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Farley Looks
To'40 With
Equanimity
Lightning Might
Hit, but If Not,
All Right
By CHARLES O. ROSS.
Tn the list of mentionables for
the Democratic presidential nom
ination of 1940 there’s at least one
man Who can survey the outlook
with consider
able equanimity.
Post m a k t e r
General - Na
tional Chairman
Jim Farley is, as
the saying goes,
“sitting pretty.”
Unlike Paul V
McNutt he is
disturbed by no
gnawing ambi
tion to be Pres
ident.
Unlike Presi
dent Roosevelt,
he is confronted
with no such cb«ne« o. R«»».
fateful decision as that faced by
the President in relation to a third
term.
Unlike Secretary of State Hull
and Vice President Garner, if the
finger of destiny, strangely, should
begin to turn his way, he would
have no fear of rejection on the
score of his age.
No Loyalty Flaw in Record.
Unlike Senator Wheeler, who
fought the court scheme tooth and
nail, he has no flaw in his record
of allegiance to the Roosevelt pol
icies—no errancy to which the Pres
ident could point as the reason for
a "fishing trip’’ on election day if
Jim should be nominated.
Unlike the New Dealers from
whom the President would choose
io pick his successor, he is liked by
the Glasses, the Hulls and the Gar
ners of the party.
uinmr ocnntui ociuiri-i- nr
can be troubled by no thought of
what might have been, for the star
of his political fortunes has risen,
not declined. <1 doubt that Sena
tor Clark is so troubled, though cer
tainly he would be if the convic
tions which have set him apart from
the White House were less sincerely
held.)
Thus it is that Mr. Farley, ex
cept as he may suffer unease from
the third-term threat, can look into
the political future—at least up to
the time of the Democratic nomi
nating convention—with an unhar
ried mind. He would like to be the
nominee for the presidency—as who
of those who have been mentioned
would not?—but he is not deceiving
himself as to his prospects. He is a
complete realist in politics. He
knows the heavy political disability
that the fact of his being a Catholic
lays upon him. If the lightning
strikes him, well and good: if not.
he will continue without soreness
to do what he conceives to be his
duty as a good Democrat.
Slim Chance for Nomination.
Has Mr. Farley a chance to be
nominated for President? Yes. but
the chance is slim. There is no
doubt that membership in the Cath
olic church would weigh-far less
heavily against him than it did
■gainst A1 Smith. Too, it is to be
remembered that there were other
large factors that contributed to
Smith’s defeat. But the fact re
mains, unpalatable though it may
be to those who would leave a can
didate's religious faith entirely out
side of consideration, that the Dem
ocratic party is extremely unlikely
to send a Catholic at the head of
the ticket into the next campaign.
This is not to say that Mr. Farley
probably would be chosen if he were
not a Catholic. There are other
hurdles in his way. But even if he
were far more "available” than he
Is. the fact that he belongs to a
minority religious faith would prob
ably be sufficient to put him out of
the running.
Mr. Farley, however, is a man who
will bear watching, and this not
merely because he Ls the Demo
cratic national chairman and be
cause he will have a large say-so in
the choice of the head of the ticket.
He will bear watching because, in
the opinion of many observers of
politics, he has a top-notch chance
1o win the nomination for Vice
President. That chance will go by
the board if Mr. Roosevelt is nomi
anted. for both Mr. Roosevelt and
Mr. Farley are from New York. The
Constitution does not forbid the se
icluuu ui a a i cbiuciit auu a vice
President from the same State, but
that is the practical effect of the
provision that the*lectors of a State
must choose at least one of the two
from the outside. The Democrats
• re not going to whittle down in ad
vance the electoral votes of their
Vice Presidential nominee.
But if Mr. Roosevelt is not nomi
nated to head the ticket. Mr. Par
ley's points of availability makes him
a likely prospect for second place.
Some of these points have been
named. There is also the fact that
he is from New York, a pivotal
State. There is the fact of his great
personal popularity among Demo
cratic politicians of all degrees
throughout the country. There is
the fact, if editorial expressions are
»ny guide, that a great many people
who once thought of Mr. Farley only
as a political spoilsman have come
to like and respect him. Mr. Farley
Is a politician and makes no bones
about it. His complete lack of pre
tense is one of his most engaging
qualities. What you hear about him,
pretty generally, is that he is a
“square-shooting politician" and a
good administrator.
It won't be at all surprising if the
Democratic convention, after pick
ing a presidential candidate, decides
that Jim Farley would add strength
to the ticket and puts him on it.
