By EDWARD W. PICKARD RANSFER of William C. Bullitt from the embassy in Moscow to that in Paris is not surprising. He it was who was chief- ly responsible for the recognition of the Soviet govern- ment by the United States, and when he was rewarded with the ambassadorship it was expected he would be able to swing a lot of Rus- 2 sian business to American concerns. W. C. Bullitt. Also it was hoped he could persuade his Russian friends to keep their promises not to disturb this country with com- munist propaganda. In these re- spects at least Mr. Bullitt has been a disappointment. But he retains the confidence of President Roose- velt and will not be out of place as ambassador to the leftist French government, Some observers think Mr. Bullitt is sent to Paris for the purpose of secretly sounding out the major Eu- ropean powers on the possibility of reconvening the world economic conference in 1937. Jesse Isador Straus resigned as ambassador to France on the ad- vice of his physicians. The Presi- dent wrote him that ‘if this ad- ministration shall be continued for another four years, I shall count on your returning as a part of it.” EICHSFUEHRER HITLER has injected a little more ginger into the international armament race by suddenly announcing that the term for compulsory military service for Germans was doubled— two years instead of one. As mat- ters are just now in Europe, this appeared to be aimed directly against soviet Russia, and if the London newspapers are to be be- lieved, Dictator Stalin recognizes this and reacts as might be expect- ed. The London Evening News and Daily Mail both assert that Stalin, in a secret radio address to the red army, said: “Comrades of the red forces: We are on the very eve of momentous events. At any moment now you may be called upon to lay down your lives for the defense of the proletarian birthland. “This is the moment you have been anticipating, and now your birthland is expecting you to do the duty you have so eagerly await- ed “Our enemies are getting into po- sition. So be ready. The enemies are on the frontiers of our great land. Keep watch. “Everything money could buy, everything the genius of man could invent and everything the loving labor of the workers could make have been given into your hands for the defense and glory of the Soviet land.” viet leaders followed Stalin similar talks. The foreign office in Moscow flatly denied that the dictator had delivered any such ad- dress as was reported. German economists, worried over the mounting costs of re-arming their country, were told the dou- bling of the term of military serv- ice would not be quite so expensive as it appeared, for more men in barracks means fewer on dole. However, the national debt contin- ued to grow and ways of meeting more scanty. SECRETARY OF WAR GEORGE H. DERN died in Walter Reed hospital, Washington, of heart dis- ease and other complications re- sulting from influenza. He had been ill since last spring but part of the time had insisted on attending to his official duties, keeping this up even from his sick bed. Mr. Dern, who was sixty-four years old, was formerly a brilliant mining engineer and was the second non-Mormon to be elected governor of Utah, serv- ing two terms. ANNOUNCEMENT was made by WPA officials in* Washington that more than 110,000 farmers are now at work on Works Progress ad- ministration projects in the drouth areas of the West and Central West. About half of the farmers on the WPA rolls are in North and South Dakota. North Dakota reported 32,762 at work on federal projects and South Dakota 22,927, Relief and conferred with Acting Governor Welford and Senators Nye and Fra- zier of North Dakota and Acting Governor Holt and Senators Wheel- er and Murray of Montana. Next day Mr. Roosevelt's train carried him down to Pierre, S. D., and thence into other drouth stricken states. Mr. Roosevelt's original schedule was changed to permit him to make a quick run to Salt Lake City for the burial services of Secretary of War Dern. OHN L. LEWIS’ Committee for Industrial Organization in one of its initial efforts to organize the steel workers seems to have suc- ceeded only in leading one big plant to go out of business, throwing 750 men out of employment. Such is the result of a strike in the plant of the Standard Steel Spring com- pany at Coraopolis, Pa., the strike being directed by the CIO. The em- ployees who didn't strike later re- fused to work because, they said, their families had been threatened by phone with bombing if the men returned to the plant. So the com- pany closed down and began remov- ing the machinery. It was alleged the strikers were assured in ad- vance that they would be given re- lief money if the plant were closed, and that the state authorities did nothing to protect the plant or the non-strikers from violence. EDERAL JUDGE JOHN P. BARNES of Chicago upheld the constitutionality of the Commodity Exchange act and denied an injunc- tion to restrain its enforcement asked by members of the Chicago Mercantile exchange. Judge Barnes agreed with the contention of Spe- cial Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge that the act is “merely an extension of the pro- visions of the grain futures act," which has been held constitutional by the United States Supreme Court. IGURES given out by the De- partment of Commerce revealed that July merchandise exports from the United States declined to $178.