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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH U. S. Awaits Second Phase of Jap Crisis When Abrogated Pact Dies Next Winter NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by On Probation. Nippon May Alter Tactic to Keep American FrieinNhip. CARTER FIELD i!m . itv. Cut. t" Jt frantic efforts of House fail to stti By RICHARD CKEKLY FU .je.iSed by 1 Nt-- I sjj.ip i of the Hatch bill Union Is Amer- - .rtl'' ica's trouble with Japan worrying you? Read this: laUf lttB ttWtr M.ol ikHK "For the at feu yeurs the relations betueen japan and the I nited States have been a source of anxiity tit friends oj peace in Loth countries, and fureipn statesmen, diplomats and publicists have predicted liar betueen apan and the United States and have exthat the pressed astonishment I'niti'd States shoubl not see that uur in the immediate future is inet it tilde, and hasten la place our Country on a tear foot in fi." A very timely statement, except that it was written in 1911. Today, relations with Japanese-Americaon the brink of another crisis, it eeems equally timely. But if history repeats itself, the Rising Sun Empire of the Son of Heaven may again come to terms with Uncle Sam. Today's crisis was precipitated when Secretary of State Cordell Hull Buddenly abrogated the trade treaty of 1911, which was signed a few years after President Theodore Roosevelt had used the mailed fist It to calm an Oriental uprising. comes after more than two years of "incidents" involving American nationals in the Chinese war zone, during which protests have been smilingly rejected by Tokyo. It comes after Uncle Sam has decided to emulate Theodore Roosevelt and use the mailed fist again. Expires Next Year, Five months from now, on January 26, 1940, the abrogated treaty will automatically expire, permitting congress to impose an arms embargo and other trade restrictions against Japan. She has just a few more months' probation left, and she must make up her mind very soon. There's a lot at stake. As shown in the chart below, the United States has been supplying Nippon more than half her imported materials of war. An embargo would not prevent continuance of the conflict against China (and the iu6 rosa war with Russia) but it would put a serious crimp in Ja- - tit Wfl ' .i. Sis' . r n f VI LMM i The following tabulation, prepared from United States government sources by the Chinese Council for Economic Research, shows America's share in world exports to Japan of materials essential for war purposes. Figures are for 1938 only: World F.xports Value Commodity Hides and skins Leather Scrap rubber Petroleum and Products Scrap or old iron and steel Ferro-alloy- t s .... Other iron and steel Copper Aluminum Nickel Lead 13.095.231 Zinc 33 50 44.676 249.792 8 46 1 68 S3. 135 672 65.57 22.061,212 2.331.979 11.251.804 22.163.778 476.345 90 3!l 82 71 53 65 157,317 2 38 4. 6 13,888 2,100,054 26.768 45.52 310,566 12.050,536 24.454.707 31148.527 1.658.875 22.692.655 partsr Arms and ammunition 542.637 17.454.477 696.186 Including shipments to Manchuria. tlncluding shipments to Manchuria. to Shanghai. United 90.89 3.63 6.624.440 32 1,711 18.635.299 Metal-workin- Aircraft $ 2.652.482 2.794.622 Metals and alloys, not elsewhere specified.. Automobiles, parts, etc machinery Internal combustion engines and 7.91fi.8:i5 528.3B9 14.864.069 81.034.885 24,407,089 2,819.420 20.973.343 24.3Rj.546 I'. S. Share Value Per Cent 100.365 States figure for 1938 0 96 99 33 64 67 67.09 32.71 76.92 14.42 includes FBI Fingerprints You and Me; Over Million Already Stamped Last year la., an auto crash victim was identified at the morgue by four reputable citizens. The mourners had barely assembled before fingerprints checked in Washington with the federal bureau of in- - These cases, similar to hundreds arising each year, prove the value of FBI's civil fingerprinting file started a few years ago and already bearing the prints of some 1,300,000 people. They include John D. Rockefeller, Shirley Temple, Noel Coward, Jack Dempsey and thousands WASHINGTON. of you-and-- folks, all "stamped" voluntarily either when visiting FBI offices in Washington or during a municipally conducted campaign somewhere else. Prints in this category are kept apart from FBI's highly prized collection of criminal prints. They serve a double purpose. First, they & protect the individual and his family v sl by providing a positive identification at any time. In cases of amnesia, routine police investigation, legal disputes and disasters, these records have kept families together and prevented unjust prosecution. Second, the prints safeguard public interest. Were employers, banks, and institutions affected with the public interest to insist, in cases where there was any possibility of doubt, that positive identification be secured via the fingerprint route, huge sums would be saved. Swin dlers would be from passing Fingerprint cxpvit at federal themselves off kept as someone else. bureau of investigation in Wash- Chronic narcotic addicts, repeating ington examines files from