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Show 4 U) UTAH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSOX. News Review of Current Events the World Over Edward VIII Becomes Ruler of the British Empire; Substitute for Unconstitutional AAA Rejected by Senate Subcommittee. PICKARD By EDWARD W. Union. Newjnper GEORGE V. Tht oriel king of Orent emperor of India, died ji Sandringham house, peiicefully Mid pulrdessly. year In Ids seventy-firs- t Immediately on his pussing, his eldest son, Edward hud who Albert, been prince of Wales, Biuseeded to the throne, w ld b by British law, Is never vacant. Next morning the stute council, consisting of the queen and her four ions, which had been created by a dwree which George signed a few hours before his death, proclaimed the accession of the new rider ns Edward VIIL Ills first olllelal act was to notify the lord mayor of London Of bis fathers demise. King George, who had been on the throne almost twenty live years, was the best loved and most democratic of the worlds inonarchs, always Just, solicitous for the welfure of his subjects, and living a simple and almost faultless domestic and otllclal life. The new king, a confirmed bachelor, knows his vast empire In- timately, having visited practically every part of it, some regions many times. Decidedly different from Ids father In his tastes and ways of life, he still, as the prince of Wales, has been a great favorite of the people. and In recent yeurs, realizing that he would soon have to mount the throne, he steudied down and took an Increasing Interest In the alTalrs of the empire, lie Is especially liked hy the laboring classes. In whose welfare he often has shown deep sympathy. That he never married has been a disappointment to the British people. Now for the first time since the reign of William IV there Is no prince of Wales. Next In the line of succession Is the kings brother, the duke of York, am) second conn's the duke's little daughter, lrlncess Elizabeth. There l will he six months or more of mourning for George's deutli, and Edward VIII will not he crowned for ubout one year. The body of the dead ruler was removed from Sandringham house to the little church of St. Mary Magdalene In Sandringham. Thence It was to he taken to Westminster abbey, there to lie In stnte. Interment Is to he In the Albert Memorial chapel at Windsor, beside the tombs of George's father and mother. It was believed the stute funeral would not take place for two weeks. olll-cla- i! did not provide a method for '!t 1114 the cost of the bonus, which Ift at 2.337,000 000. The senate suggested the Issii.inre of the 5,70 "h.ihy hoods" whh h will hour Interest at 3 per cent arum, ill until It 15 If the etetan electa to hold on to them. Kith veteran will receive the I'.tlfi value of his adjust'd cotnpen nation certificate In $70 bonds with government che k for odd amounts. Interest owed hy veterans upon loans unpaid on their certificates Is canceled, hut there will he no refund of Interest paid upon hticlt loans. authentic APPARENTLY sources are St . I t credIn con- ited, according to Democrats gress, with a report that Jesse Jones, ItFC chairman, may become secretary of the It was treasury. said that Henry Morgentlmu, pres- ent secretary of the treasury, may he made confiden- tial adviser to the President. New One man, congress who keeps abreast of developments In government financial circles, said he was reasonably sure the change already has received some consideration from President Roosevelt. Another added that It was a ldOto-- l shot that It Is Democrat, under consideration. and Bepresentutlve The reports were discounted to Marvin Jones, some extent, however, hy the fact Democrat, Texas. that the President has Just renomThe hill was re- inated Jones for two years as chairferred to a senate man of the ltei (instruction Finance subcommittee. The corporation. members of the subOne Democratic representative arcommittee doubted the constitutiongued that on the basis of Ills past ality of the new measure ami di- record Jones could curry Into the rected Secretary of Agriculture treasury the respect and confidence Wallace to write a new hill. The of both Mg business riuI the man bill rejected hy the committee In the street." He described the Stilted as Its purposes: RFC chairman as sufficiently lib L Preservation and improvement eral to command the support of libof soil fertility. eral elements and yet not leiiiiing 2. Promotion of the economic use so far In that direction as to alarm of land. conservatives. 