A tae ———
FLORIDA was the victim of another
terrific hurricane that swept up
from the Caribbean across the keys
and the southern end of the state,
then along the west coast and Into
Georgia. The total of fatalities was
uncertain but at this writing the num-
ber of dead is estimated at more than
500. Of these perhaps 300 were war
veterans In labor camps on the keys
where they were employed In construc-
tion work. All buildings on many of
the keys were demolished and a relief
train that had been sent to take the
veterans away from the danger zone
was smashed to pleces. The survivors
on the islands were without shelter,
food and medical supplies, but relief
expeditions were quickly sent by the
Red Cross and other agencies,
The towns along the west coast re-
ported extensive property damage,
Responding to that the
assertions
against such a disaster,
gation by Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines,
administrator of veterans’ affairs.
Harry Hopkins, head the FERA
svhich set up the camps, also started an
inquiry, and so did the American Le-
gion. The affair promised to attain the
bad eminence of a national scandal
Caught in the fury of the storm, the
Morgan liner Dixie, from New Orleans
for New York, was driven aground on
French reef, about 60 miles south of
Miami. Her passengers and crew,
numbering 872, were In great peril for
three days, but various steamers and
coast guard cutters rushed to the res-
cue in response to her SOS call and
as soon as wind and seas abated
enough all were taken off the strand-
ed vessel and conveyed to land, most
‘of them to Miami. Passengers on the
Dixie warmly praised the gallant
work of the ship's officers and crew.
of
i
FF the coast of Portugal the
Cunard-White Star liner Dorie
was In collision with the French steam-
er Formigny and so badly disabled
that she called for ald. The British
steamers Orion and Vieeroy of lodia
went to the rescue and took off the
iDoric’s passengers, numbering 736,
{The crew remained aboard. The Dorie
was returning from a crulse to the
Mediterranean. Wireless reports sald
the Formigny was all right,
II ARON POMPEI ALOISI, cold and
s sardonle, stood up before the
League of Nations council In Geneva
and presented Italy's case against
Ethiopia, denouncing
that empire as utterly
unworthy to be classed
with civilized coun-
tries. In addition to
his speech, he laid
before the council a
long memorandum de-
tailing the alleged con-
ditions of slavery that
still prevail In Ethi-
opia and the particl-
- pation of its govern.
Baron Aloisl nL... In the slave
trade. This memorandum was elab-
orately documented,
Addressing the council, Aloisi sald
in part:
“Ethiopia, taking advantage of her
position as a member of the League
of Nations, sheltered behind the treaty
of friendship concluded with Italy In
3928, has since that date multiplied
provocations, hostile demonstrations,
fncursions of plllagers, acts of brig.
andage, and violence against the
peaceful populations of our frontier.
“The Ethiopian government does
nothing to make (itself worthy of
belonging to the community of civil
ized nations. Even today that coun-
try has to be represented by Euro-
pean advisers in order to make its
volee heard In the League of Nations
“The Itallan government considers,
in these circumstances, that a state
such as Ethiopia cannot have either
equality of right or equality of duties
as compared with elvilized states. To
claim that members of the league are
required to observe rules of the cove
pant in thelr relations with members
who have always and constantly been
outside those rules is contrary to all
the principles of right and justice.”
To the press correspondents the
baron was even more explicit. “You
have heard the Italian thesis” he
sald. “That is final. Italy has asked
nothing, not even the withdrawal of
Ethiopia from the league. From now
on Italy will play a passive role here.
We sre not going to discuss anything
with Ethiopia, but we will discuss
Ethiopia with the league.
“It is up to the members of the
"teague council to decide whether they
want to expel Ethiopla or expel
Italy.”
Ethiopia's reply to Italy was pre
sented to the council by Prof. Gaston
Jeze, a Frenchman. He protested in
a dignified way against the brutal word-
ing of the Itallan statement and told
the council If it considered the expul-
sion of Ethiopia the league would be
getting a precedent of judging mem-
ber states according to the ner in
which they conducted their Internal
affairs. Some members might find this
dangerous, he sald.
Jeze ended with a dramatic remind-
er that time is pressing and this is not
the moment for dilatory measures,
“The question is whether there Is
danger of war, and whether there Is
danger of an early opening of a war
of extermination,” he sald. "That is
the point to which the council ought to
direct its most serious attention.”
V HILE the European statesman
were struggling with the Italo-
Ethloplan question, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull quietly took a hand in
the game. He did not
in any way involve the
United States in the
wrangle, but he put an
end to the deal, where
by Hallle Selassie was
giving a great devel:
—
opment concession to |
Americans, Officials of |
the Standard-Yacoum
Oll company went to |
Mr. Hull's office and |
’ admitted ownership of
Sec’y Hull the grant. The secre |
tary admonished them that the con-
cession had been “the cause of great |
embarrassment not only to this gov-
ernment, but to other governments |
who are making strenuous and sincere
efforts for the preservation of peace.” |
The oll men thereupon announced |
their Intention of withdrawing from
the deal with Ethiopia, and the big
concession sensation was entirely de
flated. The British government was
especially pleased with this outcome
and felt deeply grateful to Secretary
Hull, .
