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Show cifirnmvT x BPVnvS'l. Events the World Over r Nears in Embroglio Mussolini Defiant, Great Britain Ready Committee of Lawyers Hits Labor Relations Act. Italo-Ethiopi- an By EDWARD W. PICKARD Union. 0 Wnttn nounced In Dome that Italy would accept no compromise and would not retreat from the course It hns laid out In East Africa; that its military preparations were being intensified, and that Its forces were adequate "to respond to any menace whatever." Still more Important, In the light of development, was the cabinets announcement of strengthening Its milt tary forces In Libya, where General Bilbo has been establishing a strong Une of air repots Tills colony border Egypt on the weal, and there was Immediately a lot of speculation as to whether Mussolini planned to attach the British empire In thnt region. Italian forces In Libya have received reinforcements of 40,ivo men with tanks and Held artillery, and are much stronger than the British forces In Egypt. If economic sanctions were Imposed 'on Italy, Mussolini might well reply by' threatening Great Britain In that quarter, by Invasion and by arousing the native population to revolt Premier Laval'a speech before the League of Nations was exceedingly clever but did not clear the situation While he gave assurance sufficiently. that France would abide by the league covenant and fulfill Its obligations, he hinted that his government would demand.. In return that Britain enter a definite engagement to carry out the program agreed upon In London on. February 8 an air Locarno with matlc enforcement and the conclusion of Danublan and Baltic security pacta One after another the nations represented In the league announced their support of the British stand against Italy. If the British do not back down and that seems unlikely and If Italy persists In Its sdventure, the league will be called on to apply article IS of the covenant This requires the submission of any disputa likely to lead to a rupture, to the council which mast then try to effect a settlement. The council also wlU adopt aa its own the report of the committee of lira which has failed to find a solution acceptable to Italy. The parties to the dispute are obligated to keep the peace for three months In any event which would prevent an Italian campaign before tbs rains set In again pi Ethiopia. If In the next three months either Bide accept! the councils decision, the other party la automatically outlawed If It starts a war at any time In the future. In that case, the penalties against an aggressor as provided In article 16 must taka effect automatically. . It la believed In Geneva that the penalty easiest to apply would be a general boycott of all- trade with Italy. In that case the course followed by the United States would be all important The European statesmen feel confident that they can count on President Roosevelt once a war breaks out to Interpret cotton, wheat and other raw materials as ' war ' material and under the American neutrality legislation forbid direct shipment to Italy and Ethiopia. "Take a look at this," virtually, said Great Britain to Italy as she mossed a great fleet of powerful warship In the Mediterranean. Many of them were at Gibraltar, others at Malta and Alex-- , aadria and yet others at the entrance to the Snex canaL Practically the entire north Atlantic fleet was concentrated in the inland sea, and there was a chain ef fighting vessels all the way from there to China and every one of them was ready to defend the supremacy of the empire. The royal air force, too, was fully represented at the naval bases, and the shore garrisons were reinforced. This was John Bull's reply to Mussolini's defiance, and It might well give him pause. IT TXCONSTITUTIOXAL Is thever-die- t of the American IJherty leagues committee of 58 lawyers on The AVagner-Conner- y labor relations act "It la our belief," aald the opinion, written in the form of brief, that the statute unnecessarily and arbitrarily infringes upon the Individual liberties of the employer and the employee and la therefore Invalid." This la the first or a proposed series of opinions on recent federal legislation by the committee of lawyers. It was formnlated by a subcommittee consisting of. Earl F. Reed of Pittsburgh, chairman; Harold Bencom, Chicago ; Harold J. Gallagher, New York ; D. J. Kenefick, Buffalo; Harrison B. McGraw, Cleveland; Gurney K. New-lln- , Los Angeles; Hal 11. Smith, Detroit, and EL Randolph Williams, Rich- mond, Vs. Copies of the opinion were sent to all members of tho full committee and dissenting opinions were Invited, hut none were offered. Raoul E. Desvernlne of New York, chairman of the general committee, denied that It was "packed with Republicans, bnt he did not explain why no labor lawyers and no attorneys with New Deal leanings were appointed to serve. Among the members of the committee are James M. Reek, nationally known constitutional authority and former solicitor general of the United 8tates; Balnbrldge Colby, secretary of state under President Wilson; John W. Davis, Democratic candidate for President In 1934; Joseph B. Ely, former Democratic