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Show PAGE TWO THE WEEKLY REFLEX News Review of Current Events the World Over Democrats Renominate President Roosevelt Drought International Again Causes Crop Destruction Conference Considers Mediterraean Problems, . W. PICKARD By EDWARD Wait arm Union. Nawapopw D. FRANKLIN was renominated by the Democratic convention In Philadelphia in a demonstration of treat popular ac- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Administrator Harry I nopkins. Work relief projects designed to give work at once to 8,000 farmers la the Dakotas and part of Wyoming and Montana, whose crop lands have been laid waste for the The convention seventh consecutive year, were claim. unanimously adopted a strong New Deal platform and voted the abolition of tha historic two-thlr- di rule. The session! were with exmarked v trema enthusiasm. U i , Party harmony and a determination to EaaaeveU stand mflltantly on the administration! record In the past three years and present a united front in tha coming campaign characterized the convention. 'The abolition of tha rule for tha nomination of candidates was one of tha significant achievements. This rule, which had been In use tor more than 100 year, was superseded by the adoption of the rules committee's report recommending that at future conventions only a hart majority be required tor nomination. While soma southern and fha eastern and western states opposed abrogation, they were reconciled to It by the committees recommendation that changes be made In tha apportionment of delegate. Tha platform pledged continuPresident two-thir- ds ance of soil conservation," benefit payments to farmers, a sound currency, a balanced budget and a constitutional amendment If necessary, to achieve tha party's broad social program. It praised tha accomplishments of tha New Deal In a preamble, declaring that It planned to continue them la tha Interest of the nation.. Tha platforms keynote was that the Roosevelt administration has put and wlR keep the nation "on the road to recovery and prosperity." Regarding tha Constitution, the platform declared that while the Republican platform proposes to meet national problems by action of the separata states, the Democratic party recognizes that minimum wages, maximum hours, child labor, monopolistic and unfair business practices, dust storms, drouth and floods by states. could not be handled It atated: "If these problems cannot be ef- fectively solved by legislation within the Constitution, we shall aeek such clarifying amendments aa will assume to the legislatures of the several states and to the congress of the United States each within its proper Jurisdiction, the power to enact those laws which the state and federal legislatures within their respective spheres shall find necessary, In order adequately to regulate commerce, protect public health and safety and safeguard economic security. Thus we propose to maintain the letter and spirit of the Constitution." In addition to soil conservation and benefit payments, the farm plank pledged the Democrats to fiand tenants nancing 1 buying lands; favored commodity loans on farm surpluses and retirement ' of ten million acres of submarginal land from production and rural rehabilitation. Reiterating the "good neighbor" policy, the foreign relations plank reaffirmed the partys neutrality program pledged to keep the nation out of foreign entanglements. share-croppe- rs It reasserted the reciprocal farm policy, but demanded "adequate" protection to farmers and manufacturers against unfair foreign competition. Denouncing monopolies and concentration of economic power, the platform declared that the administration Would vigorously and fearlessly enforce the criminal and civil provisions of the existing laws." Other planks pledged: Expan sion of the social security program; continuance of rural electrification; protection of the rights of labor to bargain collectively; extension of federal housing projects; Just treatment of war extension of the merit system anti-tru- st through classified civil service; freedom of speech, press, radio, religion and assembly; projection of public works projects to aid unemployment; opposition to Communism and "the menace of concealed Fascism. , fpHE specter of drouth stalked tha Northwest. crops on Damage In to farms In "Eouth"Dakota,Wybming and Mon tana caused great concern and recalled the disastrous drouth conditions of two years ago. Railroads serving the drouth agreed to place emergency freight rates into effect cm live stock shipments to other grazing areas. Wheat and corn crops have suffered severe damage, reports heat-parche- d aes indicate. la Washington, a relief program n for the northwest States was mapped out by Relief drouth-stricke- planned. In the Middle West the fact that June of 1938 has been cooler than the same month two years ago