-_ cost is now limited. ickard Schuschnigg Gives In EICHSFUEHRER HITLER, massing 20 divisions of the Ger- man army and presenting what were euphemistically termed pow- ec erful arguments, forced Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria to reorgan- ize his cabinet and give several places to Austrian Nazis. Complete amnesty for all Nazi prison- ers in Austrian jails was immediately de- creed, and the Aus- trian press was for- Adolf Hitler pigden to print hos- tile criticism of the Nazi regime in Germany. Many army officers and civil officials who had been dis- missed as pro-Nazi were reinstated or put on pension. Altogether, the Nazification of Austria was well on the way to completion. But Hitler was not satisfied with this, and called to Berlin the new minister of the interior, Dr. Arthur von Seyss-Inquart, a Nazi, to dis- cuss further extension of the ‘‘con- quest” of Austria. Schuschnigg was still trying to maintain the domi- nance of his Fatherland Front, and Hitler didn't like that. There was a report that he might go to Vienna himself, taking Field Marshal Goering with him. Italian officialdom was highly pleased with the success of Hitler's coup, saying it accorded with Italy's central European policy and tended to solidify the Rome-Berlin align- ment. Great Britain and France, how- ever, were alarmed by the develop- ments and agreed to lodge joint representations in Berlin and Vien- na asking assurance that Hitler in- tends to preserve Austrian inde- pendence. Neither nation would ad- mit that actual union of Germany and Austria was feared just yet. Britain's ambassador to Berlin, Henderson, is said to have warned Hitler recently against any attempt to bring about the ‘‘anschluss” which has been one of the Fuehrer’s chief ambitions. One London correspondent said the British cabinet had just been in- formed that Hitler and Mussolini had formed a new secret defensive alliance of which the Austro-Ger- man arrangement was only a part. It was said to include co-ordination of the German and Italian foreign and financial policies in Europe and strengthening of the Rome-Berlin axis in various ways. With the start he has made, it may be expected that Hitler before very long will make the move against Czechoslovakia that has been anticipated for months. That country is the gateway toward the southeast and its position is perilous in view of the Fuehrer’'s known am- bitions. France is her ally but France would hesitate to take strong action in her behalf unless directly supported by the British. One observer said, ‘the Fuehrer seems to have started on the road to Bagdad.” oe Wee Jap Refusal Starts Race JAPAN having flatly refused to re- veal her naval building plans, it is believed that the greatest navy construction race ever seen is about to start, and the United States may feel called upon to take the lead, with England, France and Japan in the competition. Our government told Japan that a refusal to divulge her intentions would be regarded as confirmation of reports that she was constructing or planning super-war- ships, so now, according to some of- ficials in Washington, we will have to invoke the “escalator clause’ of the London treaty and build larger and more powerfully armed battle- ships The President may be expected to order rrrence of the three battle- ships now planned from 35,000 tons each to 43,000 or 45,000 tons, and such dreadnaughts probably would carry 18-inch guns. In order to obviate the restric- tions on the size of battleships that inhere in the width of the Panama canal locks and to minimize the con- tingency of interruption of coast-to- coast communication through de- struction of a Panama lock by an enemy, the administration is pre- paring to push the project of a canal through Nicaragua. Congressmen who fear the Presi- dent is piloting the nation into war with Japan made probably futile moves to prevent our government from joining in the rearmament race. Though Secretary Hull had de- nied that there was any understand- ing with Great Britain and France concerning Japan, opponents of the administration were still suspicious that it was planning joint action. Representative George Tinkham of Massachusetts voiced their senti- ments when he uttered a warning that ‘“‘every day brings the United States nearer to a war with Japan as planned by Great Britain to fur- ther British interests.” Roosevelt said in a press confer- ence that the United States never will consent to Japan's aims for navy parity. He said that in the opinion of experts the American na- tional def>nse can not rely on a naval establishment designed to de- fend only one of the country's two coasts. protection of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as possible areas of warfare. wen Wallace Gets Busy PLANS for putting the new farm program into immediate effect were announced by Secretary Wal- lace, to whom the law just enacted gives increased pow- ers to control pro- duction through acreage allotments and to regulate mar- keting by quotas for individual farmers. He said he would soon make acreage and production allo- cations and call for $ a Be Sau on marketin quotas Sec. Wallace ¢,;. cotton and to- bacco. Marketing quotas will be- come effective unless rejected by more than one third of the farmers voting in the referendum to be held before March 15. The secretary announced a six- point program embodying the “basic principles’ of the broadened farm policy as follows: “1. Continuation of the AAA soil conservation program as a part of the permanent farm policy. “2. National acreage allotments for corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco and rice at levels designed to meet do- mestic consumption and export de- mands and establish reserve sup- plies. “3. Federal loans to encourage systematic storage of surpluses in big crop years for use in years of shortage. ‘4, Marketing quotas backed by penalties on sales in excess of quotas to secure general participa- tion of farmers in holding surpluses off the market. “5. Release of corn supplies from storage under marketing quotas to meet farm shortages or in the case of national need. “8. Crop insurance for wheat to protect producers