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t> Twm • i ^ A TBI McHWIfcY PLAUfDMALlR Thursday, August 22,1940 '•iff CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS Congressman Chaurx'ey W. Reed * ' ' Who Did It? In the Vinson Ship Expecting Act Of June 28, 1940, a provision was mys- -ttriously inserted in section 8(b) Which authorised the Secretary of the Navy0* in time of emergency short of lpar, to take over and operate industrial plants which had failed to take contracts offered by the Government. Chairman Vinson of the House Committee on Naval Affairs knew nothing •f this provison. Representative Maas of Minnesota, ranking Republican member of the Committee, was ignorant of it. Chairman Walsh, of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, likewise knew nothing of the joker. All three were members of the conference committee which finally passed upon the bill. How it was smuggled through without their knowledge is still a mystery. The House took cognizance of this joker when it considered the bill making supplemental appropriations for the national defense. and approved an amendment repealing the extraordinary grant of power to the Secretary of the Navy. ! ' As this is written the bill containing the repealer is awaiting action by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. •When Secretary of the Navy Edison Cpenly asked for this grant of power last January he was flatly turned down. Who was guilty of the surreptitious attempt to grab life arid death power over the airplane and other national defense industries? Affairs in the Far Bast The recent decision of the British Government to withdraw her troops fltom the International Settlement m Shanghai is causing considerable apprehension in Washington. The with- „ drawal of the British troops creates ft peculiar situation in respect to the International Settlement and the Shanghai Defense Council. The Commanding Officer of the British troops, A Major General, outranked all other "libreign officers in the Council, but with his departure Rear Admiral Mariji Takeda of Japan becomes the Council's Senior Ranking Officer, and ae such presides over all of the Council's meetings. United States Admiral Thomas C. Hart, who outranks the Japanese Naval Commander, recently weeded to Shanghai and it is reported that he is seeking to arrange some kind of a compromise with the Japanese relative to the taking over of tlie various sections of the International Settlement abandoned by the British troops. In spite of the fact-, that Admiral Hart outranks Admiral Takeda, he will not be in a position tip preside over the meeting of the Defense Council expected to be held in the next few days, due to the fact that he is not a regular member of the Council. Colonel DeWitt Peck of the United States Marine is the recognized United States representative , fNn the Defense Council Board, and as Such, Colonel Peck is expected to vigorously oppose Japanese demands for lull control of the erstwhile British Ejection of the Settlement. The presence of Admiral Hart, while he will ^•,l.:-'^;,';.,^aot be in a position to act as presid- , llig officer of the Council meeting, is expected to greatly strengthen the United States* position in Shanghai affairs. Senate Debates Draft According to indications, there appears to be a 50-50 possibility that the Senate will reject the proposal for an Immediate "draft" and adopt instead the compromise proposal submitted by Senator Maloney which will provide for an immediate registration of all •nen between 21 and 31, but .postpone the date of calling any men for service until January, 1941. In the event ' that the Senate adopts the Maloney troposal the House will probably fol- >w suit, and if there are enough volunteers between now and January, '1941, to fill up army requirements, : there may be no conscription of man power. Willkie Speech Of Acceptance' Thrills Nation _____ . $ Republican Candidate for President Outlines Policies Before Vast Audience at Elwood* *>' McCOLLUM LAKE Joseph Crick of McCollum Lake and William Crick of Chicago left Saturday for Harrisburg, 111., to bring his jister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Gibson for a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mis. Joseph J. Crick, of McCollum Lake. v ' Art Thompson of Berwyn is spending two weeks with his family who is spending the summer here. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bald and family of Chicago who spent two weeks "here recently, have returned to Chicago. Mrs. Earl Smith of Ft. Madison, Iowa, spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. Warren Barber. Mr. and •Mrs. V. L. Dunbar and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dudack of Chiacgo also spent Sunday at the Barber's Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Delahunty are spending thesAlast two weeks at their cottage here./ Mrs. Kiddelson entertained the social club at McCollum last Wednesday. Bunco was played and luncheon served to the guests. Robert Sales spent several days of last week visiting relatives in Chicago. He returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson are spending their vacation in Indianapolis, Ind., and in Danville, 111., at the Illinois State Covention of the American Legion. Mrs. Thompson is an alternate from Berwyn unit *No. 422, American Legion Auxiliary. Sunday Visitors at the Thompson cottage were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Jankovsky, Mr. ._jmd Mrs. Charles Jankovsky and Geo. Jankovsky of Cicero and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Davidson and daughters of Highland