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g-' — -^ — Thursday, February 22, 1934 TUPPER LAKE FREE PRESS Pa*e 3 '. M. 178 Iff k N. i ap- moat •for*. I TUPPER LAKE FREE PRESS OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE VILLAGE OF TUPPfcR^LAKE An Independent newspaper published every Thursday at No. 8 Mill St., Tupper Lake, N. TT, by the \Colonial Press.\ Entered aa second class matter December 5, 1931, at the post- office at Tupper Lake, N. Y., under the act of March 0, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Franklin, St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Jefferson, Clinton, Essex. War- ren and Herkimer Counties, by mail, $1.00 yearly; elsewhere in the United Statea, $2.00; Canadian subscription*, $2.50. g S ill loujh ne in- . ullOllt o , , busi- other u and icigh- kes as me ot llncss. The \Tupper Lake Free Press\ is served by the N. E. A. Service, Inc., and maintains staff correspondents In the principal villages of the Central and West Central Adirondack*. All business communica- tions should be addressed to P. O. Box 307, or 8 Mill St., Tupper Lake, N. Y. Advertising rates will be furnished upon request. phono, Tupper Lake 6. Tele- LAWRENCE P. QU1NN. Publisher THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 WAR SPARKS FLY IN EUROPE the equivalent of political suicide -_ ». ' although practically all the Re- The distant rumblings from Eu- .... ,.,.»,., » ^' . . publicans, outside of the insurgent rope forbode no good. The fires of wwg ^ many of ^ Democrats, the World War which were left fear lt j, being carried too far, smouldering by the Treaty of Ver-j that the \experiments in various sailles are being fanned by dia-1 instances are getting out of hand, contented minorities. Sparks are being scattered about and threat- • en to -enkindle the entire contin- ent. France is in a turmoil; Austria. : is in the throes of a revolution; Germany appears to be all set for a Nazi putsch, and Italy is stand- in? by. Meanwhile Great Britain has temporarily forgotten about the disarmament conference .and is engaged in a trade war with Fiance. On the Eastern frontier Russia and Japan are massing troops and making warlike faces at each other. In short interna- tional crises have electrified the diplomatic atmosphere. \ Now is the time for the press of the country to preach ARMA- NI KNTS and PEACE. Many have always done so, and many have Jumjjcd on the bandwagon rccent- lv. There are others, however, that are still permitting peace or- ganizations to lead them by the nose. These Idealistic pacifists re- fuse to view the practical side\ of a grave situation. They have mo- ney and they advertise against armaments. They sing their swan song while bullets shave the fuzz off their ears. They should be Ig- nnivd. Let us preach peace. Let us also br piepaicd for any emergency. FIGURE IT OUT Money Is a strange article. The (•• nno.nlat tl-jures out what this er that monetary policy will do—and when it is put Into effect results aie apt to be diametrically dif- ferent. That la true, to an extent, of the Roosevelt S» cent dollar. Reason for creating it was to boost commodity markets, and to strengthen the American position in foreign trade. As soon as Mr. Roosevelt slgn- the bill fireworks started In the stock and liond markets. Activity was the heaviest In many months, vt;h shares changing hands at a 1l zzying rate. Prices were gener- nlly un. But the commodity mar- l-i : ('id not react accordingly. And ,I,TO«S the water, the pound start ed to depreciate faster than the dollar. In Ixindon a dollar was .'•ill worth 61 cents. Result of that was that banks could buy pc.Id there for $34, ship It to Washington and sell it for $30— n profit of 3 per cent In a week. At last reports, the fast liners for America were solidly booked with j--r.li! for more than two weeks in .•UK-mice. Much of the world's sup- - plv of gold came out of the treas- urici of Holland. Belgium. Swit- zerland and Italy to the United St:ii(\s. France sent most of all— io r i 000.000 frunes worth. This is exactly what the Treasury wants. S« long as gold flows into the country there will be no difficulty in keeping the dollar's exchange v.Uue down. There hi danger that Fr'inoe. however. r'i! I exports. In that some of the new laws and bureaus are hampering, not for- warding, the progress erf recovery. The NRA and the consumer is a case in point. A definite feeling Is growing that the big manufac- turing Industries are running ram- pant so far as prices are concern- ed, and are sticking the buyer good and plenty. Costs have gone up appreciably faster than has the average income. But only a handful of Congressmen have had nerve enough to speak of this. And what they've said hasn't made a dent. So far