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mffiita,wiii'iii!ivijwi')iwiw)iiii!(w . T 5' J i ( 1 I THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, N. C THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1935 I'IWI1HWIJii.),I .... .t i'v - BRISBANE THIS WEEK Busy Dictators Hitler, Peace Angel ' Lie Test for Hauptmann? All Heard the Moans Europe's dictators borrow Ideas from each other. Mussolini, perhaps uncon sciously, copied Rl- enzi, who ended vl olently. Hitler saw how well Musso lini's Idea worked and adopted it. Do) fuss tried It In Vienna, endeu bf.d ly. Kemul Pasha has made a success of it thus far in Tur key, throwing sul tans overboard, Mo hammed, the fez, veils for women also. Kerual says, "If iHitler can defy the league and kick over the Versailles treaty, so can I." He will fortify the Dardanelles, in spite of the treaty that created a neu tral zone adjoining the narrow water passage that separates Europe from Asia, at Constantinople. 6 h Arthar Brisbane Hitler, turning with a rapidity that would startle any worm, now declares himself guardian angel of Europe, of fering to start a world peace guaran teed to last 20 years. That would de pend on Japan and Russia. There is a scientific test for lying. Try as he may to control himself, a man lying undergoes physical and psy chologlcal changes that a certain scien tific apparatus reproduces In a "graph' when the lying begins. Mrs. Hauptmann, her husband sen tenced to dnath for kidnaping the Lind bergh baby, suggests that her husband be subjected to the "lie test," adding, "he would be freed Instantly." CURRENT EVENTS PASS IN REVIEW FRANCE AND ITALY MOBILIZE ARMIES AS CONFERENCES BE GIN AT BERLIN. By EDWARD W. PICKARD O. Western Newpper Union. nr LULi Anthony Eden He could not be "freed Instantly" be cause the law does not yet recognize the "He test" as conclusive, but the ex periment would be Interesting. The iframing of questions, which should be put in fewest possible words and as startlingly as possible, would be im portant. New Jersey's Attorney General Wil entz, who brought about the conviction, would be the man to frame the questions. Consider the principal of the Schaff Junior High school at Parma, Ohio. That principal, having decided to beat five boys caught smoking In the school building, using his microphone, ordered all classes and all noise stopped throughout the school while the five boys were "paddled" near the micro phone for the whole school to hear. The story goes, "Startled students next heard the 'Whack! Whack!' of the paddles and the moans of the culprits." A girl baby two weeks old, smil ing, pretty, dressed in pink and white, found abandoned in a New York hall way, was taken to the Foundling hos pital, a sort of "pound" for lost chil dren. If a good-looking chow, Boston bull or Irish wolfhound two weeks old had been found, there would be a thousand only too glad to take and care for It Our alleged cousins the chimpanzees could hardly believe that There are miracles of various kinds, even in healing leprosy. It can be done, as the Bible shows, by super natural power. It can be done by science. Jaclntho Moura, Portuguese chemist. In Rio de Janeiro, smashed a finger, and while suffering acute pain accidentally dipped the finger In a liquid vegetable extract that he was preparing. This vegetable liquid, ob tained from a wild Brazilian plant, mixed with chalmoogra oil, according to Dr. Fernando Terra, director of the Rio de Janeiro hospital, has already cured 17 lepers. Some accidents are valuable. The injured finger showed the way to an Important cure. At Kovno, Lithuania, four Nazis are sentenced to death on the gallows for plotting to separate Memel from Lith uania. Mr. Hitler, deeply grieved by the fate of four Nazis, la said to have protested to Sir John Simon, although it Is not clear what that Britisher could do about it The opinions of two ladles whose heads were recently chopped off, by order of Chancellor Hitler, would be Interesting, but will never be known. Once the head Is chopped expression of opinion ceases. Mussolini says "Italy offers the world a spectacle of calm,'' ' and promptly raises his army to 660,000 men, promising to make It 2,000,000. Be says, -Let U be clear that oar de- sir for peace Is backed by several million'- bayonets." , That Is calm (or MnssoIlnL Congressman Patman, Texas Demo crat, puts the boons matter In few words. Be says those that Insist on issuing . Interest-bearing ' bonds are managing a scheme to pay "two bil lions to coupon clippers and two bll- lions to veterans." ' N-' Why make taxpayers pay the two billions to "bond clippers" when ft la .sot necessary T .; i-i. ; A tilt rnn MdlHtt 1Mb - l( aarvMM. CHANCELLOR HITLER'S virtual threats of war, though coupled with protestations of peaceful Inten tion, are having their effect In almost every nation on earth. In his own land the result