Show weekly news Avia lysis election cleanup suggestions 1 leave vote buy buying I 1 ng loopholes abby it y joseph a 4 seph W aa hille EDITORS when opinions op alons iff a expressed in III these columns they ny I 1 art r those of 0 the ft aws analyst n and nd not necessarily of the h newspaper politics since the dim day when americas first pork barrel was burst open politicians havo have log legally ally or 11 legally used federal funds to fu further r ther their personal ends pork barr Q was simple and usually honest nest when it involved no moro more than a U S sponsored post domce highway or bridge but since 1033 the old fashioned pork park barrel has been supplanted by relief projects building up huge payrolls among unemployed people who will cast their votes not n necessarily i tor tho he right man but for tho the man who will protect their jobs three square meals a day have a for greater vote getting appeal than any miscellaneous favor a congressman could pull from tho the pork barrel in an election year political abuso abuse of relief relict funds becomes a paramount danger therefore congress received no jolt when texas sen I 1 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 ai I 1 I 1 vl 11 1 I 1 V 11 I 1 I 1 W N 1 I 1 lk r 1 j 1 I 1 I 1 av I 1 I i 10 u I 1 1 I 1 1191 1 I 1 I 1 N 1 I 1 4 apts I I 1 4 1 1 t 11 1 1 v 11 1 1 0 I 1 1 1 f 1 P I 1 I 1 1 4 I 1 1 I 1 11 X p 1 t le Z I 1 ak I 1 K 1 ra I 1 11 SENATOR SHEPPARD recommendations were easier morris sheppard offered his committees mit tees report on campaign expenditures di tures skipping lightly over the routine fact that some campaigns cost nothing while whale another that of ohros robert 11 tatt taft cost the committee outlined results of rell relief ef poll politics bics tics inquiries in 18 states sample allegations kentucky gov albert B 1111 op py chandler collected about 1 7 70 from state employees whose salaries como coma partly or wholly from federal funds his successful opponent sen alben W barkley re celver from federal employees but his campaign manager do de nied all but 2000 pennsylvania state highway work cards were issued to high school children who returned to their classes without doing any work 11 tennessee federal employ employees ees were solicited for contributions labor was used to repair private roads illinois in cook county men were added to state highway crows crews 70 of whom did no work other than canvass their respective precincts no criticism was directed at former administrator harry hopkins nor was action taken against any candidate the pathetic truth is that no individual office seeker could be singled out without ripping open an unwholesome futile investigation instead the commit teu contented itself with 18 16 suggestions for cleaning up elections most of which would provide loopholes few of which could be enforced without interfering with private rig rights ts sample suggestions suggest lom 1 prohibition against political contributions by relief recipients and legislation forbidding relief officials to influence votes 2 legislation limiting individual contributions to candidates preventing corporation donations and requiring complete reports of campaign costs 3 consideration of legislation to make all 11 political contributions by federal workers illegal the most applauded recommendation called for curtailment of the congressional franking free mailing privilege this recalled the annual report of postmaster gen eral james J parley farley made a few days earlier which pointed out that abuse of the franking privilege was 11 in a large part responsible tor for the post office departments deficit elt january I 1 found the U S and great britain invoking their new low lowar ariff lf trade pact designed PA maicy to stimulate business but also to furnish a strong white mans front against dictator states A few days later britain made a strong show of enthusiasm over president Roosevel ts anti dictator speech see WHITE HOUSE but it if these two signs indicate a policy ot of parallel action between wash ington and london several other gestures by britain hardly fit into the picture smart parallel action would e call lor for british adoption of the U S 1 1 bb policy of refusing to consort eco cco no with germany italy or 01 japan dut but when governor mon bagu norman of the dank bank of eng land went to berlin and when prime minister neville chamberlain visit cd italy each carried plans for stimulating british trade with tho the two dictator states meanwhile britain has extended china credits of only at aly compared with U S cred its of though britain may some day be forced into a lite life and death battle with both germany and italy site she Is willing to overlook this possibility for tho sako sake of her foreign trade tho the theory that every effort must bo be made to keep the hard pressed german and italian buyers solvent otherwise british export to these nations will decline and debts owed british commercial interests V will 1111 not bo be paid white house before congress opened president Roosevel ts critics believed his rising enthusiasm for rearmament was merely a cloak to focus public attention away from last novembers election defeat by shouting tor for larger army navy appropriations by keeping silent as a sphinx on every other subject tho the president was expected to build for himself a storm shelter until tho the torrent of congressional criticism I 1 lad had passed but rearmament turned out to be it a recognized national problem and mr roosevelt turned out to bo be a smarter psychologist than his critics expected it remained tor for his speech on tho the state of tho the union to sound the keynote its essence tho the U S is beset by threats from dl dictator C nations therefore wo we must rearm and take sanctions against aggressors gres sors 0 but rearmament Is also an internal proposition therefore w wo 0 must set our house in order and defend ourselves with social and economic reforms some reforms already made social security farm legislation labor net act need machining down others governmental reorganization transportation are still to bo be in made ade on spending it does not seem logical to me at the moment we seek to increase production and consumption for the federal government to consider a drastic curtailment congress did not need long to figure out that it if military rearmament would cost real money internal rearmament would bo be even more expensive when the budget message was delivered their figures were verified the presidents budget requests the expected income the net det def felt for the tha fiscal year by juno 