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You Won’t Have Any Liberty
In U. S. If Nation Enters War
By JOHN LEAK
New YorK, Sept. 4.—(AP) —If the
people of the United States go into
another war, they must expect vo
live under a form of regimentation
unparalleled in the history of the
country, if present plans are carried
out.
That Wun made plain today with
the first disclosure of details for
mobilization of American men, mu
nitions and supplies in .wartime.
Under these plans—drawn up by
the army and navy during the last
20 years and now published in book
form by Leo M. Cherne, secretary
of the Tax Research Institute of
America, Inc., with a sanctioning
foreword by Assistant Secretary of
War Louis Johnson —control of ci
vilian life will be far more strin
gent then that adopted during the
Worid War.
No time will be wasted, as in
1917, in seeing whether appeals to
patriotism will raise an army suf
ficiently large to carry on the con
flict.
Voluntary enlistments will be
welcomed, but they will come only
during the few months required to
set up machinery for a selective
draft:
From then on, men will be told
if and when they are to fight.
Those who do not fight will be
told to find essential work.
Their wages may be regulated.
They will not be permitted to
go from one place to another —as
they did in the last war—in order
to get higher wages, unless the gov
ernment considers such movement
beneficial from the military sense.
Women and children will be put
to work in places left by fighting
men, so that industries essential to
warfare may not suffer. Laws fix
ing minimum working hours and
pay of women and children will be
brushed aside wnere government
considers that necessary.
Prices will be set within certain
specific limits.
This may cover prices of all
goods, or it may cover only living
essentials such as food, clothing and
shelter. This point is now being
debated in Washington by the war
resources board.
The average man will find all his
private financial transactions under
constant scrutiny. The government
will stop any of his deals which it
considers inimical to the national
defense.
* The amount of the rent he pays
for his apartment or house will be
4xed.
ylf he does not own a house but
decides to build one .because his j
images are good and are coming in
qfegularly due to wartime employ
ment, he may have to ask the gov
ernment’s permission. He will not
riet the permission if the govern
ment decides that construction of
buildings, maybe army bar
racks, are more important in ifae
conduct of war and require all the
lsbor that is available,
i His supply of electricity for light
ajhd heat in his home may be in
terrupted, rationed, or cut off at
any time. The government may need
the power for defense purposes,
and the war comes first.
- His trips on railroad trains, buses
and airplanes will be subject to
cancellation by the government, de
pending on the demand for facili
ties to transport men and materials
fpi the battlefield.
. The specifications for these
sweeping controls of weryday life
ate laid down in two broad plans:
One covering mobilization of in
dustrial resources, the other mobili
zation of manpower. Today these
ate only plans. They cannot go into
operation until congress passes en
abling legislation or the President i
proclaims them in effect under the j
“War powers” the constitution gives j
him. But they have been worKed \
out gradually by the army and navy
departments eve- since the World
War en<jed. And Mr. Cherne ob
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Warsaw to fcoitoa-thM*-|^««*s^
i serves in his book, “Adjusting Your
* Business to War”, that “war pre
sents little time for parliamentary
quibbling 11 and “there is little
doubt tpat shortly after M-day
(mobilization day) they fthe plans
hea rljscrsscd will be effectuated
ii e tot detail.”
In justification of such diptator
hke plans for a democratic coun
try, Assistant Secretary of War
Johnson says in his foreword to the
Cherne volume:
“■ “Modern war has become not
only a conflict of soldiers, but of
economic systems, and other things
being equal, the timely and effec
tive mobilization of industry and
control of economic resources will
determine the final outcome.”
Agreeing heartily with this thesis,
the Cherne study pictures the army
navy plans in two principal as
pects:
1. As a means of conducting war
most efficiently and coming to v ie ■
tory most quickly.
2. As a means of doing that with
the least disturbance to America’s
normal economy during ' and after
the war.
The book emphasizes that the
p’ans are designed to correct the
mistakes of the last war.
An example in point is the change
that has been made in the system
of enlisting men.
In the World War, months were
spent in raising volunteei's by ap
peals to patriotism. When that failed
to raise the required force, a draft
was instituted. Because of the way
the whole thing was handled, the
trenches received thousands of men
who would have been more useful in
wartime industry at home.
Under the plans for the next war,
only two months will be allotted to
voluntary enlistment, and that only
because it takes about 60 days to
set the draft machinery moving.
The first draft will ca 1 ! men be
tween 21 and 31 years of age. There
are somewhere between 10,0§0.000
Drunk Driving
Cuts Licenses
Os 14 Minors
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sit Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 4. —Fourteen minors
lost their driving licenses in North
Carolina last week for driving while
drunk, and only one of them were
convicted of offenses committed in
counties having legal liquor stores.
