movements in South America already indicate this. Local Nazi uprisings are sure to take place. And with Nazi-Fascist air lines already operating all over the country, it would be a simple matter for a bomb-laden Nazi plane to slip over the Panama canal. Army officers say it would even be difficult for them to know whether it was a friendly Pan-American plane, and they might not fire at it. Dictators have shown that they know how to work together, and you can be sure that when and if Japan, Germany and Italy get ready to put the squeeze on the United States, they will have worked out their cooperation to the last T. We will be squeezed from both the Atlantic and the Pacific and perhaps from South America. In other words, war for the United States depends largely upon whether or not we are going to defend or abandon the Monroe Doctrine. Where Auto Plants Make Tanks -- T DE TR O [T -Where Ford Would Make 1,000 Planes a Day- Where * | CONVENTION Thomas. sell coffee to this area, or Argentina wants to sell meat, or Ecuador wants to sell cocoa, they must barter with Hitler. Even on a minor scale before the war, we have seen that this leads to friction, trade reprisals, national ill-will. It plants fertile seeds for war. Imagine the resentment of the southern states if Hitler, as conqueror of England, required all Lancashire's textile mills to buy cotton from Brazil and Peru. It would almost bankrupt the South. SITUATION NO. 6 is the strong likelihood that all these situations will descend upon us soon. Hitler has shown that he knows time is of the essence. He has been willing to MOAB, UTAH by SE Ruth Wyeth Spears oS® ice. Service.) 1] of the pad, the two end cus and the center cushion are greggS lighter than the floor. The g 4 down table with the tin tray top is painted with the green f paint with some of the cream wy color added. Next week Be ys mother solves another home ¢ p orating problem. NOTE: Betsy is now making hooked rug for her new sitthga room from directions in the S@ gi ing Book ERE is Betsy again - that clever girl in Sewing Book 3, who streamlined an old iron bed. In her house there was an enormous kitchen and her mother hated big kitchens. So, a partition was used to divide it into two rooms. The half with a door into the front hall was for Betsy to entertain her own special friends. The old linoleum was painted dark green. All the walls were painted cream and then pink stripes were painted on the new wall. The neat and efficient cot cover is cream chintz with pink roses and green leaves. The sides MRS. By KATHLEEN NORRIS ONG ago, when as a young woman I found life filled with heavy responsibilities and burdens, I worked out a little scheme for myself. It has worked for forty years now, and I believe it will al- ways work, for anybody at any age. The scheme was simple. It consisted merely in picking out the worst of my troubles, looking it firmly in the eye and deciding two things; first, whether it was second, whether anything my to be and there done If it positively fault fault, and there wasn't was was about it. my nothing more that I could do to cure it than I had already done; then I experienced a certain relief, a certain peace of mind from the mere contemplation and analysis. For example, if one of the younger children was ill, and I inordinately worried, just the thought that the doctor had the case in charge, and that the child was being carefully watched, did something to reassure me. Or suppose I had to deny one of the younger members of the family the money or the. luxury or the advantage that some other child had; to remind myself that that advantage, however large or small, simply could not be afforded, through no blame to myself, instant- ly stabilized my own position. Face One's Problems. so with older and more seproblems, in all the years, the of facing them, analyzing dismissing them, has proved the successful way to escape And rious habit them, to be them. That's why I'm recommending this process of analysis today to all the mothers and fathers of America who are worrying about one of our latest national epidemics. I mean the tendency our children have, in high school and college years, to yearn for other sorts of government, other social experiments, other isms of all sorts. Too often we dismiss this tendency-and it is widespread-with a mere nervous "I don't know what's getting into schools and colleges nowadays, they're turning out perfect REDS!" And to the eager student we say coldly: ‘I don't want to hear any more of that nonsense! You don't know one. thing about Russia. People buying divorces the way you buy theater tickets, and no religion, and everybody living in one room! Don't you let your father hear you talk that way, and don't you bring that red-headed boy to this house again!"' Look to the Constitution. Now, it seems to me we ought to take quite a different attitude. It seems to me we ought to try rather to convince these young revolutionaries what the simple truth is: that there is no ideal social system that is not perfectly compatible with the principles upon which this greatest of all republics was founded. There is no system of the sharing of labor, wealth, land that is not practicable under our own Constitution. It has been called the noblest document ever emanating from the heart of man, and it deserves the description. If we were true to it, if we spent upon the study and de- velopment of it one half the time we spend upon strange despotic ideologies from war-torn, hate-enveloped Europe, we would have no time to look across the water to what goes on over there. , For that matter if THEY had saved their powder and their guns for a few hundred years, and takena good look at the Sermon on the Mount, which they all profess to believe, we never would have heard the names of Stalin or Hitler. If the czars and the military and the Greek priesthood of Russia had not been sunk in luxury and oppression and taxation the bitter scenes of 1917 in that country never could have taken place. A Practical, Sane Name fied to read that the coming-out party of one young girl costs $60,000, and that another young girl, tired and hungry and coughing her life out after too many hot hours in the cotton mills, slips into the cool river to end it all in despair. And I say more credit to our children for caring, for not taking their own privileges and advantages for granted, as the more fortunate folk have done for so many generations, but determining to do something tc make right the age-old wrongs! There is no reason why general- indeed, universal peace and prosperity and opportunity should not flourish here, without disturbing one word of the Constitution. There is no country in the world that will offer them a better opportunity for utopian experiment. Nor need our basic laws be upset. Those of us who will may still worship in our churches; those of us who love simple home life and privacy may still preserve these privileges. And those who hate work, who refuse to assume family responsibilities who won't go to church and will go to roadhouses, will be permitted to pursue their own lives peaceably, as they do today. In other words, the freedom of the individual, that precious heritage that was given us by the founders of our country, will still be respected by all who chance to come into contact with it. Cure Lies in Co-operation. Far better than the fear or scorn with which we treat our young reds today, would be an analysis of their motives and desires. What got them into this way of thinking, anyway? Why, just what we all felt at 18 and 20 and 22. A passionate resentment of the injustices of life; a passionate desire to cure them. Find out what they want, and then see if it isn't something easily achievable and practicable. Help them to get inter- ested in the native problems of adjusting wage scales, clearing out slums, increasing employment by in- creasing trade, opening up new tracts for new cities and farms, and they will discover that instead of the leprosy and typhus that the coun- tries of the old world have had to handle, America's troubles are only heat rash and chickenpox, SPEARS Hills Enclose 10 New cents for Book Y §, ecco Address Factory rebuilt trumpets, saxes, clar trombones, etc. Play like new yet save WN. from $10 to $80! Send for list information. -~ Mention instrument want. The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they possess their wealth.-Pliny. Bargain Department. Box 162N, Elkhart, Falsehood A lie has no Ip Flies legs and canp™ stand; but it has wings, ang @'™ fly far c and wide.-Warburton, WORLDS FASTEST SWIMM smokes the slow-burning cigarette_ | vere| itw m her mey. (| WANT ALL THE MILDNESS AND FLAVOR i | CAN GET. 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