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Show TIIE SMITH FIELD SENTINEL, SMITHFIELD, UTAH U. S. Weighs Embargo News Review of Current Events A S THE conflict In North China WAR ON TWO CONTINENTS Japanese Bomb Tientsin . . . Fearful Battle Rages Near Madrid Congress Wants to Pack Up and Go Home ... If they do not take this precaution, Washington. There ere many on record where several im-- u, they stand a chance always of findportant ing their bins empty and are faced Ever-Norm- al have engaged the tpith the necessity of closing their attention of con- mills. It is this feature that causes Granary gress and fre- long range buyers to resort to what quently one of these issues has is called hedging. That is, they sell jaroused such bitterness and devel- on option nearly as much as they oped such a controversy that it buy on contract. They are thus able overshadowed all others. That has to offset losses whether the price of been the case in recent weeks dur- wheat goes up or whether it goes ing which President Roosevelt's down and the losses or the gains Ulan to add six justices of hia own are distributed throughout the inchoosing to the Supreme court of dustry. It is the only way by which the United States completely sub- the industry can protect itself. ordinated everything else. Mr. Wallaces scheme proposes But the crushing defeat received doing away with that sort of thing, fcy the President through refusal of not directly but through the effect of Hhe vast majority of Democrats in the ever-normgranary. In other Congress to support his court re- words, the net result of the ever-norm-al organization scheme suddenly has granary would be for the directed attention to other major government to hold these stocks and questions. Outstanding among these feed them into the market as deHs Secretary Wallaces farm bill and mand for supplies requires. This wages and hours bill sounds feasible and it probably rhich is claimed to contain com-et- e would be except for the fact that protection for the laboring we have no means of controlling ses. It is of the farm bill that I production in the other wheat proall write now since it is much ducing countries; and I repeat that re imminent as far as congres-actio- n I am using wheat as illustrative of is concerned than is all farm products. In fact, the Walcase with the wages and hours lace plan provides no control of proDposition. duction in fills country and that The basis of Secretary Wallace's question is vital. As for as I can ." Dgram is what he calls the see, nature is going to operate to Issues j Japanese soldiers eremite their dead at Fengtal. al ue U. PidcelLd. v SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK "ever-granary- There are other visions Included in the bill but lie idea of a maintained supply of rarm products is the heart of the dan. Now, it seems that if the word) "evercormal granary mean any thing, they must be accepted ai meaning a continuity of supply at i evel which government agents ar litrarily determine as the rate of accumulation or sale ofpropei sue! Supplies. The house of representatives has Ibeen muddling along with the ques Uan for several months. It hai been under much pressure fron Secretary Wallace and his asso elates and from some of the farix leaders whom the secretary hai Convinced of the value of hii tscheme. The farm leaders as i (Whole are far from unanimous or (the proposition despite the fact thal Secretary Wallace and the tremen doua propaganda machine withir Ithe Department of Agriculture hai been exceedingly active in an effori to sell" the plan to the country at whole and thereby bring addi tlonal pressure on congress. I shall not attempt to give all o the details of the Wallace propose! here. It is too complicated for ex plana tion in the limited space avail able. Indeed, I have found quite i number of members of the house o representatives who are unable t give a complete explanation of hov the plan would work and they ad mit it. It is a piece of legislatioi that must be complicated in ordei to accomplish things its proponent! claim for it and my observation o government agencies leads me b the conclusion it is so complicates that the chances of it succeeding art almost niL In the first instance, as I have said, the granary idea ever-norm- al 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 gover- nments 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 indica- tions 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. The granary, ii works as the theorists claim, w store or keep It Sounds of the market Great portion of the which is not r ed for current consumption. sounds fine. Great