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The Alamance Gleaner VoL LXV ? GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE I ^ Congressional Patronage Grab Shoves Political Wheelhorses Into Justice, Commerce Jobs (ESITOK-8 NOTE?When eptalona an inyiil tn these rstamaa, thejr an thaw of the newa analyst aad net neeeanrBy oI this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. i CABINET: Patronage An able economist, Republican Willard L. Thorp .ty*s borrowed from Dun & Bradstreet to be advi sor in the commerce department's bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. Next Harry TTophln I named Republican Thorp ahief of the bu reau, but, a patronage-minded Dem ocratic congress turned him down. This was Secretary Hopkins' first conflict with patronage, hut another was destined soon in which Attorney General Prank Murphy would also learn about patronage. Up for simul taneous congressional consideration came two appropriation bills, one to give Mr. Murphy's department $1,000,000 for Thurman Arnold's SENATOR McKELLAK newly stimulated antitrust drive, the other to give Mr. HopkiMT depart ment $225,000 for employing a staff of experts, to. consult with business and industry. Neither expansion plan called;tor political whdeDiorses, but Messrs. Hopkins and Murphy must take wbeelhorses or nothing. Sponsored by Tennessee's Sen. Kenneth. McKeb lar (who can allegedly smell pa tronage further than'any other sev en men to congress) a proviso was adopted requiring congressional ap proval fpr 4)1 men hired under eith er appropriation at a salary of $5,000 or more. Almost incidental to this ruling was the fact that congress cut Mr. Murphy's bill from $1,000, 000 to $300,000, and Mr. Hopkins' from $225,000 to $133,500. Murphy grudge: To proceed with detailed investigation and prosecu tion of antitrust cases, Thurman Ar nold needs smart young lawyers minus business or political con nections. One good reason is that wheelhorses would instill New Deal ism into the drive at a time when the administration needs business' friendship. Political lawyers are notoriously ineffectual, Mr. Arnold believes. Hopkins grudge: Special assist ants created under the commerce bill would work with business repre sentatives directly on whatever problems might be presented, a Job obviously requiring men who have been too busy with economic af fairs to meddle in politics. SPAIN: Friendly Relatives Last March 17 Dictator Francisco Franco accepted a friendship non agression pact with Portugal, whose mere moral support against the Loyalists was alight compared with the guns, planes and men of Home and Berlin. Observers immediate ly predicted a cast-iron military pact with the Axis, but weeks dragged into months until the world suddenly realized General Franco Would be no pushover; like a smart politician he was playing both democracies and dictatorships for all they were worth, staving off an Axis pact so long as possible. Mid-June found Franco's brother in-law and minister of the interior, Ramon Serrano Suner, visiting in Italy with persuasive Count Galeaz so Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minis ter and son-in-law. Although their relatives seemed near agreement, II Duce and El Caudillo were not. Tet Franco's independence was not Needing peace above all to recon struct his nation, the generalissi mo must nevertheless be imperial istic like other dictators. ThW means a strong hand in Tangiers, which all good Spaniards be regained from France. It also means re-establishing Spain's lost wori^prastige^ necessitating^ ^ spiaklng Latin America. This pro gram plays right mto the Axis' hands, stimulating conflict between Spain and the democracies and thus assuring Spain's aid ..should Rome and Berlin declare war. EDUCATION: Consolation Not since .1928 h?ve graduating college students found jobs await ing them. Though (his'year's crop of seniors win fare Somewhat bet ter than 1938's, a decade of hard luck has revolutionized. the gradu ate's outlook, made him glad to take any job, and placed an entirely dif ferent interpretation on the signif icance ofa college degree. Sample: To the University of Chicago's 798 graduates. President Robert May nard Hutehins addressed this gloomy message: "We know now that graduation . . . does not carry with it the promise that the gradu ate will ever be able to earn a liv ing . . . We must recognize that you msy never make a nickel that you would not have made if you had never come here, that your edu cation wiU not hoist you by so much as a single rung up the. 39ciaj, ladder." Then, to soothe parents who won dered why their youngsters should be asked to waste four years. Presi dent Hutehins offered the following left-handed consolation: "... High er education should help the grad uate make intelUgent use of