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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
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MUzzLED BY NAVY

A retired naval officer has been
ordered by the navy department to
cease giving lectures on the war.
An officer on the retired list is in
a peculiar status. Having been dis
abled in service he is removed from
active duty and not subject to orders
in the usual sense. He gets, for life,
what looks like three-quarters pay.
Actually counting lost allowances,
it is about half pay. Whether the
navy department can legally muzzle
him is a doubtful question.
Yet the navy doesn't shush up
some retired officers who do not
say acceptable things. The out
standing case is Smedley Butler.
He has called his erstwhile marine
employment the instrument Of a
racket.
The difference is that an obscure
little Observation-Disclosures IRE
tired) could be sunk without a trace
while a double medal of honor
major-general super Snowman with
a national reputation, a picturesque
vocabulary and voice like fog
horn-"old augur-eye" or "old gim-
let-nose" or whatever "old" it is
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
WEEKEY NEWS ANALYSIS BY ROGER SHAW
||Nazis Solidify Norwegian Gains
AS Fierce Fighting Is Reported;
Britain Claims Sinking 80 Ships

EDITORS NoTEWhen opinions these columns
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
II GERMAN WAR:
NOrdic Phase

And still the Nordics fought among
themselves up north = Norsemen,
Germans, English, Anglo-Canadians
and an occasional Norman peasant
from Quebec. AS some of the smoke
and propaganda clouds lifted a bit,
interesting news items revealed
themselves to the American public.
The Germans had captured Oslo,
Morse capital, with an air-wafted
force of 1000 men. They had cap
tured Narvik with a few hundred
men. They had taken Bergen, Sec
ond city of Norway, with a corpo-
rails guard of 100 They had occu-
pied Trondheim without firing a
shot. So much for expert Trojan
horsemanship.
It appeared, further, that many Of
the English troops dumped from the
transports into Norway, were ILL
equipped territorial militia, or
half-trained regulars, without proper
aerial support, heavy artillery,
tanks, or even automatic rifles. The
Germans facing them, had plenty of
good, new automatic weapons, air
bombers and fighters, anti-aircraft,
tanks, and considerable knowledge
of the Norwegian language. Accord
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
N A M E S
in the news /.

Premier Mackenzie King Of Cam
ada, on vacation junket in Dixie,
visited President Roosevelt at Warm
Springs, Ca, and John ID. Rookie
Teller Jr. at the magnificent colonial
restoration job in Williamsburg, Va.
The premier also sight-saw and
chatter-boxed in Washington, where
he is well liked, and even better
known.
Handsome Sir Anthony Eden, al
most forgotten, welcomed trough"
gang of "ready" Observation-Disclosures
to England. They came to join up,
but unlike the spruce Canadians,
had no uniforms. They will serve as
loggers, trawlers, gunners, and fly
ers. Eden made much of them, the
tactful young Apollo now being do
minions secretary, in the Chamber
lain Churchill cabinet.
Tom Dewey's loyal New York Of
fee reported that the demon district
prosecutor had been away from his
office only II days out of the last
661a. Anti-Dewbirds Gas the breed
is called) replied that, anyway, the
bright young man got around much
too much for his age. Meanwhile,
Dewey was golfng in Colorado
Springs.
Since the Germans took over I'M
happy Denmark, Iceland has be-
come virtually independent. BERTH
E. Kuniholm, U. S. foreign serv-
ice officer, now becomes our consul
general in this new nation of 100,-
600 people. Stefan job Stefansson,
Icelandic trade commissioner in
New York, becomes consul-general,
here in America, for his historic is
land home, till lately Danish do
minion. Iceland is about the size Of
Scotland; has the worlds oldest par
lament. Meanwhile, Lawrence
Steinhardt, u. S. ambassador to
Russia, left the Soviets for America,
on two-month vacation. Critics
wondered whether this was ''tact-
full way to call home our top-nuncio
from that red Moscow.
Capt. j. w. Reeges, U. S. NJ, was
chosen first commander of our new
naval aircraft-carrier, Wasp. The
Wasp is nearly $4,000 tons, and car
ries about 1000 men. This is the
sixth ship, named Wasp, in the his
tory of the American navy.
Gov. Arthur James, Republican
governor of Pennsylvania, told Indi-
ana editors that idle men and idle
money might drive a desperate
President Roosevelt into that Sec
ond German war. Pas favorite son
stressed "peace and jobs; Lenin,
in 1917, stressed a platform of
"peace and land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
PROPAGANDA:
Anglo e Teuto

