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Show THE 1EH1SI-S.I.EHI.UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Congress, Like Entire Nation Not Certain of 'Best' Course To Preserve U.'S. Neutrality (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions arc expressed in these columns, they are those of tbe newt analyst sod not necessarily of this newspaper.) by Wtittrn Newspaper Union, CONGRESS: Admonition "l have come back to Washington with an open mind. V helhrr I vote for repeal of embargoet or retention of litem, my vote . . , will be for meant uliuh I believe be it calculated to keep the United States out of war. That we must do." Illinois' Sen. Scott Lucas, a mid dle-of-the-road Democrat, was bold enough to admit publicly what most of the nation's 531 legislator! admitted ad-mitted only to themselves: That no man could stamp his foot and say there was only one way to keep the U. S. out of Europe's war. But a few who took their seats in Franklin Roosevelt's third special session (and the nation's twenty-fifth since 1797) were highly opinionated, 100 per cent positive that only the aims ILLINOIS' LUCAS Like many, he didn't know. embargo they pushed through congress con-gress three years ago could keep America neutral. Among these few were 1 laho's Borah, North Dakota's Nye, Michigan's Vandenberg and Missouri's Clark. But national leaders, being merely mere-ly men, were confronted with the same confusion as the nation: The more they thought about arms embargo em-bargo vs. "cash and carry," the more they argued about straight International In-ternational law vs. specific neutrality neutral-ity legislation, the less positive they were about everything save one fact, that the U. S. must keep out of war. Day before congress opened, politics poli-tics found itself "adjourned" for 85 minutes. To the White House went Republicanism's 1936 standard bearers, bear-ers, Alf Lnndon and Col. Frank Knox, to talk with Franklin Roosevelt, Roose-velt, John Nance Garner and con- gressional leaders of both stripes. Even the President was apparently confused, for there were rumors he had decided to supplement straight "cash and carry" (whereby belligerents bellig-erents could buy, pay for and haul away arms In their own ships: with old-fashioned International law. His thesis: One principle of international internation-al law never disputed Is that belligerents bel-ligerents have the right to purchase anything they need In neutral countries. coun-tries. Only concrete results of the conference con-ference were the platitudes everyone every-one expected, announced by White House Secretary Steve Early: (1) "The conference with unanimous unani-mous thought discussed the primary objective of keeping the U. S. neutral neu-tral and at peace. (2) "There was complete accord that . . . the whole subject . . . be dealt with In a wholly nonpartisan non-partisan spirit." Next day, at 2 p. m., the assembled assem-bled houses of congress heard Mr. Roosevelt's recommendations: "Let those who seek to retain the present embargo position be wholly consistent and seek new legislation to cut off cloth and copper and meat and wheat and a thousand other articles ar-ticles from all the nations at war. "I seek a greater consistency through repeal of the embargo provisions pro-visions and a return to International law ... I give you my deep and unalterable conviction that by the repeal ... the United States will more probably remain at peace than If the law remains as it stands today to-day . . . "May you, by your deeds show the world that we of the United States are one people, of one mind, one spirit, one clear resolution, walking before God In the light of the living." NOTABLES In the news DIKE OF WINDSOR was named major general of British expeditionary forces and planned to go back to France. CHARLES M. SCHWAB, native of Loretto, Pa., who rose to control con-trol billions of dollars In the steel industry, was buried at New York. HERMIT ROOSEVELT, son of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, reportedly renounced his U. S. citizenship and became an Erglishman to join the British ministry of shipping. , " i. . "i A ' BY JOSEPH W. LaMKE When the President left the floor, so did 17 isolationists of the Borah-LaFoUette-Nye-Clark school. Ringing Ring-ing In their ears was one presidential presiden-tial admonition: "Let no . . . group . . . assume exclusive protectorate over the future well-being of America Amer-ica .. . Let no group assume the exclusive label of the peace bloc. We all belong to it" After the 17 met, California's crusty Hiram Johnson made an announcement: an-nouncement: "We are ready to fight from hell to breakfast." ASIA: Mystery Amazingly brief was Japan's reaction re-action when the U. S. abrogated its 1911 trade treaty last summer. One reason was the immediate upsurge up-surge of interest in Europe's dogfight. dog-fight. But one thing led to another, Japan made peace with Russia, and British-French interests in the Orl-ent Orl-ent were left to fall under Japanese Influence. These problems settled, pugnacious Nippon dusted off the U. S. treaty abrogation, mixed It with America's decision to reinforce her Pacific garrisons, and concocted concoct-ed from these ingredients a puzzling puz-zling diplomatic issue. Something was in the air. On three successive days Tokyo newspapers news-papers carried what were obviously obvious-ly government-inspired editorials which said things like this: ft "Should the U. S. strengthen her present policy It can be supposed that Japan would be compelled to assert her right to existence." ft "Following the