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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH Crocheted Sq an De ‘Bruckart's Washington Digest Third Term Backers Dismayed x By Roosevelt's Failure to Speak Horse-and- buggy Customs Return As Britain Feels Pressure of War By GRANT Candidates Farley and Garner Confuse Issue for President's Followers; Hull-Jackson Combination Further Complicates Political Scene. ey Seta emt om a IE See, sbannette EE. Nae a ene na aaa el See SP een pomernper-~aaenenm ena PRR ee tenet ne aia sane - By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.-The political situation that fails to provide a good laugh somewhere along the line is rare, indeed. There is, of course, that time-worn expression about politics making strange bedfellows, which frequently happens. There is just as much of a laugh for me, however, when these same strangers have got into the same bed- mentioned in the preceding sentence -and the slats fall out from under one of them. Actually, collapse of the slats gives anyone quite a sinking feeling, sort of an all-gone sensation. And, so, I am writing this week about how fallen slats have forced some of the boys on the Democratic team to prepare a pallet on the floor. In some quarters, I have heard expressions within the last few days indicating that there is no particular shortage of pallets, but the would-be wheelhorses are having difficulty at discovering the proper floor. It all came about in a series of events, some of which I have discussed in these columns before but, of necessity, must be repeated. Everyone knows, for instance, how the payroll boys, anxious to keep their jowls inside the trough, have been carrying on a great drive that they hope will eventuate in a third-term nomination for President Roosevelt. They have been doing right well by themselves, what with federal millions to spend; a patronage army mustered by Secretary Wallace who also pays farmers to let him show them how to farm; the vast relief legions and the other government agents of one kind or another, aggregating nearly a million persons, not to mention postmasters, United States attorneys and marshals and the others. They are, or they were, cocky and pretty happy about the whole thing. There were such things as Vice President Garner's candidacy, which was announced without strings attached and without any reference to whether Mr. Roosevelt should decide the country needs him, again. That candidacy was not welcome; nor was it taken seriously, at first. But someone among the amateur strategists within the corps of Presidential advisers suddenly awakJohn Garner ened to the fact that the Garner candidacy might be regarded as serious. Well, there were deep discussions of what to do. Whatever else you can say about the true New Dealer, the helland-high-water New Dealer, it must be said that he is a serious person, and he plans his reform of the population with grave determination that what is about to be done for you is, of course, always for your best interests. Whispering Campaign Sees Garner as Stooge Out of these discussions has come a whispering campaign. It is exactly the same type of whispering campaign as was used against Herbert Hoover, when he was President. Only, these whispers are by Democrats about a Democrat. It has a technique that is well worked out and it gets results. That is, it gets results if it goes on long enough without anyone seéing what the game is. In the current whispering campaign-and its source can be traced to an expert-Mr. Garner was pictured as just a stooge, just someone striving to break down the New Deal. He was pointed out as disloyal, a personally disloyal man despite 40 years as a Democratic battler, and his campaign was said to have "‘flattened out'? to such an extent that everyone interested in the Democratic party could go home and go to bed-you know, the way that is done after an election victory is safely in the bag and the worry is over. I am not prepared to argue that Mr. Garner's candidacy is, or is not, washed up. Just as a one-man guess, I have thought he was rather popular in the parts of the country where I have traveled in recent months. But that is not the story about which I am writing. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Strange political bedfellows reSult in interesting politics, according to William Bruckart, who today discusses the third term issue in relationship to the Roosevelt "‘coattail riders." The President's failure to Clarify his stand has left third term advocates in an embarrassing position, according to this veteran Washington commentator, The story at this time is what has In happened in another direction. the efforts of the strategists to make the fences' safe against the Garner bulls, they forgot about the man who built the Democratic machine of which these strategists are a part. In other words, they forgot about ‘"‘Big Jim" Farley, postmaster general and chairman of the DemoJim Farley cratic national committee. They apparently overlooked Mr. Farley, except that they did a lot of things contrary to his idea of smart politics and fairness to those who had been riding herd in the pastures where votes grow. Mr. Farley has not been happy about the whole thing, and he has been reported on several occasions as being prepared to resign. Farley's Candidacy Surprise to Leaders BUCKINGHAM