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Show c . 5 m2 America is nnderwrit- - ", tea by a divine promise. Its government shall not perish while the world nir gfthto ' , l stands. Waves of sin and rebellion may hurt, but never destroy. 0ihine ZL's- - NOWB? (OM KEITH BLDG. W4M8 .aiaaa&sgsgggjio Published Weekly by C. N.Lund ! ' 1A0 PEB TEAS Let Us Help Keep Our AMERICA Free and Cleans mvtnx NEPS ANALYSIS BT JOSEPH IT. THE WARS: In the North Mure ghort Congress Held Unlikely Controversial Issues Arise; Farm Tax Fight Splits Cabinet As an arosaed la these SDROgSNOTK-Wheaoptal- aaa tfhat Theyre Saying About: Dies Blunder Third Party wiseacres for the "third par- Washington which would draft President Rooee-u- movement ti" pre-nma- lt to run agalnl Reason: , AH party movements have suc-ce-n f,na, the nearest thing ter coming in 1913 when Theogdrd started the Bull. movement after losing the G. O. F. nomination. This campaign divided the opposition (G. 0. P.) and enabled Demo- dore Roosevelt cratic Woodrow Wilson to win. But this year fee G. 0. P. la united, end a third party would Many In official Washington believe the Dies committee erred grievously in waiting until the last minute before releasing its report on alleged Communist penetration In the Hollywood motion picture coKxur. The automatically end when congress convenes, making It Impossible to hold a public airing of the charges. With or without foundation, there Is timing to be a complaint that persons named in the report have no op- hearings themselves. This will hurt file committees drive for new fund. Davies Job the Republ- At Geneva, London and many other points, seismologist! found their seismographs awry, indicating an earthquake somewhere In the vicinity of southern Russia. A few houra later word leaked out of Ankara, Turkey. From the north, where Turkey borders the Blade sea, cama news of n major catastrophe In which upwards cl 10,000 had probably died. Royal Speech Opening a parliament which must appropriate the largest budget In Japan's history, Emperor Hirohito 4L hailed an out-of-st- "Improve- ment" in foreign relati- army should make the moat of Europe's war: "With the outbreak of disturbance! Both Mr. Hull and the President h have vowed a defenae on this matter, which could easily produce s long and heated session. Importance: An administration defeat would mean that congress favors Republican high tariff, giving the G. O. P. an important foothold for 1940 In the Important farm areas. In Back to Washington each New Ytara day scurry the nations law-xakeThia year they hope to worry home again a few weeks lat-for 1940 is an election year and tee are plenty of fences In need (patching. But as Franklin Boose-w- it n began working on hie and budget and message!, N Henry Wallace and Henry Mor-jwfl- au Europe, the. . . situation haa be- last-ditc- come extremely complicated. You must therefore make a dose study of conditions . . . and direct your efforts to expand the national power so the conviction of the empire may be realized . . Labor Act Recent hearings before the house committee investigatcontract for ing the National Labor Relation! C Announcing ale of Bonneville (Wash.) dams board will probably result in decarried their tax battle Into mands for revision of the act Un- power to the Aluminum Company of open, there wai no sign that savory things wera said about America, ires would be short lived. NLRB, especially those allegations Secretary of HJ Rooseveltian alma are (1) of C L O. favoritism. Business Interior Harjteitlon it ell New Deal policies, and A. F. of L. are both demanding old Ickei called It "a teUng neutrality and flit reclpro- - reforms. r factual trade program; (2) approprla-te- rt $80,000,000 which congreaa J" te treasury for farm were approved tor; (S) bigger bene-Vc- h but ndt RELIGION: Peace Drive claim then A marked theological flutter foldefense (4) as little fighting aa lowed President Roosevelt's appointto keep the Maw Deala ment of Myron C. Taylor, former to fee closet But no ob-rU. K Steel head, aa hia "personal expcted a pink tea party on representative to the Vatican. -T tee issues: at the Chris tmastide, the Pres-idea1 message to Pope Pius XU, Formally announced Henry Wallace's plan to siphon Dr. George Buttrlck of fire Federal f $300,000,000 annually Council of Churches and Rabbi Cyconsumers to help rus Adler, president of the Jewish farm program. Facts of Theological Seminary, sought to tehh w unite world spiritual force in a certlflcstepian. would receive income ear-te- s peaea drive. valued at the difference Said Dr. Buttrlck: "We share price of the crop the President's confidence that men Pike." Processors jOters buying crops would be Wa; Well-tim- ed i Si?" fl,'ertiflcat- - wss a wept that Henry J., treasury ftu good Mor- - complained ?p,isThre J little hope (hat 1MM1 budget can though new are found for encau, other expenses win grade. Moat U. S. tax tnodifleation, tad eertainiV? conreli-i- a ,aVCrage dWire to new levies ,ear Hut the Preel- tout M"1 to un,1 1JL V toe wukh.fiWs isitt.1? up to congress, hands of the entire artoultura, wf Mrtha RVitive con-(Uio- ed com- - tovltn,i2?flcate ptn la really fill Pe Porting out that aU 8. faxes consumers, "ttoinu Drt? to . wZr:.?al,ln thio cbova Unfit 1 J otocumventlng new comment- - tom. nlft?"