b
ENRY T. RAINEY, veteran con-
gressman from Illinois and speak-
er of the house, died unexpectedly in a
8t. Louis hospital where he was be-
lieved to be recover
ing from an attack of
bronchial pneumonia,
The immediate cause
of his death was an-
gina pectoris, Mr.
Rainey, who was with-
ina day of being seven-
ty-four years old, was
first elected to con-
gress in 1902, and he
served continuously
with the exception of
Henry T. one term, being de-
Rainey feated in the Harding
landslide of 1020. He was elected to
the speakership when John Nance
Garner became Vice President. His
control over the house during the ses-
sions of last year and this year, while
the President's program was being
put through, was gentle but so firm
that the legislators were kept well in
line.
Mr. Rainey devoted much of his
service in Washington to efforts to im-
prove the condition of the farmers,
for he held that farm prosperity was
essential In any program for national
well being. He also was a student of
tariff and fiscal subjects. As a Demo-
crat he was always a “regular.” He
was the author of the tariff commis-
sion law and of much other impor.
tant legislation.
Mrs. Rainey acted as her husband's
secretary for years and is so well ac-
quainted with congressional work that
the Democrats may select her as the
candidate to complete his term as rep-
resentative from the Twentieth [llinols
district.
Mr, Rainey was buried in his home
town, Carrollton, after services which
were attended by President Roosevelt
and many other notable persons
SG EARER RAINEY'S death will re-
sult in a spirited contest among a
number of men who are ambitious to
succeed him, First In the line of sue
cession, so to speak,
is Representative Jos
eph W, Byrns of Ten-
nessee, who has been
serving as majority
floor leader and who
Is head of the Demo-
cratic national con
gressional committee,
President Roosevelt is
going to take no part
in the race, but the
: more liberal of the
Joseph W. New Dealers are
Byrns known to favor Sam
Rayburn of Texas. Well Informed ob-
servers believe Byrns will be elected
speaker and Rayburn floor leader.
Other aspirants for the speakership
are John E. Rankin of Mississippl,
who has announced his candidacy;
William B. Bankhead of Alabama, and
John J. O'Connor of New York
Mr, Byrns has been a member of the
house continuously since his election
to the Sixty-first congress. His work
as floor leader, In conjunction with
Rainey's rule as speaker, was not es-
pecially pleasing to the New Dealers
for some-months during the last ses-
sion, but before adjournment most of
the misunderstandings were cleared
up. In any case, the administration
seldom interferes in the selection of
the leaders of congress, not wishing
to incur the enmity of powerful mem-
bers of the party.
i
R FTURNING from his swift trip to
attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey,
the President went directly back to
Washington instead of going to his
Hyde Park home. This change In plan
was due, it was sald, to the develop
ment of a bitter dispute between Gen.
Hugh 8. Johnson on one side and Don-
ald Richberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief in-
dustrial adviser, and Secretary of La-
bor Perkins on the other, over the new
structure to be given the NRA.
The issue, It was disclosed, is wheth-
er there shall be a board of control
in authoritative management of the
NRA or a board which shall be more
advisory In power, leaving the real
control still In the hands of the ad-
ministrator and his deputies. It was
expected Mr, Roosevelt would take
command of the situation and deter
mine definitely what shall be done
with the recovery administration.
RGANIZED labor scored a victory
over Recovery Administrator
Johnson when the national labor rela.
cision and warned Donovan that he
would have to “toe the mark.”
Soon after this the NRA announced
that it does not regard (Itself as
obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle in
cases where the national labor rela-
tions board has found companies gulity
of violation of section TA of the na-
tional industrial recovery act and of
subsequent fallure to obey the Instruc-
tions of the board.
The labor board has recommended
withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to the
NRA compliance board In all cases
where companies have disobeyed Its
Instructions to reinstate discharged
employees. The decision by the NRA
will remove teeth from decisions by
the board, since It may now hear
cases, make decisions, and find that
no penalties aré inflicted for disobey.
ing its orders.
