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A NAZI MYSTERY
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Distpatches from Germany tell
us that immediately after the ar
mistice with France, Reichsfuehr
■er Hitler gave thanks to God for
granting Germany the victory.
This makes one wonder what
God it is that Hitler reveres and
credits with the German triumph
at arms.
It could hardly be the God of
the Old Testament, wrhose favor
ed children, the Jews, have been
blasted out of their livlihoods
and their homes, and harried for
years by Hitler’s secret police. It
could hardly be the God wor
shipped by the devout folk of
Hitler’s own traditional faith, Ro
man Catholicism, For Hitler has
had priests and nuns framed on
^various reprehensible charges.
"He has allowed the stoning of an
Archbishop's palace. He has vio
lated the Concordat with the Vat
ican repeatedly, as two Popes
have bluntly charged.
Certainly the God to whom
Hitler offers thanks is not the
God of the Evangelical Church,
which has been despoiled of its
preprogatives, whose brave pas
tors have been hunted down and
jailed for their failure to em
brace neo-Paganism.
Perhaps Hitler's thanksgiving
was directed to a strictly Teuton
ic God, the sort of God which
ancient Teuton myth postulated
for the worship of a rude war
rior race in a time when the
German forests were the haunts
of barbaric tribes. This would be
satisfactory, one may be sure, to
the zealots of Nazism, who have
labored ceaselessly to discredit
and destroy the religions of Juda
ism and Christianity and to raise
anew the war gods of a barbaric
age.
Nazis scornfully deny that they
bnmed the Louvain Library.
They’ve advanced considerably
since the days when all they
could think of to burn wrns a
bo jk.
Louis C. Kirstein, official Am
fc. iean Retail Federation: “There
is no more inherent virtue in lit
tie ness than there is in bginess.”
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
Presidential nominee: “A man
who thinks that the results in
Europe will be of no consequence
to him is a blind, foolish and silly
man.”
Ilachiro Arita, Japanese For
eign Minister: “All mankind
1 gs for peace, but peace cannot
enc.ure unless nations have their
pr per places.”
Herbert Hoover, former Presi
dent: “I am not going to discuss
politics now. I am going fishing.”
COMRADES ALL
(Philadelphia Record)
Last week we noted that Lat
via had called a special election
so the people could tell how hap
py they were to have been in
vaded by Soviet Russia—by vot
ing for a Soviet regime.
Now' it appears that Estonia
ar.d Lithuania will vote whatev
er means “Ja” in Estonian and
Lithuanian we do not d ubt. Sta
lin never allow'S any of his bene
ficiaries to conceal their joy and
gratitude—even if the more bash
ful have to be coaxed with a
club.
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At this writing. Congress has
voted itself a ten-day recess from
torrid Washington after cleaning
up a number of controversial mat j
ters not the least among them
being final approval of Mr. Roose
velt’s choice for the portfolios of
War and Navy. The President,
by the way, took a leaf out of
Woodrow Wilson’s notebook in
selecting a newspaperman for|
his Secretary of the Navy; the'
World War Executive, you may j
recall, appointed Josephus Dan
iels, owner of the Raliegns News
and Observer, to run the Navy,
with Franklin D. Roosevelt as
his First Assistant; now Mr.'
Roosevelt, with a second World |
War raging, chooses that stalwart
editor, Col. Frank Knox, to help
him put across the st upedous
taik of building and directing a.
two-ocean Navy'. Regarding the
new Secretary of War we should
remember that he is really “Gen i
eral” and not "Colonel’* Stimson, j
as most people seem to think, j
The records show that he was j
promoted to Brigadier General in |
the Reserve Corps on June 16,;
1922. He actually served in that
capacity at maneuvers at Pine |
Camp, New York, in June, 1926
when he commanded the 152nd;
Field Artillery Brigade, retiring i
later in 1931, on reaching the j
statutory age limit of 64. When
the World War closed, as “Col
onel” Stimson, he was command
er of the 31st Field Artillery Regi
! ment of the Regular Army.
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Signs of the times around
Washington: U. S. jobs have
reached an all-time high, expand
ing under the impetus of the
defense program. As a result.
Washington is again about to face
a housing shortage, comparable
to some extent, to conditions dur-1
ing the Word War. At any rate,
apartment vacancies, which cus
tomarily increase during the sum
mer months, are decreasing rap
idly with the addition of 1.260
empoyes to Federal agencies in a
single month, and the expecta
tion that there will soon be 30,
000 new job holders. We already
have 139.937 employes in the ex
ecutive branch staff in Washing
ton, with a local payroll of $23,
298.161. It is estimated unofficial
STIMSON FACES SENATE COMMITTEE QUIZ
uri^a iiniiiiii will ;« *■. m . — -r
Henry L. Stimson, a Republican and President Roosevelt’s choice for Secretary of War won the ap
proval of the Senate Military committee by a vote of 14 to 3, after he had appeared before the group.
Stimson is shown with Chairman Morris Sheppard (right) (D-Tex), and Senator Warren R. Aus
lon (left) (R-Vt.). ^
TEN
HIGH
STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY
DOUBLE YOUR ENJOYMENT
ly that employment since May
has raised the total Federal force
over the million mark, which
would be around 100,000 above
the World- War peak. Uncle
Sam’s total number of employes,
in case you’re interested, is plac
ed at 977,880 and his total month
ly payroll at the neat little sum
of $125,907,134, but just wait un
til the defense program gets real
ly under way and watch those fig
ures skyrocket!
The ladies are not to be out-'
done in the rush for national de
fenje fclther. Not content with
providing “Bundles for Britain,”
“Friends for France.” Red Cross
aid for various other stricken Eu
ropean nations, and keeping the
homes fir s burning along the
Democratic and Republican
fronts, the gentle, tireless crea
tures hereabouts are planning an
army of a million women to be
called “The Green Guard Vol
unteer Women of America.” It
appears to be a sort of ladies
sharpshooters’ brigade, growing
out of the month-old Women’s
National Rifle and Preparedness
.Association, and is pledged to aid
Uncle Sam if he needs them. As
might be expected, the uniform
was nelected before the organiza
tion even thought of getting un
der way. It’s a snappy green
number with a Robin Hood fea
ther in its cap, said to be “un
usually becoming.” (Privately,
we predict that the G. G. V. W.>
A. will be joined only by those
adie* who look well in green).
Almost on the heels of the fire
works attendant upon Mexico’s
-election of a new President (an
event pretty nearly fatal to a
number of visiting Washington
students who had the bad luck
to get in range of the ballots, or
bullets, which in this case were
synonomous) our State Depart
ment was presented with a check
for $1,090,000 by the Mexican
Ambassador, Dr. Castillo Najera,
as an installment in payment of
claims of American citizen
whose Mexican lands have been
expropriated since August 20.
1927. Payments thus far are be
ing held by the American Gov
ernment because of failure of a
joint commission to adjudicate
claims.
If you’re planning a vacation
hop to Bermuda, or expecting a
visit from Aunt Minnie In Can
ada, don't forget about the new
reguations requiring pa-sports.
Di'.to for the Dominican Republic
or if you want to take a peek at
"Wally” and the Dake at Nas
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ARMY BOS S-Head of the
army’s new mechanized force to
be based at Fort Knox, Ken
tucky, will be Brig. Gen. Adna
J. Chaffee, seen at the war de
partment in Washington.
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