has offset the serious effects of lack of rain. Figures on June rainfall for 1938 and 1934 compiled by Nat C. Murray, crop authority of Chicago, showed that Ohio had 89 per cent of normal this year and 90 per cent la 1934; Minnesota 48 per cent la 1938 and 92 per cent in 1934; Missouri 28 per cent in 1938 and 82 per cent la 1934; and Kansas 27 per cent In 1938 and 68 per cent In 1934. Added to tha seriousness of the drouth situation was a plaguo of grasshoppers that swept over eastern Nebraska, threatening to destroy hundreds of square miles of crops. The swarm was reported to be 100 miles long. In spots the insects were said to be so numerous that they hid the sun as they passed over valuable farm lands. MEETING In Montreaux, death of Bernhard W. von secretary of state for foreign affairs In the Hitler cabinet removed nejbf the most 'skilled of Europes diplomats. Von Buelow, was an expert who was on the League of Nations and gave his country valuable counsel when Germany began to consider rejoining the league. He was noted as a g studious and official, with a vast amount of detailed Information always readily available. A "blueblood of the German nobility, the diplomat was a nephew of the late Prince Bernhard von He Buelow, imperial chancellor. was one of the first of the German nobles to associate himself with the republican regime after the of the empire in 1918. Although different In background from Hitler, he nevertheless enjoyed the chancellors confidence. In diplomatic circles It was regarded as likely that Dr. Hans Dleckhoff, chief of the political department of the foreign office, win succeed Buelow as secretary of Thursday,-Jui- v THE fifty-on- e, National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Nttltul Ftmi BnlMJar . Wuklntttt, ' hard-workin- col-lap- ae state. In Russia, Maxim Gorky, early foe of the czars who become a hero of the Soviet regime and Its outstanding writer, died of Influenza at tha ag of sixty-eigAlthough not a member of the Communist party, Gorky bad a preeminent position In Soviet life and was a former member of the central executive committee. Moscow honored him with a public funeral and Interment In the Kremlin In a niche facing Lenins tomb. Under the czars, Gorky was Jailed on many occasions for his Inflammatory writings. His revolutionary attitude was expressed in his pen name. Maxim Gorky means "The Bitter One in Russian. The author was considered Soviet Russia's greatest propagandist His real name was Alexis Maximovitch Pyeshkov. ht an International conference sought settlement of military and naval problems in the FOLLOWING the lead of Great Mediterranean. The conference United States forhad been called by the powers as mally revoked all sanctions imposed a result of Turkeys request to fortify the Dardanelles, which were demilitarized under the Lausanne treaty of 1923, The possible threat of Rusrlas growing naval strength caused an alignment of tha British and Japanese. Japan announced It was willing to accept any limitation on Japanese warships authorized to enter the Black sea, providing similar restrictions were placed on Russian warships leaving It Britain was believed to be supporting Japans position. Russia demanded free westward passage of warships and subma- and Ethiopia, in practical applies rines out of the Black sea through tion they were used only against the Dardanelles, adding sh was Italy, alnc tha United States did unable to see why other powers not supply the African nation with not bordering on this body of wa- any war materials and the empire ter desired unlimited passage to of Haile Selassie had no ships of It Because of her .mutual as- its own. , sistance pact with the Soviet The French cabinet agreed to France was expected to side with abide by any action which the Russia. League of Nations may take in canThe possibility of a mutual ascelling sanctions against Italy. sistance , pact la the MediterraneThe British government's decian loomed with Britain leading the sion to abandon sanctions waa deway and seeking Italys participa- fended in an address by Prime Mintion. Such a step would extend a ister Baldwin as the only alternascries of such pacts which were tive which would prevent a suicidal concluded between Britain and war plunging western ci valuation Franca, Jugoslavia, Greece and into "barbarous anarchy. Baldwin asserted: Turkey against Italy at the time economic sanctions were imposed "We think it is right to drop sancon II Duce. tions because they are useless and ineffective. william '"There Is only one way to alter Dakota anthe course of events as they have nounced that he would run for the thus far taken place. That is by goPresidency as candidate of a new ing to war. "I do not know a single nation in political known as the Europe that is prepared for that I Union party. Fawould not cast my vote for that E. course of action." ther Detroit