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Home Owned, Controlled, Edited Oakland Deer 45, 1 940 Something's Wrong With Our Perspective ENSLAVEMENT OF GERMAN WORKERS SHOWS TRAGEDY OF ANY FORM OF DESPOTISM The National Whirligig By: RAY-TUCKER; Propaganda And Politics By Raymond Lawrence HE Locks Women were prohibited from working and tdld that their job was to create a home and Hitler's "pep talk" to German workers in order to reconcile them to a long and -rigor-: bear children for the Nazi Army. However, ous war contained," as we" pointed out, a mes sage to American workers. But let none of with-the advent of the war, they were wel corned back into industry and to the fields. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.

A quiet us be deceived by Hitler's pose as a friend movement for the insurance of Nazis World Rule When Herr Hitler this past week. Today in Germany the worker is virtually and protector of the man who works. Let us all bank deposits instead of the a slave. In 1935 a law was passed requiring sounded the call for world con 55000 maximum account has been started on Capitol Hill, and aprar- every German between of 18 and 35 to give six months' service to the labor force. quest he provided the answer to those Americans who refuse to be ently with the approval of key men in the Federal Reserve System and look at the record.

Before Hitler came into power labor organizations were as powerful in Germany as in 'any other Nation in the world. Three months after Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich 'in. 1933 came May Day which was labor's No worker can shift his employment, say lieve that National Socialism is de F.D.I.C. It was discussed behind from farm to factory or from one shop to an termined expand its influen.ee closed doors at recent meetings of the House Banking and Currency into the Western Hemisphere. other.

He has to carry a work-book in which 1 i Pj Committee, and it. met with no seri' The Fuhrer's warning that "wt ous opposition even from conserva- his entire record is kept. He is assigned to his job by the Government and if his record special day for Nazi Government ordered it abandoned in favor of a dis tive members. F.D.I.C. Chairman Leo T.

Crow book contains one black mark he is penalized play of allegiance to the' new order by all will conquer the world" was immediately followed by an official explanation from underlings who said he really didn't mean that, but the words in German are plain. Hitler mean what he said and no amount of equivocation or evasion economic employer as well as em ley has no objection to the grandi-6se idea as a result of his experience in covering $5000 deposits, but he is inclined to think that it is unnecessary. It is not generally known, but the F.D.I.C. gives almost 100 per cent protection now. can change the original German text and persecuted.

Young men graduating into industry are forced to serve an apprenticeship in the fields to which they are assigned by the Government; they have no choice in the matter. Small shop owners have been deprived of their businesses and forced to take jobs under big employers. Civil service, in other words, Besides actually insuring any There is behind this remark a long ployee. On the next day, May 2, 1933, Storm Troopers raided trade union offices, seized records, arrested officers and leaders, and condemned many of them' to concentration camps. All trade union property was coh-: fiscated.

Trade unions having been' abolished, Hitler amount Deiow $suou, it has the power to merge a weak or failing bank with a more powerful institu historical tradition which has had a powerful effect upon the contemporary Nazi mind. Harold Nicol-son once said that the German 'people are amongst the finest and most inconvenient developments of the tion. It takes over the losing outfit's "bad paper," advancing a loan is run on the same basis as military service. of the same figure to the surviving bank) and thus places both of them human race," and there is a good deal to be said for Mr. Nicolson'i It is a real part of totalitarianism." Orders set up the German Labor-Front, which was not a workers' organization but a section of the Nazi party.

In January, 1934, the Front and their depositors on their feet. It has recouped about 75 per come only from above and neither the worker judgment. There was a tendency, and it was what lay back of the whole appeasement movement, to was given the task of setting hours and cent on distress stuff, and the percentage may run higher as a result of improvement in business conditions. Operations of this nature nor the employer can raise the slightest question. Obedience Is mandatory' on the pain of blame German difficulties upon wages.

