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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over says Sekine, "bat there are many people who would like to see such a war. I have read many books and magazine articles, the aim of which seems to be to stir up bad relations I between Japan and America. hope the people of America will not be misled by propaganda." Senator Harrison Voices Demand for Monetary Inflation Wallace Warns the Farmers Japan's Demands for Bigger Navy. chairman of the JESSE H.hasJONES, told the bankers bow By EDWARD W. PICKARD men and business persons, especially aouthern politicians, believe Inflation soon will be here In full force. , The financiers are 3 trying to guess ' when and In what J I Vi form It will come, and the southern BANKERS, many r ')" gressmen are urgcuring straight-ou- t rency which latter President Roosevelt has seemed desirous of avoiding as long as Senator possible. Of course, Pat Harrison we already have a degree of Inflation, shown by the declining prlce of the dollar on fora few days ago it eign exchanges reached the' lowest level In fifty for yearsbUt this is not enoughGreat the downright Inflationists. pressure was being brought on the President, the leaders In this being Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the senate finance committee ; Senator Fletcher of Florida, of the banking and currency committee; Senator Thomas of Oklahoma and Representative Ryrns of Tennessee, house majority leader. Harrison predicted adoption of a new administration monetary policy In the near future. Indicating It would be In full swing by tober when the movement of cotton from the farms reaches Its peak. "If the administration does not act before congress meets," he said, "congress will compel adoption of an Inflationary policy and not leave It to the discretion of the administration as was the case with the Thomas Inflation amendment." Declaring that the dollar Is too high and the price of gold too low, the Mlsslsslpplan proposed an Inflation program that would Include some or all of these methods: 1. Issue treasury notes. 2. Raise the price of gold In the domestic market. 3. Purchase silver and Issue treasury notes against It, regardless of whether French and British cooperation could be obtained. 4. Create a dollar stabilization fund to force the value of the dollar down and to keep It there, Washington correspondents said the administration was planning to act in accord with a report from the President's secretly appointed committee of monetary experts, which Is opposed to radical Inflation. Its proposal Is that about November 1 an agreement shall be sought between the federal reserve board and the central banks of Europe for the Immediate stabilization of American, British, French and German currencies by a process of "pegging" them at one another. The dollar would be pegged at a point between 70 and 80 cents. President Roosevelt maintained silence on the matter of Inflation, but was especially concerned about the welfare of the farmer. By his Fidirection the Reconstruction nance corporation made available to the federal land banks another $150,000,000 to assist In the Immediate refinancing of farm mortgages held by banks whose operations have been restricted by heavy portfolios of such paper. This step. It was believed, would help toward boosting prices for farm produce, Inflation, ADMINISTRATOR JOHNSON finally In producing a code for the bituminous coal Industry that was accepted by all the operators except two small gfoups and by the miners' unions and was approved by President Roosevelt The principal points In this code are: Provides for fixing of minimum prices; prescribes a maximum work week. Sets basic minimum wages for underground workers ranging from 40-ho- $3.75 to $5.(33 Recognizes In 16 districts. right of miners to Creates board and national regional to govern the Industry and wttle labor disputes. The sale of coal at less than "fair market prices" Is forbidden, and these prices are to be determined by regional marketing agencies and subject to government review. The labor provisions prescribed by the NRA are contained Intact In the code. Also the workers are given the right to elect their own check welghmen, and are not to be required by their employers to live In company rented houses or to trade In company stores. SPEAKING to the convention of and Feed Dealers' National association In Chicago, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace uttered the warning that all plans for fixing prices of agricultural prod nets must surely fell unless the law of supply and demand Is compiled with. Farmers, be declared, must control production, and, If they do not, even Inflation will not