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Show THE BULLETIN. BINfiHAM, UTAH F.B.I. Agents Put On Exhibition for Student M wpww ' wy, , t , - m " . , '' J V-- - - ' :- - - . ; "-- , , ,i f I I Jf I f' v " - Federal Bureau of Investigation agents giving a night-Krin-g exhibition with Tommy guns, using trac bullets, at their Quantico, Va., range. They also demonstrated quick-dra- w pistol shooting from the hips. T exhibition was given before the National Police academy graduates. f3fGoENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Washington, D. C. COMMUNITY CHESTS In these critical days there is so much hot stuff In war and politics to write columns about that one is tempted to neglect things less dra- - i - f matic but at least or importance to Amer-ica equal to the clash of empires and the fall of states. The national Com-munity Chest drive is now under way all over this country. It is the most sensi-ble and scientific method for practical Hugh Johnson 0ped. There was a time when this country went drive-craz- y. Well meaning people, wheth- - er they were simply riding a worthy hobby or backing a far worthier cause, could always drum up a house-to-hous- e gimme campaign, or post pretty girls rattling dime-in-the-sl-cans on every street corner. willing to give something if he has it By the old helter-skelte- r meth-od, he couldn't know exactly for what he was giving, how the money would be used, or whether there were not far better uses for his contribution. Also, these "drives" became so frequent that many peo-ple cither were fed up with the con-stantly repeated annoyance of solici-tation, or simply couldn't afford to give any more. The earlier bird got the dough regardless of its merits. The community chest idea was an answer to most of these problems. In many cities it is the only "drive" permitted. In nearly all cities it at least combines in one, all "drives" for the worthiest established chari-ties. It is conducted under the most responsible sponsorships there are. This year both the President and Mr. Willkle will start the effort The funds collected will be divided by the best-Inform- authorities among the institutions where they are most needed, and will go the furthest to meet human needs. It is, of course, more heart-warmin- g to give directly to some person or group whose suffering you can see, but none of us can give enough to meet all the needs of our neigh-bors. None of us separately can judge relative needs. Few of us have the time or training to manage and regulate our giving. For these reasons, indiscriminate giving Is al-ways wasteful and sometimes far from fair. The Community Chest method cures all these faults and shortcomings in the best way. The tremendous sums of public money being expended for relief and charity greatly restrict the flow of gifts, for two reasons. The tax bur-dens necessary to support them re-duce the incomes of potential giv-ers. The billions spent by governy ment make some people believe that there is no longer necessity for pri-vate giving. The fact is that the necessity is greater than ever. Low interest rates have cut the revenue of many endowed charities in half or worse. Public doles can never cover the area of need. Finally, no warm-hearted American can ever feel quite satisfied with charity enforced, or to leave his humanitarian im-pulses to acts of congress. If there had been far more voluntary sharing through past years, there would be less regimented sharing today with all the political evils that entails. The demands upon us all are great and the woes of the world will great-ly increase them. It will be well for us to remember that there are still great woes in our own country and that there is nothing in the least selfish in the motto: "Charity be-gins at home." NAVAL BASE AFTERMATH The acquisition of naval bases was highly popular. It was said in de-fense of the President's method of obtaining them, that if he had con-sulted congress, the deal would not have been permitted. Present evi-dences of popular approval of this roei.lt tw . K K . a v o u-- t, no u& a a uic uaai'3 aic villi" cerned, make this conclusion highly doubtful. Be that as it may, there is no doubt on earth that congress would ratify the result today with scarcely a dissenting vote. It should do so. It is of extreme Importance. If the only restraint on the executive in dealing with the laws of the Constitution of the Unit-ed States is the possible