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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01

MORE and more fine cottons are
A'1 gaining recognition from the
high-style viewpoint. Fashion ex-
perts predict triumphs galore this
coming summer for ginghams, for
piques of various types, for cham
brays, and because of the empha-
sis placed on the importance Of
dainty lingerie effects there is spe-
cial rush for the most lovely Swiss
sheers, particularly the charming
crisp and spfightly cloque organ
dies that need little or no ironing,
and the delectable shadow prints,
and above all the beloved dotted
swisses and dotted voiles that seem
prettier than ever this year.
Everybody is going to dress in
attractive cottons most of the time
this summer. According to crystal
gazers that peer into fashion fu-
lures, this will be the biggest, the
most exciting, the most style-reveal-
ing year that cottons have ever
known
Now for word of warning to big
sister and mother and grandma and
all the elder cousins and aunts that
plan to wear these beguiling cottonS,
if they think they are to play the
star roles in the cotton parade, just
let them wait and see the sensation
that the little folks will create in
their cunning cottons during the
coming months.
Time has not dulled the charm of
that adored standby, fine dotted
Swiss. The right kind of dotted
sheers for mothers to buy for their
children is the genuine Swiss types,
the tied-in dots of which are fast
color, making laundering a very
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01

providing the Reich with an outlet
to the Adriatic sea and thence to
the Mediterranean. Much though
Germany's friendship might be val
ued, Italy cannot afford to let Hitler
become a Mediterranean power.
(2) Italians dislike Russians, but
both in heritage and ambition Adolf
Hitler's nation is like Soviet Russia.
An allied Berlin and Moscow would
control Europe, possibility which
grows less remote as German-hating
Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov
retires from office and both Hitler
and Stain cease shouting at one an
other. Such a pact would leave It
ally in the cold.
80 Strong though her Mediter-
ranean position may be, Italy is
still weaker than the combined fleets
of France and Britain. Mussolini
is also alarmed at recent Anglo
French gains in the Mediterranean,
especially their pacts with Greece
and Turkey. And though he counted
on Spain as an ally against democ-
racieS, Mussolini finds Generals
simo Francisco Franco hobnobbing
too affectionately with Germany to
his own exclusion. Franco hobnobs
also with French, Swiss and Dutch
bankers, seeking a reconstruction
loan neither Italy nor Germany
can give. So far as Mussolini is con-
cerned, the Iberian peninsula is a
bigger question mark today than one
year ago.
al Several times the past year
Italy has risked war to help Hitler,
first in Austria, next in Sudetenland,
next in Czecho-Slovakia, then in Me-
mel. Each time the home folks
wondered what Italy would get in
return, and after one solid year Of
such risks they have received moth
ing but barren Albania. If Hitler
marches into Danzig and drags It.
ally into a futile war, II Duce will
risk internal blowup.
Such are possible reasons why
French Ambassador Andre Fran
cois-Poncet met Italian Foreign Min
lister Galeazzo Ciano in Rome re-
Gently for amicable discussion on
French-Italian trouble points. Since
modern treaties apparently mean
nothing, there is good chance Italy
might junk her new German pact
for a settlement with France and
Britain. Britain's reluctance to
sign a treaty with Russia might be
founded on the hope that Germany
and the Soviet would get together,
thereby alternating Italy.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
RACES:
SenlItISnI

