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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH Preparedness Is Speeding Ahead, Says F.D.R. - yvfv ?5)Lii Qifud it v uETm. V4!jr: Visiting the U. S. naval atations, aerial and ship yards in the Norfolk, Va., area, and the naval andI army bases In the Hampton Roads, Va., area. President Roosevelt expressed his pleasure over the a a' 1 of armament preparations. At left, the President is shown some 37 millimeter anti-aircra- ft shells DV "V1 "l-E- . II. Walter at Fort Monroe. At right, the President is shown arriving at the Norfolk navy yard wnn naval aide, Capt. Daniel J. Callaghan. The presidential yacht Potomac is in background. XhLPhillipr W WW 'WNUtantai ACCEPTANCE Morning i 1 Inspection of the house In which Wendell Willki was born, with special at-tention to exhibits Including: (a) Milk bottle broken by the In-fant Willkie when he heard for the first time the mention of a name that sounded like "Roose-velt"; (b) blackboard upon which he once drew a donkey and scrib-bled the words, "This is a turkey"; (c) faded Mother Goose book with page turned to a verse brought up to date as follows: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cup-board To get her poor doggie a bone; When she got there the cupboard was bare The New Deal had skinned It by phone. 2 Short talk by nursemaid who remembers distinctly that as a child In arms Willkie had the kind of per-sonality that made her give him a lollipop when the doctor ordered paregoric. 3 Reception by Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCarthy, present tenants of the old Willkie home, marked by frequent exclamations by both, "If we'd ever had an idea of this we'd never have taken the place!" 4 Address by the mayor of "Home Town Boy Makes Good." 5 Sight-seein- g tour through busi-ness area, with special attention to the cobbler's shop where Wilikie's shoes were repaired, and the bar-bershop where he was first shaved and In which the barber is still trying to argue him into getting his hair cut some day. Review of places featuring Wendell Willkie Hambur-gers, Wendell Willkie Barbecue Lunch, Wendell Willkie Haberdash-ery, and the "Wendell Willkie Punch Positively One to a Customer." Noon to 2 p. ni.: Band concert on the Elwood Green. Selections: "Banks of the Wa-bash," "Inquisitions of the Poto-mac," "I'm on My Way," "Throw 'Em Down McClusky," "Jusrt a Lit-tle White House Built for Two." 2 p. m.: Athletic Events at Callaway park. Greased Pole Climb: Bob Taft. Escaping From Locked Trunk Demonstration: Mr. Willkie. Throwing the 100 Pound Racket: Thomas Dewey. Boxing Rodeo: Mr. Frank Gan-nett vs. the whole New Deal. Sack Race: Original Willkie for President men vs. alternates. Wrestling Events: Charlie Mc-Nar- y vs. Past Performances; Mr. Willkie vs. the field. 3 p. in.: Parade. Section 1 Republicans Who Had Just About Given Up Hope. Section 2 Republicans Who Hatf Definitely Given Up Hope. Section 3 Battle-scarre- d Tories. Section 4 Businessmen's Clubs of America (on stretchers). Section 5 Budget Balancers (in ambulances). Section 6 Thrift Clubs (on crutches). Section 7 Efficiency Experts (by proxy). Section 8 Brass bands playing the theme song, "Heaven Help the Poor Businessman; the New Deal Never Will." 4 p. m.: Mr. Willkie accepts the nomina-tion at Elwood high school while his school teachers shake their head and whisper, "You could kuock us over with a feather." 5 to 8: Dancing, cold snacks and argu-ments over the Gallup poll. SUMMER PORTRAIT Hills and dales And cars with banners Full of folks ' With rotten manners. Add similes: As ironic as the idea of Pierre Laval putting other French leaders on trial for making mis-takes. Adolf Hitler has sent to Mussolini as a gift a train of three armored cars equipped with 16 anti-aircra- ft guns in the hope "that it may ac-company you in the future to protect your life." This would indicate that the reaction to those balcony speeches isn't what it used to be. Out of 900,000 tulip bulbs planted by the city of New York in a spe-cial Riverside drive garden 600.000 tailed to come up. After that we don't feel so futile about the da;Todil bed. Washington, D. C. GENERAL PERSHING General Pershing's solemn warn-ing that unless aid is given the Brit-- lsh fleet to resist Hitler, the United States faces certain attack, was not reply to the appeasement broad-cast of Colonel Lindbergh. When the A. E. F. commander decided, after a study of confidential military re-ports, to come out of retirement and speak to the nation, he did not know that