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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD GENERAL JOHNSON to Make And Easy to Wear W.C.T.U. Leaders See Tippling Decrease As State Liquor Regulation Gains Ground WHOS HUGH S. Its Easy NEWS By MILTON FORREST Washington, D. C. ESTIMATE OF WALLACE As was painfully evident at the convention, a lot of people actively dislike Henry Wallace and a lot more dislike the way he was rammed down the throat of the Democratic party by the President. On the first point not liking Mr. Wallace youve got to know a man to make that choice and Henry isnt easy to know. He is shy, not very articulate, and has as little political oomph as anybody in the Fourth New Deal. But if, as has been my privilege, you get really close to Mr. Wallace, you will discover a very fine specimen of what John L. Lewis oratorically calls the genus homo. He is simple, honest, studious and kindly. There is no side or pretense He has a good mind, in his make-uif not a brilliant one. He is incapable of the clever little schemes that have so characterized and discredited many acts of the Fourth New p. Deal. I disagree with almost every angle of his philosophy and program and I doubt if he has the qualities of leadership appropriate to a great crisis, but I would trust his sincerity of purpose as far as that of any man I know in government. The spectacle of a President so openly forcing his own choice for vice president on his party, especially in such dangerous times as these, is highly distasteful, but the effect if not the particular methods here used, seems to have become By LEMUEL F. PARTQN Features WNU Service.) The first World war over 20 reigning princes and dukes, four emperors and seven kings, in addition to a scattering ol small-frroy NEW YORK. y European Royalty alty whose are Our names Heading . now all but Droves Way in forgotte. Carol of Rumania and George of Greece were the only kings who came back, and they arent a good risk for Lloyds and perhaps Lloyds isnt either. If the Mayflower were still afloat it could book a full passenger list oi kings fleeing from commoners, seeking a haven in a new world at any rate, kings and their consorts, their courtiers and others of princeh rank. It Is understood that the Empress Zita of Austria will be in America before long. The word former is omitted here, in deference to a clever, purposeful woman, who has never admitted that she Isnt still the empress. Of her son, Archduke Otto, now apartment living in a in New York, she once said, If the lime ever comes when be has but one servant, that servant will call hint your majesty. San Francisco a In early-da- y stately old gentleman with a splendid, kingly uniform announced thai he was Emperor Norton, and was pleased to make San Francisco his royal domain. Nobody knew who he was or where he came from, but he looked and behaved like an emperor, so they took him up on his proposition. He held court, for years, received homage and issued decrees, and when he needed revenue levied on the stock exchange, finding a handful of $20 gold pieces He died sitting always ready. straight upright in his little cubbyunihole room, wearing his form. The city gave him a grand funeral. San Francisco was proud of her emperor. They never did learn anything about him. This department was never particularly partial to kings, but in addition to child refugees it might be a nice idea for each city over here two-roo- m full-dre- ss . . . HENRY A. WALLACE Ao Superman but Honest.' custom. Mr. Garner was Mr. Roosevelt's choice in 1932 and 1936. It is true that the first time it was by reason of a trade, without which Mr. Roosevelt himself could not possibly have been nominated, but it is also true that Mr. Roosevelt's delegates, at his bidding, made good that bargain. It is no secret that Mr. Willkie was consulted about his choice for a running mate, that he selected Charlie McNary, and that the senator didnt want the job and could not have been nominated without Mr. Willkie's backing. Thus, however hateful the method used to put Mr. Wallace across, it can hardly be used to attack this nomination, unless pots are to be permitted to call kettles black. After all, there was an clement of courage and an avoidance of the usual skullduggery in nominating Mr. Wallace. He is Doctor Newi Newee New of all the New Dealers. Not all Democrats are New Dealers by a long shot. That rift was not never more apparent than at Chicago. Great rips and wounds In party solidarity were made. An obvious strategy for the healing of these fissures would have been to nominate at least one Democrat on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Roosevelt certainly is not one. Mr. Wallace is even farther nway. IIis nomination puts the whole New Deal theory of spending ourselves rich right in the spotlight as the unfuzzed issue in this fight Adding it all up, while I cant applaud either the candidacy or the method that made it I can respect or at least understand both. Even if the fatefully unexpected should happen, and Mr. Wallace should one day become President of the United States, we can be assured of a Chief Executive who would be honest, straightfofward and wholly unaddictpd to political cleverness and devious thought and action. That would be something new and refreshing. Considering everything, I am not sure that it is not the number one requirement in the choice of a President There simply are no supera two-wa- y men. POWER Maybe it is possible to ride a he to victory. Hitler says it is and seems to have proved it for the moment. If political position, patronage and favor could pervert all the delegates to a great convention, perhaps it could pervert a majority of the voters of a great people. If gluttons for power bludgeon the democratic part of a democratic people into a Hitler plebiscite, what would they do with the war powers of the President. Cities May Bid For the Unhappy Royal Refugees toadopta or a king, princeHolly-or duke. UNREST FACES WINDSOR Whether he realWASHINGTON. izes it or not, the duke of Windsor is going to have a tougher time on his hands as governor of the Ba- tippling THERE is less today than there was a year ago. The pendulum of public opinion is swinging steadily toward temperance. WEEK (Consolidated Washington, D. C. