Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1940, Page 11

Receptive Ear Needed for G. O.P. Voice Minority Viewpoints On Economic Issues Paid No Heed By DAVID LAWRENCE. Talk of a coalition cabinet with Republicans in cabinet posts has reached the point where President Roosevelt is seriously considering such changes as will give the ap- pearance, at any rate, of non- partisanship in the manage- ment of the Na- tlonal Govern- ment. But to estab- Msh confidence among the Na- tion’s business : and industrial managers, some- thing more than political window dressing is needed nowadays. David Lawrence. Even if the President chose half his cabinet | from the ranks of the Republican party, it would not go to the root of the domestic controversies which have been slowing up production and making America’s economic machine lop-sided. For the real power of Government nowadays isn't vested in the cabinet officers at all, but in the many boards, bureaus and commissions which have the authority to regulate and, by means of regulation, to impair the efficiency of busines If the President were to announce & return to the plain intent of Con- gress, when it created bi-partisan boards and commissions, and if he were to give representation minority as well as majority view- points on economic issues, there would be a different story to tell. | Already Too Much Politics. ‘The trouble is that the reported | plan of the President to put some Republicans in his cabinet touches the political but not the economic issues of the day. There is, un- fortunately, too much politics in our Nationa]l Government. Even in the midst of what has been portrayed | as & serious crisis in world affairs, | the spokesmen of the administra- tion are continuing, on the one hand, their demagogic promises that “labor standards will not be lowered,” while, on the other hand, private mssurances are being given that the request of the Army and Navy for & modification of the Walsh-Healey Government contracts law and the demand'of manufacturers for more flexibility in the operation of the wage-and-hour law will be granted. Even with national defense at stake, the political point of view prevails, and rather than alienate union labor or its leaders who have & pressure group at hand to prevent Congress from taking action actually wanted by the Army and Navy, the administration is too timid to deal with the necessities of the sifuation. ‘This is one reason why the spec- tacular plans to form “coalition” cabinets will be regarded only as a plece of political camouflage de- signed to weaken Republican oppo- sition during the coming campaign and not to assist the country to deal firmly with all obstacles to higher production. Government Has Power. Sooner or later the public will grow weary of these political strata- gems and of the selfishness of pres- sure groups, and will insist that the Federal Government exercise its regulatory power, both with respect to production and the worker or- ganizations. There is ample power for the administration to accelerate production processes by seeing to it that existing statutes are not abused. The problem facing the Nation is well known to the industrial man- agers. Thus, there is a shortage of skilled labor. Not enough skilled laborers are available to run, in many instances, two or three shifts. * The law, however, requires time and 2 half to be paid if any shift is kept overtime. The taxpayers of Amer- ice are thus asked to pay far more than in any country in the world for the forging of the weapons needed for defense. Taxes in their turn place such a heavy load on industry already that where a good scale of ‘wages prevails, it is difficult to see why national defense production cannot be accomplished on straight time instead of time and a half, Crippled France’s Defenses. ‘The French owe their lack of pre- paredness today to their surrender to the radical demands for a 40-hour week. America is face to face with & similar crisis, which the adminis- tration has already begun to side- step. Those who despair of democ- racy being able to do a defense job equal to that of autocracy and dic- tatorships do not want to see labor exploited er unfairly treated, but do expect the Nation’s governmental leaders to assume a practical atti- tude where accelerated production end war emergencies plainly exist. After the aviation industry’s rep- resentatives called on the adminis- tration yesterday it was announced that the industry didn’t ask for.a lowering of labor standards and that it the request had been made it would not have been granted. This is hardly the*way to begin to fight & war emergency or to instill confi- dence. The present administration has a big job to do to win the confi- dence of management and industrial executives generally, and it is a job of fair dealing rather than of eco- ?mnroduetlun P?xhk Reserved.) — You'll Like The HOTEL NEW YORKER 84th Straetat Eighth Ave., Now York Private Tunnel from Penn. Station Every room has radio, tud and_shower. Andrews, President, 2500 ROOMS 43 from $3.50 to | THE EVENING The Capital Parade Nature of Nazi Attack Was Reported to London, Paris and Washington by Intelligence Officers By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER. As