Show Kr i “' r ' r u t ff — T?' jj THE GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS GUNNISON UTAH N HMESD anmnd tta NATIONAL t jCAPITAt Carter Field Washington— There is to disposi-ioto laugh off Governor George Earle’s opening gun in the tight o nominate Franklin D Roosevelt or a third term among shrewd Very priWashington politicians vately nine out of ten men on Capitol Hill will tell friends that they is Roosevelt jthink the probability will break this precedent as he has kiroken so many others There are plenty of people who knew Calvin Coolidge fairly well who believe that he wanted to break “Ike” Hoover in that precedent Jus memoirs leaves no doubt as to iis own judgment on that point and made a very interesting case to prove it to “Ike” Coolidge according Hoover’s theory expected too much He wanted to keep on declining (n more and more forceful language but to have the nomination forced on him Roosevelt observers think now is not going to make any such mistake The two situations are interesting chiefly by contrast rather than by aimilarity Right up to that day in the Black Hills of South Dakota when Coolidge said he did not “choose” to run every one assumed he would be the candidate There was not a hint of opposition There was no prospect of a fight against his nomination There was not even much discussion of the third term the jjdea Coolidge was popular When the country was prosperous topic did come up in conversation most folks said the less than two years of President Harding’s term which Coolidge had served before becoming President in his own right would not count as making another election a third term As a matter of fact Coolidge never mentioned any prejudice He against the third term idea Just made it partially clear that he did not want to run again And the Republican convention took him at his word Whereas in the present case Governor Earle and some of the union leaders have come out flatly for a third term for Roosevelt more than two years earlier than ancomparably Coolidge nounced he would not be a candidate Coolidge’s announcement was more than seven months after the 1928 election had returned majorities in both houses of congress to uphold his hands Everybody knew the Democratic party was split so wide open by the religious battle which had come to its climax at Madison Square Garden that there was virtually no hope of its being really formidable at the folThe national conlowing election ventions were barely a year off Time Inopportune recommendations— that when the recommendations reached congress would be time enough to make a fight They knew they had won when the test came in congress Dy shrewd they had won enough votes to give the islands the independence act So they thought would be sure the same to work next time which would be they thought when the recommendations are formally taken up in congress Also a considerable group of those interested actually knew nothing about the hearings There was too much going on in Washington for the newspapers to get excited about hearings on something which would have no effect until 1946 But several things have happened to change all that First there is quite a movement to move forward the independence date The same interests affected by the tariff hearings were concerned in that and this made any present hearings much more significant Important Factor But much more important is an- other factor The prospect now is that there is not going to be any repeal of the reciprocal trade treaty powers of the President— that this power will be extended indefinitely This will mean if true that if and when the report of this joint committee comes up immediately after independence is achieved or immediately before it may not be possible to ignore its ideas simply by having enough votes m congress to prevent action on Capitol Hill For it is certain that any recommendations such a committee will make would have a great deal of effect on the State department and naturally on the Philippine government So that under the reciprocal treaty making power it could easily be that a lot of tariff duties on Philippine products coming into the United States might be sliced in half— fifty per cent being the extent of the change in any duty which can be made by the State department without further reference to con- gress For instance if the duty on sugar should be two cents a pound under the reciprocal treaty power the State department could make a treaty with the Philippines which would cut that duty to one cent or boost it to three cents Sugar is picked for an illustration chiefly because it is simple and was one of the big reasons why the islands obtained the present promise of independence There are plenty of others notably coconut oil Future of G O P Despite the “harmony” meeting of Democratic senators and representatives with President Roosevelt at the Jefferson Island club there are growing signs of cleavage as between what might be called the old line Democrats and the New Dealers So much so that certain important Republicans more interested in economic principles than in party are quietly putting organization forth a new thought with respect to future G 0 P