Show THE GARLAND WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W NEWS QUIZ Know your news? One hundred Is perfect score and deduct 20 for each question you miss Score of 60 or more is acceptable New Tax Measure Faces Fight Rinrf “Dear Albert” Barkley settled down for six months in Washington ' “We’ll be here until June” he told reporters "but I doubt if there will There be much new legislation probably will be efforts to amend r the Wagner act and the The reciprocal trade treaty program probably will cause the greatest controversy” He told no lie there and Presi dent Roosevelt knew it Striking had fast before the opposition chance to open its mouth the President keynoted the second session of a in the seventy-sixtcongress speech which attacked of trade the “destructive restrictions” Plumping for renew- - jlaw majority in the senate and a lead in the house Major issues aside from the reciprocal trade act and national defense: 1 Whether to raise the national debt limit now nearing its legal peak What to do about new tax prosuch as Secretary of Agriculposal ture Wallace’s “certificate plan” (in effect a processing tax) to pay farm benefits S Whether to amend the Wagner labor relations act under fire from all sides 4 Whether to continue Martin Dies’ committee COMMUNICATIONS: W ire Merger Western Union maintains 20000 branch offices employing 43000 people Postal Telegraph its competitor has 4400 offices and 14000 employees Thanks to air mail telephone and radio Western and Postal are both having financial troubles This month as a result came a paradox: While Trust Buster Thurman Arnold was busy breaking up fedmonopolies the eral communications commission recommended to congress that Western and Postal be allowed to consolidate INTERNATIONAL: Something in the Wind ' i ‘Pressure Groups’ Already Are Worrying Members of Congress WNU By WILLIAM BRUCKART Service National Press Bldg Washington About the time ‘ongress reconvenes each year the national capital is deluged with what have come to be known as "pressure groups” It is a poor deI believe most of them scription can be called "selfish groups” for inthe reason that the dividuals who lead (or promote) movements or causes or demands for justice usually have jobs of their own at stake They want to keep their followers happy especially the saps who contribute dimes or dollars so that their representative or their delegation may put np a good front in the city of Washington Any way it is the open season for them again They are busier than a hive of bees They are engaged in the annual invasion upon senators and representatives and among the numerous New Deal agencies seeking justice urging help for those whose liberties are being trampled into the mud appealing for this and that and the other There are the usual spokesmen for corporations and groups of cortoo are seekers They porations after justice They are no more selfish than the lesser racketeers Those fellows however have a different kind of stake in the results The seekers after individual justice WASHINGTON— 1 This English peer’s dangle an ardent Hitlerite who has been in Germany since before the war started returned to England on a stretcher with a revolver bullet in her neck What’s her ter name? 2 did Irish Premier Why Eamon De Valera ask parliament (or dictatorial powers? 3 True or False: Martin Dies has asked congress to discontinue his probe beof health cause and because the justice department is now prosecuting alien "isms” 4 What do the following have in common: Robert Fechner head of the CCC Guy Ballard head of the "Great I Am” cult several thousand residents of the Turkish the earthquake area 163rd Russian division on the Finnish front 5 If the U S began taking its decennial census January 2 hasn’t an enumerator why knocked on your door yet? It was big news in early January that hardy Finnish troops had cut 16000 Russians off from their base at Salla had trapped another diviNews Quiz Answers j sion near Suomussalmi had captured a Russian base at Aittajoki BARKLEY KENTUCKY’S Unity Valkyrie had repulsed countless shock troops “ W 7 be here until June” 2 He feared an uprising of the out f on the Karelian Isthmus had even laued Irish republican army 3 False He asked congress for more blasted a Red air base in Estonia al of his profunds But the biggest news came from gram in which the administration — 4 They died Most of the Russian sion was killed not congress — has the power to sign a little Madrid newspaper called 5 The business census started JanuAlcazar Said its editorial: "Finltrade pacts he offered this defense: The regular doesn’t ary it is advisable to provide at and is defending with its flesh and start until April times of emergency some flexibility bravery the treasure of occidental to make the general law adjustable civilization Fighting so bravely for to quickly changing conditions” independence she fights also for all COURTS: did he Christianity and it is inexplicable Tell It to Only one other concession Congress want in 1940 because it is an elec- that after a long month of war she ” if its intention was to tion year: "I am asking the con- hasn’t received tangible aid heighten congressional demands for Looking about them European obgress for army and navy increases which are based not on panic but servers wondered if the Alcazar plea revision of the Wagner act a decision the court upheld by Supreme on common sense” wasn’t being answered They saw the National Labor a series of potentially related moves Conservation of resources protecRelations board on three counts: tion of national health extension of social security and the merit sys(1) For refusing to place an alunion tem were also mentioned but in legedly used in a bargaining on ballots a moderate voice Only agency election at the Falk corporapolitical dart was a crack at G 0 P Hopeful Tom Dewey who tion Milwaukee recently accused the New Deal of (2) For designating a C I O union "defeatism” Said the President: as collective bargaining agency for "To warble easy platitudes that if waterfront workers along the Pacifwe will only go back to the ways ic coast that have failed everything will be (3) For ordering employees of the all right— is not