governor of Massachusetts ; Ralph M. Shaw of Chicago, former head of the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment; James A. Reed, former United States senator from Missouri, a Democrat, and George W. Wlckersham, chairman of President Hoovers commission on law enforce- ment Frank EL Morrison, American Federation of Labor secretary, aald: "This committee simply represents the views held by special privilege and big business, which have always opposed every piece of legislation Introduced In congress and the states to bring a little more happlpesa Into workers ' homea. A. ories that monetary control must b from a "national viewpoint" that the government should sjiend heavily In bad times to create employment and expand credit and that It should tax In good years to reduce debt and prej vent excessive accumulation of Income. who used to be secretary of the Interstate Early Potato committee,, has been made head of the potato Section of the Agricultural adjustment administration, and his 'troubles are' Just beControl, of ginning. the potato crop la considered a natural sequence In the. policy that la being .followed by the AAA, andr llke other parts of Secretary Wallaces agricultural plan,- It la supportsearnestly and as seriously condemned. Among those who oppose potato control Is Porter R. Chandler of a gentleman' fanner. Geneaeo, N. He has advertised extensively his Intention to grow and- sell potatoes in defiance of the federal potato control act and Invites prosecution. . Now, with comes Norman CL Norman, a New York Jeweler who some time ago defied the Jewelers code, He sent to the ' gentleman farmer an- - order for six or more bushels of 'strictly Illegal potatoes, and the order Wai'fllled at once. Norman suggested that the. potatoes be routed through New Jersey to make the offense' Itater'tate; and offered to make more ' than one purchase, "aa it la my understanding that the second purchase will entitle me to go to the penitentiary." Ek MERCKER, . I, - advertisement In weekly maga-- 1 sines of national circulation are now being used by the treasury to promote the sale of baby bonds The aim of the campaign Is to Interest small Investors In these bonds, the smallest of which sella for (18.7ft with a cash maturity value of (23 In 10 years. hundred members of the German relchstag, all fervent Nasla, met In pedal session In Nuremberg and at the demand of Relchafuehrer Hitler, passed two laws bearing down bard on the Jews In the relch. The first of these new statute prescribes prison sentences as penalties for marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood, and declares such marriages void If performed In n foreign country. Extra-marit- relations between Jews Ado Ht,r and Aryans also are punishable by prison sentences. Jews are forbidden to employ women under forty-fiv- e years In their household! after January 1, on penalty of Imprisonment Jews era not allowed to hoist the national flag, being limited to the Zionist blue and white emblem. The second law provides that only a person who "belongs' to the protective association of the German empire and la especially obligated to the relch This may be a citizen of Germany. citizen must be of German or kindred blood and show that he la willing to serve the German people. Thus Jews and Germans of whom the Nasla disapprove may be excluded. Hitler also pnt through a. third law establishing the Nazi Swastika as the national. and trade flag qf Germany. The war ministry was Instructed to adopt a war flag of blaik, white and red. In hla address to the relchatag Hit leg. aald. that by the laws adopted he hoped to .deliver a fatal blow to Communism and Jewry. of Jewish THE Committee has appealed to the League of Nations on behalf of the Jews of Germany, declaring that the conscience of mankind will not tolerate that Jews should be degraded In this century a t pariahs Chancellor hitlers aroused G The common house fly Is a hitchHowever, the fly doesnt both. tr to Jerk a thumb and ask a rids; g files Into moving autos or even trains or airplanes without permit, lion and often travels hundred of iillea before leaving Its chosen reticle. This habit of files traveling great Jlatanees on other power than their wn has made local fly eradication V ampslgns less effective than the ampalgnera hoped. Cases have been found where a fly carried disease terms on its lege and body for mile ind Infected people In the community where It settled. No previous cus4 if the disease were In existence la die new community and health an thoritlea could find no other source if Infection than files. Repeated warnings of pliysiclnnt ind health officials have apparently tailed to InatQl n proper fear or the tirase fly In the average mind. How-ivea more thorough knowledge of the habits of a fly would Increase die respect for thla tiny Insect, so mrdlng to authorities on the subject. Decent cleanliness In any home requires protection against the menace of files. Whether a fly Is homa-soror a hitch-hikin- g visitor, he la i danger. Fortunately, an effective program can be conducted In any home by the use of a reliable ly spray containing an ample quantity of Pyrethrlna, a