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NEVS behind EDITORIAL SOCIETY LETTERS CLASSIFIED COMICS 1 I NEWC lALLON mmJ IgPAUL Eagle DAILY (Copyrljht 193T Th( BrookljD Otily NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937 Washington, Feb. 24. DOIBTS Peculiar criss-cross currents of religious Interest in President Roosevelt's court repacking program are noticeable deep within Congress. A Texas representative who fought the Ku Klux Klan has been receiving letters from constituents whom he CttyMMwrid Fresh en recognizes as former Ku Klux leaders, advising him to oppose the program. They give no reasons, and, he says, this means they have some fear of a rearrangement on constitutional religious guarantees.

In addition, he has received many opposition letters from leading Protestant ministers. Editorials from the Catholic Hill SIRE RETl'RN During a talk with Leroy Dorland we borrowed bis fountain pen to sign something, and after a while found our. self holding the body of the thing In midair. "Thank you," said Dorland, putting the cap 'on the part we held and pocketing both parts. H8 laughed.

"I lost several pens before I learned that secret. When you loan your pen, always keep th cap. Otherwise It is the most natural thing In the world for a man who has borrowed it to take the cap from the bottom and put It on the top and place the whole business in his pocket, absent mlndedly, of course." ONG-STANDING JOKE There are a lot of things of Interest about Mr. Dorland. A coupls of years ago, when he was 46, he had his heart examined by Dr.

C. Ward Crampton, who found it slow and sound and safe. That Is interesting, be cause the hearts of runners are supposed to go bad in after life, and Mr. Dorland was a champion runner in his day. He was the first person to win a national championship Ave years In a row, being 300-yard Indoor natlona! champion from 1907-1911, Inclusive.

H8 was 220-yard Canadian champ In 1909, and quarter mile national Indoor hurdle champ In 1911. Funny thing, about that heart examination. Back in 1904, when Dorland went to the High School of Commerce in Manhattan, Dr. Crampton press are being circulated privately among the legislators Paul Mallon CunTOnLMOSHER m'rm, -mm Clyde M. Herring, Onetime Governor of Iowa, Now a Senalor, Is Playing 'Possum for a' Year, But Keep an Eye on He Might be a Democratic Candidate in 1940 OUT from between the Iowa cornstalks have come two new members of the United States Senate.

One was his State's Governor. The other was a member of the House of Representatives. The Governor once repaired was then head of the physical training depart ment. The doctor was attracted by the boy's un usual arm muscles. "I see your father belongs to one of those crew clubs on the East River and lets you enjoy ths club privileges," the doctor said.

Dorland didn't deny or affirm the charge, and didn't mention the matter again until he had hit heart examined in middle age. "For more than 30 years I've had a joke on you, doctor," he said. "You thought those arm muscles came from rowing, but the truth Is I had a Job before school delivering bread and rolls and I got those arms pulling up dumbwaiters," who will vote on the plan. These express apprehension more directly. A typical example is that of the Catholic register of Lincoln, which says: "Catholics had better study well any proposed changes or 'reforms' in the United States Supreme Court.

Catholics In this nation owe a debt of gratitude to the Judiciary of the country. Do you remember the Oregon school bill?" To make the circle complete, some Jewish members of Congress are reminding their colleagues of what happened In Germany when the constitution was superseded by a central authority. NECESSITY With Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Ku Klux expressing doubts or open opposition, it will probably be necessary for Mr. Roosevelt to make some guarantees, not for himself, of course, but for his successors in the Presidential office against any possible future short-cut alteration of the religious guarantee section of the Constitution, such as Is now being proposed for the interstate commerce and general welfare sections. While such matters are rarely debated publicly in Congress, they have an Influence privately on the Legislators.

STYMIED Despite all this flurry of activity recently, there will not be a vote upon Mr. Roosevelt's original plan next week or next month and possibly not next year. The technical situation Is this: The opposition now has 33 Senate votes. This is one vote more than one-third of the Senate, which means no limitation of debate can be voted (a two-thirds majority is required for cloture). It also means that 33 Senators, deeply embittered against the proposal, can prevent a vote by talking until doomsday.

Obviously Mr. R. will not let his plan go to that kind or a death. It will be necessary, therefore, for him to accomplish his objective in some other related way. cither by a simultaneous constitutional amendment, or concessions which will win more Senate votes.

