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McCORMICR MESSENGER. McCORMICKl S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938 News Review of Current Event* HOUSE VS. PRESIDENT Administration Makes Great Concessions to Save "Dictator" Bill • • • Senate Gets Tax Measure Built to j Aid Business Members of the house of representatives were swamped with tele grams from citizens all over the country urging that they vote against the administration's reorganization bill which, it was feared, would pave the way to an American dictatorship. Above is seen Congressman John J. O’Connor of New York, a leading foe of the bill, reading some of the mes sages he received. ^ M SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK ' 1 •c*: JwS WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK. — Leslie Hore-Be- lisha, British secretary of war, made himself somewhat of a na tional hero several months ago . . . when he shook up Britain in the army com- Race to Get mand, upped the Army Ready youngsters and sent the oldsters back to their club chairs. The re port of his ultimatum demanding a change of foreign policy is a stand out in the current news. There was something like conster nation among British conservatives early in 1937, when Prime Minister Chamberlain named the incidentally Jewish Mr. Hore-Belisha for the war post. There was no hint of anti-Semitism in their attitude, but just then certain optimists among them were trying to tool Britain into the German orbit, and there were alarmed predictions that Hit ler would be enraged and seek quick vengeance. That didn’t come off, and the new war secretary started a whirlwind army clean-up and all-around reconditioning cam paign, to the satisfaction of all hands. Seventy-nine-year-old Sir Ian Hamilton, who had been*in command at the Dardanelles, said, *‘Thank God we are under a proper soldier and will not be shot sitting down.” • Western Newspaper Union. Tumult Over Reform Bill TXT'HEN President Roosevelt re- * * turned from Warm Springs he found that a crisis confronted the administration forces concerning i< the xeorganization j bill pending in the ; house and that there was danger that the opposition to that measure would de- | feat it. He called to the White House a | number of leaders, and it was decided to push the bill through with a min ts os v imum of conces- Rep. Rayburn s i ons . Representa tive Sam Rayburn, majority leader of the house, told the President it would pass with amendments to which he had agreed. One of these would enable congress by concur rent resolution to override any re organization proposition the Presi dent might put through. Another would exempt the bureau of edu cation from the scope of the bill. Representative John J. O’Connor jf New York, one of the leading op ponents of the measure, admitted it probably would get by with the con cessions offered, but said he would vote against it even if the title alone remained. He and practically all other members of the house were flooded with telegrams and letters urging that the bill be defeated. Even after passage by the house, the measure would have to go to conference and many days or weeks of debate could be expected there. Eventual enactment of the bill was to be expected but the probability was that it would then have lost most of the “dictatorship” features which seem so repugnant to many thousands of American citizens. The popular opposition had not been less ened at all by the President’s ac tion in making public a letter to an unnamed friend in which he dis claimed any intention to become a dictator and asserted he has none of the qualifications that would make him successful in that role. ii Help Business" Measure YXT’HAT Sen. Pat Harrison callei the “help business” measure being the revenue bill as rewritte: by his senate finance committee was submitted to the senate Though Harrison said he expecte< its speedy passage, others believei at least a full week of debate woul be necessary. Sen. Charles McNary of Oregor minority leader promised to suppoi the bill, saying, “I think it is a grea improvement over the house vei sion. I am in favor of speeding its passage to help business.” The three chief matters in cor troversy were: Administration opposition to elirr ination of the undistributed profit tax and drastic modification of th capital gains and losses tax. A proposal by Sen. James P. Pop of Idaho to attach as a “rider” t the tax bill an amendment to irr pose $212,000,000 of processing taxe on manufactured cotton, syntheti fabrics, rice, tobacco and wheat. Amendments by Sen. Robert M La Follette of Wisconsin to broadei the tax base. Sloan Hits Government LFRED P. SLOAN, JR., chai ** man of