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News Review of Current ||| ~ Events the World Over -nr’ g ■ -Prestdent Names Board to Investigate Growing Textile Strike—Senator Lewis Says Democrats Don’t Support Sinclair’s Socialistic Views. €PWAi*D W. PICKARD ©by We.tern N«w>p*p*r.Union *V < - John Q. Wigant — f — pitEftlDKNT HOOSKVKLT UM>k a ■ liamJ lu the textile atrlke b* ‘H|i pointing a board of Inquiry The mem ben fie named aretiov. John 0. Wlgaiit of New llamiiflhlrH, Marlon Smith of At- 'iauta, Ou., and Hay- uioiid V. Ingeraoll, borough president of Brooklyn, W. T. lie. Smith la an attorney and the son of the late Senator Hoke Smith. Thla board waa ap pointed on the recom mendation of the na tlotial lalior relations hoard and Its duties were thus outlined: 1. To Inquire Into the general char acter and extent of the complaints of workers In the cotton textile^ wool, rayon, silk anil allied Industries. 2. Inquire Into problems confronting the employers In said Industries. 3. Consider ways and means of meet ing said problems and complaints. 4. Kxerdse In connection with said Industries powers authorized to be con ferred by the first section of public BMfllMtlOil.il.. 5. On request of the parties to labor dispufer TtT as a "board of-mlu-nrtyrry arbitration or select a jyerson or agency tor voluntary arbitration^ The ('resident directed that the board ihoubl report to him, through the sec retary of labor, not later than Octo ber 1. Starting Immediately after labor lay, the strike apread rapidly and with- _Jn_» abort time ihnttt 330.000 workers had quit their Joha. This would Indi cate the walkout was approximately 50 per cent effective over the entire cotton, woolen and silk Industry, which normally employs In the neighborhood of fViA.OOP workers. leader* of the strike claimed that iwnnn had quit at that time and that more were Joining the walkout dally. I'redictlous v4ob*nee were fntftHed. for there were bloody rlota around the mills In New England. Oeorgta. North Carnflna and flmdh Cnretina, and rra) death* resulted In the-southern ststes the National Cuard was moh Hired. Q. A. Sloan G :oitC,K A. SI.OAN. president of Cotton Textile Institute, who at first claimed that twi>-thlnls of the workers had refused to Join the strike, later admitted that he was wrong and said: •*Thts thing ta getting worse hy the hour.” He added that the re ports he had received showed that additional mills were closing, and said: ”1 am deeply dis tressed to learn that blood has been shed In Heorgls. These sad events make If plain that the forces unleashed by the strike leaders are now out of their control. •This is no longer to he viewed as the ordinary industrial warfare which the term ‘strike’ Implies In America. It Is not a matter of leaving work and of peaceful picketing. ‘‘The strike cull was an appeal for confidence. The appeal was denied by a vast majority of our workers. “Now lawless hands of misled people, thousands In number, move across wide areas, against whole communities, smash mill doors, drag men and women from work they wish to perform, and threaten with violence all who do not yield. This Is an assault on fundamen tal American rights.” Francis J. Hornian, director of the strike, announced that lie would not revoke the strike call until the employ era had accepted these demands: 1. Recognition of the United Textile Workers. 2. Reduction of working hours to 30 per week. X MiCliTne .load . UnnT and wage scale yet iu be determined. 4. I’romise hy the companies not to Interfere with union activities. ft. Provision for a mediation board within the Industry to adjust disputes between employer and employee. 6. Promise by the workers and e:n ployers that there shall he no strikes njr lockouts during the life of t s e agreement 7. An understanding hy both parties on the length of time the agreement shall be effective. Frank Schweitzer, general secretary of the American Federation of Silk Workers, announced thnt with the walkout of 17.<NK> silk workers In the Paterson (N. J.) district and with mill* closing in other sections, the silk industry was approximately 80 per cent shut down. Rchweltier disclosed that many unions In other Industries, not ably the Amalgamated nothing Work- era, were offering material aid to the strikers and supplying organisers. The belief of the strikers that the government would Indirectly finance their walkont by placing them on the relief Hats was only partially justified by Relief Admlnlernitor Hopkins. He said the government took no rides la uals when it appeared t^y were des titute. N RA was dealt g severe blow when the Relull Coal Code authority resigned In a body In protest against the way the NRA Is handling the code" The seven members, who wWe the rul ing body under the Blue Eagle for 80,, OtK) retail coal dealers, are: Roderick Stephens, Nev#York. chairman; Milton B. Robinson, Jr.. Chicago, vice chair man; Clarence V Heck, St. I^ouls; Wil liam A. Clerk, Boston; Charles M Farrar, Raleigh, N. C.; Kdward B.