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Show THE PAGE TWO By Farnham F. Dudgeon WEEKLY KEW'S ANALYSIS Catching Pose of When opinions are expressed In these columns, they the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. FZr j RET- : - ..n-- ar tr Thursday, June 27, 1940 Crochet Gift Doilies In Pineapple Design Leonardo da Vinci tvas an inventor of considerable ) genius. Many of his inventions were sires to our most useful modern devices. Working models of his great inventions, built in Italy, were on exhibition early in June at the New York Museum of Science and Industry in Radio City. (1452-1519- 'Coalition' Cabinet Selected (EDITOR'S NOTE are those NEPHI. UTAH S. Many 'Modern' Inventions Really Not So Modern Lack of 'Friends, Men and Guns' Hurt French Cause, Says Petain; U. S. TIMES-NEW- Jfy , FT '1 fjtf V'V .1 " Washington, D. C. RECRUITING SHOWS PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES The army campaign for new recruits is showing up all too vividly how the years of depression have left their mark on American youth. Greatest difficulty in securing recruits is not the reluctance of young men to enlist, but their inability to pass physical examinations. In peacetime, the armed services get most of their Tecruits from families. Because of economic conditions it is now the lower-brackfamilies, with the most children, which lack sufficient nourishment, fresh air and exercise. This has been a particularly serious drawback to recruiting in the larger cities. During one recent drive to bring the marine corps up to full strength, recruiting officers left the cities and combed the smaller towns in farming communities. There they found a much huskier type of recruit, but many were rejected because of poor teeth. In the cities, the biggest drawbacks are bad eyesight and underweight. lower-br- acket et GoverHere is nor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, as he appeared last year in an "Old Timers" baseball game staged in Detroit. The governor now announces he has switched from catching baseballs to votes and will be a candidate for If all Henry Ford's tentative orders to turn out warplanes on a mass production basis materialize, this gigantic tool and die plant in his River Rouge, Michigan, plant will become the hub of the plane-motIndustry. It is now the center of production for Ford motor cars and government defense engineers point out that once tools and dies are completed and set up to turn out a standardized plane, mass production could begin and continue at top speed indefinitely. (Muss Production.) THE WAR: 'Too Fetv supported President Roosevelt's eign policy. for- Republican spokesmen hailed the appointments as the definite stamp"mopping up" military operations ing of the Democratic party as "the against a badly batterd France, war party." Some of them declared Adolf Hitler busied himself preparthat they believed the President's ing the terms under which his solplan was to create the impression diers would cease firing. throughout the nation that his stand in the matter of war was entirely France, meanwhile, after cautionand that thus any ating her troops to fight on until the actual signing of an armistice was tack against his policies by the Reannounced, dispatched her peace enpublican party would be branded as voys in a snow white plane to meet unpatriotic. the Germans and hear their terms But President Roosevelt said othof surrender. erwise. He stated that the appointAs the nation waited, its ments were made in "line with the premier. Marshal Henri Petain, overwhelming sentiment of the naexplained why he had sought peace tion for national solidarity in a time and why France had been unable to of world crisis and in behalf of our defend itself against invasion. national defense and nothing else." France, he said, had too few friends, too few young men, too few guns and U. S. DEFENSE: it had wasted the victory years fol- A'eiu Fleet lowing the armistice of November Because it has depended upon 11, 1918. Military deficiencies accounted in Great Britain's fleet to keep things large part for the distress of France, on an even keel in the Atlantic, the U. S navy high command has usuin the premier's opinion. He pointed out that only 2,780,000 troops ally concentrated its major power faced the Germans at the beginning in Pacific waters. Now that Great of the "battle of France" along the Britain; has its hands full enforcing Somme and Aisne rivers. This was the sea blockade of Germany and a half million fewer than France Italy, and defending its own shores, had on the battlefield after three the problem of providing the eastern years of hard fighting in the World seaboard of the U. S. with adequate war. England had not nearly as protection becomes increasingly many men on French soil in 1940 acute. as she had in 1914-1and in addiCongressional sources forecast an tion, the old ally, Italy, was an enearly proposal by the administration to build a completely separate Atemy and ally United States a "neulantic fleet Talk of building up this tral." Biggest worry of ally England was division of the naval forces has been the disposition of the French fleet given added impetus because of the following any armistice between possibility of complete German-ItaliaFrance and Germany. If Germany victory in Europe. At present the navy bill in congets control of the whole strength of this fleet, the Rome-Berli- n axis gress (and it seems certain to pass) authorizes the construction of the will have sea power that could com pete favorably against England's largest navy in the history of the world. So big would this new U. S. armada. London was happy enough though navy be, that it alone would surover the appointment of Frank Knox