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The Alamance Gleaner Vol LXIV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938 * * Weekly News Analysis Will Daladier Turn Dictator? . Strike Defeat Arouses Fears By Joseph W. La Bine ? EDITOR'S NOTE ? When opinions are expressed in these columns, they ate those ot the news analyst, and not necessarily of the newspaper. Foreign French labor won a 40-hour week in 1936 Under Premier Leon Blum's Socialist administration. One of So cialist Blum's henchmen then was Edouard Daladier, who rose from war minister to become a premier himself. But Premier Daladier, though labeled a Radical Socialist, has been growing cooler towards la bor's left-wing Popular Front ever since Adolf Hitler became a leading force in European affairs. Reason: Labor and the Popular Front are communistic and Adolf Hitler hates Communists. Moreover, labor's 40-hour week has needed drastic modification since the September Sudeten crisis. Though anxious to appease the LEON JOUHAUX M. Daladier remembered M. Briand. Reich, Daladier also realizes France must speed armament production to cope with the menace across the Rhine. When French labor first be gan protesting against increased hours, it became apparent that the ultimate showdown would have tre mendous significance. Under Leon Jouhaux, French composite of America's John Lewis and William Green, 5,000,000 mem bers of the potent General Labor confederation announced a one-day strike. Its purpose: to protest against drastic decree laws which Premier Daladier and Finance Min ister Paul Reynard believe neces sary to stave off financial chaos. One protested decree, naturally, was that increasing work hours to 44 a week. Not even Labor Leader Jouhaux denied the strike was purely politi cal, being simply a Popular Front attempt to test the power of Pre- : mier Daladier, who has steadfastly refused to assemble parliament for a showdown on his decree laws. But as th^ strike hour neared, the pre mier remembered what another smart Frenchman, Aristide Briand, did under similar circumstances in 1910. To railroad workers and oth ers employed in essential utilities he sent conscription orders. Though they would strike as private citi zens, they could not ignore a call to the colors without courting dras tic punishment. In the end, M. Jou haux' one-day strike was a failure. Immediate significance: a victory for Premier Daladier; failure for drastic French social changes such as the 40-hour week; probable suc cess of the cabinet's daring recov ery plan; defeat of the Popular Front; doom for Communism in western Europe. Long range significance: the pos sibility that Preipier Daladier, swol len with confidence, may emerge a semi-Fascist dictator over his jit tery nation; the certainty that he will continue to appease Hitler. Treasury Mid-December is a regular U. S. quarterly financing date, in recent years a favorite season for pre dicting (1) how much the-^ational debt will rise during the current fiscal year, and (2) whether federal expenditures can be expected to ri^e or fall during the next few months. - This year, as Secretary of the Treas ury Henry Morgenthau Jr. prepares a $1,642,000,000 financing deal, ob servers may safely predict that the national debt will rise from its cur rent mark of $38,590,000,000, to $40, 000,000,000 before the , fiscal year ends next June JO. But they can also detect a downward trend in U. S. expenditures, temporarily at least. Although the government has spent $2 for every $1 collected since last July 1, although the fiscal year thus far shows expenditures ($3,590, 157,000) slightly over the compara ble period last year and receipts ($2,204,520,000) slightly under last year's, Mr. Morgenthau says he has "ample cash" on hand without any new borrowing at the present time. During the current month, howev er, he is borrowing $700,000,000 in "new money" and refinancing $941, 613,000 in notes maturing next March 15. But the outlook still remains opti mistic. Last summer the President and Mr. Morgenthau estimated the treasury would need $2,800,000,000 in new money before the fiscal year is ended. December's $700,000,000, plus $800,000,000 borrowed last Sep tember, brings the total thus far to only $1,500,000,000. With business on the upgrade, with relief costs expected to drop as a result, and with federal receipts expected to begin increasing immediately, there is every prospect that part of the remaining $1,300,000,000 included in last summer's estimate will not be needed. International French-British fears to the con trary, Europe's next war is not apt to involve western democracies ver sus Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso lini. When ? world-wide military threats are sifted down they appear more certain to center around Ger many's drive to the southeast in which the clash will involve Nazi Fascism versus Cpmmunism. This theory even takes into considera tion the long-awaited Russ-Jap war, which observers do not believe im mediately seripus. Today, as Reichsfuehrer Hitler transfers Austria and Czechoslo vakia from his list of ambitions to his