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Cuban Radicals Oust De Cespedes, Setting Up Junta Gov*
eminent—“Buy Now” Campaign Organized by
NR A—Vermont Votes for Repeal.
EDWARD W. PICKARD
CjOLDIKRS, sailors, students and the
radical wing of the ABO revolu¬
tionary organization that upset the
Machado regime in Cuba decided that
■T
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Carlos de
Cespedes
the live leaders of the revolt, Sergio
Carbo, Ramon Grau San Martin, Guil¬
lermo Portela, Porfirio Franco and
Jose Miguel Irizarri. This junta an¬
nounced that the five would serve with
equal power except that Portela would
be the “nominal president before the
diplomatic corps.”
This revolution, the second within a
month, was accomplished without
bloodshed, but the rebels, after arrest¬
ing their officers, had posted machine
guns at strategic points in Havana
and guns from the fortifications were
trained on the presidential paiace. De
Cespedes hurried back to the capital,
met the junta members and turned the
government over to them after they
had rejected as unsatisfactory his ex¬
planation that it was impossible to ac¬
complish all the revolutionary aims in
twenty-five days. .
Ambassador Welles was formally
notified of the change, but had nothing
to say to the press. The news sur¬
prised Secretary of State Hull in
Washington and it seemed all the good
work of Mr. Welles and Assistant Sec¬
retary Caffery was being undone.
President Roosevelt immediately or¬
dered four warships to Cuban ports,
but this, it was explained, was only to
protect American lives and property
and did not constitute armed interven¬
tion. Privately, however, some offi¬
cials admitted that intervention un¬
der tiie Platt amendment was nearer
than it had been for many years.
Much was made in the newspapers
of the fact that Secretary of the Navy
Swanson went to Havana just at this
time, bnt it was credibly explained
that he was on a previously arranged
trip to the Pacific coast and that his
call on Ambassador Welles had no
connection with the Cuban crisis.
Carbo, one of the junta and a maga¬
zine editor and leader of the youth
movement, said the overthrow of De
Cespedes was determined upon when
it was discovered that Mario Menocal,
lately returned from exile, was organ¬
izing a counter-revolution. The rad¬
ical leaders, also, were utterly dissat¬
isfied with De Cespedes’ appointments
to his cabinet, some of his ministers
having been too closely identified with
former administrations of which the
radicals did not approve.
T UST before the revolution Cuba
had been swept by a tropic hurri¬
cane that took the lives of yet un¬
counted scores of Inhabitants and did
vast damage. The storm moved to¬
ward the northwest and struck Flor¬
ida and Texas. In the latter state
perhaps a hundred lives were lost
and the beautiful lower Rio Grande
valley was devastated. The cities of
Brownsville, Harlingen and Rio Hon¬
do suffered severely. Relief for the
stricken districts was swiftly organ¬
ized by Governor Ferguson and the
federal authorities. Troops were hur¬
ried into the valley, where a flood
followed the hurricane. On the Mex¬
ican side of the river the destruction
of life and property was as great as
in Texas.
■Tl T T UGH S. JOHNSON, NRA admin
istrator, has organized his forces
for a nation-wide campaign for “Buy
Now Under the Blue Eagle,” and in
dress at the
Fair in Chicago he
September 20 as
date for its
He and his
aids will endeavor
persuade the
that to buy things
this time is not
a patriotic duty
a prudent use of
money. Indeed,
stress the latter
The
en particularly are relied on to make
this movement a success and many
thousands of them, under the leader¬
ship of Miss Mary E. Hughes, are en¬
listed in the campaign to secure from
consumers pledges to support with
their custom the manufacturers and
merchants who are entitled to display
the blue eagle.
In his Chicago address General
Johnson warned his hearers that the
process of economic recovery neces¬
sarily entailed the raising of prices,
but gave assurance that this would be
controlled by the government.
Two troubles the recovery adminis¬
tration has run into were described by
Mr. Johnson as, first, the failure of
the methods and pro
gram of President
Carlos Manuel deOes
pedes were too mild.
So they staged a sec¬
ond revolution while
the president was far
from Havana inspect¬
ing hurricane damage
and forced De Ces¬
pedes and his entire
government to step
out. The affairs of
t j le island republic
were placed in the
Miss Mary E.
