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News Review of Current Events the World Over League of Nations Assembly Seats Ethiopians—American Legion Elects Colmery'Commander—Japanese Marines Occupy Part of Shanghai. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C W«M*rn N*wap«p«r UaUa. Halle Selassie H aile selassie couldn’t whip the Italians in, the Ethiopian war, but the fugitivjb emperor won the battle of Geneva and put Benito Mus solini’s nose out of joint. After an ex citing debate, the League of Nations assembly voted, 39 to 4, to seat the Ethiopian delega tion, now headed by the emperor’s Amer ican adviser. The negative votes were cast by Hungary, Austria and Albania, all under the thumb of Italy, and Ecuador. Ethi opia, Portugal and four other coun tries refrained from voting. Rather surprisingly Great Britain and France espoused the cause of Ethi opia, though it had been thought they considered the co-operation of Italy in the league of more impor tance than Justice to the African realm. The heated debate was closed when Capt. Anthony Eden, British foreign minister, said: • “Enough of this nonsense! There never has been any sufficient ground to unseat the Ethiopian delegation.” The credentials committee in rec ommending the action taken said it ipplied to the present session only. Its report asserted that certain doc uments which had been received by the members alleged that Ethiopian governmental authority has been set up in sections of Ethiopia not occu pied by the Italians. Seating of the Ethiopians made It certain that no Italian delegation attend this session, and it believed by many that Mussoli ni might withdraw formally from the league It was a victory not only for Ethiopia but also for the — -A. i -a. » Italy and bugle corps of Chicago won the drum corps tournament. Only about nine hundred surviv ors of the Union army were able to attend the G. A. R. encampment, and many believe it will bb the last tc be held. The aged warriors, headed by Oley Nelson of Iowa, the national commander, began their proceedings with a service in Wash ington cathedraL The route of their parade was six blocks on Pennsyl vania avenue, the scene of the grand review of the Union armies before President Andrew Johnson seventy- one years ago. C. H. Williams Ruhe of Pitts burgh, who ran away from home 72 years ago to join the Union army when he was only a lad of fifteen, today was unanimously elected to be commander-in-chief, and Madi son, Wis., was named as the en campment city for 1937. A SSERTIONS made by William ** Randolph Hearst and other op ponents of the New Deal that the Preshjent “passively accepts” the support of the Com munists have got under Mr. Roose velt’s skin. A state ment issued through Stephen T. Early, his secretary, said: “My attention has been called to a car tain notorious newspaper owner to make R appear that the President paa- W ' slvely accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the Ameri can form of govemmen. “Such articles srs conceived in malic* and born ot political spite. They are deliberately o ‘frame* th» Orval Adams of Salt Lake City was advanced to the first vice presiden cy, though h waa said this was op posed by soma because of his pro nounced anti-New Deal convictions. The executive council will select the meeting place for the 1937 con vention. Mexico City was the only one to make a bid for the choice. Resolutions reported by the com mittee end adopted called on gov ernmental divisions—national, state and local—to bring their expendi tures more definitely under control and return to balanced budgets, and recommended that chartering of new banks be limited rigidly to the economic needs of the nation. fJEORGE P. JONES of Minne- ^ sots, who has been serving as a special assistant to the attorney general of the United States since 1934, has been made judge of the federal district court for the Virgin Islands. This is a recess appoint ment by President Roosevelt and la subject to confirma tion by the senate. Mr. Jones planned to leave for St. Thomas about Octo ber 1. He succeeds _ „ , Judge Albert C «• F- Jones Levitt of Connecticut, who resigned August 1 because, as ha alleged, the Department of the Interior in terfered with the processes of his court. The oath of office was admin istered to Mr. Jones in Washington by Ugo Carusi, executive assistant to Attorney General Cummings, in the presence of Mr. Cummings and a number of other officials. C HIEFS of police of the United States and Canada, attending the convention of their international association in Kansas City, drew this picture of the typical Ameri can criminal of 1934: A lazy, vain, moderately educat ed city youth whoa* parents have separated; shielding his laziness and aa inferiority complex behind a false bravado that leads him into crime; motivated by a desire to impreas “the girl friend” with a of wealth. I J. Quinn of San said the Urge majority Washington Digest d National Io P ks Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART /mm* mum Washington.