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Tfc« Barnwell Pi V-- % • ‘ ■ s Pi- 3 ;- .75: Barnwell, S. C^ Thursday, August 8, 1935 BRISBANE] THIS WEEK I II f W’’ r. f I A Tough Old Bird Fir* Billions More? News of Hogs Submarines Wanted Amos R. E. Pinchot, who has lei- core and .thinks, otters profound truth writing to one of the “professors." “Capitalism Is a tough old bird, that Will live a good deal longer than any of us will.” Capitalism, which means government by organized dol lars and Industry, Instead of organ ized soldiers, will last longer than the present generation, longer than this century. Capitalism Is the new financial feudalism that replaced military feu dalism. There is no reason why It should not last as long as military feudalism lasted, many centuries. News Review of Current Events the World Over President’s Way of Ending Virgin Islands Row Arouses Criticism—-Senator Black Probes for Truth About Utilities Cigar Box, . * -7“ , ' By EDWARD W. PfCKARD v C Wotern Newspaper Union. Arthur Brisbane Senator Borah, one of the senate’* able men, predicts that congress will sit until November 1, and that five thousand one hundred and twenty mil lions more will be appropriated for Immediate spending. That would make about an even ten billions In extra ap propriation for this year. Two thousand one hundred and twenty millions of the money would pay the soldiers’ bonus In “green- liacks," and three thousand millions .would be used to take up mortgages on farms. “Hogs sell up to $10.10, best price alnce September, 1930.” That comes from Kansas City—ten dollars and ten cents for a hog weighing one hundred pounds. That may not mean much to you; It means much to the farmers that raise hogs. It also has meaning for housekeepers that buy sausages. For some mysterious reason, when pork prices go up 10 per cent sausage prices go up 100 per cent Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., commanding Brooklyn navy yard, says America needs long-range submarine* to protect our Interests In the Pacific. Since 1918, when, sweet peace re turned, wise Japan, according to Ad- fcilral Stirling, has built 64 submarines, Including 27 of long range, each car rying six torpedo tubes, powerful guns, able to cross the Pacific and return without refueling. Japan has also a *peclal fleet of eight submarine* for placing destructive ocean mines, four of them able to operate 5,000 miles from their base. Each could place 45 bombs In the path of enemy shipping. Newell P. Sherman, choir singer,. Boy Scout mnstea, fell In love with a girl sixteen, admits that to make his way clear he npset a canoe, throw ing the mother of his two children Into the water, kept pushing her away from the boat until she sank and drowned. This young gentleman Is 0 feet 4 inches tall, but. the electric chair can doubtless be arranged to lit him. You will hope that no tender hearted parole board will say, “He onght to have another chance." One chance to drown the mother of your two children seems enough. Rome reports Fascist excitement be- faose “Japan assumes the role of Abyssinian champion.” Mussolini’s press says Japan sets herself up as leader of Asiatic and African peoples, "against the civiliza tion and entire oMhl white race." A Fascist newspaper calls Japan “the enemy of Europe aad^merica, dreaming of world conquest.” That seems to be a keg of powder with only * spark lacking. Scientists experimenting with guinea pigs take one or ten or a hundred guinea pigs, never all the guinea pigs •t once. College professors, ynlon labor lead ers convinced of their ability to invent a better government, gentlemen who believe In no government at all, and other experimenters, should select ■ definite number of American guinea pigs for experiment, not practice on the 130,000,000 all at once. Miss Margaret McDermott, spinster lady of Chicago, left $25,000 for ap old spitz dog. Many write to the-«- ecutors saying they simply “adore anl- tnals," especially spitz dogs, and would like to take care of “Pet” in return for the Income on $25,000. That Interests men that leave large fortunes to daughters or sons. For tune hunters from abroad are always ready to spend money left to daugh ters, and scheming ladies, foreign or natfrot ore ready to help a young gen tleman spend hi* Inherited money, as recently illustrated in a certain Ryan case. Moscow dispatches say the Soviet*! north polar flight from Moscow to San Francisco may start any day. If three Russian airmen make that 6,000-mlle flight, nonstop, from Moscow to San Francisco successfully, San Francisco will be Interested, and Washington, D. G, outfit to be Interested. The government might even Interest Itself In' building some long-distance planet. r • Idas rMtum SypdUau. las, WNU Sw-ylN. T HAT row over the administration of the Virgin islands was so un pleasant that President Roosevelt felt impelled to settle It himself. So he removed from office the two chief battlers, 7Gov. Paul M. Pearson Jand Judge T. Webber Wilson, had other jobs found for them, and nominated aa Pear son’s successor Law rence W. Cramer, who was serving as lieu tenant governor of St Island. Conflr- Croix l w matl on of this appolnt- L. W.