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Show Washington, D. C. CHURCHILL'S TIP One significant phase of Winstor Churchill's conversations here hai just leaked out He volunteered some valuable advice on the makeup make-up of the U. S. delegation to the peace conference. Talking to a closed-door session of the senate and house foreign relations rela-tions committees, he was reminded that if Woodrow Wilson had given more thought to the makeup of the U. S. delegation, his efforts to enroll the United States in a League of Nations might not have been such a failure. Churchill at first tactfully sidestepped side-stepped comment, explaining he didn't want to stick his nose in American affairs. However, he finally final-ly observed with a grin that he knew a little about politics himself and possibly could offer one suggestion. "What is it?" chorused several of the politicos. "Appoint a delegation that is strictly bi-partisan," Churchill replied, re-plied, "half Democrat and half Republican." Re-publican." If the President named such a commission of outstanding leaders of both parties, the prime minister added, his chances of winning congressional con-gressional approval of a treaty among the Allied powers would be greatly enhanced. I LEARNING JAP LANGUAGE Officer Candidate schools have a reputation for being tough, but the Naval Intelligence Japanese Language Lan-guage school at Boulder, Colo., sets a new record. Hand-picked candidates candi-dates from colleges and graduate schook pore over Japanese "Kanji" (word pictures) 16 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 14 months. These 800 students are given intimate inti-mate high pressure instruction in classes of only five men each. The faculty consists of 150 Japanese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, former professional and business men, recruited from the East and West coast Japanese colonies. colo-nies. The course is intensive, and the students are given no job except the principal one of learning the difficult dif-ficult Japanese language. Unlike other officer candidates, they have no guard duty, KP, or night bivouacs. biv-ouacs. Their job is to learn Japanese, Japa-nese, learn it quickly, and learn It well. SENATOR GLASS Much-loved 85-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is expected by friends to drop out of the senate before many months. He has served as ' Woodrow Wilson's secretary of the treasury, 23 faithful years in the senate and 17 years in the house. Virginia politicos close to Governor Gover-nor Darden are passing out the tip that when Glass retires, Darden will appoint as the senator's successor, not 55-year-old Congressman Cliff Woodrum, the most outstanding congressman con-gressman from Virginia, but 73-year-old Congressman Tom Burch. WHO OWNS THE FARMS? Most people have the idea that Washington postwar planners are thinking only of the people in foreign for-eign countries. But that isn't the case. They are also thinking of how the land of America can be returned to the people of America. Real fact is that much of the big land holdings in the U. S. A. are In the hands of insurance companies com-panies and absentee landlords, as strikingly brought out by latest AAA conservation and parity payments. In four of the country's biggest i farming states, largest payments nrara mnrl nnt to individual farm- ers but to life insurance companies. Here are the actual payments, each one being the highest payment in that state: Ohio Union Central Life Insurance Insur-ance company, Cincinnati, $49,153; Wisconsin Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, $47,517; Iowa Equitable Life Insurance company,. Des Moines, $33,418; Missouri General American Life Insurance company, St. Louis, $52,170. In Mississippi, the largest payment pay-ment went to an absentee landlord, the British owners of Delta and Pine Land company, Scott, Miss. The property is managed by a former AAA official, Oscar Johnston. The payment was $50,141. Highest payment in Illinois went to the First Trust Joint Stock Land bank, Chicago, $29,152. Highest in Nebraska went to the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, $77,605, while the same thing was true in Minnesota, where the largest payment, $75,761, went to the Federal Land Bank of St. Paul. The land banks hold a lot of property as a result of mortgage mort-gage foreclosures in the lean years. Largest payments in the four largest larg-est agricultural, states of the northeast north-east also went to insurance companies. com-panies. New York Metropolitan Life Insurance In-surance company, New York city, $101,863. Incidentally, this was the largest payment made in the entire country. Connecticut Connecticut General Life Insurance company, Hartford, $48,437. Pennsylvania-Providence Pennsylvania-Providence Mutual Life Insurance company, Philadelphia, $13,022. New Jersey Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Insur-ance company of Newark, received payment of $82,126. |