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\•\•••••••• • • - ^ ••• J •:\-\ • f ^^T WF^ ORT COVINGTON SUN TOL. L. FT. COVIN©TON, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1934. NO/ 3. News Review of Current Events the World Over William Green Says Labor Must Force 30-Hour Week— Gen. Johnson and Business Leaders Discuss Future of the NRA. By EbWARD W. PICKARD VJOTICE Served on the nation that A ^ the 30-hour work week will be forced on Industry, by organized labor by the use of widespread strikes, If necessary. This is the dictum of William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, and It causes consternation In the administration as well as grave alarm in the country generally. Green, in his May day address to workers, says the n/m. « New Deal has failed William Qreen t o remedy tte nnem . ployment situation, since there are still more than ten millions without jobs. The 30-hour week, he says/Is the only remedy available since if all industries not yet under codes are brought under *hem, the resulting re-employment will not give work to these millions. Just before Green Issued this state- ment, President Roosevelt had appar- ently declined to support the Connery bill legislating a BO-hour week for all Industry; and General Johnson has re- cently abandoned as not feasible-the plan for forcing a 10 per cent reduc- tion in working hours. R EPRESENTATIVE BERT RAND SNELL of New York, minority leader in the house, says the period of emergency Is over, so he and the rest of the Republican leaders feel free tow to demand that the emergency laws and bureaus be dispensed with. An amazing phase of the controversy -over the New Deal thus comes to light. The opponents of the adminis- tration virtually concede that Presi- dent Roosevelt and his advisers have won their fight against the depression and declare that normal conditions liave been restored or~are~str irand. But the President and the other New Dealers deny that the battle is over and assert that their recovery meas- ures must be continued in force. At the same time they insist that they are not seeking to change the Amer* lean system to state socialism, collec- tivism, communism, fascism, and that what they are accomplishing is \•evolution not revolution.\ Thus a most peculiar situation In politics is created, and the man in the street is waiting Interestedly to see how it will be handled in the coming •campaign. L EADERS of business from all parts of the country gathered In Wash- ington for the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and naturally the topic for discussion •was the NRA, con- cerning which varying views were offered. President Henry I. Harriman declared that industry is .will- ing to accept the Pres- ident's suggestion of a permanent NRA If modifications and re- strictions are placed on the broad authority Gen * J<> hn80l » granted Mr. Roosevelt during the emergency last year. On the other hand, Silas H. Strawn, -former head of the chamber, attacked what he termed the abandonment of a scheme of government which has made *'us happier and more prosperous than any other nation.\ He called for a three-way action by Mr. Roosevelt: Balancing of all governmental bud- gets, a definite announcement that there will be no more requests for emergency legislation and \no more tinkering with the dollar,\ and a re- vision of the securities act and pro- posed stock-exchange legislation. At a dinner Gen. Hugh S. Johnsons, ^was the chief guest and after his ad- dress he submitted to an inquisition -on the present and prospective poll- . cies of the NRA. Asked directly if the principles embodied in the recovery act were to be permanent, he replied: M If there has been any good dem- onstrated by the recovery act, It will live and it ought to live; If there has teen any bad it will die and It ought to die.\ Admitting that there has been a lapse in public Interest and enthus- iasm, the general said a new cam- paign to make the nation Blue Eagle conscious'was being mapped. He also admitted that the controversy between labor and Industry Is becoming more acute. He expressed the opinion that the ideal relationship between labor and management had been worked out tn the bituminous coal industry. Generally, the members of the Cham- ber of Commerce agreed that the first jear under the NRA had brought eco- nomic improvement Some of their suggestions for speeding the recovery program were: Another $2,000,000,000 for public works In order to help the laggard heavy industries. Co-ordination of all land, water, and air transportation under a federal com- mission and a cessation of federal sub- sidies for Inland waterway. Relaxation of the present rigid se- curity act and a softening of toe pend- ing stock exchange bill. Approval by congress of the Preil dent's tariff bargaining plans as a means to reviving foreign trade. Abandonment by the administration of its demand that industry cut its working hours 10 per cent and raise Its pay rolls 10 per cent Control of bituminous coal produc- tion by a system of quotas and penalty taxes on overproduction. J UST a few hours before General Johnson had spoken In high praise of the bituminous coal settlement, Federal District Judge Charles L Daw- son in Louisville held unconstitution- al the code arranged for that industry, as applied to local business, and granted a temporary injunction re- straining