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pagi: rouii ,i-m fa. I Si Tbt-OHEGON STAXESllAN.Salen, Oregon,. Wednesday Morningptexalxr 22 1933 Ih: ,LsT.t Founded "A'o Terror Sway Us; Front First Statesman, March IS. 1SS1 CHAL3 A, SPBACUI SHELDO. F. Sackett THE STATESMAN Member of the Associated Ireaa ! The Associated Press to xclul-ely entitled to ths ass tot publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otbenrlss credited t Mb paver. - . ' " Shifts in Rumania and Europe IN the news from Bucharest, capital of Rumania,' the other day was the item that several women, some of them Jew esses, were imprisoned because they shouted "Down with facism" at some parade. The offense, it was stated, was that the outcry was invidious to Rumanian "nationalism". The true significance is that its political sympathies are veering toward the fascist powers. This is borne out in a degree by the downfall of M. Titulescu as foreign minister, who recent ly was dropped from tl$e cabinet of Premier Tatarescu. Ill in Switzerland after leaving office it was intimated that Titul escu had been poisoned, his opponents being ''anti-Jewish and pro-nazi factions within the government." There had been many previous attempts to oust Titulescu, who is j described as the "most brilliant, the best-known, and the most respon sible of Rumanian statesmen;" but the attempts failed be- cause he was regarded as indispensable in his office, with no t'u substitute to handle Rumanian foreign relations J His pass ing undoubtedly marks the growth in power of the pro-German segments among Rumanians, for these lesser states in Europe are notoriously dependent on others more powerful. They are satellites of the powers of greater magnitude. Tit ulescu kept Rumania within the French orbit; his downfall releases the pull of Paris in Rumanian affairs. j John Gunther, in his stirring book, "Inside Europe," de scribes Rumania as : x ' : "A rich country. 18.800,000 strong, ruled by King Carol, who in turn is ruled by Magda Lupescu. The land swims In oil. mothers in grain and timber, though much wealth has been lost by the depredations of corrupt politicians. The capital, Buchar- est. is a tinselly sort of little Paris where the main street, the Calea Victoria, flutters with silken skirts and the leather trap pings of gay carriages transporting perfumed, corseted officers. Here wealth produced by the sweating and starring. peasants is spent on tsuica iplum spirit), on caviare from Danube sturgeons. oa huge red strawberries from the TransylTaaian hills No country in the world has been so corruptly manipulated and ex ploited. Baksheesh was the national watchword." Rumania profited enormously by adherence to the allies during the war; and at its close became a leader in the Little Entente, which was the French outpost in southeast Europe. Rumania sucked hard on the French udder. j -T The present shift of influence in Rumania is symptom of the decline in French hegemony on the continent, a decline which began back in 1933 when France lost her grip in Aus tria and Italian influence became paramount there. France has steadily receded as the powers of the nascent fascists ex panded. Without a war, merely by the shifts of, politics, France tto longer dictates rulers and policies in the ring of . states from Poland to Jugo Slavia. Now under a socialist gov ernment France is becoming alienated from Italy; and if the rebels set up a fascist power in Spain, France rather than Germany will be the country encircled by hostile powers. 1". Great Britain's lot is equally precarious with the rise of Italy in the Mediterranean basin. The. victors in the late jwar are now sharply on the defensive in the battle of diplo imacy. Worst of all for these two states there is no harmony of policy. The defeats of diplomacy may be as severe as those or war., We Get LAST spring this writer happened to be put on a nominat ing committee for the Marion county public health asso ciation. In casting about for an eligible prospect to un load the presidency on we thought of Don Upjohnj Sips for Supper himself. So the writer proceeded to call him up: "Don; our committee wants to nominate jou for pres ident of the Marion county health association." j "Well, you know I'm awful blame busy, Charley. It takes me all day to grind out this here column." . j "Yes, I know that Don ; it reads like it. But this job will not take much of your time. You know George Swift has had it for two years and it didn't interfere with his chess-playing at all." j "I know but George only has to work one day a week, while mine is a six-day job." j ? "There really will be nothing for you to do, Don. We are goings to have a fine secretary; also the old Christmas seal officers will carry on and do your name for window-dressing, you know." ""Very well, I'll do what I can," said Don. Interlude of several months. Burrrrr goes the telephone. - "Hello, this is Don