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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH Weekly News Analysis- - Europe Rushes to New Crisis As Loyalist Spain Is Crushed lly Joseph W. La lline White House This year's congress was adver-tised as highly independent, prob-ably ready to fight any proposal coming from the White House. But within three weeks after congress opened President Roosevelt had ap-parently Introduced the bulk of his legislative program and could ex-pect favorable action on most of It: Defense. His $552,000,000 emer-gency two-yea- r program is moving slowly but certainly, aided by war yNfeSiyyvy' SN! 3 Poland there In Pn-Uk- - GERMANY ZLZZ o0: I TsVVVVWij ""jEs HI Mo'1" ,lnti'Commun', p Vczecho-slovak1a-" IfaaagMfgi SNXHU. NGARy: I Hung.r, Join, .nti.com. I nk '?T"!TT'v' !S muniit pact under Nail a gT --'"'TUMANIA f I ,'JA!JJUGOSLAVIAf Ifnit JirTtJ EUROPE'S 'WALL OF NEUTRALITY' Map shows how Hitler and Mussolini hate built eastern European ulliances to promt themselves from Russia while pressing new demands against France and Britain. (See EUROPE.) clouds over Europe and Asia. Social Security. Broad revisions and extensions will probably be ap-proved, though congress may de-mand an accounting on the huge so-cial security reserve fund. Reorganization. Defeated last year by Republicans and insurgent Dem-ocrats, governmental reorganization 1s again being broached in the-hous-by Missouri's Rep. John J. Cochran. Since this year's bloc is bigger than 1938's, reorganization is probably doomed for failure. rublio Health. Already Intro-duced is the national health program bill, to be paid for jointly by states and the U. S. First year's federal appropriation would be about $50, 000,000. Eventually the total annual cost to state and federal govern-ments would be $900,000,000. Aided by growing public health conscious-ness, the bill is expected to pass. Railroads. The White House has Introduced no bill, but has given its blessing to railroad relief measures introduced by California's Rep. Clarence Lea and Montana's Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Since rail relief is an established need, not a politi-cal question, it is being justified on th,e bases of national defense, public safety and national economics. Monetary Powers. The White House will probably be granted con-tinuation of the treasury's currency stabilization fund, which reportedly netted a neat profit last year, and the presidential power t further de-value the dollar, which congress does not think has been abused. Only stumbling block is that stabili-zation fund operations have been se-cret, which congress does not like. Communications. Not vital, but a White House fetish, is interest in the federal communications commission which President Roosevelt would like reorganized this session. His purposes: To improve FCC's legal framework and administrative ma-chinery. If congress gets time, this will probably be approved. EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions It expressed in thes columns, thef are those ot 1h newt analyst, and not necessarily ot the newspaper. Europe Except for Spain, January found all Europe immersed in an ominous calm broken only by occasional whispers among democra-cies on one side and dictators on the other. Europe was a theater and Spain was its stage. By the end of the month the play on Spain's stage was definitely approaching its climax because Fascist-subsidize- d Rebels had put the communistic Loyalist government to flight at Bar-celona. This marked the beginning of Loyalist Spain's end, soon to leave both Italy and Germany free to press new demands against Britain and France. The reason for this embarrassing situation is that Europe's democra-cies have followed a policy of non-intervention in Spain, declining to admit that is really a disguise for the policy of dictator appeasement. Re-gardless of the moral issues re- - miles long and 100 miles deep. For newly inaugurated President Pedro Aguirre Cerdo, reportedly Fascist bent, it presented the worst initia-tion under fire ever experienced by any Western hemisphere chief exec-utive. Total fatalities, which prob-ably will never be determined, run from 8,000 to 11,000. Injuries run into even more thousands. Faced with a stupendous reconstruction job which will require several years, Chile will probably need all outside financial assistance available to stave otT national calamity. Congress Last summer, Rep. Martin Dies and his committee on unearthed dirt concerning Har-ry Bridges, west coast