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) THIS - f wood course, would get Zog of Albania now in London and fixing to sail for America, according to news reports a swingtime king who installed in his Graustarkian palace a American jazz band and became one of the best hoofers in his kingdom. would Philadelphia probably put in a bid for the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxemburg, a thrifty homebody, now in Quebec. The news is that, if England falls, she and her six children will come to the U. S. A. She knits; plays the piano; is a fluent linguist and rears her children beautifully. There might not be any bidders for old Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the butterfly collector. He has a knack for pageantry, however, which might interest New Orleans. In case the above should appear to be a callous reference to tragic unhappiness, the main idea is that this democracy might well accord a certain respect to fugitive royalty because it appears to have something it really believes in. MIAMI, FLA., IN AT1934, John Dwight October, Sullivan, then commander of the New York department of the American Legion, urged the Legionnaires to concentrate less on more and bigger bonuses and to center their efforts on understanding and supporting the government in constructive undertakings. He emphasized the need as citizens rather for than activity as a pressure group. His was a scholarly essay on citizenship. Now Mr. Sullivan has placed before the convention of the New York County Legion a proposal, for a single, unified United States air force, in which all air arms of ail services would be under a single command. Mr. Sullivan is chairman of the Legion's national aviation committee. He is a New York lawyer, and an alumnus of rrinccton university. He has been active in the furtherance of civil and military aviation for many years and was appointed a member of the New York state aviation commission by Governor Roosevelt in 1930. He is 47 years of age, scholarly and ascetic in appearance, preaching social responsibility In the Legion for more than a decade. He insists that the organization cannot attain Us high purpose without widening activities In political education, and an informed attitude on basic questions of domestic and foreign policy. hamas than merely sitting round the That is what leaders of the Womens Christian Temperance Union will tell you. While they do not claim that prohibition is just around the comer, they point out that support for regulatory legislation on liquor is continually gaining ground. The White Ribboners are preparing for the most enthusiastic convention this year since the days of Three thousand of prohibition. hundreds of them, representing thousands more of their fellow workers throughout the United States, anwill rally for their sixty-sixt- h nual convention in Chicago, August 9 to 14. Methods for intensifying the war against alcohol in the coming year will be studied by the delegates. In a rallying cry to women everywhere, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U., declared: We again call upon Americas women to enroll for true home defense to roll up their sleeves and scrub the dirty spots out of the nations social and moral fabric. Sociologists will tell you that the liquor problem is as old as history itself. In America there always was a strong trend toward strong licensing and regulatory systems. Men who believed prohibition of the traffic to be the best answer sponsored such a movement in the early days. By 1856 there were 13 states with prohibition laws. The ebb came and by 1874 there was no state prohibition. The same post-Civ- il war period saw stirrings of the feminist movement Women were throwing off their bonds. In 1873 praying bands of women began sporadic efforts to pray saloons out of their towns and were amazingly successful. In 1874 a number of these women were at Chautauqua for a religious gathering and conceived the idea of a united temperance party for women. In Cleveland in November of that year, the W. C. T. U. was organized. Protect the Home. Their platform was protection of the American home. They neglected no phase of that program, advocating a single standard for the sexes both in morals and in law; labor reform, such as the eight-hou- r day and a living wage; international peace; womans suffrage; personal abstinence from harmful things. They sought legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages and other narcotics, of white slavery, of gambling, of obscene literature, of war as a means of settling international Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of W. C, T. U., above at microphone, broadcasts a temperance message as national officers look on. Below, leaders of Youths Temperance council count congratulatory telegrams received from scores of cities. peal amendment say that quite a wrongs the country over. They believed then, and their successors still believe, that the liquor traffic and liquor itself are the most insidious and powerful enemies of the American home. So, underlying all their social welfare activities was the struggle against liquor. Frances E. Willard, their founder, and her fellow workers laid down the broad strategies of this war in 1874. Their lines of attack then, and now, were education and legislation. Mothers made up the Union and their attitude was motherly: First, try to educate your child away from wrong thoughts and practices; second, if he persists, stop him with a firm no with the safeguard of removing the temptation