pass the combined power of all potential enemies of this country. The and Henry Stimson to President Roosevelt's cabinet (See below). The new Atlantic fleet would probably be British hailed this move as assuring a section of this expanded navy. While his armies were busy with n a continued policy of U. S. material and moral aid to the allied cause. THE PRESIDENCY: Coalition No respecter of precedent, but respected even by his enemies as a master political strategist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, detracted little from his reputation in these two catO. P. conegories with his pre-G- . vention appointment of Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson to his cabinet. These two important Republican leaders were asked to serve in what was termed a "coalition" cabinet Knox ;is secretary of navy and Stimson as secretary of war. Knox was the Republican vice presidential candidate in VSM and Stimson served as secretary of slate in the Hoover administration. Both have N AMES Conscription President Roosevelt has in mind a plan to conscript the youth of the nation in a great mobilization drive of human resources and to give American youth a toughening and disciplinary seasoning that could be compared to that of the totalitarian national youth programs. In a Washington press conference he revealed that details of this plan may be submitted to congress within a few weeks This program would include universal government service training for young men and women alike, between the ages of 21 and 31. In addition to military training for the physically lit there would be training in all types of skills for the forces behind the actual combat lines. Naturally such a program of conscription isn't going to be put into ellect without opposition both in and out of congress. But tlie President and his cabinet believe that America must be prepared to cope with any type of conlhct olTercd by the ideologies of the dictators. Such conflict may not be actual military operation. More surely there will be on economic struKKle for control of world markets. INDUSTRY: Neiv Competition Many are the economists who have forecast a trade war between Germany and the United States after Adolf Hitler has finished his political and military war in Europe. It now appears that the Nazis are not going to wait for a final cleanup of Europe before launching this type of attack upon the American markets. For from South America comes news that German steel companies are offering steel in that sector at prices below United States quotations and are giving a cash guarantee of delivery by October. To some observers this early beginning of the long awaited trade war seems a bit premature. For Adolf Hitler still has a few big obstacles to overcome before he can expect to compete with American business in this hemisphere. Germany bases her ability to deliver these shipments of steel upon the fact that she has virtual control of 95 per cent of the French steel industry and this, plus the Reich's own output, combined with the Belgium - Luxembourg production, amounts to about 40,000,000 tons per year. Biggest problem is keeping all these steel mills running at capacity and still being able to maintain order throughout the "protected" nations. And after the steel is produced, Germany must reckon with Britain's sea blockade. e Slump Petroleum, another industry which has a big stake in foreign markets, has a more immediate problem on its hands. In Texas, oil reserve tanks are almost full, prices are slipping every day, and foreign markets are near collapse. That state's railroad commission, which controls the output of oil, is studying the problem and is considering a shutdown of producing wells to boost prices. 30-d- LATIN AMERICA: Tangle Latin American nations are at present in default of some worth of bonds held by U. S. investors. To the development of additional foreign trade and In the meeting of foreign competition in this hemisphere (see Industry) this default creates a huge stumbling block. Economic relations between nations become difficult when debts pile up and as U. S. business has lost many of its foreign markets due to war in Europe, the federal government is making every effort to untangle the debt problem in the Latin American nations. One current proposal is to launch a huge government loan program to the Latin American nations and give Hum a chance to make payments on their debts, eventually repaying the United State s on a long-terbasis. President Roosevelt is expected to outline details of this plan within a short time. $1,000,-000.0- MISCELLANY: Democratic National Chairman James A. Farli-- officially released the Information that William D. . . . in tlie ncivs Bankhead of Alabama, speaker of the house of representatives, will be f. President of Yale university, named temporary chairman and ( hartei Seymour, warned his gradukeynoter of the party's national conating class against a "complacent vention, which convenes in Chicago. chal-lence attitude" toward the serious 15. Sen. Alben W. Barkley of July tluit totalitarian states have will be named permanent Kentucky thrust at democracy. cha irman. After Col, Charles A. Lindbergh Shades of World war days fell demanded in a radio address that Mass Production over the Pullman Standard Car the V. 8 cease making "gestures When Henry Ford stated a few with tin open gun" (implying that weeks ago that he could turn out a Manufacturing company's plant in Butler. P., as it was announced the government's foreign policy was thousand warplanes a day if he was that the British munitions purchasdangcrnusi Senator I'ittman (D.. given enough orders and six months Nev.) suggistcd that Lindy "cease in which to get ready, his offer was