save them. He said the production control measures already adopted by the government, sucb as the plowing under of cotton, the curtailment of wheat acreage, and the slaughter and total destruction of 5,000,-00- 0 little pigs, will bring about a substantial rise In agricultural prices soon after January 1, If not before. But this "certainty," the secretary added, had brought from the farmers a great cry for Immediate price fixing to tide them over the ensuing three or four months. The general tenor of his remarks Indicated that he was opposed to taking any such action, but that the was standing at the government crossroads of economic policy and might have to listen to political the government through his corpor atlon, plans to gain complete con trol of the national banks. This will be obtained by RFC ownership of the preferred stock of the banks, and the scheme envisages RFC agents directing bank policies, electing directors, hiring and firing officers, directors, and employees, setting their salaries, limiting their real estate Investments and In gen eral directing the operations of banks. SOLDIERS and civilians opposed Grau San Martin as President of Cuba were reported to be mobilizing to drive him from " 'i office and the new .ftr TV as UJt'ltlCllL arily expected to break out In Havana. In other parts of the Island the $ oppositionists were Increasingly active. and altogether affairs In the republic were in a sad muddle. As the re- clamor. newed conflict be- J. C Laylln came more Iniml AS SUCCESSOR to Prof. Ray- nent the American warships drew mond Moleyln the position of assistant secretary of state, President In closer to the capital city, and esRoosevelt has turned to the ranks tablished hellographic communica tlon with the American embassy. of the more pracPresident Grau was concentrating tical politicians and selected Robert his cavalry and artillery about the Walton Moore, a presidential palace, and his oppoman of long experi- nents were gathering arms and amAt the National hotel, ence. Mr. Moore Is munition. a native of Fairfax, where 500 army officers were beVa., .where he now leaguered soldiers loyal to Grau resides, and is seven- were placing machine guns on adja ty-four years old. cent buildings and training them By profession he Is on the hotel. John G. Laylln, a United States a lawyer. He was elected to the Sixty-sixt- h treasury expert who went to Cuba R..W. Moora congress to fill with A. A. Berle of the RFC re returned to Washington out a vacancy and was cently, to each succeeding congress un- with a report on the financial sitWhat he told til the Seventy-second- . He then uation on the Island. retired to his home. During the has not been made public, but It Is World war he was assistant gen- a certainty that he found condi eral counsel of the United States tions very bad and that his report railroad administration. He Is also will have much to do In determina regent of the Smithsonian Instiing the attitude of the American tution In Washington. government The State department Mr. Moore an old friend of Sec- Insisted there was no' present In retary of State Hull, and presum- tentlon of landing marines or blue ably will be able to act In accord Jackets, but the sudden sending of with the secretary's views better four destroyers from Guantanamo to troubled spots was Indicative of than did Professor Moley. the serious situation on the Island. Mr. Hull said that Americans enT EPEALISTS captured two more in the Interior should New Mexico and states, Idaho, dangered move toward the warships for prothese being the thirtieth and thirty-firs- t tection. to turn thumbs down on prohibition. By November 7 eight oth- er states will have voted, and there Is no reason to believe that the wets will fail to win In at least five of them all that Is necessary to remove the Eighteenth amendment from the Constitution. In New Mexico the vote was about three to one in favor of repeal, only two of the 27 counties showing a majority In favor of the prohibition law. Idaho, however, was much closer, the drys there making a showing of strength second only to that In Tennessee. The repeallst majority in Senator Borah's domain was only approximately five to four. Attorney General Homer handed down a decision In Washington that permits bankers to finance the wholesale manufacture of liquor, preparatory to repeal. Cum-mln- FM1 CX Am By FRANCES LACE PARKINSON KEYES WOT Service Frances Parkinson Keyas SYNOPSIS In a mood of disappointment, through her Inability, due to tha selfishness of her family, to put finishing touches to her costume (or a long anticipated country dance, Anne Chamberlain Is Irritated by the stolidity and lack of Imagination displayed by her escort, George