The Willamina times., January 30, 1941, Image 4

TIM ES. WILLAMINA, OREGON
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1941
Tilt CHEERFUL C T O
By Edward C. Wayne
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P resid en t’s Third Inaugural Address
Emphasizes Faith in U. S. Democracy;
Lease-Lend Act Fight Rips Party Lines
As Cabinet Supports Roosevelt’s Plan
( E D I T O R ’S N O T E — W hen opinions a re exp ressed In these co lu m n s, they
a re those of the new s a n a ly s t and not n e c e s s a rily of this n e w s p a p e r.)
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T H IR D T E R M :
Inaugural
After taking the oath of office as
President of the United States for a
precedent breaking third term,
Franklin D Roosevelt delivered to
a waiting nation a high tribute to his
faith in democracy. In the inaug­
ural address which was marked with
constant references to the “ sp irit of
Am erica” and the “ sp irit of democ­
racy” the President declared that the
purpose in his next four years of
office would be to: “ protect and per­
petuate the integrity of democracy.”
“ For this,” he said, “ we muster
the spirit of America and the faith
of America. We do not retreat. We
are not content to stand still. As
Americans, we go forward, in the
service of our country, by the w ill
of God.”
While some of the pomp of other
Inaugural days was missing because
of the solemn pall of foreign affairs
that hung over Washington, the thou­
sands that lined Pennsylvania ave­
nue to watch the President pass
cheered loudly as they saw his party.
The day was bright but a raw wind
chilled the onlookers.
High point of the day’s historic
rituals came when the President
standing below the Capitol’s white
dome, placed his hand upon a 200-
year-old fam ily Bible and swore for
the third time to “ preserve, protect
and defend the Constitution.” The
oath was administered by Chief Jus­
tice Hughes of the Supreme court.
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competent” on foreign policy ques­
tions. Ambassador Kennedy was be­
ing welcomed with open arms by
isolationist editors and hailed as a
comrade and then said he considered
the isolationists the worst “ defeat­
ists” of all.
American unity, supposedly the
nation’s greatest safeguard during
the stress of national defense pre­
paredness, appeared jeopardized.
National leaders differed in their
prescriptions for the critica l moment
as far as the poles.
They ranged from Carter Glass,
Virginia, who wanted the U. S. to
declare war at once, to the outright
isolationist and non-interventionist
of the type of Montana’s Senator
Wheeler, who opposed No. 1776 from
opening word to finish.
While this was the temper of of­
ficial Washington, a couple of U. S.
sailors fanned the flame by tearing
down a Nazi banner from a German
consulate celebrating the seventieth
anniversary of the founding of the
German Reich. They clambered up
to a ninth-story flagpole in San Fran­
cisco to cause a national crisis to
become that much more critical,
while thousands cheered on the side­
walk below.
I t doesn’t do to vzork
to o
k t-rd —
America May Face Loss
Of Farm Export Market
V /k e .n I c o n s id ler t k t t
I tk in k
W ickard Finds Less Production No Solution;
I t doesn’t do to work
•ct t-ll
Army Undertakes to Build ‘ Morale’
5 o aoors
F irv t-l
ke.-6-r i k e
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Z 7N
Among New Recruits.
By BAUKHAGE
R ation al Farm and H om e H our C om m entator.
WNU Service, 1395 National Press he thinks i t ’s easier to be a dough­
WNU Service.
boy than a doughboy.
Bldg., Washington, D. C
But a fu ll stomach is not a ll it
WASHINGTON.—Few people real­ takes to make a fighting man. It
ized how much dynamite there was takes morale, and this tim e the gov­
Migrating Birds
in that speech on agricultural pre
ernment has done two things to
paredness which Secretary of A gri­ build that highly necessary factor.