Coughlin, priest, is the leadcongress THE Seventy-fourt- 'fi' session ing sponsor of Lem-ke- s lasting aftjr candidacy. five and a half months during which Thomas Charles it appropriated nearly $10,000,000,-00- 0 O'Brien of Boston and was faced by some unexwill be the pected legislative complications. . candiIn the closing hours the emerdate on the ticket, gency tax bill which is expected to it was announced. produce $800,000,000 in revenue was Mr. Lemke" made public a passed. Supreme court invalidation platform embodying demands of the AAA and Guffey coal bills of farm mortgages, and the passage of the cash solold age security, a living wage for diers bonus over the President's all workers, limitation on Individual veto upset the budget plans and Incomes, the establishment of a cen- made guch a bill necessary. tral bank, the Issuance by congress Although it was passed by the of all currency and Its regulation of house, the amended Guffey coal bill the value of all the money. designed to remove the objections Plana . were made - lor tha- - new of the Supreme court faiied tf pasparty to hold a national convention sage in the senate. Similarly, the some time during August Wagner slum nousing bill, which Mr. Lemke said the Union party had passed the senate, failed in the has the support of farm unions, la- house. bor, the National Union for Social Larger than normal appropriaJustice established by Father Cough- tions for governmental activities lin. the Townsend old age pension were passed. The bonus, farm paymovement and "all other liberals ments, relief and the greatest nawho have been driven from the old tional defense program in peace time history helped swell the totaL parties." with Mr. Lemke was Funds for continuing the present Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North relief program were voted; the Dakota of a $3,000,000,000 farm public works revolving fund was mortgage refinancing bill defeated amended to permit more heavy conin the house of representatives. struction projects. Invalidation of the AAA brought RTHUR W. CUTTEN, who revised and expanded soil con- achieved spectacular wealtF servation and domestic allotment as a grain trader, died of a heart act; the rural electrification adminattack In his home in Chicago. He istration and electric, farm and was sixty-fivyears old. homeauthurilyjwere both placed-on-An exponent of individualism. permnaent basis; the Commodity Mr. Cutten went his way alone in Credit corporation was expanded; the grain market, playing his two flood control bills 'were passed. "hunches against the field. In Labor received attention through 1624, he made a profit estimated 'at the Walsh-Heai- y bill dealing with between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 In working conditions on government a corner on the corn market He contracts. A compromise ship subrepeated his success with a coup sidy bill was rushed through in the In the wheat market the following closing hours. Financial legislation included expansion of the jurisdicyear. With a group of associates, he tion of SEC Imp ortant among busientered the stock market ha 1928 ness legislation was the Patman bill and during tfte'boom months made amending the Clayton act mrllions of dollars regarding price discrimination. Representative group Charles h vice-president- nt e a - anti-tru- st " - - Tho Republicans Washington. and the Democrats have their Prestickets. idential Alt Set for The elephant and Big Race tha donkey have their Jockeys for the campaign. The tumult and the shouting and the blistering, withering fire of politics, hsvo begun. It Is a long way to the finish line where tho checkered flag falls for tho winner of the race. But the big fight Is really oa and It Is Interesting as, well as slgnlficaat to not how It has started. Shooting the Rapids ef the Upper Potomac, It Is always a sure sign that Praparad by Ntlloul OaoeracM Sooiaty, Ohio railway, and there was once a party leaden respect and fear opWashington. l. C. WNU Sarrloa. keen rivalry between them for the ponents when they start a camtrains, and private traffic between Washington paign with a declaration that the freight BUSSES, are disgorging gay and Cumberland, Md. But the Iron enemy la weak; that hla selection and hotels, streets, horse" eutdlstanced the faithful resulted from chicanery or to and public buildings ar bulging and mules of the towpath, plodding ar that tho particular candiwith enthusiastic humanity as Wash-lngtIn la no canal the operation. longer haa bees put np at a selected date meets the annual massed athaa loss However, la what haa hapsacrifice. transportation's That summer tack of spring and early been the gain of thousands who pened already In tha current camvisitors. know and love the hike along tho paign, and yon can expect It to Timid grammar school students, towpath, with Its great trees and continue because It is