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Show - 1 0 0 0 0 i - ( K Now Is the Time , If the Gamip poll was correct, and "90 per cent of the people favor putting put-ting taxation onto a scientific basis by adopting the RurnI plan, now is the time for them to tell Congress, particularly the House. The Ways and Means Committee has tossed a deformed tax offspring into the lap of Congress, an alleged . "compromise" that actually compromises com-promises with nothing except the economic soundness of the natiorf and its taxpayers. There will be a fight on the floor of the House. Treasury strategists, who have befuddled the tax issue throughout, will try to rush the spineless spine-less committee "compromise" through . before the public has opportunity to make its will felt. It isn't important that the "Ruml Plan" be adopted. It isn't important who writes the tax bill or who takes credit for the reform. All that matters is that a pay-as- you-earn tax be installed in such manner that taxpayers will not have .to meet-the heaviest two years' taxes in American history out o fone year's income. ; i The pay-as-you-earn tax is vital now, because so many little follows have been tapped, who cannot meet their obligations on any other basis. It will be doubly vital when the war ends, and war-inflated incomes return to lower levels or disappear altogether. al-together. If Uncle Sam has not taken his cut as it was earned, he will not get it at all in the post-war slump. He can fine the tax creditors, but he can't collect; he can sentence them to jail, but won't have money to build eriough jails to hold them. . The pay-as-you-earn tax, without doubled-up collections, is vital if the Treasury does not want a deluge of surrendered war bonds accompanied by the inability of wage-earners .to buy bonds while they 'are paying two ; taxes in one year. The Ways and Means Committee's "compromise" is such a bad bill, in itself, that the House, should reject it even if there were no counter-proposal possessing almost universal r public support. We, the taxpayers, do not have to sit sadly by and see Congress do us dirt. Thp congressmen were elected by us. They will lie down, roll over and jump through hoops all at the same time, if we tell them with sufficient suf-ficient unanimity that is what we want. Now is the time to tell them. ' I Clearer Atmosphere The punctilio of diplomacy may require re-quire that Admiral Standley be 'recalled 're-called or otherwise punished for talking talk-ing out of turn in Moscow. But his remarks re-marks on 0 Russian reticence about the extent of lend-lease . aid has begun be-gun to clear the atmosphere. Correspondents in Moscow have been reporting that the man in the street knows he is getting American food, clothing, etc. It might be over-. over-. sight on their part, or may be significant, signi-ficant, that they have not mentioned any popular realization over there as to the number of planes, tanks, trucks, shells anclother items of armament arma-ment and munitions we have sup plied. , And it was only after the ambassa dor s 'blast that Izvestia published Lehd-Lease Director Stettinius' sum mary of what we have provided to . date. People of Europe are managing to stay dUve on hope arid faith, bjt with this revival there is a dangerous wave of hatred and bitterness.. The Erijglish: boy .'can still jovially refer to his "enemy as the Jerries; lor the enemy is ye anVstracthing - to -him. , frris the armybf Cocaironr: taking over the supplies in;yoiifrstores and shops, v oxenng"ybuVouttol'-4your.- homes on t wb-hours' notice that breeds a kind of hatred that will take generations " to-aispel.-1:- Rulka Longer, - Polish - : re fugee:6f .Warear: siege, j ." PROVO i (UTAH) ' M ' - t f THE ; WASHINGTON THURSDAY, - "MARCH .18, ,1943 K i One Sane Note On Manpower BY PETER EDSON Daily Herald Washington Correspondent Amid all the screaming on manpower shortages, size of the army, deferment of farm workers, the Austin-Wadsworth bill for compulsory war-labor service, the Bankhead-Nye-Thomes bills to cut the army by two million men, demands for War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt's handsome scalp, repeated pleas for Fanny Perkin's head on a platter,' shouts for a new manpower man-power czar with guts and teeth . though brains are unspecified and semi-secret conferences of a White House kitchen cabinet on man power policy .one sane, calm voice comes from the Senate's Truman committee investigating the war effort. This is perhaps .no more than you might expect, but it is reassuring re-assuring to find even one note of sense in all the confusion.Says the Truman committee in, its second annual report: "Although we can and will obtain several millions of new workers, the principal means by