Upjohn. Say, Charley I want you to be Salem chairman for the Christmas seal sale this year." "Well, Don, you know I'm powerful busy here. It takes me all day to grind out this column." "Yes, I know that; it reads like it, too. But this job will not take much of your time. We have a splendid secretary who will do all the work. We merely want your name for window-dressing.' .. J' (Business at this end of growling into telephone) . "All right, all right." j Which explains just how it comes that the editor is chair man of the city seal sale committee. But there's one thing sure, between Don and ourselves we're going to sell seals here until Sadie Orr Dunbar runs clear out of merchandise and tu berculosis is banished for ten Jvears. Then Don and we can go back to calling each other names in our respective columns. Meantime, we will bide our time. The town will want to raise money for drum Corps uniforms or for some other Wor thy Cause. And when the time comes we propose to nominate as chief money-raiser, Don Upjohn. Wheat Importations MORE wheat will be imported into this country this year than during any previous year in its history. The amount , will be four times as much as was imported in any year before 1934. Its net import surplus of wheat will be about 42, 000,000 bushels. Between the drouth and the restriction pol icy of AAA this country changed swiftly to a wheat-importing nation. In 1934 the AAA policy, according to department of agriculture estimates, cut down the wheat production 50,000,- 000 bushels. In 1935 the crop restriction continued, so that now instead of a sufficiency the nation is importing grain to feed its population. The AAA policy also resulted in great reduction in cot ton production and in cotton exports. This opened the way for swift expansion of cotton-growing in Brazil, with the threat that America may lose permanently a large segment of. its export trade in cotton. This was the definite purpose of the AAA: to restrict production in order to boost prices. Drouth accelerated the restriction, showing how dangerous it is to try to anticipate the processes of nature. Now the consequence is the impor tation of shiploads of corn from the Argentine, and of thous ands of carloads of wheat from Canada. Instead of saving the foreign market for the farmer, domestic policy has de stroyed that market: and has not even preserved the domestic vmarket for him. ltH No Fear Shatl Awe - . Editor-Manager PUBLISHING CO. a Job all the work. We merely want j Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Battle of the Opequon, 9-22-36 that led to. Appomattox. ?2nd anniversary; Russell i fell, fighting under Sheridan: . - (Continuing from yesterday: Turn the leaves of history for ward to the summer of 1864. During three years, from the rich Shenandoah rally the Confed erates had threatened the nation's capital, inflicting disheartening defeat upon such leaders as Gen erals Sigel, Hunter and Lew Wal lace. Close to Washington, Interfered with by the higher up mahogany desk generals, military brass bats there, disaster had been the bitter fate of every Union leader who had attempted any decided move ment against the Confederate forces holding the Damoclean sword threat over the nation's capital. July 12, 1864, from' Chas. A. Dana, noted publisher, editor, then assistant secretary of war, clicked a dispatch to Grant which, decoded, read: . V ''Nothing can possibly be done here toward pursuing or cutting off the enemy for want of a com mander. Augur commands the de fenses of 'Washington, with Mc Cook and a lot of brigadiers under him, but he is not allowed to go outside. Wright commands his own corps; Gilmore has been as signed to the temporary command of those troops of the 19th corps in the city of Washington; Ord, to command the 8th corps and all othei troops in the Middle depart ment, leaving "Wallace (Lew Wal lace) to command -the city of Baltimore alone; but THERE IS NO HEAD TO THE WHOLE, and it seems indispensable that yon should at once appoint one . . . General Halleck win "not give or ders, except as he receives them: the President will give none; and until you direct positively and ex plicitly what is to be done every thing will go on in the deplorable and fatal way it has gone for the past week." ! i That was as a bolt from Sinai. No living man else was qualified to aim it. Dana had been editor of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune; had resigned because he could not follow the "let the err ing sister go" attitude of Greeley that is, let the secession of the South stand. S U Dana had "sold" Grant to Lin coln. The one man big enough and sufficiently independent to cut the strangling Gordian knot ; was Dana. Grant chose Sheridan; told him to make the Shenandoah val ley safe; gave him a free hand. Static minds thought Sheridan too young. He himself was cau tious; moved deliberately. Even Grant had misgivings; visited