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ORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. LI. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y.. THURSDAY, MAY 16. 1935. NO. 4. News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Patman Bonus Bill in Face of Presidential Veto—Amelia Earhart Makes Another Fine Record Flight. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©, Western Newspaper Union. Rep. Patman 0ECAUSE the Patman inflation *•* bonus bill would be easier for the President to veto than the Vinson measure, some of the administration senators joined with the Patman followers to put the former bill through the senate by a vote of 55 to 33. Previously, for some devious reason, the senators put aside the compromise measure offered by Pat Harri- son's committee with the assurance that Mr. Roosevelt would sign it. That the Pres- ident would veto the Patman bill was taken as a certainty and it was be- lieved the inflationists could not gather enough votes to override the veto in the senate, though they had enough in the house. Ptather surprisingly, Senator William <5. McAdo i of California, a former sec- retary of the treasury, advocated the Patman bill, asserting that it was \a mere conjecture\ that the issue of $2,200,000,000 in noninterest bearing notes, or greenbacks, would be infla- tionary. \We have nothing in the United States today but greenbacks,\ he said. •\Is your money redeemable In gold? Is it redeemable in silver? No. It is redeemable in nothing but the honor and good faith of the American people. \What constitutes inflation 5s a matter of conjecture. It is also a mere conjecture that we must have a so-called specie basis. The best proof •of that is that, since going off gold, the dollar is as sound as it ever wa3. \The issuance of $2,000,000,000 in new currency would affect the credit of the United States about as much as if I threw a shovelful of sand Into the •ocean and tried to stop the incoming tide.\ T WO billion dollars of the works relief fund were segregated for immediate distribution by the works allotment division at Its first session. The sum was divided into works classifications as provided by the works relief act, these including road con- struction, grade crossing elimination, rural rehabilitation, rural electrifica- tion, low cost housing and general con- struction. Allotments for specific projects were to be made later, a list of these contemplating expenditure of 3100,000,000 being submitted by Mr. Ickes as approved by the PWA and referred to Frank Walker's division of applications and information. F ROM Mexico City to the Metropoli- tan airport at Newark, N. J., non- stop, 2,100 miles in 14 hours and 22 •minutes. That is the new record set up by Amelia Earhart in her red monoplane. Her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and more than 3,000 other enthusiastic persons were at the airport to welcome her, and she was almost mobbed by the throng. After her start from Mexico City, Mrs. Put- nam was not heard Amelia Earhart from nor repO rted seen for more than six hours. Her course took her straight east at first, high over the mountain peaks between the Mex- ican capital and Tampico. She was cot seen at the oil port, nor was she reported by radio. Observers knew, however, that she expected to be above 10,000 feet as she crossed the shore- line out over the gulf for her 690 mile hop over the water to New Orleans. Passing over New Orleans, she com- municated by radio with the Depart- ment «f Commerce station there, aa<2 then flew swiftly along the airways of American Air Lines and Eastern Air Lines. As she swooped over Hoover airport, Washington, Eugene Vidal, di- rector o* the air commerce bureau, ra- dioed • \Tou have done a splendid job, so come down.\ But Amelia replied, with thanks for the invitation, that she Avas going on through. And tbftt is ivhat she did. G OLD medals of the National Insti- tute of Social Science were award- ed to four American humanitarians at the institute's annual dinner in New York, and no one will say they were not deserved. One wns given Senator Carter Glass of Virginia \in recognition of distin- guished services rendered to humanity as one of the leaders in the planning and creation of the federal reserve banking system, as secretary of the treasury, as United States senator, and »H on/who. through n long life, con- sistently, and unsparingly devoted his abilities'mid energies to public service.\ Dr. Harvey dishing of Boston re- voivcil a medal for his \distinguished .services rendered to humanity as a IO:HUT In surgery and social medicine.\ hr. (Jenrge E. Vlneont was honored for services \as professor of sociology, us president of the University of Mln- ni'soiit. na president of the Rockefeller foundation, as president of the Cluui- tatujMn institution, as one of the lead- ers In the development of community chests In the United States, and as an educator whose life and addresses have been an inspiration toward unselfish public service.\ To Cornelius N. Bliss, former presi- dent of the institute, was presented a medal for his work \'as a director of the Julliard School of Music, as a di- rector of the Metropolitan Opera as- sociation, Inc., as a member of the cen- tral committee of the American Red Cross, as a governor of the New York hospital, as a director of the Milbank Memorial fund, as a trustee of the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, and as a member of the board of managers of the Association for Improving the Con- dition of the Poor.