Show weekly news analysis probe into moseley activities reveals race consciousness by bg joseph W labine la bine EDITORS NOTE ate bhea wh en opinions are expressed in ia these columns they are re those of 01 t the h news analyst tad and sot not necessarily ria of the newspaper RACES semitism last october top film executives met movie czar will hays to discuss how anti semitism might be checked insofar as it affects movie revenues last november father charles coughlin made a radio speech tempering criticism of ger banys jewish pogroms by commenting that communist persecution of christians was worse nazi sources he said had told him 56 of the 59 top men in dussias Rus sias communist party were jews this spring came equality a magazine boasting prominent aryans on its editorial board and dedicated to combating anti semitism at the same time colliers magazine found there was at least enough talk about the subject to justify a W V GENERAL MOSELEY how strange popularized treatise by harvard anthropologist earnest hooton on the jews highly evolved and specialized characteristics of mind temperament pe and personality readers of the hooton article found themselves realizing that ger banys horrible pogroms have at least made america conscious that there is such a problem this realization became the more acute when texas rep martin dies brought his un americanism investigation committee back into session with the following unsavory allegations maj gen george van horn moseley who retired from the army last autumn after throwing sharp shafts at the new deal is active in a nationwide nation wide anti jewish organization moseley joined a drive financed by new yorks dudley gilbert who sent confidential reports he received from a night club waiter to james erwin campbell reserve army captain of owensboro Owen ky campbell in turn issued reports to key people throughout the U S dies said gilbert had no intention of stirring up race hatred but thought he was doing a patriotic service in anticipation of a revolution ol ution sample moseley statements reported by the dies committee 1 the fact is that the most serious problem confronting america today is just this problem of the jew and how to get rid of his influence definitely loc locally ally nationally and internationally 2 if the jews bump me off be sure to see they get the credit tor for it from coast to coast it will help our cause notified of the charges general moseley abruptly closed his own private un americanism investigation in Cali fornias imperial valley and flew to washington P in answer to a dies subpoena his comment how strange that a patriot can discuss openly act an frankly the problems involving irishmen italians and germans but t let him mention any international isms iams or zionism and their increasing control of america then he is attacked on all sides even his life may be threatened ITALY axis breakup in 1914 the homeland of julius caesar broke its triple alliance with germany and austria hungary because trentino and trieste were not forthcoming next year italy went to war on the side of the allies european history has a way of repeating itself benito mussolini who last year saw everything to gain in an alliance with adolf hitler and who has just signed a 10 year invincible military pact with germany may well be floating helpless against a current he cannot buck plainly top heavy the rome berlin axis nowadays gets most of I 1 its ts oratorical support from Naz idom though mussolini chimes in almost every speech indicates he would like peace with democracies left unspoken are the reasons he tears fears the man he palls friend reasons 1 it if balkan yugoslavia breaks up the area inhabited by slovenes venes is almost certain to be grabbed by germany from its austrian outpost providing the reich with an outlet to the adriatic sea and thence to the mediterranean much though germanys germanas Germ anys friendship might be valued italy cannot afford to let hitler become a mediterranean power 2 italians dislike russians but both in heritage and ambition adolf hillers Hit lers nation is like soviet russia an allied berlin and moscow would control europe a possibility which grows less remote as german hating foreign commissar maxim litvinov retires froni from office and both hitler and stalin cease shouting at one another such a pact would leave italy a ay in the cold 3 strong though her mediterranean position may be italy is still weaker than the combined fleets of france and britain mussolini is also alarmed at recent anglo french gains in the mediterranean fanean especially their pacts with greece and turkey and though he counted on spain as an ally against democracies mussolini finds generalissimo francisco franco hobnobbing hobnob bing too affectionately with germany to his own exclusion franco hobnobs also with french swiss and dutch bankers seeking a reconstruction loan neither italy nor germany can give so far as mussolini is concerned ried the iberian peninsula is a bigger question mark today than one year ago W 4 several times the past year italy has risked war to help hitler first in austria next in next in czechoslovakia czecho slovakia then in memel each time the home folks trend it IN r and how the wind is blowing JOBS of universities and colleges surveyed by minneapolis northwestern national lite life insurance company 63 find greater demand tor for graduates than a year ago STAMPS coln coin operated mall mail boxes which weigh letters stamp them and drop them into a depository tory for collection are being installed at new york POWER of american horsepower per cent constitutes transportation horsepower installed exclusively to move people and goods FOOD U S bureau of dairy industry scientists have perfected a new food article with two surplus products skim milk and cull potatoes these with a little salt added are made into wafers chips sticks or croutons and oven dried to crispness I 1 i wondered what italy would get in return and after one solid year of such risks they have received nothing but barren albania if hitler marches into danzig and drags italy into a futile war II 11 duce will risk internal blowup such are possible reasons why french Amb ambassador assado r andre fran cois poncet met italian foreign minister galeazzo ciano in rome recently tor for amicable discussion on french italian trouble points since modern treaties apparently mean nothing there is a good chance italy might junk her new german pact tor for a settlement with france and britain britaina Brit ains reluctance to sign a treaty with russia might be founded on the hope that germany and the soviet would get together thereby alienating italy BUSINESS competition wanted under the government forced industry into collusion strict price levels being enforced to a point where competing bidders usually found their individually arrived at quotations identical but since was invalidated identical quotations have often continued providing trust buster thurman arnold assistant attorney general V k V 0 THURMAN ARNOLD just getting started 7 