aa general business is PRAISES C.C.C| RESULTS HINES ON PENSIONS * DEMOCRATS BACK JOHNSON PWA TO SELL BONDS TO -HANDLE SOVIET TRADE OPENS WAR ON GRAFTERS AIR-MAIL HISTORY CONTRACTS CANCELLED The 300,000 young men enlisted in the Civilian Conservation corps arc sending $6,500,000 of their to- tal pay of $9,000,000 a month to their, dependents, according to a report of Robert Fechner, direct- or. He declares that the men have made an average gain in weight of 7.28 pounds, a quarter of an inch in height, and that their gain In morale is as significant as their physical Improvement. concerned, the most Important law to come before Congress in the near future will probably be , White House supported plan for revising the securities act. A num- ber of grave errors were made In the draft that became the law or the land at the last Congress. It was designed to prevent the sell- Ing of dubious stocks and bonds— but as matters turned out lt pre- vented the selling of the most honest securities. Capital has simply ceased to flow Into Indus- tries which sorely need it and are entitled to It. Revision of the bill will probably include modification of the liability provisions and will tone it down generally so that honest businesses wishing n-w capital will have nothing, to tear when 1 offering securities to the public. MODERN ICARUS LOSES HIS WINO8 Once upon a time Daedalus and •his son Icarus attempted a flight to Sicily. Icarus, not heeding his father's advice, flew too near the Of the 322.802 men enrolled in the first six months. 175,000' re- enlisted for a second period, and the places of those who quit to enter other fields of work were taken by new men. so that to date 488,000 men have received training. In addition. 15,000 fore- men, 46,000 skilled workmen and 5,031 reserve officers have been given work in the Conservation program. Brig-Gen Frank T. Hines, Ad- ministrator for -Veteran Affairs, speaking at a meeting of the Am- erican Veterans' Association, ad- vocated the posting in post offices of the names of local veterans re- ceiving veterans' compensation, together with the amount being received, so that \if there were men on lt who did not belong there we would soon know about it.\ General Hines declared that the World War veterans have been treated more generously than those of any other war. He point ed out that of the 240,000 Span- ish War veteTans nllve, 197,000 were on the peimisa rolls, and warned that when World War vet- erans reach the present average age of the Spanish War veterans, there would be 3.300,000 of them, in addition to dependents. Regarding the plan of the Dem- ocrats to assist Senators Johnson, of California: Cutting, of New Mexico, and LaFollette, of Wis- consin, who supported President Roosevelt In 1932. present Indica- tives are to eliminate surplus farm products and provide employment in this country. Close observers -of affairs In Washington sense a change In spirit in administration circle*. Some of the optimism and gayety has been laid aside following the revelations of graft and politic* in CWA. Recently there baa been tendency to strike out vigorously and punish graft and favoritism, to push aside lawyers' constitu- tional pleas, and to fortify public opinion by hitting hard when crit- ics raise their voice*. The President, in cancelling all domestic air-mall contracts on ev- idence of collusion, U thought to be serving notice that Una kind of \pie\ will not be countenanced. The recent White House, broad- side on political lawyers Is another case in point. Everything indicate* a belligerent defense of the ad- ministration's program with per- sistent pressure upon grafters, large and small, In the hope that the American people will thor- oughly understand that the Rooae- velt Administration is \thumbs down\ on political corruption, ev- en if the future brings to light cases of graft, favoritism and fraud. The air-mail system, which be- gan on May 15, 1918, when Army pilots carried mail between New York and Washington, has grown from the 200-mile experimental line , into a network of 28,000 miles. Last year five hundred planes. ..carried .clow .to three mll- llon pounds sf__mall and flew a Waylaid! distance of more than forty-eight million miles. This week the Army resumed its air-mail service as an emergency measure, and as a re- sult of the President's action in cancelling the contracts of twelve companies, affecting . twenty-six air-mail routes-. The service has been marked by bickerings between officials and pilots, between the Postofflce De- partment and operators, and squabbles of operators themselves. In recent years, since the Watrea Act of four years ago, the situa- tion has been complicated by the alleged Interference of politicians, reeking to put air-mail into their districts, regardless of business to be gained. As the Poatmastcr- tlons are that Senator Johnson i rjeneral was given powers to \ex- will be given the'Democratic nom- ination in California next fall. At- tend\ existing routes, without competitive bidding, these exten- ready one congressional commit-1 aions have come in for repeated DEPRESSION, FRENCH TEMPERAMENT UE AT BACK OF MODERN PARIS RTOTS will prohibit that case the American Treasury will have to •;.n dollars to keep their value down, precisely aa stock manipu- lators throw great blocks of ••!