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Banmll P«opl BaniwcIL 8. C- Tfcaradajr, NortiWr 24, ItM \ • BRISBANE THIS WEEK New Italian Baby Bj PermiMion of Unioni Some Thing* We Do Well Throwing Ont King* I Italy expects *a new heir to the throne in January. If it is a boy, and lives, and noth ing happens to prevent, it will succeed in time its grandfather, the present King. What „ r a t e Lloyds would charge to guar antee the succes sion is uncertain. Mussolini’s rise from extreme socialism, the trenches and the hospital main tained the House of Savoy in nom inal power. "After Mussolini what?” is one of many European questions. News Review of Current - Events the World Over Secretary Roper Plans National Census of Unemployed—» Armistice Day Duly Observed—Opening of the Huge San Frandsco-Oakland Bridge. e o > Ask Me Another National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart mw BulMlns WiMhlnaton. D. C. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Wcitera Newspaper Union. N' Artknr BrUban. Sec. Roper Mr. Hull, Secretary of State, sailed for South America six hours late, to help bring peace to the world, or at least help set a good example on these two continents. He left a pier "double-picketed”; the strike tied up his ship, which had to bring six non-striking sea men out to the secretary’s boat, waiting patiently near the Statue of Liberty. After peice is brought to the world, the next step will be to bring peace to United States in dustry. You may read some day; •The House, Senate and Supreme Court could not meet; the Presi dent has moved over to thr New Willard; the Amalgamated Order of Furnace Tenders let all the fires go out, while, in sympathy, the Electric onion turned off all lights and the elevator men said sympathetically, *No elevators.’ ” There must be. for public ne cessities. including shipping that carries passengers and mails, some better plan than the strike plan, and one that would be lust to work ers. This country makes some things better than any other country—auto mobiles, and moving pictures, foe instance—and Englishmen know it The late Irving Thalberg. vice pre*- Idert of Metro-Goldwyn-Msyer. left 25.000 shares of Loew moving pic ture stock. As soon as the large block was offered for sale, Engliah- men bought It all, by trana-At- lantic telephone, for about $2,200,000. Nicholas Schenck, head of Loew's and Its biggest stockholder, missed an opportunity, and knows it. Every body across the ocean knows that this country is one NOT to be sold short, regardless of passing troubles. It is said the royal tombs re served for Spanish kings have been violated, aome or all of the bodies thrown out. It would be a pity to offer insult to what remains of the truly great King, afraid of mice and ■pidera, but not of any man— Charles the Fifth—if he also was entombed in the Eacurial Pantheon. Of the others, many would be more useful as fertiluer on some Spanish field than they ever were on the Spanish throne, and it is not necessary to weep over them. London, with the biggest floating fleet on earth, is striving to “human ise submarine warfare.” That is like trying to humanize rat poison. Look at Spain and you see what will happen in the next war; everybody will kill as many as he can, as brutally as possible; you remember the Lusitania? OW that the election is over, Secretary of Commerce Roper is laying plans for the complete census of the unemployed in the United States which has so long been called for. He said he would ask con gress to appropriate between 1$ and 15 million dollars for this count and that it would require the services of about 25,000 persons who would be given spe cial training for several months. "The census would not only take up an enumeration of those classified as unemployed,” said Roper, "but we want to find out which trades or industries the un employed would fall into. We would also like to help the states in clas sifying the unemployed from the un employable. "There are many economic ques tions involved. Some families have enough income to support them, but one or more members may be out of work. We want to obtain information on this phase.” The secretary intimated that the census machinery might be made permanent so that a close check be kept on persons out of work, as is done in England. According to the American Fed eration of Labor 2,900,000 workers have been re • employed since last January.. "Employment has been gaining steadily since January, without set back,” the federation said. "This unusual development points to the strong upward trend of business, which was of such force as to offset the usual summer layoffs. "Comparing September this year with September, 1935, we find 2.250,- 000 more persons employed in American industry, indicating that while a portion of this year's gains merely restored winter losses, by far the major part represents last ing gam in employment recovery. "This year’s gains (comparing September, 1935 and 1936) have been largest in manufacturing in dustries where about 675.000 wage and salaried workers were re-em ployed; about 300,000 more farm laborers are at work. 285,000 more in trade, 200,006 more in building and 100,000 have been added in railroads. Most of the other gams were in service industries.” IN A Joint report by the federal 1 bureaus of agricultural and home economics the prediction is made that farm cash income available for spending m 1937 will continue the upward trend shown in 1936. As a basis for this expectancy the bureaus cite increases in net in come from agricultural and non- agricultural sources, lower inter est rates and long term financing of debts. Record production of truck crops also was forecast. All sections of the country will share and all im portant truck crops will be included