—It has been exceed ingly interesting to watch the prog- _ ress of the Demo- Lampatgn cratic and Repub- /ssacs 1 i C/S n campaign c o m m i ttees in their efforts to shape and join the issues upon which the electorate will choose the next occupant of the White House. There has been a tremendous amount of hauling and filling, each side coming forth with trial balloons in an effort to find out what it is that will attract the most interest among the voters and to de termine what particular matters af ford the best vehicle on which they can ride into office. From the beginning of this year, President Roosevelt bps been trying to shape his issue on the basis of a single question—whether the Ameri can people in dollars and cents are better off then they were when he took office. I think admittedly that if Mr. Roosevelt could force that question into the center of the stage and make it the real issue, he would have very little campaigning to do. But the trouble is Mr. Roosevelt has been unable to accomplish his purpose apd no little credit for his threat to force a joinder of issues on this point is due to the Republi can leadership. The Republican managers simply will not be led Into that trap. Thus, we must look elsewhere to see what the real is sues are, or are likely to be. in this campaign decision. It has nearly always been true that the Issues prominent early in the campaign have proved not to be the issues at all near the end of • political battle. This year prom ises to be no exception Political leaders attempt to figure out the their General Cummings. The Attorney General made some public threats that he would seek to indict those who were responsible for distribu tion of this information, claiming that a federal law had been violat ed. Being attorney general of the United States, any statement from him got wide distribution. But the Republicans, recognizing the potentialities of this situation, issued a challenge to Mr. Cum mings to proceed with his threat of indictments. Their publicity state ment on the point was just as viru lent as that of any red-blooded American boy who says to his play mate, “I dare you to!” Well, the rejoinder of the Repub licans rather put Mr. Cummings on the spot. I presume probably the threat and the resulting challenge still would have amounted to nothing except that the method employed by the Republicans capitalized on that threat by accusing the attor ney general of seeking to prevent free speech and to prohibit discus sion of campaign issues. If there is one thing that the American peo ple resent, it is any attempt by a governmental agency of whatever character it may be that seeks to stifle discussion. They look upon it as a sign of dictatorship. Some where in their veins still courses the virus that overthrew King George in the birth of this nation. That is why the Cummings threat is so important • • • President Roosevelt announced the other day that he is preparing to start reorganl- T— Many ration of the fed- Agameiaa *ral administra tive agencies. He said he had arrived at the conch*- that swell a course eras necee- there has been ever- and jurisdiction agenriee created by the New Deal It is the second time that the President has pro of the govern- ennounre- » attract as much attention aa did his Foreign Words - and Phrases " A voire sante. (F.) Hi good health. Beaux esprits. (F.) Man «f wit and humor. Carta blanche. (F.) Full pow ers. Desipere in loco. (L.) To un bend on occasion. Eat modus in rebus. (L.) There is a limit (to be observed) In all things. Far fiasco. (It.) To make a failure. Grande parure. (F.) Full dress. Hinc illae lacrumae. (L.) Hence these tears. ; Mal’occhio. (It.) The evil eye. Inter nos. (L.) Between our selves. Juste milieu. (F.) The golden mean. Le roi le veut. (F.) The king wills it. Non constat. (L.) It has not been shown; no evidence is be fore the court. 