OHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR,
threw a man-sized bomb into the
camp of the prohibition forces with
his announcement that he had come to
the conclusion that
the eighteenth amend
ment is a fallure and
should be repealed.
Himself a teetotaler
and, with his father,
a liberal supporter of
the Anti-Saloon
league for years, Mr.
Rockefeller in a let.
ter to Nicholas Mur-
ray Butler commend-
ed the latter's anti
prohibition plank and
urged its adoption by
both the Republican
and Democratic parties in thelr pa-
tional conventions. He declared the
aims of prohibition had not been
achieved and sald that “drinking gen-
erally has Increased; that the speak-
easy has replaced the and
that a vast army of lawbreakers has
been recruited and financed on a co
lossal scale,”
Upon these reasons of “unprecedent.
ed crime increase and the open dis
regard of the eighteenth amendment
which 1 have slowly and reluctantly
come to believe,” Mr. Rockefeller
based his present stand. He declared
that “the benefits of prohibition are
more than outweighed by its eviis.”
After approving in detail Doctor
Butler's proposal for repeal and state
control of the liquor traffic, Mr. Rocke
feller expressed a hope that the “mil.
lions of earnest workers in behalf of
the eighteenth amendment” would con-
tinue their efforts In support of “prac
tical measures for the promotion of
genuine temperance.”
Of course the wets were jubliant
over Mr. Rockefeller's statement, and
the drys tried without much success
to minimize its effect by contradicting
his assertions concerning the success
of the prohibition legislation.
John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr.
saloon
NCOURAGED by the Rockefeller
pronouncement, leaders of six na-
tional antiprohibition organizations
met In New York and formed a “unit-
ed repeal council” with the purpose of
placing In both the Republican and
Democratic platforms planks calling
definitely for the repeal of prohibl
tion. Pierre 8S. du Pont was elected
chairman of the council,
——
MN ANY anxious hours were spent
by administration chiefs and
James R. Garfleld over the form in
which the Republican prohibition
plank should be cast,
and a conference par-
ticipated In by Post
master General Wal
ter Brown, the Presi.
dent's political advis
er, and a dozen sena-
tors finally approved
a resolution which
states that, while the P
Republican party i
stands for enforce A 4
ment of all laws and Lad
abhors the saloon, it Senator Borah
recognizes the righ
of the people to pass upon any por
tion of the Constitution and therefore
favors the prompt re-submission of the
eighteenth amendment to the people
of the several states acting through
nonpartisan conventions.
This naturally did not at all suit
the wet Republicans and they prom
ised that the Issue would be fought
out in the convention. The tentative
plank was derided as utterly evasive
and deplorably weak. On the senate
floor Senator Borah, dry, and Sena-
tor Tydings of Maryland, wet Demo-
crat, took turns poking fun at the
proposed resolution. Borah said it
was “the rarest combination of hypoe-
risy and insincerity ever heard of,”
and Tydings called it "the biggest
piece of sham, bunk and camouflage
ever seen assembled in 150 words.”
NDIANA Republicans In state cone
vention went wet despite the
agonized pleadings of the prohibition
ists. A plank was adopted calling for
submission to the people of a repeal
proposition on both the national and
state dry laws. It was not a strong
declaration In favor of such repeal,
but It sufficed Raymond Springer
was nominated for governor and Sen
ator Jim Watson was renominated by
acclamation.
HEN President Hoover signed
the new revenue bill, he said
many of the taxes imposed by it were
not as he desired, which mildly ex-
pressed the opinion of countiess Amer
feans concerning that hodgepodge
measure. However, bad as it Is in
many respects, the act will, under cer.
tain conditions and within certain lime
ftations, balance the federal budget at
the end of the fiscal year 1033, provid.
ed congress enacts the necessary econ
omy legislation. The senate almost re-
jected the conference report on the
revenue bill beause the tax on elec
tricity was made to fall on the con
sumer instead of on the companies,
One economy bill cutting the costs
of government was possed by the sen.
ate after it had been mangled. De
signed at first to save $238,000,000, it
was amended so the saving will be
only £126,000,000. An important
change was the substitution of the en-
forced furlough plan for federal em-
ployees for the 10 per cent pay cuts
previously adoptéd, This was reject.
ed by the house,
PEAKER GARNER'S $2,300,000,000
v7 relief bill was rushed through the
house by an almost solid Democratic
vote alded by twenty-one Republicans.
The rest of the Republican members
pald heed to President Hoover's de-
nunciation of the measure as a gigan-
tic pork barrel and voted In the nega-
tive. It is hard to understand how
Garner and his associates can justify
spending so much time and effort on
this measure in the face of thelr ex.
pressed conviction that it would never
get through the senate or past the
presidential veto. The senate, indeed,
showed at once that it intended to
smother the bill. Leaders of both par
ties In the upper house prepared to
push through a noncontroversial bill
permitting the Reconstruction Finance
corporation to lend up to $300,000,000
to states for relief purposes. This
was just section of the senate
Democratic rellef program, the re
mainder, involving a £300.000,000 bond
issue for public works and a $1,000.
