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By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
EXFORD G. TUGWELL, head of
the rural resettlement administra-
tion, announced that a special commit-
tee is considering a plan under which
more than half a mil-
llon growers of farm
products would receive
double benefits from
the federal govern.
ment, It provides that
the rural families now
getting loans from
Tugwell's administra-
tion to put them on
their feet and keep
them off the relief
rolls may also receive
R. G. Tugwell 41) subsidy payments
in connection with the soll conserva-
tion program now being put into op-
eration, There are now 450,000 recip-
fents of the Tugwell loans and the
number is expected to increase to 525.
000 by July 1.
The soil conservation subsidies are
to be paid to farmers who transfer
land from commercial crop production
to soll conserving growths, or who re-
sort to other “economic” farm prac
tices. Officials sald that the rehabilita-
tion clients already are under obliga-
tion to treat their soll wisely, Before
a family can obtain a rehabilitation
Joan it must agree to follow a farm
management plan drafted by the gov-
ernment.
This plan stipulates that the borrow-
er must conserve his land's fertility
and grow food and feed crops for home
consumption. It also includes a finan.
cial budget,
NE of the major features of the
new tax program suggested by
President Roosevelt is omitted from
the measure prepared by a house sub-
committee and on which open hearings
were begun by the ways and means
committee. For political reasons it
was decided that the plan for new
processing taxes on farm and compet-
ing products should be abandoned. Mr,
Roosevelt's suggestion for a “windfall”
tax to recapture part of the refunded
or unpald AAA processing levies was
accepted by the subcommittee,
A third suggestion of the President,
for graduated taxes on the portions of
incomes which corporations do not dis
tribute in dividends to stockholders,
was changed to provide levies on total
income of corporations varied accord.
ing to percentages of profits put into
reserves.
The subcommittee agreed that the
corporation tax rates should be so
drafted as to permit corporations, par-
ticularly small ones, to build up re-
serves for lean years without being
compelled to pay comparatively high
taxes for the privilege of doing so.
The subcommittee figured on col-
Jecting some $25,000,000 from taxes on
dividends going to foreigners who own
stock in American corporations and
$83,000,000 from temporary continua-
tion of the capital stock and excess
profits taxes.
UST as Chairman C Jasper Bell
and his house committee were about
to open their inquiry into the finances
of the Townsend old age pension plan
organization, Robert BE. 7
Clements, co-founder,
secretary and director
of the movement, re.
signed. He was sum-
moned to be the first
witness before the
committee but said his
resignation was not
motivated by this, but
was solely due to his
opposition to political o»
activities of other lead- 4
ers of the organiza. R-E.Clements
tion. Dr. F. E. Townsend in Los An
geles expressed his “hearty approval”
of Clements’ action, and it was predict-
ed other officials of the movement
would follow the secretary's example,
Clements appeared before the com-
mittee with a great mass of records,
ready to “account for every penny
collected.” Before testifying he sald:
“I have nothing to hide. I'm anxious
to appear. 1 have been responsible
for financing the Townsend plan. I
have collected around $850,000 and the
organizaton has spent about $750,000,
There 1s still $100,000 on hand.”
—
EVERAL witnesses who appeared
before a senate subcommittee de.
clared that the Robinson-Patman antl
chain store bill, which has administra.
tion backing, would promote rather
than curb monopolies, increase the
cost and lower the standard of living,
and decrease employment in whole in-
dustries,
The hearing was on the Borah-Van
Nuys bill, a modification of the Rabin.
son-Patman measure, but the witnesses
particularly attacked the latter, which
already has been reported favorably,
The house judiciary committes report.
ed the Utterback bill, still another
modification of the HRobinson-Patman
measure, and a bitter fight over the
proposed legisintion is expected.
The Robinson-Patman bill would pro-
hibit manufacturers from making price
discriminations In favor of large quan
tity purchasers, through advertising al
lowances, service charges, brokerage
fees, ete. The Borah-Nuys bill would
prohibit such allowances only when
they were refused to purchasers of
goods of “like grade, quality, and
quantity.”
