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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Senate Passes 'Men and Property' Draft Bill as Defense Program Spurts; Retarded Blitzkrieg Credited to Spain; Duce Whips Up Hate Against Greece (EDITOR'S NOTE Whoa opIaltBi art oprd la taM columns, they art thoM of the newt analyst and aot aeeessarlly af this newipaptr.) IStmfmmmA bjT WOltint NOWiptpOr UnlOQ. -1 1 " l A r :: id I'M This Nasi plane is ased to help boy more British fighters. A little British flrl is contributing to the Bed Cross fund after paying her admission ad-mission to view a German Messerschmitt plane which was shot down near Croydon. When the Germans bombed the town, one attacklnrjriane which was hit landed in rood condition. It was put on display by the Bed Cross to raise money for the Croydon Spitfire fund. Spectators pay six pence to look at It. CONSCRIPTION: 'Men and Property Climaxing 14 days of debate in which a coalition of administration-ists administration-ists and Republicans overcame the opposition of an anti-conscription bloc, the senate passed the Burke-Wads Burke-Wads worth conscription bill after inserting in-serting an amendment authorizing the government to draft private Industrial In-dustrial plants when such action is necessary to insure production of defense de-fense materials. The roll call vote was 58 to 31. Proponents of the amendment argued that "if you conscript con-script manpower, you must conscript con-script property, too." The draft measure would require 1,000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 31 to register for a year of compulsory military training. Endorsed En-dorsed unequivocally by President Roosevelt as an integral part of his $14,000,000,000' rearmament measure, meas-ure, the bill went to the house of representatives where a fight loomed to raise the age bracket to 21 to 45 in effect doubling the reservoir res-ervoir of potential draftees. Wendell Wen-dell Willkie during the week had come out for a "draft bill now" which helped kill delay attempts by the isolationist group. The senate acted less than 24 hours after the President signed the National Guard mobilization bill authorizing au-thorizing him to call out 408,000 state militiamen and army reserves for a year of active .service. The first contingent of 55,000 may be mobilized mobi-lized beginning September 15. DEFENSE: More and more speed is the tempo In U. S. military preparations. The National Defense commission let contracts for 3,000 airplanes. The army now has 10,015 on order. President Roosevelt also named a six-man board which met with a similar Canadian board to survey Joint defense plans. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York is chairman. Women in the News Miss Betsy Ross, 20-year-old flier of Lebanon, Pa., established a new altitude record for light planes. With a W-horse power engine she reached 18,200 feet. Lady Haw Haw is the name of an American woman who is broadcasting propaganda to U. S. from Berlin, much as Lord Haw Haw nightly talks to England. Friends of Constance Drexel, former for-mer Philadelphia newspaper woman who was last located in Germany writing pro-Hitler articles, arti-cles, claim to have recognized her voice. Princess Elizabeth, who some day may succeed to the throne of England, celebrated her thirteenth thir-teenth birthday with plain sponge cake. Icing was missing because of the sugar rations. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U. S. minister to Oslo, and Crown Princess Martha of Norway arrived ar-rived in New York on the U. S. itftij transport American Lcgien. The ship" bad passed through waters wa-ters Germany declared as-mined.-.Washington had informed .Berlin, jt-would, hold Grmany responsible responsi-ble for the ship's security. ESCAPE: For Children After weeks of debate, congress passed legislation authorizing use of American vessels to bring child war refugees to America. The measure requires that before any vertt-l makes the trip, all belligerents must guarantee the mercy ship will not be attacked. Also American foster parents musj guarantee the children will not become ' public charges. Number of children to be admitted is fixed by the immigration quota. I. 1 9 I . , s.ii 4 DETOUR: Hitler Late Delay of Adolf Hitler in arriving In England is attributed in Washington Washing-ton to Spain. Plan was for General Franco to attack Gibraltar first That would seal British ships in the Mediterranean, and make them unavailable un-available to battle Nazi transports in the channel. Franco began a press campaign to work up the Spanish people toward to-ward this end. He had students march in the streets crying for Gibraltar. Gi-braltar. But