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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940
AMERICAN POSITION
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Behind the President’s speech to
the American Scientific conference
was a very genuine worry over the
protection of the Western hemi
sphere.
The President threw aside a
speech which had been prepared for
several days before, and during the
tense hours just after Holland and
Belgium were invaded he dictated a
new draft which emphasized the im
portance of Pan-American unity,
plus force, to protect these conti
nents. He even raised the question
whether the American nations could
stand idly by while dictators con
quer the rest of the world.
Behind all this were some very
careful studies which the President
and his naval and military strate
gists have been making of Western
hemisphere defense.
It may sound like scare headlines,
but it is no exaggeration to say
that to the strategists who take out
paper and pencil to figure on pro
tecting the U. S. A., Nazi activities
in Norway, Denmark, Holland and
Belgium have meant the very defi
nite scrapping (for the first time in
our 164-year history) of George
Washington’s Farewell Address on
American isolation.
Here is how the strategists figure
it out. The keystone of Americar
defense has been:
1. A big navy in the Pacific.
2. Friendship with Great Britain,
which rules the waves of the At
lantic.
Assuming that the British fleet
should disappear from the Atlantic,
the United States would then have
to maintain two fleets—one for the
Pacific and one for the Atlantic.
And it would take at least four
years to build a new fleet for the
Atlantic.
• • •
RIGHT ON FOREIGN FORECAST
No matter what they may think
of Roosevelt’s domestic policies or
politics, some of his severest critics
give him credit for being absolutely
right on foreign strategy.
Exactly two years ago the Presi
dent told his cabinet in categoric
terms that he was convinced war
was inescapable in Europe, and that
the results would be serious in the
extreme for the democracies.
Last summer, also, he informed
congressional leaders that war was
inevitable in the autumn—and got
scoffed at for his warning.
In view of the President’s con
sistent record for accuracy on
things international, his present
views are very much worth record
ing.
By nature, Roosevelt is an op
timist. But regarding the present
allied position he is not optimistic.
In fact, he is inclined to think that
the allies are in for a defeat, that
their situation is much more seri
ous than the American public re
alizes.
Naturally, the President is not ex
pressing these views publicly. Also
they are subject to change. But the
close study he is giving to the Mon
roe Doctrine, the defense of the
American continent, and especially
to the possibility of enemy air
bases in Iceland, Mexico, and
around Panama, all indicate that
he is figuring on the distinct pos
sibility of a crushing allied defeat.
• * •
RED HERRING
One of the weapons of moden.
War is the red herring. Honor has
departed from warfare. The Nazis
used subterfuge to get into Norway,
German aviators dressed in Dutch
uniforms to land in Holland. Italy
maneuvered in the Mediterranean
to keep the British Irom sending too
many ships to Scandinavia. Musso
lini was the red herring.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable
to figure that if Germany ever want
ed to land troops in the Western
hemisphere, Japan would be the red
herring, would send her fleet to
ward Hawaii. Probably she would
not land in Hawaii, but merely ma
neuver enough to keep the U. S.
fleet in the Pacific, prevent it from
protecting the Atlantic coast.
At present only four cruisers, plus
one small airplane carrier and some
decrepit destroyers, guard thr At
lantic. Before the Pacific fleet could
return through Panama to the At
lantic, Germany could land all the
troops she wanted in Trinidad, or
Puerto Rico, or the northern tip of
South America.
Military minds calculate that Ger
man troops even could be landed in
Newfoundland, which has, at Bot-
wood, one of the best airports in
the world. And from Botwood, they
could land in Maine about as fast
as U. S. forces could concentrate
against them.
Germany, however, is not likely
to bother with New England. Far
wealthier, far more important are
the oil fields of Venezuela, the tropi
cal plantations of Brazil, the wheat
fields of Argentina. Here there are
large groups of German and Italian
settlers.
Important fact: The Low Coun
tries now invaded by Hitler are
among the most densely populated
in the world, have no raw materials.
Outside of Africa, the wealthiest raw
material area in the world, also the
least populated, lies under the Mon
roe Doctrine
General
Johnson
Jayr:
DANGERS PARADED
WASHINGTON, D. C.
A digest of those “thousands of
telegrams” drawn by the Presi
dent’s Pan-American speech on Hit
ler’s latest blitzkrieg would be valu
able.
Ninety per cent of them were re
ported by Secretary Early to ap
prove and the other 10 per cent to
be from “peace-at-any-pricers.” An
[ analysis would be valuable because
I can’t see how you can approve a
speech when you don’t know what it
means. I have discussed this speech
with several informed people. They
don’t know what it means—and I
don’t.
From its condemnation of treach
erous brutality of Hitler the approv
al should have been 100 per cent
and also for its plea for pan-Ameri
can unity in defense. This unity
the President called “our solution.”
But then he said: “Is this solution—
our solution—permanent or safe if
it is solved for us alone? ... I
think not!”
