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Show UTAH EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. Bruckarft Wtulungton Digest Third Term Backers Dismayed By Roosevelt's Failure to Speak Candidates Farley and Garner Confuse Issue for PresiCombination dent's Followers; Further Complicates Political Scene. Hull-Jackso- By WILLIAM BRUCKART tVNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. The political situation that fails to provide a good laugh somewhere along the line is rare, indeed. There is, of course, that time-worexpression about politics making strange bedfellows, which frequently happens. There is Just as much of a laugh for me, however, when these same strangers have got into the same in the preceding sentence and the slats fall out from under one of them. Actually, collapse of the slats gives anyone quite a sinksening feeling, sort of an sation. And, so, I am writing this week about how fallen slats have forced some of the boys on the Democratic team to prepare a pallet on the floor. In some quarters, I have heard expressions within the last few days indicating that there is no particular shortage of pallets, but the would-b- e whcelhorses are having difficulty at discovering the n bed-ment- ioned all-go- proper floor. It all came about in a series of events, some of which I have discussed in these columns before but, of necessity, must be repeated. Everyone knows, for instance, how the payroll boys, anxious to keep their jowls inside the trough, have been carrying on a great drive that they hope will eventuate in a third-ternomination tor President Roosevelt. They have been doing right well by themselves, what with federal millions to spend; patronage army mustered by Secretary Wallace who also pays farmers to let him show them how to farm; the vast relief legions and the other government agents of one kind or another, aggregating nearly a million persons, not to mention postmasters, United States attorneys and marshals and the others. They are, or they were, cocky and pretty happy about the whole thing. There were such things as Vice President Garner's candidacy, which was announced without strings attached and with out any reference to whether Mr. should ' l Roosevelt decide the country needs him, again. That candidacy was not welcome; nor was it taken seriously, at first But someone among the " -- amateur strategists within the corps of John Garner Presidential ers suddenly advisawak- n Women Aid in Defense British Serve: Also They I j - ' T!!JjaJ-w- m &'wr' fin terests. Whimpering Campaign Sees Garner as Stooge Out of these discussions has come a whispering campaign. It is exactly the same type of whispering campaign as was used against Herbert Hoover, when he was President. Only, these whispers are by Democrats about a Democrat. It has a technique that is well worked out and it gets results. That is, it gets results if it goes on long enough without anyone seeing what the game is. In the current whispering campaign and its source can be traced to an expert Mr. Garner was pictured as just a stooge, just someone striving to break down the New Deal. He was pointed out as disloyal, a personally disloyal man despite 40 years as a Democratic battler, and his campaign was said to have "flattened out" to such an extent that everyone interested in the Democratic party could go home and go to bed you know, the way that is done after an election victory is safely in the bag and the worry is over. I am not prepared to argue that Mr. Garner's candidacy is, or is not, washed up. Just as a guess, I have thought he was rather popular in the parts of the country where 1 have traveled in recent months. But that is not the story about which I am writing. one-ma- n STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Strange political bedfellows result in interesting politics, according to William Bruckart, who today discusses the third term issue in relationship to the Roosevelt "coattail riders." The President's failure to clarify his stand has left third term ad.'ocates in an embarrassing position, according to this veteran Washington commentator. WEEK Bv LEMUEL University of Oklahoma football team, in 1915, he was scaled down to a mere 260 Game of Politics pounds, but Is Another Story in -spite ot ForFootballStar into service to Because the men of England are occupied with a war. women are being pressed medical corps, the first exteu. ,u--u tvti. Left: Two women doctors recently appointed to the royal army Bowman u uuc . time in army history that women have filled these role. Center: Plowgirl Thaia . tan dancer. One of tne former n who banded together to reclaim unused farm land, woman. Right: Miss an advertising fourth the and one a other four