30 1040 1940 when tho the year ends in a burst of political campaigning tho the administration will therefore have a public debt of to explain As congress dove headlong into its six seven or eight month task i president roosevelt may have been surprised to learn his initiating utterances te rances won more public acclaim in france and great britain than at home definitely on the defensive for the first time since 1933 1033 he faced 11 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 V 4 aln 11 K 11 1 1 t I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 gl I 1 k orala orA lr taji v k ck 11 1 I 1 0 O it I 1 1 I 1 I 1 ial 1 i I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 iks M 1 i 10 I 1 1 f W k I 1 I 1 1 jk II 11 0 ii I 1 I 1 i A 1 W I 1 41 I 1 4 I 1 1 aa 4 I 1 f 1 af f wd V r 1 Z X A u J I 1 11 1 I 1 1 11 1 V 11 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 R w A I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 it V 1 1 6 1 I 1 ball A T fk 1 1 I 1 I 1 HAMILTON FISH JR lie fie offered a con comment intent an independent congress and a very wary public which hoped heap he appreciated pre the magnitude of his actions and w while hile london and paris applauded the strongest ofil cial U S statement yet made against dictators berlin and rome song sang the next stanza in the international hymn of hate which has now reached an alarming intensity I 1 A at t home little comment was forthcoming A sat sample aple from new yorks york 3 rep hamilton fish jr true to his devotion to internationalism and the league of nations mr roosevelt urges cochi collective c security and military alliances of democracies I 1 do not believe that congress will scrap our traditional foreign policy of peace for one in which we would quarantine and police the world with american blood and money people fifteen year old gloria vanderbilt who has in the bank spent last year an accounting in new yorks surrogates gatos court reveals e phillip dephillip F lafollette La defeated governor of wisconsin has left on a look ice visit to england france italy germany and sweden I 1 asia wor war torn lorn cainas chinas biggest boast Is 13 her constantly growing national unity a product of necessity that has made generalissimo chiang kal kai shek uio the strongest chinese ruler in modem history dut but despite thit well publicized unity china has no nol been ablo able to mako make much of a showing against her japanese invaders indeed foreign military observers vcra find paper thin front lines so vulnerable that they say may american british or F french troops could put tho the enemy to rout but in jap occupied territory are civilians and armed W I 1 lal 1 I i SN 1 1 i I 1 W T 1 lr i f I 1 il I 1 11 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 H S 1 V 1 t 0 I 1 I 1 ill I 1 I 1 e I 1 14 11 11 1 I 1 air k hii Y t JA W si 10 if I 1 I 1 1 I i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 X 41 1 I 1 generalissimo CHIANG time to stop bluffing guerrillas whose spirit of national unity Is hlll still not strong enough to inspire a sudden inevitably successful attack better than tho the national unity argument Is the theory that smart general chiang has been staging a fake show of chinese nationalism offering a good front at the expense of his wavering government though headquarters are overrun with nepotism corruption and inefficiency many abuses have been bee n tolerated to make the outside world think china Is strong in the end general chiang wangled handsome loons loans and credit arrangements from both the U S and britain proving the stunt was working at least temporarily not anticipated however was the walkout of onetime one time premier wang ching wel who celebrated new years by reaching pence peace terms with japanese premier Fumi naro konoye long a silent bulwark of chinas cainas nationalist party mr wang reportedly met at hongtong Hong kong with japanese agents and reached terms which would make him chinas cainas head man lea leaving v general chiang out in the cold terms 1 china should open diplomatic somatic relations with japanese puppet state Manchu kuo 2 china should agree to economic 11 cooperation with japan 3 china should adhere to the jap italo ger man anticommunist anti antl communist agreement 4 chinn china should accept japanese garrisons while the anticommunist anti communist pact was in force interpretations of the wang demarche have come thick and fast in tokyo happy japanese thought it meant a breakdown of the kuemin tang and the spotlight of publicity on chinas cainas internal troubles with chi ang weakened japanese puppet states would no longer seem pointless in shanghai still chinese despite its japanese ownership observers thought the wong wang declaration wa was a a well timed jap move to counteract U S and B british credits to general chiang with the die cast general chiang no longer saw sav need for hiding his troubles from came word of a wholesale purge from the alie of some pence peace partisans expelled was deserter wang charged with having attempted to gain support from military leaders in Sze chuan and cunnan provinces miscellany for the first time in its history now new yorks sing sing prison has executions every week during jan uary total tor for the month already s scheduled hedu led 10 a 0 U S correspondents returning from eighth pan american co conference efer at lima peru have reported censorship intimidation and spying unlike that ever before seen at a pan american assembly 0 army participation in the U S navys three month atlantic bicet maneuvers has been cancelled because of friction army officials claiming the exercise offers little value for its officers and men aviation in 1837 1937 as head of the U S maritime commin commission slon joseph P kennedy urged construction of smaller ocean vessels as protection against the day when seaplanes sea planes would speed mall mail and passengers from europe to america test lights flights had already been underway a year and the kennedy prediction has now been sustained by announcement that imperial airways of london will start weekly transatlantic ice before next june Forc running 21 hour passenger service between southampton and montreal fou tour r pound lying flying boats will make ma ke two lights flights each way every we CK on farst lights flights the boats will carry pounds of mall and 18 gers though only mall mail will bo be trans ported until the schedule is thoroughly tested still to bo be announced are plans for or next suimei s atlantic travel by U Sope S rated pan american airways air franc trans atland alque will start in 1910 I 1 I 1 I 1 |