Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W homeless: (a) Taranto Italy (b) Shizuoka Japan (e) Nairobi (d) Tegucigalpa Tanganyika Honduras 2 The new U S ambassador to Belgium formerly minister to Eire is: (a) John Cudahy (b) Joseph Davies (c) Tyrone Power (d) Joseph C Drew 3 True or False: Great Britain in a note to the neutrality committee in Rio de Janeiro rejected the “safety zone” constructed around the Western hemisphere 4 Which gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana’s stormy primary election was taken to jail: (a) James A Noe (b) Earl K Long (c) James II Morrison (d) Sam Houston Jones 5 The New York stock market deals in: (a) stocks and bonds (b) grain (c) live stock in these columns they (EDITOR'S NOTE —When opinions are expressed of this newspaper) those of the news snalyst and not necessarily by Western Newspaper Union Finland So had the Preshis recommendation of a loan through the bank was strictly for However since purposes the Finns wanted money for munitions only their cause seemed lost C Still arguing for continuation of the reciprocal trade act the adminof istration sent Undersecretary Commerce Edward Noble and Assistant Secretary of State Henry F house the to before testify Grady Deways and means committee fense of the act itself completed the state department next turned its guns on the senate's plan to seek ratification power over all trade leaguered ident for $50000000 After almost a month ol argument It appeared that congress would grant Franklin Roosevelt his $1800 but 000000 defense budget for 1941 the price would be (1) drastic lashes in all other items and (2) a boost in the $43000000000 national debt limit In both house and senate four out of five committeemen kept one eye on the purse strings The other was cocked carefully toward the constituents back home who are more concerned about economy than pork barrels even in an election year One warning came from Budget treaties relations Director Harold D Smith who told C The senate foreign committee agreed to survey the enall federal agencies to start traintire field of U’ S Japanese relations ing for a smaller diet next year embargoes including proposed against Japan after the abrogated trade pact expires AND olhan STARK will lot Be threatened to be "plenty tough” an requests for deficiency appropriations Another came from house apwho committeemen propriations to cut a proposed threatened $23000000 farm tenancy fund from the agriculture department’s budget But actions spoke louder than threats: Out from the appropriations committee came a badly mutilated independent offices bill usually the catch-afor pork barrel items It was $94402160 below the President’s Gone were all budget estimate funds for the' national resources planning board and the office of government reports Cut drastically were items for the executive office and the maritime commission Nor did the house backslide on its appropriations committee next day having shouted down $22000000 in requests it passed the bill almost exactly as reported by the committee Meanwhile the army and navy Adwere getting better treatment miral Harold D Stark chief of naval operations told the house naval committee that he hoped to complete a $2276000000 building program by 1943 Across the street Secretary of War Harry Woodring told the house military committee about deficiencies in critical ordnance Fondest congressional hope obviously is to raise the extra for national defense without taxes But imposing election-yea-r there still remains the $800000000 (originally $1300000000) naval proPresinot the gram suggested by dent but by Georgia's Rep Carl Vinson If this carries no economies can stop the national debt short of its present limit Also in congress: C Mourned was the fate that befell congress’ senior statesman Idaho’s Sen William E Borah While house and senate office buildings kept an ear cocked for news who had served the senate man the 33 years lay close to death in his vicReck Creek Park apartment tim ef a cerebral hemorrhage following a fall L Vice President Jack Garner whose opposition usually means certain death to any proposal barked against a military loan to be- - correct Shizuoka Japan correct John Cudahy He to Brussels because of the was new Nazi crisis (See SUROPK) 3 True 4 (A) la correct (Jones and Lons led the election but no candidate bad a majority of all votes cast therefore a is necessary) 5 (A) la correct (The stock market queried 5000 people learning to Its amazement that 24 2 per cent believed grain was handled there ( per cent said live stock and the other 77 per cent stocks and bonds) 2 TREND How the wind i blowing— LABOR— Thanks partly to the current house committee probe a peS showed most of the nation favers revision of the Wagner labor act Score (of those who had an epkiiea): S3 per cent for revision M per oent for repeal 29 per cent fer ne change Meanwhile the house' committee was about to ask for mere money COMMERCE — Shipments of airplanes petroleum and metals to the allies boosted U S exports in December to $358 000 009— the largest lor any month In almost 10 years COTTON— Postponed for February March and April was Britain's end ef her barter agreement with the U S under which American cotton is exchanged for British rubber Reason: Britain needs her ships for other purposes CANADA — Ontario’s legislature adopted 44 to 10 a measure