One swallow doesn’t make a sum
mer, (though too many swallows
seem to have proved"right costly to
these fourteen youngsters) and neith
er do the statistics for one week
prove anything definite about any
problem, much less about such a
knotty one as prohibition or legal sale
of liquor. Wherefore these figures
are not presented as any argument
that there are always six times as
many young drunken drivers in the
so-called dry counties as there are
in the ABC jurisdictions. There were
last week, but it might be different
any other week.
As a matter of fact, few of last
week’s 14 revocations mentioned
came in counties which are even
m .t-doo: to legal liquor. The great
er part of them were in couuties
which ait themselves legally arid
and which are surrounded by the
same kind of fictional desert.
ABC counties showing the revoca
tion of one minor’s license each were
Halifax and Pitt. Two#youngsters lost
their right to drive in Buncombe,
which a few weeks ago defeated an
effort to legalize liquor sales in coun
ty stores. One license of a chap be
low 21 was revoked in each of Ran-
and 12,000,000 of these in the coun
t:y, but abbut 6,000,000 of them will
he deferred from the fighting service
lor a greater or less period of time
because:
(a) They will be more valuable
to their country at home, in indus
tries directly or indirect h agential
to the conduct of war.
(b) They will be more valuable
as managers, directors or other key
men in such industries.
c) They are federal, state or lo
cal government workers whose jobs
are considered “necessary”.
(d) They are licensed marine pi
lots, actively engaged in that pur
suit.
(e) They are ministers of the
gospei.
(1) They have dependents who
would become wards of the state if
left rione.
(g) They are aliens, physiciaily
unfit, or otherwise unacceptable for
service.
The second draft, if it becomes
necessary, will call men between 31
and 45 years of age. These number
13,000,000, and are subject to the
same deferments. •
As in the World War, the draft
will follow the lottery system. De
ferments will be decided on a local
basis, by boai'ds of local citizens.
Those who are deferred will be told
\vhere they shall work and at what
wages.
That’s what the next war will be
like to thi! United States —if it
comes.
“If America is to retain a neu
tral peace”, warns Mr. Cherne, who
knows about business activity, “this
peace will be paid for in heavy loss
of business, with the resultant de
pression of domestic activity. And
this, in turn, will result in a move
on the part of business to force the
repeal ot,the Johnson and neutrality
acts, permitting America to reap the
rich harvest of foreign gold. If this
campaign succeeds, we will be on
the same i;oad we traveled in 1914
to 1916 —and after 1916 came 1917!”
dolph. McDowell, Yancey, Lincoln,
Lee, Harnett, Guilford, Rockingham,
Cherokee and Columbus.
Yancey had a second minor’s re
vocation, but the cause was assign
ed as “driving after license revok
ed”, and there is nothing in the re
port to show why the permit was
taken awa ythe first time. This boy,
incidentally, is making a terrible
start. He is listed as only 16, the
minimum age which a license may
be issued, and he has already lost
his twice.
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HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1939
Mullet Line
Row Far From
Settlement
Raleigh, Sept. 4.—The Qld Mullet
line (name changed from Atlantic
and North Carolina to Atlantic and
East Carolina) has begun operations
under lease tq the H. P. Edwards in
terests, but there is a strong like
lihood that the amount the State of
North Carolina will get for its first
year’s operation will remain in doubt
for some time yet.
This comes about by reason of the
claims of the Edwards company that
maintenance of the railroad was poor
and inadequate after an agreement
had been reached as to the rental to
be paid for it by the new A. and E.
C.
The dispute was argued before the
directors of the A. and N. C., with
Edwards claiming a rebate of some
$25,000 or more, while the officials
of the State-operated line claimed it
had been adequately maintained.
Final result was appointment of a
committee from the directors to go
into the dispute in conference with
the Edwards interests.
Arbitration was provided' for in the
event the conferees fail to reach an
agreement, and it is this failure to
get together which now looms as a
very distinct possibility, though by
no means a certainty.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey says it
will be “several days” at least before
any Yneeting of the conferees is held.
Meanwhile the governor has appeal
ed to every one living in the section
covered by the Muilet to give the
new management cooperation in an
effort to make a success of the ven
ture under private operation.
“The only periods of successful or
profitable operation have occurred
under private operation,” he pointed
out.
Ford Is Poor
Prophet On
World Peace
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 4. —Concluding
our little sequence of two stories con
cerning Henry Ford’s qualifications
as a peace the ques
tion arises:
Could Henry conceivably have ac
complished any-pacifistic with that
expedition of his in 1915-’l6? I’ve
always surmised that he might have
done so if he’d handled it as com
petently as he has the flivver busi
ness/ It isn’t a bit likely that he’pl
have been able to stop the war, as
already raging, but my guess is that
he’d have had a chance of keeping
the United States out of it.
