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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940
THE OLD WAR WHOOP
Solomon, who was rated deser-
vedly as a very wise man, said:
“The thing that hath been, it is
that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall
be done: and there is no new thing
under the sun.” When Hitler
marched with impartial tread over
Europe to the English Channel,
the world was started, and pro-
perly so, but blitzkrieg really is
no new thing.
The Forty Niners who crossed
the prairies in the hope of getting
a pocketfull of the gold lately dis-
covered at Sutter’s California
mill, knew the onrush that carried
speedy death at the edge of the
tomahawk. The Indians were the
original American blitzkriegers,
but they did not have anything
essentially novel. Hitler’s shells
constructed to make a terrorizing
noise and break down morale, are
merely means for saving the
throat from the wear and tear of
the war-whoop.
It is necessary to press back
far beyond the time of the In-
dians, in a search- for blitzkrieg
origins, and they will not be found
at that. When the curtain rises on
recorded history, swift and -whole-
sale attack followed by dire con-
sequences, was no more than a
well known expedient. An ancient
general who apparently had a
good job of blitzkrieging in mind,
conquered a city, ‘and he brought
forth ’the people that were there-
in, and put them under saws, and
under harrows of iron, and under
axes of iron, and made them pass
through the brick kiln.” England
need not fear that. Blitzkriegs
may be growing bigger and bet-
ter, but they also ai’e becoming
safer and m6re sane.
SMALL TOWN BOY
It was a great moment for Wen-
dell Willkie when he stood under
a sweltering mid-west sun in the
park in Elwood, Indiana, and for-
mally accepted the Republican no-
mination for president of the Un-
ited States. And it was an occasion
directly in the American tradi-
tion—another small-town boy,
who had started without money
or position, had achieved great
success. And lastly, it was a
solemn moment to the thoughtful
onlooker—for this is not just one
more routine election. Whoever
wins the presidency next Novem-
ber will be confronted with pro-
blems as great and as difficult
as any Chief Executive has faced.
A candidate’s acceptance speech
necessarily deals with generalities.
It is impossible for him to discuss
in full detail all of the many is-
sues on which he bases his cam-
paign. What Mr. Willkie attempt-
ed to do was to define his posi-
tion, and to lay down a philoso-
phy of life and government. And
he did just that extremely well.
The times being what they are,
those poi-tions of his address deal-
ing with foreign policy and the
preparedness program were na-
turally most interesting. To a cer-
tain extent, he goes along with
Mr. Roosevelt’s policy—he be-
lieves that the collapse of Eng-
land would be a calamity, he is
100 per cent opposed to Nazism,
and he favors maximum prepared-
ness, including some form of sel-
ective military service. Where he
differs strongly with the President
is in the conduct of our foreign
policy. He * feels’ that the Presi-
dent’s attacks on other powers
have been “useless and danger-
ous.” He believes that he has un-
justifiably eddied in the affairs
of Europe, at the expense of
America’s safety. The Willkie
policy, as he stated in bi’ief, is
similar to that of Theodore Roose-
velt—“walk softly and carry a big
stick.”
Highlight of the speech was
where he charged the Administra-
tion with failure to have faith in
the American future. It had, he
said, accepted an “I pass” atti-
tude—it refused to bet on the
country. The New Deal, he con-
tinued, practices a doctrine of di-
vision, not a doctrine of growth.
Instead of seeking to create more,
it simply seeks to divide what we
already have. That, said Mr. Will-
kie, is a static, backward-looking
philqsophy, as contrasted with the
dynamic philosophy that made for
this nation’s epochal achievements
of the past.
DEMOCRATIC VOTES
Strange as it may seem, it is
reported that a gross misunder-
standing exists in some parts of
the country to the effect that if a
Democrat casts a vote for a Re-
publican candidate, the voter
makes himself a Republican in-
stead of a Democrat, and vice
versa, and thereby terminates his
affiliation with his own party.
If such a mistaken idea exists,
it is important that voters be in-
formed that they can vote for
whom they please in general elec-
tions, without in any way chang-
ing their party affiliations or
their right to vote in primaries
and other local elections.
MILK AND HONEY
The fabulous lands of ancient
times were those that were men-
tioned as being rich in milk and
honey. Agriculture was the one
great source of wTealth in those
days ;talk of milk and honey em-
phasized that fact.
Centuries later, it was America
that set the pace in creating indus-
try—the making of goods—as an
even greater source of wealth and
human well-being.
Today, as a result, the United
States is rich both in agricultural
produce and in manufactured
goods. And to begin with, as far
as farming goes, it is a land tre-
mendously rich in milk, though
honey isn’t as important as it used
to be. This country produces
about 50 billion quarts of milk a
year.
That’s a lot of milk. Much of it
is processed to make cheese and
various other dairy products. In
the process, vast quantities of
“waste” are left over.
At the point, industry has
stepped into the picture. In late
years, research workers have
found hundreds of ingenious ways
—we almost said “wheys”—of
turning this former waste into
useful industrial products.
