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Show THE Paere Two NEWS ANALYSIS WEEKLY Rural Boys 'Make Good' Drarirlanf'r ArluicQrc J . By 1 Harry Hopkins and Leon Henderson Have FDR's Confidence in Policies Vital to U. S. Welfare. Mother of '41 Edward C. Wayne n' V By BAUKIIAGE during the World war, with the Association for the Improvement of the Poor in New York, where he got to know Governor Roosevelt, and then with the relief organization of the federal government Hopkins, lean, slight, amiable, grew up with the New Deal. So did Leon Henderson but he reached the inner circle by a more roundabout way. He is thick-se- t and dynamic and he blustered into the confidence of General Johnson In the NRA, as an economist who could punctuate his theories with the salty expletives that appealed to Old Iron Pants. When the blue eagle folded Its wings, Henderson plowed his own furrow and got out of the way when mere columnist; Donald Richberg, he was not needed but always manhis successor, back with his law aged to bob up when he had a chance to say something important. books; the professors, Raymond Mo-leonce in the state department, to- He predicted the "bust" as he day behind an editorial desk in the called it the slump of 1937. In 1938 seat of the scorner, and Rexford he warned against price rises. He Guy Tugwell, still loyal, but silent, kept warning. Prices went up. Now a partner of Industry. We might he is czar over prices. Like Hopkins, Henderson worked go on. But two men, one a veteran of his way through college. Like him, NRA, another of WPA, have been too, the Jobs he has held since his chosen to sit at the right and left maturity were all outside the marts hands of the Chief in crisis II: of trade and commerce. e These two rural boys Harry Hopkins, head of the program see the same dreams of America when they look out of the White House windows side by side with the Hyde Park Squire. y, GREEK: Argument Bill Presented The and fight in the senate picked up when the Tobey and Nye resolutions were given formal consideration in com- The debacle in Greece seemed to be "small potatoes" as far as men and munitions were concerned, as compared with Dunquerque, but the pattern turned out to be almost identical. There was little question but that the fighting had been as hard at one place as at the other, with probably more successful work done by the British in Greece than they did in France. It seemed that the Greeks were better than the French, whose morale was utterly shot long before the British began to fall back, and had to contend with clogged roads and fleeing millions. But Churchill let the commons have the "Greek bill" of expenses as soon as he knew what it was, and announced he would permit a full debate on this motion: A vote of confidence in the conduct of the war by the British government and a vote of approval on the giving of aid to the Greeks. Churchill said the British had put 60,000 soldiers into Greece, including mittee. Both resolutions were defeated in committee, but only by a vote oM3-1and this showed what strength 0, the had gained. would have tied the President's hands most effectively, in the question of using the American navy to protect shipments to Britain and other defending democracies. Both would have demanded that the President get congressional approval for any convoying that might be done, and pledged congress to give or withhold It within 14 days. This would have slowed the pace of the naval commander-in-chie- f to a walk. There was little repetition, however, of the charges that convoying already was being done. Senator Nye, in some of his speeches, began to give figures of U. S. losses of equipment en route The resolution ' ' ,. v t 1 i 5 i x ucx J j self-mad- -- y J Early Morning in a Nation's Capital Six o'clock in the morning. From a Saturday to a Monday spring changed to summer in Washington, buds turned to blooms and bare branches burst out into full-leav- green. In a city, the first walk under this newly spread canopy of green is a strange delight. There is nothing quite like it Leafy curtains shut out the harsh, cold stone and steel about you as a drawn shade shuts out the night from a lamp-li- t room. Washington does not wake early. At six in the morning there are so few people on the streets that the folks you pass seem as friendly as a neighbor you meet on a lonely lane. The red and green traffic lights still have their eyes closed and only the yellow bulbs blink sleepily at you as they have all night But these days the sun is well up and as you walk west to east the light strikes you square in the eyes. It always reminds me of a prairie town and that always reminds me of how I was reminded of my prairie town when we used to be marching eastward in the dawn of a murky French morning when the sun suddenly burst on us and made us long d for the old, campaign hat Instead of the little cloth rag of an overseas cap. You don't see many campaign hats any more. As I came down the avenue this