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Editorial Views, Features SANTA ANA REGISTER, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1941 THE SANTA ANA REGISTER ESTABLISHED 19CS Published daily (except Sunday) by The Register Publishing Company. Santa Ana. California. Entered in Santa Ana post office as second class matter. TEL.

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At first it was enough merely to hold it in his hands. Then he began again to play, learning, in a sense all over again, the magic skill of old. Now he is well on the way to recovery and before another year, Kreisler will be playing in concert again, they say. The love of music and his magic violin had helped marvelously to reinforce the strained ties that held him fast to life. Common Ground HOELES This column contends there can be no satisfactory progress until we measure the shares of each man by common yardstick of the God-given equal right to create and enjoy anything anyone else has a right to create and enjoy.

Eagle's Nest Phone fftti The Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN ONLY QUESTION WHEN CONSUMER WILL PAY DESERVE COOPERATION loss by fire of a factory or of materials in storage, whether finished or waiting manufacture. is a loss to the defense operations in which this country is said Robert P. Barbour, president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, recently. the burning of a home contributes to such loss.

Prevention of fire waste is always a defense of our national well-being, for it is a waste of resources of the nation, that is Those are fighting fire today are enlisted in the defense. And they have enlisted for the duration. They are working to make our navy yards and military posts safe from fire. They are ferreting out the arsonist and the saboteur. They are making plans for defending our industrial establishments, our cities and our homes against fire.

And thus they are building Amer defenses. They deserve and must have the full coopera' tlon of all. This is a work in which every man, woman and child can and should help in their owti homes and places of business. People have been told so often that they actually believe there is some way of taxing people so that the little consumer does not have to pay. It is true that for a short time there can be a tax system that discriminates against the big producer and consumer.

However, it is only question of time until the little producer and the little consumer pays with a vengeance. He pays much more by delaying his payment than he would be obliged to pay if he consented to pay as he goes, his just proportionate share of govern ment expense on every worth of wealth he appropriated to his own personal use. He will be obliged to pay more by delay be cause taxing on the ability to pay fantasy, eats up the capital that enables him to produce more and, thus, receive more. He pays by lower wages, by unemployment and by higher costs. The politicians who contend that it is unsympathetic, cold blooded, inhuman and selfish to tax a consumer in proportion to consumption because the poor cannot afford to pay, are only delaying the day and making the poor much poorer than they would be if they told the truth, that eventually they will have to pay their full share, Even the man in the poor house will eventually suffer and have his standard of living lowered when the people outside get poorer and poorer.

When there is no wealth, there is no sympathy and no charity. Then Mother Necessity is in full operation. SERVING TWO MASTERS YES, THERE ARE ALLIES Is it Britain alone that is fighting off the bone-crushing might of the German military ma chine Is it Russia? No. There are allies in this war, though most of them are men without a country for the moment. Observe: The Poles have a complete division in the field, guarding an important section of the Scottish coast.

The Norse have a comparatively small but splendid body of men in England. Several battalions of Czechs are serving, and the Dutch and Belgians have their units. The Free French camp is really a replacement center, new arrivals being sent off to the De Gaulle Free French forces as fast as they are equipped. The Greeks prho escaped are rapidly being reorganized. All of these forces are constantly growing, though none is very large as yet.

New recruits, escaped from the native land, or volunteering from some country yet free, are continually being added. They are not numerous enough to be a great military factor. But each is a nucleus, and Hitler himself has said that such a determined nucleus is the prerequisite for any country that aims to regain its freedom. PRETTY CLOSE TO TREASON Soon after the United States troops had taken aver the plant of the North American Aviation Company, William Pupis, one of the hot-headed leaders, defiantly exclaimed to reporters: we had half the equipment that the boys with bayonets had, we could have given them cards and spades and all the argument they jean Translated, that amazing statement means fhat Pupis and his beef squad stopped short of fighting the United States Army only for lack of rifles and machine guns. In other days, such talk would have been called by its right to insurrection.

In the days of Abe Lincoln, it would have been called treason. Yet Pupis, so far as we can learn, is still at liberty; still claiming all the privileges of American citizenship. We are glad to note, however, the stern warning of the navy department that subversive elements, whether in labor unions, or out, will be "proceeded against as enemies of the When an arrogant strike leader openly declares that he would take on the United States if he had the guns to do is high time, as Secretary Knox asserted, that challenge of and Communistic groups be We have come to the conclusion, it seems, that people can be successful in serving two masters; that is, we can, by majority rule, make laws that conflict with the natural, or God-made, laws of equal freedom without suffering the consequences of attempting to serve the master of the majority and God as the master of all things. This desire to serve our own wills, or the will of the majority, in place of natural law, has probably caused more trouble than the direct personal desire to worship the golden calf. Permitting the desire to be important and be in the limelight and to appear to be wise, is even a worse and more dangerous master for a person and is more harmful to society than the desire for personal, material gain.