000.000 expansion of the reconstruc
tion unit's capital, being left for later
consideration,
one
RANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S support-
ers, having decided to run the Dem
ocratic national convention to suit
themselves, announced that Jouett
Shouse wouldn't do
as permanent chair.
man, though he had
been selected by the
Smith-Raskob faction
and presumably had
been accepted by
Roosevelt, They de-
clared Instead that
they would try to put
Senator Thomas J.
Walsh of Montana
in that position, which
he held eight years
ago. Mr. Shouse, how.
ever, made It known that he and his
friends would to the last diteh,
so there Is a prospect of a first-day
battle in the convention that will pro
vide for a test of strength between the
Roosevelt and anti-Rooseveil
Mr. Shouse sald that Governor
toosevelt expressly consented to
plan to make } permanent chair
man,
“Not even
Jouett Shouse
lake
HEUL
forces.
the
remotely wns
of condition attached to the governor's
assent ; 1 should have
been a party to it." said *Any
speech 1 may make hefore the conven
tion will be my own and will not be
censored or inspired by any candidate,
The presiding officer of the conven-
tion should represent no faction and
should decline to assist or obstruct
the fortunes of any candidate”
ORE seriously affecting Roose
M velt's chances was the problem
of Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York,
put up to him by the Hofstadter in
vestigating committee
and its counsel, Sam-
uel Seabury, the gov.
ernor's inveterate foe
The report of the
committee makes it
necessary for the gov.
ernor to decide wheth-
er or not the mayor
shall be removed from
office, and it Is be
lieved he will take
some action a day or
so before the Demo
cratic convention
meets. Presumably, if he ousts the
mayor he will rouse the wrath of
Tammany Hall—which might cost him
the vote of New York in the election
but. undoubtedly would add to his
strength elsewhere, for Tammany is
not admired outside of the metropolis,
Governor Roosevelt made a strate
gic move when he demanded that Sea-
bury quit talking and submit to him
the charges and evidence against
Walker at once. He let it be known
that he would give the mayor unlim-
ited opportunity to defend himself and
his administration, but sald he would
demand that Walker prove himself fit
to be mayor of New York. Walker en.
gaged Dudley Field Malone as his
chief counsel,
otherwise not
he,
og
8. Seabury
EN. CHARLES GATES DAWES
suddenly and unexpectedly sent
to President Hoover his resignation as
president of the Reconstruction Fi
nance corporation, to take effect June
16. He denled rumors that there had
been any friction between him and
Eugene Meyer, Jr, chairman of the
board of the corporation, and averred
he was quitting the post merely be.
cause he wished to resume his bank.
ing business in Chicago. In his letter
to the Pgesident General Dawes sald
he felt h¥® could do this now that the
budget had been balanced and “the
turning point toward eventual
ity seems to have been reached.”
IGHT thousand of the “bonus
marchers” who had gathered in
Washington to demand immediate pay-
ment of the bonus to veterans held thelr
first parade down Pennsylvania avenue
to the capitol, and there was not the
slightest disorder despite rumors
that the communists would stage an
outbreak, As a matter of fact, the
reds who ried to stir the veterans up
to violence were roughly treated by
the ex-soldiers,
The marchers carried many Ameri
can flags and had three bands. Swarms
of police were on hand but had little
to do. The paraders broke ranks at
the Peace monument and returned to
the various camps established for
them. Every day the number of vet-
erans In those camps wns augmented
by arrivals from all parts of the
country.
Senator Lewis of Illinois had a run-
in with the bonus seekers and came
off with flying colors. They resented
his Memorial day reproof to them and
threatened to “tell got
off,” whereupon the genntor
calmly told them to “ and
them to the
him where he
courtly
go to hell”
walked through
chamber,
-~
jeva Republicans at t
grown weary of Senator Smith D,
Brookhart and have put an end, at
least for the present, to his political
career, In the pri-
maries they decisive-
ly rejected him, se
lecting as his succes
gor Henry Field of
Shenandoah, a nurs
eryman novice
in politics owns
a radio station, Field
had king a
vigorous speaking
which he
Brookhart
for neglect.
senatorial
senate
have
and a
who
been ma
campaign in
attacked
Sen. Brookhart especially
ing his
duties to make chautauqua lectures and
for nepotism. He pledged himself not
to take any of his family to Washing
ton federal
pay rolls,
Brookhart, a radical
hesitated to against Republican
measures, refused to comment on his
defeat, which was attributed by some
observers partly to the fact that many
voters hithero Republicans had desert.
ed that party and cast their ballots
as Democrats
The Democratic senatorial
was Louls Murphy, who defeated for
mer Senator Daniel Steck.
