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Show THE BULLETIN. BINCHAMUTAH At 70, Britain's Chamberlain Reviews Life's Busies Year Whether the public liket it or not, Britain's Prime Minister ISeville Chamberlain has tried desperately to main-tain peace. On March 18 he ends his seven-tieth and most event-fulyeti- r. Right: Mr. Chamberlain si nr tied the world September 14 by paying a prece-dent-shatteri-call on Hitler at BerchtesgaiU en. Photo shows him leatinn London, flying for the first time, lie-lo- The second meet-ing, at Godo'hcrg, on September 22. Ui k - a t&t?1 ' JwV'! A 1 1 Pictured w'v,f 'i ..,)kr At v ff. if-:Ak- AihyA t I I v 7 W TAph came Mu-nich. Z"' I On September Pt; ' " w - "c. 30 Mr. Chamberlain , ' v bt jl returned home to ' ' " ' . read this document " nf Weston airdrome. , y s We ftrtff also signed . Tt, the Munich treaty. J " 5 a A y .XV.WJa Hut the policy of "appeasement" bore suspicious fruit. Fol-lottin- g Munich, Ger-many and Italy ap-peared planning new demands against Franee and Britain. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, foreign min-ister, visited Paris November 21. Bcloic: On January 10 he again stopped in Paris en route to Rome. Photo, left to right, shotcs French Foreign Minister Georges Bon-net, Mr. Chamberlain, Premier F.douard Dal-adi-and Viscount Halifax, Weekly News Analysis 1 European Crisis 'Postponed'; Belay May Be Fatal to Axis lly Joseph W La Kine Congress Most Americans do not realize that the bulk of New Deal reform measures have been adopted in one form or another. But practically everyone realizes the cost of re-form has been tremendous, that the public debt now stands at $40,000,-000.00- 0, that the treasury has a cur-rent deficit nf S2 200 000 000 With re-- stronger power the last 30 days. One idea of the crisis-to-com- e has been offered by Journal Des Dcbats, conservative Paris newspaper. The alleged plan, which Berlin described as "ridiculous and laughable": Fas-cist states (Germany, Italy and Ja-pan) would diffuse trouble for de-mocracies throughout the world, part of that campaign being Tokyo's recent seizure of Hainan Island in defiance of France. Other troubles would include Italy's Mediterranean demands and agitation against Brit-ain in already troublesome Palestine and Syria. This done, and mobili-zation completed, Adolf Hitler would rpake a "great speech" setting forth ultimatums, shocking the form achieved, President Roosevelt is willing to join conservatives in two mutually desired ambitions, bal-ancing the budget and helping busi-ness get back on its feet. Chief arguments concern the method. New Dealers, whose pro-gram is voiced by Secretary of Com-merce Harry Hopkins, would re-move oppressive taxes and hope that the resultant boom would swell federal coffers, balancing the budg-et without eliminating "necessary" activities. Most businessmen and many congressmen would take an additional step economy. Total 1039-4- budget estimates are $8,995,000,000, creating a new $3,328,1 000,000 deficit and zooming the pub- - EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! are expressed in these columns, they art those ol the news analyst, ani not necessarily el the newspaper. Domestic In 1787 the constitutional conven-tion wiped out trade barriers be-tween states. Since then financially pressed commonwealths have sought lo protect their own tradesmen and taxpayers from competition with by licensing, inspec-tion, labeling and a host of similar regulations. By 1939 the barriers have grown so high that Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace claims it causes an Incalculable eco-nomic loss to the nation. Forward-ing a report by the bureau of agri-cultural economics. Secretary Wal-lace made these charges: (1) New York city's inspection requirements bar milk and cream lie debt smack against its legal debt limit of $45,000,000,000 unless congress raises the limit. Far from willing to raise it, or even to ap-prove the new budget, congressional RrDublicans have found strnne sun- - world next day by making "terri-torial security" marches into Hol-land and Switzerland. This done, London and Paris would be given their choice of capitulating or watching Holland and Switzerland remain under Nazi domination. S '' r f f fit : . port in rebellious Democrats. Their spokesman is Mississippi's Sen. Pat Harrison, who came out for a flat 10 per cent budget cut aird a warn-ing: "The country's credit is good and I don't think we have reached the debt danger point, but the sign is up ... A lot of this emergency stuff could be cut, and I'm in favor of cutting." Senator Harrison has already found support in two studies: Urookings. Surveying the new gov-ernmental reorganization bill (to consolidate and abolish executive agencies for the sake of economy and efficiency), Washington's thorough- -searching Brookings institution claimed it was that no economies would result. Of 132 agencies listed for