HALL, PA. BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE CONGRESS: Spend, Tax, Save Excess spending was the com- plaint of U. S. Chamber of Com- merce members at their annual con- vention. This has also been con- gress’ complaint against President Roosevelt. A few days after the Chamber adjourned, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins returned from a Potomac cruise with the President to radiate optimism, pooh- pooh the Chamber's complaints and plump for another year's spending as ‘‘essential.”’ Almost as he spoke the senate passed a record agriculture appro- priations bill which totaled $1,218,- 000,000 (compared with the Presi- dent's budget estimate of $842,126,- 051). Restored were $225,000,000 in parity payments te growers of wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice, earlier shelved by the house. Added was a $113,000,000 item for disposal of surplus commodities, and an extra $25,000,000 to the original 24,984,000 estimate for a farm ten- ancy program. If the senate thought Mr. Hop- kins’ spending plea meant a green light from the White House, it soon learned otherwise. At his press con- ference the President rebuked con- gress for breaking its promise to levy new taxes to meet out-of-pocket costs. Recalled was last session's $212,000,000 farm parity appropria- vided. Chimed in Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau: ‘The bill . . disturbs me greatly. I think that if they are going to add . to the present deficit, it should be up to congress to meet the in- crease . . It's about time we be- gan tapering off.” Probable upshot is that the farm appropriations squabble will force consideration this session of two is- sues treated superficially thus far, namely, economy and tax revision. Said Georgia's Sen. Richard B. Rus- sell, floor leader for the farm bill: “I am strongly opposed to singling out the farm program as the only one which must be reduced, or for which we must levy new taxes . . . I am willing to economize, but not solely at the expense of the farm- er.” Since the President opposes new levies on small taxpayers, tax re- vision (probably the price congress SECRETARY MORGENTHAU “It's about time ...” must pay for its huge farm bill) would likely mean a mere shakeup of upper bracket taxes to secure more revenue. If the farm bill is any sample of congressional economizing, this cause will also go unsung until an- other year. Already having appro- priated record-breaking army funds under the new defense program, the house coughed up $773,414,214 for the navy, $17,015,212 more than the President asked. Meanwhile a house committee investigating WPA heard Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly, New York's Fiorella H. LaGuardia and other municipal chiefs testify that congress must not curtail relief spending this year lest city folks go hungry. EUROPE: Peace? History may relate that Edward, duke of Windsor, helped avert a Eu- ropean war in 1859 when he spoke from Verdun’s battlefield ‘simply as a soldier of the last war” to ask that national leaders ‘‘renew their efforts to bring about a peaceful set- tlement.” Windsor's speech gave voice to a whisper already in the wind; within 24 hours the dove could raise its head without risking de- capitation: Poland. To stop Germany from seizing Danzig and part of the Polish corridor, Poland needs Russian help, Britain's effort to line up the Soviet were blocked by (1) Prime Minister Chamberlain's wariness, and (2) Polish hesitancy over letting Rus- sian troops cross her soil. Stopping at Warsaw en route home from Turkey, Bulgaria and Rumania, Russia's Vliadimar P. Po- temkin, first assistant foreign com- missar, had a two-hour conference with Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck. Upshot was a lessening of Polish suspicion. Next day the So- viet proposed a four-power (Russia, France, Poland and Britain) mutual assistence pact to safeguard Euro- pean peace. Reason: Hitler's de- nunciation of pacts with Poland and Britain have made a new ‘peace front" imperative. Vatican, Pope Pius XII, himself a one-time ace diplomat, had his papal nuncios to Britain, Poland, France, Italy and Germany invite VLADIMAR POTEMKIN Poland grew less suspicious. those nations to a conference over the Polish-German question. Though Munich appeasement and (2) anti-God Russia was not invited to participate in a discus- possible ray of hope: Hitler and Mussolini rejected it because they believed the European situation not sufficiently serious to endanger peace. The Vatican thought this might mean Hitler does not intend to precipitate trouble right now. Scandinavia. Foreign ministers of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden apparently rejected prof- fered non-aggression treaties with Germany. Such pacts are still pos- sible, but by their reluctance Scan- dinavian states remain a bulwark of neutrality which obviously wants no truck with Der Fuehrer. Japan. Often reiterated the past month has been Japan's reluctance to turn its anti-Communist pact with Germany and Italy into a military alliance. Reason: Japan wants no war with democracies, which would inevitably result if a new Russ-Brit- ish-French-Polish entente