Park, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Lortle were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. . Leo Sales Sunday. Visitors at the Stuhlfeifer home at JHcCollum Lake the last two weeks fcave been: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnton, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Smith, Mr. anci firs. George Gilland, Jimmte Gillan®, Marlis Gilland, Mrs. Ed Farw^ll, Mrs. Chas. Kurtz and Miss Betty Rust, Iritke Minna-Wa-Wa and St,, Paul, - flinn.; Mr. and Mrs. Kean, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. S. Gillian, Forest Park; ELWOOD, IND. -- Coming back to this, the town in which he was born and grew to young manhood, and before a wildly enthusiastic audience of many thousands, Wendell Willkie accepted the nomination for President on the Republican tickets In that acceptance Mr. Willkie promised the kind of leadership that will keep America a nation of free men, a nation of prosperous people, a nation offering opportunity for all. He said: "An acceptance speech is s candidate's keynote, a declaration of his broad principles. It cannot possibly review the issues in detail. I shall, however, colrcV each of them frankly during this campaign. Here I give you an outline of the political philosophy that is in my heart. We are here today to represent a sacred cause--the preservation of American democracy. "Obviously, I cannot lead this cause alone. I need the help of every American--Republican, Democrat or Independent--Jew, Catholic, or Protestant--people of every color, creed, and race. Party lines are down. Nothing could make that clearer than the nomination by the Republicans of a liberal Democrat who changed his party affiliation because he found democracy in the Republican party and not in the New Deal party. Thunderous applause greeted Willkie's statement that party lines are down. When he said the times demanded the help of Americans from every walk, the cheers came wave upon wave, the vast crowd having WENDLLL WILLKIE Republican Candidate for President. sensed that it typified that very thought. Here were a hundred thousand Americans from every part of the United States, representing every faith, every station of life, yet carried away by a single devotion. Mr. Willkie briefly sketched his boyhood in Elwood and told of his ancestors who, "like the ancestors of millions of Americans, lived in central Europe. They were humble people--not members of the ruling or wealthy classes. Their opportunities were restricted by discriminatory laws and class distinctions. One was exiled because of his religion; another was persecuted because he believed in the principles of the French revolution; and still another was jailed for insisting on the right of free speech. As their descendant, I have fought from boyhood against all those restrictions, discriminations and tyrannies. And I am still fighting." Foreign Policy. Mr. Willkie compared the peace of America with the conditions in war-torn Europe, and defined his foreign policy by saying: "No man is so wise as to foresee what the future holds or to lay out a plan for it. No man can guarantee to maintain peace. Peace is not something that a nation can achieve by itself. It also depends on what some other country does. It is neither practical, nor desirable, to adopt a foreign program committing the United States to future action under unknown circumstances. "The best that we can do is to decide what principle shall guide us. , "For me, that principle can be simply defined: "In the foreign policy of the United States, as in Its domestic policy, I would do everything to defend American democracy and I would refrain from doing; anything that would injure it. "We must not permit our emotions-- our sympathies or hatreds-- to move us from that fixed principle." Again the crowd let out a deafening cheer. It was an exciting moment. A nation was waiting anxiously to hear Mr. Willkie's views on foreign relations. The enthusiastic response of the crowd reflected a nation thrilled. National Defense. From foreign policy Willkie turned Wendell Willlde's Birthplace at Elwood, Iai. Mrs. Frank Wilson, Miss Fleata Rankin, Wonder Lake; Mrs. F. Elisco, Maywood; Mrs. Jack Lyons and children, Forest Park, and flfig* Elinor Poeschel of New Jersey. "We must not shirk the necessity of preparing our sons to take care of themselves in case the defense of America leads to war. I shall not undertake to analyze the legislation on this subject that is now before congress, or to examine the intentions of the administration with regard to it. I concur with many members of my party, that these intentions must be closely watched. Nevertheless, in spite of these considerations, I cannot ask the American people to put their faith in me, without recording my conviction that some form of selective service is the only democratic way in which to secure the trained and competent manpower we need for national defense." fie stated in definite terms his belief in a policy of providing to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and our own preparation for meeting any emergency that may arise, but criticized the President in his conduct of foreign affairs at this critical time, saying: "There have been occasions when many of us have wondered if he is deliberately inciting us to war. I trust that I hfeve made it plain that in the defense of America, and of our liberties, I should not hesitate to stand for war. But like a great many other Americans I saw what war was like at first hand in 1917. I know what war can do to demoralize civil liberties at home. And I believe it to be the first duty of a President to try to maintain peace. "But