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Show THE PAGE TWO News Review of Current Events the World Over Cultnn Conpxees Ousts President Comez Another ArcliI)i.loj) Attacks Edward, Duke of Windsor Treasury Plan to Curb Credit Inflation. By T EDWARD Wetiern W. PICK ARD Nrw.j ai cr I'nion. IGUFL MARIANO GOMEZ, president of Cuba, was on his way out bfcau.se ho defied Col. Batista, the real ruler of the republic, by vetoing the suar tax bill to raise funds fur the building of schools that would be conducted by army officers. Despite plenty of warnings, Gomez persisted In his opposition to the t ninncura uHitV said, would lead to Kui-genc- Vi S'M Miguel Gomel house of representatives, dominated by Batista, impeached him and he went to trial before the senate with the certainty that the decision would be against him. He was accused of attempting to coerce the congress unconstitutionally to defeat the tax bill, and of It was the first bill of impeachment ever voted in the history of the Cuban republic. Gomez defended himself vigorously but was resigned to his fate. The pYosecution was conducted by three members of the house Carlos Palma, veteran Republican leader; Eduardo Martinez Fraga, Nationalist, and Felipe Jay, Demo- which commodity shipments would be limited and enumerate the items becoming contraband beyond those limits. Government officials looked upon the Supreme Court's decision as the most sweeping approval of a New Deal law the tribunal has yet given. They read in it an inferential approval of the reciprocal trade treaty program, still untested, and a broader inference that the President should be given more latitude in negotiations of all kinds with foreign governments. ELEGATES to the peace conference in Buenos Aires signed the 69 accords approved during the sessions and the conference came to an end. Farewell congratulatory speeches were made by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas and the head of the Peruvian delegation, Carlos Concha. They all urged that the peace efforts be continued in the next conference, which will be held in Lima, Peru, in 1938. n SECRETARY OF THE and Chairman Marriner Eccles of the federal reserve board announced a crat. 1 Vice President Federico Laredo new program for r ipm. Bru was ready to succeed Gomez curbing credit In- It Is fw automatically. He is a lawyer, sixty-on- e nation,to and years old and was a colonel in likely involve of borthe Cuban war of Independence. 1937. rowings In About a billion dolA RCHBISHOPS of the Church of lars worth of gold is England just can't let the duke flowing into the of Windsor and his love affair alone. country annually, The Most Rev. Dr. William Temple, and if this continues archbishop of York and second only next year, It was to the archbishop of Canterbury, said bv nfYleinls th fc. Eccles took his turn in lambasting the ab- H J Hill IdltU dicated king, in a Christmas dioces- that Jill amount out of the money maran letter that displayed little of the ket, to offset the effects of the gold Christian spirit. Said the archbishinflux on domestic credit op: The plan, which probably was de"It has happened to many a man vised by Mr. Eccles, is intended to before now to find himself beginning hold the excess reserves, which are to fall in love with another man's the reserves that member banks dewife. That is a moment of critical posit with the federal reserve sysdecision and the right decision is tem in excess of legal requirements, that they should cease to meet be- on the same plateau where they are fore the passion is so developed as now. Previously gold flowing into to create an agonizing conflict be- the country was chalked up as extween love and duty. cess reserves upon which an infla"This decision often has been taktionary credit boom could be built. en by men of honor. And when the power of personal attraction is re- 'TPHREE new indictments against inforced by the glamor of the throne major oil companies, oil trade the moral obligation is the more publications and individuals were returned by a federal grand jury in urgent for that reason. "Let us remember that any kind Madison, Wis., in order to avoid decases. of love which can be in conflict with lay in the trial of the anti-truduty is not the love of which the With few changes the new true bills are similar to those returned previgospel speaks." The British press and a great ously by the 1935 grand jury and conmany of the English people are dis- tested as invalid on grounds that the gusted with these repeated attacks grand jury was illegally impaneled. It is understood that the governon Edward by the prelates and there is a growing danger of a split ment plans to bring the cases to trial in March. in the Church of England. Dispatches from Edward's haven in Enzesfeld, Austria, say that he T TNDER the general leadership of ' John L. Lewis the war for is planning to make Mrs. Simpson the duchess of Windsor in May next, unionizing the steel industry and immediately after her divorce bedestroying the company unions is comes absolute. Meanwhile he probnow under way. ably will remain at the castle of ft Some 250 company Baron Eugene de Rothschild withunion representa- out seeing Mrs. Simpson. s tives , from the Fitts-., There were reports that the duke f it:ve- uurgii, we t ianci . Youngstown might take legal action against the and the eastern disarchbishop of York, presumably for slander. tricts met in Pittsburgh and were told CIMEON D. FESS, former sena- bv PhiliD Murrav. tor from Ohio and for years a , jjf'41' thief aide of Lewis