The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, May 21, 1936, Image 2
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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
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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.
There had been other alibis, recalled
Prof. Edward Weaver. ‘‘The next
time,’’ he supposed, ”1 suppose you’ll
tell me your house burned down.”
Without his theme the next time,
Lemmer said: ‘‘Sorry, professor.
My house burned down.” It did, too,
firemen affirmed.
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