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The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill. Oregon W E E K L Y NEW S AN ALYSIS B Y JOSEPH W. I m IIIN E Scandinavia Works Vi ith Nazis To End Russo-Finnish Conflict; Feel Allies Aren’t Dependable I EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinion» »re expressed In these colum ns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) _________________________ Released by W estern N ew sp aper Union war. Still a third report: That he sought Italian co-operation to form an economic bloc of all eastern Eu Northern Front. Soviet troops cap rope, eventually including Russia tured the entire northe’ n tip of Fin and the Baltics. land, placing the Arctic sea outlet in Soviet hands. Finns still held DOMESTIC: Viipuri, western anchor of the Man Farmers' Congress nerheim lines, repulsing furious Sov “I t is more than ever important to hate iet attacks. Civilian bombings con a government . . . that can act to protect the interests of our farmers as well as tinued Western Front. Reconnaissance our business men when foreign trade conditions are upset.** flights and patrol clashes. Thus did Franklin Roosevelt ad Finnish Finish? dress 500.000 farmers in 24 states Off to Berlin one day went 79- assembled at 50 and 75-cent dinners year-old Per Evind Svinhufvud, for to celebrate AAA's seventh anni mer president of Finland. He made versary. For the President and the a brief flurry in the news, obviously farmer, things were looking up. A a peace envoy. Then he disap few hours before Mr. Roosevelt peared, but Per Svinhufvud had spoke, the senate finance commit tee approved a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, al ready okayed by the house. Chair man Pat Harrison of that commit tee was pretty sure the measure would pass. Meanwhile another senate com mittee was even out-doing the Presi dent to help farmers. An appropri ations sub-committee upped the house-approved $749,561,000 agricul tural appropriations bill to $958,000,- 000 (the President had recommend ed only $788,929,519). Chief boost was a $212,000,000 fund for parity payments. • In addition, the subcom mittee directed that RFC should lend $100,000,000 additional to farm agencies (thus avoiding new appro priations) and that $60,000,000 of benefit payments be shifted to this year’s funds from next year. This brought the total to more than a PER SVINHUFVUD billion dollars. . . . started something in Berlin. Gloom fell over the house, which done his work well. Within 24 hours had previously clipped some $300,- Moscow had invited Finnish Pre 000,000 from budget estimates on 10 mier Risto Ryti and three aides to different appropriations in the hope visit the Kremlin and talk peace. of saving enough to prevent new That Germany’s hand was behind taxes or a boost in the national all this none doubted, for Naziland debt When the senate appropria would like to have Russia at peace, tions committee okayed its sub thereby making Soviet war mate committee’s action, and when sen rials available to the Reich. ate leaders expressed certainty that Up north, Scandinavia cheered; the big farm bill would pass, the a Russo-Finnish peace would relieve gloom became thicker. One salva the terrific pressure Sweden and tion might be to make big cuts in Norway have felt from France and relief and defense appropriations. Britain on the one side, and Rus Another, which President Roosevelt sia and Germany on the other. The reportedly discussed with congres allies had sent Finland only a smat sional leaders, was a revival of the tering of help, leaving friendly new tax program. Also in congress: Scandinavia exposed should Russia Hatch Bill. Not sidetracked for win. But if Scandinavia worked for peace via the dictator nations, the farm bill, as everyone expected, an early and safe peace might be amendments to the Hatch “clean politics” act were pushed through arranged. After several days a truce was re the senate. Aim: Curb political ac ported near, leaving frontiers sub tivity of 500,000 state employees. Wagner Act. Chairman Mary Nor stantially where they have been pushed by fighting thus far. But ton (Dem., N. J.) of the house la there was still a good chance that bor committee charged that 21 it would bog down. EUROPE: The Wars British Gesture O ft to Rome went Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to capitalize on an Italian peeve. Several days earlier Britain had clamped a blockade on Italian coal imports from Germany, hailing 16 of II Duce’s freighters into port. Angered, Rome dispatched threat ening notes. Obviously von Ribbentrop hoped to win Italian sympathy against Britain, but the Englishmen acted too fast. Without warning, London suddenly released all 16 Italian freighters and won an Italian prom ise to ship no more German coal by sea. Herr von Ribbentrop, the wind taken out of his sails, eased back home after visits with Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel and—unex pectedly—Pope Pius XII. Observ ers guessed that von Ribbentrop heard plenty from both Mussolini and Pope Pius about alleged Ger man atrocities