| Show Merry Merry-Go- Round Merry Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON The The defeat of France has made the much criticized Polish army seem relatively prepare prepared i after all However the one big fact which sticks out of both defeats is that allied generalissimos generalissimo who saw the nazi mechanized war machine crush Poland did not profit by the lesson Apparently Apparently Apparently Ap Ap- they did little to mechanize their own armies ensuing during during during- ensuing months Press dispatches have related the heroism of the French army how it marched without food without sleep at times without even enough gh ammunition to fight a rear guard action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion agai against st the steadily adya advancing cing e enemy emy The French infantry was and still is the finest in mt inthe the e world But it could not fight off tanks air aIr- airplanes aIrplanes airplanes planes and armored cars No infantry can Yet even while the French fell back U. U S. S generals unmindful of Poland staunchly maintained maintained main main- taine i that that the foot soldier was the backbone of the American army still advocated congressional congressional appropriations for the gallant stir soul ring but out of date horse cavalry One exception among the generals is Chief I of Infantry George Lynch Long ago he began urging the general staff and congress to supply supply supply sup sup- ply more tanks for his infantrymen More in infantry infantry infantry in- in fantry is his motto but also more tanks in which they can fight G. G O. O P. P Farm Plank One plank in the Republican platform at Philadelphia already has been emphatically outlined outlined outlined out out- lined by Republican farm leaders in congress This is the agricultural plank Just a year ago House Leader Joe Martin appointed an agricultural study committee headed by resourceful Representative Cliff Hope of Kansas This committee has now drawn up the most advanced farm plank in the history of the Republican party and has taken it up point by point with the platform writers in Phila Phila- delphia Here are the points Part 1 Give the government wide emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency powers to protect agriculture from any adverse conditions arising from the war and its aftermath This would permit drastic price fixing Hopes Hope's committee bluntly told the platform writers that with Hitler master of Europe fixing fixing fixing fix fix- ing of farm prices will be necessary no matter which party is in office Some of the eastern G. G O. O P. P leaders balked at this but Hope grimly warned that if they wanted to carry the farm belt against the new deal they would have to put it on the line Part 2 2 A long range plan aimed at a stable agricultural economy It consists of a six-point six pro program ram made UD up of new deal policies plus several several several sev sev- eral new ones Chief of these is a two-price two system system system tem for agricultural products supported by a government subsidy The six features of part 2 follow First two-price two system for domestic and export crops under which the grower would receive incentive payments to boost prices for domestically sold commodities This would compensate him for depressed world prices on wheat cotton lard and other exports Second incentive payments would encourage encourage encourage age the production of sugar beets soy beans flax and tun tung oil which are now imported J Third increased farmer control of the farm 1 credit system At present three directors of federal land banks are chosen by farm credit administration and three by the stock h holding borrowers The borrowers' borrowers representation would be increased to four Fourth continuance of the new deal soil conservation program Fifth development of new industrial uses uses for surplus crops Sixth more government support for farm educational and extension programs Round Merry-Go-Round r Official figures show that Oregon left wingers wing wing- ers took a severe drubbing at the hands of Willis Willis Wil Wil- lis Mahoney Roosevelt third term leader who led the Democratic presidential primary by Mahoney who will head the states state's delegation is a strong backer of Assistant Secretary Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- of War Louis Johnson for vice president Wonder what's become of the antitrust crackdown n on the four big tobacco corporations The antitrust division has been quietly investigating investigating gating them for months with very sensational results On One fact brought to light was that to tobacco tobacco to- to bacco firms made ade a larger net profit prof profit it than the gross price paid farmers for the entire tobacco crop Colonel William Wild Bill Donovan Donovan Donovan Dono Dono- van World war hero and assistant attorney general general gen gen- eral in m the Coolidge cabinet wants the war department department de de- de- de to revise the draft system to include bodied able 1 men up to 50 years yeaTS- Donovan holds that mar the theory that only young men can fight wars has been made obsolete by mechanized warfare He the British says have found some of their best bombing plane gunners are men over 45 Distributed by United Feature Syndicate |
