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TIMES, WILLAMINA. OREGON W EEKLY NEWS A N A LYSIS BY ROGER SHAW Fighting Shifts From Flanders As Nazi Air Force Bombs Paris; Malta Looms as Trouble Spot (EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions »re expressed in these colum ns, they a re those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) - THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1940 Bruckart’a Washington Digest National Preparedness Drive Encounters Political Bickering Washington Correspondent Sees Defense Program Being Turned ’Into a Vehicle for Selfish Use’; Racketeering Lahor Leaders Climb on Bandwagon. Released by W estern N ew spaper Unton. — By WILLIAM BRVCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington. I). C. WASHINGTON.—It is exceedingly difficult to m aintain a balanced viewpoint in the national capital these days. War hysteria is flowing at higher tide than in any other city of the land. Washington is the nerve center of the pluns for a great and proper national defense scheme. That is bad. Yet, a calm perhaps would settle down and the serious job confronting the nation probably would be accomplished more effec tively and efficiently if some other and more dangerous factors were not horning in on the situation. It may not yet be so clear to the folks outside of Washington, but I must report that the urgently need ed national defense program is be ing turned into a vehicle for selfish use. There is no longer room for doubt. The tragedy is that many otherwise sincere and honest indi viduals in places of responsibility are lending aid to this chicanery and boring-from-within. The cold fact is that while patri otic and far-seeing folks are giving the best efforts available to the de velopment and execution of the na tional defense program , fumes and stench are beginning to arise from ed a united people behind the pro gram . The President hinted broad ly in various utterances that any one disagreeing with him was pretty much of sourpuss. Form er President H erbert Hoover disagreed, as did a considerable number of representatives and sen- ators, with some phases of the de fense program . The President sought to quiet them all by making another speech—a fireside chat. There were holes in that speech, and scores of newspapers pointed at them, editorially. Mr. Hoover took issue with some of the Presi dent's plans in a radio speech. Two days after Mr. Hoover’s radio speech, Assistant Secretary John- son, of the war departm ent, went on the air with a "reply” to Mr. Hoover. Notwithstanding the Presi dent's contention that there was no politics in the defense program , Mr. Johnson’s speech was released by the Democratic national committee Slipped By “ I was on the stage once.” “ Well, the doorkeeper can't be on guurd all the tim e.” ' i “ An adult,” suggests a school boy, "is someone who’s stopped growing up and started growing out.” BEYOND THAT ? , ! “ Have you a speaking acquaint ance with the woman next door?” “ Speaking acquaintance! Why, I know her so w >11 that we don't speak at all.” P re tid e n t a n d H i t F rie n d t H a v e R ig h t to B a c k P la n Misstated With a terrific crash, the motor car shot headlong into the hole in At least, the copy which came to ‘ the road. me was on the stationery of the com- > “ Here, you!” yelled the watch mittee. I do not mean to say that | m an. “ Did you see that notice either the President or Mr. Johnson j the road was closed?" should not defend the program , saying “ I did," replied the motorist, ns which is their responsibility. I do he started to climb out of the hole, insist, however, that there is no ex "but I fr-wnd it wide open.” If Italy should move against Great Britain in the Mediterranean she cuse for accusations of politics when might very likely direct an attack at the great British naval base at they, themselves, are playing poli He'll Fix That Malta. Malta has been on a war footing since the beginning of the Eu- ’ tics. “I'm afraid I really cannot tee you ropean crises. Map at the right shows the relationship of Malta to Italy. In addition to the Roosevelt- ju st n o u .” Vulnerable perhaps to bombing attacks it would be a tough nut for Mus Hoover interlude, any observer j “G ood - I ’m selling spectacles.“ solini to crack by sea. Top left is a view of the harbor at Valetta with must have seen the deluge of propa British man o’ war at anchor. Below, one of the big costal guns that ring ganda coming from various places ’ Place for Him Malta is blazing away during gunnery practice. in the government. The press agents j He was relating his adventures (SE E IT A L IC N O T E S .) have been working overtime in ! to his fiancee. thinking up ideas that link their de “ I had to hack my way through II GERMAN WAR: Italic Notes partm ent's job with the develop almost im penetrable jungle,” he m ent of a national defense program. All private motoring stopped in said. “ Chopping, slashing at thick Flanders Battle Some of the efforts are pretty ridicu Italy, due to government conserva undergrowth and trees." The Dutch-Belgian-Flanders-Artois tion of gas and oil. Italy has no lous, as silly as trying to make the “ Oh, G eorge," said she, "you’ll