News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Johnson Bringing Basic Industries Into Line Under Codes;
Wants Banks to Relax Credits; Caffery to
Succeed Welles in Cuba.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C*ODES for the oil, steel and lura
ber industries, formulated in Wash¬
ington after hot discussions and with
great travail, were agreed to by the
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Henry Ford
tries coal and automobiles to be
brought under the wings of the blue
eagle. Despite the sometimes angry
debates over main points of divergence,
especially the open shop question,
Johnson was certain the automobile
code would be completed within a few
days. Donald Richberg, NRA general
counsel, asked that the opeD shop
clause be eliminated because It left
doubt as to whether the industry ac¬
cepted the collective bargaining pro¬
vision, The motor car manufacturers
seemed disposed to agree to this with¬
out surrendering the policy.
Every one was anxious to learn
what stand Henry Ford would take,
but he maintained deep silence. Mr.
Ford is the only large automobile man¬
ufacturer who is not a member of the
National Automobile Chamber of Com¬
merce. Hitherto he has insisted on
his right to bargain with his workers
without the intervention of unions.
That he may alter this policy, volun¬
tarily or otherwise, was Indicated by
dispatches from Edgewater, N. J„
which said the employees of the Ford
assembling plant there were organis¬
ing under the auspices of the Amer¬
ican Federation of Labor. In the past
Mr. Ford has maintained the open
shop by meeting or exceeding the de¬
mands of organized labor in pay and
working conditions. It was thought
possible he would adopt a similar
course in the matter of the blue eagle
code.
Coal operators, according to General
Johnson, were all displaying a co-op¬
erative spirit that insured an early
agreement for the bituminous industry,
and the representatives of the miners
appeared willing to accept com¬
promises on the question in debate.
D Y LABOR day the oil code will go
AJ into effect, and the industry gener¬
ally will support it although it does
not completely satisfy the trade. To
a very limited extent it provides for
price fixing for gasoline. Standard Oil
of Indiana did not wait for the effec¬
tive date of the code, but put all its
refineries on code schedules of hours
and wages. The part-time system was
abandoned, resulting in a 13 per cent
increase in the total wage payment
and a corresponding increase in the
purchasing power of the refinery em¬
ployees as a group.
Base rates of pay in the various re¬
fineries were established as prescribed
by the code as follows: Whiting, Ind.,
52 cents an hour; Wood River, 111., 52
cents; Sugar Creek, Mo., 48 cents;
Neodoslia, Kan., 48 cents; Casper,
Wyo,. 50 cents. These rates are for
common labor. Proportionate adjust¬
ments were made in rates for skilled
labor.
TF ETAJL dealers who gathered in
Johnson’s office for a hearing on
their code were warned by the admin¬
istrator that the government would
not countenance un¬
reasonable price in¬
creases and were
urged to resist such
boosts from jobbers
who supply them with
their goods. He said
the national industrial
recovery act would
Increase prices to
meet new costs im¬
posed by compliance
with the trade char¬
ters, but just because
of this “there is no
reason to go way beyond reason. If
you do this you just kill the goose
that lays the golden egg. The house
that we are trying to build will col¬
lapse like a house of cards.’’
In enforcing compliance with the
blue eagle provisions, Johnson assert¬
ed that there would be no violence, no
man-hunting and no boycotting. But,
he said, the administration would
move to uncover cheaters behind the
blue eagle and then “we are going to
move in and take the blue eagle right
off their windows.”
Human Dature being what it is,
there naturally are lots of complaints
of “chiseling" by persons and concerns
that have received the blue eagle.
These come most numerously to Mrs.
Mary H. Rurnsey, head of the commit¬
tee that is supposed to protect the con¬
sumer—though Professor Ogburn says
it isn’t doing it—and to President Wil¬
liam Green of the American Federa¬
tion of Labor. Both of them have or¬
ganized systems for watching and
catching the code evaders. Mr, Green
has instructed all union men to keep
representatives of the
industries and sinned
by President Roose¬
velt, who thereupon
retired to his summer
home at Hyde Park.
N. Y„ to complete his
interrupted vacation.
But General Johnson,
indefatigable N R A
chief, had to continue
the battling, for there
remained of the so
called basic indus¬
Mrs. Mary H.
Rumsey
an eye on things throughout the coun¬
try and to report to him any suspected
violation of codes; he then reports to
Genera! Johnson. In this way a clos¬
er scrutiny of code chiselers than
the government could institute is made
possible.
