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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Lengthy Congress in Prospect Despite FDR Peace Overtures; New Tax Measure Faces Fight (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the newt analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newipaper CONGRESS: Keynote "Dear Alben" Barkley settled down for six months in Washington. "We'll be here until June," he told reporters, "but I doubt it there will be much new legislation. There probably will be efforts to amend the Wagner act and the wage-hour law. The reciprocal trade treaty program probably will cause the greatest controversy." He told no lie there, and President Presi-dent Roosevelt knew It Striking fast, before the opposition had a chance to open Its mouth, the President Presi-dent keynoted the second session of the seventy-sixth congress in a state-pf state-pf the-union speech which attacked the "destructive mine-field of trade restrictions." Plumping for renew- r K A. KENTUCKY'S BARKLEY "W e'U 6a here until June." al of his "most-favored-nation" program pro-gram in which the administration not congress has the power to sign trade pacts, he offered this defense: ". . . it is advisable to provide, at times of emergency, some flexibility to make the general law adjustable to quickly changing conditions." Only one other concession did he want in 1940, because It Is an election elec-tion year: "I am asking the congress con-gress for army and navy iscreases which are based not on panic but on common sense." Conservation of resources, protec tlon of national health, extension of sods.! security and the merit sys tew were also mentioned, but in a moderate voice. Only out-and out political dart was a crack at G. O. P. Hopeful Tom Dewey, who recently accused the New Deal of "defeatism." . Said the President: "To warble easy platitudes that If we will only go back to the ways that have tailed, everything will be all right is not courage. Next day congress got the budget Items and total: Nations defense Work relief programs Agricultural programs .., Public works and Investments Invest-ments Pensions, retirements and assistance Interest on the public debt. Regular operating .11,800,000,000 . 1,300,000.000 . 800,000.000 . 1.100,000.000 . 1,200.000.000 , 1,100,000.000 . 1.000.000,000 Total 8.4OO,0O0.000 This, said the President, was an estimated cut of $675,000,000 from the current fiscal year, while treas ury receipts are expected to rise $382,000,000. Estimated net deficit for 1940-41: $2,178,000,000, compared with $3,933,000,000 this year. But to further cut the deficit, Mr. Roose velt recommended that hie $460,000, 000 boost in defense costs be paid through new taxes. Commented loyal Sen. Pat Harrison from Mis sissippi: "It's not easy to raise $460,000,000 right off. I'm not strong on this tax business." Rolling up its sleeves, congress found the Democrats enjoyed a NAMES . in the news C Darry Bridges, West coast C I. O. leader freed on deportation charges, announced he would seek naturalization naturali-zation "at the earliest possible moment" mo-ment" C. Charles Edison, inventor's son, named secretary of the navy, began studying means of speeding up the naval construction program. C Louis (Lepke) Bucbalter, sentenced sen-tenced to 14 years In prison for violating vio-lating the federal narcotics law, heard that New York's District Attorney At-torney Thomas Dewey hoped to "put him away for 500 years" on racket charges. C. James fl. R. Cromwell, economist and husband of Doris Duke, "richest girl in the world," was named U. S. minister to Canada. C John W. Finch, director of the bureau bu-reau of mines, was requested to resign re-sign by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes "because the bureau need a director who has enough iron in his blood . . C Neville Chamberlain, president of Britain's Midland Salmon and Trout club, wrote his cronies: "I fear that there is little prospect of my finding time for fishing under present pres-ent conditions." BY JOSEPH W. LattlNE three-to-one majority In the senate, and a three-to-two lead in the bouse. Major issues, aside from the reciprocal recipro-cal trade act and national defense: 1. Whether to raise the national debt limit, now nearing its $45,000,-000,000 $45,000,-000,000 legal peak. 2. What to do about new tax proposal, pro-posal, such as Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Wallace'a "certificate plan" (in effect, a processing tax) to pay farm benefits. 3. Whether to amend the Wagner labor relations act, under fire from all sides. 