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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

/ accurate calculation. It implies 9
Federal debt of $50 billions, which
seems entirely likely.
The Senator's warning to the
Oklahoma voters is supported by
solid facts. Senator Harry F
Byrd Of Virginia, chairman of the
Joint Committee on Reduction OF
Nonessential Federal Expendi-
lures, has presented undisputed fig
ures showing how the Federal
bureaucracy has grown to danger
GUS proportions.
There are now 100000 en-
ployees on the Federal govern
ment's payroll Exclusive of mill
tary personnel). This is equal to
220 infantry divisions, or to one
Federal employee for every three
men in the military service.
In 1910 there was one Federal
employee for every 264 Of the ma
tional population. In 1914 there
is one Federal employee for every
al persons in the United States.
In 1888 the Federal payroll was
100000 per month. Today,
Exclusive of military personnel)
the Federal payroll is 1922, OOO,-
900 per month.
At the end of World War No. 1
there were 80 Federal administra-
tive units, including the wartime
emergency bureaus. Today there
are 205 Federal departments, COM
missions, boards and independent
agencies.
1t is beginning to sink into the
consciousness of the American
people that, as rich as this nation
is, we cannot continue to increase
our expenses and our debts indefi-
nitely.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
All We Know Is....

AS PLAIN, average American
citizens who make an honest
effort to keep fairly well informed
on such things, we don't know
what the foreign policy of the
United States is. We don't even
know If there is a foreign policy,
as such. And we don't see how il
is possible to formulate definite
foreign policy right now that
would be worth nickel later on.
That is perhaps what Secretary
of State Cordell Hull is trying to
tell the congressman who have in
terviewed him on the subject. That
is perhaps what Mr.. Hull is try
ing to tell the country, without
fatty admitting that we have no
definite foreign policy at this time.
~~-~~~~
Consider the condition of world
affairs. Everything, everywhere,
is in a state of flux. No one, not
even such a superbly we'll informed
international figure as Mr.. Wins
ton Churchill, can say with any
certainty how or when the war
will end. No one can say what
situations will confront the lead
ers of the United Nations next
month, let alone next year. Decla-
rations of long-range foreign pol
icy are virtually impossible under
present world conditions.
The widely publicized Atlantic
Charter formulated by Mr.. Roose-
welt and Mr.. Churchill was the
nearest approach to a declaration
of fixed foreign policy by the
United States and Great Britain.
The turn of subsequent events has
reduced the Atlantic Charter to
practically meaningless proper
tions.
1t is no wonder that the respon-
sible leaders of great nations shy
away from definite commitments
on foreign policy at this stage.
Foreign policy must be a very
flexible thing just now. 1t must of
necessity be dictated by the force
of events, at least until the war
is won.
1t seems to us that a frank
statement to this effect, rather
than the present procedure of beat
ing about the bush, would do much
to allay the present agitation over
our foreign policy, or lack Of one.
AS plain, average American citi-
zens, all we know is that military
victory over Germany and Japan
is our first concern. After that is
achieved we will be in a better
position to know what we need in
the way Of a foreign policy.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
On a recent sunshiny Washington
afternoon, / made a pilgrimage to
the Republican National committee
headquarters. AS l entered the
white-pillared portal of the modest
little house they have rented on Con-
necticut avenue, number Of
thoughts, which may be omens Of
good or i'll in the coming election
fioated into my ken.
The house was once a private
home but now it is situated amidst
shops and restaurants and looks
across the avenue toward towering
apartment house taken over by the
Civilian Defense administration.
AS ! assembled the stairway to the
second floor Office of Chairman Har-
rison Spangler, memories rushed
about me and was transported
back to the days when the Republi-
can party was suffering in the slough
of its deepest despond. The rooms
about me then housed one of the
many trade organizations created by
that wonderful and awful National
Recovery administration presided
over by the late and stormy Gen.
eral Iron Pants Johnson.
And later, as I chatted with Mr..
Spangler, was reminded Of another
circumstance. gently symbolic Of
the days when the elephant sulked,
impotent and neglected, in his tent
the Republican committee was
forced to move some two years ago
from its snappier, modern quarters
on Lafayette Square where it could
gaze longingly at the White House
on the right hand, and not too hope
fully at the United States Chamber
Of Commerce on the other. The
reason the committee had to move
was because it was only a tenant on
Lafayette Square and the CLIO
(Which had tossed a million into the
Democratic electioneering fund.- was
the landlord.
Temporal mutantur.
But il the times and the quarters
have changed, so have Republican
spirits. Roosevelt won't carry two
states Cor was 1t five?)," l was con-
fidentially informed by one of the
modest laborers in the COP vine.
yard.
Harrison Spangler made no tall
predictions to me. He made no pre-
dictions at all. He simply told me
about what he is doing. the results
so far obtained. He has a simple
faith that results already achieved
are the precursors Of victory.
Weu-Used Word
Spangler's forte is organization.
and that's the word he uses most.
THE precinct is the squad" he
said. IF you have good squads. you
re a good 'ment."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
Shaky Issue

