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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT. Bruckart's Washington Digest MOAB, UTAH 1 PATTERN l) Mayor Elected in Safety Campaign : Now Plans to Capture Speed Title New Program for U. S. Defense Crowds Politics Into Background wwe Crp & . 1 IM as - Juniors will love it, in fi SS ~~ Deal Social Reforms. SS gram. William Through these last Bruckart several weeks, observers here have witnessed New Deal reformers making strenuous efforts toward warding off any changes in their programs that would set back the schemes they have been fostering through the last seven years. Those New Dealers who have the President's ear ‘have gone so far as to persuade him to issue a warning to congressional leaders that none of the New Deal reforms or social advances shall be abrogated by defense legislation. In the meantime, however, most every observer also has witnessed a tendency on the part of those charged with official responsibility to take steps leading to more workable plans in hastening defense preparation. Indeed, right now there is an intensive study being made under guidance of the army and navy of such things as wage and hour regulations, and limitations upon private financing. Other things that amount to handicaps upon the nation's productive capacity also are being examined. The idea behind all of this is, of course, to learn whether the numerous so-called reforms will help or hinder speedy development and production of the war materials which must be available if Europe's war gets further out of bounds. Minimum the point I have been I could go on with other illustr ations of the character mentioned here. These serve, however, to il- WAR TALK AND POLITICS Favorite social reforms of the New Deal are being shoved into the background in official Washington conversation and attenti on because of the war hysteria, says William Bruckart. This worries some of the politicians for they feel that hard-headed, practical business men may be called in to replace them in order to speed up the President's plan for building up America's home defense program. yards bias fold required & SEWING CIRCLE PA a] 149 New Montgomery San There is also to be noted, in connection with the excited conditions incident to war preparation here, that certain groups are exerting selfish pressure. It will be said, of course, that a democracy permits selfish interest to employ pressure. But the thing observers note around Washington these days is the very early activity of some groups which are striving, apparently, to make a profit out'of the war. Mr. Roosevelt has publicly declared that extraordinary profit is not going to be permitted. His statement, however, does not assure prevention of the selfishness. It will take a great many thrusts and some punishment to accomplish the purpose. Some conversation has already been heard to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt must place more confidence in private business leaders if his defense plans carry through. The President, as everyone recalls, has seemed to enjoy cracking the whip over business at frequent intervals during his entire seven years in the White House. The more conservative members of the administration recognize the cleavage between the President and general business, and Name JOHNSON they are seeking to heal the wounds. But the New Deal reformers-th e inner circle-will not listen to such advice. Many of them will frankly Say that business is not to be trusted, and they are not going to allow business leaders to ride in the saddle of defense management . Changes in Present Cabinet Are Being Called For As the war situation in Europe unfolds, some of the Saner minds in Washington are Callin g for changes in the President's Cabin et. It seems quite obvious to that school of thought that a rea] secre tary of the navy and a real secre tary of war are badly needed. It is well known that Secretary Woodring and Assistant Secre tary Johnson of the war depa rtment are at odds. In fact, until a few months ago Mr. Woodring and Colon el John- Son were not on speak ing terms. It is the genera] understa nding that Colonel Johnson is doing a reasonably good job, but the condition within the department is such that no complete co-operati on can be ex- pected. Mr. Edison, who is runni ng for the governorship has been no howling retary of the navy. of New Jersey, success as sec- So it is not an exagg eration to Say that unless two good men are placed in charge in those two departments the execution of a de fense program can be badly messed up. There are other Place s within the government where changes also could be made with profit. According to present indication s, however, the responsibility must remain with the Democratic administration for the Republican leaders have