Sheridan. "Little Phil" explained his de liberately prepared plans. Grant had plans in his pocket. Sheri dan's suited him better; he kept his in his pocket, did not let Sheridan know he had them. After hearing Sheridan's ..ar rangements, carefully thought out Grant compressed all he had to say into a laconic order of two words that meant a volume with a battle map. - "Go in," said Grant, and rode away. , Followed, September 19. the Opequon battle; Sheridan called it that; known also as the battle of Winchester. S n c c e s a there brought victory's flood tide; elec trified the Union forces, in arms and throughout the nation. The President, the 20th, wired Sheridan: "Have Just heard of your great victory. God bless you all, officers and men. Strongly In clined to come up and see you. A. Lincoln." - (It would not have been a long trip; only a little farther than from Salem to Portland, Oregon.) la That victory insured the reel ection of Lincoln, concerning which he himself was In doubt, as well as many of his friends. It made the nation's capital safe, for the first time since the open ing of the war. It galvanized the combined Im pulses that led lrrestistibly, swift ly to Appomattox. V Russell entered the Civil war as a colonel, in Washington's de fense; In '62 was made a briga dier. Was at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. At Rappahannock he led the at tack on the Confederate lntrench ments; captured eight battleflags and many prisoners. General Meade sent him to Washington with the battleflags, and to re cover from wounds received in the charge. . . - Resuming service with a major general's double silver embroid ered stars, Jan. 15, '64. he fought in all battles of Grant's Virginia campaign. In July his division Joined the 6th corps for the hurried move ment against Confederate General Jubal A. Early's attempted raid on Washington then reinforced Sheridan In the Shenandoah val ley. U m Russell earned four regular army brevet grades. Including major general at Opequon. (The writer's parents, living In Cooper Hollow, on the Fort Yamhill-Sa lem road, knew and admired 2nd Lieut. Sheridan and Capt. Russell. Their seventh son, born shortly after Opequon, was named, for the fallen- hero, David Allen.) Polk county deed records tor the '50's-'70's. Interpreted with this Damon-Pythias story, con nect some of its appealing threads. These records show Sheridan had equities In 838.15 acres of land, and that Russell was jointly interested. The land, on the highway to Salem, along the south side of the Yamhill river near the Wal lace bridge, went to Cooper Bros, from Sheridan and Russell, then to L. M. Wallace: now belongs to the Wallace estate. Why did Sheridan and Russell Oil -the By DOROTHY ".'- Moving Time The I Mississippi Legislature is considering the enactment , of a program which it called "A Plan to Balance In dustry and Agri culture, - and which was pre sented to t h a t mody ' last Mon day by Governor White. The Gov ernor's speech la reported in "The Commercial Ap peal" of Mem phis, and eon- tains some State- Dorothy Thompson menta very significant for the In dustrial states of the more pros perous North and East. He said: "Industry in the North and East is bow in an unsettled condition. There is. need for the type of labor we have to offer here. Many outstanding plants are looking for new locations . . . . Many factors are beckoning these industries to locate, in the South." The type of labor which Missis sippi has,-to offer is not disting uished by any special skills. It is cheap labor, simply that and noth ing more. The Governor's pro posals represent an organized at tempt, through legislative action, to lure capitalists from the North to - the South -under the promise of cheap labor plus state govern mental assistance. Under Governor White's plan, the Legislature would authorise counties and municipalities to is sue bonds for the purpose of erect ing buildings to be occupied rent free and tax free for a. specified number of years by factories. Up on a two-thirds vote of the people in any city or county the program could proceed. It follows, of course, that these factories, al ready enjoying these special priv ileges would be manned by labor at rates with which non-Southern employers could not compete. . In March. 