WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 1 EW YORK.—News of the ap- proaching retirement of Brig. Gen. Harley B. Ferguson is a re- minder that it was he who super- .- a vised the rais- Retiring General ing of the bat- Could Regulate tleship Maine in Havana har- Flow of Afton DOE fof tr c U. S. government in 1910 and 1911. In the service.for 42 years in the engineering corps, he prob- ably has won more shirt-sleeve battles against all the disasters of the Anglican litany than any other army officer with a gift for achieving the impossible, He will be 64 years old on August 14 and there is talk that he may be upped to the rank of major general before the bell rings on his finish fight against the elements, He is the Hackenschmidt of flood grapplers, winning one fall after an- other against the Mississippi. He has been president of the Missis- sippi River commission since 1932: member of the board of rivers and harbors since 1930 and is also a THE CENTRE WEEKLY NEWS LaBINE Charge Pittman Embargo Bill CONGRESS: Neutrality First guesses after the senate for- Bloom-Hull measure held that neu- Not counted upon were Sen. House's insistence. Because Presi- dent Roosevelt evidently feared a European war after the harvest sea- son, he demanded that neutrality avail much; filibusters are a handy weapon for stalemating legislation, but the President's special session threat made it seem more desirable to act now than be called back from vacation, The President's program: (1) re- tention of the munitions board; (2) barring of American ships from combat zones; (3) restriction American travel in such zones: (4) transfer of title of goods way board. Back in the days of “manifest destiny,” starting in 1897, the Young second lieutenant got his first practice workouts in the mud and miasma, floods and elemental and human catastro- phe in the Philippines and Cuba, and with the army swampers tidying up China and providing relief after the Boxer uprising around the turn of the century, If the “‘destiny’’ involved get- ting things shipshape in a hurry, he always made it a lot more manifest than it might have been otherwise. He was chief engineer of the China expe- dition, He started fighting floods in Mont- gomery, Ala, in 1907 and through the years commanded army engi- neering works, defensive and ag- gressive, at Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Pittsburgh and Norfolk, Va. engineer of the second army corps in France. He went to West Point from his home town, Waynesville, N. C. His son is a commander in the navy. He has two daughters. ee lf mn R. PAUL POPENOE, geneticist, biologist, and student of family relations, who has given much of his interesting career to clinical studies of home life, discovers that women are ag- gressive pro- posers and that Women a Close Second to the N. W. Mounties 1° out of 85 get . their man. This is his finding in his survey of this hitherto unexplored field of statis- tics. Dr. Popenoe is director of the court of family relations at Los Angeles. A specialist in the daily squabbles of married life, he has been effective in settling many of them, He says it is a good idea to write down all your wife’s faults, check them against Your own, and then burn the paper. You should keep the family budget straight, refrain from nagging, and keep yourself and everybody else around the house interested and never bored. As a geneticist, he thinks it is a fair bet that we will become a race of “super- idiots,” whereas we could be super-Einsteins if we could use collectively the sense that God gave geese, He is a native of Topeka, Kan., educated at Occidental college and Angeles before he became a biolo- gist and sociologist. Pn BIG: ruddy John M. Carmody, known as ‘Powerhouse John,” takes over 2,500 PWA employees un- der the new arrangement by which he assumes a New FWA Boss load, compared Belittles Atlas to which Atlas With His Load would be just ball. Leaving the Rural Electrifica- tion administration, he heads the new Federal Works agency, which takes in both the PWA and the FWA; also the bureau of public roads, the building operations of the treasury, the U, S. Housing author- ity and many other Herculean en- deavors. He is a rip-snorting Irishman with a booming voice, employ- ing section boss technique in getting things done. He was for many years an editor of the Me- Graw Hill Publications, making his career in industrial engineer- ing. In earlier years, he man- aged coal companies, factories and steel mills, He has been with the New Deal six years, first with the NRA and later with the NLRB. He has » Pennsylvania farm background and attended Columbia university, Consolidated INeatures—~WNU Servies.) KEY PITTMAN Japan would suffer, also gain. ligerents before shipment: tinued restrictions on and credits to warring nations; (6) regu- { lation of fund collections