By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
OUR thousand farmers, gathered
from all parts of the country, in-
vaded Washington and told President
Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace that
they were enthusias-
tic believers in the ef.
ficiency of the AAA
program and support
ers of the amendments
which the administra-
tion asks congress to
make in the
tural adjustment
Mr. Roosevelt
dressed, from
south portico of the
White House, what he
called a “surprise
party,” and prefaced his remarks with
the statement that “a great many of
the high and mighty” have been de
liberately trying to mislead many peo
ple by “lying about the kind of a farm
program under which this nation is
operating.” He went on to deny em-
phatically that the government
“wastefully destroyed food In
form.”
Next day many of the visiting farm-
ers were in the senate gallery
heard Senator Daniel 0.
agricul
net.
ad
the
Sen. Hastings
any
of
critics
The
dent for characterizing
AAA program as liars,
said:
President urged his audience to
free to criticize,’ He Invites criticism
and then shows that he ‘can’t take
it.' We who have criticized the
ete,
and
what
‘chiselers,’
‘liars,’
Just
‘whiners,’
we are
understands
tors,’
now
body
called every-
from a man who holds the high
“But I want to say that if
greatest of
months ever
developed the
within the last six
in any country.”
Senator Hastings then
resolution calling upon the
of agriculture to submit all corre-
spondence between the department and
the visiting farmers, together with any
instructions sent out to county agents
with a view of producing the “spon.
taneous” visitation. Mr, Hastings also
demanded to know how the delegates
were selected and what financial as
sistance “directly or Indirectly” was
extended to them by the agricultural
officials.
Over in the house Representative
Fish of New York started a lively de
bate on the same tople, and he was
even more outspoken than Mr. Hast.
ings, saying:
“Confused and confounded by the
marked swing away from the unsound
and Soclalistic New Deal policies, the
President lost his head--and that is
the mildest term that can be applied
—when he called his critics liars.”
There were plenty of defenders of
the President and Secretary Wallace
in both chambers.
crop
Y ADOPTING the resolution of
Senator Bennett C, Clark of Mis
NRA life only untill April 1, 1926, and
considerably curtailed
its powers. The ex-
pressed wishes of the
President and NRA
Chairman Donald
Richberg for a two
year extension with
enlarged powers were
ignored. The changes
called for In the Clark
resolution provide for
prohibiting Inclusion
of business firms en.
gaged wholly in Intra
state commerce under NRA codes or
regulations; banning price fixing ex-
cept In mineral resource Industries,
and directing the President to revise
all codes within thirty days to con-
form to the provisions of the resoly-
tion. Majority leaders In the house
were prepared to fight for the two
year extension, but admitted the Clark
resolution was likely to prevail there
also. In'that case, in the opinion of
many observers, the NRA will be
practically dead.
While the senate was debating the
matter, Mr. Richberg told a mass
meeting of NRA workers that the
Clark ressiution was “complete folly.”
This aroused the Missourian to wrath.
He called it “the most brazen exhibi-
tion of Impudence on the part of a
bureaucratic official which has fallen
under my observation during my life.
time,” and next day, In a set speech,
he told his fellow senators at length
Just what he thought of Mr. Richberg
and “his ambition to be a Mussolini In
the United States.”
An organization called the Industry
and business committee for NRA ex
tension was called into action, as
were the farmers for AAA, and Its
head, Ward Cheney, silk manufac.
turer, announced that a meeting of dele.
gations of Industries would be held in
Washington May 22,
Senator Clark
§ ERATOR HUEY LONG'S resolution
for an investigation of Postmaster
General Farley was rejected by a vote
of 62 to 20, the “Kingfish” belng the
only Democrat recorded In favor of it
The senate then passed the Norris
amendments to the Tennessee Valley
Authority act, Increasing the TVA's
its electric power activities from court
interference,
Next on the senate program was the
Wagner labor relations board bill
which its author declared was “respon
sive to the ominous industrial distur
bances of last summer when blood ran
freely in the streets and martial law
was in the offing.”
After several amendments
limit the power the
designed
to measure
tion of Labor had been rejected, the
blll was shoved through by a vote of
G3 to 12,
administra
divisions
wns estab
URAL elecirification
tion, one of the new
the works relief program,
lished by President hoosevelt in an
executive order, and
Morris LL. Cooke, a
Philadelphia engineer,
was appointed to
its chief,
£75.000
for
expenses, and
tions are to be
later for
individual projects
The executive order
described the duties
M. L. Cooke and functions of
new unit as “to initiate, formulate,
administer and supervise a program
of approved projects with respect to
the generation, transmission and
tribution of electrical energy in rural
areas.”
