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Show THE PAGE TWO HAPPY BIRTHDAY!- - AGRICULTURE: Cotton and Wheat WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE Three items made news for cotDutch-Belgia- n ton and wheat farmers as November got underway: (1) With 10,100,000 bales of sur. plus cotton stored under government loan, and with an 11,845,000-bal- e crop (slightly less than 1938) forecast for this year, the agriculture department announced loans based at 8.3 cents a pound on seven-eighth-s (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in the.se columns, they inch middlings would be of this not are those of the news analyst and newspaper.) necessarily available to 1939 growers who plantReleased by Western Newspaper Union. ed within their acreage allotments. A week earlier the loan program 3 seemed stymied by increased cotton consumption thanks to the war. (2) The bureau of agricultural economics forecast the same wheat , III acreage for 1940 as for 1939, . e., 64,600,000 acres, which would produce about 760,000,000 bushels of f ft spring and winter wheat. But next year's yield will be under par unless unusually favorable weather comes along. Reason: Drouth has already damaged much seeded winter wheat beyond recovery. (3) Closing its first year, the federal crop insurance corporation was sad. Having taken 6,769,120 bushSTEEL, MILLS BLOSSOM AT GARY, IND. 1 els of wheat as premiums from others. Some industries expand; neutrality stifles farmers, the corporation had claims from its custoFinance corporation. mers. Indemnities paid, totaling restricted The foreign government TRADE & INDUSTRY commerce in some quarters and ex- 9,461,730 bushels, brought a loss of about $1,885,000. panded it in others. Approved was Repeal of theU. S. arms embargo, a new reciprocal trade pact with RUSSIA: which keeps American ships out of Venezuela, "freezing" tariff schedcombat rones and allows belligerents ules on exports of wheat flour, oat"cash and carry" rights, not only meal, lard and lumber. In return, Unhappy Birthday Twenty-twyears ago a bloody set oft a partial business boom at the U. S. will reduce import taxes home but also brought major reper- 50 per cent on Venezuelan crude revolution gave birth to the U. S. S. R. Only a month ago Soviet cussions In world diplomatic, trade petroleum. Premier Viacheslav Molotov showed and maritime circles. A survey by Meanwhile, an Russia's strapping maturity by dethe Northwestern National Life Insquabble flared over the U. S. Roosevelt's insurance company showed luxury maritime commission's transfer of nouncing President Finnish-Russian in the tervention movand semi-luxur- y 40 to than more goods began foreign regisships When Moscow its scrap. began Fedin but ing swiftly September, try as a means of avoiding the ban three-daanniversary celebration. y eral Works Administrator John on American shipping in belligerent Molotov again slapped the spiked any boom hopes: Only zones. Secretary of State Cordell Premier 500,000 of the 9,000,000 unemployed Hull objected, not because the step can expect new jobs. was illegal, but because it would There was cautious expansion In violate the integrity and spirit of U. S. industry, where building the neutrality law. Commented r 1 awards for October totaled $49,910,-00- 0 Maritime Commissioner Max O'Rell against $12,814,000 a year ago. Truitt. "I don't see any element of a dodge at all; I think it's a comMany firms announced stock dividends payable in December. Railpletely sound, bona fide situation all "4 around." President Roosevelt finala a roads, which coupled their expansion with a plea that they might be ly decided against the transfer, promising to change his mind later permitted to operate without government interference in times of emer- if tension eased. Meanwhile, C. I. 51. 0 gency, were offered a new recovery O.'s maritime union estimated U. S. seamen were thrown out program by of work by the neutrality provision Jesse Jones, federal loan banning nationals from combat HANS THOMSEN AND WIFE zones. (At Washington the President Arbitration Bid Lost in Beer Hall Excitement; Fear of Nazi Invasion Mounts sg' h o y Car-mod- m 10,-00- This plan, used first by the Boston and Maine line, calls, for postponi n g debt payments and reducing an- - nual interest consulted A. F. of l.'s William Green and C. 7. O.'s John Lewis on this problem, also discussing the chances for labor peace.) Trade with belligerents zoomed. Even Switzerland, minus a navy, chartered two ships. The state de- MAX TRCITT "Completely sound." charges through a refunding process be financed by Reconstruction to EUROPE: Cause Celebre? Prime Minister Chamberlain, "is not