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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN f News Review - Events the World Over Drouth Crisis Brings Federal Aid Business Revival Continues in First Half of 1936 Steel Industry Indus-try Fights Drive for Unionization. By EDWARD W. PICKARD FEARS that drouth may Irretrievably Irre-trievably destroy farm crops In North and South Dakota, eastern Montana and Wyoming prompted President Roosevelt Roose-velt to marshal $500,000,000 in relief re-lief funds to combat com-bat the damage and to develop further fur-ther plans for fighting fight-ing drouth. Secretary of Agriculture Ag-riculture Henry W. Wallace, who left Washington for personal survey of the stricken areas, declared that from Secretary , Wallace ell reports condition! had become as serious as they were in 1934, due to lack of sorely needed rains. The secretary declared that un-les un-les rain! descend la the sun-scorched sun-scorched regions the government will buy 30,000,000 bead of cattle In the next month. In St Paul, Minn., the governors of the five drouth-stricken northwestern north-western states met with Federal Works Progress Administrator Harry Har-ry L. Hopkins and administrators from the various states. Mr. Hopkins Hop-kins ordered relief jobs made Immediately Im-mediately available for from 25,000 to 60,000 farmers who have seen their sole Source of livelihood " destroyed. de-stroyed. . The Jobs-were to be made available on water conservation projects, farm-to-market roads, rararefcoolrmMTe ects. President Roosevelt, In Washington, Washing-ton, appointed a special committee composed of Secretary Wallace, Budget Director Daniel Bell, Aubrey Aub-rey Williams, Assistant Works Progress Administrator and Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, 'resettlement administrator. They will work In cooperation with a committee of department of agriculture officials. The President instructed Budget Director Bell to atudy government appropriations- to determine what funds are available. CONTINUING business recovery1 during the first six months of 192 fulfilled- the bopea 6ptiurhl!-x tic prognosticators and surpassed the expectations of conservative forecasters. ; All the leading trade barometers registered fair business weather at the close of the first half of the year. The production of automobile! automo-bile! reached 2,400,000 units In the first six months of 1936, the best tor the period since 1929. Improvement was further reflected reflect-ed by the steel Industry, the operations opera-tions of which rose from 49.2 per cent of capacity at the start of the year to 71.2 per cent at the end of June. The output of electricity climbed steadily to reach an all time peak in June. The steady recovery of the railroads rail-roads wai Indicated by carloadings which worked up to approach their best levels since 1931. The figures lor ine nrsi six montni ox IB30 were substantially better than those for the similar period of 1935. A strong upsurge of home building build-ing gave impetus to the construction construc-tion industry although it still remained re-mained at subnormal levels. Another-barometer of improved .condition! waa the stock market which extended the gains it made In 1939 and reached the highest ground It has held since 1931. AN INCREASE of 90 per cent In the cash farm Income on cotton, cot-ton, wheat, tobacco, corn and hogs from 1932 to 1935 was recorded un der the Agricultural Adjustment act, in-, validated by the Supreme court last January, according ''WV'TJV to the annual, re Davis, former administrator, ad-ministrator, made public in Washington. Washing-ton. Cash farm Income In-come from these Chester Davla five major " farm products which came under production produc-tion control, rental and benefit payment! pay-ment! waa $1,305,000,000 in 1932, the year before the AAA became operative. oper-ative. For 1935 it waa $2,593,000,000. The report pointed out that cash farm income from all other product! prod-uct! increased In the earne period from $3,012,000,000 to $1307,000,000. Mr. Davis, who was recently appointed ap-pointed by President Roosevelt to the Federal Reserve board, declared de-clared that cash available for living liv-ing expenses, taxes and Interest from farm cash income waa the highest In 1935 since 1929, and two and one-half timet greater than it was in 1932. Under the AAA, the report sets forth, rental and benefit payments accounted for one-fourth of the increase in-crease In all cash farm Income from $4,377,000,000 in 1932 to $8.-900,000,000 $8.