this is written, the outcome of the great and terrible battle in the flelds of Flanders and the plains of Northern irance is still uncertain. It is not yet clear whether human decency can still defend itself, or whether the source lands of our culture are to be conquered by men mixed, as his tutor said of the Emperor Tiberius, “of mud and blood.” ‘What is already too cruelly clear, however, is the battle’s lesson. After a week of desperately watching the news come in, a weary Army officer put it: “At least we know now that the time for incredulity is past. We must believe the worst we hear, and prepare for it as best we may.” These Heavy Penalties g It is incredulity, pure and simple, which has put the allies at such a fearful disadvantage in this war for the world. The allles have been unable to mobilize their forces for counterattack by day, because the Germans, commanding the air, could spy out the concentrations, and send bombers roaring over to destroy them. The thousands of German tanks have crashed against the weakest points in the allied lines, because the German planes, flying free over the allied armies, have directed them by radio. The allies’ anti-tank guns have proved toc' weak to pierce the German tank armor. More than 3,000 old French 75s, left over from the last war, have had to be rushed to the front to be used at short range, yet even this desperate effort may not halt the German tanks’ advance. This German command of the air, this German power to send mechanized units smashing through all resistance—two factors which may perhaps decide the fate of the whole world—are the penalties of incredulity. The German Army has at least 11 and probably 12 heavily mechanized divisions. The French and British Armies combined have only three lightly and two heavily mechanized divisions. In the air, American authorities now estimate the German-allied ratio of bombing power as at least four to one. Even in fighter and pursuit planes, on which the allies have concentrated their rearmament, the Germans are still better off. And all these facts have been available from the very instant that Germany started to arm, to any informed man who would credit them. From the start, the extent and character of the militarization of Ger- many was fully reported by English, French and American intelligence officers and military attaches. Even the nature of the German plan of attack was on record—the succeeding waves of tanks scattering the de- fense, the motorized infantry rushing up to occupy the new salient, the regular troops moving up to free the mechanized forces for another assault, and overhead the planes, finding weaknesses, preventing counter- attacks, laying down the advance barrage of bombs. But the allied leaders preferred to believe the comfortable counselors, Wwho said no army in the world could possess such vast mechanized power as the Germans were reported to be building. The French air arm was allowed to become completely disorganized. The British Air Ministry was well known to be one of the most inefficient in Whitehall, The French said tanks could do nothing against the Maginot Line. The crack British cavalry regiments resisted mechanization to the last, and tried to ignore it when it was forced upon them. When the war came, some of these mechanized cavalry regiments were actually wearing spurs when not on duty, and in at least one of them the command, “Water your horse,” was the signal for refueling the machines. Dangers Ahead Even if the great battle now in progress does not prove decisive, there are still grave dangers ahead. We have still to see the mass bomb- ing attacks on England, by which the Germans frankly hope to de- make the British ports unusable. And there is still in the offing the possibility of another German at- tack through Switzerland, and of Italy’s entry into the war. It is now reliably stated that a promise to enter the war if the Germans attacked the Swiss was ANGER okuik\" NI AL 2 ler at the Brenner Pass. Only last Wednesday, fear was so acute that the French Ambassador, Count Rene de Saint Quentin, is reported to have warned the State and Treasury Departments that his government expected the Italians to go in. If they do there will be another 6,000 planes against the inadequate’ allied air forces. In truth, this is the zero hour, when the victory of the men of mud and blood looms horribly before us. It may not come.‘ Every American who loves and believes in what his country stands for is praying that it will not come. . But, meanwhile, every American should learn the lesson of the penalties of incredulity, and should demand that this country, at least, prepare for the worst. (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) stroy British war production and | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, ‘THI opintons of the writers on this page are their own, not necessaril, Star’s effort to give all sides readers, although such opinions mn}; themselves and directly opposed to Th. The Political Mill Surrender of G. O. P. to Third-Term Idea Would Bring Despised One-Party Government- By G."GOULD LINCOLN. The Republicans view with much distaste—if nothing more—the “fifth column” which appears to be intent upon effacing the G. O. P. as a