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'V. *-MS A ' V ' \ ■ y ■ .• -- ’ • -rr-Cj" • - \. ' y' Th* Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell S. Cn Thursday, Jane 6, 1935 X > THIS WEEK Jane Addatns of Hull House What Is Reality? Ludendorff Said No A Woodpecker Sermon Miss Jane Addams “of Hull House” is dead. She set an admirable exam ple before men and women. She devoted her life and her for tune, all- of her time, effort and money, to the wel fare of unfortunate ■ * women and chil dren. r She was one of those that make It difficult not to be lieve In heaven. If there were no future rewards for such goodness the entire universe, with Its relativities, quantums, electrons and light-years, would be one ghastly Joke. Arthur Brisbane Learned Professor Einstein, with the also learned Professors II. Podolsky and N. Rosen, all of Princeton Insti tute for Advanced Study, makes a deep announcement that will Interest those that can understand It. This Is It, condensed: “A scientific theory can be devised which will completely describe reality.” It seems the present scientific the ory, supposed to give a description of physical reality by the “quantum-me chanical” method, does not work out satisfactorily, and you are sorry you learned It It Is pleasant to see scientists on the shore of the ocean of knowledge, play ing with one or two little pebbles. Science Is far from any “scientific the ory that will completely describe re ality,” for science cannot tell what “renlity” Is. In- a universe without limits of time or space, made up of particles of elec tricity variously grouped, In electrons, atoms and molecules, no man-microbe can hope “completely to describe re ality.” Chancellor Hitler- of Germany con ferred upon the fighting German Gen eral Ludendorff the title “field marshal general," highest rank In Germany’s army. General Ludendorff, greatest, after Von Hindenburg, In the big war, declined with thanks, announced his retirement to a small hunting lodge In the Bavarian mountains. It Is sug gested that Germany’s most distin guished living general did not fe£l that his glory could be Increased by Chan cellor Hitler, who was a corporal in the army of Austria. News Review of Current Events the World Over Roosevelt’s Veto of Bonus Bill Overridden by House, Upheld by Senate—Ford Boosts Wages— Hitler’s Peace Program. *■- f V By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. — _ _ V President Roosevelt “Sermons In stones, and good In everything.” There must be a senuon In the Chi cago woodpecker that every morning woke his neighborhood drumming on a copper drainpipe. The copper resisted, but the wood pecker drummed on until a boy with a slingshot stopped him forever. What Js the sermon? Does It deal with modern efforts to Ignore the nature of man, stand old “Supply and Demand” on his head, and prove that super-intelligence can make the world over in ten minutes? S ETTING a new precedent, President Roosevelt “acted as his own mes senger” and personally .returned to Speaker Byrne the Batman bonus measure with his dis approval. Before a Joint session of the house and senate and crowded galleries the Chief Executive i^ead his veto message, an able and well ordered document in which he set forth his convic tion that “the welfare of the nation as well as the future welfare of the veterans wholly Justifies my disapprov al of this measure.” Asserting that an able-bodied citizen, even though he wore a uniform, should not be accord ed treatment different from that of other citizens, he said: The veteran who ^ls disabled owes his condition to the war. The healthy veteran who Is unemployed owes his troubles to the depression. Any at tempt to mingle the two problems is to confuse our efforts.” Mr. Roosevelt’s stern warning against the dangers of Infiation inher ent in the measure was listened to in silence, though there was mild ap- lause at other times. All his (argu ment was in vain so far as the house was concerned, for as he left, the chamber there were quick demands for a vote and by the time he had reached the White House the representatives had overridden his veto and again passed the bill by a, vote of 322 to 98. In the affirmative were 248 Democrats, 64 Republicans, 7 Brogressives and 3 Farmer-Laborites. Those voting to sustain the veto were 60 Democrats and 38 Republicans. The re-passed bill was laid before the senate by Vice Bresident Garner, and Senator Thomas Insisted on the reading of the veto message in that body. Action was postponed for one day because a Iqt of the senators wanted to make, speeches. The debate in ^ie senate was long and pqid'ervld,-ian<i quite unnecessary because the ref®! of the vote had been a certainty several days. Fifty- four" senators voted to override the veto; but 40 supported the Bresldenj, and only 32 were needed to kill the measure. Three memberA had switched over from their stand when the bill was first passed. Tlwy were Bittman of Nevada, Bope of Idaho and Coolldge of Massachusetts, all Democrats. The <wriy-Absentee was Norbeek of South- Dakota. Dennis Chavez, the new sen ator from Nfcw Mexico, .caused a sur prise by voting to uphold the veto. ent nations. 