The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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Louisiana back to the people” as
he takes his oath of office as forty-
ninth governor of that state.
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Here is the camera debut of infant Theodore Woolsey Chase III,
whose birth was forecast months ago for the readers of a national women's
magazine when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Woolsey Chase II,
were selected as the “typieal young American married couple.” The fami-
ly is shown in the Ellis hospital, Schenectady.
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Without high hat, tails or fanfare, John D. Rockefeller Jr., oil mag- ’ Posture Queen of America is Miss
nate and philanthropist, shows up at the turnstile of the New York World’s Helen Dillard of New York city,
fair and gets tagged by a fair employee. Rockefeller, famed for his
dislike of ostentation, came as an ordinary citizen to see the big show.
The tag, incidentally, bears the legend, “Hello, Folks, I’m from------.”
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Miss Dillard was named by experts
to possess the qualities which make
for poise, beauty and health in walk,
ing, standing and sitting postures.
Queen of Posture
Recent visitors to the United States, though for widely different reasons, include Mme. Teresa de Lopes
Contreras, left, wife of the president of Venezuela, who is here as a visitor to the New York World's fair. Miss
Kylllkki Polyala, center, member of the Finnish parliament, is in this country in an effort to speed up relief
for her stricken country. She is working with Herbert Hoover, former President. Sir Thomas Beecham, right,
famed composer and conductor of the London Symphony orchestra, pictured en route to Australia, where he
will conduct several symphonies.
As John D. Jr. Goes to the Fair
at Fort Belvoir, Va. Left to right: Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, firing the Johnson
First-hand information on the relative merits of rival rapid-fire guns is obtained by a trio of legislators;
on the rifle range at Fort Belvoir, Va. Left to right: Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, firing the Johnson
semi-automatic rifle; TUp; r.*B.’ SayflW of 'Pwmsytvxnta, firing the UtempoM submachine gun; and Sen.
Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, firing the Garand rapid-fire rifle. The three were among members of the house
and senate military affairs committees who sought information concerning the much-debated guns.
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backers of these ideas, are perfectly
in accord with traditional American
policy.
Argument for transfer of some of
these West Indies islands in pay-
ment of war debts runs something
like this: These European nations
owe us money. We need more air
and naval bases in the Caribbean to
protect the Panama canal. Why not
obtain these islands by transfer and
at the same time aid these debtors
in reducing the amount of their ob-
ligation? And, it is sometimes add-
ed, there is grave doubt that we
will get payment of these debts in
any other form whatsoever.
Amounts Owed to U. S.
More specifically, Great Britain
owes the United States some 5^ bil-
lion dollars. In the Western hemi-
sphere her possessions consist of the
following: the Bahama islands, Ber-
muda, the Barbados, Jamaica, Trin-
idad, the Leeward islands, British
Honduras and British Guiana. Then
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Mrs. Melville
Mucklestone
er of new styles, whether for tex-
tiles, clothing, furniture or what-
not, should be given a monopoly.
“All styles are imitative,” he said.
“We select styles in order to look
like others whom we think are styl-
Fashions need not be beauti-
In fact, they frequently are
As long as they look like
what the style leaders have, we ac-
cept them.
Formula for Household Budget
Is Applied to City Governments
CHICAGO.—Because the house-
wife who purchases a kitchen spoon
faces the same problem as the mu-
nicipal official who shops for a
steam shovel—the problem of a
budget, domestic or governmental—
a quarter of a million women in
5,000 American cities and towns
have begun to apply their experi-
ence in household budgeting to
measure the efficiency of their mu-
nicipal government.
Since January, women in 50 of
these communities have initiated
surveys of their local governments
which promise to bring about higher
standards of economy and efficiency
in municipal operations, according
to Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, presi-
dent of the National Consumers Tax
commission, whose campaign for
“tax reduction through education”
is now active in 45 states.
Working co-operatively through a
unique “exchange of ideas” plan,
each of these N. C. T. C. groups
has asked its mayor to appoint a
non-partisan committee of citizens
and public officials to survey the
city, comparing its methods and ex-
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around the southernmost tip of South
America.
Pacific Islands Acquired.
In the Pacific the United States
has not hesitated to acquire islands
which serve as vital defense links to
our far-flung possessions in that sec-
tion. In 1889 the Samoan islands
came under the combined control
of the United States, Great Britain
again and finally, by Cubans them-
selves. All this in addition to the
short military rule imposed on the
island for a time by the United
States,
Puerto Rico, owned by the United
States, formerly was owned by
Spain. Haiti has been owned by both
French and British interests. Ja-
maica was once owned by Spain,
and the British held it for a long
period of time. Thus the history of
these islands indicates that their
ownership has never been definitely
stable. -
Imperialistic Intentions?
Of course, any plan to acquire any
of these islands for the United States
would be attacked on the grounds
that we were branching out with
imperialistic intention. Advocates of
the suggestion defend their position
in this regard by pointing out that
we are preparing to hand the Philip-
pines back to the natives. And,
they Continue, acquisition of terri-
tory in the region described is part
of a measure of self-defense, for it
is highly essential that the United
States keep the Panama canal. Hold-
ing these islands would make the job
of defending it a very much easier
undertaking for the United States
army and navy.
But why, the question logically
follows, why is it so vitally impor-
tant that our defense of the Panama
canal influence our actions to the
extent that we even suggest acquir-
ing new naval bases to aid in its de-
fense? Briefly, the answer is this:
Ever since the United States has
become a world power on the high
seas we have been developing what
is recognized as a “one-ocean-fleet.”
