THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
PAG: SEVEN
b
AH British Empire Steps Up
Outpour of Billions to Weld
Chain of Armor for Lifelines
Expenditure for Current Year Represents $4
Per Capita in AH Lands where the
Union Jack Holds Sway
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG. Jr.
LONDON ( UP) The British Em
pire, arming as never before in peace
time to defend its vital lifelines if
an emergency arises, is spending
mere than $2,000,000,000 on war
preparations during the current year.
That sum represents an expen
diture of approximately 16 shillings j
?4) for every man. woman and)
ihild in the British Empire which j
oeupies one-fourth of the world's j
surface with a population exceeding.
cno-fniirth of the entire human race.'
Great Britain itself is pledged toj
an expenditure of Jl. 715. 000. 000 on,
defense this year. That sum prob- j
::Hy will be greatly exceeded as the
arms drive gains impetus later in j
t
the year. The self-governing domin- !
iors are spending a further $2SG.-i
T.'.0. 000 on their own defense. j
Each dominion is responsible fori
the protection of its own immediate!
area. For decades to come, however, j
the major burden of the empire's de-i
fenses must be borne by the British
navy. Although Australia and New j
Zealand, for example. ia; h have;
rma 11 navies, an attack on cither
would draw the full might of the;
British fleet to their defense. I
India Sscond to Eritain ;
Following are the sums being
spent by each country of the era-(
pire on defense this year: j
Great Britain $1,715,000,000
India ,
Australia '
Canada
Eire
South Africa
New Zealand
lf.r.425.000
57.500.000
S5.O00.000
8.5OU.000
8.330.000
s.ooo.ooo
snend $lf9.-
India, budgeting
to
5.000 on defence
will pay more
than all the other dominions together
on wra preparations. The Indian ;
exchequer pays for the upkeep of;
55.000 British troops permanently
stationed the;-", as veil as for an In-j
dian army of lt!0.00o. By far the.
greater part of India's defense costs
is' accounted for by the necessity for
keeping a large permanent garrison
stationed on the turbulent North-,
west frontier. Scarcely n year .jassesj
without the need for sending a puni-j
tive rebellious tribe on the frontier, j
Indian Navy Enlarged j
The cost of India's defense is In- j
creased this year by plans for me
chanizing the British cavalry and .
infantry stationed in India and for ;
mechanising some Indian native j
units. At the same time India's coast ;
defenses are being strengthened. The'
number of small coastal protection '
vessels of the Indian navy is being in- j
creased. Finally, a large explosives
f-.ictorv is being established to make!
India completely self-supplying in
munitions. Australia, watching anx-
iously the Far Eastern war almost ;
at its doorstep, and fearful of what j
might be its fate in the event of war i
between Japan and the British em-,
pire. has launched a three-year re-j
armament pirn to cost $215,000,-1
O'.iO. That will include expenditure
(f ?75.0Mi.O00 in the navy, $57,
000.000 on the army and $63,500,
('Oi on thf air force.
The Australian navy now consists
of three cruisers a flotilla of destroy
ers and a few sloops. Under the pres-
nt procram two of the cruisers will
be modernized and three smaller ves
sels will be built. A 10-year pro
gram of d"st rover building probably
will be Ik gun shortly.
Seven Australian Divisions
The number of Australian first
line warplanes is to be increased !
from 114 to I'M. At the- same time J
Ai'stralia is planning a field army of j
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seven divisions, sufficient to oppose
possible enemy landing parties and
stave ofT invasion until Great Britain
could send forces to the defense.
New Zeland. in virtually the same
strategic situation as Australia, is
just beginning to overhaul its arm
aments. The defense budget of $S.
000.000 shows an increase of $2,
040.000 over last year. That is
largely represented by purchases of
warplanes from Great Britain. New
Zealand also recently held joint naval
maneuvers with the Australian fleet.
Canada, also with eyes anxiously
turned toward the war clouds in
the Far East, is hastening completion
of defense works on the Pacific coast.
The rei.iarmament .program includes
provision for purchase of 55 planes
for the permanent air force and 20
additional reserve planes. Two new
destroyers will be bought rom Great
Eritain. giving Canada a total of six
destroyers, of which four will be sta
tioned permanently on the Pacific
coast.
Fortifications around the ports of
Vancouver and Prince Rupert, with
secondary defenses at Victoria. B. C
are being hurried to completion.
