Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 18, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 March 1938 — Page 2

By LEMUEL F. PARTON

VEW YORK.—Among his companions in barnstorming, Glenn L. Martin was known as “The Dude,” although his carefully tai-

As arfin Had Get-Up of Mortician

His somewhat mortuary get-up and behavior gave an impression of great conservatism, and it is not surprising that he got backing from the bankers when other aviators failed. A few months ago, he said his Glenn L. Martin company, of Baltimore, making planes, had a backlog of $15,500,000. He told the house naval affairs committee there should be a 100 per cent increase in air armaments, that foreign nations are spending ten times as much as the United States. He would build a 250,000-pound bomber, carrying 30 men and a 4.000pound bomb load 11,000 miles. In 1912, this writer saw him put an inflated inner tube around his neck, strap a compass on his leg and take off to sea, at Avalon bay, Los Angeles, in a flying laundry w’agon on w’hich he had rigged a single wooden pontoon. He was bound for Catalina island, 20 miles away. It looked like suicide. He not only made it, but picked up again at Catalina and finished

Round Trip Sea Flight It Success

excursion. He had made the plane in an abandoned church. The flight got him world attention. Then he staged a plane coyote hunt, dropped a ball into a catcher’s mitt and a bouquet into the arms of a beauty contest queen. This air extravaganza did not last long. In 1913, he built and sold two model TT war planes to the army, and has been build* ing fighting craft ever since, with the exception of trans-Pa-cific Clippers. He grew up in Mackburg, lowa, built a pusher plane in his backyard and flew it in 1908. He is fifty-two. • • •. A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, . ’ ’ in his seersucker suit and his rumpled hat, frequently looked as if he had been sleeping under a

Bryan, Jr., Fastidious About Dress

Jr., is fussy about his dress, severely and fastidiously groomed, with a jaunty little moustache and a nice collection of malacca sticks, sports clothes, and varied haberdashery. He is in the news now as he becomes collector of customs at the port of Los Angeles, his first recognition by the California Democracy, in whose vineyard he' has labored for years. When his father laid down his staff and scrip at Dayton, Tenn., he picked from the legacy only two things—free silver and antievolution. He is quite unmoved by oratory, speaking with calm, I legalistic precision, with no gift 'for the resounding or oracular. He has made spirited forays against this or that, notably Upton

Will Speak Good Word for Silver

spired his father. But, when occasion offers, he puts in a word for silver, or against evolution. After the Dayton trial and his father’s death, he made a knightly vow that his lance always should be leveled against this ignoble theory of man s origin. But nobody seems to be bringing that up now. The argument is shifting to where man is going. He attended the University of Nebraska three years, studied law at Georgetown university, went to Arizona on account of his wife’s health, and practiced first in Arizona and then in Los Angeles. He is fifty years old. C Consolidated News Features. WNU Service.

Origin of Word Assassin

The, word assassin originated in Persia in the Eleventh century. It derives from hashish, the intoxicating Indian drug which at that time was used by notorious murderers under one Hasan-i-Sabbah to work themselves into the high state of ruthlessness required for their crimes. As a tactic in attacking vested authority assassination is as old as man. It is notably the most übiquitous and immediate of dangers to autocratic government, as has been proved by the violent deaths of a nigh percentage of dictators from Julius Caesar to those of modem times.

WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK

lored flying suits were always black, , including their elaborate braid trimmings.

the round trip, blanking Bleriot, whose flight over the British channel was a one-way

bridge, especially in the midst of a hard campaign. His son, William Jennings Bryan,

Sinclair's “Epic” heresy of 1934, but with no such impassioned fervor as that which in-

News Review of Current Event LITHS YIELD TO POLES

One War Threat Removed ... Mexico Seizes Foreign Oil Concerns . • . Hull Says We Arm for Peace

Here in confidential conversation are Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana (left), chairman of the senate committee investigating lobbying, and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington. The committee’s inquiry at present is directed particularly to a campaign against the government reorganization bill and its activities aroused Publisher Frank Gannett to demand its abolition. >

