Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 July 1938 — Page 2

By LEMUEL F. PARTON

>JEW YORK. When Charles Maurras came out of the Sante prison last year, he was met by a committee of distinguished French-

JLeavet Jail To Get Bid To Academy

member of the Academy. They have just fulfilled the latter promise, and M. Maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote. He had spent 250 days in jail on a charge of having urged the assassination of 140 members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against Italy; also on a charge of inciting the French people to "sharpen up their kitchen knives" for use against certain proscribed politicians. In the 250 days he had written five books, swelling his .vast collection of books on biography, politics, economics, literary criticism, history and what not to probably well over 100..- I talked to him once in the Case des Lilas, a fragile, deaf, bearded old man with a contentious, blazing mind which makes one think of a sizzling battery running an automobile without any engine. In 1923, he was in jail for four months in a somew'hat anti-climatic

Showed Duce Technique Of Terror

chamber of deputies were kidnaped and fed castor oil—Mussolini is said to have got his broad prospectus of Fascism from Maurras—and the bald head of one of them was painted with violet ink and glue. In 1925, M. Maurras was sentenced to two years in prison, the charge being that he had threatened to kill the minister of the interior* Among the causes of his incarceration in October, 1936, was conspiracy evidence in the assault on Premier Leon Blum, in which he was severely beaten, while attending the funeral of a friend. His books and virulent editorials against democracy in the Royalist, paper, translated into many languages, are the fount of Fascist doctrine all over the w r orld. His hatred of democracy is savage and vitriolic. He is witty, learned, brilliant and he has the most excoriating and corrosive vocabulary in France. • • • A FOOTNOTE to the main text of ** the world discussion on Japan bombing babies is the interchange between Avery Brundage, chairman

Jap Bombs Cause Rift in Olympics

vard athletic director. Mr. Brundage says it has nothing to do with sports, and Mr. Bingham says it has—with sportsmanship, at any rate—and he withdraws from the committee and the 1940 games. The sports writers are becoming almost metaphysical in weighing and appraising the moral values of the argument. Bill the Plugger says, in effect, that he w’on’t play with baby-killers. He became Bill the Plugger by losing 19 races at Harvard and winning the twentieth. Thereafter, he was Harvard's crack miler. He started out plugging at the age of fourteen, leaving school to work in a mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters. He saved S3O, went to Exeter and worked his way through Exeter and Harvard. A He came out of the war a captain with appropriate decorations, did a turn in the banking business in Texas and became Harvard graduate supervisor and track coach ir. 1921. On the side, he is president of a concern which imports rubber goods. • • • IF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds * a house, they’re likely to find a center-board and a skys’l yard on it; It’s hard to see how he can get-

Afr. Lambert Keeps Mind On 'Yachts

Donald, federal housing administrator. The gargles and shaves }f the multitudes built his chemical fortune at St. Louis. He was one of the original backers of Lindbergh and the originators of great advertising slogans. Author of a spirited “Defense of Babbitts" in the American Mercury, commander of the Eastern Yacht club of Marblehead, Mass., he maintains a valhalla for gallant old yachts. • Consolidated News Features. WNU Service.

Women Get First Vote

In their first vote women of UnK guay recently helped choose a new parliament of 99 delegates and 30 senators.

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men, who nominated him for the Nobel peace prize and said they .would make him a

adventure for one who was to be garlanded as an immortal. Three members of the

of the American Olympic committee, and William J. Bingham (Bill the Plugger), Har-

his mind off his yachting, but, at any rate, he becomes special adviser to Stuart Mc-

News Review of Current Events CHANCE FOR RECOVERY

President's Call for Help Indicates Compromise • • • He Demands Election of Liberals to Congress

Speediest ship in our navy, the destroyer McCall, was commissioned at the Mare Island navy yard in California. The McCall, fiirst privately built navy vessel since 1921, has a specified speed of 3814 knots, but in recent tests was reported to have averaged 42 knots. It carries four 5-inch guns and four quadruple torpedo tubes and is especially fitted for quick attacks on capital ships.