His original idea was to lead his
crusaders through Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Switzerland and on into
Holland, all neutral countries. From
Amsterdam the body’s main outfit
was t 6 sail for home, but Ford’s no
tion was to leave a permanent com
mittee at The Hague to continue the
expedition’s missionary work. This
committee was to be well paid. Con
sequently all the “peacers” wanted
to belong to it; they, got to quarrel
ing among themselves for member
ships before the Oscar II was scarce
ly out of sight of the Sandy Hook
lightship. That had as much to do
with anarchy into the party’s ranks
as the feud between the newspaper
men and the “peacers.”
The proposed permanent commit
tee wouldn’t have done any good any
way. It would have taken itself seri
ously and nobody would have paid
any attention to it after the main ex-
CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION / WREN MRNOI D
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
“I’M GLAD I took you up on
your proposition to come out here,
Lorena, for two main reasons,”
Shot Rogers was saying. “First is*
I get a chance to keep company
With you a lot, without anybody
butting In. Second is, I was begin-;
ning to feel like there really was
■pies at Brazee’s home, and this
way we can sort of test out and
see.”
“Shot, I know there are spies!
I’m sure of it!”
“Who do you know? How?”
! “I mean —in my heart. I just’
know.”
| “Urn. So do I, I guess.”
! “Do you? Whom do you suspect,
I Shot?” Lorena looked at him in
: deadly earnest. 1
j “Never mind, yet. If I told you •
you’d likely get mad, or feel bad. ■
And I don’t want to hurt you. Anv- j
way, I might be wrong.” |
! ‘T do believe we are thinking the ,
same thing, Shot.’ - i
i “Maybe-so. Anyhow, it’s good*
light how. Let’s crawl to the edge j
yonder and look down. Now don’t (
stand up, and crawl very slowly,
so your motions won’t attract at
tention. You got any jewelry—any
thing shiny on, that might catch a
sun glint?”
She left her wrist watch In the
pack, hidden among some rocks
and shrubs. There was a gemmed
ring which ihe took off, too, and a
shiny buckle. Then they moved
with stealthy caution to the edge
of their high promontory. Shot was
holding the field glasses and he
hunched against a stone to steady
himself in the breeze while he
peered intently down,
“These are good glasses,” he de
clared. “I can see plenty of stock
down there. Some that I can’t see
with naked eyes. . . . And Lorena,
I can see the Ghost river forks
plain. The three forks come to
gether within a quarter-mile of
each other, as I told you. See down
there?” He passed the glasses to
her. “See, the east fork is dry.”
She verified what he had told her.
The glasses could follow the main
river bed intermittently for two
miles, and each of the three
branches for a little way. Two
branches had water; silvery, mir
ror-like water. The other war dry.
Mountains reared their heads ob
trusively around them, and Shot
pointed out several passes nearer
the river level whence cows had
been driven. One pass led to the
Hump pasturage, over beyond a
looming hill. It was there that Es
cobar had made two or three suc
cessful sallies already, Shot said.
“It’s Jike an eagle’s aerie up
here,” Lorena declared. ■‘There’s
something so satisfactory and in-
pedition had left.
For the War’s Duration.
But if Henry had left his whole
clawing party to dig in indefinitely
at The Hague? I fancy that that spec
tacle would have made the entire
war look so ridiculous that all the
new world at least would have had
to laugh at it. And a war’s got to
have some dignity about it or it can’t
prosper.
t Consider some of the yarns that
had been broadcast in connection
with the tour. Henry had detached
himself and streaked it home from
Norway. The correspondents spread
the news that he was scared into
beating it out after a “peacer” had
drawn a pistol on him in the Grand
Hotel in Christinia. The “peacers”
version was that the newspapermen
had tried to kidnap him. In Copen
hagen the correspondents had pick
ed up “Doc” Cook of North Polar
fame, advertising him as a member
spiring about being on a height,
isn’t there?”
“Yup. Me, I’d often figured
some day to build me a house on
a hill. A ranch house. I’d feel im
portant in it, if I could look out my
front door away down at a lot of
territory.”
“Yes,” Lorena agreed.
“You slip back to the packs now
and lie down on them and rest, Lo
rena. Shade your eyes and sleep. I’ll
stand guard. I’ll call you if I need
anything.”
“I’m not sleepy.
“Go on and try it! you had a hard
walk and no sleep.”
Contrary to her statement, she
fell asleep at once when she had
pilipwed her head on the pack there
among the rocks. She really was
fatigued.
Shot crept back once and looked
down at her, then went back to his
outpost. He was fidgeting a little
because of the inactive duty he
had. He liked to be up and doing
things. He’d rather engage Mr.
Escobar in a gun duel than just
sit here and try to spy on him.
Put then he had tried the other
with no luck. He’d wait
Lorena awoke at a quarter of
one.
