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THIS $EEK Why So Many Men? News Review of Current Events the World Over Bitterne«s in Berlin Frank H. Hitchcock Dead The Snake Has Rights -i^Whj does Mussolini need so manj men for little Abyssinia T It he at tacks, he will go through the air .with bombs, poison gas or both. ^ He certainly will not march hundreds of thousands of' men through swamps, and over hot sand. He now has 925,000 men under arms, with 340,000 Fas cist militia teady to be called, plus 200,- 000 others, bom two years before the big war started. Is something else present or expected, back of all this man power? Even If Japan should come In, that would only mean a more complicated air war. ▲rthar Brisbane Berlin reports Increased bitterness In the war against the Catholic church, with official posters, eight feet high, printed In red, scattered through the city, attacking alleged Catholic oppo sition to Nazi rule. The posters speak of the “grafting Center (Catholic) party, working hand In h^nd with Bolshevism,” and declare that Catholics, “the eternal enemies vf the releh, wish to destroy the unity of Germany.” The posters are be lieved to Indicate new and more bitter attacks on Catholic organizations. Many Americans will learn with sincere regret of the death of Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster general In Pres ident’s Taft’s cabinet and at the time of his death publisher of the Tucson Dally Citizen. Frank Hitchcock, typical, Intelligent American, will be remembered as first to appreciate the airplane’s Im portance In connection with dlstrlbn- of mall Twenty-four years ago, flying was new, he flew, taking deh of mall with him, and advo- Immedlate use of plqnes over ssable stretches of country.” At Thomasvllle, N. C., Rev. Campbell ~ Holmes, "Holy Roller’’ preacher, al lowed a rattlesnake to bite him as he preached, “Just to show you that God will take care of me.” There was ex citement and admiration In the congre- „ gallon. Next day his arm was badly swollen, he was violently 111, death threatened, but the “Holy Roller" preacher refused medical attention. The reverend gentleman perhaps for got that the same great Power that gave him.his beautiful faith also gave the rattlesnake Its powerful poison. Each creature has Us gifts, not safely . ignored. Did you buy bonds In the big war excjtement, when little ladies, seated on elephants, sang patriotic songs and begged you to give “till It hurts”? . One hundred and eighty-five million dollars’ worth of government bonds are mislaid somewhere, perhaps hid den In old trunks. In desks^ safe-de posit boxes, by those now dead. The government would like to get these past-due bonds and pay for them. On the edge of the Sacramento river In California, a lady, thirty years old, appeared with a suitcase. While eight youths looked on, she undressed, then danced for some time on the edge of the water, finally plunged In, crying, “I’m not coming back,” and sank In midstream. That death-preceding dance Is new In suicide. One out of every three married cou ples in the United States is childless, news not complimentary to the child less families. Exceptions are cases in which nature refuses to send children. Tou would not value a chain of steel with every third link broken, or a chain of heredity with every third link missing. This “childless family” news should make this country revise stupid laws against Immigration, shutting out men and women willing to have chil dren, and work for them. Madame Evelyn, who reads the stara, the future, the crystal globe and the lines in your hand on the New Jersey beach, read the “lines” for a 200-pound customer, then sighed and said: “I •ee only trouble ahead of you." The client also sighed, and he, says Madame Evelyn, stood up and said: “’You are an excellent fortune teller, and here’s the beginning of the trou ble,’ and socked me on the Jaw, knock ing me out of my chair.” Americans interested In cotton pro duction and wondering how long our export figures will stand up will want to know that Japanees cotton buyers have “folded up,” as one Texas cotton grower put It; have moved out of Tex as, apparently giving up all Idea of >uying cwtton there. The late Nathan Straus used to say: “If a German loses one of his relatives, he feels badly. If he loses money, he goes to bed sick.” German trade and Industry will “go to bed sick” If it persists In Its present attitude toward those that promote business and prosperity In every coun try where Jews are treated fairly. • KtaS VMtvrw SynSiMt* laa WNU SsrvtM, Victory in Rhode lsrand Election Elates tEeHepublicatts— Guffey Coal Bill Undergoes