\ /GEORGE N. PEEK, in his capacity ^J of advisor to the President on for- eign trade, has just made public sta- tistics that tend to show the United States is losing its po- sition as the world's chief creditor nation, and makes recommen- dations that are in ac- cord with the growing trend against interna- tionalism in the ad- ministration and in conflict with Secretary Hull's program of re- moving barriers to in- ternational trade by George N. Peek reciproca l trade agree _ ments. Stating that whether or not this country still owes less to other nations than they owe to It appears to depend on the true value of defaulted war debts, Mr. Peek recommends these im- mediate steps: \1. The inauguration of a detailed study of our direct investments abroad and foreigners' direct investments in the United States, to supplement the studies now in progress of capital movements. \2. A review of all national policies based in whole or in part upon our in- ternational creditor status.\ The proposal seems to lead toward high tariffs and a policy of allocating our foreign trade among other nations, as Is done by many of the European countries. Figures compiled by Mr. Peek Indi- cate that the United States is a net International creditor by $16,897,000,- 000, but this includes $10,304,000,000. principal amount of war debts owed by foreign governments, and also for- eign bonds held by private investors in the United States invoiced at their face value, and a pre-depression esti- mate of the value of American branch factories abroad and other direct in- vestments in foreign countries. Mr. Peek strongly infers that a re-estima- tion of these \assets\ will result in such a scaling down that this country will no longer be a creditor nation and need not act as such. F OLLOWING a lively debate th house passed the omnibus banking bill, which rewrites the federal reserve act so as to make a virtual central bank out of the reserve system, with power to manipulate monetary policies for the purpose.of promoting business stabil- ity. The final vote, after various amendments had been rejected, was 271 to 110. In the senate the measure will be strongly combatted, with Senator Car- ter Glass leading the opposition. Glass wrote the banking bill during the Wil- son administration, and he objects to having the system tampered with by Federal Reserve Gov. Marriner S. Eccles. I N THE crash of a transport plane of Transcontinental Western Air near Atlanta, Mo., Senator Bronson M. Cut- ting of l?ew Mexico and four other persons fell to their death. The pilot was unable to land at Kansas City because of a dense fog and his fuel gave out before he could reach an emergency landing field *t Kirksville. Besides Mr. Cutting those killed were Miss Jeanne A. Hillias of Kansas City, Mrs. Wil- liam Kaplan of West Los Angeles, and Har- vey Bolton and K. H. Greeson, pilots, both of Kansas City. Eight passengers were seriously injured. Bronson Cutting, a millionaire of an aristocrntic family, was a radical Re- publican and was one of the outstand- ing members of the senate. He sup- ported Mr. Roosevelt for President In 1U32, but when he came up for re- election last fall he was not given the endorsement of the administration. His victory was coutested by Dennis Chavez and the case is still before the senate elections committee. Mr. Cut ting was born on Long Island ia 1SSS, graduated from Harvard and there after went to New Mexico. In the World ^ir he was an Infantry cap tnin and^asstetant military attache at the American embassy In London. He wus appointed to the senate In 1027 to till a vacancy and was elected next year to a six year term. P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT strongly resented the criticism of his New Deal policies by the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, and re- torted by calling to the White House Secretary Roper's business planning and advisory council for an endorse- ment of NRA extension and the social securities program. Then to the news- paper correspondents Mr. Roosevelt scored the action of the chamber, as- serting that in too many cases so-called business organizations misrepresent the business men for whom they claim to speak, and that he did not believe a single speech made at the chamber's meeting contained any mention of the human side of the picture. He de- clared the business organizations were not indicative of the mass belief and that he would go along with the great bulk of the people. Several members of the business ad- visory council were also members Of the Chamber of Commerce, and it is said they resented the President's ac- tion in seemingly using them to offset the attack by the chamber. A LL the vast British empire cele- brated the silver jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary—the twen- ty-fifth anniversary of their accession —and for three months there will be a contin- uous series of fetes in the United Kingdom and all the dominions and dependencies. Lon- don, of course, was the scene of the chief cele- bration on the open- ing day, and the me- tropolis was thronged with visitors. Hotels and rooming houses were overcrowded and the king ordered that Hyde Park be kept open so some of the overflow thousands could sleep there. There were seven state processions the