MIR. WILLIS R. JONES, a Dem.
A. ocratic candidate for the nom
nation for United States Senator
in the coming primary election, is
humping the tub for repeal of the
Maryland Declarations of Inten-
tons Act. Mr.. Jones charges that
many American citizens now living
in Maryland are being disfran-
chised because they did not know
the requirements of the Maryland
statute and failed to become eli
gible to vote in this years cleo
tions.
1t is a bit mystifying to find
Mr.. Jones, or for that matter any
body else, advocating repeal of
this law, which requires newcom-
ers to the State to declare their
intentions to become citizens one
year in advance of an election in
order to be eligible to vote. The
law is obviously designed to pre-
vent election frauds in this State
by limiting the privilege of voting
to bona fide residents. The laws
requirements are reasonable and
fair and have long been accepted
as sound.
Mr.. Jones declares that new
Corners to Maryland have as much
right to vote as anyone else and
that the Maryland law is I'M
American because it deprives them
of that right. We cannot quite
follow his reasoning.
Last fall, before the deadline
for declaring intentions, the law
was widely publicized. There was
quite a hullabaloo about the neces-
sity of war workers going to city
or county court houses to declare
intentions. Because of this pub
licity, newcomers to the State GER
tainly had no excuse for failing
to comply with the law because of
ignorance of its existence.
Moreover, even if newcomers
did not comply with the Maryland
law they are still not necessarily
disfranchised. They can vote in
many of the States from which
they came if they are registered
in their home districts.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
Service Education

To facilitate the educational pro.
gram for servicemen overseas. the
United States Armed Forces insti.
tute has set up branches in FIVE the.
aters Of war-Southwest Pacific,
South Pacific, Middle East, Euro
pean and Alaskan theaters. Mem.
bers Of all branches of the Ameri.
can armed forces serving overseas
may now apply directly to the new
branches for the same courses that
are given in the states through insti-
tute headquarters at Madison, Wis.
The curriculum covers the range
from grammar school to university
subjects. An enlisted man may ap-
ply for as many courses supplied
directly by USAFI as he wishes for
only one enrolment fee Of 50. For
self-teaching courses, text books and
materials are supplied free Of
charge.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

American servicemen consumed
approximately l43,l92,OO cups OF
coffee and 100000 doughnuts at
Red Cross clubs. canteens and club
mobiles overseas during the last IL
months.
Horse-drawn streetcars-after an
absence of 40 years-are again be-
ing used in Amsterdam. They may
be slow. but power is conserved.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
ANSWERS

Count; Question one, 20; rest, 20 each.
Score: 100. perfect; 80. rood; 70. fair.
/. General Patton.
2 False. Two engines.
3. False. At compeigne Woods, site Of
1913 nrmistice.
Z. Austrian chancellor depOsed by Hitler.
Observation-Disclosures an tHrn an nHSsn
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
From where | sit :. by Joe Marsh
The Secret Weapon
in Dan Moson's Attic

Dan Mason was always what we
call a String saver" When he
unwraps a package he rolls up
the string-folds the paper-and
puts them both in his attic for
safe-keeping.
"Never can ten when things'n
come in handy" says Dan.
And you should see his attic!
Stacks of paper, balls of string,
empty bottles (Dan being a mod
crate man and sticking just to
beer), old horseshoes-and good
ness knows what-all.
We used to kid him lot. But
then comes the scrap drive, and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
B r | E FS. by Baukhage