Last October top film executives
met Movie Car VIII Hays to dis
cuss how anti-Semitism might be
checked insofar as it affects movie
revenues. Last November Father
Charles Coughlin made a radio
speech tempering criticism of Ger
many's Jewish pogroms by COM
menting that Communist persecu
tion of Christians was worse. NaZi
sources, he said, had told him Sc
Of the SO top men in Russia's Com
munist party were Jews.
This spring came Equality" a
magazine boasting prominent AIRY
ans" on its editorial board and dedi-
Gated to combating anti-Semitism.
At the same time Golfers maga-
zine found there was at least enough
talk about the subject to justify a
popularized treatise by Harvard An
thropologist Earnest Hooton on the
Jews highly evolved and special
lied characteristics Of mind, tenn
perament and personality.
Readers Of the Hooton article
found themselves realizing that Ger
many's horrible pogroms have at
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least made America conscious that
there is such a problem. This real
ization became the more acute
when Texas Rep. Martin Dies
brought his un-Americanism investi-
cation committee back into session
with the following msavory allega-
tions:
Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Nose
ley, who retired from the army last
autumn after throwing sharp shafts
at the New Deal. is active in a
nationwide anti-JewiSh organiza-
ton. Moseley joined drive
financed by New York's Dudley Gil
bert, who sent confidential reports
he received from night club wait
er" to James Erwin Campbell, re-
serve army captain of Owensboro,
Ky. Campbell, in turn, issued re-
ports TO key people" throughout
the u. S. Dies said Gilbert had no
intention of stirring up race hatred
but thought he was doing a ''patri-
otic service in anticipation of rev.
olution''
Sample Moseley statements re-
ported by the Dies committee:
O The fact is that the most
serious problem confronting Amer
ica today is just this problem of
the Jew and how to get rid of his in
fiuence defnitely-locally, national
ly and internationally"
(2) IF the Jews bump me off be
sure to see they get the credit for it
from coast to coast. 1t will help
our cause"
Notified of the charges, General
Moseley abruptly closed his own
private "un-Americanism" investi-
cation in California's Imperial val
ley and flew to Washington in an
swer to Dies subpoena. His COM
ment: How strange that
a patriot can discuss openly and
frankly the problems involving Irish
men, Italians and Germans :.
but let him mention any information
al 'isms' or Zionism and their in
creasing control of America, then
he is attacked on all sides even
his life may be threatened"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
AGRICULTURE:
Trouble Ahead

This spring the bureau Of agricul-
tural economics forecast July !
wheat supply Of 1,018, 300, 600 BUSH
els, only 100000 bushels short of
the figure where farmers must vote
on acreage quotas for next year.
Dry weather in spring wheatlands
cut crop prospects, however, and by
mid-May Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace was able to avoid
an embarrassing election-year acre
age referendum by cutting the July
l estimate to only 974 1000, 900 bush
els. A further help: In 1910 farm
ers can plant 62,000,000 acres to
wheat, 1000, 600 more than this year.
A week after this announcement,
however, it appeared the admins
tration's farm program is bound for
another begging down, another year
like miserable 1884 and 1886. Care
fully checking weather bureau re-
ports, Mr.. Wallace found early May
rainfall in the wheat belt was far
below normal, with drouth spread
ing fast and damage to spring crops
already heavy. Percentages of nor
NAL rainfall thus far: South Da-
kota, So; North Dakota, 45; Nebras-
ka, SO; Kansas, IA; Montana, SIS.
Though on the average far better
than 1884, conditions were bad
enough to make Mr.. Wallace name
a drouth committee who will aid
farmers if the worst comes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01

Observation-Disclosures l was a
kid on the farm, my father used to
warn me against getting too close
to the big saw that was used to
cut up wood for our kitchen stove
the old buzz saw. it was called.
He was right. 1t could have done
to me exactly what it did to logs OF
oak or hickory. Many times since
those days, l have thought OF the
wisdom of those warnings as ap-
piled to other acts of life. And, the
other day. 1 thought of how much
trouble President Roosevelt could
have avoided if only his advisors
had guided him away from the buzz
saw of Argentine canned corned
beef.
1t must be painfully evident to
the President and to his advisors
now that he waded right into few
million political buzz saws when he
instructed the secretary of the navy
to buy canned beef from the Ar
gentine Co-operatives. Inc, for use
of Uncle Sans blue jackets. AS a
matter of fact, most of the Presl-
dents stalwart supporters not only
recognize that he got his hands bad
ly mangled in the saw, but that he
failed to have a doctor" handy in
the form of an Offset for the griev-
Gus political error.
But the details of the situation
ought to be reviewed in order fully
to understand why so many people
are saying that the Argentine beef
affair has already cost Mr.. Roose-
welt dearly in political and personal
prestige. Many are saying, indeed,
that the cost has been greater than
his Inflated and badly judged plan
to change the makeup of the SUI
preme court of the United States.
All of the facts ought to be stated
clearly for the reason that none now
can foretell how widespread this
prairie fire will be- Obviously, the
Republicans will use it as ammuni-
tion in their warfare, and in all
probability quite a large segment
of old line Democrats are laughing
up their sleeves about the damage
the beef case will do to their pet
hates, the New Dealers surrounding
the President.
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with what he terms prima facie evil
dence of collusion.
That a government which five
years ago fostered collusion now
fights it may seem inconsistent, yet
a return to orthodox business philos-
ophy has again made men believe
that competition is the life of trade.
Up before the house appropriations
subcommittee Trust Buster Arnold
explained the justice department
will need S520,000 more next fiscal
year simply to carry on an anti
trust campaign which-after 40
years-"is just getting started"
No violent campaign is. planned,
Mr.. Arnold explained, but five re-
gional offices will be opened New
York, Atlanta, Chicago, Oklahoma
City, San Francisco and such ma
tion-wide Investigations as that of
the oil industry will be co-ordinated.
With individual actions at Madison,
Wis, New York and on the Pacific
coast, Mr.. Arnold's oil inquiry will
center on whether producers must
not divest themselves of control
of the retail filling stations, prac-
tice he charges is collusive in that
it holds up prices, sitting competi-
ton. Mr.. Arnold on oil: My point
is that either we are going to have
competition in the oil industry or
If that is impossible it has got to
go to congress for regulation-one
of the two"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
SPAIN:
Freedom?

