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ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT,. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY, MAY 24. 1934. News Review of Current Events the World Over Reed's Victory Over Pinchot Delights Opponents of New Deal—NRA Will Abandon Codes for Small Businesses. By EDWARD © by Wsitwa S ENATOR DAVID A. REED of Pennsylvania, fighting in the Re- publican primaries for re-nomination, emerged from the hectic battle victo- rious over his rival, Gov. Gifford Pinchot Reed's majority was in the neighborhood of 100,000, and long before all the returns were In Governor Pin- chot gave up and wired his congratula- tions to the senator. Since Senator Reed, one of the Old fi« n9 «»» n—A Guard conservatives, Senator Reed hag bee n aQ unrelent . Ing critic of the New Deal, and Gov- ernor Pinchot, a \progressive\ Repub- lican, has given his full support to President Roosevelt's policies, the re- sult of the primaries was hailed with glee by opponents of the national ad- ministration. Both the candidates made the New Deal the issue in their campaign, and when the governor was prevented by illness from making speeches, Mrs. Pinchot took the stump and vigorously defended the Presi- dent's programs of recovery. Notwith- standing all this, Postmaster Farley said: \I do not regard the defeat of Governor Pinehot as a New Deal test,\ and Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Dem- ocratic leader, took the same attitude. President Roosevelt refused to com- ment Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Del- aware, chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, is- sued a pronouncement that the Penn- sylvania primary result was \a great victory for the American citizen who wants a square deal and not a New Deal.\ Governor Pinchot, whi>™hair^trietr twice before to get into the senate, said he would continue to fight for the interests of the people against concen- trated wealth, and it was reported that he would run independently in Novem- ber. Joe Guffey, Democratic leader In Pennsylvania, easily won his party's nomination for the senate, but the Re- publicans claim he will have small chance against Reed in the election. New Jersey also held a primary elec- tion. The Republicans nominated Sen- ator Hamilton F. Kean for re-election and Harold G. Hoffman for governor. The Democrats who will oppose them are Gov. Harry A. Moore and Judge William L. Dill. L EADERS of the Republican party in Indiana turned down Senator Arthur R, Robinson quite decisively. They not only defeated his plan to gain control of the party organization, but also refused to give assurance that he would be unopposed for renomina- tion in the state convention June 5. The best the senator could get was an indorsement of his fight in the senate \for constitutional government\ and for his stand \against bureaucracy as exemplified by the Democratic party and its administration.\ «- Among those mentioned as possible rivals of Robinson for the nomination are former Senator Jim Watson, for- mer Representative Frederick Landis and former Gov. Harry G. Leslie. Rob- inson angered the state committee by attacking its officers. I N ORDER that congress may ad- journ June 5, the President and sev- eral congressional leaders got together and pared down the legislative pro- gram. They agreed to limit the \must\ bills to four measures. These are: The one billion, three hundred mil- lion-dollar emergency appropriation bill carrying funds for the continua- tion of the New Deal relief activities^ The communications control bill pro- posing the consolidation of federal reg- ulation over all communications. The loans to industries bilL author- izing RFC and federal reserve bank advances to smaller industries on in- termediate credit terms. The deposit insurance extension bill, continuing the temporary federal bank deposit guarantee plan for another year in lieu of putting the permanent program contained in the Glass bank- Ing bill Into effect at this time. Mr. Roosevelt sent to congress a message explaining why the first named bill is necessary, and urging that no more than the amount asked be appropriated. One other measure that may be put through at this session is the silver bill upon which the President and the silver .bloc agreed anU fc which was to be introduced with a message from Mr. Roosevelt As predicted, this Is a compromise containing these pro- visions : A declaration of policy that the gov- ernment recognizes silver aa primary money and Uut the nation's metallic reserves shall be 25 per cent silver •fend 75 per cent gold. This la manda- tory. The secretary of the treasury Is au- thorised and directed to purchase sil- ver until it reaches $1.20 an ounce or until its metallic reserve strength readies 25 per cent. This it both per- missive and mandatory. The President i* authorized to. na- W. PICKARD fawapaper Union. tionalize silver through condemnation. This is permissive. /CONSIDERATION of the records of *-* three Chicago federal judges in receivership and bankruptcy cases were under consideration by the house judi- ciary committee, with the possibility of impeachment in prospect. A sub- committee turned in a report on the jurists, Charles E. Woodward, James H. Wilkerson and Walter G. Lindley, making no recommendations for or against impeachment but criticizing sharply their allowances for attorney and receiver fees. With respect to Judge John P. Barnes, who has handled several re- ceiverships and bankruptcies In the federal courts at Chicago since 1933, the subcommittee declared it had \no criticism as to his conduct in these matters.