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Show T1IE Page 2 weekly reflex ni Jim and hard headgoing after tome hundreds ed, of fourth class postmaster who have been rack- ""Tv steering" at the ex. pense of the GENERAL POSTMASTER News Review of Current Events the World Oyer P7 THURSDAY; rTTAr 1 ernment In III spectors a 1 r e Credit Expansion, Reopening of Banks and Rehahilitation of Railways Planned Ocean Mail and Ship Deals Under Investigation. - were at fault. ROOSEVELT, It la now largely In the hands persons, know that the recover program has been slump-In- of the mayors of our cities to desomewhat of late, because the termine. whether the public works rising prices of program will fully serve Ita purpose commodities have In aiding In the economic recovery not been met by of .the country," said Secretary Our national purchasing Irkes In bla address. power and by treasury Is waiting to .be drawn Rtlll npon for hundreds of millions f averse to currency dollars for useful public works. and de-- j Inflation The administration In Washingi valuation of the ton can approve .your project and dollar, the Chief advance funds necessary . to comI Executive called In- - plete them. 3 W have moved and k ' I J to conference aev are moving expeditiously. If circumersl high ofllclals spectly, but there Is a point beyond of hie admlnlatra-tlowhich we cannot go. .to plan for "W can glva you money; we can further expsnalon of credit and for help you to decide .what ; rojeef to thp reojenlng of closed hanks, there- undertake ; w can aid you In superby freeing several billions of dolvising your work, but ws cannot delars represented by the frozen as- cide for you whether you want pubsets of those Institutions. Secretary lic works., Ws cannot force you to f the Treasury Woodln, not yet re- move any faster than you art' willcovered wholly from his late Illness, ing to move." was one of the conferees; the others were Secretary of Agriculture WalOCEAN mall and ship lace, Attorney General Cummings, contract let during the Oov. Eugene" Black of the federal Hoover administration are under reserve board, Iewle ,W. Douglas, director of tha budget; Jesse IL Investigation by sonata committee heeded by Senator Jones, chairman of the Reconstrucriugo RIack of Alation Finance corporation ; Walter J. and Interestbama, Cummings, conservator of closed deals are being ing conT. O'Connor, banks, and J. F. On the revealed. troller of the currency. first Black day Following the conference the that Hencharged President took train for his Hyde ry Ilerberman of Park home, and on the train bs New York, presibad a long talk with Prof. James dent of the Export H. Rogora, Tale economist.. Rogers corporaSteamship then returned to Washington and had directed tion, discussed financial matters with one of his employDouglas and others. This led to the ees to pay a ffllO report that some change Involving tailor bill of T. V. OConnor, then the purchasing power of the dollar States shipwas Imminent, but dispatches front chairman of 'tht United board. This Ilerberman flatping Hyde Park said no announcement ly denied, but he and other witon monetary policy was forthcomnesses were not able to easily dising yet. pose of testimony concerning alSenator Thomas of Oklahoma an- leged favors to various former ofnounced that aeveral groups work- ficial a. It was disclosed that ocean ing with him for Inflation had de- mall subsidies paid to the Export cided to sus;iend their campaign Steamship corporation annually for the moment to permit trial of amounted to more than the organisthe credit expansion program pro- ation paid the shipping board for posed by President Roosevelt. eighteen vessels.' It was stated with authority that A formal statement that C..Raa-rothe President hojiea to get a large Slemp, of 'Virginia, who once proportion of the 6,000 closed banks was secretary to President Coolldge, reopened before January 1, when had heljwd to tha ship purthe deposit .Insurance system goes chasing deal atengineer a price lower than Into effect In order to qualify for originally asked by the shipping deposit Insurance, banks must be board waa placed before the comliquid. Thousands of the closed mittee by Ilerberman. banks, the President Is advised, are In a letter to Senator Black, solvent but not aufllclently liquid to of the committee, Herber-machairman meet the requirements for reopenwrote that Slemp had billed ing. To make them liquid, addi- him for f30,W)0 for legal feet In contional capital must be provided. To the extent such additional capital nection with the sale of the ships at f7.50 a ton Instead of f8.50 at is not furnished by the conmiunl-tleIn which the banka are situated asked by Admiral Palmer of the It will be supplied by tha R. F. CL, shipping board. The sale price, Ilerberman wrote, through purchase of preferred stock In the institutions, Recording to the waa a compromise, and the quesplan approved at the Whit House tion Involved waa the per ton to be paid for shipping board veaaela," conference. adding that Mr. Slemp acted In OTEKL manufacturers, under the connection with this matter and felt hta service were worth, as I urging of resident Roosevelt that recall. 