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Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Rtviewtd fcy CARTER FIELD chance for Joseph P. Kennedy to succeed Henry Morgenthau Jr., as secretary A'o of the treasury . . . Mr. Ken-nedit seems, is all washed . . Big insurance com. up y, panies next concern to be in-- t est igated . . . Vermont governor stirs up A'etc Deal over flood control. WASHINGTON. Joseph P. Kennedy will not be secretary of the Treasury while Franklin D. Roosevelt is President. This will remain 71 I i hmil&t .JLmJk J.P.Kennedy true whether Henry Morgenthau Jr. retires or not. In the of the language ward politicians, Kennedy is washed up so far as this administration is concerned. Morgenthau is just as strong as at any time in the last few years. If he retires at all it will be of his own The driving force behind the move to get Morgenthau out of the treasury does not come from the White House. It comes from Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the secretary. The elder Morgenthau thinks Henry has given enough of his time to the government. He is proud of his son. Although the secretary of the treasury has never made any public statements which seemed to disapprove of any New Deal policies, always was extremely loyal to the President, and carried out White House orders to the utmost of his ability, nevertheless he has stood out as one of the sound apples in the New Deal barrel. As one or two New Deal critics have put it, he has seemed to be a sane man entirely surrounded by crackpots. In most of the battles waged inside the New Deal on spending, pump priming, relief, taxation and harassing of business, Morgenthau has always been on the conservative side fighting as long as there was a chance, but loyally obeying the decision, once F.D.R. made it. On Side of Orthodoxy in Fights on Fiscal Affairs Most important of all, the news of these encounters, these fights of Morgenthau on the side of orthodoxy in fiscal affairs as for example budget balancing never came from Morgenthau. It is very probable that Morgenthau's battles inside the New Deal would never have become known had it not been for his opponents in these battles, who fed the stories out to sympathetic newspaper men while they were still hot with indignation against Morgenthau's stubborn arguments in favor of the thrift theory of economics. Incidentally, Morgenthau has been almost a lone wolf. Even some of those who agreed with his economics, for example Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, have not liked him overmuch. But through it all Morgenthau has remained the close friend of the President. Mrs. Morgenthau has been the close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, and of their loyalty and devotion there is no question whatever. Joe Kennedy, curiously enough, has not seemed to realize in what a whispering gallery he was living. This is strange, for he was obliged to listen to volumes of advice about the dangers of what he might say while the State department was giving him the college course in diplomacy to which it subjects all political appointees in the diplomatic service before permitting them to sail for foreign capitals. Kennedy, it is very reliably reported, has made some very pointed remarks about the New Deal to certain American friends. And these, with extraordinary promptness, have been repeated to F.D.R. by gentlemen who would be pleased to have Kennedy's foot slip. Big Insurance Companies Soon to Be Investigated Very shortly the monopoly investigating committee will turn its attention to the big insurance companies. Ever since there has been a New Deal there has been an eagerness on the part of the left wingers to get after these huge financial institutions. The two things that will be gone into very thoroughly, according to the rrank statements of those interested, will be the investment policy of the managements of these companies, and the loans that the companies make on policies. A bitter battle is expected here, for the insurance companies have a good deal of the pride of authorship or achievement, so to speak, in their investments, and they feel very strongly against liberalizing their policy loan system. This last can be dismissed so briefly that it will be stated first. Insurance officials usually favor a per cent interest rate on such loans. There are two major considerations. One is to make the loans easy to obtain. That is for the policy holder's benefit and to make the holding of policies an advantage. But the other is to make the interest rate high, so that the borrower will have an incentive to pay off the loan, thereby clearing his policy, and thus maintain the maximum of insurance protection, which of course is the main object of the policy, and the main business of the company. New Dealers do net like the high rate, because one of the objectives of New Deal economics is to put interest rates down. This policy has already hurt the insurance companies enormously. It has reduced the interest rate on bonds which formerly paid much greater sums into the insurance company treasuries. As a natural result, this has reduced very heavily the dividends paid to policy holders, or credited on their policies in the form of additional insurance. Terrific Falling Off of Investment in Utilities Not only has New Deal policy reduced the rate of interest on government