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Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD New Deal left wingers are said to be flirting with Senator Wheeler ...TVA’s feud with general accounting office makes further appropriations doubtful after congress adjourns ... Radical views are credited to Thomas E. Dewey in downtown New York rumors. WASHINGTON.—Some wingers in the New Deal : Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon. tana. They bang him on the _ back, the diners eirculate. They tell him they are for him. At the recent dinner of the famous Alfalfa club several spectators Sen. Wheeler nearly had heart attacks when they saw J. Bruce Kremer, for many years Democratic - national committeeman from Montana, greet the senator warmly, and engage in an apparent heart to heart talk. Now this was “hot stuff’? to the politically minded audience for more than one reason. It was the first time Wheeler and Kremer had spoken pleasantly for many years. They are old political feudists in Montana. As a.matter of-fact, it was Bruce Kremer who figured in the original coolness between President Roosevelt and Senator Wheeler. Wheeler was one of the ‘For Roosevelt Before Chicago’’ leaders. With his then colleague, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, he did yeoman work in that preconvention campaign of 1932. But unlike nearly all the rest of the early workers in the Roosevelt vineyard, Wheeler didn’t share in the grape harvest. The answer was Bruce Kremer. Kremer was an old personal friend of Roosevelt. He stuck closely to him during the campaign. After election it was Kremer and not Wheeler who got all the plums so far as Montana patronage was concerned. Wheeler didn’t like it and was frank to his friends about it. Kremer said nothing, but kept on putting in his thumb and pulling out plums. Disregard of Wheeler Cost Roosevelt Plenty There are those who suspect Roosevelt paid a pretty high price for this disregard of Wheeler. be available for So’desperately is the TVA administration against the general accounting office that leaders in the house recognized that if the May amendment should prevail, it would be tantamount and whisper in his ears at big dinners where should until it had been subjected to TVA Bitter Against General Accounting Office of the left have been actively flirting with funds auditing by the general accounting office. . Now for reasons sufficient unto itself, the TVA has warred bitterly with the general accounting office almost from its inception. There is no possible charge of partisanship against the general accounting office. There is little complaint from most strong New Deal agencies, including the old AAA, the present soil conservation substitute for AAA, the various functions under Harold _L. Ickes, ete., all of which are audited by the general accounting office. As a matter of fact the TVA is unique in not being required to submit its books to the G. A. O. They think that if Wheeler had been provided a fatted calf or two at the patronage table, and his old enemy had been ignored, Wheeler would have been unwilling to make such a smashing attack on the Roosevelt court packing bill, and the Republicans could not have gleefully made him leader of the fight. So when Kremer walked up to Wheeler and seemed to be trying to bury the hatchet, right under the nose of the President—who was the guest of honor at this Alfalfa dinner —there was considerable buzzing. “Kremer must think Wheeler has a real chance,’”’ was a comment made by dozens of the spectators, many of whom had never figured themselves that the Montana senator was in the running. Remember -how John L. Lewis bashed Wheeler during that court fight? And now is inviting him to speak to a union meeting! It isn’t Lewis who is causing the Wheeler talk, however. It is dyedin-the-wool Roosevelt men—men who would give anything in reason to have Roosevelt get a third term. The trouble is they don’t know any more about what Roosevelt is going to do than Paul McNutt, and they want to play safe. They do not want McNutt. That is one point on which the left wingers are set. They realize they can’t get Robert H. Jackson, whom they prefer to anybody, and they are beginning to think that, if worst comes to worst, and Roosevelt will not be drafted, maybe Wheeler would be better than somebody else that might be foisted on them. And they want a welcome at the White House if Wheeler should happen to make it! Little Chance for More Appropriations for TVA Prospects for more TVA appropriations, after this session of congress ends, don’t look any too bright as a result of the closeness of the votes on various would-be crippling amendments in the house of representatives this session. The administration could muster a majority of only six—110 to 104— against an amendment which would have cut the 40 million dollar TVA