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The Alamance gleaner ^ ? * 1 1 *' ???? I """ o-1"*" '? ?? WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE How to Pay for New Conflict Is Europe's Biggest Problem; British Taxes Set New Record / (EDITOR'S NOTE?When ?pinions srs injifri la these nslsiM, they are those of the news analyst and net necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Wasters Newspaper Union. THE WAR: Finance Great Britain entered the World war in 1914 with a 649,000,000-pound debt, raised her tax rate to six shill ings in the pound (or 30 per cent) and probably spent 11,(Hd,000,000 pounds (about $35,000,000,000) to lick the Kaiser. In 1939 Britain's record peacetime budget was 1,322,444,000 pounds, of which 300,000,000 pounds was to be borrowed Most of this was for defense, but what bothered Britishers most on September 1, when they declared war on Adolf Hitler, was their current public debt of 8,200,000,000 pounds, 13 times greater than 1914's. To Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer, fell the financing job. Up to the house of commons Sir John carried his first war budget, neatly packaged in the ancient case (? photo) which exchequers have used for years. Preliminarily, com mons knew the war of 1939 would cost more than the last conflict, would possibly last longer, and would positively bleed the British taxpayer to death. Sir John there fore surprised no one with his To raise 70,000,000 extra pounds this year, and 146,000,000 extra the next fiscal year. Sir John- assessed incomes at seven phUjtes jp the SIR JOiN AND BUDGET V. S. Hxnrwi cm, 4, OmmkfuL pound, or 35 per cent, until next March 31; fqr the full 1M0-4I fiscal year the rate M aeven ihMirigs six pence, or 37 per cent. American taxpayers ahould have enjoyed the comparison: laraau 1 ST.? m, jtu: 8 85 ?iillMlBr *, 120 918.28 He? * 8M.888 a yaar: Family with tf t cbiMraa ... 1.104 8,007.21 sasj"*" -' Meansrfafie ?reside eoooomiats de bated howAdolf Hitler was fpriag k wartime Disregarding hip pre-war debt and his funny financing, it was a good guru that even should these obstacles be mrri-ome the gibes' blockade would strangle hun Qpe fourth his 1938 impi rts of *2,000. 000.000 would be cut ok, including 10 per cent of his high-test gasoline; 07 per cent of his grain and all his cotton, fibber, wool and tin. Even Russia's new friendship could not be expected to rifsel ttiis Has, tor the press of war will keep German fac tories busy, thus barring exchange of manufactured items for Soviet raw products. And Josef Stabs is not altruistic. r -? SmttiM n Front After a 30-day siege, during which i ^eW SSr^nJS which thousands of civilians died from bambd. bullets, pestflsncs or horsemeat diet, Warsaw sugsen dered and Be war in Poland waa over. Western Front After a month of see-saw fighting during which French-British troop, apparently bad the upper hand (thanks to Germany's pre-occupa tton with Poland) the battle of Sieg fried vs. Maginot apparently got un der way. French pressure was heaviest near Zweibruecken In the Saar region, and at least one report said that heavy French cannonad ing smashed a hole in the main Sieg fried line between Merzig and Saar f . artillery assumed new importance, for the French war office admitted enemy shells were tailing in small towns behind the Maginot line. For the moment. Premier Edouard Da ladier could tell his council of min isters that the situation was "moat satisfactory." At Sea One bright autumn day North sea villagers in both Norway and Den mark heard cannonading at sea, oc casionally spotting aircraft over the horiron. The booming stopped at night but started with new fury next day. Both Britain and Berlin LMiw sa m si t thews w?w ww wt SO^OOOTons ^^^21000T? BRITAIN'S SHIPPING LOSSES at first denied a battle, then each admitted it and claimed victory. The Dress co*H choose between the Qesoh's report that one British air plane carrier had been destroyed and a battleship badly damaged, or the report of London's first lord at the admiralty, Winston Churchill, that a German attack had been re pulsed with no losses. Day before, papular Mr. Church ill told the house of commons that "S thud" of Germany's submarines had been destroyed and that ship ping losses were about a third what they were In disastrous April, 1917. Moreover, losses were still going down f*M ck*n>. What he did