except celery, onions and spinach, it was stated, with the likelihood that in spite of indicated larger sup plies. improvement in consumer buying power would help maintain the higher prices of 1936, which were about 10 per cent over 1935. The biggest crowd seen in Wash ington greeted the President on his triumphant return to Washington, the White House and his job. For eleven days he will see only execu tive assistants and rewind the big machine. Those willing to serve their country for a consideration, or tell the President, free of charge, how it could be run better, must wait, probably until his return from the trip to South America. Voltaire’s learned Dr. Pangloss was wrong; it is not true that "all is for the best in the best possible of worlds.” In spite of all our wealth and pros perity, more mothers die in child birth, in this country, than in any other "civilized” country in the world. You know that better conditions are needed in America when you »ee photographs of the wretched two-room log cabin in the swamp bottomlands where Mrs. James Bridges gave birth to quadruplets. According to Science Service, if whisky is subjected fer seven hours to "intense sound vibrations,” which means "a loud noise,” i the seven noisy hours will age the whisky as much as "four years in the wood.” Think what noise can do to the delicate nervous system of the hu man being if in seven hours it can add four years to the age of raw whisky. Mussolini’s order forbiddinf au tomobile drivers to blow their horns in Rome, "Use your eyes and your intelligence instead of your horns," should be copied widely, e Kim Fattara BNU! CECRETARY of Agriculture Wal- ^ lace in an interview intimates that for a year there may be no new legislation for crop control along the lines of the outlawed AAA, for farmers would like to have one really good crop without forced cur tailment. But he added: “We will need some legisla tion eventually un less the weather changes or the world demand for our products great ly improves.” Wallace was asked whether the lack of a control plan might not result in another surplus, leaving the administration up in the air without any machinery to cope with it. He said he could not estimate a surplus ahead of time and that he would rather wait to see what would happen. "It may be possible to find a solu tion that will prove better than the AAA or the soil conservation act,” he said. Sec. Wallace PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT led * the nation in observance ef Armistice day by going to Arling ton National cemetery and laying a wreath of chrysanthemums be side the tomb of the Unknown Sol dier. The ceremony was quiet and simple. General- Pershing, < com mander of the American expedition ary forces, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson stood by the Presi dent’s side and a small detach ment of soldiers, sailors and ma rines wm vresent General Pershing also placed a wreath at the tomb, and all stood bare headed as "taps” was sounded precisely at 11 o’clock eighteen years after the guns ceased firing on the western front in France. Everywhere in the United States and in all the allied countries the anniverasry was suitably observed, and in Poland the day was one of especial rejoicing for it is regarded as the birthday of that re-born na tion. An ironical note came from Gen eva where the League of Nations announced that 8,200,000 men are now permanently under arms throughout the world. Of this total 545,000 are attached to world navies. The league calculations show that men under arms throughout the world just before the outbreak of the World war numbered 5,900,000, not counting naval units. The figures released show that since 1931-’32 world armies have increased 1,700,- 000 men. In Europe total armed forces are now 4,800,000, compared with 3,600,000 in 1931-’32. CAN FRANCISCO’S dream of 30 ^ years was realized when the great bridge across the bay of Oak land was formally opened with elab orate ceremony. This longest vehic ular bridge in the world has been under construction since July 19, 1933, at a cost of $77,000,000, the funds being largely supplied by the Reconstruction Finance corporation. It is eight and a quarter miles long and, except for a tunnel passage through Yerba Buena island, is en tirely over water. It is divided roughly into two parts, mechanically speaking. The west side, from San Francisco to Yerba Buena, is of the suspension type. The cables are the largest ever spun for a bridge—nearly two feet in diameter. The east crossing, from Yerba Buena to Oakland, is of tha cantilever type. As the climax of a four-day cele bration. President Roosevelt pushed • button in his White House office lighting two green lamps on the bridge and officially throwing it open for traffic. pOL. JOSEF BECK, foreign min- ^ later of Poland, concluded his visit to London and departed with assurances of Great Britain s friendliness and de- sire to co-operate with Poland in its contest against Nazi intrigues, especially in relation to the Free City of Dan zig. Foreign Minis ter Eden talked with Colonel Beck for three days and Was told by him that Poland would reject the overtures of both Moscow and Berlin and work for the same neu trality in eastern Europe that Bel gium intends to maintain in the west. One feature of Poland’s celebra tion of its independence day was the bestowal of s baton on Gen. Edward Rydz-Smigley, making him the fourth marshal in the revived nation’s history- He thus succeeds the late Marshal Josef Pilsudsky and is regarded by many as the new military dictator of Poland. President Moscicki presented the baton during an imposing ceremony in the courtyard of Warsaw castle. Col. Beck. ’IX/’HEN Admiral WHUam H. Standley retires on January 1 from the post of chief of naval operations, it will be filled by Ad miral William D. Leahy, now com mander of the navy battle force. This selection by the President was announced in Washington. Half a dozen other high officers of the navy will be advanced when the change occurs. It wds also announced that Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, commandant of the marine corps, would be suc ceeded in that post when he retires from active service December 1 by Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcombe. The latter will be elevated to the rank of major generall of marines. !