4. Whether to continue Martin Dies' un-Americanlsm committee. COMMUNICATIONS : Wire Merger Western Union maintains 20.000 branch offices employing 43,000 people; peo-ple; Postal Telegraph, its competitor, competi-tor, has 4,400 offlces and 14,000 employees. em-ployees. Thanks to air mail, telephone tele-phone and radio. Western and Postal are both having financial troubles. This month, as a result, came a paradox: While Trust Buster Thur-man Thur-man Arnold was busy breaking up monopolies, the much-concerned federal fed-eral communications commission recommended to congress that Western and Postal be allowed to consolidate. INTERNATIONAL: Something in the Wind It was big news in early January that hardy Finnish troops had cut 16,000 Russians off from their base at Salla; had trapped another division divi-sion near Suomussalmi; had captured cap-tured a Russian base at Aittajoki; had repulsed countless shock troops on the Karelian isthmus; had even blasted a Red air base in Estonia. But the biggest news came from a little Madrid newspaper called Alcazar. Said its editorial: "Finland "Fin-land is defending with its flesh and bravery the treasure of occidental civilization. Fighting so bravely for independence she fights also for all Christianity, and it is inexplicable that after a long month of war she hasn't received tangible aid . . ." Looking about them, European observers ob-servers wondered If the Alcazar plea wasn't being answered. They saw a series of potentially related moves r. -4 t i PAUL EMILE NAGGIAR Lonesome in Moscow. that might eventually lead to peace among the allies and Germany, and to a European attack driving the Russian bear to his den. Indications Isolation. Home from Moscow to London went Ambassador Sir WU Ham Seeds to write white paper on Russo-British relations. Gossip had it that his conversations with Premier Viacheslav MolotofT had been stormy, and that he probably wouldn't return. Also homeward bound was Augusto Rosso, Italian ambassador. Left in Moscow, uncomfortable un-comfortable and lonesome, was French Ambassador Paul Emile Naggiar. Shakeup. The newspaper relit Farisien reported from Italy that Germany was planning a drastic po litical reorganization to woo the al lies. It would include Adolf Hitler's becoming president, succeeded to the chancellorship by moderate Her man Goering; purging of radicals like Heinrich Himmler, Joe Goeb-bels Goeb-bels and Dr. Robert Ley; manage ment of foreign affairs by a moderate mod-erate like Dr. Hans von Macken-sen, Macken-sen, ambassador to Italy; slacken ing of relations with Russia and pro visional recreation of Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. Aid. In an embarrassing spot Germany announced she would wink at allied shipments of munitions to Finland, but could not tolerate troop movements. Thus It was obvious the Reich would like to see her "ally," "al-ly," (Russia) driven back, yet could not risk exposure to allied troops from the North sea. Western War Following custom, there was more horseplay than warfare. The western west-ern front was a tomb, but at Buenos Aires German sailors from the scuttled scut-tled Graf Spee joined their enemies from British battleships in a night of revelry. British preparations in cluded a plan to call 2,000,000 more men to the colors this year, and a report that 20 freighters had been scuttled at the mouth of Scapa Flow. Purpose: To prevent Nazi U-boats from entering the harbor and sinking sink-ing more ships like Royal Oak. newsquiz! Know your netcsf One hundred It perfect score, and deduct 20 for each question you miss. Score of 60 or more is acceptable. 4Mne r J! 1. This English peer's daughter, daugh-ter, an ardent Hitlerite who has been In Germany since before the war started, returned to England on a stretcher with a revolver bullet In her neck. What's her name? 2. Why did Irish Premier Eamon De Valera ask parliament for dictatorial powers? 3. True or False: Martin Dies has asked congress to discontinue his un-Americanism probe because be-cause of ill health and because the Justice department is now prosecuting alien "isms." 4. What do the following have In common: Robert Fechner, head of the CCC; Guy Ballard, head of the "Great I Am" cult; several thousand residents of the Turkish earthquake area; the 163rd Russian division on the Finnish front. 5. If the U. S. began taking its decennial census January 2, why hasn't an enumerator knocked on your door yet? Picws Quiz Answers 1. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mltford. 2. He feared an uprising of the outlawed out-lawed Irish republican army. 3. False. He asked congress tor more funds. 4. They died. Most of the Russian division was killed. 5. The business census started January Jan-uary 1. The regular "nose-count" doesn't start until April 1. COURTS: Tell It to Congress Well-timed if its Intention was to heighten congressional demands for revision of the Wagner act, a decision deci-sion by the Supreme court upheld the much-criticized National Labor Relations board on three counts: (1) For refusing to place an allegedly al-legedly company-dominated union on ballots used in a bargaining agency election at the Falk corporation, corpora-tion, Milwaukee. (2) For designating a C. I. O. union as collective bargaining agency for waterfront workers along the Pacific Pacif-ic coast. (3) For ordering employees of the Jackson, Mich., power company to vote on the question of affiliation with C. I. O., after a ballot on C L O. versus A. F. of L had brought no majority vote. These decisions offered no particular partic-ular commendation of NLRB, however. how-ever. Commented Justice Harlan Stone: ". . . this failure (of congress) con-gress) to provide for a court review (of NLRB decisions) is productive of peculiar hardships . . . But these are arguments to be addressed to congress and not to the courts." TREASURY: Easy Taxes Tenderly breaking the news that Income tax time Is Just around the corner, Guy T. Helvering, commissioner commis-sioner of Internal revenue, soothed taxpayers with the announcement that this year's report forms have been simplified. Instructions, once as complex as the report form itself, it-self, have been pared