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ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1934. NO. 20. CURRENT EVENTS SENATOR T. D» SCHALL'S HARSH LANGUAGE TO PRESIDENT- TEXTILE STRIKE ORDERED. •Senator Schall By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©. Western Newspaper Union. OENATOR THOMAS D. SCHALL of *^ Minnesota, Republican, engaged In an acrimonious controversy with President Ropsevelt concerning the former's assertion that the administration Is seeking to curb the press, and the blind senator used language that was so disre- spectful to the Chief Executive that even Mr. RoosevelTs sever- est critics could not approve of it. The President had asked Mr. Schall for the \facts\ on which hp based his recent assertion that plans are under consideration for •\a national press service to take the place of the Associated Press, the Hearst News service and the Unit- «d Press.\ This service, Mr. Schall said, would \have exclusive use of all government news and be In a position to give its service only to those newspapers loyal to the Roose- relt dictatorship.\ \Once these facts are in my hands,** said Mr. Roosevelt, \they will receive Immediate attention in order to make .impossible the things you say will be <lone, because I am just as much op- posed to them as you are.\ The senator immediately sent to the President and made public a 650 word letter in which he said in, part: *'You ask me for 'information' con- cerning what you yourself have done. -Are you attempting to secure the facts so that you may be in a position to re- lute yourself? \Your telegram to me bears out the suggestion of the constant effort to mislead and fool the public Your de- «ire to make yourself appear before the people of the United States as cham- pion of a free press may be as insin- cere as your promises to thre people^ •when you accepted the Democratic nomination at Chicago with the state- ment that you were for their platform 100 per cent. \To date you have not kept one of the covenants you pledged the peo- ple at that time. Let me recall your testy anger at your disappointment in keeping out of the press code the ex- pression of a free press.\ Schall went on to cite what he •called \specific evidence\ of an inten- tion by the President to fprce a cen- sorship of the press so that \your act3 And the acts of your Communistic bureaucrats might be hidden from pub- lic gaze.\ Mr. Roosevelt sent the senator an answer sharply rebuking him for his \\vituperative\ letter \which gives no facts and does not answer my simple request.\ In conclusion he said: \The Incident is closed.\ Schall retorted in somewhat milder language that he as a representative of the people could not let the affair rest, and reiterated his charges of press censorship in the government department's. F RANCIS J. GORMAN, head of the strike committee of the United Tex- tile Workers, sent to the- se'ctiona leaders the secret instructions for a /general walk-out in the cotton textile Industry on September 4. The ordei affects approximately 500,000 cotton mill workers; and about 300,000 more will go on strike then or soon aftei In the silk, rayon and woolen mills. \I am fully convinced,\ Qorman tol< reporters, \that the strike not only -will materialize but will be success- ful.\ The administration, however, stil toped that the strike could be avert- ed through the efforts of the nationa: labor relations board headed by Lloy< Garrison. The union leaders havi made it plain that they expect thi strike will be indirectly flnancedspy the government through the relief or- ganizations. They admit that the! unions have not sufficient funds t< carry the workers through the pros- pective period of idleness. There are reports that the cotton mill owners are not especially eagei to have the walkout prevented, since their surplus of manufactured goods is still large. H ARRY HOPKINS, administrate of federal emergency relief, re- turned from his trip through England, France, Germany, Austria and Italy which he said had given him manj new Ideas on work, relief, housing anc unemployment insurance. From these Ideas he evolved a plan for \perma nent relief for all and unemploymem for none,\ and this he laid before Pres- ident Roosevelt He did not mak< public the details, but indicated th plan contemplates public works on Wgger scale and unemployment Insu ance based on an American system that will not go bankrupt as did thr European reserves. M R. ROOSEVELT'S executive con* mlttee submitted, through 1 aecretary, Donald Rlchberg, Its flr report on the accomplishments of th administration. After citing figures t show the extent of business Improvr went the report added: \The coincidence of business I proveraent with the NBA codlficatlo.. and the obvious, direct exacts of NRA preventing destructive price cutting, stabilizing business operations, in mprovlng the total purchasing power ' providing Increased employment [thout reduction of compensation, ind In the Increase of prices from loss jvels to profit levels, demonstrate the •minant influence of the NBA in this idustrial advance.