the flver also planned to talk. Also, Pershing wrote his speech without any knowledge of what Lind-bergh would say. However, Persh-ing did tune in on the letter's broad-cast. But it was only for a few minutes. The General of the Armies be-came so Incensed at Lindbergh's views that he turned off the radio and snapped. "That's outrageous. I'm saying nothing about that young man in my talk tonight, but I shall moke it my business to do so on another occasion." TENANT FARMERS Despite all the good intentions of Henry Wallace regarding the share-cropper and tenant farmer, the in-side fact Is that both have been in-creasing In numbers and decreas-ing in security, year by year. For anybody who wants to write an-other "Grapes of Wrath," there is more abundant material than ever. It is not being shouted from the housetops, but between 1930 and 1935, the number of farm tenants increased at the rate of 40,000 a year to reach the staggering total of 2,865,000. The 1940 census, when the figures are out, is expected to show a still higher figure. Privately agriculture department officials admit that they are just about licked, and have almost aban-doned their drive to reduce ten-antry. There are three reasons for the increase In tenant farming: 1. Increased mechanization. Best index of this is the mounting sale of tractors. Technological unem-ployment, which long ago hit the factory, has now come to the farm. 2. Reduced acreuge. To prevent price-depressin- g surpluses, AAA contracts with farmers to plant less. This means fewer tenants are need-ed to plant, tend and harvest the crops. Meantime, the rested land next year gives higher yield, neces-sitates further reduction of acre-age. 3. In spite of AAA efforts, how- - ever, tenants and sharecroppers are not getting proportional benefits of AAA payments. The money goes to the landkirds, many of whom are insurance companies and absentee owners. AAA officials, headed by Cully Cobb, have insisted they can't make an issue of this or they will lose landlords' compliance. Sharecropper Security. Economists in the department are now making a drive for security for tenants. This represents a radical shift of direction. For until recent-ly, the drive was to convert tenants to owners, with government aid. Instead, realizing that many ten-ants are incapable of owning and operating a farm, AAA planners are not trying to decrease the number of tenants but to Increase their in-come and security. It is pointed out that tenantry in England is much higher than in the United States (80 per cent against 42) but that the English farm tenants have a degree of protection unknown here. First step in this direction is to formalize and legalize the relation between farmer and tenant by bringing in a simple, uniform lease to bind the relation between them. Over 80 per cent of all tenants and sharecroppers have only ver-bal agreements with their landlords. Conferences in the agriculture de-partment are preparing for such a drive. Preliminary material has been drawn up, under Economist Dover P. Trent. The country will soon hear about the "flexible farm lease." Approximately a million tenant families (5,000,000 persons) move every year. Benefit payments, poured out by the billions, never touch them. They are the big un-solved problem of the New Deal's agricultural reform. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Kep. Joe Martin, new G. O. P. national chairman, has added to his staff Dave Ingalls, campaign man-ager of Sen. Bob Taft. The famed Indiana Two Per Cent club is virtually broke and practical-ly defunct. Harshest blow was the new Hatch act. This is costing the rlub hundreds of "dues" paying members. G. O. P. TROUBLES The campaign organizing difficul-ties of the faction-scarre- d Demo-crats have been widely advertised. Little has been said about it. But the Republicans are having their troubles too. Real reason for that gathering of party chiefs at Colorado Springs last week was to clear away a batch of inside snags which have caused the Republican machine, after more than a month of activity, to be less than one-thir- d organized WH NE Tl i WE By LEMUEL F Pa (Consolidated Feature NEW YORK.