BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Rogers Highway
Our Policy? Here ll Is
Why Go to Town? !
To Discourage Vice
From Tusla. < ?kla.. in which state
Will Rogers was born, J. L>. Underwood
telegraphs
a suggesting as "the
highest tribute and
a lasting memorial
to Will Rogers."
that Highway Gti.
which runs from
*logers* new home
in California to his
old home at Clare.nnre.
Ok la., be extended
on to New
York, and the whole
road named "Will
Rogers Highway."
If every American
highway with
Arthor llri.b.n. frj,.nU? of Will UoSers
living on both sides from one end
there would be many "Will Rogers"
highways.
Thus run the headlines:
"ITALY BARS Al.L PEACE TALK."
"BRITAIN WEIGHS SANCTIONS.
WANTS TO KNOW OUR POLICY."
If she wants to know the policy of
00 ont of a 100 ordinary Americans,
and 100 per cent of all common sense
Americans, It would he this:
To mind our own business: let European
nations, alternately murdering
each other and robbing inferior nations.
attend to their business, in their
way.
Our policy now. with Italy swallowing
Ethiopia, should be exactly what
it was when our British friends were
busy swallowing the lands of the Boers,
absorbing that country with its valuable
gold and diamond mines. We did
nothing then. Why should we invent
a special policy for Mussolini now?
France and England "fear Mussolini
may Involve three continents in the
Ethiopian war." Has Europe heard of
the New England farmer who said:
"I'm on my way to town to get drunk,
and Lord, how 1 dread it'" He need
not have gone to town. European nations
need not he dragged into a tricontinental
war if they don't want to
he dragged.
A very old poker player of the New
York Press club, when he "raised the
pot." remarked usually: "The only
way to discourage vice is to make it
expensive." That Idea seems to he
working in Germany. Doctor Schacht.
head of the great German bank, leading
financier of the Reich, warns Germany
that Nazi individuals indulging
themselves in the pleasure of treating
defenseless Jews brutally, are endangering
German's prosperity. Such wanton
brutality constitutes a great menace
to German trade everywhere, according
to Doctor Schacht, who knows.
Republicans report greatly increased
demand for the nomination of Senator
Borah, since the announcement that, j
if nominated, he will run. This will ;
be mournful news for some Republican
corporation-best mir.ds. for
whether they have to be "lashed with
scorpions." or with something else,
would make little difference to some of
tnem who consider Senator Rorah distinctly
in the "scorpion" class.
An old gentleman of eighty-one
strolled into a New York police station,
remarking: "I have just walked
from Kansas City and shall walk back
again tonight." lie was removed to a
psychopathic ward. If he had substituted
the verb "fly" for "walk." the
police would not have disturbed him,
for he could have flown in from Kansas
City during the day very easily and
flown back again at night If 25
years ago he had said, "I just flew In
from Kansas City," he would have
been sent to the dangerous ward.
So there Is progress.
At Sverdlovsk, Russian government
engineers, digging sewers under the
city, find gold ore that Indicates a
rich gold field underlying the town.
The government owns practically all i
the city, and can easily take rhe rest,
and a further Increase in Russia's j
gold production, already more than
three times as great as that of the '
United States, may be expected.
Physicians at Sc. Vincent's hospital
in New York report the extraordinary
case of a baby, that lived for 27 days,
appearing almost normal but possessing
no brain.
Disgruntled "best minds" will tell
you there are "babies" In Washington,
some of them full-fledged professors,
that have lived longer than 27 days
"without any brain."
C Kins restttrea 8yndlc?t?. la*.
WNtI Service
a
The Cherokee Scout,
GlSlrf
IIMg
By Edward^
Mussolini Won't Give Up
His Ethiopian Adventure
\ f 1'SSOLIM is determined to con1
quer Ethiopia, and all Europe Is
trembling. II duce evidently feels that
his personal prestige is at stake, and
t? him that means the
-* continuation of the
jt > .Fascist regime. An[
thouy Eden and Pierre
l.aval offered Italy
/ W what would amount
/V to a mandate over
v Halle Selassie's realm,
bu? that was not
enough, so the trl- ,
power conference In
Paris was declared ad.,
. . * journed. The friend- .
