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V The Ban well Peonle-SMitlaeL Rerawell. S. C_ ThnrvHav. Anr41 IK. 1M7 | t| News Review of Current >• Events the World Over Franco Combating Revolt in Spanish Fascist Army— Developments in Labor Situation—President's Farm Purchase Plan Opposed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ® Western Newspaper Union. Gen. Franco ENERAL FRANCO’S revolution ^ in Spain, already checked by serious defeats on both the north ern and the southern fronts, was further embar rassed by spreading revolt among the Fascist troops. His agents uncovered the plot and numer ous arrests were speedily followed by numerous execu- t i o n s by firing squads. The mutiny ftgst broke out in Spanish Morocco, and Franco himself hurried there by plane. There were persistent re ports that 1,000 Italian soldiers had been landed at Ceuta and were be ing used to crush the mutiny. This was denied by the Fascist high com missioner of Morocco. More than 100 high-ranking offi cers, most of them belonging to the air force, were said to have been implicated in the plot which was seemingly well laid in all parts of Spanish Morocco and the southern tip of European Spain. Government troops were said to be pushing back toward Cordoba the Fascist forces which were trying to break through for capture of the rich coal and mineral territory about Pozoblanco. The insurgent army there, alleged to include 10,- 000 Italians and Germans, was in danger of being surrounded and an nihilated. Great Britain and France official ly warned Franco that they would no longer tolerate the stopping and searching of British and French merchant vessels by his warships. r\EADLOCK over a new wage ^ agreement brought about a walkout of soft coal miners in the Pennsylvania and West Virginia fields and its spread to other fields was certain unless the controversy were settled. The mine operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of America have been long in negoUation,-with John'L. IJew:s dictating the stand taken by the latter. Edward F. McGrady, assist ant secretary of labor, was trying hard to help bring about a settle ment and kept the White House in formed of developments. Mainten ance men were ordered to stand by in the mines, but about 400,000 men quit work. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT dis- * cussed the labor situation with Secretary Perkins and Sidney Hill man, chief organizer of the C. I. O. drive to unionize the textile work ers. Hillman told him he was hope ful the problems of the textile indus try could be settled by co-operation and arbitration, and it was report ed that he promised the textile workers would not attempt to use the sitdown strike. Senator Wagner of New York de livered an address in the senate on the sitdown strike situation, charg ing that the blame of it rested on a few giant corporations which, he aaid, have "hamstrung” the labor relations board by invoking injunc tions in the courts and "who have openly banded together to defy” the labor relations law. Deriding the call for new federal legislation to meet the crisis, Sena tor Wagner declared that "the lack of power in the federal government to enforce the labor relations act and not any weaknel< In existing law is the root cause for the present economic warfare." Representative Martin Dies of Texas appeared before the house rules committee and urged action on his resolution for a congressional investigation of the strike situation. He again called upon the President to intervene and pointed to section 5299 of the revised United States statutes as giving the chief execu tive authority to take action in the event of such an occurrence as the Chrysler strike. The continued silence of the Pres ident on the issue is "ominous," Representative Charles L. Gifford of Massachusetts told the house. He warned the President against the rise to power of John L. Lewis. Negotiations for settlement of the General Motors strike were pro gressing slowly, and officials of the corporation said that 10,100 em ployees were idle in four plants be cause of strikes in Pontiac and Flint, Mich. "There are two conditions under which federal action may be in voked in case of acute strike condi tions; namely where federal laws have been violated or where federal property, including the mails, is .in terfered with. “Unless one of these conditions exists, federal intervention or ac tion, under the Constitution and de cision of the courts, is not warranted. "The second condition is cases where state authorities, under the federal law, ask the services of fed eral agencies in the preservation of law and order and in the prevention of violence. "Neither condition has so far aris en. Except in instances where in terstate commerce is interfered with, where a federal law is disre garded, the federal government does not, and cannot under the Con stitution, initiate action.” CEVEN Democrats joined the six ^ Republicans on the house agri culture committee and disapproved the President’s proposal to al lot $50,000,000 to assist