Foreign
Since the notorious peace of Mu-
nich, almost every day has seen the
stars of Great Britain and France
descend to new lows, torn by dis-
sention from within, heaped with
ridicule from without. Hardly had
Alfred Duff Cooper resigned from
the British cabinet in protest against
Prime Minister Chamberlain's ‘‘sell-
out” before Winston Churchill arose
in the house of commons to state
his views. He prophesied that Eng-
land will be dependent on German
good will for its very existence. “We
have sustained defeat without war,
and the whole equilibrium of
Europe has been changed,” he
summed up.
That Prime Minister Chamberlain
agrees is shown by his insistence on
a high-speed rearmament program,
a move quite contradictory to his
Anglo-German peace pact and his
treaty with Italy. It is an admis-
WINSTON CHURCHILL
He, among others, was ashamed.
sion that not even Mr. Chamber-
lain trusts Adolf Hitler or Benito
Mussolini very far.
Meanwhile, France has
quick to make peace with
by recognizing her conquest of Ethi-
opia. Her parliament, by over-
relegating France tothe position of
a second-rate power,
taxed Frenchmen want to know why
they must pay for a huge army and
navy that refuses to fight.
There are other signs,
The resignation of Czech President
Eduard Benes in the face of grow-
kneed democracies, indicates
Czechoslovakia is giving in
mands for co-operation with the
Rome-Berlin axis. It is almost
humorous to reflect that Great Brit-
slovakia's integrity. Even more
tragic is Chancellor Hitler's demand
for reparations from Czechoslo-
covery . . . Industry wants to see
a higher income for every family
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runaway prices . . To help this
recovery along, every group in this
country can assist. Manufacturers,
farm leaders, by using tolerance
and patience . . . can do much to
promote industrial peace and prog-
ress, which are essential to real
recovery.”
Labor
Chief result of the American Fed-
eration of Labor's Houston conven-
tion has been a widening of the
breach between A. F. of L. and
John Lewis’ Committee for Indus-
trial Organization. Labor leaders
have long harbored hope of bring-
ing the two factions together; A. F.
of L. made a gesture last winter,
while David Dubinsky’s Internation-
al Ladies Garment Workers have
long been on the fence, acting as
mediator.
But when A. F. of L.'s William
Green began throwing charges of
“communism’’ at C. I. O., when he
alleged further that two members
of the Wagner labor relations
board (Donald Wakefield Smith and
Edwin S. Smith) were pro-C. 1. O,,
the last hope for peace faded. As
a result, C. I. O. has called its first
constitutional convention at Pitts-
burgh November 14, when delegates
from 42 international and national
unions will meet with representa-
tives of 180 industrial union coun-
cils. At that time, A. F. of L.. may
expect to be blasted in return.
Strangest feature of labor's war
is that both factions remain loyal to
Roosevelt, who should
have incurred A. F. of L.'s wrath
by reappointing Donald Wakefield
Smith to the labor board last month,
and who should have made C. I. O.
angry by consenting to changing the
Wagner act next winter, on Mr.
Though Mr. Lewis
has been conspicuously silent about
the administration, Mr. Green has
been quick to point out that C. I. O.'s
constitutional convention is a rebuff
to the President's moves for labor
War
To the Japanese soldier clawing
his way toward Hankow, the pros-
pect has been discouraging. Even
bloody
Nip-
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by Great Britain.
completely to dictatorship,
France and Britain apparently
stand alene, friendless, merely tol-
erated by her ‘‘friends’’—Italy and
Germany.
Taxation
Though campaigning politicians
do not speak of it, next winter's
congress will probably turn the in-
come tax headache into a night-
mare. With another federal deficit
in prospect, with high income
brackets already taxed to the lim-
it, the solution will be a broadening
of tax base on middle and low in-
come groups, i. e., the man making
less than $50,000 a year. Present
exemptions are $1,000 for single per-
sons, $2,500 for married persons,
with $400 extra for each dependent
under 18 years of age. If 2,067,736
persons filed 1935 returns on that
basis, an estimated 8,400,000 would
yield from $200,000,000 to $500,000,-
000 more under the proposed plan
for reducing exemptions to $500
for single persons, $1,000 for mar-
ried persons and $200 for depend-
ents. Chief victims would be those
now paying in the low income
brackets, a prospect that bodes vir-
tual political suicide for any con-
gressman who favors the measure.
Only alternative would be federal
sales taxation, which “horrified”
President Roosevelt when he first
took office and has since been a
dead issue.
Business
When President Roosevelt asked
early this month that there be less
“saber rattling’ by business and
labor, instead of more co-operation
to aid the almost-certain economic
recovery, he gave business an op-
portunity to speak, The answer
came from Charles R. Hook, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers, whose slight rebuke
that ‘“‘encouragement from leaders
in public life would help’ was fol-
lowed by a truly straightforward
plea. Said he: “Manufacturers are
extremely eager for a more co-0p-
erative attitude . . . Industrialists
want to see a sound business re-
CHINA'S CHIANG KAI-SHEK
“There can be no peace . . .
pon has announced Hankow as the
final objective, and it probably will
be taken soon. But Chinese Gen-
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek insists
his people will continue to resist.
