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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938 -Weekly News Review- At Least Five Tax Measures To Get Congressional Hearing -By Joseph W. La While House Inconveniently close to election day have come piecemeal reports and offhand predictions concerning the U. S. fiscal situation. When President Roosevelt talks finance before congress on January 3, he may ask almost anything. But right now, as the President busies him self with budget planning, he can be guided by facts and forecasts: Facts: Despite upswinging busi ness, the U. S. treasury deficit for the current fiscal year jumped above one billion dollars October 20, leap ing forward several million dollars a day. Gold reserves, mounting since the European scare, hit $14,- 008,236,361. Revised, the 1939 fiscal deficit prediction stands at $3,984,- 000,000, second largest in New Deal history. By next June 30, when the 1 1 SECRETARY MORGENTHAU Coolest of all concerned . . . fiscal year ends, the U. S. public debt will hit $40,000,000,000, compared with $16,800,000,000 in June, 1931. Forecast: Though “pump-prim ing" will help business, the 1940 budg et will be unabalanced. Oily by con tinued spending can the administra tion hold a mass vote for the 1940 election, thereby forestalling the normal swing to Republicanism. But it is far more painful to pay than merely file away the bill, and next winter’s congressmen will present at least five new methods of making John Public pay: - (1) A 10 per cent “one shot" in come tax levy to garner $263,000,000 needed for incfeased armament; (2) a processing tax to pay for the agriculture department’s proposed “domestic dumping" program for crop surpluses; (3) removal of tax exemption from future issues of fed eral, state and local bonds, also on official salaries; (4) extension of social security to include farm la borers, domestics, bank employees, seamen, self-employers, etc.; (5) lowering of income tax exemptions under $1,000. Coolest of all concerned with fiscal affairs has been the man in direct charge, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Unworried by mounting gold reserves, he has chosen not to deny the hope that next year’s budget may be bal anced. War With 42,000 troops, Japan covered 100 miles in nine days, capturing Canton without dropping a single bomb. Such peaceful aggression has hitherto been unheard of in the Chi nese war, giving rise to charges of a Cantonese “sellout." British, whose nearby crown colony of Hong kong is seriously damaged by the new Japanese conquest, claim the military governor of Canton be trayed his trust for a handsome fee. Communistic Chinese choose instead to blame Generalissimo Chi- ang Kai-shek for withdrawing Can ton’s crack troops into the Hankow battle sector. But these squabbles have become secondary to China’s completely de spairing picture. With both Canton and Hankow in their grab bag, Japs intend to push on until all Chinese opposition crumbles. Generalissimo Chiang is ready to resign, and the brave nation’s amazing defense is about to crumble under internal strife. Virtually sneering at Great Brit ain’s charge of a Cantonese “sell out," angry Chinese trace their fast sinking morale directly to Great Britain’s own “sellout" at Munich, when it became apparent the British lion was unwilling to help her Euro pean neighbors—much less a distant nation. Labor Second only to taxation in unpopu larity among U. S. industrialists is the national labor relations board, which last April 9 ordered Republic Steel to reinstate 5,000 workers who struck in May, 1937. To correct pos sible technical errors, NLRB quick ly withdrew its first order and held more hearings which critics termed “star chamber" proceedings. What NLRB gained by its second five- month hearing is a mystery, since a new order—substantially the same —was handed down recently. The result may be an important test of NLRB’s power, for Republic Steel has already filed an appeal with the U. S. circuit court of appeals. What stuck in many an impartial observ er’s gullet was NLRB’s denial ot the Republic contention that many workers should not be reinstated be cause they engaged in violence. An swered NLRB: “It must be remem bered that the acts of which the re spondent (Republic) complains were committed by strikers in the heat and turmoil of bitter industrial strife, in which the threat of vio lence on the part of the respondent against the strikers was ever pres ent and frequently carried into exe« cution." Domestic The new wage-hour law affecting the lives of some 11,000,000 people engaged in interstate commerce in dustries, has gone into effect with much less bluster and coercion than the ill-fated NRA. Placing a floor (25 cents an hour) under wages, and a ceiling (44 a week) over hours, the act brings pay raises to 750,000 peo ple, with shorter hours for 1,500,000 more. Responsible for the act’s smooth inauguration has been Ad ministrator Elmer F. Andrews, whose slow-moving policy has left many employers puzzled over their compliance requirements, but has nevertheless been a potent force in encouraging peace between govern ment and business. Since NRA was outlawed because it attempted to regulate intrastate as well as inter state commerce, the administration hopes each state will formulate its own fair labor act, thereby making the national-state program com plete. But wage-hour regulation is due for headaches before its numer ous “bugs" are removed. At Austin, Texas, where several thousand low- salaried pecan shellers were thrown out of work, and in Puerto