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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C, Jnly 5» 1934 / h * l f t News Review of Current Events the World Over V • i 'Piresident Cleans Desk for Hawaii Cruise-—Drouth Relief Funds Allocated for Middle West—Federal Reward for Dillinger’s Arrest. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C by Western Newepeper Union. President roosevelt, back * from his brief trip to New Haven, New London# and hie home In Hyde Park, put In a busy week clearing up his desk for his de parture on the long planned cruisethrough the i’ana'ma canal to the West coast and Hawaii All those who have had occa sion during the last generation to call at the White House are glad to learn that Ru dolph Forster was selected by the Presi dent to make the voy age with him. Since Rudolph Foratar the days of McKinley this able and courteous gentleman, now executive clerk In charge of the White House executive offices, has been on duty and never before has he accompanied any President on a trip. Now Mr. Forster la going to have a real vacation, and Secretaries Howe, McIntyre and Earle will remain behind to take care of the White House. There will be no other civil officials aboard the cruiser Hous ton, and Mr. Roosevelt will Isolate himself from business so fdr as la pos sible. On the way down to the canal Mr. Roosevelt will visit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. From Panama City he will go to the Hawaiian Islands, first making a brief stop In Colombia. Returning to the Pacific coast early In August Mr. Roosevelt will travel over land by rail, and there is a possi bility he will make some g|teeches, probably in Minneapolis and (Ireen Bay, WIs., where the tercentenar/ of the Badger state will be ctdebraled. I MMEDIATE relief for the drouth stricken areas In the Middle West was decreed by the President In an executive order which allocated 280,DUG for direct aid. The remain der of the first distribution of federal relief for the drouth area Included $43,750,000 for purchase of seed, food and live stock; $28,000,000 for seed and feed loans. $12,500,000 for pur chase of lands In the drouth regions, and $12,500,000 for establishment of civilian conservation camps In the stricken region. DOSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY * and Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau came forward with an an nouncement of their plans for the spending of $110,000,000 In the con struction of new post offices and fed eral buildings. In all, 620 communities In every state and four territories have been selected for new federal buildings, according to the announcement. Half of U»e program—building*—wiH be undertaken with $05,000,000 authorised for that purpose in the recently en acted deficiency-emergency appropria tion bill. It was explained that 324 buildings will be constructed with “funds already available from other •ources.'* In selecting the proJecLa_to be in-. _ eluded In the new program Mr. Far ley and Mr. Morgenthau stated they were guided by the language of the deficiency bill directing that they “en deavor to distribute the projects equitably throughout the country so far as may be consistent with the needs of public service,” and “with a view of relieving country wide unem ployment.” New York state gets more of the new buildings than any other state, with 50 of Its communities slated to get new post offices, custom houses, or court houses. California, traditionally high on the list when federal money is being banded out, comes second with 61 projects. Third Is Pennsylvania with 45, T^xas Is fourth with 35, and Illinois fifth with 32. HILE Secretary of Labor IH>r» kins, the steel masters and th« 1 workers were studying out the d to permanent peace In the steel ndustry, the American Iron and Steel institute issued a statement claim! that 90.12 per cent of workers “eligible and available to vote" In eight tdajor steel companies’ employee representa tion plans had cast ballots at final elections, compared with approximate ly 85 per cent at the primaries. The Institute made public final fig ures on the election! balloting, show ing 193,362 workers participated out of a total of 214,961 ellglbles. A district organizer for the Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers was nominated as an em ployee representative in a plant of the United States Steel corporation, the Institute said, but wh* defeated in the Institute termed the figures a Ifirmation of “the ifosition -of the 1 Industry that strike talk by union was not supported by the vast majority of employees.” f N ACCORDANCE with a resolution 1 s adopted by congress. Secretary Morgenthau announced that after July 