The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, September 06, 1934, Image 2

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The Barnwell lews Current Events World Over m Speaker Rainey*! Death Starts Race for His Position— . Prominent Men Organize Liberty ILeague to Combat Radicalism. -= ’ V By EDWARD W. PICKARft —— 9 » WwMH Uaioi. LI SHUT T. RAINEf, Teteran con- *1 rreMinan from Illli freMman from Illlnola and speak er of the boast, died unexpectedly In a St Louis hospital where he was be- ■ iieved to be recorer- Ing from an attack of bronchial pneumonia. The Immediate cause of his death was an gina pectoris. Mr. Rainer, who was with- Henry T. Rainey .> K ? '\ Inaday of being seven ty-four rears old, was first elected to con gress In 1902, and he served continuously with the exception of one ter A, being de feated In the Harding landslide of 1920. He was elected to the speakership when John Nance Garner became Vice President. His control over the house during the ses sions of last year and this year, while the President’s program was being put through, was gentle but so firm that the legislators were kept well In line. . Mr. Rainey devoted much of his service In Washington to efforts to Im prove the condition of the farmers, for he held that farm prosperity was essential In any program for national well being. He also was a student of tariff and fiscal subjects. As a Demo crat he was always a “regular." Ha was the author of the tariff commis sion taw and of much other Impor tant legislation. Mrs. Rainey acted as her husband’s secretary for years ant} is so ju?U »C* inslnted with congressional work that the Democrats may select her as the candidate to complete his term ss'rep resentative from the Twentieth Illinois district Mr. Rainey was burled In his home town, Carrollton, after services which were attended by President Roosevelt and many other notable persona S PEAKER RAINEY S death will re sult In a spirited contest among, a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him. First In the line of suc cession, ao, to speak, is Representative Jos eph VV. R.vrns of Ten nessee, who has been serving as majority floor leader and who Is head of the Demo cratic national con gressional committee. President Roosevelt is going to take no part In the race, but the more liberal of the New Dealers are Byrne known to favor Sam Rayburn of Texas. Well Informed ob servers believe Byrns will be elected speaker and Rayburn floor leader. Other aspirants for the speakership are John E. Rankin of Mississippi, who has announced his candidacy; William R. Bankhead of Alabama, and John J. O’Connor of New York. Mr. Byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his election to the Slxty-flrst congress. His work as floor leader, In conjunction with Rainey’s rule as speaker, was not es pecially pleasing to the New Dealers for some months during the last ses sion, but b^ore adjournment most of the misunderstandings were cleared np. In any case, the administration seldom Interferes In the selection of the leaders of congress, not wishing to Incur the enmity of powerful mem bers of the party. R eturning from his swift trip to attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey, the President went directly back To" Washington Instead of going to his Hyde Park home. This change In plan [sfic was due. It was said, to the develop ment of a bitter dispute between Gen. Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Don ald Rlchberg, Mr. Roosevelt’s chief In dustrial adviser, and Secretary of La bor Perkins on the other, over the new structure to be given the NRA. The Issue, It was disclosed. Is wheth- tf HSfWlfiail be a board of control in authoritative management of the NBA or a board which shall he more advisory In power, leaving the real control still In the hands of t k .e ad ministrator and his deputies. It was expected Mr. Roosevelt would taka command of the sltnatlon and deter mine definitely what shall be done with the recovery administration. t r - ijrj O BRGANIZED labor scored a victory ever Recovery Administrator Johnson when the national labor rela tions board ordered John Donovan, former president of the NRA union dismissed by Johnson for “inoffleien- cy," reinstated to his position with the labor advisory board. “The agencies which are adminis tering the law should in • their own dealings uphold its pnrpoeea," the beard said to its dadMon, giving a reproof to Johnson for what It ' was a violation of section 7a NRA. told grace the NRA so the rebuke and permitted Don im to bin Job. Johnson ty shoot It. tm a dsfon and warned Donovan that