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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS HY JOSEPH W. LnRINE
G. 0. P. Centers on Vandenberg
Despite Tom Dewey's Showing
In Popular Opinion Samplings
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed In these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
by Western Newspaper Union.
POLITICS:
G. O. P. Shift
As recently as one year ago poli-
ticians feared such highly success-
ful public opinion samplings as the
Gallup poll might make party nom-
inating conventions needless. Ex-
ample: New York's racket-busting
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
Is No. 1 popular candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
next year.
But popular opinion is one thing
and common sense another. Astute
Republicans know Tom Dewey has
no administrative record, know also
that he might be elected and still
prove a failure, thus destroying the
party's chances in 1944. In Wash-
ington, where political schemes are
hatched, the G. O. P. now seems
bent on nominating not Tom Dewey
H. STYLES BRIDGES
No 'IV in campaign literature.
but another Michigan product, Sen-
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg. Rea-
soning: Most conservative politi-
cians favor him and most G. O. P.
editorial support falls in his direc-
tion.
What such seers have not consid-
ered is that 1936 found Gallup polls,
Fortune polls and several other
samplings much less fallible than
•-JJ. S. editorial opinion, which the
public rejected to elect a Demo-
cratic President. But since 1936 the
public has followed a newspaper-
inspired trend to conservatism,
which probably makes today's edi-
torial opinion less erring.
Biggest Vandenberg asset In win-
ning both G. O. P. and Democratic
votes is his middle-of-the-road rec-
ord and a reputation for working
harmoniously with both friends and
enemies. In May he led a victori-
ous fight against the Florida canal
project in which he was supported
by 22 Republican and 23 Democrat-
ic senators. Belter than anyone
else, observers think he could win
anti-Roosevelt Democratic votes.
Other G. O. P. boomlets:
Bridges. In 1936 New Hampshire's
ex-governor and present senator, II.
Styles Bridges, missed the vice pres-
idential nomination with Alfred M.
Landon simply because strategists
thought a Landon-Bridges combina-
tion sounded too much like "London
Bridge is falling down." This
month thousands of booklets cap-
tioned: "For President in 1940—
Styles Bridges" are being distribut-
ed in his behalf by a New Hamp-
shire organization. Noticeably ab-
sent from campaign literature is the
first Initial H., a concession to diplo-
macy.
Martin. /House Minority Leader
Joseph W Martin Jr. was judged
most popular congressman last win-
ter by newspaper correspondents
and has now become vice presiden-
tial possibility. Since he would rath-
er be speaker of the house next ses-
sion than vice president (provided
the election goes Republican), Joe
Martin is busily fighting off boosters
like Illinois' Rep. Leo E. Allen, who
predicts that the man who managed
Alf Landon's nomination fight at the
1936 convention will find a lot of
friends awaiting him at next year's
gathering.
AGRICULTURE:
Good or Bad?
Until Judgment day men will
probably use the year 1929 as a
basis for comparing economic condi-
tions. This year, 10 summers after
the stock market reachcd its peak,
a decade's experience led Standard
Statistics company to probe the U.
S. farmer's status. General conclu-
sion is that it almost parallels 1929's,
though conditions themselves differ
as night from day. Today's "pros-
perity" has a different basis.
Retail sales, always a good index,
seem to be up. But. biggest increases
are shown not by independent local
merchants but by mail order houses,
which may indicate no return of
prosperity but simply a swing to
mail order buying. Less important,
but significant in the mail order in-
crease, in decentralization of in-
dustry.
Offsetting a possibly dull picture
is a drastic shift in farm expendi-
tures. Though cash income for
1939's first four months was only
73 per cent of 1929, the farmer's es-
sential purchases cost substantially
less. In the past 10 years mort-
gage debt has dropped 26 per cent;
interest charges, 35 per cent; hired
hands and expenditure for labor has
dropped; taxes in 1937 were 33 per
cent less than 1929. Result: Over-
head and operating costs are down
and a larger portion of farm in-
come is available for buying indus-
try's products. But if this increased
portion goes exclusively to mail or-
der houses and not to local mer-
chants, observers wondered how
permanent prosperity could reach
the rural U. S.