not Cint out is that Britain has fewer sts at saa now than on Septem Mr l. DOMESTIC: Repercussions Dramatic volumes might have been written last month about how Europe'* war whipped the alow stream of U. 6. ble into a raging river filled with whirlpools, quick sand beds and bottomless pits. At Los Angeles Mrs. Josephine Mair ?led a notarijed document forbid ding her two sons from "participat ing in may activity- called war." The U. S. fleet began agent battle games in the Psciflc, a Vast naval training program was planned at Hawaii's fearl hsrfcor. and President Roose velt urged a cessation of foreign purchases of war materials that the U. 8. might create its own reserves. White Texas' Hep. Martin Dies waved the flag to forecast all Com munists and Fascists in gmeiumeat Jobs would apop bp Mated, while the American Legion is convention cqt its foreign tie with the Federal fnterallies dee Anclen combattanta. while tv.o thirds of the people (In h Qalhm poll) said ttag don't believe German news reports, congress pegred to be^Smf^Fe# on a proposal to lift ywarms embargo Franklin Roosevelt's administra tion was winning, thnnks to smart assjisiasffizx ?*^1*" su a*""- ?"i era, congics* i was given I power which I the Preai- I dent alone I the present fl act, to de- I exists. In I every other HLIA provision tkare was OOMIXL HULL gjrftflff rig- comment. idity, so that isolationists wars left with Utile to fight except the fast dying Issue of embargo vs. cash and-carry. Having started the ball rolling, the White House left neu trality severely alone. Secretary of State CordeU Hull, asked for his opinions, answered Sen. Arthur Varv denberg that he had "complete con fidence" In the legislative branch and that be had no "particular com ment" to make. Next day the senate foreign rela tions committee okayed cash-and carry, sending it to the floor, tor "bell-to-breakfast" debate. NAMES that made news GBOVER CLEVELAND BERO DOLL, World war draft dodger who fled to Germany, revealed in his New York trial that he had returned to'the U. S. twice (1939 and 193i>) under false passport. PIERCE BUTLER, U. S. Su preme court justice, was seri ously ill with a bladder ailment FRANCIS J. GAVIN, old-time northwest railroader, was made president of the Great Northern line. Rumors said that Robert E. Woodruff might be the Erie road's next chief. KING CHRISTIAN X, 69-year old Danish monarch, was abed with a heart attack. Also ill, at Washington, was Virginia's aged flaw. Carter Glass. I I RUSSIA: Dance Master Down from the western skies at Moscow dropped a passenger plane bearing German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Signifi cantly, perhaps, he gave no Nazi salute nor did his hosts offer a Com- 1 munistic clenched fist. Otherwise the setting was familiar, for when von Ribbentrop reached the Krem lin he found it overrun with Balkan and Baltic statesmen of the type | Adolf Hitler used to summon from Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Po land. This must have worried von Ribbentrop; Russia, having split Po land's loot with Herr Hitler, was emerging as a dominant eastern Eu- . ropean power that must be watched. Great Britain and France were confident that if left alone, Russia would give Germany snore trouble than co-operation despite their kiss I over Poland's prostrate form. First there was talk in Moscow diplomatic circles of a "sphere of influence" division in which Russia srould con trol the Baltic, and Germany the Balkans. But later it looked like Russia was taking everything: Esthonia's nervous Foreign Min ister Karl Setter scurried to Moo cow with explanations of why an interned Polish submarine had been allowed to escape, later sinking a Russian freighter. His explanation was "unacceptable" and soon So VUOS8UV MOLOTOV H? ma-Hidmind Herr HuUr. viet troops, warships sad planes en circled Eslhonia Under this prss- ;l suss, and while Moscow radio at tacked the ffetheaisn government, the MtUe naUon soon found h wise to sign a "mutual assistance" pect . which grants Beasts the right to maintain naval and military basse on islands off the Esthonian west coast Turkey's Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoghi was there, too, and soon there were sound reports of a Russ Rum an iarv Bulgaria a-Turkish' 'Black sga bloc" which would smash Adolf Killer's hope of Balkan expansion. Rumania, between two Arse, was famfag