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A BRISBANE
THIS WE^K
1 he Swing Angwer Ruck
•Vise Mrg. Roosevelt
Jr T'.le Ralanee
'■r* > jfr Good New*
t f r \ \ nd nd is small but takes noth-
F-blyirlg '‘"Fage I m down." Every Swiss jj^ftght-
is u reserve member of the
,isH army, with a rifle and ammunl-
/on that tie can use /*That encourages
ndependeuce. Kurof; knows that It
■youJd cost more to conquer Swdtzer-
.Wnin P^'ion, Switzerland would lie worth.
nohmlv would know how
except the Swiss.
Pur! Barth, Swiss university, pro-
CTjcmogy at Bonn
^mBs lot former German kaiser
Ini n boy, was dismissed h.v
mister of culture, because
Doctor liartli would not take the oath
personal loyalty to Hitler.
Swiss government takes that up
fiptly, saying to Germany: "If
you dismiss a Swiss teacher for politi¬
cal reasons, the Swiss government will
Immediately send home all German
,professors In Swiss universities.’’
No hemming and hawing there.
Mrs. Franklin It. Roosevelt, wise nnd
Lenergetic [children lady, advises giving small j
as young as six or seven a
[weekly Fthem allowance, because They it teaches learn
to lie Independent.
how to spend, when to save, whs M
pay, and grow up independent
I*' thought that some
in government
vldual lnde-
pr 1 T 771 ’ why not
Page it In grown-u Orleans,
Rid of training them fid the
A&of their lives In any NR.\ baby
F»ge?
.Again there is oheerfulr^-s. United
exports since <u^p>er were Sam
in three years.^ Uncle
^200,352,000 HStodles, worthBf goods to
$70,723,0^1 ess than tio
That is called supposed a "’Wor.-rWJfc' -B rnde f?o°d bal-
and Is l a
thing.
Absit omen, but the French rev01^ %
tlon started at a time when Franc
for the first time in a long while, found
herself exporting more thai^Aabought.
Edsel
jren t. he] er i*
l,h-nt the Fp ___ _ dined SpringS^Tm, j
_
Roosevelt in Warm
told him the nation is "out of the !
trough.’ .----- 1 ..,
The two P'ords are good judges of
returning prosperity. They expect to
sell at least 1,000,000 other “Fords’*
[SCce y “ r -
_W. Aldrich, head of the
Chase National bank, big-
bank In the world, tells
•i'l.-lt'M Seattle: “Business men
jyK'-gt rs In all the cities we hnve
eve that there has been a
dement since September.”
Is climbing up, according
tdrich, and he ought to know,
n hand more than a billion
tyi-ill glailly lend you, If
your ability to pay It
Cnmntil Samuel Insull Ttieti and sixteen eo-dot?^
ants are acquift of using the mallf
to defraud. A majority of the Jury,
which took two hours to decide, voted
for acquittal from the start.
Apparently Mr. Insull might have,
avoided that tiring trip to Greece.
There is war talk xvith a meaning
in Europe. Hungary is filled with rage
because Jugoslavia accuses Ilungnrl-
-,ns of plotting the murder of King Al-
jJr xam,er ‘ The Hungarians are fighters,
not murderers.
>"*"•-V?‘ 1 nn<l France are agitated hy
views that Germany is arming
*-.rV 'J \ possible speed, regardless of
* \ V. tes treaty.
, r for
- * a dozen causes war
* ound Europe, and no pnr-
v
TkX’ vause could well for peace, afford excx-pt another that war— no
nation
Uncle Sam’s pockets being tightly hut
toned, at present.
Senator N.ve, an earnest man, de-
to peace, but not nt “any price,"
asks the big United Aircraft company
j ust W hat It has In mind in its constant
J«*atvf»q in production and betterment
;fi :, |' Vcs. The senator seems to
,'Xunlted ’^dlity Aircraft has in mind
’’’ of war.