A campaign to fill 100000 present
and impending job vacancies on the
railroads will be conducted by a
newly established railroad manpower
mobilization committee representing
the united efforts Of the government
and railroad labor and management.
The pay-as-you-earn system Of in
come tax collections is being con-
sidered In Australia.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

J. True or false: The PSS is a single
engined plane with double fuse
lage.
!. True or false: Nazis signed armi-
stice with France at Versailles.
!. Kurt Schussnig was (a) Nazi for
eign minister; CD Austrian chan
cellor deposed by Hitler; Co
Dutch premier.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
COP Leader Places Faith
In Simple Election Formula
Harrison SpangIer, Party Chairman, Sees
Republican Victory as Result of Complete
Effective Local Organization.
By BAUKHAGE
NesOs analyst and Commentator.

He mas t.~uced Lis training Of
the squad to very simple formula.
Get one energetic worker and as
sign him or her 20 Republican vot-
ers. See that they vote. Mark Han
ma used that system. 1t works. Iowa
tSpangler's own stated uses it. Many
others do.
The important word in the last
sentence is do" Important because
Spangler used it in the present tense.
In the days of the Blue Eagle. and
for many years thereafter, any
statement about an effective Repub-
lican political organization had to be
used in the past tense. But tempora
mutantur. again. Sangler believes
that times have changed and have
been changing for some time.
Chairman Spangler is not starting
at scratch with his organizing; 90
states which have elected Republi.
can governors. he pointed out to me,
already have pretty good machines
which are working now.
The chairman is a typical, sue.
cessful businessman of a middle.
sized town Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ir
the Middle West His speech and
his speeches are pretty much basic
English except when he rises to
pronounce" on party principles.
Then he uses good old substantial
political phrases marshaled in the
conventional manner. But like all
pre-convention committee chairman.
ships, his job is eschewing the over.
specific. He can talk about candi.
dates, but not a candidate, pro or
con; he can talk about platforms
but not about planks.
He is, according to his associates,
a man of action. Already he has
visited all Of the northern states
and that is what he is still doing,
dividing his time between the field
and the Washington office. He likes
best to meet with a small group Of
leaders. about 30. He also makes
his contacts with non-political organ
izations. (He. himself, is an Elk and
a Mason)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

ms vel federal ad-
minisli on; finance and currency;
labor; agriculture; and international
economic problems.
A staff of experts under DR.. Neil
Carothers. dean of the school of bust
ness of Lehigh university, has been
assembled, who assist the council.
which hopes to produce timber for
the party platform by scientific
methods.
Chairman Spangler admits that we
face a world in which conditions
which will affect the election in No
vember are likely to change radical
ly, perhaps before the conventions;
certainly before the elections. But
he believes that insofar as possible,
the various problems" listed by the
advisory committee should be
threshed out in as much detail as
possible before the convention so
that they will not have to be dealt
with specifically at the last mo-
ment by the platform committee at
the convention.
Votes and Relief
I'VE made several surveys COW
ering different periods in the East
a few years ago." he said. land we
found that the New Deal vote rose
in direct proportion with the amount
of relief in the community. The
people were grateful for the help
they got and gave Roosevelt the
credit; they forgot that it was the
peoples money they were spending
When they are able to pay their own
bills. earn enough for what they
need, they want to be independent.
They want to shake off government
control and regulation"
Mr.. Spangler and his associates
believe that the Republican party
will win-first. because of the ener-
getic response of people which has
made the rebuilding of an effective
political organization possible; Sec
ond. because they consider trends
already evident are a factual indi-
cation Of turn of the tide.
Mr.. Spangler did not attempt to
argue the case of the Republican
party, nor are these columns a place
for such a political debate. but any
one can see that he and his staff be-
lieve that they share popular feel
ing that ''the times have changed,
let nos mutamur ills" land we are
changed with them). The I'VE"
meaning voting majority of the
American people.
OF such is the optimism which fills
the workshop on Connecticut avenue
where the one concern is the practi-
cal side of politics-there, where the
shadow Of the Blue Eagle once fell
across the portals, not even the fiut-
ter Of ghostly feather can now be
detected. -
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

What ever became of the move
ment to take the profits out of
war?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
The Farm Problem

