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— ■ ,v fmmm SPt‘ BRISBANE THIS WEEK One Thing Important Paid for Not Doing $40 a Month What Do We Want of Japan? One piece of news In the world la important to the United States. If Washington doesn't know It, the gov* ernments of Europe and Asia do know It That news Is Amelia Earhart’s flight, nonstop In eighteen hours, across 2,400 miles of the Paciflc ocean, from Hawaii to the United States. All American citizens, especially those on the Pa cific coast, and elderly, out-of-date gen tlemen who are supposed to provide for the defense of this country, should ask themselves: If a young woman, entirely alone, without sleep, no assistant to help with navigation, can fly, unseen, across the Paciflc ocean and land In California to receive a bunch of roses, eighteen hours from Hawaii, what do you think five or ten thousand powerful bombing and swift pursuit planes could do, com ing from Asia or from Europe? The honorable Japanese chief of In formation In the foreign office says the United States Is planning an attack on Japan. Any Japanese who believes it lacks the usual Intelligence for which you give all Japanese credit. Nations start wars because they want some thing. What does the United States want from Japan? Uncle Sam, in a mild fit of Idiocy, Is How giving away the Philippines, Asi atic Islands richer In resources than the Japanese Islanda We got those islands froth the Span ish war. Should we start another war, apend billions, kill many of our Jap anese friends and burn up their coun try by Ore bombardment from airplanes merely to get more Asiatic Islands, to be given away later? The thirst of the people means profit to the government. Uncle Sam during 1834 collected an average of more than 91,000,000 a day In liquor taxes, a total amount of 9374,506,232. Beer alone yielded |200,0i>0,000; spirits distilled'In America, $121,000,000; Imported spirits, 915,000,000; Imported wines, $6,000,000. : It Is easy to understand why tens of millions follow the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnaping and kill ing of the Lindbergh baby with such Intense Interest. The trial Is a mys tery In Itself. Gradually unwound In court like the chapters In a detective story, It holds public attention, the ■ horrible nature of the crime Increasing the Interest tenfold. Elghty-nlne Russian fishermen, liv ing on the edge of the Caspian sea, ought to be grateful to the s American Wright brothers that Invented thejilr- plane. With their bonis they had drift ed ten days on an Ice floe and were Starving. \.\ Along came a big Russian plane, fly- 'Ing low, t5 drop tiny parachutes that brought food, tobacco and alcohol Then .the fishermen, hopelessly lost, out of sight of land, got in their boats and the airplane guided*them to the short est route to shore. This reporter s»t next to Amelia Earhart at a dinner recently, did not recognise her, thought sbe looked, as the French say, “like somebody,” asked “Do you write, fly, or what do you dor She said “1 fly a little, and I write a little.” Europe continues “edging along” to ward war. The Associated Press re ports Italian troops being concentrated •long the Austrian border. Italy fears that Germany may start kn attack on Austria, aiming gt absorption, now the Saar voting Is over. Italy calls this movement of troops •long the Austrian border “Winter maneuvers," but Europe knows what It really la France probably will not be sur prised. Mussolini for Italy and Laval fpr Prance recently tunf a very -affec tionate conversation, of which the sub stance was “Keep Germany under eon- $F0L" 01 Was Tjgvnrm SjrodicwU, Bm. WNU Sarvlea, "•.'s - I Events the World Over World Conrt Adherence Proposal Sidetracked in Senate-r President^ Social Security Plan Arouses Storm of Discussion. National Topics Interpreted , "By William Bruckart National Press Building Washington, D. C. By EDWARD W. PICKARD • by Weetern Nawapeper Union. Pennsylvania is an Important tobaccc state. The government Is paying farm ers not to grow tobacco, just as It pays them elsewhere^not to grow cot ton or wheat and not to raise pigs. After you have spent your whole life driven by necessity’s lash to pro duce the utmost possible, this brings sweet peace to have the government pay you for not doing It, even If you can’t quite understand It. Nobody has yet arranged to pay newspafier publishers for 1 not writing editorials, but that may come, In the glorious new era, and, here and there, It might be a great blessing. Washington reports that President Roosevelt's message to congress about pensions for the old