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Show , aa ot for the nomination with 2 | er | oor President Roosevelt's lifted @ ae ee NATIONAL Byrnes has not Weap If New cent te manwi AFFAIRS =|) CARTER FIELD || =< #2,or ewes | py arecony ADAMS! - BATTLESHIPS ney tap ensign "* Ons Fe ee, er ye fee me nea Se Wheeler of ¢ ---« Gar- ner's silence regarded as his biggest asset by political well wishers. a growWASHINGTON.-There is that ing conviction in Washington run not will President Roosevelt it is that again. The curious part of there is no new logic, there t, been no new developmen the above all no word from source worth of the a snap has and only finger. finds It's just mass psychology. One Mr. now that people firmly believing next JanRoosevelt is going to retire firmly beago uary who a month lieved he ccomerragen py would seek another term. And not one of them give you one can or iota of shadow his for substance change of view. For several weeks now the writer has been trying to find has what out many so changed This is as minds. good a place as any -@ . The President a psig wet acne tenia eat that the other for the admission y so writer finds himself not nearl as he sure of a third-term effort adto and back, s was a few month has mit that the only thing that happened, in this particular mind e are veering, is that so many peopl run- saying the President will not ics people whose judgment on polit is usually worth something. those But apparently it's one of ocircles-whether vicious or benev Everybody lent is not to the point. view the in ened seems to have weak try that there would be a third-term other many so because merely have ds frien uninformed equally But who started it? weakened. For G. 0. P. N omination 1932 and helped P. nomination in since first time make the G. O. being men1940 worth fighting for, is i s suggested as tioned himself. He if Taft, promise cand idate the else John grade Thomas E. Dewey and W. B ricker don't make in the primaries. , DemoPat Boland of Scranton looms ouse, cratic whip in the h succeeding is quali- fied to predict. Personal Objectives to Color Legislative Program 1918, DemoBack in 1932 the bigwigs of York, cratic headquarters, in New John about d worrie much were very nomNance Garner, who had been were inated for vice president. They afraid he would talk too much- It scare the conservatives to death. , durmay be recalled that Garner had with frightened the big taxpayers govhis talk about a billion-dollar am. ernment spending progr didn't He But Garner didn't talk. do anything. Time went by, and pretty soon the same bigwigs began to worry because he was keeping so quiet. They thought he was overdoing it and by his very silence would scare somebody or other. So they sent one of the cleverest in New York, men newspaper Charles Hand, down to ‘‘press agent' for The Jack. Cactus only thing that worthem was ried whether, with Garencouronce ner aged, Charley would be able to ride herd on the Texan. Finally, ‘with all the pressure in the world brought to reGarner inforce Hand's plaintive pleas for a little activity, Garner consented to make one speech! Not a single interview. That one speech was his contribution to the Such inactivity was uncampaign. heard of in politics. Came the 1936 campaign and again Cactus Jack's verbal contriHe made a butions were laconic. brief talk at the Philadelphia convention, and a short radio talk from Nothing else. Not a single Uvalde. interview. Nor has he talked since, until final- ly cajoled into a 44-word statement on December 16 to the effect that he would accept the nomination for President. Garner Decidedly Favors Brevity of Statements Incidentally he would all sorts of texts which ants thought would be tics. His criticism of statement before finally not approve his lieutengood polithe 44-word approving it Just as individual politics, rather than party devotion, will dominate word and action on Capitol Hill this was that it was entirely too long! winter, so personal objectives will Just why political documents color every move, decide for or should always have to be so long is against taxes and trade agreements, something that has always made social laws and farm benefits, red newspaper men wonder. Everybody investigations and witch-burnings. knows that very few readers plow Two Republican senators, Robert through them. A. Taft and Arthur H. Vandenberg, The old-fashioned political speech, are candidates for the presidency of course, was something else again. Without any reflection whatever on An orator had his audience more or the sincerity of their convictions » | less at his mercy. Moreover, he their high-mindedness or patriotism » | could work them up to a political it is too much to ask that each will frenzy, if he were really good, and not have in mind, before every pubthus give them a kick somewhat like lic comment, every speech, and bejitterbugs get when they are prancfore every vote, what effect tha t | ing to v ery hot swing. comment and vote will have on his There is a question