The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, July 10, 1935, Image 2
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
War Possible, Four Kinds
10,000 Million Questions
, Our Large Cold Pile
&nows Too Much at Four
Russian newspapers, speaking -oni
clally, accuse Japan of stirring up
irouuie along tne
Russian border, to
"bring on grave
.complications."
A protest carries
Stalin's warning to
Japan that a con
tinuation of these
Incidents "may have
serious conse
quences in the re
lations of Russia
and Japan, and
peace In the Far
East."
If Russia nnd Ja
pan should have a
serious disagree
Arthur Brisbane
ment, Russlu's equipment In the way
of submarines and airplanes, all with
in 400 miles of "tokyo, would probably
enable other countries to stop worry
ing about Japan's military plans.
England does not approve of Mus
solini's plans in Abyssinia, and the
question arises, Would England close
the Sues canal, the short cut for It al
Inn troops and supplies to Abyssinia?
Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to
fly over the Suez canal area?
The answer as to closing the Suez
cnnal by Britain would probably be
no. England would not voluntarily
provoke hostilities with Italy. She
renlly wants peace. But, how easily
war could come ? French against Ger
man or English against Italian or Jap
anese against Russian !
Germany undertakes to establish a
"family tree" for each of Its 00,000,
000 inhabitants, which means asking,
answering, writing down ten thousand
million questions.
The sensible answer would be, "I
descend from Adam, with heaven
knows how many mixtures in my blood
on the way up," but Hitler would not
accent that. Young couples getting
marriage licenses are questioned :
"Whnt were your eight great-grand
parents like? Did they have any Ne
groid or Jewish blood?
"Were they fond of telling the
truth? Did they have Imagination,
driving power?"
Ten thousand million foolish ques
tions \vould seem to set a new record.
The "greatest" country In the world,
supposed to be the most Intelligent,
owns some tons of gold, called
"worth" nine thousnnd million dollarB.
We do not use the gold, or even In
vest part of It In adequate national
defense, that would protect It. We
are afraid some one may come, with
better airplanes and submarines than
ours, nnd steal It; so the government
will dig a deep hole, far from the
coast, put In It a huge safe, and hide
away the gold lump, that Is used only
to Impress tbe financial Imagination
of the world nirl keep foreigners from
knocking do- n )Ur currency.
Dolores Anne Diamond, only- four,
surprised teachers In a Schenectady
kindergarten. She said the games for
little children bored her, and she could
recite the nlphabet backward.
Dolores wns moved to the first
grade, and could have gone higher.
She has the Intelligence of a child of
fourteen.
Usually It Is better for n child to de
velop slowly and normally. The In
fant prodigy Is usually dull later. Per
haps little Dolores will be an excep
tion, like Mozart, and. at eighteen, ns
wise as Hypntla, with a happier end
ing.
Lloyd George, in spite of his -seven
ty-two years, returns to nctive politics.
He hates the "arid ntmosphere of po
litical controversy" and returns to ac
tlve politics only because he believes
that world conditions are growlnp
worse, and "from the point of view
of pence are worse than before 1014.''
Miss Koutanova, Itusslan, twenty
one years old, Jumped 25,420 feet fron
an airplane without oxygen apparatm
and landed in a cabbnge field at
torning over four times before he
parachute opened. She claims the f<
male record.
Itussla Is tenchlfig millions of youn
people to use parachutes, the first stej
In curing nervousness In flying. Here
we have only a small handful of excel
lent pilots, but the masses of our popu
latlon know ns little about aviation as
they do about "geometry In space."
Mr. Werner Kahn, district leader of
"Hitler Youth," snys Na/.l doctrines
have , become Germany's real religion,
nnd "the time must Come when entry
Into the Hitler Youth organization will
take the place rtbw Occupied by C,ath
ollc or Protestant confirmation." Fur
thermore, the young gen'tlemah says.
"I declare to all enemies of Hitler
Youth that the fuehrer Is our fnlth
and national socialism Is our religion,"
Millions of us go through life getting
little suhahlne, ratfely If over looking
at the Atars, our Interests not unlike
that Of the entomological ly Interest
ing tumblehug, that spends its life In
the field, rolling little ball* of manure
Into a burrow. lie doesn't even realise
that there Is a sun, or stars, and msny
men sro like him, Although they may
. ??own flue country places."