• • •
What does that mean? It may
seem a slight phrase to be quib
bling about, but no utterance by a
President of the United States on
our future course in a world at war
is a “slight” phrase. This one
wasn’t intended to be slight. It was
coupled with an assertion that too
many of us have been deceived by
the “false teaching of geography”
into feeling safe, “physically, eco
nomically and socially,” from the
impacts of attacks on civilization
elsewhere. Then followed state
ments that, from the point of view
of conquest, Santiago, Chile, is clos
er to Europe than Alexander found
Macedonia to be from Persia or
than the distance Caesar traveled
from Rome to Spain—that is, four
or five hours from Africa to South
America as compared with four or
five weeks it took the armies of
Napoleon to go from Paris to Rome
or Poland.
I don’t know what that means but
it sounds like "our frontier is in
France.” The statement identifying
airplane timetables with the pace of
conquering armies or from the point
of view of conquest is utterly mis
leading—almost as misleading as it
would be to say that the speed of a
race horse compares with that of a
telegram. An airplane can go from
Africa to South America in a few
hours. But an army can’t. It can’t
go at all if our navy and air force
are efficient and afloat and not chas
ing boogey-men in the east Pacific.
This aspect of the speech was cryp
tic obscuration coupled with sensa
tional and misleading terrorism.
It creates an occasion to repeat
the quotation from Lloyd George’s
speech that upset Chamberlain.
“The nation is ready as long as its
leadership is right, as long as you
say clearly what you are aiming at,
as long as you give confidence to
them that their leaders are doing
their best for them.”
• • •
The President does the deliberate
reverse of “saying clearly what he
is aiming at.” His carefully guarded
exterior seems to be full to the
bursting point with some kind of in
terior content he doesn’t often re
veal but every time a new pressure
comes, a little of it squirts out—like
“frontiers in France” and “quaran
tine the aggressors.” The whole
country is behind him at any cost or
effort to prepare this country for de
fense of this continent. It is 90 per
cent against any attempt at “de
fending” America by attacking in
Europe or Asia—with either men,
money or materials. It would be a
political—as well as naval and mili
tary—catastrophe.
For, even for the relative strategi
cal ease of continental defense, Mr.
Roosevelt has not prepared the mili
tary and naval weapons to make
good his position and the whole of
recent history proves that bluffing
on a bobtail is suicide.
• • •
FAT’S IN THE FIRE
The fat’s in the fire and our navy
is in Hawaii. Our miniature army
is relatively equipped with bows and
arrows. It is a pitiful Falstaffian
insufficiency. We are quibbling
about the design of a rifle already
adopted and in production after
years of experiment. It appears
now that the navy has known the
facts of its weakness against bombs
from above, mines from below and
secret foreign building programs for
some time—without admission be
fore the crisis.
Surely there was no ignorance in
this government about the absolute
ly inefficient equipment of our army
in almost everything needful for
modern war and its own grotesque
inadequacy.
• • •
Everybody is now squawking
about our lack of tin and rubber and
our failure of action in motorizing
and mechanizing our army. This
column has been squawking about it
for five years. Seven years ago
this writer had written into the Re
covery act ample authority and ap
propriations to do all these things
as a combination measure of re
employment, recovery and defense.
That was the year Hitler started.
It was the year that tl^ adminis
tration gave most of that $3,300,000,-
000 to Hopkins for raking leaves.
British Troops Hailed as ‘Saviours of Belgium’
“The Name
Is Familiar—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Although many other pictures have appeared since that day, none tells more clearly than the above the
enthusiasm with which the Belgians welcomed the first appearance of Baitish troops to combat the second Ger
man invasion of their country in a quarter of a century.This picture was among the very first radioed on that
historic day.
Mother’s Residence in U. S. Legalized by President
James Watt
The family of Fred C. Bucholz, a Los Angeles, Calif., war veteran, gives thanks for the action of Presi- 1
dent Roosevelt in signing his name to a document which kept the family together. The bill which the President
signed was introduced in congress by the American Legion, and legalized the entry of Mrs. Bucholz into the
United States for permanent residence. Canadian-born Mrs. Bucholz was about to be separated from her fam
ily by deportation proceedings.
Slothful Ways Are Natural to Him
An animal that makes a habit of spring fever, regardless of the
season, is the sloth, world’s laziest animal. Here one of them “speeds”
up a pole held by its captor, A. W. Anderson, who returned recently to
the United States from Nicaragua with two dozen of the slow-moving
creatures in his charge.
Mechanical Mutt
Elektro, the mechanical man, and
Sparko, the mechanical dog, get to
gether in New York, where they
are on display at the fair. Sparko
barks, wags his tail and sits up.
Elektro is equally versatile.
He Boosts Willkie for G.O.P. Nomination ‘Fightingest Man’
Capt. Boycott
Looking at a picture of Wendell Willkie, his favorite presidential
candidate, is Russell W. Davenport, who recently resigned his position
as editor of Fortune magazine in order to promote Willkie for President.
Willkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Utilities, frequently
has been mentioned as a Republican “dark horse.”
Gen. Paul Rollet, 71, “fightingest
man in France,” has requested ac
tive war duty. Rollet was retired in
1937, after 46 years of service. He is
one year younger than Gen. Maxime
Wegand, allied army head in the
Near East.
Watt
T AMES WATT, who devoted most
*-* of his life to the invention and
improvement of the modern steam
engine, has his name commemorat
ed in the field of electricity instead
of steam. The unit of electrical
measurement called the watt was
named after him, and designates the
amount of electricity used in doing
work.
He was a Scottish engineer who
was bom in 1736
and died at the
age of 83. In his
later years he ex
perimented with
an apparatus for
copying sculpture.
Not many months
before his death
he presented cop
ies of busts to his
friends as the
work “of a young
artist just enter
ing his eighty-
third year.”
The first use of Watt’s steam en
gine was in pumping water from
mines. Later, when others suggest
ed making a wheeled cart of it and
using it on rails to pull carriages.
Watt would not listen to the plans.
And so it is that the man who
made the steam engine practical
died believing that the steam rail
road was impracticable.
Maybe, after all, it’s just as well
that a word in the electrical field
instead of steam has been coined to
commemorate him.
» • »
Galvanism
NE day in the latter part of the
Eighteenth century, while Luigi
Galvani, eminent professor of anato
my at Bologna, Italy, was at work
in his laboratory, an accident oc
curred that startled the entire sci
entific world.
Galvani had placed a dissected
frog on a table near an electrical
machine. His assistant accidentally
touched a nerve
of the dead frog
while the ma
chine was turning
and sending out
sparks. Immedi
ately the dead frog
jumped into ac
tion and went
through all sorts
of physical con
tortions.
Galvani was a
great professor,
an authority on
anatomy — he Lnigi Galvani
must explain this phenomenon! If
electricity could make a dead frog’s
muscles move, then it must be elec
tricity that made its muscles move
when it was alive, he reasoned. Was
there such a force as animal elec
tricity? Was electricity the force
that made all animals—and men—
move? Wasn’t electricity life itself?
Galvani thought so—and he told
the world what he thought. The
world believed him—even the medi
cal world—and a new word, galvan
ism, was added to every European
language. It meant the force in 8
living body that gives it the ability
to move and remain alive.
And today we still say persons
are “galvanized into action” when
we mean they have had life put into
them suddenly like Galvani’s dead
frog.
• • •
Boycott
T HE word “boycott” is a com
mon one and is known to almost
every modern language. Original
ly it was the name of a man and
that was only 60 years ago.
In 1880 Capt. Charles Cunningham
Boycott, who lived at Lough Mask
in County Mayo, Ireland, and who
was land agent for a British lord,
was so severe and unreasonable
with his tenants
that they banded
together and re
fused to buy any
thing from him
or work for him.
Their economic
strike reached a
climax at harvest
time when no one
would help him
with his crops. A
gang of Orange
men were sent
down from Ulster
to aid in the har
vest but they went under the protec
tion of a military force from Cavan
and elsewhere.
Captain Boycott’s troubles attract
ed wide attention and the Irish Land
league successfully used the same
tactics to force their demands in
other localities, repeating the “Boy
cott incident.” 3y the time of his
death in 1897 a boycott had come to
mean the same thing throughout the
world. The French word is “boy-
cotter”; the Dutch, “boycotten”; the
German, “boycottiren,” and the Rus
sian, ■ “boikottiroyat.”
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- ‘A Dog’s Tale’
Mark Twain’s “A Dog’s Tale” was
first published in Harper’s maga
zine in December, 1903. Subsequent
ly it was privately printed by the
National Anti-Vivisection society. In
1904 Harper’s brought out the story
in book form.
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QUESTIONS
An ordinary blackboard eraser
makes an excellent shoe polisher.
* • •
To remove ink from carpets,
wash the stain immediately with
skim milk.
• * *
After peeling onions rub the
hands with a little dry mustard,
then wash in the usual way.
* * •
Clear ammonia — pure, not
household—will remove paint from
windows even when it has been
on a long time. Apply with a
scrubbing brush.
• • •
A bay leaf or a sprig of dried
thyme is sufficient to season tbe
gravy of a pot roast.
• • •
Make a point of keeping the best
pieces of old pillow-cases and
sheets. They are handy for patok-
ing and much better than new
material.
SIMPLE
NEURALGIA
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Value of Books
Books, like proverbs, receive
their chief value from the stamp
and esteem of ages through which
they have passed.—Sir William
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Waking Dream
You ask what hope is. He (Aris
totle) says it is a waking dream.—
Laertius.
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Pity Forgot
In extreme danger, fear turns
a deaf ear to every feeling of pity.
—Caesar.
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