against drouth and consumers against high prices resulting from shortages.” Admittedly no one fully under- stands the new farm law, but Wal- lace and his associates hope and peliove 4 will all work out Tor the st. Relief Bill Pushed « ENATE leaders expected to put \J through, with little delay, the $250,000,000 emergency relief appro- priation bill. The house approved the measure by a topheavy vote of 352 to 23. All efforts to make ma- jor changes in the measure were overridden. Only one amendment, barring relief to aliens temporarily in this country, was authorized. The Works Progress administra- tion, which has on hand about $490,- 000,000 of its regular $1,500,000,000 appropriation, will administer the additional relief fund. The WPA has reported to congress that the money will keep at least 2,000,000 persons on the relief rolls until June 30. ssa Wiping Off RFC Debt ITHOUT debate the senate approved a house bill writing off more than $2,500,000,000 in Re- construction Finance corporation debts to the treasury. Senator Byrd of Virginia said the legislation marked a ‘‘return to honest book- government." the RFC, He explained that which among its assets about two and a rious government agencies. os Jones Urges Tax Revision JESSE JONES, the usually level ferred with treasury officials and urged them what they could to hasten congression- al action on tax re- vision. He told Un- dersecretary Ros- well Magill that the whole country was waiting impatiently for action on prom- ised modification of the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes. Jones indicated a belief that the bill, which is still in the hands of the house ways and means commitlee, was being held up by opposition to a provision retaining a stiff tax on undistributed profits of corporations owned by a few persons. enone Great Battle in China NE of the greatest battles ever fought was reported to be tak- ing place in central China, where the Japanese invaders smashed a Chinese army of 15,000 and forced it to retreat across the Yellow river under fire and without bridges, which had been destroyed by the defend- ers. Five Japanese armies were driving southward through the rich central China agricultural region and were seriously threatening Kai- feng, capital of Honan province. From the south, three Japanese armies were advancing from the Hwai river. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek had 400,000 troops along the north and south fronts fighting to prevent the Jap- anese from gobbling up the huge Lunghai *‘corridor.” ne Another Dictator State UMANIA is now added to the European states under dicta- torship. Octavian Goga's govern- Jesse Jones Fascist that it was forced out, and King Carol took charge of affairs by naming Dr. Miron Cristea as premier and dis- solving the parlia- ment. Cristea, patri- arch of the Ru- manian Orthodox church, was given : virtual dictator pow- § air er, but it was ex- pected George Tar- Criste tarescu would very soon succeed him as premier and that Carol would create a crown council over which Dr. Cristea would preside. Much of the new government's au- thority was concentrated in the army, and a nation-wide state of siege was proclaimed. A commis- sion was set to work formulating a new constitution. Cristea, the key man of the gov- ernment, was expected to take steps to regain the friendship of France and Great Britain, traditional allies Miron and Germany. i This Is a "Drouth Year" is called a “drouth year’ by grain men. The weather in those regions is being closely watched by traders in the United States, Liverpool, Win- nipeg and Buenos Aires. that present conditions of soil in much of the territory from west Texas to Nebraska is such that light rains quickly would break it down into powder, easily blown by high winds. Only extremely heavy rains could prevent such blowing. Oklahoma wheat is much below that of last year at this time. The western half of the state was re- ported in serious need of moisture. Dust storms have seriously dam- aged wheat and done further dam- age to the state’s topsoil. The cen- tral section, too, was reported in need of moisture. In all these states producers, grain traders and elevator men agreed that only part of the winter plant in each state would come to harvest should the much-needed rains fail to materialize. i | ELAR [o] VSB ESR THs le] Washington.—It always has been interesting to me to see how politi- cians frequently overlook real is- sues in national affairs. Many times they stimulate the hound that overruns the rabbits. That is the reason why so often a new man In public life suddenly rises to leader- ship. He has taken hold of a bad situation that is right under our feet, offered a constructive solu- tion and has dealt with an immi- nent condition rather than schemed re-election through political fence building. Too Many Laws bit of current history. recalled how Bruce Barton cam- representatives last fall. laws. that is obvious. When he was cam- ing for great masses of inarticulate citizens. But Mr. Barton went further. He announced his intention to seek re- peal of one federal law a week un- til there is some semblance of rea- Mr. Barton is He had been the grindstone } + Now, of course, very new in politics keeping his nose to of business other persons Whether ould suc- recognized the making a atter. Bruce with ! be said ceeded onl) peal bills |i wou ¢ tees through introduction in the house. None has been acted on Few probably will be ac the house runs true to form is to say, Mr. Barton is a Rept can and the house is controll Democrats and New De: at urally, they will give no opportunity for the opposition to gain credit {co anything, no concessions at all The significance of the Barton program goes much deeper, howev- er, and it is of that significance that I want to write. Through more : twenty years as an observer Cre than ton, obviously 1 have many issues develop, or be c1 or be discovered. that the really important national issues are those the Barton program is developing. That means the issue is fundamen- tal; it means, further, and volves vital questions of policy. As 1 said above, there are many laws, too many very few do's. too