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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-09
Preparedness and Peace
An Editorial

comparison in min ature
And it is precisely from that comparison that we
can take our lesson. AS peace-loving mon went
armed then. America, peace loving nation must
go armed today. AS the good neighbors Of that dav
protected each other's from savages and out
laws. today the Good Neighbors Of the Aneri can
continents face the ecessity of projecting their
Old World.
And it is at time like this, wi tn Japan irving
to establish a naval base in Next With German
and Italian air bases already formed in South
America, that "peaee" politici in Congress and
mushroom peace" societies throughout the country
are calling for a cut in the proposed army and
navy appropria tions. Yes. a cut, because, for
instance, We must not insult friendly power like
Japan by Strengthening Guam. That, according to
eminent Senator from lassa chusetts would DO
WAR threat" toward Nippon (Gam is a mere 400
nj les from Todo). Similar outcries are raised
against the army bill; ation-wide hysteria
campaign has been launched. Mothers are reminded
OF their sons, wives Of their husbands, and the
solution, a GROWING masterpiece of logic, is
given to them thusL Net US beat swords into
p1owshares, let us set the example of peace and
the world Will follow with great sigh Of relief"
China tried that for while. In that Inflated
country they had a proverbs "Only the worst iron
makes a spear, only the Wor thless lads make SOL
diers." So they beat their swords into plowshares
and shortly thereafter they wero beaten into a
cooked hat. And China no Austria. Tt is the
second biggest country in the world. It's re-
sources, its supplies Of uanpoyer, Incredible.
1t La oked only war industries. modern army.
and unified, fighting people to defeat agrees
three times stronger than Japan.
Can We neglect ornaments? Can we, the
most peaceful nation in the world, look the othe1
way while the aggressors gain foothold in the
Americas? Can We, to quote Patrick Henry, cry
peace when there is peace" Let ten year
old child give the answer.
What do is become strong. IF peace
can be guarded in part Of the world we will
guard it. If it cannot, Heaven it'll US we will
send the aggressor 1imping home.
I've welcome comment the abovo.)
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-09


proper reasons. Primarily, town made up Of
people Of all shades Of belief the cooPERAToR no
matter what the opinion held by individuals on the
staff has desire to hpniliate flatter
others.
Ia other words, Will not consi silently support
the policy OF party group, as consistent
1y deny support to another. We leave to our rin-
rtial" colleagues in va sigt0n and elsewhere the
inspired article. the misleading headline, the
judi cial dignity Of editorial begotten in the
business offices.
IF wa adhere to any one fixed doctrine it is
this.
We report by giving the facts, and all the
signifi can't facts that We know.
We write headlines to conyey the Of The
land this is Important in giving information
TO The tabloid trained reader).
We write editorials without regard for the owner
(oec&use there is none and salaries because
get none l. Consequently not obliged tc
play the game Of group. However. this should
not and does not prevent fr expressing our
selves national issues and the article which
follows is case in point.
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There Few people today who do not realize
that live in lawless world. Wars. declared
and undeclared, have ragged FOR six years; conpara
lively small limited, it is true, they have
been close replicas Of the balkan Wars which pre-
coded 1914. Historians today agree that the great
powers used the battles in Middle Europe fee1er
engagements against each other until they
prepared felt the necessity Of using their
armies While not exact duplicate, the present
situa tion shows close parallels. Does anyone be-
lieve closer to peace because conquests have
been made and hundred scraps Of paper signed?
Japan siezed Hhncrlria
ITALY seized Ethiopia
Germany seized Austria
Japan overran China
Germany seized Sude tenland
Viii Of these acts was not followed by solemn
assurances to the world that harmony
would reign taenceforward? And which one not
followed by the worst interra ona1 conniving Of
wnlch history gives witness?
Lid the gift Of Manclnaria stop Japan's prepara-
lions? Intrigues IN the Philippines, the
worth cases. the sinking Of the Panay followed in
close order.
Did the conquest Of Ethiopia by Italy, Of Austria
and S1detenland by Germany satisfy t1em? Every in
formed circle in the information capitals k1ows
that Gibraltar is longer the key the Mediter-
reneans that Maj and Fascist air submarine
Eases 1nfest Moroocos the Canary aud Balearic Is
lands France. striving to hold her colonies, is
hinged at home by Two hostile nations probable
third
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-09


