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If it is because he has a fortune, then the Democrats had better pour some over their own record. Johnny Raskob didn't hold exactly that post in 1928 but he was responsible for the financial end of the party effort. I don't know how Johnny's fortune then compares with now, but it certainly wasn't hay. Among other things he had that year was to underwrite some of the Warm Springs obligations to make it easier for Mr. Roosevelt to run for governor of New Vork. Fat Cats Not Missing. Of course, it may be said that Johnny wasn't a New Dealer. Frank Walker took over that responsibility when Mr. Roosevelt ran in 1932, and Frank is no potential pauper. The Democrats had their fat ca'.s in both 1932 and 1936. The New Dealers may kick such men around in the spotlight for the benefit of the audience but they don't do it in the wings. Such lead- - ICrC NOT EXACTLY PAUPERS . . . John J. Huskob (at left) raised money for Democrats, now Ernest T. Weir will do it for Republicans. ing lights as the ambassadors to France, England, the Vatican, and lately Poland and Belgium belong to their "60 families." They may mar them but they also marry them. The royal family itself is conspic-uously overlooking no opportunity to get into the fat cat class. All of which is O. K. and above criticism, but it doesn't justify cracks at men of different political beliefs for per-forming their political offices of citi-zens on the ground that they are far from being on WPA relief. Wealth is as yet no crime among us and neither is poverty of itself any par- - ticular passport to preference. He Appealed and Won. Of course, the attack on Mr. Weir slides off into different ground. First, that he opposed collective bargain-ing; second, that William Green once said that he offered labor noth-ing; third, that he once resisted in the courts a workers' election con-ducted by the old NRA labor rela-tions board. The latter statement is true. He appealed to the courts against ille-gal action by that board and won his case. Since when is that a dis-qualification? The other two state-ments are untrue. When the New Deal and especially NRA, began its crusade for better labor relations, especially in the then crustacean steel industry, they had no more sincere supporter than Mr. Weir. His own labor relations were good. His was one of the first great mm. panics voluntarily to seek an elec-tion supervised by government to determine the question of majority representation. Agreed on Rules. The board held a hearing and agreed with the company and its employees on the rules for this ele-ctionwhich was then established procedure before the old NRA board a creature of executive order rath- - er than or statute. Mr. Weir went back to Weirton to carry out the agreement. On the eve of the elec-tion an officious young lawyer of the later or janissariat type of fourth New Dealer appeared to supervise it and announced a radically dif-ferent procedure from that formal-ly and regularly decreed by the board. Mr. Weir refused to ac-cept this new ukase and was up-held in court. From that time on he got the worst running around and series of kicks in the pants of any industrialist of those times. At first hand, I don't know enough about developments since to say whether that soured his view or changed his attitude, but I do know that when the New Deal started he was considered by it the most lib-eral and progressive employer in his industry. U. S. KIDDED ON DEFENSE. This is the testimony of army off-icers before a senate subcommittee: Question: "How many anti-ai- r craft guns will you have at the end of this fiscal year?" Answer: "I understand that there are 144 heavy anti-aircra- ft and 48 medium caliber anti-aircra- ft in the defense of London. The guns we have on order will be dtUvered by September 1941. All but 48 will be delivered by November 1940." (This figures a rate of delivery for the last 48 of a little over 4 guns a month.) NAMES in the news . . . GEN. GEORGE C. MAR-SHALL, U. S. army chief, was welcomed to Hawaii by a flight of 60 army planes. Embarrassing note: Two ships collided in mid-air, but pilots parachuted safely. FRANK ASIITON-GWATKI-Britisher, and CHARLES RIST, frenchman, constituted a special allied apple polish-ing expedit-ion to soothe U. S. anger over diflicul-tie- s arising from the German blockade. ASIX0N.GWATKN Biggest com- - Apple polisher. plaints: (1) censorship of U. S. mails; (2) taking U. S. ships into contra-band control ports. Arriving in Washington, the delegation was closeted with Secretary of State CORDELL HULL. MOST REV. SAMUEL A. STRITCII was enthroned new Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBIN'E Battle Over Income Questions Threatens Entire 1940 Census; In Europe; Peace Talk Revived (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union