?. . ,lready h oooSiSm wlthta 2 S iSJ m,rk lays he'll to In the 0. P. dinst r" t chMka whm b expected Piopwed J0.1defenae pSal tens When lit- s, expendi- - r Ohios Robert Taft, himself .. aspirant, warned ESr i tonRitory ?!?cal tototo program un Uader Heavy G. of SUte Cor-te- es renewal this session. DR. BUTT RICK Shawl Ihe Praidenlt confident. and women in every land have a basic faith In God and therefor in human brotherhood, and that even they are In the present chaos . better day." a preparing Down In Atlanta, Baptist Rev. Louis D. Newton questioned the move, asking (1) If Taylora salary la to be paid by the government; (2) If congress hsi passed uch an enabling act; (3) if Taylor win consider the Vatican a reliIf the gious or political body; (4) President has a right to lend him. Next day Whits House Secretary Steve Early announced the U. S. has no intention of according the .Vatican the diplomatic recognition which waa withdrawn in 1887, but has pointed out that the President a right to name an "ambassador asm portfolio" with the privilege 'aa those enjoyed recently acted by Norman H. Davla, who af European trouble shooter. without an- swer to those skeptic who la ho real d for power" from government plants on the Columbia ; Afterthoughts as 1940 Starts Many Signs of Awakening Lead to Optimism for New Year; Work of Labor Board Criticized; SEC Weaves 'A Tangled Web; Too Much Federal Government. i - revealed Alcoa plana a plant at Van-corner costing several million dol- lars. ment the problems of the United States, I am forced to conclude that I have The President not done my job very well. Confidentially, I have believed for a long time that it la up to you folks out there to do the thinking that la followed up by governmental policies. The brand of thinking that la dominant In government now baa gone sour. It surely la getting us no place very fait ' I aaa rather eptimlsUo sheet I They Cannot, Will Not See What," ssys an English writer, is the use of defiantly reckoning our ship tonnage when the children of our slums would shame a Kafir KraalT The great souls of the big men of the Victorian Age who were debating the origin and destiny of man and the office of God, were too aloof to know the children crawling naked in the galleries of the mines. It is about fhe same today. The great men in the financial world and most of them in the political world, cannot see, from their positions of wealth and luxurious living, the condition of the are as many algaa nt an awakening. millioni of children who are stunted and weakened by malnuIt la the kind of an awakening that trition. They cannot and will not try to realise the condition causes voters to sweep out panaceas and blue printed programs. The of all these boys and girls, and therefore they countrys trend definitely la, Z behave not w.edom to do what should be done to save the counlieve, towards Its old conservative after aimless wanderings try and the people. They are apparently deaf and dumb before base around In the garden ofr tarns, t the awful truth that because of the conditiou whieb they We have been pestered with "fanconcent to remedy, the great and wonderful, even miractastic phrases that have disappeared ulous Age which cama in with the steam engine and wrought each time with the rainbow. Forwhat it was thought not even the Gods could do, is going out and ending in the destruction of i ts civilisation and its life by Retrospect and Prospect bombs and guns. New Year sets Bruchart muswill-no- - ing. General awakening warrants optimism for future. Sees trend toward conservatism. Dies committee does a whale of a job. Finds too much federal govern- Hats Off to the Optimist Club We take our hat off to the Optimist Club which has for its slogan, Friend of the Boy, and aims to build character and privilege for underprivileged youth. This is one of the finest efforts we have read about and we support it 100 per cent. Many a great man haa come up from the ranks of the underprivileged by getting a band and a boost at the right time. But countless ones have gone down and down to the gutter and perdition because there was no helping hand to steady them and give them opportunity. In spite of all the brain in the legal and judicial systems boys are herded to the prisons and reformatories and few voices are raised to anything better. We cannot see how anyone can live a more pure and undefiled religion than to lend a helping hand to the underprivileged who are erying out