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Show PAGE TWO BRISBANE News Review of Current tayEciti'QjTOT Events tlie World Over RJEE2 THIS WEEK voinca 0.0. AH IIUTVtia hr Watra Kwiptrtr at hand run them with good, sound Ameriwinter WITH another Bitllluna of Americana can business tense. "They should take bold of their till unemployed, organized labor, through President William Green of country, too, In the same way, and the American Fed- run It wltb good sound American eration of Labor, common yenae." baa asked tha administration to ap- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT peal to all Indus-trlebeginning July 1, to Increase 1035, bo will eliminate the3 percent production 80 per pay cut that Is now takeo out of cent. Mr. Green the salaries of all federal emIn a public atato-men- t ployees. The pay restoration, be asserted that explained, Is being planned on the for tha Brat Um assumption that Increases tn the aInea President cost of living will necessitate it f--' reemRoosevelt The Treasury department thereWilliam Green ployment , program upon admitted frankly that this means the taxpayers will be called got under way In July, 1033, unemon to pay aa additional fifty milployment baa exceeded laat year' lerel. The number of peraona with- lion dollars a year for the benefit out any employment bo puta at of the 700,000 federal employees 8,348.000. Those without Jobs In Inwho will benefit by the restoration tn salaries. dustry In September numbered Jobs for 2,230,000 sere Mr. Roosevelt predicted flatly that provided by conservation camps the cost of living will advance suband emergency relief projects, but stantially within the next eight these emergency joba," ho Said, "are months. When be made this statenot creating Incomes to pay tba ment at his regular press confercosta ence he also cautioned reporters to Mr. Green continued: "Could not remember that an Increase la cost the administration Invite all Indus- of living meant an Increase In comIn a general protries to modity and property values, theregram to Increase production and by lessening the difficulty In paying ? men to work put debts. This li one of the avowed "If the nation wide level of all alms of the Roosevelt program. He said he expected the rise of production mere lifted 30 per cent In a balanced program, adjusting food, clothing, fuel, bousing, and production to consumption needs, other living costa to be large each Industry would then bo as- enough by July I to Justify the 8 sured that allother Industries would per cent restoration. He refused Increase their production, and the to say whether the Increase In govwealth produced by putting labor ernment pay, which Is being allowed to work would create Income to buy for In the 1935 federal budget. Is the product of all. to be taken as an example for In"The total number at work In the dustry to follow. United Slates was 3H.764.000 In September, 1033; by September, DR. ERNEST GUUENIXG, chief 1984. It bad declined to 30,3(17.000. the bufeau of territories sod During these 12 months the normal Insular affairs, has gone rather hurIncrease In population has added riedly to the Virgin Islands to make close to 430,000 to the army of Job a personal Investiseekers for whom Industry provides gation Into a atste o work. Thua the number wltb of affairs that bas out work in Industry has risen from led to the filing of 10,108,000 In September, 1033, to oerloua charges be10.W1.000 In September. 1934." fore commltteea of both housea of conQuito as gloomy aa Mr. Greens report waa a statement of the Nagress. In petition tional Industrial Conference board. for a congressional This agency noted that the general Paul C. Inquiry, Improvement In manufacturing acYates, who recenttivity usually occurring In Septemly reslgued as exber failed to materialize. Instead, ecutive assistant to declines of 3.7 per cent tn the numGov. Paul M. Pearber of wage earners employed, of son, charges that the present ad6.1 per cent In total man hours ministration of the Islands la worked and of 5.8 per cent In paywasteful, extravagant. Inefficient, rolls disbursed, were reported. In and tainted wltb corruption." addition. It was stated, the rise In Yates was recently suspended and the coat of living from August to ordered to Washington for an InSeptember depressed real weekly quiry by Secretary lekes, who acearnings of wage earners 2.1 per cused him of disloyalty, Insubordicent nation, and gross Inefficiency," and On the other hand, the United In general of being a trouble maker. States Chamber of Commerce In Its Yates resigned Immediately and summary of conditions