This whole stage scene is further complicated by continued stories that Mr. Roosevelt looks upon Secretary Hull of the state department as a ‘‘good man,"' but with sort of a side glance that ‘‘some good liberal like Bob Jackson (the attorney general) should be nominated with him." Of course, there is no way to substantiate the story that Mr. Roosevelt wants Hull and Jackson as the team. He has said nothing. I have said before, and there is no reason to change the belief, that Mr. Roosevelt is not going to say anything until about convention time. In the meantime, the folks who owe their political places to Mr. Farley and who have gone off the deep end for Mr. Roose- te e tee, Cordell Hull candidate are spending sleepless nights. They are afraid to make up their pallets on the floor anywhere in fear of the boogey-man. As I said at the beginning, nearly every political situation contains a good laugh. It is always the more amusing when you see the amateurs trying to play the game of professionals. The final scene on the stage may not have Garner or Farley or Roosevelt in the center to take the acclaim of the audience, but Mr. Garner is going ahead and Mr. Farley is going ahead, and the third-term leaders are practically helpless since Mr. Roosevelt steadfastly declines to make a public statement on his intentions. He just lets the slats stay on the floor. It is simple, of course, to understand their distress. What, for instance, would be the position of those fellows, and their relation to the jobs they now hold, if Mr. Farley would be the nominee? They thought they could kick the Garner candidacy out of the window, safely. But that question is secondary now, for the Farley candidacy adds up to names on the payroll-and what is a local party leader without his patronage list? Some of the wails have taken the shape of a demand that Mr. Farley resign as party chairman-to ease their pain. ; (Bell Syndicate-WNU pediency after seven months BLACKOUT CRISIS AVERTED-War or no war, the nose must be powdered. This British young woman carries a compact which supplies its own light from an ordinary flashlight battery. correspondence school piano teachers. On the other hand, regular personal music instructors are suffering because children have been evacuated from the major cities. Many family orchestras have been organized, and small groups gather each evening for family and community song-fests. Another old custom revived is that of taking turns reading aloud before a group gathered around the fireside. Blackouts have boomed astronomy, because there is no longer any distraction from the shimmering glow of lights from nearby cities. ‘-If There's a Moon.' Only when the moon is bright do the English travel about at night, and many evening accepted with the invitations proviso are that the guest will come ‘"‘if there's a moon."' So great is the night travel problem that most London business firms sent their employees home two hours earlier during the short winter days, getting them home before the blackout fell. Though the blackout has apparently segregated and isolated family groups, other war measures have added to the community spirit. Many families whose children and grandparents were evacuated to the country have joined their remnants under a single roof, cutting their living expenses and enjoying each other's company during the long and cheerless evening. Is Silk Stocking Era Passing? New Hose Will Soon Tell Story ASHINGTON. - About May 15 several million American women will begin testing a product on whose success or failure hinges the future of Japan's $100,000,000a-year silk trade with the United States. Stockings made of various natural and synthetic substances will go on the market BLACKOUT PROTECTION -A British cyclist with a homemade warning criss-cross of white adhesive tape on his coat, serving as a protective warning during blackouts. Fortunately, there aren't so many automobiles on the highways as before the war. cause movie-goers hesitate to grope their way very far through inky blackness. Conversely, suburban theaters near the residential sections are booming. How to spend time at home is an acute social problem for the English, who like Americans are accustomed to venturing abroad during the evening hours. Many old customs have been revived and the radio, once merely an idle-hour instrument, has become an essential feature of the evening's entertainment. Shutters Must Be Closed. Long discarded games like cards and dartboard have been resurrected from the attic and are enjoyed behind carefully sealed windows. Should light penetrate into the street and up to the sky, the British fear German air raiders might drop their deadly bombs. Music, especially the home variety, has enjoyed a marked rebirth. Englishmen who can afford it are buying small pianos, and not the least to profit by this trend are the Insomniacs Woo Sleep With Army of Gadgets NEW YORK.-It is estimated there are 630 sleep-producing items on the market to help the nation's 3,500,000 inveterate insomniacs go to sleep at night. They range from phonograph records to eye shades, the former being a recording of Handel's ‘‘Largo'"' in which a soothing speaker chants instructions on how ‘"‘to experience the divine blessing of refreshing sleep.'' \ So great is interest in this subject that this spring Columbia university is offering a course in "how to sleep'"' through Yogian methods. Most numerous are the ancient home remedies for insomnia. One calls for going to bed wearing dripping-wet socks, the theory being that cold water draws blood from the head. Benjamin Franklin slept in four beds each night, believing that a Major cause of sleeplessness was the accumulation of body heat under the blanket, Service.) arguments WASHINGTON.