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Show ' ' THE BULLETIN. IHNCHAM. UTAH GENERAL JOHNSON Jour: Washington, D. C. REARMAMENT DAWDLING The rearmament program is dawdling for two reasons. Govern-ment is not organized for industrial mobilization, and neither is indus-try. This Is not the fault of the war department This country made two startling contributions to the art and science of major modern war in 1917 and 1918. One was the selec-tive service idea for the mobiliza-tion of man power. The other was the War Industries board method for mobilizing industry. Neither was fished out of a hat Both were perfected through a pain-ful period of trial and error mis-take and correction until, at the end, they were working well. Almost as soon as the war was over, the war department began a careful study of both. Few regular officers had been Included In either effort but nearly all the principal actors were living and the records and reports were copious. Year after year, these experi-enced men were brought back to lecture class after class of officers in the war college and army indus-trial college on all these experiences the underlying principles, the blun-ders and triumphs, the blind alleys explored and all the stone walls Against which these pioneers had butted and bloodied their heads. As a result of all these studies and stories, the war department drew up plans for both mobilizations for major war men and materials. Year after year, these plans were revised and carefully checked with the veterans of the earlier effort On the principle of Industrial mo-bilization, of which he had directed the 1918 effort, Bernard M. Baruch devoted much of his time and ener-gy, patiently helping the war de-partment to perfect an adaptation of his original plan to every chang-ing circumstance. When this emergency arrived, the war department was ready with plans complete almost to the last comma for both selective service and the industrial effort. The war department's draft plan was permitted to be put into effect with very few changes, but, for some reason, its equally well con-structed and war tested plan for industrial mobilization was ditched. The result is before our eyes. The draft machinery is running as well as any such great effort could be expected to run. In industrial mo-bilization we are repeating by page and number and almost by date ev-ery single blunder of 1917 and 1918. These all had been plotted and pro-vided against in the war depart-ment plan. It Is Impossible to carry on with-out confusion, waste and delay an armament program running into bil-lions by simply flinging it to a peace-geare- d industry as a bone is tossed to a dog. It requires careful or-ganization of both demand and sup-ply, organization of the many and sometimes conflicting government procurement agencies, as well as organization of the myriad produc-ing agencies of industry. That has not been done at all and that is what is the matter with things. WASHINGTON THE CENTER This City of Washington was es-tablished as our seat of govern-ment partly on the argument that it was a central location and partly in a kind of trade to insure national assumption of the debts of the states. Perhaps the Founding Fathers could not possibly have foreseen the astonishing expansion of our coun-try, but now our central location in area is somewhere in Kansas, and our center of population, (not yet announced from the last census) is probably in Indiana. As a result Washington is about as inconveniently located as possi-ble for most U. S citizens to exer-cise their constitutional right to visit the seat of the government. Nobody would dream of suggest-ing that the capital be moved. Its location is hallowed in our history What with its own advance and the decline of others due to war and misfortune it is, by all odds, the most beautiful city in the world. It is advancing yearly In beauty as well as in wealth and population. No, the capital will never be changed, but why are other cities and all the states so complacent about permitting so much of their money to be drained away to bf spent in this one spot? The great head administrative offices have to be grouped about the Chief Execu-tive, but why do the hundreds oi thousands of workers? It has always been a marvel tt I whose bid for re-election is the Squeedunk post offlci or the improvement of Skunk creek have overlooked this possibility. In stead of making a short snack ol work for a dozen plumbers, carpen-ters and masons or a dredging crew, they might bring home a continuing payroll In real money. It is astonishing, too, that the states and cities haven't done aome low and lofty squawking over being so copiously and continuously milked for a distant community and get. ting so little in return. frl New York Heartbeat The Big Parade: Victor