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JONDAY, MAY 27, 1940
The Fort Worth' Press War Resources Report Kept Secret
On the March
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By CHARLES T. 14* EV and IMUMAN
Don w EVER vitori . I- NTOK EN
, JAMES , Four • ■-•''■ Manager (MITICHM of Army ar 1 Navy pros re
U mett methods of the last five years
. Katess sa serond-cens A * is contained in the report of the way re-
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which though completed and submitted to
President Roosevelt last November,i has
-never been made public
The hoard, appointed by the President
and healed by Edward ft Ntettinius Jr
tates Steel also rec
ommended creation of a civilian group
to handle procurement and to co-ordinate
and speed up industrial production of nee-
defense program The industrial and buid-
neas leaders are to be brought in he aald,
“not to supersede, but to work with, ad-
vige with and co-ordinate with the off.
■ cers of the Government
This policy ia contrary to the recom- I
menidations of the Government’s own in- 1
dustrial mobilization plan which revised 1
, in 1939 and approved by Ber retary of the
Navy Edison and Assistant Secretary of
War: Johnson, states
“All economic functions which must
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“Give Light und the P’ropte
Will Find Their Own Way."
The President’s
Omission
emsary war materials a group similar to
the war industries board of the first
world war :
The report further suggests changes and
modifications in existing labor statutes
covering wage and hour schedules, as a
means of speeding up production; and
this has aroused the interest of cham-
pions of labor In Congrean who insist that
1 an emergency must not be used to break
down labor standards
Contending that the board’s findings are
important in mapping out the new three-
billion dollar national defense I program for
which Congress is appropriating. Senator
Vandenberg has demanded from the floor
that the President submit the report to
be exercised in time of war are interre-
lated and inter dependent U is therefore
highly important that one major, emer-
gency agency be treated to co-ordinate
the performance of these functions and
that other agenc les be set up only, as the
necessity arises to supplement the work
of the key agency it is considered highly
desirable that the key super-agency for
I wartime industrial,.....rdination should he
the War Resources Administration
Congress If 11 is considered not desidible
to make the report public, Senator Van-
denburg wants It given in confidence to
congressional committees for their guide:
. 4 * v.
An announcement by the Warand Navy
departments when the Stettinius Hoard)
was created commented that in an einer- |
gency the war resources board would be- 1
come an exec utive agency of the govern-
ment with broad powers similar to those
of the old War-industries Board in this
event the board would report directly to 1
the President as a war resources adminis- 1
tration *
IT WAN made plain at that time that for-
1 mation of, the board was "no sudden
inspiration and that the move Chad been
under consideration for many months as
THE PRESIDENTS talk last night | largely because its recommendations on
i was calmer and more reammuring, policy that is for a separate war re-
than his other recent utterances Be . sources board run counter to the ideas of
cause of that, it should help him win the Prenident and the New Deal Inne
the confidence and co-operation The HIM Rooneveit. It is indicated: does not
needs for the task of rearmament intend to bring to Washington Indus
His statistics on what we have to trial leaders who would constitute a sep-
show for the money alrend spent on - arete entity ........rdinate and execute
2 . r : the industrial liaison prograr for rearma-
dcfenses were un statistics frequently | ment Rather the dollar-a -year mr„
are slightly on the argumentative aide,
in that he lumped weapons on hand
THE report has been suppressed by T the final step needed to give the country
1 President Roosevelt It was learned, I
the assurance that plans for the concen-
with weapons under order whereas
there is a real difference between a
loaded gun In your hand and i picture
in a catalog The Army (and Navy
would be spotted in subordinate positions
in the regular government departments, at
all times working closely under direction
tration and control of our material re-
soure es in war are sound and workable
The board was attacked by numerous
"New Dealers, Im lulling Secretaries Ickes
and Perkins and the Thomas Corcoran- |
Benjamin Cohen team
Rentable sources said that the Stettinius |
board has been well impressed with the j
plan the Army and Navy munitions boards
had worked out for mobilizing with speed
and efficiency the vital supplies that would
be needed in time of war The war
resources board it was’believed, reviewed |
Of cabinet officers -
This proc ess apparently already is un-
der way with Ne. retary Morgenthau's an- 1 emarernty
nouncement of additions to the treasury *
all that has been made to eliminate bottle
necks which might impede the govern:
ment’s procurement program in such an
staff to handle war purchases
New Dealers also, are, reported to look
with misgivings upon proposals to revise
labor statutes President Roosevelt, him-
importance, for It is much easier to Tseit, at a recent press conference, went
nosed up the production of weapons al- on record for holding ia bor standards and
ready under order from qualified manu- 1 rights achieved through New Deal legia-
fneturera than it is to obtain new manu-
facturing capacity.
u ually have to wait a year or more to
get delivery on their orders
But that is of comparatively slight.
