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G. o. p. Has
Tactical Advantage

Within the Republican ranks there
are undoubtedly more of those wait
ing to see which way the cat will
jump than there are among the
Democrats. The Republicans, how
ever, have one distinct advantage:
they can attack anything and every
thing the New Deal administration
has done. They do not need to de-
fend anything, which is the handi-
cap that burdens each faction of the
Democrats to greater or less ex-
tent.
Moreover, the Republicans are not
burdened with the will of any one
man to which they must give con-
sideration. That is to say, neither
former President Hoover nor Gov.
ALI Landon, the nominees in 1892
and 1886, respectively, will or can
have as much voice in selection of
the next candidate as Mr.. Roosevelt
ordinarily would have in making
the Democratic choice. This condi-
ton springs from the fact that, as
President, Mr.. Roosevelt retains tit
ular leadership of his party. Messrs
Hoover and Landon, having taken a
licking in turn, need not be accepted
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EUROPE:
Forgotten Patient

Early May found Poland the No. l
source of European trouble, but the
cancerous sore had spread so far
afeld that Poland's woes were al
most forgotten. Specifically Ger
many wanted Danzig (whose 385, 900
population is 96 per cent Germany
and 15-mile-wide path across the
Polish corridor to East Prussia. Far
more adamant than her protectors,
Britain and France, little Poland
bravely let her foreign Minister Jo-
sef Beck reject the Reich's demands
bluntly. Next she gave dictatorial
powers to President Ignace Moscicki
and stoically awaited whatever fate
might be showed down her throat by
the Vaccinations of Europe's five
powers. President Moscicki watched
his nations troubles spread into the
following hopeless confusion:
Anglo-French solidarity, highly
touted after the Czecho-Slovakian
and Memel crises, had broken down
completely for want of purposeful
direction. While Britain swerved
back to appeasement policies and
outspokenly urged Poland to sur
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FORECAST

BY MICS President Major Len
OK R. Lohr, ultra-high-frequency
transmitters that can ''rifie" tele-
vision programs. through booster
stations at 15-mile intervals from
New York to Chicago, overcom-
ing television's present distance
handicap.
BY Bishop Frederick D. Leete
of Deland, Fla, early worldwide
union of three branches of the
Methodist church.
BY Mexican government Off
cials, early settlement of the
u. S.-Mexican oil-land controver-
sy, following new conference be-
tween Americas Donald Rich
berg and Mexico's President La
zaro Cardenas.
BY British Prime Minister
Chamberlain, early consumma-
ton of a barter-trade deal be-
tween the U. S. and Britain in
volving British tin and rubber for
American wheat and cotton.
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render Danzig, thereby courting
1talo-German friendship, France
bluntly rejected an Italian offer to
settle the Mediterranean problem.
Meanwhile both Britain and France
tried with left-handed diplomacy to
make Russia defend Polish integri-
ty. The Soviet took a sensible course,
standing aloof from any commit
ments. Having fired Foreign Com
missar Maxim Litvinov, who had
been leading the treaty conversa-
tions, Russia gave vacillating
France and Britain a choice: Either
sign double-barrelled military pact
for joint protection of eastern Eu-
ropean nations, or Moscow would
isolate itself and leave the democ-
racies to stew in their own juice.
AS is their wont, Rome and Ber-
lin took advantage of this confusion.
At Milan, Foreign Secretaries
Joachim Won Ribbentrop and Count
Galeazzo Ciano expanded the axis
into an outright military pact which
resulted directly, London learned,
from Frances refusal to arbitrate
the Mediterranean problem with It
ally.
Adolf Hitler once wrote Gin Mein
KampD that "an alliance whose
purpose does not include the inten-
tion to wage war is meaningless
and worthless" Observers thought
the new Italo-G German pact held that
purpose as a threat which would
have three sorry results for the de-
mocracies:
~ Premier Mussolini would in
tervene in the Polish German quar-
rel just as he did in the Czech crisis
last September, using his nominal
friendship with individual Anglo
French statesmen to help force
plebiscite in Danzig and lead to
repetition of the notorious Munich
settlement.
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ings of different lengths, snap fas-
teners are generally more satisfac-
tory than zippers. If snap fasten-
er tape is obtainable it saves time
to whip it to the long edges. The
narrow frill for this chair covers
a curved line across the front and
carving at the top of the front
legs.
You can make slipcovers, all
types of curtains and many other
things for your home with the
help of Book 1-SEWING, for the
Home Decorator. Just follow the
pictures, and you learn to make
the lovely things you have been
wanting for your home. Book 2
is for those who enjoy fancy work
on useful articles for the nome;
and useful novelties, to be made
in spare time. Books are 25 cents
each; don't forget to ask for the
free leafiet on patchwork quilts,
when you order both books; the
leaf1et is FREE with two books
Address: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
PLANES ST., Chicago, Ill.
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Government Spending
Causes Dissatisfaction