Plastics, fibres, paints, finishes,
cosmetics, films—the list of things
made from milk is rapidly ap-
proaching a point where it can be
called “endless.” To great occupa-
tions in this county—agriculture
and industry—are becoming more
interdependent each year, in this
and many other ways. Today 20
per cent of milk by-products have
a sales value; the future will un-
doubtedly see this figure rise to
The Political Party is Up To Old Tricks Again
THE MAN BEHIND WILLKIE
By J. ROSCOE DRUMMOND
In Christian Science Monitor
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Details Of
Invasion Told
In All Detail
Carl Johan Hambro, Speaker of
the Norwegian Parliament for ov-
er a decade, arrived in Washing-
ton, July 15th. He came here
from Halifax, after accompanying
King Haakon from Northern Nor-
way across the North Sea to Eng-
land.
Before a group of reporters at
his country’s legation in Wash-
ington, the Norwegian statesman
told how his country had come
under the control of German
arms. He declared that “there was
not a Norwegian in any official
capacity or in the army or navy
who was a traitor to his country ”
Nor, said he, was there a particle
of truth in the reports that Nor-
way was conquered by a “fifth
column.” The stories of treach-
ery, he averred, were falsely dis-
seminated by the German propa-
ganda machine to confuse not on-
ly his people but the world.
Referring in this connection to
the German report that the Nazi
fleet had sailed unattacked up the
Olso Fjord, past spiked fortifica-
tions to capture the Norwegian
Capital, Mr. Hambro said the in-
vaders lost two of their biggest
ships in their encounter with Nor-
wegian forces. Nazis, he added,
were compelled to land on the
shores north and south of the
fjord to make their initial attack.
Continuing, the Norwegian states-
man said that the surprise attack
on Oslo, April 9th, was successful
because it was swift and was
launched in the middle of the
night when the visibility was
Seizing Oslo, the Germans im-
poor.
mediately took control of the ra-
dio, and in perfectly spoken Nor-
wegian, they issued “official gov-
ernment statesments” assuring
the people {here had been no at-
tack and to disregard the mobili-
zation calls which had been issued
to begin April 11th.
Mr. Hambro said the city of
Bergen was captured without a
shot, as the Nazi squadron, in
faultless English, radioed the de-
fenders that they were British
vessels bringing assistance
against the German invaders.
He explained that the so-called
“fifth column” in Norway was
hundreds of German hitch-hikers
—tourists— who had spent weeks
in sketching, presumably natural
scenery, but, in fact, were draw-
ing maps. It was they who return-
ed, with a military force, and di-
rected the blasting of bi’idges.
When asked what of the future
of the League of Nations, Mr.
Hambro, who was elected presi-
new highs for many years to come.
And to the extent that this
economic interdependence in-
creases and is appreciated—to the
extent that the industrial scientist
can find uses for excess farm pro-
ducts—isn’t it reasonable to as-
sume that we’ll be moving along
towards the day when this coun-
try can reasonably be called a
“land of milk and harmony.”
WORTH WHILE
There’s no such satisfaction
As the satisfaction true
Which comes from helping others
In the work they have to do.
And there’s no such thrill of
gladness
Like that sweet and happy thrill
Which is born of helping others
Who are trudging up the hill.
If you want to know contentment
And be truly satisfied,
Just go and help your brother
When his soul is being tried.
—Edgar A. Guest.
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dent of the assembly last year,
said it was still functioning, but
the employes for the most part
had left Geneva. “They left their
institution of peace,” he said, “to
seize arms and fight for their
countries.”
(Comment) : Carl Johan Ham-
bro’s graphic account of the seiz-
ure of his country will be reveal-
ing to the mass of the American
readers. It is a flat denial of the
German propaganda of why Nor-
way failed, a propaganda that has
and is being given too much cre-
dance in the American press. Ac-
cording to many observers, the
German success is largely due to
its deceit towards the nations they
attacked, an outright misrepre-
sentation of facts in the form of
propaganda within the nations,
and to the various news services.
As an example, the French
press, in control of the Nazis, has
for days denounced England for,
allegedly, not giving France ade-
quate support during the German
assault, and for having sunk or
seized the French navy. This de-
nouncement has been presented as
a sentiment of the rank and file
of the French pepole, and is being
accepted as factual by many peo-
ple of the United States. Nothing
appears in the French controlled
press of the deceit and perfidy of
the Nazis, their secret purpose to
use the French navy against
France’s former ally, nor of the
declared purpose of the British
Empire, if successful in their lone
fight against Germany and Italy,
to reestablish the French Repub-
lic.
It is poitned out that under
such conditions it is well for the
people of the United States to re-
member that there is no free
speech in France and that news
which comes over the radio or
from the French press is not the
sentiment of the mass of the
French people.
In the words of the noted col-
umnist, Frank Kent, “Always (the
American people) should remem-
ber that the first aim of the Hit-
ler gang in a conquered country,
as in their own, is to kill the truth,
prohibit free speech, control the
press and color the news to pro-
mote their political and military
purposes.”
