Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, June 11, 1937, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextNews Review of Current Events the World Over ^Windsor and Wallis Are Married, Anglican Church Out wilted—Tax Dodging hy the Rich to Be Investi gated—House Rebels Yield. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Western Newspaper Union. EDWARD, duke of Windsor, and Mrs. Wallis Warfield, the Amer ican woman for love of whom he gave up his throne, were married in the Chateau de Can de, Monts, France, and are now spend ing their honeymoon at Wasserleonburg castle in lower Aus tria. Almost at the last moment the Church of England was outwitted by the action of an ob scu r e provincial clergyman from the north of England, and the civil cere- : w t Duchess of Windsor mony performed by the mayor of Monts was followed by a religious wedding conducted by that same minister, Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, in flat defiance of the pro tests of the leaders of the church. Sixteen principal guests were ipresent in the chateau when Mayor IMercier, pronouncing the English (names with difficulty, and speaking tin French, performed the civil ceremony and pronounced the duke sand Wallis man and wife. Vicar Jardine, who had volunteered his ’services, recited the solemn reli jgious rites as prescribed by the 'church, the duke placed the ring |on the duchess’ fourth finger, and ithey knelt on white silk cushions while the minister prayed. Through out the entire service the famous j organist, Marcel Dupre, played soft ly. The duchess, who cannot be ^called “her royal highness,” wore a gown of Wallis blue and the corre ispondents privileged to be present ,were agreed that she was a beau (tiful, gracious and serene woman. The Chateau de Cande, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedaux of New York, was lavishly decorated with flowers. Wedding presents were numerous, of course, and some of the richest were sent by members of the British royal fam ily- Vicar Jardine was reproved by the church dignitaries for perform ing the religious ceremony, but the Bishop of Fulham, who has juris diction over Anglican church af fairs in France, after sending a telegram of protest, admitted the vicar might not be disciplined. He insisted the only valid service Mr. Jardine could perform was bene diction after the marriage. All Anglican church ministers on the continent had been warned not to marry the duke and Wallis. A DMINISTRATION leaders, from the President down, “turned the heat” on the rebellious mem bers of the house, and the latter sullenly gave in and passed the bil lion and a half dollar work relief bill about as Mr. Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins wanted it. One after another the restrictive amendments earmarking $505,000,000 of the total for projects of a solid type, flood control and highways, which had been adopted in committee of the whole, were called up again and voted down by substantial majori ties. The final vote by which the measure was sent on to the senate was 323 to 44. The revolt collapsed after Majori ty Leader Sam Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, outlined Mr. Roosevelt’s po sition. He said the President had agreed to provide adequate funds from the relief bill for PWA proj ects, highways, grade crossing elimination, flood control and water conservation work. Taunted by Minority Leader Ber trand Snell, Republican, New York, for the general character of his statement, Rayburn admitted he did not know the exact amount of money that the President would divert to the various projects, which have been described as “vote-get ting” and “pork.” One of the “rebel” leaders, Joseph Starnes of Alabama, though voting for the bill, announced that con gress would never again “relinquish its control of expenditures.” Still sore, especially at Harry Hopkins, the congressmen discussed the need for investigation of the relief administration, and a resolu tion calling for such action was in troduced by Maury Maverick of Texas. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR HAROLD L. ICKES was taken to the Naval hospital in Washing ton to be treated for an intestinal disorder. Physicians said he prob ably would be absent from his of fice for several weeks, a protract ed rest being imperative. I) Y HUGE majorities in both sen ate and house congress over rode the President's veto of a bill to extend the war risk insurance act for another five years. It gives that additional time in which war veter ans may exchange their govern ment held term insurance policies for other forms of life insurance and affects about 23,000 men who have not converted their policies. Rep resentative Rankin of Mississippi said these veterans were “too poor” to make the conversion at this time, and added: “The President appar ently didn’t consult with those fa miliar with veterans’ affairs when he vetoed this bill.” PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent a 1 message to congress asking for legislation creating seven regional power authorities patterned after the TVA. He proposed the country be divided into these regions: The Atlantic seaboard. The Great Lakes-Ohio valley. The Tennessee and Cumberland river basins. The Missouri and the Red River of the North basins. The Arkansas, Red and Rio Grande river basins. The basins of the Colorado and other rivers flowing into the Pacific south of the California-Oregon state line. The Columbia river basin. 