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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1944.
TIMELY MOVE
Americans may obtain light on recent
governmental trends from the summary
presented by Representative Gwynne of
Iowa in sponsoring his “fair government
al practices act.” . /,v
The Iowan reported that federal bu
reaus, special tribunals, authorities, cor
porations, agencies, etc., do more legis
lating than the congress of the United
States. In other words, congress is no
longer the chief author of our laws.
Nor is that all. Representative
Gwynne pointed out that through rules,
regulations, directives, and orders, such
federal organizations try more cases than
all the federal courts put together.
Attacking the procedure adopted by
these special agencies, the Iowa con
gressman charged that “in many respects
they operate in complete disregard of
these principles of orderly procedure
and due process guaranteed by the con
stitution” “The fair government prac
tices act” was introduced to remedy the
whole situation—“to facilitate the ad
ministration of justice, to protect civil
rights, and to preserve the form of gov
ernment guaranteed by the constitution
of the United States.”
Sentiment favorable to such legisla
tion is growing in both houses of con
gress. Did some one say “About Time?”
—(Seattle Journal of Commerce).
OUR PRESENT ALLIES
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
of Massachusets, suggested in the recent
debate in the House, according to the
Congressional Record, that Congress
have the final say-so in the disposition
of Lend-Lease material shipped to the
Allies.
While such authority rests in the
President of the United States, regard
lesss of whether the Chief Executive is
a Democrat or a Republican, there is
nothing sinister in the suggestion of the
lady from Massachusetts.
LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
'•SHARK'S FINS AND MILLET",
by Ilona Rail Sues (Little.
Brown; $3).
Two pictures of China at war
are being published this week,
neither of which is the tradi
tional chromo of a brave and
democratic people fighting for
their future. Of these, the less
pretentious is Ilona Ralf Sues
“Shark’s Fins and Millet,” a title
that comes from that curious del
icacy now so expensive in China,
the fin of the shark, and from
mille*, which is the mushy food
of the very poor.
Miss Sues worked for the opium
control forces in Geneva in the
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'days when the League of Nations
was still afloat. But she reached
a point where she could not bear
the Geneva atmosphere, and after
a time she turned up in China.
Eventually she became a func
I tionary in the propaganda offic;
I at Chiang’s headquarters, working
I directly with E. H. Donald, whon
many have called the Richelieu o
! China. Donald was the adviser of
(Mme. Chiang, of everybody, and
now nobody knows where he is
but many suspect he has beei
murdered by the Japanese.
In any case, Miss Sues had re
markably good ■ opportunities *t
explore China backstage, and sh<
used them industriously. It i:
doubtful, she thinks, whether al
history provides a more tangle<
situaiton than 'hat in China—;
totalitarian leader like Chianp
aiming through a one-party gov
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The same cannot be said of her fur
ther statement that “nobody knows
whether they’ll still be our allies at the
end of the war.” This evidence of sus
picion tends to stir up distrust among the
ill-informed in the United States and
serves to foster the development of sus
picions that are based upon prejudice
| ind ignorance.
Obviously, no one in the world can
tell whether Russia, Great Britain and
China will continue to be the allies of
this country or not.
At the present time they are allies in
a great war, each contributing material
ly to the contest. This is enough for
the moment. There is no occasion to
build on the basis of what may occur in
jfuture years.—'Fairbanks News-Minor).
BOMBS AND VOLCANOES
f. We've looked with amusement upon
the suggestions, put forth in certain
quarters, that the eruption of Vesuvius
might have been caused by bombings, or
1 that’ a couple of block-busters, accurate
ly dropped, could cause a cataclysm
within the crater of Fujiyama. New we
learn that a well-known geologist. Pro
fessor Harold O. Whitnall of Colgate
University, has said that such things
might be “well within the realm of pos
sibility.” When such an authority as
Professor Whitnall speaks, who are vve
to deny 'his statements?
It seems that many volcanoes have
plugs within the throats of their craters
which, if broken, could—as Professor
Whitnall puts it~“release pent-up pres
sures of molten lava which are bottled
up beneath, producing not alone cata
clysmic eruptions, but also possible
earthquakes and tidal waves.”
Commenting on the statement, the
Cleveland Plain Dealer says that “may
be the professor has something there.”
goes on to suggest that heavy bombs
dropped down the mouth of Fujiyama
might bring a greater disaster to Japan
than could the full force of a dozen
armies.
“Fujiyama and other Japanese vol
canoes,” the Plain Dealer states, “may
constitute a huge battery of nature’s
most destructive artillery, all loaded,
prmed and ready for firing. All we
would have to do is pull the trigger that
would touch off the most destructive
salvo in world history.”
Anyway, when the proper time ar
rives, it won’t cost much to try.—(Jun
eau Empire).
AN EAR VO THE 6R0UND
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ernment at a Ch nese version of
democracy by way of dictatorial
methods. And the one par*y, the
Kuomintang. supports its own
Gestapo, she says, yet is riddled
with pro-Japanese elements and
encrusted w’ith officials who were
more adept in the "squeeze” than
in any hing else.
It makes an extraordinarily
sad picture, with many heroic and
brilliant episodes to brighten it.
It makes, also, a picture that I
suspect canno' be understood by
any westerner, no matter how
clever he may be. An American
will have difficulty understand-!
ing how the Generalissimo could|
have for long maintained thej
op um czar of China in power,
as Miss Sues declares he did.
And she closes on rather a pain
ful chord—Mme. Chiang's late
American visit, which Miss Sues
believes was Tagically mishand
led by Mme. herself.
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