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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, War Is Likely to Be an Issue In National Political Campaign She Handles Farm Financial Problems WASHINGTON.-Whether we like it or not, it is now almost certain that the national government policy with relation to Europe's war will become an issue in the forthcoming None national political campaign. can measure yet how great or how in have will small a part this issue the electioneering on the hustings, but afraid I am to everyone has agree that the subject is going to figure in the campaign. If proof were needed of the statement above, one has only to look into the announcement that President Roosevelt has chosen the latter part of June for a trip to the Pacific coast and return. He said, in making the announcement of his plans, that he was going to talk generally on ‘‘conservation." A wag in the press conference that day asked: "conservation of what?"' The answer was a hearty Roosevelt laugh. The Roosevelt announcement quite naturally set political tongues to wagging at a great rate. Whether it was so planned or not, the early part of Mr. Roosevelt's projected trip-and he says he is sure to make the trip unless the European war conditions or failure of congress to adjourn serve to prevent-will put him into the newspaper headlines just as the Republican national convention gets into full swing at Philadelphia. Of course, I would not accuse Mr. Roosevelt of trying to steal the show, but I do recall that he shared front-page space with a Republican convention once before. nseaninernanniaeee namical soe 7S, | President May mare Sanveintnnnesmestnntnwtl aetna emanate ae <r panes arenas teetinaapntrnees ove lf tana peetentnn art emma2 eceeniinn eer Sete ieceeaieenanmandl spneaiaiatees ™ aoe | The President's planned trip- which he says was carried over in the nature of a postponement from last year when international conditions were hot-includes a visit to, and dedication of, the Great Smoky Mountains National park in North Carolina and Tennessee; a dedication of the Natchez-to-Nashville highway and a visit to Natchez, Miss.; a visit to his son, Elliott, in Fort Worth, Texas; a visit to the San Francisco exposition, and then a dedication of the Olympic National park, in the state of Washington. War Condition and a vacation for the a cn aR ee am tan lp Le oo i NES AN AAO _ Cinmomancenes oe aia gee a te ot ean hin 8 at Ry: Pam <enith-<ipaie sR OG + DS Po sa & tS Migs Pst eh RL ERE see Rr es me ainda ne pen A ae ee Pp To get back to the foreign policy question, however, it ought to be recalled that Mr. Roosevelt has asserted, time after time, that the United States is going to stay out of the wars in Europe and Asia by "policies short of war."" What those policies are have not been put out in too much detail, and there are people who want to know more about them. It is never to be forgotten that the American people are easy to arouse. Their sympathies are quick. There certainly has been an earnest, an unqualified demand, that the United States stay out-that the war is Europe's war and must be kept over there. On the other hand, there are a substantial number of people who think that Europe's war is America's war. They believe that if Hitler wins this war, the Western hemisphere will be the next on his list. I think that school of thought is wrong, but anyway that is the nature of some of the talk. ‘Policies Short Be by Western increasing numbers these HEN I was growing up on the farm our most interesting neighbors were the Fosters. Pa Foster had six daughters, a fascinating black money pouch, which pulled up with thongs like a knitting bag, and the weight of the family financial enterprise on his own thin shoulders. The Foster women picked peaches, made tubs of butter, even lent a hand on oc- Hamilton Wants Delegations Picked Early as Possible Searcely had the Landon-Knox idea been blazoned across the sky when Mr. Hamilton announced that he had written all members of the Republican national committee and of War' Defined It appears unthinkable that Mr. Roosevelt, or any other person, would dare to propose measures that would take the United States into the conflagration. But these "policies short of war" may be only steps-not deliberate steps, but mistaken steps. There are differing opinions all ready on what has been done. Thus, it seems fairly clear Serene Stealing the Show? President Roosevelt's planned trip through the nation at the time of the Republican national convention might be an attempt to steal the headlines from that gathering in the opinion of William Bruckart, Washington correspondent. This trip would be a = chance for the President to explain to the country just wha the administration's Re va icy 1s, according to Bruckart. Doris Montei, Michigan FourH club girl, knows how to raise sheep-and she knows, too, how to market them. The study of markets and marketing conditions is one phase of new farm activities for rural women. all state chairmen about a preconvention meeting. He urged the state delegations, especially, to elect their members