Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 30 March 1933 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over

President’s Farm Relief Bill Passes the House; Labor Unions Oppose Unemployment Relief Bill; Public Works Next on Program.

THE President’s farm relief bill passed the house with both Democrats and Republicans voting for and against it. During the hours of ora-

tory, confined almost exclusively to explanation on the part of members as to why they would vote for or against the bill, many interesting statements were made. “In ordinary times I wouldn’t support a measure of this kind,” was the statement of Chairman Jones of the agriculture com-

Marvin Jones

mittee after a ballot had prohibited amendments. “But we are at war. And while this war is on I’m going to follow the man at the other end of the avenue who has the flag in his hand. I don’t think this bill can make things any worse. God knows we all hope it will make things better.” “This is a child of the jig-saw puzzle age,” said Representative Clarke of New York, the agriculture committee's ranking Republican. “But filled with horrors and hellishness as it is I’m going to follow the President.” Representative Hope (Rep., Kan.) said he could not support it. “You are putting into the hands of one man control of the lives of 30,000,000 people who live on farms,” he said. “If you vote for this bill, you’re simply voting for a bigger and better farm board.” In the senate the bill will not have such clear sailing as it had in the house, and it is expected it will pass only after being amended to take out of it provisions many members of both the senate and house object to. It is not safe to predict what the bill will provide for by the time it gets back to the White House for the President's signature.

CONGRESS now has before it the final two, of three, steps in the President’s unemployment relief program. The first of these provides for the immediate enrollment of workers to the extent of approximately 250,000 for concentration in government established camps, the men to be employed in flood control, prevention of soil erosion, building of roads in government forest reserves, in forestry and in any other work which the President may direct. The men congregated in these camps are to be provided with housing, food, clothing, medical attendance, and to be paid a cash wage of not more than $1 per day. In the case of men with families a portion of the cash wage is to be allotted for the support of the families. The recruiting of this “civilian conservation force’’ is to be on the basis of the number of unemployed in the different states, in so far as that is possible. The expense, for the present at least, is to be met, by diverting from the treasury unexpended balances of appropriations made by previous sessions of congress for other purposes. It is said that about $40,000,000 is available through such a source, and it is expected this sum will maintain this plan for about ten weeks. There is much opposition to this proposed law on the part of labor unions because of the low wage of $1 per day. Representative Connery, Democratic chairman of the house labor committee, refused to introduce the bill because of the labor union opposition. The second step is an appropriation through which further grants for unemployment relief may be made to the states. The third step, which the President will submit later, “extends to a broad public works labor creating program,” including the operation of Muscle Shoals, the development of other power projects, vast reforestation plans, and a public building program involving the expenditure of $250,000,000. The cost of carrying out the “three steps” will be about two billion dollars, and it is expected the President will propose to cover half of that amount with a bond issue.

CHARLES E. MITCHELL, former chairman of the National City bank of New York, was arrested at his home, charged with willfully evad-

ing payment of an income tax of $657,152 for the year 1929. He was released on bond. The warrant was based on an affidavit and complaint by Thomas E. Dewey, chief assistant United States attorney, which charged that the financier attempted to evade the tax due on an income of $2,823,405.85 in 1929.

The return filed by Mr. Mitchell for 1919 showed a purported loss of $48,000, which, of course, resulted in his paying no tax for that year. In Washington, it was reported, Attorney General Homer Cummings had conferred with President Roosevelt, and that Mr. Roosevelt “fully approved of the action.” The Washington authorities have directed Mr. Medalie to present the case