In North Carolina the Democrats
turned against one of their long-time
leaders, Senator Cameron Morrison,
for the nomination
by Robert R. Reynolds, almost a new.
comer in politics, Morrison is bone
Reynolds Is
and fasten them on the
who never has
vole
who was defeated
Neither of them
. 80 both
the ran-
others
IN
wo
ow their support
85
mary. “Alfalfa
only a small w¢
West Palm Beach,
proh pla
feated Ruth Bryar
gressional nomination
tial .
qisircu
ition
NSIN'S conservativ
3 in convention at
pominated a ticket with the
of putting a crimp in the regime of the
La Follette dynasty. John B. Chapple
of Ashland was put up for the United
States senate in opposition to Senator
Blaine: and former Gov. Walter J.
Kohler was nominated for governur
to run against Gov. Phil La Follette
who seeks to succeed himself,
A MUEL INSULL of Chicago, who for
many years has been one of the
country's leading public utilities mag
nates, has finally fallen under finan
cial stress and has been forced to re
sign as head of his great utilities con-
many other corporations with which
he has been associated.
and it is understood he will reside In
England, where he owns a home,
Three of the big corporations he built
up, it is said, will unite In paying
him an annual pension of $18000,
HILE has become a “socialistic re
republic.” The government of
President Montero was overthrown by
a military and socialistic junta in a
coup d'etat that was
almost bloodless, and
the leader of the
movement, Carlos Da-
vila, former ambassa-
dor to the United
States, was installed
as provisional presi
dent. Col, Marmaduke
Grove was made min:
ister of defense and
immediately had to Vl
get busy suppressing
a counter-revolution Carlos Davila
in the southern part of the country.
It was authoritati ely stated in San.
tingo that the establishment of the so.
cialist regime created no immediate
danger for American Investments in
Chile except those tied up in the $375.
000,000 Cosach nitrate combine which,
ft was understood, would be nation.
alized,
President Davila sald one of the
main purposes of the government
would be to remove the burdens on
workers and the unemployed.
(©. 1933, Western Newspaper Union.)
CHIEFS |
SITTING BULL
‘By
Editha
Probably no Indian is more widely
gnown than Sitting Bull, and certain-
ly no Indian has had
as many conflicting
stories told about
him.
In turn we find him
called a hero, a cow.
ard, a
old scallawag,
the finest type of In-
dian. The
which he
given him
these na
changed v
Inter day,
wns all of these, One
was colorful,
The year of his birth in South Da-
lived have
ues
Sitting Bull
others,
South Dakoth was a wild coun
then, inhabited by Sioux, who
The
the valor of this
went young
came noted far and near as a warrior
tribe, and as
on, Sitting Bull he
Certainly,
coward.
wis not that
distinguished
his youth
He
buffalo calves
age of ten,
with
counted is first coup.
and at fourteen he
his father on the warpath
and
three
¥, scalping
Coups are counted in
killing an ener
to strike ar
Considering the 1
warfare, it must be grante
was a brave
age of
Ag he
often
foro
grew Bull was
consulte » role of
He, ender in
foremost in peace:
extend to the
or
Qistirer
Ritting
peace
war, was
also but
not
them, Bittl
white men
Bull always had a sense
Tr
DE
pleturesa, glaring out from his Indian
eyes; It showed most—and always—in
His first Important engagement
whites was at Fort Buford
The next three years found
from various tribes flocking
Then
Indians
came seven
there
upon,
or Crows to
were frontier posts to
Shoshoni to
EWOoD
battle with,
ment In whi
Here one
ment about
Was he a
have fled with
on that eventfa
mighty medicine 3
r his people
inclined to the
Who ean tell? Gall
fought
game school which had
thick
and
trained in the
of battle?
John Grass bravely
Many other Indian warriors fought
bravely also. Is it believeable that he
who had spent the last ten years on
the warpath, had fled from this hand
ful of white men—especially when he
had already predicted the Indian vie
tory?
int with General Miles hot on
heels afterwards, no one can blame
him for escaping into Canada. Gen
¢
his
The year 1581 saw the return of Sit
ting Ball to his own country. He had
been promised amnesty, and surren-
dered at Fort Buford, where, 15 years
before, he had made his first great
fight against the whites
It Is almost impossible, in describ
ing the Sioux leader at this time of
his life, to avold using the expres
gion, "a caged eagle It so exact
iy fits him. His fighting heart was
not tamed, even If his power was
limited. Was this a martyr who
urged his people not to yield to the
white men, a prophet who foresaw
the fall of his race, or an old scalla.
wag with an Insatiable desire to make
trouble? The truth, no doubt, lies
somewhere In between,
There is something a little sad ip
Sitting Bull's death, The chief was
of more than middle age; his eloquent
opposition was his only effective weap
on against the whites. Two troops of
cavalry with two Hotchkiss guns, and
43 trained Indian police, were sent
at night to take him. They woke
him where he slept, and told him te
go with them, and bitter-heart that
he was, he Berated them ax he made
his preparations,
He was shot as he went out with
his captors. Fearful that his followers
might effect a rescue, the Indian po
liceman at his side killed him, In
front of his people who had crowded
around to save him. Killed by men of
his own race, Sitting Bull died as he
had lived, hating and despising the
white men and thelr ways to the last,
(D 1972, Wertern Newspaper Union.)
