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Show Jh Flowers in Basket Attractive Chair Set NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Senator Wheeler seen hid ding for Roosevelt support ifF.D.R. doesn't want third term... South demands way to ship cotton to England . . . Indianans state pride makes Republicans favor McNutt's candidacy. even the cotton farmers, as it Is to the makers of airplanes. So the cotton people have already begun bombarding Washington with demands that tha government do something to get this cotton moved. South Demands W ay Be Found To Ship Cotton to England A little thing like the neutrality act provision barring United States ships from trading with the belligerents or going into war zones near them bothers the cotton folks no mors than the law of supply and demand did last year, or the year before that They have been educated by their politicians for years to believe that by voting for the right people at primary time, they could be sure to hsve men in Washington who would crack down on the wicked individuals in New Yak, or elsewhere, who were keeping the price of cotton down. Thus though naturally their mode of correction had not been notably successful until Triple A benefits began to pour in they have coma to look to Washington for everything. And they are looking right now. Get this cotton to England, they demand. Some of the people who were shouting loudest of all to keep the arms embargo on It was murder to sell munitions to belligerents" art now Just as vociferous in their demands that the United States government must get around this cash and cany" thing somehow, and get that cotton abroad. It was always tills way. When Britain was interfering with cotton shipments to Holland on the theory that tha cotton was really going to Germany, back in 1915 much of tha cotton country wanted to break oil diplomatic relations with England. All of which is Just human nature, and politics. But look out for repercussions. A lot of senators who are openly sneering now at the idea of hoisting tiie Panamanian flag over United States line ships will be singing a very different tune in January. Especially Southern senators. The White House knows all about this, and ia much less concerned about tiie criticism of the Panama deal than one might think. Some That cotton way will be found. MUST get to England to please New Orleans if not Manchester. Senator Burton Wheelers statement that no candidate could win tiie' DemdcratiC nomination without the approval of President Roosevelt, or at least that tha nomination would be worth-le- u without active support for the candidate by F. D. R., is regarded by most political observers here as Pattern 6129 J' a Anal bid by tha Montana statesA basket crocheted is one piece man for Roosevelt's support in tha flower medallions repeated and eventuality that the President does Joined with a few leaves added. not seek renomination. Sew them together to make this Tha point ia that virtually an obattractive chair set. The medal- servers agree that President Rooselions alone make a matching velt would never lift scarf. Pattern 6429 contains in- a ' finger ' to-- ' help structions for set; illustration at it Burt Wheeler ' get and stitches; materials needed.1 tha Democratic 'To obtain this pattern send 15 nomination, even cents in coins to The Sewing Cir- assuming that the cle, Household Arts Dept, 259 W. President did not 14th St, New York, N. Y. want the nominaPlease write your name, ad- tion himself. Wheeldress and pattern number plainly. er had been waving dive branches 'at tiie White House for sane time, and the President baa been sending for him a great deal, thus giving the impression that tiie feud between the two had been healed. But no one outside the Wheeler entourage has taken this peaceFor Further Use very seriously. It is pointed McTavish called at the head of- making out that the President has never for fice of his bank and asked to see given any one who proved his enemy the general manager. on any important issue, ' and the "Have you a card, sir?" he was thought is that the defeat tha White asked. House took on the Supreme court Aye, I have that replied bill left too many bitter ;l "but first let me see if packing scars for any waving are hands dean." yer to overcome it The theory is that tiie President I Do women ever listen to anysmile at Wheeler, and use him, may thing?" asks "Husband." Watch on tiie notion that there is no use them when money talks. biting off ones nose to spite ones face, but that the cordiality la all on tiie surface. Easy Task "Father mm very pleated when I told Wheeler, however, has apparently Um'jtsu mm taken the President's constant conOn, Im Ad ta Yet, the lest of my beyt he tried to sultations with him during the last session of congress at their face thro w out MM M baser.' value, assuming, of course, that tiie outside gossip is right about tiie the Weddings OS And A ' young man ordered two President's really not having for--, , dozen roses to be sent to his fian- given him. cee, aged 24, and wrote' on the