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Show THE SM1THFIB1.D SENTINEL. SMITHFTELRJJTAH I News Review of Current Events the World Over R(ivn Guffey Coal Dill Is Passed Republicans Map Abandons Campaign Strategy England Anti-Italia- n Trade Sanctions. W. PICKARD By EDWARD WMUrn NviraiiAiwr L'nlua C ers were valid, one ;uirtly valid and reminute (Muumee of Important murkeil the cloning turned tie verdicts on the other three. The two major luws declared unconof congress before adjournment for the iimiinor. stitutional were the National Products Ttie house, by a vole of 101 to 00, Marketing Act, sluillur In some to the nullified American NKA passed the revised version of the Guf-febill to reatnre federal control of and the Employment and Snclnl Insursoft coal production, Invalidated by the ance Act, pnijHadng a compulsory conSupreme court. It pawed the measure tributory employment Insurance system. The laws were imsaed In 1934 and on to the senate Olwrvers pointed out tlmt tills was 1933 under the Conservative governthe quickest repair Job on a Supreme ment then headed by Premier ISennelL Declared valid were the Unfair Busicourt decision that the New Iieul has thus far achieved. The new bill ness practices Act nnd tha Farmers eliminates provisions govern' it work- and Creditors Arrangement Act The ing hours end wages which lie court Judges decided that the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission Act held Invalid. It retains, however, two fen hires waa imrtly valid. Tliey reached a tie which the court neither approved nor verdict on the Minimum Wages Act, disapproved: 1 The granting to a na- the Limitations of Hours of Work Act tional bituminous coni mnnnliwlnu au- and the Weekly Day of Rest In Industhority to tlx prices and approve mar- trial Undertakings Act. keting agreements. 2 The luiposlllnn of n tax on the pniducllnii of eon'.. The IN TOPEKA, Kan., Gov. Alfred M. London, Republican nominee fur the tax feature has been altered sonie-.whfrom the original Idll. Instead of Presidency, met Col. Frank Knox, Vice a flat IS per rent tux on coni produc- Presidential nominee, and Chairman John Hamilton and tion, It calls for an outright excise levy memlmra of the execuof IK per cent on all soft mill, plus tive committee of the a 13V4 per cent lax on ronl In Inter-Stat- e commerce. Republican national committee to make The holier, likewise, adopted the two plana for tbo coming billion, 3i0 million dollar relief and camiHiign. Speaking delleleney bill. At the Mime time, It Itineraries for Goverkilled two other mcuNiircs. One wan nor Iaindon and Colfor the appropriation of funds to comonel Knox were displete the yi.KI.iNKMKHi Florida ship cacussed as well as other nal, which hod I men approved by the senate. The other wue the campaign strategy. bill sponsored by Senator ISIuek of YU,h ,S definitely John Hamilton tha Alultama. As presented to tlie bouse reprogellle(, It would have forced the registration organized personnel of the executive of lobbyists, Including those appearing committee which will chart tbe Republican course. Hamilton, tbe new chairbefore congress and before government The youngest memdepartment!. It would also have re- man, la forty-fouP. Burroughs of Manchesquired Information on contributions for ber, Robert ' Seven new lobbying purposes and payments made ter, N. 1L, la thlrty-alx- . members attended the meeting, Includto lobbyists. The senate by a vote of 42 to 24 ing Burroughs; Representative Joseph passed tbe Wagner bill providing for W. Martin, Jr., North Attleboro, Mass. ; a UGO, 000.000 program to encourage J. Will Taylor, Knoxville; Tenn.; Mrs. low coat housing construction. The Horace Sayre, Ardmore, Okla. ; Mrs. John Wyeth, 8L Joseph, Mo.; Ezra bill would set up n federal housing auWhltla, Cocur d'Alene, Idaho; and thority to administer tbe act Earl Warren, Oakland, Calif. Members returned to the committee are: the harness" came to DEATO Doncan U. Fletcher, dean Charles D. Ulllet, New York; Harrison of the senate, who had represented E. Spangler, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; R. Florida In the upper house for the last Creager, Brownsville; Texas; Mrs. quarter of a century. Bertha Baur, Chicago, III; Mrs. Paul He died suddenly at Fitzsimmons, Newport, It. L; Walter & Ilallahan, Charleston, W. Va.; and bln home In Washings ton. Senator Fletcher, George Ball, Munde, Ind. In the reorganization of the commita strong supporter of tee, Hamilton traded poets with Henry the Itoosevelt administration although be P. Fletcher, who took over the Job of Good-spee- d was