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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
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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,
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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!
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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.
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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.
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