1 Three times she presided at the sessions of the International -Congress of Women, and she wag prom inent in many humanitarian move ments. But It Is as the bead of Hull House and the tireless friend of the poor and underprivileged that her mem ory will live longest. p'THIOPIA, la • note to the League of ^ Nations-eouncU, defied the Italian war preparations and ^ave warning that she "would yield neither to Intimi dation nor to violence.”' /CapL Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval tried In vain to \ persuade Baron Aloisl, Italian delegate, to accept a gift of exclusive economic privileges In Ethiopia In exchange for saving the league’s face and keeping a united front in Europe. The states men in Geneva began to believe there was no way of stopping Mussolini’s Af rican adventure. The Rome govern- menf is decidedly exasperated against Great Britain, charging that the''Brit ish are promoting the shipment of war materials to Ethiopia 1 ^through British Somaliland. Emperrir 'Haile Selassie has Just bought a large fleet of bombing planes from Turkey, some of which wwa sold to the Turks by British firms * 1 ' '_!■ ANEUVERS of the Pacific fleet A * were marred by another fatal air- G OV. MARTIN L. DAVEY of Ohio withdrew the warrant charging Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins with criminal libel, so the ad ministrator was able to visit Cleveland and make a- speech without being ar rested. The governor said that “all the objectives which wer«~seught have been accomplished and no goed purpose can be served by carrying on guerilla warfare.’* :—_—,— Prpfessqr Kemmerer, financial ex pert, of Princeton, worrying about In flation, “too much money In circula tion.’’ says the government Is spending money twice as fast as It comes In. This, he says, is done.-hy “pumping the banks full of artificial credit.” Hav Ing done that, the government borrows Its own money from the banks and pays them Interest, which seems mild ly amusing. President Roosevelt may be right about professors. An eight-year-old girl missing In New York; ail police detectives, plus 60 policemen, espe cially assigned, and troops of Boy Scouts searched the neighborhood vainly for 61 hours. Prof. Taylor Putney, Jr., of New York university, said to the police: “I saw boys and girls digging a cave In the sand late oo the day of the girl's disappearance; look there,” and pointed. There at the foot of the con crete wall the girl was found, ap parently smothered by sand that had caved in. There Is much In knowing how to look for what you want to find. / In New York city racketeers collect $10,000,000 a year from poultry deal** ers, having, by way of persuasion, killed a few of them. To discourage the racketeering. Po lice Commissioner Valentine tells mer chants to “slug racketeers” at sight and offers to help them get revolvers for shooting. - An old poker player when he "raised” used to say: “The best way to discourage vice is to make It ex pensive.” Very old is the story of the fish In which was found a precious ring that the tyrant of Samoa had dropped into the sea. And new la the story from Sydney about a captured shark that disgorged the tattooed arm of a man., The man had been murdered, hia body dismembered, the parts thrown Into the sea. The shark swallowed one arm, returned It as evidence and the mur derer may bang. Invent something more Improbable than that. WNUSwIm. . H A Klas rMturva S>ndlc*U, lac. DONUS advocates and Inflationists were prepared - for further action In various ways. One plan was the In troduction of a bill to draw $2,000,000,- 000 to pay the bonus from the work- relief appropriation, out' of which the President has already approved the allocation of abput $i,ooo.ooo,Qoo for Immediate work projects.- Other measures, as riders to navy or legisla tive appropriation bills, were being drafted. So there was « prospect of a great tangle in the administration's " legislative program. I N ITS annual statement -the Ford Motor company discloses that It made a gain of $3,759,311 in 1934 over the previous year, to a total of $§80.