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Show t BEAVER PRESS GENERAL Ends simaun nt 07i Free Competition in Foreign Trade For U. S. if Britain Falls, Says Lippmann 1 Xd pukyrPEARSON (Eclcased by Western Newspaper Union.) JAPANESE STRENGTH Several careful secret surveys made recently of and naval Japanese military strength indicate that Japan can do just about anything she wants in the Far East. The reports show that the Japanese navy is in l shape, and has suffered not a bit as a result of the Chinese war. The Japanese army also is in good shape, though not in the same condition as the navy. The Chinese war, though still dragging on at heavy cost, has been an excellent training school for the Japanese military. Chief handicap under which Japan suffers is her desperate economic situation. Easiest remedy for this is to take the Dutch East Indies and the wealthy possessions of the Dutch, French and British in southern Asia. This is what seems sure to happen. There is no question but that the Japanese can take French the Dutch possessions of Java and Sumatra, and all the other South Pacific islands that are worth bothering about, in a few weeks. Only spot which might hold out is the British naval base at Singapore, and naval experts disagree as to whether the Japanese could take it or not. In time, they probably could. Everything now seems set for the Japanese to steam south simultaneously with the Hitler blitzkrieg against Britain. Probably the Japanese will wait until they see how the blitzkrieg is going before they stage theirs in the south Pacific. WASHINGTON. A-- Indo-Chin- TNT DON'T TOUCH Nebraska Republicans are very enthusiastic about Wendell Willkie, but they want no speech by him in McCook, home town of Sen. George Norris, the state's veteran public-powe- r crusader. Such a plan was reported shortly after Willkie arrived at his Colorado vacation spot, which is near McCook. News dispatches declared that the G. O. P. standard bearer intended to beard the father of TVA right in his own home town. But the idea did not thrill Nebraska Republican leaders. They have a wholesome respect g ior Norris' powers, re call vividly how four years ago in a d race which he entered at the last moment he polled 53 per cent of the vote. So last week a delegation made a pilgrimage to Willkie. In the group were Kenneth Wherry, state chairman; George Carpenter, national committeeman; Hugh Butler, candidate for senator, and Dwight Gris-wolcandidate for governor. They received a cordial welcome and discussed a number of subjects, prominent among which was a strong argument as to why Willkie should NOT make a speech in McCook. three-cornere- d, BULLITT SPANKED Dressy Bill Bullitt, U. S. ambassador to France, did not do all the talking during his week-en- d stay at Hyde Park. The President told Bullitt a few things, too. One was to pipe down on his talk about the Petain government of France being "free" and non-Fasci- Roosevelt took Bullitt sharply to task for these statements. He said tfiey were untrue, and that if Bullitt didn't know that, he ought to. Note Roosevelt also made it very clear that he had no intention of falling into the Nazis' trap of feed- ing their victims this winter, after Hitler had robbed them of their food and left them to starve. Bullitt wants the U. S. to send food supplies to France. MOTHER COUNTRY SPAIN If Spain, mother country of Latin America, joins the axis group, she will carry little sympathy of the Americas with her. On the contrary, the countries south of the Rio Grande have strained relations with Spain at present, and her embracing the axis cause would not win them in that direction. The strain arose over what appears to be a trifling issue the fate of 13 men. When Franco marched into Madrid during the Spanish civil war, 13 Loyalists sought asylum in the Chilean embassy there. Chile has protected them ever since, and has tried to get them safe conduct out of the country, offering permanent residence in Chile. But the relentless Franco wants the lives of those 13 Loyalists, and he has refused all requests in their behalf. This issue is of great importance for the Latins, who never know when revolution may make life uncomfortable in their own capitals, or when they might want to take refuge in a foreign embassy. Chile felt it so keenly that she permitted the breaking off of diplomatic relations between Chile and Spain rather than surrender the Loyalists. In that action Chile has the support of most of her neighbors. Cuba, for example, was considering the possibility of resuming normal diplomatic relations with Spain. Now, though Cuba is sending Orestes Fcrrara. former ambassador to the United States, on a commercial mission to Madrid, the full relations will not be resumed at least for some time. . ' a free DECLARING "that as Amer- vjrf i ;k " ffl S. , 'en; S ,Ih, JOHNSON V T-- TT Tn T--i i ui BIBLE AND CONSCRIPTION repeated My WASHINGTON. icans have known, cannot survive in a world that is elsewhere under a regime of mili- statement that compulsory selective service is also of