3. Diminution of exploitation and unprofitable use of national soil renUKMir.lt NHSSIM PASHA, sources. weary of Ids Job since the 4. Provision for and maintenance riots started November 13, of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities ade- has handed the resignation of his cabinet to King Fuad L The resigquate to meet domestic and foreign consumer requirements at prices nation was accepted. NunsBii found It exhausting to fair to both producers and conkeep an equilibrium between the sumers. conflicting forces of the throne, the 6. and nuln British residency, the nationalists tenance of farm purchasing power and their compatriots. But the final Secretary Walluce was request) d blow, dealt him by the British govto write a new act that would proernment at Iamdon, was the thinly vide a plan of with each of the 48 states, and set up veiled ultimatum to Egyptian Nationalism. In the form of verbal Ina permanent program on AAA polistructions for negotiations for an cies, Chairman Smith, Democrat, The sting treaty. said. Saying he speaks for the to Egyptian pride was In the wordCommittee, Smith explained: Ve salil In efTect to Secretary ing that If the present negotia-Ion- s fall, the Br'tlsh their Wallace, Make It constitutional,' because we have the responsibility hands will be free and will revise their Egyptian policy. to pass It. Anglo-Egyptia- n con-dde- r 'T'HE compromise bill providing payment of ihe soldier bonus, whipped through cotigress by crushing majorities, was passed on to the President, who Is expected to veto It Congressional action of the measure was completed when the house voted Rid to 6: to secept the senate substitute for the bill It had previously passed. The senate vote was 74 to 18. Leaders of both bouses claimed they have sufficient votes to override a veto. Pierre I.aval has handed to Albert the of l.ehrun, cabinet. enlire of the resignation The radical Socialists: Minister of State Edouard Hermit, Minister pre-ide- nl 'T'llE senate munitions commlt-- tee which participated In a sen- sational controversy recently hy reflecting on the war record of President llson, has decided to request an additional appropriation of $7,500 to complete Its Investigation and make Its final report. Many Democratic senators have declared that they would not vote another dollar for the Inquiry, but Senator Nye, chairman of the believes the additional sum will be forthcoming. NN com-mltte- Goes to Washington. of Commerce Geore Bonnet. Minister of Meicuntlle M trine William Bertrand, and Minister of Interior letJoseph Iaganonx, composed a ter of resignation, condemning the domestic and foreign policies of Their colleagues Minister Laval. of Finance Marcel Bcgnier and Minister of Pensions Maupolt, refused to sign, dei luring they would a resign only with the cabinet as whole. The Notionalist Minister of State, I 0111s M inri, iil-- u dissented from the resignation I.aval, Informed of wluit was going on, l.anhd the president the resignation iif the entne cabinet. W! ..MW, " Wff W-"-- AVOWV'C - , $ ft bemical v;:v ' f ' ! I Cwf li A. of automobiles United in the St ites rose to 407, 01 In December, 5H bringing the year's total to 4 Commerce of the Department repot ts. The total compares with o,7.7 111 In PI84. At the same time .yo: .('W J of I ments Vy from it barrel glas -- 1,-si- ,t the department reported an Increase of $7,4S3,91 1 in exports of a the during products month of November from the month. November auto exports reached a valuation of This is the peak figure for any corresponding month since ,029, when the export total amount- Cet : 3? k-- Expos 7. TV robber b 4 ftrrlce ft fjtlKb dan g declined to send a neutral Investigating body to Ethiopia, which Ethiopia asked and to which Italy consented. 4. The league conciliation committee published a report that no new peace proposals are possible at the present time, and that the league should pursue a policy of watchful waiting. 3. 1 he league opening of the reign of VIII of Great Britain, was marked with an act of mercy. Arthur Charles Mortimer, under sentence of death for running down and killing a girl bicyclist with an automobile, received a reprieve commuting Ids sentence to penal servitude for life Mortimer's crime, murder hy motor ear, was described ns the first of Its kind In England. Kd-ar- d Hl'EY LONG'S lieutenants, the victory of their pri slate In Louisiana, declared that the late senator's fight on the Roosevelt administration would he pushed, with the program ns the spearhead of attack. Returns on the primary indicate a majority of more than 190,000 for senator, governor and other state officers. Nomination Is equivalent to election. mary sliare-the-wealt- h JNDRRE CRETARY of the Treasury Cuolidge resigned his position