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Show n HIE SMITH F lEI.n SENTINEU SMITH FIELD. ITAE News Review of Current y Events the World Over Steel Fight Drouth Damage Estimated at $300,000,000 Brings Union Labor Crisis Landon Reconvenes Kansas Legislature. PICKARD By EDWARD W. I'nloa. C WutRl Ncwapaiitr TX7HILE relentless heat drove the nation's farm losses from drouth toward the $300,000,000 mark and sent grain prices soaring, long needed rains in scattered regions of the drouth belt brought temporary relief. In sections of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio, which faced the prospect of the disaster already confronting the Northwest, the rains were a Godcorn fields, send to pastures, and crops of spring wheat. Rains in the Northwest resun-parch- vived portions of North and South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska. But a heat wave lasting nearly a Week had brought temperatures ranging from 90 to 114 in the Great Plains territory. Twenty-thre- e states, eight of them in the South, were listed as Suffering in some degree from the drouth. Ten of them North and South Dakota, Monte na. Wyoming, Minnesota, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia and South Carolina were already in a critical stage. Five others Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia were borderline cases. Eight others where the full severity of the drouth had not yet been felt were: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Kan- sas, Indiana Bnd Ohio. With the full extent of the damage in the "dust bowl" area of the Northwest not yet known, the federal government made plans to e deal with a disaster. President Roosevelt, taking personal command of the relief program in Washington, announced that he would make a personal tour of the n areas within the next few weeks. The President announced that the federal government had prepared a comprehensive plan whereby 170,000 out of 204,000 farm families Impoverished by the drouth in the Northwest would be given immediate cash assistance. He declared that he will make hie trip after the relief program has had an opportunity to get under way, to see for himself exactly how much damage was caused by the drouth and whether financially-ruine- d families are receiving the proper assistance. He said that 50,000 farmers were being given jobs immediately on WPA projects at an average wage of $15 per week, carrying out useful work digging wells, constructing earth dams to hold any rains which may fall in the near future long-rang- drouth-stricke- and building roads. A livestock program is under way which would call for the movement of cattle from the arid sections as a private enterprise, to protect the foundation herds of the livestock growers. farm-to-mark- et TOMANCE outmaneuvered in the life of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, American minister to Denmark and former member of congress. The engagement of the daughdiplo-mac- y ter of William Jennings Bryan to Captain Boerge Rohde, an officer of the Danish army, was announced in Denmark by the latter's mother. Cap- tain Rohde is a member of King Christian's personal bodyguard. Captain Rohde arrived in America on the liner Drottningholm a day or two after his fiancee had reached the country. They were married at an estate on Long Island. In political circles the opinion was expressed that Mrs. Owen will probably resign her diplomatic post ia a short time. While there are no formal regulations which compel an American woman minister to resign when she weds, it has been customary for women in minor positions in the American foreign service to retire when they marry. - GOVERNOR Alf M. Landon Topeka, Kas., after a vacation in the Colorado mountains, for the reconvening of the state legislature and to prepare for the acceptance speech he will deliver at this Republican notification ceremonies July 23. The Republican presidential nominee appeared before a joint session of the legislature and urged passage of amendments to the state constitution to provide adequate social security measures. Governor Landon declared that care of the needy aged and others suffering misfortunes is a "public obligation. Following wise passed by a unanimous vote another constitutional proposed amendment authorizing the state to levy taxes on employers and employees for systems of old a?e pensions and unemployment insurance to which the beneficiary must contribute. Landon Governor Meanwhile, opened a series of major conferences with farm leaders for the purpose of drafting a farm relief program for inclusion in his acceptance speech. lie conferred with former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, and former Senator Otis F. Glenn, Senator Arthur Capper ot Kansas, Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas and R. K. L luben-gaye- r, a Kansas farm publisher. AS BRISBANE returning to his desk SOON after a three-dapilgrimage to Virginia, President Roosevelt announced that he had granted Postmaster General James A. Farley d THE campaign to unionize the nation's steel industry was under way, one of