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Show THE PAGE TWO WEEKLY REIT'S ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH IF. LaBINE Short Congress Held Unlikely As Controversial Issues Arise; Farm Tax Fight Splits Cabinet (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. What They're Saying About: Third Party Dies Blunder see Many in official Washington beWASHINGTON wiseacres lieve the Dies committee erred for the "third par- grievously in waiting until the last minute before releasing its report on alleged Communist penetration in the Hollywood motion picture ty" movement which would presumably draft President Roosevelt to run again. Reason: All third party movements have failed, the nearest thing to suc- colony. Reason: The automatically hearings end when congress convenes, making it impossible to hold a public airing of the charges. With or without foundation, there is bound to be a complaint that persons named in the report have no op cess coming In 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt started the movement after losing the G. O. P. nomination. This campaign divided the opposition (G. O. P.) and enabled Demo cratic Woodrow Wilson to win. But this year the G. O. P. is united, and a third party would split the Democrats, thus aiding the Republican cause. portunity to defend themselves. This will hurt the committee's drive for new funds. Job Davies' forces are making political capital out of the appointment of Joseph E. Reich Wrecks Germany's serious Davies, former ambastrain wrecks are viewed sador to Russia and as a good indication of the Reich's serious ecoBelgium who has just DAV1ES been named "special nomic plight. Nazidom's New job. assistant" in the state railroad extension and repair program has suffered since department. The current story: Davies is married to Mrs. Mar-Jori- e 1936. Meanwhile Hitler's economPost Close Hutton, cereal ic program placed new burdens on the rails, climaxed by heavy troop heiress, who reportedly didn't like and ammunition movements since the bleakness of Moscow when her the war started. In the latest husband was granted that ambaswrecks (nine in all since Septemsadorship for helping the Demober 1) there were 182 killed and cratic war chest. Apparently dis139 injured all within a few hours. appointed when Joseph Kennedy was named ambassador to LonTariff Walls don, Davies was given Belgium as a consolation prize. Still dissatisState tariff walls which discriminate against products fied, says the story, he was brought are apt to fall in 1940 if the Council back to Washington and given the of State Governments goes through new post in an effort to keep the with its anticipated program. At Davies-Pos- t interests in line for least 43 of the states (all except 1940's election. Even if the story Arizona, Idaho, Missouri, North is true, Davies' knowledge of the Dakota and Washington) already European situation may neverthecomhave interstate less prove helpful to the state demissions which will begin holding partment. He has an intimate picsectional conferences. ture of the Moscow situation. Both Mr. Hull and the President have vowed a defense on this matter, which could easily produce a long and heated session. Im portance: An administration defeat would mean that congress favors Re publican high tariffs, giving the G. CONGRESS: Lineup for Battle last-ditc- each New Year's day scurry the nation's lawmakers. This year they hope to scurry home again a few weeks later, for 1940 is an election year and there are plenty of fences in need of patching. But as Franklin Roosevelt began working on his and budget messages, and u as Henry Wallace and Henry carried their tax battle into the open, there was no sign that congress would be short lived. Main Rooseveltian aims are (1) retention of all New Deal policies, including neutrality and the reciprocal trade program; (2) appropriation of $550,000,000 which congress "owes" the treasury for farm benefits which were approved but not provided for; (3) bigger defense program; (4) as little fighting as possible, to keep the New Deal's skeletons in the closet. But no observer expected a pink tea party on these issues: Agriculture. Formally announced was Henry Wallace's plan to siphon a minimum of $300,000,000 annually directly from consumers to help finance his farm program. Facts of the "certificate plan": farmers would receive income certificates valued at the difference between the market price of the crop and the "parity price." Processors and others buying crops would be required to buy the certificates, thus retiring them. This was a pood scheme, except that Henry treasury complained Back to Washington O. h P. an important foothold for 1940 in the important farm areas. Labor Act. Recent hearings be fore the house committee investigat ing the National Labor Relations board will probably result in de mands for revision of the act Unsavory things were said about NLRB, especially those allegations of C. I. O. favoritism. Business and A. F. of L. are both demanding n reforms. RELIGION: Peace Drive marked theological flutter fol lowed President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor, former U. S. Steel head, as his "personal representative" to the