50,000, l actually paid him and Joseph R. Eastman, tor of transportation, have agreed 115.000 3,000 on July I. 1925. and to competitive bidding for the sale of fl2,WW on July 19, 1925." ralle to the railways, and Mr, Enst-maSlemp resigned aa secretary to announced that 700,000 tona of Mr. Coolldge In January of 1923. Mr. Mina G. Irvine, who waa secrails will be bought as soon as financial arrangement! can be made. retary to O'Connor for many years If the bids of the steel companies at the shipping board, testified ah .show that reduction In the price negotiated several Florid deala for have been made, the money will be Ilerberman. She said that after a loaned to the railroads direct from Justice department agent had sought to Inspect file at her public works funds. board office with regard to the Competltlv bidding and bottom prices. It was hoped by Mr. Roose- transactions, she had destroyed the velt and Mr. Eastman, also would record. result In the purchase by the rail roads of quantities of rolling stock TEN convict made a sensational from the Indiana peniand equipment, which deals, too. would be financed by the govern- tentiary at Michigan City, stole aument. Loans for buying rails. It was tomobile, kidnaped a sheriff and said, may run to some ki1.WlO.OOa scattered. Followed a great man Equipment loans may surpass that hunt by hundreds of police' of Indiana and Illinois, which was attll amount , Reports of railroad business are going on at this writing. The entire population of Pennsyl sncouraglng. Tha first 67 railroads reporting August business had a to- vanlae eastern penitentiary at Philtal net operating Income of J61.064.-000- , adelphia; comprising 1,492 longapproximately dnblethar of term felon, taged a wild revolt "the preceding August A year ago because they had loot their special the figure for the same number of privilege for a previous' riot. They carriers was f25.8lO.lWO, the In- best the warden severely and set fire to their mattfeeaee, but finally crease amounting to 97.8 per cent The net operating Income of these were subdued. carriers In July totaled f33.804.WW, George Kelly, a notorious desan Increase of 341 per cent over perado known as Machine Gun, July, 1932. Gross revenues of ths Wanted for participation In the kid 67 carriers In August amounted to naplng of CL FUreehel of Oktaho f247.260.000, compared with me City, waa captured In Memphis. In July and 1210,132,000 In Tenn after a long hunt. Ills wife August Inst year. also was arrested and both were taken back for trial. INI of our large cities are In Kelly Is also charged with having desperate financial atralta and a part In kllltnga and robberies In have been looking to. the' public Kansas City and Chicago. work administration for salvation.' There has been much criticism of ri I.NU'LAKDNER, one of Amerl the slowness with which the f ca's best known humorists, died of federal money allocated at hla home In East Hampton.. Long for municipal and state projects la Island, tfter a long Illness, at the t In England being hauded out by Secretary of age 'of Mrs. the Interior ickes, the administraWilliamson, an Ameritor. Cut Mr. Tckoa met the may-er- a can who wrote many popular nov of 63 cities at the Chicago els' In collaboration with her EngWorld! fair and let them know lish husband, G. N. Williamson, plainly that the dtlea themselves passed sway at Rath. Ilk PRESIDENT c n m n a u a ehlp-pin- -- f243,-800,00- O 1.750,-OOO.W- ' forty-eigh- 1-- M V g fy have conducted an Investigation of the facts, and It la like- ly many of the sin1 ners will lose their positions and some of them may gojo M prison. Postmaster Fourth clasa postGen. Farlay masters, most of whom are In amall village, receive ICO per cent oni the first f75 of on postage they cancel, 85 per cent on cent 75 and per the next 100, all In excesa of 175. To this comof pensation are added the rental allowance an and office boxes post of 15. per cent for rent, light, fuel, and equipment They also receive a commission of 8 cents each on all the money order. Till, method of compensating these- rural postmasters, it appears, prompts some of them to nse varito Increase cancellaous device tions. The more atampa they cancel, the more they make. have reported The Inspector many schemes adopted by postmaster to swell th cancellation fee. Some of them. have mailed bricka, gravel and other bulky and worthOther who conduct less article. a stores aell groceriei to their localities In other friend and and by affixing sufficient postage on the baga and boxes Insure their delivery by th