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W HEN YOU ARE DRAFTED for the next war don't be too downcast, because there are many compensations if you sliould come back. Difficult things will be made easy for you. For example, you won't have to bother going through all the platforms to find out which man to vote for in the Presidential campaigns-all you have to do (just as did the Republican Service League in New York) is to determine whether Repub- licans or Democrats have been the most generous to veterans. It really simplifies this rather com- plicated problem quite a bit. If it happens that you remember that Mr. Roosevelt was the unpatriotic man who, in a silly attempt to in- troduce economies, tried to limit the pensions to the men who were entitled to receive them, and that he also vetoed the Banus Bill because the bonuses weren't due for ten years (doesn't the man appreciate that we made the Supreme Sacrifice), and if it happens that you forget that it was a Democratic Congress that was forced by organized pressure to pass the bonus bill and to tack so many veteran's amendments onto the Economy Act of 1933 that it looked like a bill for services rendered from the Legion, then you probably will decide (which, as the name indicates, the Republican Service League has done) that Alf M. Landon will be the best man to decide the internal and foreign policies of our country for the next four years. When you come back, you can say to the Governor of Michigan (as did the American Legion Michigan chapter this week) that Civil Service is a good way to take political interfer- ence out of government jobs, so long as veterans get the preference. Don't forget to pass a reso- lution that in situations where a maximum age limit of 33 is imposed on prison guards, that limit be disregarded in the case of veterans. Veterans don't get old; their chief occupation, high-pressuring Congressman, is an active pur- suit and it keeps one young. Then, remembering that you fought to save the world for democracy (or whatever your slo- gan will be), you can proceed to destroy that democracy by calling every man who has An Idea a communist, and you can see to it that Our Children are taught the Truth (and only the right kind of Truth) with perfect freedom (put them in jail if they don't salute the flag) by teachers who are also inspected patriots. Your daughters can see to the textbooks. If it should happen that you elect a man who is peculiarly open-minded in these things as Commander Murphy is, better counteract what he says by local agitation. And if some college professor should get it in his head that the cause for which you went to war wasn't what you thought it was, it might be better if you clamped down on him a bit. It doesn't do any good to let people know you've been a damn fool. Dog Days And Dog Bites AI BERT PAYSON TERHUNE, well-known au- thor and friend of dogs writing in the most recent issue of Reader's Digest, has some oppor- tune remarks concerning "dog days" and the dangers of being bitten. In the first place, he says, it is important to remember that rabies is a scarce disease and a dog bite is only fatal through neglect. All pre- cautions should be taken, but the fear of rabies is largely mental. Fi ~FORUM] Letters published in this column should not be construed as expressing the editorial opinion of The Daily. Anonymous contributions will be disregarded. The names of communicants, will, however, be regarded as confidential upon request. Contributors are asked to be brief, the editors reserving the right to condense all letters of more than 300 words and to accept or reject letters upon the criteria of general editorial importance and interest to the campus. Those Doubtful Anti-Monopoly Planks (Arthir Krock In the New York Times) IF THE TWO PARTY PLATFORMS of 1936 are to. be taken seriously, the next Congress, re- gardless of who is elected President or which party has a majority In the House, will proceed vigorously to shore up the anti-trust laws. Crim- inal as well as civil statutes will be invoked by the next administration to punish acts in re- straint of trade, and "regulation" will be aban- doned in favor of actual suppression. It was this assumption of the advanced Demo- cratic position by his own party which Senator Borah insisted upon at Cleveland, and if the support he promises to give to the Republicans in the campaign develops to a high degree, this is the plank which will be chiefly responsible. On the basis of the 1936 platform exhibits, monopolists will get short shrift from either Franklin D. Roosevelt or Alf M. Landon. Com- munications trusts need expect no relaxations of inquisitorial activity at Washington. Steel com- panies, if Attorney-General Cummings has not already upset their arrangement on bids, will have them upset by his successor. Proved monopolists will have to tell it to the judge. Such being the solemn party pledges, binding upon candidates, we are told, as a matter of "private honor and public faith," it would na- turally be assumed that no big business issue will be present in