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Tfre Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, a Thursday, July 18,1935 —— ■ —r-- : -■■■ - ■ ■■■ ■ ■ — BRISBANE , THIS WEEK W«r Po«8ible^Foar KimTs 10,000 Million Questions Our Large Gold Pile Knows Too Much at Four Russian newspapers, speaking offl- ctally, accuse Japan of stirring up trouble along the Russian border, to “bring on grave complications.” A protest carries Stalin's warning to Japan that a con tinuation of these Incidents “may have serious conse quences in the re lations of Russia and Japan, and peace in the Far East." If Russia and Ja« .; pan should have a Arthar Brisbane gerioug disagree ment, Russia’s equipment in the way of submarines and airplanes, all with in 400 miles of Tokyo, would probably enable other countries to stop worry ing about Japan’s military plans. England does not approve of Mus- •ollnl’s plans in Abyssinia, and the .question arises, Would England close the Sues canal, the short cut for Ital ian troops and supplies to Abyssinia? Will Italian airplanes be forbidden to fly over the Sues canal area? The answer as to closing the Suez canal by Britain would probably be no/ England would not voluntarily provoke hostilities with Italy. She really wants peace. But, how easily war could come—French against Ger man or English against Italian or Jap anese against Russian 1 Germany undertakes to establish a •‘family tree” for each of Its 66,000,- 000 Inhabitants, which means asking, answering, writing down ten thousand million questions. Thq^ sensible answer would be, “I descend from Adam, with heaven knows how many mixtures in my blood on the way up,” but Hitler would not accept that Toung couples getting marriage licenses are questioned: **What were your eight great-grand parents like? Did they have any Ne groid or Jewish blood? "Were they fond of telling the truth? Did they have imagination, driving power?” Ten thousand million foolish ques? tions would seem to set a new record. The “greatest” country in the world, supposed to be the most intelligent, owns some tons of gold, called “worth” nine thousand million dollars. We do not use the gold, or even in vest part of it In adequate national defense, that would protect it. We are afraid some one may come, with better airplanes and submarines than ours, and steal it; so the government will dig a deep hole, far from the coast, put in it a huge safe, and hide away the gold lump, that is used only to Impress the financial Imagination of the world and keep foreigners from knocking down our currency. Dolores Anne Diamond, only four, surprised teachers in a Schenectady kindergarten. She Said the games for little children bored her. and she could recite the alphabet backward, Dolores was moved to the first grade, and could have gone higher. She has the Intelligence of a child of fourteen. ” —-— Usually It Is better for a child to de velop slowly and normally. The In fant prodigy Is usually dull later. Per haps little Dolores will be an excep tion, like Mozart, and, at eighteen, as wise as Hypatia, with a happier end ing. Lloyd George, In spite of his seven ty-two years, returns to active politics. He hates the “arid atmosphere of po litlcal controversy” and returns to ac tive politics only because he believes that world conditions are growing worse, and "from the point of view of peace are worse than before 1914.* Miss Koutanova, Russian, twenty one years old, jumped J2»,426 feet fron an airplane without oxygen apparatus and landed in -a cabbage- field-aftc. turning over four times before he parachute opened. She claims the f< male record. Russia is teaching millions of youn people to use parachutes, the first stei In curing nervousness in flying. Hen we have only a small handful of excel lent pilots, but the masses of our popu latlon know as little about aviation as they do about “geometry in space.” Mr. Werner Kahn, district leader of “Hitler Youth,” says Nazi doctrines have become Germany’s real religion and "the time must come when entry Into the Hitler Youth organization wiil take the place now occupied by Gath •lie or Protestant confirmation." Fur thermore, the young gentleman says “I declare to all enemies of Hitler Youth that the fuehrer Is our faith and national socialism is our religion.” Million* of us go through life getting little sunshine, rarely If ever looking et the stars, eur Interests not unlike that Of the entomological ly interest ing tumblebng, that spends Its life In the field, rolling little balls of manure into a borrow. \He doesn't even realise that there tra sun, or stars, and many men are like him, although they "own fine country places.” * “■« TwAlot* law . / WNU Swvlea News Review of "Current WorM^Over House Democrats Defy President—Lobbying for and Against Utilities Bill tb Be Investigated— Senator Glass Bests Eccles. • By EDWARD W. PICKARD e