Shop elections were abolished and contracts between employers and employees imprisonment or death. have Involved about 150 large and the situation in which that country was left by the peace of Versailles. BASIS OF APPEASEMENT small banks. rescinded, But the Capitol Hill argument As the master of such a slave economy, Hitler had the effrontery to pose as the friend The argument was that Hitlert Maximum and minimum wage rates were for outright insurance of all de posits Is that the average individual of labor and as the champion of the rights of get but the average was extremely low. Standards of living were at a level that an is not aware of this indirect method of protection.

And In view of fi victory was the last defiant effort of a despondent people, the only remaining alternative to the desperate remedy pf Communism. Onet these conditions are removed, the the "have-nots." It is indeed bitter irony and contains a lesson for the American em American would call uncivilized. It is true nancial needs and stresses resulting from the re-arming process, they advocate action which will further success of Hitler was rendered ployers and employees. We may be con buttress the banking system and fronted by profound problems but at least In light of subsequent circum that unemployment was eliminated but this wa only natural when every man was assigned t6 a job and most of them in a great war machine. open It to taxation.

NEUTRALITY ZONE we. are free to solve them without the inter ference of a malevolent despot. Although our neutrality zone pa stances, one wonders if such a point of view is justified; for, if we accept the rise of Hitler on this basis, we are overlooking an historic continuity of events, namely that the trol force was established at the outbreak of the European War, and its operations have been supposedly WOMEN AT WAR forces and ideas which contributed to the formulation of National So Jo'urnal of Commerce's edition on "Mexico and Her Relation to American Defense" is shrouded in secrecy, its daily doings have been broadcast as freely as This week the British Government indi cialism existed in Germany before 1914. the football returns and stock cated that, in the attempt to increase food market prices until a few days The Imperial tradition in Ger ago. The Hydographic Office inno ati informative and timely contribution in the interest of better neighborliness.

BOWLING OVER PEDESTRIANS Signals, stop signs, and enforcement of cently supplied the "Leak." Certain naval officials reared up when it was revealed here that U.S. ENVOY MIGHT HELP WEAN FALTERING the ships which frightened escaping German vessels at Tampico a few weeks ago were four American ITALY FROM THE GERMAN ORBIT speed laws have cut down the number of fatalities to motorists on the city streets, but while' we have been making boulevards safer destroyers the Broome, Gilmer, Plunkett and John Paul Jones. But production, women might be called upon to work In the However, English women already are making a tremendous contribution: they have taken places beside men in the organizations that are open to them or have set up their own groups to assist in the' war effort. In industry, for example, there were last Summer 4,088,900 women in. insured occupations, including 47,000 in agriculture, 92,000 in engineering, 680,000 in'textiles, in distributive trades, 440,000 making, motor many is as old as Charlemagne, and Hitler is constantly harking back to it.

The whole history of Germany In the Middle Ages ean be briefly described as the attempt to maintain the Imperial tradition. REVERSION TO IMPERIALISM Each time an Emperor died there immediately, burst loose all thevj pent-up energies of separatism all those centrifugal forces which we call feudalism and out ofthe wars which followed there always emerged some symbol of ImpCrium. There were the Henrys, the Ottos, the Conrads, and the Fredericks of heroic memory in German minds. The rise of Hitler Is in many ways News of Disastrous Defeats in Albania and Africa Seeps Through to Italian People. were their faces red when it was pointed out that the Hydro Office, for drivers we have been increasing the haz which receives from ships at sea nil Kfloi-tages 'of Food, Gasoline and Amunition Are Acute.

Masses Are Defiant and ards to pedestrians. aetans concerning aerencts ana on- strucUons to navigation, revealed Upper Classes Resent Germany. New American Ambassador Might Capitalize Out of 50 traffic deaths in Oakland 42 were pedestrians. In the State there was a 12 per cent increase in pedestrian. deaths for the first uie position ana laenuiy me re- porting vessels! It was thus an easy Oil I I1IS JltUtaiOfl.

matter to determine what warships By CONSTANTINE BROWN a w. 10 months lof this year. During that period 933 persoftjs Were killed while trying to cross Navy censorship at Washington, vehicles and aircraft, and 330,000 in the metal trades. These numbers no doubt have been Ironically, the Hydrographjc Of a reversion to type not so much a reversion to pre-war Hohenzol-lern days but to these earlier con ber In the Levant. The reason for Italy's inactivity in the air is the fice was violating a strict Freslden- WASHINGTON, Dec.