biblical origin has been challenged. Well, the draft consists of three First comes registration of sters adult male population and whole the classification as to availability for 1 military service. In Numbers 26; Moses unto Lord 2 "The spake and sum of all the . . saying take the of IsChildren the of congregation and old upward rael from 20 years throughout their father's houses, all Isthat are able to go to war in rael." The ensuing first "registrat- tary socialism," Walter writing in Life, emphasizes that there are four great industrial concentrations in the world, the American, the European, the Russian a ,d the Japanese; that if Britain is conquered "the European, the Russian and the Asiatic industrial systems will all be operated by military governments as severely regimented collectivist systems. The following is a summary of the ideas presented by Walter Lipp-man- HUGH n, ion report" W fully cut shirtwaiJSi be a cool doli-days of summer.No so crisp and fresh. "in ft'' ht 1' sharkskin. And xoimoie and cause the lines U St 1 t " aregj 14 " i W V ad 601,730 regis- showed trants. assignment of 31-"Moses spake Numbers quotas. some of yourselves unto . arm of every tribe a thouthe war Lippmann. shall . . sand ye send to the war." The American manufacturing area They were drafted and inducted. around such centers as Chicago, Some men are "exempted" ac' Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, WilFor rules cording to regulations. mington, New York, Birmingham in Mosaic the draft, ' of exemption t and so forth may soon contain the Briefly, see Deuteronomy 20; only primary workshops on earth in they exempted men who were prowhich private property still persists with American products for sale abroad may viding homes and had not "dediof Loading ships under constitutional guaranties, in become a rarity if the British empire falls before the onslaught of cated" them, newly married men, which the managers, the workers, will then be men who were growing vineyards the shareholders are not under the the Axis powers, for the export markets of the world and America not yet mature and, curiously industrial dominated the totalitarian monopolies by direct command of an cowards. In will face a menacing economic future. This is the belief of f alter enough, National Socialist or Communist 24-the "married Deuteronomy government. In this American in- Lippmann, noted writer and economist. man" exemption was confined to one dustrial region alone private firms can do normal business by normal year. Imports are controlled by the govmay still be bargaining collectively; methods in such an absolutely abnot are ernment; imports by bought The theory of this selective servworkers may still be free to quit normal condition of affairs is to misbusiness men but agents "And by political ice is found in Numbers 32-their jobs and great industrialists of the lead the people cruelly, to blind Moses said unto the children of Gad government. like Henry Ford may still be free The wages of labor, the hours of them to the need for the extraordi(Gad correct) and the children of to refuse to make the airplane motors that government policy calls labor, the movements of labor are nary measures of protection that Reuben" (who wanted to call it a they will have to have, to render day in the conquest of Canaan) for; banks, insurance companies set by the decrees of the governthen to take "shall your brethren go to war and and private capitalists may still be ment. The conquered peoples work them defenseless and them down the road to ruin. shall ye sit here?" Then he recalled free to invest or not to invest in as prisoners of war. The plain fact of the matter is servthis or that enterprise. Industry as a whole is directed for that if Britain falls, then Europe, an earlier evasion of military ice by the children at Kadesh-Bar-ne- a In the other industrial regions the purposes of the state to proAsia and Africa will be ruled from and reminded them that "the none of these liberties remain, and duce armaments, to obtain supplies The Lord's anger was kindled against if the British commonwealth is con- abroad, to establish political power Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo. will then American manufacturers Israel and he made them wander in quered and subjugated and revoluabroad. be allowed to supply the totalitionized, none of these liberties Trade by Government Monopolies. tarian hemisphere with those prod- the wilderness for 40 years." The which are normal in the American entire tribes of Reuben and Gad If this system established itself ucts in which the totalitarian emway of conducting industry will be (Gad correct) marched, "every man finally in Europe and Asia, our own pires are temporarily deficient as a armed to battle." to of matter our own with them farmers and fact, manufacturers, supply No Private Rights. Maybe all that was not a faithful Even though nominally and in ap- miners and the farmers and miners those products which will be immeforerunner of our selective service in of no to America be order South will make diately