labor leader who is not a naturalized citizen but nevertheless guides the destinies of many American laboring men as an unofllcial mogul of John Lewis' C. I. O. This put Madame Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins on the spot, because the Dies committee claimed Harry Bridges was an alien and a Communist, that he advocated overthrowing the government by portcdly involved in Spain's war, London and Paris must now realize that their mistake has not been the refusal to side with Loyalists against the Rebels, but rather their permit-ting Germany and Italy to aid the Insurgents. The result is that Fas-cist nations now control Spain. France is therefore surrounded on three sides by potentially hostile na-tions, while the Mediterranean be-comes predominantly dictator-controlle- Spain's war is not finished, but it has been sufficiently localized to free Mussolini's hands for other pur-suits. Almost every competent Eu-ropean observer has predicted a new crisis following Barcelona's col-lapse and the whispers throughout Europe have backed up that pre-diction. Most important foundation work for the new Italo-Germa- n demands y V t V ' - ! TaxaUon. Legislation to permit reciprocal taxation of federal, state and municipal bonds and salaries, now exempt, is apt to be adopted in the face of strong state and mu-nicipal opposition to the bond ex-emption feature. Labor Last year Homer Martin, presi-dent of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America, quarreled with his vice presidents. President John L. Lewis of C. I. O. stepped in, ap-pointing Vice Presidents Sidney Hill-ma- n and Phillip Murray as media-tors. But 18 of U. A. W.'s 24 board members were anti-Marti- n men and early last month they voted to strip him of power. Reason: Mr. Martin had been consorting secretly with Harry Bennett, personnel director for the Ford Motor company, only non-U- . A. W. auto manufacturer. C. I. O. chieftains thought Mr. Mar-tin was playing for personal control over the huge Ford labor vote. The upshot has been C. I. O's re-fusal to recognize Mr. Martin as head of U. A. W., followed next day by Mr. Martin's resignation frpm C. I. O.'s executive board with the charge that Mr. Lewis has "per-sonal ambitions and a dictator com-plex." The outcome of this scrap will be settled at a Martin-sponsore- d election March 4, and a C. I. election 20 days later. Un- - J. PARXELL THOMAS California also spoke up. force and that he had made dispar-aging remarks about the President of the U. S. Secretary Perkins has failed to give Dies committeemen what they consider a satisfactory answer. Her claim: That a court ruling is now pending on whether membership in the Communist party is a deporta-ble offense. Not since 1876 has an attempt been made to impeach a cabinet I ; y ' - V : A ia uic ttasui dine; uicifc any itrsuildiil conflict will be localized. This means preventing huge, mysterious Russia from aiding Britain and France. Therefore Rome and Berlin have quietly established a solid bloc of "neutral" states reaching from the Baltic to the Adriatic (see map), which will stand as sentinels against Russian aggression while Italy and Germany turn their backs to face France and Britain. The new crisis will center around Italian demands against France, though it may be enlarged through new declarations by Chancellor Hit-ler. Italy wants Tunisia (enabling her to blockade the Mediterranean), control of the Suez canal, and owner-ship of the Djibouti-Addi- s Ababa railroad (providing an outlet from Ethiopia). These demands are vital to Britain, because Italian control of the Mediterranean might cut off London's "lifeline" to India and the east. Probable dictator strategy will be for Germany to assure France she will not help Italy, thereby en-couraging Britain to stand aloof. Then Germany would aid Italy in a possible war just as she has aided Rebel Spain, with "volunteers." Whether London and Paris will wait for such an eventuality is another matter. Thoroughly scared by re-ports that joint Italo-Germa- n de-mands will be voiced by Chancellor Hitler before the Reichstag, by Ital-ian mobilization of her 1908 army class, by threatened German mobi-lization of 1,500.000 men by Febru-ary 15, the two democracies are be-ginning to wake up. Encouragingly, Great Britain has begun an intensive army recruiting campaign. But al-most completely offsetting this prac-tical step is the report that Prime Minister Chamberlain will soon in-vite Hitler, Mussolini and French Premier Daladier to a new "Mu-nich" conference, there to