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THIS WEEK
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Washington Said It ... -Scaring
Mussolini . .
Ethiopian War Ferer , '
Not Even a Nest Err
' One hundred ' and ; thirty-nine
years ago George Washington made
his farewell ad
dress. It la mld
"Vlctorlam to
drag In George
Washington now,
when so many
are prepared to
write a better
Constitution than
the one he
signed. Never
theless, some of
the old-fashioned
mm tolerat-a
I - -4 reminder that in
v uia lartmeu au-
t Arthur BrlabaM dress G e 0 r g
Washington said: '
"It is oar true policy to steer
clear . of permanent alliances with
any portion of the foreign world.
Also,, with apologies to pacifists
and ; high-spirited young college
gentlemen who say they would not
light under any circumstances, you
are reminded that George Wash
ington said in 1790:
"To he prepared for war Is one
of the most effectual means of pre-
serving peace."
If Mussolini can be scared by
British gestures, he will be scared,
with England sending her great
battleships to the Gibraltar har
bor. Other battleships and thou
sands of soldiers are sent to her
Island of Malta, and, Imitating real
war, she Is putting "submarine
booms" In the Gibraltar harbor
on the assumption that wicked
Mussolini might send "submarines
to blow up her battleships; and
that Is exactly what he would do
if it came to war:
Mussolini Is not alone In his de
sire for war. On Sunday In the
Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, ac
cording to the Associated Press,
"2,000 shrieking Ethiopians," yell
ing "We want war," gathered be
fore the Imperial palace demand
ing weapons. The Associated
Press says: "The scene was so vi
olent that police confiscated motion
picture films of It" That was wise.
because films might have con
vinced the outside world that Ethi
opians and Italians are much alike
"under the skin."
' Sewell L. Avery, head of Mont
gomery Ward A Co., will tell yon
that the work of the tax gather
ers In America Is done thoroughly.
His company, on its regular busi
ness In six months, made $4,349,-
766. Taxes on this business
amounted to $4,600,000, or $251,
'000 more than the concern earned.
' Tou might almost call that "dis
couraging, business." When yon
take the eggs from the nest of the
hen fbat would like to set, you al
ways leave one egg, or at least a
door knob, "to go on with."
) Dispatches from Tokyo tell of
planning political murder wholesale.
The "god-sent troops" that have
committed occasional murders in
highest places are tired of "occa
sional" murders, and decided to
wipe out the Japanese cabinet In
an air raid with bombs, destroy the
financial district of Tokyo, assas
sinate hundreds of industrial and
financial leaders and "re-establish
Imperial despotism."
The burning of buildings to put
the throne and Tokyo in a state of
chaos was part of the plan.
Sir Malcolm Campbell, who took
his giant Engllsh-bullt automobile
to the smooth surface of the Great
Salt desert, west of Salt Lake City,
and drove the car faster than 300
miles an hour, returns to New York
advising motorists to "drive care
fully." Sir Malcolm, who has surpassed
every speed record on the surface
of the earth, selects the right place
for speeding. At home be belongs
to English organizations estab
lished to promote safety.
Sir James Jeans, British astron
omer and physicist, whose 'The
Mysterious - Universe" and other
books yon should read, has changed
his mind about the age of the uni
verse, and, like Professor Einstein,
when he changes his mind he tells
you. ; .
He thinks the universe is about
10,000,000,000,000 or ten trillions of
years old.' That Is a long time to
Sir James Jeans and us, but, for all
Jeans or anybody else knows, it
may mean less than one hour in the
life of some "super-universe."
- Hitler, talking to his army about
"Iron discipline." blames Christian- J
lty and the Hohenzollerne for the
rise of Communism that '1 crushed
when I came to power." Whether
lie crashed It or not remains to be
seen, s, V" , , .' ,
A sailor from an American ship
la locked up In Germany for hum
ming "The Internationale," Commu
nist hymn, ' and making the hymn
lWoree by saying something unpleas
ant about Hitler, , .'.