-900,000,000 in 1935. Mr. Da via' report re-port concludes: "Increased buylnp power among ' farmers' has "been translated Into fclCrealf1 hliclriffia aMIvOv mnA mm - , Vs - of Current In the case of past depressions, that measure of business recovery already achieved has been preceded preced-ed by an advance In farm Income. "Income circulate! more freely as spending ' is made poasible among those consumer groups whose need for goods Is particularly particular-ly great For a period of years prior to the depression farmers had suffered a disparity of prices which returned them a relatively email ihare of the national income. During Dur-ing the depression this disparity Increased. An enormous accumulation accumu-lation of farmer wants waa dammed up. This deferred demand de-mand awaited an Increased flow of Income." The agricultural administration, the report revealed, had disbursed $1,529,114,000 up to December 31, 1935. DEFYING a drive to force unionization union-ization of its 500,000 workers, the steel industry in a strongly worded statement Issued by the American Iron and Steel institute declared "it will oppose any attempt at-tempt to compel its employee! to join a union or pay tribute for the right to work." Although the statement did not mention him by name, it war regarded re-garded by observer! aa the first official response "to the recent ah-' jwuncement-t-by oha-' L. LewnV president of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America, of a campaign to la order to prevent the "closed ihop," the Industry said It "will use its resources to the best of its ability to protect ita emrdoveea and their families from intimida tion, coercion and violence and to aid them in maintaining collective bargaining free from interference from any source.'! The unionization attempt comes t the time when- steel operations nave let a new record for 1938. Reasserting its belief In the crin- ciplei of collective bargaining, the Industry!"- statement pointed out that employees now nick their own representatives for collective bar gaining by secret ballot " JN BOTES PARK, Colo.. Got. At fred M. Landon, Republican Presidential nominee, continued his vacation begun with hia family the week before and made plana for reconvening re-convening of the Kansas legislature and for the acceptance accept-ance speech he will deliver .in Topeka on July 23. Although Governor Gover-nor Landon wai resting preparatory to the rigors of the eamnaiim. affairs nf 1 Z3i Gov. Landon his state and confer encea with political advisers occupied occu-pied considerable of hia attention. - When the Kansas legislature reconvenes re-convenes a proposed amendment to the state constitution will be intro-, duced. giving the state broad power pow-er to - provide far-reaching legislation legisla-tion for social welfare and to cooperate co-operate with the federal government govern-ment Governor Landon waa quoted quot-ed as describing the proposed amendment as "satisfactory " The amendment which ma be the basis for similar action in other oth-er states, reads: "Nothing contained in this constitution con-stitution shall be construed to limit lim-it the power of the legislature to enact laws providing for financial assistance to aid Infirm or dependent depen-dent persons; for the public health; unemployment "compensation and general social security and providing provid-ing for the payment thereof by tax or otherwise and to receive aid from the federal government therefor." there-for." , " Charles "P. Taft and Ralph. W. Robey, two members of his research re-search and advisory staff, were scheduled to Join the Republican Presidential nominee and to provide pro-vide him with further data for the notification ceremony speech the first- major political itateme since his Cleveland nomination. In . the meantime, John Hamilton, Hamil-ton, newly elected chairman of the Republican National committee, waa on a tour of the East conferring con-ferring with political leaders and laying lines for the party's strategy strate-gy In the coming Presidential campaign. cam-paign. RETIRING from the post of Comptroller General. J. R. Mc-Carl Mc-Carl announced that following the expiration of his term of office be would aid In the government reorganization reor-ganization atudy undertaken by the senate committee headed by Senator Sena-tor Byrd of Virginia. General McCarl criticized New Deal emergency agenciea as "loosely and extravagantly let up" and as "tax consuming In the extreme." ex-treme." He declared that a systematic syste-matic reorganization of both regular reg-ular and emergency agencies would Improve . government adminiatre-lion adminiatre-lion and .educe the cost to taxpayer taxpay-er ,. , . ' n a BRECKINRIDGE LONG, American Ameri-can ambassador to Italy, submitted sub-mitted hi! resignation to President Roosevelt because of Illness. The diplomat declared that he hopes to recuperate hi! health during the summer and to take an active part In the presidential campaign in the autumn. Mr. Long'! place will be taken by Undersecretary of State William Phillips. He will represent the United Statea government in Rome In an effort to solve