Mr. Roosevelt has not done this. He has dabbled in inflammatory statements and manufactured panics. Of course, we in America like to speak our minds freely, but this does not mean that at a critical period in history our President should cause bitterness and oonfusion for the sake of a little political oratory. The President's attacks on foreign powers have been useless artd dangerous. He has courted a war for which the country is hopelessly unprepared--and which it emphatically does not want. He has secretly meddled in the affairs of Europe, and he has even unscrupulously encouraged other countries to hope for more help than we are able to give. . " "Walk sbftfy and carry a big stick' was the motto of Theodore Roosevelt. It is still good American doctrine for 1940. Under the present administration the country has been placed in the false posi- • tion of shouting insults and not even beginning to prepare to take the consequences." Cheers Interrupt. Several times the speaker was compelled to stop as applause and encouraging shouts drowned out his voice. The cheers grew in volume and frequency as Mr. Willkie, citing France as a tragic example, declared in a firm voice that our foreign policy must "begin in the United States" and be dedicated to making us strong "right here in our own land." Referring to the defeat of Frahce, Mr. Willkie said in part: "And in this tragedy let us find our lesson. The foreign policy of the United States begins right here in our own land. The first task of our country in its international affairs is to become strong at home. We must regain prosperity, restore the independence of our people, and protect our defensive forces. If that is not done promptly we are in constant danger. If that is done no enemy on earth dare attack us. I propose to do it. " . . . 1 p r o m i s e , b y r e t u r n i n g to those same American principles that overcame German * autocracy once before, both in business and in war, to outdistance Hitler in any contest he chooses in 1940 or after> And I promise that when we beat him, we shall beat, him on our own terms, in our own American way.*' A Doctrine of Growtti. For our home policy Mr. Willkie proposes to follow a doctrine of increased production, of increased growth, instead of the New Deal "doctrine of division," and said: * "We are not asked to make more for ourselves. We are asked to divide among ourselves that which we already have. The New Deal doctrine does not seek risk, it seeks safety. Let us call it the "I pass" doctrine. The New Deal dealt it. and refused to make any more bets on the American future. "Why, that is exactly the course France followed to her destruction! Like the Blum government in France, so has our government become entangled in unfruitful politcal adventures. As in France, so here, -we have heard talk of class distinctions and of economic groups preying upon other groups. "As for me, I want to say here and now that there is no hate in my to national defense of which hesaii heart' and that th*£ wi,,< be none in part: ne sai«| ,n my campaign. jt ,s my be!>f that there is no hate <n the '^rrts Warren Odett of Chicago had no driver's license when arrested by police for knocking over a signpost and driving away, but he had an excuse for not having one. He paid he was almost blind; in fact, was drawing a blind pension from the state, and quite logically added: "Even if I applied I couldn't get alicepse." A 90 year old negro of Houstor*, Texas, was granted a divorce when he complained to Judge Ben Wilson that he was plagued by in-laws. Mrs. Anna Walsh O'Brien of Salem, Mass., reported to a judge that her sailor husband went out to mail a, letter two hours after they were married and never returned. On a federal warrant with illegal entrance into this try thirty-five years ago, Guiseppe G^ila at Rockfoi^ UL of any group of Americans for any other group--except as the New Dealers seek to put it there for political purposes. I stand for a new companionship in an industrial society. "I^ca&se I am a business man, formerly connected with a large company, the doctrinaires of the opposition have attacked me as an opponent of liberalism. But I was a liberal before many of these men had heard the word, and I fought for many of the reforms of the elder LaFoliette, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson before another Roosevelt adopted--and dis-1 torted--liberalism. Opposed to Monopolies. "I believe that the forces of free enterprise must be regulated. I am opposed to business monopolies. I believe in collective bargaining, by representatives of labor's own free choice, without any interference and in full protection of those obvious rights. I believe in the maintenance of minimum standard for wages and of maximum standards for hours. I believe that such standards should constantly improve. I believe'in the federal regulation of interstate utilities, of securities markets, and of banking. I believe in federal pensions, in adequate old age benefits, and in unemployment allowances. "I believe that the federal government has a responsibility to equalize the lot of the farmer, with that of the manufacturer. If this cannot be done by parity of prices, other means must be found--with the least possible regimentation of the farmer's affairs. I believe in the encouragement of co-operative buying and selling, and in the full extension of rural electrification. But American liberalism does not consist merely in reforming things. It consists also in making things. "And I say that we must henceforth ask certain\questions of every reform, and of every law to regulate business or industry. We must isk: Has