The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 10, 1934, Image 2

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t * • •* r •?’ ■w pv 1 i'~ ’’ P;~.- Tht Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C. 10, 1934 News Review of I . ’*.»• 4 W u Events the World Over ( William Green Says Labor Must Force 30-Hdur Week- Heavy Goods Industries Against general _— - Wage Increase. IN AN •xteraporaneou address at as 1 exhibition In connection with the federal subsistence homestead proj ects, Mr. Roosevelt answered various critics of bla administration with the declaration that the New Deal Is a program of evolution, not revolution. Praising the homestead system as one of the administration’s foremost achievements In helping depression- stricken families to gain a fresh start In Ufe. M*. Roosevelt denied rhargdl that the program contemplated “regl mentation” of great numbers of people. By EDWARD W. PICKARD P it! to RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S reply William arson N OTICE Is served on the nation that the 90-hour work week will be forced on industry, by organised labor by the use of widespread strikes, if necessary. This Is the dictum of William Green, president of the American Federa- | Ron of Ubor,~and It causes consternation In the administration as well as grave alarm In the country generally. Green, In his May day address to workers, says the New Deal has failed to remedy the unem ployment situation, since there are still more than ten millions without jobs. The 90-hour week, he says. Is the only remedy available since If all Industries not yet under codes are brought under them, the resulting re-employment will not give work to these millions. Just before Green Issued this state ment, President Roosevelt bad appar ently declined to support the Connery hill legislating a 90-hour week for all Industry; and General Johnson has re cently abandoned as not feasible the plan for forcing a 10 per cent reduc tion In working hours. /"VRGANIZED labor Is divided on the ^ Issue of compulsory arbitration. The American Federation of Labor has declared that it will not be tol- erated and that it will not appoint J^EPRESENTATIVE BERTRAND SNELL of New York, minority leader in the house, says the period of emergency Is over, so he and the rest of the Republican leaders feel free now to demand that the emergency laws and bureaus be dispensed with. An amazing phase of the controversy over the New Deal thus comes to light The opponents of the adminis tration virtually concede that Presi dent Roosevelt and his advisers have won their flgut against the depression and declare that normal conditions have been restored or are at hand. But the President and the other New Dealers deny that the battle Is over and assert that their recovery meas ures must be continued In force. At the same time they Insist that they are not seeking to change the Amer ican system to state socialism, collec tivism, communism, fascism, and that what they are accomplishing Is “evolution, not revolution.” Thus a most peculiar situation In politics Is created, and the man in the street Is waiting Interestedly to see bow It will be handled In the coming can^palgn. H ARRIMAN Is a rather small city in Tennessee but it has present-, ed the NRA with a troubling problem. The town depends largely on the Har- riman Hosiery mills, and that concern was ordered to surrender its Blue Eagle because of charges that it had violated section 7A of the national re covery act Within a few hours the whole town was In revolt. Fifty-six merchants and-other business men re moved their Blue Eagles and wired to Washington for Instructions on what to do with them. General Johnson was Informed of the situation and sent two of his trusted lieutenants to Harrlman to Investigate and endeavor to pacify the angry merchants. T HAT a general wage Increase at this time will hinder rather than aid in national economic recovery is the contention of the heavy goods In dustries, set forth in a report to Gen eral Johnson by George H. Houston, chairman of the^durable goods indus tries committee. The report reasserts faith In the company union, approves of emergency price fixing and attacks the Wagner bill as encouraging Indus trial strife. A platform of “satisfactory employ er-employee relationship” Is offered, containing these three planks: “A wage scale which compensates the worker fairly a%d generously with in the ability of the employer to pay. “The establishment of safe and sat isfactory working conditions. « “Confidence as it la affected by fac tors other thin planks one and two- better homes, better educational facil ities and all that goes to make up a healthful and happy community life.” Elsewhere the national labor board, unmentloned specifically, was never theless, opposed. The