Besides Mr, Stettinkus members of the
war resources board dissolved late last
year were Dr Karli Compton, president of
Massachusetts Inatit ite of Technology
president of A
Telephone and 1 | raph John I. Pratt
director of General Motors Gen Robert
% wua lamne me
Realacct 111 the President
nines that private industry
reux
call
make all the capital investments
not
in
la tion
He expressed confidence that labor |
would not try to take advantage of the
| war situation by uncalled for strikes, and
declared emphatically that no millionaires
would be made out of national defense as ’
E... Wood, chairman of Sears, Roebuck:
Harold G Moultor president . of Brook-
ings Institution and John M Hancock of
the Lehn an Bros banking firm The
board was appointed last Aug 9
LETTERS
Rep. Farmer Pledges Help to Pass State Hatch
Law to Keep State Employes Out of Politics
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
A TRYOUT campaign for inter-
A vention in the war with ev-
erything short of men has been
begun by Senator Claude Pepper
of Florida, a young New Deal
Democrat who is very much in
favor in Ad- ---------------------
ministration
circles.
His drive —
thus far a one-
man affair —
will .be worth
watching, for it
is definitely a
feeler based
upon the belief
that the coun-
try la thinking
ahead of Con- Clapper
gress about the Mr. Clapper
war. It may be taken for granted
that the Administration will, -
watch most closely the public re-
action.
Senator Pepper's start has been
made under shadow of consider- V
able Indifference in Congress. He
first proposed a resolution to
make our Army and Navy air-
planes available to. the Allies. The
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee tabled that proposition the
other day. Senator Pepper casting
the only vote in its behalf The
other senators said the proposal
would be a violation of Interna-
tional law.
Then the young senator, who
achieved debating laurels at Har-
vard Law School, went to the Sen-
ate floor Thursday afternoon and
made a moat remarkable but %
little-noticed speech. He stopped
just short of‘calling for a decla-
: ration of war against Germany.
GENATOR PEPPER declared
D Hitler had violated all inter-
national law and was entitled to
no consideration. His language
was tlie most war-like heard in.
Congress since 1918.
To quote typical fragments:
. “I am not going to let a day
pass when I do not raise my voice
against the folly of sitting back
wishing hopefully that the enemy
will not attack us or may not at-
i tack us, and not doing something *
while it will be effective, anil be-
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plant expansions that the abruptly en
- larged defense program calls for Prop-
eAly he states that the Government is
rsdy to provide some of the capital 1
and assume some of the rinks invoivyl
in a business where another sudden
change in international affairs might
stop future orders. !
in the last war -
. Stephen Early secretary to the Presi-
dent, has said that Mr Roosevelt has no
intention of treating an involved. com-
plicated machme to direc 1 the national
Attempts to get the report made public
have been unsuccessful There, pre only
four copies, it is said and they are in the
Editor, The Press: *
IN YOUR edition of Friday you 1
headed an editorial. Truant State
. Employes and then followed a
splendid discussion of the practice
hands of the President, Red retary of War
| Woodring Secretary of the Navy Edison of.ntate.employesneglecting their
and Mr Stettinius
duties and engaging in pernicious
politics during the summer cam-
A LAO encouraging should be the
President’s announcement that III
will call in experjenc ed men from in
dusiry to help norelerate produc tioh. of
the new weapons the Army and Navy
weed
We si should be rather than
la" because if is not clear vet.iho
Intervene? With What?
WUTERE continually humping into
VV people who want to know wheth-
er and how soon, the United States
is going lo intervene in Europe.
They cant seem to shake off the
notion that what happened in ‘17 is
bound to repeat itself--sips
They don’t realize, apparently, that
we have nothing with which to inter-
I JOHNSON
Administration Conduct
Shows Need of Change
paign .