reorganization, only 54 require legislative authority, and no legislation is necessary un-less congress wants to "give the President authority to make laws by executive order." Suggestions: (1) Prune all present activities "rig-orously;" (2) develop a "more con-sistent" program. National Economy League. Rea-son for this survey was that "before lasting recovery and increased em-ployment can be a reality ... all Housing Despite federal stimulus, home building has remained at low ebb since 1929, providing a good index of the times. In 1937 a hinted up-trend was cut short by rising ma-terial costs and labor troubles. But by the current spring U. S. housing has reached such deplorable shape that renewed building activity is in-evitable. Some idea of the industry's expec-tations has been voiced by L. Selh Schnitman, consulting economist and member of the army industrial college, who predicts the greatest residential building volume since 1929. Activity for the first three months of this year is 75 per cent greater than djring the comparable period last year, representing total expenditures of $325,000,000. Housing experts agree the initial stimulus was given by New York's Bowery savings bank, which recent-ly cut about h in the in-terest rate for mortgage money on Federal Housing administration in-sured home mortgages. Picked up by other New York banks, then spreading westward across the country, the plan has given impetus to investment building operations. England From mid-Ma- to mid-June- , Great Britain's King George and Queen Elizabeth will be guests of the North American continent on a junket which most good Americans regard as a simple, friendly gesture. But as travel time approaches, the royal expedition is meeting with far more distracting bogeymen than Toron-to's Dionne quintuplets, which are being shipped 180 miles under pro-test to curtsy before their queen. From June 8 to 11 the royal party will visit the U. S. Because the entire journey was planned last win-ter in the heat of international chat-ter about "democratic solidarity," more than one writer has tried to place the prime minister in a difficult position. A sample, by one Peter Howard in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "Now the royal visit puts Chamber- - nrrinnft'iiiin Iri Hi n nn n SECRETARY WALLACE lie would hurdle the barriert. from points west of the New York and Pennsylvania state lines, there-by raising prices on the metropoli-tan market. (2) Trucking "wars" thrive in Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wy-oming. Colorado, Georgia, Missouri, Maine and South Dakota, where re-strictions are imposed against trucks from neighboring states. (3) Many states virtually bar produce of other states by establish-ing unique trading, labeling and packaging regulations, quarantines, embargoes and "a bewildering maze of other impositions." Though the administration has thus far left remedial action up to states themselves, there is little rea-son to hope that 48 individual legis-latures can work out a nation-wid- e system, or labor hand-in-han- d to solve a problem in which each has a selfish interest. But federal in-tervention is broadly hinted in the Wallace report, one phase to cover interstate commerce of motor vehi-cles. The proposed plan: A vehi-cle properly registered in its home state and with the interstate com- - merce commission would be exempt from further registration. 'ft ' 1 ' iv! f . 'V ' 0 v. V ' '..-- x AKsiJIT1 SENATOR HARRISON Time lo doubts about national credit must be removed. The plan: Reduce next year's deficit from $3,000,000,000 to $500,000,000. Comparative budgets tOOO.OOO omitted): Prcaldrnt'i l.emue Sut- - fcxpendltur Budget HudSfl ln( Kfliel S2.040 J1.4IMI Jti40 Public works ... 1.131 700 4J1 Social security . 928 928 AAA 694 500 194 Defense 1.320 1.320 Interest 1.0..0 1,025 25 Veterans 539 539 .... AU other 1.293 875 418 Total J8.9D5 $7,287 $1,708 Receipts 5,669 6.142 Net deficit ... 3.326 1.145 'Assumes business improvement from pared budget. So potent are economy's new friends that the administration may well find its cautious business-wooin- g program a boomerang. Wading half way across the pond of concilia-tion when opinion favored a com-plete passage, Mr. Roosevelt has been left behind and confronted with charges of insincerity because Har-ry Hopkins the man who started his program would need business' support to win the 1940 nomination. lain himself on trial. If it succeeds Chamberlain goes up. If it fails he goes down." What Englishmen mean by "suc-cess" or "failure" of the American visit was finally brought into fairly close focus, but it still remained a doubtful quantity. Probable mean-ing: The visit will "fail" If U. S. citizens get the impression that King George and Queen Elizabeth are making a begging expedition to gain American aid in pulling England's chestnuts out of the European fires. Defense Six thousand airplanes would ef-fectively darken the