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Show . II THE LEIII SUN. LEH1. UTAH i a I Washington, D. C. GENERAL PERSHING General Pershing's solemn warn ing that unless aid is given the British Brit-ish fleet to resist Hitler, the United States faces certain attack, was not reply to the appeasement broad cast of Colonel Lindbergh. When the A. E. F. commander decided, after study of confidential military reports, re-ports, to come out of retirement and speak to the nation, he did not know that the flyer also planned to talk. Also, Pershing wrote his speech without any knowledge of what Lind bergh would say. However, Pershing Persh-ing did tune in on the latter's broadcast broad-cast But It was only for a few minutes. The General of the Armies be came so incensed at Lindbergh's views that he turned off the radio and snapped, "That's outrageous. I'm saying nothing about that young man In my talk tonight, but I shall make it my business to do so on another occasion." TENANT FARMERS Despite all the good intentions of Henry Wallace regarding the sharecropper share-cropper and tenant farmer, the inside in-side fact is that both have been increasing in-creasing In numbers and decreasing decreas-ing in security, year by year. For anybody who wants to write another an-other "Grapes of Wrath," there is more abundant material than ever. It Is not being shouted from the housetops, but between 1930 and 1935, the number of farm tenants increased at the rate of 40,000 a year to reach the staggering total of 2,865,000. The 1940 census, when the figures are out, is expected to show a still higher figure. Privately agriculture department officials admit that they are just about licked, and have almost abandoned aban-doned their drive to reduce tenantry. ten-antry. There are three reasons for the Increase in tenant farming: 1. Increased mechanization. Best index of this is the mounting sale , of tractors. Technological unemployment, unem-ployment, which long ago hit the factory, has now come to the farm. 2. Reduced acreage. To prevent price-depressing surpluses, AAA contracts with farmers to plant less. This means fewer tenants are needed need-ed to plant, tend and harvest the crops. Meantime, the rested land next year gives higher yield, necessitates neces-sitates further reduction of acreage. acre-age. 3. In spite of AAA efforts, however, how-ever, tenants and sharecroppers are not getting proportional benefits of AAA payments. The money goes to the landlords, many of whom are insurance companies and absentee owners. AAA officials, headed by Cully Cobb, have insisted they can't make an issue of this or they will lose landlords' compliance. Sharecropper Security. Economists in the department are now making a drive for security for tenants. This represents a radical shift of direction. For until recently, recent-ly, the drive was to convert tenants to owners, with government aid. Instead, realizing that many tenants ten-ants are incapable of owning and operating a farm, AAA planners are not trying to decrease the number of tenants but to increase their income in-come and security. It is pointed out that tenantry in England is much higher than In the United States (80 per cent against 42) but that the English farm tenants have a degree of protection unknown here. First step in this direction is to formalize and legalize the relation between farmer and tenant by bringing in a simple, uniform lease to bind the relation between them. Over 80 per cent of all tenants and sharecroppers have only ver bal agreements with their landlords, Conferences in the agriculture de partment are preparing for such a drive. Preliminary material has been drawn up, under Economist Dover P. Trent The country will soon hear about the "flexible farm lease." Approximately a million tenant families (5,000,000 persons) move every year. Benefit payments, poured out by the billions, never touch them. They are the big un solved problem of the New Deal's agricultural reform. MERRY-GO-ROUND Rep. Joe Martin, new G. O. P national chairman, has added to his staff Dave Ingalls, campaign man ager of Sen. Bob Taft The famed Indiana Two Per Cent club is virtually broke and practically practical-ly defunct Harshest blow was the new Hatch act This is costing the flub hundreds of "dues" paying members. G. O. P. TROUBLES The campaign organizing difficulties difficul-ties of the faction-scarred Democrats Demo-crats have been widely advertised. Little has been said about it But the Republicans are having their troubles too. Real reason for that gathering of party chiefs at Colorado Springs last week was to clear away a batch of inside snags which have caused the Republican machine, after more than a month of activity, to be less than one-third organized ACCEPTANCE Morning: 1 Inspection of the house in which Wendell Willki was born, with special attention at-tention to exhibits including: (a) Milk bottle broken by the Infant In-fant Willkie when he heard for the first time the mention of a name that sounded like "Roosevelt"; "Roose-velt"; (b) blackboard upon which he once drew a donkey and scribbled scrib-bled the words, "This is a turkey"; (c) faded Mother Goose book with page turned to a verse brought up to date as follows: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard cup-board To get her poor doggie a bone; When she got there the cupboard was bare The New Deal had skinned it by phone. 