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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH committee. WASHINGTON. — No blames the Democratic mand for its convention one really high com- date ma- Their line of reasoning, he said, was that the subversive elements were attempting to throttle the Dies committee. Some of them thought it was Communistie influence. Some of them thought it was N azi—though less of these. Others just thought it was part of a radical plot which aims at the overthrow of this gov- ernment, and regarded the left wingers of the Roosevelt administration as part and parcel of the plot. Now these letters, almost without exception, were from Democrats. If they had not been they would not have worried the congressman. The point is that this fanatical minority of some 500, excite enough to write letters to their congressman, and so completely sold on the T THE end of the first six months of war we find that the major belligerents have not yet begun to fight, while the major neutral powers have begun to fight for peace. Small wonder that the late Senator Borah called this a ‘‘phoney’”’ war. © Only in Finland is there a major military effort and mighty Soviet Russia does not even admit that she has gone to war against little Finland. When the war began no one expected Soviet RusSia to participate in military operations and no one expected Finland QUESTIONS \AG/ SS For Leather Chairs.—Rub equal parts of linseed oil and vinegar, well shaken, into leather chairs, occasionally. It keeps them in good condition. By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU EW YORK.—Old e* When Service.) General Plu- tarco Elias Calles, -Mexico’s strong-man, for 11 years, has repudiated force, on several occasions, but has stopped Calles Returns To Mexico on ¢: xs 8 It is not too early to look over Mend and paint window screens. them now so they will be ready when it is time to put-them in. for just one wore round. Just now & $s poaching eggs, let water come to a full rolling boil, drop eggs into it, turn out gas and eggs. will finish poaching in the boiling. water, s : ace en nn ra By H. V. KALTENBORN _ Noted Radio Commentator, Brought Out Various Lines of Reasoning | HOUSEHOLD WHO'S NEWS THIS | WEEK ER Many politicians believe Democrats have great gdvantage in late convention . . . Expect economy wave to wane as presidential campaign warms up... Belligerent minorities forced congress to continue Dies Enemies Stalemated After 6 Months Because Defense Outshines Offense wire lee Reviewed by CARTER FIELD KALTENBORN SAYS: ¢ If a drawer runs unevenly and causes trouble in opening and shutting it is not always necessary to néeuvers. It is part and parcel, of have ° a resident in recourse course, to the carpenter, of the uncertainty as to Salvage Trip southern Califor frequently the very simple whether Franklin D. Roosevelt will fornia, the former president will method of rubbing a little soap on’ run for a third term, but both that be allowed to return to Mexico City, the inner edges of the drawer will uncertainty and the determination of to be invaded. On the other hand, to try to recover his expropriated real danger to this government from the Democrats to do their nominatovercome this difficulty. everyone expected an immediate a * * land, according to a dispatch from subversive influences that it would ing AFTER the Republicans name air-raid by hundreds of bombingMexico City. be utterly impossible to unsell them, their ticket gives the New Deal a When sprinkling flat pieces, such planes on the capitals of Europe, ‘would be almost certain to vote in a as towels, pillow-slips, napkins, The revolution against Porfirio tremendous advantage. and for weeks the headlines spoke {| unit against their congressman’s recurtains, handkerchiefs, and so Diaz in 1910 made much of It is not a fair advantage. It is of the coming big offensives on the nomination if he were to fail to vote forth, for ironing, dip one article not sportsmanship, breaking up the great land holdbut politics is Maginot and Siegfried lines. Neither to give more funds to the Dies comin five in clear water, squeezing, never fair or sportsmanlike. ings and distributing them to the In fact the raids nor the offensives develnot wringing, as dry as possible, the word ‘“‘politics” in Washington is mittee. peasants. He made the land oped during the first half-year of Moreover, it is not so long since Lay flat two dry articles, then one revolution as much as any man, frequently coupled with. two other fighting. Why? most of these partisans of the Dies wet one, then two dry, and so on, words in revamping the old quotabut on June 15, 1930, he proBRITAIN GUARDS THE SEA—Somewhere in the hiohih sea | Defense Is Major Factor. committee were being thoroughly’ rolling tightly, when all are done. tion, “‘All’s fair in love and war.” posed to liquidate it—thus: “If a multiple anti-aircraft gun aboard a British mine sweeper watches propagandized by an_ institution The primary There reason we wish to be sincere, we must will be no dry spots and is that in Assuming two major parties, the for enemy raiders. which, in addition to certain racial modern war, every piece- will be a good even defense confess that agrarianism, as we is stronger normal practice ought to be for the than animosities, preached Americanism offense. dampness. It is a pleasure to iran The have understood it and thus far war in Spain party in power to hold its convensantly, directly on the fighting lines far less successful in destroying and the dangers of subversive influshowed the world that air attack clothes dampened this way. practiced it, has been a failure.’’ tion, tell the country what it wants or indirectly through the air-waves. shipping than mines. The new magences. Dies is reaping, as a maton large cities is tremendously deFive years later with the asto do in its platform, and name its Nazi leaders are apprehensive about netic mine sown by the Germans ter of fact, where Hiram, W. Evans structive, but it also showed that it cendancy of Cardenas, lean Incandidate before the opposition goes casualties in the propaganda battle. proved very destructive for the first is not likely to be decisive. The exand other Ku Klux Klan leaders dian Savonarola of communal They impose severe punishment on through the same motions. few weeks in which it was used. sowed. There is no attempt here to - pense in planes, fuel, bombs . doctrine, he was exiled, and his and From the Civil war on until the anyone who listens to a foreign Then more effective mine-sweeping aviators who do not return is apt to say that the pro-Dies rooters and the great estates at Santa Barbara first election of Cleveland this pracbroadcast. The British and French, methods and the establishment of old Klansmen are the same groups. offset the military were confiscated. advantages tiee was followed, on the other hand, have enough conof course, narrow beship-channels which gained in any mass bombing flight. They are not. But the preaching of were As a peasant youth in his native cause the Republicans were in powfidence in their people to permit carefully patrolled reduced the sucAnd the effect on neutral opinion of er. When Grover Cleveland’s sec- the Klan built up a sentiment which them to listen to whatever Dr. Goebcesses of Germany’s mine-laying mountains he doubled in bar-keepthe killing of thousands of women is tinder for the sort of stuff the ing. and school teaching. He led a ond term was reaching its end there bels orders said. airplanes. Dies committee hasbeen bringing and children, together with the Savage strike against the Sonora dewas the same uncertainty that there More Activity. on Sea. out. British Also Unsuccessful. struction of historic monuments in Dodge copper interests, and in the is now as to which way the party in At sea, a war of movement has On. the other hand, cities far away In fact, it was suspicion of a simithe British from any actual turmoil of the revolution, joined power would face in the coming elecbeen possible. This is why there have been no more successful in fighting zone, might well be disaslarity between the Klan and the proObregon and was president from tion. has been much more activity at their raids against the Dies movement which resulted in trous. German 1924 to 1928. He was in Cardenas’ Cleveland was for ‘‘sound money’’ sea than on land. Britain’s con- navy. Both German the attempt to link Dies up with the and The fear of such wholesale airBritish cabinet and was supposedly pulling —gold. Not until William J ennings trol of the sea has again demonsubmarines have destroyed an ocraids led France and Britain to Jew baiters, which embarrassed the strings, but suddenly hopped a Bryan surstampeded the Democratic: strated its importance. The Gercasional warship, but these forays render at Munich. Rep. Frank E. Hook when the letNow, after a convention with his famous ‘‘crown plane for San Diego and took up man fleet is bottled up. Except for have been costly to the submarines ters bought by Gardner Jackson year and a half of additional intengolf. of thorns and cross of gold” speech submarines, the German navy and attempting them. proved to be forgeries. The British and sive preparation for air-defense, was the position of the party then in they He was an unyielding foe of the German Merchant Marine have French claim to have sunk between no longer fear German attack. - power made clear. They the church during the years of Of course it was been swept from the seas. Economy Wave May Wane 40 and 50 German submarines since are prepared to meet it and not the course of the administration. could his dictatorship, in the presidenThe Near HBastern Franco-British Ferry’s the beginning of the war. The Germake it so costly that it would As Campaign Warms Up The administration was defeated in probcy and out. Muscular and vigarmy of half a million men under Zinnia mans admit the loss of less than ably not be repeated. The successThe probability still is that the that convention. orous, at 63, with high cheekthe leadership of General Weygandt half this number. ful defense of the Mannerheim Yet whenever a economy wave now rising on Capline Which bones and squinting mongoloid is the sort of exception is now waiting in Syria, ready for submarine is lost, the entire crew against the most highly concentra itol Hill will wane. If it does not which seems to prove that there is teyes, he is of the cut of the instant action against Russia or Geris lost with it, and it takes five ed Soviet military effort showed the the whole presidential campaign is no great importance to the question latter-day dictator; and several many in any part of the Balkans. years to train men to handle a subStrength