The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-01-16
sLIGHT
President Advised 10
Speak Softly
How Clare Booth Luce
Won Congress Seat
LETTERS Let the Bars
Down and Gets q Poke
Kind Friends Write
Killers VIII
BY RAY kER

BY RAY TUCKER
uAsHINGToN-The president
has promised his legislative lead
ers that he will lean backward IN
the effort to avoid unnecessary
controversies with congress during
the present session. The man
chiefly responsible for selling this
big idea to the chief executive Is
Sam Rayburn.
The Texan will not admit 1t
publicly, but he delivered a not
too good-natured lecture 10 FDR
a few weeks ago. He pointed out
that il would be impossible 10
control the lower chamber unless
he obtained more cooperation
from the head man and his aides.
Fifty Democratic members.
according TO the speaker, Will
line up with the 6. o. p. on
domestic issues. Southern
states represented by con-
seryatiyes have a more somi-
nant position than in a dec
ade because of the loss of
seats In New England, the
the 222 Democrats. 10S
come from below the Mason
and Dixon's line.
Clare Booth Luce gives chief
credit for her election to congress
to her secretary, Albert P. Mo-
rano, who served in the same ca
pacity for her stepfather, the late
Rep. Albert E. Austin of Con-
necticut.
Mr.. Morano wrote to the author
early last summer urging her to
make the race. She replied with
the recitation of eight reasons
why, in her opinion. she could not
win. But he turned her disclaim-
ers into eight arguments in favor
of her candidacy and chances.
During the campaign she was
extremely pessimistic. He re-
manned confident and his invari-
able reply to her expressions of
doubt was, You can't miss" At
a Columbus day banquet in
Greenwich, attended largely by
Americans of Italian descent, she
paid tribute to the explorer in
Italian, adding, And now I want
to introduce the little Christopher
Columbus of politics - the man
who discovered meal Morano."
The nations leading rubber
makers are deeply disturbed
about an article on the sub
iect of syntheties which APP
peared In a monthly maya
zine under the name of Dr.
rectIr William M. Jeffers.
According to the men who
ought to know, II shows an
amazing ignorance of the
problem.
The critics praised the piece for
,.rasapfino aoca for dra cfi1 ,,afIa
age rationing and disabusing the
public of the belief that substi-
tutes can be developed overnight
by some miracle. But they can
not understand his flat deelara-
ton that the most important
synthetic is butadiene, which is
made from alcohol produced from
grain or petroleum The fact is
that it is not a synthetic at all. It
is the gaseous substance which is
only the base from which the
commodity is manufactured.
Mr.. LETTERS made no mention
OF the most difficult task. which
is the highly technical work of
Transforming buta into the fin
ished elastic. The most charitable
conclusion is that the boss hand
ed the writing assignment 10 a
ghost" who did not know what
he was talking about.
Washington is deriving no lit
tie amusement from a document
drawn in legal style and entitled
Last VIII and Testament of
Adolf Hitler and dated Very
Soon" Here a few of the be-
quests:
To Russia I leave the Russian
winter where my brave Aryan
soldiers froze-just when We ex-
pected 10 land deep in the heart Of
Moscow.
To France 7 leave all the beau
tiful modemoiselles IN occupied
Paris. was never the one for
girls
To England I leave the origi-
nal manuscript OF Mein Kampf.
which the Raj spoiled. 7 had
written a different finish out
their fhers got me IN the end.
To Italy 7 leave Japan. the
land Of the Rising Sun. and vice
versa. It's a question Of who will
be getting the worst Of il.
To Count Ciano. the son-in-
law OF Mussolini, leave the Vic
toria Cross for bringing down in
one day 4 bombers and u fight
ers-all Italian.
To Franklin D. Roosevelt
leave my apology for interrupt
ing MS fishing. but ne got even