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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Johnson Hurrying Industrial Groups Into Federal Control President Forms an Executive Council London Economic Conference Nears Recess. route thence as laid out In advance was, to Shediac, New Brunswick, S00 miles; Montreal, Quebec, 870 tulles, and Chicago, 1,000 miles. Preparations were made by the exposition officials In Chicago and the city authorities to give the Italian flyers a great reception 'and to entertain them lavishly during theif A stay. landing place for the planes was arranged near the municipal pier, and another on Lake Geneva in case the lake was too rough. UDomGn af WeA Poini b-.- x - By EDWARD W. PICKARD SPURRED already assigned to New York state, this action means a total of already donated as an outright grant from the federal treasury for road building. Un- 330,101 on by President the stimulus was scarcely necessary Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, industrial recovery admin istrator, let it be known that he Intended to get the principal industrial groups under federal control as as pos speedily sible. He and the President desire that the industries Hugh S. Johnson der the allotments Massachusetts gets $(3,597,100, Ohio $15,484,502. and Utah $4,194,708. ILLINOIS and Iowa, by their ratifstate conventions, ied the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment, the votes being unanimous In both cases. They were the tenth and eleventh states to take this action to wipe out prohi- come In voluntarily, but if they do not, the general Is ready to hold arbitrary hearings and then rates and working fix the wage hours for the recalcitrant trades. These enforced regulations will apply until the industries present their own codes. If It is necessary to adopt arbitrary codes, these will be based on data gathered by the administration's statistical expert, Dr. Alexander Sachs, who has already prepared a setup codifying various leading Industries according to a Dumber of conditions. They have been rated according to wage scales existing in various years, chiefly the boom year of 1929, and charts have been prepared showing how far cuts In working hours must be made to restore a mass of employment equal to predepression days. With these data Doctor Sachs has shown conclusions as to how much each industry ought to pay in minimum wages, how many employees it ought to absorb from the army of idle, and how many hours those employees ought to work every week. Two Important codes received were those of the lumber and steel Industries. The former pegged wages so low and working hours so long that General Johnson said : "They are wholly unacceptable and will. In no case, be approved." A public hearing on this code was set for July 20. In . submitting the code, John D. Tennant, representing the lumber men, declared it would result In "a substantial increase" in the number of employees, and that It would increase pay rolls by more than $10,000,000 in the month of August alone. The most extraordinary thing about the lumber code Is that it would set up "an emergency national committee," to be appointed by the 27 associations applying for the code, which would have the strongest of autocratic power, to the point of exerting absolute con- trol over the entire industry. The cotton textile code was approved by the President and went Into effect bition. Citizens of Oklahoma went to the polls and enthusiastically voted "for the legalization of 3.2 beer by a majority of about 2 to 1. In Oklahoma City the people made a rush for sixty carloads of beer that were waiting In the railroad yards for distribution, but Gov. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray called out the National Guard and kept the cars closed until next day, after which Oklahoma, dry for 20 years, slaked Its thirst London were conference might continue until the end of July and then recess until Septem ber or October. The steering committee favored this course. It also deINDICATIONS In one that cided monetary subcom-jnlsslo- n should dis- cuss International commercial indebtedness (war debts excluded), and that 1 should deal with the ques Neville tions of central Chamberlain banking and silver. Nearly all the work Is being done by subcommittees. Restricting the conference program was a complete victory for the gold bloc nations. In addressing the house of commons on the government's policy, Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, said : "There Is no doubt that the avowed policies of this country and the United States are closely parallel to one another," whereupon the house cheered enthusiastically. Sir. Chamberlain La. another I continued : "It is the declared Intention of the government to pursue by all means In their power any measures which' they think will tend toward raising price levels, which we believe to be the first essential step toward recovery. "I also agree that this country should not depend wholly upon her of Jimmy