Is probably one of his main objectives, for the Germans. In their loud rejoicings over the military re birth of the relch and regaining of Its old position, are losing sight of the grave eco nomic problems which the reichsfuehrer has not yet been able to solve. France, having decreed the enlarg Ing of its army and the Increase in the term of conscription, began mov Ing fully half of the troops heretofore placed along the Italian frontier to the Rhine area. Premier Mussolini of Italy, as minister of war, ordered the recall of the entire military class of 1911, estimated at 220,000 men. These additions bring the strength of the army up to approximately 675,000, and when the more than 400,000 Fascist militia are included, the Italian forces number more than a million. The class of 1913, due to be dismissed soon, is being kept under arms. Mussolini made a hot speech to the nation In which he said Italy was ready "for any threat of war" and that "our desire for peace and European col laboration Is based upon some mil lions of bayonets." According to a Rome paper that usu ally speaks with authority, there will soon be held an Anglo-Franco-Itallan conference to discuss the re-armament of Austria, Bulgaria, and Hungary. This has heretofore been opposed by the countries of the little entente, but It Is supposed their views have been altered by recent developments. Even in the United States the senti ment for at least adequate defense has been spurred. The senate and house conferees reached an agreement on the $400,000,000 War department appropriation bill. The house confer ees receded from a proposal to give the President discretionary authority as to the rate of Increasing the army's strength to 165,000 men. The senate plan providing that the Increase shall begin at once was adopted. The pro posed Increase, recommended by the War department as necessary to bring the army up to the "least allowable minimum" was the major new pro vision of the bill but it represented a gain in total appropriations of more than $70,000,000 above last year. As a preliminary to this meeting there was an Important conference In Paris participated in by Capt Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal; Fulvlo Suvich, Italian under secretary of for eign affairs; and Foreign Minister Laval of Franca Laval sought to stiffen the British attitude toward Hit ler, but Eden tried to turn him from bis determination not to deal with Germany until the League of Nations has passed on France's protest of Ger man violation of the Versailles treaty. It Is understood France proposed to Impose severe economic penalties on Germany but that Eden persuaded Laval that such measures should be delayed until they had been debated at the coming meeting of the powers at Como, Italy. This conference was postponed for some days to give Eden time to go to Moscow. William E. Belcher, Alabama lumber mill owner, was alleged to have paid employees less than the lumber code minimum wage, and to have kept them employed eight hours a week awrt than the code maximum. Belcher did not deny the charges, hut attacked the constitutionality of NRA legislation. He was sustained In a demurrer by Judge William Grubb, whose recent ruling that TVA may not sell power In competition with private utilities gave scant comfort to the administra tion. The Supreme court's decision In j the Belcher case has been ..regarded as very important since It would go directly to the question of NRA's validity, and would make or , break government control of Indnstry. Japan steps out of the League of Nations and flanked by her single avowed ally. Manchukuo, she faces the world as the self-chosen preserver of peace In the Orient. Japan's action is the culmination of a series of events started February 24, 1933, when Yosuke Matsuoka led the entire Jap anese delegation In a walkout: from the league assembly. Shortly after, Japan gave formal notice of her with drawal from the league because the as sembly had censured Japanese aggres sion In Manchuria. She has advised other powers that she considers her self guardian of peace In eastern Asia, and that outside assistance Is neither desired nor invited. In addi tion. Japan has embarked on an arma ment policy marked by denunciation of the Washington naval treaty, de mands for naval parity with Great Britain and the United States, and armed forces "sufficient to defend, but Inadequate to attack." Herbert Hoover I II II J DESTRUCTIONS on planting spring x wheat have been removed by Sec retary of Agriculture Wallace, who fears the effect of another widespread drouth. The y e a re first crop report show ing that farmers in tend to plant 17,847, 000 acres of spring wheat Is said to be re sponsible for Wallace's about face. Last year the acreage was 18, 521,000 acres. The ad ministration is con vinced that the gov ernment and farmer have a duty to protect Wa,l,c consumers against a wheat shortage. be said. Farmers will plan an addi tional 900,000 to 2300.000 acres as a result of the new order, and will har vest between tea and thirty, in ill! on bushels , more. , Wallace . estimates. 