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TW RotwII P—tl—j, IUriw»il. a. C. Thursday. December 9. 1937 JV#ir< •/ CmrreMt Evamts VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM Michigan Sanafor'i Plan to Giva Honast Butinast a Chanca • • • Prasidant Talb Paaca with Utility Chiafs Representative 1. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), end Representative Marvin Jones of Teems, chslrmsn of the house sfrlcnltore committee, disc—s lay farm problems st s meeting of the committee to draft the new farm MIL ^J^bLu/rUtd IV* J&icJuucd. * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK • WMUra M«wapap«r Unlos. Vandanburg'i Program S ENATOR VANDENBERO of Michigan didn’t wait for the leaders of the Republican party to formulate a program on which to battle the Demo crats. He broke out with a ten-point pro gram designed to “give honest busi ness a chance to create stable pros perity.” His ten points were: 1. An end to gov ernmental “hymns of hate” and bitter Senator attacks on business Vend an berg men 2. Progress as rapidly as possible toward a balanced budget. 3. Amendment or repeal of the surplus and capital gains taxes and substitution of "incentive taxation” for “punitive taxation.” 4. Amendment of the social secur ity act to eliminate the “needless drain upon the resources of com merce and labor.” 0. Revision of the Wagner labor law to make for greater certainty in “long range industrial planning.” 6. Abandonment of the so-called wage-hour bill and substitution of legislation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by substandard labor. 7. Repeal of many of the Presi dent’s emergency powers in order to tree business from “executive despotism which is at war with ev ery tenet of the American system.” 8. Reasonable and practical farm relief, without bureaucratic controls, processing taxes, or price pegging, but with benefits for soil conserva tion practices, financing of export able surpluses, and return of the domestic market to the producer. 9. Foreign policies that will keep America out of war through pur suing “an insulating neutrality” rather than sanctions. 10. “Frank abandonment of all anti-constitutional activities and in trigues which shatter democratic faith.” Peace Talk with Utilities R estriction of the construc tion and expansion activities of the privately owned public utilities being recognized as an important factor in the current business re cession, President Roosevelt began a series of conferences with the heads of these concerns. He seemed to be in a conciliatory frame of mind and sought to lessen the utili ties* fear of the effect of govern ment policies, but without making any concessions. His first caller was Wendell Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern corpora tion, and next day he talked with Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hud son Power corporation. Though he appeared amiable, the President at the same time was sending to various congressional committees and federal agencies a report by the New York state power authority, whacking friends and agents of the private utilities for “propaganda” against public power development It presented figures to show the government could pro duce water power at a much lower cost than private utilities could pro duce power by steam plants. It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub mitted these points: That there is a general tear throughout the country of govern ment competition and interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassur ance from the administration. That money for private expan sion purposes and refinancing to ob tain lower interest rates, which in turn would be reflected in lower power rates, is bard to obtain. Hut the government had a right to sell power from its dams, but a basis for marketing it could be found without frightening the whole industry. That the prudent investment method of determining the rate base might well be used for determining values to be added hereafter and that it could be studied as a means of finding present value, that in any case no system of valuation does or should bring about the highly watered capitalization which the President condemned in a number of examples which he cited at a recent press conference. Chino-Japanese War JAPAN’S armies were slowed up by rain and mud in their ad vance up the Yangtse valley, but as there seemed no likelihood that the Chinese line of defense would hold, the Nationalist government moved out of Nanking, scattering its departments among a number of cities. American Ambassador John son and his staff moved to Hankow. The Japanese commanders in Shanghai took over full control of most of the city and its customs of fice. They demanded that the in ternational settlement and French concessions officials hand over the city’s four leading citizens as hos tages. Most prominent of these was T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Dic tator Chiang Kai-Shek. The Far East conference in Brus sels, unable to accomplish anything to end the Chino-Japanese conflict, was on the point of final adjourn, ment " After French Throne A LARM of the French govern ment over the plotting of the Cagoulards or “hooded