product derived born Pyrethrnm flowers, which It death to files, when sprayed In n fine hiker. ftAT lOtfaj-r- i D AID Newspaper Vf ATTER3 in Genera were rapidly fJVl approaching a crlili a crisis for I Italy and Ethiopia, for European peace land for the League of Nation ltaelfl The Italian cabinet; In which Uussolln! hold! eight portfolio!, an- FLY SPREADS DISEASE HITCH-HIKIN- S. ECCLES, head of the system, has been by the President and so will be chairman of the board that will put Into operation the new banking reform law. Later the President will name sis other members of the board. Mr. Ecclea la the exponent of the the- MARRIXER iNews Review of Current jGrisis SMTTHFTRLI). UTAH E 5 t Lt)d,Al When President Roosevelt entered the White House March 4, 1933, every dollar Cheek on of federal money that Washington. Spending wal expended was accounted for and the vouchers reviewed by the general accounting offices. J. Raymond McCarl, comptroller general of the United States, occupied and still an Independent position occupies In the accountings he directed and the reviews that were made under the budget and accounting law. But with the arrival of the New Deal and the crisis In government and the nation arlaing from the depression, scores of new laws were enacted, new agencies of government were created and billions of dollars were appropriated, the hulk of It being spent without refer ei.ee to the accounting act or the bureau of the budget Congress, under White House direction, did not make these 'new agencies or their spending accountable to the comptroller general It waa almost two years before President Roosevelt saw fit to make any of the emergency agencies, the alphabetical soup, amenable to the general accounting office. Consequently, millions upon millions of dpllara were spent and only the spending agencies knew whether they were spent In accordance .with law. Now, however, things have changed. Late last winter, the President began extending the broad wings of the general accounting office over emergency agencies and has continued to do so until, only the other dqy, the last of these were made responsible to the comptroller general Thus an Independent governmental unit one with no axes to grind again Is In position to say whether federal money Is being spent as congress directed and In a manner which the taxpayers have the right to demand. This spending of money in gigantic amounts always breeds' suspicion. It causes people to Inquire, whatever the form of government may be or whatever political party may be In control whether there la waste or graft, whether the holders are feathering their own nests, and many another question of the like. It waa true In the case of the New Deal Observers hero In Washington constantly were receiving Information alleging thnt 'this Individual or that bad been displaying signs of. unusual prosperity; that rumors were afloat . concerning graft and crookedness In one agency or another and that somebody ought to expose the goings-owith respect to a named department of government It waa not an unusual circumstance because In every administration we here In Washington who attempt to see and to hear aa much aa we can, get the same kind of reaction. Only, It seemed to have been worse this time and well It may have been, because the amount of money made available to President Roosevelt and hla subordinates was so much larger. It la my belief, however, that there has not been more of this Intangible thing called graft In government In the present administration than In moat others. There has been some crookedness because there have" boon courtcunvlc-tlon- a officials but-1- : expect when and If the future lays bare all facta concerning the present administration and Its handling of the vast sums of money available to It. It will be disclosed that moat of the New Deal officials have been honest In their disbursement of funds. Their friends may have profited.. but, If they. have, that Is Just a .repetition of an old story, h circumstance always developing in government managed, under the two party system. .To. the victors always go the spoils. then-offic- J Vd the motives be proper or Improper. From this point one may look Into the crystal of the 1936 campaign nnd It takes no stretch of the Imagination to visualize what a pounding the New Deal opposition will give the Roosevelt administration on this question of spending. When Mr. Roosevelt began spending, he declared It was Justified because hundreds of thousands of citizens were starving. Ills next pronouncement on this subject by way of explaining continued expenditure waa that If the government spent freely, It would serve si a priming of the economic pump; that the circulation of federal money would-alloIndustry to sell and that Industry would replace by manufacture the things sold. That, too, brought little or no result Then we entered the current stage where the spending was to be closely supervised and only projects that held promise of actually developing manufacture and retail selling would be approved and financed by federal money. It la regrettable but It la i fact thnt almost nothing has come of tbla program. And