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nilS.TEEK Alas, One Rich Man Only! Gasoline la King. .v -. All the Ship She Wanta Senator Borah' View Only one solitary American eltl sea bad a 1 net Income of above ,; $5,000,000 uar year, and they were 59-cent dol lars. The man did not realise it, perhaps,- but be will realise it later as Infla tion, ::. which' la now a fact, be comes known to all , Who the last, lonesome, re mote, unfriend ly, -melancholy," flve-milllon-dol- irtiar Srlibau lar-a-year-man la may not be told. The law forbids publishing Income tax names, but the government tells you there Is one and only one; t That "last rose" of depression's summer must look around him, sad- eyed, mourning over bis old compan ions, withered and strewn.. What Is important today may be nothing tomorrow; what was noth ing yesterday may become ail Im portant now. Once man was help less without his horse, camel ox, yak, ass, mule, reindeer, dog sled or tame elephant Now, in civilization, they mean little, while Lloyd George tells yon, "Oil is the de cisive factor in the Abyssinian campaign." Of ail the great powers whose attitude Is being canvassed, that of King Gasoline la most Im portant Without oil Mussolini cannot win his war; with oU, vic tory is certain. Japan at the naval conference will consider nothing less than - a battle fleet as big as any the United States may build; no 6-5-S ratio. No American should object to that, If Japan can afford it It Is not the size of the fleet that counts. Unfortunate Spanish grandees In charge of the great Armada could testify to that after they met Eliza beth's small fleet and big sea cap tains, I ' . .'y':- Also, there Is the fact' that If real war started, above the donas and : under water, every fighting nation would hide its battleship tar gets out of airplane sight, In safe harbors; many battleships or few would make no difference, senator uoran tens over tne microphone what the country needs support or the constitution; a fight against those who would un dermine it i The destruction of mononolv with out necessarily enacting new legis lation. An end of crop restriction. Senator Borah says restriction has always failed In depression ever since the days of Roman emperors. The sclentiflc news, gruesome bnt Important, tells yon that the eyes of the dead can supply trans parent tissue from the cornea nse- fol In caring blindness In the living. Tissue from dead yes has been successfully transplanted to. living eyes, and there Is hope of thus cur ing certain types of blindness. England has always acted like one "walking on eggs" In dealing with Japan, but'abe does say that Japan's proposed seizure of Chinese territory "barms the prestige of Ja pan and hampers the development of friendly future relations, between Japan and ber friends." Walter C. Teagle, head of Stand ard Oil of New Jersey, did not make a deal to supply Mussolini with all his oil for thirty years, casually ar ranging to finance the Italian oil market ; up to $300,000,000. Mr. Teagle says so, and It is so. But when the wise John D. Rockefeller once said, I want to see my mana gers, their desks cleared and their feet on the desks studying bow to make money for Standard Oil," he had men like Walter-Teagle' In mind. '' In Georgetown, British Guiana, a kindly clergyman sprinkled a tiny negro baby Just born, naming him "Roosevelt Selassie Caleb." The boy's parents, descendants of slaves, say the name was chosen to honor "the greatest man In the world, President Roosevelt" , The little baby may wonder later why his parents dragged in Halle Selassie, In whose empire slavery still exists as a major industry. 'An official representative of Rus sia said to this writer not long slncet. W have- nothing to fear from Japan. ' They waited three years too long." While Japan was waiting, Russia established a great submarine and air base at Vladivos tok, within short' striking distance of everything Japanese. ' i .'; 'r'. Since then Japan and Russia have got along peacefully. This country may suddenly wake up to find prob lem more Important .'than any theory on how to make everybody happv on short notice. , ' C KIDS FraturM Syaaleatt, la,-.' . .., W.NU Swrlc. , . , - '; Ptll Mii illeaMWl'lltt 1 Entrance to Clarence Souse, naval limitation will be held. 2 hard fighting during the recent revolt S Capt- MacGUUvray Milne, governor of Samoa by President Roosevelt Not Easy Going ilslliiiiiSM This difficult mountain slope' In nished plenty of work for the Italian soldiers after the automobile broke down.