APT, ANTHONY EDEN, British
minister for League of Nations af-
falrs, was exceedingly busy In Geneva
trying to find a way to avert the war
between Italy and
Ethiopia. He was
alded and abetted by
Premier Laval of
France and together
they evolved a plan
for procedure by the
league council which
appeared promising,
until it was communi-
cated to Premier Mus-
solinl. Then Baron
: Aloisi, Italian dele-
Anthony gate, announced the
Eden 2den-Laval formula
was “entirely unacceptable.” How-
ever, hope was not abandoned for there
was a chance that modifications could
be made that would satisfy the de-
mands of the Italians,
Unofficially, It was sald the British-
French formula dealt with these
points:
1. Conciliation and arbitration is to
continue,
2. Neither Italy nor Ethiopia Is to
resort to war measures in the mean-
time.
to the deadlocked Italo-Ethioplan con-
clliation commission.
4. Signatories of the 1008 treaty—
lend thelr good offices to obtain a gen-
eral broad solution of the conflict.
time limits fixed In the draft of the
projected peace formula.
iission, who would resume thelr work,
league council
their findings to the league council
In any event the council would be
scheduled to meet September 4.
to Italy in the formula.
that the ownership of Ualual, scene
lished without the ownership of the
locality being first determined.
Emperor Halle Selassie met his
chieftains In council at Addis Ababa
thousands of fighters were eager for
be restrained The emperor,
At the same time he
Ethiopia never would accept an Itallan
or other mandate, adding: “No amount
of prosperity under foreign domina-
tion would compensate for the loss of
independence.”
Mussolini selzed control of Italy's
metal and fuel imports for use in the
expected war, and several thousand
more soldiers and workmep sailed for
Africa.
ED by George Huddleston of
Alabama, the members of the
house who opposed the “death sen-
tence” In the utilities bill scored an-
other victory over the supporters of
that plan of the New Dealers. Sam
Rayburn's motion that the house agree
to the senate action on the bill was
defeated, 210 to 155. Rayburn ar
gued, pleaded and threatened, but to
no avail, He warned the represent.
atives that those who voted against
his motion would be Incurring the
wrath of the administration, and at
the last moment had read testimony
before the senate Jjobbying commit.
tee to the effect that a New Jersey
man had suggested the utilities com-
panies start a whispering campaign
regarding the sanity of the New Deal
leaders, Still the big majority in the
house insisted on rejecting the Ray.
burn motion.
Then the house, by a vote of 189 to
172, adopted a resolution which vir
tually called for the exclusion of Ben
Cohen, administration lobbyist, from
future conferences on the bill
EMOCRATIC congressmen started
the week briskly determined to
push through the President's “soak the
rich” tax bill at this session, Opposing
them with equal de
termination were a
number of the hardest
fighting Republicans
who Insist that con
sideration of taxation
be postponed anti)
next winter and that
meantime the question
be studied carefully in
connection with the
budget for the next
fiscal year. These Ree
publicans are urgently
calling for an early
adjournment of congress. Senator
Hastings of Delaware bas introddced
a resolution setting August 10 as the
day for quitting and was trying to
have It brought up for consideration
before passage of the tax measure,
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, often
mentioned as a Presidential possibility,
also demanded postponement of the
tax legislation until January, and he
gave out a statement denouncing the
administration's plan as a “sterile po-
litical gesture” which would raise “only
a little extra pocket change” and de-
clared that “we chatter of taxes in
millions to offset known deficits in
billions.”
“The pending tax bill, as it is being
developed,” sald Senator Vandenberg,
“will not produce appreciable revenue
for Uncle Sam. It will not pay the
President's deficit even for the period
while the blll Is under consideration.
As a contribution to the public credit,
it Is as grim a hoax as was ever per-
petrated on the country. As a ‘dis
tributor of wealth’ it is a mere vagrant
flirtation with this left wing idea.”
