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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938 '**• 4 New* Review of Current Event* HOUSE VS. PRESIDENT Administration Makes Great Concessions to Save "Dictator" Bill . . . Senate Gets Tax Measure Built to 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 fiTTMManrera nw wrrnbi.n SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western newspaper Union. Tumult Over Reform Bill TXT'HEN President Roosevelt re- ^ “ turned from Warm Springs he found that a crisis confronted the admir istration forces concerning the reorganization 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- _ imum of conces- Rayburn gjong. 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 of 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. * "Help Business" Measure TIT - HAT Sen. Pat Harrison called the “help business” measure, being the revenue bill as rewritten by his senate finance committee, was submitted to the senate. Though Harrison said he expected its speedy passage, others believed at least a full week of debate would be necessary. Sen. Charles McNary of Oregon, minority leader promised to support the bill, saying, “I think it is a great improvement over the house ver sion. I am in favor of speeding its passage to help business.” The three chief matters in con troversy were: Administration opposition to elim ination of the undistributed profits tax and drastic modification of the capital gains and losses tax. A proposal by Sen. James P. Pope of Idaho to attach as a “rider” to the tax bill an amendment to im pose $212,000,000 of processing taxes on manufactured cotton, synthetic fabrics, rice, tobacco and wheat. Amendments by Sen. Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin to broaden the tax base. —*— Sloan Hits Government pL LFRED P. SLOAN, JR., chair- man of the board of General Motors, reported to the stockholders that the corporation’s earnings for 1937 were lower. And he declared that the government’s policy toward business had caused a lack of confi dence which was largely responsi ble for the business recession. Sloan asserted a sharp decline ir 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 ther« 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 toward 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 ol 1937. In some important industries, he said, this increase was extended to an “uneconomic degree.” At his own request Mr. Sloan hai been eliminated from further par ticipation in the profits under the corporation’s bonus plan. * Bigger Dreadnaughts T TNITED STATES and Great Brit- ain advised each other that they would invoke the escalator clause of the London naval treaty and would build dreadnaughts larger than 35,000 tons. The British also notified Germany and Soviet Russia of their decision. Both nations based their action on Ja pan’s refusal to dis close her naval con struction plans. France, third sig- natory to the treaty, Senator Clark announced she would continue to adhere to the 35,000-ton limitation “so long as no continental power departs from that standard.” Secret hearings on the $1,100,000,- 000 naval expansion bill were begun by the senate naval affairs commit tee, with Secretary qf State Hull and Admiral Leahy, chief of naval op erations, as the first scheduled wit nesses. Chairman Walsh said open hearings would be held later. Opponents of the administration’s “big navy” program are rather nu merous in congress, though prob ably in the minority. One of the most consistent of them is Senator Clark of Missouri. Commenting on the invoking of the escalator clause concerning battleships, he said: “It is just the preliminary announce ment of a world-wide naval build ing race.” The maneuvers of the United States fleet were transferred from Alaska to the equator for the second phase. In the “battle” for posses sion of the Hawaiian islands the fleet lost eleven flyers and three $100,000 bombing planes. * Loyalist Spain Split CPANISH insurgents are, at this 0 writing, near the accomplish ment of Franco’s great objective, the splitting of the territory held by the loyalists in the eastern part of the country. They captured the ancient city of Lerida, known as the key to Catalonia. Further south the rebels were al most to Tortosa and their vanguard was actually within sight of the Mediterranean sea. All along the Catalonian front the government troops fought desper ately, but it seemed their struggle was hopeless and observers be lieved the war was nearing its end. Green Strikes at C.I.O. tion of Labor to withdraw from La bor’s Non-Partisan league, which he said was overrun by communists, and to shun any ticket put forward in the name of an independent po litical labor party. In a letter to officers of all A. F. of L. national and international unions, state and city federations and central labor unions, Green called for strict adherence in forth coming primary and congressional elections to the federation’s tradi tional non-partisan political policy. He particularly warned the A. F. of L.’s 3,500,000 members to be on guard against candidates nominated by Labor’s Non-Partisan league, which he called a “ventriloquist’s dummy for the Committee for In< dustrial Organization leaders.” * Adjournment Prospects ONGRESS wants to adjourn by the first of May, but leaders foresaw three possible obstacles to this plan—the wage-hour bill, the Hungarian debt settlement proposal and railroad legislation. Democratic Leader Barkley said he hoped the senate could dispose of the tax revision bill, the $1,100,000,- 000 naval expansion program, and the proposed $1,000,000,000 relief measure in April. This would clear the senate calendar, he said, unless consideration of Hungary’s debt pro gram should result in a lengthy senate debate on the entire war debt question. Representative Rayburn, house floor leader, said he thought that chamber could complete its present program by May 1. But other mem bers said that if efforts to revive the wage-hour bill are successful, the picture may change. * Could Cut Phone Rates O EPORTING on his investigation of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, Paul A. Walk er of the federal communications commission said tel ephone rates in the United States could be reduced 25 per cent without reduc ing the net earnings of the Bell system. His report was for warded to congress