were to fight Hitler, PEOPLE: Charlie Again One summer day in 1874 curly- headed four-year-old Charles Ross and his brother were taken for a ride by two men who promised them Fourth of July fireworks. Charlie's brother was found a few days later but Charlie himself was never found despite 23 ransom letters demand- ing $20,000 for his release. The best clue was lost when two burglars were shot five months later on Long Island. One, Joseph Douglas, gasped before he died that his dead part- ner had helped him steal Charlie Ross, Since then hundreds of abandoned children have been identified as Charlie Ross, but this spring a new candidate arose in Gustav Blair, 65- year-old carpenter at Phoenix, Ariz, Blair claimed his traits and appear- ance resembled Charlie Ross. Lin- coln C. Miller, whose family reared Blair, testified his (Miller's) father had told him Blair was a kidnaped child, that he had guarded the four- year-old child in a cave. After deliberating eight minutes, a Superior court jury at Phoenix de- cided on the basis of this testimony that Charlie Ross had been “found.” At 65, the horny handed carpenter looked to radio and film contracts. FORECAST —By Democratic Statistician Emil Hurja, that on basis of cur- rent standing Vice President Gar- ner and New York's Tom Dewey will win Democratic and Republi can presidential nominations next year, provided President Roose- veit seeks no third term. Mean. while, a Gallup poll gave Dewey 54 per cent of all Republican votes, ~By Washington gossip, appoint. ment of Francis B. Sayre, assist- ant secretary of state, as Philip. pine high commissioner to suc- ceed Paul V. McNutt, Democratic presidential aspirant, ~Also by Washington gossi mid-summer resignation oF Rich. ard C. Patterson, assistant sec- retary of commerce, to enter ei ther utility field or motion pic- ture industry, POLITICS: GOP Liberalism Though U. 8. political power swings pendulum-like from conserv- atism to liberalism and back again, there is a long-run trend to liberal- ism. New Deal liberalism will prob- ably be followed by Republican con- servatism, but no alert Republican believes his party can win by junk- ing all New Deal reforms and going back to the theories of Coolidge and Hoover days. A good sample of progressive G. O. P. thinking is that of Minnesota's youthful Gov. Harold Stassen who, according to Dr, Glenn Frank of the party's program committee, be- lieves something like this: Republicans should accept much of the New Deal's social legislation, first auditing the New Deal's results and soliciting constructive state- ments regarding G. O. P. philoso- phy on political and economic prob- lems. Though believing farmers “are ready to repudiate the New Deal,” Mr, Stassen warns that the party cannot favor any individual clique like farm, business or labor groups. Stassen on the 1940 convention: “It is very important that delegates represent genuinely and honestly the sentiment of their states. They should not just be a delegation picked by political bosses. Among them should be some youngsters, some real farmers, real workers,” WHITE HOUSE: Plan No. 2 Legalized by the newly passed governmental reorganization bill, President Roosevelt's No. 1 federal shakeup (effective June 24) created new agencies for public works, lend- ing and welfare. Plan No. 2 fol- lowed quickly, a roundup of long- misplaced bureaus whose abolition or consolidation the President be- lieves will save $1,250,000 yearly. Its most significant feature: Abo- gency council and transfer of its major functions to the President. An immense elaboration of ex-Presi- dent Hoover's famed *‘secretariat.’” NEC has been and will remain a ears- device whereby the finger on the public pulse. Its 38 state Its director, Lowell Mellett, will probably be named one of six presidential assistants with a ‘“pas- sion for anonymity.” Other changes (with former affili- ations parenthesized): To COMMERCE: Inland waterways commission (War); to AGRICULTURE Rural electrification administration (in dependent): to JUSTICE: Federal Pris on Industries, Inc., and national training school for boys (independent): to NA- TIONAL ARCHIVES: Codification board (independent, to be abolished) To INTERIOR: Coal commission (in dependent, to be abolished); bureau of Insular affairs (War): bureau of fisheries (Commerce); biological survey (Agricul: ture), and Mt Rushmore memorial com mission (independent, to be placed in In: terior’'s park service). To STATE: Foreign commerce serv: ice (Commerce): foreign agricultural service (Agriculture), and foreign serv. ice buildings commission (independent) To TREASURY: Bureau of lighthouses (Commerce, to be placed under Treas. Ury's coast guard); director genera! of railroads and War Finance corporation {independent, both to be dissolved) Expected soon is Plan No. 3, probably shifting jurisdiction over deportable aliens from labor to jus- tice departments, and ironing out jurisdictional overlapping concern- ing public lands. ASIA: Up the River Twenty-two months ago China's capital was Nanking. Japanese ag- gression pushed it westward up the Yangtze to Hanksw, next backward into Szechwan province and the an- cient walled city of Chungking. Play- ing