just then a British mission arrived in Madrid. It promised prom-ised Franco food for his people immediately im-mediately and a share in control of Gibraltar after the war. Franco hurriedly sent a delegation delega-tion to Berlin to get a counter offer. He decided to play both ends. It's an old Spanish custom. Meanwhile Hitler's blitzkrieg was stalled. SHELL GAME: On the Beaches Super-guns capable of shooting tremendous ranges long have been hinted to be Germany's much-heralded secret weapon. So when shells began falling on the British Dover cliffs, thousands of residents packed their worldly goods and scampered Inland, j However, the distance from Dover Do-ver to the gun emplacements on the French coast is hardly more than 20 miles. Most modern powers have coastal guns that will shoot that distance. dis-tance. They are the same 12 and 14-inch guns carried on battleships. The German shelling didn't last long. British guns with the same range opened up on the German emplacements. em-placements. In the Air Raids by Marshal Goering's Luftwaffe Luft-waffe on British industrial and military mili-tary centers grew progressively heavier. Gradually more attention was being paid to London and the visits extended as long as six and seven hours. High explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped and the air ministry admitted the toll of casualties and property damage was growing. Fires swept over fashionable fashion-able West End as well as the poorer workingmen's sections. The British returned the calls -promptly. In murky flying weather fthey dropped in on Berlin several nights in succession. Heavy explosions explo-sions were heard on Unter den Linden, Lin-den, Berlin's Broadway. The German Ger-man war office said, however, only suburban spots had been hit and the central city was untouched. N A M E S ... in the news Cabinet Jesse Jones of Texas received re-ceived President Roosevelt's invitation invita-tion to Join the cabinet with the resignation res-ignation of Harry L. Hopkins as secretary sec-retary of "commerce. He may continue con-tinue pjv as. federal loan administrator! adminis-trator! noMing 'tw'd'-'-jib'i" with ' one pay. Parting Myron C. Taylor, the Wesldenri pefsoll Vatican, is home and not expected to return, due to ill health, Marries Alec Templeton,. . 30, blind English pianist, married Mrs. JulUitte 'Viani, 38. former concert singer, in Hollywood'. "" Accused FBI agents are investigating investi-gating Sir George Paish, British economist., who.js charged by Senator Sen-ator Wheeler (D.. Mont.) with attempting at-tempting to involve the U. S. in the European war. GifV-John W McConncll. Montreal Mont-real publisher, sent a cheek to Lord Beaverbrook. Britain's Canadian-born Canadian-born minister uf aircraft production. It was for $1,000,000, a contribution contribu-tion to the empire s war chest. School Opens rwTrssssKsrtM s-. SCHOOL CROSSING in ' yL Look out, motorists! With Labor Day passed, more than 21,750,000 elementary grade children chil-dren throughout the country will be crossing the streets every day to attend school. Ten-year-old Nancy Carroll and Dominic Morris, Mor-ris, age seven, of Chicago, help remind motorists to obey traffic signs. Last year 2,350 school children from 5 to 14 years of age were hilled and 156.000 injured in-jured in traffic accidents. OIL AND GREECE: Next Hot Spot Beyond Greece lies oil for the Axis powers, pipe lines from Persia Per-sia coming into Turkish ports. So Rome has turned eyes east, and Premier General "Little John" Metaxas, a great friend of Germany's, Ger-many's, isn't so sure that his next caller won't be his friend's friend, Mr. Mussolini. Mussolini is whipping up a great campaign in the Italian and Albania papers against Greece. It seems the Greeks have been maltreating the Albanians, who Mussolini placed under the protection of Fascist bayonets two years ago. More Italian soldiers therefore were dispatched dis-patched to Albania to fill the strategic strate-gic mountain passes bordering on Greece. Greece has accused Italian planes of invading its territory terri-tory And an Italian submarine of sinking its best warship, while that vessel was riding at anchor and the crew were ashore at a religious festival The Greeks have two words for it If they can get the backing of Turkey and Turkey can get the backing of Russia, the word is war. Otherwise it is surrender. Britain has guaranteed Greece's Independence, Independ-ence, but Britain has plenty of homework to do Just now. ASSASSINATION: Trotsky Dies At his retreat in Coyoacan, Mexico, Mex-ico, Leon Trotsky, fugitive revolutionist, revolu-tionist, was stabbed to death. It was an "Inside Job." The slayer was a man