This lack of meekness on our part, has led us to believe that meekness is not necessary; that man collectively can do as he pleases and not suffer. The suffering we are going through is evidence we have violated the eternal truth that it is impossible to serve two masters and that people who are not meek can be blessed. We are paying a very dear price to learn these old axioms that have been told thousands and thousands of times. God gave us reason to learn these things in different ways than beasts learn them by suffering. We do not seem to be using our reason.

The Echo Of The Bastille By Richard Lloyd Jones REMEMBERING THE SABBATH People have largely forgotten the admonition of remembering the Sabbath day to keep it holy. They have used it, not as it was intended to be used. They are using it as a day of recreation. It should be used as a day of serious study and serious thought, as to whether or not the indi vidual is living in harmony with natural law and with his fellowman. It should be a day of reading and questioning and analyzing.

There is so much to learn and to understand and so little time in which to learn and understand it, that one whole day is mighty little, to say the least, to attempt to understand these important truths. As a matter of fact, all those who have time every day of the week should be studying these natural laws. Remember the Sabbath day, means more than a day of rest. It should mean a day of serious thought and desires to adjust oneself in harmony with natural law. The Nation's Press THE STEALTHY BETRAYAL OF THIS COUNTRY (Chicago Tribune) Senator Bone of Washington and Senator Lucas OIL AND THE FARMER The oil strange as it may seem, is one of the best and most reliable customers.

You probably know much of the grease that lubricates cars and other machines contains tallow oil, which, in turn, comes from sheep. About 107,000,000 pounds of oil in one form or another are consumed annually by the petroleum industry. That requires 35,000,000 sheep. This is just one item in the long list of supplies the oil industry buys each year directly from agriculture. To it must be added lard oil from pigs, stearine from cattle and horses, castor oil from the castor plant, foot oil made from horns and hooves, milk, fibreboard, hair felt, leather, cotton fabrics, wood dozens of others.

The petroleum industry consumption of farm products grows steadily, as production of oil and lubricants increases, and as new techniques and processes are developed. And millions of dollars thus find their way into the pockets. So, in a very general sense, the corner service station is a distributor of farm t-rops. And the oil industry is one of biggest cash This is an example of how American industry spreads its economic benefits throughout the country. Mr.

Roose- the When Mr. had of Illinois, both Democrats, have made a demand that British troops be withdrawn from Iceland in accordance with Mr. treaty with the government of that little country, velt and Mr. Churchill apparently same understanding in the matter. Roosevelt told the senate what he without its advice or said the American force would supplant the British in occupation there.

Mr. Churchill told parliament that the British government intended to retain its army of occupation. The senators, who were allowed no part in the negotiations with the Icelandic government, point to the fact that the situation provided for in Mr. agreement is quite different from that created by Mr. policy.

Iceland, garrisoned by British troops, is not only in the war zone, but it is a military objective which the Nazis would attack if they were able, and will if they can. So far as they are concerned it is another Crete. If the British troops remain there, the Amer- What of historical significance may still stand in Paris to remind the French people of their once blood-won liberties no one here knows. But unless the Germans have torn it down there stands in the heart of what was the capital of proud France a lofty column of bronze, crowned by a gilded figure, symbol of LIBERTY, dedicated to the memory of the lofty patriots who caused the dictators of France to fall. That shaft marks the site of the old Bastille.

In it were imprisoned the greatest brains of France. Richelieu, Voltaire, Lally and Cardinal de Rohn to name a few. The Bastille was an odd device. Thick-walled, high-towered, battery-resisting piece of monumental masonry. Not only did the king use it to keep secure his enemies, but he used it to keep secure his royal powers.

Like the Tower of London, now shattered, where the English ruler caused to fall heads that displeased either fancy or will, it contained the crown, the septre, and all the royal jewels. When this war is over the bombed Tower of London will never be rebuilt. If England at end may, and pray God she may, rebuild her ancient town, she will never cause the Tower to rise again. When this war is over England will be done with all the pomp and nonsense of royal strut and ermine-robed parades. England will get down to business and throw away all the arrogance and insolence of tax-consuming dukes, lords and earls.

