Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 114, Ed. 1 Monday, September 18, 1939 Page: 2 of 6
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n? it to the last American
—if they can arrange it."
Politics, Britain
Doing Part to
Involve America
Criticizes Roosevelt
But Backs Stand Taken
By Col. Chas. Lindbergh.
BY CAPKL MeNASH
CLEVELAND — (UP) —How-
ard Scott, tall, broad-shoulder-
ed chief of Technocracy, Inc..
said today lhat the United States
will get into the European war
"if business, politics and Great
Britairt possibly can manage it."
•'Germany is in this war to the
last Russian," said Scott, on a
lecture tour to 35 cities in the
United States, "and Great Brit-
ain is in'
lev
Predicts Business Spurt
Scott predicted a "gigantic
spurt" in business in this coun-
try, followed by inevitable col-
lapse after the war boom.
"Of course business will be j
good—for a while", he said. j
"The chislers are hot on the i
trial of war profits—regardless i
of what happen- to our own
country."
Technocracy's chief said that :
$7,500,000,000 in potential war or-
ders to Great Britain and
France will be used as an "ad- ,
vertising slush fund to sell Am-
erica into the war."
Scott attacked P r e sident ;
Rocsevelt as "well-meaning but j
bungling."
"President Roosevelt pro- !
claims neutrality but proposes j
participation by the insidious i
method of war orders," he said
"Mr. Roosevelt and Wall Street
are finally in complete agree- |
ment for the first time
Allies Have Funds
"It is true that France and 1
Great Britain have S 1.000.000.000 j
in gold reserves and S4.500.000,-
000 in American assets available ]
for the purchase of war mate- i
rials. We believe that Ameri- j
cans should use our own $100,- [
000,000,000 available credits to '
build this country—rather than i
accept the bribery of foreign I
funds."
Scott said technocracy was j
in,."full'.accord" with the stand j
taken by Col. Charles A. Lind-
bergh in his recent radio ad-
dress.
"We want Americans upright j
on American soil-," he said,
"rather than six feet under Eur-
opean or Asiatic mud."
"National business wants to i
put the United States into war. j
for war always converts the mer-
chants cf debt into merchants of j
death. American resource-', ,' n-
erican material and Ameri ■an !
lives should be used in the cou- j
struction of a greater Amenta
rather than in destruction on
soil of Europe."
Build America
Concering Hitler. Scott i
erated that America's probl
is not to stop "an Europe
idiot" from bringing a cam-
thr< phe upon Europe but ;
build an America that no on
can stop.
"Bolshevism, communism an
fascism came out of the las
war—all foreign philosophies
foreign lands." Scott said. "rr
war will have but one result
Horrors of World War No. 1 Related b y Wife of Texas Tech Teacher;
Recalls Zeppelin Air Raids, Then Shelling by Germany's 'Big Berthas'
Sears. Roebuck Employes 'Queen'
Veldn Wilson, li), a telephone operator in Sears. Roebuck and
Co.'s retail warehouse in ( iticago, who last week was crown-
ed "Queen" of that concern's 53rd anniversary as the result
of winning a poll conducted among her 50,(100 fellow employes.
As part of her official duties she will soon spend a festive
week at San Francisco's (Holden Gate.
Book by Camilla Campbell, Known
'. Received b\ Miss Sheridan
San are Dance
Monday
BY R. ('. HANKINS
LUBBOCK — Mrs. C. 1).
Qualia of 2G09 Twetny-fourtn
street does not require the
stimulation of the public orirus
to convince her ol'^wars hor-
ror.
She lived on the right bank
of the Seine until right at the
close of what now is being re-
ferred to as World War 1.
Until "Big Bertha", great Ger-
man gun that shattered all rec-
c i ds for range, forced evacua-
tion of Paris by many thousands
of its residents, she knew the
routine of air raid .sirens, of
-anctuary in the subway or in
cellars, of seeing casualty re-f
ports that one by one informed
her ,'iie and her mother were
the sole survivors of her fam-
ily.
Grew I'sed To Sight
She grew used to the sight
cf Zeppelins poking their noses
about into lacing searchlight
beams oyer Paris, of bombs drop-
pod upon women, old men and
children, the increasing pinch
o< food rationing and, eventual-
ly. the stolid acceptance of a
war that made women work in
munition, factories, on trolley
cars and "nearly anywhere else"
to prosecute the war.
