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Show I UINTAH BASIN RECORD Germany Took Deep Breatli; See Wliat Happened! Bruckarts Washington Digest Paradox of Peace Songs Coupled With War Plans Prompt Inquiry i - 1VNU By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. While the senators continue drooling out thousands of words concerning the proposed dents press secretary, the arms embargo, any repeal observer can hardly fail to note the same theme song in all of the speeches: we must keep out of Europes war. The senators, and the representatives, too, seize upon every opportunity to tell the nation either from the capitol or any other rostrum that it is a war on the other side of the Atlantic and that we must remain out of it President Roosevelts every statement, and they have been coming with the frequency of rain in the tropics, projects the same command. He says he hates war and wants to keep the country at peace His subordinates throughout the government every one with a title sufficient to draw a crowd to a banquet or to a camp meeting are causing the doves of peace to coo with their softest tones. Beyond Washington, also, the theme song is being picked up and repeated by every individual who can gain access to a radio microphone or gather a dozen listeners in one room. Its a wonderful thing to live in a country where everyone loves peace. But the same obseryer rambling around Washington and hearing the theme song of peace cannot fail to note also a war psychology, an alarmist point of view. It is a view that is being propagated from Washington, and there can be no mistake about it. And, so, I rise to ask why all of these war plans are coupled with the theme song of peace? For in every section of the national government those plans are going forward as though we were going to have a declaration of war just ahead of the newly fixed Thanksgiving day of November 23. of Why All These War Plans When Nation Is for Peace? No mature person can ignore the dangers of war; nor ought any person make light of serious consideration of war plans. I certainly do not intend to treat the matter in a humorous vein, but I repeat the question: why all of these war plans when the nation is 99.44 per cent in favor of peace? Let me set down some of the things that have happened around here and maybe it will clear why I have become puzzled: The other day I was in the navy department. There, hanging in a most conspicuous place, was a sign which read: Beware of Female Spies, and some other warning notes. It struck me that female spies are no more dangerous now than at any time in the last 50 years, and I observed to a navy officer that if foreigners wanted to know our military secrets, they would not wait until now to try to find out about them. President Roosevelt announced a few days ago that he Intended to add something like 75,000 men to the army, in accordance with discretionary authority granted by the last congress, and that during 1940 he expected to increase the army to its full authorized strength of 250,000 men. Shortly after making known this decision, the President Issued orders to the war department, directing construction of a series of new barracks and cantonments. These are to house the new army personnel. But congress has given no authority for that, nor has it appropriated money to be expended for that construction. Mr. Roosevelt called attention to this lack of authority, and explained that he believed there was no intention on the part of congress not to provide living quarters for the new soldiers. So, he is going ahead without that authority. He will ask congress to legalize his action when it meets in regular session next January. Before making known his intention to proceed, however, the President discussed the question with Comptroller General Brown, and the Comptroller General suggested that he be not requested to give a formal opinion on the Presidents right to carry out the program. Navy yards throughout the country have been closed to visitors. For tire first time in years, the Capitol building is under police regulations as rigid as war time. -' -- ' V-f V VV 'V V TUO. aimuiT . . 1 jUVI, Germany, minus territory lost to France, Belgium, Poland, Danzig, Denmark and but still a large nation. Post-w- ar Czecho-Slo-vaki- a, X ir $ t VJT Saar basin (see arrow) joined the Six months later Sudetenland, the Reich in 1935 by plebiscite. On rim of was added March 12, 1938, Hitler entered Aus following the Munich conference tria to restore peace. which averted war. Czecho-SIovaki- fOLANB V S' 1 ts Ger-man- Czecho-SIovaki- ' Now, I can see some sound judgment in the decision to withhold from publication the report by the newly established industrial mobilization board which was headed by Edward R. Stettinius, one of the powers in the United States Steel corporation. That group of men, who surely could be trusted to be in favor of preserving the United States if anyone can be trusted to be patriotic, had made a careful analysis of all of the resources of the country that could be used for war purposes. It is presumed that the board drafted general plans and revised, or at least reviewed, many of the war department programs for war supplies. But Mr. Roosevelt deemed it best not to make the boards findWith that, surely, no ings public. one can disagree. There is quite a difference between the sort of findings that represent such conclusions as those informed men could contribute and the sort of information that is obtainable every day concerning the mechanics of ships and guns and airplanes and there is a difference, too, between that and alarmist announcements about Just here the facts of the mobilization boards dismissal ought to be chronicled. The members of the board, or