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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
No Brothers to Europe

A MERICA should not enter this war! Amer
n leans are not gulible enough to believe
that any foreign people would fight and die
for us.
We did not start this war and we do not
propose to be bamboozled into finishing it.
We are not brothers to any European, as
our loud-crying interventionists would have
us think.
Englishmen consider us greedy igno-
ramuses. On the continent we are called
American fools, whose entire culture con-
sist in the dollar mark alone.
have been there; / have heard these
sentiments expressed in their own language.
All of us have read similar illusions
Witness: Uncle Sham, Shylock, and
Northcliffs statement that Americans have
the herd-like characteristics of sheep.
The danger of involvement through sales
or credits to Britain is very small. If judici-
ously managed these might be an advantage
to us both in assuring us time to increase
defense preparations.
Americans, deserving of the name do not
fear Hitler, or any one else. Defeatists not
withstanding, we can annihate any imagin-
able invasion force before it could set foot on
our shores.
All we ask is that our government pro-
vide unstinted amounts of arms and bomb
ers, maintaining a real coast defense here,
rather than in Singapore.
America needs no military allies in Eu-
rope. What we need is more friendly neigh
bors. Let us try to gain the confidence of
the South American Republics, thereby better
ing our position both economically and in
military way. This "ally" business means
only the waste of our wealth and the killing
of our youth on alien shores.
T.. j. WAHLA,
Minden City, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Professional Hunters
Get Kick in Wan+on NI|inq
By BENJAMIN DE CASsEREs

7 LIKE the activities of the
= National Anti-Steel Trap
league. which is making a fight
against the wanton destruction
of wild life-animals and birds
in particular.
/ never could understand, for.
instance. the profess on !
hunter. l mean the fellow
who thinks he must shoulder
rife every once in a while and
go off and kill birds, ducks, deer
and even savage beasts.
OF course, if they are dam
gerous to human beings or to
foodstuffs, wild beasts and birds
should be killed.
What kick" do these pro-
fessional huntsmen get of wan
tonly killing birds and animals?
1t was this trait that prejudiced
me against Grover Cleveland
and Theodore Roosevelt. who
seemed only to be happy when
they were off for a kill"
Now, I'll go further and say
I can't fish, either-for the
simple reason that 1 get no
kick" out of seeing a fish
agonizing on the end of hook.
If these things are absolutely
necessary for self-protection or
food, then there is an excuse,
for self-preservation is the first
law of nature, although Bernard
Shaw, a vegetarian, says they
are not.
Many persons who read these
lines will murmur "milksop."
- Well if a hatred of cruelty to
any living thing and an instinc-
tive dislike of seeing things die
just to prove my skill with a
gun or a hook is a "milksop,"
then I'm one. I'll have to make
the best of it.
7 COOKING at the killing from
II another standpoint:
rules the world today"
That is the phrase that is
most often heard on the air and
seen in print these days.
1t is generally said critically
or in horror. But why? 1t is
nothing new. There never was
a time when force did not rule
the world, and there never will
be. For force is energy, move
ment. conclusion, domination.
Without force there is no life,
no universe.
But there are two kinds of
forces = physical forces and
mental, or Spiritual" if you
prefer that word.
War and law are physical
forces. The Darwinian theory
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Connolly Answers

l. (a) Mounted bullfighter; (b)
person who kills the bull; (c)
moving staircase.
2. ta) Martinelli; (b) Werfel; (c)
Judas Iscariot.
3. (a) Sweden; (b) northern; (c)
England.
A. (a) Water brooks; (b) night;
(c) chasteneth."
5. (a) Lily Langtry; (b) the Rev
Bernard Hubbard; (c) Florence
Nightingale.
6. ta) Spanish; tb) American; (c)
English.
z. (a) Hamlet; (b) Merchant
of Venice; (c) Twelfth Night
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
HitIer'S Hands Full
BY PHILIP r. DAVIS
First Judge Advocate of the Department OF
Illinois of the American Legion.