ones” that led to the arrest of many rightists and the raiding of hidden stores of weapons and ammu nition was far from baseless. Evidently there was a real ||:| conspiracy to over throw the republic and set up a dicta torship and eventu ally a restored mon archy. The govera- _ „ . ment announced. Due de Guise however, that the plot had been wrecked. From his place of exile in Bel gium the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France, issued a manifesto announcing he had de cided to try to regain the throne. “Have the moral courage not to abdicate before present difficulties,” the manifesto appealed to French men. "Do not permit, in a moment of abandon, dictatorship of any kind to impose itself. “Certain of my ability to assure your happiness, I have decided to reconquer the throne of my fathers. France then again will reassume her mission in the world and again will find peace, unity and prosperity through a union of the people with a titular defender-king.” Windsor Wins Libel Suit T HE duke of Windsor won his libel suit against the author and publisher of the book “Coronation Comments,” and in a settlement out of court received a substan tial sum, said to be 850,000, from them, which money he gave to char ity. Lord Chief Justice Hewart commented that the libels “ap peared almost to invite a thorough and efficient horsewhipping.” Green Opposes Labor Billl W ILLIAM GREEN president of the A. F. of L., practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that It be sent back to committee for revision. Green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer is safe to permit a govern ment board of that kind to admin ister laws governing labor relations with employers. .Ik about pi .m mm- S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —Somebody said that there were always two big sporting events—the one Gra ham McNamee saw and the one that actually took place. But, alongside the present sports broadcasters, Graham’s wildest flight would sound like the dulcet twit ters of a timid love bird as compared with the last rav ings of John McCul lough. Coaches brag of the lowered percent age of serious foot ball accidents this falL But oh, think of the radio descrip- tionists who’ll wind Irvin S. Cobb up the season suf fering from nervous exhaustion, wrecked vocal chords, violent rush of loud words to the mouth, com plete collapse, even madness. You’ll be passing the rest cure sanitarium, and, as the windows burst outward, you’ll hear pouring forth something like this: “Oh boy, boy! with one tremen dous burst, Irish Goldberg is Jam ming bis way from the red back line right through the black inter ference! Nothing can stop him!” But don’t get worked up. What you hear is merely a convalescent microphone orator mentioning a checker game between two fellow- inmates and reverting to form. • • • Virtues in Snakes. S OMETHING I said recently about the folly of killing every snake on sight, without Investigating the snake’s character, brought a flock of letters from readers who don’t like snakes. Even a so-called venomous snake may have his better side. In Kan sas, in the old local option days, you could get a drink only on a doc tor’s prescription, excepting in case of dire emergency, such as a snake bite. So every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry. And the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stran ger was when he was all worn out from accommodating die regular local trade. And what though it was a snake that led Eve astray in the garden of Eden? He may have brought sin into the world, but wouldn’t we have missed a lot of spicy reading mat ter in newspapers if he hadn’t? Yep, I plead guilty U> thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group. I feel that way about old line Re publicans and mustache cups and red woolen pulse-warmers. • • • Political Predictions. W E TAKE the opportunity to an nounce that the Literary Di gest, or rather its Journalistic suc cessor, will not conduct a poll on next year’s congressional and state elections. The burnt child dreads the poll Let others go around taking straw votes, but, the way the Digest folks feel now-and, in fact, have felt ever since last November, they wouldn’t start a canvass to prove that two and two make four. Because, look here—what if it should turn out that two and two merely make soma more Marx brothers or a double set of Siamese twins? Anyhow, the business of basing cocksure predictions on half-cocked estimates doesn’t seem to be flour ishing these days. Figures don’t lie, but the citizens who furnish the figures may do so, either uninten tionally or just for the sake of a laugh. The rise of candid camerasa- tionalizing—say, we just thought up that word—proves that a photo graph of things as they are is mightier than a lot of loose sta tistics predicated on what the vot ers may or may not do—and prob ably won’t, when the time comes. • • • Forgotten Stars. O NCE interviewers clamored for a hearing and her face was on half the magazine covers and her name in letters of flaming light above all the marquees. Once im pressive tycoons catered to her tem peramental whims; press agents waited upon her, courtiers attend ing a queen. Autograph seekers besieged her then, while now only bill collectors desire her signature —and they’d like to have it on a <heck. Speak of her to the newer generation, and somebody will say, “Who? Spell it, please.” She is all through, all washed up. But, like the deaf husband whosl wife has slipped, will be the last person in town to hear the news. Having traveled a road which is sues mighty few round-trip tickets, she atill dreams of a come-back. She is the most tragic and the most pitiable figure—and one of the commonest—to be found in this place called Hollywood. She is any one of the host, men and women, who, ten years ago, or even five, were glittering stars in movieland. IRVIN 8. COBB. Oepgnlght.