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Show UTAH THE TIMES-{NDEPENDENT. MOAB, NATIONAL APITAL Carter Field *) Washington.—There is a distinct possibility that congress, instead of the Supreme court, may prove the chief obstacle next year to President Roosevelt’s New Deal program. Close friends assert that the President has not given up his hope for ‘‘reform’’ of the Supreme court —that with the convening of congress in January he will lay his plans to put some sort of legislation through to obtain his objectives, or resort to the constitutional amendment route, which he has always objected to as too slow. There is no doubt that this is his present intention. But he just may find himself faced with new problems next January.’ The point is that congress is feeling its oats. It is in no mood for insurgency. Everything on the surface is going to be kept as peaceful as possible. Democrats will be thinking of the primaries and election next summer and fall. They do not want to encourage gentlemen—or ladies—back home to run against them in the Democratic primaries, with ‘‘loyalty to the President’’ as the chief issue. They have a healthy respect for the machine—running into every county of every state—which Jim Farley has built up. But there are many degrees of obedience—many fine lines where loyalty to the President enters. It certainly does enter into the phrasing of bills, but it is very difficult to make the folks back home understand this. On a clean-cut question such as whether six additional justices shall be added to the Supreme court there are no such fine lines. One has to be for the President or against him. But most legislative matters are not so clearly defined. And it is easy for a Democratic senator to protest the utmost loyalty to the Chief Executive but insist that Harold Ickes, or Harry Hopkins, or Henry Wallace had deceived the President into taking a very unDemocratic position! Brain Trusters Out In the first place, there is no chance whatever, judging from the present temper of senators and representatives, that there will be any more Brain Trust drafting of legislation—much less permitting a Brain Truster to sit in on the meetings of a conference committee seeking to rewrite the senate and house drafts of a piece of legislation into some compromise form that will be acceptable to both. This happened in the famous public utility holding company death sentence bill, but it is not likely to happen again. Moreover, the struggle to control the party, looking forward to the 1940 campaign, with a view to nominating Roosevelt’s successor and writing the platform of that year, has already begun. There is a very strong group of Democrats who do not intend that the Democratic nominee of 1940 shall be a New Dealer. Words of praise for the Roosevelt administration will drip from the platform, if they have their way, but there will be a good deal of hypocrisy and party expediency in em. Their real intention is to earry the Democratic party back quite a step toward the ideals of such men as Carter Glass and Josiah Bailey, rather than forward to those of Felix Frankfurter and Ben Cohen. So it is possible, if not probable, _ that Mr. Roosevelt will have a good deal of trouble in getting just what he wants from congress next year, despite the oratory from the very men who will be seeking to block him praising him to the skies. It is the conviction.of many disinterested observers that congress next ‘year will pass no legislation which the present Supreme court would not approve. But it looks as if it will be a most interesting session! Still a Puzzle The attack of Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania on Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York in connection with Lehman’s letter to Senator Robert F. Wagner on the Supreme court issue is still puzzling Washington politicians. Every one here has assumed for a long time that Governor Earle was hearing the buzzing of the presidential bee practically continuously. So they have been trying to fit together the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle and get the picture which must be in Governor Earle’s mind. One phase of it is of course very clear. Earle wanted to curry favor with President Roosevelt. He has lost no opportunity to do that—not only to praise the President extravagantly at every opportunity, but to demonstrate himself, in one way or another, as being even more New Dealish than the President himself. ‘The idea here of course is to show Mr. Roosevelt that Mr. Earle is just the type of man to whom might be safely entrusted the carrying on of the Roosevelt policies. Whether his course up to the time of the Lehman letter was shrewd or RS This brought loud protests from certain distillers, particularly from one who had been operating for years in Canada, where the law permits the use of charred barrels for aging which had already done service for a previous batch of whisky. The