The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 23, 1935, Image 2

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'T X . V US The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C. Thursday, May 23, 1935 } ^ BRISBANE THIS WEEK : •i P**s the Patman Bilf They Love King George Parachutes? Puzele for Solomon The senate votes, 55 to .33, to^ pay the Veteran* their bonus In cash. That vote, not being a two-thirds vote, would not overrule the Presidential veto, which is ex pected. The Patman bill, wisely approved, gives the veterans their money(*^ to spend In their way for things they want. Under that bill veterans are to be paid with new money. That money as soon ns received would all vanish, In every corner of the News Review of Current . Events the World Over Artkar Brisbaa* purchases In United States. New United States money Is exactly as good as new bonds, since paper dollars and paper bonds get all their value from the name of the govern ment printed on them. There are no longer any gold payments promised or Implied. If government money is not good, government bonds are not good. President Roosevelt, congratulating King George, says: “It is gratifying to contemplate the wise and steadfast Influence which your majesty has ex erted for a quarter of a century.*’ That was about all that the President, with the best of intentions, could say, for the British ruler’s popularity Is based on sticking to his Job, which Is, letting fils people alone, while they at tend to their business In their own way. The king seems to think that those who have built the greatness of the British empire to its present height may be trusted Jto continue building It. Some “best minds” here feel that •hv success or progress in the United States has been more or less of an accident, under bad management, and needs to start again on a new plan. Time Will tell whether a government policy of ‘Hot them alone” or “tell them bow” Is better. Senate Passes Patman Bonus Bill in Face of Presidential yeto—Amelia Earhart Makps Another Fine Record Flight. ‘ ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD G, Western Newspaper Union. ^ chests In th«* United^ States, and as an educator whose life and addresses have been an inspiration toward unselfish public service.” To Cornelius N. Bliss, former presi dent of the institute, was presented a medal for his work "as a director of the Julliard School of Music, as a di rector of the Metropolitan Opera as-‘' sociation, Inc., as a member of the cen tral committee of the American Red Cross, as a governor of the New York hospital, as a director of the Milbank Memorial fund, as a trustee of the Met ropolitan Museum of Art, and. as a member of the board of managers of the Association for Improving the .Con dition of the Poor.” Rep. Patman Five killed, «Hght Injured, in an air plane crash. Th^\dead Include Senator Cutting of New Mexico, who will be deeply regretted by\hls state and by the senate. Flying In fog, fuel )mve out. The lask radio message was\ “Fnel’s get ting low. We can’t find a \reak In the fog. It looks like a forced landing. Both pilots were killed; tt^ey did their best. An occasional disaster will not "dis courage flying, but this particular a) ddent raises again the question. Should N not airplane builders concentrate on parachute protection for passengers? DECAUSE the Patman Inflation bonus bill would be easier fof* the President to veto than the Vinson measure, some of the administration senators joined with the Patman followers tb put the former bill through'the senate by a vote of 55 to 33. Previously, for some devious reason, the senators put aside the compromise measure offered by Pat Harri son’s comffilttee with the assurance that Mr. Roosevelt would sign It. That the Pres Ident would veto the Patman bill was taken as a certainty and U was be lieved the inflationists could not gather enough votes to override the veto In the senate, though they had enough in the house. Rather surprisingly, Senator William G. McAdo > of California, a former sec retary of the treasury, advocated the Patman bill, asserting that It was “a mere conjecture” that the issue of $2,200,000,000 in noninterest bearing notes, or greenbacks, would be Infla tionary. “We have nothing In the United States today but greenbacks,” he said. “Is your money redeemable in gold? Is Tt redeemable in silver? NOT It la redeemable In nothing but the honor and good faith of the American people. “What constitutes Inflation Is a matter of conjecture. Tt Is also a mere conjecture that we must have a so-called specie basis. The best proof of that Is that, since going off gold, the dollar Is as sound as it ever was. “The issuance of $2,000,000,000 In new currency would affect the credit