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Show THE PAGE TWO News Review of Current Events the World Over TIMES-NEW- ESPERATE fighting for posses- - Guudarrama mountains north of Madrid was going on between the government forces and the rebel troops. Loyalist soldiers were hurried to that region, and Madrid claimed some victories. However, the Fascists on the northern side Feileralion Council of the range were said to be within of Ten Unions Voted sight of the capital and in position for a vigorous advance. Many Oil Men Indicted for Conspiracy The rebels scored in the south by Metaxas Dictator of Greece. landing 2,000 Moroccan troops from Ce'.'ta after a lively sea and air light in which two loyalist warships W. By were driven off. The loyalists were also reported to have met defeat L. Ixwis and his continent fields fur the purpose of near Avila, losing 600 men and John L'NLESS some tanks and trucks. in the Committee lor purchasing gasoline at artificially On the twentieth day of the reIndustrial Organization repent and high prices from independent pro- bellion the government announced in of such furtherance cease their "rebellious" activities. ducers, and it had captured the provinces of a scheme were members of associ:'. before September 5, f 1 thi ton unions thev ations which included Die indepen- Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Malahead will be under dents. Further it was charged that and the northern resort suspension from the independent refiners, to aid the Iladajoz of San Sebastian. city had curtailed their American Federaplan, production Fascist Italy nas been accused tion of Labor. Such of gasoline. of aiding the Spanish rebels, and it Is Mr. was the verdict of This, said Flatt, exactly federation's what the oil companies did with the is asserted a number of Italian f executive planes were sent to them council approval of Secretary of the Interi- bombing in Morocco. The leftist French ; which passed on the or Harold L. Ickes, administrator is in sympagovernment naturally of NRA when the P. of John code, petroleum charges with the Madrid government thy to efforts made were of limit the being j Frey, president and have production of gasoline, prevent the been Frenchmen, unarmed, J. P. Frey divlslon given permission to cross the the flow of excess quota oil into marCIO was "fomenting Insurrection ket channels, and raise prices in border to aid in putting down the rebellion. German and Russian and rebellion." David Dubinsky, that turbulent industry. "The government's charge turns sympathies, also, are ranged on head of the garment workers, cast and all this caused the only vote against the suspen- on whether a practice legally start- opposite sides, a war might re fears that general on ed recent under and the carried sion order. called on all other Lewis having definitely set him- NRA petroleum code was continued sult France to preserve neutrality, and self against any peace overtures, in illegal manner after the NRA nations warned Italy and Germany it appeared that the suspension was killed by the United States Su- Spain to keep hands off. certainly would be put into effect preme court," Mr. Piatt said. Day by day the struggle in Spain The next move will be up to the bloodier and more ruthbecame in the fall, Tampa convention crop statisticians of priswhich will be asked to vote the ex- EXPERT that, as a result of the less. Summary executions oners were common on record breaking drouth, this year's and these deaths were both sides pulsion of the refractory unions. probably The ten unions accused by Mr. corn crop will be reduced to as numerous as those in battle. The Frey and found guilty are: bushels, which would be the government planes showered bombs yield since 1881 except for on the rebel strongholds, virtually Amalgamated Clothing Workers, smallest drouth year of 1934. the disastrous Sidney Hillman, president destroying many towns; and the Oil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery In that year total production was Fascist bombers engaged in desthe 1,478,000.000, was but acreage Workers, Harvey Fremming, presperate fights with loyal warships. smaller than it is this season. ident are farmers expected Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, toArgentine YORK Republicans are profit to the extent of $50,000,000 Thomas H. Brown, president NEW nominate a candidate for Ladies' Garment Workers, David or more as a result of the keen corn between the governor at their party convention for competition Dubinsky, president. United States and Europe, which in September, and CoL Theodore Textile Workers, Thomas F. has recently lifted prices about 17 Roosevelt has said president cents per bushel in the Buenos in a letter that was Flat Glass Workers, Glen made public that i y Aires market president ne is wining to ac- - s couna few There are other only M. Tin and Workers, Iron, Steel, tries which figure as exporters of cept that honor if s ; F. Tighe, president Automobile Workers, Homer