"The lqto is the logical outcome OF
Cermany's piei0, uoiced eper since the
outbreak OF the Spanish wdr, that fight
ing there is something Uhich concerns
only Spaniards."
Such was the Berlin foreign Of
fees comment on February 18,
1887, when the Reich passed law
which forbade German citizens to
enter Spanish territory and partici-
pate in Generalissimo Francisco
FRANCOIS war against Premier Juan
Negrin. In May of 1889, two months
after the war ended, with 1000 Ger
man volunteers" just coming home
from Spain, Germany got around to
repeating the law.
If Europe thought this situation
just bit humorous, it could view
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simple and absolutely safe proce-
dure.
Just to get a foretaste of how ir-
resistible lovely little girls will look
in their dotted Swisses and dotted
voiles this summer, take good
look at the three models illustrated.
Imported dotted Swiss in rose pink
makes the charming and practical
frock for the winsome little miss
to the left. Pin-tucked net and ruff
fed lace edging trim the collar, the
vestee panel and the puff pockets.
A self fabric sash ties in a bow
at the back.
The ever-popular imported dotted
Swiss voile that works up so beauti-
fully in little girls frocks, is used
for the choice little dress which the
member of the young generation
centered in the picture is wearing.
Fine shocking in bright rose-red
decorates the attractively gathered
waist. This clever needlework, so
gay and so chic, imparts French
air to the simple styling of the
frock. Short puffed sleeves and
young round collar are fiattering de-
tails and in excellent taste.
The important member of the
youngest generation seated to the
right in the picture, is wearing
cunningly styled frock made of
choice pink Swiss organdy with
large white embroidered dots. The
wide collar, the short puffed sleeves
and the front buttoned closing are
edged with white Val lace. This
diminutive society queen wears
pink satin hair ribbon to match the
little bow at her throat
And here's a final choice bit of
news in regard to what fashionable
little girls will be wearing this sum-
mer. 1t is all about the adorable
sheer little shirtwaists styled in the
baby" type such as are sponsored
for grown-ups of sheerest batistes
and organdies or sWisses or voiles.
They are lace-trinmed and hand
tucked to the queens taste.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Explanation NeUer Caught
Up With Original Statement

Subsequently, Mr.. Roosevelt
sought to explain what he meant
by the statement that Argentine
beef is superior in quality. He
pointed out that the Argentine prac-
tice is to can better cuts of beef
because of the slack sale for fresh
meat in that part of the world. But
the explanation never has caught
up with the original statement, and
it never will
When this attempted explanation
came from the White House, heard
an old time political battler at the
capitol observe:
That is mistake No. 2. One of
the first rules in politics is never
make statement that you have to
explain If you do, your explana-
ton will get you into trouble. 1t
is better never to explain anything"
Yet, in fairness, it must be OBJ
served that the price in the United
States and the price the government
must pay, therefore, results from
a combination of circumstances.
Our national policy for years has
been to encourage what we adver-
tise as the American standard of
living. To that end, congress has
passed laws, many of them. The
Walsh-Healy act, for example, says
that the government may not buy
from any manufacturer who does
not comply with stated require
ments> as to hours and wages for
work. There is the so-called fair
labor standards act-the wage and
hour law-for another. Fifty more
could be named. Nor do l wish my
self to be placed in the position of
condemning all of them. 1 point to
them merely as causes for the situ-
alton in which Argentina underbid
our own folks because most of our
people on relief live better than the
employed workers in South Amer
lea. 1t serves, moreover, as an IL
lustration and a proof that most
so-called statesmen advocate ma
tional policy and national laws with
out knowing where or when or how
they may have to eat their own
words
Released by Western Newspaper Uni n
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
New Fabrics Are
Heartily Greeted

