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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW. UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Battle Over Income Questions Threatens Entire 1940 Census; In Europe; Peace Talk Revived (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinion! are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Weitern Newspaper Union ) SHOEMAKER ROSSELLI AND HIS COBBLING SHOP "I'm answer census questions when they put polite." CONGRESS: Census Censure From Washington to his Racine, Wis., office Census Director William Austin rushed a telegram: "Withdraw Rosselli charges immediately. imme-diately. You have disregarded instructions instruc-tions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to W ash-hgton ash-hgton office for disposition. You will be held strictly responsible for this procedure . . Thus was closed the latest in a series of eruptions which threaten to wreck Uncle Sam's 1940 decennial census. James Rosselli, a Kenosha, Wis., shoe repair man, had been handed a federal warrant for refusing refus-ing to answer census questions about his business. The census taker also charged Shoemaker Rosselli Ros-selli had thrown him out. Answered Rosselli: "I'm answer census questions when they put polite . . . Everyt'lng can be explain. I walk out on him, yes . , . But I don't chase him." Gaining steam at Washington was the fight of Sen. Charles Tobey (Rep., N. H.) to have personal income in-come questions stricken from the 1940 nose count Franklin Roosevelt Roose-velt had denounced It as "an obviously obvi-ously political move," and the, census cen-sus bureau was willing to let citizens citi-zens refuse the question if they wished. But Senator Tobey was adamant. Said he: "The American Ameri-can people cry out, 'Hold! Enough!' . . . Those in authority will do well to- face the issue . . . !" After several days of this, the senate sen-ate commerce committee voted 10 to S to postpone temporarily its consideration of an anti-personal question resolution. Meanwhile Census Taker Austin wrung his hands, for bis house-to-house canvass can-vass is to start April 2. Should congress continue to squabble, he knew not what would become of the decennial census. Also in congress: Wagner Act. Twenty-one changes In the present act were recommended recommend-ed to the house by a special investigating investi-gating committee, but defeat was predicted. Chief proposal: Divorcement Divorce-ment of NLRB judicial and admin istrative functions. 'Clean Politics' Act. The senate killed a move to repeal the Hatch law's prohibition of political actlv lty by federal employees, then be gan arguing a proposal to extend the act to state workers who get part of their pay from federal funds. Agriculture. While the President signed legislation extending the farm mortgage moratorium, five Democratic senator! Introduced a bill to restore independence of the farm credit administration, recent ly placed under the department of agriculture. TREND How the wind is blowing . . RELIEF Patterned after the successful suc-cessful surplus foods stamp plan, a cotton stamp plan for distributing clothing among relief families will be started this month In five or six cities. AGRICULTURE According to Chicago crop authorities, U. S. winter win-ter wheat prospects In early March showed "some improvement" over the December 1 condition thanks to better-than-normal winter moisture and snow protection against subzero sub-zero weather. ARMY The war department announced an-nounced surplus and "unstandard" munition supplies were being sold to neutral nations. Item: 80 six-inch World war guns stored at Aberdeen, Md., proving ground since the World war, were sold "as is" and "where is" to Brazil. JEWRY To prevent Arab uprisings, upris-ings, Britain restricted sale of Pal-istine Pal-istine land to Jews. When riots fol-owed, fol-owed, Neville Chamberlain's gov-jrnment gov-jrnment won its first wartime centre cen-tre move in the house of com-nons. com-nons. By 292 to 129, the house up-eld up-eld the Palestine decree. BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE ; 1 THE WARS:-Peace WARS:-Peace in the North? Early March found Finland's warriors war-riors valiantly trying to save Viipuri from the invading Reds, who let off excess steam by "deliberately" bombing a hospital in south-central Finland. Biggest news of the Russo-Finnlsh war, however, was the effort all Europe seemed making mak-ing to bring these belligerents to peace. Background for this peace was the obvious fact that every European Euro-pean nation would gain by it Scandinavia Scan-dinavia would gain by side-stepping the combined pressure of France, Britain, Germany, Russia and Finland. Fin-land. Russia would gain by turning her attention to a sorry domestic situation. Knowing this, observers were not surprised when London, Berlin, Brussels, Paris and Stockholm began be-gan bristling with reports that Sweden was mediating, that the Russo-Finnish war might be called off at any moment. Most likely terms: Surrender of the Karelian isthmus (including Viipuri), Viipu-ri), part of Lapland, Petsamo and the Hango naval base. As a "deadline" "dead-line" drew near, the Finns practically practi-cally admitted such overtures had been made, yet there was small chance they would be accepted. More War in the West? For the moment, northern peace talk had no effect elsewhere. In what was a day of wild and woolly warfare for the western front 20 Britons were captured by the Nazis. from 1 England 4V'a MILLION TONS 7 MILLION MUotw SJ s v2 MILLION roue W A Other Sources 1 2 MILLION TONS ITALY'S COAL SOURCES More from Britain? A new wave of torpedolngs, bombings bomb-ings and mine explosions cost the neutral Dutch 12 ships, But Britain's foe-of -the-week was Italy, which protested furiously when the allies clamped an embar go on Italian coal imports from the Reich. Within 48 hours 16 Italian ships were hauled into British ports and their coal cargoes discharged. Rome threatened the situation would become serious unless Britain backed down, but there was no sign of this. Already getting more than a fourth of her coal from Britain (see chart) Italy seemed faced with the choice of declaring war (an improbability) im-probability) or swapping her munitions muni-tions and airplane motors for British Brit-ish coaL Welles Mission Completing the first half of his European fact-finding junket U. S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles left Berlin, gathered his strength and his luggage m Lausanne, Lau-sanne, Switzerland, then headed for Paris. In Rome he had talked with a mild-mannered Benito Mussolini. In Berlin he had met a tough and determined de-termined Adolf Hitler. Still on the calendar were two more visits. Mr. Welles was to fly from Paris to London, where Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would probably restate his war aims. Principal aim: (Destruction of the Nazi rule. Then Mr. Welles would return to Rome for more conversations conversa-tions with D Duce before catching the Conte Di Savoia for home. Before he walks up the gangplank, observers ob-servers thought Summer Welles could not possibly avoid planting his foot in the potentially dangerous British-Italian coal squabble. NAMES in the neivs . . . GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL, MAR-SHALL, U. S. army chief, was welcomed to Hawaii by a flight of 60 army planes. Embarrassing note: Two ships collided in midair, mid-air, but pilots parachuted safely. FRANK ASHTON-GWATKIN, Britisher, and CHARLES RIST, French m an, y,jw---'vmMwxMi consuiuiea a t v 1 ararin1 n 1 1 i o4 & apple - polish ing expedi apple-polish- f i- i'r tion to soothe U. S. anger over difficulties difficul-ties arising from the German blockade. Biggest com-nlaints: com-nlaints: (1) ASHTON-GWATKIN Apple polisher. censorship of U. S. mails; (2) taking U. S. ships into contraband contra-band control ports. Arriving in Washington, the delegation was closeted with Secretary of State CORDELL HULL. MOST REV. SAMUEL A. STRITCH was enthroned new Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago. POLAND: Atrocity Neics From three sources this month came news of trouble in Nazi-occupied Poland and Czecho-Slovakia : (1) In Berlin it was revealed that deportation of Jews to the newly established state southeast of Lublin, in Poland, has been stopped because local administrators complained about lack of facilities. At the same time Berlin announced that time of worship in Polish Catholic churches was being limited because priests "misused divine services for political polit-ical purposes." (2) In Paris, Poland-in-exile claimed that 136 Polish schoolboys had been executed at Bydgoczcz; that 6,000 men and women had been executed there up to December 31; that 350 Poles from Gdynia were shot after being forced to dig their graves. (3) Paul Ghali, writing from Paris for the Chicago Daily News, had "authentic sources" for his information in-formation that Polish landowners have been dispossessed, and that Czech children must submit when little Germans In the same school bully and tease them. RUMANIA: Prayers Keystone of Balkan security is Rumania's neutrality, often threatened threat-ened the past six months by the economic tug-of-war being waged between Russia, Germany, France and Britain. Cognizant of this, Pope Pius prayed in early March that Rumania Ru-mania might be preserved "from the scourge of war." What happened hap-pened in the next three days made no sense, but it did indicate that Rumania was also praying: First day: Rumania was reported report-ed rushing a little Maginot line along her Bessarabian border fronting front-ing Russia. Second day: It was announced by Russia that Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov will soon visit Bucharest to initial a non-aggression pact This was a shocker, for Russia has made no secret of her designs on Bessarabia. Third day: King Carol opened his parliament promising to maintain main-tain a permanent 1,600,000-man army regardless of cost Adding it up, observers wondered if King Carol might not at last be withering under pressure