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V OL. X LVI
W ELLS, N . Y ., T H U R SD A Y ,
NO. 3
— “Weekly News Analysis----------------—
Ketinedy-Bidlitt War Forecast
Justified hy World Situation
---------- ---------- By Joseph W. La Bine—
EDITOR’S NOTE—WAea opinieaa are
expressed in these columns, they ai
in a /y st, and not necessat
of the news aaali
of the newspaper.
International
When U. S. foreign envoys m ake
their rare appearances in congress,
it is usually to, advise house and sen­
ate committees on foreign affairs.
But two days before President
Roosevelt gave congress his unprec­
edented defense proposals (see be>
' low), two top-ranking XJ. S. ambas­
sadors walked into secret session
not with the foreign affairs commit­
tees, but with a committee on mili­
tary affairs. The ambassadors: Jos-
But Chamberlain also knew he
m ust speak softly, for only a week
before the Anglo-French alliance
had suffered a severe blow. At
Berchtesgaden, Polish Foreign Min­
ister Joseph Beck had deserted his
French alliance to find greater se­
curity with Germany. Moreover,
this meant that Poland ..would be
ready to block any Russian effort
to aid France and Britain. Tempo­
rarily free from danger in the east,
the Rome-Berlin axis was ready to
apply pressure on democracies.
The best prediction; That ,Chamberlain-Mussolini conversations will
lead to another “Munich” peace
conference, but certainly not to gen­
eral European peace.
HUNGARY •
Last November’s Italian-German
commission settled a boundary for
Czechoslovakia and Hungary, but
neither nation liked it. Since Jan­
uary 8 a series of border incidents
has kept both nations aflaipe, each
holding the other responsible.
Czechoslovakia has offered terms'
for truce, but Budapest refuses un­
til Prague pays for damages, ac­
knowledges res^nsibility for at­
tacks and punishes individuals re-
many may well step, in to help
Czechs since the Reich wants the
border city of Munkacs to be re­
tained in Czechoslovakia’s Carpatho-Ukraine. The town is impor­
tant in 'Berlin’s program of fortify­
ing , Carpatho-Ukraine in prepara­
tion for a German drive into Rus­
MESSRS. KENNEDY, BULLITT
sian Ukraine.
It looked like cold-blooded truth,
eph P . Kennedy, home from London, JAPAN
“Britain and the United Stales are be­
and William C. BuUitt, home froin
lieved to be atvare that should they resort
nomic pressure again
against
Though committee room'walls sui^ to serious economic
tuld have sufficient dete
posedly have no ears, it was learned Jdpah, Jape
rutidhjl
that M essrs. Kennedy and Bullitt
- thoroughly-frightened their congres­
sional audience with the following
This war talk came from Japan's
opinion on European affairs:.
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita in
G reat Britain has favored “ap­ answer to measures Great Britain
peasement” of Italy and Germany and the U. S. had already taken to
because neither she nor France combat growing Japanese dominahave adequate arms. So intense is
British appeasement sentiment that
London would perm it Germany to
build an airbase'in Canada rather
than revert to war. But since
Czechoslovakia’s “sellout” at Mu­
nich last September proved that one
appeasement leads to another,
Prance has determined to stop this
policy- Therefore Prance will not
concede to Italian territorial de­
mands, knowing that in war Great
Britain m ust come to her aid and
that Russia, in turn, must aid the
democracies.
Crux of the Kennedy-BuUitt opin­
ion: That further appeasement, as
advocated by Prime Minister Cham­
berlain, will only delay, th'e eventual
showdo'wn and make war even more
critical when it comes, which will
probably be within the next few
months. The U. S. will not be drawn
into this conflict immediately.
