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Washington. — President
velt’s most spectacular fight in the
next session of congress now seems
likely to be on taxation. It prom¬
ises to develop a battle approaching
the fundamental character of the
Supreme court enlargement fight of
the session now about to die. The
Treasury, working under the in¬
structions of the President, will
have a measure already drafted
when congress convenes in Janu¬
ary.
There is no dodging the fact that
the government does and will need
more revenue—lots more. All the
early session talk about economy
and balancing the budget has long
since blown out the window. Con¬
gress appropriated plenty more
than the budget. But that is only
part of the picture. Federal housing
is just starting—will expand. And
there will be other new expenses.
Biggest of all, however, is relief.
Harry L. Hopkins literally bites his
fingernails with rage at the idea of
congress appropriating “only” one
and a half billion dollars for relief—
was especially sore because of the
proviso that this must run through
the fiscal year. He had hoped for
no stringers—to spend the billion
and a half, in six or seven months
and then ask for a deficiency appro¬
priation. He doesn’t blame the Pres¬
ident for this nigardliness—says the
President asked for only a billion
and a half because the White House
was told by Capitol Hill leaders that
they would not vote for any more.
Criticism of congress for this stin¬
giness—for which Hopkins says
many people must suffer—is being
broached all through the far-flung
network of relief agencies.
But, regardless of any particular
development, the Treasury is going
to need more money, and the Presi¬
dent is going to tell congress how
to raise it. Right there will come
the rub.
Congress Knows—Maybe
Congress thinks it knows about
raising revenues—just how to keep
the shoe from pinching too pain¬
fully, and just how to get enough
money despite tempering the wind
to the shorn lambs. It has the pride
of one signal victory over the Presi¬
dent, with a following demonstra¬
tion . of the accuracy of its judg¬
ment. The President wanted to
eliminate the regular corporation in¬
come tax entirely—slap a very high
tax on undistributed earnings, and
get the revenue from bigger in¬
dividual income taxes.
It is now obvious to any one who
examines the figures that if congress
had done precisely what the Presi¬
dent wanted the Treasury would now
be in a much deeper hole than it
5s. Corporations did just what the
President wanted done—for the
most part. They voted out extra
dividends to escape the new tax, and
boosted incomes as a result. But
the income taxes did not mount
at anything like the rate the Presi¬
dent’s advisers had calculated. For¬
tunately for the federal strong box,
congress insisted on retaining the
regular corporation income tax.
In the coming battle the conserva¬
tives in congress will line up behind
Pat Harrison, chairman of the sen¬
ate finance committee, in a fight to
liberalize the tax on undistributed
corporation earnings. Harrison fa¬
vors a much more liberal policy
with respect to putting aside a sur¬
plus for rainy days. No. conserva¬
tive on Capitol Hill takes much
stock in the Roosevelt-New Deal
contention that under the new order
there won’t be any rainy days. Be¬
sides, they slyly point out, the Su¬
preme court is still functioning and
the Constitution has not been
amended, so the White House should
revise its own weather forecasts.
All the Roosevelt tax proposals
have contained just as much so¬
cial and economic reform as money
raising. Next January’s bill will be
no exception. It will move against
bigness. It will strike anew at
holding companies. It will aim, in
a general way, at the distribution of
wealth.
Laugh at Farley
Ever since James A. Farley
named Senator Arthur H. Vanden
berg as the Republican Presidential
nominee for 1940, there has been
lots of chuckling over Postmaster
Jim’s taking in more territory, and
running the Republican party as
well as the Democratic.
But there was plenty of shrewd
strategy behind Jim’s move. It just
so happens that Senator Vandenberg
is far from being the easiest Re¬
publican to beat, in Farley’s estima¬
tion. There are jots of Republicans
Jim thinks could be beaten much
more easily. In fact, if Jim were
to take down his hair and tell you
the cold truth, he would admit that
he would regard Vandenberg as the
very hardest Republican to beat of
any now on the horizon.
Why then would he try to help
nominate him?
