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PORT ORFORD. OREGON. POST Australia Increases War Efforts Reciprocal Trade Plans Have Role in 'Next Peace' Hull May Have Answer to Totalitarianism; British Farming Program Greatly Changed by War Demands. By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Horne Hour Commentator. WNU Service, 1395 National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.—There is a peace- machine in Washington, all oiled and ready to start the moment the last gun is silenced in Europe. From it may come a plan which the de mocracies can offer the world as an alternative to the totalitarian way of life. This peace-machine is not new, but it has never been given a fair trial. Cordell Hull has the patent. It may never be allowed to func tion, but it is a cheering thing, to know that it is there. It is simply reciprocal trade agreement machinery which Secre tary Hull is insisting shall be kept as nearly intact as possible, ready to be put into operation the moment the tanks are moved out of the way. For Mr. Hull believes firmly that out of all the uncertainties which surround this uncertain world, when the war is over one thing is going to happen: Either the system of free intercourse among nations is going to exist in the world, or the totalitarian system will dcminate. Changing Viewpoint. More and more, people are com ing to feel that there cannot be a world economically half-slave and half-free. Unless all nations can be united under a system of mutually profitable trade, totalitarian meth ods will be forced upon all nations and it is axiomatic that when a gov ernment begins to create artificial restraints in the field of business, gradually you will be forced to cur tail political and social freedom, too. The Nazis know their system is not the best system, though they don’t admit it to the people. Ger many’s great economist, Hjalmar Schacht, admitted as much before the war. The system of free enter prise, he said, was the best system, but Germany, because of her "emer gency” had to adopt its own system. He did not say that this emergency was created because Hitler, in or der to carry out his theory of domi nation, had to spend the nation’s wealth, its goods and its labor, on a huge unproductive armament indus try. Of course, lack of free trade Intercourse before Hitler’s advent had helped to impoverish Germany. Hull’s Theory. Secretary Hull believes that the roots of war grow in the soil of evil economic conditions, that war can not be prevented unless nations in dulge in mutually profitable trade. He says that today, as he has al ways said it, although his reciprocal trade agreement program has been burned to ashes in the flames of war. But he is keeping his machin ery oiled and is ready to start it again if he gets the chance. It may well be the foundation-stone of the peace to come, if his policies are permitted to dominate that peace. The story of Mr. Hull’s battle for his beliefs is a fascinating one. It was the result of a lifetime of study. Because of his knowledge of eco nomics, which has astounded foreign statesmen with whom he has come in contact, he was chosen for the post he holds. His first effort and his first failure took place when the London economic conference, called shortly after he came into office, broke down. He took that defeat in his stride, eliminated from the gov ernment Raymond Moley who op posed him at the conference and packed his bag for South America. The result was the first reciprocal trade treaties with our southern sis ter nations. Slowly he built on until finally came the agreement with Great Britain, taking in a huge area of the English-speaking world. Then, just as he was winning supporters to his cause, war came and the structure was smashed. But it did not smash the faith of Cordell Hull, and it is on this faith that he is building the hope for a better world to come, a faith and a hope that is refreshing amidst the gloom of the pessimists who refuse to see any light beyond the battle clouds that today cloak all the far horizons. • • • B ritis h F a r m P ro g ra m U n d e rg o e s C hanges “Farming as usual” in Great Britain. We think of the British isles these days as one great fortress, a tangle of barbed wire, of trenches, tank- traps and pill-boxes. As a matter of fact, it is still a place where ONE IS ENOUGH G. L. Hinson, Jeff Davis county (Georgia) farmer, gives full time employment to the 15 "one- horse" farmers operating on his place. "Most of my farmers are in good circumstances,” Hinson de clares. "They all farm from Jan uary until January and we have no trouble of unemployment dur ing the winter.” bomber. Delays are being over Production of Planes, Naval come in completion of a plant for Vessels and Munitions the manufacture of Bristol Beaufort bombers. Progresses Rapidly. Speed Production Rate. MELBOURNE. AUSTRALIA.