buses passed morning almost-empt- y me. I saw a colored man watering a pathetic little patch of lawn In y front of his cottage. The rest of the family were still asleep, the bedroom windows were open. I saw an ornate oil lamp in one. All rooms seem to be bedrooms In The fine old resiWashington. dences are turned into rooming houses many of them and early in the morning the windows are open. In an hour thousands of government workers will be hurriedly dressing behind carelessly drawn shades, then Jamming the buses with all the roomy comfort of steers in a cattlecar. Between old, transmogrified residences rise the new apartments. Here and there are a few that sprang Into being when 1917 filled the city with war workers. They are frequently Impressive looking on the outside, built to suggest a French chateau. Inside, tiny little boxes of rooms with low ceilings that the third floor windows can hardly see over the sills of the second floor of the residences uext . ti . - r ;V,;. mmii yiTi His m vi yMaiwininai SENATOR NYE bill: 40 loss, at If 'f : I - J- tm m sea. to Britain by sea, and said that these ranged from 40 per cent to more than half. He then quoted a high defense official as saying, "they were nowhere near 40 per cent and were getting less constantly." However, it was still apparent that Britain preferred to send American aircraft across the ocean by air rather than on the water, and the President backed up this effort by announcing he was asking for a survey to get all the commercial air transports possible, presumably to ferry the pilots back and forth who were in the transatlantic shipping of warplanes to Britain. That this was a big industry and getting bigger was seen by the new revelations of the prices being paid to American pilots for doing the ferrying. Some of these salaries were quoted at $1,500 a trip, which didn't seem so much, but it was a good deal for a day's flying, and some of the bombers were making it in WINSTON CHURCHILL His bill: 3,000 killed in Greece. one division each (about half of the total force), of Australians and New Zealanders He said that of this number there were about 3,000 casualties (killed and wounded and missing), about 45,000 "got away to fight on other fronts," and 12,000 were still unaccounted for. This, presumably, included those left to screen the retreat (suicide battalions) ; and those lost at sea in sunken transports. The prime minister said "British losses were small compared to the losses inflicted on the Germans, who on some occasions for two days at a time were brought to a complete h standstill by forces their number." He said, further, that the conduct of the troops, especially the rear guard, merited the highest praise, and that the British demonstrated that prolonged air bombing by uay and night had no power to shake their discipline or their morale. Some members of the house wanted to know if the 45,000 had fled to Crete or had reached their own bases. Churchill said he believed the latter to be the case. He admitted that the army in Greece had been forced to abandon or destroy all of Its heavy equipment, which could, of course, not be removed. He was highly positive, however, not only of the escape of 45,000 men, but hinted that the other 12,000 "unaccounted for" probably would die or be taken prisoners but might possibly, escape somewhere else temporarily. . The Nazi communiques announced the Greek war over, the formation of a "new government", similar to that of occupied France, and the affair officially at an end. e under the law, and Leon Henderson, officer of price administration and civilian supply. The two men are alike in few characteristics except that both were poor farm boys, both have a New Deal slant on life, and neither has much interest in the art of a Fifth avenue tailor. There is no doubt that the defense program, if we must still use that euphemistic label for this anything but negative undertaking, has passed out of the joint power of the dollar-a-yemen and into control of theso two staunch supporters of the Roosevelt administration. The rise of Harry Hopkins' Influence has been steady, interrupted only by periods of His relationship with the President start12 hours. ed from a sympathy of viewpoint Of course, there was the wait beconcerning the duty of government fore you got back to cam another toward its underprivileged. It has $1,500, but the pilots were getting grown into an intimate friendship, astronomical "waiting salaries" as bastioned by propinquity that comes well. But there were signs that as from sharing the same rooftree and American production was stepped many leisure hours, before nine In up, this business was beginning to the morning and after six at night, get out of hand, and that there was since May of last year. a woeful shortage of planes capable That was when Hitler's blitz of bringing the pilots back to Ameracross the low countries showed the ica. President that the possibility of There also was revealed another peaceful