contention of this distiller is that two very different types of whisky are produced from the same fermented mash by aging in new and old barrels. The new barrel produces a heavy-bodied, dark-colored liquor. The used barrel produces a lighter-bodied, and lightercolored whisky. Some drinkers prefer one, some the other. Chemists Worried © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service, Ad That Smart Tg Embroidered C. UTLEY very pretty good girl and to land enough church choir. one self sneaking above the had that a voice in : | peek caught into the And when } | | | | ; | Fibber for the one hundred engineers, but his service, seeing . - . and McGee and he was in a hospital when the Armistice was signed. Meanwhile, was Marion, back home in Peoria, merely twiddling her thumbs, awaiting his return? ‘‘Heavenly days!’’ says she. “I was that busy teaching piano to 50 pupils, some good and some bad, I didn’t have a moment to myself!”’ They decided ta get out of the show business when Jim came back, but it was no go. Jim wasn’t very successful finding steady work and, with his brothers-in-law constantly taunting, ‘“‘When are you going to get a job?’’ he soon found himself behind the footlights again. He and Marion had real success with their concert company, and no one complained that he was shiftless any more. and righteously, in the concerned, he would agent. Marion and that in this such four a sight of hardy soul twice was time as They she friends more a harmony Then the team night and in playing Chicago in 1924. Has That it Many has never but when well, Jim hookup | ceased to add to Jim in to its the genuine, to listeners Jordan’s suit. would witty, and at | soon Instead couple, all times typical funniest characters radio known. Fans learned to love and little girl the most whose have laugh at voice can tiny the ask questions the the chorus philosophy; girl who eve on slim ing over youth her of seventeen shoulder her battery radio set was blatting away. Conversation was all but impossible as what might or might not look- heart beat like a studio gong; she decided right there that Jim Jordan (for that’s who it was) was the man for her. must have been ror, for Jim same thing. Jim sang rehearsing They had their eve. a decided quartet with the the | which | choir. date on Marion can’t suppress whenever she New thinks it. They Still Tease. “His mother went along with us, and took him home afterward!”’ she laughs. Even after 20-odd years this charge still makes him hot under the collar. ‘‘Oh, here now,”’ he objects. “Cut that out!’ Then, with a grin: “Anyway, didn’t you always bring your big brother along on our dates after that?” For three years they courted before they were married, and for 19 years since. Before their marriage, Jim toured in vaudeville with a musical act called, “A Night With the Poets.” He sang on the Chautauqua circuits, and later started a concert company that toured the tank towns, an experience which may have developed some of the “tank town tourist’? flavor which characterizes the McGee and Molly skits, Shortly after their marriage Jim left for France as a replacement been gled with ranges. mir- first a little giggle of two-way Jordan with was Year’s a have a harmony the notes Jim Jim stood Wins it as team strug- the upper he could. in a Bet. long as. old couldn’t, them tion So the next day found had been listen- seeking an audition at the sta- to which they ing—old WIBO, ‘‘the top of the dial,”’ in Chicago. They clicked immediately, and soon made their debut in a commercial program on the ether waves as the O’Henry twins—at $10 a broadcast! They collected the $10 they had bet, too. Those were the days before anybody got fat eating ona radio star’s salary. Marion and Jim for eight months broadcasted two hours a day for $35 a week. They were known under dozens of different names, and it is a tribute to their amazing versatility that they did not run out of things to do. They Sang songs, acted out little skits dialogs and monologs, and played the celeste. But vaudeville still offered money, and reluctantly they Marion more left the London, always with Mrs, sentence, but failed as and that an able K. Boomer, shot; the the raspy young Bill Thompson, is Hugh acted at Studebaker, all until the church’s leading his authorship of nevinto a pipe also has a show ‘‘Bachelor’s announcer | loves of his *‘spoil’’ life. Fibber, of course, is Jordan. 