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Show li.JHto. r IU. S. fi United States Washington. is being given an object lesson in what happens when The The People government at- Must Pay tempts to interfere Wahlngton, There seems to be a stronger demand for wheat now than at any time during the Industry last five or six It indicates Opens Up years. a restoration of buying power on the part of the masses. In other words, industry again is opening up to some extent and employing workers although the increase in employment has been small thus far. In consequence of this combinathere is tion of circumstances, now a seller's market in wheat instead of a buyer's market in wheat. To say it another way. there are more people seeking to buy wheat than there are seeking to sell it and the consumers of flour will pay the bill. By way of contrast with present conditions, it may be pointed out that world wheat consumption has exceeded world wheat production In every year except one since 1929. In the 1932 crop year there was slightly more wheat produced in the world than was consumed. The result of the steady growth in consumption over production in the last few years has been to wipe out all of the carryover wheat stored in bins and elevators throughout the world and in every country users of wheat are scraping the bottoms of their bins. The tragedy of it all is that, because of the reduced acreage and the drouth in the United States, American farmers are not in a position to take advantage of the higher prices thus established by the sale of surplus wheat which may if the have been accumulated acreage had been normal Instead of the United States really controlling the market for wheat, we are in a position where a good many other countries may be encouraged to grow more wheat. The natural and obvious results of this will be to further curtail the outlet for American wheat which so long has been relied on by many foreign of nations that are wheat. I do not know how far the New Deal intends to go in revising its basic economic policy regarding crop controlling. I can be sure of only one tiling in regard to the New Deal plans: The visitation of the drought in two years in which the political planners of the New Deal attempted to upset natural laws has proved the inability of r5 v- i Are Tested in Newest Developments in Fighting Equipment West. Giant Maneuvers Held in Middle Ey WILLIAM C. UTLEY war that has come to the Middle West- -a hypothetical civilian populano fear of ravage and pillage in the of defense their manner what rather permits them to see in the to for them. But soldry Illinois D, C. WAR man to alter the course of nature and by the same token these con- tion but army has prepared and West Virginia Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky the August mafor basis is the it it is war in grim earnest for neuvers of the SECOND ARMY. mi The maneuvers represent ditions have proved the inability of government to change human nature. with nature. American farmers these days are threshing their wheat crop. The production is that of a reduced acreage, an acreage that was planned on theory by the Department of Agriculture. The result is that this year's American wheat crop wiU bushels. 640,000,000 approximate That is about 145,000,000 bushels less than the average crop during the live years from 1929 to 1933. The result is a shortage. Department of Agriculture figures indicate that the total wheat crop in the world this year will be something like 650,000,000 bushels In below the annual production. other words, the wheat crop is short everywhere on earth and the result is obvious. In our own case, there is normaleach year of about ly a carry-ove- r 125,000,000 bushels but due to the shortage of the crop this year that is insufficient to make carry-ove- r up the needs of domestic consumption. Consequently, we soon will see heavy importations of Canadian wheat, a wheat that can be blended In milling with our own production and a very satisfactory flour results. Yet, it must be remembered that on all importations of wheat from Canada or anywhere else, a tariff of 42 cents a bushel must, be paid. It is clear, therefore, that consumers of bread must pay that tariff because the importers are going to pass that item of expense along as part of the cost of the flour. In addition to the shortage in the United States, Canadian wheat production is reported to be something like 100,000,000 bushels under normal There is sufficient production in Canada to permit of export, of course, but the shortage Is bound to be reflected in the prices. And mention of the price brings us back to the individual effect of the combination of acreage, reduced by government edict, plus the act of nature in visiting a drouth upon us. Scarcity always results in higher prices. It is the operation of the law of supply and demand. The Roosevelt farm policy has been predicated on the theory that scarcity would produce higher prices and thereby add to the farm income. But drouth and other production hazards cannot be predicted and, therefore, the American people find themselves in a position where the unpredictable has