some of them with whom I had talked, believed they had beeft asked by the President to do a continuing job. They felt that they were something of a permanent agency, available at the call of the President. Whatever their belief was, however, it turned out that they were wrong. Those industrialists, working without pay and paying their own expenses, had been known as conservatives. Any conservative thinker is a dangerous individual to such men as the Corcoran-Cohegroup of presidential advisers. No sooner had they started work, than it was bruited about in various quarters that these men were going to scuttle the New Deal. The inner circle, a gang that came from oblivion into power and will eventually go back to oblivion, did not overlook a bet in spreading their gospel that the industrialists were out to wreck everything for which Mr. Roosevelt stood. Dont Throw Your Jewels in the Garbage Moral: You will recall how on several occasions the President has made public statements about war dangers near our shores. First, he told his press conference one day that two submarines had been sighted, one oil the Atlantic coast and the other oH the shores of the state of Washington. There was that announcement also about the German gunboat that was meandering around somewhere in the Caribbean sea. Finally, Stephen Early, the Presi Stagg Prays Only That Boys Give Their Best J- - p : I they may do their best That would be considerable for any outfit trained by Mr. Stagg. When his short-enCollege of the Pacific team turned in a seeming miracle Recently by defeating the University of California, all reports agreed that the game was won on show'-omerit and not through any outside help. As the old saying goes, A wise old mans shadow is worth more than a young buzzards sword. Mr. Stagg, now 77 years old, is, indeed, wise in strategy and diligent in performance. He Hindering Joy has contributed to the game the There is in all of us an fc triple pass, the fake pass, the ment to perfect happiness unbalanced line, the flanking forly, weariness of what we pc' mation and several other danand a desire for what we hav- gerous devices, and he has come Madame Rieux. along through the era of change a jump or two ahead of his rivals in mastering and teaching the long pass and the open forSensational Relief from lndeita mation, much more adaptable nd One Dose Pro?es It than any of the elder statesmen IT the first dose of this tablet doesn't bring you fasiM H of world politics. lie says complete relief you hare experienced back to us and get DOUBLE ilUNtJY th. change and experiment have Bell ana tablet helps tbe itoiaach kt makes tbe excess stomach fluids barm a vastly improved football. you eat the nourishing foods you wed. l: burn, sick headache and upsets so cfen This writer once knew an making you fei Sick all over JUiST ONE DodE of Mil who worked with young Amos speedy relief 25c everywhere. Alonzo Stagg when he was the on the salt champion To Own marshes around Newark bay. My The magic of property informant said young Stagg would figure out a nice leverage on the sand into gold. Young, fork handle, and move more hay with less effort than any other man of the lot. He saved his earnings and went to Yale Theological school. After his graduation, he found public speaking difficult, turned away from the ministry and became a coach at the Y. M. C. A. college at Springfield, Mass In 1892, he went to Chicago and for 40 years was not only a team builder but a character builder. lie forbade liquor, tobacco and profanity, and made it stick. Seven years ago, he left Chicago because of the rule, renewed his gentle exhortations at the Col lege of the Pacific. He keeps fit by tennis and a jog up and down the road every day He was also a demon baseball player in his youth, pitching Yale to five successive championships. While he is, naturally, tagged the Grand Old Man of Football, his many admirers would take in a lot more territory. d U10 old-tim- hay-shovel- When Mrs. Robert Stranahan square-c- trucks. ut visited a New York stylist to get her hair fixed, she placed her $25,000 diamond ring in a paper cup. A few hours later police were making a thorough search of garbage P. S. The ring was found. Her Brothers Keeper, and Good One! SJKTTKUDA'A sES'T I.Cr? Jv- Prelate Succumbs lunu ' I - it '$. N OUR present attempt to remain neutral, there Is much pulling and f A. v' 'S 1 hauling over the opinions of John Bassett Moore and Professor Philip &T Wa,a,UnSa. We Love Pomp v i ' v1 AxmJmL' s i'jMnSdhftiaim George Cardinal Mundelein, head of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, strenuous foe of Hitlerism and the only cardinal ever appointed in this country west of the Atlantic seaboard, pictured in ChiCharged with being the alleged lookout for two other boys Involved cago shortly before his recent death. In a store robbery, Patrick Lynch of New Tork was placed In legal custody of his sister, Nora, while awaiting sentence. Two months later Nora delivered such a brother to the court that Pat got a suspended sentence. The rumors concerning the activities of the members of the mobilization board spread rapidly and grew in number. It is made to iiUUbUftHH appear that the sponsors got to Mr. Roose'X velt with their propaganda. In any event, something happened with the 9!mmm suddenness of a rabbit jumping from ... , , a lair of weeds. Mr. Roosevelt an4, nounced in his press conference one . afternoon that the mobilization . . board would make its report and would be dissolved. That would not have been a startling announcement except that none of the members of the board, nor the genera! staff officers of the war department who were working with the board, had v .4 any previous knowledge that their work was ended. v .... I have