Edward W. Pickard

Victory for Poland fANE immediate threat of European war seemed to be dissolved when Lithuania yielded to the demands of Poland for resump-

tion of normal diplomatic and trade relations and virtually gave up its claim to Vilna, former capital of the country, which the Poles seized 18 years ago. General Smig-ly-Rydz, chief of the Polish army and “strong man” of Poland, had mobilized his troops on the Lithuanian 1 border,

General Smigly-Rydz

and Polish warships were cruising off Memel. So there was nothing for the Liths to do except give in. Polish troops that had been concentrated in Vilna paraded in celebration of the “’bloodless victory, but in Warsaw the celebration was distorted into a “pogrom” in which riotous throngs attacked all the Jews they could find, killing several and wounding scores. Hundreds of Jew-ish-owned shops were smashed before the police could restore order. The mobs were made up largely of National Democrats, opposed to the government, who protested that the settlement with Lithuania was too lenient. They demanded that Poland invade and annex Lithuania. Col. Joseph Beck. Polish foreign minister, declared that Poland would guarantee Lithuania’s independence. The Liths, however, were extremely bitter over the concessions they had been forced to make to their more powerful neighbor. Mexican Oil Seizures PRESIDENT CARDENAS of Mexi- * co announced the expropriation of oil properties belonging to American and British companies and valued at some $400,000,000. Wells, refineries and tankers were seized and workers took control of all company offices in the republic. The American and British employees and their families fled. For the present the oil industry in Mexico was paralyzed. The companies concerned began legal action attacking the constitutionality of Cardenas’ decree, and it was said would carry the case to the highest court. Both the United States and Great Britain were expected to challenge the seizures and similar action threatened in the case of mines as violat'®n of treaty obligations. The action of the Mexjcan government was not entirely unexpected for it was the culmination of a long and bitter controversy between the oil companies and Mexico’s board of labor concilation and arbitration over a $7.300,000 wage increase ordered bv the board. . 1— Armed Peace: No Alliances A MERICA must pursue its quest for world peace, but must follow a policy of arming for protection of its rights against “interna-

tional lawlessness.” So declared Secretary of State Cordell Hull in an exposition of America’s foreign policy and a discussion of all aspects of the world situation. He spoke at the National Press club in Washington and his address was broadcast over the land and to other nations by radio.

In brief, he set forth a policy of peace, no alliances, collaboration

SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK (£ Western Newspaper Union.

with peaceful nations, military preparedness, and opposition to the “seclusionist” viewpoint. ' “It is my considered judgment that, in the present state of world affairs, to do less than is now proposed would lay our country open to unpredictable hazards,” he said, referring to the paVal expansion program. ' . , “The momentous Question,” he \ said; “is whether the doctrine of , force shall become enthroned once more and bring in its wake, inexorably, international anarchy and a I relapse into barbarism.” He did not refer to any nation j by name, but his implication with regard to legal recognition of Austria's absorption by Germany and Japan's expansion in China was clear when he saids t * “The catastrophic developments of recent years, the {startling events of the past weeks,; offer n tragic demonstration of hpw quickly the contagious scourge of treaty-break-ing and armed violence spreads from one region to another.” He disclaimed “the slightest intention to entertain any such notion as the use of American armed forces for ‘policing t}he world.’ ” He specifically opposed the proposal the United States retire from the East. In the Far East crisis, Hull said, the United States has “consistently collaborated with other peace-seek-ing nations.” The triumph of the “seclusionist viewpoint,” he said, “would inescapably carry the whole world back to the conditions of medieval chaos, conditions toward which some parts ■ of both the eastern and the western worlds are already moving.” ... •. ' House Passes Navy Bill T ITH only a few votes in oppo- ’ ’ sition, the house passed the administration's billion dollar navy bill. Th£ measure authorizes construction of the largest battle fleet in Americah history by adding 46 combat ships, 22“ auxiliaries and 950 airplanes. - The War department announced that army and navy i officers were about to study plans for an enlistment program that would put more . than two million men under arms within four months of a declaration of war. For this the army require 1.250,000 recruits and tiff? navy 500,000. _ The first 300,000, under existing plans, would be sought as volunteers in the first month, before selective : draft machinery like that of 1917-T8 was put into operation. Already prepared for cfuick submission to congress is- a draft of a selective service law’. * Morgan Defies F. D. R. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT or- * dered Chairman Arthur E. Morgan of the Tennessee Valley Authority to recant charges against his colleagues or face suspension or ouster, but Mr. Morgan challenged the President’s powers to remove him and said flatly that he would not resign. The chairman asserted: “I challenge this action by the President and deny his right to remove or suspend me. I stand on that. If I sum up my attitude I can say that I do not choose to run away.” He then took a train for Yellow Springs, Ohio, for a visit with friends. Morgan told newspaper men he has obtained legal advice on his conflict with the President. At the same time it was learned Mr. Roosevelt uncovered a law under which, advisers assured him, he is empowered to oust the chairman.