-Hot at the White House in the last few the exaround revolved have days tion. of war, the Britisher is doing both. Blackouts, gasoline rationing and other restrictions have shaken the years from England's shoulders and revived the national customs of two or three decades ago. What's more, England is not complaining. Some Lose, Others Gain. The blackouts which descend at nightfall over London and other principal cities have created an entirely new technique of living, working and playing in which the gods of war have dictated almost every feature of the national existence. Many have lost by it, yet- paradoxically-others have profited. Moving picture theaters in metropolitan London are suffering the leanest period in their history be- There are not many folks in the country who do not realize that, as a machine politician, Mr. Farley has few equals. He has a personal following that he has built up throughout the nation, men whom he calls by their first names and who write to him as ‘‘Dear Jim."' Huall-Jackson Team May Enter 1940 Race Renewal of heavy spending is topic of White House discussion... Harrison and Bilbo bury the last senate hatchet. JONDON.-One year ago the f_s average Britisher would have scoffed at the suggestion that he would soon discard his automobile for a horse-drawn dogcart. Equally outlandish would be the suggestion that he'd return to the simple evenings before the fireside which characterized an earlier genera- And, now, what confronts the boys? Just an announcement by Mr. Farley that he is an out-andout candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, an announcement that ended with "that's that!'' When Mr. Farley made that statement to the party leaders in Massachusetts recently, he pulled out more bed slats than you can imagine. He did not say "if the Chief does not run." He said he was running ‘‘and that's that!"' The ranks of those who jumped too soon include a lot of senators and representatives who had arrived at their places on the payroll by virtue of a happy ride on the Roosevelt coattails. But the Roosevelt coattails might not have borne up under the strain, except for the Farley direction. That is what the early bandwagon crowd is now trying to measure. They are looking around to see whether their pallet should be on the Farley floor, the Garner floor or the Roosevelt floor, and they are casting squints through partially open doors to see whether there might be comparative peace and political quiet in the next room where the second-choice delegates may have to go at convention time. Reviewed by CARTER FIELD (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Today, For That Table NATIONAL AFFAIRS cae LEI II IL = TPP LO NO then, designed to replace the unglamorous silk worm whose glamorous product has sheathed shapely American legs for many years. There will be stockings made of coal, air and water-a _ product trademarked ‘‘nylon.'' Others are made from rubber, some from resin and still others from cotton camouflaged so skillfully that it dosn't look like cotton. If these substitutes are successful the $500,000,000-a-year American silk stocking industry will be reshaped overnight. Can It Replace Silk? Women are watching the experiment with mingled caution and interest, because no stocking material has yet been devised that will flatter their legs like silk. In 1938 it accounted for 88 per cent of all stockings sold. It has been at once the most luxurious and pestiferous item on milady's budget, for silk's cobwebby texture will snag and run at the touch of a rough fingernail. Nylon, most publicized of the new products, was perfected in duPont laboratories and is now being tested under actual wearing conditions. To develop it chemists discovered how to mix coal with air and water, extruding the mixture into filaments stronger than steel and sometimes as fine as a spider web. Sheerer Than Silk. In many ways nylon resembles silk, overcoming some of its faults yet presenting a few new ones which silk doesn't have. Nylon stockings can be knit even sheerer than silk and don't snag so easily, but once they do the run develops. more quickly. They won't spot when splashed by rain or snow because they're water-resistant. But by the same token they're not so comfortable as silk, feeling a bit metallic and cold to the skin. Since they absorb only 3 per cent of perspiration, they may also feel a bit clammy in hot weather. So confident are its sponsors of nylon's success that factories costing $11,000,000 are now being built. About 4,000,000 pounds of the stuff will be processed this year. Another synthetic stocking is that made of resin dust mixed with salt, SPEAKING OF HIGH ST ANDARDS - Miss Virginia Phelan, secretary of the National Research association, shown at the year but that doesn't cut the cost getting married. According to Miss Lorraine Cederquist, student in the home economics department at Fresno State college, a modern church weddin g in 1940 will cost the bridegroom