JxX. •- , ; all hope that It has exactly
h^lnd, and that a government
l>1 iving little energy or Initiative of
Its own In atr defense will at least np-
predate help from private Initiative.
New Jersey draws a panel of 150,
S3 of them women, for the Lindbergh
kidnaping and murder trial. The an
thorlties, without being specific, say
they have evidence against Bruno Rleh-
ard Hauptmann not revealed to the
public. Hauptmann's lawyers would
probably prefer all men on the Jury.
Women feel more keenly than men do
about kidnaping children.
When President Roosevelt says he
means to give the people of the United
States cheap power, he means it. At
Warm Springs he has been working on
“a broad national program” for cheap¬
er power. It is understood that he will
not be “too drastic.’’ but he will give
the people what they need.
Next in Importance to free air and
Xree water is cheap power.
©, Kina Fe-ature# S\TuXif-*te. In*.
WNU Service."
more war clouds gathering
OVER EUROPE—' L AND
AIDES ARE J Af/' 11 ED.
By EDWARD -*r W. tCKARD V
©. Western Newspaper Union.*
L EON AROHIMBAUD, French “■
porter of the budget, declared be¬ ‘
fore the chamber of deputies that it
was undeniable that an understanding
exists between France
f • and Rnssia, and that
the Soviet arinflr
had offered Jf
to France in
conflict with Germany.
| * 't cltemetu his cau^g. great and the ex-
French office content¬
ed itself with a denial
that there was any
milRaLjffMjpord. The
Russ »>JvR*r was gen-
Col. Jean Fabry ergjli*£»®ced to have
been made by Max4ffi-?iat'ln»v, ,4 Rus¬
sian foreign com mis.-# j &lB lMfcaito ^ spring to
the late Louis liartfloi his
successor, Pierre 1
Fabry, former French*® ArchimhJPHI jjl J
gave Apport to
ment t)y asserting that France's knmvl-
edge of German rearmament, tiie de¬
tails of German troops and informa¬
tion concerning the secret manufac¬
ture of arms and airplanes in the re'ch
was supplied by Russia. The two T ^
V^ere arguing for a large war
and Archlmbaud pictured Russia's
huge military machine working with
France as the only means of preserving
peace in Europe.
rpRANGE E fact that is Germany worried by lias the developed admitted
military air fleet of considerable size,
composed of modern pursuit and bomb¬
ing planes, and Gen. Victor Itenain,
French minister of air, estimates that
by January the relch will have from
1,000 to 1,100 of these machines, swift¬
er and better than those possessed hy
France. Consequently he lias asked the
chamber of deputies for about $230,-
0OO,000 t* finance a program for re-
WBfion. t^Anng the The ground lost h.v French
task is already under
way, $32,500,000 having been spent out
of an appropriation for modernization.
it may . said that if or
* 1 when wtien and ' European war
breaks out, it start among the
southern nations. The blaze lighted
by tlie assassinations of King Alexan-
der and Louis Barthou in Marseilles is
s tiii smoldering. Jugoslavia’s dele-
gates In »he League of Nations formal¬
ly charged Hungary with complicity in
the murder of the king, Asserting she
had harbored Balkan ti“ *-cists. Hun¬
gary demanded Immedi. action hy
the league’s council on this accusation,
declaring “the peace of the world”
might he affected. The Hungarian
note asked that the matter he placed
on the agenda of the council’s session
called to meet on December 3 to dis¬
cuss the forthcoming plebiscite in the
Saar, so that Hungary might “defend
its honor against proceedings which
have no other purpose than to compro¬
mise the good name of the whole
garian nation.”
The document then pointed out
the council, under Article IV of
covenant of the league, may deal
any question affecting the peace
the world.
It is, therefore, the duty of the
cil to face this question as soon
possible. It asserted, “and thus
against the grave dangers which
arise from the situation that
Is still bound to bring to the
of the council.”
The Jugoslavian charges were
ported by the other two states of
little entente, Czechoslovakia
Rumania.
