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The Alamance Gleaner VoL LXIV ? GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2; 1939, No. 61 Weekly News Analysis Europe Rushes to New Crisis As Loyalist Spain Is Crushed By Joseph W. La Bine? EUROPE'S 'WALL OF NEUTRALITY' Map show) how Hitler and Mussolini have built eastern European alliances to protect themselves from Russia while pressing new demands against France and Britain. (See EUROPE.) EDITOR'S NOTE?Whn opinion ?" UfrinJ in ii?M column!. ?*?T oi the news analyst, and not neeessart y oi the newspaper. Europe Except for Spain, January found all Europe immersed in an ominous calm broken only by occasional un der-eover whispers among democra cies on one side and dictators on the other. Europe was a ?>eatfr ? and Spain was its stage. By the end of the month the play on Spain s stage was definitely approaching its climax because Fascist-subsidized Rebels had put the oommunuitic Loyalist government to flight at Bar celona. This marked the beginning of Loyalist Spain's end, soon to leave both Italy and Germany free to press new demands against Britain and France. The reason for this embarrassing situation is that Europe's democra cies have followed a policy Of non intervention in Spain, declining to admit that Don-Intervention is really a disguise for the now-discredited policy of dictator appeasement. Re gardless of the moral issues re portedly involved in Spain's war, Londqn and Paris must now realize that their mistake has not been the refusal to side with Loyalists against the Rebels, but rather their permit ting Germany and Italy to aid the Insurgents. The result is that Fas cist nations now control Spam. France is therefore surrounded on three sides by potentially hostile na tions, while the Mediterranean be comes predominantly dictator-con trolled. , . ..... Spain's war is not finished, but it has been sufficiently localized to free Mussolini's hands for other pur suits. Almost every competent Eu ropean observer has predicted a new crisis following Barcelona ? col lapse and the whispers throughout Europe have backed up that pre diction. . Most important foundation work for the new Italo-German demands is the assurance that any resultant conflict will be localized. This means peventing huge, mysterious Russia from aiding Britain and France. Therefore Rome and Berlin have quietly established a solid bloc of "neutral" states reaching from me Baltic to the Adriatic (? mwK which will stand as senUnete agarnst Russian aggression while Italy and Germany turn their backs to face France and Britain. The new crisis will center around Italian demands against France, though it may be enlarged through new declarations by Chancellor Hit ler. Italy wants Tunisia (enabling her to blockade the Mediterranean), control of the Suez canal, and , ^ship of the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad (providing an outlet from Ethiopia). These demands are vital | to Britain, because Italian cdntrol of j the Mediterranean might cut off London's "lifeline" to India and the "probable dictator strategy will be for Germany to assure France she will not help Italy, thereby en couraging Britain to standatoof. Then Germany would aid Italy possible war just as she has aided Rebel Spain, with Whether London and Paris will wait for such an eventuality " matter. Thoroughly scared by re ports that joint Itelo-German de mands will be voiced by Chanceltor Hitler before the Reichstag^by lta^ tan mobilization of her 1908 army class, by threatened Gerinan mobi lization of 1.500,000 men by Febru ary 15, the two democracies are be ginning to wake up. Encouragingly, Great Britain has begun an mteiteive army recruiting campaipt But al most completely offsettmg this pra? Sit ? ? vite Hitler, Mussolini and French Premier Daladier to a new "Mu nich" conference, there to buy peace with more concessions. Congress Last summer. Rep. Martin Dies and his committee on un-American ism unearthed dirt concerning Har ry Bridges, west coast labor leader who is not a naturalized citizen but nevertheless guides the destinies of many American laboring men as an unofficial mogul of John Lewis' C. I. O. This put Madame Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins on the spot, because the Dies committee claimed Harry Bridges was an alien and a Communist, that he advocated overthrowing the government by force and that he had made dispar 3. PARNELL THOMAS California also spoke up. aging remarks about the President of the U. S. Secretary Perkins has failed to give Dies committeemen what they consider a satisfactory answer. Her claim: That-a court raling is now pending on whether membership in the Communist party is a deporta ble offense. Not since 1678 has an attempt been made to impeach a cabinet member, but