1936. a government investigation showed the follow ing payroll in such a county-sponsored garment factory in Missis sippi. Of 272 employes in the sewing room 96 got $5 for a week of 40 hours, or 12 j cents per hour; 73 were paid $6, 37 got 87, 31 got 87.50, 12 got 88, 23 got $9. - - . At the time that these figures came out, there were only a few Health By Royal S. Copeland, M.D. FINDING THE way to prevent yellow fever is one cf the outstand ing triumphs of sanitation and pre ventive medicine. Few realise the amount of research work that was required to 3ubdue this disease, once regarded as the,, greatest scourge of mankind. Although the disease has not been completely eradicated from the globe, it is rarely if ever en countered in this part of the world. It now is confined to Africa and other tropical countries where large areas of land continue to be uncultivated and wild. Under the guidance of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, sufficient dat- was ac cumulated to suppress the disease In the western hemisphere. But the menace of yellow fever never must be overlooked. With improved methods of transporta tion, especially the great develop ment of air travel, it is always possible for this disease to be car ried to neighboring countries. To guard against thlj danger, many countries require airplanes to un dergo a process of fumigation Im mediately upon landing. In this way the disease bearing insects are destroyed.; Yellow Fever Germ. A germ carried by a mosquito called the "spegomyia faaciata" is responsible for yellow- fever. The victim of this disease , shows a pe culiar yellowish discoloration of the kin. He has a high fever, 1 rest less and constantly sick at the stomach. There Is steady vomiting of foods and fluids. This is called the "black vomit". The disease is Indeed a terrible affliction. Yellow fever can be brought to this country only by the transporta tion of the mosquito to our shores. As I have said, this pest lives In remote sections of the world and it Is hoped that ultimately even there It win be destroyed. There must be an increasing campaign against yellow fever as well as other insect-carried dis eases. To .most of us who live In this part of the world the disease is rarely ever heard of and Is never met by the practising physician. Yet, scientists are well aware of the fact that It must not be con sidered as an extinct disease. - It is distressing to find a let down In the old-time precautions against disease. Eternal vigilance is required, or we may find our selves in the middle of an epidemic which ought never to have oc curred. , Watcnf ulness should be the rule of every generation. Aaswers te Health Queries Mrs. a P. ' Q. What treatment Is advised for piles and a fissure T I am troubled with poor elimina tion and think that is the cause of my trouble. I have had the trouble for three months. A. Overcome the underlying cause of the trouble first of alL Proper diet, regular habits and lots of outdoor exercise should help the elimination. For further particu lars send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and repeat your question. L'r. Cpela I f U4 to unit taemirlc trm readers wfce a m sdrsss. stiiptj vstsys wttk thsir sswUmi. Adres mU letters ( Dr. Csplaa4 la cat ! ttis wsper a Its amaia atae la this eltjr. (CopyrlgM, ISSt. K. F, Inc.J want so much land? They used It to advantage; were first in Ore gon to employ Irrigation water extensively. (Concluded tomorrow.) Ev d ecor THOMPSON such publicly subsidised factories. The new legislation proposes 1 1 wholesale growth of such lndust rles, under direct state govern ment planning. Furthermore, there is already evidence that the idea will not be confined to Miss issippi. Arkansas, L o u 1 s I a n a. Georgia, Alabama may 'very soon seek to solve their economic prob lem this way. And if they do, the resalts will be .very serious for industry and labor in the rest of the country. Even without gov ernmental : subsidies the cotton textile industries of New England nave d e e n ruined by southern wage competition, plus raw mat erial at the source. ' . I - : , The Immediate eause of these measures! Is the desperate poverty of the state which Is taking them. Mississippi is 83 per cent agricul tural, largely planted to cotton, a crop which is In a declining con dition for reasons which are both domestic and international. In 1932 the individual: Federal in come taxes p a 1 d in Mississippi totaled $rS4.000 in a state with a population of two million. The ten year average, 1920-1930, of Federal income taxes paid by in dividuals was 39 cents. Missis sippi is the poorest state in the Union. i The first result of such a pro gram, it it goes through, is that these factories will undersell all tne rest of the country. A warm climate,' which means a low cost of living, plus low wages, plus free rent and no taxes, will be an irresistible combination. Non Southern manufacturers will have to lower their wages, go out of business, or move South. "Mov ing day has arrived," said Gov ernor White. This obviously means a tremendous dislocation of labor and industry all 'over the United States, and that will in evitably mean labor disturbances in the form of strikes and labor pressure on the Federal govern ment. It is a result of a policy which has been pursued In the United States since 1861. whereby through high tariffs the South was hampered in its exports of raw cotton, its principal product, and was compelled to buy manu factured products in a tariff-protected market. The South, that is to say, was