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Write for Catalogue ROBERT D. STEELE, Associate | job of “liquidating.” | He is a certified proletarian, a factory worker at fourteen and military commissioner with various | Bolshevi k units in the revolution. In 1929 and 1930 he was vice-com mis- the They’re riding on to of right now, the senau as: en bok they quit if they could? “Just give me a chance,” Says Jim, “Boy, I’d like to go right back where | started. I'd like to live on a little fargl by a lake and take life easy.” ¥“Heavenly é days! ”! saays Marioi n, You bet,’ Jim replies. in years evangelist * | handsome, has and Molly; it’s very apparent that they love each other, and you love them for it. Seldom has any troupe in the show business coined sO Man y catch phrases that have become b Yy-words throughout the nation, Among all Classes of people today you may hear repeated almost any time Molly’s ‘‘Heavenly days, McGee!” and 2 "Tain’t funny, McGee! ”’; Fibber’s ‘Dad ey it!”; the little girl’s “J own and Grandma’s “Hi, Skip- is has ALT the and doctorate and effective looks as | daisies, the pair throughout has followed their married life. You will never any serious hear arguments be. tween reared his earlier YEAR Westminster Colle with in Princeton his regeneration | unveiled seven from and taking it | to smile.’’ Jim children who for and books research In teacher acclaim You'll find no “mother-in-law” jokes on the Fibber McGee and Molly program, “Taint funny, McGee!"’ Molly said, and that was that. And you'll never hear anything on the program that you wouldn’t want your children to Marion and Jim have their own. Don Quinn, written the Jordan scripts NEXT / His predecessors in office were grim, scowling men. He was elevat| ed in September, 1936, with national Phrases.’ of born attended later | Stalin Harpo, to was a scholars, nine religious FART ROO: the | telegraphs, the selection of personnel for important posts and com| mand of the secret political police. He is regarded as second only to | organist. Children.” who of DASH IN FEATHERS.. OR SPREAD ON ‘spiritual convey contrary, Soviet Jim got was quite | N ONE way, at least, Soviet Russia is like traditional America. | The postmaster is the patronage | dealer. Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, receiving the order of Lenin after his management of the recent “‘liq| uidations,” has a three-fold office small who he radio—he Studebaker a might is | business publicity, as one of larly Russian, whom gray the quite; All of these and are played by Marion herself! big faith. He China for its himself This experience | of never seeking personal and building a reputation was the foil 5853 sleeves, or belt. Flower gj gay in garden colors of silk floss, may adorn‘a blog both bodice and skirt of sired frock. In pattern 59 will find a transfer patterg motif 9 by 9% inches, ons one reverse motif 6% } inches; two and two reve tifs 3% by 3% inches apn strips of border 2 by 15 i color suggestions; illustratig a Gantry.’’ He if she does, calls heology. Weary- seems never 44 Pattern he idea that he is an “‘Elmer more, bride; lady hear; en: “Dad rat it!’’ he cried. “We can do better than that!” His host was a doubting Thomas with a bit of sporting blood and bet Jim they He sity, earth; tittering Grandma, Coin a ac- erroneous polemics. the has real are the specific In modish salesman.’’ field own, her had a surrounded by some of the and to expounder sympathetic, embarrassing | evangelism wearing Fibber’s jokes by “sneaking in” a commercial announcement, is Harlow Wilcox, who is Harold Isbell in Jim as organization. vigorous so, tire of them and refused. we hear this quaint Irish er of verification world Tongues. remained testifies that dian, shots and calm He insists that only by an enlightened and aggressive mobiliza| tion of spiritual forces can civiliza| tion be saved. He is a good looking, highly urbanized cleric, usually by | and to is prominent in the proceedings of the convocation of 400 Oxford moveent leaders in thirty-five countries. From the conference come stories | | of loye and labor leaders | esas Ma te wm all stitches used. [ making concessions under the leadSend 15 cents in stamps or ership of the ‘Christian revolution- | (coins preferred) for this p aries’’ and averting strikes. | to The Sewing Circle Hous Dr. Shoemaker is pastor of Cal- | Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteent | | vary Protestant Episcopal church of New York, N. Y. | New York. For the last few years Please write your name, ad | he has been preaching that the old and pattern number plainly, discovered. Silly Watson, the politely uproarious blackface come- | Japan zealously, success, The first Fibber McGee and Molly broadcast was in March, 1935, The “show’’ was a “‘natural’’ from the saw this with An old of working of between China and Japan. new dynamic creed was necessary. | He became active in the Oxford movement in 1932, since then a popularity, vistas cards in- officials are hopes he civil now as Horatio Saw they when prevented followers | | showmanship. The sponsor wanted to base the show on Fibber’s ‘‘fish stories’’ and outlandish lies, but Jim for was as fact has vaude- which miraculous team, WMAQ, Geraldine, were in success, a local start. years. There followed remain bought Marion all week could NBC had to hit the national “Mr. Twister.’’ ‘“‘fired’’ a Molly, Nothing could be further from the truth, Jim insists. -They simply made so much money off local broadcasts plus theater appearances that they avoided the networks. When NBC bought WENR they went to WMAQ, where they discharge the Jim estimate manner Kai-Shek and their high | that All this time it might be supposed that the national networks were overlooking them; in fact it has often been reported that they never had a chance at the networks until 3 Fibber and Molly came to life. An Agent Gets Fired. Billed as a 15-piece ensemble, the company was literally that—a 15 piece affair—but there were only six people in it; some of them played several instruments. This led to complications. An advance man preceded them on tour and arranged for their billing. When they arrived they usually met a stage crowded with 15 chairs and a manager stirred with indignation at finding only six musicians. At this point Jim would become highly incensed at the audacity of his agent in permitting so gross a misrepresentation. Loudly glass camera its | situations. prevented time these candid at home. and that microphone for another year in the Frankly, they are evangels to the theaters. Then when WENR went | rich and powerful, as they say the on the air they returned, never to | hope of the world lies in inducing leave. The character of Fibber Mca spiritual change in those who own Gee may be traced by veteran lisand operate it. That possibly may teners to that of an old man named | go into the files of history as someLuke in one of their early broadthing new. casts. Molly is much the same In the news this week is the Rev. character as Mrs. Smith in their old Samuel Moor Shoemaker, who has skit, ‘“‘The Smith Family.’’ They been taking over in America as Dr. had another program called the Frank N. D. Buchman, founder of “Smackouts,’”’ which they intend to | the movement, is busy with the bring back to radio some day. twenty-second sickness wso says ‘Hallo, Petrushka! Hallo, Tovarich!’’; the Scotchman, and other dialect characters, are played day war persists for complishment can be obtained, but this writer is reliably informed that they have enlisted powerful political | and business leaders in Europe and the Orient and that they are con| centrating on certain dangerous and Molly, herself, the cocky McGee. says incipient story Chiang that No more Jordan kidnaped with bottom, Marion of was | quarrel a a cue | war; | clude | will surely run down like an old| time phonograph before she finishes , Of and The finisher | emissaries, having converted powChinese, brought about the res|| erful open up new to them. her- diplomacy carnage. the pretty floral pg grand | ville. the at choir prac- she piano. a her It was day | a Movement. | HY don’t you forget about that guy Jordan?”’ a suitor asked Marion Driscoll about 18 years ago. ‘‘Tfe’ll never amount to anything. If you marry him, you'll be living out of a suitcase all your life.” tice ford EW YORK.—Word keeps drift| ing into this office that the Oxford movement is gaining momentum in the trouble zones of labor, bb flowers that A, stitch; By WILLIAM It But—contended this distiller, who had _ several supporters—drinkers have been educated up to think that age is the most important thing, and hence the x pective purcl rs 0 whisky set great store by labels. The customer who might prefer a light - bodied and colored whisky would feel terribly cheated if he read on the label of a bottle he had paid a fair amount for, that it was “less than one month old.” He would never suspect, this distiller points out with some logic, that the whisky was actually two or three years old, but merely had not been aged in a new barrel. He would recall all he had read about “green whiskies” and “raw liquor,” and would have to be very strongminded indeed if he could bring himself to admit that he liked the whisky—after reading the label. Government chemists are much worried about the controversy. They do not want to stick their necks out and give some one a chance to crack their heads. Privately they opine that whisky does age faster in a new cask of charred white oak, but they are not prepared to say that whisky agéd in old casks is any more deleterious. | RABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | | Blunder administration believes it needs more aspirin than ever before. The problem is whether to put official sanction on the claim that whisky can be aged just as satisfactorily, both as to flavor and aroma and as to the curtailing of injurious effects on the drinker, by aging it in used charred barrels as in new charred barrels. Not long ago the administration decided the question, temporarily. It held that whisky aged in secondhand barrels, or more accurately, barrels which had already been used for the aging of whisky, must be labeled “less than one month old’’—even if the liquor had been in the used barrels for a couple of years! | Embroidery WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... | fse to be the “‘life” of yous You—Hit the | By Lemue Marion and