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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Big War or Little? LaCuardia’s G-Men She Took It Seriously Pretty Bluebirds War la not coming; It is here. It may or may not be a war "setting the world on fire.” Italy had an nnpleasant experience In Abye- slnla In the last century and wishes to repair that It also wishes to keep Japan from gather ing In Abyssinia's trade and control ling Abyssinia. Britain can under stand how Italy feels, since Britain found it really nec essary to gather In the Transvaal and other vast areas thronghont the world. Artkar Brisbane Italy used to send 500,000 Immi grants a year to the United States. Now they are shut out They must’ go somewhere. They would considerably Improve Abyssinia If they went there. Mayors of ethers cities will watch New York's Mayor LaOuardla fighting racketeering and crime In general. Be sides training his own police force to shoot straight and “te kill," Mayor La- Guardla will get some government “G-men, H if possible, from Washing ton, to come and set the example. If Mayor LaOuardla, who has an honest and energetic police commis sioner, cleans up crime In New York, he will deserve a statue next to that of Hercules, who cleaned the Augean stables, and a bigger statue. Women, before and since Heloise, have taken heart affairs more seriously than men. Margaret Jordan, an Irish girl, lonely,, fell in love with a Mount Vernon, N. Y n policeman, because he came from her home town.' He was hiarried, with eight children, and after he had seen the girl for two years he decided that he must reform and see her no more. He told her about this pious resolution as he sat in his police car, and did not notice that she took his service revolver from the pocket of the car. He learned what had happened next day when told that the girl had killed herself with his revolver. It was em barrassing for a married policeman with eight children. At Fort George Wright, tiny blue birds built their neet In the mouth of a big cannon, and mother bluebird laid four pretty blue eggs. Our kind- hearted heroes at the fort are protect ing the nest Sentries do not come too near; cats are discouraged and to the orders of the day MaJ. George S. Clark added these kind words, “and keep .an eye on those birds." In American churches Sunday, Au gust 18, will be a day of prayer for peace In Africa and safety for little Ethiopia, which confronts war with powerful Italy. That Is the right United States In terference In foreign affairs. The prayers will reach their destination, and the Supreme Being to whom they' are addressed knows what Is best, and has power to arrange matters in Ethio pia as he chooses. To pray: ’• Lord,“possessor of om- nlscence and omnipotence, we leave all In your hands," Is right To send a million yothig American men, and several thousand million American dollars, to meddle In hot Af rica would-be wrong. The country will welcome President Roosevelt’s statement that the “four thousand million dollar works relief fund” will actually be Invested in such a way as to Increase the nation’s cap ital assets. Many times four thou sand million dollars could be spent advantageously, If it were really in vested in wise, permanent improve ments. News Review of Current ' Events the World Over Lobbying and Virgin Islands Investigations Develop lively Scraps—House “Rebels” Are Tame Concerning TV A Amendments. -r i By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Wtatara Newspaper Unloa. T. G. Corcoran C'lFTY thousand doliara waa appropri- " ated by the house for investigation by the rules committee of lobbying for and agalpst bills affecting utilities inter ests. Representative Rankin of Mississippi declared that Repre^ sentattve O’Connor of New York, chairman of the committee, wm unfit to conduct tub Inquiry because he waa antagonistic to the adminiatration. O’Connor, rising to reply, was given an ovation by the house, and promised the in vestigation would be thorough and Im partial. Already the committee had begun Ita work, the first witness being Repre sentative Brewster of Maine, who de clared Thomas G. Corcoran, New Deal lawyer, had tried to force him to vote for the “death sentence’’ provision In the utilities bill by threats of stop ping work on the Passamaquoddy project. Corcoran was then put on the stand and denied the main features of Brewster’s story, whereupon the Maine Congce8sman shouted,. “Yau’re a liar.” Corcoran explained with facility his activities in behalf of the utilities measure. He said he was assigned to help with the original drafting of the bill “through a direct request from the President" Senators Wheeler and Ray burn, he said, asked him to help bring about pasaage of the bill. The senate committee on audit and controls reported favorably on a reso lution calling for a $50,000 appropria tion to investigate lobbying In connec tion with all legislation at this session, and the resolution was adopted by the senate. , DERHAPS It was the summer heat L in Washington; perhaps there was a lot of pressure from the direction of the White House. Anyhow, the back bones of the house Democrats, recent ly so stiff against “dictation” by the administration, weakened most notice ably when the house .took