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\ 'T v V I '■ "' f ■\ -vi. -r V The Barawell People-SeaUael, Banwelt S. Thursday, October 17, 1935 BRISBANE THIS WEEK Propaganda To Influence Men Very Cheap Empire Good Airplane News. The learned Doctor Lorge, of Teach- college, Columbia university, has been studying laws 1 governing props* ganda that Influ ences human minds, experimenting on 89 ^educated" adults from the list of. un- employed, from twenty to'alxty-nlne years eld. These were asked to ex press their views of "some opinions*’ ut tered by Lincoln, Roosevelt, Hoover, Thomas ((the So cialist candidate), Artk.r Brilbaae Coolldge, H e a r s t, Karl Marx. Many that reacted favor ably to the name of “Lincoln” did not approve Lincoln’s statement: ‘‘Capital Is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed If labor had not existed.” Washington! Digest jjk National Topics Interpreted Jjjfroiiit By WILLIAM BRUCKART 'llffmfl GERMAN WOMEN LABOR $9 Germany, women .are graduallj , being taken „out of the factory and office to aaake more jobs for men. Stenographers, salesgirls, servant girls, factory workers are being placed In labor camps to drain marshes, build roads, cultivate the land and harvest crops. Also they are required to do a helpful kind of Those that “objected" had sound rea son on their side. Capital Is not the fruit of labor any more than labor Is the fruit of capital. Capital and labor are both the fruit of human Intelli gence. iThe intelligence of Thomas A. Edi son supplied labor, jobs employing mil lions of men and paying billions in wages, and that Edison intelligence alone supplied capital to those that knew how to use Edison's ideas on a big scale. The great element In “propaganda," "persuasion,’’ In advertising, Is repe tition^ Say a thing often enough and the average man believes It, not asking why. Of all human convictions, none Is more firmly fixed, Immovable, than those based on supersition. Ignorance, falsehood and preposterous credulity. Encouraging news: “An aviation program of more than 1,000 new planes to cost approximately $00,000,000 has been mapped by the Army, Navy and Marine corps for 1936." If we can afford five thousand mil lion dollars to prevent the depression killing too many Americans we may well spend sixty million dollars to keep foreigners from shooting at all of us. The Van Sweringen brothers had railroad properties that financial writ ers called a “three billion dollar em pire.” Perhaps “three billion.” referred to bonds, watered stocks and other “se curities" of the “empire." In any pse, the. Van Swerlngens borrowed ^orty-elght million dollars on that “em pire," largely from J. P. Morgan A Co. They did not. pay the forty-eight mil lion dollars, the whole thing was put up at auction, the Van Swerlngens bought back control of the “three-bll- linn dollar empire" for three million dollars, one-tenfh of 1 per cent of the three billions and forty-five million dol lars less than the amount borrowed on It The hurricane that spread destruc tion over Jamaica and Cuba obeyed the suggestion of Miami’s weather bureau and went 200 miles out to sea. Flor ida, much obliged to that hurricane, wonders whether anybody has any definite plan to control destructive hurricanes. William J. Cameron, broadcasting from Detroit, able to Interpret Henry Fold’s views better than anybody else, finds economic signs “already changed for the better.” More important, the “American mind has made a remark able recovery of equilibrium." Ethiopia’s king has “about” 2,000,- 000 men massed on three fronts, all facing Italians, and ready for anything to happen. Under those conditions something probably will happen. What ever start* vinust go to the end. If Is not llkeljb with Hitler preparing for revenge, that France will sever her present relations with Italy for the sake of distressed Ethiopia. If dear old England should sally forth and find herself all alone, she would probably “sally” back again without firing that first deciding shot. Mussolini knows that In Nebraska President Roosevelt ad dressed his first speech of the cam paign of 1936 to 15,000 farmers gath ered around the rear end of his car and 20,000,000 other farmers by radio. He talked .-earnestly, with Jesting; he understands the silence of farmers who Ipplaud little while expressing no dis approval. The farmer, who lives and thinks by himself, Is not • demonstrative being. Explaining and defending AAA, an administration device that tells farm ers what where, how much they may plant what animals they msy raise, what prices they must charge, the President chose this convincing state ment : v “Three years ago I visited farms In this state end saw farmers threshing 90-cent wheat and shelling 20ncent corn.” With farmers, facts count There Is no 80-cent wheat or 20-cent eon now. • Klnc Feature Syn«Mt* la* NAi .ON ' Washington.