/■ ING Victor of Italy had a birth- ^ day, and President Roosevelt, in his cabled message of congratu lations, was careful to follow the American policy of not recognizing territory acquired by force, ad dressing him only as "king” and not as "emperor.” However, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia was formally recognized by both Aus tria and Hungary, following Ger many’s example. pORNELL university at Ithaca, N. Y., is to have a new president in the person of pr. Edmund E. Day, an internationally known social scientist and economist He will as sume office June 30 next on the re tirement of Dr. Livingston Far rand. Doctor Day, who la 53 year* old, la a graduate of Dartmouth and has taught there and at Harvard and the University of Michigan. National Washington — Probably sufficient time has elapsed since the election to give us “some- What thing of a perspec- Happened? live, something of an understanding of what happened November 3. In that record-breaking vote for the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt, there lie covered perhaps the greatest number of reasons why votes were cast as they were, ever to influence a national election. The results left the Republicans stunned; they were surprising even to the Democrats and that is no secret. I have consulted with numerous among the better informed polit ical students and political writers concerning the basis for this deluge of votes that came so nearly mak ing the electoral college unanimous for Mr. Roosevelt that there had been only one time in history when the opposition received fewer votes in the electoral college than Gov ernor Landon will receive. The in quiries have brought almost as many different answers as there were people interviewed. Each one of these persons was thoroughly convinced that his diagnosis was correct and yet after hearing all of them I have a conviction that each one was only partially right. It was, in my opinion, a combination of reasons that brought about such an enormous vote for election of Mr. Roosevelt. The various reasons en tering into that combination were influential individually only as re gards a comparatively small per centage of the population. How else can it be explained? Un less separate reasons operated in various sections of the country and, indeed, upon segments of voters in those various sections, no such thing could have happened as the elec tion, for example, of Henry Cabot Lodge, a Republican, to the senate in Massachusetts, while Mr. Rooee- velt carried the state overwhelming ly for himself as a Democrat. There were other instances where Repub licans won in statewide elections while the state's electoral vote went to the President. This necessarily shows that even in states that normally vote a straight ticket, either Democratic or Republican, there was some ap peal which Mr. Roosevelt had for the voters that was non-existent in sofar as the lesser candidates were concerned. In other words, there were split tickets and if this ever proved anything, it surely proved this year that the nation was over whelmingly in favor of Mr. Roose velt personally. I think that, as always, the na tional ticket carried many men into the house and senate, only it is quite apparent that the percentage of rep resentatives and senators elected this time on the strength of the national ticket was larger than usual. I mean that instead of local personalities carrying the national ticket, the national ticket swept in the local personalities because it is j tne tendency o! a vast majority of I voters to vote a straight ticket. What I have just said seems real- ' ly to complicate the whole picture. It seems to complicate it for the reason that such a paradox as the election of Mr. Lodge in Massachu setts occurred within this deluge of votes. But whatever else can be said, nothing can overshadow the conse quences of the vast power handed to Mr. Roosevelt. He is in complete control and has a right to feel that anything he does will be accepted < by a large majority of the popula tion. With the exception of George Washington, who was elected Presi dent by the unanimous vote of the electoral college, and James Mon roe, who had all excepting one elec toral vote with him, no President of the United States has ever been awarded such a verdict. So, it strikes me that the out standing question before the United States today is “how will Mr. Roose velt use this authority?” It is in his hands to become a man of history, a man who will stand out among all of our Presidents if he uses his power wisely. It is to be suggested in the same breath that if he mis uses or abuses that power he can easily become just as infamous. • • • I said above that there were so many reasons influential in bring- ing about the un- bome usual vote for Mr. Reaaont Roosevelt that i t was almost impos sible to enumerate them. Never theless, I shall try to set down some of the more important ones that ap pear to have been operative. It must be remembered that these larger reasons embrace numerous and sundry variations. Each of the important reasons is made up of a number of less important and less significant and even less influential reasons. Each of the larger and each