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12 DIE IN SOUTH
Floodwaters Menace South
eastern Alabama—Fam
ilies Flee Homes.
BT the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 6.—
Flood water menaced Southeastern
Alabama today while the South
counted 12 killed by week-end wind
and rain storms.
Yesterday's rainfall of 2 to 10
inches over the Central Southern tier
of Alabama counties sent the Conecuh,
Pea and Choctawatchee rivers racing
past flood stages and drove dozens of
families from low-lying homes.
Weather Bureau observers said they
were unable to estimate the crests of
the three relatively small streams, but
the inundation of hundreds of acres
of farm land was feared while the rain
load was being carried through South
eastern Alabama and Northwestern
Florida to the Gulf.
frecauuons were taicen in tne
Brew-ton, Geneva and Elba districts.
A precipitation of to 4 inches
was the rule from Eastern Texas to
the Carolinas yesterday, while winds
of near tornadic force centered their
attack on Alabama, killing 6. injuring
29, and destroying thousands of dol
lars worth of buildings.
A Sunday squall on the fringes of
yesterday’s disturbance caused the
first fatalities when six were drowned
after two boats overturned in a lake
near San Antonio, Tex.
Mississippi and Louisiana suffered
scattered property losses in high winds
which injured a dozen or more per
sons.
Today's forecast called for less wind
and falling temperatures under clearer
skies, to be followed by an early re
turn to more normal Spring weather.
Outside of Alabama, New Orleans
reported the heaviest damage, charg
ing to the Sunday blow some $25,000
loss in felled trees and battered build
ings. Mississippi’s Madison and Simp
son Counties reported dozens of farm
buildings flattened.
Quick Rise at City Hall.
POMONA, Calif., April 6 (TP).—
Charles Short, hired a year ago to care
for the City Hall lawn, will be Po
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count supports tabulations last night
of 3,889 votes for Short and 3,157 for
Mayor Urban R. Ziegler.
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Upper: The air still hazy with fumes and smoke. Madrid citizens rush to investigate dam
age after a Nationalist shell strikes in the street during bombardment of the city.
Lower: The Cancer Institute at Madrid in ruins after prolonged bombardment.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Baruch Deplores “Marc/i to War”
Lessons of Past Un
heeded, Says For
mer Board Head.
Bernard M. Baruch was chair
man of the War Industries Board
in the World War. Upon him
Woodrow Wilson placed the respon
sibility of supervising the mobiliza
tion of materials for the American
and the Allied armies and the civil
ian population. At Versailles, Mr.
Baruch was an economic advisor to
the American Peace Commission.
BY BERNARD M. BARUCH.
Written for the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 6—On this
twentieth anniversary of America's
entrance into the war I would like to
believe the world had learned the fu
tlity of conflict.
I would like to believe that aggres
sion and nationalist hatreds exist only
in the history books, that nations
could settle their disputes peacefully.
I would like to believe that the world
practiced the high idealism of Wood
row Wilson, that his hope had become
a reality. I would like to blieeve
every nation hated war equally.
But we learned little, if anything,
from the war. The nations of the
world are marching again down the
same old road that led to 1914.
Instead of the disarmament en
visioned by the treaty of Versailles,
the world is spending astronomical
sums for new weapons of destruction.
Instead of the security promised in
the treaty, the feeling of insecurity
surpasses even the early Summer of
1914. The treaty itself has been nulli
fied.
Spain Miniature Example.
It is horrifying to consider the con
sequences of the war for which the
BERNARD M. BARUCH.
world Is now preparing. You may be
sure the civilian population will not
be spared. The devastation in Spain
is but a miniature example.
Of what is this civilization of which
we speak so much and so proudly? It
is not pleasing to write of such mad
ness, but it is no avail to present false
portrayals.
There is more to the disheartening
situation than the billions being spent
for defenses and rearmaments—bil
lions which, if used in the ways of
peace, would go far toward abolishing
slums and lessening poverty.
Economic Gibraltars and Verduns
have been erected and these barriers
to trade have increased the interna
tional ill-will. Their elimination
alone would be a great contribution to
peace. This Government has offered to
the world a program for their elim
“People Should De
mand Statesmen Act
to Prevent Horror.”
ination, to end the spread of economic
nationalism. Considerable benefit has
resulted, but it has been dicult to ob
tain the following of nations barricad
ed behind quotas and trade restric
tions.
Who and what is to blame for this
despairing state? Some believe the
treaty of Versailles was responsible for
Hitler, that it was unjust to impose !
upon Germany the reparations and the j
admission of guilt. The Americans j
strongly opposed these clauses at Ver- i
sailles, but the vengeance engendered
by French fears and the spirit of Eng
land's “khaki" campaign prevailed.
The German army, some believe, is
the dominating danger to the peace
of Europe and of the world, and the
narrow, selfish view at Versailles has
reaped its reward of fear.
