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Show UTAH LEHI FRESS PRESS. LEHI. NATIONAL AFFAIRS RtvitwtJ by CARTER FIELD General Johnson $tir$ up Washington by his advocacy of Garner for President . . . Roper leaves a tough spot and enigma for Washington . . . IS'o more foreign loans trill be the slogan this uinter . . . Boost Taft for finance committee. WASHINGTON. Daniel C. Roper leaves a tough spot and an enigma for Washington. The answer to the enigma may come before very long and it will be worth studying. Actually that answer will forecast the future not only with respect to the attitude the administration will take towards business, but even as to the probability of a third term for President Roosevelt. 4 I II BO nappcncu umv I the final forcing out A - I 1 av-wi- after World Looks Formml is a very different attitude. There is a very keen recollection of the foreign bonds that defaulted, and publication of a magazine article by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson which discussed the third term possibility, and that L"V I Roosevelt would turn little to the right M Gen. Johnson certain his renomi-satio- n and This Johnson article aroused no and of bitter comment in Washington, not only because of his frank characterization of many of the New Dealers as "crackpots" but because of his prediction that an overwhelming flood of returning prosperity would come within three weeks after John Nance Garner became Pres- predicted i ident) The New Dealers of course do not concede that an administration such as Garner would conduct would result in prosperity. But they object ven more violently to the idea of Gamer for President, Obviously they do not want any such "exodus of crackpots" as Johnson predicts would occur if Garner became President. They would much rather have an exodus of the Garners. Department of Commerce Does Not Regulate Business In the policies to be carried on by the new secretary of commerce there is not so much interest as one might think. Actually there are other branches of the government which are of much more interest g to business. For example, the division of the department of justice. For example, the securities and exchange commission. For example, the ICC, the federal trade commission, the WPA, the PWA, yes, even the TVA. Actually the department of commerce is not a menace to business. It does not regulate business. It does not decide on the taxes that business will have to pay. It makes many studies and gathers a lot of data which is of value to business, especially on exports and imports. But even on that it is of nothing like the importance to business that the tariff commission is, and does not compare to the reciprocal trade treaty negotiating division of the state department. But nevertheless the appointment of a secretary of commerce is of enormous importance, despite the comparatively drab and workaday functions of the department he will head. Not by any means because of the actual acts that the secretary of commerce will perform, but because his mere selection is a hint as to the attitude of the President. So it makes a lot of difference whether the post is filled by a man whom business men regard as a witch burner, or whether the appointment goes to a man to whom business generally feels friendly. No More Foreign Loans Will Be Slogan This Winter No more foreign loans will be the slogan on Capitol Hill this winter. Congress is all set to be isolationist, as far as Europe is concerned. It is all set to be extremely friendly to the other countries of this hemisphere. It would even be willing to fight to prevent foreign aggression south of the Rio Grande. But it is not willing to risk another dollar of taxpayers money on loans to any foreign government, or to individuals in any foreign country, either for trade development the idea Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. is toying with or for building up their own national trust-bustin- defense. This last idea seems to be strong n in Lima, where the countries that favor the new version of the Monroe Doctrine, which might now be called a mutual defensive alliance, are rather intrigued with playing their own part. That part of course, as far as one can learn here, to be financed from Washington. Loans for trade development were always popular in New York and in communities. big manufacturing There is a selfish interest as big as a barn door to explain it. Much of the 1927, 1923 and early 1929 prosperity was built on foreign loans. Out in the country, if one is to be-iitLatin-America- ve returning congressmen, there there is considerable resentment against those the folks out in the country hold responsible. In fact, this was one cf the highly significant causes of the tremendous flop in the prestige of Herbert Hoover. The casual observer thinks of American investors as some restricted class living mostly in old eastern cities. Let's look at a particular instance involving these defaulted foreign bonds. Bank Depositors Stung by Defaulted Foreign Bonds It so happened that the city of Pocatello, Idaho, had a considerable deposit in a local