which we, can alleviate the manpower shortage is by increasing in-creasing the productivity of our present labor force . . . "To obtain that efficiency, we must perfect our system of allocating raw materials and of scheduling production so that all the' necessary materials will flow into the factories at such times and in such quantities quanti-ties as to enable them to operate oper-ate to the utmost extent that their men and machines are capable of . . . "If we can increase the operating oper-ating efficiency . . . the excuse for labor hoarding . . . will cease to exist. Thousands of workers from whose services no present benefit is being obtained ob-tained will then be utilized . . absenteeism without cause would tend to decrease ... "A man who would not brave a snowstorm to reach a plant where he would lean on a machine ma-chine for lack of material would hestitate to stay home when he knew that a direct result of his absence would be less production of an article important im-portant to the soldiers at -the front." Practical Analysis There you have in a few well chosen words which any one should be able to understand as practical an analysis of all this manpower muddle asxhas yet been offered. In the same breath, it is by far the most difficult solution yet offered, but that is perhaps the best commentary on the in adequacy . of all diagnoses and prescriptions on record- Every, solution to manpower thus far offered has been in the nature of a panacea presented by partisans. But no one-shot sure-cure sure-cure remedy is going to cure shortage of manpower, any more than snake oil will rectify rupture, rup-ture, rheumatism and restore loss of - manhood. v f Cutting- the size of the army by. two million men won't fix things, and neither will drafting everybody now outside the army. Issuing a lot of directives won't do it, arid neither will reshuffling a lot of government bureaus nor appointing, a czar. Congress' Idea Nobody has yet licked absenteeism absen-teeism and chances are nobody will. If anything, absenteeism is likely to increase as more and more marginal workers are brought into industry. The same eoes for hoarding manpower Dy employers who want to be sure of an adequate wonting ioree. Deferring all farm worKers won't work because a lot of farm workers would rather work in war plants and because a lot o? farm workers ' don't want to be deferred. Farm boys would rather get in there and fight. The $50 a month offered them by the army is better money than they can earn behind, a. plow or under a cow, and army life is a lot more fun. Incidentally, it should be remembered that this $50 a month pay was the idea of Congress. Con-gress. Army brass .hats opposed it, so the farm bloc congressmen thus have only themelves to blame for some of the farm labor shortage. short-age. But no one thing is going to make more manpower, and so, es the TrUman report points out, the only way to remedy the situation ' is to see that what manpower we have is fully and most efficiently employed. If Henry J. Kaiser can turn out Liberty . ships in - 379,000 man hours and that is ,70,000 man-hours man-hours Jess than other shipyards, other 'yards should be brought up to the Kaiser efficiency to save manpower,"," And the same principle should be employed to every other, war : production industry,-'right; down" the line. As for the i AusUn-Wadswdrth national service act, now openly open-ly supported by Secretary of War Henry I Stimson and touted by many as the eventual solution, the ' Truman report: has this per-tinent per-tinent comment: , - ' 'The ; administrative problems prob-lems which would be encountered en-countered in trying to determine deter-mine the -occupation - for which - millions '.of ' people would be best suited ' are ' immense, to say nothing of the difficulties 1 7 which" employers '. encounter in v attempting ? to ;get useful work . from employees drafted for Jobs they do Tiot'wantT ' 7-' Tha.' last ;partls "almost" unanswerable., un-answerable., particularly T; ,when coupled"-with ' the .demand -for . greater-efficiency-in .