As things stand now, Mr. Roosevelt should be able to get control of the court within the coming year by one means or another. Thus, there seems to be a similarly strong probability of new NRA legislation, new AAA legislation, etc. In other words, the controlled Democracy still seems to be around the next corner. a watch lor Henry Ford.

The Representative, among other claims to distinction, one day sold his law library and gave up that profession for dairy farming, which he preferred. The former Governor Is Clyde L. Herring and the former Representative, Guy M. Gillette. Both are Democrats.

WtfI MM-'K Third Article of a Series Both look like statesmen. Both know their way around. Neither is a greenhorn in or out of legislative halls. It is fair to nredict at this pay homage to a departed official. He edged over to Gillette and said stage of the game that Herring will go down In history either as the Democratic If i ll 'Senator, I want to talk to you about the campaign.

We've got to beat this fellow Herring." I not a Senator yet," said Gillette, "but I'm going to be one, not as a Republican but as a Democrat, and furthermore, I'm not Senator Dickinson as you think but Guy M. Gillette." That ended that conference. It was one of, the briefest in political history. And His Iowa 'Sidekick, G. M.

Gillette, Onetime Congressman, Looks Like a Statesman, Too, and Knows His Way Around. President. Everything went off first rate and neither side was abfe to cry foul. The Governor even had lunch boxes made up and passed out among the newspaper men, sweating beside their telegraph wires out in the marble corridors cf the Capitol. candidate for President 01 United States In 1940 possibly the next P-esident or as the man who bootod out of the Senate that chest-beating Republican orator, the Hon.

Lester J. Dickinson. 1 Blasted Out Dickinson Cherokee Playing 'Possum for Year plUP OFF THE OLD ARROW Though Dor land Senior did not injure his heart In running, he took no chances with his only son, Bob, who grew up as tall and sturdy as himself. He did not let the boy start competing until the age of 15, and then Bob went from novice to double champion in six weeks, winning the 100 and 200-yard South Shore High School championships. The Dorlands live at 75 W.

Fairview Ave Valley Stream. Bob, now 18 and about to grad uate from Central High School there, has already run 100 yards in 10 seconds flat. Curiously enough, his father is not sure about his own times in the old days. "The idea when I did my running was to win, not to set a record. It was team play.

I remember Harry Gissing, Jim Rosenberger, Mel Sheppard and myself held the world's indoor mile relay record, but I can't tell you now what It was. Nowadays everything is on the clock." OOLIDAY ANECDOTE We must be getting ab- sent-cinded. We've been going to tell thisstry for several days, and now it's too late. No matter, we'll tell It anyhow. Herman Epstein, who now lives In Brooklyn at 2020 E.

41st St. and works as manager of Scheckncr Farm Products, 773 Stone used to live and work up in the Bronx. He recalls that on ft George Washington's birthday during Prohibition (here's the timely note!) he looked up and down the block at Fremont and Webster where he worked for an auto concern, and saw only a solitary American flag, and that flying from the neighborhood speakeasy I rpOO FAR Seymour Sussman of 888 Utica Ave. 1 sends us a note about a defendant in a local court charged with stealing a hammer from a friend. His defense was that he took It only aa a Joke.

Asked how far he carried it, he said only from his friend's house to his own house, a distance of about three miles. "That's carrying a Joke too far," said the judge, pronouncing sentence. Senator Clyde L. Herring. brought two Presidential candidate together President Roosevelt and Alj M.

Lnndon Summer. Dickinson was the Republican rabble rouser who made the amazing discovery on April 27, 1936, that despite the pump priming of the Roosevelt administration a vast number of American people were living on canned dog food. On that day he brought that startling situation to the attention of the Senate amid guffaws inside the chamber and the Washington version of Bronx cheers outside. Dickinson has a great shock of i.nv hair and looks like what a Herring has been playing his card very close to his vest since he came to Washington. He confided to a friend of mine that he intends to play pretty much of a 'possum for a year until he finds which way the wind is blowing in this country.

