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Constantine Brown. tackinE Ger.
many and Italy everywhere.
The British are slow to learn, but
they learn well when they get real
lesson.
From the outbreak Of the war
they concurred fully with the
French general staff on q policy Of
defense. Many younger officers in
both armies urged a mass air at.
tack on Berlin as far back as last
September when the Poles were still
fighting; others wanted to attack
Italy to show the Allied armies of.
fensive spirit. But the overcautiouS
general staffs Of both armies refused
to listen to such crazy ideas. Tho
old slogan that time was working
for the Allies was in full force and
the armies squatted comfortably,
with showerbaths and football
games, behind the Maginot Line.
Attack Only Defense.
Things have changed now. The
British general staff, composed of
different men, has come to realize
that a nation can defend itself In
only one way: BY attacking the
enemy or even the prospective en-
emy.
The British are no longer count.
ing how many planes they have and
how many they will have left If
- and should - ." They Just
60 right ahead and blast the Ger
mans wherever and whenever they
can. They started timidly, fearing q
bad reaction from the public If q
large number Of planes were lost.
But they found that the public had
grasped that military concept of
every strategist since Alexander.
To the great surprise of the Brit
ish military and political men these
raids have paid satisfactory divi-
dends. They have caused serious
damage to the Germans and, what
is more important, they have actus
ally delayed the German attack.
Arms Factories Damaged.
Not only has the German ofien-
sive been delayed, but some arms
factories within the range of British
bombers have suffered such damage
that they will be out of business for
several weeks.
The effective British raids are not
considered by military experts to
have put of indefinitely the Ger.
man attack. They have the dis
advantage of making the Germans
more cautious. But they have
proved to those countries in Ger.
many's path and capable of defend.
ing themselves-the United States,
for instance-that there is only
one effective defense in military
strategy: To attack as soon as you
are menaced.
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relates to a complicated system Of
marketing which happens to have
increased the tax receipts of the
Government by billions Of dollars in
this last decade of the depression.
Effective marketing has been a dis
tinct public benefit. If their market
ing practices are approximately in
conformity with previous decisions
of the Supreme Court, businessmen
have a right to have their problems
resolved in a civil suit. The fact
that the precedents are being dis
regarded by a new Supreme Court
makes it all the more necessary to
give business a chance to find out
what the new interpretations of law
by the New Deal cover and this can
be done, as 1t has already been done
in some instances, by means of q
civil proceeding.
One shudders to think where the
national defense Of the United
States would be today If William
Knudsen, the right-hand man whom
President Roosevelt has chosen for
the purpose Of getting airplanes and
tanks into production, had been
convicted by the jury last winter
when the same Department of JUS
tice filed criminal indictments un-
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training group. The public is not
looking with satisfaction or pleasure
on any one who has an ostrich
head i'm the-sand attitude.
Despite the fact that Senator Van-
denberg Of Michigan has come out
with an attack on the plan for
compulsory military training, and
several other Republican members
of Congress have taken a stand
against it, it does not appear that
the G. o. P. will attempt to make
a party issue of military training,
either in Congress or in the national
campaign. Representative Martin
Of Massachusetts,, Republican leader
of the House and also chairman Of
the Republican National Committee,
said as much today. He said that
he intended to look carefully into
any provisions of the bills which are
laid before the House and Senate for
military training. however.
Nom Political Subject.
That is perfectly proper. But for
the Republican party and its respon-
sible leaders to line up in partisan
way against compulsory military
training at time when a great
mass of Americans believe that such
system is essential for defense
would be merely to toss an issue into
the lap of the Roosevelt New Dealers
which might do the Republican
party irreparable harm. Playing
politics with national defense is not
likely to help either party-if the
political effort is directed against
national defense.
The Republicans in Congress will
make their record for and against a
compulsory military training bill in
the next few weeks. perhaps within
a week or two. The Democratic
members will do the same. Some of
the Republicans will be for the
measure and some against it, and
that is likely to be true of the DEM
ocrats, too. But the party organi-
zation which undertakes to set its
face against military training had
better look into the situation pretty
carefully before 1t acts. Represent
ative Wadsworth, New York Repub-
lican, along with Senator Burke Of
Nebraska, sponsored the military
training bill which has been before
the House and Senate Military AZ
fairs Committees for some time. The
administration, through the War
Department, has suggested changes
In the military training plan.
Democratic Split Discounted.
Democratic members of Congress
have been aroused over talk of a
party split over the third-term issue.
They have replied to reports that a
revolt against the Roosevelt ticket
was growing within the Democratic
ranks, saying that in their opinion
the Roosevelt ticket was strong and
growing stronger all the time. This
sounds like whistling to keep up their
courage in the face of the list of
prominent Democrats, some of whom
have been strong supporters of the
President in the past, now declaring
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intrigue America widespread
and dangerous Norway the the fall OSLO
Monroe Doctrine United
Hemisphere.
Accepting the somewhat optimistic thesis that Germany will permit
country attack
doubt all that the German intrigue the southwark
something encroachment hemi
committed defend Thus the choice such
the relief
hastily lightly because
feeding will politically
barrang surplus
considered
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Gimp Gets New Trial
In Ruth Ettine Case
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 25.-CaN-
fornia's Supreme Court has decided
that Martin (The Gimp Snyder
should have a new trial on a charge
Of attempting to kill Myrl Alderman,
who succeeded him as the husband
Of Ruth Etting, radio singer.
The decision, handed down yes
terday, cited "prejudicial error" in
the charge to the trial jury in Los
Angeles Superior Court, which con-
victed Snyder December %, 1898.
on charge Of attempted murder.
Pending a decision on the appeal,
Snyder. who contended he shot and
wounded Alderman in self defense,
has been a prisoner in the Los An
geles County Jail.
The shooting in Miss Etting's
home followed the alleged abduc-
ton by Snyder of the singer, her
secretary and Alderman as they
emerged from a Los Angeles radio
station. Just after the trial opened
Miss Etting and Alderman eloped.
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Pennsylvania Draft Plans
Ready for Immediate Use
BY the Associated Press.

