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Roosevelt
Qualified in
First War
President Learned
| Naval Tactics
And Diplomacy
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
The first week of the European
war has witnessed a remarkable
Hung in Washington—the presence
In the White House as commander
in chief of the
Army and Navy j
of the only man \
w ho served as a j
high official in j
our Government
at the outbreak |
of the first Euro- ;
pean war.
All the high \
admirals of the j
Army and Navy f
have long since i
retired, all the tj
civilians who oc- |
cupied strategic |
nosts in the war
agencies have David Lawrence,
passed out of official life, and
Franklin Roosevelt alone remains to
Issue orders and commands to avoid
the pitfalls such as developed in a
delicate period in American history,
in which he had a ringside seat,
actually participating in the inside
councils of the Government.
Mr. Roosevelt was a trusted ad
viser of the late President Wilson.
As Assistant Secretary of our Navy,
he spent a good deal of his time
in London in direct contact with the
British admiralty. There is a story
going the rounds that Mr. Wilson
could not understand why the Brit
ish Navy had not drawn nets or
built other barriers to prevent the
German submarines from coming
through the English Channel, and
that it fell to the lot of Franklin
Roosevelt to contact the British
Navy, through whom the sugges
tion was ultimately put into effect.
Quick Grasp of Naval Affairs.
Mr. Roosevelt was a young man
In the war days of 1914 to 1918. but
he was an alert person with a quick
grasp of military and naval affairs.
Those of us among the correspond
ents who used to visit the Navy De
partment, where he and the late
Louis Howe held fourth, found him
as much a part of the Navy as if
he were a commissioned officer.
The President's love of naval
strategy led him to attend the naval
maneuvers in the Caribbean held
by the United States Navy early
this spring. He was on board a
warship and followed every detail
of the war games with the same
intentness that any high naval
officer might display. When he re
turned. he talked enthusiastically
to his friends of the excellent con
dition of the American Navy and
in particular of the changed char
acter of naval warfare, now that
the scouting plane has been intro
duced as an auxiliao’ to the fleet.
Mr. Roosevelt became familiar
during the war with the hundred
and one problems of shipping and
cuhmarinp raidincr. He knew also
what the naval intelligence units
were reporting about espionage
and counter-espionage, and of the
attempts to sabotage American
factories and shipyards. It took
him no time at all this last week
to get the various police agencies
of the Federal Government into
a'live operation.
Tire President knows the diplo
matic side of the emergency, too.
and the limitless red tape that
sometimes stops official action
when it should go ahead without
hesitation. He knows how to cut
red tape and get things done, and
one evidence of his readiness to act
came in his issuance of the ‘ limited
emergency" proclamation this week
which enabled the Army and Navy
defenses to be strengthened and
funds provided at once. Likewise,
he was careful to explain to the
press just what the technicalities
Were that required such a step.
Better Qualified Than Wilson.
Mr. Roosevelt is far better quali
fied to take care of American inter
ests, especially with the idea of keep
ing us out of war, than was Mr.
Wilson at the outbreak of hostilities
In Europe in 1914. Submarine war
fare was then new. airplanes were
new in combat, and the whole war
situation came so suddenly as to
give the Washington Government
little time to prepare. Even the
evacuation of Americans from Eu
rope is being arranged this time with
far less confusion than was inevi
table in the abrupt turn of events in
August, 1914.
There is only one fly In the oint
ment. Republicans suspect that Mr.
Roosevelt wants to be nominated
end elected for a third term, and
that the war situation may be used
to further that ambition. American
tradition Is against a third term.
In 1916 a national election was held
when America was still neutral. In
1R64 a national election was held in
the midst of the War Between the
States. There will be a national
election in 1940 irrespective of
whether America is or is not in the
war, because it is an American desire
to hold to democracy, regardless of
the pressure of war.
If Mr. Roosevelt were to renounce
till ambition and make it clear once
and for all that he does not intend
to run for re-election, it would make
his record of these last few days and
the record of the days to come in the
troublous times ahead a magnificent
one. For in war. Mr. Roosevelt is a
real leader, an experienced strate
gist. and an excellent commander in
chief of the big Army and Navythat
must patrol our coasts and protect
our possessions.
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Oil-Producing Iraq
Tells Britain It's Loyal
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 9.—Iraq, an im
portant oil-producing country, yes
terday telegraphed King George VI
Its determination to co-operate with
Great Britain in the European war
until “right and' justice and lofty
principles" prevail.
