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Show ITAH LEW FREE PRESS. LEIII. NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtvitwtd by CARTER FIELD President's appointment of Amlie to I. C. C. regarded as poorest fie has ever made . . . Seems certain of defeat . . . Roosetelt long bitter against independent commissions . . . Talk of barter with Germany brings up difficulties . . . liu-mthat Morgentliau will resign bobs up again. or WASHINGTON. Harry L. Hopkins tells a story about a herring fisherman who had a great deal of trouble keeping his fish alive in his tanks, and finally hit on the device of putting a catfish in each tank. The catfish, Hopkins says, kept things so stirred up that the herring did not succumb to ennui or whatever was the trouble before. The 6tory is apropos now because it is being used as an explanation of why President Roosevelt appointed Thomas R. Amlie to the interstate commerce commission, an appointment generally regarded as one of the poorest, from the standpoint of practical politics, entirely aside from any merit or demerit it may have, that Mr. Roosevelt has ever made. It is pointed out by those telling the story that the President has long been bitter about the independent commissions. He does not approve of these bodies which are not "in tegrated" with the administration or, in short, those which the admin istration cannot control. There is nothing new about Mr. Roosevelt's feeling in this particu lar. He did not like the federal trade commission, and "threw a cat fish" into that body after removing illegally, as the Supreme court later held William E. Humphrey. The catfish thrown into the Supreme court was Justice Hugo L. Black. Frank R. McNinch has been the catfish for two bodies, the federal power commission and the communications commission. Marriner S. Eccles has been a particularly effective catfish. He not only has kept the federal reserve board stirred up but has tangled with various other government units. Public Defeat for the President Almost Certain It is understood on Capitol Hill to have been Aubrey W. Williams, late lieutenant of Harry Hopkins in WPA, and now head of the youth administration, who originated the Amlie idea, which has proved as much of a catfish for the United States senate as the Supreme court enlargement proposal did, though with apparently almost as great a certainty of accomplishing a public defeat for the President. Roosevelt began his practice of tossing a catfish in every tank he could before he began his aggressive fight to these independent agencies. In the government reorganization bill as he.'origi-nall- y planned it, it was proposed that most of them be by the simple process of putting them under the White House. The President made no secret of his ideas in this connection. What on Capitol Hill and in certain other quarters was regarded as a move which would so tremendously increase the powers of the Chief Executive as to be a step toward dictatorship, Roosevelt himself saw as a move toward reform and efficiency. He talked about his ideas in press conferences long before his bill was sent to the Capitol. In fact, he talked so persuasively, and so many sympathetic axticles were written about the efficiency of his ideas, that later he had to begin 8oft pedalling on this angle. Difficulties Face Barter Agreement With Germany Talk of barter with Germany, primarily to move such agricultural products as cotton and lard into the "vacuum" which exists in Germany, brings up the essential objections that the men working under Secretary of State Cordell Hull on the reciprocal trade agreements have to face. They are the same objections which resulted in George N. Peek being thrown out of the administration in the early days of the trade agreements, though with variations. For example, the first objection to barter with Germany is that the particular trades proposed were not barter at all. They involved payment for American raw materials in a special type of German marks, which could be spent only inside Germany. Acceptance of them of course made impossible any three-wa- y type of trade. The latest proposal does not contemplate the use of these special marks, but the acceptance of German products, mostly steel, wire, etc., in exchange for the cotton and lard which complicate America's agricultural problem. Of course the steel and wire industry does not like this idea at all. For every pound of German steel and wire imported as a result of this proposed barter agreement, obviously, there will be just one less pound of steel or wire fabricated inside the United States. "co-ordinat- It is the same sort of thing which makes any barter agreement so difficult, which makes any reciprocal trade agreement run into so many domestic objections, and. which made the Chinese-wa- ll type at tariff so easy in the old days. Everybody is for exports. Nobody is for imports that is nobody except Mr. UlUmate Consumer, who is never organized and therefore does not have much influence with congress or the government. There Must Be Imports if There Are to Be Exports In fact, the chief difference between the old tariff system and the new reciprocal trade policy is that, for the first time in American history, there is actually somebody directing the policy with respect to imports who realizes that there must be imports if there are also to be exports. Somebody, in brief, who is charged with the responsibility of encouraging imports in order to provide for exports, instead of merely e throttling imports, as the tariff bills did, with merely wishful