Huge concrete emplacements are be
ing built and batteries erected on
islands and headlands up and down
the Pacific coast.
South Africa Vital Link
"With the possibility that a large
proportion of Britain's trade with
Far East and Australia might have
to be diverted from the Mediter
ranean around Cape of Good Hope
in war time. South Africa's defense
has assumed vital importance for the
whole empire. A vast new naval base
is under construction at Siirontown.
near Capetown. When completed it
will have almost as great strategic
importance as Singapore or Gibraltar.
South Africa's defense program for
the next five years envisages the or
ganization of an army of 94.000 first
line troops, with 150.000 reserves,
the creation of a mobile anti-tank
force and an air force of 50 heavy
bombing planes and from 250 to 300
interceptor planes.
Like all the dominions nouth
Africa is organizing its forces pure
ly on a home defense basis. Its chief
immediate interests are the defense
of Simonstown and Durban against
possible attack.
Erie, situated on Great Britain's
most vulnerable flank, is increasing
its small army from 7,000 to 10.000.
Under the Anglo-Eire agreement
Great Britain is evacuating the three
treaty ports of Loujrh. Swilly. Bere
haven and Sobh. The Irish govern
ment will be responsible for their
defense. Although there is a tacit
understanding that Eire and Brit
ain will co-operate closely in defense,
it is understood that Prime Minister
Eamon de Valera is planning the pur
chase of a few coastal defense vessels
to provide Erie with a navy.
OPIUM AUCTIONED IN PEIPING
PEIPING (lTP Two thousand
spvpii hundred ounces of opium,
which the Tax Bureau confiscated
because no taxes were paid, were
auctioned off here, the vernacular
press announced.
VICTORY BALLOON BALKS
PEIPING (UP) Plans of local
Japanese to announce Hsuchow's fall
through the use of a large balloon
failed to materialize when the in
flated gas bag' refused to rise.
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More than a million women have re
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H00SIER AT 86 REGAINS
CITIZENSHIP LOST IN FIRE
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP) Chris
tian Fell, 86, received his certificate
of United States citizenship shortly
after he came to this country from
France 66 years ago.
He established his home at Au
burn, Ind. Fire destroyed the home
and the certificate. Fell wentto the
county clerk. The record of his citi
zenship, he was told, had been de
stroyed when fire razed an old build
ing in which numerous records were
kept.
So Fell re-applied for citizenship.
Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick
granted the application.
Typical Home
Says Goodbye
to Hired Girl
Labor-Saving Machines Displace Am
erican "Institution" Wide
Survey Discloses.
WASHINGTON ( UP Labor-sav- j
ing machines have displaced the hired,
girl in the typical American village j
home, a nation-wide survey by the j
department of agriculture shows. j
"There now are statistics to show ;
that. James Whitcomh Riley's chi!- ,
dren's classic, 'our hired girl.' no I
longer portrays the typical in Amer-
lican village life." the department;
said.
j She was the family factotum who
'lived in the household, cooked such
Jgood things to tat that the children
: loitered about her kitchen table until
i
she chafed them away witn some
such refrain as:
I iear out of mv way: inert s;
time lor work and time ior play:
jTake your dough and run. child, run,
; or 1 can't get no cooking done!"
j" In reaching its conclusion the de
jparlment studied "household help"
tables of S.4C4 white non-ie!icf fam
ilies in 110 typical villages in all i.ec
jtions of the country.
"The importance of 'our hired girl'
. has decreased as services of commer
cial bakeries and laundries have in
creased, as canneries and t-a'nient
j factories have grown, and as labor
j saving devices have tome into the
j home. Dr. Louise Stanley, home eco
inomics director who supervised the
survey, said.
"Then, too," she added, "many a
jhomemaker would rather spend for a
icar and widen her social contacts
than to spend for a maid if this
i
; means only leisure to sit on the front
jporrh and watch the neighbors ride
by."
The New England and Pacific re
'gions were lowest in percentage of
i families having hired he lp and in
i average amount spent. In the former
'only one in twenty-five families em
.pioyed belt). The average of all fam
ilies was $54 a year.
J On the Pacific coast the percent
age of such families ranged from
i four in the low income bracket to
4o in the highest. Hired help for the
housewife was slightly more preva
lent in North Central. Middle Atlan
tic. Plains and Mountain slates.
