Jeffersoniah Democrats
Band Together
E'ORTY-THREE Democrats, most
* of them
prominent nation
ally or locally and representing
twenty states, gathered in Detroit
J> A. Rccd
vo veil one anouier
and the world how
much and why they
disliked the New
Deal. Alter two
days ol conlerring,
they organized
themselves as the
National Jefferson
ian Democrats and
named Former
Senator James A.
Reed ol Missouri as
their national chair
Milan. iney oeciaea 10 esiaonsn
headquarters at once in St. Louis
and to set up an organization in
every state. Then they gave out
a 1,500 word declaration or plat
form in which they declared they
“will not support for re-election the
candidates of the Philadelphia con
vention for President and Vice
President, and we call upon all loy
al and sincere Democrats to con
sider the question of their duty to
their country in the approaching
election with the same earnestness
that has guided our deliberations’—
joining with us if they feel that our
conclusions are sound and our anx
iety for the future of our party
and our country is justified.” *
The name of Governor Landon
was not mentioned in the declara
tion, but a number of its signers
are openly supporting the Republi
can candidate. Among these are
Joseph B. Ely, CoL Henry Breckin
ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas
and Robert S. Bright of Maryland.
However, the avowed prime ob
jective of the Jeffersonians is the
defeat of President Roosevelt and
the restoration of the Democratic
party to its status before the New
Dealers captured it Their declara
tion is unsparing in its denunciation
of Mr. Roosevelt’s course and the
policies of his administration.
Bar Association Split on
New Deal Legislation
WHEN the American Bar as
sociation convenes in Boston
soon it will receive two widely dif
fering reports from a special com
mittee named to study the effects
of New Deal legislation on the
rights and liberties of citizens. They
were made public in Washington.
The majority report, signed by
John D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo.;
Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.;
George L. Built, Charleston, S. C.,
and Charles P. Taft II., Cincinnati,
Ohio., “deplored'* the action of
President Roosevelt in reducing
congress to a “rubber stamp” body
to carry through his program of
legislation.
“Novel legislative and govern
mental trends of the New Deal are
just as uncertain today as they
were two years ago,” the report
•aid. “Laws specifically proposed
as emergency measures with limit
ed life have been declared by im
portant members of the administra
tion to . be the beginning of perma
nent changes in national policy.
“There has been a continuing
conflict between such officials as to
whether a new social and economic
order is in the making or the old
institutions are being perfected so
that they may be preserved.”
These findings were challenged
by Kenneth Wynne, New Haven,
Conn.; Fred L. Williams. St Louis,
Mo., and James G. McGowen of
Jackson. Miss. In their minority
report they said: “If the purpose
of the resolution creating the spe
cial committee was to get the opin
ion of the American Bar association
regarding legislative trends de
signed to meet Changing economic
conditions, the report is superficial It
does not deal with the problem but
concerns itself with A #bort 'jjnge
attack on surface trivimtlaC"!
The sharp divergence between
the two report! presages a (conflict
and heated discussion at the as
sociation meeting.
American Track Team
Victor in Olympics
EIGHT days of track competition
that brought out many record
breaking performances showed that
the American team was unbeatable
In the matter of total points. These
Yankee athletes piled up a total of
103 points. Finland was second
with 80it, Germany third with
89% ' and Japan fourth with
51 13-22. Jesse Owens, the marvel
ous colored lad from' Ohio State
university, captured four gold
medals for firsts in die 100 meter
and 280 meter runs and the bread
jump and for pacing the winning
American quartet in the 400.meter
relay. The decathlon was won by
Glenn Morris of Denver.
Japan captured the most highly
prized Olympic championship when
Kitei Son, young Core an student,
won tbs marathon race over a very
tough course and in the record time
of 2 hours 20 minutes 10.2 seconds.
The distance was 20 miles and 385
yards.
guished herself by,breaking the
world record in two heats of the
100-meter dash.
Ohio State will have to get along
without Owens next season, for he
announced that he would turn pro
fessional after completing a post
Olympic tour that will take him to
many European countries.
