Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-09-20

~ Crowen is a good prophet or
not may yet be revealed. Mr.. Crow
ell, assistant secretary of war in
the World
~Pe war, has been
CroUell GrooUed named spe-
Into Presenf Job cial consult
ant on de-
tense, by Secretary Stimson. Ad-
dressing the Institute of Public AZ
fairs at the University of Virginia.
July II, 1881, Mr.. Crowell said:
"Should a great war ever
again enguf our country, Amer
lean manufacturers, including
the new induStrialism Of the
South, as well as the older in
dustrialisms of the North and
East, without waste Of time, ma
terial or priceless human lives,
will perform their essential func-
ton of munitions supply our
national security is on sound
foundation" z..
Mr.. Crowell, who was a consult
ing engineer before he became Q
Cleveland banker and industrialist,
is a brigadier general in the ord
nance reserve. His specially, as as
sistant secretary of war, was in or
ganizing our munitions industries
for the war effort.
He was widely praised for his
efficiency in this and gained
fame as the most ruthless cutter
of red-tape in the army high
command. This may have some
thing to do with his selection as
defense consultant at this mo-
ment. Yale university, his alma
mater, recognized the above
service by giving him an homo
rary master of arts degree in
1918.
A native of Cleveland, II years
old, Mr.. Crowen began his business
career as a chemist with the Otis
Steel company. He rose in execu-
tive positions and at the same time
gained technical qualifications which
made him a metallurgist and con-
sulting engineer.
He is the author of several
books, including a six-volume Sc
ries called america Went to
Wilson was co-author. One Of
these volumes is entitled 'The
Armies of Industry" singularly
pertinent to problems and back
grounds of our present national
endeavOr.
Reporters, interviewing Mr.. Crow
ell in the old days, frequently used
to note his resemblance to ruby Bob
Fitzsimmons, and deduce, from this
his capacity for hitting and staying
power.
IN HIS novel, LIE Couple" pub
L ished in 1925, Victor Marguer-
rite, the French writer, foresaw
the disaster which was to overtake
French Prophet d daanis. the he
OF Doom Accepts debacle quite
Conquest Foretold accurately,
but put the
date at 1913 instead of 1910. Today,
the author accepts the conquest,
which he tragically described and
makes common cause with the con-
querors. He denounces General De
HdullS anu Ills lOllOWSlS dS TIE tllIe-
lings of England.
In present and future clinical re-
search into the fall of France and
its causes, M. Marguerritte's lament
and prophecy, as of 1925, will be
interesting. After describing the al
lance of French politicians with
"Prussian and Bavarian junkers,' -
and the subsequent collapse and
conquest, he says:
"And then we shall be reap
ing what we have sown. 1t will
be the result of our policy of at
tempting the semblance of gran
deur-stupid because it is not
warranted by our power, nor by
our national wealth, nor by our
trucking birth-rate, nor by our
exhausted finances"
Years of self-indulgence, mad
pleasure-seeking, the softening
of moral fiber and the ebbing Of
national vitality, he said, would
precede the final destruction Of
the French nation. The League
Of Nations, he predicted, would
be q CHASTITY failure.
M. Marguerite is the son of
!. famous French general of tn
Franco-Prussian war. In his stud
were medals and memorials of hi
fathers war service. He is a sta
wart man, tall and straight wit
= abundant pompadoured hair and