COMK time ago Administrator John
^ son hinted that the banks were not
doing their part in the recovery pro¬
gram, and he has now persuaded them
to relax credit extension conditions
and thereby make money available in
the channels of general commerce.
To begin with, he conferred with mem¬
bers of the federal reserve board and
Jesse Jones, chairman of the Recon¬
struction Finance corporation, con¬
cerning methods by which the bankers
might be induced to grant loans on
classes of security which they have not
been willing to accept.
“Bankers ought to resume the financ¬
ing of ordinary commercial opera¬
tions," General Johnson said. “I have
studied the figures on commercial
credit trends recently, and I do not
think they indicate much loosening up
on the part of bankers.
“We are working on that now, but
listen, the ordinary banker wants
sound risks. Most of them got pretty
badly burnt In past years, and we’ve
got to establish some basis for assur¬
ing them safety.
“I don't believe you can force ex¬
tension of credit by fiat. The whole
trouble In this country has been lack
of confidence by all classes of people,
and we’ve got to do what we can to
bring confidence In business, In loans,
and in the future back again.”
T_T AVING accomplished neatly and
Al speedily the job for which he was
sent to Cuba, Sumner Welles will soon
return to Washington to take again
Jefferson
Caffery
Colombia before becoming assistant
secretary of state last spring. In the
last 22 years he has held many im¬
portant diplomatic positions. Caffery
is from Louisiana and the favor with
which he is looked upon by the ad¬
ministration is one of the thorns in
the flesh of Senator Huey Long. His
first job in Havana will be to nego¬
tiate a new United States-Cuban com¬
mercial treaty. President De Cespedes
of course nopes this will include lower
duties on Cuban sugar. Settlement of
the water front strike in Havana led
the new president to believe indus¬
trial peace would soon be re-estab¬
lished.
Most of the Machado supporters and
porristas having been killed or cap¬
tured, except those who had escaped
from the island, the Cuban mobs let
up in their bloody’* work. Their last
grim performance In Havana was to
steal and try to burn the body of An¬
tonio Anicart, former chief of police,
who had committed suicide to avoid
capture.
Former President Mario Menoeal,
Col. Carlos Mendieta, leader of the
Nationalist party, and many others
who had been driven to exile by
Machado returned to Havana and
were enthusiastically welcomed by the
people.
Z’”’ EORGE N. PEEK, administrator
KJ of the agricultural adjustment act,
put into effect at six principal live
stock markets what has been called the
“birth control’’ program for pigs, the
object being the elimination of about
5,000,000 animals and the consequent
raising of prices. In Chicago, Omaha,
Sioux Oity, St. Paul, Kansas City and
St. Joseph, Mo., the emergency relief
administration began the purchasing
of 4,000,000 pigs between 25 and 100
pounds in weight each and 1,000,000
brood sows. Most of the meat ac¬
cumulated was to be distributed to the
poor. A price schedule was fixed and
the farmers were to be paid the dif¬
ference between this and what they
actually received, from a fund of $55,
000,000 obtained from the processing
tax on all pork. The buying opera¬
tions were to be started soon at other
leading markets besides those named
above.
EREDITH NICHOLSON of In¬
i’’'-* dianapolis is one fortunate au¬
thor. He has been appointed by Pres¬
ident Roosevelt to be minister to Para¬
guay and he will have, in Asuncion,
the capital, a most delightful place to
live, among pleasant people. Mr.
Meredith was summoned to Washing¬
ton for preparatory conferences and
is expected to leave for his post In
the near future.
Leo R. Sack, a Washington news¬
paper man, was appointed minister to
Costa Rica.
his position of assist¬
ant secretary of state
in charge of Latin
American affairs. He
is to be succeed¬ !
ed as ambassador to
the island republic
by Jefferson Caffery
who, from his post Id
the State department,
so ably seconded the
efforts of Mr. Welles.
Caffery, like Welles,
is a career diplomat
and was minister to
D OBERT H. GORE, governor of
Puerto Rico, is not liked by
the Liberal party of the Island, which
claims to represent 46 per cent of the
electorate. It has sent to President
Roosevelt a protest against Gore’s ad¬
ministration. charging that he has ut¬
terly failed to live up to his declara¬
tions for efficiency and nonpolitical
policies and has grated on the sensi¬
bilities of the people.
