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8 Richmond 11 Virginia Thursday Sept 28 1941 The Pay-Off As It Appears to the Cavalier Richmond John Stzwasy Bryan President and Publisher Vikgixil'S Dabney Editor Invest VIRGINIA TOBACCO DOLLARS rBamiPTP rate rantr: Bail utwa ('a a a Iraii aa! 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Is it still the same in Richmond? Is the James still flowing by? Is the Capitol still a picture On a hill against the sky At Laurel Street and Franklin Quite close to Monroe Park Is the cop still waving traffic From early morn till dark Thompson: Foreseeable Headache last spell of carnage Germany has got to be broken up supervised scrutinized and watched with a constant and an eternal vigilance or we all will be lost Yes take their industries and use them to help pay for this mess they have brought twice upon this w'orld in one generation Give them their farm lands and let them raise their food upon which they may exist But guard their forests and all places in the em- pire where one could hide and start any devilment They just cannot be trusted for they know ton many tricks LANE Richmond Wants Facts Not Fiction Editor of The Times-Dis patch Sir: After spending 30 minutes listening to Tom speech of September 25 I feel that I must get a few things out of my chest First let me say this I am not a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat but I am voting the Democratic ticket this November Governor Dewey docs not long in politics his passionate dramatic pleas and his sarcastic rebuttals are products of years in a courtroom rackets" and handling criminal cases If he felt that he must be the of our he should have purged himself of all courtroom mannerisms and employed a writer to put the Republican platform in words familiar to people other than the judiciary He should be reminded that when he quotes a statement by a member of the opposition fair play does net allow him to twist it as he would while cross-examining a witness but should give that statement complete and not in part as he has been wont to do My husband is out there fighting for those intangible posses- sions Americans hold so dear To my mind this is no time for a dirty mud-slinging campaign conducted along the lines on which Mr Dewey seems to be traveling he realize the people of this country are intelligent enough to demand facts and reality instead of fiction and partial truths misrepresented by a high-pressure lflwypfi And finally does Dewey really think that he can belittle the man who will go down in history along with Jefferson and Lincoln one of our greatest Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt? MRS HAROLD LE BELL Richmond of America a campaign contribution of $5000 and not being content with this contribution he asked and received a further campaign contribution from them and through the support of Mr Hillman and the CIO in New York Mr Dewey was elected District Attorney DAVIS Jonesville Must Punish Germany Editor of The Hmes-Dispatch Sir According to press reports some of our statesmen are getting disturbed about the severity of the punishment that is to he meted out to Hitler and the German people" after they have killed all the mothers children the old halt and blind inhabitants wherever they can reach one and with whatever means they can utilize for that foul purpose The reason there is a Briton living tonight or American is simply because the Germans could not devise diabolical means to execute their craving desires The Germans have again and again demonstrated their love and consideration for the human family They gave an excellent example of it in Lidice and Warsaw They have repeated their single-track mindedness of extermination in their treatment of hostages Hitler promised to be a good boy if he could only get a little hunk of the Sudetanland He got it Then he went into Poland to take a little strip of a corridor He kissed Joe Stalin in the center of the Kremlin and swore by all the powers that controlled him that brotherly love should continue between them death did them part He tried to run this country through his bunds and spies He hooked up with the to put a squeeze play on us He planted a nest of his reptiles in Spain and another one in Argentina to poison the atmosphere that all English-speaking people breathe Now when Hitler knows he a chance in the world to win this war he still sends buzz-bombs over into England for the one purpose of sowing the horrors and realities of death among the inhabitants The German people are col leagued with him in this dastardly crime Our boys are dying by the thousands right now because we failed to carry through during the IIoe for County Government PERSONS who have followed with interest and often with discouragement the slow progress toward improved county government in Virginia can find substantial grounds for hope in two events which have recently taken place in the State One of these events was the adoption of the county manager form of government by the voters of Warwick County In an election held on September 19 The other was the action of the League of Virginia Counties at its convention in Roanoke on September 21 in pledging support for Governor Daemon's timely and constructive proposal to establish at the University of Virginia a school or center for the study of county government The reasons for the change to the county manager form in Warwick County are not far to seek The population of the county has increased at a phenomenal rate In the past two years The older form of rounty organizations was rigid and inflexible and hence ill adapted to