Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over

General Sales Tax Killed by Roosevelt’s Opposition. — Other Ways of glancing, the Budget Sought— Samuel Insull Freed by Greek Court.

PRESIDENT-ELECT ROOSEVELT has killed the general sales tax, for this session of congress at least, and Representative James W. Collier,

chairman of the house ways and means committee, is trying to devise some other method of balancing the budget In this effort he is being earnestly aided by Speaker garner and the other Democratic leaders in congress. They placed emphasis on economy in appropriating government funds, examining

Rep. Collier

closely the fixed expenditures, that amount to more than one billion dollars. Also they renewed their fight to bring about the legalization and taxation of beer. When Mr. Roosevelt was told in Albany that Washington reports said he was in favor of' the sales tax he expressed, through a spokesman, his “horror” at the story, so Mr. Garner and the house Democratic leaders, who had said they would approve such a levy if it were necessary to balance the budget, abandoned the plan. The dispatches from Albany indicated that Mr. Roosevelt might exert pressure on congress to defeat the scheme if it were not dropped. He considers sales tax plans as belonging to two cate^ gories, the general manufacturers’ sales tax, which he opposes, and the tax on special commodities such as the federal taxes now being collected on gasoline and tobacco, which he thinks should be continued for the present. The house ways and means committee planned to begin on January 3 an exhaustive study of federal financing with Secretary Mills of the treasury appearing before it to give his views. Both Mr. Mills and President Hoover have recommended a sales tax to balance the budget Senate Democratic leaders, however, have expressed doubt that such a levy could be passed in that branch, and they have decided to make no efforts to attach financial legislation to the Collier beer bill as a rider.

REPORTS have been frequent that President Hoover would veto the Democratic beer and farm relief legislation and in this connection Senator Robinson, Democratic leader of the upper chamber, said in a statement that the Republican administration was engaging “in a policy of partisan political obstruction to prevent the enactment of legislation, apparently with the Idea of forcing the incoming President to call a special session.” As a matter of fact, observers In Washington were of the opinion that a special session cannot now be avoided. SENATOR PAT HARRISON of Mississippi, ranking Democrat on the senate finance committee, announced that after the holidays he would introduce a resolution providing that a senate committee should hold a conference with the nation's best economists, financiers and statesmen, to find the way to restore economic order. Harrison’s idea would include a study “of the whole economic situation, with a view primarily of obtaining constructive suggestions from leading economists, financiers and statesmen as to methods and policies to restore economic stability.” Such subjects as currency stabilization, InflaHoh and silver would be included in the investigation by the Mississippian, who has discussed his proposal informally with members of the finance committee. He believes the senate would favor prompt action.

FH. LA GUARDIA, the Insurgent • Republican representative from New York, introduced in the house a resolution to provide for the placing

of capital on a fiveday week basis by reducing the legal interest rate in the District of Columbia and the territories to 3 per cent, to reduce the interest rate on government' securities by 29 per cent, and to cut the discount rate of government agencies to a maximum of 2% per cent.

The New York representative maintains interest rates today are untenably high when compared with the earning power of the people and that they must come down. He said he purposely drafted his resolution in simple language and had used the five-day week illustration “so that even our bankers codld understand it.”

FIVE members of the senate judiciary committee have been appointed by Chairman Norris to consider the Black five-day work week bill, and hearings were announced to begin on January 5. The measure, which was Introduced by Senator Black of Ala-