A and chairman of the leader in the "Old Guard" of the committee for Republican party, died suddenly in L. Lewis dustrial the Carlton hotel, Washington. He union, that had been in retirement from naa strike in the $5,000,000,000 industional politics since 1932 when he try might result "if the industry was defeated for to the continues to employ its senate. attitude," in dealing with trade unions. A CCORDIXG to a decision of the Thereupon the delegates adopted United States court of appeals resolutions unanimously condemnin New Orleans, the national labor ing the company union plan as a relations board has authority to "farce," and establishing a new orcompel einployers to bargain collecganization called the "CIO repretively with their employees. The sentatives council," with this "dectribunal upheld the board's cease laration of principles:" and desist orders against Agwil-ine1. All steel workers be organized Inc., which operates the Clyde into a national industrial union. conin Mallory Steamship lines, 2. representatives use nection with the dismissal of seven their Employee influence to enroll the steel employees for alleged union action. workers into the steel workers orcommittee's campaign. ' I HE Supreme Court having up- - ganizing 3. All steel workers be thoroughheld, in the Chaco arms em- ly informed by employee represenbargo case, the neutrality powers tatives who know from experience of the President, Mr. Roosevelt let that the company union is a device it be known that he would ask con- of the management and totally ungress to revise the present neutral- able to win any major concessions ity law to give him broader dis- for the steel workers. cretion in his relations with foreign 4. CIO employee representatives governments. In other words, the remain inside the company union "teeth" which he and the State de- for reasons obvious to all. partment have always thought the The wage demands are: statute lacked. Just what the PresA $1.24 a day increase for all emwould ask was not told to '.he ployees receiving over $5 a day. ident press, but there were indications A 30 hour, five day week. that he wants authority to: Paid vacations of one week for 1. Declare an arms embargo "upemployees ;f two years' service and on the outbreak or during progress two weeks for employees of five or of a war, and forbid the passage more years' service. of American citizens or transport f Time and pay for overof American goods on belligerent time within the resjular working ships, except at the traveler's or week. Double time for Sundays and Shipper's own risk. 2. Determine the actual volume to FfeKj8 -- s, one-hal- TIMES-NEW- Thursday, December 31, 1936 NEPHI. UTAH S. for the recovery of Pone dwindled day by day. He suffered a fainting spell and was reported to be exceedingly weak. His illness was complicated by high fever and there was danger of influenza. Senator Nicola Panda of Rome, widely known as a specialist on the ills of old age, was summoned by Dr, Amanti Milani and both agreed that the pontiff must have complete rest. His visitors were limited to the ten cardinals who are prefects of executive bodies of the church and they were permitted to enter the sick room only one each day to obtain the pope's authorization for their most important decisions. The customary Christmas eve audience for cardinals and diplomats was canceled, and the pope also had to abandon his plan to celebrate mass on the 87th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. HOPE ft , i, "54 KAI-SHE- specified -- V r by within the Nanking time, ' !"u Wfjcfem rebels. Two of the mutinous battalions were captured and disarmed at Huh-sieIt appeared that Marshal Chang : really was reduced to negotiating for his own life and safety, and there were reports that he Chang was willing to surIlkueb-lian- g render the dictator and quit the country, as has many a rebellious Chinese war lord before him. T. V. Soong, who is Chiwent to Sianang's brother-in-law- , fu to attempt to arrange for Chiang's release. American and British governments were concerned over the safety of their nationals in Sianfu if that city should be besieged by the National army. There would certainly be a distressing shortage of food and fuel, and to this would be added the dangers of probable bombardment by artillery and airplanes. Discipline among the mutinous troops is known to be very poor and already there have been many instances of murder and HiVERY day is a fresh beginning. V:" Listen, mv souL to the crlad refrain. And SDite of old sorrow, and older sinniner. And troubles forecasted, and possible pain Take heart with the day, and begin againy r A SUSAN Ne;;l. Decisiono . Eng-land- . ? it was something closing of the year that brought Paul and Ethel to the final decision. Anyaway, It was New Year's eve when they talked the matter over in a business-lik- e way, and definitely decided upon the break. Months of growing Irritation seemed to leave no other alternative than the court, they agreed. Both seemed relieved when the decision was made, and both agreed the quicker everything was over and settled, the better. They would begin packing up right away: the smaller things could be put away PERHAPS Japanese military authorities charge that Marshal Chang's revolt was part of a deliberate plan to line up western powers, including soviet Russia, against Japan. The Chinese ambassador to Tokio was told by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita that the Chinese government would not be permittee to enter into any accord that would make it