appropriation in half. And this when there are 97 more Democrats than Republicans in the house! Another ‘amendment, aimed at the same appropriation, but directed specifically at the Coulter Shoals dam, was defeated by only 112 to 109—a margin of three. Then Representative Andrew J. May, whose own interest in his coal miner constituents has gradually turned him into a hater of hydro- electric power, and who has been the spearhead of the fight this session as he was last, proposed that to @efeating the ap- propriation outright. Speaker William B. Bankhead took the floor on the amendment and pointed out that there might not be time to get through legislation putting TVA under the accounting office in this session, whereupon the appropriation would be held up. He did not say why there miele ‘not be time, but everybody in the hearing of his voice knew. They knew that every friend of TVA in both house and senate would fight such legislation bitterly. Mr. the to Bankhead Democrats beat the May was able to rally sufficiently on this amendment, 153 to 132. As a matter of fact, whips had been beating the bushes to get administration members to the floor, partly as a result of the terrific administration opposition to having the general accounting office auditing forced on TVA, and partly because the previous votes had been so close as to throw a scare into TVA friends. TVA officials, from David E. Lilienthal down, have made no bones of their hatred of the general accounting office auditors. But TVA critics say that if the general accounting office forced the TVA to keep its books in orthodox fashion certain things would come to light that the TVA wants to keep hidden. TVA critics do not charge corruption. But they do think that the much vaunted yardstick would vanish in thin air. Radical Views Credited To Dewey in New York Perhaps the most interesting single development in the presidential campaign now getting under way will be some speech to be made by Thomas E. Dewey revealing his philosophy about taxation, relief and economics. It is likely to be interesting because of the wild rumors Washington has been hearing, mostly from downtown Thomas E. New Yorkers. If Dewey any fraction of what they have been saying is true, most conservative Republicans will be thumbs down on the New York district attorney. If he should follow the line of the Minneapolis speech, there are a great many shrewd politicians who think it will be very difficult to beat him for the nomination. What gives any observer here pause is the tremendous sentiment against Dewey which seems to exist among conservative New York Republicans—not Republican leaders, particularly, but Republican business men and financiers. The wild things they are saying . about Dewey’s philosophy may not be true, observers admit, but there must be some reason why they are so strongly against him. When it is eventually made clear just what that motive is, the situation will be clarified. Conceivably, the downtown New York opposition to Dewey might prove an enormous asset in the rest of the country. Such Economic Philosophy W ould Cost Dewey Votes One New Yorker attacking Dewey told friends in Washington that Dewey thinks the government should take all of every income above $5,000 a year. Dewey has never said anything to that effect in public. Presumably, if that is an accurate statement of his economic philosophy, he will advocate it in some speech to be made before the presidential primaries are held. This seems logical because if Dewey really believes that, which the writer very much doubts, he would also believe that it was good political doctrine. Candidates generally try to avoid being smoked out in advance on issues. They like to figure ‘‘timing.”’ But Mr. Dewey will not be able to wait until he sees whether the Democrats renominate Roosevelt, name another New Dealer, or place a conservative at the head of their ticket before making his position on several essential issues very clear. He will have to ,do it before the first important primary test in which he meets Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. He will be constrained to do so, if for no other reason, because at present he is getting all the disadvantages of his alleged radical ‘views, and none of the advantages. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) Parrots, Mice MOAB, UTAH ‘Are We Mice or Men, My Friends?’ WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK Make Circus Out of Radio Adal Give Headache to Broadcasters, but It’s All Good Fun! By HOWARD By LEMUEL NELSON mouse contest. More recent- ly star performers from every available genera and species have been invited to appear, lest mice gain a monopolistic grip on the microphone. Today’s list of animal performers reads like the index of WPA’s book, ‘‘Who’s Who at the Zoo.’ Everything from a boa constrictor to a cuckaburra bird. Public interest is responsible. which is the same reason municipalities maintain zoos. A Headache to Radio EW YORK.—It is a tradition of the newspaper business, well known to the craft, that the reporter or photographer must never get into a news pic- Getting Red Hot ture. But some| & Pix, News Hawktimes the Breaks Into One “GET BACK THERE AND SING!”—In canine language, that’s the warning Peggy, mouse singing coach, gives the roaring rodents auditioned for the international contest of vermin virtuosi. fellow-passenger how joyed ‘the short-wave New York. Horace enmusic from Every time a familiar melody was heard, Horace would move his four tons about the golf course at Jinja, making appreciative grunts. Horace from rome Royal decided to serenade with a special broadcast Radio City. ‘They chose JeKern’s ‘‘The Hippopotamus” for this occasion. She Has an Understudy! Canary birds most seasoned years ago one are among radio’s performers. Six sponsor signed up “Blue Boy,”’ a virtuoso with a reper- Men. But while the animal kingdom fascinates radio fans, behind-the-scenes arrangements have been a succession of violent headaches to broadcasters. The wire and letter correspondence relating to these arrangements look like the legal briefs in a Supreme court suit. Worry No. 1 is animal temperament. If a beastie comes into the studio minus microphone manners, there ensues petting, coaxing, cajoling and perhaps a merry catch-ascatch can. Production men assigned to such programs have evolved their own technique, learning the language of birds, elephants and lions. They well remember when Horace the Hippo made her radio debut with a snort from Jinja, Africa. John F. Royal, NBC’s vice president in charge of programs, was crossing the Atlantic when he heard from a toire of 300 songs. It was the first bird, according to amateur ornithologists, to sing tunes other than its natural ones. ‘‘Blue Boy’’ was considered so valuable that her sponsor engaged another canary as an understudy. First heats in a new Olympic canary tournament were broadcast in December from San _ Francisco, where 100 birds participated. National and international contests are scheduled to follow. A. A. Schechter, director of NBC special events, once thought a talking parrot contest would be fun for radio fans. When parrot fanciers got wind of the plan their suggestions, warnings, comments and parrot pedigrees poured in en masse. Wrote one Californian: ‘‘Our parrot is basking in the sunshine ready, willing and able, sans bronchial and pneu- “HERE, TRY THIS’—The announcer gives suspicious squawkers a whiff of the microphone in order to prevent “mike fright” during the talking parrot contest. monia germs, to chatter, guzzle, whistle and snap at a cracker. Kindly send prize at once.” Mabel Up and Died. Final auditions of the talking parrots were presided over by a group of speech authorities. Secretly, Schechter was passing the buck. He didn’t want to hear any more parrot talk. He had received letters from Local No. 9 of the New England Association of Parroteasters and from guys who signed themselves Bob White, R. U. Perroquee, etc. The New Englanders maintained that ‘‘Oscar is the best of the lot,’ but admitted that ‘the is most discouraging at times.’’ From Columbus came praises of ‘‘Mabel,’’ who was coming along in fine shape until she died unexpectedly. From all points of the compass came: “I’ve got a parrot... I’ve got a macaw. I’ve got a talking crow! I’ve got a warbling pigeon.’’ Then, at the height of this i eet fever, Schechter wrote to his special events men throughout the network: ‘‘Dr. W. Reed Blair, director of the Bronx zoo, has advised us there is decided danger in holding the contest at this time. Tropical parrots are susceptible to bronchial ‘pneumonia, etc., ete. .. . we will, therefore, postpone the contest to the warmer month of May...” The broadcast actually came off in May, whereafter Schechter declared a holiday for all hands. Radio Becomes a Circus, There is considerable speculation about what future radio holds for the animal kingdom. Going down the list of past events, historians already espy. programs featuring Clyde Beatty and a cast of African lions; jungle snakes and crocodiles encountered in South America by the Holden expedition; a zoo ship arriving in Boston with specimens of the animal kingdom from Africa; a frog jumping contest; a trout fishing tournament; a word’s-eye view of a busy beehive; a debate between turkey gobblers, no holds barred; a whaling expedition in San Francisco harbor, and a convention of crickets on the hearth. Radio these days is a menagerie, an aquarium, a zoo; in other words, it?s a circus! U. 5. Exposes Air Secrets — But Shhhh!! demonstration was so to President Roosevelt at his instigation it was Held at Bolling field near here, the army air exhibit consisted of two feature attractions: a three-quartermile lineup of ships in which one or more of each type of plane used in the army was featured; and two hangars jammed with an array of camouflaged pursuit ships and enough aviation instruments and tricky equipment to make a wouldbe spy deliriously happy, despite shrouds of taped canvas which blanketed certain vital mechanisms. Show ‘Mystery Ship.’ A headliner was the army’s “‘mystery ship,’’ the much-discussed Airacobra interceptor pursuit plane, said to have flown more than 500 m.p.h. in test flights. Nearby was a garish group of weirdly camouflaged pursuits, including the P-39 which has a tricycle landing gear. Some were covered with blobs of dark, dusty green and foggy gray; the Russian bombers passed over. He is’ close-in as’ he methodically films the blazing ruins, trussed up in military gear and quite in the mode with a snappy iron hat—which the well-dressed photographer will do well to wear these days. He is Harvard ’25, of impressive social lineage, tall and slim, but husky, and, all in all, a fictional ace for adventurous youth, considering what he’s been mixed up in. Mr. Menken has brought near' ly the entire latter-day apecalypse into sharp focus. He has dodged every kind of missile from South American poisoned arrows to Japanese shrapnel and Russian air bombs, nicked by a ' bomb splinter in the Spanish civil war, but suffering nothing worse than profound disillusionment about war in all its moods and tenses. Milton went blind, looking into the abyss of human horror, Mr. Menken just keeps on grinding with a sharp eye for focus, action and background and makes us see it, too. Just now, he’s shooting the Finnish war for an American film company. He is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, New York social registerites. Out of Harvard, he started teasing the grim reaper by Frank Merriwell air exploits in which, miraculously, he always landed right side up. Here and in Europe, he qualified for his transport pilot’s license, as a preliminary for his career as an explorer, which he had mapped out for himself. In the Orinoco region in South America, he indulged his yen for narrow escapes and brought through his skill as a film photographer. In Africa, he found elephants posed for him nicely, but he was charged by an angry badger. Wars diverted him from his exploring career. Barred from the Spanish conflict late in 1936, for his too-great zeal in taking pictures there, he hastily flew off to China, to record more of ‘‘the giant agony of the world,’’ as Euripides characterized the mild dissension of his day. There’s nothing frivolous about Mr. Menken. One gathers that he would not advise restless youth to see what he’s seen. —_@—- thing ORDS, like bullets, are ammunition, which might have someto do with an editor of Web- ster’s International Se i Dictionary Scribe dictionary coming man be- chair- 3 t a Mr. Green’s office is at the fulcrum of weighty political and economic issues and naturally is concerned with the increasingly urgent consideration of munitions reserves for national de- kept: open for three additional days, giving thousands of average citizens a chance to see the results of the close co-operation between the military branch of Uncle Sam’s defense forces and the American aircraft supply industries. he board. He is former Prof. Joseph C. Green of Princeton university, a teacher of history, now on the pfoduction line, as he helps deploy our munitions strategically, under the narrowing pressure of the state department’s new ‘‘moral embargo.’’ Conferring in Washington with oil company executives, he is told that the withdrawal of high test gasoline from Japan and Russia will set back the oil companies quite a few millions, but the companies express a willingness to meet the issues of ‘national policy.”’ developments of military aviation, the convincing 4tama makes is, like that of old Omar’s booze clerk, “more precious than the stuff he sells,” and the rule breaks down. Here’s bucko. young Arthur Menken of New York, in a news picture, as he grinds out the flaming chaos of the Finnish city of Viipuri after Can Clarify the American naWord ‘Munitions’ #10" 4! control munitions ASHINGTON. — American aviation turned an important, corner ‘here, authorities agree, with the unprecedented public showing of the United States army air corps’ most advanced equipment which hitherto has been shrouded in mystery. Conceived originally to inform congress of the latest that F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) EW YORK.