Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 4

A—4 =¥ MASSRECRUITING > MAPPEDBY ARNY Agency to Enlist 500,000 in 60 Days Planned by General ‘Staff. BY the Associated Press. The Army is preparing to create a recruiting agency which could be re- lied upon in the event of war, to en- list at least 500,000 volun‘eers during the first 60 days of hostilities. The agency is intended to supply manpower for the swift expansion of military units to combat strength, while the contemplated universal draft is being put into operation. General staff officers are working out the framework of the new system and expect to complete it within the next few months. It then will be submitted to the adjutant general of each State for the preparation and ex- ecution of detailed plans. Broadly, the idea calls for the for- mation of semi-military or civilian recruiting “committees” in strategic sections of every State, which would be prepared to plunge into enlistment campaigns immediately on the out- break of war. “Flying Squadrons.” ‘They would function much on the order of present-day community “drives” for charitable purposes. Lead- ing citizens and members of patriotic organizations probably will be asked to form the nuclei of such “flying squadrons.” They would operate under the imme- diate direction of the respective adju- tants general and their National Guard staffs, whose work in turn would be integrated with that of the War De- partment’s mobilization section. Louisiana alreacy has perfected such & plan. Pennsylvania has one in preparation. The recruiting system would be part of the Government's general mobiliza- tion program. According to an official statement, this program calls for ex- pansion of the Regular Army and the National Guard to 1,500,000 fighting men by the end of the fourth month of war. Their combined contemplated peacetime strength now is roughly 375,000. Army officers estimate that 300,000 of this increase would be needed in the first month and 500,000 by the end of the second. Selective Draft Also. A so-called selective draft, modeled on the one used in the World War, would be depended upon to furnish most of the necessary additions. But the high command estimases that from 45 to 60 days would be required to get the draft machinery operating at full speed. The new form of mass recruiting of volunteers has been decided upon, therefore, as the most practicable means of preventing the loss of pre- cious time in putting large numbers of.fighting men into the fleld. Adoption of this innovation was prompted by the unsatisfactory re- sults obtained from orthodox recruit- ing methods during the World War. In the first month of American par- ticipation there were only 86,000 vol- unteer enlistments. “The scarcity of yvolunteers in 1917 could not be charged to a lack of patriotism on the part of the young men of the country,” says Col. Sand- erford Jarman, an officer of the mobi- lization section of the General Staff. “Nor is it thought that it will be lack- ing in a future emergency.” He blamed instead the lack of suf- ficient personnel devoted to recruiting and the fact that Army men assigned to such duties were strangers to most of the prospective volunteers. PALESTINE PARTITION OPPOSED BY HADASSAH Woman Zionists Seek Implementa- tion of British Mandate Over Undivided Area. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Nov. 1.— Hadassah, the American women's Zionist organization, stood opposed today to a British Royal Commission’s recommendation for partition of Pal- estine into three sections—an inde- pendent Jewish nation, an independ- ent Arab nation and a.section to' be continued under British mandate. After five hours of debate at the closih section of its twenty-third an- nual convention, the group passed yesterday a resolution calling on the world Zionist organization in its ne- gotiations with Great Britain “to bring about a constructive policy for the complete implementation of the mandate over an undivided Pales- tine.” The resolution cited the “readiness of the Jewish people to reach a peace- ful settiement with the Arabs, based on the free development of both races and a mutal recognition of rights.” ADDS TO PIRATE PATROL Turkey Sends Squadrons of Planes and 20 More Ships. ISTANBUL, Nov. 1 (#).—Turkey reinforced its anti-piracy patrol of the Black Sea, Sea of Marmora, the Dar- danelles and the Aegean yesterday with 20 gunboats and trawlers and squadrons of seaplanes armed with bombs and depth charges. In accordance with the Nyon nine- power agreement the government desued orders to sink any unidentified submarine sighted in.the commercial maritime route. BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS Dirners Dances Luncheons Banquets Crystal Room—10 to 40 persons Bangquet Room—50 to 300 Ball Room—500 persons New Smoking Lounge, Powder and Men’s Room now adjoin Boll Room with Lobby and Blue Room for Promenade. Cocktail Lounge adjoins Front Lobby. Special Rates Now Being Quoted Burlington Hotel District 8822 Vermont A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY NOVEMBER 1, 1937. ettlement by Britain, Japan Looms at Nine-Power Parley War in Orient Is Only New Phase of Old Rivalry of Interests in China—Eng- land May Yet Reach Goal. This is the sirti of & series of articles by an American authority on Pacific affairs, who two years ago indicated in his book,"Challenge,” America steps out front in builders. accident that the British have suffered more insult and injury, more loss of face, than other neutrals in the fight- ing area. Before the warfare broke out the Japanese people and troops were told that whereas the United States would stand by complacently while Japan dealt with China, obsta- cles and tricks could be expected from Great Britain. In Tientsin, first cosmopolitan city captured by the Japanese, the impor- tant British community complained of annoyances, repression and spying on the part of the conquerors. Resident Americans, on the contrary, have re- ceived the crude, paternal favoritism from the Japanese military. The British daily paper has been closely censored. The American writer does as he pleases. Of course, the fact that he pleases to view the situation some- what from the Japanese angle helps. But the British journal finds itself in- capable of pro-Jap