Secy. Hull

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Washington.—lt is often the trick of political spokesmen to let their real feelings become known by a

Taxation Problem

which they are interested. Such a statement was that made lately by Sen. Pat Harrison, Mississippi Democrat, with reference to what the senate will do on the pending tax bill. At least, nearly all of the observers here who know the lovable Pat Harrison were quite convinced that, when he said the senate would grant business relief from unfair taxes, he actually was proclaiming congressional independence of President Roosevelt. This question of taxation is one with which the New Dealers are gravely concerned; they are just as much concerned as is business and the country as a whole. But they are concerned for a different reason. Sane minds throughout the country long ago began to beg congress and the administration to make changes in the tax laws to permit business to go forward with employment and production. New Dealers attacked anyone who said that as an “economic royalist’’ or “tory” or some other one of the various things that the New Dealers profess to hate. After so long a time, however, the New -Dealers conceded some changes were necessary—and then began the greatest face-saving maneuvers yet to be tried by the wishful thinkers. When word went to the house ways and means committee that it could make modifications in the two pet New Deal tax laws, the ageing Chairman Doughton, ? of that com-, mittee, followed instructions. Of course, there were seventeen Democrats and seven Republicans on the committee and that enabled the New Deal to carry out its plans for “modification” of tax laws—and to save faces. Regular Democrats and Republicans" in the committee membership still were in the minority in the house of representatives, °and the New Dealers had their way. The tax bill debate in the house, nevertheless told of more slaps at the administration that lay ahead. At this point in the developments, Senator Harrison enters upon the stage. He is chairman of the senate committee on finance. His statement, therefore, that the 1938 tax bill is going to give some basis upon which«business can break even, at least, can be taken as indicative of the final form of that law when it emerges from congress. The house, under the lash of White House lobbyists, managed to hold part of the ways and means committee draft in its original shape while losing other parts of it. Thus, when the senate has acted and the bill is sent to conference committees for adjustment of the differences, it is rather plain to see how Democrats and Republicans are certain to override New Deal face-saving. ♦ ♦ * I have written much in these columns about present tax policies

Harrison Speaks Out

be important factors in the development of the Roosevelt depression. The assinine tax on undistributed earnings, fathered by the radical Prof. Herman Oliphant of the Treasury staff, has not allowed any corporation to build up a reserve. It took all of the earnings of last year, a period in which some corporations did make money in a limited way. Now that the depression is on us again, corporations obviously are scared stiff. Wage cuts are cropping up here, there and everywhere, and every time there is a wage cut the nation’s buying power is reduced to that extent. But what is an employer going to do? Go broke, in order to keep his payrolls up? That is hardly human, it seems to me, since everyone desires to protect whatever funds he may have, be it a dollar or a million. So, when Senator Harrison spoke out boldly that something was going to be done to eliminate some of the obstacles which wishful thinking New Dealers have built up in their experimentation, it means, I believe, that Senator Harrison proposes, to do just that. The politics of the situation is another matter. That phase is equally important and significant. Senator Harrison would not have spoken out a few years ago, or even a year ago, as he has done lately. The house a year ago would never have rejected w’hat has been called the “third basket” of taxation. (The socalled third basket was a new type of tax that would have made »the rates sky-high on corporations held by only a few stockholders, familyowned corporations like thousands of small companies usually are,.) No, the house would not have killed that a year ago, but it did this year. And, when Senator Harrison dared to say congress will do thus and so, Senator Harrison was simply voicing a fact. He was saying, in effect, “Whether you like it or not, Mr. President, we will write the tax law in the interest of the country as we see it.”

by William Bruckart

statement that makes no definite reference to the broader policies in

heretofore. There is little need to repeat the ijacts which continue to

WaMhfnrton, D. C.