—Ordinarily speaking, the European war is more important than a singing mouse. That was why—without reflection on the vermin’s qualifications — the National Broadcasting company recently answered ‘‘No’’ to the following radiogram: “Still interested in singing mice? A sensational one in Nieuwen, Holland, sings like a canary. A white mouse to boot!” It’s only a few years since radio held its first singing Flower Quilt You'll Point to With Pride fense. ON PARADE—Spectators looking over a standard Douglas bomber B-18X, with special armament equipment, during the army air corps exhibit at Bolling field. New equipment still in the “secrecy” or experimental stage was concealed by tarpaulins. President Roosevelt spent 50 minutes at the field. others were black and dull green, while a flying fortress was a nightmare of shocking pink and weary blue. However, the crazy-quilt patterns served the purpose of blurring outlines and eliminating reflections from wings and other surfaces, officials explained. Certain to have a salutory -effect on future support for America’s military aviation was the evidence of the public’s keen interest in understanding many of the features which hitherto have been regarded as intelligible only to most advanced aeronautic engineers. Both government officials and the public took ample time to digest information presented to them in the form of animated displays, charts and cutout models. Newest methods of testing wing strength and stress and the famous Goodrich de-icer, an in- genious air-and-rubber device which officials said has done more than any other single development to make high-altitude and winter fiying safe, were presented. Aerial photographic equipment, complete with portable developers for fast wartime scouting, was ranged near compact communications units with which headquarters can maintain contact by radio, telephone or telegraph with: planes in the air. The word Pattern No. 6525 UILTMAKING’S fascinating— , especially when the pieces form lovely flower blocks—printed materials set off these flowers efMake this handsome fectively. quilt. It will brighten up any bedroom. Pattern 6525 contains the Block Chart; carefully drawn pattern pieces; color schemes; direetions for quilt; yardage chart; ilustration of quilt. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and cpaltenn Hum number re plainly. on Face : Bound to Match Four Dr-Sun ‘Days Fear f A New York bookbinder makes a specialty of covering his books with material most appropriate to the subject matter. For example, he will bind a book on ostr farming in ostrich skin, one on prison life in zebra skin, one on dermatology in human skin, the Bible in lambskin and The Merchant of Venice in sharkskin. == China observes four national holidays in honor of Dr. Sun’ Yatsen (1866-1925): His birthday, the anniversary of his death, the date of his first installation as president of the Chinese republic and the date of his imprisonment at the Chinese legation in London. == The British Broadcasting corporation now uses 13 foreign languages in its news broadcasts from London. == The Jicaque Indians of Honduras, despite their primitive manners and customs, are so: fearful of the disease germs of civilization that they will not use, or even touch with the bare hand, any. purchase or gift from a white man until it has been disinfected for at least two days. Human Nature The man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions, wil waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.—Colton. Relief missions, and Gas Crowds Heart. For years I had ee en. headaches an copy oe gas bloating seeme to Seva ne pe Adlerika, always helped right away. Now I eat sausage, g want and never f bel Schott. Two things happen iatlens you are constipated. FIRST: Accumulated wastes swell up bowels and ress on nerves in the digestive tract. SEC- ND: Partly digested food starts to decay forming GAS, often bringing on sour stomach, matt epues and heartburn, bloating oe up until you sometimes gasp f for breath, erika gives double relief wit. OUBLE ACToon BALANCED <Adlerika Rene three laxa- tives and five carminatives relieves STOMACH, GAS ost at once. It often clears bowels in less than two hours. No griping, no after effects, just. quick results, Sold at all drug stores Salt Lake’s NEWEST HOTEL “munitions,” entered state department in 1930. He came to munitions contro] as a humanist, widely known in the field of political, economic and social research. ry CONSTIPATED! like many other words, takes in more territory than it did when Professor Green herded it into Webster’s dictionary, ‘back in 1929. Incidentally, at that time, he was also an editor of American Indian terms. When moral issues intrude, as of today, it is well to have a word expert around. A native of Cincinnati, born in 1887, Mr. Green was graduated from Princeton in 1908 and did post-graduate work there and in Europe. He was instructor in history at Bordentown Military institute, assistant professor of history at Princeton and associate professor from 1924-30. He was a major of infantry in the war, holding home and foreign decorations, was with Belgian Near East . 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