The Greend ale Village Manager plan viii Oh was &C
be voted at special election February IS has
aroused great interest in Greendale.
A two hour discussion Of the plan developed at
the Greendale Citi cents ASS alton February TO-
Opposition attacked the plan undenocratic,
proponents stressed the economy and efficiency Of
the system.
The Greenda1e Review says that the National NUM-
oipa1 League Of New York City asked to be advised
by wire Of the election results far the COOPER
AT0R has not learned the fl nal results.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Explains Why Strikers
Forfeited Collateral.

70 the Editor of The Star
In last evenings Star you ran an ar
ticle to the effect that the seven men
arrested last week during the course of
strike for obstructing an entrance dur
ing picketing of the Blue and Gray
sightseeing Co. yesterday forfeited S.
collateral each at the Police Court.
1t seems to me that in fairness to all
concerned you ought not to tell only half
the story. AS a matter of fact, the seven
men and their witnesses were in Police
Court the following day after the in
cident to contest the charges against
them and after waiting all morning the
corporation counsel in charge of the case
informed the men, through their attor-
ney, that the presiding justice, because
OF press of business, would not be able to
hear the case that day, and it was con-
tinued for one week
3; The strike was settled two DAYS later
and rather than take the men off their
jobs and require the presence of a num-
ber of policemen in court (some of them
on their days off, and spend another
day or two or three in Police Court.
which would have cost a great deal
more than the $35 posted as collateral
1t was decided to drop the matter.
August 4. ARTHUR E. REYMAN.
Evening star., 1939-08-07

determined leadership, as Roosevelt has
been known, this is inconsistent.
II 1t Is the Presidents intention to run
for third term, let him come out and
say SO and fight for it, just as he has
done in so many undertakings. His in
tentions should not be concealed behind
a network of dillydallying by his we'll
meaning friends.
Maybe the President desires to keep
the whip in hand and, although not
seeking third term, exert sufficient in
fiuence on the next Democratic National
Convention to obtain the nomination of
a candidate of his choosing.
This sort of fatherIy succession should
not and does not work. The next Presi-
dent Will be man of the peoples choos-
ing. The country does not want a god
son, but man with sufficient leadership
and strength of character to create for
himself national demand based on his
own merits.
Any one who does constructive work
should provide for the continuity of his
good deed by training others who will
carry on. A sort of master and disciple
arrangement. In this way his good work
will live after him.
Roosevelt has done good job of it in
general. Yet 1t is folly to think that he
might be elected to third term.
The New Deal should cease flirting
with the third-term bugaboo
August 4. GREGOR1A MARQUEE
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Pedestrian Regulation
Held Unfair by This Writer.

