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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN ..... ...r--. , News Review of Current . , - - - Events tlic World Over Eastman Foresees Government Ownership and Operation Opera-tion of Railways Progress of President? Mppey "! ' r.I,!inilAmericn.Recogiuticwi. for Mendieta. By EDWARD W. PICKARD tioi J .ma WHEN the railroad problem of the United Statei la solved. It will be found that the solution la government ownership and opera tton, In the opinion Joseph IL Cast' man. federal ce-or- dlnator of transportation. trans-portation. The con elusion Is set forth In his first report made to the Interstate Inter-state Commerce tfwimmlaalnn a n A transmitted to I'res- vice I rvniucui uar ner and Speaker Mr. Eastman says the so- 1 J. B. Eastman Itainey, lution he foresees would not be Inconsistent In-consistent with our theorjr of govern gov-ern uh'uL Explaining that when governments govern-ments acquire private property they norma II' pay more than it Is worth, Mr. Efistman reaches the conclusion that the remedy should not be applied ap-plied to railroads now because the country is not "financially In a condition con-dition to stand the strain of an acquisition ac-quisition of these great properties." The co-ordlnator, having set up what he wishes to be the objective of future national railroad policy, then proceeds to make recommendations recommenda-tions within the limit of existing laws. He Is decidedly skeptical of the Prince plan for consolidation of the roads, for his assistant, William B. Poland, has made studies that show the economies under this scheme would be less than one-third of the original estimates. Most significant of the recommendations recom-mendations on consolidations Is that proposals for compulsory consolidations consolida-tions should be given a trial, provided pro-vided that the commission and the co-ordlnator find the proposed mergers merg-ers to be In the public Interest Mr. Eastman throws the weight of his approval behind a method of compulsory consolidation through exchange of securities without the ose of cash. Execution of such a method, which the coordinator's legal le-gal assistant Leslie Craven, believes be-lieves can be accomplished, would accelerate the merging of eastern railroads Into the four systems previously agreed upon. Mr. Eastman says that reorgan Izatlon of railroads now bankrupt "should be effected as speedily as practicable, and In a manner which win result In a very material reduction re-duction In fixed charges." He calls attention to the fact that some of the most successful reorganizations reorgan-izations In railroad history took place In the midst of financial depressions. de-pressions. Wall Street theory has been that reorganizations should be postponed as long as possible. Many of the railroads' vital problems can be dealt with adequately ade-quately by the carriers themselves, bnt "there is aa yet insufficient organization or-ganization and leadership in the Industry for effective co-operation In such undertakings." It Is quite possible, Mr. Eastman believes, that a study of these problems "will pave the way to a much; larger use of motor mo-tor vehicles aa an adjunct to railroad rail-road service, and to a revgnJblng and simplification of the freight- rate structure.' v wr- v I Carlos Mendieta pARLOS MENDIETA Is quite sat tsf actor?., to the United States as president of Cuba In view of the fact that be has the backing of a majority or tne1 Cuban Cu-ban people and ap parently la capable capa-ble of restoring or der In the island. 80 President Roosevelt Roose-velt Informed the diplomatic envoys of the other Latin-American Latin-American countries whom he bad sura moned to the White House. The President Presi-dent virtually invited in-vited the other na tions to take the same course, but made It clear that his mind was made op anyway. Next day Jeffer son Caffery, acting for the United States government went to the state department In Havana and banded to Secretary of State Cosmo de la Torrlente a document notify lng the Cubans that the United Stales was ready to resume diplomatic diplo-matic relations. The Cubans went wild with Joy and the 21 -gun salute from the American warship Wyoming In the harbor was answered by salutes from the forts. Mr. Caffery will be our ambassador ambassa-dor to Cuba, and Manuel Marquez Sterling will be the Cuban ambassador ambas-sador to Washington. Recognition of the Mendieta regime came from practically all other na-. na-. tlons. President Roosevelt plans to do several favors to Cuba that should make Mendieta solid wltb his people. peo-ple. The wsnhlpt in Cuban waters wa-ters wTJTb withdrawn. Tb Piatt amendment to the Cubao constitution, consti-tution, permitting the United State to Intervene in Cuban affairs . to maintain law and order