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Show S GENERAL HUGH | JOHNSON Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Ire. Washington, ESTIMATE OF WALLACE As was painfully evident at the convention, a lot of people actively and a lot Wallace dislike Henry was he way the dislike more the throat of the down rammed Democratic party by the President. On the first point-not liking Mr. Wallace-you've got to know a man to make that choice and Henry isn't easy to know. He is shy, not very articulate, and has as little political oomph as anybody in the Fourth New Deal. But if, as has been my privilege, you get really close to Mr. Wallace, you will discover a very fine specimen of what John L. Lewis oratorically calls the ‘"‘genus homo." He is simple, honest, studious and kindly. There is no side or pretense in his make-up. He has a good mind, if not a brilliant one. He is incapable of the clever little schemes that have so characterized and discredited many acts of the Fourth New Deal. I disagree with almost every angle of his philosophy and program and I doubt if he has the qualities of leadership appropriate to a great crisis, but I would trust his sincerity of purpose as far as that of any man I know in government. The spectacle of a President so openly forcing his own choice for vice president on his party, especially in such dangerous times as these, is highly distasteful, but the effect if not the particular methods here used, seems to have become LEE _ (Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.) CHICAGO.-There is astonishingly little soreness among the Demof¢ratic leaders and followers because their President has so recently appointed two Republicans to his cabinet, or about the fact that, as his original cabinet contained two former Republicans, it might be said now that there are four non-Democrats out of ten in the "‘official famil eg "Cavetl inquiry reveals the reasoning. Nobody wanted the jobs! That # is not quite true, for Louis Johnson not only wanted the job Roosevelt gave to Frank Knox, but has insisted on many occasions that he was promised it. And heaven knows that Harry Woodring didn't want to give it u p. But that's just a Frank Knox swallow in the summer of the Democracy, and the truth remains that nobody is particularly burned up because he didn't get the place-either war or navy-himself, or because he wanted it for some lieutenant. Boies Penrose once told a President that he didn't want any $8,000 or $10,000 jobs for his Pennsylvania Republicans. ; "Give that $8,000 job to somebody from Ohio,'' he is alleged to have said, /‘and give me five $1,500 jobs instead.'"' HE WANTED ~ WHAT 2 Since that time a congressman's pay has jumped from $5,000 to $10,000, and most other government salaries in proportion, so you have to double the figures to apply his ideas to present-day politics. But once this is done there is little doubt ea ee a celresasienetstasssibgmaeeraper irene Seana na IO iemencereeee a It later developed that he wanted all the $1,500 job-holders to work in or near Pennsylvania, so that they would keep on playing their part in the ‘‘organization."' about the political wisdom involved. a ohn is cmt te A A tna a sars nana a custom. Mr. Garner was Mr. Roosevelt's choice in 1932 and 1936. It is true that the first time it was by reason of a trade, without which Mr. Roosevelt himself could not possibly have been nominated, but it is also true that Mr. Roosevelt's delegates, at his bidding, made good that bargain. Agee econ - -¥ be apeerne nee o- eee apo enereerae tie ash cesar ne A aaadiedeieattinae-nmameeeunecemamumniesamman a adnan ee a m iste HENRY A. WALLACE .. + "No Superman but Honest." It is no secret that Mr. Willkie was consulted about his choice for a running mate, that he selected Charlie McNary, and that the senator didn't want the job and could not have been nominated without Mr. Willkie's backing. Thus, however hateful the method used to put Mr. Wallace across, it can hardly be used to attack this nomination, unless pots are to be permitted to call kettles black. After all, there was an element of courage and an avoidance of the usual skullduggery in nominating Mr. Wallace. He is Doctor Newi Newee New of all the New Dealers. wires as agen 206 St ie certea Not all Democrats are New Dealers by a long shot. That rift was not never more apparent than at Chicago. Great rips and wounds in party solidarity were made. An obvious strategy for the healing of these fissures would have been to nominate at least one Democrat on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Roosevelt certainly is not one. Mr. Wallace is even farther away. His nomination puts the whole New Deal theory of spending ourselves rich right in the spotlight as the unfuzzed issue in this fight. Adding it all up, while I can't applaud either the candidacy or the method that made it, I can respect or at least understand both. Even if the fatefully unexpected should happen, and Mr. Wallace should one day become President of the United States, we can be assured of a Chief Executive who would be honest, straightforward and wholly unaddicted to political cleverness and devious two-way thought and action. That would be something new and