Evening star. [volume], April 01, 1938, Page A-5, Image 5

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
-AVOID ALLIANCES.
Mission Is to Keep Alight
the Lamp of Liberalism,
He Declares.
B» the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.—The United
States, says Herbert Hoover, should
avoid alliance with other democratic
nations against Fascist powers, and
at the same time be wary lest Fascism
take root in this country through
"planned economy.”
"I found most nations in Europe
•onvinced that we would be inevitably
drawn into the next great war as In
the last." said the former President,
just back from Europe, in an address
last night before the Council on
Foreign Relations.
"Some people build confident hope
upor. it. But every phase of this pic
ture should harden our resolves that
we keep out of other people's wars.
Nations in Europe need to be con
vinced that this is our policy.”
Our national mission, he asserted.
Is to "keep alight the lamp of true
liberalism.
“But,” he added, “it is in the United
6tates that we must keep it alight.”
Rumbling War Machine.
Speaking in a low voice, his face
tired and grave, he recalled the long
retreat of democracy across the face
of Europe In the 19 years since
Versailles.
"Europe today is a rumbling war
machine,” he said, "without the men
yet in the trenches.”
He devoted much of his speech to
an outline of forces which he said
had led to the rise of the Fascist
form of government to a “raging
power” which had leapt “its original
. boundaries” until now it was accepted
In major part by ”14 nations in Eu
rope with 240.000.000 people."
"It is worthy of emphasis,” he said,
‘‘that Fascism has always begun in
the form of planned economy. And
it, was ushered in by the same cries
and slogans that they were for the
liberation of the common man.”
"With economic planning once
started, each step has required an
other until it arrives at government
dictation to business, to labor and
farmers of wages, hours, production,
consumption, prices, profits, finance,
currency, imports and exports.”
Refers to Home Trends.
• * * Let me again repeat," he
said, his voice rising, ‘‘that democracies
are first infected by the plausible no
tions of ‘cure the business sltimp’
* through so-called economic planning.
Every step in this direction requires
another. Every step further de
i moralizes free economy.”
"And step by step more force and
coercion must be applied until all
liberty—economic and personal and
political—is lost. Let no man mistake
that we in America have until now
avoided the infection of these Eu
ropean systems.
‘ If our own so-called planned econ
omy is not an infection from the origi
nal stream of Fascism it is at least
a remarkable coincidence.”
On the subject of international re
lationships, the former President said
Ideas had arisen “In many quarters in
Europe and some in America,” that
because democracy was “endangered
by the rise of dictatorships and au
thoritarian governments, therefore
democracies should join in some sort
of mutual undertaking for protective
action.”
“These ideas were greatly stimu
lated and encouraged by the word
quarantine from these shores,” he con
tinued. referring to president Roose
velt's Chicago speech of last year.
Involve More Than Words.
“Such proposals, if sincere, iinvolve
more than mere good words. Anything
honest in that direction implies the
pledge of some sort of joint military
or economic action by the United
States with other powers. We may
as well be blunt about it.
i “If we join with the two other pow
erful democracies, Great Britain and
Prance, we are engaging ourselves in
an alliance directed against Germany
and Italy and all the satellites they
can collect.
“Such a combination of democracies
would at once result in combining the
autocracies against the democracies.
It could have all the hideous elements
.of old religious wars.
“We should have none of it. If the
world is to keep the peace, then we
must keep peace with dictatorships as
well as with popular governments.”
However, he said, the Nation could
and should join “in the collective
moral forces,” as distinguished from
those of economic or military force,
for peace.
“In summary, in the larger issues of
world relations, our watchwords should
be absolute Independence of political
action and adequate preparedness.”
league Greets Proposal.
GENEVA, April 1 <4>).—League of
Nation* circles greeted with pleasure
today former President Herbert Hoo
ver's proposed solution of Europe’s
post-war reconstruction debts to the
United States.
(Hoover’s proposal, in a New
York speech last night, was that
nations which borrowed from the
United States after the war pay
their debts into a fund to be used
for higher education, research and
exchange scholarships.)
A source close to the League said
the plan was an ‘‘interesting sugges
tion which might have practical re
sults” in promoting world understand
V ing and peace.
Berlin Not to Comment.
BERLIN, April 1 (IP).—There will
be no reaction to former President
Herbert Hoover’s speech last night on
international affairs as far as official
Germany is concerned, a propaganda
ministry spokesman declared today.
"The speech, as far as we know, was
absolutely neutral and there is no rea
son to make any comment,” he said.
U. S. LODGES PROTEST
Bough Treatment of American by
Japanese Cited. /
SHANGHAI, April 1 <jP).—United
States Consul General Clarence B.
Gauss protested to Japanese authori
ties today against rough treatment V.
F. Meisling of Los Angeles received
at the hands of Japanese police.
Meisling, a reporter and photog
rapher for the North China Daily
News, was accosted when he. attempted
to take photographs of the be flagged
New Asia Hotel—Incubator of the
Japanese-inspired central government
at Nanking.
NATIONS SUPPORT
REFUGEE AID PLAN
Hull Expected to Announce
Time and Place of
Meeting Soon.
By the Associated Press,
An overwhelming majority of fa
vorable replies to Secretary Hull’s pro
gram for international aid to political
refugees is coming in to the State
Department.
