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✓ ■ T— T r£b*iai Tht BmmweH Peopl<-8—tlatl. Barnwell. 8. C, Tharaday, April 8, 1937 i*. "■ Ti k*\ News Review of'Current Events the World Over Spanish War Bringing Italy, France and Great Britain Into Conflict—Lewis Ends Chrysler Sitdown Strike— Martin Warns Henry Ford. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Western Newspaper Union. Dino Grand! S PAIN’S civil war is becoming to a great extent a war between Italy and FranoTfought on Spanish soil, and both those nations are ex asperated and en raged, while Great Britain anxiously strives to avert an open breach. Italy^ too, is now furious against the British because English newspapers taunted her with the fact that Italian volun teers were defeated by French volun teers in recent vic tories won by the loyalists northeast of Madrid. Count Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador to London, told the subcommittee of the international committee on non intervention that he would not dis cuss the withdrawal of foreign vol unteers from Spain and that not a single Italian fighting in the Spanish war would be ordered home until the conflict ended. France’s response was quick and startling. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos proposed to British Ambas sador Sir George Clerk that France and Britain assume a naval block ade of Spain to keep Italian troops from landing to join the fascists. The British and French govern ments thereupon agreed, with full knowledge of other European pow ers within the non-intervention com mittee, on "all points’’ of a program to make non-intervention complete ly effective and decided it was im perative to prevent, even by force, any further Italian landings. No de cision was reached to send war ships at once for this purpose. In Rome the belief was expressed that if France appealed to the League of Nations against alleged dispatch of Italian troops to Spain, Europe would come near to war. A spokesman for the government an grily repeated the official denial that Italy had sent any volunteers to Spain since February 20, when the international agreement for non-in tervention was reached. The indignant outburst by Grandi followed closely on ^speech which Premier Mussolini delivered in Rome. Alluding to the League of Nations’ sanctions against Italy dur ing the Ethiopian war, of which England was the chief promotor, II Duce shouted: “It has been said that the Italian people forget easily. Error! Error! On the contrary, the Italian people have a tenacious memory and know how to bide their time. We waited 40 years to avenge Adowa, but we succeeded.” Mussolini had just returned from a visit to Libya, Italy’s North Afri ca colony, and on that trip he made a patent bid for Italian leadership of the Moslem world. This, and his intention to build a naval base on the Red sea which would challenge British control of the Indian ocean are irritating Great Britain, which is not yet ready to check Mussolini by a display of armed force. She will be ready, however, before very long, for she is expending vast sums on her fleets and naval establish ments. Germany is not taking active part in these international spats just now, but is awaiting developments. Hitler is absorbed in his domestic difficulties and the threatened break with the Vatican. r\ R. HANS LUTHER is soon to be ^ replaced as German ambassa dor to Washington by Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, a veteran dip lomat who is now secretary of state for foreign affairs. He was counsel lor of the embassy in Washington from 1922 to 1926 and has been a staunch friend of Americans. Dieck- hoff is described as belonging to the “Ribbentrop group” in German af fairs, and is a brother-in-law rf Joa chim von Ribbentrop, German am bassador to London. I TNDER the persuasion of Gov. ^ Frank Murphy of Michigan, John L. Lewis,Jiead of the C. I. O., and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler mo ter corporation, were brought together in more or less peace ful conference at the state capitol in Lan sing. The immediate result was an agree ment that the sit down strikers should evacuate the eight Chrysler plants i n Detroit, and that the corporation should not resume pro duction during the period of ne gotiations. Six thousand strikers had held possession of the plants since March 8 in defiance o(f court orders and the governor, as in the case of the General Motors strike, had been extremely reluctant to authorize forceful methods of en forcing the law. He had, however, insisted that the men must obey the law and court orders, and the concession by Lewis was a victory for the governor) as well as for the corporation which had ^declared it would not negotiate while the men held its plants. Mr. Chrysler also has asserted the company would not enter into any agreement recogniz ing any one group as sole bargain ing agency for all employees. It seems likely that this Michigan case will put an end to the epidemic of sitdown strikes. Most of the small er strikes in the Detroit area have been settled, and in Chicago and elsewhere vigorous action by the authorities has brought sitdowners to their senses. President Roosevelt had steadily refused to take a public stand con cerning this new weapon adopted especially by the Lewis labor group, but finally yielded to the pleas of his lieutenants so far as to agree to hold a conference on the matter on his return to Washington from Warm Springs. Secretary of Labor Perkins has shown a partiality for the sitdown strike, and various New Dealers have defended it; but others in the administration, like Secretary of Commerce Roper, have con demned it. And in the senate and the house