considered a con- counsel for the committee, of Chicago succeeded George F. servative, waa chair-man of the banking Gets as treasurer. The other commit i and currency commit tee o ffleera Include four vice chairmen: Williams, Oregon; J. Henry tee which bore the Ralph brunt of the task In- Itoraback, Connecticut; Mr. John E. volved In the currency nillmnn, Colorado; and Mrs. James reform legislation and the banking net Worthington, Pennsylvania. LAST mm-Ion- s y anti-lobb- y r. In a aa a of 1035. President Itoosevelt, In a statement eulogising the senntor, said the country lias lost an able and conscientious servant In the death of Senator Fletcher. lie declared the Floridian "was ever actuated by motives of high patriotism and unselflah devotion to the public welfare." Tbe death of Senator Fletcher followed closely the passing of Senator Park Trammel of Florida and the death of Speaker Joseph V. Byrns of Tennessee, Senator Fletcher was born In Sumter county, Georgia, January 0, 1839. lie was graduated from Vanderbilt university In 1880 and began the prartlce of law In Jacksonville, Fla., In 1SS1. lie was elected to the United States senate In 1908 and had been rennmlnnt-e- d In each subsequent and term. While no movement lind been undertaken to select his successor as chairman of the Important banking and currency committee, It wus felt In Wnslilngton circles that Senator Carter Glnsa, senate veteran, Virginia Democrat, wartime secretary of the treasury and staunch gold standard advocate, was In lino for the post. Although a critic of some of President's policies, Senator Glass has never gone far off the reservation. A SEMI-ANNUA- L checkup revealed that 10 debtor nations had notified the State department that they would default on their Indebtedness to the United States. Included among these nations are: Great Prltnln, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania. Rumania. Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Finlund alone promised to pay. nnd Hungary bad not yet replied to the State deiKirtment's notice Hint an Installment on their war debt was ivi-gtu- due. While the present debt payment was being passed, in Informed circles It Is regarded that seme basis of settlement will be sought by the European debtor nations In the near future. Increasing possibility of war In Europe, it Is believed, will Induce these nations to repair their credit situation lu tbe Unit- ed States. C IX Judges of Canada's Su- preme court declared two of the Dominion's eight social reform" laws unconstitutional, decided that two oth red-rube- d ANGERS of civil war in China and an armed Intervention by Japan were lessened somewhat by reports that Gen. LI Tsung-jen- , military overlord of Kwangsl province, and his supporters had dedded to yield to the su- perior strength of the Nanking central government, of which Chlang is the generalissimo. The rebellious chieftains of Kwangsl had been coupling their agitations against General Chlnng with warlike demonstrations against the Japanese. Tokyo hns demanded In no uncertain terms that the activities throughout Kai-she- k Chinn be suppressed. r EFINITU abandonment of Britain's trade sanctions against Italy and advocacy of their oilldal removal by the League of Nnrlons waa decided upon- - by the British cabinet, under tlie JS& $ presidency of Prime Minuter Stanley Bald- win. This action of the cub! net had been for tout expected time, following the failure of the sanctions to halt Italy's progress In the conquest of Ethiopia. It was expected that Ciipt. Anthony Eden, foreign secretary, would go to Genera to attend the league meeting and urge abolition of league sanctions against Italy. Dispatches ft out Paris Indicated French support of the British program. llio cabinet was also reported to have formulated a program regarding Germany nnd the reformation of the league which may cull for continued pressure on Relchsfaehrer Hitler to use Ids power and Influence to promote European peace. u JOHN J. PERSHING Is not optimistic concerning world peace. Addressing the graduating class at the United States Military academy on tbe fiftieth anniversary of his own graduation, the general said no one caa tell when we shall again need our armies." He continued: The situation In the world today Is far from reassuring. None can foresee the effect upon us of another world catastrophe. Loyal cltl-- i as cannot shut their eyes to the possibility or wur. They one It to ell that Is sacred to make ample preparation against an evil lay." a' Yule-Ilarvur- d boat race. That depended on tlie congresHe sional situation. had