in Poland. They also guessed, but could not be certain, that he had urged Mussolini’s medi ation to help end the Russo-Finnish NAM ES in the news HAROLD L. ICKES, secretary of he interior, and enthusiastic third- ermite, sounded off in Look maga- ine on G. O. P. Hopeful Tom Dew- y. Said Ickes: Dewey is a “clamor ioy;” he is “photogenic, radiogenic nd a dude . . . ” F. LYNDEN SMITH, Illinois pub ic works director and ousted state Jemocratic fund collector who was ‘banished” for criticizing Gov. Hen- y Horner, suicided at a Springfield, 11., hospital. FATHER DIVINE, Negro spiritu- ilist, was ordered by New York iupreme court to repay a follower 3,937 which she had placed in his are. DOROTHY LAMOUR, movie song- tress, lost her tonsils. ADOLF HITLER, speaking at Ger- nany’s “memorial day,” pledged ‘Victory or my life.” JOHN D. M. HAMILTON, national J. O. P. chairman, announced his >arty will issue no 1940 convention look (for which industrialists are isked to contribute) and asked the Jemocrats to do likewise. WELLES AND LEBRUN 4 baptism of fire. amendments to the Wagner act, as proposed by a special house com mittee, would practically repeal the law.” It was a good bet that the house would kill all the amend ments. Welles Junket Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles continued marching through the chancellories of Europe in an attempt to dig out “the present phase of the European situation." Neither he nor anyone else could really dig it out, because the Euro pean situation was more perplex ing than anything the world has seen in 20 years I see EUR O PE). Arriving in Paris after visits at Rome and Berlin, Mr. Welles lunched and dined with President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Daladier and many a lesser states man, receiving his baptism of fire when anti-aircraft batteries sounded off against a Nazi reconnaissance plane. He heard the same old terms: (1) No peace so long as Hitlerism reigns in Germany; (2) liberation of Poland and Czechoslo vakia; (3) “ guarantees for the se curity of peoples and the integrity . . . of all nations.” Next stop was London, where he was closeted with Foreign Minister Viscount Halifax. Expecting to dis cover nothing there, Mr. Welles nevertheless had important busi ness: (1) to caution British leaders that war measures such as inter ference with U. S. mails and ship ping were having an adverse effect on U. S. sympathy for the allies; (2) to buy six suits of clothes from a Hanover street tailor. In view of the utter confusion in which diplo macy found itself overnight, observ ers guessed Mr. Welles would have to visit Paris and Rome again. TREND POLAND—Forty thousand Ger man artisans have been sent Io conquered Poland to take over small businesses und "purify" li braries, according to authentic reports. AVIATION—It was revealed in Washington that the war depart ment will soon release for Anglo- French purchase one of its new est and fastest fighting ships, the Curtiss P-40. Meanwhile an al lied purchasing ministry an nounced it was ready to order a billion dollars' worth of U. S. air craft. DEFENSE—Removed from the list of 17 “strategic" materials essential for U. S. defense were aluminum (because the U. S. alu minum industry has conserved its Arkansas bauxite); optical glass (because U. S. optical glass is now as good as the world's best) and wool (because substitutes and supplies are being found here). MARINE: Contraption For several months German air planes and U-boats have sprinkled the sea with dangerous magnetic mines. When a ship approaches, its steel hull attracts the mine, which explodes. In early March, when Britain's stupendous, 85,000- ton, $28,750,000 Q u e e n E lis a b e t h reached New York on her secret maiden voyage, she wore a girdle of 10 to 12 heavily-insulated cables strung on metal fixtures riveted into the plates. Elizabeth’s crew was tight-lipped, but naval experts were pretty sure her girdle was an effective anti mine device which may make Brit- Thursday. March 21. 1940 GENERAL Cheery Scrap Quilt, ‘Friendship Garden* HUGH S. JO H N S O N V ’ Jour: IMM4 Pw-Ma »NV S m . m WHAT FARMERS NEED. Tom Dewey’s farm speech was lifted largely from Glenn Frank’s background for a Republican plat form. Both were temperately, beau tifully written. In their critical aspects both were masterpieces of understatement. The net result of all that Mr. Wal lace has done for agriculture is ab solutely zero—which is considerably less than 32 degrees below freezing. So Mr. Dewey and Mr. Frank made a fairly spectacular und unanswer able case on that point. All authorities agree that the prob lem is largely surplus production. Mr. Wallace started out to reduce the surplus. He has not decreased it. He hus greatly increased it and his and other administration poli cies have vastly decreased the pos sibility of consuming it. In doing what he has done, Mr. Wallace has spent billions. I hate to criticize him, because he knows more about farming than anybody who attempts to discuss the subject. He is as sin cere and intellectually honest a man as there is in this administration. I am so convinced of this that, if I WASHINGTON.