WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEV YORK.—Georges Bonnet,
France's new foreign minister,
has been a vigorous advocate of a
British-French-American alliance.
French May
Join Four
Power Pact
more in accord
with the Chamber-
lain policies than
his predecessors.
With the downfall of the Left gov-
ernment, the conclusion of an Anglo-
Italian agreement and the appoint-
ment of M. Bonnet, interpreters of
toward a four-power pact,
five-power, with Poland in, and the
further isolation and immobiliza-
tion of Russia.
The abandonment of the
French-Soviet treaty is expected
to be an immediate issue in what
is regarded as a sharply clari-
fying outline of dominant conser-
vative policy in France and
England.
M. Bonnet, shrewd, suave, dressy,
is a somewhat rakish figure, with
his hat usually on the back of his
head, but a personage of power and
dignity in the political forum. He
is of the younger school of French
politics, and, in that connection, one
of the best Jai Alai players in
France.
At his country place at St.
Georges de Didonne, he spends
much time making
M. Bonnet incredible kanga-
Cuts Didos roo leaps, playing
on Estate pelota basque, as
they call it there.
But, in statesmanship, he is no rub-
ber-heeled bounding basque. He
is rather a wary and adroit fencer.
When he was appointed ambas-
sador to the United States in Janu-
ary, 1937, he brought with him a
year's supply of truffles and pate
de foies gras. He had to take
most of it back, however, as, in
July, he was recalled to save the
franc in the Chautemps cabinet.
He was supposed to have
saved it, but, as usual, it didn't
stay saved, and, in the turn of
the Ferris wheel, which is
French politics, he was down-
under and up again.
He is an economist, but also a
philosopher and author, in the cham-
ber of deputies from southwest
France at the age of thirty-six and
a former minister of budget, pen-
sions and finance. He budgets a
few wisps of hair carefully across
his bald pate and surveys the world
warily through gold-rimmed spec-
tacles.
Jot ans strongly authoritarian
government, with its feudal car-
ry-over, has never fitted exactly into
any of the molds of ultra-modern
. absolutism. The
Spotlight intensifying issue
Now on Jap . of fascism which
Strong Man
may force out the
present govern-
ment spotlights several likely-look-
ing ‘“‘strong men’’ as possible suc-
cessors to Premier Konoye.
The only one with apparently
clearly formulated ideas, and a flu-
ent line of totalitarian talk is War
Minister General Hajimi Sugiyama.
After several years of Euro-
pean post-graduate studies in di-
rect action, he returned to talk
of “national renovation,” ‘‘de-
cadent parliamentarianism,”
“unity and discipline,” and the
like. More than any other lead-
er, he employs the standard
terminology of fascism-—if that
means anything.
On May 27, 1937, he gave the diet
quite a lacing and said that it would
. have to behave, or
Sugiyama “we will dissolve
Tells Diet it.”” Since he was
to Behave then a member of
triumvirate, this was no casual edi-
torial “we.”
While he is fifty-eight years old,
for high place until 1938, and hence
vals.
early in that year.
vice-minister of war and head of
the military air force.
ing, neckless, on a heavy torso, is
ways cocked, one side watchful and
the set of a Benda mask of a dicta-
tor. He is of the army caste, gradu-
ated from the national military col-
lege. He represented Japan at the
1926 disarmament conference at
Geneva, remaining in Europe for
geveral years thereafter.
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WNU Service, .
Elephant Remembers
An elephant walked along a road
near Rangpur, Bengal, a man in a
garden shouted and made faces at
it. The beast ambled into the gar-
den, but the mahout restrained it
while the mocker fled to safety.
the road the same night it rushed
at. its tormentor’s house and badly
damaged it.
National Press Building
DP. C.
Washington.—In the midst of all
of the politics and planning in the
. national capital,
Bitter Row
there has lately
Develops come to the sur-
face one of the
has developed incident to the admin-
istration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It is the controversy, long smoulder-
ing, between the President and the
newspapers of the country. It is out
in the open now, and the struggle is
a desperate one.
remembered how Mr. Roosevelt was
press when he entered the White
House. He continued to maintain
the most pleasant relations between
his office and the newspapers of the
and especially with
correspondents, until
of New Deal policies in 1935. The
number of opposition editors in-
creased and in 1936 it was generally
about one half of the newspapers
supporting him. But even then,
corps of torrespondents who report
on national affairs under a Washing-
ton date line.
