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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940 Washington, D. C. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Washington, D. C. BULLITT MAY STUMP FOR BRITAIN AID Ambassador Bill Bullitt, most versatile and volatile of all Roose velt’s diplomats, probably will go on the stump throughout the country campaigning for “national unity” and urging American support for Great Britain. His tour will be divorced from the New Deal, and he will not return to his embassy in France. Many of the men around Roose velt now are far ahead of him in proposing aid to Britain, and some of them may co-operate with Bullitt in this movement. Some are def initely critical of the President, though close friend Bullitt is not. They feel that Roosevelt has been holding back, and that the country is ready to go much further than he. • • • DEFENSE BLOW-UP If certain legislative and adminis trative snarls in the defense pro gram aren’t cleared up quickly, there is going to be a blowup in the defense commission that will knock a dent in the Roosevelt admMistra- tion. Some fast footwork and placating White House palaver has kept the explosive situation under cover so far, but it is very serious. Inside fact is that William Knud- •sen, who gave up a $300,000-a-year General Motors job to become de fense production chief, is getting restive over the delays he is en countering. He has made no threats, but he has also made it clear that unless he gets action he does not intend to continue in a posi tion where he could be blamed for lack of production. A “plain operations man,” as he describes himself, Knudsen worked out a schedule of production for tanks, guns, planes, armor plate, and the other vital essentials for de fense. But these plans, partly be cause of tax delays, partly because of business sit-downs, have encoun tered repeated obstructions. For example: Knudsen was first told that the amortization problem, which has held up the construction of several new defense plants, would be handled in congress in a separate bill. But at the last minute, treas ury tax experts objected to this and insisted that the matter be included in the excess (war profits) tax bill. Next Knudsen was assured by congressional leaders that the tax bill would be passed by August 17. But first the Republicans recessed to attend the Willkie acceptance cer emonies at Elwood. Then it marv aged to get other delays. • • • RFC LOAN DELAYS While this dilly-dallying was go ing on at Capitol Hill, Knudsen was having other difficulties with Fed eral Loan Administrator Jesse Jones. The RFC was given wide powers by congress several months ago to make loans to industry for defense purposes. But when Knudsen sub mitted a list of plant expansions that needed financing, Jones balked. He objected on the ground that one-third of the output of the plants would go to fill British war orders. Knudsen pointed out that this was not impairing U. S. preparedness, but on the contrary was providing the country with vital productive capacity at the expense of the Brit ish. Still Jones, despite the President’s policy of extending every assistance to the British, didn’t like the idea of lending U. S. government money to aid factory expansion for the Brit ish. • • • BLITZKRIEG It remains the firm convictio. of Secretary of War Stimson and Gen eral Marshall, his chief of staff, that if Hitler is to invade this country it will come this fall before we are prepared. They are inclined to think that as soon as Hitler is fin ished with the British, he will move here. Stimson and Marshall have indicated this view to congress, but they are even more positive in their private conversations. Despite the large air force guard ing the canal, military authorities admit that it would be impossible for them to prevent an enemy air ar mada from getting over the locks. Ope well-placed bomb can put the locks out of commission for about three months. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Pointing to the Willkie headquar ters in Washington «n the first floor of the Woodward Mtilding, directly under the TVA offices on the third floor, New Dealers wisecrack that “Willkie is still under TVA influ ence.” AIR BASES FOR U. S. Getting air and naval bases, from Iceland to the South American “bulge” should have the unified support of this country. It is a move in the direction we must go— which is to make our defense inde pendent of the strength of any na tion but our own. The only criti cism of it is the inexcusable delay and lack of foresight in not having done it long ago.