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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell. S. C~ Thursday, March 26, 1936 News Review of Current « Events the'World Over France Forming Solid Front Against Germany in New Crisis—Paraguay Made Totalitarian Stated— Chester Davis Is Sent to Europe. By EDWARD W. PICK ART) © Western Newspaper Union. S IXTY thousand Orman troops In the Ithlneland that was supposed to be demilitarized. Practically the entire French army In and behind the vast system of fortifi cations along France’s eastern frontier. The French government, backed by the other signers of the violated Locarno treaty and by the little entente, Poland ami Russia, de manded that Germany withdraw her troops from the Rhineland or that . sanctions, eeo- M. Flandin nom | c an( j possibly military, be Imposed by the league of Nations. Great Britain trying hard to keep the peace, reproving Germany, supporting the French demands In great measure, but urging that Hitler's proposal of new non-aggression pacts be given consideration. Relcbsfuehrer Hitler reviewing his forces In the re- occupled territory and receiving the loud plaudits of the Inhabitants for restoring their military sovereignty. That In a nutshell was the perilous situation In Europe ns the representa tives of the Locarno nations and the council of the league assembled In London to consider what to do next. Foreign Minister Plerre-Etienne Flan din of France was there with the full support of Premier Sarraut for his de mands that Immediate action he taken to bring Hitler to time. He was rep resented as “almost convinced" that a “preventive war" now would be prefer able to “carnage two years hence,” and In Paris It was disclosed that France counted on having at her disposal, from her own forces and those of Russia, Poland and the little entente, a potential army of about 40,000.000 men. It was said 8,000,000 could he mobilized In 48 hours and 31,000,000 were trained reserves; and that 8.000 airplanes and a million tons of war ships were ready. The Franco Russian treaty came up In the French senate and was ratified by a huge majority. It Is this pact that Hitler gave as his excuse for re militarizing the Rhineland, asserting that It was a violation of the Locarno treaty, being aimed at Germany. It Is lb? final link In the "iron ring" around the reich which France has been forging. At first t tie British government's response to France's demands for full support against Germany was amhigu ous and not satisfactory to Sarraut and Flandin. After conferences with Prime Minister Baldwin and other min isters, Copt. Anthony Eden, the young foreign secretary, appeared before the house of commons and declared any attack on France or Belgium in viola tion of the Locarno pact would compel Britain to go to their assistance. He added, however, that there was no reason to suppose “the present German action Implies a threat of hostilities.'' Then he Indicated Britain was willing' to consider Hitlers proposals for new peace covenants. The British statesmen seemed so calm in the crisis that there was rea- mn to believe they knew In advance what Hitler intended to do. When Flandin and the other Locarno signa tory representatives arrived in Lon don, the attitude of the British cabinet changed and grew decidedly stiller. H ITLER was not represented at either the Locarno conference or the session of the league council in London. He himself, having precipi- Itated the crisis, made his triumphal appearance in t li c Rhineland and then awaited events. His <0> dramatic and sudden denunciation of the Locarno treaty was accomplished i n a speech before the reichstag and in for mal announcements to the ambassadors in Berlin of the nations Adolf Hitler concerned. He assorted that the troops he sent Into the Kliinclnnd comprised a “symbolic" army only, and that the reich, while ready to defend itself, was w’holly desirous of peace. To prove this he offered a plan which includes; A demilitarized strip of Cornian, French and Belgian land; a Jo year non aggression treaty among Germany, France and Belgium, with Great Brit ain and Italy as guarantors; inclusion of the Netherlands In the system of pacts; an air with the wesfern powers,; a non-aggression pact with Germany's eastern neighbors, includ ing Lithuania; and return of Germany to the League of Nations utter her equality Is established and her sover eignty restored. Fram-es feply to this was that, hav ing Just violated one treaty. Hitler conld not !»e trusted to observe anoth er; and anyway, France would not even listen f o the relchsfuehrer’s new proposals until he had withdrawn his troops from the Rhineland. The French army was moved toward the frontier vnd the “Maginqt line" of fortifications and underground passages was fully manned. This system of defenses has been criticized l»ecause It r. many troops that the army Is rendered virtually stationary—what has been called In Paris “the concrete army.’ Remaining forces would be insufficient for offensive movement But this fault might be disregarded If France gets the expected mllllona of soldiers from her allies. C HIEF JUSTICE ALFRED A. WHEAT of the District of Co lumbia Supreme court checked the telegram-seizing activities of the Black senate committee on lobbying. He granted the Chicago law firm of Silas II. Strawn an injunction restraining the Western Union Telegftiph com pany from giving the committee copies of the firm’s telegrams. The Judge said the subpoena served on the telegraph company by the com mittee, calling for copies of telegrams “goes way beyopd” the committee’* powers. Next day William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, began a fight In court to keep an original confidential telegram out of the hands of the Black committee; and the American Newspaper Publishers' association de nounced the reported seizure of that telegram, which was to one of Mr. Hearst’s editors. The association ad vised any other editor, should he learn of similar action, to consult coun sel and “take vigorous steps to pro tect his constitutional rights.’’ C OL. RAFAEL FRANCO, who be came provisional president of Paraguay after the recent revolution there, has set up a totalitarian gov ernment modeled aft er German Nazism and Italian Fascism. He Issued a decree which declared the state and the “llber- ^ atlng revolution" of February 17 as Indi visible and banned for one year political, la bor, or other unions which “do not em anate explicitly from the state." Paraguay, the government asserted, will be purged of “endemic, dema gogic, Industrial, and sectarian evils.’’ The official statement places In the “liberating army" the principal source of authority. The alms of the new government, the decree said, will he the construc tion of n new, strong Paraguay and constitutional reorganization for a fu ture republic. Rafael Franco C HESTER C. DAVIS, head of the Invalidated AAA, is not going to administer the soil conservation pro gram devised ns a substitute. Presi dent Roosevelt announced that Mr. Davis would leave soon on a trip to Europe to make a special study for the government of economic conditions bearing on the agricultural plans for this country. Critics of the adminis tration Immediately assumed that Mr. Davis ami Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had disagreed and that the former was being gently edged out of the picture. This Mr. Wallace warmly denied, asserting there had been no friction and that Jie had deep affec tion for Mr. Davis and the sincerest respect for his ability and integrity. In announcing the assignment. 4Jr. Roosevelt said: “In requesting him to make this study for our government. Secretary Wallace and I have had In mind the distinguished service Mr. Davis has given American agriculture, especially during the last two and one half years. As administrator he has been directing governmental efforts which, to a considerable degree, were made necessary by changes in the Eu ropean outlets for American farm products. “Information to he gathered Tty him at close hand as to the precise nature and extent of these economic changes' ,inroad is expected to assist greatly in developing American farm pro grams '' BEAT BRITAIN Is Interested and pleased to learn that King Edward VIII may abandon his state of bach elorhood and take unto hfm>elf a wife. Tliis was revealed when the king nu thorized these lines in the message submitting the civil list to the house of commons: “His majesty desires that the contingency of his. marriage should he taken Into account so that, in that event, there should be a provision for her majesty.’’ C'ARL BEATTY, commander of the L' British war fieet In 1IMU-1S and afterward first lord of the admralty, died in l.ondon after a long illness at the age of sixty-five. Rising from a sick bed to attend the funeral of Earl Jelllcoe last November, tie predicted that he would soon follow his col league. Lord Beatty had a meteoric career as a naval commander and dis played his ability In the battles of Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, and esjieclally In the battle of Jutland where he commanded the first battle cruiser squadron. Ills wife, who died in HJCfcJ. was Ethel Field, daughter of 'the Chicago merchant prince, Murahall Field DOWERS cf the federal t^ade com- * mission to Investigate unfair trade practices will be greatly broadened by the Wheeler bill approver! by. the senate Interstate commerce committee. It Is rigorously opposed by the Chamber of Commerce of the .United States, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American ^Newspaper Publish ers' association. The measure would: Make “deceptive acts" and practices In commerce” unlawful In addition to “unfair methods of competition” speci fied in existing