Changes—Black’s^ ^ Probers Enrage Hurley^ ►1- By EDWARD W. PICKARD . C W«»t«rn.Ntw»p'»per Union. V D EPUBLICAN leaders throughout ^ the country were Immensely heart ened—probably too much so—by the result of the, by-election In the First district of . Rhode Is land. Charles F. Risk, Republican and deter mined opponent of the New Deal, defeated Antonio Prince, Demo crat, by nearly 13,000 votes, capturing the seat In congress which Francis B. Condon, Democrat, resigned to go on the State Su preme court The re versal was so decisive that the' Republicans hailed It as a clear Indication that President Roose velt would be defeated for re-election next year. Representative B. H. Snell of New York, minority leader, made a speech about It In the house In which he said: “This is the first time the people of any part of the country have had an opportiyilty to pass on the reckless and extravagant expenditures of the administration. They have passed up on it In a very decisive manner. The election shows the people are begin ning to think. The handwriting Is on the wall. From now on we will wit ness similar rejections by the citizenry of the Ifew Deal program." Other Republican congressmen spoke In similar vein, but John J. O’Connor, New York Tammany Democrat, coun tered with the assertion that there was a split In the Democratic party In the Rhode Island district; while Tom Blan- -ton of Texas shouted shame on Rhode Island because it had asked more fed eral aid than almost any other state. Auti-New £g(il Democratic seuators, like Gerry, Byrd and Tydlngs, agreed the election was significant, but from the White House there was no com ment Former Senator Fess of Ohio with surprising frankness expressed the be lief that the G. O. P. would have to wait until 1940 to elect s President Voicing the opinion of many, the vet eran campaigner said: “I don’t see how the strongest Republican without all that money next year can beat the weakest Democrat with nearly |5,000 r 000,000 at his disposal.” ' ' D EPUBLICANS of the ten Mldwest- ern states that participated in the Grass Roots conference in Springfield, lit, have made the Grass Roots’ move* ment a permanent auxiliary of the party. Harrison E. Spengler of Iowa Is Its chairman, Mrs. Leslie Wheeler of Illinois the vice chairman, and Jo Ferguson of Oklahoma, the secretary. Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, not rep resented at the Springfield • meeting, have been Invited ^o Join in the move ment P. J. Hurley S ENATOR HUGO BLACK of Ala bama may bring out a lot of facta in his inquiry Into lobbying, but bit way of conducting the Investigation Is not winning him any credit The house has all along felt that he was trying to bully It Into accepting the utilities bill “death sentence” clause and has been correspond ingly resentful Vari ous witnesses before the senate committee have felt, seemingly with reason, that they were being treated un fairly. One of these witnesses who com plained bitterly was Patrick. J. Hurley, secretary of war in the Hoover ad ministration. He testified that he had received $100,000 from the Associated Gas and Electric system in the last three years, but insisted he was T5ald for legal advice only and had done no lobbying.. Hurley was not permitted to read a prepared statement^ and Black’s Interjections and questions ao angered the witness that he rose to his feet and shouted: “Everyone knows all you gentlemen are good prosecutors! Of course, you don’t know what it is to be fair or Just You try to put words into a witness’ mouth. Your questions are all on the type of the ‘Why don’t you stop beatlng-your wife?’ query.” Joseph P. Tumulty, who was secre- tary to President Wilson, also was put >□ the stand and was not treated so roughly. He, too, admitted receiving -onsidernble sums from utility con- erns, and like Hurley he denied that ie had done any lobbying. Tumulty esttfled that he paid former Senator ieorge H. Moses (Rep.), N. H., $5,000 ind would pay another $2,500 to John tValsh, a brother of the late Senator Thomas J, Walsh (Dem.), Mont Moses md Walsh, Tumulty said, are attor- leys and aided In work done for the itility clients. T here" were strong Indications i that the house ways and meant ommlttee would produce an entirely tew measure to replace the Guffey nitumlnous coal bill. Chairman Joughton revealed that the committee financed by federal funds had adopted a number of amendments designed to bring the measure withlu constitutional limits and to meet ob jections that It would discriminate agktust some coal districts. The com mittee still stood 14 to 11 against the bill, however. The President was said to have informed the Democratic