life of achievements, he finds the word Ukraine (tee map) await ing next attention. As self-pro nounced ruler of Germans every where, as the covetous statesman whose heart bleeds for raw materi als going unused, he can well smack his lips over this choice bit of Russian property. His alleged justification: Racial Interest. In the Ukraine and along the Volga live 1,000,000 Germans whose Russian back ground dates back to 1763 when Catherine II invited colonization in the uncultivated steppes. In 1803 came a similar invitation from Al exander I. Clannish Germans de veloped a thousand "colonies," be EUROPE'S UKRAINE DISTRICT It it next on Hitler'i lilt? came wealthy and preserved their racial culture. When Russia's gov ernment collapsed during the World war, Germany made a separate peace with the Ukraine and domi nated the land until November, 1918. Resource Interest. In the Ukraine is enough anthracite to run German industry indefinitely, plus forests, wheat lands, Crimean oil, corn, cat tle and poultry. Also there is land, which Adolf Hitler would like for' colonization purposes because the Reich is now crowded. Though he bluffed his way to vic torious peace with France over the Ruhr basin and with Czechoslovakia over Sudetenland, Hitler cannot ex pect to blufT Russia out of the Ukraine. Yet he plans to follow this course so far as possible, build ing up political and economic unity with the rest of southwest Europe in preparation for the day of con quest. Already he has safeguarded his military, economic and propa ganda path to the southeast by re fusing to give Hungary and Poland a common border at the expense of his new vassal state, Czechoslo vakia. More important still is his new understanding with Rumania. Weighed against these advantages are Poland's new hostility over the Czech border dispute, and the ques tion mark that is named Russia. Will Moscow fight to retain the Ukraine, or will Russia and Ger many reach a "sphere of influence" agreement whereby Berlin is left free to exploit the Ukraine in re turn for Russian aggression privi leges in the Finland area? Politics America'! political pendulum swings periodically from conserva tism to liberalism and back again. Coolidge-Hoover conservatism was followed by Roosevelt liberalism, but the return swing to conserva tism that started last November 8 is more apt to stop in the middle of the road, than to veer violently back to rock-ribbed Republicanism. Washington observers, who claim President Roosevelt has discarded middle-road New Dealers in favor of "left-wingers" like Solicitor Gen. Robert H. Jackson and WPA Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins, predict the President must either abandon this policy or lose the support of Postmaster Gen. James J. Farley. The President's answer will come when he names a successor to At torney Gen. Homer S. Cummings. ORGEON'S McNARY He made friends with Democrats. If Mr. Jackson is appointed, Mr. Farley will interpret the move as a build-up leading to Mr. Jackson's presidential nomination in 1940. He will place the same interpretation on any efforts to win Mr. Hopkins a cabinet post. Mr. Farley, casting about for a 1940 possibility, is reported to look favorably on Secretary of State Cor dell Hull, the only cabinet member who has refrained from casting his lot with any factional element within the Democratic party. Mr. Roose velt's choice apparently lies between running for a third term or endors ing some middle-grounder like Sec retary Hull. Evidence is already piling up tes tifying to the political expediency of this middle road position. Republi cans, who will at last make them selves heard in congress next month, are inclined to assume such an attitude rather than flght for a return to the traditional G. O. P. conservatism. In the senate, where Republicans now have 23 members, they need the support of only 26 Democrats, Farmer-Laborites, Pro gressives or Independents to hold a majority. By catering to the middle-ground idea, the President can possibly forestall the rising tide of Republi can strength which is being built on this very platform. He can also avert a revolt in Democratic ranks, which otherwise will almost certain ly rise to the surface during next congress. A meeting of Republican and Democratic minds is already evident on curtailment of govern mental expenditures and a new pol icy for administering relief. Oregon's Sen. Charles L. McNary. Republican minority leader, has an nounced that "Republicans will join with other groups" on such a pro gram. One of his plans, that of turning relief administration over to bipartisan state boards, finds ex pression in the bill being drafted by North Carolina's Sen. Josiah W. Bai ley, a Democrat. Buginess Last spring congress gave busi ness a chill by appropriating $500, 000 for a "national economic com mittee" to investigate "competition, price-levels, unemployment, profits and consumption." Headed by Wyo ming's Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, the committee's 100 statisticians, economists and investigators have spent the ensuing six months dig ging out the past record