"My dreams sometimes are
haunted with the memory of
1914 through part of 1918,". she
said. "I was just a little girl that
night when the first air raid
came. The sirens on the
churches and the cathedral be-
gan screaming. Something like
today's blackouts of European
cities occurred rather automat-
ically. In the cross-beams of
searchlights we saw our first
Zeppelin. It dropped bombs that j
American Girl
To Be War Bride
Socially prominent Ernestine
'liauiaine MctJuire, 21, of Pied-
mont, Calif., becomes one of
Americi's first "war brides"
in her marriage to George
Cotton, of Karl Chilton, Lei-
cester, Kngland, who leaves
soon to join Royal Air Force.
Another recreation sponsored
old time and sciuare dance will
be heid at the Macie hotel Mon-
dav nigh;. A great many persons
!• i>-e caught the "swing" of the
early American folk dancing and
are enjoying participation in
ti:e?e social affairs. Actually the
fundamental movements of the
Polka, Sc-hottische, the Virginia
reel, and even the square dance
are not difficult.
For further information see
the recreational director in the
old h-igh school building.
The dance at the Macie Mon-
day nigh; will begin at 8:30.
A historical novel "Galleons
Sail Westward," by a Texas au-
thor, has been received by Miss
Laura Sheridan and is of spe-
cial interest to many Sweetwat !
er persons who are personally j
acquainted with Camilla Camp- j
bell, the author, who is the for- j
mer Camilla Boykin of Fort j away caught fire. Tiny specks
Worth. I high up milled in what you call
Miss Sheridan and Mrs. Camp ' a dogfight. But fighting in the
bell were classmates at Texas I air had not reached lhe 'olnt nf
wtjl-filled scrapbook of pictures
taken of devastation left by the
war reminds them of those days
in 1918.
Poisoned Arrows Recalled
detonated terrifically, close by j This scene may remind Mrs.
the apartment house where I { Qualia of the time she ventured
lived. Attempts to bring it down j with her mother from hiding
by ground guns were ineffect- j during an air raid to buy hose,
ual. I understood later that an- j Another of the showers of pois-
ti-aircraft fire was spoken of j oned darts dropped from the air
rather contemptuously by those
who flew.
Shivered In Shelters
"The Zeppelin, of course, was
convoyed by German pursuit
planes and other ships carry-
ing'bombs. A factory not
| perfection we later were to ob
Christian university, fhe author serve So the Germans rained
\i. ited here several times in. bombs on Paris and we shivered
the Sheridan home and in the
home of an aunt, Mrs
Gibson, who now lived at Lov-
ington, New Mexico.
, in whatever
Willard I reach.
shelter we could
•ontinent—technocracy, an
lean solution, will be estab-
that technocracy
in energy survey
a group of en-
the World War.
14 major predie-
organization had
ished here."
nd tha
the
he said. "Out
included th
crashes,
bank inten
9 to II IP
21^ 23 '? I8 "20
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msgjip >z
What car for next
year has an engine
with such a wallop
that it can top the
average speed
in low gear?
'.'Galleons Sail Westward" is
the story of Cabeza de Vaca and
j four men, three high-born Span
, iards and a Moorish slave, who
cheated death by incredible
| courage 100 years ago when the
Iirst white men found the In-
dians r.f Texas and Florida.
The book is based on infor-
mation translated from records
: Cabesa de Vaca wrote "To the
king of Spain. He and his three
companions mere lone survivors
; of a band of 300 Spaniards. They
j swam the swamps of Florida,
i withstood the storms of the
Gulf of Mexico, were shipwreck
ed at Galveston Island and trek-
ked through the Big Bend of
; Texas Into Mexico.
The book is illustrated by Ena
i MeKinney of Henderson, Texas,
a graduate of Texas State Col-
j lege for Women at Denton.
—_0 ,
Baptist Pastor
Starts 4th Year
By A. H. SMITH
CHAMPION — John Barrett
completed a brick garage at his
I home here.
R. Lee Perry of Hobbs, N. M„
has returned to his home after)
"Later we were to have many
such raids, and the dogfights
must have accompanied them to
and from the city. We saw one
such. A German plane and a
ship marked with the French
corcardes fought overhead -
right over the place where 1
lived. We stood on the roof and
watched. The German turned tail
for Germany."
"Thai War Is Over"
i toward the latter phase of the
war, when ammuniton was get-
j ling low. She recalled a case of
] a man being struck by one of the
I arrows, which imbedded itself
| in his skull.
far j Near her apartment house liv-
ed friends. The father of a little
girl she played with was more
fortunate than some other fath-
ers. Everyone said so. He did
not have to go to the front, but
was given a post as a watch-
man to guard againt sabotage.