it has been attacked by Democrats and Republicans alike. FN THE big mass meeting of * workers held in Detroit, Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, addressed himself to Henry Ford, saying: “Henry, you can’t stop the labor movement. You can’t keep your workers from joining the labor movement even if you have a ‘fink* (company sympathizer) at every other post in your factory. The best thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your or ganized workers.” Mr. Ford is on record as saying that his company will continue to make cars as long as a single man will continue to work for it; and in reply to Martin’s threat, Harry Bennett, Ford chief of personnel, says: “What Martin calls ’organized la bor’ is not going to run the Ford Motor company. For jevery man in this (the Ford Rouge plant) that might decide he wants to follow Martin and take part in a sitdown strike there are at least five who want their job and don’t want a strike.” The Rouge plant employs 87,000 men. The minimum wage is $6 a day, or 75 cents an hour for the eight hour working day. The plant op erates five days a week, with the exception of the blast furnaces which must be kept going seven days a week. A MELIA EARHART’S globe-en- circling flight ended, for the present, at Honolulu when she cracked up her $80,000 “laboratory plane’’ at the take off for Howland is land. By quick thinking and action she saved her life and those of Capt. Harry Manning and Fred J. Noonan, her navigators, but the plane was so badly damaged that it had to be shipped back to the Los Angeles factory for repairs. The daring aviatrix sailed immediately for San Francis co, asserting that she would resume the flight as soon as possible As the big plane rushed down the runway for the take-off it swayed badly, the right tire burst and the ship went out of control. The left undercarriage buckled and the left wing slashed into the ground. The ship then spun to the right, crashed down on its right wing, and the right motor snapped off the right wheel. Miss Earhart quickly cut the igni tion switches, so there was no fire, and no one was injured. Amelia Earhart 'T' EN passengers, two pilots and a * stewardess were killed when a big Transcontinental and Western airliner crashed near Pittsburgh. No one survived the, disaster. The plane, from New York for Chicago, had been awaiting a chance to land at the Pittsburgh airport, circling around, and suddenly fell from a height of only about 200 feet. Pre sumably the motor failed. Governor Murphy Q ONGRESSMAN RALPH E. CHIURCH of Illinois raised a storm in the house by making a fierce attack on Adolph J. Sab- ath, also of Illinois and dean of the house. Sabath is chairman of the committee to investigate real estate bondholders’ reorganizations, and Church accused him of “question able practices,” demanding in par ticular an explanation concerhing benefits reaped by the Chicago law firm of Sabath, Perlman, Goodman & Rein as a result of Sabath’s ac tivities. Democratic leaders rushed to the defense of Sabath, and finally stopped Church’s attack by forcing adjournment. Sabath was furiour and promised a reply at length. * Irvin S. Cobb win lb 3lrimkd about “Benefit” Promises. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Maybe "benefits’* are being overdone—indeed, some are rackets wearing the mask of charity—but even so, if a good trouper has promised to show- up, you’d think he would prove he’s a good trouper by showing up. There have been cases out here when' there were listed enough notables to make a whole constellation of stars, but what resulted was a milky way of amateurs and unknowns. Those last-minute alibis for non- appearance are n<Jt always true ones. The real facts may be: A night club cutup has been unexpect edly taken sober and so isn’t funny. A darling of the screen thinks he did enough when he al lowed the use of his name, so he spends the evening congen ially posing for pro file photographs. An actor is busy trying to decide whether he’ll sell his yacht and buy a racing stable or sell his racing stable and buy a yacht. An actress suddenly remembers she has an engagement over the Arizona line to be married some more. Staying at home to post up the diary used to be an excuse, but dairy-keeping is now out—oh, abso lutely! • • • Talking Fish. DROF. ISAAC GINSBURG of the 1 United States bureau of fisheries solemnly vows he has heard those tiny aquatic creatures known as sea horses communicating with one another by speech and he suspects otheft species do the same thing Undoubtedly so. I can confirm this discovery by a story Drury Underwood used to repeat. Drury said a gentleman ordered whitefish in a Chicago restaurant. When the portion arrived the patron sniffed at it and then, in a confidential un dertone. began talking, seemingly to himself. The waiter ranged up. * “Anything wrong, sir?” he in quired. “Oh, no,” said the patron, “I was just talking to the fish.” “Talking?” “Certainly. I said to him: ‘Well, how’re tricks out in Lake Michi gan?” And he said: T wou'dn’t know. It’s been so long since I left there I can’t remember anything about it.’ ” • • • The Race to Arms. ITALY sees Britain’s bet of $7,500,- * 000.000 to be spent on war de fense during the next five years, and raises it by decreeing militariza tion of all classes between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five, which means a trained fighting force of 8,000,000 ready for immediate mobi lization, adding as a side wager the promise of “total sacrifice, if required, of civil necessities. . . for attainment of maximum. . . mili tary needs.” This means, of course, that France and Germany and Russia must chip in with taller stacks than< before, and thus the merry game goes on until some nation, in des peration, calls some other nation’s bluff and all go down together in a welter of blood and bankruptcy and stark brutality. The world has been 5,000 years patching together the covering called civilization, but experience shows that this sorry garment ma’’ be rent to tatters in an hour. Maniacs and Motors. r~\ ISPATCHES tell of a. slaying automobile which chased a cit izen clear up on the sidewalk and nailed him. This is a plain breach of the ethics governing our most popular national pastime—that of mowing down the innocent by stander. Among our outstanding motor ma niacs it has already been agreed that once a foot passenger reaches the pavement, he is out of bounds and cannot be put back in play un til somebody shoves him into the roadway again. Otherwise the pe destrian class would speedily be ex- terminbted, whereas its members are valuable for target practice when an operator is building up to the point where he is qualified to sideswipe a car full of women and children while going seventy miles an hour, or meet a fast train on equal terms at a grade cross ing. By all means let us clarify the rules so that the sport of destroying human life on the highroads shall not suffer through the overzeal of amateur homicides. Remember our proud boast that we lead all the world in traffic horrors. IRVIN S. COBB. ©-WNU Service Mitional Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart NatteMt Frees BalUUnc Waeblnston, D. CL Keci/at tr Irene Rick Rtm Aetw Washington.—Immediately after the armistice in 1918, the country was suddenly awakened to the fact that living costs were extraordinari- ... ly high. It was a Living e oil d 11 i o n that Costs struck close home to e v e r y o n e. It was a condition that developed an un usual emotion. There followed, nat urally, a wave that engulfed hun dreds of thousands of people who felt that they were being subjected to high prices that were unjustified. Most people will remember how “H. C. L.” became an expression as common and one that figured in as many puns and jokes and wise cracks as the alphabetical agencies common now to the New Deal. It was a type of propaganda that came along spontaneously because the condition affepted so many people. The reason I have recalled that circumstance is because we are again headed straight into another era of “H. C. L.” We have not reached the top of living costs by any means. It takes more than a fortune teller or crystal gazer to predict what is going to happen in the way of increased commodity prices. Suffice it to say, however, that a “vicious cycle” has started whirling and in the midst of the situ ation stands a very confused con sumer, representative of all of the people in the United States. There undoubtedly will be an in crease in the propaganda concern ing living costs again. Indeed, there already is a rather far-flung propa ganda which results from the in creased cost of living but it is di rected rather on a slant and not pointed accurately into the heart of the condition now confronting us. Undoubtedly a great many people have not thought of the frequent and recurring attacks on business and business practices as having any thing to do with the increased liv ing costs. But the truth is that this type of propaganda springs directly from the sporadic cries that arc coming from many localities about the higher prices—complaints that the dollar does not go very far in buying food across the grocery counter. It seems to me that it is time for some calm thinking about this situa tion. It seems to me further that public officials everywhere ought to be honest enough to analyze the situ ation and tell the public what the real causes are. If this is not done, there again will be undoubtedly a perfect deluge of propaganda in pro test against high living costs and the bulk of the people who suffer from these increased costs will not know the reason any more than they un derstood the reasons that brought about a counterpart of the present outlook back in 1918 and 1919. • • In any examination of an eco nomic condition, one must dig con- siderably below Seeking th e surface to find the Cause the factors that have operated to bring about the results visible to the eye.. Such is certainly the case in the present situation. One can not fairly say that the present boom ing prices in food have just hap pened. In truth, things never hap pen; they are brought about. They have been brought about in the pres ent circumstance by factors that date back to 1933 and include nu merous governmental policies that have been initiated since that time. The trained economist will de scribe present conditions as due to inflation—which indeed they are. But inflation is such an all-inclusive term that the real story lies hidden. In an effort to spur and encour age production and aid recovery. President Roosevelt devalued the dollar. He reduced its gold value. During 1933 and 1934 there came numerous pieces of legislation in cluding the NRA and the AAA, each designed to foster increased prices and to build up the level of wages for industrial workers. Subsequently, President Roosevelt sponsored legislation which had as its end and aim federal control of wages for workers. This legislation sought to give the federal govern ment power to force business in terests to recognize labor unions and to accept labor union scales of pay—all to the end that labor should be paid a greater percentage of the returns received by business. • • • There came also legislation de signed to increase the price of sil- ver and the United Then Came States Treasury Strikes was directed by this law to buy millions of ounces of silver and to use that silver