the most serious crises in the history of the American labor long-awaite- leave of absence without pay from August 1 to November 5, the day after the presidential elections. Thus Mr. Farley will be freed from official duties to devote himself during the next three months to the direction of the President's The ancampaign for nouncement did not come as a surprise to those in informed political circles in Washington, but it had been rumored in some quarters that Mr. Farley would resign his cabinet post and retain his job as chairman of the Democratic National committee. Mr. Farley announced that Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas would be chairman of the Democratic speakers bureau. The campaign, he said, would be in full swing by Labor Day. President Roosevelts sojourn in Virginia took him to the dedication of Shenandoah National Park, to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson and to Williamsburg, capital of the Old Dominion from 1099 to 1779. In an address at Jefferson's home, the President called on the nation to rekindle the "sacred fire" of true freedom which had lighted the golden age of American history. He declared the present emergency required the same leadership ns that displayed by Thomas Jefferson. England Keeps Ready Let the Dead Sleep D. C. Wanhlnaton, Murder Starts Early National Praia Building: Paris. Reclining on her side 100 to 140 electoral votes upon her body covered with gold, fuff meangold Washington. As the nominee necklaces on her of the two which the Democratic ing of the platforms - could build, they ought to have conneck and on the major party about his nominaground ventions sinks in. something to say Tu)o nearby, selectman of r c h aeologists very deft- - tion, about the type Platform certain conclusions them rule gave The ed. discover the nJte ina veto power and they have used body of cannot be avoided. In each times. it many an Egyptian s stance, the two old political whose faNow, unless the old line Demo, have moved into virgin crats again gain control of the parfields. ther, the Pharoah territory, entirely new the South will no longer be able Chephren, built In the case of the Republicans, ty, the second big. com- to sit as the umpire in deciding convention Cleveland their the type of character of the man gest pyramid it pletely reorganized their party who will bear their party label in was his brother, the responsiand two-thir- organt-ration- ! Italo-Ethfopi- the platform, thus moving re- - H the -- doubts of Senator many political lead- Bora" ers throughout the country regarding his stand in the presidential campaign. Previously Senator Borah had commented favorably on both the Republican and Democratic platforms, praising both for the stand they had taken on the question of monopolies. The senator in clarifying his position on the Republican platform said: I have no intention of bolting the ticket. ;- his address, the Kansas senate adopted a constitutional amendment by a vote of 35 to 1, empowering the legislature to enact a uniform system of direct aid for needy aged persons, indigent "I am supporting the platform infirm persons and others suffering misfortunes which give them a and I have been supportirg the claim on society for aid. It like- - platform from the beginning. seventy-one-year-o- ld s prin-ces- ; his 'J John D. Sr In Ancient Nile Mud National Topic Interpreted by William Bruckart JUTTING a big cake to celebrate ninety-sevent- h birthday, Rockefeller predicted that he would live to be one hundred. Wilout between Despite temperature of 92 in the liam Green, presithe famous nonagenarian shade, dent of the Ameridonned a sun helmet and went outcan Federation of doors on his summer estate near Labor and John L. Lakewood, N. J. Lewis, president of The multimillionaire oil man and Sfeik j&teti the United Mine philanthropist did not let the celeWorkers of America and head of the bration of his birthday interfere with his daily nap or his daily aftCommittee for Inernoon automobile ride. dustrial OrganizaMr. Rockefeller long since has tion, who has promoted the unionization drive in the given up all forms of athletic activities, including golf, formerly his steel industry. favorite pastime. A few years ago Meeting in Washington, the exec- he was down to a few holes of golf utive council of the American Fedbut a now he has given it day, the considered Labor of eration entirely. It has been his custom matter of suspending eight national up to spend his winters at Ormond and international unions on the Beach, Fla., and his summers eihave uniom. these that eight ground ther at Lakewood or at his other or of a rival, begun the formation estate at Pocantico Hills near Tarduel labor federation. N. Y. John L. Lewis announced that he rytown, would not respond to a summons of the executive council to answer T Europe shifted its anxiety from the charges that he had violated the federations policy by trying to orsanctions problem to the ganize 500,000 steel workers into newer and baffling question of what of instead union one big industrial to do about the Free into several unions