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Show THE BULLETIN, BINflHAM. UTAH Democratic Nominees Plan Campaign Strategy iMininrfi. J Jl ' v U 1 i Unlike Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees Wendell L. Willkie and Sen. Charles L. Mc-Nar- y who had never met before their selection as the party's 1940 standard bearers, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace, the Democratic candidates, have been closely associated in the past seven and a half years. President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace are shown above conferring on strategy for the coming campaign in which the President will seek a third term. Mm STIMSONCITE to three cabinet, and (I' Roosevelt's) Jously. ButhehajJ authority by organize the entire even including the 0lu cratic appointees The inside story Pointment can now be It so happened thii delivered a strong at the Yale uni. versity exe-rcises, when he got home and re-ceived the long distance call from Roosevelt inviting him to become secretary of war. "Mr. Presi-dent,- replied Stimson, "I have just delivered an address which no Benr, man in high official p make." "I know all about i Roosevelt replied in still want you to be war." Stimson then replied sion was so momer: wanted two or three I over with his wife ace "Take all the time. t: ry," said the Preside":.: Note To get the fii of this exchange, it is remember that Stuns: velt had fought each York state politics evi when Stimson ran for Roosevelt, just out of for the state senate. After two or three son telephoned the ? accepted the appoint er, he added one con: "I'm not as youtg be," he said, "and 1 and 20 hours a day ac; fore I've got to have me whom I know intiir. absolutely trust. At sponsibllity will be ders," Stimson added, not afford to fail" 10 ims itooseveu n tering tone: "Appok want, Henry. Theot is not to appoint too licans at the very firs'. Stimson apparently the joking note in tt voice, for he replied rest assured, Mr. P: whether Democrats or they will be good m The first man Star help him in Washing ocrat, Benedict Crowe dent of the Central Kj Cleveland and forme secretary of war ur.i Wilson. He is also a of Roosevelt's, who t tant secretary of the r. got to know Stimson department was under lican attack in 1920, a Republican and an ei war, defended him. So this time to help nim, Washington and mat" vey of the situation ii department. Stimson been confirmed by & could not make the w But he wanted to to' in advance in order time once he took the Crowell made the si ported that the weapons and mai gressing most atisfa: ever, he found the a rent with feuds and situation badly in nee( . zation. This is one of the e son is tackling. f! Important shakeup army officers. ( NEW NAVAl Col. Frank Knox, secretary of the natf been sized up by tbea. describe their new v "Hard-boile- d and seef stuff." , Naval officers ever, that they which is a good oo mirals never like i navy who really J And in the navy need a two-fiste-s ; Note--It is HP' naval ; is clearing all Roosevelt. the navy as his govenf MERRfJ Geo j sas, lame-ducke- d cleanup, is hot after j commissionershiP J 1. vacant August leaves dent Roy oftheUmveJ McGill has thebacUj . Farm bureau bucked the admJ ,. : bank 1 - McGill's chances. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jour: Uuud tmiwm W WNV bM LOANS TO FOREIGN LANDS WASHINGTON. Poor Mr. Hoover once set out to help our foreign trade to dispose of our surplus prod-ucts by loans to "backward and crip-pled countries." Loans to bankrupts have a way of turning sour. These did, and what a panning Mr. Roose-velt in 1932 gave the Great Engineer for that suggestion. Mr. Hoover was only proposing a policy of private loans the money of risk-taker- s for profit. His project was relatively piker's chicken feed. Mr. Roosevelt now wants to take $500,000,000 out of the treasury to lend to Latin-America- n countries to enable their governments to buy up and hold their own surplus of agri-cultural products. This is a price-peggin- g plan such as Mr. Wallace has practiced in American farm products. It has never worked in the history of the world although it has frequently been tried notably in Brazilian coflee, East Indian rub-ber, Canadian grain and American wheat, corn and cotton. It doesn't work because it is the presence (rather than the mere own-ership) of unmanageable surplus and the certainty of oncoming crops that overhangs the market and de-presses price. That was the basic fault with Mr. Wallace's "Joseph" or "ever-norma- l granary" day dream. Joseph could successfully buy and store the surplus of Egypt for seven fat years and then sell it at hold-u- p prices during seven lean years until he owned all of Egypt. He could do it because he had a dream-boo- k and a direct wire to the Pearly Gates. Henry apparently has a dream-boo- k but no direct wire, although the President says we are to underwrite the South American surplus only for one year. How does he know? In the romantic days, when spices were the only practical food preser-vative and therefore invaluable, the Dutch controlled much of the East Indian trade. They had a rougher remedy for market gluts. If too much anise, cinnamon, pepper, nut-meg, cloves or what-no- t was con-gesting on the wharves, they simply sank the surplus in the sea. Mr. Wallace has tried variations of that also. That is why he killed the little pigs and cattle, plowed under the cotton, paid farmers for not produc-ing and recently and more intelli-gently, through the food-stam- p plan, sold farm surplus to the poor at a great discount in price and all the rest of us footed the grocery bill. O. K. for our own people. This column is for a direct federal sub-sidy to a "parity price" to our farmers for all their products that can be consumed at home and also for the food-stam- p or any similar plan to