Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, May 04, 1934, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextNews Review of Current Events the World Over President Shows Confidence in Tugwell by Promoting Him—High Tax Senators Win a Victory—National Milk Control Program Withdrawn. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S reply to the attacks on Rexford City Tug well, which wore renewed by oppo nents of the administration after the Wirt story was made public, comes In the form of promotion for the head of the brain trust. He has been serving as assistant secretary of agricul ture, ami is now ad vanced by the Presi dent to the newly cre ated position of un dersecretary of agri culture, his salary be ing increased from $7,- R. G. Tugwell 500 to $10.(too a year. A new as sistant secretary can now be appoint ed who will relieve Mr. Wallace and Mr. Tugwell of some of their heavy duties. The department has been con sidered understaffed. The post of undersecretary was created by a re cent act of congress. Tugwell’s appointment will have to be confirmed by the senate, and it was considered certain the Republicans would take advantage of the opportu nity to make fresh attacks on him and his theories of government. The President also advanced Thom as Jefferson Coolidge, a Boston bank er, from assistant secretary to under secretary of the treasury, which posi tion had been vacant since Raymond Moiey stepped out. The higher per sonnel of that department Is now be ing placed on a permanent basis for the first time since Henry Morgenthau, Jr., became its head. MEMBERS Os the American Society of Newspaper Editors assembled in Washington heard a warm and elab orate defense of the New Deal deliv ered by Professor Tugwell, who is In part responsible for most of the recovery measures adopted by the present administration. Denying that those who are advising the President seek to bring about radical changes In the life ami economic policies of the American people, Professor Tugwell described himself as a "thorough con servative.” "We have a saving irreverence of authority,” said Professor Tugwell In speaking of the characteristics of the American people, “which gets us out of holes. These basic traits determine the structure of our taws and of our government. No one, with the slight est sense of history, would try to fit such a people Into a regimented scheme, would try to think for them instead of getting them to think for themselves. “The New Deal Is not something which can establish Itself tn the mind of a dictator or a small governing group. That was the fatal theory of the system from which we are turning away. Its base has to be as broad as the economy which has to be brought under control and as deep as the minds and the hearts of the people whom it affects.” \riCTORY in the conference was won by the senate high tax bloc, for the house conferees accepted virtual ly all the senate Increases in estate and gift taxes, the capital stock and excess profits taxes and liberal com promises over income-tax publicity and consolidated returns. The conference agreement was com plete except for the Couzens amend ment, adding 10 per cent to all individ ual income-tax returns next year. Ttie house will take a separate vote on this, and it was believed the senate would not Insist on it if it were re jected by the house. With the revenue bill thus disposed of, the senate finance committee be gan public hearings on the adminis tration’s reciprocal tariff bill, which the house has passed. SENATORS who urge the remonetiz ation of silver held a conference with President Roosevelt but received from him no encouragement for silver legislation, though no conclusion was reached. The possibility of silver pur chases was discussed and the President Indicated a disposition to give this matter consideration, but on the whole there was no indication the govern ment will embark on such a policy. The silver senators were not at all satisfied with the President's attitude and held a meeting at which eight voted to support mandatory ■ legisla tion for the benefit of silver. Later It was reliably stated that the President was maturing a plan for In ternational stabilization of currencies and that silver figures prominently In it. Mr. Roosevelt, It was revealed, fa vors the inclusion of silver in the met al base of currency Issues to the ex tent of 30 per cent, the remaining TO per cent to be gold. This change can be safely made, however, the President points out. only by international agree ment whereby all the signatory nations would admit silver to their reserves against which paper money Is issued. In the London economic and mone tary conference Senator Key Pittman offered such a plan, proposing that cen tral batiks keep 20 per cent, or one fifth, of their metal cover or reserve for currency