Rico, where 120,000 more workers were ousted, laborers wondered if low wages weren’t better than none. Politics In an organization the size of WPA, corruption will creep in re gardless of who holds the reins. Spasmodically pecking away at New Deal prestige for three years, cor ruption has again raised its ugly head at the crucial election time. In New Jersey, where Fascist-like Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City is the Democratic party’s head man, indictments have been returned against 16 corporations and 32 per sons. The charge: conspiracy to defraud WPA of $250,000 in purchase of sand and stone. But a much more distasteful case has arisen in New Mexico, where a crusading grand jury returned in dictments against 73 persons charged with making political cap ital of WPA. Behind this wicked picture stands Democratic Sen. Dennis Chavez, who, like every oth er senator, has wangled every pos sible cent of WPA cash for his home state. New Mexico’s indictments naturally do not touch Senator Cha vez, but they strike very close to home. Among indictees are his sis ter, his son-in-law and his cousin. The charge: use of threat and in timidation against WPA employees, mi lip Mm , * m mM NEW MEXICO’S CHAVEZ Lightning struck close to home. enforced political contribution on pain of discharge for noncompli ance, enforced membership in po litical clubs disguised as “social" organizations and diversion of WPA funds for personal use. • Indictment in one form or an other is almost a prerequisite for nomination in Pennsylvania, where Republican Sen. James J. Davis (once indicted for running a Moose lottery) and Democratic Gov. George H. Earle (indicted for al leged graft in office) are opposing each other for the senatorial seat. Although Pennsylvania tax payers have good reason to dislike their Democratic state administration, observers are wondering whether the opulent Republican machine has very much more political prestige. Reason: The five “angels" of Penn sylvania Republicanism are Joseph N. Pew, oil millionaire; Moses I. Annenberg, Philadelphia newspaper publisher who has purchased an im mense interest in the party; Ernest T. Weir of steel fame; Jay Cooke, rich Philadelphia political leader, and Joseph N. Grundy, a reaction ary of amazing tenacity. Without bothering to question the motives of these men, shrewd politicians nev ertheless recognize that in 1938 a quintet of millionaire sponsors is an unpopular asset for any party. Star Dust ★ Western West Point ★ Gary Cuts Speed ★ Sub Holds the Fort By Virginia Vale I N HOLLYWOOD there is a man named Jack Schulze who is one of the wizards of modern times, and it’s dollars to doughnuts that you haven’t the faintest notion who Jack Schulze is. He’s art director for Edward Small Productions, which United Artists releases and here is a brief account of his latest exploit. Small, producer of “The Duke of West Point," assigned him to a sim ple little task—just to transport the United States Military academy from West Point to Hollywood. And Schulze did it. That is, he built in Hollywood so perfect a replica of the academy that the West Point gradu ates who have come in hordes to visit the set felt that they were right back in college. Perhaps you’ll be interested in knowing how it was done. A cam era crew was sent to West Point to make films of practically every inch of the academy. That ran into al most 50,000 feet of film, which showed Ihe buildings, the grounds, and was a record of the sort of life that is led there. That’s a lot of film, when you consider that the av erage feature picture, that runs for about an hour and a quarter, is 9,000 feet. Each morning, before shooting a particular scene. Director Alfred E. Greene goes to his projection room and looks over pictures made un der similar circumstances at West Point—pictures showing a day in the life of a cadet. Then he goes to the same spot on the set—there it is, waiting for him, whether it be in the mess hall or on Flirtation walk. West Point’s Michie stadium had to be reproduced for the picture’s football game; Art Director Schulze and a crew of workmen did this in the interior of Pasadena’s famous Rose Bowl. There’s an ice hockey game too—and that set was built in the Polar palace, where Hollywood’s stars go skating in their spare time. Army experts approved the story of the picture. Its author, George Bruce, spent many weeks at West Point as the commandant’s guest, and made volumes of notes for his story. _ ^ Gary Cooper, star of “The Cow boy and the Lady," likes to putter. So, not long ago, he settled down with his car—one of those rakish foreign mod els, eight years old —to do a bit of tink ering. He was get ting only 5% miles to the gallon of gas; something had to be done about it. ■ He did it. He gets four miles to the gallon now! * Twelve years ago Hal Roach threw Wheeling, W. Va., into a dith er, when he arrived there looking for a double for Baby Peggy. He finally chose Mrs. Wyn’s little girl. Nan. Nan is now one of CBS’s prize singers. She opened at a New York night club. She received a carload of floral tributes—among them a huge bouquet with which was en closed an old photograph of her made up as Baby Peggy. Bob Burns, substituting for Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies on their radio program during the sum mer, did so well—with a lot of help from a lot of other swell people— that the program stayed in third place in the popularity ratings. Now that Bing has returned he’s giving more attention to his farm. He has six acres in the San Fernan do valley, and it’s a real farm. In stead of a swimming pool (fancy a movie star without one!) he’s build ing an extra-special barn. He’s go ing in for the best farm equipment that money can buy, and he’s going to market potatoes. * Those popularity polls are inter esting. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy hold their program in first place among the hour-long broad casts; “The Radio Theater," Mon day nights from Hollywood, is sec ond. The Vallee Varieties is fourth of the big shows, Major Bowes’ am ateurs are fifth. Gary Cooper Malibu used to be the place where a motion picture star simply had to have a beach house. Then the directors discovered it, and the stars sold out and went elsewhere. Along came the writers, and the directors sold. Now the writers are moving— afid Malibu is perfectly lovely and quiet. ^ ODDS AND ENDS—Don Wilson is a busy man these days; he's on two trans continental programs and is making trave logues at Universal . . . Benny Goodman’s to make his classical debut in January at Carnegie Hall in New York, where he gave his sensational swing concert last winter . . . Alan Mowbray ( u There Goes My Heart”) announced that he wanted to be adopted by America, so that he could have a native town of his own; eight cities promptly took him up on it .. . Anne Shirley and her husband, John Payne (who is one of the Paynes of Virginia and likes to have people remember it), are of} to Roanoke on a deferred honeymoon. • Western Newspaper Union. Bruekart 9 * Washington Digest Dies Committee Bares Activities Of Radical, Communist Groups Unseen and Malignant Growths Are Being Bred Into Our National Life by Agitators Who Seek to Destroy Our Government; Spread Poison in Ranks of Labor. Pillow and Chair Set Of Crocheted Lace By WILLIAM BHUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. — “Unless some thing is done to curb radicalism in my section, there is going to be an awful clash and a lot of people are going to get hurt." So spoke Fred W. Frahm, super intendent of police of the city of De troit, Mich. And his statement was under oath, for he was giving testi mony before a committee of the house of representatives, a commit tee charged with exposing to view the un-American activities of cer tain groups in this country. It was the statement of a man who is serv ing a city in an official capacity and who has gone through 246 sit-down strikes which he asserted were the direct result of agitation by the rad icals to which he referred. He looks for more in the near future and added, by way of emphasis, that “these communists and radicals do not want to seek adjustment of dif ferences between labor and man agement; they want to make trouble all of the time." Through a number of weeks, the house committee before which Mr. Frahm testified, has been taking tes timony, gathering evidence, digging here and there in its effort to un cover the activities of subversive groups and expose them to public view. It has been the contention of the chairman, Representative Dies of Texas and some other members of the committee, that most of us are not aware of the unseen and malig nant growths that are being bred into our national life. They are out to destroy our government, to bring to us the type of thing that has made Russia famous. Mr. Dies is a sincere and honest legislator, and he is trying to do the job assigned him, even when sev eral of his committee members have sought to balk his efforts. But there is much more to be done in the di rection of exposing radicalism and the chiseling, cheating, cowardly ef forts the agitators put forth. Charge Communists Active In Government Offices What I am wondering is why Mr. Dies has not sent his investigators into the very offices of the federal government, itself. Or, if he has done that, as it is gossiped about, then why shield anybody? Why not turn the spotlight of publicity on the individuals who want to destroy the American system, the American form of government, American tra dition, the American profit system of doing business? There has been much talk in the last several years about the operations of communists within the very walls of the govern ment, men and women who are bor ing from within as termites destroy lumber, and we ought to know the truth. If they are within the govern ment, they ought to be exposed and chased out of the western hemis phere; if they are not operating as is gossiped around, then their names ought to be cleared. In any event, I hope the Dies committee goes on and shows the cancerous nature of groups that do not believe in our system, whether they be Russians, or Germans, or Italians, or British or what have you. It has been the favorite device of the radicals and their henchmen to characterize any official who at tacks them as being a subject for the insane hospitals. Their game has been to laugh people out of court whenever an effort was made to tell of some of the things the agitators were doing. Many will re call an investigation by a .house committee several years ago where the witnesses were laughed down and a courageous superintendent of schools from Gary, Ind., was made to look foolish because of the charges he made. Well, if my opin ion be worth anything, the folks who were the suckers in that play were the supposedly intelligent members of congress who made up the committee. It was they who fell for a trick of propaganda. Ei ther that was the case, or the mem bers of that committee were just plain dumb. Lewis Cannot Break Grip Of Communists on C. I. O. Concerning the sit-down strikes about which Mr. Frahm testified, I want to boast that I wrote of com munist