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I Th« Baniwell People-Sentinel. Barnwell. S. C- Thursday. August 20, 1936 T ' ! i BRISBANE THIS WEEK Choeet Vue* Fan, Con*cience-Proof > Caterpillars and Weed* Wiae Generoaity • An able Frenchman, long since dead, wrote about choses vuee— "things seen.” There are still many things to see and to hear, although there is nobody to write about them as that old French man wrote. At the head of the London Artfcar Brlabanc Times’ “personal column,” some one pays to print .this impressive extract from the Psalms: “Seek the Lord, and His strength; seek His face evermore. Remember his marvelous works that He hath done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth.” You spend a moment wondering what kind of English man or wom an, strong in faith, decided to put that text before statesmen that to day seek the “face” of Hitler, Mus solini, Stalin, but forget the greater power of the Creator of those gen tlemen. After that, you read in the same Times this advertisement: "Furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clean con science—full particulars from Maj. C. Van Der Byl, Wappenham, Tow- cestec.” This being an ingenious and doubtless quite sincere appeal to the tender-hearted Englishwoman who does not like to think that the fur around her neck once belonged to an animal that suffered for days and perhaps weeks tortured in a trap. Possibly the best way to “obtain furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clear conscience " is to buy and wear some of the innu merable furs, from rugged bears to silky chinchilla, made from the skins of rabbits that are nourished in little hutches in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and fed with “rabbit hay.” tender young alfalfa, grown on the Mojave desert, a good deal of it on a ranch owned and operated by this writer. When you buy furs, no matter what kind, with a rabbit skin foun dation. you may be sure that the animal suffered very little, if at all. and when you buy that fur you also buy honest American alfalfa, which ta a vegetarian product F C Cobb wrote from the Boy Scout reservation at Allaire. N J.: “The last four week-ends have ben spent by our scouts collecting tent caterpillar egg clusters from wild cherry and apple trees along the highways of Monmouth and Ocean counties Many thousands of egg clusters, each containing on the average 23u egg* have been destroyed '* No better work could be done by scouts and other boys It w far better eierciae than perfunc tory “hikes. ‘ often eshausting for smaller boys The fathers of the boys, also in need of exercise, can be useful mowing weeds along highways, ex cellent work for the lungs and for reducing the waist News Review of Current Events the World Over Suspension of Ten Unions Voted by Federation Council— Many Oil Men Indicted for Conspiracy— Metaxas Dictator of Greece. By EDWARD W. PICKARD • W*«t«rn Nawipapar Union. TTNLESS John L. Lewis and his ^ associates in the Committee for Industrial Organization repent and cease their “rebellious” activities before September 5, the ten unions they head will be under Edward S Harkness. generous young tfew York flnsncier. gave to Lawrenceville School for Boys a sum that will make possible im portant new building, plus rebuild ing and a more extensive system of small-group instruction, with more teachers. Mr. Harkness, who does not like publicity, refused to make public the amount of his gift of Lawrence- ville. but he gave $7,000,000 to Ex eter academy. $13,000,000 each to Yale and Harvard, to finance their housing systems. That gives some idea of the size of his gifts. Some Americans will agree that it is a good thing to have men of unusual ability accumulate wealth wisely. Old-fashioned Americans would rather encourage such gifts and praise the givers than inculcate the notion that anybody with brains enough to accumulate wealth in this country of opportunity is prob ably a thief and ought to bo in jail. Mussolini knows how a dictator can keep his hold on the people. He establishes 2,000 government camps where half a million poor children enjoy free vacations at sea and mountain resorts For nine years Mussolini has carried on this work. In Europe, English, French, Ger man, Italian or Czechoslovakian wiD believe anything you say about American crime, and that is hardly surprising. The heading “Chicago Politician Dies Under Hail of Racketeers’ Bullets” surprises nobody. There might be mild surprise if the head ing read. “Chicago Politician Does NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers Bullets.” C **»« Fraturra Pyndioaia. I ft* *Nt Hart nft J. P. Frey American Federa tion of Labor. Such was the verdict of the federation's executive council which passed on the charges of John P. Frey, president of the metal trades division, that the CIO was “fomenting . insurrection and rebellion.” David Dubinsky, head of the garment workers, cast the only vote against the suspen sion order. Lewis having definitely set him self against any peace overtures, it appeared that the suspension certainly would be put into effect. The next move will be up to the Tampa convention in the fall, which will be asked to vote the ex pulsion of the refractory unions. The ten unions accused by Mr. Frey and found guilty are: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Sidney Hillman, president. Oil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery Workers, Harvey Fremming, pres ident. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Thomas H. Brown, president. Ladies' Garment Workers. David Dubinsky, president. Textile Workers, Thomas F. Mc Mahon, president. Flat Glass Workers. Glen Mc Cabe. president. Iron. Steel, and Tin Workers, M. F Tighe. president. Automobile Workers. Homer Martin, president. Rubber Workers. S. H. Dalrym- ple. president. Action on the International Typo graphical union, whose president. C. P. Howard, is secretary of the CTO; and the United Hat. Cap and Millinery Workers, part of whom are not associated with the CIO. was deferred The suspended un ions have a membership of about one million, or nearly one-third of the total m the federation. The council staled “This is the first attempt ever made, during the existence of the A F. of L. covering a period of more than SO years, to set up a dual movement within “It was the opinion of the execu tive council that it could not con done the setting up of a rival organ isation within the officially rec ognised family of organised labor, or tolerate and countenance It with out sacrificing its self-respect or making an unconditional surrender to a minority group composed of members who are hi open rebellion to democratic procedure and ma jority rule, as exemplified at the late convention of the A. F. of L “ I^ewta characterised the council's action as one of "incredible and crass stupidity * and said that it was “dictated by personal selfish ness and frantic fear.** high prices from independent pro ducers, and in furtherance of such a scheme were members of associ ations which included the indepen dents. Further it was charged that independent refiners, to aid the plan, had curtailed their production of gasoline. This, said Mr. Platt,, is exactly what the oil companies did with the approval of Secretary of the Interi or Harold L. Ickes, administrator of the NRA petroleum code, when efforts were being made to limit the production of gasoline, prevent the flow of excess quota oil into mar ket channels, and raise prices in that turbulent industry. “The government’s charge turns on whether a practice legally start ed and carried on under the recent NRA petroleum code was continued in illegal manner after the NRA was killed by the United States Su preme court,” Mr. Platt said. CENATOR HENRY W. KEYES of *3 New Hampshire has announced that he it not a candidate for re- election by the Republicans, prefer ring "to retire from active partici pation in public affairs.” The Re publicans therefore will choose be tween former Senator George H. Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges, both of whom have announced their candidacy for the nomination. / Kansas Republicans renominated Senator Arthur Capper, and the Democrats picked Omar Ketchum of Topeka. In Kentucky the Demo crats renominated Senator M. M. Logan, whose Republican opponent in November will be Robert H. Lucas. Marion A. Zioncheck, the eccen tric congressman from Seattle, re considered his decision to retire and announced that, at the request of his mother, he would be a can didate to succeed himself, “to show the people that I am neither crazy nor foolish?* esti- the E^XPERT crop statisticians ^ mate that, as a result of record breaking drouth, this year’s corn crop will be reduced to 1,572,- 000,000 bushels, which would be the smallest yield since 1881 except for the disastrous drouth year of 1934. In that year total production was 1,478,000,000, but the acreage was, smaller than it is this season. Argentine farmers are expected to profit to the extent of $50,000,000 or more as a result of the keen competition for com between the United States and Europe, which has recently lifted prices about 17 cents per bushel in the Buenos Aires market. IN THE first few days of the * Olympic games in Berlin the American track team piled up such an imposing number of points that it appeared certain none of the ri val teams could catch up. Jesse Owens of Ohio State university lead his mates in this victorious march, winning three championships, in the 100-meter and 200-meter runs and the broad jump. In the longer dash he lowered the world and Olympic marks. Ken Carpenter of California won the discus throw with a new Olympic record of 50.48 meters, and Gordon Dunn, also of California, was second. Earl Mead ows of Texas was first in the pole vault with a new Olympic mark; and points were won by various other American athletes. Among the women contestants Helen Stephens of Missouri distin guished herself by breaking the world record in two heats of the 100-meter dash. P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was visibly aroused by Republican charges that the New Dealers were seeking to reap political profit from the drouth conditions At his press conference he broke with the usual rule by pemfitUng himself to be directly quoted as saying: “It ts a great disservice to the proper administration of any gov ernment to link up human misery with partisan politics “ Geo. Metasas S IX passengers and two pilots were instantly killed when a big Lockheed Electra plane of the Chi cago and Southern Airlines crashed a few minutes after taking off from the airport of St. Louis, Mo. At this writing