of Ameri can business. Meanwhile business has frightened itself into believing the committee is an offshoot of the U. S. justice department's anti-mo nopoly drive. But true to Mr. O'Mahoney's promise, the group's two-year in vestigation has opened minus any signs of a "witch hunt" or an ef fort to make business the "goat." After spending three days introduc ing historical facts and figures to give the hearing a background, committeemen launched a quiz of patent pools in the automobile and glass industries. Observers consid ered this a good sign of no witch hunting, since the custom of pooling automobile patents has certainly kept that industry from becoming a monopoly. *? Bruckart's Washington Digest President Irked by Georgia's Refusal to Alter Constitution State Will Get No More Money From Federal Government; Possibilities of Staggering Burdens of Taxation Pointed Out by Hoover and Byrd. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. ? The state of Georgia has a provision in its state constitution that effectively prevents an accumulation of state debt. It is one of the few states having such a constitutional inhibition of that kind. But the fact that such a pro vision exists in Georgia suddenly has become momentous in the eyes and minds of the New Dealers, headed by the President, himself. Because it is in the news, however, Mr. Roosevelt's criticism of the pro vision forces a review of the facts and implications flowing from that charter provision. Mr. Rooseveltaaid recently while sojourning at Warm Springs, Ga., as he does frequently, that Georgia will get no more federal money. His particular peeve at Georgia re sulted from the fact that the state has not amended its constitution to permit it to borrow directly from agencies of the federal government as most other states have done ? with federal money flowing like streams at flood. The President was disgusted with Georgia's attitude; hence, the federal government is all through giving the state more money. Of course, it is only my opinion ? the opinion of only one observer ? but it nevertheless strikes me that in years to come, the citizens of many states will have cause to re gret the absence of such provisions from their respective state constitu tions. It is only a question of time. Politicians and over-zealous advo cates of "improvements" and the like have been rushing to the fed eral feed trough in droves, carrying away checks. They have borrowed billions from the national govern ment; they have received grants or gifts of other billions for the coun try as a whole on condition that they put up additional funds to match or equal the federal gift, and ; they, in consequence, now are load ed down with debt. Mutt Be Additional Taxation, or Repudiation Former President Hoover has had much to say about the waste that has been going on, and has coupled those observations with the possibil ities of staggering burdens of taxa tion. So has Sen. Harry Byrd, Dem ocrat, of Virginia. Mr. Hoover's criticisms have been laughed off by the administration here because Mr. Hoover is a Republican. Senator Byrd's jibes have been pooh-poohed because he has insisted on sound government and has been frequently anti-New Deal. But Mr. Hoover and Senator Byrd each have stressed a little noted phase of potentialities inherent in the situation. They have talked about moral codes. Now, it appears, as I said above, there must be additional taxation to meet these loans (whether from the federal government or from private borrowers) or there must be repudi ation. Repudiation-rfs simply and plainly a refusal to pay a debt. In the light of these facts, I want to make a little prediction. I am going to predict that there will be movements in many states within 10 years to have the federal govern ment relinquish its claims against those states; to have congress pass legislation that will say to the states, in effect, "Just tear up the papers and we will tear up your notes and bonds and forget about the whole thing." Politicians of the unsavory, demagogic type will leap onto such a thought and shout from the house tops of every community in the state that the federal government? that great and rich government ? ought to forego collection. They will have all kinds of arguments why it ought to be done, but their real reason for doing so will be to obtain votes for their own election to office. They will be saying to the people that it will not b* repudiation if the fed eral government says it does not desire to collect; yet, it is my con tention that such proceedings will be thoroughly dishonest. President on Wrong Track In Lambasting Georgia When Mr. Roosevelt was giving the people of Georgia a tongue-lash ing, therefore, I believe he was on the wrong track. He was lambast ing them for continuing to run their affairs on a sound basis, for con tinuing to avoid subservience to the national government, and for refus ing to surrender completely the rights of a sovereign state. For, be it known, there are very few easier ways to force a state or county or city or other subdivision of govern ment to become "bossed" by' the