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Show Defeat of Wheeler Maries Passing of Able Legislator By BAUKUAGE Newi Analyst WXtJ Service, 1618 Eye Street, N.W.. Washington, D. C. There wai something rather pa thetic about It to me when I heard the Preildent sa two worda that marked the obit uary ox a long career. The terse reply waa made at a presidential press-radio con ference when a reporter asked Mr. Truman if he cared to say anything about the senatorial primary in Montana Mon-tana in which Burton K. Wheeler Wheel-er was defeated by Leif Erickson. There was nothing more that the President could say. He already had endorsed Wheeler with that remarkable re-markable loyalty that be has tor his friends a virtue which easily may go down In history as one of his faults. Wheeler gave the freshman senator, sena-tor, Harry Truman, his first opportunity oppor-tunity to show bis mettle by letting him bat for him as chairman of the Important Interstate Commerce committee. Truman made good, and a warm friendship developed. But even presidential aid couldn't ave Wheeler. The other day I was looking over the autographed photographs with which Harold McGrath, superintendent superin-tendent of the senate radio gallery, had decorated the walls. It was Just about the time that things began be-gan to look bad tor the senator. We commented os the senators we had known who had ended long careers In defeat Of course, Sen. George Norris was the classio example, Five terms. Then he was replaced by an anti-Roosevelt man. Sea. Kenneth Wherry. Senator Norris closest contender for the longevity record In recent years was Ellison ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina, violently anti-New Deal. He was defeated by pro-Roosevelt man the year iter Norris lost out Up on the radio gallery wan is picture of Henry Ashurst, the sen tor whose tongue fairly dripped epigrams. He cams to the senate when New Mexico wss admitted to the Union. That was 1911 He left in 1940, serving five terms, plus five years. The Year 1940 Was bad one for eterana besides Ashurst William King of Utah left us, having served sine 1917, .and Lynn Fraxer of North Dakota, who came to Wash tngton in 1923. -Senator wheeler served only four terms, but his vjvld personality made it seem longer. He made many enemies. Many people disapprove of his isolationism and some of his other views most thoroughly. But there are many, even among his detractors, who respect him for his integrity, for his ability as legislator, legis-lator, something which perhaps is understood to Washington better than elsewhere, and also because they consider his pacifism aincere. I remember a conversation I had with Jerry O'Connell, former representative rep-resentative who tried to take Wheel-er's Wheel-er's seat in campaign somewhat ' similar to the one which brought! victory k cricKsan. jerry was pretty pret-ty sore. He had copy of the Ana-conda Ana-conda Standard in his hand as well as a- clipping. The clipping was a report of one of Senator Wheeler's campaign speeches, made early in his -career. I can't remember the phraseology, but the general idea (expressed by Wheeler) was that if the Anaconda Standard, which waa supposed to represent the sentiments senti-ments of the big copper Interests, ever praised Wheeler, it would be ft sign that he was no longer worthy of the support of the people of Montana. Mon-tana. O'Connell read that to me. Then he picked up his copy of the Standard, Stand-ard, and read from it some very kind words for Senator Wheeler. However, I think it would be grossly unfair to say that Senator Wheeler ever "sold out" even figuratively, fig-uratively, to any interests. As far as I know, he is as sincere today to-day as he was when he made his first fight on whatever issue had a side Unpopular enough to attract him. In February of 1935 I had a long Interview with Senator Wheeler. I have the yellowing clipping before me. It is Illustrated with huge photograph (more picture than text) showing Wheeler, his fist clenched about to drive it into his palm a favorite gesture. I remem BARBS . . A new bird-proof windshield haa been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Aero-nautics administration. Now, let us look for a bird-proof automobile top, . "The average person of 20 now has as many years of life remaining to him as a new-born child had in 1900," says the Metropolitan information infor-mation service. - But can he use them to any better advantage? i.i urnl and Commentator. ber when the picture was taken. Here are two paragraphs from the story: "Last autumn (remember this was written in February, 1935), citizens citi-zens of Montana sent the same young man to Washington as a senator sen-ator for his third term with the largest majority ever given a candidate can-didate by the Mountain State." A decade passes and new voters grow up. "Wheeler (I observed this in the same interview) came back to his office in the Senate building with the pictures of the high mountains and the deep valleys of his adopted