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Show THE BULLETIN 'ThefltanUlko-O-gTob CA 1 National Topic Interpreted by William BrucLart Ntltoul Prwi Building Wulitnitov, Washington. The United States Is being given an object lesson in what happens when The People government a t- Afusf Pay tempts to interfere with nature. American farmers these days are threshing their wheat crop. The production is that of a reduced acreage, an acreage that was planned on theory by the Department of Agriculture. The result is that this years American wheat crop will approximate 840,000,000 bushels. That is about 145,000,000 bushels less than the average crop during the five years from 1929 to 1933. The result is a shortage. Department of Agriculture figures indicate that the total wheat crop in the world this year will be something like 650,000,000 bushels below the annual production. In other words, the wheat crop is short everywhere on earth and the result is obvious. In our own case, there is normaleach year of about ly a carry-ove- r 125,000,000 bushels but due to the shortage of the crop this year that carry-ove- r is insufficient to make up the needs of domestic consumption. Consequently, we soon will see heavy importations of Canadian wheat, a wheat that can be blended in milling with our own production and a very satisfactory flour results. Yet, it must be remembered that on all importations of wheat from Canada or anywhere else, a tariff of 42 cents a bushel must be paid. It is clear, therefore, that consumers of bread must pay that tariff because the importers are going to pass that item of expense along as part of the cost of the flour. In addition to the shortage in the United States, Canadian wheat production is reported to be something like 100,000,000 bushels under normal. There is sufficient production in Canada to permit of export, of course, but the shortage Is bound to be reflected in the prices. And mention of the price brings us back to the individual effect of the combination of acreage, re- duced by government edict, plus the act of nature in visiting a drouth upon us. Scarcity always results in higher prices. It is the operation of the law of supply and demand. The Roosevelt farm policy has been predicated on the theory that scarcity would produce higher prices and thereby add to the farm income'. But drouth and other production hazards cannot be predicted and, therefore, the American people find themselves in a position where the unpredictable has happened and the farmers are not getting the benefit of higher prices on a natural and normal production. rs wheat I do not know how far the New - Deal intends to go in revising its basic economic policy regarding crop controlling. I can be sure of only one thing in regard to the New Deal plans: The visitation of the drouth in two years in which the political planners of the New Deal attempted to upset natural Traditions jSar from Amentia Political Hittofy Movie Radio I. HAOIN AM D. C. year or two ago, a committee American Bar association made a report def-Bar Often initely critical of Neut Plan the New Deal administration having created so many agencies to which had been given functions almost like the courts. 'That report pointed out how such units as the now dead NRA and the equally dead AAA could issue rules and regulations that were enforceable as law. They called attention to the further fact that countless of these rules and regulations carried strict and severe penalties, even to the extent of a jail term for an individual violator. Lately, another committee of the American Bar association has published another report, again calling attention to the principles established in such bureaucratic control. It offers a constructive proposal for the elimination of bureaucratic management of individual affairs from Washington. It proposes the establishment of an administration court which would have power to enforce these rules and regulations but would be equipped with the judicial right of determination so that the thousands upon thousands of regulations with their various penalties would not be enforced upon an individual accused of their violation without giving that alleged violator the right of a hearing. The committee proposal, in other words, would put an end to determination of violations by one bureaucrat. Ultimately, the proposed court would take over the judicial work of all of the administrative agencies in Washington now numbering something like 75. The initial operation of the court would be limited until it could bring something like uniformity out of the chaos now existing for it is well known that in many cases two governmental agencies will have rules on the same point and those rules will not be the same. In some aggravated situations, it has been found that one agency will prescribe a penalty against an individual business for doing one thing while another agency will have no penalty for the same act. Another instance is known where two agencies have virtually the same regulations but the penalties in 'he two rules are of the for . through laws which President Roosevelt demanded and it did not take time to debate the provisions nor did it examine the sections to know fully what results would flow from them. In many cases, too many, statements of general legislative policy were not clear and congress abdicated its duties to the extent that it wrote into those laws provisions saying that the agency which was to enforce the