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Show KMERY COUNTY PPnr.BRSS. CASTLE DALE. Unbossed' G. 0. P. National Convention Ticket Pine Tlvr.oc rn Willtip-MfiNar- v WHO'S x 93 IT AH NEWS j By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON MEETING The President Gentlemen, flies are your two new cabinet associates, Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson. Secretary Hopkins Pinch me; I still think I'm dreaming. Secretary Ickes I was positive this was coming. Mr. Hopkins What made you positive? Mr. Ickes The boss statement that he wasn't even considering it CABINET THIS Washington, D. C. BARTER When Hitler first began his crushing march through Europe, an Argentine business man remarked to N l WENDELL L. WILLKIE For Prendert CHARLES L. McNARY WEEK Washington officials: ''At first it will be a little difficult to readjust our trade with EngBy LEMUEL F. PARTON land. All the docks will be blown (Consolidated Feature--WNService.) up, and shipping will be scarce. But TEW YORK. Some people don't after these things have been ironed know when they are well off. out, it will be much easier. We Karl Ulmanis was a milk man at with one will simply make r.7." .T 1. a. deal ""7 "Lincoln. Neb., for five years, and Lfor- only for Germany, but for England, Anyone in Need I, aU rCSt w'ent back J.ranCe' he Good Milk For Vice Pretident With that ticket the Repub- licans tell us they named the best qualified men in America to direct the destinies of the nation through the time of stress and trials they think lie ahead. They were picked from a wide field. A dozen or more . ... T . t wagon uriver: be president men each with followers who believed their favorite was of the country and sit on a hot seat for 25 years thereafter. It was er- the best; who insisted they roneously reported that he had fled, would stick to their candidate as the Russians moved in. but the forever if necessary; who news today is that he is still around, could see no possible virtue in and has broadcast a message to his candidate. other people to be nice to the invaders. any U i KIT,; This danger of Hitler capturing Latin America through monopolizing trade is what is behind the giant trade cartel for the Americas, now being worked out by the Roosevelt administration. And in the secret report handed Roosevelt by his cabinet members is a much more plan The delegates were divided beknows the trouble he's seen. than anyone dreams. In brief, the Nobody tween Dewey, Vandenberg. Taft, Minn TWfTroao that IhA TTmtAt " "i kfatfla C 1:. Jit looks like a score for the isola Willkie, James, Bridges, Bricker, ui 1. uie uuy mi crops iiiui Martin, Hoover, MacNider, Gannett surplus : i i - uonisis. w TI..IHt '"T3" i A Lincoln, In 1909, he was Karl Ullman, not Ulmanis, former dirt farmer and country editor In Latvia. The dean of the state college of agriculture got him the milk route, so he could work his way through college. He was graduated In the allotted time. He was steady and dependable, and might have been mistaken for a Nebraska much cherished reciprocal trade treaties go out the window, and the United States gets down to bartering in an effort to monopolize Western hemisphere trade. To illustrate, take the case of Brazil and Hitler in 1939. In that year, Brazil sold most of her coffee to the United States, but had a surplus left over which she could not sell. So Germany offered to take the balance of her crop. Naturally this was an offer Brazil could not very well resist except that there was one catch to it. Hitler paid in barter. In return he gave Brazil cameras, motorcycles, radios, optical instruments and various other German specialties. Then Hitler, having bought the coffee for German goods, turned around and sold it not only to Austria and Czecho Slovakia, which he had conquered, but also to Jugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and most of southern Europe, with which he had trade agreements. In return he got cash, thus bolstering German exchange. hard-boile- ,::,In d, cut-thro- at farmer. One day. he discarded his bib overalls, appeared in a store suit and was seen no more in those parts. Everybody liked him and they were especially shocked by the fact that he owed about $1,000. which he had borrowed to start a cheese factory in Texas. Six years passed when A. L. Haecker, one of his creditors, had a letter from him, enclosing full payment of his debt. He explained that he had a nice job as president of Latvia and was glad to be able to pay what he owed. Other bank drafts followed. The $1,000 was paid in full. As president and foreign minister of Latvia, he lived in an ancient, turreted castle and ruled in a medieval throne room. On the wall behind his deak, the medieval heraldic emblem of Latvia was crossed with the green pennant of the Nebraska State College of Agriculture. But he wasn't having a wonderful time. The country was under czarist Russia when young Mr. Ullman ran his newspaper. An indiscreet editorial brought about his departure for Lincoln by devious routes. To stave off Nazi aggression, he made himself dictator in 1934. U. S. Buys Surpluses. The state and