farm tenants to buy farms on easy credit terms. This majority of the committee ob jected to the program because it would put the government into the real estate business. The proposition is contained in one section of the farm tenant bill and would author ize the secretary of agriculture to buy farms for resale to tenants on terms that would give them as long as 45 years to pay. The interest rate would be 3 per cent. Sponsors of the measure probably will try to get It through , the senate, and after house refusal to agree it would then go to conference. Only the day before the President had given out his farm tenancy program as follows: 1. Continuation of rehabilitation loans, most of which would go to people living on land which the gov ernment believes can be made to pay. 2. Purchase of submarginal land so that it can be taken out of cultiva-. tion and put-into trmbWoFgrasses. 3. Federal purchase of land for resettlement of families taken off submarginal land and purchase of tenant farms to give tenants a chance to own the land they are tilling. Irvin S. Cobb C ENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of ^ Nebraska is intent on his plan for the creation of a national power authority similar to the Tennessee Valley authority, and he intends to in troduce a bill for this during the pres ent session of con gress. This he an nounced after con ferring with the President, and he intimated the idea was approved by Mr. Roosevelt. He has experts at work investigating i t s feasibility and map ping out the details. "All rivers of the United States should be controlled by the nation if their nature is subject to it by na tional flood control policy," the sen ator said. "Whenever the river will develop power, we should take ad vantage of it. I’ve always regard ed power as a subsidiary or by product of flood control." Sen. Norris T 7 NDER pressure from his advis- ers to take a public stand con cerning the sit-down strike. Presi dent Roosevelt .immediately after his return from Warm Springs held a conference with Vice President Garner. Senate Majority Leader Joe Robinson. Speaker Bankhead and House Majority Leader Sam Ray- bum. At its close Senator Robin son. presumably voicing Mr. Roose velt’s views, said: "The government cannot Initiate action under the circumstances thus far presented It is felt that the sit- down strike situation » a general la improving A LINK with a past era was ** broken by the death in Wash ington of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln at the age of ninety years. She was the daughter-in-law of President Lincoln and the mother and grand mother of his only living descend ants. Mrs. Charles Isham, Mrs. Jes sie Randolph and their three chil dren. Mrs. Lincoln was the daugh ter of James Harlan, who was a senator from Iowa and later sec retary of the interior. In 1868 she married Robert Tqdd Lincoln, the martyred President’s son. In the administrations of Presidents Gar field and Arthur her husband served as secretary of war. and under President Benjamin Harrison, he served as minister to England. Aft erward he was general counsel and then president of the Pullman com pany. r\ ICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN of Russia, in his official capacity as secretary of the central com mittee of the Communist party, de mands a new purge of the party, so we probably will read soon of another mass execution of hundreds under arrest. "I think it is clear.” said Stalin, "that the present wreck ers and diversionists—no matter whether they have masked them selves under the flag of Trotzkyism of Bukharinism—have lost their in fluence in the worker’s movement and have become simply an unprin cipled and idealless band of profes sional wreckers, diversionists. spies and murderers "It is quite clear these gentlemen should be destroyed, exterminated mercilee-ly as enemies of the Work- mg close ard enemies of our coun try " 2__about: Departed Spirits. CANTA MONICA, CALIF.— ^ Continued failure of medi ums to claim the reward offered by the late Harry Houdini, who provided a test for proof of communication with the spirit world, makes me think of a thing that happened at the first seance ever held down in my neck of the woods. ’Die operator was summoning the spirits of departed dear ones to order. A lanky youth out of the bottoms desired to speak with his father. Presently, a shad owy figure appeared between the cabi net’s dark curtains and a voice uttered muffied sounds. "Is that you, Paw?” inquired the seeker. "Yes, son," an swered the voice. "Paw, air you in heaven?" Seemingly startled, the ghostly ap parition hesitated a moment be fore giving what might be taken for an affirmative sound. "Paw, air you an angel?" de manded the son. Again an embarrassing delay, then a diffident mumble. "A regular angel with wings and everything?” Once more a low grunt. "Say, Paw,” cried the youth, perk ing up, "whut do you measure from tip to tip?" • • • Matrimonial Adventures. TJERETOFORE some of the au- * * thorities have held that the first two years were the hardest