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Show THE BULLETIN Bruckarta Washington Digest WHAT to EAT and WHY .Tumult and Shouting Are Over; So Now What Does It All Mean? I IFor Months to Come the Results Will Be Subjected to Mr More Thinking and Less Emotion Seems To Be the Rule; Middle Class in Revolt. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press Bldf., Washington, D. C. WNU Service, National The period of distorted claims by the winners and the equally distorted alibis of the losers seems to be about over. We have heard all of the tumult and the shouting of an election time. The total vote has been tabulated, and lit shows a greater number 83 new ones of Republicans in the house of representatives and eight new Republican senators. Some 14 more states have Republican governors jready to take over from the Democrats they have displaced. There iwere what may be called important inumerical gains for the Republican party label. But while the total vote has been tabulated and served as the basis lor the claims of the winners and jthe alibis of the losers, those will be forgotten soon. The thing that is important is the result. We will be measuring the results for months to come. It is quite unimportant, in my mind, to appraise what the swing of ja few votes may have meant It 'is, however, mighty important to note that there were hard and close fights for scores of candidates, in 'this 1938 election. There were hard and close fights in the whole of New England; there were bitter struggles in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and elsewhere. They were fought out largely on major issues because, generally speaking, local questions did not ,provide the fundamental issue in the states that are so important politically as those mentioned. What does it mean? What is the portent? Other writers and analysts have given and are giving their views. I guess there is no prohibition against mine. I firmly believe the votes cast in the 1938 election were the expression of an opposition to further experimentation by government in the field of unsound theories; the expression was against further use of the American people as guinea pigs, and it was definitely for a national policy. It was, therefore, a showing, a proof, of y the necessity for our traditional of and government, system surely, to that extent, the nation and national life benefited by the poll taken on November 8, 1938. WASHINGTON. fig-lur- es i middle-of-the-ro- ad two-part- More Thinking and Less Emotion Seems to Be Rale Looking over the whole picture, as the colors and the outlines now exhibit themselves, one who favors good government of a sound and lasting character cannot help having his faith renewed. Of course, the political pendulum swings back and forth. That is to be expected. But, to me, there has appeared on the horizon a new level of political thought. Perhaps, I should not say that it is entirely new; I should say that it has been restored to its place in American life. And that observation should be amplified with the further statement that more thinking and less emotion appears to be the rule throughout the land. Absence of hysteria, or reduction of the scope of hysteria, always makes for sounder and more constructive conclusions. That is why there is so little use for an analysis of minute returns this year. The aspect is too broad to hinge upon such de- tail. Probably, it can be said that the vote was an expression against waste and extravagance, against corruption of the electorate by use ef public moneys, such as went on among relief workers and for which we ought always to be ashamed; it probably can be said that it was a vote against blank check appropriations, or against government messing into every phase of human endeavor, or against many another item of policy in the New Deal, and if it were so said, it would be true to a degree, everywhere. But we are concerned with the sum into which these several things have been added. Vote Discloses Revolt by So-Call- ed Middle Clasd The United States has been governed by an expression of the will of the majority. It is sound. It is the basis of a republic. There has been much criticism of President Roosevelt on the basis of his domination of government. It has been said that he is the government because he has had such complete control that even congress moved this way or that at his drection, in the manner of puppets. If those characterizations be true, then it appears to me logical to conclude that the late election was something of a vote for government by law and not by an individual or group of individuals. By the same .reasoning, it is a logical assumption that the vote disclosed a revolt by the great middle class of the American people the group which lives neither by the power of organization and the strike threat, nor by the power which Mr. Roosevelt so often attributed to a few whom he has called the "economic royalists." The New Dealers completely capitulated to organized labor of the C. I. O. type, and used the numbers of votes there to bulwark its assault on business. The middle classes which embrace the backbone and the salt of the earth of any nation havent had much consideration from the New Deal thinkers. They have been the "forgotten men (and women) about which Mr. Roosevelt spoke when campaigning in 1932. It is quite clear that the middle classes have grown tired of government playing into the hands of a single class. They are tired, as they were in 1932, when the Republicans had played too much into the hands of big business. Suspicious Middle Class Is Good for a Democracy The sum total of the situation, as regards the middle