decreasing Anglo-French Anglo-French influence In the Far East , . . the U. S. Is threatening to come forward and . . . protect Its rights and Interests In China, thus giving rise to a greater likelihood of Japanese-American friction." ft "Neither Japan nor the United States seeks war . . . We desire to judge the situation coolly . . ." Trying to figure out this uncalled-for uncalled-for war talk, the Chicago Daily News' A. T. Steele radioed from Tokyo that he thought the Japs were being prepared for "any future drastic American move." To others, oth-ers, it sounded like Tokyo was making mak-ing a propaganda buildup to Justify anti-American moves in China. LABOR: Peace in Wartime Taking his eyes a moment from Europe's bloody picture show, Franklin Roosevelt glanced at do mestic affairs and suddenly realized that October Is U. S. labor's big month. At Cincinnati the American Federation of Labor was ready to convene. John Lewis' Congress for Industrial Organization planned to meet in San Francisco October 10, But there was no sign of peace be' tween these two warring factions, and Internal warfare Is bad bus! ness in a time of world war. Soon, however, there were indl cations the White House would move for peace, as It has done the past two years. The President con ferred with A. F. of L.s Daniel x -V I k 1 MADAME TERKINS hat tan you do? Tobin, a leading advocate of labor unity. At his press conference he assured reporters he would address a message to the A. F. of L. convention, con-vention, and that "it would be a good guess" to say the message probably would mention peace. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Per-kins also did a little campaigning. She told how both factions have asked representation on the new war resources board. Her quandry: If you appoint a representative of both factions, will they carry their fight into the board? Or can you appoint only one representative and say that he truly represents all labor la-bor without bringing protests from the other groups? MISCELLANY: Thanksgiving Because President Roosevelt proclaimed pro-claimed Thanksgiving on November 23. and because Gov. George A. Wilson Wil-son designated November 30. the Clayton county, Iowa, board of supervisors su-pervisors proclaimed a third date, November 16. "so as not to conflict with the dates set by the President and the governor." THE WAR: Words Guns still boomed at a nearby Polish outpost when Adolf Hitler rode triumphantly into Danzig. "We greet you . . . The city is decked for you," shouted Albert Forster, who is Der Fuehrer's latest Konrad Henleln. "I am happy to greet you, my faithful gauleiter," answered the man whose armies were even then wiping up the spilled blood of Poland. Po-land. Then he launched into a speech which the British ministry of Information shortly called "full of the crass misstatements which usually fall from his (Hitler's) lips." Typical "misstatements": ft "The Duce (Mussolini) made proposals pro-posals which Germany and France accepted but Britain cfused." ft "Poland chose war because the western powers stated that the German Ger-man army was worthless, that the German people were low In morale and that there was a breach between be-tween the German people and its leadership." ft "Britain should be happy that Germany and Russia reached an agreement. They are now relieved of . . . uncertainty." Next day, as the New York stock market boomed in hopes of a long war, Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain answered him: "Among the many misstatements ... I wish to refer ... to the statement that the French government govern-ment agreed to Italian mediation while His Majesty's government refused." re-fused." "Our purpose ... Is to redeem Europe from perpetual and recurring recur-ring fear of German aggression. No threats will deter us or our French allies from this purpose." On the third day French Premier Edouard Daladier had his inning, tracing step-by-step every broken promise that litters Adolf Hitler's trail from the reaffirmation of Locarno Lo-carno to the rape of Poland. Then: "Germany already has prepared the dismemberment of France. Maps showing France amputated have been printed . . . But France has arisen . . . We will end the war only when we can ensure the security of France." In the East Completed was Russia's valiant "rescue" of 11,000,000 white Russians Rus-sians and Ukrainians (plus several million Poles) who we "left to their fate" when the Polish state col- 0- hi. i nti GERMAN TROOPS CENTERING HERE BELGIUM k PATH'OF ( GERMANY'S (INVASION IN1914 FRANC! BELGIUM'S WORRY Will history be repeated? lapsed under Germany's invasion. Nazi and Soviet chiefs conferred in Moscow on Poland's new partition, presumably deciding to leave a small, hamstrung buffer state. Lithuania and Slovakia were each given a small slice of the Polish pie. But as war ebbed to Poland, other eastern nations grew fearful. Rumania's Ru-mania's neutrality was threatened outside and Inside: (1) on the north by Russian-German proximity; (2) on the east by an expected Turkish-Russian pact which might close her Black sea outlet; (3) Internally by violence, illustrated in the assassination, assas-sination, presumably by pro-Germans, of anti-Nazi Prime Minister Armand Calinescu. Meanwhile Der Fuehrer's fast-growing fast-growing eastern empire suffered growing pains. While millions of sullen Poles presented a constant threat of rebellion, London and Paris heard insistent reports of uprisings up-risings among Czechs and Austrians. In the West For the moment, fighting died down along the Saar front while both sides took time out to move up fresh troops. But France was fearful on two counts: (1) about 70 Nazi divisions were being moved from Poland to the western front; (2) Aachen, the town from which Germany jumped into Belgium in 1914, was evacuated of civilians and became a concentration point for Herr Hitler's troops. Was history about to be repeated? At Sea As the British airplane carrier Courageous went down, its 573 dead boosted Britain's sea toll to 761. Prime Minister Chamberlain reported report-ed 31 allied or neutral ships had been sunk by U-boats, also that the allies have sunk seven or eight German subs. Comparison: In April. 