the board of Gener Motors, reported to the stockholde; that the corporation’s earnings f< 1937 were lower. And he declan that the government’s policy towai business had caused a lack of con dence which was largely responsi ble for the business recession. Sloan asserted a sharp decline in consumer sales began in November, and in commenting on the slump as it appeared “through the eyes of in dustry,” he named two factors. “One influence,” he told the stock holders, “was the fact that there had been developing a growing lack of confidence and a fear as to the future of American business enter prise, due to the attitude of govern ment torfard business, and econom ic policies affecting business.” The other influence discussed by Sloan as responsible for “throwing the domestic economy into the vio lent and unprecedented decline” was what he described as a “radi cal” increase in pay rolls for indus try as a whole in the early part of 1937. In some important industries, he said, this increase was extended to an “uneconomic degree.” At his own request Mr. Sloan has been eliminated from further par ticipation in the profits under the corporation’s bonus plan. *— Senator Clark Bigger Dreadnaughts T JNITED STATES and Great Brii v - / ain advised each other that the would invoke the escalator clause c the London naval treaty and woul build dreadnaughl larger than 35,00 tons. The British als notified German and Soviet Russi of their decisior Both nations base their action on Jt pan’s refusal to dii close her naval coi struction plans. France, third sif natory to the treatj announced she woul continue to adhere to the 35,000-to limitation “so long as no continents power departs from that standard. Secret hearings on the $1,100,000 000 naval expansion bill were begu by the senate naval affairs commil tee, with Secretary of State Hull an Admiral Leahy, chief of naval op erations, as the first scheduled wit nesses. Chairman Walsh said ope hearings would be held later. Opponents of the administration’ “big navy” program are rather ni •merous in congress, though prob ably in the minority! One of th most consistent of them is Senato Clark of Missouri. Commenting o the invoking of the escalator claus concerning battleships, he said: “1 is just the preliminary announce ment of a world-wide naval build ing race.” The maneuvers of the Unite States fleet were transferred fror Alaska to the equator for the secom phase. In the “battle” for posses sion of the Hawaiian islands th fleet lost eleven flyers and $100,000 bombing planes. * Loyalist Spain Split CPANISH insurgents are, at th ^ writing, near the accomplis ment of Franco’s great objectiv the splitting of the territory he by the loyalists in the eastern pa of the country. They captured tl ancient city of Lerida, known i the key to Catalonia. Further south the rebels were e most to Tortosa and their vanguai was actually within sight of tl Mediterranean sea. All along the Catalonian front tl government troops fought despe ately, but it seemed their strugg was hopeless and observers b lieved the war was nearing i end. He has sp>ent a lot of time badger ing his elders, and still has man;} of them to work Clever at on, as he is only Badgering forty-three. When, HU Eldere a brash young Ox onian, he ran for parliament, his opponent tagged him as “the nonentity of the col lege bench.” He nailed this on his mast-head, sproofed the opprosition cleverly, and romprod in. He was a dispatch carrier in the war, then a major, a reporter on a London newspaper, with conveni ent underground pipelines to the front page and the headlines. He became financial secretary of the treasury In 1932 and later minister of transportation. He is a demon for detail and has swarmed all over England, in specting equipment, barracks and army kitchens. He is of medium stature, round- headed, with roached, graying hair, unmarried and given to night for ays, checking this or that detail of the military establishment. * • • A T LEAST six times in the past 150 years, the Rothschilds have been counted out, and they have always come back—like John Bar- leycorn and Old Conquerors King Cotton. Now Old Staff to the arrest .of Bar- Bank Family on Louis von Rothschild is re- prorted from Vienna. The era which founded their dynasty was disquiet- ingly like this one. The Romanoffs, and the Hapsburgs, Matternich and Disraeli and all the other kings, conquerors and statesmen came to terms with them. Baron Louis is the head of the house. The catastrophic fall of the Creditanstalt bank of Vienna in 1931 was supprosed to have wrecked them. A few weeks later, they were shoveling money into American securities, and, it was reported, snagging a stray million