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Show X LEW FREE By ARNOLD Mi m' . : NATIONAL AFFAIRS Winter Vacation Comes Into Its Own As U. S. Succumbs to 'January Blues' f ITAH nT Reviewed by CARTER FIELD PETERS that the Congress believes real Roosevelt plans are not included in his messages . . . amazed at Foreign diplomats the character of the comment Wetn Newspaper Union' CHICAGO. This is the (Released by northerners from city and village alike-l- ook glumly at gray skies and old snow. It's the time when a lew southerners grow weary that greeted the message of winter weather that is just a repetition of summer. There's only one explanation: It's Senaor Taft's . . . speech is exthe adminis- pected to plague tration. January. ' i" i r . anfl posed on the deieaiea FBut does not interest int i i I """'aw.'" Tailored, WW a With the rest of the uurld at uar, America t own folks are discovering its diverse vacation opportunities for the first time this uinter. Hot, cold or dry u hat'll you have? The United States boasts all of them! Like the North, the Southwest is a country of vastness, only it's a different kind. Deserts that run on for miles suddenly break into weird and colorful mountain scenery. Nature, not bountiful here, has left instead the stimulant she forgot to leave elsewhere. The Southwest is not expensive for your winter vacation. It's a country of dude ranches and horseback riding, where natives lead the same kind of saddle life as the visitors. All you need is blue jeans, a hat. colored shirt and maybe a Indian pueblos, missions and houses give this ancient land a air that is almost like a light picnics and sleighrides, its trip to old Mexico. glowing cheeks and cheery firesides. Cowboys Join the Dudes. Great for some folks but not for tribal ceremonies Fiestas, the indolent. They'll take Florida and rodeos Indian are the big tourist atin the winter, where a fellow can rodeo Until tractions. day, dude beach and ranchers just lie on a themselves on the besport forget. same level as the cowboys Miami and other resort spots, both from the range. But quiet when you see on the east and west coasts of Flora cowhand rope and tie a calf in ida, report the biggest year in a 22 seconds flat you know there's decade. You can get what you want still a lot to be learned. here: Millionaires, flowers and For the vacationist who wants all glamour on the east ; shells, strands, three sand, snow and sun Califorand on trees stilts oysters mangrove the No. 1 winter tourist in the west. Or try the gulf coast, nia remains As usual, the current seamecoa. just south of Dixie, which is a win- son is drawing thousands of visitors ter paradise in itself. to resort centers ranging from the The Desert Is Bracing. Pacific beaches to desert-drplaces Only in the past five years has like Death valley. In between, Calthe southwest vacationland come ifornia offers the highly accessible into its own. Here, by contrast with snow slopes of Yosemite park, just the northland's exhilarating cold and a few hours from tropical sunshine. the southland's soothing warmth, the Better pack up your bags and get visitor finds a bracing quality in the going. It's winter vacation time rare and dry desert air. It all de- and Dame Nature won't be kept pends on what you want. waiting! sun-bak- Latin-Americ- sun-bake- an d y And Ithere's only one sure cure: A winter vacation! Three strange and unrelated developments have placed American sand, sea and snow in the limelight this year. It's the biggest winter vacation year we've ever seen, and that applies to the entire nation. First there's the war. Wealthy vacationists who once wintered on the Riviera and points east are staying home this year. For the first time they've discovered that to "see America first" is really a practical idea. Two Weeks Off With Pay. Second, the winter vacation is no longer a rich man's luxury. Overnight John Public has discovered (if he's an office worker) that he can take his two weeks off in January as well as June, and with no extra expense. If he's a northern farmer with just a few miscellaneous chores around the homestead, he'll find it almost as economical to head south for the winter. The vacation spots are catering these days to plain folks like you and me, who haven t a lot of money to spend. Third, there's a refreshing new interest in outdoor sports. Fishing, horseback riding, swimming, skating, skiing all the thrills of a winter or summer vacation are accessible in January if you'll look for them. Outdoor Sports Boom. It isn't many years since we holed in for northern winters and envied the southbound birds. Nowadays the winter resorts do a thriving trade all the way from New Hampshire'! hills to Oregon's famed lodge on Mount Hood. The swish of skiis vies with the ring of a skater's heel on crisply cold landscapes whose silence is broken only by the shouts of happy sportsmen. A great life, this, with its moon Tim-berli- t Billings Follows Trade He Learned in Prison SAN FRANCISCO. A few blocks along Market street from the scene of the 1918 Preparedness day bombing which sent him to prison, Warren K. Billings repairs watches today. , He recently opened a tiny watchmaking shop to practice the trade he learned while serving 23 years in prison"for the explosion which killed '10 persons and in- jured many. Billings' life sentence was commuted by Gov. Culbert L. Olson. Tom Mooney had been pardoned nine months before. With the first business he has ever