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Show for Age Opportunity Encouras1"1 for Youth state of our country and its common he .Weekly New Review Religion Turn to U. S. In Search for War Support France, Britain lly Joseph W. Lalline fomestic current U 8. interest In the FOREIGN) MuebbU. If they once feU !ncutrsL Stas.. secure department'siaola-Sopolic- r, n.U Johnson set forbidding .ct under the the that coxy faa In famed Chicago speech. Franklin IgoMvelt pointed to the hopeless. m, of isolation, favored aggressive world 5. action to preserve MBi to debtor nations, last acting wm diulpated j. ES Franklin Roosevelt month. again at Kingston. Ont, Ionised American aid against in uioo of Canada. Though any U. favor such a I. President would ately. Almost overnight, 300,000 were rushed to the Maying line. Meanwhile, Great Britain enjoyed another spell of worrying, notifying Ambassador Henderson that he warn might Germany of Englands Inability to remain out of any conflict der fuehrer might start Tn... much as Ambassador has beeq alternately warning and pleading with Germany since early August; his ultimatum probably fell on deaf ears. At Prague, observers watched the result of Konrad Henleins conversation. England's mediator. Viscount Runciman, scurried around. The Czech cabinet met secretly, finally emerged to offer Sudetens (1) territorial autonomy; (2) recognition of their full equality in the vak state; (3) recognition of full equality of the German language in Sudeten areas. This, amounting to complete surrender, might have created a sensation had Adolf Hitler not been stealing the show again. At Nuremberg, before 1,000,000 Nazis attending the annual party congress, der fuehrer defied the world, boasted of Germanys power and praised his two lukewarm allies, Japan and Italy. At Takaoka, fire leveled 3.000 buildings, caused 100 deaths. At Osaka, 19,000 homes were flooded. At Kobe, 31 ships sank. Such was the aftermath of Japan's second typhoon in five days. I. Though Fascism and Nazilsm jibe ta theory, Fascist Italy has never discriminated against Jews like r!,. G5rran3r- - B last month. Began tasting the bitter fruits of AdbU Hitlers friendship tor Benito Mussolini. First hint of this trend was expulsion of Jews from all Italian administrative offices, a tep which brought down the wrath ope Plus, and brought an equalj ly righteous reply from H Duce. Fortnight ago, it became clear that Italy was only starting a campaign of racial intolerance that win equal Germanys. From the council of ministers came a decree that all Jews who settled in Italy, Libya or the Aegean islands since 1818 must Still open, presumably, la Italian East Africa (Ethiopia), an unpopular land where few Italian. wish to live. Next day, another decree closbd all schools to Jewish teachers and students. As sadeyed Hebrews began reaigning tiwii-job- s and inquiring about emigration, only the most optimistic thought Italy's campaign was at an end. anti-Jewi- Aviation At Burbank, 10 speed pilots nosed their ships into the rising sun, bound for Clevelands annual air ahow, 3.043 miles away. Ahead was a handsome prize for the winner at the annual Bendix race. Among the last to leave was attractive, Jacqueline Cochran, whose fast Seversky plane had set an eaat-we- st record the wed: before. Eight hours, 10H minutes later, Jacqueline Cochran nosed into Cleveland, winner of aviations most coveted award, a $9,000 prize which Politici AMBASSADOR BULLITT "A'e uliey, j. & t faunal Mag could say . . the Canadian speech came t a time when anxious British and rench were seeking allies in their lull game against Adolf Hitler. hus, into the international spot-- '' Ambassa-or- s ght were thrown U-.- Joseph P. Kennedy to Great WillUm Iritain, C. BulUtt to Fm ranee. To each fell the Job of ex-laining U. S. policy in European i nign affairs. I Last week, each spoke, cutting i rough diplomatic red tape in a hint manner that made touchy 14 ritish statesmen quake, Out made ic folks back home shudder over e realities of Europe's current L M risis. J At Bordeaux, Ambassador Bullitt f.' worked a bombshell, flavoring an iformal talk on French wines with about U. S. -- French friend-P- f,-- Said he: "France and the nited States are indefectively unit-- I in war as in peace by our wotion to liberty and democracy by our old friendship, by the d we brought each other in our Mr of distress." Next day, dedicating a monument American World war dead, he eke again: "If war should break A in Europe no human being could V whether the United States would icome involved." But in the very next breath he France and Great Brit-J another thought to mull over, nung that Germany's present eco-M- jj plight might be their respon-biutif our effort for peace to achieve anything, it must be ised on the ability to put ourselves dher men's shoes, recognizing 'truth of this saying: There, it for the grace of God, go L " ... I0! Behind Franklin Roosevelt lay two smarting political defeats. South Carolinas Democrats had elected Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed) Smith over his objection. California's Democrats had licked his favorite, Sen. William Gibbs McAdoo. These