Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-09-06
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

BY LEMUEL +. PAKION
consolidated Features-wNU Service.)
NEW YORK.-After 20 years they
- still tell, in Moscow, how bold
Semyon Konstantovich Timoshenko,
then a cavalry chief, led a Red
Russian Politician horse up to
Fixes Up Jobs wars WIS
For Comn,issars very ga.es
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 Numbered 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
stranglehold on imperial Russia,
for himself as well as his party.
He is rough and tough, and on
the record he has what it 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 is 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 Profteering rae RAJ. . ,nat W, we
| ter. AS consumer adviser for the
national defense advisory commits
sion, Miss Harriet Elliott calls 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 hui
man and material resources.
Miss Elliott is Quaker and col
lege professor-dean of the woman's
college of the University of North
Carolina. For 81 years she has been
professor of political science at this
college and has achieved unique dis
tinction in her daily classroom take
off from the morning newspaper,
rather than 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 un-
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 gong
/ ing, and believes that all ele-
ments in producing and market
ing processes will be co-0pera-
tive il they are sensibly and
fairly mobilixed. However, she
has ut hand portfolio Of pretty
stf1 laws. with the department.