meet the new demands The resolution of the League of Virginia Counties was adopted after an address by Governor Darden in which he warned that unless immediate steps are taken to Improve the rounty government systems and to check the present trend toward centralizing everything in the State local self-government in the rural sections of Virginia will soon be a thing of the past There is no sound reason of course for assigning to the county functions which all things considered could better be performed by the State Local self-government however is heritage which should be preserved jf this ran he done without exorbitant cost The right of the people to manage their local affairs lies at the foundation of our entire system of democratic government Yet owing largely to traditional resistance to change the disintegration of county government has continued under oirr ryes now for many years The decline of the county as a governmental unit began with the development of the so-called social functions of government modern highways public health public education and public welfare These functions call for longterm planning and a high degree of technical knowledge and skill The existing form of county organization has proved unequal to the new tasks involved and as a result these functions comprising by far the larger part of the public expenditures in the county are now being absorbed in varying degrees by the State Even the older county functions have broken over county boundaries and now require co-operation on the part of the county and the State And in it all there is no clear line of demarcation to indicate where State responsibility ends and county responsibility begins The question of the proper allocation of functions is only one of several problems of county government which are pressing for solution at this time If the establishment of the county government center should result in isolating these problems from current political thought for another decade of discussion and reports the value of its will be doubtful to say the least If however it is so organized as to grapple with them in a realistic way to clarify them to the people of the counties and the rounty officers as well and to devise some means of restoring the county to Its rightful place as an instrumentality of democratic government it will render a service of inestimable value to the people of the State Cuts Argentine Trade1 ECONOMIC pressure Will be exerted against Argentina by the State Department on October 1 at which time American ships will cease calling at Argentine ports This means that Argentina will sell to the United States considerably less than she has been selling although she ran continue to ship her goods to this country in her own bottoms if American firms will buy them However many Argentine Arms already are on the blacklist and the latest sanctions against the government of Presi-pent Epelmiro Farrell are expected to be followed by the blacklisting of others In addition to prohibiting American ships from calling at Argentine ports the State Department also has instructed the Foreign Economic Administration to restrict to a minimum all export licenses to this South American country which has been so closely allied w-ith the Axis This means that Argentina will have Increased difficulty in getting chemicals lumber iron steel and other materials for which she has looked to the United States Coincident with the stand taken by Secretary ok State Hull regarding trade with Argentina it is announced that the British go eminent has declined to renew its trade agreement with Argentina but that it will continue to buy meat on a month-to-month basis This is justified in Britain however with the explanation that England and other Allied nations are badly in need of beef which is the principal commodity purchased from the Argentine Inasmuch as our imports from that country have been considerably smaller than those of the British the economic sanctions which we have ordered will not cripple to a great extent the economy of the people of the Argentine However our stand plus the British refusal to renew their large contracts cannot but set the people of Argentina to thinking Perhaps Farrell can continue to hold the populace in line so long as exports from nts country arc not materially curtailed But once Argentina loses its beef markets and it w-ould appear to be in danger of losing them as soon as the British can buy Farrell and Ms supporters may have to cut loose from the Axis entirely or combat the wrath of their own people Argentine economy is based largely upon its export trade and that trade consists in the main of meat and kindred products Cold Douche for Optimists THE tragic defeat of the British Devils" near Arnhem carrying with it implications of a Winter campaign against Germany combined with the Office of War Information's statement yesterday that Japan probably will hold out a minimum of one and a half to two years after Germany's defeat should jolt the American people into a realization of what lies ahead This global conflict is far from over The British airborne division which finally had to abandon its daring attempt to turn the Siegfried Line in the face of overwhelming odds deserves a high place in the annals of war for its indomitable battle Wretched weather prevented adequate reinforcement of the position by airborne troops and the Britons and Poles who held out for eight days against crushing superiority in men and firepower performed near-miracles The fact remains that they were beaten and that the Allies now must make a frontal assault on the entrenched