rural carrier In the neighborhood. They not only received profit on th sales, but also received from the government tb amount of stamps placed on the packages, plus the nsual per cent Representative J. J. Cochran Instigated th Investigation, and It fa expected that In the next session of congress he will lead a movement to have the present system of compensation of fourth clasa postmasters radically changed and thousands of the offices abolished. i.u By EDWARD W. PICKARD Moth and the Flame ' J New York Men Question of Truth WNP "l e. mi. bu btuc( 1- i! By ED HOWE reads Shat I write ANYONE whoto Stand a good deal k Indulgence of repetition, so I for again that old maxim J saying have significance as representing the best slsdom there Is. Another virtue In maxims Is they are always well and simply written. disA very old one tells of the around hover position of a moth to a candle, and get Its wings singed. There was once a man named Henry Holt who had high Intellectual equipment, and as much education as the best universities, and loifg association with the best people, could supply. He was a book publisher, with such rare critical taste that hla firm wta outstanding. He owned and edited a quarterly maga-xlnso excellent I have preserved nearly every Issue aa an example of perhaps the best average writing ever displayed In a magazine. He wrote a good many of the article himself, and ranked. aa one of the best American writer. But In every Issue of Unpopular Review there waa an article (usually by Mr. Holt himself) about spiritualism. Thla hovering about a dangerous flame finally resulted In the failure of the best printed and beat edited magazine In our long list, and bad acara on the reputation of the brilliant editor.' In the nse of Ink, pen, type, here waa a master comparable to Napoleon Bonaparte In the use of gun a, powder,, soldier, but Henry Holt could no more keep from nronnd the flame of hla moat dangerous candle than Napoleon Bonaparte could keep away from Moscow In the early winter of il 812. . e - rela-tfve- hovering I long time ago a New York man called on me, and requested that I Introduce him to William Jennings between Bryan. A few minutes after the organized TROUBLES employers, predicted men met, the New Yorkef said some time ago, are coming fast. something that Infuriated Mr. BryCoal miners of western Pennsylan, and be displayed a rage I did vania to the number of nearly a not know was In him. The encounhundred 'thousand were on strike, ter took place In the Bryan home calling It a "holiday In West Vir- in Miami, Fla. Before I waa out of ginia also there was labor discord. bed next morning, Mr. Bryan teleAt Welrton 8,000 employees were phoned, and apologized for so comforced Into Idleneaa In a dispute be- pletely losing hla temper. Hla extween company union and an Inde- planation was that all New York men Infuriated him, they so generpendent union. The second attempt In two days ally believed themselves superior to to picket the Clalrton works of the others, because of their residence Carnegie Steel company waa frus- In the big town. trated and deputy sheriffs hurried I understand that the depression to the plant on a tip that another has greatly chastened New Yorkers; tnvaalon waa planned travelers Inform me they now disEmployees of the Ford plant at play considerable respect for men Chester, rH struck, and the Ford from other sections. company promptly closed down th 1 once plant "for an Indefinite period." A published a war story on federal mediator was sent there, the authority of a common soldier but was told there was nothing to of 1862. At the time I wrote the mediate. The Chester workers former private had become a bank planned to go to Edgewater, N. J president, and an exceptionally Inand ask the Ford employees there telligent' and reliable man. The to Join In the demnnd for more general In command denied the aupay. thenticity of the Incident outlined It was expected that General by the private, who, In bis defense, Johnson, recovery administrator, aid he witnessed It with hls own would soon announce carefully eyes, heard with hla own ears the drafted plans for a general reorconversation reported, and In perganization of the NRA "from an son participated In the charge deemergency, temporary aetup Into a scribed. Waa not the evidence of cohesive body ready to function this witness worthy of consideralife of the rethrough th In describing a famous tion? covery act" ancient battle, a leader reported Drawn by Thomas S. Hammond that a river left its bed, and charged of Chicago, with the aid of the polafter a regiment of retreaticy board, the plan calls for greathundred reliing soldiers. Ilad er accent upon by able common men participating In Industries operating under codes, the same action declared no such with the government to step In only marvel occurred, I believe the teswhen necessary.. timony