Italo-Ameri-can problem! arising' from Mussolini's Musso-lini's conquest of Ethiopia. Mr. Phillips has had a distinguished distin-guished career In the diplomatic service. He has held posts in Europe, Eu-rope, the Far East and Canada and has three times been sub-secretary in the state department The most pressing problem facing fac-ing Mr. Phillips in his new post Is the regularizing of America'! relations re-lations with Ethiopia, now claimed by Italy as a territory, but still recognized by this country as independent inde-pendent The Importance of this question, observers declare, is indicated in-dicated by the selection of Mr. Phillips for the Italian post Only on rare occasions in the past have active sub-cabinet officers been given diplomatic posts. HILE representatives of lead ing powers gathered in Gene va to lift League of Nations economic eco-nomic sanctions against Italy and the refugee emperor emper-or Haile Selassie of Ethiopia prepared pre-pared to plead the cause of his nation'! (freedom, European statesmen ..considered ..consid-ered the possibility of a reorganization and reformation of the League. v Observers agreed .. ; . sM that while Informal discussions on the De,a", League reformation would be held. it was probable that the question of reorganizing the international pact body would be postponed until the SefcttrrnBer' assembly.' YIELDING to the urglngs of party leaders, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York" announced an-nounced that he would run again for the office of governor. The governor gover-nor had announced several months ago that he would not be a candidate candi-date again, giving ai hia reasons the press of personal business and a desire to retire to private life. ' Democratic leaders declared the governor'! decision will help the national ticket to carry New -YorkJ in the election next November. In a statement issued to newspapermen,- Governor Lehman said he could "no longer resist' the t pp-peats' pp-peats' of national, and state Democratic Demo-cratic leaders. The statement said: Regardless of personal considerations, consid-erations, however compelling, I feel that I can no longer resist the pleas of my party both in the state and in the nation or of those with whom I have worked In closest association as-sociation for many yeara and with whom I have waged the fight for equal opportunity and social security.-- - - . "Therefore if my party In this state chooses to nominate me again and if the people of the state again call on me for service I shall proudly proud-ly accept the call and will devote de-vote myself jwholeheartedly to the Interest of the people of the state." DESPITE his previous decision declaring unconstitutional the tax on railroads to permit pensions. Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Dis-trict of Columbia Supreme Court ruled in an oral opinion that the railroad retirement board could pay pensions to railroad workers. The justice declared that his previous pre-vious decision on the validity of the Jrail pension laws could not be construed to mean that the retirement retire-ment act itself was unconstitutional. unconstitution-al. He ruled that the government could proceed to collect from rail workers a sum amounting to 3 1-2 per cent of their salaries and could use the money to pay retirement pensions to the workers when they reach 65 years of age or have worked 40 years. He also ruled that the railroad retirement board could proceed to collect Information on which to al-lot al-lot the pensions, provided it did so at its own expense and by recompensing recom-pensing the railroads for any clerical cleri-cal work involved. Justice Bailey'a original decision in the case had specifically en joined the railroad retirement board from taking any steps to ompel the railroads to furnish ln- ation. The decision ruled that the 3aNaw adopted to finance the pension! was unconstitutional and ruled that the tax measure and retirement re-tirement measure setting up means of paying the pensions were "inseparable." "in-separable." FLOODS which followed a series of cloudburst! in south Texas caused property damaee estimated at millions of dollars and cokt the Uvea of 22 people. Raine which fell at the rate of nine to ten inches a minute swelled the creeks and rivers of the afflicted af-flicted areaa into wild floods. It was reported mat thousand! of acres of farm land In Gonzales and adjoining counties were Inundated. As the flood waters receded they revealed a grave picture of destruction. The flood ripped through the settlement of Kt1. h. tween . Austin and Ran Anf,i .MJV, washing "out bridges linf wrecking a train, it was here that the losa of life was greatest o rmim .UU SANTA MONICA, CALIF. So toon as this, with both tickets just r)ut up, folks already are saying this is starting start-ing out to be a bitter campaign the