particular law was given authority to write whatever rules and regulations were found to be necessary. Some authority of this kind always has been given in order to make the national laws flexible but they never have been given to such an extent as they have in the last three years. Insufficient time has elapsed since the American Qar association committee came forth with its administrative court proposal for an analysis to be made of its potentialities. It may, and probably docs, have weaknesses. It does, however, have a strong point in the general idea that a judicial body should determine whether an individual citizen has violated a bureaucrat's law and what the penalty should be rather than have that bureaucrat sit as prosecutor, judge and jury in telling the individual citizen what his crime has been. Wtiura Nawiftpu I'alaa. Bj VIRGINIA VALE ELMO SCOTT WATSON There seems to be a stronger demand for wheat now than at any time during the Induttry last five or six It indicates different Opens Up years. of a restoration of on the the part buying power I suppose the condition can be masses. In other words, industry explained by the fact that dozens again is opening up to some exof new bureaus tent and employing workers alToo many have been set up though the increase in employment under the scores Bureaue has been small thus far. of New Deal laws In consequence of this combina- and that in the haste to get them tion of circumstances, there is into operation, no was now a sellers market in wheat in- had between the various groups, stead of a buyers market in wheat. but it is my belief that private To say it another way, there are citizens cannot be blamed for this more people seeking to buy wheat condition. Since they cannot be than there are seeking to sell it blamed for failure of government and the consumers of flour will pay to function properly, they ought not the bill. By way of contrast with be compelled to answer for the silly present conditions, it may be point- differences in law which bureaued out that world wheat consumpcrats have written under authority tion has exceeded world wheat pro- of congress to draft necessary regduction in every year except one ulations'. After all, congress is really to since 1929. In the 1932 crop year there was slightly more wheat pro- blame for this condition. It rushed duced in the world than was consumed. The result of the steady growth in consumption over production in the last few years has oeen to wipe out all of the carryover wheat stored in bins and elevators throughout the world and In every country users of wheat are scraping the bottoms of their bins. The tragedy of it all is that, because of the reduced acreage and the drouth in the United States, American farmers are not in a position to take advantage of the higher prices thus established by the sale of surplus wheat which may have been accumulated if the acreage had been normal. Instead of the United States really controlling the market for wheat, we are in a position where a good many other countries may be encouraged to grow more wheat. The natural and obvious results of this will be to further curtail the outlet for American wheat which so long has been relied on by many foreign nations that are of STAR DUST Talcs and FRANK has THE 13-1- 3 making a powerful appeal to the voters with their shouts of Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!" and their log cabin and hard cider symbols. In the midst of the campaign George Pattison, editor of the Indianapolis Constitution, wrote a letter to William' Sebastian of Greenfield in which he said: I have been informed by a Democrat that in one part of your county 30 Van Buren men have turned for Harrison. Please let me know if such be the fact. I think such a deplorable state of facts can not exist. If so I will visit Hancock and address the people relative to the policy of the Democratic party. I have not time to spare, but I will refuse to eat or sleep or rest so long as anything can be done. Do, for heavens sake, stir up the Democracy. See Chapman, tell him not to do as he did heretofore. He used to create unnecessary alarms; he must crow; we have much to crow over. I will insure this county to give a Democratic majority oif 200 votes. Spare no pains. This letter accidentally fell into the hands of the Whigs and was published in an Indianapolis paper with a view to ridiculing the Democrats. Biit it proved to be a boomerang For the Whigs. Crow, Chapman, crow!" became the slogan of the Indiana Democrats and spread all over the country. When the Indiana Sentinel was launched in 1841 it carried at the top of its front page the picture of a proud rooster and under it was the slogan Crow, Chapman, crow! Other Democratic newspapers began carrying die same picture and slogan and soon the rooster, crowing proudly whether in victory or defeat, became the accepted symbol of the Democratic party. Despite the later popularity of the donkey, it is still a favorite symbol thanks to John Chapman of Greenfield, Ind., who taught his how to crow. Landon Opens His Eastern Tour Amid Scenes of His Birthplace pearances to Meet People. West Middlesex, Pa. In this village, where he was bom 49 years ago. Governor Alf Landon will start his eastern campaign for the Presidency of the United States, August 22. Governor Landons tribute to the scene of his birth is bringing forth a response which indicates the largest turnout in the history of this quaint Pennsylvania village. Governor