Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 11

Busaess Pergcuted Deslite War Anti{rast Suit Agaift Radio Nets Held[ase in Point By }41D LAWRENCE. Even thy ward off tion of industry v/the New Deal bureau- crats gs on just thesame. ® Presidenfoose- velt is »rhaps too busyopay attentionto the subtle ws by which ] very meanagrial % mechanis on § which merica is depenmnt to win the rar is being saltaged in moral Or * else Mr. oose- reigr. Ioe_, the persecu- David Lawrence. velt is astming that somehow or | other Ameca can win the war and still carry n reform programs and socialistic <periments in class com- bat insideAmerica. It is a dngerous assumption. Lack { of foresigl has already brought its disasters. Under the American sys- tem of gwvernment, the American people canot do what Prime Min- | told the| ‘ster Chuchill recently JInited Stites Senate that the Eng- ish peopl can do, namely, to re- dove the elected head of their fate at sy moment. The Com- mnder in Chief of the Army and Nvy of tle United States can suf-| fe a domn Pearl Harbor defeats| an the less of American territory 8sin the Philippines either be- Cale of lack of economic prepera- tion or incompetent leadership in milkry matters but nothing can evidutly be done about it by the peopl. Feuds of Persecution. If dmestic reform, therefore, is| to be arried on by the New Deal irrespetve of war, then a move- ment t bring about the passage| of & costitutional amendment to permit te American people to re- move atwill their Commander in Chief wikn he fails can be con- sidered i essential for American democrac as it is already for Brit- ish demoracy. Mr. Rosevelt of his own initia- tive brokethe third term precedent. Yet the .merican people are be-| hind himtoday in the most re- there is a war on t\ ican businessmen and | On the Record THE EVENING Allies Could Overthrow the Nazi Regime By Launching Political By DOROTHY THOMPSON. Despite events in the East, we must not be deflected from the theater of war in the West, where the situation of Germany is worse than is apparent on the surface. In order to understand it we must rec- ollect pre- vious events and recon- struct the present on that basis and in logic. From the beginning Hitler's rela- Dorothy Thempson. tions with the army have been strange. In one sense they made him—as a mass-leader—antidote against what they considered the unsoldierly qualities of the re- public. But they have never trusted him. He became chan- cellor after long resistance by President von Hindenburg and only after he had falsely prom- ised that he would restore the monarchy. His first clash was with the generals who forced him to liquidate the rival storm troop leadership in 1934. When Reichs- marshal Goering used the oc- casion to purge two generals as well, Von Streicher and Von Bredow—they were defiantly Ye- habilitated in honorable memory by the army. As early as 1937 agents of the generals were secretly warning the French and British and a few journalists that German re- armament was going too far, and were actually trying to persuade the Western powers ‘o clamp down on Hitler. They had be- come appalled at what he was doing to the German nation over which he held so magnetic a sway. They feared he would lead the nation into a war of un- limited dimensions. Hitler's “Genius.” Every step forward encountered the opposition of some of the generals. Gen. von Fritsch re- fused to undertake the Austrian coup. Gen. Beck resigned over Czecho-Slovakia. And agents of the generals warned the British and French that Munich would mean war, not peace. Hitler's speech on September 26, 1938, in the Sportspalast, Berlin—the speech making war inevitable, and answering Presi- dent Roosevelt's peace plea over the Sudeten question—was not markable emonstration of national | unity the ountry has ever ].:.m)wn.i Even the act that as Commander | in Chief, Nr. Roosevelt must have known how critical were the rela- tions betwemn America and Japen | prior to December 7 and hence must have had the uzimate respon- | sibility for seeing to I that the fleet | was on the job 24 heurs a day—| 185 not brought forth wny wave of | riticism of the President. But can | n administration expedt criticism | t be adjourned when it allows | Aerican industry and business to btsabotaged in the mids of war | b¥petty bureaucrats who tarry on! the feuds of persecution? | Acase in point is the punitive | law uit just filed bv the anti-trust | divisin of the so-called Department attended by a single army officer and Hitler spoke as though he were the only military element. From the outbreak of war until the Russian campaign no more was heard of opposition from generals. Gens. Keitel and Von Brauchitsch