ha would have to “toe the mark." Soon after thla the NRA announced that It doea not regard Itself as obliged to withdraw the Bine Bagla In cases where the national labor rela tions board has found companies guilty of violation of section 7A of the na tional Industrial recovery act and of subseqnent failure to obey the Instrue- tlons of the board. — -r The labor board hat recommended withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to the NRA compliance board to all cases where companies have disobeyed Its Instructions to reinstate discharged employees. The decision by the NRA will remove teeth from decisions by the hoard, since It may now hear cases, make decisions, and find that nO penalties are Inflicted for disobey ing Its orders. C OTTON garment code amendments rartnnfrinr n r* Kstfivo n rt /1 reducing the working hours UHT un lon. giving workers a wage Increase have been signed by the President The amendments, which affect plants In 42 states, are of far-reaching importance. Sidney Hillman, labor advisory board member and Amalgamated Clothing union head, termed signing of the order "the most far-reaching move NUA has yet made to Increase employment" It was hoped that this order would avert- the threatened strike of the garment workers. T WO prominent Democrats, two Re- i Jouett ghouM publicans almost equally prominent, and one leading Industrialist, all of them of conservative tendencies, have united to organize the American Liberty league dedicated to a war on radicalism In the United States. The five founders of the league are: Al fred E. Smith, Demo crat I c l*resldentlal candidate In 1928; John W. Davis Dem ocratic Presidential cwmildate In 1924; Nathan L. Miller, Re publican ex-governor of New York ; James W. Wadsworth, Republican congressman from New York, former senator and Presidential possibility for 193d; Irenee Du Pont, manufacturer. wkr> supported Smith In 1928 and Roosevelt In 1932. They be lieve the league membership .will grow Into the aillllons uod that It will become an Important element la the national life. ' For president of the organization the founders selected Jouett Shoyse. for mer chairman of the Democratic na tional committee and president of the Association Against the Prohibuioo Amendment until repeal was ac-com pllshed. In a statement Mr. KbouM set forth the puritoses of the league as follows: "It Is a nonpartisan organization, formed, as elated In its charter, ’to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and to gather and disseminate Information that (1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and (2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect Individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when ac quired.’ “ To interviewers Mr. Shouse declared the league was not antl.Roosevi'lt, hot strike of track driven In was their employen promise sod martial tow to the city was thereafter speeding heck to normgl conditions. The peace pUa, devised by fedonU repreaeatetlvee, provided that all employes# oa strike be returned to their Jobe wltheet discrimination end on basis ef seniority. It included an agreement to hold ten days In each election within the 106 firms In- National Topic! Interpreted _ by William Bruckart ag-ir ployeea want other i to- driven’ union or Ivee to act far them mg, end k piedir Washington.—Chester C. Davie, the come thla year. In the light of tflla fact; the tempered remarks by Mr. ef the 106 firms to pay for at least one year not lest than 60 cents an hour to driven and 40 cents to help ers, platform men and Inside workers. Drouth \X7ILLIAM GREEN, president ef * V the American Federation of La bor, says he hopes the general strike of textile industry worken will ba averted; but he an nounces at the same e that- the federa tion had with trim the other day, ottered an observation which to be decidedly worthwhile and one which, because of the assurance and contents, ought to be repeated here. My conversation with Mr. Davla had to do with questions concerning drouth relief and I want to quote his remarks because of the widespread de struction of the current period when rainfall h** Hpow atl tn an many •nm- weight e - e It now aeems certain that when the congress returns to Washington next January It will he WtU Aak called upon Immedi- More Fonda *t*ly by the admin istration to vote more funds for relief of the drouth vic tims. Until later, however, the extent to which the administration will seeh Jn grto thla dlrectlon canneT be fore- THIS WEEK * Hostile to Christianity Hitler's Gnat Power • FoufteetoPowril Baby QoiteEaaily£eid In spite of a gigantic rot* about 