—Senator Vanden berg privately is very uneasy over the unfuvoruble effect upon his pres idential eumpaign of his clamor for aggressive action ugainst Jupun. He is so concerned thut he sum moned his regional manugers to Washington for a secret pow-wow. Their advice wus thut he should soft- pedul the issue for two reasons: (1) The inconsistency, to the pub lic, of his denouncing Roosevelt's re peal of the arms embargo as a war move, and at the same time de manding a war-like policy toward Japan; and (2) compluints by G. O. P. leaders that Vandenberg played into the hands of the Dempcrats by diverting public attention away from domestic affairs and focusing it on international problems. Republican strategists have point ed out that the one thing the Demo crats wunt is to wage the campaign on the administration's international policies, und a G. O. 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TOM DEWEY GLENN FRANK Discouraging Io Romeos. licked from the start because the , O ld Confucius, he party is split on these questions. “B eautiful" but Many prominent Republicans und r: “bohre.“ big contributors have publicly sup were a Democrat President, on the ported New Deal foreign meusures. theory of the best brains and ex The managers ulso reported that perience for the job, Mr. Wallace in the coastal states, where Vanden would be my candidate for the job berg is weakest, there is much pub he now holds. But I wouldn’t let lic opposition to his “let’s go get him have his way and I would tact- i 'em” stand on the Japanese. No fully suggest that we find other final conclusion was reached at the places for many of his associates or conference, but it is significant that advisers — possibly poking smoke since then Vandenberg has been si through holes in doughnuts. lent about Far Eastern affairs. • • e Note—The consensus of opinion nt Both Glenn Frank and Tom Dew- i the meeting was in favor of enter ey disclosed that they don't know ing Vandenberg in more state pri ELIZABETH AND GIRDLE anything about the farm problem, i maries in opposition to Dewey. Most Her crew was tight-lipped. After careful study of their offer- I ain’s shipping invulnerable to the ings, I am inclined to believe that of the managers reported that the latest Nazi weapon. One opinion: they don’t even suspect anything New Yorker, despite his lead in pop That the girdle sets up a field that about it. What they have given out ular polls, wus losing ground with neutralizes the magnetic mechanism could have been said by Herbert local G. O. P. leaders and news of the mine. Another: That the ca Hoover and much of it was said by paper men, with whom he had a bles form a loop antennae for trans him in 1932 and earlier—with dis- I number of personal clashes during mission of powerful radio beams astrous results. They suggest to the his recent Western sorties. • • • sufficient to explode mines. farmer that he ought to return to the SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN fostering care that the Republicans MEXICO: One of the most effective speak gave him in the seven years before 1933. They might have added “since ers in the house is Rep. Wirt Court Oil Settlement ney, Tennessee war veteran, who In March, 1938, Mexico incurred the Civil war.” If they knew the won his seat only last fall in a workings of farmers’ minds, they the ill will of many a government special election. Three weeks later by expropriating the oil properties would know that their stuff is like he startled the chamber by making held by 17 U. S., British and Nether cheese offered a mouse imprisoned the best speech of the neutrality lands companies. Since then the in a cheese baited trap. That mouse debate. companies themselves and their didn’t want any more cheese. During his whirlwind election governments have tried in vain to The burden of both their songs is i campaign Courtney amply demon that all that is needed to help the reach a settlement. Mid-March strated his gifts as a silver-tongued brought first indication that Mexico, farmer is to help industry, and that orator. His opponent was Mrs. whose oil has been unwelcome on what he needs most is a high tariff. Clarence Turner, widow of his pred the world market, was ready to We have got to help industry—or go ecessor. come to terms. From Mexico City the way of Hitler and Mussolini. But It was a tough spot for a Southern came reports of a settlement with tariffs do not and can not protect gentleman. To get elected Court the Sinclair Oil company, whereby the farmer on his surplus crops. ney had to challenge Mrs. Turner’s Mexico would pay for expropriated They are a subsidy paid to industry qualifications for the office. At the property with 9,000,000 barrels of oil by an impoverished agriculture same time, he couldn’t assail a (market value is about $7,000,000). which simply cannot and will not This was the way he met With the impasse broken, 16 other stand it any more without counter woman. the problem: unhappy companies also hoped a vailing subsidy.