the forgers and check kiters would be bureaut records. brought to task. the FBI hopes to have vestigation proved the repu- allEventually Americans fingerprinted, which table citizens to be wrong. The would mean 100 times the number of prints already on file. Scores of mourners went home happy. in About the same time, the organizations are the on drive, cards soliciting prints body of a woman, decom- supplied from Washington. In one posed to the point where ident- northwestern state, for example, the ification was impossible, was iden- Junior Chamber of Commerce is tified by fingerprints as that of a sponsoring a WPA fingerprinting former government employee, lead- project which will eventually record to of a death thereing investigation prints of most of the state's resi tofore clewless. dents. x C f a N I i If this machinery is finished, delivery will be blocked. In itself a serious blow to Japan, the shock would be that N. E. Dodd, in doubly hard because the new parts a speech to the emare designed to supplement what ployees of the westshe has already installed. Preciae ern division revised machine-tool- , and version of the old specifications wheat section of required to dovetail with her latest Henry conservation Wallace plants cannot be obtained else- days laid a great where. So most of the American deal of emphasis on his own idea equipment already installed must that the jobs in the department be thrown out. ought to go to "farmers." He also Several things might happen be- irritated the clerks summoned to fore next January; the burden rests hear his oratory, many of whom had with Japan, not with Washington. civil service status which contained The optimistic viewpoint is that no credits for milking cows or pitchAmerica's embargo threat will stimhay, by telling them the differing ulate a hasty completion of the war ence between "people" and "folks." in China, whereupon Japan would "Folks," one gathered, were the feel free to relax and again seek sons of the West anywhere sterling the good graces of western nations. west of the Mississippi. "People" she Or, may suddenly sue for peace were the city slickers who lived east on the best possible terms, not only of the Father of Waters. Whatever with China but with China's suphe meant, he scared the eastern, portersAmerica, France, Britain handed clerks quite a litand Russia. To anyone who has some of them made straightwatched Nipponese diplomats at tle, and to their senators and representwork, the latter possibility seems way atives, wanted to be assured that congress would not permit them to Japan May Get Angry be thrown out on their ears to make And here's the pessimistic viewfor the only sort of "folks" way The American point: abrogation, that Mr. Dodd seemed to like. which President Roosevelt has termed an act "short of war," may If isconsin Senator First be considered not so short by JaTo Sound Off in Public maddened or despan. In explaining their fears, they told perate one way or another she of what had been happening in Tri- might decide the United States acwith the western division apA, pie tion warrants hostilities. But Japanese are smart. Though parently the worst sore spot. But it was not confined to the their militaristic leaders plunge western division. Some of the coninto conat war, scoffing heedlessly stituents of Sen. Alexander Wiley of sequences, the mine-ruTokyo businessman will think twice. He will Wisconsin went running to him with recall that in 1929 American pur- their troubles, and it happened that chases reached a peak of $431,873,-00- he was the first man on Capitol Hill to sound off publicly. Which, couBy 1937, thanks to America's distaste for Japanese aggression, pled with the fact that the cutting off of civil service heads among the exthis had been cut in half to Last year these exports ecutives, plus the appointment of porecommended dropped still more. Although the litically (presumably) first five months of 1939 showed a persons to take their places, was in the western division, gross of $50,000,000 compared to only worse $47,000,000 in the same period of caused several mixups. One was the general assumption 1938, American economists point out that the higher price of silk is re- as a result that Wisconsin was in the western division. On the consponsible. trary, apparently the Wolverines are in U. S. Reaction Most important to Americans is "people" not "folks." Maybe that another question: Would we suffer is why Senator Wiley got so mad. Just in passing, no one understands by placing an embargo against Jawhy the boundary lines of this westpan? ern division are drawn as they are. AlAgriculturally speaking, no. It's just one of the absurdities though Japan was once our best cotton customer, the shift from comthat grew out of beating the devil mercial to arms staples has brought round the stump, turning Triple A a steady decline in fiber exports. payments into payIn the first five months of 1937 Jaments, after the Supreme court, pan bought 698.000 bales. In 1938, back in its palmy days, tossed the for the same period, only 471,000 Three A's