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Show " SS'MiX-hU- (JG Conservation ( for A 8 Human Resources Opportunity More Encouragement for Youth Attention to Making Life And Happiness iFOR DEMOCRACY night carry disease from port to Port Last week, a plagued boxcar carried industrial paralysis through Ban Franciscos wholesale district Causa of this strange epidemic was a shipment of school supplies which union warehouse employees said waa loaded by s. At lly Joseph W. La Bine auming nations are this year -- i"g Rve classifications of warehouses offered more grain than they want public, grocery, liquor, drlgs, hardg by a dozen nations. ware San Franciscos boxcar was To compete on the d expect market to meanwhile give U. S. termers a fair price, Secretary Wallace realized that subsidy would be necessary. From Waahington went invitations to grain dealers for purchase of wheat that the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation will sell abroad. Subsidy payments to producers, expected to be 15 or 20 cents per bushel, will come from (25,000,-00- 0 now available from customs receipts. To avoid throaboutting, Secretary Wallace sought an export agreement with Canada, which also has large surpluses. Meanwhile came word of heavy exports from Poland and Argentina, giving prom-la- c of a badly glutted world market wheat-producin- .rr,r. SL. SBiblical atari, largely over the earth, loir-price- de-S- S, birthplace. Hebrew also hated Araba who Turkey. yoke. World war waa thla yoke 2i d;X2r L with Great BriUln'a aid. Great Britilnto KaS expected Paleatine m a aUver and them outfoxed them. 1917. the tae.lghted Sreiin aecretary aaw Huaela per-3n- g Poaalbly the revolution coming European RSnSr. fw Jr', . So Paleatine wa. tephut them.national home for the a wed ai 1923 Great rendering Jew and in over Irltain wai granted a mandate land. he Bad Lord Balfour, foreaight all-ewi-sb aSa. Arab reientment boiled la ver into riot, again in 1938. Thla me worried Britain investigated, naQy decided to place Jew on one Ida id the River Jordan, Araba on m other. Since Araba got the big-e-st ihare and Jew the moat fer-l- e ihare, neither waa happy. Up-tiwa a new aeriea of riot, start-iearly la it July and continuing nbroken ever lince. Laat week, aa arried Britiih troop awept up aft--r Jaffa' lateit bombing, the world rendered how peace could ever ome back to the Holy Land. Jewa recall that when Moae led heir ancestor into the promiaed ind," aome atayed on one aide of he Jordan, ame on the other. Thus want more land, yet inaiat 1929, ot g leader of Czechoslovakias autoSudetens, Konrad Henleln is admittedly nothing more than Adolf Hitler's mouthpiece. So anxioua observers looked behind the mouthpiece last week when Konrad Henleln told Sudetens to "light back against attacks" by the Czech government Thus arose the latest crisis in a aeries of crises that has kept Europe Jittery all summer. At little Lanark, Scotland, Britains Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon made the bold assertion that Adolf Hitler must not start a war over Czechoslovakia, else he might find Britain on his neck. Coming from a member of Neville Chamberlains dictator-wooin- g cabinet, that pronouncement nomy-seeking SAN FRANCISCOS BOXCAR It earned pendytii genu. I Arab recall the Holy Land y as been their home 1,300 year, threaten to light unto death rotating their heritage. C.IO, ate-caQ- 'olitici at Washington, D. Republican made up during a What they lack end Watering heat and chicken at Washington, Ind. Iheir host waa Homer E. Capehart ice president of Buffalo Budolph furlitzer company, whole farm wa nvered with tenU until it Indeed ike a circus. Attending were Re-J- i Mblican from 11 states. Day before, G. O. P. "strategists" net in Indianapolis behind dosed bon, emerged with no comment Kept that they expected 70 more eats in congreu after next Novem-f- s election. Then, headed by hairman John D. M. Hamilton and lew Yorks Hep. James W. Wad-Ktthey headed south to Mr. speharts circus tents. To entertain 25,000 ardent Hepub-Bnj, Ringmaster Capehart spent fried 4,500 chickens, baked fM, 9.000 dams and roasted three nutioads of com. Said he: 1 am ck and tired of hearing bust-o- s men and men of all other Joup complain and talk against and then do absolutely A r of h, ... about it" 918 Mr. Hamilton, who seemed wtent with talking about it: d of hurling meaningless ept-- t at thow who disagree with Krthing In-tc- shunted to sidetracks. At each stop workers refused to touch It, employers retaliating by closing shop, discharging workers and abrogating contracts. After five days of wanNemesis dering, this had caused 2,000 workers to lose their Jobs, had closed 153 plants. Fortnight ago. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor talked with Franklin Roosevelt about the Wagner labor relations act. Outcome was a mutual agreement to amend it, providing more equitable consideration for both employer and employee. If this decision pleased William Green, It displeased C. L O.s John I Lewis, who was comforted a tew days of Donald later by Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations board. i Thus satisfied, labor's two warring factions began wooing each other. David Dublnsky announced his International Ladies Garment Workers, now on the fence, would try A- - F. once more to bring of L., together. William Green announced his willingness to puff a peace pipe. But overnight these gestures were nullified. At Cincinnati, C. L O.s United Mine Workers and Kentuckys Harlan County Coal Operators association signed an agreement whereby Harlan countys mines win become closed shop, whereby CL L O.a civil charges against mine owners will be dropped. Last month these same operators were prosecuted by violation the federal government of the Wagner act; the trial ending in a hung Jury. Since C. L O.s new pact freezes out A. F. of L.s Progressive Mine Workers of America, William Green found causa to fire a blast not only at John Lewis, but NRLB and the Justice department as wdL His charges: (1) that the pact forces A. F. of L. miners to Join or get out; (2) that the Justice department is playing ban with John Lewis by dropping ita criminal charges against Harlan county operators; (3) that the pact conspire to violate the Wagner act four-wheel- lent that Araba can at rly, In. As SIR JOHN SIMON Frenklin Rootevelt mad him bold. to But soon Sir sounded strange. John's boldness was explained. Said he: "You will have read the striking speech made the other day by Mr. Cordell Hull, American secretary of state, when he laid stress on . . . . . friendly cothe necessity operation. What he said, and what President Roosevelt said a few days later in Canada, must waken a responsive echo in many British to hearts. C.10 Franklin Roosevelt had promised to help Canada in the event id invasion. Great Britain was clearly relying on a farfetched hope Domeatic Mexico, SecreTo of U. S. support Two days later, it was plain the bluff had worked. tary of State Cordell Hull has sent Backing Britain eame France, Rus- two notes protesting seizure of term in American-owne- d each sia, Rumania and Jugo-SlaviAmerican-owne- d warning Germany to keep ita hands tend, (200,000,000 In oil land. Latest of these prooff Czechoslovakia. tests was a downright lecture to Mexican President Lazaro CardeWar nas, who would lose national presImportant goal of Generalissimo who win lose by Franeiaco Franco is the Almaden tige conservative support if he fails to mercury mines of southwestern back-tracThough Mexico guardSpain, where an offensive began Auadmits liability, she refuses to edly 1. Last week revived Loyalist gust indeed is unable to pay until troops closed in on Rebel Gen. Goo-zal- pay, economic condition her grievous Quelpo de lianas advance poLast week, as observers sitions at Cabeza del Buey, regain- improves. whether U. S. Ambassador wondered ing practically all land lost since Josephus Daniels had been neglithe Insurgent drive began. But Loyan altogether alists received bad news, too. In gent in allowing situation to arise, Cordell the Strait of Gibraltar, a 1,850-to- n .Hull heard tost (25,000,000 more destroyer waa waylaid by four In- American-owne- d property had been surgent warships. Twenty w said unofficial reseized. T"gfodd, killed, 14 wounded, and the ship of Publisher acres 80,000 were ports, limped to port jn hopeless condition. William Randolph Hearst's ranch. Still 100 miles from Hankow, JapAt Washington, Franklin Rooseanese Invaders captured Liuan and announced the U. & would gladvelt Suklafow mi the Peiplng-Hankoreduce armaments if other naly Chinese railroad, while defending tions would reduce theirs. Next day recaptured three Important towns the U. S. navy department drafted on the upper Yangtze river. Mean- tentative plans to 18 new ships. U. S. forin Since g 00 a, back-trackin- k. o w while, f Mr- - ?? U w J Hooseveh explain to hlv almost A"5"the 13,000,000 no I f y Session of MarUio I , Lmi 1920-32- than world-wid- e ." wcond day, speed publlcans headed for could ed,th CPbBrt show. rtAPRw-evel- t ext ' " Indtena enthusiasm tevading 47 other . usinegg i $ own il ' 4 bogged ndsLSountUul fu,rve,ta. culturt HcnrJ A. Wal-Sec-icedi- ?- 5 "t Ppof lan nil a eign policy association predicted conflict continuation of the Slno-Ja-p until the U. S. shuts off supplies. MASTER CAPEHART i a sick sad sired . . S ! Washington, ?rljr U,tuld month JESwr&S People In 1894, an unconventional American actress named May Yoha married England's Lord Francis Hope, owner of the famous Hope diamond. In 1902, May Yoha tired of English royalty, eloped with Capt Brad-le- e Putnam Strong, son of a onetime New York mayor. In 1914, May Yohe married again, this time Capt. John A. Smuts. Last spring, the once notorious May Yohe was found on WPA rolls. Last week, aged 89, May Yohe died at Boston. At Orange, Conn., John Coolldge, son of the late President Calvin Coolldge, entered politics for the first time by getting himself elected delegate to Connecticut's Republican state convention. Sports Last November, Capt George E. T. Eyston came from England to Utahs Bonneville salt flats, there drove an automobile 311.42 miles per hour. Fortnight ago, Captain Eyston returned with his huge new Thunderbolt to race once more. While American Automobile association officials checked him with an electric eye, Racer Eyston zipped northward run, through the hitting nearly 850 m. p. h. on the checked mile. But the electric eye failed on his southward