from his reach.. The odds against their success were overwhelming. They won, but it required 46 years. The years of marked the zenith of W. C. T. U. aspirations. Every legal goal had been achieved. But it seemed too good to last. Comes Repeal. If 1925 was the zenith, then 1933 was the nadir. For that year brought an end to prohibition and most of the enforcement or regulatory laws put on the statute books during 59 years. Those who were at national W. C. T. U. headquarters in Evanston, 111., the night of Nov. 7, 1933, when Utah, the thirty-sixt- h state, ratified the re- 1920-192- 5 American Red Cross Answers Pleas From War-Tor- n Europe cabinet in a handA FILING some white office building on Washingtons Seventeenth street holds stories of misery and suffering endured by millions of civilians who since September, 1939, have found themselves in the path of mechanized invading armies. This file, in the American Red Cross national headquart- ers building, contains reports from Red Cross workers in Europe. Although the cries for help from masses of tortured souls are condensed Into the terse language of the cable, the chronological file reflects only too accurately the swiftly moving catastrophe of the past year. Another file tells a more encouraging story. It contains Americas answer to the despairing pleas for aid. Aid for Victims. Each country which has felt the crushing blows of lightning attacks has been aided by the American Red Cross, beginning immediately with the invasion of Poland. A commission of Red Cross officials was dispatched in October to make a survey of the most urgent wants In every country. Using the reports made by this commission, and its successors, as a basis, national officers of the society kept a steady flow of supplies, valued at millions of dollars, moving from this country first to Poland, then Finland and later Norway, Belgium, Holland, Organized Morey Because of its long years of experience In relieving distress caused by all manner of catastrophes, the organization of the Red Cross is so flexible that it can change its course or ernight. This was illustrated recently when tits capitulation of Taris and its evacuation threw the refugee situation into utter chaos. The Red Cross laid plans to be ready for all kinds of emergencies. England and France. Until the Black Friday of May 10, when hostilities entered the total war phase with the invasion of the Lowland Countries, the American Red Cross expended a total of in purchasing ref quirements. No organized drive was staged, but the public voluntarily contributed $800,000. The remaining $800,000 came out of reserve funds of the national Red Cross. This money was sufficient to take care of the most urgent relief requirements of the stricken nations, supplemented by the half and more than 2,000,000 surgical dressings. Within 10 hours after headlines screamed the news of Germanys entrance into Belgium and Holland, however, the Red Cross launched a public appeal for $20,000,000. Total War Calls for Total Mercy" became the slogan, and the American people responded with traditional promptness and generosity. As the campaignmoved into high gear, contributions poured in from all sections of the country. Support for Work. Prominent leaders in every field of American life endorsed the public appeal, including leading churchmen, jurists, journalists, mayors and governors, civic leaders and heads of fraternal organizations. Even before the dollars of mercy began to roll in the Red Cross speeded up its overseas operations to help take care of the 5,000,000 Belgian, Dutch and French refugees who crowded into the already heavy populated districts of southern France. Headquarters were hastily set up in Paris In charge of Wayne European delegate. A number of trained disaster relief experts flew by clipper plane to complete the staff in Paris and set up in Bordeaux to receive American relief supplies. Purchasing began immediately for a millmn-doila- r cargo to be shipped on the S S. McKeesport, a freighter chartered by the U. S. maritime commission for the job of carrying deoerately needed supplies to the heloless sufferers war-relie- million-garment- r, few tears were shed. But, the next day they began reforming their lines for a continuing struggle. Law enforcement had been the prime necessity of prohibition days. Now the W. C. T. U. turned to education. Never sensational in its methods, it had never stressed the emotional side of the alcohol story. Now it stressed scientific research into the effects of alcohol on the human body and on the social body. Always adapting its tactics to the use of current modem weapons, the research laboratory and medical science now furnished the ammunition for its educational campaign. It added the weapons of motion pictures, radio, the press, road signs, printed material, and other tools which had served its enemy so well during the repeal fight Some Bright Spots. One of the few bright spots in the 1933 picture was the fact that 47 states still had laws requiring education in temperance to be taught in public schools. Much of its educational program was centered in this field, with such effect that now the liquor trade is pushing campaigns in many states to hamstring these laws or to put administration in the hands of state liquor control boards. A five-yeprogram was begun in 1934 to strengthen the Unions resources and push its educational work in the effects of alcohol and other narcotics. A sum close to was raised and today $1,000,000 $750,000 has been spent strictly for temperance education. This program culminated in international observance during 1939 of the centenary of Frances E. Willard. Seemingly routed in 1933, the forces of temperance have made such a comeback, that the Chicago convention in 1940 will be told that: Dry areas have been created by vote in 29 states since 1933. It is estimated that at least 6,000 such elections have been held