The order permits th
acquire by or by the
of eminent domain any real
property or any Interest therein
improve, develop, grant, sell,
was allotted
alloca
administrator
to
pow er
purchase
erty.
of Illinols was appointed
district attorney for (
and immediately confirmed by the sen.
ate—and thus Senator James Hamil
ton Lewis scored one on Secretary of
the Interior Ickes, who had hoped for
the naming of a man of his own choos
ing so as to strengthen his position in
Chicago politics, Mr, Igoe temporarily
lost his standing In the Democratic
party when he sought the [llinols
gubernatorial nomination which wen?
to Judge Horder; but through the good
offices of Senator Lewis he was re
stored and was elected congressman.
at-large last fall
1
States hiecago
n
Y A vote of about 2 to 1 the stri
ing workers In the Toledo Chev.
rolet plant decided to accept a come
promise offer that had been fixed up
by federal labor committeemen, A. F.
of L. leaders, company officials and
federal mediators. It was expected
that this would result in the return to
work of 35,000 men In Toledo and oth
er motor car manufacturing centers
The strike In Toledo was engineered
by the local union and really was not
in accord with A. F. of L. plans.
ENNIS CHAVEZ, who contended
that he really defeated Bronson
M. Cutting in the electior of a United
States senator from New Mexico last
year, now has Mr
Cutting’s seat in the
senate, Following the
senator's death in an
airplane crash, Mr.
Chaver was appointed
by Gov. Clyde Tingley
to fill the vacancy. He
will bold office until
the next general elec
tion in November,
1938, when a succes
sor will be elected,
and it is likely Mr.
Chavez will again be chosen,
The new senator, whe is the head
of the Democratic party In New Mex-
ico, was born In that state 47 years
ago. While serving ds a senate clerk
be attended Georgetown university
lav school and after returning to Al
buquerque to practice law he was
elected to the state legislature, [n 1930
he was elected New Mexico's one rep
resentative in the national house and
was re-elecird in 1932. He resigned In
1934 to oppose Cutting In the sena-
torial rasp and was defeated by about
1,000 voles.
a
Dennis Chavez
pages LAVAL, French foreign
minister, held important conversa.
thong in Moscow with Dictator Stalin
and other high Soviet officials, and the
resulz, according to a joint commu.
sigue, Is that France and Russia will
unite In an effort to bring Germany
and Poland into a general pact of non:
aggression to insure peace In eastern
Europe. Both governments will open
diplomatic negotiations to this end.
The communique declared that nel
ther country will allow its “means of
national defense to weaken In the
slightest degree,” although preserva.
tion of the peace Is a primary duty of
both countries,
VERYONE who knew anything
about the matter knew long ago
at the “Protocols of the Elders of
Zion" were a fraud, and now a Swiss
court has declared them “false and
obvious plagiarism” and fined two
Swiss Nazis for circulating them. The
court sald it was definitely established
that the protocols were copled or pla-
glarized from Maurice Joly's “Dialogues
in Hell,” which appeared in 1864 and
was a vile attack on the despotism of
Napoleon IIL. The object of the suit,
brought by Jewish leaders in Switzer.
land, was to vindleate world Jewry by
proving the falsity of the protocols
which professional anti-Semites every-
where had been using to excite hostil-
ity against Jews,
ADMIRAL RICHARD EVE-
BYRD and members of his
Polar expedition came sailing
last on thelr ship Bear of
Oakland and were glv-
en the warmest kind
of a welcome In Wash.
ington by President
Ronsevelt, Secretary of
the Navy Swanson,
other officials and a
host of thelr relations
and personal friends
The admiral and Mrs,
Byrd spent a night in
the White House.