• You further challenge the can-
lidates for till- Legislature as to
how they stand on a clean politics
(NOTE: The Press receives
mere letters from readers than
it has space in which to pub-
lish them. Those printed are
chosen for their interest and as
they represent a true cross-
section of reader opinion. They
should be as brief as possible.
Unsigned letters are not consid-
ered. If there la a good reason
for not publishing your name,
we will use Initials or nom de
By III GH S. JOHNSON
TIN the new blitzkrieg world; every other
1 democratic country can change ita
i leadership as often as it thinks advisable.
This is a .necessity of democrat y at war
that we have never before felt When we
bill.
This is on my doorstep, as 1 am
now a member of the Legislature
and am a candidate for Place No
4 in the legislature from Tarrant
County.
I make the answer that I am
heartily with you in the splendid
fight that you are making for
- fore it is too late , . . Now, we
, never seen a highway improve- can turn the scales of battle by
' ment which in my mind is not | goods and by money and by air-
only unnecessary'but absolutely so 1 planes, and perhaps even more, by
detrimental as this I suppose you a straightforward, manly decla-1 1
built it to protect a few sprigs ration that we have enough of ,
of grass. The very fact that it self-respect and enough affection f
is necessary to protect the grass, for the institutions of democracy
if it is thought that it needs such to tell Hitler that we are his eter-
protection, shows that the grass . nal and mortal enemy, and that it
should not be there There are | is our will that, as a political
many times when motorists need power, he shall be destroyed from
‘ to turn'into this space to avoid the face the earth, and that every
accidents To have this big, high item of our strength and every bit
mound of earth in’the center of of our courage and all of our ra-
the road is, so far as I have ob- sources we dedicate to the honor-
of Lens
to drive
trapped
German
blasting
and Fre
u far a
A m
ed the
precede
fightin
north,
French
of Dot
Fight
yesterda
the nig I
without
was sai
The (
the All
along al
quantiti
while 1
swept <1
attack. I
army, 1
Court ra
Yest
ceeding
said, aj
ter" of
Along
military
. French 1
Ping up
crossing
on the 1
German!
the pos
German
on the 1
thrown 1
the ge
said the
ing be
early 1
now hi
lished I
There
Allies tl
tacks ne
was dis
a strong
Germa
air field
on Allie
municat
as well!
moveme
que said
also ren
French 1
bors still
blasting
ily that!
there we
unique
Eneng
The cl
totaled 1
dow ned 1
anti-aiti
plume, but the original letter
must be signed as evidence of
good faith.—Editor. J
----------------------------------------------------- served, unprecedented In highway able cause of his destruction as
..... construction. In times like these
be bull or an old one repaired for when every taxpayer is straining
much less money than is being every nerve to pay his taxes and
spent on these useless curbs. . when he is faced with the certain-
2 If the WPA employes, need ty of immediately increased taxes,
the money, it would be better to I cannot imagine why such work
donate it to them instead of waste . 1 , . matan
. . I should be undertaken
I ing it on this curb. With acres of grass on both
* This highway is, even now, 0 sides of the road, Why should we
heavily loaded with traffic that a spend thousands to get a chance
three-lane is needed and it will 4
the arch foe of decent meh."
That is a long sentence. But it *
would become a historic one
should we get into this war, for
it is the most aggressive call that
has echoed from any official
elect s President we install a crew. They I lean politic $ Your fight for the
are in four years Nothing short of a. strengthening of the Hatch law by
revolution or a catastrophe can get them Congress is great work for good
Only 80,000 mobile. , out We may have elect- _
ve ne ne ven . if we. wanted I'll except
source since the last War ended.
our Navy.
Our Army
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be _ .....,
*ul troops aside from The air-corps per-t ed then for ohe—Pur-
pose, and another and
completely different
these non of private in tuatri v
“ nor how mnuo responsibility tT i
have. If, as is reported around w ash sonnel, are available today in the United
Ington, these production xperta are to States proper. Such is the testimony
function only as advisers to and co of army authorities.
ordinators for cabinet effcers it is
doubtful if they can achieve any real
efficiency. The problem of restoring
- vigor to industries now dormant and
of building new industries for mass
production of new needs, can not be
solved merely by. hiring a few "leg
men’ to work -under Henry Morgen
thau and Harry ‘Hopkins Getting de against the enormous risk of hostile
liveries from a plant capacity not now bombing fleets The Navy • must be
existing is a problem that can be solved kept intact to defend our shores.
only hy giving responsibility to an in B ild raise • great
dependent authority composed of men army "overnight," as in 1917, it is
who know how Their production brains argued.