Wotern Newspaper Union. R EVOLT In congress against al leged dictatorial attempts of the administration reached a climax when the house, by the decisive vote 'of 2f>8 to 148, rejected the “death sentence” in the utility holding companies bill as passed by the senate and demanded by the President. The rec ord vote came on a motion to substitute the house bill placing utility bolding com panies under regula- _ - tion of the securities A.p. and exchanw com- mission for the senate bill which pre scribed the dissolution of the holding companies of more than first degree be ginning In 1940. The adaption of this motion killed the “death sentence.” After substi tuting the bouse bill for the senate bill, the perfected measure was passed by a vote of 322 to 81. Immediately after this action, the house voted unanimously for an In vestigation of alleged lobbying by both the supporters and the tyies of the utility measure. During the de bate on the bill It was frequently charged that the capitol was swarm ing with utility company lobbyists, and then came two serious accusations against the other side. Representa tive John H. Hoeppel of California, Democrat, asserted an unnamed ad ministration lobbyist had offered to get California’s relief allotment in creased If Hoeppel would vote for the bill^as the President wanted it This didn’t greatly Impress the house, but later Representative Ralph O. Brew ster of Maine, Republican, charged that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young brain truster who is co-author of tne administration bill] had threatened cessation iof construction of the $37.- 000,000 Passamaquoddy dam project in the congressman's district if Brewster ~ should vote against the “death sentence.” , ' . Mr. Brewster said he did not be lieve the President was aware, that such tactics were being used by his aids or would countenance them, and Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of Maine defended Mr. Roosevelt. But the President’s contact man. Charles West, and Postmaster General Far ley’s lobbyist, Emil llnrja, had been so active among the house members that the resentment of the lawmakers was aroused and they gladly directed that the lobbying charges be investi gated. . tors, subject to reserve board approval, for five-year periods, and the reserve banks need not buy additional govern ment bonds unless they choose to do ao. INVESTIGATION of the admlnlstra- * tlon of the Virgin islands by .a ate committee was ctertaln to be lively* The very first witness heard,. Charles H. Gibson, was threatened with Jail by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for removing official documents from the files. Mr. Gibson, who was govern ment attorney for the islands until Ickes ousted him, had testified rather vaguely against the regime of Gov. Paul M. Pearson. Gibson testified that Governor Pear son had exceeded his authority under the law, was unpopular with a large section of the population -of the Islands, and was not frank in his ad- ministratjon. To support his testimony- Glbson Introduced several letters which were the documents to which Ickes alluded. ^ . S ECRETAltY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE proclaimed the estab lishment of an AAA adjustment pro gram for the 1935 rye crop whieb will Include benefit payments of amounts not yet disclosed. Representatives from 16 rye growing states met 1b Washington to discuss the program and outline plans for its operation. Fanners from the principal wheat producing states met with AAA offi cials and gave their ^approval to a tentative flexible plan for the payment of benefits.to wheat growers. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Building Washington, D. C, G en. — his HUGH JOHNSON assumed new office of federal works relief administrator for New York city. “Robbie,” his ever present sec retary, fended off the reporters for a day, but let them in then, and to them the general walled: “I hate this thing! It Isn’t helping anybody, anywhere. When the source of money Is cut off we’ll be right back where we started. It’s disheartening to sir here, knowing that when the funds are gone, the Jobs will be gone.” C APT. ANTHONY EDEN, England’s journeyman trouble shooter, elec trified the British Isles by announcing that Great Britain had offered to give Halle Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia, a generous strip of British Somaliland to replace territory acquired by Italy, if the Italian government would prom ise not to wage war against the domain or Africa’s “Conquering Lion of Jodah.” Nothing doing, said Premier Musso lini, who has turned a deaf ear to all Britain’s proposals of an Italo-Ethl- oplan compromise. He was reported as Intending to go right ahead with his plan of a four-years’ war to effect the complete pacification of the Afri can empire. -He insists that there must be more room