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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN ' . i: ilr " 1 w 3 U: WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Dewey Campaign Gains' Steam With N. Y., Wisconsin Victories-Third Victories-Third Term Grows Less Likely (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) fpi..i by Western Newspaper Union. . POLITICS: In the Spring From coast to coast in early April the grass roots were turning green. For politicians more than anyone else, the fresh spring air was filled with anticipation. Congress grew restless, prompting Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley to forecast adjournment in June Just before the national conventions. More pointed harbingers of an election year were primaries in New York and Wisconsin, which sent youthful Tom Dewey's star a-soar-ing and left Cactus Jack Garner's supporters hanging on the ropes. In the Empire state, whose delegates will be unlnstructed, G. 0. P. Hope- V -- " .'. .. K V;ym as n mm ifutmrVmiuitufitmmmtmmm MICHIGAN'S VANDENBERO Dewey alto beat Roosevelt. ful Frank Gannett was nevertheless pigeon-holed In the public mind. In America's Dairyland, Tom Dewey not only outpointed Michigan's Sen. Arthur Vandenberg for G. 0. P. del-egates del-egates but also got more votes than Franklin Roosevelt got in the Democratic Dem-ocratic primary. If third termites thought the President's Pres-ident's Wisconsin victory over Jack Garner was a favorable sign, they alsq saw signs to the contrary. In Los Angeles Eleanor Roosevelt spoke her personal opinion; she was against a third term "except in extraordinary ex-traordinary circumstances." If Europe's Eu-rope's war was such a circumstance, circum-stance, Sumner Welles bad probably proba-bly convinced the President that the White House can never bring the Allies and Germany to peace. At Monongah, W. Va., meanwhile, C. L O.'s John Lewis threatened to start his own third party unless the Democrats choose a platform and candidates suitable to him. Definitely Defi-nitely not acceptable, C I. 0. has already intimated, is Franklin Roosevelt And Montana's Sen. Burton Bur-ton K. Wheeler, whom John Lewis would like to see President, made it plain at San Francisco that he does not expect the President to run, that he himself is not a third party candidate, but that he would become Democratic candidate should the party invite him. CONGRESS: Fraud? Mad as hornets were New York's Rep. Ham Fish and North Carolina's Caro-lina's Sen. Bob Reynolds. By bundling Ambassador Bill Bullitt back to France aboard the clipper, Secretary of State Hull had cheated them out of an investigation. Subject: Sub-ject: The German "white book" charges, intimating Bullitt had promised Jerzy Potocki, Polish ambassador am-bassador to the U. S., that America would fight along with France and Britain against Germany. Meanwhile the enterprising New TREND How the wind is blowing CHAIN STORES Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace raised opposition to the ruinous chain store tax bill introduced by Texas' Rep. Wright Patman. Said Wallace: The bill would "discourage and prevent" efficient methods of marketing by driving larger, interstate chains but of business. LABOR Consenting to consider another phase oi the question over whether" IT S! "anti-trust taws apply' to labor unions, the Supreme court agreed to review atT A? F.' of LT . -protest -against' an ontiJpicketing-in1 junction which restrained Chicago milk wagon drivers for alleged viov lation of anti-trust statutes. ' AGRICULTURE Compared with December . I forecast of ,339,000,000 bushels, winter wheat prospects are now placed at 450,000,000 bushels' by "unofficial statisticians. WAGE-HOUR At New Orleans, the fifth U. S. circuit court upheld OTiBiiiuironBiny i we wage-nour law. refusing to set aside a minimum mini-mum wage order for cotton mills. TAXATION March income tax receipts of $663,486,000 were 31 per cent above the same month in 1939. COMMUNICATIONS A. T. & T. reported a gain of 82,000 telephones in the U. S. during March. i York Newt branded as frauds the papers which Germany claimed to have taken from Polish archives when Warsaw was seized. Basis for the Newt' charge was the testi mony of three translators who indicated indi-cated that "the German propa ganda ministry has slipped some new words Into the Polish lan guage." Two translators "com mentcd that the report was written in such poor Polish that no statesman states-man could have been guilty of its authorship." Two words, they said, were not even In the Polish language; lan-guage; a third was archaic. Also in congress: C By limiting debate, the senate expedited approval of a house reso lution to extend for three years the administration's reciprocal trade program. Biggest stumbling block was the attempt to