Legion Urges U. S.
To Provide Supplies
For 1,000,000 Men
Preparedness Program
For Year Demanded;
Strong Defense Asked
Br th* Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.—The Amer
ican Legiou demanded today the
Government adopt immediately a
program to provide raw materials
sufficient to maintain an Army and
Navy of 1,000.000 men for at least a
year.
The report of the National De
fense Committee which was adopted
by the 21st annual convention asked:
A Navy second to none.
That the Panama Canal and its
approaches be made impregnable.
A modified voluntary program of
military training for C. C. C. en
rollees.
Increase of the Regular Army to
980,000 and of the National Guard
to 486,000. their respective peacetime
strengths, and a subsequent removal
of the numerical restrictions.
Alaska National Guard Urged.
Formation of a National Guard in
Alaska and prompt strengthening
of all defenses in the Northern ter
ritory.
Continued development of a vigor
ous aeronautical program; a ban
upon the export of helium gas “to
any country for any purpose"; that
, none but American citizens be em
J ployed in factories making airplane
^ parts, as a precaution againsl
sabotage.
Robert J. Shaw of Iowa, chairman
of the National Defense Committee,
declared that the Nation’s prepared
ness “must be strong enough to meet
any intended invader before an in
vasion begins.'’
Other policy makers of the
Legion entered the convention
■with a ’'pronouncement" demand
ing that Congress continue in
session during the European war
crisis, but avoided specific recom
mendation for neutrality legislation.
Following a debate last night dn a
subcommittee's report, the conven
tion Foreign Relations Committee of
62 adopted unanimously an expres
sion of views relating to neutrality
and national preparedness, which
the personnel chose to designate a
•'pronouncement" rather than a
resolution.
“The American Legion views with
greatest concern the apparently
widespread belief that this Nation
must inevitably become involved in
the present European conflict,” the
pronouncement read.
Changing Times Cited.
“We not only believe that this Na
tion need not become involved, but
insist and demand that the Presi
dent • » * and the Congress pursue
a policy that while preserving the
sovereignty and dignity of this Na
tion will prevent involvement in this
conflict.
"The American Legion has always
strenuously advocated that this Na
tion pursue a policy of neutrality
and peace. In the present world
crisis world conditions may change
so rapidly that a pronouncement by
the American Legion at this time on
Bpeciflc legislation may be wholly in
adequate in the ne&r future.”
The committee counseled Congress
to continue in session during the
European crisis and demanded that
•‘appropriate action be taken to pre
serve the peace of this Nation and
that our armed forces be expanded
immediately to maintain our neu
trality.”
American Federation of Labor and
one cf several speakers, told the
Legionnaires that participation of
the United States in a foreign war
would jeopardize the principles of
freedom and democracy.
Green Urges Isolation.
"We cannot send our millions of
young men to be sacrificed abroad
on the field of battle in a senseless
and indefensible war without sub
jecting our social and institutional
life to a severe strain,” he asserted
in a prepared address.
"We must protect and preserve
cur national interests and our
democratic form of government. So
cial unrest, discomfort, resentment
against our Nation being involved in
a foreign war and the establishment
of autocratic control under the
CHICAGO.—^QUEEN OF LEGION MAJORETTES—Miss Helen
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guise of emergency necessities, could
be and might be destructive results
of our involvement in a foreign
I war.”
Mr. Green urged the Nation to
remain unyieldingly aloof from
armed strife across the seas, hold
ing itself "in readiness to serve in
a mediation capacity and to render
unselfish service when such service
may be badly needed.” Such "op
portunity” for service, he said, likely
would come "wnen the warring na
tions are in sore distress" and ready
for peace.
Mr. Green condemned Nazi-ism
and Communism, declaring the
"dictators” of Germany and Russia
“were brought together in a com
i mon cause and for a common pur
pose.”
DC-4 Being Dismantled
OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 27 UP).—
\ Mechanics have begun dismantling
the DC-4, huge four-motored trans
port plane, for shipment to Japan,
where it has been purchased by the
Japanese Air Transport Co.
U. S. Bankers Hear
Attack on Federal
Easy-Money Policy
Two Speakers Oppose
Nationalization of
Credit System
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. Sept. 27.—Monetary
policies of the national administra
tion drew criticism here today at
the first general session of the
American Bankers Association’s 65th
annual convention.