Nevertheless, it appeared probable
that the tax measure would be enacted
before adjournment, for the adminis
tration leaders had promised this to
Senator La Follette and other “liber.
als,” and besides that, they have no
desire to pass a taxation bill In a
Presidential election year. As pro-
duced by the house ways and means
committee after great travall the mea-
tion of large fortunes and Increased
levies on the rich which would produce
perhaps $250,000,000 of additional an-
nual revenue,
ident has signed a blll which as
about 5,000 army officers. It acceler-
The act Increases
More than
leutenants will
tenant and 1,700 first
become captains
receive
lieutenants will
In all, 4918 officers
immediate promotion.
ENATE
and house
ists went their separate ways, neither
cupied Itself much with the doing of
representatives of the Associated Gas
An execu
tee all Incomes, excess profit, and cap-
ital stock tax returns to the
so-called “holding company bill or any
islation.” Simultaneously
Roosevelt approved a new
regulation authorizing the release of
this information to the committee,
lepresentative Patton of Texas wen*
fore the house committee again and
satisfactorily explained how he had
President
treasury
out of his savings, As to the cigar
box he carried away from the hotel
room of John W. Carpenter, presiden®
of the Texas Power and Light corpora-
tion, it contained nothing but cigars,
Patton said.
“The fact is, you have been done
a very great wrong,” commented Rep-
resentative E. BE. Cox of Georgia.
SENATOR GLASS scored perhaps
the greatest victory In his long
public career when the senate, without
a record vote, passed his draft of the
1935 banking act, ree
Jecting the central
bank features urged
by Gov. Marriner 8,
Eccles of the federal
reserve board and fa-
vored by the adminis
tration. The doughty
Virginian, who was
once secretary of the
treasury, had fought
desperately against ©
the Eccles scheme and
his triumph was de. Senator Glass
cisive, There was no demand for a
roll call on the final vote, for the fate
met by the proposers of various amend
ments showed this procedure would be
futile, Senator La Follette sought to
strike out a provision permitting com-
mercial banks to underwrite securities
and his proposal was beaten, 30 to 22.
Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota,
another radical Republican, offered the
central bank plan of Rev, Charles E.
Coughlin, radlo priest, which would set
up a government owned and wholly
dominated system, It was voted down,
0 to 10, ‘
ROM the Communist Internationale
in Moscow comes the word that
the reds are planning a strike “of un-
precedented scope” by seamen and dock
workers on the Pacific coast of the
United States, beginning In September,
Sam Darcy of San Francisco, an
American delegate told about it. He
repented what had already been sald
by Earl Browder, general scretary of
the Communist party In the United
States, that Communists were respon.
sible for the seamen's and dock work.
ery’ last year,
ASSAGE of the bill to restore $40,- |
000,000 of Spanish war veterans’ |
pensions was completed when the sen.
ute accepted the house measure, the |
only opposing vote being cast by Sen-
ator Hastings of Delaware, This nulll-
fles the various adjustments made by
the President for the purpose of econ.
omy to carry out the party pledge of a
reduction of at least 25 per cent in the
cost of administration of the federal
government,
REDERICK H. GILLETT, who rep. |
resented Massachusetts In the
house for many years, for six years
was speaker, and thereafter served as
United States senator, died in Spring- |
field, Mass., at the age of eighty-three, |
Able, dignified and unfailingly courte- |
ous, Mr. Gillett was highly esteemed |
by his fellow congressmen, whatever |
their party affiliation. In his home |
town he was known as a politiclan who
sald little and did much,
JAPAN will probably have another
cause for complaint against the
United States, Secretary of the Navy
Swanson has announced that strongly
fortified naval bases
will be established In |
the Pacific ocean up- |
on the expiration of
the naval limitation
treaties on January 1,
1637. He sald he con-
sidered the creation of
naval stepping stones
in the acific an
inevitable result of the
treaties’ expiration. He
revealed that the navy
long has given consid
eration to Pacific fortification problems
and that impetus had been given to
the study since Japan's abrogation of
the naval treaties
The necessity for adequate bases In
the Pacific was demonstrated forelbly
last May during the annual fleet ma-
penvers off Hawall and the Aleutian
islands. According to reports, the
navy high command in a report of the
lessons learned in the exercises strong.