\ - The council estimated that 'total ges in manufacturing Industries in- »ased from $96,000,000 a week in une, 1933, to $132,000,000 a week in une, 1934, or 37.5 per cent. When tis increase of 37.5 per cent is com- ired with an increased living cost of .6 per cent,\ the report said, \there •emains despite increased cost of liv- ig a net increase of 25 per cent in the total purchasing power of manu- 'acturing wage earners.\ The aver- tge increase of per capita weekly irnings was found to be only 8.5 per mt. f OTTON garment code amendments reducing the working hours and giving workers a wage increase have been signed by the President. The mendments, which affect plants In 42 states, are of far-reaching importance. Sidney Hiilman, labor advisory ioard member and Amalgamated nothing union head, termed signing if the order \the most far-reaching love NRA has yet made to increase smployment.\ It was hoped that this >rder would avert the threatened itrike of the garment workers. R ETURNING from his swift trip to attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey, he President went directly back to Washington Instead of going to his Hyde Park home. This change in plan r as due, it was said, to the develop- ment of a bitter dispute between Gen. Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Don- Id Richberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief in- [ustrial adviser, and Secretary of La- bor Perkins on the other, over the new structure to be given the NRA. The issue, it was disclosed, is wheth 1 there shall be a board of control In authoritative management of the NRA or a board which shall be more dvisory in power, leaving the real control still in the hands of the ad- ministrator and his deputies. It was jxpected Mr. Roosevelt would take :ommand of the situation and deter- mine definitely what shall be done 1th the recovery administration. General Johnson has said that, at the request <ot the President, he will remain wiiluihe NRA after its reor- ganization, and presumably he will be rhairman of the board. PEAKER RAINEY'S death will re- suit in a spirited contest among a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him. First in the line of suc- cession, so to speak, is Representative Jos- eph W. Byrns of Ten- nessee, who has been serving as- majority floor leader and who is head of the Demo- cratic national* con- gressional committee. President Roosevelt is going to take no part in the race, but the more liberal of the New Dealers are known to favor Sam Rayburn of Texas. Well- Informed ob- servers believe Byrns will be elected speaker and Rayburn floor leader. Other aspirants for the speakership are John E. Rankin, of Mississippi, ho has announced his candidacy William B. Bankhead of Alabama, and John J. O'Connor of New York. Mr. Byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his election to the Sixty-first congress. His work as floor leader, in conjunction with Rainey's rule as speaker, was ljot es- pecially pleasing to the New Dealer! for some months during the last ses- sion, but before adjournment most oJ the misunderstandings were cleared up. In any case, the administration seldom interferes in the selection of the leaders of congress, not wishing to incur the enmity of powerful mem- bers of the party.\ O RGANIZED labor scored a victor; over Recovery Administrato Johnson when the national labor rela- tions board ordered John Donovan, former president of the NRA union, dismissed by Johnson for \Inefflcien cy,\ reinstated to his position with the labor advisory board. •\Che agencies which are admlnl ter'ng the law should in their owi dealings uphold its purposes,\ the board said in its decision, giving ve\led reproof to Johnson for what i implied was a violation of section 7. of the NRA. With rather bad grace the NRA a< cepted the rebuke and permitted Don- ovan to return to his job. Johnsoi himself had nothing to sny about but Dr. Gttstav Peck, Donovan's im mediate superior, issued a statement In which he sniffed at the board's de- cision and warned Donovan that hr would have to \toe the mark.