EDITORIAL PAGE DETROIT, OF THE E-S JULY 12. 1941 Bastille Day New Deal Battle of Russia Willkie Tends Mussolini EXT Mondav July Vl. v, II bo an anniversary in Blinds Nation, To Open War, Fake .Among Nri France w! .. t: ' rve with poignant memories and in utt«i sadness but in an atmosphere of national pride in which f ' .n hopes are kindled. Brown Says General Hints Dictators There is in the city it Pans t.tday a public square, called the Plate Do La Bashlle. in the «enter of which Decision on Draft Term Urges U. S. to Insist He's Ridiculous, Rapid!/ rises a marble monument to .height of 151 feet. It marks th* site ’l! prison which the hern steadily TF THERE is This (CONGRESS * on hoodwinked by the New Deal impudent and arrogant than That men who can't French revolutionists t re ti-tvvn stone by stone July 11. eight for more than years. British Prime Minister Church- late their own Itves are always c«-ntun« it had been a symbol of the It ha *1 never learned its lesson 17*9. For dim ill's complaint about United blue-printing a “post-war" pro- over the jMxiple. was rat infested fmm t hese repeated hoodwink- wielded It . . despotic power ings. States Senator Wheeler’s com- gram for the world . and unspeakably vile. in t luckless people, political pris- From the day in mid-Summer ment on the occupation of Ice- That men who cannot estab- criminals, spent what years of 1933 thrti Pre>ident Roosevelt land. it is Mr. Wendell W’illkie’s lish a league of peace in their oners along with often first upon his social- embarked smug assurance that what he own families and businesses are remained to them without ever a sight of the outside istic program. Congress has calls "poepul of Ammurrica” passionately in favor of a league world. b**en led step-by-step to a goal the • • • which it never suspected and want President Roosevelt to lead of nations, which, according to not did understand and not follow them to such them, will end all wars . . . the Bast lie finally fell before the furies of the The alarming announcement ly/HEX stops as the occupation of bases That men who are failures as its In the administration that it W mob. seven miserable inmates were found in surely wants fxmer to send an army in Ireland which would providers in their own families dungeons below the water level of an adjoining moat. One anywhere in the world and to put us at once into shooting war advocate that form of state- of them had been there for .'»•> years. keep the Ixiys with the colors in Europe and his comparison of provision for everybody called - -beyond the year fixed by Con- agree . those who do not with him socialism . . On its inner walls was an inscription, cut propheti- gress represents a typical piece (whom he calls “isolationists'*) That men and women who are tally into the stone: of New Deal strategy. When General,..Marshall, chief with the slave traders of 1861. incapable of sticking to-a pro- !** demolished, and the shocking “The Bastille shall one day of stats of the Army, appeared Such things are to all gram for their own lives for six before Die House appropria- want us to prepare our- shall dance on the area where it stood." " who engaged in people : months are busily tions committee on April US. _. .. . ‘ - selves at any cost for total de- on that fourteenth writing The people did. most vengetully that the fense and, to that end and that, out life-programs for and testified national ~ ' : ** ago from Monday. . . of July, exactly 152 years next sent home • % end alone, Britain stand in other people . day guard would be back -- - aid to ¦ ' *!•;-*• They built a bridge across the Seine with its stones, in September, that the trainees j| . - ihe Atlantic but who do not That men who demand for old prison would he discharged beginning want us to impair that purpose themselves the greatest degree and the pedestal erected on the site of the - - .• - in November, and that the army ¦ v . . • -X ¦ \ by engaging in overseas of freedom concoct schemes to bore bronze medallions symbolical of justice, the consti- • V* . . would he reduced, he was speak- fr- to preserve the British regiment everybody else . freedom, was w T-. elsewhere the -• tution, strength and which it supposed ing as a soldier, in whom every :S : ! - Empire. It is very doubtful 1 notice that the meaner a people of France would ever thereafter possess and enjoy. one in Congress has the utmost whether such utterances even man is to his employes, his Lafayette, who ordered the demolition, sent a model faith. help to aid Britain. family and his servants, the Obviously that was General among he of the Bastille with “the main key of the fortress of There is no question a louder calls for schemes of Marshalls plan only a little majority of professional observ- “umvrrsal charity." despotism" to General Washington. more than two months ago. that the bulk of our people Finally, I have noticed that ts # # * • * ers do not want President Roosevelt, the best thing each one of us the model, nearly