- 276.391. Just before these figures were made public, the company announced that the minimum daily wage of its employees would be raised from $5 a day to $6, adding $2,000,000 a month to the pay roll. The Ford and Lincoln plants in Detroit and all other cities share in this revision of the wage scale. Henry Ford began boosting the wage scale back in. 1014, and in answer to adverse criticism - of economists; ~ he made the pay increases a policy of his company. He put the minimum wage at $0 In 1919 and ten years later raised It to $7, where it remained until the end of *1931. With the oppression it fell back to $4, but in March. 1934, a raise to $5 was made. The company's announcement says: “The Ford Motor company has paid dts workmen a total of $623,000,000 over and above what the company nePd to have paid had it followed the general wage scale." F IRST of the list of projects to be undertaken under the works relief program Is the Passamaquoddy tidal power scheme, and there Is a lot of grumbling because It was placed at the head of the r line by the President himself This project was once turned down as un economic by Secretary Ickes, the assertion being that It would cost too much In com parison with the re turns that might be expected, would take too long for comple- Ma J° r Ficroinfl tlon and was In a region where so much work relief was not needed. But Mr. Roosevelt, whose CampobeHo sum mer cottage Is near the location of the proposed dam site, Is said to be plane accident. A seaplane plunged Into the ocean 40 miles south of Midway Is land and the elx members of its crew were lost. The victims were: Lieut. Harry Brandenburger, Lieut. Charles 3. Kelly, Aviation Chief Machinist’s Mate P. C. Lltts. Chief Radioman C.‘ M. Derry. First Machinist’s Mate P. J. Proteau and Third Machinist’s Mate Q. A. Sharpe. CENATOR WAGNER of New York ^ and Representative Grosser o^f Ohio offered In the senate and house Identical railroad labor pension bills drafted in a way to meet the objec tions of the Supreme court to the law It decrared unconstitutional TIT 1 HEN Dennis Chavez was brought v V into the senate to be sworn in as successor to the late Bronson Cutting of New Mexico, six “liberai” mem bers silently walked out of the cham ber In protest against the efforts that had been made to unseat Mr. Cutting. Those who participated in this un precedented action were: Senators Hiram Johnson, California; William El Borah, Idaho; George Norris, Ne braska; and Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota, Republican Independents; and Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Pro gressive; and Henrik Shipstead, M1d-~ nesota Farmer-Laborlte. D USSIA’S immense airplane, the Maxim Gorky, largest land plane personally Interested In the project,-f in the world, was destroyed when It believing It will bring new industries to the area. Anyhow, this big Maine project is to i go ahead, and MaJ. Philip B. Fleming of the, army engineers corps has been chosen fo take charge -of the construc tion. Major Fleming has been serving In the PWA for some time but has been released for this Eastport work. I N ADDITION to the Passamaquoddy project, calling for $10,600,000, about a billion dollars in work relief allot ments were given verbal approval by the President, these having been favor ably passed by on by the allotment board. Included In this program are extensive rivers and harbor works throughout the country, and a $100,- 000.000 Integrated works program for Wisconsin. The latter was planned by Senator La FOlierte and his brother. Governor La Follette, and approved by the administration. These initial allotments will put a lot of men to work in a short time, for the plans for many of the projects al ready are complete. Mr. Roosevelt j ^ g Morgan pointed oqt that 25 to 50 per cent of the work-relief funds to be spent in the various states would go out'through mandatory allotments Jo such units as the CCC, highway construction and grade-crossing elimination. Funds for these expenditures were earmarked in the bill. collided with a small training plane over a Moscow suburb, collapsed at a height of 2,000 feet and fell in ruins. All on board, 48 In number, were killed, as was the pilot of the small plane. The victims were mostly engi neers and workers of the Central Aero dynamic In/tltute and members of their families who were being taken for a pleasure ride. ~ S ECRET, hearings were opened by the house military affairs commit tee to Investigate charges that the Tennessee Valley authority already has squandered $1,000,- 000 of.—government money In questionable awards of contracts for dynamite and pow der and through other irreginanthra;—Arthur e 0 National Topics Interpreted - by William Bruckart National* Press Building Washington, D. C. Washington.