Foreign At his office in Fleet street, Pub- lisher Geoffrey Dawson decided that wisdom was the better part of val- or. Next morning his London Times put in black and white what Eng- land’s conservative Cliveden set has thought all along: That Britain had best let Adolf Hitler cede Czecho- slovakia's Sudeten territory if no other settlement would satisfy him. Nor did Der Fuehrer appear con- tent with anything less. While nerv- ous France protested such an idea and rushed troops into her amazing Maginot line like gophers rush to their holes, all eyes converged not on London or Prague, but on Nur- emberg where the Nazi party was holding its annual congress and clam bake. There, Chancellor Hitler found the spotlight’s rays pleasantly warm. In the first of his eight speeches he made clear Germany's determina- tion to be supreme in southeast Eu- rope. To Czechoslovakia these were frightening words: Immediately Su- deten Leader Konrad Henlein was handed the ‘fourth and final’ list of concessions which he rushed un- 3 ay] “a a AMBASSADOR HENDERSON He wouldn't go home. opened to Nuremberg. every demand except (1) establish- ment of a one-unit government for tice of Nazi ideology. Prague’s concessions might have been sufficient a week earlier, but shrewd Adolf Hitler now ain, anxious to avoid war at all cost, had capitulated, unofficially admit- slovakia down the river. midnight had developed, so important that for complete surrender. At Maehrisch-Ostrau, in Sudeten shoulders. While apologetic Prague hastened its investigation, the in- cident offered Konrad Henlein a new chance to play the role of martyr. Next day, with all odds in his fa- vor, Der Fuehrer could afford to assure the world of his peaceful in- tentions. While Nuremberg’'s show continued, he received Germany's foreign diplomatic corps, including France's Andre Francois-Poncet who suggested: ‘Democracies are not exactiy lauded at the Nurem- berg congress, but their emissaries usually feel welcome.” Answered expansive Adolf Hitler: *‘I hope to continue to make the ambassadors feel welcome, and 1 also hope that during my regime no mother will have cause for wet eyes on account of any action of mine.” Most foreign envoys left after the reception, but not Britain's Sir Nevile Henderson. He stuck around like a guest who won't go home, trying to corner either Der Fuehrer or Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. If he succeeded, Ger- many would learn that Geoffrey Dawson was only fooling, that Bri- tain still meant business. Aviation U. 8. commercial airlines could not operate without government mail subsidy, but since 1934 even that assistance has been insufficient to prevent huge deficits. Part of the infant industry's trouble has been of its own making, as when monopolis- tic practices caused the U. S. army's painful experience with air mail five years ago. Throughout its brief his- tory, aviation has contended with improper and vacillating goverf- ment supervision. Not until last win- ter did congress create a civil aero- nautics authority, which was organ- ized last month under Edward J. Noble. Last week, CAA gave a party. To Chicago they invited representatives of 25 commercial lines for a “get acquainted’ meeting that ended in a lecture. Led by Air Transport association's Col. Edgar S. Gorrell, aviation plumped for immediate stop-gap relief in the form of in- creased air mail subsidies. Also outlined was a five-point industrial program which requires CAA’s mor- al and financial aid. All this was well enough, but if airlines expected CAA to be a finan- cial angel, they had another guess coming. Up stepped Member Harl- lee Branch to dispel, once and for all, any mistaken ideas. Said he: “It seems proper to remind , . . carriers that while the authority de- sires that they shall receive® fair compensation, no line should as- sume that the authority is going to dish out public moneys in any reck- less or ill considered fashion. No one should be deluded with the ide that all an air line has todo . . . is convince the authority it has suc- ceeded in operating at a deficit. There will be no premiums on bad management.” War North of the Yangtze river, two Japanese armies captured three Chinese positions in their drive on Hankow. South of the Yangtze there was a different story, for defenders pierced Jap lines six miles south- east of Juichang and forced the in- vaders to retreat, leaving 300 dead. Fresh from Tokyo came 100,000 troops, determined to intensify the campaign on all fronts until Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-shek's govern- ment is crushed. @® On the Ebro front, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's African Moors swept through a gap in the loyalist Cobera