first day. The first was that of the speaker of the house of commons, Capt Edward A. Fitz Roy, with five ancient gilded coaches; the second, that of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, with six coaches in which rode the do- minion prime ministers. Then came a two-coach procession of Lord High Chancellor Sankey, and one of the lord mayor of London, Sir Stephen Killik. The fifth procession was that of the duke of York, from Buckingham pal- ace, two carriages with a captain's escort of the magnificently appareled royal horse guards. The prince of Wales, as heir to the throne, came sixth. He had with him a captain's escort of the Life Guards and two carriages, in the first of which he rode with Queen Maud of Norway and his brother, the duke of Glouces- ter, like fcim, a bachelor. Finally, in the most gorgeous parade of all, came George and Mary, and as their ornate coach, drawn by the fa- mous grays, passed, the voices of all loyal Britishers rose in a roar of \God bless the king and queen.\ The rulers, accompanied by all the other notables, went to St Paul's cathedral to give public thanks to God, T HE senate committee named to de- vise a means of curbing such at- tacks on the President as are fre- quently made -by Huey Long on the floor of the senate has not yet reported, bui it is said Senator Ben- nett Champ Clark of Missouri has figured out how it can be done. Clark Is the upper chamber's chief expert on parliamen- tary procedure anc for four years be wai parliamentarian of the lower house. Hi: plan is to rewrite rule 19 of the senate rules to include the President and so pro- tect him from unwarranted attack: and slanders. That rule reads a present: \No senator In debate shall, direct- ly or indirectly, by any form of words Impute to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive un- worthy or unbecoming a senator.\ One of Long's favorite ways o launching his diatribes is to rise to i question of personal privilege, am Clark proposes that In this respect th< senate rules be changed to conform with those of the house. In that body when a member feels he has been ag- grieved he must explain exactly hoi he has been injured before he is per- mitted to speak. The speaker decides whether or not his injury Is justified. Senator Glass of Virginia has failed at various times to silence the \King- fish\ and he, too, has a plan he thinks might help accomplish that end. H< recommends a requirement that amendments offered to an appropria- tion bill be germane. Such a require- ment would affect other senators, but Glass' move admittedly is directec against Long. A FFIRMING a decision of the S preme court of the District of Co- lumbia, the United States Supreme court held unconstitutional the railroad retirement act, ruling that many 01 its provisions are invalid. The act pro- vided for a system of old age pensions for all railroad workers. The decision was read by Justice Owen J. Roberts. It condemned many provisions of th© law as \arbitrary placing an undue burden on the railroads and having n< relation to safety and efficiency in tin operation of the railways. The act was passed by the Seventy fourth congress just before it closet and had the tacit approval of the ne\ administration, although Proslden Roosevelt said he believed It woul have to bo ju>rftvted oy juiiorvdimm! It set \ip « compulsory pension pinr roqiiirim; contribution* by hni|> the rat riurs and the bcnelited cuiploxoes. Site of Germany's New Naval Base Dental Hygiene 88 The Road to Health By DR. R. ALLEN GRIFFITH DIET, TEETH, EXERCISE Building Another Helgoland A powerful naval and airplane baso is being built by Germany on the North [, according to the London Daily Herald. Details of the alleged German fortifications, said to be on the Island Sylt in the North sea, were cred- ited by the Herald to the Pariser Tage- blatt, a German refugees' publication The island is described as a \second Helgoland\ (former German naval ise) having camouflaged fortresses ith five-foot thick walls and under- ground hangars for planes. The pho- ograph above shows a view on the Island of Sylt. These rumors of war are not tending :o quiet the tense European situation. Mussolini of Italy has called an ad- ditional 100,000 soldiers to the colors,' and that country now has nearly 1,000,- 000 men under arms. Although II Duce explains this move by new de- velopments in Abyssinia, others be- ieve he is only preparing for possible European trouble. Statesmen seeking some way of averting war are negotiating for a five- power pact, in which Germany and Bel- gium will be asked to join Italy, France and Britain. British chieftains are perturbed over the armament race, and particularly Germany's submarine building. Winning Fire Chief and His Trophy Fire Chief E. E. Cureton of Owensboro, Ky., photographed with the placque awarded him for winning the United States fire waste contest in fire prevention. The contest was limited to cities with population between 10,000 and 50,000 Receives Patent No. 2,000,000 Santa Claus Gets New Postmaster Scene in the office of the United States commissioner of patents, Conway P. Coe, as he handed to Joseph Ledwinka of the Edward G. Budd company of Philadelphia patent No. 2,000,000 of the present series, which began in 1S36. The patent is for an improvement in pneumatic tires for railway cars and is the two hundred forty-eighth issued to Mr. Ledwinka. \/[OST people