here and there by a fast overseas play on francs, an old family custom. Louis and his brother, Alphonse, were living in regal splendor when . the Creditanstalt Deer Parks failed. They had and Castles great estates and Faded Away maginificent \ art gallaries, shooting lodges, a huge Franz Lehar chorus of retainers, deer parks and a brace of medieval castles. Much of these holdings slipped away, as Louis, with somewhat less than the usual family zest and acumen in finan cial affairs, turned to a study of philosophy and the arts. It is 132 years since Napoleon, after Austerlitz, made mince-meat of the Holy Roman empire and even more ruthlessly dismembered Aus tria. Nathan, James and Solomon \fon Rothschild, sons of Mayer Ans elm, founder of the line, not only saved their holdings, but extended their dominions to the remotest cor ner of Europe. These vast ramifications of their fortune, one of the largest in the history of the world, were in land, steel, coal, manufacto ries and munitions, and, in later decades, in oil and hydroelectric power. Libraries have been written about them, one notable record being Zo la’s “L’Argent.” Their continental money matrix has been a stabilizer at times. It is possible that the Vienna jail door clangs the end of a dynasty and an epoch—but not quite certain. History will tell. ® Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. OREGON'S WINDING WATERS Magnificent Rivers, Tall Trees, Lively Round-Ups and Indian Tribes Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.—WNU Service. O REGON, “Land of Winding Waters,” was originally solidly covered with tim ber from the Cascade moun tains to the Pacific. Douglas firs, which constitute more than two-thirds of the timber cut, are the giants of this forest. They are in places found 250 feet high. But eastern Oregon, robbed of its sky moisture by the Cascade range, was not neglected by Nature. Its soil is rich, the debris of old lava plains, blanketed with ashes from the belching Cascade craters that drifted eastward on prevailing winds in ancient times. Irrigation projects have brought expanding and diversified crop areas and new-born cities into this plateau region, otherwise limited to livestock and the growth of hardy grains. In eastern and western Oregon alike, the Columbia gives the pulse- beat to modern industry. Hardly less important than a nav igable Columbia to eastern Oregon are its snow-fed tributaries that flow from the south through extensive areas of little rain. The boisterous and beautiful Deschutes, receiving the drainage of snow peaks on the eastern slopes of the Cascades; the poky, aged John Day, draining an immense area of low mountains, both empty into the great river above Celilo. Some of the farms along the Co lumbia are encircled by tall poplars, planted as windbreaks and protec tion against drifting sand. At Uma tilla the Columbia River highway merges with the Old Oregon trail and swings south from the Columbia along the Umatilla river to Pendle ton. Pendleton’s Big Roundup. Pendleton is an adventure. From the moment of entering this whpat metropolis during Round-Up time, one feels part of the big show. A thousand cowboys, cowgirls, Indi ans, and stage drivers assemble here each year, from the Rio Grande to Calgary, to enact a drama in which the old sports and the passing life of the frontier West relive in pauseless thrill. The Round-Up is not a commer cial show, but a vast community enterprise, owned by the people of Pendleton, who contribute months of work without compensation. They have no pompous committees with labeled badges; the whole town dons sombreros and continues to act with refreshing naturalness. Down on the Round-Up grounds, ex-cowboys, doing odd jobs around the gates, spin tales of days when they, too, rode in the arena. In dians gamble for dimes with a stick, in at game similar to “Button, button, who’s got the button?” Farmers arrive with sacks of wheat as admittance money. An old chief, unsteadied by one drink too many, searches for his tepee among the hundred that look alike. You stop to watch an old squaw saddling a horse for her modern, silk-stockinged daughter while she mutters, “Indian girl getting all same white girl. All she know is how to ride car.” Indians and Pageants. Aloof, apparently indifferent, are proud Indians from the Umatilla, Bannock, Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Yakima tribes in gorgeous beaded habiliments. Their costumes are priceless heirlooms, preserved and handed down from generation to generation for the Round-Up, while the Indians themselves grow into conventional mold. At night the wild, wide-open, em bryo gambling town of Happy Can yon stages a pageant, depicting