line, next day capturing mountain heights dominating the river valley. Domestic In Ohio, 110,000 aged people re- ceive federal-state assistance, which costs the U. S. social security board approximately $1,275,000 per month. In August when he ran for Demo- cratic renomination, Ohio's Gov. which has also been established in 47 other states. Three days before the primary, Security's Director Frank using old age assistance to get Though the governor was de- feated, that did not stop Social Se- curity from sending out investiga- tors who last week reported to Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer. At a hearing from which Martin Davey pointedly absented himself, Social Security claimed that (1) re- quests for old-age aid addressed di- rectly to Governor Davey received | treatment; (2) some | pensioneers were told it would be | ‘‘a good idea’ to vote for Governor | Davey; (3) political and personal | in appointment of Ohio's old personnel. Next day, Chairman Altmeyer's cut off federal pension age | Martin Davey answered a ‘‘dirty PONT —— TE ————— OHIO'S MARTIN DAVEY “This is surprisingly dirty politics.” politics’ charge with a dash of the same medicine: “Frankly, I do not believe you dare deprive these (Ohio's) aged citizens of one-half their scant living to support your political maneuver . This was surprisingly dirty politics for one who pretends to be as righteous as yourself.” @® Before he ever became Presi- dent, Franklin Roosevelt's pet pub- lic utilities idea was a four-point program including (1) Grand Coulee for the Northwest; (2) Boulder for the Southwest; (3) TVA for the Southeast; (4) St. Lawrence water- way for the Northeast. Boulder dam had already been built, and since coming to the White House Franklin Roosevelt has started Grand Coulee, expanded TVA. Only the St. Law- rence waterway is unstarted, nor will it starf until Ontario’s stubborn Premier Mitchell Hepburn gives his blessing, not forthcoming until Can- ada’s railroad situation improves. Without mentioning St. Lawrence, the President managed last week to focus attention on it. At Hyde Park he read reports by the war depart- ment and federal power commission on power needs. Then he decided an electricity shortage in case of war constitutes “a serious threat to national fy.” Appointed at once was a special committee for further study, to ‘find and recommend definite ways and means of meeting this problem.” Best bet was that the St. Lawrence plan would be the “ways and means.” Business Not since June, 1937, has the U. S. treasury asked the capital market for ‘new money,” though last De- cember it borrowed $450,000,000 to pay maturing bills, But when con- gress voted billions for relief this past spring, when Recession kept government payrolls swollen above normal, it was obvious that money must come from somewhere, Fort- night ago, Secretary of the Treas- ury Henry Morgenthau Jr., returned from Europe, busying himself im- mediately with Budget Director Daniel W. Bell. Then came the in- evitable announcement, This month, said Secretary Mor- genthau, the treasury will go into the market for $700,000,000 in ‘“‘new ” SECRETARY MORGENTHAU Uncle Sam needed more money. money” to help finance Recovery. Still ahead are requests for $1,400,- 000,000 more in ‘‘new _money,” though these will not come before next calendar year. Nor was this all. In ing 900, due December 15, will financed. Short term treasury bills, totaling $1,300,000,000, will be re- financed at a rate of $100,000,000 per week. Bolstered by its new borrow- ing, the U, S. cash box will operate on a larger working balance be- tween now and December. On hand last week was $1,620,000,000. the next be re- How much it cost Secretary Mor- genthau to raise his national debt to $38,300,000,000, was evidenced by loan rates. The $1,300,000,000 in ma- turing bills the treasury an average service 0.05 per cent, possibly the lowest rate in U. S. history. Net result of new bor- rowing will be to decrease bank re- serves, now nearing an all-time high, and to increase deposits. Though bank earnings thus far in 1938 are under last year, Secretary Morgenthau was op Said he: “It's quite remar e the way banks are paying dividends and cov- I think they seem to be doing very well. As you know, we have no failures to speak of.” cost debt of Agriculture Last spring, the new U. control measure placed and export corn requi nis at 2,470,000,000 bushels, pre sed to make loans if 1938 production ex- ceeded that figure. Though much corn has suffered from disease, America’s crop this year has still turned out above expectations. By last week it became apparent that corn loans will be necessary. At Washington, AAA's H, R. Tolley re- ported the August estimate