Roosevelt Strongly Opposed card that was to 'go with them: To Nomination Garner of "A rose for every year of your 1 There is also very general agreeprecious life. Throw in an extra dozen, said ment that tha President would never the florist; hes a good cus- stand for the nomination of John Nance Gainer. The President be' tomer. The assistant did as he was told. lieves that Gamer la utterly out of sympathy with many of the New Deal policies. Marvelous Most of tiie left wingers around She hod toured Europe hit tummer, tod her langguffaring friemdt hod mo tiie White House, tiie men who have chance to forget the fact. ' the most ready access to tiie Presi"And Paritl" the guthed. m Petrie h dent; feel sure that they would not mender fuL The people are oil to have positions very long after Gar-ui- 'i well educated. Why, even the ttreet inauguration. So they take detmert talk French. pains to keep tiie home fixes burn.1 ing so far as tiie President's disHis Question trust of his "second in command Teacher J ohnny, hew is it you is concerned. dont know the answers to any of Incidentally these left wingers my questions? had no hesitancy in private have if I what Well, did, Johnny with other officials, conversations be here would I at all? doing and with outsiders as well, in expressing their conviction that the President would never approve GarMIDDLE AGE WOMEN. ners nomination. While they conI ' tend that it would be impossible to ilhntUi? umT by taHas nominate Gamer without RoosPfnkbam'i famoui evelts sanction, when pressed as to fbrhdMasf i TV, W what the President would do if GarLYDIA E.PINKHMrS ner should be nominated, they InVECETUU CSMPeSHS sist he would take a walk. WASHINGTON. K. moles Me-Tsvis-h, olive-branc- ! ' ! Playing the Fool. People are never so near play- ing the fool as when they think themselves wise. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. i . I GAS SO BAD CROWDS HEART HIM MH HH HM1IM NMIniMUmblib me MB U m I uboait. IhMidbrikt him, Ob, tin CM bloated uia Oocuud vuta nittor . Tha am dose Adlorika rtBWftd Mild Ska uat Rsorea at Ta tba bowels ia mm tan two boon, Idknka to BOTH oarmiaativo aid aootaiaiac Earmiaatina to warm aad ootha tha ataaiacb and opal GAB, and tbiaa atbartua to dear tho bowele and rdiera in Said at oU drug Mena BUREAU OF t ; STANDARDS A BUSINESS organization which wants to get the most for the money sets up standards by which to Judge what is offered to it, just as in Washington the govern-xnen- t tnainFama a Bureau of Standards. Yon can have your own Bureau of Standards, too. Just consult tho advertising columns of your newspaper. They safeguard your purchasing power every day of every year. Congress May Take Hand In Transfer of Ship Flags There may be an entirely different picture of this business of transferring United States lines ships to the flag of Panama by the time congress convenes. The first obvious indignation was at the obvious duplicity as critics saw it of the scheme. Especially starting to put it through after congress had gone home, satisfied that it had passed a law which would keep the United States out of a certain type of danger which might involve this country in the war. It is perfectly true that the chief reasons actuating President Rbose-ve- lt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull in approving the idea was to enable American industry to market its wares abroad. But the big pressure is not coming from the airplane manufacturers, or the toolmakers, or even the oil men. They know that the belligerents will find some way, of getting enough ships over here to bring those particular products. The real outcry is coming from the cotton men. Cotton has been piling up in New Orleans, for instance, because the ships that normally would be carrying It to England have been barred from that trade by the cash and carry" provisions of the neutrality act Now, of course, eventually Britain must havs that cotton. She would have to provide ships for it some way or other. But this is not as clear to tha cotton factors, and 1. Has Brazil a state as large 2. What makes wood decay? 3. Does the moon influence pendulum clocks? 4. How do waves on the Great Lakes compare with waves on the oceans? 5. Which is the longer coastline, the Atlantic or Pacific? 6. How do our rivers compare with those of Europe? larger - ture. 3. The mechanism of pendulum clocks is affected slightly by the gravitational pull of the moon. 4. Waves on the Great Lakes sometimes reach 25 feet; ocean waves, more than 5. The Atlantic. 6. 