courage” Jackson Mich power company to Next day congress got the budget vote on the question of affiliation Items and total: with C I O after a ballot onx National defens $1(100000000 C I O versus A F of L had Work relief programs 1300000000 800000000 Agricultural programs brought no majority vote Public works and InvestThese decisions offered no particments llOOQOOOOO ular commendation of NLRB howPension retirements and 1300000000 assistance ever Commented Justice Harlan FACL EMILE NAGGLAR Interest on the public debt 1100000000 " this failure (of conStone: 1000000000 Regular operating Lonesome in Moscow gress) to provide for a court review Total $8400000000 that might eventually lead to peace (of NLRB decisions) is productive This said the President was an among the allies and But these Germany and of peculiar hardships estimated cut of $673000000 from to a European attack driving the are arguments to be addressed to the current fiscal year while treas- Russian bear to his den Indications: congress and not to the courts” to are rise Home Moscow to expected ury receipts Isolation from Estimated net deficit London went Ambassador Sir Wil$382000000 TREASURY: r $2 178 000 OOOr compared for liam" Seeds to write awhlte paper Easy Taxes with $3933000000 this year But to on relations Gossip further cut the deficit Mr Roosehad it that his conversations with Tenderly breaking the news that velt recommended that his $460000-0Premier Viacheslav Molotoff had income tax time is just around the boost in defense costs be paid been stormy and that he probably corner Guy T llelvering commisCommented wouldn’t return Also homeward sioner of internal revenue soothed through new taxes loyal Sen Pat Harrison from Misbound was Augusto Rosso Italian taxpayers with the announcement unLeft in Moscow that this year’s report forms have sissippi: "It’s not easy to raise ambassador $460000000 right off I’m not strong Instructions once comfortable and lonesome was been simplified on this tax business” French Ambassador Paul Emile as complex as the report form Rolling up its sleeves self have been pared down and congress Naggiar found the Democrats enjoyed a The newspaper Petit shaved of technical phrasing Shakeup Parisien reported from Italy that POLITICS: Germany was planning a drastic political reorganization to woo the allies It would include Adolf Hitler’s Appointments Fast on the heels of President I: becoming president succeeded to Roosevelt’s the chancellorship by moderate Herjudicial and justice apman Goering purging of radicals pointments came a baker’s dozen of explanations s like Heinrich Himmler Joe Among them: Aand Dr Robert Ley managettorney General Frank Murphy was H Harry Bridges West coast C I O named to the Supreme court (a popleader freed on deportation charges ment of foreign affairs by a announced he would seek naturaliular appointment) to get him out of like Dr Hans von Macken-sezation "at the earliest possible mothe 1940 presidential picture Solicambassador to Italy slackenment” itor General Robert H Jackson was ing of relations with Russia and proof visional recreation Poland and reclaimed from obscurity and made C Charles Edison inventor’s son named secretary of the navy began attorney general as grooming for a In an embarrassing Aid spot studying means of speeding up the place on the 1940 ticket probably as naval construction program Germany announced she would wink vice presidential candidate under C Louis (Lepke) Buchalter sen- at allied shipments of munitions to Cordell Ilufl Judge Francis Biddle tenced to 14 years in prison for vioFinland but could not tolerate troop of the circuit appeals court (a life Thus it was obvious time job) was boosted to the solici lating the federal narcotics law movements heard that New York's District At- the Reich would like to see her "altor generalship to make a place fot torney Thomas Dewey hoped to "put ly” (Russia) driven back yet could unpopular Warren Madden NLRB him away for 500 years" on racket not risk exposure to allied troops chairman Thus were several birds with one stone North killed from sea the charges C Janies H R Cromwell economist Other political news: Western War and husband of Dons Duke "richest C Democratic Chairman James A girl in the world” was named U S Following custom there was more Farley announced the national coin minister to Canada The westmittee would meet m Washingtor horseplay than warfare 5 to select C John IV Finch director of the buern front was a tomb but at Buenos a time and February reau of mines was requested to re- Aires German sailors from the scut- city (probably Chicago) for the Thus he made the G sign by Interior Secretary Harold tled Graf Spee joined their enemies convention Ickes "because the bureau needs a from British battleships in a night O P victor in the winter’s biggest director who has enough iron in his of revelry British preparations in- stalling game permitting Repub blood cluded a plan to call 2000000 more Leans to hold their convention ana C Neville Chamberlain president of men to the colors this year and a name their candidate later Britain's Midland Salmon and Trout report that 20 freighters had been C Secretary of State Cordell Hull dis club wrote his cronies: "I fear scuttled at the mouth of Scapa Flow avowed presidential ambitions and that there is little prospect of my Purpose: To prevent Nazi denied knowledge of reports that from entering thg harbor and sinkfinding time for fishing under presPresident Roosevelt had picked him ent conditions” as No 1 choice for 1940 candidate ing more ships like Royal Oak r NAMES In the news UTAH New Deal Agencies Seekers After Justice and Promoters Of Various Movements Active as Usual Old Age Pensions Unemployment Insurance Not Neglected NOTE — YVhrn opinions are expressed In these columns they (EDITOR'S are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper) by Western Newspaper Union CONGRESS: Keynote GARLAND Bruckart s Washington Digest LaBlNE Lengthy Congress in Prospect Despite FDR Peace Overtures TIMES D Youthful Tailored Frock Two-Piec- e SEASON in and season out thea year round you need like tailored It’s ideal for business classroom wear and general spectator sports The