About 2,000 bankers from all parts
of the Nation heard H. Donald
Campbell, president of the Chase
National Bank, New York City, and
Dr. Paul F. Cadman, San Fran
cisco, president of the American Re
search Foundation, assail what they
termed excessive Government con
trol of some major financial func
tions.
Both speakers condemned any
plans the Government might have
for eventual nationalization of the
credit system.
They said the country’s business
was better and would continue the
upturn, but they warned of the dan
gers of a war boom and easy credit.
“Competition of some Government
credit agencies” also drew their fire,
as did the “Government’s easy
money policy” and its effect on the
return of savings accounts and in
vestments of the “work and save”
type of citizens.
Rebuilt Economy Urged.
Philip A. Benson, president of the
Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and president of the association,
called for labor, management and
Government to “rebuild the Nation's
economy to meet the strains" the
European war would inflict upon the
United States.
Mr. Campbell and Dr. Cadman
both tempered their remarks, some
what, about Government policies
with the former praising some of the
administration’s credit agencies for
“effective work during the depres
sion.”
Mr. Campbell predicted a hopeful
future for banking generally, al
though he said it had been handi
capped by low Interest rates and
"competition of s^me Government
credit agencies.”
Says Thrifty Are Penalised.
“Commercial banks are not alone
in experiencing the consequences of
the present national monetary poli
cies,” the New York financier as
serted. "The easy-money policy
has permeated the entire economy.
The thrifty and prudent have been
penalized through its effect on the
return from their savings and in
vestments. Millions of individuals
are paying more for life insur
ance. • • * Universities and
endowed institutions have had to
curtail essential services, increase
charges and reduce salaries. • • •”
Mr. Campbell predicted interest
rates "cannot remain pegged at
their present low levels.”
Dr. Cadman said Government
monetary policies had encouraged a
"larger and larger” number of peo
ple and business enterprises to look
to the Government for "bounty.”
He said a Government policy of
redistribution of wealth was the
bounty being paid to satisfy the
discontented.
Loan League Head Sees
Peril in 'Cheap' Money
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Sept. 27
(/P).—The United States Government
is hurting the country by providing
“cheap” money, Clarence T. Rice of
Kansas City, president of the United
States Building and Loan League,
said today, and it’s “going to take all
the private funds of the Nation to
bring about good times.”
He told the league at its annual i
convention that people become
“more and more dependent as we
tell them how dependent they are."
“To help these people our Fed
eral Government in its beneflclent
way has placed at their disposal
cheap money,” he said. “The Home
Owners' Loan Corp. established a 5
per cent rate as a national figure and
took care of one borrower at the ex
pense of five savers.
“The live thrifty people had their
Incomes cut in two as a result of
attention given to one borrower * * *.
In all the cases of which I know, it
wasn't the Interest rate that was
hurting the man who had a loan on
his home. It was the fact that he
didn’t have a job and couldn't pay
interest at any rate.”
President Roosevelt sent the fol
lowing message to the convention:
“Properly conceived, our interest
in housing must extend to all that
makes home ownership safe and at
tractive—to all that encourages and
gives protection to the pride and se
curity of individual possession. This
applies equally to the development
of new areas of housing and to the
restoration of established areas. • • •
“Shall America be better housed?
That question confronts us as never
before. By procrastination we may
neglect the issue and thereby answer
n the negative. • • • All over, in ur
>an and rural America, our housing
ihould be Improved.
"Shall we wait out the continuous,
pim process of obsolesence and de
lay with its toll of blighted struc
tures and blighted lives? • * • I am
?lad your organization is wrestling
with this problem.”
Mr. Rice also complained that so
:ial security legislation had caused
people to abandon frugality.
"Now,” he said, “people are not
supposed to save their money. They
are supposed to spend it because at
55 they will be retired. Under the
Social Security Act all will have
enough to live on and if public hous
ing keeps up at its present rate all
will have a home in which to live.
We used to call them poor farms.'
Now we call them housing units.”
Union Fights Election Order
FRANKFORT. Ky„ 8ept. 27 UP).—
International officers of the Tobac
co Workers’ International Union
have asked Kentucky's highest tri
bunal, the Court of Appeals, to set
aside—pending trial—a court order
requiring them to hold a conven
tion.
The Louisville local obtained an
injunction after telling a Louisville
court no convention had been held
for 39 years.
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