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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-15

Amateur Show at Linden Center,
Friday, November 90 at 7:30 pm.
Only school children may partici-
pate. Cash prizes will be awarded.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-15
Corinthian Baptist

Sunday was a high day in spite
Of the inclimate weather, Rev, Tho
mas was in the pulpit, he preached a
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-15
SHOW

The Garfield Parent Teacher As
soeiation i having It's second annual
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1940-11-15

son, Walter, five brothers, four sis
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

diggers, corned beef and miscellane-
Gus war exports valued at $18, $780,
600, all awaiting empty allied freight
ers to carry them across the SUBJ
marine infested Atlantic.
Items: 60 fast Lockheed recon-
naissance bombers, their bodies
painted dark brown and camou-
tagged with weird stripings; $500
Studebaker trucks and 1000 White
trucks, the vanguard Of 5000 to be
sent to the war zone within the
next two months wired to many of
them were crates carrying machine
gun mountings, and spare parts) /;
Is trench diggers costing So, 900 each
and destined for the Western front,
to be followed soon by 270 more.
At Washington, the annual report
Of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes
focused attention on Americas need
for conserving her natural resources
which he said were threatened by
efforts to break down conservation
programs in an attempt to reap
quick war profits. What specific at
tempts he had in mind Secretary
1ckes did not say, but it is well
known that army and navy depart
rnents have ordered strict conserva-
ton of domestic sources of certain
strategic materials.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
In the North

Attack-and-repulse tactics contin-
ued featuring the war between Fin
land and Russia, the Soviet suffer-
ing bitter losses ON all fronts from
Petsamo to the Karelian isthnus.
Main reason, as usual, was cold
weather, an ally Of the skillful Films.
Most gruesome story:
Near Suomussalmi it was learned
the outnumbered Firms had sur
rounded Russia's entire 163rd divi-
sion, waited three weeks in bitter
cold while the Soviet supply lines
broke down, then attacked to find
the Russians so weak and frozen
they could hardly move. Trapped
were most of the $4,000 men, thou
sands Of them already dead.
Far from an optimist, Finland's
President Kyosti Kallio knew such
luck couldn't hold out. AS new
waves of Red troops were rushed to
the front he appealed for foreign
volunteers. Already on the way were
$4,000 Scandinavians, with more to
come.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
CONGRESS-:
Ne,vs Quiz

Two months ago only a few Amer
leans realized that Cordell Hull's re-
ciprocal trade act comes up for
congressional renewal this year. To-
day that issue ranks No. l on the
agenda, threatening to inject itself
into 1905 presidential campaign.
The question: Should America sub
scribe to Hull low-tariff policies or
G. O. p. high tariffs?
At least three opponents of the
Hull idea 1.-TWO of them Democrats)
spoke their minds as congress UNI
locked its oratorical fioodgates. New
York's G. O. p. Rep. Daniel Reed
charged Joseph Davies had been
brought back from his Brussels am
bassadorial post to serve as Super
lobbyist for Cordell Hull. South
Dakota's Sen. w. J. Bulow keynoted
opinion in his chamber by indicating
it wasn't so much the act itself he
opposed; what counted was that the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
BrucRdT rs w uSnngtOu DIgesE
Pressure Groups Already Are
Worrying Members Of Congress
New Deal Agencies Seekers After Justice and Promoters
OF Various Movements Active as Usual Old Age PEN
sons, Unemployment Insurance Not Neglected.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg Washington, D. G.