WTMrrtwrrtiitinftMiia'iilTnnr ttnMriMll , j,hhi mhi aiim li n li yTnnrtMiw iimmiiiiii SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND HIS COBBLING SHOP "I'm answer census questions when they put polite." POLAND: Atrocity Ncivs From three sources this month came news of trouble in Nazi-occupi- Poland and Czecho-Slovaki- (1) In Berlin it was revealed that deportation of Jews to the newly established state southeast of Lublin, in Poland, has been stopped because local administrators 'complained about lack of facilities. At the same time Berlin announced that time of worship in Polish Catholic churches was being limited because priests "misused divine services for polit-ical purposes." (2) In Paris, Poland-in-exil- e claimed that 136 Polish schoolboys had been executed at Bydgoczcz; that 6,000 men and women had been executed there up to December 31; that 350 Poles from Gdynia were shot after being forced to dig their graves. (3) Paul Ghali, writing from CONCRESS: Census Censure From Washington to his Racine, Wis., office Census Director William Austin rushed a telegram: "Withdraw Rosselli charnet imme-diately. You have disregarded instruc-tions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to Wash-ington office for disposition. You will be held strictly responsible for this procedure . . ." Thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck Uncle Sam's 1940 decennial census. James Rosselli, a Kenosha, Wis., shoe repair man, had been handed a federal warrant for refus-ing to answer census questions THE WARS: Peace in the North? Early March found Finland's war-riors valiantly trying to save Viipuri from the invading Reds, who let off excess steam by "deliberately" bombing a hospital in south-centr- Finland. Biggest news of the Russo-Finnis- h war, however, was the effort all Europe seemed mak-ing to bring these belligerents to peace. Background for this peace was the obvious fact that every Euro-pean nation would gain by it. Scan-dinavia would gain by g the combined pressure of France, Britain, Germany, Russia and Fin-land. Russia would eain bv turning her attention to a sorry domestic situation. Knowing this, observers were not surprised when London, Berlin, Brussels, Paris and Stockholm be-gan bristling with reports that Sweden was mediating, that the Russo-Finnis- h war might be called off at any moment. Most likely terms: Surrender of the Karelian isthmus (including Viipu-ri), part of Lapland, Petsamo and the Hango naval base. As a "dead-line" drew near, the Finns practi-cally admitted such overtures had been made, yet there was small chance they would be accepted. More War in the West? For the moment, northern peace talk had no effect elsewhere. In what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western front, 20 Britons were captured by the Nazis. ciwufc ,119 uunnicoa. luc lviiouj taker also charged Shoemaker Ros-selli had thrown him out. Answered Rosselli: "I'm answer census questions when they put polite . . . Everyt'ing. can be explain. I walk out on him, yes . . . But I don't chase him." Gaining steam at Washington was the fight of Sen. Charles Tobey (Rep., N. H.) to have personal in-come questions stricken from the 1940 nose count. Franklin Roose-velt had denounced it as "an obvi-ously political move," and the cen-sus bureau was willing to let citi-zens refuse the question if they wished. But Senator Tobey was adamant. Said he: "The Ameri-can people cry out, 'Hold! Enough! . . . Those in authority will do well to face the issue . . . !" Alter several days of this, the sen-ate commerce committee voted 10 to 5 to postpone temporarily Its Paris for the Chicago Daily News, had "authentic sources" for his in-formation that Polish landowners have been dispossessed, and that Czech children must submit when little Germans in the same school bully and tease them. RUMANIA: Prayers Keystone of Balkan security is Rumania's neutrality, often threat-ened the past six months by the economic tug-of-w- ar being waged between Russia, Germany, France and Britain. Cognizant of this, Pope Pius prayed in early March that Ru-mania might be' preserved "from the scourge of war." What hap-pened in the next three days made no sense, but it did indicate that Rumania was also praying: First day: Rumania was report-ed rushing a little Maginot line along her Bessarabian border front-ing Russia. Second day: It was announced by Russia that Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov will soon visit Bucharest to initial a pact. This was a shocker, for Russia has made no secret of her designs on Bessarabia. Third day: King Carol opened his parliament, promising to main-tain a permanent l,GOO,000-ma-army regardless of cost. Adding it up, observers wondered if King Carol might not at last be withering under pressure from all sides. UVz MILLION TONS .Grmony! Other Sources J' Vi MILLION TONS consideration of an question resolution. Meanwhile Census Taker Austin wrung his hands, for his house-to-hous- e can-vass is to start April 2. Should congress continue to squabble, he knew not what would become of the decennial census. Also in congress: Wagner Act. Twenty-on- e changes in the present act were recommend-ed to the house by a special investi-gating committee, but defeat was predicted. Chief proposal: Divorce-ment of NLRB judicial and admin-istrative functions. 