The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-11-01

--"f"~-Ig III we enter sLniS war
Gen. Johnson on the side Of Eng
land, whatever we call ourselves we
shall be her ally. We must fight
wherever defeat threatens, or VIC
tory beckons.
It now seems quite probable that
the direction Of the war has turned
from westward to southeastward.
New Theaters threaten in the Medi-
terranean, the Balkans, perhaps
Persia, the Persian gulf and even
unto India.
That is the British domain on
which "the sun never SETS" Propa-
gandists now openly say that to pre-
serve democracy on earth we must
preserve the British empire. Per-
haps the millions of conquered and
exploited black people in Africa and
brown people in Asia and Malaysia
are their idea of democracy; but to
try to push this great, powerful and
peaceful nation into wars to protect
such foreign possessions is hysteria
that has broken all bonds of reason.
These war-minded men advance
measures which could take us into
such remote and sterile fields as
"defense of America" They say
that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
are no longer barriers of defense,
but avenues Of attack. Since Hitler
can't cross twenty-odd miles of the
British channel to get at Britain with
land army, it is safe bet that he
doesn't turn up his nose at the At
lantic ocean, even if these potential
architects of their country's disaster
do so every day in their war dane
ing madness.
If we push our belated defense
preparations on land and seas as
rapidly as possible, the chance of
our involvement in bloody war, no
matter what may come, is too re-
mote to consider.
The catastrophe of our involve
ment in war would not be merely
the bloody loss and danger to life
and limb. 1t would Immediately adj
journ our free democracy for a war
dictatorship. 1t would permanently
adjourn our free economic system of
private ownership and liberty of en-
terprise by so burdening it with adj
ditional debt and taxes that the gov
eminent would control all private
property and absorb all private in
come in the United States.
ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY
The senate has twice refused to
ratify the st. Lawrence waterway.
It never was and never will be
waterway project. It is a power
project. It was called shipway
to fool the Middle West. Actually
10000. cubic foot diversion into the
Mississippi from Lake Michigan
which was bargained for with Can
ada in the boundary waters treaty for
the Chicago Drainage canal has al
ready been largely surrendered.
That greatly helped low water navi-
cation in the Mississippi. Its sur
render hurt every Mississippi valley
state far more than the st. Law
renee can ever help them.
The plea was "Great Lakes navi-
CATION The facts were that mex
pensive works in the lake outlets
could have raised their levels 10
times the amount that diversion low
cred them. The motive was not
navigation but power-and, in that
particular case, private power at
Niagara Falls.
SHADES OF TEXAS GUINAN
Hello, suckers!" So Texas
Guinan used to greet her guests
in her high-class honky-tonk, where
she sold them champagne which
they knew to be faxed from apple
cider, at prices which they knew to
be multiplied. She feeced them out
rageous1y in many other obvious
ways from the moment. they gave
their wraps to the hat girl to. the in
slant Of their departure.
She was rolling them, but made
no effort to conceal that process Of
her methods Of doing it.
Texas Guinan was tops in invent
ing and putting over attractive
fakes. She gloried in being able to
do that even while laughing openly
at the weakness Of their deception
and the incredible gullibility of the
suckers who swallowed them, paid
through the nose for them, and
clamored for more.