Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-18 | Page 6 | Views of the Press

8 Views of the Press Press President Roosevelt again Is Inspecting defense industries today today to today to- to day his expert exper qualifications In that regard b being ing well known At Johnstown Pa h he was joined by Senator Joe Guffey and other Democratic experts who also In Inspected defense plants The Pennsylvania plants were In somewhat better shape than those In Ohio where recent polls have shown defenses' defenses to be in need of repair Detroit repair Detroit News These lid d defense e f fen e n s 5 e Inspection tours might be dismissed as just justa a good natured gag except forthe for forthe forthe the fact that they reveal a disconcerting disconcerting disconcerting dis dis- dis- dis concerting aspect of the Roose- Roose character Things must not be what they seem P PackIng PackIng Pack Pack- ck- ck Ing the supreme court must be disguised as an effort to help the justices with their work Political Pout Pout- ical speeches must be palmed off offa a as business conferences Always the new deal must be outsmartIng outsmart outsmart- ing somebody It will be strange If it people do not weary of being outwitted by their government Baltimore Sun Hitler is doing today what Napoleon Na Na- lia- lia pOl on attempted a little more than a century and a quarter ago and for the same reason Because of the blockade which cut France from world sources of ot supply Napoleon was obliged to undertake the e economic organization organization organization or or- of the continent partly partly part part- ly as a measure of retaliation against Engl England nd but also no doubt as a means of assuring needed supplies for his own country and army anny That meant hardship and a lowered standard of living for lor the countries Included in included In- In eluded In his continental system and naturally enough their people people peo peo- pie didn't like it it It Is Herr Hitler's task today as it was Napoleons Napoleon's Napoleons Napoleon's Napoleons Napoleon's Na Na- before him to make the subject nations conform to his will against their own interest and against their patriotic in in- Chicago Chicago Tribune I