a state of war but a state of siege." He was not far wrong. The French claimed nine of their U. planes had Gerof a downed man force over the western front. There was also a mysterious battle in the North sea from which the "This." said one-thir- d 'Cactus Jack' Comes of Age; May Seek Presidency at 70 Most radiant of all. By LEMUEL F. PARTON Somebody was turning in a riot call when Igor Stravinsky's "Fire Bird" anl "Sacre du Printemps" were first . the salons and musical conas respectnow he's but servatories, most November 22 finds John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, Murray Butler, as vice president in V. S. history, celebrating his able as Nicholas his post as professor of po70th birthday. The event is significant, because it calls attention he takes Harvard. As he writes his at etry timbe to the age of a man who is yet spry enough to presidential fourth symphony, he enjoys full and ber next year. Simple, close to common folks, he once said: "I de- complete academic sanction for ceive all of them by telling the truth." Immensely popular, he what were once considered the wild usually gives new congressmen their first lessons in statecraft. vagaries of his compositions. Above: He leaves the White House with Alabama's Rep. William In Russia, his parents wanted Bankhead and Kentucky's Sen. Alben W. Barkley. him to be a lawyer. Rimsky-Korsako- ff was the Pied Piper who lured him from law books to outlaw music, but who unleashed his genius and himself profited as Stravinsky became one of his most knowing and gifted interpreters. 'W ' I The frail person of Professor Stras i vinsky, as he may now be called, has been shaken and racked by the torrent of his genius, and every so often he has found it necessary to take time out in Switzerland for repairs. But, at 54, he still has furious in vitality and is still at mid-wahis creative career. With a sharp pencil he spears superaural sounds. Marshaling them in a symphony, he looses demons, to slay them with his baton. This demoniac dissonance caused riots in France when his compositions were first produced. It took quite a few years for discerning critics to discover that he "planned it that With Mrs. Garner at the one Once a shortstop, baseball is way," and that there was law his favorite diversion in Wash- time each year when he dons and order in bis music. ! y ington. Here he throws out the formal dress something he disfirst ball at the season's start. likes. He's bound for a White He's nearly always sunny and House dinner. The Garners retire at 9 p. m.. arise at 6 a. m. unirorrind. I No Ham, No Eggs Dies' group, bally-hooin- g another appropriation. Two other groups, working out legislative suggestions for next January's term, are: House Tax Subcommittee. Opening its hearings under Tennessee's Rep. Jere Cooper, the committee talked about broadening income tax bases. But there was a disinclination to offer concrete proposals. It was announced final determination of a program will await the opening Two official reasons: of congress. (1) The treasury is studying taxes, soliciting suggestions from business and industry; 2) National defense needs for the next fiscal year are not yet known. Besides, the committee is wondering about taxes on excess war profils, not knowing where to turn. Equally important, how would tax revision be received in an election year like 1910? for V? WILIIELMINA AND LEOPOLD Their peace exploded. Ark Royal reportedly limped home win a captured vessel. But, as usual, the bicgest war news was made f.ir from the front. Some 20 Nazi divisions stationed on their frontiers worried Belgium's King Leopold and The Netherlands' Queen Wilhclmina. Moreover, they heard rumors that Adolf Hitler would invade on November 15, claiming as an excuse that the allies would do likewise if Germany didn't invade first. Though steadfastly denying any German "ultimatum" for a statement of their positions, the king and consultations ijurcn held with their foreign ministers. Result: A peace appeal was dispatched to all combatants offering Belgian-Dutc- h mediation services. Britain rejected it politely. Fuehrer Hitler was less polite. Not waiting to reply directly, he hastened to the beer hall at Munich here his notorious putsch took place In 1923. There, on Nazism's sixteenth birthday, he scorned peace: "There can be only one Victor that is we." Hardly had IT; tier left the beer Washington, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau told reporters any mitiatite for raising the V. S. debt limit ofcoi $t:fliH).Oimjm must comm from congress, not from himself or ihm White House. Vresenl debt: About (At Hlxw.mtnjm.) NLRB Investigating Committee. Deferring