about radio. presidential aspirations. It is mighty easy to turn the dizw. Sen. Sherman Minton of Indiana But the important thing abcut is alsu on a spot politically, which Garner's record for silence is that, may produce a tangled pattern when calculated or not, it has served adit comes to following his activities. mirably the hopes of his friends that He is probably the most obedient he would be the nominee this czmof New Deal senators, but after all paign. If he had been talking for his heart belongs to Indiana's fapublication half as much as the orvorite son, Paul V. McNutt. dinary congressman, he would be Two Democratic senators are also embarrassed now by having newsin the presidential race-Burton K. papers and opponents rake up all Wheeler of Montana, and James sorts of statements. F. Byrnes of South Carolina. Wheel- (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) mount not But 15-inch guns, compare armies met thy to Liye yee Shun the Civilians. Military experts believe the end of war may come when nations realize how an attack may backfire. An indication that the powers appreciate this danger is demonstrated in the fact that not a single civilian in the first objective was bombed five months of the allied-German To bomb London, the Nazis war. know, would be to invite retaliatory bombing of Munich, Berlin and other cities. Thus vast the in improvement death dealing weapons be a may blessing in disguise. Take the ordinary rifle, traditionally the backbone of armed strength. In 1865 an American infantry soldier carried a long-barreled, singleshot, muzzle-loading musket that delivered an average of one cartridge a minute. Its maximum efficiency was 300 yards. By World war days pe ture of next experts who year's have crops, . punch, of science. field in the medicine, attacking the nervous old. years ‘ ily."' Thirty-two pages of ing ideas for Homemak 10) for Book 3, enclosing Addre coin to cover cost. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedfon, § New York. of the before the annual meeting for the Association American Advancement of Science at Ohio university, reveals unsuspected tissue defenses against the entrance of the viruses into the GUN mak for Rug That Grew Up With? read paper, His directions step is system, Won repl Book No. 3; alsog®@yY K Spears' viruses and paralysis of against scores who infantile 33 college of Cincinnati versity Uni- of the Sabin, B. Albert 4 lot. is helping blood Young Dr. nervous system. It is regarded as an epochal advance toward understanding of the disease and later conquest. | Dr. Sabin was born in Poland, and acquired his academic and medical | shots a minute at 1,100-yard effectiverange. Browning gun, adopted in World war, now improved to fire 500 shots per minute at effective range York university, New at education Smell the Danger Clear Way for Shal ay. © | Humble Hug Wallgwerte at 1923 to 1931, later studying from ing th Lister institute, London. In 1932, he In many large Wester) I became associate research scientist ‘where alarm bells cannot pte th | York New , institute ller at Rockefe over the noise of the m Sd lai During his tenure with this | the workers are warned city. hatun | institution he discovered a new disby an odor produced by ien ease, caused by an agent which he of 1,200 yards. _drops of butyl mercaptamg The calls the B virus. antiof the discovery new His tissue ~,\ virus goalkeepers in human with n connectio in | was announced ARTILLERY Ge Civil war gun immobile and more | his than | still used but effectiveness increased from 9,000 to 13,500 yards with new mounting. Illustrated: Coast artillery. Its efficiency range was yards. in 1940. Today's Garand rifle requires but a pull of the trigger to discharge an eight-shot cartridge case, eject it and place a new load in the chamber. Though it can be fired up to 100 times per minute, its average ' NEBRASKA a ee watched efficiency is about 35. Maximum distance has been increased, but for battle purposes the range remains about 600 yards. The first machine gun in 1865 was the Gatling, a military wonder which fired about 150 bullets of musket calibre a minute. Thanks to its of Theobald sciences. -- about his country by mot@ ‘roads he uses are cleareda! advance, of LESSER Sees Our Hope given In Understanding Human Behavior the freshly Artillery a 13,500-yard fighting ship displaced no more than 3,000 tons, the super-battleship of that day being Britain's H..M. S. Warrior. That boat displaced 9,000 tons and carried four dozen sixtyeight pounder smooth bore guns. By 1918 the giant was Britain's Queen Elizabeth, displacing 27,500 tons and mounting eight guns of the 15-inch size. She had 13-inch armor sides. Today the British Nelson displaces they needn't expect a renewal of the | 33,000 tons and has 16-inch guns- source of livelihood outside of govhorrible ‘‘black blizzards'' that | nine of them. She has 14-inch arernment aid. Both live-stock raismade life miserable in past years. | ers and wheat farmers are suffermor and travels at a speed of 30 