2 Short talk by nursemaid who remembers distinctly that as a child in arms Willkie had the kind of personality per-sonality that made her give him a lollipop when the doctor ordered paregoric. 3 Reception by Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCarthy, present tenants of the old Willkie home, marked by frequent exclamations by both, "If we'd ever had an idea of this we'd never have taken the place!" 4 Address by the mayor of El-wood: El-wood: "Home Town Boy Makes Good." !5 Sight-seeing tour through busi ness area, with special attention to the cobbler's shop where Willkie's shoes were repaired, and the barbershop bar-bershop where he was first shaved and in which the barber is still trying to argue him into getting his hair cut some day. Review of places featuring Wendell Willkie Hamburgers, Hambur-gers, Wendell Willkie Barbecue Lunch, Wendell Willkie Haberdashery, Haberdash-ery, and the "Wendell Willkie Punch Positively One to a Customer." Noon to 2 p. m.: Band concert on the Elwood Green. 1 Selections: , "Banks of the Wa bash," "Inquisitions of the Poto- mac," I m on My Way," "Throw 'Em Down McClusky," "Just a Little Lit-tle White House Built for Two." 2 p. m.: Athletic Events at Callaway park. Greased Pole Climb: Bob Taft Escaping From Locked Trunk Demonstration: Mr. Willkie. Throwing the 100-Pound Racket Thomas Dewey. Boxing Rodeo: Mr. Frank Gan nett vs. the whole New Deal. Sack Race: Original Willkie for President men vs. alternates. Wrestling Events: Charlie Mc- Nary vs. Past Performances; Mr, Willkie vs. the field. 3 p. m.: Parade. Section 1 Republicans Who Had Just About Given Up Hope. Section 2 Republicans Who Had Definitely Given Up Hope. Section 3 Battle-scarred Tories. Section 4 Businessmen's Clubs of America (on stretchers). Section 5 Budget Balancers (in ambulances). Section 6 Thrift Clubs (on crutches). Section 7 Efficiency Experts (by proxy). Section 8 Brass bands playing the theme song, "Heaven Help the Poor Businessman; the New Deal Never Will." 4 p. ta.i Mr. Willkie accepts the nomina tion at Elwood high school while his school teachers shake their head and whisper, "You could knock us over with a feather." 5 to 8: Dancing, cold snacks and arguments argu-ments over the Gallup polL SUMMER PORTRAIT Hills and dales And cars with banners Full of folks With rotten manners. Add similes: As ironic as the idea of Pierre Laval putting other French leaders on trial for making mistakes. mis-takes. Adolf Hitler has sent to Mussolini as a gut a tram oi tnree armored cars equipped with 16 anti-aircraft guns in the hope "that it may accompany ac-company you in the future to protect your life." This would indicate that the reaction to those balcony speeches ifn't what it used to be. Out of 900,000 tulip bulbs planted by the city of New York ki a spe cial Riverside drive garden 800.000 failed to come up. After that we don't feel so futile about the dalTodil bed. r , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Senate Votes to Call National Guard; War Spreads to Africa and Far East; England Offers Self Rule to India; U. S. Armed Forces Start War Games (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these eolumni, their are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union Li J Km iL Here are the "Big Four" in the new cabinet of Japan, set up after the resignation of Premier Tonal. Left to right: Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye; Yosuke Matsuoka, foreign minister; Vice-Admiral Zengo Toshida, minister of the navy; and Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, war minister. This new cabinet is pledged to closer co-operation with the Rome-Berlin axis and has set up its own Monroe Doctrine of the East. (For further news of Japan, set Indignation.) U. S. DEFENSE: War Games Accent on war came closer to home for hundreds of thousands of American families when they saw 310,000 of their sons, brothers, and fathers march off to the largest peacetime maneuvers in American history. From coast to coast, border to border, U. S. army regulars, National Nation-al Guardsmen and organized reserves re-serves were mobilized for a 21-day training period that swung them in divisions, corps and armies into simulated sim-ulated battle conditions in a war game around the Canadian border. Congress Meanwhile President Roosevelt sent a message asking congress for authority to call the National Guard into training for a year and gave his endorsement to the movement for peacetime conscription. After a favorable committee report the senate readily granted the National Guard authority (71-7) and sent this measure to the house. Senate military committee approved ap-proved the modified Burke-Wads-worth conscription bill, but