run, so Thunderbolt set no record. Three days later Captain Eyston tried again with more luck. This time his black racer, whose tires must be changed after each run, whose thick aluminum cowlings are punctured by the terrific spray of salt, averaged 345.49 m. p. h. tor his round trip. think NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Prasidoiit'i talk to Canadians again stirs up controversy over St. Lawronco seaway project... Secretary Waflaco in dilemma hard over wheat surplus spring wheat growers balk on wheat quota system. ... President Roosevelt's appeal over the beads of the Canadian government none too enthusiastic about the St Lawrence seaway project to the Canadian voters has the privately owned utility companies In northern New York and New England a bit Jittery. They had assumed that the railroads and hipping interests of the Atlantic and Gulf states would continue to block the President in the senate against ratification of a treaty authorizing this waterway, and they had assumed also that the Canadian government would continue unfriendly. They have known to some time, through trade channels, so to speak, that the Canadian government was not particularly interested in developing more power from the SL Lawrence. Actually, the Canadian government proposed another source to power some time back. It pro posed to tunnel under a mountain. Just Interest, or Usury, Violates Divine Law Under the Biblical system of economics, interest or usury is forbidden. And it is plainly set forth that the issuance of currency and credit is the prerogative of the state and no private interest should ever be allowed to coin money, issue currency or control credit. Because they do not obey these laws nations are in their present predicament. Just how men can read the old testament and not be convinced of these truths is a mystery to us. south YES, IT WILL TAKE KNOWLEDGE Bernard Me Fadden, editor of Liberty, says that it will take knowledge to save democracy. That is very true but it will take a knowledge quite different from that proposed by Mr. Me Fadden. It will take knowledge that man the god and not money; that money.belongs to the people and not to the vultures of is international finance. t It will take knowledge that it is absolutely fatal for a system to be operated solely in the interest of the greedy few at the expense of the toiling masses; that it is wrong and even disastrous to elevate and honor the wealthy while crushing the poor. - rr It will take knowledge that it is nothing short of insanity to tolerate a system that feeds and fattens on war and poverty and that has made theie two base relics of barbarism its main props. It will take knowledge that it the height of folly for any system to leave its honored aged men and women to end their days in want and penury; that tolerates an army of many milis lions of unemployed and piles misery upon misery. It will take knowledge that the underlying principle of lasting democracy must be more attention to production for use and less for profit, and that there must be genuine cooperation along all lines of production and distribution. There must be knowledge that a system whose politics cannot thrive without graft and corruption, and that puts a premium on hypocracy, cannot and should not survive. Yes, Mr. Me Fadden, it will take knowledgel We Can and We Cannot Understand We can understand how men can work and scheme and connive and trade in order to get into office. But being in and given palatial offices, high salaries, necessary help and expenses, we cannot understand how they can stoop to enter into cons- piracies to steal from the state and the people, to accept bribes to thwart justice and betray the confidence reposed in them. There is no punishment severe enough for those officers who deceive and betray the people. More than a dozen times have we given out editorials in substance like the following from Dr. E. G. Peterson of the U. S. A. C. And this is our economic gospel upon which we will stand while we have breath. And we call it the purest and moBt undefiled Americanism that the mind can concieve. The unavoidable duty of America is to see that ita abun-dewealth, goods and service are placed at the disposal of the people. By some means this must take place because this is the thing for which democracy exists. The simple question is whther the goods and the services of America shall be utilised in the interest primarily of a privileged few, or whether we shall adjust our economy sufficiently to bring this weal'll and these goods and services to a greater extent to all of the nt people willing to work. Cooperation may not work miracles but in these days of confusion and danger it would act as some what of a saviour, a leveler of all the inequality, a creator of new opportunity, a forerunner of bet ter comunity life. It would save the country from revolution and preserve the American system. LABOR FIGHTS FOR THE PUBLIC A recent survey of public opinion by Fortune magazine, readers and cannot which caters to businessmen and well-to-d- o the union viewpoint. with labor sympathies, supports be charged Ita findings indicate that the majority of people in all walks is not a step in the direction of life recognize that