buy peace with more concessions. Cu7e Earthquakes usually come when sea bottoms sink, forcing up moun-tainous areas and jarring the land tor miles around. Squeezed along the rocky west coast of South Amer-ica, Chile has often experienced such phenomena but never in such disastrous fashion as the earthquake which recently struck a zone 450 member, but that has not stopped one Dies committeeman from set-ting a modern precedent. New Jer-sey's Rep. J. Parnell Thomas has introduced a resolution calling for an investigation to determine wheth-er Secretary Perkins should be im-peached, along with Immigration Commissioner James L. Houghtel-in- g and Labor Department Solicitor Gerard D. Reilly. That Madame Perkins' unaggres-sive interest in the Bridges deporta-tion case is not popular has been in-dicated at Sacramento, Calif., where the state legislature may ask her for an immediate report on Mr. Bridges' citizenship status. So far as he had determined, said Assem-blyman C. Don Field, the labor lead-er has twice taken out naturaliza-tion papers but has failed to file them in the required time. Aviation Man's top running speed is 21.7 miles per hour; horse's, 45.1; train's, 127.1; boat's, 130.9; automo-bile's, 357.5, and airplane's, 440.6. But at Buffalo, N. V., a pursuit monoplane being built for the French government has broken the old airplane record by about 150 m. p. h. With motor wide open but engine speed held down (by an elec-trically controlled propellor). H. Lloyd Child began diving at 22,000 feet, holding his vertical descent until he reached 9,000 feet. The graph chart chalked up his speed until it reached 575 m. p. h., then moved off the paper. Landing with no ill effects. Child estimated he had flown at 600 m. p. h. Since air reacts like solid matter at just over 600 m. p. h., scientists explained that Child had probably traveled fast as a modern plane could ever go. U. A. W.'S nOMER MARTIN He resigned and uas fired. til then, no one knows who controls U. A. W. While this row has made big head-lines, observers are prone to dis-miss the possibility that it may indi-cate a collapse of C. I. O. More likely it is an internal squabble. If the anti-Marti- majority of 18-- 6 on U. A. W.'s executive board is any criterion, U. A. W. will remain pro-C- . I. O. under a new president People James S. Douglas, father of one-time U. S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas, has renounced U. S. citizenship to return to his boyhood home of Quebec. Reason: Abhor-rence of recent American govern-mental trends. ADVENTURERS' CLUB M3 "S)yk ' HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES I gpY OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! "Panic in the Dark" HELLO EVERYBODY: the story of a cock-eye- d railroad accident so cock-eye- d that everything seems to work just the opposite from what it should. You know, when anyone mentions rail-road accident to me I immediately think of a collision. But Marcella Timer of Clifton, N. J., was in one once that not only wasn't a collision, but as a matter of fact, was just the opposite of a collision. That sounds pretty doggone near impossible, and I know it. Two railroad cars coming together can cause a mighty serious accident. On the other hand, two cars getting farther and farther apart every minute well that ought to be just about the safest thing on tracks. But it was the ever-wideni- ng distance between two cars that threw Mrs. Timer right into the lap of Adventure and caused all the horror, and panic, and suffering that you're going to read about today. Marcella's husband is a traveling representative for a New York firm. In the summer of 1925 he was covering the New England territory. The Timer's home was then in Ridgefleld Park, N. J., but Marcella with her two children, a boy, six, and a baby girl not quite a year old, was touring New England with her husband. It was about the middle of July and they were in Hartford, Conn., when the baby developed a colic and began running a high fever. Mar-cella decided to take the children home to Ridgefleld Park. They arrived in New York on a terrifically hot day, crossed to New Jersey and got on a West Shore train at Weehawken about four-thirt-y in the afternoon. Train Comes to Stop in Tunnel. "I don't know whether you're acquainted with the West Shore railroad at this point," Marcella writes, "but it has a long tunnel under the city of Weehawken which comes out on the Jersey meadows about seven miles from where It begins. I had often Passcngers began to show signs of uneasiness. been