8pring wheat normally constitutes about one-fourth of the nation's crop. He denied that the European situa tion pointing to a possibility of in-' creased sales bad anything to do with the new decision Farmers under con tract who plant their full spring wheat acreage will receive full bene fit payments, bat In return will be required to agree to reduce produc tion In 1836 by the amount asked In next year's contract pins the amount they would have reduced this year. There is no Indication that the corn acreage control program for 1935 will be altered. THE Belcher ease, regarded as the' government's strongest test of NRA'S constitutionality, ; will be dropped, according to reports from Washington. It will be recalled that HERBERT HOOVER suddenly proj ected himsi'lf Into the political picture, and set wagging the tongues of countless politicians and observers. In a letter addressed to the California Re publican assembly, meeting In Sacramen to, the former Presi dent spoke his mind with utmost freedom concerning the doings of the Roosevelt ad ministration whose theories, he asserted, "are no longer a propa gandized milennium ; they are self-exposed." The Republican party, said Mr. Hoover, has today the great est responsibility that has come to it since the days of Abraham Lincoln to raise the standard In defense of funda mental American principles; and he called for a rejuvenated and vigorous Republican organization. Here are some of the things Mr. Hoo ver said In arraigning the present administration: The most solemn government obll gations have been repudiated, i "The nation Is faced with the great est debt ever known to our country. "The currency has been rendered un certain. The government has been central ized under an enormous bureaucracy in Washington . . . small business men have been disabled and crushed. Class conflicts have been created and embittered. The cost of living is steadily ad vancing. "More people are dependent upon the government for relief than ever before. "Recovery Is still delayed." Leaders of the regular Reubllcans In Washington were quick to declare their approval of Mr. Hoover's attack on the New Deal. Most of them scouted the Idea that be was tentatively look ing toward another nomination, but the general Impression was that he was In the way of becoming the leader of his party in fact as well as In name, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Is look ing ahead to 1036. Authoritative word has reached the Capitol that be wants all controversial administration legislation cleared, away at this ses sion, so that congress can meet for a short and harmonious session prior to the 1036 Presidential campaign. Besides the relief bill. Mr. Roosevelt Is said to be specially anxious to have con gress pass his social security program; utility holding company legislation; a bill continuing NRA for two years; transportation regulation ' co-ordination; banking legislation; ship sub sidy and Increase in the capital of tlie Home Owners Loan corporation. If this can be cleared from the calendar, It" may prevent any serious party squabbles that might Interfere with plans to bring about Roosevelt's re election. The White House Is much concerned over rumors that congress may scrap a good part of the admin istration's controversial legislation. CPRING arrived In the West with a Stirling dust storm which snroua ed the country from eastern New Mex. Ico to the Great Lakes. Powdered soil whipped up from the drouth- scourged prairies hid the sun, and beat relentlessly upon the senses. A dozen deaths were reported, due to suffoca tions, dust-Induced pneumonia and traffic accidents. Freight trains were rolled to sidings, and passenger trains crept along on slow orders. Schools were closed In a number of communi ties in western states. Wheat prices jumped from 2 to 3 cents a bushel as winds cut Into the dry Southwest and Governor Landon of Kansas appealed to President Roosevelt for aid. National Topics Interpreted : ' i I by William Bruckart National Press Building " Washing-ton, D. C TPHE government Is re'ady to sell A . gold to foreign nations that can offer an attractive proposition. Secre tary Morgenthau announces. Recent sales to the Bank of Mexico and to Guatemala, Morgenthau points out, have cleared the way to similar nego tiations with other countries, although be emphasized that no other transac tions are being considered at this time. No conditions were attached to the transactions already consum mated. In the dealings with Mexico virtually all her silver sales have been made to this country. "We've got all the gold we can pos sibly use," Morgenthau added. Indi cating that the government would make