definitely turned a cold shoulder to suggestions of a coalition government, even in these days of "crisis." « in coin .. Ss eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeses .escccecccccecccces HOUSEHOLD /# | QUESTIONS \ja | "sp is | Art gum _gloves, may shoes, be useGygi! and s wall y & 2 «& } When lighting a birth: always light the candy sa 'middle first and those ag last. s | and By (Released RUFUS HARMON by Western Newspaper Utiion.) The unusual spectacle of a mayor of a city of 150,000 driving a racing car at a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour will be enjoyed by several thousand Salt Lake City residents this midsummer. To them, however, it won't be an unusual event at all! For their mayor is Ab Jenkins, world-famous speed king, who holds more world records than you could shake a stick at. The odd combination of mayor and speed king is just another chapter in the amazing story of Mayor Jenkins-building contractor, automobile barnstormer, stock-car record breaker, world speed king and now mayor and police commissioner of his own Salt Lake City! His Livelihood. He broke into national prominence in the summer of 1932 when he drove 24 hours, without relief, to set a new world's record for that time and distance. This annoyed the American Automobile association contest board considerably. As a matter of fact, they refused to believe it at all. So the next summer he returhed to the same speed site -the now world-famous Bonneville Salt Flats in western Utah-and with the watchful eye of the AAA on him, proceeded to do the same thing and raise his own record. So far as speed is concerned, this is far from a climax to his spectacular career. For he intends, before he hangs up his goggles, to bring the world's land speed record to America. Aiming at 400 Miles. There's quite a story behind these flats. Jenkins first drove a car on them in 1926, and was so certain that here was the ideal speed course that he finally badgered an automobile company into letting him try for the world's record which he set in 1932. Then, with bigger things in sight, he labored unceasingly and at his own expense to get Sir Malcolm Campbell to bring his Bluebird out to try and reach the then undreamed of speed of 300 miles an hour. Campbell finally came in 1935, and the result is now familiar history. Campbell did better than 301 miles an hour and was followed by two of his countrymen, Cobb and Capt. George Eyston, who between them have pushed the land speed record to its altitudinous 367 miles per hour figure. Now Jenkins wants that-and he's aiming at 400 miles an hour! Just to give you an idea of what Jenkins has done in the way of speed, he has a list of achievem ents that is almost unbelievable. In his time, he has broken more than 2,000 records, some of them many times. The Passing Show Twenty-two years ago Joseph J. Powell, Milwaukee, braved gunfire at Cantigny, France, to deliver a message to the American troops. Last week he was given a medal for it. - Motherless and fathe rless Victor Sienkiewicz, 17, of Chicago, was scolded by his older brothers for playing truant from school. That night he hanged himself. But Charity Gets Most of Mrs. Roosevelt's Pay. ; Not but Mrs. Roosevelt makes about as much money as her husband-and gives most of it away. Her last income tax statement contained a list, three and a half pages long, of the individuals and organizations to whom she made donations. Topping the list was the American Friends Service committee, to which she has = given, ® past He now holds 294 world speed records. He is the only American to hold any world speed records. Plans Good Will Tour. Not, however, along political lines. "I don't know anything about politics,'' Jenkins Says, ‘‘and I don't intend to learn. This is a nonpartisan city government, and the only people I'm indebted to are those who elected me. They're entitled to the best I can give them, and that's what I'm going to try and give them.'' In addition to his world record runs on the Salt Flats this summer , the mayor also is planning a little jaunt across the country as a purely goodwill gesture. In making this trip, he will start at the New York World's fair, finish at the San Francisco World's fair, and between these two spots will greet mayors of 106 cities. At each Stop, he'll invite the mayor to come to Salt Lake City, "‘The Center of Scenic America." The trip will be interrupted briefly at Indianapolis, where Jenkins has been accorded the covete d hon: or of driving the pace car that officially starts the annual Indianapolis Speedway's 500-mile Memorial day classic. Jenkins' car is built to travel in a circle, for on the Bonneville Salt Flats he drives continuously around a 121% mile course. Its body is set off center to assist steering. This trip was inspired by an earlier adventure