^Cramer ment wa8 not lmme . dlate. The senate committee Investi gating the Islands affairs was slow In making up Us mind about Cramer, and from St Thomas came the news that the foes of the Pearson administration there, together with a delegation from St Croix, were protesting vigorously against the President’s selection of a new governor. The Emancipator, opposition paper, said editorially: “The Islanders would about as soon have Pearson, for under Cramer no change of policy can be expected. Poor and unknown as the humble people of the Virgin islands may be, they are en titled to an example of honor and cour age from the President of the Amer ican Republic." The disposal of Pearson and Wilson also aroused criticism In Washington. The former had been attacked stead ily by Pat Harrison £>f Mississippi and other Democratic senators, but Secre tary of the Interior Ickes had defended him warmly, so he was given a Job un der Ickes, being made assistant direc tor of housing In the PWA at $8,000 a year, a place not previously filled. In order to provide a Job for Judge Wilson, a former congressman from Mississippi and a protege of Senator Harrison, a woman was forced off the federal parole board. Attorney Genera] Cummings requested and obtained the resignation of Dr. Amy A. Stannard, a psychiatrist who has been In the gov ernment service 12 years with a civil service status and had been a member of the parole board since 1930. Wilson was sworn In as her successor. Since Wilson’s qualifications for the place ap peared to be chiefly political, observ ers in Washington noted sadly that the parole board was getting back into po litical hands. ton Circuit Courts of Appeals held the AAA unconstitutional, will not be thrown out and the highest tribunal will have a chance to pass upon It . Amid so much adverse celticism, the action of the Midwest farm leaders gathered In Chicago must have been soothing to Mr. Wallace. Resolutions were passed praising the secretary and congressional leaders for their ef fhrts in behalf of “agricultural equal ity.” The farm leaders urged senate ap proval for the commodity exchange bill, passed by the bouse, .and asked re-establishment of the Pacific North west Wheat Export corporation under the AAA to prevent wheat surpluses In that area from competing with Mid west wheat 1 and other grains. The meeting voiced opposition to the plans for transportation co-ordi nation, suggesting farmers would profit more by competition among carriers. C HESTER G DAVIS, AAA adminis trator. and hla fellow officials were greviously shocked when they were shown this classified real estate advert tlsement In the Globe of Joplin, Mo.: , “Dandy way to make money: Buy tola 13 acres for bog raising. Sign up with the government to not raise, say, 500 hogs It will pay you $1,000. That will pay for the acres and have tome left”_J— “It’s preposterous!" exploded Mr. Davis. “ItT at least preliminary to fraud. It’s deliberate misrepresenta tion and not in any way possible. I shall begin an investigation at once.” Franz Guertner Senator Black W HAT was In the cigar. box wrapped In -a newspaper? That Is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman of the senate lobby committee, want ed to know. Before the committee for questioning was John W. Carpenter bf Dall as, president of the Texas ’Power and Light company. He ad mitted freely that he and other utility men had hotel conferences, dinners and a trip down' Chesapeake hay with congressmen dur- the fight „ over the Wheeler-Ray burn bill, and that he himself had centered his efforts on Texas congressmen. But of the mys terious box he could or would tell nothing. Black probed and probed, and finally asked: “Do you still say that In the morn ing (of the day before the vote on the utilities bill ‘death sentence’) you, didn’t give a congressman a box wrapped up In a newspaper?” Carpenter replied quietly: “1 don’t think I did, unless It was a few cl- g&rs." — -■ ' * ■ h'jr.ute and house conferees met to consider the utility control bill, but there were small signs that they could get together, and one session ended abruptly in a real row. Two admin istration lobbyists; Benjamin Cohen and Dozier A, De Vane, were brought into the executive session by Senators Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep resentative George Huddleston pro tested, their continued presence was Insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery Alabama