the leisure which thoughtless engineers and a blind economic system have given him." TREASURY: Hoard . India was the "sink bole" of pre cious mgtals. before the World war. By mid-June of 1939 a cellar under Fort Knox, Ky., appeared to be the new sink hole, for there was kept much of the $16,008,919,900 which represents 60 per cent of all the world's monetary gold stock. Host alarming to financiers, who see gold becoming cheaper and cheaper, is the fact that since January 31 the U. S. has absorbed more than one and one-third times the world's esti mated gold production for 1939. Reason: Europe's war scares. On December 31, 1934, U. S. gold holdings were comparatively mild, totaling only $8,238,600,000. Har monizing with mobilization, they be gan zooming when Czecbo-Slovakia mobilized against Germany last May ($12,915,100,000) kept rising un til Munich's conference ($14,311,200, 000), slackened off during quiet Jan uary ($14,682,000,000), then zoomed during this spring's war jitters to the current $16,000,000,000 mark. _ Biggest loser is England, which since 1933 was shipped $3,760,600,000 to the U. S., and which in the first four months of 198$ sent $651,400,000. But some of England's shipments have exceeded her national bank's FOREIGN GOLD Fnflm/i Iffff u liniii< (old reserve, indicating that for eign gold has first fled to London, then to the U. S. France, which lost $034,000,000 in 1039, offers the only encouraging picture in today's gold problem. While other countries bordering Germany have frantically shipped their metal elsewhere, the strong arm government of Premier Edou ard Daladier is now enjoying an in flux of gold and capital Biggest reaction in the U. 8. is a steady increase of adjusted demand de posits in federal reserve banks. In early June, as gold hoardings reached their new peak, reserve bank deposits also hit a high water PUZZLERS-1 Knots .your notesT Answer ell these questions end you're excellent; auwr three end your good; two, loir; one, poor. japan! ^OftMOSA 1. Arrow so the above map potato to Tientsin. What hap pened there recently to precipi tate trouble between what two nations? 2. Wheat acreage allotments for 19M are (larger) (smaller) than in 1939. S. Leaving Hyde Park, King George VI gave President Roose velt which two of the following presents: Antographod photo, tiny replica af the royal throne, gold onfl links, one of Neville Chamberlain's umbrellas, a gold ink well. I. True or false: The new Jef ferson nickel has been withdrawn from circulation. (AnMDcr* at bottom #/ column.) CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Trouble Brewing Chptrary to ~pSyJaf belief, Ger many did not annex Bohemia and Moravia when Czechoslovakia was dismembered last March. More over, the new land of Slovakia re mained "independent," though well under Berlin's thuqjb. Outright an nexation of all these lands was con fidentially predicted by European observers in late May when Czechs, their patience broken, apparently began a passive resistance cam GEN. VLADISLAV PRCHALA For "resurrection of the notion." paign against their Nazi overlords. By mid-June Czech "Protector" Konstantin von Neurath got Der ' Fuehrer to send fearsome Hein rich Himmler of the Gestapo to Prague. Other reports had it that German troops would invade Slo vakia, incorporating the entire de funct nation into the Reich. Just as active, however, were counter plans that reeked of adven ture and mystery. In Prague it was whispered that anyone wanting to join the Czech "legion" being formed in Poland could enter the coal mines in Maerisch-Ostrau and emerge across the border. Hun dreds of young men disappeared, showing up in Poland where Gen. Vladislav Prchala (who commanded Czech troops against Hungary last winter) was forming a campaign far "resurrection of the nation." Warsaw gossip said scores of for mer Czech officers have sailed for France, where they are forming special Czech legions controlled by French military authorities. The spirit spread to Slovakia, which has learned its old Czecho-Slovakian nation was not so bad after all; a reported 4,000 Slovakian troops crossed the border into Poland. Answers to Puzzlers l. Wbaa Brttefa refined to Mr reader (ear CUmn raepeeted al [T Urpr.