to deal with the lawmakers who were all tangled up lu the controversy over the tax hill, and also to complete his of acceptance to lie delivered at Philadelphia on June 27. The linul speech of Mr. Roosevelt's trip was delivered at Vincennes. Ind., where he dedicated the handsome memorial to George Rogers Clark. He paid eloquent tribute to that conqueror of the Northwest, and found occasion to appeal for support of his own program. Said he: "In his (Clark's) day among the pioneers there were Jumper! of land claims and those who sought to swindle their neighbors though they were poor In this worlds goods and lived la iiwrsely settled communities. Today among our teeming millions there still are those who by dishonorable means seek to obtain tbe possessions of their unwary neighbors. "Car modern civilization mnat constantly protect Itself against moral defectives whose objectives are the same but whose methods are more subtle than their prototypes of a century and a half ago. We do not change our form of free government when we arm nuraelves with new weapon against new devices of crime and cnpldlty. In a series of rhetorical questions the President defended the AAA subsidies to farmers, soil conservation, reforestation, and preservation of wild life. From Vincennes Mr. Roosevelt went to Hodgenvillg, Ky., for a brief visit to Lincoln's birthplace, and then his train carried him back to Washington. 'Jhmkd about Leader. MONICA. CALIF. SANTA eight years ago Bishop in high state at Houssat Cannon of ton, wringing the last drop bone-dry plan r..oitture out of a A1 in the Democratic doctrine so of the wets, wettest the Smith, w half-bake- d al m nearat right-thinkin- j i ... sun-bake- d They were Magr. George U Leech, bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; Msgr. Hugh L. Lamb, auxiliary bishop to Cardinal Msgr. William Dougherty, Adrian, Nashville, Tenn.; Magr. Francis Carrol, Calgary, Alta, and Magr. Patrick Bray, 8L John. office waa about to Joseph B. Eastman, federal t ' consistory Pope Plus XI INraisedsecret to the rank of cardinal two of his old friends, Giovanni Her cad sad Eugenio Throe rant. Twenty-seve- n cardinal! were present at the ceremony, among them being Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. During the consistory the pope formally proclaimed appointments of three American and two Canadian bishops. JUST aa his Francis E. sue nnd moved to expose it tiiruM. WASHINGTON. Dr. House lnresii.-tu- ! Townsend's fanciful dream for pay- the medium of ment of pensions of rather than fight Individually to Townsend J200 per month for how ridiculous, how unsound, tlie nt,. over 11x11 was. Plan Flope eTerJ'one of age seems ami Having set up tlie picture vimwiB. years congenial would have something to have gone up In smoke, but there an utterly Impossible program on the on. run to appropriate are developments In connection with part of Dr. Townsend and his In the opposition camp the the California doctors unworkable dates and followers, the linns,. lightest whose to high god, scheme that merit comment The good tldana were confronted sinldnly by word all present Idea have Dr. Townsend's arrogance in ,is doctor and hla with hall and House the to testify. That presented t since been rapidly skidding Bankhallelujahs, was Investigating committee showed up the den change In the scenery. To er Cliarle Mitchell. the dangers In this new probplan aa a befuddled Idea and as I once Today, if either of inpredicted, the bubble burst In a lg lem, It Is only necessary to say tbit these gentlemen a If the House had acted promptly by way. serted himself Into Inclined to believe that voting that Dr. Townsend w am While I in cog. of convention national Dr. Townsend was honest and sincere tempt and must spend some time It hla party, he'd be arIn proposing tbe $200 per month penall, I expect the result would hiv rested for trespass. sion, it was the sort of thing that been martyrdom for Dr. Townsend. Four years ago Mr. serves as an Inducement for racket- Martyrdom la always had from a waa moving p. eers to gather. It was the old mo- lltlcal standpoint If the opposition his heaven and earth and world in the flies lasses barrel for the the martyr. Jnck Garner to nomiof racketeers. It never had a chance The house, therefore, has turned nate F. D. Roosevelt, to go anywhere and neyer will, be- over the affair to the courts and In whom he reposed everlasting faith, unsound. And the Republican Old Guard was ex- cause It waa fundamentally being slow moving as they for the then It can dismiss We except had candidate Its are, will not get