thinking as to exports. The chief objection to straighten out barter agreements by Hull's lieutenants is that in effect this takes international trade out of private hands and makes it a government matter. Also it takes the movement of goods out of the established channels of trade. The government agent anxious to swap cotton for something, in order to get rid of a cotton surplus, is not going to worry too much about whether the kind of barbed wire he accepts in its place is the sort that the farmers of this country really want. If he happens to get the right kind, he not only displaces workers in American wire plants but he is compelled to get the wire to the farmers in some new way, which plays havoc with the merchants who formerly supplied the farmers. But the chief objection the trade experts have to barter is more fundamental. Every time there is a barter agreement, anywhere in the world, it tends to restrict free trade all over the world. Rumor Morgenthau Will Resign Bobs Up Again The little boy who cried "Wolf, wolf," when there was no wolf has nothing on the rumor that Henry Morgenthau Jr. will resign as secretary of the treasury. The first rumor of Morgenthau's resignation came within a few months after he had succeeded William H. Woodin at the head of the treasury department. It has been bobbing up ever since, on the average of not less than once every two months. So when the real time comes probably no one will believe the warning. But there are actual reasons this time for believing that Morgenthau is on the verge of resignation, and for two perfectly understandable reasons. sources say that the President and Morgenthau have finally reached just about the breaking point on the chief issue on which they have so consistently differed. It can be summed up in the words "balanced budget." But it includes much more than just spending more than the government's income year after year. It takes in also the continual movement of the President toward the left, whereas Morgenthau has clung to the original conservative views he entertained when he came to Washington. When Morgenthau became secretary of the treasury he was perfectly willing to follow instructions because he realized that he did not know very much about Treasury problems. By dint of hard work and long hours, however, he has learned a great deal about public finances. The more he has learned the more outspoken he has become in his advocacy of his original conservative viewpoint. This does not mean that Mr. Morgenthau has at any time been disloyal to the President. On the contrary there is scarcely a man in the administration who has been so steadfastly devoted to every whim and wish of the President. But inside the cabinet he has fought for his own ideas, on the budget, on spending, or harassing business, etc. Secretary Worried Over Plan for More Spending Right now the same old battle is being waged again with the group which advocates more spending and which worries not at all about the mounting size of the federal debt, headed by Marriner S. Eccles of the federal reserve board. Morgenthau is said by friends to be more disturbed than ever before on this particular issue. First, the secretary is much surer that he is right now than he ever was before. Second, he has always yielded before because the argument was made that the need for letting spending run above receipts was only temporary that with the passage of time the spending could be reduced, as private employment increased, and that actually the budget could be balanced. Now Morgenthau believes that such an objective will never be attained so long as the present advice the President is being given from the other camp is heeded that the men who want more spending and more pump priming now. will also want it next year, almost regardless of any conceivable set of events in the meantime, and that they will want it the following year, and the year after that. old-tim- After the War, Whither Spam.'' Won't Answer nl cix r WNU Service. CHoi? By RUTH WYETH MRS. f)EAR both of F,-n.u'- o CoVer SPEAse SPEAR-Tr- your have made mar.v thir-- 7 them that have surprised mTf VXlllvyi ily. Most women can't drive , nau straignt, but I do Detter man l can sew t l been thinking that now with?' covers used so much, one e make a chair out of plain lmI v, Continued Fascist Rule, Probably with King Seen Likely - Bv JOSEPH W. LaBINE A ' cJ PV ji - : gy The scene: Spain. bullet ricochets from the sunwall. d baked, which land to a Peace returns has lost more than 1,000,000 of its best men since July 18, 1936. The civil war becomes ugly history and then what? The man who can answer is -- WITH COTTOfiXOTj-r- JYovt Hr S. Zl ft Jh - 'I . iiPAO final WITH GlAZO UPHOLSTtRY FOR 2 7cA jyw blood-drenche- As a Pr0 Francisco Franco, a business- to like generalissimo known his Loyalist enemies as "El Carnicero," the butcher, and to his Insurgent followers as "El Caudillo," the chief. General Franco is victor, thanks to superior military strategy, plus a whip hand over Spain's natural resources, plus help A rare photo of Insurgent Spain" s and daughter, taken at government headquar-terleader with his uife in Burgos. the eventual first "banishment." In would merely delay lands-- his showdown. 