By EDWARD W. PICKARD

bama, would limit the hours of labor on goods produced for interstate shipment to 30 a week; with six hours a day for five days. Norris, Robinson, Borah, Walsh and Black are the subcommittee, and they will take extensive testimony as to both the desirability of the legislation and its constitutionality. QUICK work on the major appropriation bills went on in the house of representatives. The Interior department bill carrying $43,652,904 for the fiscal year 1904 was passed after $460,000 had been added for a heating plant at Howard university, the federally supported institution for negroes in Washington. In doing this 26 northern Democrats overrode the Demcratic leadership and voted with the Republicans for the amendment. The house then went on to consider the Agriculture department supply bill. The senate was in recess until Friday, but attempts were made to begin formal consideration of the Collier beer bill by the judiciary committee headed by Senator Norris. WHILE the congressmen were struggling with their problems. President Hoover and his party were sailing down the Florida coast, trying to find good fishing, but with small success. They made various ; stops but did not go ashore, receiving local dignitaries at the docks. At St. Augustine Mayor Mickler and a lot of Other officials greeted the Chief Executive at the boat’s rail and Mrs. Hoover received lovely bouquets, one sent by Governor Carlton and the other presented by Girl Scouts. Mail and telegrams that came aboard from time to time, some of them relating to the war debts, gave the President occasional work and took his mind off the poor angling until the vicinity of Miami was reached, where the big fish were biting better. SAMUEL INSULL, the fallen utilities magnate, was set free by the Greek Court of Appeals that considered the request of the American government

ed by ..the grand jury in Chicago. It ruled that the money he was alleged to have taken might be considered a loan contracted for the benefit of the Corporations involved, and that Insull obtained from it no personal profit, but acted in good faith. Greek lawyers and officials of the American legation said the decision was absolutely binding, and the latter indicated that the United States government would make no further efforts to extradite Insull on the ; evidence at hand. The people of Athens rejoiced in the verdict of the Appeals court, loudly cheering Insull and “Greek justice.” They felt that the Incident was a fine example of a small nation refusing to knuckle down to one of the great powers.

A LARMED by the flight of money from the Union of South Africa? which has increased greatly of late, the government at Pretoria took emergency steps to remain on the gold standard. The cabinet, headed by Premier J. B. M. Hertzog, issued a decree forbidding all export of gold. It also withdrew sovereigns from circulation to prevent hoarding. Premier Hertzog has waged a steady fight to hold South Africa to gold for more than a year, declaring that, the country would resemble a ship In a stormy sea without an anchor if it departed from the yellow metal. He maintains that inflation would depreciate gold to its pure commodity value, thereby benefiting the mines, but not the. rest of the country.

PROMINENT among those taken by death during the week was Brig. Gen. John J. Carty, retired, vice president and chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. He died in Baltimore at the age of seventy-one years. General Carty was credited with many important developments in the fields of telephonic, telegraphic and radio communication. During ,the war he was director of telephone and telegraph communications for the American army In France. Norman E. Mack, New York member of the Democratic national committee for 32 years and former publisher of the Buffalo Times, died in Buffalo, aged seventy-four. He was one of the best loved of all Democratic leaders. Col. Richard S. Hooker, commander of the American marines stationed in Shanghai, died suddenly at his home in that city while playing with his children.

Rep. F. H. La Guardia

that he be extradited, and he is at liberty to remain in Greece or go to any other country he may prefer. After deliberating two hours the court in Athens held that no evidence had been presented that- Insull was guilty of the offenses of grand larceny and embezzlement of $172,000, for which he was indict-

Sam Insull

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST.

T'HOUGH Japan, like all other naA tions, is hard up, its budget is the largest in its history, and in a statement to. the diet the army Office sought to explain why the military expenditures must be increased. The military system is to be readjusted and improved in four ways. The forces in Manchuria will be augmented, while those in Japan will be reduced as much as possible. Supplementary military education will be extended and improved. Army organizations are to be bettered in various ways. Supplies, such as munitions and uniforms, must be replenished. Probably the only important business the diet will transact is the adoption of the budget. The disgruntled Seiyukai party hesitates to oust Premier Saito, though it could do so, and that gentleman is careful to propose a minimum of legislation. Korekiyo Takahashi, finance minister, has announced his intention to ask power to control the exchanges, but has not indicated the method of control he proposes to adopt The flight of’capital takes the form of export of goods, the value of which is left abroad to cover purchases of raw materials. How this can be checked unless export t>*ade is controlled is not, clear. NORMAN H. DAVIS, chief American delegate to the disarmament conference and himself a Democrat, was one of Mr. Roosevelt’s most tm-

portant callers during the week. For two days the two men discussed privately and exhaustively the subjects of disarmament, war debts and world economics, in all of which Mr. Dayis Is an expert. In the course of the conversations Mr. Davis told the President-Elect that he believed disarmament Is necessary to a