Vatican. Well timed at the Christmastide, the Pres ident's message to Pope Pius XII Dr. George Buttrick of the Federal Council of Churches and Rabbi Cy rus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, sought to unite world spiritual forces in peace drive. Said Dr. Buttrick: "We share the President's confidence that men A XEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- THE WARS: In the North Thursday, January 4, 1941 Washington Gets Busy Again And So Do Capital's Matrons Already a queer war in which soldiers wear ghostly white robes and travel on skis, the Finnish-Russiaconflict took on a new note: Finns sent their night patrols across frozen lakes on ice skates. Next day their field guns blasted holes in the ice as Russians began crossing, Soviet troops drowning like rats. Generally speaking, battalions of 600 superior Finnish soldiers were holding off Russian divisions of 18,000 men, all the way from Petsamo on the north to the Karelian isthmus on the south. But a month of such humiliation was enough for Russia's Dictator Josef Stalin. While the Finns chuckled over their success in penetrating Soviet soil almost to the Leningrad-Murmansrailroad, the 0 Kremlin was reported throwing fresh men into the fray under a new command. The officers were said to be Joe Stalin's "personal friends," who now have their choice of winning or being personal friends no longer. n t Burning ..." 100-met-er shot-puttin- DISASTER: Turkish Quake Texas' Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel, introducing Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, said of her husband: "Any good things he may have done . . . are due to her, and any mistakes . . . are due to his not taking the matter up with his wife." Mrs. Roosevelt's answer was quite truthful: "A President's wife doesn't see her husband often enough to tell him what to do." At Geneva, London and many other points, seismologists found their seismographs awry, indicating an earthquake somewhere in the vicinity of southern Russia. A few hours later word leaked out of Ankara, Turkey. From the north. where Turkey borders the Black sea, came news of a major catastrophe in which upwards of 10,000 had probably died. Mrs. John Nance Garner, shown with her famous husband, has been his wife and secretary 40 years. She says of his many visitors: "The problem is to handle them so that, even though Mr. Garner can't see them, they'll go away knowing be would have been glad to see them if be could, and to be of service to d them." Mrs. Garner knows her dislikes formality. bus-ban- PEOPLE: Royal Speech C Opening a parliament which must appropriate the largest budget in Japan's history. Emperor Hirohito hailed an for-- e relations, yet inn army should ' make the kv Kit' V-- s Ik, 1 I- i - i most of Europe's war: "With the outbreak of disturbances In Europe, HIROHITO "Improvement . . the . . . situa- has be come extremely complicated. You must therefore make a close study of conditions . . . and direct your efforts to expand the national power so the conviction of the empire may be realized . . ." tion contract for Announcing a sale of Bonneville (Wash.) dam's power to the Aluminum Company of C. Mrs. Edward R. Burke of Nebraska 's has done much to boost her popularity in the senate. Phenomenally, she can manage a morning committee meeting, preside over with visa large luncheon, sight-se- e itors until 4 p. m., and serve a buffet supper for 25, prepared with ber own hands. She's president of the Congressional club. Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of Idaho's famed senatoa, knows her .husband takes his pleasures sadly: "When an invitation comes to a lovely dinner, I just sit down and say, 'Mr. and Mrs. Borah regret.' But if the invitation is to a lovely luncheon, I write, 'Mrs. Borah accepts with much pleasure.' " She carries the family's social burden. bus-band- Secretary Interior Harold Ickes called it "a an- swer to those skeptics who claim there is no real de-m for and power" from government plants on the Columbia ICKES "F actual answer river. It was revealed Alcoa plans a plant at couver costing several million lars. . Vandol- ASIA: Army in the Saddle l7il&vf)iritCiM A. another cabMrs. Km Hi ii mtmmm Hit tut Farley, inet wife, seldom sees her husband these days. Of her job she says: "It has meant that 1 have learned to be In two places at once Washington and New York almost at the same time. It has meant conforming to official formality . . ." fl A T. ilKonc A In Along' with news of lanta's grand swiri or crino line and old lace comes word that Athens college, of prunes and prisms tradition, is putting in a big hosiery mill to be operated by the college girls. It will employ 100 students. at 25 cents an hour. Dr. Eugene Rudolph Naylor, president of the college, thought up the mill plan and gathered funds for It. He says, "This Is a liberal arts college, steeped in the traditions of the Old South, and the main purpose of this experiment is to give the students means to obtain a liberal arts education." "And," he might have added, "silk stockings to match the education." Cactus colleges have been getting their turn in the spotlight for turning out lethal football. Dr. Naylor, an alumnus of several of