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1 * ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 1934. NO. 17. News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt's Vacation Trip Ends—NRA Modi- fication and Drouth Relief Taken Up—Von Papen's Hard Task in Austria. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © by Western Newspaper Union. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ended •*• his rather long vacation trip, re- turning to his home in Hyde Park, JNew York. During the remainder of the summer and until congress meets he will spend some time there and in Warm Springs, Georgia, but most of the time he will be in Washing- ton, busy with the na- tion's affairs in his temporary office which has been established In the blue room of the White House. The executive offices are being remodeled and enlarged. One of the first matters to claim the President's attention is tlie modification of NRA. The secret cab- inet committee he appointed to in- quire into the legality and advisability •of continuing and extending the price fixing features of NRA has decided this price fixing should be restricted and gradually abandoned, and there is little doubt that this advice will be followed. Whether or not the fix- ing of prices is legal, It has brought sharp and continuous criticism from Senator Borah and many others which has not been relished -by the New Dealers. On his way from the west coast the President not only saw some of the great public works projects of the Northwest, but also passed through regions that have suffered severely from the drouth. So, he is backing up Ihe government agencies in their work of hurrying vast sums of gov- ernment money to the arid regions to ease the human suffering and also to lessen the chances of another such catastrophe. The public works admin- istration, which had an original ap- propriation of $3,300,000,000, revealed it had spent about $400,000,000 on projects to aid impoverished western iamilies. Emergency relief administration of- ficials announced they had'allotted liuge sums to feed men and women. They also have^pent thousands to <are for starving cattle. Public Works Administrator Har- old L. Ickes, who was on an inspec- tion tour in the drouth area, ordered his forces to expedite all construc- tion projects affecting the dry re- gions. TSJATIONALIZATION of silver, au- -TN thorized by the last congress, was ordered into effect by the President ^This will have little immediate effect on the average citizen, though the move is somewhat inflationary and started prices on the up-grade. Big •debtors and owners of silver mines will benefit, but as the value of the dollar goes down, the holders of se- curities and loans suffer loss. The President's order directs the surrender to the government of all silver bullion and bars within 90 days, the price to be paid being 50.01 cents an ounce. Silver coins and silverware are not included. Under the silver purchase act the treasury is author- ized to value the silver It obtains at $1.29 an ounce and to issue silver cer- tificates on that basis. The government proposes to hold enough silver to make up 25 per cent of the metal backing of the national currency. No one knows how much silver bullion there is in the United States, and it may be aeces» sary to make considerable purchases In China and India. S ECRETARY OF STATE HULL and Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace joined in a statement concerning their efforts to revive America's world trade, explaining that the reciprocal trade agreements to be negotiated with foreign countries will be bene- ficial and not harmful to American agriculture and manufacturing. The statement pointed out, in answer tQ criticism from farm or- ganizations, that farm interests would not be sacrificed to aid other groups. It also said no sacrifice of any major or basic agricultural or manufacturing industry was planned, although Secretary Wallace told re- porters that some harm might be done to a tiny fraction of the producers lor the greater good of all. O NE thousand men and women com- prising the Minneapolis Protec- tive committee telegraphed an appeal to President Roosevelt to protect the constitutional rights now superseded by -martial law In their city. Copies of the nppeal were sent also to Secre- tary Perkins and Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the National Labor Rela- tions board. \We are satisfied,\ they wired, \that an agreement between employers and employees could be reached were it not for the Interference by a small body of cltlsens known to be Commun- ist agitators who are being supported In their agitations by the sympathetic attitude of Gov. Floyd B, Olson.