Others may believe the imperialism
of Japan and the Red and Fascist
dictatorships are more dangerous than
the Nazi.
But this is not the day to fix the
blame. It is, instead, the day to call
upon the peoples of all countries to
pay no heed to warlike rulers. It is
time to practice the civilization we
' preach. I will not believe democracy
has failed. I will not believe the peo
ples themselves do not want and pray
for peace, that they look forward to
naught but war.
But their voices must be strong.
They of old, fearing the marauder,
pleadingly asked: “Watchman, what
of the night?”
The peoples of today, having passed
through the night of barbarism, should
not plead, but should demand:
“Statesmen, what of the day?”
Spain
(Continued From First Page.)_
fully effective has not been put into
effect—and its success depends on
Italy's collaboration.
The insurgent successes in Northern
Spain brought a “final ultimatum”
from insurgent Gen. Emilio Mola to
the Basque defenders of the coastal
city of Bilbao. He warned them to
“surrender or suffer literal destruc
tion of the province” (the province of
Vizcaya.)
Mola's men were within sight of
one objective, the strategic town of
Durango. Their commanders said in
habitants of that town and of Bilbao
were fleeing.
The Madrid-Valencia administra
tion organized new militia bodies to
reinforce troops striving to break the
semi-circle of insurgent lines near
Madrid. Men drilled in mo6t of the
important government-held communi
ties throughout Spain.
Boat Reported Sunk.
A Panamanian mineral boat, the
Andra, said to have been chartered
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Bay of Biscay.
Insurgent-held Algeciras, near
Gibraltar, was subjected to a gov
ernment air bombing.
On the Cordoba front, in the south,
the government reported new suc
cesses pointed toward the Penarroya
coal fields.
The government at Valencia an
nounced the arrest of four young
nephews by marriage of Gen. Fran
cisco Franco. The insurgent com
mander, for espionage. The govern
ment also reported a German “reign
of terror” in the Cana..' Islands, to
which it had relegated Franco prior
to the start of his July rebellion.
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By the Associated Press.
BORDEAUX, Prance, April 6.—The
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full of memories for thousands of
American veterans whom America's
declaration of war on Germany landed
here 20 years ago.
The largest military camp the world
ever had seen was built for and by
the A. E. P. round the little chapel
outside Bordeaux where Roman legion
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Will Stronger, But Must Be
Mobilized, Anti-War
Leader Says.
“This Congress would vote for war
Just as Congress did 20 years ago
unless the people speak their will
more forcibly than they are speaking
it today.”
This arresting pronouncement fell
gently from the lips of a vivacious,
gray-haired woman who two decades
ago suffered all the vituperation and
ridicule that a war-mad Nation could
muster—Jeannette Rankin of Mon
tana, first woman elected to Congress.
Today, as you talk to Miss Rankin
in her modest and tastefully fur
nished apartment in Georgetown, one
finds her not bitter but wise. Wise
with an experience that has hardened
her ideals into a practical philosophy
and taught her how to make votes for
peace count more than the one she
cast against America’s entrance into
the World War on that stormy April
day in 1917.
In Miss Rankin's lexicon, realism
and pessimism are by no means
synonymous. America, she says, has
gone a long way on the winding road
to peace. But she isn’t carried away
by the peace pledges from pulpits
that once echoed the bugles, or by
the pronouncement sounded in every
political forum, echoed by even the
most cynical of columnists, shouted
impertinently by college sophomores,
murmured by club women or threat
ened by labor.
And that's why Miss Rankin spends
her time these days in the cloak rooms
and lobbies of the Capitol, and like
wise out in the highways and by
ways, rustling the votes that are
needed to turn hazy hopes into
reality.
Will to Peace Stronger.
The will to peace is stronger to
day, she says, than it ever has been,
but it has to be mobilized.
These are her reasons for believ
ing it:
First, she says, governments (our
ovm included) realize that a war will
obliterate them as they stand—oblit
erate the form of government as well
as the leaders who represent it.
Second, there is a real peace nu
cleus in Congress. Watch them ap
plaud a real peace move, she says.
Third, the people have been think
ing. Since the depression they have
figured out what the war cost not
only in terms of the material loss,
but moral loss as well. And that,
she believes, is the important thing.
“War is a habit," she tells you,
“and habit is something you use in
an emergency when you haven’t time
to think. More people are accepting
the peace habit of thought.”
The World War came as a sur
prise. Americans could hardly be
lieve it had actually happened when
they read their newspapers. And to
the very last minute people refused
to accept the possibility that we
would be drawn Into it. Now, says
Miss Rankin, at least we realize that
another war may be upon us. That
foreknowledge, she declares, is an
advantage.
Scene on April 6, 1917.