In the course of the tax bill debate in the house, there was a curious disclosure, a rather biting piece of debate. Representative Treadway, who would be chairman of the ways and means committee if Republicans were in the majority instead of being only a handful, told the house that the father of the surplus earnings tax had never come before the committee since the time he laid out the silly scheme which led to its enactment. Professor Oliphant has been so silent about his sponsorship of the plan that it has become almost thunderous. And Mr. Treadway thought it was unusual that a parent should shrink from acknowledgment of parenthood. He obtained no answer or explanation. The surplus earnings tax, in a modified form, was still in the bill as reported to the house, however, and there was sufficient New Deal strength in the house to hold it there. It will be different in the senate; and’ the speech by Senator Harrison simply is an announcement in advance. • • * It has been interesting to me to review these facts because I am in-

Healthy Sign

flection of the opinion in the entire country. The November elections lie ahead. Mail from home is pouring in, and the character of that mail is always closely studied by the politician seeking re-election. That is to say, the average house member or senator is keeping very close tab on what the feeling is back home. They were not put to that necessity* during the first four years of Mr. Roosevelt's administration.; All that was needed was for a member to say that the President wants this or that, and vote that way. So clearly has all of this been made apparent that few who so desire are afraid any longer to assert themselves —to say what they think even if that is in administration opposition. It is a healthy sign. It means that congress, while going along with Mr. Roosevelt many times, will put more and more checks on his proposals that have had their birth in the little red house, of Georgetown’s section of Washington, where all of the New, Dealers congregate. It means fur-; ther—in the opinion of some of the real Democrats—that the New Deal has played out. They are, therefore, getting back into their harness as Democratic leaders. And, in this light, there has been another development that should not be overlooked. I refer to the collapse of Robert H. Jackson’s candidacy for governor of New York. When Mr. Jackson, who lately was made solicitor general of the United States, was “going to town” as the expression is, left wing press agents had him all but elected in New York. A big banquet was tendered him in New York city. Mr. Roosevelt was quite instrumental in that banquet plan. He lent aid in stirring up attendance. It was notable, however, that the banquet created no excitement. That is, there was no excitement of importance, and. just there the candidacy began to sag. • • * ■ I do hot know what the real reason was for Mr. Jackson's subse-

Ignores Farley

just possible, however, absence of Postmaster General Farley from the banquet sponsorship had something to do with the flop—for flop the dinner and candidacy surely did. Now, everyone around Washington knows that Mr. Roosevelt no longer takes the postmaster general into the executive confidence, even though Mr. Farley is chairman of the Democratic national committee. Indeed, it was printed in several widely read columns that Mr. Roosevelt actually distrusted Mr. Farley. I would not be able to report on that detail, but I can not overlook the fact that left wingers, especially the long-haired group, have been sniping at Mr. Farley for months. It is just possible, then, that they have persuaded Mr. Roosevelt to the point of conviction. He has listened to that group a very great deal and they may have made him feel that Mr. Farley is undermining the President. In any event, one may follow the tax pronouncement by Senator Harrison right on through the significant silence of Mr. Farley. One may find how Mr. Farley has had numerous and sundry conferences, or chance meetings, with a good many powerful old-line Democrats. But to examine the thing from a congressional angle again, I am pleased by the defection, the establishment of the line of tion between Democrats and New Dealers. Not that I care who runs the government, or is charged with responsibility. My interest lies deepqr. I know from having watched: the wheels go ’round that too great a majority of one party in congress produces bad laws. It can nbt be avoided. * © Western Newspaper Union.

dining to the opinion that the situation in congress is more or less a re-

quent statement that he would not seek the New’ York governorship. It is

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