The Germans brought out still an
other propaganda job white Book),
to prove that the English had issued
orders the first week in April, to
seize Morse strategic points. Accord
ing to the ''plan," Morse defense
against England, was to be phoney.
Anglo-Norse ''connivance" was the
keynote Of this masterpiece, cere-
moniously distributed to the faith
full, and to the press.
The London press tried turning
on the pessimistic faucet, to ex-
plain Morse reverses, and English
trimmings in Norway. The news
papers told their readers it would
be a long, hard war up north, and
appealed primarily-a clever prop
uganda dodge in England-to ma
tive Briton bulldoggery. On Ger
mans, French, and Americans, this
type of gloom-spreading has been
proved disastrous; in Russia, as in
England, it works!
It's strange fact, but Americans
know more about their war than
Europeans themselves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
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GUFFEY VS.. LEWIS


Sen. Joe Guffey scored double
victory in his decisive denomination
vote. The Pennsylvania New Deal
er not only defeated his opponent,
Pittsburgh Gilman Walter Jones,
but also handed thorough licking
to John l.. Lewis.
This little-known fact was one OF
the most significant features of the
election.
Before the primary, Guffey and
the C. I. o. chief were on closest
terms. Guffey sponsored the United
Mine Workers biturninous coal reg
ulation act, and in 1888 unhesitating-
1y went out on a political limb for
Lewis by supporting his candidate
for governor over the bitter protests
of most of the other Pennsylvania
Democratic leaders.
If Guffey had ducked that fight ne
could have avoided personal trouble
this year. But when he went to
Lewis for help in the tough primary
battle, John L. turned him down
cold.
Only few insiders know it, but
the dramatic rebuff took place a
few weeks before the election in
Lewis paneled, high-ceilinged pri-
vate Office. Guffey explained that
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
YANKEE OCPU:
Doctor Dies

A sensational New York subway
worker, and union leader, told the
Dies committee that reds, on the up
and-up in labor organizations, were
all set to shut down industry and
public services, and to tie up Man.
haitian, while they practiced with
firearms in gun clubs. Lots of peo-
pie seemed much impressed by all
this. Others decried the testimony,
and its talkative source.
Another witness declared that
Mervyn Rathborne, president of the
American Communications associa-
ton, was dangerous red. Roose-
welt had put him on the board of the
National Youth administration, and
Mrs. Roosevelt had praised him in
her news column. This witness said
that $50 red radio men, on U. S.
ships, planned to tie up the whole
Yankee marine in case of war. Here
was another thrill.
An ex-communist said he feared a
red general strike, and second
American civil war. Mr.. Dies, him
self, feared Trojan Horsemanship;
but Mrs. Roosevelt, perhaps better
informed in these matters, said
Americans had better be calm. Mr..
Dies and Mrs. r. are not keen about
one another. Dies also feared herds
of red and brown Trojan Horses,
grazing allegedly on the pampas, If
any, of Mexico.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
HAIL COLUMBIA:
iii Tern,

