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Show tuv Pitt T FTTN. BTNGHAM. UTAH J j Eden Still Hopeful A NTHONY EDEN, British foreign A minister, hurried from Geneva to attend a special cabinet meetng 4 ,hith he reported on develop- - Keicn iteview of Current Events PARITY PRICES ABANDONED Would Cost Too MuchSays Wallace.. . Japanese Air Fleets Bomb Nanking . . . Protests Disregarded meriU'in the Med-iterranean situation that is so threaten-ing to European peace. He told of It-aly's reiteration of its demand for par-ity in the "anti-piracy- " patrol, and it was believed both he and Prime Min-ister Chamberlain 'A r h 'A OA Mil r . American Legion Membera From West Reach New York City by Air-plane for Their National Convention. i&LnVid IV. Picked SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK t Wettcrn Nw paper Union. were hopeful that a Anthony rupture could be Eden averted by a partial yielding to Mussolini in this matter. British public opinion was said to be strongly against a complete con-cession. Meanwhile events in the .Mediter-ranean were not such as ta bolster Eden's peaceful designs. The Brit-ish aircraft carrier Glorious report-ed it had been attacked by a sub-marine near Malta just as it ar-rived to take part in the patrol of the sea. Also the admiralty an-nounced an unidentified airplane dropped six bombs close to the de-stroyer Fearless. The British ana French fleets began their search for "pirate" submarines, Spain's premier, Juan Negrin. stood up before the League of Na tions and fearlessly presented the evidence of Italian and German in-tervention in the Spanish civil war, demanding that the league take steps to stop it He called Mussolini and Hitler "international highwaymen." The assembly of the League oi Nations voted down the Spanish government's request for as a member of the league council President on Constitution orators on the one hundred ALL anniversary of the sign ing of the Constitution were loud in praise of that great document. Pres ident Roosevelt speaking from the foot of the Washington monument, was emphatic in his expression of admiration for and loyalty to the basic law which his opponents have accused him of trying to under mine. But he called it a "layman's constitution, not a lawyer's con-tract." He reiterated his asser tions that the Constitution was in tended by its makers to be a state ment of objectives and not a rigid document, and declared democratic government in this country can do all things which "commonsense peo pie, seeing the picture as a whole, have the right to expect." "I believe that these things can be done under the Constitution with out the surrender of a single one of the civil and religious liberties Drops "Parity Prices" of the administration's chief ONE for agriculture has been abandoned. Secretary Wallace announced in Washington. "Parity Drices" for farm - , r , products, he said, could not be at-tained. The aim now will be to give "the average farmer the same purchasing power he had in the half century before the World war." "I don't think there is any way of getting enough mon- - poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis, It will carry on an educational cam-paign supervised by experts and put within reach of all doctors and hos-pitals. The foundation also will see to the financing of responsible re-search agencies and aid the afflicted in becoming economically indepen-dent. Mr. Roosevelt also gave approval to John Biggers' plans for a volun-tary enrollment of the nation's un-employed, to be carried out with the aid of the Post Office department Nanking and Canton Bombed PAYING no attention to the the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, Ja-pan sent her air fleets on bombing raids that spread death and ruin in Nanking and Canton. Chinese planes met them and fought bravely but with little avail. American Am-bassador Nelson Johnson, under in-structions from Washington, regret-fully abandoned his embassy in the Sec. Wallace e ,ut f",e Tre" ury," Wallace said, "to give farmers parity prices dur-ing the next ten years for cotton, wheat, corn, hogs, or any other prod-uct that is exported. You might be able to get enough for a year of two to do this. But the consumer would soon rise up in protest." it was intended to safeguard," Mr Roosevelt continued, "and I am de termined that under the Constitu tion those things shall be done." Green Slams Lewis DENUNCIATIONS of William Lewis and of Lewis by Green come almost daily, but the attack on the C. I. 0. leader by the president of the A. F. of L in a speech in Washington was es pecialiy vigorous. He declared the