Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
u. s. Warned
On Excuses
a,'s,..r
In Rationing
HeafIess Mondays, etc.,
Of War ! Recalled
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES


War I there was an epidemic
of rationing regulations from
Washington. We had meatless
Saturdays, heatless Mondays,
gasolineless Tuesdays, lightless
Wednesdays, and so on and on.
On heatless Mondays the
large department stores had 10
close in the winter of 1918. On
lightless Wednesdays stores had
TO close at dark or get along
with a single light.
All this was ridiculous be-
cause il wasn't necessary. 1t
was merely Washington bureauc-
racy showing off.
l do not say that these things
are not necessary today, but let
us not go haywire, as we did in
1918.
GUTHE time is unpropitious for
Il postwar planning" said
Lord Chancellor Simon Of Great
Britain to a lord who wanted
to crochet another postwar
world-with words.
That's sound advice from Eng
land. l submit that Messrs.
Hull. Wallace and Welles take
il 10 heart.
The house Is on fire.
First, put the fire out-job
enough, God knows.
TliE iSolationist versus the In
Il ternationalist has always
been false issue. in my opinion.
The issue has always been
commufasciSm versus Amer
icaniSm.
If any one was an isolationist
because he was playing the Ger
man game he was a potential
traitor.
If any one was an iSolationist
because he sincerely feared, as
an American, that engagement
in foreign wars was detrimental
10 US that person was a good
American.
Representative Mareantonio.
for instance. was an isolationiSt
because he was more interested
in Russian communism than in
Americanism. He became pro-
war only from the date Russia
was attacked.
This war is an historical ne
ceSSity. We were forced into it
by our two theological enemies
Germany and Japan.
THIS is not the first deep In
Il vasion of Russia by Germany.
The first invasion was made
by Karl Marx book "Das
Kapital."
The second German invasion
was that of Lenin and Trotsky
in 1917.
Communism Is OF German
origin, as is every totalitarian
economic or political idea Of the
last 100 years.
1t may be that Russia is try
ing not only TO throw Germany
off of her back but also Ger
man-made communism.
WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY,
w sentenced TO Jail for his pro-
Nazi activities, said he carried
around in him an oracle" that
told him what 10 do and when
to do it.
1t is quite probable that this
oracle" was pipe jointed to
Hitler'S Intuition"
The wheeze about "oracles"
wandering around in human
bodies and telling them how 10
make jackasSes of themselves is
an old one.
This oracle" and intuition
stuff is merely a sort of high:
proved excuse for criminal in
stncts. or those still. small
voice that tells us that bunch
of suckers is ripe for rolling"
'"THIs must not occur again
Il said Mrs. Roosevelt in
speaking of the war.
l hope not, but / have my
doubts. Those who utter that
hope believe that all future
wars can be cured by certain
changes in our economic sys-
tenn"
What an illusion. Economic
systems are the product Of
human beings; human beings
are not the product of economic
systems.
Wars arc caused by ancient
blood-lustS in man.
These blood-lusts arc incar-
mated in Caesars. AleXanderS.
NapoleonS, HitlerS. MuSsolinis
and Kaiscrs. They will arise
again unless there is miracle
in the blood of man.