Foreign
At best, Germany, Italy and Ja-
pan are unnatural bedfellows with
nothing in common except totalitari-
anism and a grudge against the
world. Flushed by her imperialistic
victory at Munich, there is every
reason to think Germany might
abandon Italian and Japanese alli-
ances if they stood in the way of
her march to world power.
First step in this direction has
been taken by Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler in presenting African colonial
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GERMANY IN AFRICA
Of onetime German possessions (shown
in black) France holds mandates for
Togoland (1) and the Cameroons (2);
Great Britain has minor interest in both.
British South Africa (5) holds mandate
for Southwest Africa (3), and Britain a
mandate for Tanganyika (4). Angola (6)
is held by Portugal.
to Great Britain
What Hitler
demands
France.
to German arms equality.
French gain through such a transac-
Mediterranean area on pain of com-
bined German-Franco-British oppo-
sition. Moreover, Il Duce would be
forced to withdraw from Spain.
Next Der Fuehrer may turn his
eyes to Japan, which now controls
one-time German islands forfeited
after the World war. Since Hitler's
aggressive imperialism makes one
conquest merely an appetizer for
the next, ‘moreover since self-pity-
ing Germany looks angrily at any
nation which controls large territo-
ries and resources, Japan may find
her Chinese conquest threatened.
Nor do observers overlook the
chance of a German-Italian breach
over Hungary's Czechoslovakian
claims, now handed to the Rome-
Berlin axis for settlement. Musso-
lini, Hungary's friend, wants Czech-
oslovakia dissolved, moreover wants
Hungary to get the common border
with Poland which she desires. But
Hitler, temporarily angry with Hun-
gary and anxious to preserve a path
to the east through Czechoslovakia,
will fight partition.
Transportation
U. 8. railroads, arguing before
President Roosevelt's fact-finding
committee, have claimed a 15 per
cent pay cut is the only solution to
their problem. Labor, which threat-
ens to strike if the pay cut is en-
forced, says better management
wiil do the trick. Without waiting
for the fact-finding commission to
report, railroad management has
taken the matter into its own hands
on three fronts:
Northwest—Before the
commerce commission have ap-
peared stockholders of two huge
lines, Chicago & North Western, and
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pa-
cific. Their plan: Physical consoli-
dation of the two roads, immediate-
ly effecting operating economies of
$10,000,000 a year and hastening
normal recovery of the two roads.
Southwest—An I. C. C. examiner
has recommended reorganization of
the Missouri Pacific line with sharp
reduction in its fixed interest debt.
Also recommended is consolidation
of owned properties being operated
as the Missouri Pacific system, ex-
cepting the Missouri-Illinois rail
road.
South—Placed before the I. C. C.
is a plan for merging the Gulf, Mo-
bile & Northern railroad with the
Mobile & Ohio line. Chief opponent
is Burlington railroad, which owns
27.7 per cent of G. M. & N. stock.
Chief significance of mergers and
reorganizations is (1) that railroads
will become economically sound:
(2) labor will suffer through de-
creased employment, though wage
levels probably will not be cut; (3)
scores of small communities, origi-
nally built to follow the railroad’s
line of expansion, will find them-
selves isolated without rail service.
interstate
Defense
Knotted inseparably in recent
news have been Japan's conquest of
China and world democracy’s at-
tempts to strengthen their military.
economic positions against German-
Italo-Jap aggression. Though Eng-
land and the U. 8. have been rub-
bing noses in their trade pact ne-
gotiations, October of 1938 will be
remembered primarily as the month
when America first stood up and
barked at modern imperialism.
Within 24 hours two barks came
from Washington. First was Presi-
dent Roosevelt's precedent-shatter-
ing condemnation of nations employ-
ing force (Japan), exile (Germany)
and repression (Italy) as instru-
ments of national policy. Next day,
on the heels of Japan's conquest of
Hankow, the state department made
public a 21-day-old protest to Tokyo
against violation of China's “open
door’ policy.
ness. Chiming in are
so that ‘the Western hemisphere
may work out its own interrelated
salvation.’ To the north, at Kodiak,
Alaska, the navy is quietly prepar-
ing two bases accommodating at
least 200 long-range patrol bombers.
Thus, if Britain and France deny
it, the U. S. admits Japan has be-
come the Far East's No.
battling Japan in the hope his foe
economic suicide, there is little like-
lihood that China's door will be re-
opened to Western nations
Japan wants it. For a preview of
things to come, democracies need
only look at Manchukuo where sev-
en years of Japanese proprietorship
has both closed and locked the door.
Trend
How the wind is blowing . . .
TIME CLOCK-—Film actors earn-
ing up to $1,000 a week, and all
extras, now punch time clocks
each morning under new union
contract with provision for over-
time work.
‘NOBODY'—A baby born to one
of 200 sad-eyed Jewish refugees
living in a ditch in the Czecho-
slovak-German ‘no man’s land”
has been named ‘““Niemand,”’
meaning ““nobody."”