According to the bureau of bio­
culture Wickard delivered at his old I t has begun early, before there is logical survey, few m igrating
alma m ater, Purdue university, the a war. I t has taken over the whole birds fly higher than 3,000 feet and
other day.
job to itself instead of farm ing it only occasionally do they reach
While he didn’t come right out out, as it did in the last war, to 5,000 feet. Most birds like to fly
and say so in so many words, the civilian
organizations
like
the beneath the clouds, and the ma­
Secretary sounded the knell of hope Y.M.C.A.
jo rity of the species m igrate at a
fo r a foreign market for farm sur­
And it ’s a big job, under the office height below 1,000 feet. In bad
pluses. That speech marked the be­ of the adjutant general. The divi­ weather they m ay fly much lower,
ginning of a new farm policy in the sion in the long west wing of the as evidenced by the number that
United States based on what is Munitions building in Washington strike against lighthouses and high
believed by officials here to be a has 50 clerks and 15 officers just to buildings. Birds have, of course,
permanent and not a temporary loss take care of the Washington end. been seen at much higher a lti­
of export trade.
In the various camps and posts are tudes, but these records were es­
“ The facts are,” said the secre­ the many morale services all under tablished in mountainous countries
tary, “ that the trend of American this division—the Arm y Motion Pic­ where the birds fly a comparative­
farm exports has been downward ture Service, the Camp Publications,
ly short distance above the land.
since the turn of the ^entury. Now Post Exchanges, Service Clubs, The bureau explains that m ig rat­
I don’t mean to say that the decline Guest Houses, and even entertain­ ing birds fly at low rather than
has been constant. You know better ment for soldiers in towns near the high altitudes by the fact that the
than that. It has been by fits and training areas.
lessened buoyancy of a ir at great
starts. Exports shot up for 15
In the last war it was learned
heights makes flying difficult.
years. Exports fell off like a stone what a valuable factor dramatics
C A B IN E T :
dropped from a tower after the played in camp life and they w ill be
Rolls Sleet >es
Smoot-Hawley T ariff act of 1930.”
encouraged. The Moving Picture
For once in a national issue ap-
In that paragraph is the secre­ Service w ill offer regular commer­
parently that entire part of the Pres
ta ry ’s hypothesis from which he cial films, but it w ill also show edu­
ident’s cabinet which could conceiv­ draws his conclusions.
cational films, and much m ilita ry in
from common colds
ably have anything to do with the SURPLUS STATISTICS
struction w ill be given by means of
situation rolled up its sleeves and
According to the best statistics the moving picture. Top flight mov­
went to bat for No. 1776, the lease-
C H U R C H IL L :
available here “ there are two bales ing picture executives are serving
Creomulslon relieves promptly be­
| of cotton on hand in the world today on a committee assisting in the pro­
cause It goes right to the seat of the
Looks Ahead
duction
of
these
pictures.
trouble
to help loosen and expel
for every bale that w ill probably be
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
Athletics, of course, are a part of
Winston Churchill, following his
used in the current marketing year’
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In­
conferences with Har ry Hopkins,
and “ there are at least 2,000,000,000 morale and are considered impor­
flamed bronchial mucous m em ­
Roosevelt’s personal ambassador,
' bushels of wheat in the world today tant also both from the standpoint
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
looked into the future of the war dur­
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un­
for which no m arket exists” and “ a of physical training and the build­
ing 1941.
derstanding you must like the way It
sim ilar situation exists in the lard ing of an aggressive spirit which the
quickly allays the cough or you are
modern soldier must possess.
He said that Britain would not find
and tobacco markets.”
to have your money back.
the war less terrible this year than
As M ajor General Bell said in the
The secretary says that the an­
last, would have to face continued
last
war,
“
A
singing
arm
y
is
a
fight­
swer to this problem of farm sur­
destruction of British towns and
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
pluses cannot be solved with the two ing arm y,” and singing w ill be a
cities without being able to make
part of the show. The arm y has its
1
words
“
reduce
production”
because
adequate reply.
we “ can’t reduce the number of peo- ow-n song book and mass singing
W ithout Virtue
He admitted H itle r’s great advan­
I pie who live on cotton farms, or w ill be encouraged.
