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PAGE FOUR HE DES MOINES REGISTER TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934. stralnt is cited as a charge against legislatures as now constituted, War Is a Racket having frequently deteriorated into Today Investigation Into War Profits Begins. PuMUhad every week diy mnrnini by THB JUSOI8TER AND TRIBUNE CO. T13-T15 Locuat trit. frustration of the popular will through the readily available op Int.rjd it the pnatnfflr.

0I Dai Mofnea, ae aeoond claaa matter. portunltles it affords for "passing By Brig. Gen. Smedley E.Butler, U.S.M. Retired, in The Forum the buck." MIR.

T0 Iowa has witnessed the growth (Tha Dea Motoaa Leader, Kitabllehed 1849 (The Iowa mat Kraleter, EatabinDed. lSft.) of antagonisms between upper and lower chamber In some sessions apparent almost from the conven ing of the legislature, and finally In the world war, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made ashamed of not joining the army. It was then decided to make the soldier help pay for the war, too. So we gave him a large salary $30 a month.

All he had to do for that munificent sum was to give up bis job, leave everything he knew and loved behind, brave death and injury, 1CRSCRIPTION RATE. BY MAIL IN IOWA. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Ethan one year, 50 ctnii a nontti. 2" i period.

Trlbun On r. IS: perlode 3: PrluJs resulting In deadlocks which con ference committees were long (Editor's Note: The following article about war is by a retired commander of tho U. 8. Marine Corp. General Butler is a graduate of West Point, was commandant of Camp Brest, France, during the World war and was award' td the congressional medal of honor for the capture of Fort RMere, Haiti in J9I7.

General Butler's opinions are par. ticularly interesting at this time because the senate investigation of munitions makers begint today.) War la a racket; possibly tha oldest, powerless to break. jr, ou came ft monin. BY UAIL OUTSIDE Or IOWA. Such situations may be seriously mtton V'r, Id: partode im aggravated by majorities of oppos lie In swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when he could get It), and kill and kill and ing parties in the two houses.

It Is further contended that the r. cenie ft momn. uUyih 9' kill and be killed. But wait. stifling of desirable legislation is ink jwmi, nu c.mi ft monin.

BY CARRIER DELIVERY IN DEB MOINEI. -JIM. Enln Tribune tnd easily the most profitable, surely the most Half of that wage (just a little more In a month than a riveter in a shipyard or a laborer in a munitions factory made in a greatly facilitated for lobbyists whose interests run counter to tho public Interest when chances to uHrmii papera a day) was promptly taken from him to sup BY HARVEY INGHAM. At the recent session of congress Senator Nye of North Dakota and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan got through a resolution calling for a showdown on the activities of the munition makers and their profits In war. A commission wss named, and that commission Is to begin Its hearings today in Washington.

The official text of the resolution authorizing what is to be don Is not important. An outline will be enough. The resolu tion provides: 1. To investigate the activities of Individuals and corporations engaged in the manufacture and sale of arms to determine th quantities of arms exported and imported. 2.

To Inquire into the adequacy of existing legislation and treaties to control the manufacture and trade in arms. S. To discover what legislation may be needed to eliminate th commercial motive from the man ufactur and sale of arms. 4. To inquire into th desirability of creating a government monopoly.

The official pamphlet in which this resolution is published, reprinted from the Congressional "kill in committee" are duplicated, vicious. It Is the only one international In acope. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that Is not ativ wick. IN TOWN! OUTSIDE DES MOINES. en'i week.

in week. Sunday RoKlatar 10 rente w.rk. Do not pay oarrltri in port his dependents, so that they would not become a charge upon the nation. Then though the same perils must neces sarily He In tho path of meritorious we made him pay what amounted to accl TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1M4. what It seems to the ma dent insurance something the employer measures opposed by the same lobbies, Jorlty of the people, Only a small "Inside" group The Nebraska experiment, If the pays for in an enlightened state and that cost him $6.60 a month.