collarless neckline is very smart The skirt is full and circular and of course you can wear It with your lingerie blouses too has unusually The C ber of seekers after justice in Washington It is astonishing to see the lengths to which some of them' will go For example there is one great church organization that sought to force the census bureau to include in the forthcoming census certain questions that would have given that church a powerful leverage in the future administration of government affairs according to reports The church representative tried for weeks to high pressure the census officials into inHe made clusion of three questions some threats about the consequences of their refusal The government attorney to whom the census officials submitted the question had the guts to say "no” and that was the census bureau answer It was a despicable thing however and illustrates the dangers Inherent in the conditions I have tried to describe The old age pension movement and the unemployment compensation movement and the other “welfare” movements are represented in full force Other Groups Are Working For Gifts From Government There are half a dozen other groups around fown working for thing or another in the shape of gifts from the government Nearly BUSY ‘PRESSURE GROUPS’ all of them have found something Harass members of congress wrong with the present social sewith various causes curity law but they do not agree May be tuning up for the comon what is wrong with it The ing campaign whole circumstance rather conMany movements will not get vinces me that maybe the law ought very far to be tossed overboard I doubt Union labor and the American that the federal government can Legion active ever administer such law There Bruckart doesn’t believe it is is little that probably any possibility possible so many new injustices such law ever can be made workacould have arisen ble on a national basis Some of Few are able to analyze the the dreamy New Dealers who consituation ceived it have faded out of Washington officialdom already and have those who urge maintenance of left their baby for somebody else to “civil liberties” etc usually are nurse to maturity The one service concerned with keeping themselves they performed was to the New in their jobs while the seekers after Deal finances because the original justice for the corporations and bus- program has brought six or seven hundred million dollars into the fediness interests are trying to preserve eral treasury— and it has been their own material futures spent May Be Juit Tuning Up Organized labor has its representFor the Election Campaigns atives on the scene in a big way There is however something dis- Both the Congress turbing about this year’s invasion of Industrial OrganIt seems to be utterly impossible izations which is that so many new injustices could headed by John L have arisen within the last year Lewis and the American FederaThere always has been a considerable amount of this low form of high tion of Labor which pressure around Washington but is headed by Withe increased number of seekers lliam Green have after justice this year would seem to national headquarprove that the whole country has ters here What is politician gogone to pieces It may be of course a poor that they are tuning up for the elec- ing to do however Lewis when and tion campaigns are fighting Green however few persons Seriously each other and seldom if ever have been able to analyze the situagree upon what changes must be Some suggest that the curation rent trek of seekers after justice made in the national labor relations results from the fact that the na- act Tbe labor row may get more than tional government has become the focal point for "relief” from every- just an ordinary airing during the thing since the depression fell upon session of congress now under way us in 1930 Others feel that a sense I have written heretofore about of futility aboui life itself has crept the special house committee investiinto this country from the lands gation of the National Labor Rela where dictators hold a human life tions board Exposures by that comto be nothing more than a chattel mittee already have brought deIf either of these answers is cormands for the ousting of Commisrect we have a dangerous condition sioner Smith and Chairman MadIt is the defeatist den on our hands Commissioner Leiserson apattitude pointed only a few months ago apIt represents a decaying civiliza- parently is seeking to clean up the tion and national leaders had better stinking mess but the Lewis faction of labor which has dominated wake up to what it means Now lest someone charge me the board thus far is making Mr difficult with having changed my tune from Leiserson’s job pretty There will be little consideration several years ago for the Green faction if Lewis can I want to recall that it atprevent I once feebly tempted to pin a American Legion Can Really senator’s ears back Put on High Pressure for seeking legislation to make everyThere is an offshoot of organized one register who labor's setup here known as Labor’s visited a senator or league I don’t know a representative in what it is supposed to accomplish behalf of legislation but it has a press agent and a staff He wanted to brand of "executives” and they all seem to get paid regularly each one as a lobbyist That senator The American Legion is getting was Hugo Black active again It wants more govwho now writes binding legal opinernment money for the ions as a member of the Supreme and make no mistake about it The court of the United States instead American Legion can really put on of blabbing for hours on the floor high pressure when it sets out to do of the senate maintain that ev- the job I haven’t scratched the surface in eryone has the right of petition to any government agency What I am naming the pressure groups that are to do here however is to to be found here for the current ses trying so there more are show that sion of congress There are at least many “petitioners" now than heretofore 50 business organizations and trade and to find the reason for it The purposes of al associations are the same- namely advantage? 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