by the FCC, which later will make rec ommendations. Walker charged W. S. Gifford that unnecessarily high costs of telephone service have resulted from depreciation policies of the Bell system and other prac tices involving the cost of manufac turing telephone apparatus and equipment, standardization policies, license contract payments, and seg regation of plant revenues and ex penses. The report drew a sharp retort from Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Tele graph company. Gifford described the investigation of the big tele phone system as “one sided from start to finish,” and added: “If the summary of it correctly reflects the report, it presents much that is simply not true and has been pre pared with the same unfairness that characterized the investigation pro ceedings.” -*— Italy Ready for War B enito mussolini put a chip on his shoulder and dared any one to ’mock it off. In a speech before the Italian senate which was broadcast to the world, H Duce said: “Italy’s land, sea and air forces are tuned for rapid end im placable war.” He warned Europe, and especially France, of his readi ness and willingness to fight, and said he subscribed to the theory that “the best defense is offense.” He called the Italian submarine fleet the largest in the world, said the nation’s air fleet was one of the best in existence, and asserted that, if necessary, he can put an army of 9,000,000 men in the field. “I will be in supreme command,” Mussolini cried, thrusting out his chest. “Military problems are funda mental ones,” continued Mussolini. “I dedicate the greatest part of my day to them. Anyone who dares to attack the rights and interests of our fatherland will find in the land, sea and air the immediate, resolute and proudest answer from the Italian people’s arms.” France was warned also by Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels in a sensational speech in Vienna. Pro claiming the might of the new Ger many, Goebbels shouted: “Ger many is now strong enough to resist any attack from France. There can no longer be any question of a prom enade from Paris to Berlin. Paris is no longer the heart of European politics. The heart is now Berlin.” * Oil Seizures Protested TO ELATIONS between the United States and Mexico took a se rious turn when Ambassador Dan iels delivered to Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay a sharp protest against the action of President Car denas in expropriating foreign oil properties. He asked just how Mex ico proposed to pay for the proper ties seized. Cardenas thereupon called his congress in special ses sion to consider an internal loan to provide for the indemnity payments. American withdrawal of support from the silver market, Cardenas’ chief source of revenue, threatened to close many silver mines. 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 the army com mand, upped the 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. Britain in Race to Get Army Ready 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 ciean-np 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.” He has spent a lot of time badger ing his elders, and still has many of them to work Clever at 0 n, as he is only Badgering forty-three. When, HU Elder, 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, spoofed the opposition cleverly, and romped 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 reached, 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- _ leycom and Old Conqueror, King Cotton. Now Old Stuff to the arrest of Bar- Bank Family Louis von Rothschild is re ported 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 supposed 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 Park, f a u e d. They had and Cattle* 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 von 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 C Consolidated Newt Features. WNU Service. © Science Service.—WNU Service. Pigs and Goats Are Serious Problems for the Hawaiians By DR. FRANK THONE New York.—Hawaii seems to have been a paradise that es caped the trampling hoofs and devouring mouths of the Age of Mammals almost entirely until the coming of that most trouble some of all mammals—Man. To introductions • and changes wrought by human agency are traceable most of the damage and destruction to the unique vegetation of the islands. Some of these disturbances were described before the North Amer ican Wildlife conference at its Balti more meeting by Samuel H. Lamb, assistant park naturalist of Hawaii National park. Although Mr. Lamb confined his discussion to problems within the national park bound aries, he stated that in many ways these are typical of conditions for the countryside at large. The only mammal that seems to have found its own way to Hawaii unaided by man is the bat. The original brown-skinned immigrants brought dogs and perhaps pigs, and they may have carried rats and mice as stowaways. Other students of the problem believe that the pigs, rats and mice date from a supposed visit by the Spaniards in the Six teenth century. Goats were brought by Vancouver in 1794, and other livestock came later. Destroy the Vegetation. Of them all, most destructive to Hawaiian native vegetation are goats and pigs, escaped from do mestication and now living as wild animals in the rough, wild interior, in part thickly forested, in part grassland and semi-desert lava fields. Goats are notorious every where as destructive feeders. Pigs are even worse, for they root un derground, devouring bulbs and rootstocks, and breaking the ground cover to give alien grasses and weeds a chance to gain roothold. Efforts to save at least part of the native vegetation include goat- tight fences around selected areas, followed by concerted drives to eliminate the feral animals within them. In broken lands where fenc ing cannot be carried out, the only thing that appears practicable is to permit and even encourage whole sale shooting of goats and pigs. Drilling Through Granite in Deep Gogebic Shaft New York.