v _• vtrv few whose records did
n't show a heavy battle or two
Everybody who isn't fighting to
day :» trying to be a referee.
And a referee in times like these
has to be a saper-Sghter him
self.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was top
man among the candidates, but
he was a little too strong for
purges to make the grade. And
no man who had made the repub
!leans so Sgnting mad could
stand out as a man of peace.
Franklin tr.ed to bring the
European powers to their senses
before the war broke out, but
everything he said made Hitler
more warlike.
Still. Roosevelt stood out above
all others as a man of peace—up
to the time he read Ray Moley's
book.
Other candidates for the Nobel
peace prize were the St. Louis
Cardinals, the Columbia football
squad and the New York Giants^
The committee considered them
a long time but had to rule them
out because while they had done
nothing warlike themselves they
had associated with the wrong
people.
This department thinks the No
be! commitee pulled a boner by
not awarding the peace prize to
Hitler. Adolph has made so many
people hate war that he Is a
standout. Every move he makes
stirs the world to a greater hat
red for war lords, war machines
and war times.
—Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle
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THE WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
By Preston Grover
WASHIN'GTOIf—Little F.r.Iand
at at war and under the neutral
ity act we should h.de our heads
under our wing and not see too
much that might start our pulses
beating But what are we doing?
We are helping the Finns fight
the Russians as surely as we are
alive. Our actions are masked
only by the gassamer thread of
procedure As scon a* they were
attacked by the Russians the
Finns “recognized"* the ex-stence
of a war although without such
ritualistic formality as that of
the British and French in declar
•ng war on Germany for invad
ing Poland.
Yet we as a nation do not re
cognize the war If we did, the
neutrality law would go into
effect and all its rigors would be
invoked against Finland just as
much as against Russia.
Already our ships are barred
from going to Finland because
of the combat zones at the mouth
</f the North Sea in connection
with the other part of the Europ
♦-an war, which we formally re
cognize. But if the neutrality act
w not invoked, credit can go.
And it is giong.
Jesse Jones, as chairman of the
federal loan agencies, has an
nounced that the Export-Import
hank will make 1104)00,000 avail
abb- to Finland. The President
.as approved it, of course, as no
s ich phenomenal action would
rx- taken unless he were willing.
It o specifically stated that the
money will be used to help rid
the United States of agricultur
ii surpluses and make other “civ
il-an'. supplies available to Fin
land. But to Finland a dollar’s
worth of food for civilians is
worth almost as much as a dol
lar's worth of bullets. Every dol
iar we send to feed Finnish civ
ilians will release a Finnish dol
lar to buy munitions. Even more
important, the act in itself is as
stimulating as a pot of coffee to
a chilled sold.er in a snowdrift.
Moreover, Finland evidently
has found supplies of munitions
and fighting equipment closer at
hand. Italian and English planes
are being delivered to Finland.
She can get guns from Sweden
and munitions for guns she has
already bought there, provided
Sweden can spare them from her
own emergency mobilization.
There still remains the diffi
culty of getting any supplies at
all to Finland. The Russian block
ade of Finland may be fairly
effective, but even the mildest
cooperation from Norway and
Sweden would a.d in putting Am
erican supplies in the hands of
Finnish civilians.
Now why all this sentimental
attachment’ Two dozen years
most Americans probably
knew vaguely that Finns lived
me place up toward the North
P I*, ajcr.g with Sac'.a C.a as and
the Eskimos. Even the World
War brought them only a few’
. notches closer to our vision.
Thea came Paavo Nurmi and the
debts. Numu rar. circles around
our Americas athletes for a
couple of years. We learned
about Finland from him.
Tnen ail the other nations de
faulted on the debts, but not Fin
land. Two tunes a year she sent
from her meager resources a sum
running to about $259,000 Even
when war was in her lap she
made $234 593 ava.lable for tne
December 15 payment. Of this,
$74,090 w as pr.ncipa’. the rest in
terest. And the President will re
commend to Congres that this
rum. too. should be given back
to Finland, for civilian purposes.
The whole Finnish debt t<o the
United States was about $9,900.
000. Her credit is good for an
other ten million at least
THE ONCE OVER
By H. L Phillips
No Nobel Award
There will be no award of the
Nobel peace prize this year. The
winner would look too silly show
ir.g up for it in a gas mask.
Tne Nobel committee has been
trying to pick a winner for many
months but there was so much
fighting going on all around it
that it couldn’t hear itself think.
Never had the Nobel peace
prize boys been in such a tough
spot. Every time one man would
bring up a candidate somebody
would shoot him full of holes.
The committee had everything
it needed for its work except am
bulance runners.
Of course they were short on
dugouts, too, and didn’t have
enough sandbags to work be
hind comfortably.
The committee found plenty of
candidates who w'anted peace,
HERE S MODERN S W E D I S H —Sweden's pride in her solution of housing problem
rests In such modern apartments as these in Stockholm, where statesmen now eye Russia anxiously.
f w. . / W ERE P l I SON BREAKS'—Restoration is planned for this Arizona territorial
I ‘son at Yuma, once the west's toughest jail, (.'apelike iron cells set in walls 3 to 5 feet thick.