positions of the Siegfried Line Not only so but rainy weather is coming on and at least half of each month is expected to be w-ct and foggy Allied air superiority will be far less effective under such conditions Super optimists and wishful thinkers please note A Shrine to Patrick Henry THE effort which a group of influential and patriotic Virginians is making to establish Hill" as a shrine memorializing its erstwhile ow-ner Patrick Henry deserves the backing of all Americans It is a notable but not creditable fact that the memory of the great Henry has not been kept properly green In his native State For example there is no full-length statue of him in the Old Dominion except the unimpressive figure in the circle of six surrounding the equestrian statue of Washington in Capitol Square and the only bust in a public place is in the old hall of the House of Delegates nearby That the man whose me liberty or give me death!" fired the flame of revolution on this continent before the guns blazed at Lexington and Concord should have been thus ignored is well nigh inexplicable But resounding as was the immortal appeal which Henry made here in old St John's Church in 1775 he has other claims upon the admiration and loyalty of his countrymen He it was who as early as 1763 electrified the colony with his championship of the rights of the people against the established church in the Cause" Two years later he defied Great Britain in ringing resolutions in opposition to the Stamp Act And in 1776 at Williamsburg he and James Madison contributed the clauses having to do with religious freedom which were incorporated in George Mason's Bill of Rights It is more than fitting therefore that Patrick Henry should have a permanent and proper memorial upon Virginia soil Lewis CL Williams and Homer Wilson of Richmond and James Easley of Halifax are leading the movement inside the State and Michael Francis Doyle internationally known attorney of Philadelphia speaks for a group of non-Virginians who are anxious to co-operate This movement to commemorate services to the nation through the purchase of his old home Hill" in Charlotte County where he is buried and to establish it as a symbol of the ideals he stood for can and must succeed More Help for Italy PLANS for a greater measure of home rule for Italy and for the industrial reconstruction of that war-torn land have been announced by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill Details of the proposal have not been made public Nor is it yet clear how it is to be financed But it is generally believed in quarters close to the President that both Lend-Lease and British mutual aid will be tendered the Italians The purpose of placing this measure of control" in the hands of the Italian government was described as being to help restore order in riotous hungry Italy: to encourage the political rebirth of the people and enable the Italians to bring their full resources into play in the battle with Germany and Japan Reports from Italy indicate that conditions there are so deplorable that it is doubtful whether the Italians can do much in the war with Germany The people are said to be on the verge of starvation morals are at a very low ebb and the populace is discouraged and distrustful of its leadership But these things and worse were to be expected in a country over which Mussolini ruled for 20 years and which until recently was an ally of Germany The status of Italy has never been quite clear since she got out of the war The people are divided among themselves and suspicious of their own leaders as well as of outsiders Thus anything which can be done to lift their morale and bolster their political and economic life should be a welcome boon to them Yet regardless of what the Allies do for Italy not much help as we have indicated can be expected from her in this war The nation has been bled white its army is weary of fighting if it ever wanted to and its navy has not been called upon for real service for reasons best known to thp Allied high command However Italy must be helped if she is to become self-supporting and the sooner she does become self-supporting the sooner will the drain upon us be lifted Among callers at Quebec was the young Habsburg Otto still pretending to the throne of Austria Somehow of late this has seemed even idler than straight unemployment YY7HEN I read of the proposal emanat-V ing from Quebec to put Germany under three separate military governments American British and Soviet each high commissioner responsible only to his own government I tried to put myself into the minds of Mr Roosevelt Mr Churchill and Marshal Stalin and follow the mental processes bv w-hich this arrangement might have become acceptable to them On the surface the Soviet Union comes out worst from the viewpoint of exercising power over a considerable part of Germany The Soviets are to rule for purposes of occupation only that part of Germany east of the Elbe River This territory includes the capital city of Berlin together with Potsdam but reports say that there is to be a joint occupation and administration there Eastern Germany Mecklenburg Pom-mern Brandenburg is relatively poor territory There is some Silesian industry but the whole territory is largely agricultural and here also are situated the large Junker estates It is together with East Prussia the traditional stronghold of German junker-dom The territories to be occupied by the United States and Britain plus possibly France encompass the richest and most populous parts of Germany containing practically all the basic industries the hulk of German industrial workers