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SENATOR BORAH HAS DISCREDITED HIMSELF!
When President Roosevelt reconvenes congress for
consideration of policy concerning the war in Europe,
then will our legislative process need capable states
manship and an absence of political opportunism.
That congress will rise to needs of the situation
is probable, but our veteran legislator, Senator Borah
of Idaho, apparently is doing his bit to make of the
session just another anti-administration political rally.
Already Borah is soliciting publicity for himself
by fighting the battles of the special session even
before the session has been called. He is arguing his
case in the newspapers before any case has been pre
sented.
Of all men in the nation at this time, perhaps Wil
liam E. Borah is the most discredited. It was he, very
largely, who defeated the President’s attempts to se
cure neutrality law revision during the last session by
announcing that there would be no European crisis or
war. He left the inference that his sources of infor
mation were superior to those of the President and
the state department.
Neutrality statute revision was asked by Mr. Roose
velt at a time when he believed such action might have
a deterrent effect on war plans abroad. Now revision
can be aimed only at hastening conclusion of the
slaughter.
Many of us for years on end have held Borah in
high regard as a statesman and sincere legislator. For
the first time he has raised serious doubts in many
Americans’ minds and today he places himself in the
position of one who stubbornly injured the cause of
peace and delayed necessary legislation—and was
proved wrong by his own words.
At the special session of congress to be called soon
Senator Borah will carry only the weight of a publicity-
hungry old man desperately trying to be an important
figure in politics at a time when politics should be
forgotten.
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MIGHT NOT STALIN BE NEXT?
These are troublous times with the world scene a
swiftly-changing, kaleidoscopic mass of passion. How
surprising are the ever-shifting scenes, and how fickle
our interpretation of their significance is demonstrated
by recalling the situation of a few years ago when
Italy was making conquest of Ethiopia.
At that time the newly-risen Hitler was regarded
as a second-rate dictator of little or no world import
ance; all attention was directed to Mussolini, who
strode the center of the militaristic stage and made
nations tremble.
Once Benito’s thunder was expended, then the
world’s eyes and ears suddenly were turned to Ger
many’s supposed mimic dictator. Surprised indeed were
most people when the truth dawned that of the two,
perhaps Hitler’s ambitions would wreak the most
havoc.
When Hitler s strength has been spent, his armies
wasted, perhaps then a third dictator, Russia’s Stalin
—these many years largely ignored—may take the
center of the stage and cause more world-wide trem
bling and misery.
This is not a pleasant epoch in which to live while
history is being made.
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conflict. His weeding out of dangerous and hate-pro
voking propaganda over the radio was a great service
to the cause of American neutrality.
Since the “invasion from Mars’’ scare of several
months ago, it is well that the President has been
alert to protect a gullible listening public from its own
emotions. Propaganda played a great part in involving
us in the last World war and apparently Mr. Roosevelt
is seeing to it that we are not going to be duped this
time.
What Other Editors
Are Saying!
KI MOKED SCUTTLING OF
THE CORCORANS
The remarkable announcement
from the President's office in
Washington that his war-time
emergency streamlining of the
execuUve branch of the govern
ment does away with Tommy Cor
coran and the New Deal "kitchen
cabinet,” and their influence in
governmental matters, is almost
beyond belief
It is not quite beyond the limit
of possibility, because of the war
time side of the President's char
acter.
President Roosevelt, as David
Lawrence points out in his col
umn, is the single high-ranking,
official now in the government
who went through the first World
war in a high position within the
government.
Even the high army and navy
officers of 1918 have long since re
tired All high-ranking civilians in
the war agencies of 1917-18 have
passed out of official life.
Roosevelt was a trusted ad
viser of President Wilson. He
was assistant secretary of the
navy and had to s|*end much
time in f-ondon in war days.
He became familiar during the
war with problems of shipping
and submarine raiding. He
knew about the intelligence
units, and their discoveries of
saliotage. There is no question
but that the Nazis would
rather have almost any other
citizen of the United States
SPLEEN in democratic
GOVERNMENT
That the dominating note of the
j final action of the last congress
I was pure hatred of the I‘resilient,
unleashisl and rumpant, cannot in
doubted. That economy was not
the animating spirit is proven in
the fact that the congress appro
priated some $300,000.000 more
than the President had asked A
total of 13 billions were appro-
I pilated. so there is a very small
case made out that there was any
money saving in the minds of con
gress as a whole.
One can easily ait down and de
spair of democratic government
in contemplation of a group, one
might better say a herd, that is
charged with deliberate rsapon-
i sibility, acting like spoiled chil
dren If it did any good, one might
hang his head in shame that the
nation's lawmaking body is com-
■ posed of such petty men Justifi-
i cation for their action on the
I ground that the President has
been dictatorial and overbearing
is like saving that It a policeman
finds another officer shooting ill
a citizen, he should grab his gun
and start shooting other and more
of the natives, so that he doesn't
li t the tu st cop outdo him
It is Ixilh disgusting and sad
dening
Democracy is without
doubt on its way out the world
over and we are furnishing the
world a full-fledged spectacle of
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as its president at this mo
ment. He is a keen student of
naval strategy, and the best
of all commanders of the
United Statist army and navy
in time of war.
