Show 1 General WEEKLY NEWSr ANALYSIS By Farnham F Dudgeon HUGH S JOHNSON JhjUiT IM taw Sf twa LOANS TO FOREIGN WASHINGTON-Po- or I I f r LANDS Mr Hoover once set out to help our foreign trade to dispose of our surplus products by loans to “backward and crippled countries” Loans to bankrupts have a way of turning sour These did and what a panning Mr Roosevelt in 1932 gave the Great Engineer for that suggestion Mr Hoover was only proposing a policy of private loans— the money for profit His project of was relatively piker’s chickenfeed Mr Roosevelt now wants to take $500000000 out of the treasury to countries to lend to enable their governments to buy up and hold their own surplus of agriThis is a cultural products plan such as Mr Wallace has practiced in American farm It has never worked in products the history of the world although it has frequently been tried— notably in Brazilian coffee East Indian rubber Canadian grain and American wheat corn and cotton It doesn’t work because it is the presence (rather than the mere ownership) of unmanageable surplus and the certainty of oncoming crops that overhangs the market and deThat was the basic presses price fault with Mr Wallace’s “Joseph” or granary” day dream Joseph could successfully buy and store the surplus of Egypt for seven fat years and then sell it at hold-uprices during seven lean years until he owned all of Egypt He could do it because he had a dream-booand a direct wire to the Henry apparently Pearly Gates but no direct wire has a dream-booalthough the President says we are to underwrite the South American Eurplus only for one year How does he know? In the romantic days when spices were the only practical food preservative and therefore invaluable the Dutch controlled much of the East Indian trade They had a rougher If too remedy for market gluts much anise cinnamon pepper nutwas conmeg cloves or what-ngesting on the wharves they simply Mr sank the surplus in the sea Wallace has tried variations of that also That is why he killed the little pigs and cattle plowed under the cotton paid farmers for not producing and recently and more intelliplan gently through the sold farm surplus to the poor at a great discount in price and all the rest of us footed the grocery bill O K for our own people This column is for a direct federal subsidy to a “parity price” to our farmers for all their products that can be consumed at home and also p for the or any similar plan to subsidize consumption of our to all food products groups— not merely to help consume our farm surplus but to relieve us of the insufferable charge of permit ting Americans to starve or be undernourished in the midst of rotting overabundance But it is absolutely opposed to pouring five hundred or any othler number of millions of public money down any rat holes to subsidize our own competition and possibly to find their way into Hit ler’8 coffers or certainly in no small degree into the pockets of various satellites of the assorted dictatorships of the banana republics Sure we need Pan American solidarity and friendship but we can’t The only thing that will buy it make it on any worthwhile basis is community of interest If that isn’t there any amount of billions is just money thrown away Mr Roosevelt has neither right nor reason in calling this a “loan” intimating that one year's operation will do the trick or limiting his request to half a billion It is well known in Washington that this first step is part of a dollar program to make Uncle Sam the international broker for all the products of the Western world That too is grotesque fantasy Its cost would eventually take us out of the multiplication tables and into the field of logarithms The essence of all New Deal planning statesmanship diplomacy and solution of all public problems can be expressed in a single phrase “give us billions of dollars” As statesmanship that is about as realistic as Santa Claus and Aladdin’s lamp LOUIS JOHNSON I returned to Washington after the conventions to find a rumor that the new Tory Republican secretary of war had asked his vigorous assistant Louis Johnson to get the hell out of there Politics marches on— ruthlessly respecting nothing sparing nothing I have not always seen eye to At first 1 eye with Mr Johnson thought he was politicalizing and New Dealizing the army My criticism was but it proved ‘premature That Job differs from any other It is charged position by statute with industrial mobilization of the whole nation in an emerwas that My observation gency Mr Johnson did not fully appreciate this vast problem in the beHe certainly does now ginning llis work here is not paralleled elsewhere in government Congressional Attention Centers On Plan for ‘Peacetime Draft’ Air Battles Rage Over England la ' Washington D C STIMSON GIVEN FULL AUTHORITY L Stimson