of the convention resolutions committee-the platform committee-ahead of time. He wanted them to assemble early and save "am appreciable amount of time' of the convention by working out the platform in advance. These plans are similar in intent. Moreover, they are grounded largely in the same soil, namely, uncertainty about the meaning of the Roosevelt ‘‘policies short of war." For instance, ‘‘policies short of war" might include loans to the allied powers if Hitler gets them backed up against the wall and their need for money forces an appeal to this country. The Republicans, as far as I can figure out, do not wish any part of any further loans because it was the Wilson administration that made the loans in the first World war-and those loans have not been paid. But whatever the Republican position, there seems no reason at all to doubt that the Weather eye of the Republicans is going to be set on the Roosevelt policies. There will be other things, too, about which they obviously will complain, but every move of the present administration is being closely watched and will continue to be watched right up to adjournment of the Philadelphia convention. ica mental control in the hands of Premier Hermann Jonas- son and his cabinet has served to focus world attention on that small nation which has had no foreign war in more than a thousand years. The 120,000 people of Iceland have never wanted a monarchy, and were not satisfied with the dual role played by His § Majesty Christian a X, king of Denmark, who also served as king of Iceland. When Denmark was taken by Ger- a many, Iceland's Althing (World's oldest parliament) voted not Hermann Jonasson to depose their king, but that ‘"‘having regard for the fact that the situation now created makes it impossible for His Majesty the King of Iceland to execute the royal power,"' it shall be vested ‘until further notice"' in Icelandic Premier Hermann Jonasson and his cabinet. Premier Jonasson is Iceland's strongest figure. In addition to being president of the council of Ice- All of these factors have a bearing, as well, upon the third term question. Most people will recall Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan of "he kept us out of war."' That campaign slogan is being recalled more and more as the heat of the 1940 campaign increases. The Roosevelt western trip has added fuel to the flames in a really big way. I have taken the positio n consistently that it is Europe's war and that we have no reason whatsoever to get into it. But the changing events-the lightning strikes by HitCHICAGO.-Take ler-the desecration and it from A. A. destruction McVitt ie, National Restaurant assoof entire nations by the German) ciation head, business is better. armies-are affecting our nation's foreign policies right now. McVittie doesn't prove it in this It is un-!. fortunate, but true. Affecting our ‘instance, although he says he could, policies as the situation does, those by citing surveys of sales gains in conditions apparently are going to | his own industry. influence our The answer, he Says, is domestic politics the inmuch as most of us creasing trend among restau hoped the cir. rant pacumstance could be avoided by trons of the male species to write some means or another, on table cloths. Table-Cloth Penmen Prove Business Is Picking Up by mixing European i in _that consequence HARDY PERENN Vigorous field grown Dlants thas 60 ried 5 to 12 inch tops last fajj Coreopsis, Long Spurred Bell, Maltese os. Seeek Wiig ak" iar Canterbury wi ams, r. : roe "sn 1580, the sentiment against that, west of the Alleghenies, 1S flowers, eto.eto. ‘Satisfaction Sowers, Satisfaction Gnas Guaranteed. Satis of immediately after the declaration war, there was no such sentiment except on the Eastern seaboard. I know, because I had undertaken selective of the organization the commudraft in every American ity. ; until had I hairs gray the of ; Most recently, I got in the first anxious ship. In a downstairs den she keeps books, checks bank statements- does secretarial work for the business. Who knows what the month's cream checks total and when the next Land Bank payment comes due?-Molly! Who dials in radio market reports and relays significant ups and downs out to the feed lots?-Molly! Who mails insurance payments, writes monthly rural electric co-operative checks-does for the family enterprise, in fact, what a paid secretary would do for the boss of a comparable urban business-plus shouldering partnership share in farm decisions?