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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1940 GENERAL HUGH S. ^JOHNSON Jour: F«M«ra W WNU S*'** ARMY ILL EQUIPPED WASHINGTON.—Now that artil lery fire has departed from the battlefields of Finland, the allies are getting an almost panic-stricken picture of what that defeat means to them. For when the history of this world war is written, probably the letdown of Finland can be placed beside the British sabotage of the Spanish re public as the war’s two major catas trophes. The surrender of Finland means not so much a triumph for Soviet Russia as for Germany. It means that the remainder of Finland now will be welded together for self- protection in an economic alliance with Sweden and Norway. And most important of all it means that As Finland sees it. all Scandinavia will come under the direct domination, if not the con trol, of Germany. In fact, Nazi Germany is work ing overtime to create a sort of United States of North Europe— Norway, Sweden, Finland and Den mark, all co-operating in the closest manner economically, and perhaps politically, with the Reich. That is why Dr. Schacht, Germany’s eco nomic genius, arrived in Stockholm exactly one day after Finnish peace was signed. This means that another vital area of Europe becomes alienated from the British, just as the down fall of the Spanish republic meant that British influence vanished from one vital area of the Mediterranean. * • 4i WELLESIAN CODE WASHINGTON.—There is a very good reason why newspaper cables regarding the peace mission of Un dersecretary of State Welles are so meager. He isn’t saying anything about his conversations to a soul except the President of the United States. ' Not even Secretary of State Hull is in on all of the Welles reports, though he gets them second-hand from Roosevelt. Virtually no other member of the state department knows anything about the progress Welles is making. Confidential fact is that before Welles departed, he worked out a private code with the President. This code consists of numbers, so that Welles wires back a number and only the President knows what that number means. Thus it is im possible for the Nazis, British or anyone else to break down the code. Welles’ code cables are sent to Secretary Hull, who, in turn, takes them to the President, who person ally decodes them. After Welles’ conversation with Hitler, he cabled back a single number, and Mr. Hull took the number over to the White House, gave it to the President. The President did a little figuring, then said: “Doesn’t look so good, does it?” Note—The Welles reports are so brief that obviously he and the Pres ident are counting chiefly on per sonal conversations after his re turn. • • • Mail Bag. E. C. S., San Rafael, Calif.—The Rev. Gabriel Richard was the only Catholic priest ever to serve in the U. S. congress. He was a delegate from Michigan territory in 1823. Born in France, he came to this country as a mathematics profes sor, then went west as a missionary among the Indians. W. G. M., Chatfield, Minn.—The senate pays the funeral expenses of deceased members, the average be ing about $4,000. The Borah funeral was one of the most expensive, cost ing $9,600. Reason for the high cost was that a large party of senators were designated to make the trip to Boise, Idaho. The funeral of Sen. Tom Walsh of Montana, at approx imately the same distance, cost $6,000. The funeral of Senator Overman of North Carolina cost *3,000. • • • Capital Chaff. “John Paris” is in Washington to settle blockade disputes between the U. S. and British governments. "John Paris” is the pen name of Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, author of the novel on Japanese life titled “Kimono.” Robert E. Lynch, able new gen eral counsel of the Dies committee, is one of the few Americans who saw Lenin. He accompanied Am bassador Bill Bullitt to Russia when Woodrow Wilson sent Bill to report on the Bolshevik revolution. There is a smell in the Washing ton air of something like a com plete disembowelment of the army defense program by a congressional refusal to provide funds to carry it out. The navy will get by partly be cause the President regards himself as a navy man and doesn’t pay much attention to the army, and partly because Jimmy Byrnes is in charge of the navy’s needs in the senate and is man enough to see that they don't go by default. But the army has never been any too adept at handling congressional committees. Its topside isn’t alto gether out of the doghouse with the administration and with congress and it hasn’t any outstanding con gressional champion to present and insist upon its case. Even the pre sentation of the case to the country has been bad. There have been too many administration Pollyanna speeches assuring us that the army is coming along satisfactorily in its modernization program and that there is nothing to fear. • • • The fact is that it isn’t coming along at more than a snail’s pace and that if the Caspar Milquetoast requests it