them, e inhas been working novations, of possibly greater interest and Importance. He has been president of Columbia college of Milton, Ore., Woman's college of Jackson, Tcnn., Logan and Athens colleges, dean of Logan college and professor at Wesleyan, and Emory He Is a reand Henry colleges. sourceful educator who thinks it's a good idea for girls to learn how much material and work goes into pair of silk stockings. ROOSEVELT'S man becomes first pres- ident of the $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas and Electric company. He Is J. Chalk Up One Roger whiteford. er order to The Sewii Send your Circle Pattern Dept., 149 Nt! Montgomery Ave., San Franciscl Calif. Patterns 15 cents (m col each. OLD FOLK! of Hera la Amazlnc Relief Conditions Dim ta Sluggish Bowels bo kmM. Uiuruujtu. refreshinc. invicormtiaa. U EWuhk rdlcf frw-- a sick beadacbra, bilioaa aDeUO oaiated with cooaUpatlaa. tired fcjaU&g wkem of NR from yoar Wrfftnift KISX IF 2c bmx Make the tatUiei dram.it. V Mt delisatatl, acton. Um box to u. Wa wi aaa the aarcbaaa rf price. Ort Hit That's fair T.t torfav. In Place of Gold T store our memories with sense of injury is to fill that ch with rusty iron which was meal for refined gold. W. Seeker. .WANTED! WOMEKf f 88 to 62 yrs. old, who are restless. fear hot flanheiJ moody,...nenroua, M V 1 ; II L. nam Vegetable compound. Fi room in helping women so smiUn tll. thro "trying fames" due to fuse tional "irreeularitiea." Trt Ml WNU--W Source of Ilappuiess A comfortable house is a source of happiness. It rank it nediataly after health and a conscience. Sydney Smith. More for Little Washington lanaimn I .i 1 i Washington bas Its beauties. Above Is Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Maryland senator, whose charms helped win many a vote in 1936 when the senator faced the "purge" Issue. d e i T - V r' -- "'V'l it ll A 39-in- three-quart- PRESIDENT Ken-suk- the news t step-by-st-ep small-colleg- 10-- in , public official's wife must be able to look Interested at any time and any place. Mrs. Cordell Hull, above. can sit for hours at a stretch in stiff back chair listening to speeches. Mrs. Hazel Vandenberg, wife of the Michigan senator. Is similarly endowed. James 's NAMES accenting height. Gathers at side of the bodice take caret becoming bust fullness. The only trimming is a rov buttons down the front. The I neckline is a perfect backgrou for your pet jewelry. Those se ends in the back may be tied in flat bow, or to simulate a bustle. Velvet, wool broadcloth and flatJ crepe are materials in which this design makes up particularly well. You'll wear it with pride on im-- 1 portant afternoon occasions. A sew chart accompa nies your pattern. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1878-- 1 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 4 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 rl before the Civil war, girls quires 4 yards of matJ LONG Scarlett O'Hara were learn sleeves ; rial for ing to curtsy and how to enter a yards for long sleeves; 4Vs yar ballroom in Athens college, at for short. Fine Stockings, Education From College America,of factual de- - 50, ing feats anothfr In statesman in the race, coming under the wire in 12.5 seconds. His time in a race against the same opponent 15 years ago, was 10.9. Recently, in the Trisathlon, 10 members of the Finnish parliament, some of them with a touch of frost over the ears, engaged in the g sprint, the broad Jump and events. Mr. Kekkonen, a leader In Finnish politics since Finland gained ber independence in 1917, Is president of the Finnish Athletic federation and a fervent advocate and exemplar of physical fitness. When, In 1932, the Swedes disqualified Paavo Nur-m- i, the Finnish distance runner, as an amateur, the Finns slapped a boycott on the Swedes, and, for years thereafter, there was bickering in the Baltic, with Mr. Kekkonen out in front as a In 1935, the peace advocate. Finns refused to lift the boycott, but, under the shadow of foreign aggression, this was more or less forgotten and the sprinting statesman was in the lead for Scandinavian solidarity, in war and sports. He helped suppress the Commu nist party in 1930, and with equal vigor drove against the Fascists in later years. In November of last year, the diet sustained him in his move to restrain the 373 Fascist and Nazi organizations in Finland, and their 18 newspapers, but, a month later, a Helsinki magistrate sustained his totalitarian opponents. He followed with a devastating expose of their subversive activities and had the nub of the argument when Germany made its deal with Red Russia, Finland's old bete noir. The Russians are now complaining bitterly that the Finnish sprinters, in the cabinet and out, insist on running in their direction. They seem to think it isn't sporting. Helsinki Said a German communique: It nil ii tAvbivii js. rv ci v tiiviiij artillery fire, the day was quiet." dicated his 1 100-met- W est Said a French communique: "There was nothing important to re- in WEEK ahead bravely with their plans for this year's Olympic games, and Urho Kekkonen, minis-- . . ter of the in- Ulympic lame terior, crowd-Sti- ll In the i g THIS By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. The