waa a mannequin, stenographer, England, while he is at the front. mary Smith, 16, has taken over the postman's Job in Rose-Glynd- e, Women Leaders Plan 1940 Centennial Congress Farley made that statement to the party leaders in Massachusetts recently, he pulled out more bed slats than He did not say you can Imagine. "if the Chief does not run." He said he was running "and that's that!" There are not many that Mr. Roosevelt looks upon Secretary Hull of the state department as a "good man," but with sort of a side glance that "some good liberal like Bob Jackson (the attorney general) should be nominated with him." Of course, there is no way to substantiate the story that Mr. Roosevelt wants Hull and Jackson as the team. He has said nothing. I have said before, and there is no reason to change the belief, that Mr. Roosevelt is not going to say anything until about convention time. In the mean-time- , folks owe the who their po- litical places to Mr. Farley and who have off the deep end for gone Roosevelt as a third term Mr. CordeU Hull candidate are spending sleepless nights. They are afraid to make up their pallets on the floor anywhere in fear of the boogey-maAs I said at the beginning, nearly every political situation contains a good laugh. It is always the more amusing when you see the amateurs trying to play the game of profesThe final scene on the sionals. stage may not have Garner or Farley or Roosevelt in the center to take the acclaim of the audience, but Mr. Garner is going ahead and Mr. Farley is going ahead, and the third-terleaders are practically helpless since Mr. Roosevelt steadfastly declines to make a public statement on his intentions. He just lets the slats stay on the floor. It is simple, of course, to understand their distress. What, for instance, would be the position of those fellows, and their relation to the jobs they now hold, if Mr. Farley would be the nominee? They thought they could kick the Garner candidacy out of the window, safely. But that question i6 secondary now, for the Farley candidacy adds up to names on the payroll and what is a local party leader without his patronage list? Some of the wails have taken the shape of a demand that Mr. Farley resign as party chairman to ease their pain. J- through the line like a snowshovel. Sometime! he wouldn't stop when the whistle blew and they had a hard time to keep him inside the state lines. Today, as Gov. Leon C. Phillips of Oklahoma, he weighs in at 290 and Is even more abandoned in his rootin' tootin' guard play. He orders out th National Guard to repulse the invasion of the federals, trying to build a $20,000,000 dam on the Grand river in his state. This, one of his many scrimmages, is part of his waxing battle for state rights against what he considers the illegal encroachment of He is an the federal government apostate New Dealer, having defeated the similarly belligerent "Alfalfa Bill" Murray on the issue of New Deal adherence in the 1938 Democratic primary. Now he has switched teams. With a big cigar protruding from his lips at a cocky angle, biting it to shreds when he gets steamed up, he says the New Deal is a social service outfit, and social workers are "sorority sisters." Like the "Fiery and Snuffy" of the Oklahoma cowboy song, he's "rarin to go and he sends word to the war department that he won't let any invader set foot on Oklahoma soil." He started to be a preacher, but switched to the law. Born 50 years ago in Grant county, Missouri, along the covered wagon trail, he was taken to Oklahoma at the age of two and grew up in the Cheyenne He and Arapaho Indian country. attended Epworth univerity one year, studying, presumably militant, Christianity, and then entered the law school of the University of Oklahoma. His fame as "Red" g Phillips, the football player, gave him a fast running start in politics, and he soon landed in the state legislature. He made his campaign for the governorship on an economy platform, sweeping the state. The citizens still know him as "Red," and the "Yea Red!" yell of his college days serves for his political campaigns. high-power- what confronts the And, boys? Just an announcement by Mr. Farley that he is an candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, an announcement that ended with folks in the country who do not realize that, as a machine politician, Mr. Farley has few equals. He has a personal following that he has built up throughout the nation, men whom he calls by their first names and who write to him as "Dear Jim." The ranks of those who jumped too soon include a lot of senators and representatives who had arrived at their places on the payroll by virtue of a happy ride on the Roosevelt coattails. But the Roosevelt coattails might not