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VoL LXV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939 No. 26
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE
U. S. Rupture of Japan Treaty
Seen as Isolationist Decision
In Wake of British Surrender
(EDITOR'S NOTE?When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
ore those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Released by Weatern Newspaper Union.
INTERNATIONAL:
Focus on Japan
The word "defeat" laid heavily on
Neville Chamberlain's brow. In
Tokyo, his British Ambassador Sir
Robert Leslie Craigie had signed
peace terms with Japan in which
Mr. Chamberlain's government
promised not to obstruct the Jap
anese army in its war with China.
But first guesses are sometimes
wrong. Though Berlin's Voelkixher
Beobachter sneered "Very Dis
agreeable, Mr. Chamberlain," and
though Secretary of State Cordell
Hull warned this meant the end of
U. S.-British "parallel action" in the
Orient, Britain herself felt satisfied.
To Shanghai's British chamber of
AMBASSADOR HORINOUCHI
Mora bad newt it coming.
commerce, which protested vehe
mently, Mr. Chamberlain gave an
explanation something like this:
The U. S. was to blame, since she
refused to raise a finger to protect
occidental influence in China against
1 Jap aggression. But by granting
Japan rights in China, Britain satis
fied Tokyo's grievances against
western democracies and thus "de
tached" her from the threatening
Rome-Berlin axis. Moreover the
European tension made such a set
tlement unavoidable, since Britain
could not protect both her Asiatic
and European interests. As a re
sult, full emphasis can now be
placed on blocking Hitler and Mus
solini; Britain's worries in the Ori
ent are over.
But were they? Critics warned
Mr. Chamberlain that U. S. isola
tion might result from this unprece
dented surrender. That very thing
looked possible a few days later
whan Cordell Hull flatly terminated
the 28-year "treaty of general com
merce and friendship" with Japan.
Though Jap Ambassador Kensuke
Horinouchi got a formal explanation
that certain provisions of the pact
"need new consideration," he knew
it was but the first of several slaps.
A few months from now the U. S.
will probably hotify Ambassador
Horinouchi of an arms embargo
against Japan. Meanwhile, Japan
turned the tables by announcing its
price for a new treaty would be U. S.
recognition of a "new order" in
China.
As for Britain, there was growing
opinion in Washington that Neville
Chamberlain is to be trusted no
more than Japan. Having sold Brit
ish interests in China down the riv
er, having violated both the nine
COTTON
IN NEW YORK: Since Britain
agreed in her Anglo-American
barter plan to take additional cot
ton (or whatever subsidy was es
tablished, the ltt cents per pound
rate recently announced will give
her roughly 100,000 additional
bales, or a total of 700,000 bales.
IN WASHINGTON: The U. S.
and Japan agreed to extend (or
one year their Philippine islands
cotton pact, under which Jap ex
porters of cotton piece goods
agree to limit the annual Philip
pine importation of Japanese cot
ton piece goods to 45,000,000
square meters. >
IN MEMPHIS: Pres. Oscar
Johnston of the National Cotton
council planned a conference with
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace to improve consump
tion and price of cottonseed, thus
averting "threatened disaster."
power and Kellogg pact, he probably
winced at the next news: Japan got
an inch and took a mile, announcing
all foreign shipping would be
banned from Canton.
POLITICS:
Rift
Interesting to Republican politi
cians was the" announcement that
Ohio's Gov. John W. Bricker would
seek another term, and not run for
the G. O. P. presidential nomina
tion. This left convention delegates
from Mr. Bricker's state a clear
field to plump for Ohio's Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft, who simultaneously
told his supporters to get to work.
But Democratic politicians had
even more interesting?if more puz
zling?news about 1940. Off to Eu
rope (on the same boat with G. O. P.
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton)
sailed Postmaster General James
A. Farley after a mystifying cq?r
ence at Hyde Park with President
Roosevelt. Only after-conference
-word k> reporters was Mr. Roose
velt's remark -that such talks had
been going on for years.
But everyone knew the subject of
1940's presidential election had been
broached, most observers thought
Jim Farley had pressed his boss for
an announcement regarding his
third-term candidacy, and a few
thought there was a definite rift be
tween the two men which may break
into headlines this fall.