from all sides. POLITICS: Biggest Barrage For months Franklin Roosevelt has parried third-term questions. But each parry is more difficult, for each press conference brings more definite questions. In early March the President returned from his Caribbean vacation to face the biggest barrage yet Only the day before his name had been entered in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary pri-mary and correspondents were hungry hun-gry for comment But they got nothing except his remark that all third-term rumors fell into one of the four newspaper categories suggested sug-gested by Thomas Jefferson: (1) news; (2) probabilities; (3) possibilities; possi-bilities; (4) lies. Nobody knew Into which of these categories the latest rumor fell, but it bore authentic earmarks. Out of Washington came reports that Franklin Roosevelt's feud with John Nance Garner would burst into flames before Illinois' April 9 primary, pri-mary, first crucial Roosevelt-Garner contest support Somehow, the wiseacres learned Mr. Roosevelt will plump this month for a New Dealish presidential slate, thus fore. ing an answer from the sphynx-like Mr. Garner. Superlatives NEATEST TRICK Britain', no - B 4.U million dollar Ouwa F;fc-L Anj vonuvnii v liu ed her maiden voyage in Nev York. TOUGHEST JOB-A mammotn testine machine installed v - Kensington, Pa., by Aluminum Company of America, showed its versatility first by smashing a solid oak log, then by tapping an egg so soiuy inai a Daoy chick jumped out Li-ZJ Bruckart'i WaMneton Digest Advocates of Public Ownership - t n mi Til Make Real bid tor meirriaii Group of Government Officials and Other Interested Individuals Mix 'Movement' Into National Affairs and Politics. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Behind the thick veil of official secrecy, a thoroughly active group of individuals is developing de-veloping a broad plan of public ownership. own-ership. It is using the established machinery of government and it is mixing into national politics to an amazing extent. We, here in Washington, have heard recurring and increasing ru mors of late that a new public own ership drive was contemplated by the extreme radicals nesting in the New Deal henhouse. It was a situ ation, however, where few details were obtainable. The leaders were making use of the veil of official secrecy that always is available for use by those supposed to be servants of the public. Suddenly, however, the magnitude of the movement be came discernible. Its scope is astounding. It strikes me that it is a situation that contains elements of greater danger than did the in famous plan to pack the Supreme court of the United States. Exposure of the group's intense effort came largely through stupid ity of some of its members. Proof of the underlying motives came in the form of a sudden and slimy attack at-tack on John W. Hanes, former JOHN W. DANES undersecretary of the treasury. Mr. Hanes was slated to become trustee of the gigantic, but bankrupt bank-rupt octopus, the Associated Gas and Electric company. Mr. Hanes has not been named as trustee, although his official record has not a blemish on it so far as has been found. Instead, In-stead, Dr. Willard Thorp, economic adviser to Secretary Hopkins, of the department of commerce; Denis J. Driscoll, chairman of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Public Utilities commission; and Walter H. Pollak, New York lawyer, were named. Billion-Dollar Utility Property Was to Be 'Proving Ground' The public ownership group wanted want-ed to swing the trusteeship for this billion-dollar utility into the hands of the Securities and Exchange commission, com-mission, as might be done under the SEC law. They proposed to use this great property, so badly mussed up, as proving ground for their public ownership ideals. It was contemplated that the Associated Associat-ed properties eventually would be welded into TV A, and a great north-and-south system under government ownership would have become a fact To accomplish this program, however, how-ever, it was necessary to dispose of Mr. Hanes, who favors private ownership own-ership in industry and who wants to see America retain its fundamental fun-damental traditions. In due course, we were treated to publication of the views of Senator Norris of Nebraska, Ne-braska, who was the father of TV A. I doubt very much that the aged Nebraskan knew that he was being used in the fashion that was the case. But the scheme worked and the Norris criticism that Mr. Hanes had been a stock broker smeared the former treasury official who had done more to prevent New Deal financial mistakes than most of the others. The attack on Mr. Hanes, however, how-ever, failed to. get the trusteeship Into the hands of the Securities and Exchange commission. The schemers schem-ers failed to cover up their tracks. But while they failed on one track. Public Ownership? A group of government officials in Washington are strong advocates advo-cates of an extensive plan of public pub-lic ownership, according to William Wil-liam Bruckart And he