Evening star., 1938-01-28

out its own salvation What operates
directly to retard improvement is such
things as current White House advice to
cut prices but not wages. Such economic
theory arouses comment that Mr.. Roose-
welt is asking business. which must have
profits If it Is to survive, to do the utterly
impossible.
Until the birthday balls for the ma
tional infantile paralysis foundation are
over, the Red Cross doesn't expect dollars
to roll In for the 81 600 900 fund which
President Roosevelt wants Americans to
assemble for destitute Chinese Nothing
Is planned in the way Of Nationwide
drive. The 3,700 local Red Cross chap
tiers will be allowed to deal with their
own regional money-raiSing problems,
though coaSt-tO-coaSt radio will be util-
lied. Relief funds will be distributed ex-
clusively by American residents in China.
under supervision of a committee of
which Ambassador johnson is chairman,
Shanghai Consul General Gauss, vice
chairman, and Maj Arthur Bassett of
the British American Tobacco Co., is q
leading onicial. Their associates include
= Catholic priest and a Jewish leader,
thus giving the supervisory organization
inter-denominational character. Consul
General Gauss cables that $1.25 will
provide food, shelter and medical care
for q full month for one man, woman
or child refugee in China.
Secretary Harold L. Ickes,e in his
eloquent address before the National
Conference for Palestine in Washington,
subtly suggested that what the oppressed
Jews of the world need is a government
in the Holy Land. fashioned after the
New Deal. He described the ideal regime
as "a government without dictators,
government which can enable its citizens
who want to work to find work and to
maintain a standard OF living limited
only by their capacity to produce, gov
ernment which recognizes the dignity
and worth of the humblest of humanity
and which values freedom Of thought
and speech for all men, regardless Of
race or religion"
What is Mussolini up to in South
America? Authorities here, whose busi-
ness 1t is to know about such matters
think there's more than meets the eye
in the 6,0O0-mile so-called experimental
flight" which II Duce's son, Bruno has
just completed from Rome to Rio de
Janeiro. Because Of the semi-Fascist
regime set-up in Brazil by the Vargas
coup d'etat In November, the flight
assumes undeniable political significance.
Italian influence is widespread, though
not predominant in Brazil, or rs ex-
tensive or aggressive as the German NaN
cult. But the view prevails in Washing
ton that, with his keen sense Of the
dramatic, MuSsolini devised q colorful
stunt for propagandizing FasciSm at
psychological moment.
President Roosevelt's delay In sending
Congress his national defense message,
urging heavy expansion Of the Army and
Navy, has unleashed some wide and wild
speculation. One guess, amid the orgy
of representation, is that the admins
tration will motivate its billion-dollar
plans by limiting at the South American
designs of certain powers. with implied
threats to the Monroe Doctrine. Another
tale has 1t that there's q project for
mobilizing $4,000 troops on the West
Coast and stationing . huge armada in
the Pacific. Because Capitol Hill Is
overwhelmingly preparedness-minded.
peace -at-any- price groups are girding
their loins for one Of the fiercest anti
armament contests they've ever waged.
Before the pacifist guns cease barking,
ths country may expect to hear weird