N. H. Davis

restoration of world confidence and credit and said he thought important steps had been taken toward reduction of armament. This, in turn, he predicted, would have a favorable effect on efforts for a successful world economic conference. The first step, he said, would be to persuade France and Italy to Indorse the terms of the London naval agreement of 1930, particularly regarding submarine construction. Disarmament advocates, he stated, believed they could ban submarines In spite of the objections of France and Japan, or at least limit them to coastal defense l . Then, by outlawing offensive weapons, poison gas, mobile heavy artillery anil bombing airplanes and banning the manufacture of aerial bombs, the world would be ready to work toward restoration of confidence. Mr. Roosevelt expressed' thc^lew that world security would returti as the deadly instruments of war were reduced and mentioned that the late Premier Clemenceau of France had once told him that “the one essential for France out of the World war was security.” “I asked him for his definition of security,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “He replied that for a thousand years no French babies had been born and gone through life to three score and ten without knowing some kind of trouble with Germany. Since that was true, he said, the guaranty of no war with Germany would constitute security for the French. I think that belief is still there.” * : d i CANADA’S sensational libel case came to an end in Montreal with the conviction of James J. Harwell, publisher of the Journal of Commerce, on charges of defamatory libel of T. B. Macauley, the aged president of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, largest organization of Its kind in the British empire. Harpell was sentenced to three months in jail and to pay the costs of the prosecution. Harpell filed an appeal and was released on bail.

Chief Justice Greenshields, who presided at the trial, pointed out that four of the five days of the trial were give to the defense to prove the "charges against Macauley. He also recalled how Harpell had declared lit opera court that Macauley was a “crook.” “You,” said the chief justice to the accused^ “absolutely failed in one scintilla of proof in your attempt to prove that he was a crook, not to say a swindler. You had no justification. not the slightest, for the publication of those atrocious libels against a man who has occupied an honorable position in Montreal for well nigh half a century.”

ONE of the major mining disasters of the year occurred at Moweaqua 111., when an explosion imprisoned 51 coal miners beyond all hope of rescue For a week their fellow workers dug frantically to get to the doomed men but all they found were lifeless bodies At the time of writing the corpses of all but seven of the men had been brought to the surface. The little town was stricken by the tragedy, which left there 33 widows with a total of 75 children.