So? In 1917 we had the men but
government. I
1 will vote, and work for a sim-
ilar law for the State of Texas.
The law we now have is a farce:
purpose may appear if
It does, we have no ea-
Our airplanes: The lighting in Dur- cape
■ Weare faced with
ope-has shown-thatmost OfO—exiall —ty r kmnrw
ing planes are obsolete, and Maj. Gen. situation now We are
H II Arnold, chief of the Army Air at least on the second
Corps, says only half a dozen ot so bounce up against as
could be modernized I serious a situation as
Our navy” We simply could not af-
ford to send it into European waters.
England or France Our
problem is to select a Mr. Johnson
leader Whether we like It or not, we must
so far as its enforcement is con-
cerned The law should be amend-
ed and have teeth placed in it to
not he more than five years be-
fore it will be absolutely neces-
sary. There is a vast undeveloped
teritory but this street and the
traffic in the next five years will
get the job done I am for clean
polities, and—you—maybeassured-
I that my every effort will be to
help all I can to pass a law that
will give the needed relief I shall
so state from the platform -
CLARENCE E. FARMER
State Representative.
RE ADER SAYS SON
OPPOSES SALES TAX
Editor, The Press
probably be doubled
. This curb constitutes both an
actual and a mental hazard to mo-
torists. If you start to pass an-
A NOTHER quote: "Behold the
- A spectacle! The battle of Ar- 1
to look at a few more blades of , mageddon wages and America is
grass three or four months a year, virtually a timid spectator al
I suppose now you will want to | most afraid to utter a manly sen-
spend more money to keep the timent because it might
grass watered. If you don t water
it. It will soon look- about like it
did before you spent all this mon-
make
Hitler angry. . . I yet believe
I hope not too late that the
i righteous indignation of our coun-
try. God’s democracy, the defend
er of. God's faith, will- throw itself
do it this year and it may be the critical
year in the affairs of the whole world.
We can’t follow events in this as ne-3 .
cessity may require We must do it now I " AS surprised to find your
A leader is not to be judged by himself editorial. "How to Stop the Sales
Stone "especially in war It is doubtful Tax, Plugging for re-election of
that Hitler’s astonishing effects have much 'Houghton Brownlee of Austin,
to do with Hitlers personal gifts Hut when there is another candidate
there is no doubt in the world that they in the race who has declared
not the equipment It took two years., reflect his ability to put the right men anjnst ANY TYPE OF SALES
then, to convert our industry for the in the right place
production of munitions. The A.E.F. | must be of Austin, has entered the race
was actually equipped, in large part, by -I Nut WMs et his . for senator from the 20th District
the Allies. And today the Allies have jection for his principal yes men Henry declaring his tax platform plank
not been able to supply even their own the Morgue to co-ordinate air defense and be based wholly on Anatural
• forces adequately, more recently the production of engines tikdaneallsanl
Entirely amide from the question amipncahniaanga mOPALA ES "Juryinatr ■•">' IAtIne that ne - ana ha. :
A NOTHER point on which the Presi whether we would want to intervene
A dent dwelt was the retaining of we are not prepared to do so.
all the New Deal’s social gains old It will take a year and • half or
age security, unemployment insurance, ‘ more to spend the money now being
rushed through Congress. And after
will be wasted if their hands are tied
by Army and Navy procurement rou-
tines and the red tape of the Treasury
and Commerce departments. If thia
job la to be accomplished speedily and
effectively, u swill have to be done out-
side the Government’s departmental
setup.