14. Fresi-tial order that a state of partial dent Roosevelt is scanning the list many intends to take full advantage of Italy's misfortunes and her inevitable consequent weakness to greatly increased by1 now. lack of octane gasoline. The Ger the streets, most of them, at night. Cities 'are discovering that better street lighting reduces the toll.

Our State Department of Motor Vehicles urges that all persons. emergency existed in these waters, eligible to find a desirable amend that news of marine activities bassador to Italy. He wants a run-should not be nubllshed. Th in. nine mate for the new ambassador mans have an adequate supply but not sufficient for their ally.

The Labor unions understanding' the need for more work hours, have co-operated fully on annex at the end of the war Italia amount of synthetic gas manufac Irridenta that section of Italy which the Allies gave her when the cident is chiefly important because France, Admiral William Leahy, it reveals the need for National For the time being, no such man tured in Italy in one day would not be sufficient to supply the flight of one airplane for three hours. Fur who walk along highways at night wear or display something white. The motorist who defense planning and co-ordination has been found. The name of Ad- woman's entrance into industry oh the understanding that union practices will.be restored, after the war. Women are working on the basis of equal pay for equal work.

in high places. mirai narry xarneu, lormeny com- Austrian Empire was dismembered after the last World War. Furthermore, the flirtation between Laval rnnnvn r-r nnn intuiuer-iii-uiue oi uie aianc iieet, speeds after nightfall, pi in turning corners wno now lives in retirement at ditions. The State which Bismarck formed was not averse to satisfying the German craving for submission to and this is not to call the Germans a servile people. This longing for submission lies in far deeper causes.

It results mainly from the essential formlessness offJT the potential German State, the--constant struggle1 for union. The Germans always have had a dispersive quality; the feudal history of Germany is repeated in the 19th century when, after the defeat of Napoleon, a Bismarck arose to unite under an Imperial rule a people whose political thinking allowed into traffic lanes is given the largest share urganizea iapor Dotn A.t. or Mrf n. and Hitler makes these men dis uu w.v. ueieiiuiiieu 10 as Roosevelt recently but.it was re of responsibility, for-the, 933 deaths' and 6065 trustful of, what Italy's gains may The machinery for increasing the number of women farm workers is already in exist iot mgner wages, unless Darrea cpived wlth jttIe favor.

Admiral therefrom by specific Act Of Ynrnell'n stprlincr nnamWni nnt be even if the Germans win a com Congress a proposal which has overlooked but he is somewhat too only a slim chance of passage at the blunt to deal with II Duce and the plete victory over Britain. They remember that they were gyppod by thermore, the main plant erected by the Germans in Northern Italy near Turin was badly damaged in a recent British air raid. The lack of food is acute. The Italians are a frugal people. But, even so, there is as little food in that country as there is in occupied France.

Even high-ranking Fascists complain that the Germans have been hogging all the food supplies from the Balkans and have given Italy only "a poor relation's" share. The Italians can get along without the easy-going Allies in 1919 under present moment. ut Dcnina tnese hlphly-sensitive Latins in Rome, fresh demands will lie a different The time to send a man may be philosophy from that which has at hand the excuse that British, French and American forces had to save Italy after the defeat at Caporetto. They logically expect Hitler to be much fortified moves for fatter pay en- Reports from Italy indicate' clearly velopes in the past. that the defeat of the Italian trooDS injuries to pedestrians in California this year.

As driving is being made safer for him, he is becoming a greater menace to the man who walks. It is in the hope he may listen that the old warnings are repeated by the Motor Vehicle Department: "Drivers must drive carefully, pedestrians must walk cautiously. Parents- should instruct their children to be on the lookout for moving vehicles "when crossing intersections. them to go their separate ways. LOVE FOR DISCIPLINE In former years the high moguls in Grpppp nnd in Alhnnin hna had a harsher if he has to re-establish the situation with German forces both encethe; Women's Land, They are enrolled as whole or part-time mobile or local workers, and are given four weeks of training in any branch agricultural work they choose.