It's hard to turn back the pages
and picture the scene in the House
of Representatives on April 6. 1917.
Miss Rankin had just returned from
a trip to New Zealand.
When she entered the House it
was to face an ordeal that few would
care to meet. She had been the
first woman to enter that group as
a member. Woman suffrage was a
bitterly contested question. Her
pacifistic predelicitions were known.
The newspaper reports of the scene
that followed left little sympathy for
her conduct. Fear that she might
influence others, she believes, prompt
ed it. Her own story differs. When
she entered, instead of the usual
buzz of voices there was a dead
silence. The galleries were filled.
She could feel every eye on her.
When the second roll call was
reached she rose and spoke one sen
tence: "I want to stand by my coun
try, but I cannot vote for war.” Im
mediately there was a confusion of
voices and her vote “No” could not
be heard. It was reported that she
did not vote, and that the clerk had
to come to her seat to get the vote.
Much was made of the fact that
she wept. But, as she points out,
a whole flood of masculine tears had
preceded hers. Chief Justice Taft’s
wide cheeks had been dampened with
a generous flood when President
Wilson delivered his war massage.
Representative Kitchin wept openly
and unashamed. So did others. But
in the ridicule that folowed her tears
were the only ones that were analyzed
as less than 3.2 patriotic.
There were probably tihree things
that dictated her "No”: A belief in
Pershing Sounds Call to Peace,
Reviewing World War Horrors
World Should Be Rid of Crushing
Armaments That Fear Is Providing,
Says General on Anniversary.
On the twentieth anniversary of
America’s declaration of war
against Germany—the House voted
for the war resolution on April 6,
1917, after the Senate had acted
two days previously—the comman
der in chief of the American Ex
peditionary Forces, still hale and
active at 76, reviews the issues of
that conflict and America’s part in
winning it. Warning against the
consequences of another war, he
sounds a call to "rid the world o1
the crushing armaments that fear
is providing."
BY GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING.
“It is a terrible thing to lead a people
into war,” said President Wilson in
his message to Congress 20 years ago.
But it would have been a cowardly and
dangerous thing not to lead us into
war in defense of those sacred liberties
which were so dearly won by the
founders of the republic. The Presi
dent chose the honorable and neces
sary course. He placed himself and
the country, unready though we were
for war, squarely in opposition to the
continued violation of human and
property rights.
But those with whom he contended
did not believe the latent strength of
uhe country could be effectively or
ganized in time to thwart their selfish
ambition for world supremacy. We
were at the time practically disarmed.
Here it may be pointed out that this
noble example, which some of our
people thought would be followed by
other nations, had made no appeal
whatsoever to the war-maddened war
lords. On the contrary, it had simply
created a condition of which they were
eager to take advantage.
No leader ever labored more patiently
or more conscientiously to keep his
people out of war than did Presi
dent Wilson. He made every possible
plea to humanity and advanced every
possible moral argument in Insisting
upon respect for our rights on the
high seas. They were without avail.
Momentous Decision.
I was at San Antonio, Tex., in com
mand of the Southern Department,
when the momentous decision was
made. No one foresaw that this de
cision would lead to the greatest mili
tary undertaking in our history. About
a month after it was announced, I was
ordered to Washington, and there,
much to my surprise, Mr. Baker. Sec
retary of War, informed me of my
selection as commander in chief of
our expeditionary forces and directed
me to select a staff and go abroad
at once. No army was yet in exist
ence, and WTar Department plans were
still indefinite.
One of my first recommendations
from Prance was that a force of at
least 1,000,000 men be sent over as
the folly of war, nursed by Jane i
Addams’ peace organization; a belief
that her people didn't want it (she
was the only Republican elected from
Montana in the Democratic landslide,
and her support came from those
who thought she was safer for peace
than the followers of the President);
lastly, the ardent persuaders who
tried to change her attitude failed
to tell her what we were really fight
ing for, specifically, and what the
terms of peace would be.
In those days Miss Rankin really
wasn't an active pacifist. She didn't
turn her energies specifically in that
direction until the Kellogg anti-war
pact was signed and she believed
that, for the first time, war had been
made officially and specifically dis
reputable. She believes in that pact.
Not because it has worked, but be
cause it raised a sign post.
We didn't stop Japan from taking
Manchuria, she says, or Italy from
taking Ethiopia, but we haven't rec
ognized either conquest.
| That was one step toward peace—
i or away from war, she says. Then
j we torpedoed the freedom of the seas
in the neutrality law. That was the
, second..
Now, asserts Miss Rankin, we must
change the mjjjtary philosophy which
is based oA carrying activities beyond
our own borders. Abolish the fleet
that is built to fight in foreign
waters; build an Army whose sole
function is defense and not invasion.
“The road to peace isn’t a straight
road. We must make a turn. The
people have the will to peace. When
they ej^at it, governments will find
the way.”
