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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEH1, NATIONAL AFFAIRS CARTER FIELD Mr. Field gives a vivid picture of how the various issues between congress and the White House appear to him . . . Electric industry on the spot to prove or disprove the charge that its delayed spending has been important factor in holding back WASHINGTON. Sentiment on a number of issues between the White House and congress is crystallizing. The lines are not based on the relief appropriation battle. Some of the President's supporters on that will desert him on other fights, and vice versa. Sometimes he will have a majority. Sometimes a minority. The big point of the relief fight was not the amount of money, it was loss of face and prestige by the President. It ended the six years of utter confidence in his direction and faith in his administration so far as spending is concerned. Here is the way the issues look now: Devaluation The President will win. Congress will continue his present power to cut the gold value of the dollar down to 50 per cent of its status. Silver state senators swing the balance here in combination with the loyal bloc. The price of their votes will be extension of subsidy for domestic silver. Neutrality Congress will not interfere with the sale of planes to France. It is impressed with necessity of strengthening France and Britain as surest means of preventing war. But sentiment is also strong against increasing amount of discretion to the President in enforcing the neutrality law. The belief is vigorous that changes of rules after war starts means overt acts, hence endangers dragging U. S. in. Congressional sentiment is not quite 'peace at any price" but almost. Wagner Act Congress is set on modifying act along lines of A. F. of L. amendments introduced by Senator Walsh. President would like to dictate changes but will probably accept inevitable to avoid further loss of prestige. Congress It Opposed to President's Tax Ideas Taxes Congressional sentiment Is so strong against Roosevelt's wish to restore original tax on undistrib- uted corporation earnings and capital gains taxes that he may abandon fight. The President must ask for more revenue. Congress is definitely set on boosting rates on incomes from $10,000 to $50,000, just as definitely against boosting higher levies because of law of diminishing returns and doubtful about reducing exemptions. The President will have plenty of chance to study the situation before making any recommendations. Social Security Congress will not go as hegwild on old age payments as campaign pledges of successful candidates might indicate. It will boost them, advance date on which they go into effect. It will not re duce payroll taxes, but may force the treasury to contribute to the kitty. The President will oppose the last vigorously. Government Reorganization The President will not get the power he really wants to revamp government agencies and departments. Congress will not consent to turning I. C. C, civil service commission, etc., into mere administration underlings Senator Byrd will continue to annoy the administration considerably by insisting on real economy. Relief Senate votes cutting poll-tiout of federal payrolls, though partially nullified by the house, point the way to more trouble for the New Deal in reorganization of the WPA set-uand control of the appropriation for relief in the fiscal year be ginning July 1, next. Electric Industry on Spot As to Delaying Prosperity The electric industry will shortly give a demonstration of the truth or falsity of the often made charge that its delayed spending has been one of the most important factors in holding back prosperity. Actually, of course, investors in the electric industry may wait a little, to tee if the logical steps which might be expected to follow the purchase of the Tennessee Electric properties by TVA are followed up. For example. to see if there will be some assurance that the government will not extend its competition to new areas. and to see if the government will treat fairly other units it buys to avoid duplication and to avoid com petition between public and private operation. But no such problem confronts the public. It can take it for granted that peace is coming, and will spread. The investor migh't wait to be sure that the Tennessee deal is not just a trqp for him. But to the outsider it is unthinkable that the administration would have gone so far as it did in the Tennessee e Electric deal with Wendell L. if it did not intend to go further, and do whatever was necessary to encourage utility spending. is that if one assumes , The point cs p Will-ki- that the hate which has characterized the administration's treatment of the electric industry previously is still in effect, there would have been no earthly reason for paying the Commonwealth and Southern so much. For the plain fact is that TVA did not have to pay anything like so much. It could have acquired the properties eventually at second hand junk value, the course so consistently advocated by TVA's chief backer in the house of representatives, John Rankin of Mississippi. The Supreme court had Just thrown out the main legal hope of the privately owned utilities. True, the high court has never held the TVA's venture into the electric business to be constitutional. But it is also true that the utilities would have been at their wits' end to find some other method of getting the court to pass