Most of the Washington dispatches
since Farley made his prediction
have stressed the point that Vanden¬
berg would be about as strong as
any Republican likely to be nom¬
inated. They have gone on from
there to the old political logic that
the man farthest out in front in
any contest is the man most of the
other candidates shoot at, and hence
is very apt to be crippled in the
final stretch. The other candidates
“gang” him, fearing that otherwise
there would be no chance for any
one of them.
This, most observers have figured,
is what Farley wanted to happen to
Vandenberg, thus greasing the way
for the exit of the strongest oppon¬
ent Franklin D. Roosevelt—or who¬
ever runs in his place—could have.
The real truth is very different in¬
deed. Farley is more afraid of
something else, by far, than he is
of Vandenberg’s running. What ha
is most afraid of is that NO Re¬
publican will run!
Supremely Confident
Farley is absolutely confident,
and with considerable logic, that
whoever the Democrats nominate
—assuming they do not go plain
crazy—can beat any Republican
who may be nominated. The Demo¬
crats might not carry 46 states, as
they did in 1936. They might not
even carry 42, as they did in 1932.
But it would be mighty hard for the
Republicans to beat them. In fact,
fair betting odds right now ought to
be about ten to one that it will be
impossible to revamp the Republi¬
can organization into a winning ma¬
chine by 1940, even if they should
have an appealing candidate and a
popular platform.
There are more factors entering
into this situation than are explained
by the debacles of 1932, 1934 and
1936. Or by Roosevelt! There are
situations in individual states, not¬
ably New York, New Jersey, Penn¬
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Connecticut—all states that the Re¬
publicans simply must carry to
have a chance in a presidential elec¬
tion—which make the carrying of
any one of them an uphill job for
the Republicans.
In all those states the old leaders
have passed out of the picture, and
no competent hands or shrewd
brains have taken their places in
the G. O. P. machines. The New
York Republican organization went
to pot along about 1920. Not a Re¬
publican senator or governor has
been elected since that year, while
the majority of the house delega¬
tion has been Democratic beginning
with the 1922 election.
The Republican organization in
the other states named carried on
a little longer than did the Empire
state leaders, but they have been
dying on the stem. Pennsylvania’s
“Puddler Jim” Davis is the only
Republican senator„from the whole
lot, and the Democrats are counting
on knocking him off next year!
What Farley is moft afraid of
than any Republican, no matter how
strong, is the dissolution of the Re¬
publican party as a national insti¬
tution, and the split of the Demo¬
crats into two camps. Further, Far¬
ley happens to know that Vanden¬
berg is one of the best known Re¬
publicans who privately favor aban¬
doning the word “Republican.” So
the naming of Vandenberg by Far¬
ley was a very shrewd hypodermic,
not for Vandenberg, but for the old
G. O. P. elephant!
Might Be Worse
Business representatives in Wash¬
ington—the bright lads who look aft¬
er the interests of the various in¬
dustries, etc.—are relieved that the
wages and hours bill is going
through this session, surprising as
that may seem.
Not that they like it. With one
accord they agree that it is terri¬
ble. But they think that if its pas¬
sage were delayed until next ses¬
sion it would be worse.
When they saw how William
Green marched up to the Capitol,
after being relegated to the has
beens by so many commentators,
and put a few teeth in the measure,
they realized that if passage could
have been postponed the measure
would be much more radical than
it is now.
For instance, there is only a hair
line now holding the minimum
wages that the board can fix for a
community at 40 cents an hour.
There is a provision, slipped into the
bill by Green, which provides that
the board may not fix a minimum
less than the minimum obtained
by collective bargaining.
But being as the limit is fixed at
40 cents, the board simply could not
interfere with a concern which was
paying a minimum of 40 cents,
though the minimum established by
collective bargaining in that vicin¬
ity might be 50 cents.
Obviously the two elements were
injected in the bill without thought
of their working together. And ob¬
viously the natural inclination of ev¬
ery New Dealer would be to take
out that minimum of 40 cents in
favor of any action which might
tend to raise it.
So what the business representa¬
tives think is that if there were
more time to work on the measure—
if it were put over until next session
to study—the flat minimum would
be boosted.