participation in those sit- down strikes when they were hap pening. I had several letters there after, calling me crazy and describ ing me as a red-baiter. Mr. Frahm now has put into official records the facts that must be obvious to any real American, and he further has expressed the opinion that John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., cannot break the grip that the communists have on his organization. That may be the reason why Mr. Lewis has been so silent' the last several months. Maybe he sees that the la bor group of which he was so proud has become a gargantuan monster that is slowly swallowing him, phys ically large as he is. There is, of course, the danger that a lot of people will make foolish and unsupported statements about red activities, thus throwing doubt on the really serious phases. That always seems to happen. Unwitting ly, that type of person which shouts and shouts and has no proof cre ates the impression that all cries of “wolf, wolf," are meaningless. But when a congressional committed has the courage—rather, when Its chairman over objections of some of its members—has the courage to bring the stuff out for public exam ination, there must, indeed, be a basis for it. The tragedy of the thing is that the labor movement as a whole will suffer a severe setback. The fact that the radicals have grabbed con trol of the automobile workers’ un ion means that they have “cells" in other groups also, and that these cells slowly but surely will be spreading poison and trouble. The agitators seize upon the unthinking, the foreign-born who are not steeped in our customs or love of country, or upon elements that have been badly treated, and they will use these innocent victims to carry ouf their destructive plans. C. /. O. Being Used as Tool For Destructive Purposes There will be much more labor trouble. You can count on that. The Communist party representa tives will never allow the slightest chance for creating trouble to es cape them. They are determined to convince labor that it cannot trust the managements; they are en couraging the breaking of agree ments between labor and manage ment to the end that employers will have no faith in the leaders of labor, and they are using the national la bor relations board wherever that can be done to give official voice to labor troubles. That fact is chiefly responsible for the position which the C. I. O. group has taken in op position to proposals for revision of the labor relations act. William Green and the American Federation of Labor are urging revision of the law, but C. I. O., having its tenta cles in the labor board, obviously does not want its grip broken. It has been known for a long time that the C. I. O. was being used as a tool for destructive purposes, but the agitators and emissaries were sly and careful. They covered their tracks. Such information as leaked out was promptly discredited by the very reds who had done the job— and they discredited any individual who repeated the story by laughing at his gullibility. However, there is one instance which cannot be denied. The clerks in the rural electrification adminis tration organized a union and affili ated with C. I. O. It was to have social as well as fraternal aspects. There was a dance scheduled. Ne gro workers attended and insisted on inter-racial participation in ev erything that was done. They said they were told to do so by repre sentatives of C. I. O. After the dance was concluded, so partici pants have reported, a phonograph record was procured and the bel lowing notes of “The Internation ale,” communistic anthem, blared forth. Dies Committee Exposes Methods Used by Radicals The Dies committee record is full of testimony about methods em ployed by the communists in their devious borings and destructive tactics. The record tells, too, of how many innocent appearing or ganizations, created for an allegedly useful purpose, are captured by communists and used by them to obtain money contributions — for which no accounting ever is made. And tragic, also, are the stories of how the real leaders laughed at the suckers who gave hard-earned mon ey, laughed in the secret recesses of their hideouts about the soft and easy minds of Americans. But another session of congress is coming. The Dies committee will make a report and probably will ask an appropriation to enable it to go on. We will see who opposes that appropriation. There probably will be opposition Jrom two or three members of the committee itself, and we will see who they are. If they are outspoken in their opposi tion, I suspect most people will know why. I think this condition has reached the point where attention should be paid to it by the federal govern ment. It is now hot on the trail of some alleged German spies who were seeking American military se crets. So why not make a thor ough job of it and lift up the lid that hides various other kinds of spies whose work, to my mind, is much more dangerous to American national life? C Western Newspaper Union. m' % L»-~i m Pattern 6168 Spend spare moments profitably with your crochet hook and some string and add obarm to your! home with crocheted accessories that match! Interesting to make and inexpensive, too, you could make either chair set or pillow alone or make a pillow with matching scarf ends. Can’t you see what attention they’d attract at a bazaar? Pattern 6168 contains charts and instructions for mak ing the set; illustrations of it and stitches used; materials needed. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. 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