found they could Randle Hitler only by treat- ing him as a master-mind and, after putting their own military suggestions into his brain, ef- fusively credit him with “genius.” This fantastic theater convinced the rest of the world of Hitler's military genius, but it did not convince the generals, who knew who was responsible for the suc- cession of brilliant military vic- tories. The first break after the war War of Nerves began came over Russia. The ‘Yugoslav revolt had completely diverted German strategy and prolonged the Balkan campaign nearly a month. The Russian campaign opened too late—the October offensive was a terrible mistake. Germanly has lost in Russla from one and a half to two mil- lion men in killed, wounded and psisoners. What do these losses mean? Hitler established universal service in 1935. The classes called up then and subsequently were of youths born in World War years when the birth rate was very low. His really thoroughly trained young troops have never been more than 3,000,000 and have been the shock battalions in every campaign, as the death notices in German papers have shown. These troops have been reduced by a full third in the Russian campaign, and it is now necessary to throw in reserves from older ranks, married men with families, who are not Razis. Hitler's speech on December 12 is unique among his utter- ances, as a self-apology. His mes- sage of December 19, taking over sole command in order to bring a “turning point,” admits deféat in a-series of nothing but official victories, and his mention of “army and elite guard” in one breath is bad news for Germany. Generals Go on Strike. ‘Why have the field marshal and other generals quit in the middle of the main campaign? For the same reason Von Schleicher was liquidated and Gens. Pritsch and Beck resigned. They have re- fused to sacrifice the German nation to any more adventures. They will neither accept respon- sibility nor obey orders. They have not been court-martialed or dismissed. They have gone on strike. The war in the West could, I believe, end much more quickly than we dream of were a war of nerves—a great political war— brilliantly and systematically pur- sued. For the first time since the war began there is a first-rate chance for Britain, the United States and Russia, by sheer po- litical warfare, backed up by unremitting military activity, to overthrow the whole beastly Nazi regime, and get a real peace— not a ‘“negotiated” peace with Hitler, but a peace that would save the German nation, as a nation, along with all nations. It is lamentable that so few men in’any western foreign of- fices know so little about the real social forces in Germany, about the real mind of Germany. What the army means in the German mind is hardly less than what the nation itself means. The dis- may engendered by the strike of the generals can only be meas- ured if one thinks what the peo- ple would have said had Von Hindenburg and Ludendorf! re- signed in the middle of the last war. They would have said: “The Kaiser has gone crazy.” And you can bet they are saying that about Hitler today. Ideas are as necessary to win this war as weapons—there are too few being used. “(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc) of Jitice against America's two | majorsroadcasting companies—the Columla Broadcasting System and | the Natinal Broadcasting Co.—with | vague narges of monopoly that| 108k as ° they had been trumped up just ecause the broadcasting | companiethad the temerity to ask the courtso restrain a recent order | By the Associated Press. of the Rderal Communications | SINGAPORE, Jan. 2—Observers Commission designed to break up | from the front lines told yesterday their presen business. The broad- | how three oddly-assorted ‘“mus- casting comEnies were warned then | Keteers'—a British officer, his Indian by an , | batman and a sergeant major— Py l; caY:;gn?:hzgo:sz:nzi ::: | f‘!ollémgd a Malayan rnilkway station 3 . | hel the Japanese, kil 4 of €0 to court i attempt to defend g P Lling 1 the enemy, cracking the skulls of their rights ¢ else they would others, and taking one prisoner. suffer. And bw the punishment ‘The three were armed with a sub- has come. | machine gun and two rifles. When Peculix Tactics. “ machine gun became too hot to fire, Por how else can the peculiar | the trio charged straight into the tactics of the ani-trust division of | Station, swinging their gun butts. | They thus battered the Japanese the Department € Justice be ex- | e plained unless in ahoots with the 'down his gun, and got away. 3 British Storm Rail Station Held By Japs, Killing 14 they ran out of bullets and the | U. S. Will Insure Ships | By the Associated Press. | tional defense. | for