owned Billings, 46 years old, hopes to support a home. He will marry Miss Josephine Rudolph of San Mateo. Television May Help Generals Fight the War of Tomorrow NEW in the YORK. high-gear- ed - Television as a potent force war of the future, though World War II has come too early in tele- vision's development for any immediate use. For the past few years military experts have been scrutinizing television and its adaptation for war purposes. It may become vitally important in eliminating the time lag in scouting and reconnaissance activities. At present, aviation and aerial photography have speeded up reconnaissance to a tremendous degree. The most important thing for an army's general staff to know in war is what the enemy is doing, where it is located and in what troop dispositions. The airplane and camera provide the fastest possible means of transmitting this information, but it still takes time-t- oo much time for "lightning war." Television will make such information immediate. General staff will see enemy locations and movements picked up and transmitted from a reconnaissance plane, as they are at the moment and will be able to act without delay. There will be no waiting for developing and printing of aerial photographs, during which the situation might change, and there wouldn't be, harsh as it may seem, the absolute dependence on the reconnaissance plane returning. To determine when and how television can best be used for military purposes, army chiefs are intensely interested in the status of television today. What is that status? According to engineers in the laboratories of Philco Radio & Television corporation, leaders in television development, general use of television is some years away. "This is an age of miracles," was their consensus, "but not of overnight miracles. There must be time for orderly and sound development in television. Philco's television research engineers, for instance, have worked out many basic advances in the past 13 years and feel there are as many more fundamental improvements yet to be made, though they can not be accomplished at a faster pace. "After all, the automotive indus try took 20 years to attain a high r. k - pot ce fin for live ven dangerous place to Americans to live in if it is ruled hands of a few. by force in the inAnd they were almost as much look must "A'e one: this in terested own ahead and see the effect of our nations small the all if future their inthroughout the world have them or from snatched dependence to rela mere appendages become tively vast and poweriui inuiw.j . systems." And also: "We must look ahead and see the effect on our future gen- psychologi- ir8 cal moment. There erations if world trade is controlled J is more time in by any nation or group of nations 'hich for imt. which sets up that control through The President turn around military force. year than has ever been the case There is no quarrel on the part of national the in the past, because most of the diplomats, it should be conventions are to be later this stated, with the thoughts behind year, by at least a month, than they these words. Naturally the reprehave been for many years. sentatives of the smaller countries Whether he runs himself, or in- at Washington are in hearty accord tends to name his successor and with them. Naturally also the Britthere is no dissent whatever from ish and French are delighted, and the contention that he wishes to do the Finns exuberant. In fact, only one or the other he has not laid the Germans and Russians are disthe groundwork in these first mes- pleased. sages. That is not the point. The point Just what is planned by the Presi- is that they interpret the message dent nobody knows except the Pres- as Roosevelt promising congress ident himself, assuming he has and the country solemnly that this made up his mind. He is talking country is going to keep out of the about a lot of plans to different war, and then in the same breath groups of advisers, but, as usual, not saying words almost irrefutable even the members of these intimate words, as they see them which are groups know whether he is really inclined to pave the way to this counfavoring their plan or some other. try going into the war on the side of His enthusiasm in such conferences Britain and France and Finland. has always been unbounding. ParGets ticipants for the first few times are Deuey's Speech convinced have Skin that President's Under they always completely sold the "Chief." But if There is no doubt that the much they continue long in the inner cir- talked about Minneapolis speech of cle they gradually learn to discount Thomas E. Dewey this enthusiasm. They learn that got further under the President is interested in almost RoosePresident to and everything, perfectly willing skin than any velt's delve in an exhaustive manner into recent public utterthe details of some scheme which ance. Evidence of he will decide not to follow. this is the devotion of two paragraphs Hear About Various Plans, in the President's But There Is No Certainty "state of the union" So there is no way of being sure address to congress what the rabbit will be this time, answering Dewey's and senators and representatives do charge of "defeatnot profess to have any certainty, Senator Taft ism." But it was the though they keep hearing about various plans. But they are mighty Chicago speech of Senator Robert A. sure that, with his often demonstratTaft of Ohio which will cause more ed resourcefulness, Roosevelt