‘ Jacobs, Reading, Pa.; and John Mc- l.achlan, Pullman, III. Their reslgna tlon was due to the NRA's claim that It cun revise any code, at any time without giving notice to the In dustry involved. “As now emasculated by the NRA, the code Is a futile and unworkable ^tiling, while as originally agreed upon It represented a constructive basis for Improvement of conditions In this in dustry,” the members told General Johnson. many renewed his warfare on Jawa and alao declared all other ele ments opposing bis regime must be suppressed. The chancellor, address ing the annual convention of, the Nazi party In Nuremberg, made a slashing attack agalMt "Jewish influence” on German - life. He was cheered fre quently during his impassioned .Ad dress, clarifying again his antl-Jewlsh. Pan-German philosophy of political snd soHal science as the essence of his national-socialistic doctrines for ruling Germanic races. Karller. a proclamation by- him was read to the delegates, warning that those who dared opfsise the Nazi state under his rule would be ruthlessly dealt with, and outlining bln achieve ments as bend of the third reich. (JomhinMd- wltb- H+Ger’^ -atteek -otv a^onu*iIb-^eWe»ta-animattyr Hie nation’s “grand total” la thirty the Jews cama a hitter denunciation of those “sensation-hungry corre spondentg interested only in externnl symptoms.” Hitler declared they were responsible for a misconception of Gennany abroad. Insisted that Nazism Details wired by Mr. G. D. Newton of Hartford, Conn., show that this year thus far deaths from automobile w«e here to stay, and added violence Accidents are running 20 per cent and revolutions were ended. O .V THB advice of Sol Rosenblatt, divisional administrator, the NRA has Indefinitely suspended the pro visions of the motion picture industry code designed to limit salaries of stars and executives and to eliminate al leged unfair competitive methods In bidding for stars under contract with another company. Mr. Rosenblatt made E IGHT thousand, seven hundred em ployees of the Aluminum tympany -of- Afwerlm. -wtm batl been otr irtrHte-for a montfi. were ordered by their union tt renini tn their Jobs when an agreement j ending the walkout was signed. Botl. i the company and the workers'accepted concessions fhnnrgtr the efforts of Fret*~j Kelghtly, labor department conciliator. | an Investigation and in his report said: “A star or executive Is worth asf much as the public can be led to thitrk he Is worth hy paying to see his offer ings. If individual producers And It difficult to gauge in advance the pos sible value of these services. IJ‘ Is pat ently luqMuudhle for a code Authority to exercise any more effective Judg ment In the matter.’’ A FTER Upton Sinclair, ex Socialist who obtained the Democratic nom , (nation for governor of California, had called on- President Roosevelt at Hydt 1 Park, he Jubilantly as serted that his plan to “End Poverty In Cali fornia” was Identical with Hie New DeaL Then he wen no Washington and sought the support of administration lead ers for his campaign. Hr. Roosevelt had said nothing publicly ? eoneerwlwg ~8frr 81n- — clalr, but Senator i James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois chairman of the Democratic senatorial cnmpnlgn committee, made some pun gent comments about the California nominations. ‘There has been no California Dene ocratic nomination for governor," Sen alor Lewis said. “The nomination was made by Illinois. Iowa, Indiana, Mich igaiu Kansas ami Nebraska Kepuh~1 Means who had moved to southern Cal Ifornla. It was Republicans frou. > these states who nominated Mr. Sin clair, not the Democrats nor the Re | publicans of California. This gentle man's nomination can la? charged tc that class of Republicans In Los An geles as a general protest against con ditions. "Senator Johnson came out for tht whole of the Roosevett policies, and was nominated by all parties. \Y’« rank him as a Democrat. “President Roosevelt' Is not bein* disturbed by any presumption that he Is endorsing the Individual views of Candidate Sinclair. The President, in tact. ex|a*cts very shortly before the congressional elections to make an ad dress to America, In which he will ex press the Roosevelt policy and wherein the real democracy he represents of fers remedies which prevent the radl calism of Socialism and the destruction of Communism. *‘\Ve under the name of democracy can never advocate or endorse a sys tern which appropriates and confiscate? honest property, whether It he thf wealth of the millionaires or the week iy wages of millions of tollers." D ONALD RICHBERG, secretary of the executive council, made an other report to the President on the New Deal efforts to relieve financial pressure, showing the governmeuf has loaned more than seven billion dollars to save businesses and homes. Here are the high HghTl dT his report: 1. RFC actually has disbursed $A. 8fi3.0G0.000. 