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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell 8. C- Thursday, July 23, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK I In Ancient Nile Mad England Keep* Ready 9 Let the Dead Sleep Murder Starts Early Paris.—Reclining on her side, her body covered with gold, gold necklaces on her neck and on the ground nearby, arch aeologists discover the well- preserved body of an Egyptian prin cess whose fa ther, the Pharoah Chephren, built the second big gest pyramid; it was his brother, Cheops, who built the largest. Those pyramids were tombs for kings, and search-, ers found the princess in one of them. The Nile mud seeping into the tomb had helped to preserve her. That princess, living 5,000 years ago, could tell an interesting story for the movies. She “built herself a small pyramid with stones given to her by her many lovers.” Where do you suppose she is now? In some strange Egyptian heaven, perhaps, with all those admirers around her. Arthur Brlabaue England, alarmed by European war threats, issues an official “white paper” explaining why— “The relation of our own armed forces to those of other great pow ers should be r^aintained at a fig ure high enough to enable us to exercise our influence and authori ty in international affairs.” Unfortunately for all plans, the airplane in the hands of a des perate nation might upset all na tional “authority,” just as a pistol in the hands of a desperate man upsets individual and police au thority. One bullet will stretch individ ual authority in the dust; 1,000 air planes. attacking the heart of a great city, might cause national “authority” to end in demoraliza tion. England's new defense increase will be largely in her air force; that wise nation knows that the real “ocean” in future wars will be the ocean of the air. In a desert of southeastern Utah, men and women, belonging to the cult of “truth seekers.” were gath ered around the body of Mrs Edith Dakhal, who died more than a year ago You read about it. perhaps. Mrs Ogden, leader of the "truth seekers,” prayed over the body, which appeared marvelously pre served The “truth seekers ‘ be lieve they will bring the woman back to life, but the pathetic fact is that It would not in the least matter if they did The important thing is to im prove the condition of 1.800.000.(MX) actually living on the earth. For one safely out of it to be brought back would be unimportant, in these days, and perhaps cruel. America holds the world's "mur der championship" for all kinds of murder, at all ages—quantity, qual ity. variety, volume A New Jersey boy. 16 years old, was sentenced to death. In Wisconsin, a coroner reports that little David Holl. two months old, was killed by two boys four and three years of age They each held one hand of the younger one, and dropped it on the floor. It cried and would not stop. Then, one of the small boys ex plained, “We pounded him.” These youngest “killers" puzzle the law. You can’t “try” a four-year- old child. Railroads tell the interstate com merce commission they would like fares reduced to two and a half cents a mile, instead of two cents. The railroads should ha\e all possi ble consideration, for they have built up this country, but at two and a half cents a mile they will not compete successfully with auto mobiles carrying passengers for one-quarter of a cent a mile. New York proposes to fingerprint everybody, new babies included. The baby of the future will be busy, with finger-printing, tonsil and appendix removai, vaccination for smallpox and a half dozen oth er diseases. The new treaty with France/ re ducing the duty on French wines and liquors by 50 per cent, inter ests California and other wine growing states. It should persuade them to stabilize the production of wines, establish official guarantees of purity, freedom from adultera tions, mixtures, end especially “fortifying” with alcohol. In Europe, notably in France, adulteration of wines is an offense against the law. With us, it is a business. For advertising reasons, a group of men made a long distance hike on a diet of broken grain to prove the superiority of that diet. They were surprised when 53 hikers showed a total loss of 211 pounds in weight, while one, 66 years old, Aiytwed a gain of three pounds. f? C King Prmtures SyndKAla, luc. J WNU Scrvtu*. News Review of Current Events the World Over Drouth Damage Estimated at $300,000,000—Steel Fight Brings Union Labor Crisis—Landon Reconvenes Kansas Legislature. By ’EDWARD W. PICKARD • e Went**™ Newspaper Union. AXTHILE relentless heat drove ^ ^ the nation’s farm losses from drouth toward the $300,000,000 mark and sent grain prices soar ing, long needed rains in scat tered regions of the drouth belt brought temporary relief. In sec tions of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio, which faced the prospect of the disaster already confronting the Northwest, the rains were a God send to sun-parched corn fields, pastures, and crops of spring wheat. Rains in the Northwest re vived portions of North and South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska. But a heat wave lasting nearly a week had brought temperatures ranging from 90 to 114 in the Great Plains territory. Twenty-three states, eight of them in the South, were