Then an air bomb dismem-
bered him. His wife insisted on
looking upon his remains. She
shrieked and almost immediate-
ly lost her reason. Persons close-
ly watched to see that she did
herself no bodily harm but, de-
spite their precautions, she leap-
ed in front of the Paris express.
Food cards were issued. Only
I the barest amounts of food
i wei;e allowed. Flour was mixed,
■ it was suspected, with potato,
j rye, barley and other flours. It
Dr. Qualia, head of the ro-1 became almost impossible to get
mance language department of j meats. One was lucky to get the
Texas Technological college, ■ lew grams of bread.-
"Can Anyone Feel Different?"
Such memories cart back tne
I haunted look at -momentsc to
Mrs. Qualia's eyes, and it is easy
: to understand her explanation,
| "How can anyone feel ciffer-
| ent?"
Close followers of the
smiled tolerantly on occasion
when Mrs. Qualia's black eyes
flashed in mercurial resentment
at some of the things she relat-
ed.
And the casualty reports con-
tinued to come in. Women learn-
ed what, it meant not to be able
to cry anymore—it became us- i news and of magazine accounts
ual to find them already saturat-1 of the shifting political picture
ed with grief. Left to them was j in Europe, Mrs. Qualia nods in
an existence that had become j agreement to her husband's in-
mockery. They grew to move tcrpretntion of motives actuat-
about dully — those who did j • ' present alignments of arm
not go mad—with little more ef' nations.
than a subconscious reaction to j Did Herr Hitler have any
the burst of shells and the moral justification based on an
whining of sirens. ! inequitable Versailles oact fc
arting the present war?
"Treaties to end war cannot
bo expected to he more just
'But you must remember, the |
-that war—is over," he'd
war-
say.
"I can't help it; now can any-
one feel different?"
In dank, smelly holes—no way
a visit with his father, J. W. to cook, little food even to eat
Perry. ! raw, no lights at times, and re-
The Rev. Cone Merritt, pas- i duced to sitting on. boxes or ly-
tor of the Champion Baptist I ing on quilts—the Parisian popu-
j church, has been called for an-! lation hid like rats from the sky
j other year, which marks his i raiders, *
fourth consecutive year as pas- Then The Big Berth*
I tor of the local church. j "At first they'd come over only
The Rev. Caradine Hooton.i cnee a night, then they got to
! district superintendent Sweet ! ccming twice a night and twice
water Methodist conference, is
to preach Tuesday night, Sept.
no, at the Highland Methodist
j church.
Mr. and Mrs. Olim Hawkins
| of Big Spring visited relatives
here last week. ,
•I. fl Kiser, Jr. and familv
in the daylight", Mrs. Qualia
said.
Then the Big Bertha.
"We had managed somehow
to overcome part of our fear of
the Zeppelins and the planes,
but how were we to hide our-
selves from those terrible pro-
■Ekfhets
I have moved here from Roscoe. I jee tiles being fired at us from
Cotton picking is in full j way off in Germany? The noise
swing here, The crop will be j : f those great shells approach-
mallei than last year. i ir.g ..."
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Thrail-! She shuddered.
j kill. Sr.. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. | !-'he and her mother moved to
Thrailkill, Sr., and Mrs. M. A.! Saint-Aignan, in central France,
Thrailkill, Jr., and Miss Vera [three hours from Paris by the
Thrailkill have returned from xf res. There s]1G rnet Dr.
the bedside of Mrs. Shep Asbill j Qualia, who had been assigned
I in California. They report her from division headquarters of
YOUR NEAREST
BUICK DEALER
condition improved
V\. T. Layfield of the com-
munity is manager of the Guitar
gin in Roscoe.
the American army to the lib-
rary of the American Committee
tc Negotiate Peace, after 17
flionths of service in France. A
than motives starting them",
Dr. Qualia said, sententiously.
"Treaties are imposed. It would
net be expected that they would
be just. Nations that love war
and precipitate it should expect
to bear the consequences. Re-
member the treaty of Vienna?
When was there a just treaty, in
the restricted sense?"
What does the doctor believe
will be the eventual balance of
power should the war last a
'year or two?