no further undue efforts to ac cumulate the metal. WITH considerable ceremony the Soviet government transferred to Japan full ownership of the Chinese Eastern railway and thus ceased to be an opposing factor In the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. In the offi cial residence of Foreign Minister Kokl HIrota In Tokyo the sale agree ment and general protocol were signed iand the bargain was clinched by the payment by Japan of 23,333,000 yen to the Soviet ambassador. Washington. The President has placed Donald R. Rlchberg, his closest .. .. . adviser, In the Job nicneerg as head "of : the' Na- Job tlonal Recovery administration. Mr. Rlchberg will be chairman Of the Na tional Industrial Recovery board which Ing power of the Home Owners Loan . corporation has progressed, however, I have taken occasion to Inquire Into operations of the corporation which ' is wholly government owned. From all I can learn 1 It stands out as the finest Illustration of what politicians can do in the way of building polit- has now been enlarged to the number leal machines that I have seen In n or seven, and it Is proposed that this score of years In the National Capital, group, divided between labor and cap- u wU1 De ren,embered that upon ere. .,. ..oeuiauuii, win gu.ue me pou- atlon of the board former Representa- " ",,u vnma s wen as tne en- tive "Seaboard Bill" Stephenson of It may be that Mr. Rlchberg's ap pointment should be given only pass ing notice. Political appointments In Washington are many and the addition of one more normally would not at tract attention. It appears, however, that In this particular Instance consid erable significance should be attached to the appointment It will have South Carolina was named chairman. Mr. Stephenson, being more honest about politics than many others, an nounced unequivocally that appoint ments were going to be made on a po litical basis. He created quite a furore and finally found himself sidetracked. For a time we here In Washington have heard little about politics In the home loan system. It has developed. repercussions In more ways than one. however, that politics was not dead) .mis onngs us to tne question of but sleeping. the future NRA. As we all know NRA legislation In the house and senate Is encountering rough sailing. There are so many different ideas being put for ward about the principle of NRA that thus far it has been exceedingly diffi cult to reconcile them. Since the pres- The loan corporation In carrying out the Idea or policy of decentralization) did some very pe Pecuhar cullar things, accord-. Doingt? Ing to well authen ticated reports. Ac- ent national Industrial recovery act tually, I am told, some young men with CONSIDERABLY mutilated, the ad ministration's $4,880,000,000 work relief bill finally got through the senate by a vote of 68 to 16, and was returned to the house later, to be adjusted In conference. The senators accepted an amendment by Senator Thomas of Okla homa for a currency expansion of $375, 000.000 through the Issuance of silver certificates at the $1.29 an ounce mone tary value of the treasury's silver stocks Instead of the present practice of using the purchase value of the sil ver. However, It was confidently ex pected this would be stricken out In the conference. Previously the senate rejected Senator's Wheeler's amend ment for 94.00O.O0O.O0O of new currency to finance the works program. Another amendment which was adopted was that offered by McCarran of Nevada requiring senate confirma tion, of all officials receiving $5,000 or more who would have charge of ex penditure of the fund. One of the efforts to specify the use of part of the huge work fund was given the approval of the flood control committee of the house. It Is a bill to earmark $600,000,000 of the money for flood projects in an parts of the coun try, and under It about M0 projects which ' have been recommended by army engineers would be started. . The committee was told the list of projects called for expenditure of ap proximately 1100,000,000 In the lower Mississippi river valley and that ex penditure of $181,000,000 would "pre vent the devastating floods" In that area. t n.t r ' .