- labor, we have, not ? less efficiency . in labor weren't- have. : ; Hard: On the Nerves 3 nft nnnnin - 11 VJ -bu-nuuwu r ill M v v a m 5 kT -li. Typhoid Inoculation Clinics to Be Held Throughout Utah County Soon By DR. J. J. WEIGHT Medical Section, Utah County . Civilian Defense Typhoid inoculation clinics " to protect defense areas against any possible typhoid epidemic are being be-ing planned by the state district health office of Provo for the early spring. Typhoid is always a threat, and during war a typhoid epidemic by our enemies could definitely cripple crip-ple the war effort. Such an epidemic epi-demic would cause more destruction destruc-tion that air raids or bombs to our production effort and civilian economy and could be accomplished accomplish-ed .without much chance of detection, detec-tion, before the damage was done. The safe way to protect against this is to get-people, all people men, women and children, inoculated inocu-lated against this disease. Tn Utah county we need at least 20,-000 20,-000 more people inoculated this spring against typhoid. State Commissioner of Health D'r. McKay, points , out in a recent re-cent release that "crowded living liv-ing conditions, Inadequate housing, hous-ing, and the use of inadequately protected water supplies in some sections of the state make it absolutely ab-solutely necessary-for all our citizens, citi-zens, especially tjtpse who are in war industries, to' be adequately protected against' typhoid fever." . Plans in Utah county are now being worked out for a number of typhoid clinics" and f the ; places and dates will be announced in the near future. This is a needed civilian defense de-fense measure and all citizens are asked for their help and cooperation. coopera-tion. Help in civilian defense by getting get-ting vaccinated. Protecting Utah county against epidemics is one of the first lines of civilian defense de-fense and I recommend all people to get protection against typhoid. Q What is the high diving rec ord? iA Ales Wickham, a native of the Solqmon Islands, dived 205 feet, nine inches in Melbourne in 1918 to establish a high diving record that still stands. y m contract bridge, may a player ask for a complete review of the bidding? A Yes, if prior to the opening lead. After tne opening lead ,a player may ask only what the contract is, and whether it is doubled or redoubled. Q How should garments made of rayon arid wool blended fabrics be pressed? A Like woolens. Use a damp cloth old muslin sheeting for or dinary weights of materials, light weight canvas o similar material for heavier fabrics. Q Can payment of a War Sav-' ings Bond be made to the receiver or trustee , in bankruptcy of the estate of a registered owner? A Yes, when bankruptcy or in solvency has been adjudicated and request for payment has been duly executed . Q Where do the U. S. Maril es get their name? A From the French "marin," meaning sea soldier. The French word is derived from the Latin word for sea, "mare." CONDITION UNCHANGED TORQUAY, Eng., March 18 (U.R) Noel Coward's temperature was lower again today. Otherwise the condition of the playwright, recovering re-covering from an attack of influenza, in-fluenza, remained unchanged. The incendiary bombs dropped on Tokyo by Brig. -Gen. James Doolitle and his ..raiders were made by a concern which ' in peacetime makes wallpaper.,. 4 i rJ7ih if (O f i ' i j L i- ; k ' I A STORY THBTonvi To Put Krioay, i any of Loraine'?. : Until today, Idrr pilot, aad Mk Ed Bry. fnni(M cho u.j rtT,ft - a -trn-nt,. Slid - ftyter. Loralne slurt's -action .la ' f orslnfr Captain Carr'n name to an Army order oftera a aerlona prob- .. lea. Pat la. term bettveea ner aeaae of (air play aad her scnae of loyalty to Jimmy Carr. Sae decide to aay no thin a; about lioralae. to ipnre Jimmy's feel-InH. feel-InH. Ed Bryan, on the other ' hand. ' f eela that loyalty to hi country and to kin friend demand action.' He .on lis Chieaoro. reports to Jimmy Carr.. "I kjww," says Jimmy. "But ins sit tlsrat a lit- tie while. I want to think." , CAPTAIN CARR'S ORDERS CHAPTER ,XV pAPT.1 JAMES CARR needed 'sourid sleep this night and he didn't get much. He was too consumed con-sumed with thinking. If he hadn't been a healthy young animal it might have told on him. " There's ",. something screwball about this whole deal," he told himself, right after he left Lo-raine Lo-raine . , at .2 midnight. They, had talked in the mezzanine for more thanan hour. "If she wasn't such a swell somebody" - He never did finish what would happen if she wasn't such a swell somebody. He was sitting on his , bed; one Army dress shoe off and one on. He still held the off one : in his-, hand, and he was staring at" nothing. , . Wham! v' ' '.. ' ,-: fThe shoe hita wastepaper . bgsket, f skittered over and' stopped beside a chair. Throwing it gave Jimmy,1 a kind; of release, - but . it was, no. way to treat a 'dress shoe. He -picked At up again, inspected it, -and,' rang for a bell hop. : "ttere's four bits, pal," he smiled at the boy,; also giving him both shoes. ' -;"See . that these look like mirrors in .the" morning." . 5 Yes1 "sirsure,? Captain Carr!" ' ,Theri.hesat with his, feet on the back of a chair, body sprawled on the bed.-1 He envisioned JLoraine .Stuart Taffy hair in perfect or der.