intervention in the cause British immediate request for a of democracy in Europe was over. In his despair, he called his friend quantity of mosquito torpedo boats, and also the fact that American supto the White House for a week-en- d ply was short for Secretary Knox of comfort and counsel. Hopkins said, ''We'll let them have some, has been there ever since. and more as we finish them up." Perhaps the barefoot boy driving neighbor's cows up a dusty lane RUSSIA: some four decades ago dreamed of the White House every boy has a At Crossroads chance to be President we know. Indication that Soviet Russia Is But how many boys dream of being news facing a situation that is becoming President's chief advisor and bossless and less healthy for the Soviet's ing seven billion dollars' worth of Washington: President Roosevelt peace of mind came when it was supplies for democracy? himself opened the government's officially announced by Moscow that Harry's father was a harness dollar defense savings 12.000 German troops, well equipped maker. He had a harness shop in campaign by buying the first bond with tanks and heavy artillery, had Grinnell, Iowa, and it was in Iowa himself. The ceremony was broadmoved into Finland by water with because Mrs. Hopkins was am- door. cast from coast to coast the evident intention of staying bitious for her children and there But the modern apartments that New York: Jesse Jones announced there. was a college there. Harry earned are springing The official announcement coupled up like dandelions that the government debt would go some nickels and dimes herding these days do not go in for French to 90 billions, and that America, with this move by the Nazis, at cows, and then worked in the shop. which had no sacrifices as yet least former allies of Russia, with They are the same boxes inLater he worked his way through side. Outside, there are ugly flat would be making them "and plenty the decision by Russia not long ago college. Money never meant much walls with plenty of glass, the whole of them." not to permit further shipments of to htm. He never handled much of entrance Is London: Belgian circles reported arms and munitions over her railglass. They look too his own. But he has bossed millions much like modern Moscow to please that Germany is holding 128.000 Belroads, or through her country by air for other people In tfie Red Cross my or land. eyes. gians prisoners of war. London: British bombers claimed Just what the German objective sinking or damaging 42,000 tons of was in Finland was not immediately Axis coastwise ships in a week. The apparent but it was evident that if British announcement said "evidentthe Germans Intend to go on southBy Daukhnge ly the Nazi rail strain is being reward through Turkey and Syria Into lieved by the use of coastwise shipIraq and Iran, the Germans will C. One of the most Important facC The emergency has brought so ping in more favorable weather." certainly bottle up the Black Sea tors in settling a strike, according many extra workers to Washington Chungking, China: Capt. James for Russia, and few believed the to William H. Davis, vice chairman that office Roosevelt of the marines bobbed up Soviet would stand for that without is at a space of the National Defense Mediation In spite of new buildings inpremium. in Chungking, watched the Japanese Disfighting, perhaps on the side of the board, is public opinion. Both sides trict of Columbia two federalthebuildcarry out an air raid on the city, Turks, perhaps alone. know that the people are back of ings are being erected In adjoining praiied the public's morale, and anThis Is the eventuality that most the board. Maryland and Virginia. These nounced that he was going to fly to friends of an eventual defeat for . City The symphony: squeak of buildings provide a million additionnorthern Africa to observe the war Hitler and Mussolini and Japan a brake, a bird and baby, all In the al square feet of office space to meet there. He said to Generalissimo Chi- have looked forward to, and Church-Il- l limt key. the Increased demand. "I'm here to learn." ang hinted at It not long ago. ar . -,- 'A'Jtv 1 XT CONVOY: anti-conv- (WNU Service, 1343 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C.) WASHINGTON. America faces Its second crisis under Roosevelt. Whether America knows it or not and by the time this reaches print the last doubt may be removed the President knows it now. The first crisis was the peak of the economic panic. The present one is the valley of allied fortunes. The WPA and the NRA were two of the institutions which the President created to meet our economic problems in 1933. Since then many an outstanding member of the New Deal palace guard has had his hour to strut and fret upon the stage and then be heard no more. General Johnson and his blue eagle now a lend-leas- . In these columns, they (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are are those of the newa analyst ana not expressed necessarily of Ibis newspaper.) .