(CorToN garment code amendments
reducing the working hours and
giving workers a wage Increase have
been signed by the President. The
amendments, which affect plants in 42
states, are of far-reaching Importance,
Sidney Hillman, labor advisory
board member and Amalgamated
Clothing union head, termed signing
of the order “the most far-reaching
move NRA has yet made to increase
employment.” It was hoped that this
order would avert the threatened
strike of the garment workers,
WO prominent Democrats, two Re
publicans almost equally prominent,
and one leading industrialist, all of
them of conservative tendencies, have
united to organize the
American Liberty
league dedicated to a
war on radicalism In
the United States
The five founders of
the league are: Al
fred E. Smith, Demo
cratic Presidential
candidate In 1028:
John W. Davis Dem
ocratic Presidential
candidate In 1024;
Nathan L. Miller, Re-
publican ex-governor
of New York: James W. Wadsworth,
Republican congressman from New
York, former senator and Presidential
possibility for 1086; Irenee Du Pont,
manufacturer, who supported Smith in
1028 and Roosevelt in 1032. They be.
lieve the league membership will
grow into the millions and that it will
become an important element in the
national life.
For president of the organization the
founders selected Jouett Shouse, for-
mer chalrman of the Democratic na-
tional committee and president of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment until repeal was accom
plished. In a statement Mr. Shouse
set forth the purposes of the league
as follows: .
“It is a nonpartisan organization,
formed, as stated In its charter, ‘to
defend and uphold the Constitution
of the United States and to gather
and disseminate Information that (1)
will teach the necessity of respect for
the rights of persons and property as
fundamental to every successful form
of government, and (2) will teach the
duty of government to encourage and
protect individual and group initiative
and enterprise, to foster the right to
work, earn, save, and acquire property,
and to preserve the ownership and
lawful use of property when ac
quired.”
To interviewers Mr. Shouse declared
the league was not anti-Roosevelt, but
it seemed clear that it will be opposed
to most of the major purposes of the
New Deal and the radical professors
of the brain trust. He sald he had
visited the President and informed him
fully of the purposes of the league,
but he would not tell what Mr. Roose
velt's reaction had been.
Jouett
Shouse
* THE nature of a reply to the for
mation of the American Liberty
league was a speech delivered in
Washington by Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C, Roper. He denied that the
“profit motive in American life has
been or is to be abolished” by the
New Deal, asserting that it seeks only
to abolish “certain profit abuses,” such
as profits on watered stocks and dis
proportionate salaries,
“Private enterprise,” sald Mr. Roper,
“Is getting back upon its own feet,
and more and more is exerting its in.
itiative and Is able to relieve the fed
eral government of
BI
HE strike of truck drivers in Min-
neapolis was ended when the men
and thelr employers accepted a com-
promise agreement, and martial law
In the city was discontinued, business
thereafter speeding back to normal
conditions, The peace plan, devised by
federal representatives, provided that
all employees on strike be returned to
their jobs without discrimination and
on basis of senlority. It Included an
agreement to hold an election within
ten days in each of the 166 firms In-
volved to determine whether thelr em-
ployees want the drivers’ union or
other representatives to act for them
in collective bargaining, and a pledge
of the 160 firms to pay for at least
one year not less than BO cents an
hour to drivers and 40 cents to help-
ers, platform men and inside workers,
ILLIAM GREEN, president of
the American Federation of La
bor, says he hopes the general strike
of textile Industry workers will be
averted: but he an-
nounces at the same
time that the federa.
tion
‘strike and will co
operate fully with the
officers and members
of the United Textile
Workers’ organization.
He appointed federa
tion committees to as
sist the textile work:
ers and announced
William Green that he would
ists from other unions to assist the
textile union,
George A. Sloan, president of the
Cotton Textile Institute and chairman
of the cotten textile code authority,
sald the threatened strike is not justi.
fied by the facts established by im-
partial government economists,
Challenging the wage Increase de
mand of the United Textile Workers
of America, Mr, Sloan declared that
“as a result of three basic wage pro-
visions In the code the hourly wages
pald in Mareh, 1034, show an increase
of 7 per cent as compared with March,
1633, when there was no code,
“All of this has meant a substantial
increase In manufacturing costs,” Mr.