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NATIONAL
CAPITA!;
fi Carter Field
Washington. Latin-America seems
to be following the example of the
administration with respect to ntll
Ities particularly utilities owned
by the same general interests In the
United, States so vigorously attack
ed by President Kooseveit.
"Mexico's president has called for
government ownership of telephone,
telegraph and railroad lines the
last an extra added feature, not on
the New Deal agenda Chile Is mak
ing trouble for American and For
eign Power, having caught it trying
to snaggle funds out of Chile back
to American Investors. And so it
goea all thetway down the line from
the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, with
Just a few exceptions, notably
Brazil. v:J,'
Senators Just back from Cuba re
port that not only Is there little
likelihood that the Cubans will be
able for some time to come to pay
Interest on the big bond Issues
floated for public Improvements, but
there Is little disposition to pay,
Privately these senators think this
particular Investment baa Just been
wiped out, as far aa American bond
holders are concerned.
Tons of literature containing the
attacks made on American holding
companies In the utility fight have
been circulated through Latin-Amer
ica. It Is blamed by some students
of the situation for stirring up the
present movement. Central and
South American officials figure that
It gives them a splendid excuse for
stepping In, nationalizing the utili
ties, and keeping the profits if any
In their own companies Instead of
sending dividends back to the Unit
ed States.
Latin-American officials are quot
ing glibly from the attacks spon
sored by the administration, de
manding why their people should be
taxed to pay dividends on watered
stock, and to pay service charges
by holding companies out of all pro
portion to the service rendered I
Coercion Not Expected
They feel confident that no strong
arm methods will be used to coerce
them, or to protect these American
Interests If the plants are taken
over by the government Further;
they feel that the Roosevelt admin
istration will not be harsh about it
if the values fixed in the condemna
tion proceedings are very low In
deed. In fact they think It would
be rather difficult for Secretary of
State Cordeil Hull to frame a strong
argument against valuations so low
that the American investors would
think they were being murdered.
But that Isn't all the gloom from
the investor's standpoint Plans fair
ly under way in some of the Latin
countries contemplate making pay
ment for such utility plants as may
be taken over by governments in
bonds. Issued of course by the gov
ernment, federal or local, which
takes the plant over.
No stockholder In any of the. big
American companies with. Invest?
ments abroad would throw his hat
In the air over the Idea of taking
payment for anything In bonds of
the foreign country concerned. Mar
ket for any such bonds Is at a very
low ebb, without much prospect of
Improving. American Investors have
taken such a beating on foreign
onds In the last few years that
they do not banker for any more.
All of which presents a very
gloomy picture Indeed to a good
many American shareholders. And
bondholders.
Textile Troubles
A bet loss of $438,06252 despite
the' largest sales in the company's
history, nearly $29,000,000 while
taxes amounting to $1,874,766.62
were paid, Is alleged to be typical
of the entire textile Industry. This
the report of the Pepperell Manu
facturing company, with headquar
ters at Biddeford, Maine, regarded
as one of the most successful textile
concerns In ail New England.
These operatlngreanltsv Trea
nrer Russell H. Leonard said, are
typical of the industry as a whole
for the same; period" (fiscal year
ended June 30 last), and moved
him to ask the stockholders "where
in lie the reasons for an essential
Industry remaining profitless un
der a governmental plan presum
ably dedicated to Its rehabilitation?"
Overproduction, Mr. Leonard said,
was the major difficulty of the cot'
ton textile Industry and the pri
mary cause of Its losses. He said
that consumption of cotto.n textiles
bas not been far below normal.