defeats, plus earlier primary shellackings, plus the prospect of more losses in Maryland and Georgia, made Franklin Roosevelt realize that next winter's congress win be stubborn as an army mule and completely devoid of party lines. Mulling these thoughts, the President soon offered a solution. At y his press conference he announced his support of liberal candidates regardless of their political ancestry. Boasted he: "If there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket, I would not have the slightest objection to his election. Good of country rises above party. In effect, Mr. Roosevelt said he could no longer be regarded as an organization Democrat that he is a liberal whatever that means in this fall's primaries, in Novembers election, and in 1940. The President's apparent hope was that enough liberals, both Republican and Democratic, will be to give elected next Novembc Roosevelt liberalism a clear majority ovtr conservatives of both parties. If that was his idea. Republican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton found the statement a convenient signal for another of his fanatical tirades against New Deal-is- Explained he: The true Republicans running for congress this year are liberals. Most of the Demoare not. crats seeking True liberals are those making a determined fight against centralization of powers in one man. True liberals would never vote for . . . New Deal schemes to restrict production . . . for Irresponsible fiscal I0 London, Ambassador Kennedy measures." nerfei from a conference with Soundest comment came from Ilrune Minuter Neville Chamber'- linois Sen. James Hamilton Lewis, ll, blurting to newsmen that d vacationing in California where to know whether she tdd expect U. S. aid. No sooner id he spoken than the London Eve-"Mcriticized Joe Kennedy's y: Brit-i,nte- TT1-was Obviously proud piqued that the world actively seek- that did not from rushing to Aberdeen. Md. where he demanded that awld s youth be given a better than "a short life carrying a - know she was Jv ; ubL But e headlines being dictator, Adolf early August, the has kept in a "crisis, until last by hi, fcUow Slnc rope h' 5'. k I , der fuehrers XB Sudeten followers 55" fchim l .:t -- fy V ' Wf M V ;7S nrSuhlJn,u - a?- er leader von ta Berlin with Arobawador Nevile after assuring waUr hopeless case HiUer's 1,000,- bad gone i8ht have been r,lf " 3 T!TIng cver1 call! frnUer hundred visiting new tor-- ., would use in a war BarU brUtlcd immedl-- ttey was boosted $3,500 because a an won. Ten minutes later she left for Bendix, N. J., winning $1,000 more and setting a new women's record of 10 hours, T minutes, 10 seconds. Jacqueline Cochran did not need the $13,500 she won, for her husband is Floyd B. Odium, head of the coast-to-coa- st Atlas corporation that controls several, dozen propserous companies. Orphaned as a child, taking her first job at 11, owning her first beauty shop at 20, America's new No. 1 woman flier eventually controlled a chain of such shops from Florida to California. In 1932 she met Odium, who dared her to fly alone after three weeks' practice. They were married in 193flL Jacqueline Cochran'a good luck in the Bendix race was not shared by others. Said Frank Fuller, second-plac- e winner: "It was the stinking-es- t Said weather Ive ever seen. Paul Manta who followed him: "The weather was awful And to cap it all I hit a bird at 14,000 foet where no bird should be. Two days later. Chicago'! Roscoe Turner averaged 283.419 miles per hour over 30 laps of Cleveland's 10 mile course, winning the $45,000 Thompson trophy race. After flying an extra lap for luck. Turner landed, jumped out, threw his arms around his ship, cried: "Oh, you sweetheart! In 1867, a son named Patrick Joseph was bom to Daniel and Mary Ha yea in New York city. Orphaned, Patrick Hayes eventually became Patrick Cardinal Hayes, distinguished prelate, head of the richest Catholic archdiocese in the world. Seventy-on- e years after his birth, on a Sunday morning in Manhattan, 11 attending Catholics devout cathePatricks St. in mass oclock Benito Mussolini, who could better than create mild furore ntMewUh drive, must . JACQUELINE COCHRAN Fatten from Burbank la Bendix. People oreign CHAIRMAN HAMILTON are UbaraU, "True Republicans ... Sheridan Downey had just won senatorial nomination on a state pension platform. "There are no na tional political parties left In the nation, ha said. The California Is an expression of election what may now come in every state of gentlemen running for fed' eral office upon wholly state issues and local remedies. Three days later, Franklin Roosevelt spoke at Denton, Md., seeking the scalp of Sen. Millard E. Tydings. Again hitting the liberalism tack, be answered "Ham Lewis comment: The Democratic party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans Just so long as it remains a liberal party. If it reverts, it will falL ... ... Editorial --think Tha Dig It Cast about the beginning of another World War, the truth that it u already here; it began in Spain in 1936, and it will continue until the two systems at war there have destroyed each is dral heard Reverend Henry F. Hammer speak: "I am