Thanks to proper care, more land ing, but the stockmen have a better knots compared with the Elizabeth's has a cover of grass or stubble, 25 knots. chance in sections where feed crops hence is less exposed to wind ero| were good despite grain crop failWarships are getting bigger every sion. year. Thirty-five thousand ton boats ures last summer. Precipitation figures for late fall will soon be ready and the United From its experiences in the dust months show the unhappy prospects States government is already talkbowl the government is learning imin several states. Parts of Kansas, portant lessons about conservation. ing about 40,000 tonners. whose southwest corner lies in the The airplane, There's a definite change in the patan infant in the dust bowl's heart, received less than World war, has become tern of farming here. Contour metha formidan inch of rain during September ods have been developed to save the able weapon today. In 1918 the Marand October. This was the lighes! water and thus prevent soil erosion. tin bomber cruised 600 miles at an on record. All states in that vicinity In a 96,900,000-acre area normally | average speed of 118 miles per hour. suffered subnormal rainfall. Perconsidered as potentially a part of | Today a bomber like the Boeing can centages included: Kansas, 19 per the wind erosion go 3,500 miles at 250 miles per hour. region, the soil cent; Montana, 76; Nebraska, 30: conservation | It service carries has 10,000 pounds approxiof bombs North Dakota, 53; Minnesota, 50: mately 2,500,000 acres operating unand ammunition, compared with Wyoming, 77, and Iowa, 2/ per cent. der a Supervised program pounds that is | 1,500 for the old Martin. The tragic part of it is that winter netting results. | Might does not make right, as the wheat farmers, whose crops for next Next year's bigger drouth may be world once believed, but it does year are already blasted. must now a temporary setback, but farmers| | make a war-hungry nation think wait until next fall te plant their and conservationists alike are confi- | twice before walk'ng into the jaws next crop. Meanwhile« there is no | dent the problem can be licked. of self-destruction. he whitewashed de: pag 2en and@ he: dogs in the villages wheremere for the night are killed-g#Port a very light sleeper. by| More than half dllhb of the . ‘classical | 2,000 adult midgets are m@ s it phte! institution to walk in Ui@i,.r of the halls and passageway is others walk close to the ® pe: a gesture of humility. nz standing as he assails the old ration- | alization of haunch, paunch and jowl darwinism, as rationalizations of force. be f. co rs. Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, as above, sees our ultimate hope in "understanding human behavior,"' and urges the scientists to keep on swinging. Dr. Mitchell, it will be recalled, is the widely known Columbia university economist who headed President Hoover's research committee on social trends. - id Luden's. You'll find Luden's j special ingredients, with id cooling menthol, a great aid in helping "sandpaper throat!" -}-- ATTHEW W. STIRLING, anthropologist of the Smithsonia on Wheels. As with the machine gun, the United States army still depends on the old French "seventy-five" field artillery piece. Originally this gun+ had a standard base, was hard to move and offered a low maximum range. It fired only 9,000 yards. Today it is mounted on a pneumatictired carriage, has been given great- it all houses evolutionists,' | normal-sized husbands The La Trappe me it is dead as| me. Aiguebelle, France, folle a door-nail,"" says Dr. Lesser. But, We custom of many other tossing aside ‘‘subjective judgment,' ept houses, allows only the he ‘ial t he finds ample hope of new under- ficient at 1,100 yards. By 1918 American troops had the Browning machine gun, water-cooled and gas-operated, which fired 500 rounds a minute at an effective range of 3,500 yards. By last year Browning ammunition had been so improved.that the same gun could reach 5,500 or 6,000 yards. range and is easily moved from one sector to another. Air and sea weapons have increased apace. In 1865 the average There'll be a lot of dry land next | and how each compares with the spring, but soil conservationists | largest stricken area a few years have promised the dust bowlers that | ago. the medical ALEXANDER ys stable mounting, the Gatling was ef- er elevation to permit DUST BOWL-Map shows how next year's drouth area will cumpare with last year's, in ‘the air-circulating syste@jd ha danger signal has the @ for nsele: skunk. ae When the shah of in Smith ns f Brooklyn college finds there isn't any such thing as social evo-| lution-at least not in the old sense. "In the form five" adopted in World war, the army was using a Springfield breech-loading, bolt-action, repeating rifle which the average soldier could discharge at a rate of 13 shots receipt | award 1,100 yards. French "'seventy- It's Faster ing Remove s terial. end. Now, make boxST bles like ‘those *i indi cate © lines dotted couch fits under these