Friday, Dec. 6, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 2 G eneral Vultee Plant Resumes Warplane Output Undersecretary HUGH S. JOHNSON Hy IIUTII WYETH SPEARS fOBODY knows better than I 1 how many willing helpers good old Sunlit has. Hundreds of you have written me thut you huve made gifts from directions in this column und in SEWING Hooka I, 2. 3, 4, nnd 5. Book fl is now ready and un it goes into the rnuil I wunt you nil to know that I have a very real feeling of friendship for you who find joy in making things with Jaur: J MM Faroa ROBOT PLANE SCORES HITS WASHINGTON—No military se­ cret is more closely guarded than a sensational new robot airplane now­ being tried out secretly by the navy ! in both Hawaii and Langley field. ! Va Four-Poster Doll Bed For Santa to Bring N «M row Washington. D. C. WAR EFFORT It is being said with increasing rep- , etition and insistence that a democ- 1 racy can't fight a dictatorship with- i out creating a dictatorship in itself. ' It is not true but, like so much other j Navy experts have been working sloganeering, things constantly re- • for more than 10 years to develop a peated have a way of getting them­ reliable “pilotless" plane operated selves accepted even without much by radio control. Observers who debate, especially if they have some have witnessed some of the latest truth or an appearance of truth. It is true that complete involve­ tests, pronounce the device as near miraculous. A robot bomber takes ment in major war requires in­ off, discharges its bombs over a dis­ creased centralized power in gov­ tant target, returns to base and ernment and temporary surrender lands without being touched by a of some civil right, but what is thus necessary falls far short of a do­ human hand. mestic dictatorship. The distance of the target is cal­ What this country did in industrial culated in advance, and when the mobilization for our last war was robot reaches it a device automat­ so effective that most warring na­ Nat- ically releases the bombs tions have copied the general plan urally the aiming is largely a mat- with their own variations--especial- ter of chance, but in the tests a num- ly, Germany. Woodrow Wilson got ber of direct hits were scored, The about what he asked for, but the cruising radius of the robots is lim­ statutory dictatorial powers he used ited only by fuei supply and the were very slender. radio frequency range. As far as industry was concerned, While most effective at short dis- the whole structure was built on two tances, the robot can be used for powers—one was the power to com­ Returning to work after a 12-day strike al the Vultee Aircraft plant, long-range bombing in conjunction mandeer factories, the other was the at Downey, Calif., workers are shown engaged in production of an army with piloted planes or by a so-called prescribed "priority lists"—state­ trainer. The workers won raises and signed a lil-month no-strike clause-. system of "relay control.” that is. ments of government needs for the Before getting back to the plant each cmpl 0 c was given as careful an by radio stations along the line of products of industry which the ad­ examination and re-check as he was subjected to before he was hired. flight ministration decided must be filled So closely is the invention guarded before any other orders. Comman­ that navy officers have been warned deering differed very little from the that any talk about it will be con­ peacetime power of eminent domain sidered a violation of the Espionage —if the government needs a proper­ act, and make them subject to court ty and the owner is unwilling to martial and dismissal. sell, the administration takes it over and the courts determine what is “just compensation” to be paid to DEFENSE 'INFLUENCE* the owner. There was a hidden brickbat in It was not the use of these pow- that sharp warning issued by Assist­ | ers. but their existence and the ant War Secretary Robert Patterson , threat of them that enabled the gov- that no one has an "inside track” 1 ernment to get what it wanted. In in the awarding of army defense almost all cases, a mere request with contracts. no threat or use of power was all What the mild-mannered former that w-as needed. In time of war. V. S. Circuit court judge didn't say in this country nearly all of busi- was that he is planning to insert a ness is eager to do its part. little clause in every army contract But as in all such community ef­ requiring contractors to swear they forts, there is always a little "chisel­ paid no commissions or any other ing fringe” of slackers who try to fees to obtain the order. Penalty for take advantage of the burdens borne doing so is cancellation of the con­ by their more unwilling competition. tract. Both td make the combined effort ef­ Under the law Patterson is legally fective and to protect the patriotic responsible for the entire industrial from the greedy, it is advisable mobilization program and passes on sometimes to get tough with this Torrential rains caused much havoc and heavy damage throughout every large army contract The gentry and it is necessary to be boasts of certain lobbyists and high- able to do so. Texas, where many concrete roads and bridges were destroyed. After pressure promoters that they can get Except for the railroads and a sitting in a tree for 12 hours awaiting rescue, Jerry Zaskoea. of Sealey, army orders through “inside influ­ telegraph company, which rested on Texas, was rescued by searchers who had been combing the flooded dis­ ence" are. therefore, a direct reflec­ a different basis, outright comman­ trict. The picture shows Jerry being rescued from a tree. tion on him. He doesn't like it one deering was used only once. That bit and has no intention of putting statement once before made in this up with it column has been challenged. It is Some of the "influence” operators correct The case was that of the have even told officials of cities they