for aid from every corner of the land. Better look up from your ledgers, you rich men, and lend a hand while there is time The awful look on the faces of these children and young people who are denied about everything worthwhile, is a most ominua one and does not pugur well for the great and wise ones are saying and fing-fa- g, future. The God Bleas America," which sounds fine, but it would be better to get down among the unfortunates who have been ' pushed aside by the system, give them a hand and throw ouf the life line to their sinking souls. ASIA: Army in the Saddle men in Chins wen cold to Japans announcement that foreign shipping in the Yangtze river U. S. business would soon be rezumed. Thia new concession would probably mean little; Indeed It might never come to pais if flu U. S. refuses a new trade treaty when the present Japanese pact expires January 28. But there was a growing opinion among Occidintala fa the Orient that their biggest enemy was not the Japanese government of Premier Nobuyukl Abe, but rather the powerful army. Therefore It would be smart to play ball with Premier Abe, for his cabinet must fall If the trade talks fail. Tbla would place the hostile army In command, leaving U. 8. business men stranded. Some hint of the situation was dropped in Washington Ken-uk- e where Japanese Ambassador Horinouchl Intimated that almust seek the ready his government approval of army officer In China before granting the U. S. any new eonceasionf. L. a Philadelphia died Henry public Doherty, Htinttea executive and oil man, 13 to who left school at the age of work for the Columbus (O.) gai re company. Bon jamea At Sacramento, AnBooieveli and two other Los of article filed men gelo for Globa Producand tions. Inc a motion picture radio firm. Press Bldg., Washington, D. WASHINGTON. DEAR FOLKS. Thera are some things that I want to get off of my cheat Soma facts, some conclusions, some afterthoughts, soma predictions, just odds and ends, consequential and inconsequential that ought to be said. The start of a new year itrikea me as a good time to do It (Alio, this marki the start of my ninth year as columnist and I am grateful to you who have done me the honor to read my observations.) You folks may have disagreed with me many times during the last year. I have no quarrel about that the If, however, product that I have sent you each week baa failed to eauae you to think more deeply about the problems of govern- ment Flays Labor board and SEC. tunately, there were comparatively few who made or followed those preachments. Yet there were some who believed them, and all that they have left is an unhappy memory. The reason there were so few out of ail fits millioni In America who strayed off from sound Americanism lies In the fact that the nation has grown great by restricting government to government fiaictions. Then It Will Be a Happy New Year dawn when, asThomai Curds Clark nyi men shall wake with ringing on I: r Gpaaad goto toil thatblooma with hope, un cuned by feari, and joy shall grace each heart. When gireed shall die and while others fiarve for bread. gold shall lose its lure- - No soul will gloat and poverty be unknown. When every When war's barbarities shall cease Soon a New Year rhiH will still bright with heaven s gleams, shall play in Eden-garde- ns, streams. And humans all shall find again their long lost ly Rowing Then indeed it wtll be a hadpy New Year. & u by softdreams. not fiction That is what our readers get each week in WEEKLY HEWS ANALYSIS It is prepared for us by Joseph W. La Bine, a trained observer and capable writer. It gives each reader a comprehensive report of the actual happenings of importance in war-tor- n Europe. It eliminates the countless rumors and the propaganda with which newspapers and radio are being flooded, and covers the facts. Read it each week, and quote it without fear of successful comrwdiction. Much of SEC Rules, Edicts Seem Wholly Unntctssory get pretty disgusted with the mouthlngi of thof folks who would change ue all over night end make ue Into robots to be governed by The Voice or by radia The eecurities and exct.ange commission hi:1 ' t i M Recurring Demands That F, D, R. Give 3rd Term Stand 'r This TF a yhar 'of national elee tlons. There will be a lot of snarl- ing as. Indeed, It already has started. There was that recent incident of President Roosevelt messing Into an already badly messed Ohio relief situation. Facta that situation haa since developed indicate that Mr. Roosevelt criticized Governor Bricker, of Ohio, either because the' President waa given a lot of misinformation or because tha Ohio governor Is mentioned frequently as a "dark horse for the Republican presidential nomination. do-There are those rec muds by Republicans, and seme Democrats, that Mr. Roosevelt right away. If net asoner than that, whether he la going to eek a third tens. All that la accomplished by that