| Show Views of the Press We commented the other dayon day dayon l on the gift of baskets of smokeless coal to the needy of I St. St Louis It was made possible by James L. L Ford Jr chairman of the Smoke Elimination Committee Com Corn who contributed 1500 including 1000 he received for winning vinning the the St. St Louis Award and by the Arkansas coal operators operators operators opera opera- tors who are offering the coal as a token of friendship for St. St Louis and the Frisco Railroad which has agreed to haul it free Also participating in the gift we learn from the Fort Smith Times-Record Times are to coal miners who are donating half a days day's work in producing the coal Their contribution inthe inthe in inthe the form of wages sacrificed is about 1500 We should say this is something unusual if not unique in the form of Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas gifts St. St St. Louis Post Dis pa patch Genuine national defense Inthis inthis in inthis this modern world depends on more than technical military weapons It rests on a strong healthy e ex expanding x p pan a n d din I n g national economy Accordingly patriotism patriot patriot- ism requires turning our backs backson on political foibles class conflicts conflicts con con- filets and wasteful spending which weaken the fabric of the nation In order to make room for desirable military preparations preparations preparations public officials should economize rigorously in all other directions San Francisco Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Warning by Catholic church leaders against a return of objectionable objectionable objectionable ob tendencies In motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture productions is somethIng something something some some- thing those who offend would do well to heed The Catholic League of Decency drive of six years ago quickly enlisted the support of moral folk of all denominations denominations denominations de de- de- de nominations and of no religious affiliated there can be no doubt that the same would be true to today today today to- to day if a similar move were started Los Los Angeles Times In his 1940 message to the Great Lakes seaway and power conference at Detroit delivered by Assistant Secretary of State Berle Mr Roosevelt says the St. St Lawrence seaway and power project is vital for the national defense It was only a few days ago that the president warned against those who would try to dress up pet public works projects projects projects as necessary to defense in order to resist the public works economy program which tl the e defense defense defense de de- de- de emergency in his view made necessary necessary- The president is aware that entices of the St. St Lawrence project will w wonder winder whether he himself is not now nov endowing one of his own pet programs with defense necessities necessities necessities ties which it does not really have Baltimore Sun Britain's mar marine a r i n e resources have not been exhausted They are too extensive It could even be said that they have not as asyet asyet asyet yet been tested It is a bitter struggle but there is no reason to believe that a decision disastrous disastrous disastrous dis dis- dis- dis to the British empire is presented within the perceivable future by irreplaceable shipping loss The have too many resources all over the world Their sea grip on the continent is not broken and although that pressure is a slow one it is de de' de- de moralizing Chicago Chicago Tribune billion dollars we paid them for imports more than paid for all 1 British purchases in the United States during the first year of the war British Not Broke rolce Neither British investments nor gold reserve was affected So the British cant can't be quite broke The hard-boiled hard ones concede concede concede con con- cede however that the British must have cashed in some of their investments to cover prepayments prepayments prepayments pre pre- payments on future war orders and the cost of American factory factory factory fac fac- tory expansion Highly placed the of in the administration take a milder tack tack- tackIt It would be De unfair they say to start off by talking to our sorely pressed friends about collateral Some high quarters perhaps the most influential in the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration think we should move heaven and earth to get planes to Britain to meet the German spring drive They argue the British are living like rats in holes holding back a modern barbarian who intends next to grab world resources build huge new war machines then attack us in the trade lanes and up through South America They think we ought to examIne examine exam exam- ine inc British assets but not quibble about collateral They scorn talk of taking any of the British West Indies ask what we want with them and add been losing money on them Their populations have demonstrated little capacity for government We Ve want naval bases Our navys navy's big enough to enforce the leases we want regardless regardless regardless re re- re- re of what happens in the future Flies are the food of ot most spi spiders spiders spi- spi I ders and spiders form the food SPi 1 of certain flies |