The message, from Abdul Hah, re
gent of Iraq, said the country re
mained true to its treaty of alliance
With Great Britain, made in 1927.
Iraq earlier this week gave the
German Minister 24 hours to leave
Baghdad and instructed its Minister
In Berlin to ask for his passports.
Ship Reported in Distress
DUBLIN, Sept. 9 (/P).—Lifeboats
were called out from Arklow, in
Wicklow County, early today to aid
a ship reported in distress in the
Irish Sea. Arklow lies about 40
miles south of Dublin.
The Capital Parade
New Treasury Aides Viewed as Conservatives
By New Dealers of Extreme Left Wing
By JOSEPH ALSOP AND ROBERT KINTNER.
The Treasury, where changes of human decoration are not infre
quent, has gone through another one. The old place has been father
elaborately refurnished, with new economists, new monetary officials and
a fine period group of dollar-a-year men. The general decorative style
might be dated as Circa 1916.
Among the dollar-a-year recruits, Earle Bailie, the smart partner in
J. & W. Seligman who has long been the chief Morgenthau crony in
the banking world, will be an adviser on international capital movements.
W. Randolph Burgess, one of the ablest men ever trained by the New
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have the difficult task of watching
the bond market. Tom K. Smith
of the St. Louis Boatmen's National
Bank, will keep in touch with the
banking and credit situation.
Then there is the trio of econo- 1
mists who have been brought to the i
Treasury, as Secretary Henry Mor
genthau, jr., explained, to ‘‘spend
their time thinking.’’ Jacob Viner
comes irom me university oi uiu
cago. Walter W. Stewart and Winfield W. Riefler from the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton. Morgenthau, proud as usual of his assist
ants, calls them, rather boyishly, “the fastest-thinking men in the world.”
Reinforced Right
But the recruitment of these men means a good deal more than that
Morgenthau is merely following his usual system of enlarging his circle
of advisers in difficult times. The three economists, while middle-of-the
roaders by common standards, are pretty conservative by comparison
with the New Deal economic thinkers. Prof. Viner, for example, was a
stanch opponent of the New Deal spending theory during his last term
of service at the Treasury. He and his colleagues together constitute
the most important intellectual reinforcement brought to the right wing
of the administration in a very long time.
Even more significant are the trio of dollar-a-year men. Their
names, of course, were submitted to the President before their appoint
: ments were made final. They are all leading businessmen, of the sort
| usually considered "money changers” by New Dealers of the stricter sect,
j One of the big current problems is whether the President can forget his
! ingrown animosity toward the business community. If he cannot, the
I country will have to pass through a long, acutely serious crisis in a state
: of angry division. And the character ot these first dollar-a-year men
whom the President has approved—together with the character of his
appointments to the War Resources Board—must be taken as a very
i hopeful sign.
Indeed, it seems to betoken an entirely new atmosphere, which is
probably best dramatized by the selection of Randolph Burgess to deal
with the bond market. In view of the flight from bonds to common
stocks and its affect on the Government bond market, he has been
entrusted with a vast responsibility. Yet he was one of the chief per
sonages in the New York Reserve Bank in the days when Roosevelt and
Morgenthau. intent on "transferring the financial capital from Wall
Street to Washington,” were busily arranging to clip the big bank's wings.
Flies in the Ointment
The cheering, however, is far from universal, in Washington at least.
The same resentment felt by the New Dealers at the naming of John
Haumflr to the War Resources
Board is again being felt at the se
lection of Tom Smith for the Treas
> ury post. Like Hancock, Smith has
been a determined opponent of cer
tain New Deal policies, and it is
thought that turning to him for
help "looks like surrender.”
As for Morgenthau's choice of
economists, it is proving even more
; irritating than the recruitment of
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men. Members of the administration left have lately had something very
like a monopoly on economic thought in Washington. They did not love
Reifler when he was an adviser to the President in the early days of
the New Deal, and they positively detested Viner for his anti-spending
views. Consequently, the return of both Reifler and Viner is warmly
resented.
Fortunately, this immediate resentment of interlopers seems to be a
hangover from the period of the New Deal's intense domestic pre
occupations. The New Deal group, as well as any other group, under
\ stands the need for unity. The President appears to be ready to insist
on unitv. So there is an excellent chance that, after the first grumbling,
the resentment will be repressed and co-operative effort made possible.