\ At the end of the statement was a sentence interpreted as a request for replacement of the federal mediators* Father Francis J. Haas and E. H. The conciliators were authors of a peace plan which the union accepted with alacrity because it granted a maximum of the demands made be- fore the walkout It was turned down by the employers, but mediation pro- ceeded until the principal point of dif- ference now concerns the rehiring of all the strikers. The Haas-Dunnigan plan makes that blanket provision. The employers do not wish to be forced to take back men who have Communistic sympathies. \The federal conciliators now here are unable to effect a settlement,\ the protective committee told Mr. Roose- velt. \Labor is being, deprived of its earning power; business institutions are suffering substantial losses; tax- payers are being subjected to further burden (through maintenance of the National Guard) and our city and sur- rounding territory are demanding the right to conduct lawfully ordinary business and industrial affairs. \We appeal to you to take imme- diate steps to remedy the situation and send us conciliators who will rec- ognize the needs of all citizens and prevent demonstration of the situation for political purposes.\ Gen. Hugh Johnson's efforts to end the strike of live stock handlers at the Union stockyards In Chicago were successful. The strike was called off and Federal Judge Sullivan resumed his work as mediator to construe the award he made on May 31 as arbitra- tor of a similar strike that took place last November. I N GREEN BAY, WIS., the President delivered what was considered his principal political address of the year. He told his hearers that the New Deal was going ahead on its non- partisan road and that those who sup- port it \do so because it is a square deal and because it is essential to the preservation of security and happi- ness of a free society.\ The President's reference to Wis- consin political alignments was this significant remark: \Your two senators, both old friends of mine, and many others have worked with me in maintaining excel- lent co-operation betwen the execu- tive and legislative branches of the government\ Senator Robert M. LaFoIlette, Re- publican Independent and sponsor of the new state political party, is up for re-election. F. Ryan Duffy, Democrat, Is the other senator from Wisconsin, elected in 1932. F RANZ VON PAPEN, vice chancel- lor of Germany, who was appoint- ed minister to Austria during the ex- citement that followed the assassina- tion of Chancellor Dollfuss, has been ac- cepted by the Aus- trian cabinet after considerable delay. His avowed task Is to restore amicable relations between the two governments, but this will not be easy, Chancellor Sehusch- nigg Is as determined to root out Nazism in Austria as was his predecessor, and at tbe same time the German Nazis are keeping up their press and radio at- tncks on the Austrian government Ii camps around Munich are about 40,000 Austrian Nazi fugitives for whom Von Papen is expected to obtain am- nesty so they may return to their country; but as they have been hoping to march Into Austria under arms to overthrow the government, it Isn't likely Schuschnigg will care to let them return. The cabinet In Vienna Is taking vig- orous action to curb the Nazis, and It was reported that the executive of that party had been ordered dissolved, the members being told to take leaves of absence and to cease activities. Chancellor Hitler is dally solidifying his power In Germany. The latest step is to require all Protestant pastors and church officials to take an oath of fealty to Hitler just as did the Nazi storm troops and members of the reg- ular army. New rules were Imposed by the national synod that make Relchsbishop Mueller the supreme la 1 maker and authority for the church. Between eight and ten thousand po- litical prisoners in concentration camps were given their liberty by an amnesty decree announced by Hitler In memoryLof President Von Hinden burg. A RABS of Algeria, like the Arabs of Palestine, do not love their Jewish neighbors, so they started antl Semitic riots in Constantino and sur- rounding towns In the course of which a great many persons were killed or wounded. Nearly all the casualties were among the Jews. The French military authorities quickly got con- trol of the situation. Constantino i In a wheat growing area and the Arab farmers bad a poor crop this year. The rioting gave them a chance to wipe oat many debts to Jewish ban*- era and shopkeepers. S HIPPING and business interests long hare urged the establishment of \free ports\ or foreign trade zones at many American sea, lake and river ports, and this is now under consid- eration by the government, having been authorized by the last congress. Trade and shipping experts are pre- paring Information on how to apply for grants. Some of the cities that have asked how to set up the trade zones are. New York, Newark, N. J., Providence^ R. L; Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Diego, Calif., Miami, Fla., and Hobo- ken, N. J. Private corporations locat- ed on the Great Lakes also are inter- ested. A barrier would surround the area set off for the trade zone. Into this area, which must be equipped with adequate shipping and warehousing fa- cilities, foreign and domestic merchan- dise could be brought without being subject to customs laws, and stored, broken up, repacked, assembled, dis- tributed, sorted, mixed with other for- eign and domestic goods, and then ex- ported. Or, If desired, the merchan- dise could be placed in American do- mestic commerce upon payment of customs duties. F ROM, now on Communists are not going to have so pleasant a time in the United States, and the spread- ing of their destructive doctrine will not be