Obviously such an amendment
can be proposed next session, and
beyond any question will be. But
to head off an amendment after a
law has been in operation less than
a year—before it has really got to
working—is not difficult. It is so
easy to make the point that time
must be allowed to see how the
machine works before any tinkering
is attempted.
© Ben Syndicate.—WNU Service.
CLEVELAND COURIER
'Way Back When
By JEANNE
GENERAL WAS SCHOOL
TEACHER
^ COMETIMES one small incident
changes a whole life’s trend, and
leads to prominence beyond all
previous dreams. We all recall one
or two unexpected happenings in
our own lives which changed their
whole course.
John J. Pershing, who rose to be
general of all the United States
army, might have had an entirely
different life had he not taken ad¬
vantage of a lucky opportunity. He
was born in 1860 at Laclede, Mo.
His father was boss of a railroad
gang and, later, a farmer. John
quit school when he was thirteen to
work on the farm, digging fence
holes, herding sheep, planting corn,
all the usual jobs that are the lot of
a farm boy. Ambitious to be a law¬
yer, he studied night after night.
In 1879, he got a job as teacher
in Prairie Mount, Mo., and saved
most of the $40 per month he re
Pfffg
ceived to study law at Kirksvillt
Normal school.
Then came the incident which
changed his whole life. Jack Persh¬
ing saw an advertisement announc¬
ing competitive examinations for
West Point. He had only two weeks
to prepare, but he won the appoint¬
ment. At West Point he won prom¬
inence as president of his class and
as first Captain of the corps of ca¬
dets. Possessing the characteristics
of a perfect soldier, his assignments
after graduation into the army
were marked with success. While
a military instructor at the Univer¬
sity of Nebraska, he resumed his
law studies and took his degree.
Since the army conducts its own
military courts, this gave Pershing
an opportunity to combine his busi¬
ness love with his soldierly success.
When the World war broke out, he
was made general of the U. S. army.
* * *
FAMED TENOR MIGHT HAVE
BEEN A CLERK
^ COMETIMES parents despair un
necessarily about their children.
Just because a youngster shows no
aptitude for the job his parents may
choose for him is no indication that
failure awaits him.
If John McCormack had followed
the plans of his father he might
have been a Catholic priest. The
famous tenor was born in Athlone,
Ireland, in 1884, fourth of eleven
children. His father worked in the
woolen mills of the town and the
family was very poor. John at¬
tended the Catholic schools and was
an excellent student, winning a
scholarship to college. There he
studied for the priesthood.
At an early age John McCor¬
mack’s voice showed promise and
at the age of nine he sang in a
school entertainment. Music was
not one of the subjects offered at
college, and so John had no oppor¬
tunity to receive training for his
voice. It did not occur to him at
that time that singing would be his
profession. However, he did decide
against becoming a priest, which
must have been a hard blow for his
father. But the man did not lack
understanding and he encouraged
the boy in his desire to become a
civil service clerk. When John
failed in the entrance examinations
at the school where he would re¬
ceive his training, and when given
a second chance forgot the appoint¬
ment, his father must have truly
despaired.
Then it began to dawn on John
McCormack that singing was his
true vocation. He had loved to sing
all his life. He went to Dublin and
got a job in the Marlborough Street
cathedral choir at $125 a year. He
began to gain more and more rec¬
ognition, sang for recordings of the
Edison and Gramaphone compa¬
nies, and eventually became a star
opera. Today he is known the
world over for his golden tenor.
©—WNU Service.
Colds Due to
Allergy
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
© BeU Syndicate.—WNU Service.
OOMETIMES you find your
^ self sneezing and coughing,
with a “running” nose and nat¬
urally you believe you have
caught a cold and are in for a
few days’ misery. However, in
a very short time, hours at
most, the sneezing, coughing,
and stuffiness of the nose dis¬
appear, much to your surprise.
The truth of the matter is that in¬
stead of having the usual “infec¬
Dr. Barton
heated rooms, lack of ventilation,
not enough moisture in the room, ex¬
posure to wet and cold, inhaling
dust or irritating substances, in¬
fected tonsils, and adenoid growths.