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Scenes and Persons in the Current News
A > . i t. ' 1 ? - ' - ^
1 ? Flags of the thirteen original states carried as the Pennsylvania Sons of the Revolution dedicated at Valley
Forge a replica of one of the huts occupied by Pennsylvania troops In the winter of 1777-78. 2 ? Single women of Boston
peacefully picketing emergency relief headquarters. 3 ? Vice President Garner administering the oath to Rush D. Holt
of West Virginia who took his seat in the senate on reaching the constitutional age of thirty years.
BANNERS
of Colonies Revived;
Today's Jobless^
Women
PARADE
The thirteen brlgut flags of Amer
ica's earliest days unfurled to the
breeze once more at the scene o one
of history's most noted spectacles
when Pennsylvania Son: of the Revolu
tion met at Vn'.ley Forge.
It was the liVTth anniversary of the
evacuation of Philadelphia during the
Revolutionary war. Pannsylvanla's men
of today uedlcated an exact replica of
one of the rude log huts occupied by
the brave soldiers fron that colony
during the winter of 1777-78.
Women's War
Almost at the same time another
kind of wariare, serious but more
peaceful, was going on In another city
replete with memories o; the Revolu
tion? Roston. Ujimarrled women, tid
ly In need of Jobs, picketed the head
quarters of the emergency relief ad
ministration In the home of the brown
bread and beans.
Their plea A'as for a revolution In
employment thnt would prohibit mar
ried women, prosperous and In no need
of Jobs, from being given work.
Noted Runner Catches a Bride
William A. Ronthron, former Princeton track cnptnln and one of the
outstanding middle distance runners of the century, and his hilde, who was
Marlon McLennan LIneaweaver of Montreal, Que. They were married at
1'rlnceton.
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Naturally Milk Is Their Favorite Beverage
Mere are the officials of the National Dairy council photographed at the nnntial convention at Old Point Coju
forl, Va. Left to right, they are: M. D. Munn of Chicago, president of the National Dairy council ; Cliff W. Gold
smith of the Philadelphia Interstate Dairy council; C. I. Cohee, secretary of the Philadelphia Interstate Dairy council;
B. It. Quackenhush of Hudson. Ohio; Oarl K. Deysenroth. executive secretary of Milk Foundation, Inc., (Chicago ; N. D.
Rhodes; and Hobert W. P.alderston of Chicago, general manager of the National Dairy council.
Diamond Star
Goes "Left"
Fred "Flrpo" Mnrberry, Rlnnt for
mer Amerlonn longon pitcher. used to
yell bloody murder when the "ump*"
called a close one nRnlnst him. Now
he'll have a chance to hear nuch
RqiinvvkN from the other Hide. The
league has made him an unmlrel
Win Agricultural Scholarships
* Here jUre Ruth l.ohmann of Zumhrota, Minn., and .lamos W. Pott* of
A*spermont, Texas. winners of the 1'ayne Fund fellowships for 1035-80. The
award consists of $1,000 each with which they are to Study for nlno months
nt the Department of Agriculture In Wfifihlngton. These fellowships aro awarded
each year for outstanding 4 II club achievement?.
SEEN--* HEARD
around the
National Capital
1 By CARTER riELDaaS
W nshlugton. ? Crave concc ^ is felt
by high administration officials over
the lack of eagerness of so many peo
ple, all over the country, to get off re
lief rolls, even when fairly good Jobs
are offered. It is Impossible to obtain
accurate figures about Uiis phase of
the situation, all the bureaus, adminis
trations, agencies, etc., being very
much publicity shy about this disturb
ing development.
It Is known, however, that reports
from all over have been received, and
that President Roosevelt's hopes of get
ting everybody off the relief rolls as
speedily as possible' have run 'up
against a very stiff resistance.
In many cities young men eligible
for the CCC camps are refusing to
take the examinations. In one large
city families are Insisting they do not
want their boys to be trained as sol
diers that they hear beer Is sold at
the camps ? that their boys would have
to associate with low characters.