Landon will deliver here the first of three major addresses scheduled for his eastern tour. The second will be at Chautauqua, N. Y., the night of August 24. The Landon family, when they visited West Middlesex during the summer holidays, spent much of the time at Chautauqua, which has been a powerful agency in moulding educational and public opinion. The third address will be given the night of August 26 at Buffalo, where Woodrow Wilson opened his successful campaign in 1912. Governor Landon will make platform appearances on the way to and from the eastern center. The rally here will be the first important occasion in which thousands of Governor Landons eastern friends and supporters will be able to participate. Governor Landons birthplace is in the center of a vast industrial area 6,000,000 persons live within a radius of 100 miles, and many thousands are expected to hear the Republican nominee. West Middlesex recalls that John M. Landon, father of Governor Landon, came to this section of Pennsylvania to enter the oil fields. The Landon family moved to Elba, O., before Alf Landon was bom, but at the time of his birth in 1887, his mother was visiting in West Middlesex at the home of her father, a Methodist Episcopal minister. Governor Landons saying that you cant spend what you havent got was taught him at parental knees in a family that knew hard times along with the good. Young Landon was taught the principles of thrift from his earliest childhood. Applying those principles as governor of Kansas, where he cut taxes and balanced the state budget during the depression, has brought national attention to the man and to his methods of government, which he proposes to install in Washington. Crisis U. $. Faces Stressed by Knox Presidential Nominee Heartens Throng at Connersville, Ind. Vice Connersville, Ind. The gravity the present situation confronting the American people was pointed out here by Colonel Frank Knox, Republican nominee for in the first major speech of the campaign following his acceptance address in Chicago. "The issues we discuss are The grave," Colonel Knox said. American people have not faced since the Civil War an election with more at stake. We are confronted with problems that go to the very roots of the American economic system." In continuing to stress the "crusade," Colonel Knox attacked the New Deal party with the assertion: "Whatever the government has been doing about recovery has been wrong. It has not helped recovery. It has blocked recovery. The Administration has proceeded on the theory that the business man and the farmer must be told how to run their businesses by some planner in Washington. of Vice-Preside- Vandenberg Urges Fight for Liberty Chicago. Declaring that the American flag "is not yet red nor even pink, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan told the Union League Club in an' address here that it still is the personification of the Constitution; it still is the banner of a free people who propose to vote themselves a new emancipation" in November. Asserting that the American people must fight for their liberty," Senator Vandenberg charged that the New Deal administration is sponsoring, through Secretary Henry Wallace, an unwritten constitution. If you do not want this unwritten constitution this may be your Inst opportunity to say so," warned Senator Vandenberg. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town in- of imitating a rooster when exultmusic. ing over victories by his party. So and loved when his political enemies won, they Incidentally, Irene has drawn anNow other plum out of the motion pictaunted him by shouting: ture pie. One of the three pictures crow. Chapman, crow!" which she is to do for Paramount candidate In Chapman was a for the state legislature from Han- is "The Count of Luxembourg. cock county. In that year Demo- Gladys Swarthout seemed to be all she is cratic prospects were far from set for it, but, although a voice, has and beautiful lovely bright. The country still rememHer bered the panic of 1837 and blamed she is not too good in pictures. suitbe to better seems President Van Buren for it. More- technique screen. over, the "singing Whigs" were ed to opera than to the The house at 410 Main street. West Middlesex, Pa., where Governor Alf Landon, Republican nominee for President, was born in 1837, has become a point of national interest. Today it is occupied by the Rev. Henry Schilling, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church. In 1887 it was occupied by the Rev. Herman Mossman, pastor of the same church, when his daughter, Anne Landon, bore a boy baby named Alfred. Nominee Will Make Many Platform Ap- of teresting information regarding the famous Madame Curie, whom she will portray on the screen. Most of us have thought of tbs famous scientist as a solemn sort of person, but Irene has discovered that she most decidedly had a lighter side. For example, she was the best dancer in her village, membered as the birthplace of a familiar emblem of one of the major political parties, a symbol that is still in use after nearly a century. Back in the thirties it was owned by Joseph Chapman, an ardent Democrat, who had the habit Republican returned IRENE DUNN withjust a lot Europe ROOSTER CROW Gooding tavern in Ind., has long since disappeared but it deserves to be re- laws has proved the inability of man to alter the course of nature and by the same token these conditions have proved the inability of