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Weekly News Review THE DUNDEE OBSERVER, DUNDEE, N. Y.,THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 Page Seven American Political Tradition Decreed Republican Upsurge By 'losepla W. La Bine ■ ora/,.:,, , Base Map © American Map Co. REPUBLICAN GAINS IN NOVEMBER ELECTION States shown in black showed definite swing away from Democratic party bi giving victory to Republicans in two out of possible three divisions (governor, senate, house); states shaded gave Republicans minor victory in house or guher natorial election ; states shown in white failed to record substantial change in political status or (Maryland, California, North Dakota) showed Democratic gains, •ed a likely candidate. If the 1938 Business Government prosecution of com binations in alleged restraint of trade was known as “ trust-busting ” in the days of President Benjamin Harrison. In 1890 the Sherman anti trust law began hacking at financial octopi in what was shown to be a legitimate campaign to keep Ameri can industry from killing itself by mushroomed growth. Modern trust-busting is an out growth of the New Deal. Its in tended victim is not the monopo^ listic trust of bygone days, but usu-s ally a group of powerful corpora tions which dominate an industry But though the 1933 model trust buster can be credited with success (17 victories, 12 cases still pending, out of 42 filed since March 4, 1933) he might also be charged with mak ing political capital of his job. Thus it has been hinted that So licitor General Robert H. Jackson, once an assistant attorney general, joined the anti-trust crusade last year largely in the hope of winning New York ’ s Democratic gubernato rial nomination. If politics was the inspiration for some anti-trust suits, these same suits have now become such hot potatoes that a vanished political purpose does not justify the justice department ’ s dropping them. One possible example may be the trust case against the Aluminum Company of America. To date this year-old investiga tion hasTaileu td _ uneover muc'i^eX\ cept a re-hash of testimony and evi dence from the 1935 federal trade commission ’ s probe, and a private litigation of a decade ago from which the company emerged with a clean bill of health. Today ’ s anti-trust division of the justice department has 90 lawyers compared with 15 in 1933, handling THURMAN ARNOLD New technique: Price policing. monopoly cases and proceedings connected with 31 othermaior acts OI COngiebS. xx uot-uuiuiig UOSS 1S> Thurman Arnold, whose fetish is in vestigating the price policies of in dustry. Says Mr. Arnold: “ We are being forced to take control of in flexible price structures and coer cions in restraint of trade today just as in 1933 we were forced to take control of the financing and market ing of securities. ” Much interest now centers in the justice department ’ s newly inaugu rated suit against Delaware ’ s Co lumbia Gas & Electric corporation for allegedly “ conspiring to monopo lize ” the natural gas industry of Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Michigan. But in accordance with his probe of price policies, Thur man Arnold is probably more inter ested in oil. Since crude oil prices recently plummeted in the wake of alleged over-production by refiner ies, both the President and Mr. Ar nold favor a program for state con trol over oil production and refin ing. Harking back to the trust-busting days when Standard Oil ’ s case first made the U. S. monopoly-conscious, the new probe will examine every phase of the oil industry from pro duction to marketing. Though oil men will welcome an intelligent gov ernment program to stabilize crude oil prices, observers fail to see great consistency between this program to raise prices, and other monopoly quizzes which prosecute men for allpcrorUv nrices. Religion After 31 months of strife, four months of which cost 1,317 lives and left 1,150 wounded, Palestine ’ s “ holy war ” is still not ended. The British-mandated territory has been Arabic for centuries but was set aside as a homeland for Jews'fol lowing the World war, only to arouse Moslem fears that Hebrews would soon dominate the land. Using ter rorism as their weapon, Arabs have attempted to force an immediate settlement on slow-moving Great Britain^ but London has just an nounced its refusal to make an im mediate decision. Great Britain proposes to call a conference of J ew ish and Arab leaders whose com promise agreement would wash Great Britain ’ s hands of all respon sibility for the Holy Land. This 'would be fine except that Arabs re fuse to arbitrate in this fashion, which leaves Palestine ’ s problem still a hopeless muddle. Miscellany An Evanston, Ill., woman has been granted a patent for a pair of pockets to be hung over her cocker spaniel ’ s head, carrying his ears for him. • In 12 months just past, the Meth odist Episcopal church of America increased its membership by 181,- 297, approximately 1 per cent. , Politics Like all natural phenomena anc many not so natural, U. S. politica fortunes run in cycles of liberalisrr and conservatism. Thus everj lengthy Republican administrator has been succeeded by a shortei Democratic one, attesting to th? American people ’ s inherent conserv atism. Since the Republican party reached its latest low ebb undei Candidate Alfred Landon in 1936, none but the most optimistic expect ed anything but a minor gain sc early as 1938. But it has proved otherwise, thanks to (1) a growing belief that the Roosevelt administra tion ’ s expensive recovery efforts have been unsuccessful, and (2) a fear that New Deal policies were en couraging the growth of radicalism Moreover, it has been apparenl that the public must eventually pro test against the political corruption which unavoidably gathers around so large a financial project as WPA Though the Roosevelt administration may be blameless in this respect such political machines as that oi Pennsylvania ’ s Gov.j, George H. Earle have unsavory