to the federal grand jury at once with a view to an early trial. THE passage of the economy bill puts the question of government economies squarely up to the President. That law and the one passed by the last congress putting into the hands of the President the reorganization of government departments and bureaus, give to the President dictatorial powers over government expenditures for salaries up to the point of a 15 per cent reduction, the number of departments and bureaus and the employees needed to operate them, and the amounts to be paid to veterans, and to what veterans. It is expected that such reductions as are made in the salaries of government departments will be effective April 1, but the savings made in the payments to veterans cannot, under the law, be effective until July 1. For the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, it is predicted the economies effected by the President will amount to a total of $508,652,000, divided as follows : 1. Elimination of nonservice connected disability allowances to World war veterans $201,652,000 2. Reduction in pay of government employees 125,000,000 3. Reduction of SpanishAmerican war pensions. 95,000,000 4. Establishment of uniform schedules for disability payments to veterans. 40,000,000 5. Limitation on retroactive payments 25,000,000 6. Miscellaneous 22,000,000 Total $508,652,000 The plan for the reorganization and consolidation of government departments and bureaus has not yet been announced, but there will undoubtedly be an additional saving of from $300,000,000 to half a billion dollars effected in that way. The entire matter of economies in the administrative end of the government is now in the hands of the President.

IN RESPONSE to complaints by American Jews of the persecution and excesses committed against their co-religionists by the Hitlerites in Ger-

Cordell Hull

S. Wise of New York. The department issued the following statement: “Following the visit of Rabbi Wise the department has informed the American embassy in Berlin of the press reports of mistreatment of Jews in Germany. “The department also informed the embassy of the deep concern these reports are causing in this country. 1 “The department has instructed the embassy to make, in collaboration with the consuls, a complete report on the situation.” BEER of 3.2 per cent by weight and 4 per cent by volume alcoholic content will be on sale legally in 14 states on April 7. The house of representatives refused to accept the senate amendment providing for 3.05 per cent, and the conference committee decided to accept the house percentage ; the committee also killed the Borah amendment providing that the beverage could not be sold to children under sixteen years of age. As soon as the new law becomes operative and beer Is actually on sale the “drys” plan to bring a test case to be rushed through to the Supreme court for the purpose of determining the constitutionality of the law, and they believe the court will find that 3.2 beer is intoxicating and that the law is unconstitutional. It was to minimize this possibility that the senate reduced the alcoholic content to conform with a finding of a British commission which had decided the highest alcoholic content possible in a non-intoxicating beverage would be 3.05. Under the new law the sale of the beverage will be regulated by states, counties or municipalities as was true before the days of prohibition. There is nothing in the law to prohibit the sale in saloons in states or counties or municipalities where saloons may be wanted, and where such method of sale may be authorized.. The sale of beer has been legalized in only 14 states effective on April 7. The prohibition laws have been repealed in five other states, but the repeal in these states does not become effective until after April 7, and in one state not until July 1. The other 29 states are dry either because of legislation enacted after the adoption of the Eighteenth amendment, or were dry previous to that enactment. Some of these states will possibly repeal their dry laws before the present session of state legislatures adjourn.

Homer S. Cummings

many Secretary of State Cordell Hull asked the embassy in Berlin to make a complete report on the situation. This action was taken as a result of the representations made to the State department by a delegation from the American Jewish congress, headed by Rabbi Stephen

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST.

Government by the people is dead in Germany. The reichstag has abdicated in favor of a dictatorship by the Hitler government, which

means that Adolph Hitler, former Austrian painter, is in supreme power. The session of the reichstag at which this momentous decision was ratified, was attended by all the pomp and circumstance of monarchial days. The former crown prince and otner members of the Hohenzollern fam-

Adolph Hitler

ily were saluted with all the formality of the pre-war court. Von Hindenburg in his address opening the session of the reichstag sounded an appeal to the people “for a national rebirth of the soul for the weal of a unified, free and proud Germany.” Hitler, standing before a golden reading desk, responded. He appealed for foreign amity. He rejected the charge of German war guilt as a lie, and asserted that neither the former kaiser nor the government desired the conflict. He promised to restore “true unity to all Germany, all states, all professions and classes. “We want to be sincere friends to the world at large,” the chancellor said, “and to possess a real peace which will help heal the wounds from which we are suffering. For years heavy burdens have pressed upon our people. After a period of proud revival, poverty and distress have visited us once more. “Millions of Germans seek their daily bread in vain. Our economy is desolated, our finances shattered. For 2,000 years this faith has clung to our people; against our ascent comes our fall. The German--victim of inner disintegration, disunited in spirit, and divided in will and thus helpless in action--becomes powerless to maintain his own existence.” The new order of things awoke Germany to a pitch of enthusiasm not witnessed in many years. Bonfires flared and torchlight processions were held in every city and village. Eighty thousand cheering person’s paraded in Berlin.

