The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-08-28
(By Staff Writef)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug q.
Ending a short seventh inning
stretch" after having gone through
the most momentous 12-month
session in the history of the Uni
ted States congress, senators and
representatives here have again
rolled up their sleeves to put
through new Notwithstanding legis-
lation including the biggest tax
bill America has ever seen and a
new lend-lease measure to pro-
vide new billions to anti-Nazl
forces.
Following the Presidents return
to this city from his dramatic con-
ference with Winston Churchill
and his announcement of three
cornered meeting with the Rus
slams, there is little doubt that the
majority in both houses of con-
gress feel more strongly than ever
that Mr.. Roosevelt holds the keys
to our future activities and they
stand ready to carry out his leg
islative requests.
Since the Presidents return tc
the White House little specific in
formation has been revealed
about the conclusions which he
reached with Mr.. Churchill, but
significance is being attached to
his statement that we are no near
er war as result of the meeting
and to the fact that the now fam
GUS eight aims of Great Britain
and the United States, as released
by Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Roose-
welt, were peace aims rather than
war aims.
For the past year men close to
the President have argued over
his views on whether we should
send an expeditionary force to
aid Britain, some. believing that
he is eager to become feeling that
he is still bending every effort to-
ward helping Britain win the war
without sending men. Each state
ment he makes seems to add new
fire to the argument, both sides
finding phrases which they can
interpret to bolster their own
views. But the wise-acres who a
year ago predicted an "expedi-
tioIlary force before Christmas"
have had to admit the President
is not rushing us into war and it
is the general feeling here that,
without some unexpected Incl
dent, we will continue for some
time our policy of "all aid short
of war;"
The "short of war" tag on our
pledges of aid have been less ap-
parent recently, but all polls show
the people still are thinking in
terms of "short of war" and no
shooting is expected while the
majority of Americans oppose it.
All polls of public opinion con-
tinue to show, strong sentiment
against an A. E. F. The most re-
cent Gallup poll, which is watched
carefully by government leaders
here, shows 50 per cent of the
people still opposed to an expedi-
tionary force, although the great
majority favor all possible aid to
Britain except men.
Reports on our defense produc-
ton indicate that output has been
accelerated at tremendous rate
during the past six months, but
there are still many obstacles in
the way of attaining the produc-
ton rate of which we are capa-
BILE. Shortage of raw materials is
an increasingly difficult problem.
In controlling the distribution of
material, the Office of Production
Management has tried to feed
both the defense factories and the
non-defense industries as long as
possible, but in one line after an
other it has now become a ques-
ton of slowing up defense pro-
duction or putting non-defense in
dustries out of business.
One possible solution, which the
OPM is now trying to work out, is
to aid non-defense industries by
finding defense work for them to
do and putting aside some Of the