Then he was joined by
his mother, Ars. Elea-
iyrd, and his four chil
EAR
LYN
South
Admiral Byrd
nor Bolling
Winchester, Va. The
pert, supply ship of the expedition, de-
parted from the Washington navy yard
the admiral planning to
Admiral Byrd has plenty of work
in the Antarctic, a book to be written
uncertain,
JC THIOPIA'S government renewed its
~“ demand that arbitrators be named
to settle the disputes between that
country and Italy, as provided in a
troops are sent to the Ethiopian bor.
mo
bilize his warriors
Foreign residents of
they were ignorant
by Ethiopia,
been no troops
Addis Ababa
of any war
and that
or muni
travel. This contradicted a story In
great quantities of munitions had been
shipped into Ethiopia and were being
troops, near the borders of Italian
Somaliland and Eritrea,
Premier Mussolini, in a speech in the
Italian senate, warned all other na.
tions not to interfere in the Italo-Ethi
opian quarrel, dfclaring that no nation
but Italy “can be the judge In this
most delicate matter.” He denled that
Great Britain and France had taken
diplomatic steps to avert the threat.
ened conflict and sald those nations
need not fear that Italy would be weak:
ened In Europe by the sending of thou
sands of troops to” Africa.
“We shall maintain under arms for
all the time necessary.” he declared,
“the three classes 1911, 1913 and
1614, Moreover, another class, that of
1912, is in reserve and ready.”
of
the Pacific, but was relaxed
for the announcement
of two unfortunate
occurrences. While de
stroyers were leading
inrger vessels through
an “enemy™ network
of submarines the
Lea smashed Into the
Sicard, tearing a big
hole in her side. Rich
ard Chadwick, second
class gunner's mate
on the Sicard, was fi
kifled and three other Commander
men were slightly in E. W. Tod.
Jured, official records stated.
Lieut. Mathias B. Wyatt of Ban
Diego, a graduate of the naval acad-
emy, was piloting one of eighteen
fighting planes which took off from
the aircraft carrier Saratoga 200
miles east of Honolulu to ward ff an
attack of “enemy” submarine. His
plane was caught in the slipstream
from another and fell into water three
miles deep. No trace of him or his
ship was found.
In connection with the maneuvers
the greatest Interest was in the mass
flight of forty-three planes from the
Pearl Harbor naval base westward,
presumably to Midway islands. They
were under the command of Comman-
der BE. W, Tod, U. 8 N., and for the
time being all that the public was per.
mitted to know was that they reached
thelr secret destination safely and
were “executing thelr missions”
enough
(IOMELICATIONS in the already pre.
carious Europeun situation were
expected to result from the death of
Marshal Josef Plisidek! the virtual
a great shock to the Poles for the seri.
ous nature of his affliction had been
concealed from the publie,
The government announced It would
continue to function as though Plisud
ski were alive, The authority of the
dictator, It sald, has passed to his life
long friends, President Ignace Mos
cickl, Premier Slawek, Foreign Minis
ter Beck and Gen. Edward Ryds
Smighly,
|
SEEN«HEARD
around the
National Capital
SSS By CARTER FIELD SSS
Washington.~—~Now {t can be told—
who started the depression and why!
It was Australia, many months be-
fore our stock market crash, and the
why Is that a change In fashions
played hob with Australia’s exports of
wool, for the simple reason that wom-
en stopped wearing so many woollen
garments and men began wearing
lighter clothes,
Whereupon, nearly every one In
Australia being “poor,” and the
ance of trade against Australia reach
clamped on drastic restrictions agalnst
fmports,
tomobiles and trucks,
especially leveled against au-
|
sible for a rallroad to figure whether
it makes the profit on any particular
shipment. It knows where it stands,
within reason, on Its entire business.
But it is very difficult to break the
thing down the way mathematiclans
would like. For it is not a question of
subtracting the cost of an item from
the selling price, deducting handling
charges, and figuring the profit, as it
would be In a retail store,
How it Works
In fact, railroading is almost at the
other extreme from a retail store when
it comes to figuring what should be
charged the customers. To consider
a specific case of how this long and
short haul thing works, take the three
Pittsburgh, Youngstown and
The saltimore and Ohlo
consider it business to
Chicago.
good
then Australia had been the
gingle purchaser of
automobiles and trucks, knocked
the first card of a distressingly
pile, and each successive falling
knocked over the next one,
over
trains
Pass
though Its
to Pittsburgh
Youngstown,
Youngstown,
Chicago
If by this lower rate to Pittsburgh a
large number of cars loaded with
intended to convince anyone that Aus
tralia really started the
or that the present impasse on world
trade not resulted if
there had been no
highly illuminating telescople view of
fhe world situation reduced to an
easily understandable formula,
would have
moment in view of the hubbub up over
the of
Roosevelt that foreign trade is a thing
of the past, to which Senator A. H
Vandenberg paid
in the senate,
It Is also
and Poland just having
ports of American
chinery and
one-fourth of
alleged statement
$0 much
appropriate with Italy
restricted im.