help to the underprivileged conserva-
tion of resources, subsidies to agricul-
that money is converted into weapons
and trained forces, we will then have
other car and it should suddenly
swerve out for the purpose of like-
wise passing one in front of it,
you have no alternative except
. to drive over this curb, which is
‘ high and dangerous. I predict that
■ many accidents will be caused by
it
5 The curb is - high and un-
sightly. I will wager that at least
a part of it will' be torn out
within five years, and that the
taxpayers will be subjected to the
—y—In timeslike this, you should
curtail expenses but it looks as
you continually try to find some
new foolishness to spend money
upon. There are many roads now
in need of repair. If you have
money to waste on such’things as Whereupon the • galleries burst
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i many others could he repaired |
out you know you are already
short of funds for needed repairs
and improvements. 1
ELTON M. HYDER.
expense of tearing it out as well |
as putting it in, and then they
Attorney, Ft. Worth
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
TAX ■ ' 1 1 . will have to have the further ex-
My son, Homer C DeWolfe, also I pense of cutting down this high
1 roadway in the middle and paving
it. I would rather spend the house cometh, at even, or at mid-
arina” -*ways been opposed to any form of
trial loouan sales tax. His record made during
our problem just now is industrial pro- two terms in the Legislature will
duction That takes a tough adept like . prove this statement He is now
Walter Chrysler to name only one, of on the State Board of Education
many of our : best Mr Morgenthau and served as assistant attorney
couldn t possibly know anything about this general two terms
job. Yet the fate of this country mayI
depend upon it. ‘ . .
tains no industrial experts and it is al- licity
lergic Jo the very sight of them
think in all fairness you
This Administrationiren should give this fact aa much pub-
as you accorded his oppo-
nent. Houghton Brownlee.
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out into the front and say, ‘I do
stand for something and I will do
something now to crush the ene-4
mies of all that I hold dear.”
bating WPA.
Lack of congressional Interest
| does not discourage Senator Pep- ,
per. He has redrafted his resolu-
tion and offered it in the Senate
—to allow the President, moihin
his discretion, to sell any of our
Army and Navy equipment to the
name amount of money to prevent
this curb being built
8 All these thousands of dollars
are apparently being spent to give
us a few square yards of green
grass to look at There is plenty
of grass on both sides to look at. |
It would not have been so foolish |
to make a very low curb as on |
| Watch ye therefore for ye Allies, so far as it does ‘not, in
know not when the Master of the I the President's judgment. Imperil
the safety of the United States.
Hitler is branded in the resolu-
night, or at the cock-crowing, or
in the morning.—Mark 13:35.
se e
Be still prepared for death: and
death or life shall thereby be the
sweeter.- Shakespeare.
TODAY’S COMMON ERROR
Do not say, “I'm afraid it will
Camp Bowie Blvd but I have rain"; say, "I fear it will rain."
ture and housing The emer gency, he
aald. is not such as to require yielding little enough as a start toward safe-
on any of these Indeed, he hopes to guarding our own hemisphere.
enlarge on such blessings weigh we a It is not acting intelligently in this cri-
on such blessings Newish we • sis It is clearly using it for political pur-
could feel as sanguine as M' Roosevelt A Soldier GSdes To War poses to create through pante and pa-
does. Butai la a la that aa tna :A soldier does Tolar it irctisnt a third terms witkpeer he moot:
things coat money the Government does A LL the tragedy of Europe ia com- j important move yet made in this sleazy 1
(His Mother). .
GENIE GRIFFIN DE WOLFE
Box 4181,
N. Fort Worth. Text
not have And the imperative new A pressed into one little cameo pic- game lwas the White House rebuke to JACKSBORO ROAD
. . . ,*l , . .cut A Governor Landon After a White House CURB PROTESTED
weapons of defense will cost more sture of Paul van Zeeland sailing home conference he said that the best way to State Highway Department
unity is for the President to declare him- I ASSUME that you have juris-
self on the third term Asked for com- diction of the curb being built
ment the White House implied that the j along the Jacksboro highway from
President was too busy preparing us for the city towards Lake Worth The
defense to/make a political gesture reason I did not sooner protest
* * * this curb center is because of the
fact that I assumed you were go-
ing to put the curb along a block
or two. Now it looks as if one
were going to be extended to the
money the Government does not haveto fight, to do anything he can to save
The President, in our opinion, de- what remains of Belgium
serves 100 per cent support on hla as- | Van Zeeland is a civilised European,
sertion that there must be "no new | As Belgian premier he worked long
group of war millionaires . , , growing and hard to, bring sanity to the Euro-
rich and fat in an emergency of blood | pean madhouse. His creed ia well shown
and slaughter and human suffering." in his choice of concluding words in a
But we wish the President had gone recent series of lectures at Cambridge,
further, and had advocated taking the They are words of Pasteur, the great
LOR crying out loud! What was the invi-
I tation to the White House of Governor
Landon and Col Knox but a political ges-
SIDE GLANCES
tion as a treaty violator.
