The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CASS COUNTY SUN
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
German and British Airmen
Raid Vital Industrial Centers;
Political Campaign 4Roars On'
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed In these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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'Pauline Revere'
YE CAMPAIGN:
Roars On
Boss Ed Flynn of the Bronx, a
man with a surprisingly fine libra-
ry, who likes to read, took Jim Far-
ley's place as national chairman of
the Democrats. He was the same
general type as Farley, with a sim-
ilar background, except that Farley
was a country boy, and Boss Flynn
was a city laddie. Like Farley,
Flynn is respected around New
York, and well liked by many.
Willkie came out and said he
would not get into personal argu-
ments with members of congress,
individual hecklers, or anybody like
that. Willkie went on to say he
had very determined views about
conscription, and about helping the
Bullmen abroad, but he wouldn't ad-
mit what those views were. Some
Republicans remarked that they felt
they had signed a blank check made
a moii
Murp edwaRD J. FLYNN
Like Farley, he's respected.
o Wendell Willkie esquire. And
more than 90 per cent of the
t, papers of the United States
. supporting him against the III
wasi. More and more, people were
ring themselves anti-Roosevelt,
Mer than pro-Willkie.
hereemma
Mrsi evidence of this was the con-
ed drift of Democrats, over to
^Republican fold. As each Demo
her ?ed over, Roosevelt would de-
famnce him, but still they moved,
ris Douglas, Roosevelt's erst-
Qle budget director, had been one
Jay-the first. Now came Edmund
•jiT^and, counsel to the house com-
tee, investigating the National
or Relations board. Toland re-
ked, in order to work for Willkie.
Texn the other hand, a fair number
Mr.iberal Republicans were none too
nigbe about Willkie. They stressed
nep "non-savory" background, and
w;<t! "anglophile" war expressions.
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THE WAR:
Aircraft
While the world waited wearily
for the German invasion of Eng-
land, air fighting raged to and fro
between the Royal air force and the
Goering flying circus, The Germans
forced the port of London, biggest
in the entire world, to close, and
also the ports of Newcastle on Tyne,
Hull, and Newcastle. This meant
that all sorts of commodities had
to be unloaded in the still solvent
west of England, and shipped east,
which dislocated the British time-
table no end.
On the other hand, the British
claimed they had peppered Ham-
burg to a really serious degree. This
is Germany's third biggest city-
after Berlin and Vienna—and by far
the friendliest city to England of
them all. Its inhabitants speak a
NAMES
... in the news
C. The three Musico brothers were
discharged from their bail—George,
Arthur and Robert. George's bail
was worth $10,000, and his brothers
were worth $5,000 apiece. The trio
served short sentences at the fed-
eral jail in Lewisburg, Pa. They
were accused of "mulcting" $4,000,-
000 via larceny and forgery. The
fourth brother was the late Philip
Musica, of McKesson & Robbins.
He called himself F. Donald Coster.
C. Congressman Lindsay Warren of
North Carolina, age 50, was selected
by President Roosevelt as comptrol-
ler-general. Chairman of the ac-
counts committee of the house, he
had served there for 16 years. The
job of comptroller-general lasts 15
years, and nets $10,000 per year.
C One hundred thousand names un-
known to history were the victims
of a bad flu epidemic in Puerto Rico.
They called the disease, the "mon-
ga." Drs. Edwin Lennette and John
Oliphant were rushed down there
from the Rockefeller institute and
the United States health service.
local dialect closely akin to Anglo-
Saxon, and its sea-going and com-
mercial ties with John Bull have al-
ways been strong. After the Na-
poleonic wars, Hamburg's republi-
can senate petitioned England to
take them over.
Bremen, Hamburg's sister city,
also got it in the neck, but not so
bad. So did Duesseldorf, Essen,
Wesel, and Duisburg, in the valley
of the river Rhine. Essen is the
German Pittsburgh, where the vast
complex of the Krupp works spreads
out. It is an easy aerial target.
Sheffield, the English equivalent of
Essen and Pittsburgh, was sched-
uled to be "next" on the list, while
Welsh Cardiff and English Ports-
mouth were reportedly already bad-
ly gutted. One ex-Englisher was
excited by all this. He was living
in faraway Chicago, but he bought
a Spitfire fighter and presented it to
his home town: Leamington Spa, i&
Warwickshire.
