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Show LEH1 military-strategis- t Reducing food production in U. S. (Released present circumstances. WNU Service! WASHINGTON. There were peo- pie in Britain, France, and the Unit- ed States in 1939 who hoped tor peace, and based part of their hope on the notion that Hitler would not willingly produce a situation which would lead to his own shelving. The theory was that, if war came, the German army would at once per- force become supreme, and that its commanders would tolerate no in- terference. The new British ambassador, talk- ing to officials here, has pointed out several times that there is no in- telligence in underrating Hitler's ability that he is one of the great military strategists of all time. This hitherto unrevealed side of the Nazi leader was brought back to Washington long enough ago to have warned us, for it was well before the war broke out at the end of the summer of 1939. The story was brought by Albert e W. Fox, crack newspaper man and now Washington lawyer. Fox is one of the "experts" on American Civil war strategy. If you have ever heard of no such experts debating whether Stonewall Jackson took too much of a risk in his flank movement at Chancellorsville, or whether Lee should have taken Longstreet's advice instead of going to Gettysburg, you will know the breed. Suffice it to say that Fox is one of them, and that fellow experts admit that he is j j ' one-tim- self-educat- good. VERSED IN CIVIL WAR Early in 1939 Fox was in Germany. He had mutual friends who brought about a meeting with Hitler for him. What had been planned as a short greeting expanded to virsession. Why? tually an Because Hitler said something about the Civil war, and before any of his aides could say "Jeb Stuart" it was not Hitler who was snared it was Fox. There was no escape. Not that Fox wanted to escape. No Civil war expert- - ever wants to retreat until the other expert has admitted all his errors. On his return to Washington. Fox told a good many of us that he his sunprior in Hitlpr. "That man knows more about any given Civil war battle than I do," said Fox. Which statement, by the way, you will not appreciate, unless you know one of these experts and have seen them in action. "What is more" said Fox, "I never met anyone who knew so much about our Civil war campaigns." y rec-oeniz- by frgj R Western Newspaper Union. a Apparently the U. S. government is making the same mistake in delaying a start on increased food production that the British government is now so bitterly regretting. At the outbreak of the present war, in September, 1939, a survey by the London Times showed that there were 3,000,000 acres less under cultivation than had been producing food at the end of the last war. The Scotch sheep raisers, for instance, were greatly discouraged over the obvious eagerness of the government to increase British consumption of Argentine beef. There were very sound economic reasons for increasing Argentina's ability to purchase British manufactured goods, but from a military standpoint they were very unsound. It is a long sea haul from Buenos Aires to any British port, and, preparing for war in other days, the British, government overlooked the '.fact that in wartime they might not be able to spare the bottoms to bring this food, not to mention the possibility that German submarines, raiders, mines and bombers might make it impossible to get the ships through at all. V. S. POLICY SIMILAR There is not the same element of gambling with danger in the mistaken policy the United States has been pursuing, and apparently will continue to pursue for some months, at least, to come. But economically it is just as cockeyed. The department of agriculture, with the enthusiastic approval of congress, is still working on the idea that it is sound business to pay the farmers NOT to raise food. The idea, of course, was always to hold ,the price up. But the administration is struggling to bold ALL prices down. It doesn't talk about holding farm prices down, but obviously a rise in the cost of food would boost the cost of living, and hence tend to produce more labor troubles. But, if the government would just take its hands off, it would not only save hundreds of millions of dollars which could be used for defense, but the farmers would eagerly rush back to the old habit of producing all they could. Thus, just by letting nature take its course, the country would avoid a food problem next