Women also are serving with the forces in such units as the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Women's Royal Naval Service, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, Which are organized along military lines and are subject to military discipline. Women also play As a Nation, then, they have al meat but they need macaroni and of the labor movement a 1 1 devastating effect on the masses, based their insistence on wage-1 From most reliahlt snnrpps in Tt.alv cheese. Of the latter they would lipping on the increasing cost of comes the intellieence thai the rest- ways been politically immature la comparison with England and France. What was lacking in spon ordinarily have an adequate supply, in Africa and in Greece. Mussolini is sitting on a volcano.

A revolution in Italy is no longer wishful thinking in the democratic had the Italian-German economic living and the failure of pay levels lessness has reached a high peak, tp keep pace. This argument proved during the last 10 davs. agreement not provided that Italy taneous action for union was made up by their readiness to submit to must pay in kind fats in- this particular instance for $ie coal needed camp. It is a strong possibility not particularly welcomed in responsible quarters in London and in "Uncle Sam has certaWy given me the ouuui nu.m Mussolin has cleaned house. He years and during the boom of the fired Genpral Badoglioone of the middle twenties.

Now, despite re- strategists in Ellrnpebe- employment and backlogs of orders cause he ved to be when and the threat of inflation, there Ti tw T4i in tne arms factories. The German vigorous governmental discipline. Even under the Weimar Republie there was a search for links with the past. The old order and the old hierarchy essentially undemocratic Washington. These quarters realize fully the effect it would have all hot foot!" exclaimed a trainee as he finished coal is coming into the country now at the rate of 12 trains a day.

And over Europe. It might mean the a five-mile march with a 60-pound pack on they demand that the fats include has been no spectacular rise in the not prepared for a long campaign. cost of living. And there will not be R.irips having nrnvpH in beginning of the much-feared era of his ing e--provided for in the transaction shall be delivered with complete chaos and anarchy which if the Federal Government can the estimation of the general situa-prevent it, although a 15 per cent many consider as the inevitable the same Teutonic punctuality. NEWS SEEPS THROUGH consequence of the present struggle.

boost by late 1941 is forecast by the hmongjhenure Fascists because he experts. queen bee will sting only another queen bee." Newspaper filler. Whatever the spe So long as Mussolini could hold INFLUENCE OF AN ENVOY It is recognized that, an ambas' vanuui won wiat lung tu vhn Irnpnr fhb Ritich iiril was continued to such, an ex tent that there existed almost State within a State, composed largely of an element which wu hostile to the political regime. Even the constitution of the Weimar Republie unable to make a break with the past. It sanctioned demoo racy, fortified the guarantees ct rights and liberties, provided or freedom of the opposition, and then, in the notorious Article 48.

en capitalize. It wants to get in on nun. it hot niti.i. before his people the mirage of victory and of a rich Italy extending sador, regardless of how able he cies, females the world over are pretty much the same. a valuable part in the A.R.P.

services, acting as' wardens, firemen ambulance drivers, reporters-and first aiders. In addition, there are about members of W.V.S., which helpf ljn'' every kind of civil defense and war emergency work. This is only a partial summary, of the varied contributions being made by the women of Great Britain, but it serves to indicate their importance in the National effort. It is an everlasting tribute to their courage, initiative and 'manifold talents, which will; be written large in the heroic history of this conflict ine grouna uoor, or ai leasi Deiore were not defeated yet and that this may be, cannot prevent the disrup tion of a disgruntled country. But all over Africa, the easy-going Italians accepted their plight without much complaint.

