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NOGALES INTERNATIONAL— Nogales’ Home Newspaper—
Hogales International
A Democratic Newspaper
Devoted to the Interest of Nogales and Vicinity
PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING
In The NOGALES INTERNATIONAL Building
225 Grand Ave., Nogales Arizona
CRAIG POTTINGER Editor and Publisher
Subscription Rate $2.50 A Tear, $l3O Six Months, 25 cents a Month
Entered as Second class matter February 3, 1928 at the postoffice
at Nogales, Arizona, under the Act of March 3, 1876
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF CITY OF NOGALES
OUR CIVIC PLATFORM
I—A GOOD HIGHWAY FROM NOGALES TO MEXICO CITY.
3 MORE HOUSES AND APARTMENTS.
4 A PAVED HIGHWAY FROM NOGALES TO BISBEE.
First Tax Bill Os Defense Era
£ONGRESS is now mullin over the first tax bill of
the defense era. It is purposed to raise three
and a half billion dollars by the new levies, a program
made necessary to avoid any greater increase in the
National debt than we have to make.
Naturally, nobody is happy at the prospect of
heavier taxes, but it is pleasant to relate that there
are comparatively few fault-finders over the prospec
tive obligations. The people realize that this coun
try is up against a situation in which whate has to be
spent is of small importance, compared with what our
failure to meet that situation involves.
Os course, the man of small income thinks that the
burden should be borne by the people who have more
than he has. Obviously, the ten or twenty-thousand
a-year individual, accustomed to living on a commen
surate scale, thinks he is being afflicted unduly, and
top-ifotcb, income receivers feel that they are already
over- taxed. As a matter of fact, it is doubtful if a
tax measure of any sort won universal approval, but
now the grim requirement of the general sacrifice the
prospective bill demands is being met rather cheer
fully.
As to the excise taxes —who would worry if one j
fewer cigarette went in a package ? An extra penny j
on a soft drink certainly calls for no great distress j
and as for the man who drinks the strong portions— j
what deep sorrow figures in an additional dollar a '
gallon on whiskey? Actually, we are paying the
bill for our own sins of omission—like the rest of the
world. „ : .. ;,
We were well on our way to a two-ocean navy
twenty years ago. % Had we kept to that design, that
was interrupted by the Washington Disarmament
Conference, we would not now have to be feverishly
building up a great defense machine. Had we fol
lowed the. example of nearly every other nation and
adpoted ? m policy of military training for our boys, j
we would not now be carrying on a draft, that inter
rupts so many careers.
“Os All Sad Words ’—
If our,two-oeean navy were an actuality and not I
merely a doubling of our ship strengh in course of 1
construction, for example, we would not now be j
watching Japan, wondering if she was going to go !
after the British and Dutch possessions that repre- j
sent her empire expansion projects. Japan would, j
in all probability, never have joined the Hitler axis
had we not abandoned the idea of constant martial
preparedness.
But twenty years ago the whole world dreamed of
a long period of peace. The nations had subscribed
to anti-aggression pacts; war was outlawed, theore
tically and diplomatically. The people of our coun
try. like those of England, France and the smaller
countries, were weary of strife, and doubly weary of
war taxes. Their governments followed the popular
ambition, and disarmament seemed the realistic and
economis course. So the world slept, while Germany
was nursing her wounds and building up the mosts
complete war engine ever conceived.
So W£ find ourselves today doing in haste what
we—had we had superhuman foresight—could have
done at leisure, arming against the aspirants for,
world domination, and praying that we can build
tanks, airplanes, and ships fast enough to get them
to England and the other nations who are fighting
against the enslavement that overtook a dozen fine,
cultured, peaceable nations that have been over
whelmed by the Nazi juggernaut, before they, too,
are added to the loot of the dictators.
The tax bill will go through in the ordinary course
of events. Doubtless there will be opposition by the
same group that has opposed practically every stage
of the defense program—not because they are
against it, but because it is an Administration mea
sure.
Appeasement, A Futile Alternative
Fortunately, there are not many on the minority
side who adhere to this policy, and their number is
dwindling constantly. The Isolationists continue to
talk of a negotiated peace. Another Roosevelt spaek
iner of those addicted to this line of thought, said:
‘There is but one way to get a righteous and lasting
peace, and that is to beat Germany to her knees.”
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True, We were at open and declared war with Ger
many when Theodore Roosevelt used this language.
He was praising his party for its loyalty to the then
President’s policy.
In the same speech he quoted Woodrow Wilson:
“This intolerable thing, this menace of intrigue and
force, which we now see so clearly as the German
power; a thing without conscience, or honor, or capa
city for covenanted peace must be crushed.”
The German psychology and habit of thought has
not changed since the respective leaders of the two
great American parties, a quarter of a century ego,
used these words —which, in effect, are the same as
the expressions of the two leaders of today.
So there will be no real partizan trouble about the i
tax bill—and little if any applause.
Its burdens are simply a pari of the; necessities of i
an occasion when the country faces the gravest peril 1
in ils history. It is part of the price we pay for
eminence among the world powers, and more parti-j
cularly for the high standard of living that eminence
brought with it. We are not only great and strong,!
but we aye, likewise, the biggest prize that ever made I
a buccaneering regimes mouth water. The buccan-i
eer may .realize that he cannot march in and hold us|
up for our wealth, but if he can take away our trade,
kill our commerce by himself monopolizing the pur
chasing power of countries now our customers, or by
other means shut us off from the world markets, our!
wealth would pass to the aggressor, just the same.