1934 Franco was rushed back to the Hints have already been dropped mainland to crush leftist revolts Franco's governmental concerning established rightthe newly against isplans. Last year an order was ist regime. It was then that Asand propsued him citizenship dubbed restoring turias and Catalonia "the butcher," a resentment which erties to King Alfonso, the alleged inside story of that restoration beprobably accounts for the stubborn in offered ing this: A monarchist delegation resistance those provinces the civil war. But to rightist Spain met Alfonso in Switzerland last sum Franco became "the man of the mer, suggesting that his privileges hour," certainly the strongest single and possessions might be restored if Alfonso would abdicate in favor figure in the fight Catholics, capitalof his third son, Prince Juan. Al and phalanxists ists, monarchists ffascistsi were waging against a fonso reportedly replied he might. Healthiest Bourbon. growing Communist element. to a The second banishment, Don Juan, not a great lover like dreary Canary islands outpost, came the cabellero of ancient Seville, is immediately after a leftist victory in a healthy young man of 25 who was the January, 1936, election. But six brought up under English influence. d months later a mysterious He even served as a lieutenant in FR4CO 4D from Berlin and Rome. Spain's war needs repetition here only because things said and done since 1930 must be answered for today. Will General Franco pour awful vengeance on the Loyalist enemies who banished him to a Canary islands outpost in 1936? Will France and England pay the price of their indecision these past two years by losing all prestige in Spain? Will dictatorships rise, or fall, when Spain's final die is cast? Man of the Hour. Too many answers rest with Frangenco, a shrewd military-politicius who became a cadet in Alcazar's "West Point" at 14. won mild fame fighting the Moroccan Riffs at 23, and became the army's youngest brigadier general at 34. Since April, 1931, when King Alfonso fled the country after republican election victories, Franco has been closely enmeshed in Spain's officialdom as a man to be reckoned with. Once chief of the foreign legion and head of the war college, his allegiance to the deposed Alfonso was so renowned that the jittery young republic quickly made him military governor of the Balearic is- - FAMILY civilian-garbe- figure climbed into a British plane at Las Palmas, capital of the Next day, July 18, MoCanaries. roccans remembered the youth who had suppressed the Riffs. Within a few hours Moors were rallied under the insurgent flag and the war was on. Franco's Course Steady. The next two and one-hayears made Spain a common battleground on which all Europe's grudges were paraded. Communist fought Fascist, while democracies stood on the sidelines hoping vainly that each would slaughter the other. In far away lands the issue of Christianity versus paganism was held a vital issue in the war. The world's eyes were focused on a conflict where American fought Italian and German fought Russian, where reli gious, political and economic issues seemed at times to far outshedow the mere fact of civil war in Spain. Through all this General Franco has pursued a steady course, aided by Fascists, ignored by democra cies for obvious reasons of political expediency. But when Barcelona fell in late January and the war seemed headed for an ultimate Insurgent victory, Franco began emerging in his true proportions the man of the hour. His will shall probably be done in Spain. He is obviously indebted to Italy and Germany. Rome admits 3,000 Fascist troops have been killed in Spain, and from Balearic island bases a giant Italian air armada has operated against the Loyalists. Germany has been equally helpful but neither nation has acted from goodness of heart. lf VICTORY'S COURSE Well-inform- Bell Syndicate. Make Simple And Then JVLY 18, 1936 Insurgent revolts, long planned, broke out simultaneously at cities shown above. JVLY western western surgent the British navy. Unlike his two elder brothers, the count of Cova-dong- a (who died in Florida last year) and Prince Jaime, he shows no trace of the tragic maladies which have afflicted the rest of the family. He was married in 1935 to Marie, Princess of Bourbon-SicileThey have one daughter. Don Juan's appointment would be an important pacifier, since he would return to Spain as an outsider capable of arbitrating the differences between Insurgents and Loyalists. The selection might meet with Roman disfavor because of the strong influence England has played on the youth during his formative years. But II Duce rules "under" a king in Italy and seems tc get along nicely. Certainly there is no reason to think Franco would retire without tasting the fruits of his He would dearly gained victory. probably become premier under such an arrangement. Anyway Prince Juan, who has spent the past few years under close surveillance of Rome, probably bears stronger Fascist leanings than most people imagine. Iberian Peninsula Important. First, the Franco campaign has offered a chance to fight Communism, but this has been more an 18 1937 Almost aU excuse than an end in itself. More are huge imports of SpanSpain ( except north- significant ish iron by Italy and Germany, both Inwas under Asturias) suffering acutely from lack of metal domination. resources. Still greater is the Iberian peninsula's importance in Italy's campaign to control the Mediterranean and force territorial con cessions from France. services have been outright gifts to General Franco, therefore he can honestly claim to owe them no monetary debt. But how about the moral debt? Can he mm on Fascism now that the war is won? He barely might, for one good reason. More than anything else Spain now needs money for recon struction, obtainable only from Great Britain, the United States and, to a lesser degree, France. Great Britain is