activities In short they would have the national Republican organization voluntarily disband shut up shop and announce to the country that as a national party the Republicans were The opening gun of the Roosevelt through third term campaign is fired more While most of those talking about than a year before the it do not want their names used for congressional election It resounds the present it is said that Senator when there is a revolt against the Arthur H Vandenberg of Michigan President on the part of conservaregarded by many as the outstandtive Democrats so pronounced that ing Republican in the country since a harmony conference between the the last election is not out of symPresident and the national legisla- pathy with the idea tors was to begin two days later The plan is so far advanced that at the Jefferson Island club the effect on individual senators and It came at a time when nobody members of the house now bearreally knew whether the revolt on ing the Republican label has been Capitol Hill had much popular backconsidered There are still many One point about it districts which send ing or not Republicans to hovfcver was rather obvious Gov- the house of Democratic regardless ernor Earle whose declaration atlandslides and New Deal tendencies tracted the most attention was in At least two states Vermont and rather a hot spot It was obvious Maine still promise to send Repubthat no matter what might happen lican senators to Washington later the Pennsylvania governor The idea would not be to deprive had made plenty of enemies by his the Republicans representing these action in declaring martial law at districts and states of their label Johnstown He had acted openly They could run as “Republicans” when the President was aiding the as Senator Robert M La same side without any such frank just runs as a “Progressive” or avowal So lots of important folks Senator Henrik Shipstead runs as a figured they could shoot at Earle in ” These gentlesafety whereas they might not dare men seem to have little difficulty shoot at the President getting elected despite the fact that Earle's action tended to make the there is no real national organizaPresident the target for all such tion of their parties to back them shots at him and for this reason his timing did not make such a hit Might Be Help at the White House as his subject Representative Bertrand H Snell matter might have on some Other of New York comes down regularly occasion from the Potsdam district of the Tariff Hearings Empire state no matter if Democratic national candidates do carry The same group of interests in the state by more than a million this country which so successfully The same is true of Representative obtained the independence act for Allen T Treadway and Representathe Philippines long after the tive Edith Nourse Rogers of Massaarmed insurrection of Aguinaldo chusetts the moral appeal of William JenSome of the advocates of the plan nings Bryan and the shrewd lobbysay that actually it would be a help ing of Manuel Quezon had failed to such Republicans not to have any is now on the job to prevent being national Republican organization deprived of the fruitsvf their viccluttering up the situation Of tory course m Mr Snetrs case it would What has happened is that a joint him of the leadership of the committee consisting of experts ap- deprive Republicans in the house— perhaps pointed by both the United States —and it might play hob with comand the Philippines governments is mittee assignments in both house conducting hearings with a view to and senate determining the tariff policy which But the real objective of course shall exist between the two counis to encourage the split in the tries after independence is actually Democratic party— to permit the achieved country to have two real parties At first this independence date Nor is it an answer say again being fixed in 1946 seemed far off hose advocating it to say that the to the business interests affected Moreover at first there was a ten- Republican party polled more than 15000000 votes in the last election dency among those who knew about and that anything as strong as that it to discount its importance They should be preserved figured that there would be only © BU Syndic!— WNU Strvlc of Current Events STEEL GOES BACK TO WORK News Review In Aluminum of Idle Have Returned Riots Kill Two Strike Siege of Medrid Gets Setback LfnUcd M v M PickeJuL THE WORLD’S WEEK Xtippr Vilw SUMMARIZES C Wmim CIO Steel Grip Loosens 'T'HE grip of the C I O to loosen in the steel strike as three big independent steel Bethlehem corporations— Republic and Youngstown Sheet St rted of more than their idle mill hands had returned to work This covered plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania Inland the fourth of the steel independents announced that it was operating with its normal force of 13000 in Indiana since it and the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee signed a compact with the state labor commission Steel production in the Youngstown Ohio area one of the principal Amelia: Lost in the Pacifie scenes of strike violence clinqbed to 76 per cent of capacity 3 per from other fronts