have borne up under the strain, except for the Farley direction. That is what the early bandwagon crowd is now trying to measure. They are looking around to see whether their pallet should be on the Farley floor, the Garner floor or the Roosevelt floor, and they are casting squints through partially open doors to see whether there might be comparative peace and political quiet in the next room where the second-choic- e delegates may have to go at convention time. WNU Service.) k JEW YORK. When young "Red" IN Phillips played guard on the now, Mr. F. PARTON (ConsoUdated Feature ic machine or wmcn When SmJ THIS Farley's Candidacy Surprise to Leaders "that's that!" . . NEWS The story at this time is what has happened in another direction. In the efforts of the strategists to make safe the fences against the Garner bulls.' they forgot these strategists are a part In other words, they forgot about "Big Jim" Farley, postmaster general and chaff-ma- n of the DemoJim Farley cratic national com mittee. They apparently overlooked Mr. Farley, except that they did a lot of things contrary to his idea of smart politics and fairness to those who had been riding herd in the pastures where votes grow. Mr. Farley has not been happy about the whole thing, and he has been reported on several occasions as being prepared to resign. i patted ForThatTA? WHO'S i w' g, Problems concerned with the advancement of mankind, achievements of women daring the past 100 years and the present status of women will be studied by delegates to the Woman's Centennial congress late in 1940. Planning the New York meeting in November are (seated) Miss Josephine Schain, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Henrietta Roelofs and Miss Mary W. Hillyer. Standing: Mrs. Helsey Wilson, Miss Alda H. Wilson and Mrs. Albln Johnson. Other leaders are Pearl S. Buck, Frances Perkins and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Baseball's Heavy Hitters Compare Bats Canned Death Death Valley yHEN Scotty and his dog "Goldbug," around Goldfield, Rhyolite and Windy Gap, there was a story that the dog had All Scotty s Cash made a great It Loaned' to Him fuss over a at By Chicago Man strBei Casey'shoteL and a theory that this stranger must have been Scotty's mysterious backer. The visitor, however, was just passing through and was never identified, and Scotty. even in moments of abandon in Tex Rickard's place, continued to insist that he had a "chimney," or "blow-out- " of gold nuggets, samples of which he carried in his overalls pocket. It was not until years later that the man who financed the Death Valley Scotty saga, just for his own amusement it would seem, was A. M. Johnson, the head of a big insurance firm in Chicago. As Scotty and his backer round out 40 years of a beautiful friendship, Scotty informs the federal tax collectors that he has $100,000 in gold certificates buried somewhere Inventor Lester P. Barlow of Bal- in the Pannmint A quartet of baseball's greatest sluggers compare bats (and batting timore pictured with his latest in- mountains, and that the source of his mysterious averages) at Tampa, Fla., where stars of the National league beat vention. an aerial bomb of such wealth has unfailingly been Mr. American league topnotchers 2 to 1 in the game. Left to right: deadly potentialities that a commitFrom the same source Mel Ott of the New York Giants, F.rnie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds, tee of legislators who heard his de- Johnson. Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees and Jimmy Foxx of the Boston scription of it in Washington de- - came the $3,000,000 Spanish castle Red Sox. sinned the minutes of the meclin". wn.cn hcotty built in the heart of Death valley several years ago. to his previous admissions. W The unique partnership opened with a $2,500 He not grubstake. only wrote a cheek, but followed Scotty to Death valley. The first mine didn't pan out, but Mr. Johnson was having fun. They fought bandits. Bt clubby with the Piute Indians and rooted around in old prospect holes. Thereafter came Scotty's famous train ride and the deepening mystery of his treasure cache. They kept their secret until along about 1030. The pooch. "Gold-bug- " and Scotty's extraordinarily intelligent white mule both died of old age. But the original partnership still goes on. Mr. Johnson, now 68 years old is cut somewhat on the same lines as Henry Ford, but with an Achilles' Heel of Romance. He was born and grew up in a small town in went to Cornell university did a jolt of railroading in Arkansas and engaged in mining lead and Ge. C. Marshall, ",nc ncar JP'i". Mo. In Mrs. Harold Ickes. wite of the secretary of the Interior. 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