TO ASSURE an era of world peace tiie general lines of a solid European front in the form of a pact by the four chief powers were evolved

at a conference in Rome between Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain, and his foreign secretary Sir John Simon, and Premier Mussolini of Italy. The project, which calls for the collaboration of Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, is described as founded on the spirit of the Kel-

logg pact and as an international agreement to outlaw war. The plan was put forth by Mussolini, according to the following official communique: “After a full and exhaustive exchange of ideas of the general situation the ministers examined in these conversations a plan put forward by the head of the Italian government for an understanding on larger political questions, with the object of securing collaboration of the four western powers in an effort to promote, in the spirit of the Kellogg pact and a ‘no force’ declaration, a long period of peace for Europe and the world.” The solid front of the four powers, it is implied, would be for collaboration in European affairs, but such an understanding would also promote a more unified action in dealing with other international problems confronting Europe. The collaborative agreement, it is inferred, is to be complementary to MacDonald’s plan for disarmament. Premier Daladier of France declared that before France can accept the scheme important modifications must be made. He said France would accept the plan in principle. Among the modifications the premier had in mind was one that Poland and the little entente (Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Jugo-Slavia) be included in the agreement as equals. The hopes of Europe to enmesh the United States in the plan to keep peace on the continent were revealed by Premier MacDonald. He said that the “moral support” of America is “ardently desired.” “We are thinking as Europeans,” he said, “but we feel that there are many open ears in Washington and throughout the United States listening to what is being said in Europe about disarmament and peace. “I am sure that many of these people would gladly spring to our assistance in what we are trying to do in a peaceful spirit, consistent with American policies.” THE flood in the Ohio river valley has taken at least ten lives and caused millions of dollars’ worth of property damage. The Red Cross is caring for thousands of refugees forced from their homes by the flood waters. Their suffering was intensified by a return of winter. New Richmond, Ohio, is one of the hardest hit of the flooded towns. There were only five buildings in the town of 1,500 left dry and every road leading from the town but one was impassable. On the Kentucky shore across from Cincinnati water crept across the river flats to leave some 3,000 homeless and isolate their towns of Newport, Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, and Southgate from Covington. 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

