The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-17

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 The reported idea is this: h. stead of selling cars, the Ford company would rent them at a nominal SERVICE" charge of $10, SIP or $15 month. Includ- ed in this fee would be insurance and 8 certain amount of main tenance. There would be no large down payment such as new re- quired on a purchase.
 According to the word reach ing Washington, the precedent smashing motor magnate would also inaugurate an annual wage for his workers, instead of the present daily rate subjected to the ups and down of the auto mobile market.
 How seriously Ford is consid- ering the innovation is not known. But New Dealers well come it enthusiastically. They see it as a life-saving shot-in- the-arm to the nations droop- ing economy.
 They point out that such a plan would create an entirely new motor market by making cars available to millions heretofore unable to buy them. A boom in auto production would mean busy times for steel, rubber, glass and many other allied industries. Also it would enable the elimination of many current unsound business practices in the auto business, such as seasonal employment and yearly new models.
 Whitney Crash
 Roosevelt's advisers feel that no other recent event has played into his hands more fortuitously than the Whitney crash.
 The feeling against Whitney in financial circles is terrific. After all, he was the man who, as head of the Stock Exchange, led the fight against Roosevelt's SEC plans for controlling investment operations. From now on, what chance will Wall Streeters have to claim that Roosevelt is dis rupting confidence in business and investments?
 Hitler's Strategy
 In figuring out what Adolf Hit Ter will do next, it is wise to look back and see how he charted his course in the past. There was nothing accidental about it.
 Hitler's month for action is March. It was in March, 1888, that he became complete dictator of Germany. It was in March 1885, that he tore up the disarm- ament sections of the Versailles treaty and announced plans for a powerful Germany army.
 Again in March, 1885, he sent German troops goose-stepping into the Rhineland. Finally in March, 1888, he made his trium- phal entry into Austria.
 In the first two or three of these moves, Hitler was bluff ing. He could have been stopped by determined opposition. When Germen troops entered the Rhineland, for instance, Hitler's intimates tell how he had to have a hypodermic to steady his nerves. Also, it is now estab- lished that German cOmman- ders carried a second set of or ders when they entered the Rhineland-tO retreat if the French army mobilized.
 All that eventful day the French cabinet sat with the gen. eral staff in Paris trying to de- eide whether to block Germany. Finally it decided in the negative.
 Today, Hitler no longer is bluffing. Today he has built up his bluffs so he gets what he wants. What he wants next is Czechoslovakia.
 How soon he will move to get Czechoslovakia depends largely upon the element of time; how soon ne can digest and stabilize Austria, make it part of the Ger man administrative system; how soon British rearmament speeds up to a point where the bal ance of military strength may not be in Germany's favor.
 WHEN THAT TIME COMES, BE PREPARED FOR WAR. Crisis in July?
 Just as March is Hitler's month for political moves, so July is Europe's month for wars and crises. It was in July, 1884, that the Nazis assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss, almost bringing war to Central Europe.
 It was in July, 1885, that war started between Abyssinia and Italy. In July, 1886. civil war started in Spain, while in July, 1937, the Japanese began to bom- bard Shanghai.
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