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Show THE Pajre Two WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS Wickard's Policies Studied By Farmers, Consumers Both Groups Decry Price Fixing Program; Wayne Coy Appointed to 'Chaperon' Federal Defense Budget. NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- By Thursday, May 15, 1941 The Gettysburg Address Available for Framing Joins Army Edward C. Wayne Washington Debates Use of Convoys As British Shipping Losses Mount; Stalin Becomes Premier of Russia, Openly Assumes National Leadership Memos of a Girl Friday: Dear W. W.: Quentln Reynolds has arrived safely via convoy. He made it that way to do an article for Collier's on convoys . . . FDR and John L. Lewis haven't .exactly buried the hatchet, but the things they say of each other privately aren't as nasty as they were. (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they re those of the news analyst and not necessarily el this newspaper.) "- -' by Western Newspaper 'wwwiww, mnisjisniMjBmnvnnsiwOTMMnsinnssssnMnsBojiMHBaH wwqg By BAUKIIAGE - National Farm and Home Hour Commentator. WSV Service, 1343 H Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Secretary of discovered that he has been elected chief devil by the leaders of two large (roups of Americans farmers and consumers. You know you cannot be a successful group leader of any kind unless you have a devil to fight And so the otherwise genial gentleman who runs the department of agriculture has learned something new. It is something that all news and editorial writers and all radio commentators know: namely, that if you can make both sides in any controversy mad you can sleep with pretty clear conscience because that means you are walking a fairly just and middle course. In Secretary Wickard's case the farm group leaders say he is forcing down prices. They say he has deserted his own and gone consumer-minded. They say this because he announced on April 3 that the government would support prices of hogs and poultry and eggs In the open markets at certain prices. These prices are somewhat below the level of the "parity prices" and that is one rea-o- n why he is a devil fc farmers. Parity prices, as all farmers know, were established In the twenties and were written Into the agricultural adjustment acta In 1933 and 1938. ' These prices were established In this way: The prices the farmer had to pay for the things he bought and the prices which he got for the things he told In the years 1910 to 1914 were averaged. That ratio thus established was accepted by farm leaders as a goal to shoot at in the long fight in the twenties when agriculture tried to obtain legislation which would give it an equitable share In the national wealth. Later the parity figures were recognized by congress in the drafting of the agricultural acts, the purpose of which was to obtain for the farmer a decent return for bis efforts by adjusting supply and consuming power as a part of the recovery program following the de pression. Desires Higher Prices. Now Secretary Wickard wants prices to go up. He does not say how far. All he says is that the government will support a price up to a figure which, admittedly is below the parity prices but higher than they were when he made the announcement and as high as his advisors felt the present situation required. He has received plenty of complaints and what is more he has encouraged complaints by saying that he would take full responsibility for bis action. Now we know that one man's meat is another man's poison. Prices that are not high enough for the farm leaders are too high for the consumer group leaders. It gives them a fine opportunity to get together and chant: "In a crisis you mustn't boost prices." The dead cats from both camps fill the air and all Secretary Wickard has to do is duck with a quick eye and clear conscience. And, incidentally, he Is getting a few moribund felines that are really for Leon Henderson whose Job is price fixing under the OEM. Mr. Henderson announced that farm machinery should not sell for any more than it did in the first quarter of this year. And immediately the department of agriculture received flood of letters which, instead of saying "hurray for our side," said that Mr. Wickard was letting his colleague, Mr. Henderson, get away with murder by fixing the cost of farm machinery at what the writers ay is already exorbitant And so nobody is exactly happy but the unhappiness, according to Wickard (including his own) Is fairly equitably distributed! President Appoints Coy To 'Chaperon' Budget Today, former assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy Is executive assistant to the President of the United States with the job of chaperoning the biggest peacetime defense budget in history. He was recently made liaison officer for the Office of Emergency Management Mr. Coy has just moved from his office in the Federal Security administration building Into a corner of the bureau of the budget office In the state department with one end of the hall screened off for a 'secretary. But his quarters do not concern him. He is used to making himself at home where he can hang his hat Just what a President's executive assistant does is not easy to describe. He is supposed to have "a passion for anonymity" and likewise a passion for keeping quiet His function is to take as many details off