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JOK E. BROWN has been hav
ing a grand time (or himself
lately. With his latest picture,
"Earthworm Tractor," welcomed
by the public as one of the funni
est he's ever made, he started off
on a vacation.
Being a rabid baseball fan, he
took in a few games when he
reached the East enroute to Eu
rope. In New York he went to a
double-header between the Yankees
and the St. Louis Browns, and pre
sented to that sensational new
Yankee outfielder, Joe DiMaggio,
the award for being the most valu
able player in the Coast league in
1935.
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William Powell has sold his or
nate home with the gold door knobs
and is living in sim
pier quarters. Those
rumors of a ro
* ma nee between him
» and Jean Harlow
' / o>s st '" persist but
apparently every
k JI . body who's unat-
I taehed wants to
marry him nowa-
Ifc* days, and that in-
A~. eludes girls who've
, h->*;s4
never even seen
William him, except on the
Powell screen. Incidental
ly, Powell is re
garded by actors everywhere as
one of the most skillful and talent
ed members of the profession—a
tribute which is justly deserved.
Apparently nobody's happy any
more until they've seen Holly
wood. Young John Jacob Astor and
his wife are the latest recruits of
note; they are on their way to the
film metropolis in a private car.
Bob Burns (don't tell me you
haven't heard him and his bazooka
on the Bing Crosby broadcasts!)
is having honors heaped upon him.
He worked in "Rhythm on the
Range" with Bing, so the picture's
premiere was staged in Little Rock,
Ark., because Bob hails from the
Ozarks.
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Once upon a time The Revelers
were the most popular quartette on
the air. From time to time one of
the sweet singers would drop out
and make a name for himself all
alone—Jimmy Melton was one who
did it, Frank Luther was another—
but somebody else would' Step in
and the result would still be swell.
You don't hear so much about
them as you used to, but they're
still on the air, at 6:35 afternoons—
and they're still one of the best.
Cowboys have for years been
known As devoted fans when West
ern pictures are shown, a fact
which puzzled one motion picture
executive so much that he ques
tioned some of them about it. He
wanted to know whether they went
because the pictures were so much
like their own life.
"Oh, no, they ain't like our life
at all," one of them explained. "We
go because maybe we think that's
the way other cowboys go on."
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There'll be excitement on the air
waves in September, when Major
Bowes and his amateurs go into
action at the same time as the
'Showboat" broadcasts. Nobody's
sure which program the great pub
lic will prefer—some say the listen
er.s-in are getting tired of ama
teurs, and others claim that
"Showboat" has been sailing too
long.
"San rraneisco" is a grand pic
ture, and is making money every
where it's shown,
especially in San •
Francisco. Yet the
Chamber of Com
rnerce of that city ■
is still trying to get P
Metro to take out - Mtg
the earth quake
scenes! Very wise
ly, Metro is refus
ing lots of people J
go to see the pic
lure especially to
see them. The pic- Clark Gable
ture has added to
the popular Clark Gable's following
and has demonstrated again that
he has a great deal of versatility
as an actor.
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ODDS AND ENDS . . . Remember
"Hub/ Peggy"? She's a big girl now,
making a screen come-back under her
whole name, Margaret Montgomery, and
you'll see her in a small part in "Girls'
Dormitory" . , . Ginger Hogers had a
birthday party recently, uith tiny dancing
figures representing herself and Fred
Aitair* on top of the cake . . . If hem
"Suing Time" is finished Fred will go
to England with his wife and son for a
location, and Ginger hopes to lake a va
cation in Hawaii before starling "Moth
er Carey's Chickens" ... It looks as if
that fH,000,000 suit which I'uramount has
brought against Samuel Golduyn for sign
ing Gary Cooper must possibly be a
publicity stunt . . . Sutely Gary can sign
with anybody he wants to when hit pres
ent contract expires . . . The Tower of
London wus the scene of the pre view of
"Nine Days a Queen," an English pic
ture based on the story of Lady Jane
Grmy.
4) W«aurs Ncwap*i>«r Union.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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I—Gen. Edward Rydz-Smigly, who has been proclaimed Poland's first citizen, a post which virtually
drops him into the boots of the late Marshal Pilsudski. 2—Tanks rumble through Spain's cities, as the leftist
government tries to crush the military revolt. 3—Veterans of the Second division dedicate a memorial to
their fallen comrades in Washington, D. C.