f and how a partition ar are put in the one at Paint tables to end. The final" with fabric. ‘ shi he back and end ery upholst the with ered Full directig@ NOTE: changing an old iron bed latest style, are given me 80 years Dewey on having beco before has old last October. Never wind up year a this courier seen Earliest was Civil war's Gatling gun which could fire 150 this phenomenon change from year to year in the past decade. The snows came too late to save spring wheat crops, and next year's dust bowl] will probably be about twice the size it was last summer, department of agriculture officials experienced, and the government's anti-drouth program is thus being given its supreme test. . . a touch of sophical association feels is moved the new elan vital and teleological thereby to a spirited to understand free-for-all as it tries The occasion was @ John Dewey. special meeting to honor Professor miles in World war. MACHINE 600 American Philo- sedate the Even B. men averaged two shots per minute. New gun discharges 20-shot clips in 2!/. seconds. a minute. , and all that inquiries and studies, healing virhas to do with the two and understand"tues of compassion range in 1865, when infantry- no = with less arthritis and more say predict.. In some sections it is the greatest fall and winter drouth ever 2% Po cai search Notfor Holiday Modern gun effective 600 yards, shooting average of 36 shots per minute. This compares with 300-yard effective at s The life brigades pres in forward medicine, re- RIFLE effective ee Pauses tis Ue i ree ee Science, Unlike yy yyy miles today against only 600 Dust Bowl on Rampage Again But Farmers Still Have Hope KLAHOMA CITY.-Light snows that broke the "dust bowl's'' complete drouth in December and January won't change the pic- of it. 0 bomber. Cruising range: 3,50 Gy would provide the experts with their first clue to the potentialities of Bombers most BOMB Maximum speed has increased tremendously, cruis beber bom 1940 of rate ng ing 250 m.p.h. compared with 118 m.p.h. for 1918 makeshift de- Italy's invasion of modern weapons. s Ethiopia was no test, for Il Duce' or army was pitted against an inferi Poin ns legio 's So were Hitler foe. The Spanish war found each land. to side ill equipped and resorting as have old-style guerilla tactics, pse-Ja Chine the in tants the comba anese war. that demonstrated has Finland shrewd maneuvering, coupled with aid from Mother Nature, can stop But what the Russian juggernaut. will happen next summer, when the tes unopera army Red nized mecha der normal conditions? e ERS makhave face wau, : paintwellthe upfront Firstcover onto = portion with cotton Pe bat 06 bright cotton uphe ight F. PARTON yee" ragga on 4 t a then YORK.-If death is NEW LF Death, since prematurely : By LEMUEL e with earlier artillery effectiv only a few hundred yards. face as they do today. of armament all types Though since 1918, it have been improved given naany does not follow that superior as tion has equipment so war in which to facilitate lightning ished overthe enemy will be vanqu night. You Can't Win. ary inTo the contrary, the milit been so ventions of one power have boring neigh by ed match equally inis stalemate the that states In modern warfare, sheer creased. . power sheer st again runs power front, western on France's Thus, a deneither army is able to gain Knowing this, advantage. cided guard welld behin safely they stay ed front lines. unwere If this frightful power chaotic leashed there would be only in the destruction of life to show ible. end; advances would be neglig gth stren of clash ate Such an ultim Garner's Silence Regarded As His Biggest Asset administration, decade. it was well-equipped convention! ing the Hoover when d cease creed that men shoul weapons, death-dealing ing al months that lead up to the nation Z shape new sizes and more deadly with each assumed becoming as Joe Gufgreater in importance dims under facfey's Keystone star Ss peaker William tional adversity. menoccasionally B. Bankhead, White House, knows the tioned for polite, but being the boys are just unable to keep will nevertheless be ng around his the bee from buzzi the unears while h e tries to lead wieldy majority. house Sam Rayburn, Democratic leader, on whom th e President must t Martin and put rely. to circumven is one of the real the program over, to appraise the tries one twisters as Utterly loyal to the Pressituation. since he asident on every detail is rn sumed th e leadership, Raybu Cactus Jack now riding high on the it must be and Garner band wagon, r is a candiremembered that Garne runs or not. R. D. F. er wheth date House Just imagine how the White ion where situat a d janizaries regar senate and Garner presides over the during the Rayburn leads the house be remembered that Washington is a town of constant social, rumor, political, diplomatic, every sort. It is a town of keyhole listeners, a town of newspaper columnists and reporters who write convictions one day that they heard at dinner parties the night before. It is an ideal