year and the year afterward. there any, and if so, where? Badog-lio- , the Caesar of Ethiopia, went the way of Gort and Gamelin. And Marshal Graziani, Libyan defender, "resigned" because of his many reverses. That leaves America. At this moment, America's of the second World war is George Catlett Marshall, chief of staff and commanding general. He is a remarkably nice fellow. He has light blue eyes, and did not go to West Point. In army politics there is a good deal of feeling against the Pointers, so this is in Marshall's favor. Instead, he went to the little Point of the Southland Virginia Military institute at Lexington in the Shenandoah valley. V. M. I. also turned out Stonewall Jackson, Washington-Jackson-Gra- gan. The War of 1812 was perhaps the American army s most dismal episode. It turned out traitors, pol troons and phonies. But it also produced bucolic Gen. Andrew Jackson, of the same tough Scotch Irish stock as Dan Morgan's riflemen. Jackson won the concluding battle of New Orleans, after his countrymen had met defeat at Detroit, Queenstown, and up and down the long Canadian border. In the Mexican war there were two of them: Zach Taylor and Win nie Scott. Scott was "old fuss and feathers" to the boys in blue. Tay lor was a political general from the while Scott was a regular. Both men were amiable and efficient, especially Scott, who had learned his tricks as a youngster back in 1812. The exploits of this twain, with tiny forces far from home, were almost epic. In the Civil war we have a double set-uNorth and South. The north were the usual big em three of the latter originally a cavalry chief. Sherman was the best of the three, and the best in the whole war, ac cording to the world's leading mili tary critic, B. H. Liddell Hart of England. The southern team was Lee - Jackson - Forrest. Stonewall Jackson was killed in Five Generals Became President In the Spanish war there were generals and admirals and what named nots, but a lieutenant-colonTeddy Roosevelt ran away with the show. He commanded the rough rid ers at San Juan Hill, and rode him- self into the White House, in good company. The company was as fol lows: Washington, Jackson, Taylor and Grant a general from each war, who became President. That brings us down to the second World war. In this war there have been very few generals of note. England's Gort and Ironside were kicked upstairs after Dunkirk. France's Gamelin, a nice fellow like Gort, is more than in the doghouse. Generals Petain and in this man's war, are political generals rather than Finland's Mannerheim and Greece's dead Metaxas were who combined business with pleasure, when it came to their particular Russian and Italian phases of Armageddon II. Germany's air chief, Hermann Goering, is a purely political general, while Keitel is a desk general who does a job like our own Henry Stimson. Manfred von Brauchitsch is the top German field general, but not well r. el d, s. dictato- r-generals IS fat. W f GEN. GEORGE MARSHALL the "right arm" of Robert E. Lee. Marshall, however, hails from that hotbed of Quakers and generals and Quaker generals: Pennsylvania. Extremely Hard Worker. Marshall has a likeable personality. He is not technical in his phrasing, but human and understandable. He has never been a publicity hound, but he does like to talk. He likes to expound his ideas, and he has plenty of these without a doubt He is an extremely hard worker, and of a restless turn of mind and body. Since he got the high com mand, he has flown nearly 30,000 miles about the countryside, on trips of inspection. He has another aspect one that every great general through history has husbanded. He sticks by his old soldiers through thick and thin, and they have direct access to him at any time. Cams Julius was that way, and so were Wellington and Napoleon, and so was LudendorfT, who unfortunately stuck by an named A. Hitler. General Marshall lives at one of Fort Washington's show places Myer, just outside the District of Columbia. This is the fortress that Staff-chi- ef Income Rises to New High : v ni' i me morning ai which is more than the privates have to do. He likes to ride his horse for an hour or so before breakfast. He gets to his oif.ee in the war department around 7 o ciock, though the department does nui open, officially, till 8:45. He reads all his own morning man ciose iu half a hundred letters per diem. in gets up f r 5$ I uwuoimw ttuxiness and afrituliural conditions in the U. S. during