there is no explanation for the disaster. The plane was al most new and the weather not bad though skies were overcast. The plane was bound from New Orleans for Chicago, and five of the victims were residents of the latter city. One of the dead was Vernon Omlie, a veteran pilot and husband of Phoebe Omlie, a noted flyer. T il ERE la another dictatorship Hi Europe, this time Hi Greece Gen. John Metaxas. premier, an- that a general strike foe- t e r e d by com munists was likely to lead to serious disturbances, a o, with the approval of King George II. he declared martial taw. dissolved par liament. postponed elections indefinite ly and mobilised all workers In essential services such as railway*, in order that, called to the colors, they srouid be directly under govern ment control. Strong guards were mounted at power stations, gas works and other vital points and all soldiers and po lice not on guard duty were held in barracks ready for action. Metaxas promised the enforce ment of an eight hour day. a min imum wage and a social insurance system. He remodeled the cab inet. taking for himself the army, navy, air and foreign affairs port folios. Dispatches to Bucharest said there had been clashes in the northern provinces of Greece be tween workers and the military forces. YORK Republicans art nominate a candidate for 1 governor at their party convention in September, and Col. Theodor* Roosevelt hcs said in a letter that was mad* public that , he is willing to ac cept that honor if the party so de sires. Colonel Roosevelt, now forty • eight years old, was the Republican c n n • didst* for governor in 1924 and was de feated by Alfred E. C* 4 - »••••*•»• Smith. Sine* then he has been governor of Puerto Rico end gov- ernor goneral of the Philippines. A VOLUNTARY cut of OS MI KM *“ m the debts of 13.90* “dis tressed'* farmers was reported by the Resettlement edmintstraUon. The debts, it sold, were seeled down by creditors, through the work of voluntary farm debt com mittees in bringing farmers and their creditors “together In a neu tral atmosphere'' during the ten months ended June 10. Expenses of seeking debt re adjustments. taken from • fund provided by President Roosevelt Sept. I last year, amounted to 1 per cent of the total amount of debts involved, the administration said So far. $1,100,000 of the al located $2,000,000 had been ex pended. H. M. Dawes C HARGED by the government with conspiracy to violate the anti-trust law by combining to dom inate the purchasing of oil in the Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma fields and to fix prices of gasoline in the Mid dle West, 58 per sons, 23 petroleum concerns and three publishing compa nies were indicted by a federal grand jury in Madison, Wis. Among the prominent defend ants are Edward G. Seubert of Chicago, president of the Standard Oil Company of Indi ana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston, 111., president of the Pure Oil com pany, and many officials of Stand ard Oil, Pure Oil, Deep Rock, So- cony-Vacuum and various other oil concerns and their subsidiaries. Al so in the list are Wawen C. Platt of Cleveland, publisher of the Na tional Petroleum News and Platt's Oilgram; his two publications and the Chicago Journal of Commerce. The indictment charged that the defendant oil companies formed pools in the east Texas and mid continent fields for the purpose of purchasing gasoline at artificially D ESPERATE fighting for posses sion of the passes in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid was going on between the government forces and the rebel troops. Loyalist soldiers were hur ried to that region, and Madrid claimed some victories. However, the Fascists on the northern side of the range were said to be within sight of the capital and in position for a vigorous advance. The rebels scored in the south by landing 2,000 Moroccan troops from Ceuta after a lively sea and air fight in which two loyalist warships were driven off. The loyalists were also reported to have met defeat near Avila, losing 600 men and some tanks and trucks. On the twentieth day of the re bellion the government announced it had captured the provinces of Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Mala ga, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara, Badajoz and the northern resort city of San Sebastian. Fascist Italy has been accused of aiding the Spanish rebels, and it is asserted a number of Italian bombing planes were sent to them in Morocco. The leftist French government naturally is in sympa thy with the Madrid government and Frenchmen, unarmed, have been given permission to cross the border to aid in putting down the rebellion. German and Russian sympathies, also, are ranged on opposite sides, and all this caused fears that a general war might re sult. France called on all other nations to preserve neutrality, and Spain warned Italy and Germany to keep hands off. e 0 National Topic* Interpreted by William Bruckart National Praaa Building Washington. D - C - Washington.