and the most important ports of commerce If Stalin is willing to confine Russian administration and influence to the economically far less important east what is in his mind? FIR one may be sure of this: Something is in his mind Stalin is a trained Marxian scholar He is accustomed to logical dialectic processes of thinking It is the only kind of thinking in which he has ever indulged That process consists of posing leading questions and giving logical alternative answers out of which new questions arise demanding further answers Stalin is also a semioriental which means that he is accustomed patiently to take a long view So if Stalin is satisfied with this distribution of allied influence it is not out of general amiability but because he has asked himself certain questions and arrived at answers logically satisfactory to his own mind All over Germany following defeat there will be violent reaction against the Nazis and the Gestapo What Is happening in Italy is characteristic Now when the Russian enter this territory a administrators they will almost certainly do two things: Deal ruthlessly and swiftly with war criminal and Nazis and hack and support the demand of the peasants for land In doing so however ruthless they may he in their purging of guilt individuals and hostile classes they will be giving the bulk of the population something it wants BUT how about the Industrial region which will we and the British? We are going to inherit the chief German headaches and tensions It has been proposed both by American and British spokesmen that German industries be put under Anglo-American direction with perhaps the participation of other Europeans The German workers are however largely anticapitalist Their disillusionment with Hitler is precisely that national Socialism wasn't Socialism hut war They will certainly regard soSi Anglo-American proposals if carried out as merely changing one set of oppressor for another and foreigners to boot Since everyone after a short time dislikes foreign rule the armies doing the most occupy ing will be most disliked and the masses of the workers who-are most anti-Nazi will look toward Russia rather than toward the capitalist power because Russia is both Socialist and not in control Berlin though It may he Jointly occupied will lie in the Russian zone And believe me the Russians know a great deal more about Germany than either we or the British It would he to our obvious interest that the natural political disadvantages of occupation be shared by all allies Thu the proposed plan creates Immediately within Germany spheres of influence sundering the Ihree allies Politically the Soviets will be in the better not the worse position For Russia is both a more imminent threat and an inescapable neighbor And Russia does not want in the long run a hostile Germany that might conceivable sometime be a spearhead against the Soviet Union This has been a Russian obsession for years So I can imagine what is In Stalin's mind But I cannot imagine what is in Mr Roosevelt's or Mr Churchill's DOROTHY THOMPSON Do joyous shouts of children Still echo from afar Through paries and spacious playgrounds As they did before the war? Is the and still running Are the Colts still in the game Can you get a dozen oysters And do they taste the same Do the and Still mix it every year In a classic hour of football In the town I hold so dear Are watermelons being sold By sleepy vendors yet? I'd give a spot" for one now And never feel regret! And how about the gardens Is the fragrance still there? Is the hummingbird still stealing From every blossom fair? Yes I know what you are thinking I'm a sentimental Joe But mister let me say to you I've been away and know This land I'm in is mighty fine In ways glad I came There's just one thing like to learn Is Richmond still the same MAJOR PLEASANT BAGBY New Orleans La Dewey Cleared It With Sidney Editor of The Times-Dis patch Sir: Mrs Clare Boothe Luce the glamor woman of Congress arose recently in that body and made what has been heralded as the shortest speech ever made in Congress in which she said It With Sidney" and resumed her seat Mrs Luce thought that she was being smart in repeating a statement attributed to Mr Roosevelt in a conference with Air Hannegan in Chicago just prior to the National Democratic Convention in that city although she knew that the statement had been repudiated as absolutely false by Mr Hannegan This alleged statement by Mr Roosevelt has been made the battle cry of the reactionary Republican leadership in this campaign with the vain hope that our voters would come to the conclusion that there was some dark deep plot between the Democratic party and Sidney Hillman one of the leaders of the CIO in this country which was inimical to the welfare of America It is merely a red herring drawn across the trail with a view of leading the minds of the American voters away from the pitiful record of the Republican party during the desolate days of the administrations of Harding Coolidge and Hoover The Republican leadership in this campaign is trying desperately to lead the American voter to drink of the waters of the river Lethe a draft from which waters according to mythology brought eternal forgetfulness Had Congresswoman Luce desired to keep the record straight she should have repudiated the phrase repujed to Mr Roosevelt and had she desired to reach the hall of fame through making the shortest speech in the history of the American Congress that speech should have been in these words: Cleared It With Such a speech would have been short and besides it would have been historically correct