especially anxious to make these loans because Spain was once an excellent customer. Now British coal exports to Spain have dropped 37 per cent; motor cars, 95 per cent, and machinery, 90 per cent. Greater Spain Predicted. This is the very logical reasoning behind current British-Frencovertures to lure Franco from the dic tators. It is emphasized still more by the growing belief that Spain will some day assume new imnortnna among European nations, holding a whip hand over any potential Mediterranean conflict. But just as France and Britain look rather foolish in recognizing Franco after he has won his battle, so would Franco look foolish if he tossed his Fascist friends into the ashcan. For every nation concerned it would be an unnatural alliance based on immediate expediency, and Italy-Germa- APRIL 18, 1938 Rebels drove to the sea, severing Catalonia from the rest of Loyalist Spain. I n h J Ai VARY 30, 1939 conquest was complete, moving a battleground and the war. Cata-Ionia- 's re- com-ftactin- g and cover it. Perhaps you could publish something hke this in the paper. D. M." Those who are not so clever about driving nails, may want to call on Dad or Young Son to help with making the simple chair t have sketched here. The metal angles and straps to strengthen the back may be bought at any hardware store along with the nails and screws. When the chair is covered in two tones of chintz with edges of back and seat piped in the darker color, it is really very smart. It is especially useful in a bedroom or hall. If in the right colors, it will also look well in the living room. Mrs. Spears Sewing Book 2 Gifts, Novelties and Embroideries, contains 48 pages of which have helped directions thousands of women. If your home is your hobby you will also want Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Decorator. Order by num ber, enclosing 25 cents for each book. If you order both books, copy of the new Rag Rug Leaflet will be included free. Those who have both books may secure leaflet for 6 cents in postage. Ad dress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. St., Chicago, 111. cov-er- step-by-ste- p UncUPkilQ Say5: s. Demagogues Flatter Western Newspaper Union. 'Em People are patient with dema gogues longer than they are with statesmen. Becoming sophisticated is losing one's gusto for anything. Gone to join the bootjack, the woodshed and the "oyster supper the band wagon. The Fox Discovered It Saying "the grapes are sour" is nevertheless a consoling philosophy. Wish that backbone could De inculcated as easily as learning. The dodo is easiest remembered because it is the one fossil without a long name. Russia Discards How Women, 'Biggest' Complex hi Newest Plan Russia's "big" complex is disap- ft-- ai lug. ...,tlvu-- , wnicn once decided to house ouviei, its massive new industries in such centers as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Gorky ;a uuw aeciaea to build a lot of "i uc even Digger than the "vC-Cd- I oig idea. iS me essence of the third pian oeing changed in mid stream by Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier Vyacheslaff M. Molotoff. Complete details are being announced at the Communist party congress opening in Moscow March 10. "Gigantism" give way to erection of manufacturing plants closer to Can Attract Mm her Here'i good advice for a woman during n let change (usually from 38 to 6i),who wornei ahe'U lose her appeal to men, bout hot flashes, loss of pep, dizay spel upset nerves and moody spells. and if yon Get more fresh air, 8 hre. sleep need a good general system tonic take Lym E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made buiW especially for vomen. It helps Nature moi up physical resistance, thus helps give vivacity to enjoy life an.d assist M' jittery nerves and disturbing of yT,Pt0I4vS ufe, often accompany change WORTH TRYING! Men Play Dangerous are apt to play with their do healths and their lives as they with their clothes. Temple. P tfjffkt sources of materials and the SALVE relieves COLDS will soon Stalin in Their 40's liquid-table- ts salvb-nos- e drops price 10c & 25c - Helpless Laws Soviet evidently has plenty of such What can laws do without morresources still untapped. By costly als? Franklin. experience Russia has found her bit? industries to be attracting more population unwieldy, than was healthy to a few centralized points while rest of the country went unaided the One of the most important coming developments is creation of a "second Baku" oil base in HelpThem Cleanse the Bloo middle Asia of Harmful Body Waste where American Your kidneys are constantly filter machinery will be used to open untouched waste matter from the blood -Z reserves. Since Baku is petroleum kidneys sometimes lag In their located not act as Nature Intended ','t(L at a s rategic point where an move impurities that, if retained, may invader the ecu d eas.ly nip off the poison the system and upset Soviet's im. .fc, . body machinery. portant petroleum supply, the new Symptoms may be nagging ,b","l7 devc prner.t has persistent headache, attacks of important military P"'"! getting up nights, swelling. s.gn.hcance The "second Baku" under the eyesW feeling ol nervou is t far removed from enemy anxiety and loss of pep and a Other signs of kidney or bladder Other small industrial planes. order may be burning, scanty or " develop-ment- s frequent urination. are planned in There should be no doubt that prompt tains, while a large metall'Sal treatment is wiser than neglect, base is being built in Doan'i PUU. 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