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U. S. Air Program
Holds Our Safety,
Johnson Asserts
Every Sene American Will
Applaud President's
Foresight, He Says
The safety of the air frontiers of
the United States and our standing
in the world depend on continuation
of the combined efforts of military
and civil aviation toward air prog
ress, Assistant Secretary of War
Louis Johnson said last night in a
radio broadcast from Washington
i in connection with the national air
progress observance.
“As we look across the sea to
: troubled Europe, now torn by con
flict,” Col. Johnson said, "every sane
American will applaud the President
of the United States for his fore
sight and vision in planning and
building an adequate defense for
j this Nation—air, sea and ground.
Air progress has added a new and
mighty weapon to the long list of the
| vehicles of war. Air progress in this
country must now supply to Amer
ica the means of an adequate de
fense.”
Changes Course of History.
Reviewing the course of events in
Europe, Col. Johnson said:
“It may be that the airplane as a
i weapon of war has changed the
: course of history. Undoubtedly, the
power and threat of this new arm
have been used as a primary instru
ment to change the map of Europe
in recent times. It has exerted con
trolling influence on diplomacy and
international negotiations.”
He pointed out that President
Roosevelt's $300,000,000 air expan
sion program, intended to increase
the airplane strength of the Army
to 5.500 airplanes, had been in ac
tual progress less than three
months, since Congress appropri
ated funds last June.
More Than Double Strength.
“So energetically have we worked
to build up our defenses,” Col.
Johnson said, “that more than
3.000 airplanes already have been
ordered. When our program is
completed, and it will be completed
within the two years allotted, we
shall have much more than dou
1 bled the size of our air force and
| more than tripled its power and
efficiency. The Army Air Corps
will be increased from less than
2.000 officers to more than 4.500,
from less than 20.000 men to more
than 45,000, from less than 2.000
planes to more than 5.500, and five
great new air bases will have been
added to our air defenses.''
It is a calamity for the human
race that man has turned the air
plane into a war vessel. Col. John
son declared, adding:
"But it would not be humanita
rian altruism, but the sheerest of
folly, were we not to recognize this
perversion of mans greatest me
chanical dream. The air phase has
come to warfare. It must be recog
nized. We must add to our system
of national defense an adequate air
defense.”
—
Suit Challenges Poll Tax
In Federal Elections
Es the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 9—A
suit seeking to establish that a poll
tax by States in Federal elections is
a violation of the United States Con
stitution was filed in Federal Court
yesterday. Judge Elmer Davies set
a hearing for Monday.
The suit was brought by repre
sentatives of the Southern Confer
ence of Human Welfare.
J. S. Gelders of Birmingham. Ala.,
secretary of the Civil Rights Com
mittee of the organization, said the
suit seeks to eliminate the poll tax
as a requirement to vote in the 1940
general election in particular and all
other elections in general.
Maury Maverick, Mayor of San
Antonio, Tex., and’a former member
of Congress, is chairman of the
committee. ,
Dark Town
HICKMAN, Ky., Sept. 9 f/P).—'The
blackouts that big European cities
are experiencing are old stuff tc
this Ohio River town's 2,400 resi
dents.
On June 1 the utilities company
cut off all street lights with the
ultimatum they wouldn’t go on
again until a 20-year franchise is
granted, or all city light bills are
paid.
Since then the city has been per
fectly safe from air raids.
Washington Woman Found
London Humor Still Alive
"I felt mean as I was leaving them
in misery and was going to comfort
and security,” said Mrs. Ernest Dack
of 1129 New Hampshire avenue N.W.
Mrs. Dack was speaking yester
day of her departure from England
in the critical days immediately
before war was declared. A United
States citizen of English birth, Mrs.
Dack sailed on the Queen Mary
August 30 with her husband. War
was declared while the Queen
Mary was at sea. Precautions were
taken and the boat reached New
York safely September 4.
Mrs. Dack sailed from America
July 22 to visit her people in Eng
land. She found little tension, but
a quiet determination. "So long as
the English don’t lose their sense
of humor they will be all right,”
Mrs. Dack said.
She told this story to show that
the English are "all right”: Prepara
tions were made for a general
>
blackout rehearsal for August 10
Every man was given sealed orders
to be opened when the blackoul
started, and not before. One man
was ordered to lie down at a cer
tain spot with a card on his chest
reading, “Bleeding to death.” A
stretcher bearer got orders to find
the “wounded man” and give him
aid. Something went wrong and
the rescuer did not appear. The
“bleeding man” grew impatient as
the dawn came. When the stretcher
bearer arrived at daylight there was
no “corpse.” But there was a note
which read, “Have bled to death
and gone home.”