listed as suffering in some degree from the drouth. Ten of them—North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, ' Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Virginia and South Car olina—were already in a critical stage. Five others — Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia—were borderline c&ses. Eight others where the full severity of the drouth had not yet been felt were: Nebraska, Wiscon sin, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Kan sas, Indiana and Ohio. With the full extent of the dam age in the “dust bowl” area of the Northwest not yet known, the fed eral government made plans to deal with a long-range disaster. President Roosevelt, taking person al command of the relief program in Washington, announced that he would make a personal tour of the drouth-stricken areas within the nest few weeks. The President announced that the federal government had prepared a comprehensive plan whereby 170.000 out of 204,000 farm families impoverished by the drouth in the Northwest would be given immedi ate cash assistance. He declared that he will make his trip after the relief program has had an opportu nity to get under way, to see for , himself exactly how much damage | was caused by the drouth and whether financially-ruined families are receiving the proper assistance. He said that 50,000 farmers were being given jobs immediately on WPA projects at an average wage of $15 per week, carrying out use ful work—digging wells, construct ing earth dams to ?>old any rains which may fall in the near future and building farm-to-market roads. A livestock program is under way which would call for the movement of cattle from the arid sections as a private enterprise, to protect the foundation herds of the livestock growers. wise passed by a unanimous vote another proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the state to levy taxes on employers and em ployees for systems of old age pen sions and unemployment insurance to which the beneficiary must con tribute. Meanwhile, Governor Landon opened a series of major confer ences with farm leaders for the purpose of drafting a farm relief program for inclusion in his ac ceptance speech. He conferred with former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, and former Senator Otis F. Glenn, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas and R. K. Lauben- gayer, a Kansas farm publisher. William Green nOMANCE out maneuvered diplo- macy in the life of Mr*. Ruth Bryan Owen. American minis ter to Denmark and former member of con gress. The engage ment of the daugh ter of William Jen nings Bryan to Cap tain Boerge Rohde, an officer of the Danish army, was announced in Den mark by the lat ter's mother. Cap tain Rohde is a member of King Christian’s personal bodyguard. Captain Rohde arrived in Amer ica on the liner Drottningholm a day or two after his fiancee had reached the country. They were married at an estate on Long Island. In political circles the opinion was expressed tha* Mrs. Owen will probably resign her diplomatic post in a short time. While there are no formal regulations which com pel an American woman minister to resign when she weds, it has been customary for women in mi nor positions in the American for eign service to retire when they marry. Ruth Bryan Owen OVERNOR Alf M. Landon re- ^ turned to Topeka, Kas., after, a vacation in the Colorado moun tains, for the reconvening of the State legislature and to prepare for the acceptance speech he will deliver at the Republican notifica tion ceremonies July 23. The Republican presidential nom inee appeared before a joint ses sion of the legislature and urged passage of amendments to the state constitution to provide adequate so cial security measures. Governor Landon declared that care of the needy aged and others suffering misfortunes is a “public obliga tion.” ^ Following his address, the Kan sas senate adopted a constitutional amendment by a vote of 35 tc 1, empowering the legislature to en act a uniform system of direct aid for needy aged persons, indigent infirm persons and others suffering misfortunes which give them a claim on society for aid. It like A S THE long-awaited > campaign to unionize the nation’s steel industry was under way, one of the most serious crises in the history of the “American labor' movement arose when strife broke out between Wil liam Green, presi dent of the Ameri can Federation of Labor and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America and head of the Committee for In dustrial Organiza tion, who has pro moted the unionization drive in the steel industry. Meeting in Washington, the exec utive council of the American Fed eration of Labor considered the matter of suspending eight national and international unions on the ground that these eight unions have begun the formation of a rival, or duel labor federation. Johrr L. Lewis announced that he would not respond to a summons of the executive council to answer charges that he had violated the federation's policy by trying to or ganize 500.000 steel workers into one big industrial union instead of into several unions divided by crafts. Should the rift widen and a break occur, observers believe it would split the organized labor movement and affect its prestige and power at a critical