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WHO’S
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW YORK.—Big beefy, hand-
some Joseph Buerckel, forty
years old, with hard fists and a
whip-lash tongue, is Hitler’s grand
marshal of the
Hard Fists Nazi subjugation
to Nazify of Austria. To Nazi the
Austrians surprise of
home talent in
Austria, he is given entire charge
of the fusion and subordination of
the Austrian Nazis by Berlin.
He was a poor schoolmaster who
worked his way up by continuous
and diligent Jew-hating. While less
earnest and industrious young men
were wasting their time, he was
working nights, Sundays and holi¬
days on this, his chosen career.
Against stiff competition, it took
him years to gain distinction, but
at last he came to outrank even the
illustrious Julius Streicher in long¬
distance anti-Semitism.
He was born in the Palatinate,
the south German territory adjoin¬
ing the Saar. He was in the World
war, in the closing years, and joined
the Hitler movement soon after the
Munich beer hall putsch in 1923.
He was a good rough-and-tumble
fighter and organizer and was ad¬
vanced rapidly in the more overt
and violent party drives.
When Baron von Papen was re¬
moved as Saar commissioner, in
Saar Post 1934, and made
ambassador t o
Taught Him Vienna, Herr
Technique Buerckel replaced
him. Under his su¬
pervision was the jug-handled pleb¬
iscite and his the exultant radio
voice which told the world that
German justice had triumphed.
The League of Nations handed
him the valley, and he became gov*
emor in 1935.
A typically forthright ukase was
his Christmas decree against shop¬
ping in Jewish stores.
“If you try to get out of it,” he
said, “by pretending that your wife
did the shopping, it merely shows
that an unreal Nazi spirit prevails
in your home, and you are not a
he-man, but a fool.”
• • •
'YT'OUNG Jan G. Masaryk, Czech
* minister to the Court of St.
James, had a fervent belief in the
Kellogg and Locarno pacts. He once
Czech Sees said, “They are
splendid instru-
Fadeout of ments of a world
Peace Hope order of peace and
stability.” Now he
calls at the bidtish foreign office,
perhaps to hint that something
seems to have gone wrong.
He is the son of the late Dr.
Thomas Masaryk, first president of
Czechoslovakia. His mother was an
American, born and reared in
Brooklyn, and so is his wife, the
former Mrs. Francis Crane Leather-
bee, daughter of Charles R. Crane,
the widely known manufacturer and
industrialist. He has spent much
time in America.
At the age of eighteen, he ran
tway from the University
Prague, in the early years of
war, and worked in a factory
Bridgeport, Conn. He
home and finished his studies,
was the first Czech minister to
United States in 1919.
He has his famous father’s
passioned belief in democracy,
has been its eloquent defender
central Europe, where his
is Horatius at the Bridge.
• • •
'T'HE history of this age will
-*• hard to unscramble. Japan
take a belt at a local power
without landing on an
Japs . Learn stockholder.
Joji
Power Can warned the
Be Headache ernment not
get in trouble
American investors by
its electric power industry.
This would endanger
of $75,000,000, he contended,
held in this country.
He is Japan’s leading
lawyer and one of its most
tant financiers, an officer of the
ital Rehabilitation Aid
which has a quaint sound but
is understandable even in the
dent.
Sixty years old, he is a
professor of law at the Tokyo
perial university, from which
was graduated. He is a director
the Tokyo Gas company and
eral other corporations, and
fice president of the South
churian railway.
® Consolidated News Feature*.
WNU Service.
Spain’s Romeo and Juliet
The “Lovers of Teruel,”
Romeo and Juliet, form one of
most ancient legends of Spain.
were Diego de Marcilla and
de Segura and lived in Teruel
ing the Thirteenth century
the reign of King James of
They parted because of family
approval and languished and
Their bodies were mummified
they were buried in the chapel
the church of San Pedro.
iterivir of Current Event h
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“REFORM" BILL PASSED
Measure Giving President Vast Powers Squeezes Through
Senate . . . Mussolini Ready for War
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the senate finance
committee, is here seen telling members of the press what his committee
had done and proposed to do to the revenue measure so that it would be
less objectionable to business and to the country in general. It already
had made radical changes in the bill as it was passed by the house.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
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Wide Powers for President
* PRESIDENT ganization bill ROOSEVELT’S squeezed through reor-
the senate by the close vote of 49
to 42, after a fierce fight. A mo¬
tion to recommit, which would have
virtually killed the measure, was
defeated by a vote of 48 to 43.