--Lips and rouge 4and eye bus-. iness all perfect, as usual. A swell somebody. Only," damn lit, she'd .been drinking. He couldn't figure that. He and-Lorame had agreed that flying and drinking don't mix, 'Jimmy Carr couldn't understand - anybody; .who didn't keep agree ments. ; LoraineB broken promise, trivial', aslit was, left him con- ; fused . i i ' ' ; The , truth was' he ; couldn't see Loraine as anything but the lovely .somebody, khe appeared to be.. Undeniably Un-deniably she was beautiful. 'She " had Tjeen. beautiful ,when he first met her;, at an aviation ball, 'and she still, was. Oh,. she may have had -some-faults but ' who . hasn t? ; Offhand 1 he ! couldn't ' remember I tonight, she had 'done "a strange thing. "She never did explain how she came to be late 'for the start of the- trip," he - said. "I ' asked her, and she acted mad!" . That didn't make sense, either: Army life runs with clockljke precision. pre-cision. Eleven o'clock is 11 o'clock exactly. Even Loraine should have understood that. And if she was so determined to make that trip, why didn't ; she telephone him il she couldn't make it? And most of all, why did she have to forge his name in order to catch up? Soon after his pilot friend, Ed Bryan, telephoned him -from El-mira, El-mira, Jimmy Went to sleeps If sleep it could be called. He was still upset about the "whole situa tion. "T 1 a' , He was still upset about it next morning at breakfast. He felt better bet-ter physically, : but he felt somehow some-how wkwarfl About starting with Pat and substituting - Loraine as his passenger going west. "Jb, that's not fair," he argued. Lorry got a dirty break at the start." 1 , TIE was trying valiantly to stand up for his fiancee in his own mind. Cdntfarilyithough, he kept thinking df Pat with favor too. He remembered how Pat had been stricken with stage fright as they approached ' Cleveland, and tried so. hard to be nb&chalarit just-talking about' the: cirir. ' Making her ispeech, . she - Had jstill';been like a school girL; at JfirstThen Jie had seen her-chin; lift,' and her violet eyes show "little Tmger,'. and . Pat had' made. a good speech-after all. In Chicago she had wowed 'em. Had as much' poise as a veteran trouper. - -V v 5 ; . "S ? He ' wondered what Pa tFriday had done for a living before he found her. Or she. found him. He grinned, remembering the way she nervily took ;oyerhis office that morning -in' New York,.Ci ty3)ItuT-ing ty3)ItuT-ing a whole string of " other : girls who wanted jobs. And- Pat had been the- second 'fastest soaring pupil in his experience, tHejbther oeing a roy wno aireaay naasiua-ied naasiua-ied aviation. In .'barely , nihe days Pat had made i a lailplane - salute and say yes ma'am. , The .waiter, came to his table with two morning newspapers; the first Jim had seen since ; leaving Elmiral , "Sa-a-ayr Ihe; beajectXi; the zront pages. J Pat. Fridaylooking too cute for anythingsmiled at him from V three-column pictures, avxi Pai had other ' poses,' too. The soaring flight had almost stolen : the day x play from the"war, itself. Jimmy studied the pictures like r,pIeaseo boy. He hadn't known ftnr photogenic pho-togenic Pat was. ! She-looked like a cross between Betty; Giable and Judy Garland, only mbrevso. Cut est of all was thatt astonished, half-frightened, half-japi?y;: pose where Pat was just --getting -into the sailplane at, Elmif a, .after , he had snatched her up on the run. HEARTS IN THE CLOUDS, a headline writer had effused, over the pictures. And then added, below, be-low, "Handsome young soaring expert and his beautiful fiancee. Miss!" "Hey! " Jimmy exclaimed. The papers had muffed it. - Or somebody had. They said this pic ture was his fiancee," Miss Loraine Stuart! When it was really Pat. Oh, oh, oh!". Jimmy was moan ing and laughing at the same time. The: papers -of course had - been tola tnat Loraine wouia De tne passenger. Pictures nad been taken tin a .terrific rush , at Elmira, at Cleveland, and here in Chicago itself. ,-; : , . . . Suddenly the personal. import of theerror struck, him, however.- It wasn't funny at all, it, was. awful! ... Ana , xnen, strangely r pernaps. for a young man engaged, Capt. James Carr's mind sought a way to protect not his fiancee but the other , girl. ' - - . This is not fair to Pat!": he told himself abruptly.- "Why why hell's-to-Betsy. that kid is : topsl Lodk at the way she fitted iav The way she took over and saved my, skm there at Elmira. . . . And another an-other thing, these pictures will -be all over the. country; pictures of Pfltj SO ' v-'-'fc -', . He had forgotten breakfast He sat there a moment more,- tar-ring,- thinking. Then - on ' quick decision he - went to ; a long cfis-tance cfis-tance telephone and placed, a call for Elmira. . '.. :.- iSt-i -When his party had answered, he said, fThat you, Ed Bryari?.. . This?isiCptaui;Crragaiii.'i . Yep, hi Chicago. Taktegbfrvin about. an hour. 