NE of the big fights within the
American Federation of Labor
has been settled peacefully, It was
for control of the bullding trades de-
partment. In the past, bullding pro}
ects have been held up by strikes
growing out of arguments over which
of two unions should do a certain
plece of work. The peace pact pro-
vides for appointment of an impartial
referee to settle such arguments,
The pact also called for J. W. Wik
lilams of the carpenters to head the
reorganization department, with M. J.
McDonough of the plasterers as sec-
retary-treasurer. Each has been the
leader of one of the warring factions
and each has styled himself as the
lawful department president.
Beso MUSSOLINI evidently ex-
pects another European war, and
in preparation for it he announced
several drastic measures on the seven-
teenth anniversary of
the founding of the
Fascist party. He
abolished the chamber
of deputies, substitut.
ing for it a council of
gullds; and he also
eliminated the coun
try's large industries,
leaving the mediom
and small private in
dustries in existence,
This latter move, he
told the council of the
22 gullds of the cor
porative state, was to increase the na-
tion's economic self-sufficiency. “When
and how war will come, one does not
know,” he sald, “but the wheel of fate
turns fast.™
Mussolinl asserted the large indus
tries, particularly those working for
the defense of the nation, would be
formed into organizations called “key
industries.” These, he sald, “will be
run directly or indirectly by the gov-
ernment. Some will have mixed or
ganization™
Benito
Mussolini
——
AVING sent Joachim von Ribben-
trop back to London with a modi
fied rejection of the four power plans
for peace in western Europe, Hitler
was preparing his counter proposals
which British Foreign Minister Eden
had requested. Meanwhile the reichs.
fuebrer continued his campaign tour,
delivering rousing speeches In defense
of his policies. Speaking In Ludwig.
shafen, in the heart of the remill.
tarized Rhineland, he sald: “Those
who want us to grovel on our knees
before agreeing to talk with us forget
we are not a tribé of savages, but a
European nation looking back on thou-
sands of years of culture,
“1 stretch out my hand to France.
We want peace for common sense rea-
song, Germany needs no more fame
on the battlefield, but is now getting
ready to seek laurels in the Olympic
peace competition of nations. Men who
relish the Indecent thought of victor
and vanquished are not statesmen,
They must be silent when peace talks
start.”
Most of the continental statesmen
who gathered in London to consider
the Rhineland affair went home, some
of them In very bad humor over the
indecisive proceedings, The French,
disinclined to consider any further pro-
posals from Hitler, were urging that the
French, British and Belgian general
staffs get tcgether on plans In accord
ance with the Locarno treaty,
| CONNECTION with the signing of
the new naval treaty by the United
States, Great Britain and France, it
was disclosed in London that the two
first named powers bave reaffirmed the
50-50 ratio for their fleets and again
promised not to compete against each
other in naval building, The new
three power pact limits the size of
battleships to 35,000 tons, retains 10.
000 tons as the maximum for cruisers
and provides no cruisers of that size
shall be built for six years,
In the expiring Washington treaty
there was an article regarding fortl-
fication of naval bases. This is not
renewed in the new pact, and Japan
requested information as to the future
intentions of the powers. Conse
quently the United States, Great
Britain and Japan were carrying on
diplomatic conversations on that tople,
The new treaty gives the signatories
certain liberty of action In the event
of unforeseen naval activity by powers
not signatory to the treaty. So far as
America Is concerned, this “escape
clause” is taken to apply malnly to
Japan,
FOURTEEN persons perished In
Mexico's worst aviation disaster,
OKI HIROTA, the new lberal
premier of Japan, declared in an
Interview: “While I am premier there
will be no war”; and continued: “We
intend to cultivate our traditional
friendship with Great Britain, the
United States, Russia, and other pow-
ers, thus fulfilling our great mission of
stabilizing east Asia”
On the same day that Hirota made
this pronouncement the soviet Russian
government ordered its ambassador to
Japan to lodge a strong protest fol.
lowing a new border engagement which
Soviet advices sald resulted from a
the reports,
EDERAL reserve board has pre-
scribed a 55 per cent minimum mar-
gin for purchases of stocks, the ruling
becoming effective April 1 for stocks
bought through brokers and May I for
those bought through banks,
The margin regulations were made
to apply only to listed securities on
registered stock exchanges, thus hav-
Ing no effect upon the large over-the-
counter market.
