By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
HAT row over the administration
of the Virgio~islands was 80 un-
pleasant that President Roosevelt felt
impelled to settle it himself, So he
a removed from office
the two chief battlers,
Gov. Paul M, Pearson
and Judge T. Webber
Wilson, had other jobs
found for them, and
nominated as Pear-
son's successor Law-
rence W. Cramer, who
was serving as lleu-
tenant governor of St.
‘ i Croix island. Confir-
“ mation of this appoint-
L. W. Cramer ment was not imme-
diate. The senate committee investi.
gating the islands affairs was slow in
making up its mind about Cramer, and
from St. Thomas came the news that
the foes of the Pearson administration
there, together with a delegation from
St. Crolx, were protesting vigorously
against the President's selection of a
new governor.
The Emancipator, opposition paper,
sald editorially:
“The Islandérs would about as soon
have Pearson, for under Cramer no
change of policy can be expected. Poor
and unknown as the humble people of
the Virgin islands may be, they are en-
titled to an example of honor and cour-
age from the President of the Amer
ican Republic.”
The disposal of Pearson and Wilson
also aroused criticism In Washington,
The former had been attacked stead-
ily by Pat Harrison of Mississippl and
other Democratic senators, but Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes had defended
him warmly, so he was given a job un-
der Ickes, being made assistant direc-
tor of housing in the PWA at $8000 a
year, a place not previously filled.
Wilson,
federal parole board.
Cummings requested and obtained the
resignation of Dr. Amy A. Stannard,
a psychiatrist who has been in the gov-
ernment service 12 years with a civil
service status and had been a member
of the parole board since 1030, Wilson
was sworn In as her successor. Since
Wilson's qualifications for the place ap
peared to be chiefly political, observ-
ers in Washington noted sadly that the
parole board was getting back into po-
litical hands.
V HAT was in the cigar
wrapped In a newspaper? That
is what Senator Hugo Black, chalrman
of the senate lobby committee, want-
ed to know. Before
the committee for
questioning was John
W. Carpenter of Dall
as, president of the
Texas Power and
Light company. He ad-
mitted freely that he
and other utility men
had hotel conferences,
dinners and a trip
down Chesapeake bay
with congressmen dur. Sg
the fight over the Senator Black
Wheeler-Rayburn bill, and that he
himself had centered his efforts on
Texas congressmen, But of the mys
terious box he could or would tell
nothing. Black probed and probed, and
finally asked:
“Do you still say that in the morn.
ing (of the day before the vote on the
utilities bill ‘death sentence’) you
didn't give a congressman a box
wrapped up in a newspaper?”
Carpenter replied quietly: “I don't
think I did, unless it was a few ci-
gars.”
Senate and house conferees met to
consider the utility control bill, but
there were small signs that they could
get together, and one session ended
abruptly In a real row. Two admin
istration Jobbyists, Benjamin Cohen
and Dozier A. De Vane, were brought
into the executive session by Senators
Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep
resentative George Huddleston pro.
tested, their continued presence was
insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery
Alabama congressman and his fellows
from the house walked out and broke
up the meeting, Cohen Is generally
given credit for writing the measure.
After leaving the committee room,
Huddleston sald flatly that the house
conferees woud not recede from the
position that the “death sentence”
must be eliminated,
PPONENTS of the AAA amend
ments designed to strengthen the
powers of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace decided to let the basic act
go up to the Supreme court, so the ad-
ministration bill was passed by the
senate with only 15 adverse votes.
Both Republican and conservative
Democratic foes of the AAA are con.
fident that the Supreme court will hold
the basic act unconstitutional and an
early test is assured by a senate
amendment permitting sults to recover
processing taxes that have not been
passed on to producers or consumers.
One of the major purposes of the
amendments wis to close the courts,
but the senate rejected this scheme by
a vote of 41 to 28. Ad a result, the
Hoosack Mills case, In which the Bos
box
ton Circuit Courts of Appeals held the
AAA unconstitutional, will not be
thrown out and the highest tribumal
will have a chance to pass upon it
Amid so much adverse criticism,
action of the Midwest farm
gathered In Chicago must have
soothing to Mr, Wallace. Resolutions
were passed pralsing the secretary
and congressional leaders for thelr ef-
forts in behalf of “agricultural equal-
ity.”
The farm leaders urged senate ap-
proval for the commodity exchange
bill, passed by the house, and asked
re-establishment of the Pacific North-
west Wheat Export corporation under
the AAA to prevent wheat surpluses
in that area from competing with Mid.
west wheat and other grains.