They are the nonsense the world wants to get rid of. One hundred and fifty-two years ago day after tomorrow' the Bastille fell. For one hundred and fifty years the 14th of July was to France what the 4th of July is to us. The freedoms which the fall of the prison and safety vault brought to the French people lasted for just one hundred and fifty years. Every 14th of July, for one hundred and fifty years, the people of all France unfurled their lily banners and danced in the city streets.

But in the course of time slowly the eloquent reminders of patriotic consecrations were eased out of Bastille Day festivities. Orators were set aside that the day could be wholly devoted to fun and forgetfulness. Just as our 4th of July has faded with us from a day of reminders to a day of thoughtless recreations. Year by year, with cunning planning the rulers of France had bent the backs of the people with growing burdens of unbearable taxes. Just that caused America to be.

Once WE were American enough to rise up and call "Halt! Now we build up dictator powers with incalculable billions plundered, under tax terms, from the pockets. We yield today to that which caused the Minute Men of 1776 to open fire. In 1789 the people of France could endure dictatorial tyrannies no more. The thick-turreted walls of the Bastille were built to withstand cannon fire. But no Bastille could resist the fire of a outrage.

Resolved to bear tax burdens no more the people of France set fire to the French Revolution by the capture of the Bastille. The doors of its cells and walls were flung open. That proclaimed liberty to the French people as did the old bell on Independence Hall to us on the 4th of July, 1776. Last 14th day of July the lily banners were not unfurled in France. Nor will they be this year.

The last 14th day of July there was no dancing in the streets, of Paris, no carnival on the Tuilleries and there will be none this July 14. The France that released her freedom from the old Bastille is gone because in easier years hardships were forgotten and thoughtless people were unwilling to work to save themselves from the slavery which once the old Bastille fostered. French labor demanded rights without responsibilities just as every American labor organization has done. Only now is it beginning to dawn on Labor leaders that there is no justice on earth that guarantees rights without responsibility. There is no get and no This is the too tardy lesson which American Labor must learn if it cherishes the liberties it has long enjoyed.

Every Frenchman owed a duty to France. The symbol of LIBERTY on the Bastille shaft proclaimed that perpetuating duty. But France forgot to look UP. France fell because it failed to heed eternal call for vigilance. So with us today.

Every man, woman and child born under the American flag is an American, it matters not what work we do, whether it be ditch digging or ditch directing, we are common citizens of a common flag with a common duty to a common cause. We are dull of mind if we do not sense this citizenship responsibility in civilan dress as we have to do when we wear our uniform. Despite the unblushing wastefulness of our resources through recent years, in spite of our appalling national debt, in spite of the rash recklessness with we now pile tax burdens on the backs of unborn generations, America still is protected by the wide Atlantic and Pacific seas. But as once the Bastille could withstand any artillery assault, so are we out of reach today from any vast army of bombers. But the infamous ingenuities of scientific researchers and engineers will go as much farther in building frightful death-bestowing weapons as the bomber is from the battering ram.

Ambitions go vaulting abroad and at home. We cannot delay our defenses. We must prepare. And we cannot prepare when our enemies within find it amusingly easy to put gasoline in the fire extinguishers of our munition plants. And never until one month ago today did any voice from Washington have the patriotic candor to call this TREASON and its actors TRAITORS.

Mr. Knox, our Secretary of War, was the first to lose the cultivated patience of the New Deal outfit toward those engaged in espionage. If we have not the patriotic purpose and resolution to arrest and remove from any chance to halt or harass our defenses then we are where France was in her full forgetfulness of her Bastille. Shall we loosely let the time come when the 4th of July will no longer be a holiday here? We have wasted our substance through the last four years when we have known full well what Hitler was doing. We have damned them who in time forewarned us and told us truths which our espionage workers and our labor racketeers want us to hear.

And in all this growing menace to the security of our liberties the alleged sympathies of the Secretary of Labor were shockingly and shamelessly enlisted. The fall of the Bastille is the story of the rise and security of human liberties. It is the story of the emancipation from tax-imposing political ambitions. The fall of Bastille Day is the story of the loss of a liberty. The 4th day of that July, when a child called to an old man up in a Philadelphia loft grandfather, is the story of the largest human liberties ever proclaimed for a people.

