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Show THE PAGE TWO WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) . NEWS rr- . If a. nl Hr-- es half-fille- - fortia-cation- 1 e Finland -- MARINE: 'Flint' Saga German seizure of the 5,000-toS. S. City of Flint bid fair to affect world commerce far more than all the vessels which bombs and torpedoes have sent to the bottom since November 1. Carrying contraband to Britain, the Flint was seized by Germany in taken first to Norway and then to Murmansk, Russia, where her American crew was reported safe. But the Soviet indicated Germany would get the ship, thereby relieving Joseph Stalin of bickering with the U. S. Most observers agreed the Reich was justified in seizing n 17. 100-od- d taking 18 days to clear a boat Result: A "gentleman's agreement" to speed inspection. Obviously the Flint incident put Russia on a spot. By releasing her to the American crew, Russia would snub an erstwhile ally, Germany. As it was, the Soviet incurred U. S. skepticism. If Russia again offers haven to a neutral vessel seized by Germany, the Kremlin might well be asked to tell how she stands in 1939's war. There was a strong hint of her position in another Flint aftermath. At Moscow, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds was given a note rejecting Soviet recognition of Britain's war contraband list because it violates international law and impairs neutral rights. Incredulous at such effrontery, a London spokesman blurted: "Fantastic!" Recruits are given forms to fill out. If over 21, parents' consent is not needed. Applicants between 18 and 21 must have their parents' consent. From all, the army demands character references. Physical examinations come next, and after enlistment medical officers are constantly looking after the soldier's health. LttJ'tt y ( mAtlantict ' sj" lI O5' , i4 Ocean, acid-tongue- - INt- - - y ' Hi. Neatness and orderliness is stressed. Even the trunk lockers are packed uniformly. This is one way of inculcating discipline, which army officers insist never hurt anyone. two-third- COMING UP; s pinkish Fifty-seven- th strnJet career of the piano and mu- sical composi. tioru Eilshemius has composed a small library of songs, operas and etudes and used to give piano concerts in his youth. He painted feverishly for 46 years, quitting to 1922 when none would buy his pictures and no galleries hang them. But in his varied abilities, he far outshone Blakelock. Here are a few of his achievements: When he was a student at Cornell university, he discovered a new species of ichneumon fly. Later he announced a new law governing the "ramification of trees." He wrote somewhat more than 50 volumes of plays, novels, novelettes, essays and verse. The verse. in tone, was written in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. He published them himself and, like his pictures, they gathered only cobwebs and dust He invented a new kind of "magic" indelible ink and several studio devices for artists. He explored various diseases and offered methods of therapy. , He was born in Laurel Hill, N. J., near Newark, the son of wealthy He attended glove manufacturer. Cornell two years and was a roommate of Robert W. Chambers in Paris when they were studying art under Bougcreau. Ills Is a blue-boo- k family, of Dutch antecedents, and bis name is there inscribed, bat that Interests him no more than the hanging of his pictures In the Metropolitan, the Luxembourg and the Whitney galleries. By-ron- ic ... Herald-Tribun- ported to have sold $150,000 worth of his paintings. All his canvases are in demand at high prices. But Mr. Eilshemius, an irascible little man with a ragged beard and a testy way of speaking, is bedridden in his gloomy, gaslit old house in East street, and he asks, "What's the good of the whole damn thing?" He's 75 years old. He warned the world many times that it was going down the skids, and now he thinks it's on the last stretch of the greased chute, and nothing else matters not even money and fame. The late Ralph Blakelock lost his mind after years of failure to stir critical or popular interest in his work. He was hailed as a great painter, and his pictures were bought by great galleries when he no longer knew or cared about money or recognition. There is an interesting parallel between his career and that of Mr. Eilshemius, although the latter is still bright and smart as a chipmunk. But he won't even look oat of his narrow bedroom window. He wants no outlook on a world turning itself into a madhouse. Pictures on the floor, covered with dust and cobwebs, may be worth a fortune, pictures of moods, dreams and memories, but that doesn't interest him. He had renounced the "pomps and vanities of this wicked world" long before it beat a path to his door. The parallel between Blakelock and Eilshemius is also marked by the amazing diversity of their talents. Blakelock, the son of a physician, was trained in medicine, gifted ... " y t Painter as Gold, exhibitions of . . his work. One Garlands Arrive gauery is re- Bests Blakelock In Diversity of Achtevements Uur enrollees find at their first meal that the army hardly offers , a Hollywood reducing diet. U. A s. soldiers are the best fed in the Also the best clothed, ,t'0 A getting new clothes "from the skin out." Civilian clothes can be worn when on pass. j si A. A. R.'S PELLEY H hat is public interest? By LEMUEL F. PARTON "NJEW YORK. In more than four -- l decades, Louis M. Eilshemius made 5,000 