battle came virtually to an end. save native petroleum, iron or coal. love life of a bull frog appear im- ; be an expert at weeding the gar for up-moppings and kitty-corner portant in the training of a soldier. ' d en !” Pro-Italians were jailed in Eng operations here and there. The land’s M editerranean naval base, That sort of thing is going on—the ; Dutch and Belgian arm ies had been Malta. Possession of this strategic promotion of President Roosevelt’s surrendered or finished, and the island is a leading Italian objective. candidacy for a third term. F irst, Seventh, and Ninth French The English suspended Italian pa On top of this situation, comes arm ies were destroyed. Nobody pers read by the Italian-speaking another request from President cam e out of it with any laurels save Maltese. A minority of Maltese Roosevelt for congress to appropri- i the British navy, which somehow talk the ancient Carthaginian tongue , ate additional money. He started \ succeeded in ferrying perhaps two- of Hannibal and his elephants. out by asking something over a bil- j From your 8 exposure roll. Better thirds of the British arm y out of Mussolini said he was too busy to lion dollars. One hundred million Prices than you hove ever hod before. HERBERT HOOVER Dunkirk by m eans of warships, see U. S. Ambassador Phillips, who of this was to be turned over to Send coin. "Made by Portland's He chose to disugree. transports, yachts, barges, and life was toting a message from Roose him, personally. But now, he has Largest Kodab Piniihirtg Co." boats—and under heavy aerial fire. velt. Mussolini also broke off a ship the midst of this very serious busi asked for one billion more. He told PORTLAND FILM CO. Box 4 2 1 3 It seemed that the German air ping deal with the English, in the j ness. The condition is upon us and congressional leaders that the ter Portland Oregon force fell down on this debarkation m atter of illegal contraband control, thus far there is no apparent effort rific debacle among the allies, the operation, for British losses, in re which put the shivers into London • on the part of anybody in authority surrender of the Belgians by their tre a t, were sm aller than might have Italian journalists left Paris. king, Leopold, and some other sue- . to check it. been expected. Somehow, the allies cesses of the Hitler m urder drive One hears and" sees how the de Hero is Amazing Relief e t secured a tem porary air suprem acy D. of C. AND— fense program is being speeded. necessitated faster spending. Conditions Due to Sluggish Bowels in the Dunkirk sector, and the Brit W hite Housings Those needs may be genuine. One naturally offers commendation. I f you thin k all la ia d v r « ish Spitfire machines showed a act alike. )uat try thia But hardly is that applause given Army and navy people tell me—and ______ _ a ll b la la ia lltp * . President Roosevelt made another slight superiority to the German they ought to know—that we have no when through the cracks and the m ild. thorough. rrfrr«h ln g . Invigorating. I)e - M esserschm itt combat craft. Brit request for money. This time it crevices comes the information that arm y that is “ ready to go,” ready j pendabfte relief ftom tl<k headaches. biltoua rprlls. ish m orale, strangely enough, was was for more than a billion, for the politics is preying upon the whole to carry on if we are attacked. But 1 tired feeling when a * » * luted w ith « onatlpatluri. h . i L . , 4 DZesL <r t ■ 25rgJ«»« of N R from yo c r reported as excellent, but French arm y, navy and civilian train scheme. Some of it already smells those same arm y and navy experts : I Vtllnotfl NISN druggist. M a k e the teat— then I f not delighted, re tu rn the bos to us. We w ill m orale did not appear in quite so ing program , coupled with a fear to high heaven. The length to which said this was not a new condition. re fu n d th e p u rc h a s e favorable a light. The German gen that all continents m ay become in some men will go to further their They insisted that rebuilding of the p r ic e . T h a t '« t a le . Gat N R Tablets today eral headquarters was strangely re volved in the II German war (he i selfish political aim s at the expense arm y and the navy should have strained in its moment of triumph. did not mention Germany by name). of all of us is beyond comprehension. been undertaken a dozen years ago. Lille, fourth city of France and its Roosevelt asked for specific author And in the midst of these serious “ P ittsburgh,” was in German ity to call up the national guard and ' endeavors, also, comes the shouts C o tt o f 5 0 ,0 0 0 P la n e t Death No EvM arm y reservists—if and when need- i hands, along with Amsterdam, Rot It is impossible that anything so I t T en B illio n D o lla r» and the threats of some racketeer terdam , Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend, ed to “ safeguard” and “defend.” | ing labor leaders. As usual, that natural, so necessary, and so uni Strangely, the request for addi Calais, Boulogne, The Hague, Liege, And Roosevelt asked for a corps of ; type is simply getting on the band tional money did not reach congress versal as death should ever have etc. Would refugee-choked, hyster dollar-a-year men, to expedite na wagon for the sake of publicity that until newspapers throughout the been designed as an evil to m an ical P aris be next, wondered the tional defense preparations. Also, they can get for their mouthings. country began calling attention to kind.