up the re drafting of the Tennessee Valley au thority act. Nearly all the recent “rebels” among the Democrats fell Into line and the bill was shorn of every major provision that was objectionable to the President These amendments were approved: To delete a clause saying the TV A must sell power or chemicals at not less than cost after July 1, 1937. To let the TVA operate without ab solute control by the comp’troller gen eral over its expenditures. To delete a section preventing the agency from constructing power lines paralleling existing private ones. To let the authority decide whether private Interests may build- dams or appurtenant works on the Tennessee river or tributaries. This victory greatly heartened the administration forces, and they pressed forward. r to try for another In-the, conference on the utilities 1>IIL * Also in the senate they carried on a deter mined fight for the amendments broad ening the powers of the AAA. Sena tors Boran and Byrd were the chief opponents of the New Dealers' In this latter battle. signed five days before your press re lease was issued." — i - > J ' 'TPO PROVIDE quick employment end J- end the dole, the entire four-billlon- ,dollar works-relief fund piust be ex pended within the next twelve months. Such was the flat statement of Presi dent Roosevelt to the state PWA direc tors, who were gathered in Washington for a two day .conference. After dis cussing the old PWA program, the President said: “You are now an Im portant part of an even greater effort— one to-be made daring the next year which will provide quick employment, so that we can attain, If possible, the goal we have set within this year 1935. Before the year Is ended we will end the dole we have been paying to em ployable persons daring the last two years. In other words, we must give useful work to three and one-half mil lion people and I believe we are going to do It “In .order to do It, of course, we are faced by a problem of arithmetic which Is comparatively simple. We have four billion dollars and three and one-half million people to put to work with It That means we have to av erage things up. It means that we have on the average about $1,140 per man year. “That has to Include the cost of the material, so that the four billion dol- lars includes- not only the amount we pay the men but also the cost' of the material It Is a perfectly simple arithmetical problem—we have to work out an average that will come within the sum of money divided by the num ber of people we have to put to work. “You know, of course, that we have spent a great deal of money during the last two years, but we find now not only that there are additional funds at our disposal but also that the need of permanent work all over the United States Is not yet end£<L We find that the deeper we go Into It the more op portunities we have to do constructive work In almost every community In the country." C OMPTROLLER GENERAL M^CARL doesn’t cars where the chips fall when he starts hewing. He has just given an opinion that rulna the Prea- Ident’s plan to require bidders on ernment contracts to bind themselves to abide by any future legislation pro viding for minimum wages and maxi mum hours of labor’in employment os such contracts. A proviso to this ef fect was being exacted of bidders. Mr. McCarl holds that the proviso may be viewed as s “request" only and 'a bid could not be rejected be cause the person making It refused to subscribe to this principle. The plan was advanced ^from the procurement division of the treasury, which proposed that the government replace the requirement for code com pliance on all government bidders, knocked oat when _ the recovery set was vblded by the Supremo courts. T HOUGH the naval treaties of Washington and London have been abrogated by Japan, the American gov ernment still keeps Its eye on the max imum permitted for our navy by 1942 and Is making a determined effort to reach It, much the delight of the "big navy” men and to citizens gen erally who believe In adequate pre paredness. Secretary of the Navy Claude Swan son has announced that a ship con struction program has been decided upon which calls for the construc tion of 12 destroyers and six sub marines. These are In addition to the 15 destroyers and six submarines for which bids have been advertised and will be opened next month. The airplane building program calls for 555 new planes during the current fiscal year. Of these, 282 will be re placement planes for those now In service and 273 will be new craft Two airplane carriers and six cruisers now under construction and scheduled for completion in 1937 are to house some of the new planes. FLOODS In several eastern states, r following torrential rains, took about three' score lives and did vast property damage. The Finger lakes and Catskill mountain regions In New York suffered most severely. The deaths there numbered forty, and thou sands were rendered homeless. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman announced an im mediate allocation of $300,000 for use In rehabilitation. W. P. Georgs A financial letter from London re marks, casually, “Credit was plentiful at one-half of one per cent interest.’’ Americans that cannot borrow any-' thing, on/securities once considered good, wonder how the British man age. The American government bor rows at three and a half per cent, sev en times the current English interest rate, money manufactured by itself, and thus adds one hundred per cent to taxes for Interest that need not be paid at all. Queer finance, dearly beloved 8t Louis reformers say women should not sit on high stools with their feet on a rail and drink at the bar. And, reformers rejoice to hear, the saloonkeepers say: "Amea" Reformers and saloonkeepers are right Tbs saloon was bad enough before women moved in to make It worse, hitching up their dresses, climb lug high stools, readjusting their dresses, or not readjusting them, cull tog ft* foolish drinks to show how foolish they could be. The Methodist Federation tor Social Service, surveying the cotton area wy* the AAA, cutting down the cot ton crop, has added to the sorrows of the little worker that ralsso cot ton on shares, while enriching the ownef of the land. You cannot please •very body. * IU ** ia» /~\NE of the hottest scraps of the year developed between Secretary of the Interior lekes and Senator Tyd- Ings of Maryland over the Inquiry Into the administration of Gov. Paul M. Pearson In the Virgin Islands. The secretary accused the senator of "white washing" a witness before the Tydings committee; and the senator retorted by advising the secretary to “confine yourself to the duties for which you have been ap pointed.” Both of 8#cy ,ckM them were .thoroughly angry and Tyd ings in a letter accused Ickes of seek ing “cheap publicity." Federal Judge T. Webber Wilson of the Virgin Islands had given testimony that exasperated Ickes and the sec retary demanded that the judge be re moved ffom office for “official miscon duct” Then Ickes wrote to Tydings a letter carrying his charge of, “white washing" and saying of the judge’s testimony: “There was no cross-ex amination to test his truthfulness, and If any statement ever needed such a test it was his." Judge Wllson"liad told the, commlt- tee that there had been “administra tive Interference” with his court and that Morris Ernst connsel for the Civil Liberties union, while s guest if Governor Pearson, had threatened o pnt him “on the spot" in the press mless he granted a rehearing to a' tovernment employee accused of theft' Tydings accused Secretary Ickes of gross deceit upon the America* peo- •le” by stating to an Interior^ depart- tent press release that Pan it. Yatea, dminlstrative assistant of Pearson, ’ad been discharged, when “you know and I know that Mr./Yates had re- S TANDING atop a cannon, Benito Mussolini told 15,000 Black Shirt volunteers and the world as well that In the matter of Ethiopia “We have de cided upon a struggle In which we as s government and a people will not turn back. The decision is Irretrievable." Unless Emperor Haile Selassie gets right down on bis knees to II Duce, the war In his dominion will begin in Septem ber* when the rainy season ends. No one expects the “king of kings” to submit tamely, so other nations are advising their nationals In Ethiopia to get out of the country. William Perry George, the American charge d’affaires at Ad dis Ababa, was authorized by the State .department to, advise American citizens to leave, or take whatever other steps he deemed necessary to protect their safety. Mr. George transmitted to the em peror the rather curt reply of' the American government to his majesty’s appeal for aid In stopping Italy. Sec retary of State Hull,‘Writing by au-, thority of the President, told the^p«P peror the United States was “loath to believe” the two countries actually will engage In warfare as they are both signatories of the Kellogg pact The note also pointed out that the Arbitra tion proceedings might arrive at a sat- .1 ^^OBODY who knew Ray Long well ^ was surprised to hear that former ly famous magazine editor had com mitted suicide at his California home. In late years he had not been very successful in business, his most recent ventures being in the field of scenario writing. He was not one to put np with adversity very long, and It was characteristic of him to take the easy way out, of suicide. isfaetdry decision. The ‘chances that war might be averted by the arbitrators seemed slight Those gentlemen met again at Schevenlngen and their session was disrupted by the Italian representa tives when a spokesman for Ethiopia set forth the fact that Ualual, .scene of the bloody clash last December, U well within the Ethiopian border. Emperor Haile Selassie made sm other attempt to get International ac tion by calling for a pieetlng of the iLeftgue of Nations council to thresh out the dispute with’ Italy. At the same time the emperor appealed to the world for fair play and protested to five European powers against their re fusal to permit the shipment of arms antf - munitions to Ethiopia. It was said In Geneva the league council prob ably would be called into session with in a few weeks. The protest about army shipments was not likely to do Ethiopia any good. Indeed, It was said Great Britain had provisionally joined the nations banning such transactions. C RITICS of the President’s program have made up their minds that he la deliberately building up a* “crisis” which will provide excuse for a de mand for constitutional