Italy, which has stood by
was expected to refuse to grant
dition to France of l>r. Ante
alleged leader of the gang that
and carried out the assassination
King Alexander. The court of
at Turin denied the application
France, nnd it was believed the
ister of Justice would confirm this
ing. Mussolini’s paper, II
d’ltatla, In an article supposedly
spired by II Dace himself, said
slavia’s accusations against
..
threaten to destroy all possibilities
calming Europe’s clashing passions.
i -
TTUGH R. WILSON, American
11 bassndor to Switzerland, laid
fore .mr the me disarmament ui.-,uui,iu« conference
Geneva a proposal by the
States for international ««♦—»•♦ control
anus traffic and full publicity to
vent secret arming of nations.
; proposal was well received by
of the delegates, and it will be
by committees In January.
Ily the American plan each
ment would license its
of munitions for five-year periods.
reserve stocks would be allowed
, manufacturers would be required
j present bona fide orders before
ing a license. Details of war
built for other nations would have
| be reported. Reports of licenses
orders would be turned over to a
tral committee at Geneva and
a matter of public record. A
nent commission, including a
j her from each signatory nation,
: be empowered to Investigate
tions.
T HERE Is bound to be another
fight in the senate over the
vamped St Lawrence waterxvay
but it looks now as If President
DADE COUNTY TIMES: DECEMBER 6, 19.34
m
velt wVre Justified in his expectation
that the treaty will be ratified. Sena-
tor James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
leader of the opposition that defeated
the pact In the last session, said In
Wasliington that he had heard rumors
that some major provisions involved in
the controversy had been eliminated in
a new treaty with Canada that is be¬
ing negotiated. The omitted provisions,
he understood, have to do with the
American share of the cost of the sea-
way'^nd limitations on the diversion
-jof water from Lake Michigan for the
drainage canal. He added ru-
also had it that the new pact would
\'$knowledge complete American sov-
’ereignty over Lake Michigan.
Chicago Association of Corn-
rmHw* urges Senators Lewis and Die-
terich pr<ijW$>d u -nContinue their opposition to
the treaty, saying in part:
The aiprehension we have felt
■ward the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
waterway treaty is not based entirely
upon selfish Interest. While we insist
that article VIII has no place in ttie
treaty because of the unfair penalties
it Imposes upon Chicago and the state
of Illinois, we also see that realiza¬
tion of the larger picture of a greater
and more prosperous valley would be
immeasurably Impeded should the
treaty in its present form be approved
by
« v^-^-vrenee treaty was one of
v
discussed in the annual
Convention of the Mississippi Valley
association in St. Louis.
T TNCLE SAM has had plenty of
trmihlp trouble with his “colonial” posw.
sions and very small satisfaction
most of them. Now comes Admiral
Richard E. Byrd with the announce¬
ment from Little America. Antarctica,
that lie has claimed for the United
States an area nearly as large as the
state of Texas, as a result <>1 his som
“
polar discoveries.
* A huge stretch of iee-coverej
arctic wastes, which prex
(•been considered to he oven
sa j ( ] | )y Byrd to he land. 1
announcement in a radi <J
President Roosevelt loll,I
east into Marie Byrd Lar
back with him conclusi
Marie Byrd Land rij,
line from the Anta
South pole, and th
strait does not exist
it is all land, “overvvt iM
* PRESIDENT program,
as
nessee Valley
projects, is at
Electric Institut
carry to tlie
legality oCJj
an association that
per cent of the country
er Interests. Its president,’Thomas N.
McCarter, said tiiat lie had obtained
from Newton D. Baker hi* James M.
Beck a joint legal opinion declaring the
TV A legislation to be “palpably un¬
constitutional.”
In one of the resolutions adopted by
the institute’s board of trustees, the
administration was accused inferential-
ly of “using public funds to destroy
by competitive construction and opera¬
tion the existing investments of pri¬
vate capital in public utility enter-
pri ses.”