state on the walls, and a victory measured in the same magnificent dimensions. Hii hair is a little thinner than it was but he can wake the echoes with the same thunder he released when he first arrived. He is still up and at 'em. And the higher they fly the more anxious be is to make them fall." Wheeler, Norris, Ashurst they, too, flew high. Matron Upsets Solon'i Aplomb It waa during the day and night senate sessions on OPA The senate recessed at 6 p. m. to continue deliberations de-liberations at 8 p. m. Republican Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, bitter OPA opponent, and Mrs. Bridges went to a restaurant for dinner. Coming out they were caught by a sudden sharp rain storm. The dapper, white-linen- suited senator hailed a passing cab, and he and his wife piled In. Before Be-fore they could shut the door (and In accordance with Washington's group riding) a huge and very damp Labrador retriever bounded in. landing in the senatorial lap. The dog was followed by his corpulent mistress.. Some moments elapsed as the quartet arranged themselves In the cab's back seat The dog continued con-tinued to snuggle and drip on the white linen suit Suddenly the corpulent lady, glancing sharply at the senator, said: "Why, you're Senator Bridges, aren't you?" Bridges, pleased to be recognized, nodded graciously. Wen," said the lady. Jerking the J sycophantic canine away from the Republican senator, "I'm regis-tered regis-tered Democrat I" I Schwellenbach Yearn$for Wt$t There's a persistent rumor that Labor Secretary Schwellenbach would like to desert the Potomac for Puget Sound. That's not hard to understand un-derstand since heavy Vcssur is being exerted to make, drastic changes in the labor department ; and since Schwellenbach is pop- j war as ne is in his home state In 1934. when he wss runnhvi the United States senate. Schwellenbach carried every c oi tne state the first time this had happened. , vicariously, as shown In tfi cent resounding success o! brother, Edgar Schwellenbaci winning the Supreme court uccsnip oi we, state ois poi tty persists today. Edgar Sc lenbach. almost' unknown oi his own community, filed igaim Incumbent The court elections ally don't draw very heaw yet the man with the former ator's name received more than were cast for the Repub and Democratic candidates foi senate. . e Senator in tor Happy Return$ The eyes of Washington readers bugged out recently they read in a story describing a to rial wives experiences wit: Ing prices that "Mr GleaJ Mlln. MMtMA-llA . n . iiivxiim iur lamuy CI lu. me youngest er wham waa aa is-year-old baby." I understood lm mediately that the reporter had meant 18-DAY-old baby, because Just two weeks before I had the pleasure of smoking one of the 50 excellent cigars sent up to the radio correspondents gallery by the senator. sena-tor. It isn't often that cigars are distributed dis-tributed in the senate for this par-ticular par-ticular reason, as most of the legislators legis-lators have put aside childish, things. But radio correspondents amoked Senator Taylor's cigars and congratulated him on his third son, as wen as on the other honor recently re-cently tendered him by panel of radio experts. They voted him the 'legislator most likely to succeed in raoio.- ine two honors had connection. no by Daukhage Some 30,000.000 homes have ns cental heating system, says Petrc kura Notes. But what is worse- several million veterans have no homes. As late as 1880. 40 per cent of men's clothing was ready-to-wear, says the Twentieth Century foundation. foun-dation. In 1948 it may be ready but it's already pretty worn, . 7 WORLD WAR I ;t ; .-. l ' '- ';. N: . -14. if, ,, ' u' p I li ' T i ) ; it m J it aYiiiirnassi isii i n jl ' ftaaasheTsMiii HMilaji mmmmiMmii mmto.m fcn.ni IW',...;,!, ajsmsmv, Prntio, AW x" World War II Brides j 0 .. ' Jf ' . I M i i i ' : J ft 4. -1x7'' W r. LJpfg:1 v -i -... ...Wy MARKED CONTRAST . . . Foreign girls were wooed and won by American soldiers In hot 'world wars bat, as the above pictures attest there was a marked difference In the brides of two generations. Photo (1) shews ft grenp of American soldiers in World War I'a army of occupation entrainiru at Coblens, many bringing back wives and children. Girls like those shown in photo (2) won thesirU of American servicemen serv-icemen in World War I, the picture showing typical war brides ready to embart for the V. 8. In contrast to their sister wsr brides of a quarter century age, World War n brides slow every evidence of modernity. mod-ernity. Photo (3) shows Joyous wives of ex-G I.s obligingly posing en Re railing of a transport in typ-leal typ-leal Hollywood style, although minus the finishing touches. Longer duration of World War rj resulted . i?'" f!imUJf,i0r ,L Bd tte,r ,rel brWc- L,rer "aiBary to the family of Arthur Smith of Greenville, N. C. Mrs. Smith Is shown In photo (4) arriving fromfengland with her four children, two f which were by a former marriage. Aa Italian girl -fell hard" for Joseph Cianciotto of Rochester, N. X.. Et!'0.""