Hughes
some employers to live up to theit
agreements under the blue eagle, and
second, misunderstanding of the codes
between employers and workers, with
some resultant strikes and lockouts.
“Our chief reliance is in the force
of public opinion," he said. “We know
that to take away the blue eagle is a
more severe penalty than any puny
fine. It is, we think, enough, but if
it should prove not enough, there are
plenty of penalties in the law.
“In stating this plan we have been
accused of inciting a boycott. Of
course, what people are doing is not a
boycott. No willing employer who
complies with this great national pur¬
pose can live in competition with a
chiseier who does not. The whole idea
is based on unanimous agreement and
action. It is for the benefit of the
American people. It is their plan or
it is nothing.
“It cannot last a month if a few
unwilling or cheating employers are
permitted (by the advantage of lower
costs) to ruin the business of their
willing and honest competitors.”
I'- D ETURNIXG from his short vaca
tion cruise, President Roosevelt
was handed by General Johnson a
ii||j
the American Federation of Labor was
determined that the provision in the
automobile code, permitting employ¬
ers to deal with workers on the basis
of their individual merit, should not
be included in any other agreement,
and he promised union labor he would
seek its elimination from the automo¬
bile code.
Henry Ford was another problem,
but it was indicated the government
would not take any immediate action
in his case. The whole country
watched interestedly to see whether
he would sign the code within the al¬
lotted time, and when he failed to do
this and said nothing about his ulti¬
mate intentions, Johnson was besieged
with questions as to what he would
do. Talking to the press in Chicago,
it seemed that the administrator was
weakening a littie in this matter. He
said Ford did not have to sign the
code, and if he went further than its
provisions, that would be all right
with tiie government. The NRA could
intervene, he said, only if a group of
Ford's employees complained to it of
unfair treatment. Johnson did reit¬
erate his opinion that Ford would be
brought lo time by the force of public
opinion.
Dispatches from Detroit said a wage
revision was in progress at the Ford
plant. No formal announcement of
this was made, but officials said it was
a gradual process and that about one
fourth of the 40,000 workers had re¬
ceived increases from $4 to $4.80 a
day. The code specifies a 43-cent-an
hour minimum wage for the Detroit
area. It also specifies a 35-hour week,
while Ford employees who are on full
time work five eight-hour days a week.
D IN EVERTING to the union labor
problem, it is interesting to note
that Henry I. Harriman, president of
the United States Chamber of Com¬
merce, has issued to all its members
an appeal to stand firmly in defense
of the open shop and in opposition to
an interpretation of the labor clauses
in the national recovery act which, he
says, would be writing into a law a
mandate for a closed shop.
President Harriman asserted that
employers throughout the United
States had shown a splendid spirit of
co-operation in preparing and adopt¬
ing codes of fair competition. In re¬
turn, he declared, industry should be
given adequate assurance that the re¬
covery program is not to be turned
into a vehicle for forcing the closed
shop upon rtie country.
VTERMONT, which was one of the
’ few states that the prohibitionists
really thought might vote against re¬
peal of the Eighteenth amendment,
disappointed them by going for repeal
by a vote of more than 2 to 1. This
despite the fact that election day was
fair and the hopes of the drys were
based largely on good weather that
would bring out a large rural vote to
offset that of the wet cities and towns.
Even though prohibition should be
repealed this year Vermont would con¬
tinue without hard liquor under its
present state law. Beer and wine of
3.2 alcoholic content were authorized
by the legislature this year, but a state
enforcement act. prevents anything
stronger.
Formal ratification of the repeal
amendment was completed by the
state conventions of Arizona and Ne¬
vada, the vote in each case being
unanimous.
ing the NRA codes.
Most important of
these was the dead¬
lock in the soft coal
negotiations caused
chiefly by the labor
union issue; and this
labor problem also en¬
tered into various oth¬
er troubling disputes
that probably will
have to be settled by
the President himself.
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CLEVELAND COURIER
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
A $17,605 50 reduction In the Clarke
county tax levy for 1933 was announc¬
ed by the board of commissioners re¬
cently.
Shipping in Savannah harbor last
month reached the highest peak of all
times, the monthly report of Harbor
Mastor T. F. McBride reveals.