We do not despise a ll those who
tage in being able to move his
The Post Exchange, which is sort
,
wheat
farm
s,
or
tobacco
farms,
in
armies about Europe nt will.
have vices, but we despise all
j the same proportions which we can of an arm y general store, is a those who have not a single virtue.
business
in
itself.
To
get
an
idea
Churchill said Britain wanted no
reduce the acreages of th“ se com­
of how much of a business a Post —La Rochefoucauld.
armies from overseas in 1941, but
modities.”
would nedd a constant stream of
Those are the secretary’s words Exchange can be, the one at Cha­
I but folks with a good pair of glasses nute field, Rantoul, 111., took in
have been busy reading between the nearly $100,000 in one month last
fall.
lines and this is what they say he
BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE
Already a number of camp pub­
means:
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
lications
have
started.
I
looked
over
CORDEI.L HULL
“ When the war is over our ex-
• When you feel gassy, headachy, logy
K ith others, he ‘u e n t to bat.’
: ports of farm products, even if they several of them at Morale Head­
due to clogged-up bowels, do as millions
quarters and some are exceedingly
increase
for
a
while,
are
going
to
do—
take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next
lend bill, calling for all-out aid to
decrease in the long run and we’ve businesslike looking sheets. I no- i morning - thorough, comfortable relief,
Britain.
ticed
in
the
office
w-as
a
file
of
the
'
helping you start the day full of your
Morgenthau, treasury secretary, got to take steps right now to make “ Stars & Stripes,” the famous news- i normal energy and pep, feeling like a
stepped into the arena, declaring adjustments in the country.”
million!
Feen-A-Mint doesn’t disturb
“ Adjustments” is the secretary’s paper of the American Expedition- j your night’s rest or interfere with work the
that Britain was right then at the
ary
Force
in
France.
Harold
Ross,
;
next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing
end of her dollar rope, and that own word for it.
who edited it in Paris, is now the j gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it’»
some form of unpaid-for aid must OTHER PAIN FU L’ POINTS
highly successful head of the New | handy and economical. . . a family supply
be found if Britain was to continue
More reading between the lines Yorker magazine; Alexander Wooll- i
to get supplies.
reveals a number of interesting, if cott, who was on the staff, is one of j
Hull, in a most powerful session i somewhat painful, points:
Am erica’s best-known w riters and ■
with the committee which left the
One: Not only must the amount story tellers. I t was my privilege .
nation stunned, excoriated the totali- of farm products be cut down, but to serve on that paper after the !
Lost fo r a Laugh
tarians, and called for the nation to the number of people on farms has Arm istice and I covered the Piace
The most completely lost of all
realize that the crisis was real and to be cut down (i. e. other .neans conference under the able direction ’ days is that on which one has not
immediate.
of income found for them).
of John Winterich, then a rear-rank j laughed.—Chamfort.
Stimson, war secretary, declared
Two: Not only must the unsuc­ private but news editor of the paper.
in a two-day bout with the comm it­ cessful farm er adjust himself to this He is now M ajor Winterich, attached !
HARRY HOPKINS
tee that he favored sending Am er­ situation by raising stuff that he to the office of the assistant secre- | T0 A
'K oo sevelt’s personal am bassador,’
ican warships “ anywhere,” and that can eat himself qr by getting some tary of war. Probably many fa- j
munitions, “ far more than we can Britain's complete crisis was a m at­ other work, but the successful farm ­ mous journalists of coming gen- I
ter of 60 to 90 days.
pay fo r.”
er w ill have to piake some adjust­ erations w ill get their training on j
fyuckCy u A i
Britain, however, is not in “ ex­
Navy Secretary Knox hinted that ments.
some of these newspapers run un- j
L IQ U ID
trem is” if such aid comes, said the real crisis might be the wresting
TABLETS
For instance, he w ill have to ex­ der the auspices of the New Morale i
SALVE
Churchill. He said:
of B rita in ’s navy from her control pect a certain amount of inter­ Division.