The meeting voiced opposition to
the plas for transportation eco-ordi-
nation, suggesting farmers would profit
more by competition among carriers.
the
ERMANENT federal control of the
liquor business is provided for in a
bill which was passed by the house and
sent to the senate with prospects of
early adoption by that body, The meas-
ure, which creates within the treasury
a new agency to be known as the fed-
eral alcohol administration, was asked
by the President to replace the FACA
killed by the Supreme court's NRA de-
cision, Mr. Roosevelt wanted the new
agency to be an Independent office, but
the house decided otherwise.
MMEDIATE convocation of the
League of Nations councll to deal
with the Italo-Ethlopian question was
demanded by Halle Selassie, emperor
of Ethiopia. On his
behalf the demand
was telegraphed to
the league secretariat
at Geneva by Tacia
Hawariat, Ethiopian
minister France
and delegate to the
league, He insisted
that the council pro-
ceed to the examina-
E tion of the situation
; under article XV of
Emperor Haile the league covenant,
Selassie Ethiopia invoking this
article because of the “threat to her
independence from Italy.”
British dispatches sald Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin and leading mem-
bers of his cabinet were believed to
favor full league action, if other na-
tions agreed, as a last resort to avert
the threatened conflict. Diplomatic
quarters In London heard that the
British government probably would al
ter its policy and permit the export
of arms to Ethiopia. The emperor's
new minister there, W, C. Martin,
a conference at the foreign office
came out smiling happily but saying
nothing.
to
that Ethiopia was short not only of
arms but also of money.
“At the moment we have very little
money,” he said. “I am doing all that
is possible to ralse loans In London,
but thus far 1 have not met with a
great measure of success.”
PARTIAL investigation of the milk
industry by the federal trade com-
mission was sald to have revealed de
plorable conditions and the adminis
tration asked for $200,000 to continue
the Inquiry. The senate committee In
considering the deficiency appropria-
tion bill cut out that item altogether,
but when the measure came before the
senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an
amendment adding the sum asked. Aft.
er a hot debate this was approved by a
vote of 51 to 18 and the bill was then
passed. The numerous senate amend:
ments had added a total of more than
$80,000,000 to the house measure, 80
the $306,000,000 blll was sent to con-
ference,
Jf ARMERS in the Middle West, ready
to harvest their crops, found they
couldn't get hands to do the work.
The idle men ordinarily counted on
for this were on the relief rolls and
declined offers of farm labor for two
reasons: The wages pald by the farm-
ers were less than the sums received
from the relief organization or for
government works, and if the men once
went off the dole they feared they
would have trouble getting back there
when the harvest was over. The sit.
nation was desperate and emergency
relief commissions were urged to take
action. This they did In the states af-
fected and It was announced the “re-
volt" was under control
The Illinois commission stopped all
relief works in the rural areas until
after harvest. In Kansas persons re-
fusing any temporary employment were
removed from the relief rolls, In Ne
braska 26 counties were cut off from
federal relief allotments and in 15 oth.
ers the allotments were cut in half,
In nearly a score of Jowa counties
officials denied rellef and able-bodied
o accept employment in the harvest
da.
In North Dakota all but specialized
projects were halted and the state ad-
ministrator announced that as soon as
the harvest was over the new works
progress administration would ke
care of unemployables,
HESTER OC. DAVIS, AAA adminis-
|
“Dandy way to make money:
this 138 acred for hog raising,
HOO hogs. It will pay you $1,000, That
will pay for the acres and have some
left.”
“It's preposterous!”
Davis. “It's at least preliminary
fraud. It's deliberate misrepresenta-
tion und not in any way possible. I
shall begin an Investigation at once.”
ETERMINATION of the
put an end to “political Catholl-
cism” In Germany and their consequent
drive against Catholic youth organiza-
tions may bring on
results more serious
even than has the
Nazi anti-semitism,
General Goering, head
of the secret police,
gave out a warning to
Catholic priests to be
careful in thelr com-
ments from the pulpit,
and Franz Guertner,
minister of justice, is-
sued a decree threat.
ening prosecution for
any priest violating
Goering's Injunction. Throughout the
country generally the Catholic clergy
was cautious, but in Freiburg, Baden,
where the Goering order had not been
published before Sunday, the priests
read In their pulpits a letter from the
episcopate calling the Nazl action a
violation of the concordat with the
Vatican. To this charge. the Nazis re
ply that the Catholics were the first
to violate the concordat by making at-
tacks on the Hitler youth movement
in thelr parish papers.
