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Show THE NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Se penesent ae ee a sagen 2 Prone ha et PRA + AE ET Ninn, ae renee eee aatatiint SRee So ik: Dia a ena rt tenella 5 Rete Pod: [Ses tint 2S EEE Bie EEE e ee ee Second -choice commitments, if Roosevelt doesn't run, are complicating the political situation . . . Carter Field presents two little riddles in the game of national politics . . . United States government is giving every encouragement to makers of planes. WASHINGTON.-"‘Of course I won't be here this time next year," President Roosevelt smiled to a dinner partner recently. The lady was convinced, but her husband wasn't, when she told him about it later. "They'll draft him," he said glumly-glumly because he is one of the growing group that hopes Roosevelt President will name him ashis Roosevelt choice as his successor, if and when. But a lot of people are operating on the theory that Roosevelt really does mean to take himself out of it, and stay out. Which explains the enormous interest right now in second-choice commitments. Men and women who are going to be delegates-and the bosses in some instances who will control delegates-are being importuned all over the country to give secondchoice commitments-promises that if Roosevelt doesn't choose to run, they will vote for this or that candidate. Curiously enough, the mere growth of this pledging contributes not to the logic that Roosevelt will not run, but to the logic that he will. It must be admitted that the logic all along has been that Roosevelt would run, though many of the insiders insist that he will not. Second-Choice Commitments worth saw, showed including, it everybody to eventually, a local correspondent for the Buffalo EveSo it was printed, and ning News. the first the correspondents who talk to Wadsworth every day knew about it was when the edition of the News containing the story reached Wash- But if that's hard to understand, Remember about this one. how how proud Homer S. Cummings was He thought it solved of Alcatraz? a real problem in dealing with desperate gangsters and other crimlAlong came Frank Murphy, nals. to be seemed sensibilities whose To take its place he wantshocked. the of belt farm the ed a prison in Middle West, with the prisoners allowed to get a bit of sunshine as they worked in the fields instead of getting prison pallor in the fogs of other parts of the country. When Cummings came out of the He White House he was smiling. told newspaper men that they could be sure Alcatraz would remain. Murphy kept a committee studying where to locate its successor,} but now Robert. H. Jackson is atWithin a very short torney general. time of his assuming his place as head of the department he decided that this committee was just wasting its time. So Alcatraz will stick. But now comes the pay-off. The Connecticut Democracy decides to send a delegation to the Democratic National convention at Chicago instructed for James A. Farley, and no such strings as the Massachusetts Democrats put on their delegates. The Bay state boys are to be for Farley if Roosevelt doesn't want it. The Nutmeggers are for Farley regardless! Riddle me that one, as John L. Lewis says! . U.S S. Government editor of a magazine specializing in young men, and he's concluded that the depression merely wiped out a lot of old, impractical ideas. It left a clear field ahead for new and youthful thinkers. Now Streyckmans has assembled his opinions in a new book called ‘"‘Today's Young Men,"' published by Reilly and Lee of Chicago. It lists the accomplishments of several score American youngsters, most of whom were up against the wall 10 years ago, and all of whom are successful today. It's Horatio Alger brought up to date. Broadway's |} With one eye on national defense, but the other on the desire to help Britain and France in the war, the government is getting ready to give every encouragement to rapid expansion of America's airplaneproducing industry. The efforts revolve around Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., who has been given the Secretary triple responsibility Morgenthau of co-ordinating Allied purchasing, rationalizing United States production, and seeing that the tax policy puts no brake on expansion. Military and political importance of this program is obvious when it is realized that on the basis of only the expansion already under way, our aircraft production by the end of the year will be nearly 2,000 units a month-equal to the most favorable reports considered reliable as to German capacity. The exact extent of the new plans is not known, but persistent rumors of orders nearly tripling the present $650,000,000 backlog, all to be delivered within 18 months or so, indicate that production will have to go far enough above the 