iG ). Lobb Ihimks aboul Our National Bird. AS VEGAS, NEV. — Those folks back East who're agi- tating to make the turkey our national bird are late. Benja- min Franklin had the same no- tion 150 years ago. Old Ben pointed out that the eagle was a robber and a tyrant and was the emblem of va- rious European monarchies, where- as the turkey was not only our largest and gamest wild bird, but a native of America. To be sure, young turkeys aren't so smart. They love to get their feet wet so they may die from it. In dry sections, young turkeys have been known to jump down an arte- get their feet wet, But the adult turkey is wise and wily, a noble in a cooked state, owing to his mag- nificent bust development and his capacity for holding stuffing or in- sertion, and his superiority when worked over into turkey hash. But if we are going to make a change in emblems, why not choose the worm-—the humble, dumb, un- resisting worm—as typical of most of the present populace? It could be a one-sided worm, too, which would save costs in modeling, be- cause so many of us are the kinds of worms that never turn. The Sucker Crop. ARLIAMENT, next month, will pass statutes to curb stock mar- ket tricksters, fly-by-night brokers, and bucket shop operators who, it's estimated, are fleecing the British public to the tune of $25,000,000 an- nually. We've tried it and it doesn’t work. As Barnum stated, a sucker is born every minute — and sometimes twins. But the crooks who prey on the sucker crop, like the Dionne quintuplets, come along in batches. That breed spawn close to shore and the young all survive. Thus is the rule of supply and de- mand balanced. In good times, there are just enough suckers to go around. In hard times, the suckers grow scarce, but, when one comes along, the crooks raffle him off an the winner takes all. Anyhow, legislation won't save a sucker from himself—at least not in this country. He'll break through the law in order to prove he's a sucker in good standing in the suck- ers’ lodge. By the way, brother-member, how many degrees have you taken? . * * Restrained Statements. self for forty-one days, on being asked how he felt, replied that he felt sort of hungry. Investigation showed the stranger had been cheating now and then to the ex- tent of a clandestine beef stew or a surreptitious stack of wheats, but wasn't it a magnificently restrained statement? For underemphasis, I can think of ism of killing folks. One night, 1 was passing Uncle stand for colored only. through the heart. proprietor, “isn't that John?" “Sho’ is suh.” “How did it happen?” I asked. “Well, suh,” said Uncle Tom, “It seem like he musta antagonized Mr, Buck Evitts.” Smoked Glasses for Snakes. On THE way here, I attended this year's snake dance. The snake dance has become indeed a strange sight—for the snakes. If the tourists don’t modify their ward- robes by next year, I expect to see the snakes wearing smoked glasses. Veteran snakes that have taken part during past seasons are show- ing signs of the strain. The bull snakes still hiss—as who could blame them?-—but the rattlers no longer rattle freely, evidently fear- ing it might be mistaken for ap- plause. The commissioner of Indian af- fairs wants the Navajoes to grow fewer goats. The Navajoes are balk- ing. Goat hair is a profitable erop; goat meat makes good eating—fot an aborigine stomach, anyhow-—and goat smell is agreeable for Navajo noses. It seems to neutralize some of the other perfumes noticed dur- ing shopping hour in a reservation trading post. 8 IRVIN 8. COBB. ©—WNU Service. AP NIA 5 h lekand Drops "Parity Prices" NE of the administration's chief policies for agriculture has been abandoned, Secretary Wallace announced in Washington. ‘Parity prices’’ for farm products, could not tained. The aim will be to give average farm same purchasit power he had in the half century before the World war. “] don't think there is any way of getting enough mon- Sec. Wallace ury,”” Wallace said, ing the next ten years for cotton, uct that is exported. You might be able to get enough for a year or two to do this. But the consumer would soon rise up in protest.” Wallace also talked about the soi conservation program, under whic farmers must hold acreage of maj« crops below the 1928-37 order to obtain benefit He said the only fault with this was that normal would be large in view of the prospective markets. he secretary still believes that national control over production of the major farm crops is necessary. “In my opinion,” he said, “the principle of co-operative crop justment is sound and will eventu- ally be applied again.” sets Phos Douglas Heads SEC yields idea of having William O. Douglas as chairman of the Se- curities and Exchange commission, preferring the more conservative George C. Mathews. However, Douglas was elected to the post, succeeding James M. Landis; and to scribed servative himself as sort of fellow from the to remember,” who has perimentation. prices as such and will with market trends only when the cial. ‘There will be direct and ag- lation of security prices. in favor of a free market, not a fixed one. “The government cannot provide any substitute for investment judg- ment,” he pointed out. ‘It can act to prevent manipulation and to pros. ecute fraud, but in the final analysis the investor's judgment must gov- ern his actions. We cannot save a fool from his folly.” oa Roosevelt Goes West ]N OMINALLY to visit his daugh- ter in Seattle, actually to find out what recent events have done to his popularity among the people of the Middle and Far West, Presi- dent Roosevelt left Hyde Park on a special train that also carried mem- bers of the White House staff and several cars full of reporters and camera men. Mrs. Roosevelt was with her husband. The President had nothing to say, before his departure, concerning Justice Black, who waz on his way back across the Atlantic and was scheduled to take his seat on the Supreme court bench before Mr. Roosevelt's return to Washington. oo Plan to Fight "Polio" Just before leaving for the Pacific coast, the President announced that he was organizing a new foun- jation to direct the war against It will carry on educational cam paign supervised by experts an hin reach of all doctors an The found i fin: “1 ail Jonn Biggers' plans f tary enroll employed, to be carried aid of the Post Office department. mn Nanking and Canton Bombed JAYING no attention to the pro- tests of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, Ja- pan sent her air fleets on bombin raids that spread death and ruin in Nanking and Canton. Chinese ment of vie xy + t with + but with