commerce departments now propose somewhat the same thing, only this time the United States will buy up the surpluses and resell them in Europe. In other words, we will take Brazil's surplus coffee crop and then resell it just as Hitler did. The first part of the program is purely emergency. It will aim to help out the southern neighbors who once had thriving markets in Holland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and France, but whose markets now have evaporated with Hitler and the blockade. Even after the war is over, how- THE possibility of South and American countries picking ever, the system may be continued. The plan is definitely being up empire salvage before the U. S. A. works out its hemisphere de-set up to this end. fense Plans What the state department argues is that it is cheaper to do some Gen. Ubico Out seemstohave surplus buying in Latin America To Beat Hitler to been butthan to fight a war there. Buying Briti$h Honduras "Khtly regarded. Howup the surplus coffee crop, for inlittle here's Guatemala reachever, cost less would stance, probably ing out for British Honduras, and than a new battleship. Sir Samuel Hoare's mahogany forAlso, no country will be aided ests and mills therein, according to which does business with Hitler. Present plan is to be ruthless about news reports. Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of this though if some of the career Guatemala for the last nine boys in the state department are relied upon to be ruthless it may years, brings forward in the files the tale of a British pirate who merely boil down to Great danger is that the buying snatched British Honduras from his country 60 years ago. "Losup of surpluses may take the same ers weepers, finders keepers." road of Herbert Hoover's wheat board. The farmers knew Whether that applies to the that the more wheat they raised, wreckage of empires seems not the more they could seU to the to have been covered in internaboard, so Hoover found himself left tional law. with a tremendous surplus which General Ubico is the only living depressed ruler who looks like Napoleon. He .: " l ,.theT market. oimnariy, aiin vinencan nations often is caed the .. .Liu,e N may discover that the more coffee ,eon. 0, the Tropics He was elect. xney raise, ine more uiey can seiijed for his first one.year term as to uie uniieu oiuies. iiie Lauuiei president. He survived two revoluwho prepared the plan for tions during this term, and then set Roosevelt realized this, but figured aside the constitutional limitation that they would try the thing out against more than one term and during the emergency of the war and has had eight repeats, so far. try to perfect it later. The general received a techNOTE Comment of one allied and military education in diplomat on the trade plan to keep nical Hitler out of South America: "That the United States and Europe, sounds like the man who was on a and rose to political power through various provincial and ladder painting. Someone came offices. He entered the national took the ladder and but away, along national assembly in 1918. He he just kept on painting." concentrates on cheek-pattin- g. ill-fat- r- : A j I ' j road-buildin- g, Merry-Go-Roun- sanitation, agriculture and vocational training for young people. He has been strongly pro-S. A., and reports from Washington are that our state department probably wouldn't make much of a fuss over his grabbing British Honduras as long as Hitler doesn't get it. and others. Speeches were made about all of them, resulting in long hours of frenzied oratory. All were pictured as the one, outstanding, great American leader, eminently best fitted for the great job, and especially so for these times, but in the end they dropped out one by one, and until on the sixth roll call of the states Wendell Willkie was named to head the ticket. After numerous consultations, some arguments, and another flow of oratory Charles L. McNary was named for second place, and the big meeting was over. at 10 o'clock on Monday morning, June 24, John Hamilton, as chairman of the Republican national committee, pounded the table and called the Republican national convention to order, anyone could get a bet for or against as he wished on anyone of 10 to 12 candidates. It was not only the folks back home who did not know who the candidate would be. The delegates at Philadelphia were equally ignorant on that subject. On Sunday evening Congressman Joe Martin was asked how many Massachusetts delegates would vote for him on the first ballot, as the favorite son of that state. He replied he did not know definitely that any one delegate would vote for him; that aside from the delegations that were definitely instructed it was impossible to tell who would vote for whom. Party In New Hands. And the reason for it all is that the party was in new hands, the hands of a thousand delegates, each one a law into himself. Gone from the places of power were the older statesmen of former years, the party leaders who could crack the whip and make the delegates dance. It was a new element, younger in political experience, each one of whom believed he was there