governmental factor ‘and to make sure the renomination and re - election of President Roosevelt. Those former support- ers of the Re- publican party who are now beating their breasts and de- claring that Mr. Roosevelt must be re-elected to “show Hitler” are not many, G. Gould Lineoln. but they have obtained quite a bit of publicity in these hysterical days. The Republicans are just as strong for adequate national de- fense against any enemy that may is Mr. Roosevelt himself. But they do not admit that Mr. Roosevelt is the only man for the American to rally behind. And as for joining in a coalition Government, as pro- posed in some New Deal quarters— even by the President himself, who has made at least one offer of a cabinet job to a Republican—they ridicule the idea. According to re- ports here, the office of Secretary of the Navy was offered by the Presi- dent to Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Re- publican vice presidential candidate in 1936. And the office of Secretary of War may be offered, it was re- ported, to Alf M. Landon, formet Governor of Kansas and Republican standard bearer four years ago. This last stretches the imagination. Faces G. O. P. Retaliation. If any Republican accepts ap- pointment to the Roosevelt cabinet, there is a very good chance that he may be read out of the Republican party—so far as the coming cam- paign is concerned. Republican leaders discussing this matter said they did not see how a Republican | may be a member of the President’s personal and political family, as attack or threaten this country as | 8T The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The of questions of interest to its be_contradictory among e Star’s. & Democratic victory at the polls next November. It has made the renomination of President Roose- velt more likely—although the Presi- dent has not yet spoken the last word on this subject. The President has seized the preparedness ball and run with it. It is an issue which the New Dealers figure will surely win for Mr. Roosevelt if he be the party nominee. It might just as well win for Mr. Hull, No one can tell from day to day with certainty what the situation is going to be in Europe when the election takes place in November— nor, for that matter, the situation in the United States. There is the possibility that matters will be less chaotic, and that the wave of hys- teria which has been sweeping this country since the German advance into the Low Countries and France began will subside. That is what the Republicans hope. In the mean- time, they regard with concern the defeatist attitude accepted in re- cent days by many of their own oup. Republican presidential candi- dates are continuing their drives for delegates to the Republican Na- tional Convention. In some quarters it is felt that the serious war situa- tion in Europe has lessened the | chances of 38-year-old Thomas E. | Dewey, New York’s racket busting district attorney. That is not the feeling of Mr. Dewey and his cam- paign mamagers, however. He con- tinues to have an amazing popular support. Improves Vandenberg’s Chances. If the war has injured the chances |of Mr. Dewey, it has improved those of Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, on account of his wide experience in foreign affairs as a member of the Senate Foreign Re- | lations Committee. It is true that | Mr. Vandenberg voted against the | repeal of the arms embargo last | fall when the neutrality act was re- | vised, and that he has been re- | garded as a strong isolationist. He | | has, however, come out strongly for | increased national defense. | Fifty-year-old Senator Taft of | Ohio is away at present speaking {in a group of Middle West States. | | His managers continue td insist that | MAY 21, 1940. We, the People Nazi War Power Catches Administration Short, the Republicans Far Shorter By JAY FRANKLIN, The unexpected failure of the French and British Armies to defend the Low Countries or ‘o stop the Nazis at the Maginot Line has caught both the administration and the opposition short in their international speculations. The Republicans were 30 sure of the invincibility of the allies that their “margin” has been completely wiped out. For it was the G. O, P. which kept us out of the League, sank our Navy, starved our defense forces, toyed with such diplomatic doilies as the Kellogg-Briand Pact (remember?) and bullyragged Roose- velt as an “alarmist” and ‘“war- monger” whenever he tried to arouse public opinion to the grow- ing danger in Europe. If ever a party was intellectually bankrupt on foreign policy and defense policy it is the G. O. P.