oy Tue ASSOCl2Le0 FreSS.
HARRISBURG, Pa, July 25.-
Pennsylvania plans for drafting its
share Of . national army are ready
to be set in motion whenever Gov
Arthur H. James and Congress give
the signal.
Maj. Gen. Edward Martin, COM
mander of the Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard. disclosed arrange
ments for setting up 40 local boards
throughout the State to select the
men who will fill the ranks of the
armed forces.
The mobilization plans had been
tucked away in the department Of
military affairs since January 30,
1885, ready for use when needed.
They bore the signature of Fred
erick B. Kerr, then adjutant gen.
eral of Pennsylvania.
Key officers who will administer
CONSUMPTION in this State already
have selected, tentatively, the citi-
zens who would be asked to serve
on the Selective Service Boards,
without pay.
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der the Sherman law against him
and other executives in the motor
car industry. The jury quickly ac-
quilted him and the others, but not
until after bis name and those Of
his associates were blazoned in the
headlines as allegedly guilty Of
criminal acts.
Small wonder businessmen, large
and small, from coast to coast, are
praying for the defeat Of the New
Deal this autumn and working for
that objective with all earnestness.
The kind of democracy which the
New Deal talks about is not the
kind it practices. The present sys-
tenn in Washington is more in line
with the German governments con-
cept of justice-Herr Hitler has in
structed his courts and judges to
issue their political verdicts in ac-
cordance with what they believe is
public sentiment and that means, of
course, whatever the government in
power wants 1t to mean.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved)
United States investments in Pal
estine now total So, ,10O, 900.
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illustrates how the powers of Gov
ernment are simply not being used
fairly between citizens. It reveals
why 1t is so often charged nowadays
that the slogan on top Of the Su-
preme Court Building, Equal JUS
tice for ALL" is no longer respected.
The Justice Department has an
antitrust division which is properly
active in trying to enforce the
Sherman antitrust law so as to
prevent monopoly and price fixing
in the channels of trade. The law
can be enforced through civil or
criminal suits. The record shows
that civil suits have been successful
in breaking down combinations of
trade, but the Justice Department
lately has been using the weapon
of criminal prosecuting to force
businessmen to agree to fair trade
practices, which have never before
been adjudicated by court in a
civil action.
Even If it be conceded, however,
that it is proper for a governmental
department to hold the threat of
criminal trials over the heads of
successful businessmen in order to
make them agree to something
which neither Congress nor the
courts has ordered them to agree
to, there remains the question of
equal application of the law to all
classes of citizens.
An Unexplained Difference.
The department., moreover, has
gone on record as saying that when
1t prosecutes labor organizations
under the Sherman law, it will not
use criminal statutes. Just why a
governmental department should
withhold prosecution of one set of
citizens engaged in alleged viola
tions Of the same law and apply its
criminal indictments to another set
of citizens who manage business
operations is unexplained by any
public or private pronouncement
from the New Deal.
The only explanation that will
be inferred is that the administra-
ton is actively engaged in a policy
of business batting for political pur-
poses and objectives. Even in
handling prosecutions of labor, the
suits are filed against the A. F. of L.
and not against the c. I. O. Indeed,
when the c. I. O. gets into trouble
under the Sherman law, the Justice
Department, though not obliged to
do so, defends the viewpoint of the
C. I. O., as it did in the Apex case.
Even the high courts nowadays
ere discriminating between different
classes of citizens in constituting the
Sherman Antitrust Law. Shortly
after c. I. o. labor union in Phila-
delphia engaged in "sit-doWn"
strike and was convicted in civil
suit of violating the Sherman Anti
Trust Law by interfering with ship
ments in interstate commerce, the
New Deal appointed new judges in
that circuit who promptly reversed
their predecessors and, of course,
the New Deal majority on the Su-
preme Court of the United States
upheld the judgment of the Phila-
delphia court.
Business regulation by Govern
ment is one of the necessary devel-
opments of the complex economic
system of our times and there never
was a time when the laws against
monopoly and price-fixing were so
much in need of clarification. But
when the Justice Department dis
eliminates between citizens it breaks
down faith in all laws on the part
Of the citizenry.
Thus what the tobacco company
executives are alleged to have done
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The Political Mill
MiIitory Troiring Has Little Chance Of
Becoming on Issue in Compuiqn