the days of the red man and the com ing of the whites, in a classic drama. The Westward Ho parade on Saturday morning Hs the grand finale. After this sombreros may be hung up for another year, but in Pendle ton the spirit of the Old West has been fanned again into thrilling freshness. Southeast of Pendleton the Old Oregon trail runs through the Uma tilla Indian reservation. The tribes represented by the Umatillas are plains Indians, born with a heritage of the chase in which farming has no background. Many lease their lands to white farmers, retaining only enough space for their houses. This frees them for restless summer wandering, during which they pick huckleberries, dig roots, pack ap ples, or fish along the Columbia. The strange mystic legends of In dian Oregon are passing with the old er Indians, for they have little sig nificance to the educated, younger generation. Lava Soil Is Fertile. Just before the ascending highway loses itself in the Blue Mountain pines, on Emigrant hill, every trav eler stops to view the vast check erboard of wheat farms extending 200 miles to the Cascade mountains. The yellow squares are wheat stubble, the black ones summer fal low. Since wheat is grown in eastern Oregon with less than 15 inches of rain, sufficient winter moisture must be stored in the soil by planting it to grain one year and fallowing it to idleness the next. The deep, disintegrated lava soil, carpeted by immense showers of volcanic ashes, has shown amazing productivity under irrigation. Even in the apparently lifeless desert plants burst into perfect life at the touch of water. The Malheur and Owyhee rivers, tributaries of the Snake river, which in turn flows into the Columbia, are furnishing the water for the Vale and Owyhee projects, which will put 150,000 acres of land under irri gation in their basins. Already wa ter has converted parts of these sage lands into productive farming districts, in which Vale, Nyssa, and Ontario are vigorous communities. The brave tracks of the Old Ore gon trail, obliterated almost en tirely on the sage plains, can still be seen crossing the Blue mountains among resinous pines. Descend ing into the Grande Ronde valley, you pass through La Grande and then steer through the alfalfa, hay and grain ranches of the Wallowa valley. People of the Cow-Country. These are cow-country folk, a little reticent toward strangers, but hos pitable and friendly when once ac quainted. They barter produce among themselves, stocking their cellars for the winter. A gas-station operator at Lostine remarked that it is a novelty not to be offered a sack of potatoes for gas and oil. At Enterprise and Joseph, the granite walls of the Wallowa moun tains rise abruptly from the valley floor. This change of altitude is es sential for a livestock country, as it gives pasturage for stock through out the year. In the winter the stock mark time on maintenance rations in sheltered canyons; during June the cattle graze up the lower slopes, while the sheep are driven higher into the alpine pastures as summer advances. In the late afternoon the sun’s slanting rays glint on the stone shaft marking the grave of Old Chief Joseph, buried with his tribal an cestors in the “Land of Winding Waters,” overlooking Wallowa lake. On his deathbed Old Chief Joseph had called his two sons to him and requested them to hold forever the beautiful Wallowa for his people. But settlers came. To avoid con flict, the government decided tb move the Nez Perces to a reserva tion in Idaho. Misunderstanding fol lowed, resulting in conflict. After defeating two companies of the United States army, Young Chief Joseph began one of the most spec tacular military retreats in history. Handicapped by women, children, livestock, and all possessions, he led his people through the worst mountain wilderness of three states for more than 1,000 miles, fording torrential streams, giving battle, eluding, outwitting, outgeneraling the three armies in pursuit. Within 50 miles of the Canadian boundary and freedom in Montana, Chief Joseph was prevailed upon by promises to surrender. But his peo ple never returned to their “Land of Winding Waters,” and Young Chief Joseph died an exile. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT CHICKS Chicks from Purina Embry* Fed Eggs, Bloodtested State approved. Reasonably priced. Ideal Hatchery, Fayetteville, Ga. PHOTOGRAPHY • PHOTO FINISHING: TWO FREE Eight genuine Ra- dez Hi-Gloss prints and two beautiful ENLARGEMENTS 5x7 enlargements —— with each roll for 254 coin. Send your next roll and receive our free “fully colored enlargement” offers. STAR PHOTO STUDIOS, La Crosse, Wis. 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