80 ~~HAse sCOsShe
The farm organizations win be
handled en- masse. Representatives
of all the farm organizations have
been invited to attend meeting in
Chicago early next month in order to
express their views for possible in
corporation in the party platform.
They will meet with members of the
Republican postwar advisory coun-
ellis committee on agriculture. Its
chairman is Governor Hickenlooper,
who succeeded the late Senator Nc
Merry, father Of the farm bloc.
Agriculture is one Of the eight
problems" listed by the advisory
council at its meeting in September.
1912. The others are foreign pol
icy; postwar industry and employ
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

The japanese know now that it
is easier to begin a war than to
end one.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

It is pleasant to meet human
beings when they try to be pleas
ant.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30

Dan sets a record for the metal
and the paper he contributes.
Aud the glassmakers owe him a
medal for the empty bottles he
turns in.
From where I sit, Dams one
up on us all What's more, he's
got us doing it too-collecting
scrap, returning empty bottles
not because somebody makes us
do it, but because it's the Demo-
cratic way of working together
to win the war.
&1s M~4<
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-03-30
WAR QUIZ
,CORklER
,ttAAStAtAsEtnAht IA
WHO is HE?
go points,

1. The general
shown here was
In charge Of u.
s. troops invad-
ing Sicily. His
name?
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
Federated Women
Back Plan for
24-Hour Schools

SACRAMENTO Sept. %. up
The California federation of wo-
mems clubs has recommended to a
senate interim committee on homes
and institutions that 24-hour state
schools for e-delinquent child
rem be established under control of
local boards of education as a means
of thwarting juvenile delinquency.
The federation directors and
county presidents proposed that
committementS to the boarding
schools be recommended by child S
school and approved by commun-
ity board, which they said would in
sure that neitheer parents nor teach
ers could pass problem children
off to state care without juStifica-
ton.
The schools should be financed by
state and local contributions, and
parents should pay for their child
ren's care according to their fin
ancial ability" the federation said.
AS a temporary measure, the wo-
men recommended that the state de-
partment of social welfare, which
now operates state homes, take steps
TO increase the number of schools
and attract better qualified per-
Sonnel through higher pay scales.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
Yankees Strike
Blow at Aochen
Continued from Page u

around Chateau Lambert stone built by the French
in 1870 and modernzed by the Nazs for the battle OF Ger
many Enemy tanks and shock troops counterattacked fur
iously yesterday in the Labert and along the Lure
Befort highway running into the mouth OF the Belfort
gap but they thrown back with heavy losses in men
and armor.
The main German defense in the Beort area were be-
lieved to lie in semicrcle extending about seven miles
north west and southwest of the city anchored on the
towns of Giromagny, Champagney, and Herlcourt
Black Forests of Germany Lie Ahead
Forty to 80 miles east of the Seventh army vanguards
lay the Rhine and beyond that the Black Forest area of
southwestern Germany.
First word of the crushing American tank victory on
the Third front the biggest oneday triumph for Pat
tons since D-Day, in field dispatch from
United Press War Cores pondent Robert {. Richards.
Richards reported that American infantrymen tanks
and ndestroyerS swarmng through the forest of
Parroy, miles northeast of Lunevle and almost due
of Nancy in close pursuit of strong German armored
detachments falling back toward high ground between
the VezouSe river and the Rhine-M Marne canal.
The Americans advanced to three miles, fighting
every step of the against Naz guards who tried
repeatedly ambush the Third army columns in the Dense
hly forests.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
81 Japanese
Ships Sunk

CONTINUED From Page Il
southwest Pacific bombers followed
I'D the carrier attack by hitting
the southern Philippines Tuesday
night. when they sank a lO,O0O-ton
transport and damaged a 6000-ton
freiehter.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced at Pearl Harbor that the
carrier force, striking after the
heavy attack on the Manila area
last week. also sank or damaged be-
tween % and 80 small craft, to
raise to 5l4 the number OF enemy
ships blasted by Halsey's force since
they began operations in the west
ern Pacific August 80.
Ten planes. five pilots and three
air crewmen were lost in the new
carrier raid, which was centered on
the Islands of Cebu, Leytu, NegrOS,
Iuzon and Mactan, in the central
Philippines, and all shipping found
IN adjacent waters
The japanese losses comprised %
ships definitely sunk; more than
Is probably sunk and at least %
damaged.
Only seven japanese planes were
sighted in the air during the car
rier attack and all were shot down
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
Parsons Funeral
To Be Saturday