Professing entire ignorance of the
situation In that city, the CCC officials
here insist they do not believe the
objections cited by the parents are
genuine. They say that the talk about
military training was very widespread
when the camps were first started, but
that it broke down of its own weight a
long time ago. They believe the sole
and only reason Is unwillingness to get
off relief rolls.
In other cities, In fact In most cities
enrollment in the CCC camps has been
way below what was expected, and the
answer Is believed by officials here to
be Just unwillingness to get off relief.
Hue In every Instance officials say to
inquiring reporters from the city in
^question : "Please don't mention that
you talked to me about this."
incidentally the Veterans' bureau has
been having its troubles along the same
line.
A Real Problem
The whole question brings up the
point whether the United States is now
going through what England went
through a few years back. Ih England
the dole brought some interesting con
sequences, and, as they occurred be
fore the depression hit this country,
there was quite a 6e)f-righteous feel
ing In this country that Britain was
bringing her troubles on her own head
by pampering the dole collectors.
Then came the depression, and the
New Deal. Whereupon It became pro
gressive in (his country to insist that
It was the duty of the government to
take care of the cold and hungry, and
reactionary to point to Britain's
troubles on the same sort of problem.
Now It i9 being realized that It Is a
problem Involving fundamental traits
of human nature, and that the United
States Is not very different In the
character of its people from Britain.
No one, not even the most bitter critic
of the administration on Capitol Hill,
Is advocating that people should be al
lowed to starve or freeze. But a very
interesting mental transformation Is
becoming apparent in New Deal cir
cles.
For example, n high official of the
Federal Emergency Belief administra
tion was tol.d that his agents in a large
middle western city had threatened to
take families off relief If they refused
to permit their sons to go to the CCC
camps, or If able bodied men In the
families refused to take Jobs which
were offered.
"I have not heard about that," he
said shortly. "You see it Is a purely
local problem. The man on the ground
handling the relief situation has au
thorjty to handle the matter In any
way he sees fit."
"You mean If he turns families off
the relief rolls for such reasons as
that. It Is entirely up to him?" he
was asked.
"Exactly," he replied.
"Would the local officials make n
report to headquarters here about It?"
the questioner persisted.
"Nothing of the kind need be re
ported." he replied.
And his whole manner Indicated,
what some of his underlings told the
writer In confidence, that he did not
want any such reports!
Cut Huge Fortunes
President ftooosevelt's objective Is
to reduce n 1 ! large fortunes to a maxi
mum of $7,000,000? all large Incomes
to a maximum of $00,000 a year, lie
said this In a conversation a few da.v<
ago with a very rich Democrat, who
Incidentally had been a big campaign
fund contributor, and the gentleman is
still sputtering about it.
In another most Interesting on
versation with a Wisconsin man who
had backed him when Roosevelt really
needed hacking. In the pre-con vent Ion
days, the President advised his caller
to "go bark to Wisconsin and make
your peace with the I.a Folleltes They
are our kind of people."
Which of course Is purely corrohorn
five of what the President lias been
saying about his tax program that It
has two objectives, a better social
order, as well as revenue.
Meanwhile business men as a whole
are nghast at the prospect, for they
see In the drive against bigness almost
surely further boosting of the rates
to apply against all corporations which
have big earnings.
Most business men do not agree with
the wisdom. entirely aside from their
selfish Interests, of this policy. .Most
of them admit that there Is some merit
In the contention so often made In prl
vale Conversations by Just Ice Brandels
against bigness In privately owned
corporations. Frequently, they admit,
many of the faults which characterize
all large scale government operations
creep in when a corporation attains
unwieldy size. They even admit that
Instances can he cited where the mere
size of the corporation Increases the
cost of whatever unit It may manufac
ture. >r the item of service it may
render.
Take the Automobile
Hut tliey Insist that lor the most
part the<e instances are the excep
tions, and not the rule, a favorite
illustration of the reverse is the auto
mobile. Anyone who knows anything
about manufacturing admits that if
the automobiles of this country were
produced by say 2<H> manufacturers
of fairly even size, the cost per auto
mobile to the purchaser would be more
than double.
