Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1935, Page 47

CRAIG WILL FILL FIFTY VAGANCIES Four-Year Administration as Chief of Staff Calls for Recommendations. During the four-year administra- tion of Gen. Malin Craig as chief of staff of the Army he will be called Upon to recommend the appointment of approximately 50 officers to general officer rank, due to their tranfer to the retired list of the Army on ac- count of reaching the statutory re- tirement age limit of 64 years. Be- tween now and the first of the year 6 vacancies will have occurred among general officers and during the 1936 calendar year 13 other general officer billets will have to be filled, of which 8 are major generals and 5 brigadier generals. Twenty-eight brigadier generals of the line, more than half of the total number authorized for this grade, will reach the age of 64 years by the end of 1939. Five of these will attain the retirement age in 1936, seven in 1937, nine in 1938 and seven in 1939. The 1936 age retirements will involve Brig. Gen. Hamilton 8. Hawkins, commanding 1st Cavalry Di- vision, Fort Bliss, Tex.. Casper H. Conrad, commanding 3d Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.; James B. Gowen, commanding 2lst Infantry Brigade, Schofield Barracks, T. H.; Ernest D. Scott, commanding 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Fort Hoyle, Md., and Arthur 8. Conklin, commanding 1st Coast Arsillery district, Boston. Brigadier general age retirements in 1937 include Geo. H. Estes, Charles D. Roberts, Thomas W. Darrah, Perry L. Miles, Francis LeJ. Parker, Sherwood A. Cheney and Alexander T. Over- shine. The 1938 retirements will involve Brig. Gens. Andrew Moses, Wm. E. Cole, Manus McCloskey, Joseph P. (Continued From Third Page.) censored, although one of them may apologize profusely for the stupidity of a cable operator. It is said that there are no “yes men” in Japan— only “no men” when it comes to making & direct admission of any sort. > Hard to Get Facts. The principal worry of foreign cor- respondents in Japan seems to be the verification of news printed in Japanese newspapers, which do not enjoy a great reputation for ac- curacy. The Japanese, for instance, have a bewildering idea of the sig- nificance of quotation marks and are inclined to treat their own conclu- sions as fact by inclosing them in quotes. And, as Japanese officials never like to deny anything out- right or affirm anything outright— especially when it has been accorded the dignity of reproduction in print— getting the facts is no easy matter. In these troubled days press cen- sorship is not peculiar to Japan, nor is Japan the only so-called enlight- ened and civilized country where free- dom of the press is more of a dream than a reality. Suppression of free speech and the free press is un- doubtedly worse in Germany, Russia and Italy. But censorship and rigid suppression of the news are somehow in marked contrast with the up-to- date modernity of Japanese newspa- pers and in still greater contrast to the educated. refined and cultivated gentlemen who edit the Japanese newspapers. Qne does not associate a battery of Hoe presses a block long, turning out their millions of papers | morning and afternoon., with sup- | pression of the news any more than one associates the fear of offending the government or the army or the navy with the intelligent and pro- gressive men who edit the papers. Official suppression of the news is a sign of weakness, of uncertainty or of fear, and in vigorous, busy Japan seems out of place. Yet freedom of the press is probably the last Western innovation that will THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! Censorship Is Accepted as Inevitable By Japanese Press, Otherwise Modern while the publisher’s paper is appar- ently losing, the publisher is as apt as not to say: *“Go ahead and print the story. It is absolutely without foun- dation and wholly false. I care not what your miserable shegt may say and neither do my readers. But to save me trouble, here is 30 yen, in ex- change for your story, which I shall keep here in my desk.” For in Japan, the new is still in a heroic struggle with the old, and the two are mixed in 8 manner that defies #he Occidental mind. ‘SURVEY STARTED OF BUS SCHEDULES Conduit Road Association to Make Suggestions for Better Service. In an effort to get more school busses and to have them operate on a better schedule between the Con- duit road section and Gordon Junior High and Western High Schools, the Conduit Road Citizens' Association is | making a fact-finding survey of bus schedules along the route. Mrs. Joseph R. Lyddane, chairman of the association’s School Committee, is in charge of the work. She has enlisted the aid of the local Parent- | Teacher Association, of which she is president, in making the survey. | Members of the association are sta- | tioned at each end and along the route, to determine on what schedules the busses now operate. A canvass |of pupils and teachers in the two ‘schools is also being made to get sug- gestions for improved service. Will Offer Suggestions. When the survey is completed, Mrs. come