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Show j THE BULLETIN. BTNGHAMtJTA" t IN THE KEYSTOgg li "I .... Site of America's First Oil Wei r The Things That Last Are A! in Pennsylvania Said perb work In the J leghenies, ofBonaj Pia, or of the FraJ Asylum? Likewise, everyonj thing of the oil nJ ville and OilCity.buf of the rejuvenation! Bradford field now i The story of OleB. venture In the heai Woods, where the 4 dreamed his dream i way, consecrated to tized with IndepenJ. tected by the Union'i is one that itiri the admirer of the artj During his conceit the South, Ole Bull hj many of his country forts to acclimate balmier areai thai 3 their birth had braij I tions, hardships, u j Later, when touring sylvania, he found i Potter county t lar, f lniscent of Viking la j bought it and started his "new Norway," ' Some 800 of L ' flocked to his haven i the mountains. H houses, a store, and built. ForhimseB.he tic castle of unhewi stone on a little creek. End of Ole Ball' In the Intervals be tours, the violinist wi his people. There himself on the rampa tie, and "reproduce roar of rapid itreatrj the winds through tl and the tempest'i mountain top." To this day as ore the historic old Cs Jersey Shore tump hamlet of Oleona, on remains of the old a he hears Kettle creek glens echoing back t imitated them foursci All went well wilt way of America isi when Ole Bull was Prepared by National Geo raphle Society, Washington, D. G WNO Service. AFTER having visited the counties of Pennsylvania, trod the streets of all its teeming cities, gazed on its noble mountains, saun-tered through all its glorious highland valleys, motored along all its fine rivers, trav-eled through its dense, young forests, inspected its finest farming areas and studied its amazing industries, it be-comes easy ' to understand how Kipling, after a trans-continental trip, could write: "They are there, there with earth immortal (Citizens, I give you friendly warning) ; The things that truly last when men ' and time have passed. They are all in Pennsylvania thi3 morning." ' From the heart of Market street in Philadelphia to the famous "Point" in Pittsburgh and Logs-tow- n down the Ohio; from Easton and Bethlehem to New Castle and Sharon; from busy Chester on the Delaware to thriving Erie on the lake; from Matamoras, ' farthest east community, to Greene, the southwesternmost county; the his-toric, the and the industrial are bound together in every prospect Where the commerce of Philadel-phia throbs, William Penn lived; Benjamin Franklin wrought and philosophized; the Declaration of In-dependence had its birth; and the federal Constitution was created. Where Braddock fought and was fatally wounded now lives a teem-ing population, and hard by are some of the principal industrial plants of the world. The Edgar Thompson Steel mills, the Westing-hous- e Electric, and scores of others stand on ground that was within earshot of the fateful battle; and it is stated that a heavier tonnage moves within twelve miles of Brad-dock- 's field than in any other area of its size. Vast Inrlnctrlps ArA Thor. some friends in hu ( senger rode iip andci from the actual owne erty. The men who him ,had no title. H Philadelphia m was a For five years Ole losing battle inthj; those who had sou did not own, earnms his suit by his concer he got small danup while the colony bad Prince GalliU In the heart of th high above Johnston-- . there are markers, it Institutions whicb memory of ! become a VWl the cause of 0t His message ofJ brotherly kindness folk of to! Demetrius Aupfl born in Holland J"! was Russian oJ Netherlands and daughter of a field T'l erick the Great I At the age of 5 to study it. W1U I K became a conv j Later his father jl W6St 1 f traveled far where p gj homes 1 f bed. his sad food.theSSK father W hisrrSei himtor his 8tk and at Loretto , carried on.cM schools, and j i I The coal that comes down the Monongahela; the ore that moves from the Great Lakes; the iron and steel fabricated in the Pittsburgh district's scores of mighty plants; all the commodities bound east and west and north and south by rail and river all these, the most con-centrated tonnage in the world, pass by or within a dozen miles of the spot where the hostile savage turned back the English forces. On the Ohio between Economy and Baden, where Dam No. 4 stretches across the river, is the vast plant of the Byers company, manfacturers of wrought iron. In front of the plant offices is a marker which proclaims the site of Logs-tow-where George Washington, carrying the greatest "message to Garcia" of all our history, negotiat-ed and bargained with the Half King and his confreres for an escort to Fort Le Bouef. Across the bridge, a