This new “purge” by the Nazis in-
cludes a renewed crusade against the
Jews and dissolution of the Steel Hel.
mets, veterans’ organization, in vari
ous provinces. The Jews are helpless
and, If Julius Streicher has his way,
will be all driven out of Berlin or se-
gregated in ghettos But the Steel Hels
mets, whose chief is Minister of Labor
Franz Seldte, are likely to cause the
Hitler government a lot of trouble,
The organization's weekly paper is us.
ing language that is not often heard
in Germany these days, and Seldte is
demanding the reason for suppression
of the local divisions.
exploded Mr,
to
Nazis to
Franz
Guertner
N AYOR LA GUARDIA of New York
iv has created an international in.
cident all by himself. He backed up
License Commissioner Paul Bows in his
refusal to license one “Mr. * to work
in the metropolis as 8 massage oper
ator because he is a German, The
German diplomatic officials were pre
paring to complain to the State de
partment that the city was violating
the German-American commercial
treaty of 1025. But Mr. la Guardia
declared the treaty is null and void
“because Germany has discriminated
against American citizens of Jewish
origin”
He Indicated that not even the State
department can force him to back
do wi.
“I'his order shall be carried out un-
as we are directed to do
courts,” he said.
The German question also threatened
to come up in the senate, ator
til such time
for Sen
the
warranted in
“severing diplomatic relations” with
Germany.
HAT wholly unsAmerican proce
dure, the general strike, was tried
out by organized labor In Indiana and
the 67,000 inhabitants of Terre Haute
were deprived of all food supplies
The local authorities of Vigo county
called on the governor for help and
Mr. McNutt promptly ordered 14 com-
panies of the National Guard to the
scene, Brig. Gen. Wray De Pres, in
command, promised the merchants who
had been bullied into shutting thelr
shops would be given protection, and
sald his first endeavor would be to
restore the milk and ice services This
had been cut off even from hospitals,
The general strike was called by 48
unions without warning, because labor
leaders had been unable to reach an
agreement with the Columbian En.
ameling and Stamping company. Some
600 of that concern's employees went
on strike in March and the plant was
closed down, but the union leaders
thought it was about to be reopened
by strikebreakers
Conciliators from the Department of
Labor arrived and within 48 hours the
general strike collapsed and was called
off by the union officials in charge. The
strike at the stamping company, how
ever, continued in effect and several
times the troops were forced to use
tear gas bombs to disperse rlotous
mobs,
Terre Hnute merchants estimated
that the two days’ strike cost them at
least half a million dollars. The state
spent probably $50,000 in maintaining
order by use of the troops. The state
federation of labor asserted the sym |
pathy walkout was unauthorized.
rorrNG all thelr rebelilous Ine
house did everything the administra.
tion wished In considering the social
security bill as altered by the senate,
The conferees had settled all dif
ferences after two weeks of hard work,
‘but one of the amendments they ace
cepted was that permitting private
pension systems to function under the
measure. The majority members of
the house were Informed that Presi
dent Roosevelt was opposed to this, so |
they refused to accept it. The senate |
would not permit the elimination of
the aundumunt, 80 back Yo eontarenes
went the bill,
National Topics Interpreted
National Press Bullding
Washington.—President Roosevelt
knows and those close to him realize
that sometimes some-
A Laugh thing
Not Enough :
K1i1 O31
8
More
That
why Presis
i rumo Fr.
is one of the ret the
dent 1s planning it and when congres
adjourns to make an extende i tou
this country. He knows of
going about the land that his
is not up to par and he
method of disclosing to the
people by action rather than word the
answer that he 1s physically fit.
Whoever occupies the White House
is continually subjected to whispered
rumors ns well as open assertions of
one kind or another, Some, a8 In this
instance, reflect on the health of the
chief executive, Others, as happened
within the last quarter of a century,
reflected on the personal habits and
practices of the President, Still others
have related in times past to personal
fortunes and financial dealings of the
man in the White House. Usually these
“whispering campaigns” are of a de
rogatory character. No one ever knows
exactly how they start nor is it ever
possible for observers to put a finger
on the rumors as they float by, It is
a condition that seems to be bred by
prominence of the individual about
whom the rumor mongers can operate
because people are always interested
in what a President of the United
States is doling.
In the current instance the “whis-
pering campaign” was jargely unknown
to Washington until summer resort
residents began returning to the city.