the President's mind as possible, to carry messages and give other officials as many right answers as possible. In other words, help them settle problems about which otherwise they would insist on talking to the President Before budget is accepted there must first be hearings before the bureau of the budget where the various departments present their needs. Then there are the congressional committee hearings. Today, with a whole new layer of defense agencies spread over the regular departments and divisions and sections it is easy to see that Mr. Coy, as liaison man for the whole Office of Emergency Management which Is' the over-a- ll holding company for defense has plenty on his hands. He knows his budgets for he worked in the bureau of the budget himself and he had already had plenty of administrative experience before he reached Washington. Supported McNutt Everybody in Indiana knows that Wayne Coy was the man behind McNutt He left the Delphi Citizen to become McNutt's secretary when "handsome Paul" was governor of Indiana in 1933. When the governor became high commissioner of the Philippines, Coy went along. He returned to run the presidential campaign for his boss. Earlier, when he was state relief administrator, he had met Harry Hopkins. At the Democratic convention in Chicago last summer he met him again. This time Harry was engineering the tiiird-ternomination and Coy and his boss had to step back. But Coy and Hopkins are still close friends. That helps in the present Job with Hopkins, virtual first assistant to the President Harry can answer a lot of Wayne's questions without bothering the Chief. Wayne Coy started out when he was in high school to be a newspaper man. He was a reporter on the local paper in Franklin before he became a publisher In bis own right In Delphi. I talked with him as he sat in his temporary office in the stately Fed- eral Reserve building with its marble panels and its indirect lighting quite a contrast to the office of a weekly newspaper. Naturally I asked him if his editorial experience had been any help In his present Job. He paused a moment and then aid, "I know this sounds like orating, but there is nothing more valuable than having to live with people. That's what you do on weekly newspaper. You live the lives of your subscribers. "Here In Washington too many people forget the people in the counMy experience has try seats. helped me to visualize programs in terms of people. That helped me especially when I was in the Social It helps Security administration. you to see that your administration is carried on the county level. The tendency In the federal government is to carry on at the state level." At this point a secretary popped In. "Brigadier General Watson on the phone," she said. A little over a decade ago a young "Hello, Pop." said Coy. Hoosier from the town of Franklin I knew this was going to be a very moved to Delphi, Ind., not with the private conversation. Presidential Idea of becoming a Delphic oracle Assistant Coy was going to talk with but o run a newspaper. He bought Presidential aide Watson (known to the Citizen and met a lot of other his Intimates as "pop") about afcitizens around the court bouse and fairs of state. I left the over at the post office. to his new job. BRIEFS You don't have to be a nut to use a toothpick privately. But If you are a pecan tree you can use a lot of them. The department of agriculture has discovered that toothpicks soaked in a substance and stuck Into pecan tree growth-promotin- roots, improve the circulation, stimulate new roots and help the trees survive the first critical season. by liaukhage In these days of crowded White House press conferences unless you get In the front row the best place to hear is in the middle of the room. The President's words hit the ceiling and bounce off the great seal embossed there and drop, as Longfellow said in another connection, "as a feather is wafted downward from an eagle in Its flight" Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr. resigned from that "Women United for Peace" outfit She was a speaker along with Senators Reynolds and Bennett Clark at Carnegie Hall. She said in her talk that America had no room for intolerance. The comment met stony silence so she resigned. Hurray for her. Hank Greenberg, brilliant Detroit outfielder, has been drafted into the army where he joins fellow Americans from every walk of life. WAR: Vital Phases It was evident that the war was split in administration policy over the new tax program was indicated when Leon Henderson (above), government "price czar," testified before the house ways and means committee that be believed a large portion of the treasury revenue program to be "deflationary and unnecessary." It Is Indicated that while methods of raising taxes may cause disagreement one thing is sure: taxes must go op to meet defense program costs. A Tou wanted me to remind yon to say something about the Ism gangsters who pin themselves onto Americans who are popular. Will-ki- e sure was brave when he threw away the votes of many by publicly announcing that he didn't want Fronters, Bundists et al on his side . . . Dare the Dept of Commerce to deny this . . . That our oil exports to Japan are still averaging about 400,000 barrels weekly and have been as high as 600,000 per weekl TpHE world will little note, nor long remember what we say here . . Those were