- - s 324,000, the lowest level of the year, while imports in- creased to $193,400. 000, leaving an un- favorable balance of trade of $15,085,000 for the month. It was the second suc- cessive month an unfavorable balance was reported. How- ever, compared with Sec. Roper. ,.. 1935 month, ex- ports were up 3 per cent and im- ports up 8 per cent. The unfavorable balance was re- garded by Secretary of Commerce Roper as convincing proof of eco- because nearly half the increase in imports over last year in dollar ury items such as furs and whisky wood-pulp, paper, nickel and tin. The increase in exports over July, 1935, consisted chiefly of finished and semi-manufactured articles, in- cluding machinery, electrical appa- ratus, aircraft, iron and steel man- ufactures and inedible vegetable products. FTER more than five weeks of desperate fighting, neither the Spanish loyalists nor the rebels were able to claim a decided ad- vantage, and it became evident that the conflict would be long drawn out if the other European nations could keep aloof. This latter even- tuality was made more probable by Adolf Hitler's announcement that the German government had ordered an embargo on arms to Spain. He thus lined his country up with Great Britain and France, and Italy had acceptea the French proposal for neutrality, though with some reservations. These “neutral” nations, how- ever, do not intend to be imposed upon and both the British and the German governments made strong protests to the Madrid government against alleged violation of the free dom of the seas. Five British war. ships set sail from Gibraltar and Hitler sent seven from the Baltic to enforce the demands that inter- ference with shipping cease. The crews of these vessels were ready for immediate action. The United States does not con- sider the attempted blockade of reb- el-held ports any more valid than do the European nations. Secre- tary Hull told the Madrid foreign Jf OLLOWING the confessions and execution of the Russian conspir- ators against Stalin and the Soviet government, the Norwegian authori- ties decided that Leon Trotzky, al- ed the conditions of his asylum in Norway. They gave him the choice of immediate arrest or signing a promise to refrain from all revo- lutionary activities, and he chose the latter, URING the tall maneuvers France has been testing the gion the elaborate system of con- said the assailing troops, armed with the newest and speediest equipment, were able to penetrate the line only at a few places and in small numbers. Reservists from up to occupy the line in thirty-six hours. Watching the ‘battle’ was a delegation of generals from Soviet Russia. LOYD B. OLSON, Farmer- Laborite governor of Minnesota and candidate for the United States senatorship, died of stomach cancer # after a courageous fight. He had been ill for months but had kept up his ex- ecutive and cam- paign activities as best he could until theend. Hialmar Peterson, lieutenant governor, succeeds him as governor, but at this writing there is doubt as to whom the party's state central committee will select to make the race for the sen- atorship. Francis H. Shoemaker of Duluth announced his candidacy im- mediately, and two other men were being considered—Senator Elmer A. Benson, now a candidate for gov- ernor, and Representative Ernest Lundeen of Minneapolis. ToM BLANTON of Abilene, Tex., veteran ranter in congress, Las lost his seat in that body and says he will return to the practice of law. For twenty years, with one brief interluce, he has represented his district in the house but in the run-off Democratic primary, which is equivalent to an election there, he was beaten by Clyde L. Garrett of Eastland, a county judge. JOSEPH W. HARRIMAN, former J president of the Harriman Na- tional Bank and Trust company of New York and a powerful figure in national finance, was released on parole from the federal northeast. ern penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. He hastened to New York where, it was believed, he would seek a position teaching business subjects. Harriman was sent to prison in 1934 for four and a half years after his conviction on charges of bank- ing irregularities involving more than a million dollars. SENATOR JAMES COUZENS of Michigan, a Republican long noted for his independence of party restrictions