\ MQNATCHERS\ are not faring so ^ well in the far west and south- west Six-year-old June Robles, who was kidnaped from Tucson, Ariz., was found in a tomb-like hole where she had been kept chained, and there were good chances that her abductors would be caught The child was weak but uninjured. Los Angeles police in a sudden raid freed William F. Gettle, oil millionaire who had been kidnaped and held for a large ransom, and arrested three of the men who abducted him. The trio confessed, were promptly given life sentences and are now in the, San Quentin prison. /GENERAL JOHNSON and his as- ^ sistants in the NRA are tired of trying to enfor.ee the multiplicity of codes for small groups, and therefore the administration has decided to abandon thousands of those arranged for lesser in- dustrial plants and service establish- ments. In fact, to regulate prices and trade practices and innumerable details in countless small busi- nesses has proved to be impracticable and Gen. Johnson th e effort ha s token an outrageously large percentage of NRA work and funds. Johnson said he was working on arrangements to substitute simple agreements for codes covering small industries. These agreements mere- ly will cover wages, hours and the collective bargaining guarantees of the recovery act. The silk textile Industry found itself overloaded with surpluses of goods, and the NRA permitted all the mills to shut down for one week, dur- ing which time 30,000 workers are un- employed. The shutdown was ordered by the silk textile authority. S TRIKES in many branches of the automobile industry will occur un- less the striking employees of the Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich., win their demands, jaccording to President Green of the American Federation of Labor. \The strike of the workers em- ployed at the Fisher Body plant at Flint, Mich., reflects the spirit of un- rest and discontent which prevails among the automobile workers at the present time,\ Green saicT in a state- ment \There will be no p\eace in the au- tomobile industry,\ he added, \until the grievances of the workers are fair- ly settled, discrimination and coercion stopped, the right of collective bar- gaining established and company union domination and intimidation stopped.\ * Green said the unrest hinged on the issue of company unions and that au- tomobile workers were \resentful\ that the settlement of the threatened automobile Industry strike a few weeks ago was generally hailed as a triumph for the company union and a defeat for organized labor. Dissatisfaction has been accentu- ated, he added, \because of the failure of the automobile labor board to func- tion properly and effectively.\ Labor troubles along the American waterfronts increased daily. On the Pacific coast thousands of seamen quit work In sympathy with the striking longshoremen, and the mayor of Se- attle asked Secretary of the Interior Ickes for federal troops to protect non- union workers. In the ports of the Great Lakes a general strike of tug- men was threatened. At Galveston the longshoremen were still out, and hun- dreds of other workers went on strike. |CAPT. GEORGE POND and Lieut. V^* Cesare Sabelll opened the ocean flying season with an attempt to make a nonstop hop from New York to Rome—a thing that has never yet been done. They ran Into dense fogs and head winds over the Atlantic and then had such serious engine trouble that they were forced to land their big Bel; ianca monoplane, the Leonardo da Vinci, on the west coast of Ireland. According to their stories the aviators were mighty fortunate that they did not tall into the ocean and drown. D Y A vote of 62 to 13 the senate *-» passed the Fletcher-Rayburn bill which places the securities markets of the country under the regulatory con- trol of a federal commission. The measure already had passed the house, but with the provision that the federal trade commission should be the regu- latory body, and this difference, to- gether with the house's provision for a fixed margin requirement, caused some delay In the conference. At a press conference President Roosevelt stated that he preferred the house version of the bill in those two particulars and that he had told the chairman of the committees so, although he had kept his hands off the measure until It was passed by both house and senate. TpHE White Star liner Olympic, com- •a ing slowly Into port In a fog, rammed and sank the Nantncket light- ship, seven of the latter's crew being killed and four, including Capt. George Bralthwalte, saved. Captain Blnks of the Olympic blames the accident on an error in the radio direction beam which he was following, though this device has heretofore been considered infallible. He admitted, however, that at the time of the collision he was five miles off his supposed course and that his radio signals, submarine signals and reckoning all misled him as to his real position. S ECRETARY OF THE NAVY SWAN- SON announced that as soon as funds can be