mem bers that he was agreeable to any changes they might wish to make pro vided the main objectives of the meas ure were .maintained. ' According to current report, the changes agreed upon In the committee Included: Elimination of the section forbid ding the Interstate Commerce commis sion to Issue certificates of conven lence and necessity for operation of railroads to bltlmlnous mines without prior Approval by the bituminous coal commission. ^ Establishment of a consumers’ coun sel to safeguard the Interests of con sumers. Addition of a provision for hearings to determine whether the method of fixing prices was working to the detri ment of any coal producing district Reduction from nine to five In the □umber of commission members, and the addition of a stipulation that none shall have any outside connections. Reduction from 25 to 15 per cent In the amount of the tax assessed against mine operators. Reduction from 99 to 90 per cent Id the amount of credit allowed the pro ducers who abide by the code. N OT to ba dismayed by the death of NR A, Senator J. O. O’Ma honey of Wyoming thinks the objec- tlvet of that contraption, high labor atandarda and fair competition, can be realized, and for that purpose he has drawn op a measure for the regulation of all national commerce by licensing “Business: ~ ~ ' The bill creates a licensing sy stem for businesses engaged in commerce among (he states and provide# a na- tlonal Incorporation law. > The feideTal trade commission, the government’s business policeman In the days before NRA and the agency to which the New Deal turned after NRA codes were outlawed, would be the key stone of the new plan. O’Mahoney’s bill would Increase ^Its membership from five to' ^nlxtC,' with three, com missioners representing employees, three employers, and three the gen eral public. 8«n. Barbour V IOLENTLY attacked from all sides and nowhere defended with en thusiasm, the President’s new share the-wealth. tax bill nevertheless was put through the bouse because ot the great administration major Ity and also because the congressmen are tired out and eager to go - home. Represent* ative Treadway, Re publican, of- Massa chusetts, made a last effort against the measure with a reso lution to send It back to committee, but this was easily defeated. As passed by* the house, the hill it not quite what the President asked for. Briefly summarized. It Increases taxes on Individual Incomes over $50,- 000, substitutes a graduated corpor- ation-iDcome tax for the present fiat levy, puts new taxes on Inheritances and gifts in addition to those already borne by' estates and gifts. Imposes new taxes of 5 to 20 per cent on “ex cess” profits of corporations. It is designed to raise revenue esti mated at between $250,000,000 and $270,000,000. Its warmest friends couldn’t explain how this would dc much Id the way of bringing about what the-.President calls “wider dis tribution of wealth,” or In the way of balancing the budget The measure was banded oo to the senate with dubious prospects. It was expected the senate finance committee would study it for about a week, aud In the meanwhile the conservative Re publicans and not ft few Democrats were preparing to fight It Senator W. W. Barbour of New Jersey, Repub lican, fired an opening gun with a statement In which he said: “Votes, and votes alone, are the objective of this half-baked measure." Declaring the bill “has no relation to making Income meet outgo, but is Intended to accomplish some weird social objective” Barbour continued: “What this bill actually attempts la m ■*• *■#*> Af. * N otwithstanding warnings by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and other sane Germans, some of the Nazi lead ers Insist on pushing to further ex tremes the war on Jews and Catholics. For Instance, Paul Jo seph Goebbels, minis ter of propaganda. In a speech at Essen an nounced drastic ac tion against all “en emies” of the Nazi state—Jews, Catnoiics, the foreign press and the Stahlhelm war vet- e r a n s. He predicted these important de velopments i 1. Suppression of the Catholic press and Intensification of the Nazi cam paign against all Catholic opponents of the thlrd^relch. 