users of w must buy their supplies far oh ever-norm- al give us rain or give us drouth in accordance with the judgment of the Higher Power. No human is going to be very influential in that regard. To get back to the question of the price level, it should be said that while the Wallace plan provides what appears to be an insurance against fluctuation, it is more likely to have the opposite effect. Because of the influence of world prices, great storehouses of wheat in the country will hang over the market like an epidemic. a No one can tell when it will strike and since markets are made up of individuals who are human, a portion of the markets is always going to be frightened by the uncertainty of when government wheat will be offered for sale. It is a perfectly human reaction because it involves the pocketbooks and humans naturally want to buy as cheaply as they can and sell as high as they can. One of the things that happened in the administration of Preside nl . Hoover it Tried Once sure to be rememand Failed bered is the iittei failure of his farm policy. That farm policy centered at one time in what was called th( Federal Farm board. If you will gc back a few years and recall the op erations of the Federal Farm board, I think you will agree that the thing it undertook to do were exactly comparable to, if not exactly the same as, the scheme set up by Secretary Wallace in Ids granary idea. The only difference that I can see and I watched the operations of the farm board from close at hand is a change in the name. It must be admitted that the phrase granary hai pretty sound. But when it comes to a question of an attractive expression, one that is soothing and one that should convince us all that every problem is solved, I submit those favorites which Mr. Wallace used to use when Professor was with him in the Department of Agriculture. Who does not recall the more abundant life," and who has forgotten the doctrine ol scarcity to assure plenty?" As far as I know, neither the house nor the senate committee on agriculture has held hearings on this granary phase of the Wallace legislation. Thus far, the discussion has been largely on questions involving benefits and subsidies and means of marketing. No attention has been given to the granary threat, and I regard it as a menace. If this discussion were devoted to only the consumer phase of our economic life, I think I should be selfish enough to urge enactment of the Wallace plan. I believe I can see where the granary idea will make bread cheaper, where it will make cotton textile goods cheaper and when cotton is cheaper other textiles are cheaper, and where other food and necessaries of life that have their origin on the farm will be reduced in price by such a legislative policy. But that is not my idea of a sound economic structure. It is just as necessary for the consumer to pay his fair share toward the maintenance of a living agriculture as it is for farmers to pay their fair share to a living commerce and industry of whatever kind it may be. The senate Democrats have elected a new leader to succeed the late Senator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas. He is Senator Alban Barkley, of Kentucky. In a previous column I mentioned the split among Iho senate Democrats and suggested that it would be diflicult to replace Senator Robinson because of the qualities lie had in holding the various factious together in the senate. It was not a forecast; it was a statement of fact. V Western that - ever-norm- ever-norm- al Tug-we- ever-norm- al ever-norm- al ever-norm- al Newspaper Union. China Skies Rain Fire THERE was war in North China x whether it had been officially declared or not. Japanese bombers zoomed over the densely-populate- d city of Tientsin, raining death and destruction, and endangering thousands of citizens of the United States and other foreign countries. The air attack was Nippons retaliation for a Chinese army drive which nearly drove the Japanese out of their North China stronghold. Chinese troops declared that thousands of men, women and children were killed or injured" by the airmen. The bombers left holocaust in their wake. Flames engulfed Tientsins principal buildings, the cennt tral railway station, the militia headquarters, the famed Nankai university, and the Chinkiang international bridge connecting the Chinese city to the foreign concessions. In the latter. Inhabitants who were not concerned at all with the war were forced to seek what safety they could in cellars which provided little shelter from the exploding bombs. Chinese and Japanese sold diers fought in the streets, with entrenchments in some