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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX PAGE TWO News Review of Current Events tlie World Over Frank Knox Notified of Republican Vice Presidential Nomination tories Spanish Rebels Winning Vic Third PWA Building Program. PICKARD By EDWARD W. Union. -- C Wmm N.w.p&par serious FACING an enthusiastic crowd em tiers of counties, with filled the big damage in some other sections. Threshing ol winter wheat reChicago stadium, Col Frank Knox of vealed expected yields, the report received from Senator Stelwer official the said, but .spring wheat conditions Oregon notification of his were termed disappointing. nomination ' for the vice presidency by ROOSEVELT ended the Republican par PRESIDENT cruise when his ty. National Chair- yacht docked at Campobello' island. man John Hamilton New Brunswick, where he has a Introduced the sen- - summer home. He shaved off the who spoke sidewhiskers he had a tor, grown to surbriefly but forceful- prise bis wife and mother and went ly and with his cus- ashore for a picnic and a reception tomary eloquence. with members of his family and As Colonel Knox friends in the summer colony of stepped forward to the island. Canadian Royal Mountdeliver his speech of acceptance ed police Joined with the American he was greeted by a roar of ap- secret service men in guarding the plause that continued for many distinguished visitor. . minutes. His fellow citizens were at remained Mr. Roosevelt glad to express their gratification Campobello only two days and then for the honor done him, and the took a special train to Quebec, thousands from outside Chicago where he visited with Lord Tweeds-mul- r, were no less warm In their appregovernor general of Canada. ciation of the candidate. In the streets surrounding the stadium MEMBERS of the was another vast throng of people TWO Olympic boxing squad who, unable to get into the budd- failed to take warning from the ing, listened to the proceedings as fate of Eleanor Holm Jarrett and sysbroadcast by a broke training rules soon after their tem. arrival in Berlin. Roy Davis, manUnlike Governor Landon, Colonel ager of the boxers, advised that Knox devoted much of his address be sent home, and the Amerthey to the alleged failures of the Roose- ican committee so orvelt administration which, he said, dered. Olympic The two delinquents were had the most glorious opportunity Joe J. Church, featherweight, of In the history of the nation but ig- Batavia, N. Y and Howell King, nored its responsibility, failed In welterweight, of Detroit Their , Its Job and defaulted in its obliplaces on the team were filled by gations. i, Theodore E. Kara and Chester From the day that It took ofboth of Chicago. it embarked fice, he declared, on a series of hysterical experiments on the economic life of a GEN. FRANCISCO FRANCO'S forces in Spain, accord burdened people. At a time when was a neces- lng to late reporta, were pressing universal sity it Initiated a campaign of the fovernment troops seriously and winning some abuse and vilification of business men. At a time when the credit of bloody encounters. This the he country should have been despite loud-speak- er LONDON newspapers were taught lesson in fair dealing, in connection with the case at I'lWWi George McMahon who was arrested for menacing King Edward with a revolver recently. The Daily Express and the Evening News editors and their respective proprietors, Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothcrmere, were fined $2,500 each for contempt of court because the papers printed articles calling McMahon's act an attempt on the king's life, the attorney general stating that it was not yet proved to be an attempted assassination. A .movie distributing agency was fined $250 on the same charge. Germany ad-'-- claims of that tha Fascists cy of credit adulteration and rency experiment that demoralized foreign trade and frightened domestic finance. It set up a system of regimentation of industry that reduced production and prevented By coercion of conforced the passage of reit gress form measures so recklessly drawn that they hamstrung the revival of enterprise and paralyzed the renewal of investment It installed a regimentation of agriculture that destroyed food and reduced foreign markets and increased the cost of living and multiplied the expense of relief. At a time when private industry was struggling desperately for a new start it set up governmental enterprise to compete with private business. At a time when the burden of taxation was already hard to bear it embarked on a policy of squandering public funds and increasing the weight of taxes. At a time when united effort and mutual good-wiwould have completed recovery it promoted