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ORT VOL. L. FT. GOVINGTON, N. Y.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1934. NO. 16. News Review of Current Events the World Over Von Hindenburg Dies and Hitler Seizes Presidency of Germany—Roosevelt's Economic Security Program Is*fieing Formulated. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ® by Western Newspaper Union. OAUL VON HINDENBtTRG, \Ger- * man Gibraltar,\ has gone to his long rest, and Adolf Hitler is now absolute xuler of the reich. Immediately after the death of the president at his sum- mer home in East Prussia was an- nounced the cabinet met aud put forth this decree: \The reich govern- ment has passed the following law, which is hereby promul- gated: \I. The office of the reichspresident is united with that of the reichschancellor. In consequence thereof, powers heretofore exercised i>y the reichspresident are transferred to der fuehrer (Hitler) and the vice •chancellor (Franz von Papen). He <Hitler) determines who shall be his deputy.\ Hitler for the first time became also the commander of the reichswehr or regular army, and Gen. Werner von Blomberg issued an order that every soldier must pledge absolute loyalty to the death to Hitler. Ever since his great victory at Tan- nenberg, early in the World war, Von Hindenburg had been the Idol of the •German people and their grief over 1 is death was general and sincere. Their -expressions of sorrow were mingled \With veiled but anxious discussions •concerning the possible effects on the Teich of the aged leader's death and the assumption of full power by Hit- ler. The president, though forced to give the Nazi chief the chancellorship,' ia d been a constant check on extreme Nazism, and he had the full con- fidence of other uations^thxttrbas'.Trever l>een accorded to any other German «ince the war. As Jacob Gould Schur- man, former American ambassador to Berlin, puts it: \Now that Von Hindenburg is gone, 310 successor, having regard to his achievements, his prestige, and his tried and tested character, can, at least for a considerable time, create ;an atmosphere equally favorable to -diplomatic negotiations with foreign powers.\ Doctor Schurman, however, does not Relieve the Hitler regime is in danger -of falling at this time. He says the •German people are not naturally'rash and revolutionary and probably will give Hitler a chance to seek' a solu- tion of the economic problems that •confront the country. Von Hindenburg, Who was eigbty- ;six years old, was a patriot all his life, a veteran of three warsyand a marshal of the empire under Kaiser \Wilhelm. He was a hard fighter but .a kindly gentleman. He supported the republic when It was created but at Tieart be was always faithful to the self-exiled kaiser. His last days Were •clouded by the realization that he had failed in the effort to really check .Nazism. C HANCELLOR SCHUSCHNIGG of Austria appeared to have the Nazi Tevolt completely under control and -was making overtures to the Social Democrats and tbe workers, the lat- ter being warmly praised for not tak- ing part in the putsch as the Nazis Tiad expected they would. The trial of the leaders in the uprising was con- ducted with dignity and the condem- nation and execution of two of them— the man who actually killed Dollfuss aind the chief of the raid—were taken a s matters of course. Another Nazi, -who killed a police captain of Inns- bruck about the same time the chai seller was being murdered, also was found guilty and hanged. Three thousand Nazis who took ^art 1n the outbreak In Carlnthla escaped to Jugoslavia and were disarmed, \and the Belgrade government now wonders ^what to do with them. W ITH monarchists In control of the Austrian government the roy- .alists of that country and of Hungary resumed their schemes for putting the joung Archduke Otto on the old throne of the Hapsburgs. There are reports that tlviy.hs^d a secret meeting hi Vitznau, Switzerland, and formed a restoration plan which they hoped -would be acceptable to France, Italy, «Jreat Britain and the little entente. Their first object was to secure the approval of Premier Mussolini. Lead- «rs In the movement are Colonel Raa- <ia of the Austrian army, Felix Dun- 3cel, an Austrian monarchist, and Count Hojos of Hungary. According to the story current In Tarls, the condition placed by the lit- tle entente and the big powers to al- lowing Otto to assume the throne is that he will sign a pledge guarantee- ing the present boundaries an* other terms of existing treaties with regard to Austria and the succession states. P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned to the mainland from his Ha- -wallan cruise. The Houston and the Hew Orleans moved up the Oregon -coast stopped briefly at Astoria *nd entered tue Columbia river. The Presidential party debarked at Port- lam! and almost immediately boarded train which carried them rapidly eastward. Stops were made at the Bonnevllle project in Oregon and the Grand Coulee irrigation and power project in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt spent Sunday in Glacier national park nd then continued his journey home- ward. I N ITS monthly survey of business the American Federation of Labor issued a warning that the enormous expenditures of the government for emergency needs and the artificial in- crease of buying power, if continued, will lead to currency inflation to meet the huge accumulating deficits. It called attention to the % steadily mounting tax burden, the extension of the relief rolls, the decline in bus- iness credit with the increase of gov- ernment borrowing and the failure of NRA to put men to work in industry. \The government cannot go on bor- rowing more than its income for very long,\ the statement said. \We can not go on increasing buying power in this way without a general expan- sion of production and consumption. Industry cannot pull Itself up by its own boot straps.