corn, including South Africa and the party so de- t Athe sires. I Danubian The states. South Martin, president Colonel Roosevelt Rubber Workers, S. H. Dalrym-ple- , frican crop this year is reported as forty-eigh- t relatively small, due to drouth, president while cables yesterday reported se- years old, was the t Action on the International Typo- vere damage in Rumania as the Republican cangraphical union, whose president result of intense heat and dry didate for governor C. P. Howard, Is secretary of the weather. in 1924 and was de CIO; and the United Hat, Cap and feated by Alfred E. Col. Roosevelt Millinery Workers, part of whom RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was Smith. Since then he has been are not associated with the CIO, visibly aroused by Republican governor of Puerto Rico and governwas deferred: The suspended unof the Philippines. that the New Dealers were or-general charges ions have a membership of about to reap political profit from of seeking one million, or nearly the drouth conditions. At his press HENRY W. KEYES of the total in the federation. conference he broke with the usual SENATOR has announced The council stated: rule by permitting himself to be that he is not a candidate for re- "This is the first attempt ever quoted as saying: by the Republicans, prefer- made, during the existence of the directly "It is a great disservice to the ring "to retire from active particiA. F. of L., covering a period of administration of any gov- pation in public affairs." The Remore than 50 years, to set up a proper ernment to link up human misery publicans therefore will choose bewithin. movement dual tween former Senator George H. partisan politics." "It was the opinion of the execu- with The President said he was not Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges, tive council that it could not conto announce his drouth re- both of whom have announced their done the setting up of a rival organ- ready lief program, preferring to wait un- candidacy for the nomination. ization within the officially rec- til the Kansas Republicans renominated great plains drouth commitognized family of organized labor, tee, headed by Rural ElectrificaSenator Arthur Capper, and the withcountenance or tolerate and it Democrats picked Omar Ketchum or tion Administrator Morris L. Cooke, out sacrificing its its inspection of the en- of Topeka. In Kentucky the Demomaking an unconditional surrender completes tire drouth belt and its study of the crats renominated Seanator M. M. to a minority group composed of national resources board reports Logan, whose Republican opponent members who are in open rebellion and those of reforestation, soil ero- in November will be Robert H. to democratic procedure and ma- sion and similar units. Lucas. at the as exemplified jority rule, Marion A. Zioncheck, the eccenlate convention of the A. F. of L." is another dictatorship in tric congressman from Seattle, reLewis characterized the council's THERE this time in Greece. considered his decision to retire action as one of "incredible and Gen. John premier, an- and announced that, at the request crass stupidity" and said that it nounced thatMetaxas, a general strike fos- - of his mother, he would be a canwas "dictated by personal selfisht e r e a by com- didate to succeed himself, "to show ness and frantic fear." munists was likely the people that I am neither crazy to lead to serious nor foolish." Five other Democrats and two pilots so. and seven Republicans seek Zion- disturbances, SIX passengers with the approval check's seat. instantly killed when a big t of King George II, Lockheed Electra plane of the Chihe declared martial cago and Southern Airlines crashed of the a few minutes after taking off from IN THE first few in days law, dissolving parthe Berlin games Olympic At Mo. the airport of St. Louis, liament postponed American track team piled up such elections indefinitethis writing there is no explanation that number of an for the disaster. The plane was ally and mobilized all it imposing certain none points of the riappeared most new and the weather not bad workers in essential liiffiilwmftii t v. majM teams could catch up. Jesse services such as val though skies were overcast Owens- of Ohio State university lead Gen.Metaxas New bound was from The plane railways, in order in this victorious march, Orleans for Chicago, and five of the that called to the colors, they his mates three championships, in victims were residents of the latter would be directly under govern winning runs and the was Vernon of dead One the ment controL city. and the broad jump. In the longer and husband veteran at a were mounted pilot Omlie, Strong guards dash he lowered the world and of Phoebe Omlie, a noted flyer. power stations, gas works and other Olympic marks. Ken Carpenter of vital points and all soldiers and po- California won the discus throw lice not on guard duty were held with a new CHARGED by theto government Olympic record of 50.48 violate the in