sectional hatred and class strife. At a time when returning business confidence was ending depression it began a campaign to terrorize business and subjugate the banks. At a time when confidence in the character of government was vital, it established a spoils system. At a tune when the economic system was worn and emaciated it performed major surgical operations upon the Industrial body to see what was Inside. It adopted an economic philosophy of scarcity and forced it upon a hungry and distressed people. No one can define the New Deal or even describe it But we know what it means. It means federal control over local business, over had been checked. The rebel columna advancing on tha capital from the south were reported to be threatening communications between Madrid anc the eastern aea-coa- st at Valencia and Alicante, chief tour ces of the government's food supplies. Indeed, it was announced by the insurgent radio station at Seville that the garrison at Valencia had revolted and gone over to the rebels. Leaders of the insurgents claimed they held Huelva, Important seaport, and all the territory between Seville and the Portuguese border. The loyalists directed a strong attack on Saragossa but advice from the front reaching Perpignan. France, said their three columns were ambushed by the rebels in a narrow canyon and lost perhaps 2,000 killed. General Franco has been quoted as saying the revolution, when successful, will result in a military dictatorship for the time being.. The government, now a red dictatorship, has taken possession of all church property and assumed control of all industry and agriculture. It also has confiscated the merchant marine to form a defense fleet The loyalists were encouraged by victories in and around San Sebastian. Claude G. Bowers, American ambassador to Spain, was cut off from communication with the summer quarters of his embassy at San Sebastian for several days, being himself at his summer residence In Fuentarrabia, close to the French border. He finally got In touch with the embassy and removed the staff to his villa. Mr. Bowers also local of conditions over work. It proVraeffTaTirRaTeirTSTTrTmfflfflr leads to federal regimentation of of other foreign diplomats and their the labor, the business, and the families. He said he had ascerhome of every American citizen. tained that not a tingle American had been injured In the civil war. g and producIt leads to tion control by federal authority. It American warships and liners were leads inevitably to the extinction utilized to evacuate all the Ameriof the" small business man, to the cans in ports where their lives were1 in danger. end of free enterprise in America. Later Ambassador Bowers and Before the ceremonies started there were four big parades, con- his staff went aboard the cruiser taking with them some of verging at the stadium; and elab- Cayuga, the American refugees. orate musical programs were provided both inside and outside the on smaller building. Emphasis is placed to be completed WEEKLY fcrop' report and speedily, in the third building ' weather'-summarDe- -' putomr works ' adminpartment of Agriculture revealed istration. which was opened by the that the drouth and high tempera- allotment of $22,742,034 by Presture were, pfaying.havoc. with-tident . Roosevelt, . It includes $52 corn crop in most of th? leading projects in 37 states, and the largproducing 'states. In some sections est of these is a courthouse for there will not even be fodder and New York city to cost the governover a much larger, area no grain ment $4,835,000. The average alwill be obtained this year. There lotment is only $64,323. .were good rains, however, in parts Secretary Ickes, FWA adminof the central and eastern areas istrator, said that in addition to 45 and Improvement was noted there per cent ' donation, PWA will lend in Loth corn and pasturage $2,142,000 to help communities deThe present drouth in Iowa, the fray their 65 per cent share of the department said, has caused great- cost President Roosevelt has orer damage to corn than that of dered that all projects be com1934. The summary reported al- menced by October 1, 1936, reach a most complete destruction of the $eak by the .end of the year and be crop in two southern and two west- - completed by October L 1937. ... price-fixin- t ; ' 4 W y he II r - : o r-- - ,4 'Jst' I .. J . . L J 'NJr V L:i ifrtfKEgg the case that the not the issues that decu?!; tion in November. - Ther, year that the (wTI prise .among hia cussed by President many surprises and that he will Governor Landon in employ It to wean away at much ance speeches are goT of the farm vote from Governor very little to do with Landon of Kansas as is possible. of the voters three The President usually has a card