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News Review of .Current
Events the World Over
Tugwell Confirmed by Senate Despite Bitter Attacks—
Darrow Board Assails Johnson —President Roosevelt’s
Plans for Social Regeneration.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
• by Wwtm Nmpapw Union.
DEXFORD OUT TUGWELL’S ap
pearance before the senate agri
culture committee to be qulszed as to
his fitness fbr the position of under-
secretary of agricul
ture was rather farci
cal, even though it
brought on heated en
counters among the
members of the com
mittee. The senators
aired their own views
freely, but learned al
most nothing concern
ing those of Mr. Tug
well. He did tell them
he believed the Con
stitution was flexible
I
R. G. Tugwall
enough to take care of any necessary
economic changes; that he was op
posed to the adoption of Soviet plan
ning by America, and that he thdbght
his experience on his father’s farm
and his research qualified him for the
position to which the President had
appointed him. Finally the committee
reported the nomination favorably, the
only two opposing votes being those
of “Cotton Ed” Smith of South Caro
lina and Henry D. .Hatfield of West
Virginia.
The action of the committee as
sured Tugwell’a confirmation by the
senate, but the debate on the floor
was unexpectedly long and the attacks
on Tugweir were outspoken. Senator
Schall of Minnesota, for Instance, Mid:
' “Agriculture demands and already
has experiment stations dealing in
actual crops, live stock, and markets.
It wants no ‘bold experiments in col
lectivism' by a self-styled philosopher
who functions like a three card monte
sharp who jumps upon a box with
three shells and a pea and who en
tertains the public With his cry, ‘Now
you see it and now you don’t Who is
the next gentT
“Tugwell’s general denial, and bis
specific denials, in the light of his as
sociates in the field of political writ
ing, are absolutely worthless. They
are an insult to an Intelligent Jury.
He Insults the United States senate
in order to gain a high office from
which he can preach ‘collectivism’ as
a substitute for American institutions
and the Constitution.”
WHILE the delegates of the steel
workers’ unions were gathering
in Pittsburgh to vote on the threat
ened strike. President Roosevelt and
his advisers brought forward a plan
for an emergency law designed to
avert.the walkout It was admittedly
a temporary expedient to give the
President an effective agency for the
consideration of industrial disputes
arising during the Use of the NRA.
Under the new bill’s terms, boards
selected by the President would be
empowered to order and conduct an
election, by a secret ballot to deter
mine "by what person or persons or
organizations” employees may desire
to be represented In negotiations un
der the collective bargaining features
of the national recovery act
The proposed boards also would
have the authority to order produc
tion of pertinent documents and wit
nesses to give testimony under oath,
and their orders would be enforceable
by any United States court of compe
tent jurisdiction, similar to like privi
leges enjoyed by the federal trade
commission. Vested with authority to
prescribe their own rules and regula
tions, the boards would be armed with
a penalty clause in the new law, set
ting SI,OOO fine or a year Imprison
ment, or both, for violation of their
decrees.
IN ITS second report to the Presi
dent the national recovery review
hoard, headed by Clarence Darrow, -
loosed another blast at Administrator
Johnson and in effect recommended
his removal as head of the NBA. The
board said Johnson had given the re
covery program an un-American and
dictatorial tinge that handicapped it
■ in the war on depression; that he has
arbitrarily decreed life and death for
industries, and that by arbitrary mod
ifications of codes he has helped big
business concerns to oppress their ■
smaller competitors.
‘The role of the military commander
is totally unsuited to the genius, hab
its, traditions, or psychology of the
American people, and wholly ineffectu
al in meeting the present national
crisis," the board concluded.
The second Darrow report covered
the retail dry goods, warehousing, lum-,
her, cement, retail food, boot and shoe,
electrical manufacturing, bedding, pe
troleum, coffee, plumbing fixture, em
broidery, and lead pencil codes. Com
plaints against the warehousing, elec
trical manufacturing, and embroidery
codes were dismissed as without foun
dation. But in the other codes the
board claimed to find oppression of
small businesses or consumers.
SECRETARY OF STATE HULL
sent to Great Britain' another note
concerning the war debt, bluntly re
futing the arguments of the British
government, saying it was up' to the
debtor to offer propositions in such
cases, and Intimating that -an arrange
ment for part payment in goods might
be possible, However, when June 16,
the day for Installments, came. Uncle
Sam received only $100,538, which was
the full sum,due from Finland. The
larger debtors all gave notice of de
fault, and so did most of the others.