(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) . National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. HARRY HOPKINS Thursday, May 8, 1941 NEPAL UTAH S. U. S. Shipping Losses Brings Convoy Issue Into Open Debate; 45,000 British Soldiers Are Saved As Nazis Complete Balkan Campaign 'Aid-to-Britai- Ac TIMES-NEW- wide-brimme- two-stor- now-emp- ty Highlights in the multi-billio- n BRIEFS Kai-she- one-fift- V Li Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl of Danville, Ky., by marriage a great-gregranddaughter of Isaac Shelby, Revolutionary war hero and first governor of Kentucky, is the American Mother of 1941. She was extended this honor by the American Mothers' committee of the Golden Rule foundation, which annually sponsors the American Mother. Cited as being "representative of the best there is in motherhood," Mrs. Diehl is the mother of four grown children all girls. 'COPPERHEADS': And FDR The "Lone Eagle," Charles Augustus Lindbergh, once more landed on Page One as the first American news story. Lindbergh, who had first associated himself with the and later with advocates of the theory that British victory was impossible and German victory certain, carried his views to the American public until finally President Roosevelt took cognizance of them In a press conference, mentioning Lindbergh by name, and in no complimentary terms. Lindy countered by resigning his commission in the air corps reserve, and accompanied it with a personal letter to the President which he released to the press as soon as it was written, and long before the President received it The war department accepted the resignation. The President received the letter. Lindbergh received from Presidential Secretary Early the hint that perhaps he would like also to return to Hitler a decoration he had received from Der Fuehrer some years back. The open controversy had its backers on both sides, both public and private. The immediately made of Lindy a martyr, and at a subsequent public meeting, Senator Nye, leader of the "keep out of war" bloc in the senate, along with Senator Wheeler, made capital of the incident by addressing his hearers as "fellow-Copperheads- ." The copperhead reference was President Roosevelt's, used in the press conference anent Lindbergh. Lindy's name was cheered to the echo at each of these meetings, and the leaders of the movement were quick to seize on him as a martyr. Opponents of Lindbergh's attitude were glad he resigned his commission but took the stand that he ought to be silenced and deported, in fact there were few limits in the suggestions that emanated from various sources backing up the President in his questioning of the flier's patriotism. Along came the Hugh Johnson incident to fan the flames and to give movement the more stature. General Johnson, holding, like Lindbergh, a reserve army commission, was denied a reappointment by the President. Johnson had been authoring an column which had been widely distributed in the press. He, a former New Dealer and a former head of the NRA in the early Roosevelt days, had been busy in circles, mostly in magazines, prior to the last election, and had continued with a newspaper column. The army had certified Johnson for reappointment so in refusing to allow the commission to go out the President went against his army chiefs' advice, and further stated that as there was no likelihood of Johnson's actively serving, he wanted to spare the commission for somebody that would. Lindbergh, in his letter' to the President resigning, had made quite a point of the fact that as an inactive army officer, he had felt permitted to use the freedom of speech in attacking the administration's foreign policy, but that if the President was going to impugn his patriotism why then be was going to resign. INVASION: 'Bugbear The end of the Greek campaign and the slowing down of the North African fl,Tht if it was not at the stalemate point brought the old British bugbear of an Invasion attempt to the fore again. It was a bugbear but a bugbear with a silver lining. If that was possible, for most of Britain dreaded the days of waiting more than the actual attempt so sure were the people that It would be smashed. Washington, D. C. TERRITORIAL BASES The island bases of the United States are now considered our best But safeguard against Invasion. army and navy brasshats get a scorching rebuke in a report prepared by the house appropriations subcommittee that Inspected territorial bases. Written by Rep. James G. Scrug-haof Nevada, chairman of the group, the report recommends the immediate creation of an "independent air force." This would be intended to correct two chief abuses: (1) The location of army and navy bases almost side by side in fiat, unprotected country, thus "Inviting destruction by enemy bombs." (2) Failure to build hangars, repair shops and other facilities underground. Regarding the first criticism the "This Scrugham report states: policy of concentrating highly essential military or