in the U. S. {for belligerents. ans | Though all inclusive and appar- ently carrying more tenacles } | which American isolatio ithe U. S. might become {abroad, the President's carries far less potentia {than Senator Pittman’'s Under this bill, be forced to declare a munitions ing the 1922 nine-power Chinese non. aggression treaty. get: Japan. a state of war exists pan would thus gain belligerent rights in China and U. S. would have to flee the war zone, Thus America’s entire Oriental po- —————————————— governmental action will be neces- sary to forestall undue price de- | pression, If marketing quotas re- { sult, approved by two-thirds of corn- belt farmers, growers would be re- | quired to store their share of the excess supply or pay a penalty tax of 10 cents a bushel. Cotton, With 14,350,000 bales of | gotton hanging over his head, Sec- | retary Wallace persuaded Congress | to give him $928,000,000 for curing | the surplus problem. Of this, a large part will go to cotton, distributing it among U. S. relief families and | offsetting losses in selling cotton to | foreign buyers at cut-rate prices, i.e,, government subsidy. But in New York the Cotton Exchange serv- ice moaned a few days HOUSING : Political Vogue? ruptness again catches hold. year New York's fensive, ed reform and no more rackets. sibility, reformation sounded tician or party. (like Kansas City's Tom not in spite of, but because of gov- ; g ernment aid. The factors: { foreign growths that can be readily | substituted for American cotton. This, in turn, being due to the { loans, | “Second—For several months for- eign users of American cotton have | not dared to make normal forward { purchases of the American staple | because they have not wn to | what extent the price of American cotton abroad will be by the prospective subsidy payments on exports by the U, 8.” | POLITICS : y : | Yes or No? One good way of ruining an | ponent is to gis 1m $0 much | he hangs hi If, i { one-time Go Paul V, McNutt | turned from his as governor general of the | { pine islands, he became the nation's | No. 1 outspoken Democratic 3 nation. { amazed onlooker: walked ferring with President Roosevelt ¢ his traditional v. Post: General James A. Farley. lowered When 1 18 Wu ” # 4% # 818 000-a-year $+ seeker after 1040's into the lion's McNutt's apg tment a few as $12,000-a-year the President's choice plotting the political suicide of this ambitious Hoosier, thus The pro and con: the last word denoting Deal's objectives. The months it has “humanitarianism”’ for 1940. Not to be forgotten is ti ‘humanitarian’ scope of Paul } Nutt's new job, where he has charg few cation, National Youth administra- bargo would have little effect un- likely tactics. Most vital from a White House viewpoint is immediate repeal of the course agement to Dictators Isolationists, admitting this, think it {would be a good idea. AGRICULTURE: ‘More Trouble | On July 1 the U. S. looked for- {bushels, comparatively small beside {last year's 930,801,000 bushels and ithe 10-year (1928-37) average of 752.- {962,000 bushels. Obviously, wheat is not a source of worry for Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace this year. But a job with more than its just quota of worries has produced three others to take the place of wheat: Tobacco. Last year growers voted to remove strict marketing control provisions of the farm law, result- ing in a big expansion of acreage this year. As of July 1 the tobacco forecast for this year was 1,654,622. 000 pounds, compared with an av- erage crop of 1,360,400,000 pounds. If estimates materialize, some ex- perts believe prices will be de- pressed 25 per cent below last year; also that—under law-—another ref- erendum must be held on tobacco quotas. If approved the quotas would not become operative until the 1940 crop started to market. Corn, Forecast now is a crop of around 2,570,705,000 bushels, com- pared with the 10-year average of 2,300,674,000 bushels. Reasons: (1) unusually favorable weather in June; (2) a sharp increase in plant. ings of high-yielding hybrid corn. With a surplus of about 450,000,000 bushels from previous seasons al- ready on hand, experts predict some MANAGER McHALE Coming along fine. all strong talking points a smart politician can use to further his own cause. Neither should Paul McNutt's travel opportunities be forgotten; as head of the security agency his chances for speeches and political contacts are practically unlimited and he is expected to make the most of them. Breakdown? The security post is not all roses. Keen observers know Paul McNutt is in the limelight where both Democrats and Repub- licans can take potshots at him between now and nomination day. They also know that his new job may be a good place to build a man up personally, yet ‘‘humanitarian- ism" should have nothing to do with politics; therefore Mr. McNutt must be discreet. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, Me- Nutt Manager Frank McHale could figure his campaign to date had been a success, His candidate, like young Lochinvar, had come out of the west after 2% years in Manila, where he could make no embarrassing entan- gling alliances. More important, he had returned to get what Frank Mc. Hale termed the President's en- dorsement as a candidate for 1040, RACKET BUSTER DEWEY Everybody's doing ir. | evaders. This was the signal for | Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper to charge that Frank Mur- phy was trying too hard to win the vice presidential \ination Meanwhile other stration racket-busting program under guidance of the jus- tice department's Ar- t prac- ion out ry. The non adm iiding indus Mr. ATTOIG Id his temporary natior mittee, Chicago Daily am H. Fort wrote from Wash- ington that this was 3 New Deal's most ambitious trust- busting venture in its attempt to 's New York ade.” “obvi the Dewey Designing or not, Thurman Ar. something. With 140 lawyers and an enlarged appropriation, the jus- tice department expects to uncover why a metropoli- Alleged (1) fixing of terials and trade associations: agencies: and (2) (3) of sales limiting of quantities, It is no coincidence that the force exports to maintain a balance One primary reason is peace-loving nations would another, that guarantee self-sufficiency in case of war and to build military machines. Therefore no deliberate anti-Nazi involved last spring for Germany. Though this move coincided with the Reich's absorp- tion of Czecho-Slovakia, treasury and state departments pointed out that Germany customarily forces exports through subsidy, thereby giving its manufacturers an unfair advantage. Similar reasoning was behind the countervailing duties recently im- posed on Italian silk exports to the U. 8., which treasury officials dis- covered were being subsidized. Skipping next to aggressive Ja- pan, the U. S. is investigating com- plaints from domestic textile man- ufacturers that Nipponese cotton goods makers are being given gov- ernment subsidy, boosting still fur. ther the natural world trade advan- tage they gain by low operating costs. Result: Observers predict countervailing duties will soon be imposed on cotton imports from Japan. : Trend [ How the wind is blowing . . . LABOR — Oregon's Supreme court has held constitutional the famous ‘‘anti-picketing”’ law adopted by referendum last No- vember, confining picketing to bona fide disputes between em- ployers and a majority of em- ployees, prohibiting boycotts and outlawing minority strikes. BABIES-—Since both 1937 and 1938 found France's deaths ex- ceeding her births, Premier Ed- ouard Daladier has announced decrees to reward large families and thus stimulate the birth rate. BUILDING-—Major U. 8S. engi- DecTing Sonstiuction awards for 1939's half reached the great. est volume since 1830, -~ 3 Ne )) fy “ Unk rnt HERE AND THERE An Irishman entered a ticket of- fice one day and inquired the fare to Chicago. “Ten dollars,” returned the clerk, “but we are making a special rate today. We'll sell you a round-trip ticket for fifteen dollars.” “A round-trip? What do you mean?” puzzled the Irishman. “Yes,” explained the clerk, “you can go to Chicago and back.” “Well,” said Pat, “what do 1 want to come back for, when I'm already here?” False Alarm The host showed his guest into his bedroom. “1 hope you're not nervous, old “but this room is supposed to be haunted.” “Haunted!” exclaimed the guest. “*What by?" “A wraith—a spectre!” “A w-what?" “A wraith—a spectre.” The guest sighed with relief, and the color returned to his cheeks. *“Oh, that's all right!” he said at last, “At first I thought you said a rate collector!” THIS WAY IN said, “Young lady, I shall never darken your doors ag#fin." “How y' gonna git in—through the windows?" More Profitable An amiable old man, a visitor, was trying to win the friendship of the small daughter of the house. “I'll give you a nickel for a kiss,” he said. ‘No, thank you,” she replied sweetly. “Il can make more money taking castor oil.” Something Picturesque “You can win in a walk,” said the admiring friend enthusiastically, satisfied with anything so sedate and orderly,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Can't you arrange for me to win in an airplane or a parachute jump?’ Something From Above “Isn't there danger,” said the “of dropping things from an airplane on the people below?" “That isn't the worst,” answered "” Hey, That Girl's In Again! He'll never find it. People Are Too Suspicious people who trusted in you? That's Different see Mr. Blodgett. Caller—Is he in conference? Office Boy--No, he's busy. WRECKLESS DRIVING? “He was arrested for reckless driving." “When he'd smashed his car to splinters like that?" 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