throughout came to Washington, but chose to . the nation reports continued likes' office, cuF provement of sentiment rylng bis plaints instead directly although It has not as yet been re- to congress. flected definitely In the volume of lie charges that Mr. lekes has transaction a. been "outrageously deceived" by Governor Pearson and subordinate officials of the Interior department, thoughtful persona MANY on has ignored "eompluiuts, petitions, the apparent discrepancy between the plena of William and specific charges" presented by Green for more employment and the citizens of the Islands, and bas the policy pursued by organized la dealt with officials "In a peculiarly bor In fostering great strikes seem harsh, cruel, and dictatorial manner." Ingly for the sole purpose of en The petition further charges that forcing unionization and the closed shop. Many thousands of persons minor officials la the luterior deare thrown out of employ ment by partment aided and abetted Govthese strikes. Industries are ham- ernor Pearson to whitewash a mapered or shut down and often se- jor public works scandal and derious disorders result To the by- ceived the secretary of the Interior stander It does not seem fair that regarding public works and the genIn a time of distress, auch methods eral situation, and were criminally should be followed lo order that negligent In the performance of the strength of the unions might be their duty." Increased. The latest example of Secretary lekes Is accused of this policy Is the strikes which making prejudicial sad injurious rebrought about the closing of all marks about T. Webber Wilson, the Great Atlantic and Iaclflc Tea Judge of the Federal District court company's shops and warehouses In la the Islands, remarks which reCleveland and which went In effect flect unjustly upon the federal JuIn Milwaukee against the A. and P. diciary and which are unbefitting and two other chain store com the dignity of a cabinet officer." There was a prospect lekes also la accused of unjustly panics. that these walkouts would spread and at the Instance of Governor throughout Ohio and Wisconsin. Pearson, having removed from office Charles H. Gibson and Ell Baer, TTCMlY FORD, who says that government attorneys, and Capt 6 a what la done In Washington Michael J. Nolan, director of podoesnt matter much so far as re- lice of St. Thomas and St. John, covery ts concerned, came out with with a record of 14 years' loyal a statement that and efficient service." f a s i i ' 1 l.l should be encour- i -- Well-poste- d i n p 11 a fdllne: Train Ripper at Large! I might Inch ovet to that Man and mantel. around the group boy, Ive done some first class mantel leaning. Just as I wax chummy, they go Inside to dance. That leaves me Juat here I was. The Stsg st Bay! 1 might get a little attention by busting out with hiccups. A flurry at the entrance. Rudy Vallee arrives. And there are Mary Plckford and Grace Moore. Maybe Mary would wait with me Americas Sweetheart and the Forgotten Man. All those butters with trays of sandwiches fly past as though I might be waving a smallpox flag. Well, Ive outstood that Charles fellow at the winLailgbton-looklndow. In fact Ive stood so long my knees are beginning to buckle. 1 might try standing on one foot Yeah, and be shot for a heron. Society note: One of the figures at the party was O. (0. g to foil a part of the furnishings. If they decide to have Elsie DeWolfe do over the house I hope she won't forget to upholster me. The way they crowd around that Rudy Vallee. Crooner! Im beginning The host can be sure of one thing from now pn I've grown my last beard In hla parlor. "Will you add your merry presence to my gather-lng? That is what he telegiaphed. If he can find one glimmer of mcrrl-ment about me, I hope to ihoke. I hope to choke anyway, so far as that goes. That's what I'll do, gulp one ot those prop sandwiches and put on a choking scene. Crow purple and gasp. Im dying, Egypt, dying' And have some mug drench me with a crock of Ice water. I've got to think up something dandicr than that. 1 i i New tie on railroads, Is Business Control go-- In mend In re ports soon to appear, that there be mors stringent regulation of tha railroads. It Is to bo noted that lately Washington conversations hava Included a new Ides respecting governmental relations with businesses coming under direct fed- eral regulation. The discussion seems to center about some Idea which concerning tha obligation business whatever owes government It regulates and whose profits it limits. The talk one hears In many places la to tha effect that If the government, or any