2. The Home Owners’ Loan corpora tian has advanced $L20D.44ft.000, end ing a real estate panic and saving .tbe homes of 432.000 families from fore closure. 3. Five hanks Insured by the FDIC have failed. 4 Federal home loan bank system loans are far below capacity because of faults now being corrected. O USSIA’S ambition to be given ■ seat as a permanent member of the league of Nutloris council, favored by France and Gyeat Britain. Is op- posed by Switzerland, whose delegates have been - Instrucredrlo vote ‘‘no’’ when the question comes up. Turkey has applied for a nonpayment seat In the council, stating she seeks the place of CliThn, whose lenn Ta expiring. BRISBANE THIS WEEK . UniTersa> Draft Wanted Nasia Warned Against Jews Strikes and the Lord Governors of forty-three states join in proclaiming September “Street and Highway Safety month. twenty-one million of the nation’s au tomobiles, and they average twenty- six thousand seven hundred deaths National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckaft Washington.—The political situation waxes warmer. It Is seldom In our hls- Ihe records disclose KT thousand five hiadred such deaths. ahead of Last year, meaning probably thirty-six thousand deaths for 1034. ^ Secretary of Commerce Roper, chair man of the national conference on street and highway safety, urges con certed action through the nation, and there Is certainly need of It The Increase in deaths, unfortn- nately. Indicates Increasing reckless ness among Americans, and, more un fortunately, Increased recklessness in drl nklng. ^ ’ ’ The New York State American Le gion ^demands a new law that would give government the power to draft everybody in case of war, with power to control all manufactures, rail roads, etc. The national government assumed all those rights and powers last time, and would do so again with out any special law. - --Many would advocate a law -forbld- dlng any .wholesale conscription of American youth or cash without a pre liminary vote, allowing the people to express their opinion. The nation may L be always aa foolish-as~lt was last time S ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE thinks it may be neves- «“■>' to( guarantee the price of corn fodder m order, to keep available suie plies on farms in the drouth area for relief purposes. The farm adminis tration Is to set up an office In Kansas tffty for the purpose of making a sur vey and locating all ty|>es of animal feed. The office also will assist county drouth jc*m«mlttw» Jn_arranglng pools of individual farmers to make pur- chases. The government will not buy any .feed Itself for distribution. H UEY LONG’S plans to control the primary In Ixtulslana were curbed by two Injunctions Issued hy a f.-deral and a state court, but bis exitosure ol the administration of New < Means hy Mayor Walmsley and his friends went on unhindered. Also the “dictator ship” laws passer 1 hy the aenator’s/ieg lalature became binding ami put an end to much of the gay life- Id New Orleans, for tbe “old regular” ntachftw which has ruled the city foe yean was helpless. Governor Allen, Lopg'i henchman, has full power to enforrt the new laws through the state police or the militia, htaaeinlnarton of horse race news being now unlawful, tht n such Infoi matlon planned to leo^ rltf. Lewis Douglas B ECAUSE of his unwavering op|*osi- tion to what he considered the ex travagant ex|MUidltures of the govern merit anil to Its Inflationary monetary (Mdlcles. I^wls Doug las has resigned as di rector of the budget. TTe “trail 1 o n g been fighting against cer tain of the adminis tration's iHillcles. with out avail. The two- year tvinTgeU plan with Its progjiectlve deficit of seven billion dol lars, presented to con- gress last January, did not have his ap proval; nor had the bttttoirdottar defi ciency appropriation bill and the schemes for the purchase of gold and silver. It was said his resignation was finally brought about by the aunounce- uient of Secretary Morgenthau that the so-called profit of two billion eight hundred million dollars resulting from the devaluation of the gold dollar would he used to curtail the public debt Incurred by the New Deal. Since currency Is ultimately to be Issued against this “profit,” and since there Is only about five billion dollars of cur rency now In