WHITE HOUSE:
Initials
Hint to uninformed newspaper
readers: Added this month to Wash-
ington's alphabetical agencies are
FWA, FLA and FSA — Federal
Works, Federal Loan and Federal
Security agencies. Another change:
Though WPA retains its battle-
scarred initials, it must now be
called Works Projects administra-
tion, not Works Progress adminis-
tration.
BELGIUM:
Isolation
In 1914 German troops marched
to France via Belgium, meeting lit-
tle resistance en route. In 1939 a
Reich war machine would be
stopped on Belgium's frontier,
thanks to a fortification system far
out of proportion to the little king-
dom's size. But Belgium has not
cast her lot with France and Brit-
ain, has instead followed King Leo-
pold's pronouncement of 1936 when
Belgium declared herself free from
all former obligations with these na-
tions. Significantly, no French or
British general can today examine
King Leopold's defenses.
Last month France's General
Chauvineau protested, declaring a
French-Belgian defensive formation
was the best for all concerned. A
few weeks later France got her an-
swer in Brussels' newspaper, Der-
niere Heure. The Belgian stand:
If Germany respects Belgium's in-
dependence in a general war, all will
INTERNATIONAL:
Armaments
What constitutes absolute "neu-
trality",in wartime has never made
itself quite clear. Superficial neu-
trality under the U. S. law bans sale
of arms and munitions—"lethal
weapons"—yet under the amend-
ment of Ohio's Rep. John M. Vorys
such indispensable war-making
equipment as trucks and commer-
cial airplanes may be sent abroad.
Early July, when the neutrality bill
was making its way through con-
gress, found the agriculture depart-
ment proposing government subsi-
dized export of cotton in a program
whose chief benefactors would be
aggressive Germany and Japan,
both of whom need cotton to stuff
into their ammunition.
But U. S. participation in dictator
rearmament is only part of the pic-
ture. Though France has just
banned shipment of scrap iron to
Germany, though Britain's new min-
istry of supply will have the right
to ban such shipments, proflt-con-
July Is Sponge Fishing Season;
Big Tropical Industry Revived
SCRAP IRON SHRAPNEL
British steel, British deaths?
scious democracies and dictator-
ships have no moral compunctions
about such things; scrap iron or any
other material of Mars is sold
abroad to the highest bidder until
domestic rearmament demands
that it be kept at home. Samples:
Last month Britain's liberal Lord
Davies told how scrap iron and
steel exports from the United King-
dom to the Reich rose from 4,500
tons in July, 1938, to 17,000 tons in
August, 21,000 tons in September
(month of the Munich crisis) and
23,000 tons in December.
France gave Germany 350 tons of
pig iron last August when the Czech
crisis was just rising, gave her 19,-
000 tons in September when the cri-
sis was at its peak, and 75,000 tons
in November.
Still more revealing are Ger-
many's 1938 foreign trade statis-
tics, showing that 1,059,800 tons of
Germany's total 1,146,027 tons of
1938 scrap iron came from Bel-
gium, Luxemburg, France, Great
Britain, Holland and the U. S., all
potential enemies. In March, 1939,
the same countries contributed 161,-
344 tons, which would make 1,936,128
tons if the same import level were
maintained throughout the year.
From the U. S. in 1938 came 462,782
tons; in March, 1939, came 20,175
tons.
Other
many:
import figures for Ger-
KING LEOPOLD
He prefers to be friendless, foeless.
be well, although France's line of
defense would be shortened by 155
miles. But if Germany again pene-
trated Belgium, France would pos-
sibly evade a German attack on its
northern frontier and might not aid
Belgium as immediately as it did in
1914. If past experience is any indi-
cation. France might even squeeze
out of a war via the time-tested ap-
peasement route.
Meanwhile the Belgians have good
reason to rush their fortifications.