three feet long, and the QENATOR WHEELER has or any other one man. to “lead'’ can do is to try to apply hi* will, to himself, inches in length, are kept charged that American inter- them, against their to any "idealism" his family, TODAY,wrought iron key, seven national policy is not being de- such result as seems to be in Mr. his associates and those wiiii safely at Mount Vernon. termined in Washington, but is Willkie's mind hut didn't seem whom he comes directly in con- Unfortunately, the French institutions of justice and being determined in London by to be there when he asked for tact. a hoard of Rrilish and notice as safely. mini their votes. P. S. And I also that freedom were not kept American army and navy of- It is also questionable whether writers who are advising us to For now the institutions of despotic authority have ficers. he speaks for any great group of “discipline" ou riel vem and returned to France, and the imposing monument in the If this is true, it means that ihem He once did seem to syx'ak "toughen up" are themselves La Bast a people fTo* of staTf of the army for about 23 millions when he living the life of Riley. historic Place De ill** remains to mock • must alter his at the dic- tune ? ? who forgot that liberty is not a heritage which may be plans was ringing a different i tation of the British government, to which he since has said was just THE three dictatois. only possessed in perpetuity, but something for which the for it may be assumed that if Fourth of July Showers Letters "campaign oratory.” He fooled OF Mussolini is ndicult price of eternal vigilance must be paid. there is such a joint policy ’em once and while jieople may There is now something even new of despotism have arisen in hoard in London the Americans like to he fooled they don't like pathetic about this former blow- That fortresses making policy. After France is sad. but they are the consequence of the neglect are not the Bloom Guests’ Excuses the Editor to be told about it so cynically. hard and grand o|>era baxso- all, this is Great Britain's war Mr. Willkie is by way of being bluffo who has betrayed to Hit- people. and is natural that she or fol- of the French it only By DAMON HIWON TO THK KPI TOR: a man without a party a ler one of the greatest and least permitted agents of to filter should determine how it is to be lowing he could have been They the communism days wo frequently and warlike peoples in the world—- industries, and to under- fought. IT IS said ihat cancellations by the relatives. Of late years, the i the Italians. into their armed forces and their President. • is not as simple all hoar the expression that • • foundations of justice and But it as provpeetive week-end guests labor unions have been taking The liest book 1 vo read on the mine and destroy the very , Roosevelt is sticking his reek • that. It will be remembered ihat GREAT many Americans Duce is “Spuix on th*' " hy at private liomes in the country the stand that house-guesting out 800 l freedom. J in his thud term acceptance again. \ apparent ly a m a j o r i t y—- Thomas D Morgan (Longmans!. They were indifferent to the weakening influences of. | speech to the Chicago conven- and at the seashore reached a cannot be required of an em- Friends. Mr. Roosevelt Is not agree with Senator Wheeler. Mr. Morgan was the representa- sticking neck communistic sabotage upon their establishments of pro- . tion last July, Mr. Roosevelt, new all-time high in New York ploye without his full consent, the Roosevelt out This column doesn't, altogether. tive of the United Press in Italy that he to hut the nocks of all of his loyal duction and defense and even upon their national stressed the |>omt had City a week ago Thursday night, hut if you have a relative who It was warning against the when Mussolini took over l these is not in- houses along the Atlantic sca- of Amen "a by Roose- xelf and of how “convenient" for But CoiVgress «ould never see frequently a large elaborate who will be at the business end velt ? and boaid and in the rural districts Mussolini it was when Ballxj vigilant safeguard if it is to endure. this at the time. It could not establishment, he finds that of ihese war wea|x>ns. ihix of Pennsylvania and Connecti- True. Bntish smearing “passed out.” foresee, for example, that when periods of great lonesomeness go The occupation of Iceland by was guise of a charge that full-length and away up in Vermont under Here. too. are por- it gave the President a lump cut. was a bold with it. and during these periods and New Hampshire and as far American troops Senator Wheelers conjecture traits of Edda. Mussolini's wild- sum of $-1.880,000,000 to spend he commences thinking that it stroke of Roosevelt’s akin to about the American occupation south as Virginia, began jang- cat daughter, who married av he might see fit, it was laying he a nice thing lo the transfer of the 50 destroyers endangered would have ling like mad as the potential of Iceland British Count