I can report only 00 up his sleeve, one that he can pull among political authotitiT? out with a flourish and one that, on point. That consensu u. the surface at least, carries very be that Mr. Landon i, T: convincing prospects in the particustick to discussion of ft.' lar line he has chosen. problems as he sees them In this instance, it aeema rather Mr. Roosevelt's strategy well established that you may ex- governed entirely, byrj' pect the President to come forward changes take place B conditions. shortly with a brand new proposieffort tion for greater In other words, these between the farmers and the city who have gooe Washington consumer!. He is likely to pre- r V . - . Street Scene in Fez, Morocco Boolaty, interiors are light and luxurious. PrvparsS by National Washington, D. C. WNU Barrlea. The of their pleasant garF RABAT is the brain of Mo- - dens privacy is guarded by eunuchs. There Fez is its heart. Al- the fair occupants of the harem most equidistant from the cast aside their veils and ugly Atlantic and the Mediterra- may shrouding garments, and shine in nean, and nearly a hundred miles all the splendor of massive jewelry from either is this storied city, still and the bright hues of silken the political and religious center of dresses that Arab and Berber Morocco. ladies wear. From a hillside one looks down, Seated- on the ground with their in wonder and admiration, on the backs' against the walls of these tree shaded valley in which lies houses are beggars, singly or in - -- once-turbule- always-exotic- ,' now-peacef- ul Fez. It is a chessboard, checkered in countless tiny squares which are the flat roofs of its myriad houses, the edge of the board being the lofty city walls. Rather, there are two chessboards: Fez El Bali, Fez the Old; and higher along the steep slope ' is Fez Djedid, Fez the New. It was new in A. D. 1271 Lika chessmen left scattered aimlessly about the board atand the slender minarets of the many mosques. On every side rise the hills crowned with forts old and suld new, forts built by tans to cow their rebellious subjects within the city, others erected by the French to defend Fez against the Berber tribes outside the walls. Beyond the rounded hills, away to the south, are higher mountains covered with snow in winter. But in summer the arid steppes are waist-higin flowers. Fez appeara now as It did through the long centuries of Moslem domination, since Arab invaders built it somewhere about A. D. 800; as it was before ever the Infidels entered it except as slaves or as missions of Christian states humbly seeking to propitiate the Sultan. It remains as it was when still the home of the Sheriflan rulers, the real capital, the enlightened, artistic, magnificent city second to none in all Islam, when in the Twelfth century it boasted 785 mosques; 480 inns, and 120,000 prilong-dea- h j t than 100.000 MOREsilence at persons stood Vtmy. France, as King Edward VIII of England unveiled the magnificent memorial built by France to commemorate the heroic capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian forces tn vate houses. A humming drone But hark! fills the air; and high over the venerable city flies an airplane. France rule the sky above and the soil beneath; the Sultan is a shadow in Rabat After President greeting Lebrun of France in French, the king aid: J We raise this fr J to Cana- memorial 1 V dian warriors. It is King Edward an inspired expression in stone chiseled by a skillful Canadian hand of Canada's salute to her fallen sons. It marks the scene of feats of arms which history will long remember and CanAnd the ada can never forget ground it covers is the gift of France to Canada." The dedication culminated ten years of labor and an expenditure of about $1,000,000 on erection of the memorial. The work was completed after earlier delays in construction because of difficulties In ri! la Yet Unspoilt Being only recently opened to the outer world. Fez is as yet unspoilt and of deep interest to the traveler. Its size surprises. From cne end to the other of the twin cities it measures four miles. Its population today ii about 107,000, including fewer than 10,000 Israelites who are herded together in the Jewish Quarter of Fez Djedid. The European inhabitants, to be found mostly in La Ville Nouvelle, to 8.000 tons of special stone required. Walter S. All ward, Toronto architect and sculptor who designed the monument for the Canadian battlefields memorial commission, supervised the preparations for the HENRY WELLCOME, who born in a log cabin in Wisconsin 63 years ago' and who became one of England's greatest scientists and explorers, died in London following an operation. His scientific achievements ranged from the establishment of physiological labors tones