88.000.000 to about 4,000,000. that gars Hitler absolute power to Germany, Indorses the strike and will co operate fully with the officers and members of the United Textile Workers’ organisation. He appointed federa tion committees to as slat the textile work- era an d announced that he would draft trained organizers and strike special ists from other unions to assist the William Green *Tt la as unsafe and unjust to measure the true potentialities of this country,” Mr. Davis said, "by the extreme drouth conditions of this year as it was to measure them by the bumper crop years which happened to coincide with high prices so that everybody felt N sudden riches were tn sight. The one extreme Is Just as deceptive as the other.” Mr. Davis outlined what the gov ernment was attempting to do since Its policy has been changed and since in- told. It is evident that having seen the drcumatancea first hand, Mr, Roose velt’s entire sympathy will be behind whatever proposal he makes. Observers here, however, foresee some dangers, ss a resnlt of the pres ent desperate conditions. They know that Mr. Roosevelt will, as he has fre quently stated, go the limit with fod- Wal funds, but the danger foreseen by astute observers here is that some of the members of the house and senate Hitler’s ardent admirers are annoyed that even four million votes should read “No.” Hie Jews of Germany could not well be blamed, since there are only 000,000 of them. /* \ They could not well cast 4,000,000 votes. Herr Goebbels, Hitler’s propa ganda chief, suggests in his newspaper Angriff that the anti-Hitler votes were cast by German Catholics. / That "No"-Totqs were Catholic t&ml seems probable. In view of the atti tude of Hitler’s, government toward religion in general, Catholicism in par ticular, and emphatic complaints made by the Vatican. It is feared by Protestants as well as Catholics that hostility to Chris tianity may develop and spread among Germans as it has done In Russia, Spain, Mexico and elsewhere. - Hitler now holds In his name all the George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile institute and chairman of the cotton textile code authority, said the threatened strike Is not justi fied by the facts established by 1m partial government economists. Challenging the wage Increase de mand of the United Textile Workers of America, Mr. Sloan declared that dfviduals no longer are required to fend for themselves. He declared the will attempt to go beyond all reason In. -powers once exercised bv the kaiser, preparation of relief plans during next changes In policy that have been taken represent a frank recognition of re sponsibilities by the present leadership and It was his conviction that more has been done in the face of similar conditions than ever has been c before to relieve hnman distress. He added that it had been found difficult, as s result of three basic wags pro- ^ t0 mw-«ndlol^~maDOf visions In the code the hourly wages paid in March, 1934, show an Increase Of J p»r rant a* i-nmpared with March, 1933, when there was no code. the problems'and that there is not suf ficient prowess even in onr national government to coonterflct ail of the. effects of such a calamity. The ad- All of this has meant a substantial, -Bttalstrater holds to the~ belief, how- winter. It Is not nnususl, as the rec ords show, that on every occasion when the federal treasury doors are opened senators or representatives will come forward with scores of plans un der the guise of human relief to get their hands on government money for their constituents. It Is fair to say that some of these will be sincere. It la »qn*Hy fair tn say that, SS In the past, some of thorn will have been misguided. The conversations one hears around Washington therefore In dicate Increase in manufacturing costs,” Mr. Sloan said, "and the research and plan- ntng division of the NUA round, after a comprehensive investigation last ever, that the steps taken by the ad- ,ministration cnnstlfte the beginnings June, that ‘jinder existing conditions there Is no factual or statistical basis for any general Increase in cotton tex tile code wage rates.’ ” Mr. Sloan estimated tbs present number of workers at work tn some 1,200 mills in the cotton Industry at 460,000. of s national program from which ap parently It Is proposed eventually to develop national policies for dealing with all kinds of distress. Obviously, Mr. Davis did not touch oa these phases because his Job Is te deal with agricultural sTtuaHons a nd he has not that those charged with gov- emment responsibility must be an their guard If vast sums are not to be wasted under the guise of extending victims of nature’s rener to needy pranks this year. Some of tho brain trusters already have developed far flung plans for tho physical transfer of thousands of farm families from the drouth stricken dis tricts into other areas where they can ^ of tho fact that her Franklin Delano IEUT.