Moore-the-merri- er . . . Ethel Barrymore, whose acting is the only spotlight she needs . . . Martha Raye the one-ga- l Hellzapoppin' . . . Chieo Marx at Leon St Eddie's, in a check-ered suit noisier than the floor show there . . . Frankie Hyers, the "Pan-ama Hattie" clown a grown-u- p Mickey Rooney . . Mrs. Jascha Heifetz coming out of Jay Thorpe's to drop a few coins into the cup of a passing blind violinist . . . Pris-cili- a Lane talking a cop out of giv-ing her a ticket near the Lincoln tunnel , . . Bunny Waters of the Billy Rose festival at the Horseshoe wearing a wedding ring. A what? . . . Cafe decorator Vernon Mac-Farlan- e, studying the ruins of Lon-don in a newspaper, and exclaim-ing: "Good heavens! My tailor's place has been blown to bits wotta pity!" . . . Beaverbrook's C V. R. Thompson, who calls it "The Italian Quitzkrieg." Sallies In Our Alley: G. Henri-Hay- e, Vichy's envoy to the U. S., ia going home. France knows it is important to have a good man In Washington . . . "And," observed a critic, "that ain't Hayel" . . . Eddy Duchin knows an Italian gen-eral who (In reporting to II Duce) was asked about the Albanian . . . "It's all Greek to me!" was the reply ... At a din-ner the other night, when a speaker remarked that the perfect age for a woman was thirty, Toastmaster Bob Christenberry added: "Espe-cially if she is forty." Smalltown Vignette: Orson Welles had a lecture date to fill recently In a midwestern town . . , The date came on a chilly, rainy night, and a thin crowd turned out . . , More-over, the committee had neglected to providt a speaker to Introduce Welles ... He stepped onto the platform, looked over the scattered audience, and said: "You probably don't know me. I'm a stage direc-tor, producer, actor and designer. In Hollywood I'm a producer, direc-tor and actor. In radio I'm a direc-tor and actor. In fact, there's' no ' point In continuing this thing. There are so many of me and so few of youl" Memos of a Mldnlghter: Doris Dudley and June Havoc no longer share the same apt. Reason: Life mag did a layout on Dudley's manse in White Plains and June hogged the lens for nearly 70 per cent of the pix . . . Margo is expected to file against F. Lederer within the tort-nig- ht . . . She's been g her New York attorney from Hollywood . . . The buzz has Rou-be- n Mamoulian stitching with Irene Lee of Warner's story dep't soon . . . Remember Tommy Jackson, who became famous playing the de-tective in "Broadway"? Well, he's now on the District Attorney's staff in L. A., as a special investigator , . The gab persists that Dewey will retire New Year's Day for pri-vate practice . . . Hemingway says he is buying a house in Cuba, not switching citizenship. Manhattan Murals: The recent snow and slush putting a wet blan-ket on the city's streets. The best Miami Beach ad of them all . . The bright little Christmas card ahoppes that spring up every year at this time adding a little sparkle to the dreary town . . , The sign In the window of a hosiery shop: "Do Your Christmas Shopping, Girlyl" . , . The Carnegie Hall Apartments which advertise: "Piano and Bath" . . . The excited Broad-wayite- s arguing about the headlines, near the Times Building Union Square in a high hat . . Sign in a West 49th Street barber shop featuring a sun-lam- p treatment: "We'll Tan Your Hide for 50 Cents." Broadway Ticker-Tap- e: MGM will exploit "Comrade X" this way: "It's funnier than Ninotchka and easier to pronounce!" . . Are Sam Bar-ken (the prop, of Miami Beach's big-tim- e 5 o'Clock Club) and Barbara MacLean secretly sealed? . . . The S. Carmels have separate tepees. He's a noted attorney. She's the "legs" in the Real Silk adverts . . . They are saying Miriam Hopkins' next playi "Battle of the Angels" is the risgayest yet . . It's a girl for the Richard Snyders of the Mir-ror One of the biggest indus-trialists in the naUon (whose Initials are B. D.) has just bet a small mint that the U. S. will be In a war within 60 days The Mexican president is expected to visit the White House in Feb. New Yorchids: Bob Grant's crew toying with the rhythms at the Savoy-Plaz- a Benny Goodman's torridisc of "Benny Rides Again," a Columbia platter . . Connie Bos-well- 's double-tal- k warbling of "Stra-va-na-d-via the Bing Crosby pro-gram Douglas Williams' new book: "The New Contemptibles." The first book published by Bren-tano'- s in ten years . . Warden Lawes' thrilling book: "Meet the Murderer" (Harper's) . . Coca Cola's new radio show via CBSun-da- . . . !' the KostelanuUI i 't iV i'i n if i i ri 1 1 1 In Washington, D. C. PARITY PAYMENTS Farm legislation for the new con- - gress Is still chiefly In the "talk" stage, but one thing can be put down as definite: The parity payment pro-gram at best Is due for a big slash. In the new budget now being framed, parity payments are not en-tirely