—The Republican party leadership has made Its first moves for the 1936 campaign. G. O. P. Ready—executive com- for Fight mlttee of the Re publican national committee has held a meeting here, a session that started and ended with enthusiasm bubbling ov$r. The rea son tte members gave for all of their joy was, as expressed by Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, that “the tide has definitely turned and we are going out to defeat President Roosevelt for re- election." Whether all of this Joy is Justified, no one can tell, but certainly the Re publican wheelhorses for the first time in almost five years have shown signs of genuine fight They are convinced that Mr. Roosevelt and his New Deal are In a tail-spin and they are- com mitted now to help the present admin istration to continue until It crashes— help It by calling attention to every shortcoming and every mistake It has made. While, as I said, the executive com mittee meeting simply bubbled over with enthusiasm, unbiased observers could not help reaching the conclusion after they watched the situation that the committee did very little of a con structive rtature. It ^ may be that this group was not Intended to map out many plans, but if it did not have that purpose, one is inclined to rise and in quire: Why hold a meeting? The one outsfandlng action taken was the authorization given Chairman Fletcher to establish a young Repub lican club division in the national committee headquarters here. The rest of the session that lasted all day apparently was given over to the ex change of ideas. All politicians and observers as well recognize the neces sity for the exchange of ideas but the question Is being asked around Wash ington what they are going to do with these ideas. . • • • Rank and file Republicans may take heart in the circumstances that brought their party leader- See It at ship to headquarters Good Sign four months earlier than they ordinarily meet. It is a good sign, from the Re publican standpoint It ought to mean that they are all set to do business and to keep doing business until they have elected a candidate to the Presi dency in November, 1936. But still, none of the Washington writers was able to determine exactly what is go ing to be done. The Washington writ ers can hardly be blamed. If Inside In formation that leaks out is correct, because the executive committee real ly did nof get very far with any plans. I said above that the wheelhorses ap peared to be full of fight. There was every evidence of this. There was also evidence of possibilities, at least, that there may be family fights. There is no doubt that many members -of the national committee do Dot like Chairman Fletcher. Likewise, Chair man Fletcher is not enthusiastic about certain members of the committee over which he presides. It is made to ap pear, therefore, th^t there may be some mud slinging before the machine is attuned for the campaign next year. If there is much of it, the Republican party may as well save the money it is preparing to spend, as money al ways is spent in a campaign, to de feat Mr. Roosevelt. It won’t have a chance If It Is going to fight without a united front against such opposition as the President and his party set-up Is prepared to give. • • • It may have been by coincidence or It may have been by design but what- , u . ever th e reason, the Won t Help action of Robert H. Either — Lucas, former execu tive head of the Re publican national committee, in filing s libel suit against one of the party members Is 'hot going to help either Mr Lucas or Charles D. Hllles, na tional committeeman from New Pork. Mr. Lucas has sued Mr. Hllles and Frank R. Kent, Baltimore newspaper columnist and political commentator, for $200,000 libel He charged In a suit filed on the same day that the executive committee met here that Mr. Hllles and Mr. Kent were “con spiring” to destroy him politically. It is unlikely that Mr. Lucas can sustain his charges in court but whether he can or cannot sustain them, the court action against a prominent member of his own party, a man with whom he was associated In party leadership, naturally will have a disrupting influ ence. Lt will go far beyond the two personalities involved because obvious ly the names of other party leaders will be dragged In. Mr. Kent said after learning of the libel action that Mr. Lucas was acting “silly” and he was not alarmed at all. The comment here among observers who know both Mr. Lucas and Mr. Kent seem to think that the action was br night by Mr. Lucas In order to upset Mr. Hllles. Mr. Lucas/ has dis liked Mr. Hilles for years^and so. In the opinion of many astute political writers, Mr. Lucas Is seeking to wreck any political aspirations Mr. Hllles [H has by joining him as a defendant In a suit against Mr. Kent Mr. Lucas, It will be remembered. Is the individual who got mixed up in a rather sour mess in the effort to beat Senator George W Norris In Nebras ka. Senato^ Norris has bolted the Re publican party and supported Demo cratic nominees through the last eight years, meanwhile continuing to claim Republican affiliations when he sought election to the senate. While it was never proved how much Mr. Lucas had to do with it, the belief has always prevailed that It was Mr. Lucas who conceived the Idea of persuading George W. Norris, an obscure grocery story proprietor' in Nebraska, to file for the United States senate against Senator George W. Norris who, was then seeking re-election. Punishment ■was meted out to the Groceryman Nor ris who. It appeared after the thing was over, was more or less of an In nocent bystander who was willing to lend the use of his name. Thus, when a few weeks ago, Mr. Lucas personally sent a questionnaire to the hundreds of Republican state and county chairman, seeking their view* as to a Presidential nominee for the party, those who remembered his services with the Republican na tional committee Immediately won dered what his object was. I have tried to ascertain what the purpose might be and have thus far had no success other than the statement which Mr. Lucas made to me. He told me at the time of his poll that he wanted to discover exactly what the sentiment was of those party ohairmeti' far removed from the hot bed of party control. It was his con viction, he said, that the method he was employing would bring to the at tention of those in control of the Re publican party facts that should awaken them and keep them from al lowing the party machine to be sub ordinated to the wishes of a few. He declined to name those few. Now, however, be is in the limelight in a new fashion. If he has been dam aged, as he claims, by the conspiring of Mr. Hilles and others, then he ought to collect and those who con spired ought to be exposed. Never theless, unbiased observers remain without a conviction that Mr. Lucas has been the victim of such a con spiracy. • • • Let us turn from a discussion of political rows and personal enmities to learn something About Mitt about one of the O’Reilly most calm and com placent women who has ever served in a public capacity. I refer to Miss Mary M. O’Reilly." It is probable that few of those who read my observation on Washington affairs ever have heard of Miss O’Reil ly, nofr is it strange that they have not heard of her for I do not believe there is any Individual more retiring and less desirous of publicity than she 1^ For 32 years, Miss O’Reilly has graced an office in the treasury. Start ing as a minor clerk she continued as a servant of the public in the office of the director of the mint. She did a job at once so faithful and so effi cient that promotions continued to come until eight or ten years ago she was made assistant director of the United States mints. Administrations came and went through all of those years and Miss O’Reilly continued to do her Job, to do It so faithfully that no one ever thought of what her polit ical affiliations may have been. A few days ago, there came from the White House an executive order which said that the treasury might continue to keep Miss O’Reilly on the pay roll for a year after November 1—she will be seventy years old on that date and under the law would be forced to re tire. Secretary Morgenthau, however, recognized the unique capacity and quality which Miss O’Reilly possesses and has extended her term of service. • • • I was telling a Washington visitor the other day the system employed in the national Capital Why No for the identification “J” Street? of streets, explain ing that the north and south streets bore numbers and the east and west streets were named after letters In the alphabet or with names beginning with those letters In the order of their appearance in the alphabet In the course of my ex planation my friend discovered that there was no street given the letter rJ” and It resulted In a little research ‘work to determine why this had bap pened. From records of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of Washington and from the office of the register of deeds I found definitely that the letter never had been used alone although out be yond “the first alphabet” whert names are used for streets and th^ names begin with the alphabet In reg ular order,, there are streets whos« names begin with “J.” But’ then was no “J” street snd never had been Farther Inquiry developed ’frhat 1 believe to be the basic resson namely, similarity of the letter T* and “J” when written. • WMUra N«wvap«r Untoa wtrk calculated te strengthen the potential mother of the new Ger many. ROLL DEVELOPED 0 Guaranteed Prints ONE ENLARGEMENT Fwv Bancroft 8m4 Oats, racteanad and graded, certified by Georgia Crop Improve ment A wan., tar parity and cermlaatlon, f 1 bo. 8amplea. K. M. Tarner, Boyatea, On. “Wasn’t I good and glad to discover it!” i ' • MRS. K. J. TOBIN. 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