suddenly and unexpectedly, because he did not agree with all the policies of the administration. At the same time Assistant Secretary Lawrence NY. Itobert resigned. President Roosevelt accepted both resignations. It was understood there was no connection between the two withdrawals. Mr. Robert lmd been expected for some time to quit his post. In his treasury position Mr. long a New England banker, has been In charge of such government financial affairs as the huge borrowings of money to meet heavy government expenditures. He was understood to be In accord with most Roosevelt policies but felt he was unable to give his full support to the general New Deal program. It was not learned what specific objections were raised hy Mr. C00-- . lldge blit they were believed to revolve around such constitutional questions as federal versus state rights. Coo-lidg- OCDYARD KIPLING, poet and ' 8tory writer who best embodied his literary work the Ideas of British Imperialists, died In London following an operation for perforated nicer of the stomneh. He was seventy years f age and In recent years had written very little except as a propagandist. He was a vigorous and hold writer and a master stylist. Ills best work was done long ago when he wrote no- mernus poems ami stories about lu dla, Its natives and the British so4 filers there. In i, - jlties A ic ChI;Y sales uinof letured conflict. untl-BritM- li II wn gov- present federal relief pro- THE grum, depending principally on work relief, OCO and public wanks, Is alone costing approximately as ed to $27,129,903. much as the fourfold program which went before and which embraced Et'ENT League of Nations these three Items plus direct reAVel have gone heavily lief which has now been returned to for Afaspirations against Italys of a to study the stutes, according acOf four rican major conquest the relief problem and the govertl tions taken by the K. Kendall finances merit Hoyt by assembled powers, In the Analyst. led again by AFor Immediate purposes, at least, nthony Eden of there Is nu prospect of much reGreat Britain, two duction In the rate of federal ex definitely were anMr. to lloyt. pendlture, according tagonistic to Italy, In order to prevent the states from one was a draw and funds more relief back for trooping one was somewhat Its pledge the government must keep In the Fascist to employ the arbitrary three am! favor. Tjiey state's which have million one half persons : were been carried since last November 1. The league principally under WIA and CCO. In decided to council ac dollar terms this means that, oil an move embargo against against cording to budget estimates, the outA committee of experts was Italy. for relief the lay for recovery and appointed to ascertain If oil sancfiscal year ending June 30. 1030, tions could he made effective. will he almost the same as that 2. Britain announced a military namefor the preceding fiscal year, alliance with France, Greece, TurIn round numbers, billions three ly, naor an average of 230 millions per key and Jugoslavia, and these atshould aid tions Italy pledged month. of sancIt Is within expectancy, therefore, tack Britain because Czechoslovakia Ktiiimnia and tions. that costs to the country will reach promptly Joined this group, making a new high unless economic condicombined tions Improve more rapidly than can seven nations pledged to action against Italy should war now he foreseen. come over efforts to stop the Deal's substitute for unconstitutional AAA, a hill empowering the secretary of agriculture to pay farmers who coop erate voluntarily in a program of soli conservation, was Introduced In congress by Senator John 15. Bank-hea- THE bill uni several months of Ai; Abraham Lincoln Jluertc ac 't Its wa Matalner gl beer t the (from photograph taken IM JANUARY, I&4I) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ... 4. r a EBRUARY 12, 1938 day In America's calena holiday in most of dar the states of the Union . . . a day of remembrance, of eulogy, of flinging his name birth- r Lincoln's Arrival in Washington, ittrfisea 1 r , y- 9" I Jrhlcl In pi only use r h.d. stitt)7 (from the painting But let us go back to an other Lincolns birthday . . . to February 12, 1801. A short, little locomotive with a flat topped smokestack, is pulling along the single tra k that winds among the gently-rollinhills of Ohio. Back there In one of the wooden coaches a tall, gaunt man sits by a window gazing out over the bleak winter landscape. Yesterday he had stood on the rear platform of a train at the brii k railway station In Spring-field- , 111. A crowd of nearly a thousand people, silent, bareheaded In the cold, drizzle of