That there is a presidential bee buzzing in his bonnet no matter how faintly is a foregone conclusion. You can bet money on it, which is perfectly okay for he has the stuff or, If he hasn't, has been doing a fine job of bluffing for years. The only possible thing that could be held against him is that he worked out Iowa's drZ-wet law. All can get hard liquor in liquor stores and you have to buy a little notebook with a license in it and a place for the clerk to mark down your sins, if you consider the purchase of booze a sin. Of course, the natives don't buy either beer or booze but Iowa champagne, which is a bottle of near beer with a beaker of straight alcohol poured in it.

You get quick action. Gillette was born in Cherokee, Iowa. He now lives two miles from the house in which he first saw the light of day. He went to Drake University and emerged with an LL.B. There followed a year as city attorney and two as county attorney.

In 1912, he ran for the State Senate and was elected in one of the closest races ever known to man. His margin of victory was a single vote. Lest anyone question the results at thus late date, it must be set down that there was a recount and his margin was increased considerably. Back in the days of the Spanish War, Gillette was a volunteer and saw plenty of fighting. When the World War came along, he jumped Into the fray and went overseas as a captain of infantry.

He had been practicing law but, after the war, President was supposed to look like Senate after the tragic death last Summe. of Senator Louis Murphy, who met his end in an automobile accident. Strangely enough, Gillette looks like Dickinson, whose opponent was Herring. Murphy was generally popular in Iowa and Republicans as well as Democrats turned out to honor him at his funeral. It was a State occasion and every one of any importance in Iowa was there.

A Republican whose name has not been disclosed was unable, however, to forget politics long enough to up until the time when the on scan blew the Harding Adminlstra tion i.part and the Ohio gang narked ud its tools and went into oblivion. Gillette Talks Straight Standing beside his desk on the Republican side of the chamber, Dickinson proceeded to alarm his Gillette was nominated for the you cam buy on tap is beer but you associates as follows: "It will come as a double shock Grin and Bear It By Lichty he just coulcn see it. Milk Cows and Candy HOT BRICKS Lack of enthusiasm for Mr. Roosevelt's project among his own loyal leaders In the House was illustrated again when they shoved the fight off upon the Senate. Good excuses now are being offered by Speaker Bankhead and others, but the truth is they wanted none of it.

Many have been grumbling for days that they have been forced to carry the hod for all Mr. hot legislative bricks from the beginning. They liked this one least of all. COURAGE Outsiders say they do not understand why Senator Wheeler struck out so strongly against the court project, while most of his liberal friends were hemming and hawing. Those who know Wheeler were not surprised.

Senator Wheeler's liberalism is the truest kind, based on the controlling principle of more power for the legislative representatives of the people and less for the Executive. It is not a policy with him, but a principle. He voted against the NRA on that basis. Furthermore, Wheeler has less regard for political consequences than some of his colleagues. TAGSSpeaking of who Is liberal and who is not, they tell a story in the cloakroom on Representative Maury Maverick.

He is the likeable San Antonio Democrat who is the most vociferous and energetic and supposed to be the most liberal, In the House. They say Maverick was addressing a group of Communists, with a few Socialists included, in New York. He made what he thought was a rip-roaring liberal speech, but he received no applause. Afterward, he asked those who invited him why his speech was received so coldly. The answer was: "You're too radical." to learn that in one of our great food industries Jungle conditions still prevail, with all the impllca-tioas and menace to the public health.

I refer to the manufacture of canned dog food. "These dog foods are freely displayed an sold to the public from groceries, drug stores and all stores for humors is normally sold. Guy Gillette had made a great decision. He returned to his office, sat in his de.k chair and surveyed the walls lined with law books. Then he shook his head an'd reached for the telephone.

He Republican Discovery Your Income Tax No. 28 called a second-hand book dealer and said: "My law library Is for sale." To a friend, he added: "I never did like practicing law." He put the money he got from his library with some more and onucht 20 acres In Cherokee and rented another 60, going in for dairy farming in a big way. To "Now the interesting thing about the dog food business is its present unprecedented prosperity. Its has increased by leaps and bounds for no apparent reason. There has been neither a sudden ris3 in the birthrate in dog-dom nor changes in dog appetites.