in Africa for over- populated Italy to expand. Mussolini has threatened to "remem ber" the nations which have offered to furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they have withdrawn or modified their of fers. The African emperor pleaded: “If we are in the right and if civi lized nations are unable to prevent this war, at least do not deny us tbs means of defending ourselves.” The British parliament was no bet ter pleased with Eden’s “offer” of land than was Italy, and the colonial secre tary, son of former Prime Minister MacDonald, had a hard time explain ing it Then Italy heard that the British government was considering a proposal to invite other nations to Join in an economic blockade of Italy to check' her aggression on Ethopia. Rome was astonished by this report but didn't W HAT would be the final fate of the utility measure was doubtful. Senator Wheeler of Montana, after a call at the White House, said he was. confident a satisfactory bill would come out of the conference. And If one did, not, the measure would be al lowed to die. In either case the war on the holding companies Is. likely to be made a .major Issue of the next Presidential campaign, and ajjmlnis- tfatlon-leaders are predicting-that the Democratic , congressmen who darfed to vote against the "death sentence” <V1U be defeated at the polls. These “doomeJ" men number 106. as against 131 Democrats who stood by the Presi dent Republican leaders were Jubilant, professing to see in the episode the beginning of a real uprising against the President and his New Dealers; many neutral observers looked upon It as only a battle between the two lobbies in which the victory went to the utilities lobby. A I N THE battle between Senator Car* ter Glass and Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the federal reserve board, the former has. at this writing, scored the most points. The astute Virginian ex tracted from the Ec- cles-Currie banking bill 'roost of the., radi- cgJ provisions t b at would have led to gov ernment or public own ership of the federal reserve system^, and. Indeed, practically re wrote the measure. Then his subcommit- Sen. Glass A ITORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS announced that on July 29 a school would be opened by his depart- i ment In Washington for the purpose of j training state, county and city police , in law enforcement theory and prac tice. A twelve weeks’ course will be given to selected officers, the instruc tion being free DEPUBLICAN senators were ad vised that former President Her bert Hoover will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination in the Pres idential race of 1936 They were advised that Mr. Hoover would make the formal an nouncement some time this summer. He i? staying out. It was said, because be in lends to remain in pri vate life and has planned his future ca reer along that line Fon his active critl ctsms of administra- tion policies the rea son was given that, although he does not “choose to run,” he thought the party needed some sort of direction; now that his candidacy is shelved. It. is expected that his political utterances will be clothed In lees authority. mu ~ * * * • . y I r w ^ m-W—'WW, j seem Jn_ the least alarmed. . .Neither public 4vorks administrator, of much V ot ! WPFP _u i. J —i AV were the Italians frightened when they learned officially that Ethiopia had asked the United States to study means of persuading Italy to respect the Kel logg pact oiitlawing war. The em peror himself made the appeal to W. Perry George, charge d'affaires at Addis Ababa. Washington.—It Is v slightly more than three months since President Roosevelt signed the Slow on congressional resolu- Work* Relief tIon appropriating five billion dollars for nse by the administration in public works and public relief. To date, ac cording to the records, less than half a billion dollars has been allocated for expenditure on agreed projects and of this sum approximately three hundred million-dollars was turned over to the Civilian Conservation corps, a going institution. The slow motion of the administra tion in getting its public works ^relief program underway is giving birth to an immense amount of Atticism. If one is tlTbelleve the undercurrent of discussion in Washington, it is giving more concern to the officials responsi ble for spending this vast sum of money In the recovery-reform effort of the New Deal. So many projects have been advaheed and rejected In turn, so many new Ideas have been brought forward and ballyhooed and so many false motions have been Indulged In that Washington observers are rapidly reaching the conclusion that congress was correct when in debate, it was said the administration had no con crete plan for utilization of this vast fund. To review the developments since April 8, when the President signed the appropriating resolution, is to say that conditions have been one continual round of confusion. First, It will be recalled the President sought to meet the wishes of congress as expressed, In debate by relieving Secretary Ickes, Projects A ! NDRE CITROEN, famous for years as “the Henry Ford of France” because he built most of that country’s low cost motor cars, is dead. And probably he was happy to pass on, for his vast enterprises had col lapsed and his once huge fortune was gone. . T HE federal government began a Herbert Hoover The Informers,' however, assured the senators that Mr.