about to make a most difficult announcement I shall make it in very few words, because my heart is so filled with grief . . . Your archbishop, Cardinal Hayes, passed away in his please deep last night WillhisyousouL pray tor foe repose at ... At Alexandria. Egypt from an athwing Farouk emerged letic club, heard a revolver explode, on turned to see spectators pounce Assassin Jean Asfar, son would-b- e of a noted Cairo lawyer. after his famous m. Frightened a three-wee- k suffered charges Allan Roy DaDr. infcdlion. throat to refoe was reported planning move tonsils and adenoids from the Dionne quintuplets next mooli. .At West Orange, N. J., Mrs. John of Inventor Eyre Sloane, daughter for RepubliThomas A. Edison, ran can congressional nomination. cidentally, most of these commissions, it is charged by public ownership advocates with considerable logic and no satisfactory answer, have failed to function satisfactori- NATIONAL AFFAIRS Talking; ly. Now consider one of the latest activities of the committee, which caused its surprise visit to Chattanooga. One eras a row over whether the power company Interests did not resort to misrepresentation, and actually spend $34,000 In fighting a public ownership referendum in Chattanooga. Rcvcwed by CARTER FIELD other in every country yes, destroyed each other! In the U. 8? Yes! Take our word, they will destroy each other here! That's the program. It might be otherwise but men wont unite and Jet it be othe wise. In fact they missed the opportunity and it is now too late. As with Spain so with other countries. Those who could stop the deluge will not. Theyre too busy with their luxurious living, bank accounts and incomes, trying to steady the old ark of Babylon which God himself has decreed must fall. But wait a little and they will be glad to kneel with the poor and pray for deliverance. The present duty of those who see the light is to help to create a new heart and a neir hope in the people so they can build their dreams into realities after the debacle is over. TVA investigators find laws sometimes work in curious ways . . . Surpris- Nine Men Rule the World There are nine (9) men who rule the world There are fifty odd international financiers who rule these nipe men by polling the strings of gold with which they are tied. The fifty odd ing use of federal investigators in examining wit nesses in what is really a row between two Chattanooga newspapers . . . Senator Carter Glaas and Secretary Ickes exchange compliments. Two Chattanooga Papon Engage in Bitter Row WASHINGTON. La wi sometimes work in curious ways, as the But even more surprising is the use of federal investigators and the examining of witnesses in what if really a bitter row between the twn afternoon newspaiiers in Chattanooga. The edder of these papers, the Chattanooga News, is headed by George Fort Milton, who recently spent many months in Washington on the payroll of the state department at a pay rate at $8,000 a year as some sort of assistant Milton has always been Interested in national politics. He was a hard hitting lieutenant of William G. Me-A- d oo during the famous convention fight at Madison Square Garden when the religious issue was predominant It eras generally assumed , in Washington, when he came te the state department that his real Job was to be a sort of press agent for the presidential ambitions of Cordell Hull, though this turned out to be a hope among the admirers of Mr. Hull who hoped fois signified the secretary at state was really going after the nomination rather than an actuality. So the News communicated to Francis Biddle, counsel for foe TVA committee, these facts, plus the fact that the purchaser, Harold Humph-rey- s, had promoted two separate attempts to get referenda in Chattanooga on an ordinance which would forbid duplication of existing electric facilities. Whereupon the witch hunt was on. Senator Glass and fcJkes committee lnvestigatlnf men readers may figure out for themselves. The nine are known foe Tennessee Valley authority js to everyone and their names are as follows: dlscoverinf. The committee spent The King and Prime Minister of Great Britain. days going into a referendum held in Chattanooga over the question of The President of France. 0 whether foe city would issue The Pope of Rome with 300,000,000 adherents. of bonds for the purpose of constructing an electric distribution Hirohute, Emperor of Japan. system duplicating the one now Mussolini of Italy, who is No.666 of Revelations. owned in that city by private power Stalin, oi Russia. interests. Most of the testimony was over Hitler of Germany. the fight waged on that band issue, Roosevelt of the U S. A. who puts some light and democrathough some of it was on later attic idealism into the picture. tempts to force a vote on a city ordinance the effect of which would be Four of the above are for Collectivism and against individto forbid such duplication. ualism, and re out to win the world to that idea. Five are citiR developed that a zens and taxpayers committee apent professed Christians, a majority. How are these men rulingT How have they been ruling for nearly $24,000 fighting the bond isbut was defeated. The