First Judge Advocate of the Department OF
Illinois of the American Legion.
THOSE who urge alliance with Britain,
which means going into war to protect our
own democracy, truly lack realism. All mill
tary experts know we are in no danger so long
as we stay at home sound and complete
army and navy and air force for defensive
purposes only is our insurance against in
volvement.
We must remember that Hitler will have
his hands full in Europe-he will be kept
busy for long time to come trying to keep
the conquered nations subjugated and to sup
press revolutions
THE greatest fault of those who would have us
fight this war across the seas is their skill,
conscious or unconscious, in directing attention
abroad and putting our home problems on the
shelf.
In this country today we must fight more
than ever before, racial discrimination in any
of it's malicious forms. How can we, without
utter contempt for our own hypocrisy, ask any
human to defend a country that treats him
with contempt?
Before we undertake to police the world,
we must end the cowardly methods of the Ku
Klux Khan, Silver Shirts, the Bund and all
secutors and extralegal lawmakers.
We must end lynchng in the South, in the
North, East and West. We must end poll tax
slavery. We must end corrupt political ma
chimes in our large cities We must end gov
ernmental favors to powerful vioators of our
labor and industrial laws; we must end labor
racketeering; we must end poverty in this
country of plenty; we must encourage free
enterprise, but not as pious cloak of ex-
ploitation.
Out first duty is to defend our institutions,
our civil liberties and to defend them we must
end the hypocrisy of closing our eyes to our
national deficiencies and make America really
strong by migrating our own needs.
4 LREADY opposition to the administrations
"A i'll considered and hasty plans brings down
opprobrium and villification on the dissenter.
Democracy is way of associating people
together for their common welfare. We are
nation of people who do not know one another,
and we have too largely lost the art of think
ing and working together. Basically we need
to recover the spirit and the strength of the
community
The best defense of America will come not
from the top down but from the bottom up,
from the thousands of communities that must
be awakened to their common needs and their
common problems.
My position - defend America is REIN
forced by the memory that we were unable to
set the troubles of Europe Alright when we last
tried it under far more favorable circum-
stances.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Quiz Answers

!. Thomas Jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln.
2. Great Britain.
3. The penguin.
q. ta) Eight to one.
). Mixes and nymphs are always
feminine. Pixies and elves may
be of either sex.
6. (a) In an unsettled wilderness.
The name is applied to Alaskan
"oldtimers."
z. That of the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
BAERIkG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Pick Your Preamble
BY. ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

After all that ruckus down in Congress last week will
bet all the tea the Burma Road that the joint needs
roof again.
Say, the voting got close the chairman poed the
visitors gallery.
There girl up there wearing skeleton Halloween
costume She graduate of good old Vassar and
her grandma must have been the girl wrote about 26
ago who was anchor the daisy chain.
Anyway that this is democracy with plenty of
preamble and your choice of constitutions.
Anything in democracy If you get it started.
Let's look at Europe Over in Rumana they will shoot you
deader than boned Goldfish for drawing political cartoon
singing certain song
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