modest words Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg and they proved wrong. For Americans do remember, still live for ' the ideal he expressed that day: I "That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." The Gettysburg address. In Lincoln's handwriting. Is one of our new set "Three Great American Documents." Others are the Bill of Rights and the original I Star Spangled Banner. In Francis Scott' Key's handwriting. All are handsomely printed, full size, in sepia on cream anleaflet givtique paper. Includes a ing the histories of the documents. For the set, send your order to: entering several of Its most vital phases, with Britain standing alone, though with constantly increasing American aid. The big test which the Churchill government faced at the hands of the British commons was only a part of the picture. READER-HOMSERVICE The spending by the visiting BritThe battle was three-fol- d the afr 635 Sixth Ave. New York City a ish tars saved has many joint fight over England, with the chanEnclose 10 cents in coin lor your nel crossing threat behind it; the ready to fold up . . . Eliot Janeway set of THREE GREAT AMERICAN of a piece in the new has a honey on move Mediterranthe pincers DOCUMENTS. called "Hitler vs. Roosevelt" ean, especially Suez; the Battle of Life . . . Soandso just phoned. Said the Atlantic. that FDR's jaw is "longer than Over England ever" and that his knuckles are a Hammer blows being struck at little whiter when he clenches his Britain by the Luftwaffe no longer fist and that his policy henceforth were being shrugged off in dis- will be "action or dismissall " patches as "some damage being Your Ctrl Friday. done" or "some casualties feared," but dispatches from England told of Notes of an most serious damage to Plymouth, Innocent Bystander: which was practically ruined; to The Story Tellers: Edmond TayLiverpool, to Belfast to the Clyde-sid- lor's Fortune piece is a must for all of them much more vital to Americans who don't think Hitler Britain's defense than the smashing is a menace here . . . Pic runs a7 attacks on London and the Thames warning that homely gals are the estuary. safest and gives examples of beauApparently paying little attention ties who got into trouble with their to the industrial Midland section of looks. A few pages later it shows 1 11 ( England, Hitler thus was centering what a grand time Hope Carroll, his attacks on ports, ports and more the blue book's glamour mascot has Now Live ports, apparently seeking to tie in because "she's got everything." Ha who postpones the hour of the battle of England with the battle Make up your mind! . . . Morely of the Atlantic, rather than to con- Cassidy shows, in Coronet, how a living as he ought is like the rustic centrate on a general air blitz legacy caused a crime wave and a who waits tor the river to pass he crosses; but it against England's factories and her gold rush in Philly. He reports along before glides on and will glide on forindustrial production. 25,563 persons claimed a $17,000,000 Another development was the con- legacy. Already it has inspired ever. Horace, stant increase of day fighting over such crimes as forgery, perjury, the channel, regarded in many quar- wife desertion and two murders . . . LOSS OF SLEEP OFTEN DUE TO ters as a trial balloon to an invasion John Cudahy is easy on King Leoof as soon as midsummer the for surrenderattempt Belgians pold lERVOUStiESS calmer weather should arrive. ing under fire. The former U. S. As always, the defense of Britain Ambassador, writing in World Get ready relief with STEDZ . . . found its echo in this country, and Digest, recalls that the French were and a doctor's prescription the change in the method of Luft- blundering all over the front and enoy calm, steady sleep with this compound. vegetable pure waffe attacks on England found Leopold had a choice of giving up IS tablets 35c: SO lor SI or writ direct President Roosevelt issuing an ur- or facing revolt of his troops . . . drugstore STEDZ gent appeal, practically a command, Ann Sheridan confides in Liberty Dept. B Box 452 to the air industry to concentrate that the word "oomph" was parent-e- d Newark, on the production of the largest posAny by a wheeze in here. chance to buy back that unfortunate sible bombing planes. OPM said that America should sentence? . . . Reader's Digest obNeeded Opposition produce 20,000 military planes in the serves: "The reason a lot of people A certain amount of opposition 12 months to come, but Mr. Roosedo not recognize an opportunity velt seemed to feel that a change in when they meet It is that it usually is a great help to a man; kites goes around wearing overalls and rise against, not with, the wind. type would be needed. Mabie. In fact he conditioned the even- looking like hard work." tual mastery of the air by Britain on the American production of these The Front Pages: The Times ofHelp to Rellev Distress ov"v very large bombers, and said that fered two and a half columns of good they must be built even if it means sense In an editorial picture of a enlarging plants further. possible Hitler victory. The Nazis needn't even make war on us to MEDITERRANEAN: PERIODIC ruin our liberty, said the editorial. Also Important Chesty after a win over Britain, GerThe battle of the Mediterranean many's threat would make us live Try Lydla. E. Pinkham's Vegetable was no less vital