Even the sober-sides and plain
James among US have a way of rele-
eating the darker colors and more
serviceable fabrics to temporary OBJ
livion, while we revel in the airiness
and intoxicating brightness of the
cottons and sheers of the merry,
mad spring and summer.
We caper into our dimity blouses
and chambray frocks, and plant the
gayest of inverted straw flower pots,
with cambria blossoms budding at
the wrong end, on our unoffending
heads. Then, with a disdainful
sniff at the exotic musks and slum-
brous sandalwoods of our last win
ter's delight, we turn again to the
floral scents.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
FRANCISCO FRANCO
What price dignity?

with alarm another chapter of Ger
man-Spanish relations now being
written. In Madrid, while Franco
forces announced all German and
Italian arms used during the war
(bombers, pursuit planes, heavy ar
tillery, tanks, trucks, technical
equipmenD would be retained,
committee of II German tradesmen
was en- route from Berlin to nego-
tiate an economic and financial
treaty with Spain.
Heading the group was Dr. Hell
muth Wohltat who negotiated the
treaty with Rumania last March.
Observers thought Wohltat treaty
making had reached the pattern
stage, for Spain will be treated just
about the way Rumania was. Reich
contractors will build roads, rail-
ways, Notifications and other mill
tary establishments for the new
Spain. More vital, however, is the
general provision for exchange Of
Spanish raw materials Especially
ores and foodstuffs) for German fin
ished products. Thus will Spain be
drawn positively into the Rome
Berlin orbit.
While this was going on, Dictator
Franco reviewed his much-post-
poned victory" parade, then spoke
as if his nation were free from Ger
many and Italy: I'VE want a great
Spain, but we place our dignity
above all. We shall not tolerate
any attempt against our sovereign.
ty because it would be useless"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Bruckarts Washington Digest
President Wades Into Political
Buzz Saw on Argentine Beef Deal
Affair Costs Mr.. Roosevelt Dearly in Personal and Polt
ical Prestige Executives Explanation Never Caught
Up With His Original Statement on Transaction.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg, Washington d. C.

and then. There was little mention
Of this phase; yet it seems reason
able to assume that it was in the
back of the official mind.
The question was put on Mr..
Roosevelt's desk. He decided that
the contract should be given the
Argentines. That happened about
the middle of April. There was no
furry about the matter then be-
cause few persons knew of the
transaction. Eventually, however,
information about the award leaked
out and somebody asked Mr.. Roose-
welt in press meeting whether it
was true That was where Mr..
Roosevelt really became tangled up
with the buzz saw.
Now, it is we'll to know that Mr..
Roosevelt likes to talk. He also in
sists on telling the news writer's
all about a given situation-f he
talks at all about it. He is decidedly
fair that way. He talked at great
length about the problem and the
result of his speech to the writer's
was numerous headlines which read
something like this: president
Roosevelt Orders Navy to Buy Ar
gentine Canned Beef-Foreign Prod
uct Found Cheaper and Superior
in Quality, President Says"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Facts of Argentine
Corned Beef Affair