refreshing. Considering everything, I am not sure that it is not the number one requirement in the choice of a President. There simply are no supermen. a © + POWER Maybe it is possible to ride a he to victory. Hitler says it is and seems to have proved it for the moment. If political position, patronage and favor could pervert all the delegates to a great convention, pen haps it could pervert a majority of the voters of a great people. If gluttons for power bludgecn the democratic part of a democratic people into a Hitler plebiscite, what would they do with the so-called war powers of the President. It's not the big jobs that help in organization building. It's the little jobs. So very few of the big city bosses were annoyed when Roosevelt put Stimson and Knox in his cabinet. They didn't have any candidates for the jobs. Most of the other men who would have liked the jobs for themselves had either been taken care of, had become persona non grata at the White House, or just obviously didn't fit. CORRECTS THE The trouble was due chiefly to the determination of Secretary Henry Morgenthau's bright young men to let no guilty tax dollar escape in the spending of billions for national defense. Airplane motors are the best illustration, though this particular problem may be solved shortly. But with engines the admitted bottleneck, and with skilled machinists to make the tools and dies admitted the chief lack, as realized long before President Roosevelt's promise of 50,000 planes, weeks stretched into months at the treasury without action. AN ILLUSTRATION "It was like asking us to buy bonds-not stock with a chance to make a killing," said one big manufacturer who gets along fine with Knudsen but bogs down at the treasury. "The trouble is that these bonds may pay their interest for one year, maybe for four, but after that, when the defense crisis passes, the bonds will default. We will have millions tied up in additions to plant, which, as Mr. Roosevelt so graphically put it in his acceptance speech at Chicago in 1932, will be ‘standin g stark and idle.' "It's not a question of how much profit we make. It's whether we have any chance at all to get out without a loss. The amount of profit is not nearly so important as a guarantee of some sort against losing our shirts. For example, suppose a company makes $1,000,000 net profit on a war order. Of that, under the existing tax law, one-fifth, or $200,000, would go to the federal treasury anyhow under the corporation income tax. Other federal taxes take a piece. The new war profits tax will then take a big chunk of what is left. Finally, the residue presumably will be paid out to the stockholders. So what? Percentages running way Nis 4 Re M2452 it in a few hour wear it day after day You can see, from the - day! RO diagram sketch, how eag dress is to put together_y Washington, D. C. That is what leaders of the WomUnion en's Christian Temperance will tell you. While they do not claim the around just is ion that prohibit corner, they point out that support liquor for regulatory legislation on is continually gaining ground. The White Ribboners are preparing for the most enthusiastic convention this year since the days of prohibition. Three thousand of them, representing hundreds of thousands more of their fellow workers throughout the United States, will rally for their sixty-sixth annual convention in Chicago, August 9 to 14. Methods for intensifying the war against alcohol in the coming year will be studied by the delegates. In a rallying cry to women everywhere, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U., declared: "We again call upon America's women to enroll for true home defense-to roll up their sleeves and scrub the dirty spots out of the nation's social and moral fabric." Sociologists will tell you that the liquor problem is as old as history itself. In America there always was a strong trend toward strong licensing and regulatory systems. Men who believed prohibition of the traffic to be the best answer sponsored such a movement in the early days. By 1856 there were 13 states with prohibition laws. The ebb came and by 1874 there was no state prohibition. _ The same post-Civil war period saw stirrings of the feminist movement. Women were throwing off their bonds. In 1873 praying bands of women began sporadic efforts to pray saloons out of their towns- and were amazingly successful. In 1874 a number of these women were at Chautauqua for a religious gathering and conceived the idea of a united temperance party for women. In Cleveland in November of that year, the W. C. T. U. was organized. ‘Protect the Home.' Their platform was ‘‘protection of the American home.'"' They neglected no phase of that program, advocating a single standard for the sexes both in morals and in law; labor reform, such as the eight-hour day and a living wage; international peace; woman's suffrage; personal abstinence from harmful things. They sought legal prohibition of alcoholic beverages and other narcotics, of ‘white slavery, of gambling, of obscene literature, of war as a means of settling § international up to nearly three-quarters, according to the individual incomes of the recipients, will be paid into the treasury under personal income tax