-COL. MARIO HERNANDEZ organized s plot to overthrow the government of President Mendieta of Cuba and establish a military dictator ship, but the authorities got wind of It and frustrated the conspiracy. In which a considerable part of the army was Involved. Col Fulgeacio Batista, head of tho oemy. saW thaT'ktHjnr Benitez and some soldiers were sent to arrest Hernandes and that elghL. men of the detachment were killed Hernandez tried to shoot Benitez but was himself shot In the head and neck. The official report said Hernande* was being rushed toward Havana In an automobile and that the car upset, the prisoner being killed, though the oth ers In the car were uninjured. MaJ. Angel Echevarria, commnndanj of Fourth Infantry at Camp Colnrobli, and Capt. Augustin Erice, chief of the signal corps, conspirators with Her nandez, were captured later and a Summary court martial sentenced them to death. Four thousand troops In Plnar del Rio are confined to barracks, under arrest, and a thorough reorganization of the entire high command of the Cuban army Is In full swing. About 200 civilians have also been arrested as parties to the conspiracy, charged with carrying messages to military plotters. gone beyond them. Catting attention to the fact that the drouth relief program is the greatest ever undertaken in this or any other country, Mr. Davis summarized the Joint activity of the several govern ment agencies In the following lan guage: The purchase of surplus rat tie, with the processing of meat for relief distribution; encouragement of production of forage crops; co-ordina tion of seed purchase.: iuuuan -employ ment relief; purchase of adapted feed grain; forestation and other measnres to- conserve moisture,- prevent wind erosion and mipimize the effects of fu ture drouth, and in addition such crop benefit payments as have been made and which now turn out to be In his opinion crop Insurance. the rcichstag, the various separate kingdoms and governments that make op the German empire. Also, quite important, "Herr Hitler has the power to declare war and to make peace.” It might be easier to declare war than to make peace In these times. He la commander of the army, navy and air force, which Indicates rapid progress for a gentleman who *4* not a citizen of the German nation four jeara xgo. — — . T" - Mrs. Ted Glovler, of Moorefleld, -W. Va., weighs MO-poutjds, her-hus band weighs 136 pounds. ^Not that his weight makes any dlfferenre. Thslr little boy, named, as yon will guess, Franklin Delano Glovler, Just arrived, weighs fourteen pounds. Franklin Delano Glovler will not atfrgct as much attention as do the five Dionne quintuplets. But the mother Is proud get started again. While generally speaking I believe sentiment In the government favors doing anything that will afford relief next winter, a good many of the higher authorities In the administration point out that the scheme of tren*position of whole families and their belongings presents grave problems. Without attempting to discuss the French klngm. merit or demerit of the scheme. It seems to me that attention onr** ** called to the fact that human beings Just can’t agree to such programs. Mr. Davis to Optimistic concerning the future of the American farmer, despite the hardships of the current drouth. E 1 it seemed clear that It will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the New Deal and the radical professors of the brain trust He said he had visited the President and Informed him fully of the purposes of the league, but he woukl not tell what Mr. Roose velt’s reaction had been. - 4GHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are now under arrest In Manchukuo, charged witfi plotting against Man chukuo amd Japan and sabotaging Japanese military trains. The Rnwalan Acting. government, through Acting. Consul General Rayvld at Harbin, has pre sented to the foreign office of Man- chukuo a demand for an explanation of the arrests and Insists on prompt measures for the release of the prisoners. ' "The arrests were made without documents, accompanied by searches of the apartments and officer ef Soviet- oa to Future He euggested. how ever, that It was nec essary to face the facts of the current drouth, but also, to resort to the language of the street, the admin istrator thinks the