Dr. George Brewer,
Noted Surgeon, Dies
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—Dr. George
Emerson Brewer, 79, noted surgeon
•nd authority on anatomical condi
tions, died at Presbyterian Hospital
yesterday.
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The Capital Parade
Hull Retains Faith in Peace and Trade,
Looks to Rebuilding When War Ends
By JOSEPH ALSOP arid ROBERT KINTNER.
As we observe a day somewhat optimistically dedicated to peace on
earth and good will among men, it seems a good time to write about
Cordell Hull, one of the few world figures who still believe in both of
them. "Peace and trade” has been Cordell Hull's motto for a quarter
PBnt.HPV hefni'A Via MflmAH
Secretary of State. After nearly
seven disheartening years at the
State Department chiefly passed in *
vainly shoring up props against the ^
world’s ruin, he has not changed his
faith. *
Certainly, Hull is not a good V
Christmas story because he is a
plaster saint. He comes from the
Tennessee mountains; he scratched
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many a hard political battle to achieve his present station. His silvery, calm
presence and gentle, lisping speech, so oddly illuminated bv sharp country
images, are decidedly deceptive. He is not a backwoods philosopher, either.
He is an extremely shrewd, kindly man, rather slow in decision, salty
minded, deadly to his enemies, friendly and easy with the rest of the world.
His practical experience is extensive. He knows the ways of Congress by
long acquaintance. He was chairman of the Democratic National Com
mittee during the lean years, and he led the Southern oligarchs of the
democracy who gave Franklin Roosevelt the 1933 nomination. His poker
is so expert that, When he was an officer in the Spanish-Amerlcan war,
a cronv remarked It was lucky Cuba was captured so soon; else Hull
would have had all the money in the Armv. His cursing is bv far the
most picturesque and lurid in the New Deal, making the anathemas of
Harold Ickes sound sophomoric and jejune.
Man Who Hopes
Hull is a good Christmas story for only one reason; he is a man of
iron principle, a believer in the inherent decency of humankind. And
he is willing to battle for human decency with all his strength.
I116 ’nc*d^nts of his career in the New Deal are by now well known.
The destruction of the blow-hard, Molev; the homely round of visits by
which he won the leaders of Latin America at Montevideo: the struggle
for the trade-agreement program, and the engulfing later preoccupation
with world peace—these are all landmarks in recent history. Possibly—
possibly—the present world catastrophe might have been averted by Hull.
The dictatorship nations could not survive in a world animated by Hull's
slogan, “peace and trade.'' There was an instant, before Adolf Hitler
I struck his stride, when the Hull trade agreements seemed about to become
a world system. But the English, preoccupied with their imperial prefer
; ence. were too slow in coming in.
Hard as it is to hope, the power to hope still resides in Hull. Already
he is looking to the time when the war will be over and this country must
j assist other nations to repair the shattered world economv. He will hot
allow himself to succumb to black despair, like Ambassador Joseph P.
! Kennedy. Instead, he is grimly preparing for the hardest congressional
i fight of the next session, to get renewal of his trade agreement authority.
He thinks it essential to the ultimate economic appeasement of the
world. He considers it his duty not, to sidestep the issue. No temporary
political considerations can persuade him to draw back.
'A Good Faith'
There is often talk that Hull is a stranger in his own house, and that
j Undersecretary Sumner Welles is the President's really predominant
adviser on foreign policy. This is nonsense. Hull and Welles have con
fidence in each other. Hull deputes
--if'Htnx. **v* iri *h*o much of his work to Welles, and
:-fW\ 7W*T< ** •*/ Welles is often at the White House.
it may even De mat wpnes is per
sonally closer than Hull to the Presi
dent, for Hull works slowly and
cautiously, prefacing each step with
interminable consultation, while the
p Presio’ent likes to act quickly and
dramatically. Yet no one who knows
the State Department doubts that,
in all important questions, Hull's
Altogether, it is not surprising that Hull should be the one man whom
both the orthodox Democrats and the New Dealers regard as an acceptable
successor for the President. If the President prefers not to run, Hull is
probably the best bet there is. For the present, however, Hull is hoeing
his own row, and preparing to do battle again for his peculiar faith. It
may be that, in the world of today, faith of any sort is a little ridiculous,
a little pathetic. It may be that an era of peace and trade will not come
again in our time. But, if Christmas means anything, it means that a
good faith is a good thing.
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Eccles May Keep Post
On Month-to-Month Basis
Bj the Associated Press.
Believing that the next President
should be free to make his own
I choice, Marriner S. Eccles, whose
term as chairman of the Federal
Reserve System expires in February,
! may remain at his post on a month
; to-month basis rather than accept
| appointment to a full 4-year term
as chairman and a 14-year term
as a member of the board.