town, for that reason, for propagandists. All they have to do is to get in the proper position for starting the particular rumor which will serve their purpose. The shrewd propagandist lets his thought drop, in as pontifical a manner as possible, to three or four persons who move in the right circles. Frequently one is enough. When their story is repeated, unless he is a very important person indeed, his name is not mentioned. To mention it might hurt the story. So the persons to whom he told the story usually just look wise when asked where they heard it. Or maybe they even hint a much more important source. But this process is just as true of real news as it is of propaganda. It is the way a great proportion of the real news in Washington leaks out. So folks simply cannot ignore rumors which reach them in this way. And denials do not make much difference. So it is quite possible that the latest conviction that F. D. R. will not run again is founded on rock, but it is more likely that it was started by a lot of rooters for some other Democratic candidate. Because it is unthinkable that F. D. R. himself told anybody who could re- nobody com a Gov. must it, and of modern proved efficiency fighting weapons. have In the 70 years that l war- elapsed since the Civi -the mufirst modern conflict have nitions of army and navy s, 10 Vandenberg, 1™-| regarding information NS iaie pice. THIS y i So yy 44\ the attic, 9 fo can be done with what WEE miles in 1865. Modern authentic tabulate their first : marvelous s Jjob a o Ol PF is diodd rugged rugg played ite vidualists, last session, put the with the Roosevelt program, for the New Deal on the defensive on Capital Place of Constant Rumors of Every Description peat side ha tomas whose Now this is all very queer, when as written down and analyzed, but a matter of fact it is the way the , works mind cal politi ngton Washi and the process, normally, is inhermay is ently sound, strange as*th seem at first glance. It house the On from down Maximum speed has grown - From TON. warfare of TX -ASHING picture eee ae aa euialative exlt . from 14 knots .in | 865 " ° 30 tors, so their the intense OUtt: exw ambiThird these two senators, , term for . Rooseve 7 Europe ¢ present interesting sa now enve nvelope military Washington | pected to American nts grow hot. less likely,renee ue kno s today.y Cruising range * 9 | | sions may | knots gr fights the as plications | | Presidential aspirals... eagests hope to | now 5,200 miles against oo. oa Sara es ill play big partin the || jo¢ Martin Is Mentioned vesse 4 legislative program inthe family in the family 4 . " Weste by eleased , the Wd top of tig Wture at the"sitting roo NEWS urne e ---- record other- | te Ar Fe Roosevelt on oe tte sod eo by Reviewed ons AS there a couch ed. LooseP p itarists 1 g witho an IMI 4 Mote ee By1s RUTH WYETH 9 - WHO'S = Kill Itself | Expect War to cts [Veet St Terraer ager oe | will not be worth Our Old-Time a . = oo - - UTAH B, institution, origins who delves into exciting LUDEN'S and inducements of what is loosely called Primitive civilization, is offfor the Possessed Found Man Yen for D. Menthol of explorations : Mexico, Look Within en. ie 0) j¢) on Guiana, in 1927, pendable tired price. Get NR In the at's fair. Tablets today. iN ™e Beek e Art of Pleasing You can please peo try to. Why not study he es IN LOS ANGE Ne 7 LEXANDRIA 'S whose dogs were barkless. In Florida, he found the lost Calooshas, the Americans. feeling when essocianed Sa Without Risk $02.35 Sie if not delighted, return the box © refund = purchase found pygmies who, for full dress wore artificial tails; whose babies| in arms smoked big cigars and| earliest Within fountain FEEL GO on British the of last January, A Princeton scientist traced the honey highball back 5,000 years and thereby gained knowledge of great historic Indo-European shifts in population. Mr. Stirling also has found man's early day elbow-bending a light source. He discovered that the drinking of primitive man was premeditated and indulged in to induce visions. At Ostia, Mr. Stirling found a bar, several thousands of years old, lacking only the brass rail and the free lunch to match ours. In is and it will ever bubblet wilt ever dig.-Marcus. in which he found a stone bearing the earliest recorded date of the Americas-equivalent to November © 5* Drops me Maya country T.s leading an expedition which will hunt new clues to early Indian cultures. It is a renewal of Mr. Stir- ling's Cough ee Jivaro,| TC eee at Tariff from , he was clubby with head-hunter s| A Tub and Shower '! and learned much, not only of thei recipe for shrinking heads, but of Harry Beckett, Mgr. formerly Mgr..Beal ; , their visions, legends and customs. "SS He was reared in the Salinas cow Oy! = country of California and attende a SSSS- the University of California. Hi explorations have been in North, Central and South America, Europe | r| Ss} and the East Indies. He is 43 years| ola, and, as usual, having of his life. 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