Sloan sald, “and the research and pian.
ning division of the NRA found, after
a comprehensive investigation ‘last
June, that ‘under existing conditions
there Is no factual or statistical basis
for any general increase in cotton tex-
tile code wage rates.”
Mr. Sloan estimated the present
number of workers at work In some
460,000,
IEUT..COL. MARIO HERNANDEZ
organized a plot to overthrow the
government of President Mendieta of
Cuba and establish a military dictator.
ship, but the authorities got wind of
it and frustrated the conspiracy, In
which a considerable part of the army
was involved. Col. Fulgencis Bstista,
head of the army, said that Major
Benitez and some soldiers were sent
to arrest Hernandez and that eight
men of the detachment were killed.
Hernandez tried to shoot Benitez but
was himself shot in the head and neck.
The official report said Hernandez was
being rushed toward Havana in an
automobile and that the car upset, the
ers in the car were uninjured,
Ma). Angel Echevarria, commandant
of Fourth infantry at Camp Columbia,
signal corps, conspirators with Her.
summary court martial sentenced them
to death.
Four thousand troops in Pinar del
Rio are confined to barracks, under
arrest, and a thorough reorganization
of the entire high command of the
200 civilians have also been arrested
as parties to the conspiracy, charged
plotters.
IGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are
now under arrest in Manchukuo,
charged with plotting against Man.
chukuo and Japan and sabotaging
Japanese military trains. The Russian
government, through Acting Consul
General Rayvid at Harbin, has pre
sented to the foreign office of Man.
chukuo a demand for an explanation
of the arrests and insists on prompt
measures for the release of the
prisoners,
“The arrests were made without
documents, accompanied by searches
of the apartments and offices of Soviet
employees of the Chinese Eastern rail
way which have not been explained”
Rayvid sald,
The Japanese allege that some of
the prisoners confessed to an attack
on the Japanese military intelligence
office at Sulfenho (Pogranichnaya), to
sending Manchurian and Corean com-
munists into the territory, to wreck
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Washington. —Chester C., Davis, the
agricultural adjustment administrator,
in a conversation I
Drouth had with him the
Relief other day, uttered an
observation which
seems to be decidedly worthwhile and
one which, because of the assurance
be repeated
here. My conversation with Mr. Davis
had to do with questions concerning
drouth relief and I want to quote his
remarks because of the widespread de-
struction of the current period when
rainfall has been nil in so many com.
“It is as unsafe and unjust to measure
the true potentialities of this country,”
Mr. Davis sald, “by the extreme
drouth conditions of this year as it
was to measure them by the bumper
crop years which happened to coincide
with high prices so that everybody felt
sudden riches were in sight. The one
extreme Is just as deceptive as the
other.”
Mr, Davis outlined what the gov-
ernment was attempting to do since its
fend for themselves. He declared the
changes in policy that have been taken
represent a frank recognition of re-
sponsibilities by the present leadership
and it was his conviction that more
has been done in the face of similar
conditions than ever has been done
before to relieve human distress. He
added that it had been found difficult,
of course, to meet and solve many of
the problems and that there is not suf-
ficient prowess even in our national
government to counteract all of the
effects of such a calamity. The ad-
ministrator holds to the belief, how.
ever, that the steps taken by the ad.
ministration constitute the beginnings
of a national program from which ap-
parently it Is proposed eventually to
develop national policies for dealing
with all kinds of distress, Obviously,
Mr. Davis did not touch on these
phases because his job is to deal with
agricultural situations and he has not
gone beyond them.
