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TWa Bannrtll Feople-8€«tlatl, Baniwtll 8. C. Tkttr»4ay t December 10, 1098 BRISBANE i THIS WEEK Oxm Big Catch War Comes Closer More Houses Needed Would Not Eat Ladies 1 President Roosevelt, interrupting his Journey to attend to official _ business, did a lit tle fishing from a whale boat off Port-of-Spain. It was poor fishing, but the President did not complain; he caught some thing worth while on election day— to catch forty-six out of a possible forty-eight fish is good fishing. Europe and Asia seem to be getting a little closer to war, al though many wise ones think it still far off. Germany admits willingness t o side with Japan in a fight against bolshevism. Practical Stalin, man of few words, tells Japan what he thinks of her pact with Germany by refusing to renew a treaty that per mits Japan to fish in Russian waters off the coast of eastern Siberia. That fishing privilege is vitally important to the feeding of Japan’s surplus millions, increasing at the rate of one million new Japanese every year. Arthur Brlabaa* Langdon Post, New York’s com missioner of housing, tells the Amer ican Federation of Labor that a great national shortage of houses exists, because there has been no building. New York City, especially, is in a bad way, according to Mr. Post; there the shortage in housing “may have tragic consequences." That is good news for the build ing trades, and temporarily good news for landlords; they will not overbuild. As usual, politicians will seize the opportunity to raise taxes, and presently money lenders will be once more selling real estate un der foreclosures. Life is a brief game of seesaw —now up, that is prosperity; then down, that is depression. The bud get is not the only thing that needs balancing. Our neighbor, Nicaragua, well ad vanced in modem intelligence, es tablishes a military flying school, orders fighting planes from the Unit ed States, hires a first-class instruc tor.. There is progresas everywhere, and you realize it when you read in chapter 26 of Westermarck’s “The Origin and Development of the Mo ral Ideas’’: In ancient Nicaragua women were held unworthy to perform any duty in connection with the temples, ond were immolated outside the temple ground of the large sanctuaries, and even their flesh was unclean food for the high priest, who accordingly ate only the flesh of males. What a jump from a civilization to which the high priest would not eat ladies that had been slaughtered to a modern air school in which young Nicaraguan women, once ex cluded from the temples, will be al lowed to fly planes and learn how to release bombs! Schumann - Heink, artist of the operatic stage, and a fine example to all women, is dead at seventy- five. Young ladies who say "I can’t have children because I must have a career,” and sometimes have neither, please observe that Mme. Schumann - Heink had a magnifi cent artistic career and many chil dren also, including two boys killed in the big war, and one on a sub marine, who survived. Winston Churchill, able English man, thinks Great Britain, France and the United States should remain “one in support of democracy,” and calls the United States "a child of our blood and ideals.” This coun try is the child of many different kinds of blood and ideals. Greater New York includes the biggest Italian city in the world, bigger than Rome or Milan; more than a million of Italian birth or descent. The same New York contains two million jews, many more than ever were in Palestine. Colombia has written a new con stitution, authorizing its govern ment, among other things, to con fiscate private property without paying the owners. Conservative citizens of Colombia call that “com munistic,” which seems hardly an exaggeration. More pay increases, more bo nuses, more distribution of accu mulated surplus by big corporations. Sixty - five thousand workers in textile and shoe industries learn •hat they are to have Christmas oonuses and better wages. Two young female geniuses Misses Fanny Hurst and Agnes Rej> plier, disagree about book writing. Agnes Repplier says it is “peril- ausly easy”; Fanny Hurst says no. It is hard. < Publishers say all depends on the sind of books you write and the brain you have. • saw r**turM Syndicate, v\.\t News Review of Current Events the World Over Dronth Commission Gets Data for Program—Britain Moves to Protect Her Shipping From Spanish Fascists—German-Rnssian Break Threatened* By EDWARD W. PICKARD C We»tern Newspaper Union. /CHAIRMAN MORRIS L. COOKE ^ and other members of the fed eral great plains drouth commis sion are holding a series of meet ings in the drouth M. L. Cooke the purpose of for mulating a relief and control pro gram and are call ing in the farmers to consult with them. At the first of these sessions, in Bismarck, N. D., of ficials and agricul turists of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and North and South Dakota heard O. W. Roberts, federal meteorolo gist, give the encouraging promise that v “greater than normal precipi tation is anticipated in those states next spring on the basis of light precipitation this fall.” Reports of existing conditions, however, showed that the situation is serious. Gov. Walter Welford, of North Dakota, told the conference that water levels throughout his state are seriously diminished, con stituting a major problem for the state and federal governments. Another official declared that North Dakota’s live stock situation is “most deplorable,” that virtually no live stock is left on ranges in western sections of the state and that feed is seriously scarce in all sections. “There is no magic wand at the disposal of the government to make drouth areas bloom,” Mr. Cooke said. “We came here to hear your