Hlldreth (points he shares A with most of her acquaintances). visitor in the community, Neal Conrad, young lawyer, is to be the "sensation" of the evening, and Is vaguely jealous. Conrad is impressed by Anne's fresh young beauty and charm. Hil-dre- th CHAPTER II Continued 3 "It was written by quite a famous Strauss. The Austrian composer best thing he ever did. Listen to It, don't talk, and dance it If you've never waltzed to It before, you don't know what dancing can be." She had never known before what dancing could bel That was true enough, whatever the music was, far truer than he guessed. Or did he She hoped he did not guess? then longed to tell But she was speechless. A silence no less insidious than the sensuous strains of the singing melody bound her. She could not break it, not even when, at the last lingering bars, his encircling arm tightened for an instant and then relaxed its bold, and she felt his fingers on her bare elbow, guiding her lightly. "Out this way. To the left, under those maple trees. Let me help you. The seat Is rather high." (What was the magic of those strong, white hands, so different from any hands that had ever touched her before?) "Do you mind If I smoke?" "No." "Possibly you'll join me?" "Oh. no!" "That wasn't fair. I knew you wouldn't. I only wanted to hear you say it." church and teach my Sunday school class, and " "Wouldn't somebody else do that for you, Just once?" "No one ever has." "That's no sign no one ever would. You might ask." She tried to shake herself free from the lure of his suggestion. "I George wouldn't like it at all If I did." "Who is George?" "George Hildreth. He lives on the next farm to ours." "I see. You are engaged to him?" "No, "But he wants to be?" "Yes. I've known him for years. He brought me here tonight." "Three cheers for George!" said Neal heartily. "I don't believe you but" feared he did him so herself. All is fair In love ami laughed. war. He knew that he had won." When he emerged, Mrs. Griffin accosted 1)1 m, and asked what like to take along for a lunch. was having Anne, meanwhile, She decided that difficulties, too. it would be wiser to take the bull by the horns, and tell George about the Invitation at once. They were? on their way back over the hills when she broached the subject "George," she said, Mo you remember what you said to me on the way In? About Neal Conrad asking me to go out with him In his horseless carriage? Well, he has." " George gasped and then sputtered. I hope you "The fresh city guy give him all that wuz comln' t him." "I told him I'd be pleased to go. You suggested it yourself I Why should I think you'd mind, after her fluttering breast to her throat She couldn't answer him. Inside the hall the leader of the band was beginning to call the numbers of the Portland Fancy. Thomas Gray would be hunting for her, and George "Won't you please say you'll take that drive?" It was no use She could not struggle against her own longing. Somehow she found her voice. "All right," she said breathlessly. It was barely more than a whisper, but Neal, hearing It knew that she would not change her mind. "Yes, 111 go," CHAPTER III 1 THE motoring party took place, .not without violent opposition from more quarters than one. Neal broached the subject to his friend on the way home from the dance, and Roy objected to it with more vigor than Neal would have supposed him capable of displaying In regard to any subject. "You asked Anne Chamberlain to go up to the mountains with you! Good Heavens, Neal, you don't know anything about the girl at all I She comes from one of the most worthless families in the whole town." "Well, she's come a long way, then. You don't call her worthless, do you?" "No, I rather like Anne." "Good I I like her very much; and she's darned attractive." "You must have seen plenty of girls." And plenty of bright "I have. girls. And plenty of girls with lots of go to them. But I never saw one that combined all those qualities so thoroughly in one and the same person. I got her to tell me a little about herself. She said her father had had hard luck, and her that?" "Are you goln' just to get even with me?" It would have been welcome tidings, she knew, if she had said she was. But she was too honest. "Partly a little. But mostly because I want to. I've never been to the mountains." "Are you goln' off alone with this) feller T "Of course not Mrs. Griffin and Roy are going, too." "Wal, you went outside an' set with him quite a spell, I noticed. Did he kiss you?" "Of course not I think you're awfully vulgar and and Insulting. I don't believe he even thought of such a thing." "You know darned well he did." "Well, then, it's all the more credit to him because he didn't do itt good-lookin- g "l Don't Believe You Really Intend to Marry Him, Though, Do You?" It's v more than you would have done, with the same chance!" "You ain't comparin' me an him, are you?" "I am not. There's no comparl- - really Intend to marry him though, mother wasn't strong." do you?" "Hard luck the kind of hard son possible." "No, Thoy were actually quarreling. "Then wouldn't it be a real kind- luck that comes from never doing ness, in the end, to let him find that any hard work As for Anne's moth- The evening on which George had er being delicate well, she weighs counted so much was turning out "Why?" out right away?" "I don't know. But I like your about three hundred and fifty worse than a failure. "Perhaps, but " voice. Where did you learn to use "I think you've acted real mean," pounds, and she may have heart "Do know how times many you It so well?" or kidney trouble. I should he mumbled. disease to me said 'but' tonight?" not be at all surprised. It Anne "I don't care If you do. If you "I never learned at all. I've just you've "No, hadn't worked her fingers to the say another word, finding fault, I'll kept trying I've thought about It, both It seemed, bone and taught school besides these jump out of this buggy and walk They laughed. I mean, and practiced by myself. And I love beautiful English. But somehow, very easy for Anne to last two years, I don't know how home !" laugh with Neal Conrad. And In the they'd have lived." . She meant what she said, and I've never heard much." course of her laugh she recovered recent deaths among "And with a think that you George knew It There was nothdid girl to school?" NOTABLE of Dr. Annie "Where you go herself somewhat Besant. much spunk isn't worth knowing?" ing to do but relapse Into sullen si"In West Hamstead, at the disleader of the Theosophists of the "I may as well tell you. I couldn't Not another word was Roy stared at his friend with lence. school until I was old enough trict world. She passed away In Madrns. e Neal had spoken during the drive. I teach the possibly go with you to one of growing astonishment to go to high school. those big hotels. I haven't anything not only been swiftly hit He had They even parted without India, at the age of eighty-siyears, district school myself now." saying death being due to the Infirmities of to wear." t been hit hard. "And you went to high school " old age. She claimed to have been "I was was was after tvvo when Anne she he didn't It that She wasn't that then, say afraid, I Hamstead. lived with "Here in reincarnated many times since beBut why, she slipped into bed. An hour later begoing to laugh at her Instead of worth knowing. was Sarah. She an Mummer's Aunt ginning life 12,000 years ago. Lead with her. But he did nothing of the doesn't even know how to dress I" fore she fell asleep. But she was old lady, a cripple. She was awfully ershlp In the world Theosophists He regarded her with less "She knows that she doesn't up again at five, and by seven the sort me to me. come let She and was attained following upon a good some- know. And that being the case, "extra wash" was on the line, and amusement than and before, live with her and work for my stormy life which began after she board and she'll learn. Give her time. She she bad. started picking the beans. thing very like tenderness. to school. she If go was divorced from an English clerWhile they were cooking, she "You don't need to dress up, you can't be much over twenty." hadn't I'd have had to go out as gyman. Deprived of her children isn't And when the dinner dishes Ironed. that." "She a quite Haven't little know. you I was simple when thirteen." she became the champion of Lon hired help were see and "Then dried and stacked away, she wait you just some sort? of suit It's cool, serge "Are are your parents dead?" don's poor, a leader In political and " what she'll look like by the time asked her father If she might take motoring no. never But seemed they've "Oh, social reforms and a strike organ she's thirty! You don't object If the team and drive to Wallacetown. "No." to prosper. Pupper's had hard Her attention then was dl Izer. I at least ask your mother to go with "Land sakes, Anne, can't you nev"And one?" couldn't get you luck always, and Mummer Isn't rected to the ellglous movement er be still? Wal, go ahead, ef yer I couldn't afford to buy one. us?" "No, a Anne hesitated moment, strong." "You can ask her. But I know so set on it" I wouldn't know what was full of reports that and then continued, In a burst of And anyway, She escaped before he could she'll refuse." BERLIN had was suitable." been a split between confidence, "I'm afraid you won't she wouldn't his mind, without even waitme expect "Surely change Neal saw that he