stone's throw down the highway, is a smaller marker proclaiming the site where Gen. Anthony Wayne had his win-ter camp. In sight across the river Is the Aliquippa had her cornfields. Here where Indian conferences created tribal agreements and wampus belts sealed bargains be-tween redskins and paleface, giaht furnaces and mills now mix slag and purified iron and produce more than half of the nation's wrought-iro- n pipe. Almost Forgotten Romance. Everybody knows the stories of Gettysburg and Valley Forge, but how many know the story of Ole Bull and his castle in the wilds of the big woods of the Kettle creek country? Every travel folder and historical map tell of the chief points of interest in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and Erie, but who hears of the birth and boy-hood days of Robert E. Peary spent at Cresson, of Trince Gallitzin's su-- News Review of Current Events CHINA'S HORROR GROWS Thousands Die in Unofficial War . . . Senate Confirms Black Appointment . . . House Debates Deficiency Bill --i&tanud W. PicJuaJ. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK ' C WttUra Ntwipapcr Union. Declared or Not, Its War SHANGHAI'S "war" of 1932 was a movie sham battle compared with what's going on over there now. The city of 3,500.000 In-habitants and its environs are a scene of destruction, terror, flames and death on a mass scale the hor-ror of which is unthinkable. Thousands upon thousands of ci-vilians lie dead, dying and wounded, and the toll increases day after day. No estimate has even been attempt-ed to determine the amount of cas-ualties among the Chinese and Jap-anese fighting forces. Indeed such an estimate today might be woefully Inadequate tomorrow, for reports tell of whole brigades being shot or blown to bits in a single encoun- - Campaign Aftermath down by the house rules TURNED when he demanded a .pecial investigation. Rep. Bertrand a Snefl of New York, Republican floor leader, has carried direct to At-torney General Homer S. Cummings of the fed-eral his charges of violation corrupt practices act by the Democratic national committee. The charges arise from National Chair-man James A. Farley's ingenious method of selling Democratic con-vention books, autographed by Pres-ident Roosevelt, for $250 each. In a letter to Cummings, Snell charged: 1. That sales of the book, auto-graphed by the President, in 1936, at $250 each constitute an illegal collection of campaign funds and a direct violation of section 313 of the corrupt practices act 2. That a Colorado man was the "victim of eleven specific acts of reprisals" by the resettlement ad-ministration and threats to "put him out of business" since his refusal last October to subscribe $500 to the book sales campaign. 3. That a New Yorker was ap-proached by a Democratic campaign committee agent with promise of White House intervention in return for a $25,000 subscription or retainer. Snell attached affidavits and a synopsis of the evidence he had fur-nished the house rules committee. Rebels Press Santander REPORTS from the insurgent said that 35 villages and 1,000 prisoners had been cap-tured by the rebels in their drive on Santander and the tiny remaining slice of the northern Spanish coast held by the government The gov-ernment admitted that some ad-vances had been made, but refused to concede that General Franco's forces were threatening the main defenses of the Santander area. Franco, in his new drive, was us-ing the same tactics which eventu-ally brought about the downfall of Bilbao after a siege of many months. Bombing planes and artil-lery were pounding the fortifications while other airplanes poured ma-chine gun fire upon trenches and dugouts. Insurgents planned the Santander advance to require as little man-power, as possible, so as to leave enough men at the Madrid front to start a separate offensive there If necessary. They admitted the loy-alists had caught them napping with an offensive west of Madrid in July, causing them to abandon the San-tander drive temporarily, but de-clared that "That will not happen this time." Rumor Has Farley Quitting IS "Genial Jim" Farley going to resign as postmaster general to become the executive head of an automobile firm? That's what his ler. Square mile after square mile, especially In the native Chapel dis-trict, has been gutted by fires that rise in the wake of bombs and artil-lery shells. Millions of men, wom-en and children face slower, even more terrible death by hunger, for who is to bring supplies from the outlying farm fields while the whole area is under terrific fire? Even in the International Settle-ment life is fleeting, Insecure, for bombs and shells drop there, too. And with 1,000,000 refugees