in our currency. In the meantime and recurring almost constantly the New Deal adminis tration, from President Roosevelt on down, maintained a barrage of at tacks on business interests seek ing wider employment of labor at increased wages. Coupled with these attacks was violent criticism of banks and bankers. They Welre charged with being an obstacle to recovery because they were not lending money. It did not matter to the critics that no one wanted to borrow money; the criticisms were continued because loans simply were not being made and no exami nation of the reason why loans were not being made ever was under taken. Next in the chain of events and still continuing came labor troubles. The New Deal avowedly was on the side of labor and against employers. Strikes followed in increasing num bers. The results of this combination of factors and circumstances now are showing. Considered from any angle, one can not fail to see why they constitute a cycle of events that lead to higher prices. When the dollar was cheaper by devaluation, more dollars were re quired to feed a family than had been required before. Workers felt this sting. They demanded more dollars in pay for their work. Pres sure from the New Deal administra tion together with labor’s use of the strike weapon forced business to pay higher wages. But, jusiness must live. It can not live unless it gets back its costs of production. Agriculture can not subsist unless it receives a reason able price for its production. Nei ther agriculture nor industry will go ahead unless there is a reward in the shape of a profit. Conse quently, neither agriculture nor in dustry is going to absorb these in creased costs alone. The natural and the only way it has to get back those expenditures is by charging higher prices to the buyers of those products. Thus, we have the com plete cycle—and the consumer, as usual, is the goat. The consumer pays and if that consumer be not in a position to enforce a higher return for the services he renders, he is caught between the upper and nether millstones. It appears that the consumer is fast getting himself into the grip of that vise. • • • In connection with this increasing price level, and the dangers inher- ent in the general Credit situation, I think Ecctes credit ought to be given to President Eccles, of the Federal Reserve board of governors, for the bold statement he made a few days ago. Mr. Eccles warned the country very frankly what the dangers are in a situation where labor continues to clamor for a greater share of the profits of commerce and industry and where labor’s leadership seeks to take advantage of the inability of employers to protect themselves. The Eccles statement took occa sion to link labor’s position with the general money market and the ef fect labor’s position is having on the country as a whole. He re ferred to the demands of some la bor leaders for a working week of 30 hours and while not completely discarding that theory, he gave the very definite impression that shorter hours do not constitute a solution for our present problem. “Increased wages and shorter hours,” said Mr. Eccles, “when they limit or actually reduce production are not at this time in the Interest of the public in general or in the real interest of the workers them selves. When wage increases are passed along to the public, and par ticularly when industries take ad vantage of any existing situation to increase prices far beyond in creased labor costs, such action is shortsighted and an indefensible policy from every standpoint. “Wage increases and shorter hours are justified and wholly de sirable when they resillt from in creasing production per capita and represent a better distribution of the profits of industry. When they retard and restrict production and cause price inflation, they result in throwing the buying power of the various groups in the entire econ omy out of balance, working a par ticular hardship upon agriculture, the unorganized workers, the recipi ents of fixed incomes and all con sumers. “The upward spiral of wages and prices into inflationary price levels can be as disastrous as the down ward spiral of deflation. If such conditions develop, the government should intervene in the public inter est by taking such action as is nec essary to cored the abuses. “The remedy for a price inflation when the country has unused man power, natural resources and capi tal, is through more, not less pro duction, through an orderly, bal anced use of these three funda mental factors and not by creating a needless, artificial shortage of any one of them.” Thus we have brought into bold relief a criticism of the final factor entering into the present increasing price level. I refer to the artificial shortage in food products that re sulted from the ridiculous crop con trol program that was accomplished through AAA. We are now paying the price for the destruction of 6,000,000 little pigs. I said at the beginning of this discussion that a calm examination of the factors involved was neces sary now if it ever were necessary in history. C Western Newspaper Union. Chicken Stew Divide a chicken, stew until ten der, and remove to hot platter. To the stock add one-half cupful of rice and dumplings made as fol lows: Beat one egg, add one-half* cup ful of water, pinch of salt, and sufficient flour to make a thin bat ter; drop by spoonfuls into the stock and cook about ten minutes. If rice is uncooked it should be boiled twenty minutes before dumplings are added. Family Racket For the past 99 years, a unique racket has been in operation, first by the father and now by the son, on the river Nile near Luxor, Egypt. 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