was facing real say anything about loving to hear Chancellor Hitler and his right-hanto Insult the girl by Inviting her to ing to put on a fresh dress. It was confessed. He heartbreak, frankly me me after call talk again, hearing man, Capt Herman Wllhelm Goer one already, and It would go off on an trip with me half-pas- t them Mummer and Pupper. But I veered away from it with consum- without a of I" ing, until nearly three to reach her take chaperon mate tact did when I was a little girl, and .Prussia. These ru' "Good Lord. Neal ! You don't need Wallacetown. The bank closed at "Well, we could take a picnic when I learned that I ought to say mors were given to invite her at all." that hour, and the bank was her and It eat roadside. lunch the by wouldn't let Mamma and Papa, they "Iook here, Roy, I thought you first objective. She reached It barebody by the fact me change. They thought I was Then you could wear anything you were a friend of mine. You're not that Hitler did not ly In time. What to wear have. you'd happen trying to put on airs." attend the cere"I want to draw some money out acting much like one.'' as on as we're to church, going long "I see so you've never been away mony nt which Roy felt a pang of contrition. He of my savings bank account," she would that do?" How a Sunday. from Hamstead?" Goering Installed In said breathlessly. "I don't believe it would do at was a gentle creature. office the new Prus"Well, of course I go to Wallace-tow- all." "I'm sorry, Neal. I shouldn't have "Why, Anne Chamberlain, you sian state council On errands. And once In I did. Anne's a nice girl. don't mean to tell me you're going as spoken not?" "Why In the Berlin unia while to a show." Every one admits that I'd be as to take it out and spend It I Wheu "It just wouldn't" "Wouldn't you like to go further versity. sorry as anyone to see her get into you haven't but three hundred alto- beA and sound The 71 counselbooming scraping away than that?" trouble." gether, counting Interest" H. W. winto float ors who took the Capt through the open "Wouldn't I like to? What do you gan "Oh, Tad, please hurry!" Inconceivable that she should "It's bail. Goering the j dows of the town oath In unison In Clearly, suppose?" Still protesting, he counted the Neal Icily. said into trouble,' get to recommence was band cluded leaders of the Nazi storm I preparing So "Well, suppose you would. notes Into her hand five crisp, new course. I of What meant "Yes, Neal's time was ministrations. Its troops, the army, navy, church, art. why don't you? Why don't you let bills. She had never seen so much commerce, Industry, and also the me come and take you for a nice growing short He leaned over, and was go ahead and ask Mother. I'll money, at once, In all her life beI to can too." what her, took Anne's hand, which somehow say former ruling houses Prince Au lung drive up through the mounfore. She tucked It into her shabby said tfeal "Thank still you," to seem not could she and Wllhelm Hohenzollern and tains in my automobile?" withdraw, gust little purse, thrilling at the crackcoldly. ImPrince Phllipp of Hesse. The It was Im- spoke very earnestly. Anne was speechless. Because of his repentant spirit, ling sound which It made. Then she "Look here you're not refusing pressive ceremony was witnessed possible and yet It had happened. to said even more to his mother sped down the street to Mr. Golden-burg- 's I'm be because think crown Roy and crown you the In trying For the first time by prince nearly an hour, Btore, stopping to look Into he had Intended. But in spite to do when than this princess of Italy, the papal nuncio, she remembered the existence of fresh, asking you window as she reached It There the Neal of met never this intercession, found her you before?" Msgr. Orsenlgo; Ambassador WilGeorge. And dlily because It would I've headless "dummies" stood "N adamant when he first approached three liam E. Dodd of the United States, be such a satisfaction to tell him draped with white muslin dresses. "For I'm not If you'd rather, we her. and other members of the diplo that his jeering prediction had A white muslin dress had not "1 couldn't think of it, Neal. matlc corps; but both President come true. Then her heart smote won't say unything more about the It been Included In her calculations. sevVon Hindenberg would make talk, going on a Sun-- ! and Chancellor her. George would be hurt, terribly ride until I've called on you But, as she looked at these, she sudHitler were absent. hurt, by the mere knowledge that eral times, and all that This Is day." saw herself clad In one, when be- I come could twice conIs a new council The "It's the oidy day the poor girl denly merely the Invitation had been extended. If