K NEUTRALITY L C^uJb fyj As for the war crisis, something of a war has broken out in this country, in Washington - a battle of words, (what the President had to say today in his Pan-American address has set off a verbal highjinksfin the national capital^) The presidential statements certainly were drastic. Pan-American Day being the occasion. President Roosevelt made a statement of policy M a new departure with reference to the A republics to the south of us. Declaring that this nation v-rould protect all the countries of this hemisphere against aggression by the dictatorships, he specified economic aggression as well as military. he said that if any of the Latin-American nations found themselves under Nazi or Fascist economic pressure, the United States would protect them against that economic pressure - would respond with an economic counter-attack, giving economic help. We fight totalitarian trade practices with some government trade practices of our own. And the President once more reaffirmed his guarantee to Canada - that wefd never stand by if Canada were attacked. NEUTRALITY - 2 (^President Roosevelt propounded a philosophy, according to which the United States has a right to oppose dictatorship in the European countriessaid that in x time warplanes will be \ able to raid across the Atlantic and bomb us, just as they can raid across the narrow seas in Europe. ^ don*t know what aviation experts will say about Trans-Atlantic bombing flights, but the President used the idea to make the point that we would soon ------ be liable to dictatorial sky attacks -.as European countries are r right now, ^So therefore, said he - we have a right to oppose totalitarianism as a doctrine and a practice in Europe. Without naming either Hitler or Mussolini, he denounced •) the Hiter contention that Great Britain was trying to encircle Germany. And the Mussolini notion about Italy being kept prisoner in the Mediterranean. He said that peaceful nations were neitner encircled nor made prisoner. Perhaps the most striking part of his speech came when he issued an implied invitation to the German and Italian people to get rid of dictatorships. These were the President's words! "The truest defense of the peace of our hemispnere must always lie NEUTRALITY - 3 in the hope that our sister nations across the seas will break the bonds of the ideas which constrain them toward perpetual warfare.n That!s the part which roused most of the verbal uprising in Congress. Senator Reynolds of North Carolina called it - mfeddlingj meddling in other peopleTs business. nAny statement,0 said he, 0encouraging the citizens of nations of the world to overthrow their respective forms of government is advising the citizens to revolt and engage in a revolution.” Then he asked what would happen if some foreign statesmen were to advise Americans to toss out their government - what would we think of that? defending the President* ”He has made clear^ that the American dream of domestic liberty, freedom and peace may furnish the world an inspiration.” To this Senator Claude Pepper ^ ^ J shocked me was Representative Very* of Ohio^saSttf -The thins that was the apparent invitation to people abroad to - throw off ifc* y°ur masters - cjLj'xcl. the impln.o3.11oxi th<3.t revolution NEUTRALITY - 4 the United States should help. ffi. know—fchat tho-Oni-bcd Stata&.would he againet thom^—An<»-4>h* controversy boils down to this:- one side saying "He's keeping us out of war.M The other side retorti ng: He's getting us into war •" FOREIGN 0 Tne war crisis piped down a good deal today, which is a relief after all the jittery alarms we've been having. I„ the democratic line-up against the Kome-Berlin Axis, eyes were on Soviet Russia today. (London &*aEln} it drplomato—effort feq get the U.S.S.R. into the nStop—Hitler Stop—Mussolini” coalition^} Moscow has been mighty coy and wary about joining up, but the report now is that the Soviets are beginning to take the new, stern policies of Chamberlain and Daladier a bit more seriously. So we may find the Red army becoming part of the military force available against the dictators. Another European news focus is - Spain. London and ♦ i Paris are much concerned about getting Mussolinis troops out of Francois country* -They've been anxious about that^/for quite a while. There have been recent assurances that the Duce would draw his men out as soon as Franco has staged his victory parade in Madrid, but there has been plenty of skepticism all along about Mussolini's assurances. More skepticism than ever with Great Britain and France presenting such a hostile front to FOREIGN - 2 Italy. Mussolini might very well say — if they*re going to bear down on him, why should he accommodate them by Spanish A withdrawal? Diplomatic promises have been broken on less provocation. One quieting and tranquilizing bit of news comes