EUROPE:
Stifled Rumor
At midnight 40 military supply
trucks from East Prussia rambled
into the Free City of Danzig, their
heavy gray doors locked tight. Next
day Nazi Leader Albert Forster re-
turned from a conference with
Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. On
Danzig's outskirts a Polish customs
official was shot dead by a Free City
officer. Both Warsaw and Danzig
jails held a prisoner from the enemy
camp. To top it off, the Danzig
senate was re-
ported plan-
ning to
thereby
nominal
nexation
Germany.
This
ground
and
to
of
way
mor
SIR IRONSIDE
paper
He reiterated.
spondents
finally back to their birthplace at
Berlin. The rumo That Danzig's
problem is now
negotiation.
Both Poland and Britain
it, and their explanations
sense. The rumor
just as Maj. Gen
side, inspector
overseas forces,
made
began spreading
of
general British
arrived
Germany obviov hoped the peace
or would split ce
land thinking Britain had
t for a German-sponsored peace.
Nothing like that happened.
the contrary, General Iron
it offered the most firm reiteration
to date that Britain is ready to fight
for Poland's cause. It came sharp
on the heels of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain's guarantee to
protect Danzig as well as Poland,
plus offers of British credit to bol-
ster Warsaw's rearmament.
But even this British stiffness has
berlain's yen for appeasement. Sir
Nevile Henderson,
Berlin, was cautiously reported un-
der instructions to
for world peace.’
about a huge British loan to Ger-
many and return of
war-lost colonies in exchange for
peace. If this was true, Poland may
yet split with her faithless friends
in London.
RELIEF:
More Trouble
A big enough headache for one
man was WPA’s wage strike, which
hit Administrator F, C. Harrington
smack between the eyes. But no
sooner was the strike settled than
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LITTLE WAR-—Austrian Ger-
man-speaking farmers in the Ital-
jan Tyrpl refuse to be Italian-
ized, yet refuse to be returned to
Germany. A profitable tourist
trade has been killed by Musso-
lini's order evicting foreigners
fromm the Tyrol while he and Hit-
ler ‘strong-arm’ the Tyrolians
into some sort of submission,
Meanwhile Italy denies rumors
that the area will be leased or
ceded to Germany.
BIGGER WAR — Soviet-Japa-
nese disputes in Manchukuo's
Lake Bor region are minimized
by a new dispute on Sakhalin is-
land involving Japanese leases on
Soviet coal and oil concessions.
Sakhalin is owned half by Rus-
sia and half by Japan. When So-
viet officials fined Jap conces-
sionaires $112,000 for failure to
fulfill obligations to Russian
workers, Tokyo claimed its pres.
tige had been insulted and de-
manded that fines be rescinded.
Both nations stood their ground,
Colonel Harrington faced.an even
bigger headache:
Under the ‘“‘anti-career” provision
in this year’s relief measure, WPA
must discharge 650,000 (one-third of
all employees) by September 1. Al-
though the law specifically states
employees who have worked 18
months must take a 30-day ‘‘vaca-
tion,” the holiday will probably be
much longer. Reason: WPA’s $1,-
750,600 for 1939-40 will carry only
2,000,000 workers contrasted with
3,000,000 in 1938-39.
One good reason why congress
may lose its adjournment enthusi-
asm is that dismissals and new
wage scales will take effect just
reach their home stamping grounds
no differential
and south,
have their
provide
north
salaries cut an
Eighty-year-old Gov. Luren D.
when Republican Gov. Frank Fitz-
A Godly man, Gover-
In June
he attended the N
eturn-
warn-
life evils: *‘'There
than in the old sa
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called him *
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was Governor Dickinsor
A week later the governor's
on
ature
speech.
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New York
CONGRESS:
Prayer
President will pray as never before that
there will be no new crisis in Europe.”
gress to table neutrality legislation
until next session.
embargo on all U. 8.
1011,
This done,
$3,460,000,000 lend-spend bill barred
adjournment. While carriers them-
JESSE JONES
Railroads remained silent.
selves remained silent, Federal
Lending Ad: trator Jesse Jones
endorsed ti ieme to let railroads
lease $500,000,000 wr
juipment.
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Also in congress:
between
offered by
mise wage-hou
New
Argu
interests want
products
ing
farm
wage-hour supervision.
€ The senate passed the Logan b
embarrassingly discovering in next
morning's Congressional Record that
it had subjected decisions of the la-
bor board and all other quasi-judi-
cial or quasi-legislative agencies to
the circuit court of ap-
JUL L
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14d,
‘MISS MICHIGAN AVIATION’
New York wasn't wicked
newsmen cornered 23-year-old Willo |
Sheridan who came east as ‘‘Miss |
Mchigan Aviation’ by the gover- |
nor's own appointment. Willo made
a good story. While shutters snapped |
Willo sampled Manhattan cham-
pagne and said: "I'm having a won-
derful time here. 1 respect Gover-
nor Dickinson and think he's a very
fine man. But I don't think New
York's a very wicked city.”