ing commission had placed an order for 200,000 shells to be rfTorts to create unfounded war fear taken seriously by only a few peo- delivered not later than December. and Jack of confidence in our governple. Since that time, however, the This plant also turned out muniment." . government has been inspecting the tions in C I'rime Minister lie Valera of Eire of the motor industry in possibilities Eleven fliers and bomber army (Ireland) called upon all his coun- general and Mr. Ford's plant in crew members were killed when two trymen to volunteer to take up arms particular, with the idea In mind Douglas bombing planes collided in to that any attempted invasion of that mass production of fighting air- mid-ai- r and crashed in flames durtheir land could be routed. He spoke craft might some day become a ing formation maneuvers near t a national defense rally necessity. Mitchell Geld. Long Island. . six-inc- h 1917-18- Pictured above is the granddaddy of the airplane, a device with movable wings, and operated by the feet. Da Vinci got the idea from the birds, and while it did not work, it was a step in the right direction. The man was supposed to be on a platform and pump his feet, with the result that the power tvas transmitted to WAR DOOMS CROP CONTROL? the wings by a series of pulleys. Henry Wallace's program of crop iiii nm 'wK' liiinMHH. curtailment and soil conservation is l Jt'crt i L.. Above we see a working model of a movable press, all of wood. This press was invented by da Vinci nearly 100 years before the one invented by John Gutenberg ' L in Germany. t j. Leonarall Outstanding among """" do's inventions is the machine for drauing metal into sheets between f", two heavy rollers. In some shape or other this device (right) is to-- $ day used by all the metal indus- tries in the world. , v lcl3H h .J i'A II iLj J ..ft.s fvn "S t ' u fj "'" T'i ; TSSirV I A ; r-- '" : t- jl " -- ' jI Iry Ls MSSSS&BA BjT ; 3 M ', : y"' ""g1 - about to face its toughest year. Reason is the certain food shortage in Europe and the demand that American farmers use their surpluses to feed war-tor- n Europe. There are two causes for the food shortage. One is the fact that many countries have been too busy fighting to plant sufficient crops, and their fields have been fought over. Second reason is lack of sufficient merchant shipping. Four countries Norway, Holland, Denmark, and Belgium have a total of 10,000,000 gross tons of merchant vessels which are immobilized, so far as supplying the home ports is con-- ) cerned. Either they are bottled up at home, or they are In foreign ports, unable to reach home. Vessels which a year ago were carrying U. S. fodder to Denmark, to feed Danish cattle, today are diverted to other trade or riding at anchor. Meantime, the cattle are eating up the existing supplies of fodder. When these are gone, the cattle will have to be killed. And the killing will be done by the Germans, who will consume the cat--' tie. This is just one simplified illustraNo such constriction was tion. known in Uie early days of the World war, because the United States, still neutral, insisted on maintaining its shipping to the neutral countries of Europe. But now its shipping is barred by the neutrality act from belligerent ports and combat zones. All of this is sure to bring heavy demands on the U. S. farmer, also on congress to appropriate relief money to help Europe's starving populations. And this, in turn, is sure to upset crop control. For it was high food prices during the World war which increased acreage and also sent many farmers heavily into debt to buy new land. DIPLOMATS MAKE WARS? John Q. Public thinks the diplomats make the wars and could stop i Lcr-g-them. Argentine Ambassador Espil has a letter saying, "Your country should submit itself to becoming a part of the United States." (No Latin American country is prouder of its independence than Argentina, less likely to become part of the U. S. A.) Uruguayan Minister Richling gets model of da Vinci t automatic saw is the fore- so many letters he is working overThe full-size- d runner of the modern buzz saw used in lumber mills. At the lower time to answer them. The tenor is: rid of the dangerous "You must right of the model is a crank to which a handle was attached to Germans." get which "elbow was motor the furnish saw, power for grease" FRENCH FLEET The White House is not advertising it, but the disposition of the French fleet was one vital point which came up in secret discussion with the French Just before their capitulation. Roosevelt wanted to make sure that the French navy would not fall For France's into Nazi hands. w warships could just about tip the , Ik V H balance of naval power and give the Nazis a powerful striking arm in the south Atlantic against Latin America. The French have two brand-ne26,000-tobattleships, the Strasbourg and the Dunkerque, probably the fastest in the world; also two (Above): The forerunner of the monkey the new 35.000-to- n battleships, If u rrnch used by machinists today. hile it does Richelieu and the Jean Bart, the not resemble a monkey wrench, the principle latter not quite completed. These, is just the same. (Right): Da Vinci's concepadded to the German fleet, would tion of the pile driver, which, except for mo give Hitler 10 battleships against IS fur the United States, all much older five power, is ulentical with ones used all over and slower. the world today on water-fron- t construction. When you consider that 12 U. S. battleships are kept in the Pacific, with only three in the Atlantic, you get a rough idea of how difficult it would be for this Country to defend the Monroe Doctrine if Hitler got the French fleet. 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