?1 ,tS,T'. M- clBclott "'en tot hlmigain whe her war bride .hip docked r!T 7.1 ' ! Pv (5) "l"?81!--, E'e wodern modes of transportation were ntilized in reuniting G.I.a and their foreign brides, photo (6) showing group of war brides arriving in America by airliner. 'LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON' Statistics Show E Marriage Rate foj Influx of war brides to all carts of them to thei general impression that G.I.S serving overseas during World War II were more addicted tofaarrying foreign girls than were their doughboy fathers oiivorld War I. From the Eruisn isles, France and German; traha and the Philippines, have ives to Atnerica to- Joinr the was wife orld tics to rero ign orn- to rter iar in- ' CHICAGO. An equine parallt Hollywood's recent series of p; tity disputes was reported by American Veterinary Medical i elation. 1 to ter- the isso- The Investigation described by the by veterinary authorities was mad two French veterinary Sclent ists irst tnd was believed to be the practical application of blood gr log to determine parentage horses. up. in tne or The problem was to detern which of two mares, "Fanny" "uairette, was the mother i a colt named "Robert" Serum t sts showed that Fanny's blood belonl Ued to group "AB." Clalrette's to gri)UD a ' ana nooen s w group Statute Books Co Ancient - blue laws eontli.ua r to gather dust on New Jersey statute bookv A person who drives horse w? nne Intoxicated the driver, that is. not the horse is subject to a fine, - from $150 to S10 and 30 days' fim-prlsonmeot fim-prlsonmeot according to one of t the outmoded laws. j Another law authorizes ma'"fiis. trates In order a ball and phnlri . be placed on the leg of any traif na win suuramv iroiuaa. i in rr tiiv BRIDES fal Foreign Both Jnited States leadst , even from far-away Aus- ome bride ships transport- Longer duration of World War n and the far greater numbers serving serv-ing overseas account for the increase in-crease in marriages, statisticians point out Third Have Children. Duration of the war also Is responsible re-sponsible for an increased number of children in war marriages. The 52,500 foreign brides coming to the U. S. to join their husbands were accompanied by 17,500 children, indicating in-dicating that nearly a third had children. In a majority of cases there was only one child, although there are instances of as many as three children. War marriages were most common com-mon in European and Mediterranean Mediterran-ean theaters. Nearly 60.000 of the SoilTermed Great Laboratory For Production of New Drugs Sofl not only Is the source of life- supporting food but also is a great laboratory in which are produced many new-found drugs for curing diseases of man and beast against which even good nutrition cannot prevail, according to Alden Stahr and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in an article arti-cle In Capper's Farmer. "These are the so-called miracle drugs, first of which was tyrothric-in," tyrothric-in," says the article. "Then came penicillin, used extensively during the war. toUowed by actoinomyein, streptothricin, clavicin and guma-gicin. guma-gicin. Others have been discovered and more are in prospect" Among the things scientists have seen and identified, Stahr and Woodruff Wood-ruff point out are: One-celled plants, molds, green plants, animals, ani-mals, protozoa, worms and nematodes. nema-todes. And these soil inhabitants nlain Llany Outmoded Wearing of dangerous hatnine in any public place automatically makes the wearer a disorderly per-son, per-son, liable to a fine of $5 to gio for each offense. In case someone should be subbed, the injured person per-son can recover half the fine. Practice of witchcraft er sorcery In an attempt to discover lost or stolen goods is classed as misdemeanor mis-demeanor under the law. A similar charge can be placed against any. one pretending to be God and caus Wars 70,000 brides and children cams from these two areas and they represented rep-resented more than 30 different nationalities. na-tionalities. Great Britain had the largest percentage per-centage of war brides, 75 per cent followed by France and Italy with 15 per cent each, Belgium and Ireland Ire-land with 3 per cent each, with about 4 per cent from the other countries of Europe and North Africa. Af-rica. Many From Australia. From the Pacific area came 10.000 war brides, 85 per cent of whom were from Australia. Another 10 per cent are from New Zealand and 8 per cent from other countries, particularly par-ticularly the Philippines. Age of war brides varies considerably, con-siderably, with marked concentrations concen-trations In the late teens and early twenties. Just as personnel of the armed forces was recruited from every state in the Union, so will .these wives and children of ex-G.I.s settle set-tle in every part of the country. do more than provide fertility to the soil. In their struggle tor existence, many of them throw off waste prod ucta and create chemical substances sub-stances which are deadly to disease germs. Thus