Anti-Aircraft
In the German service, the anti-
aircraft department is an integral
part of the Goering flying circus,
which is an independent branch oi
the national defense, co-equal with
army and- navy. (In the American
service, anti-aircraft is part of the
army's coast artillery.) During the
first 11 months of the present war,
the crack German anti-aircraft
brought down 1,230 enemy planes,
knocked out more than 400 tanks,
sank 10 ships, and damaged 10 more
of them.
The Catch
There is a catch to all this aerial
warfare, between the British island
fortress and the long seacoast un-
der Germanic domination. It is this:
the Germans do their air raiding by
day, and the British do it by night.
Air raiding by day is much more
dangerous to the flyers, but it is alsc
much easier to hit land targets when
the sun is up. Night bombing is
safer for the pilots, but it is far
harder to "reach" the objectives.
This accounts for the much heavier
German air losses. The Germans
outnumber the British in the air by
perhaps 3 to 1, so they can afford to
"take" it. The Royal air force has
to be economical in its expenditure
of men and machines.
U. S. ARMY
Parachutes
At Hightstown, N. J., some 48 in-
fantry regulars from Fort Benning,
Ga., gave a parachute jumping dem- j
onstration from two 125-foot steel j
towers. High army officers looked
on with grave attention, for it was
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"I'auline Revere" in the person of Miss
Elane Summers, 19, University of Wiscon-
sin beauty queen, pictured about to mount
her white horse in front of Chicago's city
hall en route to Washington, D. C„ with
an anti-conscription bill or scroll to be
presented to President Roosevelt. Her
ride is sponsored by the Committee to
Defend America by Keeping It Out of
War. This gives but one side of the
conscription problem, as proponents of
the plan claim that America's interests
can best be served by a universal
military training program.
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This unusual picture was made as
the first doughboy made his jump
at the army parachute training
center in Highstown, N. J.
sensational stuff in the line of troop
training. The Benning infantry
jumped in four "easy" stages, like
this:
Stage 1 was a drop in an open
parachute, equipped with a comfort-
able seat. That wasn't so bad at all.
Stage 2 was a drop in an open para-
chute, with harness instead of a
seat. Stage 3 was a "free" drop with
an open parachute, and stage 4.was
a "free" drop with a packed para-
chute, which had to be opened up
in the air. In any man's country—
Russia aside, for some reason—it is
none too easy to recruit parachute
jumpers. Goering, in Germany, had
to start it off by using the dare-
devils ("mordskerls") of his own
bodyguard. Even these toughies
grumbled, the first time up and
down.
'Headache'
Meanwhile, the U. S. army had a
new headache. It found that its 800
best airplane reservists were work-
ing on the wide network of Ameri-
can commercial and transport air-
lines. Here they are vitally need-
ed, and so is the flying equipment.
Some of these topnotch civil pilots
are military, some are naval, and
some are marines, but all of them
will have to stay—in case of war—
right where they are. This was the
U. S. genernl-staff verdict
COMMONS:
It Laughs
The house of commons, at West-
minster, is pretty grim these days.
But it got a good laugh for once.
One member announced that no less
than 14 Italian submarines had been
sunk by the British navy in the Med-
iterranean. In Parliament, there is a
rough and tough Scotch Labor dep-
uty named J. J. Davidson, who loves
to wise-crack the Tories and the
"furriners." When he heard about
the submarines, he yelled out: "Is
it true the British sailors at sea,
only have to call out, 'waiter!' and
Italian subs come to the top?"
But the Italians had an answer.
They were actually shipping "pock-
et" submarines over the Alps, to
help Hitler in the English channel
operations. Once the great Hanni-
bal of Carthage shipped his ele-
phants over the Alps to harry the
Italians, and now the Italians
were turning the same fantastic
trick with their fiery sea-serpents.
And strangely enough, historians
have always referred to England as
the "modern" Carthage, because of
its shipping, banking, colonizing and
trading.
SPORTS:
Porkers
The Wimbledon tennis club, in
England, is the best known in the
entire world. Every American
champ and she-champ has played
there on the green turf. It is glam-
orous and top-drawer. It was an-
nounced that the Wimbledonians
would turn to pig-breeding for the
duration of the war, and would deal
in porkers instead of lob-lollies and
back-hands. It was revolutionary,
and it certainly wasn't cricket, or
tennis either. It seemed that the
Davis cup was turning into a bitter
cup of misery, to be drained by a
new champ, the great god Mars.
So with English polo, as welL Its
fields were plowed up!
Britons are good sports. England
needs aluminum, and needs it bad.