with what he terms prima facie evidence of collusion that a government which five years ago fostered collusion now fights it may seem inconsistent yet a return to orthodox business philosophy has again made men believe that competition is the life of trade up before the house appropriations subcommittee committee sub trust buster arnold explained the justice department will need more next fiscal year simply to carry on an antitrust campaign which after 40 years is just getting started no violent campaign is planned mr arnold explained but five regional offices will be opened new york atlanta chicago oklahoma city san francisco and such na tion wide investigations as that of the oil industry will be coordinated co with individual actions at madison wis new york and on the pacific coast mr arnolds oil inquiry will center on whether producers must not divest themselves of control of the retail filling stations a practice he charges is collusive in that it holds up prices stifling competition mr arnold on oil my point is that either we are going to have competition in the oil industry or it if that is impossible it has got to go to congress for regulation one of the two agriculture trouble ahead this spring the bureau of agricultural economics forecast a july 1 wheat supply of bushels only bushels short of the figure where farmers must vote on acreage quotas tor for next year dry weather in spring wheat lands cut crop prospects however and by mid may secretary ot of agriculture henry A wallace was able to avoid an embarrassing election year acreage referendum by cutting the july 1 estimate to only bushels A further help in 1940 farmers can plant acres to wheat more than this year A week after this announcement however it appeared the administrations trat ions farm program is bound tor for another bogging down another year like miserable 1934 and 1936 carefully checking weather bureau reports mr wallace found early may rainfall in the wheat belt was tar far below normal with drouth spreading fast and damage to spring crops already heavy percentages of normal rainfall thus tar far south dakota 36 north dakota 45 nebraska 59 kansas 74 montana 55 though on the average far better than 1934 conditions were bad enough to make mr wallace name a drouth committee who will aid farmers it if the worst comes MEDICINE basis tor for the wagner bill now before congress Is the claim that U S citizens are without medical care it if passed the measure would provide federal sub subsidies sidie s for care of the indigent sick amounting to the first year such socialization is strenuously opposed by the american medical association which surveyed local physicians of counties in 37 states to disprove the government forty million people constitute roughly one fourth the population of physicians surveyed p MOW or one fourth the physicians in territories ri canvassed reported free medical service to persons each year plus hours of free hospital service each year if all physicians furnish free service on this basis A M A figured that 1000 of the people covered in its survey are getting free service on a nationwide nation wide basis multiplied lied by tour four this would mean U S physicians are already taking care of the needy citizens uncle sam would help possible though unsubstantiated A M A fallacies 1 free services may include those to solvent patients guilty of the good old american custom of not paying doctor bills 2 not asking tree free services nor would they ask help under a U S program are thousands of medicines forgotten man men p low salaried white collar workers who can neither get relief nor pay doctor and hospital bills socialized medicine is one side of the problem but A M A s dent elect dr rock of wauwatosa wis thought he knew a more basic side nationally known as a brain authority president lent pointed out that of the nations people bear in their bodies seeds which may result occasionally in a feeble minded child holding that mental troubles are the greatest unsolved medical problem he gloomily commented that medicines strides prolonging in life have cost far more than the goods are worth if such protection from sickness brings unwillingness to battle against economic troubles HOUSING stimulant A home building boom might conceivably ceiva bly place america on the recovery trail thus far despite the federal housing authority and much talk no housing boom has developed the closest thing to it came in 1937 soon being squelched by labor trouble A new stimulant is now reported taking shape under oilman james A moffett Mo flett chairman of the california texas oil company and first director his idea A private national mortgage association with at least to supply in the form of mortgages money for construction of homes and factories awaiting only congressional action on s several e I 1 amendments to the ac at moffett group is willing to bev bu J at t the federal mortgage association set up by reconstruction finance corporation now holding some insured mortgages in its portfolios also projected by mr moffett is a private development company to furnish contractors money tor for building individual homes apartments and factories SPAIN freedom the taw law it is the logical outcome of germanys germanas Germ anys view voiced ever since the outbreak of the spanish war that fighting there is something which concerns only spaniards such was the berlin foreign offices comment on february 18 1937 when the reich passed ilni which forbade german citizen ci tizer enter spanish territory and participate in generalissimo francisco francos war against premier juan in may of 1939 two months after the war ended with german volunteers just coming home from spain germany got around to repealing the law it if europe thought this situation just a bit humorous it could view with alarm another chapter of ger man spanish relations now being d VA 0 7 1 F FRANCISCO FRANCO what price dignity written in madrid while franco forces announced all german and italian arms used during the war bombers pursuit planes heavy artillery tanks trucks technical equipment would be retained a committee of 12 german tradesmen was en route from berlin to negotiate an economic and finan kt treaty with spain heading the group was dr helmuth who negotiated the treaty with rumania last march observers thought treaty making had reached the pattern stage for spain will be treated just about the way rumania was reich contractors will build roads railways fortifications and other military establishments for the new spain more vital however is the general provision tor for exchange of spanish raw materials especially ores and foodstuffs tor for german finished products thus will spain be drawn positively into the rome berlin orbit while this was going on dictator franco reviewed his much post boned victory parade then spoke as it his nation were free from ga many and italy we want a gar spain but we place our above all we shall not tolerate any attempt against our sovereignty because it would be useless released by western newspaper union |