Show National Whirligig it i i By Ray Tucker W WASHINGTON A A North Carolina Democrat Senator Josiah W. W Bailey recently gave the president president president dent a helpful lesson in basic law F. F D. D R. R is trying to place loyal but defeated officeholders in federal jobs Representative Ex-Representative Eliot of Harvard fame will be sent to London to explain our unlisted war aims to the British ish peo peo- Josh Lee of Oklahoma who was licked in inthe inthe inthe the last balloting was made one of the civil aeronautics board It was then that Josiah sounded sound sound- ed his trumpet He advised Mr Roosevelt that the constitution forbids the appointment of a member of congress to any agency which was created during his term Another maimed politico who may get a Washington plum possibly as a postwar planner is Senator George W. W Norris who authored the lame duck amendment For him to accept any assignment would be an ironic commentary on the philosophy behind his reform So he probably probably ably wont won't take any Dont Don't B Be e Surprised if Petain Joins Allies The selection of General Emile ashead as ashead ashead head of the French mission of supplies shows how realistic and opportunistic a policy the United States is pursuing toward Vichy and its satellite units Dont Don't be astonished if the old marshal himself comes over to our side one of these days General a hero of two wars was seized by the American forces when they descended descended descended de de- on north Africa As a Petain supporter he was about to be interned He convinced our people that he had been only a Hitler hostage and that he had always yearned for a united nations nation victory n Bitter Days s Lie Ahead for Russia Marshal not only has recovered lost territory in his fresh drive into the Ukraine but has obtained something that in the long run ma may prove more valuable than restored lands and repatriated refugees He has secured a a. stockpile stockpile stockpile stock stock- pile of morale which should cheer soviet hearts in the bitter days ahead The Russians certainly will need this spiritual reserve On the surface they have seized enemy armaments annihilated the hated Invaders and andset andset andset I set a high water mark in m the annals of valor However an A Am American m e r i c can a n engineer recently returned from the U USSR S S. S R p predicts r e d i c t s that her people face the worst hardships of the war Battle BatUe losses often reached a day Exhaustion due to overwork undernourishment I ment and mental strain is beginning to cut down output Flesh and blood cannot stand a 12 hours bours a day stretch indefinitely So many men have been called to the colors that remaining industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial units are manned by inexperienced and less efficient laborers For example in the mines production production production pro pro- was thrown of off balance because there were ere not enough diggers while ground above crews were overstaffed The communist party is I sending commissars into the pits to inspire toilers to greater effort The red army's victories in the middle Don constitute the theme of their mes mea sages RAJ bum Rayburn burn Yields to Republicans Democratic key men have graciously unbent and given the enlarged Republican representation tion greater power on one congressional com com- Speaker Sam Rayburn has granted the G GOP 0 P ten instead of ot nine men and reduced his own complement to five instead of ot six But the group happens to be the District of Columbia committee commit commit- tee a rather unimportant body which serves as asa asa a board of for the capital Copyright 1912 1942 McClure Syndicate |