He had less than $9 a month left. Then the most crowning knows what it is about. ICLY CIRCULATION, NET AID, RE0I8TKR AND nm rr uaily tribune 259,029 la Oft Motati, dally T9.B8T Sunday woffi" 250,642 proposal wins at the polls, will be near enough to Iowa to enable us It li conducted for the benefit of tha very few Insolence of all he was virtually blackjacked into paying for his own ammunition, to study Its advantages at close range, and if only as a matter of at th expense of the DM Uolnti, Sunday 44,219 Mors dally tlrculatlnn In Iowa thaa th clothing, and food by making him buy Liberty bonds. Most soldiers got no money at all on paydays. But they bought Liberty masses.

Out of war a few peo anai ii Iowa newapapere combined. that time our national. debt was a little more thaa a billion dollars. Then we be Mora Sunday emulation In Iowa than alt curiosity concerning the untried and new forces of political science, wa may hope that It carries. thar iowi auaaay newepaMre combined.

Only this time they had to do their own readjusting, without mass psychology, without officers' aid and advice, without nation-wide propaganda, turned them pie make hug fortunes. Nations acquire additional BCn.EB. came Internationally minded. went to war. We acquired outside territory.

At A bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play organited to assure in tvery territory (which is promptly exploited by the close of the period of the world war, bonds at $100, and then we bought them back, when they had returned from th war and couldn't find work, at $84. And the soldiers bought about two billion dollars worth of them. A WAY TO STOP IT. the few for their own benefit), and the gen as a direct result of our fiddling in inter casa prompt and atten lion to any complaint it mailt' THE ANSWER LIES DEEPER THAN THAT. It was apparently in reply to the tainei by The Register.

It i open eral public shoulders ths bill a bill that renders a horrible accounting of newly placed gravestones, mangled bodies, shattered minds, broken hearts and homes, eco Record and sent out by the gov national affairs, our national debt jumped to over twenty-five billion dollars. Our total foreign trade during the twenty-year period was about twenty-four billion dol every day except Sunday. The Reg condemnation of all warfare, vot Until we arrive at a stage where public officeholders, those who govern us, have ister will gladly correct any error, nomic unstabillty, and back-breaking taxa ed last week by the National Coun cU of Methodist Youth, that Com more consideration for the safety and wel tion of the many for generations and gen eratlons. Member ef Tha Aeaoetatad rreae, Th Aiaoeleted Praia la excluilvaly an lars. Therefore, on a basis of simple bookkeeping, we ars running a little behind year for year.

mander Edward Hayes of the fare and happiness of the people as a whole than for the success of any political party American Legion said in Peoria titled to tha uaa fnr republication of all Dew dlapatrhee cradltad to It or not other-wtee er1M3 in thia paper. And alto th local newa publlahad baraln. All rtthta For long years I have known that war la a racket but I never faced It until I saw or small group, we will have wars and It would be far cheaper (not to say Sunday night: n-rem aiao reaerven. safer) for the average American, who pays the clouds gathering again, aa they are to other rackets of all kinds. But there is a way to stop this racket the bills, to stay out of foreign entangle day.

They are choosing sides now. France It cannot be smashed by disarmament con FACING ANOTHER WINTER ments. For a very few, these rackets like "We find In too many Instances organizations of young men, even Christian young men, taking an oath not to bear arms in a national emergency." ferences, by peace parleys at Geneva, by bootlegging bring fancy profits, but the and Russia meet and agree to stand side by side. Germany and Italy hurry to make a similar agreement. FULL OF PROBLEMS.

ernment, is headed "A Primer on Europe's Armament Makers Who Prolong War and Disturb Peace," the reference being to an article published In Fortune and reprinted in the Congressional Record at Senator Nye's request. Those who happened to see this article when It was first published in Fortune will recall that it goes into great detail to show what fortunes hav been made by the Krupps, Bethlehem Steel, the Vlckers-Armstxong, Schneider-Creusot and other well known firms. It is reported that one of the witnesses before the commission will be Sir Basil Zaharoff, who Is called the "mystery man of Europe," an Intimate friend of resolutions of well-meaning but impractical loose without three-minute speeches, without parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys were eventually destroyed mentally, because they could not make that final "about face" alone. In the government hospital at Marlon, Ohio, 1,800 wrecks are In pens.