\ O NE of Mr. Roosevelt's pet proj- ects, the program for greater economic acd social security, already is being mapped out by the special committee, including several cabinet mem- bers, that was named to get ready the nec- essary legislation for action by the next congress. Executive director of this com- mittee, and therefore thye most important member, is Prof. Ed- win E. Witte, econo- mist of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin fac- ulty. Professor Witte has been rather active in Wisconsin politics as a La Follette progressive and has advanced ideas along the lines on which he is now working. One of the main points of the pro- gram is the gradual decentralization of industry and this has been got un- der, way already through the estab- lishment of homestead projects in sev- eral localities. The purpose is to re- move thousands of workers from tene- ment districts in large cities to area** where their standard of living could be raised. Officials believe that great- er, economic security will result through home ownership with small tracts pf land. \\ There Is now under consideration a related plan designed to offer to farm ers who have suffered severely from the drouth a haven in Alaska. Jacob Baker, assistant chief of the federi emergency relief administration, has just completed a survey of a million acres of fertile land in the Mantanus- ka valley and has been discussing with Gov. John Troy the feasibility of tak- ing 2,50Q.farm families up there as a federal colony. S HARP criticism of the tender- handling of deportable aliens by the Department of Labor has brough results, following the disclosure'thai when President Roosevelt recognized Russia no arrangements were made for the deportation of Russian Reds. To straighten out this situation Sec- retary Perkins has called back info service Walter W. Husband, a Ver- mont Republican who was assistant secretary of labor under Presidents Hoover and Coolldge. Only a month or* two ago he was dropped to make room for Arthur Altmeyer of Wiscon- sin. Mr. Hastrtmd has been made a special assistant to Secretary Per- kins and may he sent to Moscow, W ILLIAM LANGER, deposed governor of North -Dakota be- cause of his conviction on* federal charges of conspiring to solicit political contributions fro m federal relief work- ers, and who was re- nominated for gover- nor by the Repub- licans, has .withdrawn from the race. The Republican c e n t r a 1 committee promptly selected Mrs. Langer to head the ticket, and it she wins, the vic- tory will be hailed as a vindication of her husband—just as Jim Ferguson of Texas once was \vlndl cated\ by the election of his wife. Mrs. Langer, a member of a famil, socially prominent in New York, has never before taken part in politics. She is a home-loving woman and the mother of four daughters. Her op- ponent in the fall election will be Thomas H. Moodle, a WllHstbn news- paper man who was nominated by the Democrats. P AUL MAT, Belgian ambassador to the United States, died in a Wash- ington hospital following an \abdo- minal operation. Mr. May was a vet- eran diplomat and had held the post In Washington since April, 1981. He was a man of engaging personality, ARTIAL law In Minneapolis, de- creed by Gov. Floyd B. Olson be- cause of rioting Incidental to the strike of teamsters there, proved ob- noxious to almost everybody and both the trucking firms and their 7,000 strik- ing drivers asked for its dissolution. At the same time Adju- tant General Walsh announced that thfi. \Insurrection\ h a a been suppressed. Still the governor declined to withdraw the state troops. Additional trucks were given mil- itary permits to operate, and a ban igainst those In interstate commerce as revoked because its legality was In doubt Beer trucks, however, were removed from the privileged list and were forbidden use of the streets on Ahe ground that they did not furnish a necessary service. At rmass meeting of union laborers the leaders demanded the withdrawal of the troops, the secretary of the truck drivers' union charging that the ddiers were \little more than strike- breakers.