Czechoslovakia suggested a readjust
ment to permit It to pay In goods and
service.
In Berlin the Reichsbank declared
a six-months Mporatorium on its for
eign obligations, these Including the
Dawes and Young loans. No cash
transfers will be made by the bank
from July 1 to December 31, 1934.
SENATOR ARTHUR ROBINSON of
' Indiana, who was renominated by
the Republicans, will be opposed at
the polls next fall by Sherman Min
ton, the selection of the Democratic
state convention. Mr. Minton, a
World war veteran. Is now public
counselor for the public service com
mission of the state. His nomination
was a victory for Governor McNutt
over the faction led by R. Earl Peters,
former state chairman.
TN THE Democratic run-off primary
* In Alabama, Former Gov. Bibb
Graves won the nomination for gov
ernor and goes back to the executive
office which he held from January,
1927, to January; 1931.
Judge James E. Horton, who pre
sided in the second trial of Heywood
Patterson, one of the nine negro de
fendants in the "Scottsboro case,” and
then set aside a jury verdict of death,'
ran more than 2,500 behind A. A. Grif
fith of Cullman. George Huddleston
of Birmingham retained his seat as
congressman from the Ninth district,
but Congressman Mlles C. Allgood of
the Fifth, district was beaten by Maj.
Joe Starnes.
IMMEDIATE relief from distress and
* recovery of business prosperity fall
far short of President Roosevelt’s
plans for regeneration of the nation.
This was revealed in
his special message to
congress which told
of the plans and rec
ommendatlons he
would submit to the
next congress. He
asked for no present
legislation, but gave
notice of the social
experiments he pro
poses to begin next
winter.
The message dis
cussed the three sac-
PrMldent
Roosevelt
tors of housing, land and resource
planning and old age and unemploy
ment insurance.
Expressing satisfaction * over prog
ress in relieving Industry, agriculture,
and unemployment the President as
serting his right to chart social re
forms, declared, "It is childish to
speak of recovery first and reconstruc
tion afterward."
Taking up the housing problem, he
said millions of dollars had already
been provided to Improve living condi
tions, and voiced the hope that with
passage of bls housing program pri
vate capital would be stimulated to
widen the scope of home building.
Discussing planned control of the
Mhd, he declared that hundreds of
thousands of families now live "where
there Is no reasonable prospect of a
living in the years to come.”
Sounding the failure of the govern
ment thus far to create a “natldnal
policy” for the development of land
and water resources, Mr. Roosevelt in
dicated his intention of providing such
a policy, and for the transferring to
new lands of "those people who can
not make a living In their present po
sitions.”
Outlining his views on providing se
curity against unemployment and old
age, Mr.. Roosevelt said he was seek
ing a "sound .means” which he could
recommend to provide an immediate
safeguard against these “hazards and
vicissitudes of life.”
WHEN President Roosevelt signed
the tariff bargaining bill he ac
quired authority to negotiate recipro
cal trade treaties without senate ap
proval and to increase or decrease
tariff rates by as much as 50 per cent
In order to stimulate foreign com
merce. This policy of swapping reduc
tions, the government believes, will
result In great benefit to our foreign
trade, and at the same time will give
adequate protection to industry. Al
ready nearly thirty foreign nations
are lined up, awaiting an opportunity
to negotiate reciprocal treaties.
MAX BAEB of California brought
the world’s heavyweight title
back to America by soundly whipping
Primo Camera, the huge Italian, in
New York. The fight was the most
exciting, one seen in this country for
a long time. Scheduled for fifteen
rounds, it ended in the eleventh when
the referee declared a technical knock
out and awarded the victory to Baer.
Camera was game to the end. Thir
teen times he went to the canvas, yet
he was advancing against the retreat
ing Baer during the greater part of
the contest Garners went into the
ring weighing 988 pounds, and Baer
tipped the scales at
TH« HARDIN TRIBUNK-HIRALD
pONGRESS completed action on the
communications bill and it was
handed to the President for Ha signa
ture. This new law puts an end to the
federal radio commission and creates
a new board of seven members known
as the federal communications com
mission that not only takes over the
duties of the radio board but also all
control that has been- exercised by the
interstate commerce commission over
telegraphic and telephonic eommunl
cations.