government to change human nature. I do not know whether others will agree with my conclusion or not but I am of the opinion that the American farmers are paying dearly for the crop control checks they received in the past two years. Even with a crop shortened by drouth, if there had been the normal acreage of wheat, American farmers would have reaped the reward to which they are so justly entitled. A l(fl O fellow-Democra- that American were the most beautiful in the world, that Garbo was her favorite actress, etc. She was dressed in a sheer black frock, and a tiny hat, trimmed, of course, with feathers. women If you love thrills and automobile racing, be sore to see Speed," with James Stewart and Wendy Barrie. Young Mr. Stewart ia climbing fast, perhaps because bes so natural, perhaps because all of as who go to pictures seem to be men. getting tired of As for Wendy Barrie, she fa charming. Incidentally, she's been seen around again with the young millionaire whom rumor had her all act to marry when she landed on these shores. - Warren Hull is both resourceful and sensible. His young sons wanted a swimming pool, but Hull is one movie actor who refuses to have a pool (and what with the cost of the pool and the cost of keeping it filled, who can blame him?) So he did what fathers all over the land have done; had a tank built, seven by nine, that can be filled easily with the garden hose, and now everybodys happy. - ts WINNING WITH BUCKEYES Martin Van Buren, HEN U bosom J Marlene Dietrich finally got off to New York and then to Europe, with 19 trunks (she took an extra room on the train for the trunks, so that theyd be handy whenever she wanted to change), various servants and attendants, and her daughter. o n Interviewed her arrival in New York, she said all the right things friend and successor to fiery Andrew Jackson, undertook to succeed himself in the White House in the race of 1840 something new in political history was the result. Van Buren not only was defeated. He insured the election of Gen. William Henry Harrison of Ohio and he endowed Ohio with the name of the Buckeye state, which flourishes today. It all came about when the cry was taken up by Van Buren s cam-- I paigners that Harrison was more perfectly fitted to live in a log cabin and drink hard cider than to go to Washington as the nation's head. What a boomerang that proved to be! The only background for the attack was that when the hero of Tippecanoe retired from battli he selected a site overlooking the Ohio river in the southwestern part of the state, built a double log house and finished it with shining white clapboards. Ohioans naturally resented the slur on their habits of living, including the charge of tippling. Miniature log cabins, symbolic of pioneer life and the vigor which pushed civilization westward from the more effete east, made their appearance throughout the state. These cabins were reproduced from buckeye logs. So were the canes carried by thousands of marchers who participated in parades to advance the candidacy of Harrison. The cabins were mounted on wagons and within each was a horny - handed frontiersman, quaffing hard cider. Van Buren was not neglected while this was going on. He was attacked by the Ohioans as a snob with a penchant for Europea customs. By th. time the Buckeye" parades popularized and spread east of the Alleghenies, Van Buren's managers realized their mistake and tried in ain to stem the tide. It was too late. Gen. Harrison won the election, hands down, Ohio has been known ever since as the Buckeye State. O Wnliri Nawapaiwr Union a-.- Joan Crawfords favorite records are no longer those made by Bing Crosby. Shes switched to operatio recordings, and likes to sing along with the soloist. And as for Bing Pennies from Heaven" is his next picture, and hes doing good work in it. His family is all settled in their new home, his horses are settled at his ranch, he's established as a big attraction on the radio and hows ' that for a lad whod never amount to anything, according to the prophets of not so many years ago? i ; j : ' Auto trailers are becoming more and more popular in the movie colony. Twentieth Centu- ry-Fox went in for them heavily a while the ago Jones family used six to get to the location site of See America Firs t, and during the making of the location scenes of Ramona Loretta Young, Kent Taylor and Director Henry Loretta Young ved them Ramona" Somebody had the cast worried by arranging for some peacocks to be used in the picture not that anyone would come right out and admit being superstitious, of course, but they all recalled the fact th&t peacocks are supposed to bring bad luck. So somebody else just forgot" to bring the peacocks along. ODDS AMD ESDS . . . Don't Morn if you mitt "The Bradford' U s great Cora Sue Collint hat m Ex-Mr-t. ... auto-grap- from alt I ha famout folk the't worked with Evelyn Venable recently bought her infant daughter her firtl bo net but the baby won't wear it . . . George O'Brien it working hard on "Daniel Boone" George Haft it going to try hit hand at picturet in England j . . . Claudette Colbert and Clark Cable did their teene from "It Happened One Sight" et the Actort benefit thaw the other night and the au-- , dience all but rolled in the aislet . . . Uaureen O'Sulii-umay marry John Farrow when Tartan " it completed . . . The nett Quin tit pi eti picture will be "llrunitm" with Jean llerthoh egain ulaying a doctor. 6 Kawapapar Calm. ... ... ! hitch-hikin- g |