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FARM PARITY FIGHT

been confident that the house of rep
resentatives would remain Demo-
cratic-despite the warning of Chair
man Ed Flynn that the Middle West
and probably California would go
Republican.
So the fight over farm parity was
a shock; and administration leaders
shrink from the prospect of fac
ing that type of congressional bat
ting for two long years to come.
But, if the Republicans organize the
house, or even if the Democratic
majority is appreciably cut, that is
exactly what will happen.
Three reasons are given, back
stage, for the faulty handling which
resulted in the terrific farm battle.
/. The President himself, who
couched his message to congress in
terms of such strong ultimatum,
rather than the usual Roosevelt pep
talk strategy at which he is so adept.
Incidentally, the speech was writ
ten in large part by brusque, bull
doing Leon Henderson.
2. Speaker Sam Rayburn, who
dropped his usual kindliness and
stormily told congressional friends
that the President had promised him
not to send farm price stabilization
message until later. Rayburn's at
titude was a tip-off in deeds if not
words "To vote as you please,
boys"
8. Price Car Leon Henderson,
who was considered the political
ogre and bogeyman for whom the
farm stabilization bill was being
passed.
WAR BONDS
A war savings bond salesman in
Buchanan county, Iowa, was non
plussed when the spokesman for a
colony of rs families fatty refused
to buy even so much as a 10-cent
stamp The salesman was about
to leave, but was called back and
handed $6,450 in cash as the colo
ny's donation to the war effort
Seeking an explanation, the bewil-
dered bond seller was told that the
community was composed of Amish
families and that their religious
creed forbids them to make a profit
to make gift of the money, but
could not buy interest-bearing bonds.
Presidential adviser Isador Lubin,
after Sc straight hours of hard work,
went to bed one morning at nine
o'clock, slept until nine the next
morning.
The infantry company at Fort
Devens, Mass, boasts that every
member of the company is buying
war bonds, and it is 101 per cent
correct.
ARMY SHOES
If you are a draftee with high
arches or low arches, one fiat foot
or two fiat feet, or even if your
right foot is a half size larger than
! your left foot-it doesn't matter.
The quartermaster will fit you any,
way.
Even if no one of the 238 different
sizes of army shoes fits you, instruc-
tions to army posts are that every
foot shall be fitted, and fitted COM
| fortably. This order is to be obeyed
even if it means making a plaster
cast of the odd foot and making a
special shoe from an individual last.
In such cases, the individual last
is tagged with the name of the SOL
dier and filed away until he needs
another pair of shoes. Such service
would cost $25 pair in private life.
Army experts declare that SOL
dier with sore feet is worthless.
NO CELLOPHANE COMMISSION
Siegfried Bechhold, president of
the Armored Tank corporation, is
now a private in the army. After
making a small fortune in manufac-
turing tanks, Bechhold joined the
army as a private, age AZ, was sent
to Camp Lee, Va. Friends expected
to find him unhappy after exchang-
ing his soft life for the rigors of
the army. But when Bechhold got
away for his first weekend, he de-
| clared:
This experience is making a man
of me, and wouldn't miss it for the
worldl I've served in other armies,
but there's no army to compare with
this one. You talk about morale
the soldiers don't need morale; !;
they already have it.
"You have to get out of Washing
ton to learn what Uncle Sans army
is really like. If had ten sons, I
would tell them all to join the
army"
MERRY-GO-ROUND
q Some doctors who passed their
| physical examination for the army
three months ago have not yet been
called. Yet the army is still appeal
ing for more doctors.
q President Ernest M. Hopkins of
Dartmouth will be campaign man.
ager for Republican Senator Styles
Bridges of New Hampshire against
ex-Republican Francis Murphy, now
Democrat. Like Bridges, President
Hopkins has been militant sup
porter of Roosevelt's foreign poll
cies.
q The army has promised to aid the
tin collection campaign by bringing
used tin cans back on returning
transports from Australia and
Egypt.
q The way U. S. official estimates
of German losses are arrived at is
by a secret sampling process of Ger
man communities performed by
neutrals. BY this method it is esti-
mated that 1000, 900 Germans were