ECOVERING from the terror and
dismay caused by Hitler's “purg-
ing” of the Nazl party at a cost of
some fifty lives, the people of Ger
many now realize
-_— 3 that a serious eco-
pomlie crisis for their
country is at hand.
: 4 The essence of the
IG Sg, Naz! new deal is that
1 to make money Is no
credit to the individ
ual, but that to work
is a great honor. In-
centive in the form of
profit is vanishing;
: jobs, many of them
Kurt Schmitt created, have been
spread out thinly ; employers are urged
to run thelr plants at their own ex-
pense, to take on more men and to
increase wages under the theory that
it is a privilege thus to serve the state,
Observers believe the Nazl govern.
ment is now trying to retreat from
virtual Communism, which its leaders
profess to hate, toward relative
nomic liberalism. The appointment of
Dr. Kurt Schmitt, minister eco-
nomics, to the position of economie
dictator Is taken as evidence of this
trend. Schmitt has been given blanket
powers that will extend to October 1,
and in that time he has the authority
to promulgate any reasonable laws
that he thinks will help trade and
commerce. He also has the right to
impose fines on those who do not obey
his dictates.
Chancellor Hitler sought to restore
quiet in the reich by ordering a polit.
ical truce and a call for peace, and
he then left Berlin for a vacation in
the Bavarian Alps.
There is current among friends of
the slain Nazl “traitors™ an explana-
tion to the effect that those men were
truly the supporters of Hitler and
only preparing and arming se-
eco
of
were
lected troops to back him up in an at-
tack on the reactionaries. The spon
sors for this account blame General
Goering for misleading Hitler and en-
gineering the executions
One of the chancellor's firmest
friends, Rudolph Hess, minister with-
out portfolio, broke out with a speech
in which appealed to France to
help Germany avert another war, ad-
dressing himself to the veterans. Then
he delivered a stern warning to France
—and the world-—not to try to invade
the reich. “Just you dare to attack
us! Just you dare to march into Ger-
many I
European diplomats were consider.
ably disturbed by Hess" utterances,
looking on them as the strongest prov-
ocation hurled at France in years
The Nazi charge that the executed
Storm Troop leaders had been con-
spiring with France already had made
the French angry, and Andre Fran
cois-Poncet, French ambassador to
Berlin, protested vigorously against it,
he
IS position greatly strengthened
by events in Germany, Chancellor
Engelbert Dolifuss of Austria reorgan-
ized his cabinet and declared unre
lenting warfare on
the Nazis in his coun
try. He got rid of
three ministers
were not working well
with him and himself
took the portfolios of
publie safety, defense,
foreign affairs and ag-
riculture. Maj), Emil
Fey was supplanted
as vice chancellor by
Prince Von Starhem-
berg and was given
the job of repressing
all anti-government political activities,
Probably to register his disapproval
of Hitler's methods, especially as they
affect Catholics, Dollfuss recalled Ste
phen Tauschnitz, minister to Ger.
many, and made him undersecretary
of foreign affairs,
The opponents of Deolifuss have
been resorting freely to the throwing
of bombs, especially in Vienna, and
the chancellor In his official com.
munique sald his patience was ended
and that all political opposition to him
must cease, The immediate reply to
this was the throwing of a lot more
bombs,
who
Chancellor
Dollfuss
OUIS BARTHOU, French foreign
minister, went over to London to
ask a lot of things of the British gov.
ernment, but wise observers did not
believe he would get much satisfac.
tion. The chief thing he wanted was
assursnce that Great Britain line up
with France again In case of a war
with Germany. Reports that Barthou
would propose such an alliance reached
London ahead of the minister and
aroused loud opposition in parliament
and the press. There were indications
that the cabinet was very cool toward
the suggestion.