2,000 figure to put Uncle Sam far ahead of any other country. Morgenthau's first move toward smoothing out the flow of aircraft production was an attack on the engine bottleneck. The big problem here has been the inability to get machine tools. The machine-tool industry has been swamped with orders, foreign and domestic, and has been handling nearly everything on a first come, first served basis. As a result of Morgenthau's conferences, the machine-tool industry will now work on a priority system intended to give aircraft makers first call on tools. Taxation and profit-limitation policies raise no serious obstacles on expansion for domestic war planes. Expansion Is Paid for By Foreign Purchasers Expansion for military export is somewhat different. All this expansion is being paid for directly by the foreign purchasers. In fact, the Allies are quite aggrieved because United States manufacturers are virtually insisting on getting free plants as part of their contracts. The usual procedure is for the British and French to make a loan covering the cost of the new plant to the manufacturer. The loss is charged off, as deliveries are made, out of deliberately inflated prices. If the treasury department wanted to be nasty, of course, it could treat this transaction as a gift and tax it accordingly. Actually, the treasury will take the deal at its face value. The department has already made a ruling, in the case of the Atlas Powder company, that such money ‘‘will not constitute taxable income to Atlas for the reason that such a transaction would be a loan evidenced by a note,'"' (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) closer to them in spirit than are to their own fathers or fathers' fathers.'' Thomas Wingate of Amarillo, as, is a splendid example of spirit. Seven years ago, when was 17, his father died and left they their Texthis Tom him HAROLD STASSEN-One of America's most outstanding political leaders, he became governor of Minnesota in 1938, at the age of 31. Ten years earlier he had worked his way through college. Young ORSON WELLES-At 24, he has behind him already a long record of achievement as actor and producer. along Broadway were bright and clever enough, but they didn't impress him with the cigarettes, automobiles, coffee or whatever they were supposed to be selling. So, on March 4, 1933 (the day of the bank holiday) he went into business. By applying individuality and novel treatment to this unique business, he's made more than a million dollars. A young man who sees Leigh's signs every day is William McChesney Martin, who at 31 is president of the New York Stock exchange. He assumed this highly responsible financial post in the summer of 1938 as a result of reorganization designed to bring Wall street's operations out from behind a cloud of ill repute. Though he was born of a well-to-do St. Louis family, and although his father is president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve bank, it takes more than family connections Poultry King. There's a somewhat similar case near Houston, Texas. The hero of this story is 22-year-old Dewey Stringer, blond, and slightly built, WASHINGTON. - Prospects of a 15 per cent increase in residential construction in 1940 over 1939 add significance to the contribution made to the building industry by research laboratories of American colleges and universities during the past decade. These research activities have made it possible to get more for each building dollar and effect economies of about $180,000,000 on the nation's annual home construction bill, according to a survey by the National Home Builders' bureau. Negroes Use Odd Cures To Combat ‘Miseries' ATLANTA.-Southern farm Negroes afflicted with a ‘‘misery'' have some unique medicines. Among them: Neuralgia can be cured with a ball of camphor gum tied about the neck and resting on the chest. Colds can be routed with a small dag of tea placed on the eye. For hoarseness, try a piece of well-chewed horse-radish. ham or percale. sizes institutions of higher learning. Al- though only a comparatively small portion of the money expended on industrial research is available to campus chemists, physicists and technical experts, their contribution to economic recovery has been far greater than generally realized, the report stated. Farmer Aided by Research, The work done by agricultural colleges and university experimental groups in aiding the farmer is. perhaps more widely recognized. Modern methods of crop rotation, more diversified use of farm product s, intensified ways of cultivation have all benefited from the activiti es in campus laboratories. However, college research has also developed such aids to better building as a new method of adhering structural glass to concrete to form a single glass stone unit, improved weather conditioning of