'Listen ;Edihere's another order and hang TCall thiar bneT isn't forged. Ed, you're my frieji<oK;Noixr; ln get Pat Friday, tell her 1 sent, yoL and you - tuck her in jan airplane and. come chasing after me. ,Un-derstand? ,Un-derstand? -Pat 4cnows,nyjrput at traveL -,You help .ner.cayen.. up with us, .at ;the earlistifr.:iM Stbp!" . - ; , (To Be CenUned'Jr t A-. 1 Once News . . . Now History - 23 YEARS AGO TODAY From the Files Of The Provo Herald March 30, 1920 New officers of the Provo Commercial Com-mercial club were Jesse W. Harmon, Har-mon, president; William F. Vio-lett, Vio-lett, vice president; J. A. Buttle, treasurer; James Clove, executive secretary; directors, Reed L. An-derberg, An-derberg, George E. Barton, J. C. Graham, Webster Hoover, D. D. Sutton, O. R. Thomas, and C. H. Wright. The Bonneville ward bishopric was reorganized with John T. Giles, bishop; Isaac Jacob and Scott P. Stewart, counselors. The outgoing bishopric consisted of Bishop George Billings and Coun selors Robert Elliott ana Anarew Jensen. The Utah state hospital began construction of a new $175,000 addition. City -commissioners were preparing pre-paring a notice to contractors for bids for paving Third South from University avenue to Seventh East, thence south on the state road to the city limits. A . Roosevelt Republican club was organized in Provo with John P. McGuire president, Fred S. Davies first vice president, Heber C. Hicks -second .vice president, Clinton Beesley, secretary and T. L. Schofield. treasure. A Ladies Republican club also was formed with Mrs. Jesse M .Harmon president. Students Purchase $5689 in Stamps Students of the Provo high school more than doubled their original goal of $2535 in a special bond and stamp drive during March With classes pit ted against each other 'in - the competition com-petition the school turned in total purchase of $5689.15, or $6.73 per capita. . Glen - J. ' Wing's - radio class at the Central Utah; Vocational school - took first . honors in the competition with a $27 average, with- Russell Mortenson's youth problems class, -close behind, $25 per capita. The student in these two classes will ' be given a buffet buf-fet luncheon by j the I home econ omics department," featured by a 27-layer cake , one layer for each dollar bought, per "person. . A Daily Picture of What'0 SZZrSZ Going on in National Allans ; t T 4 7 WASHINGTON With Democratic poUtical popularity at a low ebb throughout . the couatry, the voting public is now getting a significant glimpse of what it might expect of a Republican Republi-can Administration if elected. In recent weeks the glimpse has been a bit sour. First there was the repeal of th $25,000 salary limit which benefited the grand total of 2,500 people in the entire nation, in contrast to the millions of wives and mothers getting about $50 a month from men at the front. Second Sec-ond came GOP whcopla over the' Ruml plan which would also be a windfall to a handful of "war wealthy. V Now comes the most interesting test of all the linc-up of Republican senators behind the' old Huey Long gang to secure appointment of a Huey Long judge to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana, merely for the satisfaction satisfac-tion of embarrassing Roosevelt. In the old days, when Huey was staging filibusters and hurling jeers at dignified GOP senators, they kept their noses in the air and walked Out of the Senate chamber with holier-than-tHou written all over their faces. But now they have swallowed their pride and ganged up with the remnants of Huey Longism all' for the pleasure of embarrassing FDR. The judge Roosevelt refused to appoint and whom the GOP now inferentially supports is Hueys old friend, Archie Higgins, who recently voted against barring ex-Governor Dick Leche from the practice of law. Leche, another Huey Long satellite, is serving ten years in jail. But when his disbarment case came before the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Judge Higgins remained loyal to. the memory of Huey and dissented from disbarring the imprisoned governor. gov-ernor. HIGGINS HELPS HUEY While the Kingfish was still Alive. Judge Higgins was even more loyal. In almost every case coming before the Louisiana Supreme Court where one of Huey's policies was involved, invol-ved, Higgins went down the line. In 1934, for instance, Huey's candidate for election to the Supreme Court was Justice Winston Win-ston Overton, whose brother, Senator Overton, is now so busy persuading Republican senators to vote against Roosevelt in the current judicial battle. Winston Overton was opposed, by Judge Thomas F. Porter, anti-Huey Long man. But two days before the primary; Winston Overton died. This left Judge Porter as the sole candidate, candi-date, and he got the Democratic nomination, which in Louisiana is tantamount to