classes, is that they have become critical again. They followed Mr. Roosevelt unswervingly (speaking, now of the majority) and they accepted his statements that we have planned it that way." But when the depression of 1937 came on them and it hit as hard as that of 1930, they found doubt in their minds. He could not have planned it that way, they reasoned. So there followed the natural sequence of criticism, and the country began to think that criticism was legitimate despite the New Dealers barrage of propaganda that the criticism, itself, was With the middle propaganda. classes back in the suspicious mood that is good for a democracy, they are again occupying their rightful role in government. There are many times more of them than any other group; they are the majority, and they showed it again this year by the sharp division of votes. The New Deal, with the aid of old line Jeffersonian Democrats, will control the congress for the next two years. But their control is not of such a character as to permit denial of rights to any individual representative or senator or any group of them. There can be no mailed fist or "must orders. Instead, if Majority Leader Barkley in the senate and Majority Leader Rayburn in the house want to get their programs through, there must be moderation. Extremes will spell defeat and revolt, and it is conceivable that policies of a too radical type could send the old line Democrats over to the aid of the Republicans and into a coalition to destroy the New Deal utterly and effectively. There can be no more rubber stamp business. New Deal tactics must change, and the sooner the bunch of intellectuals, the high brows, learn this lesson, the better it will be for Mr, Roosevelt, politically. I am told by a number of politically important personages that the election already has increased the courage of some of the conservative Democrats who were not outspoken heretofore. It is predicted that these will feel free now to tell the President when they disagree. None can foretell how far that situation will develop. It is a part, however, of the thought that moderation must be the rule. OFFHAND, By LEMUEL F. PARTON 'MEW YORK. G. S. Messersmith, assistant secretary of state, consul general in Berlin when Hitler rose to power, used to be a lot more optimistic about ' Germany settling down to normal trade intercourse than he appears to be now. He predicted that "evolution would soon follow revolution and urged the world to give Germany a chance to work through a period of stress and confusion. Today he is concerned about world law and order in trade intercourse, and says, We ought to be prepared to protect our interests wherever they may be attacked. German barter activities, particularly in South America, seem to be worrying the traders. Widely experienced and, minutely informed in foreign trade, Mr. Messersmith has been an evangel of Secretary Hulls reciprocal trade policies. His zeal in this is not lessened, but he reveals deep concern over the subordination of the rights of business and property "to the will of individual leaders or nations for expansion and domina- tion." This writer has just obtained from a friend, an economist returning from Germany, his first close-u- p of what Dr. Walther Funk, German minister of economics, and his shrewd hunch - man, Hjalmar Schacht, are doing with their new militarized economics. My informant, who wrote books about the old, mellow, beery, bassoony Germany, had many old friends there and was steered right into the. wheelhouse. According to him, the new German formula is as revolutionary as communism. Every atom of surplus wealth is sluiced into the dynamics of expansion, and the Reich outtrade reach is based on rations which mean commercial subjugation for any who try to do business with it. jug-handl- ed short-ende- rs - V7' E REGRET the lack of space to reprint here some merry little poems, such as The Bird and the Burdock, and The Tern and the Turnip, by The Debunker Of Death Ray Goes Poetic Professor ert Rob- W. Wood of Johns Hopkins, Just the British recently honored by Royal society for his work in experimental physics. He tossed off a book of them, along with whimsical drawings, in between takes of Fluorescence and Magnetic Rotation Spectra of Sodium Vapor and Their Analysis." He is one of this departments favorite seientifie debunkers. One of his high scores here was banishing the death-ra- y bogty pertinent just now in view of our sensitiveness to Martian attack. In this connection, the British government has good reason to give him a medal. An inventor was demonstrating his death ray to British war office representatives at Dawn. He focused the ray on a cow in a meadow 200 yards away and threw a switch. The cow flopped, dead as a mackerel. The inventor collected and departed. Then they found the cows feet wired to an underground circuit, connected with the inventors switch. Professor Wood, by scientific demonstrations, put the quietus on all Must Become Statesmen , death rays and offered to stand up against any of them. He invented Quit Their Demagoguery tear gas for foe Allies in foe World And, next, if the Republican leadwar, developed a chemical eye by ership has good sense, it will dis- which "we can see and foe enemy play its best brand. It will tell its cant," and contributed greatly to followers to become statesmen and the development of instruments of quit their demagoguery. The op- precision and spectroscopic reportunity awaits them to be con- search. He was educated at Harstructive and if they fail to put for- vard and the University of Berlin. ward sound proposals, they will have justified the country in refusTHE