committee added: “It is our firm conviction that all subsequent procedure In connection with the handling of disputes should be kept within the Jurisdiction of the NRA. ; The entire recovery program con- teaaplates the co-operation of industry under codes with the NRA.” D >TH the United States and Great fcritain made reply to Japan’s claim to sole authority to maintain peace In eastern Asia, and Foreign Minister KokI HIrota answered both with the assurance that Japan intend ed to observe the terms of the nine- power treaty and to maintain the open door in China. The British note was rather mild and Hlrota’a reply was held satisfactory by Sir John Simon, secretary for foreign affairs. But Secretary Hull’s statement was sharper, being In effect (fhat the Unit ed States did not propose to consult with Japan before extending assist ance, financial or otherwise, to China so long as such assistance was not In violation of existing treaties. It was reported in Tokyo that HIrota was satisfied with the British attitude but was greatly concerned over Mr. Hull’s note, which was a flat rejection of the Japanese claim concerning the maintenance of peace In China. Mr. Hull issued a lengthy exposition of the American government’s position In the matter. the attacks on Rexford Guy Tug- well, which were renewed by oppo nents of the administration after the Wirt story was made form of promotion for the head of the brain trust He has been serving . as assistant secretary of agricul- National Topics Interpreted •by William Bruckart V Washington.—The senate lias start ed another investigation, ft has de-^ termined to go on a Inquiry . fishing expedition Mav Shock ,ota th * ,n tmuj onocn duBtrles that manu . . — facture things that are used in mak- public, comes in the tog war. There will be a long-drawn- out inquiry; there will be seizure of papers and there will be smearing, some justified and some unjustified, of leaders in the. shipbuilding, muni tions and aircraft industries. It is tore, and 4a-now ad- Rafale to be a nasty thing before M is come ,Dt ® more t ^ ub ^ co J^ planes had appeared, floating over^thw vanced by the Presi dent to the newly cre- ated position of un dersecretary of agri culture, his salary be ing Increased from $7,500 to $10,000 a year. A new as sistant secretary can now be appoint ed who will relieve Mr. Wallace and Mr. Tugwell of some of their heavy R. Q. Tugwell problems Is also disconcerting. It can not be doubted that some of the for eign nations are sitting atop of a powder keg. It is just possible that the Nye-Vandenberg. resolution may strike a match above tbe powder, as well as serving to embarrass and de lay efforts of the various Industries to get production expanded that more employment will result • e • General Johnson and bis NRA has ^BRISBANE THIS WEEK Did Anybody Ask? To the Grave, or Garage? No Suicide N< Deadly Gas Uncle Bam nearly succeeded in tak ing his hundred and eleven warshlps- through the Panama canal from .the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean in SA hours. All commercial traffic wae barred, soldiers guarded the locks, standing as solemn as penguins on either side. It was beautifully done, credit to all concerned. But—did anybody In Washington ask himself what would have hap pened if 25 or 80 enemy bombing concluded and a report made to the senate. There was no noise about passage of the resolution which was proposed by Senators Nye of North Dakota and Yandenberg of Michigan. The resolu tion creates a spec lad committee which already has begun work. Its passage actually was noted in the newspapers that I saw with no more display than MoreTroublo of for NRA labor spokesmen to the industrial re lations boards now being created until General Johnson gives assurance that these boards will have no power to arbitrate cases unless labor agrees. Railroad labor, on the other hand, announced a drive for amendment of the railway labor act which would give adjustment boards power to arbi trate controversies arising out of grievances or out of interpretations of rules or agreements. W ITH unexpected celerity the rail way executives and rail union chiefs reached an accord In the wage dispute, and the danger of a strike-}^ was averted for another year. At the Instance of President Roosevelt but without government Interference they worked out their own settlement after the federal negotiator had failed to get results and Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman had withdraw: duties. The department has been con- j * couple of paragraphs. But the sidered understaffed. The post of' undersecretary was created by a re cent act of congress. / Tugwell’s appointment will have to be confirmed by the senate, and It was considered certain the Republicans would take advantage of the