1t looked more than ever like a
Third Term effort by the White
House white father. The President
let out tentative plans for three
weeks junket around the country in
June, to counterfeit the Republican
national convention at Philadelphia
that month. Some of the political
railbirds thought that Franklin
would keep the Populus Americanus
guessing until the very opening of
the Democratic convention, at Chi
cago, in mid-July. acknowledgements
Continued to yammer loudly against
the Presidents seeming indecision.
Pro-Rooses smiled sagely. Republi-
can Publisher Frank Gannett of
Rochester, N. Y, declared that four
more Rooseveltian years might spell
some great national calamity. Mr..
Gannett seemed to indicate that
there was fiery Trojan Horse (of
purest Morse breed) in the White
House Darkroom. But Democratic
Senator Guffey was renominated in
Pennsylvania-on the ticket of
man who was a totalitarian for
Roosevelt.
Taussig Tempest
Rear Admiral Joe Taussig, assist
ant chief of American naval opera
tons, stuck his neck out, when he
testified on the navy expansion bill
to senatorial committee. He said
we needed badly an independent
China; that we better fight Japan
with the help of England, France
and Holland; and added that it
would be, strictly, a naval war-as
the Yankee buffalo and the Nippon
whale could hardly get at one anoth-
er by land.
Everybody scrambled around dis
avowing Mr.. Taussig, Cromwell"
Of the navy department. Secretary
Hull, Secretary Edison, admirals,
and 'burocrats" all talked in wor-
ried, unhappy circles. Senator Clark
OF Missouri suggested a court-mar-
tial, to the open approval of masses
Of plain American citizens.
Japanese spokesman took the in
cident with remarkable tact and
good manners, considering that they
are often labeled as Far Eastern
"Prussians." They merely remind
ed their public that this was a Yam
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10

about 2 feet longer than the dav-
export and was fastened to the
top of the frame of the one win
dow. The venetian blinds and the
rods for the draperies were fas-
tened inside this. A narrow shelf
for plants just the length of the
davenport back was fastened Sc
curely to the window sill. The
flowers increase the illusion that
there are three windows and add
a cheerful note of color.
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NOTE: Sewing Book No. l tells
how to make this cornice board.
Also how to make curtains and
draperies for every room in the
house from child's room to kitch-
en-. ALI about slip covers. Dress
ing tables from boxes, tables and
old mirrors. You will be delight
ed with it. Send order to:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10

REAR ADMIRAL TAUSSIC-
His voice is being "shushed" by the
navy.
couldn't be sunk at all without a
splash that would raise the tides
on all the seven seas.
In times of peace, can't see why
there should be any shushing at all.
Nine-tenths of this military secrecy
business is the bunk. / was glad
to read of Admiral Taussig's testi-
mony, that the reason for the navy's
insistence on fortifying Guam and
increasing naval estimates at cost
of more than billion is that we've
got to fight japan.
For this purpose, he wants to es-
tablish an ''impregnable base in the
Philippines" (which is not possible)
''fortify the Island of Guam to make
its capture impossible" (which is
equally absurd) land make an alli-
ance with Great Britain, France and
the Netherlands that will insure CO.
operation in the maintenance of the
status quo in the area to the SOUTH
ward of Formosa."
The navy didn't attempt to shush
Admiral Taussig. 1t merely said
that his opinion was his own and
contrary to it's views.
But the navy is asking for exactly
what Taussig is defending. 1t con-
cedes that it wants to fortify Guam
''to stabilize the political situation
in the Far East"
Admiral Taussig was simply more
explicit. He wants to check jap
anese expansion in Asia and Ma
laysia which he says is under way
at present with the subjugation of
China, the Philippines, Netherlands
Indies, French Indo-China and Ma
laya are to be taken over in due
course of time. Russia is to be
driven westward of Lake Baikai."
1t is a fair Interpretation of the
rest of the admiral's testimony that
we have to fight naval war with
Japan to prevent all this and must
get ready now.
l don't agree with Admiral Taus-
sig. If we are to engage our
strength and effort on distant and
indefensible detectives half way
across the world, we shall be duck
soup for enemies much closer to
our shores. We have no bone buried
in Asia. But it is wonderful thing
to know that he could speak and
did speak his mind.
It is unfair to the army, the navy
and the country to tell them, to pre-
pare for war and not tell them
what war-how, when and where.
What is the foreign political, mill
tary and naval policy of the United
States? That is our most important
question. It needs to be debated
and explored, and as to it's military
and naval aspects, professional mil
itary and naval men know the limi-
tations. For the present at least,
let's not shush any of Them
Sen. Bennett Clark wants to court
martial Admiral Taussig for say,
ing that naval preparedness plans
are aimed at checking Japan in Asia
and Malaysia. My esteemed col
umnar colleague, Raymond Clapper,
writes: 1.-THE function of the armed
forces is to carry out policy and not
to make it." This is 100 per cent
right. 1--WE depend on military and
naval officers to advise us as to the
preparedness measures we should
take for the national safety or to
maintain given policies" o. K. as
theory, but it doesn't mean thing
in our practices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
SUPREME COURT:
O-Picketeering