That's Miss Rankin’s dictum “20
years after.”
(Copyrisht, 1937. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, inc.l
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soon as possible, and a few days later
I cabled that our goal should be
3,000,000 men.
The Nation was called upon to ac
complish In the briefest possible time
a task so enormous that, under con
ditions less urgent, years would have
been required for its completion. It
was brought home to the administra
tion and later to the people that the
most extraordinary efforts would be
necessary to make up for past delin
quencies if our participation in the
war were not to be too late.
First came the draft act, somewhat
delayed of enactment, and its applica
tion to millions of men as needed; then
their assembly in hastily built canton
ments, followed by their organization
and, more important still, training in
modern warfare. These preliminaries,
together wtih the procurement of the
vast quantities fo equipment required
and the transportation beyond the
seas of men, equipment and supplies,
constituted an amazing task, the ac
complishment of which called for the
best talent available.
In the active operations in France
our combat forces conducted them
selves in a manner wihch deserves un
stinted praise. They did not fight as '
replacements under foreign banners
or foreign leadership in battle-worn
and well-nigh defeated armies, al
though certain Allied leaders insist
ently demanded it. To have used them
as recruits in the Allied armies, whose
customs and training were entirely
different from our own, would have
been wholly unwise.
It was not the part of common
sense so to imperil the lives and de- (
stroy the morale of our eager young 1
soldiers. Instead of feeding our men
into the weakened Allied armies, it
was plain that an independent Amer
ican Army was needed to win the war.
Therefore, we refused to parcel out i
our troops in the manner that some 5
Allied leaders demanded. Instead, in j
the beginning our troops were sent 1
temporarily to quiet sectors to release
Allied units for active duty. Thus they
were trained under their own flag and I
under the direction of their own offi- '
cers.
In the first battle experience, two
American divisions stopped the Ger
man advance on Paris, and several
divisions, organized into two corps, j
became the backbone of the counter
attack of the second Marne. By their
steady example- in these attacks, they
not only revived the drooping spirits
of the Allies, but took Uie initia- ,
tive from the enemy and turned the j
tide of war.
Swirtly lolowing tms advantage,
they were concentrated as an inde
pendent army to the number of near
ly 600,000 men, and in a brilliant
offensive cleared the Salient of St.
Mihiel, which had been held by the
enemy for four years. Immediately
thereafter there began the 47-day
battle of the Meuse-Argonne—the
; greatest battle in our history—in
which 1,200,000 Americans were en
gaged and carried it, against the
most stubborn defense, to a successful
conclusion.
Intensified War Danger.
Again, war clouds hang over un
happy Europe. Naturally, people
everywhere fear another World War.
Ever-increasing armaments and fre
quent warlike gestures intensify the
danger of an explosion. Yet no one
in his right mind can contemplate an
other World War without almost los
ing hope for the future of civilization.
The immensity of the devastation of
the last war, material, moral and
spiritual, ought to prove a powerful
i deterrent, and, in view of the more
terrible consequences of another ca
tastrophe, only a madman would
think of plunging his people into war.
On this twentieth anniversary of
■our entry into the maelstrom of war,
it is more than ever our duty to strive
continuously for permanent peace.
We should seek, as we have been do
ing earnestly for years, to settle dis
putes by amicable means, and to rid
the world of the crushing armaments
that fear is providing. But until this
condition is established, and in order
to maintain and uphold the principle*
of liberty, right and justice, we our
selves must be prepared and ready
against the day when they again
may be threatened.
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LUMBERMEN END
CONVENTION TODAY
Committee meetings and election of
officers were to bring to a close the
annual convention of the National
Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, in
session at the Mayflower Hotel. The
meeting opened yesterday with ap
proximately 200 manufacturers from
48 States in attendance.
Tomorrow, a number of the manu
facturers will move over to the United
States Chamber of Commerce Build
ing for the three-day meeting of the
Forest Conservation Conference, a
group con^bosed of public and private
representatives, founded several year*
ago, to promote conservation and re
forestation of timber resources.
J. B. Woods, forester in charge of
the conference, addressed the manu
facturers yesterday.
"The past 30 years,” he said, ”may
be considered the most significant
period in the development of forest
utilization in America. It has seen
a complete revolution of the attitude
toward forest management by private
owners and operators representing
two-thirds of the Nation's lumber pro
duction.”
FLOOD AID BILL PASSED
The House passed and sent to the
White House yesterday a bill to ex
tend the power of the Federal Housing
Administration to insure loans made
by private financial agencies on prop
erty damaged by floods and other
catastrophes.
The authority for Government back
ing of 10 per cent of such loans in
connection with catastrophes in 1935
and 1936 expired January 1.
The extension measure would con
tinue the power until July 1, 1939, and
cover disasters in the years 1937 to
1939, _
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