to do a job as he thought it should be done, or until someone had actually convinced him of a better way than his When L. McNARY indi- party. Whatever the reason may have been the Negroes were not in evidence as they have been at previous Republican gatherings. Another difference was the discussion in committees of every plank in the platform, and every incident concerned with party policy. This year each delegate who had an opinion on any subject insisted on the right and privilege of expressing and fighting for that opinion before the committee. The whole show was more like a big town meeting than an old time Republican convention. It had no bosses who made the rules and defined the policies. Aside from the balloting for candidates, the long roll call of the states, and the reading of the plank in the platform defining Republican policy as regards America's attitude toward the war in Europe, the two outstanding events were the keynote address of Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and the address of Former President Herbert Hoover. Governor Stassen was emphatic and fiery in his denunciation of the present national administration and of all things connected with the New Deal. He aroused tremendous enthusiasm as a keynoter is expected to do, and gave the delegates the ammunitions they wanted for use during the campaign. He was compensated for his efforts by thunderous applause and demonstrations. Hoover Stirs Delegates. Former President Hoover, with his analysis of what he termed New Deal falacies, carried the convention by storm as he did at Cleveland four years ago and received an ovation that was unusual in any Republican gathering. He might have been the choice of the convention as its presidential candidate had he not withdrawn his name. He could have named the candidate by do so. refused to cating a choice, but Each one of the 1.000 delegates buildtook a hand in the platform g the plank ing, and especially war and preparedness. The Hitler battle between the "Fight Now" forces and the extreme Henry Ford type of isolationist was fast, endfurious, and seemingly never did not the end fight In the ing. convention. get to the floor of the and the Compromise was effected can be inadopted as finally plank each terpreted to mean anything voter may want it to mean. Compact Platform. Other platform planks followed of the very closely the findings exGlenn Frank committee, but 3.000 words instead about in pressed of the 37,000 Dr. Frank and his associates needed. On one subject there was no disagreement "There shall be no third term." All in all the Republican convencov-erin- tion of 1940 was a colorful and indifteresting show and very, very, was old gone, leadership ferent. The the game was being played by a new team and umpires had not been named. The result, for a time, was confusion with each delegate his own boss, taking orders from no one, and fully convinced that he had the solution of all the nation's prob- lems. Out of it all in the end came harmony, everybody satisfied, including the defeated candidates for the nomination. All of the noisily contending forces climbed onto the Willkie bandwagon and returned home with the usual assurance of victory in November. How well that assurance may be justified will not be known until the votes are counted in November. Mr. Knox I feel strange here, don't you, Henry? Mr. Stimson No; I'm equally uncomfortable anywhere. Mr. Knox Gosh, I never thought I'd land in a Democratic administration. Mr. Stimson If you're surprised, imagine my amazement! Mr. Ickes Why should either of you be surprised? A Republican is apt to wind up anywhere. Look at me! Knox (still incredulous) It seems funny here when I think I ran on the ticket in opposition to RooseMr. velt. Mr. Ickes That was no opposition! The President Now Frank and Henry, you know all the boys. There's Mr. Morgenthau who has charge of all the money. Mr. Morgenthau All what money? The President And you all know Harold Ickes. Harold, are you surprised to find Frank Knox here? Mr. Ickes No. I always said Republicans make the best Democrats. The President You all know Miss Perkins. She is the secretary of labor. Miss Perkins Did he say Is or WAS? The President And you know Harry Hopkins, the secretary of . . . of . . . what are you secretary of, Harry? Mr. Hopkins I lost all track of that The President And there's Mr. Hull. Voice I propose that the cabinet now sing "Hull, Hull, the gang's all 1. Ata pm.. How 'Small Town Boy Makes Good' Tells Story of Willkie's Life PfilMV-ito- 1 1 e the school room he absorbed learn ing. By the time he was 15 years old he had finished high school and was able to matriculate at Indiana university. While there he earned most of the funds that kept him. Sometimes jobs around the university were scarce and young Willkie had tough sledding. His parents were never able to give him much financial backing and there were times when he had to leave college and work elsewhere. Back again in college, Willkie was able to attend long enough to get his degree. College days over, he returned to Elwood and entered into law practice with his father. Then