from London* Prime Minister Chamberlain has gone for his weekend in the country. Those British weekends are a sacred institution. It takes a lot to keep the Britisher from weekending. The Chamberlain departure from London is taken as a sign that no dangerous developments are expected within the next few days — else he’^ stay on the job. I 1 if i In noiae last night there were warlike precautions, and 1; 1 I today the Ducets police haled a lot of people to court — where they A II were properly punished. Last evening at seven oTclock the Eternal City was suddenly and unexpectedly plunged into total darkness — a black-out, for practice of measures to be taken against air raids. The culprits who faced the Roman judge today were mostly young people, couples. What was their offense against Fascism©? When the lights went out in the air raid practice, and everything was in darkness, many couples in the streets took advantage of the darkness to do a bit of spooning. Instead of doing their stern duty in the air raid precautions as Mussolin:. commanded - they gre?/ sentimental in the warlike shadoy/s. The Rome dispatch says that they w era in doorways, taxicabs and buses. I fnvf today Elhui' *«lH., were fined each eleven Lire apiece /X A about fifty cents. -.using the air raid black-out for romancel They1 re kxjixixg having another black-out in Rome tonight. I the Eternal City in darkness right nov/ - but this time 1*11 bet there*s less billing and cooing. SENATOR Illinois today appointed a Senator to succeed the late Senator J. Hamilton Lewis — with the Governor naming James Slattery, who has been Chairman of the Illinois Coromerce Commission. He's a sixty year old Chicago Democrat, who has been in politics and political campaigns for years. However, he has never run for office, hasn’t campaigned for his own election, hasn't declared himself publicly - so his political attitude is not generally known. As a Democrat, how does he stand toward the New Deal? We're told today that newly appointed Senator Slattery is - sympathetic. IL -jjiT1 an out-and-out New Dealer Just sympathetic. FAIR "‘vT^ They Settied a bit of labor trouble at the New y0rk World’s Fair - trouble which threatened to tie uP all work in the Hall of Nations. To the Netherlands exhibit the Dutch government shipped a highly complicated postal machine, with all sorts of elaborate mechanism. They shipped it in parts to be put together over here. They also sent naif a dozen Holland mechanics to ^ A* __ _ the contraption - it S* that intricate. /\ Whereupon the Millwright and Machinery Erectors Union objected, saying that foreign labor should not be employed at the Fair. American working men should set up the machine - there were full instructions ftfcr doing it. However, the instructions were in Dutch, and none of the Americans could read them. So that seemed to bring things to an insoluble dilemma. Today, however, a compromise was reached, according to which members of the Millwright and Machinery Erectors Union are A setting up the mechanism - while the imported Dutch wormen^ ijLX\ * Sh They’re But those Netherlanders can’t talk English. T y saying it in Dutch, and an interpreter is provided to relay the instructions to those staunch American union fiMCH There was a battle today on William Randolph Hearst*s property down in Mexico* The newspaper magnate owns a huge ranch in the State oT Chihuahua - nearly a milllion acres* There has been a lot of cattle stealing going on in those parts •* bandits raiding the herds. Today the Chihuahua State police cornered a band of brigands on the Hearst ranch, and there was a battle with pistols and rifles. Two police officials are reported to have been killed - and two bandits. At last reports skirmishing was still going on among the hills FIRE New York had a fantastic sort of fire today — in one of those numerous tunnels that dive under the Big Town rivers. In the Long Island &£ Railroad tube under the East River, a work train caught fire about half a mile from the nearest entrance. Three cars % blazed with clouds of acl^di smoke. The smoke filled the tunnel, A so dense that the fumes seeped up into the Pennsylvania Railroad station. The firemen had to fight through it with gas masks on their faces, x A m I and had to drag their hose lines for half a mile - which should be some sort of aunkiia record for a length of fire hose. Trains had to be rerouted to other tubes, while they put out the fire in the tunnel. PHOTOGRAPHERS There* s to be a gay party in New York tonight, but nobody knows when it will start. It's the New Yorlf Press Photographer's annual ball, and it's scheduled to begin at seven o'clock this evening. Rut lo and behold — along comes Lindberg. The Lone Eagle is returning home aboard a liner which the Press Photographer's Ball — the coming of the one person whom the press desires most to