Baron Aloisi . .
ship between I- ranee ,
and Italy must he ruptured. Great Ilrit- |
ain will insist on action by the league
of Nations council when it meets Sep- ,
tern her 4. There is no reason to believe ,
that the council will do more than it
did in the case of Japan's seizure of
Manchuria, but it seemingly will be |
forced to denounce Italy's action, and
that would he enough to induce Mussolini
to withdraw his country from
lire league. ir ancj when Italy denes ,
the league, tliat pretentious hotly,
previously defied successfully by Japan
and Germany, will amount to little.
No wonder tin* statesmen of Europe 1
are jittery. ]
One liiu'li French official was quoted
as saying that Eurtq>e "faces a crisis
like that of It'll." ind he admitted
that "France mils i >"gn herself to ,
losing Italy's friendship." Others in j
I'aris dot-la red that France is now solidly
with England.
After IJaron Compel Alolsl had submitted
the Anglo-French proposition to
Mussolini and had received the dtice*s j
reply, tie told Eden and Laval that his i
master would he satisfied with nothing j
less than "annexation of Ethiopia in i
whole or in part." Laval was furious '
and directly accused Musso ini of
breaking a personal promise made to '
him when he visited Rome. Eden j
abruptly brought the conference to a f
close. j
In Addis Ababa the high priests of
Ethiopia conducted a solemn service,
in the presence of the emperor, praying
for liberty and for deliverance from
war with Italy. The head of the church
said: "God will confound our enenics,
will break their hearts and shatter their
staves in their hands." And in every
church In the threatened country the
natives gathered and repeated these
prayers. Rut in Italy Renito Mussolini
was telling his lighting men, as they
departed for Africa, to disregard everything
but their duty to make war.
Said he:
"We are going forward until we
achieve a Fascist empire. I know /ou
will do your duty with iron discip.ine
and will not hesitate to make sacrifices
until all our goals have been accomplished.'*
Will Rogers arid Wiley Post
Brought Home for Burial 1
T17TLL ROGERS and Wiley Lost. 1
* * crushed to death in Alaska when
fl.olf. r\l nnn ? * " - *
...v.. mi iiul tar iruui i 'Dim
Barrow, were brought back to the
states for burial by Joe Crosson, their
intimate friend, in an airplane. And j
all their countrymen stood figuratively
with bared and bowed heads as the {
broken bodies were laid to rest. None 1
was too great and none too lowly to
pay tribute in words and action to
those two fine Americans, one a beloved
comedian, humorist and philosopher;
the other a leader among the
world's aviators. They died as they
had lived, adventuring gallantly, and
the world is the poorer for their passing.
Push President's Program
Through to Passage
SENATOR ROBINSON and other
Democratic leaders in congress <
I went Into a huddle with President <
Roosevelt on the legislative situation
I and the possibilities
of an adjournment
I within a week or ten Hflr
days. They emerged # Jjfl
with the knowledge
that the Chief Executlve
still Insisted on ... JjppB
the passage of his Ifv i
"must" list of bills.
These measures were
to be:
The utilities bill, the HH fc-. .Jk
tax measure, the Ouffey
coal stabilization ?en- Robin*?n
bill, the ban against damage suits
against the government because of its
gold policy, alcohol control, Tennessee
Valley Authority act amendments,
a bill to Impose NBA labor standards
y, August 29 ,1935
1 Lobby Probers Quarrel
, Over Witness Hopson
RIVALS In the matter of publicity,
the house and senate committees
on the activities of lobbyist? grot Into
a tangle that certainly didn't enhance
their dignity. floward
C. the
long sought head of j
the Associated Gas I *
and Electric Utilities % J !
system, permitted the *11
emissary of the house * - 1
committee to find him. * ?^1
and Senator Hugo < I ;
Black flew into a rage * jm
and had his committee k
threaten Hopson with
contempt proceedings ^
unless he appeared he- H?Pson
fore it. Chairman O'Connor of the
house body was angered by this and
declared: "Ilopson is in my custody.