automobiles, ma.
other products to
1634 figures,
Look at the Record
Without attempting
tralia the
Ae $id
x» Jet's look
many
the
*
to pls Aus-
dock, there
The big
made
of
Ace
in prisoner's
nt the record
commonweaith “do under™
advance
here,
these restricti
the beginning ression
The date f this begin: £ In
£ AS 8 resu
But when
American
3
lanche sta
opped busing
sjcks the ava
ried, though no one
for the time that
pebble rolling For the dry-
ing facturing, with
its cutting down of buying from
plants, tire factories, battery makers,
upholstery
der way by July,
before
What
eration
is that important
sons, some Europe and
from other parts of the world, includ.
ing Australia. have been In our midst
for the last few days and have been
trying figure how to end the
present International trade stalemate.
Nearly every one agrees that If
WHE nore
up of motor mam
weavers, otc, was well un.
1420
market dive
this up for consid
the stock
brings all
in
several
fron
arom
very per
sOIne
to out
For
haul a
train
train of BO
Even the
fuel cost of the trip is not raised any-
thing like proportionately by the ad
Whereas, the labor cost
amount
it costs very little more to
of 80 cars. Or to haul a
advanced worth
considering.
But
gance of
an
not take cognl-
It says that the
And
has been holding that this
law does
this factor.
the
must be compensatory.
the 1. C. C
there must he a profit, which
rate,
rail
can be demonstrated, at the low
rdle
which the
been able to take,
as the Intermediate towns
send
rs of comm
Especially
Is raise « delegations
and
to
some.
from thelr char Oe,
down on 1 ir
into the
Ag Yo
the case ¢
bear congressmen
picture and do
igstown probably would
ergot
BEL
But there | trong disposition on
to do
ion
allroads, comp
part of the administrat
something
cated by the fact tl
to figure ou at
desire
it is very diffi
cult to da. It is
and
nakes bus
regulations probable.
New Trade Treaties
Trade
Netherland
Ar
Yoo ke a tT
Peek report
5 » fly
I President pa
detnil respect to
treat Rwy it
der naics
| of the Hull policy.
his general appr
Whereas, when
asked for comment
men a few days before
for
Presi
the Peek report—in their hands
release laster-—wa inted, the
i led it off, saving that not even
author could ich for
3
the all the
figures
American match Interests have been
terribly
treaty.
this Swedish
chief
concerned over
Again Japan, the tar.
True, It
sion that Japanese matches, like Jap-
tht are as good as
those made this country, but cut
for goods,
many a time, as every merchant knows
figures, is the general impres-
bulbs, not
in
trouble better
ward push,
started the downward drive, the world
eould werk out the present dol
drums. But how to get started? Nat.
trally the visitors with one accord
say that the United States Is the na-
tion to start it. The British say that
we should reduce our tariff on tex.
tiles, wheneupon they wonld buy more
of our cotton, ete. That gets a loud
laugh, though with no mirth, In New
England, not to mention North Caro
lina. But it illustrates the difficulty
of applying a self starter!
Old Problem Up Again
The old long and short haul rall
road rate controversy is due for an-
other airing. This tim. the subject
will be brought up In an effort to help
the struggling railroads. Chalrman
Rayburn, of the house interstate and
foreign commerce committee, proposes
to try to remove one of the restric.
tions In the present law which has
irked the railroads considerably.
Th's is the provision that if a
through rate Is made, which happens
to be less than the rate for part of
the same distance, the cheaper through
rate must be compensatory, Or In
short that the railroad must make a
profit at the lower rate,
At first blush It would seem that
the railroads would have no objection
to such a provision. But they have
plenty, Their chief objection is that
the Interstate Commerce commission,
| worrying about this Injunction, has
| been very slow about approving any
| cheap through rates. It was sald, time
and again, to some railroad seeking to
put one in, that obviously there could
be no profit in such a rate, so there
| was no use considering It,
Whereas, the railroad company In.
| volved might be perfectly sure that
there would be more dollars In its
treasury at the end of any given peri.
od If It were allowed to make that
rate, whether It could prove that the
particular rate would yield a profit on
the particular shipments made under
it or not.