Inside to be fed, shops are rapidly locking their doors to protect their wares from rioters. As this is written, the Chinese land forces, outnumbering the Jap-anese four to one, are forcing the Invaders slowly back to the Whang-po- o in fierce ground fighting. Wheth-er expected Japanese reinforce-ments will be able to turn the tide of battle is problematical. At the same time Japanese warships half the entire Japanese fleet must be in the Whangpoo are showering explod-ing shells upon huge concentrations of Chinese soldiers. Appointee in Judicial mien. former special assistant to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, filed a plea for leave to pray an order for Black to show affirmatively why he should be permitted to serve as an associate Justice. He raised the same legal questions as the Repub-lican minority had: 1. That Black could not become a Justice because during his term as a senator the Sumners retirement act was passed, permitting justices to retire at full pay. The Constitu-tion provides that no member of congress shall be appointed to an office which was created or the emolument of which was increased during his membership in congress. 2. That no vacancy existed on the Supreme court anyway, since Jus-tice Willis Van Devanter had only retired, not resigned, and may still be called for judicial service by the chief justice. It was expected that the Black appointment would become politi-cal fodder in the next election cam-paigns. Grist from the Mill A FTER months of wrangling over the Supreme court measure, the wages and hours bill, the bill and other ad-ministration "musts" the house of representatives began to act upon some other legislation in haste, with a view to adjournment some day, some time. The house appropriations commit-tee reported out the year's last "de-ficiency" measure to supply funds for government operations over-looked In the regular budget. It called for $78,500,000; two previous deficiency measures, totaling nearly a billion, had been passed. The committee turned down requests from the executive department for $43,000,000 in additional appropria-tions. Some of the appropriations recommended were $23,000,000 for new buildings, $3,000,000 for federal participation in the New York world's fair and $1,500,000 for par-ticipation in the San Francisco world's fair. Funds for the opera-tion of the Jones-Bankhea- d farm tenancy act and for naval building were denied altogether; appropria-tions for payments to federal land banks and the Federal Farm Mort-gage corporation, and the national labor relations board were sliced se-verely. The house passed the low-co-housing bill, but with so many al- - friends in Washing-ton say, and Jim has not denied the rumor, as he has promptly denied similar rumors in the past Farley, it is said, seeks to re-habilitate his per-sonal fortunes. As postmaster general he has lost $10,000 a I Li .': a year uver nis salary - of $15,000 and is, ac- - J,m Farley cording to his friends, today in debt. The story went that he would be-come an executive of the Pierce-Arro- Motor corporation, that 5,000 new shares of stock would be deliv-ered to him, and that he would also be allowed to share in the $100,000 stock purchase warrants. Wonder if the Pierce-Arro- sales force is watching the charts for Maine and Vermont? reported that the Japanese had concentrated some 40 destroyers, six cruisers, four dread-naught- s, an airplane carrier and many gunboats in the rivers near Shanghai. Only through a clever maneuver did the Chinese prevent them from regaining the upper reaches of the Whangpoo and shell-ing Shanghai from the rear. The Chinese, in a surprise attack, cap-tured six Japanese merchant ships, sailed them into the heart of the channel and scuttled them, prevent-ing passage. American authorities in Shanghai decided upon immediate evacuation by the 3,800 Yanks living there. The danger which confronted them was emphasized when stray Japanese bombs blasted the American Bap-tist mission, leaving the fate of 20 persons inside in grave doubt. United States marines were on hand, of course, to offer what pro-tection they could to American na-tionals, and reinforcements were quick in leaving San Diego, Calif., to join them. The U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of Uncle Sam's China squadron, lay in the Whangpoo alongside the Japanese ships. With shrapnel flying about their ears, Americans were getting out of China on every available ship. It was not considered likely that President Roosevelt would invoke the neutrality act so long as no "official" state of war between Japan and China existed. This would involve the declaration of em-bargoes on arms and on the exten-sion