humanities, like sports and ing to give them control as was diplomacy, are becoming considdone in 1936. scrambled these days. Proerably It is proper to say, of course, fessor Harry D. Gideonse, just takthat the Republicans will not be in over as head ing control of either the senate or the Warns: Man of Barnard cohouse. That means, they can have On Horseback llege's departno management of legislative mament of social Us Take May chinery. That machinery, which is sciences, has in carrying forward been up to his ears all his life in in political party policies, remains economics, and now, in the hands of the New Deal. But his first work-obefore foe underthe absence of control for the Re- graduates, he swings on swing as publicans can not destroy the re- "musical Hitlerism. He says, with sponsibility which they have as- foe current divorce of reason and sumed in electing as many mememotion, and with the latter going bers of the. congress as is recorded. haywire, some "man on horseback They dare not dodge that responsi- is apt to get us. bility. Professor Gideonse Is of Dutch Just ahead, therefore, lies the nebirth. He is a canny and cagey cessity for Mr. Roosevelt to realize thinker, the author of several that there is a new public temper books on world economics and which does not like extremes, and finance, and a sharp and prefor Chairman John Hamilton of the cise critic of erratic trends of Republican national committee, and our civilisation. Republican Leader McNary in the He is 37 years old, born in Rosenate, and Republican Leader Mar- tterdam, here at the age of four, tin in the house, there is the oppor- educated at Columbia and the Untunity to fight for reasonable legis- iversity of Geneva, a former teacher lation all of the way. These three of economics at Columbia, Barnard. Republican leaders must have Ruti'ors and the University of Chisomething to offer besides criticism cago. of the New Deal. C ConMil.r. n Ncwm f tint1. dry-as-du- st ut , cl WNU Service prepared to assume tbe dittos ef parenthood. Correct Dental Hygiene proper care be given to the teeth and month. But it is quite unlikely that n correct routine will be followed unless mothers offer tact-lii- l advice and suggestions very frequently. For while the tiny child has his teeth brushed for dm, and the young school child ritual sulas his pervised, too often the adolescent is left to his own devices in this respect. That is a great mistake, as adolescents are sometimes careless in the care of their teeth. Mothers must see to it that there are two toothbrushes, one for night and one for morning, so that it is never necessary to use a soggy brush. They must wateh when the supply of tooth paste er powder runs low, and see that it to replaced. For it is surprising how Few children can be persuaded to brush their teeth properly without an agreeable dentifrice! Mothers should take care to eheose n dentifrice that will preserve er restore luster In foe teeth. For ado-- ! lescents are extremely sensitive! about their appearance and they! must not be allowed to permit dingy teetb to spoil their smiles.-Imothers will feed their ado-escents a correct diet and super-- 1 vise their daily dental care, the! coming generation will not onlyj e more attractive to look at but' should enjoy more abundant' health. and painful childbirth in later years. Yet it has been demonstrated clinically that there is a definite link. It has likewise been determined that the kind of food which is fed adolescents has a significant and far-- e reaching influence upon their with calcium, so as to allow adeteeth in later life, and in the quate amounts for the baby's bones, nature will encase of girls, upon the teeth of teeth and to meet the child's requiredeavor in their children when they ments by sacrificing calcium from turn become mothers, fthe mothers own body. If she Preparation for Parenthood Adolescence la m difficult period at best. And if a girl takes an unbalanced diet at this time, the result may be an unstable nervons system, poor physical development, lowered vitality and inability to fight off infections. This lack of strong resistance may open the way to dental disease and to a tooth-brushin- has no adequate reserve, then she may be forced to lose "a tooth for every child," or suffer even more serious dental ills. Foods Required Calcium-Ric- h Leading nutrition authorities hold that the average American diet is more deficient In calcium, perhaps, than in any other single nutrient. This is especially likely to be the casa in the diet of foe adolesoent. For at that time, boys develop prodigious appetites and a tremendous capacity for carbohyg drates or foods, while girls become extremely finseof variety other icky. Either they do not take rious infections as well. food at meals, or they tend It has also been established that enough to eat too many rich mixtures bedurif a girl is poorly nourished tween meals. As a result, the ing these years of rapid develop- diet of both boys and girls is ment, there may not be the slight- likely to contain an abundance est indication of that fact until she of meat, fish, highly milled cefirst becomes an expectant moth- reals and other refined with er. Then she will pay for her inadequate amounts offoods, foods the mothers lack of nutrition rich in calcium. Results of Calcium Deficiency If her diet has been deficient in calcium, for example, her pelvic bones may be imperfectly developed, so that she suffers unnecessarily during the birth of her child. And if liberal amounts of calcium have not been stored in her body, she may be called upon to make needless sacrifices from her own body in the interests of her