The poirt is that it Is next to impos
of
Now Japan would like nothing bet.
ter than for the United States and
for the
reciprocal trade treaty, to agree to re
duce the American doty on matches
“most favored nation”
matches at once
get just as much benefit as
Swedish matches,
America is the promised land of
match manufacturers all over the
world. It Is virtually the only country
where matches are not either a gov.
ernment monopoly or taxed out of all
reason. It is often said that matches
are free In America. Due to the ad
vertising possibilities of the packages,
this has almost been true, though ail
the indications are that this era may
be drawing to a close, beginning with
a small federal tax on matches in the
last revenue bill,
Match Market Limited
80 rich in revenue is the match In
most foreign countries that there is a
tax on lighters. In fact it is sometimes
sald that the only public lighter in all
France is the one in the lobby of the
chamber of deputies!
Obviously the match market of the
world Is very sharply limited by these
arette market Is restricted by gov-
ernments anxious for a big revenue.
Experts say that American cigarette
in the world out of business If arti
ficial barriers were removed. But also
that the Swedes and the Japs, the first
good as American matches) and the
second on price, would capture the
match market If artifielal barriers
were eliminated,
Sweden Is hanging up a bit of tempt.
Ing balt to American negotiators, how.
ever, She promises that she will re.
doce duties and restrictions, which
would result in the Swedes consuming
vastly larger quantities of American
fruit and ether farm products, Now
the agricultural vote that would be in.
terested In this new market is very
large. Whereas the vote interested In
match production Is rather small
All of which Indicates that the conces.
sions Sweden wants will be made,
Copyright- WNU Service,
Dental Hygien?
8B
The Road to Health
By DR. R. ALLEN GRIFFITH
HOLLYWOOD'S TEETH
HE first essential to success in the
films is a get
Crooked, protruding, irregular teeth
may be assets to a few low
but to the 27,000 “straight” players of
perfect of teeth,
comedians
the silver screen such a set of teeth
would loom
to a professional
the
enunciation
recent
by the
Electric
improved
as 32 distinct obstacles
Career.
Since advent of
means everything,
months, experiments
Westinghouse
companies
microphone
have brought the subjec
to the
crophones not only rec
center of the stage }
ord every little
fault, lisp, slur or hesitation
magnify them,
perfect
teeth,
but they
one can have
perfect
and
no
enunciation without
Because perfect teeth have now be-
come an economic necessity to the
the largest producing
film companies,
unit in
completion a
af prominent
The
Hollywood has ushed to
complete dental
position on
organization reports
now obligatory for
undergo a rigid der
treatment before
range
ficiency
of either car
experts
ture “overhead”
per hour, it was che
permanent
nish
staff of dentists
them with all
over
the express
THOSE VITAMINES
WE HEAR 1 lot these
’ the vitamines A, B,
They are advertised
nd in our periodicals
tell us that the day is coming when a
ors ia inn 3
containing the
days, about
D and G.
the radio
Our scientists
over
perfectly balanced diet,
proper vitamines In the proper amounts
will conquer all disease.
Beginning with the pregnant mother,
a balanced diet will produce a perfect
child. This child, properly fed
these same vitamipes, will have per
fect teeth that will never decay or de-
velop prorrhea, and the child will
never contract any disease. This is a
much to be desired condition and
might be practical provided this in-
dividual could always be kept happy
and free from care. :
The constitution of these United
States guarantees the pursuit of hap-
piness to every Individual, but how
many of us ever attain it constantly
and permanently? That grief, worry,
fear, excitement and overwork have a
profound effect upon the human mind
and body, there can be no doubt.
These disturbances are superficial
and, therefore, plainly noticeable.
Other organs hidden deeply in the
body are also Included in the complex
of emotional agitation. Conditions fa-
vorable to digestion are wholly aboi-
ished when unpleasant feelings, such
ps worry and anxiety are allowed to
prevail. As these conditions affect the
salivary and gastric secretions they
are of vital concern in the study of
tooth decay.
Sometimes people who have been
free from decayed teeth for a long
on
later, suddenly present badly decayed
under a summer's sun. In these cases
we Invariably find that they are pass-
ing through a period of overwork, deep
anxiety or added responsibility. Find.
ings have been similar in cases of
pupils in high schools and colleges as
well as their teachers,
In the case of young children in the
same family, or In institutions where
the same diet is fed to all, some chil
dren will have decayed teeth and others
none. Almost Invariably it will be
found that the child with decayed teeth
is one that is easily disturbed and the
child with perfect teeth has a happy.
go-ducky disposition.
We must, therefore, conclude that
oappiness and freedom from worry and
responsibility must accompany our bal.
anced diet if we are to receive its full
benefit. However, this Is no argu
ment against our ideal vitamine diet
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