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Show Thursday, November 30, 1939 THE Bruckart's Washington Digest European War Does More Damage To American Industry Than Good Man's World H"1- f TIMES-NEW- Envoy of Culture maim'- a NEPHI, UTAH S, - ' PAGE THREE Personality Pays - j tf To HOW-T-q SEW 4- - RuthWyeth Spears 3? Some Lines of Business Are Profiting, While Others Are Declining; Efforts to Boost Cotton Exports Fail; American Merchant Marine Affected. as desired. A I by strlo of wood nailed next to the ceiling of the bay and extending 6 inches over the walls at the sides as illustrated will solve the problem. The cranes for the side drapes Ssl I;:; By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. to take care of empire requireWASHINGTON. Although our nation is not mixed up in the European ments, I believe it is necessary only mess, and its people will not permit to report that the Canadian indus any administration to drag us in, it trial capacity was 67 per cent strikes me that the war on the other greater in 1937 than 20 years earside of the Atlantic already has done lier, or In the midst of the World a lot of things which ought to be war. The World war started the reviewed. There has been much trend in Canada; the present Eurolaughter about the "phoney" war pean war has given it new impetus and the "sitdown strike" of the and the Indications are that exports enemy armies, because thus far to Canada hereafter will continue there has been no real fighting. I to get smaller. And what has the war done to the do not propose to discuss that phase of the situation. There are some American merchant marine? Our government has spent a good Because sports writers objected to a woman's presence in the press box, Miss Katherine Davis, left, Knox- things which have happened and are game from outside the box. Symhappening here at home, however, many hundred millions in building ville, Tenn., sports writer, was forced to cover the Tennessee-Vanderbi- lt ships and in helping private ship pathies, it is reported, lie with Miss Davis. Circle inset: New head of the division of cultural relations of the that surely are worthy of consideran cul tion. ping companies to build ships. It United States department of state is Miss Irene A. Wright, outstanding authority on But ture. Right: A $2,000 dramatic scholarship went to Miss Nancy Bridges of Lebanon, Pa., cousin of Tommy When steel began to flash abroad, has been a policy of subsidy. there were thousands, if not mil- about the same time our ships begin Bridges, Detroit pitcher, when she was selected as America's personality girl in a New York contest. to attract attention on the high seas lions, of Americans "who believed a conflict overseas would pull us out and in international trade, along 'Hazi-Taz- i' comes new war conditions and our Visions of exof the depression. flag is forced to stay out of the trade ports amounting to millions of tons routes that produce the greatest were seen by many of the unthinkrevenue because traffic is heaviest. Highmisinformed and persons. ing er prices it is hardly necessary to Of course, it is a policy of the adrecall how excited some folks got ministration that has brought this about the prospects of higher prices about. President Roosevelt has felt .im ii.niiflliMAnl ' V nii nrrffr- -ri 'J-'X. and there was talk about shortages that adoption of a system of selling and all of that sort of thing. There goods to belligerents upon the docks was the usual effort of a certain of this country come and get it. cash and carry it away in your type of business interests to grab oft pay own ships is wise. Congress agreed of the Most extraordinary profits. with him. price hysteria has collapsed and The same legislation provided that quite a few persons lost their shirts no ships flying the American flag in the speculation to which they turned with the excitement of war may enter what is called combat zones. So, trade in our ships is talk. confined to those nations not eninsome are It is true that there in warfare. It happens, howdustries which are profiting from the gaged the three greatest buy that ever, war. Some, but not very many. ers who use Canadian Statistics are tiresome, but close ex- exports are ships (since by rail) are the eVrt.SsSgjVEj amination of them does reveal, in three nationslargely now fighting in Europe. this instance, how thoroughly spotty the anticipated war boom actually Transfer of Ship Registry is. In my own appraisal of the situ- Raises Stink in Washington ation, based on all of the facts I The latest development with recan obtain along with opinions of spect to the shipping industry is the experts, I have come to the conclueffort of one of the great shipping sion that the