2. Nationwide dissolution, of the Stahlhelm. , 3- An official ban in near future on marriages between Jews and Aryans. mm Paul Goebbels — ,ay WILLIAM BRJIQKART NATIONAL PRESS BLffV— .WASHINGTON, I^C. C*NGLAND and France were still try- Ing to find the way to avert war between Italy and Ethiopia, but Pre mier Mussolini of Italy was^so skep tical that he ordered 75,000 more men to the colors. By the first of October he will have, about a million men In uniform. Haile Selassie, , the Ethi opian emperor, was reported to have sanctioned the concentration of 60,000 of his troops on Italy’s east African frontiers. The chiefs. It is said, are finding It Increasingly difficult to re strain their warriors from overt acts that would surely precipitate warfare. A NANDA, the eleven-year-old king ** of Slam, nearly lost his throne the other day. A widespread plot was formed under the leadership of non commissioned officers of the regular army to overthrow the government. But loyaiists uncovered it and effec tually smashed It The plotters In tended to seize and kill their superior officers and oust the regency council that rules the country. J OE LOUIS, negro pugilist of De troit who hopes some day to be the heavyweight champion of the world, advanced another step toward that goal by defeating “King” Levlnsky In the first round of a scheduled ten round bout In Chicago. Levlnsky was knocked down four times to little mor» than two minutes, and the referee then gave the fight to Joe on a tech nical knockout. Louta and Max Baer, to climb upon that bard-ridden steed^former champion, have signed for a Share-the-Wealtb.” and ride him away while the demagogues who have pressed him sorely iu the past are look ing in the other direction. “The bill should be laid away until the next session of congress when the budget for the ensuing year will be presented. Then, in the light of care fully appropriated federal moneys, we can determine how much revenue will he needed to operate. “Taxes can be levied deliberately as a true revenue measure. Any other program is not good business and la not good government.” , One change made by the bouse against the President’s wishes Involved Corporations’ gifts to charities, i Mr. Roosevelt was firmly against letting corporations deduct from.their, taxable \]l/^ Income *ny gifts to charity. Jiist as VV gd firmly the house voted to let them deduct up to 5 per cent of their In comes. W ITH some reluctance the senate began consideratlon of the Walsh bill, giving the President power to require minimum wage and maxi mum hour standards of all firms bid ding for government contracts. That measure has been added to the admin istration’s “must” list. The Repub licans were preparing to fight the bill as another government plan for regu lation of private Industry. They point, out that It hits about every Industry In the country, since It not only ap plies to corporations selling to the government but extends also to stare and local projects wholly or partly S UDDEN death put an end to the ca reer of Nathan P. Bryan of Jack sonville, Fla., presiding Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial circuit Judge Bryan, who was sixty-three years old, was formerly United States senator from Florida. Frank H- Hitchcock, publisher of the Daily Citizen of Tucson, Ariz., suc cumbed to pneumonia after several months of 111 health. Prominent In Republican party politics all his ma ture life, Mr. Hitchcock managed Taft’s Presidential campaign in 190S both before and after the convention and was postmaster general In the Taft cabinet For years he wae ac tively Interested In the--, progress of aviation. battle In September. S AMUEL INSULL’S annual pension of $21,000 has been restored by vote of the directors of the Chicago ntiUJj companies which he formerly headed, and he also receives about $33,250 to cover payments accruing since the beginning of last year when payments were suspended by the com panics. Jnsull previously announced he had made no effort to regain his pensions. Agitation to restore the payments was begun after Insulljiad been freed in the federal and state courts of all criminal charges growing out of his management of his' former properties. the French government led to strikes and violent demonstrations. Especially riot oos were naval shipyards workers s' Brest, steamship employees at varlou* ports and bus and gas plant worker in Paris. The sailing of several larg liners was delayed. Finally the go\ erfiment Issued new decrees lowerin the cost of living, and the strikers wer somewhat mollified. The Communist were blamed for the violence. N EARLY $8,000,000—$7,784,000, t. be exact—has been allotted fron the works-relief funds by Presiden Roosevelt foY a census of America t business. The census bureau askei and received this after It had beet allotted $293,000 for a survey of retal trade The business work is to Ik gin at once. and. the canvass wil Start on January 2. , Washington.