Thus it Is easy to see how In
his own mind he might conceive
a new position of war-time leader
ship to be a superior role to his
old position of peace-Ume Amer
ican leadership.
If he does, the Corcorans of his
political fighting staff could de
crease in importance to near zero,
while real statesmen might become
vitally important in their places
At this hour President Roose
velt seems determined to put
America into the war, at least to
the extent of suspending our neu
trality embargo against supplying
arms and war materials to our
favored belligerants. A call for
congress to assemble and vote him
this power seems imminent It is
a necessary step for him if he is
to assume the world war-time im
portance that could be his.
He might be willing to scuttle
the Corcorans to gain this step.
He might see the Corcorans as a
sacrifice he could make to gain
the approval of congress for the
things he wants.
He must know that in war he
must become an acting dictator
with powers far beyond anything
WHO PROUTS?
Who profits by war? Who. when
the last gun hns fired its last
shell, can say "Well done. Tlie end
is accomplisheil and I am satis
fied ? These questions, asked hy
many Americans after the close
of the last World war are being
asked by many Americans today
at the start of a conflict that may
Soon become another World war
Who does profit, or in any way
gain? The farmer? No. Any pos
sible profits to be made from a
few years of higher prices for his
products will be more than eaten
up in the taxes that will, some
day, have to be assessed to pay
for the war The small business
man who may lose his all in eco
nomic readjustments attendant
upon any war ? The laborer, who
like the farmer will in the end
pay back with interest the gain in
wartime wages? The politician
whose constituents will some day
blame him, possibly unjustly, for
taking away their sons" The sol
dier who lives to return ? Ask any
veteran.
No, the answer must be sought
elsewhere: possibly among the po
litical hotheads of all nations; pos
sibly among the munitions makers
or from the unscrupulous element
among th«- big industrialists; pM*
albly from Hitler and the potential
Hitlers of all countries, who mis
takenly sec In war the opportunity
to win places in the world from
which their own personalities will
always bar them.
'rhe German people cannot pos-
¡illHloN.S truiflc accident sit
v uation and whut Is being done
about it formed the theme for a
booth mulntumed by the secretary
of stale s office and the slate high
way department at the Oregon
state fair this year.
Feuturcd in the display was a
statistical account or traffic ac
cidents, injuries and deaths, fig
ures on gasoline cunsuniplloii,
driver registration and non-resi
dent motorista regtstraliun. The
story of safety activities carried
on in Oregon by Earl Snell, secre
tary ol siale, was told in stalls
lies und pictures.
Hundreds of fair visitors have
taken the reaction teal, the reuc-
lometer measuring in split seconds
the lime it takes a driver to apply
his biukcs at a given signal. The
avciage time la three-fourths of a
second.
A miniature set illustrated the
seven I mis I c lessons forming the
safety driving school, a|>onaored
by the secretary of state. Street
interacctiona, complete with street
signa and markings were shown
in minature as were highways,
parking spaces and hills. Tiny cars
were list'd to show the proper pro
cedure in parking, starting and
stopping on hills, driving in traf
ile, making turns, etc , as they are
taught in the actual school To
give drivers a better idea of the
operation of the clutch and gear
shift, a cut away clutch and gear
nl>;v WU Imluded m UM dis
play
A complete display of Oregon
automobile license plates, from
the first issued in 1905, down to
the current tugs was Included in
the booth.
Tlie latest type electrical traffic
signal devices were displayed by
the state highways department,
which also showed artists' draw
ings of various highway projects
completed, under way or project
ed In Oregon The booth was in
the grandstand exhibit area.
albly hope to gain, for even though
the goal of empire of which their
leaders drcam is reached, the coat
will be so high that profit will be
loss and alliances now formed will
become nubilities instead of as
sets The German people's all la
again being staked against terrific
odds for. while they m*y be now
even stronger than in 1914, their
rise has been too rapid and they
will have a second enemy even
more dangerous than the allies
Internal al rife Eng land and France
are in no position for u protracted
war; neither are Italy, China and
Japan Russia, like a huge mon
ster. waits no nation's ally, every
nation's enemy
No, there is no gain in war Tlie
United States must arm. FOR DE
FENSE. take every im-axuie [ his
■ible to keep out of hostilities
across the seas AND, equally Im-
portant, wood out the subversive
elements that war from within —
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PROPAGANDA GETS A BODY-BLOW!
According to John W. Kelly’s dispatch to The Miner
from Washington, D. C., this week (appearing in to
day’s issue) the deluge of European radio propaganda
rébroadcast in this country at the start of the war
ended suddenly and definitely when President Roose
velt made known his dislike for such programs to the
Federal Communications commission. The FCC,
through its licensing power over the broadcasting sta
tions, was able to stop spread of the propaganda.
Speaking to the entire nation at the outbreak of
war, President Roosevelt pledged that his administra
tion would make every effort to keep us out of the
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