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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Kcictt Stevivw of Current Events , It is entirely to be managed in a very unusual that many people have manner. The committee that will WASHINGTON. failed to piece Wealth gether several n velopments of na-- , Grill tional import late ly, and may have missed the significance of an action of congress in its closing days. The two incidents to which I refer are the federal grand jury indictment at South Bend, Ind., of a number of automobile manufacturing executives and the action of congress in adoption of a resolution providing for a broad-gaug- e inquiry into big business. The two, when pieced together, spell a sensational drive against the "malefactors of great wealth." The result? Well, let's examine the scheme, the pattern and the prospects. There was a period In 1936, it will be recalled, when business interests felt that President Roosevelt d was preparing to follow a policy as far as government relations with business was concerned. During that period, there was a considerable improvement in general business. In that interim of time, as far as any observers could reach a conclusion, the President was relying on advice from many men in whom business had confidence. But there came a sudden end. Out of the clear sky, Mr. Roosevelt proposed reorganization of the Supreme court of the United States and the addition of six justices whom he could appoint at once. Through weeks of battle when it became apparent that one guess was as good as another whether the President would win, business men and women again became afraid. That was when the present depression began. It was also the time when Mr. Roosevelt turned away from his previous close advisers and began listening to the new brain trust which has come to be known as the "board of at de-O- middle-of-the-roa- strategy." As the depression became sharpof unemployed er and the numbers increased with startling rapidity, the board of strategy sought means to offset the condition. The group also had to find a goat which is always done when plans go awry. There followed then the vicious and intemperate attacks on "big business" by the Robert H. Jackson, then favored at the White House as the next Democratic candidate for the New York governorship. Secretary Ickes also let loose his vocabulary and none can deny the interior secretary's capacity for speaking biting words. For weeks and weeks, we were treated to a barrage of words in which "big business" was pictured as beyond the pale of good citizenry and ought to be destroyed. g The drive was not as successful in gaining public acclaim as had been hoped for. The truth is that it failed to get the country excited at all and the profit to the trust busters did not materialize as had been the case when "Teddy" Roosevelt was swinging a big stick of demagoguery in the same field of political endeavor. Indeed, this drive flopped at the start whereas the drive by the earlier Roosevelt was good politics for several years. It was here, according to the best information available, that the tactics changed. The change in methods is the real reason for the story. g Thus, it can be said that the drive is still going on as strong as ever but it is going on in several fields without any apparent connection because the board of strategy has lost none of its determination to convince the nation that it is being ruined by those same malefactors of great wealth toward which Teddy Roosevelt waved his fist and bared his teeth. trust-bustin- g do the job is made up of three sena- tors and three representatives, and a representative from each of a number of executive departments and commissions. And the important fact in addition is that the $500,000 which the investigation will cost will be expended under the direction of President Roosevelt To bring it down to simple terms, when congress adopted the resolution for the inquiry,' the board of strategy was able to turn on enough political steam to force adoption of an amendment placing the funds under the direction of the President, rather than under control of congress, as usually is done when congress participates in an investigation. That action means that investigators for the committee will be able to rely upon laws covering inquiries and searches made by the department of justice, the federal trade commission, the securities and exchange commission and the national labor relations board, among others. The combined powers will be To explain further the full meaning of these broad powers, it is necessary to cite constitutional provisions prohibiting illegal search and seizure. The investigators for the committee must be able to dig deep Into private records of any bank or corporation or individual if they are to accomplish fully the desire of the board of strategy for complete exposure of all the secrets of business. When they get all of those records, of course they can analyze them and place their own construc tion on the business practices. That is today, by inference and innuendo, hint or open charge, the investigators can smear anything or any-- ! body and the newspapers will spread the information. It being an official investigation, it will be followed closely by the press and, as usual, there will be little chance for the individuals to reply. When they are marked to be smeared, they will be smeared, whether justly or unjustly. It is a deplorable thing that our government stoops to that sort of thing but it has