bonds, but it has reduced the interest on the bonds of private This phase was corporations. "planned" that way. But another phase was not. Yet as a result of government competition with the electric industry there was a terrific falling off of new investment in the utilities, and as a result of S. E. C. restrictions and other New Deal activities, private corporations issued so few new bonds that it became a problem for the insurance companies, or for that matter any investors, to place their funds. As a result, bonds already outstanding, which were known to be good, advanced in price, thus lowering the return on any new purchases that the insurance companies might make. Aiken Stirs Bitterness Inside New Deal Circles There is more bitterness inside New Deal circles over the stand taken by Gov. George D. Aiken of Vermont on the flood control and power situation than is generally realized. The real tip-oof the feeling is revealed in the outburst on the floor of the house, just after Aiken took his stand, by Rep. John E. Rankin of Mississippi. Rankin charged that Aiken was making a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, with the backing of the "New England power ff trust." Rep. Charles A. Plumley of Ver- mont defended his governor's attitude, saying that it was a question of whether the federal government had a right to take state property without the state's consent. Actually neither presented the whole picture, and the White House is not giving it either. Boiled down, New England has a serious flood problem. It is bigger than any one state. Headwaters in both New Hampshire and Vermont pour into rivers, particularly the Connecticut, which flood out territory in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Hence there is plenty of reason for regarding this whole Connecticut valley as one problem, and a federal problem, rather than a problem for the individual states concerned. Actually there would be no dispute about this if it were not for the power angle. Would Make Connecticut Valley Miniature T. V. A. But the New Deal would like to make a miniature TVA of the Connecticut valley. Whether it goes far or not, it is determined to control the power situation involved in any dam construction for the purpose of flood relief. The purposes of the administration are perfectly simple. It wants to handle that power. It wants to fix rates somewhat comparable to TVA rates. It is not surprising that the White House and public power advocates do not understand this situation. On the surface it would seem as if most of the New England-ers- , and particularly the Vermont consumers, would be as eager for cheaper electric rates as the people of the Tennessee valley towns. But for some reason there is very little Sen. Norris evidence of this, de spite the allegation that the electric rates in Vermont are much higher than those charged by the private companies in the Tennessee valley prior to TVA. But an extraordinary states' rights feeling has developed in Vermont. They will do their own regulating, they seem to say. It may be recalled that a while back Governor Aiken was hailed in many quarters as a new type of Republican, a member of a progressive group which was going to lead the G. O. P. out of its reactionary morass. In fact he was frequently mentioned as a presidential Crisis: the Coming Background for Ttnlv iii Mediterranean vc Fnn,. 1 lanti j .EUROPE oJ Rebel Victory in Spain Leaves II Duee Free lo Press Demands Bell Syndicate. WNU SvrvUe. When Washing starch added to washing and Germany. One of the closest observers of this holocaust was Edouard Daladier, premier of France. For M. Daladier knew that once Barcelona fell, Italy's hands would be freed from their Spanish obligation. Then Mussolini would be to press the program ready of expansion which he hopes Benito will make Italy the dominant nation of the Mediterranean. France would be the chief victim of this expansion because French and Italian interests clash at sev- eral key points in northern Africa. Each wishes to rule the Mediterranean, France because she has done so for 20 years, and Italy because her Fascist government believes this is Italy's "destiny." What of the Future? Moot questions are therefore pushed to the front as Spain's civil war draws near its inevitable Rebel victory. Will the romantic Mediterranean be Europe's next battleground? Will France and Italy come to blows over proprietorship of Tunisia, Corsica, Nice and Savoy? Will their conflict over Suez canal proti prietorship and the Addis railroad draw Great Britain into the battle? e The background for this dates to 1915. That year, in the treaty of London, England and France won Italy's aid against the central powers by promising to split Germany's African colonies should the Allies win. That Italy once had a grievance is the opinion of most European observers. At Versailles the treaty of London was completely overlooked. Not until 1924 did Great Britain get around to ceding Italy the unimportant territory of Jubaland, and that under protest. Stubborn France held out until 1935 when Premier Pierre Laval agreed to give Italy a worthless strip of desert south of Libya, another between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea, and the island of Doumeirah. Treaty Never Ratified. The Mussolini-Lava- l treaty had few merits and even less honor. It was never ratified and