a retreating game, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek knows that the deeper he can draw Japan into his bailiwick, the easier will China's resistance be. CHINA AND HER CAPITALS Japan is prepared to follow. expect what happened next. population) swarmed 1,500,000 refu- gees, in itself a grave problem. Then one day 45 Japanese war planes swarmed over Chungking, dropping incendiary bombs and demolitioners, more than 100 in all smoke cleared China could count 5,000 casualties, a ruined capital and "temporarily blasted morale. Ger. many and Britain found their em bassies destroyed. For all concerned it seemed best to move the capital on-wheels again, this time 150 miles northeast into Chengtu, whose nor- mal half million population will au- tomatically double overnight. Peace-loving Chengtu might well regard this official invasion as a death sentence. General Chiang bably hopes an off-the-river cap. tal may break his bad luck jinx, but Tokyo thinks otherwise. Despite 8 bombing was purely terroristic snd without a definite military objective, Nippon's warriors announced their death planes were prepared to fol low China's capital wherever it may roam. ASHINGTON.—There seems to be no doubt that the political Politicians forecasters, alike, national conventions and presiden- tions, is evident now to a greater extent than has been recorded in It is to be recognized, of course, effort in advance of the 1040 elec- ALFRED M. LANDON Will not have as much voice In making the Democratic choice. So, we approach the things that are to be considered and dealt with as campaign questions next year— as seen from this distance. Is New Deal On the Wane? I believe it can safely be said as a fact recognized by most able po- litical students that the 1038 elec- tions, with the attendant increase in Republican strength in the house and senate, together with the evi- the country, that there is a wide- New Deal philosophy of government. How far it has gone, or how far it may yet go; how much the personal popularity of President Roosevelt has waned, or how much it may yet fluctuate, and how vigorously Mr. Roosevelt is opposed within his own party are factors yet to be evalu- ated. But that evaluation has be- gun; hence, the activity within the Democratic ranks. The fact that there is a trend away from the New Deal philosophy -not all of those policies, but a very great inany of them-—is the fac- tor that is causing Democrats, New Dealers as well as anti-administra- tionists, to scramble around. There is more "under cover’' maneuvering advance during any of the last sev- The faction of the Democratic party that may Harrison of Mississippi, and Sena- Within the Republican ranks there are undoubtedly more of those wait- ing to see which way the cat will jump than there are among the they can attack anything and every- has done. They do not need to de- fend anything, which is the handi- cap that burdens each faction of the Democrats to a greater or less ex- tent. Moreover, the Republicans are not burdened with the will of any one man to which they must give con. sideration. That is to say, neither former President Hoover nor Gov, Alf Landon, the nominees in 1932 and 19368, respectively, will or can have as much voice in selection of the next candidate as Mr. Roosevelt ordinarily would have in making the Democratic choice. This condi- Presiqent, M ular by the rank and file of the party or by Republican wheelhorses as hav- ing any greater rights than others. And by the same token, the Roose« velt leadership complicates the Democratic picture. Since he has stated with great frequency and with an emphasis that cannot be denied that “there is no turning back,” he can be regarded as determined to insist upon selection of a Democrat- ic candidate—either himself or someone else—next year who will push the New Deal forward. And that position, boys and girls, is what As a matter of cold fact, it appears from all of the information available to tion on this point is really the fun- damental basis for the current can- Again, none can fore- the 1824 This bitter It should not be overlooked, how- It extends down to the grass roots because of individual thinking that has been taking place. This condition results through lack of a federal political machine. Dozens of small machines have been wag- own tails for so long that they now are demanding rec- ognition from the brass hats at the top. Further, since there is a growing belief that the Republican presiden- tial nomination in 1940 is “worth something’'—that is, that the Repub- licans have a chance after eight years of political drouth—there is an extraordinary crop of favorite sons coming forward. Concerning the prospective cam. paign, itself, there again is that un certainty about Mr. Roosevelt's per- sonal popularity, about the prestige he has or will be able to lend to the mantle bearer of the Democratic party. There is likewise the ques- tion as to how much of the New Deal ought to be discarded and how much ought to be kept, and it is not There is, everywhere are getting disgusted with too much government. 1 do not mean to infer that they are unan- imous. 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