Knowing a German drive would hold
France as its ultimate goal, shrewd
King Leopold also knows the Reich
might avoid a conflict with him if
there is a good chance it would de-
lay the attack on France.
m
/N MID-J\JL\ begins
the annual sponge
take between coasts of
Miami, Fla., and Nas-
sau, of lite Balitinut is-
lands group, from icliicli
comes most of the
sponges used in U. S.
homes. The above view
shows the sponge fleet
at anchor off the British
colonial quay at Nassau.
Sponges are taken \rom
dinghys which put out
from the sloops when a
bed is sighted, Fisher-
men carry glass-bot-
tomed buckets and
spears. Others (right)
pick by hand.
s
32,055
155,869
53,710
268.044
13,368
FORECAST
CITATION — Admiral Harry E.
Yarnell, who stood pat on the
(J. S. position during Japan's re-
cent drive against Occidentals in
China, is expected to be given the
distinguished service medal by
congress.
MP—Increased world consump-
tion of U. S. cotton is expected by
the agriculture department on
basis of current sales. For the
year ending August 1, consump-
tion is estimated at 11,250,000
bales compared with 10,900,000
bales last year.
RETURN — Lord Beaverbrook's
London Evening Standard pre-
dicts a return to England this
fall of the duke and duchess of
Windsor.
OIL—T. G. Delbridge of Phila-
delphia, president of the Ameri-
can society for testing materi-
als, estimates the U. S. has am-
pie petroleum supplies for 150
years.
Iron Ore (tons).
1930 1937 1938
Sweden B.725.432 9,083,751 8,992.331
France 2,779.868 5,739,513 5.056,121
Spain 1,824.880 310,540 1,082,551
Copper Ore (tons).
G. Britain .. 20,121 60,081
France ... 96,297 86,227
Belgium .... 64,970 66.752
[Manganese Ore (tons).
U. S. S. K. ... 173,653 61,336
Brit. India .. 78,353 121,318
Australia .. 53,668
S. Africa 290,679
Nickel Ore (tons).
Brit. India ... 2,711 3,593
Greece 8,839 ....
Canada 99 13,250
Most logical deduction is that the
next World war may find British,
French, Canadian, Belgian—and
possibly U. S.—troops dying of
wounds inflicted by arms made of
metal from their homelands.
CONGRESS:
Going Up
In 1878 an economy-bent Forty-
fourth congress appropriated $291,-
220,000. In 1909 the government's
expenditures first topped the billion-
dollar mark; 1918's war crisis
brought it to 18 billion; 1919 made
it 27 billion. Never since then have
U. S. expenditures dropped much
below the four-billion mark and last
year came a peacetime record of
11 billion. By mid-July, with most
appropriating (but little else) out of
the road, the Seventy-sixth congress
had managed to set a new record of
about $13,110,000,000.
Beyond its control were such costs
as mounting old age pension reserve
and the railroad retirement plan.
Cropping up from the past, too, was
an item of $3,624,812.005 for interest
on the $40,000,000,000 national debt.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
were held responsible for almost
two billion of it, but not even Presi-
dent Roosevelt would acknowledge
the $338,000,000 which an election-
conscious senate tacked to the agri-
culture department's appropriation
bill for parity payments and dis-
posal of surplus commodities.
Most significant drop: Relief. For
the 1939-40 fiscal year the U. S. will
spend $1,755,600,000. against $2,915,-
605,000 last year. Item by item ex-
penditures, with little more to
come:
Independent agencies $1,668,218,.'HO
Agriculture 1,194,173,633
Interior 172,079,765
Trfasury-post office 1,700.815,054
War (military) 508,789,824
War (supplemental) 223,398,047
War (engineering
projects etc.) 305,188,514
Navy 773,049,151
Labor 30,636,170
State, justice, commerce .. 123,177,220
Congressional 21.851,779
First deficiency 23,76b,041
Second deficiency 157,619,059
Third deficiency 3,099,377
Relief (supplemental
for 1839) 825,000,000
Relief (for 1940) f. 1,755.600,000
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Sponges grow at almost any
depth of water. Above photo
shows natives picking them
from a shallow pool. Left: A
fisherman depositing part of the
day's catch in a rocked-in coral
pool on a small island where
the sponges will remain soak-
ing until the fleet returns to
Nassau. The British colonial
government is experimenting in
planting of sponge beds. There
are three varieties: Silk sponge,
wool and common type, most
generally used in North Amer-
ica. When the fleet sets out
from Nassau it usually remains
away for two weeks to a month.
