Friday, July 12, 1940
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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GENERAL
Strange Fact.«
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
Han Inimal r le»h
Washington. D. C.
NAZIS IN SOI TH AMERICA
WASHINGTON.-How vigorously
Nazi Germany is trying to under­
mine the United States in Latin
America is illustrated by a secret
arms offer Hitler has just made to
sell $60.(100.000 worth of the latest
military weapons to Brazil.
This would include tanks, artil­
lery, flame - throwers, bombing
planes and other modem devices
with which Germany prostrated
France— all transported to a hemi­
sphere where Pan-American nations
have been relatively at peace for
half a century.
Furthermore, Germany guaran­
tees to deliver the goods almost
immediately—via Italian ships.
It now looks very much as if Bra­
zil would accept the offer.
State department officials, togeth­
er with Gen. George Marshall, dy­
namic U. S. chief of staff, are pull­
ing every possible wire to prevent
the purchase, but they are having
a hard time. They are offering to
sell American military equipment
instead.
However, the Brazilians
(Hunt out that because of cheap Nazi
wages it would take $200.000.000 to
buy the same material here where
costs are much higher.
Further­
more, Hitler is willing to accept cof­
fee and other Brazilian surplus prod­
ucts in a barter deal. No real cash
is involved.
Finally, the Brazilians say they
bought some artillery from the
United States recently, but it was
World war stuff, and they had to
spend $8.000 for repairs on each gun.
The German munitions, on the other
hand, are virtually new.
General Marshall made a special
flight to Brazil last year to get ac­
quainted with the Brazilian army,
and later piloted General Goes Mon­
teiro. Brazilian chief of staff, all
over the United States. However, all
this good willing doesn't seem to
count today. At least 40 per cent of
the Brazilian army is reported to
be pro-Nazi.
Note—Meanwhile the state depart­
ment moves with tragic slowness to
counteract Nazi activity in South
America. Three years ago it set up
a Cultural Relations bureau to cul­
tivate Latin America, but its ac-
tivity to date is minus zero.
Mining Panama Waters.
The navy may not admit it, but
the secret reason for suddenly min­
ing the waters around the Panama
canal was the sighting of two sub­
marines off the Pacific side of the
canal.
They were sighted by an army
aviator, who was not able to dis-
tinguish their nationality. Since no
U. S. submarines were in that vicin­
ity. the army and navy both were
convinced they must be Japanese.
Obviously it would be difficult for
German submarines to get into Pa­
cific waters.
Another factor which has our navy
command worried was that last
week, while part of the Japanese
fleet left for French Indo-China, an­
other part left for an unnamed des­
tination off into the Pacific.
It is suspected that the Japanese
may be paying a visit to Chile, per­
haps stopping en route at the Gala­
pagos islands, which the United
States is now trying to lease for a
naval base to protect the Panama
canal.
Another reason is the fear that
Hitler, having secured part of the
French fleet, might pool forces with
the Italians (after the end of the
British campaign) and make a foray
into American Atlantic waters. With
part of the Japanese fleet simultane­
ously in Chilean waters, the problem
of defense would be difficult.
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Mechanical Sleuths.
Uniformed guards make nightly
inspection rounds in the big govern­
ment buildings, but the real senti­
nels ef the multi-million dollar struc­
tures are electrical machines. Elab­
orate automatic signal systems,
equipped with buzzers, bells and
lights instantly detect trouble and
flash the alarm.
Most modern of the automatic
watchdogs is the system in the
stately Greco-Roman Federal Re­
serve building on Constitution ave­
nue. Its electrical controls make a
written record of everything that
goes on, with a special feature
known as the “operator's delinquent
system.”
If the operator falls asleep or
meets with an accident, red lights
flash all over the building. The de­
vice also tattles on guards who fail
to punch patrol boxes on time.
Note—All the guards and elevator
operators in the Federal Reserve
Ixjilding are college students. They
are the handsomest crew in Wash­
ington.
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Political Chaff.
Latest aspirant to enter the con­
gressional arena is squat Louis B.
Ward, editor of Father Coughlin's
Social Justice. This is Ward's sec­
ond try. In 1936 he ran for a
Democratic senatorial nomination
without success.
When pretty Janelle Johnson, five-
year-old daughter of Rep. Jed John­
son of Oklahoma, was told that little
brother Jed Jr. had sat on the Pres­
ident’s knee, she shrugged her
shoulders and replied airily. "Hmm,
that’s nothing. I kissed him.”
