The Coolidge examiner., 1941-10-03

ready to give up and make a
separate peace. These stories
came out at the time the Presi-
dent asked for S5.9S5 900 900 more
lease-lend money. 1t has been
known right along here that many
members OF congress objeS . to
giving equipment to Russia. so the
smart young men in the govern
ment Immediately interpreted the
Russian collapse" story as being
mere propaganda to east the pass
age OF the new lease-lend measure.
Doubtless there is a large guam
tity of propaganda being released
J from Washington TO impress the
public with the dangers facing
3 the United States. but probably
not nearly as many of the import
ant stories issuing from this city
are pure propaganda as the wise
acres would have US believe. There
are some who even think the ship
sinkings by Nazis were invented
i To arose a war spirit here and we
still hear opinions that the Nazi-
Russian war Is merely a fake war
arranged by Hitler and Stain as
means OF getting England and
the United States to walk into a
trap.
These examples are brought up
merely TO indicate how far certain
Washington guessers go In treat
| ing all statements and stories with
the utmost suspicion. Commenting
on this situation, a leading busi-
! ness man who visited Washington
recently said: "If the government
wants unity among the people of
I this country IL certainly ought to
start the groundwork in Washing
ton. With everybody here telling
you something different | truly be-
lieve that our thousands of federal
employees are proving to be one OF
the greatest enemies OF unity"
OF course there Is endless dis
cussion here over the Presidents
new lease-lend request and his re-
port on the expenditure of the sew
en- billions appropriated in the
first lease-lend law The discus
sion centers around the fact that
only little over $300,0 100000
worth OF supplies has actually
reached the nations fighting the
Axis powers, that a large percent
age of that amount represents
food and that the other $500, ,000.-
900 appropriated represents goods
ION order"
With figures like that to work
on II is easy to make it appear
! that our help to the allies Is in
finitesimal, many OF those debat-
ing the subject ignoring complete
ly the fact that we have filled
over $4,000 100000 worth of orders
for equipment which were not
placed under the lease-lend law.
We have also accelerated our pro-
duction on many types of equip
ment by about 300 per cent in the
last six months.
There is no doubt that we
haven't reached nearly the output
which British needs urgently re-
quire, but there are plenty of fl
CURES to indicate that the job
OF help will multiply very rapidly.
The new request for funds is to
make 1t possible to place further
orders even though it will be some
time before present orders are
completed. Naturally, it is pointed
out, II our program is to be un-
interrupted we cannot wait until
thte first seven billions worth OF
goods are delivered before placing
orders for more supplies. The new
request Is expected to carry the
program through to 1943.
The new lease-lend measure is
opposed by many of the isolation
lists in congress as well as by those
who feel that the financial struc-
ture of our country is imperiled
by thte growing debt. The new tax
law, which calls for far heavier
taxes than were ever before paid
by the people of this country, is