amendments In the campaign of 1936. - Their con viction was strengthened by Mr. Roose velt’s letter to Congressman Samuel B. Hill, chairman of the interstate commerce subcommittee, urging the passage of the Guffey coal bill regard less of doubts as to-Its constitution- allty. President Roosevelt followed the sug gestion of Attorney Geqeral Cummings that the legislation should be put through congress because “the situa tion la so urgent," arid that the ques tion of constitutionality should be left up to the courts. The President, admitting that coal mining Is In itself an intrastate.trans- action, nevertheless wrote that the final test of the validity of the Guffey bill would depend upon whether pro duction conditions directly affect, pro mote, or obstruct interstate commerce. The Supreme court, in the Schechter NRA case, quoted a previous - opinion that mining, manufacturing, and other forms of production were as local In their character as the production of crops, and hence beyond the reach of congress. T HE secretary of the treasury ap peared before the house wayp and means committee which was trying to formulate the new tax bill wanted by the administration, and declared that, depending on the rates of taxation adopted, the measure might bring to as much as $1,000,000,000 a year or as little as $118,000,000 annually. As tbe representative of the administra tion, the young secretary declined to advise as to the rates, though the Re publican members of the committee tried to pin him down to details. Tbe legislation outlined by the President includes taxation of inheritances aiid gifts, higher surtaxes on million dollar incomes and graduated Income taxes - on' corporations. r Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore- Koo,. Republican leader, predicted that congress either would recess and re convene In the fall or would put off' enactment of the tax bill until tbe ses sion beginning January 8 next XJlKdLA X s«Alg>hrfl TESLA, famed scientist celebrated his seventy-ninth birth- . officers, General Helntzelman was day to New York city by giving out (he news of three astonishing develop- meats to the sciences. They are: A new method and apparatus for transmitting mechanical energy over any terrestial distance. Passage of an Induction current with a varying flux one way only through a circuit without use of a commutator. Proof, after observation of cosmic rays, that many of tbe propositions «f relativity are falsa. * * QUR army lost an able and distin guished officer In the death of MaJ. Gen. Stuart Helntseiman at the army and navy hospital In Hot Springs. Ark. The grandson and son of army graduated from West Point In 1890. After service In the Philippines and China he was sent to France as an ob- ver, and when America entered the war he held high staff assignments. He won the D. S. M. and waa decorated by France and Italy. From the incep tlon of the CCC General Helntzelman was Id charge of federal reclamation projecta to Missouri until last Feb ruary, when be was given command ot the Seventh corps area. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL CUNDAYI ““ Ochool Lesson BX RBV. p. B. FITZWATBR* D. ,0. Member ef Faculty, Moody Bible Inetltute of Chicago, ft Western Newspaper Unlom. Lesson for July 28 NATION BECKONS SOCIAL PIONEERS , TO NEW FIELDS -AMOS LESSON TEXT—Amos 7:7-H? GOLDEN .TEXT—But let Judgment run down si waters, and righteousness as-a- mighty stream.—Amoe 5:24. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Hero Preacher. JUNIOR TOPIC—When God Needed a Hero. _ INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Standing for tbe Right YOUNO PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC—God’s Plumb Line and Our Social Order. Amos was a herdsman called of God to be a prophet A prophet la one who speaks forth the message of God. He convicts the people of their sins, pleads for them to get right with God. The only effective way to cor rect wrong social usage la to bring the people into right relationship with God. I. The Call of Amos (1.1). He was a herdsman and gatherer of sycamore fruit (7:14). He was not a prophet by succession, neither was he trained in the prophetic schools. II. To Whom Amos Was Sent (1:1). Though he was from Judah, his min istry was to be primarily to Israel. III. Amos’ Message. •• L Sins denounced (2:6-8; 6:1-6). A'Avaricious greed (2:6-8). (1) Sold the righteous for silver (v. 6) . The judge, for a bribe of silver, declared the innocent to be guilty. (2) Sold the poor for a pair of shoes (v. 6). It doubtless referred to the practice of selling Into slavery the debtor who could not pay for a pair of shoes which he bad been- sold on credit (3) Pants after the dust of the earth (v. 71. So avaricious had these men become that t*ey even grasped after the earth which the downtrodden poor cast npon their head in their mourn ing because of their misery. (4) Turned aside the way of the meek (v. 7). These grasping rich men turned aside the meek, that is, those who did not stand up for their rights. (5) Licentiousness (v. 7). So no torious were the Immoralities prac ticed that they were even guilty of incestuous prostitution. How ade quately this pictures the licentiousness of our present age. b. Reckless security (6:1-3). They