Edward W. Pickard

Signs of Compromise 'T'HERE are distinct indications of - compromise and co-operation in the American picture, and hopes for restored prosperity are somewhat revived. The stock market has become unusually active, and private enterprise is awakening. Unfreezing of three billions in stored-up credit is expected to result from new- banking regulations ordered by the President. Thousands of contracts for approved projects to cost almost $500,000,000 have been sent to all parts of the country by the Public Works administration. Mr. Roosevelt, in his latest radio address to the nation, said: "In simple frankness and in simple honesty, I need all the help I can get,” and it seems that the people are ready to give that help if the administration will do its part. Notable in the President’s talk was the admission that mistakes have been made not only by his opponents and by industry and labor, but also by government leaders. He sharply attacked reactionaries in business, blaming them for much of the current depression. Asserting his continued belief in individual enterprise, and the profit motive, he criticized the recent congress for failing to enact his program for government reorganization and legislation to aid the financially depressed railroad industry. At the same time, however, he said the legislators “achieved more for the future good of the country than any congress between the end of the World war and the spring of 1933." Wants Liberals Elected \ T OST of the Presidents radio speech was frankly political. He declared himself the leader of the liberals and held that, as such, it was his privilege to intervene in state primary and election campaigns for the purpose of insuring the defeat of those whom he characterized as conservatives, the opponents of his policies. This aroused the indignation of rryany Democratic statesmen like Senators Burke of Nebraska and King of Utah. “I believe the people in the districts and states will resent the President’s interference,” Burke said. “If we were to follow the course he has suggested, w r e w’ould all be goosestepping behind a leader no matter how- beneficent that leadermay be. I do not approve of that course." Senator King asserted the President should not use the great advantage he has in controlling the purse strings of the huge spending program. “People who have fought for the Democratic party for a great many years do not like interference in their state affairs by outsiders,” he said. “I do not believe the President should meddle in the primary elections of the Democratic party or any other party.” General opinion was that Mr. Roosevelt had widened the split in the Democratic party and by his words had placed the stamp of his approval on the attempted “purge" directed by Corcoran, Cohen and others of his advisers. * Latest War Scare DOMBING of loyalist Spanish cities and of British ships in Spanish ports by Generalissimo Franco’s insurgent planes led directly to the most recent war scare in Europe. It was reported in London that the loyalists had threatened to bomb Italian and German cities if Franco did not call off his airmen, and in Italy it was asserted that this probably would be regarded as an act of war and would be the cause for appropriate action. The rumors were denied, but their dissemination may have done some

SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union.

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good, for information reached the British government that Franco had ordered his aviators to stop bombing British merchant vessels. However, this news was followed immediately by dispatches saying two more British ships had been bombed in the ports of Valencia and Alicante, several seamen being killed or, wounded. >. Swedes Celebrate A MERICANS of Swedish descent by the thousand and many Sweden gathered at Wilmington, Del., for the celebration of the

300th anniversary of the landing in America of the first Swedes and Finns. From the old country came Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf with a large party, but he was confined to his suite on the liner Kungsholm by illness. His place was taken by his son, Prince Bertil.

Prince Bertil

The principal event of the opening ceremony was the presentation of a monument erected by Sweden on the landing site. The presentation was made by Prince Bertil. and accepted by President Roosevelt. Then the President presented the monument to Gov. Richard McMullen for the state of Delaware. After the monument ceremony there w'as a lawn party attended by Crown Princess Louise. The celebration was continued for four days in Delaw-are, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, parts of which states were embraced in the New Sweden founded in 1638 by a company pf 150 Swedes and Finns sent to America by Gustafus Adolphus. —_ Mustn't Seize Hainan 'HE British and French envoys in Tokyo warned Japan that any occupation of Hainan, Chinese island off the south coast of China* would be met by joint Franco-British action. The island, which lies near French and British trade routes, was bombed by Japanese flyers. Germany is recalling the Germans who have been acting as advisjers to the Chinese army, and diplomats believe Germany may now give aid to Japan. [ _ . ! Inland Installs Hyde T RELAND’S first president, in the 1 person of Dr. Douglas Hyde, was installed in St. Patrick’s hallj Dublin castle, where former viceroys