known as Frank Jackson, who gained the exile's confidence as a memberof the Fourth Internationale. Inter-nationale. The guest struck Trotsky down with a pickaxe in his library. It was the end of the career of a man who with Nicolai Lenin shaped the destinies of more than 200,000.000 people upon the fall of Czar Nicholas. Nicho-las. With the death of Lenin and the rise of Stalin, his influence waned and he was forced to seek sanctuary sanctu-ary outside his country. On his deathbed he accused the OGPU. Stalin's Sta-lin's secret police, of the attack. The slayer, who entered Mexico on a forged Canadian passport, says he was born in Syria of Dutch parents. par-ents. Held with him is a Brooklyn civil rervice worker, Sylvia Ageloff. She arranged the introduction of Jackson to Trotsky, but is believed not to be a party to the murder. STRIKES OUT: Joyless Mudville Ernest L. Thayer, who told In 13 stanzas the shattered hopes of Mudville Mud-ville in "Casey at the Bat," died in Santa Barbara, Calif., age 77. Harvard Har-vard graduate, Ivy orator of his class, he spoke in a soft New England Eng-land accent and could not well recite re-cite the verses. But DeWolf Hopper, Hop-per, towering comedian, could and did some 15,000 times beginning on a spring day in 1888. The poem became be-came identified more with Hopper than Thayer. In Silver Springs, Md., another man grieved at Thayer's Thay-er's passing. It was Dan Casey, 84, Mighty Casey who struck out. "I never could hit," he told reporters. CAMPAIGN: All Accept The suspense is over. All nominees nomi-nees for President and vice president presi-dent . have accepted. Last to say Henry A. Wallace. Democrat, Demo-crat, and Sen. Charles L. .McNary, Republican.. Botn' ypokc ..in tfteir home towns; McNary in Salem; Ore , vend Wallace in' Des Moines, Iowa. SUPERLATIVES. Longest Pipe Application before the Federal Power commission for gat pipe line from Dallas, Texas, to the north Atlantic seaboard; 1.500 miles, has Coal miners in Pennsyl vania aroused. Never before has gas been piped such a distance. Highest GllJe In Sun Valley. Ida ho, Lewis B Barringer. 28. of New etsey, took his glider plane 'o a new record height. 14.000 feet' CAUll! Kathleen Norris Says: The Husband Who Was Too Obedient (Ball Syndleatar-WNU Servlco.) Jack lores to take her places, to his golf club, to movies, to lunch doun-town, doun-town, and she flatters him by referring everything to "Daddy." I feel neglected and lonely. By KATHLEEN NORRIS A STEPMOTHER almost always has a trying time ' of it, and in these days of easy divorces the world is full of stepmothers. What makes the situation especially trying for them is that in the beginning everything every-thing sounds so pleasant and simple. Sam has two darling children, and Sally adores them already. The little girl is shy, and naturally talks a good deal about her mother, but the boy is a perfect darling. dar-ling. After Sam and Sally are married she means to make much of Sam's children. Anyway, Any-way, says Sally, joyously flustered with wedding plans, they'll be with their mother a lot of the time. Sam feels at the moment that Sally is such a wonderful girl that she can't help winning the children's hearts. They'll adore her. So Sam gets hit divorce, and Tt is settled that Bruce and Betsey are to stay with their mother 10 months of a year, spending two months with Dad and the new stepmother. That being legally arranged, and financially finan-cially arranged, what more is there to worry about? Trifles Threaten Later. Well, nothing, at the moment. But within a few months the worries arise, and these trifles that seemed so unimportant on the wedding day, arise later to threaten the safety of many a second marriage. For one thing, the mother of Bruce and Betsey has every reason in the world for making trouble, if she can. She makes it hard for the children to pay those promised visits to their father's house. She talks of him slightingly, or perhaps with bitter scorn, before his children, and leads them to believe that Sally is the adventuress who came into a happy home and robbed them of their father. Possibly it wasn't a happy home at all. Possibly Alma was the one who wrecked it, who wanted the divorce, di-vorce, who made no effort to hold Sam or Sam's affection, But all that is forgotten once Sam has started off upon a fresh marital hazard with Sally. Children Sense Trouble. The children feel the trouble in the air, and they are not natural nor reasonable with their stepmoth- er, Sally, on her side, Is young, she has had no experience with children, chil-dren, and very shortly she comes to see that it Is wiser to leave them most of the time with their mother. This makes Sam restless. He