-Sun-bonnety, taffy-haired Molly. Molly Part of Modern Movement. And there's nothing startling, farm leaders say, about the Foster arrangement. It's duplicated in upwards of 100,000 homes the country over. Molly's no ambitious domestic with her eye on the family financial pants. She's part of a movement. For a year now I have been delving into the movement's history, parrying questions with leaders and poking through piles of reports. And I'm amazed at the extent to which the country woman of today-particularly the young country wife-is up to her neck in business. Neither genius nor wishful thinking catapulted her into the new position. She's been trained for it. The economic avalanche of '29 uncovered her responsibility. Numerous agencies have stepped in to help her meet it. The most astonishing piece of work has been done by the Home Management divisions of the various state extension departments. Some 150,000 rural women have flocked to the courses in business and economic education offered during the last land, he is also minister of justice and of agriculture. In 1929 Jonasson was chief of police of Reykjavik, nation's capital, where more than a quarter of the total population is concentrated. In 1934 he was Althing, and that came premier. elected to same year the be- Jonasson has been termed "Iceland's muscleman."' As strong physically as he is politically, for many years he kept winning the Icelandic wrestling championship in Norse games handed down through the centuries from the Vikings. Icelanders are proud of their nation's history. Since its settlement in the Ninth century, Iceland, for the most part, has had a representative form of government. The Althing was established in 930, more than 800 years before the infant United States declared its independence. This assembly, comprised largely of fisherfolk and farmers, has been in continuous existence ever since, with the exception of a ‘"‘blackout'' between 1800 and 1843. Though ties of blood, culture and economic life have been linked Closely to Europe in the past, Iceland has turned more and more toward the West. Shortly before the German invasion of Denmark, the island obtained a $1,000,000 credit loan from the United States for the purchase of wheat, stock feed, rye and gasoline. Trade figures of the past few years give Great Britain first place in Iceland's import-export books. Denmark ranked second as a source of supply, and German business, expanding rapidly, captured third place. Last year the United States ranked fourth as an Iceland customer. Purchases of cod liver oil boosted United States purchases , Iceland has no illiteracy, no jails, no army, no navy, no air force and no national debt. Iceland has a balanced budget, rich fishing and fishproduction industry, and six sheep to every Icelander. 10 years by three-fourths of the states to rural homemakers' study groups. (Michigan had 4,240 women enrolled last year; Iowa reach 15,000 in '39.) Business Legalities Exact procedures expects Draw vary to Interest. consider- ably, but practically all states cover three phases: ‘‘Making the Family Money Plan'' (including practice in accounting), "Economic Facts Which Affect Farm Women' and ‘‘Business and Legal Procedures a Farm Woman Should Know.'"' Some states offer study, too, in taxation and government. Work in accounting is based on the need for correlating records and decisions of both farm and home. Effectiveness is indicated by the fact that in '38 and '39, 121 heretofore pencil-shy housewives rigged up business corners and started assuming some secretarial duties for the farm-home enterprise. But it's the dive into business legalities which really brings sparkle to wifely eyes. Women love it! Women everywhere-in Georgia, in Maine, in Kansas, and Louisiana. They love knowing how a contract is made-a check-wills, deeds, mortgages, abstracts. They like the practice given in reading and signing legal papers. 30 days of that effort. Was the ambitious experiment goIn most states, except ing to flop? the East, there was only aloof and sullen acceptance. not if skeptical By the persuasive power of the eloquence and idealism of Woodrow arts we used of Wilson, by some blatant ballyhoo and hokum national high-pressure selling, that was changed in a few weeks to a war psychosis which approached hysteria. Woodrow Wilson could do that because he prepared the seed bed by months of patient and long-suffering restraint and, of far more importance, because we were actually in, and not merely flirting with, a bloody war and a sickly season. Can Franklin Roosevelt do that- Credit Works Fwo Ways. Of the 200,000 4-H girls who were wrinkling foreheads over personal which to be elected, he must do, or sincerely change the whole course of his foreign policy? Can he do it when we are not engaged in war, and when no such seed bed is ready? He has another handicap which Mr. Wilson had not. This country had then never tried a mass adventure in the double-crossing war diplomacy of Europe. We tried in 1917 and 1918 and we know it to have been the most disastrous gamble this nation ever made. Apart from the handicap of our dolorous experience, is the simple military question of whether we should scatter our strength over vast areas of this globe, or whether, the obvious course is to retain our interior lines, our concentrated strength, the advantages of our natural barriers and our unquestioned unity. It is a reversal of every American traditional (if not constitutional) expense political principle and of every mili- accounts back in '30 and "32 an amazing number are cropping up among today's outstanding keepers of husbands' farm records and books. In 14 states an estimated 50,000 women have since '36 taken advantage