The message concluded that “as a
man unfamiliar with our character and
our problems, and as we believe with
the practices of government and states¬
manship in general. Governor Gore is
very much on trial before the Puerto
Rican people.”
A/f AHATMA GANDHI has won an
I’A other contest with the British
government of India. Imprisoned be¬
cause he had renewed his civil dis¬
Mahatma
Gandhi
fered his freedom if he would remain
in Poona and refrain from conducting
civil disobedience propaganda. He re¬
fuged, He demanded that he be given
unlimited facilities to conduct from
prison his campaign In aid of the Hin¬
du untouchables. He was told he could
carry on the campaign only if he kept
It free of politics,
“I might as well be dead If I can’t
work for them,” he said and began
his fast, vowing he would maintain it
until death unless the government re¬
lented.
XT ORMAN DAVIS, “ambassador at
*• ’ large,” called on President Roose¬
velt in Hyde Park and departed with
fairly complete instructions for his
course in the disarmament conference
which reassembles in Geneva on Oc¬
tober 16. In general Mr. Davis will
support the British plan for limita
tion of offensive weapons; but both
Mr. Roosevelt and he believe the
French proposal for supervision and
control of world armaments would be
a big step toward an agreement. This
plan calls for a permanent disarma¬
ment commission that would act as
the official body In complaints against
one signatory power by another. It
also would provide the manner and
shipment of arms from one nation to
another, make inspections of world
armaments and carry out a system¬
atic check on the manufacture of of¬
fensive and defensive weapons.
PXGELBERT minutive but DOLLFUSS, chancellor the dl- of
nervy
Austria, assured of allied support,
took steps to check the German Nazis
along the Bavarian border, where, he
was informed, the latter were fo¬
menting trouble and planning inva¬
sions of Austrian territory for next
month. Dollfuss ordered the mobiliza¬
tion of more than a thousand picked
marksmen in the home guards and
prepared to rush them to the frontier
to reinforce the troops patrolling there
if the Nazi campaign continues. The
Vienna home guard includes only two
battalions, but thousands of volun¬
teers are being recruited in eastern
and southern Austria, and all of them
are dead shots.
/''i EN. OWEN O’DUFFY’S blue
'-J shirted National Guard of Ireland
paraded in defiance of President De
Valera's prohibition, and the Free
State government declared it an ille¬
gal organization. A military tribunal
was set up under the public safety i I
act and all blue shirts who do not re
sign from the guard are to be ar- j
raigned before it and will be liable
to death sentence. De Valera’s gov¬
ernment charges the National Guard
was organized for the purpose of set¬
ting up a dictatorship. Minister of
Justice Ruttledge said he had evidence
that the guard was heavily armed and
was importing arms.
C OCLALISTS are not happy these
O days, and when the Second Inter¬
nationale opened its world congress
in Paris there were a lot of gloomy
faces among the delegates. However,
the executive committee firmly op¬
posed the defeatists and pessimists
in the party. The bright spots on the
Socialist map were said to be Spain,
where the tide of Socialism is stead¬
ily rising; and the United States,
where in the opinion of American mem¬
bers, the “new deal” is leading to
Socialism.
ZOOMING up from the Caribbean, a
tremendous storm swept the At¬
lantic coast of the United States from
Virginia northward. About a dozen
lives were lost and immense damage
was done to property. Yachts were
wrecked and several liners were in
peril.
The storm played havoc in scores
of communities in southern New Jer¬
sey as well as surrounding states.
From Atlantic City to Cape May ev¬
ery seashore resort had flooded streets
and homes. Beach front hotels were
virtually marooned. Ocean City, N. J.,
was cut off from rail communication
with the mainland.
D! A vote of about 3 to 1,
D S ouri decided that prohibition
should be repealed and thus became
the twenty-second state to line up in
the wet column. Ratification by only
fourteen more states is needed to re
pea! the Eighteenth amendment
©. 1933. Western Newspaper Union.
CLEVELAND COURIER
obedience campaign,
he started a new
“fast unto death” and
in a week -was so near
dissolution that the
authorities released
him unconditionally.
His wife and Miss
Madeleine Slade, one
of his “three graces,”
were released from
six months’ sentences
at Ahmedabad so they
could attend him.
Gandhi had been of¬
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
The Carnegie library in Barnesville
has been opened to the public after
having been closed for about ten
days for repairs to the building.
Gins throughout middle Georgia are
humming this year two weeks ahead
of the usual time, indicating that
cotton picking is well under way.