tg piopeejing. In. the' field of archaeological survey through the use of airplanes. He won the Royal Humane society life saving . medal in 1885 and as late as 1927 founded the Lady Stanley Maternity hospital in Uganda, Central Africa. SIR to announcement news agency which is generally considered to be the mouthpiece of the Polish foreign office, an kccord has been reached between Berlin and Warsaw on the policies to be followed in the Free City of Danzig. The Nazis are said to have agreed to give explanations that will take the sting out of re cent incidents in the city. MlMyraw ''Wl if lUi-lgfcltvSi- T ' J to put out According a report Association of excessive speculaManufacturers, tion in farm lands appears at last to have ended and opportunities for farm operators to rent land or purchase on equitable terms are now restored. The report, prepared by the associations committee on agricultural was stated to be based on an analysis of the re- lationship between farm commodi- ty prices and the market value of farm real estate. Q il 9 Hyde. jlndinghCL-Ulfl- : , Wild-ma- v hi S', I 1917. : ' this action was brought up in the English house of commons and Foreign Secretary Eden said the government did not intend to deal separately with the question, hoping for a fresh effort for European peace in which Germany would He hinted that play a full part Great Britain would let the affair pass without comment as one 'of minor affronts. Germany's It was believed France would take the same stand. April, ai ii To Lore getting ready to Farm Vote .spring a new sur- thi mits that she la Helgoland, the Gibraltar of the North sea which was demilitarized by the treaty of Versailles. The report that the Nazis were taking ll Jii Washington. There seem to be little doubt any longer that President Roosevelt Is IOWA Republicans nominated Halden of Chariton, editor and American Legion leader, for the United States senate seat made vacant by the death of Louis Murphy. His Democratic opponent la Guy M. Gillette. The state Farmer-Labo- r party delegates met in Des Moines and named former Senator Smith n Brookhart as their candidate for - the seat Until - recently he has been connected with tha New Deal farm organization. In Oklahomas runoff primary young Representative Josh Lee won the Democratic nomination for United States senator, badly defeating Gov. E. W. Marland. Leea Madrid Republican opponent is Herbert K. policur- ' ' -- Ru-teck- strengthened it inaugurated a i uiv TWO MEN were killed and nine injured when a breechblock blew out in a bow turret of the U. S. S. Marblehead which was engaged in gunnery practice fifty miles off San Diego. The cruiser immediately steamed to port under forced draft The dead were Leo Steve Morande, second-clas- s seaman. Eureka, Calif., and Percy William Cofer, boatswains mate, Washington, Ga. T TNOFFICIALLY, . groups, mostly blind. Here three men squat side by side, companions in misery. They are ' silent, their chins on their chests. In a sudden movement the three heads are lifted simultaneously, the haggard faces and sightless eyes upturned, hands thrust out begging bowls, and three voices chorus in perfect time along-drawappeal for alms I Street of Misery In the name of Allah, give us of your charity! You who have riches, pity the poor! You who have eyes, be merciful to the blind! God will requite ye! Aims! In the name of the Prophet, . give us three n "A alms! The three voices cease together, the three bowls are swiftly withdrawn, tha three heads are lowered, chin to chest again all in perfect unison. A bell rings clear and tweet; and up the steep lane hobbles a ragged man hugging under hia left arm a wet and bloated hairy thing like the swollen carcass of a drowned dog. It is a 'goatskin water bag with the hair left on. The bearer is selling the liquid and clangs the bright brass bell in bis right hand to attract attention. Before the French protectorate over Morocco was established, the British government once sent a mission to the Sultan in Fez with letters and presents. Attached to it was a Scots Guards subaltern he is a peer and a general today. He had visited the country leave several times, so he was chosen to go with the mission. When it rode in state into Fez, he was mounted on a big mule and clad in the scarlet and gold of his regiment, with the bearskin the hairy hat as admiring Dublin street urchins call it on his head. Tall and handsome, he presented a striking figure in hia gorgeous uniform and appealed to the crowds lining the route to the Imperial palace. But the bearskin busby puzzled them. What is that he has on hia head? cried a wondering citizen in the front rank of the specfull-dre- ss tators. A newspaper torrespondent in Morocco, riding In the procession, had