for in 1938 Thomas Dewey then candidate for District Attorney for New York' sought and received from Sidney Hillman and the CIO members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Letters to the Voice of the People will be held to 200 words except in the rarest and most extraordinary cases Unless accompanied bv adequate postage unused letters will not be returned- Pcglcr: Falsehoods and Frauds Salaries of the Governors Mynders in the Chattanooga Times Montana Nebraska Nevada 7500 7500 7000 5000 20000 5000 25000 North Carolina 10500 New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Governor cooper tells The Times that he will recommend to the next General Assembly that the ore sent salary of the Governor of Tennessee ($4000) which is the second lowest among the States of the Union be increased to $10000 or $12000 a year This is good news for Tennessee The State constitution does not fix the salary but provides that it cannot be increased for a Governor during his term of office Since Mr Cooper is constitutionally ineligible for a fourth term (and the pity) he is in a perfect position to recommend the increase which will be effective at the start of the term of his successor The Times has been advocating this reform during the past year Here are the Governors salaries for the 48 States: Alabama 6000 Roosevelt sent a memorandum to the hill announcing that he had suspended the immigration laws anyway Citing no legal authority the President just informed Congress that he had decided to admit about 1000 refugees who had been collected in Italy and wa sending them to a disused army camp near Oswego He said women and children would be in the majority and gave assurance that after the war they would be returned to their homes This wa a difficult case Most of us are sorry for refugees except the Communist who are traitors to every country but Russia They were ahsolutelv responsible for Fascism in Italy and largely to blame for the rise of Hitler in Germany and the collanse of the French army and nation in 1940l refugees have no claim on our sympathy or asylum but after all they do have children wlxfre not Communists yet As to the women however who were supposed to he in the majority it could not he overlooked that among Cbmmunists the female of the species is as deadly as the male In such cases our compassion might be-exploited to our own injury There w-as no statement of the political activities and beliefs of any of the adults however They were just refugees and that was all we were told about them As to his further promise that they will all be sent back after the war what would you want to bet on a proposition of falsehood and fraud if Mr Roosevelt should be President then? What wouM you bet that having broken down -the bars by force he wouldn't beckon hundreds of thousands more to come on oven and live with us? WESTBROOK PEGLER LAJUNTA COLO Mr resort to the w-prds and in his address to hi political and spiritual kinsmeit of the union racket recalls another falsehood and fraud which he perpetuated on the American people only a few weeks ago It may be remembered that more than a year back Mr Roosevelt's Attorney-General Francis Biddle the one who tiptoed up the back stairs to pay homage to Sidney Hillman and the CIO-Communist axis at the Chicago convention went to a committee of Congress to ask for suspension of the immigration restrictions for the duration of the emergency Mr Biddle explained that unless this were done we would have to pay ourselves a head tax of $8 on each prisoner of war brought here for detention and representatives of our gallant allies have to go through the vexatious process of entering the country in the regular way He assured the committee that Mr Roosevelt had no ulterior motive and certainly would not abuse the privilege if it were granted to admit to the country large numbers of European refugees Congress apparently didn't believe Mr Biddle so the request was turned down AS to whether the head tax has been paid on the war prisoners and the distinguished visitors we have had no announcement but probably it has not for they are not that punctilious in Washington except in searching the tax return of American citizens who have opposed the New Deal If it has been paid however it represents only a debit on one set of books and a credit an another and it may be assumed that neither Mr Churchill nor any of our many Russian dignitaries who have come here on war business has been sent to Ellis Island or otherwise embarrassed by the immigration officers on arrival at our ports Well time passed and then recently assuming the authority which Congress had specifically refused to grant Mr 4000 10000 6500 7500 18000 8000 7500 3000 4000 12000 6000 5000 10000 6000 10000 6000 8000 20 Years Ago Today RICHMOND PREPARED to play host for the first time to the State convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union PLANS WERE COMPLETED for the formal opening of the William Byrd Community House on October 1 with Miss Cordice Hal let as director ARTHUR BELL announced his candidacy for the post of Commissioner of the Revenue for Richmond PAXSON prohibition officer -was given a bloodhound by Sheriff Melvin Yoder of Warwick County to assist him in running down bootleggers and locating stills Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa 7500 6000 10000 10000 12000 7500 9000 7500 7500 12000 8000 7500 5000 10000 12000 5000 4500 10000 5000 7000 7500 5000 Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri In the East a former strip teaser files In bankruptcy One can only feel then that it was art for art's sake.