to Japanese journalism, which | Lyddane and Frank Shull, president COAST ARTILLERY SPEAKER CHOSEN Gen. Todd on Program of Washington Branch An- nual Meeting. Maj. Gen. Henry D. Todd, jr., U. 8. A, retired, will be the speaker to- morrow evening at the joint annual meeting of the Washington Branch, United States Coast Artillery Associa- tion, at 7:30 p.m., at the Army and Navy Country Club, Arlington, Va. ‘The same evening, members of the 428th Infantry will assemble at Dis- trict Reserve headquarters to hear Maj. E. W. Leard, unit instructor. Senior and junior groups /of In- fantry officers will hold their confer- ence Tuesday evening in the audi- torium of the Army Industrial College. The written field order, the oral field order and the writing of a field order will be discussed by Maj. €. P. Kerr at the senior meeting, while junior group discussions will involve Lieut. Col. William E. Brougher, who will discuss the school of the soldier with arms. The school of the soldier, dismounted drill, ceremonies and guard duty will be discussed at the Field Artillery con- ference to be held next Wednesday evening. Due to Thanksgiving the Signal Corps conference scheduled to be held that evening, has been moved up to Corps projection room, Munitions Building. Capt. H. E. Thomas will lecture on C. C. C. problems of prepa- ration, organization and management and corps and division organizations. At the Cavalry conference Thursday evening Lieut. Magers will speak on map reading (elevation, contours, slopes, visibility), while Maj, R. W. Grow will discuss mechanized units within the Cavalry division. A map problem and an engineer estimate of the situation will be the subjects to be taken up at the meeting of the next Thursday evening, in the Signal | D. C, NOVEMBER 17, 1935—PART TWO War Threats Terrorize All Europe As America Is Shielded by Oceans (Continued From First Page.) day, 1933. He said, “The Fascist- Nazist war danger is evident and will grow greater. To us Bolsheviks the League of Nations is full of imperfec- tions, but in so far as it constitutes an obstacle (he used a popular Rus- sian word meaning a hump in the road) to war, it is neither io be ig- rored nor neglected.” These words, although I did not know it at the time, had a historic significance; they foreshadowed the entry of the U. S. S. R. into the League of Nations. It is not wrong to say that Stalin’s statement at the end of 1933 is echoed by Belgium today. Belgium has no great confidence in the League and | knows that the sanctions which it | has imposed against Italy will do harm to Belgian trade, but the League is a “hump in the road” which may impede the advance of Mars’ chariot. ‘Therefore, Belgium supports the League. The same may be said about most of the League members in Europe. ‘They have little faith in the League, but, in their fear of coming war, they clutch at the League as a drowning man clutches at a straw. Yet in the meantime, as the Antwerp newspaper said, “We have to live.” Business is business in these days of depression, and Antwerp is one of the principal channels through which the raw materials for war-making reach Germany. It is, too, a point from which small arms, rifies and machine guns, the products of the great Belgian Steyr factory, are ex- ported. city consigned to Shanghai or Con- stantinople. There is a transship- Thompson, 320th Infantry, to cap- tain; Second Lieut. Frank C. Broad- bent, Military Intelligence, to first lieutenant; Second Lieut. Solomon Kullback, Signal, to first lieutenant, and Second Lieut. John L. Holcombe, 220th Infantry, to first lieutenant. District Reserve officers have been assigned as follows: Col. Joseph C. De Vries, Medical, to the 51st General | factories are working full blast, three Cargoes of arms leave this | ment en route and the lethal cargo is diverted to Albania or Djibuti. No less than Warsaw, Antwerp dreads the shadow, but business is business in these days of depression, and the profits of the armament trade are too great and too quick to be frustrated by any talk about death merchants and powder magazines that only await a spark to bring a vast explosion. That is the fatal and dangerous contradiction in present Europe—on one hand you have the universal fear of war; on the other, the concrete fact that, in a time of depression, the arma- ment god is mighty and returns rich | dividends to those who serve him, and| —as the Belgians say—“we have to/ live.” All over Europe the armament shifts day and night, and giving pros- perity to their shareholders and em- ployes and to the towns where they are situated. For what purpose? Ob- viously, for war. It is one of the most singular fac- tors in the present situation that, with the exception of Germany—and, of course, Italy—every nation in Europe, from Russia to Britain, is shouting| that its military preparations are di- | rected solely toward the defense of peace. As if one makes matches ex- cept to light a fire. Europe today is| preparing for the coming war. | When the war will break, where and how, is on the knees of the gods, but neither the statesmen of Europe nor the men in the street