Monday is Bastille Day only in the archives of history. It is Bastille Day in France no more. But its lesson is a challenge to every man and woman who is a true American. WASHINGTON Friends of the President in Hyde Park the other day were urging him to deliver another fireside chat. They wanted him to keep the American public buoyed up, enlighten them further on Ameri can foreign policy.

One of these friends was Florence Kerr, able assistant of Civil Defense Administrator LaGuar- dia. She said: President, a lot of us would like to have you make a fireside chat every week or ten days, give us the news hot off the griddle and keep our minds straight about the international right, the President replied, give a fireside chat a get a new What Roosevelt meant was that it takes so much time and study to prepare each fireside chat that he would be able to do little else, would have to neglect affairs of state. However, the President indicated that he did intend to deliver another fireside chat on the war situation and on American policy within the near future. Can Russia Last Despite all the conflicting reports from the Russian front, U. S.

experts have not wavered in their belief, arrived at regretfully that in the end Russia cannot stem the tide of Nazi mechanized force. The two big things they are hoping for are: (1) that Stalin may keep his Red Army intact, retreating slowly and giving terrific punishment to the enemy; (2) that the Russian peasants and army may make it impossible for the Nazi army to subsist in Russia. It should be remembered that the Rusians have been trained for years in the policy of the scorched earth. The British left Rumania without blowing up Rumanian oil wells because Bri tish pounds sterling were invested in them. British investments came first.

And the French would not tear up their beautifully paved roads in front of the advancing Nazi hordes. The im provements of La Belle France came first. But in Russia, the first thing the peasant does when an enemy advances is to kill a pig and throw it in the well. That spoils the drinking water for the enemy. Then he burns his barn and drives away or kills his livestock which are far more precious to him than dividends from Rumanian oil wells are to the British.

He and his family may starve, but his forefathers have been doing this for generations, and he will do it again. The Russian peasant also has been trained to guerilla warfare, which, however, will not help in this war. Guerilla fighting against modern airplanes and tanks is about as effective as the Dead End kids resisting J. Edgar G-Men. Note The real answer to whether Russia can hold out over a long period lies in whether she has any important airplane and munitions factories west of the Ural Mountains.

No army today can fight without modern weapons. Senator Caraway For ten years, since the death of her husband, Senator Hattie Caraway has worn black. And it was only the other day that she bought a new evening gown of blue, with blue lace in the bodice and accordion pleats in the skirt. This was a revolution in the life of the only woman, but it happened on the impulse of the moment. Hattie had been persuaded to sit for a portrait.

Artist Cyril Gardner of Philadelphia began his work, then paused to suggest that the picture would have more brightness if Mrs. Caraway could wear a bright colored dress. I always wear black, she said. have worn black for the last ten I said Gardner, for the picture it would bring out the blue in your eyes, you Hattie changed her mind on the instant. she said, I had a new evening dress for a long time.

go buy And now she is wearing that gown every day as she sits for the portrait. She changes, in her office, from black to the blue, then changes to the black again before she emerges. Sometimes, sitting for the portrait with hands folded, she bursts into a little laugh. mind she says, was just thinking how funny I must The job of being Ambassador to Moscow is considered the toughest on the entire roster of U. S.

diplomatic posts. The weather is either torrid or below freezing. Recreational facilities are almost nil. Food and sanitary conditions are nothing to rave about. And constant surveillance of the OGPU makes mingling with the Russian people impossible.

Therefore few American diplomats have relished being stationed in Russia. However, the United States is lucky to have as its Ambassador to Russia Laurence Steinhardt, one of the best men to hold that post in years. No career diplomat, Steinhardt is a New York lawyer who got his job through pure politics. He was the nephew of the late Sam Untermeyer, staunch political Supporter of FDR. Steinhardt first got a job as Minister to Sweden, then was promoted to an ambassadorship to Peru, then got what most other diplomats did not want, the thankless but all-important job as Ambassador to Russia.

In that job Steinhardt has been friendly but tough. He has stood his ground against Soviet diplomatic straight-arms, and has won their respect probably more than the friendlier attitude of British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps. The United States is also iucky to have as the State Depart- chief Russian expert Loy Henderson, a man who also thoroughly understands Russia. For years, the State Russian expert was a A man who had never been to Russia, hated all things Russian and was close to prominent churchmen who lobbied against the Soviets. Henderson, on the other hand, has lived not only in Russia, but in the countries bordering Russia.

Son of a Midwest preacher, he was born in Arkansas, raised in Kansas, and unlike many U. S. diplomats knows that there is a part of the United States west of the Mississippi River. news behind the news By PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON, July The is still popular in 1944. But public may be thinking about stand with or ahead of Rooso everything except 1944, but not velt has nettled so many party a the politicians.