down and shaved of technical phrasing. F0LITTCS: Appointments Fast on the heels of President Roosevelt's judicial and justice appointments ap-pointments came a baker's dozen of explanations. Among them: Attorney At-torney General Frank Murphy was named to the Supreme court (a popular pop-ular appointment) to get him out of the 1940 presidential picture; Solicitor Solici-tor General Robert H. Jackson van reclaimed from obscurity and made attorney general as grooming for a place on the 1940 ticket probablv as vice presidential candidate under Cordell Hull; Judge Francis Biddle of the circuit appeals court (a lifetime life-time job) was boosted to the solicitor solici-tor generalship to make a place for unpopular Warren Madden, NLRB chairman. Thus were several birds killed with one stone. Other political news: H Democratic Chairman James A Farley announced, the national committee com-mittee would meet In Washington February 5 to select a time and city (probably Chicago) for the 1940 convention. Thus he made the G. O. P. victor In the winter's biggest stalling game, permitting Republicans Repub-licans to hold their convention and name their candidate later. C Secretary of State Cordell Hull di. avowed presidential ambitions and denied knowledge of reports that President Roosevelt had Dicked him as No. 1 choice for 1940 candidate. 5. V- ' ( I J:A i Bruckart's Washington Digest 'Pressure Groups' Already Are Worrying Members of Congress New Deal Agencies, Seekers After Justice and Promoters Promot-ers of Various Movements Active as Usual; Old Age Pensions, Unemployment Insurance Not Neglected. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bid., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. About the time congress reconvenes each year, the-national the-national capital Is deluged with what have come to be known as "pressure groups." It is Por de scription. I believe most of them can be called "selfish groups" for the reason that the self-righteous Individuals In-dividuals who lead (or promote) movements or eauses or demands for Justice usually have Jobs of their own at stake. They want to keep their followers happy, especially the saps who contribute con-tribute hard-earned dimes or dollars dol-lars so that their representative er their delegation may pot up a good front In the city of Washington. Any way, it is the open season for them, again. They are busier than a hive of bees. They are engaged In the annual invasion upon senators and representatives and among the numerous New Deal agencies, seeking seek-ing Justice, urging help for those whose liberties are being trampled Into the mud, appealing for this and that and the other. There are the usual spokesmen for corporations and groups of corporations. cor-porations. They, too, are seekers after Justice. They are no more selflsh than the lesser racketeers. Those fellows, however, have a different dif-ferent kind of stake in the results. The seekers after individual justice,' 'PRESSURE GEOUPS' BUST Harass members of congress with various causes. May be tuning up for the coming com-ing campaign. Many movements will not get very far. Union labor and the American Legion active. Bruckart doesn't believe it is possible so many new injustices could have arisen. Few are able to analyze the situation. those who urge maintenance of "civil liberties," etc., usually are concerned with keeping themselves In their jobs, while the seekers after Justice for the corporations and busi ness Interests are trying to preserve their own material fortunes. May Be Just Tuning Up For the Election Campaigns There is, however, something dis turbing about this year's invasion. It seems to be utterly impossible that so many new injustices could have arisen within the last year There always has been a considers ble amount of this low form of high pressure around Washington, but the increased number of seekers after justice this year would seem to prove that the whole country has gone to pieces. It may be, of course, that they are tuning up for the elec tion campaigns. Seriously, however, few persons have been able to analyze the situ ation. Some suggest that the cur rent trek of seekers after justice results from the fact that the na tional government has become the focal point for "relief ' from every' thing since the depression fell upon us in 1930. Others feel that a sense of futility about life, itself, has crept into this country from the lands where dictators hold a human life to be nothing more than a chattel If either ef these answers is cor rect, we have a dangerous condition on our hands. It Is the defeatist attitude. It represents a decaying civilization civiliza-tion and national leaders had better wake up to what It means. now, lest someone charge me with having changed my tune from several years ago, I want to recall that I once feebly attempted at-tempted to pin t senator's ears back for seeking legislation legisla-tion to make everyone every-one register who visited a senator or a representative in behalf of legislation. He wanted to brand each one as a lob- I byist. That senator was Hugo Black. Hugo Black who now writes binding legal opinions opin-ions as a member of the Supreme court of the United State instead of blabbing for hours an the floor of the senate. I maintain that everyone ev-eryone has the right of petition te any government agency. What I am trying te de