necessary longer pearance some of the outward forms system of 1917 and the of capitalism may still survive, in trading and competing with private totalitarian industry entirely indebill of today, but it seems so of firms and American They pendent private producers. industry. fact totalitarian industry is regito me. It is interesting but unimAmerican with be will and and farmers miners trading competing mented and directed by a dictatorial will be allowed to supply the totalithese gigantic government monopoportant, because there is no respectgovernment. able argument in law, morals or There is property. But it has no lies managed by dictators and tarian empires with the food and backed by enormous armed forces. raw materials temporarily needed ethics against the universal obligaas the government. rights against to military service when it is There are contracts. But there Under these conditions it is absurd to tide them over until they can tion manufacto the safety of a people. to American make that themselves of necessary imagine independent are no contracts, private or public, It is inherent in the social compact. temAmerican And these turers, farmers, working miners, supplies. modnot the that government may These be four dollar words but I men and investors can return to norporary supplies will be paid for eiify or break. ther in goods manufactured by the imagine something like this hapThere is no competition among malcy and do business as usual. If the rest of the world's industry enslaved labor of Europe or in gold pened. exporters and importers except that obtained by conquest (gold that we which the state cartels and the gov- accepts or sinks under totalitarian Og and Ug and some other caveernment which controls foreign ex- rule, no doubt we shall have some- shall then have to bury in Kentucky) men got tired of losing hides, catThe export how to do some business with the or on credit asked of us in the name tle and women every time some change will permit. of humanity and of reconstrucgreat Neanderthaler Snaggletooth in prices of goods are controlled by the rest of the world. But for any pubcredit that will never be and the next tion, to that lic man tell the they people government valley decided to raid off can never be repaid. the reservation. Singly he could At the same time the totalitarian bash in the brains of any. They industrial monopolies will take posheld a conference and a session of the export markets of the gang-uon him. The next time he world. came they sent him howling home. Finally, our domestic economy in That kept the peace. Some kind of the U. S. will face unprecedented society became possible and that .LaSalle Map of Business Conditions. difficulties. The disposal of the surtribe was formed and on its way to pluses of agriculture, mining, and better things and the more abundant life. Fine. But could Og or Ug, or industry will have to be done in competition with the products of the whoever live under the protection of enslaved, subjugated or vassal rethat pact for months or years, when gions of Europe, Asia, Africa and old Snaggletooth threatened again South America. as Moses said sit there while their The brethren raw went to war! It is an inimportant materials in b-f- c-,J , : i r. --J. which we are deficient will have to escapable duty of .I every single man be obtained from the totalitarian who has enjoyed the collective promonopolists. Inevitably we shall tection of any nation. have to transform into armament inThe objections won't stand up. dustries many industries that now "We have not done it before." We produce for export. Inevitably we have rarely needed to do it before. shall have to take hold of our food But every time we have needed to and surpluses and use do it, we have done it three times. them as instruments of economic "Yes, but not in peace """" " I only in warfare. f xst --or war." " To do this we shall inevitably have The obligation arises with the danto bring all foreign trade under govger and in proportion to it. This ernment control. The above map accompanying the August bulletin of L'. S. shall therefore have toInevitably we danger is great enough. This duty bring domeshas nothing to do with the business conditions issued by LaSalle Extension university, illus tic industry under a control legal that fixes of a declaration of war trates the current trade picture in various sections of the country. quotas, allocates raw materials and formality Few recent wars have been Business actii ity continues to expand; new orders in several indus- regulates prices. Inevitably we shall If we had to wait idly for 7 to have volume 19.19. is trade reduce above than the tries are greater of American standoutput; that we would 4ie lost. ard of life. In modern war you can't than counterbalanced by added fight if By L. G. ELLIOTT The Price of Independenee. you're not trained. If there is an When preparedness expenditures. lAiSalle Extension University Freudmt, F or these measures, which are inobligation to fight there is arr oblithe defense program gets under way CHICAGO. The