happened and the farmers are not getting the benefit of higher prices on a natural and normal production. GKTTING "WAR" TEST 1 National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Bulletins AMY year or two ago, a committee of the American Bar association r made a report Offers initely critical of New Plan the Ncw Deal ad" ministration having created so many agencies to which had been given functions almost like the courts. That report pointed out how such units as the now dead NRA and the equally dead AAA could issue rules and regulations that were enforceable as law. They called attention to the further fact that countless of these rules and regulations carried strict and severe penalties, even to the extent of a jail term for an individual violator. Lately, another committee of the American Bar association has published another report, again calling princiattention to the ples established in such bureaucratic control. It offers a constructive proposal for the elimination of bureaucratic management of individual affairs from Washington. It proposes the establishment of an administration court which would have power to enforce these rules but would be and regulations equipped with the judicial right of determination so that the thousands upon thousands of regulations with their various penalties would not be enforced upon an individual accused of their violation without giving that alleged violator the right of a hearing. Ultimately, the proposed court would take over the judicial work of all of the administrative agencies in Washington now numbering something like 75. A laboraa short period of time Frequently called "the "Mechanized concenthe the of of mobilization, army" tory plete cycle which tration, training, operation and force" is the agency through is General keeping army States United the demobilization, Major Charles E. Kilbourne, commanding abreast of developments in mech1 ..,i.,;nr in " mitlinine the anization and motorization. genua. cApiaiiu exerConsisting of the mechanized purpose and plan of the field First cavalry; the First battalion, cises. field artillery (mechWhile the problem as a whole Sixty-eightsimulates a conflict between hypo- anized); First battalion, Nineteenth thetical Red, Blue and Brown field artillery (motorized), the Fifstates, with Green as a neutral, teenth observation squadron, air its principal purpose is to provide corps; together with maintenance training, and not to be a formal and supply units, the "Mechanized test of training. Whatever units force" consists of a small compact the umpires from time to time may organization of great mobility and declare have won or lost a deci- striking power. This force is under the command sion, all of the troops should benefit greatly from the character of of Col. Bruce Palmer, First cavalry. training these maneuvers make Artillery officers and commander of artillery is Lieut. Col. A. C. possible. field artilWill Use Modern Methods Sandeford, Sixty-eightIn total number of troops in- lery. The force as constituted for volved and in territory covered, the maneuver includes 117 officers these exercises are the most ex- and 1,841 enlisted men. Its equiptensive ever held in the Middle ment includes armored cars, comWest in peace time, General Kilbat cars (light, fast tanks), crossbourne pointed out. The training country personnel carriers armed problem involves the use of the with machine guns and automatic most modern weapons and facili- rifles. The tables of organization ties available and also is the first call for 88 combat vehicles for a in th's area to give special emmechanized cavalry regiment. The First cavalry, mechanized, phasis to the employment of aviation and mechanized units. Large has two combat car squadrons, numbers of Illinois and Wisconsin each with two ten-ca- r troops. It troops must be transported across also has a machine gun troop of Lake ' Michigan. Units charged 16 cars armed with 53, .30 cal. with responsibility for supply and guns and 13, .50 cal. guns, and a communications operate over longreconnaissance troop. er distances than in the field trainTrend Is Toward Mobility ing of former years. Night operaBrig. Gen. C. D. Herron, chief tions are being conducted and at- of staff, in commenting on the tention given throughout the employment of the Mechanized exercises to the tactical value of force in the army maneuvers the element of surprise. points to the fact that the trend I suppose the condition can be The entire maneuver is based on of all tactics today involves mechdozens the fact that explained by greater of new bureaus situations that are moving, rather anization, motorization, Too Many have been set up than static. By provision, of faster speed and greater mobility. means of and by reIn order to keep abreast of deBureaus under the scores duction oftransportation a velopments in foreign countries, weights carried, of New Deal laws and that in the haste to get them was into operation, no had between the various groups, but it is my belief that private citizens cannot be blamed for this condition. Since they cannot be blamed for failure of government to function properly, they ought not be compelled to answer for the silly differences in law which bureauf MIlWAUKEflf Cfc )SRANOHAVEM crats have written under authority of congress to draft necessary regulations. Sooner or later the public is going to become fully aware of the Concentration area 5 ) serious character of this situation. VIC0RPS It can be safely predicted, I think, that when the general public does n.g. find out what has happened, its uj wrath will not be easily appeased. VOth&rio.RA. . , W i. K 7thDiv. 