will suggest “only” 940 a month. The Washington correspondent who saya “only" does not know what $40 • month would mean to millions of old people whose lives are made bitter not by deprivation, not by poverty, hunger or cold, but by the fact that they de pend upon the cold charity of others, particularly on the charity of relatives. Give $40 a month to the old that are. dependent and you will bring hap piness into the last years of millions of Ifves, and that would be worthy of a great nation. Sen. Hiram Johnson R atification of the world court protocols received a setback when Senator Hiram Johnson, Republican, California, bitterly denounced such ac tion as a “hack door entry" to the league of Nations, and sen ate leaders rather than risk an Immedi ate vote, delayed defi nite action. Senator Johnson’s attack came on the heels of a special qoessage to the senate from President Roose velt who asked for early ratification of the protocols. It was the most determined movement yet made to put the United States Into the court Other senators, It Is said, were ready to follow Johnson’s lead, par ticularly Senator Borah, long time foe of the court Johnson supported bis opening at tack on the court by offering four em barrassing reservations to the resolu tion of ratification: l. Prohibit the court from entertain ing Jurlsdlcatlon on any question re lating wholly or In part to Its Internal affairs. 2. Permit recourse to the court only by agreement through general or spe cial treaties between the parties In dispute. 3. Prohibit the court and the league* of nations from trying to assume Jur isdiction on any question which de pends upon or relates to the Monroe Doctrine. 4. Declare the United States, by Joining, the court, assumes no obliga tions. Through Johnson’s action, these questlwt»^_must be voted upon before a final votb can be reached on the resolution of adherence. AlthongbUne question has been side- tracjtld for a time. It will be brought up'soon. It Is said, and Senator Rob inson, Democratic leader, has stated that he was confident of ratification when the final test comes. to present status under League of Na : tlons control 46,513. Their margin of victory exceeded the hopes of even the most optimistic Nasi leaders. Love of the fatherland won over antipathy to Hitler principles in In fluencing the voters. The Saarlanders In voting to return to reich rule ex change their personal and political liberties for the regimentation of a dictatorship with Its curb on the P£es* free speech and individualism. *. Washington^— Got of President Roosevelt’s elght-blllion dollar budget - _j „ is developing s very Budget Starts real controversy Controversy which runs to the heart of the New Deal. True, this controversy like near ly all of the others will not result In T HE third phase of testimony pre sented by the state In the trial of .Bruno Richard Hu upturn nn, charged with the murder of Col Charles A. Lindbergh’s son, has begun. Eight handwriting experts called by the pros ecution have completed their testi mony, each declaring that In his opin ion, the. dour.ex-carpenter was author of the ransom notes, and the state now moves on to the story of finding the tiny corpse In a shallow grave In the woods near Hopewell, N. J., two months and twelve days after the kid naping on the night of March 1, 1832. Following this, the story of how. Haupt mann was captured last September through identification of one of- the gold certificates which made up the ransom, will be told. Eight men, who have qualified with the court as experts, have declared that Hauptmann penned the ransom notes. Photographic enlargements of the notes and of Hauptmann’s admitted writings have been shown In the court, and each peculiarity of each character has been carefully gone over: Defense lawyers have fought each scrap of testimony bit by bit An at tempt has been made to show that some , one might have forged Haupt mann's handwriting in an effort to throw suspicion on him, but this has been vigorously refitted by witnesses who have been firm In th£|*-rs8ertlons that only the prisoner could'have been the author. An attempt to forestall efforts of the defense to pin the crime on Isador Flsch, furrier, who died In Germany, Is being made by New Jersey officials. Plnkus Flsch, brother of Isador, his wife, Czerna; his sister,^Hannah, and F!SClfs hutse, Mlnne Stelngnltz t have been brought from Germany to testify. Plnkus has asserted his belief that his brother Is not guilty. T HE Saar will be returned to Ger many on March 1, a special com mittee of the League of Nations has decided. The proposal