Show weekly news analysis dem GOP coalie coalition ton gesture gesta re may mav be middle ground trend j f v li br i joseph W V la hine EDITORS NOTE n opinions are r expressed in the these se colu ans they are re those of the news analyst and oaf not necessarily of the ne w shaper politics americas political pendulum swings periodically from conservatism to liberalism and back again coolidge hoover conservatism was followed by roosevelt liberalism but the return swing to conservatism that started last november 8 Is more apt to the middle of the road than to veer violently back to rock ribbed republicanism washington observers who claim president pr roosevelt has discarded middle road new dealers in favor of left wingers like solicitor oen gen robert H jackson and administrator harry hopkins predict the president must either abandon this policy or lose the support of postmaster gen james J parley farley the presidents answer will come when he names a successor successor to attorney gen romer homer S cummings if mr jackson is appointed mr parley farley will interpret the move as a buildup build up leading to mr Jark sons J Z to t manari he made friends with democrats presidential nomination in 1940 he fie will place the same interpretation on any efforts to win mr hopkins a cabinet post mr farley casting about tor for a 1940 possibility is reported to look favorably on secretary of state cor dell hull the only cabinet member who has refrained from casting his lot with any factional element within the democratic party mr roose belts choice apparently lies between running for a third term or endorsing some middle grounder like secretary hull evidence ivi dence is already piling up testifying to the political expediency of this middle road position republic cans who will at last make themselves heard in congress next month are inclined to assume such an attitude rather that thad fight for a return to the traditional G 0 P conservatism in the senate where republicans now members they need the support of only 26 democrats farmer laborites labovites pro gres or independents to hold a I 1 majority by catering to the middle ground idea the president can possibly forestall the rising tide of republic can strength which Is being built on this very platform he fie can also avert a revolt in democratic ranks which otherwise will almost certainly rise to the surface during next congress A meeting of republican and democratic minds is already evident on curtailment of govern mental expenditures and a new policy for administering relief Or egons sen charles L mcnary republican minority leader has an bounced that republicans will join with other groups on such a pro gram one ot of his bis plans that of 01 turning relief administration over to bipartisan state stae boards finds ex pres in the bill beang drafted drifted by iby north carolinas sen josiah josah W bailey ley a democrat his political cai cohort sen edward ft burke oane of me braska has hag announced that although the bailey proposal is a democratic move t republican support will be welcomed i foreign snugly eri ensconce dIn in his bavarian mountain a erie aerie at berchtesgaden abdou adou dolf hitler can await christmas morning knowing his stocking will be full established in 1938 as the master of europe der fuehrer is no now w a able ble to sit back and watch the spoils spoil of his diplomatic and military conquests mount throughout europe among the latest spoils I 1 1 little czechoslovakia reduced to io has agreed to let germany i build vvo two canals and a superhighway across across her connecting germany proper with austria liaa new short route both canals one on the moldau the other orthe oh the oder will join with the danube rivet river and furnish an unbroken waterway from the north and baltic seas to the black sea thus will hillers Hit lers economic grip on central europe be strengthened 2 with great britain definitely frightened hitler has won a peace treaty with britaina Brit ains ally france whereby a barrier is erected between these two great european democracies moc more i important still is the fact that frances cur current refit economic and political chaos Is a direct result of war preparations eions necessitated by germanys germanas Germ anys aggressive policy to put down a strong communist up uprising Hsing premier edouard deladier Da ladier has been forced to exercise an iron hand that looks dangerously like fascism 3 it is quite probable that ru manias king carol having shopped unsuccessfully for financial aid in great britain will accept hillers Hit lers promise to buy rumanian wheat and oil in return tor for german manufactured articles this would give germany a new wedge in her economic drive to the southeast the only unpleasant note in an otherwise happy bavarian christmas will be polands bolands Po lands attitude although hitler safeguarded his path to the southeast by bloc blocking kingsl a proposed hungarian polish plan to annex ruthenia from czechoslovakia the victory has brought him polands bolands Po lands undying hatred poland will oppose der Fuchre Fuehr ers rs plan to create a new ukraine republic in sub carpathian russia and will also tighten its friendship bonds with russia at ger der banys expense international one day years ago president james monroe stuck out his chin against the holy alliance then threatening the world in general and south america in particular his statement we could not view an interposition tor for oppressing them the spanish american republics or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any european power in any other tight light than as a manifestation ife station of an unfriendly disposition toward the united states in the century that followed the U S has clung tenaciously to its monroe doctrine sometimes blushing i guiltily at cha charges ages of dollar diplomacy in south america but bui in 1938 there has arisen a threat far greater than the holy alliance ji namely amely the fascist nazi triumvirate vi rate of germany italy and japan how tar far these nations have penetrated into south america is debatable but few observers deny the threat though the triumvirate may have no territorial ambitions in pan america it is significant that nazi fascist foreign trade success runs hand in hand with political success diplomat and commercial salesman are often one and the same person U S weapons to fight this ag greshion gres sion sinn are trade agreements a pan american league of nations and coordinated co western hemi sphere defense to offer these deap ons a U S delegation jis is attending the eighth pan american conference in lima peru which opens strategically cally at a time when american nations are anxious to air their troubles notably included inthe U S ol 01 4 M M if R V Z EX CANDIDATE LANDON LANDOM politics stopped at the gangplank group Is alfred M landon 1931 republican presidential nominee which indicates that political parties are willing to confine their opposition to domestic affairs when western hemisphere security is involved secretary of state cordell hull has a