done so in a number of instances. Now, as to the main objectives. Every indication is that the guiding hands in the pro-H- it Morgan jected investiga- - And DuPont tion ar deter- mined to destroy of capital. I mean, they intend to break up the combination of men and money in two instances. The banking house of J. P. Morgan and company, and the huge industrial setup of the DuPonts are marked. Whether they like it or not, those two groups are to be made the goats of the depression of 1937-3and those on the inside recognize that it is a fight to the finish. There will be other other corporations, individuals, whose business lives will be laid bare, but the Morgans and the DuPonts are the real targets. The board of strategy believes the Morgan bank and the DuPont interests are chiefly responsible for the refusal of business to yield on many of the crackpot ideas of the professors, and so it is inevitable those two groups will be cast as the villains. There arises, next, the question whether such an investigation and such a prosecution as has been started at South Bend will do the country any good. One ought not prejudge. It may be that the motor magnates and their corporations are guilty as pups. It may be that the Morgans and the DuPonts and scores of others among families with great fortunes have set about to wreck the New Deal. But the question In my mind Is: why has it not been discovered before? It seems to me that if there was so much corrupNow, to put the pieces of the pic- tion, so much improper influence beture together. The first section com- ing exercised and such illegal use prises the Indict-Ho- of moneyed power as is represente the ment of the ed by those who were pushing the Looks mobile moguls. Ed-s- investigation, it should have been Ford, Walter P. found out at least suspected Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan and Wi- several years ago. Mr. Roosevelt lliam Knudsen, among some sixty-odhas been in office five years and officials of Ford, Chrysler and it strange that there was General Motors and the companies no appears efTort to uncover these demons affiliated with them in the financing until the business of the country as of motor cars bought on the installwhole lost confidence In the poliment plan. They are charged with cies of the national administration. violation of the antitrust laws, alThese developments have come though how anybody can believe the along as the depression grew worse. Ford Interests ever could or would They reach their climax of preparaplay ball with the othrr two, I have tion at a time when another fedbeen unable to see. Anyway, eral apency, the board of governors big news stories were carried by of the federal reserve system, says the press services from South Bend, that the industrial depression In the and the department of justice here United States now is the worst In had much "background" informathe world. Neither England nor tion which officials were delighted any other industrial country abroad to hand to any inquiring reporter. has experienced a depression that They did this in order to has been as precipitous as the Unitwith the press inasmuch as the ed States is . experiencing, the story was so sensational and so board said In an official statement. vast in scope that none of us writers The power is not given to me to here could possibly be permitted to determine the numerous and varied miss any phase of It. facts, but the processes of deducThe other fhase of the continuing tion eliminate many possible causes drive against "big business" takes for our nation's condition most of the form of a great Inquiry, thinly them. Indeed, excepting governdisguised as a general study of busi- mental meddling and the harassing ness practices. It Is a somewhat of business, big and little. unusual type of Investigation and is C Wrtwra Newspaper Union. trust-bustin- trust-bustin- auto-Pictur- d two great masses flftttlMHsM 4 1 ft ' - i$jrii iVt4aAA i 5 Speediest ship In our navy, the destroyer McCall, was commissioned at the Mare Island navy yard in California. The McCall, first privately built navy vessel since 1921, has a specified speed of 38 M knots, but in recent tests was reported to have averaged 42 knots. It carries four guns and four quadruple torpedo tubes and is especially fitted for quick attacks on capital ships. are distinct indications of in compromise and the American picture, and hopes for restored prosperity are somewhat revived. The stock market has be come unusually active, and private enterprise is awakening. Unfreezing of three billions in stored-u- p credit is expected to result from new banking regulations ordered by the President. Thousands of contracts for approved projects to cost almost $500,000,000 have been sent to all parts of the country by the Public Works administration. Mr. Roosevelt, in his latest radio address to the nation, said: "In simple frankness and in simple honesty, I need all the help I can get," and it seems that the people are ready to give that help if the administration will do its part Notable In the President's talk was the admission that mistakes have been made not only by his opponents and by industry and labor, but also by government leaders. He sharply attacked reactionaries In business, blaming them for much of the current depression. Asserting his continued belief in individual enterprise and the profit motive, he criticized the recent congress for failing to enact his program for government reorganization and legislation to aid the financially