Cotton ginning prices in Clark coun¬
ty will be increased if proposals dis¬
cussed at a meeting of northeast Geor¬
gia ginners in Athens are made ef¬
fective.
Announcement was recently made
in Athens that the price for ginning
cotton recommended by a meeting of
northeast Georgia ginners is $4 in¬
stead of $5 as reported. /* -•
The 1933 digest for Gwinnett county
shows a decline in taxable property
of $105,225 since last year. The ag¬
gregate for 1933 is $4,780,127, while
that for 1932 was $4,885,352.
The Savannah Morning News has
announced that Edward G. Conipton
has been assigned to the editorial
desk of that newspaper and is to have
charge of the editorial page.
Another event in Mercer Univer¬
sity’s celebration of the one hun¬
dredth anniversary wiil take place
this week-end with the annual sum¬
mer school commencement exercises.
Building construction programs
have given employment to many of
the Hawkinsville jobless, and added
a modern department store, a ginnery
and several new residences to the
town.
Commissioner of Agriculture G. C.
Adams recently stated that rapid de¬
terioration of cotton in Georgia gave
rise to the belief that the yield in
this state will be considerably under
earlier estimates.
The largest advance reservation of
rooms in women’s dormitories the
University of Georgia has ever known,
a figure more than double last year’s,
is reported from Athens by the dean
of women of the university.
All the farmers of Polk county who
signed to plow up cotton have com¬
plied, according to report of County
Agent W. H. Garner, who reports fur¬
ther that all crops are looking ex¬
ceptionally well, and there are very
few boll weevils in evidence.
Difficulty will arise in putting into
effect a farm adjustment program next
year unless immediate action is taken
to boost prices, E. C. Westbrook, cot¬
ton and tobacco specialist of the Geor¬
gia extension service, has warned
Cotton Administrator C. A. Cobb.
Increase in Georgia watermelon
rates would mean the ruin of the
watermelon industry, Commissioner
of Agriculture G. C. Adams recently
told the state public service commis¬
sion. He appeared at a hearing on
application by the railroads for higher
rates.
Atlanta is listed second in the rate
of murders per capita for 1932 in a
nation-wide survey conducted by
Frederick Rex, librarian for the city
of Chicago, according to figures re¬
leased recently. Jacksonville, Fla.,
was first and Memphis, Tenn., was
third.
That Washington, Wilkes county,
may be lined up 100 per cent with
President Roosevelt’s national re¬
covery program and give the Pres¬
ident full co-operation officially, a
chamber of commerce was launched
by a mass meeting of business men
recently.
The financial direction of Central
City College, a Macon institution for
negroes owned and operated by the
negro Baptists of Georgia, has been
turned over to a group of Macon citi¬
zens with indications that thousands
of dollars will be spent within the
next few months for retirement of
debts and needed improvements.
State-wide tribute to Georgia au¬
thors in which many communities
of the state will stage special demon¬
strations honoring native Georgia
writers, will feature Georgia Book
Week, beginning September 18, ac¬
cording to plans announced by Miss
Beverly, Wheatcroft, of the Georgia
library commission.
Dr. H. B. Raffenspergen, of Moul¬
trie, in charge of parasitic control
work for the federal government in
the Thomasville section, and Dr. W. C.
White, of the state department of ag¬
riculture, have been in Thomasville
and Thomas county for several days
investigating the activities of the blow
fly and screw worm a new pest
which for the past four weeks has
been attacking with disastrous re¬
sults all kinds of live stock.
Georgia tobacco growers have re¬
ceived $5,680,046.28 for their sales this
season as compared to $1,238,748.88
for the entire 1932 season, it has been
made public by the Georgia agricul¬
tural department.
Chief of Police Ben T Watkins,
chief of staff of the 30th division and
president of the Georgia Peace Offi¬
cers’ Association was elected com¬
mander of the Joseph N. Neel post
of the American Legion, Macon. He
was installed by A. L. Henson, At¬
lanta, chief service officer for Geor¬
gia.
GEM OF AN IDEA
“Jim,” said the puzzled young bank
clerk to his friend, “what’s a good
thing to give a girl for a birthday
present?”
“I gave my girl a ring,” replied
Jim.
His companion shook his head.
“Couldn’t afford it,” he replied.
“How much did it cost?”
“Nothing,” smiled back Jim “She’s
a telephone operator.”
Breaking a Monopoly.
“I’m afraid the country suffered a
great loss when they failed to send
our eloquent and able friend back to
congress."