But the news of so long as the discontent caused mainly by hunger is still in a latent ib iiouiiiis ui piuuuiuie ino.usi.riai war might be a long one. He ar-activity disappears. So henceforth gued that while Germany was rela-it will voice its demand for more tively prepared to undertake a money on the basis of (1) the work- struggle which might last several ing-worth; of employees In -plants years, Italy depended too much "on contributing directly or indirectly her sea-borne trade to risk thp nnn. form, the representative of a coun dowed the chief executive with try willing to extend a helping hand under specific conditions might do Trying to rekindle the fires of Idealism in the world today is comparable to' trying to light a candle in a cyclone. Contrary to the general impression, women don't make fools of men they merely make fools of them.

much good. to National defense and (2) the. in- sequences of a British blockade, creasing profits of the corporations AGAIN OPPOSED DUCE more sweeping powers than had ever been granted to Hohenzollern rulers. True, these powers were only to be Invoked in times tt These are indications that the Ital the defeat is percolating through to the masses, despite the strict censorship. It is not easy to muzzle the wounded who have returned from Albania and who, like all defeated soldiers, complain of lack of foresight and ability on the part of the hgh command.

Hunger and defeat are the best allies of a revolutionary movement. It would be a mistake to assume that Mussolini has lost his popularity within these short weeks of re invoiveu. ou, me aminisiration wants to keep wages and prices als0. warned against a cam- ians might be willing to abandon the Axis ship if it were not for the crisis; but after a brief period, crisis became permanent and Ger. from skyrocketing, it must clamp a fBti asamsi ureece at inis time ot presence of some 30 German divi many was ruled by Article 48.

As ceiling on profits through taxes. It probably will-if not next year, Me the Pindus sions and about 1000 planes on the Italo-German border. The Italians this article came more often to be eventually. iviouniains ana in AiDania, uuce feel trapped. On the one hand they invoked, the path was already laid for the rise of- a popular ut-cuicu iu icitiiuiuc'iiiuill nil- STUDENT EXCHANGE mediately to wipe out the Greek are bombed and harassed by the British.

On the other hand, if they verses. The rank and file of the American missionaries to rtigma, Badoglio opposed him aga made the slightest sign of deserting CHRISTMAS TREE VANDALISM Promiscuous Christinas tree cutting a particularly odious form of vandalism is now under the ban in California. Neither on public nor private property can the trees be felled by outsiders without first securing a duly notarized permit. While forestry officials are Willing to co-operate with those who want to cut NAZIS USE TRADITION America political, economic, mili He pointed out, among other things. Italians especially the working classes and the little bourgeoisie their Berlin ally, they would imme tary recently received a fill-in on Had the Allies been willing to thaot Italy did not have a single base left in Albania since Dtirazzo had diately be invaded by the friend bread-and-butter methods of mak still believe in him.

But there is a great discontent and anger against agree upon support for the Weimar Republic in Germany, It might have ng close and permanent friends of who, they know, can be more ruth less than the present foes. the peoples to the south of us. It tne strutting young "party men" in been bombed out of existence by the British-Greek air squadrons. Badoglio "resigned." The chief of survived the subversive attacks of Yet there is a vague hope that their own trees, they are discouraging this practice the various cilies and districts of was furnished by John P. Dcvaney, the violent Nationalists and National Socialism could not hava former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota and a the country.

They are high-handed and consider their patriotic duty to the regime to act ruthlessly to staff of the Navy, Admiral Cavag-nari, followed him. He was sacrificed on the altar of public opinion succeeded. This was the time forf appeasement, not 1938. wards those who naturally com which could not understand why Mussolini could be properly handled and encouraged to adopt a passive attitude once more in the present conflict. A man sufficiently strong, representative and able to bring about the change is now being sought by Washington to go to Rome.

In any case, National Socialism plain against hardships and lack of military victories. These enthusi as likely to yield a less desirable tree than one purchased from the authorized and supervised commercial operators probably at a less cost. And patrols have been established in the National forests to see to it that the depredations of law-defying poachers are held to a minimum. State highway patrol officers also are stopping' cars carrying trees to see that the permits are in order. That good results are being reaped from this program, in operation for the first time this year, is the story which comes from forestry officials.

For example, Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest reports that promiscuous cut has followed up the traditional Germanic aspiration for Imperial, ism and inspires the German people with provocative memories of the Holy Roman Empire and the Inm-perial epoch. The basis of the appeal laid In the contrast between astic servants of the Fascist regime believe in punishing heavily the slightest sign of discontent While such behavior might be necessary smUing Irish Democrat since before the flood. About four years ago the University of Minnesota (which has intellectual as well as gridiron geniuses) established a students' exchange system with the Argentine. Twenty post-graduates from Minnesota annually spent a year of study in the Argentine, and a similar number from that country were admitted to the American university. The Americans were instructed to live MEXICO AND OUR DEFENSE Given encouragement by capital and the perfecting of relations between the two countries, Mexico's abundant resources may bear an Important relation to American defense.