Perry Is Tennis Chainp for Third Time
Wimbledon, England.—Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Germany (left)
congratulates Fred Perry of England, who defeated him in straight sets
to win the men's singles at Wimbledon for the third successive year.
The German, however, injured a thigh muscle in the first set.
GIVES ALL TO CHARITY
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In a momentous decision based
on "divine inspiration," Elsie Janis,
one-time popular .stage star and
"sweetheart of the A. E. F." dur
ing the World war, has disclosed
plans to dispose of her worldly pos
sessions and to devote the proceeds
and her life to local charities.
Civilians and Their Dogs Parade in Gas Masks
Tokyo.—Civilians and their dogs parade through the streets of the Japanese capital wearing gas masks in a
demonstration ot the preparedness of the civilian population for a gas attack when and if the next war comes.
THE DANBURY REPORTER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936
Skipper of Yawl Wins Honolulu Race
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"You're first to finish!" James Wilder, judge, tells James Flood
(left) owner of the 51-foot yawl Dorade, at the end of the longest yacht
race in America—2,22s miles from California to Honolulu. The Dorade, of
San Francisco, crossed the finish line with an elapsed time of 13 days 7
hours 46 minutes and 53% seconds. The Circe, of Seattle, was second.
FILLS FARLEY'S POST
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William W. Howes, who is acting
postmaster general during the
leave of absence of Postmaster
General James A. Farley, who is
directing the Democratic party's
campaign to re-elect President
Roosevelt. Mr. Howes' regular
post is first assistant postmaster
general.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart TmMHißf
National Pre«« Building
Washington.—The United States
is being given an object lesson in
what happens when
The People government at-
Mutt Pay tempts to interfere
with nature.
American farmers these days are
threshing their wheat crop. The
production is that of a reduced acre
age, an acreage that was planned
on theory by the Department of
Agriculture. The result is that this
year's American wheat crop will
approximate 640,000,000 bushels.
That is about 145,000,000 bushels
less than the average crop during
the five years from 1929 to 1933.
The result is a shortage.
Department of Agriculture fig
ures indicate that the total wheat
crop in the world this year will be
something like 650,000,000 bushels
below the annual production. In
other words, the wheat crop is
short everywhere on earth and the
result is obvious.
In our own case, there is normal
ly a carry-over each year of about
125,000,000 bushels but due to the
shortage of the crop this year that
carry-over is insufficient to make
up the needs of domestic consump
tion.
Consequently, we soon will see
heavy importations of Canadian
wheat, a wheat that can be blended
in milling with our own production
and a very satisfactory flour re
sults. Yet, it must be remem
bered that on all importations of
wheat from Canada or anywhere
else, a tariff of 42 cents a bushel
must be paid. It is clear, therefore,
that consumers of bread must pay
that tariff because the importers
are going to pass that item of ex
pense along as part of the cost of
the flour. In addition to the short
age in the United States, Canadian
wheat production is reported to be
something like 100,000,000 bushels
under normal. There is sufficient
production in Canada to permit of
export, of course, but the shortage
is bound to be reflected in the
prices.
And mention of the price brings
us back to the individual effect of
the combination of acreage, re
duced by government edict, plus
the act of nature in visiting a
drouth upon us. Scarcity always
results in higher prices. It is the
operation of the law of supply and
demand. The Roosewlt farm- apt*
icy has been predicated on the the
ory that scarcity would produce
higher prices and thereby add to
the farm income. But drouth and
other production hazards cannot be
predicted and, therefore, the Amer
ican people find themselves in a
position where the unpredictable
has happened and the farmers are
not getting the benefit of higher
prices on a natural and normal
production.
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There seems to be a stronger
demand for wheat now than at any
time during the
Induitry i as t five or six
Opena Up years. It indicates
a restoration of
buying power on the part of the
masses. In other words, industry
again is opening up to some ex
tent and employing workers al
though the increase in employment
has been small thus far.
In consequence of this combina
tion of circumstances, there is
now a seller's market in wheat in
stead of a buyer's market in wheat.
To say it another way, there are
more people seeking to bus wheat
than there are seeking to sell it
and the consumers of flour will pay
the bill. Byway of contrast with
present conditions, it may be point
ed out that world wheat consump
tion has exceeded world wheat pro
duction in every year except one
since 1929. In the 1932 crop year
there was slightly more wheat pro
duced in the world than was con
sumed. The result of the steady
growth in consumption over pro
duction in the last few years has
been to wipe out all of the carry
over—wheat stored in bins and ele
vators throughout the world—and
in every country users of wheat art
scraping the bottoms of their bins.