! The southeastern village house
wife, in contrast to her northern and
western sisters, stood a very good
chance of having help. Among 2.092
j families interviewed household help
j ranged from 1G per cent in the low
! income bracket ($2r0-$49!) a year)
ito 10(1 per cent in the highest ?5.-
IO00-S9.99S).
AUTO PLUNGES 50 FEET;
LANES UPRIGHT, 5 ESCAPE
PHILADELPHIA (UP) Death
took a holiday here when an auto-
iinoniie tarrying nve paspengor broke
through a guard rail and plunged
T.O feet to a cobbled stockyard.
The vehicle landed squarely on
its four wheels; the tires and springs
absorbing the shock. The passengers
escaped with minor bruises.
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Laughing Around the World
With IRVIN S. COBB
But It Was Worth a Chance
By IRVIN S. COBB
'I 'HE lawyer picked his way to the edge of the excavation for the new
terminal station and called down for Michael Casey.
"Who's wanton me?" inquired a. deep voice.
("OKCE uifts) Vr
"I am," said the lawyer. "Mr. Casey did you come from Castle
bar, County Mayo?"
"I did."
"And was your mother named Mary w your father named
Owen?"
'They was."
"Then Mr. Casy," said the lawyer, "it is my duty to inform you
that your Aunt Kate has died in the old country, leaving you an estate
of twenty thousand dollars in cash. Please come on up."
There was a pause and a commotion down below.
"Mr. Casey," called the lawyer, craning his neck over the trench,
"I'm waiting for you!"
"In wan minute," said Mr. Casey. "I just stopped to lick the
foreman!"
For six months Mr. Casey, in a high hat and with patent leather
fIidcs on his feet, lived a life of elegant ease, trying to cure himself
of a great thirst. Then he went back to his old job. It was there in
the same excavation that the lawyer found him the second time.
"Mr. Casey," he said, "I've more news for you. It is your Uncle
Terrence who's dead now in the old country; and he has left you his
entire property."
"I don't think 1 can take it," said Mr. Casey, leaning wearily on
his pick. "I'm not as strong as I wance was; and I'm doubtin' if I could
go through all that again and live!"
(Americas News
France's Ratio
of Aliens Now
1 to 14 Natives
Fresence of Three Million Foreigners
Causes New Concern Rapid j
Rise in Recent Years.
PARIS (VIM France attracts
more immigrants than' any other
European country, unci i:s perhaps
second only to the United States in
r. : t opi ing the greatest, number of
immigrants among" lilr'natlons.
Today there are more than ".0 0 0.
000 foreigners living in France,
against only 00.000 in lS.'l. The
total population of the country of
slightly more than 42.0Oft.d00 has
grown relatively little in that period,
and has been virtually stationary
since the World war!-
Th
:e number', of. foreigners
living in Franc? one-fourteenth of
the entire population admittedly
has its good and bad points. Recent
decrees ordering the immediate reg
istration of foreigners or their expul
sion, indicates renewed attention
paid to this problem. But on The
whole, the French stil! regard immi
gration as beneficial and the right
asylum for political refugees fr.ds
only the I'nited Stater on an equal
footing with France in liberality of
admit tan ce.
Rise Rapid in Recent Years
Despite the introduction or num
erous democratic states in Europe
during the war. immigration from
the poorer nations leaped following
the armistice. In 1 911 there were
1.100.0AO foreigners in France: in
1931 this had grown to 2.715.000 and
in the last seven years has passed the
P.. 000. 000 mark, despite the intro
duction of severe restrictions since
the mass exodus from the totalitarian
states threatened to become a flood.
Post-war immigration policy has
been dictated by the fact that France
has attained a stationary population
figure. In the war Fran e lost l.:?50,
00it of her youngest and strongest
men. To this must be added the
sharp fall in the birth rate during
the four war years, the low health
of those who were children and suf
fered from malnutrition during that
period, and some half million severe
ly wounded men bo suffered per
manent disability as a result of the
war.
The war decimated France's male
population and unset the numeric
equilibrium of srxrs. It is estimated
that there are 115 women to every
1 (to men in France today. Naturally
in thp war generatio?is' tho disparity
is much greater.' One thing about
immigrants which officials particu
larly the army regard as a good
point is that the majority of immi
grants are young men. the majority
of whom finally- marry French wom-
CAM?