•-•• res on the open market to de- ••*< i.ite their value. But the burn- of his wings melted and he feel Into the sea and drowned. The myth wU reenacted the other day by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, spoiled boy of the press and pampered pet tion interests. Inflated like a post-war German mark the flying Colonel was con- sidered the national Idol of the Idle rich and poor alike. He gain- ed fame for making a non-stop flight to Paris, for marryinj. tl;e daughter of a Morgan partner, and for such pristine accomplish- ments as not smoking and not drinking. His star shone glorious- ly. So great has been his populari- ty—forced upon an unwilling pub- lic by the newspapers — that It would have been considered sacri- legious to compare him with Steve Brodle of the Bowery days. Yet their stunts were similar and both were favored by the gods to live and tell what no discreet person would attempt. Today the little Un god of avia- tion is a fallen idol. His accept- ance of over a quarter of a mil- lion dollars, leaguing him with men who have used government subsidies to their own advantage, does not speak well for the shy and reticent air-mall pUot who •• <!>shed the front pages every time he drank a cup of cocoa. His blunt. Impertinent telegram to the President singles him out as one asi has Senator McAdoo and eight of i the eleven Democratic house mem- bers from that state. With the success of the first operation In 1918, ~tlw Postofllce Department operated Its lines with The word is. however, that the I commercial pilots, mostly former avia- '' Democrats in Wisconsin and New | Army fliers, doing the work. In j Mexico are not so enthusiastic in 1923. the. airway between Chica- j taking similar action, declaring go and San Francisco waa lighted that they, can elect »™ocrats. Pl y, The general Idea ,s *»t Hooseye » that Presl- r;;r prohlem of lethargic commodi- who still labors under the delusion tv markets remains to be solved 'that his is the brightest star in the firmament. nut he flew too near the gold en sun; it warmed him to intoxi- thlne I ration. That quarter of a million hlm to precarious flights f ld RUBBER STAMPS The most remarkable about the present congress is Its ^_ lack of rcmarkableness. Before it i of ''fancy and1 like Icarus of\ old convened the prediction was thatj he • it would simply be an echo of the President with, possibly, a few {J*IFC\ notes to add interest. Nlne- teen-thirty-four Is, after all, the year in which all the representa- tives run for re-eiecHon, and nor- mally there would be a lot of per- sonal political fence building done in both houses. But Congress has been even more of a rubber-stamp than was forecast, reached the point Matters have where its do- .\V V outside of routine approval of one Roosevelt measure or an- other aren't even front page news. The Republican party has made only sporadic attempts to prepare for- elections. It has no general program, no outstanding national lcrvfer, no unanimity of opinion among its members. A large per- centage of Republicans in both houses vote with the President. The meaning of all this, of course, is that most Senators and Representatives believe that the New Deal, taking it as a whole, still has the public confidence, Is still popular. They believe that to oppose it in a strenuous way is ON THE GAIN, In spite of'all the obstacles to p be overcome, the signs of better business are growing more numer- ous. A short, time ago one of the best of all of them appeared— the report on ijjiail order sales, which is a sure-fire barometer of th' rural purse. Sears. Roebuck showed 30 per cent Improvement -no last, year, and Montgomery Ward 45 per cent. Ward's retail stores, operated in large and me- dium-sized cities, were up 21 per cent. Its mail order department which serves the very small town and the farm, was 80 • per cent ahead. There's hardly an industry that isn't feeling the change. The tcr- riflc jump in automobile business Is responsible for much of the bet- terment, inasmuch an a thousand other Industries contribute to the making, selling, repairing and servicing of cars. . The depart- ment stores are likewise doing much better. off and that if h<> maintains this attitude, three-cornered contests in Wisconsin and New Mexico may be expected. The PWA plans to sell $500,000.