WASHINGTON.-A the time
congress reconvenes each year, the
national capital is deluged with
what have come to be known as
pressure groups" 1t is a poor de-
scription. I believe most of them
can be called selfish groups" for
the reason that the self-righteous in
dividuals who lead Cor promote)
movements or causes or demands
for justice usually have jobs of their
own at stake.
They want to keep their followers
happy, especially the saps who con-
tribute hard-earned dimes or dol
lars SO that their representative or
their delegation may put up good
front in the city of Washington.
Any way, it is the open season for
them, again. They are buster than
a hive of bees. They are engaged
in the annual invasion upon senators
and representatives and among the
numerous New Deal agencies, seek
ing justice, urging help for those
whose liberties are being trampled
into the mud, appealing for this and
that and the other.
There are the usual spokesman
for corporations and groups Of cor
porations. They, too, are seekers
after justice. They are no more
selfish than the lesser racketeers.
Those fellows, however, have diff
ferent kind Of stake in the results.
The seekers after individual justice,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
DOMESTIC: s
u. S. e the War

Major fear of congressman who
opposed the neutrality act last Oc-
tober was that its practical effect
was to favor Britain and France,
who control the seas, meanwhile
shutting off U. S. munitions sup
plies to Germany. Released by the
state department at years end were
substantiating figures: In Novem-
Der, first month of neutrality's OPP
Grafton, France received export Ii
censes covering sos, SIS, 900 in MUM
tons exports; Britain, 1870, 900;
Germany, none.
Meanwhile New York port officials
felt for the first time the press OF
war shipments. Bedded down in
the foreign trade zone on Staten
island were bombers, trucks, trench
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

who now writes binding legal opin-
ions as a member of the Supreme
court Of the United States instead
Of blabbing for hours on the floor
of the senate. ! maintain that ev-
eryone has the right of petition to
any government agency. What ! am
trying to do here, however, is to
show that there are so many more
sspetitioners" now than heretofore
and to find the reason for it.
Many Seekers After
Justice in Washington
OF course, most of these move
ments will not get very far. They
will not get as far, in fact, as when
I used to crawl under the corncrib
for eggs out on the farm. But there
are enough dissatisfied and discour-
aged folks throughout the country to
pay the freight-and the hotel bills
for an extraordinarily large NUM-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
ESPIONAGE:
Dies to Murphy

Much maligned during the two
years his committee has investigat-
ed un-Americanisrn, Congressman
Martin Dies of Texas has never
theless managed to stir up trouble
for Communist Earl Browder, Nazi
Fritz Kuhn, Alien Harry Bridges,
and many lesser figure. For
months the administration would not
cooperate, but finally the justice
department swooped down on Earl
Browder, indicting him on false
passport charges.
This month Attorney General
Frank Murphy begins cooperating
SO completely that Martin Dies is
showed to the background. Opened
in Washington was d special grand
jury probe to study direct evil
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

of the special department for repa-
triation of Americans living abroad.
Goerasg Trouble:
q The London Daily Herald reports
on good authority that Adolf Hit
ler's No. ] aid, Field Marshal Her
mann Goering, has fallen in dis
favor and is living at his shooting
chalet at Schorfheide, planning a
comeback campaign ION his own
terms"
Neutrality
observers expect wholesale at
tefnpts to transfer u S.-owned pas
senger and freight ships to registry
Of European neutrals, following the
maritime commissions approval Of
deal whereby eight u. S. Lines
ships are sold to q Norwegian COM
pany for. operation between New
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

senate should ratify each treaty.
Most realistic attitude was that OF
Nebraska's Sen. Edward F.. Burke:
He favored the ''long-range view"
that taking down tariff walls would
eventually benefit all countries, but
declared agriculture in some states
is so depressed it would require
at least few years to get it back
on its feet
What most senators want is
chance for some old-fashioned log
rolling, hence observers thought the
trade act would be renewed only if
congressional ratification is includ-
ed.
Other issues:
Pensions. Unexpectedly injected
was q campaign sponsored by
poorer" states) to make the U. S.
take bigger share of pension costs.
Under law the U. S. matches states
dollar for dollar up to $40 per month.
Agriculture. Henry Wallace pol
ished off his certificate plan" to
syphon $500, 000,000 annually from
consumers 10 nnance the farm pro-
gram. Farmers would get income
certificates valued at the differential
between market price and parity
price," these to be purchased by
professors.
Taxes. Henry Morgenthau not
only opposed the certificate plan as
a consumer tax in disguise, but
pointed out the consumer already
pays 81 per cent of the taxes. A
bigger issue: Whether to raise taxes
or hike the national debt limit,
which reaches its ceiling next year.
Defense. While the President
planned an enlarged defense pro-
gram, two Republicans (Ohio's Sen.
Robert A. Taft and Idaho's William
Borah) warned against it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