If this was propaganda for Presi­
dent Roosevelt’s long-range national
defense program, committeemen
JAPAN’S HACHIRO ARITA
swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
He threatened a U. S. invasion,
And well they might, because the
forecast appeared to be cold-blooded
truth when measured in the light of tion over the Orient. Because Tokyo
that day’s news from abroad. It all has closed China’s “open door” in
violation of the nine-power treaty,
looked like war :
both London and Washington have'
TH E BIG FOUR
given China financial support. Mean­
As Prim e Minister Chamberlain while the U. S. has completely
left London’s Victoria station for his stopped the sale of war m aterials
appeasement visit with Italy’s P re­ to Japan.
m ier Mussolini, unemployed demon-- Minister Arita’s statement, ap­
strators booed him and shouted:“Ap­ pearing in Tokyo’s Fascist news­
pease the unemployed, not Mussoli­ paper, Nichi Nichi, is the most war­
ni!” Between London and ^ o v e r, like gesture yet made against the
where he crossed the channel, Mr. U. S. What equalized the threat,
Chamberlain might have reflected however, was a similar gesture
on the advisability of such a course.
J submarine Rensuke
Hitler was clamoring for
parity with Britain; Italy was staff in Manchuria.
-■ " war and AT HOME
fighting the Spanish civil
yelling for concessionss from F ra
rance;
Checking the above news with'
both Germany and Italy were pro]
agandizing about
'
~
British “ atroci- Bullitt-Kennedy statements, con-'
gress was in fine shape to discuss,
ies” in Palestine.
En route to Rome, the Charnbcr-' U. S. defense measures. Tennes­
lain entourage stopped in Paris to see’s Rep. Andrew J. May of the
(1) show Germany and Italy that house military affairs committee,
France and Britain stand together, popped Up to urge military training^
dnd (2) assure France that Musso­ for 300,000 CCC boys. He also asked!
lini could not induce Chamberlain four-lane superhighways down At­
to bring pressure for French con­ lantic arid Pacific coasts and across
cessions to Italy. After two hours the gulf states.
of tea drinking, a spokesman an­
Next day the President sent con­
nounced Chamberlain would tell gress his defense message, well
Mussolini that France agreed to pared down from the multi-billion
consider concessions on “second­ figures originally bandied about
ary” questions. These are (1) the Washington. The total extra, emer­
status of 100,000 Italians in Tunisia; gency appropriation request:
(2) control over the Djibouti-Addis
Ababa railroad; (3) administration
year is
of the French-controlled Suez canal. over. Presidential argunients, few
As for himself, Chamberlain expect* of which were needed, pointed out
ed to teU Mussolini he refused* to that the U. S. is relatively no better
mediate between Frai
prepared today than in 1Q17, when
it took a year from the w ar declara­
long as Italian* tion- date for American troops to
troops are fighting the war.
reach a m ajor engagement,.
STAINED PAGE!
VERNON E. DEWEY, Editor, Wells, N. Y.
“A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAMILTON COUNTY”
CARL L. FRY ESTATE,'Pwprietor, W ells, N, Y
J A N U A R Y 19, 1 9 3 9
A g ricu ltu re
Under Secretary Henry A. Wal­
lace, the U. S. agriculture depart­
ment’s “original objective” has
been increased consumption through
one method or another. Last sum­
m er came announcement of a new
method, a “two price” plan for
boosting domestic consumption of
farm products. Under this arrange­
m ent the U. S. would subsidize man­
ufacturers, whose products would be
sold at a below-nqrmal price to low
income families.
F irst objections came from man­
ufacturers and retailers, many of
whom thought the plam would cur­
tail free enterprise. Then congress­
men turned a cold shoulder, sug­
gesting diflSculties in getting the
special purchase privilege in the
hands of people deserving them. As
congress got underway it became
certain that Mr. Wallace had
dropped the plan entirely, though
Still clinging to the “original ob­
jective.”
Announcement was made that
conferences are being held with cot­
ton manufacturers to encourage the
lowest possible .^prices for m at­
tresses to be sold to low income
families. Grapefruit will be simi­
larly “merchandised.” Said Mr.
