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Show riNTAH R SIN RECORD Fleeing Before Japanese Onslaught WHOS UJffict O HEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. f ;; MJW'jrrvi M5 vu mr ;j Nj3Ua.j iCh Parton ffTffffffffffffWfrfTrff rrfrrrrrrr (ggmfgr '1 NEW the oldsters are mumbling in their beards. New York city ousts aging policemen. Governor Aiken of Vermont clamors for new young blood in the Republican party. The also young Governor Barrows of Maine quickly Indorses this demand for new faces, ambitions and ideals." And in England a young Jewish statesman brings a in the call for the stretcher-bearer- s stuffy old army club, as, with youthful zest, he rocks the foundations of empire again under the banner of youth. When Leslie war secretary, passed over fifty elderly generals to up the younger and more vigorous Viscount Gort to the high command, he incurred sharp criticism and challenge m parliament and loosed a vast amount of tongue-waggin- g all through conservative , England. in the interHis army shake-up- , est of "new blood, was the most drastic of modern times and has become highly personalized around the dynamic figure of the young war secretary. They dont object to his being Jewish. They have had too many brilliant Readings, Sassoons, Disraelis, and Samuels in their government to worry about that. What disturbs them is the fact that Mr. Hore-Belisis a bit of a an added starter from scratch with no powerful alliances or backing, given to spoofing and heckling his elders on occasion as he repeatedly did in parliament He was a newspaper man after he left Oxford with his M. A. degree, and he knows the uses of publicity. Indignant septuagenarians in the clubs whisper to each other, Nulla dies sine linea" not a day without a line of pubThis writer has no famillicity. iarity with London clubs, but he is told that a snappy Latin gag line runs through them like a prairie fire. At the age of twenty-eigh- t, a was elected to parliament as a Liberal. He was taunted for his youth and that started him badgering the graybeards, and he has been at it ever since At thirty-onhe gained much kudos by scheming a way to let the Liberals into the new national government. When he was thirty-fouhe became parliamentary secretary to the board of trade, and, at thirty-five- , financial secretary of the treasury. The hysteria of war supply of a material necessity for Washington. is in the air. It has been increasing defense. in tempo and it This tragic condition exists even may throw us out when we have vast untapped stores Hysteria of our sense of within our own borders and more equilibrium as a in Cuba, 90 miles away from our nation unless we watch our step. It shores. It is true, the bureau of is, indeed, a time for all people to mines tells me, that our ore is a keep their sense of direction and to lower grade than that Imported from avoid unnecessary and dangerous Russia, or from the gold coast of acts of an inflammatory character, Africa, or from Brazil. It is true The sinking of the American gun- moreover that American ore must boat, Panay, by the Japanese in the be treated by a special process beYangtse river of China apparently fore it can be used. It seems to has set fire to tinder because there me nevertheless that our nation have been outbursts of all sorts ought to be made self sufficient since that inexcusable incident of where that can be done and presfttnf 40. early December. There can be ex- ent policies distinctly do not do that cuse or apology by the Japanese on Political and economic views preTerror is clearly written on the face of this elderly woman and the two younger men as they trot from end, but neither excuse nor apology vent it their native city quarters in Shanghai to the border of the French concession where all sought safety from will satisfy most Americans. They Let us examine this situation in the Japanese soldiers. feel properly that Japan is trying more detail. The great source of to rub our collective noses into the manganese at the moment is Soviet ground and nearly every person Russia. 63-foFifty per cent of all we use wants to do something about a thing is imported from Russia. It is a of that kind. On the other hand, I fact this is the finest mangaam convinced that the answer lies nese that to be found, and it is a further in another direction; it is to be fact that American steel companies found, I believe, m exacting a prom- sell vast quantities of steel to Rusise from the Japanese that they will sia because they buy manganese cut out those tactics. If their promthere. On the other hand, I believe ises mean anything, it will be better to accept them and hope that we it is inevitable that Japan and Russia will have to fight it out sooner may not be confronted with another or later. If they go to war, there such incident is not a chance that we can buy any In any event there is plenty