1917, peak month of the World war's sea fighting, average British tonnage loss per week was 127.000, or 39 ships. For the week ending September 19 in the present war. Britain lost 45.000 tons, or 13 shir- Biggest U. S. concern in the sea war: Several American cargoes had been confiscated by Britain: at least one American steamer, the Was:o- ta. had been stopped and searched by a German sub. d5 Windsor Returns I V J jn w ti'SSs? wf f t. 1 k .if ; 1 I "s The duke of Windsor, ending almost three years of self-imposed exile, has returned with his Amer can-born wife to England, where he will serve as major general in the British expedrtionary forces. Eight. Arrow points to the prince of Wales (now the duke of Windsor) during the World war, marching on his way to Join his father, King George, in France. The youthful prince was elated over the fact that his father allowed him to Join the expeditionary forces. Winged 'Wooden Horse' Carries Soviet Gunners It,. ..... MWimMMIM,W The wooden horse of Troy has a modern counterpart in this military transport plane of the mighty red army of Soviet Russia. Carrying 16 men armed with machine guns in wing compartments, these planes fly to a point behind enemy lines, where the gunners are dropped by parachute. A fleet of these planes can land a sizable army in a very short time. U. S. Gunners Bolster Canal Defenses I - 1 ' ; ; ' tilt ' ! k ; l M ! Anti-aircraft troops of the Sixty-second coast artillery on board the army tug "JUaJor Normoyle" on the first leg of their trip to the Panama Canal Zone, where they will bolster this country's defenses. The troops later transferred to a U. S. army transport off the Brooklyn army-base Bottle Babies Thrive on Milk Diet ! n if 'j I , ,ee v r t !v , i i JJ M MJKiS These bottle-fed babies are perfectly content with a diet 0f milk rolled eat. mnd corn 8Jfrop. Captared in their Nevada homeland f0r months ajt, the antelopes were tamed ever to the Washington state game department and are being kept en a secluded ranch near Portland. The tlaek soots en their heads are th beginning of antlers. to England Again in Uniform "Zi ''ih t i ft 7' . 'if' ' J f 'sir 'j's 'A'.' ; ' syf,,.,, m)'V 1 4, v .'- t ; b t i 1 1 r 1 my?.A - if ' Fatherly Advice Professing himself ready to fight as his father did 21 years ago, Alvin C. York Jr. wants to join the navy. Sergeant York, who captured a German Ger-man machine gun company single-handed single-handed during the World war, is showing his old tunic to Junior. The sergeant thinks the boy's place is in the infantry, however. "The time to hit," young York declared, 'is while the hittin's good." Cannon Coiffure t V h ' . ,. - . .,'JeSX ret ill ? , ' has "Mwded in rettinr into milady's hair. Here Is conre decorated with air "raft nd cannon decor.Uons in silver I was demonstrated at a W v.'w hairdressers' convention. T"k 1 i I y , is 1 A - t ' tf- v 9 ' if- a ; ill ! . ' it- t - - 1 Z I'tl t I "x i " T"iT T erry ' " PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOpT; prinu, S-izi rk TtO """Din swam- V. Umj Bka.Mt,.tar,Blr Ufu Simple Patches for This Applique Quilt Pattern 6116 A -leaf, a flower, a center patch that's all there is to Mayflower applique. Start your blocks now- the patches are easy to apply! you can use the same material throughout for the flower patches or do each one in a different scrap. Use this easy and effective effec-tive block for pillow or scarf as well. Pattern 6416 contains the Block Chart; carefully drawn pattern pat-tern pieces; color schemes; directions direc-tions for making the quidt; yardage yard-age chart; illustration of quilt. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Cir-cle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York. Strange Facis fl Beggars' Paradise I I Tnn T.ar.v tn Ttrpnthol I Judas Left Out Among the Arabs of Africa and Near Eastern countries, the gratuity gratu-ity or tip, called "baksheesh," goes to the poorer man whether he renders a service to you or you render a service to him. Even if you save a man from drowning, he will demand his "baksheesh" if you appear to be in better circumstances. cir-cumstances. One of the most lethargic animals ani-mals in existence is the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatum, a two-foot, lizardlike reptile of New Zealand. Not only does it rarely move, but it breathes so slowly that, usually, the creature appears to be lifeless. Those in captivity have been known to stop breathing for more than an hour at a time. Oysters catch more rats than do cats on the islands in Donegal bay, Ireland. The rodents go down to the beaches in search of food when the tide is out and poke their noses into the partly opened shells of the bivalves, which instantly close and capture them; then they are held in the oyster's viseliM grip until the tide returns ana drowns them. A number of Christian altars m various parts of the world do n include the figure of Judas in u statuary of Christ and His disci ples. 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