The tragedy of it all is that, be
cause of the reduced acreage and
the drouth in the United States,
American farmers are not in a po
sition to take advantage of the high
er prices thus established by the
sale of surplus wheat which
may have been accumulated if the
acreage had been normal.
Instead of the United States real
ly controlling the market for wheat,
w« are in a position where a good
many other countries may be en
couraged to grow more wheat. The
natural end obvious results of this
will be-to further curtail the outlet
for American wheat which so long
has been relied on hy many foreign
nations that are non-producers of
wheat.
I do not know how far the New
Deal intends to go in revising its
basic economic policy regarding
crop controlling. I can be sure of
only one thing in regard to the
New Deal plans: The visitation of
the drouth in two yedra in which
the political planners of the New
Deal attempted to upset natural
laws has proved the inability of
man to alter the course of nature
and by the same token these con
ditions have proved the inability of
government to change human na
ture. I do not know whether oth
ers will agree with my conclusion
or not but I am of the opinion that
the American farmers are paying
dearly for the crop control checks
they received in the past two years.
Even with a crop shortened by
drouth, if there had been the nor
mal acreage of wheat, American
farmers would have reaped the re
ward to which they are so justly
entitled.
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A year or two ago, a committee
of the American Bar association
made a report def-
Bar Offers initely critical of
New Plan the New Deal ad
ministration for
having created so many agencies
to which had been given functions
almost like the courts. That re
port pointed out how such units as
the now dead NRA and the equally
dead AAA could issue rules and
regulations that were enforceable as
law. They called attention to the
further fact that countless of these
rules and regulations carried strict
and severe penalties, even to the
extent of a jail term for an indi
vidual violator.
Lately, another committee of the
American Bar association has pub
lished another report, again calling
attention to the un-American princi
ples established in such bureau
cratic control. It offers a construc
tive proposal for the elimination
of bureaucratic management of in
dividual affairs from Washington.
It proposes the establishment of an
administration court which would
have power to enforce these rules
and regulations but would be
equipped with the judicial
determination so that the thoi,' TO ?
upon thousands of regulation Walfc
their various penalties wouia "not
be enforced upon an individual ac
cused of their violation without giv
ing that alleged violator the right
of a hearing. The committee pro
posal, in other words, would put an
end to determination of violations
by one bureaucrat.
Ultimately, the proposed court
would take over the judicial work
of all of the administrative agen
cies in Washington now numbering
something like 75. The initial op
eration of the court would be limit
ed until it could bring something
like uniformity out of the chaos
now existing for it is well known
that in many cases two govern
mental agencies will have rules on
the same point and those rules will
not be the same. In some aggra
vated situations, it has been found
that one agency will prescribe a
penalty against an individual busi
ness for doing one thing while an
other agency will have no penalty
for the same act. Another instance
is known where two agencies have
virtually the same regulations but
the penalties in he two rules are
different.
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I suppose the condition can be
explained by the fact that dozens
of new bureaus
Too Many have been set up
Bureaut under the scores
of New Deal laws
and that in the haste to get them
into operation, no co-ordination was
had between the various groups,
but it is my belief that private
citizens cannot be blamed for this
condition. Since they cannot be
blamed for failure of government
to function properly, they ought not
be compelled to answer for the silly
differences in law which bureau
crats have written under authority
of congress to draft necessary reg*
ulations.
After all, congress is really to
blame for this condition. It rushed
through laws which President
Roosevelt demanded and it did not
take time to debate the provisions
nor did it examine the sections to
know fully what results would flow
from them. In many cases, too
many, statements of general legis
lative policy were not clear and
congress abdicated its duties to tha
extent that it wrote into those laws
provisions saying that the agency
which was to enforce the particu
lar law was given authority to
write whatever rules and regula
tions were found to be necessary.
Some authority of this kind alwaya
has been given in order to maka
the national laws flexible but they
never have been given to such an
extent as they have in tha last
three years.
Insufficient time has elapsed
since the American Bar association
committee came forth with its ad
ministrative court proposal for an
analysis to be made of its poten
tialities. It may, and probably does,
have weaknesses. It does, how*
ever, have a strong point to
the general idea that a judicial
body should determine whether an
individual citizen has violated a
bureaucrat's law and what the pen
alty should be rather than have
that bureaucrat sit aa prosecutor,
judge and jury in telling the indi
vidual citizen what hia crime b*a
been.
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