In silver. The proposal was not acted on at the conference. C HESTER C. DAVIS, head of the Farm Adjustment administration, announced that the national milk con trol program designed to help dairy farmers had been withdrawn “because we do not feel that it has sufficient support from the farmers." If senti ment changes it may be revived later, but for the present, only minor fea tures are to be carried out. These Include dairy purchases for relief pur poses and reduction In the number of diseased cattle. The program, worked out after months of study and argument, called for benefit payments of from $165,- (XXI,(MX) to 1300,000,000 to dairymen who joined in the plan. In return, the producers were to reduce their milk flow 10 per cent below the peak months of the 1932-1933 period. As in the case of other farm pro grams, the funds for benefit payments were to come from a processing tax. This was to be one cent a pound on butterfat and the figure was to be raised gradually to five cents a pound. A statement issued by the farm ad ministration said the milk decision “is in accord with the administration’s fixed policy to attempt no adjustment program which does not have the sup port of a substantial majority of those engaged in the industry." CUBA asked for the extradition of Gerardo Machado, deposed presi dent of the island republic, so a gen eral police alarm was sent out from Washington for his arrest. United States marshals went first to the apartment lie had been occupying In New York, and were told by bls secretary, Julio Fernandez, that he had left for parts unknown. Federal port authorities and border officials were told to watch for the fugitive. If they can get him back, the Cu- ban authorities Intend to try Machado on charges of murder based on whole sale shootings which occurred a few days before he fled from the Island. They also plan to ask extradition of Gen. Alberto Herrera, Machado’s for mer chief of staff, who like bis master took refuge In the United States. Machado has lived in seclusion with members of his family in the Ba hamas, Canada and this country since his flight from Cuba. He established his New York residence about six months ago. WITH unexpected celerity the rail way executives and rail union chiefs reached an accord In the wage dispute, and the danger of a strike was averted for another year. At the Instance of President Roosevelt but without government Interference they worked out their own settlement after the federal negotiators had failed to get results and Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman had withdrawn ns mediator. Under the arrangement decided upon the 10 per cent wage cut which has prevailed in the railroads during the last two years is to be gradually wiped out in the next twelve months. Two and a half per cent of the exist ing wage cut is to be restored July 1, another 2% per cent on January 1, and the remaining 5 per cent on April 1, 1935. In other words, instead of a 10 per cent cut rail workers will have only a 7% per cent cut prevailing between July 1 and January 1, a 5 per cent cut prevailing between January 1 and April 1, and full pay restoration after April 1. These terras worked out by the em ployers and employees are. actually more favorable to the workers than the terms which President Roosevelt twice asked them to accept. When Informed of the settlement, Mr. Roosevelt said: “I am very gkid that the railroads and their employees have been able to settle their wage dispute by mutual agreement. The country should be, and will be, grateful to them for this disposition of what might have de veloped into a troublesome contro versy. I congratulate both sides on the wisdom and restraint which they have exhibited. They have set a good example.” OSCAR DE PRIEST, negro con gressman from Chicago, won a victory tn his fight to remove the house restaurant bar against members of his race. He obtained adoption of his resolution for Investigation of the right of Lindsay Warren of North Carolina to fix the rules and regula tions for the restaurant —which of course doesn't menn that negroes will he served in that dining room. The vote was 237 to 114. and the balloting followed the Mason and Dixon line al most without exception. Mr. De Priest showed his wisdom when he learned that some Commu nist organizations were planning to take advantage of the occasion by staging a demonstration against “Jim Crowism.” He said no friend of bis would take part In this. OPEN hearings will begin May 2 by the senate committee on privi leges and elections on petitions for the removal from office of Huey P. Long, senator from Louisiana. Walter P. George of Georgia gave out notice that | “only charges sufficient in substance xnd form" and which were not consid ered by the special campaign expendi tures committee last year would be in vestigated. Notices