^ tttjlitowt far 1 FtlM. The tmnrr Itfut toff <M*MM MKh'toefcei* here hurt" Nrra ahe^T ***** Bmckarf, WaMnfton Dip* Politicians Believe Roosevelt Now Campaiging for Third Term Bombshell by Ickes and Blast by Secretary Early Accepted1 As Having Presidential Approval; Attacks Upon Garner Are Without Justification. ~? ' ? By WILLIAM BRUCKART WSV Serriee, National Pres. BidfWashinfton, D. C. WASHINGTON.?Politic* lone has been described as a game, and it is. In consequence, there are cer tain rules to be followed. They are rules that are born at experience, and the participants in the game of politics know full well what will hap pen when those rules are violated. Outstanding among these rules? none of which are written, of course ?is a thorough understanding by a President of the United States that he must remain silent about his choice of a successor just as long as it is possible to do so. Otherwise, he obviously loses some of the sup port that he can command from members of his party. Any pro nouncement that he favors this one or looks with disfavor upon that one immediately produces a split. Those not blessed with the presidential smile become embittered and assert their enmity. Another rule is that once a man is elected President, he automat ically becomes a candidate for a second tenri. This results from the fag 'hat whether be is good, bad or indifferent as the head of the polit ical party that sponsored him, that party cannot dump him overboard for the sake of the party itself. Now, however, there is a new con dition developing?one for which no apparent or obvious rule exists. Tradition has set up a rule in this country that no President shall seek a third consecutive term. All Presidents have followed it, here tofore, and some indication has been given by them as early as was con venient that they intended retiring. The most recent situation of this kind, of course, was the famous statement by the late Calvin Cool idge who was the author of "I do not choose to run." Mr. Coolidge had served a part of the term to which Warren G. Harding was elect ed and was elected for one full term. He considered he had served two terms, and thus stated his plans for return to private life, albeit the an nouncement had people guessing. Believe Rooeevelt Is Planning tor Third Term The problem that now confronts the politicians, and about which there is no rule, concerns President Roosevelt's course. According to old precedent, Mr. Roosevelt is un der no compulsion to suggest whom he' favors as a successor. Indeed, he would be borrowing trouble were he to do so at this time. But mem bers of his own party and voters generally are wondering more and more whether he intends to seek a third nomination and election, and thus climax his record as a breaker of precedents. There are many political leaders and students of politics who are con vinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Mr. Roosevelt is campaigning even now for his third nomination. They base their conclusion an count less small indications, and the drive for this result that is being carried on by a small group of,White House intimates. And to make the confusion worse, there has come the announcement by Secretary I ekes of the interior department that Mr. Roosevelt must be renominated and re-elected. This was like a bombshell in the ranks at the anti-Roosevelt Democrats who read into those lines, printed in the magazine, "Look," the first pub lication of united efforts on the part at the President's advisers with the consent of Mr. Roosevelt But if the Ickes statement was a bombshell, a subsequent statement by Stephen Early, one at the sec retaries to Mr. Roosevelt, must be regarded as an explosion c< an en tire powder storehouse. To the on looker, Mr. Early's statement can not be ignored; it must be accepted as having presidential approval be cause of the intimate relationship between the two men, and if it has presidential approval, it is tanta mount, as far as I can see, to an announcement of Mr. Roosevelt's intentions. Early Doctor? Voters Wilt Not Bo Confaood Writing in the Saturday Evening Port, Mr. Early concluded Ms die mission of unfair criticism* of Mr. Roosevelt with a fervent declaration that the voters will not be confused. With the gracious consent of Mr. \ Wesley Winans Stout, editor-in-chief at the Post, I herewith reprint the , salient paragraph from Mr. Early's article that has sat sod to spread h new and broader form the feeling that Mr. Rooeevelt will aeek re election to a third term: "Certain |t is that with the ap proach of 1M0, as has been the case every four years since this demo cratic form of government was adopted by the people at the United States, new rumors, new whisper ings, variations at truth and untruth will come to mix with the old. Fortunately, it Is equally true that the vast majority of those who vote in the next presidential election will take salutary pleasure in expressing their contempt of all that the double tongued scandal-mongers and their Ok may do to confuse the real Jmum >? issues. I find the general question being asked: Why is notice being taken now of rumors and half-truths which have thus far been ignored through six years at the administration, un less it is the purpose to dispose of them in advance of another cam paign? I hear also this question: How the voters -express "con?, tempt" for these false