By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
EDERICO LAREDO BRU, the
new president of Cuba, proposes
' to settle all Cuban
obligations in the
United States and is
expected soon to in-
vite the bankers and
bondholders con-
cerned to enter
negotiations to that
end. Credit for in-
ducing Bru to do
this is given to Col.
Fulgencio Batista,
who appears to be
President largely in control of
Laredo Bru ,q.ir5 in the island.
The obligations include about $75,-
000,000 owed to many Americans
who invested in public work gold
bonds which were issued during the
administration of President Gerar-
do Machado.
The new constitution which the
Cuban congress recently voted orig-
inally prohibited any such negotia-
tions as those contemplated before
1940, but when it appeared in the of-
ficial gazette that article had been
radically altered. It now orders the
government to find a satisfactory
States before 1940 and authorizes
immediately.
posing room is supposed
been ordered by Colonel
and though congress has the power
to correct it, a majority of con-
gressmen, after reading the arti-
cle in the gazette, gave it their
approval. So President
seems, is free to go ahead with the
negotiations.
LIMINATION
of child
tion wages is a necessity, and must
ernment since it cannot be done by
state action. So declared President
Roosevelt in his press conference.
He warned the correspondents not
to say he was planning to revive
the NRA and insisted all he could
say at present was that something
should be done to fix maximum
hours and minimum wages.
Since the day of the NRA, said
Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a
steady decline in child labor, gruel-
ing hours and starvation wages by
90 per cent of American business.
As for the other 10 per cent, he
up to the best standards since the
death of the NRA.
Attorneys for the American Fed-
eration of Labor were reported to
be about ready to submit to the
labor protective features lost in the
death of NRA. It provides that
congress catalogue unfair ‘‘con-
duct’ which would be forbidden to
employers and assure workers
adequate protection. Violations
would be punishable by a fine. The
federation is expected also to back
federal
porations as provided by the O'Ma-
honey bill.
OM BERRY, before retiring
from the governorship of South
Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitch-
cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out
the term of the late Senator Peter
Norbeck. The new senator is Demo-
cratic state chairman and his ap-
pointment brings the Democratic
membership in the senate to 76,
the highest party total in history.
The Republicans now number 16.
Mr. Hitchcock was born in Ma-
quoketa, Ia., in 1867 and was edu-
cated at Anamosa, Davenport and
Chicago. He went to Mitchell in
1894 and was admitted to the bar
two years later. He was presi-
dent of the school board in his home
town for ten years and state's at-
torney four years. He served as
state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929.
S NEBRASKA'S unicameral
legislature, unique in the Unit-
ed States, was about to begin its
first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de-
clared politics was out. He dis-
couraged party caucuses among the
members and said he would have
no spokesman in the legislature.
The governor pointed out that the
constitution provides that the one-
house chamber shall be non-parti-
san and that the voters had done
their part by electing, on a nonpoli-
tical ticket, 22 Democrats and 21
Republicans. He said he would con-
tinue personally and as governor,
all measures for new forms of tax-
ation.
INANCIAL status of American
farmers may be much improved,
as reports of governmental agen-
cies say, but some of them still ap-
pear to need a lot of help. Sena-
tor F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin
asked federal officials to allot $10,-
000,000 to aid the Wisconsin farm-
ers who are suffering from the ef-
fects of the drouth.
“This would be $200 per farm,”
he said, “and considering the high
price of hay and other items of feed,
it would be difficult to make a
smaller sum cover the needs which
would develop during the winter
season.”
Duffy estimated 40,000 to 50,000
Wisconsin farmers would need as-
sistance in purchasing live stock
this winter. He said at least 35,000
farmers in the drouth area and
from 10,000 to 15,000 outside the
drouth districts were in need of aid.
In addition, he said, between 30,000
and 40,000 farmers would need gov-
ernment aid in purchasing seed for
the 1937 crop.
OVERNMENT officials, from
the President down, were anx-
ious to prevent the export of Amer-
ican airplanes to Spain, license for
which was given perforce by the
State department to Robert Cuse,
a Jersey City airplane broker. Cuse
proposes to send $2,777,000 worth
of planes to the Spanish loyalists,
and his action was criticized in
Washington as ‘legal but unpatri-
otic.” Senator Key Pittman of Ne-
vada, chairman of the foreign rela-
tions committee, assailed the Cuse
deal as improper and dangerous
and said it might embarrass not
only the United States but also other
the hands off policy toward the
Spanish war. Congress may be
able to rush through prohibitive
are
shipped. Meantime pressure was
JHEN the German steamer
Palos was captured by Span-
loyalists at Bilbao because it
carried war munitions supposedly
destined for the Franco forces, the
Berlin government demanded its
release under threat of reprisal.