- They were forced to put their shoulders to the wheel and push. Italian roadmakers are doing wonders and passable. President Dedicates Atlanta' Housing Project i Aerial view of the' PWA'S &873.000 Tecbwood housing project In helped to dedicate by the unveiling of Names Cooper to Direct Britain's War Department Former Financial Official Is Lady Diana's Spouse ' Alfred Duff Cooper, former finan cial secretary to the treasury, who has been , named war minister of , v.jtvKtv&. fcj J Great Britain by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Bis wife Is the beautiful Lady Diana Manners. In'Mathew Park street, London, where the International conference on View of the Pan-American Airways airport at1 Natal- Brazil, scene of for the Italians : the region of Makale, Ethlosla. fur In making these roads more modern a commemorativeplaque. The project He's a Pet, Not a- r L Tom (his first name Is not "1'eeulnz"). Is the nroud S.Ynonnd iui of Miss Elsie Edwards. United States nary, who waa appointed Ski Club Picks I - , First Snow Queen ; of 1935-36 Winter Blizzards Are Balmy Weather for Theresa r To Theresa Sham of'Stowe, Vt, goes the honor of being the first young woman to be elected a snow queen ' this winter in the . United States.- She was given the title at a1 carnival f the Mount Mansfield Ski club. .. 4 Atlanta which President Roosevelt will, house 600 families , Prospective Dinner' .;;. ... . j Y'aaiiii ';ton. Roosevelt Is going j cash la, next month, in his bud , t message, on spade work which goss back for two years to his first budget message, In January, 1034. His first message i asked for ex traordinary appropriations of $3, 100,000,000. No one thought at the time that he could possibly spend it, and he didn't ; : , The following budget message, January,- 1935, asked", for - the eight hundred odd million left over, and 14,000,000,000 additional. Again everybody knew that he couldn't spend It all during the fis cal year, and many did, not hesi tate to say so. This time he asked for many of the appropriations to be made for two years. T - Best : Calculations ' available ' at rthe moment are that not less than (1,000,000,000 will be left at the end , of this fiscal year, June SO, next .Which means that In appro priations to be asked ' for In the next month's budget message the President will be able to make a magnificent showing so far as working toward a balanced budget is concerned. - ( . . But that Is only part of the pic ture. .t'rv -i-N-V"l.fs ' S V-; ., The." President did his -atmost to paint the picture, one year ago, in Its .darkest possible shades, With the result that almost any picture painted next month Will appear to be a long step forward. For ex ample, there was no reference what ever In last year's budget" message to the 12,000,000,000 profit on gold, which has been locked up In the secret , stabilization fund. There was no Intimation to he found that any of the billions, loaned out by the. RFC, and .: other government agencies are an asset' although hs a matter of fact If the RFC books were closed today,, and the paper It holds auctioned off In the open market,: not : only; would ,, the gov ernment recover 100 cents on the dollar, but there would be a profit Dramatic. Touch ". :' As though alT this ' were v hot enough,, the President Just recently added another dramatic touch to the picture, which la Intended to reassure business ; and taxpayers and meet the criticism of such Re publicans , -' as former ; President Hoover:" and Governor ' Landon about too much spending by the federal 'government ' ; , ,,Thls was Us statement that he had been assured by bankena that the federal credit Would not be In much danger until the national debt reached a total of from S5 to 70 billions.-.''?'f..J:-,; 'J As the -president knew It would before be: -made the statement. It roused a flood of comment, criti cism, and curiosity. Bankers here and there denied they had made such ' statements, ' and - demands poured Jn 'that the President- name his Informant j , - ... ' All of which accomplished per. fectly the. President's objective In making . the statement- to attract a lot of attention rivet national attention 6n the huge figareswand inevitably bring about a differ ent impression entirely from what might otherwise have been the case when his budget, message figures are given to the country. ,; So that when the figures come out tbe country will be reassured, instead . of being freshly alarmed. And the total national -debt that will be disclosed, together with the prospect that It will be slightly In creased if the New Dent program goes forward, will seem much small er : than - tbe same figures Would have appeared without this prelim inary flurry. 