photograph, and not always with so much success. So the men with the cameras will be flashing docks at seven o'clock. And you can pictures as long as they can. Then on with the dance a set of heirs gfrftGimg Todayf at Battle Creek, Michigan., decided theyfd recommend an administrator to look after the estate of a shabbily dressed old lady who seemed beset by poverty. TwO' weeks ago |frs. Ethel Kaufman, seventy-three years old, rented the most inexpensive of the rooms at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. A* Presently she died - and then the hospital people began to find thing,s* In the bedclothes they discovered bundles of cash, banknotes of large denomination. Under the bed there was more money hidden away - and quantities of valuable securities. ?/hen they counted up the cash it amounted to a hundred and fifty—seven thousand dollars and the securities are expected to bring the total up to half a million. Such is the estate left by the shabby old lady who hired the most inexpensive room - and seemed so poor. That sort of thing has happened again and again, but the hospital angle is something new. MUMMY I read somewhere of custom of the ancient Egyptians. Vfnen they made merry at a banquet table, a moment * miniature mummy would be passed of hush would come* around xrom one to the other - reminding the revellers of time ■ and mortality .sombre reflection amid gaiety. We were not Egyptians at the last luncheon of the New York Advertising Club, but Just the same, a mummy was there. Vie were shown an exhibit'^**-'?"' the General Electric Company is placing on display at the New ¥ork World’s Fair - an Egyptian murimiy^^ni»h^e««44^be^»e«ar uySTfJc in Voe ogd1 nary war or by- the special revelation of a fluoroscope » machine. Turn on the fluoroscop^a^mawhifw and you^eOTii look _ ^ p tv, right through the mummy case and see what’s inside. —^^an Egyptian gentleman named^a.rwaw The inscriptions show that thisAuar»a lived twenty-eight hundred years ago, nine hundred B.C., in the time of the Ixaxxy^ecna twenty-second dynasty. Those were^'ie-^mee when Egypt was old and failing, coming to the end of its greatness. Harwa was the overseer of the grain and * buildings on an estate MUMMI - 2 ---- belonging to a temple - a temple of the god chief divinity of Egypt. Harwa^fcookqd^^tr^.__LliBL^xaJfem tnose twenty-eight hundred years ago, and^his spirit departed to the land of Isis and Osiris.- wliToday he^s a scientific wonder, revealed in his mummy case by the m«gic of firmriBancHin the fluoroscope^ )\ 2L8^0~C H k T^ wv O_ w -^ y -v lATt^o .42-0^" uJvt^ bL^. <sh*^ dL^vyJZ. r--- <3- ' ^ -f ti^wC SWALLOWER, At San Diego, California, there has been a one-man protest against the current collegiate cr$ze for swallowing all sorts of things, from goldfish to white mice. The rebuke itself has been collegiate - staged by Student Joseph Pranis. i» Sai/fll that A goldfish and mouse gulping was silly and dumb, if not goofy - not in the academic spirit of higher education, ygm-iTHjdQc _ ^ ; __ ~ jEnBwgTP'px^inlcM: p ^ y g ng on a hunger strike. They_put funny things in their sto machs^ sojhe left everything out of his - which presumably was sage and sapient, entirely in accord with higher education. He thought by starving himself he could demonstrate to the student gulpers the folly of their ways. His hunger strike lasted for three days - until today. He called it off because the gulpers went on gulping - all his starving didn't make any impression. Today he ate a square meal, and uttered thfn'^buke^tT'^llege students;- "Their intellectual A horizon is draped in a decadent culture." At Champaign, Illinois, the protest against the gulping SWALLOWER - 2 craze to<* more effective form than hunger striking. Yesterday r\ j the fraternity brothers of Pi Kappa Phi had an exhibition of swallowing white mice. Today, the University President described the stunt as - disgusting and ---* revolting,-an accurate description. The Assistant Dean said it showed "an utter lack of good taste" - still more accurate. Precise right down to the final words - good taste. And with that the Student Disciplinary Committee administered a severe reprimand to£j( to the mouse eater, and A the fraternity-house-President to ^ ^ -t? resign for permitting theAexhibition. And the faculty suspended all the special privileges enjoyed by Pi Kappa Phi. ^ Fie, fie! 0^4 i ^ ^ * Phi did they do it? ^ I think we* all agree ^i^th these various proteVt^ against the gulfing goofiness. ¥et we can’t be too arbitrary. Even\ulping can be sensible and wise. \^t Rockland,^iaine, today a fisherman caught a five and a half Inch trout, Just half an inch ^ 1 l \ \ \ below the legal limit. He was Just putting it in his fisn basket. \ \ ' ' wken the game warden came along. "Caught with thd goods, caught with ^undersized trout t-^e guilty fisherman must ^ve heard ab^ht