A T A time when the King Of
Kings is chasing Mussolini
out of Abyssinia, it is fitting to
suggest that the feelings of any
Abyssinians who are among US
deserve the same consideration
as the tender sensibilities of
those who insist on regarding
themselves as Italians, though
Americans, too.
Nevertheless, there is still q
superstition that to applaud the
Negus and the Greeks and the
British and laugh at the Duce in
full flight is to create disunity in
the United States.
Why should any one in the
United States be expected to
speak or write kindly or refrain
from expressing himself TN
kindly regarding the Duce and
the Italian people?
IT is persistently argued that
L the conduct of Benny's in
vincibles on all fronts is not q
measure OF their soldierly quail
ties. Aside from the fact that
both the French and British said
years before this war that Mus
solini would need two M. P.'s for
every soldier, the fact remains
that these persons who have
been advancing to the rear with
such irresistible dash are indu-
bitably Italian soldiers.
They are not Swedes, Span
iards or Russians but Italians,
most of whom have been trained
for soldering ever since they
were children. and they have in
dubitably been running like
thieves and. to make matters
more humiliating, running from
a breed whom Benny described
as miserable towards, TO wit, the
British.
What are the feelings of a
Greek-American, granting for
the sake of argument that n.y.
phenism is consistent with
American citizenship, when he
is asked 10 pretend that the
enemy are not Italian soldiers
but, in the language of the old
lynching stories. a crowd of I'M
identified men?
Our Greek friend
wants to emit few cheers for
the homefolks and in doing so
he certainly wants TO give them
full credit for slapping the ears
off the most bombastic and ridic-
ulous fouriiusher that the world
has ever known, who happens TO
be the ruler of the Italian ma
ton and the commander of an
Italian army which has been
strutting and Dragging for Is
years.
IT DOES seem that any one
L who remains, somehow. LOYAL
TO Benny and Italy should be
SHOi ASiiidii ttlOhkI W tdht IL,
now that the AbyssinianS. those
scabby, semi-savage dog-eaters,
the Greeks and the craven Brit
ish have exposed the fraud.
But. in any case. any one call
ing himself American who still
persists in being somewhat Ital-
ian. cannot erase the fact that
those are italian soldiers who
have made this humiliating fall
ure after so much threatening
and boasting.
And one may be sure that II
they had won a couple of these
campaigns nobody would be ex-
planning that, after all, they
weren't Italians. Nobody said
that when Benny took Adds
Ababa from the King of Kings
four wears AGO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10

Of evolution, the Copernican
theory of the universe. the Con-
stitution of the United States,
for instance, are all force ideas.
All ideas are forces as we'll
as bombs and ub m r In S.
Christianity. Buddhism. atheism
are forces as well as ideas.
And it quite often happens
that great ideas require physical
forces to put them over"
The ideas in the Declaration
of Independence required physi-
cal force to make them reality.
To abolish human slavery il
took four years of Civil War.
HITLER, Mussolini and Stain
IL will tell you that they battle
for ideas and that the force"
they use is only a means.
That of course. is not the
truth. The means, in fact. is
the end with them. The idea"
-nazism, fascism and COM
munism-is merely the excuse
for a perpetuated brutal will
to-power.
Men cannot live by ideas
alone. We are discovering that.
If we are to remain free we
must be ready to exercise
physical force to maintain that
freedom.
And that is so, too. in our
everyday lives. You are free
to come and go at any time of
the night or day. You are free
to speak what you will. write
what you will. pray in whatever
church you will-or no church
at all.
Now look at the policeman
standing on your corner with
club, a pistol and a beltful of
cartridges. He. and he alone,
is the symbol and the guarantee
of those liberties-and the cop
is physical force, the ruler, for
good and for evil, of the world.
WHY is it that so many
w Americans" (sic) are so
alert to see that Communists
and Nazis are not deprived of
their civil rights" to burrow
under the institutions of our
country while they are not con-
cerned at all about how the pos
sible application of the "prin-
ciples" of com mum m and
nazism will affect those very
civil rights in regard to real
Americans
When you hear person
bawling for the rights" of Reds
or Nazis, you are looking into
the very mouth of a Trojan
horse.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Feb. 10 1910

The Firms insisted claims
that the Reds had broken the
Mannerheim Line were false
Prime Minister Chamberlain
and Viscount Halifax promised
the Poles q free and fndepend-
ent nation before concluding any
peace.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10