The Washington correspondents
no fault with the New
to dwindle in numbers eventually.
Now, as a guess, I would say that
probably only about one-fourth of
the five or six hundred writers be-
lieve heart-and-soul with New Deal
policies. This does not mean that
those who observe weaknesses or
vulnerable points in the New Deal
do not write their commendation
when they believe it is due. The
completely ‘sold’ on New Deal
digging further into every situation.
As a result, obviously, attention is
directed daily to those weaknesses,
as well as the strong points, of the
New Deal; the news is no longer all
ballyhoo for the New Deal.
Another result is that White House
jovial, carefree meetings filled with
laughter, good-natured jibes and ex-
changes, friendly shots back and
forth between the President and the
correspondents. On a number of
occasions, quite the contrary has
been true. The President has spok-
en some very harsh words now and
about news dispatches from
Washington by certain writers. He
Republican writer, like Mark Sulli-
une syndicate, for instance, wrote
his observations of a critical nature
Altogether, I believe it can be said
that the newspaper criticism at
times has got under the President's
skin and has made him quite irasci-
ble and squeamish.
greater and greater frequency
late that Mr. Roosevelt
were writing.
Such things,
written,
generally, are not
rows, nor
are more
for their
they con-
do they consider that they
than the eyes and ears
That is to say,
fidences on matters that seem
them to be purely personal in na-
ture.
In the last two weeks, however,
the differences between the Presi-
dent and his advisors, on the one
and the editors throughout
the country and their Washington
open.
The match seems to have been
; Roosevelt at a re-
Dynamite cent “off the rec-
Set OFF ord’’ session which
he held with the
members of the Managing Editors’
society. The society meets annually
in Washington and always during
invited to a
White House meeting. In the past,
ter understanding between the edi-
tors and the administration, but the
last session appears to have done
exactly the opposite.
It is not permissible to disclose
what goes on in those meetings and,
not having been present, I cannot
vouch for details of the recent meet.
ing. 1 know, however, that hereto-
fore the editors came away always
feeling that benefits of the meeting
had been important. At the last
meeting, according to common un-
derstanding around Washington, the
discussion was heated. The Presi.
dent's remarks to the editors must
have been vicious. In any event,
there were few of the editors came
away in a good humor. Indeed,
2 breakfast of the society the next
morning, one managing editor chal-
tion: “Are we
men?”
Again asserting my inability to
| vouch for all of the statements that
| meeting, I know that many of the
editors were ‘‘red headed’ or
under the collar’’ or whatever your
| favorite expression may be. And
{ well they may have been if it is
| true that the President told them
they had no genuine knowledge of
public sentiment in their several
{ communities, nor did they have any
real influence. But the crowning
| shot, according to report, was a
| pointed inference that the President
better understood what the country
needed than the editors.
Immediately thereafter the Amer-
| ican Newspaper Publishers associa-
| tion, at its New York meeting, had
before it a report calling for the
| elimination of politics and politi-
| cians from control of the radio or
{ the press. The report cited Mr.
| Roosevelt's frequent use of the air-
lanes for his ‘‘fireside chats,’”” and it
| added:
“The inescapable task of the
| American press is to guard against
any encroachment upon American
{ democracy by the federal govern-
| ment with radio as the instrument
of political power."
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That incident, of course, was not
| ignored in Washington. While there
. was no word from
Minton the White House,
Lets Loose the newspapers
were the target
for an intemperate speech by Sen.
Sherman Minton of Indiana. Senator
Minton has been a New Deal mouth-
piece through the last year and only
a few persons believed that he was
| speaking his own views. Most ob-
servers thought he was doing a
“Charley McCarthy’ for those in
the New Deal who needed a ventrilo-
quist and a forum then and there
to get their views printed.