eliminated, but they are cut to the bone. Instead of the $212,-000,0- voted last spring, the figure under consideration is only $50,000,-00- 0. And even this isn't certain. It Is entirely possible, under the policy of holding down all "normal" expenditures to the bone to provide more funds for defense, that the parity Item may be eliminated en-tirely hefnri the hurtffpt li finished Some congressional farm leaders ara making no secret of their desire to supplant parity loans with a more financially sound plan. Chief among them is Rep. Hampton Ful-me- r of South Carolina, new chair-man of the house agriculture com-mittee, who is a strong advocate af the "income certificate plan." This is a modified version of the old AAA processing tax under which processors, would pay growers the difference between the market price and parity, in certificates purchased from the government. VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones wasn't exaggerating when he predicted that this would be the most prosperous Christmas In his-tory. Economists of the federal reserve board, commerce and labor depart-ments estimate a Yuletide business season surpassing even the peak in 1929. According to their private fig- - ures, dollar sales will about equal 1929, but business volume will be considerably heavier (1940 price lev- - els ara nearly 20 per cent lower), j That is, each dollar spent will buy about one-fift- h more than it did in the last of the boom year9 This is the way the experts fore-cast the Christmas season: Employment Because of the vast defense program, employment will be greater this month than at any time since 1929, with more than (excluding temporary Christ-mas employees) on private payrolls an Increase of 1,400,000 over De-cember, 1939. Payrolls Manufacturing payrolls will be 12 per cent greater than last December. That means $25,000,000 more a week will be paid in wages to Industrial workers. Retail trade Sales generally will be from 8 to 10 per cent greater than 1939. Department store sales will be 9 per cent more than last Christmas, but still under record-breakin- g 1929. On the other hand, mail order and variety store sales will be the highest in history. A vary Merry Christmas, indeed. WILLKIE AND NEW CHAIRMAN There is a sputtering o ire among Republican national committeemen when they heard that Wendell Will-ki- e considers it his right to name the successor to NaUonal Chairman Joe Martin, who wants to quit in order to give all his time to bossing the house Republicans. Willkie picked Martin, and now takes the position that he also Is entitled to select Martin's successor. But to the hard-heade- political professionals, a candidate running for office and a defeated candidate are horses of entirely different col-ors. The first is a potential incum-bent who may have patronage and favors to dispense, and therefore commands the right to call the tune. But a defeated standard-beare- r is a has-bee- and the boys are not in-terested in faded hopes. So Willkie's claim to continued party leadership is meeting with very glacial response. When he told some of the national committeemen that they should name the man he wants, the boys tactfully, but point-edly, replied that the national com-mittee is an elected body and alone has the power to fill a chairmanship vacancy. MARTIN'S SUCCESSOR Martin is very eager to shed him-self of the chairmanship. The undercover maneuvering for the strategic place already is hot Tom Dewey, Governor Bricker of Ohio. Sen. Bob Taft, Senator Van denberg and others, with 1944 in mind, each is determined that no one hostile to him shall get it. The situation calls for a neutral, or someone acceptable to a combina-tion of the leaders. Martin privately is afraid that It won't be possible to And either and that to avoid a battle-roy- he will be stuck as national chairman for some time to come. MERRY-GO-ROUN-William Reuther. young, red haired executive of the United Autt Workers, has submitted a plan U. defense authorities whereby, by us ing the entire auto Industry as on plant, it would be possible withir six months to produce an al single-moto- r pursuit plane' at th rate of 500 a day Under Reuther'i sensational program the planes no' only would incorporate all the lates' developments of Britain's famout Spitfires but would cost only one third their present price. To Six Americans Belong the Credit For Making Santa Claus, the Children's Symbol ot Christmas, a Living Reality By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Rsleawd by Weitcrti Newspaper Union.) social historians will THE you that the Dutch gave to the world that familiar symbolical Christ-mas figure, Santa Claus, and that his name is merely a slurring of the Dutch pronun-ciation of "San Nicholas" or "Sinterklass" which is, of course, "St. Nicholas." They will