1 every liquor bottle made and sold In this country mnat have the name of ^iiumlfcrtsrer and distiller or rec tifier blown into the glass. The pur pose of this measure is to halt boot legging, but the boltje Jubbera declare Its effect will be to foster monopoly and Increase the prices of liquor. Har old J. Fishbeln of Chicago, represent ing the National Bottle Jobbers' asso ciation, said the regulation would vir tually wipe out every small Jobber. “This entire measure Is bused on a misconception,” he declared. “I’re- prohibition experience showed that the bootlegger could always get bottles of whatever kind he had need. Even If It were possible to dry up every-gource of legitimate supply of bottles to the bootlegger, the supposed goal of the regulation would never be reached. “Why, every bellboy, every saloon keeper, and apartment building Jani tor would become a source of bottle supply.” r. A formal letter, accompanied by long explanation, the code author ity of the cleaners and dyers have notified the President that it has with drawn Its consent to the code. The reason assigned for this action Is that Administrator Johnson, acting by au thority of the President, suspended the minimum price snti nfhar .fair-trade- practice provisions of the code while leaving In effect all other provisions, including those establishing minimum wages and maximum hours of labor. The cleaners and dyers sav that with operating costs greatly Increased by the labor provisions It Is Impossible to make a profit unless a minimum price Is estatdished and enforced. In Its ap|KMided explanation the code authority challenged the validity of this action by General Johnson, coutln- utngi “We cannot believe that yon would knowingly countenance a reckless dis regard of repeated promises and as surances given to authorized repre sentatives of the trade by the admin istrator personally within two weeks of the date on which he played a major role in their breach.” The code was consented to. says the memorandum, "on the express under standing” that the minimum price and other trade practice provisiona “were absolutely necessary If mem bers of the trade were to comply with other provisions of the code. Including the limitations on maximum hours and minimum wages of labor.” The suspension of the minimum price pro vision Is pronounced “a deprivation of the primary benefit ef the code to members of the trade, leaving them only the burdens.'’ H ERE Is more woe for President Mendleta of Cuba. The A. B. 01 society, strongest of the secret political associations In the Island, baa an nounced that It would no longer sup port the Mendleta government The reason given was “the lack of firm ness displayed by the government In dealing with terrorists, especially with men responsible for the assanlt on the A. B. C. parade June 17,” when a dozen men and women were killed and scores Injured. The A. B. C. manifesto said-the so ciety would continue to work for the good of Cuba against tem>|rism and other forma of “gangsterism” which “are directly trscoehlft fn th* Infiiiem* of Moscow gold.” A crisis In the cabinet resulted and several members, who belong to the A. B. C M offered thefif resignations, as did. COO employed of the treasury de partment Also there was a short lived iRlval revolt at Antllla, suppressed by the arreat of the leaders. A committee of conciliation was at work on the government’s troubles and It was reported that It might suggest a parliamentary form of government headed by a prime minister. The A. B. C. leaders would agree to this If the premier were chosen from their ranks;--—-— “ : B ILATERAL conversations oh raval strength, being conducted In Lon don by the United States, Great Brit ain and Japan preparatory to the com ing conference, did not appear to be getting anywhere. The British sub mitted a plan whereby the United States should sink Its battleship fleet and Britain should be permitted to build a large number of small cruis ers, airplane carriers and airplanes, and they, the proposers, were fright ened by their own temerity. Mean- ^ while the Japanese delegate told the American representative that hls~gdv- , ernment was Increasingly suspicious of an understanding between Britain and America that would work to the detriment of Japan, C HANCELLOR HlTl-ER has been receiving some hard knocks re cently. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen delivered himself of a vigor ous criticism of the more radical experi ments of the Nazi regime, and its “ex cesses and arrogance.” Alluding to the pagan revival Von Papen said: “Germans must not exclude them selves from the so ciety of Christian na tions.