rain, had listened to these words: "Friends, no one who has never been placed In a like position can understand my feelings at this hour nor the oppressive sadness I feel at this parting. For more than a quarter of a century I have lived among you, and during all that time I have received nothing but kinduess at your hands. "Here I have lived from my youth till now I am an old man. Here the most sacred trusts of earth were assumed; here all my children were born; and here one of them lies buried. To you, dear friends, I owe all that I have, all that I am All the strange checkered past seems to crowd ertlbito win Yes, he Is of America States? President-elec- t ... or should of the United States the Disunited he say Six weeks after his election South Carolina had passed Its ordinance of secession. During the next month Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida had followed the Palmetto states lead. On February 4 representatives from these states had met at .Montgomery. Ala., and organized the 'Confederate States of America. Five more, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas, were almost certain to join the six that had already departed from the The future course of three Union. border states." Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, as well as the northern slave state of Delaware, was doubtful. And always In the background loomed the threat of a fratricidal war between the North and the South. So much depended upon what he said and how he said It that he had toiled, night and day, for three weeks over his Inaugural address. "He wrote It as a composer writes a symphony, says Don Classman lo the Washington Star. "He marshaled all the melody In words, all the rhythm of speech and euphony of language to build a monument out of cold syllables He weighed every one on a musical scale. He employed them as full notes and half notes. He would pronounce each word separately and feel convinced of Its necessity both as to thought and style. By the time he finished a sentence It would harbor no contradictory thought or coarse note. The words were riveted together, ao that to strike out an adjective or syllable would upset the thought and leave a gaping hole In the sentence. Ever since his election, his mall had been full of letters bearing southern postmarks. Some were signed with the names and addresses of the senders ; others were anonymous. They were filled with such words as Black Republican" "mulatto scamps, rascals and "jailbirds, thieves." "Caesar had hts Rrutusl Charles the First his CromwelL And the President may profit by ... for a co e!or ordinary Jili beat, cher Csrlal t1, . S ?d 8 al( now upon my mind. Today I leave you; I go to assume a task more dilficiilt than that which devolved upon General Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with and aid me, I must fail. But If the same omniscient mind and the same almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fall; I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now. To Him I commend you all. Permit me to ask that with equal sincerity and faith you will ail Invoke His wisdom and guidance for me. With these few words I must leave you for how long, I know not. Friends, one and all, I must now bid you an affectionate farewell. the next four Jears. n glass S, day. Now I am an old man, be had said. Yes, Abraham Lincoln Is fifty-tw- o years old this twelfth day of February, 1S61. But he has come a long way in those 52 years. This should be a happy birthday for Abraham Lincoln. But his three boys. Bob and Willie and Tad, hear the sigh that escapes from his lips as he turns from the window and they hush their noisy play. And Mary Todd Lincoln sees In the deep-se- t eyes that look of sadness which will shadow the face of this "Man of Sorrows" for t ijarfc ... against the stars." For this Is Lincolns jacinre m tpoo .t "S red-lette- The First r. Inauguration tFRon ah old inexpon ' of night, sneered some of his enemies.??01-' called him "that Illinois ape. Thus Abraham Lincoln came to Never before nor since has a President-terethe nations capital to assume tc . of his high office under such circumstat voy' PI d 4-- tds Wr Al The next eight days were a nlghtmare-n- i " sistent annoyanee by a horde of rumors of disasters that were about ti ,ANT of threats, of sneers, of countless in("P,ejy ft March 4 dawned a blue Monday. been raining. Pennsylvania avenue was'Cd by highway of spattery mud. Silence hu'nist C oxer the crowd massed around (he NVillajoma, as President Buchanan and President el challe u coin entered an open barouche and the avenue toward the Capitol Sharif ypeS were stationed on the