The Institute officers xvere empow¬
ered to take “any necessary steps” to
bring about “a prompt adjudication
and settlement of the matters in cou-
trox'ersy.”
QAMUEL INSULL and his sixteen co-
^ defendants in the great mail fraud
trial in Chicago were acquitted by the
jury, despite the long work of the gov¬
ernment officials in
2 preparing and present¬
ing the case at an esti¬
* ... mated emst of $100,000.
T h e v f r diet xv a s
* 4 re^hed on the third
. ballot, and tlie attor¬
neys for the prosecu¬
tion could say only
that they had done
their best. It was ap¬
parent that the jurors
were not convinced
that Insull and his
aides had an Intent to defraud. There
are other charges standing against In¬
sull, but whether or not there will lie
further prosecution Is undecided. In¬
sull said:
“I am ready to face these other tri-
luls that are pending. I have been vin¬
dicated in this case and I am confident
that-1 will be vindicated In the others.”
There were rumors that the former
magnate, if cleared of all charges,
planned to re-enter La Salle street and
the utilities field.
/"'vRGANIZED labor demands a 30-
hour week, but the NIIA super¬
visors of manufacturing codes have
drafted recommendations for a uniform
40-hour week, feeling that what union
labor wants is impossible of achieve¬
ment without pushing prices so high
that consumption would be seriously
curtailed. The recommendations xvere
to go first to the recovery board and
then to tlie President for his use In
dealing xvith congress-
TN 1 ITS review of current conditions,
the United States Chamber of Com¬
merce says that business is gradually
improving, and would be expanding
even more substantially were it not
for hampering effects of the Nexv Deal
Issuance of obligations aggregating
hundreds of millions of dollars is being
held back, the chamber finds, by these
txvo conditions:
1. Monopoly of the long-term invest¬
ment market by federal government
and municipal borrowings.
2. The great expense to which issu¬
ers of securities are put to comply
with the requirements of the securities
act
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Is revel-
r i ng i n baths and rest at Warm
g pr j nggi Ga., but he Is not neglecting
na tj 0 n’s business, keeping In close
touc b w jth Washington and receiving
many official visitors. At his first press
conference there he announced with
glad smiles that he would again “lend
his birthday,’’ January 30, to the na¬
tional committee that arranges birth¬
day halls all over the country for the
benefit of infantile paralysis sufferers.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL J. U.
v-J M’CARL has thrown a monkey-
wrench into part of the machinery of
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop¬
kins. Turning down a check from Hop¬
kins to the officials of the District of
Columbia which was to have started
work on a housing development, Mr.
MeCarl held that the federal emergen¬
cy relief act, providing for the grant¬
ing of funds for various relief pur¬
poses, could not apply to the acquisi¬
tion of real estate and the construc¬
tion of homes. This type of activity,
| he said, would be of a permanent and the and act
not an emergency nature,
was adopted to meet emergencies.
The FERA already has under way
a program of “rehabilitating” 80,000
farm families in homes and on land
which is to be sold 1o them by the gov-
ernment.
COBER minded American citizens
find it difficult to take seriously
the fantastic story that Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler told to the con¬
gressional committee
investigating un-Amer¬
ican activities. This
retired officer of ma-
rines charges that
^ there Is a plot, en-
gineered by Wall
Street men, to seize
- y-j—_ the government of the
mF 1 United States and set
up a Fascist dictator¬
ship, and the chairman
of the committee, Rep¬
resentative John W.
McCormack of New
t lered the tale of enough Itn-
! u-rant the calling of wit-
or d. nrove it. General
J* V-. ,■■” .As Npublic As Y-.rk V-irk Evening through
tlie •• c7* j
eu ( ngs of the com-
% Vjplb in i u , cteu in prt 4 \
. ,'i be believed, lie was
Gerald P. MacGuire
tlie stock
M. P. Murphy and
tnpany, '"Urged to accept tlie lead-
’ organization of
ership of TV " would
million r rhich
proba J J from
yenr
Vashington, and that within «_
ays it c 7.‘ take over the ”
jf the gov'jjinent.” thought MacGuire, tlie
; to tlie general,
turn of the government might be
complished peacefully and
that “we might even go along
Roosevelt and do with him what
solini did with tlie king of Italy.”