sort of thing la to show definitely how foolish a politician can appear when he talks out of tun. Such public statements demanding that Mr. Roosevelt announce are no more ridleuloua, however,' Own tin action of numerous ce would-b- e of Labor Board Dictators Bocome Sbnpty Wa have seen only recently what can eome from excursions of government into fields when it does not belong. Consider what has been exposed by file special house committee In its Investigation of the labor relations board. I take some pride in recording the rottenness of that federal agency, because mor than a year ago I was severely criticized for saying that the labor board and the labor relations act would do ae much harm to organized labor as prohibition had done to the cause of temperance. Now. we can read worn statements of how soma members of the board and many of Its employees simply became dictators; how they threatened to "get" private employers or employees who disagreed or disobeyed the federal command; how attempts were made to suppress news stories that were unfavorable to the board and the illy law under which the board operated; how representatives of the board refused to hear statements from those who were charged with violation; how one union faction was given almost complete freedom of action and another wee told. In effect, to go Jump Into the river, and how union leaders and racketeer! had played polities to maintain their dominance in legislation. And when you look through the rosier of employees of the board and examine their history, you plainly see what fire Isms have dragged In. Then, there Is the house committee, headed by Chairman Martin Dies, Texas Democrat. It haa done a whale of a Job In bringing to light the inside borings of the same type of men and women that were shown to have made a farce of democratic principles as demonstrated In the labor board. C. laiued so many rules and regulations, haa entered eo many decisions, haa made so many investigations that appear to be wholly unnecessary that it has put the federal government in a position from which it probably never will fully untangle Itself. I had quits an argument the other day over the statement that moat people believe a permit by the SEC to sell a certain stock amounts f: to federal approval of the shares Involved. Of course, I know that a permit by the commission does not give that approval. The damage la that people win bo Influenced by knowledge of such a federal permit They will think the sham are good, whether they are or not. The wages and hours division of the department of labor la another example, like the securities and exchange commission, of too much federal government It waa bad enough to combat all f the mesa made by the brand af thinkers la the labor department. The wages and boors gang strikes aaa aa being much worse. Frankly, I doubt that those folks know enough to come In out of tha rain. Yet they are striving to expand their poorer. They will bring formers, small town businesses and everything else under the death-han- d of government If they can get away with It Mr. Ickes must not bo forgotten. Ho la secretary of the interior, but "Honest Harold has not missed an opportunity in seven years to attack anybody and everybody who happened to disagree with him. 4 (embers so-call-ed river. It wai ? By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National under-privileg- ons, yet Indicated his st Battle . PEOPLE: ambae-sadonhi- Lineup for rate DISASTER: Turkish Quake forces are making political Reich Wrecks capital out of the appointment of Joseph E. Germany' serious Davies, former ambastrain wrecks are viewed sador to Russia and as a good indication of who has just Belgium fee Reichs serloua ecoDAVIES been named "special nomic plight Naxidoml New Job. assistant" In the state nlbead extension and department The current story: repair program has suffered line Device is married to Mrs. MarUNL Meanwhile Hitlers economic program placed new burdens on jorie Post Close Hutton, cereal helreu, who reputedly didnt like fee rails, climaxed by heavy troop and ammunition movements slnca the bleakness of Moscow when her In the latest husband was granted that p fee war started. for helping the Demowrecks (nine In all sines Septemcratic war chest Apparently disber 1) there were 181 killed and IS injured-- all within a few hours. appointed when Joseph Kennedy was named ambassador to LonTariff Wills don, Davies was given Belgium as State tariff walls which dlscrlm-taat- e a consolation prize. StQl dissatisagainst products fied, says the story, he wss brought are apt to fan In 1940 if the Council bade to Washington and given the of State Governments goes through new post In an effort to keep the with its anticipated program. At Davies-PoInterests In line for least 43 of the states (all except 1940's election. Even if the story Arizona, Idaho.. Missouri, North Is true, Davies