will he submit ted to Berlin at once. Opposition to this proposal la expected, since the reich originally demanded the basin’* return formally on or before Febru ary 15. , ^ \ ' Another difficulty arises over France’s demand that Article 42 of the Versailles treaty establishing a demili tarized zone should be applied to the Saarland. This would ban Nb*I storm trqops and Brown Shirts from the ter ritory after Its return. Compliance *>f this demand would be an admission -from Germany that the Brown Shirts are a semi-military organlzatlon/^and this* Berlin has long denied In comput ing her military strength. Germany won an overwhelming vic tory In the plebiscite held to determine the wishes of the tnhatottuit of the rich Saar basin Is to the future status of that territory. The complete vote aa announced by the commission was: for return to Germany 477,118, for an nexation to France 2,124, and to return /GENERAL REVISION of air mall ^ ^ rate* to prevent possible destruc- iimii of commercial aviation has been re<i>mmended by the bureau of air mall of the Interstate Commerce com mission. Ap investigation conducted by the bureau discloses that most of the routes are being operated at sub stantial 1osm>s, and rate Increases were retammendtMi on 18 routes. Rates on one route would remain unchanged, and 11 others would be decreased, If the recommendations are carried ouLy The proposed new Increases range up from nine cents per mile for pound age not to exceed 3(H) pounds per mile, while the redm-tions ranged as high as 13.5 cents per mile. Opera tion losses of $1,757, 893.38 were shown In tables submitted by the 31 exist ing operating companies, and It was pointed out that the Industry would be endangered If the contractors were forced to continue operating at tre mendous losses. .. T HE most far-flung Innovation the New Deal has proposed thus far— the "social security plan” proposed by President Roosevelt—has aroused a storm of discussion. Administration adher ents greeted the scheme with wild en thusiasm, while the op position, led by Sena tor Borah, Idaho, has voiced vigorous criti cisms. All business In con gress has been side tracked to permit Im mediate action on the proposed measure. Public hearings have already been started in the senate finance committee, and the house, ways and means committee has postponed consideration of the bonus bill to work on the security plan. This Is being done at the President’s behest The plan provides: Flexible, hut pompnlanry nna ment Insurance under a federal-state .system restricted to workers and financed by a 3 per cent tax on pay rolls after January 1, 1838. The gov- ernme,nt will aid in bearing adminlxtra- President Roosevelt changing the President’s plans, but It seems to m^to be a matter which jus tifies consideration even though the Roosevelt will In the end must prevail Included In the budget was provision for an appropriation of four billion dol lars and, as stated by the President, to be supplied “In one sum, subject to al location by the Executive principally for giving work to those unemployed on the relief rolls.” Beyond that, there was no exposition of Its intended use nor has there been any detailed state ment of the plan. As a result, there is a considerable body of opinion In the halhp of congress which Is-saying In effect that Mr. Roosevelt ought to de fine his work relief prog'rain. He has not done so, and the best information I can obtain Is that no explanation may be expected In the near future; he in tends to proceed as he has In the past by developing a program piece-meal and using the funds as the occasion requires. In the critical days of 1933 when Mr. Roosevelt took office, I believe It was generally conceded that the emergency was so serious as to warrant delega tion by congress of almost any power even remotely desired by the President. He used that power during 1933 and 1934. Now, many members of the house and senate believe that the time has arrived for congress to become more inquisitive about the expenditure of taxpayers’ tnwmey and to avoid fol lowing In blind trust however the Pres ident may direct. While It Is probable l bat congress will not be to+d bow the I’ievident intends to use the money and while it is also probable that the requested appropriation of four billion dolla.s will be rubber stamped, the fact remains that at no time during the New I teal has there been such a buzz of discontent In 'tlie President’s own list of wheel-horses. Senator Byrnes, the South Carolina Democrat who has been looked upon consistently as Mr. Roosevelt’s spokesman on finan cial affairs In