TOW there are those who say that that may
II be "horse-and-buggy stuff but up to the
time of the last World War, coupled with its
tremendously insidious propaganda, we fol-
lowed those precepts and became great ma
ton. We kept our national debt within bounds;
we were indeed a prosperous nation, so much
so as to be the envy of the whole world.
Since then, we have become more and more
subject to foreign influences in this nation,
until now it seems imperative to some-too
many, fear--that we must henceforth &C.
lively enter the arena of European power
politics. with all it's selfish greed, intrigue and
hate.
Today, 90 per cent of the American people
feel that we can, and should, stay out of this
present war, with manpower at least But
fear that pursuing our present course, while
continuing to give insidious propaganda full
sway, there must inevitably occur that Incl
dent" which will almost overnight so sway
public opinion that once again we will commit
the folly of sending the youth of our nation
to die on foreign soil. Keep the war away
from these shores; yes, indeed, that does
save property destruction, but that political
heresy is of little moment to the widowed
wives, or the Gold-Star mothers back home.
Most assuredly every red-blooded Ameri-
can whoe-heartedly despises the tactics of the
dictators; none that know of would trust the
word of Hitler, a Mussoni or Stain. Their
whole philosopsy is contrary to ours, and
always will be. Americas sympathies are
always with the victims of aggressors, wher-
ever they may be; but today's aggressors have
not always been the only aggressors in the
past; but how easy il is to forget when "the
insdous wies of foreign influences" are en-
couraged to run amuck in free land.
1t is easy in these times of hysteria to re-
sort to name-callng and to talk about isola-
tionists, or appeasers, or tories; but I am
thankful that there are some of us down here
in Washington who are still willing to stand
on our own convictions and above all who still
remember the campaign pledges which they
made last Fall and which they are not now
repudiatng
have said that our sympathies are always
with the victims of the aggressor-and hence
with England now fighting with her back to
the wall to preserve her vast dominion. But let
us not forget that our sympathies were with
brave little Finland, and we sent her money
and munitions, while at the same time we were
sending money and munitions to Russia to
help crush Finland.
And right today, we deny food, clothing
and even medical supplies to the starving
Firms; why? For fear they will fall into the
hands of the conqueror and be used against
England Memory is indeed short in the face
Of propaganda.
FRED BRADLEY,
Member of Congress,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Avoid All Alliances!

I HAVE always consistently opposed any
i foreign entanglements for the United
States. For that reason, I feel that America
should not enter the European war with men
we have been in it from the start, with
munitions and money. Secondly, l am con-
WINGED in my own mind that our present
course will inevitably involve us in war-much
as respect the opinions of those who feel
otherwise. Thirdly have always advocated
that America should concentrate on her own
defense and her own independence, and should
not align herself with England or any other
nation on the face of the earth, now or at any
time in the future.
Consider the words of the Father of our
Country George Washington:
against the insidious wiles of foreign
influence, the jealousy of free people ought
to be constantly awake; since history and
experience prove that foreign influence Is
one of the most baneful foes of republican
government. But that jealousy, to be useful.
must be impartial, else 1t becomes the In
strument of the very influence to be avoided,
instead of q defense against 1t.
Excessive partiaIity for one foreign
nation and excessive dislike for another
cause those whom they actuate to see dan
ger only on one side, and serve to veil and
even second the arts of influence on the
other. Real patriots, who may resist the
intrigues of the favorite, are liable to be-
come suspected and odious; while Its tools
and dupes nsurp the applause and conf
dence of the people, to surrender their in
crests."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Feb. 10, 1916

Germany offered to make
compensation for the Ameri-
can victims OF the Lusitania
disaster.
Germany announced that from
March I. 1916. all armed mer-
chsntmen would be treated ss
beIHgerents.
A British war vessel was sunk
by German destroyer off
Dogger Bank.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Congress
Controls
The Cash
Power of The Purse Not
Yet Presidents

(The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neees-
soriiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Letters to the Editor

does not exist within the corpo-
rate limits Of Detroit, but here
in Lincoln Park there are at
least four crews which are con-
stantly patroling the streets
with their trucks and testing
devices to locate gas leaks. We
have had a great number of
serious explosions and some
fatalities.
On this particular street they
have just finished testing for
about the fourth time this year.
I asked down at the fire de-
partment Lincoln Park and
was told that practically all
the gas pipes have gone to pieces
and have rusted and rotted so
that all of them should be re-
placed.
Wouldn't the taxpayers of
Detroit be the worst kind of
suckers If they were to let the
gas company unload such a
white elephant on them?
Do you not think that that
feature should be thoroughly
investigated?
JAMES b. VAN vECHTEN,
1478 Garfield street,
Lincoln Park.
TO THE EDITOR:
DO believe If Senator Wheeler
Il has to act like a scared rab-
bit, he could pick more private
place than the newspaper. He
says we should knuckle down
and let Hitler have his own way.
All I have to say to the sena-
tor is to turn the pages OF
recent history. Take Czecho-
Slovakia, Poland, Denmark and
Norway, who put on arming
until it was too late. Where are
these countries today?
This same senator also says
that President Roosevelt is try
ing to get too much power
that he is on the road to becom-
ing a dictator. Yet he says let
Hitler have his own way. Hitler
already is a well established
dictator.
BEVERLY FYFE,
802K E. Genesee,
Saginaw, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10

