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Show I t THE Page Two GOP Leader Places Faith In WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS PACIFIC: Action Widespread Hull Outlines U. S. Foreign Policy, ma, the whole Pacific front was aflame, with Allied forces pounding Harrison Spangler, Party Chairman, Sees Republican Victory as Result of Complete Effective Local Organization. and Commentator. the Republican National committee headquarters. As I entered the portal of the modest t little house they have rented on avenue, a number of thoughts, which may be omens of good or ill in the coming election, floated into my ken. The house was once a private home but now it is situated amidst shops and restaurants and looks across the avenue toward a towering apartment house taken over by the Civilian Defense administration. As I ascended the stairway to the second floor office of Chairman Harrison Spangler, memories rushed about me and I was transported back to the days when thai Republican party was suffering in the slough of its deepest despond. The rooms about me then housed one of the many trade organizations created by that wonderful and awful National Recovery administration presided over by the late and stormy General Iron Pants Johnson. And latex, as I chatted with Mr. Spangler, I was reminded cf another circumstance, gently symbolic, of the days when the elephant sulked, impotent and neglected, in his tent the Republican committee was forced to move some two years ago from its snappier, modern quarters on Lafayette Square where it could gaze longingly at the White House on the right hand, and not too hopefully at the United States Chamber of Commerce on the other. The reason the committee had to move was because it was only a tenant on Lafayette Square and the CIO (which had tossed a million into the Democratic electioneering fund) was the landlord. Tempora mutantur. But if the times and the quarters have changed, so have Republican spirits. "Roosevolt won't carry, two states (or was it five?)," I was confidentially informed by one of the modest laborers in the GOP vineyard. Harrison Spangler made no tall predictions to me. He made no predictions at all. He simply told me about what he is doing, the results so far obtained. He has a simple faith that results already achieved are the precursors of victory. The farm organizations will be handled en masse. Representatives of all the farm organizations have been invited to attend a meeting in Chicago early next month in order to express their views for possible incorporation in the party platform. They will meet with members of the Republican postwar advisory council's committee on agriculture. Its chairman is Governor Hickenlooper, who succeeded the late Senator father of the farm bloc. Agriculture is one of the eight "problems" listed by the advisory council at its meeting in September, 1942. The others are foreign policy; postwar industry and employment; social welfare; federal administration; finance and currency; labor; agriculture; and international economic problems. A staff of experts under Dr. Neil Carothers, dean of the school of business of Lehigh university, has been assembled, who assist the council, which hopes to produce timber for the party platform by scientific methods. Chairman Spangler admits that we face a world in which conditions which will affect the election in November are likely to change radically, perhaps before the conventions; certainly before the elections. But he believes that insofar as possible, the various "problems" listed by the advisory committee should be threshed out in as much detail as possible before the convention so that they will not have to be dealt with superficially at the last moment by the platform committee at the convention. Votes and Relief "We made several surveys covering different periods, in the East a few years ago," he said, "and we found that the New Deal vote rose in direct proportion with the amount of relief in the community. The people were grateful for the help they got and gave Roosevelt the "credit; they forgot that it was the people's money they were spending. When they are able to pay their own bills, earn enough for what they need, they want to be Independent. They want to shake off government control and regulation." Mr. Spangler and his associates Word believe that the Republican party will win first, because of the energetic response of people which has made the rebuilding of an effective political organization possible; second, because they consider trends already evident are a factual, indication of a turn of the tide. Mr. Spangler did not attempt to argue the case of the Republican party, nor are these columns a place for such a political debate, but anyone can see that he and his staff believe that they share a popular feeling that "the times have changed," "et nos mutamur- illis" (and we are changed with them). The "we" meaning a voting majority of the American people. Of such is the optimism which fills the workshop on Connecticut avenue where the one concern is the practical side of politics there, where the shadow of the Blue Eagle once fell across the portals, not even the flutter of a ghostly feather can now be detected. - Service Education can armed forces serving overseas may now apply directly to the new branches for the same courses that are given in the states through institute headquarters at Madison, Wis. The curriculum covers the range from grammar school to university subjects. An enlisted man may apply for as many courses supplied directly by USAFI as he wishes for only one enrollment fee of $2. For courses, text books and materials are supplied tree of charge. g B R I E FS ; ? ""jiff. AVJ'iV .'R'-- S '.