of the majority should have been considered with that of the figure among leader who wrote a book. ANtheOUTSTANDING statesmen gathered at Geneva for the coming disarmament Spartans practiced health, effconference la Dr. Raul Joseph iciency, that they might become good Qoebhela, propagansoldiers; history tells some terrible da minister of the cases of butchery practiced by them. Hitler government The Pennsylvania Dutch practice of Germany. He habits that they may become good may not be so Imgood citizens, and thus avoid war, portant as Foreign drunkenness. Idleness, and poverty, , Minister Van other. of th extravagances of civbut for the ilisation. preseut he Is more In the upper middle class In the voluble, and It ta he United States there are mllllona of who la putting forth men 1 admire more than any SparGermanys demands tan. In cultivating good habits,-th- e for arm equality Spartans made too ranch of bravery and who ta ostensiaa exhibited In fighting. The Pennbly doing the "horse sylvania Dutch,--another citizens trading for hla country tn the successful above the average, are that center about the French proposal for aupervtsloa of not fanatical about any one thing, but try for a reasonable average In anna during a test period. all good habits. The German delegates, tt waa aatd In Geneva, had been given full Ho you recall how the American power by Hitler to conclude a disarmament accord, and an Indication people were forced to advance the that some agreement might be money loaned to foreigners during reached waa teen In the fact that the World war, and which the now Impudently refuse to the French and German statesmen back? pay In hundreds of commuwere brought together at a carenity? the newspapers printed dally fully arranged private, dinner lists of those also by Slrlphn.SlmoiL-- al cltlzfugjhnjKeraW. m producing money to be some and Italians. England Italy abroad; the American who loaned' haa been favorable to Germanys refused a demands to a certain extent, and . to make a loan to Ms foreign denouncedeverywhere . bae by plan allowing the hble. and publicly Insulted. partial rearmament of th retch. The Germana were willing to accept Some women do not believe It Is th supervision plan but only If the commission were authorlred to su- i ladyl'ke to get along cordlally.wlth pervise, hot armaments, but merely men, and constantly ehgage In ef-- . effectives. In other words tt would forts to keep themjn their places. see that Germany carried out Its obligations to transform thcytelchs-wefiMntReading is like permitting toan a short nd to talk a long time, and refuslna disband send military organization. you the right to say anything in k mi. Waatarw A i ... two-yea- r up-hi- ll t appear Washington. that th Eighteenth amendment will be out of Ponder Ligoor the Constitution by the middle of Iv Control broth-i-ML-W- -- I . o terq-nrtl1- tla Nrpr Unto. J huttsl and I x last-ditc- h er old-tim- a Ufli am not ntki truthful and all 1 f,rM t I that jour asrelanM,0 un ag im, tr'un V""1' iai rest i ti Mr You soc sometime, with a child. He comeJ'J1' you are buvT. bout the hUsh iB ting on jour ,ld feel like t.at him- - "What ls-i- t Nothing, thing. I was y irritation "Just telling yoi." ten. you something quite sure of hls Jon out and you treated and held hi. That time he found grinding. IN a & C jnsfwi; J0" worthy, Y' J0B way?" you st M thfU denee? for Ot 2?! . tJT didnt know that It rather liked her and Btit he doesn't know thq J were friendly under,! As the campaign to repeal prohiunderneath, you see. bition approaches an end, another At another time he toH backed campaign, 44 adminlaItflS1 TerJ Childs the Nouf? by Buy 1"1 ,"a about a little girl Campaign On by NRA, Is getJust now, Gen. ting under way. Hugh S.. Johnson, national recovery administrator, Is trying to get the country to bay, or those who still have money are being nrged to buy now. It la a part of the geueral scheme to set commercial and industrial wheels in motion, because If those millions who still have Jobs and who have been bolding tightly onto their money will let loose of some of it for the things they need, there will be s big difference In the total sales In the country. It Is a fact beyond peradventure f of a doubt that thousands of persons, their confidence shaken, possibilities ot lost Jobs, funds tied np In closed hanks tnd that sort ot thing, have simply refused to buy their nonal' quantity of merchandise. They have been denying themselves many things which they ordinarily would buy, because of the uncertainty of the times. General Johnson Is simply asking them to return to their normal ways of living. Tt Is not confined to the Individual consumer, this holding off from Retailers have been runbuying. ning with Just as small a stock as they can, and Jobbers and whole-- ' salers have held down their Invenwaittories to the minimum. which the