Mattern, American aviator, alive but Injured In Siberia, was cause for reFor sixteen days after he joicing. crashed In the northern wilds he was barely able to keep alive, and then he was picked up by Eskimos and taken to the village of Anadyr. The Soviet government was active In the efforts to rescue the flyer, and reports from Khabarovsk said a Russian aviator expected to take him from Anadyr to Nome. POINDING ROOSEVELT has pardon to Francis H. Shoemaker, congressman from Minnesota, who served a year In Leavenworth penitentiary before his election to congress. He was convicted in 1930 of sending libelous and defamatory matter through the The mails, to a political enemy. also Owen President pardoned Lamb, whom Shoemaker met In prison and took to Washington as his secretary. Lamb was convicted of abstracting money from a national bank. PRESIDENT pvURING the fiscal year 1933, July 1, the people of the United States paid an additional $02,000,000 In federal taxes, this being because the new levies more than offset the decline In wealth due to the depression. Internal revenue collections for the year were about $1,610,000,000. The yield In. creased In 31 states and dropped in the other states. Most of the drop In Income taxes had been In corporation returns which showed a decline of 85 per cent last year. Corporations' Inend-in- g $351,-000,00- 0 pi - "nils-takes- 0 - f jlf'9": Y dilll-cul- ' PJ 'h i - 1 l - , $ hus- t, $3,300,-000,00- wu. .ar-'- band's rival In popularity, is with him, not as a passenger, but as a radio op erator and assistant pilot of their big monoplane. Col. Lindbergh Their plans were to fly across Labrador, Greenland and Iceland, and perhaps on to Denmark. They had no fixed route or stopping places and did not know when they would return. The Lindberghs trip started from New York, and the first stop was near Rockland, Me., where they When were forced down by fog. the air cleared they went on to Halifax, and after an overnight stop, proceeded northward on the way to Greenland, stopping en route at St The plane Johns, New Brunswick. was provided with new pontoons and Instruments and the motor had been speeded up considerably. what Is done In conjunction with other countries, but that we should do what we can to help ourselves. That Is what we have been doing and we have met with a considerof the I?OR " the manypurpose new functrons and new able measure of success, sterling bureaus created since March 4, the figures of commodities having risen come yielded only $39r),0OO,00O of from the first of the year no less federal taxes last President has created a year, compared called the "executive council," than 8 per cent. with $030,000,000 the year before. have "We to last at really begun similar to the supreme war council Returns from Individuals where the of World war days. Besides the see signs that show unmistakably rate Increases were heaviest, dropped President and his cabinet the mem- that improvement Is not a fleeting from $427,000,000 a year ago to bers are: The director of the bud- one, that It has a solid foundation last year. get, Lewis W. Douglas; the federal and may be expected to continue." T EADERS relief administrator, Harry L. Hopof the Republican kins; the chairman of the Reconparty, determined that the G. O. RACKETEERING Is to be wiped government P. shall not die or even sleep, are struction Finance corporation, J. H. Jones; the governor of the farm can do It and Its agencies through- actively planning for the elections out the country are uniting In a or 1034 and profess credit administration, Henry Jr.; the chairman of the drive to bring about this end. Such the belief that they t)c 1 board of the Home Owners' Farm wna the statement made by Sencan regain much of 3 ator Copeland of New York, chair- the ground lost In the administrator nf the Industrial man of the senate committee on 1932. Under the personal direction of recovery act. Gen. Hugh S. John-eon- ; crime, after he had called on Presithe administrator of agricul- dent Roosevelt and Attorney GenEverett Sanders, tural adjustment, George Peek ; the eral Cummlngs. The first phase of chairman of the nawill he be tional committee, a added, chairman of the board of the Ten- the campaign, nessee valley authority, Arthur E. research and the mnpping of lines series of regional For the present meetings is being i Morgan ; the federal railroad coor- of dinator, Joseph B. Eastman, and the the work centers In three leading held, the latest bedirector of the civilian conservation cities. New York, Chicago and De- ing in j ri i c a g o, Everett troit, where It Is directed, respectwhere national comcorps. Robert Fechner. Sanders MurSenators by C. Copeland, ively, Frank mitteemen and a Walker, treasurer of the National Democratic committee, was phy of Iowa and Vandenberg of few others from eight central states Their proceedings were gathered. appointed secretary of the council. Michigan. Manufacture and transportation not made public, but It was learned During the summer and