Show 1 I to I Dads Dad's j i Column II i. i I I I V V I J CotS ct TilE THE UNITED STATES BE Ll THE FOLLOWING is from our our Wash Wash- Washington ington correspondent J. J E. E Jones This Tills oud World War finds the United d second with Xi more definitely ly sympathetic States mite and England than we were with countries a few months before we those their war In 1917 Nine Nino persons tamed Joined apparently hate Hitler Hatred Sat out of ten the tile last World War Into i hurle burle hurled d i us A few weeks ago Congress and the president were in disagreement over the question of what would Insure a system m cf of Neutrality Everybody wanted a plan of neutrality that would be tight air-tight the great object to keep us out of in tD Administration is using the nr ar r The Th tools Congress gave it to establish American Neutrality It U Is 15 Just as impossible in Washing Washing- Washington ton as 83 anywhere else to predict or perhaps even to guess going to happen next The air is La full of reassurances reassurAnces ances Ances Bombing planes are ready ready ready-In In the United States as elsewhere The I Assurances that we will keep out of or orvar war var are offset by noises that show every evidence that the United Uni d States I has hiss been preparing for the past two 1 years rears The stock markets are having the I usual booms Food and other prices are I rising The same peaceful thousands of ot miles mUes of the Atlantic Ocean that once helped from en cn entangling enI to protect this hemisphere I I tangling alliances a are still separating I the United States from war-distraught war Europe Nevertheless the symptoms Of ot 1917 1911 are not to be disregarded in 1939 Nations that go to war must necessarily withdraw their power man-power from factories and fields and buy food and Industrial supplies from neutral coun coun- tries A population like ours in which millions are unemployed and on relief a nation of farmers who are selling their products at ridiculously low prices naturally naturally naturally ally thinks of the richness of another war ar boom You may be sure of ot It Neutrality 1 Is sensible Big war markets have their attractions The financial Itch quickens our interest In the wars and It Is easy to recall that communities I that thaI enjoyed boom times in 1917 18 did not conceal a a. hope that it will last cn n I If you can remember what happened 22 n years ago then you ou can remember rememberS a a. alot at f t lot lotmore more How America went into the F How the United States thought It Iti itt could not and did not stay neutral i L t That's the way matters mat rs stand In the t Capital of ot the ed d St t th h nice T 1 Wn jy ea September fv j 0 I ONE O E REMEMBERS RE IE I ERS SATS SArS R. R M. M Hofer in the Industrial fierier I recently talked to a man 00 wenty years ago walked from howe to house taking grocery orders In inI Int I t Western W tern town He took the orders back ts t his store where they were gotten got n out and wd delivered to the customers On the teLof the month bills bUls were rendered and sometime during the next 30 to 90 dais dars the majority of the bills would be paid The distribution costs involved between the wholesaler and final receipt I t Cf the tha customer caused this man to study ways to part of his overhead and pass the savings L I on to the consumer who was willing willingto f to trade on a cash and carry basis That his idea was sound and that it was efficiently carried out with savings as asell asWell Well ell ell as service to customers best is best evi evi- evidenced evid d by the fact that the annual sales for the business he started are now i hearing b four hundred million dollars a year rear The fl business grew from one store In one state to thousands of stores In I Over a 1 score of states stat s. s This man spent I his life lUe trying to sell good products at t. t a 2 minimum cost to consumers Ire He said he thought that was primarily what the ther r People wanted and that he t understand political attacks which tried to destroy such savings for consumers He Re Is typical t of the energetic American citizen who started with nothing but butan butan an Idea to give service and save money I Do we w want to encourage or discourage this trait In the United States o 00 o o l WITH TIlE THE schools again In session comes the increased motor accidents How Row frequently we have been horrified r aj at young lives being taken in school bus bUSI I accidents of ot youthful students on roads i r being hit by rushing motorists Despite t aU all N precautions and safeguards there continues too numerous fatalities due d e eto to carelessness of motorists Lives of or youths are too precious to forget care care- f Parents and teachers should constantly stress safety Drivers should t use every even precaution O O EDITORIAL COMMENTS CO OX WAR VAR CRITIC NEW I YORK SUN SUN Never Never again can cant there be lasting peace In the tho world until t this this whole horrible fantastic nightmare of Hitlerism has been exorcised no more moret to tn trouble the repose of ot civilized nations t NEW ORLEANS STATES The STATES The world today places the blame for war and nd hate ate where here it belongs on the head bead of or Adolf Hitler No one wants to war on he the the German people who have had little h t isy ay laY about the present conflagration J The e President voices the sentiment of or America when he says the United Unit d States must be kept out NEW YORK JOURNAL AND AMERI- AMERI I tAN CAN n us if the President wants to keep I out t of war as War as It Is evident e from his broadcast that he does does if If the Congress acts t Intelligently to keep us out it i of ot war It the people continue their desire so 60 ten cUen expressed to keep out of European conflicts there jj is no reason why we weI I c shoUld become involved ed In this European catastrophe I I WASHINGTON POST POST Both POST Both Both mind and anda 9 a are stimulated by Mr Roose- Roose Veil elt t when he hie h suggests that our I nce should from this moment be thrown io the direction which v of a final peace till i 1 make Inoke Impossible continuation of or au such Cb aggression as IlS that for which the have hay come to stand KANSAS CiTY be- be behaves haves CITY The STAR The The star VU America can and should stay tay out Continued d on Ii page p ie i Five nv I I I I I t l- l t H JoH Dads Dad's Column 1 oH I- I IH H I- I I I I I I I I H Continued from race One of the war But it recognizes that the longer the war lasts especially if 1 it goes against the democracies the greater the danger of American Involvement It believes plain common sense and national na na- national national interest require that this country hO n n Ih te rp to all ell nations who can come and buy American goods of whatever sort A 6 A A b TREND OF EVENTS inside the United States now depends on the course of Europe's war says the United States News A long war will draw heavily on the vast American productive capacity I will mean full employment full utilization balanced tion of resources possibly a I Federal Government budget A short inconclusive war will mean a 0 return to difficulties deflation n more domestic pending adjustments O 0 O 0 v I vIT IT IS whispered in Washington D. D C. C I Is Isto isto isto that more secrecy less informality to mark marJ President Roosevelt's hour-by- hour hour activities from now on during the thour I war crisis For example Presidential I I train schedules will wUl not be publicized I by the White Whitehouse h te-I te House J |