SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, October 11, 1940
Submarin«
G eneral
HUGH S.
JOHNSON
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ON THE BATTLEFRONT
Washington, D. C.
REPS:
Chunky Representative
George Bender of Ohio doesn't know
whether to be sore or to laugh.
As G. O. P. chairman of Cuyahoga
countv. which includes Cleveland, he
received a number of requests for
the much-publicized "Willkie kits,"
a compact got up by the Willkie
clubs containing material to organ­
ize one of these clubs. Bender wrote
to the national committee headquar­
ters in Chicago, directed by Execu­
tive Director John Hamilton, for a
supply.
Much to Bender's surprise he was
advised that if he sent a check he
would receive the 100 kits he want­
ed. Bender sent the check and a
few days later a large box arrived
—containing 100 kites, huge contrap­
tions that sail through the air with
the greatest of ease and with the
names of Willkie and McNary so
placed as to be easily seen from the
ground.
Note—The Willkie kit contains a
folder about the nominee, a pledge,
a long sheet for signatures of those
desiring to form a club, and pieces
of peppy campaign literature.
DEMS: To those who followed
the last turbulent night of the Dem­
ocratic convention. Francis W.
Durbin will be remembered as the
rollicking speaker who nominated
Bascom Timmons, veteran Wash­
ington newsman, for vice president.
A leading Lima. Ohio, lawyer, Dur­
bin is a candidate for congress.
After Senator Charles McNary’s
acceptance speech. Durbin wrote
him.
"Congratulations on your
speech. It was the best New Deal
speech I've heard in a long time.
You are a grand fellow and I'm
sorry to see you in such bad com­
pany."
A few days ago Durbin received
the following telegram from Mc­
Nary: "Thanks for your kind let­
ter. When you come to Washington
shall be delighted to see you.”
DUTCH EAST INDIES
One reason President Roosevelt
and his naval advisers are not
greatly perturbed about Japan's
signing a formal alliance with Hit-
ler and Mussolini is a confidential
survey U. S. naval experts have
made of the Japanese navy.
This reveals that Japanese war­
ships have on hand only enough oil
for about 2M months of warfare.
Japan gets its oil chiefly from
California and the Dutch East In­
dies. having almost no supplies of
its own. That, of course, is one
reason she covets the Dutch East
Indies.
However, naval surveys
also show that the capture of these
islands will not be as easy as might
be expected.
For the Dutch islands of Java
and Sumatra have been preparing
for the threat of Japanese invasion
for two years. About 20 Dutch sub­
marines are stationed in these wa­
ters, plus about 300 bombing planes,
many of them purchased in the
United States. Finally, the islands
are well fortified with carefully con­
cealed big guns.
Result is that military experts be­
lieve the Dutch could hold out
against Japanese naval invaders for
about four months. And during this
time, Japan's oil supply, if embar­
goed by the United States, might
become exhausted.
This may be one reason why the
Japanese have made haste slowly
in their contemplated plans for in­
vasion of the Dutch East Indies.
They did not want to move until
they were sure first that Britain was
in a desperate position in its fight
with Hitler: and second, that the
United States was worried about
Europe and did not want to get its
fleet preoccupied in the Pacific.
ARMY SPECULATORS
The army has changed its method
of acquiring land for new govern­
ment plants. Hereafter the nego­
tiations will be carried on in a "gold­
fish bowl.”
Real estate speculators long have
been a sore spot in army plans for
plant and airport sites by snapping
up options and kiting the price of
desired property.
So hard-hitting Assistant War Sec­
retary Rubelt Patterson has insti­
tuted a new procedure whereby the
army, after making the necessary
confidential surveys, will announce
publicly that on a given date rep­
resentatives will appear to buy or
lease a specified amount of land.
Patterson believes that if property
owners know that the government
is in the market, they will not give
options to profiteering speculators.
Note—Tried out in Union Center,
Ind., where 13,000 acres are being
acquired for an ammunition loading
plant to employ 6.000 people, the
new "goldfish bowl” method proved
successful.
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AIRPLANES FOR WHISKY
If you speak about "all aid to
Britain short of war,” don't over-
look the American consumption of
Scotch whisky. It is an actual fact
that U. 8. imports of whisky from
Britain during the first nine months
of the war exceeded the U. 8. ex­
ports of military aircraft to Britain.
Here are the figures: We sold
England 123,231,000 worth of planes.
England sold us 126,209,000 worth of
whisky. In fact, whisky is the larg­
est single item of our imports from
Great Britain.
VNV
WAR PROFITEERING
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
Very timely is Leon Henderson's
warning to producers of raw materi-
, als not to profiteer prices upward.