stating no seclinging to more worldly adults; thickets fringing the still waters of the New Dealhigh school graduates, who have tho canal while here and there a cret to disclose that ers fear Gov. Landoa of Kansas, been saving for a tour ef the dty rock, bolder than tha Republican nominee, and that r acbool throughout thejx bethe Juts out like some minia- tho Republican rest, leadership, terma; and ndnlta whose budgets ture LoreleL for are neath tha wishing surface, met excursion transportation rates Wher Cabin John creek cornea a dalrvoyast or crystal gazer to are Inspired by the wonders of their down to the river, man has carried ten them how much of s chance Capital. a road across the precipitous valley they have to beat President-candidat- e Handsome new government buildon one of the worlds largest single Franklin D. Roosevelt ings, museums, . art galleries, beauspans of masonry.' In the springno astute political obOf tifully landscaped parka; broad, time, however, this valley Itself Is of servercourse, would dare predict st this avenues; Mount Vernon, far Its bridge. stage of the game who the winner than interest greater Arlington, the graceful. Gothic lime- Ferns and wild flowers adorn it In will be. Os tho other hand. It to stone bulk of the Washington catheand the delicate pink part af the psychology of the game profusion, la Wilson dral where Woodrow blossoms of the laurel and notched ef politics for politicians to claim burled, great churches, and the white flowers of the dogwood dapple In sight Yet, I know city's splendid educational and the greening hillsides harmoniously, everything each aid that expects a real batscientific Institutions are the ehlef race. a Tha Nev ember reharas tle, visGood for to brief Interest the of Biological Study. objects to sult pretty likely tot bo deteritor. One of the many interesting featwo events of mined by Unfortunately many of this group tures of the Potomac gorge la its months. At the end of that time, miss odo of the most striking scenic peculiar situation biologically. In will be evident and some features near the Capital the Great the cool shadows of Its steep cliffs trends will be Falla of the Potomac In nearby Vir- the fauna and flora of the upland appraisal ef the campaign and claims the Ia Interim, possible. ginia and Maryland, and the rivers regions impinge upon those of tha ofbe will high phrases sounding one the to of provide gorge. The broad, calm stream that coastal plain enthusifered and the basketful by flows by Potomac park, separating most engaging and productive fields asm will be promoted. Tet, tho end, Washington and Virginia, narrows for biological study In the East will not hegls to be evithe Plummer Island, In the river above dentresult, suddenly above the city. Its shores until afterward because this change from bottom lands and gen- Cabin John, for more than 23 yean to the season for tha tumult and tly rolling hills to take on the stern- has been In the possession of the er aspect of palisades, cut at fre- Washington Biologists' Field club shouting. cannot concur In the claims quent Intervals by deep gullies, and haa served aa a station for the. advanced by Postmaster already some small of which g amas-lnobservation of wild life. An through n Farley that the streams enter the river in tumultunumber of new species of plant In la election for Mr. Roosethe bag ous cascades. and Insect life has been discovered velt more than I can believe any Oa the Virginia aide, where the on this Island and every precaution Hamilton of Chairman that John cliffs rise almost sheer from the wa- la taken to protect it from depreda- the la equipped with Republicans ter's edge, these ravines are so steep tion and to preserve its value aa a special foresight enabling him to and so numerous that a Journey natural biological laboratory. say that Governor Laudon la a sure The National Capital Park and winner. along the bluffs entails more travel vertically than in a borlsontal di- Planning commission has had a defI said above that the campaign rection. inite program to save thla region of has all the appearance of a horse The Three Sisters, truly magnificent scenery as one of race and a dose one. To that extent Just above the handsome Francis the show placet of America. It rec- It la a condition much more favorScott Key bridge and the old Aque- ommended that the federal govern- able to 'the Republicans than obduct bridge, which formerly carried ment acquire the entire gorge from tained throe months age when, aa a canal across the river, the trio the top of the Virginia bluffs to the I recall I suggested that If the elecof Jagged rocks known ns the Three hilltops In Maryland and .from tion were held at that time, Mr. Sisters recall a romantic legend of Georgetown to and lncludlng Great Roosevelt had a advantage the Red Men who once roamed Falla. ever anybody the Republicans