time. Denouncing the action of the Lewis group. President Green de clared ; “It is sincerely to be regrttted that the committee for industrial organization thwarted the purpose of the American Federation of La bor to inaugurate an organizmg campaign in the steel industry.” Back of the collision over the at tempted unionization of the steel industry are two contending schools of thought over the future of or ganized labor in America. One is that sponsored by Mr. Green which rose to power on a policy of trained craftsmen, trained by crafts The other is championed by John L. Lewis who visions a powerful labor machine organized regardless of crafts, which includes the semi skilled and unskilled workers as well as the trained craftsmen. S OON after returning to his desk from a three-day pilgrimage to Virginia, President Roosevelt an nounced that he had granted Post master General James A. Farley leave of absence without pay from August 1 to November 5, the day after the presidential elections. Thus Mr. Farley will be freed from official duties to devote him self during the next three months to the direction of the President’s campaign for re-election. The an nouncement did not come as a sur prise to those in informed political circles, in Washington, but it had been rumored in some quarters that Mr. Farley would resign his cabinet post and retain his job as chairman of the Democratic Na tional committee. Mr. Farley announced that Rep resentative Sam Rayburn of Texas would be chairman of the Demo cratic speakers’ bureau. The cam paign, he said, would be in full swing by Labor Day. President Roosevelt’s sojourn in Virginia took him to the dedication of Shenandoah National Park, to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson and to Williamsburg, capi tal of the Old Dominion from 1699 to 1779. In an address at Jeffer son’s home, the President called on the nation to rekindle the “sacred fire” of “true freedom” which had lighted the “golden age” of Ameri can history. He declared the pres ent emergency required the same leadership as that displayed by Thomas Jefferson. Adolf Hitler D EFYING the threats of Com munist members of the cham ber of deputies, the French gov ernment decided to. use armed force “with care” to oust French strikers who refvu • to evacuate their places of business. The announcement of this new policy was made by Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro, fol lowing the outbreak of fresh “fold ed arm” strikes in Paris and the provinces. It wai estimated that 80,000 workers were still o” strike in various industries throughout France. S ENATOR William E. Borah, about whose future political plans considerable doubt exist ed, formally announced that he would be a candi date for re-election to the‘senate. Several days be fore makii.g his an nouncement the Idaho statesman had pledged alle giance to the Re publican ticket and platform, thus re moving the ex pressed doubts of many political lead ers throughout the country regarding his stand in the presidential campaign. Previously Senator Borah had commented fa vorably on both the Republican and Democratic platlorms, praising both for the stand they had taken on the question of monopolies. The seventy-one-year-old senator in clarifying his position on the Re publican platform said: “I have no intention of bolting the ticket. “I am supporting the platform and I have been supporting the platform from the beginning.” UTTING a big cake to celebrate ^ his ninety-seventh birthday, John D. Rockefeller predicted that he would live to be one hundred. Despite temperature of 92 in the shade, the famous nonagenarian donned a sun helmet and went out doors on his summer estate near Lakewood, N. J. The multimillionaire oil man and philanthropist did not let the cele bration of his birthday interfere with his daily nap or his daily aft ernoon automobile ride. Mr. Rockefeller long since has given up all forms of athletic activ ities, including golf, formerly his favorite pastime. A few years ago he was down to a few holes of golf a day, but now he has given it up entirely. It has been his custom to spend his winters at Ormond Beach, Fla., and his summers ei ther at Lakewood or at his other estate at Pocantico Hills near Tar- rytown, N. Y. \ y AR-WORRIED Europe shifted its anxiety from the llalo- Ethiopian sanctions problem to the newer and baffling question of what to do about the Free City of Danzig now seeking to free itself from the bonds of the League of Na tions. The league dis posed of the sanc tions problem • by voting to abolish them, thus to all practical intents and purposes removing Ethiopia from the family of sovereign states. Appear ing personally before the league as sembly. the refugee emperor, Haile Selassie, made a last moving bid for Ethiopia's freedom. The “king of kings” denounced France and Great Britain without mentioning their names. To the generally expressed desire to re form the league, he said the weak ness was not the league covenant itself, but a lack of international morality. The Negus’ request for a loan of $50,000,000 to Ethiopia was voted down. Previously Haile had informed Capt. Anthony Eden. Brit ish foreign secretary, that he would return to Ethiopia immediately to join his loyal tribesmen and fight for Ethiopian independence. With Mussolini