it encouraged our industries to produce? Has it created new opportunities for our youth? Will it increase our standard of living? Will it encourage us to open up a new and bigger world?" New Deal Victims. Mr. Willkie demanded that kind of legislation, that policy, that will encourage business to expand, to create jobs for the unemployed, saying: "It is a statement of fact, and no longer a political accusation, that the New Deal has failed in its program of economic rehabilitation. And the victims of its failure are the very persons whose cause it professes to champion. "The little business men are Victims because their chances are more restricted than ever before. "The farmers are victims because many of them are forced to subsist on what is virtually a dole, under centralized direction from Washington. "The nine or ten million unemployed are victims because their chances for jobs are fewer. "Approximately 6,000,000 families a»e victiips because they are on relief. \ "And unlessk we do something about it soon, 130,000,000 people--an entire nation--will become victims, because they stand in need of a defense system which this administration has so far proved itself powerless to create anywhere except on paper. "To accomplish these results, the present administration has spent $60,000,000,000. Mr. Willkie Accepts. - : "I accept the nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States* "I accept it in the spirit in which I know it was given at our convention in 1 Philadelphia--the spirit of dedication. I herewith dedicate myself with all my heart, with all my mind, and with all my soul to making this nation strong. "But I say this, too. In the pursuit of that goal I shall not lead you down the easy road. If I am chosen the leader of this democracy as I am now of the Republican party, I shall lead you down the road of sacrifice and of service to your country. "What I am saying is a far harsher thing than I should like to say in this speech of acceptance--a far harsher thing than I would have said had the Old World not been swept by war during the past year. I am saying to you that we cannot rebuild our American democracy without hardship, without sacrifice, even without suffering. I am proposing that course to you as a candidate for election by you." A When the speaker finished, the crowd went wild with enthusiasm. Hats went up in the air and shouts of "Hurrah for Willkie" came from many thousands. They left the great meeting repeating to each other the words "Willkie--the Hope of America." VOLO Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brewer of Fremont Center called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dusil and son, James, of Berwyn, called at the home of Mr and Mrs. Frank St.^George on Wednesday. Miss Bertha Davis of Siocum's Lake spent the weekend at the home of Kr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey and son, Kenneth, spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rossman at Crystal Lake. „ Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker and [daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case and family attended the Elgin Agricultural Fair Wednesday. Charles Wilson and son of Chicago spent the weekend at the home of Mr; and Mrs. Frank Wilson. Miss Helen LaCroix spent a t&W days in Waukegan with, relatives the past week, Mrs. Frank St. George was a Thursday visitor at the home of Mr. an# Mrs. Bernard Hanke in Evanston. Jimmie Cagney of Park Ridge It spending a few days here at the Ideal Acres farm. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thrum of Chicago were Saturday visitors at the Dowell home. Harry Case, Robert Dunker and Wayne Pankonin from the Wauconda • Volo 4-H club exhibited their project at the Elgin Agricultural fair this week. Mrs. Pearl Dowell and daughter^ Ada, called at the home of hef sister, Mrs. Leslie Davis at Siocum's Lake Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey and son, Kenneth Lee, were Woodstock callers Thursday. J. Newberg of Berwyn was a Wednesday visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George. Mrs. Arthur Kaiser was a Waukegan caller Friday. Marvin Wirtz, Richard Fisher anlflf Robert Dunker from the Wauconda - Volo 4-H club are exhibiting their 4-H dairy and beef project at the state fair at Springfield, 111. Mr. James Davis, their 4-H instructor, accompanied the boys. Mr. and Mrs. William Wiirtz, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brewer to the state fair at Springfield Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ellwood Dowell an<X son spent Sunday at the home of the* latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Boucher, at Libertyville. Mrs. Alvin Case and family spent Thursday afternoon at the home St Mrs. Mary Hook at Rollins Corners. Harry Case, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case left Saturday afternoon for Springfield. Harry will attend the state school at the fair grounds. Only five boys were selected by the county superintendent, W. C. Petty, to ittend this school. An exchange remarks that a model wife is one who loves and- respects her husband, although she feels that she might have done better. A writer tells of a Nebraska town in which the people are "just like one big happy family and all attend to their own business." Now, who eYer heard of a family like that? . Col. Roscoe Turner, the famous*!",' speed pilot, who haslet scores of new; , airplane records and toured the coun- ^ try as a stunt flyer for many years, ^ is recovering from a broken pelvis and other injuries suirerecl in his first serious accident. 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