around to prosplaining that when two phases which ught to be vigorecution of the cnae until It la too late promised two cars In every garage he g to hare any Influence on the election. didn't figure that for either car thered ously condemned by people everywhere. So we can see readily that Dr. Townbe a deputy sheriff with a writ. The two circumstances which I hear send la left out In the cold, lie can All of which proves our anointed discussed most frequently are: The neither use the Influence that Is chalender are not only conrngeoui but the heartaches, that obviously racteristic of martyrdom nor can he tragedy, say consistent. Well, lets Bee what the follow In the wake of movements In those that hla skirts are dear. The hue us this will year promise boys such as the Townsend plan that can- haa left him called plathanging conveniently in firtional whimsicalities not succeed and that draw to them- nild-al- r and It was done solely for forms. selves thousands, If not hundreds of reasons. of persons who believe they political thousands, There First American Families. may be some more hearings are going to benefit; and secondly, It on Townsend the been skirting the plnn daring the sumWE'VE of one sizable group of seems to me that the House commit- mer bnt the chances are that Reprheaded tee, by Representative Bell, early American families who dont care of Missouri, overplayed its hand with esentative Bell will not call the comfor some months, who's been nominated at Cleveland or the result that It haa brought upon mittee together again the case Is closed. It has wholl be nominated at Philadelphia. House committees the same rractlcnlly, dispublic to a large measNo matter which aide wins, these folks and distrust as characterizes 90 undoubtedly stopped ure the drain that the Townsend or still will furnish the raw material up- gust cent of the Senate Investigations. was making on the unon which blithe amateurs of tlie In- per Each of these conditions la to be de- ganlzatlon dian bureaa work weird experiments the aged end the destitute thinking, plored. Each la. definitely destructive. whose in the name of clvllixntlon. quarters, dimes and nickels There can be. no more excuse for Nothing worse can happen to them some of the methods employed by the hare financed the thing thus far. While the committee did a good Job by than already haa been wrought by House committee in crucifying Dr. meddlers and earnest Towmend than for Dr. Townsend him- exposing the character of the scheme. ' I still am doubtful that It hns brought muddlers under this administration or self to wreck hearts and hopes and that For Instance, trying to make1 homes by pushing forward such a mis- to ltselif or to the house of represefarmers out of Apaches, a task akin '' erably Impossible proposition aa hla ntative! any fresh confidence ln our to training caged henhawks to Imitate governmental structure. 200 per month jeimlon program. cuckoo clocks. The House committee had within Its Of course, should their reservations The national capital, along with power opportunity to do a magnificent by some miracle prove productive, the Job in exposing the racketeering that many other sections of tlie conntry, white man win crowd them over Into become baa been listening to part and parcel of the Town17-Te- ar d a remoter the pnrrlng of area, where a send plan. It had within its handa the horned toad would have to go on relief hordes of locusts. Locuete capacity to educate millions within the or else starve to death. I use the word to United 8tates against following such The vanishing American can't com- an Illusion, such a mirage, aa the cuata ln quotation marks because they plain that we've ever failed to expe-- 1 Townsend plan. If It had confined It- are not really locusts. They are cicadas bnt to the moat of us they are ulte hla vanishing act for him. j self to that, work, Representative Bell and will remain the sevcntecn-yea- r hie nnd committee should receive tbe j locusts. plaudits of the nation. But the and Beating tha Welkin. It is aald that the first colonists ln poor old welkin certainly took story la that the committee nndor Mr. with awful bentlng at Cleveland, Bell's guidance allowed Itself to be- America, never before having mot Insects the everytlmt and believing come an agency of prosecution, even didn't It? And Just about the time the new skin forms, they'll rip It all over persecution, rather than an unbiased thing, of God's creation was accounted for In the Bible, concluded they were again at 1kilndelphln. Language Is to a Investigating unit, determined only to locusts