The nine, not-so-old any more,
men stood up for labor again. They
ruled as unconstitutional the anti
picketing legislation of Alabama and
California, and said that free dis
cussion Of laborite lapses was ba-
sic part of democratic government.
Roosevelt-appointed Justice Muir
ply, now a sophomore" on the
court, wrote the opinions. Justice
McReynolds, Wilson-appointed, hard
ly popular at any time, dissented.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10

SENATOR GUFFEY-His vic-
tory ,Uas licking for John L.
LesUis.
he was up against a very serious
situation and needed help badly.
Lewis shook his head.
Eve can't do anything for you,
Joe," he said.
"But why not? You put up plenty
of money for Tom Kennedy Lewis
gubernatorial candidate) two years
ago." -
eyes, but we've got new bylaw
now" replied Lewis. ''We're not
contributing in primaries"
Chief reason for Lewis GOODNESS
was Guffey's advocacy of third
term for Roosevelt. Guffey is a
strong third termer and ran on that
platform while Jones, who before
he became candidate had declared
against a third term, pussy-footed
on the issue.
Note-Director of Guffey's sue
cessful campaign was DR.. Luther
Harr, former Pennsylvania univer-
sity professor of economics, now an
executive of the pro-New Deal Phil
adelphia Record and city treasurer
of Philadelphia. Harr is slated to
replace State Democratic Chairman
Dave Lawrence, who although put
in office by Guffey, backed Jones.
Scandinavian Desk.
One of the busiest men in the, state
department is the expert who fol-
lows the tragic fate of Finland, Nor
way, Denmark and Sweden.
He IS Hugh Cumming Jr., son OF
the former surgeon general of the
United States, and one of Secretary
HulPs ADLER assistants.
The state departments system of
keeping in touch is to divide. the
world into different areas, assign
ing an expert to study each area.
Thus there is the European division,
the Far Eastern division, the Latin
American division, and so on.
Cumming has charge of the Sean
dinavian desk, in the European divi-
sion, and last summer was far
sighted enough to take trip through
these countries. 1t was the last
time he could have found their terri
tory intact.
The minute Cumming came back
from his Scandinavian tour, things
began to break. His desk shows it.
So do the maps strewn over his
tables.
He picks up the telephone. eyes,
Mr.. Minister (. Yes, sir, our
latest reports indicate :" and
he gives the diplomat film on the
latest news. Already Cumming has
a new map of Finland which shows
its revised borders. He is wonder
ing what will happen to other maps
on the wall. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10


When the Germans invaded
Norway, Captain W. A. McHale,
skipper of the American freight
er Mormacsea, sUas fUarned that
if he left the harbor Of Trond-
helm, he sUas con his otOn re-
sponsibility' because of the ma
uaI warfare in the North sea.
Nevertheless he sailed and is
pictured here as he arrived safe
" in Netu York-his boat being
the first to reach the United
States from the Scandinavian
,Uar zone since the outbreak of
hostilities there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
POLITICAL CHAFF

Democratic politicos are getting
a big kick out of one Republican
claim. Mayor William Fallon of St.
Paul proclaims that he brought the
New Deals food stamp plan to the
city and that it will be withdrawn
unless he is returned to Office :.
One of the casualties in the recent
Nebraska primary was Charles
Bryan, brother of the late William
Jennings Bryan, who tried for a
political comeback by running for
congress. He was governor Of Me-
braska for several terms.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10
Venetian Blinds to
Simulate Windows
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS


III AVE you ever tried placing
your. davenport on the side of
the room where there was single
window? You probably found that
it did not look well, because the
back was just high enough to give
the draperies an awkward cutoff
appearance, as shown in the upper
sketch. The lower sketch shows
how friend of mine solved this
problem, and changed her living
room that had seemed hopeless,
into an attractive, cheerful place.
There are no windows under
those lowered blinds. A painted
box-like cornice board was made
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-10

ing to the military critics, the Ger
man leadership and staff work, too,
seemed superior. AS the German
invaders worked their militant way
along portions of the Swedish from
tier, Sweden recoiled in terror, al
though German promises" offered
to soothe them. German promises"
make shaky Swedes.
Under leadership of Admiral Lind
strom, Sweden's small but power
full navy is being tuned to full war
time strength.
Sea Losses
London claimed the loss of 80 Ger
man ships in two weeks: most OF
them troop transports. Four, said
England, were captured; the rest
were destroyed. Sinking transports
is always hideous process, and
English sources reported 5000 Ger
man bodies washed ashore on the
eastern rocks of Oslo inlet. In the
Skaggerak, the usually optimistic
French reported the sinking of a
couple of German patrol boats, at
the hands of fotilla of Gallo de-
stroyers. Rumors from Berlin-and
elsewhere = continued to whisper
that more. than half of England's Is
big capital warships were down or
out.
But the English countered with
the announcement of five coming
) new sea mammoths, an effort to fill
up the decimated ranks. These wa
ter monsters would be paved for out
of the coming fiscal years budget
of $1,000, 100000, including sales tax,
''for the sake of victory" Exclud-
ing marines, sailors, deck hands,
and flyers, England announced that
it's armed and armored man-total
was now 100000.
Morse Mutations
Two Morse flyers stole big Ger
man seaplane, painted out its insig-
MIA crosses, and flew it to England,
where they Joined the royal air
force. The, incident shows the evils
of drink: the Nazi pilots had been
beering..
C. J. Hambro, president of the
Norwegian parliament, issued
statement that his country has def
mite proof that Germany planned
its invasion of Norway for months.
He also said that the night before
the invasion a German whaling
boat, crowded with hidden troops
and supplies, sailed into the port Of
Narvik-flying the American flag.
Enterprising German troops,
dropped by parachute behind the
Morse lines, eddied down to earth
carrying collapsible bicycles, ma
chine-guns, radio-transmitting sets,
cameras, saws, other tools, and gas
welding equipment.
President Roosevelt recognized Of
ficially the still undeclared Nordic
war, and put Norway, like other
belligerents, on strictly cash-and-
carry basis. Germany set up pup
pet government in German-occupied
Norway, modelled on that of Ger
man-occupied Czecho-M orayia-Slo-
vakia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-29

NCOnCluueQ rom rage U
 the vote by seven per cent in Tues- days 22nd and 17th congressional districts. They won both seats of which one had been democratic since 1930, when the c. O. P. suf- fered its first post-world war re- verse in national politics.
 The G. O. P. lost Ohio's 17th in 1888 by a margin of less than three per cent of the total vote cast. There were 42 other republican congress sional candidates in 1888 who polled more htan Al per cent of the total vote cast, but failed to obtain plurality, and 22 others who boiled between AS and Al per cent of the total vote.
 You can realize" said house re- publican leader Joseph w. Martin, Jr., of those figures, "that there are 65 distri:ts to be carried with an in- crease of only five per cent in the republican vote.
 "On top o: this, an increase of 10 per cent in the republican congress sional vote would give us an ad- ditional go seats-over and above the 65 which are within the five per cent group. An increase of 10 per cent in the republican congressional vote would give us 94 additional seats in the house.
 The republicans now have won one of those 94 seats in Ohio and they need 49 more to obtain a bare majority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-29

Five small brick buildings, now being erected in Westport, Strat- ford, Meriden, Bolton and Chap- lin. are the only outward indica- tion of a new million dollar super voice highway that will be put into operation between New York and Boston this spring by the Long Lines department of the American Telephone & Telegraph company.
 The result of many years of research by the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the new system will eventually add 24O telephone cir- cults to the group which now connect New York and Boston. Following usual methods, 1t would be necessary to lay a full-sized toll telephone cable the entire diS-