7 38th)Div. 01 After all, congress is really to blame for this condition. It rushed laws which President through Roosevelt demanded and it did not take time to debate the provisions nor did it examine the sections to CONCENTRATION AREA VVi know fully what results would flow v corps I) too In from them. many cases, many, statements of general legislative policy were not clear and congress abdicated its duties to the extent that it wrote into those laws provisions saying that the agency which was to enforce the particuSITUATION, AUGUST I. 5CALI lar law was given authority to t o 50 o io jap jj, MtLtS write whatever rules and regulations were found to be necessary. SECOND ARMY MANEUVERS AUGUST 1936 Some authority of this kind always has been given in order to make the national laws flexible but they Map Showing the Area Covered by the Maneuvers. never have been given to such an extent as they have in the last systematic effort is being made to the army is experimenting with increase the mobility of troops, in this mechanized force. three years. Great action and behind the lines. has been progress made in detime has Insufficient elapsed conditions set The up for the veloping combat vehicles that can since the American Bar association maneuver assume that, after a travel at high speed both on the committee came forth with its adof stiained relations, an out- road and across country. ministrative court proposal for an period break of hostilities occurs between Mechanized analysis to be made of its poten- Blue a state comprising Illinois, sensitive to units, however, are ground conditions. It may, and probably tialities. Wisconsin, Indiana, Streams form serious obstacles. Michigan, does have, weaknesses. It does, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia, Destruction of bridges and critical however, have a strong point in and Red. an "enemy" state, inroad points greatly hinders such a the general idea that a judicial Tennessee and Virginia force. And always a mechanized cluding body should determine whether an and southeastward. or motorized unit is dependent on extending individual citizen has violated a a state which includes the gasoline supply. Brown, bureaucrat's law and what the penIn spite of these limiting factors Pennsylvania and territory to the be than should rather have alty and is east toward the north, Mechanized force, with its friendly that bureaucrat sit as prosecutor, Red and later becomes its ally heavily armed vehicles, each capajudge and jury in telling the individual citizen what his crime has against Blue. Green, a large ble of tremendous shock and fire neutral state, comprises territory power are of growing been. importance west of the Mississippi river. in the development of our national It probably will be said that lawWill Use 40,000 Troops defense. yers are very technical and always In the first phase of the maConstant radio looking for loopholes. But in this neuver the V corps of the Second from car to car communication gives the cominstance, it seems to me the Amer- army (Blue) conducts an of- mander a ican Bar association committee de- fensive in the direction of Nash- - location of complete picture of the his force at all times serves the highest commendation and permits complete control of ville, the Red capital. In the secfor speaking out boldly about an ond phase the VI corps of the the unit. admittedly bad condition. It seems Blue army begins its offensive Mechanized forces can make to me, likewise, that the committhe Brown capital of deep incursions into toward enemy terriof instead tee, being criticized, its march at tory as illustrated in the must be praised for unselfishness Pittsburgh, ending near Battle Creek, movement of the unit from rapid the because as long as bureaucrats Camp Custer, The principal elements Fort Knox. Kentucky, area to Camp continue to exercise the functions Michigan. of Red and Brown troops will Custer. they are now exercising under au- be represented by units of the reStudy Aircraft Effectiveness thority from Congress, the situation Much interest is being shown in constitutes a field day for the law- cently organized GHQ (General Headquarters) Air force and the the effectiveness of the participatyers. Few, if any, individuals liv- new mechanized cavalry.. Upwards ing aircraft and the of outside can come ing Washington of 40,000 troops are participating. defenses. Until actually tested find into the Capital city, the agenby It is the largest concentration of wai, It is impossible to state cy that has charged them with violation of a bureaucrat's law and troops in the middle west since whetnrr the attack by aircraft or at the same time