were sent to Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, Mrs. Ruffin G. Pleasant and former Governor of Lou isiana John M. Parker, all of whom have filed petitions seeking removal of the “kingfish.” In the run-off Democratic primary in the Sixth Louisiana district to til) the I vacancy caused by the death of Repre sentative Bolivar E. Kemp, Senator Long's candidate, Harry D. Wilson, i was decisively beaten by Jared Y. San ders. Nomination in the primary Is i equivalent to election. JOHN DILLINGER, the notorious J outlaw, and several members of his gang fought their way out of a trap ' laid by federal agents and possemen " Al k dr John Dillinger -two came from Minneapolis and were thought to have warned Dillinger of the impending raid on the camp ; where he had been for several days. Some hours after the battles In Wis consin three members of the gang were seen by three deputy sheriffs in a suburb of St. Paul, Minn. A running gun fight ensued and one of the gang i sters apparently was wounded, but the Irio escaped and stole an automobile in which they beaded for the bridge across the Mississippi river. Federal and local officials through out all that region were on the lookout for the Dillinger gang with the tacit understanding that the desperadoes would be shot on sight AMERICAN Federation of Labor chiefs have begun a drive to unionize the telephone workers of the country. They charge the American Telephone and Telegraph company Is violating the NRA laws through its I company unions. It Is also asserted that financiers are buying up small telephone companies in the Middle । West and Chicagoland at unreasonable ' prices and then forcing the stock on . their employees at fat profits for themselves. I Besides demanding that stock sales j to employees be outlawed under the pending NRA code for the telephone Industry, the A. F. of L. workers told Deputy Administrator L. H. Peeples that the NRA should force the tele phone companies to stop expansion of dial telephone systems until such a ■ time as employment conditions become normal. OFFICIALS of the Department of Agriculture believe the wheat carry-over into 1935 may amount to i 340,000.000 bushels, and are studying the export markets to find a possible outlet for part of It But they cannot I develop an export policy until the | work of the international wheat con j ference at Rome is completed, ; The wheat carry over on July 1 this i year Is expected to be about 265,000,- ! (XXI bushels, to which may be added ' 75,000,000 bushels surplus from this 1 year’s prospective crop of 700,000,000 I bushels. Secretary Wallace has suggested that processing taxes on wheat might ' be increased and that the amount of : the tax ear marked to promote ex j ports might be raised from 2 to 4 or even 5 cents. A 5 cent tax on the 400.000JXX) bush els yearly processing of taxable wheat ’ would return approximately $20,000,- 000, compared with the $7,000,000 to i be spent in exporting wheat this year. This totai would he sufficient to ex i port about the 90,000,000-bushel quota given the United States under the In : ternational agreement on the basis of ’ the differentia] of 22% cants between the domestic and world prices. PASSAGE through the Panama canal of the American fleet of 111 vessels, on the way from the Pacific to the At ' lantlc, was carried out successfully, but not In the hoped-for 24 hours. The time consumed was almost double that which led the Tokyo press to declare the movement was a "failure.” IN AN extemperaneous address at an exhibition in connection with the federal subsistence homestead proj ects, Mr. Roosevelt anwered various j critics of his administration with the | declaration that the New Deal Is a ; program of evolution, not revolution. Praising the homestead system as ; one of the administration's foremost achievements in helping depression stricken families to gain a fresh start in life. Mr, Roosevelt denied charges that the program contemplated “regi mentation" of great numbers of people, “There is no regimentation,” the President said. “We are not going to take people by force from one com munity and put them In another.” In the long run. he said, the sub sistence homesteads will cost the gov ernment less than It would cost to keep these families on direct relief. “We will work out a system for those families, brain trust or other wise, In an effort to discover new things for communities to do." he said. C by Western CaUa. v Gerardo Machado WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA . ten miles east of ’ Manltowlsh, In north i ern Wisconsin. In I three desperate gun i battles three men were I killed and eight wounded, and the bandits escaped Into the woods. Three wom en who had been with I the Dillinger gang were arrested. Two others were believed to have tied with the desperadoes. The s