- ' l : f ' i ' . BT A vote of 202 to 191, the house voted - to substitute the Patmaa currency expansion bill for payment of the soldiers bonus for the "sound money" plan ef Representative Vin son. M boisterous house thus defied President Booseveirs warning that he will veto Immediate payment of the adjusted - compensation certificates. The administration Is counting on ti senate sustaining the veto. ' I IS :- , 1 -I Premier Mussolini MUSSOLINI'S answer to the latest note on the Abyssinian situation postpones approval of the proposal that differences be decided by an Inter national commission on conciliations "at least until the futility of direct negotiations has been proved." II Duce made a counter proposal suggesting that the Italian minis ter to Abyssinia and the Ethiopian foreign minister get together for a series of per sonal conferences, go over all the data, and attempt to settle the dispute without the necessity of con ciliation under the direction of the League of Nations. Direct negotia tions are said to have the approval of both the French and British. OLARENCE DARROW. foe of NRA, and author of the famous report which attacked NRA more than a year ago', assailed the administration's economic theories, Including the na tional recovery act In his testimony be fore the senate finance committee. The famous lawyer whose sharp speech and fiery courtroom tactics have made him famous, denounced NRA as playing Into the bands of big business to the destruction of the "little fellow." He argued that NRA attacked the prob lem from the wrong angle and that the real trouble lay In faulty distribution, thus assailing the theory of scarcity. Darrow swept aside statements that NBA bad helped organized labor, re duced unemployment and abolished child labor, with an assertion that It would have happened anyway. "The panic put an end to child labor," be said. There wasnt any room for It while fathers and mothers were out of work." The suffering due to continued con centration of wealth would have gone on anyhow, be said, but added that NBA accelerated It 1 am not an optimist" he added. "I may be an idiot but not a cheer ful Idiot" THE federal tree planting 'project will get under way In North Da kota on April is. The project has al ready . been . started In . other states, hot the major development of the pro gram will be centered In North Da kota this year. The state has been assigned quota of 800,000 trees for belt 85 miles long. ; This Is only a part of the operations which envisage a 100-mile wide belt ef tree extend ing from near the Canadian border to the Gulf ef Mexico. The work started March 1 In Texas and Oklahoma, and March 19 In Kansas. Nebraska and South Dakoto projects will be started at the same time as that in North Dakota. expires by limitation of law on June 16, congress faces the necessity of en actment of new legislation or allowing the present law to die and the codes under It to fall apart Selection of Mr. Rlchberg on the basis of these facts then would seem to In dicate that Mr. Roosevelt had picked his best soldier to fight the battle; that Mr, Rlchberg, being eyes and ears for Mr. Roosevelt, would be the individual to guide the President In choice of policy and that his most trusted ad viser would be the man to put for ward details of the proposed NRA ex tension legislation. The undercurrent of gossip around Washington, however, indicates something else. In the first Instance, Mr. Rlchberg Is in bad with organized labor, and he has shown no disposition lately to make peace despite the fact that he was for years the representative of railway labor unions. Mr. Rlchberg It was who clashed with General John son and who is regarded, therefore, as Indirectly responsible for General Johnson's resignation as national re covery administrator. The new chair man thus goes Into his Job with threat ening clouds on several sides. It will not be forgotten, either, that such valiant campaigners as Senator Carter Glass and Senator Borah, not to mention the alleged progressive. Senator Nye. are waiting for the NRA legislation in the senate. Mr. Rlch berg's hide will look to them the same as any other hide. It Is just possible, therefore, as some observers have sug gested, that Mr. Rlchberg may have been put out as the lamb on the sac rificial altar. Indeed, color Is lent to this suppo sition by the fact that Mr. Roosevelt has taken little direct Interest In pro moting legislation extending the life of NRA. Thus far he has said that he desired to have the extension grant ed, but he has not turned on the steam as be Is equlpped.to do, and as he has done for bills that were personal hob bies with him. It Is made to appear, therefore, that) perhaps there will be disintegration of NRA as such and that the functions desired by the ad ministration to be retained will be parceled out some to the federal trade commission, some to the Labor depart ment and others of lesser consequence scattered elsewhere. While we are discussing legislation, It may be well to consider what Is be- .. . on sbout the Credit for program of extend Home Owner n credit to home owners In cities snd towns through the machinery nf the home loan board. - The house has passed a bill which will increase by two billion, eight hundred million dnl- lars the amount of funds available for loans of this type by the Home Own ers' Loan corporation. This sum was approximately a billion dollars more than the home loan board thought was necessary, but the sight or thought of so much money started the members ef the house on something like n riot so they made ample funds