- "This economic principle was. In
fact at work In our Industry for
some years," Mr. Leonard's report
continued. "But the National Re
covery act upset the working of
this principle and facilitated In
deed encouraged increased pro
duction., Paradoxically., shortening
the weekly running time to 40 boars
expanded the output Because the
overhead costs of a mill on one
shift of only, 40 hours weekly op
eration . became Increasingly bur
densome, mills running one shift
per week were forced to Increcse
to two shifts In order to compete
with mills already on a two-shift
basis." - I '
A single shift of 60 hours, Mr.
Leonard contended, could, supply
all the consumptive . needs of the
country. ' , ' t
y Tbls statement Is highly Interest
ing In view of the fact that the
American Federation of Labor Is
even now preparing to do battle in
the next session of congress for a
80-bour week law, a fight which It
abandoned In the Jast session be
cause the Federation for. its own
reasons was much more Interested
In concentrating on the Wagner La
bor Relations act - ,
Great Handicap
' Mr. Leonard also paid bis re
spects to the AAA ant processing
taxes. 1 v i ' i ' ' ,
"The market prices of cotton
goods during the year were so low,"
be said, "that It was not possible
to pass all these taxes on to our
customers. This recovery . measure
therefore was a. great handicap to
recovery In our industry.'
"The floor stock taxes and proc
essing taxes -paid by this company
since the agricultural act went Into
effect have amounted to about $4,-
000,000. - i . . .
Spindle capacity most be reduced
or production -of existing capacity
controlled," Mr, Leonard continued,
if the Industry Is to become even
reasonably profitable over an ex
tended period,
Possibly some method to solve
the later problem-may yet be de
vised, but It becomes Increasingly
difficult, after surveying the maze
of such experiments' under the Na
tional Recovery act, to determine
how even governmental ' planning,
or planning under the sanction of
the government, can make uneco
nomic principles work for any ex
tended period. It Is difficult for even
an omniscient government to thwart
economic law I Assuming that two
shifts of 40 hours weekly were con
tinued, the soundest solution that
bas come to our attention would
be to eliminate the surplus -spindle
capacity. -There Is some disagree
ment as to what this amounts to,
but the figures are probably around
six, to seven million spindles out
of a total In place of about 31
million.
A great deal has been said about
the Industrial problems of New
England and Inability of Its manu
facturers to compete with those In
some other sections of the country
in production of cotton textile. It
Is certain that they cannot compete
Indefinitely unless the total costs,
Including labor, are on a competi
tive basis. The solution of. the prob
lem lies with the people of New"
England. . If, It costs more ta pro-,
auce a yard or the same cloth In
Maine than It does In the South,
then, eventually, the goods will be
produced in the South."
Guarding Roosevelt
The shooting of Hney Long is ex
pected to result In much more elabo
rate protection being forced . on
President Roosevelt by the secret
service, whether the President likes
It or not.
Present protection, officials say
privately, is excellent against
cranks, and has proved satisfactory
for the most part because as a rule
that sort of danger to . Presidents
comes only from cranks. The man
who killed Huey Long may have
developed a persecution mania, but
he Is not classified as a crank un
der the standards considered when
Officials "are protected.
As a matter of fact, while no
secret service official would say
this publicly, they do not believe
the shooting could have happened
that way If secret service oper
atives had been on the Job Instead
of Senator Long'r bodyguard. ; -
Had Baton Rouge been . Rome,
and had Long been Mussolini, the
attacker could not have' been In
the chamber through . which Long
was passing. It would have been Im
possible. In fact, .best Judgment of
our own offlclals,vwho have studied
Mussolini's protective service, be
lieve that be could be killed only by
rifle fired from a. considerable
distance. , - , ,
This writer attended a" session of
the Italian senate, back . In 1927.
which Mussolini attended. The writ
er rode to the building In an Amer
ican embassy ; car, with 'the late
Warren Delano Robins, then coun
selor of the embassy, and later min
ister to Canada,
Although the embassy shield was
on the door, or the rather distinc
tive car, guards about the senate
entrance were-not only nervous but
Impatient when .'the chanffeur at-'
tempted to atop. . i, ,
flow Italy,' Does It 4 f '
The first consideration of Musso
lini's guardian was that this street
must be kept open. .No. chance for
the first car to start a block- was
tolerated. So even an embassy -car,,
driving up to the norma entrance
to, the diplomatic! gallery , of the
senate, was not permitted even to
pause. Shouted directions, more or
less; menacing, kept It moving.