out the window. But the reports of these frightbales were shipped. This year it ened clerks, added together, were dropped to 360,000 bales. Restricted exports to Japan would lktle short of shocking to the conThey want to do the inevitably mean restricted imports gressmen. as well, and it is here that Japanaming of the new employees, and nese trade would suffer most heavthey want the right to protect the Silk, once in heavy demand oia employees. ily. So the notion of a by the United States, has already become a drug on the market even political machine being built up American manufacturers from Washington, directed from though in the first five took $32,000,000 Washington, and operated without months of 1939. One reason for the their knowledge well, the Hatch bill lack of demand is development of isn't such a bad idea! silk substitutes, several of which are Problems Shifted Onto just being perfected here. As a re- Major Acvt Session of Congress sult Japanese people are now wearWith most of its major problems ing their own silk clothing instead of American cotton. postponed neutrality, new taxes, Such is the import of Secretary amendments to the wage hour and Hull's treaty abrogalabor relations act, and a half dozen tion. In six months we'll probably others congress is merely putting know the outcome. off the evil day and putting it off, of all things, to the session which IJarhers Rotter IJeware, will not only be in a presidential but which will run Comb IVow Cuts Hair electionintoyear, the conventions of both riirht Designed to meet the demand for that will nominate their can some means of cutting one's own parties for President. didates hair, a cutting tool for attachment During the session which began to the comb has been patented. last January, Republicans and conIt clamps on the back of the comb servative Democrats, despite plerty and the cutting edge extends downof denials, were steadily working ward beside the comb's teeth when towards a coalition. Sometimes it a blade has been inserted in the functioned and sometimes it did not. holder provided for that purpose, Sometimes it worked in the house says "Popular Mechanics." The cutand did not in the senate. At other ter docs its work as the user combs times it spiked the guns of the leadhis or her hair. ers in the senate but somehow did steel-fabricatin- g pre-so- il non-horn- U. S. Loads Japan's Guns Histape . Most WASHINGTON. Certain unheralded events in the Triple A of Henry A. Wallace's department of agriculture had a lot to do with the surge of sentiment which pushed the Hatch bill through the house despite the most frantic efforts of the White House to stop it. The events had all the earmarks of planning to use the entire relationship between the department and the farmers of the country as a political machine. Naturally, members of the house and senate began to hear the rumblings, but for some time they could not make head or tail of them. At first, the pohticos on Capitol Hill assumed that the politics that was ouviousiy oeing wmMmmm i 3 r piujeu was in ueiiuu of Henry Wallace's own presidential ambitions, it seemed, as it was told up under the big dome, ui.u DEAD TREATY .'.vf January this treaty, signed by Secretary of State Philander Knox in 1911, u ill die officially. IT hat then? pan's plans. In the first place, she cannot turn to Britain, France or Germany for these war materials, because all those nations are utilizing every resource in their own rearmament programs. The new pact with Germany, signed in direct retaliation against the United States the day after the 1911 treaty was abrogated, carries little economic weight it's just a military agreement. Japan Buys Material. Scrap iron is not the only material at stake. Often forgotten are Japan's heavy purchases of American machinery for manufacturing These purchases war materials. have been especially heavy the past two years and a few months ago $85,227,000 in gold was shipped from Tokyo to the United States for additional machinery which will take almost a year to fabricate. If the embargo is placed in effect before lute major problems hare been shifted onto the next session and that an of congress election year . . . lloosei elt's friends are seeking to grab the Texas delegation away from Garner. t4 rfrfi r . . 11 Cock-sur- y e, not seem to function m the huu Or. the whole, it ws more elective ;r. the hcure. pt:::aps because t:.e Republican crgamzat.on was n.Loh tighter in the house. Rej-u- i wtre n:ut h Lean !:.( :o duohe un.k-- r tr.e leadership of J.