know how to de- the World war, and represents the the defense against such att.ick has fend himself. He has to have a most extensive employment, under made the most progress. In war every development lawyer and that makes an addi- field conditions, of aviation and the of Mechanized force ever witnessed method or material for tional burden upon business. offensive in the United States. C Wttrn Ntwtpapar Unto. operations automatically leads to a com def-Ba- for h the development of means of defense against attack by such methods or with such materials, experts point out. In the beginning of the World war aviation was utilized almost entirely for observation missions. Gradually, however, its potentiality for the offensive was recognized and towards the end of the World war the attack on installations, cities and troops on the grounds became daily occurrences. Efforts to develop a defense against these attacks, other than with aircraft, were decidedly lame until the closing months of the war, when improvements in arti'Jery and the establishment of balloon barrages seemed to have had a considerable deterring ef- - fZMW F r b Cl u e Ml feii .4lllt? y - j anti-aircra- ft ' i ,1 THIS ft(! ngnoses r ,rvues i urs, Unscience.p. Caterpillars Wise Geiier:.- - r c. An able FrPn. dead, wrote about 1' "things seen." Sf IH y' . ;,' at Ooboji 3 H II , , tlC L l " . anti-aircra- ft maj r ( A!; "'tW ': the tSS ones- V' -- C hi Si.: J3 tafc Arthur nrlabanc . strength; seek His r.emember h s i that He hath ana the face 1(U done; judgments o(B You spend 7 1 h 16-c- j -' what kind of English mE an, strong m faith, that text before states day seek the "facp" a solim, Malm, but forge1;, power of the Creator riflemen. After that, you read j Times this advertiseK One of the New "Motorized Army" Units. feet, and the percentage of planes brought down was rapidly increasing. Following the World war great emphasis was given both to the development of aircraft for offensive operations and to the deThese defensive fensive means. means are now divided into an active defense and a passive defense. In Europe and in Japan, training of civilians in the passive defense against air We attack is being undertaken. read of cities being darkened during simulated bombardment from the air; of civilians being required to use gas masks; of fire departments and other civil organizations being drilled in protection of property and personnel, and instructions as to methods of preparing effective cover. These exercises are apparently made very reaL The object is not only to save lives, but to organize and drill the people so that panic may not add to the actual danger of an attack. Active Defense Elaborate The active defense against enemy aircraft consists of pursuit airplanes to attack the bombers of an enemy, of guns, machine guns and searchlights to be disposed around installation offering a proper objective for air attack, and an aircraft warning service consisting of a net of properly equipped observation stations with a system of communication insuring that the aircraft and the services are alerted in time to meet threatened attack. Much has been written of the great advance in aviation and the weapons installed an military aircraft. These improvements extend, of course, to the aircraft designed for operations especially against bombers. Less is generally known of the development of the artillery. There has been marked improvement in the type of antiaircraft guns. The three-incguns can maintain a fire at the rate of twenty shots a minute, with an effective altitude of over twenty thousand feet. The fifty caliber mashlne gun, firing six hundred rounds a minute, is effective against any aircraft operating at low or medium altitudes. New Gun Perfected Another automatic weapon for use, the gun, has been perfected but regiments have not, as yet, been supplied with them. This gun has a maximum vertical range of 15,000 feet, fires a shell that will explode on contact with the fabric of an airplane. It fires at the rate of eighty rounds a minute. The searchlights used are eight hundred million candle power. Their range is, of course, dependent upon the state of the weather. However, the greatest improvement of material has been in the development of instruments simple of operation, which control by electricity the setting of the gun so that the projectile will meet the plane in flight and also operate the fuse setter to insure that the projectile bursts at the right anti-aircra- ft anti-aircra- ft anti-aircra- ft h anti-aircra- ft Until actually tested by war, It is impossible to state whether the attack by aircraft, or the defense against such attack, has made the most progress. We can state with assurance, however, that both are vastly more cmclcnt than at th(J close if the World war. t vviern N'imptr Union. V. S. Runs Biggest The government runs Bookshop our bigpst n totals 500,000,000 bookshop. tMC8 a year, representing 65,000 federal publications. The public documents division gives flft volumes for every one it away sells. "Furs humanely (fc can be worn with s science full particulai! C. 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