in matri monial adventures, but the peak of the danger period for married coup les is now set at the sixth year by Los Angeles’ city attorney. On the side he runs a bureau for handling the funds assessed for family sup port against separated or delinquent parents. So he ought to know about it, if anybody does. Well, personally, I always did have the theory that no woman could stand any man for more than five years unless she got numb. After that it’s just a long-distance endurance test_pji hrr sida onripn— haos Sometimes on both aides. • • • Senatorial Shifts. ^TAMING no names, a little bird ^ just in from Washington whis pers that one senator, under the in fluence of alternating psychic waves or something, already has shifted three times on the plan to make the Supreme court over. First he was against it, then for it, then against it again, and is now threat- ening to change once more. They’ll be taking beta on him at Lloyd’s next. Once in a while we get a states man who reminds you of a hunk of country butter in an icebox— takes the flavor of everything near by, but not improved by any one of ’•m. • • • Maine’s Statesmen. T' HERE is but one answer to the * attitude assumed by both of Maine’s senators, who show a pro nounced inclination to balk at what ever the New Deal calls for in con gress and especially at the plan to mold the Supreme court somewhat closer to the boy scout model. If these here foreigners don’t like this country, why don’t they go back where they came from? • • • The Game of Poker. CALIFORNIA'S attorney general decides that draw poker, unless played as a percentage game, in not gambling. Had he gone deeper into the sub ject, he might have ruled that draw poker, as generally played nowa days, is not even a game. What vet eran would call it anything except a sacrilege against an ancient and once honorable sport when folks are free to introduce at will such abom inations as deuces wild or one-eyed jacks or barber’s itch or spit in the ocean? To draw honest cards; to try to play the other fellow’s chances as well as your own;_ to try to figure when to raise and When to call and when to quit; to try to pick the right moment for bluffing, since the bluff is the real soul of the thing—that’s poker, my masters, an American- >orn pastime, hallowed with age, snnobled by usage, beloved of the fathers. IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. Washington Digest 4 National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BgUCKART ‘Seeing’ Bridge The only bridge in the world that can "see” has been completed at Kincardine, Scotland. Equippea with three electric "eyes,” the huge swinging center span automatical ly aligns itself with the roadway when closed. All three "eyes” are located on one end of the swinging span, says the Washington Post. One sees the span does not over shoot the mark, another that it does not undershoot, and the third watches for the dead central posi tion. The 1,500-ton span is so delicately poised on the central pivot that only two 50-horsepower electric motorr are needed to awing •t open to river 'j-aiBc. Washington—Throughout history, unsound economic policies have had - . a way of demon* experience strating their un- os a Teacher soundness by the results that even tually become understandable to the rank and file of the people. Like wise, throughout history the rank and file of the people have learned their lesson each time and have avoided burning their fingers a sec ond time. That is, fingers were not burned a second time until a new generation came along and refused to examine and take into account the lessons of experience. Lately, we have seen another such demonstration. We have seen both the results and the refusal of current leaders to profit by exper iences of the past. I refer particularly to conditions involving United States bonds, Those who have followed market quotations must recognize that Unit ed States bonds and other securities issued by the treasury have suffered from fluctuations in prices that por tend, if, indeed, they do not prove that federal financial policies of the last four years were unsound. There was propaganda from official quar ters during one of the periods of sagging prices that the condition resulted from market manipulations and the activities of "tipsters.” Sto ries to this effect came directly out of the treasury although they did not carry the identity of the official who made the statements. The whole circumstance must be considered together, however, if one is to arrive at any sort of a con clusion concerning the true state of affairs. One must think of the total amount of government secur ities outstanding — something like thirty-four-billions—and one must recognize as well what is going on in commerce and industry. In addi tion to these factors, attention must be given to conditions of the last several years when the Roosevelt administration was engaged — and "Stil! Is engaged — In the great est orgy of spending that our na tion ever has known. When you add up these various factors, you get an