I've got him. Nobody else has got
him. Nobody else is going to get
him.**
The elusive, chunky ntili'les magnate
told the house committee about
his various companies and related the
saga of his travels while he was being
sought. But he politely refused to answer
questions concerning the sources
. vi ngricuuure waiiace
^ has changed his mind about the reluction
of wheat acreage for 1936. Instead
of asking the farmers for a cut
of 15 per cent, as was
announced recently, BHjKHgSm
the figure is now
placed at 5 per cent.
Wallace told report- J ;'m
ers that the change
was decided upon after
the government's K|
August 1 survey of |
crop conditions Indlcated
that total wheat
production this year i
would amount to only t
608,000,000 bushels as y WllUee
compared with domestic requirements
af 635,000,000 bushels.
The step was taken, he asserted, to
assure ample supplies tor domestic
consumers.
Victor Over New Dealer
Takes His Seat in House
WHEN Charles S. Risk, the Rhode
Island lawyer who defeated the
New Deal candidate for congress recently,
entered the house on the arm
of Representative Bertrand H. Snell,
Republican leader, end was escorted
to the speaker's rostrum to take the
oath, he was vociferously greeted by
the Republicans as a hero whose victory
they thought presaged great
things for the party next year. Mr.
Risk took his seat on his thirty-eighth
birthday.
Murphy, N. C.. Tburada
pllw
Pickard
<?) Ufeotva SesLSpaper UMm
on firms which contract with the government,
rivers ami harbors legislation,
the third deficiency hill, the oil
regulation measure to ratify state compacts
made at Dallas, railroad reorganization
legislation.
Compromises on both the utilities
hill and the tax measure were being
worked out. The former. It was reported.
would direct the federal power
commission to decide which companies
should be eliminated, but would
leave wide avenues through which the
companies could carry to the court
their fight against dissolution.
About two weeks ago. it is revealed,
the Roper council, composed of some
10 business leaders, sent to the iTesiJent
a report urging strongly that the
tax bill he deferred until the January
session of congress, so that there might
he time for the formulation of a carefully
considered tax program. The
council included a defense of holding
companies, asserting they have played
an important part in the country's
growth and "should not be ruthlessly
destroyed." This document was pigeonholed
at the White House, which was
highly displeasing to the members of
the council though they should by this
time he used to that treatment of their
work.
rcepuDiicans Make Awkward
Demands in Lobby Probe
\ f INolUTY members of the senate I
L * * and house committees that are ;
investigating the doing of lobbyists
started out the week with the determination
to find out
why Marvin II. Maclntyre,
secretary to the
('resident; Lawrence
^ W. Robert, Jr.. as- ,
$ . sistant secretary of
| g*5 tl,e treasury. and i
V^j Anion <1. Carter of
\flp Fort Worth, publisher
- and friend of the
^ Roosevelt family, were
^ < ^ all found in the aparr.
? ? , ment at the Shoreham
5. B. Robinscn ... . ...
hotel of Hernard It.
Robinson of Chicago, chief lobbyist of
lie Associated Gas and Electric company.
Mr. Robinson himself also was
here, and it was said when the door
vas opened at tlie knock of the Serjeant
at arms of the senate a "scene
if revelry" was disclosed. For a day
>r nvo the news of this affair was not
sent out from Washington by the news
associations, reportedly because of the
fTorts of Mr. Carter to have it supiressed
entirely. This, too, some of
he investigators want explained.