hearings until its Chairman Howard Smith (Dem., Va.) gets well, the house labor commit- tee found new kindling for Its campaign against the labor board in a new strike technique, the "slowdown." Defined Ohio's Rep. Harry Roulzohn: "The slowdown Is almost the same as the sitdown." lis origin, he said, could be traced to the northwest lumber rami s, thence to the recent Chrysler strike. .'ru . lip r all persons over ou a penslonof $50 a month tr via state income tax and a levy on real estate. In Califor-a I "h a m-- a n died nd eggs," the scheme to- GOV. OLSON Soothing uonh. cry to everyone over 50. It even day trailed in Los Angeles county, its birthplace. One reason: Gov. Culbert Olson had fought by promising "useful and productive employment" to all who wanted It. as a reward for defeating the plan. As pension leaders began a recall move against Mr. Olson, the governor soothed them: "Thij give $30 " v ev- Thurs- - ham-and-eg- defeat doesn't mean that California is against the further development of sound social security . . ." Other results: In New York, voteri ignored Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia's protest by legalizing race betting. Tammany won most local elections, while Republicans won a single upstate congressional In KeniucKy. rew Dealer race. Keen Johnsun succeeded Sen. A. B. Chandler to the governor's chair. Ir Pennsylvania. Boies Penrose M. Republican, list a congrcssiona contest. pari-mutu- The above picture may be symbolically significant. Awaiting the President, whose chair is vacant. Garner and Postmaster General James A. Farley drink a toast. Political wiseacres believe these men may get together in opposition to next year. But the P "Cactus Jack" won't talk. He just smokes in silence, as when the picture at right was taken following a reputedly heated conference in the White House. His friends say the best presidential endorsement he has received to date was the denunciation of C. I. O.'g John Lewis. res-den- t 4 is being written currently comparison of the intellectual climate of America today with pe- that of the immediate pre-w- MUCH h 1 . Professorship d, Home to the stamping grounds went most senators and congressmen when the special neutrality session adjourned. But between sessions is a fine time for committee hearings. Still in session is Martin YORK. 'Wild' Composer Earl Spears Harvard Browder of pro-Hitle- U7 1. When a state is added to the Union, when is the star added to the flag? 2. What animal has the largest brain in proportion to its size? 3. What is the difference between a cornet, a trumpet and a bugleT 4. How many tons of water flow WEEK NEW Vet Steel Maker u 6 c Debunks War as Grace, presi- Source of Profit ethU hem j Steel corporation, offers something possibly worthy weighing in this balance in his vehement repudiation of any desire for war profits. "We don't want any war to inflate Bethlehem's business," says Mr. Grace. "We prefer peace. We are in a position to be war baby number one, as in the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. Bethlehem would be better off if it did." In contrast are the words of another great industrialist, now dead, who, at a New York luncheon club in January, 1917, spoke as follows: "America has come of age. Its ships cannot be driven from the seas; its citizens will go wherever their trade or business leads them. No insolent challenge to our enterprise will stay us in our peaceful pursuits whenever and wherever we choose to go. And I say to you that our great business establishment will remain world business for whatever profit may legitimately accrue. It is not only our right, but patriotic duty to seize opportunity to maintain the full solvency of this nation." Mr. Grace, as president of both Bethlehem Steel and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corpora tion, bad special charge of all production of cannon, armor plate and munitions during the World war. Last summer, he rounded out 40 years with Bethlehem, one of the great of the country. After his graduation In electrical engineering at Lehigh university, his first Job at the company was operating an electric crane. He became general superintendent, manager and a director In 1911. He became president in 1913. He is 63 years old. steel-maste- c. A General Quiz The Questions THIS ..." The tumultuous 1930s have brought an unprecedented thirst for security taking form in unorthodox pension schemes. Most schemes were born in California, like Townsendism and EPIC. In November's elections two more panaceas went down to defeat, but there were signs many a politician might follow them. Ohio's Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow promised to "continue the fight" for his badly snowed-undeplan to give 0 NEWS U. S.: ". . . in the case of certain countries neutrality only serves as a mask to conceal their activities On that same day in Washington, the Soviet embassy decorated Lendeto warned partment shippers in's statue with red roses, assemmand cash from their foreign cus- bled Scotch whisky and Russian tomers, and the cash was apparentsherbet in crushed raspsoda, green ly forthcoming because Britain's berries, and cakes smothered in parliament rushed through a billion rum sauce. Awaited were the guests dollar fund to carry on the war. to help Charge d'Affaires Dmitri Chuvakhin celebrate. But he was hall before a mysterious blast in the embarrassingly disappointed. empty attic upstairs sent its heavy Absent were all Supreme court ceiling crashing on the hangers-o- n justices, cabinet members, senators who had stayed behind. Next day, and high ranking state department while the Nazi press railed at Jews officials. Only China, Turkey and and the British secret service as Ecuador sent their diplomats. Only Back home in Uvalde, Tex., he loves to hunt and fish with a few "instigators" of the plot, the prominent New Dealers: NLRB's old cronies, who probably know the real John Garner better than Brum-fieloffered a $200,000 re- Edwin Smith, SEC's Leon Henderany of his Washington colleagues. Here he's fishing with Ross ward for capture of the perpetrason, and Mrs. Thurman Arnold, around. isn't vice when the who a president garage operates tors. While seers wondered if the wife of the assistant attorney genMunich explosion might not prove eral. Most beaming visitors: Hans another cause celebre like Sarajevo or Thomsen, German charge d'affaires, r the Peiping bridge incident, and his pretty wife, accompanied sentiment began crystalizing by four staff members. Next day in Germany. Dead as a dodo was observers noticed Franklin Roose-vel- t the Belgian-Dutchad sent the U. S. S. R. no mespeace plea; in fact, the Dutch opened their dykes sage of congratulations. in self defense following border clashes that smelled suspiciously POLITICS: like those before the Polish invasion. CONGRESS: Committee Time Jlsk Me Jlnother WHO'S it. i 165,-55- r. Thursday, November 16, 1939 NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- over Niagara falls per minute? 5. What is the difference between permanent and perpetual? 6. Are there more red or white stripes in the American flag? The Answers 1. On the July Fourth following the admission. 2. The ant. 3. A bugle has no valves, the cornet and trumpet are similar, but the cornet has more winding, curved pipes and is shorter. 4. The flow of water over Niagara falls is 67,000 tons per minute. 5. Permanent constant, without cessation. Perpetual repeating at intervals. 6. Seven red and six white. A Loose Tongue Never yet did any man repent of having spoken too little, whereas many have been sorry that they have spoken too much. Arabian Nights. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are an effective laxative. Sugar coated. Children like them. Buy now I Adv. Experience and Memory Experience is the father of WisH dom, and Memory the mother. Beware Coughs from common colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly because it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase secretion and aid nature and heal raw. tender, inflam ed bronchial mucous membranes.. No matter how many medicines you. have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding tnat you are to ujcai the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION, for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitiij ' A Power of InlL drop of ink makes think. -- I millio; Byron. 1 Isn't TtlsWIiy You Are Constipated? What do you eat for breakfast? Coffee, toast, maybe some eggs? What do you eat for lunch and dinner? White bread, meat, potatoes? It's little wonder you're constipated. You probably don't eat enough, "bulk." And "buifc" doesn't mean the amount you! eat. It's a kind of food that formsa soft "bulky" mass In the intes' tines and helps a movement. I this is your trouble, may we sue Best a crunchy toasted cereal- lor breakfast Kelloggs Is a natural food, not medicine but it's particular! rich in "bulk." Being so. 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With the Louis Boyd expedition to eatt Greenland In 1933, Mr. Wood has traversed many countries, in the last six years, on research missions sofor the American Geographi-.a- l ciety. (Consolidated Feature WNO Service. Hotel TEMPLE SQUA Oppmlte Mormon Tipl Highly hecommendei. Rate $1.50 to $3.00 It's mark of distinction to r this beautiful hoftelrv : ERNEST C KDHSlTtR. n |