and the name hns stuck. In national convention wlint yelping la to obtain the truth. any event, they appear In gran test a coon dog trailing. It's a fine personal intervals seventeen-yea- r advertisement for the dog and doesn't Since there never was any question numbers at and 1930 seems to be a banner year. n.enn anything either way to the coon. that the Townsend nostrum would fall Back ln 1919, trees ln many sections Tlie old superstition that the Repuli-llcan- s of its own weight of the conntry were pierced by tiny Committee eventually, It la always pick' their candidate nt saw-lik- e Instruments which the De2 a. m. In a smoke-fille- d room" didn't ficult to understand of Agriculture says are part partment come true. Youd think the bosses why the committee of the equipment of the female ciwoulij emerge from the session looking resorted to the tactics It need, like ao many hickory-curelimns when watched some of those hearings. As cadas. Billions of eggs were deposited you hear people tel of the old times. the committee delved deeper Into the under the soft bark. A month or two Ill bet the G. O. P. hoys kept a win- activities of Dr. Townsend and hi as- later, grubs emerged on the branches . dow open to clear the air. It might sociates, It became infuriated. That and dropped unnoticed to the earth. also have come In handy for chucking waa where It made Its big mistake Then, the chronology of tne life of Senntor Borah out of. and It la going to be quite a long time these cicadas becomes a niattrr of But when the credentials committee before House committees again can darkness for seventeen long years. The sat to hear the contesting delegations have a reputation throughout the coun- Insect In grub form burrowin'. Itself from the deep, dark South that's try of conducting unbiased and rea- ln tbe soil and subsisted on tbe Juices of roots. As far as anyone knows when you'd see what properly might sonable Investigations. after Townsend Dr. be called a smoke-filleroom. wab sufficiently hard they did little or no harm but boiled" to Justify the committee in sixteen years and a few mouths of making a vigorous Investigation. He this life, the grabs awoke this spring Defying the Congress. waa sufficiently Indifferent to their of- and out they came. They acted on ago Bishop Cannon, the THREE years fers or hints of to war- Instinct, of course. Virginia Through the last several on a rant the' committee's feeling a senatorial Investigation committee to part these great beetle-lik- e bugs with wings Yet go Jump off the Wnslilngton monument, that they had to bear down. like Isinglass have been humming and be must It tlie said committee went rerhnps they didnt Jump off the monthrumming and leaving their empty ument, which caused regret, to some, beyond all reason and I Iningine that shells attached to trees and grows. but It waa the best offer they had all In the end it will flare back on the During that period, the males hare Individuals. season. The Now, Dr. Townsend surely cannot spent their daylight hours singing. Tide year Doctor Townsend, who not Is quite of Department Agriculture hnsn't lost a cent by being the head blame anyone other than himself for sure why this singing has gone on beof the Townsend plan, tells an Investi- the fact that he Is faced with proceed- cause it bus ascertained that all of by the United States attorney. gating committee or the house to klm ings will be remembered, of course, that the lady clcadus are quite deaf. much It hla foot. Perhaps I have devoted too Dr. Townsend deliberately walked out They never punished the hUlinp foe of the committee nnd refused to tespace to the story of the seventeen-yea- r contempt, although they sputtered like tify. That has always been held ns locust Perhaps the seventeen-yea- r a bunch of damp la not Important at all exlocust Heres contempt end Congress has the right e a l laying little never to punish for contempt. In this in- cept to the robins and the starlings punish tlie Due, cither. .He'll go mer- stance, the House of Representatives and the srarrows aud the other birds r rily on with the Idea that, elected to turn Dr. Townsend's case which have bad a feast ln 1930 that ha If there isn't a pot of gold at the foot over to the United States attorney for almost no other bird now livingubont of the rainbow, the guveruiuont should a known. have But I thought punishment In court rather than to these seventeen-yea- r locusts, a train supply same without uny more of this employ n nouse vote which might of thoughts, In fact They lead to end the elderly dreamer to Jail. Next o the