His latest statement: “If Japan
does not abandon aggression and
withdraw her instruments of inva-
sion, and if she does not restore
China's territorial and administra-
tive integrity, there can be no peace
. The longer our armed resist.
ance continues, the stronger will our
determination grow."
General Chiang's prophecy is al-
ready fulfilled. Though Chinese
have won no spectacular victories,
Japan's drive up the Yangtze to
Hankow has cost more casualties
than any previous phase of the war.
Every indication is that Japan will
never control more than rivers, rail-
roads and highways, that huge and
lumbering China will eventually as-
similate whatever permanent Jap-
anese population is sent over to ad-
minister the conquered territory.
@ Since ‘peace at any price’ be-
came Europe's watchword during
the Czechoslovakian crisis, it is just
possible the same watchword may
be applied to Spain's civil war. In
this imbroglio, where Germany and
Italy have aided the strong Fascist
cause of Insurgent Generalissimo
Francisco Franco, communistic Loy-
alist Spain has suffered repeated
setbacks and now controls but a
small area.
France, and especially England,
have already made peace overtures
to Italian Premier Benito Mussolini
in the Spanish conflict. One pro-
posed settlement is division of the
peninsula into a democracy and dic-
tatorship.
Observers think it entirely pos-
sible that Germany and Italy may
force a sell-out, of Loyalist Spain
just as Czechoslovakia was sold out,
that England and France may even-
tually agree to give Generalissimo
Franco victory.
Domestic
Though the U. 8. is a land of free
press and speech, most Americans
agree it is far from smart to let
foreign agents operate untram-
meled. Last winter, when agita-
tion for an investigation of un-Amer-
icanism first came before congress,
many a lawmaker wondered not
only about un-American agents, but
all foreign agents. Who are they?
How do they operate? What are
their aims? Upshot was a law re-
quiring all ‘‘agents of foreign prin:
cipals'’ to register with the state
department by October 6. Though
the deadline came and passed with
thousands still left unregistered, the
persuasive threat of prosecution is
expected to bring results. Though
the law has no teeth, its registration
requirement will let Uncle Sam
keep an eye on foreign agents, will
help curb the growing spy danger.
® Regardless of who holds power
when civil service is expanded, it
will create furore in the minority
ranks because present job-holders
will be favored. On this assump-
tion, a furore will come in Repub-
lican ranks February 1 when 81,000
Democratic workers in so-called
emergency agencies are moved into
civil service classification. Another
44,000 may be added later. This
results from U. 8S. civil service com-
mission approval of President
Roosevelt's executive order last
June, which asked expansion of the
merit system. Undeniably a step in
the right direction, February's
change will be less meritorious than
most civil service operations, since
present job-holders need only take
a non-competitive examination and
get the recommendation of their
superior officers.
Politics
To New York state voters, No-
vember's gubernatorial election will
be a matter of choosing between
two worthy men, once co-workers
against crime, now political oppo-
nents through trick of circumstance.
Odds appear to be growing that the
Democratic Gov. Herbert H. Leh-
man will beat Manhattan's racket-
busting District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey, Republican nominee.
Merits for Dewey: An amazing
record of fighting New York city's
criminal element since he was ap-
pointed special prosecutor by Gov-
ernor Lehman in 1935. Young (only
38 years old), handsome, a cru-
sader, he nevertheless has little gov-
ernmental background outside the
court room.
Merits for Lehman: Almost 40
years’ manufacturing and banking
experience that have enabled him to
run the Empire state on a business
basis. He battled successfully
against legislative opposition to his
sweeping set of laws expediting
criminal procedure, went on to wipe
out a $100,000,000 deficit left by his
predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt.
Dewey Support: New York state
Republicans. He must
votes which Lehman controlled in
1036, must also win the powerful
labor vote which, though it helped
elect him district attorney last
year, is still Democratic.
Lehman support: New York state
Democrats, who have controlled the
governorship many years; New
York city Jewry, because Lehman
is Jewish; Tammany (what is left
of it), because Tammany bitterly
dislikes Tom Dewey for prosecuting
its favorite son, Jimmy Hines; the
American Labor party, because
Lehman has endorsement of both
A.F.of L. and C. 1. O.
Since he must attack his strong-
est points, Candidate Dewey's first
blast was against Tammany, which
necessitated dragging Candidate
Lehman into the picture. Uninten-
tionally, said Mr. Dewey, the gov-
ernor is ‘‘the good will advertising,
the front man and window dressing
for a thoroughly corrupt machine.”
Proud of his own anti-crime record,
Governor Lehman answered he was
“amazed” that the young district
win 250,000
CANDIDATE LEHMAN
One good man against another,
attorney would ““abandon’ his rack-
ets prosecution to enter government-
al affairs in which he has “no real
record of accomplishment.”