child. It is well known that if an expectant mother! diet Is not abundantly snpplied with ealeinm, the substance will be withdrawn from her own bones and teeth in an effort to meet the needs of the developing child. An Aid to Dental Health For although expectant mothers are not always aware of this important fact, it is true that the first or "baby teeth are devel- oped within foe jaw during prenatal life, and the foundations for the second set are also laid at this time. Unless the expectant mothers diet is very generously supplied I It is vitally important that tbe By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS it 'may seem as if there could be very little between a deficient diet during adolescence ; energy-producin- f 1 Answers to Questions Mrs. G. B. The Adolescent's Diet A-- Yes, there' is US U-C. and by bulky foods whleh supply sufficient cellulose to help promote regular health habits. Mothers of adolescent children should make a conscientious and determined effort to feed them n diet rich in calcium and vitamins A, C and D the substances required, especially, for maintaining sound, healthy teeth. If milk am succulent fruits and vegetables figure prominently in the daily menus of the adolescent girl, they will go a long way toward helping to correct the "choosy" attitude toward food from which many older children suffer. And if earefol attention to die; is coupled with earefol attention to sound hygienic habits, the health of our 'teen-ag- e boys and girls will be greatly improved. EASED QUICKLY Simple Method Shown Here Brings Relief in Few Minutes are yours in this smart design that will help to solve many of your Christmas gift problems. Anyway you take it, or make it, this flaring, apron design is a delight to make and to wear. Dimity, percale, dotted swiss, organdie and batiste, in white, dainty prints or pastels, are pretty fabrics for aprons. The Patterns. No. 1625 is designed for sizes 6, I, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 rematequires 2K yards of tie-arou- tiny-waist- iapMi MMi Ht ed 39-in- yards of braid; yard of ribbon for belt. No. 1622 is designed for sizes rial; 1 palais lotto 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 34 requires 2 yards for each of these aprons. And for apron No. 1, 6 yards of braid. For apron yard of contrast For No. 2, apron No. 3, 1 yard of pleating. Fall and Winter Fashion Book. The new Fall and Winter Pattern Bode which shows photographs of the dresses being worn is now out (One pattern and the Fall and Winter Pattern Book 25 cents.) You can order foe book separately for 15 cents. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins! each. 32-pa- TOURING the indoor season to come, make plenty of bright new workaday clothes for yourself and your daughter. Here's a design for charming aprons to wear over your own dark house frocks for protection and prettiness. And a simple, dress for school girls, so becoming and practical that just one of it will never be enough. Both of these patterns, in fact, youre sure to use over and over In different materials. Theyre easy as french dressing to make. A detailed sew chart accompanies each of them. Charming School Frock. This Is an awfully good styls for growing girls who incline to be a bit lanky. The puff sleeves, flared skirt and small waistline, drawn in tv a belt at sides and back, give them just ths right lines. The high neckline, finished by a little round collar, covers up their collar bones and looks so wall under young faces. This Is a diagram design, tiierefore can bs finished in a few hours. Maks It of velvst-een- , flannel, Jersey, wool plaid, gingham, linen. Three-Wa- y Apron Design. Two comfortable pinafore styles, so cut that they wont slip off at foe shoulders, and a sweet little flare-skirt- ' midi To balance the diet properly, substance called cholesterol, iff nerve constituent vital a is it these necessary protein and enand is also found in the' ergy foods should be supplement- tissue, in cholesterol )lood. ed by milk end eheese which are include Foods rich egg yolk, liver, kidneys1 rieh In ealeinm; by green leafy and sweetbreads. vegetables which are also a good Ml Houston Ooudlao-lsource; by eggs and traits, valued for their minerals and vitamins ; Pretty Workaday Fashions so-call- Western Newspaper Union. and they will be more adeqaately Feed Adolescent Correctly or Tragic Consequences May Result, Warns C. Houston Goudiss; Teeth Must Receive Special Consideration To ease a headache with amazing speed, simply follow the May Bayer Aspirin way shown above. Belief often comes within a few missies. If this way should fail ace yonr doctor. He will find the cause and While then, ask him correct about taking Bayer Aspirin to relieve headache and rheumatie pains. We believe he will tell yon then is no more effective, mon dependable way normal peraona may use. When you buy, it ask for genuine "Bayer AspirinMby its full name not for aspirin alone., i Bell Syndicate. WNU Sarrlca. ed 15c rORU TABLETS S MILL DOZEN 2Se Half Rates Movie Director Ths star wants $1,000 for playing ths part of an Indian in our new film. Manager Offer hbn $500. Ten him hes to be a half-bree- d. bigamist is s min who maksa ths same mlstaks twist. A Eseh la Torn "Do you ever have to hurry to catch your morning train, Mr. Jones?" "Wall, its fairly even, you Either Im standing on the platform while foe train puffs in, or I puff in while the train stands at. the platformi" know. WATCH Ihc SfiecUik You can depend oa the spe- cial sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns ol this pepex.They mean money siring to our readers. 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