rets? in senate ratification power over such treaties. trea-ties. C Economy, already blasted by a $300,000,000 boost in the farm bill, went by the boards again when the senate appropriations subcommittee added $44,000,000 for civil functions of the war department Still ahead was the relief bill, which spending forces hoped to boost $500,000,000 above the President's $1,000,000,000 request tlThe farm credit administration got a going-over in both houses. In the senate. National Grange Master L. J. Taber appealed for a bill to make FCA independent again, removing re-moving it from the agriculture department de-partment where it was placed by governmental reorganization last year. In the house, farm leaders opposed a bill to liberalize FCA loans to farmers. Reason: It might stand in the way of parity prices. The treasury, which saw interest rates going up, opposed a flat 3 per cent rate on FCA loans. WHITE HOUSE: Week's Work From Grangeville, Idaho, 67-year-old Mrs. Elva Canfleld set out on horseback for a six-week Job, counting count-ing noses among the hardy souls who live in a 1,000-square-mile area in the Seven Devils mountains. Throughout the rest of the nation 120,000 other canvassers did likewise. like-wise. In Washington, Sen. Charles Tobey of New Hampshire ushered in the sixteenth decennial census with a radio address urging Ameri- NO. 1 AND NO. 1 A mortgagt on the While House? cans not to answer questions which "violate the constitutional right of privacy." The day it started. No. 1 Census Taker William L. Austin counted the nose of America's No. 1 Citizen, Franklin Roosevelt (see photo). While photographers blazed away, the President asked and was assured as-sured that his census form was confidential. con-fidential. Skipped over lightly was the question on whether he held a mortgage on his residence, the White House. Pet project of the week, however, was Franklin Roosevelt's third government gov-ernment reorganization order, to become be-come effective in 60 days unless specifically spe-cifically rejected by either house or Senate. Main aims: (1) Creation of a federal fiscal officer, offi-cer, a permanent civil service employee em-ployee with rank of assistant treasury treas-ury secretary, who would rule the public debt service, commissioner of accounts and deposits, and U. S. treasurer. Ct Assumption -by the treasury "of Jurisdiction over the qu'asl-lndcperid-ent federal alcohol administration. (St Cfealttiii w iuulB- ttmt keting administration," composed of-the of-the AAA's division of marketing and the federal surplus commodities" Cor poration. - i " r. .' MEDICLNE: At Cleveland Death from coronary thrombosis is really caused by sulTocation of the henrt, which fails to receive oxygen, At Clevelmid, - where the American College of Physicians met, a past president told how bay-windowed business men con avoid thrombosis. Dr. William J. Kerr of San Francisco pointed out that elastic elas-tic belts which hold up "adiposities" raise the diaphragm, thus drawing more oxygen into the heart Iff "1 NEWS QUIZ Know your newt? One hundred points if you answer all the following follow-ing quettiont. Deduct 20 for each quetlion you miu. Score of 60 to 100 it good to perfect. ray rotooici asador K, r. 1. What controversy did the above signature arouse? t. Trne or False: The earl of Athlone has been selected governor gover-nor general of Australia. 3. Has the U. 8. recognised the new Chinese regime Just established estab-lished at Nanking by Wang Ching-welT 4. True or False: Women's new spring fashions accentuate the hips. 5. Choice: According to testimony testi-mony of st WPA timekeeper at San Francisco, 11 cabinet makers' mak-ers' helpers, 8 cabinet makers, 3 carpenters and 5 painters repaired re-paired two high chairs. It took them: (a) 2 hoars; (b) 46 boars; (c) 194 hoars. Neivs Quiz Answers 1. Potocki, Polish ambassador to the U. S , wit alleged by German source to have placed this signature over an account of his conversation with William Bullitt. U. S. ambasia-dor ambasia-dor to France, in which Bullitt allegedly al-legedly promised U. S. aid to the allies. Some experts call the signature signa-ture a forgery. 2. False. Governor general of Can-ids, Can-ids, not Australia. 3. No, and the Wang government Is consequently angry. 