sympathy. That, in itself, results from the tense Brit- ish-Japanese rivalry in China which ante-dates the present hostilities. Phase of Old Tussle. Today’s waifare in the Orient is, in fact, a phase of the old tussle between Japanese and British interests in China. During the months before it broke out British investments were pouring into Central and South China in a volume which astonished those| who thought England was finished east of Suez. English capital, inter- ested in safe and profitable invest- ments, became impressed about a year ago with the stability and accomplish- ments of the Chiang Kai-shek Soong regime at Nanking. English industrial management, engineering skill and some capital had been going out to India, collaborating with the abun- dant ready native Indian money. This later developed into a wave whose crest hit Nationalist China. A network of railways, financed by British funds, was planned to run up the coast oposite the Japanese Island of Formosa. The Japanese damned the project as “strategic, not economic” —in spite of the-rich mining and trop- ical territory to be tapped. Britain 8ot & million-dollar contract for Can- | ton’s water works, put in trolley, bus systems, built tobacco factories as far north as Hainan. The trade of Hong Kong doubled in one year. In April the British Ambassador and the export credit director made a grand tour of South ' China, while the Japanese looked on, green with envy. - This en- voy, incidentally, was the gentleman So accidentally machine-gunned by a Japanese plane soon after hostilities | broke out. Offset to Japan Welcomed. The Chinese patrios, bitterly anti- British in 1929, were only too glad to| encourage all this British investment | 8s an offset to the Japanese menace. Moreover, Chinese officialdom has | Right now there is bad blood—growing worse—between the British and Japanese in China. It is not s mere< - — - the present bloody developments, and here tells us what to ezpect. By UPTON CLOSE. HAVE seen what Japan and Russia have to offer each other. But more natural settlement between Japan and Britain may tell as result of the Brussels Nine-Power Conference—that is, unless & general crusade against new empire perialistic terms than ever before. The Japanese countered with a furi- ous program of improvements. It was met, however, with steady obstruction from Nanking. The Japanese attempt to mechanize farming on a large scale outside of Tientsin (illegal according to treaty) was broken up by mob ac- tion, and the airline established to Mukden and Japan was stopped by military force. Some of the Japanese enterprises inaugurated during this period were in iron, salt, wool, highway construction and harbor building. Rival coal and glass enterprises, were estab- lished near the Great British Kailan interests engineered by Herbert Hoover in 1900. Japan—particularly the navy, and the houses of wealth allied to the navy by marriage—watched with increasing misgiving and jealousy their rival's economic penetration by which the Chinese Nationalist regime was strengthened. The British hoped that the Japanese would remain content with their pre-eminence in South China in return for tacit recognition of whatever they might choose to do in the north. In the lower Yangtze Valley there was room, they thought, for both. Clash on Hainan Island. But the Japanese began to poach on the British sphere, using force to overcome the advantages of the latter in receiving preferred treatment. Sev- eral enterprises inaugurated around Shanghal by British interests passed thus into Japanese hands. The most serious clash was on big Hainan Island, lying south of Hong Kong. It became apparent that Hainan, if developed, could dominate Hong Kong and South China, the Philippines, French Indo- Chink and the sea between the new Singapore naval base and China. Chi- nese Nationalist officials, accompanied by British promoters, visited the is- land and staged a “booster program” reminiscent of American boom days. This was a counter action to a tem- porary Japanese occupation by marines 8 few weeks earlier. The largest land owner in the island was persuaded to g0 to New York to enlist co-operation of American capital—where he was, in fact, when hostilities broke out. But the British investors may yet reach their desired ends out of the present situation. If Japan should need to be rescued, Britain could ar- range it through the Nine-Power Con- ference. Fought to a standstill by Chi- nese forces, Nippon might readily agree to limit herself for some time to North China and permit Central and South China to pump into the lap of British finance for post-war recon- struction and development on a huge scale. There would remain only China to adopted a more enlightened attitude | Persuade. But an exhausted, famine- toward the use of foreign capital in | Stricken China should not be difficult the development of their country, and | for nine powers to deal with. British was offered on less im (Copyright, 1937 Get Acquainted with the “Modern” Mode ® Sharkskins ® Cable Stripes ® Herringbones Fresh from our workrooms are hundreds of very ultra RICHARD PRINCE LOUNGE SUITS. (Regular models also.) Each garment is an indi- vidual and tasteful interpretation of spirited modern fashion for men who really care. 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Last week the board reduced from 55 to 40 per cent the amount traders must put up in cash to buy securities on margin and imposed a new 50 per cent margin requirement on short sales. These changes, effective today. ap- parently were designed to check mar- ket downtrends by encouraging buying and discouraging selling. Announce- ment of the revisions lent some buoy- ancy to the market last week. Sliding Scale of Margins. The board's present studies, authori- ties said, involve “sliding scale” of margins which would go up or down with changes in price trends. Under such a system, the amount of cash a securities buyer would have to put up would increase as stock prices climbed, and would decrease as they fell. = A similar schedule might be worked out for margins on short sales. This system would operate conversely to that on the buying side, with require- ments dropping &s prices rose and incressing as they declined. 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