"An investigation leads to one indisputable conclusion. The increase in d(, food consumption can be accounted for because it was, and is today, being used for human beings." Figures, said Dog-Food Dickinson, as he ecamj known, showed that 20 per cent, of the canned food intended for man's best friend went down the throats of man himself. Maybe i. was the landslide all over the country or maybe it was that that set of business got under the skins of the natives of Iowa. At any rate, they bounced Dickinson and sent Herring to Washnigton.

replace the law books, he bought copies of Shakespeare and Dickens. His favorite hobbies are playing the piano by car and milking his own cows. He doesn't drink, smoke or chew. He buys candy, two pounds at a time, and it doesn't last long. Brain Teasers You a er T-r- hereby enlisted UfcLLO.

RED- OA UE'S 1 as a member urwu'c k'iMn'A. Fire Chief Catches Fire After Chase McPherson, Kan Feb. 24 Fire Chief Hobert Llndgren never lets a good blaze leave town. He received a call that a car trailer was going through the business district, the driver apixirently unaware that smoke was pouring from his house on wheels. Lindgrcn's truck started In pursuit, overtook the trailer throe blocks from headquarters and the chief extinguished a burning of the Department of Missing Persons.

Three promi EXTENSION FOR FILING RETURNS AND PAYMENT OF TAX IT IS IMPORTANT that the taxpayer render on or before the due date, which is March 15, if the return is filed on the calendar year basis, a return of income as nearly complete and final as it Is possible for him to prepare. However, when by reason of illness, absence from home, inability to secure the necessary data, or for other good and sufficient reasons additional time is required, a reasonable extension of time may be granted. Application should be made in writing to the collector of internal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer files his returns on or before the due date of the return, a full recital of the causes for the delay being given. Except in the case of taxpayers who are abroad, no extension may be granted for a period of more than 6 months. Applying for Extensions An extension of time for filing the return does not extend the time for payment of the tax, or any installment thereof, unless so specified in the extension.

Application for an extension of time for payment of the tax or any installment thereof should be made on form 1127 to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue through the collector of in tcrnal revenue for the district in which the taxpayer's return Is filed. The applicant should set forth under oath the specific reason for desiring an extension and should clearly indicate what hardship, if any, would result If the extension w-ere not granted. In addition, a statement of assets and liabilities showing the taxpayer's financial condition as of the last day of the preceding month, or as ol the close of the last taxable period, and a separate statement of receipts and disbursements for each of the 3 months immediately preceding the month in which the application is filed should be submitted. The amount of tax for which the extension of time of payment is desired should be stated. The Commissioner will not consider an extension of time for payment unless request is made on or before the due date of the tax or installment there, of.

If the extension is granted, interest at the rate of 6 percent a year is collectible from the date the payment should have been made if there had been no extension to the expiration of the period of the extension. nent men had grown sons. The men's names were White, Brown MM and Green. Foi the sake of Identification let's call the Mi sons White Jr. Herring and Ford Herring, bald, rather punchy, pleasant and capable, Is 57.

He might never have come in contact with Henry Ford had he not been born in Jackson, Mich. After having a wack at grammar schools there, he went to Detroit and got a Job in a jewelry store. There it was that he repaired the great motor magnate's turnip. Before he became Governor, Mr. Herring was Henry Ford's biggest representative in Iowa.

But it wasn't as a salesman for horseless carriages that he won national fame but as the man who had the tact and intelligence to bring two opposing Presidential candidates to his luncheon table at the same time without friction or embarrassment. His guests one day last Summer, at the capltol in Des Moines, were President Roosevelt and Alf M. Landon. The occasion was the drought conference called by the Brown Jr. and Farm Land Taxes Show Increase Washington, Feb.

24 M') A smail rl.se in the average taxes on farm lands In 1936 is reported by the Agriculture Department in a preliminary survey of 38 Slates. The department reports the lyx-tlonal avernge tax on an acre of farm land at 37 cents in 1934-35 compared with the peak nf 58 cents in 1929. Taxes per $100 of land value averaged $1.11 in 1935, $1.19 Green Jr. One of the soas was a doctor, one a lawyer atid the third a banker. 1.

The lawyer often played a very well-matched game with his father. 2, Brown Jr. called the doctor a socialist. 3. The doctor's father had an engagemnt once ft week to play golf with another of the fathers.

4, White had been a paralysis victim since his youth. What was the name of the lawyer? Answer on Comic Tag in 1934, $1.50 in the peak 1'car of "lc won't find finer lodgin1 anywhere whitl'g more I wouldn't want belter 1932, ana 55 cents hi 1913..