places only 100 feet apart. Three Chinese armies, operating suddenly and swiftly along a front between Taku (Tientsins seaport) and Peiping, conducted the attack which incurred the wrath of the Japanese military command. They drove the Japanese away from the three key railroad stations and entered the Japanese concession. Japan immediately responded with her air attack, concentrating upon the heavily populated Chinese section of Tientsin. Infantry attacked the Chinese barricades in several parts of the city. Japanese artillery went into action, and drew lusty response from the enemy, which sent shell after shell hurtling into the heart of the Japanese conhand-to-han- 95-mi- le cession. Many soldiers on both sides were killed. From Peiping the Chinese Twenty-ninth army was driven back 80 miles to the west, until not a Chinese soldier was left in the city or its environs. Gen. Sung Cheh-yuacommander, resigned, turning over his post as chairman of the Hopei-Chahpolitical council to Gen. a subordinate diChang vision commander. n, ar Tsu-chun- g, ll Madrid s Moat of Blood TTHE Spanish government was di A fending Madrid against the ii surgent forces in the most terrib! battle of the entire civil war an the most important. It couldnt last it was too furious. The who loyalist cause apparently rested c resisting this, the most vicious a tack the rebels had yet made. Gei Francisco Franco's army, under h! personal supervision; was makin advances, but at such loss of me that the cost might be too great. Insurgents stormed loyalist ei trenchments directly in the face point blank machine guns. Lossc were so terrible that thousands ( wounded lay without food or wate among thousands already dead an decaying in the hot sun. Infantr tanks, cavalry and artillery wer supplemented by airplane bomber: In one salient 250,000 men wer fighting, including the cream of bot armies. The loyalist position wa admittedly the most serious c the whole war, and upon the ments ability to withhold goverr the attack rested the fate again: of th best units in its army. It was re ported that 20,000 Italian troop had joined the rebels for the battle Each side claimed the losses c the other had been greatest. Insui gents reported that the governmen salient had cost 300 fighting plane and 30.000 casualties. The govern ment declared thal Franco had los at least 100 planes to its 20 or 30 had lost 2i), 0H0 to 25.000 men, am had consumed $15,000,000 worth c war materials. tjei. truncos other armies wen busy, loo. While the Madrid conflict was ii full sway, the insurgents sprang i surprise air attack on Barcelona In the early dawn advance plane propped Hares which lighted up th fity. Then came additional planes what 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 an embargo upon file 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, kept in 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 belligerent countries. It forbids 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. 'Pack the White House1 WuUm Newwsper Union. ed t think, .about; i Western Hostelriri FRANCISCO, S AN They have mighty fin9 m this town. Ive stayed I J 5 1 Tr?0,?'manifrh! PUl Stheoften 01 w brought to the lobby n 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 bear the remarks ot an hysterical lady star when she covered ? dis- that her chow had been forgotten. The current husband also was temporarily mg but she was comparatively mis, calm about that. She probably figured a husband could be picked up any time whereas darling little Mini Poo had a long pedigree and rep. resented quite a financial investment and anyhow was a permanent fixture in her life. Through the strike here, the public seemed to make out. X7 ITH a roll call vote of 260 to dropping bombs on the easy target 88, the house of representaand turning machine guns on citi- tives voted to give President Roosezens who attempted to flee. At least velt six new secretaries at $10,000 a 65 persons were killed and 150 ineach. The deyear jured. bate on the bill proThe rebels in the East were revoked some quaint ported to have driven across the Maybe visitors followed the old comment RepubliTeruel-Cuenc- a border and to have can Dewey Short of southern custom stop with fcinMfo seriously threatened the loyalist Think, though, how great would Missouri offered an life-lin-e, the highway between have been the suffering had the amendment providMadrid and Valencia. ing that the six new strike occurred during prohibition positions should be days when transient guests might to Elliott have perished of thirst without given We Scram?' 