of 1838 corn was 2,566,000,000 bushels, which is 94,000,000 bushels in excess of the original estimate. Though loan figures will not be determined until next November's crop board estimates, loans were virtually as- sured, probably at 57 cents a bushel. Politics Nevada's Pat McCarran backed Franklin Roosevelt for re-election in 1936, opposed his Supreme court and government reorganization measures. But while the President sought to ‘purge’ other half-heart- ed New Dealers in this year's pri- maries, he made no intervention in Nevada's primary. Opposing Pat McCarran for renomination were Reno's Albert Hilliard and Carson City's Dr. John Worden, both “100 per cent New Dealers.” The out- come: Pat McCarran won easy re- nomination. @ At Litttle Rock, Ark., conscien- tious J. Rosser Venable, defeated candidate for Democratic senatorial nomination, submitted his $683.90 expense report with an explanation of one item: “I bought one 25-cent watermelon for a few persons in a store and divided with them this delicious, juicy melon.” S. crop domestic People Former Queen Victoria of Spain is a Battenberg, and for generations all meh of the Battenberg line have inherited hemophilia (tendency to bleed), though Battenberg women are free of it. Among victims was the count of Cavadonga, eldest son of Queen Victoria and King Alfonso. As a child he nearly bled to death from a tooth extraction. Two years ago, he had 20 transfusions over a malignant tumor which could not be relieved by surgery for fear of bleeding. Last week, at Miami, the count of Cavadonga sped down Bis- cayne boulevard with Mildred Gay- don, night club cigarette girl. Their car swerved to miss a truck, slid, smashed into a telephone pole. Nine hours later the count bled to death. @® Son James Roosevelt, at Roches- ter’'s Mayo clinic, prepared to have a stomach ulcer removed, WASHINGTON. — A good many Easterners had nearly forgotten about Dr. Francis Townsend and his $200-a-month pension plan until lately they were suddenly awak- ened by the far South and the far West. Sen. Claude Pepper won a Democratic nomination to the sen- ate in Florida largely because of espousal of the Townsend plan and | Just recently Sen. William G. Mec- | Adoo had his public career abruptly | terminated because Sheridan Down- | ey, his opponent for the Democratic | senatorial nomination in California, | proposed and promised some fan- tastic scheme of paying $30 every | Thursday to persons over 50 years | of age. | In addition to these results, there | have been 12 or 15 candidates for the nomination to the house of rep- | resentatives who have won in pri- | maries by saying the Townsend | plan or the $30-every-Thursday or some other impossible and illogical and unsound pension plan would be { put through congress. I cannot de- | scribe them all; they are obviously variations of the Townsend plan, and none of them will work any more than the Townsend bubble will work, and each has been used to delude aged and infirm voters an election. happened, and are happening to- day. The fact cannot be ignored, however, because the condition is with us. The one thing to do, then, I believe, is to attempt to disillusion those folks who have swallowed the slick words of those campaigners or those racketeers who are preying upon the faith of folks who, through no fault of their own, do not have access to information that shows these schemes to be rainbows. And, as far as history records, nobody on earth ever has found the end of the rainbow where the pot of gold is reputed to be. » been in public service off and on since 1913. He never impressed me as being any great shakes of a statesman. As secretary the treasury, he did the job probably about as well as the average politi- cal appointee. I never have had the pleasure of meeting Mr, 3 So I can’t comment. Senator Pep- per's senate record is a great deal like many another senator's record, and probably will continue to be just 80-50. In other words, here were two average senators—one winning with the aid of the promises about the Townsend plan and the other losing because he stayed away from such omises, although he was thrice blessed by the President of the United States. That situation, along with some letters accusing me of giving the Townsend plan a *‘si- lent treatment’ in these columns, seems to warrant a new analysis of the conditions that now confront the country. It Appears Townsendism Is Not Dead After All As I said there is evidence that of has formed the basis of a dozen new panaceas, of which the $30-every- posed in California which, particu- Old people are mili- tantly behind these schemes. That that made the question an issue in And Florida, too, with field for the racketeers who pro- mote