'Clean rolitics' Act. The senate killed a move to repeal the Hatch law's prohibition of political activ-ity by federal employees, then be-gan arguing a proposal to extend the act to state workers who get part of their pay from federal funds. Agriculture. While the President signed legislation extending the farm mortgage moratorium, five Democratic senators introduced a bill to restore independence of the farm credit administration, recent-ly placed under the department of agriculture. POLITICS: Biggest Barrage For months Franklin Roosevelt has parried third-ter- questions. But each parry is more difficult, for each press conference brings more definite questions. In early March the President returned from his Caribbean vacation to face the biggest barrage yet. Only the day before his name had been entered in Pennsylvania's Democratic pri-mary and correspondents were hun-gry for a comment. But they got nothing except his remark that all third-ter- rumors fell into one of the four newspaper categories sug-gested by Thomas Jefferson: (li news; (2) probabilities; (3) possi-bilities; (4) lies. Nobody knew into which of these categories the latest rumor fell, but it bore authentic earmarks. Out of Washington came reports tha Franklin Roosevelt's feud with John Nance Garner would burst inti; flames before Illinois' April 9 pri-mary, first crucial Roosevelt-Garne- r contest support. Somehow, the wiseacres learned Mr. Roosevelt will plump this month for a New Dealish presidential slate, thus forc-ing an answer from the sphynx-lik- e Mr. Garner. ITALY'S COAL SOURCES More from Britain? A new wave of torpedoings, bomb-ings and mine explosions cost the neutral Dutch 12 ships. But Britain's was Italy, which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embar-go on Italian coal imports from the Reich. Within 48 hours 16 Italian ships were hauled into British ports and their coal cargoes discharged. Rome threatened the situation would become serious unless Britain backed down, but there was no sign of this. Already getting more than a fourth of her coal from Britain (see chart) Italy seemed faced with .the choice of declaring war (an im-probability) or swapping her muni-tions and airplane motors for Brit-ish coaL Welles Mission Completing the first half of his European fact-findin- junket, U. S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles left Berlin, gathered his strength and his luggage in Lau-sanne, Switzerland, then headed for Paris. In Rome he had talked with a mild-manner- Benito Mussolini. In Berlin he had met a tough and de-termined Adolf Hitler. Still on the calendar were two more visits. Mr. Welles was to fly from Paris to London, where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would probably restate his war aims. Principal aim: (Destruction of the Nazi rule. Then Mr. Welles would return to Rome for more conversa-tions with II Duce before catching the Conte Di Savoia for home. Before he walks up the gangplank, ob-servers thought Summer Welles could not possibly avoid planting his foot in the potentially dangerous British-Italia- n coal squabble. f J. 7 .VI Pi - ' - - . 1'. WASHINGTON. One of the strangest paradoxes of the Euro-pean war is the attitude taken by the state department toward several hundred American medical stu-- 1 dents, who have sought permission to go abroad to complete their studies at British universities. They have been refused passports on the ground that their lives would be in danger on English soil. But while taking this restrictive stand toward seekers after learning, the department is allowing a number of "Trombone? Don't be silly It's the baby elephant's gas-mas- k. Answer these very same students to go to France to drive ambulances at the front! Official explanation for the con-tradiction is that driving a war am-bulance is "humanitarian" work. So far about 50 students have been given passports for ambulance service. NEVER AGAIN. The biggest laugh during Sen. Burt Wheeler's speech at the hilari-ous National Press club banquet, where nine presidential possibilities told why they should NOT be elect-ed, was prompted by an unexpected sharp remark. "I haven't a chance," the Mon-tana- n was saying, "because John L. Lewis is for me. Another reason is that I was the running-mat- e of "Old Bob' LaFollette in 1924. Still another is that