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' r ' p . I Th« Barnwell Peovle-Sentinel. Barnwell. A. C- Thursday. Mar 6. 1937 News Review of Current Events the World Over . I President Demands Economy, Predicting Deficit of $418^ 000,000, but Asks Billion and Half for Reliefs Franco Creates Authoritarian State. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ® We.tern Newspaper Union. President Roosevelt R EVISING his budget estimates for the fiscal year 1988, Presi dent Roosevelt told congress in a special message that the deficit prob ably would amount to $418,000,000 ex clusive of debt re tirement payments of $400,000,000, in stead of the "lay man’s" balanced budget he predicted in January. He rec ommended the ap propriation of $1,- 600,000,000 for relief; and he demanded rigid economy to combat an antici pated drop in federal revenues amounting to $600,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt also said there must be a careful survey of the nation’s tax structure, and intimated that a new tax bill would be introduced at the next session of congress. In correcting the over-estimation of revenue and the under-estima tion of expenditures, the President indicated that the national debt will rise over the 36 billion dollar mark. Though he made no specific rec ommendations as to economy, the President spoke sharply about "spe cial groups" who are exerting pres sure to bring about increases in government expenditures. It was understood he referred especially to the farm tenancy program, propos ing an annual expenditure of $135,- 000,000; the Wagner housing bill, calling for an expenditure of $50,- 000,000 a year, and the Harrison- Black education bill, calling for allocations among the states begin ning at $100,000,000 for the first year and reaching a maximum of $300,- 000,000 a year. Mr. Roosevelt had rejected these measures at a White House confer ence and his attitude provoked va rious prominent senators and rep resentatives so much that they de- 11ared they would favor cutting down the relief appropriation he asked to one billion dollars. Among the Democratic leaders taking this stand were Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, represent ing the appropriations committee, and Senator Pat Harrison of Mis sissippi. Said Senator Byrnes: "I think the President’s estimate of one and a half billion dollars for work relief is too high. It would make possible a monthly expendi ture of $125,000,000. Each month it will be possible for Mr. Hopkins to further reduce the number on the relief rolls and consequently reduce the expenditures. * "It is my purpose not only to urge that the work relief appropriation be limited to one billion dollars, but that the law require larger contribu tions from the sponsors of projects. If the sponsors could be required to put up 50 per cent of the cost of the projects, we would not have appli cations for a billion dollars during the next fiscal year." Senator Joe Robinson, majority leader, made an earnest plea for economy in all directions; and Sen ator Charles L. McNary, Republi can leader, assured Senator Rob inson that the Republicans would co-operate in every way possible with the Democrats in their "be lated" efforts to balance expendi tures with income. In the house the economy pro gram lost a point when Represen tative Vinson of Kentucky succeed ed in getting through his $1,000,000 stream pollution bill. 'T'WO cabinet members were quick to comment on the Presi dent’s economy orders. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace forecast an immediate curtailment of the administration’s farm activi ties. Federal aid to farm tenants, production control and tffe ever-nor- mal granary are among the proj ects to feel the economic ax, Mr. Wallace said. He is still hopeful that the crop insurance program, to be applied to the 1938 wheat yield, may be salvaged. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper and his first assistant, Ernest Draper, joined in predicting that business recovery will not be re tarded by the apparent inability of the administration to balance the budget in the 1938 fiscal year, as the President anticipated in January. They said they regarded lagging treasury revenues as a temporary condition and added: "The present headway of business is so strong that it will offset the effect of a probable deficit." P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT an nounced his plans for another fishing trip, to begin April 28 and last two weeks or longer. This time he is going to angle in the Gulf of Mexico while congress struggles with his latest