Show NA NATIONAL AFFAIRS i l by Ly CARTER FIELD balancing issue imle likely to 10 hurt both Ta Taft and amI Roosevelt Jf Worry orry over congress and amI voters spurs New Dealers Dealers' attacks on Governor Bricker Battle flattie nat flat tie tIc n of tire a the Admiral Gra Graf Spec bolsters t views CIt'S of oj U. U S. S naval experts WASHINGTON That sparring match between President Roosevelt and Sen Robert A. A Taft of Ohio over whether government spending can be cut sufficiently to balance the budget Is apt to hurt both of them Shrewd political observers agree that it will hurt the President through Its lu effects on appropriations In the coming session of congress The same observers observer figure that the effect eRect on Taft in the spring primaries prima I I ries cannot fall tail to be hurtful The logic as to Tafts Taft's losing primary primary mary votes vote is that everyone is against governmental spending spending spending-al- al always ways ways except except the persons person Immediately Immedi benefited Hence the logic of the old congressman who never voted voted vot vot- ed against any appropriation or for any tax So long as Taft raved against spending in general he was wason wason wason on firm ground But the minute he accepted Roosevelt Roosevelt's challenge and began to go Into particulars he be could not but hurt himself If the judgment of observers here Is sound lound It is II absolutely essential to Taft to give him a chance for the Republican Republican lican nomina nomination lion that he make an I TI TIre re 4 ROBERT A. A TA TAFT Arouses Aroue eiden ire excellent showing lit in several of the preferential presidential primaries It Is entirely possible for Taft or Sen Arthur II or Thomas E. E Dewey to win pretty nearly a stranglehold on the nomination nomination nomination nomi nomi- nation if any anyone one of them can win by impressive majorities all the contests In which the three are arc en en- Republicans Hp If Iran ant Winner SPinner Politicians Are Hungry The Republican politicians are hungry They have been out cut In the cold a long time They want a winner win ner ncr and they dont don't care too much whether they agree with all his views or not Personally most of the rank and file tile of the G. G O. O P. P leadership prefers He lie Heis Heis lieis is a lovable character has been around In party circles for a long longtime longtime longtime time and every everyone one of the state leaders leaden knows that with in the White House that particular leader would have a good friend at court Taft they rather lid admire mire for some ome of his forthright utterances and for the willingness to work and end do research that the man has shown in the senate Dewey they distrust not so 10 much because he is young but because the they dislike the very thought of a crusader and besides they dont don't know where Dewey Dewel stands on Issues issue or on personalities But these same lime men are very practical They will wEil not sacrifice themselves or their party's chances the two things are not so different as II they sound lound for just because of their friendship for and trust In him He lie must prove that he Is really a vote getter If It Taft or Dewey shows up much stronger by defeating him In a half a dozen primaries its it's curtains for Vanden Vanden- berg Nett 1 Dealers Dealer Are Ire miter Bitter Against Governor Bricker The bitter attacks attack of the New Dealers on Gov John W. W Bricker of OUo for the relief situation in the Buckeye state are not the result merely of a desire to smear a possible pos sible Republican nominee for the presidency The fact that Bricker is II frequently mentioned as a possible ble dark horse candidate the fact f. f that downtown New York is 11 said to favor him over any of the open candidates that candidates that is over Thomas Thoma E. E Dewey Sen Robert A. A Taft of Ohio and Sen Arthur IL It of Michigan Michigan lends lends zest to the attack But it Is II not the main motive The main motive Is 11 the same ame as was responsible for the tremendous efforts effort of the Roosevelt administration lon tion in Its It first rat few years to smear Lonear the record of A Adrew drew W. W Mellon as secretary of the treasury During the first few years of the Roosevelt regime leaving out the first brief period of real economy when the I government was slashing veterans' veterans compensation wages of clerks clerk and everything else the government wa wn naturally plunging into debt It disliked disliked dis dis- liked the contrast with the nine years year of Mellon In the treasury during during dur dur- ing tag which n nearly arly of national debt was paid off At the present moment the administration ad ministration is under fire lIre particularly from Senator Taft for the continued con con- I spending by Washington of more snore than It takes In in taxes and it is growing more and more sensitive tive about It It fears that the country country coun coun- try Is II get getting ling concerned that congress congress con con- gress is getting concerned In turn and that the result may affect not only appropriations by congress in inthe inthe inthe the session to open In January but the Presidential