of work in the legal phases of credit and loan supplied through the Family Credit division of the Farm Security administration. Sound credit, the women are taught, is credit that is ‘‘good'' for both borrower and lender. A _ justifiable mortgage is one based on no less than 12 months of actual farm records. And ‘‘the farm woman, unlike the city woman, is so important a factor in her husband's business success that an appraiser's first rule is ‘get acquainted with the wife.' "' Outstanding example of the let'stackle-this-together spirit which ripens in such communities is the Benton county, Iowa, ‘‘Recent-Wed" group. To Jimmy Green, agricultural agent, in one of the Cedar Valley counties, had come news of a young farm friend ‘‘cleaned out." Jimmy knew secretly because of solo responsibility-an inadequate wife. Problems of young farm operators are similar. Would the young couples in his district enjoy getting to- gether now and then to pool prob- lems, shoot questions at bankers, landlords, management experts. He planned such a meeting, invited in all couples in the county under 35, expected 50, got 400. "Hopeful Sign of Age.' Benton county ‘Recent-Weq" meetings are now the amazement of community elders, ‘‘the most excit- ing and hopeful gatherings I've ever attended," a visiting banker told me. It's not the subjects discussed -"What'll we spend our money for?'', ‘How can we get adequate credit?"', ‘How about landlord-tenant relationship?"', nor the experts attracted, but the way the women take part in the thing, partnership style, without self-consciousness on either side-just as though their aa a thrill-one the had been doing it. It's of the i age. -s - oe I used to think family discussions about money Foster told were bad-stuff,"" John me recently. (He and Molly are Benton county products leaders in the ""Recent-Wed"' group "But and when you do it co-operatively ) base it on facts-they're inter- esting as the dickens. Farmin looks to me like the biggest Z operative on earth-family cO0-opera- tive. Soon as the children can hold pennies we're taking them into it But it's the little woman,"' io grinned, knack of it for ‘‘who has handlin a natural the . ney. born end tary and naval axiom. Coupled with the reversal of the third term tradition, it will certainly be a massive handicap. It cannot be shushed or even minimized. Only the persuasive skill of Mr. Roosevelt, his literary ghosts, and the greater pulling power of four billion dollars, coupled with possible Republican campaign blundering could overcome it. Yet, so great is the power of good or ill of all these elements, that I for one, am not yet ready to say it can't be done. a = OMINOUS te WAR MOVE It might pos- sibly be fed by supplies coming through the Red sea but not supported by munitions and equipment. To abandon the Mediterranean to Italy would also be to abandon Tur- key and leave the mess in southeastern Europe in Hitler's hands, to the extent that he could divide up the spoils by some kind of trade between Mussolini ing the Supposed and Stalin. of strange enemies, Such bedfellows a pair- would be stronger than the coupling of supposed enemies, Hitler and Stalin, to ravage and divide Poland. Such results are impossible for England and certainly for France to contemplate. Therefore it seems pretty clear that England is not leaving the Mediterranean with anything except mercial through her ordinary traffic the Suez usually canal. She comrouted is just getting her rich argosies promptly out of an area of danger from a sudden possible clash of aerial and maritime navies in those waters, It seems to me that the critical element in this war just now is not what happened in Norway, as what may happen in the Mediterra nean. a e a If that warfare opens up, the affair in Norway will just be a sideshow and that raises my principal conjecture. Hitler has two choices in grand strategy. He can concentrate on the British empire by strik- ing at its heart in western Europe or, if he has the armed assistance of Italy, he can attempt to cut it in pieces own tion in detail and Strengthen his _ the Mediterranean. He economic, if not military, posiby operation in southeast ern oe n at the do either, same but time. h f Gu: The Questions 1. Who Stripes? designed the g 2. Is propaganda sprea the enemy a new idea? 3. What salary dig Washington receive dy terms as President? 4. At what degree of Ja the equator? 5. How many gallons; water must a large liner crossing the Atlantic? 6. Is a peruke worn on neck or foot? 7. Has the Nazi sal raised hand, been used people? 8. What is the oldest § of higher learning in ¢f States, Yale university, | or the College of Will Mary? 3 The Answ 1. of Francis Hopkinson; the Declaration of ence, designed the § Stripes. 2. In old-time wars, m were written on paper ang arrows to be shot to thee 3. Washington received # ary during his terms as P} 4. Zero. 5. Large liners requir than a million gallons of f ter, for one trip across, 6. Head (it's a wig). 