given satisfaction, the Danzig situatidh brought into the foreground the figure of Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Nazi Germany. It was a Nazi follower of Hitler, Dr. Arthur Greiser, president of the Danzig senate, vho demanded inde pendence for the former German city now surrounded by Polish ter ritory and who denounced the league and Sean Lester, league high : commissioner for the port. Observers were of the opinion that Greiser was acting under or- . ders from Chancellor Hitler. In view of Germany’s expansionist program and its rearmament, they feel that Danzig will be the next Nazi objective now that the Rhine land is remilitarized. By the elim ination of Commissioner Lester or by the curtailment of his authority over the international affairs of the city, it is believed the Nazi would be in a position to crush the opposi tion party and pave the way for an nexation of Danzig by Germany. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart National Proas Building: Washington, D. C. A TOLL of 346 lives was exacted in the celebration of the Fourth of July throughout the United States. Booming cannon crackers played a comparatively innocent part in the slaughter, for only 11 lives were lost in accidents due to fire crackers. But if the nation heeded warnings about the danger of fireworks, it forgot the menace of motoring ac cidents, for 208 people in 36 states were killed as the result of acci dents on streets and highways. Ninety persons were drowned in 86 states Miscellaneous tragedies ac counted for 37 additional fatalities n 15 states. Washington.—As the full mean ing of the platforms of the two major party con- Two ventions sinks in, Plat forma certain very defi- n i t e conclusions cannot be avoided. In each in stance, the two old political organi zations have moved into virgin territory, entirely new fields. In the case of the Republicans, their Cleveland convention com pletely Reorganized their party leadership and placed the responsi bility in the hands of younger men, casting onto the ash heap along with the old guard leaders, many of the old time conservative ideas. In the case of the Democrats, their Philadelphia convention vir tually created a new party. They went further toward the radical side than they have ever gone be fore. In no spirit of criticism, it must be said that the Philadelphia convention really gave birth to a New Deal party, as such. The one thing they kept was the Democrat ic label. The theme song of the Republi can platform was molded out of the fabric that is part and parcel of the younger generation as dis tinguished from the attitude given birth and promoted and protected by the Penroses, the Lodges, the Smoots and others of that texture. This is to say that the Republican convention, for the first time in many years, has moved its cam paign pronouncements out onto something approximating a mor al plan, or at least the evidence is they have attempted to do so. The Democrats, having had ten days between the Republican con vention and their own in which to study the Republican document and improve upon it, went consid erably beyond their opponents in the language they used. They have made an appeal to the vot ers of the nation that surely will attract many thousands of voters to the support of Mr. Roosevelt. On the other hand, the Philadel phia convention proceeded to cast aside many traditions, many prin ciples, which old line Democrats, who love the Jeffersonian theory, regard as their political bible. and they may antagonize that segment of the old party by so doing To state the proposition in an other iway. many observers and po litical analysts hold that while the Democratic platform contains few er contradictions than does the Re publican pronouncement and that, on the whole, it is a much better written platform, they have leaned so far to the radical side that they are leaving conservative Demo crats and old guard Republicans only one place to go—to the Re publican candidate Thu develops because, in the first instance, the old guard Republicans obviously cannot embrace a Democratic plat form m'hich they regard as too lib eral and they have no choice but the Republicans. The conservative Democrats will have the choice to make. They can go to the New Deal party or they can remain as old line Democrats and swallow their pride of party affiliation long enough to support the Republican, Governor Landon • • • One may look back over the do ings at Philadelphia and recognize ii J Ifc** 18 * meeting Under # a s thoroughly Orders controlled from Washington. That was natural because the party in power obviously has all of the im portant federal offices filled with its own men. The convention in cluded among its delegates about 64 per cent of federal office holder- delegates. That explains better than any way I know how the 104-year-old two-thirds rule was so easily abro gated. That rule has been a sore spot in conventions for years. It has many times been the direct cause of bitter convention battles and has bred scores of bitter per sonal animosities. It was none the less interesting, however, to see the Philadelphia delegates toss out principles of the Democratic party with such utter abandon. I am convinced that the Demo crats have not seen the end of the two-thirds rule