N ONTHLY estimetes of private
i forecasters are that, If there are
no serious frosts in September, the
corn crop of the country will be 2.231
million bushels. This is 854 million
bushels larger than last season's har-
vest when the drought cut returns to 1.-
877 million bushels. When compared
with “normal” production this season's
indicated crop Is moderately deficient.
In Illinois, Indiana, and Ohlo the
crop is In excellent condition and the
returns promise to be larger than ap-
peared likely a month ago. The situa-
tion is reversed in Kansas, South Da.
kota, and Nebraska, In Iowa, the big-
gest producing state, the prospects are
slightly less favorable than a month
ago.
The spring wheat crop was est]
mated at 155 million bushels. Using the
government's last estimate on the win.
ter crop of 432 million bushels, total
wheat production this year is placed at
687 million bushels,
ERALD B. THORNE, chief of the
live stock and feed grains division
o. AAA, says that in order to rectify
inequities In corn-hog production it
has been decided to permit modifica.
tion of the base production quotas
The tentative plan Is:
Each county now has an aggregate
base production of corn and Logs
which will be left untouched.
Within the county bases, however,
machinery will be set up, largely
through county committees, by which
the bases can be altered,
Thus the farmer who planted less
than normal corn in 1082 and 1083
and has a low corn base can be glv-
en an increased base. In the same
way the farmer who riised fewer hogs
for one reason or another In those
years than ordinary on a farm of that
size may get a larger hog base.
For these Increases, however, there
will have to be corresponding gdjusts
ments downward for other farmers.
ARLY court tests of the Wagner
labor dispute: act may be obtained,
for already complaints have been filed
with the new labor relations board
against two subsidiaries of General
Motors and the Portsmouth, Ohlo, plant
of the Wheeling Steel corporation, The
complainants are the United Automo-
bile workers and the Amalgamated As-
sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-
ers. They are represented by Charlton
Ogburn, counsel for the A. F, of L.,
who says the unlonc charge that the
companies violated the act's fair la-
bor practice provisions,
xed CONFEDERATE VET.
ERANS, in annual session at Am.
arillo, Texas, having been assured that
the stars and bars would not be
banned, accepted the invitation to hold
a joint reunion on Gettysburg battle.
field with the Grand Army of the Re-
public in 1088, Paul Roy, who extended
the invitation on behalf of Governor
Earls of Pennsylvania, told the con
federates they would be free to carry
the flag of the south wherever and
whenever they pleased,
OTEWORTHY among recent
deaths are those of Right Rev.
Walter T. Sumner, bishop of the Epls-
copal diocese of Oregon, who won fame
jong ago as & crusader against organ:
1zed vice in Chleago; George C. Han
son, veteran American diplomat, who
shot himself to death on a steamer
when returning from Greece; and
Charles J. Vopicka of Chicago, who
was American to several Bal
kan countries { the "arid war.
nineteenth
A resolution was
at the
Lucerne,
terial position.”
gress unanimously voted against the
tute a “constructive plan”
the situation of Jews in the reich.
IR MALCOLM CAMPBELL, the
English speed demon, satisfied hls
ambition to run his automobile, the
Bluebird, at a rate of 800 miles an
hour, on a salt track In Utah, As a
matter of fact, he covered the thirteen
mile course at an average speed of
201.837 an hour or more than five
miles a minute. Over one measured
mile he ran at the rate of 304.331,
USSIA'S reply in America’s protest
against the subversive plotting of
the Communists in Soviet territory
was a rejection and a coldly worded
re-assertion of the old and more than
dublous position that the Moscow
government is not and cannot be held
responsible for the doings of the Com-
munist Internationale, This was con-
sidered for four days by official Wash-
ington and then It was decided to let
the matter drop with another and
rather milder warning. The new note
gent to Moscow sal:
“If the Soviet government pursues
a polley of permitting activities on
its territory involving Interference
with the internal affairs of the United
States, Instead of ‘preventing’ such
activities, as its written pledge pro-
vides, the friendly and official rela-
not but be seriously impaired.”