reduced to the status of a colony, and now. like all colonies when they begin Tto industrialize themselves, lives to plague theiempire. National, like international imperialism, con tains the' seeds of its own ruin. Manufacturers in this country are complaining that they can not compete with Japan because of her government subsidized indust ries plus low-cost labor. They will soon be faced with precisely the same condition In the United States, with no Department of State to complain to. It looks as though we needed a national economic conference fully as much as an international one. Copyright 1935, King Feature Byndi est. Inc. Ten Years Ago September 23, 1926 Over 25,000 attended Salem's first annual fall window display last night. Because of the heavy expense attached to this year's state fair, passes will be held at a minimum. George Putnam, Salem news paperman, who at t h e ' primary election was nominated for office of state senator for Marlon coun ty, wishes the privilege of a slo gan printed after his name on the ballot if Robert Stanfield Is al lowed a slogan. Twenty Years Ago r ' September 33. 1918 15,800. German soldiers were taken la brief time on the out skirts of Combles. The Fair' Ground road Is ready for the motorist and will be thrown open to the public today. AH union' labor In . New Tork may quit, more than 600,000 workers -will be affected by wait out order. 'w ' I -s'r.-LI . .:V - w'-- . t j - 4 ii It Catrt Happen Here By SINCLAIR LEWIS Ooremui JTessnp, despite his local rep aration as an eccentric, knew ha waa a mall-town bourgeois intellectual, an in dolent and somewhat eentiutental liberal. Walt Trowbridge, had been nominated for President by the Republicans. The Demo cratic convention was on. Colonel Dewey Ralk has offered the name of Senator Windrip. Bishop Prang marches in the procession that follows Colonel Hailk'a speech nominating Windrip. The cheering lasts fonr honrs. When Windrip is finally nominated. Father Perefize. Jessnp, Buck Titos and the Rer. Mr. Falck are over whelmed with gloom. Bnt Crow lev. the banker, is for Windrip and so ia Shad Ledue, Jessap's hired man, because "Win drip's go ink to fix it sa everybody will get four thsnd bucks immediately." Shad Ledae It was after seven that morn ing when , Doremus came home, and, remarkably enough. Shad Ledue, who was supposed to go to work at seven, was at work at seven. Normally he never left his bachelor shack In Lower Town till ten to eight, but this morning he was on the Job, chopping, kind ling. (Oh, yes, reflected Doremus that probably explained It. Kindling-chopping, It practiced early enough, would wake up ev eryone In the house.) Shad was tall and hulking; his shirt was sweat-stained; and as usual he needed a shave.' Foolish growled at him. Doremus sus pected that at some time he had been kicking Foolish. He wanted to honor Shad for the sweaty shirt, the honest toll, and all the rugged virtues, but even as a Lib eral American Humanitarian, Doremus found it hard always to keep up the Longfellow's-Vlllage-Blacksmlth-cum-Marx a 1 1 1 1 u d e consistently and' not sometimes backslide into a belief that there must be some crooks and swine among the tollers as, notoriously, there were so shockingly many among persons with more than 13.600 a year. "Well been sitting up listen lug to the radio. purred Dore mus. "Did you know the Demo crats have nominated Senator Windrip ? "That so?" Shad growled. "Yes. Just now. How you plan ning to vote? "Well now. I'll tell you. Mr. Jessup." Shad struck an attitude, leaning on his ax. Sometimes he could be quite pleasant and eon descending, even to this little man Shad Ledae ami DwKsvm Jeanxa - " it 1 Front Man! who was so ignorant about coon hunting and the games of craps .and poker. I "I'm going to vote for Buzz Windrip. He's going to fix it so everybody will get four thousand bucks, immediate, and I'm going to start a chicken farm. I can make a bunch of money out of chickens! I'll Bhow some of these guys that think they're so rich!" I "But. Shad, you didn't have so much luck with chickens when yu tried to raise 'em in the shed back there. You. uh, I'm afraid you sort of let their water freeze up on 'em in winter, and they all died, you remember." Jj"Oh. them? So what! Heck! There was too few of 'em. I'm not going to waste my time foolin' with Just a couple dozen chickens! When I get five-six thousand of 'em to make it worth my . while, then I'll show you! You bet." And, most patronizingly: "Buzz Windrip ia O. K." . j! CHAPTER VIII, ii don't pretend to be a very edtteated man. except mayb educated in the heart, and in being able to feel for the sorrows and fear of every ornery fellow ' human being. Still and all. I've read the Bible through, from kivnr to kiver. like ' my wife'a folka say down in Arkansas, some eleven times: I've read all the law books they've printed; and as to contemporaries. I don't guess I've missed much ot