Last rites for Harry Thomas Par
sons. 81, tractor mechanic in El
Centre for many years. will be held
at the Lemons chapel in El Centre
at 2:30 pm. Saturday. Burial will
be in Evergreen cemetery.
Parsons died in a veterans hos
pital in Los Angeles Tuesday after
q long illness. He was taken to the
hospital eight months ago.
Parsons was veteran of World
War No. /. and a member of the
American Legion. and the Eagles
lodge. During his residence in I'M
perisl VALLEY re lived with his
mother a Im@C~.al. He first arrived
in Imperial Valley il 1912.
His survivors are his mother, Mrs.
Margaret Parsons 9f Imperial:
three sisters, Mrs.. {. z. Armstrong
of Brswley: Mr.. w. A. Martin of
Delano. anC Mrs. Fills Coomes, also
of Brs Wify; and a other, S. A.
Parsons Of Benedict. Kansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
British Subs Sink
81 Jap Vessels
In Java Environs

LONDON, Sept. %. tUP)-Brit-
iSh submarines sank 80 Japanese
vessels during recent patrol opera
tions in Far Eastern waters and
bombarded enemy shore installations
on Christmas Island, south of Java,
an admiralty communique has re-
vealed.
Enemy vessels sunk ranged from
small coastal craft to medium sized
supply sips and included two Jap
anese gunboats caught at anchor in
Port owen, off the southwestern
coast of Burma.
An unidentified British submarine
surfaced boldly inside the harbor at
Port Owen and engaged the two
Japanese WarshipS at close range,
sinking both with Shellfire.
! Four other enemy vessels were
damaged in the widespread British
/ raids, which extended into the mar
row waters of the Sunda Straits
between Sumatra and Java.
/ 4. The raiders also attacked shipping
berthed at Mas Island, off the west
coast of Sumatra.
In the bomberdment of Christ
mas Island, shell hits were scored
on a number of oil tanks ashore.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-29
Po|ygamous Wife
At ID, Girl
Tells Cult Story
BY Z. G. XAiENS

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. %. tUP)
Shapely Mrs. Alice Blakefske Cald-
well, II who said she was forced
into polygamy four years ago Just
about my 14th birthday" testified
today in the trial of 80 fundamen-
talists accused of conspiring to
practice plural marriage.
Il didn't know my way around
very we'll" Mrs. Caldwell testified
yesterday when she explained how
she was forced into plural marriage
and sealed to defendant Wesley
LeBaron up in canyon just about
my 14th birthday
After she was rescued from
polygamy by her family, she said
she was forced to 20 back to her
husband by one CT his other wives.
Il was out roller-skating when
Wesleys wife, Thelma. grabbed me,
she testified. My friend Helene
started pulling in the other direc-
ton. but Thelma was stronger
? Her father, Carl BalefSke, testi-
lied later that he found her. "in bed
under a quilt in LeBaron's home"
Balefske said he later asked fun
damentalist Apostle Charles Zit-
ting why he had sealed his daugh-
ter and LeBaron.
Charlie. what in hell did I ever
do to you?" he said he asked Zit-
ting.
Another former plural wife, pretty
Mrs Helen Smith, tCld the eight
man jury how she first met her
sister wife"
Mrs. Smith said she first met de-
fendant Juanita Barlow one day
when she was coming out of the
lilac burhes."
Il told her my husband said he
had slept with her three or -four
nights Mrs. Smith said. land Jua-
nita answered SO what?'"
CONSOLATION GIVEN
Later" Mrs. Smith added, "Jua-
nita told me she was my sister wits
and said. Don't feel too bad. Some
day when another wife GENES III
feel the same way"
Defense Attorney Claude T
Barnes later asked Mrs. Smith
mother. Mrs. Heber C. Smith Sr.. il
her mother-in-law had not been the
seventh wife of former Mormon
leader Joseph F.. Smith.
mo. sir" Mrs Smith replied
She was the fourth wife