Back home in Lansing, Republi-
can John B. Corliss Jr. started a re-
call petition against the governor
because of his ‘‘recent sounding off
about the evil he thinks he found in
high places.” While Corliss’ fellow
thinkers rushed to sign, the gover-
nor took them by surprise. Said
he: “I'll sign the petition myself.
I never wanted to be governor any-
way."
LOUISIANA:
Both Feet
A whisper of scandal started when
Louisiana State university's Presi-
dent James Monroe Smith fled to
Canada after allegedly bilking three
banks out of $500,000. The whisper
grew to common gossip when Smith,
LSU's Construction Superintendent
George Caldwell, LSU’s Business
Manager E. N. Jackson and Dr.
Clarence A. Lorio, president of the
state medical society, were indict-
ed on a total of 29 counts. This
was only the beginning:
By mid-July federal probes were
underway regarding (1) Louisiana's
administration of the 1037 sugar
act; (2) violations of U. 8. oil regu-
lations; (3) misuse of WPA mate-
rials and labor; (4) an unannounced
subject under scrutiny by the U, 8S.
treasury’s department of revenues.
Meanwhile five men made great by
the late Huey Long were arraigned
on charges of using the gnails to
defraud the state of $75,000. The
five: Dr. Smith; Seymour Weiss,
political bigwig and millionaire; J.
Emory Adams, nephew of Dr.
Smith's wife; Monte E. Hart, elec-
tric company official who has re-
ceived many state contracts: and
Louis Lesage, ‘contact’ man for an
oil company.
Accumulated events offered a sig-
nal for Rev. Gerald .L. K. Smith,
New Deal hater, foe of Commu-
nism and close associate of Huey
Long, to charge indictees are “bone
and tissue of the Roosevelt ma-
chine.”
Mexico's Rep. John J. Dempsey and
Sen. Carl Hatch, banning use of offi-
cial authority to influence elections.
€ The senate approved a resolution
authorizing investigation of the la-
administration of the
Wagner act.
€ The senate approved and gave
the house a bill extending federal
crop insurance to cotton farmers.
ENGLAND:
Wheat Armament
Even in 1831's crisis British wheat
shillings,
8 pence. But in mid-July of this
year came a new low of 3 shillings
6% pence (about 493%; cents per
bushel). At this juncture a “‘pre-
paredness’’ parliament considered a
step which would at once relieve
price pressure, eliminate surpluses
and bolster defense. The move, sug-
gested by Economist John Waynard
Keynes: Appropriation of 100,000,000
pounds ($468,000,000) for accumula-
tion of war reserves in four catego-
ries of England's vital imports.
would thereby be purchased. Only
facilities can
one-fourth that amount.
mise and buy only 5,000,000 to 10,-
000,000 bushels now.
BRIEFLY...
IN NEW YORK, Gossiper Wal-
ter Winchell let it be known a re-
liable informant had told a se-
cret: That 1940's Democratic
ticket will be Roosevelt and Mec-
Nutt.
IN WASHINGTON, Treasury
figures showed the U. 8S. had an
average deficit of $22,300,000 per
day during the pew fiscal year's
first 15 days.
IN MID-PACIFIC, an American
ship helped rescue 209 from the
flaming Bokuyo Maru, Jap pas-
senger and freight liner.
IN TOKYO, British-Jap talks
concerning British rights in China
reached a hopeless deadlock and
collapsed.
IN JERUSALEM, Arabs kid-
naped Dr. Jacob Goldner, Cleve.
land minister, and his son, Ger-
ould. Later they released Dr.
Goldner to dig up $5,000 ransom
for his son.
WASHINGTON.—A press release
has just come to my desk from the
Agricultural Adjustment administra-
tion. It outlines the farm program
for 1940. That is next year. The
statement from the AAA press bu-
reau announced that the 1940 farm
program was evolved at a three-day
conference of “approximately 100
AAA farmer-committeemen and oth-
ers interested,” acting for all of the
millions of farmers.
that the whole farm
be broadened, but I
opening paragraph,
course, official:
“Increased emphasis
servation, increased
for participation by small farmers
program 18 to
will quote the
which is, of
soil con-
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sued yet so I cannot report to you
in advance what you will have to do
to get your $2. The AAA may pos-
sibly tell you that you have to grow
80 many rows of radishes, so many
hills of beans of two or more types—
maybe some pole beans if you have
planted trees under the reforestra-
tion program. Or they may tell you
to produce so many yards of spin-
peas, because children must eat car-
And potatoes! I want
to warn the AAA about potatoes.
are included.”
operate for five or six years. They
are still struggling for that more
abundant life and, therefore, I have
observed the changes )
curiosity. Also, there has
certain amount of humor
they have done—not
the farmers
whose life
not directly
has been
in what
times have attitudes
the part
underlings th: r resembled
stubborn
a person wearing
doctor of phil ;
sad the words
tween,
always r. that the
farmer must sign 3
a lot of do's and don't’s.