'T' AX dodging by wealthy men and * women, excoriated by President Roosevelt in a special message, is going to be investigated speedily by a joint committee of congress. The reso lution for the in quiry was intro duced in the senate by Senator Pat Har rison of Mississippi, chairman of the fi nance committee; and in the house by Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the ways and means committee. The in- \ : > Ik -:.4S Sen. Harrison vestigation is designed both to focus public attention on the extent of the alleged tax evasion and to pro vide congress with information nec essary for the drafting of corrective legislation. Senator Harrison said: “I am sure that congress expects that, where the law has been vio lated, prompt action will be taken by the government against the mal efactors.” He added that men and women re ferred to, not by name, in the President’s message, would be giv en the opportunity to testify before the committee if their names were disclosed. Accompanying Mr. Roosevelt’s message -was a long letter to him from Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau in which were outlined eight devices which he said are be ing employed by a minority of rich individuals to evade taxes. Legislation asked by the Presi dent would be an emergency meas ure. It is not to be confused with legislation to revise tax schedules, the President said. “In regard to that subject,” Mr. Roosevelt continued, “I have al ready suggested to the congress that at this session there should be no new taxes and no changes of rates.” Q ENERAL HAYASHI’S semimili tary government of Japan was forced to resign by the major politi cal parties, and Emperor Hirohito summoned Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the house of peers, to form a new cabinet. This the prince pro ceeded to do, and he was meeting with almost complete success in finding men who would ac cept office. Tempo rarily he had trouble in getting a finance minister. The new government in cludes representatives of the big Seiyukai and Minseito parties and is considered, therefore, a national coalition cabinet. Presumably it is committed to a large army and navy, a strong foreign policy and drastic administrative reforms. Prince Konoe said he would strive to end the rivalries among the vari ous forces in the empire, meaning especially the disputes between the army and the political parties. The army will support him, but its dom ination over Japanese policies is practically ended with the retire ment of Hayashi who was accused of trying to set up a Fascist regime. BEFORE adjourning to October the Supreme court overruled a government request that it refuse to review litigation challenging the constitutionality of federal financing of municipal power plants. By con senting to pass on the controversy, the court deferred a final verdict in the case until next fall, after argu ments are heard. The Department of Justice con tended this would postpone the em ployment of many thousands of men. Officials of the Public Works administration declared the court’s action means that “at least another six months” will elapse before ques tions affecting the release of $51,- 000,000 for fifty-four public power projects are settled. Wilt • durwan AvjoLL about Deporting Alien Criminals. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Wouldn’t it be lovely if the other states, not to mention the federal government, followed the example set by the gover nor of New York? He commutes the sentences of for eign-born, long-term convicts so they may be eligible for parole—not mind you, to go free and sin some more, but to be turned over to the port authorities for immediate de portation. That is, it would be a lovely idea if only we could b e sure that these same criminals wouldn't come slipping back in again. The pres- ent immigration law was devised as a barrier to protect decent cit izens, both native and naturalized, against the human scum of the old world, but it appears to be more like a sieve if we may judge by the hordes of nondesirable aliens who somehow manage to get in and stay in and even go on relief, some of them. In other words, when we give these unpleasant parties a compli mentary ride back where they come from, let’s make sure it’s not going to be a round trip. • • • Missionaries From China. E' ROM Peiping a group of believ " ers in the doctrine of Confucius are sending missionaries to the United States. We’ve been sending out missionaries to their country for centuries, but that Chinamen should dare to try the same thing on us—well, that’s a white horse of a yellow color. What if, not content with seeking converts, these interlopers inculcat ed among us certain phases of their heathenish philosophy, such as teaching young people consideration and respect for their elders; and showing that rushing about in a frenzy does not necessarily indicate business energy; and that the natur al aim of man is not always to worship speed and—up to thirty odd thousands a year—to die by it; and that intolerance as between re ligious creeds isn’t invariably proof pf true piety; and that minding one's own affairs is really quite an admirable trait? if Why, native Americans wouldn’t be able to recognize the old home place any more! ! Such threats against a superior civilization are not to be borne. • • • Vanished