'Whadd'ya Say uniformed lads to bring them Franklin, Jr., and bright 7 ITH Supreme court bill recomfirst-ai- d packages in the handy Roosevelt, mitted to the senate judiciary sizes! Bellhops qualified as sons of the Presicommittee, a new substitute bill for dent; Mrs. Anna lifesavers those times. reform of only the lower courts due his to be reported out of the commitand "Sistie and Buz-ziHumans in the Raw. tee, and a new senate majority lead- daughter; his grandchildren. It A 81 behold vast numbers of let er selected to take the late Senator failed Dali, low beings strolling the to carry. Robinsons place, the overwhelming Democrat Ross Collins of Missis- beaches, yes, and the public thor- sentiment of the members of the sippi offered an amendment that oughfores too, while wearing os few seventy-fift- h congress was to pack would provide a new secretary for clothes as possible and it see mi to up their bags and get as for away eac member of The be possible to wear very few incongress. from Washington as possible. Even measures which President President may need additional sec- deed I dont know whether to adRoosevelt had insisted bear the retaries,! he said. "How about the mire them for their courage or symmembers of congress? pathize with them in their suffering must" label were being shoved overworked We need extra help also." or deplore their inability to realize aside with dispatch, as Vice PresiIf the bill became law, it would that theyd be easier on the eye if dent Garner sought to heal the raise the total of the President's theyd quit trying to emulate the party wounds inflicted during the $10,000-a-yesecretaries to nine, raw oyster which never has beea bitter court battle and salvage as much of the President's legislation for he already has three James pretty to look upon and, generally as he could. The first to be buried Roosevelt, Stephen Early and Mar- speaking, is an acquired taste anyvin McIntyre. how. was the new AAA and "ever-normFor a gentleman who ordinarily senate agrigranary" bill; the bundles himself in heavy garments culture committee shelved it until 60 Hurt in Strike Riot clear up to his Adam's apple, this the next session. The committee A LTHOUGH the independent warm weather strip-ac- t entails a lot authorized James P. Pope, Idaho x Bteel were back at work, of preliminary torture. At first our Democrat and of the bill, there wasplants still plenty of discord gallant exhibitionist resembles a to prepare a senate resolution to along the labor front. Sixty per-o- forked stalk of celery bleached out lay the plans for regional hearings were injured in a wild riot in the cellar. Soon he is one large on a comprehensive farm program among pickets of the Steel Workers red blot on the landscape, with fat during the remainder of the sumOrganizing committee (affiliated water blisters spangling his brow mer and report back in January. with C. I. O.), loyal workers and until he looks as if he were wearing It seemed certain that the Presichaplet of Malaga grapes. Is dents legislation for governmental police of at the Corrigan-McKinne- y the Republic Steel corpora- the next stage he peels like the walplant reorganization would be left over tion in Cleveland. on an Ohio valley parlor after until next session when the record A mob of strikers hurled rocks lpaper flood time. of three months' hearings by the from a hillside upon cars of emjoint congressional committee was Destructive Ilired Help. made public. It was revealed that ployees parked in the valley about the committee members have not even to plant. Loyal workers attempted COME BODY found a stained glass drive the strikers away, and at window in an English church come close to agreement on any of one time 500 of them rushed out back to 635 A. D-- , but still the main points involved. dating of the plant and set upon the pick- intact. And from the ruins of a Majority Leader Barkley said that the White House still wanted the ets. Police tried to break up the Roman villa, theyve dug out a marwages and hours bill, the Wagner fighting, relying chiefly on their tear ble figure of Apollo the one the gas guns. One striker was killed mineral water was named after in low-cohousing bill and a judiciary bill passed, as well as legislation when a moving automobile, which a perfect state although 2,000 yean to plug tax loopholes. The Wagner was being stoned, got out of con- old. trol and ran berserk through a These discoveries are especially bill, meanwhile, was reported out of line. to this family as tending interesting committee, and it was expected the picket In Buffalo there was a serious to show that hired help isnt what it senate would act upon it quickly. food shortage because of a strike must have been