As set 'forth is the law. its enact
ment is for the purpose of regulating
interstate and foreign commerce in
communication by wire , and radio to
make available, so far as possible, to
all the people of the United States a
rapid, efficient, nation-wide and world
wide wire and radio communication
service with adequate facilities, at
reasonable charges, for the purpose of
national defense and for the purpose
of securing a more effective execution
of this policy by centralising authority
heretofore granted by law to several
agencies; and by granting additional
authority with respect to Interstate
and foreign commerce In wire and
radio communication.
A significant new provision which the
bill carries into law is the assertion
of full control over all wire and radio
communications by the government in
case,of war or “public peril." Under
this section the President has author
ity to take over all wire and radio
offices and stations with Just compen
sation to persons entitled' thereto.
LARGELY through the efforts of
Norman Davis, American ambas-
Mdor at large, the European states
men at Geneva were persuaded to
drbp their quarreling
and adopt a mild
compromise resolution
that prolonged the
life of the disarma
ment conference.
Great Britain and
France agreed upon
a plan, based on the
return of Germany to
the conference, and
the aid of Italy was
enlisted. It was ar
ranged that Chancel
lor Hitler should go
Premier
Mussolini
to Venice and that Premier Musso
lini should fly to that city to confer
with his fellow dictator, whom he had
never met Later Louis Barthou,
French foreign minister, is expected
to go to Rome for a talk with Mus
solini in which the misunderstandings
between their countries may be Ironed
out
Mussolini and Hitler were to discuss
European policies generally, and, spe
cifically, the German claim! to full
.armament and the Austrian question,
Involving Nazi propaganda in the lat
ter country.
This Anglo-French compromise was
a diplomatic setback for Russia, but
the Soviet republic countered with the
announcement that it had been recog
nized by Czechoslovakia and Rumania.
Recognition by Jugoslavia was expect
ed to follow shortly. Maxim Litvinov’s
announcement was taken to .mean that
the Russians Intend to go ahead with
their policy of encircling Germany.
The recognition was effected by an
exchange of letters between Litvinov
and Dr. Edward Benes, foreign min
ister of Czechoslovakia, and Nicholas
Titulescu, foreign minister of Ru
mania. After suggesting an early ex
change of ministers, which will as
sure that relations between their coun
tries “will always remain friendly and
correct,” each of these letters adds
the phrase, “our peoples will collabo
rate in the future to maintain the
peace of the world.”
German papers agree a new chapter
in relations between Soviet Russia and
the powers of southeastern Europe
has been opened. It is expected the
next step probably will be the conclu
sion of a commercial agreement be-
tween the little entente and Moscow,
one of the purposes being to minimise
the effect of Soviet dumping of lum
ber and cereals in the entente nations.
Nonaggressions and mutual assistance
pacts are said to be in the back
ground.
A committee of the disarmament
conference had under consideration
the matter of guarantees for any con
vention which may be agreed upon;
but when the question was submitted
to the Japanese delegate he said his
government could not consent to guar
antees without reservations. There
upon the Russian delegate said the
Soviet government would not accept
any such agreement that was not
signed by Japan.
EVEN the Democrats in congress
are not boasting openly of their
success In passing the bill for a cen
sus of the unemployed, and many of
them voted against it or were absent
when It came Op for final passage.
That it was designed mainly to give
jobs for the faithful at the expense
of the national treasury was clear, for
the census takers are not to get their
jobs until after the November con
gressional elections. Then they will
receive 82 a day for a long period, ob
taining answers to an elaborate ques
tionnaire. •
Drouth-stricken regions of the
Middle West were blessed with
soaking rains, and hope was held out
for crops and corn. The earlier
crops, however, are ruined over most
of the area. Secretary Wallace, after
a trip through the “dry" states, de
scribed the droqth as a "tragedy” for
the farmers who are suffering from its
ravages, but a possible future “bless
ing for the country as a whole.”
DUTRA, professional of a
vx' California country club, now
wears the crown of open golf cham
pion of the United States. He won
the title by shooting a 293 for 72 holes.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
You Have Inflation
But Don’t Worry
Flying Too Low
New Way to Travel '
A law will presently become the
“law of the land” compelling the na
tion to buy fourteen hundred million
ounces of silver. It is announced that
the President will issue’ fifteen hun
dred million dollars of paper money
to buy the silver. Conservative old
fogyism yells “Inflation,” although it
Is not Inflation, since the money will
have silver back of it.
It will have more back of it than
the government’s bonds on which the
nation pays interest. Back of those
bonds there is nothing but a paper
mill, and the government's name.