Opponents of this bill are con¬
vinced that it paves the way for
a dictatorship in the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt made public a let¬
ter to a friend in which he dis¬
claimed any intention to become a
dictator under the powers granted
him by the bill. He said he was
firmly opposed to an American dic¬
tatorship and that he has none
of the qualifications which would
make him a successful dictator.
The special reorganization com¬
mittee of the house reported a new
bill as a substitute for the senate
measure but differing from it only
slightly. Its speedy passage was
predicted by Majority Leader Ray¬
burn.
The bill, as it was passed by the
senate, authorizes the President,
by executive order, to transfer, re¬
group, co-ordinate, consolidate, seg¬
regate the whole or any part of or
abolish any of the 135 bureaus, agen¬
cies, and divisions of government.
Excepted from this section, how¬
ever, are the federal reserve board,
the corps of engineers of the Unit¬
ed States army and the independent,
quasi-judicial and regulatory estab¬
lishments, such as the board of tax
appeals, the communications com¬
mission, the federal trade com¬
mission, the interstate commerce
commission, and the national labor
relations board.
It abolishes the civil service com¬
mission as now constituted, and the
general accounting office. It cre¬
ates a new “department of wel¬
fare,” and it authorizes six more
$10,000 a year assistants to the Pres¬
ident.
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Senators Are Angered
COMMENTING to the press on the
senate’s action on the reorgan¬
ization bill, the President made the
remarkable statement that it
proved the senate
could not be “pur¬
chased by organized
telegrams based on
direct misrepresen¬
tations.”
This led to an out¬
burst of indignation
in the senate. Hi¬
ram Johnson of Cal¬
ifornia started a hot
debate with the as¬
Sen. Johnson sertion: “I don’t
know just what was
meant by this remark, but I do
know full well the implications which
arise from it. Did the President
mean that the senate could be pur¬
chased only by promises of proj¬
ects in particular states, or by mar¬
shals or other officials in particular
localities?”
Senator Wheeler of Montana said
that it was a “coincidence” that
Senator James P. Pope, Democrat,
of Idaho, had voted for the reor¬
ganization bill about the same time
that he had been able to get for his
state an appropriation of close to
$ 1 , 000,000 to start a dam project.
When Pope and his friends indig¬
nantly protested, Wheeler said he
was satisfied there was no connec¬
tion between the two matters.
The citizens who sent between
75,000 and 100,000 telegrams asking
senators to vote against the reor¬
ganization measure are still to be
heard from concerning the Presi¬
dent’s comment.
Adjournment Prospects
/CONGRESS wants to adjourn by
the first of May, but leaders
foresaw three possible obstacles to
this plan—the wage-hour bill, the
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Hungarian debt settlement proposal
and railroad legislation.
Democratic Leader Barkley said
he hoped the senate could dispose of
the tax revision bill, the $ 1 , 100 , 000 ,-
000 naval expansion program, and
the proposed $ 1 , 000 , 000,000 relief
measure in April. This would clear
the senate calendar, he said, un¬
less consideration of Hungary’s debt
program should result in a lengthy
senate debate on the entire war debt
question.
Representative Rayburn, house
floor leader, said he thought that
chamber could complete its present
program by May 1. But other mem¬
bers said that if efforts to revive the
wage-hour bill are successful, the
picture may change.
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Ten Men to Probe TVA
FIVE senators and five representa-
*■ tives will do the investigating of
the Tennessee Valley authority, for
the resolution for a joint committee
inquiry was adopted
by the senate with¬
out a dissenting
vote, and was ap¬
proved unanimously
by the house. The
resolution was intro¬
duced by Sen. Alben
W. Barkley of Ken-
t u c k y, majority
leader. It calls
for investigation of
Sen. Bridges charges of malfea¬
sance and dishon¬
esty made by the ousted chairman,
A. E. Morgan, and includes eight of
the twenty-three charges originally
made by Senators Bridges and King
in their first resolution for a con¬
gressional inquiry. It also calls for
a “fishing expedition” into the ac¬
tivities of private utility companies
and their injunction suits against
the TVA.
