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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. Join aU
raw edges, as shown, leaving an
opening in the body for stuffing
tightly with cotton or bits of soft
cloth; then finish sewing.
• • •
NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ Sewing
Book No. 2 contains numerous gift
and bazaar items, including n
doll’s wardrobe; men’s ties;
purses; baby’s bassinet; 32 pages
in all.
Send your order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPBARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New York
Enclose 10 cents for one book, or 40
cents for books 1, 2, 3 and 4 and set
of quilt block patterns.
Name
Address
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