There are no longer any gold bonds;
you can’t get any gold.
Back of the silver money Issued to
buy silver will at least be silver, and
you can always buy something with
that—in China, Mexico, India—else
where as well as here at home.
Conservative old fogyism may as
well realize that we have left the gold
basis, and that a government bond Is
worth exactly as much as a piece of
green paper with the government name
on It, no more, no less. ' All you will
get for any United States government
bond is pieces of green paper, when
you come to sell it.
For your comfort remember that this
nation, which has actually lost, ac
cording to careful statistics, more than
one hundred thousand millions of dol
lars since the depression began, can
well afford another hundred thousand
millions to get out of the depression,
if that amount is necessary.
This isn't any little country, or any
poor country.
One hundred thousand millions to
the United States is less than ten mil
lions would be to John D. Rockefeller,
and you know or you can Imagine how
much that would be to him.
An airplane of the “American Air
Lines” was wrecked and burned in the
Catskill mountains, with all on board,
seven —four passengers, two pilots and
the “stewardess”—dead.
The government Is careful about In
specting planes and testing pilots. Is
it sufficiently careful about stipulating
the height, at which passenger-carrying
planes must fly and what pilots must
do In dangerous weather?
A seagoing vessel Mils In “deep wa
ter.” It does not skim along the tops
6t rocks near the surface. There is
plenty of “deep water” in the atmo
sphere above this earth. Is there any
reason why airplapes should skim as
near as possible to the surface of the
earth, frequently colliding with moun
tainsides and hills?
Mr. Ben Smith’s traveling methods
show what flying mhehines can do.
He recently started around the world
with his family by floating steamer.
On the way, in Java, he thought he
would like to see the grand national
steeplechase, and flew back to .Eng
land from that point, mw the race and
flew back to join his family and their
ship at an African port Landing in
New York, be flew to California, took
another plane to British Columbia,
flew back via San Francisco to New
York. He thus Mves months of old
fashioned “high-speed travel."
The most Important public document
since the Civil war, more important
than any act of government in the big
war, is the message that President
Roosevelt sends to congress, outlining
plans of his administration. The gov
ernment pledges Itself to enable citi
zens to live Vas Americans should
live," to provide jobs for those that
want work or, falling jobs, unemploy
ment insurance, and to guarantee “the
security of the home.”
Dr. James Bryant Conant, youthful
and Intelligent new president of Har
vard university, tells graduates of the
Stevens Institute of Technology that
no matter what “social and economic
order Ues ahead of us, society will de
mand the luxuries and conveniences
afforded by modern technology.”
Therefore, two professions will sur
vive any troubles—“the engineers and
the doctors.” Engineers will be need
ed to provide what people want, and
doctors to repair human machinery.
When Doctor Conant says “society
will want” he means human society,
the whole race, not the silly by-prod
uct commonly described as “society.”
Sailors with friends on the big ship
Leviathan are worried because that
boat went to sea with no cat on board.
To sail without a cat, according to
sailors, is “the worst possible luck."
And, most curiously, the same sail
ors consider it bad luck to sail with
a clergyman on board. Why the pres
ence of a clergyman or the absence of
a cat should be dangerous to a Ship
is a puzzle.
From the world-wide point of view
the serious news is'suspension of pay
ments by the German Relcbsbank,
which means that Germany stops pay
ing even private debts. It is not mere
ly the usual default on international
debts.
Wise Paris "fears the worst” as us
ual; in this Instance, that Germany’s
financial condition is far worse than
the world knows, worse than Germany
realises or cares to admit
* Kins reatum Synaicati, lu
WMU Sarvio*
Time Worth Only g
What It Confers
Those Moments of Leisure
Not to Be Counted
as Wasted.
“Is there no time you can reclaim
from pleasure that really does not
give you much pleasure, from empty
talk at the club, from Inferior plays,
from doubtfully enjoyable week-ends
or not very profitable trips? Do you
realize the value of minutes? A man
had a wife who always kept him
waiting a few minutes before dinner.
After a time it occurred to him that
eight or ten lines could be written
during this Interval and he had a pa
per and ink laid in a convenient
place."
One of the most deeply appreci
ated of our American women writ
ers. to whose attention the foregoing
was called, sees the matter from an
other angle. She says:
“This deplorer of ‘wasted time’
goes on to tell all this man accom
plished, over a period of years, in
those few minutes a day. A reader
sent me the quotation with the re
mark that all young people ought to
read It, that they would get so much
more out of life if they did not waste
so much time.