knowledge of the Dakota and Washington) already European situation may neverthehave interstate comless prove helpful to the state demissions which will begin holding partment. He has an intimate pic sectional conferences. . ture of the Moscow situation. CONGRESS: Thera are so many things going on in the country that it is simply appalling, and we dont mean maybe. We refer not only to what aliens and alien sympathizers are doing, but to what some are doing who style themselves 100 per cent Americans. The ganget raiketeers.the crooked politicians, and other vipers who are being nursed in the bosom of the country, are a disgrace to decent Americanism. Let ue illustrate by citing one case out of a hundred, some of them right here in our own city. Under the eyes and noses of state insurance departments and state examiners there waa organi ced in the middle states tbe Federal Reserve Life Insurance Colt grew to a 970,000,000 concern. It was milked dry and deliberately wrecked by the organisers, who took all the money, made themselves rich and left the policy holders holding the eack. The investigation proved that the promoters ..were the worst crooks imaginable; that they had bribed with large sums of money the insurance departments and the examiners for a period of years. The policy holders did not get a thin dime for all they had paid in. Similar doings go on in some big banking circles, in some chain drugstores, in some utilities and in many stock selling; schemes. Such crooks are and put through un American schemes. A way should be found to lock up them and their kind for life, or better si ill, find a way to purge them from the nations life. Said a French communique: "There was nothing Important to re port Said German communique: "With the exception of weak enemy artillery fire, the day waa quiet." portunity to defend ican cause. Some Things That Are Un American In the West Bruckarfs Washington Digest Some Conclusions, Predictions, C. N. LUND, Readers, Remember that we do fine Job Printing. Send in your work and get a bid pene-twtin- Reason: qjjt the Democrats, feus aiding By v cslamas, they the newa analyst aa sat MceaoarUy cf this aewspapcr J .BsHsateby Wsstsrrnlfswwmr Union.. nthae d EDITORIALS WORTH READING Atoekdy a queer war in which sol-diers wear ghostly white robes end touvel on skis, the Flnnlsh-Russia- n conflict took on a new note: Fiona ent their night patrols across frozen i on Ice skates. Next their u funs blasted holes inday the ice Russians began crowing, Soviet mops drowning like rate. General-Ispeaking, battalions of 800 supe-- t Finnish soldiers were twining fit Russian divisions of 18,000 all tbe way from Petaamo onmen, the with to the Karelian isthmus on he south. But a month at such humiliation enough for Russia's Dictator ' Stalin. While the Finns chuckled over their success In g Soviet soil almost to fire Leningrad-Murmans- k railroad, the Hraitiin wai reported throwing 300,-1- 0 fresh men Into the fray under new command. The officer! were aid to be Joe Stalin's "personal friends," who now have their choice winning or being personal friend longer. Pemoerst-1- eandida tea their party! c for ' nomination whan they saig they ra candidate! "ft f(r. Rqoaeyelt dop! pot run.? That shows something, too. It demonstrate that Vice Presides! those who have takGarner en such a position are cheap and are not willing to riaa or fall with tha tide of politics. X liked the way Cactus Jack" Garner announced. Ha said ha was in the battle to win, because he wanted the nomination. No mention waa made of Mr. Roosevelts possible There wera no Us or candidacy. and or huts. Hopes Republicans Will Soon Show Signs of Sense And While 1 am taking down my hair and combing out the bangs, X wish that tha Republicans would begin to show some eigne of sense. But here they are: three candidates out and only one (hooting straight from the shoulder. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan hat been riding two or three horses at once. He apparently still has a package of liberalism In his pockets and District Ate torney Dewey with one speech that could not understand. However, I reckon the speech had something In It because a lot of New Dealers made fun of it. If they had nut been hit. they would not have Tha other Republican squealed. candidate. Senator Taft of Ohio, has tangled a time or two with President Roosevelt and my guess is that ha took off snme White House hark because hr was pretty elose to the mark But In the background are a lot of hopefuls who are sticking out their tongues, among them tor-n- o big-tim- X r Governor Land on of Kansas, wlm mice ran againat Mr. Roosevelt i n a program and platform that he c'Uld do better than Mr. Roosevelt the very seme things that Mr. Roosevelt was doing. Well anyway, folks, X think wa may live through It That is, wa will survive If rural America keeps lu head and uses It A 'l |