Commerce Department on
Recovery and .Public Debt
SECRETARY “OF COMMERCE
ROPER’S department has just
put out a “world economic review”
for 1935 which contains many
Interesting state
ments. It says, for
instance, that
future business
prospects are condi
tioned in part upon
narrowing the gap
between g o v e rn
menf expenditures
and receipts. It as
serted that “the
government deficit
springs from the
root of unemploy
A. P. Sloan
ment, which is still the major
problem confronting the country,”
and continued:
‘‘Most of the recent increase in
the public debt has resulted from
emergency expenditures which will
be reduced as the need diminishes.
At this date the evidences of need
are still manifest.”
Saying the public debt “has con
tinued to mount rapidly, notwith
standing the substantial increase in
the national revenues,” the report
added:
"Future business prospects are in
a degree conditioned upon the pos
sibility of bringing expenditures
more in line with receipts and thus
eliminating, partially at least, the
uncertainties prevailing in connec
tion with future taxation and other
budgetary problems.”
As to “the part played in the re
covery to date by the heavy govern
ment expenditures,” the report said:
“This question is not easily an
swered, but it is certain that such
outlays have had an influence,
in many directions — for example,
on retail sales, on farm income, on
the growth of bank deposits and on
the prevailing level of interest
rates.”
The latter statements may well
be compared with the report of
Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen
eral Motors, to the stockholders.
Business recovery throughout the
world — in which the United States
has participated — is being gen
erated by a combination of various
factors, Mr. Sloan explains. In
this country the automobile indus
try has been helped, he says, by
principal influences. Only one of
these, he points out, has its roots
in the New Deal financial schemes
and he finds that particular influ
ence a bad one because it creates
a temporary fool’s paradise in
which sales and -earnings are bal
looned by extraordinary govern
ment expenditures.
Asserting that political extrava
gance has created a highly unde
sirable and artificial stimulus, Mr.
Sloan urges that such spending be
halted before it is too late to stave
off disaster.
Oil Men and Companies
Accused of Conspiracy
CHARGED by the government
with conspiracy to violate the
anti-trust law by combining to dom
inate the purchasing of oil in the
H. M. Dawes
Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma fields
and to fix prices of
gasoline in the Mid
dle West, 58 per
sons, 23 petroleum
concerns and three
publishing compa
nies were indicted
by a federal grand
jury in Madison,
Wis. Among the
prominent defend
ants are Edward G.
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the Standard Oil Company of Indi
ana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston,
111., president of the Pure Oil com
pany, and many officials of Stand
ard Oil. Pure Oil, Deep Rock, So
cony-Vacuum and various other oil
concerns and their subsidiaries. Al
so in the list are Warren C. Platt
of Cleveland, publisher of the Na
tional Petroleum News and Platt’s
Oilgram; his two publications and
the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
The indictment charged that the
defendant oil companies formed
pools in the east Texas and mid
continent fields for the purpose of
purchasing gasoline at artificially
high prices from independent pro
ducers, and in furtherance of such
a scheme were members of associ
ations which Included the indepen
dents.
This, said Mr. Platt, is exactly
what the oil companies did with the
approval of Secretary of the Interi
or Harold L. Ickes, administrator
of the NRA petroleum code, when
efforts were being made to limit the
production of gasoline, prevent the
flow of excess quota oil Into mar
ket channels, and raise prices in
that turbulent industry. ,
Congressman Zioncheck
Commits Suicide
Marion a. zioncheck
brought to sn end in char
acteristic manner his checkered
career and his life. He leaped to
his death from a window of his
office in Seattle shortly after he had
filed for re-nomination to the con
gressional seat he had held for two
terms. His friends attributed the
suicide to worry over a psy
chiatrist's advice that he take a
long rest from politics. His trouble
had been diagnosed as dementia
praecox.
Two American Authors
Called by Death
LINCOLN STEFFENS, long prom
inent as a journalist, writ
er and lecturer, died at Carmel,
Calif., at the age of seventy. He
was creator of the so-called muck
raking school of journalism and in
many magazine articles he exposed
the corruption in municipal politics.
Another well known American
writer, Arthur B. Reeve, passed
away at his home in Trenton, N. J.
He gained fame by his crime and
mystery stories.