The maximum loan value applying
to registered stocks has been fixed
at 45 per cent of current market value,
Wi only one change, the house
passed the senate bill to continue
the Electric Home and Farm authority
as a federal agency untill February 1,
1037, or any earlier date decreed by
the President. The authority was cre-
ated to help finance sales of electrical
appliances,
H EXRY BOYLE SOMERVILLE,
aged and retired vice admiral of
the British navy, was murdered by
gunmen at his residence at Castle
townsend, «+ County Cork, Irish Free
State. Thrown through the door of the
house was a card bearing these words:
“This British agent sent 52 Irish
boys Into the British army in the last
few months, He will send no more”
The admiral had received previous
threats because of his recruiting activ.
ities,
JN TREPID citizens of scores of cities
and towns in the eastern and New
England states which were devastated
by the unprecedented floods were dig-
ging out thelr homes and places of
business from the mud and debris as
subsided. Reconstruction and refitting
began everywhere Immediately, and
this, as well ns the relief of the suffer
ing thousands, was alded by funds to-
taling more than £43,000000 allocated
by President Roosevelt before he left
Washington for Florida,
Rough estimates were that the total
dend in 13 states were 100; the home
less were 221.500, and the total prop-
erty damage, $271L500,000. The last
figure probably would be tripled if one
took into account the losses from in.
terruption to Industry and trade and |
the stoppage of the wages of labor,
Cities along the lower Ohlo were
threatened as the flood waters raced
down to the Mississipp! and the Gulf
of Mexico, but they had had plenty
of warning and were in a measure pre-
pared,
SABELLA GREENWAY, the capable
lady who has represented Arizona
in congress since October, 1033, hae
announced in Tucson that she will re
. eee tire from public life
E at the conclusion of
her present term. Bhe
was first elected for
the remainder of the
term of Lewis Doug |
las, who resigned to
become director of the |
budget, and was re
elected In 1084,
Mrs. Greenway owns
: and operates several
. ranches in Arisons |
Mrs. Greenway .n4 New Mexico and |
a hotel in Tucson, and is also inter
ested In some mining companies. Un. |
doubtedly she could go back to con |
gress without opposition, bot she says |
she wants to devote more time to her
private activities,
I——
SL refusing to appropriate $12.
000,000 for the Florida ship canal, |
the senate passed the army bill carry. |
ing approximately $611,000000, More
than half the sum goes for the military
activities of the War department,
There will be no reduction in the |
number of CCC camps during most of
the coming fiscal year, and the em |
rollees will be kept up to about the |
860,000 mark. This was the declalon |
of President Roosevelt after a threat. |
ened revolt of Democratic representa. |
tives induced him to change his mind |
in the matter,
Senator Black, chairman of the sen
ate lobbying committee, bas added the
Wichita Beacon to the papers whose
Alagrae he has seized or attempted
to seize.
SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH Is
campaigning earnestly for the Re
publican Presidential nomination, and
has just received a big boost for his
cause in the announcement that Dr.
Prepared by the Nationa) Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C~WNU Service,
i" ANTED, female servant;
wages by the month to be
clothes, potatoes, carrots,
beans—and sixty cents”
This Is not a line from a musical
comedy, or a funny movie subtitle, but
the translation of a bona fide “want.
ad”
In an American newspaper it might
reasonably have aroused curiosity, If
not Investigation by a local union, but
it caused no unusual stir among the
crowd of peasants in the small town of
Mezokovesd in Hungary, as the town
crier shouted it out, There was all the
weekly news, as well ag the rest of the
“advertising” to be beard. The oral
Journalists of Mezokovesd were inform.