- 'Aft -r American servicemen consumed approximately 143,192.000 cups of coffee and 70.000,000 doughnuts at Red Cross clubs, canteens and overseas during the last 12 months. club-mobil- ' Horse-draw- absence streetcars nftrr an of 40 years are again be-- i ing used in Amsterdam. They may slow, but powtr i. confirmed. 'be In Burma even children smoke, so Pfc. Wayne Martin, Los Angales, Calif., passes cigarettes out to young natives as U. S. troops JCachin. enter FOREIGN POLICY: Outlined by Hull The concern of Americans in the light of the diplomatic jockeying in Europe, U. S. foreign policy was outlined by Secretary of State Cor-de- ll Hull, with emphasis on world political and economic cooperation. Said Hull: "Some international agency must be created which can by force, if necessary keep the peace among nations in the future . . . Political differences which present a threat to the peace of the world should be submitted to agencies which would use the remedies of discussion, negotiation, conciliation and good offices . . . Disputes of a legal character . . . should be adjudicated by an international court of justice After calling for abolition of stifling world trade barriers, Hull declared for stabilizing currencies for the smooth flow of goods and services, and offering financial assistance to countries to enable them to obtain resources for maintaining their business and agricultural life. ..." RUSSIA: Near Hungary Falling back under the advance of Russian armies, Nazi troops retreated to the long shadows of the Carpathian mountains in Hungary, guarding central Europe, while farther to the southeast, other German forces were surrendering their last foothold on the rich mineral and farm land of the Ukraine. In backing up to the Carpathians, the Germans abandoned additional territory in prewar Poland, while their withdrawal to the southeast brought the Russians closer to the Rumanian border, from which the population was being evacuated. The Nazis' remaining toehold in the Ukraine was being steadily loosened as the Russians slashed deeply into their lines all along this front, threatening the German units with encirclement from the rear. TAX FORMS: Plan Simplification The nation's 50.000.000 who heroically tussled taxpayers this year s income tax form won't have to do battle again in 1945, JSYf'CV V- - Vl Vlj if with congress acts favorably on Rep. Robert Dough simplified tax pay' ments. I Under Doughton'i . 30 Plan. million . nniciiLaiii coining less than $5,000 Rep. Doughton yearly in wages and salaries would simply file a copy of their withholding receipt, and the treasury then would figure whether they owed more taxes or were entitled to a refund. People receiving less than $5,000 in wages and salaries but more than $100 in other income would file a simplified statement. The present normal and surtax would be combined into a new surtax and raised to 20 per cent of the first $2,000 of taxable income, and although the victory tax would be abolished, a new normal tax of 3 per cent would be imposed on net income over $500. All exemptions would be set at $500 per person. t Vje4 Members of the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve, an organization established by the navy to guard factories, are being mustered out. Civilian patrolmen will protect the plants In the f;:'ire. SHOTGUN MII.I.I.S: The WPB may release about 26.000.000 shotgun shells for sale to civilians early in April, according to information obtained by Senator Maybank. GUARDS: FOOD: Can't Feed World ... rec- '. The Love Letter of the Week: From Quentin Reynolds' book, "The Curtain Rises": "Most of what I wrote in the diary is nothing but gossip. Still I suppose if a thousand years from now someone were to dig up the Winchell columns of the 1920s, he would get a pretty clear picture of life here during those hectic days. You cannot dismiss gossip columns by saying they discuss only trivial things. To a great extent they reflect the age in which we live." shipyard were arrested by the FBI and accused of defrauding the government of sums amounting to a million dollars yearly. Allegedly in operation for five years, the scheme involved welders, who were said to have paid the men checking their work $1 or more per day for altering the. records, enabling some to make as much as $15 extra per day. More than 700 welders allegedly were involved at the shipyards, where total employment exceeds 8,000, and 24 tankers and cargo ships were turned out last year. Declaring that the U. S. cannot be the food basket of the world. War Food Administrator a.roay Marvin Jones said LOCKER PLANTS: that other Allied na- Increase Use tions will have to Due to an expected expansion of provide a major 25 cent in war gardens this year, share of postwar re- a per 10 per cent