Hull Is expected to announce in a
few days the time and place of the
first meeting of the international com
mittee he has suggested. It will be in
Switzerland, but not at Geneva, where
it might appear to be linked to the
League of Nations.
Of 33 countries addressed, 19 have
replied. All but one were favorable.
Dispatches from United States diplo
mats indicate that nine or ten addi
tional favorable replies are en route.
The nations that have accepted are
Belgium, Brazil, Dominican Republic,
El Salvador, Prance, Haiti, Mexico,
Peru, Uruguay, Colombia, Nicaragua,
Paraguay, Sweden, Argentina, Guate
mala, the Netherlands, Panama and
Venezuela. The country refusing Is
Italy.
The United States has not yet heard
whether Germany will permit the po
litical refugees to leave Germany and
Austria.
Germany is reported to have been
none too happy over the fact that
Secretary HulKsent out his note with
out informing Berlin at the same time.
Speeches by Hitler and his right
hand men—Goering and Goebbels—
indicate, however, Germany would be
glad to have Jews leave.
Secretary Hull has received in the
last few days a number of repre
sentatives of Jewish organizations
promising their assistance, financial or
otherwise, to carry out his Irian.
He has specified that, although the
delegates to the International com
mittee should be officially named by
the governments addressed, private or
ganizations should finance the project.
Three Die in Crash.
FAIR BLUFF, N. C., April I UP).—
Three men were killed near here Just
before midnight when two heavily
laden fertilizer trucks collided. The
victims were identified as Douglas
Conner, 23; his 14-year-old brother,
Leroy, and Dick Bullock, colored. All
lived in this vicinity.
PRESIDENT’S SON JOINS
James Roosevelt Initiated by Tall
Cedars of Lebanon.
James Roosevelt, eldest son of the
President, was Initiated last night as
a member of Capitol Forest, No. 104,
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, the Masonic
order which his father joined when he
was Governor of New York.
The ceremony took place at the
Willard Hotel before some 300 Tall
Cedars. Sixty other men, about half
of them metropolitan policemen, also
were Initiated.
Aid* Hefty Talk*.
The Bureau of Standard* threw its
official weight on the side of the hef
tiest folks today. It recommended
specification* for commercial scales
place the capacity at not less than 250
pounds.
If You Arm Troublmi With
Rheumatism
guslar .ar jest p°.in ,?«
Mountain Valley Mineral Water, dlrert
M?M1 ,vr°,u* Ho* Sprlnaa, Arkanaaa.
Mildly alkaline. Deeply aatiafylnt. In
doraed b, phy.lel.na for over 30 yeara.
Phone for booklet.
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
MEt. 1IW? lint a ai ou
Here's a double-barrel SPECIAL, starring all
the season's best sellers. Every coat comet
direct from our Rocheiter factory—
which means Quality with a capital "Q". The
prices speak for themselves.
u
fChargt
P It"
-»ht Band
way.
1335 F St. N.W.
to be "the well dressed man"
if you know all the answers
Single or double breosted?
Double-breosteds first. A virile, athletic
contour is the big thing, these days. Double
breosteds do the trick — with chesty breadth
above, tapered waistline below. Bond's
Rochester experts hove tailored an
impressive array-from distinguished con
servatives to loosely draped lounge jackets.
Are sports bocks in the swing?
Yes —with reservations. The comfortable
bi-swing, the conservative pinch-back,
are aces. The "big apple" variety' (with
fancy frills) is out. And be careful
about patterns. Keep oway from the wild
ones. P. S. —With an extra pair of Bond
slocks ($5.50), you’ve two complete outfits.
How wide should trousers be?
Th# chap in the center has the right idea.
Trouser bottoms should be medium wide —
from 19 to 20 inches. Men who buy at Bond's
get 2 pairs with every suit, a feature offered
by no other clothier. Drope and sports
suit* hove one poir pleated, the other plain.
Extra style, extro wear—at no extra cost!
Will it !>• worsteds or twds?
Wonted* — for pres* • holding quolity. Twiit*
— forthot studied carelessness popular with
the college crowd. Herd hitting business
men like Bond Cameron Worsteds ($25).
They stand up like a brick wail. On the
Tweed side, see our MocKenzies, with their
rich Scotch coloring. They’rt 925, too!
Whot’s new in colors?
Grey is topi. But beware —last yeor's greys
look as decrepit as the "old grey more". The
new ones ore eraftily blended with blue or
green. They've a freshness and sparkle
thot dotes them Spring 1938". If you've o
dork complexion, steer cleor of greens.
Bluish tones, or towny tons, ore best for you.
What's wrong with this picture?
Tall man should avoid bold stripes. They
exaggerate height. Six-footers look best
in plaids or checks. For short men, the
opposite is true. Stripes or herringbones
add stature. Plaids look squatty. Bond sizes
cover the whole range, from big long
stouts to trim short-shorts.
HOW MUCH? That’s easiest of all. Buy at Bond’s
— and save from *5 to $7.50. We tailor our own
clothes. You pay no outside maker’s profits/ here!
"GLa/UfA U'tliA jSand way
- and pay weekly or twice a month.
This easy way to enjoy the luxury
of good clothes costs nothing extra.
1335 F St. N.W.