expansion of busiexorably necessary if the nation is gation to train. increase in government spendness which began in the latter part the will ing provide as large market for to maintain its independence, are of April continues to gain momenA STM'II) Ii as has the export trade the indubitable price we shall have industry LUX I) Kit tum. The rate of production is now to pay for deciding to let ourselves Tl.e change in the of this year. the first during part of the to the highest point proposed draft close bill ages from ages The building industry has also become isolated in a totalitarian for year, and in some lines it is not far been world. Amricans to do was attempting registration, forced by an moving ahead steadily. The business d from the peak that was reached last a free, under scarchcad ballyhoo that fooled competitive, greatest gains have been made in December. a lot of unorganized and unmanaged induspeople into believing that The steel industry has been the engineering construction. Recently trial system would be like naked the "draft would affect contracts for awarded this of which type in the 42,000 000 leader improvement soldiers trying to stop a charge of men at Urrific expense and no nehas already taken place. Operations construction have reached the hightanks. cessity." have increased from GO per cent of est level in history. This program In this condition of acute economThe draft wl! affect only the numincludes projects in nearly all parts capacity in the early part of April, of ic distress, the country will be inber of men drafted. That the United States, and will stimuto 88 per cent. Domestic buying is has noth-'nvaded by foreign agents seeking to whatever to do with the num. active, and foreign orders have been late activity in many lines. make deals with helpless, frightened, bcr rrB.stcn.d-exct.pt In the textile industry activity has received in large volume. These are that if too ignorant and shortsighted private infew are registered the to several been whole scheme the increased rate at the considerably expected push terests. These deals will be at the per cent higher during the coming woolen mills, and the output of the expense of other private interests. unfair. The change-- at cotton mills has been maintained at They will set one weeks. least as it section of the relieves men between 18 Even if tnreign orders should de- a higher rate than usual. Production country and 21, and against one another, industhose over 31 from cline, the reduction will be more of rayon continues to be large. registration-- is a try against other industries. blunder. stupid rePrices of commodities have Private industries that do It is true that we manage mained relatively stable with only to sell to the started the '.Md war draft at totalitarian agents cm COSTLY BKIDCE small declines in the general averages 2! to 0 be paid only by imports, probut as wo bter learned, it was age since the sharp upward spurt duced ""stake. It had to be corrected by enslaved labor, which will The war department says Boston at the outbreak of war last Septembj must continue to furnish drawbridge ber. Farm prices have held firm compete ruinously in the domestic wuleniiiR the range to service nt night on three bridges and total farm income for the first market for other American indusf" benenMoT fiing l over Fort Point channel, although it five months of the year was 10 per tries. Or these private interests government of scien- ffic selection, Durbe will costs the city $2,200 per boat. cent higher than during the correpaid in stolen gold that can-no- t yu want ,hc P''".ble field of selection, be spent and will have to ing the first eight months of 1939 sponding period last year. Crop prosbe other hand, one purpose of "An buried. And if the oppressed induonly five vessels passed the bridges pects are promising, and the estiMo ,g,.t the neeess.,ry men the during those hours with payroll ex- mates arc that total output this year stries that are threatened by this wi, e oast possiblei interference average. competition object, then the few penses totaling $11,3C8. The war de- will be above the with l.v educational jn. economic and partment denied the city's petition The vigor with which industry has terests that might have done s Ihe smaller yur the basic for closing drawbridges from 10 p. progressed indicates with the totalitarian range of .m""' agents will tion the less generous , m. to 6 a. m. strength "of our economic system. clamor and complain. your de be. The next step is the 3 ... frail ?ry - 5 Gf TO md m t,4 "u I it i fpu're 5-- 'pt b: Preparedness Sets Business Pace .i n"l p s your I fears you ! w issib fcake, 3ti're 1 1 aud ' 6 Burke-Wads-wor- th Ga 'rap't 'aoney, teen don' f it turni El "feu n voice (f 'athinl ijhtto ffory .at ti Y h1 - : icat ru r othe G ft Sei es. met hear j! free. The bodice can be fe a with three buttons and fc A le back in narrow, deep revet; tibes buttoned almost to the throat, shallow revers. Why not have it both ays, 1 it's so very easy to make? 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