obtained from the public works appropriation asked by the President, the construction of twenty warships will begin. These vessels, it is estimated, will cost $40,000,000. This building program will include twelve destroyers, two destroyer lead- ers, and six submarines, forming the first year's program under the Vinson act, which authorized the replacement of 102 ships to bring the navy up to full treaty strength by the end of 1939. The policy of the administration Is to lay down the rest .of the 102 replace- ment ships in the next four years» C*OR twenty-six years a prejudice 1 dating back to the Civil war has kept the state of Virginia from being represented in the Statuary hall in the Capitol at Washington. This state of affairs has now corae to an end, for congress has accepted as gifts from Virginia the two statues which were first offered in 1908 and rejected. They are a copy of the famous statue of Washington by Houdin and a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Valentine. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts presided at the ceremonies and by his side was Senator Glass of Virginia. The presentation was made by Gov. George Peery of Virginia and the chief speaker was Dr. Francis Gaines, president of Washington and Lee uni- versity. Miss Eliza- beth Wheeler Good Will day\ was May 18, and to mark it stu- dents from colleges in all parts of the country gathered In Washington and staged a demonstra- tion in support of world disarmament Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, was chair- man of the affair, and after the meeting Miss Wheeler led a delegation to the White House and pre- sented to President Roosevelt a petition asking him to take the lead in secur- ing a world treaty for complete dis- armament.' News from abroad Indicates that this is imposing a tremendous task on Mr. Roosevelt, for the prospects of disarmament are growing slimmer daily. There is no abatement of the quarrel between France and Germany over German rearming, and France has lengthened the term of service of Its soldiers, which example Belgium probably will follow. Hungary and Jugoslavia are engaged in a bitter border dispute and the former has asked for help from the League of Nations council, which has opened an- other session in Geneva. Japan, still stubbornly aloof, seems to be seeking a new cause for hostilities against China, alleging that a number of Jap- anese soldiers were killed by Chinese troops. The League's commission on the Paraguay-Bolivia war In the Gran Chaco submitted a report recommend- ing that all nations of the world, espe- cially the American republics, be asked to join in an effort to shut off from the two South American coun- tries all the materials necessary to carry on a war. W AR in Arabia has come to an end for the present an armistice hav- ing been officially announced. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, apparent- ly is the victor, for it was stated his terms bad been accepted by the Imam Yahya of Ywnen, though the terms of the treaty were not made public immediately. Ibn Saud's modernly equipped armies already had captured Hodeida, the Yemen seaport. King Ibn Saud has been gradually extending his power since 1924, and It was believed be intended to add Ye- men to his territories. He took ad- vantage of a border quarrel to start hostilities some weeks ago. In a re- cent Interview Ibn Sand said: \I have never envisaged territorial expansion, and 1 have never desired to conquer Yemen, but just as the conquest of Hejaz was forced upon me a decade ago by the hostilities of King Hussein, similarly Yahya has forced war upon me now by senuing troops into Naslr and Najran while nominally engaged In negotiations for peaceful jettte- ment\ How National Capitol Will Be Enlarged NO. 5. Howe About: Education Lonely Old Men Shiftless People ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. David Lynn, architect (In front}, showing to Senators David I. Walsh of Massachusetts and Tom Connally oi Texas a model of the Capitol building in Washington as it will appear when it has been enlarged. As can be seen, it is planned to extend the central 'rrUJht portion of the building. Florida Backs Up Its Boasts With Figures Th« people of Florida are justly proud of the rapid strides their state is making on the highway that leads back to prosperity. Just so the figures will not be boring, they are presented, with lines and charts, at Coral Gables as shown above. \Old Ironsides\ at Rest Forever The LL S. S. Constitution, better known as \Old Ironsides,\ at the Charles- town navy yard near Boston, where she has now been tied up for good after a tour of all the coast harbors of the country. The veteran of the navy will never go to sea again. \Flying Governor\ Gets License Uov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania (right) receiving his pilot's license from Maj. Victor Dallin of the One Hundred and Third aero squadron of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Mr, Pliichot Is the.only governor holding such a license. WINS TRIP TO EUROPE Cleta Moody, sixteen years old, Ken- tucky high school student, who was declared winner in the eighth annual competitive examination for high schools on the League of Nations, The prize is a trip to Europe. LIQUOR ENFORCER Arthur J. Mellott