criticiz-inthe Canadian government for "inefficient” handling of the war JAPAN— Backed by commercial interests the Japanese government has clamped down on domestic silk production to maintain an unvarying amount of raw silk for export (B) Is (All rushed DISASTERS: Turkey Again Last December at least 30000 died when earthquakes and floods hit About the north central Turkey same time 1500 more died in the flooded western plains Late January brought still more tragedy to a nation whose international diplomatic woes are legion A gecond major earthquake killed 50 and injured 160 more in the Nigde district 200 miles southwest of the first quake area Luckily such blows were cushioned by friendship Available to the Ankara government was some $340000000 in loans and credits Turkey’s “price” for keeping the strategic Dardanelles open to allied warships (This loan to be repaid partly through British imports ofTurkish tobacco prompted the government to ban imports of V S tobacco Mourning at the news American growers found themselves deprived overnight of an export market running between tb0ft00000 and $ 70000000 a year) DEFENSE: Mock Warfare From San Francisco south to Santa Barbara troops awaited an attempt by the navy to land an attacking force of 8000 men Meanwhile the Caribbean sea buzzed as marines troops and some 20 warships of the Atlantic squadron staged a mock war SWEDISn VOLUNTEER " " Now it it your duty Russians proved themselves persistent in the Salla sector Forty thousand of them staged a new drive only to be routed The Neutrals " Now I ho world know what it it to be a Finn Note it u your duty to thow what it meant to be Swede Make up your mind note Join the Swedish Volunteer Army If'ith Finland for Sweden " This advertisement in a Stockholm to Ruswas one answer newspaper sia’s order that Scandinavia stop Richard J sending aid to Finland Sandler foreign minister demanded that his nation send troops to defend the Finnish Aaland islands Though both the allies and Germany tried te remain aloof from this Scandinavian-Russiaspat they were undoubtedly being drawn into it One reason was the continued sniping at each other’s iron ore shipments oomlng out of Sweden While tension grew here it lessened in Netherlands and Belgium which only a few days earlier had ordered complete mobilization in But there fear of a Nazi invasion was still a chance that Germany and Russia would try to confound their foes and hostile neutrals alike with lightning-likblows at both the Lowlands and Scandinavia Italy watching over the Balkans like a mother hen heard a warning from Rome to be ready for war “at any moment” Still on the fence U Duce countered Britain’s renewed wooing with a warning that Italians should not be too greatly impressed by “recent demonstrations of international sympathy” New Button-Fron- t Tailored Smart TJERE’S a amart new way to make die tailored coat dress on classic shirtwaist lines that you simply can’t live without It’s indispensable every season of the year for home wear and business both Ne 8605 makes up with just the right crispness in wool crepe Make it flannel or flat crepe with matching or contrasting collar and take your choice of long or short sleeves Pattern provides for both This easy pattern is an alluring It’s so invitation to beginners According to Frank Wilson director of the census the annual birth rate is declining Bruckart’s Washington Digest 1940 Census Most Comprehensive Ever Made Since the First Survey It Is a Complete of Uncle Sam by Uncle Sam It Deals in Facts anti We Cannot Have Too Many Facts About Ourselves ’W)' Mews Quiz Answers EUROPE: The Belligerents WOODRING Thty’U win BEING BORN Know your newt? One hundred it perfect tcore deducting 20 points for each question you mitt Score of 60 or higher it acceptable 1 In which of the following cities did fire kill 500 people destroy 7000 homes and leave 50000 are Britain’s war consisted of (1) a factory explosion (2) a reported railroad sabotage plot (3) a fiery defense In commons of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s action ousting War Minister Leslie and (4) the slaying of Britain’s first German on the western front France’s war featured (1) expulsion from the chamber of deputies of all Communists (2) news of a "plot” to aid Hitler and (3) a verbal battle with Berlin where France was accused of backing down on its promise not to Interfere with German expansion in eastern Europe It was not so quiet for the Finns For five successive days Russian planes defied temperatures ranging down to 51 degrees below zero bombing Helsingfors Hango and other cities mercilessly Though they might be poor soldiers the ARE NEWS QUIZ Congress Tears Budget Apart: Defense Fund May Be Raised But Other Items Are Slashed CONGRESS: Mutilation BABIES FEWER LaBlNE POLITICS: Call to Duty "t realise what it means to be a candi Cate for the Republican nomination for President —what if means in responsibility hard work in sacrifice Yet it is a call to duty no citizen can ignore My answer is yes" Thus did Frank Gannett Rochester N Y publisher toss his hat into a ring already cluttered with Tafts Bridges and Deweys All he had waited for was a bid and that came from the Yeung Republican Club of Indiana Unless he gains tremendous strength observ- few ers expect Candid ate Gannett to make much ef a showing nationally But his does presage a fight for New York’s 