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Show "31 WHO'S NEWS V'41 THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. After 20 years they still tell, in Moscow, how bold Semyon Konstantovich Timoshenko, then a cavalry chief, led a Red regiment of Russian Politician horse up to Fixes Up Jobs W a r s a w's For Commissars very Sates-After Sates-After another 20 years, no doubt, they will still be telling how, in 1940, the same Semyon, Sem-yon, then commissar ol defense, led more than a regiment of his followers follow-ers back to the payrolls from which they had been briefly booted. When Russia blundered to victory vic-tory over fallen Finland her armies obeyed a double-barreled leadership. Alongside the orthodox or-thodox military commanders marched as many political commissars, com-missars, all with the power of veto. Thousands of dead Russians Rus-sians proved the weakness of this command system, and this week Moscow announced that the commissars were out on their various ears. Overnight, however, they got back in the army, still. Now they are assistant commanders for political affairs. The old power of veto is gone, but the pay check will be the same. Timoshenko fixed it all up as briskJy as any ward boss ever drummed up jobs for the faithful. Timoshenko has been fixing things up ever since Lenin got a stranglehold on imperial Russia, for himself as well as his party. He is rough and tough, and on the record he has what it takes to get ahead under Communism. His jaw is wide and hard. His eyes have a "Sez you!" glint. His thin hair grows close to a hard poll, offering no purchase for an enemy's hand. He got hi3 first real boost in 1937 when he was made commander of the North Caucasian Corps area. His last and best, however, came in May of this year. Then he reached his current job. He is pretty high up now. And in Russia, under Stalin, the higher they go the harder hard-er they fall. So those fellows may not be permanently on the payroll after all. - A PLUMP, pleasant middle-aged lady, who likes pink dresses and an old-fashioned hair-do, has the job of seeing that we don't turn too .... much butter Consumer Adviser jo cannons Assigned to Watch or at any For Profiteering rate thatwe s get the butter. but-ter. As consumer adviser for the national defense advisory commission, commis-sion, Miss Harriet Elliott calls a national na-tional conference of retailers to lay the foundation of co-operation in the maintenance of living standards as a bulwark of defense. She has long maintained that health, housing, recreation, child welfare and general public well-being well-being are bedrock essentials of any defense program. With the above appointment she became the first woman to be "drafted" in the current mobilization of human hu-man and material resources. Miss Elliott is a Quaker and college col-lege professor dean of the woman's college of the University of North Carolina. For 21 years she has been professor of political science at this college and has achieved unique distinction dis-tinction in her daily classroom takeoff take-off from the morning newspaper, rather than a text book. Her theory of education is to proceed pro-ceed from the particular to the general; gen-eral; she thinks Mill and Adam Smith should be left on the shelf until un-til the student can generalize from every-day facts as they come to him in the news. She is wary about theories. One of her main jobs as consumer con-sumer adviser is to watch prices. While she has fought profiteers, she is no alarmist about gouging, goug-ing, and believes that all elements ele-ments in producing and marketing market-ing processes will be co-operative If they are sensibly and fairly mobilized. However, she has at hand a portfolio of pretty stiff laws, with the department of justice standing by, if she finds it necessary to invoke them. Miss Elliott is a native of Carbon-dale, Carbon-dale, 111., where her mother and sister sis-ter still live. She is an alumna of Park college, Parkville, Mo., and Hanover college, Hanover, Ind., and holds a master's degree from Columbia Co-lumbia university. In the first World rar, she was a member of the women's council of national defense. de-fense. It was her work in this post which projected her into her long-continued long-continued studies of public well-being well-being as basic requirement for defense. |