slam /, (7. _ /V’-r? 7. ROOSg.YELT In today's aftermath of the President's speech last nighty one bright Idea comes bouncing. It concer*ns that question so oi ten asked Franklin Delano Roosevelt seek a third term?" Today inferences v/ere being drawn from what the President said last evening. And surprisingly? one of these inferences is - yes, he may. He may seek a third term. Most of us, understood just the opposite, drew the conclusion that F.D.R. was renouncing any thought of running again. Let's recall the part of his address that had a bearing on the third term problem - his declaration that his great ambition is to turn over the country in good shape to his successor in Nineteen Forty-One. The inference seems to be plain - a successor, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt retiring to private life. However, reasoning is an ingenious thing, and can achieve some surprising twisters. So, we f ? nd some clev er^£3s^SSw#» among the political observers, figuring out the logic this way:- The President says his ambition is to turn over the country in good shape to his successor. But suppose he thinks the country i;QOS: -V- I,T - £ is not in ^ood shape - then he may not turn it over to any successor. He might decide that he needs a third term to put the nation into proper condition to turn over to a successor afterward.^ That*s chopping the logic neat and fine - picking 4 possible loophole in the Presidents inferential statement of last night. Does it mean that we1re going to have a repetition of the great Coolige third term puzzle; - ”1 dosSJ^ choose to Run”? The logicians had loads of fim^fiosgteg^heanings out of that ** making ”no” seem to be ,tyes,, or TTmayben. Politics is forever providing all kinds of amusement, and. maybe there will be ingenuities of argument over and areund the Roosevelt dictum about leaving the country in good shape to a successor. Meanwhile, the battle for the Supreme Court has been whooped up to new antagonism by the Presidents attack on the court last night. White House gircles believe that the President made a hit with public opinion, and will make another when he defends his court plan in his forthcoming fireside Kkx^x chat. ROOSEVELT - 5 So the administration is going to press the court question with renewed vigor - this in the face of a senate that seems to be almost evenly divided, so strong is the senatorial opposition the project of changing the court. LaGUARDIA Yesterday Secretary of State Hull made an unofficial apology to Berlin, "because of remarks made by Mayor LaGuardla of Hew York. Today, the apology was made official, sent In regular diplomatic form to the German government. The United States government offered Its regrets because of what the New York Mayor had to say about a chamber of horrors with Reichsfuehrer Hitler in it. Washington explained to Berlin A that the Americans have free speech, one of their most cherished rights, and the only thing our government could do in a case like this was - to express regrets. Meanwhile, the Berlin newspapers were fuming today, thoroughly dissatisfied with yesterday^ unofficial apology. The newspaper owned by Minister of Propaganda Goebbels denounced what it called "the lame handling" of the affair by Washington, and stated that this lame handling was something to encourage LaGuardia in his anti-Nazi fulminations. Millions are familiar with the sprightly caroons of Ding, who pokes such genial fun at evetns of politics an. the affairs of the nation. Ding Is famous as a comic artist, also as a conservationist. And Ding Is mighty serious about it, sometimes even a shade lugubrious, as he is reported today in an address before the North American Wild Life Conference. Ding declared that unless there is a drastic program of conservation, the United States will be going hungry within thirty-five years. He explained that there was a .downward curve of soil' destruction, less fertile land CONSERVATION - I: on which to grow food. Meanwhile, there is an upward curve of population Increase. when those two curves intergept, that will be the time when the nation will be just able to feed its people - and no more. After that, the continuing dov/nward curve of less good land and the continuing upward curve of more inhabitants - will mean not enough food. Ding cited history to prove his contention - the A Central Asian deserts vdiich once were rich farming and grazing land. Presumably, too much farming ima and too much grazing helped them become deserts - like the Gobi- And there's North A Africa, where beneath the intruded sands of the desert lie the once fertile fields. tfF the granary of the Roman Empire. And Ac \ then there1s Yucatan and its giant Jungle ruins^ the splendid civilization of the Mayans that vanished so abruptly. Scientists believe that Its fall was caused by the exhaustion of the soil, over-cultivation, the fields turned sterile - good only to be invaded by the creeping Jungle. We all have our 1 ighteynonA«» — a * cartoonist has his more serious i CHINA HELPS