leyles."' American Red izes it or not, the duke some white office building on Washington's Seventeenth street holds stories of misery and suffering endured by millions of civilians who since September, 1939, have found themselves in the path of mechanized invading armies. This file, in the American Red Cross national headquarters building, contains eye-witness reports from Red Cross workers in Europe. Although the cries for help from masses of tortured souls are condensed into the terse language of the cable, the chronological file reflects only too accurately the swiftly moving catastrophe of the past year. Another file tells a more encouraging story. It contains America's answer to the despairing pleas for aid. Aid for Victims. Each country which has felt the crushing blows of lightning attacks has been aided by the American Red Cross, beginning immediately with the invasion of Poland. A commission of Red Cross officials was dispatched in October to make a survey of the most urgent wants in every country. Using the reports made by this commission, and its successors, as a basis, national officers of the society kept a steady flow of supplies, valued at millions of dollars, moving from this country first to Poland, then Finland and later Norway, Belgium, Holland, hiatal ian at Organized Mercy Because of its long years of expetience in relieving distres s caused by all manner of Catastrophes, the organization of the Red Cross is so flexible that it can change its course overnight. This was illustrated recentl y when tl? capitulation of Paris and its evacuation threw the refugee situatica into utter chaos. The Red Cross laid plans to be ready for all kinds of emergencies. and of governor as hands line. oe duke was ae ine detailing ¢, But you can't really te} the of Nassau or ees e from tourists roulette tables ritzy taining 5a ie hamas including the sig. only you get it on, how easy jp wear and work in, how unha the hamas than merely sitting r ound the of a few simple darts at the oi of Win is going to have a tougher » ae ey his ea partly na ive Mat him so apse e "= ; the near native land ‘ of his wife, but also to keep him as far away as possible from his pro-German friends in England and his Nazi pals in Germany-who were reputed to entertain restorabout ideas ing him to the throne " of England. Wally a aE Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of W. C. T. U., above at microphone, broadcasts a temperance message as national officers look on. Below, leaders of Youth's Temperance council count congratulatory telegrams received from scores of cities. wrongs the country over. They believed then, and their successors still believe, that the liquor traffic and liquor itself are the most insidious and powerful enemies of the American home. So, underlying all their social welfare activities was the struggle against liquor. Frances E. Willard, their founder, and her fellow workers laid down the broad strategies of this still-continuing war in 1874. Their lines of attack then, and now, were education and legislation. Mothers made up the Union and their attitude was motherly: First, try to educate your child away from wrong thoughts and practices; second, if he persists, stop him with a firm ‘‘no'' with the safeguard of removing the temptation from his reach, The odds against their success were overwhelming. They won, but it required 46 years. The years of 1920-1925 marked the zenith of W. C. T. U. aspirations. Every legal goal had been achieved. But it seemed too good to last. Comes Repeal. If 1925 was the zenith, then 1933 was the nadir. For that year brought an end to prohibition and most of the enforcement or regulatory laws put on the statute books during 59 years. Those who were at national W. C. T. U. headquarters in Evanston, IIL, the night of Nov. 7, 1933, when Utah, the thirty-sixth state, ratified the re- Cross Answers Pleas From War-Torn Europe FILING cabinet ina hand- five pieces, ' FACES WINDSOR UNREST he shane WASHINGTON.-Whether ee HERE is less tippling in America today than there was a year ago. The pendulum of public opinion is swinging steadily toward temperance. MORASS President Roosevelt has gone part of the way to correct the morass into which the national defense program had bogged down. This was in his endorsement of the five-year amortization plan for computing war profits, which is embodied in the new legislation to be pushed through to "‘take the profit out of war." of those dividends enny FORREST (Released by Western Newspaper + It's Easy to Make And Easy to We ER EAS | <-_/ By MILTON President Roosevelt's approval of the amortization for war profits taxes aids preparedness program .. . Democratic leaders do not seem to be ruffled by Republicans in cabinet jobs. D. C. UTAH W.C.T.U. Leaders See Tippling Decrease As State Liquor Regulation Gains Ground NATIONAL AFFAIRS S. MOAB, TIMES-INDEPENDENT, THE England and France. Until the ‘"‘Black Friday" of May 10, when hostilities entered the "total war'' phase with the invasion of the Lowland Countries, the American Red Cross expended a total of $1,600,000 in purchasing war-relief requirements. No organized "drive" was staged, but the public voluntarily contributed $800,000. The remaining $800,000 