What everyone knows is that Tom
Deviey can have anything he wants
from the Republican party, even the
1940 presidential nomination, if he
wins. That is one reason Franklin
Roosevelt was willing to patch up
his quarrel with Governor Lekman,
who opposed the Supreme court en-
largement bill. It is also why New
York's campaign is attracting na-
tional attention.
of Fruits and Veg
etables; Tells the
no regular place in the daily di
et. But when scientists estab-
importance, because next to
milk and eggs, they are the chief
conveyors of minerals from the
soil to man.
With the discovery of vitamins
they achieved new distinction,
because in their content of these
vital substances, they rank with
milk and eggs as “protective”
foods.
Foods That Safeguard Health
In addition to providing nutri-
ents that are indispensable for
buoyant health and
normal growth,
they possess anoth-
er important vir-
tue: the indigesti-
ble cellulose or
bulk yielded by the
fibrous framework
of the leaves,
stems and fruits of
plants, has a natu-
ral laxative value
which helps to in-
sure normal elimi-
nation. And finally, they are ex-
tremely useful in helping to main-
tain the acid-base balance of the
body, for all vegetables and most
fruits yield an fol-
lowing digestion
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Green Vegetables for Iron
Fruits and vegetables supply
varying amounts of practically ev-
ery mineral element the body re-
quires.
They do not compare with milk
as a source of calcium, but sub-
stantial amounts of this bone-and-
tooth-building substance are to be
found in leaf and stem vegetables,
carrots, oranges, figs and straw-
berries. Moreover, investigations
have strated that calcium
from vegetables is well utilized by |
adults,
Green vegetables, in general,
are oulstanding as a source of
iron. And it has been further es-
tablished that their iron is betler
absorbed and becomes more com-
pletely available for nutrition than
iron from some other sources.
Some fruits are also valued for
their iron content, the more nota-
ble including oranges; tomatoes, !
which are botanically a fruit,
though they are classed as a vege-
table; strawberries, blackberries,
raspberries kieberries:
and dried figs, and prunes.
demon
and hu
dates
Vegetables for Vitamin A
We usually think of milk and
other dairy products as our most
important sources of vitamin A.
But recently, it has been deter-
mined that the thin green leaves
of vegetables are also outstanding
in this respect. Weight for weight,
when fresh, escarole is more than
five times as rich as butter. Young |
green peas and green string beans
are also a good source of this vita-
min as are tomatoes, carrots, and
sweet potatoes.
Sources of Vitamin C
Vitamin C, which is essential for
maintaining the health of teeth |
and gums and for preventing the
of muscle fibers
canned tomatoes and canned to-
mato juice; strawberries; raw
carrots, onions and yellow tur-
nips.
As this vitamin is easily de-
stroyed by heat in the presence
of oxygen, the amount present
in any fruit or vegetable is great-
ly reduced by the average home
cooking methods. On the other
hand, this and other vitamins, as
well as minerals, are usually well
retained in commercially canned
fruits and vegetables.
What About Canned Foods?
I frequently receive letters from
readers who question the merits
of canned foods. They ask wheth-
er it is true that canned foods are
devoid of vitamins; whether
canned foods are wholesome for
children; whether or not canned
foods may spoil on the grocer's
shelves; and if it is dangerous to
eat foods that have stood in the
can for a few minutes after Pbe-
ing opened.
To discount the value of modern
canned foods is to display a lack
of knowledge as to how these foods
are harvested, prepared and
packed. And the failure to use
them may result in depriving your
family of essential minerals and
vitamins.
There are available in cans to-
day, 46 varieties of vegetables, 33
kinds of fruit, and 10 different
juices, besides soups, numerous
a healthful and nutritious food in a
form that is often superior to the
same foods cooked at home. That
is partly because of the methods
employed and partly because
canned foods are processed at the
A Superlative Canned Food
An outstanding example is
canned salmon which has been
called by one of America's lead-
ing food experts, ‘‘the cl
and most nutritious
that can be had f
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salmon canneries have been estab-
lished in close proxir to the
waters from which salm are
taken, so that only a few hours
elapse between the time the fish
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are removed from the water and
the moment their rich nourish-
ment is sealed in cans.
Similarly the fruits and vege-
tables designed for canning are al-
lowed to mature on tree or vine.
This means that they develop
maximum flavor and vitamin con-
tent. Then they are picked, rushed
to nearby canneries and hermeti-
cally sealed in cans. The sealed
cans are then cooked at high heat
so as to destroy any bacteria
which might be present. Because
they are protected from the air
because the cooking liquors are
sealed in the cans, they retain a
maximum amount of minerals and
vitamins. It is because canned
foods are so definitely superior in
this respect that physicians en-
couraged the canning of strained
fruits and vegetables for infants
Fallacies Disproved
Canned foods will keep indefi-
nitely without spoilage, as I¢
urs 10 make
though
do so beca
more attra
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dish
Thus canned fruits and vegeta.
bles are not only “as good as”
fresh ones, but are often superior
in food values. Every homemaker
should see to it that she uses both
liberally in the diet of every mem-
ber of her family, as a means of
providing liberal amounts of min-
erals and vitamins.
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