The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-25

0 preCCy goOu luea WtlaL V session. Here is Borah'S very
 "In the present state of the world, the cash and carry pro- visions, if continued, mean that Great Britain, Japan and Ger many would be the chief bene- ficiaries of our Neutrality Act. I am emphatically opposed to that.
 "Tf the policy of surrender established by Great Britain at Munich continues, the cash and carry provisions would favor no one but the mllltarits states"
 Administration strategists are working on plans for neutrality re- vision, would like either to Junk the entire act or else give the executive more discretion. Prob ably 1t will be the former.
 Bruce Barton
 Actording to Royce Powell "Bruce Barton may not be presi- dental timber, but he's certainly c splinter in the side of the Democrats"
 War Training
 It is not supposed to be known yet, but as 0 further answer to Hitlers' armament, Harry Hop- kins' WPA is about to tackle one of the most serious weaknesses of the national defense - lack of trained technicians and mechanics,
 The plan results from a confi- dential report to the President by Assistant War Secretary Louis Johnson that tho Army was short 10000 mechanics, and needed Q system of training technicians an- nually as reserves.
 He pointed out that squads right" and shoulder arms" was right" and shoulder arms" was not as important to the modern soldier as being able to repair Q truck and unjam Q machine gun,
 As . result, WPA's National Youth Administration soon will begin the training of mechanics as Army reserves. The IVA al- ready conducts mechanical schools for unemployed youths, and these will be expanded and developed.
 Graduates Of these schools will have the chance of enlisting in the Army as non-commissioner officers, or of entering private inc dustry as army reserve mechanics. GOPOOr
 GoPers are not saying anything about 1t publicly, but under the solacc of a highball they will tell you that they are puzzled and dis- heartened ct the difficulty of raise ing money for the national Re- publican war chest.
 Lots of money is rolling into state and county campaigns, but getting the dough to meet the payroll at Republican National headquarters in Washington is like passing the hat among ap- pie salesmen. COP strategists give three reasons for this lack of lucre:
 1. The money donors are not
 sold on Chairman John Hamil.
 ton, md e little dubious about
 the ideas of Brain Trust Chief
 Glen Frank.
 2. They complain that "the
 National Committee has no pol-
 icy other than We are against
 Roosevelt" They want some new policies as well as new lead-
 ership.
 ,. They would rather place
 their money in key states where
 they are sure it will do some
 good, rather than have 1t eat-
 en up by the lush salaries of
 Chairman Hamilton and publi-
 city director Franklyn Walt.
 man.
 The last probably Is the most important reason of all. Plenty of Republican money is evident in state fights. And many c wealthy Republican leader admits quite frankly that he is out to back Taft in Ohio, or Tobey in New Hampshire. Tn fact, some of them will even disclose how they dipped generously Into their jeans to help T. dings in Maryland and George in Georgia.
 Tn other words, if they see chance of taking good sock ct the New Deal in Q staet campaign, the COP moneyed boys will con- tribute and contribute heavily.
 The excuses they give to avoid contributing to the National Com mittee are amazing, if not in- genioug. one big eastern indus trialist, declining an invitation to give q little as si,000, wrote;
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