a very special strain or species of fungi yielded penicillin, penicil-lin, which shared the credit with blood plasma and the sulfa drugs in greatly reducing the wound mortality mor-tality rate in World War II as compared with the First World war. "The soil," conclude the writers, "is so complex a mixture that there must be many other healing agents xouna in n. many of man's 2,000 diseases still are unconauered. Most prevalent of all, of course, la the common cold, which causes more economic loss and discomfort to people than any other disease and, weakening the system, paves the way tor more serious ailments." Recmlalion ing followers to worship him. SeUinc floral wreath At at hAtna " MVltlS where a funeral is about to take piace is aarreo. the offense being listed as disorderly conduct and making the offender liable to a fine. Dumping of Junk on private property prop-erty also puts ii person in the outlaw out-law class. The legislature meets yearly to rousung uws and enact new ones, out calmly Ignores the out. moded regulations. STAGE-CSCRE Released to Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE SO LINDA DARNELL won out over Gene Tierney for the title role in "Forever Amber," and a lot of us are still protesting that 20th Century-Fox has made another bad mistake in connection with that opus. Three hundred thousand dollars rinum th drains because Of the gUk. WW.. first one giving "Amber" to Peggy Cummins. Cornel Wilde remains as "Bruce Carleton"; Otto rreminger ai-om reninclne John StahL who walked out before shooting tisit int imrine. Come September the whole thing starts again and this tune it s goi w m good! Also to September William Cag- "The Strav Lamb" goes into production, with Audie Murphy, the most decorated u.l, maxing us ae-buL ae-buL unless Caeney lends him out to somebody else first Murphy has been considering various nun LINDA DARNELL bids ever since last February- lames Cagney haa been after him since last July. Following "The Stray Lamb." Murphy's booked for "A Lion Is in the Streets." Wendy Day, 14-year-old daughter of Clarence Day Jr., who wrote "Life With Father," has been given a role In the picture based on the book and play. Irene Dunne and William Powell star; if the movie's half as good as the play it should get an Academy Award. . ' A perfect piece of casting Clan-dette Clan-dette Colbert and Fred MacMurray In "The Egg and I." That hilarious hilari-ous account of an adventure in raising rais-ing chickens should be the year's best comedy, especially appreciated appreciat-ed by all who've ever raised chickens. chick-ens. When Barry Von Zell went into movies he swore he'd never play radio announcer "Standing in front of a mike and talking and giggling gig-gling into it is not acting, as I see it" But Von Zell, who's featured in RKO's "Till the End of Time." did play a radio announcer in "How Do You Do?" However, he alibis himself; explains that he did more than just talk into a mike he really acted. That same "Till the End of Time" gave Guy Madison his big chance. His only other screen role had been in "Since You Went Away," In which he was the sailor who laughed at Jennifer Jones' bowling. Fans went crazy about him, and there he Is, playing opposite Dorothy Mc-Gulre. Mc-Gulre. Mary Meade, who sat on an eight-foot eight-foot champagne glass in Republic's "Earl Carroll Sketchbook," has been promoted. In "The Magnifl-cent Magnifl-cent Rogue" she lies around in the sand, in a wispy bathing suit But It's an advance in her career she gets to speak a few lines! - ! , . 1 f y.. The air's daytime aerials are non-audience non-audience broadcasts, but if yon're privileged to walk in en one, it's ae shock (after the first few times!) to find a Broadway star in the cast Margate Gilmore's the latest recruit re-cruit On the stage, ahe has an important role In the smash hit "The State of the Union." And on the air she's recently assumed the role of "Connie Wakefield" in "The Right to Happiness." As a special concession to Wendell Wen-dell Corey, who had the week's star-ring star-ring role in "Goodbye. Again" at the Yardley, Pa., summer theater the company omitted a recent Wednesday Wed-nesday night performance. That made it possible for Corey to get to New York for hi. "McGarry and His Mouse." NBC air show. The concession wasn't hard to arrange -the owner of the theater la-Wendell Corey 1 ODDS AND EWS-UndUcwgtf bha, happy with "ForevJt ZJKk" (L00Ja "turn to tne air with kit own thow; ht'ud J nur to the aeree. in "TeJry e5 pities.- iwf, liZijr, Sr! jtf1 "Henry" ' Inwod star will bt ihoum in th C fa6e screw injpMtf, Tough to f Z . - ' Dentin Morgan tell it , , " pen oi tht com maku At botdt! 