Calling attention to the fact that the
ever undertaken in this or any other
country, Mr, Davis summarized the
Joint activity of the several govern
ment agencies in the following lan.
guage: The purchase of surplus cat-
tie, with the processing of meat for
relief distribution; encouragement of
production of forage crops: co-ordina-
tion of seed purchase; human employ-
ment relief; purchase of adapted feed
grain; forestation and other measures
to conserve moisture, prevent wind
erosion and minimize the effects of fu-
ture drouth, and In addition such crop
benefit payments as have been made
and which now turn out to be In his
opinion crop insurance,
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Mr. Davis is optimistic concerning
the future of the American farmer,
« + .s (espite the hardships
Optimistic of the current drouth,
as to Future He suggested, how.
ever, that it was sec
essary to face the facts of the current
to resort to the
language of the street, the admin-
istrator thinks the country must not
allow the current problems to knock
it down,
“If the doubts and fears lately ex.
pressed had been heeded” Mr Davis
added, “the great plains never would
have teen settled. The troubles of to-
day are but repetition on a less fear
ful scale of the obstacles encountered
by the early settlers, But instead of
turning back In the face of hardships,
those pioneers established thelr homes
and did not let drouth, flood, hail, or
Indians stop them,
“Instead, the pioneers and thelr
sons searched the world for drouth.
resistant wheat and grains which
would mature in season. They bred up
the drouth-resistant forage crops and
planted them. They built a civilization
on an expanse of the map which once
was labeled the Great American des
ert. The drouths we have lived through
in the past did not conquer the spirit
nor stop the development of the West.
The drouth of 1034 will not stop the
men of the West In thelr forward
march to conquer nature.”
The thing about the remarks which
Mr. Davis uttered that appealed to me
and to numerous other Washington ob
servers was the candor with which he
treated the problems, He made no ate
tempt In this conversation nor has he
done so in several speeches he has
made lately to use language that was
hysterical. For an example of what 1
mean, dispatches coming from Presi.
dent Roosevelt's train on his homeward
trip across the northern half of this
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It now seems certain that when the
congress returns to Washington next
. January it will be
Will Ask called upon immedi.
More Funds #tely by the admin.
istration to vote
more funds for relief of the drouth vie
to which the administration will seek
to go In this direction cannot be fore
told. It is evident that having seen the
circumstances first hand, Mr. Roose-
whatever proposal he makes.
Observers here, however, foresee
some dangers as a result of the pres
ent desperate conditions, They know
that Mr, Roosevelt will, as he has fre
quently stated, go the limit with fed.
eral funds, but the danger foreseen by
astute observers here is that some of
the members of the house and senate
will attempt to go beyond all reason in
winter,
ords show, that on every occasion
when the federal treasury doors are
opened senators or representatives will
come forward with scores of plans un.
thelr hands on government money for
their constituents. It is fair to say
that some of these will be sincere, It
is equally fair to say that as In the
past, some of them will have been
misguided. The conversations
dicate that those charged with gov-
ernment responsibility must be on thelr
guard If vast sums are not to be
victims of
relief to needy nature's
pranks this year,
Some of the brain trusters already
have developed far flung plans for the
physical transfer of thousands of farm
tricts into other areas where they can
get started again, While generally
speaking I believe sentiment in the
government favors doing anything
that will afford relief next winter, a
in the administration
the. scheme of transposition of whole
families and their belongings presents
grave problems,
Without attempting to discuss the
merit or demerit of the scheme, it
seems to me that attention ought to be
called to the fact that human beings
Just can't agree to such programs,
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There was a cartoon in one of the
eastern metropolitan
other day
picted Uncle Sam
begging a small boy
labeled “Prices” to
grow up so that he could reach his
height of 1026. Beside it was another
caricature which showed Uncle Sam
Price
Situation
ing and announcing that if be, the
pricea of food, grows too much, “1 will
crack down" I refer to this cartoon
because most Washington observers
see the price situation in this country
called that throughout last year and
early In 1034 the administration pred.
fcated all of its actions on a desire
to raise prices. Now, however, the ef.
cities and President
nounced his fear that profiteering In
food prices is likely to result and made
known that the administration has
definite plans to curb any undue rise
in prices. Thus far it has not been
made clear what is considered an un.
due price rise under present condi
tions but the President stated with
emphasis in a press conference that
he would not permit profiteering to
take place in the coming fall and win-
ter because, he Indicated, he thought
the price increases would be unjusti.
fled,
The President and Secretary Wal
Ince, of the Department of Agriculture,
are working hand in hand in the de-
velopment of machinery which they
intend to use to protect consumers
from profiteering. Mr. Roosevelt as
serted he had plenty of power with
which to do this job. Mr. Wallace,
speaking later, said the first check that
would be placed on an undue rise in
prices would be closer supervision of
the grain markets, Any Indications of
fils
More Alfalfa Seed
Produced in Ohio
Home Grown Germ Adapted
to the Farms Nearby,
Say Agronomists.