President Resents Charge
of Politics in Relief
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was
r visibly aroused by Republican
charges that the New Dealers were
seeking to reap political profit from
the drouth conditions. At his press
conference he broke with the usual
rule by permitting himself to be
directly quoted as saying:
“It is a great disservice to the
proper administration of any gov
ernment to link up human misery
with partisan politics.” _
The President announced that he
would hold a series of regional con
ferences with governors of states
in the drouth area, and naturally
Governor Landon. his Republican
opponent, will be among those he
will meet. It was believed they
would come together about Labor
day in Des Moines, with the gov
ernors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklaho
ma and Missouri. Mr. Landon
said he would accept the Pres
ident’s invitation to such a confer
ence.
Ten “Rebel” Unions Are
Suspended From A. F. of L.
UNLESS John L. Lewis and his
associates in the Committee for
Industrial Organization repent and
poacp their activities
before September 5,
the ten unions they
head will be under
suspension from the
American Federa
tion of Labor. Such
was the verdict of
the federation’s
executive council
which passed on the
charges of John P.
Frey, president of
the metal trades
division, that the
J. P. Frey
(JIU was "lomenung insurrection
and rebellion.” David Dubinsky,
head of the garment workers, cast
the only vote against the suspen
sion order.
Lewis having definitely set him
self against any peace overtures,
it appeared that the suspension cer
tainly would be put into effect. The
next move will be up to the Tampa
convention in the fall, which will be
asked to vote the expulsion of the
refractory unions.
Pierce Fighting in the
Spanish Civil War
Desperate fighting for posses
sion of the passes in the
Guadarrama mountains north of
Madrid was going on between the
government forces and the rebel
troops. Loyalist soldiers were hur
ried to that region, and Madrid
claimed some victories. However,
the Fascists on the northern side
of the range were said to be within
sight of the capital and in position
for a vigorous advance.
On the twentieth day of the re
bellion the government announced
it had captured the provinces of
Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Mala
ga, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara,
Badajoz and the northern resort
city of San Sebastian.
Senator Keyes, New Hampshire,
to Retire From Office
SENATOR HENRY W. KEYES of
New Hampshire has announced
that he is not a candidate for re
election by the Republicans, prefer
ing “to retire from active partici
pation in public affairs.” The Re
publicans therefore will choose be
tween former Senator George H.
Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges,
both of whom have announced their
candidacy for the nomination.
Kansas Republicans renominated
Senator Arthur Capper, and the
Democrats picked Omar Ketchum
of Topeka. In Kentucky the Demo
crats renominated Senator M. M.
Logan, whose Republican opponent
in November will be Robert H.
Lucas.
Corn Crop Experts Say
Yield Will Be Small
EXPERT crop statisticians esti
mate that, as a result of the
record breaking drouth, this year’s
com crop will be reduced to 1,572,
000,000 bushels, which would be the
smallest yield since 1881 except for
the disastrous drouth year of 1834.
Argentine farmers are expected
to profit to the extent of $80,000,000
or more as a result of the keen
competition for com between the
United States and Europe.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—Mrs. “Bud” Lighton, one
of the smartest women on this
or any other coast, has started
a symposium of suggestions for
the promotion of national san
ity the next time diplomats or
politicians, profiteers or profes
sional sword rattlers, or all of
these types combined, try to
rush a country into futile and
uncalled for war—which classi
fication covers most wars.
Her peace formula includes these
ideas:
No brass bands whatsoever. No
speech-making by stay-at-home
orators. No recruit
ing except by men
who have them
selves enlisted for
active service. No
brass buttons. No
shiny buckles, no
regalia. Respect for
the flag and, if nec
essary, all proper
defense for it, but
no cheap waving of
it beforehand. No
blatant emotional
displays being
Irvin S, Cobb
turned off or on like a hydrant.
Reason to be invoked rather than
mob-steria.
• • •
Red Baiters’ Field Day
A GENTLEMAN in Iowa, who
presumably inquired into the
matter, asserts that in this country
are upwards ol 4,000,000 aliens who
entered illegally and that the vast
majority of these—over 90 per
cent, are on relief. While we’re
fighting com borers and tobacco
worms and boll weevils with gov
ernment funds, wouldn’t it be a
grand idea to turn a lot of G-men
loose to round up these smuggled
in human parasites and ship them
back where they came from?