7. It was formerly sign of serfdom among Ancient Rome. 8. Harvard, founded in Week Days' Namg Names of the days of th are derived from Saxon Adoring seven of their deities more particularly the rest, the Saxons dedic; days of the week to them, The Sun, the Moon, Tui of Germans as well as § Woden (father of gods ant war), Thor (eldest son of Friga (wife of Woden and of gods), and Saeter (the® Saturnus.-Pathfinder. CONSTIPAT Here is Amazing Relief Conditions Due to Sluggish h Ot é 4] Poe { WLz rhe If you think ; act alike, N2-TABLETS- AR all tabl So mild, thorough, refreshing, invi pendable relief from sick headaches, . 25c box of NI Without Risk craasiot. Male ne tired feeling when associated with ¢ How can the British abandon the Mediterranean? That would be to abandon France, whose lifeline and link with her African colonies it is. It would be to abandon the great Anglo-French near-eastern army, which is rapidly being assembled as a threat to the totalitarian left flank. That army couldn't be munitioned and supplied by the long route around Africa. On Ask Me Ano year, with complete and even enthusiastic support of the country. Yet Minn.; Orr-Lyda J. Brown, Eugene, Ore.; Catherine Barnes, Moultrie, Fla., and Betty Freeman, Pikeville, Tenn. e were at of that In 1917, we overwhelming. the end before and, war Pride in their work is written on the faces of these Four-H club winners in a food preparation contest. In addition to teaching home economics, Four-H clubs are teaching girls like this how to keep books, study markets and assume financial management of the farm. The girls are, left to right, Maxine Koons, Fairmont, etc. Postpaid for $1.00, If you entes Inctude chemicals to make {0 ‘ Nutrient Solution with Vitamin ‘sy in issue an to be is sure carry, may aggressively and Asian power politics, whatever with Independent Iceland Places Confidence in Premier's Rule CELAND'S recent decision to place complete govern- Cc. to defend Amer- this administration are women D. The rapidly crystalizing policy of and financial probThe following artiwomen's new place the nation, This uncertainty may be one of the real reasons that the Republicans are planning a pre-convention meetBut ) easions with the field work. ing. They are going to have some when there was a decision to be of the important figures meet in made involving money, they ran to Philadelphia a week ahead of the He either whipped out the old Pa. convention and these fellows will Or didn't. money pouch. try to iron out a lot of differences. When Pa died, Mrs. Foster beat a How far they will get depends dazed path from bank to courthouse upon the willingness of the bigwigs to my father's door, completely ento make concessions to each other. veloped in that fog of gloom properFor instance, Alf Landon and of her ly associated with widows Colonel Knox, the 1936 presidential Until old friends sighed and day. and vice presidential candidates, rebehind ducked clerks courthouse spectively, broached the idea of a bars at her coming. preconvention meeting. Colonel Molly Has the Money Pouch. Knox came into Washington, talked Today a son, John, farms the oad with quite a few Republicans around If the money pouch Foster place. the Capitol and offered the idea of still exists John has long since given a pre-convention meeting. But Molly is the it to his wife, Molly. Colonel Knox happened to miss John clerical half of the farming partnerHamilton, the Republican national chairman. The chairman and the bombastic colonel did not share secrets on the proposal, as far as I can learn. JOHN D. HAMILTON-The bombastic colonel ‘happened to miss him, Washington, United States census reports are expected to confirm agricultural authorities' statements that thousands of rural women have replaced their husbands as aetive farm business managers. In handling economic lems of the farm. cle is illustrative of in the farm life of ISSUE ELECTION AS WAR THE Newspaper Union.) Permits President-it must not be assumed that the President has an eye squinted to see what the situation is. Should (Released Visit Alaska In addition, Mr. Roosevelt may go to Alaska. Whether he makes that trip depends entirely upon conditions in Europe, he has explained. There was no mention of the plans for the trip back to the Capitol. The return journey, however, obviously will take the President through the Middle West. It is in those areas that his conservation and trade agreement program have had the hardest sledding. The farm vote in those sections is admittedly in a position where it can upset or reestablish New Deal control in the forthcoming elections. Since there is no politics in the trip-only con- servation The Republican leadership seems to sense the trend of events. None of those with whom I have talked are certain just what the President will do with the opportunity he has made for himself by injecting the Western trip into the midst of their convention. They do not know what to expect, but they are looking for something from the Roosevelt leadership that will have to be met as a campaign issue. NURSERIR: By GRACE McILRATH ELLIS President's Projected Trip at Time of Republican Convention May Provide Chance to ‘Air' U. S. 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