April are indicated i n ouuooH 1.1 fax arable, with national income expected to reach iv ii.jdi. numi income u ui prooaoly oe somewhat offs.it Vy higher costs. on me uotrvt map. By L. G. ELLIOTT President, LaSalle Extension University PHILADELPHIA. The general outlook for both agriculture and industry is favorable. There may be some offset to rising income by higher costs despite government pressure to keep prices from rising. But these will not be enough to keep farm income from rising to the highest level in 11 years. And the total national income is expected to reach - Farm prospects for this year are K at West des. Afdcan erts, for change a on Transfer No. h)g gaudjest nf h ii ITlOSt rna ad-r- Lres Z9272 CARDINAL, robin and ban, swaUow 30m with the e chickadee meadow lark, bluebird and indigo bunting in bringing color to your lawn or gar- cy tume m natural sue . on mis iransier, reaay 10 De traced to plywood, wallboard or thin lum. was five cents for the subway, g which started his writing reer Mr Burman will be with Gen-- ; eral Wavell's army and with the DeGaulle forces, accredited by a magazme and a syndicate. j Mr. Burman's first river book, 'Steamboat Round the Bend, became the last film in which red-rid- ca-win- ber. Cut them from the wood with White-Houser- s. m EkfiALE COMPLAINTS ' rs gilt-edge- nt storm.-Metasta- hicks :rs ,sr Odds Are Against Rain on Easter Day s. well-style- fcT- - Aft Sg promoting look Most of the long morning he bickers jig, coping or keyhole saw and with congressmen, reporters, aides, paint according to suggestions on After Will Rogers appeared. He has luncn, or the pattern. Then place them in at Hollytrees or on bushes to brighten the betimes, on the desk in his omce , j that he did a stretchunder way wood, and then got a luncheon of pie and milk, or per-and books with some more river haps a chocolate bar. All afternoonto he labors and does all that he has magaxine stories, riding not only General cutout directions are on trantter do: bickerings anew, confabs, hasty rivers, incidentally, but camels, ZS272, IS cents. Send order to: toin this same desert country plans. It's all decisions, long-terward which be is beading now. in good hands. He takes home-wor- n AUNT MARTHA home with him and studies till far Box 1M-Kantai City, Mo. On this trip, Mrs. Burman, who into the night hours, brushing up for is Alice Caddy, the artist who illusEnclose 15 cents for each pattern rou the morrow. It's not an easy desired. Pattern No trates his books, is going with him, tine. to supply a obligato Name m man, a is Marshall "Pershing" for his stories. Mrs. Burman scores Address the army lingo. He was a Pershing heavily in both his traveling and aide up to 1924, has Pershing meas, the disclosed as story by In the arriving, and a Pershing background. Mr. Burman once told me. same way, in France, Weygand is a "I quit my job as a reporter on After Esfintrl Fnoh man while Gamelin was a tc .write stories World the Morning Carnot a Joffre man, and Napoleon Maybe it's just acid indigestion. It ui mc... .vj man. This in armv circles, is lor 1 wiuie on making extraordinarily quick often follows hurried or hearty eating. him. kept also against Marshall, and round trips to the publishers. One ADLA Tablets contain Bismuth and Pershing has always been someday I was fondling and caressing my Carbonates to quickly relieve stomcontroversial a of thing, perhaps, last dime when I passed a baker's ach distress from acid indigestion. not. is figure. Marshall, however, Get ADLA from your druggist today. There is very little controversy shop, with some Ifreshly baked buns! am instinctively a about Marshall. This is very fortu- in the window. The dime went for four plunger. nate in the year of grace, 1941. Those We Admire buns. Knows How to Compromise. We always love those who a"After the banquet, I sang Marshall is patient, likes order, dmire us, and we do not always love 'The Star Spangled Banner' and dislikes chaos, and knows how to those whom we admire. went home, pondering various he has to. compromise Marshall's original purpose was a plans for making a fresh start in life. There was a letter from comparatively small, highly trained, He!p to Relieve Distress ofv the Pictorial Review, saying perfectly equipped force of regulars, Aft liked 'Minstrels my story, they capable of attempting anything. of the Mist,' and would print it. er the fall of France, last June, came conscription ana untrained "My dime was gone, and