tion and regulation. The Roosevelt administration has been constantly and the tremendous majority in con- gress has been giving President Roosevelt almost unlimited power the ‘‘don’'t” legislation. So the Bar- ton program would restore a great deal of freedom to the people them- selves and would restore to con- gress much of the power that it has given to the President. To car- ry that thought further, then, the Barton program actually seems to me to propose saving only those laws that the progress of civiliza- tion shows to be sound and work- able. . * » We might consider some of the statutes which Mr. Barton wants to . repeal. There is Time to Cut for example the Them Out so-called Thomas amendment — one of the most assinine and dangerous pieces of legislation ever to get on the statute books. The legislation, forced through by Senator Thomas of Oklahoma in May of 1833, gave the President the power to issue $3,000,000,000 in paper currency. I do not see how anybody can regard it as anything but authority to issue printing press money. Of course, it never has been used by President Roosevelt and probably never will be, but the authority to go into print- ing press inflation exists and that is the danger. How, for instance, can you or I or anyone else feel sure that the money we have in our ket or the few dollars in the ank is going to be worth anything tomorow when the President of the United States, by one stroke of the pen, could turn loose a flood of worthless money. Mr. Barton also seeks liquidation of a flock of government agencies. Some of them are 20 years old or oN wr SCC P Yes 20000007 i of even greater age—built as war- time emergency units, but still in existence for no reason at all. Be- sides the War Finance corporation and some others of that wartime era, it is proposed to get rid of some things of more recent date, The Commodity Credit corporation and the two export-import banks, to mention only three. Now, there is no reason available for retention of the skeletons of the World war, and there appears to have been no rea- son for creation of such things as the export-import banks. I mean there was no sound reason. Those radicals who forced the diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia thought there was reason for the export- import banks because they held such banks would enable trade with Russia. But Russian trade has amounted to about the same as the sale of mules in my home county of Missouri. Two other pieces of which Mr. legislation Barton seeks to repeal One is that law which gave the President the right to change the value of the dol- within certain limita- 1 suppose there are some in aiding recovery. It seems to me, however, that existence of that power in the hands of one man is Just another basis for uncertainty all of the people. In any ats 3 oe 5» 3 the failure of that panacea The piece of far-reaching New 1] legislation conc »d is the so- called Guffey coal law. That thir is a price { aut} pre prices throughout and producers would ) a law if they sold below se figures; they would be sub- ject to fines and prison terms. Only recently, the price fixing features were enjoined by a circuit court of appeals and so at the moment they not operative. Yet the threat exists And attention should be called to the fact also that the three judges granted an injunction were appointed by President Roose- velit and supposed, therefore, to be liberal in their views. Mr. Barton called the Guffey coal ac iece of “grand larceny against umers,”’ because, he explained are who nsumers are made to pay igher prices fixed by the commis ion and they have no word to bout it Among other laws which Mr. Bar- BR That law was another one which the inflationists the brain-trust camp wers were in their heyday. The a grand outpouring of cash for the hey ob- silver was really worth. Analysis of the limited number of laws, I believe, shows the trend of the Barton program. It may be never get to first base with any of them. My conviction, however, is quite to the contrary. I firmly expect to see a growth in 1% al f i will muster, » . » About the time you are reading this column, there will be an inci- : . dent taking place Milestone in 'y,y off in Tient- a milestone in the history of the United States army. Late in February orders become operative for the departure of the Fifteenth United States infantry from Chinese soil. That, of itself, of course, does not provoke particu- lar interest. But the famous Fif- teenth has been on foreign duty for 26 years and that is the longest any unit of the United States army ever has been away from our shores. It ought to be explained that very few of the soldiers making up the Fifteenth infantry were with the outfit when it first was assigned overseas. But the regiment has been stationed abroad and the re- cruits to its ranks have been dis- patched continuously to it as re- tirements and expiration of enlist- ments have occurred. It is now coming back to American soil and will be stationed at Fort Lewis. The Fifteenth has a most honor- able record, beginning with its or- ganization in 1861. It won honors at Shiloh and in the campaigns of 1862 in Alabama and Kentucky. It fought at Murfreesboro, at Chicka- mauga, Chattanooga, and at Atlan- ta. In 1880, it was at the front in the campaigns against Utes, and again in the China relief expedition of 1900, and these were followed by action in the Philippine insurrec- tion. There was a brief spell when the regiment was on home soil, but then it went to work in Cuba. Sub- sequently, it was moved around here and there until the Manchu dynasty was overthrown and China became a republic. It sailed for Tientsin in November, 1912, and there it has remained. © Western Newspaper Union. Applique Swans Lend Fresh Note to Linens What more delightful needle- work could there be than luring these graceful swans across the ends of your towels, scarfs and pillow cases! And mighty little coaxing they need for you cut them out and apply them in a twinkling (the patches are so sim- Pattern 1581 reeds. You can do the entire de- sign in plair embroidery instead of applique, if you wish. 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