the home for both winter and summer comfort, a wide variety of plastics better paints and lacquers, It has been estimated conservatively by building enginee rs that research in academic laborat ories during the past 10 years into new and improved uses for buildin g materials has cut six cents off every dollar spent for such product s, 6, 8, 10, 12 and Size 8 requires 25% yards, material in frock lena short sleeves; 35% yards coat length with long gj, yards with short sleeve; nap; 1% yards trimming, Css Boe ge OO RAL: emty SRLS Cee oR SEWING THEOS BERNARD-30-yearold American who was the first white man ever to become a Buddhist monk. He spent several years in Tibet, visiting and photographing places no white man had ever seen. Actually, the most _ successful youngster listed in ‘"Today's Young Men" is 22-year-old William Brannan, who graduated from Beloit college in Wisconsin last year. In college he was a varsity wrestler, a member of the debate team and glee club, an accordionist and an excellent student. Last summer, after he finished college, he began selling insurance. With six months to go it now seems certain that he will top the $100,000 mark in his first year. Unusual? Perhaps not, except that Bill Brannan is blind. Newsmen Who Were Successful. "‘Today's Young Men"' lists quite a few writers. Two of them are Robert Kintner and Joseph Alsop Jr., 30 and 31, respectively, whose "Capital Parade'' column from Washington is a highly successful syndicated feature. Both started on the New York Herald-Tribune. : They've made a success of their column by working hard, gathering unusual information and presenting it from a mature and well-reasoned viewpoint. Bill Rogers, the 27-year-old son of Will Rogers, the late movie comedian, bought the Beverly Hills Citizen when he was 23 years old. In the past five years he's become one of the most influential journalists in the West, not because he is Will Rogers' son but because he's become a highly successful ‘publisher, both financially and editorially. There are many other young men in the editorial field. Paul Smith, 30, is managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He's served on the farm security board and the farm tenancy commission, and is credited with settling a hopelessly deadlocked San Francisco warehousemen's strike. Streyckmans insists that his young men have become successful largely because they didn't know the balmy days of 1920-30, and therefore had nothing to lament. by Western Newspaper Union.) Spur Greater Sales The survey attaches "more than ordinary significance' to the value of new discoveries by technicians in It's rea she'll enjoy the year-rgy, Pattern No. 8633 is deg: Industrial Products Are ‘Dressed U p' to College Research Given Creat For Speeding Building Trades e up in challis or flannel, p, it will be adorable in chy (Released WILLIAM M. MARTIN-Only 31, he is the highly successful president of the New York stock exchange. | as it is charming. Fo, try weather remaining NEW YORK.-Under the magic wand of an Indiana boy, who made the big city sit up and listen, a Strange mixture of science, engineering and art is helping to fit the luxuries of modern living to the pocketbooks of Mr. and Mrs. America. High in his modern office, in one of the busiest sections of New York city, Walter Dorwin Teague, who was born in Pendleton, Ind., is taking industrial products apart, analyzing them, and handing them back with new clothes, new color and in a majority of cases, at a cheaper price to the consumer. He is the pioneer of industrial design, the ‘‘tailor'" of manufactured products. So heartily hasindustry taken Teague's largest rations corpoof the CIRCLE PATTERy Room 211 W. Wacker 1324 Dr. Enclose 15 cents Pattern No Address eeeeeee in coins » 0200000 600g . ne In the Shado who inherited a large poultry farm when his father died four years ago. In that period he's become such an authority and so successful that the home economics bureau of the United States department of agriculture cites him as one of America's outstanding poultry raisers. He produces a half million of the country's "best"? eggs every month. a $165,000 soft-drink works. The city's oldsters shook their heads, and they had every reason to. Imagine trying to sell soft drinks in a drouth-stricken area just when prohibition was being repealed! But Tom, realizing he couldn't use conventional methods, won his employees' good will by raising their salaries and promising Christmas They went to work with bonuses. a will, and the Wingate bottling works got back on its feet. Last summer Tom refused an offer of more than a million dollars cash for his business. How's that for a 24-year-old? 6 Manufacturers of Planes to go uphill the way Bill Martin did it. Recalls Colonial Spirit. In "‘Today's Young Men," Streyckmans points out that