on this question. When a majority of the high court held that the privately owned utilities could not claim damages because none of their franchises guaranteed them against competition, the door was rather effectually closed. Sudden Change of Policy Ordered From White House TVA could have pressed on, with its strangling competition, with rates which did not return a yield even on the part of its cost which was not allocated to flood control or navigation and free PWA grants on the local systems. The answer is that there was a sudden change of policy, ordered from the White House. There was a face of the course which David E. Lilienthal had been pursuing. There was an utter rejection of the policies of George Norris and John Rankin so far as treatment of the electric industry is right-abo- Tufted Tassels mat Colorful Japan Plans Russian War; Woo Mongols Sllr tongue-lashin- n BU SvndicaU. WNU Senrle. Home Decorator turned to it for has rTI lur ire 1 1 help whea house. The guest t would like to use -- eW Crafty Tokyo Capitalizes on Unity Ambition T5- - coior could T combined with this? My fects must be accomplished Of Asiatics JOSEPH W. LaBINE Todav's casual traveler in Japan and Manchukuo hears talk of "the war." Strangely the war" is not that bloody II By i THE FAR FAST TODAY conflict which has been raging in China the past two years. Instead Japan turns its imperialistic eyes to the northwest, that vast, mysterious expanse of Asia where dwell the Mongol, Turk and Tartar, where Russian atheism mingles with exotic Lamaism Chinese chants. and sing-son- g nomadic Here are slant-eyetribes who for centuries have lived far removed from the influence of either east or west, basking in memory of d thou, probable frontiers in the predicted were separated, the first goingOut-to Russia and the latter to China. er Mongolia has about 400,000 peoand almost ple, Inner has 300.000, 2,000,000 of them live in Japanese Manchukuo. As with such European peoples as the Ukrainians, the desire for national unification has clung with Mongolians throughout the ages. Whether this desire still persists in d, i Map, showing Japanese, D - ,trategic importance of 3 l?'EUOw SiGkJ and Ghen- - - - - -- ,r war. Rutso-Ja- p Russia, not to help the Mongolians, Reports from Moscow indicate the Soviet is not unaware of Japan's in tentions. One Guendoun, president of the Outer Mongolian People's reRuspublic, is now a 'guest" of the effort an secret during sian police to discover who was behind a plot to turn the country over to the Jap- uii . USt A St rr SEA- T- PAD T hftVi: for a Tananpse nroDaeandizing fur is satisfactorily united Mongolia xen, thering Tokyo's desires. V rince the sincere puppet ruler who now holds sway over Inner Mongolia, was in bring- nromised every assistance : ' s Uuter Russia Mongolians ir.g "United League the newly organized What the Japs of Mongolia." failed to tell their new friends is that their primary purpose is to oust anese last year. some- log-ja- il MiwMiv MONGOLIA The only rational explanation is thing more important, and that something is not difficult to see. As a matter of fact W. E. Douglas, chairman of the S. E. C, has been telling the President for a long time more than a year now that the utilities have been lagging at the rate of about a billion dollars a year in their new spending. It would seem apparent that the President has decided to see if utility spend ing, dammed up for four years now according to Douglas' calculations, will not break the business and revive prosperity in this coun try. If it works, as some friends of the President see the future, business will boom from now until November, 1940; the New Deal will go marching on for the four years to follow. If business continues bad for the next 18 months, a reactionary government may sit in Washington. Congress Goes Along With President on Preparedness In actual appropriations for ships and guns, munitions and planes, and training for preparedness generally President Roosevelt will get all he wants from congress. Capitol Hill is much impressed with the notion that the surest way to preserve peace is to be so strong that it would be folly for any foreign country to drag us into war. But congress does not see eye to eye with the President on some of the purposes of increased national defense spending. It will not go along with him toward possible sanctions against aggressor nations. There is tremendous sentiment for minding our own business and not g giving even too much to the nations that are doing things of which we cordially disapprove. There is a strong minority, headed by Key Pittman, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, which is for strong economic action against Japan. Senator Pittman is convinced that this country could punish Japan for its action in closing the door of Chinese trade to this country, and could do so without risk of provoking a war between Japan and the United States. There is another strong minority which favors boycotting of Germany, partly because of Germany's treatment of the Jews, and partly because of her aggressions on Austria, Czechoslovakia, and her keeping Europe constantly in a war scare. A much smaller minority feels the same way toward Italy. Japan Cuts Purchases of Cotton From United States In the cotton growing states there is still deadly fear that if the United States should boycott Japan's silk, the price of cotton would drop out of sight. As a matter of fact, Japan has been cutting her purchases of