Washington. D. C.
Rl'BBEK. TIN 'HOKUM'
It would be wurth a good many
billions, not to mention a great re­
employment. strengthening of our
defense and reduction of our danger,
to debunk lhe hokum about our be­
ing so dependent on the British and
Dutch East Indies for rubber and
tin.
That bunk plus gross exaggeration
of our tiny commercial stake in
China, projects the sphere of our
naval strength far west of any line
of defensive necessity in the Pa­
cific. On every occasion we build
Japanese enmity. That, in turn, re­
quires even greater naval strength
in the Pabific. We maintain the
whole fleet equipped for this great
distance, which is a far greater ra­
dius of action than Western hemi­
sphere defense requires.
We are truly told that we have not
nearly the naval strength we need
for that defense. Yet. here we are
frittering away much of that strength
The life story of Wendell L. Willkie, presidential nominee of the Republican party. Is told In the above
chiefly on this rubber and tin argu-
series of photos. In the top row. (left) Willkie shown as he appeared at the age of six months, (center) at
ment
Every time somebody mentions the age of 11 and right as he appeared In 1913. Bottom row. (left) the candidate shown In army uniform
the fact that Bolivia is a prolific during the World war, (right) when he was practicing law in Akron, Ohio, and (center) as he appears today.
potential source of tin. we get a
dose of clever propaganda—that the
ore has to be sent to England to be
smelted—that Bolivian reserves of
ore aren't great enough and that
they require a mixture of other tin
ores.
<1. The brightest lights ever creai*
cd by man ure the 8(10,00(1.000-
candlejxiwer carbon arc March-
lights that nre owned by the Unit­
ed Stules army.
Their brains,
when directed vertically into the
night sky, can be seen for ii dis­
tance of two hundred miles.
<1. There arc no such things us a
double joint in u human being, a
revolver silencer outside of fiction
or a blood test through which it is
possible to determine whether an
unknown parent of a child is of th«
white or Negro race.
CScverul Americans pay a larg­
er federal income tux thnn ia col­
lected from nil persons in uny
one of nbout 12 states.
<1 Scientists have found single
plants of crested wheatgrass the
totnl length of whose roots was 319
miles.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY
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We have no tin smelters. But why
haven't we? Because a British car­
tel controls tin. It doesn’t want us
to smelt tin or buy in Bolivia. That
isn't good enough now. There is no
mystery about the tin smelter. To
build the necessary smelters and
use Bolivian tin at once fits with ev­
ery sound American policy, and not
to do so collides with all. It em­
ploys American rather than British
labor. It builds up Western hemi­
sphere trade and ties us closer to
South America. It strengthens our
defense and reduces our danger and
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dependence on distant sources. Why
isn't such a move number one in our
new national defense effort?
I can't say on the basis of known
facts and recent surveys that Boli­
vian tin would be enough. But nei­
ther has it been demonstrated by
any such m-.ans that it wouldn't be
enough. Certainly, nobody has tak­
en any steps to make it enough. I
am told by metallurgists that they
can easily lick the few bugs in the
use of Bolivian tin.
There is a very wide field for the
A field artillery regiment of the conquering Nasi army parades through Paris following the capitulation
conservation of tin. It is largely
used for attractiveness where black of the French forces. In the background Is seen the famous Arc de Trlomphe, landmark of the caplurrd
sheets would serve as well. There city on which are inscribed the military triumphs of the French armies under the Emperor Napoleon. Once
is a vast field for substitutes—par­ before—in 1S71—a conquering German army occupied Paris, following the Franco-Prussian war.
ticularly glass. Finally, tin can be
reclaimed after original use. We
throw it on the garbage dump. Any
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truly alert defense policy would act
immediately here.
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The case of rubber is similar. It
may be true—although it seems in­
credible—that we can’t now rely on
getting rubber from its native home
in South America, but it is no longer
true that we have to go half way
round the world to get it We have
no less than six all-American rub­
ber substitutes. Two of them are far
better than rubber.