suggestions and we hope to gain from this and similar meetings data which will guide future, helpful leg islation. “The reports so far received indi cate that much can be done through government assistance and expert advice.” T HE Mississippi Valley associ ation, meeting in St. Louis, adopt ed a resolution calling for rejection of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty unless the crown colony of New foundland and Anticosta island are ceded to the United States by Great Britain. Of course no one thinks for a minute that Britain ever would do that “The position of Newfoundland, astride the mouth of the St. Law rence, is an insuperable obstacle to the treaty in its present form,” the resolution said, “inasmuch as New foundland is a crown colony of Great Britain and is entirely sep arate from Canada. “This crown colony as well as the St. Lawrence plug of Anticosta Island should both be ceded to the United States to guarantee our safe ty in case of war." The new president of the associa tion is Arthur J. Weaver, former governor of Nebraska and now president of the Missouri River Nav igation association. /^NE thousand banqueters in ^ Washington celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the American patent system and an an nouncer from a transport air liner gave them the names of America’s “twelve greatest inventors” as se lected by a secret committee of prominent men. These are the in ventors and their inventions: Robert Fulton, steamboat; Eli Whitney, cotton gin; Samuel F. B. Morse, telegraph; Charles Good year, vulcanized rubber; Cyrus Hall McCormick, grain reaper; Elias Howe, sewing machine; George Westinghouse, airbrake; Alexander Graham Bell, telephone; Thomas Alva Edison, electric lamp, phono graph, motion pictures, and many other devices; Ottmar Mergenthal- er, linotype; Charles Martin Hall, process for making cheap alumin um; Wilbur Wright, co-inventor with his brother, Orville, of the air plane. CEATTLE has a habit of recall- ing its mayors when they, are not satisfactory. One was thus oust ed in 1911 and another in 1931. Now a movement has been started for the recall of Mayor John F. Dore, who is accused of incit ing acts of violence in a labor dispute. Formal charges of misfeasance, mal feasance and viola tion of the oath of office were con tained in a petition signed by fifteen women and eleven men. It asked the corporation coun sel to draft the charges in con densed form so that an effort could be made to obtain the 24,000 signa tures necessary for a special recall election. Dore, fifty-four, was elected in March over Arthur B. Langlie, can didate of the New Order of Cincin- natus, an independent organization of young voters seeking better mu nicipal government Mayor John F. Dore The charges against the mayor largely have to do with his ac tions in connection with the strike of employees of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. QREAT BRITAIN asked Gen. ^ Francisco Franco, leader of the Spanish rebels, to establish a safety zone for neutral ships in Bar celona harbor which the Fascist chieftain had declared blockaded. Franco’s reply was not satisfactory, and besides, one of his vessels sank an unidentified ship off the capital of Catalonia. Therefore the British government promptly started a con siderable number of warships toward the Mediterranean, cruisers and submarines being included. Foreign Minister Eden already had assured parliament that British shipping would be protected on the high seas with all the might of the British navy—which is something to give the Spanish Fascists pause. France took the same stand, but warned its merchantmen to conduct themselves “with extreme caution." Excitement over the torpedo at tack on a loyal Spanish cruiser by a submarine which the Madrid gov ernment more than hinted was a German vessel was allayed by the report that the undersea boat was a Spanish submarine that had gone over to the rebel side. Madrid was being continually hammered by rebel shells and bombs, and there was intense fight ing daily in University City, the northwest section of the capital, where the insurgents had penetrat ed. The American embassy was closed on orders from Washington and Eric C. Wendelin, charge d’af faires. gave protection to those Americans who wished to go to Va lencia to board a United States war ship. The German and Italian em bassies, abandoned by their staffs, were seized and sealed by the de fense junta and a number of Fas cist refugees were arrested in the former. Berlin scoffed- at this ac tion but Rome called it banditry. P I. STICKLING, a German en- gineer, was sentenced to death in Russia for sabotage which he was ■aid to have confessed. Hitler had his ambassador in Moscow make earnest demands for postponement of the execution, and then suddenly announced that if the sentence were carried out Germany would sever diplomatic relations with the soviet government. Great Britain feared such action would seriously aggra vate the European war situation and so Prime Minister Baldwin in terceded. He asked German Am bassador Von Ribbentrop to urge Hitler not to bring about the open break with Russia, and he instruct ed the British ambassador at Mos cow to appeal for mercy for Strick- ling. Thereafter the Soviet govern ment commuted the German’s sen tence to ten years in prison. Sev eral of his fellow plotters were shot. The agreement directed against the communist Internationale, which angered Russia, was signed by Japan and Germany in the Ber lin foreign office. Under it the two nations are to co-operate in a cam paign against communism, and they invite other nations to join them. J. E. Davies JOSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy ^ lawyer of Washington, has served the Democratic party in va rious