Show WEEKLY NIS NEWS ANALYSIS IY BY JOSEPH W LAINE presidents political activity since congress 9 adjournment shows I 1 heavy interest in 1940 NOTE when opinions are arc expressed in these rol columns lIlls hey are arc those of the news analyst and not necessarily of tills newspaper by west ern newspaper union POLITICS rebuttal homo home in hydo hyde park franklin roosevelt probably reviewed editorial rial opinion on his recent seven month debate with congress the public thought congress had won for or it killed his lend spend and housing bills defeated his neutrality pro kram gram and passed the hatch clean politics bill not so evident were his victorious defense and relief programs and his retention of the 2 currency stabilization fund on three successive days therefore h he 0 w went C n t b before C for 0 the people first to boast next to scold last to warn signing the ho ashurst bill creating on an administrative administer adminis tr a alv 0 0 officer meer to supervise federal court budgets ho he announced that all goals of his 1037 ak W q X I 41 v 1 I 1 AW SEN KING 1 I dont see how court reorganization proposal had been realized six of them by laws and the seventh change in attitude through opinions of the supreme court itself next day observers thought lie he let a cat from the bag discussing his neutrality and lend spend defeats lie he borrowed on analogy suggested by his wife a precipice to which he said congress Is leading business andover and ando over vcr which it may plunge next spring placing it on a gambling basis the president said a G 0 P demo cratic coalition had made two bets with the nation 1 on continued pence peace and 2 business ability to absorb wage earners who lose and jobs next spring some thought it possible the president was gambling too staking his 1040 1940 candidacy on next springs prospects if there is a war andor heavy unemployment congress will bo be wrong and mr roosevelt right thus justifying a third term attempt certain it was that no politician without interest in 1940 would have delivered the message president roosevelt sent next day to young democrats convening in pittsburgh smoothly laying the groundwork tor for some action perhaps a retirement from politics possibly a coup to keep the democratic party liberal or possibly for a new third party he sent this warning if we nominate conservative candidates or lip service candidates oh a platform I 1 personally for my own self respect and because of my long service to and belief in liberal democracy will find it impossible ble to have an active part in such an un unfortunate fortunat e suicide of the old democratic party meanwhile members of congress took exception to the precipice analogy and wondered it mr roosevelt had the right man leading the right horse to doom said rep earl michener the coalition has stopped the american people just before they went over the financial precipice said sen william it king 1 I dont see how anyone can contend consistently that when wo we appropriated nearly 13 tor for next year congress was not doing everything within its power provided spending is the answer cobb CONFESS bess how much how much a so called congress actually appropriated and spent became the compu tation job of budget director harold D smith ills ilia decision congress appropriated more than but included some funds spent before july I 1 and some to be spent in future fiscal years for the 1939 year he figured the total was or more than president Roosevel ts budget estimate previous s years record which exceeded treasury receipts by meanwhile the matter of appropriations became a political football senate majority leader alben W barkley sold said it was less than because several re appio privations were included new yorks rep john taber placed it at with about each being spent before and after the current fiscal year publicly denouncing noun cing a public debt he said had reached including government corporation debts and pointing to an alleged CO 60 per cent payroll increase since 1033 mr taber probably helped speed president Roosevel ts appeal next day that departments and agencies slash their next years budget requests also in washington 1 L I social security stopped receiving claims for lump sum old age insurance benefits and prepared to inaugurate new monthly benefit payments to workers over 65 who wha have paid taxes on their incomes the past 18 months 41 Cali fornias rep frank buck buc after conferring with the president predicted serious consideration of a plan to broaden the personal income tax base and increase the basic rate C L house minority leader joseph martin announced republicans will have definite programs on at least three major topics housing agriculture and reciprocal trade agree monts ment sto to present at the next congress is as alternatives to administration measures EUROPE tension ul hostilities beears ats at 8 p no the lire dec lara la ration tints of war between East hind und and ff westland bestland wai quickly followed by a series of bombing borri bing ani dl by eastlund eastland along the east chatt w of We heviland viland from wash to ta points north of the thames estuary I 1 eleven beien sudden raids were made on art this territory during the lie first forty minutes two tuo raids have haio been made on smith london and ariti anti air craft craff batteries have been heavily agn fn ga Ked in london early to bedders were irked because sit sir john anderson chief of air raid precautions made them stay up late to test effectiveness of