To the Editor Of The Star;
On the front page of The Star of
August l there is an item captioned
jay Walking Fight With Officer Brings
Patrol Ride for Woman The resent
ment and indignation shown by the
woman because of being accosted by a
policeman for crossing the street on red
light, reflects the feelings other citizens
Of the District entertain for the pedes-
trian traffic regulation. which was adopt
ed on the plausible pretext of being a
but which in reality is being obviously
enforced to increase motorists monopoly
of the streets.
The officers treatment of the woman
in hustling her off to a detention pen in
patrol wagon was scandalous 1t is
unbelievable that pedestrians should be
treated like drunkards gangsters, and
felons and ANONYMOUSLY hauled off to
police stations in a patrol wagon and
lncarcerated for failure to post collateral
The incident serves to play up the
pedestrian traffic regulation not as the
altruistic measure its advocates aver it
to be, but as an arbitrary and selfish act
designed to deprive citizens of exercising
their own judgment as to when and
where it is safe to cross the streets.
Incidents like this serve to en1btter
citizens to authority, citizens accus-
toned to obedience to law and order
The regulation should be rescinded or
modified so it will not instiil disrespect
for law and order. A few years ago the
authorities were reluctant to adopt such
a regulation regarding its enforcement
as impractical. There is as much war;
rant for that belief today as then.
Only through fear of arrest is the
regulation being enforced, and 1t is flag
rantly disregarded when no policemen
are around, making unwilling lawbreak-
ers of otherwise law-abiding citizens.
drive car and pedestrians have never
bothered me. People in the streets or
upon crosswalks make me more careful
so will not injure any one. The new
rule instills the idea that drivers can
run over people and get away with It,
August 2. FRANK SMITH.
ED Note: The policy of police in
arresting pedestrians has been to
summon the patrol wagon only in
those cases where arrest was resisted.
The incident mentished above was
not due merely to violation of the
pedestrian-control regulation)
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Spuin's CuudiIIo

General Frances Reorganization of
the Spanish Nationalist government
with himself as supreme chief, re-
sponsible only to God and history"
caps the work of the revolution which
began in June. 1886, and fits Spain
into the Fascist mold.
1t is a sweeping victory for the
Fascist Falange Espanola and its
leader, Ramon Serrano Suner who
is General Frances brother in law.
BY the same token it is a defeat for
the military group which sought in
the months after the civil war to
check the drift of Spain into alliance
with the Rome-Berlin axis, and
thereby leave the path open for
Spain to make her own foreign policy
and remain neutral, If need be, in
the European conflict toward which
events are moving.
Two weeks ago General Franco
clearly indicated the course he was
pursuing when he removed from
their commands General Gonzalo
Queipo de Llano and General Juan
Vague, heroes of the civil war, who
fought vigorously against the power
of the Falange and advocated recon-
struction of Spain for the Spaniards.
General frances decree establish
ing the Falange as the exclusive
organization of political activity, and
with important functions in the gov
ernment, places the party leaders in
a position to press for the closer
affiliation between Spain and the
axis which they desire.
Nationalist Spain has debts to pay
off, obligations to Germany and Italy
for their help in defeating the Re-
publicans. If Berlin and Rome have
appeared slow in collecting their due
in the form Of an alliance it is only
because Franco needed time in which
to commence the rebuilding of Spain
and to establish Fascism as the sole
political power.
General Franco is now Ell Caudillo,
the leader, and on a par in power
with Chancellor Hitler and Premier
Mussolini. He is responsible to no
earthly authority, but only to God
and history, according to the decree.
Franco has drawn more heavily on
Nazi than Italian Fascist theology
for this concept, and the fact that he
is Spain's chief of state as we'll as
political leader places him on a par
with Hitler and one rank above
1taly's Duce, who has modestly con-
tented himself with the factual exer-
else of worldly power as premier.
Franco has destroyed the hopes of
the monarchists for a Bourbon
restoration in the person of Alfonso
XIII or one of his sons.
One vexing question of all dictator
ships, the succession, is settled in
advance. The Caudillo will select his
successor, who is not to be revealed
until after frances death. Many
things may happen to Spain before
that contingency is faced. however.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
Defiant Poland

