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-
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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,
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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?"
Hard to Please
“In running for office,” said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “you
cannot please every one; the best
that you can do is to look benignly
pleasant and convey the impression
that everybody pleases you.”
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