the government from forcing the code upon unwilling operators in western Kentucky. The operators, who claim to have $50*000,000 invested in the mines, chiefly In Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Union and Webster counties, protested vig- orously when the code recently was formulated providing for $4.60 a day for seven hours work. TTARRIMAN is a rather small city * * in Tennessee but it has present- ed the NRA with a troubling problem. The town depends largely on the Har- riman Hosiery mills, and that concern was ordered to surrender its Blue- Eagle because of charges that it had violated section 7A of the national re- covery act Within a few hours the whole town was In revolt Fifty-six merchants and other business men re- moved their Blue Eagles and wired to Washington for instructions on what to do with them. T HAT a general wage increase at this time will hinder rather than aid in national economic recovery is _the,contention of the heavy goods In- dustries, set forth in a report to Gen- eraj Johnson by George EL Houston, chairman of the durable goods indus- tries committee. Tne report reasserts faith in the company union, approves of emergency price fixing and. attacks the Wagner bill as encouraging indus- trial strife. A TTORNEY GENERALCUMMINGS *»> feels that the forces of the De- partment of Justice are inadequate to cope with the gangsters, and will ask congress for about $2,000,000 in excess of the $28,700,778 authorized the de- partment for the fiscal year 1935. Next year's appropriation is the low- est granted the Justice department since the war.. With the additional money the at- torney general contemplates purchas- ing for the division's agents a fleet of high-powered automobiles, a few ar- mored cars and ample guns and am- munition. Likewise the force of In- vestigators will be added to, and there is a possibility that the division's 24 field offices will be increased. W HEN the senate committee on privileges and elections opened the hearings on the demands that Sen- ators Huey P. Long and his political follower, John H. Overton of Louisiana be deprived of their seats, the political groups that have been seeking especially to oust the \kingfish\ re- mained In the back- ground and left it to the women of Loui- siana to take the lead in the fight These women are headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, who has been indefatigable in the campaign against Long and his crew. The women were represented as counsel by «Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, war- time acting judge advocate general, who has pending against Long a suit for libel His opening statement dis- pelled the idea that Long's opponents would be satisfied to let Overton re- main In the senate if the \kingfish\ were thrown out \We expect to prove,\ said General Ansell, \the charge that there was fraud in the 1032 Louisiana primaries sufficient to vitiate the election of Senator Overton; that Senator Over- ton was an active perpetrator of that fraud; that Senators Overton and Long were designers and Instigators of that fraud.\ W ILLIAM H. WOODIN, who was President Roosevelt's first secre- tary of the treasury, has passed away, succumbing to the throat affection that forced his resignation from the cabinet last December. In bis death the country 4oses a business man of the highest type and a gentleman who had the respect and affection of all who knew him. He became presi- dent of the American Car and Found ry company In 1916, and also was president of the American Locomotive company. His interests were varied, for he was musician, composer, art lover and student of government as well ma leader in industry. He was long a persona) friend of Mr. Roose- velt and, though a Republican, was one of the first selections for the President's cabinet and worked hard so long as hjs health permitted. E XACTLY 86 years from the day Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila bay, the legis- lature of the Philippines accepted the new offer of the United States for the independence of the islands as em- bodied in the Tydings-McDuffie act Under the terms of the measure, the Filipinos will obtain complete in- dependence in 1945. During the inter- vening years a commonwealth govern- ment, to be set up probably next year, will gbvern the islands. With acceptance of the act the Fil- ipinos ceased to be nationals of the United States and became subject to the rigid immigration Itrws. Only SO may enter this country yearly. The status of an estimated 60,000 Filipinos in the United States as well as the In- ternational status of the entire island population during the transition pe- lod remains in doubt, due to the word- ing of the measure, F EDERAL agents believe they have uncovered a great ring of crooks for the handling of money derived from kidnapings, bank robberies and swindles. They al- ready have arrested a number of men and are hurrying to get others before they are put out of the way by members of the gang, as has been done before. The ring, it is said, has been operating in Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Kansas City and oth- er cities. One of the first men taken into custody was John J. McLaughlin, for- merly a state legislator and a political boss in Chicago, suspected of being a leader in the disposal of the \hot monejf.