ways for many years and has contributed liberally to its campaign funds, and now he has been rewarded. President Roosevelt lias appointed him American ambassa dor to Soviet Russia, to succeed William C. Bullitt, who was transferred to the Paris embassy. Mr. Davies, whose wife is the former Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton, heiress of the big Post cere al fortune, is a native of Wisconsin and practiced law in that state un til 1913, when he went to Washing ton. He was chairman of the fed eral trade commission under Presi dent Wilson in 1915-’16, and was taken along by Wilson as an eco nomic adviser to the Versailles con ference. Before that he had served as western manager of Wilson’s campaign and as secretary of the Democratic national committee and he was offered in 1918 the am bassadorship to Russia, to Italy and the governorship of the Philippines. He declined, however, so he could run for the United States senate from Wisconsin. He was defeated. He was active during the recent campaign, serving on the advisory committee at Democratic headquar ters in New York. ^ President Roosevelt signed the Davies commission before he left on his South American cruise, but the announcement was withheld until word was received from the soviet government that Davies was per sona grata at Moscow. National Topic* Interpreted by William Bruckart National Praia Bo tiding Washington. D. C. Washington. — Many observers around Washington lately have no- . . ticed something of Chang* in a change in Presi- Rooaevelt dent Roosevelt’s attitude since the election which so overwhelmingly returned him tc office. From most any standpoint you assume, you will note, I believe, a more critical atti tude on the part of the President concerning the schemes advanced by his advisers. He is apparently examining the suggestions, the pro posals and programs laid before" him much more cautiously and care fully than was his record during the past three years. It is yet too early to catalog this attitude as a change on Mr. Roose velt’s part but surely it is notice able. If he continues it, it is all to the good for the country. If he continues it, it cannot fail to mean better administration, better legis lation, sounder national policies. It necessarily must mean as well, that there will be fewer of the half- baked ideas, plans which the Presi dent had not considered fully, pro grams he had not thought through. One of the important indicators of this changed attitude on the part of Mr. Roosevelt comes in the form of an announcement in which Mr. Roosevelt named a committee of. outstanding agricultural authorities and citizens Awhose job is to pre pare a long-term program for al leviation of the farm tenant prob lem, if not its complete eradica- 4ion. Secretary Wallace will head this committee which is to report early in February and the appoint ment of Mr. Wallace to this job in cidentally seems to assure his re tention as head of the Department of Agriculture—and there had been some question whether he would re main. Of course, the farm tenant prob lem long has been a cancerous growth on American agriculture. It has been spreading. Previously, I have reported in these columns how official figures disclosed an increas ing number of farms operated by tenants and owned by absentee landlords. It has been a problem for some years and seems to be growing more acute. Hence, the President’s move would seem to mean that the federal government is going to put its hand to the oar and try, at least, to do some thing about it. • • • Now, it may mean that the fed eral government will create another billion dollar gov- What It ernment • owned May Mean corporation or it may mean subsi dies or any one of a number of other federal aids. 1 do not want to prejudge it, however, because certainly the President is to be com mended in approaching the problem in a sensible way, namely, the cre ation of a committee to give the question a thoroughgoing analysis before legislation to alleviate the condition is proposed. That is what makes it so signifi cant. A year or two or three ago, some braintruster sitting in a cob webby office would have suddenly had a thought about the “renters” and other types of farm tenants; he would have felt very sorry for them and would have determined in his own mind that they must be made the beneficiaries of “the more abundant life” right quickly. He would have sought and obtained an appointment with the President; would have related the beautiful pic ture he had conceived in his own limited mentality and, in all prob ability, Mr. Roosevelt would have shouted, “fine, fine.” The next thing that would have happened would .have been the drafting of a piece of legislation for submission to congress. It would have gone to Capitol Hill with the stamp of administration approval and all of the automatons of the house and ?®nate who owed their positions to Roosevelt blessings, would have voted for it. It would have become law without serious debate and, as in most cases, with out most of the representatives and senators having understood what it was all about. The results of such legislation are beginning to show and it is going to be necessary to remake a great deal of it. The trouble was that these theorists and impractical men never were able to see more than one narrow phase of the problem with which they were dealing and Mr. Roosevelt did not take the time to find out for him self what all of the factors were. It is quite evident, therefore, that one thing the New Deal sadly needs is more co-ordination among its own people. • a • I referred above to the necessity for co - ordination among gov- ernmental depart- Changes ments as to poli- Needed cies and that leads into the long-time need for actual reorganization