policy ing retailers, the Jobbers and the wholesalers have followed, necessarily has reacted on the manufacturer. General Johnson has a dual purpose In hls buy now" campaign. He has been promising those businesses that sign the NRA codes that efforts would be made to encourage new business, or a revival of old business, for them. Besides, it ta Imperative to most of them that they obtain a greater volume of business. They cannot meet the needed' expense of higher wages and other e code costs unless something like trade recurs. General Johnson la trying to push the buy now" campaign on that account as much a to force business upward. If business revives, of course, it means more Jobs, and more Jobs means restoration of prosperity. old-tim- An Important wet leader told me that he wanted to prevent return of the saloon and Thumbs Down wanted to see oin "sensible on Saloon means provided for distribution purely as a matter President Roosevelt's program to of If such ac- buy farm surpluses of food for tbe policy. tion is not taken, he said, there will countrys poor be another fight against prohibition and destitute Is Food Surplus staring the wets In the face at once. for Needy ProbablJ about Since the wets want repeal therethe most popular fore, they can be counted upon, genI have thing he had attempted. erally speaking, to propose as well heard as support, any system that will Most little criticism j around here. of the folks with whom I have make for elimination of those em- talked have him tor the barrassing features of liquor sales move Just as praised as they critivigorously that brought on prohibition in the cized him and Secretary Wallace, first place. of the Department of Agriculture, There are numerous schemes and when they announced their scheme systems under discussion. Thus far, to pay a premium for pigs and for none of them seems to have cryssow's about to farrow in order, to tallized Into a program hehind which force hog prices higher. A large majority of. the strength can be of the pork from that whole-salpart mustered. Having seen prohibition and I believe ridiculous, slaughfights In numerous instances In conter of pigs went Into fertilizer. It gress. It appears that there la likely was the most wasteful thing that I to be much hauling and filling In the state legislatures on the questions have seen a government do. I believe the consensus centering around control That state- here Is the same among observers as my own. But ment. however, must not be under-stooas applying to the real leaders the program of using that meat, and portions of the aurplua wheat and on either side of the probllem. The small fry and the politicians who cotton and dairy products and fruits, ets to relieve suffering, la quite a will want to feather their own nests different matter. In the first are the folks who are going to make everyone x.rr,ia l iVgtstxtrnirgnfr course as human, a course' that will cult. do some good. The same can hardly te said of the former arrangement, And while we are discussing despite the claims of ...the ibniln my- - ? reported' trust" economists who argue that that there has been a decided differ ence of opinion as to how It will bly higher prices will prevail as a result of come operative. Some argument Present plans cail for the use been has advanced that fe;eal kill not be 'Operative, even after thirty-hav- of about "75.000.000 ' of federal six states ratified the new money, funds contributed to the amendment, unty the Department treasury by taxpayers of the naIn the of S.ate, here in purchase of the food Washington, Issues tion, a proclamation to that find clothing materials. That ought effect Others to have claimed that action by thethir S buy many mealsand-fo-In aiy language n,ay Ieak. state automatically will rot' la food however it Is obtained. estate the Eighteenth . . , amoMaent UU-Nwpir Czlo. long-rang- . RE'you The Department of State, aware of ai potential controversy, has made op Its ponderous mind, I am In While official aay there formed. Is no announcement to make at thla la that time, the information I haa determined the department there mhst be a proclamation Issued when the necessary number of state have voted repeal But It seem to be preparing to ward off trouble by an arrangement providing jfor the date of the proclamation to Ye the same as the day of the last vote. It appears, therefore, that when the last convention haa been held, a day or so will elapse before a certificate of Its action reaches Washington, and then the proclamation, drafted and signed, will be formally Issued. As a practical matter, of course, the country will know pretty well what It can or cannot do long before the last convention la held, and prohibition repeal likely will be celebrated before the machinery In the Department of State geta around to pro-viousl- IS TRUST-WOR-T that are gt recognized as one that