\ The specific charge against him is conspiracy in the kidnaping of Edward Bremer, St. Paul banker, for whose release a ransom of $200,000 was paid. The federal agents were diligently searching for William Elmer Mead, a notorious crook, who is thought to have directed the kidnap- ers. McLaughlin confessed that he had handled some of the Bremer ransom money, and his son was arrested with part of it in his pocket. . W HEN the administration's bill for reduction of cotton production was under consideration its opponents argued in vain that it would work grievous injustice to thousands of ten- ant farmers and \croppers\ In the South. Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace now finds this prediction was well founded, his information coming from Dr. Calvin B. Hooker of Duke univer- sity whom he requested to make an investigation. Mr. Wallace now plans the establishment of a compliance board to inquire into complaints of tenants. At the same time the enforce- ment of cotton reduction contracts will be tightened to prevent farm owners from ousting tenant farmers and farm workers because of the reduced amount of production. S PEAKING to about two million Germans at the Templehof airport outside of Berlin, Chancellor Hitler defiantly denied Germany's war guilt and declared the reich has been a vic- tim of the war. He warned the world again that Germany no longer was willing to accept discrimination against her by the former allied pow- ers, and declared that day of \spini less submission\ was at an end. Referring to bis anti-Jewish policy, Hitler said: \Jewish writers sought to make the sickle and hammer (of Soviet Russia) the symbol of internationalism and they almost succeeded, but the Nazis make these tools again the symbol of the community, the fanner and the laborer.\ M AJORITY and minority reports of the investigation into Dr. Wil- liam A. Wirt's \red plot\ stories were made to the house, and they were just what had been expected. The major- ity of the committee held that Wirt' charges were untrue and that his com- panions at the famous dinner party did not make the statements he had attributed to them. Representatives McGugin and Lehlbach, the Republican minority members of the committee characterized the Investigation as \repudiation of all precedents\ and In- dicative of Intentions to \suppress a information\ which might directly in- volve the brain trust. J UST before midnight of May George V began the twenty-fifth year of his reign as king of Great Brit- ain, Ireland and the British domlnioni beyond the sea and emperor of India. By his own choice the anniversary not observed by especial ceremonies, but preparations are already u way for a celebration of his silver ju- bilee in 1935 that wilt rival that of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee 1887. In his 24 years on the throne George has earned the high esteem of the world and has proved himself real leader and, in the minds of the British, nil that a king should be. T HE senate by acclamation accept- ed the conference report on the 11)34 revenue measure, which provides for an Increase in taxes of $417,000,- 000. The Couzens amendment for 10 per cent Increase in Income tax, which the house rejected, was cut ont ( jT-vEAD\ for more than a year, the LJ Austrian parliament came to life long enough to approve, by a vote of 74 to 2, the new Constitution and mass of laws decreed by Chancello Dollfuss attice March 8,1933. The Constitution abolishes parliaments and also does away with trial by jury. O by Wutcra NMKIMUMM' HRIM. Austrian Monarchists Salute the Chancellor Howe About: Silerius* Third Wife Minding Your Business American Waste ©> Bell Syndicate.—-WNtJ Service. Chancellor Engelltert Dollfuss, leaving a church In Vienna after a service held In memory of the victims of thi February riots, reviews the ranks of the \Iron Ring,\ an organization of monarchists. Memorial to Nurses Who Died in the War As Bugler Kemp sounded tups the beautiful statue \The Spirit of Nursing\ was unveiled on the grounds or the Red Cross building In Washington. It memorializes Jane A. Delano and 206 other Red Cross nurses who died in World war service. The figure was unveiled by Anna Kerr, a close friend of Miss Delano. Midget Submarine Tested in Japan This exclusive photograph, publication of which was forbidden In Japan, shows Japanese army officials watching first tests of a midget submarine which, it is believed, will be of great service on interior lakes and rivers for the trans- port of troops and for attacking small craft and seashore buildings. Only two men are needed for its operation. Finds Feminine Foot Improving Or. John Martin Hiss, orthopedic Burgeon at Hollywood, Califs believes the feet of women are improving in this athletic age. He is here seen measur- ing the proportions and bone atructure of the feet of a group of lovely girls. SNAKES HIS HOBBY When Kenneth Johnson wakes up, looks at the foot of his bed. and sees snakes all over the place, It Isn't what you think. In fact, it's quite all right Because Kenneth, a student at the Uni- versity of California, is In a fair way toward being an expert herpetologist Johnson, who graduates from the uni- versity soon, has an ambition to be a zoo director. He's starting with snakes, and in cages along the foot of his bed he has two king-snakes, a six-foot In- digo snake, a small boa constrictor, a moccasin snake from Florida, two