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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1940
General
HUGH S.
^JOHNSON
Washington, D. C.
FOREIGN TRADE MONOPOLY
More alert minds in the Roosevelt
administration have been doing
some very careful thinking about
what is going to happen to Ameri
can trade in the future. The pic
ture is far from optimistic. Here
are some of the things they have
concluded:
After this war is over it is almost
inevitable, if Germany wins, that the
world will be divided into four great
trading ar^as. They will be:
1. Japan and China, comprising
about 450,000,000 people and falling
under the totalitarian domination of
Japan.
2. Germany, which will exercise
life and death rule over about 400,-
000,000 people, including all the na
tions of Europe.
3. Russia, which will govern the
trade of about 200,000,000 people.
4. The United States, Canada and
South America—if we can still keep
the latter under the Monroe Doc
trine. These will represent about
350,000,000 people.
In the first three of these economic
areas, foreign trade will be com
pletely controlled by government
monopolies. For instance, Germany
operating on a slave wage scale
and a socialized system, will be able
to cut prices and undersell the Unit
ed States throughout South America.
Already Germany is offering steel in
Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
for September delivery far under
prices quoted by U. S. steel mills.
Japan, which is sure to industri
alize China, also will pay slave
wages, and will do the same.
U. S. ALTERNATIVES
Therefore the United States, in
order to continue any kind of export
trade whatsoever, will have to do
one of four things:
1. Reduce wages to a level approx
imating the starvation standards
paid in Germany.
2. Reduce profits, or eliminate
them altogether, if German prices
are to be met.
3. Subsidize industry and virtually
take it over, as under the Nazi, Fas
cist, and Soviet systems.
4. Create a foreign trade monop
oly. This is what the Russians have
done for more than a decade, and
what the Nazis have beendoing more
recently. All exports abroad are
sold through the government and im
ports are purchased the same way.
It is this last system which New
Deal advisers consider least objec
tionable of the four, and upon which
they are concentrating.
Naturally, the handling of U. S.
exports and imports through a gov
ernment monopoly is a long, long
way from the Hull trade treaties.
• • *
CHICAGO CHAFF
The Utah and Florida delegations
were divided 50-50 between men and
women—the only such at any major
convention.
Dr. Francis Townsend, old-age
czar, attempted to put the bee on
Democratic platform-makers and
candidates as he did at Philadel
phia, but with no better luck. The
only one to give him a tumble was
McNutt, whom Townsend was boost
ing for vice president.
Chief pluggers for the “little busi
ness” plank in the platform, prom
ising loans and protection against
big business, were Sen. James Mead
of New York, Chairman Adolph
Sabath of the house rules commit
tee, Dr. John F. Carruthers, head of
the National Small Business Re
search bureau, and James G. Daly,
president of the National Small
Businessmen’s association.
Strange pre-convention visitor to
the national committee headquar
ters here was John Raskob, chair
man from 1928 to 1932 and with A1
Smith a bolter in 1936. Raskob spent
a half-hour conferring privately with
Farley.
Two most photographed women at
the convention were Evie Robert,
photogenic wife of the secretary of
the national committee, and stately,
white-haired Mrs. Mack, national
committeewoman from the Virgin
islands.
Two other unusual visitors were
Mrs. Alice Longworth and Forrest
Davis, goateed newsman, both ac
tive in the nearly successful G. O. P.
presidential campaign of Senator
Taft.
No wonder one of the first things
the national committee did was to
enact a rule limiting the number of
, delegates at future Democratic con-
j ventions. This one has 1,094 votes
1 and 1,896 delegates. Three states
* sent veritable armies of delegates,
each with a minute fraction of a
vote. Texas, with 46 votes, sent 135
delegates; Mississippi, with 18 votes,
has 108 delegates; and Montana,
with six votes, has 26 delegates.
One Mississippi district with two
votes elected 58 delegates.
Pride of Jim Farley at the con
vention was his attractive, 15-year-
old daughter, Ann, who acts as one
of his secretaries and takes her
duties very seriously.
Women played a big role in the
Chicago convention; in fact their
most important at any national po
litical convention. In addition to a
record representation of 500 out of
2,000 delegates and alternates, the
women also were well represented
on all the important committees.
Eighteen women leaders in various
fields are acting as an advisory com
mittee to the platform makers.
Washington, D. C.
DEFENSE FALLACIES
The President was right in saying
that the American people are pre
pared for any sacrifice for total de
fense. It should have begun long
ago.
But dancing a merry madrigal
and tossing off billions like bay
leaves isn’t total defense. Mr.
Roosevelt’s futile solution for every
problem from unemployment to ag
riculture, from business depression
to defense, is to ask congress for
blank checks for billions.