Americans. IT’S exciting to prowl among the ruined cities of the first Ameri cans, who scattered into the twi lights of antiquity when the Chris tian era was still young. They were our oldest families, older than even old Southern families—and who ever heard of a new Southern family or even just a middle-aged Southern family? ) But afterwards, it’s confusing to read the theories of the expert re searchers who have passed judg ment on those vanished cliff-dwell ing peoples, because few such learned gentlemen agree on any single point. There is one very emi nent authority who invariably in sists that all the rest of the emi ne n t authorities are absolutely wrong about everything. He is the Mr. Justice Mcßeynolds of the ar cheologists. ’ After reading some of the conflict ing literature on this subject. I’ve decided that a true scientist is one who is positive there are no other true scientists. • * • Unemployment Statistics. rp HANKS to bright young bureau- A crats in Washington, we know how many goldfish are hatched ev ery year and what the gross annual yield of guinea pigs is, and the exact proportion of albinos born in any given period, but it never seemed to occur to anybody to compile reasonably accurate statistics on un employment. Yet, with depression behind us and business up to boom-time levels, it’s estimated that between eight and nine million people are out of work, not counting those on strike, and judging by the papers there must be a couple of million of them. Apparently the more prosperous we grow on the surface, the more de plorable becomes the status of those off the payrolls. It doesn’t make sense. Or anyhow there was a time when it wouldn't have made sense. * This curious situation puts a fel low in mind of the old old story of the chap whose wife had an operation, and, every day when he called at the hospital, he was told the patient showed improvement. One morning, as he came away, weeping, he met a friend. “How’s the wife?” inquired the latter. “She’s dead.” ‘Tm so sorry,” said the friend. “What did she die of?” “Improvements,” said the widow er. IRVIN S. COBB Q —WNU Service. f > I Prince Konoe WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO, GEORGIA. Irvin S. Cobb. Washington.—Farm leaders have gone before congress again to press a new agricultural Urge New program. Like Farm Program several that have come through in the last half-dozen years, the new proposition is based on a subsidy. The current program, like the old AAA, is predicated on agreements by which farmers will not do some thing and be paid for not doing it. To obtain the subsidies from the federal treasury contemplated in the new farm legislation, farmers will have to sign contracts agreeing to curtail their acreages up to twen ty per cent of their average cultiva tion for the last several years. If they fail or refuse to sign these contracts, the legislation describes them as not co-operating and, there fore, they would be denied the right to obtain loans from the federal gov ernment and they would not have a guarantee of “parity prices,” as a penalty. Moreover, those farmers who failed or refused to co-operate in this manner would be subjected to prohibitive taxes on the sale of products grown in excess of limits on totals to be prescribed by Secre tary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture. The announced basis of this new program is for “conservation of the soil.” Further, its sponsors contend that it will mean a gradual upbuild ing of the fertility of the soil so that, in the end, fewer acres will have to be cultivated to produce the same volume of corn or cotton or wheat or whatever other crop is grown. But I think there are few individ uals who will say that the above reasons honestly constitute the basis for this new farm legislation. I think it must be admitted that the plan is only a subterfuge; that, while it may help some farmers by giving them cash, it is pure politics with cash as a sop. I am not one equipped to say that agriculture does not need a subsidy even though prices of farm products are now almost double what they were in 1933. It is entirely possible that farmers throughout the nation still need help in the form of cash. It may be the better part of wisdom to vote such payments as are con templated in this new legislation. On the other hand, however, if there is that need then let us be honest about it. President Roosevelt lately has signed a new law which provides subsidies to shipping companies in order that America may have its own merchant marine, but those payments are to be called subsidies. They are not disguised nor con cealed. It seems ridiculous, there fore, that the farm leaders should not be frank with the members of their organizations. If they feel that a subsidy is needed, why not put it up to congress that way so that those farmers, who believe in sub sidies as well as those who want to see agriculture left alone for awhile can understand what is go ing on. • ♦ • I imagine that the farm leaders who are sponsoring the new legisla tion could scarce- Chose jy have chosen a Bad Time presentation of their program. I mean that, in presenting this type of legislation when congress is undergoing a wave of economy, the program is likely to receive scant consideration. I* always has been the case that legis lation goes through several stages of hauling and filling in congress with the result