unpopulari-ty of the result we have surely suc-cumbed to what Westbrook Pegler calls the "what-the-hell- " philosophy of laws, morals and obligations. Any-thing goes if it succeeds regardless of law or principle. A sovereign nation can do any-thing it wants and dares to do. It is answerable to nobody. It can de-clare war or it can authorize acts of war without a declaration. In taking such action, it may be break-ing treaties, but under our Constitu-tion, a treaty of the United States is on equal footing with a law of the United States. A duly enacted statute, so far as our municipal law is concerned, can break or repeal any prior treaty, just as it can break or repeal any prior law. 1 1jL.l Man About Town Newspaper men everywhere can be proud of the way one of them died, in London. His name one to remember was Arthur F. B. Port-ma- n. Many Americans knew him through his by-lin- e Audax. That was tagged on the copy he penned for Horse and Hound, for Portman was one of Europe's best racing report-ers. Portman's wife was an invalid, bed-ridde- n for several years. She was unable to go to the shelters when the Nazi bombers came over to wage Hitler's war. That's the way It was the last morning the Port-man- s heard the raid siren. The re-porter went where he always went during raids, to the bedside of his ailii; wife. And there he was killed, with her, by a bomb. Douglas Mackenzie, an Australian scribe, who distinguished himself in London until he connected with a New York paper, was being shown the midlown places by confrere Gene McIIugh, 20 years with the tame sheet . . . Gene is a man of v ! I . V. 1. w Auuiidiivca, uui wiiuii matRcu- - zie asked him what sort of a fellow a rival was, Gene's orchid was what any reporter would welcome on his tombstone: "He's a news-paperman. Period!" The Headllncrs: Margaret Lind-say's quote: "Every actor has a cer-tain amount of ego" . , . Yeah, sometimes they think they're good and sometimes they think nobody else is . . . Same lady's comment: "Actresses like to talk about them-selves" . . . Except when they're gargling . . . Ann Sheridan's warn-ing: "There are some things girls have to know about men" . . . She means that it Is less of a strain to walk some place with a man than go there with him in a taxicab . . , Adolphe Menjou's line: "The screen is an educator" . . . Sure, a diplo-ma from the screen entitles you to enter any kindergarten. Sinclair Lewis has quit the stage because, he complained, acting took up too much of his time . . . Any-body who ever saw Red play a scene knew be was bound to run out of time sooner or later, the way he was consuming it New York Novelette: This is the very sad story of Strawberry Sam, a milk-wago- n horse, who had the West Fifty-eight- h street beat Sam would walk up onto the sidewalk to greet show-folk- s coming home In the wee hours. They usually gave him sugar lumps or they'd pet his nose . . . une oawning oam weni 100 iur and bit a chorus girl's fingers . . So they treated him like a policeman who is being demoted . . . They banished poor Sam to the Jackson Heights "sticks" for three months . . . But he took it all like a man, and is now back on the Fifty-eight- h street beat again. Memos of a Midnightcr: The fin-gerprinting of night club employees, etc., revealed six convictions against a famed joynt owner . . . Joan Burgess, the lovely dancer, and mil-lionaire furrier Merl will middle-aisl- e . . . What's happening to the Broadway Royalty? "Prince" Mike Romanoff has gone to work in a night club, and now "Duchess" Cyn-thia Cavanaugh is booked at Berto-lotti- 's as a thrush ... A famous actress was locked up in Los Ange-les on a dope charge. Paul Muni and Nigel Bruce al-most came to blows on the "Hudson Bay" set . . . Page 40 in Life has the midtowners giggling . . . Geor-gette McKee (who plays Hilda in "Ramparts We Watch") became Mrs. N. H. Willis-- in Illinois . . . Mischa Auer will next marry Joyce Hunter, vocalist with the Henry King orchestra. Auer gave his wife the $23,000 house and big coin for his freedom . . . Literotics say Chris-topher Morley didn't write "Kitty Foyle," that his daughter did, and that the book was peddled under his name to make bigger money for her. Sounds in the Night: At The Whirl-ing Top: "They grew to love each other more and more month nffpr month and round after round" , . . At The Beachcomber: "I don't care if she's got a skeleton in her closet s'long as it ain't her