will be Junked. And congress will be asked to give Cuba a big preferential re ductlon In the American augar tariff, ftugar raising is the Island! cbler Industry In-dustry and for five year it his" tb' in a severe slump, and the resulting depression haa caused much of the political disturbance. THAT recovery outlays can be ended by June 80, 1935, Is the belief of the President, snd he gave expression to this when be announced an-nounced his approval of the bill extending the life of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation for another year. He enjoined Jesse Jones, chairman of the It. F. C. not to withdraw more than $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 from the treasury In the next fiscal year, except with prior Presidential approval. DLANS of the American Legion to ask congress for more liberal treatment of veterans have stirred up a row In Washington. The Le- glon Is urging en actment or a rour-point rour-point program to cost 180,000.000 a year. Gen. Prank T. ITInes, administrator adminis-trator of the veteran!' vet-eran!' b u r e a 0, thought this figure was too low. esti- 1f : mating the cost at considerably hlgh- er total The Le- aen. f. t. Hinea 1 1 Vi Kokl Hlrota glon representatives representa-tives declared the government estimates were erroneous erro-neous and by inference accused General Hlnes of ulterior motives and lack of integrity. In a letter to Edward A. Hayes, commander of the Legion, Hlnes denounced the criticism of his estimates as wholly uncalled for and said the Legion's own rehabilitation committee had admitted they were more nearly correct than its own estimates. Meanwhile the President bad announced an-nounced new modifications of his executive regulations concerning payments to disabled war veterans, the changes adding more than $21,-000.000 $21,-000.000 annually. There were Intimations In-timations at the White House that Mr. Roosevelt would seek to persuade per-suade the Democrats In congress not to go beyond this liberalization. D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S money bill went through the house with a rush, the rote being 300 to 40. Sixty-eight Republicans Joined the obedient Democrats In supporting the measure. James R. rtnlhnrna nf Hflsaourl ttnti Ciofirtrat R Terrell of Texas were the only Democrats recorded In the negative. The senate received the bill and referred It to the banjklng and currency cur-rency committee, which held a hearing hear-ing that was Ikely while It lasted. Prof. Georg' Warren, author of the dollar depreciation and gold purchase' pur-chase' program, explained to the committee the theory of commodity price regulation by manipulation of the currency. Then, taking up consideration con-sideration of the measure, the committee com-mittee hesrd the vigorous objections of Senators Glass, Gore and Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo to several features of the bill, notably the proposed seizure of the federal reserve bank gold, and the granting of unlimited finanrlnl power pow-er to the aecretary of the treasury. It was confidently predicted by the administration leaders that the bill would be put through the sen ate unchanged, but stubborn fights over various proposed amendments were certain. The vote on a plan to limit the use of the $2,000,000, 000 stabilization fund was expected to be close. Advocates of the re-monetlzatlon re-monetlzatlon of silver, who are fairly fair-ly numerous In the senate, prepared a compromise silver plan to be offered of-fered as an amendment to the devaluation de-valuation measure. ley and Long to their speeches denounced de-nounced each other without reserve, and the mayor promised to follow the senator to Washington, If nee esuary, and give him a good thrashing. thrash-ing. Having won the fight at the polls, he probably will abandon this project, though he and hla organ Izatlon have pledged themselves to "exterminate" Huey from public life. .... '" rEYELQPMEfi(TS,iift Japan, tad!-. cats that the military clique la losing out and that Foreign Minister Minis-ter Kokl Hlrota will be a' 'e to carry out hla plans to es tablish mora friend ly relations with the United 8tata, Gen. Sadao Arakl, who had been minister min-ister of war since December, 1931, and who conducted the .campaign against China, baa resigned ostensibly because of III health, and has been succeeded by Gen. Senjuro HayashL Last October Oc-tober Arakl declared In an Interview that "If .people, believe .the ..foreign policy toward the United States will change, they are absolutely wrong.1 It was then predicted that there would be a split In the cabinet, and this appears to have come, wltb the less warlike ministers, led by HI rota, having the upper hand. Hlrota told the diet at Its opening that Japan "fervently desires American Amer-ican friendship" and added that no