that after much de bate a bill satisfactory to the ma jority emerges. In presenting their program at this time, therefore, the farm leaders are not doing a very good job of leading. There will be much agitation on the part of the farm leaders that will get just no where at all because of conditions in congress. Edward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Feder ation, recently was quoted as saying that the new plan would not require any payments direct from the treas ury; that is, it would pay its own way through the medium of taxes if it “works perfectly.” That is the rub. I find doubt in nearly all quar ters that the plan can “work per fectly.” It is so complex and re quires such a bureaucracy for ad ministration of it that to expect it to “work perfectly,” is virtually to expect that legislation will control the weather. I think everyone will agree that congress and the admin istration has hot yet been able to find the formula for controlling the weather. I believe it can be said fairly that many farmers are dissatisfied with the soil conservation program adopted as a substitute for the AAA which the much criticized Supreme court held unconstitutional by a unanimous vote. Even those offi cials of the Department of Agricul ture who are frank will admit that the soil conservation is not an effec tive means for controlling produc tion. It does have merit as far as it goes in conserving the soil. But there is another phase: It has been pointed out too often almost to need repetition here that the soil con- servation law, as occurred under the AAA, results in millions of dol lars being paid to individuals and corporations who are in no way par ticipating in conservation activities. Now, while Mr. O’Neal thinks that the proposed law can be operated without expense to the federal treas ury, there is yet the conviction in some quarters that it probably will cost about six hundred million dol lars a year to pay the subsidies and pay for administration of the law. Six hundred million dollars a year is a large sum at any time and it bulks much larger at a time when there is a nation-wide cry for a balanced budget for the federal government. It is a sum that, if the budget of the federal government otherwise were balanced, would be sufficient to frighten thousands of holders of United States bonds. It would seem then that the farm leaders ought to take into consid eration the status of the federal government’s financial affairs if they want to develop a program that will live. I have heard from many students of agricultural prob lems that the remedy for farm con ditions is not an expensive new sys tem of farm subsidies. They assert that it will be impossible for Uncle Sam to continue annual payments to some three million or more farm ers and they are convinced, further, that most farmers themselves ob jected to being placed in the cate gory of relief clients. An argument is also advanced that more and more farmers believe federal poli cies that cause money to be handed out free to farmers will, in the end, destroy the independence of agri culture. However that may be and however the majority of the farm ers feel about receiving money gra tis from the government at Wash ington, it cannot be said that agri culture is being placed on a sound footing by politicians and political farm leaders whose sole objective is to loot the treasury. Farmers would not permit it to happen to the governments of their states or their counties but a considerable number of them apparently have been persuaded that the govern met at Washington is something else. • • • The Department of Commerce which has supervision of airplane . . n .. traffic has an- I dots nounced that it Out of Races will not permit American pilots to participate in an air race that was proposed for this summer. The race was to have taken place from New York to Paris, but the Department of Commerce has vetoed the plan unequivocally because it considers the race as nothing more than a stunt. It may occur to some that such a ruling by the Department of Com merce constitutes an interference with private business beyond rea son. I cannot share that view. The experts have been unable to find in this proposed race any possibility of benefit for aviation nor any ex perimentation that would lead to more scientific flying. It has taken the position that there is too great a danger involved for those pilots who are foolhardy enough to under take the three thousand two hun dred mile flight across the ocean. Its position is further fortified with the argument that if any of the pilots should lose their lives in that type of aviation, it will cause many thousands of persons to lose faith in the airplane as a means of trans portation. In short, the department thinks that there are only disad vantages and no advantages in the prospect. While many persons may disagree with the position the department has taken, it is heartening to those of us who like to see private business encouraged, to know that a respon sible federal agency charged with supervision of a private industry is again functioning as it was intended to do. For several years, the De partment of Commerce, with par ticular respect to its aviation di vision, has been in a state of tur moil. There were wide differences of opinion and in consequence little in the way of permanent develop ment was sponsored from Washing ton for the aviation