sky. Nose to nose, they would reach 45 miles; wing to wing, 52 miles. To build and maintain 6,000 planes, plus person-nel and equipment, would cost about $300,000,000. Authorization for such a U. S. army air force has already passed through congress and the ap-propriation will follow close on its heels. This done, American avia-tion will be in good shape. But even Europe The Ides of March brought dis-aster for Julius Caesar. The same Ides were scheduled by European observers to bring 1939 disaster to England and France via (1) conclu-sion of the Spanish war, (2) Italian territorial demands against France, and (3) a subsequent impasse in which London and Paris could choose between appeasing the Rome-Berli- n axis or going to war. The two major hitches in this schedule came in Spain, where Loy-alists did not capitulate as expected following the surrender of Barce-lona, and in the Vatican, where Pope Pius XI died. Obviously Italy could not free her hands for demands against France until she could with-draw troops from Rebel Spain. The pontiff's death brought a respectful pause in diplomatic warfare, cou-pled with international conjecture over the choice of his successor. WTiether the axis ever had a "plan" for March is questionable, but certainly the natural course of events would have brought a crisis. Today's most moot question in Eu-rope is whether the unforeseen delay may not weaken the Rome-Berli- n position. Speeding rearmament, forcing Germany into world trade submission, pledging aid to France, Great Britain has emerged a much today Dotn army ana navy boast new accomplishments: Army. Principal delight of Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air corps, is the five-ma-twin- engine- high speed "Airacu-da,- " designed by Robert J. Woods after he "consolidated" the ideas of 500 army experts and 45 civilian engineers, draftsmen and engineers. Features of the Aira-cuda- : Tremendous cruising range, two anti-aircra- cannon, four ma-chine guns and aerial bombs which explode like anti-aircra- shells when dropped near enemy planes. General Arnold's opinion: "It's the most striking example of airplane development of the past year, any-where in the world. Navy. In choppy Carribean seas some 600 navy planes one-thir- d the entire force recently provided "eyes" for U. S. battlewagons solv-ing Fleet Problem XX. One spec-tator. President Roosevelt, watched the conduct of these planes and re-portedly asserted the U. S. had na-val air forces as good or better than any other. Said Adm. William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations: "The performance was the best I ever saw. They carried out their mission without an accident." Irardem Flowers for a QARDENERS want bouquets, tZ cation of the be certain yard, on of an for cutting throT growing months, hoi gardener need plant only three or four of n ing flowers: : Annuals snapdragon lendula, calliopsis, bachelor button dahlia, larkspur, ann marigold, nasturtium and zinnia. ' ' Perennials-columb- iin sis, gaillardia grandiflc nial lupin, pyrethrurn" daisy) shasta daisy arj um. For earliest bloom, t ing are recommended b Bentley, flower expert and candytuft among & and coreopsis, delphj pyrethrurn among the p For late-bloomi- ct grow zinnia, marigold,: snapdragon, aster, iar Paistt Censor Comes to Bat k Appeasement of lsa 'Damp' Arrives via Air I lly Virginia Vale ' an ill censor that blows IT'S picture some good. War-ner Brothers "Yes, My Dar-ling Daughter" is the latest picture to profit by censorship. And anyone who saw the play of the same name on which the picture was based is likely to suspect that the movie moguls who were responsible for the film rather hoped that a little censorship, though a dangerous thing, might result in plenty of free publicity. New York's state censor board obligingly banned the picture. Whereupon the department of edu-cation's board of regents even more obligingly lifted the ban, and the public rushed to the theater where the picture was finally shown, eager to see what all the fuss was about. In fact, so much interest was stirred up in this darling daughter that the theatrical producer who produced the original play Is said to b considering reviving it Some of the women who read the books of the "Five Little Peppers" series when they were children will be escorting their grandchildren to see those young Tcppcrs on the screen. The series of nine books has been bought for Edith Fellows. lsa Miranda was so upset when she lost the title role in "Zaza" to Claudctte Colbert that she was ready to give up and go home to Italy. But when the picture was released she had reason to thank ' sy 'i "k? f ' N A 9 WV ' ' ' rs' rt,-'- , A , ' ISA MIRANDA her lucky stars that the cast didn't include her name. Now Paramount Is making It up to her by giving her a grand chance in the e of "Hotel Imperial," and has also booked her for "Tempted," which should prove to be something extra-specia- l. And la