—The senate has again indulged In Ita favorite! pastime of straining at the gnats Wagner BUI and swallowing the Dansteroat camels. Its latest * camel that was swal lowed at one gulp and with the same ease as the man on the flying trapeze was passage of the so-called Wagner labor disputes bill. The consensus seems to be that reformers in the M ISS JANE ADDAMS. “firsts citizeh of Chicago,” Internationaly famed ns a social worker and peace advocate] has gone to her reward, and her pass ing is .deeply mourned by the many thousands of poor and unfortunate per sons for whom she had made life more endurable. She started her real life work in 1889 among the Italians and other foreigners on Chicago’s West side, founding Hull House, which grew Into the mhst famous social settlement in America. Later her activities were extended to the amelioration of sweat shop Conditions, the child labor prob lem, and then to the matter of inter national peace. During the war she was made president of the women’s in ternational peace conference at The Hague, and she interviewed the officials of virtually every one of the belliger I N AN executives.order the President established pay rates under the $4,- 880,000,000 work-relief measure, dividing the country Into four 'Sections In set ting regional wages. Pay will range from $19 a month for unskilled labor ers in the South to $94 a month for professional and technical workers in the East. The wages will be from 20 to 30 per cent below the prevailing wage rate structure throughout the country. HITLER, the resolution of the League of Nations council condemning him for the re arming of Germany, but said Germany might return-to the league If that body divorced itself from the principles of the Versailles treaty, and from the “psychoiogy of victors and vanquished" and “after Germany is granted full equality rights, extending to all func tions and privileges In International life.” To the great satisfaction of Great Britain, Hltlfer promised to respect the territorial clauses of the Versailles treaty, which, he said, could not be modified by unilateral action. He de clared Germany was willing to sign non-aggression pacts with all her neigh bors except Lithuania, and to agree To an arras embargo If others would do the same. Also the relch Is ready to sign an air convention 'supplementing the Locarno pact. r Maj. Gen.._Walter von Relchenan, di rector of the ministry of defense, an nounced that under the new conscription decrees the classes, of 1914 and 191fi— Germany’s “war babies”—would be R EICH§FUEHRER HITLER, ap pearing before the reiehstag, out lined a 13 point program for disarm ament and the improvement of inter national relations, and did It so well It cannot well be ignored by the other nations of Europe. He again rejected "Prepared to disprove the worst of the E. Morgan, head of the TVA. and his two fellow directors. David Lilienthal and Har- court A. Morgan, were summoned before the committee. The charges are contained In ah audit of the TVA made by Comptroller General J. R. McCarl. Some of the- irregularities be claims to have un covered are: „ Tiie awarding*" without competitive bidding of a contract which obligated the government for an indefinite sum of money, estimated at $615,(XXL Overpayments of an original con tract by as much as 120 per cent. Awarding of contracts, in contraven tion of law, to firms which were not the low bidders, with one contract go ing to a bidder who was seventh from low. Failure to require one large con tractor to post performance bond and at the same time the payment of fees to this contractor in advance, despite a legal prohibition against advance pay ments. Solicitation of bids by telephone or circulars among a certain group of pri vate business bouses, or In other Ir regular ways. — The TVA directors were said to be senate reached the hlghwater mark when they capitulated to the labor lobby and put further Insurmountable difficulties la the way of recovery for business. ‘ Of course, the Wagner bill still must run the gauntlet of house passage. It appears, however, that the labor lobby will drive It through there substan tially In Its present form unless small er communities In the United States awaken to the dangers of such legisla tion. The probabilities are that house members will not hear from home In time to Influence their votes and pre vent passage of the legislation. The bill, drafted by the German-born Senator Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) creates a national labor relations board. This body will have almost Judicial powers In settling labor disputes and In con nection with those powers the board ean actually say to an employer of workers that he must not promote an organization among them other 'than of the type of their own choosing. In other words, a labor agitator repre senting the 'American Federation of Labor will be permitted to enter any body’s shop and organize the workers and the employer will he powerless to prevent It. If, however, he sought to have his workers organize themselves Into a union not