wage-cuttin- g of general recovery. Would it improve the general The question asked waa: situation if labor accepted a wage cut" To this question, 63 per cent of the people polled answered No, and only 2.6 per cent answered Yea. The rest qualified their replies or said they did not know. A breakdown of the replies shows that factory workers and the poor gave the biggest majority of Noes. But it also ahowa that even executives and the prosperous voted by two situation. to one that wage cuts would not improve the general auch is alignthere no that to this Such polls aa prove help maintair to labor when fighta the versus public, labor aa ment 1 their production does not staapdeato the problem at dlL At a matter at fact, thla country usually imports from Canada huge quantities of hard wheat for blending in order to make flour for bread. In tha territory north of tha Ohio and east of tha Mississippi, extending all tha way east and including New York and Pennsylvania, wheat a special problem. Tha farmer In that huge territory does not particularly want to grow wheat e Thera are several reasons for la that he needs a certain, and very definite, amount of straw to usa with manure and for bedding to cattle, etc. this-On- Vheat Problem Mixed Vith Com and Cotton WASHINGTON. 1 Foreign Adolf Hitler, he anxioua to night have been leu dutiny. Since ruide Paleatine 323. Holy Land Jew have Jumped Mn 75,000 to 375,000, Arable popu-itlo- n meanwhile (landing at 325,-0- 0, Led by a Zioniat world organl-tiM- , realou Hebrew have lowered auch project aa Tel Aviv, city Juat outaide Arable Jew-hatin-g -- All Things In Comnon Is Natures Way. But People Must Be off One Mind and Spirit and It Must bo Administered With Justice and In Righteousness The economic system of having all things in common, with no rich and no poor, is not anything new, nor something that if impossible of realisation That system is as old as the race. It was practised among some of the ancientpatriarchs. It flourished and reached perfection under the Patriarch Enoch. It was the ideal way of living among the early Christians and was practised extensively during the Middle ages. It is the natural way, the truly civilised way of living. Its inauguration would completely eliminate all the causes for poverty, for crime, for war, for tyranny and oppression. That sentiment is swinging to some sort of Collective way of livsng is proven when a great conservative magasine like Harper's runs a leading article on Collective .living. to Something happens people, says the article, when they live in such a way that they are confident of having sufficient for all their needs. The hard lines relax; the haunted look leu ves their eyes; their manner becomes easier, freer, gayer. . They laugh and work harder. For work then becomes a creative part of life. Sham quickly disapears. Men and women are judged for what they are strike-breaker- American itate, yet Ita i a religious Chriatlana, Jaws. Arabs. Editorial KHAn In medieval days, a plagued ship Modem Holy War Threaten Over Domination of Ptdestine and HUMAN WELFARE. of Hudson bay, and divert the flow of a river now emptying into Hudson bay southward, o that eventually Ita water would find ita way into Lake Ontario. This would not only provide an excellent power alte, but the diversion would result in more water at Niagara tells, and in the rapids below the teDa. In other words, it would make the SL Lawrence an even bigger power project than had been Another reason tor the indefinite amount of wheat he will plant is that thla fits in with a four or five-yecycle of crop rotation. No other crop, to various reasons, fits in . so well. The problem la somewhat like that which faced the German sugar beet farmers after the war, when Cuba could produce sugar at taro centa a pound, whereai beet sugar coat them nearer five. But on a given field, which would produce 10 bushels of wheat every crop, if planted annually, if they would grow sugar beets one year and wheat the next, alternating, tha crop every two years would run 20 bushels or better to the acre. In addition, they used the beet topi for feed. So that the sugar beets, in way, were velveL both aa to feed and sugar price. On top of thli, work in the beet fields comes at a time when It does not conflict with labor on othex crops. The real difficulty in wheat grows out of the difficulties with com or cotton, or rather with the solutions of the com and cotton problems. More than 3,000,000 acres oC cotton land are now in wheat because cf cotton quotas, and more than 0,000 000 acres of corn land ia now in wheat because of com quotas. Obviously Wallace cannot raise the quotas of cotton and com to re-lleve the wheat situation, because the cotton and corn situations are Just as bad si wheaL contemplated. The United States did not take kindly to thla proposal when it was laid before the itate department The 'Canadians wanted'an" agreement from the United States that if Canada spent money to divert more water into the Great Lakes, Canada would be entitled to that much additional water to use to power and when there should be further utilization of the SL Lawrence to power purposes, and at Niagara teDa regardless of whether there should be any further development or not I