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• ^ "v"r' • The Barnwell People-Sentinel. Barnwell. S. C. Thursday, May 21. 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK Mussolini Goes Through Practical Selassie Snake Killed One Which End of the Gun? Mussolini's men entered Addis Ababa, driving out the Ethiopian looters, bring* ing safety to vari ous foreigners, in cluding our own minister. Koine went wild with Joy; and no wonder. In seven montlia Mussolini has con quered Ethiopia’s millions, killing and wounding 250,000 of them, m arching steadily ahead through dangerous valleys and high mountains, driving out the Ethiopian armies, that were directed by skilled soldiers from Turkey, Scandinavia and elsewhere. Arthar Bristinne Those impressed by the high quail- ties of Ethiopia's Arab slave-trading ruler will "note that in the great crisis his presence of mind remained. The Associated Kress says lie took with him on the British boat “the imperial family jewels, many cases of gold bul lion ami gold coins.” On his way from Addis Ababa to the British ship he stopped to take all the cash from the treasury and customs house at Dlredawa. In Florida, a well-meaning preacher, who thought It his duty to let rattle snakes bite him to show the power of Bod, actually did let the snakes bite him without first removing their fangs. He is dead, the Jjary said, “by the bite of a rattlesnake through his own care lessness.” The poor fanatic succeeded only In proving the power of rattlesnake pdl-' son. The laws of the universe could hardly be suspended to Justify the whim of one well meaning fanatic. It makes a difference, even to the No. 1 ruhlic Enemy, ‘‘I’ll-never-he tak en alive’’ bandit, which way the gun is pointed. Mr. Karpis Is taken, much alive, with no struggle, beyond holding a straw hat over his face to baffle pho tographers. Much efficiency in casli rewards; Ihllinger defied all the “(J-men”; a re ward was offered, and a red-haired lady delivered him to the “(jmen” bul lets. and got $5,000. Whether the $7,000 reward offered for Karpis tempted some friend of that courageous one remains to be feen. The criminal is in business for mon ey. and when lie can sell a friend for $5,000, that seems preferable to risk ing his own life. The reward system should he extended; $5,000 reward for evidence resulting in arrest and con- victon of tinv murderer. The Carnegie Institute announces a "new law of matter" having to do.with the “cohesion of infinitesimal particles of matter within the atom." If it were not for that law, accord ing to scientists, “the universe would consist of nothing but light hjdrogen gas.’’ That should interest politi cians, who. after the big conventions, will live, until November, in a universe consisting of something lighlei than “light hydrogen gas." England's new king. Edward the Eighth, is said to he engaged to marry the Princess Alexandrine Louise of I’enmark, twenty-one years old, the English king's third cousin. The uncle of the young lady says he a ml her father know nothing of It. Nevertheless, it is ditlieult to believe that King Edward will remain a bache lor. wheiher he mairies tills charming young princess or some other, possi bly a good healthy young Scotch girl. If one available could be found. News Review of Current Events the World Over Mussolini Says Conquered Ethiopia Will Be Italian Colony —House Battles Over New Relief Bill— Some Campaign Developments. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Western Newspaper Union. Benito Musdolini C'THIOPIA is conquered, Emperor Haile Selassie has fled to Pales tine aboard a British cruiser, and the Italian army Is in possession of Addis Ababa. The war in East Africa is ended. But this climax may be only the beginning of a still greater story, for Benito Mussolini tells the world that all of Ethiopia now belongs to Italy, to be treated as a colony and defended by force of arms if necessary. He toned this down just a little by giving the French ambassa dor assurance that he would not in fringe on French and British Interests in East Africa, meaning the French railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa and the British interests in the Lake Tana headwaters of the Blue Nile. II Duce intimated that If France and Britain would support his program he would give them full trade privileges In Ethiopia and exclude all other na tions. The League of Nations council was about to meet in Geneva and It was believed the anti-Fascist sentiment among the French left parties that have Just come into power would Influ ence the French attitude there. The British, too, were said not to be recon-, died to Mussolini’s victory and It was understood Foreign Secretary Eden