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Th« Barnwell Peovle-Sentinel. Barnwell. A. C- Thursday. Mar 6. 1937
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
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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."
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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
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Irvin S. Cobb
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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
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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.
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