Republican Henry secretary of war and the only man in the United States who has served in three cabinets (Taft’s Hobver’s and Roosevelt’s) is proceeding cauBut he has been given comtiously plete authority by Roosevelt to reorganize the entire war department even including the ousting of Democratic appointees The inside story of Stimson’ s appointment can now be told It so happened that he had just address delivered a strong at the Yale un- (EDITOR'S NOTE— When opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper) Released by Western Newspaper Union from London reports that members of the House of Lords and Commons doctors lawyers and ministers are being put through their paces as members of the local defense volunteers Dr Jochlyn Perkins saJVei ct crist to W est minster Abbey is shown here being instructed in rifle drill by a member of the local defense volunteers Hull in Havana another “grab"? Fall In With legislation still pending before congress for the first United States military draft since World war days the army has announced its preliminary plans for a citizens' training program should the military compulsory training bill become a law Testifying before the house military affairs committee Brig Gen William E Shedd assistant to the army chief of staff declared that if the conscription legislation passed training for 400000 men would begin on October 1 this year and for 400000 more next April 1 and an additional 600000 October 1 1941 Registration of all U S male citizens between the ages of 18 and 64 would take place September 1 this year but only those between 21 and 45 would be liable for active service The other age groups would be used for home defense purposes First draft would probably call to the colors men without dependents between the ages of 21 and 31 General Shedd said flatly in part of his testimony that "never in time of would legislation peace” require men with dependents to enter mili- tary training While the senate military committee started the compulsory training legislation on the road with a decided majority for the approval of the measure a real legislative fight looms on the floor of both house and senate Typical of the opposition faced by the measure is the attitude who of Senator Norris has raised his voice against the legislation with the statement it would transform the United gradually States into an “international bully” bent on the destruction of other nations Only present member of the senate who voted against U S entrance into the World war Norris claims that the effect of military training on American youths would have a tendency tohnake them eventually recognize no ideal “except that of military force” Haile Selassie long a while his native Ethiopia was under invasiori by Italy's Benito Mussolini popped back into the vuth the announcement spotlight that he was returning to Africa from London to direct his nation's fight for freedom C When told that an Italian had quoted him as saying that Britain would lose the war George Bernard Shaw C s author bristled branded the story as untrue burst out with the statement that ”1 don’t know whether Britain is going to lose the war even with the help of God” Communists and Bundsmen were scored by FBI Chief Edgar J Hoover speaking before the New York state convention of police chiefs The top declared that' this new enemy "is far more crafty scheming and despicable than the the highwayman or the kidnaper C burglar” C Henry Morgenlhau Jr secretary of the treasury made things easier for U S citizens who file income tax returns with the order that henceforth the duplicate or “green copy” of the return would not be required iversity com mencement exercises when he got home and rethe long ceived distance call from Roosevelt inviting him to become secretary of war “Mr President ’’ replied Stimson "I have just delivered an Henry L Stimson address which no man in high official position should make” “I know all about your speech" Roosevelt replied in effect “and I still want you to be secretary of it E'NRICH a new luncheon cloth - with this cross stitch water-lil- y motif whose distinguishing feature is its simplicity of design A pastel lily with green leaves is suggested for natural effect Z9169 15 cents gives motifs for cloth corners and for matching napkins And when you have finished your set cool beauty for your luncheon table is the result Send order to: Box AUNT MARTHA Kansas ISt-- Enclose 19 cents for Pattern No desired City each Mo pattern Name Address Jlsk Me Another 0 war” As representatives of the 21 AmerStimson then replied that the deciican republics gathered at the Hasion was so momentous that he vana Cuba conference were threshtwo or three hours to talk it wanted ing out their problems of (1) Euroover with his wife and close friends pean colonies in the Western hemiall