—Dynamite by the car load, drill steel by the ton, air by the cubic mile were used by miners in the Gogebic range of Michigan during the 14 months’ battle with granite while they sank a new shaft half a mile deep, 13 feet wide and 21 feet long to reach a new ore body. Details of this grim battle with the billion-year-old rocks were described to the American Insti tute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers meeting here, by W. A. Knoll and J. C. Sullivan, Michigan mining engineers. Drilling 68 holes, including a 4% inch center hole, 12 feet into the resistant rock, charging these holes with 1,064 sticks of dynamite, firing this charge without damaging ex pensive steelwork only 50 feet above, were only parts of this stu pendous task. After the blasts, sweating muckers toiled for 23 hours with power machinery, in cluding air-driven “pavement breakers,” to clear the bottom of the hole for the next blast. Repeating this laborious cycle 247 times during the 14 months of work, the shaft was completed recently. Brushy Fencerows Really Help to Conserve Soil Baltimore.—Fencerows lined with bushes, small trees, even weeds, were praised as genuine assets to the land by Frank C. Edminster of the United States soil conservation service before the annual North American Wildlife conference. Dislike of brushy fencerows start ed with the belief that they har bored crop pests; as indeed they sometimes do, Mr. Edminster ad mitted. But even when they do not, they are now considered evidence of bad farming. It has become “fashionable” farming to demand “clean fields.” Yet those same brushy fencerows offer several very substantial ad vantages, the speaker pointed out. They aid in holding the soil along field-margins against erosion and gully formation, they shelter birds that aid farmers by eating insects and weed seeds, and they can pro duce incidental volunteer crops of their own, like berries and fence- posts. Most important of all, they offer shelter to game birds and ani mals that offer enjoyment, sport, and supplementary food supplies to the landowner. “Inspection Trips” Made in Laboratory by Circuit Analyzer East Pittsburgh, Pa.—^With out leaving their research lab oratories here engineers of the Westinghouse Electric and Man ufacturing company can ana lyze the power transmission characteristics of any electric system in the world. In a large room lined with panels, contain ing hundreds of tiny switches and meters, “inspection trips” of power systems throughout the country can be carried out to learn what peak loads the wire lines can handle without damage. And the operation characteristics of power lines yet only in the blue-print stage and unconstructed can also be “tested” in the same way. Major use of the analyzing device is to tell utility companies what power loads their systems can car ry with safety and economy without additional equipment. It has helped the United States army engineers study the behavior of proposed pow er systems for Boulder dam, Bonne ville and other federal power proj ects. • Saves Big Expenditures. Before the circuit analyzer was put in operation power companies frequently had to invest in expen sive lines and equipment as safety measures to cany extra loads. One company was able to remove 50 miles of extra line after the analyzer showed the existing cir cuits could safely handle anticipat ed loads. Another company was able to lower its rates because it found it could save $500,000 by doing away with extra equipment safely. Trick of the complex analyzer is that while it does not contain trans formers, motors and generators found in the actual power systems, all the electrical properties of these devices—their resistance, capacity, inductance, and so on—can be dupli cated. Also the miniature can sim ulate currents, impedances, volt ages and phase angle of the elec trical currents. But while actual power sources require giant steam or hydro tur bines the analyzer uses only one ten-thousandth of the power and the power sources are neatly packed away in cabinet drawers. With its 300 possible circuits the analyzer reproduces the same re sponses on its meter as would be in dicated were the equivalent condi tions to occur in the actual sys tem meters. Indium, Rare Metal, Makes Bearings Last Longer New York.—Indium, a few years ago a chemical curiosity, extracted with great difficulty from rare min erals, is now a full-fledged indus trial metal, with an ever-expanding use as an alloying agent for bear ing metals. Motor bearings, resisting millions of revolutions during the life of a car, are now being made even tougher, C. F. Smart, General Mo tors engineer, reported to the Amer ican Institute of Mining and Metal lurgical Engineers here, by plating the bearing surface with indium. This surface coating makes the bearing metal resistant to corrosion by the acid oils now in common use in motor cars. Until recently, babbitt metal, an alloy of tin, antimony and copper, was used for most high-speed bear ings. Today, bearings are lined with silver-copper-cadmium, cadmium- nickel, and cadmium-zinc alloys, which are later electroplated with indium, increasing their resistance to oil corrosion. Better Grades Obtained by Counseled Students Atlantic City.—Educational guid ance, at least for students of aver age scholastic aptitude. Dr. E. G. Williamson, director of the univer sity testing bureau at the University of Minnesota, told the meeting of the American CoUege Personnel as sociation here. With the aid of WPA, Dr. William son has made an actual check on the students counseled at the test ing bureau to see whether the ad vice given them has resulted in any improvement in their college grades. Each student counseled was paired, for comparison, with an other of similar standing in high school scholarship and college apti tude tests. The counseled students made sig nificantly higher scores. Green Fodder Is Quickly Grown From Soaked Seed New York.—Green fodder for winter feeding to livestock is made from seeds in only six days in a device of British invention. The “fodder factory” consists of an in sulated cabinet containing a series of perforated trays. In these are placed quantities of grain, legumes, or other seeds, after soaking for 24 hours. The trays are kept at con stant temperature and watered from the top. At the end of six days, when the sprouts have reached a height of six inches, the entire contents at the trays—sprouts, soft seeds, and roots —are fed to the livestock, which relish the succulent fodder. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT CHICKS Chicks from Pnrina Embryo Fed Eggs, Bloodtested State approved. Reasonably priced. Ideal Hatchery, Fayetteville, Ga. 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