- But what we are giving for them is something else again. It has not been revealed. Neither have the de tails of our defensive deal with Can ada. Canada is a nation at war. She has gone across the sea to at tack a European power. It puts us in a position of saying to Europe: “American nations can attack you but if you counterattack them we will fight you.” Perhaps in view of our geographic and strategic problem, that can’t be helped. But do our Canadian and British secret understandings go further? There was some im plication in Mr. Churchill’s recent peroration that they do—British and American “co-operation” in war rolling along the Old Man River, which is a symbol for fateful in evitability—the “flotillas of 1941,” which sounded like a promise of American naval intervention. Mr. Roosevelt is reported to have scouted the idea that there is any thing in f the deal for bases about our detaching a part of oui insuf ficient navy—50 destroyers—to fight on the side of Britain. But things that Mr. Roosevelt scouts, like his third term ambition, have a curious and tortuous way of promptly com ing true. No matter how it may be dis guised or how warlike lawyers now split hairs, the detachment of those destroyers is so clearly direct par ticipation in this war that two years ago, examining the question coldly, there is not an international lawyer on earth who would not have re garded a contrary view as prepos terous. From his Chicago “quarantine” speech to the present moment, there has not been an act of the Presi dent inconsistent with an inference of his willingness, if not his inten tion, to mix this country up in the wars of both Europe and Asia. On the contrary, with increasing tempo and intensity, every act has been completely consistent with precisely that aim. Mr. Ickes, Mr. Wallace and others have emphasized Mr. Willkie’s “en dorsement” of “our foreign policy.” Mr. Ickes has suggested that this is like the God-awful 1936 campaign where there were no issues except “The New Deal is good but I can deal it better.” The New Deal boys, hell-bent-for-a-war-crisis-before-No- vember, had better look that thought over carefully. Some of Mr. Willkie’s Republican and Democratic supporters in New York are also minded to involve us in foreign war. But most of this country isn’t. Especially that great stretch of America from the Alle ghenies west isn’t and, as I read his utterances, Mr. Willkie isn’t. • • • WHAT DO WE DEFEND? Step by step in the rapidly expand ing policy of intervention every where, our general staff has been confronted with new and lightning- like changes in policy. There is this difference between the harnessing of Nazi foreign policy with Nazi mili tary preparation — that Hitler planned nothing on foreign policy that his general staff hadn’t been told to prepare in military strength and wasn’t given time to prepare. In our case, the whole surprising brainstorm shift in a constantly in creasing foreign policy of threat and aggression has proceeded with no regard whatever to our military preparation to make it good and with no sufficient allowance of time and money to do so. General Marshall’s talk about an army of 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 men was wholly based on a new diplo matic theory that we are to police every American country from the North Pole to Cape Horn. That the ory is utterly fantastic and impos sible. We can’t afford it, couldn’t do it and have no business indulg ing in any such popular deceits and ludicrous international posturing. It is about time that this govern ment settled down and decided ex actly what its foreign policy is go ing to be and, more precisely, as controlling that, exactly what pol icy it can enforce, without absurdity and possible disaster, within the realistic and reasonable limits of its present and immediately potential strength of arms and men on land, sea and in the air. Significant of the extent of the split between John L. Lewis and his co-C. I. O. founder Sidney Hillman, labor defense commissioner, is the disappearance of Hillman’s name from the letterhead of Labor’s Non partisan league. Wendell Willkie and Edith Wilk (now Mrs. Willkie) attended Indiana university together—without meet ing. They met in later years at the wedding of a friend. The corn stalk discovered flourish ing in a commerce department grass plot was no accident. It was planted by Lee Wood,. In that connection, the immediate controlling nubbin is naval and po litical policy in the Pacific. As be tween our necessary defensive pol icy of remaining dominant on both American coasts as far as Natal in Brazil and in addition to that of maintaining a threatening attitude in Asia, Indo-China and the East Indies, there is a difference of un estimated billions of dollars of ex pense and of comparative safety as contrasted with sprawling all over the map and constantly risking not only our prestige but our peace and even our existence. Duke of Windsor Becomes Governor of Bahamas “We deeply appreciate the honor and distinction which his majesty, the king, has conferred upon the Bahamas in appointing your royal highness to be governor of this ancient and loyal colony,” says W. K. Moore, president of the Bahaman legislative council, as he welcomes the duke of Windsor on behalf of the islanders. The scene is the tiny legislative chamber in Nassau, Bahamas. The duchess of Windsor is on the duke’s left. Wild West Glamour Revived at Pendleton Roundup Covered wagon days and the glamour of the old West will be revived at Pendleton, Ore., in the annual four-day Roundup beginning September 11. The Far West’s most celebrated rodeo will attract the most famous steer wranglers, lariat artists and stunt riders in America as well as thousands of Indians participat ing in parades and pageantry. Above are shown typical scenes in connection with the Roundup. Police Chiefs Hold 47th Convention Sextuplet at 77 Police executives from all sections of