affiliated with organ Ized labor, the proposed labor relations board can order R stopped. Actually, and there seems to oe little dispute of this potentiality In the legislation, it Is designed to establish the American Federation of Labor In this country as a class strong enough to control the management of commerce and In dustry. Although the senate action In pas sage of the bill was overwhelming. It was not accomplished until the Demo cratic Senator Tydings of Maryland shoufed over the din the warning that the measure would ruin chances of business recovery. The Maryland sena tor sought to amend flierl>fll with a provision prohibiting coercion and In timidation. of employees by “anyone whatsoever.” Then Senator Tydlngs told the senate: 4 "If'you do not accept this amend ment, talk of freedom for labor Is a farce.” Senator Hastings (Rep., Del.) was another opponent of the measure who fought vliwously unttLTttie—hilL—Kaa: charges, and to be ready to make some disclosures of their own. The Inquiry came as the administra tion was trying to get thi> house com mil tee to report favorably the bill, recently passed by the senate, provid ing more money for the TVA and en larging Its scope of operations. H OUSE leaders were hurrying to ward passage the administration’s amendments to^the AAA act, enlarg ing the powers of that organization, the demand of opponents for long de bate being denied. It was certain this measure would arouse controversy In the senate. Jobbers and retailers of foodstuffs, of whom there are about 911,000 In the country, are much dis turbed by these proposed amendments for the measure extends to them the processing taxes now Imposed on food manufacturers, makes them subject to regulations not yet specified and re quires that each one be licensed by the AAA. called up for medical examinations starling June 1. The able men of the were •na rrled ln class of 1914 will be called to the col ors November l for the army and air force. The class of 1915 is to be con scripted for the labor service at the same time. ROWN Prince Freuerlk of Denmark and Princess Ingrid of Sweden Stockholm In the presence of a brilliant assemblage. A week of activities preceded the cere mony, attracting great throngs to the Swedish capital called for a vpte. He declared Unmade him feel that* the senate was passing legislation “to force every man In America to Join a particular union whether he wants to or not" The amendment was killed. I * * The Wagner bill is an outgrowth of attempts to develop through the na tional Industrial re- ClaWM for covery act a policy Blue Eagle compelling employers to bargain collective ly with their employees. That is. the famed section 7-A was Intended to make 1 It Impossible for employers to enter Into an agreement with their em ployers except by dealing with a com mittee selected by a majority of the workers. It was the assumptlon..wheir this ‘provision was written two years ago that the American Federation of Labor would have a majority in all of the Important Industries. It developed, however, that company anions, not af filiated with any other organization, constituted a majority In scores of fae torles and plants. Thus, the A. F. of L. encountered an unexpected obstacle. Now Senator Wagner, whose_radical tendencies are well known, has at tempted to give the Blue Eagle some claws by enactment of the labor dis putes hill and the creation of a sepa rate-labor Tela Hons--board. —-- The measure as It passed the senate makes It "unfair” for employers to do any of the following things: 1. To Interfere with, or to coerce employees. In the exercise of collective bargaining through representatives of' their own chons]ng. 2. To dominate or to Interfere with the'Yormatlt.fl or administration of any labor organization or fo contribute financially or aid In the support of It. 3. To encourage or discourage mem bership in any labor organization by discrimination. 4. To discriminate against any em ployee for filing charges or giving testimony under the proposed act. 6. To refuse to bargain collective ly with representatives of their em ployees. No prohibitions against labor agi tators are to be found In the legisla tion. From all of the debate and com mittee hearings which I .iave examined, It appeared that business Interests were fighting the legislation not oOly because of' the handicaps It places upon them but as much for the reason that it representa an entering wedge for labor agitators In all commercial HneSb There seems to be no doubt that when an employer Is prohibited frpm driving labor agitators away, hp Is handicapped In attempting to maintain industrial peace with his own workers on whatever terms they deem proper* • - ^ ^ .r , If the legislation creating the labor relations board is bfid for big em- . V