country must not allow the current problems to knock it down. “If the doubts and fears lately ex pressed had been heeded," Mr. Davis added, "the great plains never would have teen settled. The troubles of to day are but repetition on a less fear ful scale of the obstacles encountered by the early settlers. But Instead of turning back in the face of hardships, those pioneers established their homes and did not let drouth, flood, hail, or Indians stop them. "Instead, IN THE nature of a reply to the for- employees of the CbUmsc Eastern reil- * matTotv of the American Liberty wa y which have not been explained,’ 1 delivered In ( Rayvto sato the pioneers and their sons searched the world for drouth- resistant wheat and grains which would mature in season. They bredmp, the drouth-resistant forage crops anc planted them. They built a civilization on an expanse of the map which once was labeled the Great Ajneriean des ert. The drouths we have lived through In the past did not conquer the spirit nor There was a cartoon In ^one of the eastern metropolitan newspapers the other day that de- Price pitted Uncle Sam Situation teffKlng a small, boy labeled “Prices" to grow up so that he could reach his height of 1926. Beside U was another caricature which showed Uncle Sam warning the same boy to stop grow- Ing and announcing that If he, the prices of food, grows too much, "I will crack down.” I refer to this cartoon because most Washington observers see the price sltnatlon in this country to be quite confusing. It Is to be re called that throughont last year and early In 1934 the administration pred icated all of its actions on a desire to raise prices. Now. however, the ef fect of the prolonged drouth In the agricultural areas is being felt In the cities and President Roosevelt an nounced his fear that profiteering In food prices Is likely to result and made known that the administration has definite plans to curb any undue rise In prices. Thus far It has not been made clear what is considered an un- due price rise under present cuiHfr - weighs at birth one pound and a half more than all five of the quintuplets. Franklin Delano Glovler’s father says, “I can’t account for it.” No account ing ia necessary. Every baby, big or little, ia a marvel, and weight at birth makes little difference. One sickly lit tle baby called Voltaire started a work that overthrew a long line of fat Th a hl g fufVrrf sban donlng the NRA code altogether, fear ing the consequences of putting theliL. Industry absolutely In The control of organized labor. “More easily said than done," they will be told. An old horse mired In • swamp might talk about "abandoning the leeches that cling to him," bnt tho leeches would cling. American indus try must go all the way through tho process _of^ beln^ managed by those that never successfully managed any thing else before. Maybe the experi ment will lead to the millennium, maybe not All must hope and co operate, even the mired horse. Lloyd George, In his memoirs, says that while England was borrowing American dollars so industriously, the "United States, shocked by the cost of war, was suspicious ss the allies asked for credit" He does not add, as he might, that Americans would have been wise to refuse the credit, since all of "our gallant allies" have turned out to be gallant welchers. tions hut the President stated with emphasis in a press conference that he would not permit profiteering to take place in the coming fall and win ter because, he indicated, he thought the price Increases would he unjusti fied. league was a speech Washington by Secretary of Commerce The drouth of 1934 will not stop the intend to The President and Secretary wal- lace, of the Department of Agriculture, are working hand In hand. In the de velopment of machinery wMch they ■■ t aaa to protect consumers wn jl the West In their forward frem profHeerhtg. -Mr-ttmwevelt as- Daniel C. Roper. He denied thdt the "profit motive In American life "has been or Is to be abolished" by the New Deal, asserting that It seeks only to abolish “certain profit abuses," such as profits on watered stocks and dis proportionate salaries. "Private enterprise," said Mr. Roper, "Is getting back upon Its own feet, and more and more is exerting Its In itiative and Is able to relieve the fed- arul government of responsibilities, which under normal conditions belong to business. "Pardon my repeating again that tho Roosevelt administration is squarely behind thla principle. It believes la Just profits for management and capi tal aad aa equitable return to labor for Its rightful rewards to tho eco nomic processes. "No thinking bnaineas man desires to have Gw old order restored. Ho doea desire and to entitled to hath tbe now order churncterisod by a'bettor control against economic cataclysms aad by tlte freedom to exerrlaa bis initiative In planalng for tbe future -f of hla burin*** In tbe light of an eqult ihie profit system.