cotton from the United States and increasing her purchases of this staple from Brazil and China. But the fear is still there. The great majority in congress still has the slogan "Keep out of Entangling Alliances," and is also vigorously against any overt word or act which might force Germany, Japan, or any other nation to pick up Uncle Sam's gauntlet. Part of this is honest reasoning on the part of the senators and representatives themselves. Part of it, perhaps most of it, is from emphatic protests from the folks back home. Instead of the reaction the White House expected from the emphasis the necessity of protecting democracy so that religion would be safe, there is a tremendous fear, judging by the mail pouring in on Capitol Hill, that the President may, by taking such a militant attitude, involve this country in some European quarrel. By RUTH WYETH MRS. SPEArT )EAR a bride of six rWv1 2" your Book &n, ut that the administration wants fr spare minutes rather than expa sive materials, so I would apr ciats a helpful hint alone fr line. M. S." If you really want to make that yellow guest room smart, use touches of brown to add charao ter. I have sketched an idea u Mark your material you here. with little dashes about six inchei apart and then make the tasse't as shown. For the bedspread, reverse the color scheme, using yel. low tassels on brown material. Several rows of the tassels mat make a border for spread or curtains instead of an desira . i i all-ov- u aesirea. Now is the time for all of ut to give our houses a fresh start, Crisp new cuttains; a bright slipcover; new lampshades; or will do the trick. Make -- Until recently Outer Mongolia was one of Asia's greatest mysteries. It had no railroads, no important cities and no highways. But a small inland railroad has now been built these things yourself. Mrs. Spears' and by the end of next summer it Book 1 SEWING, for the Home will be lengthened to join with the Decorator, shows you how with railroad. long easy to follow Westward. Looks sketches. Book 2, Gifts, Noveltiej Japan and Embroidery, will give you I Foreign military experts think JaIt contains copan's expansion program is fool- new interest. finfor making many directions is war Chinese the mplete until hardy ished, because the nation is already useful things. Books are 25 centi exhausted financially and weary of each. If you order both books, t fighting. But this does not concern crazypatch quilt leaflet is included This rare photo shows Soviet soldiers of the Japs, who boldly outline their FREE; it illustrates 36 authentic 15 RUSSIA READY? of expanding westward from embroidery stitches in detail. Athe far eastern army frankly designed to combat Japanese expan-tio- n dream ddress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. into the deep interiInner Mongolia Ca watching members of their group dance during a relaxation or of Asia. This would end with conSt., Chicago, 111. ' Braz of period. newest China's quest province, State Here they would run d Outer Mongolia Sinkiang. noun j ghis Kahn, the stalwart Mongolian Mongols and who captured half the known world cannot be determined, for no for- against Tartars, Turks, fas, influAbout all Mohammedans, Mar seven centuries ago. eigner has legally set foot in that enced by the Soviet. strongly But it would Peace could reign in this strange territory the past 10 years. Though mean up a barrier between land were it not for two great, stub an autonomous state, it is being Russiathrowing Way and the Chinese, cutting off used Soviet as a buffer born powers which face each other by the aid from Siberia. over a vast frontier. Of Russia it against possible attack from the Today the sharp tongued Japs are can be said there are few new terri- south. If it was not militarized long torial ambitions in Asia because ago, it certainly has been since rasping along a vast frontier at the Russian bear which lies silent and the Soviet is already overburdened Japan began penetrating China. READ EVERY WORD! waiting, occasionally lifting its paw with land. But Russia will not rePander to Feeling. in a tentative at the Make up your mind now that youll W impolite seme linquish what it has, and Japan defInner Mongolia has proved a fer- invader. This slap of that ugly fat and really enjoy life. both1 attitude No. strange to become the seeks initely No one can blame you if you don't want tile ground for Japanese exploitaers the who met with fierce is Asia to take harmful drugs, go on starvatimi Japs, still tion. These far eastern power. Big people have traditionaldiets and do backbreaking exercises. No opposition on Changkufeng hill last not big enough to accommodate two ly been looked And for sensible sane woman would! down upon by their summer but have heard little more women like yourself who really want to such domineering giants. Chinese masters as barbaric no- since. The reduce yet don't expect miracles overmgtt probability is that Rusmads. Consequently the Japanese sia is content Japs Told to Prepare. who are willing to faithfully follow a t until wait Japan most simple, inexpensive and pleasant The inevitability of this War was found them only too willing to fall sticks her plan, we suggest this easy imperialistic neck out a of all go light on fatty foods mi brought into clear focus last month under Tokyo's sway for it meant an bit too far. Then the axe may sweets. Eat plentifully of lean meats, fresa Chinese when Japanese leaders told their end to the fall, hit or miss. fruits