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MORAL AGGRES
SIO INDEED
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It seems that the German and
Italian government are not quite
satisfied with America’s foreign
policy. Indeed, it appears that
the United States is guilty of
“pinpricks, challenges, insults
and moral aggression” against
the German Reich and of actions
towards Rome which can only,
Mussolini’s mouthpieces say, re
sult in Italy’s declaring war ag
ainst this country.
This is not likely to distrub
most Americans a great deal. Our
foreign policy was not designed
to please the Nazi or Fascist reg
imes. And accusations of ‘“moral
aggression” do not need to be
taken too seriously when they
come from governments guilty of
more physical aggresisons than
one can count.
Naturally, a great many Ameri
cans have spoken their minds
freely about Nazism. These, no
doubt, are the “pinpricks” and
“insults." Because we sympath
ize with the victims of German
aggression, wi? have helped them
—not much, perhaps, but some.
This of course explains the “chal
1 nges.”
What it is we have done which
constitutes “moral aggression” is
« little harded to decide. Perhaps
the economic aid we have sup
plied to Britain, which is waging
war, would be called secondhand
“moral aggression.”
Whatever the reaction of the i
-Nazi and Fascist government we
hav<* no reason to change our
-~c urse. So long as our immediate
a d vital interests are not direct
ly involved, we shall remain neu
tral in law and nonbelligerent in
policy. But such a nation as ours
cannot revise its policy to suit
the whims of the tyrants who
govern Germany and Ital -.
I is important to notice jus
what Berlin and Rom: are doing.
They are addressing a threat to
t!ie United States, be’ieveing this
Country is so afraid of war that
it will reduce its aid to Britain
re her than risk argering the
Axis. This is an unwise line of
pol cy for Berlin and Rome to
adopt, for threats will not avail.
Japan triad that tactic of threats
tin e months ago. It brought
swift expansion of the American
batt’e fie t and new embargoes
on goods for Japan. Threats from
the other end of the Rame-Berlin
Tokyo Axis wili only strengthen
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the American people’s convic
tion that its resources must be
placed ever more fully at the
disposal of Great Britain.
The German government is ob
viously aware of the implications
of the American policy of full aid
to the British, and has been
aware for a year or more. The
new outcry is occasioned by the
President’s strong message to
Congress and by a declaration of
Ronald H. Cross, British Minister
of Shipping, that the British ship
ping shortage could be overcome
only by the assignment of “a cer
tain number of enemy ships in
the United States” to the British
service.
WHAT PRICE DIAPERS
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Isaac Watt invented the steam
engine, Eli Whitney the cotton
gin and Alexander Graham Bell
the telephone.
These are all important in their
way, but it remained for Joseph
H. LaKritz of Cleveland Heights
to apply his inventive skill to an
article with which every man,
woman and child has at some
time come in contact.
Mr. LaKritz is the inventor of
a pinless diaper and there is not
a father or mother in the land
who can fail to appreciate how
this will revolutionize nursery
practices that have remained un
changed for g nerations.
Who among us has not gotten
up in the middle of the night to
change the baby only to face the
awful predicament of holding the
neatly folded corners in place
with one hand while groping for
an elusive safety pin with the
other? And who can say that,
once having found the pin, he
never made the dreadful mistake
of stabbing the squirming infant.
Mr. LaKritz’s solution of this
problem is so simp’e it is surpris
ing no one ever thought of it be
fore. The pinless diaper has a belt
like arrangement which is slip
ped through tiny metal rings.
It is to be hoped that this* ar
ticle will be on the market soon,
in sufficient quantities and at a
price so reasonable that every
family can be supplied. Ameri
ca’s rearmament program must
go on, but nothing should be al
lowed to interefere with the pro
duction of pinless diapers. Mil
lions now living and generations
yet unborn will owe a debt of
gratitude to this inventor.
The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — A few days
ago Army Air Corps chief sent a
certain m morandum to Defense
Commissioner William Knudsen.!
The public was given no hint of
the document and the chances
are it will never see the light of
day.
Rut in this secret memo is one
an.- w r to why the warplane pro
gram is lagging, as Knudsen
frankly admitted in his speech
before the National Association
of Manufacturers. Whereas Knud
sen talked only in general terms
about the shortcomings of indus
try and labor, the Air Corps
memo puts a blunt finger on one
of the k'y bottlenecks of the avia
tion industry — aluminum alloy
forgings and castings.
These are vital in the manu
facture of planes, and the only
large producer in the United Slat
es is the Aluminum Corporation
of America (A coa), largely con
trolled by the Mellon family. A
few indep ndents also make cast
mgs, but Alcoa dominates the out
put, as well as aluminum-alloy
tubing and sheeting, also essen
tial in manufacturing planes.
Today, deliveries of forgings
are seven months behind and of |
casting three months in arrears.
For months the major airplan: j
plants — Douglas, Consolidated.!