and no less active in an armed .camp where liberty Compound to help relieve monthly . . The rebuked live can't headaches, backache and pain, than the battle of England. For on ALSO calm Irritable nerves due to his for FDR "intensely editoriallly functional disturbances. the eastern front the British found monthly remarks about Lindbergh. Pinkham's Compound la simply themselves, after the withdrawal personal" to help build UP resistmarvelous takes not Lindbergh ance against distress of ''difficult from Greece, with new problems on Why for personal? he malcontents the bows heads, tor over 60 years I Famous days." their hands. Hundreds of thousands of girls and not too? Mr. Rooseso the why raps, women report remarkable penefltt. The Iraq coup left them with the velt takes them for the New Deal WORTH TRYING I possible loss of the Mosul oil fields, and the knows that well. The and the pipeline from last campaign was so personal it Kirkuk to Haifa falling into the didn't even stop with the President d hands of the govIraq It took in his wife, his children, and. ernment of Gailanl. remember the campaign butThe British swiftly landed an ex- If you even his grandchildren . . . tons, peditionary force, shot it inland, and Who is France for? Three Vichy sent reinforcements. Yet it was obwere suspended for giving vious that the trouble in Moslem papers to the speeches of Cor-de- ll Asia Minor was on the increase, prominence Hull and Sec. Knox. Another with the French in Syria frankly published by Jacques Dorlot throwing up their hands and saying paper, the agitator assaulted Roosevelt that they were unable to quell dis- His sheet wasn't molested. turbances on the part of Arabs ofthere. Turkey offered her good 9 In bringing in buying Information, a Typewriter Ribbons: C. V.' R. fices, and so did Egypt, but though 10 prices that re being aiked for there was religious unity in those Thompson: Washington is the only what we Intend to buy, and at to the sound travels faster directions, there was little unity of place where . . . Clyde Fitch: A flat quality wo can expect, the advertising purpose, and It looked as though than light columns of this newipoper perform a Britain would have to fight for her with rooms like a string of buttons worth while service which saves oil or give up and get oil somewhere . . . Jack Warwick: Love of countony dollars year. sweat and cent Eighty-fiv- e per try: else. It b Banner 13 cent good habit to form, the habit per The prospect also was dark beof consulting the advertheeMnts every cause of the menace of German aid . . . Daniel Webster: God grants time wo Make purchase, though wo to the Iraqi, which might make the liberty only to those who love It hove already decided hrtt what wo to guard and are and ready always even if the untenable British pipeline want and where wo arc going to buy defend it get full control of it It. It give the most priceless fooling This from H. L. Mencken: We In the worldi the feeling of being to for must be SAILOR: willing pay price adequately prepaed. freedom, for no price that Is ever Round-U- p When wo go Into o ttore, prepared asked for it is half the cost of doing beforehand with knowledge of what Is Considerable excitement was oc- without it . . . Steele: Etiquette is offered and at what price, wo go as casioned by the Immigration departthe Invention of wise men to keep on expert buyer, tilled with ment's roundup of all German fools at a distance . . . H. W. Shaw: It Is a pleosont feeling to have, sailors on charges that they had Error will slip through a crack, the feeling of adequacy. Matt of the while truth will stick in a doorway In "overstayed their leave." the world can bo traced mhappineM A free counThe government never has been . . . Ray Thompson: to lack of thie feeling. Thus adverin which one mean those should strict with them. But it was signifishow try another of Its manifold tising foeeti cant that the roundup followed a who don't like the way things are show Itself at en aid toward . to . live oil . elsewhere our business relationship, making Washington release by many corre- run are free mora secure and pleasant. Sincere spondents which stated at great Anon: length that there has been a syste- are better than phony matic sabotage of regular shipping. E CONVOYS: Battle of Atlantic Mounting British losses In the battle of the Atlantic put the issue of convoying strictly and squarely up to the administration In Washington, and the answer was seen to be forthcoming shortly, if it had not already been made secretly. It had so far been largely a verbal discussion, with the pointing to convoying as outright war, and the administration forces sending up one trial balloon after another to test American sentiment as to whether it was ready and willing for this important step. Briefly, the positions were these: held that convoying meant shooting (quoting the President himself) and that shooting meant undeclared war. The administration forces took the simple stand that congress had voted all-oaid to Britain, and that it W8s foolish to build billions of dollars' worth of war material for the British and then send it out on the high seas to be sent to the bottom. The latter view was finally expressed in a long radio address by Secretary of War Stimson, who was reported to have consulted President Roosevelt about the address before delivering it. Stimson was frank. He