such ridiculous programs. It is a harsh thing to blame the strength of these movements, all of which crop up during depression times, upon elderly people. It is nevertheless the cold fact that they are the type among whom such schemes are promoted, and because they have votes, the candidate for office stoops to the level of adding further to hopes that never can be fulfilled in that manner, To show how silly the scheme of $30-every-Thursday is as a cam- paigr issue for Mr. Downey-—just as an example—he is a candidate for the United States senate. The pension dream he has advocated is planned as part of the welfare pro- gram of the state of California. How Mr. Downey can do anything about it as a member of the United States senate, I can not understand, and I seriously doubt that Mr. Downey can explain it. has been affixed by cash payment in a year will stop the transfer of them very shortly. Few storekeepers, for example, will accept them be- yond the necessities of their tax payments to the state of California; it is certain also that those who con- tinue to accept them would not pay the face value, and the possessor would be forced into paying higher prices for the things that he buys. That is, the possessor would be buy- ing 50 cents worth of sugar and prob- ably would be handing over a dollar warrant for it. All of this is the result of a lack of confidence among the people in any form of exchange except the currency that is backed and guaranteed by the United States, as has been shown so many times before. Downey Plan Would Make Trouble for New Dealers Then, 1 believe I foresee some other trouble respecting such war- rants as Mr. Downey's scheme pro- poses; not that I think his plan is worse than any others but it serves as an illustration. It is proposed that the possessor put a two-cent state stamp on the warrant for each week in his possession, or 52 such stamps in a year. | , I imagine hat the warrants would be in the o had no »diate- * 8 Cry go up to supply the i it is quite certain polit politic Ci at all- ly, there woul have the free, an there would be some honorable enough to campaign for office on that issue. ume that Downey comes to the senate; ne that he is elected over his Republican opponent in November. 1 seem to scent some added trouble for Pres- ident Roosevelt and his New Deal friends who have been promising too many too much them. Of course, many persons be- lieve that Mr. Roosevelt's methods to date have encouraged all kinds of quackeries because he has talked at length of humanitarianism. He has aroused the minds of elderly persons who are suffering under conditions not of their own making. He has likewise aroused a lot of flabby brained individuals among the younger people who live on il- lusions. It is made to appear that congressional leaders, seeking to follow presidential policies, are go- ing to be confronted with frequent bulges for national pensions of a kind that no nation can bear. ! number and type of these naceas ebbs and flows with the economic tide. When business is good and there is plenty of work, when storekeepers are able to sell and people are able to buy, we hear little or nothing of the dream-world children of the Townsends and the Downeys and the others. When there are “hard times” and there are thousands upon thousands with- out work and food and clothes, those suffering minds become easy prey to the silver tongue. Pursuing the thought a bit further, it then becomes possible for a move- ment which demands not $30 every Thursday for persons over 50, but one demanding $40 or $50 every Fri- day or $60 every Saturday. The amounts can be pushed up and up and the fervor of the suffering un- der this illusion grows greater and greater. And always, such move- ments provide the breeding ground for other racketeers who want to promote dissension and dissatisfac- tion. Always, too, there will be po- litical champions for the *“‘cause” whatever it may be, because there is something, some halo, about pub- lic office that will lead men into the strangest views, President Cannot Dodge Some of Responsibility Mr. Roosevelt has said with em- state stamps that jans dis- Mr. assu Naw fee iNOW, Ass and of these things will work. He believes spread, because he recognizes how easily miserable humanity can be lead off at a tangent. dent, however, must not dodge re- sponsibility for a part of it. kinds. en again to cause grief for his ad- ministration are but an outgrowth of the numerous plans that have been given birth by various persons in official position. True, they have been fed by the dregs of hard times, but they had their encouragement first from illogical phases of the New Deal. 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