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► I w t.' f - ’ ■' '* Th< Baniwll People-Seatlnd. Barnwell S. C- Thursday, May 7, 1936 News Review 9! Current Events the World Over Stiewer to Be Keynoter for Republicans—Flood Control Bill Passes Senate—Battle Over New Tax Bill in House. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Wcitern Nawapapcr Union. Senator Stiewer W HEN the Republicans Rather In national convention at Cleveland next June their keynote for their Presidential campaign will be sounded by Frederick Stiewer, the eloquent and hand some United States senator from Oregon. Be was selected to be temporary chairman of the con ventlon by una n- Imous vote of the ar rangements committee of the national com mittee after due con sideration had been given the names of sev eral other prominent Republicans. Observers held that the motive In picking Stiewer was a desire of the party leaders to give the convention a western atmosphere at the start, with an especial eye to agriculture. The sen ator has been actively Identified with wheat growing and his home town, Port land, Is a center of the northwestern battleground of the November elections. His colleague Is Senator Charles L. Mc- Nary, one of the authors of the old McNary-Haugen agriculture bill and by many regarded as a possible dark horse In the Presidential nomination race. Governor London said he was glad to hear Stiewer had been chosen, and It was believed Senator Borah also ap proved. for In many ways Stiewer has proved himself liberal, and at the same time has upheld the Constitution and the American form of government. He has opposed most of the New Deal measures, but has not been un compromising, as he voted for such acts as the TV A extension, the labor disputes act, and the AAA amendments. He has been active.In soldier legisla tion. Including the bonus. He opposed the work relief bill, the utilities hill, the tax bill and the Guffey coni bill. Congressman Bertrand Snell of New York, ndnorlty lender In the house, was selected to be permanent chair man of the convention,* a position he held In the convention of 1032. D ISltKGARDING warnings by Sen ator Vandenberg of Michigan against too hasty action, the senate passed a bill Introduced by Senator Overton of Louisiana authorizing the expenditure of $272,000,000 for flood control work on the lower Mississippi river and its trihutaiies. There was no record vote. The bill has no rela tion to the omnibus flood control mens ure now (fending, which may reach a billion. The sum named in the senate bill Is authorized merely to he appro priated and will have to he put in a deficiency appropriation hill. Senator Overton declared it was justified by emergency conditions. In addition to the 272 million dollars there is authorized an appropriation of Jf> millions to be allocated hy the sec retary of war and used in rescue work or repair and maintenance of flood control works. F kpki TKlt KPKItALJUDGK IIAI.STFP L. HIT- of Florida was found guilty on Impeachment charges by the senate and removed from ottiee, being the fourth federal Jurist to be ousted in this manner On each of the flrst six articles of Im peachment a majority of senators voted for his acquittal; but on the seventh article, which was a general ized summary of the charges against him, he was convicted by a vote ot f>U to 28. An order declaring Ritter should be “fore\T>r disnualifled from holding any otlice of honor-, trust or protit under the United Slates' was defeated. 7U to U The'senates verdict In the twelfth Impeachment case brought before It us a high court of impeachment since foundation of the American republic uiiciunted to a decision that Judge Rit ter had violated the Uonstitutiotuil re! quireni^nis of good behavior In otlice. ]| carried no punishment other than automatic removal from tire bench. levy •* about NIK) million dollars in new taxes yearly was Introduced in the house hy the ways and means commit tee. and a tie ice battle started imme diately. The Republican minority of the committee issued a report which stated that the proposed tax law was “unsound In principle, will undermine business stability. Is another step to ward regimentation of all business, and is not designed to raise revenue hut edmltfedlt Is another New Peal experl Bient ” r otiscnalive Pemoerats Joined with the Republicans in this attack against thp bill, but (lie administration leaders were confident ihe measure would pass before May 1. ''nntplete revision of the corporation tax system Is the main objective of the hill. It levies a graduated tax on corporation Income, based on percent age of earnings withheld from dlstrl bur ion to stockholders In the form of dividends. The majority report asserted the measure would raise about $803,000, 000 the flrst year, but admitted that over a three-year period revenue would fall $334,000,000 short of the Presi dent’s budget-balancing program. It was