yet. There is every indication that it will arise again when the next quadrennial meeting is held. There are plenty of Demo crats who believe that the require ment of a vote of two-thirds of all delegates shall be recorded for the man selected as the party’s Presi dential nominee is a protective measure. But when the convention voted out the two-thirds rule, it took the Democratic party out of the hands of the South. It seems to me that the South erners cannot be blamed for de siring to maintain that two-thirds rule. This is their position: through all of the recent elections, the Democratic nominee has begun his campaign with the assurance tha* 11, 12 or 13 states in the South would give him their electoral vote. He could concentrate, therefore, on the North and the West. The old line southerners have held that unc* they alwaya supplied from 100 to 140 electoral votes upon which the Democratic nominee could build, they ought to have something to say about his nomina tion, about the type of man select ed. The two-thirds rule gave them a veto power and they have used it many times. Now t unless the old line Demo crats again gain control of the par ty, the South will no longer be able to sit as the umpire in deciding the type of character of the* man who will bear their party label in campaigns. The question may arise in many minds as to how the rule came to be discarded so easily. Earlier in this report to you, I mentioned that 64 per cent of the delegates to Phil adelphia were federal office hold ers or party leaders selected by the Roosevelt patronage dispens ers. , The presence of those office holders and party leaders who have been bound to the Roosevelt administration in one way or an other constitutes the answer. There were enough of them in the south ern delegations to constitute a bal ance of power on close votes in state delegation caucuses. Hence we witnessed a good many south ern states voting to abrogate the two-thirds rule over protests of some of their owm numbers. * • • There is another circumstance about the Philadelphia convention that I believe war- Quote rants mention. It Jefferson may have gone un noticed generally but just 160 years after Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, the Philadelphia convention of the Democratic par ty copied from the immortal Dec laration the famous phrase: “We hold these truths to be self-evi dent.” It was a bold move on the part of the New Dealers to lift that Jeffersonian expression and to place it among the many new the ories and new ideaLi which they advance under the banner of m*hat was the Jeffersonian party. Some observers point out that this ac- i lion may invite comparison be- { tween the political ideals of Thom as Jefferson and Franklin D j Roosevelt because surely there is I much more in the Declaration of In dependence than the simple expres- ' sion that certain truths ara self- i evident. • • • In these days when the world, as well as the American nation, is _ sorely troubled and Talk disturbed, those About Peace Americans who are convinced that iso- ; lat ion may nun our country, can find little satisfaction either in the Democratic or Republican plat forms. This may not seem im portant until one looks back over the last two decades. Examination of what has happened in that time is sufficient to demonstrate the sig nificance of this isolationist trend by both major political pa*iies. The Republican plank tin foreign affairs has little to say and what it says is chiefly negative. The plank drafted by the Roosevelt admini stration and adopted by the Phila delphia convention is as nebulous as the milky way. Each platform talks about peace but it is de cidedly doubtful that either plat form has offered a genuine way to obtain or maintain peace. It was only natural that the Re publicans should restate their op position to the League of Nations. It was likewise only natural that the Democratic plank on foreign affairs should be full of glittering generalities because it is yet to be remembered that the late Woodrow Wilson has countless followers in the New Deal party who hold the conviction that the League of Na tions, with American support, would solve most world problems. It is obvious, therefore, that the Democrats could nof commit the party either to League adherence or non-adherence. Except for the party split over the old Wilsonian policies whose ideals slood as a ghost in the background in the Philadelphia convention, one might have expected more definite declarations from the Philadelphia conclave. For example, the Roose velt administration has sponsored reciprocal trade agreements. It hfls broadened American foreign policy in many other ways but some leader in the group that drafted the 1936 platform was smart enough to realize that a dec laration on internationalism that was too strong would have brought 1 about a vicious outburst at Phila delphia. In consequence, airuvst nothing of a tangible character was forthcoming. Therefore, in summing up, I think it must be concluded that both platforms have been drawn to appeal to Americans as isola tionists. Likewise, it occurs to me that the interpretation of their promises and plans and foreign policies by tiie two contending can didates will be the more interest ing as the campaigns proceed C Weat*rii Ui.ii ft.