‘BANG’ WARFARE — Japanese
troops patrolling streets of newly
captured Canton, disperse terri-
fied Chinese by merely pointing
their guns and shouting: ‘Bang!’
U. 8. LANDLADY—Women hold
25 per cent of all U. S. jobs
(apart from domestic service),
are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of
all life insurance, own 50 per cent
of all corporate stock, operate 60
per cent of savings accounts.
HAIR RAISING—Mrs. Dorothy
Kantack of Chicago has won a di-
vorce decree against the hus-
band who protested against her
new ‘‘upswing’’ coiffure.
People
British royalty symbolically cor-
responds to the U, S. flag. Since
the Czech crisis proved Great Brit-
ain’s empire is becoming vastly in-
dependent, a little flag waving is en-
tirely proper. First, King George
and Queen Elizabeth announced a
Cae
GREAT BRITAIN'S MARINA
Is she being exiled for usurpation?
state visit to Canada and probably
to the U. S. Latest news is that the
popular, 35-year-old duke of Kent
becomes governor general of Aus-
tralia next year. To fun-loving Kent
and his wife, beauteous former
Princess Marina of Greece, Austra-
lia will mean virtual exile from
their favorite diversion, London
night life. Though English papers
discreetly failed to mention it, part
of the U. S. press called Kent and
his wife victims of royal jealousy.
The claim: That slim, elegant Ma-
rina is usurping Queen Elizabeth's
rightful place as ruler of British
fashion. At Australia’s lonely Can-
berra, where Kent will receive $50,-
000 a year, not a single night club
will help break the tedium of this
“British Siberia.”
Miscellany .
At Anaheim, Calif., miles of sur-
plus third-grade oranges were
dumped when federal diversion
funds ran out, leaving the $8-per-ton
price unsupported.
® At Prestonburg, Ky., 34-year-old
Fleming Tackett married 10-year-
old Rosie Columbus.
Treasury
Inconveniently close to election
day have come piecemeal reports
and offhand predictions concerning
the U, 8. fiscal situation. When
President Roosevelt talks finance
before congress on January 3, he
may ask almost anything. But right
now, as the President busies him-
self with budget planning, he can
be guided by facts and forecasts:
Facts: Despite upswinging busi-
ness, the U. S. treasury deficit for
the current fiscal year jumped above
one billion dollars October 20, leap-
a day. Gold reserves,
008,236,361. Revised, the 1939 fiscal
deficit prediction stands at $3,984,-
000,000, second largest in New Deal
history.
SECRETARY MORGENTHAU
Coolest of all concerned . . .
fiscal year ends, the U. 8S. public
debt will hit $40,000,000,000, compared
with $16,800,000,000 in June, 1931.
Forecast: Though “‘pump-prim-
ing’’ will help business, the 1940 budg-
tion hold a mass vote for the 1940
election, thereby forestalling the
normal swing to Republicanism. But
it is far more painful to pay than
merely file away the bill, and next
winter's congressmen will present
at least five new methods of making
John Public pay:
(1) A 10 per cent “one shot” in.
come tax levy to garner $263,000,000
needed for increased armament; (2)
a processing tax to pay for the
agriculture department's proposed
“domestic dumping” program for
crop surpluses; (3) removal of tax
exemption from future issues of fed-
eral, state and local bonds, also on
official salaries; (4) extension of
social security to include farm la-
borers, domestics, bank employees,
seamen, self-employers, etc.; (5)
lowering of income tax exemptions
under $1,000,
Coolest of all concerned with fiscal
affairs has been the man in direct
charge, Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr. Unworried
by mounting gold reserves (‘We
have plenty of storage space’) he
predicts improved business condi-
tions will cut relief rolls and help
the budget, which observers now
think will run to $8,000,000,000. Only
Morgenthau fear has centered
around the British pound sterling,
whose declining tendencies have ad-
verse effects on U. S. commodity
prices and export trade.
White House
When its investigations first
opened, the Dies congressional com-
mittee on un-Americanism confined
most of its probing to Fascism and
Naziism. Neither of these “isms”
has much support among U. S.
politicians. But with election time
approaching and its witnesses be-
coming influenced by political fever,
it was natural that the probe should
turn to a more popular “‘ism’'—
communism. First came the charge
that Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins was impeachable for failing
communistic
Madam Perkins re-
against
decision on a test case, that pro-
ceedings could move no faster than
the courts themselves. Next the
committee asked why Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan had taken a
passive interest in the 19368 sit-down
strikes, only to learn that Governor
Bruchart’s Washington nD
est
WASHINGTON. — “Unless some-
thing is done to curb radicalism in
my section, there is going to be an
So spoke Fred W. Frahm, super-
committee of the
It was
He looks
for more in the near future
added, by way of emphasis, that
“these communists and radicals do
labor and man-
agement; they want to make trouble
Through a number of weeks, the
cover the
view,
It has been the contention of the
chairman,
the committee, that most of us are
not aware of the unseen and malig-
nant growths that are being bred
to destroy our government, to bring
to us the type of thing that has
made Russia famous.