in individual communities with the drys winning far more than The new dry sections, plus the prohibition areas of Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, represent of the nations population. That an estimated h of the 40,000 incorporated U. S. communities have prohibition. Churches Are Active. That the strong temperance forces of the Protestant churches and of other dry groups again had become active in the fight. That in the January, 1940, Gallup poll 34 per cent of the electorate had committed itself as favoring prohibition. Particularly significant will be the release of membership figures, showing that W. C. T. U. added 0 members in 1938 and 36,000 in 1939 enrollment periods. More important perhaps was the addition of 985 new W. C. T. U. units in 1939. These additions make a total of approximately 500,000 members in more than 10,000 local units. There are five principal divisions of Cie organization, that is the city, county, state, national, and worlds Unions. Administration is strictly democratic with each group having autonomy within its area. The World s W, C. T. U. is organized in 52 nations but its work has been stopped in some nations by current conditions of world affairs. The national leaders are women long active in church and social welfare work. The national officers are: Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, Des Moines, Iowa, president; Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, New York city, vice president; Mrs. Anna Marden DcYo, San Francisco, Calif., corresponding secretary; Mrs. Nolle G. Burger, Spring-field- , Mo , recording secretary; and Mrs. Margaret C. Munns, Seattle, Wash , treasurer. Headquarters are in Evanston, 111., at the rear of the former home of Miss Willard, now maintained as a slnine. one-hal- f. one-six- th one-fourt- 32,-00- it in a few hours, an it day after day You can see, from the sma diagram sketch, how easy th. dress is to put together mere!, five pieces, including the sleeves pnd the only detailing consist, of a few simple darts at the waist line. But you cant really tell unt., you get it on, how easy it is tc wear and work in, how unhamper.t A IV jAKE wear roulette tables of Nassau or entertaining ritzy tourists from the U. S. A. The duke was appointed to the Bahamas partly to give him something to do someplace near the native land of his wife, but also to keep him as far away as possible from his friends in England and his Nazi pals in Germany who were reputed to entertain ideas about restor-- i ing him to the throne L 3 of Engiand. However, when the to the Azure islands just off the coast of Florida he will find a major social problem awaiting him. For the Bahamas are not even with their rich tourist trade they are an economic liability. The United Kingdom gives them all sorts of concessions to keep the populace contented. Among other things, the British government pays a high preference on Bahaman sugar to sweeten the English cup of tea. It pays through the nose in comparison with the much cheaper Cuban sugar. And should Germany conquer the United Kingdom and cast off the Bahamas, those islands would face economic disaster. The Bahaman population is 90 per cent black, and already the sour economic situation abroad and its reflex in Nassau, have caused rioting. The Negroes are a prolific people, increasing the economic strain with every increase in the population. One solution might be birth control, and the Bahamas would offer an interesting laboratory for this experiment A similar experiment has been discussed in the heavily island of Puerto Rico, but there the Negroes are Catholic while in the Bahamas they are Protestant. At any rate, the duke of Windsor is likely to have his hands full. afte-day- ! I over-populat- LEWIS FOR FDR Even though John L. .Lewis has three times declared that if the President ran for a third term he would be ignominiously defeated, behind the scenes the fix is in for a reconciliation between them. Intimates have been working on both for several weeks ever since the G. O. P. platform opened the way r for a for Lewis. When he threw his brickbats at the President before the platform committee in Philadelphia, Lewis expected in return that the Republicans would avoid advocating amendment of the national labor relations act in their labor plank. Under Alf Landons urging the plank as originally drafted said nothing about revision. But big industrial contributors demanded no pussyfooting on the issue In the end Landon was overruled and the plank as adopted declared for amendment of the law. face-save- ing and becoming. The waistline looks slim but is completely unrestraining nothing about the dress to catch you up short when reaching into the top shelf or dusting down the stairs. The front fastening makes it easy to get into. This is an easily tubbable dress, too. Make up in seersucker, design No. 1966-linen, percale or gingham. Even B this simple pattern includes a detailed sew chart. 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Haar exerted his persuasive talents on key leaders and labor chiefs, with whom he is intimate. Not revealed were the personal telegrams to Roosevelt from C. I. O.s Phil Murray, Tom Kennedy and John Owen, which helped Clinch the decision on Wallace. Casey did his stuff among the inner circle and farm leaders. The pincers drive worked and the nod went to Wallace. He got the news at breakfast early Thursday morning. Grinning he remarked to friends who came to congratulate him: I found I didnt have a soft shirt this morning so I had to wear this stiff one. And the only cuff links I had were these the President gave me. 1 didnt realize it at the time, but it was a lucky omen. Note Only shadow on Wallaces happiness was his inability to reach Jim Farley. The two have been good friends, and as soon as he got word from Washington, Wallace telephoned Farley. 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