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Show i THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Poland, Not Danzig, Is Germanys Ambition In Europe?s Newest Crisis, Observers Claim U. Trade Revived W ith New Automobile Shipments S.-Argent- ina o South American Republic Orders Vehicles Valued at $3,000,000. Theres a Way to Avoid War by Making Free City Really Free, but Hitler Hes Cant Weaken a Dictator! By NORBERT KLEIN (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) peasant looked over a rippling Polish barley. He figured it meant war. His grandfather told him that 1812 also brought a record crop to Poland and the next winter came Napoleon. He himself remembers 1914s record crop; the World war started that year. Poland will have another bumper crop this year. This peasant neither knows nor cares that some Prussian statesman said he who con- Hanseatic city fell under a foreign trols Bohemia rules Europe Bohemia is far away to the rule. It remained thus until the treaty of Versailles again made it south. But he does know free in 1918. Thus, in the present and cares intensely about a crisis, it would be more in keeping remark Frederick the Great with Danzigs history and present WARSAW. A six-fo- sun-tann- ed ot - Whoever once dropped: rules the mouth of the Vistula rules Poland, notwithstanding who is king there! He cares about this because Danzig lies at the mouth of the Vistula, a city where Polands vast world trade naturally finds outlet to the Baltic sea. But Germany wants Danzig, the Poles want independence, and everyone knows Frederick the Great was right. Not Vital to Germany. This is why the Poles get nervous when Nazi Leader Albert Foers-te-r parades his storm troopers in Danzig or hurls threats of Berlin interference unless Warsaw lets the Free City go back to the Reich. For Danzig itself is a minor consideration. Poland knows, and Nazis admit, that Danzig is not in the least vital to Germany, as it is to Poland. Moreover, everybody admits that the Free City itself is but a stepping stone in Adolf Hitlers shrewd plan to bring Poland under his power. Danzigers themselves watch this impending battle with little enthusiasm. A few of the bolder, less reasoning of them follow Fuehrer Foerster through the streets but the burghers want only one thing, peace. Danzig may be only 4 per cent Polish and 96 per cent German, but the Free City owes allegiance to no one but itself. Traditionally a Free City. Danzigers have only to recite their history to realize that the present status is far superior to anschluss with the Reich. Until the 'Twelfth century this seaport was but a fishing village where sea captains began stopping when they found it a breaking-poifor their long journeys along the Baltic seacoast. Soon they began trading salt and cloth for furs, amber, grain and timber, and Danzig began its modern life. An unpleasant chapter in its history took place November 14, 1308, when Teutonic knights returning from Palestine assumed an unexattitude by pectedly massacring 10,000 Danzigers and taking possession of the city Germans had been coveting for years. This regime lasted until 1454 when Polands king, who had ceaselessly sought an outlet to the Baltic, won support of overseas powers in a battle against the Hansa and the Teutonic order. Danzig, its defend-- " er gone, saw it must find a new one or be absorbed by Poland. So the Danzigers did a surprising thing. They disarmed Polands king by entering into a personal union with him that lasted until 1793. During this period the city existed as an independent republic. Frederick the Great came along ' late in the Eighteenth century and for the first time this independent function if it were to remain free. Poles Remember 1900 Uprising. Why the argument, then? For one thing, Danzig did a foolish thing in 1920 by proving disloyal to Poland during the 1920 Bolshevik invasion. The smart government fathers at Warsaw could foresee this perfidy popping up again and threatening their precious outlet to the sea. So seaport. As Gydnias trade has expanded, Danzigs has diminished. This, naturally, is Danzigs chief complaint against Warsaw. But the Poles quickly point out that Danzig has three times the traffic it enjoyed in 1913 when it was a German port. Poland Rushes Defense. Theres no solution in sight yet, but the peasants still look at their bumper crop and say it means war. They believe and Warsaw has encouraged it that Adolf Hitler does not want Danzig, but Poland itself. They sneer at explanations that he covets Danzig because it is 96 per cent German; Adolf Hitler will take anything he can get. Theres only one peaceful way to settle the argument, and that involves making Danzig a really free city, outside the Polish customs union and thus eliminating Danzigs principal grievance Under such an arrangement Poland might give Danzig more of her overseas trade. In return for Germanys acceptance of this plan, Poland could give the Reich free transit for her railroad and highway across the corridor to East Prussia But Adolf Hitler has told his people they shall have Danzig. And dictators cant back down! nt World Power 48 Legislatures Declare Peace After Trade Fight Cut-Thro- at counter-revolutio- EGGS, CATTLE, LETTUCE Typical agriculture products which have been discriminated against in the modern war between the states. Observers think the wars over, because legislators are putting away their guns. Heres the story: CHICAGO. A reversal of the trend toward Balkanization of the 48 states through erection of trade barriers by legislation has' been recorded by the Council of State Governments. Five states took such mutually retaliatory laws from their books during recent legislative sessions and about 20 other states refused to enact them. The Council, which has fought the tendency to set up such barriers to free trade over state lines, usually sought by special competitive groups, one against the other, held a national conference on the subject last April. Meanwhile investigators from the federal bureau of agricultural economics found a maze of barriers which they said were limiting distribution and raising costs on practically every food product-mi- lk, butter, eggs, poultry, meats, fruits and vegetables. With most legislatures now adjourned, the Council now reports a hopeful picture. Among outstanding actions was proIndianas repeal of visions in its state alcoholic bev port-of-ent- ry erage act, resulting