1. Arrow points to section of
Turkey very much in the news re-
Gently. Why?
2. The former Ethel dupont
and her husband were injured in
a Virginia auto crash. What's
her married name?
8. Ex-President Herbert Hoover
heads relief agency which has
sent more than $500, 900 to aid the
citizens Of what country?
4. Choice: Pope Plus XII set a
modern precedent by visiting:
(a) the Western front; (b) his
birthplace; Co the Italian king.
S. Name the former U. S. am
bassador to Belgium who has just
been named Especial assistant"
in the state department at Wash
ingt0n.
(Anst0ers at bottom OF column
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
Run,Ors Behind
World Headlines

York and Liverpool. Purpose of
transfer: To escape ban imposed
by U. S. neutrality law.
q RESIGNATION Of DR.. Alan Row Da-
foe as a guardian of the famous Di-
onne quintuplets may pave the way
for their return to the home of the
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Olivia Di-
onne.
Strategy:
d Both Republicans and Democrats
(the latter in self-defense) will prob
ably concentrate their major 1910
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
Youthful Tailored
Two-Piece Frock

CEASON in and season out, the
- whole year round, you need a
two-piece tailored suit-frock like
1875-B. It's ideal for business,
classroom wear and general spec
tator sports. The collarless neck
line, besides being very smart,
gives you chance to indulge your
fancy for sports jewelry and
scarfs.
The skirt is full and circular,
and of course you can wear it
with your lingerie blouses, too.
The jacket-blouse has unusually
attractive bodice detailing, with
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
TREND:
Suppression

Freedom Of speech and press suf-
fered three times in two days:
q At Cambridge, Mass, the city
council voted to ban the words Lenin
and Leningrad from all printed mat
ter in the city, but the mayor re-
fused to sign the measure.
q At Chicago, President James C..
Petrillo of the local federation of
musicians demanded that two stage
productions George Whites Scan
dals and The Man Who Came to
Dinner delete references to John
L. Lewis, head of A. F. of LIS arch
foe, the c. I. O.
q. At Mexico City, the chamber of
deputies voted to exclude all reli-
gion and religious instruction from
schools.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

several years ago,
I want to recall that
I once feebly at
tempted to pin a
senator's ears back
for seeking legisla-
ton to make every
one register who
visited a senator or
a representative in
behalf of legislation.
He wanted to brand
each one as a lob
byist. That senator
mas HUGO BLACK
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

Both the Congress
of Industrial Organ
izations, which is
headed by John L.
L e W is, a n d tn 9
American Fedora
ton of Labor, which
is headed by VIII
liam Green, have
national headquar-
tiers here. What is
a poor politician 60
ing to do, however,
when Lewis and
Grpnn arc fiohtinp
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

nnlnlStratlon,
B r e c k e n
ridge Long
is consid-
cred the'best
bet to sue
coed Joseph
E. Davies as
ambassador
to Belgium.
Davies ! has
already TAX
en- over most
of Longs
present du-
ties as head
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