Locally speaking, I'm told that
the average foreign - born agitatof,
ostensibly seeking to organize the
casual workers of this state, is
really a red agent spreading com
munistic doctrines under cover of
his seeming activities in the indus
trial field. toother words, his real
aim is not to unionize labor but to
disunionize America.
Watson, the fly-swatter and the
insect poison—quick! i
The League’s Big Moment
AT LAST here’s a chance for the
League of Nations to function.
For the poor thing it has been an
uphill pull to slide down hill so
steadily, with each descending step
toward the bottom marked by dis
appointment and failure. It had al
most as tough sledding as a
smooth-faced, bearded lady would
have trying to get a job in a
museum.
But now, the league can punish
at least one small nation for per
sistently breaking the otherwise
solid front presented by nearly all
the important European powers.
Surely, ere long, it will hang some
sort of penalty on little, simple
minded Finland for regularly pay
ing installments on her debt to us.
This disruptive thing cannot pos
sibly be permitted to go on forever
when the sacred principles of dis
honor, ingratitude and repudiation
are all at stake!
• • •
Paging the Black Legion
IT IS passing strange that the
Black Legion is so slow about
offering Herr Hitler honorary mem
bership in the mother-lodge up
in Michigan. Both parties seem
to feel alike on the subject of per
sons of color.
Meanwhile just so long as they
didn’t try to stop him from shaking
those nimble feet our , brown
skinned flying squirrel, Jesse
Owens, should worry because a dic
tator refuses to shake his hand.
With Metcalfe and other dark
colleagues helping him pile up so
commanding a lead for the Ameri
can team in the Olympic games,
it’s almost time for the band to
play “All Gawd’s Chillun Got
Wings.”
Synthetic Spanish Hidalgoes
AND the famous Santa Barbara
fiesta flesting on every side and
yours truly looking as much like a
Spanish hidalgo as anybody bom
in McCracken county, Ky., could be
expected to look.
Plenty of other disturbing occur
rences, too. Heat wave still hang
ing on in spots. Fresh European
complications on account of the
Spanish mess.
Down at his home on the range
where seldom is heard a discourag
ing word—except from Washington,
D. C.—we behold Unele Jack Gar
ner, with his head over the corral
bars, beginning to moo plaintively.
And now, on top of all that, it
seems we must start worrying
about l^mmy Manville's next wife
or wives, as the case may be—and
probably will.
I do wish Tommy could see his
way clear to hold off till fall. If
memory serves me aright, the fall
always was his favorite marrying
season, anyhow.
IRVIN B. COBB.
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Custard pies should first be
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that the custard may cook slowly.
• • *
When blankets are washed at
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stead hang them outdoors on the
clothesline to dry.
• • *
Raisin sauce served on steamed
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a good Winter dessert and one
advised for children.
• « •
If the chicken is well rubbed in
side and out with a cut lemon be
fore being cooked it will make the
meat white, juicy and tender.
• * •
Left-over cauliflower can be dip
ped in cracked crumbs and egg
and fried in deep fat and served
for luncheon or supper.
• • •
Never beat or stir cereals or
rice with a spoon. It makes them
pasty. Use a silver-plated fork.
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Enough in One
“There’s one thing I like about
that boy of yours, Jones.” said
Smith, after he had patiently lis
tened to the latest achievement of
the child.
“What’s that?” said the fond
father.
“He isn’t a twin.”
With Variations
A small Negro boy, with a part
in the school entertainment, was
to appear on the platform (quot
ing from the Master) “Be not
afraid: it is I.” It was a scared
bit of dusky humanity which
finally appeared and, with a gulp,
said, “Don’t git skeered. ’Tain’t
nobody but me.”—Pleasant Hill
Times.
Up and Down
The deep-sea diver was hard at
work on the ocean bed. Suddenly
an urgent voice came over the
telephone which connected him
with the boat above.
“What’s the matter, chum?” he
asked.
“Come up quickly,” he heard.
“The captain’s just told me the
bloomin’ boat’s sinking.”
Loquacious Elmer
“Elmer — Elmer, do you love
me?”
“I’ll say.”
“Do you think I’m beautiful?"
“You bet.”
“Are my eyes the loveliest
you’ve ever seen?”
“Yes.”
“—my mouth like a rosebud?”
“You know it.”
“—and my figure divine?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Oh, Elmer, you say the nicest
things. Tell me some more.”
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