Timely, too. is the Brooking's insti­
tution's report on the same subject
One of the worst evils is price in­
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
flation. In 1914 to 1918 it increased
(Consolidated Feature»—WNU Servie«.)
average American prices to 213 per
cent of their pre-war level. The ef­ XTEW YORK.—One of the greatest
’ philippics of William Pitt was
fect in human suffering is devastat­
ing. and it does not cease with the his famous denunciation of that foul
word, "democracy," which had
guns or for many years
come into the
For an example of only one of its Merwin K. Hart English lan-
lesser evils, compared with purchas­
guage “from
ing power of 1913 dollars, the stag­ Joina in Attache the sewers of
gering costs of the war to us were On ‘Democracy*
Paris." To
more than doubled by reason of that
■ him its only associations were
inflation alone. That means that the
This de-
homicide and madness.
burden of that mountainous debt on
partment has noted recently 11 com­
all our people was also doubled. A
parable attacks on this subversive
greater evil is that starting at the
word from similarly respectable and
high peak of war prices, there is first
authoritative sources. The latest is
an abrupt and ruinous and then a
the address by Merwin K. Hart, at
gradual decline in values, prices and
the Union League club in which Mr.
wages back to about the pre-war lev­
Hart “suspected” that the word was
el. After the Napoleonic, Civil and
eased into the country, subversively,
World wars that process, in each
by the Communist Internationale m
case, took 14 years.
The $6.000,000 U.
submarine Tuna, being launched at the
The Itcv. Allen I anibert, 34, who.
1935.
Mare Island navy yard, at Vallejo, Calif. The Tuna, authorised in lf*3t, disapproving of conscription, told
Of course, any such process is
This thesis, which may devel­
was begun in July, 1939, under an appropriation voted that year. It will his congregation at Sinking Valley,
simply a slow destruction of half of
op into something of an Amer­
be commissioned early next year. The christening was performed by Pa., that hr would refuse to reglstrr
all values in a nation. Our post-war
ican "kulturkampf,** Is based on
the wife of Rear Admiral Wilheln: Lee Friedcll.
gyrations from flash-booms to deep
for the draft.
the contention that the founding
and continued depression were all
fathers set up not a democracy,
by-products of this massive readjust­
but a republic, and that the
ment. It profoundly changed and
word, “democracy," is Insepa­
gravely threatened both our econom­
rable from Dubious Marxist as­
ic and political systems. Indeed, the
sociations. Mr. Hart also insists
old threat is not yet removed as a
that the Marxists have kidnaped
new and similar menace appears.
the word "liberal,” which was
So much for the brief mention of a
all right until It got Into bad
few of the terrible hang-over effects
company.
of war-time price inflation. The jit­
Mr. Hart is president of the New
terbug joyride of the actual price
debauch, while it is going on. makes York State Economic council. He
a feverish appearance of prosperity has been for many years a vigorous
—but it is prosperity for precious and hard-hitting assailant of radical­
few’. Some wages go up with prices ism in any form. He shells the
and some go up first, but most of "subversionists” from his estate on
them lag grievously. All people de­ Pippin hill near Utica. His targets
pendent on fixed revenues—such as have been labor unions, child labor
salaries, pensions, interest on sav­ legislation, social insurance, social­
ings and almost all wages—are the ized medicine, compulsory health
real sufferers.
insurance and extravagant expendi­
The most piteous of these cases tures for public education.
are the families of soldiers at the
Graduated from Harvard in
front. All these peopli and they
19M, Mr. Hart has made his
are by far the majority of us—find
business career In Insurance,
their cost of existence doubled or
law and manufacturing.
He
multiplied while their means to get
was gassed in the war, is a li­
it remains the same. It all adds up
censed aviator and a patron of
This soundphoto shows (left to right) Gen. Callxto Cartas of Honduras,
< . It Iturmwood, pilot to Grn. Chi­
to a serious nationwide cut in wages,
aviation. He urges national dis­
Gen.
Luis
Castaneda
of
Columbia,
and
Gen.
Felipe
Rivera
of
Bolivia
ang
Kai-shek, says the U. H. rio
salaries and income. This is dis­
cipline. In his Union League ad­
examining one of the 50-callber machine guns on a "flying fortress" of the lick Japan In 90 days. Burmwood
tressing and hideously unfair and it
dress he warned us that we aro
(J. S. army at Langley Field, Va. The generals are making a lour of will return to China after visiting
produces an even more dangerous
becoming too soft to stand up
United Stales defenses.
his mother In Chic ago.
result for a warring nation. It de­
against the "tougher products
stroys morale both at home and
that result from a fascial educa­
among the soldiers at the front Na­
tion.**
poleon said that in war the ratio of «
the value of moral strength "is to
the physical as 3 to 1."
ERIC COATES was the first
itish composer to treat mod­
In most great W’ars this terrible
force has been either little heeded em syncopation seriously, and write
or inadequately handled. In the compositions in the quickened beat
Many bricks
World war. our war industries board
was presented with the process of Sir Coatta of were thrown
rising prices too late to prevent it, Quickened Beat in his direc­
tion by
but it did halt it in its tracks and Gete Lati Toot
classical
later turned the trend downward.
