RANCE seemingly narrowly es
caped a civil war. Following two
days of bloody rioting in Paris and
other cities, Premier Daladier and his
2 , cabinet capitulated
and the reins of gov-
ernment were put In
the hands of Gaston
Doumergue, the sev-
enty-one-year-old for
mer President who
was In retirement on
his country estate.
His reappearance on
the political stage was
in response to the
pleadings of President
Lebrun and many oth-
er patriots who were
convinced that he alone could restore
the country to quiet. It was condi-
tioned on pledges that both chambers
of parliament would support him un.
reservedly and that the president
would give him an executive order dis-
solving the parliament and calling new
elections, to be used if he considered
It necessary. So the “iron man” of
France, as he has been dubbed, re
turned to Paris with plans for a small
cabinet made up of former premiers
and party leaders and with power to
make himself the virtual dictator of
the country.
War veterans, Monarchists, Commu.
nists and other elements joined in the
violent demonstrations that forced out
the Daladier regime. All joined in op-
position to the government, though no
one of the groups was in accord with
any others in The
mobs were furious and fought desper-
ately with the and the troops
that Daladier had brougl nto the
capital. The mainly
In the Place de la and the
region about the Palals Bourbon where
the chamber of sits, were
raked by machine fire, sabered
by clubbed and
shot by the Infantry and police. But
they returned to the fray time after
time and would
until Daladier resigned. The number
of dead was i ted at fifty, and
more than a thousand persons were
wounded. After the battles were over
the boulevards In the center of Paris
presented a of desolation and
destruction unequaled there since days
of the commune in 1871
Natlonalist elements resented espe
cially the removal by Daladler of Jean
Chiappe as prefect of police, feeling
that he was being made a scapegoat
in the Bayonne bond scandal. The
Communists and Soclalists accused
Chiappe of he rioting, but
the “right” elements sald the “leftists”
were determined to get the Corslean
out of the way because they knew he
would block the proletarian coup d'etat
they were planning. The Royalists
were in the mix-up hopeful, as always,
that they might be able to restore the
monarchy and put on the throne the
duc de Guise, head of the Bourbon
house of Orleans, who lives In exile
in Brussels, Naturally the pretender
Gaston
Doumergue
other respects.
police
ght |
rioters, operating
Concorde
deputies
gun
mounted troops and
not cease the struggle
scene
as deploring the bloodshed.
EVALUATION of the dollar, and the
purchaseof goldat $35 = fine ounce
caused a turmoil in the world's money
markets and an immediate result was a
great flow of gold bul
lion from Europe to
the United States,
The pound sterling
and the france made
gains, but not
enough to suit Presi-
dent Roosevelt
his monetary
ers. Later both the
pound and franc de
clined again, and the
Prof confusion was made
. greater. The French
were alarmed by the drain on their
gold and expressed Intense resentment
against the American policy, charging
that the administration was making de-
liberate efforts to embarrass France.
For the time being the administra-
tion was prevented from driving the
dollar down to its projected parity
points In foreign exchanges by the ris
Ing tide of American dollars flowing
back to this country. But most of
its financial experts were confident
that the 00.06 cents value would be
made to prevall after a reasonable
time to allow for the shakedown. As
for the $35 an ounce for gold, It is
the opinion of Prof. George F. War-
ren, chief deviser of the experiment
that is under way, that the figure
must be raised If prices of commodi-
ties are to be put up materially, Frank
E. Gannett, the Rochester newspaper
publisher, after a visit to the White
House and talking with both the
President and Professor Warren, sald
in his Rochester Times-Union that he
had been convinced by those conver
sations “that we shall continue to
raise the price of gold” and that the
$35 figure probably would succeed
only in preventing prices from slip-
ping.
By the President's devaluation stroke
a treasury deficit of $5.900,000,000 was
transformed overnight into a surplus
of §078,710,087,
Warren
T WAS authoritatively stated In
Washington that the President be
lleves that excessive Interest rates on
all classes of debts should be reduced
as an Important step toward reduction
of the debt structure. His viewpoint
applies to foreign debts owed to Unit-
ed States citizens, to private debts and
to those of industry. He was sald to
be of the opinion that reduction of in-
terest would make payment more probe
able, and that fixed charges also could
be cut down,
Bills before the senate, which have
house approval already, would enable
corporations and municipalities or oth-
er political subdivisions of states to
scale down the principal and Interest
of thelr debts through an agreement
with the majority of thelr creditors.