recommen dations. After leaving Washington his first stop will bt at Biloxi, Miss. From there he will go by motor to New Orleans, pausing en route at Beauvoir, the old home of Jefferson Davis that is now a home for Con federate veterans. At New Orleans Mr. Roosevelt will board the Pres idential yacht Potomac and cruise out into the gulf after tarpon. A navy cruiser win accompany the yacht. The fishing trip will end at Galveston and Mr. Roosevelt will go from there to Fort Worth to visit his son Elliott. While the Potomac ia at sea Sec retary McIntyre will maintain head quarters at Galveston with a small staff. EVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, Brit- 1 ^ ish chancellor of the ex chequer, introduced in parliament the biggest budget since World war times, and gave warning that na tional finances for several years to come would be dominated by ex penditures on armaments. He said that the government will require an outlay of 862,848,000 pounds (about $4,314,240,000) to carry out its plans and pay its expenses dur ing the next year. Revenue obtain able he estimated at 847,950,000 pounds (about $4,239,750,000), leav ing a prospective deficit of 14,898,000 pounds (about $74,490,000). Chamberlain said the taxpayers would have to pay 3 pence more on each taxable pound of income, bringing the tax up to 5 shillings, or 25 per cent. He also announced a new tax on business profits, and this especially was bitterly attacked by the Conservatives, led by Sir Robert Horne. They arjued that it would demoralize industry. FRANCISCO FRANCO is well on 4 the way to becoming a real dic tator of the part of Spain his insur gent forces control, and of the en tire country if they win the war. By de cree the general has merged the two chief rightist fac tions under his lead ership and has out lawed all other par ties, thus creating a one - party authori tarian state. His de cree left open the way to restoration of the monarchy in Spain "if the nation needs it," and the monarchists of the Carlist and Bourbon persuasions agreed that if this takes place, the king shall be Prince Juan, youngest son of Alfonso XIII. He is known as prince of the Asturias and is twenty-three years old. "The new Spain needs a new king," said a Carlist leader. "We traditionalists prefer the prince of the Asturias, who is a known sym pathizer with the ideals of the new Spain." Wl &&&** 4 * v > , Gen. Franco rjov. LEWIS O. BARROWS of ^ Maine has lined up with other state executives who will not stand for riotous and illegal tactics by strikers. When an unruly mob of 1,000 men tried to storm two of nineteen factories in Auburn in volved in a general shoe strike and the local authorities were un able to handle the situation, Gover nor Barrows ordered out eight com panies of the National Guard. "I’ll order out the entire military forces of Maine, if necessary to pre serve constitutional authority," tho executive said. "When there is open defiance to the orders of our courts and our officers of the law, there is little difference from anarchy. We shall not tolerate this situation for a moment." The trouble followed a state Su preme court injunction, issued by Judge Harry Manser, outlawing the shoe strike which affects about 6,- 500 workers. The mob had been aroused by speeches by Powers Hapgood, New England secretary for the C. I. O., and other organ izers. \\7 FORBES MORGAN, who ’ V • was the able treasurer of the Democratic national committee during the 1936 campaign and who resigned to take the presidency of the Distilled Spirits Institute, died suddenly in a committee room of the Ohio state capitol in Columbus. Mr. Morgan, a relative of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt by marriage, was a major in the World war. DY UNANIMOUS vote, nearly 4,- ^ 000 Daughters of the American Revolution, in their forty-sixth an nual congress in Washington, adopt ed a resolution opposing the Presi dent’s Supreme court enlargement bill. It declared against "unbal ancing" the federal tripartite sys tern of government and favored sub mission of the issues raised by the President to the people through a constitutional amendment. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent 1 to the senate the nomination of Mrs. Florence Jaffray Harriman of Washington as minister to Norway She is the widow of J. Borden Har riman, New York banker, and has been active in politics for a num ber of years. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., who now*holds the Nor way post, was nominated to be am bassador to Poland 111 Irvin S. Cobb about A Tea-Man's Paradise. — S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—If, as, and when the President puts over his scheme for recon structing the Supreme court nearer to his heart’s desire, the question arises—in fact, has al ready arisen—as to where he’s going to find members who will keep step with the New Deal’s march of triumph. Might this earnest well-wisher make a suggestion? Let the Presi dent look Hollywood over before making his selections, for this is yes-man’s land. Some of the studios out here are so crowded with yes-men that big yes-men have to tote little yes-men in their arms. There’s only one or two drawbacks to this plan, as I see it. It’s going to be hard to wean the local appointees from wearing polo shirts along with those long silken robes. And they’ll insist in a preview for each deci sion. • • • Domestic Pets. A BROOKLYN judge ha. decid ed that for a couple to keep •ighty-two various animal pets in one apartment is too many—maybe not for the couple, but for the neigh bors—yes! That reminds me that once, in a hotel in the Middle West—not such a large hotel either—I found fully that many pets in my bed. They weren’t assorted enough; they all belonged to one standard variety. I shall not name the hotel, but it was the worst hotel in the world, as of that year. If bad hotels go where bad folks do, it’s now the worst hotel in Hades. But the point I’m getting at is that, though eighty-two animals may make a surplus in a city flat, they couldn’t possibly upset a home so- much as one overstuffed husband who’s puny and has had to go on a strict diet such as woydjl be suitable for a canary—if the canary wasn’t very hungry. • • • Literary Legerdemain. C ULTURAL circles along sun- kissed coast of California are still all excited over the achieve ment of a local literary figure who, after years of concentrated effort, turned out a 500,000-word novel with out once using a word containing the letter "E." If the fashion spreads to the point where the cap ital "I" also should be stricken out, it’s going to leave a lot of actors and statesmen practically mute. But that’s not what I started out to say when I began this squib. What I started out to say was that I know of much longer novels which have been produced without a single idea in them. Sold pretty well, too, some of ’em did. • • • Holding World’s Fairs. I T’S customary, before launching a world’s fair or an exposition or whatever they may call it, to hang the excuse for same on some great event in history and then promptly forget all about the thing that the show is supposed to com memorate in the excitement of flocking to see Sally Rand unveiled as the real main attraction. F’rinstance, the big celebration in New York in 1939 ostensibly will mark George Washington’s inaugu ration as President 150 years be fore, and it may be, just as a mat ter of form, that Washington will be mentioned in the opening ceremoni als. But the real interest will cen ter in whether Billy Rose or Earl Carroll or the Minsky brothers suc ceed in thinking up some new form of peach-peeling art to entertain the custyners, or have to fall back once morq on such reliable standbys as fan dancers and strip-teasers. • * * Coronation Souvenirs. S INCE previous engagements pre vented me from going over to the coronation, I trust some friend will bring me back a specimen of that new variety of pygmy fish which some patriotic and enterpris ing Englishman has imported from Africa as an appropriate living sou venir of the occasion. It’s a fish having a red tail, a white stomach, and a blue back, thus effectively combining the colors of the Union Jack. And it’s selling like ho* cakes, the dispatches say. Now if only this engaging little creature could be trained to stand on its tail when the band plays “God Save the King” what an ad dition it would make for any house hold in the British domain! (Note- Households in the south of Ireland excepted.) IRVIN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. 50,008 Cattle Lost in Day Kansas ranchers lost 50,000 cattH in the famous New Year day bliz zard of 1886. Dead cattle were piled so thick along the railroad tracks they had to be cleared off tafore trains could go through. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By L«mu«l F. Pa Hon ? YYYTVY WmiriTMTimirr A Modem Cellini. N EW YORK.