government, lays down rules which prohibit business from reaping tha profits that accrue la good years, by the same token It ought to consider some form of compensation to that business in the periods of depression through such as ws are now passing because It baa refused to permit that business to create a huge layer of fat upon which It can feast In the bad years. Advocates of auch a theory, of courae,have Immediately found opponents. In other words, two very definite schools of thought have developed and although the question la nowhere near a solution nor la It likely that the forthcoming session of congress will even approach an answer, one can hear arguments pro and con on the point most anywhere the subject Is broached. The proponents of (he theory that the government owes an obligation to those businesses which It bas regulated within an inch of their Uvea contend that Investors which meant the public who own aharea of stock are being discriminated against by th'elr own government Their claim la that a business cannot survive unlees It Is enabled to store away profits of the good years against which It may draw when the prolonged econom'c depressions strike. The result Is, according to this argument that unless the fat is Stored away after the manner of the hear In preparation for winter, Investors can expect only to see their, savings destroyed from time to time, and tills with the sanction of their own gover- nment In opposition to this new theory of relationship between government and business, one heara the usual denouncements of the sins of the railroads and tha public utilities, but one also hears complaint that If the federal government should embark upon a policy of compen Bating those businesses which It reg ulates. It might be placing a premium on mismanagement and even It la ardownright crookedness. gued likewise that the federal government must not use taxpayers money In this manner nor that It should employ the policy of coin pensation, as that amounts to a sub ... sidy. "Ten to tract wind irp at 35 wtrftir; At any rate a new field has been ding up the place. I might begin tidy- opened. On each aide are to be ing up a few ash trays just fo prac- found vigilant and virulent defend tise. Everylody is moving to the ter era and from thla.tlme It la made race tables for a midnight repast to appear that congress la eventu That Is everybody hut me. I still ally going to ba compelled to destand here. Old Standing Bull. May- cide how far this regulation of busibe the hat check boy might shaie ness can properly go. From all of his lunch. Isn't this a social career, the arguments here, It would seem dress all 141 like Mrs. Astors plush that each side has solid ground zebra and wind up splitkng a sand upon which to stand. It may he wlch with the hat boy! What is life possitde that from this controversy but a drab dolor? That's fron Mon something in the way of a new ecotaigne. isnt it? Where was 1? If any- nomic polity will develop. The one comes across a wandering mind, Roosevelt administration has gone head it off. Its nunc! Wait, know farther than any other in In history where I am. Standing up against the Its regulation of business, and wall at the part., . there are tho.se who believe that a reaction is due. If that be the case, Generally they stand people then It appears logical at least that against the wall to Rlioot them. I'm the two opposing forces may bring different. They stand me against the about a compromise that will be fa wall to let me starve to death. Look vorable to general business, whhh t them out there in the lambent Is subject to regulation, and enable moonlight. Jazzfienzied puppets. those who place their savings in Gorging, aleiug and wenihing. Glut stocks or bonds of auch utilities to ton, glutton, whose got the-- no. that feel reasonaldy secure about some sort of anneal return. Isn't right. Not even a sprig of Everybody keeps ac'ing natura but my right leg at an at fulr such at this is sound arieep. Jab a pin Into Ik I wont flinch. N'evei mind. Here comes a gorgeous lady The evening begins. Ever see such eyes? I'll flick Imaginary fluff from my sleeve. She wants to know If Id mind phoning for her car. Takes me for the help. Earl Benham shall know about this. Adolphe Menjou never had a better fitting evening suit, O. no! I suppose when 1 gel through phoning she'll send niv down to the corner for a paper or have me air the Peke. r-Umb - 1 cress water passes my lips. How Icy the throat, how fevered the brow! Have Paul Whiteman play something Nay, trembly. Miss Cornell, I'm all bit fatigued. A hard day at the factory. Go on