Legislation Is already In effect which
enables the individual to rearrange his
debt and Interest rates through a pact
with the majority of those he owes
and to give similar help to raliroads.
There have been complaints that these
laws have not been particularly effec-
tive and that they need strengthening.
The President, in letting it be known
that he thought the debtor was paying
too much on obligations contracted in
better times, did not say what he be-
lieved was a fair rate nor did he speci
fy particular charges that he regarded
as too high,
NIRA and the steel Industry came
into sharp conflict, and the NRA
to a certain extent backed down. Ex.
ecutives of all the leading steel com-
panies met and con see mone
sidered the claim of
the national labor
board to authority
by the Presi
dent to conduct elee-
tions for
given
employee
when
num-
representatives
a “substantial™
ber request that ae-
To this the
steel men took excep
1d hey
statement
tion,
issued a
saying the
istry intends “to resist all attacks”
upon company unlons and that it holds
tion.
Gen, Johnson
that the present plan of employee rep-
resentation with the NRA.
‘he statement. how ever, declared the
steel industry “is co-operating whole
heartedly with the President in his ef.
forts for national recovery and sub-
scribes fully to the principle of collee-
complies
tive bargaining as provided in section |
7 (a) of the national recovery act.” |
The NRA had given out a press |
statement implying that all company
unions are dominated by employers.
This drew sharp criticism, and the
statement was retracted. Administra.
tor Johnson and NRA Counsel Done
ald Richberg upheld the right of the
lator board as stated above They as
serted, however, that the executive or
der which sald that representatives
elected by a majority of workers “have
been thereby designated to represent
all the employees,” does not abridge
the rights of labor minorities to con
duct negotiations with employers,
AMUEL INSULL., who was due to
be ousted from Greece on Febru
ary 1, was permitted to remain for a
time because of il] health. but the gov-
ernment at Athens then Informed him
unofficially that he must leave before
February 13. two physicians having
reported he was able to travel with.
out danger to his life. The fugitive Im-
mediately began packing up, but at
this writing It was not known where
he would go In his effort to avold ex-
tradition.
WENTY-TWO days after he was
kidnaped, Edward OG. Bremer,
banker of St. Paul, Minn., was set free
in Rochester, Minn., and made his way
y home, nervous and
with wounds on his
head inflicted when
he was “snatched.”
but otherwise an-
harmed. His father,
Adolf Bremer, wealthy
brewer, had pald the
£200,000 demanded by
the kidnapers, In £10
and $5 bills, through
an intermediary, Dur
ing his captivity Bre-
E. G. Bremer =. was kept In a
dark room and under constant guard.
State and federal law enforcement
agencies were conducting an Intensive
hunt for the abductors of Bremer, who
probably numbered ten or more, It
was believed the victim was held in
either Sioux City or Kansas City.
Verne Sankey, notorious kidnaper
who was captured recently in Chicago
and taken to Sloux Falls, 8 D, for
safe keeping until his trial In a fed-
eral court, committed sulcide In his
cell by hanging, using a loop made
of neckties. He had admitted the ab-
duction of Charles Boettcher of Den.
ver and Haskell Bohn of St. Poul,
SESIDENT ROOSEVELT ealled
congressional leaders into confer.
ence and with them formulated bills
designed to bring the stock markets .
of the country under federal control.
The measures were then Introduced
In both house and senate, They den!
with short selling, marginal trading,
kpecinlists, pool operations and man
fpuiation.
*
ACKED by the President, a federal
grand Jury Investigation was go-
Ing on in Washington that promised to
uncover a $10,000,000 scandal in the
War department. Two lawyers promi
nently connected In the past with the
American Leglon were sald to be in-
volved. It was nsserted that automo-
bile manufacturers had been asked
for a fee of $50,000 In return for War
department contracts for trucks run-
ing into millions.
The house naval committee made an
Inquiry into airplane and engine con-
tracts that, It was predicted, would
lead to changes in the Navy depart-
ment's system of audits.