the time you want He“Take sphere (2) fifth column activities nry” said the President and (3) relief for disrupted economTo Note— get the full significance ic systems resulting from Europe’s war principle challenge to United of this exchange it is necessary to States leadership in a prqgram of remember that Stimson and Roosevelt had fought each other in New unified activity came from the ArTHE WAR: York state politics ever since 1910 gentine delegation ‘Dice Are Cast and of State Cordell Hull when Stimson rah for governor Secretary When England’s foreign secretary outlined the program advocated by Roosevelt just out of Harvard ran for the state senate Viscount Halifax replied to Adolf the United States which calls for imAfter two or three hours StimHitler’s “last chance peace offer” mediate financial aid to any country son telephoned the President and he left very little doubt as to the in need of it (congress was speedHowevfirm intention of the Churchill goving work on a $500000000 fund to accepted the appointment ernment to resist until the last any aid countries whose er he added one condition to I as used not as “I’m invasion young attempted by Germany for markets had been lost because of in part of his address he declared: the war) diplomatic and consular be” he said “and I can’t work 18 " 20 we realize that the struggle more Therea and hours of aimed at any day planning suppression fore I’ve got to have men around but just subversive and fifth column activity may cost us everything because the things we are defend- and a joint trusteeship of me whom I know intimately and can are worth in this hemiing any sacrifice it is a possessions absolutely trust A tremendous renoble privilege to be the defenders will be on my shousphere by all of the American responsibility of things so precious we shall publics lders” Stimson added "and I cannot stop fighting until freedom for Argentina particularly objected to not afford to fail” ourselves and others is secure” To this Roosevelt replied in banthe latter suggestion for that counBack came Berlin with bombs try has some very definite ideas tering tone: “Appoint anyone you As widespread aerial about the British Falkland islands plus bombast want Henry The only thing I ask raids were launched up and down and in case of England’s defeat by is not to appoint too many Repubthe British coast official German Germany would prefer actual pos- licans at the very first” circles let it be known that the session of them rather than a e Stimson apparently did not catch Venewith 20 other nations talking was over and henceforth the joking note in the President’s "facts must now speak” zuela would like the Netherlands for he replied: voice “You can reEast is Indies and Guatemala Just what shape these "facts” rest assured Mr President that would take was not announced by ported to have designs on British whether Democrats or Republicans the Nazi high command but London Honduras will be good men” they Main reason that the Argentine believed that a "stagger system” of The first man Stimson asked to increasing air and naval attack day delegation was hesitant to immedihelp him in Washington was a Demby day until it would be capped by ately fall in line with any proposal Benedict Crowell now presiocrat a general offensive in conjunction that might be construed as a slap at the dictators was because of the dent of the Central National bank of with a wholesale attempted landing Cleveland and formerly assistant of troops would be attempted by effect upon her future trade relasecretary of war under Woodrow tions with Europe llitler’a forces Wilson He is also a close friend of Roosevelt’s who was then assisBUSINESS: Cost of War tant secretary of the navy Crowell England's biggest wartime budget Pile Up got to know Stimson when the war was announced as the heaviest taxes As numerous mills and factories department was under bitter Repubin British history were introduced to continue run the at to meet the demands of the governhighest levels lican attack in 1920 and Stimson a of since 1929 orders for defense goods Republican and an ment’s war program war defended him are piling up much additional busiIncome taxes were boosted to 42H ness for U S industry So this time Stimson asked and declared cent that per experts Since the beginning of the govCrowell to help him by going to this in connection with other in Washington and making a quiet surprogram creased taxes would demand that ernment’s preparedness Britain surrender almost 70 per cent over one billion dollars in army and vey of the situation inside the war of all normal income to finance the navy contracts have been awarded department Stimson had not yet and while little cash has actually been confirmed by the senate and fight against Germany and Italy been expended these orders and could