could The commission's plans excluded name. To say now, therefore, that these rugged shores. dams from the area, aa It the race probably win be dose to these the power tradition, According rocks mark the place where the states they would destroy the chief necessarily Indicates two things: three daughters of an Analostan scenic values of the Great falls unification of RepubUcan strength, chief were caught in a whirlpool and Potomac gorge," end, further- and some mistakes by the Demoand dragged to their watery grave. more, arp not necessary, because cratic leadership (one may properadequate power may easily be oth- ly inquire what haa brought about They were paddling across the rivso a secret obtained at a reasonable the unification of the Repuberwise to the er, story goes, on coat." Powhatan lovers with' their tryst licans). The answer seems rather the Virginia shore; but the liver obvious. It la that the Republican Beat In Ita Natural State. demons Intervened and. after acWhether or not the gorge of the party has been reorganized from complishing the destruction of the Potomac shall become a national tip to toe. The reorganization haa sisters, caused, the three gloomy rests with congress, which been more sweeping and more effecrocks to rise from the spot where park must authorize Its acquisition be- tive and the result much mors sattheir bodies sank beneath the waves. fore the Park and Planning commls-alo- n isfactory to the country than most The and Maryland Virginia can proceed beyond the bound- political observers had any reason shores converge rapidly as one Jouraries of the District of Columbia. to expect I say satisfactory to neys up the river, until a few miles It could In no way be mure tho country" because the Repubabove Washington they are separat- Certainly to the nation than In Its nat- lican party la a major political unit useful ed by less than 100 feet of water, ural state a place of rare beauty and, though at present a minority now swift and turbulent and a joy forever to the rapidly in- party, will come back to power Above Little Falls, which is a some time. The Democrats have population of the Washingseries of rapids, the river widens creasing been a minority party, and the ton district and the sgaln. Numerous Islands spangle g stream of visitors to course of human events has witthe Maryland shore, while Virginia's the national nessed It restored to power. So capital from all of the the cliffs become wilder and more world. people have a stake la either and whichever one proceeds rugged. The waters pursue a more party, Probably no other capital city In to improve its leisurely course here, but it Is only political structure Is a temporary calm before the storm, either hemisphere haa scenic assets giving something of vital value to and 15 miles above the Capital they comparable to Washingtons Great the country as a wbol. falls and the Potomac gorge. The gatherroraioajMtRrplmsgrDveri late O 0 Viscount James Bryce, ambaswall of granite which all the PotoUnitto Democratic of Britain The Great sador the attack oa the macs ages of work has been unable and staunch ed and for States the friend last sixteen Republican to wear down. years has been These falls offer a scene of im- admirer of America, In writing of U. U. tho beauties of Washington in the concentrated to a pressive grandeur. Heaps of rocks National aaldt Ho e Geographic Clean Magazine, ate lnrga extent oa are acattered about enormous grantho charge that to la WashIn live of It reefs impossible ite bowlders and Jagged the Republicans were some and be struck not some of Titan If as ington by ago long gnels Chairman Farley haa conhad vented hla wrath by upheaving peculiar feature and some peculiar tinually harped on that alleged which beauties Itself. The your dty possesses. the crust of the earth condition. When tha Republicans wilderness of the place, as the wa- In the first place, Its site has a house did their deanlng Job at great deal that is admirable and ters churn and boll In their took Cleveland, they away an ImIs There Is rising ground charming. warfare with the rocks. tosu from tha Democrats, potent n on level aides all some of the to space, Inclosing comparable only hot even so some of the Demolarger mountain canyona of the and so making a beautiful amphi- crats and somf Independents like sire behills between rlca that theater West, and la hard to conceive as wmnmas: Ca'F the TBit llhla iRwTSTIfci ka, refused to- accept the purging Underneath these hills and run- as ital city. genuine. ning like a silver thread through the Ths Gorge and Old Canal Norrls disclosed hla Senator of the valley la your admiraNormally the.xixerJiere .tumbles middle very definitely the other day through a rather narrow channel ble river. whea ha broadcast a radio speech. two has kinds ef Ha Tha Pplomac In Its race for the Chesapeake, but employed the allegawhen spring