has made for money to make it come a little faster are slashed, it could be a major catas trophe. It is reorganizing in modern streamlined divisions to be entirely motorized with new rapid-fire equip ment and with many of the men behind steel shields. The war in Europe is proving that, with this kind of organization and equipment, far fewer men are needed, those who are used are much better pro tected from death or injury, and the great speed, range and mobility will enable a few men to defend a far greater area than was ever before thought possible. This is a vital consideration in our military problem. Our principal danger is swift and unexpected raids. From an expense angle alone, we could not defend our vast stretches of coast and territory with fixed or slow forces. We couldn’t do it with what we have. We can only be sure of doing it by what we propose to get. One other problem is to be able by an expeditionary force to repel or break up any hos tile lodgment in Latin America. In view of the armament of other coun tries, both of these problems abso lutely require such an army as I have described. Until we get it, our defenses will be woefully weak. We don’t need a big army, but we need a small one that can move fast and hit hard over the widest area that any nation has to defend. Now you can’t do a half-way job on this. A motorized army has to be motorized all the way. It is tied to the speed of its slowest unit. It is an integrated whole and if part of it isn’t high speed, the rest of it might as well not be. Furthermore, if you streamline your divisions on the theory that you will make up for the loss of men by armor and auto matic weapons of vastly increased power and then don’t provide the weapons, you have cut your defen sive power in half—or worse. It seems to me that we are mak ing exactly this mistake right now even with the program as it is. If the appropriations are cut, I am ab solutely certain that we shall make it. It is not an exaggeration to say that we have no usable army now. With the world at its most danger ous worst, we may be caught chang ing our clothes and so—very literal ly—with our pants down. I don’t like the air of secrecy that covers hearings on our military commitees. They do not make sense. Foreign nations know all about this condition. The people who have the best right to know about it—precisely and exactly—are the people of the United States. They know precious little and what they know is largely wrong. Per haps if they knew more, we might get some action. HOW MANY ARE IDLE? There is a big tirade in the colum nists parade. Are there 10,000,000 unemployed—or only about 2,000,- 000? It isn’t necessarily a case of “fig ures don’t lie—liars figure,” but of assumption which you apply to get your result. That is a question of judgment, and here the wish is often father to the thought and dif ference in wish and thought can make differences of millions in re sult. Federal figures on the shifting and infinitely intricate problem of unemployment are practically as worthless as a Gallup poll on a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. Why does the federal government want to know? Principally to measure the problem cf relief. That is both an intricate and an intimate problem. It is far too large and too much affected by local complexities to be approached or administered on a national scale. But there isn’t a town or com munity in this country that cannot gauge its problem of adequate local relief with far more equity, human ity and accuracy than these shot gun and partly self-serving esti mates of Washington pump primer* —or of their opponents. |, _ r i Where Canadian Government Guards Enemy Aliens High in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, west of Calgary, Is located one of two Canadian internment camps where enemy aliens are kept under guard for the duration of the war. Left: One of the watch towers overlooking the internment camp. Right: Scene at guard mounting time. Here the temperature goes down to well below zero, but guards and prisoners are well equipped with warm clothing. Camp buildings are seen in the background. Their Negotiations Saw End to Russo-Finnish War Principal figures in bringing to an end the three and one-half month war between Finland and Russit were (left to right) Viacheslav M. Molotoff, Soviet foreign commissar; Rysto Ryti, premier of the Repub lic of Finland; and Dr. Juho Paasikivi, Finland’s outstanding expert on Russo-Finnish affairs. Ryti and Molotoff headed the groups that agreed upon terms of a peace treaty between the two countries. Russia’s grip over the northern Baltic was virtually clinched by the terms of the peace treaty reached with Finland, Terms of the treaty were considered by authorities to be much harsher than pre-war Russian demands. Scientist Proves There’s Magic in Mud Plan Convention Using crude Bentonite clay, Dr. Ernest lauser, Massachusetts In stitute of Technology scientist, has developed a new substance which is Impervious to the strongest acids and