opportu nity to make fresh attacks on him and his theories of government The President also advanced Thom as Jefferson Coolidge, a Boston bank- from assistant secretary to under- i mediator. Under the arrangement decided upon the 10 per cent wage cut which has prevailed In the railroads during the last two years Is to be gradually wiped out In the next twel^? montha Two and a half per cent of the exist ing wage cut Is to be restored July L another 2H per cent on January 1, and the remaining 5 per cent on April L 1985. In other words, Instead of a 10 per cent cut rail workers will have only a 7ft per cent cut prevailing between July 1 and January L a 5 per cent cut prevailing between January 1 and April 1, and full pay restoration after April 1. When Informed of the settlement, Mr. Roosevelt said: *T am very glad that the railroads and their employees have been able to settle their wage dispute by mutual agreement. The country should be, and will be, grateful to them for this disposition of what might have de veloped Into a troublesome contro versy. I congratulate both sides on the wisdom and restraint which they have exhibited. They have set a good example.” _____ W "-f FEDERAL agents believe they have " uncovered a great ring of crooks for the handling of ^jnoqey derived from kidnapings, bank robtfeales and swindles. They * al ready have arrested a number of men and are hurrying to get others before they are put out of the way by members of the gang, as has been done before. The ring, it Is said, has been operating In Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Kansas 4’ity and oth er cities. One of the first men taken Into custody was John J. McLaughlin, for merly a state legislator and a political boss In Chicago, suspected of being a leader in the disposal of the “hot money.” The specific charge against him is conspiracy in the kidnaping of Edward Bremer, St. Paul banker, for whose release a ransom of $2U0,00U was paid. The federal agents were diligently searching for William Elmer Mead, a notorious crook, who Is thought to have directed the kidnap ers. McLaughlin confessed that he had handled some of the Bremer ransom money, and his son was arrested with part of It in his pocket The Bremer Investigation revealed that, a short time before the kidnap ing, Martin Wunderlich, a St. Paul and Jefferson City (Mo.) contractor, was swindled out of at least $50,000, according to the operatives, by Mead and his gang, by the old-fashioned horse racing act It was said Wun derlich obtained the money from Bre mer, and -this convinced tbe .gang that Bremer would be a promising kidnap victim.’ secretary of/the treasury, which posi tion had been vacant since Raymond Moley stepped out The higher per sonnel of that department la now be ing placed on a permanent basis for the first time since Henry Morgen' than, Jr., became Rs -head; V IC1 ▼ by TCTORY In the conference was won the senate high tax bloc, for tbe house conferees accepted virtual ly all the senate Increases In estate and gift taxes, the capital stock and excess profits taxes and liberal com- promlses over Income-tax publicity and consolidated returns. —— The conference agreement was com plete except for the Couzens amend ment, adding 10 per cent to all Individ ual Income-tax returns next year. The house was to take a separate vote on this, and it was believed the sen ate woujd not Insist on it if It were rejected by the house. With the revenue bill thus disposed df, the senate finance committee be gan public hearings on the adminis tration’s reciprocal tariff bill, which the bouse has passed. proposition ought to be among those to which attention is closely directed. Unless the bulk of the observers Is wrong, the Investigation that the Nye- Vandenberg resolution started Is go ing to have a far-reaching effect both In. domestic affairs of the United States and In the International field. One of the reasons why It Is so loh* portant to give thought to the Inves tigation is the particular time at which It arrives among the window displays of government activities. It hardly need be stated here that Inter national relations are strained In many parts of the world. There Is nothing on the horizon to Indicate that they will improve. Strained relations. If they continue, lead Inevitably to war, and I reported to you several months ago that some nations are headed In that direction If the Infor mation our government has Is cor rect It is naturally to be expected then that overt acts on the part of some of the disturbed powers are go- Ing to follow, and the disclosures ' Which The* "Nye-Vandenberg committee are prepared to make will help the International situation not one bit Review, a de tached group respon sible only to ths President has written a report of findings In several cases