congressman--and his fellows from the house walked out and broke up the meeting. Cohen is generally given credit for writing the measure. After leaving the committee room, Huddleston said fiatly that the house conferees woud pot recede from the position that the “death sentence must be eliminated. PERMANENT federal control of the liquor business is provided for In a bill which was passed by the house and sent to the senate with prospects of early adoption by that body. The meas ure, which creates within the treasury a new agency to be known as the fed eral alcohol administration, was asked by the President to replace tlie FACA killed by the Supreme court’s NRA de cision. Mr, Roosevelt wanted the new agency to be an independent office, but the house decided otherwise. Emperor Haile Selassie IMMEDIATE, convocation of the * League of Nations council to deal with the Italo-Ethiopiau question was demanded by Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia. On - his behalf the demand was telegraphed to the league secretariat at Geneva by Tacla Hawariat, Ethiopian minister to France and delegate to the league. lie Insisted that the council pro ceed to the examina tion of the situation under article XV of the league covenant, Ethiopia invoking this article because -of the “threat to her independence from Italy,” British dispatches said Prime Minis ter Stanley Baldwin and leading mem bers of his cabinet were believed, to favor full league action, If other na tions agreed, aa a last resOrt to avert the threatened conflict Diplomatic quarters In London beard that the British government probably would al ter 'its policy and permit the export of arms to Ethiopia^ The emperor’s new minister there, W. C. Martin, had a conference at the foreign office, and came out smiling .happily but saying uothing.' - Previously Mr. Martin had admitted that Ethiopia was short not only of arms but also of money. “At the moment we have very little money," he said. ‘T am doing all Chat Is possible to raise loans in London, but thus.firFT'1*aYe not met with a great measure of si r\ ETERMINATION of the Nazis to ^ put an end to “political Catholi cism” In Germany and their consequent drive against Catholic youth organiza tions may bring on results more serious even" than bps the N a z 1 ^ antl-semltlsm. - General Goerlng, head of the secret police, gave out a warning to Catholic priests to be careful la their com ments from the pulpit, and Franz Guertner, minister of Justice, Is sued a decree threat ening prosecution for any priest violating Goering’s Injunction. Throughout the country generally the Catholic clergy was cautious, but In Freiburg, Baden, where the Goering'order had 'lot been published before Sunday, tl s priests read in their pulpits a letter from the episcopate calling the Nazi action a violation of the concordat with the Vatican. To this charge the Nazis re ply that the Catholics were the first to violate the concordat by making at tacks on the Hitler youth movement In their parish papers. This hew “purge” by the Nazis In cludes a renewed crusade against the Jew’s and dissolution of the Steel Hel mets, veterans’ organization. In vari ous provinces. The Jews are helpless and, If Julius Streicher has his way, will be all driven out of Berlin or se gregated In ghettos. But the Steel Hel mets, whose chief Is Minister of Labor Franz Seldte, are likely to cause the Hitler government a lot of trouble. The organization’s weekly paper is us ing language that Is not often heard In Germany these days, and Seldte Is demanding the reason for suppression of the local divisions. Washington.—President Roosevelt know* and those close to him realize that sometimes some- A Laugh thlpg i?ore than a Not Enough ,aB S h ‘s required to Not tnougn killoffa rumor. That Is one of the reasons why the Presi dent Is planning If and when congress rdjouhis to make an extended tour of this country. He knows of rumors going hbout the land that his health Is not up to par and he Is taking this method of disclosing to the American F people by action rather than word the answer that he Is physically fit. Whoever occupies the White House Is continually subjected to whispered rumors as well as* open assertions of one kind or another. Some, as In this Instance, reflect on the health of the chief executive. Others, as happened within the last quarter of a century, reflected on the personal habits and practices of the President. Still others have related in times past to personal fortunes and financial dealings t>f the man In the White House. Usually these “whispering campaigns” are of a de rogatory character. No-one ever knows exactly how they start nor Is It ever possible for observers to put a finger on the rumors as they float by. It is a condition that seems to be bred by prominence of the Individual about