rumors and vilifications unless by a vote for Mr. Roosevelt, personally? The answers to these questions, of course, will vary. Those who are heart and soul with Mr. Roose velt are saying naturally that he wants to put an end to the unfair and poisonous attacks by answering them openly. Those who want to stand by the two-term tradition are reading into those lines Mr. Roose velt's determination to go ahead and seek re-election. Why, they ask, ihn?M the Early article and the Ickas article be published simul taneously, especially since Mr. Rooeevelt has remained silent on his future course. BMrjr Koaoom to Wonder What the Answer Will Bo There has been considerable criti cism of Mr. Roosevelt because be has kept his own counsel concerning the scads of favorite-eon candidates that go shouting about the country side. Such criticism is silly. The President, whatever his thoughts may be about the third term, is not called upon at this time to say whether he likes any one or all. It accomplishes nothing for those who dislike the President to stir up a stink along that line. But the de termination of the President, or lack of it, to run for a third term is quite a different proposition and there is every reason under the rules at the game as K has been played for people to wonder what the answer is to be. The record of history being what it is, a tradition at two terms for a President, there can be no Justi fication of the New Deal attacks upon Vice President Garner, whose friends are now openly seeking dele gates tor him. Mr. Garner's friends surely have the right to assume that the time has come for them to cul tivate votes in the next national con vention of the Democratic party. Such attacks as Mr. I ekes made against Garner in the I ekes state ment favoring Roosevelt for a third term sounds like spoiled fish to me, and you know what a mess that is. The -vituperations by Mr. Ickes, however, are not different than his ittifi iwv* of thinking. As a part of the general picture of confusion resulting from the ac tivity of Mr. Roosevelt's friends, the recent tour of the country by Post master General Farley must be ex amined. Ambitions of Jim FarUy Arm Rmtkmr WmU Known The Farley transcontinental tour, however, is not impossible of anal ysis. First, Mr. Farley's ambi tions are rather well known. No man can be blamed for wanting to be elected President of the United States. If be were seeking facts about die political situation for use in behalf of Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Farley would have made exactly the same tour that he has made. But if the tour were in Mr. Roose velt's behalf, it is only natural to suppose that Mr. Roosevelt himself would not find it necessary to make a trip to the Pacific coast himself. So, as the guessing continues ?i?t the number of political leaders who suspect Mr. Roatovelt has started out to he a candidate for a third time continues to grow, the move moot on the Republican tido is completely overshadowed. milmiiVr {?Speaking of Sport* Hunt Goes On, But Joe Louis Needn't Worry By ROBERT McSHANE VIJ HEN Lou Nova, the not-eo-ter riflo California heavyweight, put an end to tHe comeback hopes at Maxie Baer, former toast of the na tion's night dubs, he did little to ward clearing up an extremely fog gy situation. It auy be that Neva?whs sleet ed to beat Baer the bard way, slagging K oat with him?has fee Louis' number. Bat that is highly debatable. Nova didn't laek like a world's champion, even to beating * axle to a bloody pulp- When be whipped Baer it was merely the ease at a mediocre youngster who had more lasting power than the rapidly slipping vet who faced Urn. Loo, judged by ths Louis stand ard, is far from being a great flght er. He is hard-working, csaectna ttons and ambitions. Bat be hasn't a punch. Had he been equipped with even a touch of dynamite in either hand, he wouldn't have won his last Cght by the technical knock out route. He would have stretched Maxie far the fan count. Fortunately, Baer wasn't injured badly enough to interrupt a success ful career in the movies. As a mat ter of fact, and unlike most prize flgfiters,' Baer wasn't a top-notch LOU NOVA AtfktAr na/4H inif kta tw/mrwa iltk A tew hammy performances for the movies. Instead, he was a second rate song and dance artist, doing very well in the light game. Merely a reversal of the usual procedure. It is not at all unlikely that Nova will get his wish and meet the champion this fall. Which means that he will probably be rushing his big opportunity. In two years Nova will be a better fighter. He will be more experienced?more ring-wise. And if Louis should be inactive for several months, soft ened by luxurious living and a trifle ring-rusty. Nova's chances will be multiplied many times. Not that Teay Galento should he ignored. This