there were predictions the weeks of committee com-mittee debate are only the prelude of what is ahead on the senate and house floor. Bill now confines registration regis-tration to men between ages of 21 to 31. Former War Secretary Woodring opposes the measure 'and urges lowering army enlistment period pe-riod of one year and raising pay, in order to attract volunteers. House leaders devoted hours of struggle to excess profits taxes and defense orders, combination of which promises to be tightest bottle neck. Present plan is to permit cost, of plant expansions to be deducted de-ducted from taxable earnings over five-year period, at rate of 20 per cent each year. Manufacturers want to net enough from defense orders to pay for necessary new fa cilities, definitely do not want to risk paying taxes on worthless property. as many had to do after 1919. U. S Chamber of Commerce said: "Prob abilities of loss are so great . . many business men would rather not undertake such business." Also in Washington: C. List of contracts approved revealed re-vealed the navy had agreed to pur chase large number of trawlers to lay submarine nets in principal U. S. harbors. C Alien registration to include 3,600,000 will begin August 27. C Assistant State Secretary Welles holds action by duress comes within the act of Havana. C. The house passed and sent to the senate a bill to permit wire-tapping in investigations of espionage, sabotage sab-otage and treason. NAMES in the news C Running for re-election to the U. S. senate, in. the Democratic and Republican primaries. Senator Hiram Johnson of California heard himself labeled by President Roosevelt Roose-velt as "no longer a liberal and certainly cer-tainly not a Progressive Democrat" C J. R. McCarl, former comptroller general, died in Washington. C. Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born London publisher, was added to England's inner war cabinet and is expected soon to replace Alfred Duff Cooper as minister of information. X Neville Chamberlain, Britain's premier and advocate of appeasement, appease-ment, underwent an operation and may retire from the cabinet C Harriet Eliot, consumers' mem ber of the National Defense commission, com-mission, revealed that body would stagger buying for the army and navy to prevent undue pressure on the consumer and consequent price raises. By Farnham F. Dudgeon f k I BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Invasion Information from unoccupied France was that German troops in great volumes were moving toward the French channel ports. Germany closed all travel and communication communica-tion routes between occupied and unoccupied un-occupied France. Worried about the turn of events in the Far East, England offered ' self-rule to India after the war if that country would now aid the British Brit-ish cause. England, with a new army commander-in-chief, Sir Alan Brooke, changed its mode of defense. Boasting Boast-ing an army of 4,000,000 well-trained men, it swung back to the old theory that the best defense is an offense. Therefore road obstructions laid to delay iriovement of an enemy if he arrived were dug up to permit the British army to get at him faster, if he did. Bombings England bombed Germany and Germany bombed England. Both sides claimed heavy damage to the other. Germany claimed the port of Dover, England,, a shambles. England claimed the port of Hamburg, Ham-burg, Germany, "pulverized." Both sides denied they were hurt much. Virtually all British raid's on Germany Ger-many and German-held territory have been night caUs, when safety is greatest for the fliers. On the other hand, Germans have paid daylight day-light calls on England. This has led to the opinion the Nazi fliers were more interested in observation than destruction. But several eastern east-ern and southern English ports virtually vir-tually have ceased to be open for commerce. In Africa ; - Meanwhile Mussolini began war like gestures in Africa. Italian troops said to number 250,000 moved from Italian possessions on Egypt and British Somaliland. London newspapers warned their readers to expect some Italian successes. Duce's goal is believed to be Suez and the gate to India. INDIGNATION: Japan So Sorry Arrest of nine British trade leaders lead-ers and journalists In Japan was designated by Tokyo as breaking up of an espionage plot. Nipponese reported "suicide" of one journalist soon after his arrest They said he unfortunately leaped from a window. England demanded explanations and London papers called for retaliation. re-taliation. Four Britishers eventually were released but London was aroused by now and the arrest of an undisclosed number of Japanese in England, and elsewhere in the British empire, put a further strain on Anglo-Japanese relations. Ambassador Namoru Shigemitsu lodged a "strong protest" with Viscount Vis-count Halifax, Britain's foreign secretary, sec-retary, against arrest in London of representatives of two great Japanese Japa-nese banking and commercial houses. He was said to have requested re-quested their immediate