national government than the way that has been chosen ? through the use of money. In fact, it seems rather a sour note in our national policies to witness almost complete subjugation of states or lesser areas by the use of federal money when, with another hand, the government through the various propaganda agencies or by legal action constant ly threatens to send private persons or corporations to jail for seeking selfish control for private gain. The only difference that I can see is that one is purely for monetary gain in the case of private action, while in the governmental situation, the benefits are political from which rascals or crooks eventually get their graft. Some Washington ?rriters, ih,con sidering the President's [.JWarm Springs outburst, attributed hi* frame of mind to the fact that Geor gia's citizens (or a majority of them) refused to follow Mr. Roose velt's demand for the defeat of Sen j Walter George. You remember, of course, how Mr. Roosevelt went info Georgia and endorsed United States Attorney Lawrence Camp for the Democratic senatorial nomination. It is of fresh recollection, too, how he said that Senator George was old fashioned? out dated ? almost a one hoss shay. Preeident'i Statement May Be Clever Political Move I am in no position to know wheth er the failure of Georgia to obey the Roosevelt command entered into the discourse that has since become an issue. Nor am I well enough ac quainted with New Deal plans to say whether the President has taken his first step for 1940 convention dele gates in this way. It is possible, obviously, that the Warm Springs statement may be a clever politi cal move. Think of it this way: by starting a row, the President possi bly could be laying the groundwork for uniting the anti-George forces. If they are united and fighting, it is within the realm of possibilities that they could take the Georgia delega tion out of Senator George's con trol in 1940. That would be a great victory for the radical element of the Democratic party. inen, too, me warm springs dec laration may be designed to have an effect on the forthcoming congress. I think it goes without saying that the new congress is going to be very much different than that which it supplants. For one thing, there will be less ? very much less ? mon ey voted for the administration to use as it sees fit. There will be a bloody battle before congress again writes out blank checks for Hopkins or Harold Ickes to use. It is likely, indeed, that there will be some rath er rigorous investigations of things already done under the blank check appropriations of money. If the in vestigations are thorough, there will be a stench rise from the committee room where the job is done. Thus, if Mr. Roosevelt hopes, by the Warm Springs statement, to awaken a fresh thirst for money among local politicians ' throughout the country, it may be a piece of clever politics. Can Washington Horn in On a State' i Polieiet? There is yet another element In volved in the situation precipitated by Mr. Roosevelt's Warm Springs statement. It involves the question, directly, whether a state* shall de termine its own policies or have them dictated from Washington. Only a few days ago, the depart ment of labor disclosed that it was trying to persuade all of the states to pass legislation exactly like the federal law governing wages and hours of workers. The department's bureaucrats have drafted a "model" law which they are trying eagerly to get the states to adopt, so that busi ness within a state will be subjected to the same provisions as business operating across state lines. That same course was pursued when NRA was young and before it was discov ered that the blue eagle had more feathers in one wing than it had in the other. These things are dangerous. One* such tactics are successful, they are followed by demands and commands of broader scope. ? Western Newapapcr DaMa. Speaking of Sports Bowling Proves Popular Sport For Beginners By ROBERT McSHANE J ""THE ancient game of tenpins is 1 perhaps the simplest of all games in that the beginner, man, ! woman or child, can perform with a considerable degree of satisfaction the first time on the alleys. Good bowlers are agreed that 1 bowling skill is dependent on four ' fundamentals, namely, the ball, a 1 rhythmic stride to the fool line, de livery, and a system. i In choosing your ball select one 1 that feels good in your hand. Make 1 UHAMriUN IHAKLIL UAW jure that the space between the thumb and finger holes is not too narrow or two wide. Before rolling your ball take your ?tand from 12 to 15 feet behind the foul line. Put your hands together as though you were holding a ball. Push both hands forward a trifle as your body moves forward and either walk or run slowly. Tour arm swings back as yon approach the foal line, coming down and forward as the opposite foot reaches the fool line. As yon are' about to release the ball your body should be bent forward at the hips, with your shoulders, left foot and right hand (or vice versa) forward, both knees bent a trifle, your right foot back, pointed jnst a trifle to the right. Delivery