paintings and drawings and never made a cent out of them. , A mission and the senate's temporary CONGRESS: national economic committee. A CANADA fifth case, against certain motion Then What? Victory, interests, was blossoming in If an isolationist fillibuster was picture the West. on neuaction the really delaying Against this background Trust trality bill, the City of Flint incident Buster Thurman Arnold popped a (See MARINE) was enough to end it. issue: In District of Columbia Next day the senate agreed to al- new low each speaker 45 minutes for the federal court the justice department filed complaints charging the Assobill and an extra 45 minutes for ciation of American Railroads and d each amendment Lashed by 236 individual roads with violating John Nance Garner, who the Sherman The charge: That el senate rebuked the for being a member roadsact to refused THE REICH BREAKS LOOSE outfit" battling solons called a truce to approve with motor carriers in hauling Kazi raiders have broken Britain' amendments freight and passengers. (1) banning A'or(i tea blockade to raid Atlantic credits to either Cause for action was an A. A. R. nations shipping, and Britain cannot hunt them or their residentsbelligerent of June 25, 1937, which resolution and (2) lifting declared down without weakening her home deinterest would be public Amerirestrictions against fense. Evidences of raiding: British shipping liner Stone gale picked up torpedo vic- can boats in the Pacific (except served "if railroads refrained from tims at (I), was then torpedoed herarmament), Bermuda, New Bruns- establishing with motor carriers self (2), probably by the Deulschland, wick, Nova Scotia, Tasmanian sea through routes or joint rates or which proceeded north to capture the and Capetown. Rejected was an fares which invade territory not V. S. S. City of Flint (3) and suit her to amendment to make President served by such railroad and which is already served by one or more Trornsoe, Norway, (4) where Stone-gat- e Roosevelt sole judge of the necespassengers were dumped. City of sity for invoking railroads." other neutrality. There Hint was then taken to Murmansk, In Washington, A. R. R.'s PresiRussia ($). In the heavily protected was good chance another amendNorth sea (6) a convoyed Creek steam- ment would pass: To forbid any bel- dent J. J. Pelley "welcomed the er was sunk, while three British ves- ligerent ship from flying the U. S. action in order that there may be sels once and for all . . . determined down 80 miles off Gibraltar flag as defense against a foe. ('). A French sub reported driving As early as two days before the to what extent the railroads are perfive Nazi raiders to an African port 18). to declare sound polisenate's final vote. Isolationists Bor- mitted cies consistent with the public inthe Flint, but few expected his next ah and Nye conceded administration s bold move. Berlin ordered a prize forces a victory. But terest" court hearing to determine whether they were more hopeful about the the boat, crew or cargo should be house, where neutrality would run WHITE HOUSE: fired. against pretty strong opposition. An Boys Stay Home Britain began crowing premature- attempt to invoke parliamentary Addressing the New York ly about her "speedy" inspection of rules (preventing amendments to forum on current events. rirutral vessels by contrast with the senate bill) was conceded little Roosevelt added his President German blundering. U. S. skippers chance. on America's responsibility thoughts , to Washing-torthereupon complained in Europe's war. He excoriated "orthat Britain's contraband con- PEOPLE: commentators and others ators, was trol actually pretty bad, often Dies beating their breasts and proclaimCoup ing against sending the boys of At Washington, Texas' Red baitto fight" ing Rrp. Martin Die achieved pub- American mothers Commented he: "Such statements licity with his list of 5fi3 U. S. emconstitute one of the worst fakes in ployees who are on a "membership current history. It is a deliberate ana mailing ; NOVEMBER 15: Italy to Inaugof list" the setting up of an imaginary bogeyRome-RiJaneiro-Buenourate de man. The simple truth is that no Aires airline. (In Washington, person in any responsible place . . American theU.S.bid for busihas ever suggested . . . the relor League ness by combining a score of agenmotest possibility of sending the and Peace cies. airlines asked for boys of Americn mothers to fight Democracy. an afrhne brtueen Ims Angrles and on the battlefields of Europe." In the house Mnsiro City. American Export lines an argument asked a rw Y ork line.) brewed over NOVEMBER 27: Communist the suggestNews Quiz Answers Earl Browder, indicted on charge ion hv Wash. of obtaining a false passport, to ., Cra tttX inrtnn'a Rrn I. To tti endurance flieht Juit endrd go on trial. His comment: ". . . TEXAS' DIES by himself Rohrl McDnnieiM and John Coffee Even the reactionary Hoover reKelvin Baxter, who flew 535 hours. 