their opposition to the third term.
Senator McKellar Of Tennessee and
Senator Harrison Of Mississippi are
among the Democratic Senators now
seeking to discount reports that
much Ill feeling has grown out OF
the denomination Of the President
Senator McKellar Is calling the
Democrats who have turned away
from the Roosevelt ticket economic
royalists." He insists that the ma
jority of the people have no inten-
ton Of turning "our Government
over to the same old interests that
ran 1t prior to the. Roosevelt era
and incidentally a crowd that ran
us into the worst depression in our
history"
The Tennessee Senator adds that
"they have trotted out the third
term bogeyman, which is funny In
the light of the circumstance that
some Of the loudest saunders Of the
alarm were ardent third -termers
when q Republican Roosevelt sought
the same objective"
Roosevelt Democrats Raised Issue.
In the first place, the Republican
Roosevelt did not seek the same
objective, a consecutive third term
In the White House. And in the
second place, 1t is the Roosevelt
Democrats who have raised the
third-term issue by renominatine
the President-not the Republicans
Senator McKellar concludes that
Roosevelt will carry the country by
an overwhelming majority" That is
the kind Of prophecy which may be
expected from the Democratic ma
tional publicity agency-which dis
tributed the McKellar statement,
And undoubtedly the Republican
propaganda mill will be Just as
hopeful Of success for Wendell L,
Willkie, the G. o. P. nominee for
President.
One thing stands out today, how
ever. The Democrats attending the
.party's national convention-many
OF them-were by no means as
hopeful of success as the McKellar
statement. Indeed, not only did they
admit the coming campaign looked
like a real battle, but some of them
expressed the opinion that Mr..
Roosevelt would have a difficult time
winning at all. Nor did the conduct
of the national convention give them
more hope. The Presidents state
ment, indicating that he did not
wish to be candidate and has never
been a candidate, was taken with a
very large grain of salt in view OF
the way delegates had been lined up
to vote for Mr.. Roosevelt at the
convention, with never a suggestion
from the White House that this was
not acceptable. The dictation of the
nomination of Secretary Wallace for
Vice President and the uproar in
the convention itself against this
dictation did not leave a happy
impression on the country.
This campaign is still in the max
ing and extravagant claims by either
Democrats or Republicans are at
present just extravagant.
Announcement that the notifica-
ton of Wendell Willkie that he has
been nominated for President by
the Republican National Convention
has been set for August II. That is
the date that National Chairman
James A. Farley of the Democratic
National Committee has fixed for
withdrawing from that Office.
Whether the selection of the date by
Mr.. Willkie was just coincidence
or was planned that way has not
been disclosed.
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leaders were IN
sisting that any
plan Of conpul-
sorry milit ar y
training would
IT &c e iv e
approval - and
indeed, that 1t
was not needed.
The increasingly
dangerous situa-
ton in which
t h l S c o u n t r y
finds itself, due
to foreign wars,
has upset the
apple cart for
the anti-military
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Fuehrer's threat
that unless Brit
ain gives up 1t
i'll be de-
stroyed.
What aston
ishes them more
Is the fact that
the British, in
stead Of keeping
all their planes
at home to meet
the colossal air
armada Hi tier
intends to throw
against the Isles,
are actually at.
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Wants Name of Mars