Butler’s story continued:
“He told me he believed that
least half of the American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars would
' ‘MacGuire explained to me that
had two other candidates for the
tion of ‘Man on tlie White Horse.’
said that if I did not accept, an
would be made to Gen. Douglas
Artliur, chief of staff of the
States army, and that the third
would be Hanford MacNider,
commander of the American Legion.
“So far as I know, neither
MacArthur nor MacNider has been
proached. Tlieif names were
mentioned as ‘alternates.’ ”
The general said he was offered
siderable sums “for expenses” which
did not accept. He said MacGuire
timated that among the backers of
plan xvere Mr. Murphy and Col.
S. Clark, a wealthy Nexv Yorker
offices in the Stock Exchange
ing: and he added that later
Clark offered him money to go to
American Legion convention in
cago last year and make a speech
retention of tlie gold standard,
speech MacGuire had previously
Iiutler.
Clark, at present in France,
ted he had asked Butler “to use
Influence in favor of sound money
against inflation, but strongly
that he had sponsored a Fascist
ment.
Murphy and other Wall Street
said the story xvas absolutely
and unutterably ridiculous, and
Guire, after being heard by the
Cormack committee, said: “It’s a
—a publicity stunt. I knoxv
about it. The matter is made out
whole cloth. I deny the story
ly.”
CO FAR as the great steel
^ is concerned, it appears that
industrial truce asked by
Roosevelt cannot be arranged, and
prospect of a strike of the steel work
ers is growing.
In behalf of the United States
corporation, a proposal was made
the American Federation of Labor
: recognition of that organization
{..e granted, hut that no contract
be made. This proposal, it was
would be agreed to by So per cent
the steel Industry.
The labor spokesmen, led by
Green, president of tlie A. F. of L„
jected the tender on the ground
it was hedged about in such a way
permit collective bargaining wiih
nority groups or company unions,
; that the employers xvere still
! t° accept the principle of majority
as set forth 1n the national labor
lations board’s decision in the
case.
If a rupture comes the
of Labor may find the federal
ment rather unsympathetic. Mr.
Influence in the White House has
waning noticeably and he has had
personal contacts with the
for some time.
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National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—Henry A. Wallace, sec¬
retary of agriculture, is girding his
Wallace armor to fight off a
drive to revise the
WiZZ Fight agricultural adjust¬
ment act. Mr. Wal¬
lace sees many sinister moves now be¬
ing made in that direction and he is
preparing to meet his adversaries in
the congressional buttle that now ap¬
pears certain to come.
The secretary freely admits now that
there may be some changes necessary
in the adjustment act, but his position
will be boldly against too much whit¬
tling when agricultural legislation is
before congress in January. The con¬
viction is held by him that the agri¬
cultural situation lias been improved
by the New Deal program, and lie is
avowedly favorable to its retention In
a general way, although in a recent
speech Mr. Wallace told the national
grange that probably it would be neces¬
sary to re-examine the basis of tlie
program that has been operating now
more than a year.
“Exactly what form the drives on the
adjustment act and administration may
take this coining winter," said Mr. Wal¬
lace in an interview the other day, “no
one of us can say, but from present
indications I xvould anticipate the most
potent drive to be directed at restric¬
tions on agricultural production. So I
envision a conflict, a choice between
txvo paths, one leading to unrestricted
agricultural production at the earliest
possible moment, the other leading to
continuance and perfection of the pres¬
ent control methods. Either path may
very xvell require certain changes in
the Agricultural Adjustment act. Be¬
fore 1 discuss unrestricted production
in detail, 1 would like to say parentheti¬
cally that I am for it, provided there
Is a sufficient excess of imports over
exports to service the debts owed us
by foreign nations, and in addition to
pay a fair price for our exportable sur¬
plus ; and provided, furthermore, that
shipment of these excess products
abroad does not impoverish our soil
beyond repair.”