45 that Diet' tie looked for reds. minute. gime . . . decided there were 1. (Dl Is eorrwt fntnnl flemln committee be disno grounds for prosecution (in 3. To atora pari of 7n.ooo.ono bushels owned for insinuating that all 5C3 of corn now Healed under U. S. loans the case). Now it is warmed to farmers. mt of htch will he tn employees were Communists. over th (jovernment'a hands toy January C At Thoenix, Ariz , the state InDECEMBER 4: Unless mem4. Finland. sane hospital announced Winnie 5. Fr bein ber nations protest, the League preenl at rhe Hyde church when the paMnr, having Park Ruin Judd, notorious trunk slayer of of Nations, formed to keep Verreceived a Bible from Hnlnln's Km 1931, had escaped leaving a note: sailles' peace, will meet at GeCieoree, prayed that the kln( mieht ha strengthened to "vanquish and "I'm only going to see my faneva while cannon are blasting. overcome all his enemies ' ther and my husband . . ." "horse-and-bugg- V s HOTELS WEEK ur f Crested Wheat Grass. High quality hardy recleaned Montana seed at new 'low pnees The Searls Seed Co.. Le wist own. Wsnt THIS 2. Choice: New head of the aged Turkish formation of a neutral wage-hoadministration is (a) bloc, using what some observers THE WAR IN BRIEF Elmer Andrews, (b) Fiorella called poor strategy by apparently (c) Clark Gable, (d) to consult Italy. Col. Philip Fleming. Unorthodox warfare continued on neglecting While Reich wooed the Rumania, 3. For what purpose is the U. the western front, original positions S. building 41,000 huge steel bins v ' being assumed after Nazis forced Turkey and Hungary by threats, i . was more subtle. Under in the midwest states? the French Britain 4. What European nation (the to relinquish consideration at London were trade to assure the neutrality of only one to pay its war debt) is early gains. pacts Netherlands, Finland, Lattrying to arrange a loan or credThoughGer- Sweden, ' It- via, Turkey and Russia. To soothe its from the Reconstruction Finance corporation to acquire man troops the latter nation, Chamberlain IrirniiTi aial imfrmnwimnrfls that Josef Dictator Stalin's t.iliil ri were massed agreed agricultural commodities in the necesof invasion Poland had been U. S.? at the SieUntil Europe's war began, the V. S. planned an average army sary for protection against Ger5. Why was President Roosegfried line, man 179,000 men this fiscal year. President Roosevelt's "limited of to aggression. for velt going reprimanded any offensive boosted it to 227,000. Thus, throughout the nation, continued with church? Russia emergency" must come negotiations (Answers at bottom of column.) recruiting officers are trying to raise their quotas, anxious for immediately Finland, but their nature remained or not until mysterious. Finnish Foreign Minyet particular whom they take. These quotas show what a RIBBENTROP next spring. ister Eljas Erkko called "just as recruit may expect. Above: An officer, having cornered two pros-pect- s, Scornful Three solid unfounded as all others" the latest BUSINESS: takes them back to the office for further discussion. "Strong d report that Russia had demanded soldiers are not wanted; the army needs intelligent men. back" days of rainfall left trenches Stick with water and stranded the concessions in the Gulf of Finland, Big S. U. South r At the Bend, a Ind., the between mechanized policy friendship artillery. highly touted suit against General Moand anti-truThen came snow and sleet. Finland, and tors (for allegedly forcing dealers Diplomatic activity continued at destruction to use G. M. A. C. financing) went top speed, far overshadowing the to the jury. In Washington three s of all actual war. Turkey's new pact with actions in other prominent anti-truBritain to guarantee the eastern the strategic were in the mill: (1) against the Mediterranean was the source of all American Medical association, beAa a n d i It efforts, which resolved into a franIt Sw (: I I Some ing appealed once more; (2) against AAOWMSJySjr tic scurrying among belligerents area milk dealers, being GerChicago to line up neutrals. At Danzig, observers weighed in the Supreme court; (3) man Foreign Minister Joachim von believed dagainst building trades, which may Russian Eibbentrop furnished divertisement ' X I emands on mushroom into a nation-widprobe. by lashing at British Prime MinisA fourth potential case centered ter Neville Chamberlain for "breakCHAMBERLAIN were i n against 68 life insurance companies ing promises." He also tried to drive So was he. a wedge between the allies by woocreased to producing 90 per cent of all ordinary ing France. Two days later Cham- offset the Soviet's diplomatic defeat life contracts, a situation frowned on by the securities exchange comin Turkey. But it remained unlikely berlain replied just as scornfully. that Russia would invade Finland. In the Balkans, Britain encour Ufa- ar hog-raisi- GRASS SEED " - (&rfyS &r v. p( he referring? by Western Newspaper Union. 19311 WHO'S J: For Enlarged Armed Forces ... 'Flint' Incident Still Simmers BbI" Uncle Sam Seeks New Blood Know your news? Deduct 20 points for each of the following questions you miss. One hundred is perfect ; anything below 40 shouldn't be bragged about 1. At Muncie, Ind., a young man Mid: "We wouldn't da it again for a million dollars. Our legs became too stiff to operate the plane properly." To what was Of European Neutral States; Thursday, November 2, CEST LA GUERRE! NEWS QUIZ Belligerents Fight for Favor NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- ' - - e v' . ' "- - .""t ", . - t' ,f .' ' W f,V i " - HIS book, "Dynamite," Louis Adamle tays the Los Angeles Times explosion of 1910 forever ended militancy in the American labor movement In l jjf I I Rifle drill and other recruit instruction, fundamentals of military service, are taught every enrollce no matter what branch he eventually enters. Even quartermaster corps men learn first to be soldiers before starting their special training. 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