Mrs. Dack said that the English
people like the Germans and real
ized that the Nazi leaders were
responsible for strife in Europe
Sandbags were constantly beinf
erected. At a station there was s
i travel poster reading, "Visit Ger
j many. It is beautiful.” On either
side of the poster were sandbags.
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The Political Mill
Causes of Veterans in Political Field
May Be Aided by European War
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The European war has been
underway for more than a week,
with domestic politics, except as
they relate to repeal by Congress
of the manda- ..
tory embargo on
arms shipments
to belligerent
nations, sub
merged. There
is one question,
however, relat
ing to American |
politics, which '
is met on all
sides—a kind of
corollary to the
war s i t u a tion
with its war
psychology; will I
tiio n — ■o
the renomina- G. Gould Lincoln,
tion and fe-election of President
Roosevelt?
There are those who insist that the
matter is already concluded; that
Mr. Roosevelt will be renominated
and re-elected beyond the shadow
of a doubt. They base their con
tention on the theory that the
country will not make a change of
administration while the world—if
not the United States—is torn by
war; that the American people will
insist upon the re-election of the
President. They point out he is
the most popular leader in the
country, and they discount Amer
ican dislike for violation of the
third-term tradition.*
Shrewd politicians are unwilling,
however, to make a definite predic
! tion in this matter. They point out
that the Roosevelt record in dealing
with the war situation has yet to
be made. They say also that the
President himself has said nothing
to indicate what his own position
in the matter will be. Many of
■ them still believe that the President
does not wish to be a candidate.
Theory Is Discounted.
As for the theory that the people
will not "change horses while cross
ing a stream," that has not always
held water. In 1918. while this
country was still at war and after
President Wilson had made an ap
peal for the re-election of a Dem
ocratic Congress, what happened?
The country elected a Republican
House and turned over the Senate
majority to the G. O P. The elec
tion came a week before the armis
tice in the World War. In 1916.
when President Wilson was head of
the Government and this country
, was still "neutral.” only the mistake
which Republican politicians made
in ignoring Hiram Johnson in Cali
fornia prevented Mr. Wilson’s de
feat at the polls. Mr. Wilson’s chief
campaign slogan that year was: "He
Kept Us Out of War.”
If this country remains out of
i the present European war next year
i —and the President has dedicated
j himself to keeping America free of
| the war—the political situation in
| this country will be one thing. If
the country becomes involved in the
war, it may be very different.
Democratic candidates for the
1 presidential nomination of 1940 and
their friends, despite the war, are
not slackening their efforts. In the
Garner camp, for example, business
I is as usual. There has been no in
1 dication either that the supporters
of Paul V. McNutt are retiring from
; the field, or are those who are using
their good offices for Gov. Lloyd C.
Stark of Missouri, or the friends of
Postmaster General James A. Farley.
More and more, as the country be
i
comes more accustomed to the new
world situation, there will come a
resumption of interest In domes
tic affairs.
May Work for Democrats.
The new situation, created by the
war, may work in the Interest of
Democratic victory at the polls next
year. If there is a business upturn,
if unemployment decreases, if there
is a tapering off of the effort to
“reform” business and everything
else in this country which the Ne"'
Dealers have engaged in for the lat.
six years, there may be a swing
back of the pendulum which started
in the Republican direction in the
elections of 1938.
The President has moved quickly
with nationwide preparations to
maintain the neutrality of the
United States. He has undertaken
to strengthen the national defenses,
both to maintain our neutrality and
to be ready in the case American'
interests should be attacked by
belligerent nations.
He dispelled all doubt that he
would call a special session of Con
gress at his press conference yester
day, leaving only open the date of
the call and of the convening of
the National Legislature. He is in
tent upon keeping the Congress
merely to one issue—the revision of
the neutrality laws and the repeal
of the present arms embargo. He
is trying to enlist the leaders of both
parties in such a program. How
successful that effort will be remains
to be seen. In the House a petition
to bring before that body an anti
lynching bill had been signed by the
requisite number of members before
Congress adjourned in August.
Debate to Reveal reeling.