industrial structures in very limited areas cannot be too strongly condemned, and may constitute an error of gravest consequences. This is as true In our territorial as well as our continental defenses. "The lesson of the destruction of the Polish air force by the Germans at the beginning of the war seems to have gone entirely unheeded (by the aeronautic bureau chiefs responsible). In a flat country, protected air facilities may be impractical, but where there are adjacent hills, it seems inexcusable to deliberately build . . . bases invitingly located for bombing attacks, and so close together that an enemy plane can hit one if it misses the other. "Everywhere the story is the same, from Hawaii to Puerto Rico, from Alaska to the Virgin Islands, Jamaica and Trinidad. Also, no adequate plans have been formulated for water reserves, except to contract for drilling a few wells, with grave uncertainties as to quality and quantity." Scrugham's conclusions are that a "tragedy of the first magnitude" may develop unless immediate steps are taken to rectify conditions at the territorial bases. His solution is the centralization of all military air forces under a single head with cabinet rank. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR AIR One of the significant differences FAHMER BROWN'S little boy, patched overalls, straw hat and polka-dneckerchief, poses for a most practical cutout. 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There was no interWhen you feel gassy, headachy, logy ference from the generals, and air dua to clogged-u- p bowels, do as million corps chiefs are working harmonido take at bedtime Next ously and effectively with their new morning - thorough, comfortable relief, civilian boss. helping you start the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a Navy brasshats, on the other million! doesn't disturb) hand, are fighting tooth and nail to your night's rest or Interfere with work the block a similar civilian intrusion next day. Try the chewing into their realm. gum laxative, yourself It tastes good, if d bandy and economical ... a family supply Through lobbying operations In the house, the admirals wormed Into the $3,500,000,000 navy FEEN-A-MIN- T appropriation bill a provision that would make It Impossible to name Our Fallings an assistant secretary for air. No one is satisfied with his forThe prohibitive clause Is a very slick piece of axing. On it face tune, nor dissatisfied with his init has no connection with the pro- tellect. Deshoulieres. posed civilian appointee. It merely bars the expenditure of navy funds "for any additional positions . . . Restless-at a rate of compensation In excess of $5,000 a year." The pay for an assistant secretary Is $8,000 a year. Cranky? BestleaaT Can't sleep? Tire easily? Because or distress of monthly TOUGH DRAFT BOARDS Then try disturbances? functional The problem of industrial manE. Pink ham's Vegetable ComLydla deso acute has become that power pound. fense chiefs have complained to sePlnkham's Compound Is famous some officials lective service for relieving pain of lrregusar periods that and cranky nervousness due so such, local boards are "too tough" about disturbances. One of the most effecgranting deferment to skilled worktive medicines you can buy today men. for this purpose made enpeeiaUy lor women. WORTH TBYINQI Ohio draft boards, for example, are ordering the induction of craftsmen badly needed for the crucial machine tool program. Similar Easing Relaxation complaints have been made against Straining breaks the bow, and takrelaxation relieves the mind. Michigan draft authorities for ing specially skilled men needed by Syrus. the Packard plant now producing e airplane engines for Trxtsv's nomilaHt of Vtmni VMt, sftrr the British. many Years of world-- i From Virginia have come reports wide ase. snretv mtut be accepted as evidence that the draft Is hampering the vast I ol tautfactory naval and shipbuilding program at " And favorable ptiblis Newport News. opinion supports that of the able phvetctsns The problem of labor supply is M test the value of also hitting agriculture. AgriculIVin'i under exscting laooratnTT conditions. tural officials fear that to much Theae pnvKlans, feo, spprove every word labor Is being drained off farms that of sdvertisinf you read, the objective of BKh is onljr to reeomnvnd Dotn'i Pills some of them want to bar any more ss a good d'reti treatment for diwrder defense plants In mldwestern dairy of tke kidney fmKtina and far relief ol the pain and worry k eanaes. and pork sections. If more were aware of DON'T BOSSED Feen-A-Mi- at Feen-A-Mi- nt Feen-A-Mi- gold-braid- high-powere- 761 rliervous i Girls! Rolls-Royc- . . ME TalL Rep. Lyndon Johnson is going to let no grass grow under his feet in his campaign for the seat of the late Sen, Morris Sheppard of Texas. The young New Dealer, who has the public blessing of the President plana 208 speeches, an average of three a day. 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