war thus far has done to transfer the regis our American business agriculture, companies -- i ---ii f try of its ships to Panama to fly fci.A HWtWrttmt-iiif- f wmmm imnni wmnmrri imiiniimmr commerce and industry more damthe of Panama That action, flag. is That age than it has done good. soothing music and vicious "gas attacks" of the verbal sort have long fea course, is like changing your own turedBig "guns" that fire nothing but western to say, if it were possible to bal- American front. Left: A battery of loudspeakers carries military music In Germany's warfare along the and citizenship becoming ance the increase due to the war stead of bullets to the French troops across the river In this battle of propaganda. Right: German soldiers re of can the another nation. It subject . against the further decline in other be done under the law, but it has leasing gas bailaona to be wafted to- the -French soldiers. Ea carries) propaganda message. lines, the total business of the United raised in a stink quite Washington, States would show an actual loss. because this course of action simply cash-and- circumvents the Airplane Manufacturers law. Under the Panama flag, carry Benefited And Rail Lines those ships could sail into war zone It can be pointed out, for example, which they cannot do as long that airplane manufacturers are do- ports as they fly the Stars and Stripes are a business. They thriving ing from their masthead. It does not selling airplanes for war purposes mean a great deal, I believe, ex as and they are selling them here, it shows the influence of the well. Likewise, the official reports cept war. the European show how the industries producing fuss about those (Incidentally, how ships recalls airplane parts and equipment and difficult it is to make a law that certain other types of war material will not have loopholes in it or are rushing their products through means of getting around it.) to a finished state. The war in the Far East has The rail lines have benefited. jpset practically all trade relations consecuof six a stretch Through between the United States and tive weeks, car loadings an accuJapan and China. There' is a quan ex have rate business barometer tity of exports yet moving in that seven ceeded 800,000 cars for each direction, but I am told by persons day period, and then dropped oft. who know the facts that when that In this case, car loadings have war is over, Japan will be without shown a vast bulk movement but any money and her in one must examine the commodities the United States willpurchases be next to hauled to calculate what conditions nothing for years to come. are. It is to be noted that there Citation of and trend and were exceedingly heavy shipments opinion could example go on quite at length of stuff usable in war included in in this situation. Taken all the 800.000 total. A good deal of this it seems to be one of the together im had been ordered previously. It portant things, next to ourreally own un could not be sent out until the employment rolls, because It look arms embargo was removed. from this date as though the United When Wiraton Churchill, first lord a Experts appear to believe that States is face to face with the neces kJS Uni imiinli n r ii rXi nnir u in II fc mii) of the British admiralty, drew a large portion of the shipments may sity of a gigantic readjustment It William P. Buckner Jr., wealthy playboy who was convicted in a bond parallel between the American not be repeated. At least, not In seems to me the problem cannot be fraud but who Is still at large pending his appeal, enjoys himself in a South of the Civil war and Nail such quantities. All of which la to dodged. Changes must come within M. New York night club. His seemingly startled partner for the evening Is Germany of today, Mrs. Gerald say that shipments of normally do- our own national economy. We will Clark of Jacksonville, FIa.f rose In mestic products, consumer goods, have to learn just what to pro Adelaide Moffett, society songstress. According to various gossip col- wrath. She demanded, and received must still be very much below par. duce and how much, because I fear umns, they are soon to wed. But that had nothing to do with her odd pose. on behalf of Southern womanhood. that a large chunk of our export an apology from Churchill, who de Respecting the market for consumer goods, mention market Is gone forever. nied any analogy In bis speech. may be made of applet and what a Our Cotton Exports Are drug they are on the market these O days. This may not be the same in Continuing to Decline We have witnessed the spectacle all parts of the United States, but it certainly Is true In the great apple of our secretary of agriculture seek " growing sections of Virginia. One