bitterest, perhaps, since away back in 1896. My -guess Is these prophets, don't realize the twentieth part of It Tm reminded of what happened when my old friend, CoL BUI Hayward, sailed with his negro regiment regi-ment for France during the war. The outfit embarked em-barked at night Next morning, when At A m. r f me transport waa jk well out at sea a mwi pop-eyed troope Irvm8.Cobb from the Interior South stood staring at the endless watery expanse. "Boyl" he exclaimed to a companion, com-panion, "dls sho la one big oceanl" "Mos' doubtless," stated the second sec-ond soldier, "but son, whut you'! lookln' at now Is only jes de top layer." The Union Party AT CLEVELAND there was harmony har-mony and a quiet interment for the old Guard. At Philadelphia the proceeding! moved along oa greased rollers. But for real ex citement wait until that new Union party holds lty eonventlon.' Then will be the signal to remove the women and children to a placer of. safety.. Just consider who'Q be there: The Inflationists who think that il long, as we have government engraving en-graving plants and printing presses, money should be plentiful. The group committed to the idea mat if the farmer won't do something for himself, something should be done for the farmer. Doctor Town-send, Town-send, with his project to provide old age pensions for everybody over sixty except Congressman McGoar-ty. McGoar-ty. Father Coughlin, calling for social so-cial Justice and better radio hookups. hook-ups. Huey Long's successor, who'd share the wealth and make every manr a ktng.: - - ' -: ": - Al Smlth'a Strategy AS AN old-time headliner of political po-litical vaudeville, AL Smith should have known better than to pull that ancient wheeze shooting at Philadelphia letter carriers on a Sunday afternoon. And besides, think of the desperate desper-ate chance he and his supporting quartet of sharpshooters took: come between a mother panther and her cubs'; come between a Frenchman and his fracas; come between a radio announcer and his elocution, bat never, right on the eve of their national convention, try to come between a flock of office- holding Democrat! and the prospect pros-pect of four more uninterrupted years of the same. Trouble of Travelers OUTSIDE the larger cities, when a hotel manager wishes to show a special guest special atten-tioig atten-tioig he assigns him to the bedchamber bed-chamber of state which usually is on the second floor, invariably la at the front of the house and nearly always on the corner where electric elec-tric signs twinkle merrily ' till daylight In the poor sleepless wretch's eyei. And along toward 2 a. m. a party named Dewey, standing in the street below, will start telling a party named Pink, about sumpin mighty comical that! come up Sad'day night whereupon Pink will be moved to recall a few social reminiscences of hia own. Convention Invocations ALTHOUGH a southerner however, how-ever, not working at the trade as steadily as some I have to snicker when a Democratic senator walks out on bis own convention because a colored preacher asks the divine- blessing oa It! deliberations. delibera-tions. Which remind! me: The first time that great Texan, Jim Hogg, ran for the governorship bis party split The bolter Joined with the Republican outfit-mostly black to put up a fusion ticket At this pinto convention, the Rev. "Sin Killer" Griffin, famous black evangelist delivered the Invocation. Invoca-tion. Is concluding, he threw an unexpected bombshell into the piebald pie-bald ranks by earnestly urging the Lord to put Hogg in the governor's chair. , : . , .. " ' Terrlfle uproar ensued. Finally a dusky stalwart got the floor. '1 moves," na bellowed, "dat dls yere traltorsome and on-Republik-in prayer be expunged from d record." Majestically, "Sin Ciller" erected himself. "I rises," he stated, "to a p'Int, of order. It's too late to expunge frura de record a prayer which aW ready - done got to heave. Shore' five minute! ago." IRVIN 8. COBB. -WKU aorta. YTil Crochet That It New and Quite Simple to Do "... "Can anyone do It?" Most assuredly as-suredly I It is a lovely rug, a matching foot-stool I top or pillow for quick crocheting. Easy, six-sided six-sided medallions are done one by one, ' each flower a different color with background uniform or not, as you please. Sew them together and you're ready to begin be-gin the border crochet, going round and round with stripes of color used to break the background. back-ground. Rug wool, rags or can-dlewicking can-dlewicking may be used. In pattern 5544 you will find complete instructions for making the rug shown; an illustration of it and of all stitches needed; material ma-terial requirements; color suggestions. sug-gestions. Send 19 cents in coins or stamps (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. 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