Northrop and others —have been i
clamoring desperately for more,
of the e supplies. Result: where
as d liveries of forgings to Dou
glas were four months b hind j
last July, they are now seven j
months behind. This has forced
the use of castings, which are,
weaker and less desirable than
forgings.
WHO’S TO BLAME?
Who is to blame for this grave
situation is a matter of bitter
dispute.
All hards at' agreed that there
is no shortage of aluminum ig
nots, of which Aluminum Corpor
ation is the principal producer.
The shortage is in the giant ham |
mers and dies required to make
the plane forgings. In October,
in an effort to meet the demand,
Alcoa installed seven new ham
mers and now has a giant plant
! and machine tool expansion pro
j gram under wray.
i But independents who are try
ing to break into this profitable
monopoly comp’ain irately that
they can get no help from the
Defense Commission; that the
Commission r fuses financial aid
to get them started.
Commission executives reply
i that they are handling the prob
lem of rapidly increasing the out
| put of forgings “through other
I channels,’’ and then do some
| blame-placing themselves. Th .y |
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BULGARIA mBUckttmPi
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British bombed Naples, Taranto, Palmero and Valona (underlined) as Rome (1) revealed German
aviation would aid her Mediterranean campaign. In Albania (2), Greeks announced capture of im
portant mountain heights. Bulgaria (3), was the center of Balkan interest because of possible Ger
man drives into Greec or Turkey. In Libya (4), British continued siege of Bardia with reports cur
rent they would attack Tobruk even though Bardia had not fallen.
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attribute a good share of the
trouble to the plane makers, j
whom they charge with making
needless technical demands and
not getting their drawings of
forgings in on time.
In turn, the manufacturers!
blame the Army and Navy for
constant changes in plane de
signs; argue that if plane parts
were standardized much delay
would be eliminated.
Thus the buck is passed round
and-round, while deliveries on
the forgings and castings contin
ue to fall steadily behind, and air
plane output tailspins.
BIBLICAL DESTROYERS
There are two reasons for that
grin on the face of North Dak
ota’s Governor John Moses when
he ’eft the White House the other
day.
One was an assurance that the
President would personally in
vestigate why North Dakota has
not received any of the new de
fense industries. Roosevelt prom
ised to look into the matter im
mediately.
The other reason was an anec
dote the President told Moses
“about a famous namesake of
yours. It happened when Roo
sevelt was Assistant Secretary of!
the Navy in the Wilson AdminEs
tration.
He was asked to select from a j
list of American naval heroes,;
the name of a new destroyer. He'
picked “Israel” in honor of a U. j
S. Captain who distinguished
himself in the war against the'
Barbary Coast pirates in 1851.
Some time lat r, Roosevelt was
asked to approve the personnel
of tliis destroyer. And while look
ing over the list of personnel,
another aide entered with anoth
er personnel list for a destroyer
named “Moses.”
“This coincidence struck me asi
very funny,” Roosevelt related, j
The young naval officer looked i
perturbed and inquired, ‘Aren’t;
those the right crews for those
ships — Moses and Israel?’ And
then I laughed some more, be-,
cause heading the lists of officers
were the names of Murphy and
O'Reilly.”
NOTE—Moses, Democrat from
a rock-ribbed GOP state, is the
ta lest Governor in the country—
6 feet four inches.
AIR CORPS FICTION
Few people know that in his
private life the man who stand')
at the head of the expanding
Army Air Corps is an author of
books for boys.
Major General Harold H. ]
(‘Hap’) Arnold, Chief of the Air i
Corps,has writt:n six books that,
read like the River Boys and
bear such titles as, “Bill Bruce'
and the Pioneer Aviators,” “Bill
Bruce Becomes an Ace” and “Bill
Bruce on Border Patrol.”
The father of three boys. Gen
ral Arnold used to write avia
tion stories for them as a fireside,
hobby. “Bill Bruce” was drown 1
after his son, William Bruce Ar
nold, now in his first year in
West Point, but who was then on j
the listening end of the original
stories.
By an odd twist of fate, the fic
titious Bill Bruce once came to
the h lp of real Bill Bruce. The
boy had to undergo a major op
eraton, for which the hospital
charges were substantial. On the
same day that the hospital bill
was presented, a check came
from the publisher for the “Bill
Bruce” books.
Without depositing the ch:?ck
in the bank, Arnold endorsed it
and sent it to the hospital to
pay for the boy’s illness.
ITALIAN FLEET
The Italians’ confidential expla
nation for the poor showing of
their navy compared with the
British is interesting.
They point out that their navy
was built with the idea that it
would oppose the French, never
the British. Therefore most of
the guns were concentrated in
the forward part of their battle-1
j ships and cruisers, on the assump
tion that the sp-edier Italian ves
Isels fould take the offensive ag
ainst the older and slower
French fleet.
But in combat with the modern
British navy, the Italian vessels
have had to fight while steaming
toward their home bases, there
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Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:60 pm Today
Highest temp — 20 Lowest te mp — 3 Precipitation — 0
Totol precip this month 0.07 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 0.07
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