Republican members of the house
committee also said they would insist
>n the interrogation of Undersecretary
>f the Interior Charles West and Emil
durja, executive director of the Domorratic
national committee. West is reputedly
the President's lobbyist and
Elurja acts in a similar capacity for
Postmaster General Farley, and both
pf them were involved with Tom Corcoran
in the utilities "death sentence"
lobbying that started the whole lnluiry.
Wheat Acreage Reduction Put
at 5 Per Cent in 1936
nltTHPTinv *?t? ? ?
and amount of his Income. IJe testified
that he "believed*' the Associated
Gas system had spent "eight or nine
hundred thousand dollars" In opposition
to the Wheeler-Rayburn utility
control bill.
"That's just a small fraction of the
$300,000,OCX) equity in our companies
which would be destroyed if the bill
becomes law and remains law," he declared.
Late In the day Hopson calmly j
walked Into ISlack's committee room
and asked: *Is some one here looking
for me?" Black and his committee
then questioned the utilities man for
an hour or two and got mighty little s
out of him except smooth sarcasm :
that made the chairman quite furious j
Schacht Scolds Nazis for
the Persecution of Jews
DU. HJALMAK SCIIACllT, economic j
dictator of Germany, is a brave '
man. Once more he lias dared to speak i
out strongly in reprobation of the Nazi
persecution of the Jews in the reicli,
and of those who are attacking Christ- j
iati churches. lie declared such indi- j
vidunls were doing great injury to
Germany's economic condition and re- j
tnrding her recovery, and this is espe- j
dally his interest as he is president j
of the Iteiclisbank as well as minister |
of economics. His strictures were ap- j
plied to Julius Streicher, chief Jew- ;
baiter, and Paul Joseph Goebbels, min- ]
ister of propaganda.
"There are certain contemporaries I
of whom one can think only with the
| prayer in mind, 'O Lord, preserve us i
from our friends,'" Schacht asserted
| scathingly. "These are the people
who at nights heroically smear paint
on shop windows, who brand every
German who buys from a Jewish shop
a traitor, who call all former Free
Masons scoundrels, and who are unable
to distinguish between religion
and the abuse of the pulpit.
"Their aims are worthy. Secret societies
have no right to exist in the
third reich. Pastors and priests must
minister to the soul and not dabble
in politics. Jews must resign themselves
to a realization that their influence
Is broken in Germany once
and for ail.
"But all these problems must be
solved under the guidance of the state
and cannot be settled through Rnr?rnrti/?
actions which seriously disturb busi- i
ness.
"It is absolutely essential for the
offices responsible for German recovery
that the world keep faith in Germany
as the state in which law is
respected. According to point four
of the Nazi program, Jews cannot be
citizens. Point five of the program
provides that special legislation be
prepared for them. This legislation
is being worked out Until it is published,
existing laws must be respected.
"The same attitude applies to the
church problem, which is of definitely
greater importance to Germany than
the Jewish question."
Just before this speech was delivered,
Strelcher had ordered his henchmen
to arrest on the spot all Jew9 seen
in public with German girls, and directed
the vendors of his newspaper to
investigate In their areas and report
all "Aryan" domestic servants who are
working for Jews.
FDIC Reveals Great Losses
Written Off by Banks
FROM the Federal Deposit Insurance
corporation comes a report showing
that In 1934 the banks of the country
wrote off their books a total of $1,131,000,000
in losses accumulated during
the depression. The FDIC added that
this was made possible because the
banks received $650,000,000 net In new
capital, which was supplied largely by
the government's Reconstruction Finance
corporation.
Despite these losses, rhe FDIC figures
disclosed, the banks' assets rose
from $40,610,000,000 to $47,370,000,000
during 1934, and that deposits lacreased
from $31,300,000,000 to "about
$39,000,000,000."
ILet Our Motto Be I!