How strcfhgly this country and its
representatives feel against the entry
of America into the war will be
indicated in the debates on the neu
trality bill. Those who favor repeal
of the arms embargo will proclaim
their adherence to a peace program
for this country as loudly as the
anti-repealers.
With a continuation of the war
abroad next year and with the
United States still remaining out
side the conflict, it may be expected
that the demand of the people will
be for a man tried in national af
fairs. whether President Roosevelt
or another. The Garnerites believe
j that their candidate will be bene
fited in the race for the Democratic
nomination. Others hold that the
nomination may well go to Secretary
of State Cordell Hull under such
conditions. On the Republican side,
the situation may materially aid
the experienced Senator Arthur
Vandenberg of Michigan and lessen
j the chances of the youthful Thomas
E. Dewey, New York district attor
ney; and of Senator Taft of Ohio,
who has only been a year in national
politics.
If President Roosevelt is not him
self to be a candidate, the new' condi
tions may make his support of a
Democratic nominee all the more
imperative. He has given no evi
| dence to whom he will turn in his
own party. His Federal Security
administrator, former Gov. Paul V.
McNutt of Indiana, might be his
choice, although there are others
who may have prior claims. Inci
dentally, Frank McHale. the “Jim"
Farley of the McNutt pre-conven
tion campaign, has traveled in
recent weeks through States of the
Midwest, Northwest and the Pacific
j Coast and it is reported that he
found many friends ready to go to
1 the front for McNutt.
Legion Armaments
Drive Bearing Fruit,
Johnson Declares
Newly-Formed Unit
In Commerce Department
Is Installed
Twenty years of pleading and im
| ploring by the American Legion are
bearing fruit in an adequate na
tional defense program, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce J. Monroe
Johnson declared last night at in
stallation ceremonies of a newly
organized Department of Commerce
Legion Post.
The American Legion, Mr. John
son said, has a mission to preach
battleships, guns and ammunition
to keep America defended. He
commended the program for speed
ing up industrial mobilization un
der the leadership of “a Legion com
rade, Assistant Secretary of War
Louis Johnson.
Officers of the post installed at
the ceremonies, held in the Com
merce Department Auditorium, were
Joseph R. Moore, commander;
George Wohlgemuth, junior vice
commander; Thomas Reynolds, ad
jutant; James Flaherty, finance of
ficer; Clinton Young, chaplain, and
Alex Bolker, sergeant at arms.
Among the guests w’ere Miss Fran
ces Kelly, representing Secretary of
Commerce Hopkins; E. W. Libbey,
chief clerk of the department; Wat
son B. Miller, national director of
the Rehabilitation Committee of the
Legion: N. H. Enkle, director of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, and Dr. Timothy F.
Murphy of the Census Bureau. Jos
eph Malloy, past commander of the
District of Columbia Department,
and Haywood Saunders, senior Dis
trict vice commander, represented
the District Department.
Music was furnished by the Sons
of American Legion Fife and Drum
Corps, the Fort Stevens Post Fife
and Drum Corps, the Fort Stevens
Post Clown and Serenaders, the
Navy Band and the Navy Orchestra.
Mr. Moore said the new post now
has 147 members and expects a
membership of between 500 and 600
by December.
Nov. 30 Thanksgiving
Likely for South Dakofa
By the Associated Press.
PIERRE. S. Dak.. Sept. 9,—Al
though the President ha sset No
vember 23 for Thanksgiving Day, it
looks like South Dakota will stick to
tradition and observe it Novem
ber 30.
Pleading assistance for business,
the President proposed abandoning
the traditional last Thursday of
November for the holiday, but Gov.
; Harlan Bushfleld, Republican, while
1 he has not made a proclamation,
declared opinions expressed to him
i thus far “are unanimous that
Thanksgiving be left as it always
has been.’’
Unless some “good reason’’ ap
I pears why it should be changed, he
| said it was likely that South Dakota
would keep to the last Thursday
date.
We, the People
Proposal for 'Coalition' Cabinet
Is Ridiculed by Observer
By JAY FRANKLIN.
The foreign crisis lias moved so conservative a commentator as Mr.
Walter Lippmann to advise the President to invite the Tory opposition into
his councils and, specifically, to include the leaders of the anti-New Deal
coalition in Congress in a sort of White House “cabinet.”