tell you, too, that Nicho- - Ua fp iwL was so well-know- n whereas his scholarly "Compendius Lexicon" attracted little attention, admit-ted its authorship and gave the autographed original manuscript of the poem to the New York His-torical society. How much Moore drew upon Irving and Paulding for his de-scription is not known. But there is a curious parallelism in some of his words and some of theirs, although Moore himself, 40 years later said that "a portly, rubicund Dutchman living in the neighbor-hood of his father's county seat, Chelsea" near New York city suggested to him the idea of mak-ing St. Nicholas the hero of his Christmas piece for his children. The Reindeer Appear. It is certain that we are indebt-ed to Moore for making Santa Claus' mode of transportation a sleigh drawn by "eight tiny rein-deer." In its original form the poem differs slightly from the present version, particularly in the names of the reindeer. "Vis-cen- " of the original has become "Vixen" and "Donder" has been changed to "Dunder." The title which Dr. Moore gave to his verses was "A Visit From St. Nicholas," but the modern ver-sion, taken from the first line, is "The Night Before Christmas." As for the contributions of the three artists to our image of Santa Claus, the name of the first one unfortunately for his fame is unknown. In 1839 a book called "The Poets of America," edited by John Keese, was pub-lished. It contained Moore's poem and the illustration for it , las was an actual person, the bishop of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, in the first part of the fourth century of the Christian era. In his honor December 6 of each year was set aside as a special j feast day. But in the late Middle ages, when the Catholics and the Protestants both tried to do away with festivities which had grown up around St. Nicholas' day, the children refused to give him up. Gradually the festival in his honor was assimilated into the festivi-ties honoring the Christ Child. He Comes to America. When the Dutch settlers came to New Netherlands more than 300 years ago, of course they brought with them their custom of honoring "Sinterklass." In fact, it is said that the ship which carried the first Dutch children to Manhattan island bore a likeness of him as its figurehead. But he wasn't the jolly little fellow that we know. For the Dutch children knew the good Bishop-Sai- nt Nich-olas as a solemn, majestic figure The first known picture of Santa Claus (1839). huge pair of Flemish trunk hose" and he rode "jollily over the roof-tops" in a wagon, dropping splen-did presents down the chimneys of the houses where dwelt the children who were his favorites. It was also Irving who gave him another characteristic which has survived through the years. For, as the Knickerbocker history tells us, "whin Saint Nicholas had smoked his pipe, he twisted it in his hat band, and laying his finger beside his nose, gave a very significant look, then mount-ing his wagon, he returned over the treetops and disappeared." The next writer to paint a word In trailing robes, wearing a jew-eled miter and gloves and mount-ed on a fiery white charger. Even after the British took over the Dutch colony and New Neth-erlands became New York, the I v' jdm- - av Mi DR. CLEMENT CLARK MOORE was a picture of Santa Claus (re-produced above). Who the paint-er or engraver was has never been determined but it is believed that this was the first time that a picture of Santa Claus was ever printed. The world had to wait another 20 years, however, for another por-trait of Santa Claus. In 1862, an edition of "A Visit From St. Nich-olas," illustrated throughout by F. O. C. Darley, was published in New York. Darley gave us sev- - portrait of Santa Claus was Irv-ing-'s friend and one-tim- e collab-orator, James Kirke Paulding. Paulding, himself of Dutch de-scent, in his "Book of St. Nicho-las," published in 1827, declared that Santa Claus was "as gal-lant a little Dutchman as ever smoked his way through the world, pipe foremost ... he is a right fat, roystering little fellow . . . who scorns to follow the pestilent fashions of modern times, but ever appears in the ancient dress of the old patriarchs of Holland." Moore's Immortal Poem. It remained, however, for Dr. Clement Clark Moore, in his im-mortal poem, "A Visit From St. Nicholas," to fix forever in our consciousness the appearance of the children's Christmas saint. Moore was graduated from Col-umbia university in 1798, and be-came a professor of Hebrew and Greek in the General Theological seminary in 1821. He was a prolific writer, one of his literary productions bearing the imposing title of "Observa-tions Upon Certain Passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia Which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert Religion and Establish a