Ing the townspeople of the week's
events, at the usual Sunday morning
gathering,
Even with Lenten restrictions, there
is little curbing of galety among the
peasants on their treasured weekly
holiday In Mezokovesd. True, you may
bave no opportunity of seeing a mar
ringe dance. Nevertheless, the alr is
full of merry excitement and happy
chattering. And no one can smile more
wholeheartedly and infectiously than
the young Hungarian girl!
Mezokovesd is a most typleal of Hun.
garian villages; there the traveler may
see the real peasant life of the coun-
try. The town's population is some 20.
000 ; It is about three hours’ ride to the
east of Budapest, and only two trains
a day make the trip.
Sunday afternoons the healthy lot
of villagers parade In thelr festival
finery, the heavily embroidered cos
tumes ablaze with bright colors. And
of a Sunday morning the life of the
town centers in the church, always
crowded to the doors, and In the
weekly “newspaper.”
At ten o'clock on Sunday morning
you find the streets almost deserted.
It is a brisk day and you are glad to
have the protection of a heavy coat
The sun teases you faintly at intervals,
which is especially vexing, since you
have a camera and copious material
for pictures.
First Church, Then News
You walk to the center of the town,
some distance from the rallroad sta-
tion, and enter the church. If It were
not for the saving landmark of the
church steeple, it would be easy to get
lost in any Hungarian town.
There is little standing room In the
Inden to linger long. Besides, your
the square, marveling occasionally at
the sight of an American-made prod.
net in one of the shop windows. And
presently the church bells announce the
close of the service,
Then the church doors open and
crowds of black-clad figures pour out.
As If waiting for this signal, two gen-
darmes take their places on opposite
sides of the large square In front of
the church and begin to beat a vigorous
tattoo on their drums. From the church
the people gather In two crowds about
these officials, who draw forth impor.
tant-Jooking documents of paper and
begin their reading.
it is an education and a revelation
thirty cents) added to certain supplies
and thelr needed clothing. It is suffi
clent, no doubt; thelr wants are few,
Any national news of Importance is
told ; new laws are read. It is an amus-
ingly terse, clear effort, when one con.
templates the columns of unread copy
in our own metropolitan papers,
Dinner, and then you are among the
gally dressed crowds, on thelr weekly
parade about the town, They walt al
ways until the afternoon before don-
ning thelr gorgeous costumes and then
they pour into the streets like the
sudden blossoming of a garden In-
deed, the pretty aprons are surpris-
ingly like gardens, or bright flowers in
a basket, or clusters of posies in the
sunlight,
Their embroidery is peculiar to Hun.
gary. Small pleces of it, on sale at
one of the homes may be too gaudy to
attract some travelers: but on a black
apron and a tightly Stting jacket, it
seems most appropriate and quaint
The men of the town are quite as
ornately garbed as the women, They
are smartly dressed In black velvet
trousers made much lke riding
breeches, short jackets, and leather
boots shined to a glow. Some of them
also wear the long black aprons em-
broidered by a doting mother or an
adoring and dutiful sweetheart. And
all of them wear green hats, round and
high—shaped somewhat like a derby—
with feathers of varying size and color
perched on the side. A fetching lot of
fellows, and not slow at flirting with
the girls.
But the Sunday parades are not
courting parties. Far from it. The men
keep to themselves, and the women
walk apart from them, for etiguette in
Mezokovesd does not permit any prom.
ried ones walk together.
little fun as they pass the maldens—
calling to them, teasing them by pulling
at one corner of their aprons, or tweak
ing a long brald of hair. Shiny faces
blush and the girls giggle—and prob
ably think It the very best part of the
entire day! Unmarried girls always go
bareheaded, even in the winter months.
It is only after the marriage service
that a young girl may put up her halr
the married woman.
Then the hair ribbons are dispensed
with and the long braids are wound
about the head, go that a cone-shaped
cap can be pinned on. Over this is
girl as a young matron.
The new brides are easily found.