This was the way in which the Tories of England weaseled into
Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet, ate the heart out of the Labor government
and then contemptuously threw away the empty shell. Such a proposition
puts a premium on parliamentary intrigue and offers the rewards of real:
power over imuoimi pouey to iiiobc
who have defied the election returns
in order to thwart the popular will.
Among the little coterie of anti
New Deal leaders who should be
“consulted" under Mr. Lippmann's
undemocratic proposal, we would
surely expect to find Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi. Mr. Harri
son has long been regarded as Wall
Street’s ace-in-the-hole for shifting
ioaco iiuiu me wccximv auu
the big business corporations onto the shoulders of the poor and the small
business concerns.
Holds Proposal Discredited
But Mr. Lippmann has been answered and his proposal discredited
by the people of Senator Harrison's own State. Mr. Harrison was re
elected to the United States Senate in 1936, after seeking—and getting—
New Deal help against the late Huey Long. His desertion to the anti
New Deal camp was masked by his battle with Senator Barkley of Ken
tucky over the majority leadership in 1937. But last spring Mr. Harrison
came out in the open and had his full revenge on President Roosevelt
by forcing through a big business tax bill.
Now Mississippi has just held its run-oft primary for the governor
ship. Martin S. Conner, the losing candidate, was backed by the present
Governor and by Senator Harrison and the anti-New Deal Democrats
against Senator Bilbo's candidate, a New Deal Democrat named Paul B.
Johnson. Mr. Johnson won the election by a substantial majority. This j
means that Mr. Harrison and the Mississippi machine do not represent
the will of the people of Mississippi in their opposition to President
Roosevelt and to the New Deal reforms. This means that Mr. Harrison is
politically weak in the region which he was supposed to dominate and
that he cannot speak with authority for a majority of the people of his
own State.
In other words, Mr. Lippmann is forced to consider the probability .
that the "leaders” of the opposition, the men whom he wishes to have
President Roosevelt use as political handcuffs for the New Deal, are leaders
only of a clique and do not reflect any great sweep of regional or popular
sentiment which ought to be consulted and conciliated.
Republicans Saw No Danger
This makes all the difference. It is one thing to argue that the
President must come to terms with his party. It is another to say that
his party's position is accurately represented by the cabal of conservative
intriguers who made book with the Republicans in order to defeat their
own party's program in the Congress.
As for consulting the leaders of the Republican minority, as Mr. Lipp
mann suggests, Mr Roosevelt tried that, only to see the Republicans vote
as a unit against setting the President's hands free to deal with the foreign
crisis which is now invoked as a reason for taking them into consultation.
It is not unfair to recall the fact that last July the Republican party in
Congress took the position that there was no danger of a war crisis in
Europe this summer It is not inaccurate to say that the Republican
party in Congress risked bringing on a general war in order to coin a few
cheap votes out of America's natural fear of another war.
Under these circumstances, it would be nationally unsafe as well as
politically unwise for Mr. Roosevelt to permit the leaders of such an
nro-nniaatinn t.n PYPrt stnv Ipvptapp
on national decisions. Those who
know history quite as well as Mr.
Lippmann does may recollect that
from 1914 to 1917 it was the Re
publicans wrho clamored most loudly
for war against Germany and who
j most bitterly ridiculed President
j Wilson's efforts to keep America
out of war, and that after we had -
i intervened in the World War it was
j the Republicans who appealed to
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and representative democracy in the Government of the United States.
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Farmers Are Warned
To Beware Wartime
Crop Expansion
O'Neal, Farm Bureau
Head, Sees Parity
Prices Within Reach
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 9—Edward A.
O'Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, told farm
ers today to beware of economic re
percussions if they embark on a pro
gram of war-time agricultural ex
pansion.
On the eve of winter wheat seed
ing for 1940 crop, O'Neal urged
wheat growers to keep acreage with
in A. A. A. limitations. Secretary
Wallace this week appointed Mr.
O'Neal to the Agricultural Advisory
Council to assist in formulating agri
cultural policies as a result of the
war.
“I don’t see how farmers can fig
ure it would be to their advantage
to take the acreage lid off," Mr.
O'Neal said in an interview, “but if
they do they will have to pay the bill.
With huge surpluses of commodi
ties that are available it might prove
disastrous. Lots of us haven't for
gotten the World War and its after
math—and more recently 1933.”
Mr. O’Neal asserted the A. A. A.
program is flexible enough to per
mit increased acres to boost produc
tion if it becomes evident that
greater quantities of food and fiber
are needed.