went further than the question of convoying, which he treated as a simple phase of the big issue whether the American navy, ready and willing to "halt aggressors" on the high seas, should stand quietly by and let Britain be defeated through lack of control of the oceans, or should be turned to aid Britain and give Britain the mastery of the sea without which she could not hope to win. Secretary Stimson, not having the authority to order out the fleet Into active aid to Britain, was just making a speech, and could not answer his own questions with action. Neither could Senator Pepper of Florida, an outright and frank advocate of open war, who even went so far as to criticize the administration, with which he was entirely aligned, as not being bellicose enough in the present grave situation. So the battle of the Atlantic, while it was claiming American lives and American goods, was still being fought at least openly, by the British navy alone, though the big seen of the fight was In the American halls of congress and in the American newspapers. Stimson's speech had one obvious effect however, it served notice on that the the time was not far distant when talk would be replaced by action, one way or the other, and his talk had Its effect in rousing the orators to a new frenzy of appeal to the great "mass of the people" to speak out Nobody spoke out however, at least not In any mass that looked remotely like a majority. On the other hand, the administration seemed about ready to take action imwhich would have portance. There was news from San Francisco shippers to their connections in Tokyo that the United States was planning to close the Panama canal in a short time to Japanese vessels. 'This would have the effect of lifting a very practical bar to the trade Highlights . . . of the Japanese with the eastern coast of South and Central America, as it would force these vessels to go around Cape Horn. The announcement was without official backing, yet It was made at a time when certain Nipponese newspapers were urging repeatedly that Matsuoka, recent guest at Axis capitals, make a trip to the United States and try to improve Japan's relations with this country, perhaps reach a "perfect understanding" that would guarantee peace. The closing of the canal, however, would be a blow to Japan that she would not take quietly or without reprisals, if possible. It was viewed as the sort of blunt act that might, with distinct Intention, shut Japan oil from any further diplomatic traffic with Washington. STALIN: In Saddle One of the most Interesting developments, yet one on which the analyst could almost "write his own ticket" was the assumption of Josef Stalin of the premiership of Soviet Russia. The dictator of the Soviet has never before held political office, operating entirely behind the scenes, with others to wear such togas as may be passed around. The commentators took every possible view of Stalin's assumption of personal office as head of the Russian state. These views ranged all the way from an "about face" on the war, with Russia about to take an active role against Germany and Italy in the Near East to the view of Keren-skformer Russian premier in 1917, who said he believed Stalin's taking of power might mean that Germany has a promise from the dictator of active aid on the German side. It was a step down for Molotov, who went from premier back to foreign minister, a post he held before. Molotov was, perhaps, the finger pointing to the real reason for the change. He became foreign minister just before the dramatic signn ing of the pact pact which hastened the actual start of the present war. For It was the signing of this treaty that made Britain and France realize that their hope of encirclement of the Axis by land was vain, and that they were really in a fight for their existence. The only official announcement came from Stalin, who said that Molotov was being relieved only after his own "repeated requests." London was inclined to a somewhat more rosy view of the situation than that of Kerensky, saying: "Soviet Russia has refused to sign a further German pact and has openly taken the stand that Bulgaria was wrong in so doing, and that Jugoslavia was right to fight "Stalin now takes command of the Russian empire at a time when a German drive to the east threatens what Russia regards as her sphere of activity in Asia." No positive statement there, but a general view that the whole move Is Inspired by Soviet disquiet over German advances toward the Black sea. The British believed the move meant a frank and active change in Russian policy. Washington, while silent as to the real significance, If, Indeed it was known at all, saw three possible outy, Russo-Germa- , comes: in the news LONDON: The exploit of a boatswain of a sunken British destroyer was told. The man, swimming away from his sinking ship, encountered four German fliers in a rubber boat He swam toward them, and when they threatened him with revolvers, he stabbed the boat with a clasp-knifsinking it. e, 1. That Russia would merge the Communist party and the State into one whole, with Stalin at the head. 2. That Stalin would take over all power in the (ace of a German threat 3. That Stalin would discard the old policy of Russia doing as she pleased, and surrender to complete collaboration with Germany. i e, . 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