All these interfere with the mucobs
membrane of the nose so that it is
Ufiable to fight off the organisms
that cause the cold. With the usual
or common head cold there is a
feeling of tiredness, chilliness, slight
headache. The symptoms last from
two or three days to several weeks.
Not Like Common Colds.
However, in the “cold” due to al¬
lergy—sensitiveness to various sub¬
stances—the history, the onset, the
symptoms themselves are consider¬
ably different from those of the
common cold.
Dr. Norman W. Celin, Seattle,
Wash., in Northwest Medicine,
says: “Frequent colds at any sea¬
son or at special seasons of. the
year are often manifestations or
symptoms of allergy. To diagnose
that the condition is allergic there
must be an investigation "V
family history of allergy,
vious allergic history of the .
(asthma, hay fever, eczema,
ach and intestinal upsetment:
(3) a present history of a
symptoms. All foods, plants
stances handled in industr;
other substances should be
by the scratch method or inj
into the skin. The most co
symptom of nasal or nose alls
‘stuffy nose which is
worse in the morning; c
cough occurring especially
the early morning hours is li
a symptom.” I believe thatl
simple methods of learning hea] t
ference between the usual
due to infections, and colds
allergy (sensitiveness to subst
will enable us to treat eithe
intelligently. .
•* * *
Use of Dinitrophenol.
There are cases where the
processes are working at the m
rate, the individual does ni
much food and yet the body
is much above normal. It
these cases that the new dru;
trophenol has been used with
success.
From San Francisco, wb
great amount of research wor
been done on dinitrophenol,
some interesting findings. In
thyroid extract to make the
processes work faster and so
up fat, care must be taken
there is any heart throws ailment aj
thyroid extract extra
on the heart.
However when Dr. M. L. T
used dinitrophenol in three
of overweight suffering with a:
pectoris, without any heart s;
toms occurring, Dr. Harold R
blum, San Francisco, determini
find whether the dinitrophenol
creased the rate of the heart
whether it increased the amoui
blood the heart pumped and wi
er it increased the blood which] pressl
Accordingly the rate at
blood was flowing was observei
fore, during, and after the usi
dinitrophenol in patients who
being treated for overweight.
The blood travels comple
around the body in from ten to
teen seconds. The tests were m
in the morning, no food having b
taken since the last meal of
previous day—fourteen hours
thereabouts, the patient lying qu
ly at rest. A record was also '
of the weight, the pulse rate be:
and during the period during wi
dinitrophenol was given.
The results showed that althoi
the rate at which the body proces
were working was greatly
creased, nevertheless the heart <
not beat faster and the amount
blood pumped by the heart was :
increased. The blood pressure^
was not increased by the dinffro
phenol.
The reason that dinitrophenol
should only be used under a physi¬
cian’s supervision is that so many
are “sensitive” to this drug just
as so many are sensitive to pollens,
furs, hairs and other substances
which cause hay fever, asthma, and
eczema.
tious” cold, due to
the “cold,” flu, or
other organisms get¬
ting into the system,
you really had an
“allergic” cold in
the head due to
some substance you
breathed in from the
air, or some sub¬
stance you had eat¬
en.
The usual or com¬
mon cold in the
head is due to over¬
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STOP THOSE
CHILLS AND
FEVER!
Take a Proven Medicine
for Malaria
Don’t suffer like a dog!
The minute you feel a chill or
fever coming ■ on, start taking
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. This
good, old medicine will soon fix
you up.
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic con¬
tains tasteless quinidine and iron.
It quickly stops chills and fever and
also tends to build you up. That’s
the double effect you want.
The next time you suffer an attack
of Malaria, don’t take chances with
new-fangled or untried prepara¬
tions. Get Grove’s Tasteless Chill
Tonic. It’s pleasant to take as well
as effective.
All drug stores sell Grove’s Taste¬
less Chill Tonic, 50c and $1. The
latter size is the more economical.
A Good Laxative
The bad feelings and dullness
often attending constipation take
the joy out of life. Try a dose of
Black-Draught at the first sign of
constipation and see how much bet¬
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it gets a hold on you. Black
Draught is purely vegetable and is
so prompt and reliable. Get re¬
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taking purely vegetable
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