—WNU Service. Washington Digest a l/ i a e 5 t . National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART I rft’ L ' Washington.—"The best laid plans of mice and men” will go off at a tangent, it seems. Congress even when one po- U Balky litical party is nu merically in su preme control of the national gov ernment President Roosevelt called congress into extra session with very definite objectives outlined, and he repeated them-in his regular message on the state of the Union. He wanted crop control legislation for relief of agriculture and he wanted wages and hours controlled by federal statute for the relief of labor. But congress, or a part of it, has turned out to be a balky mule. It has one foot out of the traces already and the driver is having a lot of trouble to keep the animal hitched. The above is by way of saying that scores of Democratic members of the house and many senators with seats on the majority side have come back from a summer on the hustings quite convinced that it is not popular with the voters to be a rubber stamp. I do not mean by that statement that the President has lost control of his party machin ery, or that he can not crack the whip and get things done; I mean that instead of having a few recalci trants within his own party to deal with, he now has many, and mem bers of congress are about like coy otes — their courage increases as their number increases. It might be mentioned in passing that at least half a dozen Demo cratic members of the house have come back from home with plans to run for their party's nomination to the senate next year. The rea son given by those with whom I have talked is almost the same in each instance. The incumbent sen ator who is up for re-election has been too much of a New Dealer. “Our people are calling for some thing besides rubber stamps.” These potential senatorial candi dates have records showing opposi tion to the President in some vitally important New Deal policies while supporting him whole-heartedly in other phases of his program. No one can say how far this movement will get, but anyone who has observed congresses perform in other cases where the President was in his second term can not dis miss the circumstance as without significance. It is the usual prac tice for sitting members of the house and senate to stick close to the President, as party leader, in his first term—because they must seek re-election with his support But now many of them regard Pres ident Roosevelt as through and they are starting early to make their record look good to the voters whom they will canvass next year. These few paragraphs above must serve to introduce evidence of a much deeper fact In many impor tant places and among many power ful or influential men in congress one bears frequent references and observations to this effect: If Mr. Roosevelt is going to retain his .eon- trol of the party and carry through on the propositions which he will make from time to time, he must cast aside a part at least of his radical advisers and the schemes they concoct • • •' As I related, the President out lined his objectives for the special session. Two or Different three years ago. Now the l r would have been received by the representatives and senators with loud acclaim, with ballyhoo. But in the first few weeks of the ex tra session, there has been just as much condemnation as there has been approvaL Nor can we overlook another phase of the situation. Not only have many of the men at the. Capi tol declined to affirm the President’s propositions; they have gone in the other direction. They have offered programs of their own. They are prepared to battle for them. In pol itics, that sort of a thing often has proved fatal to the plans of the man who then occupied the White House. It may not turn out that way this time but there are many observers are sure the President is going to be forced into accepting some things he did not want or does not want just now. Take the question of taxes, for Instance. Rightly or wrongly, ffie President is being blamed for the current business depression and criticism of this sort is rolling up like a snowball going down hilL It is being said that two tax levies which were forced through congress are largely responsible. The tax on undivided profits of corporations and the capital gains tax are used as horrible examples of these unsound policies fostered by Mr. Roosevelt Well, the President is responsible to the extent that he approved of them. They were the product, how ever, of