is the new hea of the government's liquor enforcing activities. MelY.tfs force will be 4,000 strong and will co:ne under civil serv ice status. Improved Explosives During the four years of the Worl war only about 50 tons of high ex plosives were discharged over Eng- land by the Central powers, causing the loss of some 3,000 lives and a bil- lion dollars of damage—and yet the bombing air fleet that Uncle Sam now has could do this much in a singl night By ED HOWE T IS often said the people must be- come educated before reform can be jxpected. This Is accepted as mean- ing every man must be so completely educated In our modem way as to be ible to teach-in college. Education thus becomes so great a task we are discouraged In contemplating i t ... Our estimate of an education to wrong. After a man is thirty, if not tturally a dunce, an intelligent read- Ing of Wells' \Outline of History.\ combined with his own experience,- will educate him. Those Intending to teach should attend technical schools; as do doctors, lawyers, painters, en- gineers, etc There are dozens of short summaries of everything one needs to know; a new one was added last fall, and writers are favoring that style of writing lately. These sum- maries not only educate a reader, but entertain him better than will detec- tive stories or novels. • • • know an old fellow whose ebil- ^ dren are all married and gone, and- ho does not sleep well He does well enough during the day, but anyone passing his house late at night may see lights burning. The servants are kind, but he will not Impose on them, so he is alone and wide awake a good' deal at night; and night is especially lonely. Lately he employed a woman of sixty to assist him from 11 p. m. intil people are moving on the streets again. She has a soothing way about her. and he gets to sleep oftener during his dangerous hours. If he awakens, he finds her asleep In her :hair at the foot of his bed, but she awakens easily, and again she reads to him, or they talk. During these hard times, many good women are seeking employment, and the crop of lonely old men is large. Why not? • • * . regret shiftlessness, but have ad- mired shiftless people. The man and wife I hang around most are the most shiftless people I have ever known, but both are \good fellows,\ and tre» mendously smart They have long had In their employ an old colored servant they now owe so much they can't pay her. and thus get rid of her by dis- charge. The black woman needs an operation, and they are trying to find a doctor who will perform It on cred- it They have had her teeth fixed four times, and still owe for it Americans^ are judged abroad by what American books, magazines and newspapers say; by speeches deliv- ered at meetings of various social clubs and political organizations. All these are unnatural, and foreigners do not know us; our publicity agents have given as .a character we do not deserve. What the average American thinks and believes Is not known even la his own country; the American at- tends moving picture plays, not be- cause he is much Interested in the vul- gar people who make them, but be- cause they cost only twenty-five cents, and occasionally have a good news reel or comedy. ... I lately attend- ed a moving picture theater, and only six others were there. Never before have I seen a \show\ presented to an audience of seven, and it was the best theater in town, showing the best available picture plays, Ameri- can people are not as crazy about the disreputable crowd at Hollywood as Is believed abroad. , • • * I may be mistaken in what I think I know in my eightieth year, but I am more certain of it than ever before^ and I have less time left in which to change my mind. • • •- At eighty I am not afraid of the fu- ture. I have been treated with reason- able justice all my conscious life, and expect as much of the'future. No one can convince me there Is a devil after death to torture me for eating, drink- Ing, loving, hating, trading, venturing. I have lived a long time, and thought RS clearly and fairly as I could, and have heard not a word from a relia- ble source to make me fear a devil to torture me after I am dead. A million ghost dancers have howled dismally at me throughout life without frighten- ing me They might as well cease dancing; the truth is not what they say it is. There is more* mercy than they claim. • • * I have a son I think Is quite wise; rather able in taking care of himself. The other day he was at home, and a suspicious man kept calling him- by telephone. I knew the suspicious man, and what he wanted: a big favor: to \work\ my son. ... I warned him, and the young man replied: \That's all right; don't worry: nr*work' Mm right back.\ . . . There are so many who try to \work\ you I warn you to acquire the ability of my son, or you'll be ruined. not looked It up. but am in- forrm><Jth*t the British Encyclopedia lists tourteen of Goethe's mistresses. The fact that all nations of the world • jaliiMl in <t»remonies to honor Goethe on the hundredth anniversary of bis birth seems to indicate tbat such In- discretions are finally forgotten. . . • . Still, sinner men should remember * this great charity was not shown Goethe until his hundredth anniver- sary; probably when alive, be found gossip as annoying as do men «f to* day. V I