question exists between Japan and the United State that is Intrinsic- ally difficult of solution. GRAFT and favoritism have been rife In the use of CWA funda, according to the numerous complaints com-plaints that have been received by President Roosevelt and Administrator Adminis-trator Harry L Hopkins, and audit of the books has been ordered in many localities. The unfortunate state of affairs was admitted by the President who thus forestalled the revelation of the facts by congressional congres-sional committees or Republican organizations. At the same time be made It plain that he was stand lng firmly behind Mr. Hopkins, the ousting of whom was tentatively planned by a group of house Democrats. More than 4,000,000 persons were given Jobs by the CWA and Mr, Roosevelt la asking for appropria tion of $350,000,000 to carry on the work to May 1 ; but he Insists thut the CWA organization be aban doned on that date according to his previous plan. Protests against this course. In congress and all over the country, have been . nu merous and loud. It is now con aidered likely that after May 1. continued employment for more than 2.000,000 of the CWA workers "Ill I I'U II U I II KRDUUai tnent public works and a revival vf Industry. Senators Nye and Borah, who have been attacking the NRA on the ground that its codes fostered monopolies aoA tended to ruin small business concerns, won a concession con-cession -from Administrator John-sop, John-sop, he general agreed to the es- fStill&hnient of a board of outstand ing citizens to which small manufacturers manu-facturers and other business men can bring their complaints of ruin ous operation of the codes. Ail the code authorities have been summoned to meet In Washington February 15 to consider code revisions. SENATOR HUEY P. LONG of Louisiana sustained another severe se-vere blow In the New Orleana Democratic Dem-ocratic mayoral primary, which la equivalent to an election. The "King-fish's" "King-fish's" candid ate. John Klorer, was soundly besten by T. Semmes Walms-ley, Walms-ley, the present Incumbent In-cumbent and now one of Long's bitterest bit-terest foes. There was a third candidate candi-date and Walmstey did not obtain a clear majority, tut Klorer announced that he would not force a run-off primary. Ills chief Issue In the rsce was a drastic reduction In electric ratea In New Orleans, and as the present city administration has promised to bring this a tout, Klor er aald be would take It at Its word. Thi campaign for the nomination was exceedingly stormy with pros pects of violence that did not develop de-velop when the day came. Walins- T. Ssmmes Walmslsy OSCAR DE PRIEST of Chicago, the only negro In congress, injected in-jected the race question Into the house of representatives, to the great distress of Speaker Ralney and the other Democratic Demo-cratic leaders. Louis Morris, sercetary to Mr. De Priest, and hla son were re fused service In the grill of the house restaurant, the man-ager man-ager Intor ming them that this was In accordance with his orders from Represent atlve Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina, Caro-lina, Democrat, chairman of the committee on accounts which directs di-rects the affairs of the restaurant. Mr. De Priest, hearing of this, was exceedingly wroth and insisted on demanding a special Investigation to determine by what authority the committee "controls and manages the conduct of the bouse restaurant and by what authority said committee commit-tee or any members thereof issued and enforced rules or Instructions whereby any citizen of the United States Is discriminated against on account of race, color or creed." Oscar De Priest JOHN H. McCOOKY. for almost a quarter of a century the big Tammany boss of Rrooklyn, died of heart disease, and his demise probably prob-ably means the end of Tammany's domination of the Democratic party In New York, at least for a time. It was expected that a leader satisfactory satis-factory to the supporters of President Presi-dent Roosevelt would be selected to succeed McCooey. Another once notable political leader passed away when Edward J. Brundaxe of Chicago committed suicide, presumably because of flnunclal troubles. Highly respected as a lawyer and a mnn. he formerly for-merly was prominent In (he He puMlcan party In Illinois and had been attorney general of the state e by WnUrn Nppr Unloa. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 1TH the coming of February 12 and the celebration of, Lincoln's A'trtfcitoiy"''1ltt: 'nor than half of the states of the Union and with the observance vof ihj annryerr sary in varloua forma through out the country America will have ample reason for remem bering the name and fame of one of her greatest sons, But there la another form of remem brance of Abraham Lincoln which serves to recall him to hla fellow-Americans in every part of the country, not on Just one day of the year, but on every day, , ' W;- as A',''pple,''aT''''1eVatean(B'i pedestal. In the spiritual sense, a pedestal of love and honor and reverence. 