—————
ILLIAM P. M'CRACKEN, who
was assistant secretary of com-
merce for aeronautics in the Hoover
administration, and three alr line offi-
clals got into a fam
with the senate com-
mittee that is invest}.
gating alr mall con
tracts. All four of
them were cited to ap-
pear before the senate
to show cause why
they should not be
punished for contempt,
McCracken practices
law In Washington,
The others are L. H.
Brittin, vice president
of Northwest Alr.
ways: Harris M. Hanshue, president
of Western Alr Express, and Gilbert
Glvvin, Hanshue's secretary, Me.
Cracken has been under technical ar.
rest but this was vacated,
Chairman Black's report to the gen
ate showed that Brittin admitted that
he had removed from McCracken's of-
fice and destroyed subpoenaed corre-
spondence; and also that Givvin, on
order from Hanshue, had removed con.
fidential papers since recovered by the
commitlee,
Senator Black also told the senate
that testimony before the committee
showed post office contracts had been
awarded “collusively and fraudulent
Iy" and that former Postmaster Gene
eral Brown and McCracken partici.
pated in a “secret meeting” held In a
room adjacent to Brown's Post Office
department which the coun
try was divided into certain all
routes and contracts were distributed
among “particular” operating com
Ww. P.
McCracken
office at
panies,
N A unanimous opinion the Supreme
United States held
accused of violating
prohibition laws and
whose cases had not been finally ad-
judieated by December 5 last, when
the E amendment was re.
pealed should be set free. The opinion
held that repeal canceled the power of
prosecution,
According to the Department of Jus.
tice, were 0.578 prohibition
cases, with about 13,000 defendants,
pending In federal courts.
y passed the bill Introduced by Sen
ator Hiram Johnson of California
which is designed to prevent the float.
ing In America of pri-
vate loans to coun
tries now defauiting
on past debts. Before
passing it, the sena-
tors amended the
measure so that it
urt of the
all persons
the late national
ghteenth
there
senate
JITH little debate the
President's new
scheme to grant to
foreign nations loans
with which to buy
American goods, A
proviso was written in
declaring that joans
to foreign defauiters could still
made by government owned corpora-
tions,
As it now stands, however, the bill
puts In the hands of the administra-
tion its most powerful weapon for
forcing payment of defaulted war
debts, No defaulting nation may float
any private loan In this country, and
any American aiding In the illegal
flotation of a private loan to a de
faniter would be liable to five years
in jail and 210000 in fines
According to Chalrman Jesse Jones
of the RFC, the President's plan ealls
for the creation of a trading bank
which will partially underwrite ex-
Sen, Hiram
Johnson
ers of American goods The bank
would be entirely owned by the govern.
ment, so the arrangement would act.
ually be a partial government guar
antee of payment to the American
producer, The bank would be a di
vision of the RFC.
NLY one representative voted
“no” when the house of repre-
sentatives passed on the bill to ap
propriate $050,000,000 for continuation
of CWA and direct relief activities,
George B, Terrill of Texas, Democrat,
The money is to be used by the fed-
idle for another year and for continu-
ing the Civil Works administration un-
til the early part of May. About 500
millions is to be used for the former
purpose, it was sald, and about 450
for the CWA,
GDEN L. MILLS, who, whether or
not you like him, Is one of the
most forceful leaders of the Repub
lean party, has often been spokon of
as a possible or even probable candi
date for the GG. O. P. Presidential nom:
ination in 1080. But the New Yorker
has now removed himself from that
entegory., While In California to see
Herbert Hoover and others, Mr, Mills
told the press “1 most certainly have
no intention of becoming a eand date,
Nor will 1 mix In local or factional
polision™
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od
ATI,
TE
JIL
Washington.—Among the character
Istics of the New Deal which Presi
dent Roosevelt is
Dream giving us is =a
Becomes Reality eer admixture
of planning for
the long-range developments along
with quick action for, as well as un-
der the gulse of, emergency problems,
None can say that he has failed to be
quick on the trigger when it came to
taking some kind of action when emer-
gencles had to be solved, whether one
agrees with them or not, but coupled
with this haste he has been moving in
the direction of long-range planning
with a celerity that is, to say the
least, unusual in government.
Some months ago, I wrote of the
possibilities of the transfer of human
beings, like so many cattle or chat-
tels, Into new spheres of activity, into
& new locale, into places where some
of them have a chance for an even
break in the battle for subsistence.