- 000 in obligations of states, coun- ties, cities and public agencies which have borrowed or will re- ceive loans for self-liquidating pro- jects. The bonds will not be guar- anteed and cannot be advertised for re-sale with any. statement \Indicating or implying\ any Fed- eral guarantee, as such a state- ment wll) be a fraudulent misre- presentation. The projects against which the securities have been issued were tested by the PWA as to neces- sity, social usefulness and sound- ness from legal or engineering standpoints. They include water- works, extensions to water sys- tems, toll bridges, street paving, public buildings, such as school buildings, hospitals, libraries, etc., and other municipal facilities. Some are self-liquidating and oth- ers are backed hy general Obliga- tion bonds of thj- borrowers. * While the PWA does not have a large quantity of these obliga- tions at this time, eventually it will come into possessipn of ar- ound one-half billion dollars worth. They will be advertised for sale under sealed bids and sold to the highest bidder. and the night flying of mall gave great impetus to the service, bringing, however, the charge from railroads that the govern- ment was offering unfair competi- tion. Two years later, the Kelly Act required the Postofflce Depart- ment to ask for bids, to pay for tha poundage carried, and to give the contracts to the lowest bid- der qualified for the job. At that time neither ^he government nor the operators knew what rates would prove equitable as the ser- vice was essentially experimental. Without attempting to follow the successive changes in laws and regulations regarding the air- mail routes, it is sufficient to call attention to the recent investiga- tion by a Senate committee which brought out evidence which, in the opinion of the Postmaster-Gener- al, the President and others, war- ranted a cancellation of all con- tracts on the ground of fraud in their procurement. There wero stories of \lost\ letters, burned correspondence, and missing doc uments relating to the letting of air-mail contracts. Moreover, it waa brought out that the \struggling\ companies, advanced rapidly in value upon se- curing mall contracts, which ma- ny competitors alleged, were un- fairly obtained. It was testified that at one time the ftlr-rnail op- erators had a secret meeting, drew up an air-mall map of the United States, receiving afterwards wr- Formation of. the F.xport-Im-1 tain contracts by \extension\ in- port Bank of Washington, with, stead of by competitive bi<jls. $11,000,000 capital furnished by the Government, is expected to facilitate trade with Soviet Rus- sia at this time, and .later some other countries as well. Just how the bank will operate is not yet explained, but exporters in this country who benefit from , the deals will be expected to partici- pate in the credits extended. At present, negotiations are un- der way for the exportation of about one million hales of cotton find 1.250.000,0(10 yards of unfin- ished cotton cloth. Products of heavy industry, such as equipment for railroads and steel mills, elec- trical equipment, trucks and auto- mobiles, are also needed In Rus- sia and should benefit from the new set-up. Jesse H. Jones, RFC chairman, says that the objec- The drastic action of the Presi- dent brought considerable criti- cism from air company sources, including a letter from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, protesting fsrainst such action on the (ground that many companies were given no hearing, and that improper acts by them had not been establish- ed. This communication added to the popular interest in the situa- tion because Llndbef%h has rare- ly taken part in a public contro- versy. A measure to regulate stock ex- changes, which was introduced in *oth houses after a special mes : sage from President Roosevelt, is strictly a congressional measure neither approved nor disapproved by the President. It is very dras- |_|EAVY taxes, a national reluc- tance to cut down the cost of living, indignation over •tfraf^ in high circles, and the Gallic tein- j pcament these are Rome of the prime factors behind the Paris »i- ots of 10.T4, modern editions of the Woody levolis of the 18th and centuries. The most iwpoilant reason, perhaps, is the French tempera- n-.'