election. But. Huey Long's machine refused to accept his nomination t and called for a second primary on Oct. 9. Whereupon Judge Porter secured an injunction from a lower court preventing Huey's Secretary of State from putting any other candidate's can-didate's name on the ballot. But the Long crowd appealed to the Supreme Su-preme Court, where their friend Judge Higgins agreed to hear the case. But very conveniently he placed the date of hearing on Nov. 26, wherej as the primary was to be held Oct. 9. Thua Judge Higgins agreed to consider, six weeks' after the primary, the then purely theoretical question of whether Judge Porter could be opposed op-posed in a primary which already had been held. Long before the argument, of course, Huey had placed another candidate, John Four-net, Four-net, on the ticket and Judge Porter had been defeated. Chief Justice O'Neill, vigorously dissenting, dis-senting, held that . Judge Higgins' opinion emasculated the election machinery of Louisiana. Louisi-ana. THEY HATE ROOSEVELT On another occasion, Huey Long had trouble trou-ble controlling the police jury of East Baton Rouge Parish. So he jammed a bill through the legislature permitting his gang to appoint thirteen new members. After their appointment, the new Huey Long members brought suit against the old members to prevent them from doing business. The lower court refused to issue the injunction. But in the Supreme Courti Judge Higgins came to the rescue of his oltjr friend the Kingfish, and wrote an opinion reversing re-versing the lower court. In another famous case, one of Huey's political opponents, Dudley LeBlanc was running run-ning for Louisiana Public Service Commissioner. But Huey packed the ballot for Commissioners of Election with dummy candidates who would pass on LeBlanc's election. LeBlanc sued, and in the trial, the defendants admitted they were not bona fide candidates'. But despite this. Judge Higgins . in a 4-3 opinion ruled for the Long crowd on the ground that LeBlanc had not exhausted his remedies. He should have first appealed to Huey Long's Executive Committee, Judge Higgins said, though he admitted such an appeal probably would be a useless gesture. There were other cases of this kind, most of them with Chief justice O'Neill and two other judges vigorously dissenting. All of them occurred during the days when Senators Ellen-der Ellen-der and Overton were, acting as glorified messenger mes-senger boys for Huey Long,' as they are now for the remnants of the Huey Long machine in trying to get Judge Higgins appointed to an exalted post of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It is possible to understand why Democratic Senators Gerry of Rhode Island, or Bailey of North Carolina, or Walter George of" Georgia, can side with the Louisiana senators. They dislike Roosevelt more even than they did Huey Long. But it is going to be awfully difficult for righteous Republicans to explain why they now play into the hands of Huey Longism. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN 3Di6yty W;cblldili' to: feel ' aorry f oryertirself , but L notice the ernes that say. it .: iven'tyet liad aay; reason -to feel. ' sorry; ' for' them- CAPITAL CHAFF It is now definitely decided that John Winant, Lincolnesque U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, will not return to his post in London . . . Tom Corcoran, the ex-Brain Truster, Trust-er, is trying to buy two cows for his children, aged one and two. Where he will keep them in the elite but crowded section where he lives remains re-mains a mystery to the neighbors. . . . Says beautiful Mrs. v Pepper, wife of the senior senator sen-ator from Florida: "If you think my husband is a rubber stamp, just try to live with him." . . . Favorite pastime of Jesse Jones is playing bridge" at the Brazilian Embassy. Sometimes , he interrupts his bridge game long enough to peer down at the samba dancers, but never joins them . . . The State Department has recently re-cently received assurances from Franco that he he will fight if Hitler attacks Spain. Such assurances as-surances have been received before, the gullible gentlemen in the State Department always believing be-lieving them, then finding a few months later that they have to hustle out and get some new assurances.. . . Woodrpw Wilson used to say that conflict of personalities more often destroys . affairs of state than' the conflict of policies. J, When you look Ground . at some of the .Washington feuds, you can see hW right he was .' . : Gen. Somervell's Services of Supplies Sup-plies will now be called "Army. Service Forces" . to . match the other divisions of the army-Army, army-Army, Ground Forces and Army Air Forces. (Copyright 1943 by .United; Feature . Syndicate, Inc.) - ' i - - i 51 - - . |