{ National Press Bullding S—— Washington.—There is much talk among the Republicans, both for and against, con- G. 0. P. cerning the pro- Conference posal to hold a general party con- ference early next year. The plan projected would bring together dele- gates from every state just the same as the convention that is held every four years for nominating the presidential and vice presidential candidates and formulation of party policies through adoption of a cam- paign platform. The question has many angles and in consequence many pros and cons already have been advanced. In natural consequence also, some very well-known Republicans have taken definite decisions, either for or against the plan which has the ap- proval of men like John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee, and former President Herbert Hoover. Some very splen- did men find themselves honestly in opposition and have said so in un- equivocal terms. The issue will be fought out at a meeting of the national committee early in November and probably there will be such a convention early in 1938. As I have said, there is argument on both sides but after discussing the situation with many Republi- cans, it appears to me that the ad- vantages outweigh the disadvan- tages. I say this from the stand- point of the country at la#ge. Many times in these columns, I have expressed the conviction that a strong minority party, whether that party be Republican or Demo- for the country as a whole. litical party with too great a ma- jority is likely to run away with itself and do many unsound things. We have had proof of this during the Roosevelt administration and we had proof of it during the adminis- trations of the late President Har- ding and President Coolidge when Republicans had too many members of the house and the senate and the Democratic minority was impotent. I cannot speak from a Republi- can standpoint any more than I can speak from a Democratic stand- point. Nevertheless, from the posi- tion I attempt to follow as an ob- server of national affairs and long range national policies, it does seem that the Republicans ought to quit fighting among themselves and get together to oppose that which the present minority in this country finds objectionable in President Roosevelt's policies. They ought to determine on a set of principles and stick to them. It is their obli- gation and if they fail to fulfill that obligation, it seems to me they had best disband, get rid of those who attempt to be leaders in the Repub- lican party and let somebody else organize the minority faction in the United States—and it is to be re- membered that even in the last elec- tion there were almost 16,000,000 Re- publican voters. In advocating this action, I am rot motivated as much by my belief in and support of some of Mr. Roosevelt's policies as I am in my disagreement with others of the pro- gram to which the New Dealer has adhered. A strong and vocal minority will insure the retention of rights and powers in the hands of the people where they belong and at the same time it will compel Democrats to stick together in carrying out sound policies proposed by the President. That latter statement may sound paradoxical. I think it is not. I make the statement because I know how many times the gigantic Demo- cratic majority in congress has fought over trivialities and because I know how many times sincere op- position to unsound policies has met with defeat without the country knowing the reasons for that oppo- sition. Taken all in all, therefore, I be- lieve it is an obligation upon me as an observer of national affairs to declare in favor of a movement by the minority party that will result in a concentration of its power for the good of the nation. And what, one may ask, should be the creed of the minority party next year? Well, as I see the picture, the Re- publican party must be the conserv- ative party in What of the United States. the Creed? President Roose- velt and his New Dealers cannot avoid being the rad- ical party. I have said this many times in these columns and it is more evident now even than when I reported upon the situation earlier, The conservatives can and should have a voice in their government even if it is only an opposition voice that constitutes a balance-wheel. Proceeding from that premise, ment that the principles which the Republicans advocate should be drawn from principles of govern- mental policies that have proved gound. That is to say, the Repub- licans cannot afford to attack Mr, | Roosevelt on everything he has | done, but they can tear him po- litically limb from limb with con- structive proposals to take the place of those things he has done which represent discouragement, deceit and disaster to the country’s eco- nomic life. There will be no gain for the Re- publicans in 1938 elections if they at- tempt to ride two or three different horses as they did in 1936. For ex- ample, they cannot do as Candidate Landon did, to wit, call for a bal- anced budget in one speech and ad- vocate being Santa Claus in anoth- er; they cannot blow hot and cold, and, therefore, they must be either conservative or radical. It seems to me the Republicans can probably plan for an immediate balancing of the national budget. In entire elimination, of many govern- the New Deal. They can offer con- structively a proposal to legislate out of existence some 20 or 30 fed- eral agencies for which there never has been and is not now any ex- cuse for their existence. * * » Another question that is crying for attention is the huge debt, now at $37,- 000,000,000, highest in history. That debt must be reorganized and placed on a basis | that will permit gradual liquida- | tion of it. The Roosevelt adminis- tration has done nothing regard- ing the debt except to build it higher and higher. If the Republican party wants to constructive job it ought to | set to work to examine all of the | statutes enacted by congress in the | last ten or twelve years and espe- cially those enacted in the haste of the emergency with a view to re- pealing of many of them. Some | can and should be rewritten to make | them workable. Those statutes | placed on the books by the Roose- velt administration standing evidence of the lack of | opposition. We all know many of | those bills were written in execu- | tive departments and sent to con- National Debt {do a unchanged. surely is indicated. As regards legislation now on the statute books, by this the raw materials and the price of the manufactured products. Legis- down on products of thq farm. Probably the most delicate ques- confronted relates hours of labor. to wages and little consideration for the rights of labor. The result is that labor demanding consideration in publicans, whether they desire to or not, must take a stand. * » * Among other principles upon which I think the Republicans as the congervative Then, There's party surely can These is too much gov- ernment in business. of commerce and industry and it is breaking down private enterprises in countless ways. 1 regard the function of government as a thing to be confined to matters and enter- prises which individuals cannot do as individuals. We might use the postal service as an example. No one would be so silly as to say that the postal service could be operated satisfactorily in any other way than as an agency of the federal govern- ment. In contradistinction to the postal service, however, we can point to such things as the building of model homes for private citi- zens. I think the government has no business at all in that field. This is so, first, because of the tremen- for the reason that private persons who are holders of funds whether the amount is great or small recog- nize real estate mortgages as sound investments. I need not mention the red tape or the politics that can choke up any such thing as a government housing development. I could go on and mention numer- ous other general principles upon which there can be honest dif ferences of opinion. It is upon these questions where differences are hon est and not created for political rea sons that the Republican party should express itself. It ought to do this if it is going to be repre sentative of ition sentiment. © Western Union, FE PRE Foal 3 ER Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. ton is the trade and popu- lation center of rich, in- A few 5,700 factories of one more than kind or another. Boston does not flaunt these dis- tinctions; vet seek and you find she world's greatest fish-freezing and storage plant. Here is a center of paper, wool, textbook, cotton-manufacturing ndus- senger traffic. Her deep-channeled harbor, whose modern piers connect with rails and sible on the Atlantic seaboard; it has 40 miles of berthing space and deep water to accommodate the largest vessels When ‘‘Boston ships'’ traded hard- ware for California hides before the dustry of New England began. To- day, a large share of all hides used in American leather and shoe fac- tories is bought and sold inside one square mile of old Boston, where even in the middle of the street you catch the acrid whiff of newly tanned leather In Bombay icehouse beginning 1805, when Boston pers took cargoes for sale in Ja- maica, Cuba, Brazil and India. Now high-grade electrical machines, which include refrigerators, among Boston exports. Boston's pioneer place in the im- port and processing of tropical things is still hers. She and her neighbors make now more than a third of all America's rubber shoes; the trade name of one cocoa made here has been a household word for generations. Jute, burlap, goatskins, fleeces, bales of cotton, sisal, fruit, sugar, coffee, all pass this way. Ask how long skilled workers have served in the same plants; hear how many generations of a given family have worked at the same trades, and you begin to account for the vitality of Boston industry. Here is pride in good work, inher- ited knowledge, genius for crafts- manship. Made Banana a Staple Food. John Hancock probably never saw a banana. At the Philadelphia Cen- tennial exhibition, in 1876, curious crowds gazed in wonder at a bunch of them. Now everybody, from Quoddy Light to Golden Gate, from Key West to Alaska, knows their smell and taste. Boston's United Fruit company makes the banana, once a rarity wrapped in tinfoil, today a staple American food. Yet its greatest feat is not in distribution, but production. About its success in turning jungle into rich plantations and its conquest is an old American skip- are written. All that is far from Andrew W. Preston, who conceived When he began, long ago, the world banana crop barely equaled what New York alone now eats in a few weeks! To get bananas the company had to raise them; so it became a vast agricultural concern. Jungle areas cleared and planted total thousands of square miles. When Minor C. Keith, of United Fruit, started his railroad to Costa Rica from Puerto Limon to San Jose, a 19-year job that cost more than 4,000 lives from fever, there was but little rail in all Central America. Now the company owns and operates its tracks, trucks, and aerial tramways in a dozen tropic regions. It has built towns, piers, radio stations, hotels, harbors, hos- pitals; stores, schools, churches, theaters, playgrounds; shops, ware- houses, markets; water, light, and power plants, and workers’ homes by the thousands. Center of Fish Industry. Besides growing bananas, it raises meat, vegetables, and other foods for its armies of workers, and op- erates sugar plantations, mills, and refineries; grows coconuts, cocoa, and other tropical products; and annually carries some 40,000 pas- sengers on its 97 ships from Boston, New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Francisco to 25 different ports between Habana and Carta- gena, Colombia, Though Boston, remote from grainfields and ranches, must go far | for bread and meat, she also covers much of America with fish, as well as bananas. “But what profit might arise?” That was King James’ query when Pilgrims asked him, in 1618, to per- mit them to sail for the New World. “Fishing,” they replied. “So, God save my soul!” | claimed. “‘’'Tis an honest "Twas the Apostles’ own calling There's a reason why the Sacred Codfish is an emblem of Massa- chusetts; why its effigy hangs now in the statehouse, and has hung, in one assembly hall or another, for more than 200 years. It saved the early settlers from starving; pre- served with salt from England, it became their first export, their first source of revenue. Boston, like Gloucester, catches many other kinds now, from lobster to mackerel, and helps feed the whole United States. And cod is no longer the favorite; haddock is more in demand. he ex- trade. Go for a