The best illustration of this Is the
Ford car now manufactured by a fair
ly good sized plant In Strassburg,
France. That car costs the purchaser
In Paris about $1,700. This is not due
to the protective tariff. for the car Is
made In France. Actually of course.
If the cars were made In the big Ford
plant at Pearborn. they could pay
100 per cent tarifT and still save the
purchasers a good deal of money.
Is the French <juota system on lm^B
ports which forces their manufacture
on a small scale at Strassburg.
Manufacturers contend that if Ford
cars were produced by separate plants
of small size In this country, each
owned by a different owner and oper
ated independently? In short If the J
policy desired by the administration in
tbls use of the taxing power against
bigness were forced into effect? the
cars would cost purchasers in this
country more than the * 1.7(H) charged
in France. For It so happened that
wages a the Strassburg plant are
lower than In the Dearborn plant.
All of which helps to explain what
some critics of the plan mean when
they Insist it Is ? "distribution of pov
erty" not a "distribution of wealth."
One Real Danger
Only one phase of the huge "share
the wealth"? level off the big for
tunes" and "pass prosperity around" ?
taxation program of President Itoose
ve't seems In any real danger. This
is the sliding scale tax aimed at l?Ig
corporations. Thetv seems no doubt
whatever that the big levies on inher
itances. and the boosts in the upper
income tax brackets, will be approved
by congress substantially as desired
by the President.
Alieady a .trickle of protests has
begun arriving from holders of com
mon stocks in the big corporations. A
few of them have already realized
that heavier taxes on the companies
in which their savings are invested
hits them, and them alone. For the
bondholders, and the preferred stock
holders, will continue to get their in
terest and dividends, if they are
earned. Additional taxes will lilt the
equities, not the debts, of these cor
porations. Except of course such as
are not earning enough to pay divi
dends nt present, and have no prospect
of paying any In the near future.
If the big companies should do any
thing like as thorough a Job in rous
ing their stockholders as the utilities
did, there Is little doubt that this phase
of the progratA would be In serious
danger. For there Is nothing like the
spontaneous appeal to this levy that
there Is to the proposal to tax big for
tunes. both when In estates and in in
comes.
Some lawyers are contending, how
ever, that the big Inheritance taxes
are unconstitutional. They contend
thnt the object of the fax Is not to
raise money for the needs of the gov
ernment, but Is purely social In char
acter, with the object of leveling off
fortunes. This, they contend, runs J|
counter to the Constitution.
Not mtwh attention Is apt to he paid
to this by the senators and representa
tives. "Soak the rich" has always
been a popular slogan, politically, and
the theory that If Is good politics to
vote for such legislation Is strong!*
held. h 3
Question of Politics
I.ots Of men !n both housf and sen
ate will vote for these levies who do
not really approve of them. Hence
I lie comparative certainty that (hey
will pass. Oppositi,,,, to them might
prove very hurtful at the next ejec
tion.
'I he opposition Is based chiefly not
on any theory that If |H a had lde?
to cut down the big fortunes ? though
there are a few who Insist that many
big fortunes have proved far more
beneficial to the public at large than
If the same amount of money had been
spent by the government but on the
old Mellon theory of .Tlclency.
Andrew \V. .Mellon, when secrctiu^^
"f the treasury, frequently contenj^B
thnt lower percentages of taxes for t^^
high brackets would bring more money
Into the treasury than higher per
centages. I If. pointed to the fact that
every time faxes were reduced on big
incomes, receipts from big Incomes In
crease.). Critics of the Mellon regime
always Insisted fhaf the re.u;on for
this was merely that It occurred dur
ing n rapidly rising t|i|?> of prosperity.
As there was undoubtedly such a ris
ing tide during fhaf period, there Is
no conclusive method of d<>mnnst ratlniM
that Mellon wax right, itut there Is tf
strongly held view that he was. This
theory- and It Is the one entertained
today b.v many men In congress who
will vote for the new levies despite
'heir views Is that when tax rates are
too high, ways of evading them will
he found.
Those holding this view Insist thnt
fhose with big Incomes are either
smart themselves, or have smart law
yers. and that they will have no scru- <j
pics whatever about finding methods
of evading both Inheritance and Income- 4
levies if they regard them ns confl#- f
cntory.
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