While Mr. Wallace is saying that the
drive is on tlie adjustment act, observ¬
ers are finding considerable objection
among farmers to control from Wash
lngton. I think it is an undoubted fact
that the American farmers are rock-
ribbed individualists and, that being
true, they naturally resent having bu¬
reaucrats sitting in Washington offices
tell them what to do and hoxv to do it.
Because the farm industry was so flat
on its back when the adjustment act
was passed, the bulk of the farmers
were xvilling to accept anything that
promised a measure of relief, according
to the considered judgment of students
who have watched the whole picture.
They have found noxv, however, that
unhappy consequences have resulted,
and I am told by many members of
congress that they are uncertain
whether there is a majority of farm¬
ers in this country now favorable to
the New Deal farm program.
* * »
It seems reasonably certain, there¬
fore, that the discussion of farm legis¬
lation in the new
Consumer congress wil 1 devel-
to Be Heard op that which has
not been developed
before, namely, the voice of the con¬
sumer. There is also likely to be vio¬
lent expressions from the corn and hog
producers because of the processing
taxes on hogs. A goodly number of
farm leaders believe, after surveys
among actual farmers, that the proc¬
essing taxes on hogs have been taken
out of tlie farmer’s hide and not the
hog.
I told you some weeks ago that there
was every prospect of a proposal to
repeal the Bankhead cotton laxv. That
movement has gained In momentum be
yond belief. The Department of Agri
culture, under Mr. Wallace’s direction,
is taking a census, a vote, on the ques¬
tion whether this law should be con¬
tinued. The result is that congress
will find that question on its door-step
also, and don’t forget that opponents of
the Bankhead law are real fighters.
Those who claim to have suffered dam¬
ages under it believe that one dose is
enough, and if they do not gain their
point one way, they will accomplish
their desires in another, much to the
chagrin of Senator Bankhead, of Ala¬
bama. xvho made so many long speeches
in Its behalf.
Mr. Wallace stated that he expects
the main drive against present agri¬
cultural laws to be in favor of removal
of all restrictions on production. He
thinks that is a ridiculous course to fol¬
low. He proposes to give present
schemes of control time for trial in
order to perfect them. In this he has
the whole-hearted support of the New
Deal professors who clutter up Depart¬
ment of Agriculture offices in numbers
greater than in any other government
department. The professors have
their contacts at tlie Capitol, and they
use them. Thus, observers here fee)
that opponents of the present adjust¬
ment act may not win uuless the ob¬
jections claimed to exist among the
farmers themselves are made vocal. If
that occurs, it is declared by authori¬
ties, we may see President Roosevelt
taking a hand because of the politics
involved. If the President throxvs his
weight in favor of revision, there is
little doubt but that changes will come.
If he indicates that he is satisfied with
the present set-up, the strength of the
professors will be so multiplied that
defeat of their program will be next
to Impossible.
Notwithstanding President K 00 ™.
veil’s speech at the annual eonventioa’
Bankers Bankers’' i
Distrustful here, a speech that
was believed at th»
time to have salved the bankers' feel-1
ings, considerable distrust of adminis¬
tration policies has begun to accumu¬
late among the banking fraternity, it
xvas Jl. noticed before the appointment of j I
S. Eccles as governor of the fed-
eral much reserve board, but it lias become! vocal!
more evident and more
since. The reason is that Mr. Eccles
is considerably more of a liberal than
most Frankly, bankers and business men.!
some of tlie important bank- !
ers will of the country fear that Mr. Fktcles!
go far to the radical side in direct- i
ing affairs of the greatest banking sys-
tern in the world.