ly recommended an Aleutian Islands
base,
The Upited States naval bases are
few and far between as against those
of Japan and Great Britain, which lla
along the principal courses of English
Sec'y Swanson
ERMANY'S diplomatic note con-
cerning the Communist attack on
the liner Bremen In the port of New
York took the form of a request that
for no apology. Acting Secretary of
in his reply
handed to the German charge d'Af-
the efforts of the New York police to
vessel and to subdue the
and pointed out that some of
took part In the attack
The German note sald
incident constituted an insult to
were arrested,
the
In his press conference President
toosevelt declined to comment on the
affair. Asked about the protest of
Jewish organizations against the Ger
man government's religious attitude,
the President intimated that the ad-
ministration’s view was fully expressed
by Mr. Phillips’ reply in which he ex-
pressed sympathy for anyone who was
denled religious liberty.
Representative Dickstein of New
York told the house that no apology
was due to Germany for the Bremen
incident and that neither the federal
nor the local authorities were to blame
for it. He asserted the attack was
the part of the skipper of the Bremen,
who would not take police advice to
halt visiting to the ship and lose the
revenue of visitors”
Over In Germany the saper men in
authority recognized that the Nazis
were golng too far and were probably
headed for a fall If not restrained.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the
Reichsbank and economic dictator of
the reich, uttered a solemn warning to
the anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic
forces, Ceclaring that the great task
which the German people must fulfill
to comply with the wishes of Hitler
cannot be fulfilled unless “all distur-
bances are ended, be they in the intel.
lectual or economic field.”
Among developments In the current
campaign against the Steel Helmets,
the World War Veterans’ organization,
the Schutzstaffel or “black corps”
formed to protect the person of Hit
ler, gave out a warning that It must
be reckoned with In the event of a
showdown against “state enemies”
and asserting its complete loyalty to |
der fuehrer. The proclamation closed |
with these ominous words:
“For many reasons it would be deep- |
Iy regretted if the Steel Helmets, by |
their own fault, should come to a dis- |
honorable end.”
MPCrE disasters in the Far East
Antung, an Important city In
Manchukuo, was engulfed by a terrific
flood; a thousand persons were
drowned and practically the entire pop-
ulation of 110,000 was rendered home
NATIONAL
Washington, — President Roosevelt
has settled a controversy by the sim-
ple expedient of
Settle transferring two men
Controversy from responsible po-
sitions in the Virgin
islands to jobs In Washington, He
has taken Paul M. Pearson from the
post of clvil governor of the Virgin
islands and has made him assistant di-
rector of housing in the Interior de-
partment and has transferred Federal
Director Judge T. Webber Wilson from
his post In the islands to the federal
parole board here In Washington,
Each man has accepted his new ap-
pointment and In so far as a current
controversy Is concerned, the book
is closed,
It will be
Pearson and
recalled that
Judge Wilson long
affairs. The battle
came to
executive
and a
spondent,
wns
when Paul
assistant to the
former Washington
resigned his job and
a head
against his former chief,
allegations ranged all the
minor charges of poor judgment
gross accusations, He succeeded
getting a senate committee Investiga-
tion and It was at that time that the
Pearson-Wilson feud flared so openly
way from
to
dragged In and the whole
differences alred.
As a matter of fact there Is every
scope
SOND was
tive In
aroused
the
the
islands. He
ire of natives and, ac
pended In attempting to give the Vir-
gin islands a new lease on life,
of the information tends to establish
that the islands continue to be
effectual poorhouse™
Hoover
sion of a visit
Chief Executive.
But Governor Pearson
porters in the
among these
described them
on
his
during terms as
had his sup-
administration,
was Secretary Ickes
whose department Is responsible for
administration the Just
why Mr. Ickes has been go enthusiastic
about Pearson's regime is
not fully disclosed in any evidence
of islands,
Governor
has certain ideas sbout social reform
that some unkind erities refer to as
gon to
upon
had been aftempling
the island Inhabitants,
impose
to carry out the Ickes program of ref-
ormation. It seems, however, that the
schemes were not as practical as they
in a rather extensive fashion.