depressed railroad industry. At the same time, however, he said the legislators "achieved more for the future good of the country than any congress between the end of the World war and the spring of 1933." Wants Lib erals Elected SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Spending Is a Stop-Ga- bers and patrons against the p PJECLARING the New Deal's is to give wages for real work and that he is opposed to the outright dole for bare existence, President Roosevelt said in a press conference that he is still looking for a permanent solution of the unemployment problem. He made it clear that he did not Deiieve reuei or i Ik " I PUD1'C works ed anything more .1.3 than a stop-garemedy lor a mue President understood dislocaRoosevelt tion of the nation's economic and industrial life. In fact, he said, no country in the world had as yet worked out a method for dealing with the most acute in the history of the world. He noted that public works expenditures had worked better in Sweden than in this country, because the Swedish government had been able in recent prosperous years to put on heavy taxes and pay off its borrowings. He said the Swedish method was being given close study. The President warned that the prosperity which vast outlays for rearmament appeared to have brought to European nations was unsound. When the munitions plants close down, he predicted, the nations of Europe will find themselves weaker in an economic sense than ever before. No nation, he argued, could spend its way back to prosperity by laying out vast sums in unproductive goods like weapons of war. All federal spending agencies re ceived instructions to launch the big spending push July 1. Mr. Funds will pour Roosevelt said. out through the Works Progress administration, the Public Works administration, the Civilian Conservation corps and the Reconstruction Finance corporation. n v" afford-RfkiT-'-- p For Summer Frccks THERE President, Opposing Outright Dole, Still Looking for Solution of Unemployment Problem possible Quick, Easy Stitches Signs of Compromise WAGES FOR REAL WORK 1 Thursday, July 7, 1938 NEPHI. UTAH S. or- ganization of the plant by the American Federation of Labor teamsters' union. At the insistence of the national labor relations board, the creamery had just agreed to accept the union as a bargaining agent and not to oppose recognition further. N. S. Clark, Milwaukee regional director of the labor board, had agreed to withdraw charges of unfair labor practices against the company. Clark said later that all offers toward a compromise with the creamery had been withdrawn. The farmers who took part in the demonstration had outlawed themselves, he said, and declared he would ask the Washington office of the labor board to prosecute them. Indiana G.O.P. Picks Willis T AYMOND E. WILLIS of Angola, Ind., a newspaper publisher and veteran political leader, was nomi- nated for the senate by the state Republican convention in Indianapolis. Willis was named on the third ballot, defeating four rivals among whom was James E. Watson, former senator. The nominee, who is sixty-tw- o years old, has been the active editor and publisher of his weekly paper, the Angola Republican, since its establishment in 1898. He is president of the Steuben Publishing company, and, with another editor at its head, publishes the Angola Herald, a Democratic organ. Fish Attacks Hamilton discussion over immetJ EATED diate control of campaign funds - among members of the Republican national executive committee, meet ing in Washington, gave Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York an opportunity to renew his fight on National Chairman John Hamilton, whose removal he demanded. With Hamilton out of power. Fish said, Aubrey Williams Scolded Republicans WILLIAMS, deputy the AUBREY aroused would win 10 senate administrator, Rep. Fish the indignation of many citizens, seats and 100 house especially of opponents of the ad seats. With Hamilton at the helm, he warned. Republican gains would when ministration, be reduced by half. he advised organ Rep. Joe Martin of Massachusetts ized relief enrollees and Sen. John Townsend of Delaat a meeting in New ware, chairmen, respectively, of the York to keep the house and senate G. O. P. campaign Roosevelt adminis committees, have demanded allottration In power and ment of funds from the national to elect 100 per cent committee and exclusive control of DemoRoosevelt their expenditure. Hamilton has recrats to office. He sisted these demands. a r. i pven Incurred Representative Bertrand Snell of . mild rebuke from i V New York, Republican leader in the the senate commithouse, told the committee that he Aubrey tee created to inves- Intended to retire from public life Williams senatorial tigate would not seek this campaign fund expenditures and and the use of public money to influence fall. voters. The committee pronounced Wi- Italy Checks Franco belliams' speech "unfortunate" GAYDA. noted editor cause of his position In the relief and spokesman for the Fascist a uttered and warning organization regime in Italy, declared that against attempts by the spenders of had advised Franco, leader ofItaly the the government's relief and pump Spanish insurgents, to use "moderapriming billions to influence the tion" in his efforts to prevent Britvotes of beneficiaries. ish and other foreign ships from Williams sent a letter to the committee claiming there was no po- bringing supplies to government said, however, that litical Intent In his speech and as- Spain. Gayda