(bb LL thinks about: Third Term Ballyhoo. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— After a president has been re-elected it's certain that some inspired patriot who is snuggled close to the throne will burst from his cell with a terrible yell to proclaim that unless the adored incumbent consents again to succeed himself this nation is doomed. Incidentally, the said patriot's present job and perquisites also would be doomed, so he couldn't be blamed for privately brooding on the dis- tressful thought.You wouldn't call him selfish, but you could call him hope- ful, especially since there's a chance his ballyhoo may direct attention upon him as a suitable candi- date when his idol says no to the prop- osition. He might ride in on the backwash, which would be even somebody else. Political observers have a name for this. They call it “sending up a balloon.” balloon being a flimsy thing, full of hot air, ing gears and terminal facilities. applied not alone to the balloon but to the gentleman who launched it. So let's remain calm. It's tradi- tional in our history that no presi- dent ever had to go ballooning in or- der to find out how the wind blew and that no volunteer third-term boomer ever succeeded in taking the trip himself. . V JE'RE certainly returning — with modern improvements— to prairie schooner days when rest- less Americans are living on wheels and housekeeping on wheels and having babies on wheels. Only the other day twins were born aboard a trailer. And—who knows?-—per- haps right now the stork, with a future president in her beak, is flap- ping fast, trying to catch up with somebody's perambulating bunga- low. So it's a fitting moment to revive the story of early Montana when some settlers were discussing the relative merits of various makes of those canvas-covered arks which bore such hosts of emigrants west- ward. They named over the Cones- toga, the South Bend, the Murphy, the Studebaker and various others. From under her battered sunbon- net there spoke up a weather beaten old lady who, with her husband and her growing brood, had spent the long years bumping along behind an ox team from one frontier camp to another. “Boys,” she said, shifting her snuff-stick, *‘I always did claim the Modern Prairie Schooners. one there is fur raisin’ a family in.” t » * . Pugs Versus Statesmen. T'S confusing to read that poor decrepit Jim Braddock, having reached the advanced age of thirty- four or thereabouts, is all washed up, and, then, in another column, to discover that the leading candi- dates to supply young blood on the Supreme court bench are but bound- ing juveniles of around sixty-six. This creates doubt in the mind of a fellow who, let us say, is quite years to go before he'll be an agile adolescent like some senators. He can't decide whether he ought to join the former at the old men’s home or enlist with the latter in the Boy Scouts. » * * Quiescent Major Generals. SOMETHING has gone out of life. the regular army, whether retired talked himself into a jam-—a rasp- berry jam, if you want to make a cheap pun of it. Maybe it's being officially gagged for so long while on active service that makes such a conversational Tessie out of the average brigadier when he goes into private pursuits and lets his hair down. It's as though he took off his tact along with his epaulettes. And when he subsides there's always another to take his place. You see, under modern warfare the commanding officer is spared. He may lead the retreat, but never the charge. When the boys go over the top is he out in front waving a sword? Not so you'd notice it. By the new rules he's signing papers in a bombproof nine miles behind | he runs is from lack of exercise in the fresh air. May be, in view of what so often happens when peace ensues, we should save on privates instead of generals. IRVIN 8. COBB. B-WNU Service. Face Another Crisis . Falls 'Face to Battle HEN Sen. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas dropped dead of | a heart attack in his apartment across from the United States capi- tol, the President's plan for securing new to the Supreme court bench, even in its amended form, with him. Washington. “Joe'’ Robinson was the President's tow- er of strength in the legislative branch of | the government. had served the Democratic party well in the senate since 1913, and as the majority leader in the upper house since 1932. Joe Robinson's job it was to keep a smooth balance between the con- servative democrats, largely of the Ala Senator . Harrison bers of the party from the North and West, so that the objectives of the New Deal could be turned out of the legislative mill. Robinson never fought than he did in his last battle. he worked hard and long in attempt to get the ‘‘compromise court plan passed, often raising his voice and exerting himself mightily in senate arguments, it was ap- parent his colleagues that he was not well. Sen. Royal 8S. Cope- land, the only physician in the sen- ate, had several times asked him to calm himself lest he hasten his own death. While the senate was for Robinson's funeral, tion