of defense fortifications unpredictable not only as to candiof whether the party in power meets in times there have been reports This army may yet prove the demarine under war conditions. modern war. dates but as to issues. first or last. that he was planning a comecisive military factor in this war. Talk about the Germans building Why Poland Was Weak. President Roosevelt put forward a back. It is now indicated that Allied victories in Palestine and Tur3S 4 ; one submarine a day is nothing Much Depends Upon W hat The two great Surprises of budget message which certain Rehe is up to nothing more imthis key presaged the collapse of the more than talk. It is more likely war so far have been Poland’s publicans, including Alfred M. ILanportant than trying to salvage weakRoosevelt Decides to Do Central Powers in 1918. that the Germans are completing ness and Finland’s don, characterized as *“‘phony.”’ Most something out of the agrarianstrength. PoThis year the same uncertainty Germany’s commerce - raiders anywhere from six to ten U-boats a land’s weakness -arose from observers agreed that the whole idea ism which he helped to start. a lack hangs over the Democratic course. were swept from the seas much month, which is just about the rate of national unity and domina was merely to put off the evil day tion of _ No one knows whether Roosevelt more quickly than during the World at which they are being destroyed the illiterate masses by an aristo—that later on in the session defiHIS writer had a letter from his will be the nominee—whether it will war. The Graf Spee lies wrecked Gorgeous blooms in Already Planning for Peace. cratic caste. ciency appropriations, for instance In the larger sense, old friend, Eddie Persons, of San in Montevideo harbor -after being be somebody RooseThere is, then, nothing decisive in Francisco, the other day in which the government of Poland was wealthy profusion. Your for relief, would have to be made nei- put out of action by the combined velt approves and action at sea or in the air. Defense which would more than offset all the Mr. Persons put Santa Barbara yard aglow all summer. who promises to is stronger than attack. But what cuts being made in the early money 3 county, Calicarry on the Rooseabout the economic front? That is Buy the convenient way bills. velt policies, or probably the most important front But congress took the bit in its from your dealer's display. Champions Cause test-tube, as whether some conof all and the one that will be domiteeth, and first shot out of the box H.V. Kaltenborn attained outstanding servative like John It’s Championed 3 Clinical’ nant long after the war has ended. the house appropriations committee sample of eminence in the radio news field during Nance Garner or Already Secretary of State Hull is what ruinous taxation can do to a saw the President’s cut and went Jesse H. Jones will the European crisis last autumn, when his negotiating with the neutral powers him one better, lopping off appropriminor commonwealth. It would apbe named. to work out a plan of economic refrequent and accurate reports over the ations for two of the President’s pet pear that Santa Barbara county is It is entirely posconstruction. Columbia network The were plan awaited must each be day agencies, and slashing deeply into carrying on just to save funeral exsible that this unready for instant application on the by millions of listeners. A native of Wisthe shipbuilding estimate. This last, penses and Mr. Persons, one of the certainty will cons day of the armistice if Europe is leaders of the San Francisco busiconsin, comprising four-fifths of the total he worked many years on the tinue right up to the not to sink in to chaos when the cuts, was not very reassuring to an Jesse Jones Brooklyn Eagle before entering the radio | ness community, is trying to do day the Democratic fighting ends. honest budget balancer, because the something about it. news field as a sideline in 1922. For more convention meets. In the Name of Fashion It is within probEvery country in Europe, neutral committee approved ‘“‘authorizaIt was a similar alarm, among > than 30 years he has been a keen student ability that the preferential primaFashion—a word which knaves and belligerent alike, has’ mort- many citizens, which started New tions’’ for shipbuilding later on. In ries in the Democratic party will of international politics, gaged and fools may use, their knavery a its background future. Only if the New short, it provided that this cut of York’s unique tax march on Albany, prove nothing either as to nominees which makes his extemporaneous analyses world remains out of the war and and folly to excuse.