N O ÍE DROPS
C O UC H PROPS
“ We have enough men on the fight­ by the Nazis, who then would be regional competition.
Another
highly
publicized
group
of
Concretely
ing line to hold the front line of civ­ able to establish themselves in South that means that the cotton farm er this new division are the hostesses. '
ilization if we get American aid and America.
w ill be raising more of his own But their job has been largely mis­
American credits.”
•7actA o fi
Let me quote from ■
meat, poultry, and com. Some of understood.
This unheralded address before a A S IA T IC :
this w ill spill over and compete with Lieut. Col. H a rry Terry, w riting in
Glasgow audience was widely quot­ Turmoil Cron s
the Commerce magazine:
the corn-belt and dairy farm er.
ed in the lend-lease fight in Wash­
“ The term ’hostess’ for these
It
also
means
that
in
self-defense
All Europe and all the Western
ington.
business women is a misnomer—
the
successful
farm
er
w
ill
have
to
hemisphere was watching the dip­
they might more properiy be called
B ITT E R N E S S :
lomatic battle between the United co-operate in supporting economic ‘secretaries,’ which in fact they
States and Japan before a backdrop and political effort toward raising are. They are the assistants of the
And U nity
of Asiatic warfare that was becom­ the income of the unsuccessful farm ­ Division Commander and carry out
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President Roosevelt's inauguration ing daily more sanguinary and er and the whole low-income group. his wishes in conducting their va ri­
represents the leadership of
day came at a time when the fever gloomy.
This w ill mean that the big farm ous duties.
of the country was away above nor­
Even the Battle of Siam was as­ organizations which hitherto have
a nation. It points the way.
Providing social entertainment
mal in a bitter fight over the lease- suming more headline proportions, used most of their influence in
running dances and other entertain­
lend bill No 1776
We merely follow—follow to
with
conflicting
reports
from Washington to get better prices for
Not since the Supreme court fight French Indo-Chma and from Siam farm products w ill have to use some ment for thousands of men is no
night club job. It w ill require a
new heights of comfort, of
had the press of the nation printed itself as to the success of the counter of their influence to raise these low-
high degree of organization ability
stories of such vitrio lic attacks by I moves.
incomes so there w ill be a bigger and no mean attainment in social
convenience, of happiness.
one group upon another, with coun­
Most positive claims were made home m arket for the farm ers’ prod­
ter charges and charges flinging by little Siam, which claimed that ucts. At least, that's the w ay Wash­ arts and graces. Operating a cafe­
As time goes on advertis­
teria to meet the requirements of
themselves across committee tables important
Indo-Chinese
border ington officials look at the farm situ­ both visitors and troops in such a
ing
is used more and more,
with apparent utter abandon.
points had fallei. to their arms. And ation today.
manner as to build the morale of
Party lines were smashed to while the French did not deny these
and
as it is used more we
troops and convince the mothers
smithereens, with Wtllkie claiming facts, they did claim that any such A rm y /» Busy
sisters
and
sweethearts
that
their
all profit more. It's the way
the Republican party would k ill it­ advances had been purchased" at an
men are being adequately cared for
B uilding ‘M o ra le ’
self forevermore if it failed to recog­ enormous loss in manpower.
advertising
has —
requires a high degree of technical
nize the principle of “ blank-check”
Napoleon said an arm y moves or.
European diplomats of the Axis
8nd lr“ mense ‘ act.
aid to Britain, and allow Roosevelt powers were striving to keep Japan its stomach. He was right and it F m a lh ^ *
o f bringing a profit to
* mally, to supervise all these activ­
all the power he desires.
and the U. S. at odds, thus hoping to cannot be an empty stomach either. ities as well as the buying of food
e v e ry b o d y 'o n e » m o d ,
Republican Tinkham countered cement Japan more firm ly to the T hat’s why in Uncle Sam’s new
and supplies w ill need a person of
Ibo
consumer included
with the charge that Wdlkie was "in - Axis.
a rm y a cook is a cook and not just more than good looks and a^leasant
somebody who says he is because
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