increase in frozen lief in . distressed food locker plant capacity for 1944 countries. U. S. is foreseen. Although So widespread has become use of food supplies are locker plant, operators predict adequate for civil- the ians and services, a 50 per cent expansion in facilities Marvin Jones Jones said, our ex- during the five years following the portable surplus in war, with increasing use in big proportion to the Allies' total cities. amounts to 7 per cent of the wheat, Originally designed as a rural of the service with 80 per cent in commugrain and flour; fats and edible oils; of the nities of 5,000 population or less, meat, fish and rice; and a little locker plants are most numerous in more of canned fish, dried fruits, the Middlewest, though their popu- and of peas and beans. larity has spread to New England, the South and Far West The nation's foreign relief contributions chiefly will be ma'de up of dry beans "Ind. peas, cereals, soya Business-Financ- e products and minimum amounts of animal proteins and concentrates, Jones said. More stress will have to be placed Mail Order Because of shortages of merchanon dirt crops at home, Jones said, because short feed supplies will cut dise, Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., America's No. 2 mail order house, livestock levels. was unable to fill orders for in 1943. Cost to the company Crop Acreage Only in oats, rice and sorghums will for handling the orders, moreover, War Food administration goals for approximated $8,000,000, contribut1944 be equalled or exceeded, the ing to the decline in earnings for the department of agriculture declared, year to $20,677,098. Average numwith soybeans, peanuts, corn, wheat, ber of employees is 78,000. barley, flaxseed, potatoes, sweet po- Rails tatoes, dry beans and peas, tobacco, Ordinarily a small item in peacehay and sugar beets likely to fall time, special freight rates to the below the mark. on goods moving over Unless the weather is unusually government land to the railroads may favorable, the wheat crop may not cut thegranted rails' wartime earnings from exceed 750 million bushels against 300 to 500 million dollars, Union Pa836 million in 1943, USDA said, while cific President William M. Jeffers 3.126.000.000 bushels of corn should said. Repeal of such rates is being be harvested if yields equal the 1939-'4- 2 sought. average. Potato output should drop to 410.000,000 bushels compared Renegotiation with the record 464,000,000 of last Stating that contractors whose war orders had been cancelled by year. "There seems to be a general fear the government have received no that there will be an inadequate sup- more than 10 per cent of their settleply of labor needed during short ment claims and some have waited periods for harvesting certain crops over a year for action, a senate subwhich are dependent on seasonal lacommittee pressed for legislation immediate bor," the USDA said. granting contractors financial assistance up to 90 per cent EUROPE: of their claims to provide working capital for other production. Invasion Moves ht in tht teeek's EUROPEAN RELIEF: Ask Food Shipments Long opposed by the British because it would relieve the blockade girdling Axis Europe, plans for feeding the needy of occupied coun- tries were pushed forward in ington, D. Wash- with a house committee's recommendation that the U. S. undertake the task under supervision of neutral powers. Similar to a proposal already approved by the senate, the house plan sponsored by Rep. Fish (N. Y.) asked that the Swiss and Swedish governments and the International Red Cross be requested 'o supervise shipments and distribution of food In France, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Norway, the Netherlands and Jugoslavia so that none shall fall in German hands. Citing such relief to Greece last year. Fish said the U. S. state department certified the successful operation of the plan, without benefit to Germany. C, VACATION GAS news C. 8. EMPLOYMENT) Total number of persons employed in the United States has declined to the low-epoint in two years, at 50,200.000 at the end of February. Last July the total was 54.600.000. e The prak was In August. 1942. with Most of 54.800,000 people at work the reduction is accounted for by withdrawal of women from temporary jobs. st all-tim- Winter vacationists who drove to Florida resorts and now are unable to obtain gasoline to return to their homes cannot expect assistance by The appealing to Chester Bowles. head of the Office of Price Administration curtly refused to overrule Florida rationing boards. War needs must come first, he said. "We simply do not have enough gasoline to earmark any of It for driving to and from vacation resorts, If we sre to meet these needs," Mr. Bowles stated. ch tuck-i- n around piece with an arrow, as shown, to indicate which way the grain of the goods should run. At the bottom of the sketch the pattern pieces are shown pinned to the material. U figured fabric is used, be sure to place the pattern pieces so that the design is centered for the back and the seat chair. of the This illustration is from BOOK 3 Editorial Dep't Novelette: It hap- jvhich also contains working directions and for other types of slip covers pened in the city room of one of the diagrams