Reasons: Mr. Farley is a poten
tial caifiiidate who cannot risk an
announcement until after the Presi
dent himself speaks. Otherwise he
would lose much New Deal sup
port. Even so, bad blood began
simmering during the Supreme
court fight, boiled during last year's
"purge" and boiled even harder
when Farley's enemy, Paul McNutt,
got a fat administrative job.
MEDICINE:
Victory
Last summer Trust Buster Thur
man Arnold obtained indictments
against the American Medical asso
ciation, three other lesser medical
groups and 21 physicians on the
ground that they had conspired to
restrain trade binder the Sherman
anti-trust act. Specific case: Group
Health Association, Inc., a low-cost
medical group formed by govern
ment employees in Washington,
charged that certain hospitals and
doctors refused to accept patients
referred by their doctors.
Best guesses last summer held the
indictments were a weapon over A.
M. A.'s head to force modification
of its Gibraltar-like stand against
socialized medicine. A few weeks
later A. M. A.'s board of governors
actually did modify this stand and
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A. M. A.'8 F1SHBEIN
No pogrom, mo mood of it
observers thought the case would be
dropped.
Late July found A. M. A. scoring
a victory. At Washington's District
of Columbia federal court. Justice
James M. Proctor dismissed the
proceedings on ground that the prac
tice of medicine is a profession, not
a trade, therefore does not fall un
der the Sherman act.
While Wendell Berge, Mr. Ar
nold's assistant, told reporters that
a government appeal "seems to me
a foregone conclusion," A. M. A.'s
Journal editor smiled over his vic
tory at headquarters in Chicago.
Said he, expansively: The A. M. A.'s
principles and policies neither for
bid nor ever have contemplated
"any opposition to a well-considered
expanded program of medical serv
ice, when the need can be estab
lished."
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PUZZLERS f
Do you know your news? Answer
all five and your mark is 100; four, 80;
three, 60; two, 40; one, 20; none, 0!
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AtfTA cncicf CAP
1. Why is south polar area be
tween twentieth and sixty-eighth
meridian (shown on map) now in
the news?
2. True or False: The Rev.
Gerouid Goldner, Ohio prisoner
kylnaped by Arabs, was released
after kissing each of bis captors
on both cheeks.
3. Choice: An unprecedented
drouth recently hit the (north
west) (southeast) (southwest)
(northeast) section of the O. S.
4. What nationally important
event is scheduled to happen
August }5 in St. Joseph and
Marshal] counties, Ind.?
5. What "boner" did R. S. Hud
son, British secretary for- over
seas trade, pull during his re
cent talk with Germany's Hel
muth Wohitat?
(Answer* at bottom ol column.)
CONGRESS:
'Splendinff
By the time it reached the senate
floor, President Roosevelt's $2,490,
000,000 spend-lend bill had become
a personal headache to Majority
Leader Alben W. Berkley, a scorn
center of scoffing Republicans (who
called it "splending") and a catch
all reservoir into which were
<?riders as
that of Montana's Democratic Sen.
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SENATOR BARKLEY
He look plenty of tcom.
James E. Murray, who sought to re
store old prevailing WPA wages.
By cautious elimination. Leader
Berkley was removing every possi
ble obstacle to passage by the time
honored method of modification. By
this time it was a matter of face
saving, for any sort of a bill at all
would be better than utter defeat.
Major modification was elimination
pf the toll provision on the projected
$900,000,000 road-building program.
Mr. Barkley also took scorn from
Michigan's Sen. Arthur V and en berg
("Another tug at boot-strap lifting")
from Virginia's Harry Byrd ("The
whole scheme is devised to evade
the debt limit") and from Georgia's
Walter F. George ("A palpable
fraud on its face"). Besides the pub
lic debt issue, opposition centered
around the impossibility of hiking
bonded indebtedness in already
hard-pressed states and cities.
Moreover, spend-lend philosophy
failed in last year's election. But
with adjournment hanging on the
bill. Leader Barkley kept hoping.
Also In congress:
C Passed by the senate, the general
transportation bill of Montana's Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler was shelved
for this session because of house dif
ferences.
C Middle-west congressmen sought
discussions on a proposal to barter
lard to Germany in exchange for
products now on the U. S. tariff free
list.
Answers to Puzzlers
I. Argentina claims sovereignty
over this land, disputing U. f. and
British claims, especially those to
be made by Rear Adm. Richard E.
Byrd In forthcoming U. S. Antarctic
expedition.
