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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH U. S. Weighs Embargo A S THE conflict in North China News Review of Current Events WAR ON TWO CONTINENTS Japanese Bomb Tientsin . . . Fearful Battle Rages Near Madrid , , , Congress Wants to Pack Up and Go Home Washington. There are many casions on.record where several Prtant Eoer-Norm- al oc- Issues have engaged the of con- attention Granary freand gressquently one of these issues . has roused such bitterness and developed such a controversy that it overshadowed all others. That has been the case in recent weeks durRoosevelts ing which President plan to add six justices of his own choosing to the Supreme court of the United States completely subordinated everything else. But the crushing defeat received by the President through refusal of the vast majority of Democrats in Congress to support his court re- organization scheme suddenly has directed attention to other major questions. Outstanding among these is Secretary Wallaces farm bill and the wages and hours bill which Is claimed to contain complete protection for the laboring classes. It is of the farm bill that I shall write now since it is much 'more imminent as far as congressional action is concerned than is the case with the wages, and hours proposition. The basis of Secretary Wallaces program is what he calls the granary." There are other provisions included in the bill but the idea of a maintained supply of (arm products is the heart of the plan. Now, it seems that if the words ' granary mean anything, they must be accepted as meaning a continuity of supply at a level which government agents arbitrarily determine as the proper rate of accumulationor sale of such 'supplies. The house of representatives has been muddling along with the question for several months. It has been under much pressure from Secretary Wallace and his associates and from some of the farm leaders whom the secretary has convinced of the value of his scheme. The farm leaders as a whole are far from unanimous on the proposition despite the fact that Secretary Wallace and the tremendous propaganda machine within the Department of Agriculture has been exceedingly active in an effort to "sell the plan to the country as a whole and thereby bring additional pressure on congress. I shall not attempt to give all of the details of the Wallace proposal here. It is too complicated for explanation in the limited space available. Indeed, I have found quite a number of members of the house of representatives who are unable to give a complete explanation of how the plan would work and they admit it. It is a piece of legislation that must be complicated in order to accomplish things its proponents claim for it and my observation of government agencies leads me to the conclusion it is so complicated that the chances of it succeeding are almost niL so-call-ed "ever-norm- al ever-norm- al In the first instance, as I have said, the granary idea comprehends a constant level of supplies. At first blush, it would seem that storage of wheat or corn or cotton or other farm products in a big crop year to be sold in years when crops are small should work out to keep prices at a satisfactory level. That is the theory. On the other hand, in times past this same sort of scheme has worked out to depress prices instead of maintaining them and the farmers have been the losers. Included in this legislation are provisions for benefit payments to farmers under certain conditions when the price level falls below parity. This injects into the problem again the influence of the general price level of all commodities in the United States whether from the farm or from the factory and it also forces upon the United States additional influence wielded by the level of prices in foreign countries where the law of supply and demand continues to operate without impossible amendment at governments dictation. ,No doubt, the Wallace proposal would boost prices at present. This is true because we have had several short crop years and there is no surplus now. But with indications that the current wheat crop, for example, is going to be exceptionally large, it is entirely possible that the nation as a whole will have a surplus of wheat this fall. In addition, there will be wheat crops grown in other countries as usual. Some of our wheat must be sold in foreign markets' and compete with wheat grown in Russia or in South America. It is easy to see, therefore, that the lack of a wheat surplus in this country is exceedingly temporary. ever-norm-al The granary, if it works as the theorists claim, would store or keep off . , it bound 0f the market that Great portion of the crop which is not needed for current consumption. That sounds fine. Great users of wheat jnust buy their supplies far ahead. ever-norm- al , If they do not take this precaution, they stand a chance always of find- ing their bins empty and are faced with the necessity of closing their mills. It is this feature that causes long range buyers to resort to what is called hedging. That is, they sell on option nearly as much as they buy on contract. They are thus able to offset losses whether the price of