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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne Vote in Senate Holds Key to Decision On Extent of U. S. Plans to Aid British; Auto Plants Adopt 'All-Out' Schedules In Drive to Boost Defense Production (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 iTninn i NATIONAL DEBATE: Americas Role A state which, in the epoch ol race poisoning, dedicates itself to cherishing its best racial elements ele-ments must some day be master of the world. Let the adherents of our movement never forget this. Closing words of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." In the historic halls where Clay and Webster debated, where an empire em-pire was planned by the winning of the West, where Woodrow Wilson pledged "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" in the cause of democracy, another crisis of America is being weighed in the balance. Congress is considering what will be the resuKs of a policy of unrestricted unre-stricted help to Great Britain in her moment of travail with German might. President Roosevelt asked for unprecedented un-precedented powers to deal with the situation, powers which will , make this nation an economic ally, if not a belligerent one, with the last outpost out-post against authoritative government govern-ment in Europe. His bill would permit per-mit him to lease or lend England, without further congressional consultation, con-sultation, all material aid in the way of munitions and supplies. It is admitted ad-mitted generally that these supplies, if they can be manufactured and arrive ar-rive in time, will be the only way in which Britain can hold out. Even with them, Britain is given but a 50-50 chance. Even the inaugural ceremonies which placed Mr. Roosevelt in office of-fice for the third term lacked the usual gaiety due to the somber effects ef-fects of the hour. The battle ai- : fit , REP. TIXKHAM AND REP. FISH They "bellowed" opposition. ready had begun in the house. Cabinet Cab-inet members told legislators that a crushing blow will be started by the Axis powers within 60 or 90 days. As an echo, came word from Berlin and Rome confirming this prediction. predic-tion. Opposition But there was no sign of quick agreement. Isolationists, including Representative Fish (R., N. Y.) and Tinkham (R., Mass.) bellowed their opposition. The bearded Massachusetts congressman shook his finger at Secretaries Knox, Stim-son Stim-son and Morgenthau and challenged them to prove that if Britain falls the United States will be attacked. Isolationist views are that an America of 130,000,000 people can stand alone; that Hitler and Japan would be ready to do business on just as good terms with us as would a victorious Britain; that all-out aid to Britain will only create vast taxes and vast debt. They feel the United States should mind its own business. The President's view, and apparently appar-ently the view of a majority in both houses, is that the United States already al-ready stands warned by both Japan and Hitler that in an Axis-controlled world a democracy cannot hope to exist; that if England goes down unaided she will line up with America's Amer-ica's enemies to add to its confusion. confu-sion. With combined powers of 800,000,-000 800,000,-000 people opposing our 130,000,000, Germany would control export that would jeopardize the living power of 3.000.000 U. S. cotton growers and 1,000.000 U. S. wheat exporters. The combined navies of a defeated England Eng-land and the Axis powers would exceed ex-ceed ours by three times, and the ship building capacity would be six times that of the United States. Senate Is Key Administration defense leaders say the power is needed at once, that every clay lost i3 an opportunity opportu-nity lost. But they despair of having hav-ing the bill passed before March 1, if then. They recall that conscription, conscrip-tion, for America's ovn defense, was debated almost six months and the program delayed a year, due to the approach of winter and inability to send men to carnp because barracks bar-racks were delayed until selective service was voted. PRODUCTION: Ail-Out Schedule The National Automobile Manufacturers Manu-facturers association has decided it will not hold its national show in New York this year. The industry is top busy with defense production. New models wiU come off the assembly as-sembly lines as usual, but the yearly year-ly exhibits at the Grand Central Palace Pal-ace won't be held and neither will exhibits elsewhere, except in distributors' dis-tributors' own show rooms. Strikes in isolated sections cut somewhat into production, although the department of labor said that such stoppages were only a fraction ARE REfilSriRED FflF WASHINGTON, D. C.Here is the new defense poster, printed in patriotic colors, which will be displayed by manufacturers after they have complied with instructions in connection with "Preparedness Through Production' week. Governors of more than a score of industrial stoles have proclaimed their willingness to co-operate with the defense commission and the National Association of Manufacturers by urging all manufacturers to register their facilities fa-cilities for defense production. as compared to those during the war effort in 1917. One stoppage was at the Saginaw, Mich., plant of the Eaton Manufacturing company, where airplane parts are being made. It was called by the C. I. O. Automobile Workers who charged the firm refused to hire 300 men under an agreement signed last December De-cember after another strike. James F. Dewey, federal labor mediator, speeded to the scene in a hurry. He said he would take drastic steps if the plant was not in operation within 24 hours. The strike ended within that period. In San Diego, Calif., a strike was threatened at the plant of the Ryan Aeronautical company. State draft headquarters issued a statement that men who went on strike would be considered by draft boards to have no employment and therefore no longer exempted from the selective selec-tive service act as defense workers. work-ers. The ruling stood less than 24 hours. Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, acting federal director of the law, revoked it. Meanwhile Sidney Hillman, C.I.O. vice president and assistant director of the Office of Production Management, Manage-ment, was ill in a Baltimore hospital. hos-pital. It is Mr. Hillman's job to handle labor problems in the defense de-fense effort and Washington was anxious over his condition and hoped for his speedy return. CONFERENCES: Miles Apart Miles apart in spirit and purpose were two conferences. In Washington Washing-ton met President Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie, who opposed him as the 1940 Republican candidate. They came together, agreed in advance ad-vance that all aid must be given Britain to defeat Germany. They sought a formula to battle for that objective. In Germany, Hitler and Mussolini met. The place of their conferences was kept a secret except that it was in Germany, and all telephones out of the Reich were closed down to prevent the knowledge getting about. It-was a subtle compliment to the British air force. Previously when the two Axis partners met to discuss war plans, it was at Brenner pass, on the border bor-der of the two countries. This time Mussolini went to Hitler. There also was a subtle difference there. II Duce had started out on a war of his own, took a licking on several fronts and required help to extract him from the situation which resulted. result-ed. Hitler was giving Italy such help, probably more than was desired. Not only did Hitler send troops, airplanes, air-planes, tanks and soldiers. He also sent economic experts, another subtle pjint since economic experts always follow the German army into occupied territory to take over its economic life. What transpired at the conference wasn't made public in detail. Announcements An-nouncements merely said the two leaders had made plans for the I!M1 putsch on England. It was anyone's guess who made the plans and who gave the orders. ITRENDS . . . C President Roosevelt is reported report-ed interested in a plan for pooling pool-ing state reserves of the unemployment un-employment insurance system. Some states are building reserves far above needs, while others have inadequate funds. C. Surveying the municipal bond market for the past 12 months, Barcus, Kindred & Co., Chicago, found an increase of $70,245,400 in the volume of state and municipal mu-nicipal financing last year compared com-pared with the year before.. The 1940 total was $1,168,849,865, compared com-pared with $1,098,604,265 the year before. The rising trend was most pronounced in the closing months of the year. C Farm groups are suggesting that the United States demand of Great Britain a statement of its coming food needs, and that the administration propose a good quota of these be filled by American orders in proportion to the amount of defense materials allowed. IN THE ARMY: Yard Birds Slang changes in the army as well as in civil life. Many veterans oi the World war getting back into camp today would hardly know what some of the men were talking about. For instance, in 1917 a new recruit was a "rookie," today he is a "yard bird." The army is anticipating many new "yard birds." Some of them bear names widely known in civil life. Others drew attention due to the methods of their arrival. ' In the first class was Daniel R. Topping, millionaire owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and husband of skater-actress Sonja Henie. He has a low draft number and was classified classi-fied for immediate duty, although married. Said Topping: "My wife is scarcely dependent upon my income." in-come." In somewhat the same situation situ-ation was Yehudi Menuhin, world famous violinist, also married. A California board ruled his wife, the former Nola Nicholas of Austria, Aus-tria, has an independent income and Menuhin had acquired wealth through his musical genius which would provide for her. He asked for no exemption and received none. But he was given a 90-day leave in order to complete a planned South American tour. Arthur Victory Christman, 22, was a "yard bird." He was born at 11 a. m. November 11, 1918, in New York. A draft board in New Jersey Jer-sey sent him to camp. Wendell Grove, 26. a baritone horn player, read that the Third Infantry band at Fort Snelling needed his type of musician. He tried to enlist en-list and was turned down because he is married. The next day he appeared ap-peared at the recruiting office with a note which read: "I hereby certify cer-tify that I have no objection to my husband entering the army for a year. Signed Mrs. Wendell Grove." He's a "yard bird" now. Frank B. Thompson, 45, president of the $5,000,000 Glenmore Distilleries, Distil-leries, got a leave of absence and I I j . ; ) WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., oil tycoon, is pictured here as he was inducted into the army by a Selective Service bourd in New York city. He's a "yard-bird" "yard-bird" now. joined the Kentucky National Guard as a private, although he served in the World war as a lieutenant. The following day he was taken out of the ranks and made captain of the company in which he enlisted. Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra and movie producer, is a special kind of "yard bird." He will devote three days a week to directing the Third Coast Artillery band at San Pedro, Calif. MISCELLANY: C. How the army has grown! Now j there are more civilians employed by the army than there were soldiers sol-diers in the entire military establishment estab-lishment a year ago. The war department de-partment announced that use of civilians ci-vilians in non-military work is a definite def-inite policy and that 180,000 are now so employed. C. Declaration that a radio station "cannot be an advocate" but must represent oil sides of public information infor-mation "without bias" was made by the Federal Communications commission. com-mission. The corn rn iss ion rebuked station WAAI1 of lioston for deviating deviat-ing from this policy, but renewed its license because it said the owner had pledged "not to colur or editorialize" edi-torialize" news in the future. fl In the midst of the inaugural excit'Tnent, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Corcoran, once high on the stafT of New Deal nd visors. |