That experience proved that war in­ freres, but now he gets the
flation can be prevented and sug­ word—or the last toot. They gear
their whirling war machines to his
gested the only way to do it
The Brooking's report advanced "hot licks" tempo, broadcast to the
It is
some methods and Leon Henderson forges and workbenches.
described others. The shortcomings speed-up music and workers and
of both parcels of suggestions is first, machines catch the pace. A favorite
that they are theoretical, experi­ piece is his recent "Calling All
mental and uncertain, and, next Workers'* in which he says he
that they are aimed at only the sought to capture the spirit of the
prices of certain commodity groups, "wonderful British people in their
or piecemeal price regulation. It war effort.”
can't be done that way.
It Is a tribute to the surpris­
ing adaptability of the British
There is only one way to do this
at a time when their traditional
job. That is, by fiat, to put a ceiling
work-beat was supposed to be
over the whole price structure and
something like "Auld Lang
thereafter to permit increases in
Syne.” Significantly, war and
particular cases only on a showing
rumors of war stir lively music
of necessity. That’s what our World
and frantic dancing, as attested
war experience proved.
by the historic dance of the
• • •
Carmagnole which has been the
BLUFF AND APPEASEMENT
forerunner of European wars
This comment column business,
and revolutions, the jazs out­
when it touches foreign affairs, is
break before our entry into the
getting to be pretty tough. I believe
World war, and the present
in total defense. I didn't recently
swing erase. At any rate. Sir
begin to believe in that. I have been
Eric is in tune with the times
preaching it since the day this col­
and by all accounts Old England
umn started in predictions, as ac­
J. Robert Fish, well-known inventor of Springfield, Mass., Is shown at
Prlvate Roy ltru< li of "Company
is, too, as her war production
curate as any, of just why we were
his New York hotel with drawings of his "Diatonic torpedo.** The sketches G”, New York, takes the role of a
hits a machine-gun tempo to the
going to need it and long before the
show that when used as a mine the torpedo sinks to the bottom and stands typical conscrlptee. Pack Includes
beat of a swing baton.
government bestirred itself to imple­
upright, at an angle, depending upon currents. Friendly vessels may pass mrssklt, helmet, gas mask, first aid,
ment its constantly growing aggres- ' Sir Eric was a romanticist and
over the mine field safely by using a secret timber.
raincoat, bayonet and shovel.
give altitude to make its fighting classicist, which makes his change
words seem more tjian bluff, No­ of pace all the more interesting.
body can justly call the five-year For many years, he was the prin­
urging of this column "appease- cipal viola in the Queen's Hall or­
chestra. He gradually gained emi­
ment.”
The difference between that urg- nence by his numerous orchestral
ing and what is going on today is works and songs and became a Fel­
that what I advocated was arma­ low of the Royal Academy of Music
ment to keep us out of war. There in 1922. One of his best-known songs
is a good deal of evidence—and it is “I Pitch My Lonely Caravan at
is growing—that strong influences in Night”—a mood ironically at vari­
this country and perhaps even the ance with London's night-time mus­
government itself—regard this be­ ings just now. He is the son of a
lated and. therefore, unplanned and back country surgeon. His avoca­
somewhat panicky armament con­ tion is photography which passion
ference as preparation for partici- he indulges even when the bombs
are falling.
pation in war.
• • •
We are not ready for war or even
N 1905 Joseph A. Rosen arrived
for adequate defense, I have felt.
at Michigan State agricultural
for this reason, and many others, college from Russia with fifty cents
that we should not bluff ourselves so and a few grains of rye. The fifty
far out on a limb of premature ag­ cents blossomed into the education
gression that we could not avoid go­ of Dr. Rosen and the handful of rye
ing further, and perhaps over the spread over 1,500,000 acres in Can­
brink without seeming either silly or ada and the United States, the high­
cowardly. But there has been no est yielding rye in the world known
halt or delay in the march in that as "Rosen rye.’’ Today Dr. Rosen,
direction.
In the meantime, the as head of the European Refugee
The United States’ 35-year rule over the finances of the Dominican
Vice President Garner takes the
shrewdest, best financed, open and colony in the Dominican Republic,
Republic was ended by a treaty signed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull gavel from Hen. Key Pittman, as
shameless propaganda to go further reports things are going swim­
and Oen. Rafael L. Trujillo, political chief of the West Indian state. he resumed his duties as presiding
in that direction has increased in mingly in this new home base for
The treaty, negotiated by Hugh Wilson, former ambassador to Oermany, officer In the senate, after a threo-
both volume and tempo.
the victims of aggression abroad.
Is expected to improve Latin-American relations
month absence.
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Inventor and His "Diatonic Torpedo’
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