husband" . . . In Leon St Eddie's: "Be careful, g.a.L.One false move and I'm yours!" In the Forty-eight- h St Tav-ern: "What has he got that she hasn't gotten?" ... At The Torch: "She gives away kisses as though they were campaign buttons" . . . At Armando's: "He's very good at i.n.v.enting things especially lies" In The Mayan: "What a plagi-arist. You know a guy who can reail and then write!" This Is tfev York The burlesk temples dripping with stale ciggie smoke, giving ugly, tin-horn shows. Years ago these same theaters were the scene of the most scintillating first-nigh- ts . . . The violent political argument between two women in the Grand Central Terminal. No political issues were mentioned. One Just didn't like the type of campaign button of one can-didate. The other thought it was "pretty" . . . The dreary beaneries the cabbies Stork Club! Washington, D. C. EMBARGO ON JAPAN DEBATED The group inside the cabinet which favors a complete stoppage of Japan's raw materials of war, especially her oil, includes Secre-tary of War 6timson, Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of Interior Ickes, and Secretary of the Treas-ury Morgenthau also certain admi-rals in the navy. Perhaps it is sig-nificant that the strongest advocates of complete embargoes against Ja-pan are the three Republican mem-bers of the cabinet Stimson, Knox and Ickes. On the other hand, the state de-partment plus some of the admirals favor a go-slo-w policy toward Ja-pan. They believe in applying the embargoes gradually, or as Mr. Ickes describes it, "cutting off the dog's tail by inches." The state department concurs that cutting off Japan's oil would paral-yze her fleet after her present 2V4 months' supply was exhausted. But they also believe it would force Ja-pan to move into the Dutch East Indies immediately in order to get more oil Last week one argument over this point and over general naval policy in the Far East developed into a hot debate between the navy, on one side, and Hull and Welles on the other. It took place at the White House, in front of the President who did most of the listening. Hull and Welles contended that if we stopped Japan's oil supply she would certainly attack the Dutch East Indies, and that the United States could not possibly afford to have ships in that area because they might be needed in Atlantic waters. Welles pointed out that the Germans might seize the Azores or the French naval base at Dakar, West Africa, which would menace South America. To this, Admiral Leahy, now gov-ernor of Puerto Rico and one of Roosevelt's closest naval advisers, replied: "Gentlemen, we don't have to worry about Dakar and the Azores now. The British fleet can still pre-vent Germany from taking them. But a few months from now it may be different By next spring, or even this winter, the war may have gone against the British in the Med-iterranean, and then we'll have two oceans to defend. Now we have only one." V. JAPANESE Only insiders are aware of it, but the new nationality act slaps down another embargo on Japan. It plugs up a hole in the old imml- - gruuun jaws wmcn permiuea America-n- born Japanese to go to Japan, serve several years in the Japanese army, then return to the U. S. A. and resume citizenship. This has been quite common among the large Japanese population in Hawaii, where many Japanese parents con-sider it their duty to the emperor to send their children to Japan for military service. That the new law is specifically aimed at Japan and her Axis al-liesis shown by the fact that when the act was originally written, any-one who enlisted in a foreign army automatically forfeited citizenship. This would have expatriated Ameri-cans serving with the Canadian and British armies. The bill actually passed the house in this form, but then the senate immigration committee did some editing. As finally passed, citizen-ship is not lost if no oath of alle-giance is taken. Canada and Brit-ain do not require the oath of Ameri-cans. Japan and her Axis pals do. Note The new law also provides that American parents of children born abroad must have resided in the U. S. at least 10 years prior to a birth in order to transmit citizen-ship. This is aimed at expatriates who retain their citizenship, with all its obligations on the government to protect them, but don't think enough of the United States to live in it. ARMY PROMOTIONS Any lowly recruit in the new con-script army has a chance to be-come an