The Washington times., 1937-08-26

BOake Carter
Lessons for Labor
John Bull and China
japanese Fliers' Code

HOPE;
L Labor leaders will get the sig
nificance of an unlocked for
after effect of the international
air race from Istres to Damas-
Gus and back to Paris, which
was substituted for the proposed
New York Paris Lindbergh me-
mortal race.
Three Italian bombers cleaned
up the first three places The
lone English entrant was fourth.
The first Frenchman at LIE
Bourget placed fifth. nearly
four hours behind the winner.
The French press threw a
journalistic fit. The populace
of France is alarmed over the
'inferiority" of the French
aviation. Cries for investiga-
tions have gone up. The gov
eminent is in for rough sled
ding, for it recently nationalized
the aviation factories. at the
request of French labor and put
them on a forty-hour workweek.
The forty-hour week is blamed
for slowing down production
and poor workmanship of
French military planes. so the
Paris Socialist Government may
step up that workweek to fifty
+ or sixty hours, after special
agreement with trade union
leaders.
I wonder if United States
labor leaders, especially the new
young cockatoos who have come
to the fore in the current move
ment, realize that the same
thing will be asked Of them by
the Government if America
finds herself in war or close to
the brink? The thirty five and
forty-hour workweek will be
blamed for slow production of
defense equipment. Longer
hours will be asked of them.
If they balk, somebody will
raise the cry of patriotism.
Then when the war is over,
they'll have to start the battle
to reduce hours in the work
week all over again.
War and the fear of war is
no respecter of persons. 1t has
ruined many a plan for peace
full economic and social progress
in many a nation.
TOKYO press says that Japa-
= nese filters don't wear para.
chutes. They carry, in addition
to an army pistol, small sword.
When a Jap pilot is forced
down, he first destroys his
papers and then his plane. If
his escape is cut off, he must
commit suicide - according to
ancient custom-by running
himself through the tum-tum
with his sword. If, however.
time does not permit a formal
suicide, suicide by pistol will
do!
The fanaticism engendered
by such fatalism makes it
mighty hard for less fatalstic
people to overcome such people.
The Chinese are just as
fanatical, but engendered by a
softer and older fatalism-a
fatalism that believes that no
matter how often she may be
violated, sheer mass of her mil
lions of people will every time
in time smother every invader,
no matter how fatalistic they
may be.
T WONDER:
n Why some people are call
ing the Seventy-fifth Congress
that has just gone home a do
nothing" Congress? 1t seems to
me that it did a great deal
returned to the normal process
of American Government and
democracy by criticizing and de-
batting and refusing to be q
rubber stamp any more. It's
not so much what the Congress
did in the way Of passage Of
bills, but what it prevented the
Administration from doing in
the way of benevolent des-
potism.
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T WONDER:
= If the reports that the White
House suggested or at least ap-
proved the tactless speech of
Pennsylvania Democratic ma.
chine hoSS Sepafor Toa HufFa1,