would insist on continuance of the pen alties against Italy, provided the other leading nations agreed. Indeed, the league could not well raise the sanc tions If the European powers take the stand assumed last fall by the United States and refuse to recognize acquisi tion of territory by force. All of them realize such recognition In this case woiHd create a dangerous precedent. Mussolini’s success in East Africa Is a humiliating defeat for Breat Britain, and a sad blow to the prestige of the League of Nations. Anthony Eden told the house.of commons that Britain’s failure to take military sanctions against Italy was “due to the horror of war and not to fear of the ultimate outcome.” The Laborltes enraged Eden by tbeir attacks and he refused to dis close what the government’s policy at Geneva might he, demanding a free hr.nd to deal with circumstances as they might arise. One result in Washington of the taking of Addis Ababa was severe criticism of the State department for having so wretchedly protected a lega- J tion there. Minister Engert had only a few weapons and the building was oj>en to attack. Representative Edith N'ourse Rogers of Massachusetts intro duced a resolution calling on Secretary Hull for information ns to measures taken for protection of the legation staff. !L He promised a real fight on the bill. When Hopkins was before the committee In secret session, he was ordered to give detailed Information concerning his expenditure of the foui billions deeded him by congress last year. Hopkins reluctantly admitted that nearly two billions of the original huge fund was still unexpended. Added to the extra one and a half billions requested by President Roose velt, Hopkins would have three and a half billions to spend In an election year. It was pointed out. C ALIFORNIA’S Presidential Repuh lican preference primary, eagerly awaited by the whole country, resulted In the defeat of the Landon slate of delegates that was put forward by William R. Hearst and Governor Merriam, with Lan- don’s tacit consent. The winning delegates, backed by Herbert Hotover and nominally pledged to Earl War ren though uninstruct ed, carried the state by a majority of about a SK),000. Mr. Warren an- Alf Landon nounced „ t fhat he released them from their pledge, to vote as they see fit in the convention. This looked like a blow to Governor Landon, and to a certain extent It was; but his managers claim at least 18 of the delegates will go over to the Kansan on an early ballot. Moreover, many friends of Landon deprecated the fact that Hearst was supporting him, believing it would do him more harm than good; and they were glad to see him freed in part from what they consider an incubus. Democrats voted almost solidly for Mr. Roosevelt Upton (“Epic”) Sin clair’s ticket received something over 100,000 votes, and that of John S. Me Groarty, Townsend plan supporter, about half as many. In South Dakota a slate of unin structed delegates favoring Ijindon won over a ticket pledged to Senator Borah, though the margin was slender. . v. H EjiltY P. FLETCHER, Republican national chairman, lias taken a leaf from the plans of the Democrats and announces that the men nominated at the Cleveland convention to head the Republican' ticket will be notified of the fact at a grand outdoor cere mony in the Municipal stadium, near tl e convention hall, immediately after the adjournment. This plan, of course, is conditional upon the wishes of the nominees. The Democrats had previ- ot.sly announced plans to notify Pres Ident Roosevelt and Vice President Garner of their re-nomination with a ceremony at Franklin field, Philadel phia. E Dr. Walter Emerson Brigg>, who teaches dentistry in Tufts college, says •women can take any kind /»: pain without a whimper." Women endure puin more courage cuisly than men. (’hlMbirth has taught them to snITer and endure in isolation. Man show s Ids heroism preferably in crowds, in squadrons, platoons; often he would not do that if it did not fake more courage to stay behind alone than to go ahead with the others. Women's is the courageous sex, man is the other kind and might as well admit It. dlie only certain immortality is rep resented by our children left behind to work on this earth, it must he of great Interest to provide a child to fill a throne and rule the world’s greatest empire—whether or not It lasts. MPEROR HAILE SELASSIE of Ethiopia gave up the hopeless fight Against the Italian Invaders and fled from Addis Ababa with his family. Mussolini’s victorious t r o o p s soon after marched Into the cap Ifni, the first to enter being a picked r°gi mont representing all units of the Italian army, the .Vskari. In fantry. artillery, air force, engineers, gren