4. False. Carmen Snow, editor of Harper's Bazaar, says of the new skirts: "Your hips melt away." 5. (C) Is correct. The job cost $180. EUROPE: Czar Churchill In the World war a British landing land-ing at Gallipoll was turned into bloody defeat. Whipping boy for this catastrophe was Winston Churchill, then as now first lord of the admiralty. In defense. Minister Churchill has always maintained the Gallipoll attack would have succeeded suc-ceeded If he had been running both army and navy. By early April Adolf Hitler's spring offensive was getting underway. under-way. Hermann Goering boasted his air force was ready for a decisive blow "in the west" while at sea his planes bombed Scapa Flow and British convoys. To offset these at tacks the allies tightened their trade noose around uermany, cauing home envoys to neutral nations for conferences designed to block Nazi commerce channels. me snow-down snow-down was obviously near. Dramatically, Prime Minister Chamberlain suddenly satisfied both the British people and Winston Churchill by naming him head of a three-man inner "war cabinet." Others: Sir Klngsley Wood and Sir John Simon, lord privy seal and exchequer, ex-chequer, respectively. Next day, while Czar Churchill polished his brass knuckles, Premier Pre-mier Chamberlain boasted he was "10 times as confident" of victory now as when the war began be cause Adolf Hitler "missed the bus" by failing to use Germany's arms superiority last autumn. This confidence was contagious. At Paris, Premier Paul Reynaud left a conference of his inner cabinet cab-inet and military leaders to speak via radio to America. Said he: 'France will sign no 'phony peace." UNAMERICANISM: King Pelley I Head of the pro-Fascist anti- Jewish Silver Legion is goateed William, Wil-liam, Dudley Pelley. At Washington, Washing-ton, when the Dies un-Americanism committee opened Its latest series of hearings. Fascist Pelley found himself well smeared by a blonde named Dorothy Waring. A secret agent formerly with the McCor-mack McCor-mack committee. Miss Waring told the Dies investigators that Pelley once came to her New York apartment apart-ment dressed in uniform, black boots, shoulder strap and pistol. What he wanted, she said, was f Inane i a 1 support for the Legion. On one future fu-ture day he promised to lead a march on Washington Washing-ton which would make him U. S. DOROTHY WARING dictator. 'King-HTWfcer. th e C 6 u h- try's white king." Meanwhile Dies agents were con-cenfrffflnaf con-cenfrffflnaf " on Cbmmtinlsrh. ""At "Philadelphia - they raided party headquarters and got away with a truckload of membership lists and financial statements. AlISCELLAJVY: Submission '4,'A't Rome,' Gen. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gari-baldi, eldest son of the Italian patriot pa-triot and voluntury political exile in the U. S. for 10 years, returned home to visit his ailing mother. So impressed was he that he wrote Dictator Dic-tator Mussolini, making a public act of submission to Fascism. C At Helsinki, Finnish men and women voluntarily surrendered their jewrlry to raise $8,000,000 fur pursuit planes. J - -id Kathleen Norris Says: The Unluckiest Wife Isn't Always The Unluckiest Woman (Bell Syndicate Her husband told her that hit loved him a deeply s he did her. By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE unluckiest wife in the world isn't of course, the unluckiest un-luckiest woman. There are thousands of women in this country, coun-try, and hundreds of thousands in other countries, whose lot is harder than that of Marjorie Mason. There are women in your town and mine who have been fighting poverty all their lives long, living along the boundary line of want able to give their children only the barest necessities of life, and worrying worry-ing constantly for fear that those necessities might not be always available. Women who have never known even a few days a few hours of luxury and beauty, of plenty and security. Women who have to refuse their small babies the freshness fresh-ness and comfort and safety small babies need; who have to refuse their growing children the toys, the clothes that more fortunate children take for granted; who suffer a thousand thou-sand deaths as the young men and women of the family demand cars and pocket money and college education edu-cation as their right. This in America. In Europe and in the Orient the situation is infinitely in-finitely worse. Civilized Christian countries still see barefoot children begging in winter streets; China knows that every winter a million of her people will starve slowly to death, and a million more fall victims vic-tims to the diseases that weakness, malnutrition, cold and hunger bring. Comparative Misery. So when I speak of the bitter trial that Marjorie Mason has been called upon to bear I am treating only of the comparative misery and humiliation that can come to a woman who has a comfortable home, fine children, a car, a club, friends, a good cook in her kitchen, books', leisure, enough money, good health, and she says "a real trust that God will help me through this difficulty if I am wise enough to heed His guidance." Not much material from which to construct an appeal to your pity, is it? And yet there is no wife alive that won't feel pity for Marjorie Mar-jorie when she hears her story. Marjorie Is 32; she has been married mar-ried for