While most financial authorities are
not noxv alarmed over the prospect of
any inflation by means of reckless run¬
ning of printing presses, they do fear
that the banks of the country will be
forced into the position of buying gov¬
ernment bonds whether they desire to
do so or not. 1 was told by one bank¬
er, a man who has served tn official
capacity in Washington, and therefore
knows this field as well as banking,
that he xvould not be surprised it banks
were assigned certain blocks of bonds
which they must purchase In tlie course
of financing by the treasury in the next
two years. All of tlie conservative
thought in the country looks upon this,
of course, as next to printing press
money in its inflationary tendencies.
* « *
As the laxvs now stand, It apparently
xvould be difficult for the treasury, act¬
Glass ing through tlie fed-
eral reserve board.
Would Fight to tot' any particular
bank hoxv many gov¬
ernment bonds it must absorb. But il
would not be difficult to change the
taw so that any bank could be allocated
a stated amount of fronds and he given
the privilege of turning over those se¬
curities to the federal reserve bank for
currency.
Obviously, such financial students as
the veteran Senator Carter Glass, Vir¬
ginia Democrat, would fight to the
death against xvhat he believes to be
misuse of the federal reserve system
and the country’s banking structure.
There are several other Democrats,
both in the house and senate, who
xvould follow the Virginia senator's
lead. The belief, hoxx’ever, is that there
are not enough to defeat such a pro¬
posal were it sent to congress xvith
the administration’s blessing.
There is banking legislation sched¬
uled for this coming session. Its scope
has not yet been determined but it will
be more far-reaching than the previous
legislation and, In all probability, there
will be some brand new pet schemes
put forward by professional advisers
who have been called into conference
by Secretary 7 Morgenthau and his aides.
Then there are tlie findings of tlie sen¬
ate committee on bank and currency
to be considered. That committee, as
will be remembered, held lengthy hear¬
ings and exposed much corruption in
certain types of banks. Whether the
members of that committee and the
administration xvi 11 attempt to bind the
whole banking structure hand and foot
because of the rotten spots found in
several apples In the barrel, it is too
early to forecast.
Yet it Is to be rememberejj that there
were ultra-radical inx'estigators includ¬
ed in tlie staff of men who operated
under Ferdinand Pecora, the commit¬
tee’s counsel. Mr. Pecora, of course,
is now a member of the securities com¬
mission and therefore not in direct
touch with his former employer, but
there are those here who say his influ¬
ence is just as great. If that be true,
tlie senate committee can be expected
to go off at a tangent in drafting IcS 13 ’
lation to hamstring not only the ba
banks but the good ones.
• • *
Because weather affects our daily
lives as nothing else. It proves an e'er
fascinating subject It Is always
teresting as well, really a fascinating
occupation, to look ahead.
While we cannot definitely forete
the weather this winter, the America®
Nature association and the i ’
States weather bureau have compi
some records about other winters
are most interesting. Take for exam¬
ple, the country-wide blizzard of ■
The boys and girls of those days,
those who now say, “do you remem-m
back when," insist that that wa
way winter. 11
a xvinter which really was ^ a
later generations point to the "
winter” of 1917-18, a period of exces¬
sive cold and of great snow th ■
out the United States east of tne
Rocky mountains. The Far West «
much warmer.
Txvo outstanding winters were:
1912—Severe cold weather effinng
the first three months of the year wnen
unprecedented ice formed on all m r
ern lakes and rivers. It was during
this cold spell that Lake Superior ' -
frozen from shore to shore ami m 11 -
crossed on the ice. Lake Mh ‘ r.
and Lake Erie were completely span
with ice in some places.
1899—A record cold wave from r
11 to February 13. with zero tern
ruary from the
peratures extending
coast northward. Mobile. Ala., rex
ed 1 below zero; Vicksburg. Miss-.ze x;
Washington, D. C., 15 degrees '
St. Louis. 19 below; Chicago, .1 t” ' >
and Ottawa, Can.. 24 below.
14. Western NewspajK-r Union.