"That would lie the rankest
sort of guess. At the moment,
England and France apparently
are serious in their expressed
intention to deal nazism a fatal
blow. Mussolini is suspected of
keeping tongue in cheek, biding
his time and waiting to see what
he can wangle out of the top
dogs. In the past he has been
able to whip the nationalistic
spirit of Ids people into a froth
-—but can he do so now? Mod-
ern Italy is not a war-loving neo-
ple. And, something overlooked
until rather recently, the king of
Italy still is king in the eyes of
his people. He has not evidenc-
ed any wish to fig'ht a German
war.
Itusvln Oifl For No fiood
"Stalin? Russia won't do any-
37 Vessels Are
Lost in 2 Weeks
Of World War II
BV UNITED PRESS
The sinking of four more ships
with apparent loss of life in
three instances was reported
Sunday, bringing to 37 the to-
tal number of vessels lost since
the war began two weeks ago.
Two of the new casualties
were British, one German and
the fourth Norwegian. They
brought the losses by nations to
23 British, six German, two
Dutch, two French and one
each Greek, Finnish, Belgian
and Norwegian.
Radiomarine Corporation in-
tercepted a report that the 5,-
103-ton British steamed Kafiris-
tan was torpedoed at 1 p. m.
(EDT) Sunday and that the
United States liner American
Farmer had rescued 20 of the
35 men aboard.
The ship, registered at New-
castle, Eng.. went down some
200 miles off the northern coast
of England. The American Farm-
el , which left Britain Friday
with 135 passengers, was only 25
miles from the scene. After the
rescue, it resumed its trip to
New York.
The Italian, steamer Providen-
za arrived at Flushing, Holland,
with a number of survivors from
the Norwegian steamer Ronda
who were picked up in the
North Sea. Fourteen persons, in-
cluding three passengers were
missing from the Ronda. The
three passengers were two Am-
ericans and an unidentified
Canadian.
Survivors from the 5,136-ton
vessel, equipped especially for
carrying vegetable oil in tanks,
said that the ship ran into a
mine off the Netherlands. The
ship was built in 1937 and regis-
tered at Bergen.
The official German news
agency reported the discovery
off the Norwegian coast of two
lifeboats and debris from the
German ship Johannes Molken-
l,uhr, which it said exploded
and sank "in a perfectly calm
sea." The 5,294-ton ship was reg-
istered at Hamburg and built
in 1936.
Rister to Head
Sunday School
By OLIjEXE KNOX
PLEDGER—Officers for the
Pledger Sunday school elected
for the new church year are as
follows: K. J. Rister, superin-
tendent: Homer Thompson, as-
sistant superintendent; Mrs. H.
Thompson, secretary; Mrs. N. L.
Wallace, assistant; Bible class.
Mrs. J. A. Rowland; Young.peo-
ple's class, Miss Dorine Rister;
Intermediate, Milton Burk; Jun-
ior, Pauline McCall: card class,
Giady;: Early; assistant teachers,
L. It. Early and Wilton Burk.
Sunday night supper guests in
the O. D. Knox home were Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Early and daugh-
ter, Estilene and Doris; Misses
Beulah Mae Vaughan and Dor-
ine Rister, James Glyn and Lon-
nie Rister.
Mrs. II. Baillio and daugh-
ters, Bobbie and Jean, Rotan,
spent the weekend with her pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hitt.
Mrs B. I<. Newhouse was
ho. tess Friday to a group of
women who quilted. Ten were
present, each bringing a cover-
ed dish served at noon.
A women's Bible class has
been organized in the com-
munity and is to meet each
Wednesday afternoon. All wom-
en of the area are invited to
join.
Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Vaughn
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
, .1 A. Rowland and family.
I one any good. Observers seem
| to believe Stalin is afraid of his
army, not to mention his harbor-
ing a serious doubt of the Rus-
sian capaity for mass produc-
tion necessary to war."
Dr. Qualia, like others, said
any attempt to interpret the at-
titude of England and France
on the western front would be
"little more than speculation—
if any more". He said those pow-
ers apparently were bombing a
German population with propa-
ganda, rather than with aerial
bombs, in an attempt to unseat
confidence in the fuehrer and
thus w'.n a war at a cost of as
few lives as possible.
One psychological factor, at j
least, will be of help in a lone;
drawn out war, lie suggested.
The French and British rap-
proehment is stronger,, than ev-
er, "notably stronger than in
191 and should be a powerful
influence in bringing sense to
the flared-up consciousness now
rampant among nations. — Re-
printed from Lubbock Avalan-
che-Journal.
