Show Mars Mars' Storks A A CARTOON by Parrish in the Chicago Tribune Tri Tri- t A 11 bune tells in picture more than many words could tell about the fate of European youth in inI I 4 these war post-war days or are they war pre-war days of intensive rearmament Storks in flight bearIng bearing bearing bear bear- ing tiny infants astride rifles to toI I fill rush orders from Europe's military chiefs it is a grim and realistic cartoon It is difficult to make the story it tells tell as shocking as the artist has succeeded in doing The Los Angeles Times does a good job lob with one phase of it It says Polish boys are being placed In labor camps as asa asa asa a prelude to military service Austria requires military training for all boys from 11 to 18 Stalin stall has scaled down the conscription age The French chamber is about to pass a bill for compulsory physical training for boys and girls 1 from 6 to 21 Mussolini has almost literally snatched the babies from the cradle and substituted guns for nursing bottles Hitler uses brown shirts for swaddling clothes Youngsters are aro torn from their families and turned over to the state like so BO many cattle It is goodbye to boyhood and girlhood in Europe In boast boastful l words not an apology or criticism t the e Deutsche says j With the extension of the military service to two tw years th the life of a young German consists of the following stages At the age of 6 he enters school at 10 he joins the nazi childrens children's organization tion Young Folk at 14 the Hitler Youth or State i Youth at 18 the nazi party arty and S. S A. A at 19 he enters the labor service now six months at 20 II the defense forces so completing his military ervice at the age of 22 2 Says the Portland Oregonian in con comment ment The nazi regime in Germany has exceeded even the fascist regime in Italy in the ruthlessness with which it has imposed its philosophy of the subordination of the individual to the state It recalls that for many centuries every intellectual intellect intellect- ual achievement of nan man has been associated with the loosening of the bonds upon the individual ual 1 I pointing to mankind's progress through the dark ages and the renaissance and since to show that the human mind has been opened and produced pro in almost exact proportion to o its progressive progressive progressive sive liberation The Oregonians Oregonian's perception goes goe to the very heart of the present European trend The demand for more and more cannon fodder and the motive for cradle snatching matching b by the war ministers are clearly set out in this pungent So paragraph The present resent reactionary dictatorships of the world even the Russian are in the last analysis attempts on the part of backward and defeated r nations to overcome the triumphant and liberal liberalI 1 I 1 democracies by military force The New York Tribune Herald Trib ne extracts extracts from L L an announcement on Armistice day made by the tha League of Nations these pertinent figures For every 59 soldiers under arms in 1913 the world now maintains 76 full time tune fighting men in barracks bar bar- racks racks men withdrawn from productive labor and necessarily fed housed and clothed by society In this situation however the Tribune Herald-Tribune sees a dilemma It remarks It is arresting to speculate upon the great strides that could be made mad in improving world standards of or living if it all the raw materials the industrial plant and the man-hours man now devoted to military preparation could be diverted to productive pro pro- uses That Is the true measure and the only one ne of or the genuine cost of or military pre pre- But i it is dispiriting to realize at the same time that even should the nations agree to disarm tomorrow the actual diversion of this immense effort to productive channels would raise practical problems of reorganization so in intricate intricate in- in as to be almost insoluble Fortunately we are no not faced with the re responsibility responsibility responsibility re- re of ot solving this problem for jittery European states We can and should see our own course plotted out nevertheless It is Not Notto Notto Notto to be stampeded by the tumult overseas to enter into a militaristic race either in the propagandizing ing of the nation into a fear psychology or in erecting a huge military plant Our present policy of a small standing army of highest excellence supplemented by a well yell trained reserves is all sufficient for our land forces Our naval program should be regarded as complete when our experts can say that it is adequate to defend our coast lines the Panama Panama canal Canal Alaska Hawaii and the Philippines during the remainder of our protectorate As to American youth it is not conceivable that any half-baked half statesman may ever suggest that Uncle Sam turn kidnaper to garner re recruits recruits recruits re- re for Mars |