of Mayor Jenkins. In 1926, he broke the cross-country automobile record. He piloted a car from New York to the Golden Gate in 86 hours. "I didn't have time to stop and shake hands with any mayors on that trip,'' he said, "‘so I think it's only fair to go back and tell them all hello this time." post ; _ away over seven the years, bottle. see To protect HIS three-in-one sports pattern is not only new in the sense that it is fresh from the hands of our expert designers. It is also the @ 2 surroun,, - enue, past and present, is radio. When she broadcast for her latest Underprivileged sponsor, she was 3-year-old Joan, paid $3,000 for one of Mrs. Roose- each program. plates, cut a hole the plate in a piece of ¢ heavy paper and lay it so that just the plate j nic ¢ " : cl a SETR Tce oy Toy GLASSES/ Belief and Unbeli=s# Belief consists in acce affirmations of the soul in denying them.-Em PAC ee ) lig You'll no- tice that the frock of 8719 fastens in the back, at neck and waistline only (with plenty of lap-over), leaving the front perfectly smooth. Thus you can lay it flat on the board for ironing. Made in the popular waistband style, it has a charming silhouette-small-waisted, round-bosomed. The pattern also includes welltailored shorts and a brief bolero that transforms your frock into a street style, in just a twinkling. to give $30,000 Principal ' source of her rev- ood Y Wk 42 is opened, olives may definitely if olive oil is po =a total of $100,: 000. And she now plans ethem fe oliv them after they are Put iad decidedly new in idea. By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN many people realize it, si oe when cleaning electric No orthodox mayor is Salt Lake City's Ab Jenkins. The fire department needed a new motor for one of its hookand-ladder wagons. A requisition for the motor was brought to the mayor's desk. "Nothing doing,' said he. "Twenty-eight hundred dollars is too much. I've got a motor the department can have."' Ab wouldn't take money for it, either. He turned the motor over to the city as a gift-and was genuinely surprised the newspapers gave the story a big play. It was on a safety platform, as a matter of fact, that he was elected mayor. That happened last November when from a popular vote of more than 43,000 he won his position by a margin of only 51 votes! As mayor, he is also commissioner of public safety-and since he took office Salt Lake City is Witnessing a thorough renovation of its police and fire departments! fluffy. If liquid in which Eleanor Makes As MuchasF. D. Motor for $2,800? Nix! This Mayor Has a Spare Makes Tours for Safety. Most of these have been made in his revolutionary series of *‘Mormo n Meteor"? cars. His present car of the series is the ‘"‘Mormon Meteor III," in which he believes he can travel better than 200 miles an hour. Mechanically it embodies new ideas from tip to stern-a 700-horsepower giant that is the racing mayor's brain child in every respect. But this is only one angle to the amazing achievements of the Salt Lake City mayor. For years he has toured the nation in the interests of safety. He speaks with authority, for he has driven nearly 2,000,000 miles without an accident of any kind! pin it on th a carpet-bea tled is thrown o- Lake's Chief Magistrate Will Try for World Record on Salt Flats; Will Also Tour U. S. 8 makes the blanket beauty Here you see Mayor Ab Jenkins of Salt Lake City, at his desk, and (below) with his son Marv beside the ‘Mormon Meteor III," in which they will attempt to establish new speed record. Also (top to the right), the | Bonneville salt flats. The salt surface is as hard as concrete and perfectly flat. It is the world's fastest speed| way, is the claim. Salt + After a blanket has beg/él and dried beat with Aids LOUIS - 15 cents MOdiwkstvapea' AGdreSS Breaking records is no publicity stunt for Jenkins. For many years it's been the means of his considerable livelihood. And inasmuch as the mayor's job in his city doesn't pay a very large salary, Jenkins' world-record attempts this summer will be made for the express purpose of winning prize money to balance the Jenkins' family budget! It is, in other words, his job. Not on speaking terms with his boss, Francisce Enclose Pattern There is a bit of humor in the grim reality of the conditions facing this country today. I have written in these columns many times: that the New Deal pay rollers were leading the drive to re-elect Mr. Roosevelt for a third term. That is the only manner in which theye can be certain to hold on to their jobs. Now, however, we find Mr. Roosevelt's candidaey moved forward very definitely by the impetus of Europe's war, while at the same time we find the avid New Dealers being slowly pushed into the background while practical men are called in to direct and manage the defense program. Wage Scales