5* AND 10$ JARS THE I0« SIZE CONTAINS 3^HMES AS MUCH AS THE 5< SIZE - WHY PAY MORE? MOROUNE IT I SNOW WHITE PETROLEUM JEUY A Set-Back Experience is likely to teach timidity as much as anything. T hree Mwm closing days of the Ust hy They are Rear Admiral Hen ry A WiLry. USN retired; Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, coast guard. George Landtck. Jr. chief of the planning section of the pro curement division of the Treasury department The commission will administer the ship subsidy measure act as a regulatory body in conduct of mer chant marine affairs, and operate generally in the nature of the inter state commerce commission. VT ETERANS of two great con- ^ flirts, the World war and the Civil war, held their annual con ventions. the American Legion meeting in Cleve land and the Grand Army of the Repub lic in Washington. The legion elected Harry W. Colmery, a lawyer of Topeka, Kan., as its nation al commander and awarded next year’s convention to New York city. Mayor La Guardia person ally led the Gotham delegation in the big parade. This delegation included an impressive display of police and fire department bands, motorcycle squads and mounted officers. In its business sessions the legion adopted a resolution asking the United States government to with draw its recognition of soviet Rus sia. Other resolutions approved called for a 90 per cent reduction in immigration quotas and deporta tion of all aliens who are anarch ists, communists, or affiliated with the Third Internationale; the remov al from public relief rolls of aliens who have not applied for citizen ship; universal application of the fingerprinting system in this coun try, and an investigation of methods used in disseminating "subversive doctrines ” The legion band championship was won by the Musicians’ No 394 of St Louis. Mo ; place went to Franklin post band of O. and Hurd set him right . . . “Let me say that I have not at any time willingly or unwillingly of the Karl Mars the Frankfurter radicals, msts and anarchists, the Tugwell bolsheviks, and tha Richberg rev olutionists which constitute the bulk of his following. “I have simply said and shown that he does receive the support of these enemies of the American sys tem of government, and that he has done his best to deserve the support of ail such disturbing and destruc tive elements.” P OUR Chinese gunmen in Shang r hai killed one Japanese marine and wounded two others, and with in a few minutes a Japanese land ing party more than 2,000 strong had occupied much of the Hongkew section of the international settle ment. The Japanese naval com mander declared martial law in that area and troops stopped buses and street cars in the search for the slayers. Tanks, armored cars, light artillery and machine gun squads poured through the streets and on into Chapei, the Chinese dis trict that was the scene of furious fighting between the Japanese and the Chinese Nineteenth route army in 1932. Stirling Fessenden, American chairman of the international settle ment, was warned by Japanese of ficials to protect their nationals, and the White Russian volunteer regi ment and special police in the French quarter were hurriedly niobilized. Because of killings in Hankow and Pakhoi, Japanese marines already had been landed in those cities. Transports bearing reinforcements arrived from Japan. ^ M MEDIA IT action toward put ting la operation a two-fold crop C ENATOR LA FOLLETTE’S sen- ^ ate committee on civil liberties, investigating the activities of strike breakers, was told that a preacher was hired as a spy, girls did under- cover work, pickaters were scalded by live steam and sinkers ware electrocuted by secretly on company property Vit- for by Roosevelt. It Is dosigiw I to guard the farmers and the the danger of food shortages or price collapses. Two com mittees were named , to work out legisla tion to be asked of the next congress. Mr. R o o s e velt named Secretary of M.L. Cooke Agriculture Henry A. Wallace chairman of a commit tee directed to “prepare a report and recommendations for legislation providing a plan of “all risk crop insurance,” and suggested that the system provide for payment of pre miums and insurance in commodi ties. This is in accord with Wal lace’s proposed plan under which farmers would put part of their crops of good years into a pool from which they could draw in lean years. It would serve, he believes, to keep surpluses from destroying the price structure in good years and provide an “insurance” against crop failures in other years. Morris L. Cooke, rural electrifica tion administrator, '7as named chairman of another committee to draft recommendations for a per manent land use program designed to avert drouth emergencies in the great plains area. S PECULATION concerning what part A1 Smith would take in the Presidential campaign seems to be settled b> the news that he will deliver several anti-Roosevelt ad dresses, the first probably in Carne gie hail in New York in October. He is reported to be making out his own program end planning talks in Massachusetts an J New Jer sey. It la said neither the Republi can party nor the Ameticeu Liberty Irexue will be aponeor for his ap Until Mr Smith an il wtll art be were better off did not quite click. In the mean time, have found what they a very vulnerable spo: m Deal armor and they are at M with This question, this around taxi apparently thought at the start of the fight that Democratic waste of federal money and the vast debt that was piled up would force a re vulsion of