* The speech, delivered at Marburg, was kept out of the German press but the m British army and air forces In France and Belgium hack to London, and lost a leg. Bronght back to Eng land by an invalid soldier, he enjoyed life for many years, and now haa laud atory “obituary notice*” in English pa pers. •^Old Bill” flew back and forth In the big war and lost a leg without ever knowing why he was flying or why he had to lose that leg. But “Old B1H” was no more Ignorant than a majority of the soldiers ever whose heads be flew on errands that he did not understand. U NCLE SAM Is determined to get John Dllllnger, the country's most John Dillinger notorious desperado. A few days ago Attorney General Cummings offered a reword.of smuuu for the capture of the murderer and hank robber, and half as much for Information leading to his arrest At the same time the attorney general of fered $5,0U0 for the capture of Lester M. Q II11 s, alias “Baby Face” Nelson, Dlll- I n g e r’s right-hand man. Information/ leading to Gillis’ capture will be re warded with $2,5(X). This action was followed up by con sideration of plans for eo-onWnating federal, state, and local efforts to catch Dillinger. It was understood that plans using the army and Nation al Guard iu the offensive were under discussion. The federal charge against Dillinger Is transporting a stolen automobile across the state line. Nelson Is want ed in connection with the murder of W. Carter Baum, Department of Jus tice ageut, near Rhinelander, Wl8 n April 23, Addition to the federal prize, the herson who can catch Dillinger will receive $1,000 reward from each of five states—Indiana, Illinois, Mich igan, Ohio and Minnesota. Count Nadolny German people read H In Swlsa pa pers. and then learned that President Paul wm Hlndenburg had tent Von Papen a telegram of congratulation. Immediately after this Incident Count Rudolf Nadolny announced his resignation as German ambassador to Russia. Thli was the first defection from Nazi government ranks since Dr. Alfred Hu gen berg resigned as minister of agriculture and economics in/une, 1933. Nadolny's resignation Is attrib uted to his failure to persuade Chan cellor Hitler to accept Russia’s pro posal for a non-aggression pact. The count is a close personal friend of PiesMcnr Ton HUideutiurg: ; Late dispatches from Berlin say Hit ler has rejected Von Papen’a offer to resign and has made a temporary truce with him. • Both of them ar ranged to confer with the President at Neudeck. hut not at the some time R EPORTS have been rife that Dr. flan Inns Luther, German ambassador to Washington, was to be replaced. J.uther was on his way to Germany on the Europa and denied the reports by wireless, saying his return was al ready scheduled. Berlin dispatches, however, said It was rumored there that Luther would come back only to say farewell. He was not an original member of the Nazi party and It is hinted that he has found It Increas ingly difficult to explain the Nazi gov ernment to the United States and to Influence his home office to adopt measures he considered essential to the Improvement of German-Amerlcan relations. / JNFORMATION was given the house committee Investigating War do partment expenditures that prices quoted the government on automobiles have Jumped since the Issuance of the executive order excluding* Henry Ford from bidding until he certifies compliance with the NRA. Represent ative Kvale of Minnesota said he had evidence to hack up this charge, and that the situation has cost the gov ernment thousands of dollars a I read; “For Henry Ford to submit a cer tificate for compliance,* Mr. Kvale said, “would mean he would have to secure 5,000 certificates of cojnpllance from those who furnish parts and products for his cars. That la obvi ously Impossible.” "The committee called on War de partment officials to reply to this ac- cusai ition. J IMMY WE DELL, famous aviator who last ^ and-contracts are ended by the recognition, by the NRA adminlstra- tion, that NRA code regulations are unworkable In dealings with municipal and other governmental agencies. An . executive order has/been Issued ex empting contractors, manufacturers and merchants from the moat impor tant of the code restrictions In all transactions with federal, state or city or other subdivisions of government It was published after thousands of cities had protested against Increases In operating costa occasioned by tha NR - pHARLES 8. THOMAS, former ^ United States senator and gov ernor of Colorado, died in Denver at the age of eighty-four. Though a Dem ocrat retired from political life, Mr. Thomas denounced as “undemocratic* the extraordinary powers granted to President Roosevelt and defied the President’s order to tnrn in all gold to the treasury. Both he and his daughter “hoarded” small sums in case la still pending. speed r set a new land plane of 906JB miles an hour, led at Patterson, La.. Engtlih Gypsy Moth plane A student flyer with him was critically Injured. wh H ENRIK SHIPSTEAD won renom- Ination In , Minnesota as the Farmer-Labor candldato for the Unit ed States senate. Ha will be opposed at tha polls by Congressman Elnar Hotdale, Democrat and N. J. Holm- berg, Republican. The Farmer-Labor- Res also renominated Gov. F. B. Olson. BRISBANE THIS WEEK In the Age of Billions Old Bill Did Not Know More Land? What For) If Suddenly Rich. Whatl Congress number seventy-three goes home after appropriating for variegat ed spending between six thousand eight hundred and seven thousand mil, lion dollars. No congress ever appropriated so much in peace times. in addition to spending about seven thousand million dollars, this congresk guaranteed approximately seven thou sand millions more in home mortgages and farm bonds and set dp a two thou sand million “stabilization fund,” We are living in the era of “billions.* With congress gone hor2e. President Roosevelt Is lord of all he surveys, which la no great change. He wi pretty much that before the a< meat. We have no dictator in / tha United States, and shall not have one unless something strange and unusual happens, but the President has as much, of a dictator’s power as ha chooses to use. Congress, with unimportant excep tions, obeyed orders while Iq session, and the country will look to the Presi dent now to initiate and put through whatever he chooses. That situation probably does not suit him. It in volves great responsibility. 't ■' V \: ’ —Washington.—Prior to ana 8*n« afl- Journment of the second session, of - the Roosevelt eon-- Where /« New gress, I have tried ISiH HeaJtJf ro z?! -these “Old BUI,* dead in London, was a er pigeon. He carried messages tha first year of the big war A member of the British house of commons suggests that, falUng cash payment, we might accept something In the way of territory. The British will not give op any territory if they can hold on to It, which they can easily do In this case. And apart from that, what good would It do ns to acquire more ter ritory end have some foolish congress man Insist on giving It away? Wa could not possibly get from the British anything as valuable aa the Philip pines, and we are doing our best to get rid of them at this moment columns a compos ite picture of opinion among our Ifiw- thls New Deal In government Is headed. Oftlmes I have reported here that I was unable to comprehend many phases of the New Deal because there has been so much confusion. It has been kaleidoscopic In Its character from the start, but had been Indications that a sec ond session of congress and Preslden- messages would serve to clarify the situation. Such, however, has not been the case. Insofar as my humble ability to understand It Is concerned. To demonstrate more clearly what I mean, let me relate that I have sought the views of a great many members of congress and, with one or two ex ceptions, the replies to my questions were divided* Into two classes. If the representative or senator was a devout administration supporter, the answei was that we are headed for greater human happiness on the basis of a planned national life. If the °ne to whom the questions were directed were a Republican or a Democrat who Is unwilling to swallow academic the ories In accordance ■ with the doctor's prescription, the answer almost In- varlahly was: “I doti’t know." Many but I was told by senators after the hearing that they did not know that point was. . Tugwell stressed necessity for having a goverrii control of the various factors that af fect business—control of crops being one of them—because humai> happi ness required such action, 7 but as far as I was able to understAnd his state ments, he did not clarify much of the confusion and the mystery that sur rounds the New Deal plans. So, all that remains Is a hope that Mr. Roosevelt/ia on the right track llctes will lead to that about which his ad- of them ^xpresseS the belief tfiat there was merit In much of the New Deal program, but Its ultimate end was a matter which they declared thev could not now foresee. I also have examined again many of coming, say. six months ago. the pres- the letters that I have received from readers of these columns since the New Deal eame Into operation, but they fall to provide a consensus as to wh What would you do If you suddenly found yourself quite rich, with s pros pect of “easy riches” to come? Mr. Max Baer, new holder of the heavy weight prize-fighting championship, ac cording to the New York Evening Journal, bought himself thirty-five new tel shades.” There was a great