and vegetables. And for VV" to prepare for E Western Newspaper Union. people functioning by removal of accumulated wastes be sure to take a half teaspoonful several more years of hardship; that of Kruschen in hot water every morning when the Chinese war was over Kruschen is made right here in U. S. A. from famous English formula. there would be a new conflict with And let's ret this straight right now Russia. about Krnschen. It is not harmful. It is mT NOT Russo-Jap just one salt as some onpeople war has Actually this the bo' ignorantly believe. Look6 active minerbeen in progress since 1932 when JaVou'll see it is a blend ol als which when dissolved in water a pan marched into Manchukuo and similar to the famous medicinal Spa waters where wealthy women have font established a puppet regime. It was for years. first brought into the open last sum-BiA jar of Kruschen costs but a W W and lasts 6 weeks. Get a jar RIGHT when Soviet and Japanese AW AVI At druggists everywhere. troops clashed over possession of a promonhill, tiny Changkufeng tory near the meeting place of Ko The End Counts rea. Manchukuo and Siberia. In If well thou hast begun, go on; recent weeks it has flared again in it is the end that crowns us, not western Manchukuo where eight the fight. Herrick. dashes were reported within a few Moscow the Japacharged days. nese were attempting to capture the Soviet island "No. 227" in the Argun river; Tokyo charged the Russians relieves had made assaults. Outside such sporadic conflicts the war thus far has been a mutual atprice tempt to outmaneuver the enemy. E Russia's method is to confound JaGatun lock,, at the western end of Panama & 25c 10c DROPS canal. pan by silence. No news leaks WASHINGTON. through the impenetrable border of Construction of The chief argument in favor of a Siberia but it is known that the So- a third set of locks for the Panama new The Ablest One alNicaraguan canal is its miliviet has vacated civilians for sev- cnnal instead of an entirely new winds and waves are The navtary desirability. Proponents claim ways on the side of the ablest eral miles back along the entire canal at Nicaragua is being dis- an Manchukuoan frontier. This border cussed seriously by the Roosevelt the attacking enemy might bottle up igators. Gibbon. ' has been completely militarized and administration and members of the amaentire American fleet in the Pancanal, but this could be avoidwoe to the man who tries to cross hllise nnri spnato milifor,, npp; ed by having a second it, At only one point, the railroad committees passage. Opponents maintain the cost would entrance at Manchuli in northwest signed be prohibitive. In addition to the ern Manchukuo can passage be a Althoughwiththe United States . , n ini- i. Merw is) Amazing treaty Nicaragua in 1914 un-made from Russian to Japanese terthe Condition Dua to Sluggish Bw' eminent which canal rights were estab11 you thlni wi f"- forced to maintain a miliritory. act alike, lust lished, the war department points tary YVoos to all MsbH garrison the that equal now or Mongols. Japan out there would be little economic guard at Panama. The route would freshing. Invigorating. IPes,Hy woea been one of or method has Japan's military advantage to a second sick headachm oiuous hiwuo. associated with constipation. crafty penetration. Following her canal. More important, it would fT passae as Without occupation of Peiping in the sum- cost between $1,000,000,000 and u not aeugnteo. return ww w m recuired mer of 1937 she gained control of $1,500,000,000, compared with the Panama"6111 reiuna tne purenas nrtcs. That's fair. railthe rambling f $200,000,000 expenditure for increasGet NR Tablets today. Mil The new Panama WWc road which winds across Inner ing the Panama canal's capacity. commodate all expected RELIEF ALWAYS transport Mongolia for 700 miles. Yet it was War department plans in Panama t.on increases for rr tin OllWja QUICK the next utvtury not until several months ago that are linked with President RooseFOR Cjving the canal a capacity to han! INDIGESTION the world knew of this penetration. velt's program to increase the zone's -- .v uimes ine tramc Behind the move is a fascinating military personnel as part of the ing across it. story of intrigue, of imperialistic current rearmament program. The But the possibility at of the dream that has exploitation fntT .nAvt.n risible new locks would accommodate the not Nicaragua is since guided Mongolians Ghenghis largest ships, all but a few of which ficer being overlooked. An army of Mv best nrais is that I am y"1" is stationed there Kahn's day. are already able to cross the canal constantly to friend. Southerne. keep plans All told Asia has about 2,500,000 The project would be liquidated would utilize the by NicTi e Mongols, a race whose language, increased earnings, it is estimated and pfans follow up appearance and customs are entire- Annual tolls of $14,000,000 would pro- gu. Portuguese settlers in 1550 Sr ly different from those of China. vide 'or interest payments and a suggestion would make the canal I These people are herdsmen and no- sinking fund to amortize not only private venture, but the k f . I mads; Chinese are tradesmen. the cost of new locks, but also k"Anolk&0 Sometime after the decline of the the $49,000,000 in bonds stiU out-of ment calls attention to difrSt.es JUST A encountered when private en FM'" GO Khans, Outer and Inner Mongolia standing on the original rnal. 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