Texas Beauty Aboard Torpedoed
Athenia Reaches American Port
mrm.
iVtl -• "'■■ ■<*'*
Miss Jerry .lane Wynne of Dallas who, with a group of other
Texas girls, was aboard the SS Athenia when torpedoed by
an alleged (icriuun submarine, reached Halifax yesterday
aboard the City of Flint. Survivors of the Athenia offered up
a prayer of tlinnks!>i\ing on touching foot on American soil
again.
United State Relies on 11 Army
Officers for 'Low Down* On War
BV BHCCE CATTON
WASHINGTON — (NEA)
— It probably will be some
time before they get the ex-
act details, but U. S. Army
people here are waiting anx-
iously for what might call
the technical loWdown. on
the Rhineland and Polish
campaigns.
To get that, they will
rely chiefly on 11 U. S.
Army officers who are serv-
ing as military attaches in
our embassies at London,
Berlin, Paris, and in, Po-
land.
It is up to
send in the
si'ole report,
training and
methods of
armies, but a If
these men to
fullest pos-
not only on
organizational
the warring
• o on the stra-
tegic and tactical details of
the campaigns -— what tac-
tics and maneuvers are
found effective, how new
types of armament work out
in practice, and so. on.
They are in no sense
spies. They have to rely, in
fact, on what the govern-
ments they are accredited to
care to tell them.
Two Major Interests
Two things in particular
interest the army—how the
famed Pclish cavalry has
made out against Germany's
mechanized army, and how
the British and the French
fare with the' ultra-modern
fortifications of the Siegfried
line.
In the old days, neutral
nations used to send regular
military observers to ac-
company the field armies of
nations at war. There was-
n't much concealment then,
and the observers saw all
there was to see.
It's different now. A mili-
tary observer would see on-
ly what his "host" army
wanted him to see.
In England, the U. S. army
now has Lieut. Col. Brad-
ford G. Chynoweth. Maj.
George C. McDonald, Maj.
Well-Known Texas
Club Woman Dies
Mc KINNEY — (UP) — Mrs.
J. L. Lovejoy., wealthy land-
owner and prominent Texas club
woman, died at her home Sun-
day. Funeral services will be
held from the family residence
Monday.
At the time of her death Mrs.
Live joy was a member of the
National Council of Women of '
the United States. She was an j
in-norary past president of the |
Texas Federation of Women's ,
clubs and former national chair
man of the roadside beautifica-
tion and tree planting c 'mnit-
tee.
She was survived by one dau-
ghter, Mrs. Margie Comegys,
and two grandsons.
Samuel A. Greenwell, and
Capt. Rene R. Stlldler. In
Paris, there are Col. Horace
H. Fuller, Lieut. Col. Sum-
ner Waite. and Capt. John
M. Sterling. In Berlin, there
are Maj. Arthur W. Vana-
man and Maj. Percy G.
Black, while Col. Bernard A.
Peyton is on his way there.
Our military attache in Po-
land is Maj. William H. Col-
burn.
Not that the authorities
at WPA headquarters are
cold and unfeeling — but
they do admit that the out-
break of the war did them
a good turn. They had ex-
pected a wagon-load of
grief to descend on them
around Sept. 1, when the
wage-equalizing pay cuts for
WPA workers went into ef-
fect. But everybody seems
to be thinking about the
war, because so far they've
had hardly so much as a
murmur out of anyone.
Session Is Called
When the president sum-
monsed congress in a special
session, to pass on neutrality
legislation, the mechanics of
the job of rounding up the
congressmen was simple.
No individual notifications
were sent out. The presi-
elamation — through the
state department — and
the state department — and
it is taken for granted that
the members will read the
row :n and see it. The
proclamation set the date
far enough away to give all
hands time to get there.
There have been seven
special sessions of congress
within the last two-dozen
years. These include;
Special session called
April 2, 1017, by Wilson to
declare war: session called
by Wilson May 1!), 1919, to
consider the high cost of
living; session called by
1 larding April 11, 1921, to
consider an emergency ag-
rieultural tariff: session cal-
led by Harding Nov. 20, 1922,
to consider merchant ma-
rine problems; session call-
ed by Hoover April 15. 1929,
to consider the tariff; session
caled by Roosevelt March 9,
1933 to consider the gener-
al depression problem' ses-
sion called by Roosevelt
Nov. 15. 1937, to consider ag-
ricultural problems.
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