nine years to a man she deeply loves. He is a professor, handsome, popular, successful, with a comfortable little income of his own to supplement his salary. The Masons live in a roomy house on a beautiful campus; there are three children in the family; a girl of seven, and boys of flvd years and one year. Marjorie has as assistant the fine colored mother of one of the undergraduate girls; she Is free to do her part in campus work; mothers' and alumni groups, hospital, hos-pital, convalescent home, Shakespeare Shakes-peare study club, dramatics. She not only teaches her daughter, but she belongs to a little circle of college col-lege mothers who take turns In amusing and watching the younger children on different afternoon. Marjorie's life was all sunthine until some four weeks ago, when her' 'husband', )jTpne of those . luxuries lux-uries of confession that weak men so enjoy, told her that his assistant profetfsof, a handsome g'irrbf -about" 23. love him as deeply as he did her. He was exultant over his conquest, con-quest, and fatuously related to his wife' the details of' the affair "in which the girl's great love had over-tuinc over-tuinc her scruples,., , , ., , , Bitter Injustice. "This sounds as nauseating to me as it docs to you," writes Marjorie, "but Arthur was like a crowing boy oyer it. I did what I could. Told him that he must be out of his senses to jeopardize his position, his whole life's work in this way, to say nothing of the bitter injustice to me and to the children. I tried to put my own heartbreak aside; It was too late then for any outbreak of mine to do any good. For days I WNU Service.) assistant professor, a handsome girl of 23, Unlucky Women The unluckiest wife isn't always, the unluckiest woman in the world, according to this article by Kathleen Norris. For while tome of the trials that married women are forced to go through are difficult indeed, many times things could be much worse. But at the same time problems do creep into the homes of families uho teem to have apparent security. And so the ttory of Marjorie Mason Ma-son is here discussed. It is the story of a young professor's wife and the problem the had to meet. Faced with en unfaithful husband the is confronted with the problem of disgracing dis-gracing him for life by exposing him or leaving him and taking her children with her. She is advised to choose the second sec-ond plan: The emptiness of his home should bring this man to his senses. seemed to be in a bad dream, for the thing had come upon me like a thunderbolt and the past was all spoiled as well as the future. . "Arthur, as completely oblivious of any feeling of mine as he had been of ordinary decency and duty, asked me if I would have the girl at the house now and then, 'so there would be no talk.' This, I told him, was a physical as well as moral impossibility. I simply couldn't do it On this point we had our first serious quarrel. "Since then I have not spoken to Arthur directly. But for the children's chil-dren's sake a certain amount of civility must go on. Arthur con tinues to show nothing but complacency com-placency and high spirits. He tells me that if he and the girl had resisted re-sisted temptation or love, as he calls it then all three of us would be unhappy. As it is, I am the only miserable one, and 'they don't expect ex-pect me to understand.' The girl came to see me, and was tearful and explanatory and heroic. I don't think I spoke at all in the 10 minutes min-utes I endured her company. "Arthur would be dropped from the faculty if this were known. His fine old father, president emeritus of another university, would die of grief. And how would my children be bettered by the shame of their father? But I can't go on as things are. These few weeks have shown me that Tell me what to do." Advice to Marjorie. Marjorie, the first thing to do is get out and take the children with you. But not with any bitterness or threats. Say to your few close friends that you are taking the baby to the mountains. Or that the small daughter bad two chest colds last year and you think it wise to try the shore. Not far from you there are lakeside summer cabins which rent In winter for as little as $10 a month. Find one and move. This will have a triple advantage. It will get you away from the immediate im-mediate contemplation of an insuf- fcrable state of affairs. It will scare the complacent philandering Arthur out of bis wits; he will be lonely, disorganized and possibly brought "to a realization of wWaV wealth he had, :and has' done all he could to destroy. And lastly, it will trxrlfy the-gJrl. ShesKsay suddenly. awaken to the, ,truUi that she has given everything for nothing, and Is. In a fair way to lose position and reputation. . When Arthur comes to his senses, or rather, having obviously very little sc nse;"wten he appreciates that he has made an expensive and foolish mistake, then come back, forgive him, and resume the outer shell of the old happy, loving life. You may never want to share, his room or his affection again; he could hardly expect that. But for the rest, take the blow that fortune has dealt you. as every woman must in one way or another, pick up the pieces, and face the future stronger in your own soul, if sad der in your heart. 