The Basque authorities, when the
cruiser, Koenigsberg, ar-
rived at Bilbao, let the Palos go,
but held on to the cargo and to one
Spanish citizen who was a passen-
ger. This did not satisfy the com-
mander of the cruiser who insisted
the cargo and the Spaniard must
be released. The authorities defi-
antly refused this, and several more
There was a report in Berlin that
lio,
insurgents.
war measures in this crisis, and
that he would preserve
help his economic and colonial
needs in return for nonintervention
in the Spanish conflict. However,
Anglo-French note sent Christmas,
urging a cessation of German vol-
unteer enlistments for Spain had
come too late, and that Germany
will permit and even encourage a
HIANG KAI - SHEK, generalis-
simo of China and its dictator,
is back in Nanking. Marshal Chang,
who held him prisoner in Sianfu for
two weeks, also is
in the Nationalist
capital, avowedly
repentant and ready
to submit to any
punishment, The
danger of civil war
has passed for the
time. The terms on
which Chang re-
leased Chiang have
not been made pub-
lic. The dictator is-
T.V.S00ng gued a statement,
directed to his kidnaper, commend-
ing his change of heart and promis-
ing to use his influence to obtain
leniency for him; and Chang also
gave out a statement admitting his
grievous fault.
These developments would seem
to have quieted down the Oriental
situation, but there is another mat-
ter that threatens continued trouble.
This is the prospect that Chiang
may decide to confine his attention
largely to military affairs and to
make Dr. T. V. Soong, his brother-
in-law, premier. Soong, who used
to be minister of finance, stands
high among those who favor a
strong foreign policy, including re-
sistance to further encroachments
by Japan. Therefore it is easy to
see that his elevation to the pre-
miership would greatly annoy To-
kio and might easily bring about an
WALLACE has just apportioned
$200,000,000 to the states for road
improvement. Of this sum $125,
800,000 will go toward improvement
of the federal-aid highway system,
$25,000,000 for improving secondary
or farm-to-market roads, and $50,-
000,000 for grade crossing elimina-
tion.
The fund is for use during the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 1937,
and funds for improvement of roads
must be matched by the states.
Grade crossing elimination funds
need not be matched. Highway
projects selected, contracts and
specifications are subject to federal
approval after designation by state
commissions,
RTHUR BRISBANE, one of the
foremost newspaper editors
and writers of the time, and the
highest paid, died in his New York
residence of coronary thrombosis at
the age of seventy-two. The mil-
lions of Americans who have read
faithfully his columns, “Today” and
“This Week,” mourn his passing.
An indefatigable, able and often
brilliant worker, he continued his
journalistic labors almost to the
hour of his death.
Born in Buffalo, N. ¥Y, Mr. Bris-
bane at eighteen joined the staff of
the New York Sun as a reporter.
Shortly after he went to Europe for
five years to complete his educa-
tion and became the London corre-
spondent of the Sun. From that
time he advanced steadily in the
profession. For the last 39 years
he was employed by William R.
Hearst. He had been ill for some
time but characteristically con-
cealed his condition from all but
members of his family and died in
the harness, as he would have
wished to do.
ILENT for two years, Mahatma
Gandhi once more comes into
public notice with a speech tending
to increase the opposition to British
rule in India. He
spoke at an indus-
trial exposition held
in connection with
the annual session
of the All-India Na-
tional congress, the
members of which
were already agitat-
ing in favor of inde-
pendence. Said the
“holy man’:
‘Show me the Mahatma
way. I am prepared Gandhi
to go back to jail va
again. I am prepared to be hanged.
“If you do all I want you to do,
Lord Linlithgow (British high com-
missioner for India) will say, ‘I
am wrong. I thought you people
were terrorists, and, if you like, we
Britishers will go back on the next
We would then say to
big enough to hold you and more
like you.’
“That is my swaraj (self-govern-
ment under native influence).”
Jawaharlal Nehru, in his presi
address to the congress,
warned the British his countrymen
would not be “parties to an imperi-
alist war."
NOTHER big air liner, the third
to meet disaster in a month,
crashed against the top of Oak
mountain, twenty miles from Bur-
a ravine, a mass of tangled wreck-
age.
were all killed.
to Burbank.
P
Vatican that he was steadily grow-
pain.
further for him.
died in Berlin at the age of
was responsible for the great defeat
of the Russians at Gorlice, and he
planned the campaigns that resulted
in the collapse of Serbia and Ru-
mania. After the Von Kapp putsch
of 1920 Van Seeckt was made com-
mander - in « chief of the German
army which he built into an effi-
cient force. Later he helped to
train the Chinese National army.
MONG the numerous govern.
mental reports at the year's
close that of M. I. Myers, head of
the farm credit administration, is
interesting and encouraging, showe
ing that the outlook for the finan
cial status of farmers for 1637 is
bright. During 1936 the total loans
to farmers by the various FCA
agencies were $670,000,000 com-
pared to $1,060,000,000 in 1935.
The decline reflected a decrease
in the “emergency demand” by
farmers for assistance from federal
agencies,
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Measure thy life by loss
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WNU Service
Home Heating
Hi By John Barclay
MHesting Export
Getting Fire to Burn Briskly te
Produce Quick Heat on Cold
| Mornings
| HAT a joy and comfort it is
to get your home heated
| quickly on cold mornings! And
| how easily it can be done!
| Shake the grates gently. When
|a red glow appears in the ash-
| pit, stop shaking. Next, open
| the ashpit damper and close the
{| check damper until the fire burns
| briskly. Should fresh fuel be nec-
| essary, feed it on the fire in a
thin layer. Give it time to burn
well and heat the house, then
add a full charge coal. When
the gases have burned off, reset
the dampers for normal gz.
This same rule
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burn itself out at )
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Believing Youth
Youth is beautiful and Leliey
It is a shame to exploit it.
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