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 25(P.-
Without mentioning whether he had
been influenced by affairs in Eu-
rope, Platon John Cokkinias of Ar
lington petitioned the Middlesex
Probate Court to change his last
name to Mars.
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be a European food shortage of
really horrible stringency. Unless
relief Is given, many millions will
starve. On the other hand, If re-
lief is given, the hand of Germany
will be immensely strengthened. And
no informed American. official,
either in the State, War or Navy
Departments, any longer doubts for
an instant that to strengthen the
hand of Germany is to strengthen
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We, the People
6. O. P.'s 'SchIieffen PIun' Held knowingly
Sped by Droft-RooseveIt Democrats
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

The classic German invading by
schieen before the
fen Plan but failed 1914 because the didn't
into It, However, remained good plan and Hitler used In
1870 with help from the French smash through victory
The Republican "Schlehen
Bruce Barton for the 1886 Landon affair year
the g. O. command blew the dust on the
the old Of four First candidate
out to Colorado get Western frontier stages
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swept the buSi-
ness elements Of
tn e cou n try
against res l.
d e n t Roosevelt
and his admin
istration.
Durin the
last 48 hours the
dispatches tell
Of criminal in
dictments filed
against 80 ex-
ecutives of 26
tobacco M
panieS. Here Is
a con picuouS
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HE opinions OF the rters this page their on,
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to gue all sides OF questions Of interest to It's
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Stage Army

otuge Army
Much Of this political ambng suggests the
fooghts
scenes to keep up the Of great body Yet
doubt that will join the
and it entirely possible that will
the motions of setting Jenersonan Constitutional
and KoWatt' parties States
the New Deal ticket in favor Wendell I.
All this the Roosevelt
and may become but they feel safer in having their enemies
from behind their backs place with the
Republicans than later the when
and aboage the effort promote national
under Roosevelt
by NxsFea Incl
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Compulsory selective military
training is on the highroad at last
to be enacted into law. It is only
a few weeks ago that congressional
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Business Sees
Equal Justice
AS Mockerv
Tobacco Indictments
Typical Reason
For Resentment
by DAVID LAWRENCE,

Many persons in the New Deal
have expressed wonderment from
time to time at the bitterness Of
feeling and resentment which has
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N. Peek, former A. A. A. adminis-
traitor, who bounced to Landon after
Wallace and Hull had failed to fol-
low his advice.
Alfalfa Bill Murray, another
"ex" OF Oklahoma, is with them, and
you could have knocked any given
New Dealer over with a lotion truck
at word that the veteran pedestrian
Of 1896 was on the march to Colo
rado Springs. AL ("Good Loser')
Smith, John c'Du Pont') Raskob
and Jouett cLiberty League') Shot
hind aexn Sen tor Read of Missouri
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ond, the parade Of the political
wooden soldiers-the lame ducks
and anti-Roosevelt Democrats TAX
ing q walk into the rival camp.
Third, touchingly simple return to
the boyhood home Of the candidate
for an acceptance speech against the
background Of front porches, arch
ing sycamores and/or elms, and
nostalgia memories of the good old
days.
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This !.
Changing
|WorId
British Decide Attack
Is Best Defense; HurI
Bombers at Reich
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ny CONSIANIlNE BROWN
The German people and even
some high Nazi oflcials can't quite
grasp why the British have not been
brought to their knees by the
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The Copito! Parade
Problem Of French Assets Couses Treasury Concern;
BuIltt Believed Advocating Their Release
By JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1NTNER.