of the United States about as much as if I threw a shovelful of sand Into the ocean and tried to stop the Incoming tide.” King Solomon never solved any such problem as this: A New York manu facturer wished to advertise “invisible panties,” In usual words—small trous-' ers worn by modern women. NRA rules say that If the article advertised Is not Invisible, the advertising Is Talse and misleading and violates the code.” If those panties are Invisible, NRA cannot pass on them, and their manufacturer must not attempt to dls- # play them on models, for’-evldent rea sons dealing with morality. Eight million young women in Ger many are unmarried. The government Invites 333,000 of them to marry “healthy, virile, hereditary farmers.’’* To lead the unmarried German girl to the “vjrlle, hereditary farmer" may be easier than making her marry him. A labor law compels women under twenty-five years of age to serve one year on farms before they can take other Jobs. Once you begin to tell human beings how they mnst live, life becomes com plicated. T WO billion dollars of the works relief fund were segregated for Immediate distribution by the works allotment division at Its first session. The sum was divided into works classifications as provided by the works relief act, these Including road con structlon, grade crossing elimination, rural rehabilitation, rural electriflca tion, low cost housing and general con stcucHoa. Allotments for specific projects were to be made later^ a list of these contemplating expenditure of $100,000,000 being submitted by Mr. Ickes as approved by the PWA and referred to Frank Walker’s division of .applications and information. » Amelia Earhart Pope Pins, addressing 130 German pilgrims, spoke plainly about Ger many’s present Hitler government: “They wish In the name of so-called positive Christianity to dechrlstlanize Germany, and they wish to conduct the country back to barbaric paganism, and Aching Is left undone to disturb Christian and Catho^* life." The pope’s words referred to the un pleasant welcome home of 2,000 young German pilgrims that went-to Rome to receive the papal blessing. Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator, uses language as plain as that of Mussolini or Stalin. He finds that we have In America a class of “oppressors," rich men. and promises that that small, oppressive, business minority “who extol poverty and profits In the same breath” shall be made outcasts In the "new order” that Is coming. ' . x One English town., wil! celebrate the king’s Jubilee by distributing free beer. Might It not be a good Idea to make light beer part of the regular food sup ply of men in this government’s COC camps? Minus government tax,''lt would cost ittle, keep men contented, abolish or diminish complaints of some workers their small supplies of money with . bootleggers, ill r PMturM Syndleau. Im. WNuaarvte* Mexico City to the Metropoll- n airport at Newark, N. J., non stop, "SHOO miles in 14 hours and 22 mlnutes\ That is the new record set up by Amelia Earhart in her red monoplane. Her husband, George- Ualmer Putnam, and ore than 3,000 other usiastic persons -at the airport to e her, and she was almost mobbed by the throw After heiSstart from Mexico City.^Mrs. Put nam was no\ heard from nor reported seen for more than six hours. Her course took her straight east at first? high w the mountain peaks between the Mex^ = ican capital and Tampico. She was not seen at the oil port, nor was she reported by radio. Observers knew, however, that she expected to be above 10,000 feet as she crossed the shore line out over the gulf for her 690 mile hop over the water to N^ Orleans. Passing over New Orleans, she com- ,munlcated by radio with the Depart ment of Commerce station there, and then flew swiftly, along tha alrways of American Air Lines and Eastern Air Lines, As she swooped over JTdbver airport, Washington, Eugene Vidal, di rector o' the air commerce bureau, ra dioed: “You have done a splendid Job, so come down,” But Ameli^replled. with thanks for the Invitation, that she was going on through. And that Is what she did. G OLD medals qf the. National Insti tute of Social Science were award ed to four American humanitarians at "the Institute’s annual dinner In New York, and no one will say they were not deserved. One was given Senator Carter Glass of Virginia “In recognition of distin guished services rendered to humanity as one of the leaders In the planning and creation of the federal reserve banking system, as secretary of the treasury, as United States senator, and as one who, through a long life, con sistently and unsparingly’ devoted his abilities and energies to public service.” Dr. Harvey Cushing of Boston re ceived a medal for bis- "distinguished