WEEKLY LaBINE
Congressional Patronage Grab
Shoves Political Wheelhorses
Into Justice, Commerce Jobs
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NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W.
CABINET:
Patronage
An able economist, Republican
Willard L. Thorp was borrowed
from Dun & Bradstreet to be advi-
sor in the commerce department's
bureau of foreign and domestic com-
merce. Next Harry Hopkins named
Republican Thorp chief of the bu-
reau, but a patronage-minded Dem-
ocratic congress turned him down.
This was Secretary Hopkins' first
conflict with patronage, but another
was destined soon in which Attorney
General Frank Murphy would also
learn about patronage. Up for simul-
taneous congressional consideration
came two appropriation bills, one to
give Mr. Murphy's department
$1,000,000 for Thurman Arnold's
SENATOR McKELLAR
He smelled patronage.
newly stimulated antitrust drive, the
ment $225,000 for employing a staff
of experts to consult with business
and industry.
Neither expansion plan called for
political wheelhorses, but Messrs.
Hopkins and Murphy must take
wheelhorses or nothing. Sponsored
by Tennessee's Sen. Kenneth McKel-
lar (who can allegedly smell
€n men in congress) a prov
proval for all men hired under eith-
er appropriation at a salary of $5,000
or more. Almost incidental to this
ruling was the fact that congress
cut Mr. Murphy's bill from $1,000,-
000 to $300,000, and Mr. Hopkins’
from $225,000 to $133,500.
Murphy grudge:
detailed investigation and prosecu-
tion of antitrust cases, Thurman Ar-
noid needs smart young lawyers
minus business or political con-
nections. One good reason is that
wheelhorses would instill New Deal-
ism into the drive at a time when
the administration needs business’
friendship. Political lawyers are
notoriously ineffectual, Mr. Arnold
believes.
Hopkins grudge: Special assist-
ants created under the tommerce
bill would work with business repre-
sentatives directly on whatever
been too busy with
fairs to meddle in
SPAIN:
Friendly Relatives
Last March 17 Dictator Francisco
economic af-
politics.
mere moral support against
and Berlin.
pact with - the Axis, but
dragged into months until the world
suddenly fealized General Franco
would be no pushover; like a smart
politician he was playing both
democracies and dictatorships for
all they were worth, staving off an
Axis pact so long as possible.
Mid-June found Franco's brother-
in-law and minister of the interior,
Ramon Serrano Suner, visiting in
Italy with persuasive Count Galeaz-
zo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minis-
Trend
How the wind is blowing . . .
NEGROES — In 18 southern
states, 58 per cent of Negro chil-
dren between ages 6 to 14 were
attending school in 1015-16. By
1935-36, the U. 8S. office of educa-
tion reports, this figure had in-
creased to 84 per cent,
PRESS-—A ministry of infor-
mation will be established soon
in the British cabinet, theoret-
ically having no power of censor-
ship in peacetime but actually de-
stroying Britain's traditional free
press.
SUBMARINES — Thus far
spared such disasters as Ameri.
ca's Squalus and Britain's Thetis,
France is seeking to purchase
four rescue bells like those used
‘by the U. 8S. navy.
BARTER-—Early consumma-
tion is predicted for the unortho-
dox ‘‘barter’’ treaty whereby
American cotton would be traded
for British tin and rubber,
ter and son-in-law. Although their
relatives seemed near agreement,
II Duce and El Caudillo were not.
Yet Franco's independence was not
comfortable.
Needing peace above all to recon-
struct his nation, the generalissi-
mo must nevertheless be imperial-
istic like other dictators. This
means a strong hand in Tangiers,
which all good Spaniards demand
be regained from France. It
creased influence in
speaking Latin America. This pro-
gram plays right into the Axis’
hands, stimulating conflict between
Spain and the democracies and thus
assuring Spain's aid should
and Berlin declare war.
EDUCATION:
Consolation
Spanish-
ing them.
of seniors will fare somewhat bet-
ter than 1938's, a decade of hard
luck has revolutionized the gradu-
ate's outlook, made him glad to take
any job, and placed an entirely dif-
ferent interpretation on the signif-
icance of a college degree. Sample:
To the University of Chicago's 799
graduates, President Robert May-
nard Hutchins addressed this
gloomy message:
that graduation .
with it the promise that the gradu-
ate will ever be able to earn a liv-
ing We must recognize that
you may never make a nickel that
you would not have made if
single rung up the
"
be asked to waste four years, Presi.
dent Hutchins offered the following
left-handed consolation: **
uate make
leisure wh
intelligent
given him
Hoard
cious metals before the World war.