R. SVEN HEDIN, famous Swedish
explorer, has been captured for
the second time by Gen. Ma Chung
and his “army” of bandits in eastern
Turkestan, Taken with Hedin were a
dozen or so of his companions, The
eaptives were reported to have been
imprisoned In an inaccessible eamp in
the neighborhood of Aksu, and officials
of the Chinese government sald that
their rescue would be exceedingly dif
cult. Hedin was engaged In laying
out a new trade route across China,
following the anclent silk caravan
route, Last March General Ma cap-
tured him and held him for three
weeks. /
‘ A SSISTANT PRESIDENT" is what
they now call Donald Richberg,
because he is at the head of a kind
of super-cabinet which holds power
during the absence
of President Roose.
velt, The counsel for
the NRA has his
work cut out for him,
and has gone at it
with a will The
chief part of his task
fs acting as director
of an Industrial emer
gency committee
which has been given
sweeping supervisory
and coordinating
powers over the ma-
jor agencies of the New Deal,
What Is going to happen to the NRA
is an absorbing question to many of
our best minds. General Johnson has
recommended the creation of an en
tirely new body to take its place and
to perform the functions of the fed-
eral trade commission In preventing
monopoly. In this he recognizes as
just of the complaints uttered
by Senator Borah. The plan was sub-
mitted to Mr. Roosevelt before
went to sea, and Is belng studied by
Richberg and others,
The administrator, meanwhile, Is
undertaking to complete the regimen-
tation of industry. He issued an or
der directing all industries still un
codified either to sign specific codes
to a new “basic code’
governing wages and hours. A time
limit of 30 days was set, and three of
the general's aides were named to su-
pervise this operation,
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois, In his capacity of chairman
of the Democratic senatorial cam
Donald
Richberg
gome
he
.
or to submit
the New Deal fosters monopoly
by asserting that the administration
intends to prosecute the monopolists,
“At the demand of large business,
stimulated by the national
of commerce” sald
the trust act to allow all
suspended
to ‘save expense’ and provide ‘larger
development.’ Result: Instead of
keeping faith with the government,
certain manufacturing and financial
establishments, conscious that the
trust law was suspended, promptly
violated the codes of the NRA by
joining with each other to fix the
price of gverything—even as against
the government itself.
“This administration has just been
able to discover the responsible par-
ties to this conspiracy. It has not had
time to take steps to punish it. It
will proceed at once both
and obstruct further Injustice™
In another statement Senator Lewis
indicated the President is willing to
modify the NRA and perhaps some
other New Deal policies,
“What the President wishes, in ad-
dition to the reorganization Intrusted
to Mr. Richberg and his associates, is
that there shall be gathered from the
public, wherever whatever
objections exist as to legislation late
ly passed” Senator Lewis declared.
“He desires particularly to know
where business feels that the legisia-
tion is inappropriate to its welfare or
where some change in the legisiation
would best serve the general uses of
legitimate business in the promotion
of general prosperity In all branches
of commerce and industry.”
possible,
EING ambassador to Cuba is no
gnap. The authorities of the is
land republic have just uncovered an
extensive plot to assassinate Ambas-
gsador Jefferson Caf- c
fery with bombs,
many of which were
found. Something
like seventy-five for.
mer army officers were
arrested and It was
sald documentary
proof of the plot was
seized. The officials
also fo und large
stores of guns and
munitions In ware : =
houses. Jefferson
Jose Pedraza, chiet ~~ Caffery
of the Havana police, sald the former
officers were alded by one faction of
the ABC political society, which re
cently withdrew its support from the
Mendieta government, and planned a
revolt in Havana, striking at police
stations and army barracks simul
taneously in a night attack after cut
ting electric lights off over the city.