Mr. Minton jumped all over the
newspapers. None of them would
print the New Deal side, he assert-
ed; none would be fair. They sim-
ply are awful things, these news-
papers. The report of the news-
paper publishers, mentioned above,
| was described by the senator as
“an exhibition of unmitigated gall."
Some newspapers were accused of
“spewing out their propaganda’’
against the New Deal and he
charged that the New Deal "simply
can not get its side of the story
printed.”’
The senator certainly got his side
of the case printed for the metropol-
| itan dailies reaching Washington
gave him vast space—and also they
subsequently gave him editorial at-
tention. Senators on the floor lis-
tened to Senator Minton, too, but
| only Senator Norris of Nebraska and
Schwellenbach of Washington took
| any notice. Senator Schwellenbach
felt impelled to make a few well
chosen remarks about the way the
press has treated the New Dealers,
including himself.
And, I almost forgot about it! Sen-
| would send an editor or reporter to
jail if they printed any information
| which they knew to be incorrect.
The guilty persons could be fined
| many thousands of dollars, too, un-
der the Minton bill.
son I almost forgot about the Minton
bill to punish editors was because
nobody took it seriously, least of all
the colleagues of Senator Minton in
| the senate. It will go into a com-
mittee pigeonhole and will never be
heard of again.
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trol by the federal government in
ried by...
“speech” battle
there has
the federal
mission.
ity to license stations for three
years, but as a matter of practice
the commission never has issued a
license to any station for a period
longer than six months. In conse-
quence, every station owner and op-
erator has to come into the com-
mission twice a year and file an
application for renewal of its right
to operate.
The complaint is that the broad-
casting industry is running on a six-
months’ basis, uncertain at all times
about its future status. Twice a
year, therefore, any station owner
has to make a guess whether his
investment is worth anything. One
of the charges against this practice,
a charge hurled by David Sarnoff,
president of the Radio Corporation
of America, was that the short-pe-
riod licensing practice ‘leaves the
door open for indirect and insidious
censorship.” The charge, of course,
considers the possibilities of under-
handed activity that always are
available to an individual in public
HE windows shown here are |
the same size. The center one
is made to look taller by adding
an extension at the top. The one
on the right is made wider with
extensions at the sides. Tall win-
dows lend dignity and a note of
formality. By placing the tie-
backs quite high this effect is em-
phasized even more.
Wide windows often make a
room seem larger and give wall
spaces better proportions. Exth |
sions at the sides may also be
used so the draperies will cover | .
less of the window, giving more |,
view and sunlight.
To make a window higher,
merely screw blocks of wood to
the top of the frame as at A and
B with metal straps such as may
be obtained at any hardware
store. The curtain rods are then
screwed to the wood blocks. To |
add width, screw the blocks to |
as |
If tie-backs are to
be used, extensions for them may
be added as at E and F.
Draperies like the ones shown
here may be lined or not accord- |
ing to the weight of the material
used. My book SEWING, for the
Home Decorator, shows you ex-
actly how to make them either
way and how to make the French
heading. This book also gives di-
Uncle Phil,
2 ays:
Great Difference
The unwise man puts things off;
the wise man puts things over,
Unreasonable people are those
who won't let us have our own
way.
at C and D
Money spent on a magnificent
church is not wasted. It gives joy
to those inside and those outside,
as well.
kind
and it
lege |
right of
young man;
pride in his
Encourage the
pride in a
begins in his
diploma.
col
RUTH BIYET H
SPEARS
a SS
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ers;
curtains; bedspreads; and nu-
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| Hail to Pilgrim Mothers
Bruce Barton, the nationally.
known writer and advertising ex-
ecutive, tells of an incident that
happened at a celebration in Bos-
| ton in honor of the landing of the
| Pilgrim fathers. He says that
after several laudatory speeches
had been made by men, a woman
| got up and said: ‘lI am tired of
hearing so much praise of the Pil
| grim fathers. I want to say a
{ word about the Pilgrim mothers.
They had to endure all that the
Pilgrim fathers endured, and they
had to endure the Pilgrim fathers
| besides.”
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