release. There was no official comment but unofficially it was said the arrest of the Britains in Japan and of the Japanese in Britain was "pure coincidence." co-incidence." Tokyo said the British action was retaliation. SPIES: Nation Alert G-Men have increased their force. due to many complaints about espi- onage. uiief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover Hoo-ver told governors and their representatives, repre-sentatives, called together by President Pres-ident Roosevelt to form a common front against Fifth Columnists. Prior to 1938 the FBI investigated 35 cases a year. In 1938 the number rose to 250 and last year to 1.651. So far this year 16,855 Investigations have otren maae. ' ' - v . i Boomerangs it i - '( , SW-;: Boomerang throwing, warlike sport oj aboriginal Australia, has on exponent expo-nent in official Washington in the person per-son of Henry ITallace, Democratic vice presidential nominee. He is pictured here (left) giving some instructions in the art to Attorney General Robert Jackson. Same day this picture was taken, one of the curved throwing sticks went out of bounds, clipped a news photographer on the head and four stitches had to be taken to close the wound. CAMPAIGN: The Farmer Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, bent an ear to the wheat and corn belt problems when he ended end-ed his Colorado vacation by going to Des Moines, Iowa, to meet governors gov-ernors and their representatives from midwestern states. What they told him form the basis for his agricultural ag-ricultural utterances in his acceptance accept-ance speech. But he indicated he will advocate no change in the current cur-rent farm program. Efforts of Senator Wheeler (D., Mont.) to learn the Republican candidate's can-didate's views on the conscription measures failed. Willkie said the President could have his opinion anytime he asked for it Otherwise they also will first appear in the acceptance speech. Democratic candidate for vice president, Farm Secretary Henry A. Wallace, changed his mind about staying in office during the campaign. cam-paign. He said he will resign when he accepts the nomination. He'also had a little trouble with a "boomerang" "boom-erang" (see cut). BRITAIN'S PROBLEM: Naval Losses German claims to heavy destruction destruc-tion of British shipping show basis for alarm. Britain started war with 183 destroyers. They admit 29 are sunk and more are laid up for repairs. re-pairs. Less than 100 are believed in operation. Nazis say British loss in merchant ships is larger than in the World war, in excess of 5,000,000 tons. Ships for Sale Condition may have reaction in U. S. The United States has 238 destroyers, twice as many as any other two navies. Committee to Defend De-fend America by Aiding Allies is agitating for sale of 60 "over-age and unused destroyers" to British. Those favoring sale argue it would be better to put ships to practical use than to allow them to rust in U. S. navy yards. Agitation was brought into the open when Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the A E. F., spoke in favor of the sale. He said it might be the last act America might be able to make "short of war," and said by sending help to the British we "still can hope with confidence to keep the war on th other side of the Atlantic ocean." CoL Charles A. Lindbereh. in a speech to the anti-war rally at Chi-f cago, warned that in the future America "may have to deal with a Europe dominated by Germany," and advocated "non-interference hv America with affairs in Europe." For these remarks the "lone eagle" was branded as "the chief of the fifth column in this country," by Senator Pepper of Florida. This statement resulted in some bitter debate on the floor of the senate. MISCELLANY: Disappointment The duke and duchess of Windsor frustrated the hopes of many expectant ex-pectant dowagers when they decided decid-ed not to come to America, en route to the former king's new Job, governor general of the Bahamas. His royal highness changed plans, decided to disembark at Bermuda. There have been rumors, however, that his Pennsylsrania-born, Balti-more-bred wife soon may visit America for a plastic operation, details de-tails unannounced. When reserve army officers of the medical corps were called to Carlisle Car-lisle barracks, Pennsylvania, for training, the major course was tropical trop-ical and semi-tropical diseases. A death sentence was voted by a French court for the rebel Gen. Charles de Galle, who fled to England Eng-land when the armistice was signed and has since organized French forces for further resistance. Still to hear their fate are Former Premiers Pre-miers Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum and Marshal Maurice Game-lin. Game-lin. De Galle and Blum still are not in French hands. ti : : i-r -' . f, ' f , ' I ' it. i J ' GENERAL HUGH S, JOHNSON Jour: iwra f WNUS-yIc. AS TO PERSHING'S SUGGESTION NEW YORK. General Pershing says that we ought to sell 50 "obsolete" "obso-lete" destroyers to England to save our own country from Germany. On the