Wilts the whiskers Sootkes the skin
Features, Inc.)
! en. To the army, the large number
of immigrants is still far from com
1 pensating for the war losses.
I
Idle Problem Complicated
Nevertheless there Is much criti
cism against this large immigrant
population. One of the most persist
ent arguments is that foreigners com
plicate employment, and add to the
number of French unemployed. The
argument doe-; not stand up under
examination. There are aVout 400.000
unemployed in France today. This
number includes Frenchmen and for
eigners. If this number of foreign
workers were expelled, it is estimated
that 1.000. 000 people would leave
the country families of the dismiss
ed foreigners must be included. This
means 1.000. ("00 consumers would be
lost, whi.h would doubtless compli
cate the unemployment problem.
Moreover, most of the foreigners
employed in France are unskilled
workers, where as lack of employ
ment's high principally in the skill
ed trades. On the basis of the last
census in 1930. 30 per cent of the
'oreigners are employed in mines. 2 4
per cent in the chemical industry. In
each of these industries the foreign
ers work in unskilled sections and it
is harder each year despite unem
ployment to find Frenchmen will
ing to take these hard and danger
ous jobs. The greatest number of
the foreigners work as farm laborers
249.000 of them in 1936.
I
j Students Nnmter 12 Per Cent
I Another criticism is that the for
jcigners are taking jobs in the liberal
professions away from the Freneh
Irnen. A small but vociferous group
'has utilized this for anii-semitic
1
j propaganda in France. Statistics
show that only 4 per cent of liberal
professional workers are foreigners,
j Of students in French universities
9.000, or 12 per cent are foreigners.
The majority of them return to their
own countries when they finish their
st udies.
Criminal cases against foreigners.
i however, are high. According to fig
ii res published by the department of
! justice 50.000 foreigners go before
!the courts each year. It is estimated
that 17.5 per cent tf criminals in
; French prisons are foreigners. More
jover. 25 per cent of the bankruptcies
: and judiciary liquidations each year
'occur among foreigners.
I Supporters of a liberal policy to
Jward foreign immigrants argue that
:this situation is due to control and
jnot to the principle of liberal asylum,
j One of the suggested chances is
that foreigners be more evenly dis
tributed throughout the country. At
: present most foreigners are concen
trated in big centers, more than 60
.per cent in Paris alone. Often French
! villages in which mines or chemical
jand iron fattories are located are
found to possess more foreigners
than Frenchmen. There are villages
in the mining regions which are
principally composed of Poles.
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EAGLE NEWS ITEBwrk.?tarts
Miss Genevieve Bickert of Omaha
spent Sunday with home folks.
Miss Lucille Mayer was the guest
of Miss Lois Jean Lytle the first of
last week.
Roy Cooper, of Lincoln, spent last
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mar
tha Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hawkins of
Sidney made a brief visit in Eagle
the first of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Axe of Lin
coln were in town Tuesday visiting
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Martha Cooper spent Monday
of this week with her daughter,
Mrs. Elmer Adams and family.
Charles Cray, Sr.. of Douglas, is
visiting his daughter. Mrs. E. II.
May and Mr. May and Ormond.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Piersol. of
Lincoln spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Piersol and other rela
tives. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thomson
,-tnd Gary of Palmyra spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. "Wall and
family.
Mrs. J. V. Stradley and Mr. and
Fred Newsham of Greenwood call
ed on relatives in Eagle Friday rf
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Nicholas of
Elgin visited their daughter. Mrs.
Don Springer and Rev. Springer on
last Sunday.
Mrs. Lydia Muonchnu and Miss
Lillie Muenchau of Elmwood called
last Sunday afternoon at the W. E.
Muenchau home.
Mr. and Mrs. James Lytle and
family of Elmwood spent Sunday at
the home of Mr. Lytle's parents. Mr.
and :4rs. P.ert Lytle.
Mrs. Mary Wachter spent Sunday
in Lincoln with Mr. and Mrs. Loren
V.'achter and Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Peterson and family.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Piersol are en
joying a visit with Mrs. Miller. Mrs.
Piersol's sister, from Geneva, who has
been here most of the past week.
Mrs. Martha Cooper. Mrs. Mack
Williams and Roy Cooper drove to
Greenwood and spent last Sunday
afternoon at the J. V. Stradley
home.