• • • “Ladies and gentlemen: I And settlement was near. Why a man who is considered at myself in a very embarrassing po INTERNATIONAL: all solely because he is a New York sition running against this beauti Bloodshed and violence, which made gang-busting district attorney, has ful and gracious lady. My family headlines in Europe, also made news else to try to sell himself in Nebraska came from Virginia; my father where : as a hired farmhand is beyond me. served under Lee; but, friends, have Both Confucius and regular farm you been in congress when it was Argentina in session? Alleged vote frauds in Buenos ers say: “bohee!” “Sometimes there is bedlam What farmers need is free and un Aires province caused President Ro there. Sometimes the lie is passed restricted production and sale of berto Ortiz to supplant Gov. Manuel and sometimes fists fly. Imagine, Fresco by a federal administrator. their products and an outright sub my friends, if you can, placing in When the ousted National Demo sidy to bring their prices for what such a situation this beautiful and cratic party threatened to recoup we consume in this country up to gracious lady whose heart is in the its position with force, President Or absolute “ parity.” I have no brief skies with one who has gone beyond tiz declared martial law. Tear gas in logic for the “ parity” formula the last horizon.” was used to disperse a crowd out although I invented it in 1921 for The voters’ imaginations broke side the provincial capitol at La sheer lack of anything better. But down, for Courtney won with a two- Plata. After several days’ experi if the whole country accepts the to-one majority. ence indicated the government had justice and fairness of it—as seems « « • a strangle hold, the ousted govern to be the case, why should there NO GUN-RUNNER. ment apparently decided to abandon be so much obfuscating conversa The protocol office of the state de tion and so little direct and forth partment force in favor of political action. ran into a novel war-born right promise or action? problem the other day when David e e e Palestine Gray, new minister to Ireland, came SHARING POVERTY To stave off Arab-Jewish violence WASHINGTON.—Suppose it were in to make plans for his departure during the European war, Britain’s Gray is a tall, slender gentleman, cabinet announced restrictions true, as this administration says, with a taste for hunting. He told against purchase of Palestine land that, as all governmental debt has the protocol that he couldn't by Jews. Though Jews protested, gone up by an indefinite amount— be happy on office tfie other the parliament in London backed up above 20 billions—private debt has his sportsman’s shotgun. side without the cabinet’s action. When word of gone down by an equal amount. It “ But I am going to Dublin by way this action reached Palestine the isn’t true, but if it were true, what? Jerusalem Jewish national institu It means a more equal distribu of Europe,” said Gray. “ I wonder tions declared a general stoppage of tion of poverty, a sharing of our what they will think of a U. S. dip work. Ten thousand paraded through debits rather than our credits, a lomat if he shows up in the war the streets, giving British police a greater burden on the have-nots and areas with a shotgun?” Gray was assured that, enjoying tough battle. a restriction of abundance in ev diplomatic immunity, he would not erybody’s life. be jailed as a gun-runner. China * * • The whole nation, rich and poor Mid-March found Japan’s army MERRY-GO-ROUND. driving against Chungshan, birth alike, is responsible for the public When Venezuelan Minister of War place of China’s famed Sun Yat- debt—every wage, income, pension and piece of property of any kind is Medina visited Washington he did Sen, located south of Canton. three things: first, placed a wreath Meanwhile, as Japan completed in hock for it. her thirty-second month of a fruit It can be retired only by taxes or on the tomb of the Unknown Sol less war, a new enemy appeared default. The former is a burden on dier; next, called on Secretary of for both Nipponese and Chinese every family budget in the nation State Hull; third, visited the Fed' forces. Chinese Communists in —including the unfortunates on re eral Bureau of Investigation to scan northwestern provinces, formerly lief or on the dole. The latter is the death mask of John Dillinger fighting for the Chinese government, catastrophe bearing with equal dis and other G-man trophies. In one afternoon recently, Uncle were reported drawing closer to aster on the whole population. Sam bought no less than 8,000,000 Moscow, leaving Gen. Chiang Kai- The poisonous doctrine that only yards of cotton piece goods. It was 'hek out on a limb. the rich pay has been exposed over used to supply WPA sewing room and over again. projects. Strange Facts Î Continuous Growth Eersatito Products Mail Must Go On! I Although most creatures have a definite growth limit, others con tinue to increase in size as long as they live, among them being trees, fish, oysters, clams, shrimps, crabs and lobsters. Products of the farm have more than 400 nonfood uses in industry. 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