Friends have reported Mr. Eccles
is now considering what course to
take. It was said he might be ap
pointed for a full 14-year term with
| the understanding he could inform
the next President that he would
like to step aside to permit the
appointment of another man. In
that case, it was pointed out, the
President might ask Congress for
an exemption under the Federal
Reserve law which bars a member
of the board wrho fails to serve a
full term from returning to private
banking until two years after leav
ing the board.
In Mr Eccles’ case, such an ex
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at once to his extensive banking Jn
j terests in Utah, his home State.
Deputies Are Elected
Throughout Russia
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] million and a half deputies were
; elected yesterday to district, prov
! incial and village Soviets through
out Russia.
Although the Communist party
W'as the only ticket, organizers were
busy calling on people at their
homes and urging them to vote.
The press devoted most of its
space to the election.
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Washington Observations
U. S. Relations With Many Nominally Friendly
Powers Strained in Many Directions
By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
"Peace on earth is a joke” once
wrote Ambassador Joe Kennedy’s
Dublin pal, Dr. Oliver Bt. John Qo
garty, in a poem entitled “Oh Boys!
Oh Boys!” The
Irish wit penned
that line many
years ago, but
how true It rings
in this so-called
season of "Peace
on earth, good
will toward
men!” Accord
ing to the holl
d a y messages
which President
Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull
addressed to the
United States
Foreign Service, Frcdcrie wuium wii«.
worse is yet to come. "Your
willingness to sacrifice yourselves,”
says Mr. Roosevelt, “your stamina
j and the quality of the intelligence
which you bring to the perform
ance of your duties are being
tested. They will continue to be
tested as they have never been
tested before.” Secretary Hull
speaks of “consequences of the war,
which it is impossible to foresee,”
and of “the troubled days which lie
ahead of us.” Both the White House
j and the State Department feel that
I the rank and file of the men and
women who are handling our foreign
1 relations have given an uncommonly
| effective account of themselves dur
i ing two years of international
| turmoil. If Gen. Hugh Johnson
could know exactly the kind of
| efficient service that is being ren
dered. "Old Iron Pants” might think
j twice before saying that what Secre
tary Hull's staff at home and abroad
needs is "a mess of monocles, a con
signment of spats and a cargo of
! tea.”
* * * *
' Strained Relations East and West.
Seldom in times when the United
States was at peace have our rela
tions with nominally friendly pow
ers been strained, and sorely strain
ed. in so many directions as today.
Only with our sister Americas—and
even there, Mexico is an exception—
is Uncle Sam on what can be truth
fully described as warm terms. In
the Far East we are on the verge
of a break with Japan over a com
mercial treaty and a possible em
bargo on trade because of her high
handed violation of our rights in
China, as well as her aggression on
that country. With Soviet Russia,
since the City of Flint affair and
especially since the invasion of Fin
land, we are at all but daggers
drawn. Withdrawal of Ambassadors
and breaking of diplomatic rela
tions with Moscow are definitely a
1940 possibility. With Nazi Ger
many, beginning with the recall of
Ambassador Wilson in November,
1938, American contact has re
mained frigidly formal, to the occa
sional point of outright hostility.
Half a dozen different incidents
combined to give the Hitler Reich
almost enemy status at Washington.
Public sympathy over here is vir
tually 100 per cent anti-German In
the major European war now rag
ing. Our relations with Great Brit
ain and France are, of course, a
cordial expression of American-na
tional sentiment in their favor. But
a few more violations of the Pan
American neutrality “declaration of
Panama,” like the fighting and ship
scuttling oft American coasts, and
even our ardor for the western pow
ers might cool.
* * * *
The Ramparts We Watch.
As the Taylor mission to the Vati
can graphically portrays, the Roose
velt administration is keenly alive
to the dynamite in the interna
tional situation, even for a nation
as determined as ours to keep out
of war at almost any cost. The
Democratic party is going into 1940
with its warless diplomacy as a con
spicuous platform plank, no matter
who heads the ticket. So the ram
parts Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull
are watching are those danger spots
across the Pacific and the Atlantic,
which momentarily cast shadows no
larger than a man's hand, yet bristle
with possibilities of Involving us in
war. One of the veterans of our for
eign service, now occupying a blue
ribbon post abroad, recently told
this observer in Washington that,
during the 39 years of his connec
tion with the career, he had never
known the service to be so effi
ciently manned In the field or so
astutely conducted at the helm. So
overcast as the skies are this Christ
mas the Nation at least has reason
to feel assured that Americans are
on guard—and Americans who know
their onions.