Moscow-wise and away from Berlin. Bulgaria's special savoy to . the Kremlin established a Moscow Softs akrtlns to bo fallowed by a :ra.ie pact. The only ty in this ointment was > Hot von Blbbentrop and the 19 "ex perts" who came with him from Berlin While Dictator Josef Stalin stayed in the background like any well-behaved master mind should. Premier VLaches lav M Mctluini celled the tune that made big Ger many dance as violently as the lit tf? nnH PiUtf states. Only strengthenmg this suspicion eras the official German news agen cy's report that Russia has agreed to co-operate In an attempt to bring peace between the Reich and the ?Hies. Obviously Heir Hitler was frantically sparing no effort to end the war. The previous weekend had brought a peace feeler from Benito Mussolini, but the result had been negative. Therefore Germany had coaxed and begged Russia into the peace effort, even though the price far this co-operation eras a loss to German prestige fa eastern Europe. > Bruckarft Washington Digest People of Farms and Small Towns Will Lead Way to Sane Thinking Less Affected by Selfishness and Mass Emotion Than Qtjr Folks; President Puts Republicans on Spot; Embargo Faces Long Debate in Senate. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service. National Press BIdf., Washington, D. 0. WASHINGTON.?The late Lord Balfour, one of the really far-seeing Britiah statesmen of two decades ago, once uttered an obaervation to present conditions. During the early days of 1917 before American force had begun to weigh heavily in the balance of world hostilities, Lord Balfour said to a group of American newspaper editors and publishers: "The central powers will be de feated in this war, but the test will come after peace has been enforced by arms. The test will be whether the peace we have thus gained will be .worth having?whether ere can preserve liberty and democracy. I believe we will be able to sustain that peace and preserve that free dom- and I believe, moreover, that it will be the people of rural Amer ica?of .the farms and the small towns?that will lead the world back to sane thinking." With the congress giving consid eration to President Roosevelt's ur gent request for repeal of the arms embargo as a means of preserving our neutrality in the present Euro pean conflict, but with propaganda stirring up emotions on all sides, thkre seems to be a need fog that "sane thinking" that Lord Qalfour mentioned. And. as I said above, it is made to appear that the people of the farms and the small towns are going to have to lead the way again; they have that responsibility because they obviously will be lets affected by selfishness, racial inter est, foreign influence and mass emo tion that upsets thought on issues of this kind. Having made such a sweeping statement concerning these respon sibilities, I will attempt to show what the facts are, what has been going on in Washington and else where, that has a bearing on the ?wain* Embargo Debate May Clarify (ma in Public Mind President Roosevelt's appeal for repeal of the arms embargo was predicated upon his conviction that such action wD] help ua to stay out of the conflict. He argued that there eras no reason for the sale of cotton and an embargo on a processed product like gun cotton; that it was silly to permit the sale of aluminum and forbid the sale of airplanes made from aluminum, and so on. It would be mors nearly true neu trality, he asserted, if we said to any and all belligerents that they could come here hnd buy anything they want?provided ooly that they pay cash on the barrelhead and haul their purchases away in their own ships. But while thi PragjJent was mak ing a good cage tor his position, he also traded into rather muddy ground by calling attention to the fact that much adrHtteqai employ ment will be created hare fcy war purchases of unlimited variety. His thread ef thought, therefore, can hardly be described as a plan to take the profit out of war. It may ba secondary to the great human desire for peace, but the profit phase surely was evkfcnt Ba that as it may, the senate is determined to debate the proposal at great length. It feoes a long drawn-out struggle, ?nd (be value of that grill be, as many senators have stated, to clar fy the issues in the public mind. That is to say, there will ba a crystallization of sentiment brought about by the debate. Mr. Roosevelt