— DASADENA, CALIF —A tall, wil- Australia already is committed to T lowy figure drifted recently a war expenditure of more than across the California scene. He £200,000,000 in the year ending next was headed for the solace of the June 30. This compares with £270,- South Seas to pon 000,000 spent in the whole of the d e r his problems last war. The new program has and adjust himself propelled Australia into an indus to a strange future trial revolution. At a cost of £50,- he had never con 000,000 she has established an arma sidered a year ago. ment industry surpassing India’s in One of th e top magnitude of output and second stars of his profes only to Canada’s. More than 120,000 men enlisted in sion, one of the smartest, this ad the Australian imperial force, the justment will call vanguard of which made a brilliant for exchanging an beginning in the capture of Bardia, annual salary of Libya. Reinforcements are being $35,000 a year for a enlisted at the rate of 5,000 a month. Grantland Rice pay check calling An additional home-defense army of for $30 a month. And this is to 250,000 men is being raised, chiefly happen after one of the greatest by compulsory enlistment of single years he had ever known. I’m men from 19 to 33 years old. The program for building three speaking of Hank Greenberg of the Tribal class destroyers and 50 mine Detroit Tigers. There is a big difference in what sweepers, half of which are for the the owner of a big league ball club United Kingdom government, is pro can pay an outstanding star and ceeding and a number of vessels al what our Uncle Sam can afford to ready have been launched. Air Force Stronger. offer a private soldier. In this case the difference happens to be 100 to I The air force is 11 times stronger 1 it you happen to get the wrong than it was before the war, having I a personnel exceeding 40,000. A to number in the draft. Greenberg, for example, is older tal of £37,000,000 will be spent this than either Bobby Feller or Joe year in development of the empire Louis, who are not exactly starving. air scheme and in strengthening The spin of that draft wheel hap Australia’s air defenses. Nearly 38,000 men have been enlisted under pened to cost him $35,000 a year which is the way it should be and has the empire scheme. The air force was strengthened in to be in an existence which is now 1940 by the delivery of the one-hun a trifle cock-eyed. Long Hank was on his way to dredth Lockheed-Hudson bomber Honolulu when I ran across him in from the United States, as well as specting the floral beauty of Santa hundreds of other aircraft from Brit- Anita before taking a chunk of the [ ain for the empire scheme. Hundreds of thousands more Aus Pacific in his stride. tralians have been employed in pro Okay by Hank duction of aircraft and munitions “As you know,” he said, “I have and in growing food for Britain. A a low draft number and I may be total of £15,000,000 will be spent this called in June or early July. Which year on new munitions establish is all right with me. From the ments. Australia maintains a steady way things are moving there may supply of munitions to Britain and be a lot more of us called out by also exports to New Zealand, India, then than many people figure to thv Straits Settlements and Hong day.” Kong. Training aircraft such as the Hank is already looking in the old Australian-designed Wirraway and P. of C., sometimes known as the Tiger Moth are being produced at pink of condition. the rate of four a day and designs “This season,” he said, “I hope are being perfected for a high-speed to be in the best early season shape I have ever known. I may not have .«{♦eJeeJaeJeeJaeJeeJeeJeeJeeJeeJeeJaeJeeJeeJeeîeeJeeJaeJeejMjeeJe^is many weeks to travel, so I can’t af ford to waste any time getting started. I ought to be in good shape, anyway, to play on some By v.v. army team." There is a good chance that by next summer army competition in baseball will be quite sharp. And there will be loud cheers from any division or corps that happens to bag the tall Tiger. “We'll have a tough job this sea son defending our title,” Greenberg said. “The two toughest opponents we must face should be New York and Cleveland. Bob Feller can make almost any team look good, but Cleveland has more than Feller. Don't forget Boudreau and Mack at short and second. “The Yankees are sure to be bet ter than they were a year ago when they got away badly. Their young pitchers will be ready to pick up where the veterans begin to leave off. Through 1940 they had become fed up with too much winning. You know that can happen. LBOWS are definitely in the spot “While I still think New York and light this season, on account oi Cleveland are the teams to beat, the White Sox won't be far away | so many of the swankest new and you'll see a much better team dresses have short sleeves. And it’s in Fred Haney’s St. Louis Browns. [ really no chore to keep your el- The Red Sox must still get better ! bows soft and smooth. Give them pitching. Aside from that they can a quick rub with hand lotion every time you use it on your hands. It’s play with anybody.” an easy habit. there is seed-time