officer within the single j ti ul u timing. There has been a lot of confusion about this, and editorials have been written complaining that this is not possible. But Gen. George C. Mar-shall, chief of staff, wants it known that the army is still democratic. Marshall points out that after the first nine months of service, any recruit has a chance to qualify for the "candidate schools" to train re-cruits for commissions. These schools will be organized during the last three months of the year of service. In other words, as Napoleon put "' Ev'e7 soIdi- - carries a mar-sna- l s baton in his knapsack." POLITICAL CHAFF Ocmocratic Rt-P- . Bill Schulte of Indiana won a lot of kudos for him-ae- lf from both the A. F. of L. and - I- - O. for his "prevailing wage" amendments to the bill for the con-stru-of barracks for draftees. L.bera Rep. Frank Havenner of off hcn he departed to open his hmT Pr,'dent velt sen Shaker fodn,uck" gram d K Ra,ybu letter hail- - -m- rsahformStValUable (QUESTION? Half an hour flow for baking Keep fl0Wer uch as possible" susceptible to a chili . Prepare a small storing by first hei oven and then quic with lard or any Hang the saw on a r Wipe off the surplus use this saw again. Glycerine win rer coffee stains from ta spots with glycerine a few minutes, then the usual way. Cottage cheese, m ange marmalade X raspberry jam, makfc wg for graham breaf These combinatiionsi well as nutritious, f To give crunchinel added flavor to nX pies, add one-four- th V nut meats to each tw Sprinkle the nuts ovfc add them to the merf Royal Family of Luxembourg Is Reunited fore it is spread. I r ' VVlJ ,V Ulfs ' I Wit it 1 i-- -l'Li- 'ft'-- ' v:i.r r . w? MAj-if-v I mmMmikk ,f v , m. ..w.,w. v Mtnmr.mM wxm... ttii timm r' -- " ' ruff The royal family of Luxembourg Is reunited at LaGuardia field, New York. At the right Is Grai Duchess Charlotte Adclgonde, who ruled the tiny country for 21 years before Hitler took over. With her Is h: mother, Grand Duchess Marie Ann. These two arrived on the Yankee Clipper and were reunited with oth. members of their family, here pictured. Shown are Prince Consort Felix and some of their six children. Now Speed Cost in k pg ; , BA fy. ' ' N! i " 4 ' ...... Use this famous today without tl price! You may be utterly sur speed with which Bas orings reuei irom neun aches and pains of rhetft neuritis. Among the ft effective ways knownl pirin not 6nly brings such pains very fast .f . quick way is very inejj may save the dollars oljcs high priced remedies. I Once yon try it . . . ' its quick relief, you'll L thousands make sure L substitutes for Bayer I always asking for it by its full name when ' t they buy , . . never by f the name of "aspirin" alone. 4-- "FAMILY OF V and all take ADLEf needed." (W. a) , digested foods decay, I bringing on sour stomad)' try ADLERIKA. Gey AT YOUR DRPy Salt Lake's NEWEfj Hotejl TEMPLE Opposite Morm HIGHLY BECOJD:: Rates $1-5- 1 If,, mark of dw: at this be"hMJk To Tell America of the Battle of Britain 'ft ' L , jf ww! l ' p I - l l"!"! iini lij-- i ,n" Vincent Slieean and H. R. Knickerbocker (right), famed war corre-spondents, shown in New York after leaving the clipper. They are scanning the map of their separate lecture tours, during which they will give the public an account of the Battle of Britain. Both were in London during weeks of incessant bombing raids. R. A. F. Widow --HffiWf(!Mww, ' 1 ' f - i" - IS Mrs. Rose Fiske, widow of Wil-liam Fiske HI, American bobsled ace who died of wounds received while fighting with the R. A. P., shown on her return to New York from England. i False Prudfs; There is a courage there is also a falsest dence, the result noffc but of fear.-Bur- ke. Giving: and TfU We should never r benefits we have cot' forget the favors rece Rare Bird I ' v vp ;w 'M ..y... 3LyifrTft,ai . ...v "HV;. ?.: Victor W. Von Hagen, naturalist, brings a p.geon-sue- d Quetzal from Guatemala to the New York ,oo taluable ,a'JiS! Said to be the mo" in the world. Jews and Christians Convene C-- J xv'j fil ill! fp ' If 0 l . j ) " j ; v i )! J : ' Basil O'Connor accepts the chairmanship as the national conference of Christians and Jews opens at the Warwick hotel, in New York. L. to R.. Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of New York; Rev. Father Edward J. Walsh of Brooklyn; Basil O'Connor, chairman; Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, conference director, and Rabbi Samuel Golsenson, of New York. |