* * * *
The McNutt Poison Squad.
One of the prevalent political
mysteries is the source of the poison
gas being released almost from day
to day in some new Washington
quarter, for the purpose of suffo
cating the McNutt-for-Presldent
campaign. Broadly, the monoxide
seems to emanate from the self
anointed inside New Deal outfit,
hell-bent for leather on a Roose
velt third term, Rith Secretary Ickes
apparently in main charge of the
smearing division. It s strongly sus
pected that the Corcoran-Cohen
Frank-Douglas-Jackson group of
young ultra liberals has access to
the anti-McNutt gas tanks, too.
And, of course, there's the Demo
cratic National Committee element
devoted to Jim Farley, which loses
no opportunity to belittle the Fed
eral security administrator's ambi
tions and prospects. An impressive
set of columnists and other news
papermen seems also to have en
listed in the crusade to snuff the
Indianan out of the 1940 picture.
Last week witnessed a typical ruse.
A leading New York paper front
paged a Washington dispatch alleg
ing that Gov. McNutt had been
"shelved" out of the health program
of the Security Administration in
favor of Miss Josephine Roche. Next
day at his press conference the Pres
ident said the story "was made out
of whole cloth.”
* * * *
Air Traffic Growing Fast.
Few Americans realize the extent
j to which this country has become
j alrminded. Although La Guardia
I Field. New York's magnificent new
I airport, has been in operation only a
| couple of months, there recently
! flew in or out of the terminal in one
day 2.600 passengers. The field now
schedules 126 landings and take
offs daily. Travel between New
York and Chicago averages 240 pass
engers a day in both directions,
which isn't far behind the average
for the Twentieth Century and the
Broadway Limited combined. There
are 58 scheduled trip* between New
York and Chicago every 24 hours.
Twenty-si* planes are in- the air
somewhere between Manhattan and
Lake Michigan every hour of the
day and night. Year-end finds 400
daily scheduled flights on the far
flung national network of the sky
ways, which works out at one about
every 3!2 minutes. Even trans
Atlantic flying is becoming common.
Since last June Pan-American Air
ways has carried 1.700 passengers to
and from Europe. It's great clippers
have made 100 crossings, flown more
than 350.000 miles in linking Europe
and America, and transported 40
tons of mail.
Judge's Yule Spirit
Saves Man From Jail
the Associated Press.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 25.— ]
There was a happy Christmas in \
Evansville today.
William Christmas, 31, was in
court Saturday on charges he got
drunk and broke a window.
‘‘I don't see,” said City Judge
Marion Rice, "how I can be hard on
a man named Christmas just two
days before Christmas.”
The judge fined him $10 and costs
but suspended a 10-day jail term on
condition he pay for the broken
window.
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We, The People
Leader Might Be Born Today to Help
Country Meet Troubles of the Future
By JAY FRANKLIN.
Nineteen hundred end thirty-nine years ago, a Child was born of poor
people in a stable out in “the sticks”—in a small town in an outlying
province of the incredibly great and powerful Roman Empire. Later on,
when He grew up, He became troublesome to the authorities as an agitator.
Finally, a committee Investigated Him for un-Roman activities and He was
executed as a bad example of what comes from talking out of turn. His
followers were persecuted and eventually most of them were
rounded up and also executed in the
S interest of law and order. Yet what
=?■ that Child said, taught and was, be*
~ came the root of the greatest move
s' ment in recorded history: The moral
and religious reformation of man
f§| kind and the basis for a society and
a civilisation which survived the
^ catastrophes which destroyed the
P mighty Roman Empire Itself.
Hf- I like to think that somewhere
in this country, on Christmas Day,
a cnua may be born who win help our people meet the testa ana the
troubles of the future. It might be In the cabin of an Arkansas share
cropper, it might be in one of the crowded tenements of Chicago or South
Boston, it might be in a squatter’s 6hack on the outskirts of Omaha.
Perhaps the wife of a migratory worker in California might have her
baby in an old barn beside the road. Perhaps.
This child, I like to think, will have a chance to grow up into a great
leader of our people, a great thinker, a teacher—a man or a woman who
will give us something vital which was not here before. I don’t like to
think that this small child might die of malnutrition or that some easily
preventable disease—one of the scourges of dirt, poverty and hunger—may
sweep it away before it has a chance to bring us the gifts of the future.