Norman Thomas, who is here with us tonight, support-ed me. If he should do that again this year I'd be sunk sure." "Don't worry," drily called out Thomas, 1936 Socialist candidate, "I won't. I only support liberals who stay hitched." Note Scrappy SEC Commissioner Leon Henderson, a third-ter- boost-er, offered to bet Tom Dewey $5 to $1 that the next President "is not in this hall," but the young New Yorker smilingly declined the offer. Henderson had no better luck with any of the other aspirants. Rated by the newsmen as the wit-tiest speakers of the evening were Democratic Bob Jackson and Re-publican Bruce Barton. STATE DEPARTMENT FISH Joe Davies, to Bel-gium and now special state depart-ment adviser, has been put in a tough spot by his wife's food com-pany operations. Mrs. Davies, the former Marjorie Post Hutton, is the aunt of Barbara Hutton and the largest stockholder in General Foods, probably the big-gest food manufacturing and distrib-uting company in the world. And it has just been revealed that General Seafoods, a subsidiary com-pany, has negotiated a deal with the government of Newfoundland whereby Newfoundland fish, canned and frozen by Newfoundland labor, will be able to put many New Eng-land fisheries almost out of business. What makes the situation embar-rassing for Ambassador Davies is that the deal was negotiated with the of the state de- - partment, of which he is an influen-tial official. What happened was this: General Seafoods negotiated a contract with Newfoundland where-by the company set up a factory in Newfoundland to can, freeze and process fish. The Newfoundland government subsidized General Sea- - foods to the tune of $200,000, and in return, General Seafoods agreed to employ only Newfoundland fisher-men to catch the fish, and New-foundland labor in the factory. MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Joe Davies wears high silk hat and opera cape in going about Palm Beach in the eve-ning. Once, arriving for a dinner party, the servants showed him to the rear door. They thought he was a magician, scheduled to pull rabbits out of the hat. At a luncheon for Jim Farley given by "Chip" Robert recently ai Palm Beach, most of the tables were set outside in the sunshine However. Farley's table happened to be inside. Result: It was almost impossible to get anyone else to sit outside. Mrs. Crosby McLean, Little Rock Ark., is telling friends that a Repub- lican fund solicitor canvassed her community and got a number of subscriptions from Democrats who wrote on the back of their blanks "Good only if Roosevelt runs again." As a song bird is dark place to leartUc which it could not the light, so in the shadow weourrjr are-t-some new sweet sor which we may sing'V-th-ears of sad and.C J. R. Miller. mi (la Full Reasc To abstain that is the epicurianism Rousseau. L AROUND I pTHE HOUSE To loosen dirt on linoleum add a few tablespoons of kerosene to the water with which it is to be washed. Bottles containing cream or milk should never be left uncovered in the refrigerator. Odors from oth-er foods are quickly absorbed by them. Japanned trays may be cleaned ' with a mixture of vinegar and powdered whiting. Apply with a soft flannel, wipe off with a clean cloth and polish with chamois. Burnt Privet Hedge. If your privet hedge should be acciden-tally burned during cleaning do not dig it up. Cut it back almost to the ground. New shoots will spring up and in another year you will have a fairly good hedge. Organized Knowledge Science is organized knowledge. Herbert Spencer. TREND How the triad is blowing . . . RELIEF Patterned after the suc-cessful surplus foods stamp plan, a cotton stamp plan for distributing clothing among relief families will be started this month in five or six cities. AGRICULTURE According to Chicago crop authorities, U. S. win-ter wheat prospects in early March showed "some improvement" over the December 1 condition thanks to better han-normal winter moisture and snow protection against sub-zero weather. ARMY The war department an-nounced surplus and "unstandard" munition supplies were being sold to neutral nations. Item: 90 six-inc- h World war guns stored at Aberdeen, Md., proving ground since the World war, were sold "as is" and "where is" to Brazil. JEWRY To prevent Arab upris-ings, Britain restricted sale of Pal-estine land to Jews. When riots fol-lowed, Neville Chamberlain's gov-ernment won its first wartime cen-sure move in the house of com-mons. By 292 to 129, the house up-held the Palestine decree. Superlatives NEATEST TRICK Britain's 28 million dollar Queen Elizabeth end-ed her maiden voyage in New York. TOUGHEST JOB--A mammoth testing machine installed at New Kensington, Pa., by Aluminum Company of America, showed its versatility first by smashing a solid oak log, then by tapping an egg so softly that a baby chick jumped out. |