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fWindsor and WaUit Are Married, Anglican Church Out
willed—Tax Dodging by the Rich to Be Investi
gated—House Rebels Yield.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
• Western Newspaper Union.
Dnchess
of Windsor
E DWARD, duke ol Windsor, and
Mrs. Wallis Warfield, the Amer
ican woman for love of whom he
gave up his throne, were married in
the Chateau de Can-
de, Monts, France,
and are now spend
ing their honeymoon
at Wasserleonburg
castle in lower Aus
tria. Almost at the
last moment the
Church of England
was outwitted by
the action of an ob-
s c u r e provincial
clergyman from the
north of England,
and the civil cere
mony performed by the mayor of
Monts was followed by a reUgious
wedding conducted by that same
minister, Rev. Robert Anderson
Jardine, in flat defiance of the pro
tests of the leaders of the church.
Sixteen principal guests were
present in the chateau when Mayor
Mercier, pronouncing the English
names with difficulty, and speaking
in French, performed the civil
ceremony and pronounced the duke
and Wallis man and wife. Vicar
Jardine, who had volunteered his
services, recited the solemn reli
gious rites as prescribed by the
church, the duke placed the ring
oa the duchess' fourth Anger, and
they knelt on white silk cushions
while the minister prayed Through
out the entire service the famous
l "her royal
eg Wallis bl
said these veterans were "too poor"
to make the conversion at this tima,
and added: "The President appar
ently didn’t consult with thoae fa
miliar with veterana’ affaira whan
he vetoed this bilL"
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent a
1 message to congress asking for
legislation creating seven regional
power authorities patterned after
the TV A. He proposed the country
be divided into these regions:
The Atlantic seaboard.
The Great Lakes-Ohio valley.
The Tennessee end Cumberland
river basins.
The Missouri and the Red River
of the North basins.
The Arkansas, Red and Rio
Grande river basins.
The basins of the Colorado and
other rivers flowing into the Pacific
<south of the California-^regon state
line.
The Columbia river basin.
T AX dodging by wealthy men and
women, excoriated by President
Roosevelt in a special message, is
going to be investigated speedily by
a joint committee of
congress. The reso
lution for the in
quiry was intro
duced In the senate
by Senator Pat Har
rison of Mississippi,
of the A-
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Jhinkdabout
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Wouldn't it be lovely if the
other states, not to mention the
federal government, followed
the example set by the gover
nor of New York?
He commutes the sentences of for
eign-born, long-term convicts so
they may be eligible
for parole—not mind
you, to go free and
sin some more, but
to be turned over to
the port authorities
for immediats de
portation.
That is, it would
be a lovely idea if
only we could b e
sure that these same
criminals wouldn’t
come slipping back lrTi]1 8< ^5.
in again. Tht pres
ent immigration law was devised
as a barrier to protect decent cit-
ixens, both native and naturalized,
against the human scum of the old
world, but it appears to be more
like e sieve if we may judge by the
hordes of nondesirable aliens who
somehow manage to get in and stay
in and even go on relief, some of
them. 1
In other words, when we give
these unpleasant parties s compli
mentary ride back where they come
from, let’s make sure it’s wot going
to be s round trip.
#1|S
national topics interpretco
by William Bnickirt
Matloaal Press BelMlas Waahlactes, D. C
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F ROM Petping a group of believ
ers In the doctrine of Confucius
are sending missionaries to the
United States We've been
to then
1 that
dare to try the same thine
a white horaa of a
of am
royal
by the
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Washington.—Farm leaders hava
gone before congress again to press
a new agricultural
UrgaNaw program. Lika
Farm Program several that have
come through in
the last half-dozen years, the new
proposition is based on a subsidy.
The current program, like the old
AAA, is predicated on agreements
by which farmers will not do some
thing and be paid for not doing it.
To obtain the subsidies from the
federal treasury contemplated in
the new farm legislation, farmers
will have to sign contracts agreeing
to curtail their acreages up to twen
ty per cent of their average cultiva
tion for the last several years. If
they fail or refuse to sign these
contracts, tte legislation describes
them as not co-operating and, there
fore, they would be denied the right
to obtain loans from the federal gov
ernment and they would not have a
guarantee of "parity prices," as a
penalty. Moreover, those farmers
who failed or refused to co-operate
in this manner would be subjected
to prohibitive taxes on the sale of
products grown in excess of limits
on totals to be prescribed by Secre
tary Wallace of the Department of
Agriculture.