Adopting resolutions pledging whole¬
hearted support to the NRA, the Geor¬ j !
gia State Agricultural Society closed 1
its annual meeting at Tifton last week. i
A veneer plant will be built at Louis¬
ville and plans are already under way
for the work to start at once. A North
Carolina plant, headed by J. C. Shel¬
ton, will be the operators of the plant.
With tobacco out of their way, farm¬
ers in the Moultrie section have been
centering their efforts on their cotton
crop and receipts at the local ware¬
houses have been unusually heavy.
A public works employment office,
with a manager and assistants author¬
ized to place men on public works pro¬
jects in the Savannah territory, may
be set up there in the near future.
A new truck, with a pumping ca¬
pacity of 600 gallons of water per min¬
ute, has been added to Moultrie’s fire
fighting equipment and 1,400 feet of
new fire hose arrived during the week
also.
Carcasses of 20 deer found in the
forest of Camden county are mute evi¬
dence that the dreaded screw worms
have spread to wild beasts after caus¬
ing many deaths among domestic ani¬
mals.
Approximately 900 hogs have been
sold to the government in Augusta in
recent weeks by Georgia and South
Carolina farmers in the farm adminis¬
tration’s plan to reduce swine produc¬
tion.
Bibb county commissioners have au¬
thorized a reduction of $79,953.87 in
the county budget, enabling the county
to maintain for another year the 1S
mill tax rate, which the commissioners
formally levied.
A movement is on foot at Bruns¬
wick to borrow' $138,000 from the fed¬
eral public works fund for the con¬
struction of an airport on St. Simon’s
Island, and a boat storage plant on the
Frederica river.
Income tax payments to the federal
government may have been deducted
from payments made to the state under
Georgia’s first income tax law, in ef¬
fect from 1928 to 1931, the court of
appeals has ruled.
Growers who sold their bright-leaf
tobacco on Georgia auctions during
the 1933 marketing season received
$5,525,376.43 more than in 1932, but
the poundage w r as 47,956,196 greater
than in the preceding year.
Government bonds issued through
the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
to refinance home mortgages will be
accepted at par by the city of Macon
in payment of taxes past due, the mu¬
nicipal council has ruled.
The court of appeals has decreed a
new trial in the case of the state sup¬
erintendent of banks against N. A.
Moore, of Atlanta, in which the state
is suing to enforce the payment of
double liability on stock held in the
City Savings Bank' and Trust Com¬
pany, now in the hands of the bank¬
ing department for liquidation.
The disparity between the value of
the agricultural dollar and the indus¬
trial dollar menaces the success of
the NRA campaign in this section, of¬
ficials of the Albany Chamber of Com¬
merce said in calling a conference of
southwest Georgia business men at
Albany recently to consider curative
measures.
Selection of a democrat to succeed
M. 0. Dunning as collector of the port
of Savannah depends on the Georgia
senators agreeing on a candidate. This
job, one of the choicest in the state,
came prominently to the fore when
Dunning asked to be relieved of the
office so he could devote his time to
other business. He has been in the
office under appointment from repub¬
lican administrations.
Alexander Stephens Boyer, Jr., of
Millen, has been appointed to West
Point by Congressman Homer C. Par¬
ker, of the first congressional district.
Berthram Burdell Dales, of Waynes¬
boro, has been named first alternate,
and William Peek Brett, of Statesboro,
second alternate. They will stand the
war department examination next
March, looking toward entering West
Point next July.
Further interests in the city coun
cil’s plans to secure funds from the
R. F. C. for installation of a modern
sewage system for Warm Springs, was
evidenced at the regular meeting of
the Warm Springs Chamber of Com¬
merce recently.
Mayor and Mrs. J. E. Brown, of New
nan, quietly celebrated their 50th wed¬
ding anniversary at Newnan recently.
No ceremonies or festivities marked
the occasion and Mayor Brown remark¬
ed, “It was just another day in the
procession of years.”
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
s UNDAYI Lesson
chool
(By REV. P. B. F1TZWATER. D. D.. Mem¬
ber of Faculty, Moody
Institute of Chicago.)