92 Republican convention votes wanted also by Manhattan's District Attorney Thomas E Dewey Meanwhile another prospective candidate was given his camera test: Wendell L Wilkie president of Commonwealth A Southern corAt New York 400 sales poration executives applauded him Said Dr Paul Nystrom president of the Limited Price Variety Stores association: "We could expect great im provement with gathering momentum if we had a man running for like our distinguished President guest Mr Wilkie" Said Mr Wilkie: Nothing Franklin Roosevtt was meanPEOPLE: while gaining strength for a third Florida’s Sen Claude Pepterm Confessions per promised his state’s 14 delegates C At Washington North Carolina’s would support the President or any Rep Robert L Doughton regarded man of his choice although they his advanced age (76) and anwould go to the convention without nounced he would retire next De- official instructions From Ohio cember 31 when his current term came word that its Democratic deleends Explanation: "My private gates would also be in the Roosevelt business badly needs attention” son Sen Vic favorite camp if their In London Prime Minister Neville Donahey failed to develop Both Chamberlain told commons that War Democratic and Republican nationwas Minister Leslie al committees were soon to meet dismissed because he was “too en- naming times and places for their ergetic" nominating conventions BRUCKART By WILLIAM WNU Service National Press Bldg Washington D C WASHINGTON— What were you doing five years ago? And where did you live at that time? What caused you to move if you did change your residence? While congress is working itself into a dither of flying arms and legs and heads and heels and while New Dealers are straining at every in an effort to show President Roosevelt is the greatest peace advocate in 19 centuries I want to talk about something that happens I refer to only once in 10 years the decennial census the counting of noses of Americans and the gathof information about them ering their lives and living upon which the federal government has launched A good many folks have been inclined to regard the census as something about which to joke There was and is a certain number of people who think the whole thing is silly It is not silly Taking it on a long term basis considering it from the standpoint of its permanent value it is so much more important than the passing show of political that we can well afford to forget about 'much of that bunk The census deals in facts and surely we cannot have too many facts about ourselves So borrowing from the expression of Frank Wilson of the census bureau let me insist again that there is news of lasting value in this census and the job of census taking It is accurately stated a “complete of Uncle Sam by Uncle Sam’’ and when it is done we all will know much more about ourselves individually and collectively than we have ever known before The current census is the most comprehensive of all of the 18 decennial canvasses that have been made since the first survey in 1790 Counting of Noses Is Not Just Human Noses Actual work in this counting of noses has already started And when I say “counting noses” the term is rather broader than just human noses For as an example the first nose counting is directed at enumerating businesses and manufacturing establishments and mines and quarries Census representatives will visit something like business concerns including about170000 manufacturing plants and establishments These figures of course are an approximation The census will show exactly how many there are what they did in the way of retailing distributing shipping servicing manufacturing —all through the list to the single gasoline station and the dry cleaning shop on the corner Then along about April 1 there will be a large army of real nose counters start to work They will visit your house and mine and every other one and it is expected they will find at the end of the month that there are more lhan 33000000 dwelling units where people live and further it is believed they will have counted upwards of 132000000 folks in the United States To do this job and the other phases of counting roughly 128000 men and women are required Results Will Show What Progress Has Been Mad It seems to me then that we can look forward to the results of the current census as showing what progress has been made what human nature has done in the way of it will changes Simultaneously show that many theories of what government can do or has done have failed or have succeeded by revealing just how much human na- THE DECENNIAL CENSUS A complete Uncle Sam by Uncle deals in facts of which not have too many of Sam It we can- Carries news of lasting value Director Wilson says the birth rate is declining Results may serve as a guide to the future May help in solving problems of government ture can be influenced by rules It can be said therefore that a new set of guide books are on the on the way to way to completion being filled in by the records of the people who constitute the United States There is a thought in Frank Wilson’s mind— and I believe Mr Wilson has a better concept of the census program and its ultimate value than any other person I ever have met — that our nation is facing a much more serious problem in the matter of old age than is apparent to most of us It comes about this way: Mr Wilson pointed out