WEEKLY NEWS
LaBINE
POLITICS:
Looking to 1940
“A year ago when the President sent
his $4,500,000,000 lend-spend message to
congress, | said it was like putting a shin
plaster on a cancer. This plan now is
just another shin plaster.”
What looks like a shin plaster to
North Carolina's Sen. Josiah W. Bai-
ley looks to dubious U. S. business
men as a timely reiteration of the
politico-economic philosophy Presi-
dent Roosevelt expounded before
congress last January 4, namely,
that ‘““government investment’ in U.
S. financial stability should
merely be an emergency stop gap,
but a long-range standard policy.
The new plan:
Government agencies would issue
extra-budgetary
Special U. S.
ing projects. authori-
SENATOR BAILEY
Shin plaster for a cancer.
ties would loan a total of $3,860,000,-
000 within periods ranging from two
to seven years,
be divided as follows:
Non-fe« al pu Ww
500,000
0 000
800. 000
800.000. 000
500 000.000
ben Barkley assu
measure would
evap
of it. Almost u y
was the White Ho
treat the co:
pump-priming met}
before, which con
but straight spending. Also over-
looked was the small size of a seven-
year $3,860,000,000 program com-
fom
irom
Deal spent on recovery and relief
1933 to 1938. Nevertheless
many a vital hole and many a politi-
cal portent could be read from the
measure:
Polities. With 10,000,000 still un-
employed and national income about
$12,000,000,000 under the “ideal” of
$80,000,000,000 a year, the adminis-
tration will obviously seek to per-
petuate itself in 1940 by stimulating
a temporary recovery as in 1938. Re-
publicans and conservative Demo-
HEADLINERS
REAR ADM. HARRY YARNELL
A pop-eyed Japanese consul
in Shanghai received an unex-
pectedly brusque message recent-
ly for transmittal to Tokyo. It
said that the _-
American navy
will go *“‘wherev-
er necessary’ to
protect American
citizens and that
it expects no in-
terference from
Japan, who has
been trying to
shove Occidentals
out of the Orient.
The ‘message == CR00
came from Rear Admiral Harry
E. Yarnell, spare native of Inde-
pendence, lowa, director of
America’s Asiatic fleet and un-
official Far Eastern diplomatic
representative since October,
1936. It was almost the parting
shot of a man who has won virtu-
ally all disputes with Japan grow.
ing out of the Chinese war. For
Mr. Yarnell, who meantime has
won the admiration and even the
respect of Japan, will reach stat-
utory retirement age in July,
Veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, Philippine insurrection,
Boxer campaign, Vera Cruz occu-
pation and World war (where he
commanded the U. 8. 8. Nash.
ville), his most difficult assign.
ment is the present one. He will
be succeeded by Rear Admiral
Thomas C. Hart, possibly return.
ing to his prairie home after a
job well done,
crats point out that the new lending
plan provides $870,000,000 to be
spent next year; with FHA’s new
lending power ($800,000,000), with
the emergency relief appropriation
($1,735,000,000) and record agricul-
tural subsidies ($1,000,000,000) the
coming® fiscal year will bring ex-
penditures of $4,405,000,000 as.a pre-
lude to the campaign and election.
However sincere the President's in-
tentions for recovery, the political
connection is inescapable and leads
many observers to believe Mr.
Roosevelt will positively seek a third
Finance. Fears of orthodox U. S.
financiers went unnoticed in the del-
Among
even Brain-
Jr., assistant
recently said
Adolf
secretary of
Jerle
state,
absorption
productive
lead to government
the country's mq
' bonds be
projects are self-
sustaining by so close a margin that
to tax the bonds would make them
a losing investment,
municipalities will be
blocked in many cases by local laws
regulations covering mu-
Most large cit-
moreover, have already reached
ison act forbids new
loans to nations already indebted to
$500,000,000 trade - boosting
Financiers fear
there is no method to
tion short of war.
g of equi
ald, it is alleged, be an un
satisfactory substitute for the reme-
dial legis necessary to place
U. S. carriers back their feet.
Restoration of rail prosperity is re-
garded as far preferable.
FRANCE:
Lesson
When
Geor
sistance pact with
sador Suad Davaz, Italo-German ag-
30 into the eastern Mediter-
an seemed effectively stymied.
reover, for Signor Benito Mus
it was an object lesson in ger
ehavior. Results:
d away from the Rome-
(2) Anglo-French
| of the strategic Darda-
German in
EUROPE
here,
force c¢
a loss
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French Forelgn
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war-
TURKEY'S GAIN
It pays to be a gentleman.
the Balkans less likely; (3) pro-Nazi
Bulgaria is isolated; (4) Turkey's
big neighbor, Russia, should now be
more willing to enter a military
agreement with Britain.