—the party of * Isolation and arms-embargo, The New Deal administration is scarcely less embarrassed. They belleved that allowing the allies to purchase planes and munitions here, under the “cash-and-carry” clause in the present Neutrality Act, we would be giving France and England all the support needed to insure the defeat of the Nazis. They had spent large sums to strengthen the Navy, weakened and demoralized by 12 years of Republican “economy” at the expense of our security, and had spent large sums on aviation. More could not be spent, due to.the opposition of the Republicans and some Democrats and due to the belief that our security was adequately defended by the hitherto unbeaten British Navy and French Army. Defense Program Intensified The swift German thrust and the gigantic battle of the Meuse have caused a sharp upward revision of the Roosevelt administration’s defense program. It has caused an equally sharp Republican belief that they can capitalize on the crisis. - For this reason there was lukewarm response to the hints for political salidarity and a truce on the elections Instead, there was the inevitable suggestion for a congressional investigation of the defense problem and a demand for what is euphemistically known as a “civilian production board”—to take over the defense program by the same industrialists who have badgered and hagridden every national defense program for the last 20 years—either in the name of “economy.” as with naval appropria- tions, or in defense of “the American way,” as with the T. V. A. The crisis is so great that the statements and columns and editorials gow appearing in our papers may make humiliating reading even a week ence. Two Chief Considerations Two considerations have become paramount: (1) If Hitler wins in Europe, it will be our turn next and quickly, before we can get going on . 50,000 airplanes. (2) We must make a quick bid for the British Navy, if | England faces disaster. Without it in the Atlantic our Navy must be withdrawn from the Pacific, if in- deed it can get through the Panama Canal safely. Only recently, the authorities in Panama found several thousand machine-guns and several million rounds of ammunition stored in a warehouse leased by a German consulate If we get the British fleet in the Atlantic and continue the de- = St fense of our Eastern seaboard and the blockade of Germany with British aid, we have a chance of standing off the Nazis until we can get our air defense stepped up to the point at which we can consider ourselves wiERE Yoy (‘B/»’ Twitk FoLLé’“fl’" part of Mussolini’s bargain with Hit- | cabinet officers are, and support a | he wu{ enter the national conven- Republican candidate for the presi- | tlon with the largest bloc of dele- dency this year. They are not rak- | 8ates The war news has crowded ing threats, but merely looking ,¢| the activities of the presidential the matter in a cold-blooded way. ‘ aspirants off the front page—except They see no reason whatever for | When they mention the war and a coalition Government. None such | foreign affairs. y was attempted during the Wilson | Senator Byrd of Virginia is sit- administration when this country | ting on the top of the world in | was fighting the World War in 1917 | Virginia Democratic politics. No | and 1918. All of Mr. Wilson’s cabi- | One has filéd against him for the net officers were Democrats duflng‘_unawflal nomination. Am‘m'emlyL | those years. And in 1918 President | no one was willing to tackle him Wilson apd his Postmaster General, | il 8 primary fight. Mr. Byrd has Albert S. Burleson, called for the |been one of the most persistent election of a Democratic House of | Démocratic critics of the New Deal. Representatives, Incidentally, the| TWO days before the close of " en- Gov. Jones Urges U. S. Pay Entire Pensions Cost By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., May 21— Louisiana’s new chief executive, who defeated the late Huey Long’s po- litical machine, proposes that the Federal Government “share the wealth” by bearing the entire cost of equal old-age pensions the Na- tion over. Gov. Sam H. Jones asked the State Legislature last night to me- morialize Congress to assume the entire burden of a maximum $30-a- month pension for needy aged. The Governor said poorer States were handicapped under the pres- ent system in which the Government matches State funds dollar for dol- lar. “Economically this Nation op- erates as & unit,” he said. “We of the South have paid our toll and tribute to Wall Street, and we are still paying it. If wealth must be centered in one section of the Na- tion, then let the burden of financ- ing the legitimate governmental ac- tivities of the whole Nation likewise be so centered.” Gov. Jones also outlined his plans for tearing apart the Long dictator- ship and asked for broad State in- vestigations similar to the Federal inquiry into Louisiana political ‘'scandals.” He proposed repeal of one “dic- tator” law permitting the Governor to place the National Guard above Member Federal Reserve System civil courts and another allowing State police to hold persons with- out bond. He also asked for in- vestigation of bank and homestead (building and loan) liquidations and requested funds for a crime commission with extensive powers. Reynolds Proposes Curb On Aliens in Industry By the Associated Press. Sharp curbs on the employment of aliens in American industry were proposed yesterday by Senator Reyn- olds, Democrat, of North Carolina. Under his suggestion, the number of aliens employed in each business operating in interstate commerce would be limited to 10 per cent of the total workers employed. Senator Reynolds made the pro- posal in the form of an amendment to pending legislation, submitted by the Senate Civil Liberties Commit- tee, to prohibit use of labor spies, “strikebreakers” and “industrial mu- nitions” such as tear gas and ma~ chine guns, in interstate industry. Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee, said he would make no objection to the Reynolds amendment, but Senate aciion was deferred when Majority Leader Barkley and Senator Wagner, Dem- ocrat, of New York protested that no provision was made for the alien who had filed a declaration of in- tention to become a citizen, and elected a Republican House and a Republican Senate. argument that the country must rally back of Mr. Roosevelt to make the German government under- stand that it is united. The country could rally back of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, or even back of a Republican if he could be elected President, just as well as it could rally back of Mr. Roosevelt. The argument of the New Dealers fis, however, that only by backing Mr. Roosevelt can the country be uni- fied. The argument is entirely dent Roosevelt while his term runs— unless he makes mistakes. is no reason why it must elect him the traditions of the American people. Means One Party Government. If the G. O. P. should be effaced and coalesced with the New Dealers —to “show Hitler"—there would be only one political party in this country—a one-party Government. That is just what Hitler has in Ger- many, Mussolini in Italy, and Stalin in Russia—the kind of governments with which President Roosevelt has said we cannot live. The war situation in Europe has greatly increaséd the probability of FORD ENGINE HEADS WELDED WELDIT, INC. 516 1st St. N.W: ME. 7944 country turned down the request The New Dealers are using the | faulty. The country will back Presi- | But that | for another term—which violates | tries for the Senate race, he de- | livered a speech bitterly critical of some of the New Deal laws and ad- ministration. Incidentally, Senator Byrd, along with Senator Glass, will head the Virginia delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Virginia is one Southern State which has not jumped on the Roosevelt third-term band wagon, failing to in- struct its delegates to vote for the | President. They may do so, but it will be with reluctance on the part of some of them. Sewing Room Visits Invited | Spectal Dispatch to The Star. | FAIRFAX, Va., May 21.—An open house for the public to see the work being done in the Fairfax County Sewing Room, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, will be held all during this week, it has been announced by Mrs. Eula Barnes, supervisor. The sewing room is in the Trial Justice Build- ing. TRUNKS— Repairing of Leather Goods Saddlery and Luggage G. W.King, jr., 511 11th St. N.W. Espotabs Id in experience—up to date in method—modern in facilities. Chartered by Congress 1867 15th Street and New York Avenue, N. W, NATIONAL SAVINGS axo TRUST COMPANY Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation safe from attack. In such a crisis there can be no now and we must follow his lead. politics. Roosevelt is our President (Released by Consolideted News PFeatures, Inc). Baker Given 2,214 Lead For I. T. U. Presidency B3 the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 21.—Claude | M. Baker of San Francisco, Inde- | pendent candidate for re-election as | president of the International Typo- graphical Union, has a lead of 2214 | votes over the Progressive candidate, Francis G. Barrett of New York, an unofficial tabulation of returns from 705 of 850 local unions showed yes- terday, The count, made public at the office of Woodruff Randolph, sec- retary-treasurer, gave Mr. Baker 29,128 and Mr. Barrett 26,914. ‘This tabulation showed Progres- sive candidates leading by small margins for 13 of the 15 offices for which the members balloted May 15. Mr. Randolph, a Progressive can- didate, also seeking re-election, had 28,094 votes to 27,728 for John J. Conley of Fort Worth, Tex. | ‘The official tabulation is to be made May 31. American clothing is in demand | in Sweden. | Second Turkish Mjssion To Be Sent to Syria By the Associated Press. ANKARA, Turkey, May 21.—A second Turkish military mission was | Treported today to be leaving shortly for Syria to confer with the allied staff, which is waiting there for the possible spread of war to Southeast- ern Europe. One delegation already is in Beirut. The government, meanwhile, asked the National Assembly to vote a new extraordinary credit of 25 million pounds sterling (about $75,- 000,000) for the Turkish defense forces. This would be added to 47 mtillion pounds previously author- 1zed. Calcutta Exchange Closed BOMBAY, May 21 (#).