answer which seems to me to be irrefutable. In the first place, no nation nor any of its individuals can go on indefinitely spending monev when it does not have that money. That is, it cannot spend more than its in come over any extended period without suffering bad results. Our nation did that. It made up the difference between its income and its spending by borrowing. It gave government bonds to those from whom it borrowed, evidence of its debt. The immediate result of this condition was that there are mil lions upon millions of government bonds held by banks, corporations and individuals. These bonds bear an exceedingly low rate of interest. It is only natural that anyone with money to lend will look for the highest interest rate they can get. If they happen to hold government bonds, those bonds will be dumped in favor of securities paying higher returns. That has happened to some extent already. • • • It is to be remembered as well that these bonds were issued in the currency of the Suttpiy and devalued dollar. Demand the fifty-nine cent dollar as meas ured by the value of gold. Now. the law of supply and de mand that has always operated and which alwavs will operate places a basic value upon commodities, upon the services of labor. It is ot>- erating again and has brought about a greater demand for commodities, the things we need to eat or to wear and the count’ess items of modern dav living. The prices of these, measured in present currency, are higher because it takes almost two of the present day dollars to buy the same quantity as formerly could be purchased with the dollar that was pood for one-hundred cents in pold. The answer to this is that most of us can not help regarding gold as a commodity having a stable value. So, we see a pesult in this direction. Labor, too, is demanding more, of the’ fifty-nine cent dollars for its share of production. It has a right to do so. If you measure wages as you measure commodity values, and it seems to me there can be on- Iv one yardstick, then labor is justi fied in asking for higher pay. Again, - a result of tinkering with the currency becomes evident be cause labor is forced to pay more for what it buys aa a result of the reduction in the dollar’s gold value. Then, finally, I am quite con vinced that in addition to the fac tors I have discussed as having weight in causing fluctuation of gov ernment bond prices, no one can deny the influence that is being ex erted by the radical labor element throughout the strikes that have been promoted. These strikes have done more than just violata law by unjustified and unwarranted aetsur? el the •rty of other persons. They have developed among the strikers them- selves a resentment against every one who owns a farm or a home or a business. The tragedy of this condition, to leave the subject of currency for a moment, is that the strikes show how little respect for law and order exists among a segment of our pop ulation. It is not only a tragedy. It is a dangerous sign and unless somewhere in our nation, govern ment asserts its authority and pro tects rights, we may possibly be faced with a circumstance in which our nation will be held together again only by use of army guns. * » » To get back then to the bond market it seems to me there is a closely knit skein Unsound 0 f conditions that Ground prove where our government has gone into unsound ground. It can be pointed out how the tinkering with the currency has carried through to the ultimate consumer and the wage worker. It can be shown how the national government has dis regarded the rights of part of the population and favored another part of the population and in doing so has created a class hatred which is liable to cause trouble in the nation for the next fifty years. Notwithstanding the lessons to be learned from these experiences we observe how the same mistake is being made in another way. I refer now to the attitude of administra tion leaders who are supporting President Roosevelt’s program to add six justices of his own choosing to the Supreme court of the United States. Throughout the argument that has come from proponents of the President’s packing plan there runs a constant and recurring ap peal that if we can only have six new justices in the Supreme court we can do all of the things that are necesrary to bring about labor toac* and complete business recov ery. Disregarding the merit or demerit of this argument, it seems to me one cannot help looking somewhat into the future and determining on the basis of experience of the past what may happen if the Supreme court is emasculated as the Presi dent proposes. I said earlier in this article that there has grown up a tremendous disrespect for law. The continued prattle about the necessity for "rew blood” in the Supreme court is sim ply and frankly another step in the direction of a government by men and not a government by law. It is to be recalled that Mr. Roose velt was given by his rubber stamp congress more power than any President of the United States ever has exercised before. I do not make