and harvest, where fields are tilled and cattle are fed. For the farmer in those be leaguered islands, is as important as the soldier. However, while I was informed by a man who has been in England since the war started that air-raids had not affected agriculture at all, there are some exceptions to be not ed. And the war has to some de gree changed the farmer’s program. In normal times the crowded is lands depend largely on other lands for their food. Now the rich meat and dairy products of Scandinavia are cut off, there are not enough ships to spare from the war supply trade to permit much shipment of foodstuffs. But since wheat is vi tal, animals must give place to grain. As a result, millions of acres of grassland in Britain are being turned into Wheatfields. In normal times, live stock was the chief ag ricultural product, but, according to recent reports to the department of agriculture, Britain is fast becoming a wheat-growing nation. As the “Wiltshire farmer,” whom I quoted recently in these columns, said, “farming goes on much as usual ex cept that the harvests are heavier and the city youths are called in to help in the fields, replacing the men of military age who have been called to the colors. And meat is scarce.” Of course, air raids have affected the farmer little because the at tacks are concentrated on cities and factories. Live-stock losses, accord ing to a recent report to the for eign relations division of the depart ment of agriculture, have been less than were expected. Sheep and cat tle, because they have a tendency to herd, have been killed in greatest numbers. Horses and hogs, being greater individualists, have suffered least. Cattle in barns are safest. When an animal is killed by bombs, the farmer is compensated by the food ministry only in propor tion as the carcass is valuable as food. There is no compensation for unedible casualties. Canada's Wheat Problem. Meanwhile inability to ship her wheat to the mother country is pro viding a serious problem for the Ca nadian farmer. By the time this reaches print, the Ottawa govern ment may have provided an ar rangement for paying farmers for storing surplus wheat such as we have in this country. Temporary storehouses are being used and church basements in some cases have been used. Government fees for storage may soon take the place of church suppers for raising funds, and already basements and church parlors are being converted into temporary granaries. The Canadian government is contemplating the erection of four 50,000,000-busheI ter minals. Under normal conditions, if the British used their grazing lands for wheat raising, it is said the islands could probably become self-suffi cient as far as breadstuffs are con cerned, and there is some talk of pursuing such a policy in Britain after the war. But no one can tell what policies any country will fol low when the world has finally struggled back to peace. But for the About the Tigers “What about the Tigers?” I asked British and Scotch farmer, the tran sition is not difficult for he has been Greenberg. Hank grinned. “We were picked accustomed to alternating plowed to finish fifth or sixth or maybe sev land and meadow in the past. enth last April in the South," he said. “Still we won the pennant. I’ll tell you why. I think we had the finest spirit I’ve ever seen in baseball. We hustled through every inning of every game we played. Cheering Theory A profitable agriculture invaria There was no time out for inter bly means prosperity in other in missions. “Don’t forget we still have a good dustries. —Elmer Sesauer, Brookings Institution. pitching staff coming on, headed • • • by Buck Newsom and at least three Any Takers? or four fine young pitchers. We The coming session of congress still have Rudy York’s hitting and is not only a crucial opportunity for .his greatly improved play at first. the farm organization—it is a chal We have three infield veterans left lenge. who will be just as good as they —Representative Cannon of Missouri. were a year ago. Why? Because • • • they are ball players at heart—be Don’t Root Men, keep your heads up, the hog cause they have brains and spirit. is the only animal that always looks They are not through.” “Suppose you are called away down. —Judge Muse of Dallas. early in June?” I asked. • • • "The Tigers are no one-man They Know the Rules The British may be tough business team,” Hank said. “I’m just an competitors if they win the war, but other fellow out there, doing the at least they shoot the same kind of best I can. You can never tell in baseball. Don’t sell us too crap we do. Hitler doesn't. -Theodore Goldsmith, financial writer. short.” • • • Hank Greenberg is something more than a fellow who bats over Slouchy A pitchfork with but one prong, a .340—who drives in from 150 to 180 dung-fork with a broken handle, a runs a year—who can shift from a rake with three teeth only; these fine first baseman to a fine outfield are the tools of Farmer Slouchy . . . er in one quick season. “Not only