—One of the oldest and perhaps the meet constant of all com plaints about t h e too Much federal government Red Tape Washington Jas been the tendency toward bureaucratic control. Bureau cratic control, simmered down, Is red tape; it is attempted management of even personal affairs by a government al agency and It Is naturally and obvi ously repulsive to the average Ameri can. It was a condition thoroughly to be criticized in Mf. Hoover’s adminis tration when there were- boards, bu reaus, and commissions everywhere. It Is even worse now, I believe, with all of the New Deal’s alphabetic soup agencies scattered hither and yon In execution of vai^ous -New Deal experi ments and theories. —All of this constitutes a prelude to what appears to me to be a most fla grant attempt by bureaucrats to man age private affairs. I refer to an or der Issued the other day by the fed eral communications commission under which It has asserted a jurisdiction which I cannot believe congress ever Intended It should have. Further^the asserted Jurisdiction which the com mission Is seeking to'exercise goes far beyond anything which might be qtade the basis of complaint solely because It la bureaucratic. It has reached Into the field of commercial enterprise in a manner which, without a doubt, will have the effect of covering invention and experiment in Industry with a de structive frost bite—^je commission is allowed to get away with it The facts Involved are these: The American Telephone and Telegraph company, which is spending millions of ddllars annually In scientific researc^ to Improve our system of communica tions such as the telephone, the tele graph, and the ra£io, lately has per fected what is technically known as the coaxial cable. This cable is revo lutionary. It holds the possibility of transmission of 240 telephonic conver sations simultaneously over a single pair of wires. It is not commercially complete In all of its phases. Like ev ery organization of sound judgment, the A. T. A T. wants to. Iron out weak nesses and Imperfections through a.pe riod of experimental operation. • • • Here Is where the federal communi cations commission enters the picture. As a courtesy, pure- FCC Enters iy, the A. T. A T. Picture submitted Its plan for experimentation to the communications agency, saying as It did so that the commission did not have Jurisdiction but-that in the development of such a revolutionary invention the corporation was advising the commission of its plans and -sug gested that If the commission thought It had~ jurisdiction It could Issue an experimental license covering the work. In all of this It Is to be remembered that the communications commission .has jurisdiction over rates, regulations, and practices of the wire, telephone and radio companies. It seems that so pie bright young'men In the communications commission Im mediately conceived the Idea of hav ing that group take Jurisdiction when legal authorities tell me there Is noth ing In the law giving them that au thority. The story 1 get around the commission lobbies is that the A. T. A T. would not have objected to having the commission exercise what-Jt be lieved its right to be in granting license for the experiment but when the order emerged from the secret chamber of the commission. It carried In it a provision which said that the commission could'withdraw Us ap proval and nullify the permission granted on 10 days’ notice as it saw fit Suffice to say that this provision to gether with several other technical pfihses of the circumstances was enough to arouse the fire of the busi ness men concerned. They are not only disgusted. They are downright sorei It is one of those things that poli ticians, uridertrained In science, at tempt to do that cause practical peo ple to lose faith in their government • • If It were simply a fight between the A. T. A T. and the commission that is . involved, the gitua- rtghl of tlon would hold no Vital Interest Interest at all for me as a Washington writer. But as I said above, It goes much further. I am told that some of ficials of the A. T. A T. are so dig- satisfied with the attitude of the com mission In this instance that they are ready, even anxious, to withdraw their application and—decline—to—proem determining whether they had dlscov- ‘ ered all of the potentialities of the new nventlon. All of the expenses—eome six hundred thousand dollars—was to be paid from surplus funds of the cor- ' pcratlon. It takes no stretch of the imagina tion to realize that if the A. T. AT.' backed away from the program it has aid out and refused to spend more money in perfecting Its Invention and declined to attempt to put It Into com mercial nse for the benefit of the coun try as a whole, the country, that is you and I, would suffer. We would be denied advantages developed by science and made available virtually