Jim—‘Fibber McGee and Molly’ to are these that you’ll want l F. Parton | mediate stitchery. They'y r. Laughte and Love Labor, of : They’re easy to do! Th Top in Radio After Years | “Spiritual Salesman” Aids the Ox- | tirely in lazy-daisy ang That settled it. For there was nothing Marion Driscoll would rather have done for the rest of her But whether or not Earle’s stratlife than live out of a suitcase—with egy was wise up to the time of the her Jim. Lehman episode, most observers It was a good thing for you and here think he made a bad blunder me, too. If this swell romance in giving to the press his blistering hadn’t blossomed into happy and attack on the New York governor. lasting marriage, we would have had to do without, two of the most In the first place, he was attackgood-humored and welcome visitors ing somebody who was not threatwho “‘call’? at our homes—Fibber ening, in the remotest degree, his McGee and Molly. own ambitions. Lehman has not Marion and Jim Jordan “‘lived out given a thought to the presidency. of a suitcase’? and worke@ like the He wants to get out of politics. One dickens for a good many years bemight even suspect that Lehman fore, as Fibber and Molly, they bewas playing a shrewd game in apcame one of the five or six toppealing to the penchant of leaders ranking radio teams. In the rural to get somebody else to make a sacrifice. But certainly Earle did not |} areas and small communities they rank first. ‘‘We’ve gota bigger figure it that way, has never figaudience than even Jack Benny ured that particular bit of psychology, or his course to date would | has,’’ is the way Jim puts it. Fibber Born on Farm. have been very different. No wonder, either. They’ve alThe fact remains that nobody, and ways been ‘‘small town folks,’’ even certainly not Governor Earle, thinks though they’ve lived in Chicago for that Lehman is a candidate for the presidential nomination, or will be a long time. Like Fibber and Molconsidered by the convention. So ly, the Jordans themselves are as genuine as the eggs in a home-made why hit him? Especially on an iscake. One indication is sufficient: sue of very dubious popularity? During the leaner years when they There is also the fact that Govsometimes worked for $35 a week, ernor Lehman .is_ tremendously the Jordans and their two children strong in a state that will have a —Katherine, seventeen, and Jim, very large block of delegates at the Jr., thirteen—lived in an unpretenDemocratic national convention tious residential district on Chiand whose delegates are never cago’s northwest side, where they bound by the unit rule! Men have had a lot of friendly neighbors, come mighty close to the nominaplain, ordinary folks like themtion, and for that matter to elecselves. When they suddenly found tion, as President of the United themselves in the ‘‘big money” class States, and then been beaten by a at last, did they buy a fine manmere handful of friends of some sion on the Gold. Coast, with more popular figure whom the candidate servants than closets? They did had slighted. not. They built a little seven-room It just so happened that the Roshouse right in their old neighborcoe Conkling episode happened in hood; it was HOME to them, and Governor Lehman’s state, and is that was important. generally credited by political hisFibber (or Jim, if you prefer) was torians with having changed a presborn on a farm near Peoria, II, idential election. and worked on it until he was twelve; he had seven brothers and Such Headaches sisters to help him out. Marion was “Not a headache in a barrel’’ was a Peoria girl, the youngest save the slogan of a famous whisky one of a family of 13. maker in the good old days before Now there hardly lives a gal who prohibition. But there have been doesn’t like to look into a mirror plenty of headaches in regulating once in a while, and Marion was no the whisky industry since repeal exception. At sixteen she was a and right now the federal alcohol Called Bad MAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAA QYTIR? one se around the HEAVENLY DAYS FOR THE JORDANS, not is open to question. It happens to be a fact that great men have very seldom put themselves out to nominate a successor who was obviously crazy to get the job. Calvin Coolidge was not exactly unstinting in the aid he gave Herbert C. Hoover. The last case of a President’s forcing the nomination of his successor was Theodore Roosevelt, when he not only picked William H. Taft but imposed his will to an extraordinary degree to obtain Taft's nomination. But this proves nothing, for Taft was desperately anxious not to get the job. He wanted the job he got long later, chief justice of the Supreme court. So in a way Theodore Roosevelt had the very normal human thrill of forcing somebody else to make a sacrifice for the sake of the public good. Public good naturally meaning as Theodore Roosevelt saw it! or | “T OC d be no doubt thatP s n neglect, | EDOANS PILL Ka a i | |