©. 1933, Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for September 17
SOLOMON
LESSON TEXT—I Kings 8:1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—Enter into his
gates with thanksgiving-, and into his
courts with praise; be thankful unto
him. and bless his name. Psalm 100;4.
PRIMARY TOPIC—In God's House.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A King Worship¬
ing God.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC—Learning to Worship God.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—The Value of a House of Worship,
_________
I. Solomon Anointed King (I Kings
1:5-40).
The divine choice as to Darid's suc¬
cessor had not been known <vl 20).
David Is stirred to action by the com¬
bined appeals of Bathsheba and Na¬
than. At David’s command the faithful
three, Zadok, Nathan, and Benaiah,
speedily anointed Solomon king.
II. Solomon’s Acv» to Establish His
Kingdom (I Kings 1:41-2:40). He not¬
ed certain dangerous elements which if
allowed to develop would weaiten. If
not destroy, his rule.
1. Adonijah placed under surveil¬
lance (vv. 41-53). Placing him on good
behavior displayed both clemency and
dignity on the part of Solomon. Adoni¬
jah fled to the altar, not to worship
God, but to save his life. His repent¬
ance was not real. Solomon ordered
nis execution (2:13-25).
2. Abiathar removed from the
priesthood (2:26, 27). He had joined
Adonijah in his plot of usurpation.
3. Joab executed (2:28-35). Joab
was a party to Adonijah's rebellion.
Besides this, he had treacherously
murdered his rivals In the army.
4. Shimei executed (2:36-40). Sol¬
omon first paroled him and confined
him to Jerusalem, but when he broke
his parole, had him executed.
III. The Divine Favor Upon Solo¬
mon (1 Kings 3:4-14).
1. God’s gracious offer (vv. 4, 5).
Solomon made a lavish sacrifice, show¬
ing that he had strong impulses to¬
ward the Lord. This was followed by
the Lord’s gracious offer.
2. Solomon’s wise choice (vr. 6-9).
' fie keenly sensible of the difficulty
was
'nnd of the responsibility of his posi¬
tion.
3. God's unstinted gift to SolomoD
(vv. 10-14). Because Solomon ap¬
peared before the Lord in the proper
attitude, God gave him more than he
,
j asked for.
IV. Solomon Building the Temple
| (1 Kings 5:1-8-8:56). (5:1-1S). He
1. Preparation se¬
cured from King Hiram:
a. Wood for beams, ceilings, etc.
b. Stones for the great foundation
| c. Skilled workmen.
2. The erection of the temple
1 (6:1-38).
a. Located on Mt. Moriah (II Chron,
3:1).
b. Dimensions. Ninety feet long;
thirty feet wide; forty-five feet high—
this on the assumption that the cubit
was eighteen inches in length.
c. Its contents.
(1) The brazen alter. (2) The
laver. (3) The golden candlesticks.
(4) The cherubim.
3. The dedication of the temple
(8:1-66). The dedicatory services con¬
sisted of:
a. Bringing up the ark (vv. 1-11).
The ark was typical of Jesus Christ.
God dwells among his people through
Jesus Christ (John 1:14).
b. Solomon’s address to the people
(w. 12-21). He pointed out to them
that God had chosen David to be king,
yet did not allow him to build the tem¬
ple, but promised that his son should
complete the work.
c. Solomon’s dedicatory prayer (vv
22-53). In his prayer, Solomon grate¬
fully acknowledged God’s goodness Id
the past, and plead that the promises
made to his father should be verified.
He asked that God’s eyes might be
continually open toward the temple,
so that:
(1) In case of contention he would
be their judge (w. 31, 32).
(2) If smitten by the enemy, even
though they had sinned, God would for¬
give and restore (vv. 33. 34).
(3) In famine, upon confession, God
would forgive and send rain (vv
85, 36).
(4) In pestilence and sickness, God
would hear and forgive (vv. 37-40).
(5) In case of the 'coming of the
foreigner, because of the news of
God’s favor toward Jerusalem, his
prayer should be heard (vv. 41-43).
(6) In going out to battle, their
cause should be maintained (vv. 44,
45).
(7) If taken captive, God would
hear their prayers and restore them
(vv. 40-53).
d. Solomon blesses the peopie (vv.
54-61).
e. Solomon offering sacrifices of
thanksgiving (vv. 62-60).