alkalies and is fire, oil and water proof. The substance may be processed to be made as pliable as silk. The clay is mined in Wyoming, California and many other places. Approaching its century milestone is the Illinois State Medical society, first established in 1840. * Dr. James H. Hutton, president (seated) and Dr. J. S. Nagle, oldest member of the society’s council, discuss plans for the centennial convention to be held in Peoria, HI., May 21-23. It’s ‘The Better ’Ole’ for R. A. F. Pilots Awaiting orders are these members of the British royal air force, stationed in a duty office dugout somewhere in France. The pilots on duty are sitting around the stove trying t:» keep warm while anticipating flying orders. The switchboard at right is in direct communication with R. A. F. headquarters. Verbal Bomber A member of the crew of a British bombing plane demonstrated the method of dropping propaganda leaflets on enemy territory. The verbal bombs are slipped through a chute and scatter as they fall. A/f I AMI BEACH. — Base hits, pieced together, make ball player’s meal ticket. As a result, when the average player isn’t hit ting, his head goes down and he frets and worries so much he can’t field, either. Frank Crosetti is an exception. The Yankee shortstop, in the com pany of a bombing crew, doesn’t hit much more than his weight, yet every day he is out there hustling and playing a great game of ball. No player in either major league gives a smoother performance from one end of a season to the other. FRANKIE CROSETTI Every day is just like every other they’re all good. Crosetti, of course, has spurts in which he will average .300 or over and when he hits a ball solidly, he can drive it a long way, having a fine wrist action that makes up for the size and weight that most power hitters have. It was a home run by Crosetti with Myril Hoag on base in the eighth inning that broke the resistance of fered by Dizzy Dean to the Yankees in the second game of the 1938 world series—a smash that wrecked a clas sic stand by Diz when the odds loomed high against him. The Best Combination Frankie’s main value to the Yan kees lies, naturally, in his superb defensive play. He and Joe Gordon provide the Yanks with the best sec ond-base combina tion in the game to day and one of the best ever. Of these latter day hook-ups pre ceding that of Cro setti and Gordon, a balance was lack ing. Lazzeri, one of Joe Gordon the great second basemen through his first seven years with the Yankees didn’t have, in Koenig, a shortstop to match him. Koenig was a good ball player but an erratic one, a much better hitter than Crosetti but nowhere near Crosetti in the matter of field ing skill, so that Lazzeri had to carry him much of the time. Lazzeri also had to carry Crosetti when Frankie joined the Yankees, schooling him to the majors and working out, between them, some semblance of smoothness. And then, just as Crosetti had learned his way around and learned how to work with Lazzeri, Tony slowed up. At last Joe McCarthy, striving desperately for a combination that could make double plays, put Cro setti and Gordon together. They are perfectly matched and play togeth er with confidence, speed and rhythm. The plays they made in the World Series last fall—the plays they made during the championship season—satisfied even McCarthy, a hard man to satisfy—a man whose fetish is the double play.. The Threat by Werber Winning a berth with the Yankees wasn’t an easy one for Crosetti—or, rather, holding it after he had won it wasn’t easy. Because of his light hitting, his job was in danger in the spring of 1933, after he had been the regular shortstop through 1932, his first year. Also at the Yankee camp in the spring of 1933 at St. Petersburg was Bill Werber, now third baseman of the Reds. Werber was faster—Cro setti never has been exactly a speed merchant, for all the agility with which he bounces around the short field, spearing line drives, scooping up grounders, starting or pivoting on double plays—and another of Mc Carthy’s demands is for speed—and more speed. Werber was fiery, col orful and aggressive—and Crosetti then, as now, was so quiet as to be almost backward, even on the field. The Threat Answered Werber, just up from Buffalo, started with a rush that spring. Be fore the stay at St. Petersburg ended, it looked as though the job was his, and other managers, be lieving McCarthy had made his choice, made offers for Crosetti. Then McCarthy gave Crosetti a fling at the job again and the fine play he turned in as the team swung North decided the tussle. He held on—tad Werber went to the Red Sox. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS CHICKS' ^®®*^**^* No culls. 100 postpaid Bend Money Order for Prompt Shipment. Live Delivery Guaranteed ATLAS CO.. 2651 Chouteau, St. Louie, Mat INSTRUCTION STOP JOB HUNTING: Use science gettlof position or better job. Particulars free. 25c and stamp for handling. THE? BART LEY CO., 201 Delano, Houston, Texas. 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