Senator Pepper is going on the
air with his campaign to stir Con-
gress. He not only believes we
can help the Allies materially by
taking off our wraps, but he
thinks the moral effect might re11
strain Mussolini. The senator s
information is that Italy plans to
go into the war within 10 days.
Today's Poems
FOR
SAL
PEACE
We .walk at night beneath the
stars, 4
Distant city lights shine clear.
And gleaming rays from fleeting
No cause for grievous blackouts
here
*
step necessary to prevent the war prof- French scientist
iteering he denounces and, incidentally, I believe invincibly that knowl-
edge and peace will triumph over
ignorance and war: that the na
tions will come to an understand-
the one step necessary to preserve some
of the social gains he cherishes and to
obtain our imperative defense needs.
Namely, taxation. * ing, not to destroy, but to build,
and that the future will belong to
ture? Neither of these gentlemen is an
expert in industrial production or military Lake 1 use this highway every
affairs Their distinction is exclusively ! day and this curb is a nuisance
political They polled 17 million for the following reasons
1 A good gravel highway could
The Gallup Poll reports that 76 per
cent of the people favor special de-
fense taxes now. Unfortunately, neith-
sr the President not Congress appears
to believe that our citizens are ready
for that inescapable sacrifice. Instead,
their policy continues to be More
borrowing.
In this election year the. President
and Congress are still dealing with
. voters as if they were irresponsible
children. They are still pursuing a
poliev of appeasement
those who have done the most to
relieve the sufferings of mankind.
So spoke Van Zeeland less than two
years ago. In 1940; sailing for Bel-
gium, battle, perhapa death, he com-
pressed all Europe’s agony into these
poignant words: "1 rant stand it any
longer. I've got to so!”
•
Asphalt sidewalks inthe United
States date, back to 1839, when Phila-
delphia tried them.
They polled 17 million]
votes against Mr Roosevelt. These polite
icos were brought Jo Washington because. . ... , .
as a number of honest men will testify if Hle Lines
they have to the President was consid-
ering a coalition In plain words, he
was considering the idea of contin-
uing the present crowd in Washington for
war by silencing any opposition in thia
election * 4,
It is one of the most "n-puuent at-
tempts in the political record. There is a
crisis It is our defenselessness This
crowd is singly and solely responsible. Our
solution lies in a masterful , and immed-
iate speed-up in industrial -----
We have a chance to protect ourselves Eavesdropping sometimes
only once in four years and this is the duces a sort of “distemper "
time Page Wendell Willkie. He is the It is the listless mind that is
By MARGIE B. BOSWELL
Positive opinions are usually on
pivots.
Perception is sharpened on mis- |
fortune
Powerful beacons search the sky.
The revolving signals never
cease
As calmly travelers nightly fly
Above a joyous land of peace.
At dawn we walk beside a lak:
Surrounded by majestic hills,.....
Where silver-sided base awake
To birds' songs merry thrills
Mottled Indian blanket is spre d
. As beauties oer prairies in-
crease, N .....
No fields that flow with life bl. ob
red.
Ours is * land of peace.
SARAH DRENNAN GANI,
Chico, Texas.
time
Vain hopes are as valueless as |
heaters in Sahara
If deceit drips into ideals, their
odes becomes elegies
Who cares when cobras are be- 1
production. Ineaded!-
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Page Wendell Willkie. He is the
only hope on the horizon who is fitted by lonesome
temperament and training for this particu-
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thinkers palace
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“Small? Sure but the easiest way to protect your family
budget is to be without a guest room.
A DISAPPOINTMENT
The dawning, radiantly clear,
romises a perfect day
But lives there anywhere a seer
Or wise man who can say.
With confidence, what will appear
On a wether chart in May?
The wind has changed, the sky
grows drear,
Lightning begins to play-
Then comes the rain. O duarl O
dear! "
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