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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH 'Battle of Lines' Brings First Test Of German-FrencDefense Strategy NATIONAL AFFAIRS h World Debates Question of Hour: Can Either Wall ? Be Conquered? - ' v- - . By ROBERT THIERS (Released by Western Newspaper Union. I along the entire frontier are test under first their getting fire these days as military experts await the answer to 1939's greatest wartime question: Are German-Frenc- h the West Wall and the Maginot line really impregnable? France's early adher armies vance brought flush against the great German wall, formerly called When J urn ''!S1''", I .in ji.lj.,,,, j the invaders faced a truly stupenMAGISOT USE Older, more scientifically constructed, this dous offensive job. Newer than the series of "underground battleships" can probably be manned with less Maginot line, Germany's fortifications are nevertheless a hopeless difficulty than the newer West Wall. Photo shows officer operating maze of underground fortresses, underground power in one of the fortresses. plant wire barbed moats, entanglements and traps equal to any- forts, each with their own electric up to the Siegfried line at thing the cunning French ever de- kitchen, washrooms, water reswhich probably meant a vised. ervoirs, electric generators and stor- good deal. Evidently the Maginot The West Wall is not simply a age rooms. Miles of underground line was considered safe from flank- railroads carry men ing counter-attackwall; ahead of it for several miles narrow-gag- e whereas the are auxiliary fortifications, and be- and ammunition, the latter stored West Wall was unfinished and therehind it are slanting, knoblike tank in giant reservoirs hundreds of feet fore vulnerable. But the West Wall barriers interspersed with concealed underground. itself is no pushover. Many portions Seek to Disprove Theory. of it are protected first by a deep pits in which tanks may be trapped. The whole system ranges from 25 It is an axiom among military moat and barbed wire, while gun to 50 miles in depth, swarming with men that no army can build a fort- emplacements are concealed immeemplacements to drive ress so impregnable that no other diately behind. off enemy bombers. army can take it, yet each of these If the Maginot line is truly safe Reich Rashes Construction. nations has built its first line of de- from conquest, France may make No French officials know whether fense with the idea of disproving the appreciable gains through the Gerthe West Wall has been completed. theory. So well are the forts con- man wall without fear that its own Last year, during the crisis preced- cealed, and so discouraging are the frontiers will be violated. But at ing Munich, Adolf Hitler revealed cunning obstacles placed in an in- what loss of life either line may be 00,000 men were working on it, vader's path, that the defenders taken is anybody's guess. night and day. A few days after would nominally be expected to enthe current war began Nazi Labor joy a wholesale slaughter while their Leader Robert Ley is said to have enemies were attempting to find a Frenchman Had Honor wired Field Marshal Hermann Goer-ta- strategic point of attack. Of First Once the fortresses are reached promising to rush the project 1o completion. invisible are Pegoud, a Frenchman, a Adolphe few from (they By contrast, France's Maginot line yards' distance) the enemy must was the first aviator to loop the loop, has been completed several years. reckon with a bombproof, shellproof on September 21, 1913. The plane It was from the French that Ger- opponent. Each part of the Magi- used by Pegoud had an engine of many got the inspiration for the not defense system, and probably of small power and wings of large surWest Wall, which was not started the West Wall as well, is arranged faces with a speed of only 45 miles until 1934. The Maginot line was so that every other part can be cov- an hour. Lincoln Beachey shortly conceived in 1925 while Andre Magi- ered, even to the tops of turrets not was minister of war. Originally upon which attacking infantrymen afterward made a loop the loop at of 75 miles an hour, carryplanned to cover only the frontier might leap to avoid the rifle and a speed a weight, using a embraand the fire from greater ing the area between Belgium machinegun machine. He accomplished Rliine, it has since been expanded sures. to protect the entire frontier from It took the French army only 10 this feat on November 19, 1913, in the Atlantic to Switzerland. days from the declaration of war to a Curtis machine at Los Angeles, Both lines are really a series of pierce advance fortifications leading Calif. the Siegfried or Limes line, mman tank-infant-ry Saar-bruecke- n, s, anti-aircra- ft ; g, Loop-the-Lo- op small-surfac- 17R T ATVFP17Q JlllVrjO ed O WCTU Observes Birth Centennial of First Temperance WILLARD Worker: 'TomW From Wisconsin Once Led 'Praying Bands' in Campaign Against Saloons After Starting Career In Academic Seclusion of Female College. n pinch-hittin- g t- IShe early against men's restrictions on women's activities, she trained a pet calf to carry her when her father forbade horseback riding. Most of her early schooling was at home. Later she entered