| Show - Sunday Morning- Uljc Suit Cake Tribune- -- - October 8 1939 A 5 I Jlionias Urges ’ooscvclt to T In the debate over the arms embargo phrases constantly recur which seem to this column to have no meaning They are put forward with great solemnity and have an immediate effect in increasing the timidity of the public One of these is the phrase "Drag us into war" We are told that if we lift the embargo on arms we shall be “dragged Into war” We should like to ask who drags whom? The whole discussion is taking on a fatalistic tinge under which one action must inevitably lead to another action The Idea that there is any human intelligence or any human will that can determine the course of events seems to be We are neverthesuspended less still a free people There is no agency in the United States that can declare war or go to war without the will of the American people If one pursues this question further we are told that if we lift the embargo on arms assaults will he made on foods coming from this shore and those assaults will "drag us into Serious Asks Thouglit ! Hitler Offer On reS Bureau ume Washington Oct of Utahi thinks itfmas Sdent ‘ - of- - Hitler's peace consider r ser Roosevelt confer- hopes a peace called participated inglv "’yn!y by belligerents but nropo'es' that two other the es should sit at T1reentan t eU!roa fr spokesman '''""presumably ’’ tr Stress 'SJutah those who nations represent the of senator defined his the following 1 for IS: with the established It might be well to recall that the president implored the last congress to lift the embargo because he insisted that war was going to break out and it would be well to have our house in order before that war began Senator Borah and others thought the president whs hysterical and advanced that as one reason for postponing consideration of the law Now we are told that it is unneutral to make a We are postponed decision therefore the victims of the belWe must no ligerent nations longer consider what is our own national interest because to do so wouldvbe "unneutral" Here the word “dragged" might well be used We are being dragged by a postponed decision But I am curious to know w hat belligerent or neutral nation will have the face to rise up and describe anything we may do as unneutral ‘Punitive Expedition’ By Dorothy Thompson for Pcacc Vet Vritcr Hits Fatalism in War Talk po-jJi- n statement of that ‘he President should consider lilted tl Susiy Hitler's suggested There are only offering- Will Germany? Germany you remember did not even make war on Poland That little venture was not a war It was a “punitive expedition with pur- suit" Will Japan? Japan is not making war in China She is merely "establishing order" Presumably she iS neutral toward China Will Russia? Russia is a leading neutral whose troops are only occupying Poland and China to protect the population Will any of the small powers? war” £ peace where lsTforced the treaty and L ? Points to Holland Here the word “drag” Is obviwrites out of place What the pother negotiated peacel he ously means is that we will speaker world of the nations Jcketh get very mad and go to war U And the answer to that is why? £ eater the chances In the last war the Netheropin-o- f the by tempered peace lands remained neutral while enstates neutral the ergetically defending its neutral Thousands of lives and millionstrade Assaults were made on 4 wealth are always saved whenwars it from both sides The country war is shortened and severe losses It did not L is limited A lasting peace suffered suffer as severe losses as it 4 eastern Europe can only come our would have done had it tied up Vouch some technique like Its shipping and drastically relieral svstem which recognizes It weighed local af-- h stricted its trade al control governing the advantages and disadvangovern-control national and n The more tages of various policies knownational affairs federate ing that no policy could save that states 4 the little even neutrals from the serious eastern Europe thegreater the effects of a large-scal- e war and the fewer fi irantee for peace bore the consechose one uss for clash will be quences and still did not go to r'Not only should the influences be wa r 5 the great neutral states Senator Vandenberg said we fosent but the influence of such must “stay all the way opt or graceful entities as could be repented by the Vatican should be get all the way in” I confess ire There should be present that I do not see any logic whatstatesman soever in this remark o a representative Since this war is being fought iiom the Jews of the world trust on the highways of the world fupse last two suggestions may the only way to gtay all the but difficulties r difficulties ft way out would be to take every fiich can be quickly swept aside those who are honestly intership off the seas and give up every bit of our foreign trade red in a peaceful world be build a Chinese wall around this j "The suggestions should not country and retire to a dugout fit of harmony with the expressed until the holocaust is over in fhjecjjves of the allies and Hitler’s the hope that when it is over Englij'er as it Is now known and and France’s position is a everything will be all right f al one Those two nations have for us both to themselves as Postponed Decision jeihgerents and to the great num-Hcon-4 We are also being told that to of neutral nations which lift the embargo now that the lute the family of T nations Whether we considered them or- W’ar has begun would be an unnued or not” neutral act i ih!nki"iR-!uLpacnemi- The definition of neutrality put forward by the Germans to all the surrounding small nations is that they must limit their trade wholly to Germany With Italy? Italy in an alliance with Germany is sitting aside and waiting and the form n will take her action or will be determined wholly and exclusively by what will he to her interest not what international law says about it because there is no international law at this moment non-actio- H Sees Danger Ahead A curious and dangerous concept of neutrality is growing up which is quite unique It is a concept of neutrality as a sort of unilateral Kellogg pact It is the concept that neutrality means the relinquishment in time of war of all rights of nations that are at pease It means that when partmf the world is at war nations at peace get off the planet for its This is the ultimate duration logic of total isolationism— the supremacy