of credits to both nations, a situation which would be of definite aid to the aggressor, Japan, since China is in far greater need of war materials. Japan continued to "defend" it-self, officially, from the wicked Chinese, whom its foreign office characterized as "prejudiced." However the "defense" was being carried on in the other fellow's back yard. Japanese authorities con-tinued to insist that they mear.t no harm to the Chinese people, and that their aim was still for the co-operation of China, Manchukuo and Japan. They also revealed that voluntary contributions to the na-tion's war chest, coming from all over Japan, had passed the $2,500,-00- 0 mark. Question Black's Eligibility THE senate confirmed the nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme court, 63 to 16, but only after a bitter fight, following which the mi-nority protested that the confirma-tion had been railroaded through. Six Democrats and ten Republi-- . cans voted against Black. The Dem-ocratic insurgents, led by Edward R. Burke (JJeb.) and Royal S. Cope-lan- d (N. Y.) based their objec-tions principally upon charges that he was associated with the Ku Klux Klan, and therefore unfitted to sit with the high tribunal for. reasons of racial and religious prejudice. The Republicans, notably William E. Borah (Idaho), argued that he could not legally become a member of the court. That his eligibility might be tested before the court itself was a possi-bility when Attorney Albert Levitt French Lifeline Periled? 'TPHE Paris press disclosed that x France considers herself in dan-ger of losing hor possessions in the Near East and of having her air route connections with the Far East severed because of revolts in Syria. Censorship of the news out of Syria is strict, but some reports have leaked through which indicate the revolt recently quelled was a serious one. According to one dis-patch the population is extremely dissatisfied with the terms of the Franco-Syria- n treaty signed last September 10. As soon as the prop- er machinery can be set up, the treaty provides, a unified Syrian state will be formed from four of the five mandate areas, which the French hold in the Levant. Large sections of the population differ m religion from the Syrians in Damascus. They are willing to be governed by a foreign nation like France, as they have been for cen-turies, but they do not want to be subjected to the will of the Damas-cus politicians. Protests Lease of Ships LA NAClON. influential Buenos newSpaper Aires, Argentina caused some stir by vigorously testing the proposed leasing of ob- solete United States warships to Braz.l, declaring that such an a t would upset the balance of nava power in South America Secretary of State Hull had writ-te- n a letter to the senate naval corn- - m.t ee asking congressionaiauthod-t- y for the leasing of vessels to South American repU" cs. When the Argentinian object tions were noted, velt pointed out thnt" sfe?J question were 1. only to be used for traininT terations that it had to go to a joint committee for the differences to be straightened out before it could be sent to the White House. The sen-ate had approved a bond issue of $700,000,000; the house shaved it to $500,000. The house also raised the percentage of funds which local communities must contribute to projects; increased the limitation of cost of a single dwelling to $5,000 or $1,000 a room; and cut the limit of any one state's share in the funds from 20 per cent to 10 per cent. The house also passed a bill de-signed to plug the tax loopholes by which, it was alleged, the wealthy have been, legally or illegally, avoiding the payment of income taxes which they have a moral if not a legal right to pay. The ex-tremely complicated bill carried unanimously after only two hours' consideration. Strange Doings at Sea L?OUR insurgent airplanes dropped 4 25 bombs upon the Danish ves-sel Edith and sank it in the came the report from Barcelona. The crew of 20 and a French observer for the control were rescued by two fishing boats. The owners of the vessel, in Copenhagen, said it was their twentieth ship to be captured or bombed by the rebels. The captain of the French freight er Peame reported to authorities that a torpedo had been fired upon his ship by an unidentified subma rine which floated beside his ship for several minutes off the Tunisian coast When the Spanish tanker Campea dor was sunk in the Mediterrane-an, the rebel command issued a communique taking the full blame But the captain of the tanker in- sisted an Italian destroyer sank it around tlc national CAPITAL-- py Carter Field-'- ) have stressed the point that Vanden-ber- g would be about as strong ai any Republican likely to be