e BRISBANE THIS WEEK. ■ Did Anybody Ask? To the Grave, or Garage? No Suicide Necessary Deadly Gas Guards Gold Uncle Sam nearly succeeded in tak ing his hundred and eleven warships through the Panama canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean in 24 hours. All commercial traffic was barred, soldiers guarded the locks, standing as solemn as penguins on either side. It was beautifully done, credit to all concerned. But—did anybody in Washington ask himself what would have hap pened If 25 or 30 enemy bombing planes bad appeared, floating over the canal, while our valuable warships were passing through? What would have happened to those ships, to tho canal, to the locks, to the comical little soldiers, with their guns and bayonets, standing along the edge of the water? In California, a dog. technically and effectually killed in the laboratory of Doctor Robert Cornish ten days ago, shows signs of life, blinking Its eyes In the light and twitching muscles when a fly lights on Its nose. This experiment may become Im portant to human beings. Thousands die because of some little stoppage, that might have been prevented or corrected, just as an automobile stpps sometimes because of an obstruction in the pipe feeding gas to the car buretor. Under such conditions, the men have been taken to the graveyard. Doctor Cornish may find away to overcome such temporary, unnecessary "deaths.” This applies especially to the human heart, that supplies life while It pumps, and brings death when it stops. In millions of cases, undoubtedly, a temporary stoppage might have been overcome and life indefinitely pro longed. Mr. Wallace, secretary of agricul ture, tells Nebraska farmers plans are necessary to "prevent the suicide of society.” It Is as well to have public officials view conditions solemnly, but they are not quite as bad as that. This country has more of everything than It needs, more than enough for everybody. Its problem is not plague, famine or war. killing millions, but too much wheat, too much cotton, too many little fat pinkish pigs born every minute. A nation or individual with too much of everything, but unfor tunately lust too stupid to arrange adequate distribution, need not neces sarily commit suclde. In September Uncle Sam will have finished building a new, huge "burglar proof” vault big enough to hold all his gold, besides piles of silver and other valuables. The vault doors, of the toughest metal, 30 Inches thick, are not the only protection. If a burglar succeeded in getting half-way through the metal door, he would release a cloud of deadly gas in which he would die in horrible agony. The American College of Physicians heard Doctor Meakins of Montreal promise that within 50 years any man willing to “use his Intelligence and will power" may live 100 years. Fifty years ago the average human being was through with life at forty. To day's average Is beyond sixty. Doctor Meakins’ promise of “a century of vital, energetic life for every member of the human race” is encouraging. The wise would want to be guaranteed to the “vital, energetic” part. Nothing sadder than to live merely for the sake of living. “Four flee from Indiana prison. Three serving terms for murder among cell breakers.” That is not news. The system of justice that catches criminals and lets them go. can't build a jail to hold them. Is now generally accepted as a farce. We build zoological garden cages that hold elephants, rhinoceroses, lions, tigers, bears. They don't es cape. But that Is easily explained. Rhinoceroses and elephants don’t know how to bribe keepers. The “he roic Dillinger" did not escape with the aid of a toy pistol. It is charged that he was aided in his dash for liberty by the use of hard cash. No heroism about that. At Blackwell, Okla., Rev. Dr. Pool, sixty, retired Methodist minister, re turned to the pulpit to preach a re vival sermon. Raising his eyes he asked, “What is heaven like?" fell and died of a heart attack. His question, doubtless, was answered within the minute. Many would like to know the an swer. Human beings have answered that question In ten thousand ways, each answer reflecting some human Idea of happiness. The senate judiciary committee ap proves the birth control bill, which deciares. In substance, that It is no crime for a woman not to have a baby, If she does not want one, and no crime to tell her how to avoid It Some object to birth control on re ligious grounds, declaring that it op poses the will of God. Others object to it on grounds of utiflty. Caruso was the nineteenth child. Many of the world’s greatest men and women liti'e been members of big famines, and never would have been born, un der birth control, probably. Kinr Features Syndicate, Ine. WNU Service National Topics Interpreted /-iJ TOJTO by William Bruckart . i Washington The aetwl* has start i od