while PERIODIC masses of raw material. Marshall the buns had bucked me up a bit, I had to change his plans to conform was too weak to walk to the magato an emotional public opinion. A zine office. There just wasn't that Try Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable good many of the regulars have not much mileage in four buns. Then Compound to help relieve monthly cared for this. Their slogan has! t thoucht of a Drettv eirl I had seen! headaches, backache and pain, ALSO calm Irritable nerves due to been "business as usual." Marshall going in and out of her near-b- y monthly functional disturbances. himself is basically an' infantry gen- - Greenwich Village studio. I called Plnkham's Compound Is simply on tanks marvelous to help build up resisfaddist not a on her, told her my story and sug- eral, warped tance against distress of "difficult or air. kvery army unit, today, is cested that she invest a nickel in rittvn n.mmi fnr over 60 vearsl Hundreds of thousands of girls and half to three-quarted composed of my career. women report remarkable benents. mere recruits, but Marshall cannot WORTH TBYINUl it a looked "She said like good help that. He has had to accept the bet, but she, too, was short on draft, whether he liked it or not. liquid assets but she had six Presumably, he does, but some of cents in stamps which she would Yields to Conquer his officers, presumably, do not. be glad to risk. I converted the Know that the slender shrub numin mere faith little They put which is seen to bend, conquers stamps into a five-cepiece at bers, and prefer quality to quantity. sio. a stationery store, and bought a when it yields to the All this is debatable, and remains ride. The subway magazine to be seen. Our military future appeople gave me a check for pears to be in good hunds, though, of . S600." Of course he went right Anglo-Frenc- h the course, thought back and married the girl. the same of Gort and Gamelin. PRODUCTION BRED, MOUNTAIN Mr. Burman was badly wounded Marshall's first wound came at . V. M. I. a bayonet wound in a in the World war and walked with a BRED, AND ACCLIMATED . . hazing accident. Let's hope he suf- cane and crutches for several years fers no more knifing no more afterward. He returned to Harvard, wounds from the political hazing of and was graduated in 1920. NEW nAMraniKM BARRED ROCKS that sometimes strident bedlam, the WHITE ROCKS BUFF ORPlMiTONS of Washington intrigue. fieshpots WHITE WYANDOTTE CIR ARTHUR SALTER, British CORNISH GAMES economist and philosopher, has WHITE GIANTS been building a bridge of ideas beBROWN LEGHORN" LIGHT BRAHMA8 tween Britain and the U. S. A. for FRESH. 0ef Hatched Delivered SIGHT. quite aXTfew British Heavy-Dut- y Birht delivery t all IntermounUln H"1 cenIn YORK. the NEW years. Now, Fourth Poults tury of the Christian era, when the Thinker Foresaw as parlia-BrUt- . Mammoth Bronze Turkey SOe each deliver. stry to Ste Priced time of the Easter celebration was of Ships' S-X-miniWrite, Wire or Call for FREE IllurtrtW settled for future generations by the Circular. of shipping, he comes over Council at Nicea, nothing was said to help build a "bridge of shiDs." That weather. Easter concerning from Washington is that he vagary, therefore, has been left free News UTAH PIONEER HATCHERY to be anything it liked, and on about will be a powerful councillor in deSALT LAKE CITY. I'TAH 16 Easters of the last 50, United vising ways and means to run the of German submarines and States weather bureau records gantlet show, it has either snowed, hailed, keep goods moving to England. 15-- 41 This isn't his specialty, but he is one WNU W rained, or been cold and blustery. thinkers. Back in 1875, records show the of Britain's heavy-dut- y When he delivered the Jonachance that the Great Character than Peterson lecture in New weather might be inclement was Character is higher than inteYor, five years ago, he stirred llect. A great soul will be strong possibly a disaster for the some sharp criticism in the Rain-gar- b hadn't reached to live, as well as to think.