of the smaller propositions had its effect. I do not want to have it appear that the order in which I-name these various reasons has any signifi cance. In fact, I think it would be utterly foolish for anyone to attempt to say that one particular reason was more influential than another. How, for instance, can . any one in dividual know what caused particu lar voEffts to vote a particular way without knowing the individual voters concerned? So, I am simply outlining some of the reasons that the political students agree have been important: That the federal government can or should interfere in the manage ment of basic industries like agri culture, manufacturing, power and possibly in the commercial field of finance. That the government can or should be centralized to a greater extent in the federal machinery as distinguished from the state ma chinery. This implies a disappear ance to a large extent of the age-old contention for state's rights. It goes even beyond that and into the field of local' government which, it must be said, has not been too efficient. That the people, as citizens of the United States, ought not be ham strung by rigid constitutional pro visions and strict interpretation of them by the United States Supreme court. This may easily be expanded into other propositions such as mod ification of revision of court pow ers; mandatory retirement of judges when they reach a given ago, or constitutional amendments giving the federal government more direct contact with individual cit izens and individual businesses. • • • That the great business leaders of the last score of years are out- . , moded and that Leaden th e ti me has come Outmoded for a fresh start in business leader ship Just as the advent of the New Deal accomplished a fresh start in the political leadership. In this thought is hidden various and sun dry possibilities. There are those, for example, who have become per meated with a hatred of big busi ness. Likewise, there are those who feel that only portions of big busi ness have been unfair and haw crushed the little fellow. Aside from these two is • third group that surely feels the necessity for strict federal control of ell types of busi ness. good as well as bad. in order to prevent private initiative from getting out of bounds. That many of our citizens are willing for the federal government to participate in business by direct competition with private initiative. This thought, expended, naturally takes on the aspect of a broader movement for public ownership of various busineAes then has been evident heretofore. It is ax.omatic that reasons ef fective with one person are not ef fective with another and reasons that operate to control the views of a county or a ecction of a state or even a region of states undoubtedly have had nothing at all to do with votes taken in other parts of our nation. There are unsettled conditions. There are ten or eleven million peo ple who are out of jobs. Some of these felt that they had been bene fited by one Roosevelt policy ; some felt they had been benefited by an other. However one may examine the picture, it seems to me ines capable that it was s combination of reasons and not any single prop osition. It may be added, as some honestly feel, that the Roosevelt po litical machine was able to encom pass all of these factor* and to show in the various sections of the coun try how effective particular policies had been in those particular sec tions. That to my mind is going beyond the scope of intelligence be cause strong as the Roosevelt polit ical machine is, it had to have and had to hold the faith of an extra ordinarily large number of voters in addition to those controlled by the machine in order to roll up a majority of nine million votes. • • • So. again we get back to the ques- tiorj: what will Mr. Roosevelt do with this new mandate, this fresh delegation of power that has been given to him? Already there are signs develop ing among the old line, conservative Democrats of a desire to persuade him to be less radical than he was in his first four years as President. These Democrats feel that this country needs a little less of - re form and considerably more of sound governmental management. How much effect they will have on general administration policies ob viously is problematical. It la prob lematical because included among the new senators and representa tives, especially among the repre sentatives, are many men who do not impress me as having the slight est understanding of governmental functions. Consequently, from these and from those wild eyes already in the house membership, we un doubtedly will see some of the worst harum scarum pieces of legislation ever proposal in the national houss of representatives. It is such circumstances as are presented in the type of legislation that 1 named that will test Mr Roosevelt’s real capacity as s statesman. e Wester* Ncwwmss UMm. A General Qui* What Will He Do? • Befl SyaJkftM.—WNU Service. 1. In court procedure, whet does "in camera” mean? 2. Did Lincoln’s assassination precede or follow Lee’s surren der? ’•* 4 3. What elements make up the dentist’s laughing gas? 4. Where is Faneuil Hall? 5. What is the Nibelungenlied? 6. Where are the Society I» lands? 7. What relation was Napoleon III to Napoleon I? 8. Who was William Harvey? 9. Who was the first president of the German Republic? 10. What is "turbid” water? Answers 1. Not in public court; privately. 2. Lincoln was shot April 14; the surrender took place April 9, 1865. 3. Nitrogen and oxygen. 4. In Boston. 5. A medieval German poem, telling of the Nibelungs, a super natural race. 6. In the South Pacific. 7. Nephew. 8. An English physician who dis covered the circulation of the blood 9. 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