adiers. bersagllerl. Al- pini, cavalry, marines and Fascist militia- men. Their coming was welcomed by the foreigners who remained in the city, for ax s«»on as the negus left, the na tives began to pillage, plttnder and burn. The business center of the town was speedily wrecked and the government buildings were stormed and ravaged, these including the treas ury from which the state’s store of gold was stolen, and the armory. The streets were strewn with corpses «id the Ethiopians, crazed by liquor, rushed about shooting at random and gathering up their loot to carry it to the hills. Haile Selassie Two misguided Mexicans decided to ng bells of the ancient mission church t Juarez, Mexico, to celebrate tiie animation of a National Revolutionary mdldate for governor of Chihuahua he pious ladies of Juarez thought lose old bells should not be rung T any revolutionary candidate, and it. •came necessary for troops to rescue e bellringers from the infuriated omen, giving a good imitation of jripides man-hunting Bacchae. When women start they mean it. fc K.n* [Vaturfi* Syndicate. Inc. WNU Service. W ITH the Introduction of the tin employment relief bill calling for appropriation of a billion and a half dollars, a lively light started in the house. The Republicans and a fair sized bloc of Democrats attacked the measure chiefly because the entire big^ sum was to lie turned over to Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator. In ac cordance with the wishes of President Roosevelt. The Chief Executive had refused to countenance the earmarking of $400,000.1100 for projects of the heavy type sponsored by Secietary lekes, head of the Public Works ad ministration, and so the adherents or the lattei gentleman were prepared to revive the old lekes Hopkins fend. Ma Joritv Leader Bankhead was confident 4; the bill would he passed a^ reputed by tiie appropriations committee. At a Republican caucus Represent ntlvp John Talier of New York, rank ing minority meintier of the apprppri atious committee, explained the meas ure to his colleagues its that they coil'd conduct an ••intelligent oppositiojull»jn Senator Vandenberg S ENATOR ARTHUR H. VAN’DEN- BERG of‘Michigan has asked Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald of that state to present his name to the Republican convention In Cleve land for the Presiden tial nomination, but (lie senator insists this does not make h(m an active candi date. “The Michigan state convention generously Instructed the Mlchi gan delegation in Cleveland to present my name,” the senator said. “But the delega tion is unpledged—at my request, it Is free to vote us it pleases. I have not sought a delegation here or elsewhere and I shall not do so. i have not sought the nomination and shall not do so. My situation is uot changed In the slightest.” Friends of Senator Borah In Ulan tried unsuccessfully for a Borah pledged delegation from that state. The Republican state convention In Ogden voted to send an uninstructed group to Cleveland, following tiie recommends lion of tiie resolutions committee. Col. Henry Breckenridge, who offered himself to tiie Democrats ns a I’resi dential nominee aspirant merely so Hint disaffected members of the party might have some place to go. received about one seventh of tiie votes In the Maryland preference primary. The rest, ol course, went to Mr. Roosevelt Rreckenrldge nmde,i\o campaign. T il w HE national resources committee, hlch is headed by Secretary of tiie Interior lekes, has submitted for tiie approval of President Roosevelt a iilan for Hie creation of a Pacific Northwest Power agency that would outrival the Tennessee Valley author ity and would produce almost as much electrical energy as tiie entire nation could utilize. Two of the New Deal's power ven tines, the Bonneville and Grant) Cou lee dams, would he embraced by the PNPA. The ultimate cost of Bonne ville will be 75 million dollars and that ot>Gmad Coulee 204 millions. The ad ditional dam and power plant projects proposed liy tiie committee would en tail expenditures of approximately 52(> mliliomr.making a total of 805 millions Washington! Digest Jk National Topics Interpreted Jaffa By WILLIAM BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS 6l[ WASHINGTON & Washington.