The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-09-06

Russidn Politician horse I'D to
Fixes Up Jobs wars VS.
After another
20 years, no doubt, they will still be
telling how, in 1910, the same Sem
yon, then commissar of defense, led
more than a regiment of his follow
ers back to the payrolls from which
they had been briefly booted.
When Russia blundered to vic
tory over fallen Finland her
armies obeyed a double-barreled
leadership. Alongside the or
thodox military commanders
marched as many political COM
missars, all with the power Of
veto. Thousands Of dead Rus
SLAMS proved the weakness Of this
command system, and this week
Moscow announced that the
commissars were out on their
various ears.
Overnight, however, they got back
in the army, still. Now they are
assistant commanders for political
affairs. The old power Of veto is
gone, but the pay check will be the
same. Timoshenko fixed it all up
as briskly as any ward boss ever
drummed up jobs for the faithful.
Timoshenko has been fixing
things up ever since Lenin got q
stranglehold on imperial Russia,
for himself as well as his party.
He is rough and tough, and on
the record he has what Il takes
to get ahead under Communism.
His jaw Is wide and hard. His
eyes have a "Sez you'll" CLINT.
His thin hair grows close to
hard poll, offering no purchase
for an enemy's hand.
He got his first real boost in 1887
when he was made commander of
the North Caucasian Corps area.
His last and best, however, came in
May OF this year. Then he reached
his current job. He ID pretty high
up now. And in Russia, under
Stain, the higher they 60 the hard
er they fall. So those fellows may
not be permanently on the payroll
after all.
A PLUMP, pleasant middle-aged
\ lady, who likes pink dresses
and an old-fashioned hair-do, has the
job Of seeing that we don't turn too
Consumer Adviser into cannons
Assigned to Watch or at any
For pro6t.eY;nu rate that we
get the but
ter. AS consumer adviser for the
national defense advisory commits
sion, Miss Harriet Elliott calls a ma
tional conference of retailers to lay
the foundation Of cooperation in the
maintenance Of living standards as
a bulwark Of defense.
She has long maintained that
health, housing, recreation, child
welfare and general public we'll
being are bedrock essentials OF
any defense program. With the
above appointment she became
the first woman to be drafted"
In the current mobilization of hu-
man and material resources.
Miss Elliott is a Quaker and col
lege professor-dean of the woman s
college of the University Of North
Carolina. For FL years she has been
professor of political science at this
college and has achieved unique dis
tinction in her daily classroom take
of from the morning newspaper,
rather than a text book.
Her theory of education is to pro-
coed from the particular to the gen.
eral; she thinks Mill and Adam
Smith should be left on the shelf I'M
til the student can generalize from
everyday facts as they come to him
in the news. She is wary about
theories.
One Of her main jobs as con
sumner adviser Is TO watch prices.
While she has fought profiteers,
she Is no alarmist about gOuR-
ing, and believes that all eIe-
ments In producing and market
ing processes will be cO-Opera-
tive II they are sensibly and
fairly modified. However, she
has at hand a portfolio Of pretty
stih laws, with the department
Of justice standing by, II she
finds II necessary to invoke
them.
Miss Elliott is a native of Carbon
dale, ILL.,, where her mother and sis
ter still live. She is an alumna OF
Park college, Parkville, Mo, and
Hanover college, Hanover, Ind, and
holds masters degree from Co
lumbia university In the first
World war, she was a member of
the women's council Of national de-
Tense. II was her work in this post
which projected her into her long
continued studies of public we'll
being as basic requirement for de-
tense.