Five hundred are In a barrack, under nurses, with wires all around the buildings and enclosing the porches. All have been menially destroyed. They don't even look like human beings. A carefuf study of their expressions Is highly recommended as an aid to the understanding of the srt of war. There are thousands and thousands of these cases, and more and more are coming in all the time.

That is part of the bill. Don't forget that the soldier pays part of the dollars-and-cents bill, too. Up to and including the Spanish-American war, we had a prize system, and soldiers and sailors fought for money. During the Civil war they were paid bonuses, in many Instances, before they went Into service. The federal government or the states paid as high as $1,200 for an enlistment.

In the Spanish-American war they gave prize money. When we captured vessels, the soldiers all cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. groups. It can be effectively smashed only IN THE ORIENT. The traditional Labor day, which has come to presage arrival of the fall period, has passed, leaving: the by taking the profit out of war.

There are two phrases In that In the orient, the maneuvering is more- The only way to stop it is by conscription adroit. Back in 1004, when Japan and Rus one brief sentence that will bear examination, If we are to analyze of capital before conscription of the ra tlon's manhood. One month before the gov nation with momentous social dls turbances. without prejudice the state of sla fought, we kicked our old friends, the Russians, out and backed Japan, whom we were then financing. Now the trend Is to ernment may order the young men of the mind that the Methodist youth and nation to be killed, it must serve notice of Three-quarters of a million workers In the textile and allied Industries threaten to quit their many others are in at present.

poison us against the Japanese. What does conscription on the country's capital. Chinas open door policy mean to us? Or Let the officers and directors of our What does Commander Hayes places before the week is out. the Philippine islands? Our trade with mean, "even Christian young David Lloyd George during th armament factories, our gun builders and munitions makers and shipbuilders all be Donald Rlchberg, chairman of China Is about 90 million dollars a year It is because they have begun to believe that warfare of conscripted to get $30 a month, the same war, having great influence with the British premier in his war program. In this article in Fortun We have spent about 600 million dollars in the Philippines in 33 years and we have wage paid to the lads in the trenches.

any kind Is incompatible with the president's executive council on relief, predicts that five million families, plus a half million single persons, will be on the relief rolls SOLDIERS PAY THE BILL. The soldiers, of course, pay the biggest part of the bill. If you don't believe It, visit the American cemeteries on the battlefields abroad or visit any of the veterans' hospitals in the United States. On a tour of the country, In which I am engaged at the time of writing, I have seen eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 90,000 destroyed men.

Seventeen years ago they were the pick of the nation. The chief surgeon at the government hospital at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of tho living dead, told me that mortality among veterans Is three times as great as among those who stayed at home. Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to "about face," to regard murder as the order of the day. They were private investments there of leas than 200 Let the workers In these plants get the Christian principles and Ideals that million dollars.

considerable attention Is given to Zaharoff, who got his real start by taking the American Maxim many, probably most, of the antt To save that China trade of about 90 mil same wage. All workers, all executives, all presidents, all directors, all managers everyone In the nation be restricted to a lion dollars or to protect the private invest war groups of young people In this country have so boldly committed ments of less than 200 million dollars In the got their share. Then it was found that we could reduce the cost of wars by taking all the prize money and keeping it but conscripting the soldier anyway. Everyone else can bargain for his labor, but the soldier can't. total monthly income not to exceed that gun out of the control of Maxim, and then covering Europe with it.