Just a Word of Praise
For AAA Administrators
ing a common scold, let
the AAA administrators a word of
praise just here. The soil
and soil conservation
program likely are going to be valu-
able although I fail to understant
why anybody thinks it is necessary
to pay a farmer to keep his own
land in good shape. But, skipping
my own thoughts on that, there is
justification for governmental inter-
est in helping to restore soil on a
national scale because our nation is
going on for a number of years —
vr
Then, too, there is argument fa-
vorable to a policy of government
encouragement in the planting of
trees, a program of reforestation.
There is, of course, that famous
“‘parity’’ business. There is a fund
of $225,000,000 which a bunch of vote-
getling congressmen put into law.
farmers producing wheat,
corn, tobacco and rice certain sums
is less than “75 per cent of parity.”
We have had that one before and
after many trials there are still
many hundreds of versions of “par-
ity.” It has put the money out.
There is no doubt about that. The
AAA men made sure that all of it
went out, but some of the methods
of calculations, of appraisals, of dis-
criminations among farmers, of do's
and don't's and just plain bureau-
cratic regimentation make a fellow
dizzy. I cannot help wondering what
those who live a hundred years from
now will say when they read the
current AAA records. They may
find some new words that will prop-
erly describe the mess.
Now Comes the Pay-Off
On the 1940 Farm Program
Next comes ‘‘commercial vegeta-
bles.” There is to be designation, as
this year, of “commercial vegeta-
ble counties,” the designation, of
course, to be done by AAA officials.
Commercial vegetable farmers, aft-
er they sign up and do as they are
told, will get payments, too, and 1
hope the arrangement will make the
green onions that my wife buys from
the commercial vegetable man who
calls at our door somewhat less
spongy.
And now, we give you the pay-
off on the 1940 program.
Next year, any farmer who grows
a vegetable garden will get $2—two
whole dollars that are still highly
regarded by me—if he ‘‘co-oper-
ates” and does as he is told by the
AAA master farmers. If he fails to
grow that vegetable garden, he will
be docked $2. The government will
get it, too. Uncle Sam's boys are
good at that. To make sure about
getting that $2 fine, the AAA will
deduct it from whatever other pay-
ment that the farmer has earned.
The regulations have not been is-
.
of “must” vegetables. In the South,
there ought to be melons, for there
ripe wate
melon. Medical men advise sq
in the along with rutabagas.
As a special favor to me, I am go-
that onions be uded
diet,
inci
Of course, as I said, the regifia-
wt been issued and so 1
constitule a
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to get serious about this thing,
7 atrocity that is being put
name of farm aid, it
that never in all
sit there been any
attempted before. That,
is no answer. It is an
nswer, however, to say that some
governmental policies, like the ac-
ions of some private persons, are
that they hardly
discussion. Further, we
ought to remind ourselves that in
this instance a government, sup-
posed to serve all of the people, is
undertaking the course. To my
mind, the fact that government is
doing it makes it perfection on the
asinine side.
Folks Awakening to Fact
That Waste Must Be Paid For
We have witnessed waste in more
forms in the last few years than
ever happened in our nation or any
other. Folks throughout the coun-
yf Das
this waste has to be paid for, be-
up on them from the most unexpect-
ed directions. There will be more.
Of that, there can be no doubt.
Meanwhile, instead of slowing up
federal spending, we find AAA pay-
ing $2 for a garden. There should
those who grow window boxes.
It was only the other day that the
treasury released final figures on its
condition at the end of the fiscal
year, July 1. Those figures showed
that the government had spent
$3,500,000,000 more in the
months than it had taken in by taxa-
tion. Shortly, thereafter, a private
organization issued a statement
great corporations. Those figures
which were claimed to be official
revealed that only about half of
those corporations had made enough
money in the last year to meet
their tax bills. In some instances,
the income that was left to them
after they had paid their workers
and their overlfead expenses.
more taxes are as certain as death
is to all of us, when these condi-
tions exist it is about time to take
stock and see where we are going
to end up. The future is not so
black but that we can see streaks of
light in it, and these problems can
be solved. They can be solved rath-
er simply, too, if--as in the case of
the vegetable gardens--we stop to
figure that government is going to
take several times $2 for every vege
table garden brought under this new
scheme of ‘‘co-operation.””
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
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