called in congres sional leaders, both Democratic and cushion of the plar He explained publicly and to the members of the conference that party politics should be adjourned-that this was DO time for politics. Jteocgaew to Caafarcacc (a Favorable to PraoHogt The general reaction to the con ference with congressional leaders appears to have been very favorable to the President The public thought on inclusion of former Governor Laadon at Kansas and CoL Prank Knox of Illinois, Republican nom inees for the presidency and vice presidency In 1?38, however, was quite different. Mr. Roosevelt ad vertised the invitation to these gen tlemen to the conference as evi dence of Ms desire to adjourn poli tics. That ballyhoo did not take hold very weU. Many observers ? J* . i* nil, ' - wondered bow the President figured that Messrs. Landon and Knox could have anything to say about national policy which Is the exclusive re sponsibility of congress. They were defeated, discredited as leaders, by the voters in 1938. Thus, critics suggested that Mr. Roosevelt?with politics adjourned?had played an exceedingly smart brand of politics and Msears. Tendon and Knox swallowed the bait in the fashion of amateurs. The President hss put the whole Republican party on the spot, with the assistance of its mem bers, and there are signs that a Republican effort will be made to offset the move. ^Now, there is another thing crop ping up. Beneath shouts of patriot ism and declarations that we must avoid gettpw into the raging mad ness ovprsdas. there is a feeling that congress ought to remain on 1 the Job straight through the winter. The determination of the President and his spokesmen in congress is to limit action in the extra session to the subject of repeal of the arms embargo. If that is all the actual work thai is accomplished, it would require only a short time. On the other hand, there seems to be a feeling that Mr. Roosevelt should not be left with all of the respon sibility of a war threat hanging over head. Since the entire mem bership has been called back here, the observation has bean frequent that they ought to stay on until the regular session begins in January to be of help to the President as lightning-like changes take place in the situation abroad. Ona hears a great deal of dis cussion among senators and repre sentatives about our nation's finan cial and economic condition. They suddenly have realized the fact that there exists a national debt of more thin MB,000.000.000?almost $30,000, 000,000 more than the total of the debt when the World war ended. It is not a pleasant thought, but it must be faced. Tarn to Rural America to Load Way to Sana Thinking And aa to the government i tee If, attention lately has been called to the tact that there are now 927,887 persons on the (ovemment payroll. Contrast that with 917,790, which was the greatest number employed by the government at any time dur ing the World war. The military and nayal forces are not in* faded in the deures given. These tacts were mentioned to me at the Capitol the other day because aoms members wars looking to renditions after an other war. It was explained that there was very Utile contraction of the . government's size altar the World war and that wag mare than offset by expansions in the last six yexrs. In other words, s wax wOl place additional drain upon pie, that will become a permanent ?g. Thua ye see that minor matters, as wall as major qussHnns. are hav tan effect upon the thhiking ot country. While (hey are not aobaMpdsd. all of the mag tor conditions turn <mrvenation! to the subject at war. lb. pa come hack la fee original statement. From a bag parted of ZTSFSmi ESfuZ STtta rat UMU tnon ioori fpo form tbi backtema of kmertea ?w likely to be teat Influenced by the various thinks I have niftlneart than to toe caaa wito thejolka to Che ctttoa, la a dectetoa to ?toy at U war.'or go to. will to aWa to thtek aUai 1). imm fa*?? UooUgioo Home Tkoir Origin to Ctto To refer a^ain toJLord^ Belfonr' a tUTtEE*Mates' ^ haS? sary only to recall that all W tha iamb and bean* ide.w.gtee ferough which we have r>?ned since the World war tore had (hair origin to cities. "Movements" for this and that and the other program or piaa came from hotbeds to thickly popu lated areas. It to to to admitted that they gained much , more head way than any one thought Doas.bto They are again an the way