AMERICANS Surely the world has been upside down this year. How»s this for proof? Dick Y*alsh, publisher of Asia Magazine, and husband of Pearl Buck, tells me that, led by Finance Minister Kung, a Chinese committee has been raising lUnds in China to help flood victims in the United States’. Editor and publisher Y/alsh adds that China would be helping us even still more if she could find a way of reminding us that ’’China laid her hills bare and lost her good soil and opened the channels of flood long, long ago when men didn’t know hov; to prevent it.” Another lesson ’’that young America can learn from old China.” The March issue of Asia Magazine is in celebration of the twentieth year of that magazine^ which you will find in the homes of important people all around this globe. Asia Magazine >^nniversary is known to the ends of the earth. And in this Twentieth^KHtMKy N issue are striking articles by such famous people as Rabindrath Tagore, Maurice Hindus, Vincent Sheehan, Baroness Ishimoto, Somerset Maugham, will Beebe, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Pearl Buck; and poems by Amy Lowell and Dhan Gopal Mukerjl LID j ~r BGH The argument shout the proposed trans-Atlantic air race in honor of Lindbergh was stiarpened today by a statement that is most pertinent - the att.i tude. of Lindbergh himself. What does he think about the great ocean-crossing contest dedicated to his glory? May Twentieth of this year will be the Tenth Anniversary of that memorable take-off, the most famous flight of all - and the Fresnch government plans to celebrate it in a most spectacular way. Ten years ago Lindbergh winged from New York to Paris. This time the idea*is to do it the other way, Paris to New York, not one flight, but many - a race with contestants from all over the world. • The FrenPh government is giving its help in the building of several high powered craft to compete. Fliers from most of the European countries have announced that they'll enter.*fet It's significant though, that no American aviator entrance in the race. Not one of LindberghTs flying countrymen seems to want any part in the ctx trans-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to his honor. LINDBEHGH _ 2 On the contrary, American aviation seems to be opposed hink^lSd^B- too dangerous. The east-to- A to the whole idea, west crossing, Europe to America, is much more difficult than the other way - because of prevailing winds. For one plane to try it non-stop is risky enough, but for* a whole flock of them, in a racing competition, trying to duplibate Lindbergh1s stunt in reverse - that1 s just foolhardy, they. say. It would add nothing to the advancement of aviation science, and the ms&m result would be bhat several brave men wpuld probably lose & their lives. Tragedy and death - such would be the effect of the giant attempt to honor Lindbergh. o e s A i m But what does. imself ‘say about it? Would A A hsochHxx he by any chance enter the race in his own honor? And perhaps win it on the Tenth Anniversary of his memorable flight? That would be a spectacular sort of melodrama, but It isn't the I I Lindbergh way. In fact - he is opposed to the, race! \ He hasn’t said anything directly - not for quotation, He’s traveling in India with Mrs. Lindbergh, presumably thinking mighty little about that Tenth Anniversary. But there*s ^ LIMDBEPGII - 3 sound word, revealed today that the Flying Colonel is against the ides, he is said to have expressed himself in agreement with his fellow American fliers — that it * s too dangerous, would lead to loss of life. And this takes a profound human turn — the notion that the commeroration of the anniversary might lead to tragedy. Colonel Lindbergh, — the world’s premier aviator has had enoiigh tragedy in his life already! Air: cage At the first glance today** news about putting a cage around London to stop sky attack sounds a bit weird. The cage to consist of cables suspended from baloons. It's easy to see how a fence of vertically hanging cables would stop airplanes at night. But in daylight you’d think a plane could easily fly between the cables. It would take too many baloons for that, millions literaaly to surround so hlg an area as London. However, today’s London dispatch presents the cage idea with serious plausibility. It explains that wire screens would be attached to the cables to cover a larger area, and that each strand of screen would wave uncertainly in the wind, difficult to see, difficult to avoid, a deadly menace for bomb - ers that fly so fast they can’t be controlled within a short distance. ’’The French General Staff,” says London, ’’has taken up the idea to protect Paris and already has fifteen hundred baloons for a barrage. They rise to twenty thousand feet, and block the air to that great height.” Experts told the British parliament today that if London had a baloon barrage sufficien t ly expensive and sufficiently high, no hostile air fleet would even attempt to attack the city. AIR CAGE - S The scheme to put London in a cage was made