beetle-browe- d Lewis was an oppor tunist who hopes to gain political power through the formation of a party combining labor and agricul-ture, and reiterated the opposition of the federation to the organization, of such a party. Lewis, said Green, was to blame for the bloody strike in "little steel' plants and for its collapse which he attributed to C. I. O.'s disregard 01 the rule that the workers them selves should decide when to strike "Surely those who are to suffei and sacrifice in a strike ought to bt accorded the right to say whethei they are ready and willing to di so," Green asserted. "The i3suef involved in any impending Indus trial conflict ought to be made cleai and thoroughly understood." Wallace also talked about the soil conservation program, under which farmers must hold acreage of major crops below the 1928-3- 7 average in order to obtain benefit payments. He said the only fault with this was that normal yields would be too large in view of the prospective markets. The secretary still believes that national control over production of the major farm crops is necessary. "In my opinion," he said, "the principle of crop ad-justment is sound and will eventu-ally be applied again." Douglas Heads SEC WALL STREET didn't like the of having William O. Douglas as chairman of the Se-curities and Exchange commission, preferring the more conservative George C. Mathews. However, Douglas was elected to the post, succeeding James M. Landis; and to reassure the financiers he de-scribed himself as "a pretty con-servative sort of fellow from the old school, a school too old for some to remember," who has in mind "no ruinous theories of social ex-perimentation." Chinese 6apital and put his stiff aboard the patrol boat Luzon, but they returned to Nanking. It was reported in Tokyo that Chiang Kai-she- k would remove the seat of the Chinese government to Chengtu. The "soviet republic of China" has dissolved itself and the com-munist Chinese army decided to unite with Chiang's forces. Madam Perkins Snubbed POR the first time in the history of the Labor department, the secretary is not asked to address the annual convention of the Amer-ican Federation of Labor, to be held in Denver. The list of invited speakers was released, but the name of Madam Perkins was not there. The secretary, whose admin-istration of her office never has been taken very seriously by the country, is considered by the A. F. of L. to be prejudiced in favor of its rival, the C. I. O. Legion Head Hits Naziism COUR hundred thousand members of the American Legion and their families and friends gathered in New York for the annual conven-- tion of the organiza-tion which opened with a memorial service for dead vet-erans. Parades, sham battles and plenty of g marked the proceed-ings, but me former soldiers also gave much of time to se-rious business. Har-ry W. Colmer. retir- - . Hi ? is V Vandenberg's Battle Cry "WEHAVE iust bee"n to fight' was the battle cry adopte by Senator Vandenberg of Michigai in a speech at Bay City that wa taken as the opening of his campaigi for the Republican Presidentia nomination in 1940. He made it evi dent that he hopes to be the stand ard bearer for a coalition party, as serting that a realignment of politi cal parties is inevitable. Indeed he declared, this probably was the one thing that could save our na tional institutions. He was not so sure that the opposition to the Roosevelt policies would unite undei a new party name. Said he: "There may be a realistic realign ment which will bring g patriots into common battle front whether they live north or south ol the Mason and Dixon line, whether they live east or west of the Mis sissippi." Biggers to Manage Census TJNCLE SAM is going to make a count of his unemployed nephews in the hope that this will help solve the and relief problem. Just how the censu-i- to be managed is not yet deter mined, but John D. Biggers of To ledo president of the Libby-Owen- s ora Glass company, has beer named administrator of the under taking and is formulating his plan At toe suggestion of the President Mr Biggers has established hi headquarter, in the Department ot Commerce, and he hopes to com p ete the tabulation of the unem ployed before December 1 do the job without salary. The commission, said the former Yale professor, is not interested in prices as such and will interfere with market trends only when the forces that shape them are artifi-cial "There will be direct and ag-gressive prosecution of any cases we discover of pools and manipu-lation of security prices. We are in favor of a free market, not a fixed one. "The government cannot provide any