The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-26


candor. his straightforward
In April of 1885 he answered
the protest Of New England
textilers against the processing
tax Speaking at Bowdoin col
lege he told the stiff-necked YAM
KEGS that their attitude amount
ed to "a whining that doesn't do
credit TO New England ingenu-
ity.' He spoke of the flabbiness
OF the third and fourth genera
tons lof New Englanders) and
then added that "the old fellows
had CUTS To make bad matters
worse. he asserted that since the
days of slavery New England
had been living off the federal
government.
Mayor Tobin of Boston flour
ished a copy of this address at
the Chicago convention in his
abortive stop Wallace" CAM
paign, but he eventually decided
not to carry the warfare to the
extent of reading it from the
platform. He knew that Chair
man Barley and Mayor Ed KEEL
ly's no-speak-English, Roosevelt
rooters would not have permitted
him to be heard. But sour men,
Dries of Henry's plain-speaking
explain why most of the booing
over his nomination came from
the New England delegation.
The Boston mayor figured in
another curious episode that es-
capped general notice. Had he
carried out his plan, the ticket
might have been Roosevelt-Far-
ley instead of Roosevelt Wallace.
After the names of Wallace
and Bankhead had been present.
ed, Tobin dashed to the platform,
grabbed radio commentator by
the lapels and asked breathless-
ly: us it in order for me to
nominate Jim Farley for vice
president ," When told that it
was, he grabbed strangers gold
pencil, and proceeded to write an
impromptu nominating speech
for the national chairman. But
when he wrote down the words.
James A. Farley of New York."
he stopped and asked:
Can you nominate two people
from the same state ," Some
body gently explained that it
was constitutionally possible, but
that one of the candidates must
sacrifice the votes of that state
if their ticket carried it. Hell"
he muttered, and leaped from the
platform to consult Farley or his
friends. Apparently they per-
suaded him to keep his Bostonian
shirt on.
But there is no idolatry for the
Roosevelt Wallace slate among
the New England delegates after
what the secretary said at Bow
dom and after what the New
Dealers handed Jim at Chicago.
The Willkie people in New Eng
land figure that they already
have their Al electoral votes in
the COP bag.
Army experts are still studying
our foreign military observers
analysis of the Battle of France.
Prematurely published reports
that the u. S. has nothing to
learn from Hitler's technique.and
strategy will be revised. Der
fuehrer's mad dash through
Flanders and France was so I'M
orthodox, so revolutionary, that
it borders on the melodramatic.
He made no attempt 10 protect
his flanks-one of the cardinal
teachings of the textbooks in
the military schools of the U. S.,
France and Great Britain. Be-
cause of his superiority in mech
anized equipment-and his novel
disposition of it-he could afford
to leave enemy forces on the
flanks and in the rear. He knew
that he could pierce their lines.
surround them and gobble them
up piecemeal. Meanwhile, his
airplanes kept them from cutting
his line of communication and
supplies. In this way he created
those dead mems" pockets in
which thousands Of his foe were
slaughtered and tons Of equip
ment captured.
The easiest way to understand
Hitler's technique, according to
our strategists. is to compare it
to football. In that game there
are only 10 fundamental plays;
all the others are variations.
Rut IL makes a lot of difference