Sen. H. Styles Bridges, the New
Hampshire Republican, in a radio
debate declared the administration
was trying to obscure the charges
of scandal within the TVA by forc¬
ing the inquiry to cover the private
utility angle. “The administration’s
strategy has been to cover up TVA
dirt by a phoney counter-attack,” he
said.
He was answered vigorously by
Sen. Lister B. Hill of Alabama.
Italy Ready for War
OENITO MUSSOLINI put a chip
on his shoulder and dared any¬
one to knock it off. In a speech
before the Italian senate which was
broadcast to the world, II Duce
said: “Italy’s land, sea and air
forces are tuned for rapid and im¬
placable war.” He warned Europe,
and especially France, of his readi¬
ness and willingness to fight, and
said he subscribed to the theory
that “the best defense is offense.”
He called the Italian submarine
fleet the largest in the world, said
the nation’s air fleet was one of the
best in existence, and asserted that,
if necessary, he can put an army
of 9,000,000 men in the field.
“I will be in supreme command,”
Mussolini cried, thrusting out his
chest.
“Military problems are funda¬
mental ones,” continued Mussolini.
“I dedicate the greatest part of
my day to them. Anyone who dares
to attack the rights and interests
of our fatherland will find in the
land, sea and air the immediate,
resolute and proudest answer from
the Italian people’s arms.”
France was warned also by Nazi
Propaganda Minister Goebbels in
a sensational speech in Vienna. Pro¬
claiming the might of the new Ger¬
many, Goebbels shouted: “Ger¬
many is now strong enough to resist
any attack from France. There can
no longer be any question of a prom¬
enade from Paris to Berlin. Paris
is no longer the heart of European
politics. The heart is now Berlin.”
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UNIFORM
CUNDAYl Dchool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for April 10
FINDING OURSELVES
IN SERVICE
LESSON TEXT—Mark 8:27-38.
GOLDEN TEXT—“What shall It profit
/nan, if he shall gain the whole world,
lose his own soul?”—Mark 8:36.
PRIMARY TOPIC—What Peter
Out.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter's Right Answer.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR
Making Life Count Through Service.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT
Finding the Richest Life Through
“Finding ourselves” seems like
singular, almost
expression, but it refers to a
principle recognized by
gists as well as spiritual leaders.
a matter of fact, modern
ogy has begun to recognize and
spiritual laws and principles
alone bring about human
and efficiency.
A word of warning—let no
who studies this lesson fall into
serious error of thinking that
formal religious service will
redemption and favor with God.
are saved by grace through
in the Lord Jesus Christ—“not
works, lest any man should
It is then by the new birth that
are “created in Christ Jesus
good works which God hath
ordained that we should walk
them” (Eph. 2:8-10).
It is the Christian who needs
“find himself in service.” Only
he thus yields to Christ does
really find the life worth living.
words of Jesus in verse 35 are
emnly and gloriously true.
I. Clear Confession (vv.
Even those who deny to our
the recognition of His deity, and
devotion of life which is His
due, must, if they are at all
telligent, admit that no man
lived who has made such an
on human history. Even in the
of his life on earth those who did
accept Him as Christ regarded
as the resurrected form of one of
nation’s greatest leaders. Now
believing men speak of Him as
great founder of Christianity,
mighty leader, a wonderful
ple, or an unequalled teacher.
It is not enough that we stand
the mass of humanity who may
admire Him, but who do not
Him as Saviour and Lord. The
tion comes to us as it did to
disciples, “Whom say ye that
am?” “Thou art the
alone suffices as the foundation
Christian testimony and conduct.
II. Corrected Error (vv. 31-33).
Although Jesus was not yet
to have His Messiahship
to the public, He was prepared
teach His disciples concerning
only that important truth, but of
rejection and death. “He began
teach them that the Son of
must suffer ... be rejected . .
killed and . . . rise again.”