melts the mountain beauty the beauty of tho upper tion that tha Cleveland convention snows and deluged valleys pour stream, murmuring over a rocky waa dominated by special Intertheir overflowing streams Into Its bed between bold heights crowned ests," and that ths platform adoptupper roaches, the falls become a with wood, and the beauty of tha ed there was plainly reactionary Uke out a lake wide from flood spread shore expanse, that rages swirling Senator Norris haa not supportto ahore with a roar that may he below tho dty into a, vast sheet of ed a Republican candidate for 12 sliver. heard for miles. although he ran for year, Ohio and so The old Chesapeake noble No European dty has alx yean ago as a Republican. canal which paralleled the Potomac a cataract In Its vicinity aa tha Ha befftves la Mr. Roosevelt and from Georgetown up to sad oa be- Great Falla of the Potomac a maglariats Mr. Roosevelt alone caa that waa begun about the nificent piece of scenery which yog save th yond the falls, country. same time aa the Baltimore aai will of course, always preserve." It to U he assumed also that Mr. ir- X, C. Roosevelt will ha, th the . LaFollettea, Governor I'hH, In men, however, have label selves as Progress; and? carried the party label of Matofr . J Democrats or Republican There will be other of th warp and woof. There line Democrat who iu ator pope land of hew Tort J done, take a walk. Alfred to not going to support the Dealer nor will a great hla follower. So, It l otruT, each party will be mbjected fectiona of one kind er aaotl ) J J W x to. oa moss-encrust- four-yea- tree-shad- ed ' theext 'I General-Chairma- 60-4- 0 . ever-swellin- g, never-endin- r. boss-controlle- d. never-endin- g - . tt L-' attl-tud- e' -- time-wor- n Now,, concerning miatakq have been made: Chairman Farley made taka politically When be ng i t J Alfred K Some don wt the Uttk--b MUtakee typical prairie governor g state." That i i haa been rising to haunt thl crane chairman almost dally It escaped from hla llpe, ant , I miss my guess he win heir k ( posted, throws Into hla teefl many times between now tq vember that the words 5 him a stomachache wjulrdcgi I green applet. Tho reasons this remark serious blunder are two. ritt foremost Is that every state b Union rightfully ha Justified af its people. Its commerce ug dustry and Ita future Every state feels profound meat whea its capacity te I things la questioned. Conscqi when Mr. Farley, catalogued I? saa as a typical prairie ititif Its governor as Uttleknon, 6? waa a surging tidal wav gj Sentment, aad It waa sot mM Kansas alone. The second reason why Ur. I leys remark cut the wrong was that Mr. Farley I 1 i 1 Torker and a Tammanylte. Ti la something repulsive to the i about Uons of many, and a very great many rs dents of prairie atatea long objected to the attempt of New Yorkera to "run thlnp? the whole United States. Another mistake that Jbeah made, really a sertea'of miitii la the coercion that haa beea p on among thos mlttedfe-g- o celvlng relief. It la not n: fair to charge Mr. Farley ud h Ident Roosevelt with these, yeti inclined to believe they could h prevented local Democratic I tldana from attempting to font lief clients to vote the Demrt ticket Tbat condition haa oba'i In aa many as fifteen states U to one of those thing b Itlca that naturally causes I slon of feeling, yet It la one of 8 things with which the leaden)fli slbly may hsve had nothing ly to do. The fact that they aj have prevented It and dldiotkj cepted by the average voter bj same light a thotF, actly-tbwritten order directing iod cedars bad been Issued. The handling of the tix In thlij by the administration not ha elon of congress character warranting too praise. It haa alienated mail entlal persona who might otte have supported Mr. Roosevdl e On the other side the Republican can yet, them. On the the' of make ptoitjl Other Hand L'l the Democro one regard: they have s charged with the respond government for the last twj one-hayean, and thereto lf not have to answer for administration. It lie to o of th Republican managed fora- ,- - political-betwee- bow and n electloa are capable of so dlEP started out with n palga and have a continue It, whereas the i caa conduct an offensive caa J only bo long a they j terlng onto a defense 0i I New Deal policies. I understand that tb national committee is V dashboard with material & but from this atage ofthat ' seems quite apparent tor going to need plans and wen as offense, j hrra entturiairtic owa some spots to their The Democrats are o" 4 ' j Governor Landoa ory tharth aurs of his plana and to ho haa don nothing hi country to appraise ther la no assurance, a hla election, that he U m. f.r tk. Job o' Cble i N '2V V S? J V k n,i'CUrri York Democrat. b man nor party tru pledget was to be the ther is where must begin to defend. U j b! 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