We have no choice in the weapons we require to,
maintain our status. It ,is idle to talk about a negot
iated pease, or any other form of appeasement. We
are confronted by a power that regards every treaty
as a “scrap of paper.”
The diplomatic books are cluttered with non-ag
gression pacts; trade agreements, commercial and
amity accords, a world court —in fact all the techni
cal machinery that could bo devised for the avoidance,
of war. All the countries that have fallen under the
heels of the pirate powers had these «*nmpacts
which the Axis outfit jetteisoned off-hand.
So we are up against the higher taxes—and no
I man can say how much besides.
The Nation realizes it, which accounts for the gen
eral absence of grumbling about the pending tax
bill.
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UTtIBPBOX
i Phoenix, Arizona,
| May 6. 1941.
! To the Editor of
Nogales International,
Nogales, Arizona.
Dear Sir:—
I wish to express the sincere ap
preciation of myself and members
NOGALES, ARIZ, SATURDAY, MAY 10,1941
of the patrol for the splendid co
operation in the interest of safety
shown by the several Latin-Amer
ican colonies throughout the state
in connection with the celebration
of the Cinco de Mayo celebra
tions. I am greatly gratified to be
able to advise you that the patrol
was not called upon to attend a
single serious traffic accident dur
ing the day of May 5 anywhere in
Arizona.
This record speaks more eloquent-
Heard
——•
THE MAIN DRAG
Tovco governors, two ex-gover
nors, and two would-be-governors,
i meeting in Nogales on r ’inco de
i Mayo.
Rotary Club float running out of
| gasoline during Sunday’s fiesta
! parade.
Many prominent Americans and
j Mexicans greeting Governor Os
i bom at the Hotel Bowman during
| his two-day stay here Sunday and
i Monday.
Governor Osborn and queen of
| Fiesta de las Flores getting along
nicely during the fiesta. The chief
executive couldn't speak a word of
Spanish and the queen couldn’t
speak a. word of English,
i
General Manuel Aguirre of the
Mexican army greeting General A.
M. Tuthill, Cinco de .Mayo visitor
from Phoenix.
ly than words of the fine spirit of
cooperation in safety matters of
our Spanish speaking citizens. It
constitutes an example that might
well be copied by other groups of
cur citizens on other holidays.
I remain, sir,
Very respectfully yours.
HORACE MOORE.
Superintendent Arizona
Highway Patrol.
Mr. Craig Pottinger. Editor,
Nogales International,
Nogales. Arizona.
Dear Mr. Pottinger:
The initial meeting of the Ari
zona State Hospital trustees will
take place Monday, May 12th, a-t
10 a. m., at the Capitol Building.
Tliis is to cordially invite you or a
representative of your paper to at
tend this meeting.. It is my sincere
belief and hope that it will inaug
-1 gurate a new era in the history of
the State Hospital. Hoping to see
you at the meeting, I am
Very truly yours,
JEREMIAH METZGER,
Superintendent.
| OUR DEMOCRACY- b y M.t
H OVER. HERE ** we read all sides of questions
1] WE SCAN AND LEARN. AND MAH£ UP OU * OVW ££££ M,NOS -
The mere reading of a book or newspaper not dictatator-
APPROVED MEANS SWIFT AND CRUEL PUNISHMENT.
School Is The Place For Boys
THE war and navy department in Washington are
* now attempting to persuade congress to change
the draft age from 21 to 35, to 18 to 23 years. They
claim that a boy 18 years of age is easier trained, and
they are taking the easiest way out. It seems they
are determined they are not going to be outdone by
Hitler. If Hitler and his liaziis can take children and
slaughter them ,in war, then they think the demo
cracies must do likewise.
If we are to take our youth and trow them into
this war, then why not give them the ballot? That
is the democratic way of doing things. If they arc
drafted before the are able to vote, then they are*
treated as badly as were the Bostonians in pre-re Vo! lo
tion days by the British. They dumped the tea be
cause they were deprived of representation.
General Andrew Jackson was a very successful
warrior.. He took 5.000 trained, seasoned Indian
fighters from Kentucky and Tennessee and whipped
25,000 British at New Orleans. He did not do it with
children and could not have done it with them.
Common sense will show that children may be
trained easier than men but they do not make as good
soldiers and take the strain of war like seasoned
men. A general may be reinducted into the army at
60 but they must have children for him to command.
Lt. Frank Luke, Jr., whose statue stands at the
state capitol building never arrived at voting age.
He was born in Arizona in 1898. In 1908 he was in
the fifth grade at school in Phoenix. Some seven
seven years later at 17 he began his training as a fly
er and at 20 he was in his grave.
Let’s for once do things contrary to Hitler’s ideas
and win this war with men not children. This is as
good away as I can imagine to save democracy.
We should school and train our young men but
make it a law that they shall not be sent to war until
they are completely equipped and matured. A
boy’s place at 18 is in school. —(Dunbar Weekly).
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