—Business, as repre sented by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Start Class again has clashed Struggle witl1 the New Deal, and again, the can nonading by business added nothing. Its attacks apparently bothered the New Deal not at all, for the New Deal has proceeded after the manner of the mastiff trotting along without concern while a poodle barked and snarled. Business made no overtures for com promise with the New Deal and New Deal spokesmen were not hastening to make peace with business leaders. Altogether, there was not the slight est Indication given that there will ever be peace between the two ele ments of economic thought. The one thing that impressed me about the recent annual meeting here of the chamber of commerce was the solidarity of business in Its opposi tion to general New Deal principles. That was to be expected but it has not always been the case. In days past, there were many business groups and Individuals who adhered to the New Deal and vainly tried to work out an understanding with the administration. At this annual meeting, however, there was not the slightest effort made on the part of business to accomplish any arrangement whereby business and tiie administration / would work to gether. This can mean only one thing: Pres ident Roosevelt is going into his cam paign for re-election without the'sup port of business Interests except where, in particular lines, benefit has accrued incidentally to *i>eeiHc busi nesses. One would think Hint such a condi tion would constitute a threat against the President’s re-election. Such ap pears not to be the case, however, be cause of the particular type of campaign which Mr. Roosevelt and his political commander in cJiief, Postmaster Gen eral Farley, are making. The Presi dent’s recent political speeches have made it quite clear that he is seeking support wholly from the agricultural and labor segments of our voters. His appeals are quite open ami frank and they are drawing considerable criti- citm because it is held tlieyi constitute the initiation of class struggle In this country. Whatever the reason for Hie President's course, it remains as a fact that lie is very busy cultivating voters who have suffered most in the depres sion. • • • When F reported above that business came off second best in its fresh as- . sault on the New Makes Good Deal, I did not mean Fight to imply that it had not made a vigorous fight, it probably gained some ground in getting before the country its side of the story, a phase of our national situation whiclt lias not been as fully advertised to the country as have the activities and accomplishments of the New Deal. Tiie story of the losses suf fered by business actually is not a great deal different from that of tiie individual, and imyiy businesses are existing on a hand-to-mouth basis just as is the case with thousands of in dividuals. Because business, in our mind's eye. at least. Is larger than an individual, political demagogues regard it as fair gamewind for that reason, I am Inclined to believe, business has not had a fair chance on tiie part of most of us when considering national problems. On the other hand, business has many units within Hie whole that have not played fair. There are a great many corporations that are guilty of plain oppression, even to tiie extent of fraud and corruption of business meth ods. For the orookedness of this seg ment. all business hifs been blamed by Hie New Deal. This is not equity. The unhappy part of it al) is that unless all business stands together, good, bad and in-between. It can get nowhere at* •ill in defense of its legitimate rights. There is. therefore, a wholly natural and yet quite unfair result emanating from this condition. New Deal plan ners. in their efforts to catch the crooks, have punished legitimate busi ness far too much if one is to accept even partially Hie public statements and the private expressions of the business men who attended the annual meeting of tiie chamber of commerce. This ought not to be and I think that legitimate business has Just ground for complaint on this score. So. as the situation now stands, I believe it can be said in all fulyness that neither side in this battle between tiie New. Deal and business comes into court vdth entirely clean hands. Busi ness has its cancerous sores. The New Deal lias its nitwits and theorists who know nothing about practical econqm- tea- -The result of this Is plainly seen, and II becomes more and more appar ent that Mr. Roosevelt cannot accom plish ids objective of complete recov ery tydil he directs some of his sub ordinates to put their feet on tiie 'round. Indeed, there are some of tiie Sew l)»*nl subordinates who ought to je tossed bodily into the street, Just is tli-ae are some business men who oghf to he ibrown into jai<. The chamber of commerce meeting brought forth the information that business, as a whole, Business had kept hundreds of Has Answer thousands of workers on Its collective pay rolls during the depression when con ditions did not Justify their retention. The claim was advanced that business had expended something like twenty billions in wages paid from