added that the deficit could be acted on “more Intelligently” next ses sion. S ENATOR KENNETH McKELLAR of Tennessee made at attempt to reduce by $223,000 the appropriation for the federal bureau of Investigation, otherwise J. Edgar Hoover’s G-men and failed Ignomlnoualy. OWy McKel- lar and one other senator were In the affirmative on a viva voce vole, and In the brief but lively . debate several Democrats, Including Majority Leader Joe Robinson, Joined Senator Vanden berg In denouncing the proposed re duction. The Michigan man's remarks were caustic. Said be: *T will go as far as the senator from Tennessee In all matters of econ omy, but It seems to me that this Is a peculiar place to start economiz ing. The bureau says It needs 175 more men. If the senator wants to save 175 men, I will join him In tak ing that number from the 18,235 em ployed by Doctor TugwelPs resettle ment administration. I will join him In abolishing 175 of the 43,641 jobs un der Mr. Hopkins I will join him In removing that number from the 19,548 Jobs under the HOLC, or the 2,422 Jobs under the long Interred NRA.” CECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS ^ reported that employment In manu facturing and nonmanufacturing Indus tries doting March showed a gain of 250,000. One division of th« steel In dustry, she reported, bad Increased Its employment above the 1929 level. Pay rolls In the Induatrles purveyed by the Labor department were $10,000,- 000 above February and $20,000,000 over a year ago. The employment Index In the wire making division of the steel Industry, she said, now stands at 143, compared with 124.2 In 1929. At the same time she pointed out that four and a-'half million young people have come on the labor market since 1929 and that employment would have to rise to 125 per cent of the “normal” level to ab sorb these newcomera Sixty-six of the manufacturing In dustries reported gains, she said, and 11 of the 16 nonmanufacturing Indus tries showed Improvement In employ ment S EVEN persons were Indicted by a federal grand Jury in St. Paul, Minn., for the kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., brewer, in June, 1933. Some of the accused are already lu prison. Only one, Alvin Karpls, public enemy No. 1, Is still at large, and the Depart ment of Justice In Washington has of fered n reward of $5,000 for Informa tion leading to his apprehension. Baron Alois! O CCUPATION of Adals Ababa and all of Ethiopia was the price de manded by Italy for an armistice In East Africa when the council of the League of Nations met again In Geneva. Baron Pompeo AIolsl presented the ultima tum on behalf of Dic tator Mussolini. Wolde Mariam, representing Ethiopia, countered with a reques*: that the league Invoke all penalties against Italy under article It] of the covenant, these includ ing military sanctions us well us the economic penalties which the league has been trying to enforce. The British and French dele gates explained the stand of their re spective governments In the einbrogllo. The league was helpless, and having received the discouraging report of the conciliation committee, was com pelled to confess It could not find means of attaining peace. France will not consent to the Imposition of mili tary sanctions, and Great Britain natur ally will not undutuke to enforce them by herself. It appeared the poor Ethio pians were to be abandoned to their fate, meaning the extinction of their empire and their exploitation by Italy. Anthony Eden In his address to the coiincM warned France that she might expect from Great Britain no further support against aggression by Germany than France had given against Italy. From the nortu, south and west the Italian armies were advancing on Ad dis Ahaha. and the panic stricken civ Ulan Inhabitants of the capital were fleeing from the city. Foreigners sought shelter In the bomb proofed British legation. Thj mayoi Issued all the arms available and the government called on all aol* men to make a last stand for liheity. saving "It is better i die than to he enslaved" Latest dispatches said the Ethiopians were blasting the road between Dessye and Addis Ahaha. and that the advance of some of the Italian columns had been halted hy strong attacks. The emperor was afield with his troops a.nd turned the government at the capital over to Crown Prince Asfa Wosan. T HAT old gold mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia, provided an epk~ tale of unselfish and heroic human endeavor ttiat will he told for many a year. For ten days more than a hundred experienced miners strove unceasingly to rescue three men who had been trapped by the fall of dirt and rocks In the 140-foot level of the abandoned mine they were in*f»ecting Machinery and other equipment were luought from far away. A diamond drill was driven through and through this small o|»enthg, communication was established and food was drop|»ed flow n tmt already one of the