The stayed
the row
senate Inquiry Senator Tydings, =a
Maryland Democrat and usually an
anti-Rooseveit Democrat,
President
cused the investigating chairman with
testimony was all anti-Ickes and anti.
Pearson. The senator flared up In a
big way at that Jetter. His reply Is
likely to become a classic In official
correspondence. He did not mince
his words, After voicing his general
conception of the attitude exhibited by
Mr. Ickes and accusing him of at-
tempting to interfere in the Investiga-
tion, Senator Tydings Informed the in.
terior secretary that he may as well
attempt to run the Department of the
Interior and let the senators run the
senate, He used just about those
words,
That was the signal for Mr. Roose-
velit to take a hand. It was easy to
see that a few outbursts of that kind
and Mr. Ickes might have found him-
self In a splendid position to resign
from the cabinet. 8o the President
got the feudists Into his office, singly
of course, and when those conferences
were over the senate investigation inte
the Virgin Island situation was sus
pended for two weeks, The transfer
resulted,
.
One might properly inquire why all
the Virgin Islands.
Why the They are many hun
Agitation? dreds of miles from
Washington. They lle
in the Caribbean sea, considerably out
of the usual pathway of ships; they
are populated by about 22000 Indi
viduals, 95 per cent of whom are
pegroes and may generally be de
scribed as a “backward” place,
They may have some military and
naval value. That has never been
fully demonstrated. But the fact re-
mains they are possessions of the
United States and if our government is
to be their protector, it ia responsible
administration of their
The Washington fight may have had
WASHINGTON, D.C.
time the Islands have been under
United States rule, there has been a
dire need for a plan of government
sulted to those people. Each year con-
gress has been appropriating thou
sands of dollars for the island govern
ment and each year there has been
miserably little in the way of Improve
ment to sliow for these funds,
Almost as frequently as congress has
appropriated money it has made
changes In the administration meth-
ods In use there, There has never
been a long term program laid out and
there has been nothing whatsoever
done showing the sympathy of a so-
called intellectual people as we claim
be for those downtrodden masses
All of this, It seems to me, shows
the woeful need for careful considera-
tion of that situation. It seems to me
equally apparent that as long as con-
gress keeps meddling In and as long as
Hiticiang from the mainland are sent
purely on a political basis we
will continue to have a pack of trouble
bundled up in those Virgin Islands.
Beveral attempts have been made to
system worth
the politicians are not among
those who will let plums escape. It is
therefore, the Pearson
Wilson-Ickes-Tydings battie royal isan
of what amounts to a
festering sore In American govern-
mental policy.
* * »
that
If congress continues in session past
August 15, and It is now apparent that
it may run to Sep-
tember 1, it will have
pry
“ad
days, some two
weeks longer than the dverage of the
so-called long sessions of congress,
the “lame duck”
amendment which did away with ses
sions unequal length, the shorter
sessions of congress averaged about
170 The longer terms were
around 210 days before final adjourn-
was taken. Thus, the current
stands In a fair way to be
among the list of hardy sessions.
Long Session
of
days.
wry
ment
il of which is by way of saying
that the current session congress
has worn down its members both
physically and mentally to an extent
quite unusual. 1 was talkidg a few
days ago with a veteran senator, a
man who has served almost 25 years
in the upper house of congress. He Is
known as a physically strong indi
vidual and usually lasts very well
through the work that plies up before
senators and representives. I inquired
of him concerning the general health
of congress and his reply was:
of
old men, incapable of
this heat”
As a result of that converstalon the
thought came to me that here was an
answer to the oft repeated declaration
their salaries of $10,000 per year. 1
have observed congressional proceed.
my mature conviction that few times
in that period has congress falled to
earn its salt
. es»
There Is another reason why con
gressional sessions should not run so
When Solons ye carried on in the
Are Tired Intense heat of a
Washington summer.