held their social functions. The ceremony was conducted entirely in Gaelic and was witnessed by state and church officials, members of parliament and representatives of foreign countries. Among the last was American Minister John Cudahy. Dr. Hyde read and

signed a declaration in which he promised to defend the constitution and dedicate himself to the Service of the people of Ireland. Prime Minister De Valera made a speech in which he said: "You are now our president, freely chosen under our own laws, inheriting authority and entitled to the respect which Gaels ever gave to rightful chiefs. Not all the territory of Ireland is at the moment under your sway, but the justice of our claim and the tenacity of the Gpels will set that right." President Hyde has been a poet, historian and educator. He is the son of a protestant clergyman and it is hoped he will bring about a union of Roman Catholic Ireland and Protestant northern Ireland.

WASHINGTON.—It is entirely possible that many people have

Great Wealth On Grill

ly, and may have missed the significance of an action of congress in its closing days. The two incidents to which I refer are the federal grand jury indictment at South Bend, Ind., of a number of automobile manufacturing executives and the action of congress in adoption of a resolution providing for a broad-gauge inquiry into big business. The two, when pieced together, spell a sensational drive against the “malefactors of great wealth." The result? Well, let’s examine the scheme, . the pattern and the prospects. There was a period in 1936, it will be recalled, when business interests felt that President Roosevelt was preparing to follow a middle-of-the-road policy as far as government relations with business was concerned. During that period, there was a considerable improvement in general business. In that interim of time, as far as any observers could reach a conclusion, the President was relying on advice from many men in whom business had confidence. But there came a sudden end. Out of the clear sky, Mr. Roosevelt proposed reorganization of the Supreme court of the United States and the addition of six justices whom he could appoint at once. Through weeks 'of battle when it became apparent that one guess was as good as another whether the President would win, business men and women again became -afraid. That was when the present depression began. It was also the time when Mr. Roosevelt turned away from his previous close advisers and began listening to the new brain trust which has come'to be known as the “board of strategy." As the depression became sharper and the numbers of unemployed increased with startling rapidity, the board of strategy sought means to offset the condition. The group also had to find a goat—which is always done when plans go awry. There followed then the vicious and intemperate attacks on “big business” by the trust-busting Robert H. Jackson, then favored at the White House as the next Democratic candidate for the New York governorship. Secretary Ickes also let loose his vocabulary and none can deny the interior secretary’s capacity for speaking biting words. For weeks and weeks, we were treated to a barrage of words in which “big business" was pictured as beyond the pale of good citizenry and ought to be destroyed. The trust-busting drive was not as successful in gaining public acclaim as Rad been hoped for. The truth is that it failed to get the country excited at all and the .profit to the trust busters did not materialize as had been the case when “Teddy" Roosevelt was swinging a big stick of demagoguery in the same ■ field of political endeavor. Indeed, this drive flopped at the start whereas the drive by the earlier Roosevelt was good politics for several years. It was here, according to the best information available, that the tactics,changed. The change in methods is the real reason for the story. Thus, it can be said that the trustbusting drive is still going on as strong as ever but it is going on irt several fields without any apparent connection because the board of strategy has lost none of its determination to convince the nation that it is being ruined by those same malefactors of great wealth toward which Teddy Roosevelt waved his fist and bared his teeth. • • * Now, to put the pieces of the picture together. The first section corn-

