| Show wash norton 0 parade washington D C there are folks in the capitol today who say huey long died too soon and they dont mean that he lost a chance at 36 but that his great opportunity would have come to him now in 1938 its going to be they say a field day for the demagogues and they point to the resurrection of tuch euch groups as the followers of father coughlin widespread unemployment and millions of families existing on a marginal wage which barely covers scanty food and shelter and clothing has made a fertile recruiting field for radical leaders hence wary politicians a e making no nationwide predictions on the outcome of election this year undoubtedly some gome democrats will be defeated undoubtedly a few republicans will lose their seats whether or not these reversals will be a simple change of parties or whether a third party candidate will win depends on how much faith the voters put in the promises of the candidates amid the hullabaloo of passing navy and army appropriators the third anniversary of the he founding of air force GHQ slipped by unnoticed our air force is admitted by international experts to be second to none in quality and as per plans in quantity 1 unfortunately only seven hundred officers are now on the rolls while the plans call for fourteen hundred by july first while the enlisted personnel is within fifteen per cent of planned strength planes themselves are lacking A scant four hundred are doing the duty of twice that number As was pointed out by air force chiefs this week the navy cant wait to build ships or the army to make guns until after a war begins but both can enlist and train men on short notice the air force however must not no I 1 only be ready with ships but wi with th tr trained in ed men to fly them before the congress adjourns there will will be be dell nite action taken to prove provide tor for arving ng the tha flying defone up to effective strength probably the greatest indication tion of the progress of america in the last three hundred years was the recent indian trouble at cass lake minnesota where in the face of a department of interior order to move the headquarters of the agency to duluth some several thousand of chippewa braves donned their paint and bonnets sharpened their hatchets and yelling war cries went on a sit dwi d wi strike and washington gat gah which must have made war chiefs sitting bull and roman nose and geronimo turn in their graves |