? True: Reverend Goldner and
his captors kissed and swore "eternal
friendship."
3 Northeast.
4. Questions to be asked in IMS
census will be tested there.
9. Made unauthorized offer ef huge
loan to "buy" peace from Germany.
Bruckarft Washington Digest
Shaping of National Policies
Influenced by Work of Congress
Party Defections, Defeats and Victories of President Have
Important Place in Picture; Growing Split in
Democratic Party Blamed on Roosevelt.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WND Service, National Press Bid;., Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON.?When one exam
ines political situations and ma
neuvers, there is nearly always a
tendency to overestimate the impor
tance of the current activity. That
is to say, an action or a policy just
completed is generally likely to be
given an appraisal that exaggerates
its significance. Political plans, on
the contrary, ought to be looked
upon in the mass. This is especially
true of national politics which, of
course, involves the national party
and voting strength. '
For these reasons, there seems to
be need for a review of the first ses
sion of the seventy-sixth congress.
The things that have happened, the
party defections and party realign
ments, temporary defeats for the
President and balancing victories
for him add his political philosophy,
all should be analyzed. The result
-Qt all of these .things is the import
tant bit of history. It is important
because it has a direct bearing on
the 1940 political campaign and vot
ing. It is more valuable to see the
shaping of national policies at this
time than usual because of the ef
forts being made to put forward
President Roosevelt for a precedent
breaking third term in the White
House.
Most every one has been aware,
since 1936, that a split in Democrat
ic party strength has been growing.
Mr. Roosevelt, himself, led the way
and was perhaps the main cause at
the present wide breach. It will be
remembered how he sought to
"purge" the Democratic party at
Senators George of Georgia; Smith,
of South Carolina; Ty dings, of
Maryland; and Representative
O'Connor of New York. He failed
on all except the New York repre
sentative. So there were three
senior members of the United
States able, openly, to battle Mr.
Roosevelt's policies. Around these
three have since collected all of
those Democrats who fear radical
leadership in the party; who fear a
l Roosevelt third term and who are
determined to restore party control
to those who have been responsible
for a long line of party successes.
Old-Line Demoerate Succeed
In Building 1940 Platform
There has been much written and
spoken about maneuvers under
neath, and what the results of these
maneuvers are. I am inclined to
the opinion, however, that only now
after seven months of the first ses
sion of the seventy-sixth congress
are we able to evaluate them prop
erly. The various acts of congress,
the various attitudes and defeats
and victories can now be placed in
the basket. When they are shaken
up, it strikes me that the old line
Democrats have succeeded in build
ing what amounts to a national
Democratic platform for 1940. And
that platform can reasonably be
said to be one upon which no real
New Dealer can run for the presi
dency next year.
Perhaps, the statement or senator
Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania evalu
ates the circumstance better than I
can do. Guffey, New Dealer, closer
associate of the President than Mr.
Roosevelt sometimes desired, as
serted in a recent radio address that
Mr. Roosevelt "has had no term in
the White House at all, for his work
was destroyed by the Supreme court
in the first term and was wrecked
by tories in the second years."
When one places the seething
mass of legislation, bureaucracy
and propaganda under a micro
scope, Mr. Guffey undoubtedly is
correct?if the view is from the
New Deal angle, alone. The wild
reforms proposed by the brain trust
of the first term were knocked down
by the Supreme court. Further at
tempts to rebuild America were
slowed down by congress, little by
little, until the current session of
congress has been telling the Presi
dent what to do in a great many
instances. Thus, it can be said, the
President remade the Supreme
court to his liking.
Congress Takes Back Power
Delegated to Mr. Roosevelt
It becomes less difficult, there
fore, to sit back now and use hind
sight. We see, practically from the
time of the "purge," how congress
began to take back powers it dele
gated to Mr. Roosevelt in the hectic
day* of 1933 and 1934. A bite here
and a bite there. The pinnacle was
?
reached when the senate kicked out
the President's power to devalue the
dollar and took away the right to
buy silver, with a repulsive and dis
gusting subsidy. Of course, after a
brief lapse, those powers were given
back to the President, but there is
significance in that fact. It showed
that when congress is ready, it will
be just as free to take away from
the President as it was to give pow
ers to him before the party breach.
In between the extremes just
mentioned, and particularly within
the current session of congress,
there have been unmistakable signs
of congressional domination. I do
not mean to say that the Democrat
ic wheelhorses in congress have
thrown the President overboard.