of the rights of those who make war No such concept of neutrality has ever existed Neutrality is a policy adopted for the purpose of defending the Integrity Independence welfare and institutions of a nation It is not capitulation (J er Dancing Elephant Crashes Through Stage Federal Ajrencv Lists Big Home Building Neutrality also has to be defended The aim of neutrality is to set rules and limitations upon the game of war Submits to Force Neutrality not only makes demands upon the neutral nations but upon belligerents as well A neutral nation has to enforce those demands The power to enforce those demands is proportionate to the potential military political and moral strength of the neutral nation itself If that nation shows weakness if it indicates in advance that it will not defend its neutral rights or any other rights it ts bound to become a prey to all sorts of aggression in a world where the only arbiter has become the arbiter of force If the United States wants to maintain its safety and neutrality the worst possible thing it ran do today is to announce that under no possible circumstances will it go io war If that is the way we feel we should keep it to ourselves The history of the last years is that every nation which has created such an illusion— and it is an illusion for there is a point at which all peoples will go to war— has had a very swift blow on the nose folalmost lowing immediately Oct 7 WASHINGTON UD-- The $701160800 Urban residential construction in August was valued at $105491600 232 per cent greater than in July and 35 per cent greater than in of 1938 The pachyderm actress broke through the stage at the theater Friday afternoon and found herself at the bottom of a t Saturday without success Bread slices— the delight of her appetite— and carrots and parsnips w ere offered the animal performer to coax her up an But Myrimprovised runway tle stubbornly refused the tidbits A curtain was dropped between tlie hole and the audiShe trumpeted indigtorium nantly Desperate her Irainurs gave up and turned the matter over to the Cincinnati fire department The fire fighters at first planned to use a block and tackle but gave it up ns too big hoses Shu-be- the night and most throughout 5500-poun- d federal home loan bank board reported Saturday that nearly 911-00- 0 new family dwelling 'units were built in cities over 10000 population during the first eight months of this year The homes represented an increase of 383 per cent Over the comparable'period in 1933 and cost August CINCINNATI Ohio Oct 7 (UP) — M y r 1 e a dancing elephant had a new unforgettable memory packed away in her cranium Saturday night— that of 21 hours spent at the bottom of a hole in a theater stage of coaxings pleadings and finally her "rescue" with lire rt pit Advice on how to extricate Myrtle came from all quarters 12-fo- ot and her trainers and the theater management wmrked desperately a Job They used fire hoses where vegetable delicacies had failed and Myrtle yielded She walked up the runway after water was turned on her However Myrtle couldn't go through her dancing act with two other elephants Tilly and because her trainers Jenny thought Myrtle's "stage fright" would spoil Jhe performance The matinee performance of the fanning pachyderms was canceled Said Manager Henry Som-SYier- s: "Myrtle is an elephant and she will never forget the experience Neither will I" i thereafter Urge Definite Sel-u- p If there is one lesson tiiat we can learn from other nations during the last five years it is that weakness and preventive capitulation do not bring peace This column believes that we ought to repeal the neutrality art in toto and appoint a committee of national defense made of both up of representatives parties of experts and of brave d and men to assist the president and the department of state from day ‘ to day in the conduct of affairs In a dangerous world we are preparing to tie ourselves hand and foot by legislation in advance of situations which wo cannot possibly foresee We are hampering our freedom of aplion and diminishing our political power at a time when this war is still largely in the realm of a war of nerves and still largely being fought by polities The situation is too serious for one man to handle But it's quite impossible to handle it by mandatory laws Whatever they may bp they will rise to curse us in Ihe future— as they have already done in their brief past level-heade- sny oo savings on needs for the family little givc-ablc- s Little wearables (of particular cherub or chcrub-to-b- c and little things needed in caring for interest to fond relatives and friends) Specially planned to offer you worth-whil- e Copyright 1939 New York Tribune Inc Girl’s Slayer Must Die WEST PALM BEACH Fla Oct UP)— Charles Jefferson 29 was sentenced to death in Florida’s electric chair Saturday for the hammer-slayin- g of a Miami high school girl He was convicted September 27 of beating and stabbinb Frances Dunn to death at a lonely spot near Boca Raton after assaulting the pretty young brunet He admitted luring Frances and a schoolmate Jean Bolton from their Miami homes on a promise they would be placed in the movies then assaulting both and killing Frances Circiut Judge C E Chillingworth pronounced the sentence after ded movie talent nying the scout a new tral on a first degree murder charge Dates of execution in Florida are fixed by the governor Emotionless Jefferson stood before the judge and heard a written order denying the new trial He did not reply when asked if he had anything to say 7 self-style- Hunted Youth Found Dead MjfAMILY VOTES FORxTHEJNEWSAIMIJTEJCREAM 'OF ''IWHEAT-’AND IT SAVESi ME TIME WHEN I'NEED IT MOST! 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Fire llosc Fndangcrs Men Fielding Blaze W CREAM ’CAUSE ITS SO ’ TO V'V jJs' 4 n CD-- The ranch hand sought in connection with the slaying of John Peterson 66 Montana cattle baron was found Saturday in a clump of trees near the Peterson Horse Prairie ranch 40 miles south of this southeastern Montana town Undersheriff John Troupe who led a posse in a manhunt for Runer said the young ranch hand had apparently shot himself shortly after Peterson was shot to death Friday Sheriff Paul Temple quolcd Wiliam Gangrud a I’rterson ranih employe as saying that Peterson and Runer had an altercation oxer wages just before the rancher was : 4T LOOK! AU CONE!" 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