\ Soon aft<?r this the NRA announcec that it does not regard Itself a: obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle I: cases where the national labor rela- tions board has found companies guilty of violation of section 7A, o the national industrial recovery a and of subsequent failure to obey th< imttructlons of the board. The labor board has recommended withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to thi NKA compliance board in all cases where companies nave disobeyed if Instruction* to reinstate discharged employees. The decision by the NRA will remove teeth from decisions br the board, since it may nojw heai canes, make decisions, and find thai no penalties are inflicted for disobey, ing Its orders. CHANCELLOR HITLER of Ger- many, speaking at Fortress Ehren- litstein, held out the hand of friend- ilp to France, offering peaceful co- deration after the settlement of the iar problem which, he said, was \the ast territorial difference separating Sermany and France.\ He gave elo- [uent expression to Germany's alleged leslre for peace and reconciliation. The \Chancellor predicted the Saai r ould be restored to Germany by the plebiscite that is to be held on Janu- iry 13. In this he may be deceivlnV imself, for recent dispatches say a loclalist leader named Braun has ob- ined the pledges of 70,000 Saar resi- tents to vote against the return of the gion to Germany. T WO prominent Democrats, two Re- publicans almost equally prominent, tnd one leading industrialist, all ol hem of conservative tendencies, have united to organize the American Libertj league dedicated to a war on radicalism In the United States The five founders of the league are: AI fred E. Smith, Demo c r a t i c Presidential candidate in 1928, John W. Davis, Dem ocratic Presidential candidate in 1924, Nathan L. Miller, Re- publican ex-governor if New York; James W. Wadsworth, republican congressman from New ork, former senator and Presidential sossibility for 1936; and Irenee Du 'ont, manufacturer, who supported niith in 1928 and Roosevelt In 1932. They believe the league membership ill grow into the millions and that It ill become an important element in :he national life. For president of the organization the founders selected Jouett Shouse, for- ier chairman of the Democratic na- ional committee and president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment until repeal was accom- lished. In a statement Mr. Shouse set for the purposes of the league is follows: \It is a nonpartisan organization, ? oraied, as stated in its charter, 'to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and to gather nd disseminate information that (1) pill teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form >f government, and (2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and jrotect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire proper- :y, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when ao- quired.'\ To interviewers Mr. Shouse declared :he league was not anti-Roosevelt, bu It seemed clear that it will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the New Deal and the radical professors of the brain trust. He said he had visited the President and informed him fully of the purposes of the league, but he would not tell what Mr. Roose- velt's reaction had been. L IEUT. COL. MARIO HERNANDEZ organized a plot to overthrow th- government of President Mendieta ol Cuba and establish a military dictator- ship, but the authorities got wind o: it and frustrated the conspiracy, in which a considerable part of the arm; was involved. CoL Fulgencio Batista, head ot the army, said that Majo Benitez and some soldiers were sen to arrest Hernandez and that eigh men of the detachment were killed. Hernandez tried to shoot Benitez bui was himself shot in the head and neck. The official report said Hernandez WJ being rushed toward Havana in an automobile and that the car upset, the prisoner being killed, though the oth- ers in the car were uninjured. Maj. Angel Echevarria, commandant of Fourth infantry at Camp Columbia, and Capt. Augustin Erlce, chief of tb( signal corps, conspirators with Her nandez. were captured later and summary court martial sentenced them to death. Four thousand troops In Pinar Rio are confined to.barracks, unde arrest, and a thorough reorganizatio of the entire high command of th< Cuban army is in full swing. Abou 200 civilians have also been arrestec as parties to the conspiracy, chargec with carrying messages to other milf tary plotters in Matanzas and Cama- guey provinces. CMGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens ar *-• now under arrest in Mauchukuo charged with plotting against Mai chuktio and Japan and sabotagin Japanese