They brought back all sorts of stories
that were being circulated in distant
places concerning Mr. Hoosevell's
health, The gossip, for that is what
it appears to be, spread like wildfire
in Washington and became of so much
concern that it crept into one of the
White House press conferences,
“Mr. President,” 20 corre.
gpondents prese
a littie bad hea
The chief executl
laug
people,
cruise aboard a yacht
bay. His was sun-tanned. He
leaned back in his chair and demanded
to know what the correspondents
thought about it. 1 think that the
pews dispatches from Washington that
is ta this
king
one of the
a in
nt asked, “are
ve's ALNAWEr wi
He was just back from a sho
face
correspondents thought about the state
of the President's health, for surely
none of these dispatches indicated any
particular alarm,
» ® *»
Nevertheless, the rumors continued
to go and a good many thot
pie app arently be-
Let People See jjocved that
ygand He
to periodleal visits to his home at
Hyde Park, N. Y., and, apparently, all
that he needs to add to his mileage
this summer Is period
To Reduce
Deficit
t too early
plans are
men are {hem
but
tents which may be exar
effort to determine which »
ernment Is hehded In respect of the
gigantle expenditures for puhlic works,
relief, and al government costs,
While congressional committees con-
tinue to examine tax questions with a
view to enactment of legislation
will increase federal revenue, the Pres-
ident and his advisers have taken steps
to cut down the drain on the treasury.
The first and probably the most im-
portant of these moves is the
nouncement that on November 1
eral ald to those peo} i ble to work
will cease ef Adminis-
trator Hopkins after a con-
ference with Pre gident that the
relief policy will be changed on No-
vember 1 and that the various states,
counties, and municipalities will be
expected after that date to look after
that segment lation known
as the unempl T} hese are peo-
ple who for reason or another
cannot earn thelr own r by work,
Previously Mr. Re d direct-
ed his fiscal ake a thor.
ough study of relief requirements for
the fiscal July 1,
While th t
the President
spongents
and por
3
the
ay the gov-
there are certain signs
g §
pined in
gener
that
an-
fed-
ie una
tely. Re
announced
the
of the pom
oyables,
one
WOReve
advisers to mas
18386,
fore
f the
impr OL 5
vement
will be recalied that the }
sources board bad recomt
tensive Improvements to be carried out
from public works funds in the hands
of the public works administrator,
These involve vast sums. Now, it is
made to appear that the PWA and the
administration have in mind some
hat cha
188 Char-
pended
n expenditure
ken under the strain
of hls New Deal presidency. So,
fore the summer is over millio
Americans probably will
his smile; that his hair is no more
gray than when he took office in 1083,
and that his countenance shows no ear.
marks of the strain which every Presi.
dent of the United States finds an in-
herent part of that job.
One trip upon which Mr. Roosevelt
has set his heart Is a tour to the Pa-
cific coast and return, It will provide
an opportunity for several millions of
Americans to see him and a lesser
number to hear him speak. It will
carry him through territory which con.
tains probably about half of the na-
tion's population,
It is well recognized in Washington
that no amount of denials by Informed
persons or any amount of second-hand
testimony Is sufficient to squelch ma-
liclous stories of the kind that have
been circulated about the President,
The eye witness is the only one who
is prepared to discredit such stories
and, unless present plans are revised,
the eye witnesses will be many this
summer. The President probably will
make other trips during the late fall
and early winter as well. Plans for
these are still in the making and their
length and number depends somewhat
upon the date of congressional adjourn.
ment,
The program fits well into the Roose
velit methods. In the 28 months of his
tenure the President has done a cons
giderable amount of travel. Ie has
made three cruises on the yacht owned
by Vincent Astor, two of which lasted
more than two weeks each. He trav.
eled to the east const of Canada In
June, 1083, aboard the craft, Amber.
Jack, and returned two weeks later
aboard a navy ship. Last year, it will
be remembered, he visited Haiti, Puer.
| to Rico, the Virgin islands, Colombia,
the Pasama canal, Clipperton island,
and Hawail. On his return from that
cruise he crossed the Northwest, mak.
In 1088 and In 1034 he visited Warm
Springs, Georgia, the colony where
victims of [nfantile paralysis are
nursed back to health and with which
the President, because of his own af-
fliction, has had much personal con.
nection, In returning from the 1004
visit to Warm Springs, Mr. Roosevelt
stopped ut Muscle Stouin, Noerle gam
and Birmingham for personal visits to
points and things which interested him,
All of these trips have been in addition
orks
utgo for direct re-
iy =» be reflected in the
remainder of the public works-relief
fund and it Is reported that other plans
are in the making which wiil have as
their prospective end a restoration to
private employment of greater numbers
of idle workers than heretofore have
been contemplated,
Then, as another indication of ad-
ministration intention to restore funds
to the treasury and thus reduce the
difference between Income and ex-
penses was an announcement by Jesse
H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance corporation. Mr. Jones
made known that hereafter the RFC
will not make loans to banks, He de-
clared that the banking structure was
in an excellent condition and that
further ald was not required,
The fact which Mr. Jones did not
mention in his announcement is, how-
ever, that the banks are exhibiting no
particular desire to borrow from the
federal government. The RFC already
holds preferred stock In almost half
of the banks In the country and these
banks, according to RFC records, are
liquidating their obligations as rapidly
as they can do so, This is significant.