—Swift. there cam e a request for a million It m akes them appear important to railbirds? the total cost involved in the Presi Even as these railbirds wondered, dollars, to expand the navy depart benighted followers. dent’s call for 50,000 new planes. m ent and munitions buildings in the H itler’s warbirds came out of the Mr. Roosevelt subsequently had said O p p o n en t» o f D e m o c ra c y Talkative young Elliott skies and rained showers of bombs capital. that the planes ranged in cost from Roosevelt assailed so-called fifth i A r e B o rin g F ro m W ith in upon southern France and later $133,000 to $350,000 each. Well, if columns in Mexico. Elliott is a ra upon P aris itself. In the first at Behind and beneath all of these one takes an average that must be tacks about 150 German bombers dio executive. things that are to be deplored is the below the minimum and figures the JUST War departm ent plans called for swept over the city, dropping their DASH IN creeping and gnawing of the ter cost at $200,000 per plane, 50,000 cargoes of high explosives, setting im m ediate orders to get 2,800 mites who would be most happy to planes would cost $10,000,000,000. OR S P R E A D O m any fires, inflicting huge property planes, 1,700 tanks, 500 heavy artil destroy our form of government. Ten billion dollars is a lot of money lery units, and big consignments of losses and killing at least 45 persons They are seizing upon the hysteria in anybody’s language. in P a ris and its suburbs. The allies anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. and the patriotism of the day to How to Read So, a tax bill is proposed. A de The senate voted, 55-4, for a new prom ised to repay Germany bomb worm themselves into the spots cision is m ade to issue “ defense Read not to contradict and con alien control resolution, already for bomb in the new air offensive fute, nor to believe and take for p a s s e d by where their concealed efforts will bonds” which would be paid off by they were launching. granted, nor to find talk and dis th e h o u se. a ttract the least attention until the the “defense” taxes that have been course—but to weigh and consid T he im m i floor falls in. I have complained proposed, and the job will have been er.—Bacon. gration - nat- about these fellows many tim es be done in five years. It all sounds u r a liz a tio n fore, and I shall continue to write reasonable and logical, but the taxes about the dangers from them. They proposed would amount to around b u re a u WNU—13 24—40 . . . in the news w o u l d b e are in our government to the tune $650,000,000 a year and it is planned of several thousands. Again, little to issue three billions in defense tra n s fe rre d from the de is being done about those, or the bonds. Which leaves the question <L F o rm er French Generalissimo still unanswered as to how we are partm ent of thousands that are at large. Let us begin with some details of to pay for 50,000 planes that must Gam elin was said to have commit labor to the ted suicide, while General Corap, d e p a rtm e n t the politics of the situation as it has cost around $10,000,000,000. It is all now for several weeks. We so confusing to a country boy, like chief of the French Ninth arm y de of j u s tic e . existed should begin at the top. President feated at Sedan, was reported as ex S e n a t o r s Roosevelt is not less guilty than me. It rem ains only to be said that ecuted. General Bodet of the N o rris and many of his supporters in the m at Senator Wheeler there is no great reason to be con F rench Medical corps got six Wheeler, lib- ter of playing politics. fident about the success of our de m onths in jail for abandoning his erais opposed to the transfer, as The President’s speech to con fense program . The program is post in the ill-fated Sedan sector. sailed J. Edgar Hoover and the G- Thus did la Republique crack down. men, while Wheeler censured the gress was a good speech, a speech needed in view of world conditions that should have aroused a sleepy which cannot be ignored. For the <L G eneral Robert Lee Bullard, dis current American “ hysteria.” nation. It did. But there were Archibald Macleash, "radical” li some parts of it about which there most part, it is a good program. tinguished U. S. arm y officer and But I still am asking why there is a brarian of the Congressional library patriot, was re-elected president of could be, and was, disagreem ent. the National Security league, which a t Washington, said that the II Ger Of those who disagreed, the Presi call for national unity when respon favors increased preparedness and m an war was not a revolt of the dent immediately said, in effect, that sible authorities are breeding dis is strongly “ anti-subversive” in it* m asses. He said that, instead, it they were playing politics. He want satisfaction or are permitting con fidence to wane. was the revolt of a gang. haw keye activities. 2 PBNTJ OD NEGATIVE L J fpom EACH good / ^ FEEL GOOD NAM ES