insuring crews or cargoes. ! necessary to take the step. |Co-operating in Defense ‘The Maritime Commission yester- | day made war-risk insurance avail- | able for American ships which hold | warrants certifying their co-opera- tion with the war effort and na- A committee was established to quote hull rates and handle risks. It is backed by a $40,000,000 fund established under a 1940 arend- ment to the Merchant Marine Act. Provision was not made immediately The commission has authority to offer insurance when it cannot be obtained at “reasonable terms and conditions” from commercial under- writers. The commission said that into a rout, caught one who threw | the outbteak of war had made it F. C. C. in the driv now to invoke |. severe statutes as a neans of forcing ||| }\ = = the broadcasting comanies into re- EISEMAN'S ceiverships and liqudation? For || more than eight yers the same practices complained >f have been ||| going on. Why wasn. a suit filed | A year ago or two year ago? Why | is a second big lawuit filed in | Chicago courts by th anti-trust division while the first siit involving | basic issues in the rado business | has not even been triec as yet by ||| the Federal courts in Nw York? ||| In time of war it is more than | ever necessary to maintin broad- || casting at a high state of efficiency, Jjust as it 1s important foraluminum plants and production to se carried | | on as efficiently as possible. But the Department of Justice’s saboteurs | ||| of morale have instructions evi- | dently to carry on their pe'secution- | as-usual program. | Since war effort is to absorb 50 | per cent of our national economy, | the managers of American industry | ought to be free from harassment. The Government fixes the prices and allocates the quotas anyway and even indirectly runs the radio ||| networks so it isn't clear why the | statute of 1890 on the technicalities of competition has to be enforced right now. The Congress is seeking to cut down what are known as “non- defense” expenditures. A movement to eliminate “anti-defense” expendi- tures would seem to be logical, too. If the President is still bent on carrying on New Deal class warfare, | then the Congress alone can pre- serve democracy and increase war- time efficiency by using the power of the purse strings to check the bureaucrats who have not yet dis- eovered that there is & war on. GReproduetion Rights Reserved.) ‘:. A A $30 and $35 Values I Ififf ~ January clearance. 850 ALL-woOOL - SUITS—TOPCOATS Drastically Reduced SI 975 32975 “Action is what we want—so we're shooting the works in this | Clothing costs are steadily advancing . . | these price reductions represent one of the greatest bargains ever || offered. Every size, model and color is here. CHARGE IT . . . 4 MONTHS TO PAY EISEMAN’S ‘ F STREET AT Tth JANUARY $35 and $40 Values = crxl opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory amang themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Drama in the Philippines MacArthur's Skillful Maneuvers Enable Army To Carry On Despite Fall of Manila By DEWITT MACKENZIE. Occupation of the open city of Manila and the neighboring naval important thing for us to take under consideration. Why cant we achieve victory without this help? buse of Cavite by the Japanese| Well, that's one of those questions would appear from incomplete ad- | which makes this ostrich run to vices to mean | hide his head in the sand. It's easy that our battle- | to talk about the works of the devil, line south of the | but we take cover when the spiritual capital gave way | is mentioned. under weight of Spiritual Unity Needed. numerically su- However, we have a fair answer perior enemy| srom the Rev. E. R. Welles, rector of . forces, compel-| oprigy Church at Alexandria, where : 1]:‘;‘ Gen. DOUB- | president Roosevelt and British MacArthur | prime Minister Churchill worshipped to make another | yesterday. Mr. Welles is what one withdrawal and | pight ca]] a good, two-fisted preach- consolidate his | er who fsn't afraid to say what he troogs 'h'° 3:’} believes. He declared: 3::’5 a;cearree a:: “We must have a deep spiritual unity that will make us ready, even | eager, to sacrifice our material goods, through heavy taxes and other ways, and when necessary, even life itself, for the moral prin- ciples for which this war is being Dewitt Mackentie, tacking heavily. Possession of these two strategic | places will strengthen the invaders’ position by permitting them to pour reinforcements from the south through Manila and thus perhaps fought.” compel Gen. MacArthur to defend 5 his position from the rear as well| TO this might be added a little as the north. & quotation which was sent to me the This grim