tltree was dead of hungei and exhaustion Finally the fles|»erale eflorts of the rescuers %ere successful and the two survivors were brought solely to Hie surface, together with rlie body of the dead man. Those suv,ed were hr l>. K. Robert ton. famous and beloved surgeon of Toronto, and C. A. Scaddtng The one who did not live was Herman Magill, also ui Toronto. " . . G OV. ED. C. JOHNSON of Colorado It determined to keep “cheap la bor” out of his state and has taken steps to stop the Invaders at the boun dary lines by means of a military patrol of the National Guard. Col. Nell W. Kimball, adjutant gen eral, flew over western Oklahoma on a scouting expedition following re ports workers were gathering for a con centrated “border run.” Guard officers said workers were camped across the state line In Okla homa. Reports that Indlgents were evading the patrol along the New Mexico line by turning eastward sent patrol units hurrying to the Kansas boundary. President Kemal A NOTHER post-war treaty has gone flooey. President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey and bis cabinet decided that the Dardanelles must be remilitarized, despite the Lusanne pact, and Turkish troops were promptly moved into the zone along the 75- mile long strait that connects the Sea of Marmora and the Aegean sea. It Is be lieved Kemal will soon rebuild the forti fications In the zone which the allies failed to capture during the World war. The Turkish dictator didn’t surprise anyone by bis action, for he asked per mission of the League of Nations some time ago to rearm the Dardanelles. No formal reply had been made, but the British government rather favored giv ing consent, and the Soviet union openly approves Turkey’s TBoVe. Italy was displeased, and there was consid erable excitement In the Balkan states, especially Bulgaria which bor ders on European Turkey. The Bul garians renewed their demand for a corridor giving them a direct route to the Aegean sea. Probably Kernel's action wl^'not be severely condemned by anyone, for most of the European nations are pre paring for war with feverish baste. Austria's army, small but well equipped, held a spring parade In Vienna, and immediately the nations of the little entente displayed their anger at this show of military force and their mili tary attaches in the Austrian capital were ordered not to occupy the places reserved for them among the review ing officials. Rumania has Increased Its military budget to $38.000,<H)0 and created a special fund of $20,000,000 for the development of aviation. Hun gary Is clamoring for revision of the Trianon treaty and recovery of the ter ritory it lost to the little entente. L OUIS MclIEN to President RY HOWE, secretary many years his close friend and ad viser, died in the Naval hospital at Washington after an Illness of more than a year. Mr. Howe was known In the capital as "the Presirtenr rntTker,*'' foi It was largely due to his efforts that Mr. Roosevelt reached the White House. For twenty-five years, from the day when Mr. Roosevelt and he first met In Albany, he had devoted himself to forwarding his friend’s political for- tLties. During the Chicago convention and the ensuing campaign his plan ning and his advice^were credited largely with the results attained. D ispatches from chengtu. china. tell a terrible story of the famine and drouth In Szeenuen province, once one of the most fertile regions m the countr/. It Is said to he the worst famine in the history of China, [tie deaths numbering many thousands and fully 3U,UOu.(KN) persons being in distress. Suicides and “rntrey slayings'’ are everyday incidents. Officials said the situation primarily was a result of Communist Incursions during the last two years In which the rpds overran and pillaged the land. W HAT American newspaper pub Ushers think of the actions of the Black lobby committee was ex pressed forcibly and unequivocally In resolutions adopted hy their national association at Us animal meeting In New York. The committee was ac cused of having violated the first, fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution by Its seizures of private communications, and the publishers recommended that all victims of the rommlttee’s acts seek civil damages and demand the “prosecution of all In volved In the odious affair under the criminal statutes of the United State#.” O TTUlUNO RESPIGHI, one of the most famous of modern Italian tom posers, died in Rome at the age of fifty sis of heart disease following Mood poisoning His passing la cause lor deep mourning among music lover* everywhere. £» Washington!, Digest National lopics interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART \ A ; I (j N A : Washington.