and illustrated Ideas for giving your Big Town gazettes . . . Two of the housemany a fresh start this spring. Price of boys were back to say hello . . . BOOK 3 is 15 cents. Address: the of out One (who has never been country) wore the army oak leaf MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS . . . The other wore the gray-greeBedford Hills New York of the marines, with a couple of Drawer 10 hard-wo- n stripes . . . Tippled and Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 3. blustering, the Major called upon Name the Marine to salute . . . The kid responded quickly . . . After all, he Address the Mahad been only a copy-boif jor had been an editor, you please It was a tight, tense moment A real editor looked up from his work with studied puzzlement . . . "Tell me," he said in clipped, quiet, carrying syllables, "which one WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY of you was it who killed six JapS on The Major Guadalcanal?" Buried Erect waddled out the door . . . The kid So that they may face the day of was too modest. resurrection on their feet, the dead of New Guinea are buried stand--In- g Midtown Vignette: This is one of up. that caress the those shawt-shawt- s . . He is a very eyes and ears young member of a Fortress crew now being rehabilitated after service among the flak in Europe . . . He has most of the campaign ribbons but no medals for outstanding heroism . . . Two of his buddies have several . . . The lads had a few hours leave last night and decided to go to one of the night spots with their buddy and his bride . . . And because he had no silver star or other medals the other two didn't wear theirs. n .............. ... ... MorolineI ... h While the British ordered England's south invasion coast closed and Allied bombers continued to hammer German industry and defenses, Adolf Hitler moved with his customary suddenness in establishing direct Nazi control over Hungary in preparation for the big Allied offensive against the continent. Hitler's action was designed to incorporate Hungary economically and militarily into the German wehr-macas Rumania and Bulgaria already have been, so as to provide a common pool of resources and men for use against invading armies in the Balkans. In closing the English invasion coast, the British sealed off territory facing France and the Lowlands on the south, and Norway and Denmark on the east, prospective second front sites. Meanwhile, bitter action raged around the Cassino foothills for the key to the road to Rome, and fighting fluctuated at the Anzio beachhead to the northwest. seams and a a spring seat. Notch the seams to show how they should be joined. When fitting a pattern, mark each NOTE one-thir- d $105,-000,0- RUTH WYETH SPEARS -- ords so as to draw higher pay, 34 employees of the Bethlehem Steel company's Sparrows Point, Md., Burma l'MLL: INHERE are two ways to make a slip cover. One is to pin and The Wireless: Radio historian Jien cut the actual material right Harriet Van Home quotes a medico )n the chair; the other is to cut as saying that listeners to the day- nuslin or old sheets on the chair time soap operas expose themselves and then use the pieces for a patto "increased blood pressure, noc- tern. Whichever method is used,, fit turnal frights, vasomotor instability, vertigo, gastro - intestinal disturb- and pin the pieces smoothly but inch ances, profuse perspiration, tremors 3o not stretch them. Allow and a slight touch of tachycardia" Of course, that doctor is talking about only those who LIKE the programs . . . Marion Coveridge, the minor (she's 14), packs a wallop with her ballads Sunday ayems via NBC . . . Too many radio Jesters really believe the studio audiences' howls as legitimate. The result is that the comics are getting careless. What brings big laughter in studios often brings yawns in the parlors. air-bor- Charged with falsifying work 1 Notes of a New Yorker It still takes a long, long step to keep ahead of the BI. 'HIGHLIGHTS by Daukhage j n ' ' V Q SHIPYARD FRAUD: FBI Nips Scheme . To facilitate the educational program for servicemen overseas, the United States Armed Forces institute has set up branches in Ave theaters of war Southwest Pacific, South Pacific, Middle East, European and Alaskan theaters. Members of all branches of the Ameri- over-specifi- c. The pay-a- s rvu-earsystem of income tax collections is being considered in Australia. , de- mid-Pacifi- c, Mc-Nar- y, Spangler's forte is organization, and that's the word he uses most. "The precinct is the squad," he said. "If you have good squads, you have a good regiment." He has reduced the training of the squad to a very simple formula. Get one energetic worker and assign him or her 20 Republican voters. See that they vote. Mark Han-n- a used that system. It works. Iowa (Spangler's own state) uses it. Many others do. The important word in the last sentence is "do." Important because Spangler used it in the present tense. In the days of the Blue Eagle, and for many years thereafter, any statement about an effective Republican political organization had to be used in the past tense. But tempora mutantur, again. Sangler believes that times have changed and have been changing for some time. Chairman Spangler is not starting t scratch