Another obvious sentiment shows
a rather amazing dissatisfaction
with continuation of government
spending and the creation of added
debt. With this, of course, is cou-
pied the general fear of added taxes.
1t is quite widespread, this feeling
that some gloomy years are ahead.
While the money flowed as free as
water, there was no lack of takers.
A change appears to have taken
place, however, and from all quar-
ters one hears expressions, or ques-
tions, as to how high the taxes will
have to be to pay off even a part of
the debt.
A third thing that stands out wher-
ever political leaders talk over the
campaign problems is the matter of
unemployment which, of course, in
cludes the question of whether gov
ernment would not be serving bet
ter if it omitted attempts to "re-
form" business. It sits down to
some of the basic New Deal poll
cies and, say what you will, it is a
red hot subject. 1t remains as fact
that there were 10 or IL million un-
employed when Mr.. Roosevelt took
Office, and there are at least 10 mil
lion now. Voters are asking, there
fore, whether and how long such a
situation can continue without col
lapse.
All of these questions, it is to be
noted, strike very close to every
voter in one way or another. It
likewise comes within the range of
thought that the man who is elected
next year-man, because no woman
is yet included in the list-will have
a tough time satisfying even a ma
jority of the people. Just as a rail
fence guess, or maybe it is hunch
anyway, I believe the next Presi-
dent will be good for only one term.
He will not be popular after four
years. As further guess, / have
an idea that the candidate who will
be elected next year will be the
man who paints the greatest picture
of gloom about the situation.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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Small G. o. p. Machines
Demand Recognition

1t should not be overlooked, how
ever, that there is hair-pulling in
prospect on the Republican side as
well. 1t extends down to the grass
roots because of individual thinking
that has been taking place. This
condition results through lack of a
federal political machine. Dozens
of small machines have been wag-
ging their own tails for so long
that they now are demanding rec
ognition from the brass hats at the
top.
Further, since there is a growing
belief that the Republican presiden-
tial nomination in 1910 is worth
something g"-that is, that the Repub-
icans have a chance after eight
years of political drouth-there is an
extraordinary crop of favorite sons
coming forward.
Concerning the prospective cam
paign, itself, there again is that un-
certainty about Mr.. Roosevelt's per-
sonal popularity, about the prestige
he has or will be able to lend to the
mantle bearer of the Democratic
party. There is likewise the ques-
ton as to how much of the New
Deal ought to be discarded and how
much ought to be kept, and it is not
an easy decision to make.
There is, for instance, no ques-
ton in my mind but that voters
everywhere are getting disgusted
with too much government. I do
not mean to infer that they are unan-
imous. But the evidence cumulates
that the federal government is en-
gaging in too many functions; that
it is invading private rights too far;
that its general scope is beyond what
government was designed to be, and
that more and more people are say
ing "there ought to be some laws
repealed rather than that "there
ought to be law"
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Bruckorfs Washington Digest
Early Political Activity Presages
Bitter 1910 Presidential Campaign
Widespread Movement Away From New Deal Philosophy Of
Government Worries Democratic Leaders; Popu
larity of President Yet to Be Evaluated
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg, Washington ID. C..