appear that it favored war against Japan. Arita made it plain that Japan would abandon its waiting policy if Nanking compromised with Marshal Chang. T) ARON NUFFIELD, one of " "Katherine Edelman looting. tonight Outside snow was falling in thick, white flakes. Every now and then 's sudden gusts of wind rattled the doors and windows. But neither of them seemed to notice. Perhaps the tumult in their own hearts dulled them to the fact that a storm of a different kind was venting its anger wealthiest industrialists and a generous contributor to philanthropic causes, has just donated "to stimulate employ$10,000,000 ment in Great Britain's poverty stricken depressed areas." Four trustees are given full discretion in use of the sum. Baron Nuffield, who is Sir William Morris, is head of a vast manufacturing organization including automobile plants, export companies, a publishing house and affiliated subsidiaries. outdoors. "What about this old clock Uncle Henry gave us?" Ethel asked, as she took it down from the mantel. Paul "laughed a little harshly. "You keep it," he said; "time isn't going to mean a thing to me from now on." "But it came from your Uncle," PARTHQUAKE shocks accompa-- " Ethel protested; "he would want nied by volcanic eruptions devastated large areas in central Sal- you to have it." "I tell you I don't give a darn vador, killing more than a thousand persons and injuring about four about the clock or or about anything else for that matter." Paul hundred. San Vicente, a city of was the center of the temblors, threw a pile of books that he had and it was reported to be practically just picked up across the length of destroyed. Several thousand persons the room. "Let's get some one else to do this this sort of thing there were participating in a procession when the first makes the whole business seem awquake came, and many of them ful." were crushed under falling walls. "Why, Paul, we just decided that that we Other towns in the stricken region we would be business-lik- e were wrecked. Roads from the would make no fuss, or " "Well, I thought I felt that way, capital were broken up and communications were destroyed, so that but I was wrong. I just can't fool accurate information was slow in with this stuff tonight . . . EtheL this may sound crazy, but Is there coming out. All of the towns affected by the any reason, now that we've decided go quake are in the vicinity of the to part for good, why we can't to-out and celebrate the New Year I San Vicente volcano. The area, important in manufacturing and ag- gether. We we don't have to really riculture, is in the rich tobacco like each other to do that we can and go down and watch the crowds. region. Anything to get away from this ETER NORBECK, United States gloom I" J) senator from South Dakota since "Do you really mean that?" 1920, died at his home in Redfietd, There was a queer little catch in S. D., at the age of sixty-siafter Ethel's voice as she spoke, and her a long illness from heart disease blue eyes seemed a bit misty. "Of and cancer of the tongue and jaw. course I'll go I'll be glad to Norbeck. a Republican with radithere's too many ghosts around here cal tendencies, entered politics in tonight; it does make packing a bit 1908 as a member of the state sendifficult . . . But, can you get a ate. Later he was lieutenant govcab this late?" ernor and governor of hi3 state "I'll get one." Paul's voice was and then was elected to the firm. Relief and eagerness shone United States senate. In that body from his dark eyes. "You hurry he was an insistent advocate of agand doll up. I'll see to the cab." ricultural relief measures. In half an hour they started Norbeck's death reduced to 16 the Both were flushed, excited. away. number of Republicans in the senIt seemed a bit daring, adventurate, but if the selection of his sucto go out celebrating the New cessor is left to the Republican gover- ous, together, when they had denor-elect, there would be again Year cided only an hour ago that life 17. under the same roof was unbearable any longer. In favor of SENTIMENT In spite of the crowds in the hothe powers of the cafes, they found a little Supreme court is growing weaker in tels and table, with a delightful view of evWashington because the President seems to be opposed to it, at least erything that was going on. Paul for the present. But Senator Hugo ordered a bit recklessly. Since this Black of Alabama has announced was to be their last evening together, he was going to do the Job right. that he will introduce a bill designed to strip the !ower courts of But when the food came, they both ate rather silently. The small talk their injunctive powers. This measure would prohibit lower courts that had come so easy on the way from enjoining the operation of laws down seemed to suddenly fail them . . . Every once in a while Paul of congress and require them to forward all records and complete glanced across the table at his wife. transcripts to the Supreme court What a pity, he thought, they couldn't make a go of things! In within 30 days after an appeal. bis eyes Ethel was easily the lest 26,-00- reli-gfo- indigo-growin- i lisuch-lian- moved troops against the Sianfu v National Topics Interpreted ENERALISSIMO CHIANG not being released Marshal Chang the poges'ifi-ft- COOUDGE, r V J THE NEW YEAR By GEORGE COOPER In Indianapolis News- the Old, While its knell is tolled, And its parting moments fly! But song and a cheer For the glad New Year, While we watch the Old Year die! Oh, its grief and pain Ne'er can come again. And its care lien buried