the charge that the difficulties that I have attempted to analyze above resulted directly from according the Chief Executive so much power. But history surely teaches the les son that where one man has so much power available he always makes more mistakes than where that power is exercised by the prop erly appointed or elected represent atives of the masses of the peonle. I recall a homely saying, often heard in my youth, that two heads are better than one even though one may be a cabbage head. I am quite convinced that the 435 mem bers of the house of representa tives and the 96 members of the senate have more wisdom collective ly than one man. Adverting again to the questions of currency and prices, we have only to look across the Atlantic ocean and see what happened in Italy, in Russia and in Germany where one man attempted to estab lish his own ideas on the currency. From what I have heard from offi cial sources, it must be true that in those three countries I mentioned, there are billions of pieces of paper money that are worth altogether little more than the cash value of the paper on your walls. It al ways has worked out that way. • • • J Some of the business interests of the country apparently are taking _ time by the fore- Take Time joc^ an d adjusting by Forelock themselves to con ditions where *the government is by men and not by law. A few days , ago the distilled spirits institute announced that it had elected W. Forbes Morgan as its president. Mr. Morgan, an uncle by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, resigned as treasurer of the Democratic National commit tee to enter the employment of the liquor interests. While there was no official announcement concerning Mr. Morgan’s salary, the gossip per sists that he is to be paid something like five-hundred-thousand dollars for five years’ work in his new job. His election raises two questions; What can Mr. Morgan do for the liquor industry that is worth ao much money and. secondly, wheth er the selection of Mr Morgan does not show how stupid OF mtST TO I ROHM, gh»«twf Saucepans—Aluminum saucepans that have become colored inside can be made to look like new by boiling in them water to which a tablespoonful of vine gar and some apple parings or lemon rinds have been added. » • • Useful Velvet—If you are mak ing anything of velvet do not throw away the pieces of material lef* over.’ Save them for using as polishers for your black-leaded stoves and for your shoes. You 11 get a real mirror-like shine on both if you rub them with velvet after the usual polish has been applied. • • • * Removing Tea Stains—Tea and coffee stains can sometimes be removed from china cups by rub bing them with a damp cloth dipped in baking soda. * * * To Remove a Tight Lid—Tie a piece of string round the tin two or three times, just below the lid; then push a pencil between the string and the tin, twist the pen cil over, and the resulting pres sure will release the lid*. • • • Use Baking Sheets — Baking powder biscuits and cookies rise better and brown more evenly on baking sheets than they do in pans. WNU Service. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are an effective laxative. Sugar coated. Children like them. Buy now!—Adv. Talent and Genius Talent is that which is in a man’s power. Genius is that in whose power a man is.—Lowell. REMEMBER THIS CROSS IT MEANS FAST RELIEF 15c rot ii t mu dozoi i\»* , ra* 81 and cn l ' ,or ^ v. BAYER ASPIRIN F.saential Victories Re ashamed to die until you have won some victory for hu manity.—Horace Mann. A Base Possession The wavering mind is but m base possession.—Euripides. Remember Thia When You Need a Laxative It Is better for y»u If your body keepa working ns Nature Intended. Food wntes after dlxeation should be eliminated every day. When yon get constipated, take a dose or two of purely vegetable Black-Draught for prompt, refreshing relief. Thous.inda and thousands of men and women Ilka Black-Draught and keep It always on hand, for uso at the first sign of ronstfpnUon. Have you tried It? BLACK-DRAUGHT A GOOD LAXATIVE In the Strength of Youth It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. OieitCb6U Tonight rub your child’s chest and throat with Penetro Helps loosen tightness and congestion THC SALVE WITH A BASE OLD FASHIONED MUTTON SUET \ PENETRO, Sentinels of Health Don’t Neglect Them! Nature designed the kidneys to do a marvelous Job. Their task is to keep the flowing blood stream free of an excess of toxic Impurities. Tht act of living—(i/a ilitlf—ia constantly producing wasta matter the kidneys must remove from the blood if good health la to endure. When the kidneys fail to function sa Nature intended, there ia retention of waste that may cause body-wide dis tress. One may suffer nagging backache, persistent headache, attacks of dixxineaa. getting up nights, swelling, puffuitaa wider the eyas—(eei tired, earvow, aU Frequent, scanty or •say be further evidence « uw bladder disturbance. Tbe reengaiaed sad proper trsa I'^A^^eUAJTth. h IW* /SUi r Th>y>JeT** ZzZ’zrjLr**” Doans Pills