0y JOSEPH AL6OP and ROBERT KLNTNER.
The Treasury grimy whistng problem
Of the French assets which whole
occupied territories the whisng
Is the return to this country OF Ambassador William
The Treasury has followed weldehned policy
the American held vauables Of nations
nation has been its
held escrow the rghtu ownersthe theory
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its second stage thanks the
Roosevelt leaders threw their weight against
accamaon IN order develop the maximum dissent
This designed beayals fifth column
Trojan horse tactics within the the Democratic National
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Familiar Faces and Lame Ducks

So far the old familiar faces Of those the
relieved
Burke Of Nebraska repudated at the
his
West Virginia also pudaed for his party
the author the pending
ME Hanes former Of the lame duck Of
another After resignation
the coveted eceverp Of the Associated
marches Mr. We hand In with
Douglas his oddle
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mne M h cla @ results For example while Germany not able
could use big of dollar exchange South
pheric unity ~ - ~
In truth about the only over this
country which Germany liquid
world markets And Germany allowed hands
her victims vuabes her world position will
Enter Mr.. BuIitt
The ofncial Treasury that
Tor any purpose But Buts return whng
note into the assertions
Bulltts purpose to change the Treasury policy
Ever since he landed In this country Bu
emphasis the independence nonFat
French He has talked large
habitaton
policy toward yet
with the President the Treasury officials expecting
the
The Treasury fears be forced change
pleas simply because neither the Treasury other
officials
Both individuals composing
when the German geapo withdrawn strongly that calling
ud hfn1
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deeced Of the gold, securities and
SO forth they sent for safety to this
country.
The French assets were i'm
pounded like the rest. The total Is
now about $500, 900 600, Of which
between $l,5oo,ooo,ooo and $2,o0o,-
5000 is French.
The Treasury wishes to keep
these huge sums under lock and
key until further notice. To release
them, the Treasury believes, may
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A Hard Choice

Unqueionab the situation is thony
and his aides the field foreign Despite
the suspicion his
men still the of
recognized
Strong this effect
problem problem giving
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United States investments in Pal
estine now total So, ,1OO, 900.
Evening star., 1940-05-12

meet at the same time in the Jewish
Community Center under the lead
ership Of Alfred Reines and Alice
West.
Appealing for support Of the
overseas relief drive, Morris Simon,
co-chairman, last night pointed out
that the German invasion Of Bel
gium and Holland has complicated
the problem Of the refugees aMd
made more imperative the necessity
Of raising relief funds.
Refugees who have found tenn
porary haven In the Low Countries
viii probably be forced to nee again
II the Nazis are successful, Mr..
Simon asserted.
Both Belgium and Holland, he
explained. have provided temporary
homes for thousands of wanderers
who are awaiting an opportunity to
60 to Palestine, South America and
elsewhere. These refugees, he said,
are being cared for by the American
Joint Distribution Committee.
The work Of training the refugees
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safety precautions that were TO BE-
taken and the limited number Of
employees that were to operate It.
Approval was given after thorough
study The only point In the Dis
trict elevator regulations involved,
50 far Is the COMMISSIONS were
concerned, was whether the eleva.
tor was for passenger elevator serv-
ice. Since the elevator was TO be
used by employe operators only, the
Commissioners ruled that 1t was
not. Any other Washington Arm
could have and can obtain Z permit
for this particular type Of elAva-
tor for this particular kind Of use
by q restricted number of opera
tors"
Mr.. Ruth declared that he ap-
pealed from Col. Oehmann's inter-
probation OF a plainly ambiguous sen.
tence in the elevator regulations
because he did not consider the
Interpretation was either logical or
fair. His study of the regulations
convinced him, he said, that there