Note the divine “must.” While
is true that wicked men
their hostility toward our God
His Christ by hanging Him on
vary’s cross, yet it was to die
our sins that He came into
world. The cross has rightly
to represent God’s love to the
rather than man’s hostility to God.
Error now asserts itself,
strangely enough it is the very
who had the clearest grasp of
truth regarding the Messiahship
Christ and boldly expressed it
now objects to the revelation of
coming death and resurrection
Christ, and lends his voice to
buke the Master for speaking of
Satan hates the cross and the
grave, Jesus won the victory
him there. He did not want to
of it before it took place and
impulsive Peter for a
to object. He doesn’t want to
about it now and uses many
skillful and gifted preacher to
against it. “The offense of
cross” (Gal. 5:11) has never
III. Consecrated Life and
(vv. 34-38).
“Let him deny himself’ (v.
That command we have
to mean that we should perform
tle acts of self-denial,
some comfort or pleasure,
for a few weeks. It does not
that at all—but does mean the
nouncing of self and self-will, and
complete yielding to God’s
Likewise, to take up one’s
does not mean to bear some of
little disagreeable experiences;
means again to die to self and
live for Christ.
Careful attention should be
to the solemn questions asked
statements made in verses 35-37
These are not the reasonings of
man—they fall from the lips of
Son of God. What, He asks, will
give in exchange for your soul?
Payment
How little we pay our way in life!
Although we have our purses
tinually in our hand, the
part of service goes still
ed.
Discussion
The more discussion the better,
passion and personalities be
chewed.
Pain
Pain is in itself a sharp
and hard to bear.
Speaking of Sports
Lively vs. Dead
Ball Is Riddle
of 1938 Season
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY
T^\ID the National league put
itself out on a limb when
it adopted the deader ball for
the 1938 season — while the
American league voted to con¬
tinue the lively one?
That question will come in for
plenty of attention from now until
the end of the world series next Oc¬
tober. It has already had a good
deal of newspaper space. But no
one is really certain there is a rad¬
ical difference between the dead and
so-called lively ball.
Goverhment scientists have taken
samples of each, shot them out of
catapult-like machines and record¬
ed their findings. Sluggers from
both major leagues have tried their
bats on both dead and lively balls.
The results are still a question
mark.
The real answer should be writ¬
ten in the world series. If the Na¬
tional league wins the event and re¬
verses the trend that has given it
only three world’s championships in
the past ten years, credit will be
given to President Ford Frick for
his owl-like wisdom. If the Amer¬
ican league wins, there can’t be
much said in the way of alibis and
most people will then concede that it
is the league and not the ball that is
responsible.
Some critics have insisted that in
voting for a change last December,
the National league clubs had come
to the conclusion that the ball the
Yankees were pounding was too
dangerous to continue in use. In
fairness to Mr. Frick it should be
assumed that the National league
was trying to improve the game.
If you are a devotee of strategic
baseball, there isn’t much argu¬
ment about the ball being too live¬
ly. Strategic baseball—the sacrifice,
base stealing, moving the infield in
to cut off a run at the plate, the
squeeze play, etc.—hasn’t been
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Ford Frick
played seriously since Babe Ruth
made the fans home run conscious
some years ago. In the American
league, particularly, the game has
been a hitter’s market. Teams play
for the big inning and a rally that
will win. When a man gets on first
base he doesn’t try to steal. He
waits for his mates to drive him
home with their bats.
Harridge Doubts
Mr. Will Harridge, president of
the American league, has some hon¬
est doubts about what happens
when you begin tinkering with base¬
balls.
“When you change the ball it’s
hard to tell what results you’ll get,’
he says. “For instance, we had
three experts appear at a meeting
of the board of directors of the
league to explain how they might
deaden the ball a trifle. One said
the only way to do it was to cut
down the size of the cork center. The
second said it would have to be done
with the wool, the yarn winding.
The third said the only way to get
any change was to use a different
cover.
“If the experts who make the
ball differ like that, how could we
know what the results of changing
the ball would be? It’s an experi¬
ment and there won’t be an answer
until a full season’s trial has been
made.”