setback doesn’t neces- | Other day. This was a couple of sen- sarily mean the loss of the Philip- | tences from “my Mother’s Bible,” by | pines, and Washington reports that | Douglas Lurton (W. Funkj, attrib- American-Filipino resistance con- | uted to Abraham Lincoln as follows: tinues. However, it certainly em- | “I have been driven many times to phasizes the gravity of the situation, | MY knees by overwhelming convic- and affords little ground for op- | tion that I had nowhere eise to go. timism | My own wisdom, and that of ail Gen. MacArthur seems to be doing | 800ut me, seemed insufficient for the | | & grand job of leadership. To have | d8y.” | withdrawn and reformed his lines| That's a sentiment I have en- | not only once but twice, while stand- | countered often among great men in | ing off heavy attack, is a high mark | many parts of the world. Of course, | of skill. That sort of operation is| we see people who are so sure of one of the most difficult a com-|their own omnipotence that they mander can encounter. don’t need any advice. Some - of | Small Chance to Hold Out. | them are now engaged in trying wi ,, | lick the world. But the smart ones, He is a great soldier, but he can't or %0 it seems to me, are those who | pull reinforcements out of & hat.| ecognize their limitations and hold Lacking quick aid, or an Allied move with Lord Baldwin, who once told which would create a diversion| me when he was Prime Minister of | somewhere else to ease the ann-!m‘wn_ nese pressure on the Island of Luzon, x | the chances of our holding the T believe that it is imossible for | Philippines are small, although the | ADY Person to go through life bear- | evil day might be stood off for a|ing a great responsibility and not time. | break under it, unless there is divine If the Japanese success presages guidance.” the fall of the Philippines, it is quite | possible that they will remain in| enemy hands until such time as | the Allies have defeated the Japs on | J the latter's own home grounds. Re- capture of these islands while Japan | | still controlled the neighboring seas | " ikely | | :'n‘:':l'x;;;::;d be a difficult and likely Byt teocislea Boas Apart from the battle of the Pa-| Secretary Stimson said yvesterday cific the war hasn't produced any the War Department was ready to | great sensation over New Year. To accept from Charles A. Lindbergh | me the most important development | “or any one else” any advice which has been the calling of the Nation | might help in the war effort. to ;:‘rlyer by the presidential procla: Mr. Stimson made the comment | mation. B ‘That is & striking reminder that | :‘hrov::::o:o:[:exnltfe:“; | “man doth not live by bread alone” | = . {and that it takes more than guns | the fiyer's request for active Army | | and bombs to win a war. Recogni- | Service. Mr. Lindbergh resigned as | tion of the fact that no one is so | & colonel in the air reserves last | strong as to be self-sufficient was summer while engaged in making 1|1ven by the Chief Executive in his | speeches opposing the foreign poli- | war address to the Nation on De- | cies of the President. cember 9, when he declared his con- “I want this dmu;dct]y w:ng;r- viction that the people of this coun- | Stood,” Mr. Stimson said. “Whether try “will retain all those great spiri- it comes from Col. Lindbergh or _ | any one else, any advice Or sugges- e gpowt which we €an- | tion which any American thinks e | will help the service or improve it Now, if we can't win this war | will be gratefully accepted and very without spiritual aid, it's a mighty | carefully considered.” | Suggestions Welcomed By Stimson STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942. This Changing World Rio Meeting Seen Mainly Successful Despite Allied Setbacks in Pacific By CONSTANTINE BROWN. Much diplomatic spade work is being done in Washington and in the capitals of the principal Latin American republics make the conference which will’'meet Janu- ary 15 at Rio de Janeiro a suc- cess. As is natural, the reverses suf- fered by American and British forces ‘n the Pacific have done little to encourage some South American states to throw their lot enthusiastically on the side of the western democracies. It is not so much that the Japanese are succeeding in their under- takings; this in itself has not impressed the Latin Americans very much. But the evident lack of American and British prepara- tion in an area which was marked for more than a year as the in- evitable scene of enemy action has created a bad impression among some South American military leaders. The naval missions which vis- ited the United States last sum- mer are less disheartened than the military. They have seen something