—Churchill. $75,000,000° should be made in the in which thousands of citizens, repor platforms. In fact, it is constands ready to lend its resources over CBS among the most accurate heard budget for the year beginning July resenting 829 organizations, moved ceivable that the primaries might for European reconstruction is there by the American audience today. His famous broadcast from 1, 1940, but ‘‘authorized’”’ the marion the state capitol, ‘‘to apply the indicate overwhelming support for a any hope of true peace. Europe time commission to spend the monwas haystack in ax to the tax,’’ as their banners and Spain is the first radio description of actual warfare Roosevelt and a third term, and that ready for revolution before the war ey later. buttons had it. The new and seemon record. During last autumn’s crisis he literally lived at the then, after Roosevelt has declined came and will be much more ready Presumably, after Senator Dick ingly unprecedented “‘“economy CBS studios in New York, prepared to go on the air to run, a conservative might be for it when the war is done. at a and Representatives Tom and Harry front’’ \is the state budget emernominated moment's notice, because of the sheer What After Collapse? have done their economizing, and gency committee, in which the vaweakness of the individual left wing France and Britain count on eco- rious organizations converge. curried favor with such voters in It Has a cold made it hurt candidates. nomic pressure to bring about the ther popular nor efficient. The Fineven to talk? Throat rough efforts of three small British cruistheir states as are excited about was started by a man who was All of which, should it develop, and scratchy? Get a box of } collapse of Germany, but one wonnish people are literate, sturdy and budget balancing, the more pressers. The Deutschland, scratching gravel, literally and figher sister will certainly put the Republicans on Luden’s. You'll fiad Luden’s : ders whether they have asked thempossess a strong sense of social and ing needs, especially those with a pocket-battleship, thought it best uratively. special ingredients, with to the spot. They would want, for inselves, what then? Will they march political independence. potent political motive, will receive return to a safe German harbor. cooling menthol, a great Henry M. Champion had a litstance, to draft a very different into Germany at the head of a vicaid in helping soothe that Just as the failure of Poland’s deattention from the lawmakers. tle sand and gravel pit on his Nazis Stress U-Boat Warfare. platform if the nominee were Roose“sandpaper throat!” torious army, establish a new Kaiser fense plan undermined morale, the That’s what nearly everyone ex40-acre farm on the Chenango But raiding with surface ships is velt than if the nominee were Garand a new success of Finland’s well-organized Junker government? Or pects. river, 20 miles north of Binga minor factor in Germany’s sea ner. They might plan the campaign will they stand aside while Germaplan of defense has given tremenhampton. He was doing nicely warfare against Britain and France. along wholly different lines if they Sharpshooters Awaiting Menthol Cough Drops /: ny’s underground Communist movedous encouragement to the army, until taxes began to pull him The Germans were remembered to fight Robert H. Jackson how ment re-asserts the people and the government. But itself and calls out Developments, Guns Ready down. He called a meeting of close they came to forcing a decithan if they were to fight Sen. Harry for assistance to the Red brethren the success of the German blitzkrieg farmers in 1938 and formed the sion with their submarines during But the sharpshooters attacking Flood Byrd. Vie Donahey would in Moscow? against Poland and the failure of Purchased Friends Chenango County Taxpayers’ the World war. the administration on Spending are present a necessity for one sort of They had from 60 There is the third possibility of orRussia’s blitzkrieg against Finland Purchase not friends with gifts; association, of which he was of course perfectly to 75 submarines ready when the attack, Henry A. Wallace quite anganizing those liberal forces that depended primarily on the differwhen thou ceasest to give, such elected president. In their first aware of this, and war began. For the first few weeks other. . have either been driven out of Gerence between the attacking armies. will cease to love.—Fuller. year of ax work, they nicked waiting for the deof the war, they used these to exmany The German army. was well organor driven under cover $75,000 from the county budget, within Congress Was Forced to velopment with cellent advantage. Germany, and helping them to reized, well equipped, well directed. and, moving on from there, their guns trained Then the protective measures Continue Dies Committee establish constitutional government The Russian army is porly organfound eager allies in similar oron the spot where which Britain developed during the by granting them a generous peace. ized, poorly equipped and suffers So many people object to the Dies ganizations, culminating in the they are sure the World war and since became effeccommittee that there is general wonfrom bad generalship. That would be the hardest task. state committee, with Mr. target is going to tive. The larger ships were sent der why, when the test came in the Champion as chairman. They Western Lines Invulnerable. Rumania Under Pressure, be. And the gentry out in convoy; airplane patrols were house of representatives, the vote Meanwhile, there is more pressure chalked up a reduction of $26,Already Finland’s Mannerheim trying to make pocreated; minefields against submato continue the committee, even to behind the economic 500,000 in the state budget last line has withstood an overwhelming than behind litical capital meanrines were established and all the the extent of giving it $75,000 for the military war. year. Russian assault for more than three Members of the while by voting for resources of the British navy were expenses in the midst