here, however. Is to show that there are se many more "petitioners" now than heretofore and to find the reason for it. Many Seekers After Justice in Washington Of course, most of these movements move-ments will not get very far. They will not get as far, in fact, as when I used to crawl under the corncrib for eggs out on the farm. But there are enough dissatisfied and discouraged discour-aged folks throughout the country to pay the freight and the hotel bills tor an extraordinarily large nuzn- . - U ber of seekers after justice in Washington. It is astonishing to see the lengths to which some of them will go. For example, there is one great church organization that sought to force the census bureau to include in the forthcoming census certain questions ques-tions that would have given that church a powerful leverage in the future administration of government affairs, according to well-authenticated reports. The church repre sentative tried for weeks to high pressure the census officials into in clusion of three questions. He made some threats about tne conse quences of their refusal. The government gov-ernment attorney to whom the cen sus officials submitted the question had the guts to say "no" and that was the census bureau answer. It was a despicable thing, however, how-ever, and illustrates the dangers inherent in-herent in the conditions I have tried to describe. The old age pension movement and the unemployment compensation compensa-tion movement and the other "welfare" "wel-fare" movements are represented in full force. Ofner Groups Are Working For Gifts From Government There are half a dozen other groups around town, working for one thing or another in the shape of gifts from the government. Nearly all of them have found something wrong with the present social security se-curity law, but they do not agree on what is wrong with it The whole circumstance rather convinces con-vinces me that maybe the law ought to be tossed overboard. I doubt that the federal government can ever administer such law. There probably is little possibility that any such law ever can be made workable worka-ble on a national basis. Some of the dreamy New Dealers who conceived con-ceived it have faded out of Washington Wash-ington officialdom already and have left their baby for somebody else to nurse to maturity. The one service they performed was to the New Deal finances, because the original program has brought six or seven hundred million dollars into the federal fed-eral treasury and it has been spent. Organized labor has its representatives represent-atives on the scene in a big way. Both the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Organ-izations, which is headed by John L. Lewis, and the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, which is headed by William Wil-liam Green, have national headquarters headquar-ters here. What is a poor politician going go-ing to do, however, when Lewis and Green are fighting each other and seldom, if ever, agree upon what changes must be made in the national labor relations act The labor row may get more than just an ordinary airing daring the sessioa ef congress now under way. I have written heretofore about the special house committee investi gation of the National Labor Rela-tons Rela-tons board. Exposures by that com. mlttee already have brought demands de-mands for the ousting of Commis sioner Smith and Chairman Mad- den. Commissioner Leiserson, appointed ap-pointed only a few months ago, apparently ap-parently is seeking to clean up the stinking mess, but the Lewis faction fac-tion of labor which has dominated tne board thus far is making Mr. Leiserson's Job pretty difficult There wUl be little consideration for the Green faction if Lewis can prevent It American Legion Can Really Put on High Pressure There is an offshoot of organized labor's setup here known as Labor's Non-Partisan league. I don't know wnat it is supposed to accomDlish. but it has a press agent and a staff oi executives" sad they an seem to get paid regularly, The American Legion is getting i.uve .gam. wants more rov. eminent money for the ex-soldiers. and make no mistake about It The American Legion can really put on high pressure when it sets out to do we jod. I haven't scratched the surface in naming the pressure groups that are to be found here for the current . sion of congress. There are at least 50 business organizations and trade associations. The purposes of all are the same, namely, advantages for them. The advantages may be in the form of cash such as the pen- siun pcuuoners ana uie Lesion sV or advantages that can be turned into cash after the methods of business. busi-ness. In any event they are all ucaucu uuwu n asningron-way. It seems to bode no good ai all for uie xoiiss woo are going to cav th bilL Including a national debt that is now $45,000,000,000 or more. I Joha L. Lewis WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Word comes from London that Sir Seymour Hicks, who, last September, became official offi-cial bucker-up of British civilians, . , sailors and Sir Seymour's S0ldiers, Is Laughter Bombs exploding Buck Up British kingdom, which eventually may blow down the Siegfried wall like the trumpets of Jericho. Sir Seymour, who had a similar job in the World war, is England's favorite light comedy actor, a leading lead-ing producer, and actor-managfer, a writer of consequence and a