ame subject George Fielding Eliot says: "The question which we have to ask ourselves is a plain one. It ought not to be befuddled by such non-essentials as whether the transfer trans-fer of destroyers to Great Britain would or would. not be 'an act of war'. It would be of course, but that is only an academic question ... The legal definitions of international interna-tional conduct ... are now obsolete." It seems that everything is now obsolete as far as it suits the purpose pur-pose of those who are hell-bent on getting this country into a war for which it is completely unprepared. The destroyers are "obsolete." Our own engagements in treaties and conventions and the things we have always stood and sometimes fought for are, in international law, "obsolete." "ob-solete." As to the destroyers being "obsolete": "obso-lete": If they are, how does it happen, hap-pen, as men of this opinion Intimate or argue, that the battle of Britain, the fate of the world's freedom and the safety of our own country depend de-pend upon sending them to Britain? As an American officer said when it was being argued that we ought also to send over a million "obsolete" "obso-lete" Springfield rifles, "No rifle is obsolete that will kill a man with an aimed shot at 1,500 yards especially espe-cially when you have nothing with which to replace it." A ship doesn't necessarily become "obsolete" or "surplus" simply because be-cause it is 16 years old. Nobody has shown this more clearly and honestly than Major Eliot I don't know his qualifications qualifica-tions as a naval expert but applying apply-ing well known published naval standards and opinions as to the proper ratio of destroyers to battleships, battle-ships, Major Eliot showed that practically prac-tically none of these destroyers is surplus or can be taken without stripping our own navy. They are no more "surplus" than "obsolete." Just as a sidelight, most of them are armed with four-inch and three-inch three-inch guns, as well as with antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns. Except for World war 75 mm. artillery (about three-inch), three-inch), cannon of higher caliber and anti-aircraft guns are what we do not have, what we most need and what we have the least prospect of getting quickly. In Mr. Knudsen's last progress report as published, "bottle-neck" items of procurement were discussed dis-cussed as well as those in which there were no bottle-necks. But he didn't mention cannon. He probably proba-bly didn't mention them because the trouble there isn't just a bottle-neck. It's a needle's eye and a flock of camels. Major Eliot is very frank and very accurate in calling the shipment of destroyers an "act of war." It is war itself. But it is vicarious war undercover war. The kind of war we have always condemned and pledged ourselves not to wage. The weakness of this position seems to me to be this: Our policy always has been not to be aggressors in any war. We fight only when we are attacked or threatened. These war minded men are put in the position of having to say, and they do say, that we are so threatened threat-ened now to the death. If that is not true, then we ought not to go to war even to this blind-pig, bootleg war. If it is true, then we ought to go to war tomorrow with everything every-thing we have. In a fight to a knockout you can't "hit soft" LINDBERGH AND PERSHING You can get a sample taste of what "can happen here" from the debate in the senate blasting Charles Lindbergh's speech. Three New Deal senators, than whom there are none whicher, danced around the torture stake: Minton, Pepper and with deep blushes for my own home state of Oklahoma that ineffable ex-teacher of elocution and Desarte, Josh Lee. These gentlemen offered to disembowel dis-embowel Lindbergh for saying that if we are going to do business at all after this war is over, we will have to do it with both victor and vanquished, even if the victor is Germany, Ger-many, that we shall have to reconcile recon-cile ourselves to this idea and that it would be wise to try to intercede to stop this war before it destroys any more of civilization. Some journals imply that Lindbergh's Lind-bergh's speech had been ghost-written by Nazis and contrasted it with General Pershing's urging that we send part of our navy 50 destroyersinto destroy-ersinto this war by the subterfuge of "selling" them. I disagree with part of what Lindbergh Lind-bergh said, but the man who denies his right to say it as being un-American un-American convicts himself thereby of an un-American state of mind out-Hitlering out-Hitlering Hitler. Black Jack at 80 is still one of the world's great soldiers, but he knows as little naval strategy as L George Eliot unconsciously "obso-leted" "obso-leted" his text at the moment of its utterance. However, it may later be dragooned by the apostate Knox. I happen to know that the navy doesn't agree with General Pershing In Cute Is Flower Trel ii", "M, PESIDES being mn- .".tivt addition to i.2f in herself, this cute UrU. 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