loves his boy and his small girl, and wants them to enjoy his new home and his new felicity with him. He becomes unnatural, too, so there are four of them; all uncomfortable; all placed In a false position. A man cannot divorce their moth-.cc moth-.cc Jsarry another, woman., nd,rev main toward ' his: children in Ihe same position that he had when he was a part of their home and their oackg round-' the perion " fih'ey Idbk" for granted as' Dad, who wanted them to be on time for breakfast and gave them movie money. - A. woman cannot take ber children away from. their father, and put an-other an-other man in that father's place, and combine with her new bridal happiness and ber absorption in her new mate her motherly attitude as well. There Are Exceptions. These things simply don't mix, and the woman who tries to reconcile recon-cile Uiem merely wrecks her own nerves and those of everyone around her. Of course there are exceptions. There gre wise, simple, self-e(Tacing STEPPARENTS Stepmothers and stepfathers always al-ways find themselves in a difficult situation. ThU usually arises from the inability of the child and stepparent step-parent to adapt themselves to one another. An anxious mother of a 1 1 -year-old girl here confronts Kathleen Norris with a problem that it just the opposite: her second sec-ond husband is too affectionate to his pretty stepdaughter. Aits Norris Nor-ris says that time offers the best cure for this problem. women who see to it that the children chil-dren and the new husband are brought to know and understand and like each other. Beatrice, for example, is a case in point Nine years ago she divorced di-vorced her husband, and gave a small girl of eight a new father. For a while there was nothing they could do with little Alice. She hated everything about the change, and wept continuously for her own Daddy, Dad-dy, and her own house, and the old school and the old friends. Even a baby brother didn't comfort com-fort Alice, and for a while Jack, the stepfather, detested the child, and was glad when she went off to visH her own father and her grandmother. grand-mother. But today the situation is different differ-ent Beatrice, the mother, has two small boys to keep her busy. She has no maid, and for some seven years, she writes, she has never slept through a night undisturbed, or been in bed later than six o'clock in the morning. Stepfather's Attitude Changes. Alice, the once unmanageable little daughter, is now a lovely seventeen; sev-enteen; her stepfather adores her, and she idolizes him. The mother writes anxiously that she is idle, out of school, and mad for dances and evening parties, and that Jack indulges in-dulges her ridiculously. Beatrice uses the rickety family car, when Jack doesn't need it, but Alice has been promised a new car on her eighteenth birthday. Jack loves to take her places, to his golf club, to movies, to lunch downtown, and she flatters him by referring everything to "Daddy." He says no man is good enough for his girl, and Alice says she never will find a man at perfect as Daddy. "I ought to be glad, I suppose," writes Beatrice. "But I feel neglected neglect-ed and lonely much of the time, sweet as my little boys' company is. The actual situation is that my husband is taking a younger and prettier woman about and although both Alice and Jack are conscientious conscien-tious people, far -above any suspicion, suspi-cion, it makes me feel as if my life somehow were unbalanced. If I suggest that Alice stay with the boys and Jack take me to a movie, he will do it amiably, but always with an effort, always with an air of marking time. And often, when we are alone together, he is thinking of Alice, I know, for he will break out with some reference to her, or some quotation from her, as if she were the most amusing and lovable creature crea-ture in the world. Stepmothei' Neglected jtfow.1; ' "Well, she IS amusing and beau-' tiful and lovable, too, there is not a" mean- ronerirrhef. boay. "But after all; it wasn't Alice with whom Jack fell so desperately Tr Iove, 10 years ago; it wasn't for Alice's sake thai I divorced her father and was pur-suaded pur-suaded into a second roarriase. Nu. body could have been more pas sionately in love than Jack was then." Well. In answer to Beat' ice. I can only say that this seem .o me one of those problems that time inevitably inev-itably solves. With a girl as attractive at-tractive and sweet as Alice, marriage mar-riage will come along in a year or two, and Jack, who has made such a conspicuous success as a stepfa. ther, can try being a step-grandta ther. Hp fflSl WASHINGTON. It la interesting to note the manner In which certain congressmen have consistently