Mrs. George Bickert. Sr.. who
hasn't been in good health for sev
eral months, is now receiving treat
ment at the St. Elizabeth httspital
in Lincoln.
Rev. Springer and members of the
Epworth League attended the Ep
worth assembly at Epworth Lake
park in Lincoln "last Sunday after
noon and evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde West and
family and Mrs. Irene McFail mo
tored to Avora last Sunday and were
dinner guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Wililiam liaier.
Miss Florence West returned home
the latter part of last week from
Louldcr. Colorado, where she had
taken some special work at the
University of Colorado.
Miss Freda Reitter, accompanied
by Mrs. Frank Tlymale and child
ren of Millard enjoyed a motor trip
to Oklahoma last week. While gone,
they visited relatives near Alva,
Oklahoma.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Moore of San
Francisco. Calif., arrived in Eagle
Thursday after a visit with rela
tives in Arkansas. They will visit
Mrs. Sophia Gerhard. Miss Jennie
Gerhard and Ed Gerhard and fam
ily while here.
Attended Funeral in Lincoln
A number of people from this
community attended the funeral ser
vices held in Lincoln Tuesday morn
ing for Miss Irene Townser.d's fath
er. Mrs. Fhin Tovnsend. who pass
ed away last Sunday at his home in
the capital city. Miss Townsend has
given piano lessons here during the
cummer for a number of years.
Attended Funeral in Missouri
Mr. and Mrs. Voyal Wall. Mrs.
Joe Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Chides
ter and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hursh
motored to Ravenwood. Missouri.
Saturday of last week and attended
DAMAGE suits are fre
quently brought years
after an accident occurs.
All forms of liability in
surance should be writ
ten in a company that
will, without question,
be in business ten, fif
teen or twenty-five years
from now.
Scarl S. Davis
mrvirpii FLOOR
Platts. State Bank Bldg.
Ilk
w
fi ew Base
for Air G. M. Q.
Scott Field Construction Will Be
Finished Within Year Fi
nanced by PWA.
BELLEVILLE, 111. I I P I Work
men have begun the rebuilding of
Scott Field, wartime aviation train
ing base seven miles southwest of
here, to tare for the General Army
Air Force headquarters which will
be transferred from Lang'ey Field,
Va.
The work is financed by :.i $5,500.-
000 appropriation from tao Public
Works Administration for the wreck
ing of the present buildings and the
construction of hangars, runways,
service buildings, barracks, for 330
enlisted men and ejuarteis for 27
commissioned officers. There will
also be quarters for 32 n n-eomniis-sioncd
officers.
Work to Require Year
Other buildings also lave been
planned bur not yet autboiized. The
work is expected to be completed
within a year.
With the headquarters of( Major
Gen. Frank M. Andrews, command
ing general of the air corps, stationed
here, Scott Field will b the key
point In the United States air de
fense. About 35 membe-s of the
headquarters staff. 200 m-n and 20
planes will be moved to 1'nc field.
Transferrence of air headquarters
to Scott Field was prompted by both
administrative and strategic consid
eip'ions. according to Maj tr Walter
T. Meyer, present adjutant at the
field.
Other Units Uncharged
Although most of the Army's air
forte will remain at Rive side. Cal..
Langley. Va., and .ihrevporr La.,
the headquarters will be in center
of the United States. Thi.s factor will
enable the commanding general to
reach all units of his command more
quickly. The west coast could be
reached easily in one day from here,
while it required nearly two days to
make the jump from Langley P'ield.
The air force hcadqu; i ters here
will be within three hoirs of De
troit, five hours of New Orleans and
five hours of New York. The entire
air defense of the country will bf
planned from here, including plans
for air development in a and peace
and the arrangement of maneuvers
and war games, along wltii the Bupei
vision of the air corps personnel and
equipment.
the funeral services for William
Wareheim. Miss Minnie Hursh of
Lincoln accompanied th -m and re
mained there.
Mrs. Wareheim will be remember
ed by many of her frier. ds as Miss
Edith Hursh.
NONCHALANT LION Ul WANTED
PITTSBURG, Cal. UP Roy
Ludington. manager of the Crafts
Shows, would like to get i id of a non
chalant lion. It is no good for show
purposes because the more he is
prodded and the more blank cart
ridges that are fired, the meeker he
gets. Surrounding zoos refused to
accept the beast.
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have been paying. Prompt service.
If you need stamps, see us.
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