They will be walking together, few of
them more than eighteen years old,
and some several years younger, still
husbands, and proudly conscious of
their new colffures
Courting and Marriage.
and It is more an ordeal than a pleas:
ure. But every Sunday afternoon, ex:
cept during Lent, they hold a dance,
and the young people find it very sat.
isfactory for getting acquainted and
falling In love,
When a boy has found his chosen
wife, and she looks favorably on him,
the young man asks her father. If the
father is willing, the young fellow
sends two of his friends to ask for
mally for her hand, and this is consid.
ered the official announcement of the
couple's engagement,
Then follows the wedding at a Sun.
day dance. The bride, Incidentally,
must have complete furnishings for
her new house, Including linens and
clothes for herself. Usually some money
or a cow goes with her, too. A father
of many daughters has his bands full
to get her dowry together.
But her troussean isn’t so formidable
as it would seem to us. Her new home
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HOSE awards made by the
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences are still caus-
ing violent debates all over Holly-
wood. Executives of the Screen
Actors Guild and the Screen Writ-
ers Guild telegraphed the mem-
bers the day before the awards were
made, urging them not to attend the
presentation banquet, They charged
that the academy is producer-con-
trolled, and that studio politics con-
trolled the giving of
the awards. Of course
the Academy heads
denied that, and the
battle has been on
ever since, It 8
claimed that Bette
Davis was given the
prize for the best per-
formance given by =a
woman during the
year, not because of
her work in “Danger.
ous” but because she
didn’t get the award
last year for her performance in “Of
Human Bondage” It is urged that
Victor Mclaglen, who won the prize
for the men, gave just one good per-
formance, In “The Informer,” whereas
Charles Laughton and Paul Mun! each
gave several. In fact, there are arguo-
ments about everything but that be.
lated award of D. W. Griffith for his
work In the days before there was any
Academy. People wept when Henry
Walthall introduced D. W.
on
They're rewritting Ken Maynard's
new picture, because the lioness who
acted in it was killed recently. (You
may have seen her In “Sequoia.”)
The company was on location, and the
lioness went out for some exercise. In
California there’s a bounty of $80 on
mountain lions, and a prospector
thought this was just one more lion,
and shot her,
Bette Davis
fie
If you want to go into the movies,
you'll be Interested in the pews that
several of the big companies are plan-
ning to develop thelr own actors, by
establishing schools in New York. In
fact, Paramount already has such a
school, and RKO and Metro are think-
ing of following thelr example. It's all
companies have not been sable to re-
cruit suitable players from the stage.
They've scoured the field of vaude-
ville, radio, night clubs and college
dramatic societies, and have concluded
that training schools are the best solu-
on
Wait Disney has a school, too, de.
voted to training artists to animate the
Disney pictures. Recently he adver.
tised for help, and only fifty people
out of the 1,700 who answered made
the grade. Now he's advertising again,
The candidates whom he accepts re.
ceive a small salary while they're
learning the work, and then go on the
pay roll as animators.
srl
Randolph Scott, who went into ple
tures, not because he was stellar ma-
terial, but because it looked like =
good way to make a living, is to be
starred in “The Last of the Mohi-
cans.” linn
John Boles had to cut short his
personal appearance tour and rush
back to Hollywood to
be starred in “White
Fang." Incidentally, if
you have to diet to
keep your weight down
the day by drinking
in hot
water, and the big mo-
for
him, Is lamb
chops,
two
John Boles
wn
Jean Hersholt gives such an excel.
lent performance in “The Country Doo.
tor” that his old contract was torn
up and a new one, with the salary
doubled, was given him,
sv nn
Sunny O'Dea, who danced so wel)
in Eddie Cantor's “Strike Me Pink™
that she's headed for the top in plc
tures, still has to go to school in the
studio, because she’s not yet eighteen.
The fact that she has already made a
name for herself as a dancer in New
York and London makes not the slight.
est difference,
ny
Gary Cooper's wife, Sandra. who
doesn’t care for the movie spotlights,
has made a reputation in spite of her
self; she's known as one of the best