When fishermen have secured a catch they return to Nassau
where sponges are dried out and placed on sale, at an auction
similar to a southern tobacco auction in the United Slates. Actual
drying process is shown above. Sponges are buried under weeds
and straw to dry out in the sun.
Since the unique sponge can be classed neither with the "meta-
zoa" or the "protozoa" many zoologists place it in a special sub-
kingdom known as porife.ra. Sponges may range in size from a
pin's head to masses several feet high, and vary in weight from
a grain to more than 100 pounds.
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK.—As Adro Maurois
becomes an "immortal," it
would seem that there ought to be
honorable mention, or at least a
simple garland
But for Spouse of some kind,
Maurois Might toi Mme. Mau-
Still Be Mortal ,rois H*re *
few weeks ago,
he explained how his wife, also a
person of distinction, learned typing
and stenography to keep his script
flowing smoothly and legibly to the
publishers. He writes only in long-
hand, said to be quite as cramped
and illegible as that of Horace
Greeley, and she alone of all mor-
tals can translate it, Seat No. 35
in the French academy might still
be vacant but for Mme. Maurois.
He was born Emile Herzog, In
Rouen. His literary divagation
was the first short-cut to immor-
tality in a line of ancestral wool-
en drapers reaching back to the
year 900 A. D. He was a bache-
lor of arts at 15 and a doctor of
philosophy at 18. He began
work in his father's factory, but
got right on (he job as a philoso-
pher and IUerateur, so, when he
was assigned to the British as
an interpreter in the World war,
he could fill them in on Byron,
Shelley and Keats, and did so.
Later he explained Disraeli to
the English, and, around the
clubs, they bit their pipe-stems
and admitted that this French
chap knew a lot of things they
hand't even suspected. "Ariel,
the Life of Shelley" put him in
the big literary tournament in
1923, where he has been ever
since.
He is slight in stature, dapper
and fastidious, with his thinning
gray hair deployed carefully left and
right, gesturing only cautiously with
the sensitive hands of an artist. He
has an acute, skeptical mind, in-
terested in politics only in its his-
toric sweep. He weighs words like
an apothecary and it is as a crafts-
man and finished wordsmith that he
qualifies for the academy. With
keen insight, he has experted Amer-
ica on his numerous visits here,
clocking us through the valley of
despond. His latest appraisal found
us moving out of national adoles-
cence into fully rational, adult state-
hood. He hopes for the best, but is
not a fuzzy optimist. The "decline
of the humane ideal," he thinks, is
the most disquieting trend of the
modern world.
D WALTON MOORE, of the state
department, who will be 81
years old next February, like Mr.
Chips, thinks the way ahead lies
through the hu-
rt. W. Moore, 80, manities. Mr.
Is the Mr. Chips Chips showed
Of State Dept. h* was no fos"
sil when they
tried to bench him, and no more is
Mr. Moore—boarding the Pan
American clipper for Europe.
He is amenable In old-fash-
ioned behavior—a tall, quiet,
gray, courteous Southerner—and
alertly adaptable to all new de-
vices of living. He is keenly In-
terested In aviation, having
taken many airplane flights
along the Coast, and one on
the German dirigible Hinden-
burg. The state department's
participation In international ar-
rangements for landing fields
and the like has been In his
hand.
