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Show Capital Answers Urgent Appeal for Farm Help- Political Bigwigs, War Workers, Service Folk, Pitch In to Aid in Production of Orchard and Field Crops. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. ian help either. ' As elsewhere there are the boys' and girls' camps which run all summer; there are other vacation camps where grown-ups stay a week, get a dollar and a half a day expenses, and earn 35 cents an hour, or at peach-picking as much or more than $3.50 a day at 10 cents a basket if they are handy. Some earn $10 a day at that rate but they are old hands. Postwar German Underground Seen There is nothing new to Europeans about an "underground monument" which might be defined as a group of persons, united by an idea, which persists as an opposition to a particular partic-ular government with the purpose of eventually overthrowing that government. gov-ernment. With the defeat of Germanv it WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Washington, the town of bureaucrats, bureau-crats, of desk-soldiers and sailors, the place that tells you what to do end "don't do nothin' " itself but "jes' keeps rollin' along." I know that's what you say about us. But when it comes to volunteering for the emergency farm labor programhow pro-gramhow about your national capital? Believe me, Washington is in there pitching. I use the figure of speech advisedly advised-ly for the man who rallied a corps of volunteer farm help which will probably amount to fifteen thousand citizens of the District of Columbia by the time the peach and apple harvest is at its height, is an old ball-player. Not so old at that for Johnny Jones, formerly of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Athletics, farm boy from Coatsville, Pa., and now of the department de-partment of agriculture extension service, is practically fresh off the diamond. He quit baseball in 1936 and is now back as near to the calling call-ing of his fathers as he could get. Jones' job is dealing with the farm-help shortage and I interrupted interrupt-ed him while he was in batting for a I can be taken for granted that two German movements will begin to burrow, perhaps retiring to "previously "pre-viously prepared positions" in the language of the communiques of a retreating army. They are the Junkers Junk-ers and the Nazis. At the present writing, for the first time in history, military control con-trol of Germany has been wrested from the hands of the junker-generals. They did their best to act on their ancient adage: "We as a caste, must always live to fight another day." A lost war to them is an incident and considered merely a temporary set-back on the road to eventual world-domination. To that end they planned a peace before their ranks were too greatly weakened weak-ened or their resources exhausted. But the Nazis stepped in, wrecked their plans. As a caste they will probably be completely destroyed, their estates and therefore their means of livelihood removed. What many people do not know is that the German high command had their own private funds, voted by the government, which they managed themselves for the benefit of the army. Whether the Nazis have obtained this, remains to be seen. But in any case, you may be sure the burning burn-ing patriotism of those junkers who survive will keep an underground organization alive. And then comes the Nazis, with a younger but equally fanatical loyalty loyal-ty to national socialism. Their underground un-derground organizations we know are already prepared. Meanwhile there is a strong suspicion sus-picion on the part of many persons in Washington that a third breeding place for totalitarian militarism is being cultivated right here in the Western hemisphere. In the past weeks I have received several letters and one telephone call protesting against the action of the state department in breaking relations re-lations with Argentina. So far as I could tell the persons who communicated communi-cated with me were perfectly honest. They all stressed the known fact that the chief characteristic of the Argentina attitude is traditionally "pro-Argentine," nationalists. The inference was that the government was not anti-North American or pro-nazi-fascist, and should be let alone. As a matter of fact, aside from Argentine's own aims there seems to be evidence that the German Nazis and perhaps some qf the German Ger-man Junkers are transferring their wealth to Argentina. There is not the slightest doubt that the Buenos Aires government has aided and abetted in the spread of nazi-fascist propaganda and is that, at this very moment looking sympathetically on the activities of Nazi agents within its borders. The army has long been indoctrinated with Prussian militarism through its officers who have been trained in Germany. Unless the United States takes the lead in applying sanctions in the form of a strict embargo on Argentina, Argen-tina, we may find ourselves with a full-fledged war of aggression on our hands right here in our own hemisphere. hemi-sphere. In the case of Argentina we may be witnessing not only the growth of a powerful military dictatorship but one which will be used to nourish and sustain the very forces which we have spent our blood and wealth to suppress in Europe an "overground" "over-ground" underground. Woman marine digs postholes. rnissing mimeographer because of his own private manpower shortage. He had just rolled off several thousand thou-sand forms inviting government officials, offi-cials, war-workers, simple citizens and others in the District, to attend his vacation camps which are al-( al-( ready rapidly filling. We aren't allowed to tell names of the higher-ups who volunteer but Jones has helpers who give their Sundays, or longer periods, from the White House staff, the offices of cabinet members, senators and congressmen. con-gressmen. If it weren't an election year he thinks he'd have quite a showing of the senators themselves. But what he takes most pride in is the service folk. This includes the girls, the WACs and the WAVES, and the Marines and the SPARS, as well as the sailors and soldiers on duty here or convalescing. Tells It to Marines With Good Results The other day a tobacco farmer over the district line in Virginia (Jones' territory doesn't run more than 125 miles from the White House) wanted to clear an acre of thick timber needed for firewood it takes a lot of smoke to cure the tobacco for your smokes. He couldn't hire help locally. Jones "told it to the Marines" (female) and some 50 answered with action. They cut the timber (trees of about 28 inches), sawed it into eight-foot lengths, piled it up. And soldiers and sailors seem glad to take a week's furlough to go out and pitch hay, get in the wheat and tobacco crops, or turn a hand to any other little chore. They say they consider it a great relief from loafing around a hospital or guarding guard-ing government buildings or doing any other of the strictly military jobs the have. Even among the groups of girls, Jones says you'll find enough who can run a tractor or hitch and drive a team of horses. One group cleared five and a half acres, cut the trees, sawed them up, burned the brush. And there is no shortage of civil- |