Ciano, and of D'Annunzio, urs for Visitors the groundwork for other acts ot his in for and invitation for the aggres- It hard that To some friends com- an lives. is to make up the poet-warrior, who was both arsenal of congressional stultification pany over the week-end. week-enders called and can- sors to declare war ujion us. up" with defense boom, which has made Detroit the That celed out on account of the “add Mr. Churchill's a great genius and a nauxeating and abdication. is. it would be a nice thing for This act was a definite violation assertion in Parliament that the also made it one of the key Congress rain. clown. THEof the country, has When enacted the him. of the President's solemn pledge British are to stay there and Mr. Morgan intimates that the law, it This is one excuse that a host basis of present figures, the selective service insisted So he M’ts about in mid-week before election as Ireland is not. that Americans are to reinforre has millions tourist attractions. On the upon must accept. He realizes that duce planted in an amendment prohibiting to canvassing »he>e friends, ap- definitely not, in the Western them. Brazilian banks, not "frozen” the "biggest he cannot reasonably expert • • • Detroit Tourist Bureau estimates this will be iht* sending of soldiers of the proaching them in the manner Hemisphere. . . . yet anyway you fight any one. bar relatives or em- And look at draft army to outside the of doing them a big favor. Suc- I believe* my sentiments are rPHK Americans have not yet according ever" tourist year. ployes. to exchange a it. to the author, the Western Hemisphere. The Presi- cess jn securing promises of rained-in the sentiments of more lhan a J force. As with in Ihe city arrived in Senator outlook for the Italian people is thousands of motorists unfamiliar dent accepted - week-end for a The influx of that. But Mr. week end attendance dejiends million American people who Wheeler remarks, the Presi- desperate. Roosevelt, although willing to rained-in week-end in the coun- Detroit streets and traffic regulations creates a serious largely upon the salesmanship of are really and tnily American dent'?; broadcast to the world An absorbing book with lota bide his time, is never willing to the try. His prospects’ good for- first, always. a minimum householder with some ref- last and that the “Yanks are coming" to of "news” in it of a country* that safety problem. As a means of keeping to abandon an objective, erence to the experience the tune is just his tough lurk. The American voters whom only endanger- * + • of Iceland was the tragic opera- (and There is nothing he can do ex- is the stage of a on Detroit streets prospect in week-ending. Mr. Roosevelt has broken his ing statement, if any and that the number of tourist-motorists cept sit *lown compile houffe. with Mussolini playing it was foreseen You cannot just walk up to a and a promise to. should demand the to American not se* of Detroit s sights) was and Brit- both the "heavy” and the buf- guaranteeing thev will all new next « yet that nOI'BTLESSthat when the time came prosfieet and bluntly say, ‘Tome list of clients for the withdrawal of our troops and ixh 1 1\ - it teems t<> t>oii down 1o foon. whv can t the Detroit lourisl Bureau and the DSR arguments eould he made to down to my house Friday night week-end. arm our soldiers adequately to a conclusion that anybody * • • .justify the repeal of that prohi- ami stav over the week-end.” defend our own shores. who debates our progress toward * * 25 TODAY the co-operate in running tours to BcllP Isle, the auto factories bition. m YEARS \«.O of Duce: FRANCES HORNING, fighting a war in Europe is going SPEAKINGMussolini has broken up ? If we are to go to war s,Mjn. V’Y'd’ have to approach your July 12. 1916 boulevard. to he ganged up on by both the and alf other points of interest .VV’ the great and ancient oxtates in o| course the draft army should * German U-boat shells Scaham British and govern- lots now- quarry gen 11 > and w ith American Sicily and has them into Such tours could start at the parking he kept in There would preamble on English east roast, THE EDIT*. >R. ments, the turned service. much casual about ihe Harbor TO regardless of will of homes and farms for motorist could he no sense on the very eve of killing is thousands operated by the DSR. There th* visiting beauty and the peace and quirt one woman. our deiense program the American people. of the "proletariat." war in • • • on*' discharging men who and the healthfulness ol your N’OWshown to be limping along Simultaneously, two foremost « ar, load his family Tito a bus, preferably If the present owners will not leave his have had a year's 1 raining and place, the downy nature of the push like a sick snail. ftgurox in the British army. British Germans back give up . . . well, just ,nd be whisked about the in creating a new army ol raw beds, Auchinleck, who do that'll he r.t the topless "fresh-air" t; p* . and the excellence of the and