North-Wesern Female college in Evanston, She taught in many seminaries 111. and was the first woman college president to give degrees to women. She was the first dean of women at Northwestern university, and a nationally recognized educator when only 35 years of age. o She left this successful profes-sio- n in 1874 to cast her lot with the infant but growing temperance movement, joining the historic women's crusade in which "praying bands" invaded saloons. The result was that in 50 days alcoholic beverage sale' was prohibited by some 250 communities. . ly 4 From 1879 to 1898 she was na- tional W. C. T. V. president, and the lor seven years also headed the W. C. world group. Through T. U. she taught women to organize to" achieve social reform. In 1883 counshe organized units across the West by the through traveling try, ttajeccach over roads infested by Indians and highwaymen. Before her death in 1898, she had been honored by many nafor women, and left not a stone un- tions. Memorials to her dot every turned to promote every angle. Lec- state. Her statue is the only one of fora woman in Statuary hall at Washturing and organizing, she ledwomington, D. C. Ten thousand W. C. mation of many of our great en's groups. All have joined this T. U. units are joining on her birthin simultaneous national tribute year in a centenary tribute to her, day to her memory Frances Willard, the with observances throughout pioneer educator and reformer. land. 5 She was interested in all angles of social reform and of equality 6 QUESTIONS Better Waffles. The flavor ef affies is enhanced by the s:ir.pl addition of the grated rind of two emons to the batter. Removing Stains. Lemon juica a red ink stain. paraffin stain should be covered with oatmeal, then brushed after 24 hours. 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The man Writer His Employer in Bad uho tells the story gets the Gets A certain Washington breaks . . . High official figures columnist, whose articles appear in in best human interest story one of the Washington newspapers, took his customary vacation up at of uar . . . Secretary Wallace's Nantucket island during the weeks plans upset by uar . . . Exferts that preceded the outbreak of the war in Europe. While he was on figure on a long struggle. vacation he had various friends, in importance from cabinet WASHINGTON. Those who won- ranging members down to friendly news der why so much more war news do his column for him, and and views are coming out of Ger- writers, these were duly printed in the many than out of Britain and Washington newspaper which norFrance would be interested to study carried his dispatches. the newspaper files of the first world mally of these articles was written One war, not only for the first few by the Washington correspondent months, but for the first few years. of a newspaper in Texas owned by There has been much wonder, Jesse H. Jones. It may be remem- also, since Germany struck at Po- bered that back in 1928, when the land, why so little has been heard Democratic national convention was of Hitler. Since his celebrated an- held in Jones' home town, Houston, nouncement of the "line of suc- there was a sizable demonstration cession" should he meet death, al- for Jesse Jones for President. most nothing has been heard of him. But the article written by Mr. In fact, this tightening up on news Jones' Washington reporter did not of the Nazi chief has resulted in mention Jones, despite the fact that mysterious reports of his suicide. there has been a good deal of talk The reason the Germans are pour- about his availability, in the event ing out news, while the British and that the party should go conservaFrench are keeping quiet, is that tive. No, Mr. Jones' able news writthe Germans want to impress the er made his column, world in general, and Italy, France, for his vacationing friend, an esBritain, Hungary and Rumania in say on the qualifications of John particular, with the notion that the Nance Garner, who also hails from Germans are invincible, that they Texas. have already obtained their objecThe writer, Bascom Timmons by tives, and that what remains is name, started off with the statemerely a long deadlock on the west- ment that Garner would make the ern front, with punishing air raids best President this country ever and destruction of shipping. So had, and was the best qualified man in the country today for the office. why not have peace? But you wouldn't believe the reThat is the German propaganda strategy now. In 1914 and 1915 the percussions. Friends of Paul V. strategy was very similar. Ger- McNutt indignantly demanded of man victories, first in France and Jones what he was encouraging this then against Russia, and prospects sort of thing for, when McNutt, Mr. in the New Deal of a very long drawn out and bloody Jones' war with no victory for either side vineyard, was an avowed candiat the end. So why not peace and date in the event that Franklin D. let Germany have what she had Roosevelt himself should not run! won? Outbreak of War Upsets Study of those old newspaper files some show remarkable Plans of Secretary Wallace will various Virtually every plan of Henry A. press associa"scoops" by In nearly Wallace, secretary of agriculture, tions and