wheat goes up or whether it goes down and the losses or the gains are distributed throughout the in- dustry. It is the only way by which the industry can protect itself. Mr. Wallaces scheme proposes doing awdy with that sort of thing, not directly but through the effect of Japanese soldiers cremate their dead at Fengtal. the granary. In other words, the net result of the ever- normal granary would be- for the government to hold these stocks and feed them into the market as de- V M SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK mand for supplies requires. This Cl Western Newspaper Union. sounds feasible and it probably would be except for the fact that China Skies Rain dropping bombs on the easy target Fire we have no means of controlling and turning machine guns on citiproduction in the other wheat pro- CT'HERE was war in North China zens who attempted to flee. At least whether it had been officially 65 ducing countries, and I repeat that. persons were killed and 150 inI am using wheat as illustrative of declared or . not. Japanese bombers jured. d all farm products. In fact, the Wal- zoomed over the The rebels in the East were relace plan provides no control of pro- city of Tientsin, raining dath and ported to . have drivdn across the duction in this country and that destruction, and endangering thoua border and to have question is vital. As far as I can sands of citizens of the United States seriously threatened the loyalist see, nature is going to operate to and other foreign countries. The air "life-linthe highway between give us rain or give us drouth in attack was Nippons retaliation for Madrid and Valencia. accordance with the judgment of a Chinese army drive which nearly the Higher Power. No human is go- drove the Japanese out of their ing to be very influential in that North China stronghold. Whaddya Say We Scram?1 that . ... Chinese troops declared regard. d X7 ITH Supreme court bill To get back to the question of the ."thousands of men, to the senate judiciary price level, it should be said that women and children were killed or committee, a new substitute bill for while the Wallace plan provides injured by the airmen. reform of only the lower courts due The bombers left holocaust in to be what appears to be an insurance reported out of the commitagainst fluctuation, it is more likely their wake. Flames engulfed Tien- tee, and a new senate majority leadto have the opposite effect. Be- tsins principal buildings, the cen- er selected to take the late Senator cause of the influence of world tral railway station, the militia Robinsons place, the overwhelming prices, great storehouses of wheat headquarters, the famed Nankai sentiment of the members of the in the country will hang over the and the Chinkiang internaseventy-fift- h congress was to pack market like an epidemic. No one tional bridge connecting the Chinese up theirbags and get as far away can tell when it will strike and since city to the foreign concessions. In from Washington as possible. markets are made up of individuals the latter, inhabitants who were not Even measures which President who are human, a portion of the concerned at all with the war were Roosevelt had insisted bear the markets is always going to be forced to seek what safety they "must label were being shoved frightened by the uncertainty of could in cellars which provided lit- aside with dispatch, as Vice Presiwhen government wheat will be of- tle shelter from the exploding dent Garner to heal the fered for sale. It is a perfectly bombs. Chinese and Japanese sol- party wounds sought inflicted during the human reaction because it involves diers fought in the bitter court battle and salvage as the pocketbooks and humans nat- streets, with entrenchments in some much of the Presidents legislation urally want to buy as cheaply as. places only 100 feet apart. as he could. The first to be buried Three Chinese armies, operating was the new AAA and they can and sell as high as they can. suddenly and swiftly along a granary bill; the senate agrifront between Taku (Tientsins sea- culture committee shelved it until One of the things that happened port) and Peiping, conducted the at- the next session. The committee in the administration of President tack which incurred the wrath of the authorized James P. Pope, Idaho Hoover of the bill, . is ' Japanese military command. They Democrat and Tried Once 6ure j0 be remem- - drove the Japanese away from the to prepare a senate resolution to and Failed bered is the utter three key railroad stations and en- lay the plans for regional hearings on a comprehensive farm program failure of his farm tered the Japanese concession. Japan immediately responded during the remainder of the sumpolicy. That farm policy centered at one time m what was called the with her air attack, concentrating mer and report back in January. Federal Farm board. If you will go upon the heavily populated Chinese It seemed certainthat the Presiback a few years and recall the op- section of Tientsin. Infantry at- dents legislation for governmental erations of the Federal Farm board, tacked the Chinese barricades in reorganization woula be left over I think you will agree that the things several parts