Prepared by the Devartment of Agronomy,
Ohio Btate University ~WNU Service
Increased interest in salfalfa. seed
| production is reported from western
{ Ohlo, The department of agronomy
| at the Ohlo state university is receiv.
ing numerous Inquiries sbout methods
of harvesting and handling alfalfa
seed,
| Alfalfa seed production began in
commercial quantities in western Ohio
| about 1930, Since then, yields of one-
{ half to six bushels have been obtained.
| Average yields approach two to three
| bushels,
{| Thin stands, together with abundant
sunshine and little rainfall during
| blooming periods, seem to favor seed
| production, Variegated varieties have
proved in Ohlo to be surer seed pro-
ducers than the common alfalfas
Higher ylelds and better quality of
| seed result when the second, rather
than the third growth, is left for seed.
| Agronomists say that three-fourths of
the seed pods should be brownish black
at harvest time. If a mower with a
| buncher attachment is used when the
| plants are tough, less seed is shattered,
they say. This sort of harvesting
| equipment Is recommended above other
devices,
The seed crop cures rapidly if left in
small bunches. Storage in the barn
or a well-covered stack, or threshing
with a clover huller or well-adjusted
grain separator should be prompt, be
cause seed is readily injured by rain.
The better adapted the variety orig-
inally used, the older the meadow, and
the more seed generations grown, the
greater the adaptation of this seed will
be to farms in the same section, agron-
omists declare.
Hogs Often Become Ill
From Eating Stale Feed
Sometimes hogs are sick because of
poisofiing rather than some ac-
cording to veterinarians in the United
States Departmen* of Agriculture.
Hogs may be poisoned by sp
frosted alfalfa, excessive amount of
cottonseed meal, poisonous plants, and
garbage containing lye, soap powders,
and other irritating substances,
times hogs are poisoned by esting too
much salt and through
drinking meat brine, of which they are
very fond.
Carelessness in the handling of dis-
infectants, such as carbolic acid, bich-
| loride of wercury, and cresol compound
{ in hog lots may poison hogs. Salt poi-
soning creates an intense thirst, intes-
tinal disturbances, and sometimes par-
alysis. Symptoms of are
similar in character, such as restless.
ness, Joss of appetite, vomiting, fre
quent urination, weakness, unsteady
| gait, Increased respiration, and some
times convulsions,
Medical treatment is of little value,
except where the exact cause is known
and the lliness detected early. Emet.
| ies, followed by purgatives, give good
results. The sick hogs should have ac
cess to plenty of clean drinking water
and should not be fed heavily for a
few days following the poisoning.
disease
Some-
frequently
poisoning
The Reddest Tomatoes
| The reddest tomatoes are not the
| ones that grow where the sun is hot-
test. On the contrary, scientists of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, and several state experiment sta-
tions, who made a careful compara-
| tive study of tomato varieties in con-
nection with the identification of the
principal commercial varieties, found
that the ideal red color of a variety
| does not always develop to the same
extent in different regions. Under a’
normally high temperatures or when
the fruits are exposed to the direct
rays of the sun without shade from
leaves the characteristic rich red may
not develop. Varieties that are of a
rich brilliant scarlet in the central and
| northern regions of the country tend
toward a grenadine color under the
higher temperatures of the South and
Southwest,
:
Slat or Trenczh Silo
The farmer who wants a cheap silo
for storing his fodder, corn or other
roughage this year may take his choice
of two kinds, both very inexpensive
and easy to make, and quite satisfac-
tory when correctly used, One is the
trench silo; the other is the cornerid
or snow fence type. Directions for
locating, building and filling both kinds
of temporary silos are available from
county agents. Trench silos are bet.
tear adapted to clay soils than to other
types of soils. They must be located
#80 that surface water will drain away.
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