False Philos-ophy." However, his most impor-tant work, the one at least upon which he believed his fame as a scholar would be secure, was "A Compendius Lexicon of the Hebrew Language." He little WASHINGTON IRVING little Dutch children continued to look for the coming of "Sinter-klass" on the eve of December S and hang up their stockings. But the English colonists didn't be-lieve in "Sinterklass" and gradu-ally, as the Dutch became assim-- j ilated and some of their customs began to change, there came a change in the character and ap-pearance of the good St. Nicholas, too. A Turning' Point. The American Revolution not only marked a turning point in world history but in the history of St. Nicholas as well. He was no longer the Dutch saint as the Dutch colonists had imagined him. He was a Dutch saint as their English neighbors imagined him and he began taking on Dutch characteristics. Instead of being a severe, for-bidding figure he became a jolly fat little Dutchman. In place of his long robes he began wearing knee breeches and the shoe buckles of Dutch colonial fashion. No longer did he ride the fiery white charger. Now he went about on his errands in a little eral views of the old fellow at work. One in particular was ap-propriate, for it showed Santa Claus placing his finger slyly to one side of his nose, just as Dr. Moore had described. Darley probably was the fore-most American illustrator at the time; but, after all, his version seemed to fail to satisfy complete-ly, and another year passed be-fore the real Santa Claus climbed into a chimney, just as readers of the ancient classic had pictured him in their minds. Darley had given us the sly twinkle in the eye of the good-natur- elf, and he had made the reindeer at least as tiny as the poet had described them, but something was lacking. JAMES KIRKE PAULDING realized that future generations of Americans would remember him better as the author of what he was accustomed to call "a silly poem." Yet such was the case, for a short time before Christmas in 1822, Dr. Moore wrote for his children a Christmas poem and they were delighted with the rol-licking tale A daughter of Rev. Dr David Butler, rector of St Paul's church at Troy, N. Y., who was a niece of Dr. Moore, was a Christmas guest in the Moore home and made a copy of the wagon, drawn by a fat little pony. And, finally thanks to six Amer-icans he became the Santa Claus that we know today. These six Americans were three writers and three artists and all of them contributed their share toward the creation of a Santa Claus so familiar to American children. The first of these six was Washington Irving. Whether Irving simply followed a tradition that was already widely accepted in the state where he was born or actually created a new Amer-ican Santa Claus is unknown. At In 1863 a volume of favorite poems, was published in which Dr. Moore's poem was included. It was illustrated by Thomas Nast, whom the American public re-members chiefly as a cartoonist for Harper's Weekly, the crusad-er who almost single-hande- d smashed the notorious "Tweed Ring" in New York with his vitri-olic cartoons and the artist who added to our gallery of familiar symbols the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey and the Tammany tiger. In this compila-tion, Nast turned his attention to depicting the features of Santa Claus, and for the first time con-verted an illusive figure into visu-al reality. Nast may, therefore, be said to have created a Santa Claus which remains the model for all who succeeded him. The social historians tell us that the Dutch gave to the world that familiar symbolical figure, Santa Claus, and that is true. But it was the genius of six Americans Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, Dr. Clement Clark Moore, Felix O. C. Darley, Thomas Nast and that unknown artist for John Reese's "Poets of America" which made him a liv-ing reality for all time to come. poem m her aiDum. The next year she sent a copy of it to the Troy Sentinel and it appeared in that paper, prefaced by a note from the editor saying he did not know who had sent it. By the next year it had appeared in many other newspapers and magazines and within a few years it had found its way into the schoolbooks. By this time in-quiries were beginning to be made as to its authorship and eventually Dr. Moore, none too well pleased that his "silly poem" any rate, when he published his whimsical "Knickerbocker's His-tory of New York" in 1809 he gave us the first full-leng- th word portrait of Santa Claus, the Amer-ican. It is to Irving that we owe our idea of the Dutch colonists as jo-vial, fat little men, wearing volu-minous breeches and smoking long pipes and he made the pa-tron saint of their children the archtype of them all. 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