noLmake the survey himself U S residents of those states imthose placed by the British governBut he wanted to know all the facts posing a sales tax of 2 and 3 per cent who are inclined to grumble as ment in this country are directly re- in advance in order to waste no for the current climb in time once he took the oath of office they lay down the pennies may take sponsible Crowell made the survey and rewhatever comfort they can from the business indices Defense projects news that the British now pay a including shipported that the production of new 12 ammunition tax" and to from fuel war ways “purchase storage ranging iveapons and material was pro33 Howper cent on entertainment facilities barracks explosive plants gressing most satisfactorily beer wine and tobacco Rate on machine shop extensions addition ever he found the war department to orders for airplanes constitute the rent with feuds and the items is 12 per cent of repersonnel tail prices major factors in the general rise of situation badly in need of reorganibusiness activity zation POLITICS: Other business firms of a nonmilitary nature seem to be following Ao Moth Balls NEW NAVAL BOSS the general trend of the Col Frank Knox new Republican While the bunting of both major For example as the moof the navy already has conventions is safely tor car industry reported that sales secretary political sized up by the admirals They are unusually high for this season been packed away in moth balls for antheir new boss this w'ay: other four years the 1940 presiden- of the year Schenley Distillers cor- describe “Hard-boileand seems to know his tial campaign is beginning to warm poration (liquor) announced that net stuff" up and is taking on the aspects of earnings for the first half of 1940 Naval officers frankly admit howwere up almost 50 per cent over the the most spirited campaign contest ever that they don’t like Kndx— Woodrow Wilson defeated since comparable period of 1939— returnwhich is a good omen For the adCharles Evans Hughes in 1916 ing $144 per share on common stock mirals never like a secretary of the as 78 cents last year compared to Biggest news on the Republican and navy who really runs the show comfront is the announcement that WenAnd in the navy today thev certainly dell Willkie has chosen August 17 pany maker of billiard and bowling need a secretary reported a very similar as the date and Elwood Ind (his equipment Note— It is significant that Knox increase in business by showing birthplace) as the place to be of- net profit of 87 cents a share for the is clearing all naval changes through ficially notified that he is the G O first six months of this year as com Roosevelt The President still keeps P presidential nominee the navy as his governmental pet pared with 45 cents in 1939 Out in Wyoming the man who “i! MISCELLANY: glad to run” against Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his vacation into Grcat Am George McGill of Kan-sa- s campaign trip and started a series in the 1938 G O P of personal appearances throughout C Twenty-fou- r leaders of the “Great is hot after the Land Bank I cleanup Am” cult were wild and indicted by a Los the politically important that will become West Angclca federal grand Jury on eommlsslonership vacant August 1' when Incumbent WiUkie also announced the forma charges of a $3000000 mail fraud The indictment charges that the cult Roy Green leaves to become tlon of a committee of four Demopresicrats and former New Dealers who sets itself up as a charity organiza- dent of the University of Colorado tion but actually defrauds those who McGill has have broken with the President the backing of American The cult has Farm lead a national campaign which contribute to bureau moguls who have claimed a million members throughwould enlist Democrats and Indeor land out the country and was founded In bucked the administration pendents in the support of the Rebank policies— which won’t help 1930 Its founder Ballard George ticket next November publican McGill’s chances died last December Now that Lithuania Latvia and Estonia have ended their independence by voting themselves Into the Soviet Union the Influence of Russia turns In a new direction Reports Indicate that Moscow Is interested In seeing a “popular government” set up In Rumania and some sources claim that King Carol is said to be preparing a shift away from cabinet of Ion Gigurtu Is the bear’s paw reaching out for the Nazi-lik- e U S DEFENSE: Waterlily Motif for Your Luncheon Set Pulpit or Bullet A General Quiz The Question a 1 What men besides Pershing the title “general of the armies”? 2 What state was the first in the Union to grant equal suffrage to bore women? 3 What day of the month is the penultimate day? 4 What does the abbreviation stand for? 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