yXIASHINGTON.-There seems to
w be no doubt that the political
mill for 1910 has begun to grind
earlier than has happened in al
most any modern time. Politicians
and political forecasters, alike,
agree that the activity, the advance
agents of the 1910 campaign with its
national conventions and presiden-
tial nominations and national cleo
tions, is evident now to a greater
extent than has been recorded in
almost any other quadrennial pc
riod.
1t is to be recognized, of course,
that there would be more intensive
effort in advance of the 1910 cleo
tions than occurred prior to the 1886
national elections because, presum-
ably at least, both great political
parties will be sorting over the can
didateS.
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by the rank and file of the party or
by Republican wheelhorses as hav-
ing any greater rights than others.
And by the same token, the Roose-
welt leadership complicates the
Democratic picture. Since he has
stated with great frequency and with
an emphasis that cannot be denied
that there is no turning back" he
can be regarded as determined to
insist upon selection of Democrat
ic candidate-either himself or
someone else-next year who will
push the New Deal forward. And
that position, boys and girls, is what
the old line faction of the party seem
determined now to overturn. As
matter of cold fact, it appears from
all OF the information available to
me that Mr.. Roosevelt's determina-
ton on this point is really the fun
damental basis for the current cam
yon between the New Dealers and
the old liners. Again, none can fore
tell how far it will go; but it can be
said without equivocation that if that
schism continues up to the 1910
nominating conventions, the 1924
convention fight between William
Gibbs McAdoo and Al Smith will
appear as tea party. This bitter
ness can be just as deep seated as
that.
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NORTH CAROLINA:
Discovery?

In the late Sixteenth century Sir
Walter Raleigh developed a light
war vessel called the cromster, de-
scribed in Henry Culver-Gordon
Grants Book Of Old Ships. After
1908 storm, one A. w. Drinkwater
walked down the sands of North
Cardinals Roanoke island and found
the hulk of ship barely jutting
out of the sand. This spring came
another storm, barring more of the
vessel to watchful Mr.. Drinkwater.
One hundred CCC youths bent to
their shovels, excavated the hulk
and found what Mr.. Drinkwater and
the Roanoke Island Historical asso-
citation thought was an important
discovery. Recalled was Sir Wal
ter's famous ''lost colony" which
disappeared there in 1884. Since the
newly discovered boat checked per-
fectly with measurements of a Raj
eigh cromster, might the long-buried
ship have some connection with the
lost colonists?
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18
LIQUOR HABITS
PHOTOGRAPHY
Solving a Difficult
Slipcover Problem
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS

HnEAR MRS. SPEARS: Your
- books have shown me how
to do so many things that l am
turning to you for help. I want
to make slipcovers for the living
room furniture because with three
young ones the upholstery is soon
going to be ruined. The job COM
pletely battles me. l am enclos-
ing a rough sketch of one of the
chairs. Can you suggest any way
that a removable cover can be
made for it? B. A"
Use bindings or facings to finish
edges where seat and back covers
are cut around arms and supports.
Where there are so many open
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co AS his reward, Mussolini would
win German help in breaking up
Yugoslavia, now torn by southern
Serb and northern Croat autonomy
moves which are strongly reminis-
cent of the late Czecho-Slovakia's
troubles. Marching in to keep
peace and expand his political do
main, Mussolini would add to the
Balkan domination he began by seiz-
ing Albania.
CD Another reward would be re-
emphasis of Germany's promise to
help Italy win Mediterranean claims
from France, including a free port
at Djibouti in French Somaliland,
domination over the Djibouti-Addis
Ababa railroad, joint control over
the Suez canal and an adjustment
regarding Italians in French Tu-
nisia.
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LABOR:
FDR Dog House

In 1922 a half million u. S. coal
miners struck from April l to Sep
tember 6. In 1889 about 800, 900 soft
coal miners went out again, not to
celebrate a seventeenth anniversary
but because c. I. O.'s John L. Lewis
ordered it. Reason: c. I. O.'s United
Mine Workers demanded a closed
shop to protect itself against threat
ened ''raids" by rival A. F. of L.
union. Guided by U. S. Conciliator
John R. Steelman, employers and
c. I. 0. representatives argued one
month to a stalemate, operators Of
fering as their "fnal' proposal a
checkoff system under which mines
would remain an open shop but dues
would be levied against both union
and non-union workers. c. 1. o. re-
jected this and by May some 460,-
600 workers were idle. Meanwhile
the nation faced its worst coal short
age since 1922.
Pressed by public opinion, Presi-
dent Roosevelt finally decided his
conciliator should get tough. Lee
tured Mr.. Steelman to weary con-
ferees: 81 insist that you bring this
matter to a civilized conclusion. It
i'll behooves grown men to Sc
riously contemplate open warfare
The american public will not
stand for a state of insurrection
brought about by an industry involv-
ing a vital minority of our popula-
ton"
A few days later settlement ap-
peared imminent; certainly not per-
manent, but the simple type of set
tlement John Lewis has offered all
along and which thus far had re-
ceived no consideration. Four times
before the 1937-39 contract expired,
U. M. w. A. proposed that it be ex-
tended until new agreement could
be drawn up. Only hitch is that by
sponsoring such temporary truce
obviously in public interest) the
President is unavoidably siding with
c. I. O. against employees. Already
in the dog house so far as business
is concerned, this would hardly win
him any friends.
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PEOPLE,:
Justice Triun,phs