Mussolini's object lesson was that
Turkey won the strategic Republic
of Hatay (Syrian Alexandretta) in
return. Though the transfer was
probably illegal in League of Na-
tions’ eyes, under whose mandate
less gained by negotiation what Italy
has been unable to gain by threat.
bow before Mussolini's demands for
Suez canal rights, the Addis Ababa-
Djibouti railroad and Italian minor.
ity rights in Tunisia.
NAVY:
Speed-Up
Fiscal year's start July 1 means
new funds for new work in most
U. 8. government departments. Big-
gest appropriations for the 1930-40
fiscal year cover rearmament, and
before July has passed into history
the navy will be well under way
with three new jobs:
Bases. Costing $65,000,000 are 12
plane and submarine bases for
which congress has appropriated
$31,621,000 to handle the first year's
work. Outlying bases will be at San
Juan, Puerto Rico; Kaneohe and
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Sitka and
Kodiak, Alaska; Midway island;
Johnston island and Palmyra island
in the western Pacific. Continental
bases will be at Pensacola and Jack.
sonville, Fla.,, and Tongue Point,
Ore.
Ships. Early June found 75 war-
ships under construction, the pro-
gram running ahead of last year.
Meanwhile 24 new ships are being
rushed, including two 45,000-ton ‘‘su-
per” battleships. All will be laid
down in 1940 and will cost about
$350,000,000.
Planes. Effective immediately the
“‘speed-up’’ policy will be applied to
500 new airships, whose completion
during the 1939-40 fiscal year will
bring the navy's total to 2,132,
How It Works
ANGLO-U. 8. BARTER PACT
Most nations are deficient in
some natural resources and have
too much of others. In wartime,
inability to export non-essentials
and import essentials would be a
military handicap. Friendly na-
tions can prepare in advance
against such emergencies with-
out disturbing their economic bal-
ances. Under the new American-
British barter treaty, the U. 8.
will give England $30,000,000
worth (or 600,000 bales) of surplus
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for shells like these. It will
come from 11,300,000 bales held
by the U. 8. as security for
loans to farmers, thereby reliev-
ing pressure on the domestic
market. In return,
Britain will
give the U. S. 85,000 tons of
RUBBER,
would need
such as the
in wartime for pi
nation will
seven years as
er other materi: 3
tered, for America needs item:
like tin, chromium and ma:
nese, Although the U. 8S
plores barter fostered
Germany, the new
will merely
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not a basic
arrange
AGRICULTURE:
Strange Feeling
America’s "dust bow!"
3 the
Oklahoma, eastern New
Colorado, and western
1836, at the drouth's
16.000 000 of
grain and grazing lanc
neoil under ferocious winds
tht no moisture.
Panhandles of
acres
sands
and
that
square
tivated in conto furrows
the moisture and stopped ero-
By t spring the 16,000,000
¢'' acres were reduced to
As wind-weary farmers began
immer's crop, they
look back on a prodigious job
done, Whereas 1835 3 ied a
the dust bowl's elevator men ex-
pect from 15,000,000 to 25,000,000
bushels when this season's grain is
threshed.
Smiling, likewise, were drouth-
ridden farmers of northern plains
states (Nebraska, North and South
Dakota, Wyoming, Montana).
Though their land was still quite
dry and this year's prospects none
too good, they have felt something
unusual this summer--rain,
TRANSPORTATION:
Pedestrians
“He has been sadly neglected and has
had to shift for himself. He has evolved
the simple philosophy that his job is to
get across the street as best he can. He
joins with other pedestrians in mass vio
lation of traffic lights. In rural areas he
walks on the pavement, on the wrong
side of the road, and wears dark cloth
ing at might”
This, said the National Safety
Council's Leslie J. Sorenson, is the
plight of U. S. pedestrians who in
1938 accounted for three out of ev.
ery five persons killed in traffic ac-
cidents. What made the situation
more startling were figures showing
two-thirds of pedestrians killed were
violating a traffic ordinance or com.
mitting an unsafe act. Thirteen per
cent of them had been drinking:
only 9 per cent of drivers involved in
fatal accidents had been drinking.