delaying tempocentage points above the operating figure before the start of the strike rarily the drive on Santander next rebel objective on the Biscayan coast Strike Ribt Kills Two Meanwhile the fall of Bilbao was 'Y NE striker and one policeman expected to add 150000 refugees to were killed and twenty men the constant stream pouring' into were injured at an aluminum plant loyalist Valencia Although some of in Alcoa Term when rioting broke the refugees remained in France out as 3000 strikers started a where' they were first taken the vast bemovement The plant majority preferred to go to Catalolonging to the Aluminum Company nia where the government takes of America had been closed since care of them at its own expense May 18 when the strike was called Nearly 1500000 have arrived in Valencia since the start of the war and by the Aluminum Workers of America an affiliate of the American Fed300000 have remained there eration of Labor Difference in wages paid at Alcoa and at the comBingham's 4th of July pany’s plant in New Kensington Pa was the issue in the strike ROBERT WORTH BINGHAM State troops were on hand United States ambassador but to London became the third promiR O Smith in charge said that they were there merely nent American to bring down the to protect rights and no martial fury of Nazi Germany’s officialdom law had been declared and press when in an Independence day speech before the American society in that city he declared UnLewis Scans the Sea cle Sam had been forced by the dicT OHN L LEWIS sought to expand tator countries to join Britain in an the scope of his Committee for armament race Mayor LaGuardia Industrial Organization by invading of New York and Cardinal Mundethe maritime industry With Harry lein of Chicago had been other recent Nazi targets Bridges west coast longshoremen’s leader he sought to unify scattered The ambassador was quoted as maritime unions in one big industrial saying: “There must be some (of who realize that organization dominated by the C I the dictatorships) O The American Federation of Lathey have imposed upon the British bor already has two strong unions commonwealth and the United in the maritime field so this action States an armaments race "We did everything in our power brings Lewis into another point of to avert it but it is a race and the friction with William Green’s orThe nation has 250000 British and ourselves must inevitaganization marine and coastal workers bly win I admit the strongest arguments that can be made for dictatorships— they offer a better method of preparing for war 'Compromise' Takes Bow But I CENATOR M M LOGAN Dem- - am sure that democracies provide ocrat of Kentucky presented the a better way to finish a war" The Nazis charged that the amversion of the Pres"compromise” ident’s Supreme court bill to the bassador had insulted Germany and with his "arrogance and igItaly senate apparently norance" Voelkischer Beobachter with the blessings of the official newspaper added: "If Majority there is any talk of defense then Joseph T Robinson we should speak of defense and the chief execuagainst the arrogant and teacher-lik- e attitive In form an tude of the defenders of western amendment to and ideals" substitute for the old Ashurst administration bill the new Navy Hunfi for Amelia draft authorizes apPOUR ships of the United States of one pointment 4 navy with attendant airplanes new justice to t h e two ships of the Japanese navy court each year for SenRobinsoa and a British freighter scoured the every justice remaining on the court after reaching the age of seventy-fiv- e vast wastes of the South Pacific in an effort to find and rescue years Under its provisions the Amelia Earhart Putnam America’s President would be permitted to name one new Justice this year (be- No 1 woman flyer and her navisides filling the vacancy left by the gator Fred Noonan The pair had retirement of Justice Willis Van been forced down before complethop from New and assure him of at ing the Devanter) least one new appointment to the Guinea to Howland island a "leg” court in each remaining year of his of their flight Signals received from the hapless present term of office All of the apflyers were so weak that it was pointments would hinge on the decision of justices seventy-fiv- e or impossible to tell whether they were afloat at sea or marooned on some alder on retirement tiny island and as the days passed The opposition immediately charged that the new bill was as it became doubtful that many of offensive as the old one Sen Burton the radio messages which served as clues for the searchers were K Wheeler Democrat Montana said: "The compromise is not going from the two at all Storms over to get through The new bill is just the area of the sea in which they believed as objectionable as the old because lost hampered it seeks to pack the Supreme court searchers and minimized possibilijust like the original bill did” Sen ties of a rescue Edward R Burke Democrat So alarmed was the world at the Nebraska said the 43 senators would loss of Amelia and her companion vote against any kind of measure the United States even sent out the that would increase the Supreme giant aircraft carrier