One statement in this article hints the whole story: paid to the soldier In the trenches. Philippines, we may be roused to hate Japan and to go to war to a war that may themselves. It is not the anarchists or the communists that the "By the end of the war Sir Let all these kings and tycoons and masters of Industry and all these workers in industry pay half of their monthly $30 wage to their families and pay Insurance MEDAL BUSINESS DEVELOPED. Napoleon once said, "All men are self-confessed "patriots" of the nation need to worry themselves about. It Is the "Christian" young men, whose sincerity is not cost us tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of the lives of Americans, and many more hundreds of thousands of physically maimed and mentally unbalanced young men.

Basil had a personal fortune that was estimated as low as 100 or 200 million dollars and as high as enamored of decorations they positively and buy government bonds. Why shouldn't they? They aren't run hunger for them," So, by developing the Napoleonlo system the medal business put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass nlng the risk of being killed or having their distorted by ulterior motives of sabotaging the existing social WE WENT TO WAR. Yes, they are getting ready for another the government learned It could get soldiers psychology, they were made Into machines for slaughter. We trained them to kill other men with nonchalance and dispatch. bodies mangled or their minds shattered.

The soldiers run that risk. Give capital thirty days to think it over a billion; ana in ltfii, wnen mere seemed a possibility of peace through the intervention of the United States, Lord Bertie, British ambassador to France, naively recorded In his diary: 'Zaharoff is all for continuing the war jusqu'au war. War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. But what does And then Commander Hayes for less money, because boys like to be decorated. Until the Civil war, there were no medals.

Then the Congressional Medal of Honor was instituted. It made enlistments easier. It profit the masses? Takt our own nation, We used them a couple of years. and you will learn by that time that there speaks of "national emergency" all Until 1898, we owned no territory outside Then, suddenly, we discharged them and will be no war. That will stop the racket that and nothing else.

of the mainland of North America. At told them to make another "about face." too glibly. One thing the antiwar youth would lay down as a by midwinter. This would constitute the largest relief list responsibility for which the federal government has yet recognized, and would place roughly one person In very five on relief. Whatever modest signs of improvement there may be In employment and agricultural prices, this Is not a very happy prospect for the nation as a whole.

What we In Iowa may be thankful for, In this circumstance, Is that the current' Industrial strife does not harass us except In relatively Indirect ways, and that at least an approach toward parity In the prices of our products will tend to offset somewhat the blights that still beset the nation. We are not Immune, of course, to the disruptions that occur anywhere. But do have certain fortunate conditions that other sections necessarily lack. It should be fair to say that Iowa faces another admittedly difficult winter with the minimum of portentous prospects. bout.

Probably the most fortunate fact of all Is that Senators Nye and By Drew Pearson and Vandenberg are behind, the In Washington Merry-Go-Round primary basis for its present stand is that every resort to force is labeled a "national emergency" by the selfishly Interested groups. Even the patently aggrandizing Robert S. Allen vestigation, which means that It will not be a formality nor will any of the real facts be glossed A Woman Was Responsible for the Senate Munitions Investigation operations of a nation are deplet over. Eotn senators are deter mined, and both are equal to th situation. Perhaps as good a statement as ed usually as inevitable "national emergencies" which no real "patriot" shall question and to which every "true" citizen will rally.

The reason the Methodist Now the last thing Harrison wanted was a long debate on this, so he agreed to withdraw his objections to Nye's investigation if Nye would withdraw his amendment to the tax bill. ever, If the fellow was supporting this American Liberty league I could understand his being barred." "GHOST-READER." Considerable strain was put on cabinet-family ties by the recent verbal blunder of (Editor's Note This is the latest un-official netvs in Washington. Tho opinion of the authors, which is intertwined with many of the items, is their own and may or may not agree with tho editorial stand of The Register.) WASHINGTON Many people and or has been made of the real purpose of the senators la Senator Vanden-berg's In a recent Issue of Liberty magazine. In that statement the senator said: youth, and many others, have now Nye agreed, but even after this, the refused to sanction even "defensive wars" is that they have de munitions resolution lagged. We have embarked upon a Finally Miss Detzer again tackled the tected deceit In so many of the ganizations, from senators to church great adventure to take the profits out of war.