When he took over the justice de-
partment from well-meaning Homer
T. Cummings, Attorney General
Frank Murphy was regarded with
askance for having failed to stop
labor strife while governor of Michi-
gan. After four months in office,
however, Frank Murphy had prob
ably shown himself one of the most
capable fighters-for-law-and- order
ever to hold the justice portfolio.
Resigned was New York's Federal
Judge Martin T. Manton, under
grand jury Indictment. Also indicted
was Kansas City's longtime Demo-
cratic Boss Thomas Pendergast.
Pending were income tax evasion
cases against Philadelphia Inquirer
Publisher Moses Annenberg and
Chicago Politician Billy Skidmore.
Said Mr.. Murphy to Chicago Daily
News Paul Leach: "The important
thing is that the American peo-
pie have faith in their federal prose-
cution and court machinery
There will be no political fixing
while / am attorney general"
q Expected in September, "anoth-
er New Dealer" by 26-year-old Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, wife of the 65-year-
old secretary of the interior.
q Nominated as ambassador to Ar
gentina, 53-year-old Norman Arm
our, currently ambassador to Chile,
formerly minister to Canada and
career diplomat since he went to
Vienna in 1912.
q Reported dead in Nazi concen-
tration camp near Vienna, Duke
Ernst Hohenberg, second son of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose
assassination at Sarajevo in 1914
started the World war.
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clauses calling for the installation of
beacon lights and emergency land
ing fields.
The authority is making plans
also for large-scale experiment
with ultra-high-frequency radio
ranges along the New York Chicago
airway.
In a report to Clinton M. Hester,
who is in charge of the Airways
division of the authority, Charles I.
Stanton, director of the Bureau of
Federal Airways, stated that the
system covered Is, 900 miles.
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CAA Speeds Projects
To Better u. S. Aviation

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, as
of May /, of 1900 miles of new air
ways at cost of $4,000, 900 has
been reported by the Civil Aero
nautics authority. This is in addition
to the completion on April / of
S5,00o,0 900 in modernization, started
about one year ago.
The authority plans to let con-
tracts for 1000 more miles of
airwavs. the contracts to include
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18
Travelling Post Office
WASHINGTON.-The post

WASHINGTON.-The post Office
departments first ''philatelic
truck" carrying an exhibit of
stamps and stanp-making machin-
cry, was put in service at the White
House recently when Postmaster
General Farley delivered a sheet Of
souvenir stamps to President Roose-
welt. After remaining on exhibition
here for several days, the truck
went to New York and later to Bos-
ton. From Boston the truck win 60
on nationwide tour.
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18
SCIENCE:
atomic PotUer

Albert Einstein once said that to
find the nucleus Of an atom was like
going out on your porch some dark
evening and firing a gun in the hope
of hitting duck. A few years later
science developed atom smashers
which turn out neutrons (uncharged
particles in the atoms nucleus) with
little trouble. BY bombarding new
element called uranium with neu-
irons, scientists disintegrate urani-
um and get another element, actino-
uranium. Bombardment of this with
neutrons produces more neutrons
and thus creates an endless chain
of explosive power.
Thus, said the University of Chi
cago's DR.. A. H. Compton, is the
long-sought goal of atomic power be-
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Democracies' Naval Tonnage Tops That of Dctators

WASHINGTON. - The combined
naval strength of the United States,
Great Britain and France is almost
four times greater today than that
of Italy and Germany.
The statistics, which were COM
piled at the navy department, re-
vealed that the democracies have
1882 ships with a total of 1851, ,148
tons built, building or appropriated
for as Of March l. Italy and the
Nazis have '494 ships with a total
The Ely miner., 1939-05-18
ASIA:
Up the RiUer