“Not at all,” replied Senator Sor¬
ghum. “The sense of the plain peo¬
ple again prevailed. Why should the
lecture platform be robbed that the
brainy men may be assembled to
listen to one another, where instruc¬
tion is superflous?”
Her Curiosity Aroused
“Why ore you going to the public
library, Mrs. Williams? Suddenly
taken up science?”
“The doctor told my husband he
was bibulous, and now he has torn
the page out of the dictionary.”
No Chance at Ah
“And did he have the dentist take
an X-ray of his wife's jaw?”
“He tried to, but all they could get
was a moving picture.”
Dangerous Risibility
“If I see anything funny, I simply
can't keep a straight face.”
“You must find shaving rather a
Meklisk business.”
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7—Sadden gust of wind 15—Those who plunge Into
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13— Narrow flat-bottomed boat place
14— Northwestern state (abbr.) 20— Shipshape
16— Exist 21— Hit hard
17— Three-toed sloth 22— Prow of a vessel
18— Of age (abbr.) 24—Instrument of torturu
19— Old oriental coin 37— Set of implements
21—Distress signal (abbr.; 38— Sailor’s sleeping quarters
23— Seamen’s tales 30— Pleasure vessel
215—Above 40—Mischievous child
26— Fate 42—Sailor
27— Buckle or clasp 44— Girl’s name
29— Crack that admits liquid 45— Craft propelled by paddling
30— Single 47—Propellor of a steamer
31— Repetition 49— Woman under religious vows
32— Skill 50— Printers’ measures
33— Jewel 52— Military supplies (abbr.)
34— Ancient Hebrew measure 53— Lifetime
35— Steam vessel <abbr.) 55— Islands la English channal
36— Pertaining to (abbr.)
41—Impersonal pronoun 56— For example (abbr.)
43— The land of the free and the 57— Prefix meaning two
home of the brave (abbr.) 58— Boy's nickname
44— Part of “to be”
45— Director of a ship The solution will appear In next Issue.
46— Instrument to determine direc¬
tion Now They Don’t Speak
48—Point of compass
51— Spread to the wind Mrs. Grey—I never worry about
52— Implement for rowing my husband paying attention to oth¬
54—Unit of measurement er women—lie's simply about
57—Small eailing vessel crazy
59—Banner me.
80—Order of parasitic fungi Mrs. White—That may be so, my
Vertical. dear; but lie may have sane inter¬
1— Boats used In Venice vals.
2— Vote in musical scale
3— To go on shipboard for a jour¬
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4— At ao time (abbr.) Friend—Your son is making good
5— indefinite article progress with his violin. He is be¬
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7— Country In southern Europe ginning to play quite well.
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8— Banding place were afraid that merely had got
#—Jf«nber of Greek Christian we
church used to it.
HIS LAST RESORT
The branch manager approached
the assistant cashier’s desk.
“Where’s the head cashier?” be
asked.
“Gone to the races, sir,” said the
young man.
“What!” exclaimed the branch
manager fiercely. “Gone to the races
in business hours. Never heard of
such a thing.”
“Yes, sir,” said the other. “It is
his last chance of making the books
balance,”
Borrowed Plume*
The two tramps were trudging
wearily along the rough country road.
Presently Dusty allowed his imag¬
ination to wander.
“I say. Fred,” he said to h!s com¬
panion, “if you had a dollar in your
pocket, what would you think of?”
Fred allowed his hands to stray
into his trousers pockets.
“H’m,” he sniffed, bringing them
out empty. “I’d think I had some
body else’s clothes on.”
Short Weight
“I really don’t know what to do
about Jim,” said Kitty distractedly.
“Ever since I met him last year he’s
only given me a bushel of kisses.”
“Bushel?” repeated Jean. “What
ever do you mean by that?”
“Why, four pecks, of course,” ex¬
plained Kitty.
Maybe Time Out for Tea
“I think the first game of cricket
started in London in the Eighteenth
century.”
“Indeed! And what’s the score
now?”—London Tit-Bits.
Carried Game Too Far
“Take two letters from ‘money’
and only ‘one’ will be left.”
‘‘Indeed. I knew a fellow who took
money from two letters, and now
he’s in jail.”
Off the “Sucker” Li.t
Bill—Isn’t it awful that George U
going to get married?
Tom—What's awful about it?
“Why, George was such an easy
chap to borrow money from 1”