from efforts by in surrounding states to solving problems arising from conflicting liquor law provisions. Missouri also repealed a liquor act which, although called was regarded by many as a trade barrier. Oklahoma repealed its 1937 law because Texas, rising up in arms, planned a retaliatory law which was dropped when Oklahoma declared peace. Several legislatures defeated bills discriminating against foreign trucks. Connecticut refused to approve a bill which Would compel opport-of-ent- erators of out-of-sta- te ry trucks and busses to purchase Connecticut gasoline by limiting the size and number of gasoline tanks on commercial vehicles. Discrimination against wines and beers was rejected by California, Connecticut, Florida, Oregon and New Jersey. California refused to adopt retaliatory measures against products of several eastern states which imposed discriminatory taxes on California out-of-sta- te wine. HEADED SOUTH. Pictured here is a shipment of passenger automobiles awaiting shipment for Argentina. Recent trade news in dicates that the South American republic is prepared to purchase Prepared by National Geographic Society, U. S. cars valued at more than Washington, D. C. WNU Service. Recently restricted trade relations three million dollars. between the United States and ArThe commercial heart of the nagentina have taken another turn, according to dispatches from Buenos tion and most important port of Aires, indicating that Uncle Sam is South America, Buenos Aires has about to sell more pleasure cars and some 60 banking institutions. With trucks to the South American coun- its wide avenues, parks, and swimtry. Under a new agreement with ming pools, its packing plants, the Argentine government, U. S. smart shops, tall buildings, slums auto and truck concerns are report- and show places, it has been varied to have signed up for more than ously called the Chicago, Los of South $3,000,000 worth of Argentine treasand Paris Angeles, ury notes in return for permission America. to export cars and trucks to Argentina in an equivalent amount. Argentina is usually one of Uncle Sams best customers in the automotive field. In the first three months of this year, however, a sharply curtailed quota on United States cars, together with other trade restrictions, resulted in a drop of nearly 50 per cent in all U. S. exports to the Argentine. Trade Balance Upset. In the first quarter of 1938, the Geographic Society, Prepared by National Washington, D. C. WNU Service. United States sold Argentina a bill of goods amounting to more than Hungarys first secret ballot in $24,000,000; but in the correspondnearly 20 years resulting in a ing period of 1939 U. S. exports strong government majority as well amounted to less than 12 million as increased Nazi representation in dollars. Imports of Argentine prod- parliament calls attention to a naucts to the United States, on the tion which has seen three opposing forms of government in little more other hand, went up from about 12 million dollars for the first quarter than two decades. Revolution immediately after the of 1938 to something over $18,000,000 World war changed Hungary from a this year. These figures show a reversal of monarchy into a republic. This was the previous trade situation between followed soon after, in 1919, by the the United States and Argentina. establishment of a Soviet state, For in 1938 Argentina bought from which gave way, in 1920, before n which brought the United States more than twice as much as she sold here a con- back the status of monarchy. In the absence of a king, Hundition attributed then to heavy Arof and gary since then has been ruled by a gentine purchases machinery vehicles. regent. An admiral without a fleet. to In addition automobiles, trucks, and farm implements, Argentina normally takes from Uncle Sam important shipments of American motion picture films, steel, chemicals, office equipment, and building materials. In return she sells chiefly linseed, wool, casein, hides, corn, quebracho logs, and preserved meats. Competitors in World Markets. A constant and important feature of economic relations between the United States and Argentina is the fact that they both raise for export many of the same products for example, wheat and corn, beef and mutton, hides and wool. The United States itself provided much of Argentinas tools and facilities for the large-scal- e production that was to make her in time a serious competitor in world markets. From the industrial plants of the north came plows, seeders, harvesters and tractors, together with forests of windmills that now rise from one end of the Argentine plains to the other, pumping up water for the herds, for small towns, for plantation crops, gardens, and REGENT. Nicholas Horthy, adshrubbery. American packing com- miral without a fleet, runs a kingpanies moved down to fatten cattle on their own ranches. Seed wheat dom without a king. from Kansas was even exported, to be turned later into still more com- this regent, Nicholas Horthy, runs a without a seacoast and a petition in the world grain markets. country without a king. kingdom Foreign Capital Built Railroads. Dislike Peace Terms. Foreign capital, also exported to Rebellious at the terms of peace Argentina, brought the railways, which, lopping off both mountain over which the products of the vast, borders and fertile plains, cut her flat and fertile fields are now raced to d of her former to to port and thence market over- arearoughly and population, Hungary has seas. since refused to accept the bounWith millions of yards of imported daries as final. Hungarian flags estates of fly at half-main mourning for the wire, the great feudal-lik- e the Argentine pampas were fenced lost territories; window designs, in. Settlers came, mostly Italians, street car posters, restaurant signs, Spaniards, Englishmen and Irish- and childrens games show maps of men, with a sprinkling of Poles, former Hungary compared with her Germans, Syrians, and others. Prize present reduced state. bulls and blooded stock replaced the With an economy balanced before wild herds that once roamed these the World war between timber, minTexaslike plains that stretch for eral, stock, and farm production, more than a million souare miles Hungary after her reduction became east of the southern Andes. almost entirely agricultural. Strives for beer-drinki- Lu-be- ck $ New Hungary t Pom-merell- en - life-givi- one-thir- st |