Twenty-Five months ago China's
capital was Marking. japanese ag-
gression pushed it westward up the
Yangtze to Hankow, next backward
into Szechwan province and the an
cient walled city of Chungking. Play
ing retreating game, Gen. Chang
Kai-shek knows that the deeper he
can draw Japan into his bailiwick,
the easier will China's resistance be.
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1,164 ,629 tons, the records showed.
The apparent large ratio of differ
ence between the democratic and to-
talitarian powers, however, would
be whitfield down heavily If Japan,
which announced the intention to
build to sea parity with the United
States and Great Britain, is included
in the Italy-Germany lineup.
Japan has kept secret all news of
naval operations since 1886, when
it bolted the 5-5-3 ratio.
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Ex-Blanket Stiff
Boils Down Our
Labor Disputes
Motors Big Buyer

The automobile industry Is the
largest purchaser in the United
States of IL commodities. It buys
80 per cent of the rubber, 73 per
cent of the plate glass, go per cent
of the alloy steel. and 81 per cent
of the lead.
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Will not have as much voice in
selection of the Republican candi-
date as Mr.. Roosevelt will have in
making the Democratic choice.
So; we approach the things that
are to be considered and dealt with
as campaign questions next year
as seen from this distance.
Is NetD Deal
On the Wone?
I believe it can safely be said as
a fact recognized by most able po-
itical students that the 1888 cleo
tions, with the attendant increase
in Republican strength in the house
and senate, together with the evil
dent trend of thinking throughout
the country, that there is a wide
spread movement away from the
New Deal philosophy of government.
How far it has gone, or how far it
may yet go; how much the personal
popularity of President Roosevelt
has waned, or how much it may yet
fiuctuate, and how vigorously Mr..
Roosevelt is opposed within his own
party are factors yet to be evalu-
ated. But that evaluation has be-
gun; hence, the activity within the
Democratic ranks.
The fact that there is a trend
away from the New Deal philosophy
mot all of those policies, but
very great many of them-is the fac
tor that is causing Democrats, New
Dealers as well as anti-administra-
tionists, to scramble around. There
is more ''under cover" maneuvering
for delegates to the Democratic ma
tional convention going on right now
than ! have Witnessed thus far in
advance during any of the last sew
en- preliminary battles. The faction
of the Democratic party that may
be roughly delineated as headed by
Vice President Garner, Sen. Pat
Harrison of Mississippi, and Sena-
tor Byrd of Virginia-the old liners
appears determined to rid the par
ty of radical leadership. The group
which has stood by President Roose-
velt-New Dealers through thick and
thin--is overlooking no opportunity
to keep the Democratic label pinned
upon their faction.
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Speed Limit for bombay

During the imposing of speed linn
its in Bombay, it was emphasized
that Bombay city Is on an island
and has only one road connection
with the rest of India.
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK. - Radio, automo
biles, airplanes, moving pic
lures and virtually all the other
technical ten-strikes of the modern
DiUes in Cellar, between tn e e
Brings Up Our first and second
TeJeu;.;on Set Chicago worlds
fairs. About all
that is brand new at the New York
Worlds fair is television, which took
its bow with a telecast at the inaug-
ural ceremonies.
Unlike Britain's garret inven-
tor, John Logic Baird, Allen B.
Du Mont, putting his by-line on
the new televisi0n set, came
along through the channels" in
which promising young techni-
clans are gr0Oved these days.
Out of Rensselaer, Polytechnic
institute in 1923, he was en-
ployed as a tube engineer with
the Westinghouse company in
Bloomfield, N. j., until 1887,
when he became chief engineer
of the De Forest Radio cOmpa-
ny. But, when he caught the
televisiOn germ, he did just what
Baird did, the only difference be-
ing that he holed up in a cellar
instead of an attic.
It was in 1881 that he quit a good
job to play a hunch. The hunch
was that the cathode ray was the
joker in the Pickering television
deck. So he dived into his base
ment, built his laboratory and stayed
underground until he was ready to
come up with a cathode-ray tube
which is pretty nearly the works in
television.
In 1887, Mr.. Du Mont rounded
up some capital and built siz-
able two-story laboratory at
MOntclair, N. j., employing az
men. By 1888, Paramount pic
lures had declared itself in in
a big way, and, at last accounts,
Mr.. Du Mont's enterprise was
virtually subsidiary of this cor
poratiOn. That is interesting in
view of the fact that, in Eng
land, they already are televising
events for the moving picture
screen. 1t is indicated that the
Du Mont rig may be subject to
the same development.