the Italy approved bombing of vesserting he had been misquoted. sels carrying contraband, but disclaimed any Italian responsibility Farmers Oust a Union therefor. EIVE hundred angry farmers in- Representations by the earl of vaded the Richland Perth. British ambassador to Rome, creamery at Richland Center, Wis., had opened the way to an agreeto which they sell their milk, and ment to end the bombings. Mussodrove out seven employees of a lini was reported as ready to act teamsters' union. Thry then forced only to spate Prime Minister Chamthe remaining cmpl(iy"sto sim berlain from embarrassment. statements that they would not join London dispatches said Great a labor organization, and estab- Britain, Fiance, Italy and Germany lished a frket line to kerp out union had ngreed'to split the cost of withmembers and organizers. drawing foreign troops from Spain. The demonstration was the cliRussia refused to pay a full share max &f five months' resistance by of the expe, se. estimated at 10 million dollar! d rectors, mem the JOST of' the President's radio speech was frankly political. He declared himself the leader of the liberals and held that, as such, it was his privilege to intervene in state primary and election campaigns for the purpose of insuring the defeat of those whom he characterized as conservatives, the opponents of his policies. This aroused the indignation of many Democratic statesmen like Senators Burke of Nebraska and King of Utah. Senator King asserted the President should not use the great advantage he has in controlling the purse strings of the huge spending program. "People who have fought for the Democratic party for a great many years do not like interference in their state affairs by outsiders," he said. "I do not believe the President should meddle in the primary elections of the Democratic party or any other party." General opinion was that Mr Roosevelt had widened the split in the Democratic party and by his words had placed the stamp of his approval on the attempted "purge" directed by Corcoran, Cohen and others of his advisers. For Naval Expansion IMPETUS was given the naval program with PWA allotments of $27,883,000 for the' enlargement, extension and remodeling of existing plants and facilities of the navy department. With orders for full speed ahead the navy department said that 113 projects, approved by Mr. Roosevelt, will be under way by August 15. Among the projects are power plant improvements, foundry building, high frequency radio station, fleet moorings, turret assembly facilities, improvements to ship building ways, structural assembly, electric and sheet metal shops, water storage, railroad tracks, noncommissioned officers'.quarters, storage buildings and other improvements. Mustn't Seize Hainan '"pHE British and French envoys in Tokyo warned Japan that any occupation of Hainan, Chinese island off the south coast of China, would be met by joint Franco-Britis- h action. The island, which lies near French and British trade routes, was bombed by Japanese flyers. Germany is recalling the Germans who have been acting as advisers to the Chinese army, and diplomats believe Germany may now give active aid to Japan. , Swedes Celebrate A MERICANS of Swedish descent by the thousand and many from Sweden gathered at Wilmington, Del., for the celebration of the ouuin anniversary o the landing in Amer- - - iljif ica of the first Swedes and Finns. ' From the, old coun- - t ' ' try came Crown Adoll Gustaf Prince with a large party, but he was confined to his suite on the ... xr liner rwuiiKsnuim oy r 4 Illness. His place wa taken bv his " Prince Bcrtil son. Prince BertiL The principal event of the opening ceremony was the presentation of a monument erected by Sweden on the landing site. The presentation was made by Prince Bertil and accepted by President Roosevelt. Then the President presented the monument to Gov. Richard McMul-lefor the state of Delaware. After the monument ceremony there was a lawn party attended by Crown Princess Louise. the celebration was continued for four days in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, parts of whlcl. states were embraced In the New Sweden founded in 1038 by a com pany of 150 Swedes and Finns senl to America by Gustafus Adclphus rrMp 1 : T' WHO'S By RTTTH WYETH SPEARS for 'f handandembroidery ABIT collar sleeves of a little girl's dress is always th, smartest trimming. Quickly made stitches and interesting colors may be combined to give unusual NEWS THIS effects. The dress shown here is pala blue chambray. The collar and sleeves are edged with blanket stitch in a deeper blue as shown at A. Between each blanket stitch a tiny loop stitch is made in white and three larger white loop WEEK v By LEMUEL F. PARTON When Charles came out of the Sante prison last year, he was met by a committee of distinguished French-me- NEW YORK. n, who Jail nomi-Leav- aated him for the Nobel peace prize To Get Bid said To Academy and would make him a member of the Academy. They have just fulfilled the latter promise, and M. Maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote. He had spent 250 days in jail on a charge of having urged the assassination of 140 members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against Italy; also on a charge of inciting the French people to "sharpen up their kitchen knives" for use against certain proscribed politicians. In the 250 days he had written five books, swelling his vast collection of books on biography, politics, economics, literary