America entered the World war. Within a week Willkie enlisted in the army. He spent 22 months in service, 11 of which were in France. Before he sailed on January 14, 1918, he married his Hoosier sweetheart. Miss Edith Wilk. They have one son. Back in America in 1919, Willkie resumed his law practice. He moved to Akron, Ohio, and practiced there for nearly a decade. His unusual legal talents gained steady recognition. In 1929 he became legal adviser of the Commonwealth & Southern Utility company and by 1933 its president. Willkie's debates with government spokesmen established him as an articulate and able spokesman for business. He began to be in demand as a speaker. Some of his intimates began to say he might be presidential timber. Several newspaper columnists to.,k up the idea Then a few weeks aK0 a small TSew York begun firoup in senti.tm out htm-tur- e about him. ne received s of requests to speak. Willkie clubs sprang up from roast to co.,st thou-sand- The boom caught on. Physically Willkie is improve. He is 1 men t.,1! and v- wover 200 pounds. nu ls a fr , , Ik ,r.. man who has the ability to people in all stations of lifr l,k( Blue eyed, with dark hair he b;'s a commanding presence I (! fight when a principle is involve 1 But this does not rr.eati he is cious. Some of those who kr.oivHn compare him to the late Will R, s ,';,, with dent of the ffift.V 4 In what state.! 3. Are more than L 5. What animal bear's little brnttJ!,610! In law what doe. , nolO COntpnH. 8. Why is it called ft. of the eve is te ReST vuc lump of how many feet of jJJ cupy. y c , ' o sheep The Atuwtrt 1. Kl Intense on sound vsm. fccm De bparit pnotography. 2. Twenty-on- e. As many as five of W ara nine prints hav on one man. 4. Indiana, near the of Lafayette. 3. The raccoon, became C vcijr mucu ime a bear 3. O 6. 7. I will not contest In long, hollow stalks. 8. The Latin word pupjj which the word "pupFl rived, means "little doll pupu oi the eye is so caK cause a person can rmvTi reflected in miniature a K nea oi another s eye. 9. The sheep have larf nii n.u:-- i. ;j laiia vvuiui proviae herders when their natural or food is which the low. Small sheeD mav tails are provided bv th. 10. Approximately three fwremii here." Mr. Stimson Well, Mr. President I am anxious to get to work as secretary of war. There is much to be done. I assume I am to have full authority there. The President You'll find out. Mr. Knox I think I'll go over to the navy department at once and get things going. The President I'll be right with you. Mr. Knox of. That's what I'm afraid TELEVISION OPERA '"TELEVISION is making headway. More and more homes are now getting their radio noises illustrated. It is possible not only for the family to argue over the radio words, but over the radio pictures. Grand opera got its first television broadcast the other night. It proved that It is entirely possible to throw a fat tenor's voice into your living room, and the tenor with it. Elmer Twitchell is so sensitive to the conventions and such a slave to form that he dresses for television opera. "It is a nuisance to dress for a radio program," said Elmer today, "but I never can get used to opera FARM IRRIGATED LANDS LANDS improved land! Partly I1 tf mttm H Owyhee Government Project. Abundance of water. Lou mn TiM for literatim. son. Write lnm Settlement An , Oatmrle, In b4 Vili, On, Oregon; PERSONALS WOM AIM PVT-R- TUf Dr. llurray'i Hygienic mall. 10c (coin). MOTMUIB Melreu At., BOUIffWHu On Own Resonrai flj To be thrown upon castinttf be resources is to lap oi ionune;a iur m develoj then undergo oi an energy display were previously ui Benjamin Franklin. dash in y Encompassed fit. & Truth lies within I DUi rM-taii compass, mense. Bolingbroke. in any form unless I am all dolled up for it I climbed into my dress clothes as soon as I found that Pagli-acwas coming over the radio. I just couldn't help it" ci But what made Elmer sore was the way Mrs. Twitchell reacted to opera by television. She went out and bought a new ermine wrap for it. "Believe it or not." declared Elmer today, -- that woman has me run ragged. Do you know what she proposed when it was announced that the Metropolitan Opera company would broadcast an opera by television, right into our living room?" "No." "She put on all her Jewelry, had a facial, spent four hours having her hair done and then wistcd that we go over to the rorner garage, hire a sedan with (hauffeur and be driven right up to our radio set in style!" I'KOYIiRBS FOR 1910 ed not to others your uncooked thoughts. F" Millenium: ', hke And he has the qua,ltv f making the people like him, regard less of what station in life th. j rZrSL carWarl 2- - 2M Jesse Jones, Federal Loan admin-- j istrator, is playing a much greatet part in the national defense picture than most people realize. He is! uiscussing with Roosevelt plans to' put federal money behind factories! which need to expand for munitions production. Virillinntlv Though preoccupied with the war a.ld diligent, he has worked out in in Europe, John Q. Public has not his small laboratory his own idea of Jottings From a Crowded Convention Notebook forgotten that