in the ancient time. of 1,000 wholesale grocery truck We once had a maid of the real New Court Bill Drafted drivers and 1,000 butchers at four old Viking stock who, with the best JT OUR important provisions were meat packing plants. As C. I. O. Intentions on earth, broke everycontained in the new court "re- and A. F. of L. unionists thing she laid finger on. Moreover, form" bill reported out of the senate m their demand for closed shops, she could stand flatfooted in the judiciary committee, but none of residents of the city were forced to middle of a large room and cause them involved any changes in or motor to the country for butter, treasured articles of virtu, such as additions to the personnel of the Su- eggs and vegetables. souvenirs of the St. Louis Worlds for preme court. The new bill provides fair and the china urn 1 won the 1904 at for: in back A Year of Reclamation superior spelling (a) Direct appeals to the Supreme Elks carnival, to leap to the floor court from decisions in the district A IMPLICATIONS for grants under and be smashed to atoms. She last years agricultural conser- didn't have to touch them or even courts involving the constitutionalvation program covered 283.000.000 it ity of federal statutes. go near them. I think she did by two-thirof the countrys animal magnetism or capillary at(b) Intervention by the Depart- acres ment of Justice in all suits involv- crop land and represented an estitraction or something of that nature. ing the validity of federal statutes. mated 4,000,000 farmers, H. R. TolThe first time we saw the Winged (c) Trial of all suits to enjoin ley, agricultural adjustment admin- Victory, Mrs. Cobb and I decided it the operation of federal statutes by istrator, reported. Nearly 31,000,000 must have been an ancestor of a court of three judges one judge acres were diverted from crops Helsa who tried to dust it with the from the circuit court of appeals which deplete the soil; 53,000,000 disastrous results familiar to all loacres received the benefit of soiland two district judges. vers of classic statuary. (d) Reassignment of district court building practices. Conservation payments for the judges by the senior circuit judge The Reaping Season. of each circuit, wherever additional year totaled $32,323,303.11, benefit AIN crops may not have and rental payments $235,744,264.42. help may be needed to relieve con- Total i so well, due to weather AAA expenditures by during d gested dockets. Judges sitting away 1936 were ns, or, as some $357,338,617.30, including from home would receive $10 a day would probably cans administrating and liqexpenditures additional pay. uidation of. obligations outstanding of New Deal control. when the Supreme court held secthe other hand, hasnt it lor tions of the original AAA unconstiAmbition in Bloom splendid ripening seasonlocic-- d trav-eli- John Boettiger, e" rx . ; ar al ns st die-har- con-icau- SOL BLOOM of who, it is said pONGRESSMAN New York, (by Congressman Bloom), is the "spittin image" of George Washington, and once posed for a bust labeled The Father of His Country," sponsored a brief bill in the lower house, but unfortunately (for Congressman Bloom) It was rejected in fact it never even came to a vote. It provided that a book be given, at the governments expense, to each naturalized citizen with his papers. The book, exhibited in the house, is a handsome affair, ail dono up in blue and gold. The cover contains, in large letters, the inscription: The Story of the Constitution, by Sol Bloom. Copyright, by Sol Bloom." tutional. is, Football Couldn't Save It MOT even the excellence and eipts last year were shut-up- s, s, picket lines? ikes me think of the littleo used le late Myra Kelly a puo-kwas she when time ie New on teacher le. She was questioning her l,ll:ll of primory-prad- e re-- i ; on the callings of their or tn camo parents. She little girl, shabby and jI pop- ularity of Edward Patrick (Slip) Madigan's football teams could save little St. Marys college at Oakland, Calif., from, the auction block. It was knocked down to its security holders for $411,150 the only bid after it had failed to pay interest on its bonded indebtedness of $1,370 -500 since 1934. When Madigan cume to St. Mary's from Notre Danic in 1921 it had 71 students. His football teams made it famous and built the enrollment up to 700. It was indicated he will remain ns coach, at a reported salary of $7,000 a year and ten per cent of the gate receipts. Rec walk-out- $174,671. shy- - e." she asked, "at what doii . her work?" i poppa lie dont never nor. ," said ltosic. int lie do anything at a.i- - yessum." , whnt docs he do? trikes. IRVIN S. COE - |