doubt for a mo- ment that it is coming or believe that it can be averted. All they hope is that, by increasing their own strength | and doubling their own armaments, they may escape some of war's worst evils—invasion, for instance, and the destruction of their factories and homes. Even then the air menace| stands above them as an indeterminate | horror with which they cannot cope beforehand. It is a grim and sorry outlook that the peoples of Europe are facing, with only one small bright spot, if one can call it bright, in the gathering thun- derclouds. I mean the fact that Ger-| many is not ready, that at least two To Wear—Any Time ...Any Place ... Any Where Octagon Rimless GLASSES, Complete (.49 —They are the most popular type of glasses worn— because they are always smart, stylish and comfort- able. 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Three clergymen who have been uni actice duty as Reserve chaplains at C. C. C. camps have been appointed | first lieutenants Corps of the Regular Army. in the Chaplains They in- clude Chaplain Harold H. Schulz| (Lutheran), whose first regular sta- tion will be Fort Ringgold, Tex.; Chap- lain Ralph E. McCaskill (Presbyterian, U. S.), who will assume his Regular Army chaplain duties at Fort Screv- ens, Ga., and Chaplain John F. Chal- ker (Methodist Episcopal South), whose first Army assignment will take him to Fort Clark, Tex. Navy. Between now and January 1 four flag officers of the Navy and one cap- | tain in the Medical Corps will retire | for age. They include Rear Admiral George C. Day on December 1 and Rear Admirals Thomas Senn, Frank H. Clark, Ammen Farenholt and Capt. Henry E. Odell (Medical Corps), all on January 1. Three other flag officers will be placed on the retired list of the Navy for age between Feb- ruary 1 and May 1, as follows: Rear Admiral George C. Seibels, February 1; Rear Admiral Joseph J. Cheatham, March 1, and Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, jr., May 1. Capt. William H. Bell will go to| the retired list January 1, with the rank of rear admiral, upon his own application. 7 CHAIRMAN NAMED Tucker Northeast Committee Heads. Committee chairmen of the North- east Citizens' Association have been announced by Evan H. Tucker, the president. The assignments were made at the last meeting of the group. They are: Executive Committee, Tucker; mem- bership, John F Callan; police and fire. F. M. Painter; public utilities, Announces Roscoe Jenkins; colleges and schools, | A. J. Hendricks; parks and spaces, A. Jett, Assessments, Mrs. Richard Franklin; wwater, lights and sewers, John F. Broadfoot; publicity and mail service, Joseph Notes; streets, avenues and slleys, E. C. Worden; legislative, Tucker; public health, Dr. E. B. 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It arrives at the | airplanes which are used to bring pic- | cohoci “about 8:10 am. 50 minutes tures and send reporters on &ssign- | pesore the pupils are due in classes. ments for its more than a million daily readers; publishes its own news- jecnstkEs g n e kschedulef e reel for the movies and has built newspaper plants in Tokio and in Osaka, where its sister paper is pub- lished, that would be a credit to any changed so that it will leave shortly after 8. She also would like to have the bus run all the way to Gor- don instead of stopping at Western as at present. heat resisting enamel. Fin newspaper anywhere in the world. Nichi-Nichi employes some 3,503 per= sons in Tokio and its sister paper in Osaka some 2,500 and its basement in | | Tokio rumbles to the tune of 18 ;super-speed presses. Their readers | are keenly interested in foreign news and the man on the street in Tokio | is probably more interested in world events and knows more about them than his counterpart in Washington. There is intense rivalry between the papers and they strive to give the pub- lic what it wants, which, in the case* | of Huey Long’s assassination was about | three paragraphs, and, in the case of the base ball player recently killed in | an airplane when he tried to" murder the pilot while flying across the United | States-Canadian line, about two col-] umns, with & big headline, Use Carrier Pigeons. The papers use carrier pigeons to bring their undeveloped film and news | stories from the incoming liners at Yokohama—about 20 miles—in 25 minutes, unless the pigeon gets tired like a reporter and decides to sit on the ship mast before starting to work. | In that case the photographer throws things or shouts at the pigeon. Itis a | | rare sight in the later afternoon in| Tokio when the papers exercise their | pigeons, which maneuver above the | buildings in formations that would make a starling jealous. Along with 'the pigeons are leased wires which bind Japan and Korea together by | telegraph and telephone. radio, wired | photo transmitting devices and the | { most modern plants for photo en-| graving. The editors will pick up a | telephone and call London or New | York, Rome or Berlin to get a story they can tell their readers was ob- tained, hot off the griddle, over the telephone. 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