of manghnese from that quarter. evidence that the majority of the will be the long haul from Africa or American people desire to avoid Brazd thereafter and a long haul ( war. They will continue to cherish in wartime means grave dangers, peace unless elements in our na- With Brazil under a dictatorship, tion lead us in another direction by none can foretell what would conuse of war propaganda. I include front us m that direction. SdfcfeSS in those elements the government itself. I do so because the governNow, I Included ment, by use of propaganda, can Cuba as come pretty close to leading the na, source of supply. It is only because tion by the nose if it so desires. It American capital can build up sentiment against the Cuba has persevered in Japanese until there is a white heat Shut Out making available and a demand for vengeance. I the Cuban manganese deposit. The believe President Roosevelt is trying to avoid war at this juncture. Manganase corporation has expendThere is a basis for this belief in ed large sums for establishing the the fact that the Department of beneficiation process on a permanent The largest portrait statue fashState has withheld some of the facts basis. The bureau of mines tells V ioned by mankind in modern times about the Panay sinking. These me that corporation has succeedwill honor George Washington when facts, as rumored, are of a characed, but due to Secretary Hull's the New York Worlds fair opens on ter that easily could fan flames of reciprocal trade policies, even that Ik 30, 1939, commemorating thd April VMVlWiW added hatred On this basis, it ap- company can hardly get into the First Presidents Inauguration. The pears at least that Mr. Roosevelt American market You see, SecreVisual proof that the Salui ritual of the tub Is not is seeking to avoid tary Hull made a trade treaty with even in Europe is contained in this picture made in a north Londonpopular sculpture, shown above in a model home. by James Earle Fraser, will be 65 conclusions by the nation. Brazil that reduced the tariff duty 'Big sister does the scrubbing as little brother ciies his heart out. feet high, including a 50 base. cent. by When was per that But as was said by an earlier the done, in reduction President' the time to prepare for duty immediwar is while the nation is at peace. ately became available to all naROYAL ROMANCE? That is to say, the nation must have tions since we must treat all of its defenses solid, substantial; it them alike. The treaty by Secremust take nothing for granted m a tary Hull which was approved world that is fraught with unrest by President Roosevelt, therefore, and uncertainty, racked by suspi- spelled death for the chances of deWILLIAM MOULTON MAR- cion, permeated to the very core velopment of the manganese mines consulting psychologist, within our own borders. with chicanery and scheming of alformerly of Harvard university, To show further how these leged statesmen. The smallest boy recipsays that, sooner or later, women will not "jump on another who rocal trade policies have ruined our will run this counwill hit him on the chm if the attack own chances, let me call attention He thinks they try. is unjustified. That is human nato the fact that the government itare just beginning ture, and human nature is about self has developed an electrolytic to get their hand the same over the whole world. at the great Boulder dam process to, in business and S A year ago I wrote something in that will make high grade mangaand therell be no stopping politics, J7 i these columns in support of the nese fiom the ore in this country them when once their superior President's program for building up So here we have a government-owne- d is demonstrated. equipment I project and a great reserve the army, navy and air corps. It Dr. Marston, while spoofing the from Cuba available ana seemed then to be wise. It is cernothing inspirational psychologists, urges all 4 tainly shown now to have been can be done about it simply becomers to live, love and laugh, Athe proper course. Our nation is cause they can not compete with to try living. and He has made at least partially ready to strike the cheaper ore from abroad-chea- per studies on comparative searching because of back and the progress thus made cheap or forced emotional sensitivity of blondes, has been accomplished without the labor and Secretary Hulls unexbrunettes and red heads. He inventa j s waste that characterized our move- plainable cut m tariff duties Our ed the sphygmomano-meter- , or lie national policy always insisted on ments in 1917. detector, based on blood pressure an American standard of living for Noting that I said variants. partially Americans. That means A photograph of higher Lady Anne He was a teacher at Radcliffe ready," I want to call attention here wages. It is a correct policy. But to one way in which we are not k, daughter of the but romped through