barracks ready for action. meters, and Gordon Dunn, also of enforcethe anti-trudomto Metaxas law by combining promised California, was second. Earl Meadinate the purchasing of oil in the ment of an eight hour day, a min- ows of Texas was first in the pole a social insurance imum wage and Texas, Louisiana vault with a new Olympic mark; He remodeled the cab- and system. and Oklahoma fields were won by various inet taking for himself the army, other points and to fix prices of American athletes. affairs portand Midair foreign in the navy, gasoline Among the women contestants folios. dle West, 58 perDispatches to Bucharest Helen Stephens of Missouri distinin the been clashes had 23 said there sons, petroleum guished herself by breaking the northern provinces of Greece be- world concerns and three record in two heats of the tween workers and the military publishing compadash. forces. nies were indicted a federal grand by VOLUNTARY cut of $25,861,936 jury in Madison, DECLARING that ofit "will indorse in the debts of 33.906 "dis Wis. party in the Among the defendPresidential campaign, the Ameri- tressed" farmers was reported by prominent administration. the Resettlement can Liberty league states: ants are Edward G. 11. M. Dawes "The league is neither an adjunct The debts, it said, were scaled Seubert of Chicago, president of nor an ally of the Republican par- down by creditors, through the the Standard Oil Company of Indiof M. Dawes Evanston, ty. It is not an adjunct of the Demo- work of voluntary farm debt comana; Henry and in farmers of even combringing of Oil cratic the Pure though many I1L, president party, its principles harmonize with the their creditors "together in a neu- pany, and many officials of Standexcellent platform adopted by that tral atmosphere" during the ten ard Oil, Pure Oil, Deep Rock, ended June 30. and various other oil party in 1932 and proclaimed as 'a Expenses of seeking debt re- concerns and their subsidiaries. Al- covenant with the people to be adjustments, taken from a fund so in the list are Warren C Piatt faithfully kept by President Roosevelt "Certainly the league is not an of Cleveland, publisher of the National Petroleum News and Piatt's adjunct 'of the New Deal party Sept 1 last year, amounted to 1 amount of Oilgram; his two publications and which for the moment has usurped per cent of thethetotal administration the Chicago Journal of Commerce. control of the party of Jefferson, debts involved, The indictment charged that the Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. It said. So far, $1,100,000 of the al- defendant oil companies formed has not and will not contribute to located $2,000,000 had been ex. pended. pools in the east Texas and mid- - any campaign fund." ly Supenion EDWARD PICKARD J: 1,572,-000,0- Mc-Cab- e, now P one-thir- d self-respe- 3 - st A cony-Vacuu- NEPIII. UTAH S, Thursday, August 13, 1936 Lovely o1 Lively Port , in j . I t SMF .... Sk ? 'tJfi a. I "t " ., , i - ' I .... National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart ,r , The United States t- (Algiers) Spacious Harbor. onions, to eat there; he sleeps on Bervic. Uablii(luii. 1). NU its benches or on the visitors to North against its wall; and oncepavement or twice jegin their explo- a day he spends two centb in it of the Dark Con fur a cup of coffee. tinent at Alger (Algiers), From the market place lead narand remember it as one of the row streets and, as in such eastern Its cities as Cairo, Tunis, Delhi, and loveliest ports in the world. .dazzling white buildings climb a Canton, each is lined with shops devoted to one trade. Down this terraced hillside above an incredibay. Be- one are the tailors. In the square bly blue, crescent-shapehind the hills blossoms the narrow holes di void of counters, tables, or bearded fertile plain of the Mitidja, above chairs, men resembling Biblical patriarchs which tower the mighty snow-clasquat on the floor and sew Atlas mountains. Only a furiously. Alger, the White City! In the next street brass workers little over a century ago it was the hammer at bright pots and tall lair of cruel sea wolves, the bloodwater vessels, denting patterns inthirsty Algerian pirates who cap- to them with instrutured and enslaved Europeans and even Americans. Today it is a ments struck with mallets. Tinbeautiful modern French city with smiths display piles of saucepans and coffeepots. In the tiny shops many Europeans among its thou- of the next crooked lane cobblers sands of inhabitants. easy Alger is kept in constant touch stitch rapidly at the native's beauslippers, or work with France by submarine cables, tiful designs with gold and silver by regular postal and passenger air service, and by daily steamers to threads and spangles on dainty French ports. Railroads connect shoes for women. it with points in Morocco and TuStreet Kitchen nisia. Here is a break in the trades-unioNot only is Alger an important character of the shops. Outside French naval station, but it is the this one a small crowd