Lexington court with 98 planes aboard which it Some of the other provisions of was said could explore an area of the new bill were: 36000 square miles in five or six Authority for 20 additional hours apto lower courts in pointments the event that judges over seventy fail to retire The old bill would Mao West Tells All have permitted 50 new appointments I T SEEMS Mae West buxom blonde cinema menace DID maraltogether Speedy intervention by the gov- ry Frank Wallace In Milwaukee on April 11 1911 after all After stout-l- y ernment in cases involving constidenying the marriage which of federal laws tutionality and aroused the whole nation when it speedy appeal to the Supreme court was revealed in 1935 she did an about-fac- e and confessed it alRebels Fall from Madrid though denying she had ever lived CPAN1SII rebel forces which took with the vaudeville player as his Bilbao after the city’s first suc- wife Her admission was necessitatcessful siege are still finding Madrid ed when she answered Wallace’s suit for declaratory relief in a Los a tough nut to crack In a battle the loyalist forces broke Angeles court through the siege lines about the Nation Findi More Jobs city captured the villages of de la Canada and Brunette XTEARLY 35000000 persons are and threatened to cut the besieging now employed in rebels off from their main forces tural pursuits the federal reserve So nearly successful was the at- board has announced This is only tempt to rout the rebel forces that 1000000 or 1500000 shy of the avthe latter were forced to admit new in 1929 and 8500000 to 9000-00- 0 erage troops might have to be withdrawn more than in March 1933 Leader were Undo Sem Checks Up wound up the 1937 UNCLE SAM with a net deficit of year $2707347110 or about $150000000 more than President Roosevelt estimated last April according to the report of the United States Treas ury The gross national public debt climbed to a total of $36424613732 as of June 30 it was shown Receipts for the period just closed were the largest in 16 years comto $5293840236 amounting pared with $4115956615 for the in about and $70000000 year excess of estimates Expenditures were $8105158547 including for debt retirement originally planned for that period but carried over into the current year Completion of the debt retirement program as previously contemplated would have called for the of $404525000 which expenditure would have placed the gross deficit above the $3000000000 mark In the period recovery and relief costs were more than below the total for the year before amounting to $2846462932 against $3290927869 around the Reliable authorities capitol said that as soon as all appropriation bills for the 1938 fiscal the President year were cleared would direct the heads of all government departments to impound 10 exper cent of their appropriations clusive of fixed charges in an attempt to balance the budget Experts said that a maximum of copld be saved ih that way The prospective net deficit for 1938 was estimated at $400000000 Ford Tests Labor Board natioral labor relations THE is receiving its most exacting test in the hearings at Detroit on the United Automobile workers’ union complaint that the Ford Motor company is guilty of unfair labor practices The U A W U is a C I O affiliate Ford is opposed to the unions It was expected that the hearings might take a long time and may eventually reach the United States After the hearings Supreme court in Detroit a board examiner will draw up "intermediate findings” and send them to the NLRB in Washington accompanied by a transcript of the evidence and briefs of both sides The board will then either order the Ford Motor y to "cease and desist” its unfair practices or dismiss the union’s charges Appeal may be taken to the United States circuit court of which has the power of appeals enforcement which NLRB lacks The case may reach the Supreme court if the Constitution is involved One of the allegedly unfair practices to which the U A W A objects is distribution of literature by the Ford company to its employees The company charges that a denial of this would violate constitutional guaranties of free speech and a free press Mediators Blame 'T'lIE federal named Steel mediation board Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins which reached a deadlock and gave up in its efforts by to help the C I Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the independent steel corporations solve their difficulties laid the blame for its failure at the door of the steel concerns "We cannot but believe that the bitterness and suspicion which the two sides would be aldiscussion layed by a around the conference table between the heads of the four companies and the union representatives and that the only present possible hope of settlement lies in such a meeting" the board’s report said On the board were Charles P Taft chairman Lloyd K Garrison and Edward F McGrady Isolates Paralysis Germ X7HAT the medical profession a major step in the conquest of infantile paralysis was taken when Dr Edward Carl Rose-noannounced to 100 physicians and medical surgeons research workers in Glendale Calif that he had isolated the germ which causes it