with his organizing; 26 lates which have elected Republican governors, he pointed out to me, already have pretty good machines which are working now. The chairman is a typical, successful businessman of a middle-size- d town (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) in the Middle West. His speech and his speeches are pretty much basic English except when he "rises to pronounce" on party principles. Then he uses good old substantial political phrases marshaled in the conventional manner. But like all committee chairmanships, his job is eschewing the He can talk about candidates, but not a candidate, pro or con; he can talk about platforms but not about planks. He is, according to his associates, man of action. Already he has visited all of the northern states and that is what he Is still doing, dividing his time between the field nd the Washington office. He likes A campaign to fill 100,000 present and Impending job vacancies on the railroads will be conducted by a newly established railroad manpower mobilization committee representing the united efforts of the government and railroad labor and management. against the Japs' stubborn outer The Farm Problem d Well-Use- d . best to meet with a small group of leaders, about 30. He also makes his contacts with organizations. (He, himself, is an Elk and a Mason.) WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. On a recent sunshiny Washington afternoon, I made a pilgrimage to white-pillare- r HOME FRONT Bur- fenses. In U. S. battleships and bombers plastered the enemy's isolated holdings in the eastern Marshalls, while farther to the southeast, U. S. army fliers ripped Jap shipping moving troops and supplies along the New Guinea coast for fighting in the rugged country around Madang. With one side and then the other trying to hold off the other before the rainy monsoon season sets in in Burma, Allied troops launched an offensive behind Jap lines in the north, but the enemy struck back with a full scale offensive to the south; aimed at snapping U. S. and British supply lines radiating from India. (KDITOR'8 NOTE: When opinion are expressed In these eolumns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst ON THE From the Marshall Islands to Emphasizes International Cooperation; Nazis Surrendering Ukraine Foothold; Congress Studies Simplified Tax Form Simple Election Formula THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1944 NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- ' ' plant FERRY'S The Magic Lanterns: Hollywood, which has too often pictured a kick better, more productive gardena, for plant Ferry ' Seeds. Many outstanding in a Jap's pants as the pay-of- f vegetable and Sower varieties are availPearl Harbor, gets down to cases able at your local Ferry'i dealer. in "The Purple Heart." Here's a Bicker that brings the film colony FERRY-MORS- E SEED CO. up to date. Its story gets inside SAN DETROIT KANQSCO reyou and twists and burns with its port on the Sneakanese savagery. The tale is told not with a ladle, but with a typewriter of cold steeL Dana In the Long Ago Andrews, Sam Levene and Richard Sharks once swam in a sea in Conte are superb as the captured fliers . . . Nora Bayes gets hei uur Central states where cattle now graze. biog sung and danced in "Shine On Harvest Moon," a rich load of ye old tyme nostalgia. Its typical ol the musicals, and you can't imagine anyone not reveling in some of the memories ol the big town before it went soft or. crepes suzettes and laced shoes. SEEDS PPJnC)BIJ,ES In the forthcoming film of Nors "Shine on Harvest Bayes' life Moon," they omit this incident . . . Nora once wired E. F. Albee, th vaudeville magnate: "Beginnini next week my salary must be $10,000 a week" . . . Albee replied: "Your salary will remain $1,000 pel week" . . . Nora opened as sched uled, but after singing eight bars ol Take Me Out to the Ball Game" she stopped the music and told thi audience: "That's $1,000 worth o: my act" and walked off. Then there's the one about th playwright who was called upon t make a curtain speech . . . He ram bled on and on, with words golnj round and round looking for an idei . . . When ho came to the phrase. "I am speaking for the benefit o posterity" a heckler in the audi ence drove him from the stage witt the squelch: "Yes, and if you aren'-quicabout it, they'll be along V hear you." No colyum on stage stories wouk be complete without one about Johi Barrymore, whoso pungent wordagi packed more of a wallop than mos critics . . . During a rehearsal wltl an uppity actress, Barrymore madi some harsh remarks about her worl . . . The actress drew herself up ti her full height and snapped: " want you to remember that I am lady!" Barrymore made a long, sweep ing bow and came up with the ropie reply: "Madam. secret?" I shall rcstect von YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM : ' r HOT FLASH If you suffer from hot flashes, weak, nervous, cranky feelings, are a bit blue at times due to the functional "middle-age- " period peculiar to women try Lydia K. Pinkham a Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. Taken regularly Pinkham's Compound helps build up resistance against such distress. It helps nature! 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