Important When your approach becomes me chanical, look to your delivery. As you take your place on the ap proach hold the ball in the palm of your left hand. Place the fingers of your bowling hand in the holes and try your grip. As you approach the foul line, with your left foot slid ing slightly up to the line, place the ball on the alley just beyond the foul line. Don't try to throw the ball down the alley. At this juncture yon can choose one of four systems. The first tells yoo to roll the ball at the pins, fir ing away with no respect to imagi nary sights on the alley. Once in a while you'll astonish yourself by totaling a good game, bat usually this method leads to low scores. System two advocates the release of the ball at the same spot at the foul line, with the purpose of send ing the ball over another spot (your sight) which directs the ball to the 1-3 pocket. The Best System Most successful bowlers use meth od three, selecting a spot at the fool line for release of the ball. They make It a point to release the ball at that spot each time. Bowlers using system four, or the "spot" system, keep their eye on a definite spot at the foul line, con centrating on that spot during the approach and even after the ball leaves their hand. Lucky Horseshoes flTING the old racing adage that "an ounce off the hoof is worth a pound off the back" veteran horse men are now contending that Seabis cuit had an eight-pound pull in the weights when he registered his sur prise win over War Admiral. Charles Howard's seasoned cam paigner went to the post shod In light, two-ounce aluminum horseshoes, which weighed but eight ounces to the set, just half the hoof weight "toted" by War Admiral, who was wearing steel plates. Mathematics minded experts pointed oat that ooe balf pound saved to the stride, in the approximate 313 strides for the mile and three-sixteenths, gave Sea bis rait ? lifting weight saving 1MH pounds for the route. New Job for Coaches RO McMILLIN, irrepressible Indi ana football coach, has another plan ? a plan that can shorten the life of his brother football coacbes and add many a gray hair to their already near-white thatches. Bo proposes that the Job of quar terbacking be taken away from the college players and "placed where the responsibility belongs ? with the coach." "By letting the coach call the plays, it would speed up the game and make it much more interest ing," McMillin said. "And another thing ? some of these coaches are supposed to be so smart ? let's see what they can do running a team an the field." Odds, however, are against the acceptance of his recommendation. Few coaches are going to lead with '.heir jaw, and many will not agree with his statement that responsibil ity rests with the coach. Sports De-Emphasis INTERCOLLEGIATE sports are 1 definitely out at historic St. John'* college in Annapolis. This bold stride iway from the conventional pattern if American colleges was made re cently when President Stringfellow Barr criticized what he termed a 'professional system." St. John's, he said, from new m will give first considers tied to "ste lent pleasure." And so. alter the end of the eorrent school year and its athletic schedule, the ii)-ni?e< college on the banks ef the qniet Severn will concentrate en a greatly expanded intramural program. Though there is a let to he nil lor de-emphasised athletics eel leges throughout the natiea have ?link millions of dollars to hag* ithletie arenas, and a de-empha lised athletic program weat ? Football bowls with thousands ?f frenzied fans who have laid their money on the line. The beautiful tingle of the athletic department's cash register has been sweet mnde to the ears el many a college, and football, the meet emphasised sport, has shouldered mere than its tean elal load to filling university cetera. Sport Shorts R EC A USE Sammy Baugh lost weight playing baseball last sum mer, the hero of the 1931 All-Star football game will not return to the diamond in the spring . . . Ben Johnson, Negro sprinter on the 1938 Olympic track team, will teach at the Bordentown (N. J.) school for Negro youth ... In spite of all the rreat football nlav ers turned out by the University of Michi gan, only one has a head coachiqg post in a major school ? that is Tad Weiman of Princeton . . . The USGA's 1939 public links tourna ment will be held July 24-29 in Balti more, Md. ... A tablet to the mem ory of Harry Var Tad Weimu aun, unc ui guuuum a K1 caicai, wu unveiled recently in England. ? Western Newspaper Union. Pocket Billiards By CHARLES C. PETERSON President. National Billiard Association o( America and World's Trick Shot Champion. Lesson No. S la diagram f yon hare for prao tice a cushion break shot. This (hot is very deceiving to many players, especially when play ing it too hard, as invariably the object ball will jam in the pocket. The ball being frozen to the cush ion, again it is advisable to strike below center and english slightly to the right to prevent the cue ball from jumping the table. Hold your cue level, and hesitate in pulling it away too aoon.
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