that has not stopped one Dies committeeman from set ting a modem precedent. New Jer sey's Rep. J. Parnell Thomas has introduced a resolution calling tor an investigation to determine wheth er Secretary Perkins should be im peached, along with Immigration Commissioner James L. Houghtel ing and Labor Department Solicitor Gerard D. Reilly. That Madame Perkins' unaggres sive interest in the Bridges deporta tion case is not popular has been in dicated at Sacramento, Calif., where the state legislature may ask her for an immediate report on Mr. Bridges' citizenship status. Chile Earthquakes usually come when sea bottoms sink, forcing up moun tainous areas and jarring the land for miles around. Squeezed along the rocky west coast of South Amer ica, Chile has often experienced such phenomena but (lever in such disastrous fashion as the earthquake which recently struck a zone 490 miles long and 100 miles deep. For newly inaugurated President Pedro Aguirre Cerdo, reportedly Fascist bent, it presented the worst initia tion under fire ever experienced by any Western hemisphere chief exec utive. Total fatalities, which prob ably will never be determined, run from 8,000 to 11,000. Injuries run into even more thousands. Faced with a stupendous reconstruction job which win require several years, Chile will probably need all outside financial. assistance - available to stave off national calamity. White 'House This year's congress was adver tised as highly independent, proh ably ready to fight any proposal coming from the White House. But within three weeks after congress opened President Roosevelt had ap parently introduced the bulk of his legislative program and could e? pect favorable action on most 01 ix. Defense. His $552,000,000 emer gency two-year program is moving slowly but certainly, aided by war clouds over Europe and Asia. Social Security. Broad revisions and extensions will probably be ap- , proved, though congress may de mand an accounting on the huge so cial security reserve fund. Reorganisation. Defeated last year by Republicans and insurgent Dem ocrats, governmental reorganization is again being broached in the house, by Missouri's Rep. John J. Cochran. Since this year's anti administration bloc is bigger than 1938's, reorganization is probably doomed for failure. Public Health. Already intro duced is the national health program bill, to be paid for jointly by states and the U. S. First year's federal appropriation would be about ?ou, 000,000. Eventually the total annual | cost to state and federal govern ments would be $900,000,000. Aided by growing public health conscious ness, the bill is expected to pass. Railroads. The White House has introduced no bill, but has given its blessing to railroad relief measures introduced by California's Rep. Clarence Lea and Montana s Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. Since rail relief is an established need, not a politi cal question, it is being justified on the bases of national defense, pubbc safety and national economics. Monetary Powers. The White House will probably be granted con tinuation of the treasury's currency stabilization fund, which reportedly netted a neat profit last year, and the presidential power to further de value the dollar, which congress does not think has been abused. Only stumbling block is that stabili zation fund operations have been se cret, which congress does not like. Communications. Not vital, but a White House fetish, is interest in the federal communications commission which President Roosevelt would like reorganized this sewiion. His purposes: To improve FCCs legal framework and administrative ma chinery. If congress gets time, this will probably be approved. Taxation. Legislation to permit reciprocal taxation of federal, state and municipal bonds and salariM, now exempt, is apt to be adopted in the face of strong state and mu nicipal opposition. Labor Last year Homer Martin, presi dent of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America, quarreled with his vice presidents. President Jota L. Lewis of C. I. O. stepped in, ap pointing Vice Presidents Sidney Hill man and Phillip Murray as media tor, But 18 of U. A. W.'s 24 board members were anti-Martin men and early last month they voted to strip him of power. Reason: Mr-Martin had been consorting "cr,et? Harry Bennett, personnel director for the Ford Motor company, only non-U A. W. auto manufacturer. C I. O. chieftains thought Mr. Mar tin was playing for personal control war the huge Ford labor vote. The upshot has been C. I. 0*s re fusal to recognize Mr. Martin as , head of U. A. W., foUowed next day by Mr. Martin's resignation from C. t O.'s execmiveboarfwith the charge that Mr. Lewis has per V. A. W/8 HOMER MARTIN He retifneJ ami M? |M. sonal ambitions and a dictator com plex." The outcome of this scrap will be settled at a Martin-sponsored election March 4, and iCld sponsored election 30 dajrs later. Un til then, no one knows who controls O. A. W. While this row has made big head lines, observers are prone to dis miss the possibility that it may indi cate a collapse o< C. L O. * Brucharf a Washington Digest Theory of Spending Ourselves Out Of Depression Seen Unwise Course u_ Evidence in Congress of Definite Determinaton to Cut Down on Appropriations; Sound Sense of American People Always Finds Answer to National Problems. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNIJ Service, National Pre** Bids., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. ? It alwayi has been my conviction that the Ameri can people will find a sound answer to every national problem, if they are given the facts and the time to figure out what those facts mean. They may be swayed temporarily; they may be led or herded or threat ened and these conditions may put them in a wrong spot temporarily, but I repeat that if they are given time, the national conclusion, the collective thinking, will be along sound lines. They are demonstrating these things as a fact, again. There is no doubt about it. For five or six years, a considerable majority of the nation's citizenry was following the theory of spending ourselves out of the depression. It was an un sound course, obviously, but money was made to do a lot of talking?as money in billions of dollars will talk. Lately, however, hardy Amer ican thinking has been carrying the majority back to normal under standing, and the influence of spend ing by the federal government is sagging, distinctly. Notwithstanding the statements, frequently heard from Republican sources, that "you can't beat Santa Claus," or the variation that "you can't beat $4,000,000,000," there is plenty of evidence to show that there is quite a definite determination to quit that sort of thing. That is, there is a determination in most places outside of the so-called inner -circle of New Dealers. Especially is this true in the halls of congress where, unless there is an earth quake, many important steps will be taken by senators and repre sentatives in the direction of sound er government finance. The old and familiar American traits of initia tive, of saving, of living within one's income, are coming to the surface very rapidly and the restoration of these traits to places of respecta bility in American life is being re flected on capitol hill in Washington. Opposition to Philosophy Of Spending Breaks Loose It will be recalled how the oppo nents of President Roosevelt's phi losophy of spending showed their mettle in the house of representa tives when that body voted to cut $150,000,000 off of the deficiency re lief appropriation. Mr. Roosevelt asked for $873,000,000. The cut was -accomplished despite some hair raising stories from official sources in the administration that elimina tion of any of the requested funds would mean suffering, maybe star vation, maybe quick death, for many thousands of persons. Well, the house members (or a majority of them) did not believe those stories, and thus they made a start at cutting governmental spending. They gave an indication at the same time that there must be a general revision of the federal government's machinery for relief of the unemployed. During the de bate and in the corridors, one heard frequent expressions that congress had appropriated last year the funds the administration thought necessa ry to maintain relief until the end of next June. But profligate spend ing had used up the money and the professional relievers had returned for more. Some of the debate was quite acrimonious and various charges were hurled that the relief officials had tried again to "buy" the election, that being why the funds ran short. Immediately after the house was through with the relief bill, the op ponents of spending in the senate started after the appropriation. There were many in that body who wanted to appropriate only for two months, proposing that in the mean time there should be a brand new relief setup devised. Beginning Only rorataata Of What /? Coming While it Ktmi that a cutpf $190, 000,000?which is about oneWth the amount asked ? represents some thing substantial, this beginning is only a foretaste of what is com ing. The spenders have had their innings for flee or six years, or since Mr. Roosevelt's "economy act" at 10a was abandoned as a pattern at government They have used various names and descrip tions, such as "pump priming" and 0 spending to restore prosperity, etc. It appears now, however, that their days are numbered. I do not mean that everything in the way of gov ernment cash sop is going to be thrown out of the window at once. I believe I can