up questionable bills that theretofore
be dead. With resistance low,
unable to fight off legisiation which he
that accompanied his activities earller
in the session,
This condition opens the way for
a revival of lobbies. They are back
in Washington In numbers now despite
the disclosures being made by the two
congressional committees that are in
vestigating the lobbies that operated to
defeat, temporarily at least, the legis.
lation killing utility holding com-
panies. One would have assumed
justly with the Investigations under
way after the utility legisiation was
passed that lobbyists and self-serving
representatives would have been
belleve Mr. Roosevelt has made a mis
take in demanding that congress stay
until It has enacted the sharethe-
Little Lights on
LIVING
&
By MARIA LEONARD
Dean of Women, University of Illinois
© Western Mewspaper Union,
A MODERN DUODECIMO OF
HEALTH
F EVERY 100 persons that are
now 36 will die from
preventable diseases before they reach
sixty-five years of age. If you want
to be one of the sixty-four who reaches
the age sixty-five, follow these
rules, part of which are Dr. Thomas
D. Woods’ creed of keeping fit:
alive,
of
Eat less, chew more,
, Bmoke breathe
tide less, walk more.
Bundle less, bathe more,
. Worry
. Hurry less, read more,
Idle less, play n
Talk less, think mo
Go less, sicep more,
Waste
Beold
-
v
b
less, more,
ea
w
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less, work more,
-
o&
re,
© pm
legs, give more.
—
less, laugl
Preach less, practice
X
Scold less and
are far
today in our
there Is
though
smile, The
cheer out
too few
bonds can
not go from our every day
us not ful exercise of
$ sald
to smile
Bho
forget the healt
laughter.
fewer muscles
This radiance
Childhood has
Some one ha
childhood.
for us to emulate In n
1 iat
OvVes i
exercise. They
Childhood
Children
moving and growing.
plly busy and busily happy.
why they abundantly,
are growing towards forty
7 ,
4 ae
44
uve
wittingly court
Health is the
human race. Dally are
to wake up to the fact that
are for the purpose of keep!
rather than gett
is individual
before the public mind witl
column In the
overonters,
questions, ou
younger children,
old age.
greatest asset ¢f the
we
Dewspapers, ca
radio answering diet
oor summer camps for
and health books
and magazines, but community health
is being brought to the laity
through cities’ safe water and milk
supply, cleanliness of streets and new
thods of sewerage disposals, ‘
Health at its best means resistance
to disease, relaxation from mental ten.
sion, calm from anxiety, regularity at
all times, recreative power through
play, temperate living and thinking,
gpiritual enthusiasm for one’s work,
Health brings a radiance in our liv-
ing and gives us and others life abun-
the
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RELAXING
AN you relax? To relax means te
slacken, and relaxation does just
that to human beings, it slackens them,
Some individuals grow more tense as
the day grows, rushing hither and
yon, tremendously busy with tremen-
dous trifles. Seven days a week is
comes a habit,
Tension is a foe to modern living.
Business folk often start the day
the morning paper
of American living seems to be to save
time. We eat faster, we drive faster,
we work faster, which means we real
iy live faster, all to save time, and
what do we do with It after it is
Much of the work of the world be.
comes an endurance test in seeing how
long we can hold on, because of tense.
ness and rigidity that comes of gain.
ing it, and the arch enemy of the hu-
man race appears on our horizon,
horns, hoof and tall, In the shape of
FATIGUE. Norma! fatigue Is nature's
way of calling one's attention to the
way to assert her own rights. If this
sign is unheeded she sends a danger
signal which one cannot ignore, In the
Over fatigue claims a tremendous
toll from the human race in the form
of health efficiency and joy, and leaves
in thelr places strained nerves, poor
or half-done work, worry and irritabil.
ity.
Physicians tell us that ten minntes
daily, complete relaxation, mind blank,
body limp, on couch, with or without
sleep, preferably after lunch, recreates
body and soul with renewed energy
and outlook on life for the other half
of the day. It Is an art, however,