of a spree of Rumanian Mr. Champion was a punishing axgovernment months. It is apparent, therefore, cuts know all about are being mobilized against the U-boats. appropriation slashing, was so overbribed, bulldozed, flattered and ca- man in his youth, working in logging that the much more completely orthese guns of the On the whole, they have proved Senator Taft whelming. joled by both sides. Both are seekcamps in Arkansas and Wisconsin, ganized and much deeper Maginot sharpshooters. effective. In six months, the British The answer is very simple. Nearing to purchase Rumania’s oil and the latter being his native state. His and Siegfried lines would be simi- have lost 550,000 tons For example, Sen. Robert A. Taft of merchant ly every representative from the Rumania’s father is still a lumberman in northgrain. of Ohio. larly invulnerable to attack. And Each wants it so Now there are those who ships. At the same time, the French South and West has learned that a that the other cannot have it. The ern Michigan. He came to New think Mr. Taft is a blunderer. whereas Russia has a superiority of lost 75,000 tons and the neutrals 350,There lot of his constituents are enthusiFrench and British offer gold, the York state in 1914. and made his are even more, particularly in the something like 20 to 1 against Fin- 000 tons. This makes a total of a astic about the committee’s work, Germans first visit to New York city last J uly, threaten New Deal crowd, who say his ideas land, the forces lined-up on both war. So far, little over 1,000,000 tons. and want it continued. Not only King Carol has kept a precarious rallying the tax rebels. sides of the French frontier are about economy are the bunk. Losses Not Important. that, but a certain percentage of balance; Britain and France cohpractically equal infighting strength. As is often remarked about Taft’s He is a weather-beaten citizen, 44, But nothing in these losses pro-: these rooters for the Dies committinue to guarantee his frontiers and years old, who doesn’t look at all economy proposals, he may not be In considering the progress of this duced by mines and submarines tee are very belligerent about it. King Carol remembers doing himself any good so far as his war, we are too much inclined to the Blitzlike the little man in the barrel—. even suggests the possibility of a It is this minority, curiously enough, krieg against Poland. Poland candidacy for the Republican nomidwell on military factors. Yet duralthough his organization has this decisive result. had The British merwhich is responsible for the size of nation is concerned, been given the same guarantees, ing this first half-year the military undernourished little chap, armed chant marine alone totals 21,000,000 but the Ohio the majority in the house for Dies. front has been less important than On the diplomatic front, the Al- with a blunderbuss, on its badges. senator is bad medicine for an oppotons. The British claim that deThe members are scared to death of nent just the same. the diplomatic front and the ecolied powers won their greatest vicMany mystics regard upstate New ducting from their losses purchas es a very belligerent minority—they nomic front. tory There has even been a in winning All this is pointed out because Turkey York as the cradle of prophecey— and new construction, their net loss to their are not nearly so much afraid of a more continuous cause. This gives them control of many prophets having risen there. exchange of amthere is a possibility—not a strong in six months of warfare has been passive majority. munition on the propaganda front the Dardanelles and the Black Sea, ‘If it isn’t a prophet this time, it one, but it is there—that congress less than 200,000 tons. It is also This is the whole essence of polithan between the fighting armies may be afraid to backtrack on econprobable that the losses will de- in case of war with Russia. It also would appear to be a Watt Tyler, Opposite Mormon Temple tics. Let us illustrate with a typiassures themselves. : : France and Britain comand the capitol stands on Nottingomy; that it may continue to hack crease rather than increase, since HIGHLY RECOMMENDED cal district in the deep South, which into appropriations, regardless of Radio and loudspeaker plete dominance of the Mediterranesystems ham hill, The little man in the at sea as well as on land defense Rates $1.50 to $3.00 is must be nameless, but whose reprehave made it possible for belligeran thereby discouraging Italy from where the chips'fall, — barrel has had an uphill climb for proving itself stronger than attack. It’s a mark of distinction to stop sentative told the writer about it. ents to talk to one another incessiding with Germany. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) many years and ought to take this at this beautiful hostelry Already submarine torpedoes are (Released by Western Newspaper, RNEST C, ROSSITER slope easily. Union.) You pL be Ket: THE AUTHOR — FERRY’S + pare> SEEDS THROAT LUDEN’S 5¢ Salt Lake’s NEWEST HOTEL Hotel TEMPLE SQUARE ‘ NATIONAL AFFAIRS — - This congressman had a lot of mail from his district about the Dies committee. As a matter of fact, a great deal of it was critical of the committee. But what jarred him was that about 500 of his constituents—and he either knew them or checked up on who they were—were almost fanatical in their letters, |