eagerly largest city in Algeria. From it watches the movements of a youth is shipped much of the country's seated before a tiled stove running produce. Its waterfront is lined up into a pointed chimney. A with merchants' warehouses, small table stands beside him. In wharves piled high with merchan- a dish he mixes a white batter, dise, and docks beside which lie rolling it pulling and twisting it large steamers. with nimble fingers, then dipping Alger's European section has it into oil and placing it in the lt streets along which stove. His hand dives in once or electric jams and automobiles twice to turn the morseL rush past theatres, hotels and atThen with tongs he draws out a tractive shops. Strolling along crisp, golden puff, places it on a arbroad sidewalks sheltered by small square of newspaper, thrusts d cades, and in cafes fronting it into an eager, outstretched palm, squares, one sees well- - and receives a coin. The buyer dressed European men and modish turns away, contentedly munching French girls as well as veiled the succulent titbit and his place women and stately Arabs in is taken by another expectant puring burnooses. These streets are in direct con- chaser. The next street blazes with color. trast to the narrow, cobbled alleys Mozabites in of the native quarter which climb Here flowing Arab garb heretical Mosup the steep hillside. Along them Mzab district in the houses are crowded lems from the Sahara or hooked-noseJews in together. semi - European attire display a The native quarter affords many wealth of rainbow d hued, picturesque sights. At the corner silk shawls; gay - colored of a market place is an Arab coffee skirts and bodices and jackets; house. Outside, squatting on the other garments in pink, blue, yelpavement or seated on benches low, red; leather belts against the wall, are Arabs, and heavy with bullion and gold Negroes, men of all classes embroidery; white wool or silk and and ages merchants, small shopwool gandauras (long gowns), and keepers, clerks, laborers converscrimson burnooses worked with domiing volubly, playing cards, gold or silver. noes, draughts, or merely sitting Then comes the Street of the sitting idly, vacantly, unconscious Jewelers! Many of the shops have of those around them. No man windows displaying massive glass on earth lazzarone. Neapolitan or four Hindu ascetic, or Buddhist priest silver bracelets three inches wide, gold and silver earof is capable seeking Nirvana such utter detachment from the rings several inches in diameter, huge necklaces of broad, beautifully .orld as the ordiaary Arab. designed flat silver and gold orna ments, filigree rings, heavy anklets They Love Coffee A few of those gathered in front truly a street of delight for womankind. of the cafe hold tiny cups of coffee in their hands, taste it, drink it Dazzling White Mosques slowly, savoring every precious white it the brilliant Dazzling drop of the pennyworth of fragrant sunshine, the walls of a mosque dark fluid. Inside, at the tiled, almost blind one 'jy their glare. waist-higfireplace, the cook dips But enter. You pass into dark, a small, measure into cool shadews, into a silent interior, the steaming copper pot resting on a handful of red embers and fills bare and restful. Through the past centuries bearded Moslems with atd the cups for the of the unbelievers red on tendant to take to customers seated the blood to on benches or huddled on mats in their hands have gathered here bow down toward Mecca and beg the interior of the establishment Allah's aid in fresh crimes. Yet The walls are scrawled with thought them meritorious crude drawings of mosques, palm they deeds, by the truth of the Most and these trees, tigers elephants And every Friday the High! last by an artist who had evidently faithful come here still, and who chro-mos never seen either animal or shall say that none of them mutter of French presidents and Eurocurses in their beards upon the pean royalties. Christian dogs that rule Ihem? A man The crowding houses of the city in rags, hung round with the skins end. Across the road is a scarped of small animals, strums a hillside, with grass, gardens, and guitar made from the shell trees. In a small open space naHe enters the cafe of a tortoise. tive barbers shave the scalps of and, half shambling, half dancing, clients or squat beside their chairs holding out a hand for money, wanders among the customers. As he waiting for trade, while their tools razors, scissors, clippers, mirmoves he sings in a rors are laid out ready on the bethe contrast and nasal voice, twecn the eastern lave song and ground. This open-ai- r toilet saloon is a jts singer is striking, for the tourist but In better establishments, situated strange sight does not gain a look from the pasFrench quarter and nearer sengers in the electric trams passone ronized by Arabs, ing within a few yards of it often finds a superior orchestra, s Suddenly one comes upon tombs Three or four black-coatecollared gentlemen in red fezzes and the ground