The Coolidge examiner., 1941-12-12

Finland. A mere forma'ity that Is
out of date. But England has a
way of holding on to the old con-
ventional customs-even in the
war game.
AS for Rumania and Hungary we
have nothing to say They doubt
less have been play things in the
hands of Hitler all along. For Fin
land we express sympathy and re-
gret. The United States and Eng
land had been close friends of
Finland all along. or course there
is the Russian angle and we did
not approve OF Russia's attack on
Finland. But when it is all over
Finland will find that she has en-
acted over again the story Of
Esau's selling out his birthright
for a bowl of soup. She threw in
with Germany for what she believ-
ed was an immediate advantage
But after the soup is eaten she
will find that the birthright is
gone. Soup is soup. 1t tastes good
when you are hungry. But some
times it is better to forego the
CUP for a time in order to get
eventually a good ana continuous
meal. The soup-eaters of this war
are Italy, Finland. and Japan. OF
the three our sympathy is for poor
little Finland. She had been so
honest. But we cannot condemn.
She may have had little to do
with the choice that was made.
FORD HATES WAR
Henry Ford has always been
known to hate war. On his 18th
birthday last week he was asked
how he could hate war and at the
same time be making war supplies
in his plants. He replied that max
ing war supplies is a law.
A lot OF people who hate muir
der have a gun in the house and
at times are compelled to use 1t.
Because a man is forced to shoot
to kill once In while is no rea-
son he doesn't still hate murder.
For a while many of us passed
thru a period of thinking the path
to peace was to disarm. Now we
are beginning to realize that dis
armament was the surest guaran-
tee of war. The other fellow, the
threat, armed while we were dis
arming. The only way you can
keep the peace with some people
is to be able at all times to give
him a sound thrashing. The bully
doesn't like peace but he also
doesn't like having his own face
smashed in. AS long as we have
some of this kind in the world we
are going to have to go on hating
war and at the same time using our
plants. some of them for making
war supplies.
THE WORM TURNS
The House of representatives
passed an anti-strike bill last week.
For the first time in nine years
"the worm-.he turn" When little
God almighty set in nine years ago
to save the poor working man thru
the communistic tinted labor
parties congress climed on his
band wagon and gave the country
away to them. When little would
be-God-almighty tried to clog up
the whole defense program with
strike recently Congress walked
up to realize that 1t had sold out
to the interests"
Pegler caller congress: "a sorry
counterfit Of legislature - you
have impaired and damn near de-
stroyed your own prestige and
with 1t the American form of gov
ernment." That Is strong but true.
Members of Congress allowed the
sell-out to labor during the past
years because they had their eyes
always on the next election. And
they are now passing an anti strike
law because they are thinking as
much about the next election as
they are about the defense pro-
gram. Organized labor can cast
lot of votes in an election but out
ragged public opinion carries bal
ance at the polls that even a self
centered office seeker cannot fail
to respect.