nut, however, brcauaa such things has* no appeal tor the type od citizens to which Lord Balfour referred. Speaking of Sports Louis Stymied By Dearth of Title Threats By ROBERT McSHANE OEAVYWEIGHT Champion Joe 44 Louia has no more worlds to conquer. When he knocked out Bob Faster in a recent Detroit brawl, he elimi nated the last in a field of weak contenders. Pastor was given little chance against the Brown Bomb er, but in view of their previous fight the match was logical. teals' co-managers, Jefea Baa borough and J alias Black, said they had ae plaaa for the Immediate fu ture aad the Paster beat was the last the title holder weald fight this year. Louis, they said, wfll fight Tuny Gsiesta next year U the pah He wants the fight And even if the fans fail to be come very enthusiastic about the match it probably will be shoved down their throats. Gal en to Is the only fighter left for Louis to meet By the process of elimination the champ has arrived at his present JOE LOUIS positioo?top man in a field of sec ond rata pugs. That ia no reflection on Louie. He's willing, even anxious, to mast all contenders worthy of a crack . at the crown. The (act that most oi his fights hare been too easy is his own misfortune. They're too forced?high poweied publicity has put them over. None of them have been "naturals." THe outcome was pretty well established long before the sound of the opening gong. Crist for the Mill 1M7 from Jimmy Braddeek, evaa then a has tim CwnieNi ud smart, bat still a kaa torn Os aoat igbt was wtth Tommy Fan, who crossed ay the dopestcrs by , staytag tbo U roaad root*. Natfcaa Msaa^aad Harry ^ Thorns. JsBowM j John Honry Lewis faUed to last one round. Partially blind, ho was not a fit match foe Jos. Than came Jack Bopor, an afad gentleman who practically tottered into Uw ring, only to ba knocked out in fw drat. : managed to last four rounds. Pastor, by dint of courage and determination, stayed with the king for 11 rounds. Tha outcome was never in doubt, however, from the beginning of the fight ^ ef wktek Mkb^Msj^ta* Made ta**?be tot M*. Oalc?te maasged to reach laadt niy some. Not* Myth Tyua, it might aa^U be Galento oy tDocKiDi oin wno was Tilt (otod bear dispe^eet nplodad that myth and. at least in his own mind, earned another chance at tha title. That's the sad part of the shea Bon today- Ona eantmtflyr la set katy sWoJo^^rajia a^amya good Than have hatn rumors of Louis' rottremant tor aocoe time. Moot of thorn have little basis. It k> entirely possibles howtvor. that ba will quit tha rikg sooner than might ba an ticipated ordinarily. Sport Shorts Wf HEN Joe Loci* wae IB years JH old he waa shipped sway from 3 school with the teacher's wport: "Shows no great mental aptitude ,|6li . . . bat might do _______ something with his B hands . . . Charley 1 Drassen, Brooklyn ? coach. believe* * ? Whitlow Wyptt ? hadn't been injured -J the Dodgers wool* ? have given the Reds I and Cards a great I race for the pennant I ... BUI Nidwlpoo, ? outfielder, waa ratoed admittance to the neval amh- ?Otaam my because be ia slightly color blind . Ri? Novak, sophomore fullback at WtfcflBffin. plana to make music hi* IBe^rork . . . Walter Briggs, owair ef the jj Detroit Tigers, calls Junmy ppkaa. .?>; White So* manager, the greatest drawing card in the American JE j league. Be says that id stead of getting tned, phoold be handed a bonus for hi* firebrand fuehrer has issued an appeal to all sporting organizations to Germany members an the front. Wtirn Ta a gwnrlcniii? lFinAtrtddt round* WW be lw?nT5 JH That highly technical PwM*p ?f llj inswcred recently by the l^eunii 3oxing aaaociation, mmnbars at nhich turned it ower to ? special rorr.mittee. They decided fcitwWN nad*rale he^weejt.^0^ad the | I inishes, for instance, the fourth .J round, but is unable to^Mtof^flto the'ringing"of the bell antf declares the knockout came in the fifth grc a decided the rnla tv,M. good in both these sitnatkaa. Gridiron Topnotchers I |i I The thrower of the **!?* toe- 1 i ? sard pus in the history of football about which there can be no ?*?? ment to K*nny Washington, U. C. Ill Negro baMbe*. who hcjeato ? tead the Bruins to the greatad sea- X "tta historic play occurred toWT fM when the Brulua were playing Southern California. In a tight spot, ,'jH Washington faded back to hie owa uTaUbto 1 Jne ^ntt?fS,S 1 j |
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