—Pietro Mas cagni, the greatest living Italian composer, was quite angry and unforgiving about America after his tour of 1902. He has simmered down a lot with the years, and now,'at sev enty-four, he plans another tour this summer, with the orchestra of the famous La Scala opera house. It is, of course, big news in the musical world, but the shaggy, old composer probably will land on the news pages, too, as he has a way of touching off excitement of one sort or other—not always musical. First off, there was that unhappy business about the maestro’s shirts —on that 1902 tour. The laundries tore them up or put saw edges on the collars, or stuck them full of pins. Signor Mascagni was so en raged that, if the laundry hadn’t been a bloodless corporation, he would have challenged it to a duel. A secondary irritation was the fact that the tour, in spite of the signor’s great genius, was one of the most elaborate busts in musical history. He brought over a big orchestra, with a guarantee of $10,000 a week for eight weeks. There were in ternal rows and wrangles, battles with managers, bickering and back- talk, with, finally the deportation of the orchestra players as aliens li able to become a public charge. There was a fierce tangle of law suits, and ever since then Signor Mascagni’s graying, bushy hair has bristled a bit at mention of Amer ica. It was only two years ago that he was saying that New York’s Metropolitan Opera house was all righf as a training school, but "not much good for opera." He was a baker’s son, helping his father in the bakery. He slipped a tiny statue of the Virgin in a loaf of bread. A rich woman customer broke her front tooth on it, and, dodging his angry parent, young Pietro kept on going—an itinerant player and student. He was unknown in Italy in 1902, when his Cavalleria Rusticana was produced. The next day he was as well known and as conspicuous as Vesuvius, acclaimed as the suc cessor of Verdi, experiencing what we might call a Lindberghian tri umph. He is a Renaissance man, a veritable Cellini, with his pen chant for life in the grand manner, quick on the draw, impatient with dolts and laggards, still boiling with creative energy. He was quite a way over to the left in 1922, but finally made his peace with Mussolini. Mussolini had promised senatorial togas for both Puccini and Mascagni, in 1926, but only Puccini’s came through. That was said to have embittered the maestro, but did not halt his work. It may be noted, in passing, that there was little senesence in the Renaissance. "Mascagni Flattens Laundry Man" may be a summer headline. • • • Sly Old Party. T HE grizzled Japanese General Shigeru Honjo is a sly old party. When, having snatched the Chinese boy emperor and put him on the synthetic Manchukuo throne, he ob served that this Henry Pu-Yi had no heir, he fixed up the marriage of Henry’s younger brother, Pu-Chieh, with a nice Japanese girl—all in the interest of future permanence and perpetuity of Japan in Asia. He is a dapper little man who likes to go about his business in a quiet, genteel way. When he con quered, in 100 days, a Manchuria area as large as a brace of New England states, he put on a regular daytime fighting shift, with all hands knocking off when the whistle blew, all lights out at eight and everybody asleep at nine. He wa^ quite complacent about it, having consulted the famous soothsayer, Donsho Kodania, who had called every important happen ing in Japan before it happened— including the fall of six cabinets. Donsho told the general Manchuria would be a push-over, so he slept ten hours a night. He is of a Samurai family, a vet eran of the Russo-Japanese war. He was the gentlest strong man who ever worked at that ancient trade, taking over Manchuria apol ogetically, but with dispatch. . He retired from the army a year ago. • • • "New American Race." D ERHAPS Van Wyck Brooks’ I “The Flowering of New Eng land" left you sad. They almost made a culture, but not quite. Here’s fresh hope. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, the famous anthropolo gist, calibrates Boston, long-heads and round heads alike, and finds that Boston is nurturing a "new American race." They are the tall est and largest Americans and still growing. "They are excellent, healthy white stock,” says Dr. Hrdlicka. “It is something of a pity that they can’t be kept in an Eden and stay there forever." * C ConaoUdnted News FeaturM. WNU Service. Table Sets Take to Lace \. Pattern 5768 There’s an added thrill to lunch eon or dinner when the tableset ting’s of luxurious-looking doilies! Three practical sizes—6, 11, and 15 inch circles—comprise this ex quisite buffet or lunch ensemble. And guests will exclaim over the loveliness of the "star" center pattern. You’ll be astonished at the ease with which these charm ing "dainties" are crocheted. Use mercerized cotton or string. 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