1 It's the kind of thing Mr. Roose velt likes very much. . He gets the same sort of kick that someone else might get .from a shrewdly 'cal culated attack In chess. - .It's the same thing he worked during the campaign of -1932 , otr the people who kept 'heckling him on tlie sol-' dler bonus.', i .i',' ' ;" Victory for Hull , , ,' Lots of .' conservative business men are going to pat George N. Peek on the back, and sympathize wltb the "gross stupidity." which he fought in vain on the Interna tional trade policy, Some of them wilt really ; mean v what they say, but a very considerable majority will berrying to pour oil on fire Instead Of oil on water. .Their real object wljl be Inflame Peek to the point where bis attack' ion the ad-' ministration .will be red-hot- ' . For the truth is that most con servative business men .Interested In International trade, agree with Secretary of" State Cordell Hnll, and not with George Peek. V Hence they approve the action of Presi dent Roosevelt in awarding the vlcn tory In this long drawn out battle tO Hull' i:'-,.'-'-;. '',r;(; This Is not a discussion ! of the merits of the controversy, i Its mm Its have nothing to do with': the. political point Involved. Rut It Is ( .! ! coffee tin) i Biit i i - - - i:)l.nmt!!Hiai swap, 1 ft v York, and brolie the w thus play ing haioo ( ( ..intry she was t " ; i. r ( well as that Country's i. ' Id the doii;..1 i rot. es of Inter national trade, tne wants of the buyers are studied.' Little' things are compiled with. Curious shad- s of taste in food, preference in col ors, "etc., are studied. Barter comes along, and the customers sometimes do without rather than buy the goods offered. , ' , v Naturally, too, the exporters and Importers ' want to run their ' own business. They don't want the gov ernment running It for them. 0 On the other hand, the "most favored nation"; : clause frequently benefits a nation making no con cessions whatever, to the United States as much or more than the nation ; for which: the concession was -made."s Japan has benefited enormously by , some . of the - reci procity- treaties this country bos made. ' . But all the objections to Peek's policies are going to be forgotten now.; There Is no need of fighting about. them. ' The .' questions . are settled. So the very men who op posed Peek most bitterly, In- many Instances,- will- seek, tot' use blm now as a. weapon "to hit Roosevelt' ' Even the big."1 importers, while they like the Democratic Ideas about tariffs more than the Repub lican, are mostly conservative. They do not enthuse , much' about the New Deal, and the taxation they fear It will bring on big corpora tions and big incomes. v Different Picture . "T . ., More " independent , voting than President Roosevelt .has. had: to face so far promises to - charac terize the sessions of congress to convene next month. The whole picture Is entirely - different - Pri vate comments of- a lot of return ing senators and members of the house, many of whom are already in Washington because their chil dren go to school here, Indicate that It 'will -be an "tvery man : for himself session. . ' The tendency ' was already ap parent- when .congress adjourned. It cropped op sharply when house and senate, paid no attention: to the White House wishes on ' the neutrality, act It is perfectlr true that the : , administration did . not bring up Its heavy artillery on the neutrality act In fact, the White House was not-expecting "tbe meas ure to pass at alL But the wishes of the President' and of ' Secretary of State . Hull were . made known very -clearly on Capitol HilL . . , It Is Interesting to note that these wishes were . expressed by State department men who normally, wltb the exception of the Secretary himself, have almost nd political In fluence, ' however thoroughly they may unqerstana . tne - department s problems, and however aule they may be personally. , Actually, , the . President ! was so busy concentrating his barrage on other legislative problemrthat there was no ammunition of the polltlcnl variety available to cajole or threat en legislators tending to be inde pendent on this Issue,' '( i . Feared to Speak Out ''."' Three years Ttgo,- two years agoi and even one year ago -congressmen faced a situation where Frank lin D. Roosevelt and the New' Deal cause were , unbelievably popular. Republicans in the National legis lature j hesitated to. -speak out against , him or bis policies, i They feared it : might ruin ' them. Wit-, ness Senator Vandenberg. And many others,-'.;'. :cJ'M i-U. : Then there were more than a hun dred - Democratic members of the house who had been .elected from normally Republican districts. And a hundred more from highly doubt ful districts. , Their main hope waa for : Roosevelt's strength to pull, them through the next election. It worked, marvelously1 well In 1B34 - But meanwhile .two things 'have happened. By the end of last ses sion both of them , had percolated, to the politically minded legislators. with their .ears close to the ground back home. By now. the casual newspaper reader knows it, , as a result of numerous polls. '. One Is that. Roosevelt has lost a great deal of hs popularity. He may still have enough to re-elect himself, , the legislators