the senate, has informed that body that it is Impossible "to be more specific at this time” on the work relief program. Senator Byrnes will go no further. He has given no fronjtetL with a necessity for some defi nite outline of his plans and an as surance that he will adhere to those plans. Without such, the situation as suredly Is that he will not have the confidence of the business structure. It seems illogical even to suppose that he can gain the ^o-operatlon of busi ness In expanding Ifs activities, there by re-employing workers, unless he takes a different tack than his pro nouncements thus far Indicate.. At least, such Is the conclusion of .a_yast number of thinking people. I heard a visitor to Washington say the other day that be would like to ride airplanes, “hut Night the confounded things Flying fl y most of their schedules at night" The individual Is a foan of great wealth and his time Is of great value. :He insisted he was sincere In his state ment that he would much rather save time by flying If the planes were on day-light schedule. The statement aroused my curiosity to the extent that 1 conducted some Inquiry Into the situation. I found-the night schedules of the air lines to be due to the fact that they are fixed by the Post Office department. If a line desires to carry mail It has to subject Itself to the dictates of “Big Jim” Far ley, the postmaster general' His office can and does say to an air line that It will fly a ship leaving New York at 9 p. m. or else It does not get the mall contract. The result Is that the plane leaves New York at 9 p. m. nr it leaves Chicago.or Washington or any other city on a time stated by the Post Office department. Many persons feel that such a policy Is taking undue advantage of private Industry. It is true that the Post Office department Is paying for carry ing the mails at a rate probably well above the rate it receives in postage on that mall. It is, therefore, a subsidy. But this government has for years maintained a policy of subsidizing new industries and that course is responsi ble for the success attained by the de velopment of the transportation sys tems of this country. The President’s special commission named to study the airplane problems of this country and to make recom mendations heard much testimony and received much data showing that the airplane Industry In the United States ha'd placed this country In the number Deal With Eye Trouble Without* Loot of Time Of the great number of lymptoma of eye disease, there are four that are outstanding in their significance. Dr. Hyman Cohen points out In - Hygeia Magazine, In the chapter o| “The Eye Book” dealing with “Dis ease of the Eyes: General Consid erations." 1 The firtt of these Is the dimming of sight Especially when It la the only apparent symptem, this ia of the utmost gravity because It is liable to be overlooked for some time, especially when the vision to the fellow eye is good. Pain In the eye Is frequently mis taken for an ordinary headache or an attack of migraine. Repeated dosing with headache remedies Is resorted to, and so here also valu able time Is lost. Redness of the eye Is a danger signal of trouble ahead. Popular remedies in use, such as the appli cation of a slice of pork or tea leaves or oysters, to the inflamed eye, may cause Infection. Discharge from the eye should not be confused with an excessive flow of tears, although the two often go together. When the discharge Is a puslike secretion, It Is of great Im portance to ascertain the nature of the discharged matter by -having It examined microscopically. If the cenditton Is allowed to Involve the other structures, the damaging con sequences are dire; If the condition Is contagious, the fellow £ye and the eyes of the family and attendant are In danger. Week’* Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Company In another part of this pa per. They will send a full week’s sup ply of health giving Postum free to anyone tfho writes for It—Adv. Oh, Waiter! Customer—“Will the spaghetti 1 ordered be long?” Waitress—“Wa never measure it, sir.” Interviews respecting his i»wn thoughts ene posftfeft fn ttiF flir among ail dr" tions -of the world. Individual mem bers of that commisslou have stated they regard this as highlj beneficial Some of them-at least 'nrntntaln that development of an air Industry was one of the greatest stepsxakeiriBrna' on the matter and apparently has elected to wait at bat until the Pres ident tosses him the ball. Neverthe less, there are some senators who think they detect Just a trace of concern in attitude of this—administration spokesman