(In Christian Science Monitor)
Brain-trusters and ghost-writers
have in recent years played such a
publicized role in American public
life that everyone is asking : Who
is going to be the man behind
Wendell L. Willkie’s Presidential
campaign? Who will guide his
plans, suggest his decisions, write
his speeches?
These are not impertinent ques-
tion. They are not unfair ques-
tions. They spring naturally from
methods which have lately become
common to politics and politicians,
and it is inevitable that the Re-
publican nominee's headquarters
here should be closely examined
to discover who are the influential
figures behind the scenes, who
leaves the bright ideas in his lap,
the telling phrases in his type-
writer.
Now, Mr. Willkie’s campaign or-
ganization is very nearly complet-
ed, his research staff is function-
ing, his board of strategy is at
work; but before much is written
about the men who will aid him in
the coming months, there are sev-
eral observations about Mr. Will-
kie’s way of working which should
be put indelibly into the record.
articles or addresses, but when he
begins to dictate it comes fast.
His highly important acceptance
speech was prepared in this man-
ner and while he discussed ideas
on the long-distance telephone
with personal friends and party
leaders in Washington, New York
and elsewhere, it was entirely con-
ceived from his own mental re-
sources and with no high-policy
formulators haunting his improvis-
ed study.
When you read a Willkie article
or listen to a Willkie speech, you
can take it for granted that both
the words and the music will be
his.
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As one who has watched Mr.
Willpie at close hand for several
weeks, seeing him test himself
with short and then longer ex-
temporaneous speeches, seeing
him feel himself out before small
crowds and then large ones, see-
ing him evolve and compose his
acceptance speech, and finally
watching him put slowly together
the campaign staff which will
serve him in the struggle ahead,
there are several important things
about this man and his methods
which can be put down authori-
tatively. They are:
1. Wendell L. Willkie is his
own closest adviser. Mr. Willkie
confers, consults, listens, discuss-
es, disagrees, persuades, is per-
suaded. He likes to talk and he
likes to be talked to. He relishes
hearing the views of those who
disagree with him more than those
who think as he does.
But it is already crystal-clear
to correspondents who have spent
a few weeks at his “vacation”
headquarters that in this cam-
paign no polished schemes, no neat
programs are going to fee brain-
trusted for the Republican candi-
date, tied up in_a tidy, thin man-
uscript for his inside coat pocket
and unfurled at the psychological
moment.
Mr. Willkie encourages advice,
welcomes advice, takes advice, but
he can also leave it alone. He is
very good at leaving it alone. The
ideas which will animate his
speeches, the plans which will vi-
talize his campaign will be Mr.
Willkie’s.
2. Wendell L. Willkie is his
own literary craftsman. Mr. Will-
j kie has never had a line written
i for him in his life and he intends
to use no ghost-writers in his cam-
! paign. He not only thinks his own
I speeches but he writes his own
! speeches, and there are two rea-
sons.
One is that he is opposed to the
institution of ghost-writing on
principle, particularly for men in
public life. The other is that he
is a skilled and facile writer, is
capable of expressing himself in
English prose which it at once
graceful and lucid and pungent.
Those who have read Mr. Willkie’s
forthcoming acceptance speech re-
cognize that it possesses elements
of true literary distinction.
Mr. Willkie has the feeling of
the literary man towards his
writing. Those who write will
know it is not unkind to say that
he is his own favorite author. He
goes over what he has written
many times and reads it to others.
He likes to try out phrases, para-
graphs and whole speeches on his
friends. He enjoys writing and
writes fluently. For several days
he may mull over the ideas and
even the phrasing for one of hisj
Mr. Willkie’s avoidance of the
conventional brain-trust and his
aversion to ghost-writers come not
only from his accustomed reliance
upon his own abilities. They also
spring from a conviction that
synthetic political candidates, for
any office, are a danger to demo-
cracy and unfair to the voter. He
believes that the public should be
in a position to appraise a candi-
date who is on his own, that a
candidate’s policies should stand
out as expressing his own ideas
and abilities and should be defend-
ed by his own intelligence and his
own resourcefullness.
Mr. Willkie says that he wants
to be candid candidate and not a
synthetic candidate, and that is
the kind of Presidential campaign
he intends to conduct. He hopes
his opponent will do likewise.
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In Olden Days
Beer was a required article of
diet on ships sailing from Europe
to the New World in Colonial
days.
Old records describing Martin
Frobisher’s explorations of North
America reveal that the sailor’s
fare included a substantial ration
of beer. The Mayflower carried*
40 casks of ale, and histories of
the colonizationn of Georgia show
that each settler received a ration
of three pints of beer a day on
the voyage across the Atlantic. ^
The beer was not only a substi-
tute for water, which often went
bad on the long voyages, but it
also provided dietary elements
otherwise lacking in ship fare.
FREE COTTON CLASSING
First applications for free cot-
ton classing and market news ser- **
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Texas this season were those
submitted to the USDA’s Agricul-
tural Marketing Service by the
Plano Cooperative Gin One-Var-
iety Cotton Improvement Associa-
tion and the Plano Mebane One-
Variety Cotton Improvement As-
sociation, both located at Plano,
Collin County.
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