At that time, I believed the idea, ad-
vanced to me by some of the Presi
dent's advisers, was largely a dream
But It has gone past that stage and is
about to become a realty. ’
Harry Hopkins, who started out to
be administrator of the government's
Job of extending relief to the destitute
and who since has become one of the
President's right-hand men, 1s now se
riously planning a rehabilitation move.
ment of the very kind that, as [ sald,
wis only a six months ago.
Hundreds of thousands of
nilles are Involved. Their future is
dream
individual
or the whim, whichever
you choose
ers of
It is experin
ental. a
those who are worl
claim It
With
but
the plan be car
Hopi
can
sucecssfil Mr
ECCT
of the
fourors
Ezekiel, also
of
and also one
ale K. Parrot
of the Ir
of the Civil
and
terior d irtment,
Works
weir pla will
another mu
id Jaeoh Baker
TT be
th
mii.
Summarized the program contem.
thon
and
indus
sical transfer of
upon thousands of men
areas or from farming commu
areas where the people
living Instead of being they now
on roles of charitable or govern
This trans.
planting seems to have two purposes:
First, It will provide those people who
are moved with tter living econdl
as
relieve the crowded cond
“We have large numbers of families
ging that It seems entirely improb
commodated In Industry, or particu.
“They
been
Hopkins,
industries that have
ters to some extent, In copper areas
and In farming country that is no long
“As to submarginal lands, in con
government cannot go in and simply
lands and have those
families move on and go places. They
So that
pation. This plan gets into the gov.
We
are going to try, therefore, to take
steps in the Interest of
those needy people Involved and in
the Interests of a national economy
at the same time™
. "0
Thus the picture 1s unfolded of a
ultimate, means the
Remake herding of the popn-
Iation into the vari
Social Map ous sections of the
country or cities as the planners in
Washington deem wise. It is a pro
gram that is designed to remake the
social map of the nation. Those who
sponsor It go Into ecstacy In discuss.
ing the beauties of the dream and the
ideals which are sought to obtain.
They depict for the transferred popu.
lace one permanent Joy of living, or as
nearly such as may be expected on
earth, and In listening to their expo
sition of the plans, one will feel the
sincerity of their beliefs without half
trying. They believe It is as near
utopian In its possibilitios as a gov.
ernment may prodoce for ita people,
“But what will those people do when
they have heen taken somewhere? Mr
Hopkins was asked.
“They may do two or three things”
he replied promptly. “They may work
part of the time In national forests,
for example. Large numbers of men
are required for rehabilitation and re
planning of our national forests, The
Clvillan Conservation corps eannot be
gin to get all of the work done
“I think it is time for the govern
ment to explore this situation and
make plans aside from just giving re
Hef. If the government is going to
spend such large sums of money, a
substantial portion of it should be
#pent In constructive enterprises ilke
this”
And with a fund of $£25.000000 to
start, we launch on another plan for
changing our national life. Mr. Hop-
kins described the £25.000,000 as “Just
a starter,” and explained that many
more millions ean and will be used if
the ideas prove practicable. He thinks
they will,
» - ®
ut among those hardened eritics
that watch Washington day after day
and who do not have
Fear It’s Too to shape thelr ideas
idealistic along political lines,
among those who
try to be unblased, there is a hope
that the scheme can be earried
and a fear that it is too idealistic for
use among people with the traditions
of those of the United States. In oth-
er words, it Is a guess whether the
plan will be practicable.
One hardened observer took me se-
verely to task for even assuming that
it was possible to the plan
without wasting many times as much
money as it could be any
you care to set I called
attention that there were undoubtedly
out
execute
worth by
guage up.
some families that would welcome an
opportunity to get on a plece of farm
land, made available to them by the
government, for which they could pay
as they were able. 1 thought they would
learn a new Joy In life itself and be
me Independent, rightthinking cit!
families is right”
“Bat for those ‘some’
nake use of the change.
he
11 drift back
twenty times
to thelr
g at the first og
» »
t has been unusually in ting to
ch the reverberations rege.
here to the speech mad
Kan, by Ogden LL. Mills
of the treasury under Pres
* recently
Topeka,
Becretlary
ident Hoover. Strange and paradoxi-
cal as It may seem, the Mi
of fire
ils speech
into
some Democrats in the administration
in support of the Roosevelt New Deal
and put fire Into others to cause them
eriticize It.