as a ball player,” Fred Alas, what of the soil without culti vation, what of improvement with Haney of the Browns told me, “but in the way of spirit. I'd like to have out spirit and ambition? nine Greenbergs on my team. I re —Old Farmers' Almanac, 1840. member one year when he hit camp • • • ahead of schedule. He asked if it Definitions would be all right to take a work The Congressional Record: the out He worked three hours a day, most widely unread publication in when he didn't have to work a sin America. gle minute.” —George Stimpson, columnist. Nazi Air Raid Victims Since Essing Lewis, managing di rector of the Broken Hill Proprie tary company. Ltd., and director general of munitions, assumed con trol of munitions production, assist ed by eight other leading industri alists. a new pace has been set in rate of output. Orders totaling £2,000,000 have been placed for construction of Aus tralian machine tools for new de fense workshops. Motor-body and automobile-assembly workshops are delivering scores of vehicles to the army daily. There is a steady sup ply of stores and equipment for technical units. Factors that assisted in this im pressive record are the steel indus try, capable of producing more than 1,500,000 tons of high grade steel yearly, and the manufacture of hun A common grave is the best that can be offered 25 victims of a dreds of components for munitions, machine tools and aircraft in hun Nazi air raid on Portsmouth. Friends and relatives are shown gazing sadly into the trcncb-like grave. dreds of private factories. Reich Bombsights Are Found to Be Inferior T h orn ton W Burcfess i smart for him and has found and dug up aU his traps?” chuckled Sammy. Farmer Brown’s Boy came It's a factl I t ’s a (actl You never can tell What a person will do. You never can tell. straight to Old Man Coyote’s home, 'T'HAT is why it is a mistake, a and as he came he whistled as if Sammy J. very great mistake, to judge his heart was light. others hastily. People often are scowled. “I don’t see how any one can be much better, very much better, than you think they are. When Sammy so happy when he is trying to make Jay looked across the Green Mead others suffer,” he muttered. “Any ows and saw Farmer Brown’s Boy way, he’s going to be dreadfully coming straight toward the far cor disappointed when he sees those ner where he had been listening to traps, and I’m glad of it.” But Farmer Brown’s Boy didn’t Old Man Coyote’s story of how he was taken away from his old home appear the least bit disappointed in the great, wide, wonderful west In fact, he actually seemed glad. and finally came to the Green Mead ows, Sammy was sure that it was to look at the traps set there for Old Man Coyote. He didn't have the least doubt in the world that Farm er Brown’s Boy was hoping and hoping that he would find Old Man Coyote caught in one of them. Since he had heard Old Man Coyote’s story Sammy had had a great change of feeling toward Old Man Coyote, and he felt now as if he fairly hated Farmer Brown's Boy, He never had liked him, but now he hated him. Yes, sir, that’s the way Sammy felt. He hated any one who would set those dreadful steel traps Old Man Coyote himself felt very much as Sammy did. He didn't doubt that when Farmer Brown’s W h istlin g m e rr ily . F a rm e r Boy found that those carefully hid den traps had been dug up and made Brown’s Boy went straight back the quite useless he would at once set way he had come across the green them again with even greater care meadows. than before. Of course, it wouldn’t do for him to stay there, so he Sammy couldn’t understand it. He slipped away to keep out of sight. rubbed his eyes to make quite sure that what he saw was really and “I’ll watch and see just where he truly so. Farmer Brown’s Boy was puts each trap, so as to tell you actually taking up his dreadful after he leaves,” said Sammy. traps, instead of setting them again "AU right, and thank you,” re some place else! plied Old Man Coyote. “I guess “Probably he’s going to get them I could find them just as I have somewhere else,” muttered Sammy found them before, but if you wiU hatefully. do that it will save me some trou So very silently he followed Farm ble." er Brown’s Boy at a distance. Whis Sammy felt very important as he tling merrily Farmer Brown’s Boy flew to a tree a little way off, from went straight back the way he had which he could see all that Farmer come across the Green Meadows. Brown's Boy did. It would be great He didn’t stop once, but kept on fun to spoil all of Farmer Brown's right to his own home and there he Boy’s plans, and at the same time threw the traps in a corner. Then be of real help to one so smart as he walked over to where Bowser the Hound was lying in the sun, Old Man Coyote. “Won’t he be angry when he finds nursing his sore leg, the one which how Old Man Coyote has been too had been hurt, you know, when he (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) stepped in one of the traps set for Old Man Coyote. “No more trapping for us, eh, Bowser?” said Farmer Brown’s Boy as he gently patted Bowser’s head. "We’ve learned just how cruel and dreadful it is, haven’t we old fel low?” Sammy Jay was too surprised to even scream. He Just flew over to the Green Forest to think it over. Could it be that Farmer Brown’s Boy had had a change of heart? “You never can tell. You never can tell,” muttered Sammy Jay. FARMER BROWN’S BOY SURPRISES SAMMY JAY Minute Make-Ups I WASHINGTON.