available. From reports filtering through to Washington, I - think there enn be no question but wbst the home loan sys tem bss been of help In thousands of eases. Undoubtedly availability of gov ernment - money In this matter has saved unnumbered home owners from loss of their property where Short sighted mortgage holders have Insist ed upon undue curtailment or absolute repayment of the borrowed money. Extension of the system probably has resulted also in reduction of general Interest rates by private lenders of cap ital. , If . they wanted their, money to work at all, they bad to meet the government competition. Whether the principle of government lotws Is sound In normal times Is another horse. Time alone can tell. The activity of congress, especially la the house. Indicates that there Is a demand of some kind or other for these loans in preference to private capital and that necessarily must be considered as aa Influential factor. -v-. .... '-'.' As the legislation Increasing the lend- out previous practical experience or training were supplied with copies off the home loan act given a ticket and) ordered to the hinterland to open des ignated regional offices. Shortly there. after out of the thousands of emw ployees In the home office of the loan corporation individuals were called Into the office of the directing heads and were ordered to go to one or the other of the newly opened establish ments. They were told at the same time that their salaries would be re duced. In addition, I am reliably in formed, hundreds of them have suf fered further salary reductions sine they have been on their new jobs. While all of this has been going on. the corporation set up a board of four members In the headquarters before which remaining employees in the Washington office have been called for examination. This board was an nounced as for the purpose of deter mining which of the employees should! be retained. They wanted to be fair about It and wanted to keep on the payroll such of the employees as were unable to get along without the jobs, they were holding. It seems, however,, that that board has become sn in quisitorial body absolutely without precedent In the character of examina tion to which It subjects the employees. The result Is that few, if any, of the employees of the loan corporation en tertain any belief that they can stay on their jobs with any feeling of safety. For example, one man's experience Is quoted. He was asked whether he had money In the bank, and be hadi none. He was asked whether any of his people were on the relief rolls,' and -they were not Numerous other1 questions, such as the rate he paid for his board and room and the cost; of his laundry were put to him. He then was asked if he carried life ln- sura nee, and his answer that he did apparently was wrong. Although he was not told directly, the inference of) questions put to him was that he could live two months if he cashed, In his life Insurance policy. At any, rate he was dismissed. But this Is not alL Included In the bill which Increases the amount of funds that may be loaned by the cor poration is a line of legislation that will have the effect of expanding poll tics in the organization.' Written Into that bill are Instructions that the cor poration shall recall to Washington all of those employees who were dis patched to new Jobs in the regional, state or district offices. Of course, no one can say yet authoritatively that when these workers are recalled they, will be dismissed here. That, however, obviously Is the result - ' .; . Senator Gore of Oklahoma placed In the Congressional Record recently :t.K.i,v9,v4,v..:,;i,i.a'' telegram he bad -; : v Courage , received and his re Needed Pi? to It that Illus trates better than any recent Incident how much cour age Is required by a national legisla tor to withstand, the pressure from home. , The occasion was consideration) In the senate , of the public works bill S The telegram received by the senator was signed by Joe A. Brows, the mayor of Hartshorn e, Okla, and (V B. Lindsay, mayor of Halleyvllle, Okie. It foilgws: - Several thousand Pittsburgh coun ty unemployed . people assembled in convention demand you support Presi- dent Roosevelt's four billion dollar re lief measure. If you vote against mean- ore, sentiment Is, yon stsy out of this county next senatorial i-ace.' ; . ' The following la the senator's reply t v "This will acknowledge your exceed- ' Ingly diplomatic and hospitable tele- : gram. It shows how the dole spoils . the souL Tour telegram intimates that your votes are for sale. Much as I X value votes I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the - peopre's money. I ewe a debt to the taxpayer as well as the unemployed. I shall discharge both.- Nona but the ' bully resorts to threats and but the coward yields to them." e win mmi iw
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