How the Picture Looka

Chrysler, Alfred P. Sloan and William Knudsen, among some sixtyodd officials of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors and the companies affiliated with them in the financing of motor cars bought on the installment plan. They are charged with violation of the antitrust laws, although how anybody can believe the Ford interests ever could or would play ball with the other two, I have been unable to see. Anyway, big news stories were carried by the press services from South Bend, and the department of justice here had much “background” information which officials were delighted to hand to any inquiring reporter. They did this in order to co-operate with the press inasmuch as the story w'as so sensational and so vast in scope that none of us writers here could possibly be permitted to miss any phase of it. The other phase of the continuing drive against “big business” takes the form of a great inquiry, thinly disguised as a general study of business practices. It is m somewhat

Douglas Hyde

Washington Digest

By WILLIAM BRUCKART

failed to piece together several developments of national import late-

prises the indictment of the automobile moguls, Edsel Ford; Walter P.

unusual type of investigation and is to be managed in a very unusual manner. The committee that will do the job is made up of three senators and three representatives, and a representative from each of a number of executive departments and commissions. And the important fact in addition is that the $500,000 which the investigation will cost will be expended under the direction of President Roosevelt. To bring it own to simple terms, when congress adopted the resolution for the inquiry, the board of strategy was able to turn on enough political steam to force adoption of an amendment placing the funds under the direction of the President, rather than under control of congress, as usually is done when congress participates in an investigation. That action means that investigators for the committee will be able to rely upon laws covering inquiries and searches made by the department of justice, the federal trade commission, the securities and exchange commission and the national labor relations board, among others. The combined powers wall be all-comprehensive. To explain further the full meaning of these broad powers, it is necessary to cite constitutional provisions prohibiting illegal search and seizure. The investigators for the committee must be able to-dig deep into t private records of any bank or corporation or individual if they are to accomplish fully the desire of the board of strategy for complete exposure of all the secrets of business. When they get all of those records, of course they can analyze them and place their own construction on the business practices. That is today, by inference and innuendo, hint or open charge, the investigators' can smear anything or anybody—and the newspapers will spread the information. It being an official investigation, it will be followed closely by the ' press and, as usual, there will be little chance for the individuals to reply. When they are marked to be smeared, they will be smeared, whether justly or unjustly. It is a deplorable thing that our government stoops to' that sort of thing but it has done so in a number of instances. • • # Now, as to the. main objectives. Every indication is that the guiding

Hit Morgan And DuPont

two great masses of capital. I mean, .they intend to break up the combination of men and money in two instances. The banking house of J.* P. Morgan and company, and the huge industrial setup of the DuPonts are marked. Whether they like it or not, those two groups are to be made the goats of the depression of 1937-38, and those on the inside recognize that it is a fight to the finish. There will be other corporations, . other individuals, whose business lives will be lqid bare, but the Morgans and the DuPonts are the real targets. The board of strategy believes the Morgan bank and the DuPont interests are chiefly responsible for the refusal of business to yield on many of the crackpot ideas of the professors, and so it is inevitable those two groups will be cast as the villains. There arises, next, the question whether such an investigation and such a prosecution as has been started at South Bend will do the country any good. One ought not prejudge. It may be that the motor magnates and their corporations are guilty as pups. It may be that the Morgans and the DuPonts and scores of others among families with great fortunes have set about to wreck the New Deal. But the question in my mind is: why has it not been discovered before? It seems ter me ;that if there was so much corruption, so much improper influence being exercised and such illegal use of moneyed power as is represented by those who were pushing the investigation, it should have been several years ago. Mr. Roosevelt has been in office five years and it appears strange that there was no effort to uncover these demons until the business of the country as a whole lost confidence in the policies of the national administration. These developments have come along as the depression grew worse. They reach their climax of preparation at a time when another federal agency, the board of governors of the federal reserve system, says that the industrial depression in the United States now is the worst in the world. Neither England nor any other industrial country abroad has experienced a depression that has been as precipitous as the United States is experiencing, > the board said in an official statement The power is not given to me to determine the numerous and varied facts, but the processes of deduction eliminate possible causes for our nation’s condition— most ot them, indeed, excepting govern mental meddling and the harassing of business, big and little. g © W*«t«rn N«wspap«r Union.

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