substitute for investment judg-ment," he pointed out. "It can act to prevent manipulation and to pros-ecute fraud, but in the final analysis the investor's judgment must gov-ern his actions. We cannot save a fool from his folly." Roosevelt Goes West NOMINALLY to visit his actually to find out what recent events have done to his popularity among the people of the Middle and Far West Presi-dent Roosevelt left Hyde Park on a special train that also carried mem-bers of the White House staff and several cars full of reporters and camera men. Mrs. Roosevelt was with her husband. The President had nothing to say, before his departure, concerning Justice Black, who was on his way back across the Atlantic and was scheduled to take his seat on the Supreme court bench before Mr. Roosevelt's return to Washington. Plan to Fight "Polio" JUST before leaving for the Pacific the President announced that he was organizing a new foun-dation to direct the war against Ing national, com- - Barry W. mander, delivered a Colmer notable report on his stewardship, warning against dangers confront-ing the nation from within and with-out Colmer declared attempts to sub-jugate judiciary would destroy the "checks and balances" in govern-ment; and he proposed that the American Legion undertake an edu-cational program on the principles set forth in the Constitution. He asked each post to hold at least one meeting this fall on the basic law. The commander's warning against perils from without led him to con-demn severely German propaganda in the United States and the alleged action of the German government in fostering the organization of Nazi groups and camps in this country. This he called "a gratuitous insult to our free institutions." The Legion elected Daniel J. Doherty, a lawyer of Boston, Mass. national commander and awarded the 1938 convention to Los Angeles. Besides condemning Communism, Fascism and Nazism, the conven-tion called for a larger and better equipped army and navy and for a ban on the export of helium gas. SEEN and HEARD around the NATIONAL CAPITALS I By Carter Field f&XsO FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT jBjf0 money spent money which other-wise would stayin Europe. It means a lot of food sold in the most profit-able way. But that's just the commercial as-pect of his "Joke Job" that Gerard has undertaken. It's a bromide In the West that the New Yorkers think anything west of the Hudson river is unim-portant, save perhaps on election nights. "Out there" is Just the prov-inces, from which one returns, when one has to go there at all, as speed-ily as possible. But if that "west of the Hudson river" is changed to "west of the Mississippi" a lot of folks in this country might be included! An Eye-Open-er The late Charles F. Murphy, famed boss of Tammany Hall when that venerable institution amounted to a lot more than it does now, had plenty to say to friends when he returned from the Democratic na-tional convention at San Francisco. He told friends he thought every American ought to make a trip to the Pacific coast, just to see what this country was really like. When it comes to Europeans seek-ing to understand America, and usu-ally writing a book about it after a few weeks' stay, the question be-comes even more important. It sounds as if Gerard' job is just to sell the cultured Europeans, whom he got to know during his diplomatic service, the western scenery of America. Actually of course that Is all ha is appointed to do, because that is what the national park serv-ice is Interested in doing. But a visitor cannot see the Grand canyon, and Yellowstone, and Gla-cier and Yosemite without seeing a pretty good cross-sectio- n of the Unit-ed States doing it And he or she would get a very different slant on this country from that which is nor-mally acquired by the average dis-tinguished visitor on a lecture tour, rushing from lecture to reception to autographing stand In the big store's book section. It may actually prove very im-portant in future international rela-tions! About Sugar Sugar always has been political dynamite, is now, and probably al-ways will be. Concern about the in- - Washington. What amounts to a bad case of jitters over possible war and its effects on America, aggra-vating a business situation which is none too satisfactory, is obvious in administration circles, particularly in the Federal Reserve board. This Is the second reason for the recent action desterilizing $300,000,-00- 0 of the frozen gold. The effect t , desired to remedy both troubles was to Insure continuance of low interest rates. Primarily, putting this huge amount of gold back in