nom-inated. They have gone on from there to the old political logic that the man farthest out In front in any contest is the man most of the other candidates shoot at, and hence is very apt to be crippled in the final stretch. The other candidates "gang" him, fearing that otherwise there would be no chance for any one of them. This, most observers have figured, is what Farley wanted to happen to Vandenberg, thus greasing the way for the exit of the strongest oppo-nent Franklin D. Roosevelt or who-ever runs in his place could have. The real truth is very different' in-deed. Farley Is more afraid of something else, by far, than he is of Vandenberg's running. What he is most afraid of is that NO Re-publican will runt Supremely Confident Farley is absolutely confident; and with considerable logic, that whoever the Democrats nominate assuming they do not go plain crazy can beat any Republican who may be nominated. The Demo-crats might not carry 46 states, as they did in 1936. They might not even carry 42, as they did in 1932. But it would be mighty hard for the Republicans to beat them. In fact, fair betting odds right now ought to be about ten to one that it will be Impossible to revamp the Republi-can organization into a winning ma-chine by 1940, even if they should have an appealing candidate and a popular platform. There are more factors entering into this situation than are explained by the debacles of 1932, 1934 and 1936. Or by Rooseveltl There are situations in individual states, not-ably New York, New Jersey, Penn-sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Connecticut all states that the Re-publicans simply' must carry to have a chance in a presidential ele-ctionwhich make the carrying of any one of them an uphill Job for the Republicans. In all those states the old leaders have passed out of the picture, and no competent hands or shrewd brains have taken their places in the G. O. P. machines. The New York Republican organization went to pot along about 1920. Not a Re-publican senator or governor has been elected since that year, while the majority of the house delega-tion has been Democratic beginning with the 1922 election. The Republican organization in the other states named carried on a little longer than did the Empire State leaders, but they have been dying on the stem. Pennsylvania's "Puddler Jim" Davis is the only Republican senator from the whole lot, and the Democrats are counting on knocking him off next year! What Farley is more afraid of than any Republican, no matter how strong, is the dissolution of the Re-publican party as a national insti-tution, and the split of the Demo-crats into two camps. Further Far-ley happens to know that Vanden-berg is one of the best known Re-publicans who privately favors aban-doning the word "Republican." So the naming of Vandenberg by Far-ley was a very shrewd hypodermic, not for Vandenberg, but for the old G. O. P. elephant! Washington. President Roose-velt's most spectacular fight in the next session of congress now seems likely to be on taxation. It prom-ises to develop a battle approaching the fundamental character of the Supreme court enlargement fight of the session now about to die. The Treasury, working under the in-structions of the President, will have a measure already drafted when congress convenes in Janu-ary. There Is no dodging the fact that the government does and will need more revenue lots more. All the early session talk about economy and balancing the budget has long since blown out the window. Con-gress appropriated plenty more than the budget. But that is only part of the picture. Federal housing is just starting will expand. And there will be other new expenses. Biggest of all, however, is relief. Harry L. Hopkins literally bites his fingernails with rage at the idea of congress appropriating "only" one and a half billion dollars for relief-w-as especially tore because of the proviso that this must run through the fiscal year. He had hoped for no strings to spend the billion and a half, in six or seven months and then ask for a deficiency appro-priation. He doesn't blame the Pres-ident for this nigardllness says the President asked for only a billion and a half because the White House was told by Capitol Hill leaders that they would not vote for any more. Criticism of congress for this sti-nginessfor which Hopkins says many people must suffer Is being broached all through the far-flun- g network of relief agencies. But, regardless of any particular development the Treasury is going to need more money, and the Presi-dent is going to tell congress how to raise it Right there will come the rub. Congress Knows Maybe Congress thinks it knows about raising revenues