One veteran of the last war turned
in his aluminum false leg, to a scrap
metal depot at Windsor. He wanted
to hold off Hitler, just as much as
the fancy Wimbledonians did. Mean-,
while, there was a lot of talk about
equipping parts of the British army
with steel breastplates, and helmet
visors, to bounce off shell splinters,
which was one back-step more to-
ward the dark ages of ironsides,
ironpants, and ironheads. At the
battle of Bull Run, in 1861, some of
our own New York militia wore
bullet-proof vests. But they proved
so heavy, that the New Yorkers
threw them aside when they ran
away. They were not such good
sports.1
Gorillas
Alfred was an Anglo-gorilla at the
Bristol zoo. He is worth $8,000 and
weighs 426 pounds net. He eats $12
per week in foodstuffs, and is said to
be the longest lived gorilla in cap-
tivity. Keepers say he's just as good
a sport as the fellow with the alumi-
num leg. But Alfred's too expensive
to keep up, and if somebody doesn't
adopt him, he'll get shot. Nobody in
England likes that prospect. One
man wrote the Bristol zoo, and said:
"Why don't you ship him to Amer-
ica, with all the other Hapsburgs."
Simultaneously, 3,000,000 dogs were
being slaughtered in Germany, to
gave food. Poor dogs; poor Alfred;
poor Hapsburgs!
DOPESHEET:
Diagnosis?
One European neuiral observer
doped out the An>erican presidential
race like this: If the war is still in
progress, Roosevelt will win, hands
down. People don't like to change
horses in crossing a stream. But if
the war is over, Willkie will have it
by a nose. For if Churchill re-
signs, which is always possible, the
Roosevelt foreign policy will be dis-
credited. The observer linked Church-
ill to Roosevelt, just as Chamber-
, lain was linked to Daladier.
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Bruckart's Washington Digest
Only Time Can Test "Advantages'
Of Havana Conference Agreement
Pan-American Plan for Colonies Enlarges the Scope of
Famous Monroe Doctrine and Assures Enforcement
Of Its Provisions.
GENERAL
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WlNU Service, National Press Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON. — Although copy-
books long since have disappeared
and the school systems seem to have
omitted the "R" from reading,
writing and 'rithmetic, the truth of
the copy lines remains indisputa-
ble. One line, "time brings changes,"
continues to be basic fact and it ap-
plies to nations as well as individu-
als. If proof were needed as to the
truth of the adage, recent develop-
ments at Havana, Cuba, surely can
be used.
The conference at Havana, in
which the United States and 20 oth-
er American republics participat-
ed, brought into being an agreement
whereby all of the nations in North
and South America, excepting Can-
ada and the possessions of European
nations, will work together in de-
fense, military or otherwise. It was
a meeting that must be placed in
large print in history because it told
the whole world that the Monroe
Doctrine still exists and will be en-
forced.
The Havana conference was nota-
ble and histrical in another way. It
established for the first time, as a
policy of the United States, a de-
PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE
His policy has become a tradition.
termination to use our national de-
fense—our army, our navy, our air
force—in protecting not only our own
shore lines, but the shore lines of our
sister nations of the Western hemi-
sphere.
In other words, the conference
which is described as "the Pan-
American Agreement on Colonies,
did these things: (1) it determined
steps to be taken if any European
possession in the Western hemi-
sphere were threatened with trans-
fer of sovereignty to another for-
eign nation; (2) it established a new
base for inter-American trade and
economic relations so that inroads
by any European or Asiatic power
will be made more difficult; (3) it
prepared the way for dealing with,
and the control of, agents of foreign
powers seeking to carry on subver-
sive activities against the New
world.
Agreement Establishes
New World Solidarity
Under this structure of interna-
tional agreement, there is set up ma-
chinery which will provide some-
thing of a guardianship—a protec-
torate—for British and French and
Dutch Guiana. The British section
of that three-part country, of course,
is still subject to British rule. No-
body knows exactly the status of
the French and Dutch sections, since
Hitler forced France to her knees
and wreaked havoc with Holland.
To date, the situation is not thor-
oughly clear how this protectorate
will work. It can be said, how-
ever, that the idea is definite and
conclusive and that any move to
transfer Dutch and French Guiana
to Germany will meet with resist-
ance. The United States and its
sister republics simply have said to
Hitler and the others in Europe:
stay on your own side of the At-
lantic, we don't want you over here
and you shall not come here.