PAUL REDFERN, an American aviator who in August, 1927, left Fort Brunswick, Ga., on a nonstop flight to Rio de Janeiro and disappeared, is novi said to have been discovered in th* upper Amazon region. Charles Has ler, an American engineer who recent ly arrived from the hinterlands at > locality on the Tapajoz river near th< Ford concession, said Redfern is now in the Rio Maior zone near Humaytr village op the right shore of the Ma deria river and is enjoying perfect health among the Parantin Indians. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Gus Danzier, age fifty-nine, manufacturer, died of heart disease at his home in Shelbyville. William A. Bramblett, age seventynine, died at the family home, six miles south of Lebanon. Struck by a hit and run driver as he walked along the state road west of Newburg, John Gardner, age seventytwo, Newburg, was fatally injured. Leo. Murtaugh, age forty-four, coptain in the Terre Haute fire department, ended his life by taking poison. No reason was advanced for the act. Despondent over financial difficulties. Rudolph Kagel, age sixty-two, committed suicide in the bathroom of his home In South Bend by shooting himself. Delmar Louis Swick, wanted In Winchester for the murder of Russel Bergman, stores collector, was believed to have been seen in Veedersburg. Mrs. Ella Williams, age thirty, colored, surrendered to police in Muncie after she stabbed to death John Woods, age twenty-eight, colored barber, by whom she was employed as housekeeper. Mrs. Mary E. Judson, age sixty-nine, and her brother William D. Hane, age sixty-seven, both of New Discovery, were killed at Coal Bluff, when their automobile was wrecked by a westbound Big Four train. Louis Busterda, age fifty-two, Hammond, was killed by a hit-and-run motorist. Accompanied by his son Junior, age eight, Busterda was on his way home from Chicago, and had stopped to fix a flat tire on his truck. Urey Harges, age twenty-five, whose admitted attempt to extort $1,500 from a widow went awry when he was trapped by a decoy package, was sentenced In Newcastle to serve one to five years in the state reformatory. A father and his son were wounded In Hammond in a quarrel which followed a holiday celebration. Frank Youcus, age forty-seven, the father, was shot in the hand, and his son, Frank, Jr., was stabbed In the breast. Imogene Davis, age sixteen, of Petersburg, was burned fatally when her clothing caught fire In front of an open grate while she and her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, were visiting Mrs. George Gardner, near Winslow, ; William Henry Baugh, age ninetyCivil war veteran, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. McNeely, at Ellettsville. Three other children survive, Mrs. H. G. Rice, Spencer; Charles Baugl^ Ellettsville and Burch Baugh,’ Canton. Ohio. Louis E. Hamilton, lola, Kan., convicted in Boone county Circuit court a month ago for the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis merchant, Was transferred to Indiana state prison where he was sentenced to die August 15. Funeral services were held in Waveland in charge of Rev. John Servies, Crawfordsville, for Mrs. Blanche Reddish, age forty-six wife of O. L. Reddish, president of the Indiana state fair board, who died at her home northwest of Waveland. Announcement of four major appoint ments in his office was made by Philip Lutz, Jr.", Boonville, attorney generalelect. Those named are: Fred A. Wiecking, Hartford City, formerly state commander of the American Legion, first assistant attorney general; J. Edward Barce, Fowler, Benton county prosecutor, second assistant attorney general; Herbert Patrick, Tell City, first deputy attorney general, and Joseph P. McNamara, Indianapolis, second deputy attorney general. „ A recent survey by the national bu reau of public roads discloses < that Indiana Is one of 11 states that have 100 miles or more of wide pavement on state highways. The four-lane su perhighway of the Dunes lake region is listed as the most important of the state’s wider pavements. It extends from the Calumet 30 miles eastward and is known as U. S. road 20. Other highways taken Into account by the survey include the National road from Indianapolis to Cumberland, Fort Wayne on roads 2 and 30, South Bend on U. S. road 131 and Evansville on road 41. Because Marion county’s divorce rate of 40.55 for every hundred marriages far exceeds the national rate of IG.G, Butler university will sponsor a class in divorce prevention. First effort at an organized study of the causes of divorce, the course, opening January 27, has attracted a large en rollment of married persons as well as young folks who are contemplating marriage. The class will be directed by Charles R. Metzger, thirty-nine-year-old Indianapolis divorce referee, twice married himself, and he will be assisted by a nationally known physician, a psychologist and a clergyman. Methods of meeting all problems and causes of dissatisfaction leading to divorce will be considered. Attendants at the state-wide meeting of the Knights of Columbus of Indiana In Indianapolis January 12, will hear an address by Martin H. Carmody, Grand Rapids, Mich., supreme knight of the order, who will be an honor guest. He is making a general tour of the councils of the United States and Canada, preparatory to a national membership effort that the order is to start in February and March. David D. Fickle of Logansport, seventy-nine, lawyer, former mayor and once school superintendent, died of heart disease.

I MPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY School Lesson

By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.

ber of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) ®, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

Lesson for January 8 JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK Mark 1:12-20. GOLDEN TEXT—The time Is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God Is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Mark 1:15. PRIMARY TOPlC—Jesus’ First Helpers. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jesus Winning a Victory. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Making a Good Beginning. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—Jesus Facing His Task. I. The Divine Servant Meeting and Overcoming the Devil (vv. 12, 13). The temptation in the wilderness was Messianic. It was not a, preparation of Jesus for his work but the first conflict. Since he had come to destroy the devil (Heb. 2:14), he at once engaged in that struggle which was to issue in Satan’s defeat. 1. The Spirit driveth him (v. 12). This shows how really Christ was under the control of the Spirit. “Driveth” is the same Greek word which is used in connection with Christ casting out devils (See Mark 1:34, 39). 2. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan (v. 13). Not that he fasted forty days and was then tempted, but that the struggle with the devil lasted forty days. 3. He was with the wild beasts (v. 13). The clear implication is that he not only overcame the devil but had dominion over the wild beasts also. 4. The angels ministered unto him (v. 13). These superhuman messengers doubtless ministered to him all through the forty days. 11. The Divine Servant Preaching (vv. 14, 15). Jesus does not first present himself as a miracle worker, but as a preacher, a bearer of a messagp. Miracles were but the credentials of the messenger. 1. Where he preached—in Galilee (v. 14). Galilee was particularly his own country. His ministry there was some distance removed frbm Jerusalem, and there less opposition would likely be manifest 2. What he preached—the gospel of the Kingdom of God (v. 14). Since “gospel” means “good news,” the essential content of his message was that God had sent him to announce the good news of the near approach of the Kingdom of God, or the rule of God upon the earth. 3. What he demanded —repentance and belief of the gospel (v. 15). He showed that the way to get ready for the coming of the Kingdom is to repent and believe the gospel of Christ’s death for sin, and his coming to administer the affairs of righteousness upon the earth. 111. The Divine Servant Calling Associates (vv. IG-20). r Knowing that his ministry would be short, he called to definite fellowship men to continue the work after he was gone. 1. Who they were (vv. 16,19). Simon and Andrew, James and John —two pairs of brothers. It is usually wise to engage in the Lord’s service in fellowship—in pairs. This is not only necessary for effective testimony, but for protection of the witnesses. These men had become Christ’s disciples, for at the word of John the Baptist they had beheld the “Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of th£ world” (John 1:36-42). This is always the Lord's way. He calls men and women to be his disciples and then calls them to have fellowship with him in seryice.

2. From what they were called (vv. 16-20). They were called from business and family connections. In looking for men worth while, we should expect to find them busily engaged. James and John left their father and his servants. The call of God involves sacrifice and separation. 3. To what they were called (v. 17). To become fishers of men. These men, no doubt, had been successful as fishers. The qualities which made them good fishermen; namely: patience, bravery which led them to face the storm at night, and perseverence which led him to toil all night though no fish were caught, would make them good fishers of men. Winning souls for Christ requires patience, bravery and perseverence. 4. Obedience, of the disciples (vv. 18-20). Obedience to Christ’s call meant sacrifice, painful separation. It means to give up business interests. They yielded prompt obedience. They put their trust in him who called them, believing that he was able to supply all their needs. 5. Their reward (v. 17). These four men have wielded wondrous influence in the world. Their names have become immortalized. Had they remained at their business they would only have been humble fishermen.

God Does Nothing Amiss

However bitter the cup we have to drink, we are sure it contains nothing unnecessary or unkind; and we should take it from his hand with as much meekness as we accept of eternal life with thankfulness. —William Goodell.

Dumb Christians

If you had a child that was deal and dumb, you would think it a great misfortune. Do you ever think how many dumb children God has? —D. L. Moody.

Stones of Odd Shapes Relics of Bygone Race 7 Three curious pieces of stone; which may possibly be relics of am ancient peopje, form part of a Rotura (New Zealand) collection. Two of the pieces, one of which is almost an exact miniature of the other, are shaped almost like solid pitchers. They are: rounded as if turned on a. potter’s tyheel and, although they cannot have been devised as vessels,, appear to have been fashioned by some human agency. Both pieces are a species of sandstone, and werefotind by Mr. Kean in the Wairoa district at the bottom ot deep outcrops of river metal, between 35 and 40 feet bblow the surface. The third) piece is petrified wood, weighing several pounds. On both ends are cuts which have obviously been made with, a species of ax. This piece was found with the larger of the two pestles, and from the depth at which it was found must have been buried for a very long period of time.

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