la exceedingly serious, and those. who are really seeking to perform the proper functions of public office In state ana nation seem-tbe moving In the right directions when they give consideration to adsale control and to minimizing Bale. In legal liquor mitted danger The drys, of course, have not still can given up. They think they amendment block repeal of the There are only half a dozen more states needed on the affirmative side of the proposition to get the amendment out of the Constitution, howstates ever, and whenever thirty-siIt is their views. have expressed made to appear as unlikely that a move by the drys will defeat the repeal program which President Roosevelt pledged in advance of hls election. Dry leaders here in Washington have guarded their plans with the utmost aeerecy. They will not disclose what they plan to do to hold Inup repeaL Undoubtedly, It will decourt to resort clude proceedings alsigned to prove that the votes some on ready taken have been void And I aay It la technical ground. such a basis, find possible they may but Inquiries among nearly all of the recognized legal authorities have failed to disclose that any jot them see how the dry can' be successful In view ot the reports from some dry quarters that the method of voting will be attacked as illegal It might be of Interest to recall that United States District Judge Clark of New Jersey held a feW year ago that the Eighteenth 'amendment never wak In the Constitution at all' He decided that since the states had voted through their legislatures rather than through conventions, the amendment never had been ratified. But the learned Judge was promptly overruled by the highest tribunal which determined that the Constitution Itself gave congress the utmost freedom In choslng between the ratification of a Constitlona! amendment by legislatures or by the convention system. So It would seem, according to legal experts, that the drys have little hope In that direction. It Is quite possible, of course, that lome one or two of the states scheduled to vote between now and may upset the applecart by voting for retention Instead of repeal, of the amendment In which event there would be delay. Government officials tell me, however, that repeal is almost certain. So the question for consideration, then, obviously Is, "how will Its e sale be controlled to avoid the saloon and Ita attendant evils?" In this matter, the wets will go a long way with the dry In seeing that restrictions are thrown about the sale of liquor that will remove some of the curse that admittedly as tied up with the corner saloon. tant problem; it d pub-forw- ard lHmheT' of Ita Imminent repeal haa set many about t thinking beads the wjs control of liquor sa'ea which thereafter will be legal It is afl Impor- Neu-rath- for-signer- s Into the limbo of things gone but not forgotten. like. It now e e, the-pta- n. e od wzj f. happened along ind W was astounded. loo 1 that you had betrayod w r denee. J Maybe sometime om " dren got Into trouble Bo Into It because of hls lneiperlence and hit He wa Impulse. to you with hit Yon were so angry to tm the trouble this thing vn bring to him and to yoo a lost your head and stone pirate. The child decided I j nse to look for help fro m ter and left home, makg I matter worse. AilW The experiences with us are what set thotrir toward us and other people j No child ever grew f I giving his people some tnot trouble Is cleared away m child redirected earlier e greater certainty, If he ho I frlgh-cam- understanding mind and a hand ready for him. Asr selfishness, will drive from us. THIS C, dEMrs LEISURE hi from the Is causing a w ness, there Is a normal Ida haa to be taken into accotfl ASIDE children1! the nlng a&j School does not take ifidi." time. Home can oi wtj orpoi ft, aa home That throw the child b' himself for several boi "Thomas, will yo k . 1 alJ Let him that dog? stand this barking and 1 anotbw chasing .around If Take him outdoor! play." j dont want 7 to I There nothing doing "Then go do aomrfMjj ow A boy of yoor age tw better to do something i with a dog or drum 1 -Tel) me somethin! do it. rm w with sticking around j Read a book, why P "Read a book. read a hundred have some fun. j rn J bj.1 to do." J something -- - 10 That end ginning and S world. ?n thla something to do live. When we have no d W w whi bItteV ( makes for can wTe tbe by training they ! little chlldr" , . never but more d gnniMaient-ftt-eontro- be give her something nice i birthday, and he asked Il and you promised to W; meant well about it. y thla first gllmmej of hla girls. It was so shy nd that you couldnt help nuffla and telling it to Aaatti e t0 8top 2Tti ! house This U no l children to ooT y Housework, work ; animal. In order. Wbcglflf g and activity BntvU Intended to t ) hobty" the Utile and hi . to folk m b! (f V hands find t what rood thing frt!n' You an be -- - Wtr f |