roly-poly swat maes tro ef the saloons is perhaps as eleee as any living fighter to Anther Jaefc 11 tie's portrayal at the abysmal brute. At least far publicity pur poses. However, it would be safe to assume that Oaiento has no place In championship ranks, at least judged by half-high standards. No Revenge for Joe Fans are said to be clamoring for a bout between Nova and Bob Pastor, the lad who so successfully ran away from'Louis and managed to go the entire route. A clamor, by the way, is a sport promoter's definition at a casual street corner conversation between any two citi zens. The idea of the fight, never theless, is deserving of considera tion. te step Me fee ring eoee mere with raster, whs shouldn't even be d?^biek,tteT.,ry *** tejm s5g*hmf^ts> take it short drairiac power is equal to Ttelen!!'* "in^B*P?nhAity tho search tot new championship timber will ex tend beyond the dee*} wood which h still cluttering up the fight ring. One of several possibilities is Patrick Edward Comiskey, 18-year-old lad with the brogue of an Irish come dian. Some of boxing's best dream ers can slip into a rapid trance and envision him as Joe Louis' npiaamil in a 1M1 championship bout There are several other future possibilities who map loom large Sute*oSsT hop? win hm i hitter rhino to > Nocturnal Holdouts A POLICY of resigned sccej* ^ aace is slowly thmning *? I ranks of the big league tnagnatasSI 16 strong, who a few jams af? I deelarad that night baarhai] dm nam thing of evil, to ba it iwsH as a .. plague. Thaagh there am a taw afaaa* 5 holdoots, a majority of fee .Beials ham ast only aetaTAs HfM, bat | they're aakfag far it as a steady . diet. Ligftttag ptaats ham already ? been iaataHed in three majw parks, , and may ho h a l?ai to jgnte I The first to break wfth precedent -j and inaugurate tha novel Idas was i r ~ u.m.n ?? Cincinnati.^ jad 11 protest or ni5 re >!r: $ tL&P^I Larry McPhlUl U1MI . schedule of seven night games?one T_ with each chib?arranged. ~ The Tentare breoght results. The ! Held was agate packed with hcwttog Z fans, dad though ether slab etey : ers weren't enthusiastic sheet jfia^ed ? tag night baseball, they were w?- * teg to take a eat of the gates afi-f | tracted hp the nectaraa] weetNte* When Larry moved to one of his first move* was to he- |g stall lighting equipment. Results *? were the same as to CinctanatL.w J American league clnbs began to J" evince interest, and soon permtoV sion was given 8trLotris4M|9^^^H system. However. Ughts were nev*| er Installed because no agreement# 1 could be readied with thsSC Louid# 1 Nationals, who used die same parley Mack Follows Suit Last winter Oaanto Mask. Altlat'T tagCltaa't t\ followed ssIL It won't be long before other ekM fall in line. Connie Mack's first? night game added*one or ^Miwetfl converts, including Clark Griffith Washington. And night bssehdi wfijL. I be a decided attraction as-hMgHPV clubs don't overdo it. Too mang*' night games would spell dteastosB ' by ruining the novalfp. Shduld mm I fictals be cantoat with two nighf games per year wifh each blub, bar they can b* assured of MmgMtaaM-.. tag crowds. Comiskey's CUebpiWhjjBWf I ta^^hltedehtoteTtha I Idea, and the sww <WMW?fH bocaaafi of the addMsusl TtosVl night gaatts will torio. . MmH loyal fan can't break away gftegM teg toe daytime, ted wanidnwh ||3 find a place In Una aftgr Ibhl* Throughout these United are fans by the hundred ttaanSA who are unable to attend weefc^MM games. They would wplniase thfif chance to do a Uttte noctonal ntoi.4 bling towatd the ball park, pladtel gate offeringe would do ? greed dK.9 hi restoring flnsnrtol MWlMBlB dernourished club tteasurtsa. > Night baseball win sltiiya few enemies. Some plSPmg.wfll^^H Ject to it on techntopl'gwainto MM undoubtedly they afe.connst to aE.S serting that elocM^to^^^^^^H baseball leaves esialWtPil^^B sired. Improved 'NfHMMnfl been a deciding factor to mbfchte. ? night baseball more popster, mC| further luipwuisdaewet toll to allay present anl.g.itms, DDLL* ROSE'S Aquacade afi^B ? New York World's fair tefi j}] longest swimming pool hi the WMhJ . . . Night baseball gamig.BaJ" run-on tndcfln;teljr Jc^the^Antsihgi after 11 i5S p. m. ... (ktotoj brrwi. who has been doing pdB I well for himself hi hSSMMHMI fighting circles, doubles.ss ill paper reporter for a Finnish newspaper . . . Jack Dempsey has aooa Wojftia ?iui nUns on enter-' tag the raOo M< ? ly gets under way . . . Wffiiam J.* Clarke baa coached Princeton's baseball teams for a quarter of a century ? ? IIITJ UtKU w have the heaviest hsikhlijjlj history not tell . . . The art*#? lifht bill for ? major league d Came la $800 . . . Largest bmB of entrants in the history st Osl tiOOsl Open golf cha'r.raotuhiHH 1,401 to 1WI- Sfciallest held MJ in 1W. >M *
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