so easy. Con- gressional investiga- tions Into this matter may not have amount- ed to a great deal, bui several of the country's great or- ganizations have un- dertaken to arouse the people to the dan- ger! that threatens their government and «• et.. „.. th^ national institu- . F. Shannon tionS The Orfler of Elks took cognizance of the Commu- nist threat In its convention in Kan- sas City, and Michael F. Shannon, its newly elected grand exalted ruler, is now making an airplane tour of the country for the purpose of urging ev- ery lodge of the order to carry on the Pro-America\ program in its commu- nity. He will travel 10,000 miles to give what he calls \marching orders\ to the 1,400 Elk lodges. Of the Com- munists in America, Mr. Shannon says: \A vast and formidable organization has been, set up. The United States is now divided into twenty districts, each with its own committee. Each district is divided Into two sections and subsections, with section commit- tees set up in accordance with the res- idential locations of the Communist members. - \Youth organizations, formed to teach not only disrespect, but hate, for American institutions, have appeared everywhere. Organizations under pa- triotic names, but designed to destroy confidence in our government, are meeting nightly. Bureaus of propa- ganda are working secretly.\ The Crusaders, that organisation of young business men that was so influ- ential in bringing about repeal of pro- hibition, has been reorganized and, un- der the leadership of Fred G. Clark, commander in chief, has entered the Tight against the Communists and oth- er groups that seek to overthrow American institutions. Among its na- tional advisers are Aldrich Blake, Oklahoma City; Francis H. Brownell, New York; John W. Davis, New York; Prof. E, W. Kemmerer, Princeton, N. J.; Martin W. Littleton, New York; Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., New York; Charles F. Thwing, Cleveland; James P. Warburg, New York, and Sewell L. Avery and Albert D. Lasker, Chi- cago. The Paul Reveres, a national organ- ization, was established especially to cleanse educational and religious in- stitutions of subversive influences; and the American Vigilante Intelli- gence federation is also actively com- bating Communism. The Department of Americanization of the American Legion Is working in the same cause. A congressional subcommittee, of which- Representative Charles Kramer is chairman, has been investigating Communist activities in southern Cal- ifornia, and also has heard a lot of testimony about the so-called Silver Shirts, an organization with alleged Nazi affiliations and a large member- ship. An intelligence service witness who joined the-Silver Shirts, said mem- bers were armed and that he was of- fered money for stolen government machine guns, rifles and ammunition. He said the declared objective of the organization was to take charge of the United States government, by force if necessary. W HETHER or not Japan obtains naval parity with Great Britain and the United States, It proposes to have a powerful navy. Admiral MIneo Osuml, minister of the navy, submit- ted to the cabinet the largest naval budget in the country's history. It calls for appropriation of about $214,- 416,000 for the coming year. New Items alone total about $90,000,000. In the last budget the diet allowed the navy little more than half of what Is now asked. France has denied Japan her sup- port In any steps toward abrogation of the Washington navy treaty of 1921 by announcing her Intention to adhere to its provisions pending \some change In ,the European situation.\ TJEARTY approval was given by the ** world Baptist congress, in session In Berlin, to a proposal that a plebis- cite be held in 40 countries to deter- mine whether the people want to fight another war. The suggestion was made by Rev. Harold Camp of Oak- land, Calif., who said the Kellogg pact should be made the baste of such a vote. Blue Room the President's Temporary Office Howe About: Our Indignation Simple Writing Nostalgia ©. Belt Syndicate.—WKU Service. On his return from the cruise to Hawaii^President Roosevelt found his executive office moved into the Blue room of the White House, shown above arranged for this purpose. This was because of alterations under way in the executive mansion. Army Engineers Come to the Rescue When three bridges connecting the two halves of Bridgeton, N. J., were swept away In a raging flood, army engineers from Fort Du Pont, Del., came to the rescue and erected a temporary pontoon bridge. The engineers are shown floating the first pontoon for the temporary bridge. The Commerce street span, wrecked by the storm, can be seen in the background. Huey Long's Soldiers on Guard • «... . H Scene in the office of the registrar of Voters in New Orleans, when a machine gun company of the state militia took over the job of guarding the registration rolls for Senator Huey P. Long. The gunners kept their weapons trained on the city hall, across the street, in case Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley should direct the police to stage a sortie. New \Railplane\ Makes Its Debut A demonstration ot a new system of transportation, known as the M RaH- plane,\ was made in Washington. The photograph shows the model. WANTS WALSH'S SEAT James E. Murray, a Butte attorae; won the Democratic nomination foi the United States senate to serve out the remainder of the term of the late Thomas J. Walsh. SEEKS AMERICA'S CUP T. O. M. Sopwith, owner of the E Ush yacht Endeavor, with which will try to capture the famous Amer lea's cup off Newport in September, Cora rUrmi None can cure their harms b? wail Ing them.