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Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Dr. Viner Boasts
Top Reputation as
Money Expert
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
NEW YORK,, Sept. 9—Dr, Jacob
Viner of the University of Chicago,
named to Secretary Morgenthau's
advisory council, is a money expert
who went a
block or two
with the New
Deal, but who
normally be
longs more In the
1 e t-nature-take
lts-course school
1 of economics. He
g is a visiting pro
S fessor at the
K Graduate Insti
I tute of Interna
I tional Studies at
I Geneva, with an
| impressive repu
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Dr. Jacob Viner. and is a special
ist in the international behavior of
money. That subject is obviously to
the fore in Secretary Morgenthau's
program of financial preparedness.
Dr. Viner was lent to the Govern
ment by the university in 1934, as
chief adviser to the Treasury. He
returned to Chicago with the under
standing that he would be available
if they needd him badly. They
often did, and he has been called
in frequently as a money doctor,
notably in 1937, when it seemed that
gold might get out of hand.
Stephen Leacock to the contrary,
in his recent repudiation of classical
economics, Dr. Viner sticks pretty
closely to the founding fathers of
the dismal science and has indicated
that the chief difficulty with eco
nomic laws is that we don’t let them
work. His opposition to price and
wage fixing and his insistence that
only real wages matter has thrown
him into sharp opposition with some
of the New Deal economists, but
they keep on consulting him. His
selection is one of several instances
of a wider catholicity of choice in
building the administration's ex
tended cabinet.
Dr. Viner is a native of Canada,
47 years old. After his graduation
from McGill University he took his
doctorate at Harvard, teaching, lec
turing and writing as he built his
career as an economist. He is the
author of many impressive treatises
on money and credit, which are
quite esoteric to this writer, but, by
repuation, profoundly searching
studies. A bright young friend of
this writer, a student of Dr. Viner’s.
says he has a mind like a powerful
searchlight and makes everything
clear as day in his lectures and in
formal discussions.
Soo-oo-eee
AMES. Iowa. Sept. 9 </P\.—As a
hog caller, Mrs. Leo Whitmore is
tops—even among men
The Batavia. Iowa, farm woman
walked off with first honors in a
hog-calling contest in which most
of the contestants were men.
However, the decision was close
The judges had to have the con
testants repeat their calls three
times before a wdnner was chosen.
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Even Milk Bottle Stoppers
Will Bear Safety Slogans
Warnings and slogans in the Dis
| trict's new and official traffic safety
I educational program, for which a
special fund of $7,500 is available,
will be flashed before the public eye
by many different means, ranging
from milk bottle tops and bottle
stoppers to the radio and movie
screen.
A program recommended by Traf
fic Director William A. Van Duzer
for division of the fund among vari
ous phases of the program was
adopted yesterday by the Com
missioners.
Safety signs are to be erected at
10 major entrances to the city. Some
30,000 window cards will be provided
at a cost of $1,350; for publicity re
lease and preparation of radio
scripts a fund of $1,000 was ear
marked, and $600 was allotted for
painting of warnings and slogans on
sidewalks and a similar sum was set
aside for messages to be distributed
to homes on milk bottles and bottle
stoppers.
Among other items were: One hun
dred dollars for short electrical
transcriptions to be played on radio
programs, $250 for visual education
in the schools, $300 for motion pic
ture trailers, $550 for provision of
15,000 cards for use inside and on
the outside of streetcars and buses
and $400 for 6,000 posters for dis
play at filling stations.
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To the Cellars!
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 9 UP).—
For a few seconds Henry Harrison
thought war was here.
Driving down the street—
“I saw a flash in the sewer catch
basin at the intersection, and then I
felt a terrible jar under the car.”
A storm sewer lid had been blown
against the bottom of his machine
by a gas explosion.
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oAnnouncing
the
7th Season in Washington
The GRANVILLE B. JACOBS COURSE
in
TALKING AND THINKING ON YOUR FEET
plus Strategy in Dealing with People
Come To
THE 0
Tuesday, September 12 — 8 P.M.
Mayflower Hotel—Grand Ballroom
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF: You will see recent students—business and pro
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"on your feet." Watch them in action, a graphic demonstration of what
this course actually can do for you.
Granville Jacobs has personally trained more business and professional man
and women in public speaking during the pest three years than any other
instructor in the United States.
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SEE TOMORROW'S SUNDAY STAR (Main News Section)
for Large Announcement and Complete Information
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