services rendered to humanity as a leader In surgery and social medicine." Dr. George E. Vincent was honored for services “as professor of sociology, as president of the University of Min nesota, m president of the Rockefeller foundation, as president of the Chau tauqua Instltdllon, as one of the lead ers in the development of community G EORGE N. PEEK, In his capacity of advisor to the President on for eign trade, has just made public sta*- tistlca that tend to show the United States Is losing Its po sition as the world’s chief creditor nation, and makes recommen dations that are In ac cord with the growing trend against interna tionalism in the ad- mlnistratioh and. In conflict with Secretary Hull’s program of re moving barriers to In ^ .. _ . ternatlonal trade by •orga N. Poak rec ip roca i trade agree ments. Stating that whether or not this country still owes less to other nations than they owe to It appears to depend on the true value of defaulted war debts. Mr. Peek recommends these Im mediate steps: 1. The inauguration of a detailed P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT strongly resented the criticism of his New Deal policies by the Chamber of Com merce of the United States, and re torted by calling to the White House Secretary Roper’s business planning and advisory council for an endorse ment of NRA extension and the social securities program. Then to the news paper correspondents Mr. Roosevelt scored the action of the chamber, as serting that in too many cases so-called business \ organizations misrepresent the business men for whom' they claim to speak, and that be did not believe a single speech made at the chamber’s meeting contained any mention of the human side ’of the picture. He de clared the business'organizations were not indicative of the mass belief and that he would go along with the great bulk of the people. Several members of the business ad visory council were also men^bera of the Chamber of Commerce, and it la said they resented the President’s ac tion In seemingly using them to offset the attack by the chamber. A LL the vast British empire cele- ** brated the silver jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary—the twen ty-fifth anniversary of their accession —and for three.months there will be a contin uous series of fetes in the United Kingdom and all the dominions and dependencies. Lon don, of course, was the scene of the chief cele bration on the open ing day,’ and the me- tronolls was thronged with visitors. I^otels and rooming houses were overcrowded and the king ordered that Hyde Park be kept open so some of the overflow thousands could sleep there. - — ; There were seven state processions the first day. The first was that of the BJ-fvTW tx “ i III" IHMICJU l ITvMU IIIUIIB, J* L. Edward Aa Fltz Roy,-with five ancient gilded coaches; the second, that of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, with six coaches In which rode the do minion prime ministers. Then came a two-coach procession of Lord High Chancellor Sankey, and one of the lord mayor of London, Sir Stephen Killik. The fifth procession was that of the duke of York, from Buckingham pal- King George National Press Building National Topics Interpreted * by William Bruckart Washington, D, C. study of our direct investments abroad ace, two carriages with a captain’s and foreigners’ direct Investments In the United States, to supplement the studies now in progress of capital movements. ”2. A review of all national policies based In whole or in part upon our in ternational creditor status.” The proposal seems to lead toward high tariffs and a policy of allocating our foreign trade among other nations, as Is done by many of the European countries. Figures compiled by Mr. Peek indi cate that the United States is a net International creditor by $16,897,000,- 000, but this Includes $10,304,000 000. principal amount of' war debts owed by foreign governments, and also for eign bonds held by private investors in the United States invoiced at their face value, and a pre-depression esti mate of the value of Atoerlcan branch vestments In foreign countries. Mr. Peek strongly Infers that a re-estima tion of these “assets” will result In such a scaling down Hhat. this country will no longer be a creditor nation and peed sot act as such. F OLLOWING *a lively debate the house passed the omnibus banking bill, which rewrites the federal-reserve act so as to make a virtual central bank" out of the 'reserve system," #ifl» pdwer to manipulate monetary policies for the purpose of promoting business stabil-'* Ity. The final vote, after various amendments had been rejected, was 271 to 110. In the senate the measure will be strongly combatted, with Senator Car ter