Just how to keep the shoe from pinching too pain-fully, and Just how to get enough money despite tempering the wind to the shorn lambs. It has the pride of one signal victory over the Presi-dent, with a following demonstra-tion of the accuracy of its judg-ment. The President wanted to eliminate the regular corporation in-come tax entirely slap a very high tax on undistributed earnings, and get the revenue from bigger in-dividual income taxes. It is now obvious to any one who examines the figures that if congress had done precisely what the Presi-dent wanted the Treasury would now be in a much deeper hole than it is. CnmnrnHrtns did lust what the President wanted done for the most part They voted out extra dividends to escape the new tax, and boosted incomes as a result. But the Income taxes did not mount at anything like the rate the Presi-dent's advisers had calculated. For-tunately for the federal strong box, congress insisted on retaining the regular corporation income tax. ' In the coming battle the conserva-tives in congress will line up behind Pat Harrison, chairman of the sen-ate finance committee, In a fight to liberalize the tax on undistributed corporation earnings. Harrison fa-vors a much more liberal policy with respect to putting aside a sur-plus for rainy days. No conserva-tive on Capitol Hill takes much stock in the Roosevelt-Ne- Deal contention that under the new order there won't be any rainy days. Be-sides, they slyly point out, the Su-preme court is still functioning and the Constitution has not been amended, so the White House should revise its own weather forecasts. All the Roosevelt tax proposals have contained just as much so-cial and economic reform as money raising. Next January's bill will be no exception. It will move against bigness. It will strike anew at holding companies. It will aim, in a general way, at the distribution of wealth. Laugh at Farley Might Be Worse Business representatives in Wash- - Ington the bright lads who look aft-er the interests of the various in-dustries, etc. are relieved that the wages and hours bill Is going through this session, surprising as that may seem. Not that they like it. With one accord they agree that it is terri-ble. But they think that if its pas-sage were delayed until next ses-sion it would be worse. When they saw how William Green marched up to the Capitol, after being relegated to the has-been- s by so many commentators, and put a few teeth in the measure, they realized that if passage could have been postponed the measure would be much more radical than it is now. For instance, there is only a hair line now holding the minimum wages that the board can fix for a community at 40 cents an hour. There is a provision, slipped into the bill by Green, which provides that the board may not fix a minimum less than the minimum obtained by collective bargaining. But being as the limit is fixed at 40 cents, the board simply could not interfere with a concern which was paying a minimum of 40 cents, though the minimum established by collective bargaining in that vicin-ity might be 50 cents. Obviously the two elements were injected in the bill without thought of their working together. And ob-viously the natural inclination of ev-ery New Dealer would be to take out that minimum of 40 cents in favor of any action which might tend to raise it So what the business representa-tives think is that if there were more time to work on the measure if it were put over until next session to study the flat minimum would be boosted. Obviously such an amendment can be proposed next session, and beyond any question will be. But to head off an amendment after a law has been in operation less than a year before it has really got to working is not difficult. It is so easy to make the point that time must be allowed to see how the machine works before any tinkering is attempted. Bell Syndicate. WNU Servic. Ever since James A. Farley named Senator Arthur H. Vanden-berg as the Republican Presidential nominee for 1940, there has been lots of chuckling over Postmaster Jim's taking in more territory, and running the Republican party as well as the Democratic. But there was plenty of shrewd strategy behind Jim's move. It just so happens that Senator Vandenberg is far from being the easiest Re-publican to beat, in Farley's estima-tion. There are lots of Republicans Jim thinks could be beaten much more easily. In fact if Jim were to take down his hair and tell you the cold truth, he would admit that he would regard Vandenberg as the very hardest Republican to beat of . any now on the horizon. Why then would he try to help nominate him? Most of the Washington dispatches iince Farley made his prediction |