chief the past few years? How will they rule in the near future? The sue, object of the committee counsel faots are that they have carried on a rulership which has Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, was show that fois citizens movebrought the world to its knees in war and depression, and to ment was financed by foe power inthose of them who survive with others in the place of those terests, and that its campaign was who do not survive, will so rule the world during the coming one of misrepresentation. Now comes the curious pari Unsix or eight years that life will be a literal hell for the people. der the Tennessee law the local Why is it that the rulers of the world Mill not take hold on company, which was in danger at and pyt into practise the principles which would change conextinction if the referendum went ditions and give to humanity such peace and security and for the bond issue, could not spend Exchange Complimento one cent to combat the public ownWhen Sen. Carter Glass prosperity and happiness as it has never known before? ership advocates even for newspa$8,000,-00- Driving In the Country - Driving in the country Sunday we saw the farmers. worry and the farmers work in order to make up for lost time on week days trying to make ends meet on raising wheat at four bushels for a dollar, so that the banker might be sure of some of his interest. We saw grain in the bundle, grain in the shock and grain in the stack. We saw hay in the winrow, hay in the cock and in the stack. We saw horses on the green, cows in the meadows with calves that gamboled. We saw sheep on the hillside with lambs that frolicked, and hogs that rooted and grunted, and poultry that lays in order to help out. We saw the river bend and the roads wind and the fish danglind on the hook. We saw the healthylads and the buxom lasses, the brawny husbandmen and their faithful helpmetea who have made the beautiful valleys blossom in the erstwhile wilderness, and we were saddened by the thought of how they have been exploited by the cunning and the greedy speculators in the cities. We traversed the great skyline on the mountain tops past and beyond towering and majestic Old Timp. Altogether it was a day of pleasure and inspiration, such as people were meant to have when viewing all the glories of nature. - semi-weekl- n read j people . Talking About Yes Men Talking about Utah's Senator Thomas and representative Robinson being Yes men let us recall some history. Prior to the New Deal, Utah had yes men who answered yes" to every demand, good or bad, of the big bones. Yes to Senator Newberry Yfcs to thepolitical profligate senator Stephenson Yes to the political corruptionist senator Lorimer Yes to the impeachment of the corrupt Judge Archibald Yes to seat the arch boodler Senator Vare Yes to seat Insult's political tool Senator Smith Yes to Senator Fall, the bribe taker, for a cabinet position Yes to vote to prevent investigation of the Tea Pot Dome swindle. That assortment of yeses is quite different from all t:ie yes votes given for human welfare by Thomas and Robinson. v What Elsa Is Worth Whllt thing worth living for, uriting for, workand that is freedom On the way to the gallows, a mother held up her baby boy, and John Brown stopped long enough to kiss the cheek of the little black baby. John Brown could not take the baby in his arms, for his hands were tied behind bis back. Happy ll coon mammys petl kissed by 01 John Brown on his way to launch his soul upon the River Styx. To be kissed b . a man who was on the way to the gallows, going because he tried to make men free, is no small matter It has been denied that John Brown kissed the black baby, but I guess, and I also reckon, that it was so, for 1 have seen that i ainting depicting the scene, by dear Tom Hovenden, who died rescuing a child from in front of a moving train. John Brown was a fanatic, certainly, that is true. His methods were wrong but the man himself was right, as every man is who lifts up his voice for freedom, and flings away his life that others may have liberty- - The path of progress winds by the thorn road, and all along one can trace it by the tracks of bleeding feet ELBERT HUBBARD. There is only one ing for, dying for This Too Shall Pass Away 14 it true, said Bellamy, that the few must revel and the few be masters, many toil; the few waste, the many want; the the be of the earth toilers poor and the the many serve; the No Mr. forever? on must this go idlers the rich, and that while little a forever. endure longer Duly Bcllatnr, it shall not shall the people remain under the altars of poverty and injustice. They shall shortly be redeemed. Deliverance draws near. per advertising to teU its story. But it is perfectly legal under the Tennessee law, for a corporation outside the state to send fnoneylnto Tennessee to fight for the local companys interests. So the Commonwealth ft Southern company of which Wendell L. WiO-ki- e is head, furnished $20,000 at the citimoney Used by this zens and taxpayers committee. Its interest was that it owned more than 90 per cent of foe common stock, and a good deal at the preferred stock, of the company which would be badly