league of Nations, nothFurther, the whole Townsend Inves- this: What will conditions he In 1933. or ing seems to make so much noise and tigation has turned out to be somehence when those accomplish so little as a defied thing of ft mess like the Townsend seventeen years will hear again the humane on earth unless It Is some fellow playing plan Itself. locusts? of the a slide trombone Into an empty barrel, mating song Will the policies and the principles IRVIN 8. COBB. there la every evidence of Thus, ami SU initiated Service. by Franklin D. Roosevelt Imsecond type of politics In this Invest! New Deni" be firmly called "the nation. The evL Dogs la America Million Years traditions or will Second ilence of politics lay bedded as American Typo or at least animals of the dog aa Impractical and Doga, out cast be they fact that the of Politico ln In civilfamily, have been numerous In Amer-IcUonse voted the In- forgotten? Will the changes will be since the Ollgncene period, whlrh that such be people quiry largely because many of the ization ended some 12.1,000 years ago. to submit to regimentation, to Individual House members were willing tell them wlint afraid, they were too cowardly, to take have their government or will this naBitterroot Forest Large to do how It, do and to a definite stand In their home disThe Bitterroot national forest In tricts of Individuals who against the Townecndltee. True, tion be a nation nnd the priviIdaho nnd Montann hns the grentesi the insist righto upon they did not know how etrong the of our roimnet ares of the nation's timber founders which the leges Townsend movement was. So, as poll tlclans elwsys do, they dodged the to j tr politico-financi- A I co- ordinator of transportation, submitted a report In which ha proposed n lot of reforms by which the railroads might win badt the bnalneas they have lost to the track and the automobile. Among hit suggestions are lower fares, light er weight, and speedier cars, use of busses and trucks by the ralti roais to meet competition and consolidation of terminals and otLer facilities. He also advised the development of a nation-wid- e container" service In the movement of freight by railway, highway and water, predicting that this would save millions of dollars In the handling ' of present freight and would create much new business. The containers are now used In n limited manner In some localities and Indus- thirst-blaste- I ... THE ; , j : j j j dlf-Er- re tries. d Eastman recommended a searching examination and thorough overhauling" of railroad pnllman service, and a plan of operation under which tha Pullman company would own and op- erate the cars and railroads, leasing them and retaining the entire revenue from the sleeping and parlor car service. FOUR years ago Senator George Nor--" rls of Ncbraskn,( independent Republican, warmly supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Presidency, and he now announces that he will again back tbe IVmocratlc ticket. lie urge Ills countrymen to forget partisanship and come to the support of the man who more than any other man In re- cent years has stood for the welfare of tlie common people." The senator said the Cleveland con-- 1 ventlon nominated a man for President whose greatest asset Is that nobody knows him and nobody knows what he stands for. It does not necessarily fob low from this tlint tbe nominee Is not a good man. But It does mean that If he will not take orders from the un- -. disclosed bosses who made him. then these eminent gentlemen have been de--1 eelved." n USSIA proposes to establish what rulers assert will be the only real democracy In the world. A new constitution, to be proinnlgntcd next fall, has been drawn up under the direction of Josef Stalin, the dictator, and will be acted n by the congress of soviets on November 25. This document for private prop?ity. suffrageprotection for all citizens more than eighteen years old, regardless of rare, sex, religion f, and prerlous activities or property ownership. The communist party will be retained as the only recognised AX Ha n PKX. I0xt onim ROOSEVELT returned from bla tout through six western states and, though be was ruther tired, be hoped to run up to New London. Conn., PRESIDENT fur the M be-ne- political organization. There are to be two legislative bodies, the council of the union, elected by the people, and the council of nationalities, selected by the present system. These two bodies will elect a board of SI official to rua tha government. ... d sinnntli-b'nre.lnvitc- , j ! j j i j ' : elglit-to-flv- tln-y'l- shilly-shallyin- eon-gros- s a - |