There were persistent reports in
Havana that President Mendieta would
resign Ib favor of Col. Fulgencio Ba.
tista, head of the army,
HROUGH four counties of south.
ern Iilinols a tornado swept, and
Jacksonville was especially hard hit
Scores of persons were injured and
the property damage was estimated at
a million dollars. Hundreds of the
big old onks, elms and cottonwoods
that have been the glory of the eity for
many years, were destroyed. :
V HEAT production in the United
States this year will be the low-
est since 1800, according to the gov-
ernment report, For the second year
since 1800 the yleld will fall below
domestic consumption,
The government's
completely upset calculations of the
grain trade, Indicated the aggregate
of the country's five leading grain
crops will fall 450,000,000 bushels
short of last year's production and
1.588,000,000 bushels below the yearly
average for the period from 1027.81,
The government estimated the total
wheat crop at 484,000,000 bushels,
which is 16,000,000 bushels below the
forecast it made a month ago.
Even more sensational than the re.
port on wheat was the government
prediction of a corn crop of 2,113,000,
000 bushels. Private authorities had
predicted a crop of 2,584,000,000 bush-
els, and it was belleved that the gov-
ernment’s figure would show little
change. The corn crop has been
counted on to make up the known de-
ficlenclies In other feed crops. Last
year the corn crop totaled 2,830,000.
000 bushels and in the five years from
1927 to 1931 the country produced an
average of 2,516,000,000 bushels a year.
figures, which
HE world civil service commission
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in session at Evanston, Ill, voted to
participate In the campaign against
dirty moving pictures that originated
largely In the Leglon of Decency or
ganized within the Catholic church.
This campaign is having its effect
on the movie Industry and the makers
of film pictures have been deeply dis.
turbed, Joseph I, Breen of Will
Hays' office has been made virtual die-
tator ‘of pictures in so far as their de.
cency is concerned,
est concerns making movies have
agreed to “grant to exhibitors the right
picture released prior to July 15, 1084,
against which there is a genuine pro-
test on moral grounds” This is a big
modification the “block booking”
that prevalled, and at
it was sald
cost the producers around
ns of dollars,
of
system has
Hays’ office in Hollywood
that It
ten milli
will
T MAY be that Willlam P, McCrack-
Jr. will not have to serve the
ten days In Jal! to which the senate
sentenced him, The District of Colum.
bia Court of Appeals, by a 3 to 2 vote,
decided the senate had not the juris.
diction to inflict such punishment.
The case will be carried up to the So.
preme Court,
McCracken was tried by the senate
for contempt because he refused to
give the alrmall committee coples of
correspondence with his clients. He
cinimed that as a lawyer he could not
without per
en
produce the
from his clients,
documents
HOUSANDS
PWA
of applicants for
funds are sure to be disap-
to Secretary Ickes,
that administra-
allocated or
nearly all
tion's money has been
earmarked President Roosevelt re
iy turned over to PWA about
$400,000,000 of the maximum of $500.
000,000 which congress authorized him
to allocate for public works
Ickes sald the other £100.0060.000
might be handed over to the PWA
later, but that “we are proceeding on
the theory that we will have $400,000.
000 to spend” In addition to the orig-
inal 23.300,000000 appropriation dis-
posed of long ago
says
cently
pon the first time In history a news
paper office has been picketed by
editorial workers, This was done by
leaders of the American and New York
newspaper guilds to the Long Island
Press, published in Jamaica, 1. 1. The
Press says it “operates all its mechan
ical departments on a union basis and
exceeds the requirements of the NRA
in every department.” But Heywood
Broun and his colleagues aver it op-
poses the organization of editorial
workers and has violated the collec-
Therefore they are asking
government prosecute the Press.
OMMUNIST agitators who fostered
a farm strike in New Jersey didn’t
get far. The government conciliator
stepped In and, finding most of the
trouble was due to the efforts of the
men to go back to work on terms that
did not differ from those formerly
prevailing. The Communists are
playing a big part in at least ten of
the major strikes now in effect.