With this theme, the Journal of Commerce of New York has packed into a special edition on the country to the south a weighty amount of factual and pictorial information. It is opinion of Joseph E. Rjdder, publisher, that Mexico can never become a strong, prosperous r'ibbor of this country so lortg as she remains dent upon our purchases of "useless silver and similar temporary favors to balance her existing very economy." Mexico needs investments, managerialassistance- and technical aid to develop her economy on a sound basis. American industry is in a position to provide these "if the United States and Mexican Governments would pursue policies to encourage, rather than to shock, such wholesome cooperation within the framework of our economic system." In some present fields that "if" is regarded a large but before there may be-xo-rperation there must be The WHAT! NO ROUND TRIP? J. J.

Martin of Pueblo, Is ready to believe that almost any the glorious past and the distressing present thing can happen In the steel busi ness. Mr. Martin, a steel company Today when Hitler speaks tings, so common in other years, have been reduced to executive, was seated at his desk world domination he Is evoking these traditions of Imperhim. Those the Italian fleet on which so many billions had been spent since the iil-fated London Naval Conference, had not made a better showing. The admission of the Italian Navy Department that communications with Africa, where Marshal Graziani's forces have been idling since last September because of the lack of ammunition, were; difficult could not be understood even by the public opinion of a totalitarian state.

In the meantime the Italian debacle in Greece has been' complete. Not only has Italy lost prestige and men and war material; but the British and the Greeks have established air bases in Albania, whence they plan to bombard the Italian east coast which heretofore has been exempt from air raids. LACKS GASOLINE The Italian Air Force, despite its one day, intending to stay there a and successful in Germany, it does not go with the Italians who are more excitable and less disciplined. The situation Is much more serious than it appears on tjie surface. GERMANS RESENTED The disgruntled masses are defiant.

Among the upper classes many neo-Fascists begin to think that Mussolini's policies are now ruining the good wOTk he has done in the past They resent the fact that they must take orders from while, when the next thing he knew, what was he doing but riding out of who bury their heads in the sand and refuse to recognize the real consequences of such ambitions are Ignoring the lessons of the past his office on the cow-catcher of a full-fledged locomotive! in the homes of I Argentinians, if possible, and to get to know the people Inside out. The strangers to this country were put in touch with American fraternities, families and all campus' activities. The underlying idea was simple and human to get to each other and each other's country. Some eighty Amer At the end of his journey, which took him through a partition or so, a remarkable degree. And supervision of the wholesale as well as indi-j vidual removal of trees is declared to have insured a reduction in the wastage and thus is a direct and valuable contribution to forest conservation.

One thing only appears to be needed, and that is an increase in the funds to pay for the patrol work and assurance that such funds will be provided each year as the Christmas tree cutting period rolls With the patrol so impressively proving its value, public sentiment will Insist that whatever expense is connected with the work shall be met from Federal, State and local sources. Enforcement must not Berlin and also resent the over REAL AMERICAN Sentry Halt! Who's theref. Voice American. Sentry Advance and reetts CM second verse of "The Star Mpmtgtm Banner." Voice I dont knew It i icans and eighty Argentinians have bearing and patronizing attitude of Mr. Martin, understandably travel stained, learned that what had happened was that the locomotive had jumped the track just outside his office and had come on In through the wall.

Mr. Martin didn't take the same train back. National Safety benefited from the experiment. the many German military and civil officers who are in Italy at the This system, in the opinion of oresent time. Furthermore, it has experts, will make for morehemispheric goodwill than business and Sentry Proceed.

MMrm alleged 8000 planes, appears power-1 less against the British who have not more than a tenth of that num begun dawn upon leading Italians falter. Sacramento Bee, Coul Bulletin. financial tiea. who are "jpaie-i ascists uiat uer-,.