Wallace: “We want increased con­
sumption ; . . We will use any
method to obtain it. We hope we
can get the trade (processors and
distributors) to do specific things to
shave costs to the limit.”
• Via London, U. S. farm ers have
learned that the agriculture depart­
ment proposes to reduce American
wheat land from 81,000,000 acres to
55,000,000 acres, resulting in total
wheat plantings of 65,000^000 acres
even if some growers do not co­
operate. This news came from the
international wheat advisory com­
mittee’s conference, where 21 na­
tions had sent envoys to study
schemes for export and import lim ­
itations. As the sessions got under­
way, a discouraging note appeared
in the International Institute of Ag­
riculture’s report. Wheat available
i the year ending
for export in
endir^------nextwas 1,140,Ju ly '31, the report•t said, was
ist a world imOdO.OOO bushels, against
i
port demand of 540,000 bushels.
Races
Less evil than that of any other
high Nazi is the reputation of Dr.
H jalm ar Schacht, president of Ger­
many’s Reichsbank. In appearance
more a business man than a politi­
cian, Dr. Schacht is the Reich’s No.
1 contact with foreign commercial
interests. 'When it came time to
peddle Germany’s 600,000 Jews
abroad, Chancellor Hitler turned
naturaUy to Dr. Schacht, knowing
he was the only high Nazi'whose utterances
the Jewish problem
would get a hearing abroad.
A cold business
less man £as well as a
diplomat, Dr. Schachtt could
c
lended on to evolve a Jewish pli
i-p
which would work to the Reich’s
ancial benefit. Early in January,
financial
at London, he announced the plan:
Part One. Within the next three
years, 400,000 of the Reich’s 600,000
Jews would be shipped abroad, the
remaining 200,000 to be retained as
common laborers. The 400,000 emi­
gres would leave by installments,
heads of families going first. For
aged and infirm, Germany would
guarantee satisfactory provision.
P art Two. World Jewry would
raise a $2,500,000,000 loan, “se­
cured” by Jewish property in Ger­
many, funds to be used for sending
3O 0r ^German
Jews abroad. The
poo
,
loan would be serviced by increased
German exports, to be paid J
‘Breath Smeller’ Determines Drunkenness
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
A JE W YORK.-^Dr. Robert H. Goddard, experimenting with rock­
ets for the last 24 years, and stead­
ily mdking progress, has had as his
n ry
.
goal tile peneDr. Goddard
tration of the
Hae Both Feet higher atnibsOn Thie World Pbere, the possi­
b le catapulting
of messages -across .the. Ocean, and
sundry scientific inquiries to which
he has thought his unique gunnery
might supply tfie answer. Although
much Jules Vemish stu® has been
written about his “rockets to the
moon” and about shooting people
across the Atlantic in a few min­
utes, he has been an aloof and pa­
tient scientist, intent on seeing only
What he sees and not making anj
handsome promises.
So far as tills conrier knows,
the sagge'stion by Maj. James
R. Randolph that rockets may
replace heavy artillery, for longrange homhafdiiieht of cities, is
the first official recognition of
tiieir possible use in warfare.
He specifically cites the work of
Doctor Goddard, at a time when
Doctor GoddsM ^ is piling up
new patents and getting some of
hls biggest iizzlers under con­
trol. It is also the time when
th e tin y, mojtored plane, evolv­
ing from theltoy, uid controlled
by radio, is ihsorMng the inter­
est of the a m y experimenters
as a possible jboiiih-dropper.
His most vainahle contribution,
to rock eteerh ig, noted b y M ajor
Randolph, if his eontinuOus flow
of power, lisle a d of the single
initial explosion. Gasoline and
oxygen, mixing and exploding
as they issue from a tail nozzle,
give steady propulsion.
Doctor (
rocket experiments a t Clark univer­
sity in 1914. He is a physicist, ab­
sorbed in pure science.