ITH its eyes on the coming con
gressional campaign, the G, 0, P,
elephant is sitting up and taking no-
tice. In other words, the Republican
party Is showing signs of a distant
revivification, Its national leaders
are busy these days, The party's
eightieth birthday was celebrated at
Jackson, Mich, with many speeches
and assurances of future victories,
Nationa! Chairman Fletcher being in
the van of the assurers. Mr. Fletcher
then went to Chicago, where many of
the most important men in the party
met with him In closed conferences,
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made
brief but pleasant visits to Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands, inspect
ing government projects and talking
reassuringly to the Inhabitants. Then
the crulser Houston headed for Carta-
gena, Colombia, for a short stop before
going to the Canal Zone.
At Colon practically the entire
population was out to see Mr, Roose
velt, and he was cheered Wi She way
ret)
4.
National Topics Interpreted
Tie a
wesmsisinte
RS
=
Washington. —Instead of July prov.
ing to be a month of doldrums, which
. is so often the cases
Campaign in the National Cap-
Issues Drawn ital, it has turned
out to be one of the
busiest, politically, In recent years
A result of it is that, fully six weeks
earlier than usually, the campaign is-
sues for the fall elections are drawn
| squarely on President Rogsevelt and
| the New Deal, With the initial blasts
| already In the record, it is quite ap-
| parent that the campaign will be pred-
| lcated on the claim of the Republicans
| that the New Deal has not been what
it was cracked up to be, and a defense
{ by the Democratic spokesmen that we
are all better off because of it
But there is a third element to be
| considered In the coming campaign,
| It Is the personality, influened and ora-
| tory of Senator Borah of I1daho. His
i sudden decision to do battle as a “lone
{ wolf” has Injected an issue in Itself,
| and my Information is that the Idaho
| senator's participation in the campaign
| 18 not to be minimized. He has a great
| following; he is an orator than which
| the country has produced few who are
| greater, and he has a finality about
his decisions and methods of express
{ing them that is pretty hard to beat
down.
President Roosevelt put his case he
{ fore the people before he went on his
i vacation In his usually simple and di
rect style. No one deprecates his abil
ity to do that, and 1 think, generally
speaking, Washington are
agreed that his proudest was |
made when he spoke to his millions of |
radio Hsteners late in June. 1 have |
heard much praise for the President
#5 a it of his direct qu
those million “Are
than you were a year ago?
could *understand It, every
could analyze his fon
himself, Of course, many of the Roose.
yeit opposition are criticizing
speech for “saying nothing” and for |
other reasons, I believe
observers are agreed that Mr
i velit the fall campaign of his
party in a very clever manner from a
political standpoint,
the Chairman |
Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican
national com
blast, there seems to be little 4
ment that he has
{ bold stand. If the Republic
get anywhere, It Is obvi
must through Mr.
When he went a;
vice of some of his mid
observers
effort
estion to
vou hetter off
Every one
and one
own condit for
the
yet unbiased |
Roose |
opened
tespecting effort of
it
mittee, In his op
wi
taken a
be
ership,
i IVINETS
therefore, and made the President and
his New Deal policies the he
displayed kind f
regarded around Washington as bel
a little unusual for a minority
chief. I am told that a good many
publicans wanted to peck away
various items of the New Deal and at
various subordinates of the adminis
tration to gain favor, Mr. Fletcher ap
parently chose to fly straight into the
fight, marking Mr, ns
adversary and bolding him personally
and directly
shortcomings can be
result of a year" and a
precedented, breath-taking activity
the New Dealers,
Mr.
engy to execute. For example, 8
Barkley of Kentucky,
keynote speaker at
which accorded Mr, Roosevelt
Democratic nomination, already has
been on the sir waves with an an-
gered answer, The Kentucky senator
did not pull his punches, either,
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issue,
courage of a that
par
Roosevelt the
responsible for whatever
Al A
half of un.
unearthed
Fletcher's program will
who was
the conver
tion
the
| How the Roosevelt forces will com.
| bat Senator Borah's argument is not
yet apparent. They
Borah’s have two difficult
problems in connec
Blast tion with the Borah
attacks. In the first case, the Idaho
to a certain extent when, in his ini
tial blast, he turned one barrel on the
Democrats and the other on the Re
publicans. He did not mince words
and the Democrats cannot say with
respect to Senator Borah that he spoke
in generalities. So in fighting back at
him, the Democrats are confronted,
first, with his disclaimer that he is
fighting a Republican battle and, sec
ondly, that he avolded direct charges.