lived many years in the country and spoke Arabic fluently. He turned in his saddle and answered the enquirer loudly in the verna- number about 9,600, principally French, with a sprinkling of Span- cular. iards and Italians. That Is a water bag. Hia sulOf the three parts of Fez old, tan has allowed him to wear it new, and newest unquestionably a. a mark of honor for putting out TKTmosrihTcfeS "i'fixnn his' towiL" Bali. To see it one must enter - The lane narrows into an alley on foot or in the saddle, for vehicles nine feet wide, covered over barely cannot pass through its steep and with a trellis-wor- k of long, dried narrow lanes. reeds on which lie withering the From Bab Jtadid (The Iron Gate) leaves of a spreading vine which a carriage road runs Inside the in summer gives a welcome shade. wvdlls around the edge of the city Street of Shops' to the new gate of Bou Jeloud, la lined with booths, The alley older touches the Fez where Djedid is for it the civilizabeginning of the fatown. modern it Along tion fringes the ancient city, for It mous souks. Souk means a marpasses , by the Auvert hospital, a ket; but here, as in Tunis, it designates a street 'ofahopi; and in French post office, the British c eastern-citie- s the shops that sell te, the bureau of municipal - time things the are grouped to- services,- a military club, and a iWnWillWI museum boused - in . separate,- - parts Thus the Souk El Attarine is the of an old palace, the Dar Baths, and by the lovely gardens of Dar street of the perfume sellers," who Beida, another imperial palace now vend, besyles scents, the large, used, only to, shelter the resident brightly decorated Marabout candles' to be burned before shrines. general when he visits Fez. None of the Arab buildings con- In the Souk El Khiyatine, tailors verted to modern uses has been street, the knights of the needle and burnooses, Europeanized in outward appear-'anc- e ply their trade, d woolen cloaks), and so they, do not detract and breeches, other garbaggy of the city. from the native aspect sold. are ments down one plunges Leaving them When night comes, the shopkeepsteep lanes, dreary and desolate, between the blank walla of tall ers put up and lock the shutters on houses almost windowless on the their establishments. They go off y to their evening meal at a native street side, aome as high aa a restaurant or to drink a cup of London dwelling. They-shu- t out the sky in the winding" alleys. sweetened coffee at a Moorish cafe Dismal as is their outward ap- before returning to their sleeping pearance, many are the residences mats in a room like a rabbit of rich and noble Moora, and the warren. on-au- la - -- je-la- ACCORDING (short-sleeve- t five-stor- i many a harried poLucg sent this new proposition some of seem to feel' that Mr. Boc his critics have been unkind enough i campaign strategy g0Si. to describe it as a new rabbit from like the policies hTka exactly will be the hat in a dressing that lowed in his acquite alluring. It is not clear yet tion. By that Ipresent to mean, ofquKj Just when the new plan will be President's own words, that fered by the President and hia New fails, we will try saJ Deal associates, but the guess can thing else. be made that it will' come in time There is the conviction c to permit a full exposition of the these same writers that Coe in Dealers New the program by advance of election. By the same Landon will resort to no or,a flourishes nor will he empbr token, it is apparent that the President's 1936 promises for the farm- of the tactics that Mr. ers will be disclosed late enough so has so often used in his fc that the Republicans will have 'little radio chats. Further, It iiqia dent, I believe, that Coven time to pick it to pieces. don will make the burden i Mr. on f the fact that The Roosevelt is developing another plea to the American people a -farm program comes in Mr. Sec- peal to restore what he be American form of gi the book Wallace's latest retary ment It was quite '.obviou Of course, Whose Constitution. his acceptance speech is i the secretarys observations may been evident in some of b not be charged directly to the Prescampaign pronouncements, ft, ident. Nevertheless, it is the opinion of many of us who have favors the common tense ide watched the New Deal wheels go government management inf around that the secretary of agri- he will permit nothing to s him from that course. culture usually leads the procession But it should be sail ft a in offering new suggestions lor New to me, that if Governor Lac Deal activities. that Secretary Wallace is a candid able to maintain hia campaign, he throughout xnan and his frankness continuousof be great codec deserving ly has been of an engaging sort For the reason that he is of this