—I suggested In these columns a year or more ago that the , campaign of 1936 Break tn would bring forth Party Lines some of the most amazing oddities In political alignments that this country had ever known. It waa apparent, even during the battle for ballots In 1932, that a gigantic shake-up In the voting alignment of fltizens was in the making. These things are now being demonstrated and more proof of the changing times seems Just around the corner. We all have seen how such outstand ing figures as former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the Democratic Presidential nominee in 1928, have bold ly flouted President Roosevelt and his New Deal theories and we have wit- nesn?d such vitriolic outbursts as those by former Senator James A. Reed, that old-line Missouri Democrat, and we have watched with Interest the hauling and filling by Jeffersonian Democrats who find New Deal fantasies to be a bitter pill to swallow. Lately, there has come another most Interesting situ ation respecting partisan alignment Although the action received much less attention than I believe It de serves, the determination of the Vir ginia Republicans In their recent con vention at Roanoke to refrain from placing a Republican candidate In the field against Senator Carter Glass constitutes, to my mind, one of the most extraordinary twists ever to take place under our two party system. That convention, acting utterly without precedent, took the position that It was better to leave the field clear for the election of the veteran senator than to precipitate a political battle by naming ■ Republican candidate. The reason for the action of the Vir ginia Republicans Is quite clear in one way. They felt that Carter Glass, al though a life-long Democrat who has carried on his share of bombardment of Republican principles and policies, could do the country more good from their standpoint than could be attained by placing a Republican condidate against him without chance of success. To state this premise In another way: Carter . Glass does not swallow the New Deal as a whole and when he finds objectionable features In the Roosevelt program, he is Independent enough and has the strength of char acter to voice his feelings. Doing tnls as a member of the majority party In the senate necessarily hat» more weight than all of the criticism of the New Deal that could he voiced hy a Re publican—If one could be elected lb Virginia—and the Virginia convention chose a course which It believed would best serve the nation ns a whole. But it is the circumstance of jjiJ party convention refusing to engage In battle that Interests me most. Under such circumstances, the old Idea of party loyalty becomes not only illogical but ridiculous. Instead of a call to battle, we see what amounts to a call for support of a*theoretical Opponent. Of course, lu the opinion of many, Farter Glass Is the outstanding ex ponent of conservative thought in the Democratic party and if he speaks for conservative thought In the Democratic party he Is almost speaking for con servative thought In the Republican party. If is easy to see, therefore, why the Virginia' Republicmis adopted the course they did hut where does that leave party loyalty? What does It mean as to the future alignment of nnliticul thought? • • • The course followed hy the Virginia Republicans is not more strange than the action of Prosi- On the flent Roosevdlf him Other Hand s ‘‘ ,f who ,,as Indorsed Senator Hiram John son of California and Senator George Norris of Nebraska, with almost boy ish enthusiasm. Senator Johnson and Senator Norris have not been regarded as regular Republicans but they have been flying the Republican banner for a good many years. Yet, the President verbally pats them on the back and oilers his blessing. During the same period, we have watched Mr. Roosevelt playing touch- iml-go with the La Follettes In Wis consin. Of course, the La Follettes ■atulogue themselves as Progressives but they never have had a great deal in common with old-line Democrats. Likewise, In the senate If one Is to oelleve gossip frequently bandied about, Semitor McNary of Oregon, the titular Republican leader, has been only half; henrtedly fighting the New Deal. In fact, some of Senator McNary’s own colleagues claim that he has really given aid and comfort to theit political enemies. in the meantime, one can wander around the halls of congress and hear private observations from men who acre supposed to be stalwart partisans that they have been unable to deter mine yet what their course ought to be. One of them remarked conliden- ilally to me that be believed he would bpve to consult -a clairvoyant before he •ould say whether he was going to sup a»rt the New Deal or oppose It or try o straddle tl>e fence. Of course, his .