Show Prevailing Opinions I Comment t of the American Press T Taking king C Cant nt Out of W War r Our naval appropriations by this congress reach a total never known before in m time of oC peace It is done in the name of national defense The result will be it is said slid simply simply sim sim- ply that we shall build our fleet up to the strength permitted d by the London agreement Th This s is true enough but it is evident that many members of congress feel teel that they have put themselves s in a afa fa false position The They have been talking about taking the profits out of ot war The They have proposed to conscript all wealth and every form torm of production in case of war while setting up a system which is virtually that of forced labor But they know well that all aU these things would be blown away by the first blast of ot real war They are as as Mr Baruch asserted in his powerful statement making plans for a paper pap war which would i if carried out inevitably lose an actual actual ac ac- ac war var Something of a similar kind should be said tl to the students in our colleges who are lre so frequently making milking demonstrations against war There is no ro objection to this i if their motives are pure But Butare Butare Butare are their heads clear Have they accurately measured the forces with which th they y are undertaking to todeal todeal todeal deal They cannot suppose that the mere breathing of ot an aspiration aspiration pira- pira tion lion into the air will achieve what they wish They must be ready to support and join ever every existing agency that may furnish an an alternative alternative alternative alter alter- native to war They must found new organizations of ot their own for the same purpose They must take an active part in politics and let their representatives in congress con con- gress gross know that a refusal to fight is not a refusal to vote Unless such things are done and political effect is given to ideals of peace we are arc arcin I in danger of talking cant when when when-we we I talk of ending enc war without doing anything to end it There is a cant of ot patriotism as is well known and there is also a c cant of pacifism Both of them had best be taken out of ot war New war New York Times he rho Spirit Th That t M Made de America Americ Cooperation always has been the dominant note in Americas America's national anthem The colonists and after them the frontiersmen who pushed our boundaries steadily stead stead- ily westward ve to o. o the he e blue pacific 0 banded themselves together forthe for zor the common purpose of mutual protection and mutual advance advance- ment In union they found strength and through union they built America Today the call for those same virtues that actuated our pioneerIng pioneer- pioneer Ing lag forefathers is no less urgent The difference today is that instead of ot facing a known physical phyl cal foe we are embattled against a mental enemy more subtly dangerous dangerous dan dan- and yet much less difficult of conquest That enemy Is our own fear tear our own distrust and our own self selfish ish- ish ness Our war against the depression is not a single-handed single affair It is everybody's fight tight for tor the reason that everybody's welfare is at stake and it has not yet been won after arter five bitter years of battle because our defense against it has lacked the unanimity unanimity ity of old How much better Indeed If it In Instead Instead In In- stead of continuing to harbor petty petty petty pet pet- ty enmities and indulge in petty feuds we all of or us admitted the Impotency of our divided attacks abandoned our foolish attitudes of aloofness and here and now banded together as a a. wiser generation generation gen gen- of Americans banded to together together together to- to gether for fol the common purpose of mutual protection and mutual advancement Perhaps when all other means have failed tailed and all other h hope po is gone we will see that this Is the only course course- to pursue Los pursue Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Calif Highland Park News Beer and Gas Dont Don't Mix Mx A Detroit city whose erratic driving caused the death of one person and injury of or several others pleaded that he could not have been drunk he be had had only four small glasses of beer If It the explanation was correct correct- it but strengthens a contention of insurance insurance insurance ance companies and other authorities author author- ties that grave danger lies in attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to drive a motorcar after alter drinking even moderate amounts of mild alcoholic b ber beverages er The national safety council financed fi Si- b by some tome of ol the leading Industrial In in- concerns of ot the country is engaged in in a campaign of education to spread pread this information In 10 a recent report for th this S Curtis Billings a a astall astaff staff stall member of the council said The many drivers drivers dri ers rs who have been merely drinking drinking drinking drink drink- ing as distinguished from the patently pat pat- drunk present the real menace menace menace men men- ace to safety on the highways to to- to day And James S S. Kemper president of ot the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Casualty Cas Cas- Co and dire director tor of ot the National National National Na Na- Association of Automotive Mutual Insurance Companies Companies' in a report to shareholders said aid The most serious problem with which the company had to deal in 1934 was the tremendous increase in the number of street and highway ac ac- ac Unquestionably the majar major major ma ma- I jor jar factor in this appalling situation I was an inadequate control of oC the liquor traffic following repeal of I prohibition The national safety councils council's r report report re re- port was summarized in m this con conclusion n- n elusion People must acquire the habit habil of not drinking If theY in intend intend intend in- in tend I to drive or of not driving if it they have hae been drinking Detroit Detroit News New Not Se Serious ious Our naval al bill discussions and plans for maneuvers in the Pacific bring from the Japanese Japanese press many words which are not to be taken seriously That the hysteric protests of Tokyo's Nichi NichI which traditionally traditionally traditionally is supposed to reflect the views of ot officialdom are arc projected et at the home au audience is shown when a man high in Japans Japan's affairs expresses his views outside the borders borders borders bor bor- ders of his own country At Washington ton Ambassador Saito assures us that his government has no apprehensions over the naval games in the north Pacific and adds They know that navies are navies navies navies na na- na- na vies and that it ItIs is the n navy's navys vy's business busi bus n ness ness to to be familiar with not just some of oS their waters but with all of their waters Never having ving ex ex- ed in the misty Pacific region it was clearly understood that the units of ot the American fleet would want to go there This to is saying what an any s sensible official knows know to be true but buL it is also admitting that the Japanese press is engaged in the game of fooling the fooling the public Oakland Oakland Tribune Trib Trib- un tine une b h I |