perhaps longer the regular Tuesday cabinet of guns will be one of the first that they are banking on the made by the Democratic admeeting Is to be superseded by a tasks tackled by the committee, It was Indicated. Copeland urged a ministration and are expecting more meeting of the council program which would require all of them to be umde in the future. manufacturers of guns to be liTHE INTERIOR OF Later there will be similar meetings SECRETARY In Kansas City, Denver and on the his capacity as pub- censed, and all purchasers examlic works administrator, and his as- ined for permits. Pacific coast. sistants are mighty busy these Mr, Sanders said In Chicago that days, for government departments, CHICAGOANS, especially those three conferences In the East had states and municipalities areseraro-blinfo- r birth or descent, given assurance of better times shares of the were eagerly awaiting the arrival ahead for the party. which Is to be spent un at A Century of Progress of Gen. der i ye puouc wurKS program or Italo Ralbo and NE THOUSAND veterans of the the atminlstrntlon. his fleet of 24 Kill . v i A. The proposed Rainbow division celebrated federal projects were given first Ian royal force sea-i. the fifteenth anniversary of the batS consideration, and a long list of planes. The air artle of Champagne-sur-Me- r with a them was approved by Mr. Ickes nmda was delayed ' three-day- s reunion In Chicago Inand submitted to the President. Ap4 cluding a fete at A Century of Prog ress exposition. plication from states and municipalIn the list of those Reykjavik, Iceland, I ities came next, many of them hav- by unfavorable I who addressed the former soldiers ing previously been approved by the weather conditions, were MaJ. Gen. Douglas McArthur, Reconstruction Finance corporation. and then, despite chief of stuff of the United States An additional $20,270, 100 of the continuing calm army; Gen. Chanes P. Siimnierall. t $100,000,000 allocated for public that made It former chief of st.'ifT; .MaJ. Gen to pet the liusro Cen. roal gifts to the slates was apGeorge E. Leach, former mayor of. Balbo proved when the allot merits for planes In the air. Minneapolis; Col. William IV Screws It took off for Ciirtwri'lit, l.ahru-dorOliio, Massachusetts and Utah reof Alabama; MaJ. Gen. Matthew A this being the fourth ami prob- Tinley or Iowa, and Col. William ,1. ceived the final Indorsement of Secretary Ickes arid Secretary of ably most perl'nus stage nf the Donovan of New York. Agriculture Wallace. With the $22,- - 7,100 mile flight to Chicago. The C. 195.1. Western Newni'aLer L'nloA super-cabine- ' Charles A. Lindbergh THAT Col. one of the country's most popular figures Is made evident by the general Interest taken in the route- - mapping, flight he Is making over the northern air course to EuMrs. Linrope. dbergh, Mrs?' V ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE does not usually think of the United States Military academy at West Point as other than a man's world, yet there have been several women who have had such a part In Its history as to make their names a part of the "West Point tradition." The first of these was the woman known to fame as "Captain Molly." In the cemetery at West Point stands a monument bearing a bronze tablet which shows In a stalwart woman standing behind a cannon, ramrod and portfire In hand, and below It is this Inscription : "In Memory of Margaret Corbin, a Heroine of the Revolution known as Who at the Battle 'Captain Mollle,' of Fort Washington, New York, when her husband, John Corbin, was killed, kept his field piece In action until severely wounded and thereafter by act of congress received half the pay and allowance of 'A Soldier In the Service.' She lived, died and was buried on the Hudson river-bannear the village now called Highland Falls. In appreciation of her deeds for the cause of liberty and that her heroism may not be forgotten, her dust was moved to this spot and the memorial erected by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution In New York State, 1920." Such Is the brief story which the tablet tells but there are other details worth recording. Until her death in 1800 she lived In a private home near West Point, supplies for her being sent direct from the secretary of war. An Interesting sidelight on that part of her career was revealed recently when Capt. Walter H. Wells, Intelligence and publicity officer at West Point, In digging through some of the old files at the academy, came across the manuscript letters written by MaJ. George Fleming, commander of the arsenal and ordnance and military storekeeper at West Point, to "The Honorable MaJ. Gen. Knox, Secretary of War." On October 7, 17S6, Fleming wrote to Knox: "I have sent another account of Mrs. Swim's for taking care of Captain Molly up to the 27th of September and have removed her to another place, as I thought she was not so well treated as she ought to be." On July 8. 