falls sharply away. a big The eye ranges over the deep valpiay strange instruments with its gardens ley of guitar, a large drum called a and houses, to the bright-rescars boul, a long one, the derbrouka. ; a of quarries and cliffs in the green similar to an Indian sort of flageolet shaped hillside opposite, crowned with the ghaita, like a doctor's stethoscope, and domes of the famous church of the while Notre Dame d'Afrique. It faces perhaps a tambourine across the Mediterranean to its sisthey sing in nasal tones, To the poor mtive the cafe is a ter, Notre Dame de la Garde, on club, a .hotel, a home. He brings the height above the harbor of his crust of bread, his handful of Marseilles. MANY white-burnoose- d sharp-pointe- d red-leath- n well-bui- palm-shade- flow-electi- black-bearde- d d d long-fringe- gold-buckle- d h long-handle- d bare-arme- wild-lookin- g high-pitche- pat-mitte- Well-to-d- o white-month- Bab-el-Oue- d tom-tom- Washington. Washington, D, The People government Mutt Pay tempti to interfere I'ortion of Algers' gray-haire- fiulldinir Is being given an object lesson in what happens when rrep:Tr.rt bv Nationalt-W- O.'f.irrsphlc S.clely, gayly-colore- National Pr C. J ' A 1 with nature. American farmers these days are threshing their wheat crop. The production is that of reduced acreage, an acreage that was planned on theory by the Department of Agriculture. The result is that this year's American wheat crop will bushels. 640,000,000 approximate That Is about 143,000,000 bushels less than the average crop during tha five years from 1929 to 1933. The result is a shortage. Department of Agriculture figures indicate thai the total wheat crop in the world this year will be something like 650,000,000 bushels below the annual production. In other words, the wheat crop is short everywhere on earth and the result is obvious. In our own case, there Is normaleach year of about ly a carry-ove- r 125,000.000 bushels but due to the shortage of the crop this year that carry-ove- r is insufficient to make up the needs of domestic consumption. Consequently, we soon will see heavy importations of Canadian wheat a wheat that can be blended In milling with our own production and a very satisfactory flour results. Yet it must be remembered that on all Importations of wheat from Canada or anywhere else, a tariff of 42 cents a bushel must be paid. It is clear, therefore, that consumers of bread must pay that tariff because the importers arc going to pass that item of expense along as part of the cost of the flour. In addition to the shortage in the United States, Canadian wheat production is reported to be omething like 100,000,000 bushels under normal. There is sufficient production in Canada to permit of eaport, of course, but the shortage la bound to be reflected in the prices. And mention of the price brings us back to the individual effect of the combination of acreage, reduced by government edict plus the act of nature in visiting a drouth upon us. Scarcity always results in higher prices. It is the operation of the law of supply and demand. The Roosevelt farm policy has been predicated on the theory that scarcity would produce higher prices and thereby add to the farm Income. But drouth and other production hazards cannot be predicted and,' therefore, the American people find themselves in a position where the unpredictable has happened and the farmers are not getting the benefit of higher prices on a natural and normal production. There seems to be a stronger demand for wheat now than at any time during the Industry last five or six It indicates Opens Up years. a restoration of buying power on the part of the masses. In other words, industry again is opening up to some extent and employing workers although the increase in employment has been small thus far. In consequence of this combination of circumstances, there is now a seller's market in wheat instead of a buyer's market in wheat To say it another way, there are more people seeking to buy wheat than there are seeking to sell it and the consumers of flour will pay the bill. By way of contrast with present conditions, it may be pointed out that world wheat consumption has exceeded world wheat production in every year except one since 1929. In the 1932 crop year there was slightly more wheat produced in the world than was consumed. The result of the steady growth in consumption over production in the last few years has been to wipe out all of the carryover wheat stored in bins and elevators throughout the world and in every country users of wheat are scraping the bottoms of their bins. The tragedy of it all is that, because of the reduced acreage and the drouth in the United States, American farmers are not in a position to take advantage of the higher prices thus established by the sale of surplus wheat which may have been accumulated it the acreage had been normal. Instead of the United States real ly controlling the market for wheat, we are in a position where a good many other