———
ENATOR HUEY LONG crowed a
lot about the success of his one-
man filibuster which killed the third
deficiency appropriation bill, but he
didn’t add to his popu- sa
larity among the peo-
ple who looked for-
ward for help from the
agencies that are now
hampered by the fail
ure of the measure.
jesides that, It Is now
admitted that his fill-
buster rescued the
Democratic house lead-
ers from a tight place ®
in the matter of the SN
cotton and wheat W--Granfield
Jjoans. Still further, it appears that
Huey's domination of Louisiana is go-
ing to be Investigated by a congres
sional committee, That committee prob.
ably will be headed by Representative
William L. Granfield of Massachusetts,
for he was the author of the elections
investigation bill, which was found to
contain a little “Joker.” This joker
gives the committee such + ide powers
that it can probe into all the facts con-
cerning Long's complete control of elec.
tion affairs in his state and the meth
ods by which he has attained to the
position of a dictator there,
IIS. ANNA WILMARTH ICKES,
wife of Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes, was killed when an ag-
tomoblle in which she and three
friends were riding was overturned
in a ditch at Velarde, N. M. Mrs. Gene
vieve Forbes Herrick, well-known
newspaper writer; Ibrahim Seyfullahb,
gecretary of the Turkish embassy in
Washington, and Frank Allen of Gal
lup, N. M, the driver, were severely
injured. Allen died later,
ENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of
Nebraska and Arthur F. Mullen,
former Democratic national commit-
teeman for that state, are engaged In
a warm dispute that may cause con
siderable embarrassment for President
Roosevelt, friend of both men. Mullen
carried to the White House a hot pro-
test against a $20,000,000 power pro}
ect which is sponsored by Norris, He
is attorney for two $7,000,000 power
plants which already have been ap-
proved by the PWA, and he asserts
there is no field for the enormous
and probably not enough water for all
of them.
of Omaha, and situated on the Loupe
river.
the fall of 1083, wm
n——
Boyer down by deep grief, the Bel
glan people lald to rest their be-
TS LU CT Te
Washington.—Through
than most of us can
U. 8 senate has
Obsolete been the object of
Senate Rules caustic criticism, Jibe
and jest because of
{ts rule permitting unlimited debates.
Time after time long senate speeches
have been the oblect of editorial at.
tack In gegment or another of
American metropolitan newspapers
Its slow, tortolse-like methods have
been held up to ridicule in spoken and
written word innumerable times, and
its procedure remains unchanged,
more years
remember, the
one
It was no occasion for
therefore, when a new ou
criticism of senate rules of procedure
was launched upon
after the last session of
journed, Huey
Loulsiana,
broke loose
broken
ate plang in a knot,
thing thar has precipitated
thurst
us
congress ad
Senator P.
the
ns he has
Long of
3
go many times
loose and effectively
mentioned above and succeeded
one-man filibuster In
of an appropriation
was so effective
ih oA
blocking passage
bill, Indeed,
his that
job he
in
of President Roosevelt and all
New Dealers
realize culmination
most cherished dreams.
While the
who were about
of some of thelr
Long filibuster probably
ly there was some unfairness about it,
time is because it
at this
same senate rules,
By way of preliminary explanation,
I belleve It ought to be sald that no
ly or orderly without first binding
itself to adhere to rules of procedure
that will give each an opportunity.
These rules, in the case of the senate,
are very old It may be sald
are antiquated and obsolete; surely
some will take that view of them.
nevertheless those are the rules and
the senate has been able for a good
legislative results ander them.
they should be revised or that the pres
ent rules should be retained.
believe that before changes are made
spread too much baliyhoo, the country
should understand some of the reasons
which actuate the present urge.
» Ld *
The kingfish spoke
hours on the closing night
. He could
Long's
prevented
Filibuster after
was once recognized
by the presiding officer. He told the
senate he was battling for a govern
ment loan rate on cotton of 12 cents
+ per pound whereas the administration
was proposing to make the rate either
nine or ten cents per pound. The sen-
ate had placed an amendment on an
appropriation bill to carry ou! the idea
of twelve cents a pound and had put
for nearly six
BOK.
not
from
he
of the
sion,
be
speaking
agreeing at all until Mr. Roosevelt took
& hand and suggested the compromise
of ten cents a pound. All that re
mained was a formal vote of the sen.
ate to put the administration plan into
effect. Renator Long decided It should
not be and he proceeded to lick the
administration single-handedly by con
tinuing his filibuster until the mid.
night hour when the congress was to
In blocking the administration com-
000,000 which the administration was
Guffey bill for regulation of the soft
coal industry and the bond created
theoretically to settle labor disputes
All of these bills were pressed hard
by the administration, If one had nol
had its antagonists in congress. They
were and are strictly New Deal meas
ures, As a result of the Long filibus
ter none of them can be made fully
operative untill congress convenes
again next Janvary and appropriates
the money. So, it can be seen how the
pride of the New Deal professors was
wounded, It can be seen likewise
why they, along with the President, did
so much squawking about the Long
filibuster. Senator Long was an ideal
goat for the situation,
. * @»
It Is not my privilege nor is 1t
within my power to say whether the
legislation which Sen-
Unnecessary ator Long virtually
nullified is so Im
portant that five
months of delay is the difference be
tween life and death In this country.