deep; But what joy untold Doth the New Year hold. And what hopes within it sleep! A SONG for the Old, While its knell is tolled, And the friends it gave so true! But, with hearts of glee Let as merrily Wrlcome the bright, bright New! For the heights we pained. For the good attained. We will not the Old despise J But a joy more sweet, Making life complete. In the golden New Year lies. A song for the Old, While its knell is tolled! With a grander, broader seal. And a forward view. Let tia greet the New, Heart and purpose ever leal! Let the ills we met, And the sad regret, With the Old be buried dcepj For what joy untold Doth the New Year hold, And what hopes within it sleep! A iong for looking woman in the room distinguished, different . . . Once his glance caught hers and held it for a moment. They both flushed and turned hurriedly to their plates. Some one asked the orchestra to play "Love's Old Sweet Song." As silence followed the opening of the familiar melody both of them were swept by emotion . . . Their love had been the most wonderful thing in the world! How had it died so soon? What had happened? That was the question taunting both of them as the song went on. Looking back they saw a hundred little things, magnified until they assumed tragic proportions small hurts left unhealed, sharp words, Washington On the eve of the opening of a new congress, the seventy-fifth, there is Hullabaloo great hullabaloo about and Clamor nl clamor social and economic legislation and particularly about the alleged necessity for constitutional amendments giving congress more power to deal with these problems. Much of the noise emanates from minorities, highly organized pressure groups, and it is difficult, therefore, to tell exactly what the attitude of the country, as a whole, may be. There are those both in congress and out who contend that the overwhelming vote for President Rooseconstituted a manvelt's date for Immediate action on a number of these highly delicate and difficult questions. There are others whose contention is that the great vote given President Roosevelt was. In fact, a tribute to his personal popularity and that it was in no way connected with the various problems that are now before the country in individual capacity. Whatever the answer to these contending forces, the fact remains that we are due to hear something of them on the floors of the house and senate in the next few months. One of the things about which we are hearing many, many words at the moment is a proposal for an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting child labor. It is the argument that such an amendment should be annexed to the Constitution and that it should give congress additional authority to enact legislation setting forth the details of this new type of prohibition. Yet, while all of this raving and raging is going on, how many people are there who are aware of the fact that a constitutional amendment doing this very thing has been pending before the states for a little more than twelve years? How many people are there who recall that this amendment has been ratified by twenty-fou- r states? Whatever their recollection is, it is a fact and it remains a fact that to all intents and purposes, enough states have refused to ratify the amendment to kill it off. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, being alive to what be considers the meaning of the recent huge vote for President Roosevelt, has attempted to revive the fight for ratification of that child labor amendment above mentioned. He has written to the heads of the various state and local groups urging them to work for favorable actioii on the amendment in the states that have heretofore rejected it. This brings up a new legal ques-ti-Stated succinctly, the question is whether a state New Legal legislature that nas once rejected Question a proposition to amend the Constitution can reverse itself and approve the resolution after having once killed it. Mr. Green contends that this is possible. The American Bar association takes a contrary view. So, we are confronted with a problem within a problem and one that is likely to be distorted and twisted and misrepresented by those interests that have sought for a long time to make the Constitution appear outmoded. To become attached to the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified under the terms of s the Constitution itself, by of the states. That is thirty-six- . Since twelve more states must ratify, there is likely to be a hard drive to gain some cf the remaining states and to bring about reversal of positions already taken. It nearly always happens in "drives" that there is much loose mouthings and many unwarranted and unjustified statements. It probably will bo so in this instance and the country must be on guard to sift the truth from the propaganda and must be prepared to make up its mind whether it desires to place in the Constitution a hard and fast rule that no child under eighteen years of age may be allowed to work gain fully. For the sake of the record, herewith is the language of the proposed amendment that is now pending: "The congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. The power of the several states is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the con gress." From these words, it will be seen that an attempt is made to give congress greater power over the rights of states to legislate for them selves. Such a purport brings up in my mind the old question of whether a state or the federal government shall be supreme. There