They have chosen to chisel away his
strength; they have avoided knock
down and drag-out battles as much
paramount. Their strategy plainly
has been to build strength for them
selves in their own districts and in
their own states rather slowly. The
whole thing amounts to a program
of education of the voters who a few
brief years ago were hailing Mr.
Roosevelt as the national savior. I
believe the work has gone so far
now that most of the Democrats in
congress have considerable support
in their home playgrounds,
as tl- *ri a a_ J
iwt U4i/ m nwifi i nut nrmv/cu
\*u Deal Factum of Party
Reduction of the WPA fund total
early in the spring, while email,
waa just another annoying moaquito
bite on the New Dealers' lags. The
voting of furloughs for WPA work
ers who have had 18 months of con
tinuous checks was disliked by and
was thoroughly distasteful to the
New Deal faction of the party.
Nor did Mr. Roosevelt want to see
congress change the tax laws. Sen
ator Harrison of Mississippi, togeth
er with Undersecretary Haynes of
the treasury, worked out the law
that was passed. It eliminated the
principal schemes for reform that
the New Dealers had sponsored in
the days when congress was com
pletely subservient to the White
House. It is to be noted just here,
too, that these tax changes had the
support of Chairman Doughton of
the house ways and means commit
tee, who had been a dependable
"yes man" for the President, up to
that time.
Changes that were made In the so
cial security laws were never ac
ceptable to the inner circle of New
Dealers who constitute the Presi
dent's principal advisors. But,
again, congress showed its teeth in
only a snarl.
The senate foreign relations com
mittee gave the administration
something more than name-calling,
however, on the question of neutral
ity legislation. This, of course, fol
lowed a real spanking by the house.
The house, it will be recalled, took j
the administration's neutrality pro
gram and butchered it right out
where all could see what was going
on.
President Gets Plain Mad (
Thm Way Thing? Arm Going
It might be proper at thia time to
call attention to another phase of
the situation here, although it can
hardly be said to be a part of the
circumstance that I hare been dis
cussing. Lately, Mr. Roosevelt has
had his "Dutch up," so to speak,
and has not minced words. For ex
ample, he called in Lyle Wilson,
head of the United Press bureau
here, and denounced Mr. Wilson and
his organization for sending out dis
patches which the President said
were untrue. These dispatches, or
one, particularly, told ot a purport
ed split between Mr. Roosevelt and
the able and patient Secretary Hull
of the Department of State. Their ;
differences were reported to be over
the President's policy on neutrality.
Anyway, the Incident wound up with
the President taking the almost un
precedented action of issuing a pub
lic statement accusing the United
Press of falsification of the facts.
This series of incidents came
after many reports were in circula
tion at the Capitol that Mr. Roose
velt was mad about the way things
were going. Whether these reports
were true or false, they were seized
upon by Republicans and by the
Democrats who no longer want any
part of Roosevelt policy.
MH?4brW?w>SmswemaU
Speaking of Sports
Pro Golf War
Simmers; New
Hostilities Seen
By ROBERT McSHANE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
THOUGH the Battle of Pomonok
is now past history, it may have
repercussions which will effect the
entire structure of the' Professional
Golfers' association.
Ton are undoubtedly familiar with
golfdom's [reit war. Storm eloads
started Catherine as soon as P. G. A.
officials notified Denny Shute, two
time tournament winner, that he was
guilty of a technicality in not pay
ing his 1939 association does within
properly prescribed time limits, and
therefore was not eligible to play
in the P. G. A. classic on the Pomo
nok coarse at Flushing, N. T.
Suite's fellow players were
aroused. In fact, they were . so
aroused they decided not to play
until the tournament committee lift
ed its official ban against Denny.
The striking players held up tourna
ment play for two hours before that
permission was finally granted.
One man was responsible for de
claring Shute in. That was George
Jacobus, president of P. G. A. He
over-ruled his 11 governors through
his action, thereby making 11 poten
tial enemies. Jacobus' position was
not an-enviable one. He, of course,
realized Shute had violated P. G. A.
by-laws, and was constitutionally in
eligible to play. On the other hand,
he was aware of the association's
duty to the large gallery which had
to.