their new dark shades it was blackout night the most comprehensive trial yet made of fa with which england hopes ta to foil an invader from the continent when morning came londoners Lon doners I 1 0 A A ALBERT FORS amt read the above account of proceedings also reading that nine army air pilots had been killed what made the war news seem the more realistic was word from the continent that albert forster the nazi fuehrer of danzig had flown to berchtesgaden for conferences with adolf hitler german polish tension had previously been heightened when 1 a german airliner was fired upon while passing over 2 a warsaw paper had warned poland would bombard danzig if political union with the retch reich were proclaimed and 3 Danzi gs semi boffl cial newspaper Vor posten asserted the city was prepared for defense against polands bolands Po lands war threats all europe watched fuehrer por for return from berchtesgaden interest heightened when he proclaimed a danzig mass meeting that night while his mob cried paull at every mention of poland shrewd fuehrer forster resorted to time tested dictator tactics on po lands shoulders he heaped a charge of plotting to seize not only danzig but east prussia as well no sooner lind had this untruth raised german danziger Danzl ger resentment to a fever pitch than herr forster made 11 tee e simple announcement that his brown shirled followers have made full preparations to reunite the ancient tree free city with germany agriculture more stamps in washington secretary of aarl culture wallice nt at last took out ol of the experimentation stage his lot lat estand one of ills his most successful plans to got get rid of food surpluses for three months tho the food stamp plan was tested in rochester day ton and seattle expanded expand ed to bir ming mingham horn and des moines and finally to show Shaw nee nce okla at oil all but the latter place relief families were fed by sale of orange stomps stamps tor for buying regular foods and free distribution of blue stamps for buying surplus foods at shawnee lowin low in come families tried the plan not until early august did mr wallace uncross his fingers then 7 i vi J T 1 4 A A SECRETARY WALLACE uncrossed his fingers pronouncing the stamp plan successful he announced it will be expanded d on a n national basis very soon if it works nationally like it has at rochester farmers will be happy in the three month trial there food sales were upped 8 per cent forecast not until august I 1 can any years agricultural yield be accurately gauged simultaneously this august the U S department of agriculture and european sources released their predictions the first on cotton the latter on grains alone both looked bad wheat if big crops bode war europe must have war this autumn germany stored her surplus wheat in dance halls and gymnasiums in the hot danube basin the ukraine and the Vi valleys peasants brought in a crop that sold at the lowest price since 1592 in rome the international institute of agriculture forecast the largest wheat crop since the world war excepting last year with soviet and canadian production up with devaluation of far eastern stiver silver destroying purchasing power the institute gloomily predicted a glutted market through 1010 and 1941 1041 meanwhile U S farmers considered themselves lucky although chicago wheat prices would normally be between 35 and 40 cents and on the farm 30 cents customary differential under liverpool prices they are actually about 10 cents above liverpool reasons 1 U S loans to farmers on stored wheat keeps the supply down and the price up 2 production this year was down 20 per cent producing a crop about equal to the nations need 3 the U S pays a bounty to exporters of wheat amounting to on bushels last season cotton biggest cotton news was the export import banks credit sale of bales to spain taken as a gesture to woo general franco away from the rome berlin axis meanwhile the international cotton federation closed its zurich meeting by cabling secretary of agriculture henry A wallace in protest against U S export subsidies in washington the august 1 forecast was released painting a somewhat brighter picture placed at bales the yield would be bales under last year and bales less than the 10 year 1928 37 average but there will still be a carryover of about bales MEDICINE mary heart into intha a little maternity hospital in the center of manilas slums walked mrs manuel quezon wife of the philippine commonwealths president de nt like scores of others she came to see sec a phenomenon recorded only once before in medical history sound asleep after feeding from an eye dropper was a seven pound baby normal in every way except that her heart was wad completely outside her body while physicians watched fascinated through a cocktail glass placed over the heart they wondered whether to operate having baptized her child mary heart the devout mother said abe s believed her infants condition was caused by her worship of a picture which showed jasus christ with his heart exposed ASIA hush settlement one month ago russia and japan were ready to wage war over oil and coal resources in dussias Rus sias half of sakhalin Sak halin island reason jap concessionaires refused to hike wages of russian workers both nations reinforced border garrisons and jap warships rushed to the scene at both moscow and tokyo there was no sign of surrender almost unnoticed in the press a few weeks later was the humiliating outcome for japan concessionaires granted a 15 per cent wage increase |