80 from many a pedestal, in the physical sense, doea the bronze or stone Image of Lincoln gaze down at the people who delight thus to honor him. While It would be idle to argue aa to who was the great est American, If the number of statues of him that have been erected is any criterion, then It seems certain that Lincoln ta that man. For these images of Lincoln, portraying Mm in all the varied phases of hla career, are to be found In 18 states of the Union, from Massachusetts Massachu-setts to Oregon and from Minnesota to Kentucky, aa well as in the District of Columbia. Proof that he has become a world-figure Ilea In the fact that Giigland has two statues of him and Scot land one. Of those In this country, Illinois, the state which gave him to. the nation, has .the largest number twelve. Curiously enough, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, the state of hla birth, haa only three-fewer three-fewer than New JerseyNewXorkv- Ohio and Pennsylvania, none of which have any such spe cial connection with hla life. Indiana, where Lincoln lived as a boy, from hla seventh to hla twenty-first year, haa only two and both of these were erected very recently. - One of the two Indiana statues la especially significant Among the many lmagea of Lincoln are representatives of him aa the rallsplltter, the militia captain, the lawyer, the congressman, the circuit rider, the debater, the candidate for President Pres-ident the President-elect the President the Eminclpator and the orator. All of them show him In his early manhood and hla maturity, and connected with the erection of virtually all of them was some element of public co-operation. But it remained for private enterprise to fur nish a new sculpture portrait of Lincoln and In 1032 the Lincoln National Life Insurance company com-pany unveiled In the plaza between the two wings of Its building in Fort Wayne, Ini, heroic bronze statue of "Lincoln, the Hoosler Youth," the work of a leading American sculptor, Paul Mtinship. But this private enterprise has done more in the establishment of the Lincoln xV 4 ;;vv ' 1-X . - - ill ' i , "' a . r 1- 1 a a. 1. v c r 5 f 1 1 I 1 J FIRST LINCOLN STATUE Made by Lott Flanntry, It was unveiled In 1868 and stands In front of the District of Columbia court housa In Washtnoton. "" National .Life foundation, under the direction of Dr. l)ula A. Warren, a Lincoln scholar, and along with the unveiling of the new Lincoln statue this foundation issued an Important piece of Llncolniana, a book bearing the title of "Heroic Statues In Bronzeof Abraham Lincoln," by Franklin B. Mead. This compilation. Illustrated with photographs, shows that there have been erected no less than 54 such atatuea and gives Interesting data concerning con-cerning the location, datea of dedication, namea of the sculptors, facta about their careers, etc. From this source the following tabulation of Lincoln Lin-coln statues In bronze, listing them In the alphabetical alpha-betical order of atates and countries in which tLey are located, is condensed : CALIFORNIA: Lincoln, the President by Halg I'atlginn. Located In front of the city hall In San Franclsco'a civic center. Dedicated February Febru-ary 12, 1913. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA! Lincoln, the Einanclpatotrby Thomas BslL Located in Lincoln Lin-coln park, Washington, D. a Dedicated In 1876. ENGLAND: Lincoln, the President replica of the St Gaudens statue la Lincoln park. Chicago, located In front of Westminster Abbey. Dedl cated In 1920. 1 i. Candidate, by George Gray Bar nard. Hepllca of the Barnard statue In Olncln- natL Located in riau rieia par ui Dedicated in 1910. 1. 1 ikimft. Lincoln, the President ' by Au gustus St Gaudens. Located In Lincoln park. Chicago. Dedicated In 1887. 1 i,,-,in th Rallsnlltter. by Charles J. Mulll gan. Locates In Garfield park. Chicago. Dedicat- J I" I'JIL . - ... Lincoln, the Emancltor,- by Urkln Gold- smilli Mead. Located on the Lincoln tomb, '( y- Springfield. Dedicated In 1874. Lincoln, the Orator, by W. Granville Haa tings. Replica of the Hastings statue In Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Located In Bunker DHL Dedicated in 1904. Lincoln, the Captain, by Leonard Cruneiler ixcaiea on the site or tne old Dixon blockhouse In Dixon. Dedicated in 1930. Lincoln, the Debater, by Leonarfl Crunelle located In Taykor park In Freeport Dedicated In 1929. Lincoln, the Circuit Rider, by Lorado Taft Located In Carle park In Urbana. Dedicated In 1927. INDIANA; Lincoln, the Hoosler Youth, by Paul Aiansnip. Located In the plaza of the Lincoln National Life Insurance company building in Fort Wayne. Dedicated