all the grand literature produced by Brace Bar ton. Edgar Cuest, Arthur Brisbane. Elisa beth killings. Walte Pitkin and William Dudley Pelley. This last e-entlemaa I honor not onlv for his rattling rood yaroa and his ser iotta work is investigating life beyond the grave and absolutely proving that only o blind fool could fait to believe to Personal Immortality, but. finally, for his public-spirited and self-sacrificing work in founding the Silver Shirts. These troa knights, even if they did not attain qnite alb the auceess they deserved, were one of our most noble and Galahad-like attempts to combat the aneaking, snaky, sinister, aurreptitioua. seditious plota of the Red Radicals and other aour brands of Bol shevika that incessantly threaten the Am erican atanc-d of Liberty, Uigh Wages, and Cuiveaal Security. These fellows have Messages, and wo haven't got time for anything in litera ture except straight, hard hitting, heart throbbing Message! (j lero. Hour. BerzelrSa Windrip. i During the very first week of his campaign. Senator Windrip clarified his philosophy by Issuing his distinguished proclamation: "The Fifteen Points of Victory for the Forgotten Men." The fifteen plans, in bis own words (or may be In Lee Sarason's words, or II By SINCLAIR LEWIS L-"C naia TV Va 9 ni aaa (1) All finance in the country, including banking, insurance, stock and bonds an mortgages, shall be under the absolute con trol of a Federal Central Bank, owned by the government and conducted by a Board appointed by the President, which Board shall, without need to recourse to Congress for legislative authoriza tion, bo empowered to make all regulations governing finance. Thereafter, as soon as m a y be practicable, this said Board shall consider the nationalzation and government-ownership, for the Profit of the Whole People, of all mines, oilfields, water power, pub lic utilities, transportation, and communication. (2) The President shall appoint a commission, equally divided be tween manual workers, employers and representatives of the Public, to determine which Labor Unions are qualified to represent the Workers; and report to the Ex eutlve, for legal action; all pre tended labor . organizations, whether "Company Unions," or "Red Unions" controlled by Com munists and the no-called "Third International." The duly recog nized Unions shall be constituted Bureaus of the Government, with power of decision in all labor dis putes. Later, the same Investiga tion and official recognition shall be extended to farm organizations. In this elevation of the position of the Worker, it shall be empha sized that the .League of Forgot ten Men Is the chief bulwark against the menace of destructive and un-American Radicalism. DawtAM tlalW'oi -amrrfxv-sla WOVA Vl a CS (3) In contradistinction to the doctrines of Red Radicals, with their felonious expropriation ot the arduously acquired possess ions which Insure to aged persons their security, this League and Party will guarantee Private Ia Itlative and the Right to Private Property for all time. 1 (4) Believing that only under God Almighty, to Whom we ren der all homage, do we Americans hold our vast Power, we shall guarantee to all persons absolute freedom of religious worship, pro vided, however, that no atheist, agnostic, believer In Black Magic, nor any Jew who shall refuse to swear allegiance to the New Test ament, nor any person of a n y faith who refuses to take the Pledge to the Flag, shall be per mitted to hold any public office or to practice as a teacher, pro fessor, lawyer. Judge, or as a phys ician, exeept in t h e category ot Obstetrics. - . ' (5) Annual net Income per per. son shall be limited to $500,000. No accumulated fortune may at any one time exceed 13.000.000 per person. No on person shall, during his entire lifetime, be per mitted to retain an inheritance or various Inheritances in total ev ceeding $2,000,000. All Incomes or estates in excess of the sums named shall be seized by the Fed eral Government for use In Relief and In Administrative expenses. () Profit shall be taken out of War by seizing all dividents over and above C per cent that shall be received from the manufacture, distribution, or sale, during War time, of all arms, munitions, air craft, ships, tanks, and all other things directly applicable to war fare as well as from food, textiles and all other supplies furnlsned to the American or to any allied army. 7) Our armarAents and the size of our military and naval establishments shall be consistent ly enlarged until they shall equal, but since this country has no de sire for foreign conquest ot anv kind not surpass, lnevery branch of the forces f defense, the mar tial strength of any other sinrle country or empire in the world. Upon Inauguration, this Learu and Party shall make this Its f ir. t obligation, together with the I -nance of a firm proclamation i: all nations of the world that osr Continued to page 10