with your pleasures, dont mind one of lifes nonentities. Good of you to notice me. But nothing matters any more. perfectly right, lust a aging to the AmeriCONVERSATIONS In London cas busineea man scheduled naval He told the Ford conference have been quite unsatismanagers gathered factory to far, for neither the Unitla Detroit that hla ed States Dor Great Britain shows waa out company any disposition to accord to Japan of the depression, the equality that nation demands, Id sneak up to the punch bowl lor even thongh It be merely In prinand they In turn a snort but Id probably get a What, told him of gen ciple with the Japanese agreeing yglkhere again?" look. The only felnot to build up to parity with them. low around the Joint who Improved orally hasnt business conditions observers do not besnubbed me Is the elevator man. In all parts of tha lieve the conference will accomLikely saving him for my exist conntry. plish anything valuable, and SecTheres probably a cow dow n In the Tha depression," Ford set forth retary of thejiavy Claude A. Swan- lobby rightmow waiting to hook me In a statement, "would be over for son says that, regardless of Its outas the grand fimfrv.But I've shown 4 whole country Tery soon If come, his department plans to bring Tmthe boy who cun' take it. AnyA merles s Industrialists would Just The American fleet up to .full-trea- ty way, why whine? Sraarty would forget the alphabet schemes and strength and will ask congress for come to a party! take bold of their Industries and the necessary appropriations. ... fc JViir AW n l IniOn'i. J I1 1 With aaaurancs Washington. federal Eastman, B. that Joseph or mors in tbs way. So tar Ivs dons nothing but bow and step aside. And I feel ont of or those head-oback-ncapers on soma ladys train coming on. PICKARD By EDWARD W. Caioa. Son Spots and Wort No Toy Pistol, Money Plain Language Needed Why Revive Sparta? National Topic Interpreted hv William Bruckart V Henry NEW YORK. After all my never they .have me out to out again, . Serious Cheerful Ford Charges Concerning of those big formal parties. On thing Is certain. Government of the Virgin Islands. nobody will be William Green Gloomy About Unemployment Solution of this question of equity betweeu the government and the businesses hi, h Solution It regulates Is not Not Simple as simple as It may superficially appear, for example, the is put forward whether It questionis posaible to evolve any method of mean orlng. even roughly, the extent of the public obligation. It Is likewise necessary to determine In advance of a final answer to the question, whether the past Inequalities and past treatment of public utilities Is th factor to be considered. There la a question whether tbe government la openly to assume a direct voice in the management of proper tie v hich it regulates if there , a compensating arrangement to t investor in those businesses Then, It goes into the question of government ownership or govern-men- t control of private Industry. Some of the advocates wf this program of compensation ea!l st ton'iou to tbe public neca; tnr pro-tw- (pirn-reV- h i of service. s - suchajh fog' example. Jo ""Vffp'TiRfoMrisTihTHr the addition of ping, with perhaps It U the growing aircraft Industry, a U wllllngnesi there that admitted comon the part of those lines of of merce to aid the nation In time para, or what Tba Abba Moreanx, looking through hla telescope la Bourgea observatory, says, "Beware of 1S36 end 1337." Sun spots will Increase violently in those two yeara, accordwar. and when sun spots Should the government engage l ing to tho abba, to Increase w have wars and social money of taxpayer distribution a , offset deficits In the lean years, op- disruption.1 we On tho other hand, according to that say the policy of ponents even the reverend observer, when the gun should be headed for an been Is calm, "tha world usually has been has than bureaucracy greater unat peace." recovery set up to accomplish Obder the present administration. not Others believe that spots" caus men will viously, many business of ing war. International and Individbe In favor of further extension had their ual hatred!, are not Ban spota, bat bureaucracy. They have codes. spota on tho human brain. fill of bureaucracy under the anothMany "spota" will bare to be reThe form of assistance Is the moved from tho human brain beIn not were It If er problem. to fore war can end. form of a money payment direct th then concerned, the businesses on anIndiana la Investigating two offisubsidy must be worked out other basis. It has been suggested cials connected with tho prison from that the regulations