Glass leading the opposition. Glass ote the banking bill during the Wil- adminlstratlon, and be objects to having the system tampered with by Federal Reserve Gov. Marriner S. Eccles. escort of the magnificently appareled royal horse guards. The prince of Wales,,as heir to the throne, came sixth. He had with him a captain’s escort of the Life Guards and two carriages, in the first of which he rode with Queen Maud of Norway and his brother, the duke of Glouces ter, like him, a bachelor. Finally, In the most gorgeous parade of all, came George and Mary, and as their ornate coach, drawn by the" fa mous grays, passed, the voices of all loyal Britishers rose In a roar of “God bless the king and queen.” The rulers, accompanied by all the oMier p missed them by publication of three or four paragraphs, buried, on the’Inside pages of the metropolitan dairies. So, Washington.—Probably the most not able incident of recent days In Wash ington is the explo- Blant at sion of a b^tob by New Deal business. It; is sig nificant and impor tant that the business voice 1 , as repre sented by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, has spoken In such emphatic terms about the New Deal. It' is further a matter of sig nificance that the business voice criti- slzed the New Deal generally as well as Specifically, because it is the first time in the period since President- Roosevelt took charge that anything like unity in business thought has been presented. . The reaction was Instantaneous. First, Secretary Roper of the Depart ment of Commerce mustered 21 mem bers of his business advisory commit tee for a counter attack. It was al most drowned out by the chamber's roar. Such was not the case however, with the President’s reply. He waited until the convention had ended to let loose a charge that the business in terests were selfish.. It made ail the front pages. This brings us to the crux of the condition precipitated by the outburst of the Chamber of Commerce conven tion. It is seldom, and I believe the record shows this statement to be ab solutely true, that annual conventions of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States have been taken serious ly by the newspapers. The business «en have been looked u[>on as posses sors and promoters of rather anti quated ideas. Their interests have been and are of a selfish character. That Is quite obvious and quite nat ural. But at this time, the voice of business speaks more than just busi ness views. It speaks politically. Hence, when business spoke this time the newspapers of the country paid heed. The result was an unprecedent ed amount of publicity was obtaineil by the chamber through the medium of Its convention this year. Whether this represents a change in the thought of the country, surely no one Individual of any group is able to say definitely. It must be recog nized. however, that for many months a highly vocal minority of politicians has been accusing -the administration of throttling criticism. Although this group fought vigorously and charged the administration with having the greatest propaganda machine ever to exist. It obtained little publicity for those views. . Most newspapers dis notables, went to St Paul’s cathedral to give public thanks to God. T HE. senate committee named to de vise “-a means of curbing such at tacks on the President as are fre necessarily, signified nee at taches to The fact that when the business voice was raised Imapparent unity the newspa pers accorded columns of space to it. It factories abroad ana other direct In- quentiy made by Huey Long on the can be construed In ho oilier way than I N THE crash of a transport plane of Transcontinental Western Air near Atlanta, Mo., Senator Bronson M. Gut ting of New Mexico and four other persons fell to death. The pilot unable to land at Kansas City because of a dense fog and his fuel gave out before be could reach an emergency landing field at Kirksville Besides Mr. Cutting those killed were Miss Jeanne A. Hllllas of Kansas City, Mrs. Wll- Servator Cutting Ham Kaplan of West Los Angeles, and Har vey Bolton and K. H. Greeson, pilots, both of Kansas City. Eight passengers were seriously Injured. Bronson Cutting,millionaire of an aristocratic "family, was s radical Re* publican and was one of the outstand ing members of tbe senate. He sup ported Mr. Roosevelt for President in 1932, but wJ*en he came up for re> election last fall be was not given the endorsement of tbe administration. His victory was contested by Dennis Cbavez andrthe case is still before tbe senate elections committee. Mr. Out- ting was born on Long island in 1888, graduated from Harvard and there after went to New Mexico. In tbe World war he waa an Infantry cap tain and assistant military