came out of reserve funds of the national Red Cross. This money was sufficient to take care of the most urgent relief requirements of the stricken nations, supplemented by the half million garments and more than 2,000,000 surgical dressings. Within 10 hours after headlines screamed the news of Germany's entrance into Belgium and Holland, however, the Red Cross launched a public appeal for $20,000,000. ‘‘Total War Calls for Total Mercy" became the slogan, and the American people responded with traditional promptness and generosity. As the campaign moved into high gear, contributions poured in from all sections of the country. Support for Work. Prominent leaders in every field of American life endorsed the public appeal, including leading churchmen, jurists, journalists, mayors and governors, civic leaders and heads of fraternal organizations. Even before the dollars of mercy began to roll in the Red Cross speeded up its overseas operations to help take care of the 5,000,000 Belgian, Dutch and French refugees who crowded into the already heavy populated districts of southern France. Headquarters were hastily set up in Paris in charge of Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, European delega te. A number of trained disaster relief experts flew by clipper plane to com- plete the staff in Paris and set up sub-headquarters in Borde aux to receive American relief supplie s, Purchasing began immed iately for a million-dollar cargo to be shipped on the S. S. McKeesport, a freighter chartered by the U. S. maritime commission for the job of carrying desverately needed suppli es to the helviess sufferers. peal amendment say that quite a few tears were shed. But, the next day they began reforming their lines for a continuing struggle. Law enforcement had been the prime necessity of prohibition days. Now the W. C. T. U. turned to education. Never sensational in its methods, it had never stressed the emotional side of the alcohol story. Now it stressed scientific research into the effects of alcohol on the human body-and on the social body. Always adapting its tactics to the use of current modern weapons, the research laboratory and medical science now furnished the ammunition for its educational campaign. It added the weapons of motion pictures, radio, the press, road signs, printed material, and other tools which had served its enemy so well during the repeal fight. Some Bright Spots. new dry sections, Among other things, the British government pays a high preference on Bahaman sugar to sweeten the English cup of tea. It pays through the nose in comparison with the much cheaper Cuban sugar. And should Germany conquer the United Kingdom and cast off the Bahamas, those islands would face economic disaster. The Bahaman population is 90 per cent black, and already the sour economic situation abroad and its reflex in Nassau, have caused rioting. The Negroes are a prolific people, increasing the economic strain with every increase in the population. One solution might be birth control, and the Bahamas would offer an interesting laboratory for this experiment. A similar experiment has been discussed in the heavily overpopulated island of Puerto Rico, but there the Negroes are Catholic while in the Bahamas they are Protestant. plus the prohibition areas of Kansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, represent onesixth of the nation's population. That an estimated one-fourth of the 40,000 incorporated U. S. communities have prohibition. Churches Are Active. That the strong temperance forces of the Protestant churches and of other dry groups again had become active in the fight. That in the January, 1940, Gallup poll 34 per cent of the electorate had committed itself as favoring prohibition. Particularly significant will be the release of membership figures, showing that W. C. T. U. added 32,000 members in 1938 and 36,000 in 1939 enrollment periods. More important perhaps was the addition of 985 new W. C. T. U. units in 1939, These additions make a total of approximately 500,000 members in more than 10,000 local units. There are five principal divisions of the organization, that is the city county, State, national, and world's Unions. Administration is Strictly democratic with each group having autonomy within its area. The World's W. C. T. U. is organized in 52 nations but its work has been stopped in some nations by current conditions of world affairs, The national leaders are women long active in church and social welfare work. The national officers are: Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, Des Moines, Iowa, president; Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, New York city, vice president; Mrs. Anna Marden DeYo, San Francisco, Calif., correspondin g secretary; Mrs. Nelle G. Bur ger, Springfield, Mo., recordin 8 secretary; and Mrs. Margaret C. Munns, Seattle, Wash., treasurer. Headquarters are in Evanston, :Ill., at the rear of the former home of Miss Willard, now maintained as a shrine. ing and becoming. The wais looks slim but is complete restraining - nothing about dress to catch you up short reaching into the top shelf or ing down the stairs. i The front fastening mak easy to get into. This is an ily tubbable dress, too. Mak