public today as the Baldwin Government asked Parliament to appropriate four hundred million dollars during 1337 for all sorts of air defense, the cage being part of it. CORONATION Today votes were counted in a London election, and the results have a picturesque hearing on the coronation. The London City Oouncil takes a large part in the coronation ceremonies - and it**jS>*SocIalist« The Labor Party, with strong Socialist inclinations, control^ the majority of the votes in the British capital, and held a majority on the Council, This the Conservatives have been eager to reverse - especially in view of the crowning of the King. A Laborite- Socialist Council playing a part in the ritual seemed a trifle incongruous to the dukes, the bishops and other .peers of the realm. So, a strenuous election campaign wras waged to carry the City of London || and its Council for the Conservatives. There was lively election­ eering with the coronation an Issue. Yesterday the votes were cast. Today they were counted. WhatTs the result? No change. The Labor!te Socialists won again. So, during the royal festivities in May, the Loudon will be represented by a Council somewhat, pink in color. Meanwhile 'Arsi*1' 11 00 RON ATX T' 2 yards ol crimson Yelvet - and all because of a young barrister, Colin Pearson. He's the attorney for the Earl of Lancaster, who will function at the coronation as the Lord Great Chamber- lain. The barrister went to bat to see that his client, the Earl got all the privileges he was entitled to. He cited ancient customs to show that the Earl had the right to wear forty yards of crimson velvet with his coronation robe. 'Not only that - he showed that the Earl should be given the bed in which Their Majesties will sleep the night before they are crowned. Not only the bed, but also the bedroom curtains, and cushions and even His Majesty's night robe. Forty yards of crimson vel­ vet and the King's nightgown. And now His Majesty is preparing to give decision. JAPAN In a Japanese Street was a sudden commotion. A man leaped at another one and started beating him with shrieking fury. "Confess,” he yelled. "No,” gasped his victim, ”1 didn't do itt” This was the culminating scene of a Japanese tragedy - a man sent to prison for a crime he had not committed. JAPAN -2, . Long years ago a traveler was robbed and killed on a lonely road, and Ishimatsu Yoshida was accused. Two witnesses against him sealed his fate. He went to prison, where he stayed for twenty-three years. A year agg, he was released, and immediately began a hunt for his two accusers. One of them he soon found, and forced that witness to admit his testimony had been false - and that the crime had actually been coraraitted by Month after month he hunted far anc^ wide - until^sw^the story eand# of how Ishimatsu found his man, spied him on the street, and flew at him with the bitterness of those twenty-three years in prison. "Confess that you committe'd the murder!" he yelled as he beat the man with mad fury. The other denied it, until finally, under the terror of the attack, he admitted: "Yes, I confess, I killed him." And now Ishimatsu Yoshida has reopened hio Cc^se c^id convictron. the other witness. So now Ishimatsu^ search was intensified and expects a retrial and full .2. 3 y ^ MUSTACHE The, v.orldf s biggest mustache has been discovered — measured, calibrated and put on record. What nation claims the honor of having produced the championship mustache? Why, Hungary. ThstTs not so surprising. The Hungarians go in for handlebars on their faces. They always did. The dashing Magyar cavalry in centuries .past was a warlike pageant of fierce raustachios. So - we find that the world1 s mightiest upper lip ornament belongs.to John Kontra, an eighty-one year old patriarch of Budapest. His mustach is twenty-eight inches from tip to tip, and voluminous in proportion. Twenty-eight inches, two and a third feet! Those handlebars are more like wings. They1re the biggest thing in John’s life. He devotes his existence to taking care of his mustache. That, ill. fact, is how the championship facial adornment happens to be put on record and in the news. He was taken to a hospital, where the J&KKtextx Doctors marveled and measured. He had had sn accident, a mishap MUST-ACtlF - 2 because of YL^) tPU^ er\ his mustache. Every morning* with the utmost care, he anoints it with oil and laboriously winds it around a ram1s horn - that's to give it the right kind of stylish curl. On the morning of the accident, John worked away with the oil and ram’s horn as usual. When he had finished, he studied himself in the mirror with pride and pleasure, and sat down to smoke his pipe. When he lit it, the match touched off some fumes from the mustache oil. There was a flare of flame, and John’s eyes were burned. But the mustache was not singed a bit. So he went to the hospital happy didn't k± mind losing his eyes, so long as the pride and joy of his face was not injured. Who touches a hair of yonAchampionship mustache, dies like a dog J-Rji huly.