of the physical structure known as the federal government. There are cer tain signs emerging from the seeth ing now occurring, as is usual, in advance of a congressional session that indicate President Roosevelt may be maki-.g a definite move to wards this much needed reorganiza tion. It is highly important that it ba done. I think everyone agrees with that statement. Mr. Roosevelt is in a position to do it. He is one of the few Presidents of recent years who has been in a position to do it. He is in that position because of the tremendous majority his party possesses in house and senate and I think it can be said unequivocably, if Mr. Roosevelt cannot do it or does not do it, it never will be done. It goes without saying that there are scores of unnecessary agencies now in existence, most of them the children of the New Deal. There is overlapping; there is conflict of jurisdiction and there is a super abundance of ideas from every source that affect or influence op^v erations of other agencies. It is a tangled skein and the untangling is going to be a difficult job. The whole setup ts 'shot through with politics and politicians and to decapitate po litical patronage is a man-sized job. The job now may be made even worse in this regard by the fact that never in history have there been so many shades of opinion in congress. The (natural result of this sort of thing is that the various groups of blocs insist on carrying out particular pet schemes and those pet schemes nearly always mean a new governmental bureau, commission or what have you. As far as present conditions have developed, none can foretell exactly what Mr. Roosevelt has in mind concerning the new government structure. It goes without saying, of course, that- the major depart ments, each headed by a cabinet officer, will constitute the basic framework of whatever co-ordina tion or consolidation Mr. Roosevelt eventually proposes. But it is out side of this framework where the real co-ordination is needed. It is among the countless alphabetical soup agencies that the pruning knife and the axe must be wielded with utter abandon. A lot of needless and, in many cases, irresponsible government policies are worked out here. It is among these agencies as well where waste in the form of reckless spending and badly con ceived programs has taken place to the greatest extent under the Roosevelt administration. • • • Such co-ordination and consolida tion as the President attempts, therefore, can ac- Rehef for complish a very T ax payer a great deal in the way of budgetary reforms and relief for the taxpayers if the job is undertaken seriously. Indeed, as the situation now shapes up, elimination of about 50 per cent of these so-called emergency agen cies and complete eradication of their parasitic policies constitute an important approach to a balancing of the Treasury budget. Since this is a fact, it must be recognized that the proposed con solidation movement has obstacles outside of political patronage. Pol iticians enjoy spending money and when they see various of their pet bureaus or commissions going the way of all flesh, they naturally will be frightened and it will take all of the strength Mr. Roosevelt pos sesses to keep them in line when they realize that money is being tak en out from under their very noses. Nevertheless, Mr. Roosevelt can reorganize the government. He has 329 Democratic representatives in the house and 75 Democratic sena tors. Against this legislative strength of the party in power are 89 Re publican representatives and 17 Re publican senators, minus three or four senators who wear the Repub lican label but who are New Dealers at heart. If Mr. Roosevelt is serious about this government reorganization and if he wants to force it through, I have no doubt at all that he can gain public support for his program. I have no doubt at all that- if he were to go on the radio and deliver an address about the plan, there would be such a deluge of mail to representatives and senators from their constituents, that they would not dare oppose the scheme. There would be more than one reason for support of the President in this ac tivity. Next to the fact that people out through the country generally hate bureaucrats and led tape in their government, the important reason for the support which Mr. Roosevelt surely could have would come from the taxpayers who are beginning to realize what the fed eral government is costing them. That is one job that the Republi cans did in their campaign to elect Governor Landon of Kansas. They made the country tax conscious and it is an influence that is going to rise up and haunt the New Deal administration and members of con gress for some months to come. As a conclusion, then, it seems to me that Mr. Roosevelt has pre pared a test for himself whethei he conceived it on that basis or otherwise. Unless he drives through a serious consolidation and elimina tion of needless agencies, many doubts are going to arise as to his sincerity. <Q Western Newspaper Uaka. These Cuddle Toys Solve Gift Problems . -VV; _ Wsjjw* v,*;* v, vv, .w; 1 ,'vCS^.V' W*. .,r sS j ' “Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo”— it’s hard to decide which to make —but why make just one, why not all! Delightful cuddle toys, these, and just the soft, warm playthings for a baby’s arms. There’s noth ing to the making of them, for each is composed of but two pieces, with the exception of the bear, whose jacket is extra, and the chick, whose flapping wings are separate. Your gayest cotton scraps can go into the making of these winning gifts. In pattern 5609 you will find a transfer pat tern for the four animals; instruc tions for making them; material requirements. 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