leaders sought so the court bill could be passed, even without the late senator's lead- ership. But the opposition forces were equally determined take harder As an to adjourned administra- to son's death-—the desire to effect a peace, finish the session's business in a hurry and get away from the capital. The forces opposed believed that when the issue came up again they would be successful in recommitting the substitute bill to the judiciary committee, an ef- fective way of killing it. The indica- tion of opposition greater than had been expected in the house of rep- resentatives was another factor pointing to the eventual fall of the Another battle was not long in to decide who the new majority leader of the sen- ocrats were anxious to wrest a measure of control from the White who has been but is The faithful to the President, er, who had been Robinson's as- South Carolina, but it was believed | his strength would eventually be transferred to Harrison. Another thing that had Washing- ton guessing as a result of Robin- son's death was the vacancy on the | Supreme court left by the retire- ment of Justice Willis Van De- vanter. Robinson, it was generally believed, was to have received the appointment. an Struggle in the Senate WELVE Democratic senators and one Farmer-Laborite were believed to hold the fate of the administration's substitute for the { original bill which would increase {the number of Supreme court | justices to 15. The administration | was certain that the bill would re- | ceive at least 38 votes, with 48 necessary to a majority since Sen- ator Robinson's death. Forty-three senators were definitely committed against it. Thirteen were still un- committed as the battle raged on the senate floor and in the cloak- rooms. The twelve uncommitted Demo ickard (Wash.), Brown (N. H.), Caraway | (Ark.), Duffy (Wis.), Johnson | (Colo.), Lewis (Ill.), Murray | (Mont.), Overton (La.), Pep-| per (Fla.), Russell, Jr. (Ga.) and | Wagner (N. Y.). Lundeen (Mian.) | | was the Farmer-Laborite. | The substitute for the original | Ashurst bill provides for appoint- ment of one new justice each year | to every justice remaining on the | court after reaching the age of | | seventy-five years. anf | WwW AR between China and Japan | was believed almost inevitable | as hopes of settling a new outbreak af hostilities by diplomatic means - faded out. The fight- ing ensued as Jap- anese gendarmes at- tempted to take over the policing of Yu- two villages in Peiping area, near Marco Polo bridge. This, the o EA Japanese said, was A 3 provided for in the North China truce. - According to the Hirohito assertions of the Japanese war office, Chinese soldiers kino, the | up with trench mortars against the | Japanese contingent at the Yuanping station. This action allegedly com- | pelled the Japanese to make a night assault, costing 20 lives, in order to occupy the towns of Lungwangmiao and Tungshinghwan. It was said the Chinese troops had also ad- vanced into these points. Officials of the Hopei-Chahar coun- cil claimed the Japanese moves were in open violation of the truce. They further accused the Japanese of conducting night army maneu- vers, using real bullets instead of | the blanks ordinarily employed in maneuvers. As Emperor Hirohito and Premier Fumimaro Konoe con- | ferred with military leaders and the | { cabinet, the Japanese people franti- { cally prepared for the war that | loomed. China's Nanking government gave orders to Gen. Sung Cheh - yuan, | commander of the North China forces, that his army was not to re- treat for any reason, but was to be prepared to make the ‘supreme sacrifice’ to hold its position until | Gen. Chiang Kai-shek should arrive over the Peiping-Hankow railroad with 50,000 fresh troops. As the fighting continued in the Peiping area, with no hope of an effective compromise on the two na- | tions’ demands, war seemed the probable result. Although an agreement was re- ported to have been made between local Chinese and Japanese authori- ties at Tientsin, settling the dispute to the satisfaction of both, the na- tional government at Nanking has continued to insist that no agree- ment reached locally would be | observed. atin Mrs. Roosevelt's Taxes WW HEN Representative Hamil ton Fish (Rep., N. Y.) sought to demonstrate the unfairness of the tax invasion investigation commit. tee, he demanded that the committee investigate the in- come of the wife of the President from radio broadcasts, charging that she was not paying a cent of income taxes upon those earnings. She had turned over . $9,000 to the Amer- ican Friends Service Rep. Fish committee, a Phila- delphia charity, kept $1 per broad. cast for herself and paid nothing whatever from her radio earnings to the government. Assistant Attorney General Rob- ert H. Jackson replied for her, ex- plaining to Chairman Doughton of the congressional committee that the bureau of internal revenue had advised Mrs. Roosevelt she need pay no tax on the receipts from the broadcast. He declared the re- sponsibility “is not that of Mrs. Roosevelt, but that of myself and others who