| Show ling Opinions I I Comment of the American Press Germany Prepares In the midst of Europe's alarms comes news from Germany indicating indi Indi- eating cating ting that while the tho reich Is not a party to the controversies ies that now threaten world peace It is by no means resting on its oars in the field of preparations for war On the contrary it is likely that no country is more feverishly girding its loins than the nazi reich A token of what hat i is going on is the reconstitution of the Versailles treaty provision specifically prohibiting the re recreation recreation recreation re- re creation of the organization wherein the World war was hatched It is a significant step in Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's systematic return to the ranks of first-class first military pow pow- ers It was in inevitable that sooner or later the new German army would be equipped with a general staff without which no modern force can engage in large largo scale war Doubtless the skeleton had the equivalent of a staff Under und under un un- d der r whatever name it may have been masked Henceforward there will be no pretense Once again the business of ot war war traditionally traditionally a aGerman aGerman aGerman German ke key industry will Industry-will will be conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted b by a board of management comprising the best talent in the country t If It the reborn general staff maintains maintains main maln- ins its traditions it will combine combine com corn bine international politics with strategy and tactics That Is b not nota a prospect designed to be a pacific influence in Europe By accident or design the general general general gen gen- eral staff announcement coincided with the revelation that Germany I Ihas has already launched and assigned to service in the Baltic twenty twenty- one ton 2150 submarines The reich thus makes formal reentry on the theseas theseas theseas seas with underwater craft for tor forthe the tho first time since 1918 There is simultaneous disclosure that two ton batU battleships are under construction the initial units of the expanded navy which the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans are arc building under their agreement with Great Britain Their third ton pocket battleship battleship bat bat- will be commissioned during the An undetermined undetermined mined number of submarines of more than tons is under way With an air force claimed to be superior to that of Great Britain an army of to rapidly rapid rapid- ly being for forged cd into being and a n ton navy in sight nazi nad war power is on the march The use to which it Is put i Is destined to alter the hi history history and torY torY- and nd the map map map- of Europe in the years that lie Jie just ahead The when and how howare are the job on which the new great general staff will concen concen- Washington Washington Star Pl Planned nned Economy The planned economy which has now applied its curtailment policies to 11 1 basic crops might work intimates Nicholas Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt if it this broad nation of million persons could secure the services of the wisest of oC men atall of at all as the planners and of course if the weather did not Interfere There arc are no planners equal to the task which would demand agreement from as the former vice governor of the Philippines said in an Oakland address a group such sueh as Henry Ford J. 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P Morgan Sr Einstein Socrates and King Solomon The idea of Secretary Wallace and others that wealth may be created by restricting production production production tion Is challenged by thinkers in both parties as well as by cold figures and a survey of the national national na na- na- na lional scene The real sharing of wealth comes when you OU make it possible for an even larger number number number num num- ber of people to buy more marc and more of ot the things they want The opposite policy to reduce production and elevate prices while it has benefited some minorities has lowered the standard standard standard stand stand- ard of oC living Jiving and has hils put brakes upon employment Carried on and developed it may even offer a threat to government and liberties liberties liber liber- ties impose a regimentation Inmany Inmany in inmany many lines and mean an economic economic economic eco eco- eco eco- autocracy one that eventually eventually eventually even even- would spread to politics tho the press and our entire social structure A timely address coming at a time when we have many evidences evidences evi evi- dences of lost markets both at home and abroad i when tho the smaller growers in inmany inman man many fields are arc being eliminated in favor of the larger and when people go hungry in a nation which could produce an abundance the one from Mr Nicholas Roosevelt may maybe maybe maybe be commended to a wide reading Oakland Tribune 40 Land of Liberty When Then wo we read of government restrictions on free speech and free press in other countries we weare weare weare are thankful that we live Jive in America where the bill of rights guarantees Hbert liberty And so so when we learn that a state censorship board at Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus has dared to censor a news newsreel reel reel reel-a a news reel mind you we you we want ant to voice indignant prot protest st st. The news reel is the current edition of the March of Time rime and the Ohio censors have seen fit tit to cut out six or seven scenes depicting conditions in Germany It is indicated that these scenes have been deleted because the censors fear that they hey would have ha offended attended Ohio Germans Not another state in in the union has cu cut any of these scenes but Ohio censors have taken it upon themselves to shield Ohio moviegoers moviegoers movie moviegoers movie movie- goers from the facts of existence in Germany today Here is dictatorship of of the most insidious and dangerous kind kind kind-In In our own state We Ve feel certain that intelligent German-Americans German want to 10 see these scenes just as much as anyone anyone anyone any any- one else clie To omit them because they might be offensive to Adolph Hitler is to presume that every Ohio German-American German pled pledges es allegiance to Der Fuehrer and resents any criticism of oC Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler and his policies This is not the fact and would not to be justification for censorship even if it were the fact In America we want to know as much as we can of what is going on on everywhere We Ve want the tho facts unbiased and undistorted Censorship of any kind kindis is a a. distortion and its use converts converts converts con con- verts facts into misleading ganda If the state authorities can censor news reels it is but a step stepto to censorship of newspapers and speeches A bureaucratic government government govern govern- ment seeking to perpetuate itself in office could stifle all cism Censorship is the tho right arm of ot dictatorship We want none of oC it in Ohio Cleveland News |