- Hoover would gel behind the party’s candidate and entei the campaign for him, and that he thinks, with nniflcatlqn growing, the Republican prospects are looking brigiiter day- by day. ! W ORLD war veterans from both the Allied and the'Central pow ers met officially in Paris and debated ways in which future wars may be averted. They denounced as enemies of their own countries those who would seek to foment a new war, and passed a resolution declaring: “The respect for treaties being the basis of international relations, this confi dence can be durable only when Inter national accords and the resulting ob ligations f£e mutually and sincerely re spected." J * The meeting was held under the aus pices of Fidac. The American dele gates Included S. P. Bailey,, Winona," Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake City; Bernhard Ragner, McKeesport, Pa.7and Harold L. Smith, Coatesville. ._Pa..„ .. v - new fiscal year with Intentions of spending more money than in any pre vious year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt an nounced that he would spend $8,r»_’0 t - 000,000, of which $4,582,000,000 will go for “recovery and relief.” He expects the treasury to collect $3,991,000,000. No, it doesn’t add up. The deffclt for the new fiscal year will be $4,528,000,- 006, it is estimated. The fiscal year just passed came to an end with fhe public debt at a new peace-time peak of SL’S.OO.'*,000.000, still some shy of the $31,000,000,000 the President estimated a year ago. To finance the new budget; he had count ed in part. upon the $500,000,000 ex tension of “nuisance” taxes Just passed by congress, but not upon the tax-the-rich program which the New Dealers hope to Jockey through some I time in August Estimates have it Jb«t this will net another $34QJXK),0Q1). The expenditure for the past year is only $7,258,000,000 Instead of $8,571,- 000.000 forecast at the start of the year. The deficit was $3,472,347,000 instead of the proposed $4,869,000,000. If the expenditures outlined in the 1936 budget reach the estimated total, the public debt on July 1 next year would stand at $34,239,000,000. During the next year the President expects to spend $4,880,000,000 for re lief and for the employment of 3,500,- 000 idle workers. A general upswing in business would improve the revenue expected by the treasury. “ The Presi dent counted on $3,711,000,000 coming in during the 1935 fiscal year. Re ceipts proved to be $3,785,000,000. tee handed it on to the senate bunking and currency com- Long then rao -away. mlttee, wbicn" jjfromptly gave the bill its approval, without a record vote, and after making only two minor changes. ^ Governor Eccles and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau expected to be called before the committee and were prepared to tell why the bill would not suit the administration, but the commit,tee didn’t give them a chance. As passed by the house, the banking bill would give autocratic powers over the banking system to a politically dominated federal reserve board; and tbs party in power Would have the au thority to force the twelve reserve banks to lend unlimited amounts to the national treasury. Under the bill as rewritten by Glass, reserve board mem bers are to be appointed for 14-year terms and are to be discharged only for cause; chief officers of the reserve banks are to ba chosen by tbeir dlrec- B URR T. ANSELL, a young attorney whose father, Gen. S. T. Ansell, Is suing Senator Huey Long for libel, was enraged when Long intruded on his party at i Washington hotel and took a swing at the Kingfish. One of the senator’s companions seized An- sell’s arm and the young man says D AVID LLOYD GEORGE, whose New Deal program was not well received by the British government, has resumed active participation In politics, “reluctantly," but with ex pressed determination to “go on with it” The little Welsh veteran states man addressed the national conven tion of the peace and reconstruction movement, and asserted the menace to peace and the economic confusion throughout the world .are growing worse. - """"■"ST* JAPAN’S beautiful inland sea was *■* the scene of a terrible disaster that cost 104 Uvea The steamer Midori Maru, crowded with holiday passen gers, collided with a freighter in the foggy night and sank almost.lmmedi ately. Rescue