as a na tional benefit I do not know what the end will be. It Is not at a stage wherein a forecast s possible. But the principle of the Commission s action, whether It be put forward under Democratic or Republi can administration, remains exactly the same. It should not be tolerated and If the communications commission per sists in its efforts to expand its con trol, its usefulness certainly Is at an end. Hitherto, the communications commission has had a very satisfa^ tory relationship with business. I havo heard dozens of executives from com munications corporations say they were willing to forgive and generally over* look Ignorance piled up In the com mission by political appointments In several spots. They wanted to co operate but It Is the opinion of more than Just myself among Washington observers that this sort of thing does not contribute to "good government • • • Duck hunters will have only 30 days fdr shooting this fall In accordance with the most rigid, Now, as f© regulations In tbs Duck Hunting history of Ameri- - can game hunting. >. This is the result of a determination by the federal government under an act of congress to give migratory wild fowl an opportunity to Increase In numbers. In explaining the govern ment's action which was made the sub ject of .a proclamation by President Roosevelt, J. N. (Ding) Darling, chief of the biological survey and mi inter nationally known cartoonist, declared that unless the shooting of ducks and other wild fowl is restricted It Is only a question of time until none of them remain. It Is assumed that hunters will be interested first In the period during which they may shoot ducks, geese, brant, or jacksnipe. The season will open In northern states October 2J and will close November 19. In the south ern states the season will run from November 20 to December 19. For the Information of'hunters there Is set out below the states Included in the northern area where hunting may be done between October 21 and No vember 19: , Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti cut, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana. Illi nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis souri North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyolnlng,' Colorado, Idrfho, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. The southern atatfs listed and In which hunting may occur from No* vember to December 19 follows: New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North CaroHua, South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mex ico, Arizona, and California. Regulations Issued by. the biological survey, according to Mr. Darling, ars based on the necessity of having a net annual increase of migratory birds left over at the . end of each shooting season until the present depleted popu lation of waterfowl la restored to something like normal. This year’s rigid restrictions, he explained, follow a period of approximately thirty-five years during which the kill of wild fowl has exceeded the increase from breeding. To give an Idea of how thoroughly the wild fowl are to be protected, the new regulations prohibit shooting over what is known as baited water or land —that Is, land or water on which feed has been scattered as an inducement for the birds to stop their flight. An other thing ruled out in this effort to coy. This has always been the most effective method for luring wild fowl from the air. None will be allowed hereafter. The regulations restrict shooting to tbe hours between 7 a. m.,tnd 4 p. m. with this experiment which ultimately Is going to mean enormous changes in telephonic and telegraphic contact be tween cities located great. distances apart The A. T. A T. engineers have been working on this problem some six or seven years. They proposed to build 100 miles of cable' by cohnectinc New York and Philadelphia. It ha< very little of the commercial In It They wanted to try out transmission of television images for rebroadcast by radio. They wanted to perfect further the transmission of photographs by wire and they were desirous as welkjqf^ J l % -M a course taken In order to permit birds In flight an opportunity to feed with out being subjected to pot shots. Auto matic aud repeating shot guns will be restricted to a limit of three shells ~ for their chambers and no shot guns larger tflab a No. 10 gauge will be per- - milted. Mr. Darling who has gained a repu tation as an enthusiast for game con servation, relinquished bis work as n cartoonist In order to carry out his Ideals. It has taken him some months to work out s . program but be feels his efforts have been worth while. • Wasura Newspaper Unloa. - 1 . V »