ployers of labor, it Hits Small seems likely to be Employers worse ,n the smaller communities where employers of a small number of work ers constitute the majority of Indus trial lines. I mean by that, there Is usually more skilled labor available In larger Industrial communities than in small towns or rural areas. That being true, the employer In a larger-com munity has an opportunity to replace workers who are dissatisfied or who have yielded to the Influence of labor agitators, whereas the small town em ployer of labor cannot always replace workers who would rather be Idle than accept terms which paid labor leadera tell the workers are not proper. Further, the legislation will pat or ganized labor deeper Into politics than it has ever been. It will make elec tions depend largely Instead of Just partially on (he attitude of a congress man or a senator towdrd labor ques tions, In addition, ti-e discussion I hear Indicates definite fear on the part of some political leaders that the paid organizers In labor circles will them selves become political as weft as eco nomic dictators. In some quarters, there Is doubt that the bill-will do for organized labor all of the things the paid leaders claim. * • , • It begins to appear that the farmers’ march on Washington may bring a flareback on the ad- Ugly Rumor ministration. Certaln- Spreads opponents of the administration . are not going *to let President Roosevelt, Secretary Wallace, and Agricultural Administrator Davis forget very goon their feeling that 'ffre march was not oi the spontaneous sort. No sooner had the farmers arrived here than an ugly rumor wSe spread around that the visit of the forty-five hundred was financed by the Agricul tural Adjustment administration. The rumor spread so fast that It broke out In senate and house debate and de mands were made for an Investigation. In fact, a resolution to that effect wag Introduced In the senate. The Depart ment of Agriculture and the Adjust ment administration paid no attention to the rumor until the resolution wag offered on the flooe^of the senate, whereupon a vigorous denial wag forthcoming from Jir. Davis. He said that the-farmers had expressed the de sire to come to’ Washington as a dem onstration of their aprrovai of AAA policies and frankly stated that his organization was happy to see such an endorsement-.—Buh~as to expenses. Mr. Davis said and repented that none of the funds used for the trip came from the federal treasury. On the other hand, observers and writers In Washington noted that the farmers were equipped with hlrhly decorative badges; they were provided with a meeting place, a great audi torium which rents for considerable money, and when they went to the White House the President spoke from a prepared speech. They stopped at* good hotels and the majority of them had traveled to Washington in pull- man sleeping cars. v I do not assume that It Is of world wide Importance what the total cost was. I am reporting only the reaction which Washington had. Thus it can be mentioned that all of the badges worn by the delegates bore the'large letters “AAA” and the names of the respective states represented. The hall, as I have said, rents for a substantial amount and the hotel bills are never small. Railroad fare from distant points costs enough that the depres sion conditions have cut down passen ger traffic and the march on Washlng- ton was Concluded with a banquet So, naturally, those who were curlons con cerning the exj>ense8 of the trip freely stated that there are at least four thousand, five hundred farmers in the country who are not as destitute as professional friends of agriculture have been claiming. • • • Secretary Hull of the Department of State. Is being heaped with praises these days on - his Praise diplomatic accom- for Hull plishroents and Is re ceiving at the same time vigorous criticism on the basis of results thus far accomplished on his reciprocal tariff policies. With regard to the Secretary’s dl*. plomacy, I believe It can her said he has established better relations with South America than any secretary of state In recent yenrjs. As regards the re ciprocal tariff policy which Mr. Hall- fostered, the country Is witnessing g sharp exodus of dollar capital Into new investments In lines made profitable by tariff changes complete or pending. The information I gather respecting the reciprocal tariff policies Indicates, however, that the movement of capita) into South American Investments re sults partially from Agricultural Ad justment administration activities. But it seems that the agricultural crop re duction plans would not of themselves cause as large an outgo of dollars for Industrial investment In South Amer lea as has taken place if they war* operative alone. • Westers Newspaper Uales