On the very face of this message,
defense appropriations must have
been wholly unplanned. It takes, or
it should take, much time and study
to blue-print and then undertake an
industrial production progress of
even $1,000,009,000. But this is the
President’s own time table of what
he has asked—and when.
January, 1940 .... $2,000,000,000
May 16, 1940 .... 1,182,000,000
May 31, 1940 .... 1,277,741,170
July 10, 1940 .... 4,848,171,967
Total $9,307,913,137
• • •
Nobody is going to complain about
what defense costs. Nobody ought
to complain about the belated awak
ening of our great American Dala-
dier or the sound diplomatic, mili
tary and naval strategy both of dem
onstrating that we intend immedi
ately to make ourselves invincible
and of proceeding to do so. But
this roman candle jugglery with bil
lions isn’t going to fool anybody but
the American people.
For what is this money to be
spent? For "naval expansion,” for
active and reserve equipment of a
“land force” of 2,000,000 men and
for 19,000 airplanes—all “to repel
aggression against the United
States or the Western hemisphere.”
But we "will not send our men to
take part in European wars.”
How about results from the bil
lions already authorized? “Excel
lent progress . . . Every week, more
and more is being delivered.” That
sounds exactly like the guns and
munitions we have “on hand or on
order.”
The trouble with every phase of
this message is that it reveals noth
ing except a hint that there is no
plan. That the magnificent figures
were picked out of the air, and that
actual progress is too piffling to be
described any more definitely than
in the Dr. Coue pollyanna abraca
dabra “every day in every way I
grow better and better.”
• • •
Is there any military or naval
opinion that we can or should pre
pare to repel aggression anywhere
on the Western hemisphere? It is
not on record. A realistic approach
to our defense problem reveals
that, while we can and must become
supreme and impregnable about as
far as the Equator with such
strength as would be a serious threat
to any incursions further south, we
can’t underwrite all the weak, un
democratic, unfriendly Latin nations
between the Equator and Cape
Horn.
The strictly military problem does
not require 2,000,000 men and, if it
did, it would be folly to provide
facilities to equip them in short or
der. War changes equipment too
fast. If you gear a tool up to equip
a million men in two or three years,
you can equip the next million in
six months. If you try to equip the
first 2,000,000 in so short a time,
you risk mountains of obsolete equip
ment and acres of idle plants.
A promise not to send Americans
abroad doesn’t mean anything if
your policy invites foreign war.
The American people should not
be fooled into thinking that rearma
ment is “excellent.” It is not. It
could not be. It would be a miracle
if we began to get balanced equip
ment in 18 months, and this adminis
tration is neither manned, equipped
nor organized to produce industrial
miracles.
• • •
PROTECT REFUGEES
If there are any effective legal
restrictions preventing child ref
ugees from England coming to
homes offered them in America,
they ought to be removed.
There is a more cogent question.
Some institutions for the care of
homeless children have experienced
a marked seasonal rise in applica
tions for adoption around the gra
cious Christmas season.
At varying later periods the little
darlings don’t seem so desirable.
On this ground, usually, the insti
tution that gave the child will take
it back, but what is going to hap
pen in a similar situation with these
piteous fugitives?
Heaven knows we have such a
terrific burden in taking care of the
millions of our own destitute that
we are not making a very good job
of it, and few if any of their children
are being guaranteed a home. But
the plight of little children under
bombing operations is more than
persuasive—it is compelling.
Many good and responsible people
i are offering to assume the financial
I and personal burden of receiving
j these kids. But doesn’t confidence in
j the whole scheme require provision
! now for that possibility?
Bahamas to Be New Home for Windsor and 6 Wally’
In Nassau, capital of the Bahama islands, is shown the government house where the duke and duchess of
Windsor will take up residence when the former Edward VIII of England assumes his duties as governor and
commander-in-chief. The appointment of Windsor to this post was one of the most sensational moves in
recent diplomatic history. The duke and “Wally” are shown above. They will arrive in the Bahamas for
their new duties some time next month.
T. D. R.’ Library Becomes Museum for U. S. People
Formal transfer of tht newly completed “Franklin D. Roosevelt library” at Hyde Park, N. Y., which
eventually will house the President’s state, political and personal papers, will provide the nation with a
unique museum. At the transfer ceremonies are shown (left to right): John Shain, builder; Louis Simon, ar
chitect of the treasury; Frank Walker, treasurer of the F. D. R. Library, Inc., who is turning over the
key to R. D. W. Connor; President Roosevelt and son James.
This ‘Haymaker’ Explosive Was No Dud
‘Business as Usual’
No dud was this lethal missile which Ken Overlin, middleweight boxer,
explodes against the chin of Hary Balsamo, his opponent, in a 10-round
charity non-title bout in New York city. This fight action was caught by
the 1/100,OOOth-of-a-second photographic speed of the camera. The bout
ended in the ninth round with a knockout victory by Overlin.