\ Governor Olson's reply to this was have the strikers' headquarters raided and their three leaders arrest- ed. This naturally enraged the truck drivers and there was considerable violence. Notwithstanding all this, the federal mediators, Father Haas and E. J. Dun- nigan, were hopeful of bringing about a peaceful agreement in the near fu- ture. Riots In Kohler Village, Wls., In which two men were killed, led Gov. A. G. Schemedeman to place the community under martial control, and 600 mem- bers of the National Guard were sen1 there. During the riot the police and deputies used tear gas bombs and blank cartridges and where these failed to disperse the mob, they opened fire with loaded shells. The officer com- manding the Guardsmen ordered the disbanding of the force of special dep- uties and permitted the strikers to resume peaceful picketing of the Koh- ler plant. Longshoremen of the Pacific coast ended their two-month long strike and returned to their jobs In all the ports, as did the marine workers. Pending arbitration by the federal board, steve- dores will be employed by employer- controlled hiring halls under super- vision of observers representing the board. Control of the hiring halls was :he chief issue In the strike and is still to be settled by the arbitrators, along with the questions of increased wages, shorter working hours and im- proved conditions. G EORGE N. PEEK, President Roose- velt's special adviser on foreign trade, announced that in an effort to recapture some of America's markets abroad the so-called Second Export- Import bank was* ready to finance American shipments to any country in the world. Hitherto this second bank has dealt only with Cuban trade, while the first bank was created to handle Rus- sian business. Thus far the Russian bank has been, moribund because Rus- sia has failed to pay her war debts to this country. Short term, intermediate, and lonj term credit will be offered to Ameri- can shippers who need financing to push through deals abroad. Peek said. He defined short term credits as those of less than 180 days, intermediat< credits as those maturing in 180 days to 12 months, and long term credits as those with maturities between one and five years. S ENATOR MI P. LO?:G anc Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans were having another lively fight In the southern city Governor Allen, one of Long's hench- men, mobilized 500 of the state troops and seized the registration office ant its files, and the soldiers also were ordered to search out the city's red light district and gambling houses The mayor increased his police forces to 1,400 and for a time there prospect of \civil war.\ Walmsley said the \moral crusade\ was just a \smoke screen\ to conceal the senator's real purpose of taking over the city government and Influ- encing *fea -prfcaairy election in Sep- tember, In which both he and Long are supporting rival candidates. J APAN'S hopes for naval equalit; with Great Britain and the Unit ed States were dashed by a franl statement by Secretary of the Navj Swanson to the effect that, In his per- sonal opinion, while the United States might favor a slash of 20 per cent in naval armaments, It would strong! oppose any realignment of existing naval ratios for the principal power \I take the same position I al^ra; have,\ Secretary Swanson said. \The naval powers met In London and dis- tributed naval strength as they thought just an* right. Naval strengtl is relative, if we abandon the ratio; there Is no telling where we shall go.; «EXPLORER,\ the huge ballooi *-* constructed to carry three arm; officers far into the stratosphere, mad( a brave start from near Rapid Citj S. D., rose to a height of 60,000 fe and then came to grief. Great ri: appeared in the fabric of the bag an< it came down rapidly and erraticallj falling with its gondola 12 miles from HoWredge, Neb. Maj. W. E. Kepner, Capt Orvll Anderson and Capt. Al- bert Stevens \balled out\ and wit! the aid of their parachutes landed ur hurt. But all their expensive am elaborate scientific equipment, wi the exception of the spectograph, wi destroyed when the gondola crashed. The spectograph had been hung ou side and floated to earth on a separatt small parachute* -—-o Famished Cattle Find Water and Grass Howe About? Sileriu$' Thinl Wife Unsuitable Marriages Cruelty of War , ©, Ben BynitcKm,— WNU Surviw. Western cattle branded with the letters of the Emergency Relief administration, after they had been bought by the government from farmers whose farms are now almost waterless, are driven to an island In the middle of the Savannah river, near Augusta, Ga., where there are 300 acres of pastureland. It must feel great to them to get ck to water and real green grass again. Hunting Stamp to Help Restore Waterfowl Authorized by the recent congress, the new federal hunting stamp will be Issued shortly by the Post Office department The photograph shows Stanley P. Young, head of the division of game management (left), and Col. H. P. Sheldon, of the bureau of biological survey, examining the original drawing for the new stamp which was made by J. N. \Ding\ Darling, who was a nationally known cartoonist long before he \recently became chief of the biological survey. The sale of the stamps will provide funds to help conserve ducks and geese and every one over sixteen years of age who hunts migratory waterfowl is required to purchase one of the new dollar stamps. Tries to Save Stratosphere Records Uapt. Albert W. Stevens, who leaped to safety with the two other members of the stratosphere balloon Explorer when it fell, is shown chopping away parts of the gondola In the effort to save some of the scientific instruments. However, they were^ destroyed by the crash. How California Opens a New Road These modern bathing girla and a group of Indians ot the Porno tribe I took part In the ceremonies incident to the opening of a new section of the I Redwood Ifimpire system of highways between Cloverdale and Hopland, Calll HE'S A FIREMAN! London's firemen are