already memorized his proposals but his presentation will be staged so 0 elaborately that south american nations themselves will voice the plans reason it if the U S were to take outright lead in defending the western hemisphere the dollar diplomacy char charge ge would again appear that mr hull will succeed in solidifying pan america is conceded by most observers who recall that in 1933 he be injected an incredible spirit of optimism into the forlorn montevideo conference religion the near fatal heart attack which seized pope pius XI recently leads persons close to the vatican tobe to believe he will soon issue an encyclical on world issued issue reaffirming his pronounced stand aga against dinst armed conflicts germanys germanas Germ anys jewish persecution and communism the popa pope is believed anxious to make such a restatement immediately because he he is convinced another heart attack may prove fatal war dussias Rus sias friendship with china results substantially from her hatred of chinas cainas enemy japan no informed observer believes it is possible for moscow and tokyo to avoid eventual conflict over domination of eastern asia and most of them believe the chinese war is only hastening that conflict thus it is significant that sorely pressed gen chiang kai shek has warned apathetic great britain that she must extend aid or china will be forced to turn elsewhere elsewhere can only mean russia already with regular supply routes cut auf off by advancing jap troops chinese are beginning to get substantial assistance from russia by way of siberia and with great britain quaking in tear fear of the combined german italian jap military machine she is not apt to defend what little domination she now enjoys joylin in the orient meanwhile japan is not blind to the russian threat gen eiki tojo vice minister of war has urged workers to expand their industries immediately because there is every possibility russia and china may band together asso onas as the soviet completes preparations but cherl they hear the minister declare that the real war Is still to come dis heartened japanese begin wondering if this aggression is worth while foreign correspond ants visiting tokyo report the lace is suffering from ill III health caused caused by poor pooi diet lack ot of exer cise and lother effects ok ait the two year war though fatalistically determined ter mined to carry on japanese will soon be in a desperate plight it if th the I 1 e conquest continues to drain manpower and money people the rumor that great britaina Brit ains exiled duke of windsor and his wife the former wallis warfield were welcome to return to england has been substantiated by prime minister neville chamberlain the latter visited the royal couple during his recent conference in paris and is sald said to have addressed the duchess as her royal highness which was accepted as tacit recognition of her royal status aviation I 1 because a major U S airline has alie allegedly gedly refused to accept delivery on a new type 33 seat plane avia tion experts believe the advent of commercial aircraft will be delayed several years this happens despite the demonstrated practicability of larger ships it results almost entirely from the publics slowness to accept air travel whereas ships have tour four motors and carry pounds at a ciul cruising sing speed of mil miles les an hour the present 21 passenger ships have but two motors and accommodate a considerably smaller tonnage yet airlines estimate only 55 per cent of all available space is being occupied on the smaller ships this year therefore they are not inclined to operate larger more expensive aircraft on which the operating loss would be even greater labor throughout the U S are about 2500 manufacturing firms who share profits or managerial responsibility lity with employees proctor gamble workers contribute 3 per cent of their wages against a 5 to 15 per cent contribution by the management based on seniority and from this fund employees buy stock mccormick co baltimore importers 1 not only share profits but organize workers to help run the business under a multiple management plarl plan such firms whose number Is increasing yearly generally have little labor trouble example the american rolling roiling mill company of Midd middletown letow ohio has never experienced a labor disagreement in its 11 38 years of operation even C 1 I 0 which organized the bulk of steel plants was defeated 1200 to io in one american rolling mill labor election if profit sharing iouin be extended most U S industrialists bel beheye eye employees would be better satis satisfied employment would beca become atu fluctuant and our national 0 picture would be improved N fl washington a senate finance sub CO committee investigating the plan was recert recently lj told it would be an un unbeatable defense of the capitalistic system me members abers of this committee are sen arthur and iolas sep sen clyde herring their purpose Is to unearth facts about profit sharing merits and find methods of expanding jt At the long range ambition is to make the working man more prosperous and more able to bear a share of the U S tax lead thus by splitting its profits industry would help itself by winning a more equitable division of tax burden but an expansion of profit sharing must come either voluntarily or through government insistence aga voluntary adoption of the plan r industry would be a long discouraging battle of coaxing and education though neither committee member yet advocates it both senators and herring have been feeling out sentiment on an incentive taxation plan under it s A WALTER D FULLER for depreciation profit sharing the government would give tax credits to profit sharing concerns meanwhile penalizing nonconforming conforming non firms tax credits might be given on employers social security payments though the mere mention of such tampering with social security has already aroused protest from administration sources most of the committees witnesses have gone on record d opposing the incentive tax because it w would impose either leither reward or penalty tor for an employers decision on a matter which should be entirely i voluntary loudest supporter bs b J 1 been walter D fuller president 0 oi the curtis publishing company who wants a more liberal tax treatment to stimulate re employs employment nt he asa thinks industrial plant expansion will ill follow if employers are allowed to charge off more on depreciation than at present thereby encouraging cou raging early replacement of present obsolete equipment labors opinion has been expressed by william green president of the american federation of labor who naturally favors profit sharing provided it does not tend to replace collective bargaining this issue may be the battleground on which profit sharing plans rise or fall since collective bargaining is based on compulsion rather than operation cooperation co before adap adopting ti n 0 profit sharing principle m many 11 y inot I 1 tria lists would demand that it threatening club of organized laor la be removed |