newspapers. every case of such a "scoop," the has gone out the window as a result source was German. There was of the war in Europe. Demand for propaganda in every line of them, every conceivable food product, and no matter what the personal sym- incidentally even for cotton, has pathies of the man who wrote the changed the whole picture. Even articles, nor the editorial leanings since the war broke out the AAA of the newspapers that printed experts on wheat insisted that the them. expected demand did not justify an increase in wheat acreage for Was News German Propaganda next season. But there will be. In Early Days of World War Everybody who has ever had This was not only true of Europe. many dealings with farmers knows It was true of Washington and other what will happen. With an advancneutral capitals in the period from ing price and crisp demand, Mr. August 1, 1914, to the entry of the Farmer will plant more even if he knew the whole world was doing the United States into the war. same thing. There might, he alsource news best the For example, for writers who had to do the neu- ways reasons, be a famine somewhere else in the world. In fact, trality and notes of protest stories he may not reason that much. He from Washington in those days was not some official at the White just knows that buyers want his House, or in the state department, wheat and are willing to pay him a nor in any of the Allied embassies, higher price than he has been getbut none other than Count Von ting, so he gets busy. No farmer ever approved the crop Bernstorff, the German ambassacurtailment program for his own dor. The writer happened at the time farm. Some of them think it is a to be in charge of the Washington good idea for the other fellow. bureau of a New York newspaper They like to follow nature's own as in- plan of providing a lot more of evwhich was strongly deed was this writer himself dur erything than could possibly be used. ing that period. But this time the farmers will be columns this Yet writer produced if the best military and naval right, of type, averaging, as a study afterward showed, something like four experts this country has are right. For this war, the experts calculate, every week, which emanated solely will stretch on and on. Five years, and entirely from the German emmost of them are saying. of words" the spoken bassyfrom the shrewd German diplomat. Agricultural Outlook Was It was Bernstorff who would tell Bad Before Disaster Broke us, one at a time and with the Before this disaster broke upon a strongest insistence that his name world, the agricultural dreading must not be mentioned or hinted, outlook was very dark indeed. what the next German note would Hence the various plans under insay about the Lusitania. Even more cubation at the department of agrisurprising, he would tell us, shdrtly culture. note had been received, after that In its September business letter what the reply that Wilson would City bank said: "One dictate and Bryan would sign would the National of situation which has the aspect be! And he was not guessing. He was in constant touch with the state disturbed business observers is the of farm products, notably low department and White House. Of- the price hogs and fats and oils. grains, ficials would tell him, but they would The outlook has been improved durnot tell the reporters! The man who tells the story jets ing August by the rally in wheat prices, and it is likely that the the breaks! pessimism as to wheat was overdone, inasmuch as the government Uigh Official Figures in loan, on the basis of 80 cents at Best Story of the War was certain to help Chicago, It's a dark secret who the gen- the market asalways more wheat tleman is, but a very high official of to move into the loan stock. began But the administration figured in the the for the coming hog supply best human interest story of the months is of depressing war if the details could just be size and theadmittedlyof fats and oils supply told. is above normal, with lard and cotIt so happens that a great many tonseed oil both selling recently at men and women of importance from lowest the prices in five years. the home state of this official were Dairy and poultry products are lowat the of abroad outbreak caught er than last year." the war, and could not get steamThis was written, of course, bea accommodations. Not cot ship the outbreak of war. It was fore to be had without waiting much was when most people did not written longer than these men and women, expecw ar. Yet the very upturn with their imaginations working in wheat mentioned was probably overtime as to what the German due more to by people who bombers were going to do to Britain, did believe inbuying the danger of war wanted to endure. than any government loan factor. So frantic cables galore were sent Next year's crops, assuming good from British and Scotch towns to weather, will probably be prodithis official. With his usual thor- gious. But, if war continues, they offor this oughness, particular will be badly needed and prWs will ficial won his spurs in the business not be low. The real problem will world before the New Deal was come, as it came after the last heard of, he went to work. 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