squelched attempts to investigate the state department's co-operation with the British tin trust and certain U. S. business firms to prevent the United States from acquiring sufficient suf-ficient supplies of tin. With Japan now able to seize the Dutch East Indies and the Malays, the United States may have her tin supply cut off In a few weeks time. Yet up until recently, the state, department played to with the British tin monopoly, did nothing about the situation. Now Sol Bloom, energetic chairman chair-man of the house foreign affairs committee, has introduced a resolution resolu-tion to investigate the tin situation. But he faces the vigorous opposition opposi-tion of Representatives Cochran of Missouri and Faddis of Pennsyl-vanJaybeth Pennsyl-vanJaybeth DernoCTSts. Interesting fact is that Congressman Congress-man Faddis comes from Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's twenty-fifth district, in which is located the Standard Tin Plate company, which Is tied up with Continental Can and long has done business with the British monopoly. Also Representative Cochran comes from St. Louis, where the National Lead company operates the St Louis Smelting and Refining company. com-pany. National Lead owns part of Patino Mines, which Is the keystone of the British tin monopoly. Until recently National Lead has lobbied against all efforts to establish tin smelters in the United States, thus making this country independent of the British tin trust. ' JOIN THE ARMY With the biggest ballyhoo in 25 years, the war department is entreating en-treating young men to Join the army. By bil'boards. radio, movies, every conceivable publicity device, even Including paper matches, the department depart-ment is spending $28 a head to get recruits for the fighting forces. And this will continue, regardless of the new conscription measure. This recruiting is for the regular army, to bring it up to a strength of 375,000. Conscription, on the other hand, aims to get roughly a million men for a one-year training period, to form a trained reserve. The publicity drive is getting results. re-sults. It yielded 23,444 in June, a new record for peacetime. The July figure surpassed the June figure, and August in turn, surpassed July. The cost of $28 a head for enlistments enlist-ments is low compared with other years. In 1930, the department paid $56 for each recruit; in 1931, the figure was $68. Today recruiting Is on a "mass production" basis, also a lot of the publicity is obtained free of cost c For instance, express trucks, railroads rail-roads and chain stores are carrying posters free of charge, while 350 trade associations are making a gratis display of preparedness slogans. slo-gans. Radio stations are donating free time for transcribed "Join the army" programs, and 15,000 billboards bill-boards are pasted with recruiting posters at half price. Most novel device is the mobile recruiting station, a truck and trailer trail-er specially designed to carry a recruiting re-cruiting sergeant and staff about the countryside, park in the town square, and sign up youngsters for the army. Twenty-seven mobile "stations" are built or building, two or three for each corps area. Result Is that voluntary enlist ments are proceeding at the rate of about 8.000 a week, which should mean that the regular army will fill its quota of 373,000 men before snow flies. GETTING TOGETHER Bushy-browed John L. Lewis and shrill-voiced William Green still are glowering at each other, but the A. F. of L. and C. L O. members of the Labor Advisory committee, commit-tee, appointed by Defense Commissioner Commis-sioner Sidney Hlllman are co-operating with real harmony. Their weekly Friday afternoon meetings with Hillman are like a happy family. The labor chiefs address ad-dress one another by first names and lean over backward to Iron out differences between their organizations. organ-izations. Illustrative of the good feeling feel-ing is their sly Jesting about A. F. of L.-C. I. O. peace. At last Friday's conference, R. J. Thomas, head of the C. I. O. United Auto Workers, happened to take a seat on the A. F. of L. side of the; tajyl.'.w3ecrai(ked banTTac.'en-ergetic banTTac.'en-ergetic A. F. of L. electrical work, ers' chief, "Aha. pulling a little peace-atuff turns;- errr -rr-v- - All the . laboritee Joined In the laughter. - MERRY-GO-ROUND Friends of Henry .Wallace think he may come back into the Job as secretary sec-retary of agriculture between election elec-tion day, November 5, and inauguration inaugu-ration day. January 20. This means Claude Wickard would step down again. In the senate conscription debate Sen. Alex Wiley. 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