retake wfhole of the Ma- Already, New Dealers appar- Wavell and too had, says Signor Mussolini'. material: food are seeking a scapegoat, not speak thus without govern- The latter should he em- met/ Wood. ently On the whole. I think th* city. Thus the very proposal to phasized. Even the cagiest vet- one Van Waggoner putting the ment approval, tell us that we’ve keep t hr* x,»nd duce is right that is if he con- In this manner Detr -it < ouM be seen quickly, cheaply draft armv and the »*ran ol week-ending may fall blame on the army and navy. got m a vast new A. E. F. national guard with the colors to fight the of pensates the present owneis. ’ .urists. would for this. ihough in general, we However, when the farts on continent without danger b\ the while the DSR )x But it does bear a close re- and indefinitely iv a clear revelation think it hest to avoid the vets oEmorcwriMES emerge, it will undoubtedly l>o Europe. That not what the every Dny Kvenmg lation to what was done in ol the intent to w ar. go PubllihM Week and the same hunch are President and Mr. Churchill told benefit from the increased revenues. and in for the raw hands. Sunday Morning l» The Time* found that is a giKKI thing PuhliehinK when ihcy got the Russia hy Lenin It that this The> require less effort. It mud Company at 1 2ib Times Square. Detroit. responsible for the tlop of the us lease-lend > As an American, I can t help C ivvije ha' been presented to Con- always he mentioned is Mich defense program as were re- hill passed. It is the reverse of : that it thinking that an acre or two DOWN ON 7-E *EW gress this week for final deter- no at to K.ntered at Detroit Mich . as Second-Class for the failure of the what they told us If they had of BAERING trouble all getting your Mail Matter sponsible with a mination. At last the war mak- place New Deal to restore prosperity. told ux that there wouldn't have land cow and a house ing branch of government TELEPHONIC—CHERRY Mfxr been any lease-lend hill. built hy the state is not worth has a Then when the victim has advance) by MICHAEL CROWLEY, chance Subscription rate un mail are the price the peasants must pay to act. up to an\ pla< e in States, Canada Many-questions posed by . been softened to where he re- the United 341 Jasmine, for it . . . their personal, mental, Hot 1 ir—Frev marks. “I’d like sort or Mexico: l.agima Cal. all these events. How are we that of Dally and Beach. thing going to establish bases in Ire- spiritual and political liberties. <*s” BUR Connolly myself.” vou nail him » Daily Sunday Sunday Ilv VIM 111 i: "Bl Answers land when the Irish are neutral "Security" marches with great, 1 (a i Woodrow Wilson; th) You say. "Well, come down One Month ... * 7% $ .”Sl * 1 2.V Answers Three Months ..... 2 2S I .Vi 3.75 Quiz fight Irish, strides throughout t is a great thing unless the this and the too? Where the world Free speech in *l*mocracv Henry Clay; id Israel week-end." then walk Six Months . . ... 4 .*mi 3 oe- is all and One Month .. .. I 75 I 50 $ 125 2 does In* has lime In home de- lease-lend materials? How Lween Arizona and Nevada! before to mumble Three Months 1 50 I VI 3.00 3- In 1863. 1865 that a *la-s of agitator wf calls lonise fan American SIX MohThS 2 75 3**** 5 75 to fit in with a statement in ONE YEAR AGO There’s •hi Indiana: *o> on Niagara any excuses. *K) livery was extended all TODAY One Year 5 00 d ial 11 Parliament the same day and he hasn’t go? any nv.r. roots than a paper flower. Unless he is a downright cad cities having a population of citizen but River near Ruffalo. H\ CARRIER news dispatches earlier that a July 12, 1940 3 'a! 186-1, (b» 1798; he will keep the engagement 50,000 and over. Since «c* YEARLY great deal of that equipment 1918 you can into DAILY ./ I » 3(1 4—Narragjinsett. I,: Nazis intensify their air drive * sinve and , take him a R. Havre fellow4 have ! ••er. sh -i tir.g off their faces 5 20 lies, for one reason or another, Those kind of I «a> ih) 1876; tc) sequestered room when ar- SUNDAY de Grace. Md. and Los along the English and Scottish 1900-1: he DAILY AND SUNDAY 14 5* uncrated in British docks and over what we should 't countrv Carow, road” certain months of the year Mexico. in Spantsh- rm: m fortunate on Application • Mrx Th*M>dore Roose- « * Rates wfti, why »n’t the fart and the to \ni«M K'xn .tnd shore sojourners All money sei’l a' sender » risk Do not velt; l .on Henry, Mrs. Her- appease Japan. War are be 0 0 0 *. • ,sh All check* reasons therefor plainly Then ¦when tt w*..—cba. uo.nml —6 ?*¦« Bumper- ¦*-+*-* ••I'd i or st >m.o drklts brrt Hoover. and m >i*-: oidei Tionrff he made pavahte stated t«» our j»popU»? is reported term truck collecting empty kegs infantryman employes de|»endenl upon their to Tllr TIM' S PI RUSHIMi COMPANY f» The Universities of Michigan Russia strength- picking up iu.* a brewery ic* r b\ , 7 i# or in j all fronts againxt the day i ‘Kenilworth"; 'Martin | ad new* n •pst -hae to it or when * form credited ¦trictly pfohihl»*a Dis • ¦•»