to make matters worse, lately, Secretary Ickea, public works .administrator, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins have locked horns on the bulk of the projects on which federal money was to be used. It Is not strange that these two men should differ. Mr. Hopkins, being a trained, a professional welfare worker, sees things only from the standpoint of the Individual who needs food. Mr. Ickes has a conception of federal spending that embraces the use of money In ways designed to start the great Industries In motion. He figures that If these Industries get going, they will employ workers; the workers will spend their wages and the retailers will profit thereby and, aa the retailers sell from their shelves, they seek replacements from the manufacturers. The controversy between Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Ickes, therefore, Is not one to be settled by compromise or by. soft words. In fact. It may never be settled until one or the other gets out of his place In the govern- . mist Mas Plays With Leopards Possessing a strange fascination for wild animals, a mysterious man haa been visiting the London Zoo recently and playing with the leopards, He arrives usually at quiet times, leaps over the fence In front ef the cages, rolls up his shirtsleeves, and then, one by one, caresses and .even kisses the great beasts. When he stretches hla bare arm between the bars the animals come to him, and fight among themselves for his favor, but never harm him. In another cage a Kenya lion tries to get through the bars to win a caress. The stranger la abont thirty-five years old, with shoulders of an athlete and the wistful smile and delicate hands of a poet ment The Importance of the row to the reader of this column, however. Ilea largely Break for n the fact that tho Taxpayers particular reader la a taxpayer. The connection I simply this: the last congress appropriated (4,880,000,000 for nae by the administration In public worki nnd relief. If all of that anm were spent the public debt would be Increased by that amount because Internal revenue taxes are Insufficient to offset more than the ordinary government expenditures. Therefore, If all of thla money la not spent, and It cans not be spent If the dispute continues to hold back administration plana, then the taxpayers win have Jnat that much less of a government debt to meet through tbla payment of their taxes. So the President's order placing all administrative agencies under the general accounting office to see that their spending la honestly done and the developments within the administration over a difference In policy must be taken together as a break for the taxpayer. Ickes-Uop-kl- remarks President Antonas Smetonn to putting out the first interview he haq granted In sis years In It he declared that Lithuania, relying to the utmost on the legality and Justice of her stand and action In Memel affairs. Is ready at any time to defend her position before the permanent court of Interall the nation was WHILE Constitution day, the cl rinational Justice. But should an efsens of Pennsylvania went to the polls fort be made to disrevoted and overwhelmingly against the gard. legality and Juscalling of a Constitutional convention tice, In favor of force, for the purpose of "modernising" the la Lithuania stated President prepared, basic which law was state's adopted Smetona, to "defend Memel with all 01 years ago. Since the proposed means at her command. changes were to have a decided New the Continuing, President Smetona aald: Deal trend, the Republicans looked on the result of the referendum aa a vic- "Memel la to ua an economic necestory of national significance. The re- sity, not a political Issue. We are too moll a nation to engage In political vision was strongly supported by GovAgriculture adjustment administraernor Earle and the state Democratic bargaining, aa we are too small a countion officials are about rendy to pro- to engage . In contrrpropagsnds. try and also organisation by organized sent to the farmers Our only point la that Memel, containlabor. Potato of thla country a da-.esLithuania's la an only seaport, New Mexico voters turned down a ing tailed plan for con Control sential of Lithuania. the part And. to exboost their proposal property trol of potato profreedom and of Lithuania preservation to (2,500, along with four other emption duction. It wtU provide means for la to her people a precious thing. suggested amendment! to the state boosting the Incomes of the potato constitution. farmers something more than 100 per to came Julea one (tamtam, DEATH "elder statesmen," at If Mr. Roosevelt has been able to cent, and will Increase the cost of this the new Philippines Item of food to consumers by a proWHEN crookedness, Is formally born on Vervey, Switzerland. He was ninety keep down straight-ou- t portionate amount, of course. Conold lived and had to Is be in he commendretirement November 15 In Manila, with Vice years Cntictze ed. It will remove ferences soon will be held between the President John M. Garner officiating since the dose of the World war, from the forthcom AAA and representatives of farmers' though he waa