the forthcoming campaign, That assumption would be erroneous. This is not the first time that the Democratic and Republican parties have breathed fiery words at monopolies, and yet not once since 1884, when the issue first arose, have the Dem- ocrats given the Republicans credit for sincerity. They will not give it to the Republicans this year, even though, under the Borah goad, the Re- publicans borrowed Democratic pronounce- ments of 1900, 1904, and 1912 to describe how opposed they are to monopolies. After the Mark Hanna era, President Theo- dore Roosevelt searched the dictionaries to find language vivid enough to describe what he in- tended to do to the trusts. The Democrats re- torted that words, not deeds, completed his record, and charged him with innumerable com- promises with the principle out of court. In 1933, the Democrats under Franklin Roose- velt officially relaxed the anti-trust laws them- selves to legitimize NRA, and they will have to bear the onus for that in this campaign when professing their anti-trust intentions. Senator Borah himself, at last victorious in committing his party to a course against monopolies which wasfirst put into words by Bryan, opposed the Clayton Act of the Wilson administration in 1914 on the ground that the original Sherman laws were wholly adequate, requiring only honest ex- ecution. The Republicans always have, and they will again, defend themselves against the Democratic charge that they foster monopolies, and the as- sertion that all suspected trust magnates are supporting Mr. Landon, by pointing to the fact that the author of the original acts was a Re- publican, John Sherman. The Democrats will declare, and can prove, that since 1900 theirs has been the steady anc consistent position- with the exception of NRA, of course. The cyn- ical bystander will wait to see what happens in the next Congress. The currency issue was so uppermost in 1896 that the Democratic platform dismissed the monopoly subject by attacking "the absorption of wealth by the few," and the Republicans never mentioned it. But in 1900, though calling "im- perialism the paramount issue," Bryan penned the words which were dusted off and used by the Republicans this year and the ideas which were indorsed by the Democrats. "The dishonest paltering with the trust evil by the Republican party," he then wrote in uttering a charge that has endured with his po- litical descendents, "is conclusive proof that trusts are the legitimate product of all Repub- lican policies," etc. The Republicans let that one lie. ** '* * By 1908, with Bryan again the nominee, the Democrats came to a specific demand for crim- inal action against monopolists and foreshad- owed the Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts of the Wilson administration. The Repub- licans had other issues to present. In 1912, the Democrats again called for new, legislation to cure the "weakening of the laws by judicial construction" (the Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in the tobacco and oil cases), but the Taft Republicans, also calling for re- vision, declaimed against "practices against bus- iness abhorrent to the common sense of jus- tice." So the argument has gone on as to which party really meant business against the trusts, with the Democrats-except for that one incident of NRA-having the better of the record. In 1924, prosperity was mounting to such a degree that the Republicans did not mention the old con- troversy at all, as also in 1932, for a contrary rea- son. But the Democrats kept plugging at the Bryan language and the Wilson record. Now the trusts have no friends-in the platforms. is inviting a nasty bite. The best procedure is As Others See It 'Mein Kampf, Illustrated' (From the New York Times) MORE than most agitators who attain power, Hitler is consistent with himself. In "Mein Kampf" he traces clearly what should be the lines of German foreign policy and asserts re- peatedly that foreign policy is but a means to an end. That end, he. declares, is to "assure the German nation the territory which is due it on the earth." Through the mazes of his testament two purposes run like twisting threads leading out of a labyrinth. The first is to lberate Ger- many from the bondage of Versailles, and this objective he has fully achieved in three bold leaps: withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, remilitarization of the Reich in 1935, remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936. The second is to create a new and greater Germany, and toward that goal he is now well on his way. The truce with Poland, the naval pact with Eng- land, the renunciation of further claims on France when the Saar was recovered, the peace with Austria: all these surrenders are but to clear a course set long ago in the mind of an obscure zealot at a time when he had failed miserably in his first push for power. Ordinarily it would be unfair to judge a re- sponsible ruler by the ideas and aims he ex- pressed before anyone but himself imagined they would become the gospel of a great nation. But the difference