industry. In criticizing the government’s in activity, no observer would be fair unless he also called attention to the frailties and the failures of the in dustry itself. It is true that some of the larger lines lately have made sensational improvements in the equipment they use in the air and in the operations part of flying. It is true that larger and better planes have been built and are building. But it is likewise true that a number of airlines have adopted penurious, penny pinching policies and have refused to re place worn out’and obsolete planes because they did not want to invest additional money. Until the air in dustry awakens to the necessity for spending money and until the De partment of Commerce becomes a smooth functioning supervisory agent, the air travel of this country will not even approach the limit of its capacity. © Western Newspaper Union. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parion vvvwwfVvrr vvvrvVfVr v v / W Temperamental Sculptor. >JEW YORK.—“A very tem- A ’ peramental sculptor,” says A. E. Demaray, associate di rector of the national park serv ice, in explaining to the house appropriations subcommittee how difficult it was for his de partment to estimate the de gree of progress on the Mount Rushmore memorial at Rapid City, S. D. Commenting on Mr. Demaray's statement, the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, ever pungently articulate, remarks that the memorial is not a road contractor’s job nor one that can be measured by the engineer’s rule and compass. In both thrust and riposte are marked a certain mildness usually not observed in Sculptor Borglum's controversies, wherefor it may with confidence be assumed that the cur rent issue is of minor character, with little or no chance of its de velopment into some such contre temps as that between the eminent master of chisel and hammer and the Stone Mountain Memorial as sociation in Georgia. That ended forlornly with the de struction by the sculptor of all plans, models and work in the carv ing of heroic figures of the Confed eracy on the face of the mountain outside of Atlanta and his with drawal from the enterprise. Temperamental? Yes, quite so. But, as well, a thinker, a man of original views and conceptions, and physically as powerful as he is mentally dynamic. It was Borglum who startled the country back in the early 1900 s when, in the course of an embattled interlude with critics of some of his ideas concerning sculptural embel lishment of the outer walls of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, New York, he announced that all angels were male; that a female angel was un known in the heavenly phalanstery as set forth in Bible or religious rubric. » » » Spain’s Strong Man. FRANCISCO LARGO CABAL -1 LERO, who handed in his man date as Spanish premier because of communist objections to his pro posal of plans for a new govern ment following the recent ministe rial crisis, is not included in the new cabinet formed by Dr. Juan Necrin, former finance minister. Thus Spain’s fourth premier since the outbreak of civil war last July passes from the official life of his embattled nation. But those who know this militant Marxist, this man of courage and deep social convictions, have no idea he will disappear as a national force of immense influence. He was one of the leaders responsible for the overthrow of the Spanish mon archy and establishment of the re public in April, 1931. The key to Largo Caballero’s character lies in the fact that he was a typical child of the poverty stricken Spanish masses. At the age of seven he began a long strug gle to earn his living and at the same time to educate himself, cir cumstances which explain his fiery adherence to socialist doctrines from his early youth. Learning the trade of stone ma son, at which for many years he worked, he was in 1917 tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for his share in the organization of a 1 revolutionary strike. His election as a socialist member of the Cortes saved him from his sentence. Ar rested and imprisoned thereafter at various times and on various charges, he was at liberty when the present civil war broke out; he rushed to the Guadarrama front and participated in many actions. Holding for a united front of Span iards of all parties and affiliations against the forces of the insurgent General Franco, the premier was willing to grant representation in the government even to anarchists, for whom he has no regard, as well as to communists, to whom he is not warm. But in the end, his plan for himself to take over the port folio of national defense, with the aim of imparting new vigor and bet ter direction to the war, was not ac ceptable to opposing factions. So he retired. • • • Award for Merit. T'O Dr. James Lewis Howe, dean A of the school of applied science and head of the department of chemistry at Washington and Lee university, goes the 1937 award of the Herty medal, which, symbolic of outstanding work in southern chemistry, is annually bestowed by the southern division of the Ameri can Chemical society. Dr. How'e, however, is a New England importation, stemming back to Newburyport, Mass., where, in 1859 he was born. Graduated from Amherst in 1880, he took de grees as master of arts and doctor of philosophy at Gottingen after a course of study in Germany ending in 1882. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service.