Ogden MUR has been derided and
ridiculed as few men have suffered in
political life. He was born an aris
tocrat and the politicians opposed to
iim have made use of that, But Og-
den Mlils is a fighter, and his Topeka
speech showed that he had lost none
of his fortitude
It will be remembered that Mr. Mills
charged Mr. Roosevelt with “an un-
constitutional effort” to grasp power
over the country and the
President of destroying the rights and
liberties of the people under the Con-
stitution. I have seen much less se
rious charges huried at a President
to be followed by a young riot by his
supporters. There have been some
attacks on Mr, Millis thus far, but ob-
servers here thought they did not car
ry the old-time ring of a real battle.
Of course, It Is known generally that a
goodly number of the President's own
io
asocused
his plans but they have been afrald
to bark too loudly because of the elee
tions next autumn. Those Individuals
lately have been a little more brave
and, when I was around the senate
end house of representatives the other
day, 1 heard more mutterings than
usual
» - *
1 asked some of the avid Roosevelt
supporters what it meant. Their an-
swers
identical: “They are
not real Democrats.”
But | asked several
Getting
Timorous
as “not real Democrats™ what the sig
nificance was of the changed
tude. Their answers were down one
groove: “We are just getting afraid
of the way this man Roosevelt is lead:
ing us”
i
i
i
cepted here as being the opening gun
Democratic party. That being
tration of strength In opposition to the
Roosevelt policies, or many of them.
Is it not possible, then, Mr. Mills may
have started the actual! formation of
a new Republican party?
As Mr. Mills set his Ideas, It Is
made to appear that he and those who
follow him will foster the philosophy
of wide-open competition among all,
with as little government domination
as is possible; that it will be thelr
contention that bureaucratic control
shall be avoided In every direction and
that the powers of the Chief Execu
tive of the nation shall he limited to
those properly delegated by the Con
stitution to him,
© hy Western Newspaper Unlen,
TIME FOR STUDY,
SAYS EDUCATOR
———
The proverb that “one hour's sleep
before midnight is worth two houry’
afterward,” usually is ridiculed by
physicians,
Most of them maintain that while
eight hours’ sleep is necessary at
some time during the twenty-four, it
makes little difference when it Is ob-
tained.
A recent German investigation
tends, however, to cast doubt on this
medical opinion and to confirm the
ancient proverb, says Dr. BE FE.
Free, In his Week's {New
York):
“Dr. Theodor Stockmann, prinei-
al of a school In Duisburg, noticed
that one of his pupils was falling be.
hind in school work, and w
Ing more and more lazy an
“Inquiring into this yo
sleep habits, Doctor
found that he was studying
night and sleeping late in the
Ing. Change of this habl
the pupil slept before midn
woke very early in the
study caused ren
ent In school work an
Doctor Stockman:
game idea on seventeer
averaging about ninet
All turned out to be
and to do better scl
they habit
hours’ sleep be
up at {
morning to do th
“Two pupils whe
the day also found
ter health and more
their studies when
immediately {
their school work bets
and dawn, His
suggest, Doctor
to the
that less the
be © ugh, ¥
provi
Apple Holds Lead in
the Kingdom of
Belence
ark
three
af TEiy
aiter » yey
Ger
ded all
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dollars worth 1
Doctors have always recognized the
value of the laxative whose dose can
be measured, and whose action can
be thus regulated to suit individual
need.
The public, too, is fast returning
to the use of liquid laxatives. People
have learned that a properly pre-
pared liquid laxative brings a perfect
movement without any discomfort
at the time, or after.
The dose of a liquid laxative can
be varied to suit the needs of the
individual. The action can thus be
regulated. It forms no habit; you
need not take a “double dose” a dav
or two later. Nor will a mild liquid
laxative irritate the kidneys,
The wrong cathartic may often do
more harm A good. n
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a
Preucziption, and is perfectly safe
ts laxative action is based on senns
~a natural laxative. The bowels will
not become Sependont on this form
of help. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
is at all druggists. Member N. R. A.
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