not attempted In this disstt & k vcv, 4. cussion to report all of the little inv.vs.y. cidents that have come along to exs f cite curiosity. It is not to be forgotI ten that the congress was called into extraordinary session to act on the 'I Presidents request for repeal of the L arms embargo. Many persons saw no need for the extra session. And k the passage of three weeks of debate on the question whether to keep the embargo against export of arms or repeal it has shown, ns far as I um I concerned, that it really does not matter which side wins. The United ..4w States is not going to get into war Mrs. Fmma Bergiloll, mother of any more quickly by keeping the Four of the United Stales senates most doughty Isolationists pose at Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, nolori-6u- s embargo than it will by repealing a foreign relations committee hearing. Top row, left to right: Sen. Hiram World war draft that mooted section. But it can gel Johnson of California and Sen. William E. dodger who Borah of Idaho. Bottom row, came back from German into war very easily, embargo or no left to exile to Sen. Arthur Vandenbcrg of Michigan and Sen. Robert right: face toe music, Is shown at her embargo, if this psychology of war of Wisconsin son trial In New York is continued from Washington. Bcrgdolls Mother No Arms Embargo Repeal for Them! :virzi 7 f mM i J Xcj f 10M Sk .. ot what intema- law Hnal AttendingWar are the two Americans who would qualify, but it is still pretty foggy, as it was 300 years ago when old Hugo Gro-tiu- s left it that way. The d Mr. Moore resigned from the world court In 1928 to compile 75 volumes covering international law and neutrality in the World war. In 1922, after 37 years of pondering these matters, he wrote: Dont let y spade-bearde- long as we love glory, so long as we worship bravery, so long as we thrill at the call of battle, so long will we love war. Mothers may say that they do not raise their sons as food for cannon, but when the call comes, these same mothers will be the first to answer. So Mr. Moore vigorously opposed the Kellogg pact and all other such de- vices and denounced the callow and shallow dupes striplings who offer them. As befits an on neutrality, he parts his hair in the middle. He is probably Americas most distinguished scholar and authority in this field. 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In Lancaster, Pa., he sold papers as a boy and worked his way partway through Pennsylvania State colas a runner for a boarding lege house, lie is six feet tall, weighs 200 pounds and has vigor and enterto match. prise junk-heap- o: name to The .word, fourth better than others hun a maharaja and aV Lest his subjects forget tv have a cent m royal flag carries a duplicate directly beneath When the Great Bed 1fv which holds 12 sleepers sented to King Edward IV land in 1463, he cial .guardian and employ had list of rules of etiquette? who slept m this bed had', serve for the peace and of their bedfellows. In Caracas, capital of vf. la, a city with a popuist more than 150,000, all the I street intersections have own individual names, Las Gradillas or La Torre instead of street names and bers, are used as addressee Each time a horse circus is held in Garden in New York the Garden has to provc tons of earth, which it rents' a local contractor at a q about $2,500. Colliers. 125-pe- YORK. , IND1GESTI0 n Can Easily Cet Into War if Psychology of War Continues WEEK As we get it, Amos Stagg, now in his fiftieth season of football coaching, leads the boys in prayer just before the game starts. NEW iT - dur, like his wai in his predecessor By LEMUEL F. PARTON a, r ,s II Vu disclosed that the head of the German navy ffFTEMBU had sent a warning that an Ameri1939 can ship the Iroquois, was to be sunk. The German word, accord v 4Ting to Mr. Early, was that the British were going to sink that ship ,3x1- J which was loaded with American ' J d V'- . '. refugees from the war zone; and then they would blame the Germans '3 TV,'.t rusu v for doing it The purpose of all of this was to inflame American public opinion against the Nazis, so it was M officially stated. imi t J Now, I would have no way of V UAVIA isuvuX were knowing whether the Moravia and Bohemia became a actually sighted and whether they The next month the Memel terriIn September of this year, after were German or British or our own. "protectorate" on March 15 this tory was handed over by Lithuania the lightning war in Poland, y Nor would I now anything about year; Slovakia was taken the next after a took a lions share of the plebiscite; the territory was the German man-o-wa. that was reday. This ended predominantly German. spoils; Russia got the rest. portedly cruising around not too far from American waters. Likewise, Germany s population is now more than twice that of France ; almost three times Itatys, the Iroquois warning was something and considerably more than the British Isles, Canada and Australiaproper combined . Only Russia and the could not know about. But these United States, of western countries, have greater populations, and in Europe only Russia has more things, among many others, have territory. the prompted general discussion and the inquiry as to the paradox of peace songs and war plans. Dismissal of Mobilization Board Causes Speculation The ruler of JaiDur , Maharaja Sawai Mau THIS ! sun, V - Again, Why the Paradox of Peace Songs and War Plans? fs 'm --J - s , It Sleepers Eti, Rents the Earth 1 (RAXCt S' ! forth Quarter Mart NEWS 7f Debates in Senate All Stress Theme We Must Keep Out of European Mess; Then Why Is Alarmist Point of View Propagated From Capital? Strange F WHOS itmimi 1933 MAKES CARS RUN BETTES... LAST Quaier State Oil Re fair Oil City, P j L0: Ce, S r ' . |