Briefly, the facts are these:
Pursuant to law, the secretary of
the navy called for offers to sell
the navy certain quantities of sup
plies, including $4,000 pounds Of
canned corned beef. The law says
that government agencies must
award the contracts to the lowest
responsible bidder-the bidder re-
garded as able to fulfill the require
ments of the navy. There is, how
ever, another law that says, in SUBJ
stance, the government must award
the contracts to firm of citizens of
the United States and that the prod
ucts be made from the United States
provided they are equal to or bet
ter in quality than foreign-made
product and that the price is not
too much higher than the foreign
bid. The reason for this being, OBJ
viously, to encourage business in the
United States and give jobs to our
citizens for whom, as national pol
icy, the American standard of living
must be maintained.
So, there is, first-quality and
price, and, second-national policy.
The bids on corned beef reached
the navy offices. Argentine Co.
operatives, Inc, offered to sell the
"a tons of corned beef at about 16
cents a pound. The nearest bid
from the United States was approx
imately % cents pound. In addi-
ton, there is a tariff duty of six
cents a pound that is applicable to
imports of beef-placed by con-
gress to protect cattle growers in
this country. But the navy would
not have to pay that tariff duty.
Thus, the real cost to the navy
would be that much less.
Navy officers felt there was con-
siderable difference, but they were
unwilling to assume responsibility
for what some critics might say was
a violation of the Buy American"
law. In the course of the consid-
GRAFTON, the department of state
learned of the situation, and Secre-
tary Hull took hand. You see,
Mr.. Hull has been having his own
troubles with United States rela-
tions with the Argentine govern
ment. It has been necessary to pro-
hibit importations of fresh beef
from the Argentine because there is
so much foot and mouth disease in
the vast reaches of Argentine graz
ing areas. 1t has even become nee
essary to forbid the Argentine gov
ernment to bring in steaks for use
in it's government pavilion at the
New York Worlds fair. That did
not leave a good taste in the mouth
of the Argentine people. Mr.. Hull
was anxious to make peace offer
of some kind or another.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Came Outbursts on Floors
Of the House and Senate

Within a few short weeks, Mr..
Roosevelt's political hands were
torn and bleeding. He was being
ridiculed because he frequently re-
ferred in political campaigns to the
need for helping "our undernour-
ished one-third, our lily clad and
lily housed people. There were
outbursts on the floors of the house
and the senate. The New Deal lead
ers in congress could do nothing
about it. The representatives and
senators from the cattle country
were denouncing his action and one
whole day was occupied in the house
of representatives where the PreSi-
dents political body was torn limb
from limb.
The heat of the battle became so
great that the house committee on
appropriations which happened then
to be considering the annual naval
appropriations bill took action. 1t
included in that bill, prohibition
that will prevent such a thing ever
happening again. They were shout
ing: ''The idea, feeding our navy
men on Argentine beef" etc. OBJ
viously, under such circumstances,
the prohibitory clause was accepted
by the house and the senate and
it will be the law of the land.
This heat came of two causes.
First, the cattle business is none
too good and the cattle producers
are politically powerful. They pro-
tect themselves, as they should. To
see even a small business contract
go outside of the United States was
bad medicine, even though the beef
bought would amount to only about
rs steers. 1t was the principle of the
thing. Then, when you add to that,
the resentment engendered by Mr..
Roosevelt's statement that Argen-
tine beef is a better quality-well,
you speak your own piece about it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Tweed the Thing
For Travel Coat

If you are going to the New York
fair or the San Francisco fair coat
of tweed's the thing for travel. When
it comes to choosing the plaid or
the stripe woolen fashion bids you
make it snappy." Choose just as
big and as bold stripes or plaids as
you please. You will find coat of
handsome tweed your best friend
that will prove indispensable on your
trip.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Trend
HotU the ,Uind is blotUing .

HOtU the tUtnd is bLOtUing :.
JOBS-Of 100 universities and
colleges surveyed by Minneapo-
lis Northwestern National Life
Insurance company, 63 find great
er demand for graduates than
year ago.
STAMPS-Coin operated mail
boxes which weigh letters, stamp
them and drop them into a de-
pository for collection, are being
installed at New York.
POWER-Of1, $40, 900, ,O00Amer-
lean horsepower, 92.7 per cent
constitutes transportation horse
power, installed exclusively to
move people and goods.
FOOD-U. S. bureau Of dairy
industry scientists have perfected
a new food article with two sur
plus products-skim milk and Gull
potatoes. These, with little salt
added, are made into waters,
chips, sticks or croutons, and
oven dried to crispness.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
BUSINESS:
Competition Wanted

Under NRA the government
forced industry into collusion, strict
price levels being enforced to a
point where competing bidders usu-
ally found their individually arrived
at quotations identical. But since
NRA was invalidated identical quo
tations have often continued, pro-
viding Trust Buster Thurman Ar
mold, assistant attorney general,
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-06-01
Old-Fashioned Prints

Quaintness, that quality which is
being so decisively revived this
year, is finding its way into silk
prints, for which patterns suggestive
of old-fashioned dimities and cali
Goes are being introduced.