closed their eyes to the approaching judgment predicted by the prophet c. Luxury (6;4-f). Their luxury ex pressed itself in: ID Extravagant furniture. They had beds of Ivory, whl^h means, doubtless, wood inlaid with Ivory. (2) Laziness (v. 4). Many stretched themselves on their couches, thus liv ing lives of Indolence. (3) Feasted on delicacies (v. 4). They bought what they desired, re gardless of its cost (4) Adorned their feasts with music (v. 5). They sang idle songs, even In- venting musical Instruments for this purpose. (5) They drank wine (v. 6) They drank from bowls, Indicating excessive drinking. d. They fallen u> grieve foi /Joseph. Many are today Indulging in luxury, entirely Indifferent to the crying peed* of others. . * 2 The remedy proposed (5:4-9). The prophet called upon *fhem ,Jt> pe turn to God. The time to repent Is while divide Judgment is stayed. In their turning to God they were to re nounce: a. Idolatry (vv. 5, 6). They were to turn away from the places of Idol atry—Bethel, Gllgal, and Beer-sheba. b. Seeking to pervert Judgment (v. 7) . Turning Judgment to wormwood Implies the bitterness of the perver sion of Judgment to the Injured. c. Seeking to dethrone righteous ness (v. 7). “Leaving v off righteous ness” is thought to mean that unrlght-^ eousness was allowed to take Its place. IV. Intercedes for the People (7:1-9). The prophet stands here not merely ss the proclalmer of judgment, but as the intercessor for the people.. V. Opposed by Amaziah the Priest (TH6-17). « 1. Message sent to Jeroboam (vv. 10, 11). The priest sought to hinder the prophet by Informing the king of the Judgment which Amos proclaimed. 2. He attempted to silence the prophet (vv. 12, 13). 3. The prophet’s bold reply (vv. 14- 17). a. He declared that he had received his commission from God directly (vv. 14, 15). The one who has heard the call of God must be faithful In the declaration of hls message even though opposed by ecclesiastical and political leaders. b. Doom pronounced (vv. 16, 17). He set forth the shame and distress of the Babylonian captivity, which came upon them becanse of their un faithfulness to God. <. In the Civil war period It was Horace Greeley who bade yoong' men, “Go West" Many of thoee who had worn the blue to the greet conflict sought the frontier to the hope of finding livelihood and then going on to fortune. - It waa their presence which made the 'West dif ferent from the East in ways which have never yet been reconciled. For modern youth there Is no great arep of land awaiting settlers. If a college graduate seeks a place upon a frontier he must select the only frontier that Is open. fie. mast become a social pioneer In th* field “ where urgent. problems are to be taken apart and then recast to a form that shall be workable. An entire nation is waiting for adjust ments in its vital a’ffairs. These new degree holders aro\ equipped psychologically for the > work that demands atfehtlon. Dur-f Ing four formative years they have realized day after day that human arrangements good enough in the past have failed to continue the comfort and the security of which America has boasted. By slow and painfjil steps the- most able of the young people will make their way to positions of au thority. As the opportunity appear* they will apply their talents to the reorganization of the country In which they will be dominant.— “Uncle Dudley,” In the Boston Sun day Globe. Scientist Claims That Noises Can Be Deadly Do women moke more .noise thaa motor cars? According to an American pro fessor of physics, yes. Giving evi dence In an action to restrain a fac tory i from making an excessive amount o{ noise, he described experi ments with a sound meter which he had carried out in the district These showed that women talking In tbrir homes made 40 times more noise than the factory, and 60 per cent more noise than passing can. Apparently women talk more loud ly In America, for experiments in this country show “load conversa tion" as only double the nola£ of s suburban street and two-thirds that of a pneumatic drill at 20 feet dis tance. But the worst noise of all, accord ing to one distinguished scientist, is one we can’t hear. A few month* ago he showed the congress of radio biology how ultra-sound waves could burn the fingers of a man holding B glass tube, although the tube Itself was not heated. He claimed that It was possible to he killed by these vibratlon^whllh were really sounds, although, they could not be pereelved by the naked ear.—London Answer* Ab OverwbelsJBg -TfcoMfht How could we bear that overwhelm ing thought “Thou knowest”—the thought that there Is certainly some where, unless also we had the convic tion warm at our hearts, “Thou lovest" —the certainty that the deepest cer tainty of all la the love of him who or ders all-W. Charles. Better Thewglits A single gentle rain makes, the grass many shades greener; so our pros pects brighten on the Influx of better thoughts. ^^eiTAFAnrov i Coleman Mantles • LAST LONGER • MADE STRONGER • GIVE MORE LIGHT S END, for 2 genuln# High Power Coleman Mantles. Use them on your gasoline prepare lamp or lantern. Let them prov^that they axe mads stronger, last longer, give more light. Lowest cost to usa. 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