of the city. Japanese until next session when the record it undertook to do were exactly artillery went into action, and drew of three months hearings by the comparable to, if not exactly the lusty response from the enemy, joint congressional committee was which sent shell after shell hurtling made public. It was revealed that same as, the scheme set up by Secinto the heart of the Japanese con- committee members have not even retary Wallace in his granary idea. The only difference cession. Many soldiers on both come close to agreement on any of the main points involved. that I can see and I watched the sides were killed. From Peiping the Chinese Twenty-noperations of the farm board from Majority Leader Barkley said that close at hand is a change in the inth army was driven back 80 the White House still wanted the name. It must be admitted that miles to the west, until not a Chi- wages and hours bill, the Wagner the phrase housing bill and a judiciary granary has nese soldier was left in the city or bill passed, as well as legislation a pretty sound. But when it comes its environs. Gen. Sung Cheh-yuato a question of an attractive ex- commander, resigned, turning over to plug tax loopholes. .The Wagner bill, meanwhile, was reported out of pression, one that is soothing and' his post as chairman of the one that should convince us all political council to Gen. committee, and it was expected the a subordinate di- senate would act upon it quickly. that every problem is solved, I sub- Chang mit those favorites which Mr. Wal- vision commander. lace used to use when Professor New Court Bill Drafted was with him in the Department Madrids Moat of Blood COUR important provisions were of Agriculture. Who does not recontained in the new court recall the "more abundant life, and 'T' HE Spanish government was de-form bill reported out of the senate fending Madrid against the inwho has forgotten the "doctrine of surgent forces in the most terrible judiciary committee, but none of scarcity to assure plenty? battle of the entire civil war and them involved any changes in or As far as I know, neither the the most important. It couldnt last; additions to the personnel of the Suhouse nor the senate committee on it was too furious. The whole preme court. The new bill provides agriculture has held hearings on loyalist cause apparently rested on for: this granary phase of resisting this, the most vicious at(a) Direct appeals" to the Supreme the Wallace legislation. Thus far, tack the rebels had yet made. Gen. court from decisions in the district the discussion has been largely on Francisco Francos army, under his courts involving the constitutionalquestions involving benefits and personal supervision, was making ity of federal statutes. subsidies and means of marketing. but at such loss of men (b) Intervention by the DepartNo attention has been given to the advances, that the cost might be too great. ment of Justice in all suits involvand I granary threat, Insurgents stormed loyalist en- ing the validity of federal statutes. regard it as a menace. trenchments directly in the face of , (c) Trial of all suits to enjoin if this discussion were devoted to point blank machine guns. Losses the operation of federal statutes by only the consumer phase of our were so terrible that thousands of a court of three judges one judge economic life, I think I should be wounded lay without food or water from the circuit court of appeals selfish enough to urge enactment of thousands already dead and and two district judges. the Wallace plan, i believe I can among in the hot sun. Infantry, decaying of district court (d) see where the granary tanks, cavalry and artillery were judges Reassignment the senior circuit judge by idea will make bread cheaper, supplemented by airplane bombers. of each circuit, wherever additional where it will make cotton textile In one salient 250,000 men were be needed to relieve congoods cheaper and when cotton is fighting, including the cream of both help may dockets. gested sitting away cheaper other textiles are cheaper, armies. The loyalist position was from home wouldJudges receive $10 a day food and where other and neces- admittedly the most serious of additional pay. saries of life that have their origin the whole war, and upon the governon the farm will be reduced in ments to withhold against ability price by such a legislative policy. the attack rested the fate of the Ambition in Bloom But that is not my idea of a sound best units in its CONGRESSMAN SOL BLOOM of army. It was reeconomic structure. It is just as York, who, it is said ported that 20,000 Italian troops necessary for the consumer to pay had joined the rebels for the battle. (by Congressman Bloom), is the his fair share toward the mainteEach side claimed the losses of spittin image of George Washnance of a living agriculture as it is the other had been greatest. Insur- ington, and once posed for a bust for farmers to pay their fair share gents reported that the labeled "The Father of His Coungovernment to a living commerce and industry salient had cost 300 fighting planes try, sponsored a brief bill in the of whatever kind it may be. and 30,000 casualties. The govern- lower house, but unfortunately (for ment declared that Franco had lost Congressman Bloom) it was rejectThe senate Democrats have elected a new leader to succeed the late at least 100 planes to its 20 or 30, ed in fact it never even came to Senator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas. had lost 20,000 to 25,000 men, and a vote. He is Senator Alban Barkley, of had consumed $15,000,000 worth of It provided that a book be given, at the governments expense, to Kentucky. In a previous column I war materials. Gen. Francos other armies were each naturalized citizen with his citmentioned the split among the senate Democrats and suggested that it busy, too. izenship papers. The book, exhibitWhile the Madrid conflict was in ed in the house, is a handsome afwould be difficult to replace Senator Robinson because of the qualities he full sway, the insurgents sprang a fair, all done up in blue and gold. had in holding the various factions surprise air attack on Barcelona. The cover contains, in large letters, together in the senate. It was not a In the early dawn advance planes the inscription: "The Story of the forecast; it was a statement of fact. dropped flares which lighted up the Constitution, by Sol Bloom. CopyWestern Newspaper Union. city. Then came additional planes, right, by Sol Bloom. j j j ever-norm- al j MuraJui IV, fticJcaJcd. - blazed into open, if undeclared, warfare, the United States prepared to declare that a state of war existed between China and Japan and to place. jan.xmbargo upon the shipment of arms to the two countries, under the neutrality act. The President, who has the power to declare that a state of war exists, keptin close touch with affairs in the Far East, assisted by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Proclamation of an embargo prohibits the sale of arms, ammunitions and implements of war to the countries. It forbids belligerent loans or the extension of credit to either of them, and makes it illegal for Americans to travel upon the ships of the belligerents. Secretary Hull said that conferences had been held among embassy attaches, commanders of foreign troops in Peiping and others, to lay plans for removing Americans and other foreign nationals from the danger zone. It was reported that there were 223 United States military personnel and dependents and 403 American civilians registered in Tientsin, in addition to 750 American officers and men. j - densely-populate- Teruel-Cuenc- e, recom-W'mitte- tini-versit- y, hand-to-han- d "ever-norm- al 'Pack the White House' AT ITH a roll call vote of 2G0 to 88, the house of representatives voted to give President Roosevelt six new secretaries at $10,00(1 a year each. The de- bate on the bill provoked some quaint comment. Republican Dewey Short of Missouri offered an amendment providing that the six new positions should be given to Elliott, Franklin, Jr., and John Roosevelt, sons of the President; Mrs. Anna B o e 1 1 i g e r, his and Sistie and Buz-zi- e daughter; Dali, his grandchildren. It failed to carry. Democrat Ross Collins of Mississippi offered an amendment that would provide a new secretary for each member of congress. "The President may need additional secretaries, he said. "How about the overworked members of congress? We need extra help also." If the bill became law, it would raise the total of the Presidents secretaries to nine, for he already has three James Roosevflt, Stephen Early and Marvin McIntyre. $10,000-a-ye- ar 95-mi- le that . . ever-norm- al low-co- ever-norm- al st n, Hopei-Chah- ar Tsu-chun- g, Tug-we- ll A ever-norm- al ever-norm- al ever-norm- al p''New 60 Hurt in Strike Riot A LTHOUGH the independent steel plants were back at work, there was still plenty of discord along the labor front. Sixty persons were injured in a wild riot among pickets of the Steel Workers Organizing committee (affiliated with C. I. O.), loyal workers and y police at the plant of the Republic Steel corporation in Cleveland. A mob of strikers hurled rocks from a hillside upon cars of employees parked in the valley about the plant. Loyal workers attempted to drive the strikers away, and at one time 500 of them rushed out of the plant and set upon the pickets. .Police tried to break up the fighting, relying chiefly on their tear gas guns. One striker was killed when a moving automobile, which was being stoned, got out of control and ran berserk through a picket line. In Buffalo there was a serious food shortage because of a strike of 1,000 wholesale grocery truck drivers and 1,000 butchers at four meat packing plants. As C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unionists in their demand for closed shops, residents of the city were forced to motor to the country for butter, eggs and vegetables. Corrigan-McKinne- Western Hostelries. CALIF. SAN FRANCISCO, have mighty fine hotel in this town. Ive stayed at several of them and friends of mine have been put out of some of the others. And once I enjoyed a fire scare here when the alarm, at 3:30 a. m. brought to the lobby a swarm of moving picture actors without any makeup on and not much else. This was in the era of the silent films, but you wouldnt have dreamed it to hear the Temarks of an hysterical lady star when she