-Emer-- son. American press on the ground d the stage, and the shapethat he was assuming too much less coat of the day was no attracabout our fraternal tive addition to milady's costume of with Britain. He urged this counGreek hair arrangement, Elizabethof worU yea"wrelT. mn7 use. try to join other nations in fendan ruff;. Louis Quatorze jacket, the wide wendeM off war and ing be accepted insisted that fan representing the Trianon, and I of we could do this without dantotisjaciorj the Moorish jewelry which she wore. And favorable robl gerous entanglements or comOpinion .upporU tW Today, however, the raincoats of mitments. Our intellectual elite such fabrics as transparent koro-seawho test the vl of banking, finance, foreign polmade in the military fashion Doan's under eJactin.: laboratory conai"""-icy and economics heard and apnow being highlighted in the smart These physicians, too, approve every w o plauded, but were not so perwomen's suits, make protective apof advertising you read, the objective r"' which ia only to recommend V on turbed as the somewhat gloomy parel a definite part of the Easter as a food diuretic treatment for cwj Sir Arthur. of the kidney function and for relict parade. and worry it causes. . It's a bit difficult to imagine how Sir Arthur is a shrewd, wary, grim theIf pain j,, more people were aware of remove w the observance of Easter, purely re- little man. He is short, muscular, kidneys must constantly without that cannot stay in the blood ligious in origin, became so indis-- vigorous and' alert, and endowed Jury to health, there would be solubly associated with spring mil- with a skeptical mind which has enderstandinj of why the whole body n abled him to' score heavily as a when kidney Ia, and diuretic "WW aulinery. Perhaps the ton would be more often employed. nri" thor of a book on etiquette, who prophet. However, he is of the infrequent Burning, scanty or too disturbed or tuitive all sometimes warn of over the said: "A superstition "hunching" school of tion function. sufftr You naming ot may world is that one should wear at statesmanship. When he feels inache, persistent headache, attacks least one new article of clothing on spiration stirring, he goes swimming tineas, tetting up nights. vel"D',JL,k under the eyes feel weak, Easter, or bad luck will follow," and floats on his back; looking up neaa all played out. relT o into the to had do Use have with DoenS PilU. It Is better to in something may the sunwor won medicine has that shine. new This of At seems the sprouting to have the effinery. any claim than on iomething less favor"" rate, back in the early 1890s, New fect of disjointing rigid known, Aih your ntiffhborl York began observing the day by sequences and enhancing his the famous parade along Fifth ave "extrasensory perception," the eift of all good "hunch" men nue, a now universal tradition. fashion-consciou- a new peak. WNU Service.! Features RAMSHAW'S LaSalle Map of Business Conditions- - l .. Mt A yiy all-sta- rs -- ' Miserable p: front-fighter- t . 1 black-and-whi- h, Wey-gan- md THIS River Impresario national to the Arlington attached is the Nickel Placed tank while Had is Gudenan known, cemetery. expert who overran the west. When soldier'slikeable Marshal Marsnau On Career, Won The it comes to Italian generals are .1 so-call- Britain, U. S., Err In Food Production - VDRK Our old friend Ben Lucien Burman, the author who vi became the leading impresario to take a off by clipper is rivers, x t Benedict Arnold and Dan Mor- mid-wa- ' LEMUEL F. PARTON .Consolidated WASHINGTON. Every American war, or war in which America was interested, has turned out a general, or two, or three. In the Revolution there were George Washington and Nathaniel Greene, of first rank. Strangely enough, the general who won that war's primary victory, Saratoga, was not of first rank by any manner of means. His name, still unpopular in army circles, was Horatio Gates. Gates disliked Washington, and the "Gates" triumph over Burgoyne was really won by such subordinates as slave-Sout- WHO'S nnm NEWS By ROGER SHAW seems unsound under all-da- ,:, Gen. Marshall Heads Army As Nation Watches World Conflict. Civil tear "expert" reveals BU Syndicate r 'i n Great Generals In Every War Reviewed by CARTER FIELD . . . IT AH U. S. Develops NATIONAL AFFAIRS Hitler as great FREE PRESS. LEHI. favorable. The total acreage which farmers are planning to plant is about the same as last year. Some snins are being made amone the different crops because supplies of export farm commodities, such as cotton, tobacco, and wheat, are large, while the foreign demand has been much below normal. Farmers are trying, insofar as possible, to concentrate their efforts on produC' ing those products that are used mostly in domestic consumDtion The market outlook for these is most favorable. l, . f"Z, well-know- sky-prefe- rably cause-and-effe- ct vmmm |