a cool $406.75 and the bride $268.50. Here's how she figured it: Bride's expenses: Dress, $25; veil, heavy spend- CUT IN WPA FUNDS Under the circumstances it is becoming extremely dubious whether congress will accept or that the White House will insist on a cut in WPA funds to one billion dollars for the next fiscal year, as tentatively proposed in the Roosevelt budget message. Already definite lines are forming in congress to boost this figure should F. D. R. himself not do so when he submits a definite estimate. Farm bloc members, pleased with the big boost in their appropriation, have been much in conference with the pro-PWA spending bloc, and an understanding is in the making, The President probably took a good deal of quiet satisfaction in questioning congressional leaders about the tax situation. He asked if, in view of the boost of the farm appropriations, anything had been done about his suggestion for taxes to meet ‘"extraordinary'' national defense appropriations. The leaders told him they had been too busy with other matters to consider it. This was far from the truth, unless the word ‘‘consider'' is taken to mean formal consideration in a committee. There is scarcely a senator or a representative who has not thought and talked a lot about it. And the answer is still ‘‘No." No new taxes will be imposed this year. bureau of standards wearing a pair of hose which were to be tested on the new "snag resist- BURY LAST SENATE HATCHET Feuds seem to be old-fashioned- ance tester." The machine ‘has a sharp point for snagging the threatening to pass into history-so far as the senate is stockings. Snag resistance is concerned. With the measured and recorded. cordial handshake natural gas, coal and oil. The chemists who produced it expect to turn out 2,000,000 pounds a year for rope, fish nets, sails and women's hose. Rubber Hose a Novelty. Rubber stockings now on _ the market are knit in lacy meshes and have attracted attention as a novelty because they stretch to fit the leg snugly. From the American farmers' standpoint, the most important hosiery development concerns cotton, which the government is trying to convert into a beautiful and popular stocking material. Directed by David H. Young, veteran hosiery designer, weavers have perfected 50 or more designs ranging from herringbone to stripes. Getting Married Is Expensive, Even in Leap Year; Survey Places Cost of Church W edding at $675 FPRESNO, CALIF.-It may be leap of of renewing President Roosevelt is willing, ing. but wants the expenditures outside In short, he wants to the budget. stop federal grants to state and local communities, but is willing for the government to lend considerable amounts. Thus would be avoided the two horns of the dilemma _ which forced the drastic budget cuts in the budget message last January - inSenator creased debt limit Wagner on one hand and increased taxes on the other. Important in these White House discussions were the future activities of the Federal Works agency. The rate of disbursement on its present program is $248,000,000 a month but will drop to $188,000,000 by December. In this connection there was much discussion of the proposal of Sen. James M. Mead of New York, to make $300,000,000 available for longterm government loans for hospital, water and sewerage construction- about 20 per cent of PWA's 1938 program. Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York is willing to combine this with the proposed $10,000,000 hospital construction subsidy. This hospital item, incidentally, is the only exception the President seems willing to make in cutting off direct grants. He has been much interested in the problem of small communities which apparently cannot afford to finance their own hospitals. Up on Capitol Hill there has not been an equal interest in the President's public health ideas, but for such a small amount, and in connection with the bigger spend-lend scheme, the reaction may be different. $18.50; bouquet for maid of honor $3; five bouquets for the bridesmaids, $12.50; flowers for the church $15; flowers for the reception, $10: candles, $2; wedding invitations, 200, costing $14; 18 wedding pictures, $40; gifts for Waitresses and kitchen assistants, $9, and her trousseau, $75. She must also provi de about $40 reception. for food at the wedding and actual political co-operation between Pat Harrison and Theodore G. (The Man) Bilbo, the last of the hatchets between colleagues has been buried, There is nothing resembling-for the Senator moment at least- Harrison the old hatred between John Sharp Williams and James K. Vardaman. When the brilliant Williams spoke Vardaman would walk out into the cloakroom. But now all is good humor and d good feeling. In fact, if one excepts the bitterness of some of the unpurged senators, notably Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith and Millard E. Tydings, against the President, there is a surprising lack of hostility so far as personalities are concerned. The Harrison-Bilbo feud was per- haps the bitterest in the senate and the bitterest since that between the other two Mississippi senators of World war days, Williams and Vardaman. Close behind it, however, was the hatred, political and personal, between the "Boy Senator,'' Rush D. Holt, and his colleague, Matthew M. Neely , of West Virginia. 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