of American naval and air potential and realize that it must take some time for the cumbersome democratic ma- chinery to be set in motion. But some of the army men who visited this country when we were just starting to build the new Army and saw more strikes than production are skeptical about our ability to defeat the Japanese without a great effort. Many of these men have been subjected to & barrage of German propaganda in the last two years and some of the things the German officers told them seem to have material- ized in the last four weeks. Communism Feared. To top all this there is the presence of Russia as the ally of Great Britain and the associate of the United States. Communism is feared even more than Nazi- ism or Fascism by the South American leaders, And the German-Italian propaganda ma- chine has not missed the chance to exploit this feeling. ‘The strong argument which prevails in the United States, that Russia is endeavoring, with McLemore— Sees Fabulous Side Of New Orleans our assistance, to suppress the greatest evil in the world—the domination of three militaristic powers, Germany, Japan and Italy, creates little reaction in South America. A number of South American leaders are in the same situation as our former isolationists: They do not feel the pinch of war. Furthermore, while German and I'alian propaganda organi- zations have not miissed a trick, the same cannot be said about our own agencies. For instance, it is pointed out by those who know the Latin American mind, that little has been made in the southern hemisphere of indis- criminate Japanese bombings of churches and other cultural in- stitutions which were founded many years before the Philip- pines passed from Spanish to American control. It has not been By HENRY McLEMORE. NEW ORLEANS.—There is & side to fabulous New Orleans which tourists seldom see. This is my tenth or twelfth visit 5 to this city, but it was not until yesterday when I chanced to get Swan as a guide that New Or- leans was un- folded to me in all its glory. Swan is a col- ored boy whose golden smile is enriched by teeth to match, and he was recom- Mr. McLemore. mended as a guide to me by the hotel doorman. “Swan'll drive yo' car and you | can Just sit back and he'll show | you everything,” the doorman ex- sufficiently pointed out to these :plnined as Swan got behind the republics, which have strong |gwheel. Spanish ties, that the Japanese Our tour started on Canal street. awaited the removal of all Amer- “This here’s probably the widest ican anti-aircraft batteries and |gtreet in the world,” Swan said, interceptor planes before inten- | .ain't nothin' like it in Baton Rouge, tionally bombing these Christian | ghere I was bawn. Traffic's gittin® institutions. | mighty bad on it though. Wears & According to reports from the |fellow plum out to drive on it.” headquarters of Gen. Douglas * x x % MacArthur, Catholic churches, As fast as the traffic would allow, schools and hospitals were the ‘ Swan drove through a maze of nar- main targets of the Japanese |row, winding little streets. After bombers which flew unhampered |we had gotten into the clear, Swan, over Manila. as en afterthought, casually said: Officials Hopeful. “That there was the ol' French There is a feeling in official Quarter we just went through.” quarters here that the co-opera- ),m cltelen srouid. tion of the major South Ameri- | Over there is the new Southern can republics will be obtained, in Bell Telephone Co. Building.” Swan spite of some disquieting reports | Proudly pointed out. “Sho’ i a P a 5 o0 pretty place, ain't $t?” | / /4 From the telephone building Swan W‘W’ {é/ worked his way to the new annew < S 4 of the Maison Blanche department A = store. “They's always adding to that place”, Bwan said. “It must be about i the biggest store in the world.” x * x % We drove down an ordinary-look= ing avenue with streetcar tracks in the center and lined with modern commercial buildings. “There’s a place out here I want you to see,” Swan said. “It's called | the ‘Meal-a-Minit’ Brand-new, and It may not even be desirable to | LL;zhr: ;:t‘fri! .}::nffi: ‘x?sucmd] = have the largest South American | o4 a1 the time.” republics declare war on the | We reached the Meal-a-Minit, an Reich and Japan at this time. |, 0ogne white tile establishment | But 1t is expected that some | iy pictoric old neon signs all degree of co-ordination of ef- | L ... fort, offering a more substantial |~ ,per 55 uneventful 10 minutes of basis for the future, ’ “"‘“‘ Pe | ding around, Swan drew up to the reached during the two Weeks | ...