divided by City of Danzig now crafts. seeking to free itself Should the rift widen and a break from the bonds of would occur, observers believe it the League of Nasplit the organized labor movement tions. and affect its prestige and power The league disat a critical time. of the sancposed of the action Denouncing the tions problem by deLewis group, President Green voting to abolish clared: them, thus to all be to is "It regretted sincerely practical intents and that the committee for industrial organization thwarted the purpose of the American Federation of La- family of sovereign states. Appearbor to inaugurate an organizing before the league asing personally campaign in the steel industry." the refugee emperor, Haile Back of the collision over the at- sembly, Selassie, made a last bid tempted unionization of the steel for Ethiopias freedom. moving schools two contending industry are The "king of kings" denounced of thought over the future of orFrance and Great Britain without is One America. in labor ganized that sponsored by Mr. Green which mentioning their names. To the generally expressed desire to rerose to power on a policy of trained form the league, he said the weakcraftsmen, trained by crafts The ness was not the league covenant other is championed by John L. a lack of international but itself, labor a visions who Lewis powerful machine organized regardless of morality. The Ndgus request for crafts, which includes the semi- a loan of $50,000,000 to Ethiopia was skilled and unskilled workers as voted down. Previously Haile had informed Capt. Anthony Eden, Britwell as the trained craftsmen. ish foreign secretary, that he would return to Ethiopia immediately to of threats the DEFYING members of the cham- join his loyal tribesmen and fight ber of deputies, the French gov- for Ethiopian independence. With Mussolini given satisfaction, ernment . decided to use armed force "with care" to oust French the Danzig situation brought into strikers who refuj s to evacuate the foreground the figure of Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Nazi Germany. their places of business. The announcement of this new It was a Nazi follower of Hitler, Dr. policy was made by Minister of Arthur G reiser, president of the demanded indethe Interior Roger Salengro, fol- Danzig senate, pendence for the former German lowing the outbreak of fresh "folded arm strikes in Paris and the city now surrounded by Polish terIt war estimated that ritory and who denounced the provinces. 80,000 workers were still on strike league and Sean Lester, league high in various industries throughout commissioner for the port. France. Observers were of the opinion that Greiser was acting under orChancellor Hitler. In SENATOR William E. Borah, ders from future political view of Germany's expansionist doubt existplans considerable prbgram and its rearmament, they ed, formally announced that he feel that Danzig will be the next would be a candiNazi objective now that the Rhineland is remilitarized. By the elimdate for to the senate. ination of Commissioner Lester or Several days beby the curtailment of his authority fore makii:g his anover the international affairs of the nouncement city, it is believed the Nazi would Idaho statesman be in a position to crush the opposihad pledged alletion party and pave the way for angiance to the Renexation of Danzig by Germany. publican ticket and movemcnt ar0se when strife ' broke THIS WEEK srs j j ' placed leadership bility in the hands of younger men, casting onto the ash heap along with the old guard leaders, many of the old time conservative ideas. In the case of the Democrats, their Philadelphia convention virtually created a new party. They went further toward the radical side than they have ever gone before. In no spirit of criticism, it must be said that the Philadelphia convention really gave birth to a New Deal party, as such. The one thing Sliey kept was the Democratic label. The theme song of the Republican platform was molded out of the fabric that is part and parcel of the younger generation as distinguished from the attitude given birth and promoted and protected by the Penroses, the Lodges, the Smoots and others of that texture. This is to say that the Republican convention, for the first time in many years, has moved its campaign pronouncements out onto something approximating a moral plan, or at least the evidence is they have attempted to do so. The Democrats, having had ten days between the Republican convention and their own in which to study the Republican document and improve upon it, went considerably beyond their opponents in the language they used. They have made an appeal to the voters of the nation that surely will attract many thousands of voters to the support of Mr. Roosevelt. On the other hand, the Philadelphia convention proceeded to cast aside many traditions, many principles, which old line Democrats, who love the Jeffersonian theory, regard as their political bible, and they may antagonize that segment of the old party by so doing. To state the proposition in another way, many observers and political analysts