In 1932. uncoin, the President by Charles Keck. Lo cated in front of the court house at Wabash. Dedicated In 1932. IDAHO: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Alfonso Pelzer. Replica of the Pelzer statue at Lincoln, N. J. Located in front of Lincoln hall at the Idaho Soldiers' home, Boise. Dedicated Febru ary 12, 1915. IOWA." Lincoln, the Orator, by Vf.' Granville Hastings. Replica of the Hastings statue In Cin cinnati. Located before the Green county court house In Jefferson. Dedicated In 1918. Lincoln, the Orator, by George E. Ganiere. Located in front of the high school In Webster City. Dedicated In 1913. KANSAS: Lincoln, the President by Robert Merrill Gage, Located on the statehouse grounds, Topeka, Dedicated February 12, 1918. KENTUCKY: Lincoln, the President by Adolph A. Weinman. Located In the rotunda of the statehouse at Frankfort Dedicated In 1911. Lincoln, the President by Adolph A. Wein man. Located at Hodgenrme. Dedicated In 1909. Lincoln, the Candidate, by George Gray Barnard. Replica of the Barnard statue in Cin cinnati. Located In front of the public library in Louisville. Dedicated in 1922. MASSACHUSETTS: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Thomas BalL Replica of the Ball statue in Washington, D. C I-ocated in Park square In Boston. Dedicated In 1879. MICHIGAN: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Al ronso peizer. Replica of the Pelzer statue at Lincoln, N. J. Located In Detroit Dedicated in 1919. ; Lincoln, the President by Charles H. Nle- haua. Located In the public square In Muskegon. Dedicated in 1900. MINNESOTA: Lincoln, the Congressman, by Max Bachman. Located In the O. A. R. circle of the Victory Memorial drive in Minneapolis. Dedicated Ded-icated In 1930. NEBRASKA: Lincoln, the Orator, by Daniel Chester French. Located on the state capltol grounds at Lincoln. Dedicated in 1922. Lincoln, the Lawyer, by Franz Zelezny. Lo cated on the high school lawn la Omaha. Dedicated Dedi-cated In 1907. - NEW JERSEY; Lincoln, the President, by Francis Edwin ElwelL Located In East Orange. Dedicated in 1911. Lincoln, the Statesman, by Jamea Earle Fraser. Located In the plaza at the entrance to West Side park In Jersey City. Dedicated in 1931. Lincoln, the President by Gutzon Borglum. Located on the plaza before the Essex county court house In Newark. Dedicated in 1911. NEW YORK: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Henry KIrke Brown. Located In Prospect park, Brooklyn. Dedicated In 1809. Lincoln, the Orator, by Henry Klrke Brown. Located In Union square, New York. Dedicated in 1870. Lincoln, the Orator, by Leonard Vf. Volk. Lo cated In Rochester. Dedicated In 1892. OHIO: Lincoln, the Candidate, by George Gray Barnard. Located In Lytle park, Cincinnati. Dedicated Ded-icated In 1917. Lincoln, the Orator, by W. Granville Hast ings. Located on the grounds of the Avondale school In Cincinnati Dedicated In 1902. Lincoln, the Orator, by Max Kallsh. Located in front of the Administration building of the school board. Dedicated In 1931. OREGON: Lincoln, the President, by George F. Waters. Located In the park In front of the Masonic temple lu Portland. Dedicated In 1928. PENNSYLVANIA: Lincoln, the Orator, by J. Otto Schweizer. Located In a niche on the aide of the Pennsylvania state memorial at Gettysburg. Dedicated in 1017. Lincoln, the Emancipator, by Alfonso Pelzer. Replica of the Pelzer statue In Lincoln, N. J. located In Wlnkinsburg. Dedicated In 1910. SCOTLAND: Lincoln, the Emancipator, by George E. BIsselL Located In the Carlton burial ground In Edinburgh. Dedicated In 1803. WASHINGTON: Lincoln, the President, by Al- if-. YyY LINCOLN, THE PRESIDENT Statue by Gutzon Borglum, in Newark, fonso Victor Lewis. Located In the buklnai uon 01 aposane. Dedicated In 1930. Anl Lincoln statue by the same sculptor which! dedicated in 1918 stands In Tacoma. WISCONSIN: Lincoln, the President by Gt B. Ganiere. Located in Burlington. Dedicatf 1913. Lincoln, the President, by Charles R. haus.' Replica of the Nieliaus statne In M gon, Mich. Located In Keuosha. Dedicate 1909. Lincoln, the President, by Adolph A. man. Replica of the Weinman statue In Iln vllle, Ky. Located In Madison. Dedicated Id Long as is this list It Is not a complete In that it Includes only statues of bronze, standing among the stone Images of Line 1 h kxf J -s If1 vl ... .... ... --lIMItlli'"'" -" Tj"jj- j. E3J ABRAHAM LINCOLN J . t.. ... 1. B..i In tn Kgi " 1 SiaiU By Vinni -" Capitol at Washington. . a SVKai tb. m?s?- z srsri vrencn, wuitu -- i.D(llfl coin Memonsi in n ""'" -awe-Insplrlng edifice that It Is. in Washington tM . : ''.T-V Lett FUnneryl statu 01 muw.u j J. the aculptor and it was unve M ApJ Just a little less man mm - assassination. IjD( Waahlngton - H .t.ftia wh en Stsnu iu m... -- .,.. 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