Der of seekers after justice in Wash
ington.
It is astonishing to see the lengths
to which some of them will 60. For
example, there is one great church
Organization that sought to force the
census bureau to include in the
forthcoming census certain ques-
tons that would have given. that
church a powerful leverage in the
future administration of government
affairs, according to well-authenti-
Gated reports. The church repre-
sentative tried for weeks to high
pressure the census officials into in
clusion of three questions. He made
some threats about the conse-
quences of their refusal. The govs
eminent attorney to whom the CEN
sus officials submitted the question
had the CUTS to say ''no" and that
was the census bureau answer.
1t was a despicable thing, how
ever, and illustrates the dangers in
herent in the conditions I have tried
to describe.
The old age pension movement
and the unemployment compensa-
ton movement and the other swel-
fare" movements are represented
in full force.
Other Groups Are Working
For Gifts From Government
There are half dozen other
groups around town, working for
one thing or another in the shape Of
gifts from the government. Nearly
all Of them have found something
wrong with the present social Sc
curity law but they do not agree
on what is wrong with 1t. The
whole circumstance rather con-
vinces me that maybe the law ought
to be tossed overheard. doubt
that the federal government can
ever administer such law. There
probably is little possibility that any
such law ever can be made worka-
BILE on a national basis. Some of
the dreamy New Dealers who con-
ceived it have faded out Of Wash
ington officialdom already and have
left their baby for somebody else to
nurse to maturity. The one service
they performed was to the New
Deal finances, because the original
program has brought six or seven
hundred million dollars into the fed
eral treasury-and it has been
spent.
Organized labor has its represent
atives on the scene in a big way.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

stitched seams emphasized by two
little fiat pockets, placed just
where slim figures need them! It
is fitted in to hug the waistline,
and the shoulders are CALAMITY
squared, to make it look even
more slender. Tweed, velveteen,
flannel and wool crepe are ex-
cellent materials for right now; by
all means repeat this later in faille
or fiat crepe.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1875-B
is designed for sizes IL, IA, is, IS
and 20. Corresponding bust meas
urements 80, 80, "a, SO and SO.
Size IA (32) requires As yards
of 39-inch material. With long
sleeves, size IA requires 434 yards
of 39-inch fabric.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 w. Forty
third street, New York, N. Y.
Price of pattern, Is cents Tin
coins).
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
PRESSURE GROUPS BUSY

Harass members of congress
with various causes.
May be tuning up for the COM
ing campaign.
Many movements will not get
very far.
Union labor and the American
Legion active.
Bruckart doesn't believe it is
possible so many new injustices
could have arisen.
Few are able to analyze the
situation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
PEOPLE:
No Communist

At Washington, Harvard law
schools Dean James M. Lands re-
ported he had found Harry Bridges,
west coast C. I. o. leader, is not a
Communist, thus closing the deporta-
ton hearing at which Dean Lands
officiated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
WHITE HOUSE:
appointments

AS congress opened, President
Roosevelt asked confirmation Of his
two most recent appointees:
q. Charles Edison, assistant secre-
tary Of the navy since January, 1887,
and acting head of the department
since last summer, chosen for full
secretaryship.
q Daniel W. Bell, former acting
budget director, named undersecre-
tary Of the treasury to succeed John
Hanes, resigned.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
THE WARS:
In the West

Where Christmas left off, a violent
blizzard began to stop all operations
on the western front. Sidelights:
q Britain, expecting ''real war" in
the spring, ordered 100000 more
men prepared for army service.
q In Paris lie Petit PmisieB pub
lished report from Italy that Adolf
Hitler was ready to quit as chan
cellor and purge his more radical
Nazis to convince the allies to
make peace"
q Only sea activity was the decision
of Germany's freighter Tacoma to
accept internment at Montevideo
harbor rather than face capture by
British ships waiting outside the har-
Dor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

Knoso your nescs? Pertecf score is
100; deduct 20 points for each ques.
tion you miss. Score Of 80 is excel
lent; so, average; 40, poor; 20. don't
tell anyone!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH w. LaBINE
Y. S. Reacts to European War
AS Shipments Crowd Wharves;
Ickes Warns Against 'Raiding'

EDITORS opinions they
those of the analyst
- Released by western Newspaper
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
A Good Mind

He that procures his child a
good mind makes a better pur-
chase for him than if he laid out
the money for an addition to his
former acres.-Locke.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
May Be Just Tuning Up
For the Election Campaigns