hold that while the Democratic platform contains fewer contradictions than does the Republican pronouncement and that, on the whole, it is a much better written platform, they have leaned so far to the radical side that they are leaving conservative Democrats and old guard Republicans only one place to go to the Republican candidate. This develops because, in the first instance, the old guard Republicans obviously cannot embrace a Democratic plat- form which they regard as too lib-- ! eral and they have no choice but the Republicans. The conservative Democrats will have the choice to make. They can go to the New Deal party or they can remain as old line Democrats and swallow their pride of party affiliation long enough to support the Republican, Governor Landon. One may look back over the doings at Philadelphia and recognize that the meeting .. . under a a thoroughly controlled Order s Washington. That was natural because the party in power obviously has all of the important federal offices filled with its own men. The convention included among its delegates about 64 per cent of federal office s. from holder-delegate- That explains better than any campaigns. The question may arise in many minds as to how the rule came tc be discarded so easily. Earlier ir this report to you, I mentioned that 64 per cent of the delegates to Philadelphia were federal office holders or party leaders selected by the Roosevelt patronage dispensers. The presence of those office holders and party leaders who have been bound to the Roosevelt administration in one way or another constitutes the answer. There were enough of them in the southern delegations to constitute a balance of power on close votes in state delegation caucuses. Hence we witnessed a good many southern states voting to abrogate ths rule over protests of some of their own numbers. two-thir- There is another circumstance about the Philadelphia convention e that I believe ' rants mention. It Jcfrereon may have gone unnoticed generally but just 160 years after Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, the Philadelphia convention of the Democratic party copied from the immortal DecWe laration the famous phrase: hold these truths to be war-Quot- ." It was a bold move on the part of the New Dealers to lift that and to Jeffersonian expression place it among foe many new theories and new ideab which they advance under foe banner of what was the Jeffersonian party. Some observers point out that this action may invite comparison between the political ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt because surely there is much more In foe Declaration of Independence than foe simple expression that certain truths are self-evide- nt. In these days when foe world, as well as the American nation, ia sorely troubled and Talk disturbed, ' those About Peace Americans who are convinced that isolation may ruin our country, can find little satisfaction either in the Democratic or Republican platforms. This may not seem important until one looks back over the last two decades. Examination of what has happened in that time is sufficient to demonstrate the significance of this isolationist trend by both major political parties. The Republican plank on foreign affairs has little to say and what it says is chiefly negative. The plank drafted by the Roosevelt administration and adopted by the Philadelphia convention is as nebulous as the milky way. Each platform talks about peace but it is decidedly doubtful that either platform has offered a genuine way to obtain or maintain peace. It was only natural that the Republicans should restate their opposition to the League of Nations. It was likewise only natural that the Democratic plank on foreign affairs should be full of glittering generalities because it is yet to be remembered that the late Woodrow Wilson has countless followers in the New Deal party who hold the conviction that foe League of Nations, with American would solve most world support, It is obvious, therefore, problems. that the Democrats could not commit foe either to party League adherence or f?r to party P!it over the old Wilsonian policies whose ideals a 6host in foe background f10?? Philadelphia convention, one might have expected more definite declarations from the Philadelphia amPle Roosevelt administration has sponsored reaprocal trade agreements. It 1ms broadened American foreign Policy in many other ways some leader in . way I know how the two-thirrule was so easily abrogated. That rule has been s sore spot in conventions for years. It has many times been the direct cause of bitter convention battles and has bred scores of bitter personal animosities. It was none the less interesting, however, to see the Philadelphia delegates toss out principles of the Democratic party with such utter abandon. I am convinced that the Democrats have not seen the end of the two-thirrule yet There is every indication that it will arise again when the next quadrennial meeting is held. There are plenty of Democrats who believe that the requires ment of a vote of of all delegates shall be recorded for