Nothing could be more direct than the
charge that the New Dealers have
built up a bureauracy In Washington
that destroys Initiative and eats up
taxes,
The Republicans can get away with.
out paying any particular attention to
the Borah bombardment. Whatever
criticism he levels at the Roosevelt
forces naturally redounds to Repub
lican benefit, and when Senator Borah
says the Republicans are not fighting
off monopoly, their natural answer Is
that they are not In control of the
government machinery which has done
away with anti-trust laws In favor of
the codes and blue eagle.
1 understand that there Is a possi
bility of Senator Nye of North Da.
kota joining with Senator Borah, Sen.
ator Nye, although a Republican, sup-
ported the Roosevelt candidacy. It
was the North Dakotan who conducted
the fight against General Johngon and
the recovery administration in con.
gress last winter because of what
Senator Nye felt was discrimination
against the “little fellow” and in favor
of big business. He made so much
nolgt about the situation that the Pres.
ident eventually named the NRA
board of review of which Clarence
Darrow of Chicago was chalrman, If
Senator Nye takes up the cudgel along
with Senator Borah, therefore, his at-
tacks and criticism obviously will be
directed at New Deal policies the way
they worked out in NRA, With the
Republican fire charging Mr. Roosevelt
with full responsibility, it becomes
plain that Senator Nye will be an-
other thorn in the administration's
side despite any statements he may
make that he merely wants to correct
some of the shortcomings.
Notwithstanding what the two “lone
wolf” senators have to what
Mr, Fletcher and front-line Republican
orators charge, the
are understood to be digging in behind
the President's question to his radio
audience,
Bay or
Roosevelt forces
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observers In Washing-
to opinion that
President Roosevelt
Too Much is beginning to
Duplication “shake down'' his
boards and
commissions and agencies to which he
entrusted particular
covery program. The chances are, say
these observers, Mr. Roosevelt
has seen too duplication and
overlapping of effort and is now en-
gaged, through trusted advisers, In eor-
relating efforts to
some of the numerous
agencies™ can he
The
entiy
A good many
ton are
inclined the
VArious
phases of the re-
that
mito
much
the
the end that
“alphabetica
retired
view
; Biv
of Donald Richi
of the soca
next
unced th
merited vi
the
”
lichberg would act as
President
et as the
ears for the Chief Executive
But
than
is aware that ther
there is more to the
The
1
ndercurre
situntior
ent
nt
bis ad-
a condit of course,
those statements Pres
of differences among some of
visers, and such
is not improved by
thority. It Is qu
that Mr. Ri
to the job of
where
knotted,
to be only
¥
De Buch
Over ping of an-
therefore,
assigned
evigent
hberg
Lins heen
skein
several
And, furt
natural
ture
rapidly.
If one
they stand, t
how rapidly thi
Mr. Roosevelt
1833, It would sppear
has come for the
CRE,
took office
il
that the
settling down proc-
In some quarters in Washington,
feeling has prevailed that Roose.
velt the Hawaiian cruise in
order administration affairs
their own ac
the
went on
to let
rather settle
cord.
down of
Although foreign trade
scattered through
experis are
the g
Exports
Slamp
farm oro
irm pr
American
slump, and only
est point In twenty ves The Depart-
ment of Agriculture public fig
ures the other day disclosing that ex-
ports of farm products in May aggre
gated exactly 00 per cent of the aver-
age from 1900 to 1014. Since those
years are regarded as normal and do
not include the peak years after the
end of the World war, May exports
this year obviously were not much
more than one-third of the record
years,
There 1s always a decline in exports
of farm products in the spring, but it
seems to have been a Jot worse this
year than usual, the total being con-
siderably below May of 18383 Cotton
apparently was the commodity for
which there was least demand, and
when cotton exports fall off the whole
average drops because our cotton ex.