~ an4 excitedly pointed to & of debate in the capital of |,y qing across the street. from Argentina. It is possible that this will not be as far- reaching as the assistance we obtained from Mexico and other Latin American states which broke off relations with the axis. Honolulu’s New Year Is Opened By the Associsted Press. HONOLULU, Jan. 3—One of the | saddest New Year chants Hawail ever heard rose softly yesterday from the hushed beauty of Honolulu's Nauuanu cemetery, where than 350 naval officers and men killed in the Japanese attack Decem- ber 7 on Pearl Harbor are buried. It was Honolulu's “aloha oe” for those who died first when the peace was broken. Several hundred persons of varied races stood and watched as Associate Justice Roberts of the United States Supreme Court. head of President | ALWAYS USE LUX SOAP_NEVER NEGLECT MY DALY ACTIVE-LATHER GIRLS_THERE'S NOTHING SO IMPORTANT TO CHARM AS SMOOTH, EASY-TO-LOOK-AT SKIN ! in Pararhount’s . Sk’ Now Showing Locally ‘'With Soft Chant to the Dead - Roosevelt's Fact-Finding Commis- sion now in Hawaii. walked past the mounds heaped with tropical flowers and laid many colored leis. more by the tens of thousands. waterfront cafe where gathered. Lovely Claudette Colbert tells you how she protects her price- less complexion with daily Lux Toilet Soap ACTIVE-LATHER FACIALS. “Pat the creamy lather lightly in. Use warm water to rinse, then cool.” ACTIVE lather removes dust, dirt and stale cosmetics thoroughly.“Now see how much smoother your skin feels—how fresh it Jooks,’’ she says. Try this gentle care for 30 days. See what it can do for you! The silence was broken only by sobs and the soft chant for departed warriors. sung by six native girls. ‘The ceremony ended with the singing of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner.” The flag floated proudly high above the recently covered mounds. Residents of Honolulu sponsored the memorial and provided flowers Perhaps the biggest and rarest wreath of all came from Maggie's Inn, a little | sailors | In_town. | Brazil. | “Thats the only roof garden in the city,” he said. “It's the colored folks' Pythian Temple.” *xox o A friend who was with me who hadn't been to New Orleans before asked me if I thought Swan would get around to showing us the Vieux Carre, the St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square, the Cabildo and other historic points of New Or- leans. Swan drove us back into the cen- ter of the city. “There’s the Jung Hotel,” Swan pointed out, and a few blocks later showed us the St. Charles Hotel, the Roosevelt and mentioned that he was sorry but we had passed the Palace Theater, which used to be- long to the white folks but which was now the biggest colored theater I asked Swan if he knew where the famed Court of the Two Sisters was. “Yassuh. but I want to show you | the new American Bank Building. | | | | | | It's away the biggest in town.” * xox % We saw the American Bank Building, also the Canal Bank Building. ‘“That Canal Bank used to be a big 'un” Swan explained. “but it ain't operating no more since the depression.” Swan drove a good half hour to show us the road to Biloxi, the “Yatchet Club,” and an old ceme- tery, the name of which he had for- gotten. “But it ain't our best cemetery” he explained. “That's an old worn out one, anyway. We has several new and prettier ones around town." We passed a Federal slum clear- ance project. “Them's the new Government slums,” Swan said as he showed us the neat little houses, “but I hear | that some of the folks don't like the new slum buildings. Says the Gov- ernment supervises the kind of com- pany you has.” My friend asked Swan about the Cabildo, the historical museum where the formal transfer of Louisi« ana to the United States took place, “I'se heard about it off an’ on, but I ain't read up on it yit.” Swan climaxed our grand tour of New Orleans by driving us past 8 boarded-in field “That is where the New Orleans Pelicans baseball team plays,” he said. Fabulous, gorgeous New Orleans. Thank you, Swan, but I do wish my friend could have seen such land- marks as Thompson's restaurant, the street car barn and police head- quarters. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) British Sailors Pray For Allied Victory By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. Jan. 1 (De- layed) —The entire personnel aboard warships of the British Mediter- ranean fleet based here attended special services today. Chaplains of the fleet joined President Roose- velt’s call to New Year prayer for divine aid and a speedy Allied vic- tory and peace. Aboard the fi p Queen Eliz- abeth, Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, commander of the Mediterranean fleet, and Commo- dore J. H. Edelstein, chief of staff for naval operations in the eastern exchanged New Year gnmnu with the battleship's of- cers.