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.
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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
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