“At the risk of being misunderstood,
lam not going to agree. I think we
have already heard so much about
the value of time, the dangers of
wasting it, the benefits of conserving
It, and what can be accomplished by
salvaging those few minutes here
and there—so much that we are in
danger of forgetting that time was
made for living, not life to Mve time.
“Time, like money, Is only worth
what we get out of it And I see so
many -people In this hectic day so
preoccupied with the matter of get
ting the most out of their time that
they are not living at all.
“It is right that young people
should be taught the pity of waste In
time as in anything else —the folly
of not taking advantage of the op
portunities open to them in their for
mative years for mental and bodily
growth, of heedlessly for some fool
ish pleasures, turning their backs on
the benefits that are open to them.
“But there Is a time for work and
Ultra-Violet Treatment
An aid to the doctor in treating
certain Ills Is the ultra-violet lamp.
Such lamps with quartz bulbs have
been used but are necessarily expen
sive because of the quartz. Glass Is
much less expensive and also much
less effective, since only a fractional
part of the ultra-violet rays filter
through the ordinary glass bulb. The
solution lies in making the glass as
thin as a soap bubble—2/10,000 of an
inch. Certainly a whole bulb made
of this glass would also have about
the durability of a soap bubble. The
secret lies in making the bulb of nor
mal thickness and setting In it a win
dow made of the thin glass. This
passes a concentrated beam of ultra
violet with which the doctor may
treat various ailments. —Scientific
American.
All Is Vanity!
Daughter at the summer resort,
poses for a photograph under the
wistarias beside a handsome young
man; father poses beside a fish six
feet in length.
Don't give up!
DO NOT Want to rfve up... but why do I
A tire so easily ...why can’t I‘carry on’...
and how is it that I do not fed like myself?”
It may be that as the result of colds...in
door or over work...worry and the like...
the strength of your blood has been weakened
—that is, the red-blood-cells and hemo-glo-bin
reduced... and Spring finds you with that
■worn-out” and “let-down-feeling.”
For such cases try that time-tested tonic
B.S.S.—not just a so-called tonic, but a tonic
specially designed to restore body strength by
its action on the blood.
S.S.S. value has been proven by generations
of use, as well as by modem scientific ap
praisal. Unless your case is exceptional, you
should soon notice a pick-up in your appetite
...your color and skin should improve with
increased strength and energy. O’ntSAS.Co.
YOUR TOWN
YOUR STORES
a
community includes the
farm homes surrounding
the town. The town stores are
there for the accommodation and
to serve the people of our farm
homes. The merchants who adver
tise "specials” are merchants who
are sure they can meet all com
petition in both quality and prices.
a time for play. And the constant
preoccupation with snatching for
profit every leisure moment, begrudg
ing time given to real leisure. Is, to
my mind, the source of many nerv
ous and physical ills. I have seen
high-strung young people who had
been Impressed with the idea of ac
counting for every minute, restless
and nervous at wholesome recre
ations. I have seen them unable to
really rest, because their minds, al
ways on the minutes, could not be
attuned to* relaxation. They had
been taught that rest can be achieved
merely by a change of occupation.
The thing to be avoided as the
plague was to do nothing I
“Knowing full well the condemna
tion I may be bringing upon my head,
I must My sincerely that one of the
lessons I have learned from many
years which never lost sight of the
value of a minute, is that one of the
most wholesome, healthful and con
structive things we can do with soma
leisure minutes, is just doing noth
ing!”
c. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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LUI CONCLNTRATf
Eczema on Hands
Skin Peeled Off
in Pieces
Cutfcura H*aM
Twas troubled with eczema on my
hands for ever so long. Icould not
put my hands in muchwater because
after I got through I could Just peel
the skin off in pieces. It would form
like a rash and bothered me terribly,
burning and itching. My hands were
sights and I was ashamed.
"I tried a lot of different remedies
that did not help. I sent for a free
sample of Cutfcura Soap and Oint
ment and it helped a lot I bought
more and now my hands are com
pletely healed.” (Signed) Mrs. H. 8.
Hammond, 10 Pleasant St, Hollis
ton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1088.
Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c.
Talcum 25c. Sold everywhere. One
sample each free. Address: “Cuti
cura Laboratories, Dept R, Malden,
Mass.”—Adv.
In tiie Springtime—
take SAS. Toniu. 1
At all drag stores.
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