—The United States is being given an object lesson in what happens when The People government a t- Afusf Pay tempts to interfere with nature. American farmers these days are threshing their wheat crop. The production is that of a reduced acre age, an acreage that was planned on theory by the Department of Agriculture. The result is that this laws has proved the inability of man to alter the course of nature and by the same token these con ditions haVe proved the inability of government to change human na ture. I do not know whether oth ers will agree with my conclusion or not but I am of the opinion that the American farmers are paying dearly for the crop control checks they received in the past two years. Even with a crop shortened by r\ECLARING that it "win Indore* no candidate'* of party in the Presidential campaign, the Ameri can Liberty league states: “The league is neither sn adjunct nor sn ally of the Republican par ty. It is not an adjunct of the Demo cratic party, even though many of its principles harmonize with the excellent platform adopted by that party in 1932 and proclaimed as *a covenant with the people to be faithfully kept.* “Certainly the league is not an adjunct of the New Deal party ' which for the moment has usurped control of the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. It has not and will not contribute to any campaign fund.” \X^HILE the nations of Europe ^ were worrying over the Span ish rebellion and the danger that it might bring about open rupture among the Fascist and anti-Fascist governments of the continent, steps were taken to assure peace. Ger many and Italy accepted the invi tation of Grea: Britain, France and Belgium to participate in a con ference this fall from which it is hoped another and better Locarno pact will emerge. No date fox the conference has been set, but it was expected to be held either just before or soon after the meeting of the league of na tions assembly in Geneva in Sep tember. P EDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, leader of the Puerto Rico Nationalist, party, and seven of his associates were found guilty at San Juan of’a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government in the island by force and were sentenced by Fed eral Judge R. A. Cooper to prison terms ranging from two to six years. In the first trial of these men the jury had disagreed. The case originated in a clash be tween Nationalists and police last October in which several persons were slain. Following this. Col. E. Francis Riggs, chief of insular po lice, was murdered, presumably in revenge for the killing of National ists in the October fight. year’s American wheat crop wilT approximate 640,000,000 bushels. That is about 145,000,000 bushels less than the average crop during the five years from 1929 to 1933. The result is a shortage. Department of Agriculture fig ures indicate that the total wheat crop in the world this year will be something like 650,000,000 bushels below the annual production. In other words, the wheat crop is short everywhere on earth and the result is obvious. In our own case, there is normal ly a carry-over each year of about 125,000,000 bushels but due to the shortage of the crop this year that carry-over is insufficient to make up the needs of domestic consump tion. Consequently, we soon will see heavy importations of Canadian wheat, a wheat that can be blended in milling with our own production and * very satisfactory flour re sults. Yet, it must be remem bered that on all importations of wheat from Canada or anywhere else, a tariff of 42 cents a bushel must be paid. It is clear, therefore, that consumers of bread must pay that tariff because the importers are going to pass that item of ex pense along as part of the cost of the flour. In addition to the short age in the United States, Canadian wheat production is reported to be something like 100,000,000 bushels under normal. There is sufficient production in Canada to permit of export, of course, but the shortage is bound to be reflected in the prices. And mention of the price brings us back to the individual effect of the combination of acreage, re duced by government edict, plus the set of nature in visiting * drouth upon us. Scarcity always results in higher prices. It is the operation of the law of supply and demand The Roosevelt farm pol icy has been predicated on the the ory that scarcity would produce higher prices and thereby add to the farm income But drouth and other production hazards cannot be predicted and. therefore, the Amer ican people find themselves in a p«et»Km where the unpredictable has happened and the farmers ere not getting the benefit of higher prices on a natural and normal UCtlOfl. • • • There seems to be a stronger demand for wheat now than at any time during the Indutiry u Bt five or six Open* Up years It indicates a restoration of buying power on the part of the masses In other words, industry again is opening up to s<yne ex tent and employing workers al though the increase in employment has been small thus far. In consequence of this combina tion of circumstances, there is now a seller's market in wheat in stead of a buyer’s market in wheat. To say it another way. there are more people seeking to buy wheat than there are seeking to sell it and the consumers of flour will pay the bill. By way of contrast with present conditions, it may be point ed out that world wheat consump tion has exceeded world wheat pro duction in every year except one since 1929. In the 1932 crop year there was slightly more wheat pro duced in the world than was con sumed. The result of the steady growth in consumption