chicken snakes «from Texas, and a gila monster. He had seven rattle- snakes, but they developed something and died. He also has a black widow spider, reputedly fatal when It bites. He calls it Eliza and keeps it in a mayonnaise jar on his dresser. By ED HOWE CO FAB as my reading goes no one ^ has ever more candidly, intelligent- ly or fairly discussed the relations of married couples than Silerius, w&© lived near the time of the most famous outrage on women recorded In history: that suffered <*>y Sabine women who were carried off by invading soldiers. Some authorities claim Silerius him- self was a general in the conquering army concerned, and that a screaming _ Sabine woman was delivered at his tent as his part of the loot. As near as can be learned from the vague history of that time this won*- an, so violently courted, became ib\e third wife of Silerius; and although carried from her own country to a strange one by a conqueror, with no other preliminary than being suddenly seized by rough invaders, she was so capable in looking after her own in- terests that her abductor later married her; indeed, she became prominent and. respected in the Inhospitable city In which her husband lived. ^ In his memoirs Silerius gives the im- pression that his third wife pleased him more < han any of the others, to two of whom he was married with elaborate ceremonies, and after very sentimental courtship. In writing of his experiences with women, Silerius - tells In a rather amusing way of the gentle and cunning arts his third wife exercised in bending him to her will, and I get the impression that she loved him more sincerely than any of the wives he acquired In a more conven- tional way. * * * What part of your attention Ho you give to your own business? Say you are merchant, lawyer, doctor, mechan- ic, farmer. What per cent of your en- thusiasm goes to your business, and what per cent to politics, vacations, clubs, automobiling, radio, moving pic- tures, welfare work, social affairs? Many a good business has been wrecked by its head man neglecting it for other things. It is charged that one of the most notable of American commercial enterprises is on the rocks because its bead, in receipt of an enor- mous salary, neglected it for outside activities. The same principle ap- plies to those occupying fifteen, twenty or forty-dollar-a-week jobs. Very few Americans mind their own business. • • * A doctor connected with the govern- ment says that 71 per cent of the hos- pital cases now being cared for by the government were not cases that in any way could be traced to the great war; that the Veterans* Disability act was the greatest steal ever put over on the American people. Here is another startling illustra- tion of the waste and dishonesty in American public affairs; in this case, in relieving twenty-nine men honestly entitled to relief, the politicians, re- lieved seventy-one not entitled to i t The figures hold in everything else in American public affairs. I have no doubt that for every twenty-nine dol- lars the government necessarily spends in its operation seventy-one dollars are wantonly and villainously wasted. The only way for the government to properly balance the budget is to cut off 71 per cent of taxes already levied, and wasted, instead of adding new burdens. I do not know just when, but some of these days I intend to confess I am as tired of my writing as others are, and no longer hold on to the coat tails of the drunken world in attempts to better i t . And in my final notice I think I shall pay the people who have dismissed me a good many compliments. Mil- lions of them are admirable. My final message to them will be: \Keep the few good things you have accom- plished, and try to accomplish a few more. All the comforts and pleasures we have came as a result of men suc- ceeding In doing a little better.\ SPAIN'S NEW PREMIER Ricardo Samper Ibaaea has been made premier of Spain, following the resignation of the Lerroux government, in which he was minister of Industry and commerce. When I know what women expect of men, I am willing to grant i t Just how much attention from men do women decide is proper? I have been in doubt at times. . . . There Is in my town a woman who is very strict; she promptly resents the slightest fa- miliarity from men. and frequently talks indignantly of their boldness. One day I learned, from the private talk of the women, that a friend of mine had squeezed her hand, and that she was very mad about it Later, when I was in her company, the name of the bold wretch came up, and I felt that she would vigorously denounce him. She didn't know I had beard of the affront offered her, but 1 was cer- tain she would express a very unfa- vorable opinion, knowing she was very strict . . . And- this was what she said: \He is the most entertaining man I ever met in my life.\ • • • I have long wondered that the doc- trine called Communism has persisted through so many centuries, althougn every reasonably Intelligent man ac- knowledges it is foolish* and Imprac- tical. I think the explanation to we are all natural Communists. Children impose on parents, and everybody else, until broken of i t Some children Im- pose on parents until fourteen, eight- een or twenty-one-two-three-four years old; some continue to believe la Communism long after they hav* families of their own, and trouble with, the police. t