through this tunnel and had never given it a second thought.' But many are the thoughts Marcella has given that doggone tunnel since. She boarded the train for Ridgefleld Park and found seats in the next to the last coach. The train started, and entered the tunnel as usual. It was about half way through when it began to slow down and came to a gradual stop. That wasn't unusual. Trains often did that. Marcella paid no attention to it and neither did any of the other passengers. After a while the lights went out That WAS unusual. The passen-gers began to get restless. A conductor was running up and down out-side the coaches swinging a red lantern. A second conductor had stationed himself at the door. The day had been hot enough in the first place, but down there in the tunnel it was stifling. The windows of the cars were all closed to keep out the poisonous gases that filled the tunnel .at all times, and what little air there was in the beginning was rapidly being used up. The baby, whose fever had mounted,' began to scream at the top of her lungs. Several other passengers began to show signs of uneasiness. Some of the men got up and approached the door, but the conductor would not let them pass, nor would he give any satisfactory explanation why the train was standing still in a dark and gas-ridde- n tunnel. For a few minutes after that all was quiet. Then, suddenly, panic gripped the people In that dark, stifling car. One man leaped to a window and threw it open. "They can't keep us in here to suffocate like rats," he shouted. "I'm getting out!" He clambered through the window, fend many others followed him. And almost immediately the coach was filled with the sulphurous, poisonous gases of the tunnel. "Then," says Marcella, "terror such as I bad never known before gripped me. My baby stopped screaming suddenly and became very still. My little boy leaned with unnatural weight against my side. In the pitch darkness everyone was gasping for breath. Some man shouted to everyone to lie down on the floor. I couldn't get down with the two children. But I oraved and how I prayed! Coal Gas Fills Passenger Coaches. "Women were fainting and men's lungs were wracked with a hacking cough that only filled them with more coal gas. I felt as if a hand of steel were gripping at my throat. Then I began to sink down into a dark, black pit of nothingness that seemed to be coming up te meet me. I tried to fight it off, but it seemed it was no use. Deeper and deeper into the gloom I sank. Subconsciously I felt the train jar and shake, but by that time it didn't mean anything. It is the last thing I remem-bered. Then I was unconscious." Now let's go back and tell the part of the story Marcella didn't know anything about. What had happened was that a coupling had broken, and the front part of the train had gone on, leaving the last two coaches behind in the middle of the tunnel. It was the exact opposite of a collision, but the conductors realized that it was serious, nevertheless. One of them went out into the ga,s-fillc- d tunnel with a red lantern to make sure that the cars weren't hit by another train, while the other tried to keep the passengers from leaving the comparative safety of the car. When the front of the broken train reached the meadows, the loss of the two cars was discovered and an emergency engine was sent imme-diately. But it had taken 20 minutes to accomplish that, and in the meantime the passengers in those two stranded cars had breathed in a lot of coal' gas. Ambulances were waiting when they reached the mouth of the tunnel, to give first aid. "And maybe you think we didn't need it," says Mar-cella. "My little boy and I were revived almost immediately, but it was only with a terrific struggle that my little girl's life was saved." And if Marcella had to go through another railroad accident, I think she'd pick a good collision in preference to one of those trick accidents where the cars all go in different directions. Copyright. WNU Service. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, NEW iron chancellor of prohibi-tion, goes into action again, with Sen. Morris Sheppard of Texas and several other mous old-tim- e Girds Sword in dry leaders who think see a DryComeback new anJ arid day dawning. A friend of this writ-er, scouting material for a maga-zine article on a trip through the Middle West, says the drys are com-ing back like an army with banners. Too many saloons, too much co-educational elbow-bendin- too many tangles between barleycorn and automobiles, too much cutting of corners to meet heavy tax and license costs all this, and more, is rallying the drys for a return en-gagement, say the above and other detached observers. The massive and deliberate Mrs. Boole is 80 years old and looks much less. In New York, she addresses the luncheon of the state W. C. T. U., commemo-rating the centenary of the birth of Frances E. Willard, founder of the W. C. T. U. Her firmly set spectacles with gold bows, her crown of abundant white hair, the stern godliness of her features all are as they were. Nothing whatever has been re-pealed in Mrs. Boole's person or ideas. For more than 50 years she has been fighting alcohol. With her hus-band, the late William H. Boole, pastor of the Willett Street Method-ist church, she waged war against the Bowery dives, away back in the eighties. She had come from Woos-te- r, Ohio, an alumna of the Uni-versity of Wooster, where, immedi-ately after her graduation, she had taken up her life-wor- k for pro-hibition. From 1909 until 1919, there was no important piece of anti-liqu-legislation in which she did not participate. In 1925, she became national president of the W. C. T. U., and, in 1931, world chairman. During the prohibition years and in the preceding years of strife, she was the head of the com-bined prohibition board of strat-egy, shrewd, resourceful, tire-less. Fittingly, her citadel is still a little Van Wert, Ohio, hedge-bordere- d house, set down in Brooklyn, holding its middle-wester- n ground far in the enemy territory. As does Mrs. Boole, still standing firm and unshaken in her flat-heel- shoes. IN THE last 14 years, Dr. Donald 1 A. Laird of Colgate university has written 14 books a.id 500 articles, but has inspired many more than that. He has Novel Ideas been heaven's of Dr. Laird blessing to the Rate Display mak,e uP a snap py little box to dress a page. As Dr. Laird retires, to engage in re-search at the callow age of 41, here are just a few of his stimulating' findings: Horizontal thinking is best. It is quite possible that a new stage of evolution is setting in which will take us back to all-fou- When you feel jittery, snap up some red meat. Some cases of second sight are explained by an odorless scent which almost, but not quite, wells up into conscious-ness. If you feel rotten today, you will be happy in just 28 days, as that is the cycle of hope and despair. The Dionne quints are in dan-ger of growing up to be man-hate- rs on account of women nurses and governesses. Brains are sluggish in sum-mertime. Eat candy to fight off sleepi-ness at work. Never count sheep to put your-self to sleep. It doesn't work. Noise makes city people small-er than country people. Women employees are more adaptable than men and stay longer on the job. Many of these discoveries have been made by Dr. Laird in his re-search as a consultant for concerns in heavy industries, in which field he has been busy and distinguished. He is a world authority on noise and sleep. Farm-reare- d in Indi-ana, he was educated at the Univer-sities of Dubuque and Iowa and taught at many universities before joining the Colgate faculty 14 years ago. He has been out in front in the above novel ideas, with the ex-ception of the one about our get-ting back to That ha3 been evident for at least seven years, as revealed by prevailing trends in world politics. it Consolidated News Features. WNU Service.' Jlsk Me Jlnc O A Gene The Question, 1. How is most of the iu between the United w' Canada marked? 2. What is the mCiJ llanos; llamas; lamas? 3. Which tree is the e. peace? s 4. How fast docs a J travel? ' 5. What is your max tuberance? 6. What physical feaK Minnesota the northernir. of the Union? 7. Into how many lang the Bible been translate; The Answers 1. By a series of morei: monuments. ' 2. Llanos are extensive South America; llamas ar' like animals; lamas are priests. 3. The birch tree is then of peace. 4. Ordinarily rain clout with the wind at the rate: 15 or 20 miles an hour, 5. Your jaw. 6. Lake of the Woods c tension. 7. 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Many Uses for Heather The heather which covers Scot-land's great hunting moors once had more use than as a protection for grouse, in that Highlanders former-ly used it for everything from walls to beds. Alternating with layers of mortar, it was built into the walls of houses and was also used for thatching. Comfortable beds were once made of it and it was also very popular as a pot scourer. Even a dye was extracted from heather and in Northern Scotland it was often twisted into fine ropes. |