certainly are times, there are circumstances and there are conditions in which n. three-fourth- g ' x One Glance Caught Hers and Held It for a Moment. and misunderstanding. silence There had been nothing terribly serious; neither could find any big, bitter thing accountable for the wreckage. Again, Paul looked at EtheL This time she made no effort to look away. Tears shone in her eyes. Suddenly his hand stole across the table and found hers. "I love you, EtheL" he breathed; "can't we be gin again? can't we prove to ourselves and to the world that "Love's Old Sweet Song" is really the sweetest song of all?" For a moment they did not realize that the orchestra had changed to a livelier air. Then as they sensed its swinging rhythm Paul reached out his arms. In a moment they were gliding with the happy throng of dancers, a newer and deeper love throbbing In their hearts. Q Western Newspaper Unioa. Resolution That Fails It is sad but true that never yet has a New Year's resolution paid the Christmas bills. federal government alone can deal with problems better than states can deal with them Individual ly. But after all. conditions are not the same In any two states of the Union and it seems to me that the states ought to give careful thought to any proposition that takes away from them forever whatever rights are left to them under the Constitu tion. They ought to be free as far rs they may be to handle their own problems on the basis of local requirements. the The country cannot know definite until President Roosevelt deliv- ers his message to Social the new congress. Welfare dealingof with the state the Union, exactly what his position Is going to social welfare be on the problems of the country. This is a general category and involves such social securthings as the ity legislatioi. and legislation giving the federal government greater control over private business. The two phases go hand in hand and as far as I have been able to discover, it will be impossible to deal with one without in some manner dealing with the other. For example, the present social security statutes have r direct effect upon business through their taxation provisions. While basically they are designed to protect against the sufferings of unemployment and of the aged who are without resources, It can be readily seen that somebody must' pay the bill. The Roosevelt administration's the ory is that private employers, mean-in- t business as a whole, shall be the logical source from which to draw the financial protection that is conceived to be necessary. But in this theory there is involved very definitely the right of the federal government to enter into the fields that are now occupied or may be occupied by the states. It is largely a taxing proposition that the federal government must use if it is going to reach those clastes able to pay. But the Constitution, federal laws and traditional practices of our people have built up certain lines of demarcation between federal and state rights. The question therefore becomes simply one that requires determination by the peo ple whether they are going to allow the federal government to encroach further upon the fields that hitherto have been reserved for the states. We hear much talk about a revival of NRA; a revival of it on a basis that will make it constitutional and one with provisions that will reach a greater perceqtage of business than was reached by the original NRA Organized labor seems to be in favor of this proposition and naturally will exert considerable power in congress, but some lawyers among the representatives and senators tell me that they do not see-hothe purpose can be accomplished without a constitutional amendment. On the basis of all of the Information and opinion that I have been, t able to gather, my guess would before this ression of congress is over something tangible in the way of a new constitutional amendment will be offered. It would seem, on the basis of the present trends, that it will be possible for the different schools of thought on this subject to get together only upon a constitutional resolution. My guess is, further, that it is utterly impossible for all of the groups and blocs to reach an understanding on legislation along these lines. Few of therr are willing to compromise and without the attitude of compromise on highly legislation, nothing except stalemates results. S.me observers even now hold the belief that it will be impossible for any agreement to be reached within congress on any of these social welfare propositions simply because the range of views as to what is good for the country is so wide that there will be no surrender on the part of any majority group and unless concessions are made, as I said above, it is entirely, possible that-thfirst session of the seventy-fiftcongress will be a "do nothing" session. ly f be-tha- h There are certain bits of evidence now to be seen that indicate a more determined posi-Wh- at tion on the part of Business? business itself. I think it could be said without equivocation that the business intersts have been the target for political demagoguery in the last few years to a greater extent than ever in history. Of course, business has not come forth with r'.ean hands. Yet, It is made tc appear now that business has taken about all of the maltreatment to which it is entitled and it would seem, therefore, that the time hat arrived for it to be given some consideration by the government which has supervision over it as well as us as individuals. About Q Western Newspaper Union. e |