trip in a trawler. Head- ing for the bank, the | dingdong echo of your radio depth- | finder warns you that you are over | the fishing grounds, and the big | conical net is let go. Stellwagen Wooden its lower lip, let it re over the ocean floor; big wooden gates at each end, opening keep it ched | wide open, so that it scoops up ev- | erything that swims or | “sea eggs’ to squid | wheels, set on easily outward stret frome irom Crawis, unfrozen, fish as Mississ “Green,”” or shipped as far frozen fish, really fish | served by freez will | in perfect condition a year or more, reaches the Pacific while salted and dried codfish, or “"baca- lao," is consumed as far away as southern Europe, the Caribbean, and the coast of Brazil Dawn brings the auction in a big “pit'' at the pier's end. Signs on the walls say all bidding must be in English; bids are called in Eng- lish, but debates rage with confu- sion of tongues. Then this big, busy fish pier echoes with excitement. Men in rubber boots, wearing caps with long visors like duck bills, throw fish into rope baskets and swing them to the docks. Others run hith- er and yon, pushing bright-colored carts filled with fish, followed by sniffing, hard-faced wharf cats. Bostonians Are Good Sailors. These Boston people love the sea. For generations they sailed it to make a living. Now many sail for fun, yet with all the skill and grim intent of adventurous clipper days. Be asked to sail in yacht club races, especially if all your racing experience has been on the deck of a mustang, and you hear a new language. On the first day of “soft spots’ in the air, of tacking, luffing, crossing of bows and sterns, and shutting off of the rival's wind, sailing seems a sport not only of odd speech but of mysterious mo- tions. Then, all "at once, you begin to sense these tricks of jockeying with boats. Here is horse racing, but on water! Instead of crowding the oth- er, riding in to the rail to slow him down, you shut off his breeze power. Ship lines are only bridle reins; stiff breezes are spurs, and letting out a spinnaker is merely giving your nag her head. Fair play and good sportsmanship are ingrained. Inherited English ways and proximity of Harvard, with its generations of clean sport, have fostered this love for games. Plenty of Sport There. Gymnasiums came early, where circus acrobats and strong men used to be invited to “show off” for the boys. That colorful character in prize-ring history, John L. Sulli- van, was born in Boston. Cricket, hockey, boxing, rowing, swimming, high bicycles, and ball players in full beards, Boston fostered them all; yet permitted no league base- ball games on Sunday till 1929! Special ‘snow trains’ leave now, taking winter crowds with skis, sleds, and toboggans, at the first news of heavy snows in the White mountains. Born of the old East Indian battledore and shuttlecock, and introduced into England about a century ago by returning army officers, the game of badminton is now also much played about Boston. New among Boston sports is midget motor-car racing. She nas a special Tom Thumb track, an ly formed figure with To it, on race days, are hauled on trucks, for tumble contests. west fresh ¢ which coast, | | W..10 SEW by— Ruth Wyeth Spears « 3p ~~ Crazy Patch Work at Home in a Modern Setting. Jaste the turned edges down as shown. When a number of patches have been basted in place, sew them down to the foun- dation with the embroidery stitches and then remove the bast- ings. The backing is tied to the front with silk embroidery thread as comforters are tied. Little or no padding may be used and a plain band around the edge is effective Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, SEWING Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; restoring and upholstering chairs, couches; making curtains for ev- ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, otto- mans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, color | 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, he embroidery. | Ill simple me herring-bone 5 also give a 5 are sewed i me firm soft material lannel an old wool blanket good. Pin a piece in place over the space to be filled, trim the edges to right shape, as at A, allowing enough to turn under, as at B, where the patch laps over the one next to it, of quilt patterns, yet there is something amazingly modern in lines. So whether your is traditional in style yan tomorrow you will be interested in the revival of crazy patch work for what our grandmothers and great-grand- called a “slumber living roor or newer mothers throw." A corner of one of these old silk } here at the pie es were 1% variety of the figured » plain patches with amusing embroid- colors crazy quilts is shown lower small—-many n more than inches wide or long. A embroidery pieces th plain and joins joins silks were usec beir owers {; often oidered fl other motifs—note beetle ered on one patch. Several of silk eml thread generally the were send most of these one ‘ie - artistic predominat inois. Larger feat} stitch er River of Life or OVE is the river of life in this ~ world. Think not that ye know the it who stand at the little tinkling “% 1 rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rock gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone | through the meadow, and the | stream has widened and deepened | until fleets could ride on its bos- | om; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathom- | able ocean, and poured your treas- ures into its depths—not until then can you know what love is.— Distrust Is Your Responsibility | Henry Ward Beecher. Is it more disgraceful to dis. | = trust one's friends than to be de-! ceived by them? A nature lover is like other lov- ers. His love is most ardent when are € Some pick their some are picked as others. Likes the Velvety Touch A grouch does not like grouches. He hates them. Whenever it is “officially de-| nied’ there is a ‘catch’ some- | friends and | friends by | Many doctors recommend Nujol for its gentle action on the bowels. Don't confuse Because you are suavely asked | Nujol with unknown products. necessarily do it. i Romantic names given haren) INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL Cupr. 1957. Fanmes Tom. HA RULE LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher IS
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