rallying point for both masses and classes, as they both claim him as their own. He is 78 years old and last month celebrated his ffty-second year on the stage. He started life as a call boy in a London theater. His next job was as an undertaker's mute, a hired mourner, sometimes some-times filling in as an emergency pall-bearer and the like. He wore black well and did nicely in his new career, until his memories of the theater obtruded obtrud-ed at an unfortunate moment. He was walking solemnly behind be-hind a hearse, when a distant band struck up a tune, which carried him back-stage again. He swung open the door of the hearse and called out, "The overture begins now, sir." That shunted him right back to the theater, which, by all accounts, he never should have left He has written and produced 64 plays and is the author of eight books of reminiscence, remi-niscence, comment and criticism. He was knighted in 1935, and May- fair made a tremendous fuss over him, with similar cheers from the populace. In the World war he organized or-ganized concerts and shows for the soldiers and kept up a drum-fire of spirited humor which rated him as the leading empire morale-builder. DINING with Henry F. Grady many years ago, this writer noted that he had that old-time free-trade free-trade religion. He has never back- n j cm' t. m slid- He is Grady Sticks to secretary Old-Time Free Hull's Jeph- Trade Religion ah' irdfd to smite the Ammonites hip and thigh as they assail the secretary's trade agreements agree-ments program. Mr. Grady, 57-year-old Celtic and incurably optimistic specialist spe-cialist in foreign trade, is assistant assist-ant secretary of state and has taken over the job of expounding expound-ing and putting forward the agreements. The law authorizing authoriz-ing the plan wiU expire June 12, and the continuation of this trade policy will be an early and exciting kick-off in congress. Mr. Grady, a San Franciscan, ed ucated at St Mary's university, Baltimore, Bal-timore, is a man of encvclonedic learning in trade matters, a lecturer lec-turer at many universities, the au thor of many books and treatises and a member of many learned so cieties. He boils down a mountain of data and statistics to his vehement vehe-ment insistence that no matter how we may tinker , with tariffs and quotas, quo-tas, the only helrful realitv la th flux of good through the internation al bloodstream. "THE Russian Baltic drive, side- iracsea oy ine iinns, was, according ac-cording to the meager evidence obtainable, ob-tainable, the pet idea of Andrei Wedge Between ferred to in Stalin, Zhdanoft tt8 last lin's possible successor. Later news is that Stalin has other ideas about M. Zhdanoffs future, as the latter takes the rap for the debacle in r inland. He was designated secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party committee on December 16, 1934. That made him a virtual vir-tual dictator of the Leningrad district, the Pittsbnrgh of Russia. Rus-sia. M. Zhdanoff has been particularly par-ticularly bitter against Britain, and several correspondents have attributed to him the disruption of last summer's negotiations of the aUied powers with the Soviets. So-viets. He is 43 years old, a Revolutionist since 1912. when he left school to engage in agitation Mm 1st government Until 1917. he was imeny occupied dodging the police and joined the armv r,. carrier for the Bolsheviks. In the early revolutionary years, he was one of the leading organizers of party propaganda and was thrown tato close association with Josef Stalin. It was ih K.omn:.. . beautiful friendship, which, quite yvSiUijr, me skmig Finns have dynamited. dy-namited. He is nf mMi. family, one of the cleverest word- miuis oi j.ed Russia. (Coasolidatws reatum-WNU Serrlc.) : -is ' MB mi'-- .. -y.-- -i .-.-wy ibuau omart Done in Two Shades Pattern 6505 An afghan for a beginner! Is two shades of a color, it's worked in single crochet, with rib stitch forming a herringbone desia Pattern 6505 contains directions for making afghan; illustratioa of it and stitches; materials re-quired; re-quired; color schemes; photo, graph of section of afghan. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Cir-cle Household Arts Dept., 251 W 14th St., New York, N. Y. ' Please write your name, address ad-dress and pattern number plainly. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT " T F EVERY citizen will cease It look to Washington in his moment il stress and strain, and individually u sume the responsibility of self-improw ment, of self-advancement, ef self-prt ervation, I believe the turning point then may be reached, and from thai instant we begin again to be a happy, contented, a prosperous people with eya raked high to greet a new day. This ii the American way, this is the Americas creed, this is the American spiriL"-13. spiriL"-13. S. Representative Albert E. Austin. CONSTIPATED? Don't Let Gas, Nerve Pressure Pres-sure Keep You Miserable When MBstipated two thina my toppoi. TIEST: Accumulated wastea swell up tM bowel and press on nerves in iha tetive tract. Tins nerve pressure often oauta head-, aches, a dull, lazy feeling. Ion of appetite, and dizziness. SECOND: fartlr Agotol food start to decay forming GAS, brittui en sour stomach, neid indigestion, and aart-burn, aart-burn, bloating you up until you lometimn gasp for breath. 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