subsidize consumption of our food products to all low-inco-groups not merely to help consume our farm surplus but to relieve us of the insufferable charge of permitt-ing Americans to starve or be un-dernourished in the midst of rot-ting overabundance. But it is absolutely opposed to pouring five hundred or any other number of millions of public money down any Latin-America- n rat holes to subsidize our own competition and possibly to find their way into Hit-ler's coffers or certainly, in no small degree, into the pockets of various satellites of the assorted dictator-ships of the banana republics. Sure. w nnpH Pnn.Ampriran snl- - idarity and friendship, but we can't buy it. The only thing that will make it on any worthwhile basis, is d community of interest If that isn't there, any amount of billions is just money thrown away. Mr. Roosevelt has neither right nor reason in calling this a "loan," intimating that one year's operation will do the trick, or limiting his re-quest to half a billion. It is well known in Washington that this first step is part of a two-billi- I dollar program to make Uncle Sam the international broker for all the products of the Western world. , That, too, is grotesque fantasy. Its cost would eventually take us out of the multiplication tables and into the fiplli nf lnDDriV,rr,. The essence of all New Deal plan-ning, statesmanship, diplomacy and solution of all public problems can be expressed in a single phrase "give us billions of dollars." As statesmanship, that is about as realistic as Santa Claus and Alad-din's lamp. I.OI IS JOHNSON I returned to Washington after the conventions to find a rumor that the new Tory Republican secretary of war had asked his vigorous t, Louis Johnson, to get the hell out of there. Politics marches on ruthlessly, respecting nothing, sparing nothing. I have not always seen eye to eye with Mr. Johnson. At first I thought ho was politicalizing and New Deahzing the army. My criti-cism was d but it proved premature. That job diflV-r- from any other position. It is charged by statute with industrial mobiliza-tion of the whole nation in an emer-wnc- My observation was that Mr Johnson did not fully appre- ciate this vast problem in the He certainly does now. "is work here is not paralleled else-wer-e in government. L.X)R ir years the New York F Yankees Jcminated baseball to such an extent they left a cock-eye- d giant on the double corral. Thej left too definite nn impression that the American league was the whole, show, including the pink lemonade, the big tent, the elephants, the hard blue seats and the side-sho- after the main act. It was never quite that way. It wasn't the American league which dominated the dia-mond. It was merely the New York Yan-kees. They won something like 28 out of 31 World Se-ries games, dating from 1927. So, natu-rally, the National league must have been a (lock of sand lotters. But don't forget that during that four year spell the Yan-kees were also an-nihilating, assas- - Grantland Rice sinating, murdering, manhandling and mauling the Boston Red Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland In-dians and the remainder of their league. I recall a certain Yankee slump in the Midwest a year or two ago. They lost six out of eight games. I asked one of the Yankees about this cave in. "No," he said, "we were not ex-actly loafing. But why run for a car you've caught. We knew we were from 12 to 13 games better than the rest of the league. We knew we could loaf and still gallop In." But Not Today But it's all different today. The Yankees of 1940 are far and away from the Yankees of 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. And with the dizzy descent of the Yankees from their old . heights, so the dominance of the American league has ended. I saw the National league win Its all-st- game in Tampa last March. I saw National league pitchers tie American league sluggers into an assortment of true lovers' knots. The same thing happened in St. Louis recently. Once again National league pitchers put silencers on American league bats. In the last 18 Innings of all-st- ar play, from March to July, Ameri-can league sluggers have ham-- mered, exploded, thundered and mauled one flabby run across the plate. There was a time when the A. L. had most of the dynamite. It may have the Jump in long-rang- e shooting today, but not against the pick of National league pitching. No set of home-ru- n sluggers are going to make any headway against Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Carl Hubbell (that's right) or many others 1 could name. I " The Yankees Paul Derringer from 1935 through 1939 "were an exception. They had practically everything the hitting, the fielding, the pitching, the confi-dence and the poise. They had amaz-ing balance, which is something that time works on In its leisurely way. The Two Leagues American leaguers will tell you that Detroit, Cleveland, Boston and New York all could win the National league pennant, with something to spare. National leaguers, now lifted from the gloomy abyss of the years that knew defeat, are telling you the Reds and Dodgsys would run away with an American league pennant "What do you suppose," one vet-eran National leaguer asked me, "would happen to that American league '1 their hitters had to move out against Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Junior Thompson, Jim Turner, Whitey Moore and others day after day? There wouldn't be a team in that league hitting .240 against Red pitching." This is moving a trifle fast the other way. The two leagues now are better balanced than they have been in some years. Again this is largely due to the Yankee drop. "Where are my Ruffings and Dick-eys and Gehrigs and Gomezes and Gordons and Rolfes and Crosettis?" Joe McCarthy also might be asking today. Baseball, in losing the four-yea- r Yankees losing them so far, at least has built up additional inter-est through both leagues, especially the American league. 