Fort Knox, Ky., appeared to be the
? ¥
new sink hole, for there was
much of the $16.0 315.000
represents 60 per cent of all the
t
3
which
world's monetary gold stock. Mos
alarming to financiers, who see gold
becoming cheaper and cheaper, is
the fact that since January 31
U. 8S. has absorbed more
and one-third times the world's esti
mated gold production
Reason: Europe's war scares.
On December 31, 1934, U. 8S. gold
holdings were comparatively mild,
totaling only $8,238,600,000. Har-
monizing with mobilization, they be-
gan zooming when Czecho-Slovakia
mobilized against Germany
May ($12,915,100,000) kept rising un-
the
000), slackened off during quiet Jan-
uary ($14,682,000,000), then zoomed
the current $16,000,000,000 mark.
FOREIGN GOLD
England's loss is heaviest,
to the U. 8., and which in the first
four months of 1039 sent $852,400,000,
But some of England's shipments
have exceeded her national bank's
gold reserve, indicating that for.
eign gold has first fled to London,
then to the U. 8,
France, which lost $034,000,000 in
1935, offers the only encouraging
picture in today's gold problem.
While other countries bordering
Germany have frantically shipped
their metal elsewhere, the strong.
arm government of Premier Edou-
ard Daladier is now enjoying an in.
flux of gold and capital. Biggest
reaction in the U. 8. is a steady
increase of adjusted demand de-
posits in federal reserve banks,
In early June, as gold hoardings
reached their new peak, reserve
banks deposits also hit a high water
mark.
PUZZLERS
Know your news? Answer all these
questions and you're excellent; answer
three and your good; two, fair; one,
1. Arrow on the above map
points to Tientsin., What hap-
pened there recently to precipi-
tate trouble between what two
nations?
2. Wheat acreage allotments for
1540 are (larger) (smaller) than
in 1939.
3. Leaving Hyde Park, King
George VI gave President Roose-
velt which two of the following
presents: Autographed photo,
tiny replica of the royal throne,
gold cuff links, one of Neville
Chamberlain's umbrellas, a gold
ink well,
4. True or false: The new Jel-
ferson nickel has been withdrawn
from circulation.
{ Answers at bottom of column.)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA:
Trouble Brewing
Contrary to popular belief, Ger.
many did not annex Bohemia and
Moravia when Czecho-Slovakia was
dismembered last March. More-
over, the new land of Slovakia re-
mained “independent,” though well
under Berl
fidentially predicted by European
observers in late May when Czechs,
their patience broken, apparently
began a passive resistance cam-
paign against their Nazi overlords.
By mid-June Czech *“Protector”
SC ———
"GEN. VLADISLAV PRCHALA
For “resurrection of the nation”
Neurath got Der
fearsome Hein-
the Gestapo to
Prague. Other reports had it that
German troops would invade Silo-
vakia, incorporating the entire de-
funct nation into the Reich.
Just as active, however, were
counter plans that reeked of adven-
ture and mystery. In Prague it
send
Himmler of
the Czech ‘'‘legion’ being
Poland could enter the
and
Hun-
to join
coal mines in Maerisch-Ostrau
emerge across the border.
Vladislav Prchala (who commanded
Czech troops against Hungary last
winter) was forming a campaign for
“resurrection of the nation."
Warsaw gossip said scores of for-
mer Czech officers have sailed for
France, where they are forming
special Czech legions controlled by
French military authorities. The
spirit spread to Slovakia, which has
learned its old Czecho-Slovakian
nation was not so bad after all; a
reported 4,000 Slovakian troops
crossed the border into Poland, fol
lowing three military planes.
Though much inspiration for these
moves came from within Bohemia,
Moravia and Slovakia, much also
came from the strong Czech or-
ganizations abroad, With 12 lega-
tions and 70 consulates still open,
with such men as ex-President
Eduard Benes mobilizing world-
wide Czech gentiment for revival of
the republic, Germany indeed had
a problem on its hands, Mean:
while London and Paris feared Der
Fuehrer might solve the problem
by casting out the Czechs as he had
the Jews.
Answers to Puzzlers
1. When Britain refused to sur-
render four Chinese suspected of
killing a Japanese official in
Tientsin, the Japs retaliated by
establishing an economic block:
ade on the British concession.
2. Larger. The allotment for
1939 was 055,000,000 acres; for
1940, 62,000,000 acres.
3. Autographed photo and gold
ink well,
4. False, The treasury depart.
ment spiked this report, announe.
ing 48,080,000 such nickels have
been placed In circulation since
last November,
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