attache at tbe American embassy In London. Ha was appointed to tbe senate In 1027 floor of the senate has as meaning there Is a larger opposl- not yet reported, but fj on som e phases of the New Deal It is said Senator Ben- at | ea et than most of ns-had expected, nett Champ Clark of Missonrl has figured out how it can be done. Clark is the upper chamber's chief expert on parliamen -tary procedure and for four years he was pnrliamentqrian of the lower house. His plan is to rewrite rule T9 of The senate rules to Include tbe President and sp pro tect him from unwarranted attacks and slanders. That rule reads at present: ‘!Nq_s$nator'in debate shall, dlret?t- ly or Indirectly, by any form of words impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive un worthy or unbecoming a senator." One of Long’s favorite ways of launching his diatribes Is to rise to a question of personal privilege, and Clark proposes that In fhls respect the senate rules be changed to conform with those of the house. In that b->dy when a member feels be has been ag grieved he must explain exactly how he hasten Injured before he is per mitted to speak. The speaker decides whether or not his injury Is Justified. Senator Glass of Virginia has failed at various times to silence the “King fish” and he, too, has a plan he thinks might help accomplish that end. He recommends a requirement that all amendments offered to an appropria tion bill be germane. Such a require ment would affect other senators, but Glass’ move admittedly la directed against Long. \ ~ " ^FFIRMING a decision of the Su preme court of the District of Co lumbia, the United States Supreme court held unconstitutional the railroad retirement act ruling that many of its provisions are Invalid. The act pro vided for a system of old age pensions for all railroad workera. Tbe decision was read by Jnstlce Owen J. Roberta It condemned many 'provisions of the law as “arbitrary,’* placing an undue burden on the railroads and having no relation to safety and efficiency in tbe operation of tbe railways Tbe act was passed by tbe Seventy- fourth congress Just ’ efore It dosed, and had tbe tacit approval of tbe new administration, although' President Roosevelt said be believed it would For quite a while such groups as the American Liberty league have pounded _ , away at certain Oppoettion phases of the New Unified Deal. To the Wash ington observers it appeared that these groups were get ting, nowhere and getting there fast. Of a sudden, however, the voice op- posed to the New DeaJ seems to,have have to be perfected by amendment to fiiu’racancy snd was elected n£t year to a six year term. requiring contributions by both the car riers and tbe benefited employees found Itself. Certainly at the moment and for the first time, there is ah ap proximation' of unity to New Deal* opposition and that fact is reflected In a rather Important way. I refer to the courage exhibited In congress where there Is more and more evi dence of a decision on the part of the legislators to assert their independence In contradistinction to previous silent obedience to the White House. I bellyve It la too early to attempt a prediction whether the Chamber of Commerce leadership will last. If I were to make an Individual guess I would say that leadership of this type will etumble. That guess is predicated- Upon the.record of the past because heretofore 11 has been true that business always suffered defections and presently there was bushwhacking In Its own . camp. Regardless of whether that condition develops again, the explosive character of the speeches In the chamber’s convention have added a momentum to Roosevelt oppo sition which it has lacked heretofore. It Is Just possible, therefore, that even If business leadership fails In its efforts to curb, radical tendencies among the administration group, a well knit oppo sition may now be developing. , Pursuing this assumption further, one hears suggestions around Washing ton to the effect that a genuine and basic issue for the 1936 campaign may be in the making. It would seem that Mr. Roosevelt will be forced Into the position again ef appealing to the forgotten man of hla f932 campaign who has alnce been forgotten. ( The conservative thought of the country meanwhile will marshal behind the borne owners, the possessors 6f property and capital and tbe workera whose In come must be taxed heavily In subse quent year* to* pay for tbe program of spending our way out of tbe de pression. Some support la seen for this theory of probabl^ Issues In 1936 in the recent statement of Postmaster General Far- lay who spoke poetically as chairman at the Democratic national committee. In almost so many Words, Mr. Farley declared tlrat the business