Only off-season men that his chances seem for them is the 30 days immedi- rest upon this single possibility. promising chance is held ately after an election. In the seven months that have passed since the last vacation period closed, general lines have been laid for coming events. From these now you can get a fairly clear slant on how things are likely to go. British were withdrawn and the contact of the expeditions broken.

So long as the British and American forces are operating together, in the war together, and that is what is desired both in Washington and in London. It has been icans actually go into battle position with them I brought about by Mr. Roosevelt over a trail of and would sustain any attack which might be made. There be much pretense that this was merely an outpost of defense for the hemisphere when British and American forces were on one of the battle fronts of the European war. Of course, it is Mr.

purpose that the expeditionary force should be on the battle front. one place where the shooting may begin. Very likely Mr. Roosevelt would pay no more attention to any demand the senate may make than Mr. Churchill will.

Together they have created a situation highly satisfactory to them and in part their gains would be lost if the broken promises. His promises are bothering him very little and his apologists say that the trend of events since last fall has made his pledges obsolete. This country is in the damnedest train of governmental double dealing and deceit it ever experienced. It is a national misfortune that whenever Mr. Roosevelt publicly announces he will not do a thing he is at that moment preparing to do it.

The European artists in perfidy swear falsely to deceive other peoples they intend to attack. The American government swears falsely to delude its own people, whom it proposes to lead, contrary to their will, contrary to their expressed determination, into a war into which they have been promised time and again, with the "utmost solemnity, that they would not be led. They are completely deceived. They are kept in the dark as to events. They learn by leaks in the official censorship that a destroyer has attacked a German submarine.

They discover that Americans, with American materials, are building a base of some sort in Northern Ireland. They know whether these men are working for the British government or the American. All they find out is that the people of Northern Ireland are rejoicing in the presence of Americans whom they regard as allies. Americans must feel that forces over which they have lost control are driving them remorselessly and steadily into war and that the checks supposed to be contained in their system of government are paralyzed. Their own common sense and their good judgment warn them against all this.

They dread the consequences of a European war, both for the present and for the future, and every day they realize that Mr. Roosevelt is closer to the shooting. Nearest the rail in the Republican race is the distinct figure of Dewey. The New York district attorney and eradicator is making himself something more than that for next time. He will run for the same spring-seated chair which catapulted Mr.

Roosevelt into the White House, and produced such earlier candidates as A1 Smith and Charles Evans Hughes. The election will come a year from November and Dewey is conceded an excellent chance of winning, even if La Guardia or Jim Farley gets into it against him. Dewey, meanwhile, is keeping himself in the movies by nationwide leadership of the fund raising for the USO, a job which incidentally is taking him to all sections of the country to make speeches, and has even brought him to Fred radio program. The more experienced leaders of the party are no closer to Dewey now than at the Phila' delphia convention last year when they declined to take him after his few spectacular primary victories. But they seem more mellow about it, probably because their objections about his lack of experience will be satisfied if the planned developments work out.

They are now the mood to say: like him, but if he wins the New York governorship, I think he should get Wendell Wfllkie is making himself eminently eligible in case the country is still at war by Senator Taft. He is goingHf the even course of his opposition ways without making enemies or trying to gain popular leadership, like Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler. When he gets through with this course, he will have probably the best record to point back to, in case the backwash of peace brings the usual revulsion of popular opinion after the stringent actions necessary in a national emergency. and the Roosevelt foreign policy'national buildup. Lindbergh has an unusual personality which may or not be suited to the political career into which he is launching himself.

His speeches show some political savvy in the text but are not delivered in the radio style considered (since Landon and Willkie) to be essential to control the interest of a national campaign audience. All those around him say he writes them himself, and, of course, he has an outstanding writer of this generation in his own household. Little better prose has been written the past 20 years than Mrs. Lindbergh's to the and The But Lindbergh does not measure up to anything beyond vice- presidential possibilities in technical political proficiency. He will probably run for the senate from Minnesota and thereby may have a chance to cure this defect.

Herbert Hoover has already proclaimed himself out of it. Senator Vandenberg does not seem to be interested. Many Republican governors like Stassen of Minnesota, James of Pennsylvania, Saltonstall of Massachusetts may merit increasing men- tion, but republican experience the past two campaigns wdF favor choice of a national figuri does not require a quick a.