—The Cal- cutta Stock Exchange was closed today until further notice and direc- tors of the Bombay Stock Exchange appealed to members to narrow the volume of business. OPEN WEAVE...SMART...LIGHT... Again Dobbs helps you break with dull con- ventional straws! Here’s good looks without sacrifice of comfort. Here’s coolness without loss of emart lines. This light open weave straw is destined to top them all! CLOTHING DEPT. IS 5 AIR CONDITIONED Sidney West, nc. 14m ¢ G EUGENE C. GOTT, Pres. Security Depends on Unity Europe’s War C Changes Sentiment In U. S. Suddenly By CHARLES G. ROSS. ‘Thoughts on preparedness— If there is anything amusing in the effect on this country of the tragic state of affairs in Europe, it i consists in the %f sudden discoy- 4 ery by a lot of ¢ people who have made it their business to cry down the Army and Navy that we need the Army and Navy, Time was— and not long ago at that— when anybody who proposed even a moderate increase in the Charles G. Ross. military estab= lishment was assailed as & jingo. | He was heading this country straight for war. He had been taken in by the insidious propa- ganda of the admirals and generals. He was playing the game of the munitions makers, the “merchants of death.” He was proposing to take bread out of the mouths of babies on relief to swell the profits of the Du Ponts. The money spent for one useless battleship would build so many hundred miles of roads, endow 80 many libraries, puv up so many schools. Along with this went the talk that it wasn't Germany’s assaults on American rights that put us into the last war, but British propaganda | and the machinations of the ine ternational bankers. Woodrow Wil= son was a dreamy idealist—or worse —who was gulled by these evil ine fluences. We were a Nation of saps. What we had thought was a high= minded adventure was rotten at the | core. We never had been in any | danger and we never should be, The Atlantic Ocean took care of | that Let Europe stew in its own | juice. We were done with it. Eng- land and Prance were as bad as Germany. Anyway, we were safe. All we needed was the skeleton of an Army and a little Navy for coast defense, Nye’s Thesis Accepted. Senator Nye of North Dakota had looked into the sordid matter of the last war. He knew why we had got into it. Nye was the man to go by, not Wilson or Newton D. Baker. Nye was the man to listen to now, not the war-mongering Roosevelt who wanted to take us into the war on the side of the allies. The war, in any case, was a phony war. Didn't Senator Borah say so? | The sentiment represented by this general line of talk was widespread | and influential. When the National | Industrial Recovery Act was passed ; in 1933, carrying $3,300,000,000 for a | great pump-priming effort, and | Roosevelt allocated part of this fund to the Navy, there were howls of disapproval. The President was ac- cused then, as he has frequently | been accused, of favoring the Navy because of his personal fondness for ships and the sea. The criticism took no account of the fact that he was simply repairing, in some small part, the arrears in naval strength which had been accumulating since 1921. How great are these arrears—how dangerous in the light of what is happening abroad—may be gath- ered from the fact that next month we shall launch our first battleship since 1921, ‘The opposition to the President’s | direct action in behalf of the Navy was kept from being more effective by the fact of Mr. Roosevelt’s great popularity and the desperate emer- gency into which the country had been piunged by the depression, Those were the tense days in which almost any act or proposal of the Executive was approved. Different Tune Now. The point is that a very great part of public opinion has been run- ning strongly against military or naval preparedness. The services have been on short rations. Military and naval men have had to talk low. The whole public attitude toward national defense has been colored by the preachings of the Gerald Nyes. It’s a different tune we are hear~ ing now and hearing not only from the long-time advocates of pre- paredness, but from many who only & little while ago were figuratively shoving the soldier off the sidewalk, How did Kipling put it: “It’s Tommy this an’ Tommy that an’ ‘chuck ’im out, the brute,’ But it's- ‘saviour of ‘is country® when the guns begin to shoot.” All of which, to repeat, is faintly amusing, or would be if it were not for the seriousness of the need to make ourselves strong against any event. Blame Shared by All s It is being said now in some quare ters that the Roosevelt administra- tion is blameworthy for having let the military services get into their down-at-heel condition. To say this is to overlook a number of important facts—the arrearage that it in- herited, the pacific disposition of the American people, the proper pree occupation of the Government with urgent domestic problems, the mounting national debt, the newness of the threat with which we are faced. How far would Roosevelt have got if he had proposed another billion for national defense a year 4go, or even a month ago? If there is blame for the situation in which we find ourselves, where we have got to build up our armanent at a furious pace, the blame is on all of us. But the present, surely, is no time to try to assess blame. The only thing that matters is what we have got to do from now on. And that is & task that requires sacrifice and the utmost we can give of co-opera- tlon—co-operation between Demo- crats and Republicans, capital and 1abor, industry and the Government. By pulling together we can lick this problem, we can make ourselves se- cure, and we can lick it without any departure from our democratic proc- esses, But we have got to pull together! Coronado Celebration SANTA FE, N. Mex. (#).~New Mexico this year is celebrating the cuarto centennfal of Coronado's ar- rival. The Spanish explorer ar- rived in the State in 1540, Australia may develop fuel from shale.