The consensus of opinion among
baseball men is that if there is any
vast amount of difference between
the dead and lively ball, the former
won’t bother the players who have
the eyes and the power to knock
one over the wall.
If the dead ball assists the pitch¬
ers in improving their perform¬
ances, the only fellows who will
really be hurt are those who really
aren’t first class batsmen. The bar¬
gain home run is something that
should not belong in major league
baseball.
The difficulty in distinguishing the
difference between the dead and
lively ball was illustrated by what
happened at the Chicago Cubs’ train¬
ing camp this spring. In the early
days of the camp, left-over balls of
the 1937 vintage were used first.
Then the 1938 models were brought
out. Somehow the two vintages be¬
came mixed. All the oldtime play¬
ers, coaches and newspaper men
went into a huddle. But they
couldn’t tell one ball from the other
either by sight or touch.
Baseball Miracle?
HPAKE it from Joe Cronin who
* something of a baseball
and in this instance sits in studen
the Chicago a neutr=
comer, White Sox
the Washington Senators have
tually accomplished baseball ar
a mir
acle in their swap of first
—Zeke Bonura for Joe Kuhel
consummated a 'trade in which
sides win.
It might appear at first gl
that Clark Griffith, the “old
* of th e Senators
had handed jj
i Sox Dykes a cold Of
when he lured deck
into handing
a .345 hitter f
Zeke Bonura
Joe Cronin
one whose 1937
average was only
.283. But Cronin,
son-in-law of Grif.
fith and manager
of the Boston Red
Sox, says no.
Jimmy Dykes Here s how he ex¬
plains it:
“Kuhel will bat better than .300
for the Sox. He should drive in a
lot of runs and be the best fielding
first baseman seen around Comiskey
park for a decade. Here’s why.
Kuhel will escape from many of the
left-handed pitchers who have been
handcuffing him at the plate.
“He is a left-handed hitter, like
five other Washington regulars, who
has had to face as many south¬
paws as the opposition could mus¬
ter. With the White Sox, Kuhel
joins a team that has six right-hand-
ed hitters. So he will do most of
his hitting against right-handed
pitchers.
“Bonura’s case is exactly oppo¬
site. Zeke, a power-house right¬
hander, will be among a flock of
left-handed hitters with Washing¬
ton. He’ll go to bat frequently
against southpaw pitchers, which
should help him, too. All things
considered, it’s one of the smartest
inside baseball deals in years.”
Olympic Problems
T JNCLE ership SAM’S in the monopoly track and of lead- field
events of the Olympic games seems
definitely menaced so far as the
1940 Olympiad is concerned. By
booking the games in far-off Japan
and on dates when our best ath¬
letes will be unable to compete, the
rest of the world has found a way
to beat us.
Not since the games were revived
many years ago has the United
States been defeated in track and
field sections. But by scheduling
such events in October, when col¬
lege athletes obviously should be
attending classes, the Olympic man¬
aging committee is in effect offer¬
ing the track and field champion¬
ships to some other country.
The United States has two alter¬
natives—first, not to send a team
to the 1940 Olympics; second to in¬
duce the universities of this country
to release star athletes long enough
for them to compete in Japan and
let them make up their lost studies
later. Since Britain and several oth¬
er countries have stated they will
send teams to Japan, the first
alternative would be relatively
easy. Fulfillment of the second
would be tougher. Academic sched¬
are sacred cows in American
They could not easily
disturbed in order to head Ger¬
Italy and Japan off from
track and field events.
Moreover, many of the crack col¬
athletes are wanted for loot-
ball service by coaches.
Tee and Fairway —
FRANCIS OUIMET, veteran cap-
F tain of the United States Walker
team, is worried lest the mem¬
who will make the British trip
be in form. He fears that be-
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Francis Ouimet
the team sails so early ®
of the players, idle
winter months won’t be a P
when they land at •.
Scotland. He isn t
.
chances on too long a s j
to take the edge off. w
taking a slow boat to ^
spending to twelve > on
ten .
sea, the players have
on a four-day boat
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