tion. TJiere are many obsr has under: type, 1 think it can be said usually here who believe he difficult most of the a task that his views reflect what is going R on beneath the surface. That is, The governor has built uphimor in1 around built have up his views ordinarily serve as a trial balloon, whether the secretary re- mosphere of simplicity The alizes it or not, and if they are reached a high pitch, tion is can he keep the can? watched closely, an accurate forecast of what la coming may be attuned to that pitch from w til November? If he does, he made. obeen It might have been that the sec- surprise a great many retary! book would have escaped attention as a vehicle carrying a Lately, I have heard throef message from the inner circle of channels that Dec? derground New - Dealers except for one line ie Chainnr that waa tucked away in the Demis Pley Farley ocratic platform, or the platform litUe irked t Irked adopted by the Philadelphia methods Jots youthful the The sentence in the platform with ployed by who is chairman of 9 ilton, which the secretarys book may tu Big Jun" has We publicans. properly be connected reads: absence as P03 of leave will act to secure to the consumer will remember. i fair value, honest sales and a de- general, you his time to in der to devote creasing spread between the price Roosevelt 1 he pays and the price the producer ing President battle an4 to in a position receives. can be or he by his record, Some observers here have linked to carry on a vigorous W that proposition with a thought that makes it all the more KF Mr. Roosevelt proposes to organize to know that "Big Jim" not only among the a little bit peevish as a i3 farmers but to link those cooperathe nudging and the raot tives with similar Republics! the among the consumers. The convichandinf k31 been haa man tion held by these individuals is Six weeks elapsed betw that Mr. Roosevelt, astute politician that he is, is seeking to kill nomination of Governor formal two birds with one stone. In other and the date of his k-time. this words, they contend that hia plan tion. During tbeh ilton alone had to carry will be thrown out as an induceHe made ssrj ment for the farmers to support lican balL minced do and his policies and him and speeches that when he deals with the voters any of them. He struck in great industrial areas he will from the shoulder at Mr. point out to them the possibility of During that time, tonl one food in no this manner. cheaper j really had It is to be remembered in con- him. It was nection with the reported new farm condition as obtained selected program that Mr. Roosevelt has Republicans had --Mh- Rooscif and drrte "Europe" to study the idea. There Farley had no has been no fanfare, no blare of at them. The test for J com trumpets about the departure of ton," therefore, will cti into ,J these men, each being an avowed Farley geta J New Dealer and each one being Democratic catopa1 is younf thoroughly dependable. That is, der way. He J of they are men who can be depended politics and some campsJ the to Republican upon present the facts they gather in true New Deal light They to depend upon bow p have been in Europe now about a conducts himself. month. It is expected they will re- starts Jibing nd main at least one mdnth longer. It the Republican chair3 j J then, they take a month to write the heat of battle.(heir report it becomes obvious There to another that we can expect another New campaign that is watch Procram, bascd-Upo- n. esting, the idea, to emerge Mr. Roosevelt has from the White House around Ocjj.,1 Dels on the radio, tober L It is Just 30 days from most freedom' to Picfptf' r. that date to the election. for delivering new pr or hia appeals fr.P , people. But thatt We now have had acceptance as tha insofar speeches by both Mr. Roosevelt and cemed. He is now Governor Landon, . ( competition. campaign hia opponent To aay to that the extent that as ues g time the Presided , the kn the keynote t with speeches of the nations: con speak oppose ventions indicate the trend of rninH fighting word nd on every of the party workers and to the exTto pt tent that the acceptance speeches that he makes. circumsUnce tell in a way the deeply roof- different . Mr. Roosevelt hr Home v ed views of the candidates, tito, isthe White entered sues of the campaign arc drawn. Of coursa, it has frequently been 1K3. fc . tip-of- I ij q . - 1 red-heade- TPd fus atdy couplet rspidl e sell be riminu globul r nucleus. Cells ae ef drinki u repo: .bens 1 more coun be tmous as of 1 a tope .gbt gall rat is not i are us seen also hs part k It entor St tea I ipitc W MS ( :iate radi prod tetbj eg in fkips, red her 'er--Jc I L tots d j btl cause ),t easy 5tn J Kd cc! 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