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. Each one
can be completed by adding one
ha 1
Carolina,
5. Lincoin.
6. Dead sea.
7. Lord Byron.
Corn Huskers.8. South Carolina
Brazil.
owa
{ 3. Puccini.
anything to be ashamed of I shall |
Walk, Trot, Gallop
Cavalry drill regulations of the
United States army prescribe that
horses shall walk at 4 ]
trot at 8 miles
hour,
1. FP % allen at 19
ample.” So far the boy has done | 8210p at 12 mm
{ erimenis wiih f
And 1 know of no better | PeTiments with
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