reputations. Another consideration, one that re ceived less attention than eventually proved justified, was dissatisfaction among America ’ s numerically im portant farmers. Since the agricul tural vote can control congress, it looked bad for the administration when this year ’ s highly touted farm program failed. Despite Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace ’ s sincere efforts, New Deal farm leg islation has left producers in north ern states without permanent relief. Almost without exception the No vember general election has there fore made the U. S. return to its most normal political alignment in 15 years. (See Map). Always Dem ocratic, the “ solid South ” has clung tenaciously to tradition. But this tradition does not mean the South will line up 100 per cent behind President Roosevelt, for South Car olina, Georgia and Maryland elect ed senators partially unsympathetic with the New Deal. Several other southern senators and congressmen, not up for re-election this year, are also unsympathetic. Though in many cases the Repub lican trend is not so great as the above map might indicate, practi cally all northern states have shown a surge back to conservatism. This was especially marked in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where Farmer-Labor and Progressive partisans were ousted after long incumbencies. Michigan swung away from Demo cratic Gov. Frank Murphy largely because he sympathized with the radically tinged Committee for In dustrial Organization. In all north western states the swing to Repub licanism was due partly to agricul tural dissatisfaction. New England ’ s industrial population rebelled against allegedly oppressive taxa tion and the C. I. O., while this ter ritory ’ s traditional conservatism also played an important role. Sub stantially the same explanation can be made for votes in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The only important New Deal gains have come in California, where a rock-ribbed Republican governor was ousted; in North Da kota, whose notoriously unsettled political situation has freakishly placed a Democrat in the governor ’ s chair, and in Maryland. But such a resume does not tell the entire story, for even those states which remained Democratic have shown an amazingly strong Re publican upsurge. New York ’ s Gov. Herbert H. Lehman won by only 70,000 votes over his Republican op ponent, youthful Thomas E. Dewey, whereas two years ago Mr. Leh man had a 500,000 margin. Illinois, which remains predominantly New Deal, increased its Republican house representation and returned a much larger conservative vote than in 1936. Having gained at least 8 senators, 75 house members and 11 governors, the Republican party once more has a vocal minority in congress. More over its 1940 presidential hopes are better, despite the defeat in New York of Tom Dewey, once consid- .ection has created any new presi dential possibilities, they are Ohio ’ s Republican Sen. Robert Taft and Missouri ’ s Democratic Sen. Bennett Champ Clark. What the Republican upsurge will do for the U. S. remains conjectural, but post-election stock market activ ity has been encouraging. To aid industry, the American Federation of Labor is already banking on G. O. P. congressional aid in amend ing the Wagner labor relations act. The outstanding fact is that 1938 ’ s Republican party has emerged a liberal entity, well-spanked for its former ultra-conservatism. Foreign That a state visit can hold much international importance is some times hard to believe, since state visitors make a studied effort to avoid shop talk with their hosts. But diplomatic Great Britain refuses to minimize the significance of King George ’ s visit to the U. S. next summer, and every sign indicates the English reasoning is correct. Coupled with the U. S. visit is an invitation for French President Al bert Lebrun to drink tea in Bucking ham palace next spring, thereby re turning the honor accorded by George ’ s visit to Paris this past summer. While all this sounds like social pother, it really means that France and England are desperate ly trying to give the world a specta cle of democratic solidarity, offset ting the trumpeting of Premier Be nito Mussolini and Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Though King George ’ s visit will not result in a U. S.-British pact, it will certainly tighten the bonds between England and Amer ica. This means that next spring and summer Italy and Germany will go into eclipse, while world democra cy stages its show. There is every KING GEORGE VI How important is his visit? reason to believe the Fascist-Nazi nations appreciate this and realize they must gain their concessions from France and Britain within the next six months. That is why Hit ler is pressing his Remands for a return of British-mandated colonies, and why Mussolini is urging inter nationalization of the Suez canal. People The death of Turkey ’ s dictator, President Kemal Ataturk, removes the most colorful totalitarianist of our era. A man whose passion was violation of every accepted rule of human behavior, he customarily stayed up all night, ate every food that disagreed with him, had an amazingly large capacity for raki liquor and champagne, was Tur key ’ s champion cigarette smoker and drank gallons of coffee every day. He detested exercise. More benevolent and less anxious for self- aggrandizement than most dicta tors, Mustapha Kemal established a model nation out of the post-war debris of Turkey. At his death, the nation he founded looks in bewil derment for a successor, while Eu rope fears southeastern-bound Adolf Hitler may seize the opportunity to establish his economic strength in the Dardanelles. BiHaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiaiHiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiaiiiiiBiai I Announcement I i . i : W. F. Macreery wishes to announce the opening of s I THE MACREERY LUMBER CO, ! * Harpending Avenue, Dundee, N. Y. 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