whom the rumor mongers can operate because people are always Interested in what a President of the United States is;doing. In the current Instance the “whis pering campaign” was largely unknow^A^s the unemployables. Tlrese are peo- success. D ARTIAL Investigation • of the milk * industry by the federal trade com mission was said to have revealed de plorable couditions and the adminis tration asked for $200,000 to continue the inquiry. The senate committee In eonsidering the deficiency appropria tion bill cut out that Item altogether, senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an amendment adding the sum asked. Aft er a hot debate this was ^approved by a vote of 51 to 18 and the bill was then passed. The numerous senate amend ments had added a total of more than $80,000,000 to the house measure, so the $306,000,000 bill was sent to con ference. \/l AYOR LA GUARDIA of New York has created an International in cident all by himself. He backed up License Commissioner Paul Moss in his refusal to license one “Mr. K” to work In the metropolis as a massage oper ator because he is a German. The German diplomatic officials were pre paring to complain to the State de partment that the city was violating the German-American commercial treaty of 1925. But Mr. La Guardia declared the treaty Is null and void “because Germany has discriminated against American citizens of Jewish origin.” ^He'Ifidicated thaf not even the State department can force him to back down. 4^ “This order shall be carried out un til such time as we are directed to do otherwise by the courts,” he said. The German question also threatened to come up in the senate, for Senator King of Utah said he would ask an in vestigation to determine whether’ the United States would be warranted In “severing diplomatic relations” with Germany. r O PPONENTS of the AAA amend ments designed to strengthen the powers of Secretary of Agriculture. Wallace decided to-let the basic acL go up to the Supreme court, so the ad ministration bill was passed by the senate with only 15 adverse votes. Both Republican and conservative Democratic foes of the AAA are con fident that the Supreme eourt will hold ths basic act unconstltutlqoal and jan early test is assured "by a senate amendment permitting suits to recover processing taxes that have not been passed on to producers or consumers. One of the major purposes of the amendments was to close the courts, bat the senate rejected this scheme by F ARMERS In the Middle West, ready to harvest their crops, found they couldn’t get hands to do the work. The Idle men ordinarily counted on for this were on the relief rolls and declined offers of farm labor for two reasons: The wages paid by the farm ers were less than the sums received frotn, the relief organization or for government works, and If the men once went off the dole they feared they would have trouble getting back there when the harvest was over. The sit uation was descerate and emergency relief commissions were urged to take action. This they did 1^ the states af fected and It was announced the “re volt” was under control The Illinois commission stopped all relief works in the rural areas until wfter harvest ln -Kansas persona re- '"That’ wholly nn-American proce- * dure, the general strike, was fried out by organized labor in Indiana and the 67,000 taha-bitants of Terre Haute were deprived of all food supplies. The local authorities of Vigo county called on the governor for help and Mr. McNutt promptly ordered 14 com panies of the National Guard to the scene. Brig. Gea Wray De Prez, In command, promised the merchants who had been bullied Into shutting their shops would be.given protection, and said his first endeavor would be to restore the milk and ice service. This had been cut off even from hospitals. * The general strike was called by 48 unions without warning, because labor leaders had been unable to reach an agreement with the Columbian. En ameling and Stamping company. Some 600 of that concern’s employees went on strike in March and the plant was closed down, but'the union leaders thought It was about to be reopened by strikebreakers. Conciliators from the Department of Labor arrived and within 48 hours the general strike collapsed aod was called off by the union officials In charge. The strike at the stamping company, how ever, continued In effect and several times the troops were forced to use tear gas bombs to disperse riotous mobs. Terre Haute merchauta estimated that the two days^strike cost, them at mnr» than two weeks least half a million dollars. The state spent probably $50,000 In maintaining order by use of the troops. The state federation of labor asserted the sym pathy walkout was unauthorized. fusing any temporary employment were removed from the relief rolls,. In Ne braska 26 counties were cut