military trains. The Russia government, through Acting Consu General Rayvid at Harbin, hns pre sented to the foreign office of Mar chukuo a demand for an explanatio of the arrests and insists on prom measures for the release of th prisoners. , \The arrests were-made withou documents, accompanied by searchi of the apartments and ofliee of Sovl. employees of the Chinese Eastern rai way which have not been explained, Rayvid said. The Japanese allege that some the prisoners confessed to an atta. on the Japanese military intelligent office at Suifenho fPogranichnaya) I. sending Manchurlan and Corean com munlsts into the territory, to wreck Ing trains carrying Japanese troops and munitions toward the frontier and to creating general disturbance! along the eastern line. . * Probably before long will come t... news that the Japanese have seize*, the Chinese Eastern railway, and tha may very .veil result in war ber Japan and Russia. Scenes and Persons in the Current News Howe About: Protection for All Destroyed Illusions Coal Oil Johnny ©, Bell Syadtc&tfc*—WNU Servlea. 1—First-class cadets from West Point getting firing practice with six-inch coast defense rifles at FortresL Monroe, Virginia. 2—Pickets surrounding the American Aluminum company plant at Alcoa, Tenn., with temporary shelters prepared for a long siege. 3—Lowering the Stars and Stripes at the marine barracks at Cape Haitien, as ;he American forces finally evacuated Haiti. Alcatraz Island, Capone's New Residence View of Alcatraz island in San Francisco bay, the new federal prison for incorrigibles, to which AI Capone, erstwhile public enemy No. 1, and other convicts have been transferred from the Atlanta penitentiary. SUMMONED BY A KING Slender fingers of this San Diego woman surgeon, wielding a tiny knife with watch spring precision, may save the eyesight of tlie king of Siam. Half- way around the world has come a plea from the monarch to retain Dr. May Turner Riach for the operation which Is to be performed in New York. Doc- tor Riach is the wife of a retired Brit- ish army surgeon. HELEN WINS AGAIN Helen Jacobs of California reassert- ed her supremacy in tennis by win- ning the women's national singles tournament ai Forest Hills, N. Y. The World'. Highway. The United States has a third of all the nine millions of miles of highways in the world. According to the Depart- ment of Commerce, Russia, the second place country, has only half as many. There are 7,171,831 miles of dirt and gravel roads In the world, 637,515 miles of macadam, 135413 miles of concrete, and 19,251 miles of block stone, wood, asphalt and brick. Largest OrcUftfcac* Surrmj Map The largest ordnance survey map contains 51,500 Sections and shows ev- ery house, building, fence, lamp-post, fire plug, and isolated tree in every city, town, village, and farm in Eng- land, Scotland and Wales.—London Tit-Bits. Develops Paralysis Vaccine Dr. John A. Kolmer, professor of medicine at Temple university, director of the research institute of cutaneous medicine of Philadelphia, shown here at work in his laboratory, Is credited with the discovery of a vaccine that it is believed will produce immunity from iafantile paralysis. After years of exhaustive experimentation with animals, Doctor Kolmer injected his vac- cine into himself and a young woman assistant, Miss Anna M. Rule. Boone Bicentennial Half Dollar The obverse and reverse sides of the model of the Daniel Boone bicen- tennial half-dollar, as designed by Augustus Lukeman, following the authori cation by congress for the manufacture of 600,000 of the pieces. The monej from the sale of the coins will go to the Daniel Boone bicentennial commlssio' of Kentucky which w;ill acquire four shrines to constitute the pioneer's ni° tiooal monument. ''Andrew's Geyter\ An artificial fountain known as \An- drew's geyser,\ which shoots a stream of water about 250 feet high, can be seen at seventeen different places from trains climbing the Blue Ridge moun- tains .between Old Fort, N. C, and Rldgecrest, N. a Meteor Destroys • Dwelling A meteor fell In broad daylight an< struck and burned a house in the vil lage of Rinconada, Spain. It is the only case known in history where - meteor has hit and destroyed a dwel. Ing, though there are eight or ten oth tr instances of their striking oo\wea» By ED HOWE T AM a man of peace, but, when the * provocation is sufficient, believe in a.fight; even in shooting. Robberies of banks hare become a» common that in ma'ny towns alarm •ystems btve been installed to sum- mon, on occasion, citizens with arm* in their hands. I am cheered frequent- ly of late by hearing of bank robbers being shot down