hurt if the referendum went against it Which would seem to clear up another reason why the New Deal is opposed to holding companies. de- nounced PWA Administrator Harold Ickes the other day as a "con- L firmed blackguard, after "Honest Harold had attacked the Virginia senator as a "hypocrite" who "bites the hand that feeds it, there was ground for thinking that perhaps the Old Dominion is behind its senator. Which is passing strange, not because Virginia admires Senator Glass it has been proving that these many years but because It had been thought that the New Deal was very strong in Virginia. In fact, a poll taken two years ago by the Richmond Tima Dispatch showed foe state to be overwhelmingly tar President Roosevelt. But It would appear that foe purge has changed things somewhat down below the Potomac. Fof instance, in a speech a few days age Law Injecta Anothar in Richmond, the historic capCurioaa Phata in Battlm ital of the state. Rep. Dave E. SatAnother curious phase, to disinterfield lashed away at the attempt terested outsiders, which law injectof the federal administration to intervene in state primaries. That ed in this battle, is this. Under the law way, he insisted, lay dictatorships. Now this was not a speech delivand its own regulathe PWA, ered in the heat of a primary camtions, headed by Harold L. paign by a candidate fearful of wha$ Ickes, is permitted might happen to him. It was deto make a free gift livered more than twq weeks after id 45 per cent at foe the Virginia primary. total cost of any (hi the same day on which hlf' project, and to loan speech was printed the Roanoke the remaining 55 per Times, over in the sixth congrescent at the cost at a sional district (Mr. Satterfield's dislow rate at interest, trict is the third) published q very BrUey temperate, but also very critical to any municipality wishing to construct its own electric editorial at foe purge idea and of distribution system. its application in the present camPresident Roosevelt has frequent- paign. ly contended that where a local community decides It wishes to be Preaidenta Attitude May served by a municipal system the Causa Loss of Prettige local authorities should first seek to A few days before that the Norbuy out the existing utility system folk down at the rather than resort to the economic far eastern end of waste of duplication. the state, published In the last session of congress an a powerful editorial attempt was made to attach an which is being reamendment to the relief bill providprinted throughout ing that no money should be pro- Virginia, saying that vided for constructing public ownerit was because of j ship electric systems in communi- Woodrow Wilson's j ties now served by private utilities. unwillingness to tolThis movement attained so much erate hia opponents strength in the senate that Presi- to the point of indent Roosevelt sent for Sen. Alben cluding their fore-- ' W. Barkley, Democratic leader of most leaders in his the upper house. peace delegation Barkley later promised on the that he lost foe peace and Mr. floor of the senate that no such Roosevelt's unwillingness, in Georloans would be made to communi- gia and elsewhere, to tolerate his ties where there already existed pri- opponents Is exposing him to the u vately owned electric systems danger of a serious loss of prestige. the ownership at foe private Mr. Roosevelt," said the Roanutility refused a reasonable offer for oke Times, "is like Wilson in that the purchase of its property. he is eternally convinced of his own But the PWA does not make rightness awl because he feels so loans for the purchase of existing strongly the rectitude of his moproperty. tives, is impatient of any opposition. It is a dangerous quality, albeit a Invaatigationa Often not uncommon one in men who ocTurn Into Witch Hunt cupy positions of great power, and The danger of any congreulonal it may easily, and often does, lead investigation is always that it is to ultimata disaster. Some New Dealers are irondering likely to turn into a witch bunt. Especially if foe ordinary fishing ex- just why lb. Ickes, to make some pedition fails to produce headlines trifling point in a speech in far-of- f for the conductors. Tacoma, should can Virginias Consider for a moment the actual grand old man a "hypocrite. Especially ae lb. Ickes has now had purposes of the TVA investigation, involving the expenditure of more six years in Washington to watch than half a billion dollars id the lb. Glass, and might have known taxpayers money, involving the that nothing was so calculated to yardstick question, which congreu bring support to Sen. Millard E. and most of the public thought was Tydings, over the river in Maryto determine scientifically what land, as to have the aminlatration electric rates all over the country put In the position of unfairly atought to be what would be fair, tacking Carter Glass. For Glass is as much admired in Maryland as in what would be excessive thus prova but Anything about Glass is a not pouibly Virginia. guide only ing news in Maryland. club tat the commissions regulating Wntern Newspaper Union. In public utilities in the 48 states. Ledger-Dispatc- i 1 un-fe- |