There is, however, SOmethlng QlS-
turbing about this years invasion.
It seems to be utterly impossible
that SO many new injustices could
have arisen within the last year.
There always has been a considera-
BILE amount of this low form of high
pressure around Washington, but
the increased number of seekers
after justice this year would seem to
prove that the whole country has
gone to pieces. It may be, of course,
that they are tuning up for the cleo
ton campaigns.
Seriously, however, few persons
have been able to analyze the stu
alton. Some suggest that the cur
rent trek of seekers after justice
results from the. fact that the ma
tional government has become the
focal point for srelief' from every
thing since the depression fell upon
us in 1880. Others feel that a sense
of futility about life, itself, has crept
into this country from the lands
where dictators hold a human life
to be nothing more than a chattel.
If either of these answers is cor
rect, we have-a dangerous condition
on our hands. It is the defeatist
attitude.
1t represents a decaying civiliza-
ton and national leaders had better
wake up to what it means.
Now, lest someone charge me
with having changed my tune from
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
For EGAS ST !:
Men, JOBS

q Once U. S. ambassador to Italy,
and an official Of the state depart
nlent since Woodrow Wilson'S ad-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12
American Legion Can Really
Put on High Pressure


labor's setup here known as Labor's
Non-Partisan league. I don't know
what it is supposed to accomplish,
but it has a press agent and staff
of executives" and they all seem
to get paid regularly.
The American Legion is getting
active again. It wants more gov
eminent money for the ex-soldiers,
and make no mistake about it. The
American Legion can really put on
high pressure when it sets out to do
the job.
havgp't scratched the surface in
naming the pressure groups that are
to be found here for the current ses-
sion of congress. There are at least
so business organizations and trade
associations. The purposes of all
are the same, namely, advantages
for them. The advantages may be
in the form of cash such as the pen
sion petitioners and the Legion seek,
or advantages that can be turned
into cash after the methods of BUSH
ness. In any event, they are all
headed down Washington-way. It
seems to hode no good at all for
the folks who are going to pay the
bill, including national debt that
is now $45, 000. 100000 or more
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12


each other and seldom, If ever,
agree upon what changes must be
made in the national labor relations
act.
The labor row may get more than
just an ordinary airing during the
session Of congress now under way.
I have written heretofore about
the special house committee investi-
cation of the National Labor Rela-
tons board. Exposures by that COM
mittee already have brought de-
mands for the busting of Commits
sioner Smith and Chairman Mad
den. Commissioner Leiserson, APP
pointed only a few months ago, ap-
parently is seeking to clean up the
sinking mess, but the Lewis fac
ton of labor which has dominated
the board thus far is making Mr..
Leiserson's job pretty difficult.
There will be little consideration
for the Green faction if Lewis can
prevent it.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-01-12

York and Liverpool. Purpose of
transfer: To escape ban imposed
by U. S. neutrality law.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-22

refused to fee from their country
estate near Pozen when the blitz-
krieg struck in August, 1899. AL
though the count was retired from
official life, both were Immediately
thrown into prison. Twice the count
ess was put before a firing squad
when she refused to become a spy
of the Gestapo or to divulge in
formation. The guns were raised
and she heard the command, "Fire."
Afterwards she was told it was a
joke.
Her husband contracted pneumo-
MIA in his barren prison cell, which
remained unheated throughout the
severe Polish winter, in accordance
with the Nazi theory that the Poles
art IAN inferior race which must
be destroyed"
GAS a special favor" the count
ess relates, 81 was permitted to be
at his bedside when he died"
Few persons in Nazi-conquered
Poland have been so fortunate as
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-22

Her husband dead in a Nazi pris-
on and her country crushed by the
German blitzkrieg, the Countess
Helen Chlapowska, once one Of the
wealthiest women in Poland and a
leader of continental society, lives
today with but one purpose in life,
the defeat of NaZism. Seated in a
peaceful hotel room in New York,
still little tired after her clipper
flight from Europe, the wife of the
late Polish ambassador to France
has before her a small suitcase,
holding all her earthly belongings.
From it she takes "the most valu-
able thing l have saved-my diary,
kept during the nineteen weeks |
spent in a Nazi jail" The countess
explains "If my memory ever fall
tiers, if ever start forgetting what
has happened to my country and to
me, only have to read one page of
this -. :"
Determined to share the fate of
their people, the count and countess