—Three types of German bombsights, obtained from captured warplanes in Great Britain, have been exam ined by United States military experts and found inferior to ours. The sights were reported to have been given to the United States defense commission by the British government New Capital of Fashion May Rise in the W est LOS ANGELES.-Southern Cali fornia is expecting a new rush and if it materializes a new fashion cap ital may arise in the Far West. The Los Angeles Fashion Group, a unit of an all-feminine interna tional style organization, is planning to mobilize at least 70 creative style ideas and present them at an elab orate fashion show on February 13. The show, which will be preceded by a dinner dance, will be called “California’s Fashion Futures.” The Fashion Group, composed of some 50 key women in fashion work from merchandise managers to ad vertising directors and stylists, has been working for weeks on a list of California’s most noted style crea tors. Each of the designers will be in vited to contribute a special crea tion that is to serve as an indica tion of future style trends. None of the-designs will be for sale, since the show is to be non-commercial, but they will serve as future "idea- guides” for American designers. CheMefi the Pup By GEORGE O HALLORAN » E ‘You’re in the Army Now’ There’s no sleeping after reveille when you’re In the army. Sergt Chester Lndwiczak of the National Guard found this out after his first night in the regular army when he was dumped out of his cot by Cor porals William Keegan and Ed Cappelli. bought a new picture for C LARA the parlor. She wanted it deliv ered this afternoon so she could hang it before Taffyears got home. But he was home unusually early, so he put up the ladder, got the yard stick, the hammer and a pocketful of nails and started to put up the picture. I never knew hanging pic tures was that much work. And not only that. It pretty near killed him. The ladder folded up on him twice. He finally got the ladder up again and the spot marked on the wall just where he wanted to hang the picture. He put a nail on the spot, (Associated Newspapers—WNU Service.) wound up with the hammer and drove the nail and half the ham W om an’s Little Black Bag mer right through the plaster. He the hammer out and tried Found to Contain $496 pulled again, but this time he missed the OTTUMWA, IOWA.—For many nail and smashed his thumb. Then years Mrs. Jennie Six would go no he dropped the hammer on my tail. where without her little black bag. While he was In the bathroom put It was the town mystery. What was ting a bandage on his thumb Clara in the little black bag? put up the picture. But no one knew until she died. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) It contained $496. Fattest Man Mrs. Six had lived at the poor- Daniel Lamber, who died in 1809 house for some time and the bag was her main interest in life. The at the age of 40, weighed 739 pounds money was given to the poor fund and is reputed to be the fattest man that ever lived. after her death. LABORS 26 YEARS TO MAKE PICTURE MAP OE AMERICA DENVER —If Fred J. Kingan tlement of North America. Started on a much smaller scale were so inclined he would make an and as a hobby to fulfil) a desire to interesting teacher. His pupils wouldn't need books. know more about the early history All they would have to do would be of the nation, the map has grown to look at a giant map Kingan, a far beyond his early plans and now retired lumberman, has completed represents nearly 26 years of re search and seven years of painstak in his spare time. On the map—measuring 15 feet in ing drawing and painting during his length and 8 feet in height—Kingan spare time. Starting with Leif Erickson's voy has pictured a visual history of the discovery, exploration and early set- age in 1001, he has depicted in 14 colors all the major voyages of dis covery, the explorations of the Cab ots, Coronado, De Soto and so on down to Lewis and Clark, Pike, Fremont, Custer and scores of oth ers. There are no state-line demarca tions, but on each state he has paint ed the official seal and flower, and dotted about over the map are small paintings of historic happenings and personages. A Job as a newspaper cartoonist aroused his interest in art. Next he turned to more serious art and studied at the Chicago Art Institute and from that he turned to architecture and drafting. It was while working as a drafts man in Buffalo in 1914 that the idea for his map came to him and he continued working on it when he went into his father's lumber busl-