law college, at I .jow.yiwM why, ask, does Secretary Hull marquise of Titchficld, whose name ready, a condition in which we are school, practiced law, stirred to a a home industry on the one has been destroy linked romantically with Three expectant mothers were rescued fmm quite vulnerable. We have a great hand and dash of psychology with the Black-ston- e , provide for profits of for that of King Leopold of the Belarmy structure on paper. From it, a rescue academy and became professor of legal by on headed party the other when we cling by the army can be expanded rapidly eigners , fire de- - psychology at the American ....the EggertsvilIeN to a policy of the kind mentioned? gians. Leopold and his mother were nartment nvei cnn.kn.i.j univerrecent guests at Walbeek abbey, and successfully. The air corps The fire sity at From 1923 Washington. seat of the duke of Portland who can be developed quickly. The navy to 1929, he was lecturer on psycholbr0U6h "Cra Is the grandfather of Lady Anne. is being built up. The whole prohospital aCadCmy 8afety to the Buffalo cUy ogy at Columbia Of Immediate urgency, however, university. gram is one of defense. is a supply on hand. Congress He is likely to bob up any time with some new provocative idea, Passed legislation Stock-Fil- e to provide for a and he never calls his shots. In taking stock of the situation, stock - pile, a reNeeded however, one must give considera-tio- n serve on hand unCUBJECTS of Charles Kecks ear- to "replace-Oun- s der her monumental sculpture were ments. "You can itself.ownership of the government That law provided for InWashington, have Jefferson, all of and Men Lincoln, the vestment of $40,000,000 which James Madison and Stonewall Jack-sowould men and all of the 1,000,000 tons acquire approximately Now hes goships needed, but if the guns they use can not be replaced when they of manganese. The War department ing to do Huey called for bids. Americans, of are worn out, what good are they? Long twelve feet course, could not compete with forI do not mean that we have no rehigh on a thirty-foEven the Cuban eigners serve. We have a reserve, but war company pedestal, with could not make an offer within the legend, Share Our Wealth, takes its toll of guns as well as men and reach. Something has held up the a marble winged pegasus, denoting Guns are made of steel. Steel is contract award, and however, there the vaulting aspirations of the slain made of manganese, as well as iron has been delay. I am fearful that statesman. There will also be symManganese puts the starch in steel, some of our steel companies have bolized Huey Longs bemson hardens it so that it is usable for urged War department of specificaschool books, roads and such things as guns along with the tions that would not bridges AmeriMr Keck, prolific in heroic million and one other items of tools cans to participate Inpermit the contract for nearly forty years, could design and equipment that we have to have because of the low grade ore in take all that in his stride. His easily In our everyday life No substitute this great country, but in any event the friendship monument at Rio de Jaever has been found for it. The Hull tariff reduction would hold our neiro is much more complicated, Germans learned this to their sor- mines outside. row back in 1918 They statesmen memorializing attempted I am all for that stock-pilhands fend flags intertwinedclasping idea. to use a substitute. Their guns soon He is a native of New York buckled. Their heavy artillery was It would be one foundation stone in for the wall of defense which I believe five years a pupil of St. useless. Gaudens, the nation ought to have. But that of winner the Prix de Rome g Thus, we must look to our manga-ens- e alone would not solve our are his memorial sculptures general stores stores which might problem We can not continue forthroughout the country statesmen, suddenly become nonexistent be- ever with the present policies Some equestrian statues, architectural cause 93 per cent of all that we use time in the future, there will be a sculpture, war memorials, all of is imported. International trade war in which this nation will have a sound classical design. started our trend in the direction of part. There can be no doubt of The whimsical John J. Raskob buying ore abroad where cheap la- that. So while ail of the various was the only patron who ever led is bor employed. Secretary Hull's planning by the New Deal goes on, tom astray. He had him do a policies by which reciprocal trade why not give thought to develop Pan and some sportive cherare out worked finagreements have ment of a defense as well as the ubs for a fountain. New York ished the job. We find ourselves In more abundant life or knows tom best for the protection of a position, therefore, where we the imposing lady read V.'