therefore the ceded territories have never been turned over to Italy. Since 1936 Italy has been busy consolidating her Mediterranean gains and fighting the Spanish civil war. If the past two years have nurtured imperialistic aims in the Ababa-Djibou- CU , ths. V windows, glassware not only heS1 dirt but gives a lastir?,!S wj carry caoy m or.e J some other S cle in the other whenrn!?.4 hard-to-mac- ASIA T stairs. Baking ApplesApple., I be slit with a sharp kmf-four places before baWt that the skins do not rt?' while in the oven. or For the Seamstress-C- m gette crepe and chiffon two or three thicknesses 1 paper and the material stick to the scissors andt?l inches before Rebel troops who claimed to be Spaniards but came largely from Italy t1 - dimcuit. r- The New Fryine Pans..few potato parings with atoV hnew mei ter for a few minutes in the Wed by frying pan. Food cooked a it. W is m ward in tJip nnn l pressure - jGi n-- 0 the sun and Italy THE l EDIT ERR 4E4S Map showing how France con-trhow also by gaining Italy, now dominate north African lands, sea the by of Tunisia, could easily shut off commerce through blockade. a territorial plucked Fascist breast they went unspoken Adolf Hitlerother of the end at the too was he plums knew because Mussolini axis. Mussolini has always weak to fight. crigiven the Reichsfuehrer his moral But last year's German-Czechas resis changed that. One of its most support but in return Italy Mussolini wishes If of ceived nothing. outstanding results was the shift to retain his dictatorship he must France from domination European new and Britain to Italy and Germany, soon begin asserting himself for of colonies. in a parade subsequent resulting Franco-BritisGermany is willing that this "appeasement" offers. Today Mussolini is in a posi- - should happen. It would be advantageous for Hitler to have world at tention focused on a Mediterranean conflict during the next few years Rome-Berli- n y h Chap Found Swankirik Required Some Effort while he proceeds quietly to carve a republic out of the Nazi-dominat- t m ass, - x M. FRAXCOIS-POISCE- T France's new ambassador to Italy, the first since Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, who was greeted in the Rome chamber of deputies by demands for French territorial concessions. then left. He listened quietly, tion to dictate the outcome of the Spanish war. Moreover he can af ford to stick out his neck on terri torial demands against France, knowing powerful Germany stands behind him. Dictators Must Drive. This is not only Mussolini's privilege, but his duty as well. For al most two years the Italians have watched enviously while daring Only Clergymen Were Immune From Comic Valentine of 90's v. Sir Cecil Fitch on his trip Hollywood told the story of ache who suddenly got rich somehot One day a piano was delivered e' his cottage. A neighbor said c seeing it arrive: You re fair swankin'. But won t Keep that long, mark The very next day the rich chap wheeled his piano outec a hand cart and started down road. "Ho, ho!" laughed the neighbor as he saw him. "I told you ps wouldn't keep it long." "Shut yer face, fool," said other. "I'm off to take me lesson." (.' h vast southeastern Ukraine. s 1 A Darning HintWhen silk stockings in a place 5" the mending does not show fine needle and one strand of for darning one way, making fc that every little stitch is cast to prevent laddering. For the o& skein wool way use two-pl- ol crisis-to-com- Mean- ym while Berlin could conveniently send Nazi "volunteers" to aid Italy with out risking official involvement. me1 newly Italy's campaign thus far has been very crude. It began last November 30, an especially bleak day when France was quaking in fear of a complete labor strike and when Premier Daladier was clawing tooth and nail to stay in power after France began feeling the disastrous backwash of the Czech crisis. For the first time since 1936 a French ambassador was in Rome, Andre Francois-Ponce- t having been shifted from Germany to Italy after Paris Mussolini's belatedly recognized Italian conquest. 'Tunisia! Nice! Corsica!' M. Francois-Ponccelebrated his arrival by attending a session of the Italian chamber of deputies where Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo (Mussolini's was to make a speech. Hardly had his address started before two deputies jumped to their feet and began yelling "Tunisia! TUNISIA!" From the galleries came cries, too, not only for "Tunisia!" but also for "Corsica! Nice! Savoy!" Though he sat quietly through the demonstration, M. Francois-Ponce- t lost no time demanding an explanation. Italian officialdom disowned all responsibility but the controlled Fascist press picked up the echo from the chamber of deputies and has been amplifying it ever since under direction of Propagandist Vir-et Ci-an- o son-in-la- the Rep. 