and they are wondering- tlonal defense"preparatjon. They ap- tlon costs, and the treasury will han dle the fund. Ninety per cent of the pay roll tax la to be refunded to em ployers who contributed to state unr employment plans. A maximum of $15 a week of compensation to begin four weeks after the worker loses his job and to last for not more than sixteen weeks is contemplated. - ^ The second part of the plan pro vides for old-age pensions. The gov ernment Is to co-operate with the states and pay a maximum of $30 a month to persons over qlxty-five. The national government is also to aid states In formulating a plan for per sons under sixty-five which will be financed Jointly by employer and em ployee through a pay roll tax; the funds to be handled by the federal governinent; the amount of pensions to be a percentage of the employee’s wage; with non-manual employees re ceiving more than' $250 a month to be exempt from the plan. The third section of the scheme pro vides for appropriations to give bet ter facilities to caring for mothers, and dependent and crippled children, and/the fourth section, would furnish larger appropriations for pnbttc health aid, investigation and research. - Cost of. the entire program to the federal government will be $100,009,- 000 next year and $200,000,000 In suc ceeding years > The coat to the states will be $75,000,*000 next year and $150,- 000,000 In succeeding yean. Borne Idea of the size of the plan may be gained from the report of the President’s cab inet whlc(i said reserves for old-age pensions must be maintained after some years' at $15.250,000,000. how long be will continue to repress his known energies. Presentation of the budget was ex- _ pected in many quarters to disclose • • fiL'i tf,e mean8 b y which nttes Chide the President hoped Critics Pfesi f O NE of the most spectacular prison breaks in history was effected when four convicts In the San Quentin (Calif.) state prison overpowered two tarda, slugged the wat Jen uncon- sefous, kidnaped six hostages Including four me mbers °f the *tate prison board, and fled In a state owned automobile. The felons were captured two hours later 54 mites from the prison after a running gun fl^ht wth prison guards and posses. One of the convicts was wounded, is were two of the hostages. Trouble has been expected at‘ San lentln, where some 6,000 prisoners housed In space designed for only Unrest has been evident for time, especially slnc$ tt became to put more than onr htao cell Only 180 guards havO employed. esident to get employment go ing again la private Industi^y It showed nothing tangible In this direction. Consequently, crit ics of the administration who have had opportunity to apeak In the house and senate have begun to chide the admin- tstration on its third experiment In three years. Representative Snell of New York', Republican leader In the house, has called attention to the sit uation something In this manner: The President tried out one plan In 1833 ^ he tried out a second phn in 1934, and now he is trying a third experiment The first two were found to be all wet, apd the Republicans, it seems, are con vinced that the current effort has two strikes on It before II gets started. They are predicting failure for It In every way except the success that Is assured In getting rid of money which the treasury is borrowing. Their con versations all have the same theme song, namely that the country Is seeing activity, but they are not predicting how long this action can continue until instead of the more expensive work relief plan, or whether they were cor rect In any of the other recommenda-/ tions they made, the truth -Is the ad ministration has,rejected without com ment everjr ^ingte" one of the recom mendations made by that group. Mr. Roosevelt made no mention lir his bud get message or in his annual message to congress of plans for balancing the budget, and this fact at last has sunk in. The result is additional fear on the part of many business leaders who can see in the future only inflation and economic chaos for the country. Privately, I have heard many expres sions indicating that men of wealth are putting their money Intr* tangible prop erty-something that will not dry upr and blow away. That la always the refuge of Individuals „whb fear that the currency which their government controls Is losing it* worth. These men will be criticized for that course, naturally enough, by blind followers of Inflation plana From all of the signs now visible and from the undercurrent of mum bling that I hear, it certainly Is made to appear that Mr. Roosevelt Is com peared