use, so to speak, was aimed at preventing the slide in government bond prices. Government bonds have been sell-ing at a price absurdly high from an Investor's standpoint even with due allowance for their tax advan-tages. Moreover, the banks have entirely too large a proportion of their assets tied up in government securities. But just the same the government did not want to see a decline in bond prices. That would spell higher interest rates on future government financing. But that secondary rion to make money cheaper for investment purposes in order to encourage ex-pansions by existing business con-cerns and the development of new business, was also quite important Most experts in international af-fairs do not believe there will be a world war this year. They think the nations most likely to provoke such a war are not ready. But there is constantly in mind the danger that the situation may get out of hand. Memory is still green about what happened to American business at first, when the war broke out In Europe in 1914. After a while busi-ness boomed, the war babies in steel and munitions grew and bloomed. The price of sugar and cotton soared. But all this was much later. The first reaction was such a crash on the stock market that it was neces-sary to shut it down and keep It closed for months. The price of cot-ton dropped until President Wilson - himself was encouraging the "Buy a Bale of Cotton" movement. Take Precautions Nobody knows just what would happen this time, should the crisis develop this year Instead of 1938 or 1939. The year 1939, by the way, is preferred by most experts as the most likely time for the next world terests of the housewives and con-sumers generally has been the bunk, in the opinion of this writer and most observers, ever since sugar became an issue under the original protec-tive tariff, with Just one exception. 'That exception was under the Unde-rwood- Simmons tariff bill, passed immediately after Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, and which did not prove very satisfactory. It deprived the government of a rev-enue of around $60,000,000 a year, which, in those days, was important money from the Treasury stand-point For a time also it played hob with the Louisiana cane inter-ests. Then along came the war and sugar prices began to soar regard-less of any governmental policy. From the progressive viewpoint, the worst tariff of all was that passed under President Hoover, in which the duty on sugar was fixed at two cents. It happens, however, that Americans were paying, during that period, just two cents above the world price. In short the duty determined precisely the differen-tial. But under the quota system, which any economist or free trader will admit is much worse than the tariff system In practical workings. Americans were paying, around the first of this month, 2.38 cents a pound above the world price! So the consumer is getting it In the neck even worse than under the Hawley-Smo- ot tariff. war. So the reserve system is just taking precautions, providing in ad-vance the certainty of plenty of " 'cheap money to cushion possible temporary drops in prices, not only of securities, but commodities. This cushion, most experts figure, would be necessary for only a short time. Ways and means would be found by the belligerents to get needed supplies from America de-spite any and all obstacles, the neu-trality law and the reluctance of this country to buy foreign bonds or extend war credits to the contrary notwithstanding. , Very confidentially, of course, off-icials admit that the neutrality law would not prevent United States manufacturers from selling air-planes, or tanks, or cotton, or cop-per to neutral countries from which they could quite simply be shipped to belligerents. But this would take time that is, to get the new roads to the market in working condition. But the sort cf trade that made Holland rich during the last war would certainly develop in tome way or other. All of which, however, does not reassure the people who seem to want to get rid of their securities so as to be ready to jump into some-thing new under changed conditions, or perhaps Just with an idea of playing safe. This attitude adds on to the desire of so many to hedge f against inflation. Gets a Laugh ' There are lots of chuckles in Washington, and especially in the State department at James W. Ger-ard's new job. The idea of the war-time ambassador to Germany and Democratic war-che- st fund provider figuring in a tourist agency strikes the average diplomat and the aver-age political bigwig as sort of a comedown. But the job is far-fro- a Joke. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes does not think it is a jcke. Neither do the railroads leading to the West nor the hotel men from the Rockies to the Pacific. They think "Jimmy" has what it takes to bring them some new business, and very high-clas- s new business at that suites instead of singles with baths In the hotels, drawing-room- s and compartments instead of tourist sleepers on the railroads. For Gerard's job is to make de-sirable to his old friends in Ger-many and throughout Europe and to their friends and through the re-sulting publicity to many more the attractions of Yellowstone, Yosemi-te, Glacier and Grand Canyon Na-tional parks, to mention Just a few of the highlights. And of course any foreign tourist making this "big cir-cle" would also visit San Francisco, and Seattle, and Portland, yes, and even Hollywood. AD of which means a lot more Hits Consumer Assuming this, it becomes inter-esting to discover just what they are doing to American consumers of sugar in the way of profiteering. According to computations following the formula approved by the United States District court for southern New York, the profits of the refiners during 1936 averaged seven cents on every hundred pounds of sugar. For the year 1935 the refiners' profit averaged six cents on every hun-dred pounds. And in 1934 the profits averaged five cents on every hun-dred pounds. The year 1933 was thrown out of line by some bad cal-culating' on the part of the refiners as to advance buying under the quota system. Briefly, they were "caught short" They had sold sug-ar at a price in advance and then had to pay more for the raw sugar than they had calculated. This profit seems rather unimpor-tant, from the housewives' stand-point, when one figures that the ex-cise tax on sugar (on both domestic and imported) is one-hal- f a cent a pound, ten times the 1935 refiners' profit And sympathy with the con-sumer is rather strained when it is considered that the administration wanted this tax to be three-quarte- rs of a cent a pcund instead of half a cent! C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. AS VEGAS, 3 J 'olki back 3 our national bird j Benjamin tw same notion 150 Old Ben pointed J was a robber inj.JH the TOj rlou European monarchies, where-- the turkey Wai not only our 13 SIS K6!mest wa a nativ, of America. To be sure, young turkeys aren't i0 smart They love to get their feet wet o they may die from ' i K f. - : in ary "ections, J young turkeys have been known to jump 4qw. f nan weU 90 feet deep ' get their feet wet But turkey is wise nd , spectacle in the woods ' at, in a cooked state, owinjtt niflcent bust development capacity for holding tss sertion, and his 1 worked over into turkey i But if we are goto change In emblems, why t the worm-t- he humble, i resisting worm-- es typica of the present populace! be a one-side- d worm, to would save costs In bw!i cause so many of us in of worms that never tara The Sucker Crap. PARLIAMENT, next K pass statutes to curbs', ket tricksters, and bucket shop operates estimated, are fleecing 4 public to the tune of $S,: nually. We've tried it and it does As Barnum stated, 1 tucke every minute ind ic twins. But the crooki wfca the sucker crop, Lie ttt quintuplets, come along in That breed spawn close to; the young all survive, , Thus Is the rule of supp!; mand balanced. In goes there are just enough luck around. In hard times, fe grow scarce, but, when on along, the crooks raffle fc the winner takes all Anyhow, legislation tot' sucker from himself t in this country. He'll breai the law in order to prov aucker in good standing it ers' lodge. By the way, brother-me-many degrees have you tak Restrained SUtemei! WAYFARER in Oklalc A claimed to have stan self for forty-on- e days, 0 asked how he felt, replied felt sort of hungry. Invei showed the stranger k cheating now and then to tent of a clandestine beefs! surreptitious stack of whe wasn't it a magnificently re itatement? For underemphasis, I but a single instance to In my youth, we had 1 1 our town with a nervous ism of killing folks. One night I was passfa Tom Emery's saloon for colored only. l subdued-lookin- g customen out the limp remains of aj son who had been bor through the heart "Uncle Tom," I toff proprietor, "isn't John?" "Sho' is, suh." "How did It happed "Wellsuh." saidUnck l seem like he mustaantag Buck Evitts." ... Smoked Glasses to J"; ON THE way j snake dance has 6JJ strange signer Jj the tourists don't modfrj. robes by next year, the snakes wearing! Veteran snakes U during past .eajl signs of the blame them7-t- aj t tw J longer rattle ing it might be tw-- j