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Creomulsion that to see it plainly,PrpOmUlStOHi word, ask for nomo rvrt Via tWHp and youH get the genuine product ana tne reuei you warn. .owu Cood or Evil g All that we send into the live) nio Gayda. of others comes back into oar There have been daily threats; own. Edwin Markham. there have been insults, such as that in the Rome newspaper, II which pictured 40,000,000 Italians "spitting" on France while "the AT LAST! Third Republic (France) is patiently wiping her face with THE TRUTH ABOUT newspaThere have been well subpers." Te-yer- e, Why St. Valentine's day should at once be an occasion for tearful and raucous buffoonery is not the mystery it appears at first glance. The bleeding heart decorated with old lace and scented with lavender once a favorite token of love sprang from an early Roman festival in honor of the goddess, Febru-at- a Juno, which Christians abolished by way of making it less objectionable. But then it became too sentimental, which paved the .way for the cheap comic valentines which sprang into favor late last century. As celebrated in England and Scotland, St. Valentine's day brought maids and bachelors together at a festival where they drew lots to discover which maid would be each youth's "valentine." These imaginary engagements lasted for a year, during which the young man was bound to the service of his valentine. Sometimes they ended in real engagements but more often one or the other party was dissatisfied with his lot. This gave rise to a custom of ridiculing the valentine custom, So house. rfg By JOSEPH W. LaBINE As the first month of 1939 drew to a painful close all Europe sat watching bombs burst over Spain. Barcelona, the Loyalist capital, fell by Tin QUESTIONS FRENCH f possibility. the fact that he is attacking the New Deal on the electric powei question, which is one of the ver. first among the many "progressive' issues, is very annoying to the Whitf House, to Sen. George W. Norris. who himself was once regarded as the liberal White Hope of the Re publican party; and to John Rankin, leader of the utility baiters in the HOUSEHOLD Mile A comic valentine, first popu- larised late last century. The sentimental valentine, heavy with lavender and old lace, which grew from an early cus- tom. ably expressed by the satirist, Alex- ander Pope: "You struttin' cockatoo of man You are my Valentine, I know. And for a year I'll have to see Your face and form wher'er I go. But get this through your leather pate A year is all you'll get of me For after that you'll get the And never mair my face gate shall see." In later years St. Valentine's has developed into a time for day exchanging gifts, though the comic valentine has retained most of the favor it enjoyed 30 or 40 years ago In those days nobody in the community was immune from receiving one of these anonymous shafts of criticism except members of clergy The name, Valentine, comes from a religious of the Third century who reconciled lovers by his interest in their lives. Because of this interest, and because his life ended in maityrdom. he became the patron saint of lovers. stantiated reports of Italian troop concentrations on the west frontier of French Somaliland. The net result has been to defeat Italy's purpose. France, only a few months ago torn by strikes and ready to oust Premier Daladier, is today better united than at any time m the past five years. Dpsnorotoi,, proud, the French now dislike to d scuss the settlement proposals ans first made last because such discussions summer, would leave tie impression that France yielded LOSING France May Yield. These proposals, incidentally, are y wnai manv taink Italy is hinting for observers today in her undiplomatic fashion. They include I ahan participation in administra-t-o- n of the Suez canal, Italian con-t o of the railroad leading from Addis Ababa to France's D lout. on the Red sea. and more Italia" r6Sidents of Vunisif W.l D.?6 to force. I.V It-rl- FAT ' a test mUOM prominent N. Y. physician 35and " known newspaper woman ys. a total of 286 lbs. in 40 SLNSIBLE pa NEW YORK, N. Char! work Y.- -In fne anol .Wms h can follow thij SAME, Jy pho right t borne and here it is: First of aM go light on fatty mejtt sweets. Eat plentifully of lean A fowl, fresh fruits and vegetables. proper functioning by removal teaspoonW a half lated wastes Kmschen in hot water every tnont, KrusJ DON'T MISS A MORNING. is made right here in U. famous English formula. ei And this Is lmponani: NOT harmful. It Is not lost on . i.k - i hplicve. W aeitve miner..., . -kali tl fca I $ when dissolves In water ma" to fnl mineral drink similar W'Ume" - j "".,,it , tlve Spa waters where have gone for years. A Jar oi iw w eeste only a few cents and lasts some bo, fat 10 & UP YOUR MIND YOUIX :'SS; If. HTtW above Plan for 28 days ana roa don't lose fat and feel younger. You can get Kruschen gists everywhere. h"leVi -- But if Mussolini presses his advantage after Barcelona, and if n0t 0nly the aine hut nC8n CJnieS lost durin he 016 Mediterranean v ill ZZ positively ry4rS pJoSdW next obS beCBUSe sh could rot afford a.WtVn to have her broken by jia. Italian capture This would enable Such possibilities more theoretical than wiUim a few weeks ?JXi. Mussolini practSfiS the story of the tlnn; Body floln Tlum if Harmful Yow kidneys m. enUyJWJJ waste matter from the rEow' kidneys sometimes lag in not act as Nature move Impurities that, if "ttinea. tW poison the system and upset body machinery. hsekt Symptoms may be naw"1.of persistent headache, attaeta getting up nights, swelling. feelm under the eyes S'JZij anxiety and toss of poP or,nK1.5def Other signs of kidney order may be burning, sc3'' " Irenuent urination. doubt .wtorouP' There should be no treatment is wiser tiisn bee"", IW--s Pillt. Dodn't hsve BewTrifJiQs for more than n.tion-wi-d have They Arereeonmelded by MnmM Alt VOUT intend"." m. n 8T'"'r Jsm Western Newspaper Unlow |