Seen and Heard In Indiana

Blanche Lois Eaton, fifteen, high school student at Leavenworth, fell dead as she stepped from a school bus in front of her father’s store. A Circuit court jury at Logansport awarded Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, beauty parlor operator, $200 in her $20,000 breach of promise suit against Carl O. Snell, railroad engineer. Continued rain caused the closing of a number of Lawrence county roads as White river was 12 feet above normal and rising an inch an hour. Rev. Elijah P. Brown, the former editor and founder of the Ram’s Horn, a semi-religious weekly newspaper, and a resident of Indianapolis for 30 years, died at his home in Sebring, Fla. Appointment of Herbert P. Kenney, New Albany attorney, as assistant public counsellor of the public service commission was announced at the office of Governor McNutt. The four-member bipartisan system of institutional board control probably will be changed to three-member, bipartisan bodies. Governor McNutt said in discussing contemplated changes under the governmental reorganization act. Bunson mine No. 4, at Universal, five miles west of Clinton, was badly damaged by three explosions of dynamite bombs. The mine, owned by the United States Fuel company, had been recently leased by a concern which, it was said, was planning to open on a nonunion basis. Joseph K. McGary, eighty-eight, Civil war veteran and past commander of the Archer post No. 28. Grand Army of the Republic at Princeton, died. He was a member of Company E, Forty-Second Indiana infantry. Application blanks for permission to sell medicinal whisky in Indiana were mailed to prospective wholesalers and retailers, it,was announced by Al Feeney, temporary excise director of the state’s new liquor control law. Collision of a bus and a truck near Michigan City resulted in injury of 10 persons, three of them seriously. Amos R. Mattis, seventy-two, Chicago, was one of those hurt. The Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, accused of attempting to rape an eight-een-year-old girl member of his congregation. was found guilty of “imprudent ministerial conduct” by an ecclesiastical jury in Muncie. He was ordered suspended for a year. The United Cleaners and Dyers, 122 South State street, Hammond, was bombed in the night with damage to the plant and some of the equipment, estimated at $2,000 by Carl Fisher and Harry Pittsman, the owners. The bomb was tossed into the rear of the plant. Windows of nearby buildings were shattered. Police said Chicago cleaning racketeers had been active in Hammond recently, attempting to organize the industry. Mrs. Jessica Loomis Francis, sev-enty-two, died at Michigan City. She was a teacher in the Mark Sheridan High school, Chicago, for more than ten years. Perry H. Swank of Valparaiso was awarded $2,500 by the Circuit court jury against the Northern Indiana Public Service company for the death of his son, eleven, electrocuted last August by high tension wires while climbing a tree to view an airplane test flight. Gibson county ministers are planning an organization to fight repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. The Seventh District Federal Reserve bank granted the Farmers National bank, of Remington, permission to reopen. Ray Gilbert, Seymour, Democrat, state representative from Brown and Jackson counties, was named chief railroad inspector of the public service commission, succeeding Charles Michael, Logansport Republican. The reappointment of Rush G. Budd, Newcastle Democrat, as a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Village for Epileptics, which is situated near Newcastle, is announced. George A. Ryan, veteran editor of the Horseman and Fair World, died at Indianapolis. He had been ill for more than a month. Death was attributed to toxic poisoning. Carrying her six-weeks-old daughter Marcia Ann, Mrs. Lorenz Bower started down the steps of her home at Zionsville. She fell. Marcia Ann’s skull was fractured, killing her. Mrs. Bower was not seriously injured. Mrs. Edward Duncan, age thirtyfive, living near Clay City, was fatally burned when she poured coal oil on smoldering ashes in the kitchen stove. The oil can exploded. A truce in the wage dispute between Indianapolis theater owners and union employees will allow theaters to remain open for another week at least. Previously it had been announced that all theaters, both legitimate and motion picture, would close. Lloyd Weldy, forty-five years old, county assessor of Elkhart county, died at Chicago from injuries received on March 14. when he was struck by a street car. Weldy, a resident of Wakarusa, was visiting Chicago as a delegate to the Pure Milk association. At Peru Ed Sheckell, department store manager, fell and broke his leg while dancing with his wife. Three men who pleaded guilty to burglary charges, at South Bend, told officers fumes from a torch wrapped in cotton and sprinkled with sulphur put the chickens to sleep and prevented a cackle as they were carted away.