feel that the condi- *• •* tion of their own mouths and the condition of their chlldren'3 mouths Is their own affair. We should get away, from this selfish, erroneous and dangerous attitude. With every breath from an unclean mouth mil- lions of pathogenic micro-organisms easily capable of Inoculating another person-with a disease-producing germ are expelled frcm one to ten feet To the healthy Individual It really matters little how many pathogenic varieties of micro-organisms there iay be, or hov prevalent they are, because man possesses a natural im- munity to infections and is normally immune. If this were not true, man would have been exterminated from the earth leng ago by the myriads of microscopic foes always surrounding him. But just let the Individual reduce his natural bodily resistance below a certain point, through fatigue, overeating, loss o£^ sleep, worry, etc., and \some little bug will get you? soon. The chief concern, therefore, of both the individual and society at large should be to maintain this nat- ural immunity instead of trying to dis- cover cures or remedies for natural conditions that are sure to follow a lowering of the natural resistance to disease. Every disease germ that en- ters the human system must enter through the mouth, nose or a break in the skin (with the exception of vener- eal diseases), and it is estimated that 90 per cent of all disease enters through the mouth and incubates in the mouth. Should not a clean, healthy mouth then be the first consideration in the prevention of disease? During the present generation the physician has proved that there is a direct connection between unclean mouths and the rapid increase In kid- ney, heart and circulatory diseases, formerly attributed to deranged meta- bolism, but now known to be due to a constitutional poisoning of the system from bacteria and their toxins. Sanitation and hygiene can change the mouth from one of the most in- fected and unhygienic parts of the body to one that is wholesome, disease- free and clean, and eliminate it as a plague spot for the entire system. A clean mouth will prevent disease. A suitable diet will insure a well nourished organism. Exercise will in- sure proper elimination. These three things will insure health, happiness and longevity. * • * MALNUTRITION Oscar Phillips, forty years of age, has been appointed postmaster of the town of Santa Claus, Ind. He succeeds the late James F. Martin, who became world famous in the office. Scenes and Persons in the Current News l—Alvin M. Owsley of Texas, formeivjjational commander of the American Legion, who was appointed American minister to the Irish Free State. 2—Finish of the Keutueky derby, which was won by Omaha. 3—Telephone and tele- graph service In the region about St Paul, Minn., Crippled by a disastrous sleet storm. M ANY articles have recently ap- peared in the newspapers in re- gard to malnutrition in school children. Insufficient food is generally supposed to be the only cause. Just at present the depression is blamed. But this con- dition has existed for many years. Too little food or improper food is of the utmost importance, not only to the children, as children, but for their adult life as welL Several years ago the American Open Air School Journal said that of 548,000 school children examined in fifteen cities in the United States, about 4,000 were undernourished. It would seem that the various school boards or state governments, as a matter of political economy, as well as human mercy, would find some means to supply ade* quate food to growing children. How can a child possibly be well nourished, no matter what quantity or quality of the food, if it is mixed with a fetid, decaying mass of food from cavities in the teeth with its millions of germs of putrefaction and pus germs from abscessed teeth? This constant drain of poisons into the intestinal tract causes stomach and Intestinal troubles. Bacterial products are ab- sorbed into the system and produce i fevers, eye-strain, headaches, anemia, j malaise, and constipation. j The poisons from the mouth are in- ! sidious and slow in their action. Many | can, and do withstand them for years, if the powers of resistance are high, but in time these poisons are sure to destroy a good digestion and under- mine the system. A child cannot be expected to devel- op into a healthy adult with a strong mind if it is deprived of efficient means of chewing its food properly, or if the food must pass through an infected, uncared-for mouth. Is it any wonder that such children are sickly and lack- ing in strength? Is it any wonder that they are not bright and intelligent and many times figure in the mentally de- ficient classes in school? Where, but in the unclean mouth i3 found the germs of spinal meningitis, measles, diphtheria, and scarlet fever, ready to set up their specific diseases as soon as the resistance is lowered? These unfortunates are also a menace to the health of other children because of their susceptibility to infectious dis- ease. Taking, then, this specific knowledge as to the deleterious effect of a dis- eased mouth and malnutrition upon the child, school, state and nation into con* sideration, it becomes a great socio- logical problem that should appeal to all of those interested in child welfare. The problem of nutrition will be solved within the first three inches of th% alimentary canal. ©, Western Nov. r -.; .: r .-a.