Poland, calmly and resolutely
awaiting the events of August and
September, through Marshal Edward
Smigly-Rydz yesterday spoke its de-
termination to resist, by force If
necessary, any German action to in
corporate Danzig into the Reich.
Symbolically this solemn warning
was uttered on the twenty-fifth ami
versary of the start of Poland's fight
for independence with the entry into
the World War of Josef Pilsudski's S
Polish legions. twenty-five years
ago Pilsudski launched Poland's
struggle for existence as state; to-
day Poland echoes Smigly- -Rydz's
vow that Poland shall preserve its
hard-won freedom.
The ability of people to exist as
a free and independent nation in
the last analysis is largely economic.
The fate of Czecho-S -Slovakia showed
that. Poland's economy rests upon
her foreign trade and the twin outlet
for her goods through Danzig and
Gdynia. Incorporation of Danzig
into the Reich would put a large
part of Polish trade at the mercy of
Germany either through Germany's
ability to levy heavy tribute on Polish
trade, or through Germany's ability
to stop Polish trade through Gdynia
by force on a moments notice If she
ever took the notion.
Furthermore, the Poles realize that
Danzig is not the end of German
aspirations against Poland Former
German and Austrian territories are
an integral part Of 1899 Poland.
Germany wants them back. The re-
covery of Danzig would be an ideal
starting point for that achievement.
If ever realized it would leave Poland
a helpless fragment destined finally
either to return to Russia or be swal-
lowed up in the expanding Reich.
For Poland, then, Danzig is not
only the lungs of our economic life,"
as Smigly-Rydz declared, but the
keystone of Polands political inde-
pendence. Thus commensurate with
Danzig's Importance to Poland is the
Poles determination to resist by
every means ANY attempt, direct or
indirect, to violate the interests,
rights or dignity of our state"
Whatever one may think of the
Justice or injustice of Germany's
claims to Danzig, a city which is
overwhelmingly German, credit can
not be denied the Poles for the
courageous manner in which they
are meeting their responsibilities to
themselves. Before any one else will
fight for them they must show that
they will fight for themselves. This
they have done, and by making clear
that they intend to fight they dis
courage any lingering hopes that
Poland can be made to bear the
burden Of new appeasement. If war
over zig is to be prevented some
way ..>r than sacrifice by Poland
apparently must be found.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
What Next?

Congress has adjourned, but that
does not mean that political activity
has ceased. President Roosevelt yes
terday conferred with Senate Ma
jority Leader Alben Barkley and
Secretary of Commerce Harry Hop
kins. The Chief Executive also has
talked with Senator Guffey of Penn
sylvania and with Senators Thomas
and Lee of Oklahoma as we'll as with
friendly members of the House of
Representatives. From these visitors
to the White House reporters gained
the impression that the administra-
ton Is counting upon voter reac-
ton" to bring about enactment of
legislation shelved during the last
session, but still ardently desired by
all New Dealers.
1t has been. suggested that Con-
gresSmen returning home will be
scolded by their constituents for
having "revolted" against Mr.. Roose-
velt's leadership. The President has
limited that they should be spanked
for their insurgency" and it is
possible that they will be. But it
would be mistake to imagine that
the country has been altogether in
articulate during the past eight
months. On the contrary, the voters
have been heard from regularly,
consistently, necessarily, day after
day since January3 3. Floods of letters
and kilograms have poured into the
Capitol from the hinterland; lobbies
have labored overtime; pressure
groups of a hundred different varie-
ties have worked their magic with
an efficiency unsurpassed; not for
one single minute has the effort to
dictate to the National Legislature
halted.
Congress, however, chose to resist
the tidal wave of coercion. Fully
conscious Of the fact that a national
election impends. it refused to be-
have like rubber stamp for any
pun pOSC. IL SOlloSi SdtlFc VIEWS pre-
vailed over liberal, the reason is not
far to seek. 1t may be found in what
has been termed "a definite change
in the political atmosphere between
the beginning and the end of the
session"-a growing popular convic-
ton that permanent recovery must
stem from return to normal rela-
tions between business and govern
ment and that political interference
with industry has hurt rather than
helped prosperity.
Mr.. Roosevelt, of course, is privi-
legged to renew his battle for spend
ing. Still more definitely he is en-
titled to express again his desire for
neutrality legislation of the type he
feels that he needs. Thousands of
citizens who have opposed him in
everything else indorse his stand
against the isolationists in the Sem
ate. But the trend away from
New Dealism probably will continue.
Perhaps the President himself will
be influenced by it during his Swing
around the circle" in October.
Evening star., 1939-08-07
The Chandler Act