bank. Under the law, the city's funds were protected more rigorously than the deposits of ordinary citizens. It was required that sound bonds be ear marked in the bank's vault as a special guarantee. Came the bank holiday and the city officials wanted to know about the city funds. "Where are the bonds protecting them?" they demanded. The bank officials sadly showed the city officials just what they had done. They had earmarked certain bonds of South American republics as being the collateral of the city deposits. "But why should you have treated us like this?" the city officials protested. "Why did you put worthless bonds behind our deposits?" The bankers explained that, on the advice of federal bank examiners, the bank had bought these foreign bonds. Not only that, they had sold, at a loss, some irrigation bonds which the bank examiners seemed to think nothing of. The bank examiners had lists of bonds they considered good, and these foreign bonds were on it. This was not an isolated instance. Depositors all over the country, ranging down to obscure hamlets, were penalized by this craze of the Washington government to loan money abroad. The point is that the folks knew it then, and remember it now. And their congressmen know all about it. Want Senator-Elec- t Taft on Senate Finance Committee A quiet campaign is under way to make Senator-elec- t Robert A. Taft a member of the senate finance committee. In many ways the finance committee is the most important in the senate. It decides on til tax questions and handles all tariff bills. Normally a freshman senator does not aspire so high. If he makes this committee, or appropriations, or foreign relations in his first term, he thinks he has made real progress. To make the Taft ambition all the tougher, it so happens that no Republican member of the finance committee fell by the wayside this year. As a matter of fact only one of them was up this year. That was James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, who won both his and fights handily. Other Republican members of the committee are Arthur Capper of Kansas, Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan and John G. Townsend of Delaware. Sen. Robert M. La of Wisconsin is also a member, but is classified as a Progressive instead of as a Republican. In the last session there were 16 Democrats on this committee, only four Republicans, and one Progressive. It remains to be seen what concessions will be made to the Republicans in committee assignments due to their increased strength. Having the majority, the Democrats can do anything they please. But the probability is that the Republicans will get at least two more members of this committee. There are eight new Republican senators, and it just so happens that two of them replace Democratic members of the committee. Democratic Losers Are six-ye- Fol-let- ar te Replaced by Republicans Taft, replacing Sen. Robert J. The other Bulkley, is one of these. i vacancy was caused --wwwwtosj iff vx to lr,d llliil Xew Democracy-Dictato- r Fearing HOTEL PLAN intra in HEM), HOTEL tOLDEN-lu,A"- dk - aaumr irurw iiirii, DESK 8. L. mrtt'- sTsKViC EX.. 3SJ ICE CREAM FREEZER SODA FOUNTAINS ICE CBpTT?' TER FKEEZERS and Ice CrT. Bar rixtur, ttool, Crbootu- Tables. Ab ncenditioni4 SS iuli gjJ ATHLETIC GOODS"! MOSEK HAKTMAN Offie Place Pt CO. . . GREAT WESTERN ATHLETIC Utmt L!DifsrB. Bats, Glovn. Burk.it. . vii. u.ii.. i i , 1 . .nun mr . IDAHO SCHOOL Sl'I'PLY CO, fcj TRUSSES MUSSOLINI niAMRFRl AI Will the headliners of ROOSEVELT 1938 continue to make as Totalitarian Europe and Orient Arm Against Possible War, States Press Their Advantage Against Weaker Lands By JOSEPH W. LaBIXE Father Time closes another volume in his checkered career Can and the world pauses to conjecture. What will 1939 bring? peace of 12 months comparative civilization look forward to after the hectic year just drawing to a close? Or will the trumpets of Mars bleat louder than ever, bringing this general warfare? globe even nearer to the Will new heroes and villains appear to replace names will men still read of already engraved on the horizon? Or battle-scarre- d long-predict- Hitler, Mussolini, Chiang Kai- and no one dares predict shek, Daladier, Roosevelt and might, the consequences. Chamberlain? Russia's star may rise or fall in From the puzzling maze of 1939, not only on the strength of headlines blazing across the her Far Eastern success or failure, world at year's end, one safe prediction can be drawn: The year precedented 1939 will bring but for two other reasons. First, her program of communication has reached a critical point. Meager reports from Moscow tell 20-ye- ar un- instruments. Hospital Wl Surgical Trusses. Manufacturers of AbdoBiS; Elastic Stockings. porter. The Physicians Supply Cssun, 43 W. 2nd South St. - Salt Lsie Chi KAI-SHE- HITLER headlines in tj iwr infallen into the German sphere of be will fluence, and this program intensified in 1939. France May Capitulate. Meanwhile, at the other end of axis, Italy's Pre the Rome-Berli- n mier Benito Mussolini looks for the new year to bring him new territories in the Mediterranean. Though