design No. 1966-B in seersy linen, percale or gingham, this simple pattern includes atin tailed sew chart. Barbara Bell Pattern No, 19; is designed for sizes 12, 14,1 20 and 40. Corresponding measurements 30, 32, 34, 3 and 40. Size 14 (32) require leagu yards of 35-inch material wi Wh set ¢ nap. Send order to: At any rate, the duke of Windsor likely to have his hands full. is One of the few bright spots in the 1933 picture was the fact that 47 states still had laws requiring education in temperance to be taught in public schools. Much of its educational program was centered in this field, with such effect that now the liquor trade is pushing campaigns in many states to hamstring these laws or to put administration in the hands of state liquor control boards. A five-year program was begun in 1934 to strengthen the Union's resources and push its educational work in the effects of alcohol and other narcotics. A sum close to $1,000,000 was raised and today $750,000 has been spent strictly for temperance education. This program culminated in international observance during 1939 of the centenary of Frances E. Willard. Seemingly routed in 1933, the forces of temperance have made such a comeback, that the Chicago convention in 1940 will be told that: Dry areas have been created by vote in 29 states since 1933. It is estimated that at least 6,000 such elections have been held in individual communities with the drys winning far more than one-half. The However, when the ex-king gets to the Azure islands just off the coast of Florida he will find a major social problem awaitFor the Bahamas are not ing him. self-supporting; even with their rich tourist trade they are an economic liability. The United Kingdom gives them all sorts of concessions to keep the populace contented. bd * * LEWIS FOR FDR Even though John L. Lewis has three times declared that if the President ran for a third term he would be "‘ignominiously defeated,"' behind the scenes the ‘‘fix is in'' for a reconciliation between them. Intimates have been working on both for several weeks-ever since the G. O. P. platform opened the way for a face-saver for Lewis. When he threw his brickbats at the President before the platform committee in Philadelphia, Lewis expected in return that the Republicans would avoid advocating amendment of the national labor relations act in their labor plank. Under Alf Landon's urging the plank as originally drafted said nothing about revision. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPP Enclose Pattern Name But big industrial contributors demanded no pussyfooting on the issue. In the end Landon was overruled and the plank as adopted declared for amendment of the law. es Ld went Wallace. to worked so I had to The Sizesiene S HSH SEH EEE EEEELEEEDES H SESE SEBS EEO EEEEOES True Dignity : True dignity is never gain place, and never lost when ht are withdrawn.-Massinger. Salt Lake's NEWEST among the inleaders. The and the nod wear this Hotel | TEMPLE SQUAI stiff two have th Opposite Mormon HIGHLY RECO. np leag Rates $1.50 to $3.00 It's a thi mark " ne to st © nste| happiness was his inability to reach Farley. CCPC may affect the Heart one. And the only cuff links I had were these the President gave me. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was a lucky omen." Note-Only shadow on Wallace's Jim in coins for Gas trapped in the stomach He got the news at breakfast early Thursday morning. Grinni ng boyishly, he remarked to friends who came to congratulate him: "I found I didn't have a soft shirt this morn- ing cents INDIGESTI While other vice presidential hopefuls had elaborate headquarters and electioneering paraphernalia, Casey and Haar avoided these trappings and brought pressure to bear where it would count at the right moment. Each worked different spheres. Haar exerted his persuasive talents on key leaders and labor chiefs, with whom he is intimate. Not revealed were the personal telegrams to Roosevelt from C. I. O,'s Phil Murray, Tom Kennedy and John Owen, which helped clinch the decision on Wallace. drive SPCC * Casey did his stuff ner circle and farm 15 No...<cccccece Address KING MAKERS Two unknown newcomers staged the quiet behind-the-scenes drive which put over Henry Wallace. One was ‘Farmer'? Eugene Casey, big Maryland dairyman; the other was bespectacled Dr. Luther Haar, business manager of the Philadelphia Record and manager of Sen. Joe Guffey's recent successful primary campaign. pincers 149 New Montgomery Ave. Francisco G San hagy Eunest C. ROSSITER, been good friends, and as soon as he got word from Washington, phoned Farley. Wallace tele- But repeated efforts brought no response and Sages went unanswered. all mes- MERRY-GO-ROUND Among those who pressur ed Far- * " "a ley to serve again as national chairman were Governor Lehman of New York, Herbert Bayard Swope, editor of the old New York World, and leading delegates from Maryland. & 9 & 6 e & e @ eS @ a @ 8 e ° cs A TEACHING a A CHIL VALUE OF PENNIES A child of a wise mother will taught from early childh come a regular reader of the adve tisements. In that way better P& of. than in any other can th child Yank taught the great value of pent! a 7 the permanent benefit which oa from making every penny * |