111. I - 4 " V WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. Paul Reynaud. who was asked to form a new French cabinet and successor to Premier Daladier, put through the . . French -Brit- PremterDenres ish monetary British-French and economic Monetary Union ccord of last December, and, even before the start of the war was an advocate of a close financial union between the two countries as the first bulwark of their Joint defense. For several years, he has been studying English Eng-lish finance and history, insisting that both nations must abandon their old plan of remaining apart In the matter of monetary and economic relationships. He Is a lawyer, financier and economist, minister of finance since October, 1938. In the chamber of deputies, he represents repre-sents a "big business" section of Paris and has contended vigorously vig-orously against "governmental meddling in bnsiness." In 1935 and 1936 he made a courageous fight for the devaluation of the franc, an Issue which Is always loaded In France and always sidestepped by more cautions politicians. His business sagacity sagaci-ty was demonstrated In the summer sum-mer of 1929, when he warned all and sundry that a big smash was coming, and withdrew all of his securities from the market mar-ket He is as direct, decisive and fiery as Daladier is ponderous and meditative, medi-tative, and for many years has been making prophecies more gloomy than Cassandra's foredoom of Troy, as he urged France to prepare for the worst He parts his hair in the middle, strings with the Alliance Democratique, a center group, and has never been classified as either right or left He is said to be "too intelligent to be liked," and does not seem to mind. He is small and alert only slightly gray at 60, carefully care-fully groomed and the master of a verbal short jab which seldom invites in-vites a return engagement for any. one inclined to mix with him. He was a holdout on Laval's deal to give Mussolini a green light in Ethiopia and in this connection warned France that it had better be looking to its empire. In politics poli-tics since 1919, in the chamber since 1928, he was previously minister of finance in Tardieu's cabinet. He comes of a family high in the mountains moun-tains ofj) Barcelonnette, of a clan which has extensive holdings in several sev-eral foreign countries, including Mexico. DUILDING more stately mansions for his soul, Fritz Mandl, the Austrian munitioneer, runner-up for Zaharoff, was interrupted by Adolf f ... n. . Hitler. In a new trms riant $ New York municipal court an Austrian Aus-trian archi Are Being Built By Fritz Mandl tect sues Mr. Mandl for payment for designs for a new wing on his Alpine castle, when he was married to Hedy Lamarr, the screen star, now the wife of Gene Markey, Hollywood Holly-wood producer. The castle and the plans were a war casualty, but Mr. Mandl is sitting pretty in Argentina, the hidalgo of a great estate, and getting a fast running start with new steel and munitions plants in the land of the pampas. He fooled Hitler. His great arms plants, Including the Ilirt-enberg Ilirt-enberg plant, were supposed to be worth about $60,000,000. That was a nice, fat grouse for the Nasi nimrod, but when Der Fuehrer moved In, he found the great plants Just a hollow shell, the securities long since liquidated liqui-dated and Mr. Mandl at a safe nose-thumbing distance with his former fortune remaining more or less Intact. Now 40 years old, round-laced and merry, he was a playboy in his youth, but stayed on the job in his later years. The munitions works were a family holding, founded by his grandfather, Sigmund, and expanded ex-panded by his father. Alexander.. He was an associate of the fallen Prince Ernst Ruediger von .Star hemberg .in, .the Vienna putsch of 1934 not at all interested in politi cal Ideologies, and smarter thanjne prince in uuui mailing a gel-away from Hitler and from Germany as well as being able to save his fortune. for-tune. - ------ NOT a refugee fortune, but the makings of a now one appears in the operations Of Arnold Bernstein, Bern-stein, who also found a bole in the Nazi line. A freighter of the Americanized Ameri-canized Arnold Bernstein shipping lines burns at Baltimore, but It was insured and his newly recruited ships are running cargos to Europe and his fleet is expanding. 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