is not immediate trouble for the adminisgoing to make his fight to dominate tration. the Democratic National convention Dewey's attack hurt because it and win the election on the issues was the first time any critic had stated in his message. painted such a simple picture of the His defense of trade treaties, not hopelessness of the New Deal polonly for their economic value but icies. Its effect, presuming the line as a barrier to wars, and especially of attack is continued, are feared as an answer to the demands of the on the electorate, and in the elechave-nnations for colonies, etc., tion itself. was expected. It has been known Taft's criticisms, on the other for weeks that he would fight for this, hand, are apt to plague the adminand that renewal of the power to istration during the session of conmake these reciprocal trade agreegress now sitting. At once New ments would be one of the tough Dealers realized the danger. They rushed out chapter and verse of the fights of this session of congress. But there is nothing new in his answers to Taft the impossibility messages on which to carry the of achieving the particular cuts he New Deal forward, as members of mentioned the dire political consecongress see it. This can be inter- quences if these particular items are preted, as they view it, in only two eliminated, or even reduced. However, the actual merit of the ways. Either he has no idea which is almost impossible to conceive of particular cuts that Senator Taft such a fertile brain or he does not suggested are not so important as intend to inject any new controver- the stirring up at all of the discussion. Best opinion here is that sial issue at this particular time. There is even some skepticism Taft did not help his own candidacy by voicing them. To advocate about the amount of space the President devoted to arguments for con- any particular cut, in the nature of things, is to antagonize a certain tinuance of the polgroup in the electorate. icy. It is true that this is the outThe trouble, from the New in Deal standing fight plain sight as conis that Taft has set an standpoint, gress opens. But some shrewd obNot an example. servers believe that the President example that will be followed by other candidates for purposely stressed it for another the Republican nomination. reason to divert attention from the fact that he is not proposing any Seeks to Divert Fear of new plan for curing the ills of the and Bankruptcy Inflation country, of which the most outstandIt must be borne in mind ing is unemployment. that the essence of the Roosevelt to strategy Message Has Varied Meaning divert the fear of For Foreign Diplomats inflation from this campaign! and and hence to remove fear that the budget Foreign diplomats in Washington will not be balanced are amazed at the character of the shortly, is 'in prc! comment that has greeted President new tax bill. It is not Roosevelt's message to congress portion, but it must be had if is to be removed. As they see it, the most important Well, congress doesn't of the parts message have been almost ignored. So interested are taXeS- - U iS not ndinS an issue of it, but it they about it that many have condoesn't intend to do it Hence all ferred with colleagues, if the talk about budget studTes their knowledge of the wondering English lanby a guage, or rather the blind spots special congressional r which occur when a person learns W,uld -- port ITS a new language, have caused them sr.m)!e And even ,f it did to misinterpret it. advocate spKc It is rather obvious, for instance taxes does anyone believe that the German embassy here would not be a minority report' wired its government that the Presis "scheme ident was determined to have a place at the peace conference table Inspired stories printed in Germany indmdual members of - Jn and allowed to be sent out of the must face election this country by the censors have com- o them nomination before that' but is distinctly not all mented on this phase. The German reaction is that the standpoint of a New dS Roosevelt is anxious to bring pres- mg to avoid alarming the coun, sure to bear at the peace table to prevent too harsh terms being im- Bell Syndlcate-W1 iinn ot trade-agreeme- Slow and inefficient aerial photography in wartime may give way to television and it wont make much difference if the reconnaissance plane is brought down behind enemy lines. degree of efficiency and widespread usage. Although radio broadcasting was first accomplished as early as 1906 it was many years before it reached the network stage. There has been a long interval of years between the first flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk and the regular transcontinental and transoceanic passenger flights of today." According to these Philco engineers, "television can become the most important means of communication the world has ever known." Television receivers have already reached a comparatively high stage of efficiency, but there are several important scientific obstacles to be hurdled and goals to be achieved. A new technique for production of television programs must be found; many sources of interference, such as diathermy machines and automobiles without suppressors, must be corrected. Then there is the problem of spanning distance. Television waves are now known to travel beyond the hori-tobut science has yet to find an effective control over waves at such a distance. 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