| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH TV labine presidents political activity since congles Con Congress gres 9 ad adjournment ourn ment shows heavy interest in 1940 EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns column st they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper per I 1 released gioi by western newspaper e r union POLITICS rebuttal home in hyde park fr I 1 anklin roosevelt probably ri reviewed viewed edito rial opinion on his recent seven month debate with congress the public thought congress had won for it killed his lend spend and hous ing bills defeated his neutrality pro gram and passed the hatch clear clean politics bill not so evident were his victorious defense and relief pro grams and his retention of the 2 currency stabilization fund on three successive days therefore he went before the people first to boast next to scold last to warn signing the ashurst bill creating an administrative officer to supervise federal court budgets he announced that all goals of his 1937 div J ag 4 1 7 X i 1 V 9 SEN KING 1 I don t 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 he let a cat from the bag discussing his neutrality and lend spend defeats he borrowed an analogy suggested by his wife a precipice to which he said congress is leading business and over which it may plunge next spring t 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 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 1940 candidacy ori on next springs prospects it if there is a war andor heavy unemployment congress will be wrong and mr air 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 for some action perhaps a retirement from politics possibly a coup to keep the democratic party liberal or possibly for a new thir third party he sent this warning it if wi we nominate conservative candidates or of lip service candidates on a platform I 1 personally tor for my own self respect and because of my long service to and belief in liberal democracy will find it impossible to have an active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old democratic party meanwhile members of congress congre Ss took exception to the precipice analogy and wondered it if mr roosevelt had the right man leading the right horse to doom said rep earl michener the coalition his has stopped the american people just before they went over the finan cial precipice said sen william H king 1 I dont see how anyone can contend consistently th that at when we appropriated nearly for next year congress was not doing everything within its power provided spending is the answer CONGRESS how much how much a so called congress actually appropriated and spent became the compu tation job of 0 budget director harold D smith his 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 year he figured the total was or more than president Presy dent Roosevel ts b budget estimate previous years record which exceeded treasury receipts receipt s by 4 meanwhile the matter of appropriations became a political football senate majority leader albert alben W barkley said it was less than 10 because several re rc ampro privations were included new yorks rep john taber placed it at 14 with about each being spent before and after the current fiscal year publicly denouncing noun cing a public debt he said ha had reached including government corporation debts and pointing to an alleged 60 per cent payroll increase since 1933 mr taber probably helped speed president Roosevel ts appeal next day that departments and agencies slash their next years budget requests also in washington C 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 have paid taxes on their incomes the past 18 months 6 Cali fornias rep frank buck 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 agreements to present at the next congress as alternatives to administration measures EUROPE tension Tens iott up hostilities began at al 8 p rit the declaration la of itar avar between be ticeen eastland and bestland Vest land ivas quickly by a series of 01 bombing raids by eastland Ea illand along the centt coast of wetland front from wash to lo points north of the thames estuary eStL iary elesten sudden ra adf etere made on this ferri territory fory during the first forty minutes two tiro raids hate mie been rio made de on south london and anti air craft batteries have hare been heartily en gleed in london early to bedders were irked because 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 facilities cili ties with which england hopes to toil foil an invader from the continent when morning came londoners Lon doners V wr 4 ALBERT FORSTER I lull luil read ead the above account of proceedings ings 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 fue fuehrer brer of danzig had flown to berchtesgaden for conferences with adolf hitler german polish tension had previously busl been heightened when 1 D a german airliner was fired upon while passing over cydnia 2 a warsaw paper had warned poland would bombard danzig if poli political union with the retch reich were proclaimed and 3 Danzi gs semi off cial newspaper Vor posten asserted the city was prepared tor for defense against polands bolands Po lands war threats all ali europe watched fuehrer for return from berchtesgaden interest heightened when he proclaimed a danzig mass meeting that night while his mob cried at every mention of pol poland and shrewd fuehrer forster resorted to time tested dictator tactics on po lands shoulders he heaped a charge of Ill otting to seize not only danzig but east prussia as well no sooner had this untruth raised german danziger Danzig cr resentment to a fever pitch than herr forster made tee simple announcement that his brown shifted followers have made full preparations to reunite the ancient tree free city with germany agriculture more stamps in washington SL secretary of agriculture wall wallace ice at last took out of 0 the experimentation stage his latest and one of his most successful plans to get rid of food surpluses for or three months the food stamp plan was tested in rochester dayton and seattle expanded to birmingham and des moines and finally I 1 Y to shawnae Shaw noe okla at all but the 1 latter att place ace r relict e li e f families were fed by sale of 0 orange r a n g e stamps 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 71 xi 04 0 SECRETARY WALLACE uncrossed his hi fingers pronouncing the stamp plan successful he announced it will be expanded on a national basis very soon it 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 it if big crops bode war europe must have wax 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 silver destroying purchasing power the institute gloomily predicted a glutted market through 1940 and 1911 1941 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 cr credit edit sale of bales to spain taken as a gesture to woo general franco away from the rome derlin 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 2 bales less than the 10 year 1928 37 average but there will still be a carryover of about bales IN MEDICINE IE D I 1 C IN E mary iary heart into a little maternity hospital h in the center of manilas slums walked mrs manuel manual quezon wife ot of the philippine commonwealths president like scores ot of others she came to see 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 completely outside her body while physicians ceans 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 she believed her infants condition was caused by her worship of a picture which showed jesus christ with his heart exposed ASIA hush jaush settlement one month ago russia and japan were ready to wage war over oil and coal resources in dussias Rus sias halt half of 0 sakhalin Sak halin island reason jap concessionaires refused to hike wages of russian workers both nations reinforced border garr garrisons and jap warships rushed to the scene at both moscow and tokyo there was no sign ot of surrender almost unnoticed in the press a few weeks later was the humilia humiliating humiliation tin out come tor for japan concession concessionaires ires granted a 15 per cent wage inar increase ase |