and a candidate for re- nomination on the Republican ticket, has announced that he will support Pres- ident Roosevelt for re-election. His state- ment was: “Believing as I do that the most impor- tant matter confront ing the nation is the re-election of Presi- 1 dent Roosevelt, I in- tend to support him, Bainbridg “The. outcome of Colby my own candidacy for the senate is neither important to the nation nor to me, out I believe it is important that my many loyal supporters in Michigan be advised in advance of the primary on September 15. “The reasons for this conclusion will be advanced from time to time between now and election next November.” On the other hand, Bainbridge tary of state in President Wilson's cabinet, announced that he Landon, declaring in a published statement: “Governor erties as self-governed people. Democrats throughout the country ~and their number is formidable are determined in this election to rebuke the betrayal of their party by the administration in Wash ington.” REAT BRITAIN and Egypt have settled their disputes and signed a treaty of friendship and alliance. It brings Egypt much nearer to its goal of independence while at the same time it provides full safety for England’s interests, especially the Suez canal. The Brit. ish troops probably will be with drawn from Cairo and other cities and concentrated with the air force within the canal zone around Is- mailia. The maximum strength is to be 10,000 in the army and 3,400 in the air force, but in é Meter ® LOWELL © Bell Syndicate —WNU Service, “W HAT do you think of the woman who spanks her eighteen-year-old son in jail? ‘“This is what the papers say: ‘Mrs. ~— went to the city jail to- day and administered a spanking to her eighteen-year-old son, who Mrs. ~ walked into the police station and asked permission to give him agreeable and she went to his cell, away from home two days ago because of previous spanking.’" “It seems to me its rather late in the day for her to start spank- ing. What do you say to it—?" This question was put to a well- known writer on subjects pertain- ing to women, who answers as follows: I always®hesitate to speak ar- bitrarily about the problems of any parent, knowing, as we usually do so little of the real truth of what they may have to contend with. And even in the case of the obviously misguided mother of which our friend writes, my first impulse is one of sym- pathy-the thought of how much she must have gone through with this son to 80 make her lose all balance. For that she certainly has. Even if her son were a char- acter his discipline, its failure to the age of eighteen proves quite ob- viously its uselessness in his case I do not believe in spanking-—at cent character leanings, a child can be best disciplined by appeal- ing to his finer qualities. HENDERSON Children, like grown-ups, appre- The Completion Test ciate respect and try to be worthy of it. They are sensitive to repu- tation and try to live up to it. Many a black sheep was not born black but made black by being | the four suggestions given, painted so. And many a fine| Underline the correct one. character has been developed 1. The most populous country and strengthened by confidence of South America is—Argentina, and belief in him. { Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Certainly children need punish-| 2. The leading corn producing ment. But the most efficacious | state is — Nebraska, Iowa, In- punishment is not that adminis- | diana, Illinois. tered in a spirit of revenge or| 3. “La Tosca” was composed parental spite for the annoyance | PY — Verdi, Puccini, Beethoven, caused by the child; it is the pun- Liszt. ishment administered in the spirit 4. The popular name for Neb- of necessity, to “help you to re-|raskans is—Wolverines, Gophers, member’’ that that particular | Corn Huskers, Hawkeyes. temptation is an enemy. A woman 5. The sixteenth President of I know made a practice of con-| the United States was — Grant, sulting her four or five-year-old | T¥ler, Buchanan, Lincoln. son as to the punishment suitable| 6 The River Jordan flows into for certain misdemeanors—that is | the—Gulf of Ob, Bering sea, Dead one he would feel sufficiently to| 5¢a, Indian ocean help him to remember. And that| 7. “Childe Harold’ was written child has developed the ability for | by — Robert Burns, Lord Byron, self - discipline which will make | William Wordsworth, William parental chastisement unnecces- Shakespeare ary long before he is eighteen. | 8. Columbia is the capital of— The same mother seemed to| Oregon, South North have extreme ideas of appealing | Carolina, West Virginia, to the child's strength. The day | Answers he first entered school she spoke! to him like this: “I am doing my |, best to help you to live up to the In this test eight incomplete statements are made. 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