Whit House Worried Over Canadian Stand It waa this last suggestion that worried the White House. The President waa afraid that if Canada obtained more power from her own development in this tunnel and river diversion proJecL and also had tin right to use more water to power at Niagara falls, it might be more difficult to interest the Canadian government in the SL Lawrence seaway proJecL So Secretary of State Cordell Hull informed Ottawa that this government regarded the whole thing aa one project and would not make any advance agreements. In short, this government is not willing to permit Canada to have the full benefit of her scheme to divert water from the Hudson bay, where it is useless, to Niagara falls, where it would be very useful, unless Canada goes along with Washington on the SL Lawrence project There has always been a considerable amount of opposition In Canada to the seaway project to various reasona. At present according to information here, the Canadian government feela that it has nearly as much power as it wants, anyhow. It would infinitely prefer some cheaper way of getting what little additional power it needs to going into such a magnificently expensive project aa the SL Lawrence. Latest estimates are that the cost of the SL Lawrence project would be (372,453,000 to the United States and (270,978.000 for Canada. That la big money, even In the United States. It looks bigger in Canada, where the number of taxpayers ia smaller. Especially as there Is no crying need to the additional pow- er in Canada. New Wheat Quota Stire Spring Wheat Grower a ar ' Wallace in Dilemma Over the Wheat Sttrpltu In the curious dilemma which confronts Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace on the wheat surplus there la more than a hint tint ho would got bq distressed if Secretary of State Cordell Hull should dap him down. The point la that, in his desperate need to aeU wheat abroad, Wallace is now turning to the idea of subsidizing exports, at any rate up le about 100,000,009 bushels. Now thla approaches dangerously tha vary difference of opinion which rocked the New Deal in ita early days, whan George N. Peek waa insisting that there should not be crop restrictions In tha United States, but that wa should barter our surplus production with other nations for their surpluses. Wallace during tills period insisted on restricting American production, except cotton of course, to American needs, and thus holding up the prices for wheaL corn, etc., to American standards. George Peek picked cotton, which did nc particularly antagonize Wallace, for hla supreme test of strength. He arranged a barter agreement with Germany, under which Germany was to take American cotton and we were to take manufactured goodi of presumably equal value. to collision with This ran head-oSecretary Hull, who then and now thinks the whole solution of the international trade problem Is elimination of trade barriers by reciprocal trade agreements. n No One Ever Won Fight Over Secretary Hull Now Wallace has been pushed Into a comer where he seems in grave danger of fighting Hull, end, since March 4, 1933, no one has ever won a fight with Hull, not even the original head brain truster, Raymond Moley. But the funny part of the whole business is thaL in taking this stand which may lead him into conflict with Hull, Wallace takes a position which he has hitherto alwaya opposed with all his strength, the plan of subsidizing ezporta. as against restricting production inside this country, in order to prevent a surplus. If the state department should intervene, before congress meets, and insiat that this policy be abandoned, no one here thinks that Wallace would be crushed. He would have his alibi to the farmers, and a new argument for enforcing quotas. Also ha would have a new argument with conWallace's new A. wheat quoHenry gress, alwaya aym- ta system. pathetic to the farm- Neither group feels that it can acera, for more bene-M,le-y fits to be paid formcept reductions on planting, though they might accept the quota reduc- ers complying with tha governtions if they could work it by mowment's quota restrictions. There is alio tha question of procing enough grain in each field before it becomea ripe to bring their essing taxes, which seems to get ths total acreage down to tha quotas. present department of agriculture Experts object here that thla would activity cloaer and closer to ths not actually reduce production very very AAA doctrine which the Sumuch, as the farmers naturally preme court held unconstitutional, would very carefully mow only the and further and further away from bud spot, and there are alwaya tha concept of "soil conservation," enough bud suuts In a field to per- which was hit upon aa a shrewd mit cnmpMnppi' with any reasonable device for accomplishing tha quota restriction if they were elimobjective In a way not yet declared inated at variance with the constitutions' In the Northwestern country the powers of the government BaU Syndicate. WNU larvae. hard wheat rnisrr point out that herd spring wheat growers and farmers north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, who raise wheat regardless of price in a necessary rotation cycle, both threaten Secretary of Apiculture Northwestern |