figure, but not enough to exert any substan tial Influence for others running on the same, ticket wltb him. The' other, as also demonstrated by 'polls, is that a lot of people still approve Roosevelt heartily, but do not ? likes-many frof , bis poUcles. So that a great many voters1 may be expected, next November, te mark their ballots for. Roosevelt electors, and then vote against a senator and representative Just because these legislators voted for the Roose velt policies. There Is no point In saying this Is not logical. It hap-: pens " all the time In politics. And politicians are not .Interested In logic so much as In votes. So look out for a- lot of Inde pendence, which will prove very an noying to the White House on Cap. itol Hill tills session. mi a Si..' i' ! live in if were just a lit f criminals t! ? aliens they let i most any kno. i r seas can drop hi v lstered or flngnr i lzed or anything m at the i ing dj. . .,' i mine ; ; r j ; merit. V , j 9 all ..till: J V j: forelgn-b" .1 , I -' who lack c' ' - ship. pais, i v- , ! laid end -to t . 1, would IniltPd be - i lovely sig'nt, i , J Clally If each c Irvln 8. Cobb bad a lily In ) - hand. As for t -average chronic offender ag. In the laws well) on his way Into V penitentiary,' he's likely to ni;'-t himself " coming out with relea-. papers -in his pocket and hope In bis heart,.- For him a -sentence i just a pleasant week-end (- back. among the boys at the o'.i mause. j Here today and gone tomorrow that's tbe grand idea, flight Ir make so bold as to suggest there1 would be' more habitual criminals staying In prison if we bad fewer parole, hoards going at larger Old-Fuhioned Ideas - SECRETARY OF STATE HULI. , makes a statement on the heels-.. of a. similar statement by the Brit ish foreign secretary,: and, if yoa . dig down- through the diplomatic ' spinach under which utterances are always burled, you'll find that nei ther nation is deeply tickled over - the plan of Japan to gobble up north China by what. Is called po litely an "autonomy movement" But If that wasn't Us fashionable name it could pass anywhere for an armed invasion. Unless you're- -a statesman, yon wouldn't be able- to notice the difference. For some days the Impression ha " been getting around that the Chi- , nese Weren't so hot over the Idea, either. 'Well, the rabbit that's about to be absorbed by tbe python rare ly does show - any real entluisia it. Here's- the curious thing, though , apparently both our Mr. Hull and his English brother still labor un der the i whimsical : belief . that a treaty by a stronger nation guaran- . teeing the integrity' of a. weaker -nation is meant to be kept How . quaintly old-fashioned. - ' . ...Ci--: V- ;.-;-' r ' ":"'V'r - "... - -.' , ' ' ,t Prison Petulance.":';' :" t:, THAT on-- the same 'day three ' Jail-breaks : should . occur - at . places as widely separated as Bos ton In Masschusetts, Nashville la ' Tennessee and Muskogee In Okla-t ' homa is only to be accounted for a 1 proof of a growing wave of. dls- v -satisfaction with prison life on the " -part of the boys. - ' . How much better we -manage . In some states ; I might name where ' It woqld seem a boarder has mere- -ly to mention to the parole board . that he's getting bored with the ac-' "commodations and -craves to. go . and sin no mora' "Well, so long war- den," says the departing one,. "Hold ' any, mall that comes and try to- keep my old room for me the one with the southern exposure and the ' radio set It's not good-by, Just an revolr." , t 1 , - ' But no, those chaps who blasted '' their way out got- so irritable- they ; Just couldn't wait It all goes to -show, that petulance never pays-la this world. Kindly! be patient fel- ows, and, sooner or later,, the sen- -,) tlmentalist will perfect a plan to turn practically t everybody ; loose immediately after, conviction, thus curing the present unavoidable an noyance of a round trip to. tho hoosegow,' Joint Dabatet on Ra1!(ion. A CONTROVERSIAL gentleman, who thinks he read betwvi the Uces of one of tli35 squibs "a hidden; meaning which I certainty never meant to put there, writos In. challenging me to a J.i'nt dehaie on soclo-rellgious grounds, "what ever they are, , Much obliged, but the answer, briefly and In a word. is no. So far as I've observed', the o; ' person who ever wins a Joint -bate-la the one who -takes no pint In It ' A Laufh on Berlin. WOULDN'T; U seem to sort f put the laugh on soiiioIid ' ' i ." we sent a lot of Jewl- ii athl and there are many f ii-ntiM -scattered around to l ilin on Olympic team, : and - our s mopped up? Everybody In Hollywor ) ! Odt for a party to II. C. ' think they thought lie . Ing producer. Sure sign of refm s women have ' 1 marrying the I - ' I C Norlh '' not guesswork that most business Copyright. W.N U F Tv'.-s,,
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