Mr. Dies is a sincere and honest
job assigned him, even when sev-
sought to balk his efforts. But there
is much more to be done in the di-
rection of exposing radicalism and
the chiseling, cheating, cowardly ef-
forts the agitators put forth.
Charge Communists Active
In Government Offices
What I am wondering is why Mr.
into the very offices of the federal
government, itself. Or, if he has
done that, as it is gossiped about,
then why shield anybody? Why not
turn the spotlight of publicity on the
American system, the American
form of government, American tra-
dition, the American profit system of
doing business?
about the operations of communists
within the very walls of the govern-
ment, men and women who are bor-
ing from within as termites destroy
lumber, and we ought to know the
chased out of the western hemis-
phere; if they are not operating as
is gossiped around, then their names
ought to be cleared. In any event, 1
hope the Dies committee goes on
or Germans, or Italians, or British
or what have you.
characterize any official
the insane hospitals. Their game
has been to laugh people out of
court whenever an effort was made
call an investigation by a house
committee several years ago where
the witnesses were laughed down
and a courageous superintendent of
the Dies committee is providing a
“forum” for politicians with elec-
forthcoming when the LaFollette
civil liberties committee held its
hearings, impartial observers
agreed the Dies committee might
have done a less impassionate job
in 1937 or 1939.
‘Quotes’
SEN. WILLIAM E. BORAH on
U. 8. intervention to force jus-
tice for Jews in Great Britain's
Palestine problem: “We can-
not retain the respect of Eu-
rope and our own self respect
by directing nations how they
shall carry out their treaties
and obligations, and do noth-
ing but direct.”
HARRY HOPKINS on WPA'’s ree-
ord: “We have made mis
takes. But our greatest mis.
take has not been in doing too
much but in doing too little
look foolish because of the
charges he made. Well, if my opin-
who were the suckers in that play
were the supposedly intelligent
members of congress who made up
the committee. It was they who
fell for a trick of propaganda. Ei-
ther that was the case, or the mem-
bers of that committee were just
plain dumb.
Lewis Cannot Break Grip
Of Communists on C. I. O.
Concerning the sit-down strikes
about which Mr. Frahm testified, I
want to boast that I wrote of com-
munist participation in those sit-
down strikes when they were hap-
pening. I had several letters there-
after, calling me crazy and describ-
ing me as a red-baiter. Mr. Frahm
real American, and he further has
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group of which he was so proud
become a gargantuan monster
that is slowly swallowing him, phys-
ically large as he is.
There is, of course, the danger
that a lot of people will make foolish
red activities, thus throwing doubt
on the really serious phases. That
always seems to happen. Unwitting-
ly, that type of person which shouts
and shouts and has no proof cre-
ates the impression that all cries of
“wolf, wolf,” are meaningless. But
when a congressional committee
has the courage ~-rather, when its
chairman over objections of some of
Its members—has the courage to
bring the stuff out for public exam-
ination, there must, indeed, be a
basis for it.
The tragedy of the thing is that
the labor movement as a whole will
The fact
that the radicals have grabbed con-
ion means that they have “cells”
slowly but surely will
spreading poison and trouble.
be
The
the foreign-born who are not steeped
in our customs or love of country,
elements that have been
treated, and they will use
For Destructive Purposes
There will be much more labor
trouble. You can count on that.
The Communist party representa-
tives will never allow the slightest
chance for creating trouble to es-
cape them. They are determined to
convince labor that it cannot trust
the managements: they are en-
couraging the breaking of agree-
ments between labor and manage-
ment to the end that employers will
have no faith in the leaders of labor,
bor relations board wherever that
can be done to give official voice to
labor troubles. That fact is chiefly
responsible for the position which
the C. I. O. group has taken in op-
position to proposals for revision of
the labor relations act. William
Green and the American Federation
of Labor are urging revision of the
law, but C. 1. O., having its tenta-
cles in the labor board, obviously
does not want its grip broken.
It has been known for a long time
that the C. 1. O. was being used as
the agitators and emissariés were
sly and careful. They covered their
tracks. Such information as leaked
out was promptly discredited by the
and they discredited any individual
at his gullibility,
in the rural electrification adminis-
ated with C. 1. O.
on inter-racial participation in ev-
erything that was done.
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The future is purchased by the
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easy minds of Americans.
make a report and probably will
ask an appropriation to enable it to
go on. We will see who opposcs
that appropriation. There probably
will be opposition from two or three
members of the committee itself,
and we will see who they are. If
they are outspoken in their opposi-
tion, I suspect most people will
know why.
I think this condition has reached
the point where attention should be
paid to it by the federal govern.
ment. It is now hot on the trail of
some alleged German spies who
were seeking American military se-
crets. So why not make a thor
ough job of it and lift up the lid
that hides various other kinds of
spies whose work, to my mind, is
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