circulation, tbe Morgen- than plan contemplates a 50 per cent inflation. The President aptadnted as acting budget director Daniel W. Bell, a per manent employee of the treasury. It was understood -In Washington that there would be a general rearrange ment in the Treasury department which would concentrate all fiscal powers In the hands of Secretary Morgffithnu. Several officials who are not In full sympathy with the New Deal will be, weeded out Rudolf Hess, chosen to succeed Hit ler if the Ix>rd should take the chan cellor. warns members of the Nazi party not to employ Jewish lawyers, recommend any Jevg for official or otlter positions, and Nazi party mem bers must not associate publicly with Jews. That should suit self-respecting Jews, If some of the things that Chan cellor Hitler said concerning the moral character of Nazja recently executed by his order are true. Campaign “Material” lory where much heat In the campaign fights as baa already been developed. It may die down some, but the . wiseacres in politics are predicting red hot battles over the Issues an^d-jnu(L-»llngUig-. muck raking among Individuals. There Is the speech by Secretary Morgenthau of the treasury, an at tempt to show that the New Deal has not been gorcostly as critics of the admin istration claim; there Is the* victory of the Socialist. Upton Sinclair, who captured the Democratic nomination for governor of California, and there Is a growing list of social reform pro posals among administration advisers which provide meat and drink for the politicians on the opposing team. There is the accomplished fact In this connection of the pension legislation which the railroads claim is going to cost them almost one lmndretT mllllon dollars a year. One can mention also the row among cabinet and emergency officials over the future course of NRA and the test that Is being made in the Dis trict of Columbia courts to determine whether a business firm can be made to comply with a code which It has definitely and continuously refused to sign. There Is the speakership fight -among-the Democrats-of- the house of representatives, and the hitter attacks that are being leveled at the treasury -by-some of the" senators and repre sentatives from agricultural areas on account of administration management of processing taxes. Efforts of the American Liberty league for protection as well as the producers of product^ that compete with coconut oil. It if(U be recalled that there was something of a battle in congress when an im port tax was laid on coconut oIL The industry felt It had gained a great vic tory. Developments since have shown Just haw wrong- JndLyRluala _can _he < ^ • V • • Republican wheel-horses claim they now have ammunition In the shape of., * Mr. Morgenthau’! Morgenthau speech on the cost Under. Fire ot ^ ie New r)ea1 ' for which they long have awaited. The treasury secretary spoke over the radio. His purpose obviously was to get as wide distribution as possible for his conclusions that thr New Deal thus far has cost only $505,- 000,000, despite the fact that the treaa ury dally statements show an addi tion of approximately eight billion to the national debt The secretarx. was able to show, to his way of thinking, thnt while the public^ debt has been increased by the amount Stated, near ly all of these funds eventually will come back Into the government’! money chest He admitted, however, that there may be losses sustained hy some of the emergency agencies and that these losses naturally will affect the total as he had calculated It I talked with a Democratic senator concerning Mr. Morgenthau’s speech and he told me of his intention later -tw-mahe-a simitar- speech on -the-tmh- Ject. He was somewhat 'disturbed, however, aa to how he yould explain the receipt hy the treasury of $2,800,- 000,000, which is the amount of profit gained hy the government as-a result — of devaluation of the dollar to the point where It Is worth only 50c Id & S. I of constitutional rights are tn-ing ex-I gold. He appeared to he afraid that pnnriedr All the while New Deal plan-, ners are engaged In development of new schemes such as a program de- -signed to resnlt In federal ownership of the railroads. To say that the situation is confut- Nurthers strikers of the “hard-boiled, he-man type" may cry “Crisis!“ read ing of a strike meeting In North Carolina that turned Into a religions camp meeting with prayers and loud cries of “Amen.” Mr. lawrence. elo quent strike leader, telling his follow ers. "Trust In God, for he Is with us, as he Is with all those whose cause Is just.” Scoffers may remember that Crom well also prayed and took the I/ord for hls^ partner on aH occasions, and what he did to privilege and power was a good deal. He Is one man that never lost a battle; he cut off the king’s head, and his enemies feared him long after he was dead. The eloquent Mr. Lawrence told his strikers, “The first strike on record was the strike In which Moses led the children of Israel out of slavery, from Egypt.’