little avail. American Am- bassador Nelson Johnson, under in- structions from Washington, regret- capital and put his staff aboard the patrol boat Luzon, but they returned to Nanking. It was reported in Tokyo that Chiang Kai- would remove the seat of the Chinese ge Tha “ republic of has dissolved and the con munist Chinese army decided to unite with Chiang's forces. — shek soviet f itself OR the first time in the history of the Labor department, the is not asked to address the annual convention of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, to be held in Denver The list of invited speakers was released, but the name of Madam Perkins was not there. The secretary, whose admin- istration of her office never has been taken very seriously by the country, is considered by the A. F. of L. to be prejudiced in favor of its rival, the C. 1. O. a. Legion Head Hits Naziism OUR hundred thousand members of the American Legion and tion of the organiza- tion which opened with a memorial service for dead vet- erans. Parades, sham battles and plenty of fun-making marked the proceed- much time tn se rious business. Har- ry W. Colmer, retir- ing national com- Harry W. mander, delivered a Colmer notable report on his stewardship, warning against dangers confront- ing the nation from within and with- out. Colmer declared attempts to sub- jugate judiciary would destroy the “checks and balances” in govern- ment; and he proposed that the American Legion undertake an edu- cational program on the principles set forth in the Constitution. He asked each post to hold at least gne meeting this fall on the basic aw. The commander's warning against perils from without led him to con- demn severely German propaganda in the United States and the alleged action of the German government in fostering the organization of Nazi groups and camps in this country. This he called “a gratuitous insult to our free institutions." The Legion elected Daniel J. Doherty, a lawyer of Boston, Mass., national commander and awarded the 1938 convention to Los Angeles. Besides condemning Communism, Fascism and Nazism, the conven- tion called for a larger and better equipped army and navy and for a ban on the report of helium gas. minister, hurried from Geneva to attend a special cabinet meeting to which he reported on develop- ments in the Medi- terranean situation that is so threaten- ing to European peace. He told of It. aly’'s reiteration of its demand for par- ity in the “anti. piracy’ patrol, and it was believed both he and Prime Min- ister Chamberlain were hopeful that a rupture could be Anthony averted by a partial Eden yielding to Mussolini in this matter. British public opinion was said to be strongly against a complete con- cession, Meanwhile events in the Mediter- ranean were not such as to bolster Eden's peaceful designs. The Brit- ish aircraft carrier Glorious report- ed it had been attacked by a sub- marine near Malta just as it ar- rived to take part in the patrol of the sea. Also the admiralty an- nounced an unidentified airplane dropped six bombs close to the de- Fearless. The British and fleets began their search for ‘‘pirate’’ submarines, Spain's premier, stood up before the League of Na- tions and fearlessly presented the stroyer Juan Negrin, evidence of italian and German in- in the Spanish civil war, eague take steps d Mussolini and Hitler “international highwaymen.” The assembly of the League of tions i down the Spanish request for re-election league council. to stop it Na | government's as a member of the Re President on Constitution LL orators on the one hundred . fiftieth anniversary of the sign- loud in Pres- y the nstitution were at great document to the ypponents have ying to under- alled it a “layman's wot a lawyer's con- reiterated his asser- that the Constitution was in- | tended by its makers to be a state- | ment of objectives and not a rigid document, and declared democratic government in this country can do uch "commonsense peo- le have the right to expect.” “1 believe that th one | of the civil and religious liberties it was intended to safeguard,” Mr. Roosevelt continued, “and 1 am de- that under the Constity- ose things shall be done.” wn Wosanm Green Slams Lewis D ENUNCIATIONS - by John Lewis Lewis by Green come almost daily, but the attack on the C. 1. O. leader by the president of the A. F. of L. in a speech in Washington was es- He declared the mr of William f Green and of pecially vigorous tunist who hopes to gain political power through the formation of a party combining labor and agricul- ture, and reiterated the opposition of the federation to the organization of such a party. Lewis, said Green, was to blame for the bloody strike in “little steel” plants and for its collapse which he attributed to C. I. O.'s disregard of the rule that the workers them- selves should decide when to strike. “Surely those who are to suffer and sacrifice in a strike ought to be accorded the right to say whether they are ready and willing to do 4 asserted. “The issues involved in any impending indus- trial conflict ought to be made clear and thoroughly understood.” Ko J E HAVE just begun to fight” was the battle cry adopted by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan in a speech at Bay City that was taken as the opening of his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1940. He made it evi- dent that he hopes to be the stand- ard bearer for a coalition party, as- | cal parties is inevitable. Indeed, he declared, this probably was the one thing that could save our na- tional institutions. He was not so sure that the opposition to the Roose- velt policies would unite under a new party name. Said he: “There may be a realistic realign- ment which will bring like-thinking patriots into common battle front, whether they live north or south of the Mason and Dixon line, whether they live east or west of the Mis- sissippi.” Po Biggers to Manage Census [UNCLE SAM is going to make a count of his unemployed nephews in the hope that this will help solve the re-employment and relief problem. Just how the census is to be managed is not yet deter- mined, but John D. Biggers of To- ledo, president of the Libby-Owens- Ford Glass company, has been named administrator of the under- taking and is formulating his plans. At the suggestion of the President, Mr. Biggers has established his headquarters in the Department of Commerce, and he hopes to com- plete the tabulation of the unem- ployed before December 1. ou the of Laf asked to picnic red wool for real satisfaction For Kitchen Capers. 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