She was surprised and apologetic
for sleeping the six long hours,
even though she felt infinitely bet
ter. He smiled fondly at her and
told her she would make a good
pioneer. She proved she was mod
em, however, by rummaging in her
own pack for a compact and comb
and “touching up” herself then and
there. When she was done Shot told
her she looked perfect, and he
wasn’t exaggerating much if any,
She did look adorable; fresh and
youthful and clean. She gazed over
at him with a what-now expres
sion, ready for anything the after
noon might bring.
"Not a daggone thing’s hap
pened,” he declared. “You can come
and be sentry for a while, though,
while I stretch out.”
He crawled to change places with
her, then he immediately crawled
back.
“First call to lunch,” said he,
smiling. “Also last call. Swallow
this sandwich, miss, and don’t let
me hear you complain. And there’s
an apple for you.”
They hunched near each other in
some luxurious buck brush that
grew on the promontory, eating
and talking like college Students
might have (lone. The stern man
look that Shot Rogers could show
at times was completely missing
now,
“How old are you, Shot?” she
suddenly asked him,
“Sixteen.”
“No. Really. 1 *
of the party. They described him as
having a “practical plan” to end the
war by giving room to land-hungry
peoples. ■\Vb er e? —id the Arctic re
gions. What would they do there?
Why, raise musk ox. Hence, solve the
problem by the creation of a great
musk ox industry in the Arctic re
gions. The “doc” actually suggested
this, and the correspondents boosted
it as an honest-to-goodness Ford
scheme. In The Hague there was a
small-sized street riot, due to the
fact that the correspondents were
quartered in a prohibition, vege
tarian hotel and to their determina
tion to send in alcoholic and packing
house supplies against the hotel man
agement’s wishes.
This sort of thing was calculated
to distract attention from legitimate
belligerency.
When I got to England (whither I
went from Holland rather than come
directly back to the United States).
‘Twenty-six.”
“Hunir^ h H S y ° Ur name? "
Hunh? He paused with
m mid-air, two bites miisint PP I*
stare at her. “ ng * to
“What’s your real name’ sw
is a nickname, I know.” not
"Why, uh, just call me cjvw
Everybody does.” ‘
“Are you ashamed of v,„
name?” y° ur
No! Not none—not an> t>
It's Archibald Lorenzo £
mother named me.”
“Why don’t people call you that*
Some of it, anyway.” * inatT
“They don’t know it. I used to U
Lorenzo, but you are the only mj
ia Anzona tha t knows all of f
Woman, I mean. Or mar either»
merited!” y ° U t "" t "” ! «'»*>*•
~;^a-'" ota - ateaSe ' M *-‘
“I understand, Shot.” She smiun
sweetly at him. "But ffu a "‘S
ana y»» can be
of it. When you get a little oMer
Shot won’t be your first cho-e” ’
Because she was through rn'« n .
then, she idly lifted the glass,* to
her eyes and focussed thorn <5> le
swept them in a slow panorama
looking down. And all & once her
movement stopped.
“Shot!” she whispered, , i B if
somebody might hear. “Shot'”
“Hunh? What is it, Lorena?”
I think they ve come. There are
riders, driving cows!”
He took the glasses and r*-
focused, trained them as he stared
intently at what she had seen. By
straining she could see enough with
her naked eyes.
For a half hour they old not
speak at all, save as he murmured
description of the drivers’ progress
They were Mexicans. They num
bered at least 20 men. They had SO
to 00 head of cattle ahead of them,
as near as he could judge, And, yeai
ggain they were approaching the
river.
The stock were driven into the
water and turned upstream. Shot
and Lorena saw them approach the
west fork and avoid it, saw them
driven on by the middle fork, too.
Shot’s mouth dropped open. His
head and Lorena’s were very close
together as they crouched there,
peering downward.
“Grea-a-at hades, Lorena girl!’’
Shot breathed, after another quar
ter hour had passed. “Did you see
that? They didn’t take either we
of the water courses. They drove
those cows—by George—right or
up the third branch of the river,
the east fork, which is just plain
dry sand! Where in the devil cat
they be going?”
(To hto (Continued)
I was asked a lot more questions
about the supposed Ford kidnaping.
“Doc” Cook and anti-alcholocialism
at The Hague than I was asked as
to continental war settlement.
Down the Frivolity Channel.
I think a deal of belligerency could
have diverted down this frivolity
channel away from belligerency, if
Henry had had any sense of humor.
But he hasn’t got it.
No, I don’t believe he’d have stop
ped the war.
Still he might have influenced
Uncle Samuel. He didn’t, though, I
don’t think much of his judgment.
Not as an internationalist.
Henry coming back to the United
States after his peace trip, said he’d
made the worst mistake in his life.
Now he’s posing as an expert. I hope
he’s right, as a peace expert.
I don’t think he has an idea about
it.