where small plants have complained about the ef fect of tbe codes. And the report of the board, heeded by Clarence Darrow of Chicago, the famed attorney. Is a scathing denunciation of some of the code provisions. In fact some mem bers of the review board take the po sition that the codes have perbltted the great Industries to grind the smaller ones, the little fellows, to a commercial death. The President’s views of the report are not known at this time, hut It has leaked out that Mr. Roosevelt la will ing to have the review board call a spade a spade. Knowledge of his at titude came through devious channels. -There- was romor around Washington “D kEAD” for more than a year, the Austrian parliament came to life long enough to approve, by a vote of 74 to 2, the new Constitution and a mass ef laws decreed by Chancellor Dollfuss since March 8, 1933. The new Constitution abolishes parliaments and also does away with trial by Jury. ; I TALY’S legislature doesn’t amount to much any more, but King Victor Emmanuel opened its session with a noteworthy speech praising the work of the Fascist regime. Especially In teresting was his long statement con cerning the necessity of inareasing Italy’s armed forces to the extent that tbe country’s pocketbook would stand. “We sincerely and ardently desire for Italy and Europe the longest pos sible period of peace," he declared amid thunderous cheers, “but the best guarantee of this peace Is the efllclency of our armed forces. otherwise than that the Impending disclosures will complicate the situa tion and create -more hatred and sus picion. In other words, as I see it, the disclosures are more than likely to hasten that which seems inevitable, namely, war In several parts of the world. Senator Pope of Idaho, temporary chairman of the committee, told me that the country Is likely to be Shocked “when It learns the ramifica tions of the situation,” referring to the operations of the shipbuilding, aircraft and munitions companies. While he did not say so, I drew the Inference from his remarks that he believes^ there has been collusion of r—mm 1 — fci I J' .«r. i. .i... some kind or other among those Industrial leaders In order to engender 111 will among nations *1/ ready suspicious of each other. “We are going to find out how many American shells are going to.be used to kill American soldiers later,” said that the President was going to try to kill off the board by withholding funds from it The board was the Idea of some of the senators, anyway, and It was believed the President felt none too warmly toward It. Yet It has now been established that the' President la going to uphold the hand of the board, notwithstanding extreme pres sure that is coming from NRA quar ters to get rid of It. In some Washington offices there la - a very definite belief that Mr. Roose- velt Is Johnson retire. General Johnson’s bombastic style bf " speech IrfB filf^ “crack-down” threats have not ‘ so well received In many places/4nd there Is optnlon avanabTe while our valnable _warahipw were passing through? What would have happened to those ships, to th# canal, to the locks, to the comical little- soldiers, with their guns and bayonets, standing along tbe edge of the water? In California, a dog, technically and effectually killed in the laboratory of Doctor Robert Cornish ten days ago, shows signs of life, blinking its eyes In the light and twitching muscles when a fly lights on its nose. This experiment may become im portant to human beings. Thousands- die because of some little stoppage, t that might have been prevented or corrected. Just as an automobile stops sometimes because of an obstruction, hi the pipe feeding gas to the car buretor. / _/ / Under such conditions, the men hav# been taken to the graveyard. Doctor Cornish may find a way to overcome such temporary, unnecessary “deaths." This applies especially to the human heart, that supplies ■ life while It pumps, and brings death when It stops. In millions of cases, undoubtedly, a temporary stoppage might have been overcome and life indefinitely pro longed. Senator Pope. / / John J. McLaughlin G EN. HUGH L. SCOTT, former chief of the army and one of the last survivors of the great Indian fight ers, died at the age of eighty years in Walter Reid hospital, Washington. Through all his last years, Scott con tinued vigorously his researches and writings on the Indian sign languages which he had mastered during his years on the plains. In 1930 he was commissioned by the library of con gress to compile a record for aH time of this curious mode of expression. And so we are off on another crash ing. smashing, bull-In-the-chlna closet type of Inquiry. All Bad Time of us remember the for Fithing I""*' 1 **' 10 " of shipbuilding ac tivities at the Geneva armament con ference. The