So, any fair interpretation of the
Havana international meeting means
that (1) a principle has been estab-
lished, (2) that means of support-
ing and enforcing that principle have
been created, and (3) that any of
the nations of North or South Amer-
ica can act against any foreign pow-
er and will do so with the agreed
approval of the others. It is a pow-
erful thing and, if it holds, there is
established an entirely new solidari-
ty within the New world.
PROBLEM OF COLONIES
The recent Pan-American Con-
ference on Colonies receives a
thorough* analysis by William
Bruckart, Washington corre-
spondent. This conference en-
larged the scope of the Monroe
Doctrine to establish virtual pro-
tectorates over European posses-
sions in the Americas. Bruck-
art believes that the true value
of this government cannot be
known until it has stood the test
of time.
Value of Agreement
Is Highly Controversial
There are many objections possi-
ble of statement respecting is new
treaty arrangement. Nonece n fore-
tell whether those objection s have
merit or not. Nor can anyone in this
day say with certainty that t ie pro-
gram will guarantee either p ace or
war. In most arguments t lat we
hear in Washington disci ssions,
claims that appear sound i re ad-
vanced both for and agaii st the
value and general merit of' he Ha-
vana treaty. The thing wi 1 have
to be studied and will have tp be in
operation for a time, I belinve, be-
fore anyone can make an urlequivo-
cal statement whether its advan-
tages outweigh its disadvantages, or
whether the reverse is true.
To get back to the copybook line
that "time brings changes," it may
be pointed out properly tiat the
United States has bound itself to
defend all of South and Central
America. It may be said more-
over, that the Havana treaty ex-
pands the Monroe Doctrine beyond
any of the original meaning of the
statement made by Presiden James
Monroe. Or, it offers gro md for
argument that the United States is
taking upon itself the guardianship
of all of the Americas, since it is a
fact that the United States (navy is
the only navy worthy of a iiame in
all of the Western hemisphere.
Fate of Small Republics,
Has Become Very Important
These changes have take ) place.
Of that, there can be little doubt.
But there remains the condition that
confronts all of the nations of North
and South America. We do not know
in this country what influences are
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operative
America.
in South and
Of course, it is
Central
known
that subversive agents—Hitler and
Mussolini and Stalin—are
>usy in
Mexico. We can see varioi s signs
of the boring-from-within tha t is tak-
ing place in other nations, But the
truth is that we have no rea knowl-
edge of how much progress has been
made or whether the parasi es that
are within the body politic of the
Latin countries have left only a
shell of solidarity on the s' r ice for
us to see.
These things, if they do e>ist, are
highly dangerous to the United
States. How dangerous :.h y are,
time alone will tell, but u.,:e has
brought the changes that force the
United States to build something in
the nature of protective fende. The
question is whether that fenie shall
be on our frontier with Mexico and
Canada, or whether it shi' be a
fence along the shores oi ne At-
lantic and the Pacific, and hether
the United States can build > fence
at all to make trespassers ' ■j-.p out.
It was only a few years .ro that
the Washington government as sort
of letting the South Americainlrepub-
lics hold their elections with gunfire
and thinking nothing of it. J Now,
those elections are important to us.
The United States cannot gd down
there and supervise the elections.
That would be the surest way to dis-
rupt the relations of a more or less
peaceful character that elst be-
tween the various republic Yet,
anything ttiSt is done by iny of
those governments now, i ything
that affects their status in elation
to any other nation in t!
world, becomes a matter pai imount
in importance.
U. S. Must Bear Burden
Of War in Americas
Probably, the Havana co mention
will come in for some veif harsh
criticism. It likely will be said by
some, for instance, that it is an-
other step in the direction of war
and that its terms will result in
American troops being used all over
South America at some time in the
future. To the extent that the Unit-
ed States must fight—if war comes
to this side of the Atlantic—the Ha-
vana treaty will send our troops
south of the border. It may be that
such a result would have to come,
anyway, whether the United States
was aligned with its sister repub-
lics or not.
If war comes our way—and I see
no reason for it to come over here—
the United States is going to have
to carry the burden. The United
States has the great stake and it
must defend that stake. So, the
question turns on whether it is wise
to take in so much territory by a
written agreement, or whether to
persist in following the doctrinc of
President Monroe as is now a tra-
dition, dealing with the problem,) as
they arise.
As I said, none can tell yet, how
the Havana treaty is going to ork
out. If it works out as planned it
has plenty of meritorious phase*. II
some of the South American rf?>ub-
ics kick over the traces, am they
have been known to do, the Ha-
vana treaty will be just alothei
scrap of paper. For the time being,
however, the agreement is e|i ex,
cellent talking point, in any <!vent
It is notice that any foreigh na-
tion had better consider the conse
quences before attempting . to de-
cide the fate of European posses-
sions here.