DVANCE showings of midsummer
formal fashions carry the mes
sage that designers are In ~ mood 10
create filmy, joyous looking apparel
such as suggests going to lovely gar
den parties on sunlit afternoons or
dancing at the country club.
Not as yet have creators of clothes
beautiful discovered anything in the
way of fabrics which add such en
wer festivities as richly colorful
print Let daytime prints be as so
ber and as monotone and ac trim and
neat in design as they wish, but when
it comes to prints for nighttime they
must be gorgeous, exotic and breathe
the air of romance, not only in thelr
=aith of color but in the daring of
the
expressed In
mmer.
of color and design
be said that this
nmer evening prints
Ew eetest ever
into a riot
the
garden seem f« * holding a reunion
as ros to space on diapha
Field flowers,
y ragged Is such
as daisies and bachelor
making merry on Y
chiffon. Then again fascinating
tale of printed design is toid dramatl
cally In two colors, such as for (o
glance, a startling print which shows
a vibrant yellow playing a solo dance
all over a very black background
their patterning as well—such 1s
prevailing sentiment as
onland for
this matter
this su
story
owers of
eC Be
many
the
Sometimes 28 many 8&8 sever or
eight colors splash over white or pale
grounds ino flowery design. The charm-
ing gown to the left In the picture Is
fashioned of just such a chiffon of
many hues. No less exciting than the
chiffon itself is the unique decolet-
tage of this ultraemart gown There
is nothing quite so new and so ud
psual 8s the decollette neckiine which
reflects the vogue for scar! effects
One of the points to observe In con
nection with this new scarf move
ment as adopted by this dress is that
which Is
two
the high infront neckline,
pow the thing Is accented, the
the scarflike drapery drop
at the back
as shown by th
rire
Vig
Oo 6
to the
scarf and
slice seem molded into a uniL
end
forms a srug shoulder strap. wi
sther streamer glic
ite shoulder, fallin
ate grace toward th
printed georg
model is one ©
jeall soring
lor scheme is also
interesting as it features the pattern
(©. 1931 Western Newspaper Union)
New Coats Have Little
Flare; Frocks Tailored
he smartest coats this year do not
have much flare—they hang fairly
straight, but with sufficient swing to
be easy and comfortable for walking.
Dresses, too, have gone taliored in
always called an “afternoon dress” ie
almost threatened with extinction.
The beauty of a tailored dress Is,
that it is at home everywhere. Wool
than silk ones, and knit
than either.
But now we know few distinctions as
informal
So under a iallored coat may go
perfectly appropriately any of the
following fabrics in a simple dress;
rough silk crepe; canton or flat crepe;
tweeds: sheer wools; jersey and all
knit fabrics; mesh and crochet. And
with a tailored coat you may also
wear a sweater and skirt; and be
very comfortable as well as very
smart.
Practical Ensemble Is
Latest Spring Favorite
Early spring sees the practical en
gemble enjoying a real success. Eve
ery house is concentrating on wearable
ensembles done in woolen, stressing a
bright, youthful note, and made with
all evidences of careful treatment and
workmanship.
The woman who spends a great deal
of her day out of doors Is particularly
addicted to this type of garment as
it fits unobtrusively into any scheme
and Is most flattering to every type
Brown is being much used and in place
of the white used so much with
color Inst spring. two tones of
are being shwwn and very much liked.
Foulard Squares
Large foulard squares apparently
are the favorite cholee of smart young
women for scarfs to give the color
contrast to sport or spectator cos
tumes.
JEWELLED CLIPS
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Every woman who travels appreci-
ates the comfort of a lace evening
gown-possibly several of them, for
there are so many types of lace in
fashion nowadays to vary one's ward
robe. The new lustered laces, espe
cially those described as angel's skin
and the “chalky™ varieties, also the
durene laces which are not expensive
but are elegant-looking, vie with oth-
er fabric In meeting the obstacles of
hasty packing and hurried dressing
when there is no time or opportunity
for pressing on a week-end trip. The
design of its durene lace which Is han
dled like real irish crochet lace with
a touch of Venice Influence. The just.