Here the veteran and leonine Borah. 'national emergencies" that have Agriculture Secretary Wallace on the subject of the American merchant marine. The president, not wishing to embarrass Wallace, tactfully quieted the furore by whitewashing the situation as a misunderstanding. The real fact is, Wallace never knew "When are you going to speak for our the pacifist the devotee of pre pervaded the world in the last half century. Humiliated and perplexed by the unconscionable behavior groups, ar claiming credit for inspiring the senate munitions Investigation opening today.

paredness and the disciple of non-resistance find common ground Ha- and fuse their aspirations. The of so many nations, they reject But the chief credit fact that the 'commercial motive' the whole rotten business. what was In the letter he sent to Representative Bland, condemning the merchant marine. One of his underlings prepared the letter, whisked it across the secretary's Misguided? Perhaps, In some Without asking him to undertake the investigation, she outlined the secret information she had uncovered, proposed an Investigation, and asked his advice as to what senator could best do the Job. "Miss Detzer," replied Nye, "I'd like to put through that Investigation myself." So Nye promptly intrpduced his resolution.

But, for a long time nothing happened. Mr. Nye was busy with other things. The army and navy were against the investigation. The state department, which originally supported it, suddenly discovered that its chief, Secretary Hull, would take no public stand one way or the other.

DEAD? It looked as if the munitions Investigation would die aborning, At this point, Miss Detzer did some heavy lobbying. She lined up a group of supporting senators. She made life miserable for Senator Nye. She harassed the Demosthenes of the senate, William Edgar Borah, to speak for the resolution. However, it remained side-tracked.

Finally, with the legislative jam increasing, Pat Harrison, who had opposed the resolution, staged a fight to put across his tax bill. But at a crucial point Nye blocked him. He proposed an amendment providing publicity for the taxes paid by munitions manufacturers. degree. But Commander Hayes goes to a young lady who initiated the idea long before anyone else but quietly remained 'n the background.

She is Miss Dorothy Detzer of the desk for signature. NEBRASKA WILL VOTE ON DIFFERENT LEGISLATURE. At the general election in November Nebraska will vote upon an amendment to Us state constitution, abolishing; Its present two-chamber legislature and establishing' as a substitute for the house and senate a single body to consist of not less than 30 nor more than 60 members. Non-partisan elections would choose the legislators, under the proposed plan. Though the salaries of members would be fixed at figures to attract capable lawmakers, the amendment also has not answered their complaint.

may be less potent In the United States than elsewhere does not dull our quest. On the contrary it may well mean that ours Is the most hospitable laboratory In which to search out this antidote to the world's deadliest disease. states the 1921 report of a League resolution?" she asked. Borah brushed by without answering. But under his arm was a copy of Fortune Magazine containing an expose of the munitions industry.

With it, Borah went Immediately to the senate floor. There he delivered one of the most powerful speeches of the last session. It swept away all opposition. The resolution was passed overwhelmingly. EXCEPTION.

It Is the fixed rule of the FERA that politics be rigidly excluded in the distribution of unemployment relief. But recently Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins made an exception. He has simply repeated the shib Wallace, a young man who has not yet learned to read everything to which he boleths against which they revolt. puts his signature, scratched his name across the bottom and let it go. Women's International league.

ANYHOW, THE MENACE IS And this wasn't the first time this has Exactly one year ago happened. Twice before, Wallace has she began a little personal GREATLY MAGNIFIED. This red menace In America Js found himself far out beyond the breakers because he failed to read letters before he signed them. Now he's drawing some good- probing into the muni- borah. tions Industry, decided there was much beneath the surface which the public should all bosh, In the opinion of Representative Wcldeman of Michigan, who has been conducting hearings natured chiding from, colleagues who sug know about and scanned the congressional gest that he draft some of the administration's college professors to give him an In over the country as a member of A reporter questioned him about a man who had been stricken from relief rolls because he was supporting one Democratic congressional candidate as against another.

