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T \ \ THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, F RIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940 LaGUARDIA FOR PRESIDENT. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who combines a sense of humor with a sense of reality, is being urged by his friends to become a candidate for President. LaGuardia, however, always demurs. He says he is too busy running New York city. One of those who has mentioned the presidency to LaGuardia is none other than Franklin Roosevelt him self. “Fiorello,” said F. D. R. the last time the two men were together, “I’m for you, not only because I’m for you personally, but because you know so much about government.” “Isn’t that what he tells every one?” a friend asked LaGuardia aft erward. “Maybe,” shot back the Mayor, “but it sounds good anyway.” • • • MERR Y-GO-ROUND. Rex Tugwell, handsome former undersecretary of agriculture and brain-truster, is well under way on a his tory of the Presi dent’s public career. Tugwell has access to all of Roosevelt’s private papers and records . . . Pare Lorentz, brilliant di rector of the govern ment movies “The Plow That Broke the Plains” and “The River,” has launched a movement to turn the colorful Florida keys between Key Largo and Key West, once the lair of pirates and rum-runners, into a national park to save them from commercialization ... A key man in the Caribbean neutrality patrol, is Lieut. Commander Fort Callahan, navy radio ace, who as communications officer at the Key West base of operations handles all the messages of the force of under surface, surface and aerial craft that constitutes the patrol. • • • $350 HUNCH. If President Roosevelt doesn’t run for a third term, his secretary, Gen. Edwin (“Pa”) Watson, is going to be $350 out of pocket. Just before his boss left on his fishing cruise, Watson was doing his best to entertain a group of con gressmen and government officials who, because of a mixup in the ap pointment schedule, had been wait ing overtime to see Roosevelt. The conversation dragged through the weather, the war in Europe, and finally one of the callers shot at Watson: “General, you’re close to the Pres ident. Tell us, is he going to run for a third term?” "Well, it’s going to cost me $350 if he doesn’t,” beamed the genial Watson. “Just between us boys, I’ve bet a friend that amount that the President will be nominated and that he will accept.” You could have heard a pin drop as the group digested this choice bit of inside information. “Well, General, you sure must know something,” remarked the im pressed questioner. Watson hesitated, then grinned broadly and drawled, “Now boys, don’t get me all wrong. I haven’t any inside dope. I’m just operat ing on a hunch.” • • • FREE EATS. A very popular custom that has grown up on Capitol Hill in recf.-nt years is the distribution of “free eats” by members of congress in the form of products from their home distripts. These spreads always get a big hand. The variety is far-flung, rang ing from southern fruits and western vegetables to Michigan smelt. De lighted congressmen and senators pile in with gusto, carting home what they can’t eat. This session the free eating was inaugurated by Rep. J. Hardin Pe terson with a truck load of Florida tangerines. The next day Rep. George Johnson of West Virgiria treated with a big consignment of winesap apples. Next spreads eagerly awaited are Rep. John Kunkel’s Pennsylvania “bologna feast,” Rep. Fred Brad ley’s Michigan smelt dinner, and Sen. John G. Townsend's early strawberries from his Delaware , farms. Each of these occasions is a real treat. The press is invited and the boys aren’t bashful. Other gastronomic events on the calendar are early Georgia peaches from Rep. Paul Brown, pink grape fruit from Rep. Joe Hendricks of Florida and Rep. Milton West of Texas, and a repast of Wisconsin's famed cheese from the makers. • • • CAPITAL GO-ROUND As the transatlantic plane bearing Ambassador Bill Bullitt from France soared down over the Balti more airport, a news photographer asked Tony Muto, ace newsreel man, to point him out. “Don’t wor ry,” replied Muto. “You’ll spot him without any trouble. He’ll be the best-dressed man aboard.” Soon Bullitt came jauntily down the ramp attired in a snappy brown business suit, greenish tweed topcoat and < tan Horn burg hat. Rex Tugwell As Turkey’s Mechanized Army Preserves Neutrality Backed by one of the world’s most highly mechanized armies, mysterious Turkey holds the balance oi pcwer in the fight for domination of the Near East, now being waged by France and Britain on one sid« and Russia and Germany on the other. Although allied with France and Britain, Turkey’s motwrcycle troom and “big berthas” are aimed primarily to assure her neutrality. Old Glory Breaks Even in Massachusetts Schools The American flag made headline news in two Massachusetts schools recently. Left: Brothers Beech er, 16, and Hollis Green, 12, willingly salute the flag, but their sisters, Wanda, 14, and Geneva, 11, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, refuse the patriotic gesture. Other pupils in the Saugus school, also members of the religious sect, refused to salute the flag. School officials have instructed parents to explain their children’s re fusal. Right: Kathleen E. Ross, 12, Norwood, Mass., received permission from probate court to change her name to Betsy E. Ross, after the young Philadelphia woman who designed the first American flag. First Lady Sees First Jai Alai Match ‘A Very Good Boy’ Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she saw her first jai alai game in Miami, Fla., where she spent her vacation. Pictured with her are Dr. Frank Christian and Manager Richard Berenson, who is showing her a ball and cesta, the “basket” which the jai alai player ties to his hand and in which he scoops up the ball before returning it against the wall. The game is becoming more and more popular in this country. First place winner in a city-wide poll of New York teachers was this picture