Mussolini

IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL Lesson

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

Lesson for April 2 JESUS MINISTERING TO JEWS AND GENTILES (World Friendship Lesson) LESSON TEXT--Mark 7:1-37. GOLDEN TEXT--And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. John 10:16. PRIMARY TOPIC--Little Neighbors. JUNIOR TOPIC--A Foreign Woman Meeting Jesus. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP-IC--Our Attitude to Other Races. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP-IC--The Ministry of Jesus to All Races. I. Jesus Dealing With the Pharisees and Scribes (vv. 1-23). The Pharisees and Scribes zealously sought to preserve Judaism from the encroachments of heathenism. In this effort they built up a wall of traditions which in turn obscured the very law of God. As they gathered together unto Christ, he taught them: 1. The emptiness of formal worship (vv. 1-7). The tendency of the human heart is to depart from the life and rest in the form which was calculated to express the life. Christ declared that worship which centered in forms was as empty and meaningless as lip service while the heart is away from God. This kind of service he calls “hypocrisy,” and it is common today. 2. It made the Word of Cod of none effect (vv. 8-13). A case in point was the consecration of earthly goods to escape the responsibilities of caring for one’s parents. This made it possible for a man to be living in luxury while his parents were in the poorhouse. 3. The real source of defilement (vv. 14-23). Sin is moral and spiritual. A man is defiled by that which springs out of his soul and not that which enters his mouth. The deliberate choice of the will is the source of defilement (v. 20). II. Jesus Healing the Daughter of the Syrophenician Woman (vv. 24-30). In sharp contrast with the apostasy of Israel and their rejection of the Savior, we see in the Syrophenician woman the foregleam of the offer of the Savior to the Gentiles. 1. The mother’s awful distress. Her daughter was grievously vexed with the devil. The daughter was the one afflicted, but the mother carried the burden. Doubtless, this Gentile woman had heard of the fame of Jesus, his power to heal, and many times longed for him to come that way that her daughter might be healed. She now came straightway to him. 2. Her fervent appeal for help (vv. 25, 26). She humbly fell at Jesus’ feet and besought him to cast the devil out 3. Her faith rewarded (vv. 27-30). a. Jesus’ apparent refusal (v. 27). According to Matthew he answered her not a word. The reason for his silence was that she appealed to him on the wrong basis, addressing him as the Son of David (Matt. 15:22). An Israelite only had a right to seek his blessing as the Son of David. He was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Jesus said. “Let the children first be filled; for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and cast it unto the dogs.” b. The woman’s quick response (v. 28). As soon as she perceived the real difficulty she addressed him as Lord and cried for help (Matt. 15:2527). Only an Israelite could approach him as the Son of David, but all could come to him and own him as Lord. She willingly took her place as a Gentile, showing her willingness to receive but the crumbs from the children’s table. c. The glorious issue of her faith (vv. 29, 30). Jesus said, “Go thy way, the devil is gone out of thy daughter.” III. Jesus Healing a Deaf-mute (vv. 31-37), 1. The place (v. 31). This is the region where he had healed the Gadarene demoniac and where the people had requested his withdrawal from this country (Mark 5:20), because of the loss of their swine. 2. The method (vv. 33, 34). a. “He took him aside from the multitude” v. 33). He did this to avoid publicity. b. “Put his fingers in his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue” (v. 33) This was a sign language designed to objectify to the man what Jesus was going to do for him. c. “He looked up to heaven” (v. 34) to show to the man that his help was from God. d. A command issued (v. 34). The cure was immediate and complete (v. 35). 3. The effect (vv. 36, 37). Though he charged them to “tell no man,” so much the more they a great deal published it.

Larger Comprehension

If the message is to come to men with most effect, there is need for larger comprehension on the part of those who proclaim it, as well as of those who lay plans for its release.--John R. Mott

The Master Light

In our world of the inner life we gratefully acknowledge Christ as the Master light of all our seeing, in whose radiant presence our problems are solved and our faith made plain.

Bridging the Gap in Human History

Dedication of a building at the University of Chicago devoted to the investigation of early man--a building which “finds no parallel in any other university, either in America or abroad”--draws the Near East still nearer to the West. It is in the East that the origins of the civilization we have inherited are for the most part hidden; and the Oriental institute under western skies seeks now to help man in a literal sense to “orient” himself--to get his bearings and see in true perspective the history of the human race. Especially is it to help bridge the gap between the savage of the paleontologist and the historian’s story of the people who emerge in Europe as "civilized” beings. Of special significance is the evidence that in this period man in Egypt began “to bear remote voices that proclaimed the utter futility of material conquest.” It was then that “conscience and character broke upon the world.” The coffin lids of Egyptians 500 years after the Pyramid age and two millennials B. C. revealed a longing for felicity beyond the satisfactions of food and drink and shelter. In the spacious walls of the Oriental institute the East walks again in its beauty and majesty, but with sobering if not frightening suggestion to tjhe present, which sees in every object reminders of a perished past--of the death of civilizations that dreamed they were immortal. Yet every earthen fact is touched by the spirit of skill that begat it and is passed on as a symbol of struggle toward an ideal. The great winged bull that looks with steady gaze into a strange world may be but an early dream of human flight--the man’s face appearing above the wings, the strength of the bull suggesting the power of the motor that has taken the place of beasts of burden. Even if these relics of a dead past cause disquiet in these days, it is cheering to remember, with Mr. Fosdick, speaking in their presence, that it is the continuing peril that develops the hiiman spirit, that it has been in times of instability and not in hours of placidity that the greatest contributions have been made to the cultural life of man. The past only tells us, in the words of a great present-day philosopher, that it is the “business of the future to be dangerous.”--New York Times.

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