The announced basis of this new
program is for "conservation of the
soil." Further, its sponsors contend
that it will mean a gradual upbuild
ing of the fertility of the soil so that,
in the end. fewer acres will have to
be cultivated to produce the same
volume of corn or cotton or wheat
or whatever other crop ia grown.
But I think there ere few individ
uals who will say that the above
reasons honestly constitute the basis
tor this new farm legislation. I
think it must be admitted that the
plan is eaiy a subterfuge; that,
white II may help some farmers by
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with cash aa a sap.
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Tessa, outlined Mr
aiUoa Ha sate Us
agreed to provide
from the relief bill for PWA
acts, highways,
elimination, flood control and water
conservation work.
Taunted by Minority Leader Ber
trand Snell, Republican, New York,
for the general character of his
statement, Rayburn admitted he did
not know the exact amount of
money that the President would
divert to the various projects, which
have been described as "vote-get
ting" and "pork."
> One of the "rebel” leaders, Joseph
Starnes of Alabama, though voting
for the bill, announced that con
gress would never again "relinquish
its control of expenditures."
Still sore, especially at Harry
Hopkins, the congressmen discussed
the need for investigation of the
relief administration, and a resolu
tion calling for such action was in
troduced by Maury Maverick of
Texas. >.
CECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
^ HAROLD L. ICKES was taken
to the Naval hospital in Washing
ton to be treated for an intestinal
disorder. Physicians said he prob
ably would be absent from his of
fice for several weeks, a protract-
ad rest being imperative.
B T .r2
This
Prince
ef t ba
1 at peers, te
the prince pro
to do. and
he was meeting with
almost complete
success in finding
men who would ac
cept office. Tempo
rarily he had trouble
in getting a finance
minister. The new government in
cludes representatives of the big
Seiyukai and Minseito parties and
is considered, therefore, a national
coalition cabinet. Presumably it is
committed to a large army and
navy, a strong foreign policy and
drastic administrative reforms.
Prince Konoe said he would strive
to end the rivalries among the vari
ous forces in the empire, meaning
especially the disputes between the
army and the political parties. The
army will support him, but its dom
ination over Japanese policies is
practically ended with the retire
ment of Hayashi who was accused
of trying to set up a Fascist regime.
B EFORE adjourning to October
the Supreme court overruled a
government request that it refuse to
review litigation challenging the
constitutionality of federal financing
of municipal power plants. By coo-
are
Be te the
af the ar-
After reading some of the
ing literature on this subject. I’ve
decided that a true scientist is one
who is positive there are no other
true scientists.
• • •
Unemployment Statistics.
T HANKS to bright young bureau
crats in Washington, we know
how many goldfish are hatched ev
ery year and what the gross annual
yield of guinea pigs is, and the exact
proportion of albinos born in any
given period, but it never seemed
to occur to anybody to compile
reasonably accurate statistics on un
employment.
Yet, with depression behind us
and business up to boom-time levels,
it’s estimated that between eight
and nine million people are out of
work, not counting those on strike,
and judging by the papers there
must be a couple of million of them.
Apparently the more prosperous we
grow on the surface, the more de
plorable becomes the status of
those off the payrolls. It doesn’t
make sense. Or anyhow there was
a time when it wouldn’t have made
sense.
This curious situation puts s fel
low in mind of the old old story
of the chop whose wife hmd^ an
railed ot tee
of e Ml
I
e wove
M tteety
n
been the coee that tegia-
thrtMigh several stage*
and filling te congi
with the result that after much
bate a bill satisfactory to the ma
jority emerges. In presenting their
program at this time, therefore, the
farm leaders are not doing s very
good job of leading. There will be
much agitation on the part of the
farm leaders that will get just no
where at all because of conditions
in congress.
Edward A. O’Neal, president of
the American Farm Bureau Feder
ation, recently was quoted as saying
that the new plan would not require
any payments direct from the treas
ury; that is, it would pay its own
way through the medium of taxes if
it "works perfectly." That is the
rub. I find doubt in nearly all quar
ters that the plan can ^ "work per
fectly." It is so complex and re
quires such a bureaucracy for ad
ministration of it that to expect it
to "work perfectly," is virtually to
expect that legislation will control
the weather. I think everyone will
agree that congress and the admin
istration has not yet been able to
find the formula for controlling the
weather.