DENNY SHUTE
gathered to ice the play. And it
eeemed there wouldn't be any play
unlets Shute was in the midst of it
It has since been revealed that
Shute was ia favor ef dropping the
protest and withdrawing in the in
terests ef diplomacy. When the ar
gument was at its height. Dene
mere said. In effect:
"The eSciala have my okay. The
rales are on their side, and I lest
my chance to play. 80 forget this
strike and go ont and play gelt.'*
No Retreat
Then Hortoo Smith moved the
players' strike ultimatum be with
drawn. Johnny Farrell backed him
up. But to no avail. The rent of
the players felt they would lose pres
tige by beating a retreat.
President Jacobus saved further
argument by issuing the "Shute
plays" edict. Perhaps it was for
tunate that Shute did not win. The
governors couldn't stop Denny from
playing, but they could exercise cer
tain rights in certifying the P. O. A.
champion.
The meet more closely resembled
a dog light than a golf tournament
Members of the club, who had re
linquished playing rights in order to
give the pros a chance to display
their ability, were completely die
Rebellious players, many of whom
built up the pro tournament, were
far from pleased with the unfavor
able press notices devoted to the af
fair. They did not want to settle
the Shute issue in such a drastic
manner, but seemingly' thought it
the only way out.
The governors did not Bke Jaco
bus' method of handling the dispute.
They had voted Shute ineligible on
two occasions, and expected their
president to abide by the official de
cision. He did not do so.
At present there Is tafe that As
stars Intend Is foreman evganiislian
saeeessfsl it may sound the death
knell sf the P. G. A. The orgaaisa
Uea needs the stars far nin than
the stars need H.
The questions will be answered
at the executive meeting in No
vember. Either some of the die
bards will be dropped from the or
ganization, or the stars win strike
out for themselves.
Right now the Utter sotation
seems th* more likely.
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pictnred here iniwNj' Woke a
learae pitchta* reeord ekfe* was
established ie UN. Whe U he?
2?Who woe this |hfi Profes
sional Getters' asasristtse tar
J?What (enter baseball stars
were earned to the Batt at Psbm
ia Cooperstema Ms year?
4?What two America* teaais
players competed ia flit isals at
the AO-Easlish tearaaateat at
5?Whe wea the h?W heaep
wetcht title nisatjjr W a Haw
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Billy the Kid
DESPITE the reams of copy writ
ten in praised! Bll)y CStm, the
new light heavyweight champion.
boxing experts refuse to look upon
him as a glorious addition to the
pugilistic prohissif
pressive lS-rewnd beet toSb Matte
to danger to abearbtog very net
pomisbmc si
All this was rather nd>wiMag to
view of the fact that many of toe
better-known long-rangd fritglsMII
cators envisioned him nisi Msg) Joa
Louis in the not-eo-distant future.
They declare the light heaij<tl|M
championship is ??? a step on
his way to bigger things?that he
will soon be causing consternation
in heavyweight clrrlsw 1 f . JJ?
/?sag, {Wildto. baa a reaped
eonstitatiaw sad a Igbdtor heart,
and to really fast. tost Me i to ll to
only mildly trrttattog svae to a gtoaa
Jaw.
Perhaps he win belt over n couple
of lukewarm beavywetatt-' His
dancing, stabbing styla mattes him
an elusive, slippery customer. But
he hse s long wsy to go before he's
ready to meet the Brown Beoaber.
Thorn who saw the flgtd admit that
Louis could take both Billy Conn and
Melio Bet tins in the aatne ring on
the same evening and whip them
very handily.
Sport Shorts
I I UNK ANDERSON, Elmer Lay
II den's iindtLissn a* Notre
Dame, has been made mice man
ager of one of the leading r rrhide
companies in the United States . . .
The blind have *
(oil champion. He la
Clinton Russell at
Duhith, Minn. R*
sell plays in the lew
80s. He has his "see
ins-eye" caddy tea
the bell end adjust
the club. RqsmQ
does tha net,' and
if s eery good golf
... Should CSnein
nan win ma nam- ctetesa <9 1
out-of-town fan* maj Haaetel
be forced to sleep hi -
tent* if tbey attend tb? worti Ba
rter The Amerifcan Federation at
Labor has an early October meeting
in Cincinnati, and hate ntotead
akndat every hotel room , Tom
Sharkey's new stationary establishes
him an "Champion Heavyweight of
the World's Navies."
THE ANSWERS j
games tar the Philadelphia A'a
to IMS. | I
and Willie Healer.