50 The Mississippi feet. alone dis- charges more water than all the rivers of Europe. piuam Fool The Half-Wa- y The fools and tiie wise are equally harmless; it is the halfwho are wise and the the most to be feared. Goethe. half-fooli- The Securities and Exchange commission granted exemption from the utilities holding company act to American and Foreign Power company, Inc., Insofar aa its activities concern foreign countries. American & Foreign, a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Shares company, ia a 500 million dollar cor paratlon controlling 113 compuniea in 13 countries. Although 27 of the H CAMELS SLOWER BURNING TOV GET fifty-secon- He started life aa a can boy In a Landon theater. His next Jab1 was as aa undertaker's mute, a hired meaner, eeme-time- a fining ia aa aa emergency aad the lihe. He wore blach well aad did nicely ia hla new career, nnUI hie memariei of the theater obtruded at aa anfortaaata moment. He was walking solemnly behind a hearse, when a distant hand struch up a tune, which carried him back-stag- e again. He swung open the door of tho hearse aad called oat, The overture begins saw, air." ' That shunted him right back to the theater, which, by all accounts, he never should have left He has written and produced 64 plays and is tiie author at eight books of reminiscence, comment and criticism. He was knighted in 1935, and May-fa- ir made a tremendous fhss over him, with similar cheers from the populace; In the Wald war he organized concerts and shows for the of soldiers and kept up a drum-fir- e spirited humor which rated him aa tho leading empire morale-builde- r. . i with Henry F. Grady DINING years ago; this writer free-trae noted that be had that religion. He has never slid. Grady Sticks to Old-Tim- e de Ho ia secretary Hull's Free Jeph- Trade Religion to smite the hip and thigh as they asaail the secretary's trade agreements program. ' ' Mr.' Grady, Celtic and - incurably eptimiatle specialist ia foreign trade, ia assistant secretary af state and baa taken ever the fob ef expounding and putting forward the agreement. Tho law authorising the plan will expire Jane 12, had the 'continuation of this trade policy will be an early and exciting kick-oIs congress. Mr. Grady, a San Franciscan, educated at St Marys university, Baltimore, is a man of encyclopedic learning in trade matters, a lecturer at many universities, the author rf many books and treatises and a member of many learned societies. He boils down a mountain of data and statistics to his vehement insistence that no matter how wo may tinker with tariffs and quotas, the only helpful reality is the Ammonites - ff ' you were a child? JSS Wh( down from the attic what can be done with By ROBERT McSIIANE ly streamlined it will .i middle picture. Du AMATEUR boxing as a Sport First paint the front of equal to football, bastn ketball, hockey or any of the others then cover well Up has been long advocated by Ed portion with cotton battiSH Halslet, directa of Golden Glove ac- u bright cotton tivities in the state of Minnesota and one of the most ardent boxing enthuMsussan siasts of the nation.. .W Halslet fathers an ambitious pregram which is bucked by tha Mhw neupolis Star-- J surna 1, of the G aides Glove tournament in He believes 1 every Minnesota. school should Include the spat on Hs athletic program; that every fighter should wear a protective helmet, and that thumbless boxing glovea should be used by amateurs. Thc llelmet protects tho head and eliminates bauBflewer ears. Eyes Weuld be' protected from gougiag with the thumblesa glove.'. : . t? ferial. Remove stuffing at hi e It Is Hs islet's claim that boxing end. Now, make will make bettbr mod of the partic- blea like those UlusttatedT that ' no other sport' can dotted lines indicate how ftT ipant exceed fighting in developing co- couch fits under these box ta ordination and skill, building tho and how a partition and body at satisfying the emotional as- are put in the one at the tables to hammo, pect of competition. At with box-lik- ' W ' Fosters Champions fabric. The final touch the back and end cushions aZh that the ered with the upholstery raster Them Is little question NOTE: i Full directions sport which fostered fighters of tho b changing an old iron bed into caliber of Joe Louis, latest are at the greatest one style, given in heavyweight chamSpears; Book No. 3; also stepfe step directions for making "tv. pions of aU time; would enjoy u much f Rug That Grew Up With the Fully. Thirty-tw- o pages of fascinahigher status if evting ideas for Homemakers. ery program were Ad for Book 3, enclosing 10 cents h administered with coin to cover cost. Address; Mn, the care given by Minnesota officials. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hflk well-equippe- d New York. Quiet dressing rooms are provided C Gopher Diets are fighters. planned carefully and doctors are stationed at the ringside end in the dressing rooms. Every boy who is knocked out is kept under observation for 20 minutes. And any boy knocked down must stay down fa the eight count before continuing to fight Several other regulations and reforms have been put into effect all tending to make the sport safer and better for tha athletes. History to Blame There are still these people who regard' hexing aa the meet brutal form of sport. History is us doubt responsible fa that' attitude. Legends of gladiators whe won their championships" ' by' killing and with maiming their opponents spiked ' gloves still linger ia tho minds of many. Today fighting Is a scientific art There is more to the sport than mere slugging and the obility to "take It