Dr Rosenow is professor of experimental at bacteriology in Rochester Mayo foundation Minn Work with spinal fluid taken from nurses who had contracted the disease at the Los Angeles general hospital in 1934 enabled him to isolate the Dr Rosenow said that now the germ has been isolated steps must be taken to develop a serum similar to the serums used in fighting other ravaging contagious diseases yv considers the Triple Split for Palestine ALESTINE would be split Into three parts and British e over the whole country ended according to suggestions made by the royal commission on Palestine and delivered to the British government The commission was formed a year ago to find some way of put- p ting an end to riots Under the new plan about of Palestine would be converted into an Arab state and about into a Jewish state A small territory Including the holy ciUes of Jerusalem Bethlehem and Nazareth and a corridor to the sea would be given to Great Brlt-t- o permanent mandate It that the plan would the Arabs from Jewish domJews a home and shrines is claimed ination give the protect ChrlsUan s what I I about: Seeking Contentment MONICA CALIF- SANTA the desert country I met kindly hospitable folk bravely making the best of things on remote small homesteads y ranches on res On little ervatlon trading posts they are educhildren their cating by resolute in keeping touch with the world through through books and and and alnewspapers most invariably content with their lives and proud of their struggles and living comfortably — yes and happily— within their means how- radio magazines ever meager Then I come back to crowded cities where wealth seems only tq make the inmates dissatisfied because somebody with greater wealth puts on a gaudier show of ostentaAnd I se tion and extravagance the man who feverishly' is striving after riches so that when he break down he may afford the most expensive nerve specialist And the spoiled woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth but judging by her expression the spoon must have been full of castor oil — and the flavor lasts And the poor little rich children who have now and so will have nothing —except maybe dollars— when they grow up Curious isn’t it that so little buys such a lot for some people and such a lot buys so little for the others? The Return of Prosperity CAN’T help gloating over what appeared in this space when I predicted that the temperamental and fickle bird of passage known as was winging its way prosperity back Because the Better Business bureau reports that sellers of nogood stocks are showing increased activity Moreover I hear that for the first time in years practically all the veteran are off relief The lean times when the locusts of depression gnawed away our substance must indeed be over if the customers begin to nibble more freely at the same dependable old baits So as he thumbs his opy of the sucker list against the morrow’s campaign I seem to hear Mr Henry J Slickguy (late of Leavenworth but now opening offices in the Wall street district) murmuring to himself: "Happy days are here again! Drouth may kill the corn Rust rots the wheat Boll weevils destroy the cotton But thanks be there’s one crop in America which never fails!" Have you a little gold brick in your home dear reader? Well don’t worry nobody's going to be slighted Ere long you’ll get your chance to invest in one I Making Mental Slips most incredible thing has to pass Here I go along year after year building up a reputation for Invariably being right the same as George Bernard Shaw and Mme Secretary Perkins Then — bangol— I make one little slip and the trusting reader is shocked from pit to dome The other day I suggested taxing salaries of governmental emNow from all sides I’m ployees told federal employees are subject to income taxes only the vast majority of them and probably the d ones draw such small wages that they owe Uncle Sam nothing when March 15 rollq around So far as I recall this is the second time in my life I've been wrong I can’t cite what the other instance was— some very trifling matter no doubt— but it must have occurred because I remember the nation-wid- e excitement which ensued with people going around in a daze muttering: "Can it be possible?" I now admit that early error and the recent one too and humbly beg pardon of my devoted public— all eight of them It’ll never happen again THE Conquered Champions TT HAS been brought to the atten-- 1 tlon of Mr James J Braddock that something happened to him a while back Probably by now he has quit wondering whether many others were caught In the' earthquake but Is reported to be still saying "Ouchl" at intervals And now as Is customary his backers will Insist he demand a return engagement— or disaster— with the Brown Bomber But if I were Mr Braddock— game though he be —I think I’d pattern my reply on the example of the gentleman who was knocked galley-weby a motorist A the dazed pedestrian was trying feebly to ascertain whether he was all In one piece a citizen hurried an accident?" he inquired ' brightly "No thank you" said the victim "Just had one" IRVINS COBB ©—WNU Servlc tt c Pi IT W n a s w c: Ii E n a ti 8 h u V 0 1 r £ I |