now outfitted with asbestos umbrellas as well as with the regulation asbestos suits. Thus they are protected from falling embers and are able to approach more closely to a burning structure. HEADS APPEALS BOARD By ED HOWE I N HIS memoirs Silerhisf tells most of his relations with his third wife, which he confesses were on the whole more agreeable than with the other four. (Details as to his marriages ar» shadowy, as though some of them were failures, b« he seems to have been 'married five times, and it is*of his third he speaks most in many refer' ences to marriage, women and the family life generally). ~ Silerius had no fault to find with this third woman, although be is very severe in references to some others of her sex. She seems to have had no faults he did not regardas natural, and therefore to be forgiven because , of her many virtues. Once Siierius discovered his third wife was jealous of him, and was as- * tonishedV \She knew at our mar- riage,\ he wrote, \that I had lived the life of a goat Why should she be jealous? It seemed to me unreason- able that she was, since I actually pre- ferred her to all others in an eno% mous competition. Women live shel- tered lives: possibly, there is reason for jealousy among men, but If I were a woman. I do not believe I would be jealous of a reasonably well-behaved husband. This may be unfairness: I frequently find I am unfair after I have striven to live as an honest man in thought and action.\ A strange woman lately wrote me a strange letter. At the age of twenty- four she held a position in which she gave satisfaction, and in which there was every prospect of promotion. In defiance of advice from friends, and of her own - judgment, she married. The husband was a palpable third rater, and she divorced him. Again she secured a good position; i again she married a man she might have known was worthless. This time her friends were disgusted, and she has joined the unemployed. One of the strangest things I have encountered in life is the manner in which many women rush into unsuit- able marriages. Everyone understands why men are so crazy about women, but. 1 have never been able to under- stand why women are equally crazy about men. It seems to me that were I young, and a woman, I could consid- er marriage with considerable pa- tience, intelligence and caution. The red lantern signal is usually hung on unsuitable husbands and wives, as it is on dangerous bridges. • • • An old German is reported as say- ing: \When our sons mowed down thousands of French, and won the bat- tle, we shouted and drank beer. When the French killed our sons, they cheered, and drank wine. When my son marched away to fight I stood in the streets of this town and cheered. A letter my son wrote just before he was killed said he had lived in France two years, and tfked the French, and they liked him.\ ... In addition to the unnecessary killing and hate, the war impoverished the world. . . Wouldn't you think anyone could understand the moral of this in considering the next war? • • * % What is the lesson of the moment, the hour, the century, or of all time? I believe it is the dangerous and grow- ing power of politicians, the press and radicals, all representing minori- ties, and the cowardice of the major- ity in refusing to enforce necessary decency. * * * The habit men have of being artifi- cial, over-sentimental, i s very old. As far back as Roman times, SUerins was weary of artificial .things, and wrote that they so bored him he dreaded to go on the streets. In the Roman Forum, when a young man used fine eloquence to make false promises. Si- lerius walked wearily away, and re- tired to his study. The last year of bis life he spent in writing his me- moirs, and In the second volume (page 182) I find this observation: \Writing men have so tired the peo- ple with unnatural things, I have con- cluded I may better please by being: natural and simple in writing my rec- ollections. I may thus at least put down what one man actually thought and experienced during a long life; men have become so untruthful im seeking truth that my method may, indeed, prove to be something new, and better recommend my work.\ This seems to have been a mistaken opinion. Although Silerius wrote with great simplicity and frankness, Marcos Aurelius, a contemporary writing with so much labor and obscurity that crit- ics now say he is not understandable, is more popular. The natural use of writing would seem to be to truthfully record credits and debits, in books of history as well as in account books; but somehow we have decided other- wise. Amos J. Peaslee, New York attor- ney, who has been named to head the three-man industrial appeals board which will act upon all complaints of Inequitable application of NRA codes. You Know Hi* Typo Blinks—It's hard to believe the things he tells. Jinks—Yes, it is easier to believe The people are great readers. Is the general tendency of what we read improving? That it should be Is very Important Old fable writers related Improbable or amusing stories, and, at the bottom of each one, something like this was added: \MoraU Better be safe than sorry.'* Or other maxims advising caution, temperance, industry, honesty, etc. In everything written, between the line* or somewhere elm, there should be re- minders of the principles of old and demonstrated experience. 1