Yes. they cost more, but if we
relied on them entirely and so went
into mass production, they would
cost very little more—maybe not as
much—as the process is perfected in
use. As matters stand at this mo­
ment. due to their longer life and
better quality, the true cost would be
no more. If you consider this great
new field for employment of Ameri­
can labor to replace Asiatic coolie
labor, our economic advantage
would be much greater. If to that |
advantage we add, as in the case of
tin, the avoided cost and danger of
maintaining an American naval
threat in Asia then all considerations
of both economics and defense sim-1
ply shriek for immediate action 1
here. What is a council of national
defense for anyway?
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Temptations.
Now that the course and leader-
ship of the Republican party is set-
tied, there are only two major un­
certainties to fertilize with worry
more gray hairs—the war in its re-
lation to us and the November elec­
tions.
Superficially there is a temptation
to write a third—the convention
course and leadership of the Demo­
cratic party. But, we know that
there is no uncertainty. Mr. Roose­
velt will be nominated by acclama­
tion. He will write his own plat­
form.
There is no more reason for a
Democratic convention than there
would be of a meeting of the Reichs­
tag to decide whether Mr. Hitler
shall continue.
In the proposal for a western
hemisphere cartel, we see a colos­
sal attempt to imitate Hitler. It is
assumed that if he is victorious, all
European industries will be operat­
ed as one. their products pooled and
bartered to Latin America at a
sweated price so low we can’t com­
pete. Therefore, we shall buy all
the products of Latin America. Our
high cost industrial products arc also
to be subsidized and pooled for sale
south to under-price low-cost Euro­
pean industrial production—at a loss
to our whole people of perhaps a bil­
lion a year.
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people Broken down health Lot tv«« f«»r
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Dinins Koons
Coffre Shop
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BARBER COLLEGE
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Parent's Love
How many hopes und fears, how
many ardent wishes and anxious
apprehensions are twisted togeth­
er in the threads that connect lhe
parent with the child!
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Alone in the Storm
Whilst you arc prosperous,
can number many friends;
when the storm comes, you ar«
left alone.—Ovid.
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TfxUy1« popularity
of
PiUi. after
many year« of world­
wide use, curtly must
be accepted as evidence
of eaKr/aciery use.
And favorable public
IMPL
opinion supports that
of
the able phyeiriaae
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who teat the value of
Duan's under reacting
laboratory conditions.
These physicians, too, approve every word
•f edveftiaing you read, the objective of
which is only to recommend lioan't Pill9
** a good diuretic treatment for disorder
of the kidney function and for relief of
the pain and worry it causes.
If more people were aware of bow the
kidneys must constantly remove waste
that canno? stay in the blood without in­
jury to health, there would be better am
aerstgnding of why the whole body suffers
when kidneys lag, and diuretic medica­
tion would be more often employed.
Burning^ scanty or too frequent urina­
tion sometimes warn of disturbed kidney
function. You may suffer nagging back­
ache. persistent heads« hr, at taels of dir­
tiness, getting up nights swelling, puffi­
ness under lhe eyes—feel weak, nervous,
•11 played out.
Lse Doan'/ PiUf. It la better tn rely on
• medicine that has won world wide ac­
claim than on something less favorably
known. A th your neighbor I
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Toddlers at a British nursery school who learned to play while
wearing their grotesque gas masks have become so accustomed to them
, that they no longer want to take them off for greater freedom under
exertion. This fact may save their lives some day. The tots are proud of
their ability to don the masks In a jiffy.
Sen. Charles L. McNary of Ore­
gon, Wendell L. Wlllkie's running
mate on the Republican ticket. The
candidate for the vice presidency
has been a senate leader for a num­
ber of years and a strong advocate
of farm relief. He la said to have
been Willkie’s own choice for second
place and is expected to be a strong
running mate.
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“Doing nicely, thank you!“ is probably what Tootsie, eight-year-old
Spitz, would say if she could, concerning these six wild rabbits she found
in the back yard of her mistress, Mrs. Valeria Lewis of Washington, I). C.
Letting her maternal Instinct have full sway, Tootsie took charge of the
foundlings, washed them and fed them.
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Perfecting knowledge of the latest
methods of aerial fighting, Lieut. M,
W. Brush is shown sighting a new
type of heavy aerial machine gun
at Floyd Bennett field, N. Y„ while
a fellow reservist looks on.
• There was a time in America
when there were no get prices.
Each merchant charged what
he thought “the traffic would
bear.” Advertising came to
the rescue of the consumer.
It led the way to the estab­
lished prices you pay when
you buy anything today.