Thus w traversed three streets
leading to the chamber. Every one
of them was lined with soldiers, po
lice, and men so obviously plain
clothes operatives that the most In
experienced of crooks-would have
recognized them for what they were.
Moreover, on the . roofs of the
bouses lining these three streets,
men were on guard. It is an old
Latin custom. It goes back tl rm r ?i
the -". An1 It l'i 7 t
L'cnes and
' 1 Florida National Guardsmen firing volley over the coffins of war veterans killed In the recent hurri
cane before the bodies were cremated. - 2 Two companies of South Carolina militiamen guarding the plant
of the Pelzer Manufacturing company In Pelzer after a strike rift in which a woman wi- killed and more
than a score of persons were Injured. 8 Democratic Representative -Michael K. Rellly of .Wisconsin and
bis bride, who was Miss Mary Isobel Hall of Washington and New York, a noted concert soprano. -
British Prince
H. R. H. Prince Henry, duke of
the king and queen of England, and bis fiancee, Lady Alice Scott; thirty
four,, whose engagement was announced in' the official court circular.
Lady Alice Is the third of five
Buccieuch and Queensbury. :
Army , Men Accuse
Publisher of Libel
Nelson Rounsevell, publisher of
the Panama American, who was ac-
cused of criminal ' libel because of
articles concerning the suicides of
four American soldiers stationed at
Fort Clayton in the Canal Zone.
Complainants were army officers ,
'Traveling Fanuly McDaniel"
Here's the II. .s of -the "Traveling Family McDaniel.' Getting the E. R. McDaniel family on board the
Matson liner Los !' 9 at :in Francisco for Honolulu was something like load'r? the ark. Noah wasa't there
to do the chert.!' - f -v rinse by two and two t- a Ard ora fii Tuv n, ( " 1, r-i f ''-1, Tr-
1" -v .re not 1 , ' t ('":- r ' 1 ( v t r t - " t 1 y ' ' i ' ' rr V 1 f
Persons in the
jiaWtiL:
and His Fiancee
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Gloucester, thirty-five, third son of
daughters of duke1 and duchess of
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Chiefs of the Young: Democrats
A
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Here are' the-president and vice
Clubs of America who were elected
They are Frank Wlckhem of Sioux Falls, 8. D., and Mrs. Louise Galleher
of Leedsburg, Va. If the party needs youth and pep, here It la v : vV '
Current News
Ecuador Shuns
Dictator; Names
Pons President
When Jose M. - Velasco Ibarra,
president of Ecuador, tried to set
up a dictatorship, there was quick
revolt and he was ousted. Antonio
Pons, shown above, was then made
provisional president 1 He formerly
was premier,..;-?'-;.'". , .
WHS
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president of the young Democrat
at a meeting In Milwaukee, Wis.
Fills the Deck
CARS C7 1.
"By the time most i
enough to think much i
have been brushing, t"
years. So they take ti,, i
granted and continue t ;
brush ground with af fine
action but with no thought; .
Quently the only, remaiuli
of the brush Is that , of 1
faithful service." ' This Is t
meat of David W. McLean, !
who writes on "The Art of the To
Brush", In Hygela and outlines
proper method of tooth braslili,
. The operation of tooth bru.
should require not less than tl
minutes for each Jaw, three tlui-s
day : on rising, after luncheon 6i. !
before retiring, and the last is ti.
most Important of the three,
Dentifrices to be used on .tooi'.i
brushes should be regarded as cleans
ing agents and not as medications or
cures. ' i .
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poison the lyrfam when retained.
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