-nt. The typicul Frenchman does not brood silently over his trou- i hie* Me must vent his emotions in »ome way. violently if neces- sary, i Hjecchtly a'Flflench government official salrt; inveffect: \If thous- ands of Frenchmen were jobless, they would not sit around in parkr and wait for better .times, like the British do. There would be trouble and plenty of It!',' * • » 1*HE ^depression helped a lot. France tried to Ignore it. There was. until recently, little of the. harsh economy practiced in other nations. But hard times had to make themselves felt, and did. Tripled gasoline tax. boosting the. price to 62 cents a gallon. | brought on a taxi strike which ; \froze Pnris transportation. Two hundred thousand miners were dis- gruntled over their two days' nrif a week. Farmers, hit by high prices of: tariff-protected' goods, resented I free-imported wheat. Civil ser- vants rebelled against pay cuts. | With gold fleeing abroad, the pop- • ulace lost confidence and began] •warding. i All this the French, in the way j nf common people the world over, i blamed on their government. France seethed with discontent, but. little occurred in the way of| violence until after the Bayonnc affair. AT,F;XANDRE STAVTS KY. a swindler with a long and unsavorv record. som_ehow became ponnecteii with the Bavo\rirtivtri\tni cipal pawnshop. Wheryjie shot hlrnself rerentlv, nf*er being trap- ned bv police f<»- defrauding the Vronch puHIc of nearlv S40.000,- 000. the people susperted that HTh.j'pvernment officials were In- volved In the swindle. This was the last straw. Mobs, sincinpr the Marseillaise, be^-an pnradtn\ the boulevards. Fascists. Royalists and Socialists, \e^ln-r their cp.inre. * ioined the demonstration Police and troops tried to clear the Place de la Con- rordc, and rioting resulted. * • - * \po save hin Republic, Ganton Doumergne. 71. France's be- tic and will verv probably be the subtect of much debate. It at- tempts to outlaw nlnJ specific de- vices or practices in order to pre- vent the evils of manipulation. Gendarme*, above left, are shown trying to keep a Paris mob under control. At right, a ripter to shown being hustled off to a police sta- tion. Below, from left. to. right, are: Oaston Doumergue, Maxlroe Weygand and the Due de Gutae. loved \grand old man,\ was call- ed to reorganize a new cabinet. j Settling cabinet crises waa no nov-' pity to Doumergue: he straight-1 ened out IS of them in his six-1 year regime as president, from l!>2« to 1931. And backstage, waiting for their cues, were Maxime Weygrand and the Due de Guise. Weygand. fa- vorite and \spiritual son\ of war- time Marshal Foch. and head of the French army, was the \mail- ed fist\ to he called on as a last resort to prevent revolution. And the Due de Guise, foremost pretender to the throne, awaited summons and coronation should his monarchists seize the nation's throttle. Here and There The prize-winning slogan to be painted on New York rubbish cans is \By the law abide—put trash inside\ But our preference was the Sun's thought. \A clean 'city never decays. —Detroit News John D. Rockefeller's grandson has quit Yale to become a Stand- ard Oil truck driver, so probably in time the company will have a president who will have risen from the ranks. - The Columbus Citl7.cn Anyvfay. ; these last few years have shown up the atheists who said there wasn't any hell. - -San Francisco Chronicle The President has such a per- suasive voice that you keep ex- pecting him to mention some ar- ticle that is for sale. * Helena (Mont.) Record-Herald Wotta world! Your friends are eccentric, and your enemies are crazy! Olin Miller in the Thomaston (Ga.) Times. Jurist comments that it is al- ways difficult to convict a pretty woman for bigamy. Why not try her for fraudulent use of the males? The Dallas Morning News That Japanese in the South Da- kota hospitril for the insane, who hasl/gained nine poun'ds in a few weeks but says the food is not fit for swine—he must be craiy! A midwesterner has set a rec- ord of nome kind by waltzing ten hours with a bottle on his head. The bottle, too. was empty. r — Des Moines Tribune. Erneist Newman. British writer, says a columnist is the \American term for the journalist who day in and .day out delights, instructs, annoys and bores.\ Nerta to you, too. Newman. Cook in the Philadelphia Inquirer There Is always something to worry about. A German scientist says men fi00.000.000 years from now will be ten feet tall. Carey Williams in the Greensboro iGa.) Herald-Journal. The Paris situation had been clarified Saturday and all rioting put back on an orderly profes- sional basis, with only Reds tak- ing part. ' The Detroit News Aviation stocks seem to have been doing some blind flying. The Philadelphia Bulletin Former President Doumergue favors a change, in the French Constitution. A change, no doubt, that will prevent \future changes In the French cabinet. Houston in the Fredeticksburg (Va. I Free Lance-Star As times change, HO do men. In his earlier career \publicity\ seemed tHe one thing that Charles A. Lindbergh was most anxious to avoid. -Washington Star. Vf -•
