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
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_________________________ 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
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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. P. candidate
who allows them to do that would be
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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.
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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
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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.
For example, corn is used in mak
ing udhesives, potatoes in laundry
starch, soybeuns in plustics, cattle
grease in antifreeze mixtures,
grape-seed oil in soups, buttermilk
in paints, and eggs in leather
dressing processes.
In many Japanese bedrooms the
compass uoints are painted on the
floor. Few Japanese will sleep
with the head pointing north, the
position in which they are buried.
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