countries may be encouraged to grow more wheat The natural and obvious results of this will be to further curtail the outlet for American wheat which so long has been relied on by many foreign of nations that are wheat I do not know how far the New Deal Intends to go in revising its basic economic policy regarding crop controlling. I can be sure of only one thing in regard to the New Deal plans: The visitation of the drought in two years in which the political planners of the New Deal attempted to upset natural laws has proved the inability of man to alter tha course of nature and by the same token these conditions have proved the inability of government to change human nature. A year or two ago, a committee of the American Bar association made a report def-BOffers initely critical of New Plan the New Deal administration having created so many agencies to which had been given functions almost like the courts. That report pointed out how such units as tha now dead NRA and the equally dead AAA could issue rules and regulations that were enforceable as law. They called attention to the further fact that countless of these rules and regulations carried strict and severe penalties, even to' the extent of a Jail term for an individual violator. Lately, another committee of the American Bar association has published another report again calling attention to the principles established in such bureaucratic control. It offers a constructive proposal for the elimination of bureaucratic management of individual affairs from Washington. It proposes the establishment of an administration court which would have power to enforce these rules and regulations but would be equipped with the judicial right of determination so that the thousands upon thousands of regulations with their various penalties would not be enforced upon an individual accused of their violation without giving that alleged violator the right of a hearing. Ultimately, the proposed court would take over the judicial work of all of the administrative agencies in Washington now numbering something like 75. for I suppose the condition can be explained by the fact that dozens of new bureaus Too Many have been set up under the scores Bureaus of New Deal laws and that in the haste to get them was into operation, no had between the various groups, but it is my belief that private citizens cannot be blamed for this condition. Since they cannot be blamed for failure of government to function properly, they ought not be compelled to answer for the silly differences in law which bureaucrats have written under authority of congress to draft necessary regulations. Sooner or later the public is going to become fully aware of the serious character of this situation. It can be safely predicted, I think, that when the general public does find out what has happened, its wrath will not be easily appeased. After all, congress is really to blame for this condition. It rushed through laws which President Roosevelt demanded and it did not take time to debate the provision nor did it examine the sections to know fully what results would flow from them. In many cases, statements of general legislative policy were not clear and congress abdicated its duties to the extent that it wrote into those laws provisions saying that the agency which was to enforce the particular law was given authority to write whatever rules and regulations were found to be necessary. Some authority of this kind always has been given in order to make the national laws flexible but they never have been given to such an extent as they have in the last three years. Insufficient time has elapsed since the American Bar association committee came forth with its administrative court proposal for an analysis to be made of its potentialities. It may, and probably does have, weaknesses. It does, however, have a strong point in the general idea that a judicial body should determine whether an individual citizen has violated a bureaucrat's law and what the penalty should be rather than have that bureaucrat sit as prosecutor, ' Judge and jury in telling the individual citizen what his crime has been. It probably will be said that lawyers are very technical and always looking for loopholes. But in this instance, it seems to me the American Bar association committee deserves the highest commendation for speaking out boldly about an admittedly bad condition. It seems to me, likewise, that the committee, instead of being criticized, must be praised for unselfishness because as long as bureaucrats continue to exercise the functions they are now exercising under authority from Congress, the situation constitutes a field day for the lawyers. Few, if any, individuals living outside of Washington can come into the Capital city, find the agency that has charged them with violation of a bureaucrat's law and at the same time know how to defend himself. He has to have a lawyer and that makes an additional burden upon business. O Weatorn Nwapapr Union. too-man- . . |