between "Mein Kampf" and other campaign documents and bids for power is pre- cisely that it is not a party platform. It was hardly read in Germany until Hitler had won his fight. It was not published abroad until he had the government in his hands. It enunciates a personal philosophy and a program, and the author was never surer of his inspired mission than when he wrote it, after the abortive "putsch" of 1923. If authority and experience have since modified the Fuehrer's early judg- ments and caused him to alter his methods, nothing in the record indicates that on any point he has changed his mind or his direction. Nor can he be said to have long abandoned views he permitted to be published in the abridged and authorized English edition of 1933. At any rate, it is fair to judge Hitler's inten- tions by his acts. And if up to the present he has taken the road mapped out in 1924 and 1927, when the two parts of the scripture were issued, it is also fair to assume that the next steps will follow in due order. Reviewed in the light of what has happened, the book projects in advance the moves whereby national independence, mean- ing military independence, has been accomp- lished. Even more plainly it illuminates the pro- gressive development of foreign policy and where it leads. The avowed aims are to isolate France, "the permanent enemy," the key to whose policy must always be the desire to possess the Rhine frontier; to make friends with England and Italy, "whose own most natural interests are least in opposition to the conditions essential to the existence of the German nation"; "to gain territory for conquest which shall extend the area of the mother country itself. * * * We turn our eyes eastward, to Russia and her border states." From first to last the acquisition of colonies has not appealed to Hitler. He says in his book that territory in Africa will not solve the Ger- man problem, that "the sole hope of success for a territorial policy nowadays is to confine it to Europe." This conviction he repeated in a sup- pressed interview this year. From first to last he has held that "the union of the two German states," the Reich and Austria, "is worthy of accomplishment by all the means in our power." It is true that he never contemplated guaranteeing Austrian indepen- dence, but the truce with Vienna is obviously of the same character as the earlier truce with Poland. In both cases Hitler shrewdly sacrificed a lesser advantage for a greater. With one agree- ment he detached Poland from France and es- tablished a Polish-German front against Russia. With the other he regained the support of Mus- solini, estranged by the Dollfuss murder, and with it the hope of playing on the side of Britain and Italy and balancing them against Russia in a new alignment of European powers. The occu- pation of the Rhineland, the naval treaty with England, the twenty-five-year peace plan are all moves to one end-to drive a wedge between France and Britain in favor of Germany. Step after step Hitler is following the direc- tion he forecast in "Mein Kampf." It is easy to understand each new move if it is interpreted as a strategic maneuver in the long-range plan there outlined. It goes without saying that his mis- calculations were many. He saw Russia as "a state doomed to collapse." He did not foresee that so many victories could be won merely by the threat of force. He thought his aims not only justified but required violence. But the consistency between program and policy is quite clear enough to warrant fairly accurate guesses as to his future course. "Mein Kampf" remains the picture of the mind in control of Germany's destinies and the best key to its operations. Hitler has answered crit- ics by asserting that he is revising the book by his acts. These acts so far prove he has found little he would revise. Rather he might boast that, stroke by stroke, he has added life-size illustrations to the text. It is time, says Louis M. Hacker, Columbia University lecturer, that the Daughters of the American Revolution were "told what their an- cestors fought for." Browns Defeat Tigers In Bio Second Inning Four Detroit Moundsmen Are Hammered For 15 Hits By St. Louis (Continued from Page 1) second inning today after Al Sim- mons doubled, Owen singled, and Simmons scored on Clift's error, but Wade weakened in the last half of the same frame. Jake got two out with only Bot- tomley's single marring the inning, but then the trouble started. Bejma tripled, Thomas walked, Lary singled, Clift walked, Solters singled, Bell, walked filling the bases and Wade walked West to force a run across, be- fore Cochrane waved the rookie to the showers. Bottomley greeted Phil- lips with a single scoringrthe sixth and seventh runs before Owen threw out Hemsley to end the inning. Gehringer doubled in the Tiger third and scored on Simmons' single, then Owen lifted his home run into the center stands. The Browns added a run in the fifth when Hemsley walked, took third on Bejma's single and scored on Thomas' long fly. 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