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Show THE BULLETIN Student Bruckart's Washington Digest Shaping of National Politics Influenced by Work of Congress ADVENTURERS' CLUB Party Defections, Defeats ami Victories of President Have Important Place in Picture; Growing Split In Democratic Party Blamed on Roosevelt. By WILLIAM BRUCKART Press llldg.. Washington, D. C. I EVERYBODY: tale of a brave little mother who of was afraid of nothing at all when but afraid guns, deathly WASHINGTON. When one exam-liu'- i be just as free to take away from to a piece of her home, is matried and the situations as was it to grab President hirelings political give pow- corporation neuvers, there is nearly always a ers to him before the party breach. the Battle of Monmouth all over again. In between the extremes just tendency to overestimate the imporYou remember, or do you, how in that important engagetance of the current activity. That mentioned, and particularly within ment at Freehold, N. J., away back on June 28, 1778, Molly is to say, an action or a policy just the current session of congress, took Pitcher the place of her husband, John C. Hays, an artilto be completed is generally likely there have been unmistakable signs given an appraisal that exaggerates of congressional domination. I do leryman, after he was wounded, and served his gun, thus its significance. Political plans, on not mean to say that the Democrat- preventing its capture by the British. That's a yarn that the contrary, ought to be looked ic wheelhorses in congress have American gets a kick out of every time he every in mass. This is red-blood- the especially true of national politics which, of course, involves the national party and voting strength. For these reasons, there seems to be need for a review of the first session of the seventy-sixt- h congress. The things that have happened, the party defections and party realignments, temporary defeats for the President and balancing victories for him and his political philosophy, all should be analyzed. The result of all of these things is the important bit of history. It is important because it has a direct bearing on the 1940 political campaign and voting. It is more valuable to see the shaping of national policies at this time than usual because of the efforts being made to put forward President Roosevelt for a precedent-breakin- g third term in the White House. Most every one has been aware, since 1836, that a split in Democratic party strength has been growing. Mr. Roosevelt, himself, led the way and was perhaps the main cause of the present wide breach. It win be remembered hew he sought to "purge" the Democratic party of Senators George of Georgia; Smith, ef South Carolina; Tydings, of and Maryland; Representative O'Connor of New York. He failed on all except the New York repreSo there were three sentative. senior members of the United States able, openly, to battle Mr. Roosevelt's policies. Around these three have since collected all of those Democrats who fear radical leadership in the party; who fear a Roosevelt third term and who are determined to restore party control to those who have been responsible for a long line of party successes. upon thrown the President overboard. They have chosen to chisel away his strength; they have avoided knockdown and drag-ou- t battles as much as possible, unless the issues were paramount Their strategy plainly has been to build strength for themselves in their own districts and in their own states rather slowly. The whole thing amounts to a program soul-stirri- ng ed reads it! It is mighty comforting, I want to tell you, to know there are Molly Pitchers in every generation, stepping forward fearlessly to take the places of their men when necessary. Just such a woman is today's distinguished adventurer. Meet Mrs. John Doolin, of Lemont, 111., who did a good job at writing her story, one that makes you feel all warm and proud of our womanhood. They call women the weaker sex. the voters who a few O yeah? Just put their backs to the wall. If you want the of education of brief years ago were hailing Mr Roosevelt as the national savior. I believe the work has gone so far now that most of the Democrats in congress have considerable support in their home playgrounds. To elaborate on the generalities which have been stated above, I may cite such things as the house determination to continue the WPA investigation something New Dealers did not want Additional funds were voted for continuation of the activiInvestigation of ties, headed by Representative Dies of Texas a program openly attacked by the New Dealers. The constant threats of congressional proof, read how Mrs. Doolin, whipped a rather highhanded corporation that seemed to be trying to put over a fast one. Not long after a railroad came through the village of Lemont, where the Doolina had their home, there were a number of accidents on a sharp curve close to the Doolin property. The company wanted to straighten the line by putting It across the Doolin yard. Surveyors staked out the new right of way; workers appeared and began digging. John Doolin ordered them off. Then he