While the Baltimore g. Ohio and
Lehigh Valley Railroads will get
breathing spell as result OF passage of
the Chandler Act in the closing days
of Congress, it appears now to be
very doubtful If other carriers in
financial difficulties will have re-
course to the new legislation to i'm
prove their position.
Permitting weakened lines to avoid
reorganization by reducing fixed
charges and deferring maturities
when seventy-five per cent of the
creditors agree to such procedure,
the measure originally was framed
to extend aid in more than a dozen
cases. AS finally amended, however,
due to opposition encountered in the
Senate after approval in the House,
the act provides that plan sub
mitted by railroad must be sane
toned by the Interstate Commerce
Commission and Federal court with
in year from passage of the law,
with final adjustment to be accom-
plished within year thereafter, this
time element probably standing as
an effective barrier to roads which,
unlike the B. &, o. and Lehigh, do not
have refinancing plans already we'll
advanced.
An added reason why the act
promises to have but limited applt-
cation rests in the upturn in traffic
which now promises to enable class
one roads to make their fixed charges
for the last half of this year. Under
the circumstances, some of the lines
that are shaky will take a chance
and stand pat in the hope of pulling
out without further difficulty instead
Of spending time and money in at
tempts to shape a plan that might
In the end prove fruitless.
Undoubtedly, developments be-
tween now and January will show
up the railroad situation in clearer
Evening star., 1939-08-07

now an Army Air Corps station,
where it has been offered Fed
orally owned land free of cost. In
view of the tremendous growth of
aeronautical research abroad, the
new fund provided by Congress is
none too large and none of it should
be wasted unnecessarily in the pur-
chase of land.
1t will be several years before the
effects of the proposed new labora-
tory can be felt in American aircraft
design and, in the meantime, Euro
pean research laboratories, already
geared to high pitch, may be ex-
pected to carry forward the rapid
progress of the past few years in air.
craft development, which has left the
= United States behind in the march
of air science.
The action by Congress is only the
first step toward resurgence of
American aeronautical research
Nothing should be permitted to in
terfere with the new program.
Evening star., 1939-08-07

Still, isn't 1t one of mans traits, that
OF getting into trouble and not being
able to get out Of as easily?
Surely man is squirrellike, after all.
Swing wide the gates
Let the little creatures out!
But they would not come out. One
and all, they made for the crossbeams
there to run around like possessed
Standing beneath them, one gained a
good idea of what is meant by the term
panic terror.
Also, pandemonium.
A wild uproar, terror caused by the
great god Pan, sudden surging of tu-
multous fear-all thought due to Pan
the very god of nature, but today known
to be the result of internal secretions
motivating muscles of flight for escape.
Instead of leaping to liberty, the three
squirrels ran around on the crossbeams,
here and there, on the roof supports
their solid little bodies thudding as they
went
From this under view, the rodents were
not as prepossessing as when looked at
from above.
There was something essentially leer-
ing in the lean jaw, from beneath, some
thing which boded no good to the erring
hand which tried to touch them.
The bushy tails made question marks
amid the beams, as their bearers ran
with ratlike darts to and fro.
The thing to do, of course, was to
go away, and leave the creatures to find
the open door for themselves, which
they finally did, one by one, each pausing
to sample the bag of seed.
The absence of humanity immediately
restored to each it's own animal equilib-
rum.
What comment on humanity, that
the animals are afraid of us, on their
own!
If we compel them to be. they will be
friendly, In way, we mean the really
wild ones. Centuries of domestication
have made dogs and cats our friends,
but that is about all
Here and there, out of the millions
OF small creatures, one now and then
advances few steps in mans direction.
Still it is real sight to see a bird COM
ing to hand freely, of its own volition.
Even harassed businessmen. secure in
their portion of the great harassment,
stop for few seconds to admire the
ragged man feeding the pigeons. Evi-
IDENTIFY it is better not to be harassed, if
you want to feed the birds.