. - Ld
1 have reported to you previously
how slowly the administration plans
for spending the $5.
Works-Relief 000,000,000 works re-
Plans Drag lief Tund were pro-
gressing. In connec.
tion with the Hopkins’ announcement
on relief and the President's relief sur.
vey order, it was discios®l that only
have been given jobs since the money
wns made available, This figure does
corps whose numbers have grown from
200,000 to 403,000, It will be recalled
that provision was made in the $5,000.
000,000 appropriation resolution for an
increase of the COC from 300,000 to
600000, Thus, In two months, the
COC has had only about onethird of
the Total increase which was expected,
Frankly, COC enlistments have been so
disappointing that the responsible au
thorities have changed the age limit in
order to permit the maximum of en.
tries Into that service. Those in a po-
sition to know and who will speak
candidly about conditions entertain
some fear that the total ever will ap-
proach the 600,000 to which tMlisiments
are restricted,
© Western Newspaper Union,
By MARIA LEONARD
Dean of Women, University of Hlinols
€& Western Newspaper Unlon,
THE SPILLWAY
gors over
“I'll show you
Climbing DArTOW
stepped out on a balcony
surprise beheld a
about 4 feet In heigh
tire river, which
this “Ti
gpillway!” An
was to come out from
ing water in the pow
inzy water flowing smoothly
spillway.
ter over the spiliway.”
power is lost.” Lost,
cause it gives no ser
#
nes through
point,
interest! Hog sight
that busy rushe-
this
over the
this wa-
“
er house to
“No use is made
Y ie]?
selfish, Power co«
whether found
ture. If
must
iin ture or hums
we would
choose betw
service
He told
erated enoug
light all of the Northy
water of the Snake,
which
sent
though
us the
h electricity
over the
sintes,
His words
power is
How like
as 1 stood
beautiful
west
ost”
ears,
their physical, emd
capacities
conserving
a all of
tional and intellectual
through the power house,
the power that is all too frequently lost
over the spillway of indolence, Indiffer-
and crime, in the
treacherous teen
ence, selfishness
growing years of the
age.
“Effort
atesman
ship of any Ki
bot ugh wit
is the price of everyt
sald. In fact
es costly;
ahe st
nad ¢
h sacrifice.
» . .
THREE POWERFUL KEYS
HE largest key 1 ever saw was the
one used by the old custodian when
he took me through the centuries-old
gate of an old Danish Since
then, however, I have found three still
more powerful keys, which anyone can
possess if he wishes
It is » known fact that as man cre-
ates his work, work in turn recreates
man. A modern essayist tells us that:
“The working races of the world have
been the victorious races; the none
working, the subject races. Wander
ing peoples have never developed high-
iy political organizations, literature nor
art.” So there is more than a mone-
tary, comeback to work, and does the
same for individuals as for nations.
Drive into your life job, do not drift
into it. Carry three keys of power
with you; they magically open locked
doors, the keys of preparation, per-
severance and purpose! From the
jack of these, we find, in the human
family, the idle, the unhappy, the un-
prepared, the misfits of the world!
The same principles of character un-
derlie all successful work of any kind,
whether it be in the field of educa-
tion, the professions or commerce,
Success follows law, not luck—the law
of preparation, perseverance, and high
purpese. These all lle within our.
selves, “effort is the price of every.
thing.” This is the most vocational
experts can advise. You must do the
rest.
The president of a large western uni.
versity once asked a railroad magnate
what special preparation he desired
young men to have whom he employed.
“1 use no questionnaire methods,” he
castie,
his preparation to form superior men.
tal habits, habits that ought to result
from his ugiversity work, who has
trained his mind to think straight,
There is a deeper purpose in life
than merely earning a living. “Just
good enough is mot enough” A high
purpose includes service, a contribu
tion to the lives of others
What a challenge to youth today to
try the old world for themselves If
we are willing to prepare ourselves for
our maximum capability (the first
key), and to think what our job can
give to others as well as ourselves,
(the third key), our work will yield
not only a cultural wage to us but a
service to the world,
Try these keys of power—IPrepar
ation, Perseverance, and Purpose;
they open locked doors!