over pro duction in the last few years has been to wipe out all of the carry over-wheat stored in bins and ele vators throughout the world—and in every country users of wheat are scraping the bottoms of their bins. The tragedy of it all is that, be cause of the reduced acreage and the drouth in the United States, American farmers are not in a po sition to take advantage of the high er prices thus established by the sale of surplus wheat which may have been accumulated if the acreage had been normal. Instead of the United States real ly controlling the market for wheat, we are in a position inhere a good many other countries may be en couraged to grow more wheat. The natural and obvious results of this will be to further curtail the outlet for American wheat which so long has been relied on by many foreign nations that are non-producers of wheat. I do not know how far the New Deal intends to go in revising, its basic economic policy regarding crop controlling. I can be sure of only one thing in regard to the New Deal plans: The visitation of the drouth, in two years in which the political planners of the New Deal attempted to upset natural drouth, if there had been the, nor mal acreage of wheat, American farmers would have reaped the re ward to which they are so justly entitled. j • • • A year or two ago, a committee of the American Bar association made a report def- Bar Offer* initely critical of New Plan the New Deal ad ministration for having created so many agencies to which had been given functions almost like the courts. That re port pointed out how such units as the now dead NRA and the equally dead AAA could issue rules and regulations that were enforceable as law. They called attention to tha further fact that counties? of these rules and regulations carried strict and severe penalties, even to the extent of a jail term for an indi vidual violator. Lately, another committee of the American Bar association has pub lished another report, again calling attention to the un-American princi ples established in such bureau cratic control. It offers a construc tive proposal for the elimination of bureaucratic management of in dividual affairs from Washington. It proposes the establishment of an administration court which would have power to enforce these rules and regulations but would be equipped with the judicial right of determination so that the thousands upon thousands of regulations with their various penalties would not be enforced upon an individual ac cused of their violation without giv ing that alleged violator the right of a hearing. The committee pro posal. In other words, would put an end to determination of violation* by one bureaucrat. 1 Ultimately, the proposed court would take over the judicial work of all of the administrative agen cies Hi Washington now numbering something like 7$. The imtia I op eration of the court would be limit ed until it could bring something like uniformity out of the chaoa now existing for it M well known that in many cases two govern mental agencies will have rules on the same point and those rules will not be the same In some aggra vated situations. It has been found that one agency will prescribe a penalty against sn individual busi ness for doing one thing while an other agency will have no penalty for the same act. Another instance is known where taro agencies have virtually the same regulations but the penalties in he two rules are different. • • • I suppose the condition can bo explained by the fact that dozens of new bureaus Too many have been set up Bureau* under the scores of New Deal laws and that in the haste to get them into operation, no co-ordination was had between the various groups, but it is my belief that private citizens cannot be blamed for this condition. Since they cannot be blamed for failure of government to function properly, they ought not be compelled to answer for the silly differences in law which bureau crats have written under authority of congress to draft necessary reg^ ulations. After all, congress is really to blame for this condition. It rushed through laws which President Roosevelt demanded and it did not take time to debate the provisions nor did it examine the sections to know fully what results would flow from them. In many cases, too many, statements of general legis lative policy were not clear and congress abdicated its duties to the extent that it wrote into those laws provisions saying that the agency which was to enforce the particu lar law was given authority to write whatever- rules and regula tions were found to be necessary. Some authority of this kind always has been given in order to make the national laws flexible but they never have been given to such an extent as they have in the last three years. Insufficient time has elapsed since the American Bar association committee came forth with its ad ministrative court 'proposal for an analysis to be made of its poten tialities. It may, and probably does, have weaknesses. It does, how ever, have a strong point in the general idea that a judicial body should determine whether an . individual citizen has violated a bureaucrat’s law and what the pen alty should be rather than have that bureaucrat sit as prosecutor, judge and jury in telling the indi vidual citizen what hi* crime has been. C Wwura N«w«v<ipM Li bio*.