the pioneering of is reminiscent spirit of today that which featured early America. he of today," "The young man says, "being a pioneer in the ruins of the last few decades, is first cousin to the pioneer of Colonial days. The outstanding men then were young- and the outstanding young men whose careers I have studied are ¢, EPARTME Maintains Sign King. Douglas Leigh is one of Streyckmans' most unusual young men. At 30, Leigh is the sign king of Broadway. He owns more of Broadway's biggest and most striking electric signs than all the others combined, yet only seven years ago he arrived in New York from Birmingham with $8 in his pocket-and no prospect of a job. Leigh figured the signs he saw Encourages But this second-choice commitment development is closing in on the situation. It is an extraordinary brake on Roosevelt's hoped-for domination of the convention if he isn't going to take the nomination. For instance, the Georgia delegates, according to present intentions, will be for Roosevelt if he runs. But if he does not run the plan is to go to Cordell Hull. The Massachusetts delegates will be for Roosevelt first, but for James A. Farley second. The point is that when Roosevelt says he will not serve again-assuming he should say this-but that the man he wants chosen to carry on his policies is Robert H. Jackson, or whoever, the Georgia delegates will say to the messenger: ‘‘Sorry, but we are pledged to Hull if F. D. R. doesn't take it.'"' The Indiana delegates will say: ‘‘Sorry, but we are pledged to Paul McNutt if Roosevelt isn't a candidate.'' Meanwhile, Tommy Corcoran, Ben Cohen, Bob Jackson and others of the inner circle are working feverishly to get uninstructed delegates, but men who are for Roosevelt. In fact, some highly placed New Dealers are sure that they would not be quite so active if the White House had not given them the green light. But they are making very little progress as against the second-choice commitment. situation. Nor is it very likely that their efforts would be successful in this direction. The reason is very practical. Most of the men and women who will be delegates, or who will control delegates, are _ interested primarily in keeping the Democratic party in power for four more years. Most of them care only in an academic way about any particular New Deal policy. When a congressman opposes a federal building in his own district it's like a man biting a dog, but it is characteristic of James W. Wadsworth, now a member of the house and for 12 years a senator, that he wouldn't think of it as of any interest. What happened jwas that a constituent wrote Wadsworth that the government was about to build a new post office building in Mt. Morris, N. Y., just a few miles from where Wadsworth has lived all his life. This constituent said he thought it was a waste of government money, for he didn't think Mt. Morris needed a new post office. Neither did Wadsworth. So he wrote Postmaster General James A. Farley and told him so, adding that "Mt. Morris doesn't need a new post office any more than I need a new silk hat, and you ought to see my old one."' Then Wadsworth sent a carbon of his letter to Farley along with his reply to his constituent. But later the same day, as is his wont, he told local newspaper correspondents from western New York that he didn't know a thing that was worth printing! Of course that letter to Farley was too good to keep, so the chap who originally protested to Wads- Expert it from . - Take HICAGO an expert- The high school or college graduate is all wrong if he claims there's no opportunity for young men in the business and professional world. To the contrary, the depression has really produced new Opyoungsters for portunities with ideas. ; This is the decision of Felix B. 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Therein lies the success story of a score of products, some origina lly designed, some redesigned by Teague, who came to New York to study painting, found his talents bet- ter adapted to decorative advertising display and typography, where he became a leader. Then, bowing to the wishes of his clients, he turned to industrial design. Since that time has designed everything Kolleg's CORN FLAKES FLavones with Watt suena eat e SWITCH TO SOMETHIN YOU'LL LIKE! Copr. 1940 by Kellogg © sant THE ORIGINAL pas vers -- Heatllogy - \ from cameras and stoves to huge exhibit buildings at the world's fair, where he is one of the membe r board of design. cae ' et ae country just to § he f ' UTAH Young Men With Ambition he San Francisco bay. Cummings read about this in the the for rushed and newspapers It so happened that White House. he was the only out-and-out thirdterm booster among the Democratic leaders of Connecticut, especially as Senator Francis T. 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