ing to get our cotton or some other me told that he had Into farm product foreign markets large grower not sold a single apple for the Brit- by use of various forms of cash pay la he ish market where usually able ments to the producers. While he to ship several hundred carloads in has been passing out checks, our the course of a season. Imports of exports have declined and are con all fresh fruits have been banned in tinuing to decline, and there Is noth England. ing that can be done about It Other The industrial conference board. folks have learned to grow cotton private organization which Is quite and they are not going to stop. We accurate In Its reports on business cannot control them by a law saying conditions and trends, said lately a farmer must plant only so much. that our exports to Canada are due or that there must be six million dull thud. In 1938. little pigs killed off. to faU with Canada acquired 68 per cent of aU I was asked recently for my own TWO HANDKOZCHim of the things she imported right opinion on the outlook for business TWO COLLARS across the border in the United My reply was that I disliked making is to be States. It remembered, too. gloomy predictions. Pollyanna stuff that about 40 per cent of aU ex- is much more pleasant On the L ' ports from the United States in nor- other hand. President Hoover tried ONE MUFFLER. mal years go to Canada. hard to get prosperity to come round the corner, and he looked What Has War Done to rather ridiculous when she stayed American Merchant Marine? Just around the corner through more "at. r 1 I I But the situation Is changing rap-Idl- than nine years up to the present r ONC PfilK CLCVCi ONE SUIT OF UNDERWCflR Canada Is going industrial as time. Secretary Hopkins, of the de Dftrapidly as she can under the stress partment of commerce. Is trying and strain of war. Being a part of now to Induce the coy young worn a A lavish of make-oDiagram demonstrates how the new Nail clothe ration plaa will the British empire, does sny one to come around the same corner work from December 1, 1939, to September 1, 19t0. Ration rard permit transforms application members of Princeton the British war office is His department has been Issuing of 100 units of clothing purchase during that period. Thus, between , think that university's Triangle club Into chorgoing to seek supplies in the United statements about bulges In produc- December 1 and April 1, a man can purchase two pairs of aork. two ines for their annual stage show can In be bought Can tion and In sales and in shipments handkerchiefs, a muffler and one pair of gloves. Rrtwcrn April t and flairy-rhesleStates that Hubert Reese paints ada? Obviously not. To show how But I could not read the figures th September 1 he ran purchase ore look en Gordo shirt, two collars and a suit of that "rome-hilber- " Canada has developed her capacity same way the secretary read them underwear. Purchase of a suit would cost 60 anils. Bent's fare. Latin-America- on Nazi Western Front Everything Is "ff 0Z7T Xf 'fit the holidays almost at pvprvnno conm a tr Vta giving curtains a thought. An en thusiastic reader of Sewing Book No. 3 writes, "I have a bay window in my dining room that has always been a problem to curtain. Right now I would like to make pinch pleated drapes of figured damask to hang from cranes to the floor. I would also like a valance." The sketch at the lower right reveals the difficulty. The space between the top of the windows and the top of the bay made it impossible to hang the draperies WITH Given Took the Words Right Out of His Mouth may be screwed to this strip, and the rods for the pinch pleated valance fastened to it. NOTE: Readers who are now using Sewing Books No. 1, 2 and 3 will be happy to learn that No. 4 is ready for mailing; as well as the 10 cent editions of No. 1, 2 and 3. Mrs. Spears has Just made quilt block patterns for three de signs selected from her favorite Early American quilts. You may have these patterns FREE with your order for four books. Price of books 10 cents each postpaid. Set of three quilt block patterns without books 10 cents. Send or ders to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bedford Hills, New York. A f CLOTHESPIN NOSE Senutiofial fra feelp for colds with Luden'sl Thwt fatrwaj cough drops not only help sooths throat, but relssss st msnthol vapor which, with vary breath, helps penetrate dogged nasal passages, helps relieve "clothespin noset The dashing young traveler with the reputation seated 50 himself at the table and put on his Menthol Cough Drops most seductive smile as the pretty waitress approached turn. 'Nice day, little girl," he said. Right to Give "It is," she replied. 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