That is, the power of the nation’s
naval force is concentrated into a
and Germany. Just before the turn ,
of the century, the islands were di-
vided among the three nations, the
U. S. getting Tutuija and the harbor
at Pago Pago. In the meantime, a
war with Spain had been fought and
the Hawaiian islands had been an-
nexed by the federal government.
In addition, after the close of the
war with Spain and with the treaty
of Paris, Spain ceded outright the
Philippines and Guam in the Pacific
and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.
Plus this the United States has an-
nexed the following Pacific islands
in the years indicated: Wake (1899);
Midway (1859); Samoa, (1899);
Howland, Baker, Jarvis, (1856) and
exercises joint control with England
over Canton and Enderbury. In 1867
we purchased the Aleutian islands
and the Pribiloff groups off the coast
of Alaska.
Under the Monroe Doctrine, the
United States is committed to the
policy of allowing no European or
other foreign nation acquiring pos-
sessions in the American hemi-
sphere by war. Will that apply to
the case of Germany in the West
Indies should it claim any of the
islands, or to other lands in the
Americas? __
These-will be questions that will
be asked many times in the coming
months.
penditures with those of other mu-
nicipalities of like size.
While none of the surveys has
been completed, the non-partisan
groups are discovering financial
methods which, says Mrs. Muckle-
stone, “no thrifty
housewife would I
put up with in her I
own household.” I
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The mayor in a |
midwest city was I
discovered to I
have sold a $50 I
radio for $500 to a I
paving contractor I
just before con- I
tracts were let. I
Because city
officials “neglect-
ed” to pay their
personal residential electric bills to
the municipally owned plant, anoth-
er community is in a serious finan-
cial condition.
All members of the school board
of a small southern village as well
as the tax collector were found by
another survey to be ineligible for
the positions they hold.
The survey reports, according to
Mrs. Mucklestone, will show where
the taxpayer’s dollar goes. The
analysis will point the way to new
economies, for the surveys will be
exchanged between cities so that one
may benefit by the experience o< .
others.
“Our members have no thought of
demanding .curtailment of essential
services nor will reductions in taxes
always follow reduction in waste,”
Mrs. Mucklestone says. “Municipal
services will, however, be improved
and broadened, so that the taxpayer
will receive more for hie money.**
ON THE ALERT—Thit trooper
M one of twenty thousand U. S.
toldiert on duty in the Panama
Canal region constantly on the
alert for any hint of danger to this
vital link of American defense.
Pictured here on .sentry duty he
presents an eerie sight, clad as he
it in mosquito headnet and wear-
ing gloves as further protection
against the malaria peril. The sign
warns that no photographs can be
taken on this military reservation.
Britain and France, too,
have possessions in the West
Indies and in Central Ameri-
ca. And many are the voices
that are raised to have these
possessions transferred to the
United States in repayment
of the war debts. These voices
have been rising louder since
the spread of the war to Bel-
gium, Luxembourg, and the Nether-
lands. Whether anything will come
of this proposal none can say. In
the past, it never got to first base in
congress. Will the next one deal
with it more seriously?
Germany’s invasion of Denmark
and Holland, which nominally re-
tain governments of their own so
far, has brought another suggestion
in the domain of West Indian af-
* fairs. It is a proposal that the
United States purchase outright for-
eign possession in this hemisphere,
where possible. This would not be
without precedent, since the United
States purchased the Virgin islands
from Denmark in 1917. But long
before that, President Jefferson
_made the Louisiana purchase from
Frahce. <*~
came the purchase of Alaska from
the Russian government.
Precedent for Idea.
The Netherlands, it is pointed out,
own Surinam (Dutch Guiana), a col-
ony of 54,291 square miles on the
northern coast of South America
and also Curacao, two groups of is-
lands in the same vicinity.
For example, the Virgin islands,
in this same area, were purchased
from Denmark for $25,000,000.
In its process of growing, the Unit-
ed States has acquired territory in
several different ways—by annexa-
tion, purchase, conquest, and by ar-
bitration. Exchange for war debts
or direct purchase, then, say the
(Fr.) France; and (Neth.) The Netherlands.
unit that best performs if all Its
component parts are put into action
together. For this reason, if inter- '
national conditions warrant it, the
navy concentrates in the Pacific to
ward off any possible threat to
America’s shores. Then if official
Washington sees trouble brewing for
Uncle Sam in the Atlantic regions,
the fleet may be directed to pro-
ceed through the Panama canal to
take up a strategic position in the '
desired location. Thus the canal
should ever be kept open so that
the fleet can be shifted from ocean
to ocean without being forced to
there is the vast Dominion of Can-
ada and Newfoundland.
France’s debt is about $4,000,000,-
000. In the western world she owns
Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Pierre
and Miquelon. Oi
South America, fii
Guiana, France
square-mile territory
Guiana.
Both of these nations, France and
Great Britain, have given up terri-
tory in the Western hemisphere be-
fore. History of this very group of
islands, the West Indies,-supplies
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STRATEGIC WEST INDIES—This map indicates the strategic
location of many foreign Owned islands and possessions in their'rela- *
tionship to America's defense of the all-important Panama Canal.
Identification of the various mother countries is shown by the abbre-
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WASHINGTON. — Will Ger-
many claim Dutch foreign pos-
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completed by Dr. Kenneth D.
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