In congress from 1919 to 1930,
from Virginia, he was a colleague of
Secretary Hull. President Roosevelt
made him assistant secretary of
state in 1933 and later counselor for
the department. He is a bachelor,
driving 15 miles to his work from
Fairfax, Va. He looks as if he could
end all war talk just by serving mint
juleps all around.
HERE'S a general who has saved
more men than any single gen-
eral ever killed. He leads expedi-
tionary forces against armies of jun-
. Sle germs—Dr.
Saving Life, Not Victor G. Heis-
Taking It, Forte er of the Rocke-
Of This General ,feller ufoundf
tion. He is in
the news with his report on food re-
search in India, in which experi-
ments in animal feeding suggest
new access to health and well-being
for humans.
On May 31, 1889, his father
sent him to the barn to turn
loose the horse, with the Johns-
town flood rising. He floated
away on the barn, his parents
drowned, and he kept on going—
through Jefferson Medical col-
lege, 16 times around the world
in his 50-year fight against dis-
ease. Until 1914, he was with
the U. S. marine health service,
then with the Rockefeller foun-
dation. His fame blazed out
three years ago with his book,
"An American Doctor's Odys-
sey," and later publications.
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Cool, Easy Frocks
For Midsummer Use
DO YOU go in—or rather out—
for active sports? Then
there's a place in your life for
the pretty play frock (1767) with
short tennis skirt, sunback, and
bright bands of braid. A little short-
sleeved jacket and head kerchief
are included in your easy pattern.
In pique, gingham or chambray, it
will make your vacation smarter
and gayer.
Cool Daytime Frock.
Are you looking for something
cool, becoming and different for
daytime? Then 1778 is just what
w
you want! A square-necked,
youthful basque frock, with circu-
lar skirt, upped sleeves and a tiny
waistline, it will look summery
and refreshing even on the hottest
day, with your big hat and white
shoes. For this, choose silk print,
linen, gingham or lawn.
The Patterns.
1767 is designed for sizes 12, 14,
16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires 5Vi
yards of 35 inch material without
nap. 2V2 yards of braid.
1778 is designed for sizes 12, 14,
16, 18, 20 and 40. Size 14 requires
4s,4 yards of 35 inch material with
short sleeves. 1% yards of trim-
ming.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1324,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
(Boll Syndicate—W.NU Scrvic*?.)
There's a Good Reason
You're Constipated!
When there's something wrong
with you, the first rule is: get at
the cause. If you are constipated,
don't endure it first and cure It
afterward. Find out what's giving
you the trouble.
Chances are it's simple if you
eat the super-refined foods most
people do: meat, white bread,
potatoes. It's likely you. don't get
enough "bulk." And "bulk" doesn't
mean a lot of food. It's a kind of
food that isn't consumed In the
body, but leaves a soft "bulky"
mass in the intestines and helps
a bowel movement.
If this Is your trouble, you
should eat a natural "bulk" pro-
ducing food-such a one as the
crunchy, toasted, ready-to-eat
cereal-Kellogg's All-Bran. All-
Bran Is the ounce of prevention
that's worth a pound of emer-
gency relief. Eat it every day,
drink plenty of water, and "Join
the Regulars." All-Bran is made
by Kellogg's in Battle Creek.
Duty Nearby
The path of duty is near at
hand; men seek it in what is re-
mote.—Japanese.
_. . I Relax over-worked and
II FED I tired muscles. Rub
[Muscles] Penetro°lTry'it today!
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bloodshot eyes
are relieved in one day by
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No other eye remedy in the
world ns cooling, healing and
strengthening for weak eyes.
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GOLDEN EYE LOTION
Makes weak eyes strong
New Large Size rvith Dropper—50 cent$
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SHOPPING
• The best place
to start your shop-
ping tour is in
your favorite easy-
chair,with an open
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Escaped Deeds
Youth once gone is gone. Deeds,
let escape, are never to be done.—
Robert Browning.
81,209 MALARIA
Cases reported in the U. S. in 19381
DON'T DELAY!
START TODAY with
606 Checks Malaria In seven days
Sun Undefiled
The sun passes over filth and is
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