-Sna-pte. States liner, queen of tl AmerfcT marine, through the Na- - TrueSortofOld Yankee Breed Jf Of Shellback, Ci Ch- - man, master of the n handled his ship as def would handle a toy. various maneuverings o! ton luxury liner on her rr. senger-carryin- g trip fro, News, Va., Captain Steto. sheer delight in puttie charge through her United States ser': ping magnates and so I have cast their thought days when amid tnounta-an-winds ranging from g ricane proportions, this v per he is only 42 year, formed deeds of daricf' deep, deeds that have ga:: a gold medal from the I eminent; the United S: cross; the silver life-sa-v from the British adir. Treasury department t. and other like testimony courage and skilled sea: There was that tuniult in the c, 0t 1925, when the Preside Ing, of which Stedmu chief officer, steamed ti cue of the Italian freig nazio Florlo, beaten d sinking. Stedman stepp of the lifeboats and ca! volunteer crew. Everj i of the distressed creww; Two years later, wes: about 1,575 miles from the wireless operator bu man a message from : freighter Exeter City, had lost her captain, t and two seamen and The seas were i witchbroth, the Kind i at hurricane force. No ty existed for the son small boat in such i Stedman maneuvered h sufficiently close to id line being shot aboard tresscd freighter, tin thus rigged, a lifeboat ercd from the Araeric chant and pulled to tit vessel and the crew sa seamanship involved m have represented one o est exploits in Americai Last September, com the United States liner ton, Stedman rescued tl crew of the British freij ivergrovc torptdocd by As a youngster, decid.: sea career, Stedman joint1 ed States Coastguard, first World war he saw hazardous service in cc in the Mediterranean sea lish channel. When pa Stedman enrolled in the setts Institute of Tech courses in marine engine joined the United States D was made a chief office and at the age of 34 rt first command. of the most hard ONE this reporter e was a bookish college dc; ways spoke softly, but Colonel Peck of son Marines a Full jto Bushel of Spunk ?c U. S. Marines, who giv phasis to plain words in as the Japanese menaci eign areas and tension The Japanese seemto I "incident," v need an Peck isn't at all likdf ' one--but he doesn't back When he is in m, formal dress, he Is J out a book in his Ifl never without his PPe-- or may not read Bm he "thinks like and acts like a man ot y He won the Victory Gallantry in the HaJJJ ties of the Men St. Mihiel, n 03 Heart for J negotiatingandJ America. He S'a Annapolis in 1915 and His career is a rem! 'country has had quj j 'in handling explosive and there "Ti Nicaragua, Cuba, n , Latin-America- n co J Peck has been a shooter and "as t through nicely or leaving any nv has built a reputaU in his studious appg-le-ms of naval He is six feet tall demiC as;s f pack a I ITGENERAL ToJ HUGH S' i, JOHNSON AS TO PERSHING'S SUGGESTION NEW YORK General Pershing says that we ought to sell 50 "obso-lete" destroyers to England to save from Germany On our own country the same subject George Fielding Eliot says: "The question which we have to ' ask ourselves is a plain one. It ought not to be befuddled by such as whether the trans-- I for of destroyers to Great Britain would or would not be 'an act of war'. It would be of course, but that is only an academic question The legal definitions of interna-- ; tion'nl conduct ... are now obsolete." It seems that everything is now obsolete as far as it suits the pur-pose of those who are hell-be- on getting this country into a war for which it is completely unprepared. The destroyers are "obsolete." Our own engagements in treaties and conventions and the things we have always stood and sometimes fought for are, in international law, "ob-solete." As to the destroyers being "obso-lete": If they are, how does it hap-pen, as men of this opinion intimate or argue, that the battle of Britain, the fate of the world's freedom and the safety of our own country de-pend upon sending them to Britain? As an American officer said when it was being argued that we ought also to send over a million "obso-lete" Springfield rifles, "No rifle is obsolete that will kill a man with an aimed shot at 1.500 yards espe-cially when you have nothing with which to replace it." A ship doesn't necessarily become "obsolete" or "surplus" simply be-cause it is 16 years old. Nobody has shown this more clearly and honestly than Major Eliot. I don't know his qualifica-tions as a naval expert, but apply-ing well known published naval standards and opinions as to the proper ratio of destroyers to battle-ships. Major Eliot showed that prac-tically none of these destroyers is surplus or can be taken without stripping our own navy. They are no more "surplus" than "obsolete." Just as a sidelight, most of them are armed with four-inc- h and three-inc- h guns, as well as with anti-aircraft guns. Except for World war 75 mm. artillery (about three-inch- ), cannon