Smith and Wesson Manufacturing could deliver defense projects which company for refusal to accept an had already been located elsewhere award of the national war labor by the war department for strategic board. reasons There was no press censorship ex­ cept the willingness of the entire press voluntarily to comply with DUTCH PRINCESS Inside story of the expected Whitt suggestions of the administration House visit of Crown Princess Juli­ There was a tight control of exports, ana of The Netherlands is that she as there is now. Food supply was and Mrs Roosevelt have kept up a pretty thoroughly regulated by a correspondence ever since the prin­ control of profits rather than of cess arrived in Canada six months prices and of a licensing system ago with her two baby daughters. governing distribution. The visit to Washington might That was as near as this country have come sooner, but the princess came to dictatorship in the greatest put it off because she didn't relish military and industrial effort ever a round of extravagant entertain­ made up to that time. It is as near ment She wants to avoid being as is necessary now. • • • dined and wined while her own peo­ ple. now under German domination, AID TO BRITAIN are living on rationed food. William Allen White, who is chair The princess, with her two chil­ man of the Committee to Aid Brit­ dren. has been living in a rented ain, thinks congress should pass house in Ottawa. Her busband. some kind of a resolution announc­ Prince Bernhard, is in London as ing which side we are on in the aide-de-camp to Queen Wilhelmina, I present world conflict—not a dec­ and her brother is reported to be in laration of war. a German concentration camp. There isn’t much doubt which side In Ottawa, the princess has nbt we are on in our hearts. Actions entertained, has amused herself by speak louder than words. By our walking and playing tennis. She will actions, as the President has said, be a White House guest for two days, we are sending Britain all the aid beginning December 18. we can just now—unless we decide to finance her war. Short of a dec­ • • • laration of war sjch a declaration of CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS sympathy seems unnecessary and, The man responsible for the light at first glance, not very important. John E. Lawton, 21-year-old Everett, Mass., plumber’s helper, shak­ sentence given the eight divinity col-I On the other hand, many people ing hands with Maj. Gen. James K. Woodruff, at the armory in Boston, lege students who refused to register for the draft was not the New York in this country fear the direction in after winning the signal honor of being the first man in the U. 8. to be court, but Attorney General Robert which we are headed as a path lead­ accepted for the army under the selective service program of IMO. He ing straight to war. They are for passed the stern physical examination with flying colors. Jackson. aid to Britain—with two important The young men, who were stu­ qualifications. First that we do not dents of Union Theological seminary, weaken our own defensive prepara­ were about to receive a three-year tions, second, that we do not do sentence. But as a result of Jack­ such things as will make war inev­ son’s intervention, they got a year itable. and a day. In this state of affairs and un- Jackson polled the judges in ad­ certainty about public opinion and vance of the decision and found they in this fog of misinformation or no were all in favor of a long, stiff ( information about just what is in­ sentence. Partly for humanitarian | volved in this question, I doubt if reasons, and partly because he Mr. White’s idea about a congres­ didn't want the boys to become mar­ sional resolution is as unimportant tyrs who would arouse wide popular as it seems. There is yet time and objection to the law, Jackson in­ there is not yet any such hysteria structed U. S. Attorney Cahill to ask as would prevent a full and fairly for a short sentence. free debate. The students now may get out in Congress is closer to the senti­ even less than a year. The short ment of this country than any sam­ sentence makes them eligible for pling poll or any other branch of White House reprieve, whereas with government can possibly be. If our a longer sentence, the President present course of conduct and the would not have felt free to intervene. purposes of Mr. White's people are, • • • in fact, leading unnecessarily toward MERRY-GO-ROUND war, the debate on such a resolu­ Mrs. Roosevelt isn't the only White tion would reveal both that fact and House devotee of square dancing. the popular judgment on it. Another enthusiast is handsome For all these reasons, while this young Jimmy Rowe, White House column doesn't agree with what it Somewhere in Africa . . . These British soldiers are shown occupying secretary, who belongs to a club thinks Mr. White’s committee stands staging square dances once a week. for, it does agree with his recent the ruined Italian fort which was captured by the western forces of Jimmy’s favorite is the "cowboy suggestion that congress be con­ Great Britain while fighting Mussolini's army in Africa. A fierce shelling reduced the fort to so much rubble. This official photograph was ap­ stomp.” sulted in the way he describes. proved by the British censors. Rescue Texas Flood \ ioti in Plumber's Helper Nation’s First Draftee Desert Fort Now in British Hands Wayne Chatfield Taylor, of Chi- I cage. buckles ¿own to work In Wash­ ington after being sworn in an under­ secretary of commerce, succeeding Edward Noble. Injured in Riot your hands. Your letters keep me posted ubout the things you wunt to know. Hcfurbirthing old furni­ ture, curtuinlng difficult windows, new slip covers, rug nnd putch work designs, lump shades, dress­ ing tublcs, smocking, gift und ba­ zaar novelties—you hnve asked for these und they are in the new Book 6. 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