GOOD HEALTH
BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD II
Professor ot Bacteriology and Preventive ||
Medicine. University of Illinois. ||
College of Medicine. II
AIR CONDITIONING
Almost everyone has had the experience
on a hot summer day of going
Into a movie pie?ture
theater that
has had a sign ann
o u n c i n g. "70*
COOL INSIDE.*
For the first few
moments we have a I
grateful sense of '
I comfort. The air
seems delightful after
the sizzling
blasts on the street.
Then gradually it
dawns on us that
we are cold. If we
have a wrap, we put It on. I5ut most
of us don't carry wraps when the
temi>erature is near the hundred mark.
Moreover, we have discarded every
article of clothing that our sense of
public decency will permit us to discard.
We debate whether we should
go out and get warm, but we remember
the unbearableness of the heat
Eventually, though, we leave, and as
we reach the sidewalk, the hot air
makes us gasp for breath. We feel
suffocated; we become cold, clammy.
We may even have a strong feeling of
nausea. A tew of us may collapse entirely.
Obviously, this Is over-refrigeration.
The purpose of air-conditioning is to
make us comfortable, and if we are uncomfortable
when we go from the outside
hot air into the inside cooled air,
and acutely uncomfortable, almost to
the point of sickness, when we go
from the inside cooled air into the outside
hot air again, then something is
wrong.
The skin is the largest organ of the
body. If it were spread out on the
lloor. It would be the size of a rug seven
or eight feet square. When the outer
air is cooler than the body, the skin
tries to prevent heat loss by reducing
the amount of warm blood flowing
through t liis body covering layer.
While it is impossible for the body to
prevent loss of heat by this mechanism,
still excessive dissipation of heat Is
avoided, (bit the skin loses heat and
acts as a radiator In spite of all that
the body can do. During cold weather
we lose two-thirds of the heat value of
food through our skins. Sixty-five cents
of every dollar we spend for food is
used to heat the air in which we live.
On the other hand. In the summer the
skin acts like a refrigerator. We secrete
water into the outside skin and
the evaporation of this water cools us.
When you go from the street to an
artificially cooled room during a warm
summer day, your skin has to change
in a moment's time from a refrigerator
to a radiator. On the street your skin
Is working to keep your inside organs
from getting too hot, for when the
temperature of the air is above normal
body temperature, the skin works
hard to keep the body from being heated
up to the air temperature.
The only health problem in artificially
cooled theaters, restaurants, office
buildings and homes Is the difference
In temperature and comfort between
the outside and the Inside air. There
are several separate points to be considered.
The sense of comfort Is the
desirable end point This Is a combination
of three factors; namely, temperature,
humidity and air movement.
When the air is saturated with moisture,
It feels hotter than air of the
same temperature with lower humidity.
Some recent work tends to show thnt
there should not be more than 10 degrees
difference in temperature of the
air Inside artificially cooled rooms as
compared to the outside air. But there
snouia oe per cent less moisture m
the air in the refrigerated rooms.
There should be some air movement,
but not a draft or wind, sufficient to
keep still air pockets forming around
people sitting in these rooms. The greatest
factor, however, according to these
investigators. Is In the humidity of the
air.
Some restaurants and theaters maintain
a 20 to 30 degree Fahrenheit difference
in temperature between inside
and outside air. Upon entering such
a room?maintained at, say 70* F.?
from a street temperature of 100* to
105* F., one feels a sense of coolness
and well-being. Then adjustment of
the body to the temperature takes
auu mis iwuse or wen-oeing um*
appears. Return to the street after
an hour's sojourn Is like stepping from
northern Canada to southern Louisiana
In one step. The skin tries to
make this rapid adjustment as best It
can. This Is sometimes hard to do
quickly.
The interna', temperature rises in
spite of all the skin s valiant attempt
to change itself instantaneously from a
radiator to a refrigerator. That is why
dizziness, nausea and even collapse may
accompany this rapid change from a
November to a July day.
We do not know enough about airconditioning
of rooms In the summer
time to mnke rules as yet.
e Weatern Newspaper Unlow.
,