were treasury officials at the time.” Loyalists Widen Front widening the front by expanding both flanks several miles, direction, slow but steady. way between Brunete carnero, the main drive continues south. Rebel not particularly distressed over the government advance, lieve that if they can draw the major part of the Madrid garrison out into the open country and de- stroy it the advance will benefit them more than it will the loyalists. Artillery of both sides worked over- time as the rebel reinforcements came in to make the struggle more equal. The government was reported to be using dozens of Russian tanks. the rebel tanks, but they carry field pieces of great accuracy and po- tency. Still, a new kind of anti-tank gun developed by the rebels stopped a number of them. ed doing serious damage to rebel forces on the Basque front to the In the east Gen. Sebastian Pozas, commander of the govern- ment forces in the Saragossa-Teruel sector, claimed that Albarracin ‘not only has been completely sur- rounded, but also government troops now are fighting in the streets of the town." eI Mr. Eden Has a Plan | pLaNs to maintain the non-inter- vention patrol of Spain in a fashion that will satisfy all the na- tions concerned and insure against the spread of the conflict beyond the Spanish borders have blown about like papers in a storm. And when you get right down to it, that is about all they have amounted to. Now Anthony Eden, Britain's for- eign secretary, has come up with a new one, as deft and per- haps as futile as any which have gone before it It provides for the full re-establis of land and sea control of movements of men and arms into Spain. French and British warships would patrol the coastline with German and Ital jan observers aboard (the Fascist nations, indignant over the Leip zig incident, have withdrawn from patrol.) This arrangement would operate only until a per- manent scheme could be worked out, placing observers for the non- intervention committee in all non- and airports from which men and supplies might leave for Spain, and in all Spanish ports to see that none landed there. After that, the sea patrol would be abol- ished. —_— Upper Silesia Still Puzzle 3 EFORE a new accord could be reached, the 15-year-old Gen- eva convention designed to recon- cile the interests of both Poland and Germany in Upper Silesia, ex- pired. Upper Silesia was once part of both Germany and Austria, but after the World war it was split be- tween Germany and Poland. The people of the two sections have since that time mingled freely with one another, carrying on a live com- merce unhindered over the boun- dary lines set by the League of The diplomatic difficulties occurred for the problem of what to do with the Poles who wanted to remain in the German section and the Ger- mans who wanted to remain in the Polish section. anton 6,625 Miles in One Hop! V ITH the world still thrilling to the recent flight of three Russian aviators from Moscow to the United States via the North Pele, three more Russians did it again, completing the longest non-stop flight in history. After flying 6,625 miles from the Russian capital, Pilot Michael Gro- mov, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumoshev and forced landing in a cow pasture near ply as they battled heavy fogs which 62 hours and 17 minutes, tone Obituary in Blue (GEORGE GERSHWIN, composer who lifted jazz music up to the level of the classics, died sud- denly in Hollywood after an opera- tion for brain tumor. He was thir- ty-eight. His “Rhapsody in Blue" was famous among the world's mu- sic lovers, his opera, “Porgy and Bess" one of the most individually American of all musical works. His “Suwanee’’ sold more than 2,000, by William National Press Bullding Bruckart Washington, D. C, = Washington. — This article shall affairs of the gov- ernment of the na- tion exclusively but to the future— leaders. It shall be, a discussion of funda- Future Leaders that extent, First, let us take a quick survey. In the Capitol building of our own nation there is raging a bitter de- bate between two schools of political The question give to the President of the United States the power to appoint tional justices to the bench of the ch of the to sitting members seventy-five and from active work. In Sp a bitter political war- fare moves on ap: t is over the question whether Communism Russian sort or Fascism jan brand should be the influence in the government vy that nation a the Far East, ian border, troops smperor and of the tor, Stalin, glared Their controversy litical bas Th is complicated tions. It rea refuse age retire 1cCe, domi along the of the Jap Russian at each also involv at controversy al by eco is a powder keg Jack in Europe, other. es nomic we find a dicta- Hitler by name, persecuting 8s of Germany almost without olitical question there is icated deep- tier and first irst, second, nd it ig compl and race. H seek to destroy, Hie Ww - A church and, vy: he wa ants p territors to exg and the infix and he wants to build world power in a military Rome as the a gigantic way with him . +) "wt NN