Suggested cure: Make pedestrians
obey stop signals and other traffic
regulations just as automobile driv.
ers must do; build sidewalks in the
country.
FORECAST
PURGE-Succeeding retiring
Gov. Richard W. Leche, the late
Huey Long's brother Earl is ex-
pected to ‘‘purge’ the political
machine created by his illustrious
brother, thereby preserving an
air - tight organization being
threatened by dissension. First
to leave: Dr. James Monroe
Smith, whom Huey Long named
president of Louisiana State uni.
versity.
WRECK-—Evidencing the need
for better submarine rescue
equipment, salvagers of the sunk.
en U. 8. submarine Squalus pre.
dict the boat will not be raised
until at least late July.
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ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
The First Rebel
AMES SMITH led the first upris-
ing of American colonists against
the first blood in
At the age of 18, young Smith
captured and held prisoner
During this time he not
acquired their skill in wood-
but also learned to hate the traffic
French and British
on with the Indians. He could see
the disastrous effects the red
man of the white man's greed for
money.
Smith organized a band of fron-
tiersmen called ‘Black Boys,” in
1763. Their purpose was to keep the
drunk and bloodthirsty Indians out
of Conococheague valley. But two
years later, Smith decided that the
best way to fight them was to cut
off their source of supply for whis-
ky and arms. Accordingly, his
“Black Boys'' held up a pack train
and burned the goods.
On May 6, 1765, a platoon of Brit-
ish Highlanders, members of the
Forty-second regiment of His Maj-
esty’'s army in America—the famous
“Black Watch''—marched on the
town of Fort Loudon, Pa., to pre-
serve law and order and put this
lawless band of “Black Boys" in
their place.
Jut when
were carrying
on
the British soldiers
reached Smith's forces and Sgt. Me-
Glasham ordered them to ‘Halt!
In the king's name, halt!” a pitched
battle followed in which the soldiers
were driven into the cabin of a cer-
tain Widow Barr. The rebels kept
them there Britishers
agreed to march back to Ft. Loudon
from whence they came. And so
the truly first battle of the Ameri-
can Revolution, fought 10 vears be.
fore the famous battle of Bunker
Hill, was won by America's first
rebel, James Smith.
* * *
Sky Pilot of Deadwood
MONG the thousands of adven-
turers who took part in the
gold rush to the Black Hills of South
Dakota in 1876 was Connecticut-born
Henry Weston Smith.
Smith arsived at Deadwood
the town was at the height
tamed glory. But he was not seek-
ing gold He picked rip roarin’
Deadwood to try out his preaching
talents.
He preached in the but
received no money for it, support.
ing himself by manual labor such as
cutting trees, chopping wood and fir-
ing a sawmill boiler. .ven his
g was not onl ily
shysically difficult—he had
shout at the top of his voice to be
heard above the raucous calls of
the gamblers and entertainers.
On Sunday, August 20, 1876, after
his usual morning services in the
main street of Deadwood, he start.
ed out for Crook City, 10 miles
away. He put his Bible in one pock-
et, the copy of his sermon in an-
other and pinned a note on his
cabin door that said, “Gone to Crook
City, and if God is willing, will be
back at 2p. m.”
God wasn't willing. When about
halfway there, he was stalked and
killed by a Sioux war party. For
some strange and unknown reason,
the Indians did not rob him or scalp
him, but crossed his hands peace.
fully on his breast and put his
Bible in them.
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The Railroad Raider
IN THE morning of April 12,
1862, a train stopped at Mariet-
ta, Ga., en route from Atlanta to
Chattanooga. An unusually large
number of men passengers came
aboard, claiming they were refu-
gees from within the Yankee lines
and wanting to join the Confederate
forces.
When the train stopped at Big
Shanty for breakfast, James J. An.
drews, a citizen from Flemingsburg,
Ky., and one of the large party of
alleged refugees, cut away all but
three cars, climbed into the cab and
steamed away.
Capt. W. A. Fuller, who was in
until the
i“
when
of its un-
sireets,
Captain Fuller got a handcar and
pursuit. But Andrews burned 15
bridges, pulled up many sections of
track and placed several obstacles
along the right of way, all while
keeping ahead of his pursuers who
finally abandoned the handcar when
they were able to board a locomo-
tive.
About to be overtaken, Andrews
set fire to the last freight car, left
it on a bridge and ran into the
woods with his crew. Mounted mi
litia finally captured all of Andrews’
party and he, with several others,
was executed as a spy.
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