1 'fiKSW "Male home heaven. Make it timpler, tmaller, if you like, bulatntttl yourself and your own people a stronghold of security." r ONCE A YEAR, say, you could look right into your husband's mind and see exactly what he is thinking think-ing of you, what would you see? Certainly it would be a stunning shock. You might see that for some years he has been saying to himself, "if she doesn't stop that whining poor talk, one of these days I'll walk out on her." He might say, "Why does she always al-ways have to knock my family in that delicate, pleasant way? Why does she always sneak In some little dig at mother, and remind me that Sally's Sal-ly's first husband divorced herf Sally's happy now, and mother's always kind to us. It gets mo all nettles to have my wife always always al-ways always finding seme mean little thing to say about them." Or it might be, "All right go on running up bjg bills, go on complaining complain-ing that you can't have what other women have, and Til break down someday and tell you just how sweet and comforting and companionable my little office sweetheart is." Unfortunately, since we can't look into each other's minds we go on year after year, sometimes, hurting each other, in little ways or big ways. You hate to tell your husband hus-band where he fails you, it hurts his feelings so deeply, it hurts his pride. He hesitates to tell you where you fail him; he wants to, he means to, but the right moment never comes, and so time goes by, and he grows set in his annoying annoy-ing little habits, and you grow set in yours. Find Out What's Wrong. It is wise woman who determines deter-mines to discover, these defects for herself. Only very stupid one refuses re-fuses to admit that she has her faults, her irritating ways, her tiresome tire-some limitations. Once admitting that in some way you fall your family fam-ily and your friends, that there is something disagreeable mat they all agree upon when they dissect your character, the next thing is to find out what it is. Always being late with everything? every-thing? Always talking peerf Always Al-ways meeting him with the worst of the day's news? Always wishing wish-ing things were different? Always in debt? Always critical of bis family? fam-ily? What is it that those who love you, wish to goodness you would change? The reason I write of this universal uni-versal situation Is because so many homes are trembling now on the brink of trouble. More than ever before In our national history people peo-ple are nervous, some without cause, some with cause. Men have come back from the war shattered in spirit; strikes are hard en striker strik-er and employer; business, housing, buying conditions are not normal and not apt to become normal for some time. Constant reminders of the cold and starvation overseas make our, hearts heavy and our own security seem something of which to be almost ashamed. This bad time can be-and will be weathered, but not without demand de-mand for new heroism upon every wife and homemaker and mother. Kathleen Norris Sayg. In the Looking Glass Bell eradicate WNU Features. mK MA HAVEN OF HAPPIM There are manysmtSum of friction even in tht est families. It may bt k the wife nags and whim& may be dull and Ujek3i,tu if she fulfills all her ink faithfully. Some voma m extravagant and iem Others are always compm their state with tom&m else. Many husbands seldom never mention thest mi traits that so annoy lhm. try to go along, reelia'nj tk their own faults may be preti hard to endure too. If m wife could look into her k band's mind once year, mi Miss Norris, she prMf would be surprised sni fled at what she would t cover. During these tryhffoia hiAaii nanlM art til tense, little irritations ft into serious auarrek Tie i vorce courts are fuHojk-bands fuHojk-bands and wives who got each other's nerves, ttuew wile's dutv. counxlsM'mh ris, to try to makeherhomt pleasant as she can. II be a little haven of hapjm in a distraught mrli It Is upon us women that tie lest responsibility falls, hands lies the cure. Wemu!1 hnnlnff for men to clffllft , tions to change, costs to P paychecks to go up, aw w; to change Just one tMnfcMf Change from nagging tt f .... 4.ht t tnlvMCI, 5l UCBO, " - . - J disagreeable criticism ml lm lences to that amiswft equanimity, that is tteTers of peace at home Rtrnnehald ' SeCStliy. Make home heaven. Hab" pier, smaller. If you BJ a- to less expensive euanw many of the things to 7" nAm mm, oannOt dS liW ...... .Kn.,t mrnrseHlw;"" people a stronghold ofw1 begin the process sy p ' j self just wnat, n you from the outside, yon " changed. rTO... ... nA HflTf iB V be coldly reasonable, "1 reasonableness from j . uns'tt 0B" re say ux tBf- are living through a tina fl copathic strain own unbroken un-broken us down into fti neurotics, thousands mental collapse. Not J" ' are In our base hospW them are at family braH or selling things is teaching our children in .,j i j suffer W " that have racked her witnout naving w - vaiescence. So take hold of your "'"j and reduce it not ew - , and sanity, but to happi f monyaswelL There ; be many changes. first one in yourself. J a Aluminum j Heavy "casi art made by pourinl J metal Into castintl A "Stamped" aiu 9 stamped from fTA and then pressed comes In three graaei-T dium and heavy. The heavier more durable the uts heavy aluminum wa ugniweigni to nia X demand bend. fhat dim no think about you? it |