-.Mart .i:, t:;e G. O. P. house leader. t:.an were the mint nty senators But u:.der Sen. Charies McNary. this moans very httle save that the Louse leadership was skillful and the house Republicans willing to be on the job when tuld to be. for senators are proverbially more individualistic than members of the house. In the senate every member is a power in his own right. He can hold up bills, he can force amendments if they are not too important. He can do all scrts of things. But in the house the only power that can be exercised by individual members, save on very close roll calls, is by combining in groups hence the necessity for organization if the individuals are to accomplish anything. high-powere- d itidis 6l nr juor choir rniriti'n-mtceo:- of si M 16 tnrstxi, ir.DL iUKiii itt;.r.3U V ea. NORTHWEST PHOTO SERVICE Farg Dept. K - Mm Dakota Cutwork That Turns Linens to Treasure: threat to the Wiiite House domina- tion of congress. There is no such thing as a definite group of Democrats in either house or senate who can be counted on to vote against President Roosevelt with the Republicans. The real importance, now, is for the future where this coalition will be next session how it will develop. If there should happen to be a special election anywhere, the primary, or the election, or both might have a profound effect. But without such guideposts for the politicians who compose the two houses everything will continue to depend on whether Roosevelt runs for a third term. This makes it a bit foggy, for no announcement is expected on that until the session which meets in January gets well under way perhaps not even until the convention starts balloting in June. So the prospect would seem to be that there will be a continuance, at least in the early days of the session beginning in January, of the present loosely knit coalition. Move to Capture Texas Delegation for Roosevelt Acting on the advice of friendly Texans who insist that the delegation from the Lone Star state to the next Democratic convention can be captured for Franklin D. Roosevelt despite the fact that John Nance Garner will be a favorite son, the WThite House is moving to consolidate its political forces down by the Rio Grande, not to mention up in the Panhandle or "back East" in Texarkana. The latest move was the tender of the post of head of the rural electrifi cation administrator to Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson of the Tenth Texas district. After n $204,-201,00- 0. ROLLS DEVELOPED t. Tendency Touard Coalition Is Threat at If lute House But the interesting factor in this tendency toward coalition of the Republicans and the conservative Democrats is that it has been developinggrowing with the passage of every week to be more and more a t 0. PHOTOGRAPHY President Roosevelt weighing the offer for some time Johnson turned it down, the whole proceeding being kept very quiet indeed. But the striking angle of the affair was that this offer the appointment was made without regard to the wishes of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. The secretary, to whose jurisdiction R. E. A. was given in the reorganization, has been much concerned about who should head it. lie particularly wanted a man with a farm background, and made his wishes known not only to the President, but to everyone who would listen to him. He has been considerably annoyed by the way R. E. A., prior to its being put under him, had attempted to build electric lines apparently with a view to developing the use of marginal lands. Wallace has been fighting for years to eliminate the poorer, or marginal lands, from agricultural use as one means of raising the condition of the farmers and at the same time reducing the production of surplus crops. But the President merely informed Wallace that he intended to offer the place to Johnson, without asking his advice or wishes. The appointment was and is a Pattern 6331 Here's your chance to own beautiful linens without any trouble at all! Cutwork's easy to do, you know it's just buttonhole stitch (there's just a touch of other stitchery). Such a variety of floral motifs too. Get busy on a tea cloth, scarf or towel. These designs are stunning on natural linen or soft pastel shades with stitchery in white or the matching color. Pattern 6331 contains a transfer pattern of 16 motifs ranging from inches to 41'2 by 15 3,i by incnes; materials needed; color schemes. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St.. New York, N. Y. Beauty Aimed to Give Comprehensive Report Such beauty and personality as a strange girl applying for a job in a small town store possessed! The boss could not resist. Even though she was entirely without experience he believed that she would be a good business getter. Carefully, he instructed her, and as he showed her how to operate her cash register, he added: "Remember now to ring up the result of every sale." He watched her for a while and was astonished to see her go so He often to the cash register. noted that she went there once for even prospective customers. He found that she was ringing up, time after time, "No Sale." of pretty nice plum. Garner People to 'Smoke Out Some Texas Congressmen It is also interesting in that Johnson, since the defeat of Maury Maverick, is the most left wing of the Texas delegation in the House. As a matter of fact he is a close personal and political friend of Maverick, who has been touring the country giving out statements that tend to build up Roosevelt and to belittle Garner. Some of the Garner people got on to the negotiations, and are very sore about it. 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