Hundreds of high schools throughout tho nation sponsor boxing teams. Competent instructors have taught youngsters how to care for their bodies and how to stay in condition. Boxing meets are carefully aupervlsed end parents no longer fear fa their youngsters' health. Amateur boxing' In high schools win reach Ha rightful place when everyone concerned with It places the welfare of participants above victory and every ether factor. That most of them do now is a thing distinctly in its favor. Strange Facts ! SmeU the Danger Clear Way jar Shah Humble Hug Walls In many large Western nisei where alarm bells cannot be hettd over the noise of the machiner?, the workers are warned of i fct by an odor produced by a lev drops of butyl mercaptan put into the system. Thu danger signal has the odor cf . skunk. When the shah of Iran trank about his country by motorcar, all roads he uses are cleared a day to advance, all houses he passes an freshly whitewashed and all the dogs in the villages where he itopa for the night are killed as he s a very light sleeper. : Mere than half of the worlde 2,000 adult midgets are married to normal-sizehusbands and wives The' La Trsppe monastery to Aigue belle, France, following tha bus tom of 'many other religioua houses, allows only the head of fle institution to walk in the middla of the halls and passageways. All b there walk close to the walls, aa a gesture of humility. Colliers d HatceU mad it hot to talk? Thnot mash im aod Kmtckyr Ott a bos af BOWLING Made Easy Mart, tbsll Sod LodmV with apodal iesrodaato, coolios masthol, a trait aid la hotpiaf oootha that LUDENS 5 By NEB DAY Russian Baltic drive, National Match Gams Champion by the Finns, was, according to the meager evidence obia the law at a arriM af tow tainable, the pet idea of Andrei (Tti Itaaeaa tr Ntt Day ot Uilwaukra. Win. fre- match gam, ehamyiaa ami Ftnns Hammered Zhdanoff, re- - matiaaal aa aa autataaitag hawliag authority.) qUentiy Between in to fared Wedge Zhdanoff the ,Mt wo THE rrceg-oiar- d Stalin, years aa Stalin's possible successor. Lota news is that Stalin haa other ideas about M. Zhdanolfs future, as the latter takes the rap for tha debacle in Finland. He was designated secretary af the Leningrad Communist party Committee ea December 16, 1934. That made him a virtual dictator of the Leningrad district, the Pittsburgh at Row ala. M. Zhdanoff haa been particularly bitter against Britain, and several correspondents have attributed to him the dlaruptloi of last summers negotiations of the allied power with the Soviets. He is 43 years old, a Revolutionist times that Nebraska cast its electoral vote against William Jennings For instance, when West Bryan. Virginia went for Coolldge against its native son John W. Davis. But perhaps no one outside the state can understand Indiana-o- r its It has always been this people. way, apparently. No one could get the late John W. Kern or Benjamin companies arc incorporated in the United States, neither American A Foreign nor any of its subsidiaries operate properties in this country. Hie commission said that it could not grant a complete exemption ln view of the capital structure of Foreign Power, the huge preferred dlvt dend arrears, the Important Inves-tor- s interest In that company and the controlling Influence exercised by Bond end Share. actor-manag- flux of good through the international bloodstream. This being true, the outlanders go on, it would seem obvious that McNutts candidacy for the presidency, assuming he gets the nomination, would help every local Democratic candidate for office in Indiana, and by the same token hurt every local Republican candidate. That ia the way the favorite son business is viewed In other states, and it would seem to any one not bom and raised in Indians that the more state pride there is In Indiana, the more true this effect on the local tickets of nominating a Hoosicr for President would be. Actually the favorite son thing has not worked out that way in some other states. In fact in some states it has almost seemed at times as though the voters did not care whether a man from their state was President or not. For instance, when Kansas voted for Roosevelt against its own For instance, the two governor. WNU Service.) kingdom, which eventually may blow down the Siegfried wall like the trumpets of Jericho.. 1 Sir Seymour, who had a' similaf Job in the World war, la England's favorite light comedy actor, laid g ing producer and miter of consequence and s rallying point for both masses and classes As they both claim him as their own! Ha is 78 years old and last month Celebrated his d year on tiia stage. old-tim- McNutts Nomination Would Help All Local Candidates Syndicate By LEMUEL F. PARTON Word comes from NEW YORK. that Sir Seymour Hicks, who, last September, became official bucker-u- p tof British civilians,' pall-bear- er nomination. Moreover, they will talk at length, will these Indiana Republicans, of the charm of the man, his good looks, his political appeal, and his oratorical ability. Not to mention his political astuteness, which they all profess to admire, some of them even to the extent of saying he is the one man in the country who is probably a better politician even than Franklin b. Roosevelt! (Bn WEEK Sir Seymours i0id!ers.'is Bombs exploding 1. Brazil, which is larger than Laughter bombl the United States, has 20 states, Buck Uo British laugh (1 wtr 3 of which are than Texas. 