themselvee which tha lata Mr. DUllnger essome re caped, supposed to bars frightened might be used to enable One the- hla Jailers with a toy pistol. available. now not turns New evidence Indicates that. Inory advanced was that tbe regulations should be flexible and that In stead of frightening somebody with the lean years there bo some relax- a wooden pistol, he bribed someation of tbe restrictions so that the body with good real money. Half the success and immunity regulated business might proceed d more freely In operation. crimof the usually Another thought heard It that inal la based on the corruption of there should he consideration given public officials, end criminal lawto competing businesses such, for yers ready to accept criminal example, aa la the condition be- money. tween the railroads and the highway users. It Is of record, of The New York Times quotes "one course, that trucks and busses and of the most distinguished of all Britn privately owned vehicular traffic ish diplomats as follows: use national and state highways, relations have never been built out of taxpayers money and In such a grave condition since the they do ao with the very minimum war." of taxation. The railroads, as comThere Is talk of Japan having a petitors of these Hues, have no such navy as big as England or America, tobeneficent attitudes displayed with Englands consent, England ward them by the government which, building 70 cruiser, etc. at the same time, has been bearing Some Americans would like te down with Its regulations. know why Uncle Sam does not say to Japan and England: "Build what As one looks backward upon the ships and make what new secret campaign of 1934, the methods em- treaties you d n please. We shall ployed by the do as wa please." We have had in Both Parties two major par- - America men that would send such Show Weakness appear a message to any group of treacherworthy of ex- ous friends." amination. Observers In Washingdull-minde- - "Anglo-America- ton, I believe, are of the opinion Rome reports that Mussolini, dethat the campaign developed an out- termined to make Italy a really milstanding circumstance, namely, that itant country, ready to fight anyabilthe Democrats lack defensive body at the drop of any hat, plans have ity and the Republican New Italy" with the motto, 1 shown an utter Inability as an ofBack to the glory of the Caesars, A fensive party. revival of Sparta." In all of the debates and the All about the Caesura, but 's forth- Sparta right speeches and the statei did not work out welL n either coming from candidate. Where la Sparta now? Where la the side, there Is proof of the conclusion ancient glory? above reached. Some political Fighting will be done hereafter writers In Washington and some by scientists, chemists with poisonpolitical lenders take the position that w hen the Democrats were put ous and explosive gases; engineers to the necessity of laying down a with fast planes, deadly air torpefresh program, they failed on the does. Fighting will ba In the air and under water. No need to make Job They gave the Impression of a whole nation parade and drill. politicians running largely on momentum. An oasla of cheerfulness In this The minority party, If such the l, Republicans mny lie called, was world of gloom Is Leonid M. Russian consul general in wholly unable to take advantage of known vulnerable points In the New York- - Many things make him Tolo-konsk- s!a can produce everything she needs, "except bananas and coffee. She Is growing fine grapefruit now. can worry along without any ba nanas and drink tea, Instead of coffee, as she always has done. Russian coffee never was very good, anyhow. was obv lously that there w as much haranguing and much mud slinging In what should have bon real national Issues, but nothin came of It. The campaign, therefore, has demonstrated in my opinion the need for a strong minority pa-t- y whether that partv be Republican or Democratic. The party In power necessarily Is on the spot because It Is charged with the responsibilities of gov eminent It Is tlie function, of (he minority party to cr!ti Ize and offer counter proposals The most aMute politicians s.e Unit condition and. I believe, are at a loss as to nh.it It means for the future. The late Australian general. Sir John Mona&h, described In Lloyd George's memoirs as the only gen- eral on the British side who could have successfully replaced the late Field Marshal Earl Haig as commander In chief of the British forces, was of Jewish descent. Fighting ability In that race surprises nobody, for some - of tha greatest fighters in history. Including