took the first train to Chicago and there consulted his good friend, Attorney Alexander Sullivan. single-hande- Actions of Company Held Illegal by Attorney. Mr. Sullivan told him the company had no right to put its line on Doolin property without permission. But, he continued (and here's the catch), if the company succeeded in erecting the poles and stringing V covered near the Equator in Dutch New Guinea. see you'll in the movie version of "Gone HOTELS With the Wind," arrived in New York a while ago for a Hotel PlanoVme Sail Lake Ratea II te II 4th 8 ft BUt St. vacation. The vacation had week so or la KKNli. NEVADA, slap al the before, When begun a HOTEL COLDKN Rcaa'a larawt in but she had spent the first al pepalar hotrL part of it in the country nearAPARTMENT HOTEL by, resting; after 22 weeks of work, with only five free days in that time, she needed a rest! In many ways she really resembles "Scarlett O'Hara." She has the squarish jaw and pointed chin that you're familiar with if you read the book, and her eyes, though they're hazel, are near enough to being green so that the effect is almost the same. As for her Southern accent, it should pass muster even with the most critical of Southern audiences. 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The voting of furloughs for WPA workers who have had 18 months of continuous checks was disliked by and was thoroughly distasteful to the New Deal faction of the party. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt want to see Old-Lin- e Democrat Succeed congress change the tax laws. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, togethIn Building 1940 Platform er with Undersecretary Haynes of There has been much written and the treasury, worked out the law spoken about maneuvers underthat was passed. It eliminated the neath, and what the results of these principal schemes for reform that maneuvers are. I am inclined to the New Dealers had in the opinion, however, that only now the days when congresssponsored was comafter seven months of the first sespletely subservient to the White sion of the seventy-sixt- h congress House. It is to be noted just here, are we able to evaluate them prop- too. that these tax changes had the erly. The various acts of congress, support of Chairman Dough ton of the various attitudes and defeats the house ways and means commitand victories can now be placed in tee, who had been a dependable the basket. When they are shaken man" for the President, up to "yes up, it strikes me that the old line that time. Democrats have succeeded in buildChanges that were made in the soing what amounts to a national cial security laws were never acDemocratic platform for 1940. And to the Inner circle of New ceptable that platform can reasonably be who constitute the Presiaid to be one upon which no real Dealers dent's principal advisors. But, New Dealer can run for the presiagain, congress showed its teeth in dency next year. only a snarL Perhaps, the statement of Senator The senate foreign relations com Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania evalu- mittee gave the administration ates the circumstance better than I something more than name-callin- g, can do. Guffey, New Dealer, closer however, on the question of neutral associate of the President than Mr. This, of course, follegislation. ity Roosevelt sometimes desired, as- lowed a real the house. spanking serted in a recent radio address that The house, it will be by took recalled, Mr. Roosevelt "has had no term in the administration's proneutrality the White House at all. for his work and butchered it right out gram was destroyed by the Supreme court where all could see what was going in the first term and was wrecked on. by tories in the second years." When one places the seething President Gets Plain Mad mass of legislation, bureaucracy The Way Things Are Going and propaganda under a microIt might be proper at this time to Mr. is scope, Guffey undoubtedly attention to another phase of correct if the view is from the call the situation here, although it can New Deal angle, alone. The wild be said to be a part of the reforms proposed by the brain trust hardly circumstance that I have been disof the first term were knocked down Mr. Roosevelt has cussing. Lately. atcourt. the Further by Supreme "Dutch up." so to speak, had his tempts to rebuild America were and has not minced words. For exslowed down by congress, little by he called in Lyle Wilson, ample, little, until the current session of head of the United Press bureau congress has been telling the Presiand denounced Mr. Wilson and here, dent what to do in a great many his organization for sending out disinstances. Thus, it can be said, the which the President said President remade the Supreme patches were untrue. These dispatches, or court to his liking, but he lost contold of a purportone, gress, and it is well to remember ed particularly, between Mr. Roosevelt and split just here that the Supreme court the able and patient Secretary Hull decides only questions that are of the Department of State. Their brought before it If congress does differences were reported to be over