Finns are 300,-00- .X. TT'S safe to predict that you'va' - never worn a more truly be- coming dress than this lovely, ba It is beauti-- ; sic fashion (1878-B- ). fully designed to make your figure look slender and softly round ed. The front panels of the bodice are cut in one with the skirt, i NEWS m opening brings Washington officialdom into the once more. Unseen guiding hand behind the success of many a legislator and diplomat is his wife who must, in her average day, be three places at once: (I) scattering her husband 's calling cards in high places or showing his constituents the capital; (2) watching him in the gallery; (3) being his housewife and inspiration at home. She must be amazingly well informed, yet discreet enough not to divulge secrets, ller job is a tough one. CONGRESS? U. S. business men in China were cold to Japan's announcement that foreign shipping in the Yangtze river would soon be resumed. This new concession would probably mean little; indeed it might never come to pass if the U. S. refuses a new trade treaty when the present Japnbntit: anese pact expires January 26. But Taxes. There is little hope that was a growing opinion among there 1 the President's 1G can budget Occidentals in the Orient that their be balanced; even though new biggest enemy was not the Japanese finance methods are found for agrigovernment of Premier Nobuyuki cultural benefits, other expenses will Abe, but rather the powerful army. be en the up grade. Most U. S. Therefore it would be smart to play business f.ivors tax modification, ball with Premier Abe, for his caband ecrtn inly the average congressinet must fall if the trade talks fail. man di.sl.kes to impose new leviej This would place the hostile army in ;;n election year. But the Presiin command, leaving U. S. business dent has indicated that new revenue men stranded. Some hint of the sittotirces will be left up to congress, DR. IH'TTRIC'K uation was dropped in Washington thus washing his hands of the entire A Shnrrd President's confidence. e where Japanese Ambassador n after. As for agriculture, conHorinouchl intimated that alservative Henry Morgenthau com- and women In vcry land have a his government must seek the plained the certificate plan is really basic faith In God and therefore In ready in China an "invisible" tax. pointing out that human brotherhood, and that even approval of army officers S. any new U. the before granting . . . are in 3 1 the chaos U. S. of all taxes present they pr cent concessions. are already paid by consumers. preparing a better day." Down In Atlanta, Baptist Rev. National Dent. Raising this above the present $45,000,000,000 limit is Louie D. Newton questioned the new move, asking (I) if Taylor's salary nne way of circumventing Is to be paid by the governtaxes. Mr. Morgenthau, commenting that the debt is already within ment; (2) if congress has passed $3,000,000,000 of that mark, says he'll such on enabling act; (3) if Taylor s.mply quit writing checks when he will consider the Vatican a relis'nke'? the limit. gious or political body; (4) if the At Philadelphia died Henry L. President has a right to send him. Defense. Though he expected lit Doherty, public n to his propi sed inNext day While House Secretary tie ' n utilities executive and oil man, crease in national defense expendi- Steve Early announced the U. S. 12 to of who left school at the age tures, the g"t n hint if has no intention of according the work for the Columbus (O.) gas the lia''le t c .me when Ohio's (',. Vatican the diplomatic recognition company. which was withdrawn In 13C7, but O. I'. Sen. i: I rrt Tuft, himsi If a Son James At Sacramento, !h out President has that warred po.nted npir.irit, Koosevelt and two other Los Anpresidential ' against a national df fer.fr spree." a right to name an "ambassador geles men filed articles of inTrade Program. I'ndcr rlcavy G. with nit por'folio" with the same for Globe Produccorporation O. P. fire. Secretary of State Cor-deprivileges as those enjoyed recently tions, Inc., a motion picture and Hull's reciprocal trade program by Norman H. Ii.ivis, whn acted radio firm. as European trouble shooter. Cornel up for renewal this session. I're-.det- WHO'S k port Lovely Basic Dress Will Slenderize Otu MEET THE WIFE- - W ashington Fi- - ifcjfcriiiinmiiir'i tt'iv. ittt I in I RedSchoolhouse J3"' and genHous- Another beauty Is Mrs. Harry Wood-ring- eral counsel for the Federal wife of the secretary of war ing administration. Her greatest gift to ber husband's It Is a score for the little red career is Just being sweet and pretschoolhouse in his home town bit. ty. That really means quite of Whiteford, Md. named after you know. his ancestors a schonlhouse In which two signers of the Declaration of Independence were After his graduation taught. from West Nottingham academy, he was a high school principal for five yrars, at Sandy and Rorkville, Md., Spring studied law and began practice at Washington. His career has been advanced In his profession, and in finance he lolds several Important Industrial . 1-- i iirectorates and his dollar-a-yea- r to public 10b was his one side-turJfe. uives in the icnate gallery (Cono11datd Feature WNU Srvlc.) 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