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BIBLE AND CONSCRIPTION
WASHINGTON. — My repeated
statement that compulsory selective
service is also of biblical origin has
been challenged.
Well, the draft consists of three
steps. First comes registration of
the whole adult male population and
classification as to availability for
military service. In Numbers 26; 1
and 2 "The Lord spake unto Moses
. . . saying take the sum of all the
congregation of the Children of Is-
rael from 20 years old and upward
throughout their father's houses, all
that are able to go to war in Is-
rael." The ensuing first "registra-
tion report" showed 601,730 regis-
trants.
The next step is the assignment of
quotas. Numbers 31-3 "Moses spake
. . . arm some of yourselves unto
the war ... of every tribe a thou-
sand . . . shall ye send to the war."
They were drafted and inducted.
Some men are "exempted" ac-
cording to regulations. For rules
of exemption in the Mosaic draft,
see Deuteronomy 20; 5-9. Briefly,
they exempted men who were pro-
viding homes and had not "dedi-
cated" them, newly married men,
men who were growing vineyards
not yet mature and, curiously
enough, self-confessed cowards. In
Deuteronomy 24-5, the "married
man" exemption was confined to one
year.
The theory of this selective serv-
ice is found in Numbers 32-6 "And
Moses said unto the children of Gad
(Gad correct) and the children of
Reuben" (who wanted to call it a
day in the conquest of Canaan)
"shall your brethren go to war and
shall ye sit here?" Then he recalled
an earlier evasion of military serv-
ice by the children at Kadesh-Bar-
nea and reminded them that "the
Lord's anger was kindled against
Israel and he made them wander in
the wilderness for 40 years." The
entire tribes of Reuben and Gad
(Gad correct) marched, "every man
armed to battle."
Maybe all that was not a faithful
forerunner of our selective service
system of 1917 and the Burke-Wads-
worth bill of today, but it seems so
to me. It is interesting but unim-
portant, because there is no respect-
able argument in law, morals or
ethics against the universal obliga-
tion to military service when it is
necessary to the safety of a people.
It is inherent in the social compact.
These be four dollar words but I
imagine something like this hap-
pened.
Og and Ug and some other cave-
men got tired of losing hides, cat-
tle and women every time some
great Neanderthaler Snaggletooth in
the next valley decided to raid off
the reservation. Singly he could
bash in the brains of any. They
held a conference and ub-glubbed a
gang-up on him. The next time he
came they sent him howling home.
That kept the peace. Some kind of
society became possible and that
tribe was formed and on its way to
better things and the more abundant
life. Fine. But could Og or Ug, or
whoever live under the protection of
that pact for months or years, when
old Snaggletooth threatened again—
as Moses said—sit there while their
brethren went to war! It is an in-
escapable duty of every single man
who has enjoyed the collective pro-
tection of any nation.
The objections won't stand up.
"We have not done it before." We
have rarely needed to do it before.
But every time we have needed to
do it, we have done it—three times.
"Yes, but not in peace—only in
war."
The obligation arises with the dan-
ger and in proportion to it. This
danger is great enough.-This duty
has nothing to do with the legal
formality of a declaration of war.
Few recent wars have been "de-
clared." If we had to wait idly for
that we would be lost.
In modern war you can't fight if
you're not trained. If there is an
obligation to fight there is an obli«
gation to train.
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A STUPID BLUNDER
The change in the proposed draft
bill ages 21-31 from ages 18-46 for
registration, was forced by an ab-
surd scarehead ballyhoo that fooled
a lot of people into believing that
the "draft would affect 42,000,000
men at terrific expense and no ne-
cessity."
The draft will affect only the num-
ber of men drafted. That has noth-
ing whatever to do with the num-
ber registered—except that if too
few are registered the whole scheme
becomes grotesquely inefficient and
unfair. The change—at least as it
relieves men between 18 and 21, and
those over 31 from registration—is a
stupid blunder.
It is true that we started the
World war draft at ages 21 to 30
but, as we later learned, it was a
mistake. It had to be corrected by
widening the range to 18-45.
If you are going to get the full
benefit to the government of scien-
tific selection, you want the widest
possible field of selection. On the
other hand, one purpose of the draft
is to get the necessary men with the
least possible interference with fam-
ily, educational and economic life.
The smaller your range of selec-
tion the less generous can your de-
ferments be.
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