17S7, there was another letter which does not paint a very flattering portrait of the Revolutionary heroine. It said: "I have drawn three orders on you, for the maintainance of Captain Molly, In favor of Mr. Dennlston: one Is from January 19 to April 12, the other from April 13 to July 5, 1780, Inclusive, which ac counts were lodged in the war office last fall, and are Mrs. Swim's. The other Is from Septem ber 2S to July 5, 17S0, Inclusive, and will be de As livered by Mr. Denniston for Mrs. Randall. Molly Is such a disagreeable object to take care of, and I promised to pay them every quarter, I have been obliged to borrow the money to pay the people; If It can possibly be replaced, I should be very, glad." On April 21, 17S7, there was another letter with a curious touch of an eternal feminine prob lem something to wear! On that date Fleming wTites: "I am Informed by the woman that takes care of Captain Molly, that she Is much In want of Shifts. If you think proper to order three or four, I should be glnd." Two months later, on June 12, he wrote again to Knox "If the Shifts which you Informed me should be made for Captain Molly are done, I should be glnd to have them sent, as she complains much for want of them." Whether or not CSiptaln Molly ever got her "Shifts" Is unknown, for there Is no further reference to the matter nor dos her name again By if VI rifkf Maasi ent postmaster at West Point Is a grandniece of Miss Berard and that there has also been tragedy In her life. For she Is Miss Grace Alleen Harrington and she Is the daughter of Lieut Henry Moore Harrington of C troop of the Seventh cavalry who perished with Gen. George A, Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1870, and who was one of the three of- lilil bas-reli- 1751-180- (it if f k the records after 17S9. appear In contrast to the militant spirit of "Captain Molly," both In war and In peace, was the spirit of another woman whose name Is written high She was Miss In the annals of West Point Susan Warner, the daughter of a New York city attorney, who upon retiring from practice In the metropolis made his home on Constitution Island In the Hudson river opposite West Point. He was accompanied there by his two daugIn hter, Anna and Susan, and every Sunday afternoon for years Miss Susan conducted a Bible class for the cadets at the military academy. Had she lived she would have found among the names of the general officers In the World war A frail, many who had attended her classes. small woman who still clung to the poke bonnet and the ullk dress of the Civil war period, she was rowed across from her Island home and curried In a military conveyance to the hall set apart' for her In onp of the academic buildings. She came to be regarded as almost a part of the teaching corps of the Institution and on her 1. Mrs. Louise Regan, maker of chevrons for West Point cadet uniforms for. 50 years. 2. Letter to General Knox, secretary of war, from the military storekeeper at West Point referring to an "Account for Mrs. Randall taking care of Captain Molly twenty-fou- r weeks, being from June 7 to November 21, 1787, inclusive." ficers whose bodies were never found, at least,' not identified after the battle. Not only Is the ignorance of her father's fate one of the tragic incidents in the life of the woman who Is postmaster at West Point, where so many of Custer's officers were once cadets, but there Is another tragic memory which she has carried through life a memory of her mother, who suddenly disappeared several years after the Custer battle. "Amnesia it would be called nowadays," Miss Harrington says, "but at that time it was ascribed to grief and the uncertainty of what had happened to my father. Several times we heard from Indians that a lady dressed In black had been seen on the battlefield. Other reports came from Indian territory. We investigated all these rumors and finally after two years we found her in Texas where a severe attack of pneumonia had served to bring back her memory so that she knew who she was. But she was never able to give any account of her wanderings while she was gone or why she was 3. Miss Anna Warner, sister of Susan Warner, author of "The Wide, Wide World" and Sunday school teacher for West Point cadets. there." 4. The monument to "Captain Molly" In the As Miss Harrington stands behind her desk In the post office amid the busy turmoil of mail cemetery at West Point. 