law. Expressly give the commission au thority to proceed "upon Its own Inltla tlve,” as well as that of the President, or either bouse of congress as now provided. . - . Include persons and partper^hlpT^as well as corporations wlthlii Jh^e' scope of the commission’s authority to In vestigate business practices and condl tlons in Interstate and foreign com merce. Redefine “documentary evidence” to Include "books of account, financial and corporate records," and make such records subject to commission sub poena. /COMMUNISTS and radicals who ap- v- 1 peared as representatives of the Workers’ Alliance of America went be fore WPA Administrator Harry Hop kins and made a series of demands that were all coldly turned down by that gentleman. These Included the dismissal of Victor F. Bidder, New York WPA director; no cut In the 3,500,000 persons on works relief, and full union pay and union hours for per sons on relief and pay for sick leave. They also demanded that all employed, whether or not on relief rolls, be given WPA work. TN RECENT financing operations the 1 government sold $1,355,643,550 In bonds and notes, according to Secre tary of the Treasury Morgenthau. The offerings, largest since the Victory bond issue of 1919, were heavily over subscribed by banks. This borrowing brings the public debt up to the record figure of $31,413,000,000. The treasury’s cash balance is Increased to $2,675,000,000. The funds will finance New Deal spending In the near future, partially defray bonus costs and retire $450,- 000,000 worth of treasury bills fulling due March 10. National Topics Interpreted r by William Bruckart - National Press Building Washington, D. C. pLANS to furnish TVA power to the * city of Knoxville, Tenn., under a pioject to be financed with PWA funds were blocked by a temporary restrain ing order Issued by the District of Columbia Supreme court. The order was granted on the peti tion of the Tennessee Public Service company which contended Its $4,000,- 000 Investment In Knoxville would be rendered practically worthless. If the government brought cheaper power Into the city. Also In the District Supreme court, GO producers of soft coal attacked the Guffey coal control act ns unconstitu tional In its entirety on the ground that It Invades the rights of the states and deprives producers of their prop erty without due process of law. nks ■ a Koki Hirota K OKI HIRO1A, former foreign min ister, formed a n^w ministry for Japan and submitted the names to the emperor. He, besides being pre mier, takes the for eign minister's port folio. Lieut. Gen. Count Juichi Tarauchl Is put In ns minister of war and Admiral Osaml Nagano as minister of navy. Military lead ers Insisted that Hi rota “show a proper recognition of the gravity of the times and the necessity for renovation of Japa nese foreign policy.” and to this de mand he yielded somewhat. Hirota issued a statement saying that “the present empire situation requires indc|iendent and positive readjustment of our foreign relations in order to liquidate this emergency." Hachiro Arita. new Japanese am bassador to China, told the press in Shanghai nat “It Is fundamental that China recognizes Manchukuo and that the other North China questions should be settled .on the spot." "There has been no change in Jap anese policy In China as a result ot j the recent Tokyo Incident,” be de- j dared.' "Japan will carry oirt the three principles of Koki Hirota, for- | nier Japanese foreign minister, requir ing that China eliminate anti Japan- Ism. co-operate economically with Japan ami Manchukuo and co-operate lu the elimination of communism with in China ami along the borders." L IKl'T. ROBERT K. GlOVANNOI.I of Lexington, Ky„ hero of the spectacular bombing plane crash dur ing army tesis at Dayton, Ohio, last October, was killed In a crackup of his .•triiiy plane at Logan field, Baltimore. Giovannolis single seated pursuit plane lost Its right wing coming out of a glide and hurtled down in a crazy spin from an altitude of less than 500 feet. It rolled over after hit ting the landing field and was demol ished. J AMES j. FARLEY, chairman ot the Democratic national committee, let it be known that the party chieftains would make no effort to keep Al Smith out of the national convention In Phila delphia If he Is elected a delegate and presents proper credentials. And once he is seated, there will he no attempt to keep him from speaking his mind. Administration lenders. It was repre sented, believe Mr. Roosevelt will dominate the convention so completely that no attack by Smith or anyone >!se on the New Deal canjiavt any onsiderable effect. Washington. — President Roosevelt has very neatly called the bluff of his critics that be la Hot Potato wasting billions from for Congret* th e treasury and do ing nothing to re place It With much less ballyhoo than ordinarily precedes the presentation of tax legislation to