Indeed, 1 cannot see any reason for
all of the haste that is exemplified
by the shouts and the criticisms sud
denly brought forth because of that
filibuster. The bills which were brought
to final passage only a few days be
tore adjournment had been languish
WASHINGTON, D. C.
The President had repeatedly urges
thelr enactment but the congress saw
fit to delay. Consequently in various
quarters in Washington 1 heard the
inquiry as to why so much damage can
be done by delays of five months when
there had been delays of seven months
preceding enactment of the measures.
Some of the more vitriolic among the
New Deal critics even went so far as
to inquire why of the hullabaloo
over a delay of five months when Mr
Roosevelt made no effort obtain
enactment of the social security bill—
the keystone of the New Deal—in the
first session of congress under his con-
trol. Without
swers, it does appear to me that there
nil
aii
to
knowing all of the an-
about this one Incident.
that
tory and see
any we
the
debate |
the New Dealers now
igh all of the yes
the senate hs
It has been
sure; records of the
appear that this slow
+» has resulted inevitably in bet
ation. Many are the schemes
that surged forward on the b
a minority to passage In the
to be past
pro-
‘
yet,
al $
make it
ivhoo of
house of
1
are the times as well when the dellb
erative character of senate debate gave
time for expression of a majority
sentiment in the country and saved it
from being {tated into policies
of national leg
worked un
nreciy
pre
but
of unlimited
cannot
leg
debate in the senate has more good
features than bad.
Time after time in years past, de
in the house of repre
sentatives so that individual members
might voice thelr views at length. The
house never has yielded from the posi
tion it has taken that its numbers were
too great to permit free-for-all discus
and those committees are generally
party in control of the government
the will of the administration. In con
that the senate ought to bind and gag
its members prevent thelr free
expression, fs a minority,
and
if there
As a personal ex
pression, 1 do not see where any good
at all ean come from the proposed re
strictions for senate debate and I do
not believe it will eventually.
*. - *
For the since the CivD
war, a federal government bond issue
failed the other day
to attract enough
subscribers to ab
sorb the offering. It
at that. he
was only $100,000000, The
were not, strictly speaking
first time
Bond lssue
Failure
amount
were being issued by the Federal
Farm Mortgage corporation but they
bore the guarantee of the United
States treasury that they would be
pald both as to Interest and principal
and to all intents and purposes may
When the asury received offers
of only $85.500,000, Secretary Morgen
than was both surprised and chagrined
He laid the failure of the issue to the
fact that the bonds were to carry only
1%, per cent interest, a very low rate
to sell government securities at Inter
the burden of the Interest charge
which the government must carry on
its gigantic public debt. Nevertheless,
“it ain't se good”
{gs something like $30,000,000.000.
approximately $0,000,000,000
It is
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before you intend to use You will
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mixing the paint,
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ve no diff
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Happiness
Happiness is the sliver in the gray
hair of Suffering —V. D. Ventrhs
Field.
Laxative combination
folks know is trustworthy
The confidence thousands of parents have
in good. old reliable, powdered Thediord's
Black Draught has prompted them to get
the pew Syrup of Black-Draught for their
childrens, The grown folks stick to the
powdered Black-Draught; the youngsters
probably will prefer it when they outgrow
thels childish love of sweets. , . Mrs. C W,
Adsms, of Murray, Ky, writes: “1 have
vsed Thediord's Plack- Draught (powder)
shout thirteen wears, taking it for bilious-
press, Black -Dranght acts well and 1 am
plways pleased with the results, I wanted
® good, reliable laxative for my ghildren,
I Rave found Syrup of Black-Draught to
be just that"
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Bowling at Midnight
Midnight outdoor bowling matches
are popular in Scotland
& ill
MOSQUITOES
FIES*SPIDERS
tional money must
carry out the works-rellef plans of the
New Deal. Some anthorities predict
that before Mr. Roosevelt's present
term expires as President, the public
debt will aggregate something lke
£35,060,000000, the highest in all his
tory for our nation.
Long experience as a student of
financial affairs prompts my conclusion
that flatlure of the $100,000,000 issue to
be fully subscribed does not mean that
government bonds are a bad lavest
ment. 1 am inclined to the opinion
the Interest rate too low and that most
investors figured they could obtain a
better return than that which Mr,
all, there is something of a warning in
this circumstance. 1 believe the warn.
ing is that If the Roosevelt adminis
tration continues to spend and spend
and borrow and borrow, it must pay
money It borrows. Again, that “ain't
#0 good.” : .
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