Show QUOTES 0 T E S COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters NEW YORKS FAIR by FIORELL 0 H LA GUARDIA mayor of 0 new york to sphere HERE is need of something to start things going al and the suggestion of a world s fair in bew york city serves that en it Is bound to have beneficial et ef facts on business on real estate and the morale of the entire city it Is something to hope tor for it Is something to keep us going for the next four years and that Is why I 1 so readily endorsed the idea now four years may seem a long time to some but it Is a very short time to for an undertaking of the magnitude that Is being planned plan planned Zed dont forget that new york city can not get away avay with a second rate world worlds s fair it cannot be a worlds fair which Is just as good as any other city has ever had it must be something so impressive so much greater so much more jerech er act than any other worlds fair has ever been to be a success tf if it Is held in anew york city there Is so much more expected of us than there Is from any other city in the country NAZI TREATMENT OF JEWS by HERBERT 11 LEHMAN LERMAN governor ot of new york I 1 IN N PEACE they contributed to germany s well being in war they laid down their lives for germany s greatness suddenly almost without warning by official al and na lional edict all the jews of germany COO people were singled out for destruction economically socially and politically they have been harried and driven out of their positions in business in public life in industry and in commerce and in the professions there has been no secrecy no equivocation on the part of the german government hundreds of thousands of men and women in all walks of life have been ruthlessly and without pity deprived of their means ot of livelihood and of the primary rights of citizen ship even the right to education Is now being denied the jewish children and youths regardless of their intel qualifications these men and women in great numbers are now un der going indescribable suffering and hardship ARMY MANEUVERS by MAJ GEN FOX CONNER united states army IN IN MATTERS of organizations JL and equipment you have to take into consideration the national economy and yet we have to get telephone communications going the message centers are so busy at times that it takes an act of congress ft to get a message through I 1 think k we have gone wild on the subject of radio there are many instances in the last few days where interference garbled the messages we are spending a great deal of work and money on radio we ought to cut it out and spend it in de ve loping our telephones the maneuvers have given no anfor nation mation whatever on the tactical value of mechanization and motorization it has been shown that everything back of a division should be motorized beyond that I 1 am not so sure I 1 don t see how bow in actual warfare you can make prompt eff efficient lelent from a station wagon LEAGUE OF NATIONS by NEWTON D BAKER president wilson a secretary of war I 1 BELIEVE we should go into the league of nations in 4 the last six months the league has centered the attention of intelligent mankind and civilization on a problem more important than ev ever er before in he the history of the world in the old days wars were started overnight for unknown causes here for the first time in human history a controversy has been laid on the table reasons have been published so that you and I 1 know what they are that Is an immeasurable advance president wilson foresaw a council of nations that has not developed the league has met instead in an atmos phere of economic internationalism but lame as it Is it has done what has never before been done it has made it possible for the common man in the street to read and judge the righteousness of the cause ethiopians AT by GEN ERIC VIRGIN Selas selassie Se lassle s swedish military adviser ID the italians make use of DID modern artillery and equipment at the engagement at balu al they made use both of airplanes and tanks and the fact that apart from the tanks three airmen could hover above the foremost fighting lines just as the action started must seem rather puzzling to those italians ans who want to mal e out it was a question of a sudden attack it was found then that the ethiopians Othlo plans lans did not run away in terror at the sight of airplanes although these men had never seen flying machines and were believed to be terrified from the first moment instead they charged straight at the atall in tanks climbed on them at full speed and shot the crews inside nothing but death can check these people when the lust of battle grips them service lc |