TT DOES begin to look as though
scientists will be the loudest of all
when “Beulah Land” rings out at
the next singfest. Once upon a
time, religionists
Church and
looked
warily
Test Tubes Are whenever a man
TeamingUp .
science
opene d his
mouth, because so* many of them
“It is just as permissible to assume
that another world awaits habita­
tion of an exalted type of humanity
as it is to believe in the eternal ex­
istence of individuality,” is only the
latest of many to hit the sawdust
trail.
Emeritus professor of astron­
omy, Q ueens college, London, is
one of his present distinctions,
and he is also a former editor
of the magazine. Nature. The
stars have been his chief guidefor most of the y e a r s sin c e he
was horn in 1864. How much
their lessons helped him to his
knighthood, 1919, and his baron­
etcy, 1931, is a question. But
srtainly, along with his ac­
knowledged interest in heaven,
they must take responsibility for
his chief hooks, “The
nf
‘The Vault of
Heaven” and “Discovi'cry, or the
Spirit of Service of Sc
icience.”
A driver, stopped by highway police in Long Island, N. Y., prepares tb blow up a balloon in a test foi
nken driving on the highways. At the right a police technician tests the air in the balloon for alcohol con*
dnmke;
t. Fortyveight out of 100 drivers stopped in Nassau county were found to have been drinking.
Naval Board Proposes U. S. Defense Bases
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Air, submarine, destroyer, and
mine bases, necessary to the ade­
quate defense of the U. S. and its
possessions, have been mapped by
ival board, which congress in
1938 Idirected to survey the coast­
lines of the United States and its
possessions. Shown here are proj­
ects recommended in a report sub­
mitted to congress by Secretary of
the Navy Claude Swanson. These
sites, in the opinion of the hoard,
are best situated for defense bases.
Two World Beaters
Of 30 Years Ago
Jess Willard, one-time heavy­
weight boxing champion of the
world, in a plane used during his
glorious days as a ring top-notchei*.
This 1910 pusher, .owned by Clar­
ence McArthur of Tampa, Fla., is an
ances'tor of the modern planes which
took part in the American. Air
maneuvers in Florida recently.
IN THE 1939 MANNER
Mooney Cheers Billings in Folsom Visit
D R O F . WALTER B. CANNON of
FINANCIER SCHACHT
He mixdd diplomacy and business.
free foreign exchange. World Jew­
ry (which Nazi Germany regards
as all-powerful in democracies)
would decree greater use of Ger­
man export items.
Still m aster of the situation, the
Reich can apparently force Jewrespecting nations to choose between
accepting the plan or tolerate fur­
ther persecution. For Germany, the
Schacht idea provides for disposi­
tion of 400,000 “undesirable” citi­
zens whose property will be confis­
cated!. . Most important, it offers a
way to break the world boycott.
Harvard avoided a mistake made
Howai ■ Scott.
“
by Howard
When Mr. See
appeared as the John the Baptist of
technocracy, he
Cannon'Care
started
taking
Not Crammed our. measure for
Down Throats
immediate
application.
When Professor Cannon put out
“bioerdey” several years ago, as a
cure for the ills of the “body poli­
tic,” he made it clear that we could
take it or leave it. Hence, while biocracy is still in the suspense file,
Professor Cannon finds honor and
advancement-as the newly-elected
president of ithe .American Associa­
tion Jor the AJdvancement of Science,
which body' is driving for some
grand scale'rationalization of sci­
ence and society. That’s the main
idea of biocracy—.a society which is
not a t w ar with the life force.
About the only place straps are
used for support today are on street
Cars. Not> at least, on milady’s
Tom Mooney, recently released ;from San Quehtin, Calif., prison hj
bathing suit. Strapless swim gar­
_ of a method by which we may. ments rhade. their advent in Los Goy. Culbert Olson after serying 23 yealrs, is fighting to free Warren
Angeles duripf market week re- BiUings, right, from Folsom Iprisdn. Billings was also jailed tor tht Sas
hear our brains ticking.
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