ports cut a big figure in the total
shipments abroad. Department of Agri-
culture figures show that there were
only 200.000 bales of cotton exported
in May, whereas In May, 1083, the
shipments of this commodity amounted
recer low-
and Germany, the three principal buy.
ors of American cotton, each took less
in May this year than in the same
month of 1033,
These conditions have happened de
spite creation of the Import-Export
pank, of which George N. Peak Is
chairman, and the designation of
Francis B. Sayre, assistant secretary
of state, to give special attention to
promotion of foreign trade. These two
assignments are, of course, in addi
tion to the various agencies of the
Departments of Commerce and Agri
culture whose Job it is to encourage
foreign trade. Better than anything
else, perhaps, the condition Hlustrates
the truth of the old adage that you
can lead a horse to water but you
cannot make him drink, If there Is
no demand for our farm products
abroad, you cannot sell them, all of
the theories of professors notwith.
standing.
© by Western Newspaper Union,
Be dns.
-
“Pinch” Hay Crop
High Enough in Lime to
Grow Clover.
ew Y
College of Agriculture WHY Bervies
Soy beans or mixtures in which
tate
BOY
érs with
second best
Although soy beans give a
on sour soils, they
on soils high enough in lime
the common clovers well,
the
emergency hay
do best
6 Urow
0 Erow
better
planting, the Wilson war!
beans is recommended,
ings, the Bia
varieties may Al
pounds of seed to the acre
enough,
Sudan grass is best
When
pounds
pounds
mixtures,
about OO
and 15 to 20
to the acre is
If the
crop, when soy
ed, happens to be slight
be wise
with
beans alone or & m
bean
used,
advised
land chosen
beans
to use Japanese
soy beans rather
Xture
and sudan grass, The pro
the Japanese millet
for sudan grass,
For soy beans and so)
nations, fertilize with
pounds of superphospha
and
sed,
Bowing of oat
always
and sudan grass ma
tra pastur
be about the same as for ge
\ 1 anerars XI 2275 4
Sunflowers Recommende
to Dairymen for Si
Sunflowers may be grown by 1
farmers this
age
ns when bugs
Where ba
tically destroyed
farmers
may seed
land to sunflowers
seeded any time and
42 inche
ants 10 Inches apa
in rows
ie
3
stage is more
or for milk
from more
porition and
not affected
8 for Breeding Swine
feeding of so3
up-
¥ Are
oorn.
. because i}
as is also
SOON
beans
of the
hat time
inkage to
If the
sows are to be fattened after the pigs
tankage or some protein
mixture should be used
as a supplement.——Wallaces' Farmer.
they should be mi
the extent of about one-tl
are weaned,
concentrate
Watch the Lambs
Lambs that play and frolic are usu-
ally In good health but you need to
about those that have drooping
ears or lag behind the flock, says a
writer In the Missouri Farmer. If you
pick one up that seems very light you
have waited jong, that lamb is
out of condition. If you have owned
sheep any length of time just a glance
over the flock will tell you whether ail
js well, See them If you can once
every day, once a week look them dver
very closely. In that way you will
detect trouble before It has done you
serious damage. Sheep need watching
through the warm season,
oe
too
Around the Farm
Grasshoppers grow by changing
their skins.
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More than $R.000,000 worth of Amer
fcan apples were sold the world over
in 1033,
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Heat, drought and locusts recently
destroyed 1,500,000 acres of corn in
Argentina,
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The agricultural extension depart.
ment of North Carolina state college
is conducting a campaign for better
rural homes,
.
The gross farm income of the United
States In 1038 wag about $6.383,000,000,
or over a billion dollars higher than
in 1082,
La
The originator of the Magie hog, now
popularly called the Poland China, was
David W. Magie of Butler county,
Ohlo. By crossing four different
breeds, he produced the hog In 1840,