I believe it can be said (airly that
many fanners are dissatisfied with
servation law, aa occurred aider
the AAA, results in millions of dol
lars being paid to individuate and
corporations who are in no way par
ticipating in conservation activities.
Now, while Mr. O’Neal thinks that
the proposed law can be operated
without expense to the federal treas
ury, there is yet the conviction in
some quarters that it probably will
cost about six hundred million dol
lars a year to pay the subsidies
and pay for administration of the
law. Six hundred million dollars a
year is a large sum at any time
and it bulks much larger at a time
when there is a nation-wide cry for
a balanced budget for the federal
government. It ia a sum that, if the
budget of the federal government
otherwise were balanced, would be
sufficient to frighten thousands of
holders of United States bonds.
It would seem then that the farm
leaders ought to take into consid
eration the status ^of the federal
government’s financial affairs if
they want to develop a program
that will live. I have heard from
many students of agricultural prob
lems that the remedy for farm con
ditions is not an expensive new sys
tem of farm subsidies. They assert
that it will be impossible for Uncle
Sam to continue annual payments
to some three million or more farm
ers and they are convinced, further,
that most farmers themselves ob
jected to being placed in the cate
gory of relief clients. An argument
te also advanced that more and
more farmer* believ* federal poli
cies that caus* money to be handed
out free to fanners will, in the end,
destroy the independence of agri
culture However that may be and
however the majority of the farm
er* feel
U* from the government *1
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CHERRY KIDDING
Er*. T. B. Booty, Fort Worth, Tojrao
Cream cup Jewel Special-Blend
Shortening with ft cup sugar. Add
1 egg. cup milk. JSt
K tsp. lemon extract,
IK cups flour, 2 taps, baking pow
der. Beat for 2 minutes. Pour into
greased shallow pan; spread with K
cup drained cherries. Bake 25 min
utes in a moderate oven. Cut in
squares and serve warm with this
Cherry Sauce: Blend K cup sugar,
2 tbsps. flour and H tsp. salt Add
1 cup water, 2 tbsps. Jewel Special-
Blend Shortening, 2 tbsps. lemon
juice and K cup cherries and juice.
Cook slowly, stirring constantly,!
until sauce thickens. Adv.
Science and
the Home
FAST, West, home's the best.
*-* And our enjoyment of home
life certainly owes a lot to mod
ern science. Consider our mod
em comforts. The radio which
entertains us, the newspaper
which keeps us informed. . . the
modem household appliances, and
the first aids and home remedies
standing by in our medicine cab
inets to help us in minor emer
gencies. All are achievements of
modera scientific
brought to u* by our local
chants.
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Its poaKJM is further tsnteed with
Om argonaut that tf any ef the
pilots should Isao their live* te that
the airplane as a means of trano-
portation. la short, the deportment
thinks that thers ar* only disad
vantages and no advantages ia the
prospect.
While many persons may disagree
with the position the department has
taken, it te heartening to those of
us who like to see private business
encouraged, to know that a respon
sible federal agency charged with
supervision of a private industry is
again functioning as it was intended
to do. For several years, the De
partment of Commerce, with par
ticular respect to its aviation di
vision, has been in a state of tur
moil. There were wide differences
of opinion and in consequence little
in the way of permanent develop
ment was sponsored from Washing
ton for the aviation industry.
In criticizing the government’s in
activity, no observer would be fair
unless he also called attention to the
frailties and the failures of the in
dustry itself. It is true that some
of the larger lines lately have made
sensational improvements in the
equipment they use in the air and
in the operations part of flying.
It te true that larger and better
planes have been built and are
building. But it te likewise true
Uiat a number oi airlines have
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24-37
Paprika Is made by grlndint
dried, ripe, red aweet peppers. It
has a mild and pungent flavor. Cay
enne comes from the Japanese chill
pepper—an extremely hot small red
pepper. What is commonly called
"red pepper" Is ground from the
pods of other types of hot peppers,
which are less hot than the Jap
anese chili.
Settlers Protected Forests
The first settlers in America were
wiser than many of their descend
ants, for they recognized the value
of forests, passed laws to protect
them. Special permission had to be
gained to cut trees In Plymouth
colony: William Penn demanded that
one acre of forest remain untouched
for every five cut
te
The "Post Prtcsta"
The "Poor Priests” were students
and followers of John Wyelif. They
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