feeling against New Deal policies. So they started out on that campaign horse But they found that the question of taxation over-shadowed the other, even though the taxation about which the Republicans are talking has been an offspring of the alleged waste of the party In power • • • I doubt that the taxation issue would have been as important as it is proving to be Err m had not the New Strategy Dealers made a mistake in politi cal strategy. This mistake, it may be said in passing, illustrates how very minor things influence the ulti mate result in politics to a greater extent perhaps than in any other activity of American national life. The mistake which I refer to was made by Attorney General Cum mings. The story of the circumstance chronologically is something like this: The Republicans from their headquarters in Chicago began call ing attention to increased tax bur dens in connection with their ex posure of the increase of more than thirteen billion dollars in the coun try’s debt. They pointed out how, if the Roosevelt administration had tnot wasted money, preparations would not have to be made for rais ing the taxes and how, if this waste had not occurred, tax increases which we already have had would not have taken place. As a part of the demonstration of increased taxation the Republicans issued campaign literature item izing the amount of taxes each and every one of us pays on the com mon every-day necessities of life. They showed how each loaf of bread, each pair of shoes, each pork-chop, among other things, bears so much tax which all of ua pay in buying thoae necessities of presidential i Far a long tune. N haa been |y evidesH le sbeerverg in Waehmf- u* thet New Deal egeorteg ■ ever ere creeled In curb situations result the ceee during the World It has been the case during the New Deal’s efforts to aolvt depression problems under the emergency pow ers granted by congress The truth seems to be that there is more over lapping. more conflict, now than there was during the World, wsr. • • • I have known of numerous in stances where one agency, under authority given it Much by ib* President. Confution has promulgated rules pad regula tions having the force ofl law that did not conform to rules and regu lations dealing with the same mat ters but coming from another unit of government. In addition, I have seen different interpretations placed on the same statute or the same regulation by two different agencies. In consequence, the citizen whose business practices or personal af fairs were touched by government edict found himself prohibited from doing a particular thing on the one hand and ordered to do it on the other. Thus, it would seem that it is high time for something to be done about re-organization. Jit • would seem equally to be high time for elimina tion of some of the extra red tape of government which has been wound about the private lives of American citizens by the New Deal. Goodness knows, there was plenty of red tape before the New Deal ;it certainly is worse now than it was before. The thing that seemed to interest most of the writing fraternity in Washington, however, was not so much the alleviation of the condi tions which I have mentioned, but the political aspects of the presi dential announcement that new re organization plans were under con sideration. Some of these writers who are critical of the New Deal went back to the 1VB campaign records and dragged out to public view Mr. RnaaeveH’a promiaas re ftrvernmeuial mmplaxi OR SPREAD ON ROOSTS Self-Proclaiming Don’t forget that an honest man never haa to proclaim tha fact. I kept 0! nr •ban mvtoia baddy fane* ttaaa are raalarad ta aanaak Of faae ■■at MBpartanaa b tW atimabmaa a# l Jeftaea la tha aaNnartlaaMba sf tba Had jm . .and mt taeawd 111 Mil I ndi ttn derated faad Ma dras •mK KAA T*»m dma jeal Uua. Farprt obaet andvreatghl earrbn If jam are drtrtmt Si ii aaart iigM- rty Wfa • t ba 4 IffMad odb U» oaf yarn »*• twl. mot fHmda eld rampbmaat yea Ifea way yea efl laab. EJATanAr b bedd atardy Aralt M tma triad and **• .tfcat'* *by M nnbasfea bat jamnrH again. Atallabla at any •lAA.Ce H’lss and Otberwisa Some grow old gracefully; and soma grow old disgracefully. ASK VOL P DC AL LP And Out of Turn Passions and prejudices speak in a loud voice. At Your Best! Free From Constipation Nothing beats a clean system for health 1 At the first sign of constipation, take purely vegetable Black-Draught for prompt relief. Many men and women say that Black- Draught brings such refreshing relief. By its cleansing action, poisonous effects of constipation are driven out; you aoon feel better, more efficient. Black-Draught costs less than most other laxatives. BLACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE *VNU—7 41—36 Wintersmith's Tonic MALARIA Good Ctncr.il Tonic USED f OR 65 TEARS