off from federal relief allotments and In 15 oth ers the allotments were cut In half. In nearly a score of Iowa counties officials denied relief and able-bodied men on relief rolls were admonished to accept employment in the harvest fields. In North Dakota all hot specialized projects were halted and the state ad ministrator announced that aa soon aa the harvest was over the new works D ROMPING all their rebellious in- a veto of 41 to 23. As • result, the progress administration wool! Hoosack Mills,case, in which the Bee- cars'of unemployablca. dlgnatlon, the Democrats of the house did everything the administra tion' wished In considering the social security bill as altered by the senate. The _ conferees bad settled all dlf- ferenceT after two weeks of hard work, but one of the amendments they ac cepted was that permitting private pension systems to function under the measure. The majority members of the house *ere Informed that Presi dent Roosevelt was opposed to this, so they refused to accept It The senate would not permit the elimination of Jto amendment, so back to conference went the bill i * f i • ? to Washington until summer resort residents began returning to the city. They brought back-all sorts of stories that were being circulated In distant places concerning Mr. Roosevelt’s health. The gossip, for that is what It appears to be, spread like wild-fire In Washington and became of so much concern that It crept into one of the White House press conferences. “Mr. President,” one of the 200 corre spondents present asked,- “are you In a little bad health?” The chief executive’s answer was the laugh which has endeared him to many people. He was just back from a short cruise aboard a yacht In Chesapeake bay. His face was sun tanned. He leaned back In his chair and demanded to know what the- correspondents thought about It I think that the news dispatches from Washington that night Indicated rather clearly what the correspondents thought about the state of the Presidents health, for surely non»>of these, dispatches Indicated any particular alarm Nevertheless, the rumors continued to go and a good many thousand peo ple apparently he- Let People See neved that Mr. for rAentse/oe* K° 08evelt had br °- ken under the strain of his New Deal presidency, So, Be fore the summer 1$ over millions of Americans probably will have an op portunity to see for themselveS Just as the correspondents saw at the press his smile; thaL his hair is no more gray than when he took office in 1933, and that his countenance showa.no ear marks of the strain which every Presi dent of the United States finds an in herent part of that job. Ono trip -upon which Mr. Roosevelt has set his heart Is a tour to the Pa-' eifle coast and return. It will provide an opportunity for several millions of Americans to see him and a lesser number to hear him speak. It will carry him through territory which con tains probably about half of the na tion’s population. It la well recognized In Washington that no amount of denials by informed persons or any amount of second-hand testimony la sufficient to squelch ma licious stories of the kind that have been circulated about the President. The eye witness Is the only one who Is prepared to discredit such stories and, unless present plans are revised, the eye witnesses will be many this summer. The President probably will make other trips during the late fall and early winter as well Plans-fdr these are still In the making and their length and number depends somewhat upon the date of congressional adjourn ment. The program fits well Into the Roose- to periodical visits to his home at Hyde Park, N. Y„ and, apparently, all that he needs to add to his mileage this summer Is a period of compara- • tive calmness In Washington. • • • If superficial appearances count for anything, the administration Is actu ally making moves To Reduce designed to reduce Deficit the federal trea- / • - sury’s deficit It ,1s/ yet too early to tell definitely what the plans are and administration spokes men are strangely quiet about them but there ar^ certain signs and por tents which may be examined In the. effort to determine which way the gov ernment la headed in respect of the gigantic expenditures for public works, relief, and general government costa. While congressional committees con tinue to examine tax questions with a view to enactment of legislation that will Increase federal revenue, the Pres ident and his advisers have taken steps to cut down the drain on the treasury. The first and probably the most Im portant of these moves is the an nouncement that on November 1 fed eral aid to those people unable to work will cease definitely. Relief Adminis trator Hopkins announced after a con® ference with the President that the relief policy will be changed on No vember 1 and that