discovered that her chow had been forgotten. The current husband also was temporarily missing but she was comparatively calm about that. She probably figured a, husband could be picked up ilmost any time whereas darling little Ming' Poo had a long pedigree find rep-- ! resented quite a financial investment and anyhow was a permanent fixture in her life. Through the strike here, the traveling public seemed to make out. Maybe visitors followed the old southern custom stop with kinfolks. Think, though, how great would have been the suffering had tha strike occurred during prohibition days when transient guests might have perished of thirst without bright uniformed lads to bring them first-ai- d packages in the handy hip pocket sizes! Bellhops qualified as lifesavers those times. . f Humans in the Raw. I behold vast numbers of fellow strolling the beaches, yes, and the public thoroughfares too, while wearing as few clothes as possible and it seems to be possible to wear very few indeed I dont know whether to admire them for their courage or sympathize with them in their suffering or deplore their inability to realize-thatheyd be easier on the eye if theyd quit trying to emulate the raw oyster which never, has been pretty to look upon and, generally speaking, is an acquired taste anyhow. For a gentleman who ordinarily bundles himself in heavy garments clear up to his Adams apple, this entails a lot yarm weather strip-ac- t of preliminary torture. At first our gallant exhibitionist resembles a forked stalk of celery bleached out in the cellar. Soon he is one large red blot on the landscape, with fat water blisters spangling his brow until he looks as if he were wearing a chaplet of Malaga grapes. In the next stage he peels like the wallpaper on an Ohio valley parlor after flood time. AS beings t Destructive Hired Help. SOMEBODY found a stained glass an English church dating back to 685 A. D., but still, intact. And from the ruins of a Roman villa, theyve dug out a marble figure of Apollo the one the mineral water was named after in a perfect state although 2,000 years old. These discoveries are especially interesting to this family as tending to show that hired help isn't what it must have been in the ancient time. We once had a maid of the real old Viking stock who, with the best intentions on earth, broke everything she laid finger on. Moreover, she could stand flatfooted in the middle of a large room and cause treasured articles of virtu, such as souvenirs of the St. Louis Worlds fair and the china urn I .won for superior spelling back in 1904 at the A Year of Reclamation Elks carnival, to leap to the floor be smashed to atoms. She and A PPLICATIONS for grants under have to touch them or even 1 1 didnt last years agricultural conserthem. I think she did it by near go vation program covered 2S3,000,000 or capillary atacres of the countrys animal magnetism of that nature. or traction something crop land and represented an estiThe first time we saw the Winged mated 4,000,000 farmers, H. R. TolVictory, Mrs. Cobb and I decided it ley, agricultural adjustment adminhave been an ancestor of istrator, reported. Nearly 31,000,000 must who tried to dust it with the acres were diverted from crops Helsa familiar to all lovdisastrous results which deplete the soil; 53,000,000 acres received the benefit of soil- ers of classic statuary. building practices. The Reaping Season. Conservation payments for the year totaled $32,323,303.11, benefit CERTAIN crops may not have and rental payments $235,744,264.42. well, due to weather d Total expenditures by AAA during conditions, or, as some 1936 were $357,338,617.30, including Republicans would probably conadministrating expenditures and liq- tend, because of New Deal control. uidation of obligations outstanding But, on the other hand, hasnt it when the Supreme court held sec- been a splendid ripening season for walk-outshut-uptions of the original AAA unconstilock- tutional. outs and picket lines? It makes me think of the little the late Myra Kelly used to story Football Couldn't Save It tell of the time when she was a pub"MOT even the excellence and pop-I- - lic school teacher on New Yorks ularity of Edward Patrick (Slip) East Side. She was questioning her Madigans football teams could save class of primary-grad- e pupils, . little St. Marys college at Oakland, touching on the callings of their reCalif., from the auction block. It spective parents. She came to ohe was "knocked down to its security d little girl, shabby and holders for $411,150 the only bid-a- fter tiny thin and shy. it had failed to pay interest Rosie she asked, "at what does on its bonded indebtedness of $1,370,-50- 0 father work? your 1934. When Madigan came since Mein poppa he dont never work, to St. Marys from Notre Dame in TeaChei1, said Rosie. 1921 it had 71 students. His football "Doesnt he do anything at all? teams made it famous and built the "Oh, yessum. enrollment up to 700. It was indiWell, what does he do? cated he will remain as coach, at a "He strikes. reported salary of $7,000 a year and IRVIN S. COBB. ten per cent of the gate receipts. e WNU Service. Receipts last year were $174,671. . two-thir- ds die-har- s, sit-dow- ' sad-eye- s, |