'Ill Wind; Fac. ' The present campaign may be an ill wind for the Yankees, but it has been a soothing summer breeze for the other clubs which have been shivering in the Barren Lands since 1935. Now we have two great pennant races, two well-matche- d leagues, and two great stretch runs on ahead. Who can ask for more? Barring, of course, the Yankees, who still can't understand who swung the lead pipe and just what has hap-pened. I Speaking of Sports Grove's Record Stands as Top SouthpawMark By ROBERT McSHANE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) PICKING the five greatest pitchers of all time is a fascinating indoor sport. Our own list would be headed by the one and only Robert Moses Grove. We wouldn't fight about the numerical order of the next four Herb Pennork, Rube Waddell, Carl Hubbell and Eddie Plank. They were all great ball players. Grove rates as the outstanding winner of all time. In his 15 years up to the 1940 season he won 286 games and lost 128 for a grand aver-ug- e of .695. No one else has ap-proached that figure. Christy Mathcwson finished his long- career with an average of .663. Orover Cleveland Alexander com-piled .642. Both of these gentlemen are sure of undying fame, having been chosen tor baseball' Hall of Fame. .Eddie Plank's mark was .662, Cy Young's .619 and Big Ed Walsh's .606. As brilliant a pitcher as Waddell was, his lifetime average was .588. Connie Mack, who never did throw his money around, paid the Balti-more Orioles $105,000 for Lefty the most expensive player he had ever bought. Grove proved to be a bar-gain, though. After using him his best nine years, Connie passed him on to Tom Yawkey's Red Sox with Max Bishop and George Wal-ber-g for $125,000 and two players. Grove was thought to be all through then. He was in poor phys-ical condition, though not from lack of training. Every pitch pained him that first year in Boston, and he won and lost eight games. The critics told Yawkey that he had wound up on the short end of the deal. But In the last five years with Boston prior to 1940, Grove pitched 83 winning games working at a .670 clip. In the last two years he won 29 games and dropped only 8. American League Champ That's enough current history. Let's go back to Lefty'a prime. In 1929 Grove won 20 and lost 6 for an average of .769. In 1930 he won 28 and dropped 5 for an average of .848. In 1931 he balanced 31 wins against 4 losses for the terrific aver-age of .886. For those three consec-utive years he was champion of the American league pitchers. Then, in 1933, after giving way to Johnny i ' w ! 1'- - 1 " X ' I ROBERT MOSES GROVE Allen the previous year, he recap-tured the league hurling champion-ship with an average of .75024 wins and 8 losses. Grove started his career strictly as a "fireball" pitcher. He had speed tp burn probably the fastest ball of all He was nothing more than a thrower, pour-ing on the speed every time a bat-ter faced him. He kept that up as long as he was able, but the crack-ing point finally came. His arm went bad. It became sore for the first time. No longer could he rely solely upon speed. It was then that he became a finished pitcher. He developed a curve ball and a change of pace. Instead of smoking in every pitch, Grove stud-ied his batter, outsmarting him. In those 15 years Grove worked in more than 650 games. He was 25 years old, four years older than Bob Feller is today, when he showed up for work with Connie Mack's 1925 Athletics. He played his first pro-fessional ball with the Martins-bur- g team of the Blue Ridge league back in 1920. And through all those years is woven that thread of 286 victories-rea- son enough for Robert Moses Grove to top any list of all-tim- e great southpaws. Sport Shorts The "Sporting Life," daily bible of racing fans in England, has sus-pended after 119 years of publication . . . Ernie Lombardi, big Cincinnati catcher, uses a golfer's interlocking grip in holding his bat . . . Gene Dahlbender Jr., Atlanta. Ga., golfer, recently shot a at the Druid Hills golf course . . . Dizzy Dean's grandmother is urging him to quit baseball and be-come a revival preacher. When Hitler Returned in Triumph to Berlin Storm troopers with arms linked hold back the crowds as Adolf Hitler, leader of the Reich, returns to Berlin in triumph after the successful military operations of his armies in France. One of his first acts on his return was to promote a number of his generals to the rank of marshal. Goering was made a "Reich's Mar-shal." Hitler stands upright in his official car and returns the salutes of thousands of his grceters. 'Phonies' Beware Lb f&'& As a means of aiding citizens to detect counterfeit bills and coin paper match folders such as the ounff lady above is holding arc be-ing issued by the U. S. secret scrv-ic- e in Washington, I). C. Sino-Japancs- e War Goes Savagely Ahead While the war in Europe has diverted attention away from the Sino-Japane- se conflicts, scenes like the one above show that hostilities are still In progress. The Japanese soldier is one of a party wiping out the streets of Ichang, one of the most important strategic points in the defending army of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- k. A bomb explodes in the background. Radio Executive f i ,i $. v. .?: - cmP: "r""-- Young Briton Inaugurates Big Push This young citizen or Somhgate, England, is doing his bit for king nd country, follownig a call by the mayor of his city for citizens to turn in their old scrap metal and help make the sinews of war for the defense of Britain. The youngster went from door to door with his homemade cart collecting odds and ends. The campaign in Southgate was duplicated la other English towns with citizens turning in scrap metal. j |