Leaders Usually Spring From Poor
I do know this. We can't always count on recruiting our leaders from
the rich and the well-born. We can't alwavs count on a Oeorge Wash
ington of Mount Vernon or a Franklin Roosevelt of Hyde Park becoming
“a traitor to his class” in order to serve the mass of his poorer fellow
countrymen. After all, that doesn’t happen very often. Those who
possess the more abundant economic life generally find plenty of good
reasons for denying it to others. Our leaders—the world’s leaders—usually
spring from the homes of the poor fa Lincoln or a Jackson from a log
cabin and not a high-porched mansion*, from simple homes and humble
parents.
Even today, you can go through the ranks of Congress and count on
the fingers of your two hands the number of men who were born into great
wealth and always had things easy. But a Hugo Black or a Frank Murphy,
a Bob Jackson and a Cordell Hull—these had to make their way, all the
way. and it is on them and on men like them in both political parties and
in all walks ot life that the rest of us must depend for service, leadership
and security.
Halt to Quarreling Might Speed Aid
80 we ought to make sure that we shall develop and maintain the
sort of society and the sort of business system here irt America which will
make sure that our children—for whom we celebrate Christmas and in
whose name we reaffirm our faith in life against the surrounding cold and
darkness—have a fair chance to grow up and make our hational destiny.
In particular, while we are arguing about which way is the best way
to deal with unemployment, relief, social insecurity and so on. we might
remember that while we bicker, people are dying What’s the use of
having a fine policy if there's no one to enjoy it? What's the use of a
balanced budget if the people perish? My personal contribution to the
Christmas spirit this year is to suggest that we stop quarreling among
ourselves and get to work on the real problems which afflict real people
right here in our midst. <
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Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Lochhaad's Fame
Brought 5 Years'
Pay in Advance
By LEMUEL F. PABTON.
Deep in Secretary Morgenthau’s
daring plan of last April, to forestall
war by cornering raw materials, was
Archie Lockheed, then director of
the Treasury’s $3,000,000,000 sta
bilisation fund. He is of Scottish
descent and helped make it clear
that the peace foray would cost
$100,000,000 a year—a discovery
which had much to do with killing
the plan.
Men who herd billions at th«
point of a sharp pencil ordinarily
aren’t regarded as having personal
stabilization problems. Mr. Loch
head did, however, and how he
solved it is a hitherto unrecorded
footnote to the story of the novel
dollar-bulkhead agaihst war. After
long experience with New York
banks as one of the best specialists
in foreign exchange, Mr. Lochhead
went to the Treasury in 1933 at a
salary of $10,000 a year. That was
not an exciting salary for a man of
his attainments, but the stabiliza
tion job was exciting enough and he
kept things humming in his de
partment. With no precedents to
consult, he operated the huge fund
at a profit, achieved a settlement of
all foreign accounts every day and
never allowed the Treasury to be
come uncollateralized in its tempo
rary holdings of foreign exchange.
He kept the dollar on an even keel
tnd did all the buying for foreign
silver under the Silver Purchases
Act.
wu otpumoer io oi mis year ne
was replaced by H. Merle Cochran,
a financial expert attached to the
American Embassy in Paris. He
returned to New York, to find that
jobs commensurate with his ability
weren’t hanging on every tree. He
was 48 years old. married and the
father of three children, more or
less starting life over again. He
had juggled countless paper millions,
but hadn’t been able to salt any
of them down for himself.
Some friendly contacts with
Chinese purchasing agents here,
buying war materials, proved inter
esting. The Chinese-owned corpora
tion was using here the $25,000,000
credits extended by the Export
Import Bank. One thing led to an
other. The Chinese would be pleased
to employ Mr. Lochhead, at a salary
of $25,000 a year, to administer this
purchasing fund. Mr. Lochhead
would be pleased to accept, but the
Chinese introduced one of their
quaint variants from customary
financial transactions. Mn view of
Mr. Lochhead's great skill and
reputation, and in view of their
complete confidence in him, they
insisted they should pay him in a
lump sum for his period of employ
ment— $125,000 cash in advance for
his five-year term. This was done.
I told some of my friends this story
and one of them wondered if Mr.
Lochhead would mind having one
stroke his back on Halloween night.
However, his dossier is more of a
pluck than luck story.
'Released br Consolidated News Futures )
When West Has a Sale—It s a REAL Sale
The Traditional Event Arrives on Schedule!
WESTYLE SUITS
Production costs have advanced greatly since these suits were
placed in our stock. Today they would cost us considerably
more. So you save doubly by purchasing now—at these au
thentically reduced prices!
Formerly $35 Formerly $40
REGULAR $45 WESTYLE SUITS--NOW $38.50
| THREE MONTHS EXTENDED PAYMENT t
3 ACCOUNTS AVAILABLE AT NO EXTRA COST p
Sidney West, inc. 14th & G
EUGENE C. GOTT, President