2. Bacteria and certain micro scopic plants called fungi grow in the wood and destroy the struc- By RUT1I WYKTli AS there a couch ft sailors and The Answers i Athletic Plan THIS as Texas? 7 Md'7imeCot' MdeStream!io( Prep Boxing Seen as Ideal NEWS The Questions it F. Shively, when they were in the senate, to say one word against Republicans James E. Watson and Harry S. New, who not only wanted to but eventually did succeed them. WHOS A General Quiz Q Indiana's State Pride Makes Republicans Favor McNutt Foreign Holding Companies Granted SEC Exemption WASHINGTON. Jlsk Me .Another h There may be no way of proving but certain neutral observers who have been watching tiie political mill for many years believe that Indiana has more state pride than any other subdivision of these United States. What makes this of Interest right now is the general talk about Paul V. McNutt, former governor of Indians and the favorite sen of the Democratic Hoosiers for President next year. One might well expect the Indiana Democrats to speak well of McNutt After all he is still the head of the Democratic organization there, and it is about as solid and efficient an organization as there is in the country. So an Indiana Democrat speaking unkindly of McNutts presidential qualifications had better take care who hears him. It might interfere with his own political future. But the Indiana Republicans also speak well of McNutt. Not that they actually want to see him In the White Bouse. They want a Republican, naturally, but if there has to be a Democrat they would like it to be McNutt and even if a Republican is going to win the presidency they would like to see McNutt have the honor at the Democratic Speaking of Sports since 1912, when be left school to engage in agitation against the esar-is- t government Until 1917, he was chiefly occupied dodging the police and joined the army aa a germ-carrifa the Bolsheviki. In the early revolutionary years, he was one of the leading organizers of party propaganda and was thrown into close association with Josef Stalin. It was the beginning of beautiful friendship, which, quite possibly, the skiing Finns have dynamited. He la of a middle clou family, one of the clevcreit word-smilof Red Russia. er recent laboratory bburned demur teats, CAMELS 2SJg than the avenge of tha 15 other of the largest -- sailing brands tatted slowar than say of them. That mount, on the average, a smoking plat equal to 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK THE CIGARETTE n ?. - ' , d,. V 0 F - - COSTLIER TOBACCOS (Consolidated roatum WNU Service Denmark's Burled Church One of tho sights tourists Denmark Ik an old church in the sand dunes, south of Skagen. Burled by a sand storm in tho Eighteenth century, today only its tower Is vis iblo. fa FEEL GOOD UoMf Haro la WitaWa atehhwfuhr; nM IMaiwrlanw H oat itillqhlid nfud at ShwUbSomU Mlae wtao Without Risk tUod mi tha has to LTS as tha puehaaa " Thofa fair; prlsa. NX TOhMa tariav. Ot Art of Pleasing You can please people if an. try to. Why not study the CPOT AND HEAD PIN BOWL- ING. Spot bowling should not be tried by a new bowler unless he is confident that his delivery is truly grooved. When you bowl at a spot you are taking for granted that everything else in your approach and delivery ia correct. There are only a few .true spot bowlas that is, bowlers who deliver their balls without actually iccing the pins during delivery. A true spot bowler will pick a spot at a point where he expects to set the ban down an tha alley, set hla body on the approach accordingly, address tha pint, look at them fa the first step two to keep Ms body in Hue, and then concentrate u the spot, without looking at the pine until tiie ban la delivered. The head pin bowler is one who addresses tha pins, drafts an imaginary line from tho pocket to tho spot on tho alley where ho will set hla ball down, acts hla body accordingly and then fastens hla eyes on the object he expects to hit Some bowlers combine spot and head pin bowling, picking a spot far enough down the alley so they ean Watch the spot and also see the Bony Soakatt.Hp.imih Mr WATCH tha depend on the sales special merchants of our town announce in tit column a Ventriloquist Minister The Rev. G. E. Bonney of Ran dolph Centre, VL, a ventriloquist uses o dummy, "Jerry, to Ulus irate stories of the Biblo and to drive home moral lessons, says tho Amor pins in the background. icon Magazine (Xlc leased hr Western Newspaper Union. I ' Look Within Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius VOU eon of this papor. Thoy moo moneysavlnff to readom. It always pays patronise tho merchants who advertise. Thf net afraid of thelr riiiiwlioe or their pdcaa. i. THE SPECIAIS I e id is! ; |