see, however, that curtailment of federal waste has begun; that the national belt is go ing to be pulled tighter by la couple of notches and that, sooner or later, even the beneficiaries of the federal cash will note the stigma and slacken their demands. One of the leaders in this direc tion has been Sen. Harry Byrd, the Virginia Democrat, n<ho is just as hard boiled in preserving a sound national government as his senior, the redoubtable Carter Glass. Through thick and thin. Senator Byrd has been attacking the spend ing policies, calling attention to the dangers of an increasing national debt and the certainty that the coun try as a whole must bear the bur den of added taxation. He did this the while administration sharp shooters were firing one broadside after another at his bead or hide. The other night. Senator Byrd got on the radio and told the country again what was happening. He had some new facts and figures about the situation. The Virginian asked some rather pertinent questions, too, about the situation in England. He pointed out that England has not been running deficit after deficit and that, as a matter of cold fact, while the United States was adding more than $31,000,000,000 to its national debt, England' was balancing its budget and making some headway in reducing its national debt. Statcs Taka Hood and Start Catting Expanaaa There are other thing* happening besidea the Byrd attack* and the congresaional action on relief appro priation* to indicate the growing strength of thoae who believe spend ing borrowed money ha* been, and is, unwise. Word has come through to Washington of the action of sev eral governors who are insisting that their states avoid getting into the hole. Governor Cochran at Ne braska, a Democrat, and Governor Bricker of Ohio, a Republican, each has put their respective state legisla tures on notice that expenditures are to be pared to the bone. There are others who could be named, but from the information we have here in Washington, Governors Cochran and Bricker ate the outstanding ex amples. It might be said that these refer only to states and not to national policies. Very well. No state ex ecutive could get away with such a program unless be had the back ing of a majority of his own peo ple. If they believe that way about state affainr,' there is no reason to think they will take a contrary view concerning the national treasury and funds which it must borrow to spend. 'Pomp Priming' Gift* to State* Force Them to Borrow Further, nearly all of the federal appropriations for "pump priming," when (ranted to states or lesser jurisdictions, are offered on condi tion that the state, or city or county, j must put up an equal amount. In hundreds of cases in the last six years, this policy has resulted in states or lesser subdivisions of gov ernment being forced to borrow on its own bonds in order to get hold at the federal cash. The result: new debt It becomes clear, therefore, that if the state executives insist on reduced expenditures, they are un likely to accept these federal gifts because of the probable added debt burden. Another thing-likely to happen in some of the states is added taxes. The state legislatures are due for an awakening as to the actual con dition of their state finances. Soma may dodge it this year, but facts will have to be faced. When new taxes come, what a howl there will bet That howl will be heard in con gress, too, both concerning state and county and city taxes on the one hand and national taxes on the other hand. It appears to me that taxes will prove to be the best antidote for the poison of borrowing to spend that can bo found. r??Speaking of Sports * Yankee Regime Changes Little Under.Barrow By ROBERT McSHANE npHE world's greatest baseball empire, built by Col. Jacob Rup pert, will remaiir-almost unchanged with Edward G. Barrow, business manager of the club for 19 years, now president of the champion New York Yankees. Bum, 71, actually nut things even while the colonel was alive. Be was one of four trustees named in the will, and will serve with George E. Buppert, brother of the late own er and chief trustee, retaining his post as vice president, and A1 Bren nan holding his office as treasurer. Former manager of the Boston Red Sox and a president of the pres ent International league when it was known as the Eastern league. Barrow is a baseball man whose acumen has always been unques tioned. Five other teams are in cluded in the Ruppert holdings. Col onel Ruppert owned the Yankees virtually outright, holding all 3,000 EDWABD G. BARBOW shares of stock in them except for 10 shares split up among other offi cials who made up the directorate. Undoubtedly the eolooel weald be happy to know that the mea he placed in charge ef the Yankees at his death had passed en com plete