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not be printed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
JOHN F. WAGNER,
Majestic Building.

TO THE EDITOR:
I HAVE just finished reading
L your editorial regarding the
purchase of the gas company. 1
made a note of the reasons emu
merated and do not see-what
to me-is the outstanding one.
Perhaps the same condition
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
TO THE EDITOR:


TO THE EDITOR:
MUCH as Americans desire
V1 that England win, Ameri-
cans should consider this coun-
try first.
In the hearings in Congress,
haven't the proponents of the
bill struggled to make Britain's
battle our battle and resorted
to flights of imagination to Gre
ate a fear that our nation OF
10000, 900 people with the most
tremendous ability to produce
war equipment is now in danger
of attack if England fails,
though that enemy is still 5000
miles away and has not a sim
gle land, air or naval base any,
where in the Western Henri
sphere?
Aren't most of those favoring
the bill so anxious to help Brit
ain. regardless of consequences,
that they have conjured up and
presented only fantastic plans of
how this country could be in
vaded?
In the spirit Of 1776, should
we not amend the bill to affirm
or again declare our independ-
ence of England? Why endanger
the lives of millions of our best
young men, mortgage our great
wealth for years to come, and
even chance the loss of our
democratic form of government
which we normally set out to
preserve?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
Abyssinians
Also Have
SensibiIi+ies
In Defense Of Laughter
at Duce in Flight

(Ths opinions expressed BY
Wssfbrook Pegier are not neess-
sordy those of The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-10
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THOSE UNBEATABLE NORWEGIANS

Tales of individual heroism are rare in this war, whose mechanized character has taken the emphasis away from and placed it machines. But will win this as they have won all wars. The spirit of the men who will win is that possessed by little band of heroes described by J. D. Rat cliff in a recent issue of the Star Weekly of To- ronto
 When German planes arriving by the thousands, quickly destroyed much of Norway's airforce in the sudden and treacherous invasion of that nation a chunky, blue-eyed flier named Capt Ole Reistad, who had led Norway's winning ski team in the 1886 Oympcs, was in Oslo. He slipped away with the remnants of Norway's panes-36 Fokkers, vintage of 1924. Useless against German Messerschmtts, these ancient crates good only for reconnaissance and bombing.
 Blasted out of two airports Restad built third one of the strangest ever constructed Couriers rounded up reindeer herdsmen who brought in 5000 animals. The reindeer mled the deep snow on lake until they had tramped out hard land- ing surface His men filled oil tins with dynamite and used them for bombs. Working without bomb sights, they destroyed dozen German planes on the ground and managed to shoot down two Heinkels.
 With the signing of the armistice and the Brit ish evacuation of Narvik in June 1940 Reistad and his men flew the 25 remaining Fokkers to Finland. There they disbanded Reistad told the not to join other air forces, and thus lose their national identity, but to try to make their way to Canada, where American planes, ordered by Norway before started, would be waiting Every would go his way. Twenty of the 25 who heard that stirring farewell speech have reached their des- tination.
 Capt. Restad himself slipped the Russian border and made his way across Siberia to Japan, where he signed on tramp steamer an ordinary seaman and finally reached Canada. Some of his men flew their planes to England, and pair es- capped in a Nazi seaplane which they flew from its anchorage on lake while the German pilots were drinking coffee in fshermans house
 Today Norways flag floats over low, gray bar racks at Camp Little Norway, which clings to the waterfront at the foot of Toronto Bathurst Street