the various states, counties, and municipalities will be expected after that date to look after that segment of the population known pie who for one reason or another cannot earn their own living by work. Previously .Mr. Roosevelt had direct ed hla fiscal advisers to make a thor ough study of relief requirement's for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1936. While this is almost 11 months away, the President told newspaper corre spondents that he desired to know as early as possible what the burden of relief would be In the future. His an nouncement was interpreted as having a connection with budget requirements and prospective revenue under the pro posed new tax legislation. Earlier, Public .Works Administrator Ickes had made knowffi that the pro gram of public works expenditures for Improvement o.f the Mississippi valley and Its rivers had been abandoned. It will be recalled tliat the National Re sources board had recommended ex tensive Improvements to be carried out from public works funds In the hands of the public works administrator. These Involve vast sums. Now, It la made to appear that th£ PWA and the administration have in thind some restraint on expenditures of that char acter and that hereafter gigantic allot ments of a public works or Improve ment character may be expected to be fewer In number. The result of this will be, of course, to hold In- the treasury some of the total of the $.7,000,000,000 public works appropriation. Reduction of the outgo for direct re lief necessarily will be reflected In the remainder of fhe public^ works-relief fund and It Is reported that other plans are In the making which will have as their prospective end a restoration to private employment of greater number* of Idle workers than heretofore have been contemplated. '• Then, as another Indication of ad ministration intention to restore funds to the treasury and thus reduce the difference between income and ex penses was an announcement by Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation. Mr. jone* made known that hereafter the RFC will not make loaps to banks. He de clared that the banking structure was In an excellent condition and that further aid was not required. The fact which Mr. Jones did not mention In his announcement Is, how ever, that . the banks are exhibiting no particular desire to borrow from the federal government The RFC already holds preferred stock. In almost half of the banks In the country and these banks, according to RFC records, are liquidating their obligations as rapidly as (hey can do so. This Is significant • • • I have reported to you previously how slowly the administration plans 07 t » i» * for 8 P endln K the $5,- Workt-Rehef 000,000,000 works re- »ek methods. In the 28 mooth. of h*-. p /an< D lief fond were pro- tpnnrp thp Prpsiflpnt had rlstviA n ^ . * _ tenure the President has done a con siderable amount of travel. He has made three cruises on the yacht owned by Vincent Astor, two of which lasted eled to the east coast of Canada In Juffc, 1933, aboard the craft Amber- jack, and returned two weeks later aboard a navy ship. Last year, it will be remembered, he visited Haiti, Puer to Rico, the Virgin islands, Colombia, the Panama canal, Cllpperton Island, and Hawaii On hla. return from that cruise he crossed the Northwest mak ing several speeches before reaching Washington. -In-iSaa end In 1934 he visited Warm' Springs, Georgia, the colony where victims of Infantile paralysis are nursed back to health and with which, the President because of his own af fliction, has bad much personal con nection. In returning from the 1934 visit to Warm Springs, Mr. Roosevelt stopped at Muscle Shoals, Norris dam, and Birmingham for personal vtslts to points and things Which Interested him. All of these tripe have been In addition greasing. In connec tion with the Hopkins’ announcement on relief and the President’s relief sur vey order, It was disclosed that only approximately fifteen thousand persons have been given Jobs since the money was made available. This figure does not Include the additional list of re cruits for the Civilian Conservation corps whose numbers have grown from 300,000 to 403,000. It will be recalled that- Dtovislou was made in the $5^00,-, Mi rr 000,000 appropriation resolution for an/ Increase of the CCO from 300,000 to 600,000. Thus, In two months, the CCC has had only about one-third of the total increase .which was expected. Frankly, CCC enlistments have been so disappointing that the responsible au thorities have changed the age limit in order ta permit the maximum of en tries Into that'service. Those In a po sition to know and who will speak candidly about conditions entertain aome fear, that the total ever will ap proach the 000,000 to which enlistaaenta are restricted. % • WMUra UbIml * _