Show a M Round Go err o- o oun By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If If you have been following the campaign speeches of the Republican candidates candidates candidates can can- you probably have been struck by this interesting coincidence That on all major issues their views are practically identical and that all these views are strikingly similar to the ideas expressed in inthe inthe inthe the report report- report report-of of the the Glen Glen Frank program committee com corn f f fAs As one Republican veteran on Capitol Hill sagely observed The boys apparently are writing their speech speeches with a Thesaurus in one hand hand and and the Frank rank report in the other This quiet borrowing from the Fr Frank report is particularly evident on the farm issue The Frank committee in effect approved the A A A but criticised allegedly inefficient and bureaucratic bureaucratic bureaucratic bureau bureau- cratic administration Also it advocated that the emphasis on benefit payments should be on soil soU conservation rather than on the new deals deal's crop control The Frank farm plank unquestionably scored in in the crucial grain belt It was widely r republished published and enthusiastically indorsed by many prominent local Republicans This was not lost on the three leading G G. O. O P P. candidates Dewey Taft and Since publication of the report they have followed its farm plank very closely In his Omaha spee speech h Dewey practically echoed the plank Taft who last December in Des Moines took a poke at farm subsidies sang a more like Frank-like tune in his second try at the farm issue at Springfield III Ill And senate declamations on the subject aIs also have been along the lines of the Frank report Liberal Gospel This attitude of the candidates is very sig sig- sig- sig The Frank report is a lot more liberal than the views held by certain powerful eastern G. G O. O P. P leaders leaders' who will have a great deal to say behind the scenes at the Philadelphia conven conven- tion That the candidates nevertheless are echoing the doctrines enunciated by the report indicates clearly that they deem this liberalism necessary to win public favor It also is a good tip-off tip that when the G. G O. O P. P platform emerges it will read very much like the Frank report In his preface Dr Frank stated that it was not the intention of his his' committee committee committee com com- to write a platform But party insiders will give you odds that that is just what he did Note In the hot Dewey primary now in progress in Nebraska Dewey boosters are capitalizing capitalizing on vote voe against the parity payments fund by de declaring declaring declaring de- de claring that Dewey favors such farm benefits benefits' The young New Yorker has never said this flatly himself f but his Nebraska supporters are claiming it for him Scuttled Plow The famous plow that broke the plains is headed for the junk Heap neap It w was s put on the skids w when w en the house appropriations appropriations appropriations' ap ap- ap- ap committee scuttled the budget of the U. U S. S film service on a parliamentary tary ary technicality The only hope for the agency 15 is the senate which can restore the fund The U U. S. S film service is one of the least expensive ox ex ex expensive pensive and widely acclaimed educational a activities ivi ies of the f federal aeral government Under the direction of Pare Lorentz it has produced three world-famous world movies of of which The Plow depicting g the agricultural ral history of the western western western west west- west west- ern plains was the first Produced in 1936 it created an artistic sensation Since then it has been seen by more than people Lorentz rentz second picture The River a dramatIc dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic story of the Mississippi river was an even greater hit Critics called it the best documentary documentary documentary docu docu- picture ever produced and at the 1938 International Exposition of Cinematographic Art in Venice it won first prize among 71 competing competing competing com com- entries Lorentz third picture recently released The Fight for Life Life is a film about childbirth and maternal welfare based on the seller best-seller by Dr Paul de Kruif De Kruif turned down a fat Hollywood offer for the movie rights in order to give them to the government After the pictures picture's premiere in Manhattan the New York Times declared We wish there were some form of Pulitzer award for the kind of cinema journalism Mr Lorentz has been doing r c |