believes that these officials are using the cloak of government secrecy to formulate their plans. The plans have only recently come to light because of attempts to smear John W. Hanes, former undersecretary under-secretary of treasury. ry V s M : """ thpv did succeed in getting the gravy of trustee fees for men of their own choosing Thorp, Driscou and Pollak. Dr. Thorp's beliefs were so contrary to sound views that onlv a few years ago the senaie refused to confirm his nomination as assistant secretary of commerce. Mr. Driscoll's affiliations in Penn sylvania show how he has been linked consistently with nearly every wild-eyed proposal that had New Deal ownership. He was licked for re-election to congress a term or two aeo and became a lame duck appointee to the Pennsylvania commission by the then Governor George H. Earle. So, while it is accepted that the gravy is important, impor-tant, it was much more important that the trustees should think right, according to radical lights. Third Term for President Was in Political Strategy Such is the picture of how the public ownership crowd operates. That picture fails, however, to disclose dis-close what is going on beneath the surface. Here is that story: The strategy to be used, politically, political-ly, contemplates that support of the payrollers, who seek to nominate President Roosevelt for a third term, shall be had for the public ownership theories in return for support of the third term program. A good political hqrsetrade. It is good because the public ownership segment figures that an apparent national political party endorsement will be available, or folks will be induced to believe there is such an endorsement My information is that the public ownership crowd is counting on a repetition of conditions condi-tions in 1932, when, it will be recalled, re-called, Mr. Roosevelt's political wings covered 57 varieties of political polit-ical thought and theory. Important members of the Washington Wash-ington group that heads up the public pub-lic ownership group are placed in nearly every department of the government gov-ernment They are in key positions. posi-tions. Whether they are influencing influenc-ing national policies is a question I cannot answer, but I can say they are in a position to use such influence in-fluence very effectively. A decision here and a ruling there could be of vast help to such a program without there being any visible connections. Then, as to rumors, again. We hear a great deal of gossip about some members of the Supreme court serving as advisers to less experienced ex-perienced agitators in the executive branch of the government. I repeat that I do not know whether these stories are true. There have been many signs indicating that frequent conferences take place, and no one denies that close ties of friendship exist between several of newer Su preme court justices and their proteges pro-teges in Washington's downtown section. The rumors, therefore, are very disturbing to those of us with the old fashioned idea that the Supreme Su-preme court should be an agency to serve tiie people in a judicial capacity 'and that its members should confine their activities to that field. Public Ownership Advocates Are on Government Payroll The general situation becomes all the more threatening, in my opinion, opin-ion, when it is known that there have been numerous advocates of wholesale government management of private industry operating on the government payroll. Some of them have taken the position that the way to obtain government ownership of private industry is to get industry so far into debt that the federal government would have to assume control. That is to say, only the federal government would have sufficient suf-ficient credit and borrowing power to pay off the debt" As I said earlier, many details of the snakelike operations of this gang remain in deepest secrecy. Some facts have leaked nut ever, that cause shivers to run up ana uown my spine. The thing that none nf ui uci C know about definitely, is whether Mr. Koosevelt has been r,orc,w to adopt the program. Some of my uuuniidius a&sure me that it does not matter whether Mr. ri. even knows about the plan, because ns xemacies extend like those of i jellyfish into many hiddpn nt,. In other words, a few of the cocky leaders believe the movement has grown so large that it is beyond the rresiaeni s control. I recall that in 1934 th r,i, ownership group was determined to iase over the natcn's ra;i,-. They had a bill drawn 'hv 4,;i! the rail lines would be bought for io.iuu.uuu.uw, mat being the amount of the outstanding bonds of the companies. At that time, there Wae taTlr of nationalizing the coal mines and me ou wens, uut Mr. Roosevelt put his foot down on the idea w yield numerous concessions n the uinxuon oi cutting deepe. .ashes into private management, but stayed away from the fatal step. ATTERN rNw VTAKE your school-girl daugh-A daugh-A ter an every-day frock and housecoat both, with this one simple sim-ple pattern 8633. 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