Europe's War May End Many Theoretical Ideals S at- tempting to make. They illustrate also the possibility that a further expansion of Europe's war probably means the end for many of the theoretical ideals about which the New Dealers have been prating through these many months. Are Being Investigated As showing how the New Deal advocates are resisting any encroachment upon the reforms which they have fostered, it is necessary only to report, as an example, that the federal contracts board has been holding hearings on proposed minimum wage scales. The board is functioning under the Walsh-Healy act. This statute permits the department of labor to fix minimum wages paid in any industrial plant which is manufacturing under a government contract, if the materials which the government is buying cost more than $10,000. The board has been going right ahead with hearings on its recommendation that a minimum wage of 52% cents per hour be established in the entire electrical industry. It has done this notwithstanding the fact that anybody must realize how useless the procedure is if it becomes necessary for the President to use war-time powers and require emergency schedules of production to be maintained. Moreover, it is doubtful that the information collected by the board will have any value in any event. This is true because war-time conditions abroad naturally are infiuencing our industrial conditions. The data being collected probably will be meaningless if the war continue s another six months. With respect to the question of limitations of hours which employees may work, the same story is true. In addition, it can be said, I believe, that congress will waste very little time in removing the restrictions on hours of labor if the emergency requires complete marshaling of American productive capacity. S oe NS rervoct Cyan OTe ae ~° velt's ‘‘adopted' She néver saw children. the money, however, it being paid directly to the Friends organization each week. Ham Fish Objects. On a new radio program, Mrs. Roosevelt declined to reveal the exact amount of this revenue, but she plans to pay off a Friends Service deficit of $30,000. In this case, however, the Friends Service committee will not get all the revenue. Congressman Ham Fish has seen to that. Roosevelt's | "‘good neighbor' (Fish lives near Hyde Park) howled on the floor of the house two years ago that Mrs. Roosevelt was evading payment of income tax. He insisted that she should list all income, whethe r she received it or not, and Pay tax on it. So Mrs. Roosevelt's present practice is to list all income, pay tax on it, and donate the balance. This cuts heavily into her donations, since internal revenue exempt s only 15 per cent of charitable donations. Few Made Public. Undisclosed, except to the internal revenue bureau, are hundreds of small organizations and individuals who get from $10 to $1,000 from Mrs. Roosevelt. She has even expanded her secretarial staff to take care of requests from the thousands of people who think she is the fountain-head of private charit y, Only occasionally are these gifts made public, as when the "Foster Parents Plan for War Children" revealed that she had pledged to care for a young Polish girl, Janina Dybowska, in a French refugee camp, at a cost of $9 a month. Able to make in a single week more than most men earn in a year, Mrs. Roosevelt is not growing wealthy. She balances her budget by giving away practically every dollar she makes. When the war began, Mrs. Roosevelt told the Red Cross to put her down for a regular contribution of $50 a month for relief in Europe. She made the same commi tment to the American Friends Servic e committee, this being over and above the weekly thousands which it gets from her new radio program. And for years, Mrs. Roosevelt has poured thousands into the home. stead project at Arthur dale, W. Va., where the school depends almost entirely on her suppor t. Meetings of the school board are held as her Suests in the White House . = i WASHINGTON.-There is a new kind of political conflict developing in Washington. The extent to which it will go depends, obviously, upon developments in Europe's war. It is fair to say, nevertheless, that at this moment died-in-the-wool New Dealers are frightened within an inch of their lives from fear of what the war hysteria is going to do to their pet social program. It should be said by way of explanation that President Roosevelt's defense program is likely to require the & best industrial and military brains available. That means the President must turn to the captains of industry-so cordially hated by real New Dealers - for certain types of help and guidance for a preparedness pro2 lustrate |. CURIS OOO TIOOS SOOT By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. 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