5. Inscription on the "Captain Molly" monu- distribution for the 1,200 cadets at the academy ment telling of her heroism In a Revolutionary and an equal number of officers and regular soldiers, she can look up to two pictures on the war battle. wall which serve as a link between the blood6. Picture of Cadet Henry Moore Harrington stained battlefield of the Little Big Horn in far-oframed in Indian beadwork. Montana and the peaceful banks of the Hudson. One of them is a picture of her father in 0 Q the regimentals of the Seventh cavalry, the unideath she was burled with military honors be- form which he wore on that fatal day In June side the cadet monument In the West Point more than half a century ago. The other Is a cemetery. Her sister, Anna, following her wishes, picture of Cadet Henry Moore narrington. It Is gave Constitution Island to the United States gov- enclosed in a frame made of beads and these ernment, and their home there is preserved as beads were obtained by her mother from Indians In Dakota a memorial. perhaps members of the very same But Miss Susan's connection with West Point tribe who overwhelmed Custer and Harrington was not her only claim to fame. Under the pen and all the other gallant officers and troopers of name of Elizabeth Wetherell, she wrote two the Old Seventh. Among the other West Point traditions Is one books, "The Wide, Wide World," published In 1851, and "Queechy," published in 1852, which of perfection In attire and one of the requireattained a wide popularity. Of "The Wide, Wide ments for that perfection Is perfectly aligned World" It has been said that "it was the most and perfectly sewn chevrons worn as the Inofpopular novel ever written by an American with signia Inby the officers and the corps of cadets. Those ornate chevthe single exception of Mrs.- - Stowe's famous ficers story, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' " It attracted as much rons of gold lace, black braid and broadcloth attention In England as In America and It was are very difficult to make, since they requira great skill and experience in the making, but translated Into French, German and Swedish. there Is a woman who has proved herself capable However, Miss Susan was Indifferent to this fame for It Is recorded that she "never liked" of the Job. For more than fifty years without a break her book. "The Wide, Wide World. Perhaps she unconsciously anticipated the criticism that Mrs. Louise Regan of Highland Falls, N. Y., has made every chevron, gold or gray, worn by the A French critic marv followed Its publication. stralghtstandlng West Pointers. She really starte eled at America's reception of a ed sewing them when she was ten years old novel devoted "to the history of the moral progress of a girl of thirteen." An American critic but her uninterrupted service with the cadet described It as having little story, not a semb- store of the academy began when she was eighteen and since 1879 all the corporals' stripes and lance of melodrama, and declared that Its success was "purely artistic." It Is one of the liter- Insignia from sergeants up to regimental commanders have come from her hands. She Is ary traditions of New York that, after the readers for George P. Putnam had advised against past seventy years of age now and she has made for many cadets who are generals In the it, he was persuaded by his mother, who read stripes army today. the manuscript, to publish It. It Is difficult, gays Harris P. Scott, manager liOng before Miss Susan became the Sunday of the cadet store, to turn the straight-rolleschool teacher for the cadets there was another lace Into the curves necessary to make woman who had an Important place In cadet gold those long V's turned up without drawing or She was Miss Blanche life at the academy. wrinkling the material. Five yards of gold lace Berard, who was postmaster there for half a are required to make a pair of chevrons for a Polk In President 1847, century. Appointed by regimental adjutant of the corps of cadets. Miss Berard held her position there until 1S97 Is also the background of broadcloth with There and few of the cadets, perhaps, realized that the silk striping between the gold lace. This back of her pleasant smile, as she passed out lace Is of real and Is Imported from France. their mail to them, there was the bitter memory It Is all hand gold labor and the material must be In a of her life. As a young girl Miss worked In tragedy weather as hand perspiration Berard was engaged to an ultlcer attached to the deadens It. cool She works from January to June academy. One afternoon this officer rode his each year making chevrons for the cadet offlcers-to-spirited horse, of which he was very proud, to In June after graduation. office to demonstrate Its good points. the ost Mrs. Regan Is a widow and without children. But the horse became frightened suddenly and She was born In Highland Falls, moving to threw the officer off. killing him. So the woman Yonkers her marriage and then returned remained "Miss" to Berard the end to her upon postmaster The cadet store has sent birthplace. of her days, true to the memory of her first and work wherever she was. Her health Is But one big thrill came to her In her the only love. and though the work is hard on the her later life. While on leave of absence from splendid she hopes tn continue ns the only maker eyes West duties at which Eushe In her Point, spent of the splendid gold and gray and black chevrope, Miss Berard had the honor of being pre rons that grace the uniformed sleeve of the sented to Queen Victoria of England. West Pointer. It Is an Interesting coincidence that the (ires ($ 7 Wejtnro Ni Union.) ff three-volum- d be wirp)ir 4 |