The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-01-11

sending for him a
great deal, thus giving the impress
zion that the feud between the two
had been healed.
! But no one outside the Wheeler
encourage has taken this peace
making very seriously. 1t is pointed
out that the President has never for
given any one who proved his enemy
on any important issue, and the
thought Is that the defeat the White
House took on the Supreme court
packing bill left too many bitter
scars for any olive-branch waving
% overcome It.
The theory is that the President
may smile at Wheeler, and use him,
On the notion that there is no use
biting of ones nose to spite ones
face, but that the cordially is all
on the surface.
Wheeler, however, has apparently
taken the Presidents constant con-
situations with him during the last
session Of congress At their face
value, assuming, Of course, that the
outside gossip is right about the
Presidents really not having for
given him.
Roosevelt Strongly Opposed
To Nomination Of Garner
There is also very general agree
ment that the President would never
stand for the nomination OF John
Nance Garner. The President be-
lieves that Garner is utterly out Of
sympathy with many of the New
Deal policies.
Most Of the left wingers around
the White House, the men who have
the most ready access to the Presi-
dent, feel sure that they would not
have positions very long after Gar
ner's inauguration. So they take
pains to keep the home fires burn
ing so far as the Presidents dis
trust OF his second in command"
is concerned.
incidentally these left wingers
have had no hesitancy in private
conversations with other officials,
and with outsiders as well, in ex-
pressing their conviction that the
President would never approve Gar
ner's nomination. While they con-
tend that il would be impossible to
nominate Garner without Roose-
velt's sanction, when pressed as to
what the President would do If Gar
ner should be nominated, they in
sist he would take walk"
Congress May Take Hand
In Transfer Of Ship Flags
There may be an entirely differ
ent picture of this business OF trans
ferring United States lines ships to
the flag of Panama by the time con-
gregs cUnvenes.. The first obvious
indignation was at the obvious
duplicity--as critics saw it-of the
scheme. Especially starting to
put it through after congress had
gone home, satisfied that it had
passed law which would keep the
United States out of certain type
OF danger which might involve this
country in the war.
It is perfectly true that the chief
reasons actuating President Roose-
welt and Secretary of State Cordell
Hull in approving the idea was to
enable American industry to market
its wares abroad.
But the big pressure is not COM
ing from the airplane manufacture
ers, or the toolmakers, or even the
oil men. They know that the bellig-
erents will find some way Of getting
enough ships over here to bring
those particular products. The real
outcry Is coming from the cotton
men.
Cotton has been piling up in New
Orleans, for instance, because the
ships that normally would be carry
inn It to England have been barred
from that trade by the leash and
carry provisions of the neutrality
act. Now, Of course, eventually
Britain must have that cotton. She
would have to provide ships for it
some way or other. But this is not
nc clear To the cotton factors. and