Thursday. Neal came to call that evening and ' Tomorrow can go. She works like a dog all the next if he sultative body, having no voting she accepted It he would be stricken. fore Sunday, anyway. really did come. It and Saturday evening. the rest of the time." "I could come for you right after evening power, because, ns Goering exwas the kind of thing a girl ought I should aren't You're a Is I relic of call, don't know "And "that at willing her It all parlia breakfast," Neal went on, "then we plained, fo wear, under such circumstances, wouldn't seem natural starting off she saw mentarlsm." which he declared had could stop in Wallncetown and pick you?" sheer and Instinctively, been destroyed by Nazism, togeth that way with a stranger." up Mrs. Griffin and Roy. We could snowy. The crude color of her pink er with pacificism. "The only trouble is, I can only have lunch at some hotel. We could "Why, I should think you'd like to dress, the heaviness of the black The same day Foreign Minister go a long way In a day, you've no stay here a few days. I'm on my get acquainted with her. She and bows that adorned It, seemed hopeVon Netirath expressed Germany's Idea. Then I'd bring you back In vacation, but it's got to be a pretty Roy are such good friends." lessly hideous to her all nt once. If determination to obtain security the evening." short one. : I'm a lawyer, jou know, Hoy's mother looked at her guest she bought a white muslin dress. It and equality In weapons of defense. "Oh, I can't. Yon have no Idea In Hinsboro. Roy'll tell you, or your for a moment with bewilderment? would mean buying white shoes and In Paris the representatives of how much work there Is for me to family, anything you'd like to know What was he suggesting. That her too, and the right kind stockings, the United States, Groat Britain do at home. And there's extra wash- :iliiut me. I'm doing pretty well-q- uite precious child, the only companion i( a slip, hut she felt loo recklcs to and France held conversations pre ing to do this week." well. But this Is the first va- of her declining years Roy and rare if she could draw cation I've ever tHken, and I can't af- one of those Chiimlierlnins! It was out more necessity, llmlnnry to the resumption of the "We could go on Sunday." money, she unlatched the disarmament conference, the main "On Sunday? I don't believe you ford to leave my office too long now. unthinkable! shop dour, and walked in. By good "I'm trying to cut him out. I luck she I've topic being France's proposal for understand our ways. We never go I mustn't t.'ike any chances. encountered the proprietor worked too hard, building up my thought perhaps you wouldn't mind. himself, a rigid and permanent control of anywhere on Sunday." kindly .Tew who had been " a tried must over be course which You of Hut arms sei "Well, couldn't you, for once?" pnicilce, to let it slide. In Wallacetown only a few years, conNeal went Into his bedroom, shut and who had "No eren If I thought It was that, don't you?" period of years before she will prospered there. behind sent to disarm. and from bounded doer Imd ;he In him, I to Anne's have carefully heart the organ play (TO BK CONTINUED.) right but" but" , 4 six-mil- good-nigh- , d all-da- y the statesmen of WHILE and the United States are preparing for reopening the disarmament conference, there Is great Interest In the na- - , ral nlnns nf Jnnnn IW.' '& val minister of the island empire, has announced that his country will seek a revision of ratios at the next International conference so that Japan will be permitted to build nearly up to with Mlneo Osuml Great erltaln and United States. He holds that nnder present conditions the defense purpose of the Japanese navy Is Impaired and that more warships are required to protect the empire from qutside attack. Counteracting this somewhat are statements from Kokl Illrofa, the new foreign minister, and Capt. Gumpe! Sekine, spokesman for the naval ministry. The former as- parity serts that Japan Is striving for the best possible relations with all foreign nations, especially the United States, China and Russia. Captain Sekine declares Japan has no Intention of challenging America to a race, although It will ask permission to construct a larger navy. ''The Japanese navy Is defensive, not aggressive," Sekine asserts. "The Japanese public does not want a war. We wunt honorable naval-biilldln- We do not wpnt to be or disgraced. No happiness comes out of war. But when pressed to the wall we will fight." He deplores propaganda asserted ly alined at stirring up trouble h tween Japan and the United Stales. "There Is no real reuson fur a war between America and Japan," premier ' k ." i C 1932, W'efttorn Newspaper L'nioa. v w |