•mark was in a humorous vein but It wm epitomized the thought and, I may sayi the worry of a very great many parti sans at this time. So, we have a picture six months ahead of the actual casting of the,bal lots in which party lines are torn asunder for countless hundreds of more or less important party figures. I think everyone agrees that the condi tion comes from the development of New Deal principles and policies under the leadership of President Roosevelt. There will be many who are now doubtful as to their course who will realign themselves with the New Deal because they were originally Demo crats and there will b« many who will again follow the Republican banner down the stretch. But It seems to me that three years of Roosevelt probably have established a greater segment of thdependent voting strength In this country than had resulted from a quar ter of a century of partisan politics b» fore. The situation must b* construed then as indicating that hereafter those who stick definitely In party harness will continue to stand hitched because they have political aspirations and am bitions or because economic conditions in their communities are better fos tered by the party with which they have aligned themselves. Beyond that, It seems to me, citizens, In most cases, will vote In Increasing numbers for tbs man Instead of the party. • • • At last, after almost two years of promotion work. President Roose- , _ velt has aban- Quoddy Dream doned two of hlg Dropped cherished dreams: harnessing t h • tides of Pa.ssamaquoddy bay In Maine and construction of a gigantic canal across Florida. The 'Quoddy project designed to produce electric power in quantities never before turned out, was to cost $40,000,000. The great Job of excavating a slit across the face of the state of Florida to let ships go direct from the Atlantic to the Gulf without goiiffc around the toe of the state was to cost $1.30,000,000. Onlj a small amount, that Is, a small sum compared to (ffiher New Deal ex penditures, had been wasted on the ship canal plans before It was tossed info the limho of forgotten things, but something like $10,000,000 already has been used In the attempt to make the moon work through the medium of the tides of 'Quoddy bay. Both projects can he charged up to politics and ex periments and probably the couutry will he better off to take the loss and avoid the use of further money. The President fully intended to go through with his plans respecting these two projects until he ran Into vicious opposition in congress. Too ftiany representatives and senators realized that they were going to have the names ’Quoddy bay and Florida canal hurled at them through the com ing campaign if they voted their ap proval by including additional funds for these projects In the relief appro priations. I don’t know what Is going to become of the homes, the model city, erected for workers near the 'Quoddy bay project. Photographs of this village Indicate It to be a com munity of which any resident might be proud. It was constructed to assure the workers on the 'Quoddy project a comfortable place In which to live. They still have the comfortable place in which to live because the govern ment still owns the homes but what is to become of those people and what disposition is to be made of the proj*- erty is something else again. Vims, developifient of He<^ric power from the tides of 'Quoddy Day has been an engi neering question that has raged for years as a controversy. It has recurred frequently as a political matter but never until the New Deal came In were any tangible steps taken to Install elec trical equipment in that bay where the tides run higher than anywherd else in the world. « • • Most engineers have contended that it was impossible to place in the bay equipment that paced could function satis- Difficulties fnctorily while at the same time produc ing electric current at a rate that would bring a return on the tre mendous Investment necessary. Ffir- ther than that, no one yet has been able to show where so much electric energy could be marketed. The terri tory is sparsely settled and the indus trial production is small. While It was contended that limitless power would bring Industries Info that section, the indications were, even after actual work started, for only a small Incre ment in the number of factories and other users of energy. The 'Quoddy power Idea probably was ^the most fascinating and most romantic of anything proposed by the New Deal for the purpose of creating jobs. Like the proposed Florida ship canal, it held potentialities but those whose opinions heretofore have been sound remain unconvinced that either the power plan or the canal for a short cut across Florida ever could repay the government for money spent there Ot W' eatern Newspaper Uolop Foreign Words and Phrases • A bon marcbe. (F.) At a good bar gain; cheap. A outrance. (F.) To the bitter end. Obit (ob.)'(L.) He (she) died. Carp© diem. (L.) Enjoy the pres ent moment. De gustlbus non est dlsputandum. (L.) There is no disputing about tastes. Eau-de-vie. (F.) Water of life; brandy. Pour prendre conge (P. P. C.) (F.) To take leave. Buona mano (It.) Small gratuity. Raison d'etre. (F.) Reason for being. 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