China is fighting for an authoritarian state. Monopoly her existence. The Chinese embas- - is the central idea. He grants ex-- C. For the first time in the history C. Political convention feet differ sy receives many small contribu- - elusive concessions in basic goods of the Republican party, a woman from World's fair feet, an expert and industries, lo restrain grab-tions for the cause. as assistant sergeant at reported. "At a World's fair." he Js named Not on the subject of war but of bing and grafting, he establishes a lrms convenfeet get tired. At a conthe at said, "your Philadelphia in his cabinet. department was tion. She Berkmeier vention age was one letter a lady sent to probity they Mary just wear out up to the Anyone working for the government Ambassador Hu Shih, who is 49 or Quinn, Chicago attorney, who has garter line." business with it, doing important been active in the party's work in ft Philadelphia's ancient Mummer's years old, but looks 30. She said, has to file a complete inventory of Illinois. "I have heard that all Chinese look his own and his parade, ordinarily held on New family's possessions. 10 years younger than they are. How C The Taft headquarters had the Year's day, was staged during the these If and chattels increase goods do you do it?" at the con- convention. An too rapidly, the general's busy little biggest telephone affair, it Hu Shih is still reflecting on his gestapo is on the vention with 120 trunk lines. was a colorful spectacle. jub. answer p CHARLES WENDELL L. WILLKIE By HAROLD E. KENTON Three months ago he was virtually unknown to the American public. Today he is the presidential nominee of the Republican party and sage political prophets are predicting that on January 1, 1941, he will own. be in the White House. It all resulted in a confusion that That is the saga of Wendell L. was unknown to former Republican Willkie. His feat of sweeping into conventions, but out of that confuthe Philadelphia convention without sion, the Republicans say, has come political sponsors and taking the definite party, unity both as to poli- prize away from seasoned political cies and as to leaders. The dele- rivals is unprecedented. gates claim they did what they beWho is this man Willkie? What is lieved best, and not what anyone he like? What has he done? told them to do. Briefly, his story is the tale of a It was a picturesque gathering. small town boy who made good There was with it all ballyhoo of a who was never afraid to try his street carnival. Each group had its wings on a new flight. own pet form of expressing approval In the 48 years of his life Willkie of either a candidate or a policy. has had a wide training in the AmerThe Dewey, the Taft, and the Willkie ican way of life. He knows every voters put on the best and noisiest section of the country. show. In so far as he could influHe did farm work as a lad in Inence his followers Senator Vanden- diana and later sold newspapers. A berg prevented the introduction of few years later he harvested wheat in Minnesota. He worked in the oil burlesque into his campaign. fields of Texas. He ran a cement Dark Horses. Martin and Hoover were in the block machine in Wyoming and opdark horse class and were not much erated a little hotel in Colorado. He talked about until after the opening was a vegetable picker in Califorof the convention. Others were nia. He taught school in Kansas and among the "also ran" entries with is remembered there. not a sufficiently large following to During all his experience in laboring at various jobs, he found time produce much noise. One noticeable difference between to attend Indiana university and to this and the Republican conventions graduate with high honors. Wendell Willkie was born in of some years ago was the scarcity There were of Negro delegates. Ind., in 1892, the son of Hersome from the southern states not man Francis Willkie, a lawyer. His so many because of the limited delepaternal grandfather was an emigate representation from the South, grant from Prussia who spelled his but practically none from the north- name Willckc. He came to America ern cities. New party leaders in- to escape the oppression of the Wendell's mother, like sisted the difference was due to a transfer of political allegiance on the his father, was a lawyer. Both parpart of the northern Negroes from ents believed in education for their the Republican to the Democratic children. At home as well as in set-u- The Qutt ilPhiinpr mum The cry of laziness. Convention, are the silly sands on ";a'n r"htiency is stranded. 1 No man should win or gain a cause. ethics cannot bless his Our ideals are often smothered by the dollars we have P.-.- WNU W lmimltf U 111"" error No vehement XX J witn in this world Froude mam These physicians,' too, of advtrlising yu which is only good diuretic tranJ of the kidney H tie pain and worry ai If more people kidneys must V that cannot staytnin health, of why demanding lag, pW when kidneys more o lion would be rantT ( Burning lion sometimes function. .You ache, persistent linest. getting ness under the all played out. itfaW, KJ. fa ""fS Jd' " - ciaim "... known. J"- |