congress, the Presi dent sent a message to the Capitol calling for new tax levies approximat ing a billion dollars In yield and In so doing dropped Into the laps of the house and senate critics one of the hottest potatoes they have ever been called upon to handle. If one were to characterize the play In the lan guage of baseball, since spring Is here, I believe one could say that congress either must play ball or let the run ners score. It was the greatest tax bill ever sub mitted In peace time. Whether the proposals the President has made are economically sound or whether the lev ies, he thinks advisable will do the job he expects of them, of course, remains to be seen. But the fact cannot b* dodged that Mr. Roosevelt has figura tively settled down around the ears of those who have constantly challenged the waste Inherent In his vast reform and recovery program with a stralght- from-the-shoulder demand upon con gress that It vote new taxes. It is a most Interesting situation, politically. In nearly a score of years of Washington reportorial experience, I cannot recall having seen ao much squirnflng and wriggling as well as fret ting and mumbling among represent atives and senators. It 1* only natural that they do not wish to go Into a cam paign for re-election when there Is the certainty that here, there and every where they will be confronted with heckling as to their vote for new taxes —assuming they will vote terrifically heavy levies as the President has sug gested, and as present Indications seem to assure. They have no heart for a tax Increase at this time. But, to re peat, they are faced with a situation In which they must either vote for new and heavier taxes or else they will he forced to swallow many long winded speeches In condemnation of the President’s course. • • » Whatever the merits of the Roose velt proposals may be, there Is no course open for his Force Hand* opponents except to of Opponent* support him in the general move to pay as you go. Unless they support these new tax levies, all of the howling and the shouting and tumult about a reduc tion In the treasury deficit becomes Just so much belly-wash. Opponents may differ with the Pres ident ns to the detniis of his tax plan but the situation he has created for them compels that they stand with him. To do otherwise would be not only Inconsistent but rather dumb. Frank Kent, the able news commen tator, summarized one phase of this situation the other day by saying: "It makes no difference that the situation which compels the imposition of new and heavy taxes Is largely Mr. Roosevelt’s fault. And It makes no difference that the move is forced by the exigencies of his campaign for re- election and is designed to spike the most damaging charge against him— that he has piled the debt mountain high an] by terrific expenditures men aced the national solvency. All that and more may be perfectly true; but for the Republicans and his non-polltl- cal critics, who have been assailing Mr. Roosevelt for months because of his failure to balance the budget to either obstruct or hold back now that the President urges congress to provide by taxation the money to pay for the vast gifts It has voted would be beyond the limit In political Insincerity and hy pocrisy.” In other words, there nearly Is no alternative for opponents of the Pres ident’s policies. They must show their sincerity by going through with him In the laying of new taxes. I do not mean by that statement that It is nec essary for them to accept without ar gument the exact levies which he has proposed. If they were not In accord with the taxes he proposes, they would not be serving their constituencies un less they so stated, but if they object to the levies he has offered, let them bring • forward substitute proposals that will produce a revenue yield In a like amount. They cannot afford to criticize and then refuse to of.er constructive propositions in turn. • • » On the other hand, it seems to he the consensus among Washington observ- . efs that Mr. Roose- Blame* volt ought not to be High Court allowed to get away with one declaration which he made In submitting bis tax proposals to congress. He said that the necessity for these new taxes arose from the Supreme court decision Invalidating the processing taxes upon which the Agricultural Adjustment ad ministration and its subsidies to agri culture was predicated. Of course, that may be true at the moment, but, as one frequently hears pointed out In Washington conversation, the Presi dent used the bounties to farmers and the AAA Itself as one of his keystone policies. The fact that It was uncon stitutional surely cannot be said to be the fault of the Supreme court and yet -V i~' that was the implication in the Presi dent’s message. Likewise, the President hinted that a part of the taxes was due to congres sional action In passing the bonus, which he vetoed and congress made operative over that veto. Again, I hear it questioned that congress Is act ually to blame. It Is being said with great frequency that had Mr. Roose velt made tj^e fight against payment of the bonus this year that be did a year ago, It Is almost inconclevable that congress would have passed it over his veto. It Is being said In this connection that If Mr. Roosevelt really bad de sired to kill the cash' payment of the bonus, his stalwart leaders In the house and senate could hardly have afforded to refuse his request to vote against It Instead of that situation, the rec ord shows that such recognized spokes men as Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader In the senate. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, Sena tor Byrnes of South Carolina and Sen ator Radellffe of Maryland, a personal friend, all voted to pass the bonus over the President’s veto. I may not be thoroughly acquainted with the maneuvers of politicians but I cannot believe these men would have turned their backs on the President In the bonus fight unless they entertained a feeling that he did not seriously ob ject. • • • So It simmers down that the men who a year ago and two years ago -voted the President Taxpayer* almost limitless pow- the Coat erand limitless funds to deal with an emergency are now compelled, if they Intend ever to be statesmen, to stick by, vote the taxes and take It on the chin if that is to be the reaction from the voters. After all, It Is mere ly the taxpayers who are the goats and as usual the taxpayers have not a great voice In their own defense. As to the President’s tax proposals them selves, congress Is asked to levy an unprecedented type of tax on undis tributed corporation profits. New processing taxes to replace those out lawed by the Supreme court, being de signed to be constitutional, are pro posed and a tax which the President described as a "windfall" tax to re cover a considerable part of the old processing taxes returned to taxpayers was suggested. He asked also that levies be laid on dividends which are now exempt from normal tax on Indi vidual Incomes. The “windfall” tax Is designed to offset the action of the Supreme court which ordered the return of the proc essing taxes as having been Illegally collected. In other words, the admin istration Is attempting to get by one method what the Supreme court said It could not get In the manner it em ployed. The tax on undistributed profits of corporations is the center of all kinds Of controversy already. Opponents of this levy maintain that If the govern ment forces corporations to pay taxes on reserve funds they have laid aside for the proverbial rainy day, such ns we have experienced for the last six years, none of them can stand the gaff of another depression. Mr. Roosevelt contended that his tax proposal in this direction, which would take away ap proximately one-third of such reserves, was designed only to prevent the piling up of cash by corporations instead of distribution of those funds to stock holders. There will he much hauling aad filling, many charges and counter charges, much maneuvering and manip ulation ns congress mulls over the new tax bill. It will pass some kind of new taxes and citizens will begin early next year to take out of their pockets money to pay off the deficits of the reform and recovery program. • • • Some 7."> years ago, the government organized mail service to inland points without railroad fa- ■ Star Route cilitics, calling this Mail Service new service the star route. This service ' has been continuously in operation In scores of communities and it is con tinuing to operate exactly on the gamer basis as It did three-quarters of a cen tury ago. So, this is a plea in behalf of those who carry the mail on the Star routes and for better service for Star route patrons. There Is a hill In congress now which proposes to provide better service for those carriers and for patrons of those routes. When one recalls that the boasted phrase of the Rost Office de- partnient-r“the mails must go through" —had Its origlp with the Star route carriers, it seems that the time is long since gone by to consider Justice for these faithful servants. It seems, fur ther, that If there are real “forgRten men" in this country, they truly are the carriers on the Star routes and the patrons of those routes. Even In the face of all of the hullabaloo that Sen ator Black, Alabama Democrat, Is mak ing about lobbying, those who desire to see Justice done for the Star route service, those who believe that the en tire postal service should be consid ered, and not just a part of It, should do their utmost to have congress act on this legislation. 0 Weaum Nawauapt r Uaiap. A dash of salt improves^ the flavor ot chocolate fudge. a a Always keep salads on Ice until It Is time to serve them. 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