crowd waiting outside the tailor shop to cheer him. and he wrote his autograph on a one-dollar bill foy a^oung girl Fame Is s wonderful thing. The young “Count of Paris,** who might be king of France If the French people suddenly lost their wits, be lieves that be, so far as he knows a direct descendant of Hugh Capet, will soon be called to the French throne. He says. “You would be astonished If yon could know how weary France is of the present regime.” The young pretender to the throne might be surprised If he could know how weary France was of her kings before she got rid of them, and how fortunate he la that the common sense of the French will keep him talking, not reigning. President Roosevelt, In a letter sent to West Virginia, expresses satlsfae- VK bids on city supptteo tlon wUh.tlie achtev«mi«»to ef NRA~ ^ “We have spread employment, we have raised pay, and we are not through yet “It Is a notable record of recovery. It lias led the way for other nations, and has produced widespread and, 1 believe, permanent results. Certainly we have a right to celebrate this an niversary.” , Washington Singer, whose father In vented a sewing machine, left a for* tune of $5£84£90 In England, where he raced his horses. The British gov* ernment takes an “estate doty” of About two million dollars from the heirs. At that rate, it does not take long for vast accumulations to melt away, especially aa “the bigger the estate, tha higher the percentage taken.” Our government haa borrowed ttetans. It used to be “three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleevsa.* It will be shorter than that now «motif oar come in rapid succession. The big. dangerous steel strike for the time Averted, thanks to the President’s wise, unobtrusive media tion. and thanks espedaRy tn the wise advice given to the men by William Green. piysMent ef the American Fed eration ef Labor. WVU whether the writers of them have formed conclusloes as to direction. ILM to be recalled farther that Mr. Roosevelt, In submitting legislative proposals to either of the two sessions of congress, has said with absolute frankness that his program, then be ing offered, contained experimental features. With equal frankness and courage, he stated In each Instance that If the experiments failed, he would be among the first to admit the fact Such was his attitude regarding the gigantic agricultural adjustment program with all of hla various pol icies for limitation of production and enforced control of surplus. But since the President has not said yet that any of these have failed, tt can only he concluded that be la satisfied with the progress being made. Opponents of the New Deal and doubting Thomases are pointing the finger of scorn more and more to these experiments, and I am Informed by observers who have been visiting va rious sections of the country that there Is dissatisfaction In consider able volume concerning the results thus far accomplished. From Industrial cotwnnltlea and the areas where the hulk of the In come taxes are collected by the gov ernment. I hear the question: “Who Is going to pay for all of this?" There can he no doubt that this question of “who Is going to pay" will become paramount at a later date than It Is now. But the leaders of the New Deal have gone no further to this date than to say that a restored prosperity will make the payments ensy. And the truth of their state ments, of course, cannot be disputed. • • • Many observers In Washington had thought when the President Insisted on senate conflnna- Fail to Pin tion of his noinina- Tugwell tk,n of Prof * S8 ° p Tugwell to be under secretary of agriculture, there would be an exposition of the New Deal ob jectives. Such, however, was not the case. Of course, the senate commit- tee hearing where Professor Tugwell was questioned turned out to he an expected there would. he something that would add to the sum of public understanding of the f destination sought. Senator Smith of South fara 11ns, Democratic chairman of the com- mtttee and a staunch opponent j>t Pro fessor Tugwell, tried to pin the pro- feasor down to statements that would Indicate what the so-called head of th brain trust thought the government's doing respecting agriculture. So/dld Senator Byrd, a Virginia Democrat Neither iucceeded. Professor Tugwell was surprised at the questions asked him. /He thought the committee ought /to take his ••word” without reservation. He as sured the senators of his unqualified support of the Constitution of the United States, hut afterward obaerv era here voiced their Inability to recon die that assertion with the professor's anxious to gain's better understand ing of the New Deal objective. In that effort, they failed to get to