to consider this one end as jus tifying the course without even con sidering the maintenance of a great in dustry within the borders of our na tion as a commercial unit. But while this has been going on, and while many authorities on econoim lc mutters continue to urge develop ment of the air Industry, we find an other agency within the government placing handicaps on that same seg ment of the economic structure. The least that ran be said is that the courses cannot he reconciled. The administration is determined to control oil production. If it cannot do so by Executive order —and the Supreme Court of the United States has decreed It cannot do so in that manner—there will he taws predicated upon the In terstate commerce clauses of the Con stitution which will permit the execu tive branch of the government to keep Its hand on the valve of oil wells. President Roosevelt apparently was not much concerned over the Supreme court decision which invalidated that part of the recovery act, giving the Chief Executive authority to allow or prohibit Interstate movement, of oil as it decided Rest—The President ap peared to feel, in responding to ques tions-by news correspendents. that the rebuff was' only temporary. He an- Do you tire easily? /no appetite /losing weight Vi ’ I /pale then don't ganble with ym body 'Why not reason out the cause of this unnatural condition? Your first thought may be, “I must enjoy what you do eat Frequently, the blood cells are low...sad this, perhaps, is what makes you feel weak, r If this la your trouble the stomach may not be calling for sufficient food. Zest to eat may be lacking. But what SS.S. makes when taken The Oil Cose a difference just before meals. Just try it and notice bow your appetite and diges tion improve. SB.S. stimulates the flow of gastric Juices and also supplies the precious mineral elements so necessary in blood cell and hemo-glo-bin up-building. Do try it It may be the rainbow you need to brush away present discouragement over your health condition. C s.s.s. c*. You have a right to insist that AS A ba supplied you on request. Its long years of prefsrenea is your guarantee of satisfaction. Whether the busluesa leaders who met- at White Sulphur Springs, W. \a., a month ago were right or~ nounced at that time a determination wrong in proposing the use off a dote to control "tdUprocfucTIdn in one way or another to avoid what he describes as a criminal waste of a great natural resource. The oil case, the Supreme court de cided, had Its origin in regulations and executive orders issued under what the administration believed to be authority accorded by the recovery act Those regulations and ordeis prescribed quotas allowed to be shipped from each of the several oil producing states. Tlfe motivating spirit w%a a desire to avoid accumulation of a vast surplus of crude oil with, the consequent de pressing of prices until crude oil was worth little or nothing. But, like many other prohibitory laws and >u]es of conduct, individual* resented being told they could not do t certain thing and Immediately began to devise Nays by which It could be done—a characteris tic that was developed to Its fullest during the bootleg days of national prohibition. The otl that was.. moved aurreptiously came to be known as “hot oil’* and the controversy over the va lidity of the regulations and executive orders consequently was called -the! “hot oil” case. C, Wasters Newspaper Union. \ FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS Early Jersey, Charleston, Wakefield, Flat Dntch, Succession, Big Boston, Iceberg. New York lettuce. Bermuda and Prisetaker onions. Delivered 100, 25c; 300. 60c; 600 Tie; 1000*1.26. Collect 1000.(1; 6000, *3.75; 10000 S«. 50. Jamison Plant Farm, 8ummerville,S.C. VMICI TBit 7~ KIDNEYS! Be Sare They Properly Cleanse the Blood Y OUR kidneys are constantly fil tering ImpuHtleg from the blood stream. But kldneya get function ally disturbed—lag in their work- fail to remove the poisonous body wastes. Then you may suffer hoggins backache, attacks of dizziness, burning, scanty or too frequent urination, getting np at night, swollen feet and ankles, rheumatic pains; feel “all worn out.** Don’t delay! For the quicker you get rid of these poisons, the better, your chajicea of -good health. Use Doan's Pills. Loan’s are for the kidneys only. Thsj tend to pro mote normal functioning of the kidneys; Should help them pass off the irritating poisons. Doan’s art recommended by nsers the country over. Get them from any dragglst. * [ fr MM’S PILLS WNU—7 4-85 OLD ASE PENSION INFOMUmON BECLOta STAMP -} 6E PENS! &S2? v