titled “A Very Good Boy.” Teachers acclaimed it as the best photograph ever to appear in the annual pictorial report of the super intendent of schools. Frankie Frisch Returns to Diamond Wars ‘Party’ Man Frankie Frisch, who has taken over the managerial reins of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is shown talking to pitchers (left to right) Butcher, Bauers and Herrell as they don their uniforms for an early-season workout during the spring training season at San Bernardino, Calif. Frisch was out of baseball last year, when he worked as a baseball broadcaster. Vice President John Garner drinks a toast (milk only) to Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, who cele brated his fifty-eighth birthday at a party in the senate dining room of the Capitol, Washington, D. C. GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON Jaar: L'aMFotu W WNUSarlB The Republicans’ lot is not a hope less one. They could win in the coming election, but they can’t do it with nothing and, as has so often been said, they can’t beat somebody with nobody. Their job is to recap ture some of the great groups the New Deal took away from them. The biggest of these is the farm population of the midwestern states, especially Ohio, Indiana, Illi nois, Iowa and possibly Ne braska. That is not as hard as it seems, both Ohio and Illi nois are dis tinctly doubtful now. But to make a Repub lican victory certain in those Chas * McNary states they must have two things—a definite farm program, and a can didate who can convince the farm ers that they really mean it. A winning farm program is rela tively easy—a direct and simple subsidy on domestic consumption financed by a processing tax and coupled with a minimum of regi mentation. * • • Yes, a processing tax is a sales tax. So in greater or less degree is every other tax. The bulk of federal revenue is from sales taxes—appar ent or hidden. Yes, consumers will kick, but what difference does it make to them whether they pay a higher price for farm products engineered by Mr. Wallace’s destructive and artificially created shortages of pro duction, gigantic stored surplus and lost export markets, or pay the same price part in cost or part in tax? I have written this argument several times and shall write it sev eral times more, because it is both right and important and it hasn’t yet been accepted. After trying and failing with every other farm scheme known to man, the fourth New Deal thinkers are probably aware that this is the only practical approach of the farm problem, but won’t advocate it open ly, not only because they did not devise it but have opposed it in favor of others which promised greater political regimentation and control. It therefore remains available as a winning Republican weapon in the corn, wheat and Bible belts, but those great open spaces have been fooled so often by Republican prom ises of “equality for agriculture” that the G. O. P. would need an automatic convincer to be sure of selling them. • • • Although it isn’t my business to be nominating Republican presiden tial candidates, I have offered the crown to several including Bruce Barton, Fiorello LaGuardia and Wendell Willkie—who used to be a Democrat—so maybe I can risk anointing another. For this particular strategy the Republicans have a ready-made candidate in Sen. Charlie McNary. For 12 years he led the farm fight for the McNary-Haugen bill, which would have worked for wheat at least at the time he proposed it— even though it wouldn’t work now. It didn’t win, but that fight made the election of Mr. Roosevelt pos sible, made the country conscious of the farm problem and the farmers conscious of Senator McNary. He wouldn’t need any selling to agriculture. They would know that whatever he proposed he would fight for with bulldog tenacity. Oth erwise, he is a veteran public ser vant, a charming personality and a good speaker. He is as presentable a candidate with other groups as any of the rest of the boys who think they hear the call. Senator Taft st .ck his neck out on this problem and so far revealed his lack of familiarity with it that even so halting a talker as Henry Wallace could and did make him look like an amateur. Mr. Dewey would have as much trouble convincing midwestern farmers that he knows what makes them tick as A1 Smith did. From this particular angle, at least, Senator McNary is a nat ural. • • • WHISKY TRADE ’CZAR’ If this writer doesn’t know some thing about fair trade practice codes, in all their forms and vari eties, it isn’t from lack of opportu- ! nity. The simplest, cleanest, fairest and best implemented effort of this sort that has come to my attention is the proposed code for the distilled spirits industry by the executive director of the distilled spirits in stitute—which is the trade associa tion of the hard liquor boys. So Dr. Sturges gets his beautiful magna carta all on paper and a committee of the institute seems to have approved it. But Seagram and Schenley, object ed or stalled. They were afraid that a code reciting or condemning abuses of the 10 per cent chiseling fringe would make the public think that they were prevalent in the in dustry. If that is good argument, we know from the Ten Command ments that everybody steals, mur ders and commits adultery. We should repeal our pencil code for fear some will think we are all crooks. Easter Bunny Stays As White as Snow By RUTH WYETH SPEARS S TUFFED toys of oil cloth or water-proof bath curtain mate rial are something mothers have been dreaming about. Just wipe them off with a damp cloth to keep them fresh and clean. The Easter bunny shown here is 11 inches long. He is white, hand- stitched in heavy pink thread and has pink bead or button eyes. Make your own pattern for him by following the diagram. Rule paper into 1-inch squares; num ber them; then draw the patten outlines. Cut two body pieces; four ear pieces and a 2-inch strip to be used between the two sides of the body. Interline the ears to make them stand up. 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