of higher caliber and anti-aircra- guns are what we do not have, what we most need and what we have the least prospect of getting quickly. In Mr. Knudsen's last progress report as published, "bottle-neck- " itrms of procurement were dis-cussed as well as those in which there were no bottle-neck- s. But he didn't mention cannon. He proba-bly didn't mention them because the trouble there isn't just a bottle-nec- It's a needle's eye and a flock of camels. Major Eliot is very frank and very accurate in calling the shipment of destroyers an "act of war." It is war itself. But it is vicarious war undercover war. The kind of war we have always condemned . and pledged ourselves not to wage. The weakness of this position seems to me to be this: Our policy always has been not to be aggressors in any war. We fight only when we are attacked or threatened. These war minded men are put in the position of having to say, and ttiey do say, that we are so threat-ened now to the death. If that is not true, then we ought not to go to war even to this blind-pi- bootleg war. If it is true, then we ought to go to war tomorrow with every- - imng we have. In a fight to a knockout you can't "hit soft." LINDBERGH AND PERSHING You can get a sample taste of what "can happen here" from the debate in the senate blasting Charles j Lindbergh's speech. Three New Deal senators, than whom there are none whicher, danced around the torture stake: Minton, Pepper and with deep blushes for my own home state of Oklahoma that ineffable of elocution and Desarte, Josh Lee. These gentlemen offered to dis-embowel Lindbergh for saying that if we are going to do business at all after this war is over, we will have to do it with both victor and vanquished, even if the victor is Ger-many, that we shall have to recon-cile ourselves to this idea and that it would be wise to try to intercede to stop this war before it destroys any more of civilization. Some journals imply that Lind-bergh's speech had been ghost-writte- n by Nazis and contrasted it with General Pershing's urging that we send part of our navy-- 50 destroy-crs-mt- o this war by the subterfuge of "selling" them. I disagree with part of what Lind-bergh said, but the man who denies right to say it as being convicts himself thereby of an state of mind Hitler. Black Jack at 80 is stiu one 0f he world s great soldiers, but he knows as little naval strategy as I George Eliot unconsciously "obso-lete- d" his text at the moment of its utterance. However, it may later be dragooned by the apostate Knox. I happen to know that the navy doesnt agree with General Pershing Skull Practice Perfects A.R.P. Wardens' Workj LMt: CI i itfMl 1 r ;f 1 - if n lli & j t" 'h Jff ' N Nil Tj3 Efficient rescue work by air raid precautions wardens in England following bombings by Nazis is due to their rigid training. Above is shown a squad of wardens during a "skull drill" in a lactiral table in one of the air headquarters in London. By using this table the men are carefully drilled in handling trafiic, administer-ing aid to the injured and extinguishing fires during the raids. Credit for an unusually low casualty rate during the raids on England following France's capitulation was given them. 'Colleagues Cheer "Colleagues cheer as one of their comrades takes a swipe at a ball during a baseball match" was the way an English newspaper de-scribed this Canadian soldier's bat-ting efforts during a camp game in Britain. Bottle Tops Make Guns for Tommies i , 'mien wt--- 4. xi Miss Lillian Hall, a London clothes model, appointed herself a com-mittee of one to collect all the metal bottle tops she could find. Her quest was in response to the government's appeal for old metal to be trans-formed into guns and munitions with which to meet the onslaught of the Nazis. Among other articles being collected are pots, pans, old cannon and tin cans. The movement which was started in London spread to other cities in the British Isles. Succeeds Farley 4'"" i 4 L Mi v I w$ J. Edward J. Flynn of New York cty. right, newly appointed ehair n,an of "e Democratic nationa, committee, is shown receiving e gra.ulations from James A. r,rley his predecessor. Expert Training for War Portfolio Robert P. Patterson, newly appointed assistant secretary of war, shown as he underwent training recently in the Citizens' Training camp at Plattsburg, N. Y. A former federal circuit judge, he succeeded Louis Johnson as assistant secretary of war following the appointment of Col. Henry L. Stimson to the war post. He won the D. S. C. in France in 1917.' |