some of the dozen or so peek-a-boo artists to whom the President frequently has listened as advisors. I think it has been generally dem- onstrated that the two taxes in ques tion have been ruinous, especially to the small business. It is equally true, I believe, that business must be given some consideration if it ever is to get on a sound basis again and that it ought to share at tention of legislators with labor leaders even though business has fewer votes. In any event, the bur dens which the New Deal admittedly has placed on business are serving as the springboard for a part of the Democratic majority. They can properly fight for these things—and easily be too busy to push the Presi dent’s program through. So the President’s plans have gone astray. They may remain that way, or they may go even further, de pending upon how long the back ward slide of business continues. Of one thing, you may be sure. Partly through his own fault and partly through the fault of the type of ad visors with which he has surrounded himself, Mr. Roosevelt does not have the confidence of as many members of the legislative branch as he formerly held. It is a little early to attempt a re port on prospects for the regular session of con- Looking gress that con- Forward venes in January. Yet, since it is quite evident there will be nothing in the current extra session beyond crop control legislation—if even that —I believe we might look forward a bit. One of the things jiow evident is the position congress will take on relief for destitute and unemployed. I believe I see a battle coming in that direction. It has been apparent during the last two years that congress was dissatisfied with the relief system built up by Secretary Ickes and the professional reliever, Harry Hop kins, works progress administrator. The requirements, especially for the Hopkins machine, have been met with what has come to be called “blank check” appropriations. That is, congress has passed a bill ap propriating two billions or three bil lions or whatever was thought nec essary by Mr. Hopkins. It was just as simple as that Congress had no strings on the money, seldom was told a great deal of the details. It was money to feed and clothe the destitute. t Now, however, some obse^ers think they detect a change. They believe they see signs that congress will put an.end to the “blank check” method of handling relief. As far as anyone knows now, the President again will ask for afeuge sum to be distributed for relief through Mr. Hopkins—and that is when the bat tle lines will form. Congress, therefore, will be faced again with appropriation demands to provide food Money and clothing and for Relief likely the request for the funds will come from Mr. Roosevelt as here tofore—for a lump sum. If the number favoring the dole grows to any considerable extent, there may be a reversal of policy whether the President wants it that way or not You see, in an election year (and all house members and 30-odd sena tors face election canvasses again next year) it is nice to be able to say to the voters that they are re ceiving something at the hands of their representative or their sena tor. The candidates can justify a break with the President easily, and with business sliding backward as is the case now, there will be plenty of relief needed for unemployed again. The voters can be told that they are being given charge of these relief expenditures and that they no longer will have to watch Washing ton bureaucrats waste the taxpay ers money. On the horizon, there fore, it is possible to see the line of cleavage between the New Deal and the old line Democrats leading to elimination of the dangerous lump-sum appropriation and a res toration of relief ministration into the hands of local authorities. There is one further consideration in the general relief situation that attracts attention. I think it is rea sonable to assume that the far-flung relief machine which Mr. Hopkins has built up is permeated to the core with political appointments. It is only the usual political procedure and is not confied to the present national administration. Assuming, therefore, that there is such a politi cal machine, it is hardly open to question that it is a Roosevelt ma chine. The picture then becomes clear: since numerous members of the house and senate want to con trol their own political destinies, they want control of the organiza tions for relief in their own juris dictions. Further, if Mr. Roosevelt should want to seek a third term nomination, those Democrats who want to oppose him would be quite powerless if they had to sit idly by and witness Roosevelt delegates picked from their own stronghold • Western Newspaper Union. Improved I SUNDAY £££*-/1 SCHOOL LESSON By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. e Western Newapaper Union. Lesson for December 12 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP LESSON TEXT—I John. 1:1-7; Revels- , tion 21:1-7. . . . . GOLDEN TEXT—Our fellowship Is with the Father, and with hi* Son Jesus Christ —I John 1:3. i PRIMARY TOPIC—The Heavenly Home. \ _ JUNIOR TOPIC—God’s Great Family. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Comradeship with Christ. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—Daily Fellowship with Christ and Christians. ti "Geopotras Fan Quilt Is the Qioice Cleopatra herself once used palm-leaf fans asV graceful as these that adorn this striking quilt. You need but three mate rials to bring out the contrast of this rich design—one that will beautify any room. Know the grand thrill of piecing these sim ple 9% inch blocks for quilt or pillow. Pattern 1579 contains com plete, simple instructions for cut- Fellowship—the word is rich In meaning, even as it concerns the ordinary relationships of life. It speaks of the association of man with man in a common enterprise, a sharing of problems and of vic tories—a partnership. Such rela tionships are very real and helpful. They lead to friendships which bind the hearts of men together in noble purpose and in tender consideration. It is, however, a long step for ward when we add the prefix "Chris tian” to “fellowship.” For by so do ing we not only bring men into the most glorious partnership with each other but we do two other very im portant things: (1) we limit those eligible to this fellowship to those who are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and (2) we broaden the fel lowship beyond the association of men with each other, and bring them into the circle with Christ. What a high and noble fellowship! Do you belong? Christ says, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in he shall be saved” (John 10:9) Our Scripture selections for today are from two books of the Bible. Both speak of an eternal Christian fellowship but the first stresses its present expression in a life of holi ness and the other its future of blessed communion. I. Christian Fellowship—Now (I John 1:1-7), The First Epistle of John presents fellowship with God as depending on three things “which form in their combination a very beautiful picture of truth . . . God is light (1:5), hence fellowship with God depends on our walking in the light. God is righteous (2:29), hence fellowship with God depends on our doing righteousness. God is ieve <4:7, 8), hence fellowship with God depends on our possessing and manifesting love” (James M. Gray). Every clause and phrase of the passage before us is so full of spiritual truth that it should have our full time but we must limit our selves to pointing out one outstand ing fact; namely, that Christian fel lowship is made possible because we have a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. He it is who reveals the Father—the One in whom there is “no darkness at all” (v. 5). If we follow him we must “walk in the light as he is in the light” (v. 7). This allows for no dark corners, no crookedness in word or act, no back biting nor evilspeaking. Let us open the hidden recesses of the heart to the light of God and put every evil thing under the “blood of Jesus Christ which cleanseth us from all sin” (v. 7). II. Christian Fellowship—for Eter nity (Rev. 21:1-7). Our present communion with God and with one another is most pre cious—but how often it is marred by sin and disturbed by the wicked ness that surrounds us in the world. We look forward to that day when we who are the followers of Christ shall be delivered not only from the penalty find the power of sin, but also from its very presence. While we have no pleasure in the destruction of the sinner and would plead with him to turn to Christ, we are assured by Scripture that a time will come when every one wh® has rebelled against God will have been judged and taken away to fol low their leader Satan in eternal punishment for sin. There will be "a new heaven and a new earth” from which every evil thing has been taken away, in which all has been renewed in righteousness. Then will come the glorious consummation of all thmgs when God shall come to “dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God” (v. 3). That communion shall never be disturbed by the falling of any tear. There will be no mourning, no crying, no pain (v. 4). Little won der that these words have been the comfort of God’s people in their darkest hours. They are not tha futile words of human solace. They come from the eternal God. Three questions have intrigued the curiosity of man: (1) Where did I come from? (2) why am I here? and (3) where am I going? The Christian is the only one who has a satisfying solution for the problem of the origin of all things, “In the beginning God”; a reason for the existence of all thing, “To me to live is Christ”; and a satisfactory con summation of all things, “And God himself shall be with them.” It is a great thing to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. Pattern 1579. ting, sewing and finishing, togeth er with yardage chart, diagram of quilt to help arrange the blocks for single and double bed size, and a diagram of block which serves as a guide for placing the patches and suggests contrast ing materials. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Increased Use of Soap Between 1919 and 1929 adver tising increased the per capita soap consumption in the United [States 50 per cent. The per capita consumption in the United States is 24 pounds a year, and in Europe it is 4 pounds. 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