election 1 Governor Brickers Bricker's main claim to prominence is that In the third biggest big I gest state in the Union a Union a state which it Is vitally essential that a presidential candidate be able to carry carry he he has balanced the budget I Governor Who Into Balance State Budget Arouses Ire Any statement that a governor has succeeded In irs balancing a budget always always al at- ways rouses ire in Washington from the national administration If It the federal government at the time Is not balancing Its bud budget gel It invites odious comparisons It carries the implication at least that the governor governor governor gov gov- In question if he had been president might have done a s better bet ter Job at least from the fiscal standpoint than the President So its it's no wonder that record should start the New Dealers Dealers Deal Deal- ers and especially the ones who want Roosevelt to run for a third term to yelping And its it's no wonder wonder wonder won won- der that Roosevelt himself regardless regardless regard regard- less of whether he wants to run again or not should be angry It simply would be against human nature na no- ture for things to be different So it is not surprising that there were loud cries and it Is not surprising surprising sur sur- that the Republican national committee seeing how much pain was being experienced In th the th Inner circle should go to bat It 10 to happens happens happens hap hap- pens that Pulton Lewis Jr a radio commentator went out to Cloy Clev Clevland land and talked to a lot of officials and others about the situation His broadcast exonerated Govenor Bricker from blame hung a lilt blame on Mayor Harold II H. Burton Durton but tossed most of the responsibility back on the federal government which had cut relief appropriations 62 2 per cent In Cleveland as against an average of 39 per cent fur for the whole country Graf Craf Specs Spec's Rattle Battle Showing holsters Bolsters of oj Experts Much has hils been said In the last few weeks as at to the fact that the British navy has only three ships capable of catching and sinking linking a aGerman aGerman aGerman German pocket battleship and that the United States navy does docs not have one This government started to build two battle bottle cruisers but they were changed Into airplane carriers the carrIers the Saratoga and the Lexington long Lexington long before they were completed The answer to that Is interesting if not convincing to all naval ex But Dutour our admirals have long been great believers in armor In fact their belief In armor is the essence of their stubborn during the attacks attack of Gen William Mitchell and others that the battleship battle bottle ship was the heart and soul of sea power When Billy BlUy Mitchell was insisting that he could sink any battleship afloat by bombing from aircraft the admirals merely sniffed Their argument argument ar ar- ar was that a battleship might be torpedoed and bombed from the theair theair air and even hit by other battleships battleships battleships battle battle- ships but it would still remain afloat and be able to In inflict lct punishment punishment pun pun- until every other type of craft in the battle had been de de- de They Studied Records oj of World War Naval Battles The admirals never made a very good case so 0 far as the public was concerned For example they never never nev nev- er mentioned specific instances which they very well could have done But they studied the records of the World war sea battles They knew that British battle cruisers were sunk at Dogger Bank when hit by salvos that salvos that they went down so quickly that In one instance a ship following behind the cruisers could not change her course quickly enough to avoid sailing lalling directly over where the cruiser had been I But the following ship did not scrape anything The cruiser had gone to the bottom Our naval experts regard the German German Ger Ger- man pocket battleships as at just as vulnerable Their opinion before the battle near Montevideo was that thai while the pocket battleships could give it U they could not take it It It two hostile pocket battleships should meet one of them said the battle would be decided by the first salvo that landed It would utterly destroy the vessel hit By Dy the same token any of our regular battle battle- ships chips could stand off oil an attack by several of these pocket battleships The battleship could take quite a few fc of their inch 11 salvos Every time the battleship landed one salvo there then would be one less pocket battleship A layman Is entitled to wondel about this especially as he remembers remembers remembers bers how the Admiral Graf Spec Spes f tIled failed to sink any anyone one of the Itrel little cruisers which so nearl ruined her But Dut on the other hand the punish punishment punishment punishment ment the Graf Spee Spec took from frum suet sud smaller ships ship seems seem to prove a also for the conviction of our ad admira admirals admirals mira Is that a fighting ship as dis distinguished distinguished from a scouting or com cam commerce commerce merce raiding war vessel must L U. 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