he has "demanded" that France give him Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy and Nice, he is expected to settle for much less. But France will undoubtedly make some concessions in 1939, principally providing for joint n control over the Suez canal and giving Ethiopia an outlet to the sea through Djibouti. This particular problem is expect ed to draw attention during January, when England's Prime Minister Ne ville Chamberlain and Foreign Sec retary Viscount Halifax visit Mus solini in Rome. France is Great Britain's closest ally, and since Chamberlain has taken the lead in the 1938 program of "appeasing" dictators, he is expected to arrange a settlement of the Franco-Italia- n French-British-Italia- economic war- of industrial trouble, famine and problem. menfare between totalitarian states and revolt, providing an internal In Spain, where the civil war is disastrous if ace aftprove that might one nation democracies, forcing now more man two years oia, a out. war breaks er another into the ultimate political lineup from which they will rise or fall. On one side, the side of authoritarianism, will stand Germany, Italy and Japan, aggressively seeking to extend their power to new frontiers. On the other side will stand France, the United Kingdom and those Western hemisphere nations who will cast their lot with the United States to protect the New World from this new threat to security. Looks to the Ukraine. Second, Russia moves nearer conflict with ambitious Nazi Germany. One of the most important planks in Chancellor Adolf Hitler's program is the creation of a Ukrainian republic, to be carved out of the vast expanse of southwestern Russia and southeastern Poland. It is freely predicted that Germany will open this campaign in the spring. Already her propaganda agents are working in the Ukraine and daily programs in the Ukrainian lan guage are broadcast from Vienna Hitler's intentions became clear when he refused to give Hungary and Poland a common border at the expense of Czechoslovakia, be cause he wanted to protect his "path to the east" through the lat- Germany Far East Fears War. Already the die is being cast. In the Orient, as nowhere else, world powers are consolidating their positions and preparing for a showdown that may come during the next 12 months. Great Britain and the United States, insulted because Japan has discarded the treaty guaranteeing China's "open door," have come out in the open with financial assistance to sorely pressed Generalissimo Chiang nine-pow- er Kai-she- k. At the same time China is drawing nearer an alliance with Soviet Russia, Japan's mortal enemy. Recognizing this threat, admitting that conflict with the Soviet must eventually come, Japan has hitched her belt and made increased armament appropriations to cope with the new and greater challenge to her domination over the Far East. Will this potential dynamite keg explode in 1939? Observers fear it settlement is expected during 1939. Loyalists, who have lost ground steadily, will probably capitulate to Rebel Francisco Generalissimo Franco. Not only does Franco have the active support of Germany and Italy, but also of the strong Spanish royalist faction. He has just re stored citizenship and properties from Alfonso, and Prince Juan is expected one day to taken Yugo-Slavi- TYPEWRITERS TTTRN YOUR OLD TYPEWHmn DOWN PAYMENT ON A .NEW POETi! Remington. Eoyal. I nderwood. Cot UTAH TYPEWRITER BEBVICI IS West 2nd South SiltUfcr, HOT become Nut-Lik- FARM rocl,.: the United States has apparently convinced those South American nations who fear "dollar ism that Uncle Sam has imperialgood Trade Battle Predicted. This is the background for 1939's battle of democracy versus The battle itself wlil probably be an international trQH war since Nazi-Fascitotali-ta"an'?- states st r.::: .., z de- - :. OIrlg.n trade to expand yuuuc-a- i domination. But as Germany's grows export-impo- rt activity greater, so does that of the unuea tungdom, whose tt" unu cueci wU th United StaS mis Frnm KV,;n 11.. year uie scenes nation will come the clatwin feverv TJ n defen?e and "1P l ince aggression-b- atcan- - ."e.Lnd xne WorH a,Q. o commander-in-c- SfilSEH our own United States, whiS? on a military-nava- l plus industrial vS10 Proving congress emoar nro-gra- m So sions there is a rumhlinn and a raucous babble of ganda to mingle with thiL DroM mason's New Year'o celebration. Will ,,. SEEDS We Buy KELLY-WESTER- P. O. Box Seed J C0MPAN1 N Salt Laka Gtj,t 1438 PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO-FRAF- T ECONOMY FILM SERVICE Any Roll Developed with 8 Quality Prints Extra Prints Wrap coin and SCHRAMM-JOHNSOPHOTO-FRAF- & x film cirefsKy DRUGS N 749 City. Utah Box T gait Lake ADVERTISING Low cost advertising in weekly papers. Thousands to choose from Mgr., P. O Box 1950, Salt Lake City. Ar s. Londoners Use Much Water Londoners use more than 36 Ions of water per head of the lation every day. gi popu Great Saber-Toot- Tigers h as the great sate were named, ta No smilodons, tooth tigers roamed the earth for thousands i years, but the story of their reif. of terror is one never to be