"I haven't heard about that," Hopkins said. "That Is against our policy. How the Dlcksteln congressional com- field to see what senator could best put the idea across. Finally she hit upon young Gerald Nye mlttee to Investigate communistic tensive course reading or else get a "ghost-reader." (Copyrliht, 1934.) of North Dakota. of Nations Commission, 'are promoted by the competitive zeals of private armament firms." How far this movement to make war unprofitable to the munition men has gone may be judged by the statement of Bernard M.

Ba-ruch before the Army Industrial college in June when he urged the conscription of everything in tim of war. Mr. Baruch, who is neither a dreamer nor an enthusiast, said: "Society demands the elimination of profiteering and above all the profit incentives of war. There must be control over all prices, goods, foods, rents, wages, services; In short, of all activities that yield a profit. All must be denied the right to enjoy a joyride at the expense of the nation.

Control of dollars must be made applicable to International Nagging New York Day by Day By O. O. Mclntyre. NEW YORK Summer, In the memory. PHYSICAL C'l'LTl KE eating places that of the oldest theater-eoer, has been a sprung up aoout Mew yorK witn sucn a activities in the United States.

Absolutely no evidence has been unearthed, he says, to warrant the preferring of charges. "Huge sums," Mr. Weldeman goes on to say, "are contributed for the purpose of combating Communism by well-meaning persons, but the most that has been done is to hire people to act as alarmists to make the American people believe that Communism, Bolshevism and Nazi-ism are at present a menace to organized society which we do not believe they are." But shucks, Mr. Weldeman, why season of lay-off and pro-! mushroom growth seem to have the same communism In Russia), that is their business. We do object, however, when other nations step out and attempt to carry on propaganda in our country with a view to overthrowing our government and setting up their regime over here.

This we do not want and this we shall not allow, but now let us be fair, and say that tills same principle holds good also (Editor's Note: The following article is by Dr. Alfred J. Pearson, professor at Drake university and former minister to Finland, who has just returned to this country from a summer spent til Europe.) If we are to get anywhere internationally, if we hope to improve the relation of na provides a maximum cost for legislative sessions. An increase In the number of members would mean a cut In Individual pay checks. Submission of the amendment Is a victory for and a tribute to the campaign for the governmental reform conducted at first almost slnglehandedly by Senator George W.

Norris. But the fact that the drive for the 60,000 slg-natures required to submit the amendment brought out more than 100,000 signers Indicates the growth of the Norris idea. It Is not a Norris invention, however. Twenty years ago Oregon submitted a constitutional amendment for a single branch legislature to popular referendum, and though more favored than opposed the change the proposal failed for lack of a majority of all votes cast at the same election. Too many had neglected to vote at all upon it In 1913 both houses of the California legislature ap ductlon inertia.

Yet this overnight vanish. Their drabness was ac-summer and last hnve'centuated by the ascetic type of customers, been a boon to established: mostly men who carry pill boxes in vest players willing to appear! pockets. The walls were hung with strange in the village playhouses charts and systems of exercise and menus the entire citizenship regardless of their classification." tions, our criticism must have in it a constructive This movement against money when looked at from their point of view. We must not throw a monkey wrench Into their machine if we want our own machinery of government to function. CRITICISM EASY.

be a spoil-sport? These red-haters making out of war Is not confined to the United States. One of the most curious of recent developments has been the withdrawal by M'IN'TlRr. must be having a good time, and they are spending their own of Long Island, Maine and including protose steaks, bean -cutlets, Connecticut. lentil-sirloins' and special calory-combina- The billboards of the tion dinner. Jack London, robust meat surrounding countrysidej eater, used to like to drop In when slightly three-sheeted a list of! blotto and roar for raw hamburger, stars that would in ordi-j nary times have thrilled AS A CAFE CHVSER with Irrational af-Broadway.

Grace George fection for odd restaurants. I'm still bound at Dennis, Mass. Glenn to the depot short order house glamour. Hunter at Long Beach. There's great fun about the clattery spots side wherever and whenever possible.