nr sth as 1 er ang wii head. Building for Future 1 state- and citadel of bea ory of Abraha And, to add to this beauty is the vista across the river where * stands in grandeur the beautiful that was the residence of Robert E. Lee—main- taining throughout the years the respect that a nation has for a great military leader. It reposes, or seems to repose, in peace and quiet as do the thousands of men who rest in the hillsides of Arlington National cemetery. In this peaceful days, more than sand boys—the leaders of the fu- ture—were congregated in a Na- tional Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. Tents were everywhere. Uncounted boys in the khaki shorts, which is their uniform, flitted about the city or held various maneuvers or staged dramas of the ages in a great arena. Among them was a sprinkling, and the number was not more than a sprinkling compared to the boys, of the scoutmasters and mature men who constitute the lead- ership of this great army of youth. I hope I may be forgiven for inter- jecting here an expression of my personal feelings. It has been my lot to work hard from the time I 1 Lincoln setting for ten twenty-six thou- I have done and the experiences I have met had a tendency to make me callous, somewhat cynical. But this tented city, I gave thought to for whom I am responsible, I felt a swelling of pride, a satisfaction of heart, that I live in a nation which has given me the right to liberty and progress. Moreover, there came to me the thoughts of the future of my own two boys and the millions of others just like them— future leaders of a nation that holds forth such possibil- the keenest medical minds said he could not live and if he did live | would be a hopeless invalid. But Dr. West was made out of the same mold from which came the founders of our nation and from whom, as founders, the traditions | and the methods known now as the | American way have grown. It was Dr. West wit roted, indeed, dedicated his life to the or- | ganization and development of the | Boy Scouts of America. It is now an | organization of more than two mil- | lion boys and there are some six | million who can be called alumni because they have grown too old to | remain in the ranks of active Boy Scouts. I mentioned earlier that this was an army of peace, an army devoted to the maint nce of American | traditions. No better proof of this need be given, if any were needed, than the notori fact that rep- resentatives three total- jarian states- Germany and Russia- the en- campment. In » slates | the Boy Scout as been | superseded decree which forces regime ion and mil- itarizing of | being trained countries still pin virtues summarized in the boys promise { but to live cringe blossom, by 0 dev from from Italy -@alre missin are ym Oo st sith Yo the Scout not to die their 2 but to ives ev- er trustwe ul, friend- cheerfu but not reverence for rdoned for in this en- a con- ockeyed theo- 1st care for the people ernment therefore, to be ir note that the ministration 5 looking, box- the center of y which litera- iributed to the Boy structure looked for i like a soft drink stand and I, per- resented the action of Na- tration officials o ordered it . 1 felt ause the National Youth predicated upon that I have just that govern- a father for must lay their gov i to me, C arnival sonally tional Youth adminis | wh ts construction this way bec | administration is | the very Weory —a theory nt mu serve I y and down rules to which all must sub- scribe. It is the nearest thing to the regimentation that is going on in nations under dictators that exists in our governmen nt today. - 1st as that 1t Cabled dispatches from Russia in- dicate again that the dictator, Sta- lin, is determined Heavy Hand 4; rid the Soviet of Stalin of anyone and ev- eryone who may | be opposed to him. The official an- nouncements of the so-called Soviet government tell of the “liquidation” of numerous individuals who have objected to Stalin's tactics or who are seeking to revise the Soviet system. “Liquidation” in Russia means that those individuals were executed by a firing squad. A dead man can cause no harm to the as- pirations of a dictator. The Stalin administration ar- ranges for the “liquidation” of its opponents by coercion of confes- sions and this is followed up by what the Soviet calls a trial in a court of justice. The courts of jus- tice are owned and controlled by Stalin; they decide as they are told to decide and there is no such thing as an impartial court in Russia be- cause the government owns the courts and names the judges who are to do the government's bidding. Private advices from abroad seem to show that there is a very serious uprising underneath the surface in Russia. Thousands of Russians have grown tired of having one man de- termine whether they shall live or die and they yearn again for a system of courts which will de- termine their guilt or innocence in accordance with honest evidence presented and not in accordance with the way the governing clique wants justice administered. ’
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