ic ten. Instead of biting or tearing i victim to death, the smilodi: stabbed it time and again H tusks that stod curved, dagger-lik- e half a fot and more beyonds is iaws. Mammoths, mastodons d giant grod even sloths fell prey to this beast em Amens ing over North and South tigffl terrible and Europe, these grew as large as grizzly bears. S armon-protecte- i IT COSTS LESS BE CAUSE IT BURNS BETTER AND LASTS LONGER? "AYE LASSIE i. a, But tJ Hail samples (or bids. Ask for uapb prices on any you ant uis, Navy Assembles in Atlantic For llnae Battle Maneuvers This week a steady parade of Uncle Sam's "battlewagons" begins moving eastward through the Panama canal, bound for the fleet's first Atlantic maneuvers since 1934, and the second largest gathering of ships and men ever held under the American flag. From now until next spring, 140 CEREAL For a Delicious BrrsVfnt Serre GRAINS OF GOLD with e That Toasted KIjui, at all ex-Kin- g a puppet monarch with Franco as premier. Democracies on Guard. Dictators cannot stand still, and Hitler and Mussolini must either rise to new glories or fall in the estimation of their subjects. That is why no sane European observer can predict a cessation of the diplomatic conflict now waging. If Great ter state. Britain and France expected their This is but one of Hitler's ambi- appeasement policy to bring a pertions for 1939. The other is manent European peace out of the of Memel, on the east shore chaos of 1938, Italy and Germany of the Baltic sea, from Lithuania are now showing there is no such Der Fuehrer promised at thing as permanent Although appeasement. Munich that he had no more terri Therefore the democracies are now torial ambitions in Europe, a situa- stiffening their attitudes. tion is being arranged very con Many are the commentators who veniently whereby the Reich will predict general European conflict be "forced" to annex the Nazified early in 1939. Sir Oswald Pirow, deMemelites, whose land is contigu fense minister for the Union of South ous to kast Prussia. Africa, made such a statement after Another German ambition is dom completing a discouraging tour of ination of the Balkans. Already 1 continental capitals. sucn states as Ruma Meanwhile the Western heminia, Bulgaria and Hungary have sphere cannot ignore the threat of totalitarian propaganda. At the conference in Lima, the United States joined with Peru, other New World nations in a program to keep Italy, Germany and Japan m check. How well the nl an mill succeed is problematical, since it is "useu on notmng more concrete than UalSO Servlca. CJ.' OFFICE EQUIPMFnt 60,-00- 0 WNU NEVADA NEW AND ISED Augustine Lonergan of Connecticut. Both states have been conceded almost a vested interest in the finance committee, s due to the days i j combatant ships plus auxiliary veswhen the most imsels, accommodating a total of portant function of men, will work on "Fleet Probthis committee was No. 20." directed by Admiral lem framing tariff bills, Sen. Claude O. Bloch, commander-in-chie- f Bulkley as both states rank of naval forces. Ships will high in their manufacturing interest up and down the coast from range and hence are vitally interested in Cuba to Brazil. Divided into two the protective tariff. the problem will find a "black Other states sending Republican units, fleet" defending the coast against a senators to replace Democrats are "white fleet" which is attempting to New Jersey, New Hampshire, Wisestablish a base on that coast. consin, South Dakota, Kansas and The 140 combatant ships include Oregon. Wisconsin can be eliminated cruisers, aircraft carbattleships, as far as the Taft candidacy for the riers, destroyers, submarines and finance committee is concerned be 600 airplanes, including all types of cause it already has one member of fighting, scouting and observation the committee in La Follette. New planes. which is Jersey, sending Warren Following maneuvers, the fleet Barbour back to the upper house, is will meet in the vicinity of Guata-namconsidered as normally ranking high to practice gunnery. Later hiefAdmiral Claude Bloch, in its claims to a voice in the finance of the United States naval be sent north to visit the will ships forces, who is in direct charge of committee, but nothing like so high New York world's fair. the Atlantic maneuvers. as Ohio, and there is no word that Though no public pronouncement Barbour is making a bid for the has been made, it is quite obvious Coming immediately after the Pan place. that the Atlantic maneuvers are des- American conference at Lima, when Obviously the other states are not tined as protection for Uncle Sam European attention is focused so much entitled to consideration possible invasion from New World solidarity efforts, because of population, wealth or against any the Europe, in accordance with Presi- maneuvers will manufacturing interest as Ohio. dent Roosevelt's proposal for United that the United Kansas already has a Republican States initiative in a program to proEuropean aggression in SoutS member of the committee, Arthur tect the entire Western hemisphere. 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