first base. Mr. Tugwell advocated a planned na- tlonal economy ufr-to a certain point. . and that hi human vlsers s ilness ak. Another trend, or some think It is a tr d, that Is evident In the manage- ' ment of affaire by Ignores President Roosevelt Critic* ,s an Apparent will- ^ Ingness on the part of the White House to pay less and less attention to critics. That Is, many observers lately have called attention to an Indication that Mr. Roosevelt is willing to Ignore more and more of the attacks on his administration. He is not the type, of course, who will make • face at his critics. He Is a muster politician, and keen pollfTcTaha never do such things. But when one examines the statements and Informa tion that is passed out from the White House In these days and those forth- ent-day grist Is much more, if not en tirely. free from “answers” to critics. And this Is happening In a period when there Is obviously very much more crittdsm than In the earlier days ef the administration. Let me supply, a basis of compari son : When the airmail contracts were cancelled. Cot Charles Lindbergh sent a telegram to the President complain ing about the act The colonel’s air transportation company made the mes sage public before It was laid on the President's desk, or so Stephen Early, one of the President’s secretaries, said. After the message .appeared In the newspapers, Mr. Early spoke at length to the newspaper correspondent* about the colonel’s “discourtesy” In making the message public. Some six months later. Clarence Darrow. the Qil- cagn attorney, and the hoard of review of NRA affairs which he headed, let loose a blast on NRA that constituted a most vitriolic crltloUm of this phase of the New Deal The President, him self. has said almost nothing about the Darrow hoard criticism. True, General Johnson replied In his usual bombastic way. but that was Genera) Johnson and not the White House. Criticism has been made In con gress of the Agricultural Adjustment administration. Attacks on this have has been no reply from ihe- President, the top of the administration. Money policies have been under attack, as have been some of the relief measures which seem to some to hint of govern ment-owned factories soon. These at tacks have been allowed, however, t* spend themselves In the thin air. —I i A The President Is going to Hawal for vacation. That fact, of course. Is gen erally known. Bat Writers there Is one feature Left Out • f th< * tr,,) * bat not been general circulated. Arrangements for the trip call for virtual elimination of/ news correspondents from the pictur/ of the President’s vacation. That is almost without precedent. Washington cor respondents are walling and gnashing teeth all over the place, because that would be a gorgeous trip for those as signed to write news about the Presi dent Usually, fifteen or twenty writ er* ■ecompany/the Preaidant wary. understand “the unreason hysterical attachment of lug. all aome/Americana for the Constitution.’ Notwithstanding this, the committee it right, ahead and voted a favor tide report to the senate on the pre feasor’s nomination. Several Wash ington correspondents asserted In dl* patches to their newspapers, however, that administration whips had been cracking close to the backs of oumer ous senators. It was quite apparent throughout tha hearing on the professor’jywmlna tion that many of the Democrats and. where he travels. It Irks the corre spondents, personally, but It seems to he Irking/some of the great newspa pers mf>re because they are taking the view that It constitutes censorship by the. President The arrangements for the Hawaiian Trip are a little hard to understand. They appear to he a right-about-face on the part of the administration. This writer haa been in Washington almost twenty years and never tn that time hare the facilities made available for the correspondents at the White House been greater than under Mr* Roosevelt’s direction. He has courted a friendly press at all times. Every thing that was necessary for the new** paper writers was thelra to com mand. Now, however, the President la trav eling on a naval erulaer.and he does • not even have hla own secretarlef with him. Ha has panattted eaty three correspondents to accompany him on the trip, and they must remain on another naval boat which haa bees ordered to stay at least three miles away from his ship. These three writers will have no contact except fey radio, and their press services most supply the new*, therefore, to tha whole country. And the world. In defense of thd action, tt can be said officially that Mr. Roosevelt would not obtain complete rest In dfiy othei manner. He hag been through a grind this peat winter. Bat that fact has