*' The first strike, some would say. Is described by Milton, telling of Lucifer and his attempt to'rifle In heaven. Others would say that Eve was the first striker, bored, with no one but Adam to talk to, delighted to meet the serpent, although she was sorry later and wished she had not struck against the rule concerning the forbidden tree. Another courageous flier. Douglas Davis, was killed while striving to win the Thompson trophy race at Cleveland Just after he had broken another record. Col. Rosooe Turner, who recently again broke the Paclflc to Atlantic record, won the Thompson trophy. Davis, a modest young Georgian, Just before his death had beaten the land speed record, going above 306 miles an hour. He will he content to have that record engraved on his tombstone. Wedell. who set the pre vious record, was killed recently trying to do better. This country has many brave fliers. M ANY of the dairy cattle bought by the government In drouth areas are of high breed not be slaughtered.-The federal relief administration gave out / a statement saying: “H Is planned to either exchange gome of these 1 high breed drouth cattle for scrub cattle now/ln the possession of relief or rural rehabilitation fami lies, or to Issue them to such families where the need has been determined Under this program the low-grade scrub cattle would be slaughtered where exchanges were made. The ex changes, or issuance of rattle without exchange, would he made upon rerom mendatlon of the various county rpllef administrations and county rural re hahllitatlon aupervlrftra.” ■ ^ KTER five days of deliberation. tbe high council of the Salvation Army, Bitting In l>ondon. elected Uoui mender Evangeline Booth general of the army. Thus the supreme command of the organisation Is returned to the IhMith family after a break of five years. Miss Booth, who Is sixty-eight years old. la the mtly daughter of (Jen William Booth, founder of the army , For thlrtf year* she has been at the head of tne army lu America. Ing Is to use the mildest sort of lan guage. Observers In Washington who have watched political maneuvers for a qnlPTWor a cenfufy - and more in sist that at no time In their recollec tion have they seen anything similar to present conditions. Take the Upton Sinclair victory-Raelf. a* an example. I am told that few times In modern politics has It occurred that a man so tnni^ilfttiated wTtK another partisan group has bored his way In and seized titular control of a major political party. The observers Insist that the result of the Califernla primaries has placed the Roosevelt administration on a decidedly hot spot unless, as It has been charged. President Roosevelt 4a wllllag -to commit lha Democratic party which he heads to the Socialist doctrines publicized for a quarter of a century by Mr. Sinclair. Some political leaders here are whispering that the Sinclair victory will strengthen the hand of the Amer ican Liberty league and enable the sponsors—A1 Smith, Jouett Shouse, John W. Davis, former Senator Wads worth and others—to go about the country and obtain recruit# for their defense of constitutional rights. Active efforts of this kind, of course, are like ly to catalog the league as definitely anti administration, but league leaders apparently do not entertain such a fear at thla time. • a a The processing tax question Is an other that political observers Insist is due to cause trouble Processing f or the President. Trouble* They point out that heretofore such criti cisms as have come of the processing taxes have centered on Secretary Wal lace and the Agricultural Adjustment administration. Now, however, the at- tacks are being leveled at the bureau of Internal revenue, which Is a part of the treasury, and. therefore, the fire has swerved from one department to the other. It Is to be remembered that both Secretary Morgenthau and Tom tnissloner Helvering of the bureau of Internal revenue are personal appoint- Tnentx uf jhtr President. Republican Improbable things do happen. At mer Stewart rival candidates for -deputy clerk, each got 754 rates. Tbe learned Dr. Newton H. Brown of Ar kansas State college says, n with one election a year, such a thing, according to mathematical probability, would not happen again before the year 1,609,196, or 1,667,262 years from now. A scientist of South Africa an nounces that the puff adder’s venom is the basis of a new drug producing amazingly good results tn treatment of epilepsy. 