In the streets. It is not for the greatest good of the greatest number that an armed loafer, with murder in his heart, should de- •:• m and money belonging to Industrious citizens. The majority of men donot approve of such methods, therefore are not only within their rights in stopping such outlawry, but are to be highly commended. An occasional man lying dead In the street, if discovered in vi- olence, is as fine an exhibition of mor- ality as assisting the unfortunate. I believe congress has violently as- saulted the rights of conservative citi- zens who represent the majority. Our country, our homes, our places of busi- ness, are as clearly entitled to protec- tion as banks. Measures sufficiently vigorous to be effective should be re- •rted to in protecting them. • * * A writer in a Baltimore paper says ie trouble with Americans now is, hey are suffering from the destruction their old illusion of superiority and [fallibility. Having been blown com- etely out of our serene confidence i at one of us eonld lick thirty-seven renchmen, It was Inevitable that we ihould begin to doubt that we can lick my Frenchman at all. We have been suddenly and frightfully convinced .. t we are no better than so many oreigners, whereas, for a hundred rears, we have been assuring our- selves that foreigners are low and 'eeble fellows. What wonder, then, that we have fallen far into the lumps? Americans were originally in posses- ion of a virgin continent which they exploited with unprecedented speed, nd making many mistakes On the way. The resultant colossal wealth taturally gave us the Impression that )ur business acumen was prodigious. Iverything conspired to maintain us in the opinion that the American Is n all respects the most potent man who walks the earth. Then came the erash of matter and * he wrecl; of worlds in 1929. Sudden- ly it was revealed to us that some of lie most awe-inspiring figures in the American) business world were in re- ility appalling chumps; that many po- itical demigods really knew no more tbout statecraft than the average bar- ber does about geometry, and that there is, with possible exceptions that may be counted on the fingers of one Land, not a really competent interna- ;ional banker in Wall Street The country swarms .with smart young salesmen, but the wise old heads in the business world are few in number, and far, ind*ed, from being in control. Naturally; i«r first reaction was a stunned bewilderment that swiftly « passed Into paralyzing fear, and every- body bawling absurdly for help. * • * No figure in history has impressed me more than a man called Coal Oil Johnny. He was a fool fellow living In average American fashion in Penn- sylvania. Oil was found on a piece of wornout kind he had fallen heir to. Taxes had not been ,paid in years, but the final limit had not been reached, amd redemption was possible. The oil discovery made Johnny rich, and he at once moved to New York, where he became the most reckless spender the world had up to that time known. Because of his unexampled folly, he became one of the world's most famous men. One morning he awoke to find him- self stripped, forsaken and forgotten, except that we say now he was the greatest fool in all history. I don't know about that Have not many millions been equally foolish all over the world in the past dozen years? The men who loaned billions abroad in the first years of the war: was even Coal Oil Johnny equally reckless or foolish? Look at the appropriation! of congress in the past dozen years: were the financial operations of Coal Oil Johnny worse? Instead of noble monuments to Wil- son, Harding, Hoover, Borah, Norris, Brookhart, or the La Follette boy, 1 think there should be erected monu- ments of a disheveled, dissipated, care- less man, and labeled: \A Typical American: Hon. Coal Oil Johnny, of Pennsylvania. Remember what a fool he was, and try to be wiser.\ • * * I have 'ong observed that when I have behaved reasonably well yester- day, it is easier to behave reasonably well today. If I neglect to perform a natural duty today, it Is doubly trou- blesome tomorrow. • • • In the long contest between poor and rich men, the rich call fewest hard names. Whoever heard the rich speak ill of the poor? Yet the rich might throw rocks, if they desired; the poor actually have many bad habits. . . . When we argue we speak grandly of the principle of the thing we light about, and seem to have decided the under dog has the most principle on hia side. . . . The rich are great cowards. As a poor man I have accuted many ich men ot strutting offensively when actually they were sneaking through life too humbly. I