."'"'"' Hern. underprivileged. a book at the gates of Columbia tog could be cut off overnight from our We. tern New.puper Union. the winter relief fund. in open to the public to aid university. Con,iid New. Features lar Hore-Belish- fc.hri I Just Another Saturday Night Washington gate-crashe- r, K Cuban-America- n Hore-Belish- day-nig- e, ot Matter of Life and Death Jhmh) about YORK. A new youth is sweeping the world, and r, JR. German Kids Joyride in Armored Cars n. ot e ha inner Speeches. Hr wLft!ly,for U.sTONiTEXAS my sins.I-vto a jag of after . dinner oratory, includmi like to hear me. Feature writers after-dinn- say p'r'ofeS!10M speakers are dyme oul That may be true in ' New York, where folks are anxious to get the dinner over :!i with so they may & to the hurry nightspots and do some sincere and earnest drinking in an effort to forget what the stock market did to them yesterday and what its going to do to them tomorrow. But out to the hinterlands the new crop of native ora tors is a bountiful one; and the tyn a ? leal silver tongues of the grea open spaces fra speaking of thei j neighborhoods although I might ur Val elude their mouths are still cob tnal vinced that the sweetest music a1 earth is the sound of ones own vo.c ape , uplifted to eloquence. An English preacher had the formula; Stand up to be seen, speal up to be heard, shut up to beepprA1, eiated. If hed left out all but th pes iat last part, twould have been a p.j -- ven feet recipe. er I 31 pain t Tomorrows Treasures. WANT to acquire untold W ' v. latter 2 ea!8 years, or, any com th: how, for your grateful heirs? ; Then collect things. Collect cheat aI c things which are both common inf r commonplace. Then sit down am wait for these objects to beeom orar E obsolete and therefore priceless "nts necessity is today oml1 junk, but will be tomorrows trea e ured antique. I rtarn Assume youd saved up old cJJeori cus bills, or Mississippi river s earr d boat menus, or buggy whips, those handpainted slop-jar- s forme' conn ly found in all truly refined horns lves Henry Ford or some museum woul ePer h Bo take a lot at any price. Im putting aside literary works f ie a purely imaginative conception, f iepar have one perfect specimen of idy "ept be creation a time-tabl- e of tie a oven Florida East Coast railroad, aiso ie of complete working synopsis ct th-- and Townsend plan just sheer fantasy to th But the most fanciful romance! at "sum the platform pledges adopted at ni maal tional conventions of the two gre; ry th parties during the last twenty yeai of the theres real fiction for you! J f splen Yesterdays i I f one was Germanys Colonics. U'VERY nation is united to tl I to magnanimous attitude th it t ed t Germany should be restored tb Boscl colonies taken from her by the witsole - ning side in the Worlds war etcej of ti the nations that acquired the sar s we s whi f colonies m the spbt-up- . Thats the mam hitch. Its mor i Afr than a hitch. Its a hard knot, tie Aub originally with hate and sealed nore Kr with greed. In other words, sauces, oi for the goose is sauce for the pt h the der unless it happens to be on in gander, which naturally alters th r case. built Nor seemingly has it occurred t ng y any government that the origin! owners of Germanys former terr y n0Vl tonal possessions might like to ha a say about whom theyre going 1 a an belong to in future. But then, if eve ( A we started considering the wishes JSlce despoiled native tribes over world, where would the white mani b 1 noble civihzation be? e lsni - f THE Fran f Cosmopolites last time before this ftat Mike Hogg and Majot Raymond Dickson returned to their ranch at Casa Blanca, Mexico, they were just back from New York, That night, at the bunkhouse, thehands, mostly Texas lads, fore pathered to hear the bosses tell about the wonders of the great city. One or two of them had visited Netf York, so these cosmopolitans pro- ceeded to exhibit their familiarly f with its sights. d "Major, said one, "I reckon a! Grants tombs still doin business ! the same stand, eh? And I bet the aquarium is right where she was when I was there, said another. "And all them tall buildins. , e 3Ctcr 8o a ( tapes ,d ? ,. D There was present one lap? AL? youth who had never been he where miles away from a,, ,orc born, in a ben I of the Rio Grande.c o town probably never had seen a " inhabitantsmore than a thousand na But with all these seasoned travto elers showing off, he didnt mead c an oinfor be left out He waited Far-flun- !" - MU bervicc. "tell toe jt Ma ar still run- mn the hotel to New York? IRA IV S. COBB. rsist Copyright WNU Service. "Capn Mike, he said, is that there same feller 6 s, Old Center of Education n One of the oldest centers of y in America, the Universi of Havana, was founded January wi 5, 1728, by a Dominican priest, the authorization of Pope tonoce XIII. It remained under Papal j risdiction until 1842, when it wj officially secularized. cl i'y p su y Tpll ns P t 8 an a ur tldi a 4 on |