plause. . jj The commissioner ! ,ai" WanMSoe4 fewer mg. Goat hair is Jea goat meat makes 4 an aborigine goat smell is fj noses. seen of the other pe5to Ing shopping hour .1 trading post pjvpiS.! j WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Par ton NEW YORK. George Wingfield, has been rolling "snake yes" for the last seven or eight years, is now making six or eight straight passes. I Wingfield don't know wheth-Agai- n "in er the news has Los Angeles Is that he has regained ownership of the Golden and River-side hotels in Reno and is again looking out from behind a tall stack of blue chips. The one-tim- e buckaroo and faro dealer who gained a fortune of $50,000,000 and owned and operated the sovereign state of Nevada for quite a few years, quietly faded out in 1933, told the court he was broke and relinquished the state with a sportsmanlike gesture. He implied that the croupier had stood him on his head. His friend, William H. Crocker, had a mortgage of $800,-03- 0 on his two hotels. He owned mines and ranches all over the state, in the somewhat metaphys-ical way in which people owned things then, but his equities came to just a couple of white chips to be tossed into the kitty. He did this gracefully and started out to get an-other stake. Senator Nixon of Ne-vada told me how he got his start. "He walked into my office," said the senator, "and tossed something on my desk. It was a diamond ring. I haven't any idea how much it was worth. He said he had locat-ed a good-lookin- g outbreak south of Goldfield and wanted me to grub-stake him on the ring. , " 'I'm not running a hock shop I said. 'There's a three-bal- l joint around the corner.' "He picked up the ring and start-ed out. Before he got to the door, a sudden hunch hit me like a mule kick. I called him back and gave him $300 on the ring." Wingfield had already staked his claim, and started a prospect hole. A little more dig-Nixo- n Also ging, and there Profited in was tne Consoli- - MineVenture dai?d m,ine' riches both Wingfield and Nixon. Also the start of Goldfield, a ghost town now, half-burie- d in sand, but a roaring desert' metropolis for a few years. Wing-field- 's winning streak was on in those days and it was only a few months later that he broke the bank at the Tonopah ciub. He Joined the Montezuma club, got himself some nice store clothes, polished up his grammar and moved into circles of finance where the house percentage is doubtless stiffer than that of faro. But it seems that he is beating even that. A FRIEND of this writer, who lived several years in Japan, suggests that, if, by accident, For-eign Minister Koki Hirota should find himself dressed in spats and e trousers, but with an Ori-ental robe instead of a morning coat, he would find a middle way and solve the dilemma of Japan's half feudal, half modern industrial state. "He hates his morning coat and striped pants," said my friend. "When he gets Jap Minister home at night, he Works Best in never lose a min-- Native Attire int gating into In the dress of an occidental diplo-mat, he works like one, as wily as the best of them, given to strategy and trick reasoning. At home, in a beautifully embroidered Japanese gown, he reads Confucius, as a pupil of the aged scholar, Mitsuru Toyama. I cite this duality of mind and dress merely as symbolic of the internal contending forces of Japan, vestigeal feudalism and Twentieth century industrial imperialism. In a very literal sense, this dead cen-ter of old and new epochs accounts for much in current Japanese state-craft that is bewildering to the mod-ern mind. "Hirota is not of the Samurai caste," he said, "but he stems from romantic old Japan and goes only part of the way with the Mitsuis and Mitsubishis of the great industrial dynasties who think they can shoot their way through to a vast Asiatic empire. In his youth, he was a zealous leader of the 'Zen' sect tonsured Buddhists, whose gospel was humility, pacifism and turning the other cheek. Suddenly, he switched to the 'Black Sea' society, a fire-eatin- g outfit of militarists and jingoes. "OE WAS a stone mason'a son, 1 1 apprenticed as a stone cut-ter, and educated by the Geneyosha, a fervid patriotic society, with plicity for its MoneCutter motto. in his first Now Shapes effort he failed to Jap Policies pass nis examina' tions for entrance to the Imperial university, but tried again and was successful. He be-gan as a government clerk, was ad-vanced, entered the diet and finally the cabinet. He is an intelligent man, keenly aware of the anomalies and anachronisms of Japan'i poli-tics and social structure." Contoltdnted New Features. WA'U Service. |