committee smeared one William Shbar^r when Shearer was serving as agent for several of the shlpbulldiry concerns. None was sure when that investigation started where It would lead. The same can be said current pASSAGE through the Panama canal ■of the American fleet of 111 vessels, on the way from the Pacific to the^U- lantlc, was carried out ftuccescjnjlly, but not In the hoped-for 24 hours. The time consumed was almost double that, which led the Tokyo press to declare the movement was a “failure.” The delay was caused by a heavy rain. extradition of eposed presi- blic, so a gen- sent out from W HILE th pursuit of Johu Dillin ger and nis fellow .utlaws was being carried on—without success at this writing—three felons made a sen sational escape from the Ohio peni tentiary at Columbus. Armed with a smuggled automatic pistol, they ter rorized 18 officials and guards, col lected a shotgun, a gas gun aud a rifle, climbed over the walls aud lied in an automobile that was waiting out side. Ranuau No/veil, a fe-term kidnap er, and another convict, got out of the Southern Illinois penitentiary at Chester by crawling through a sewer, crossed the Mississippi in a rowboat, stole a motorboat and recroeeed to Illinois, whose for the time being they C UBA asked for the Gerardo Machado, dent of the Island eral police alarm wi Washington for his arrest United States marshals went flr«"jto the apartment he had been occupying in New York, and were told by his Julio Fernahdez, that he- had left for parts unknown./ Federal port authorities and border officials were told to watch for the fugitive. If they can get iilm back, the Cu- authorities intend to try Machado on charges of murder bgsed on whole sale shootings which occurred a few days before he fled from the island. They also plan to ask extradition of Gen. Alberto Herrera. Machadw’o for mer chief of stair, who like his master took refuge In the United State* • Sg WMtnra Ntwapeper UMea. - Gerardo Machado of the current Inquiry. To my way of thinking, however, the Inquiry Is much more important Id the effect It will have upon Inter- naflonal relations than In the smeai^ Ing of men and corporations. Frank the opinion ! have formed" aftei conversations with men and women of sound judgment Is that this Is an exceedingly bad time for such a fish ing expedition. Any disclosure of relations between a mnnltlons com pany and a foreign nation are going to be seized upon by that nation’s neighbors as evidence and there will be blood In the eye In 4 burry. I hope my observations and conclu sions will not be taken as condoning any crookedness. , My point Is that business relations between a private corporation and,its customer should be allowed some degree of secrecy so long as they are not contrary to pub lic good. Governments are going to buy munitions; they are going to buy aircraft, apd they are going to have ahlps built The question uatbralty follows, then, whether it Is proper or Improper for an American plant to sell something it makes to t foreign nation even if it knows they are to be used in fighting. I cam see where those commodities ought not to be sold for use against America, but our gov ernment buys such supplies constant- /tj and buya them from American mak ers. If other governments can buy them here, I fall to see why they should not be allowed to do ao unless such pales have tbe aftermath of dragging the United States Into war. These Japanese assertions, or in ferences, that “whits hands” must stay ont of China are not reassuring. The Inability of the Europeans to get In a solution of their owa ThlF me general ought to fade out of the NRA. Mr. Roosevelt can’t fire him. That would be a dangerous thing to do from a political standpoint It dees seem, however, that a change is com ing. / Business leaders have begun M preach more strongly against tbe codes and they/gre getting more and more adherents. Some economists who were thoroughly "sold” on the codes have/begun to doubt that the types of regulations adopted are ail that they have been advertised. As the things are put In practice, their weaknesses develop. Whether they can be corrected for practicable ap plication remains to be seen. • • "XT —- — -y-——— -0—» ■ With all of this war talk hither and yon, I Inquired from the War depart ment and found that Army *onghly one-third of Distribution, onr * TmJ J 0TC * garrisoned outside of the United States. The latest offi cial tabulation show's the array as having 12.156 officers. 885 warrant of ficers,^ and 123.459 enlisted men. In cluding around 11,000 Philippine Scouts. Of these. 