—^Shakespeare. By ED HOWS A JUDGE Is Philadelphia lately de- *** clared from the bench that ban- dits are bums and parasites who Should be exterminated like rats, as they are rf5t worth the expense of keeping them in penitentiaries. He even went so far as to say that if \members of the American Legion should engage in revolver practice, they would not find the judges in oar courts loath to assist them.\ Everywhere the indignation against racketeers and politicians is ferocious, but the pitiful fact is, nothing is\ be- ing done. Even- this fierce judge did the same old thing: sent the bandits to the penitentiary, to probably be pardoned after a few years more of cpense to decent taxpayers. Irvln Edman recently wrote of \the instincts that masquerade as faiths, and the lusts that parade as ideals.\ . '. . To me this is not only very good writing, but Indicates sense. Ba- nian also wrote: \In these matters (the doctrines of the relativists, the patter of the new physics) I think It is important to be simple; In all the complexity of modern scientific fur- mula, it is the same old sky with the same things beneath it. I believe in- the common world of things as they are about us, the things I touch, see, taste, smell, heap.; in the world that worldings feast and want in.\ • • • I plead for the use of simpler words by writers, and simple forms of ex- pression. There is a writer named Immanuel Kant, admittedly a man of unusual intelligence, yet his sentences are so involved that his name has be- come an epithet: people say a long and involved statement is kant, mean* Ing it is poor argument and poor sense. People of bis own time named their dogs Immanuel Kant Had the man been content to write more simply, his good ideas would have accom- plished more good. • * • I arraign the ugly and unnecessary word nostalgia. It means home-sick- ness, a more expressive and better- looking word. Our dictionary contains many other instances of annoyance and waste of time. I believe I can name from memory a hundred words often used and which I do not quickly know the meaning of in reading, al- though I have looked them up many times, I know the meaning of nos- talgia now, having just referred to the dictionary, but the next time I en- counter it, I shall be annoyed again in my reading. • • • I know a young soldier who served, during the late war, only two months in a military camp near his home. He told me at the time he never had 'more to eat, less to do, or enjoyed himself more. And while he was off soldiering, his wages at home went on. Now, this soldier Is as fanatical and unreasonable about the soldiers' bonus as some preachers were about pro- hibition. (Let me add in parenthesis intended only for dunces that in denouncing this fellow, I intend no lack of respect for those former service men who ac- tually engaged in battles, and were Incapacitated.) • • • \I went to India,\ says a traveler, \with the idea that the British bedev- iled the country, out when I got there realized that the real parasites are not the British, but fourteen million sacred cows, which not only destroy meager crops, but eat food needed by the women and chlldren.The people are unbelievably Ignorant, dirty and poor. It would be a crime against hu- manity and against India's own future for England to withdraw, and let In- dia's three hundred and sixty million people develop into a political and moral breeding ground for world ret- rogression. Its land is naturally very poor;, in addition, wornont, and this handicap has been added to by the people widely accepting a religion worse than constant war during a pe- riod of constant famine and slavery.** • • • The women have various organiza- tions intended to Improve the condi- tion of their sex; a very commendable work, if well attended to. ... I often wonder they do not induce the managers of telephone companies to conduct schools to teach women man- ners and efficiency. I have never known a telephone girl not above the average in these respects; and they are un- trained girls taught in schools conduct- ed by the heads of telephone compa- nies. • • * It seems to me (speaking again of the panic) that every man's other trou- bles have increased, and that tires go flat more frequently on every road la 1934 than in 1020, or any other of the Good Old Days. Old Cornelius Yanderbilt, first of the family to amount to anything, used to say he was as big & rogue as anybody, but practiced honesty because of the profit In it 'Tve associated wit& thieves all my life,\ he said, in eld age, \but never knew one to get along half as well as an honest man.\ . . . The strongest argument for honesty is that it pays; don't let any of the professional sentimentalists make a fool of yon with the story that morality is a noble thing you should suffer martyrdom for i*^— s :^^ --^ ± :.x: i