the nation have gathered In Milwaukee for the forty-seventh annual congress of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Principal speakers shown above are J. Edgar Hoover, center, director of the FBI; Maj. Ernest W. Brown, Washington, D. C., upper right, president of the association; Lieut. F. M. Kreml, upper left, Northwestern University Traffic Institute; Mayor Carl F. Zeidler, Milwaukee, lower left; Congressman Martin Dies, lower right. Mrs. Alincia Bushnell Parker, one of the sextuplets born to Mrs. James Bushnell of Chicago in 1863—before the days of ballyhoo and press agentry. Today that event would blot out war headlines, but something misfired In 1863, and the world knew little of that authentic, amazing event. Fame and fortune passed them up, and today Mrs. Parker, a white-haired woman of 77, lives on a meager pension at Silver Lake, N. Y. She is a widow and the mother of seven children. Mrs. Alice Hughes of Phoenix, Ariz., is the other sur viving sextuplet. Nazis ‘Wash Hands’ of Ship’s Safety Happy Birthday! The American army transport, American Legion, which sailed from Petsamo, Finland, recently, with 897 refugees aboard. The German gov ernment declined responsibility for the vessel’s security because her scheduled course lay “dangerously near the field of military operations around England.” A boy king and the aged head of a far-flung financial empire will ob serve their birthdays this week. The king is youthful Peter of war-threat ened Jugoslavia, whose seventeenth birthday falls on September 6. The financial tycoon is John Pierpont Morgan, head of the world’s largest private bank, who will celebrate his 73rd birthday on September 7. /~\VER 35 years ago Jack Chesbro stepped out and blew himsef to 40 Yankee victories. A few years later Ed Walsh moved into the 40- game set, a record which doesn’t in clude 10 or 12 other games he hap pened to save. Walsh that year worked in 66 ball games. Under changed conditions it may be that Bob Feller will never reach the 40-game mark on the winning side, but with any luck at the age of 21 he will sit in the 30 win ning-game division this next fall with such all-time per formers as Christy Mathewson, Grover Alexander, Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove. Matty and Alexander reached this mark on three consecutive occasions. But Feller is headed for the same fertile country at the age of 21. There is no telling what heights he might reach if the draft or war doesn’t interfere. The Cleveland star is without any question the greatest young pitcher in baseball. Matty was just getting under headway at 21 and Alexander was 24 when he came to Philadelphia and hung up 28 wins. But at 21 Feller is all ready to join the pick of the flock. U the world ever settles down to something like its old normality there is no telling how many ball games Blasting Bobby might put away before he checks out. Right From the Start Feller war an amazing kid from the start. He came to Cleveland in 1936 at the age of 17—a big, raw- boned kid w’th a great pair of hands and a great pair of wrists. You can Phiagine the feelings al most any 17-year-old player would carry into action, facing his first start under the Big Tent. Not Fel- Grantland Rice BOB FELLER ler. He lacked control, but from the jump he was as cool as a slice of cucumber on ice. After whiffing 17 of the enemy in one of his first games, the Van Meter phenom was a trifle too keen on the strikeout path for some time. Tliis wrecked his control. He was also a bit lopsided at holding runners on base. But he has long since cured both faults. He has added a good curve ball to his speed. Feller has the poise and balance of a much older man. He has shown no sign so far of an enlarged hei,d, no sign of kid freshness with older men. A fellow like Feller will mean a healthy package to Cleveland when the stretch running begins a few weeks later on. And a fellow like Feller can turn a world series up side down, if he gets the chance. The Reds’ Sad Story When I sat on the bench a short while back with Bill McKechnie his Reds had a nine-game lead and they looked to be breezing. It was the first time I had ever seen Uncle Will breathing normally with his pulses in order. You could see that with this lead, plus Derringer, Walters and Thompson, his worries were just about over. But they are not over now. It has been suggested that Willard Hershberger’s death had a depress ing effect. But the sliding had start ed before the young Red catcher ended his life. The shock began when the Giants beat Bucky Walters in the game that Walters had tied up in a true lover’s knot in the ninth inning with two out. The Reds have never quite re covered from that shock. Later on tile suicide episode didn’t help. They were due for a slump, but no one looked for any such August dip. They still have the call with the pitching they have, but the old easy-going gallop is over. As some philosopher has said, “There is also gameness in front running.” In fact, there is plenty. What About Foxx? The Mel Ott day was a knockout. No ball player had more wild laurel blossoms coming his way. Except possibly one James Emory Foxx of the Red Sox. Here is a great ball player and a great guy. 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