interests had not been favorable to Mr. Roose velt; that they tfere not now favor able to him and that there was no reason to expect the support of. bush- ness hereafter. Mr. Farley, clever poli tician that he is, v recognizes that un der present conditions there are more votes on the side of the man who ap peals to those who have not than there are on the side of the man who appeals to those who have. On the other hand, government sta tistics show that something like 65,- UOO.OOO persons hold life insurance policies; that something like 20,000,000 have saving accounts in banks; that there are around 10,000,000 home own ers in the nation, and that even at the lowest point of the depression there were more people working for salaries and wages than there were unem ployed. Mr. Farley’s guess apparently is that so many of these workers have had their incomes reduced that they will support a candidate who prom ises to Improve their condition. In their numbers lies the difference be tween victory and defeat. ' In addition to these factors, there Is to he considered the probability of de fections caused by such demagogic leadership as the Longs and the Coughlins. Saner thinking people know, of course, that the programs lin have been preaching far and wide are as impossible of fuffillment as was the EI’IC program advanced by Upton Sinclair in his California cam paign. But it may not be overlooked that these men can and will pull to- gethej^-s^verai million voters. No discussion of the controversy be tween business and President Roose velt would be com- NRA the piete without consid- Hot Spot era tion of the NRA. It is the hottest spot In congress right now. The sltuatiou Is of such a character as to be com parable to a carbuncle on your neck. Those who have had carbuncles will fully understand. A few days ago, Mr, Roosevelt called the most obstreperous of opposition senators to the White House for * conference on the question of what to do about extending the national in dustrial recovery act. It is due to expire by limitation of law on June 16. He cleverly Invited Miss Perkins, the secretary of labor, and Donald Rleh- berg, the guiding hand of the Recovery administration, lo sit in on that meet ing. It was only natural that two such avid New Dealers as Miss Per kins and'Mr. Rlchberg should hold out for continuation of NRA for a two- year period. And it was only natural for heartediy In ail of the NRA principles to insist on a makeshift, or temporary continuation. The President put then* into a cockpit to fight it out The resulting disagreement was perfectly logical but the President had put him self in a'position to trade with con gress. Since the NRA opponents in con gress did not yield, they naturally went back to the Capitol and framed their own program. They propose to have NRA continued, with some of Its un^~ satisfactory features eliminated, to ^ApriJ of next year.' They probably will be able to muster enough support to pass some such ' legislation. If they do^, the President will accept it. Actual ly* he has no choice. He cannot allow the policy represented by NRA to crash completely. It would mean a political defeat which the President, strong as he Is, probably could not withstand. • • • It Is a wiser and sadder Blue Eagla that Is proposed In the senate resolu- <. . tion continuing NRA. Wiser That resolution la Blue Eagle equipped With scis sors to tflm the tall Tealhers of the famed eagle so that It cannot operate ' against businesses whose traffic Is wholly within a statfr— Intrastate—nor will It permit pries . fixing. The senate finance committee which drafted this resolution reported It to the senate by the overwhelming voto of sixteen to three. That shows better than any words of mine how thorough ly determined that senate group was to override the Ricbberg-Perklns views on administration policy. Succinctly, the. continuing resolution provides for changes in the current law as follows^ 1. No price fixing shall be permitted or sancti&ned .under any code-except In codes covering\mlheral or natural re sources industries that ndw embody the price fixing principle. -. 2. No trade engaged wholly In In trastate commerce shalL be placed an dec code. 3. The President will hbve 30 dftyi In which to review present codes of fair practice In border to revhn and adjust each so that It will ctfnfoiip to the provisions of the new NRA. T think this Is the best way oaL' said Senator Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi, chairman of the committee. "I feel certain we can pass this reso lution without a great amount of 4o> bate and it win give NRA time to ad* Just itself and give the courts time H te mis on the varlous questions of IUU validity." ' • WMtara !V«wapap«r Uafen V