power to his eld and trusted lieutenant. Barrow possesses one of the shrewdest brains in the busi ness, and is the proper man to carry on the club's tradition of victory. For all his years Barrow is still a strong, aggressive individual. A member of the old school, he is a product of the days when a manager was at least "willing to try to whip any man on his club. Be developed two of baseball's greatest stars?Bonus Wagner and Babe Bath. Wagner he considers the best ball player he ever saw, because be could play mere posi tions brilliantly than any of the eth ers, Including Both. Be converted Both from a pitcher into the great est slugger ef all outfielders, han dling the Babe with a heavy hand. "There won't be any real change," Barrow stated. "I always made the decisions, and it was very seldom that Colonel Ruppert ques tioned my judgment I think we'll rock along about as usual. I wouldn't be surprised if we won an other championship this year." New Cinder Star A NEW cinder star is blazing his ** way around U. & tracks, and he's none -other than Leslie Mac Mitchell, the New York university freshman who broke schoolboy rec ords all the way from half-mile to cross country distances. Glenn Cuantaghsm sad Archie San Bemani are emphatic in agree tng that he Is the country's beet mile-running prospect N. I, U. Coach Emil voa EHing says he has an the physical attributes to he a great miler. That leaves experi ence to pot him at the head ef the ?eld. Recently he ran against Cunning ham and Gene Venzke at 800 me ters. Though he ran fifth behind Cunningham, no one was disappoint ed. He hit 1:50, almost four sec onds better than Venzke's winning time a year ago, and only two sec onds slower than Cunningham?and Glenn ran the fastest 800 that's ever been recorded. MacMitchell made that time despite the fact that he got off to a poor start and ran wide moot of the way^ and the poise. The average young ster going up against sueh famous rivals weald he awestruck. But net MSeMttebeil. Be meets thsm on equal terms, the way he win be racing them before long. The Olympic games are coming up hi 1MB, and the freshman will be shooting tor a spot ou that team, and to shoot accurately, he'B wed plenty of fast competition. Dusky Croesus * A CCORDING to Joe Louie' board of managers and stockholders, the heavyweight champion will be turned loose in the ring four times a year hereafter, twice indoors and twice in the open. It is the ambition of Joe's direc tors to make him a millionaire, a sell-leu, admirable gesture, and also a profitable one. It won't be easy, even though Joe can make money as fast as Spencerian Sam could with a mimeo graph machine. John Roxborough, head of the champ's financial depart ment, estimates that under new tax bur dens Joe will have 1. : a i' lmSb :ii:. j-1 w nave an income ox a million ov lars a year for five straight years in order to keep one million for him self. Needless to say, the Brown Bomber did not figure this out for himself. He already has approximately a quarter of a million dollars in an nuities, Chicago real estate and bank deposits. For a while he se riously considered retiring from the ring and live off his savings. How ever, not long ago he surprised pleasantly his ever-loving directors with the announcement that he likes his title, and will keep right on de fending it in his brusque, even vio lent, manner. Joe has grown up. He has confi dence, more pride, and wants to fight. And that, rest assured, is ail right with his board of strategy. Hunters Warned A S REGULAR as the seasons la ** the warning to sportsmen that duck hunting will soon be a thing of the past unless effective restoration methods are applied. And for the most part those wain tags are Jast as regularly igaarad. Now comes word from oSeials at Backs, Unlimited, that unless raaaa naxt five years there wfB be no it will never come back. This paaph ecy was made only after an in tensive survey of Canadian broad lag grounds. Surface water in the breeding areas has been reduced alarmingly . through low precipitation and con tinued high temperatures. Rain falls in Alberta and Saskatchewan have alleviated conditions in southern breeding grounds to some extent, but the northern part, or "no man's land," is hi critical condition. This loss of surface water is dna largely to the failure of millions af small beaver dams sad to an ism forest fires that are destroying tim ber, muskegs sad meadows. To carry on a program of restora tion requires money?sinews for this kind of war. It is only logical that this money come from hunters, those who enjoy the sport. Moat sportsmen aren't alarmists, they've called the turn in this case. It's up to the rest to help. Pocket Billiards By UIIABIiFS C? PETERSON President. 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