Hannibal and hla father, were of the Semitic race. The federal communications com mission, or.e of tlie new agencies set the Roose- administra- Unn as a Mergers perma nent part of the s nitioi. regulatory structure, la Preparing to ask congress for an amendment of the art of 1!m enat'Hngcommunications It to approve mergers. Of course. pnrtlcnlar problem tavor up by v e 1 well known actor, Lou Telle-gewho used to play perfect lover" parts, and married four ladles. Including Geraldine Farrar, lost his popularity and has killed himself after his friends A involved in the communl-(atom- s program the questlon f merger, of such gigantic corpora-o- , as the Western rnl and lnp ls!al 1 'legraph computes on,e the radio companies. and Th. Implications and the potentiallGci or this mm ement, however mixb further. It is too early to cast of congressional attempt a foreopinion on the "there a has-bee- San Francisco rejoices In completion, after twenty yeara of work, of the great Heteh Hetchy project, a $100,600,000 undertakings that brings pure water from the high Sierras In Yosemlte Na communication, prn1(a, 150-ml- lea tlonaf park. A great bridge la building over the beautiful Golden Gate that leads In from the Pacific ocean, and soon SaD Francisco will be connected by road with the great city of Oakland, across the llay. In this countri eLlTe XV 'a?1!!' to countrT If it w " III, 11.0, "line" Ch has occurred in the rjeo f ' tIle P'e11 TeVphone svstetn. Hl ,!s I!;'"5 members of th. f,cl that a Srs telling no place In Hollywood for There Is no place anywhere for a has been, but. fortunately, there Is no need to remain n a 1 of service has-bee- Is Veterans ' ' - ' ! bonus now. or terglver-sm- e I , tt action of tha stay dlana, why we are West, os we u'; western and ranch ibj woall fornlo, on what w cell A grest man, of the go becauae the, Meat W la tho scene p then, lor movie crew tinea vi (which make it abt frond expensive ultutc' old daya) takes Morftti movie even II then k I all. Mro. Roger and 1 fer one of our periodical Ettlt bile Jaunta. V went in Hoover Dam, thata shoot j from Lot Angelei, oaditia eat sight In America kL yon you ought to get h j and drive by then before lshed. Its sure worth the Ite got good roadi eomHq1 from all wayi. They ml years ahead with the took na acroaa and ont in; dropped ua dowa lot ! and everywhere cite la a i little platform amnjtvr dldent know when the y till aha was away nt ever la gays riding acnm fir men) on Uttle old gadrh a sign on It laying Iti tt Trapeze" and I brittle t; Th thing that Imprenedl this great Dam wu the e things they had to do th. lty have or never did htn( to really do with the L roads to build, tunnelk tt ot am they needest bin k they had no Idea It vet; j dry all these yean. I can give yoa aa Un k the Dam la finiihei Tit' states have itarted lgh4 the water. Even any omlng, and Colorado, tnEi L-- t r states that never paid tlon to it aa they didst would amount to anythin they sea It will 10 they c& of tha water, or aosietW tha beat way to (lain vg comes from your stats k tt. off before It geti ant of m Its awful hard to get n, after Us rua dowa ha place, bnt It makei a good gnment, and give some work, and wont to w Yon know 1 lonnl cut at about this allt thing, yon bj all na dumb ones beet about la, Wont th lilt L Dam?" Now I know 1 H little dam on mf pto A Monica, and the lilt Ui hn ws could build tin ers backed up further up the tha water did. So D waa Juat level off th th dam. We eorraled H" fact wa Just seemed t ot the creek np 0 Itfiould. the dam better. Th viter 8 we did It purposely 0 out of there easier. But about this Bouldtr Dam. I know .there la lots of yoa wondered about tha earn thing I did, the silt Now here what Mr Ayres, one of tha main 1 engineer explained wa-to me. As th ter fills back up from th dam. that Wj Slit wont wash dowa th water la washlft!v the flowing water lng water at the dammed water why there. It dont th aa th water from M backed one la to be f of 100 mile why on hundred mll dam. Of eonra hnt thff ly fill in thera be that It will 15777 would fill I W any damage. And M Government will g,. or at! tut for dams, ' will ha back In, n? anyhow. The they only coraea th,t th" 1 hurt as -tnow nbout tha P yj in "llIa7t cut hI 'trench .7? Commerce wider. eff"7, cons th waa causing 7, E OTPf tha Country, je - money -- now serric a public s are hard and their chtl Jon vacation. uren are young. U merr.,1ll demnnd-the- lr without shillyshallying P W,M Jhnt Uh " Kin, W w Cjjrt Friday, fo, itt' UTAn BfAGNA TIMES, MAGNA. thf President "will find "w Srndlowta, Ina. N'U Service, " p UU.Mt" n h a |