A member of the crew of a British
fighting plane holds one of the
plane’s carrier pigeons in one hand,
and in the other the egg laid by the
pigeon while the plane was in
action over Germany’s Heligoland.
Women Pray for Future of France
In the Army Now
In France’s most tragic period since its defeat by the Prussians in
1871, women gather in tearful prayer before the Memorial to the World
War Dead at Bordeaux. With complete military collapse, the French
cabinet, headed by Marshal Henri Petain, formed a government along
Fascist principles like their conquerors, the totalitarian states, eliminat
ing President Lebrun.
Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of the
oil fortune, is pictured at the “sec
ond table” pitching into his food at
the army training camp at Platts
burgh, N. Y.
HITLER AND NAPOLEON
(“Hitler Visits Tomb of Napoleon."—
headline)
Napoleon—Stop staring at me!
Hitler—I’m not staring at you,
I’m looking at what I thought was
a reflection.
Napoleon—Go away. I’m tired of
tourists.
Hitler—I’m no
tourist.
N apoleon—Who
are you?
Hitler—I’m the
new landlord.
Napoleon—You
are joking.
Hitler — That’s
what a lot of peo
ple thought. Lis
ten, Nappie, it’s
time you and I met. We have ev
erything in common. We are two
of a type.
Napoleon—Do you realize you are
talking to the most famous conquer
or in history?
Hitler—That’s the very question I
was going to ask you. You were
good for your time, but you’re out
classed.
Napoleon—By whom, may I ask?
Hitler—Even if you didn’t ask, I’d
still tell you. By me!
Napoleon—Who are you?
Hitler—I am Adolf Hitler.
Napoleon—Hitler? Hitler? I once
knew a sausage maker named Hit
ler .. .
Hitler—I am the conqueror of most
of Eturope. In two years I have
taken nine nations.
Napoleon (bored)—I wish I knew
what you smoked.
Hitler—In two months I took Den
mark, Norway, Belgium, Holland
and France.
Napoleon — Nobody ever takes
France. It’s purely an illusion.
Hitler—Believe it or not, I have
captured France.
Napoleon (derisively)—You and
who else?
Hitler—Paris is
mine. This tomb
is mine. I even
own you. Think of
it, Napoleon the
Great now wider
the ownership of
Adolf Hitler!
Napoleon (winc
ing) — As if I
hadn’t suffered
enough during those years at St.
Helena! Bah, the world must be
softening up. You don’t look like a
conqueror.
Hitler—You don’t look any too hot
yourself.
Napoleon—Go on with your story.
Ybu say you have conquered nine
nations?
Hitler—I have the world at my
feet.
Napoleon — That’s what I was
crazy enough to think once! Re
member it’s only a short trip from
your feet to your throat.
Hitler—And do you know what I
am going to do next? I am going
to capture England!
Napoleon—Take a tip from me
and forget it. I once had that idea.
Hitler—I shall capture the Brit
ish isles and destroy the British em
pire.
Napoleon—Would you mind ae-
peating that?
Hitler—I shall capture the British
isles and destroy the British em
pire. I shall be boss of Europe and
of the world, the greatest conqueror
of all time!
Napoleon (beckoning)—Come on
in! I’ll move over!
* • •
RACE CHART STUFF
Bold Turk . Not out since November
Key Ring Should find opening
Sailor’s Yarn Unreliable
Skagerrak Tough spot
Stalagmite Dropping down
Ceiling Zero . Seldom comes through
It seems that the 24 garmdtit
workers who have been playing in
“Pins and Needles,” a revue staged
by the garment workers’ union, have
retired from the garment industry
and joined the Actors Equity as pro
fessional entertainers. Now if some
actors would only shift to the gar
ment business all would be well.
• • •
A correspondent telling of the
flight and return to Paris of refugees
tells of one man who clung to a
heavy Paris telephone book coming
and going. When asked why he re
plied, “I don’t know, I just grabbed
it up. I guess I might as well throw
it away now.” Maybe the French
phone books carry those instructions
“How to Get a Policeman.”
• • •
Sonja Henie has been married and
the Office Cynic says it is going to
be a great letdown to her when her
husband finds the refrigerator out
of order and yells “Say, do you know
anything about ice?”
• • •
CAN YOU REMEMBER—
Away back when you could boast
that you were “working like a Tro
jan” without drawing any hard
looks?
• • •
Uncle Sam is going in for “Panzer
Division.” (Samzer divisions would
seem better.) He will build tanks
almost as big as Nazi ones and ca
pable of at least 50 miles an hour.
Nobody can beat him in the auto
motive field, and we predict that he
will not only turn out super tanks,
but do it in colors.
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