The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-12-29
This w eek
That Future War
A Y. M. c. A. Idyl
Oil Under Wine
Lady Astor Is Frank
&, ARTHUR BRISsArNt

ChL ldIhCo "
the House of Commons for an hour
on armistice eve concerning the
next war, to be won from the air.
and about things that will happen
to people on the earth. Some
things he said, condensed, are
these: ss.5
"The man on the street should
realize that there is no power on
earth than can protect him from
being bombed, whatever people
may tell him.
In the next war you will find
that any town within reach of an
aerodrome can be bombed within
the first five minutes of war, to an
extent inconceiyable in the last
war and the question is: whose
morale will be shattered quickest
by that preliminary bombing?"
Mr.. Baldwin also uttered this in.
teresting warning:
"The only defense is in offense,
which means that you have got to
kill more women and children.
more quickly than the enemy. if
you want to save yourself. l men.
ton this so that people may real
lie what is waiting for them when
the next war comes"
Mr.. Baldwin complains b t
Britain is not protected in the air,
yet the British are far stronger in
the air than the United States,
which has more territory.
Mr.. Baldwin's speech is recon-
mended to the attention of Wash
ington which might not be inclined
to pay much attention to the re-
peated warnings of a mere news
paper man."
Denver Post news includes the
sad story of woman "a years old,
who jumped from the tenth floor
of a Denver hotel with her 7-year.
old daughter clasped in her arms.
killing both. She was patient,
suffering from tuberculosis in the
National Jewish Hospital. The po-
lice think she was made desperate
by the poverty of her husband, for
merly well to do.
In that tragedy there is an in
teresting little feature. The police
went to the Y. M. c. A. lodging
house, where the dead woman's
husband had lived, and learned
from Y. M. C. A. officials that the
husband, who was destitute, had
been locked out of his room for
non-payment Of rent. That would
surprise the founder of christian.
fly, for whom the Y. M. G. A. is
uamed.
"The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air have nests; but the
son of man hath not where to lay
his head"
II seems strange to find a Y. M.
G. A. arranging on a purely bust
ness basis, to put some Of its Gus
toners in a similar situation.
Capitalists all over Europe and a
chosen few in America will become
suddenly interested in three little
Austrian villages, Zistersdorf,
Duernkrubt and Poysdorf in lower
Austria
Underneath the beautiful vine
yards of that wine country engi-
neers have discovered important
oil deposits.
When the Gauls in their migra-
ton encountered the vineyards and
good wines in the French Bordeaux
region, they stopped and built the
great French nation.
Oil is more important than wine
now, and this Austrian discovery
may be worth as much as the terri
tory stolen from Austria after the
war.
Frankness Is admirable. Lady
Astor, young American woman who
showed her British sister how to
get into Parliament, by having in
telligence and energy, studied the
hunger army" in Washington re.
Gently, and talked to the marchers
as they passed. Several that asked
her, Are you Communist? were
surprised by her reply. mo, am a
red hot capitalist" Such complete
frankness appealed to the march
ers. S~-@., 20
Each of us is what circumstances
make us. Ninety-nine per cent of
those marchers would also be "red
hot capitalists" if they had an in.
come of million dollars a year OF
more.
1t is even possible that Lady
Astor would be something of a
Communist if her husband, Lord
Astor, were in that hunger parade
and she were with him dragging
two or three hungry children or
foot.
Much depends on where you
stand as you look at the procession
This would interest angels.
Chicago has "conveniences'
shop, operated for charity, prepar
ed to do almost anything. A lad!
telephoned for a boy to exercis,
la- ~ a roinu dou and fh.