*—' The Japanese allege that some of the prisoners confessed to an attack on the Japanese military intelligence office at Sulfenho (Pogranlchnaya), to sending Manchnrlan and Corean com mnnlata Into the territory, to wreck ing trains carrying Japanese troops aad munitions toward the frontier, and to creating general distmhancea along the eastern line. Probably before long will come tbe news that tbe Japanese bare seized tho Chinese Eastern railway, and that may very #eil rem.lt In wai between f untr * «»*• ™rtou. fiFnres M to the J loss occasioned by the drouth. One of Japan and Russia. gY A vote of about 10 to 1 the peo ple of Germany decided that Chan cellor Adolf Hitler’s action to aasen Uig the power* of preatdeat was all right The result of tbe plebiscite was: "Yea,” *8*02.70!; "No," 4*84,- 0^4; "Invalid.” 872*801 Though Gw than In tbe N< the withdrawal from Gw League ef Na- Gena, the NaMs are aatIMUd aad Bit ter appears to he safety fixed as tha country’s rater tor Gw rest ef Hto power march to conquer nature.’ The thing about the remarks which. Mr. Davis uttered that appealed to me apd to numerous other Washington ob servers was the candor with which he treated the problems. He made no at tempt la this conversation nor has he done so in several speeches he has made lately to use language that was hysterical For an example of what I mean, dispatches coming from Presi dent Roosevelt’s train on hia homeward trip across the northern half of thla these dispatches credited an emergency relief efilctal with tbe statement that Gw drouth had coat Gw farmers fire billion dollars. Another dispatch placed authority Tw^e'^l^to^Sr*^ petal to that while Mr. Da via recog nises the desperation of the farmers aad the necessity tor their relief, there was notfetag sensational tu hto dtocus- Mon. ft to to be renwmbored that Gw total torm Income of 1988 was only a serted he bad plenty of power with which to do this job. Mr. Wallace, speaking later, said the first check that would be placed on an nndne rise to prices would be closer supervision of the grain markets. Any Indications of manipulation In.those markets will be dealt with snmmarily, according to Mr. Wallace. The circumstances surrounding price questions, however, have caused many observers to aak for further exposition of the admlnistraGon’s policies tn this regard. As far as I have been able to learn, none of tho administration spokesmen are willing at this lime to go beyond the threat to crack down If there to profiteering, ft must bo as sumed, therefore, that moderate pries not. It to made to appear that the poll dee upon which the agricultural-ad- paid rtftentty. Justment administration hare boon op erating and those that hare served as tbe guldeposts tot MBA In Its code toaklag are no longer holding favor with Gw administration, in other words, thsrf la profound coofustoa ‘ *' at New York presents to your atten tion an Interesting robbery in the bor ough of Brooklyn. A well-organised gang of highwaymen surrounded an armored ear, with mnrhln* gnna - fnlly planted In a peddler’s cart and in parked cars, held up the armed guards, stole $427,000. The robbers escaped in three high- powered automobiles, the armored truck pursuing, one machine gun that the robbers had overlooked spitting futile bullets. That appears to be tbe record for robbery tn the public streets. The eleven bandits will regret to hear that. chine gun, they overlooked $29,000 in cash. A big diamond is coming to tbe Unit ed States, fourth largest In the world, called the Jonker gem. The "pebble” was found In South Africa by a farm er, and sold to the diamond corpora tion for $315,000. The corporation re- fused $600,000 for the stone, now com ing here to be ent to beet advantage. Ladles will wear diamonds aa big as pigeons' eggs, but hardly as big aa a turkey's egg.- That would be con spicuous. Hoboken, N. J., is shocked. One gentleman, who liked the looks ef an other gentleman’s wife,, bought the wife for $700, to he paid in install- menta, like an automobile, “with her romantic coaeent,” the last Installment That makes all that are absolutely wen behaved shudder, although many millions ef hamaa beings on earth dot- w got a wife eacept by purchase Oth er mUUoas may sen a wife If they choose, and ao avO to a »tktottw ott-wkwit iSfaKL w iV'v