boats picked up 91 of the 166 passengers and 06 of the crew AU the victims were Japanese, I HE week’s peak in crlme^ was reached when Detroit police found Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent New- York -attorney TStid ^nephew of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughea lying dead in a ditch beside a lonely Rouge park road with a bullet through bis head and another through his chest Dickinson, a law associate of Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had been ip Detroit on business of the $40,000,- 000 estate of the late William H. to Rouge park while on a drinking party after business houra His com panions on the ride, who were William Schweitzer, Detroit nnderworld char acter, and three burlesque-show girls? ail of whom be bad picked op at his hotel In the motor city, fled the scepe and were traced to Fort Wayne, ImL, whete they were arrested. After several .days of grilling by po* lice, the four confessed they had plot ted the murder to rob Dickinson. Sweitzer admitted firing the shots. Their loot was $134. D etermined thst what goes vp must stay up, Fred and A) x Kej, endurance fliera broke the world’s ime record for. keeping a plans aloft, mdlng after 653H hours Ip the sir t Meridan, Misa They passed the noflldal endurance record of 647 .ours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds set n 1930 by Dale Jackson Pad Forest >’Brien at St. Louis. there are thoughts flitting back and forth Inquiring whether It Is possible for a central group like the federal government to arrange satisfactory methods or occupations for a popula tion so far flung as our own. It is further , doubted that sufficient flexi bility can be worked into any program to permit of any genuine good coming from the expenditure of even so vast a sum as fifty million dollars. Beyond that, I have heard it asked how the administration expects to find employment for unemployed youths in Industry when late figures show a larger list of unemployed adults than obtained at this time a year ago. ‘High schools and colleges, of course, are available to provide the educational requirements forming one Idea In the general program. Those youths who desire to continue their education cer tainly are deserving of help and the NYA offers a means to that end. It is too early to forecast what the re quirements will be or what sort of rules will be laid down respecting ap plicants for educational assistance. But even the administration's most vigorous critics have omitted throwing any barbs at this feature of the NYA. • • • Almost simultaneously with the President’s announcement of the NYA he made known that Non-Federal the way was clear for construction on what he said was the first group of non-federal projects un der the public works section of the five billion dollar fund. He gave his ap proval to 63 projects, the total cost of which was figured at approximately twenty-one million dollars. Each of the-loans made in this allo cation of funds was based on a grant of 45 per cent of the cost of the par ticular project by the community where the work Is to be done. The federal government loans the other 55 per cent. In this way the cost to the gov ernment in most instances is expected to be held within th€ limitation of $1,143 per man per year. • Some weeks ago the President fig ured out that the cost of no project in which the federal government put money should exceed an amount greater than $1,143 for every man em ployed. Tills was designed to spread employment. But the rule thus far has been inoperative because not a single man has been put to work un der any. of these projects. •In the meantime, numerous and sundry other proposals for expending parts of the federal money have either been thrown overboard or have, been held In abeyance pending fdtther^con- sideration.—Xhis'Ts Vue of a gigantic housing program worked out by Secre tary Ickes. It was planned there to spend $250,000,000 and when ft was announced a press statement wa» forthcoming from the Public Works administration that hundreds of men would lie offered jobs within a month, so far had the plans advanced. Also, since April 8, nothing whatso ever has been done toward elimination of dangerous railroad grade crossings. . I was told at the Interstate Commerce commission and again at the bureau of public roads that their plans were all ready to proceed with reduction of , . . these highway traffic hazards and IliiryoTOS people who are. of V | ffilfiiarp6teill | B | ,,„ atll trapa whe( ,- highways cross railroads. Something has blocked the effort In this direction, however, and as far as present Infor mation goes actual work on grade crossing elimination will not be started for the next several months.’ * • * • of the responsibility and authority he held. This was accomplished by the new setup that was reported to you heretofore. Now, It seems, the new setup has failed to function and the bulk of the management of expendi tures has settled down into the lap of Harry Hopkins, the relief adminis trator. Mr. Ickes still has some authority. It apparently is enough to Irk Mr. Hopkins; These two men differ widely In their views. Mr. Hopkins long has been looked upon as a reliever by pro fession ; Mr. Ickes has attempted, inso far as he has been able, to employ practical methods in administration of his share of the funds. Laying aside the personal equation which is .best exemplified by the Ickes- llopkins differences It must he said frankly that next to nothing has been accomplished. President Roosevelt hqs stated and reiterated that the expendi ture pm-rrafli is getting underway sat isfactorily. but the discussion among observers seems to show an alarming lack of co ordination mid of indecision One of the vanced, and it The Youth Program newest projects ad- has just passed the stage of an executive order setting up tC new agency. Is the so-called National Youth administration. This new alpha betical unit—the NYA—has received fifty million dollars to spend in helping boys and girls between the ages of six teen and twenty-five. -It Is supposed to be a means of preventing Idleness ad)( the age during which, unless they are occupied, Irresponsible tendencies de velop. * In announcing the new program, the President departed from his previously announced Intention of assisting only persons now on relief. Whether this departure means that he has tossed- aside definitely the rule laid down last winter that the dole must go or whether this Is to be an isolated ex ception to that rule. Is not immediately determinable. It remains as a fact that the government’s assistance un der the NYA will be available to needy young men who are not on the dole as well as to those who are on relief. Secretary Perkins, of the I^bor de partment, said the plan had been her and her associates s bureau. She figured In the children's sistance under the plan. Those to be helped will be selected by local volun teer committees, thus establishing In each community another agency sub ject to federal domination and federal guidance. Succinctly, the scope of the NYA as outlined by Mr. Roosevelt includes: Finding employment in private In dustry for unemployed youths. - - Training youths for Industrial, tech nical and professional employment. Providing for continued attendance of needy youths Id high schools and colleges. Providing work relief on projects to meet the,needs:of youth. Miss Josephine Roche, an assistant secretary of the treasury, and Aubrey W. Williams, assistant “tor Adminis trator Hopkins, have been given sole responsibility for management of the latest alphabetical agency* The selec tion of Miss Roche was said by the President to have been in recognition of her long service In the social field and her thorough understanding of problems of the growing generations. Notwithstanding -the sincerity and the desires of the President to Initiate a program that will be helpful, one bears much doubt expressed that suc cess brill be attained. In the mlnda of many students of govern mental affairs ■ r l While the administration is seeking to develop new projects to aid unem ployment and relieve Pet Scheme destitution, one of Its Runs Amuck ^ 8Cheme * to be running amuck. I refer to the effort to transplant 200 Middle Western farm families to the Matanuska valley of Alaska. This colonization project was carried on with federal relief money and those families which were uprhoted were taken to Alaska to find the end of the rainbow. According to activity around thT Federal .Relief administration here it is made to appear that the end of the rainbow was, as usual, some dis tance further on. Certainly It was not in the Matanuska- valley because a number of the families already have determined to quit and return to their home communities in the states. Jjleinlfers of congress who are ac quainted with Alaskan conditions tell me that the Matanuska valley is profT ably the most fertile spot In conti nental United States. They hold to the conviction that almost any kind of food can be grown In the soil of 4bat .valley. But these men are under no illusions. They know the hardships that confront those settlers who were being planted there by the federal gov- ernment in the hope of colonizing that area. Few of them, the house members assure me, can live there very long unless Uncle Sam Is willing to spend millions In providing at least some of the modern conveniences of this day and age and supplying In ad dition means of transportation and communication. The word that comes direct from Matanuska colony to the Relief administration shows, In my opinion, that the project was conceived and executed without any thought hav ing been given to the practical prob lems to be met • Wotern Newspaper Union.