frequently consulted by aa Its godfather. Spending officials of France. Ills brilliant high ing campaign some organizations to work out phases of Manuel Queson, for 20 aa a diplomatist covered nearly of the mud slinging thnt really has no the plan reqplrlng termer approval career lender of the yean Various thoughts arise If one reflects 50 years, lie served as ambassador In place in national itolitics. But, while the fight for Independupon potato control. First, control of the President Is entitled to commenWashington five years. ence, will be Inaugudation for the attempts at honest dis- potato production marks the fourrated aa Its first bursement of funds, I hear more and teenth agricultural crop brought unGENERAL president In the reCMPTItOLLEIt cent election he nnd opinion held that more criticism of the way the money der regimentation and It presents, there Is no legal authorization for the baa been Sent. Indeed, It appears probably, the toughest of all of them his entire ticket were federal government to pay out any now that the vast expenditures by the In the matter of enforcing Its provivictorious. The deadministration are likely to he as sions. funds for the construction of a furnifeated rivals for the much of a campaign Issue as Is bis Adoption of the potato control ture at Y. EmiVa. were This Ileedsvllle, factory presidency lio Agulnaldo, who led hns been a project esiiednlly favored proposal to alter the Constitution tq represents attainment of a point In the life of the AAA where one the rebellion again! It was Intended fit New Deal pluns, by Mrs. Roosevelt. step led to another nntl control of poAmerican rule years ago, and Bishop originally that the factory should make Every one knows that when an In- has Gregorio Agllpay. They were virtually furniture for government olllccs and dividual's pocketbook la touched, he tatoes waa essential or the whole plan snowed under. give employment to transplanted coal riaea In revolt. By the time the next of crop control flops. It will be re8erglo Osmcna was elected vice pres- miners. A year ago McCnrl refused to election comes around Individuals will called that the declared purpose of the ident and victory of Manuel ltoxus. sanction an allocation to the factory have bad their pockdtbooka touched AAA at the beginning waa only for the Qulntln Paredes and Caniilo Oslas as- from recovery funds. Then congress ratber forcibly by national and state control of cotton. Land withheld from cotton then was planted to tobacco sured the new president ample lead- turned on the project on the ground and local taxes of an Increased ership In the unicameral national as- thnt It discriminated against private amount Thus, It Is easy to see how and tobacco had to be controlled ; when tobacco was controlled, and the land sembly, where he also will have a clear Industry. McCarl says the Department the criticism of Roosevelts spending of the Interior went ahead with letting Is voting majority. Srtd'can continue to grow. withdrawn, termers In some sections growing turned to peanuts and pennuta had to Quezon's term of office Is six years contracts for the construction, never The government lias been pushed ten be controlled. and hla annual salary will be (l.tona thelesa, and the building Is about 80 or ten or twelve billion more In deht r The commonwealth will be a 1 understand the AAA Is per cent completed. considerand the end ! not In eight despite prelude to complete Independence from ably worried ahnnt the Job of enforcHie fact that Mr. Roosevelt has intithe United States. Quezon, who la largeUse potato control taw. Thnt taw adopted by the Iowa mated on several occasions J) ('SOLUTIONS lately that ing Farmers union In convention si he ly of Spanish blood. Is years compulsion against overproprovides proposes to curtail federal old. He has numerous friends and acDes Moines demand that President duction in the form of a tux chile- -e for except emergency quaintances In the United Sthtes and Roosevelt dismiss Secretary of Agrl Those announcements and any tax of 43 cents a buahel In addition, for a long time has Iren a frequent culture Wallace from the cabinet and there are iieniiltlea of an nnmxingly visitor In Washington In his endeavor halt "the program of hunger." The future declarations he may make are ei ere kind -- (Who flue for (lie first of. not going to soften the antagonistic to gain Independence for the Island AAA was railed "Infamous, worthless TeiiM nnd ImprlNoniueiit for not mure reeling that people have for any puh and vldon." archlpelnga ilinn n year for ill aecoml lie ol'lelhl a ho wastes luoney wlieiher H Kuwpipt n n Ickes-IIopkln- i MOSQUITOES FLIESSPIDZRS OTHER INSECTS ua Quick, Pleasant Successful Elimination Let's be frank theres only one for your body to rid Itself of the waste material that causes oddity, gas, headaches, bloated feelings and a dozen other discomforts. Yonr Intestines must function and the way to moke them move quickly, pleasantly, successfully, without griping or harsh Irritants la to chew a Mllnesia Wafer thoroughly, In no cordance with directions on the bob-ti- e or tin, then swallow. 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