This does not mean condoning what, according to our opinion, is bad in other governments. We Destructive criticism is always easy and the Clergy Pension Board of often times cheap. It is a flattering unc tion to our souls to be able to point to $50,000 investment In Vickers, be money. So long, therefore, as they "refrain from employing un-American methods, and don't advocate violence, nor seek to circumvent cause of the outcry of the clergy should constantly try to bear in mind that climates differ and that so do men the ordinary machinery for keep proved a similar measure out wun 1 A .1,1,, I- A government suitable for ti than the required two-thirds ing the peace," why not let them The same year the gov- go on thinking they are engaged us will not necesFarily serve the purpose for a Francine Larrimore at White Tlains. with marble-top tables and back-talking and Mrs.

Coburn at Carmel, N. and! waiters. J. C. Nugent at Westport, Conn.

And' so on. DROITED Into the continuous vaudeville- It was stimulating to watch the en-j movie grind at the Palace the other after-thusiasm of these valiant troupers in car-noon. A perspiring comedian was using rytng their art to starved Main the familiar old tickler to win applause. In a noble pursuit? nf Kansas, ana iwo years people differently con It will be a severe blow to their IIOKOTHV TIIOM l-Mi. men all over Britain against ha-ing church money Invested in armament making.

The fact Is unquestionably going to be disclosed by these hearings that the big money in the last. 15 years has been made In arming the world for the next war, the armament makers being exceedingly active in stirring up that sort of international suspicion that ends in arming. They have unlimited money, they are seated stituted because of other nrtde to discover theyve been flaws In other people's governments. It makes us feel superior. Such a sweeping statement as was made the other day by that brilliant writer.

Dorothy Thompson, "that Germany la the loveliest, the cleanest, and the most comfortable prison In the world" (from which, by the way. Miss Thompson seems to have been reluctantly paroled), though playfully made. Is distinctly harmful to International goodwill. In the first place It Is only an assertion Miss Thompson's mental vagary. MOVED WITH FREEDOM.

The proof of the assertion is not present. 1 was In Germany this summer and with the exception of the first two days of the physical surroundings and different ways mostly sparring at windmills, Dutch students visiting New They -appeared In tacky theaters at often Paid he: "If you folks show that you like $1 top as though the legitimate theater! my act, I may get booked over at Music was starting all over at scratch. Many hall." Once the Talace was the vaude-finanrlally secure were willing to do this villian's valhalla. Today it is one of the without a whimper. steps up, and somehow that was a wrench.

The red barn idea began several seasons But no one appeared to mind. I seem the ago. And this season gained such mo- only vaudeville softie left. Yprk wondered if anything is ever of life, the result of centuries. We have yet a long way to go before even the so-called civilized nations become so far a unit in their mental and moral life that the same kind of government will serve them all.

LET THEM HAVE IT. later the governor of Arizona, recommended one-chamber assem- biles. Both economy and efficiency advanced arguments in favor of the unicameral leglsta- merits more than com pen-STliS. awrtflc th. system of check, and restraint which ST house of prenUe.

nd the senate in bicameral bodle. ex done about rubbish in the streets. Sure, We build skyscrapers to get at the center of things, they understand international relations, they away from It, mentum that the listing of nearby summer If a Fascist government suits the so-called Second Revolution" I moved Paris Is Introducing evening theaters In New York newspapers tripled gowns made of glass. It Is an the space of the Broadway output. 1 am' impressive rite, the puttying of told some stars received only $50 a week.j are able to put In the right word at the right time.

Curiously enough the United States has spent far more money in arming since the war than Which star I ranked the greatest box office attraction of all time? The ansner's In HOLLYWOOD (IN CENSOR ED) next Sunday In The Des Moines Italians, let them have it. If the Germans about with the same freedom as was sc-want a Nazi government, why should we corded me in other countries. I did not see object? If the Soviets want a socialist anything that resembled the inside of government (for there Is at present no walls. the chlo Parlslenne into her W'lth such valor the stage la not likely to clothes. I Sunday Register photogravure section..