stored-up reserves. It was further asserted that business was alone responsible for such gains toward recovery as have been made. New Deal spokesmen, from President Roosevelt on down, have consistently accused business of failure to take on workers and help solve the unemploy ment problem. At the same time, the banking structure of the country has been accused chiefly by the President of refusal to extend cudit to business, and business as a whole has been “classified by the President-as greedy. It seems safe to say that as regards these charges, business does have an answer, for throughout all history cap ital has refused to work unless there was a reasonable promise of return. Now, in addition to the lack of that promised return, business is and has been constantly confronted with un certainties on tiie part of tiie New Deal. Tiie present pending tax legisla tion is typical. Tiie most dangerous provision of that legislation is that which will prevent business from build ing up reserves sucli as thosa upon which It has been drawing during the depression. If the business claim is true that it has paid out twenty billions more than its operations justified for wages during tiie depression, it causes one to ponder over the future. One is inclined to ask what strength business trill have to do even as much for the working classes during the next de pression as it lias done in this on*. - • • • With reference to tiie New Deal policies toward business, a statement by Hie Rural Electri- Delicate ficarion administra- Question tion l las Just come to my desk. It touches on that very delicate question of how far Hie government can enter Into business in com[>eHtion with private enterprise without destroying or driv ing out private Initiative. Tiie com plaint on the part of private business that tiie government is continually wedging its way Into private fields is well known but tiie REA statement puts something of a new slant on the view. In fact, ft brings to the front one of tiie elements of government In business not generally recognized. Tiie REA statement consists of a letter from REA Administrator Mor- rs Cooke to the State Corporation Commission of Virginia. The Virginia commission was urged to consider the situation in which the REA and one of its loans will lie placed in event of a certain ruling hy the Virginia offi cials. In effect. Administrator Cooke asked the Virginia commission to rule against private business in order that a loan made by REA to a co operative organization in Virginia can he protected. To review tiie facts briefly, let^me explain that a private electric com pany applied to tiie Virginia commis sion for authority to extend Its lines for transmission of energy into a farm ing section adjacent to cities served hy the electric company. It happened that the REA ..ad sent agents Into Hiis same territory and had obtained promises from many farmers to buy electricity from a cooperative concern to lie organized and financed by REA. The private company apparently horned in to what Mr. Cooke thought was the territory of REA hy right of discov ery or some other such reason, and so he is now engaged in attempting at least to prevent tiie private company from entering that field. Tiie |H(int of this circumstance is that here is a federal agency, steeped in bureaucracy and with the usual bureaucratic thirst for power, which actually is attempting to drive pri vate industry out of its way. It is doing it under the thinly disguised reason of protecting a government loan. , 1 have heard considerable discus sion of this case. Many observers and students of economic questions con tend that tiie federal government has absolutely no right to engage In that sort of business. While it may he, and probably eqn be, said that the elec tric company was attempting to take the cream of the crop hy extending its ll.nes only to territory adjacent te its headquarters, tiie fact remains that .the normal re-employment which that private company would do will be cul down proportionately by the extension of tiie federal activities Into that area It may appear that the workers dis placed for the private company wilt be taken on by Hie federally financed co-operative lines but such is not the case. It is Just one more indication of how government, once it enters pri vate business, continues to expand and to destroy initiative which private enterprise has and which government never lias been known to have. 9 \V«>?i*r» Ncw*pai>«r Union. Now What Excuse Does Prof Suppose Senior Will Use? The reason he didn’t have his theme, explained Fred Lemmer, Uni versity of Minnesota senior, was be cause his typewriter broke down. 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