another Investigation. tt has tie । ; termined to go on a Inquiry fishing expedition ' May Shock ™ dustrles that uianu- । facture things that are used In mak ing war. There will Ite a long drawn out Inquiry; there will be seizure of ! papers and there will be smearing, some Justified nnd some unjustified, of leaders In the shipbuilding, tnunl , j tions and aircraft Industries. It is । liable to be a nasty thing before It is concluded and a report made to the । senate. , There was no noise about passage of the resolution which was proposed > by Senators Nye of North Dakota and Vandenberg of Michigan. The resolu tion creates a special committee which ' already has begun work. Its passage actually was noted In the newspapers that I saw with no more display than a couple of paragraphs. But the proposition ought to be among those to which attention is closely directed. । Unless the bulk of the observers is wrong, the Investigation that the Nye- Vandenherg resolution started Is go ing to have a far-reaching effect both In domestic affairs of the United States and in the international field. One of the reasons why It is so im portant to give thought to the inves tigation is the particular time at which it arrives among the window displays of government activities. It hardly need be stated here that inter national relations are strained In many parts of the world. There Is nothing on the horizon to indicate that they will improve. Strained relations. If they continue, lead inevitably to war, and I reported to you several months ago that some nations are headed in that direction If the Infor mation our government has Is cor rect. It Is naturally to be expected then that overt acts on the part of some of the disturbed powers are go ing to follow, and the disclosures | which the Nye-Vandenberg committee are prepared to make will help the International sitnation not one bit. Indeed, there is no reason to believe otherwise than that the Impending disclosures will complicate the situa tion and create more hatred and sus picion. In other words, as I see It, the disclosures are more than likely to hasten that which seems inevitable, namely, war In several parts of the world. Senator Pope of Idaho, temporary chairman of the committee, told me that the country Is likely to be shocked “when it learns the ramifica tions of the situation," referring to the operations of the shipbuilding, aircraft and munitions companies. While he did not say so. I drew the inference from his remarks that he believes there has been collusion of some kind or other among some of those Industrial lenders In order to engender Hl will among nations al ready suspicious of each other. “We are going to find out how many American shells are going to be used to kill American soldiers later." said Senator Pope. • « • And so we are off on another crash ing, smashing, bull-ln the-ehina closet type of inquiry. All Bad Time of us remember the for Fishing ^ ,gat,On of shipbuilding ac tivities at the Geneva armament con ference. The committee smeared one William Shearer when Shearer was serving as agent for several of the shipbuildir/ concerns. None was sure when that investigation started where It would lead. The same can be said of the current inquiry. To my way of thinking, however, the inquiry Is much more important in the effect It will have upon inter national relations than in the smear ing of men and corporations. Frankly, the opinion I have formed after many conversations with men and women of sound judgment is that this is an exceedingly bad time for such a fish ing expedition. Any disclosure of relations between a munitions com pany and a foreign nation are going to be seized upon by that nation’s neighbors as evidence and there will be blood in the eye in a hurry. I hope my observations and conclu sions will not be taken as condoning any crookedness. My point is that business relations between a private corporation and its customer should be allowed some degree of secrecy so long as they are not contrary to pub lic good. Governments are going to buy munitions; they are going to buy aircraft, and they are going to have ships built. The question naturally follows, then, whether It Is proper or Improper for an American plant to sell something ft makes tn a foreign nation even if it knows they are to be used In fighting. I can see where those commoditle^jught not to be sold ! for use against America, but our gov ernment buys such supplies constant ly and buys them from American mak ers. If other governments ean buy them here, I fail to see why they should not be allowed to do so unless such sales have the aftermath of dragging the United States into war. These Japanese assertions, or in ferences, that “white hands” must stay out of China are not reassuring. The inability of the Earepeans te get together In a solutloa