that there are fewer babies being born annually among each one thousand of our population than was the case 10 or 20 years ago The birth rate is declining At the same time through the development of medical science through improved living conditions through elimination of hazards reduction of accidents and so forth the “life span” of each of us is getting longer and longer People actually are living longer the expression of "living on borrowed time” after one is 70 years old is meaningless because so many people now live beyond that aUotted time Seemingly Silly Questions Are Really Important At the outset I asked the ques- tions about what you were doing five years ago and where you lived then That was not facetious Those questions are a part of the regular will forms which the Carry and which you as a citizen must answer There is a good reason I have just written about birth and life and death If your Uncle Sam knows something about how firmly you are rooted to a particular farm or town or county or state he can rather rearrive at conclusions For exmote from the questions ample if you are the son of a farmer and are continuing to farm it is reasonable to assume that you are a normally happy and reasonably successful farmer Uncle Sam will not have to worry about that kind He does have to worry as a matter of national policy however when the census taker reports so many from one place who have moved to the city especially if those who moved have no training in any field of There arises quickly the dustry question of unemployment easy I A few darts and a few gathers — that’s practically all the detailing there is to it The sew chart shows you just what to dol Pattern No 8605 is designed for sizes 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 and 48 Size 36 requires 4 yards of material with short sleeves 4 yards with long yard for collar in contrast Purchased belt Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 149 New Montgomery Ave San Francisco Calif Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each Duty Called Constable To Go the Utter Limit The special constable was being shown his first night beat "See that red light in the distance?” said the sergeant “That’s the limit of your beat in that direction Now go on with it” The new constable started off When three o’clock rolled around he did not come in to report nor did he show up for duty the foThen along abort llowing night 4:30 that next morning be turned up again weary and limping "Where in thunder have you been” demanded the sergeant A feeble response: “That red light was a moving van I came upon it 43 miles out when it stopped because of a flat tire” Or this business of moving about may have come from drouth or or pestilence Matters of health are reflected as well Continued drouth or continued floods may ruin an area for agricultural purposes With facts concerning the condition somebody may be able to suggest other means of utilization of the land Information Will Help As Guide to the Future Crnaiy? RaetkaatCaataleept TbeanaSyT I suspect that the current census Wanted daa to female faatetfanaldieerdefs? will produce a lot of information that Then try E Pinkhem'e VaeMsbla will be classifiable merely as infoCswiymisd (Mama tee arer 40 jmu fa Wtpfaq sock weak random narrow rmation That is there is bound to Stmt May ¥lmw be a chunk of the facts and statistics which will serve no immediate use That is the way of things done by Unhurried Nature Nature never spoils its work by the government But individuals business and government each will being in a hurry find things of value information to help as a guide to the future We can look back to the censua of 1790 and see where bur population averaged 43 persons per square mile of the then United States and we can then see how in 1930 it was PRESSES HEART 413 persons per square mile That Oaa am mr afamaelt ana wfail aonld is the average for the nation one net aaa aa gteeg B ar teemed ta area oe WT baaat A!riaa4aaraadA41arifa Tba area will be very much less anAral dee bteufht me tehet her I eat M I other will be very much more and nnd merer Ml Setter"— toota jy tea Villa AdWike aete an BOTH aira it is vital for a manufacturer or a and lower bevels Adlmka (ires jour wholesaler or a retailer to know upper fateetmei ayvteia a real eleamum brrnftnr tryey here reused 6iAS how many prospective customers S?A’na BIOATINU sour stomach taadaebn there are in a given area aa4 nerrousDeee Adlrnka nights eeutaiae firt carminettree and three lemtivv more to And this information a BALANCED nrre rook Just one extends on apoonlul usually rebewee GAS and eonetipe down the line to baby buggies The tion Adlenia docs net gnpe ia not habd stork had been flying into homes at for mine Sold m oil dn tf atom the rate of about 6000 a day in the ten years prior to 1930 Death with his scythe had been taking his toll at the rate of about 4000 a day to 1930 What has since? The census will tell us sometime next fall and it will aDVERTISEMENTS areour guide They brio you tell in addition whether a great today a NEWS about the food you tat and many factors that influence our lives the clothes you wear And the place to oat about these new things u right are subjects to be dealt with by pol- fuia in this newspaper iticians or must remain in the hands of mother nature j floods ’S' NERVES? le Can’t Eat Can’t Sleep Awful Gas IVEW IDEAS |