belle Miranda thinks America is a swell place and is taking steps to become an American citizen. When Baron Cal von Ripper spent seven months in a concentration camp he probably didn't believe that it would ever do him any good. Now that experience stands him in good stead. RKO Pathe has en-gaged him to act in an advisory capacity for their forthcoming featur-e- length picture, "Unknown Pa- - triot." Rose Bampton may not have Grace Moore's genius for publicity, but her name is practically a house-hold word all over the country, thanks to her radio performances. The first of the Metropolitan Opera company's glamour girls to be ini-tiated into "The Circle," she was called back for a repeat perform-ance. Three days later she had to be back on the East coast for the Hobby Lobby show. And of course she is always bob-bing up on Bing Crosby's program she has appeared on it nine times so far. George Murphy, master of cere-monies of the "Screen Guild Show." thinks he works pretty h.rd. He has to track down movie stars and arrange for their appearances on the program. So far his "work" has involved skeet hunting with Robert s Montgomery, swimming with Loret-t-a Young in her private pool, skiing with Basil Rathbone and visiting Judy Garland during school hours. After broadcasting for two years and thirteen weeks for one sponsor, Al Jolson departs from the air In mid-Marc- possibly to remain a until fall. He Is slated for a Twentieth Century-Fo- x picture, "Rose of Washington Square," and wants time to work on a new type of radio program. His place is being taken by Dick Powell. The rest of the cast the same. ODDS A.D r:,l)S-Th- ose radio tlrmna "Dr. Christian," in uhich Jean fjrrslwlt has been appearing, will be nade into a series of three pictures . . . '"lit O llrien will star , ",e Ue Krwle Kocknc" . . . John tt ayne did so well in Slowcoach," alter W anner s latest, that Kepublic is making him star. C Western Newspaper Union. DOl TO RELIEVE PI DISCOMFORT OF A Follow Simple Method Takes onlyaFewMinutt Bayer Aspirin is I To east p f 1 discomfort Y fever taki ; AV Tablet- j- 2. If throat Is raw from cold, crush and dls- - ff ) tolvs 3 Bayer Tab- - x tots In i3 glass of water . . . gargle. 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You may u",; ache, persistent hen!f aineaa, frcttinir UP n'yj p j nesa under the yes' , ) all played out. Tt fa bf a medicina that btf V claim than on tomet '. knowmi y m Change of Mto 3 No well-inform- P: imputed inconsistency ' for changing his mind- - An Elephant Cemetery What is believed to be an "ele-ihan- t cemetery," established by Hannibal, the Carthagenian gen-eral, when he slaughtered some of his war beasts before crossing the Alps, is situated near Avacon, in the valley of the Durance, France. Be-neath the "cemetery" was the buri-al place of a chieftain of the Iron age and 100 of his warriors who died 800 years before Hannibal led his army from Spain over the Al-pine passes. In 218 B. C. Hannibal started from Carthage with 37 ele-phants and 102,000 Moors and Span-iards. Only a few men and beasts reached Italy. Has Exhibits of Grains The Field Museum of Natural His tory in Chicago has a department of botany with exhibits of economic grains in the natural state. In the department are shown more than 100 varieties of wheat grown in the United States, as well as wild grasses related to wheat spelt, ein-kor-and emmer. There are also some grains, estimated to be 5,500 years old and probably the most ancient in existence, taken from the city of Jemdet Nasr excavated in Iraq. These were charred in the fire that destroyed the ancient city. Thoughtless fff Words without thoug- ., Headliners heaven go. Shakespes' MARSHAL HENRI PETAIN The "hero of Verdun" emerges from retirement to serve France 4 in anomer crisis. Now 82, Marshal Henri Petain has been named am bassador to new-ly reorganized In surgent Spain in an obvious ges-ture to win Gen. Francisco Fran-co's friendship by motional appeal. M;,ry vcar!i ae. Pc,a,n as instructor in the French war college. Mar-shal Petain instructed Spain's new iron man. himself a famous Twentieth century militarist. Later, in 1925 2G. Marshal Petain loined forces with Franco in lead-ing the expedition that defeated Abd Fl Krim. RitT leader in Mo-rocco Petain also went to Ma irid and negotiated an agreement vith the governor of Premiei Prima de Rivera Briefly Opposed, double movie fea-tures, by the National Motion Pic-ture Research Council. Scheduled, to start May 12, non-sto- p pickup and delivery air-mail service in 55 Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio towns. Predicted, for elevation to the college of cardinals. Msgr. Ste-phen J. Donahue, administrator of ihe archdiocese of New York Won, by India's Mahatma Gandhi, a major political victory by his four-da- y "fast unto death." Reversed, by Nazi Germany, an earlier order curtailing Jew ish participation in business, ne cessitated by labor shortage. |