es their own problems Is also disconcerting. It can not be doubted that some of the for eign nations are sitting atop of a powder keg. It Is just possible that the Nye-Vandenberg resolution may strike a match above the powder, as well as serving to embarrass and de lay efforts of the various industries to get production expanded that more employment will result, ♦ • * General Johnson and his NRA has come Into more trouble. The Nation- al Recovery Board More Trouble of Review, a de for NRA tache< J group respon sible only to tho President, has written a report of findings in several cases where small plants have complained about the ef fect of the codes. And the report of the hoard, headed by Clarence Darrow of Chicago, the famed attorney, is a scathing denunciation of some of the coda provisions. In fact, some mem bers of the review board take the po sition that the codes have permitted the great industries to grind the smaller ones, the little fellows, to a commercial death. The President's views of the report are not known at this time, but it has leaked out that Mr. Roosevelt Is will ing to have the review board call a spade a spade. Knowledge of his at titude came through devious channels. There was rumor around Washington thnt the President was going to try to kill off the board by withholding funds from it. The board was the Idea of some of the senators, anyway, and It was believed the President felt none too warmly toward ft. Yet It has now been established that the President th going to uphold the hand of board, notwithstanding extreme pres sure that is coming from NRA quar ters to get rid of It. In some Washington- offices there Is a very definite belief that Mr. Roose velt is entirely willing to let General Johnson retire. General Johnson's bombastic style of speech and his "crack-down” threats have not been so well received in many places and there Is opinion available that the general ought to fade out of the NRA. Mr. Roosevelt can't fire him. That would be a dangerous thing to do from a political standpoint. It does seem, however, that a change Is com ing. Business leaders hare begun to preach more strongly against the codes and they are getting more and more adherents. Some economists who were thoroughly "sold” on the codes have begun to doubt that the types of regulations adopted are all thnt they have been advertised. As the things are put in practice, their weaknesses develop. Whether they can be corrected for practicable ap plication remains to he seen. • • • With all of this war talk hither nnd yon, I inquired from the War depart ment and found that Army -onghly one-third of Distribution m ' T j’^.v forces are garrisoned outside of the United States. The latest offi cial tabulation shows the army as having 12,156 officers. 885 warrant of ficers. and 123.459 enlisted men. in cluding around 11.000 Philippine Scouts. Os these. 2.200 officers, 140 warrant officers and 35.036 enlisted men are on posts outside of continen tal United States. The matter of the location of our army personnel Is pertinent at this time, too, because of the possibility that the United States government sooner or later will grant Independ ence to the Filippinos. I hope ft Is later, rather than sooner, for I hear so much discussion of dangers that appear certain to develop ts the Filip pinos become a nation unto selves. The consensus seems 9' r ;® that the natives will be able to govern themselves, but whether they tan pro tect themselves is another matter. The United States has an army strength of 553 officers. JR warrant of ficers and 4.064 enlisted mon in the Philippines, in addition to the Philip pine Scouts who number 62 officers and 6,398 enlisted men. That Is quite a force and an Influence against any Ideas that foreign powers must over come before they seize the Philip pines. It should he mentioned that the force and influence existent there also includes some rather important American gunboats and a naval base. Pearl Harbor, which undoubtedly Is the defense key. So no bloodthirsty foreign statesmen are going after the little Islands as long as our forces are there. There is an international phase to be considered at this time, one that Is not as apparent as It Is real. I re fer to the tangled skein of circum stances resulting from Japanese dec larations of a right to Influence Chinese affairs and to use force If necessary. That threat—and it can not be called by any other name—ls notice to Russia and to all of the Western powers, the United States Included, that the Japanese program of territorial expansion Is going for ward. It may be that many powers will be Involved before Japanese statesmen are made to understand, but certainly It Is not a time in which to consider withdrawal from that im portant position that our nation has In the Philippines. © by Western Newspaper Union.