house-top- s wlthi'iant x gjpd sweep the avenue wdth their fire If any uprising. In the side streets troo; ijfvl Other det er massed ready for action. were stationed beside the Capitol s'3Umel near the north entrance a battery of was ready to unleash a blast of death lfj,e (fli-Still unfinished, the Capitol dome ge( jj mounted by huge derricks held In place cables. People might have drawn t ajjjp f parallel between the condition of the On a level y and Its chief building ra spectators stood the bronze figure of gaffibi which wobld later surmount the dome. jn a she was making silent appeal to the jf job-si- 'nr stfi-aco- A Letter From, the South their example, warned another, which was signed from one of a sworn band of 10 who have resolved to shoot you from the south side of the avenue In the Inaugural procession on the fourth of March, 1881. And still another declared: "This Is to Inform you that there Is a club of 1(X) young men In this place who have sworn to murder you. It was hard for him to believe that anyone should desire his death. But conviction came at last More disturbing, though, were the rumors of men in high places who were about to turn traitor to their country and who might have guilty knowledge of plans for reducing It to a state of anarchy. So he sent the adjutant general of Illinois to Washington to sound out Gen. Winfield Scott, head of the army. Scott was a Virginian and his loyalty was suspected. Back came the reply from that doughty old fighter: Tell Mr. Lincoln that. If necessary, Ill plant cannon at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue, and If any show their heads or even venture to raise a finger. Ill blow em to hell! But not even such reassurance could bring peace to Lincoln's troubled mind. As the train bore him nearer and nearer to the capital and to the day when he would take the oath of office, his despair deepened. To the anxious, listening country his speeches on the Journey to Washington were disappointing, writes Nathaniel NV. Stephenson In The Chronicles of America. Perhaps his strangely sensitive mind felt too powerfully the fatefulness of the moment and reacted, with a sort of lightness that did not really represent the real man. Arriving Allan In Philadelphia he was Informed-tha- t Pinkertons Secret Service men had uncov- ered indisputable evidence of a well-laiplot to assassinate him. He was nrged to leave the City of Brotherly Love that night His reply was: I have promised to raise the flag over Independence hall tomorrow morning and visit the legislature at Harrisburg. Beyond that have no engagements." After the Harrisburg reception a special train consisting of a locomotive, baggage car and coach sped back to Philadelphia. There Allan Pinkerton met the President-elec- t with a carriage In which he was taken swiftly across the city to another station where he boarded a sleeping car. On the morning of February 23 the wires hummed with the news that the new President had made a secret entrance into the capital. The Prince of Ralls sneaked In under the cover d ... sl( i black. ia yd He stepped forward until he stood N. Md canopy surmounted by the Stars and jjgori 1 For the first time a wave of cheering s" the crowd of 30,000 massed on the and In front ixt w Fellow citizens of the United States There was emphasis on that word 'j 0 The murmur of the crowd was husbeiif voice went on:m-jfirm, clear, The Union will endure forever . upon Its own mere motion can lawfully of the Union I therefore consider Union is unbroken . . . there need be shed or violence In your hands, my fled countrymen, and not In mine, Is Jg-- j,,, mentous question of civil war . . . Tbe ment will not assail you . . . You ,lilTe registered In heaven to destroy the while I shall have the solemn one to T . '. . protect and defend And so on to the end: I am loath to close. Ve are nt enet,te g,p friends. We must not be enemies. Tboi br J slon may have strained. It must not bonds of affection. The mystic chords ory, stretching from every battlefield trlot grave to every living heart and g V stone all over this broad land, will yet chorus of the Union when again tone surely they. will be, by the better angefc' als, nature. A roar of applause . . .from friend an sts, alike. Chief Justice Taney stepped forwsiiopi Bible. Then two met a t!l Ing a ed together: I do solemnly swear tba'dng faithfully execute the office of Presidet me s United States, and will, to the best of m.'lles, preserve, protect and defend the Coiistbiraxi the United States. So help me God !" for. Abraham Lincoln was President of traces. States. the g n ... ... ... gold-claspe- d C Weitern Newipaptr Union. Sent |