the man selected as the partys Presi316 lives was exacted ATOLL of i celebration of the Fourth dential nominee is a protective smart the convention larationenough to realize that a decof July throughout the United measure. But when on internationalism voted out the two-thirStates. rule, that was too strong would have took the Democratic out party Booming cannon crackers played the hands of the South. -a comparatively innocent part in It seems to me that the Souththe slaughter, for only 11 lives were cannot be blamed for deerners lost in accidents due to fires siring to maintain that crackers. rule. This is their in sumning up I But if the nation heeded warnings all of the recentposition: through thwfc616 elections, the concluded that about the danger of fireworks, it Democratic nominee both platforms have been has begun his to appeal to forgot the menace of motoring ac- campaign with the assurance that cidents, for 208 people in 36 states 11, 12 or 13 states in the South tkmists. were killed as the result of acci- would him their electoral vote give dents on streets and highways. He could concentrate, therefore, or were drowned in 36 the North and the West. The old Ninety persons Miscellaneous states. tragedies ac- line southerners have held that counted for 37 additional fatality since they always -.supplied from ttw-rsiar In 15 ld if two-third- MS C 3X ifysa. two-third- 3 if" LikeTo, -- ssi ara fr states. iwr Cheops, who built the largest. Those pyramids were tombs for kings, and searchers found the princess in one of them. The Nile mud seeping into the tomb had helped to preserve her. That princess, living 5,000 years ago, could tell an interesting story for the movies. She "built herself a small pyramid with stones given to her by her many lovers." Where do you suppose she is now? In some strange Egyptian heaven, perhaps, with all those admirers around her. England, alarmed by European war threats, issues an official "white paper explaining why "The relation of our own armed forces to those of other greet powers should be maintained at a figure high enough to enable us to exercise our Influence and authority in international affairs." Unfortunately for all plans, the airplane in foe hands of a desperate nation might upset all national authority," just as a pistol in foe hands tf a desperate man upsets individual and police authority. One bullet will stretch individual authority in the dust; 1,000 airplanes, attacking the heart of a great city, might cause national "authority to end in demoralization. Englands new defense increase will be largely in her air force; that wise nation knows that the real "ocean in future wars will be foe ocean of foe air. In a desert of southeastern Utah, men and women, belonging to the cult of truth seekers, were gathered around the body of Mrs. Edith Dakhal, who died more than a year ago. You read about it, perhaps. Mrs. Ogden, leader of the "truth seekers, prayed over the body, which appeared marvelously preserved. The "truth seekers" believe they will bring the woman back to life, but foe pathetic fact is that it would not in the least matter if they did. The important thing is to improve the condition of 1,800, otjj.OtJO actually living on the earth. I'm one safely out of it to be brought back would be unimportant, in these days, and perhaps cruci. . America holds foe world's "murder championship" for all kinds of murder, at all ages quantity, quality, variety, volume. A New Jersey boy. 16 years old, was sentenced to death. In Wisconsin, a coroner reports that little David Holl, two months old, was killed by two boys four and three years of age. They each held one hand of the younger one, and dropped it on the loor. It cried and would not stop. Then, one of the small boys exhim." "We plained, poun(tec These youngest "killers puzzl. the law. You can't try" a four- - car-ol- d child. Railroads tell the interstate commerce commission they would hhe fares reduced to two and a naif cents a mile, instead of two c nts. The railroads should have all & they have a:-.- - cno-qurrt- er Now York proposes to fingerprint everybody, new babies inciu led. The baby of the future will be tonsil busy, with finger-printinand appendix removal, vaccination for smallpox and a half dozen other diseases. g, The new treaty with France, reducing the duty on French wines and liquors by 50 per cent, interests California and other wine growing states. It should persuade them to stabilize the production of wines, establish official guarantees of purity, freedom from adulterations, mixtures, .and especially "fortifying" with alcohol. In Europe, notably in France, adulteration of wines is an oil ease against the law. With us, it business. For advertising reasons, a of men made a long distance note on a diet of broken grain to they the superiority of that diet were surprised when showed a toial lot's or 211 ,l c..n weight, w.n i one. : hawed a vin ol ll r' - t KIhk . for consideration, bui't up this country, but ot two a half cents a mile the;, will not compete successfully with automobiles carrying pasrerge-- s for of a cent a mile. ! i |