WORTH REMEMBERING
Jesus still is life—life and light
through truth.
• • •
Real prayer is the most Intense act
a man performs.
* • *
Christ incarnates in his own life
the perfect precepts, which he taught
to mea
• • •
In the beginning of created things
we find God first and foremost. He
It was who created all things.
UP CAREER
FOR FARM LIFE
“If I only had a place somewhere
in the country just big enough for a
cow, a couple of chickens and a row
of potatoes, I wouldn’t stay In New
York five minutes.” How many girls
who came career-hunting to New
York have you heard say that since
the depression started?
Some of them are still hankering.
A lot of them have gone right back
to the farm. And it looks as though
they’re going to stay there.
Phil Stong, literary reporter of tiie
lives and ways < ' country folk, has
watched the phenomenon, and ob
serves that not. one of these femi¬
nine travelers away from sky
scraped city streets has come back.
In his experience, or evinced the
slightest desire to return.
Practically all the Greenwich Vil
lagers he used to know, Mr. Stong
says, have moved to Connecticut
and they’re all getting an awful kick
out of their cows and chickens. In
western cities citified college girls
who a few years ago couldn’t bear
the sight of a haystack are going
back to live with the old folks and
liking it. Not many have come back
to his own home town in Iowa. Bnt
that, he says, is because not many
girls leave it.
“The point is,” Mr. Stong said as
he sat in his book Pned apartment
overlooking a city street, “when peo¬
ple are in trouble they want to get
back to the earth as children cry for
their mothers in the dark. And i he
lieve both women and men are hap
pier living in the country.
“As a matter of fact.” continued
the author, “1 think the woman
working on a farm stands a better
chance for happiness than her city
sister.
“For one thing, farmers marry
early—long before thirty, when defi¬
nite personalities are set. And early
marriages are more likely to be suc¬
cessful.
“Then, too, the wife is a very im¬
portant personage. The farm couldn’t
run without Iter. She lias a pleasant
sense of power. And she has a defi
nite, regular series of daily functions
Preparing meals (cooking, if there’s
no hired girl), candling eggs, mak
ing butter, preserving, are all her job
Besides, she has to budget the famiH
expenses and tell Johnny which day
he has to help father pitch hay and
when to water the pigs.”—New York
World-Telegram.
“Teeth You Love to See”
A homemade dentrlfice highly pop¬
ular among motion picture actresses
famous for the dazzling yvhiteness of
their teeth, is said by one of them to
be composed of ordinary baking soda
mixed with peroxide of hydrogen, to
a paste consistency.
Ithjke-GootLQmir
at Good Cooks
are Talking About
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Cast Into
Lake of Eternal Fire
Kllauea, pit of eternal fire, Is one
the sights of the Hawaiian Islands,
is considered one of the greatest
wonders of the world. The
of tiie crater is more
seven miles. The lake of tire
within is nearly twenty acres In ex¬
Automobiles carry visitors
right into the crater.
Hawaiians regard the volcano as
throne of the goddess Pele. To
her anger, shown by erup¬
they cast their intimate treas¬
ures into the waves of burning lava.
Honolulu is on the island of Oahu.
famous Diamond head, shaped
like a crouching lion, marks the
eastern approach to the bay upon
which the city is built. Nearby is
Waikiki beach, with its palms and
trees.
And there is the Pali, or precipice,
which the island’s traditional
hero, Kamekatneha, hurled the van¬
quished host of Oahu to death in the
distant depths beioyv. The precipice
is 1,200 feet above sea level.
Girls Eat Too Little
Girls who eat too little are causing
the Increase in the number of tuber¬
culosis cases among young women in
Australia, according to the clinical
officer at the state tuberculosis bu¬
reau in Melbourne. “So many young
women who yvork in factories,” he
says, “leave home in the morning
with a very light breakfast. They re¬
turn at night, have an inadequate
dinner, and go out, tired, tc picture
shows' or dances.” The total number
of cases of tuberculosis and the tu¬
bercular deaths in the country are
increasing, he said.
Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
“Perfect Purification of the System
is Nature’s Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that are undermin¬
ing your vitality? Purify your en¬
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course of Calotabs,—once or twice a
week for several weeks—and see how
Nature rewards you with health.
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