20 per cent of patients cored. T4 per cent greatly improved, according to an Interesting article by Goblad Debar! Lai la thla country It la understood that the puff adder, swelling out his cheeks, cobra-fashion only pretends to be poteonous. Per- haps Africa has a wont puff adder. japes know! how to de quickly. Our bandit-hunting might taka leasona. Two Americana. br after wrecking i train. Hpem Hilagw forces opposing campaigners were going to say that the federal government had no way of obtaining revenue or money Of any kind other than by taxation and borrowing. He suggested that the profit of devaluation fould hardly be described as money borrowed, nor could It properly be called receipts from taxation. . The Republicans a>e using Mr. Mor genthau’s own figures In an argument that the assets of wholly government owned agencies such as the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation are so (hr only bookkeeping Items. It appears to be Irrefutable that no one cun fore- _ tell what the Valtie of these assets are going to he one, two or three year* hence. Therefore, without discussing the merits of the argument on either side. It can he said definitely tb*.t the Republicans will he d«>tng a lot of fig uring Just as Mr. Morgenthau did flo uring to reach the conclusions he want- tQ-jrcach. .and disseminate s.niwig the voters. In some quarters I hear expre.-eilona of commendation for the pronounce ments by Mr. Morgenthau. Strangely, these commendations do not relate to the total which he contended the New Deal had cost thus far. but to the fact that the administration was going to remain faithful to Its pledge that the deficit would not exceed eight billion dollars In the period covered. Wash ington has received numerous reac tions from business Interests regard ing this particular phase of the Mor> genthau speech, and business seems to regard that much of It as reassur ing. • • • As regards the controversy that Is raging In the administration Itself, oh- servers believe there j Real Battle Ig every reason to in Offing expect an eventual explosion. General Johnson, the NRA administrator, on the one hand, and Miss Perkins, the secretary of labor, and Donald Rich- berg, secretary of the President's ex ecutive council, on the other, are all Individuals of the .temperamental makeup required as requisite to a real battle. Their differences grow out of the plans ns to the future of the NRA, which, the President has said, ts to continue as a permanent part of the New Deal structure. Washington- has not <pdte made np Its ntlfid £on- i CHTfipiilffnere are using this as a ve- Joneshoro, Ark., Leon Brown and Ho- hide tn carry Theft 1 assault on the President himself. Whatever the political Implications may he. It remains a fact that such New Deal supporters as Senator James P. Pope of Irtalfh have Diken Mr. Hel- vering to task\for his administration of the processingtaxea. Senator Pope has written to Mr\HeIverlng with par ticular respect to the processing tax on hogs, which he charged was being collected from farmers. w ho slaugh tered and sold pork produced on their own farms. The Idaho senator forced a hill through congress In the dosing days of the last session which he be lieved would free the farmer of this tax and provide a refund of tax which he claimed was Illegally collected. At this writing. Senator Pope reports, the burean of Infernal revenue has not even drafted the forms upon which farmers may make application Tor jm- fund of taxes already paid. ahd : ■mounts to approximately two one-half rents per pound. It takes no stretch of the. Imagination to figure how. mnefr tax has been taken from farmers Ip this way. d;it and s the deHmttat+nn* laid down hy Hie two factions, hnt It la apparent even now that Miss Perkins and Mr. Rlehherg contend for expansion of the NRA control beyond the limits to which the bombastic General Johnson Is willing to go. Also. It Is made to appear that Miss Perkins and Mr. Rlehherg prefer to see NRA under the domination of an individual whose mental slants are In line with their own, which is tn say. In the oplnlot of most observers, that they fBvor a radical tendency beyond General John- sm’s program. The general, having been a business executive, seems t« renilze that It la better to proceed cantlously In expanding NRA super vision, and Is holding out for thgt course. The differences between these In dlvlduals are the first to reach pm portions requiring White House Inter ventlon. Whether Mr. Roosevelt baa salved the feelings of each Is not com pletely established, although It seemt now that General Johnson will coo*. Hnne to manage NRA and that Mias Perkins will, la affect ha sent hack tt her Department of Uhnr to give her^l attention -ta * Ip ..A,..