not enact questionable laws, the on neutrality, the President's policy highest court does not get a chance the incident wound up with Anyway, to hold them constitutional the President taking the almost un Congress Takes Back Power preredented action of .issuing a pub-li- e statement accusing the United Delegated to Mr. Roosevelt Press of falsification of the facts. It becomes less difficult, thereThis scries of incidents came fore, to sit back now and use hind- after many reports were in circula sight We see, practically from the tion at the Capitol that Mr. Roosetime of the "purge," how congress velt was mad about the way things began to take back powers it dele- were going. Whether these reports gated to Mr. Roosevelt in the hectic were true or false, they were seized days of 1933 and 1934. A bite here upon by Republicans and by the and a bite there. The pinnacle was Democrats who no longer want any reached when the senate kicked out part of Roosevelt policy. They the President's power to devalue the were spread in the most fanciful dollar and took away the right to fashion and there was no opportubuy silver with a repulsive and dis- nity overlooked by which those old gusting subsidy. Of course, after a mcanies around the congress could brief lapse, those powers were givrn add to the Prcyiilcni's discomfiture. back to the President, but there is Of course, nil of this is a part of significance in that fact It showed the nrrnt fMttic ''f politic. 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John marched away with the law, leaving three children cry ing, a wife on the verge of it No sooner was John Doolin out of sight than a crew of workmen swarmed on the place and began digging so furiously you would think they were being paid a dollar a shovelfulL Was little Mrs. Doolin going to let them get away with it? Up to the attic she hurried. There, forgetting she shivered at the very sight of a firearm, she took from thl wall a shotgun that had hung undisturbed for many years. With her children clinging to her and crying again, she pened the window shutters, and rested the ancient fowling piece on the silL Then, In a cold fury, she called down to the working men: "Throw down your tools or I'll shoot!" They stopped working and began to kid her. Foreman Orders Men to Take Gun From Her. Then one bully, who appeared to be the foreman, ordered: "Come on, guys, let's go up and take it away from her." Mrs. Doolin leaned little farther out of the' window and lifted the rusty shotgun. "The first man who takes a step toward my house gets shot," she called. "Now all of you drop your tools or I'll start shooting." And boys and girls, Mrs. Doolin meant exactly what she said. She was a determined mother, protecting her home and babies In the absence of her husband. Of course, she thought the gun wasn't loaded, but her finger was on the trigger and she was all set to pull It If any one of those men made a move in the direction of the house. But their tools went .down. The workmen sensed this was real drama, not a comedy, and they became sober. One spoke up to say the company had sent them there to rush up a couple of poles. Plucky Mrs. Doolin then explained to them that they were on her property, that the company had not asked permission to use it nor offered to pay for it Well, air, when those men got the low down on the proposition they took off their bats and cheered. "Ton win, lady, you're a game guy." they told her. "We aren't doing any more digging until you get a square deal." With that they picked up their tools and went to town. Mrs. Doolin bad won her battle, but would the men be back tomorrow? Would the company have her arrested for threatening its workmen? And what had become of her husband? Officials Refuse to Prosecute Doolin. Pondering these questions, Mrs. Doolin went to the door and was overjoyed to see her husband coming up the walk. He hadn't been In jail at all. The policeman had taken him before a Justice of the peace, but no one In the courtroom was willing to prosecute him. He thought he understood why he had been taken away on a charge no one would press when Mrs. Doolin told him the men had been back. But when she told him how she had pointed the shotgun at them and really Intended to pull the trigger, be felt a little faint. For that old gun was loaded! corporation, it Well, there was one thing about the the worries next The licked. was when knew morning it very always of the Doolin family were over. Right after breakfast two suave lawyers called to say how sorry they were it had happened. There had been mistake. The company was willing to pay a good price for the land. And they paid, right on the line, thanks to the little woman who didn't TT7 JEANETTE MacDONALD Horse Sense Ulysses, famed Grecian warrior in the battle with the Trojans, at first didn't want to go to war, ac- cording to legend. Pretending mad- ncss, he put on a fisherman's hat. yoked horses and started to plow up the ground. His trick was uncov- ered when he turned the horses aside as he saw his infant son lying on the ground in front of the plow. 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