2.200 officers, 140 warrant officers and 35.036 enlisted men are on posts outside of continen tal United States. The matter of the location of pur army" personnel Is pertinent at this time, too. because of the possibility that tbe United States government sooner or latpr will grant independ ence to the Filippinos. I hope It Is later, rather than sooner, for I hear so much discussion of dangers that appear certain to develop If the Filip pinos become a nation nnto them selves. The consensus seems to be that the natives will he able to govern themselves, hut whether they can pro- allace. secretary of agricul- 41s Nebraska farmers plans sra ry to “prevent the suicide of lety." It Is as well to have public officials view conditions solemnly, hat they sr«_JiQL /quite _as bad aj _ that This country has more of everything than It needs, more than enough for •verybodyr—Hs problem Is not plague, famine or war, killing millions, but ton much wheat too much cotton, toe- many little fat pinkish pigs born everty minute. A nation or individual with too much of everything, but unfor tunately Just too stupid to arrange adequate distribution, need not neces sarily commit sucide. / ’ * V V In September Uncle Sam will hare finished building s new, huge “burglar- proof’ vault big ^nough to hold all hie gold, besides piles of silver and other valuables. The vault doors, of the toughest metal, 30 inches thick, are not the only protection. If s burglar succeeded in getting half-way through the metal door, he would release a cloud of deadly gas In which he would die In horrible agony. The American College of Physicians heard Doctor Meakins of Montreal promise that within 50 years any man willing to “use his Intelligence and will power" may live 100 years. Fifty years ago the average human being was through with life at forty. To day’s average is beyond sixty. Doctor Mfeaklns’ proiplse of ‘♦a century of vital, energetic life for every member of the human race” is encouraging. The wise would want to be guaranteed to the “vital, energetic” part. Nothing sadder than to live merely for the sake of living. “Four flee from Indiana prison. Three serving terms for murder among cell breakera” That Is not news. .The system of Justice that catches criminals and lets them go, can’t build s jail to hold them. Is now generally accepted as e farce. We build zoological garden cages that hold elephants, rhinoceroses, .■-Vs- tect themselves Is another matter. The United States has an army strength of 553 officers, 51 warrant of ficers and, 4,064 enlisted men Id ths Philippi ties. In addllloiLto the Philip- pine Scouts who number 62 offlcdra and 6,398 enlisted men. That Is quite a force and an Influence aghinst any Ideas that foreign powers must over come before they seize the Philip pines. It should be mentioned that the force and Influence existent there also Includes some rather Important American gunboats and a naval base, Pearl Harbor, which nndoubtedly Is the defense key. So no bloodthirsty foreign statesmen are going after the little Islands as long as our forces are thjexe. There is an international phase to be considered at this time, one that Is not as apparent as It Is real. I re fer to the tangled skein of circum stances resulting from Japanese dec larations of a right to Influence Chinese affairs and to use force If necessary. That threat—and It can not be called by any other name—la notice to Russia and to all of .the Western powers, the United States included, that the Japanese program of territorial expansion la going for ward. It may be that-many powers will be Involved before Japanese statesmen are made to understand, bnt certainly It Is not a time in which to consider withdrawal from that Im portant position that our nation has In the Philippines. \ * atarw* ■4: lions, tigers, bears They don’t es cape. But that^ la easily explained. Rhinoceroses and elephants don’t know how to bribe keepers. The “he roic Dlllinger” did not aid of a toy pistol It Is charged that he was aided in his dash for libarty by the use of hard cash. No heroism about that ~ At Blackwell, Okla., Rev. Dr. Pool sixty, retired Methodist minister, re turned to the pulpit to preach a re vival sermon. Raising his eyes he asked, “What is heaven like?” fell and died of a heart attack. HIs question, doubtless, was answered within the minute. Many would like to know the an* swer. Hnman beings have answered that question In ten thousand wVtyi,' each answer reflecting some human Idea Of happiness. The senate Judiciary committee ap proves the. birth control bill, which declares. In substance, that It la no crime for a woman not to have a baby. If she does not want one, and ao crime to tell her how te avoid It Some object to birth control on re ligions grounds, declaring that It op poses the will of God. Others object to it on grounds of otillty. Garnso was the nineteenth child. Many of ike world’s greatest men qnd women bare been membiHl bf big families, and nevar would have been born, a* dor birth control probably.