criticism, history and what not to probably well over 100. I talked to him once in the Cafe des Lilas, a fragile, deaf, bearded old man with a contentious, blazing mind which makes one think of a sizzling battery running an automobile without any engine. In 1923, he was in jail for four months in" a somewhat adventure for one Showed Dace who was t0 be gar. landed as an im- Technique morttL Of Terror members Thrte of chamber deputies were kidnaped and fed castor oil Mussolini is said to have got his broad prospectus of Fascism from Maurras and the bald head of one of them was painted with violet ink and glue. In 1925, M. Maurras was two ?ep jn prjson, the charge being that he had threatened to kill the minister of the in terior. Among the causes of his incarceration in October, 1936, was conspiracy evidence in the assault on Premier Leon Blum, in which he was severely beaten, while attending the funeral of a friend. His books and virulent editorials against democracy in the Royalist, paper, translated into many languages, are the fount of Fascist doctrine all over the world. His hatred of democracy is savage and vitriolic. He is witty, learned, brilliant and he has the most excoriating and corrosive vocabulary in France. A FOOTNOTE to the main text of the world discussion on Japan bombing babies is the interchange between Avery Brundage, chairman of the American . Jap Bombs Olympic commit-Caus-e Rift tee, and William In Olympics J- - Bingham (Bill the Plugger), Harvard athletic director. Mr. Brundage says it has nothing to do with sports, and Mr. Bingham says it has with sportsmanship, at any rate and he withdraws from the committee and the 1940 games. The sports writers are becoming almost metaphysical in weighing and appraising the moral values of the argument. Bill the Plugger says, in effect, that he won't play with baby-killer- s. He became Bill the Plugger by losing 19 races at Harvard and win- stitches at the top of every second blanket stitch as shown at B. All six strands of a six strand embroidery cotton may be used or No. 5 pearl cotton. For a dress of fine sheer material such as dimity or organdie use finer embroidery thread. For a printed fabric, repeat two of the strongest tones in the printed design or use white collar and cuffs embroidered in the background color of the print and one of the brighter tones. NOTE: If you wish to use these articles for reference weekly paste them in a scrapbook, as they are not included in either Sewing Book No. 1 or 2. Book 1, Sewing for the Home Decorator, covers curtains, slipcovers, dressing tables; 48 pages of fascinating directions. Book 2 illustrates 90 embroidery stitches with numerous applications; doll clothes and gift items. Order by number, enclosing 25 cents for each book desired. If you order both books, leaflet on making crazy quilts, with 36 stitches illustrated, will ba included free. Address Mrs, Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. IMthe house Ironing White Silk. To help prevent white silk from turning yellow when ironed, use only a warm iron on the wrong side of the silk and protect it with cheesecloth. Storing Silverware. If silverware which is to be stored for some time is packed in white flour it will not tarnish. Oon't Scrape Tin Dishes. Tin cooking dishes should not be scraped, as scraping exposes the iron or steel surface underneath, which aay rust. Sunlight in Rooms. There should b direct sunlight in every room of a house at some time during each day. How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men Here'i food idvtcc for woman during her change (usually from 88 to 62), who tram she'U lose her appeal to men. who worrie about hot flashes, loaa of pep, dizzy spells, upset nervea and moody apella. Get mora fresh air, 8 hra. sleep and If you need a (food general system tonic take Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, msile sperialiK jar Komtn. It helps Nature build up physical resistance, thus helps give more vivacity to enjoy Ufa and assist calming Jittery nervea and disturbing sympt ms thst often accompany changa ol Ufa, WELL WOKTU TKV1NGI ning the twentieth. Thereafter, he was Harvard's crack miler. He started out plugging at the age of fourteen, leaving school to work in a mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters. He saved $30, went to Exeter and Persistency worked his way through Exeter and All men have fits and starts of Harvard. nobleness: but the characteristic He came out of the war a captain of true heroism is its persistency. with appropriate decorations, did Emerson, a turn in the banking business in Texas and became Harvard graduate supervisor and track coach in 1921. On the side, he is president of a concern which Imports rubber goods. e JFa GERARD B. LAMBERT builds house, they're likely to find a center-boarand a skys l yard on it. It's hard to see how he can get aaaaBiBif JUST A IN DASH rATM?OMUO,',M',l 1 d Mr. Lambert yachUnRf but at Keeps Mind any rate, he comes special adYachts be-O- n viser to Stuart McDonald, federal housing administra- tor. The gargles and shaves of the multitudes built his chemical fortune at St. Louis. He was one of the original backers of Lindbergh and the originators of great advertising slogans. Author of a spirited "Defense of Babbitts" In the American Mercury, commander of the Eastern Yacht club of M.irbkhead, Mass., he maintains a valhalla for galiunt old yachts. WNU Saved by When their Durban. South on telephone death. 8erv.ee. 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