The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 7, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 9 June 1932 — Page 7

. "== News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill, Rejecting Sales Tax After Hearing President Hoover —Von Papen Becomes German Chancellor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD

SPURRED Into action by President Hoover's .warning that government credit was endangered and foreign raids on the dollar were Imminent, the senate in a night

President Hoover

session passed its tax lull designed to bring in a total revenue of ?1.U’1,000,000. The Chief Executive unexpectedly appeared in person before the senate, for the first time in his administration, and read a statement of the serious condition. He urged the inclusion of 8 sales tax. ami restated ’his position re-

garding relief measures and his opposition to the huge public- works program fostered by Speaker <Earner. There was no chant.e for the sales tax, most <>f the Democratic senators having signet) an agreement to defeat It. It was rejected by the finance committee. 12 to s.. and Just before the. bill was. volod on by the senatelt .was defeated by : that body by a vote of 53 to 27. Then, in the midst of great confusion due to relief from the strain., the senators . adopted Jbcir measure The vote Was 72 to 11, Having been .informed' by Secretary of the Treasury Mills that-their COMniittee loir-vis still -onio <27 ."’000.009 shy of tile amount needed to balance the budget, the senators provided for most of this by a gasoline tax of' 1 cent a gallon, the restoration of In, i tax i »tes to the 1922-level and a 3 per cent tax on salle-s of electric•l y $ ■ It was believed the I ’senate and house conferees would speedily adjust the differences between the senate end 1 .■ Would go to the i'.o,- : • . ■ <>ne amendment'to the bill idoptcd by the senate is worth especial mention. Proposed by Senator Glenn of Illinois.>it'puts a 100 ]'<-r rent tax on: Incomes , tri ed through u-h.r <m< of stale or’federtil laws; thtW taking the government out .of what .has. been called Its partnership with crime. N’E«'ESS\RY In balancing the budget, the 'national economy 5 bill .providing savings ~f $'239.00(V000 wns reported fa.TQrn'hlS by the • propriatlons committee. Among Its featured is a flat !<• per e.-tis cut in the salaries of all government workers, ■except the enlisted personnel of the army, navy arid-marine corps, utm! those whose salaries are specifically pretc-t< d. by t? e <',>• <t !tuti«>r: such ns judges. Therle Is. also a saving of s|st**),f*s) in tlie amount given to veterans. The.economy bill passed by the house carried reductions in <xpendltures of only $52.0tt0 000. Roth measure* authorize the iTe'ideut to reorganise the executive departments. SPEAKER GARNER. himself appeared aS a witness before the house ways and means committee, to advocate Jils $2,300,000,000 federal relief bill, which was assailed by the lent as a pork- barrel raid on the treasury because it listed*:* 'multitude of post offices to Ke built all over the country. Garner defended the measure and reminded the committee of Mr. Hoovers Indorsement «f a s_-(«<>o,»om»> advance public works.recommended bv the e,.nf«•• of governors tn 1928. Both-hls bill and the prO-ram favored by ti e president increase the capitalization ,of the Reconstruction Finance . corporation and empower It to make hums for nonfederal construct ion. HEiXRK’fI I’.RLFATNG • han.pejib-r of Germany, and' his cabinet were forced to resign by I’re'ai. i;t Von Hindenburg l>ecausc the latter did not agree with their p

gram to save the country from further tlhanclaV coUapuu and t® provide work for the unemployed. This wa< really n considerable triumph for Hitler's Nails but they decided to permit a stopgap government to function.until autumn, when It Is expected there will tie a general election in which they

will, have a chance to makegood their claim of controlling the relchstag. The aged president selected for tern porary chancellor Lieut. Col. Franz von Papon. a man of whom the United States has heard little since 191.’*. At that’ time he was military attache of the German embassy in Washington and became involved with Karl BoyEd. naval attache, in plots that violated neutrality. Both of them were dismissed .by The American government for "improper activities.” Returning to Germany, Von Paj>en became a general staff officer. He Is, a Catholic Centrist, as Is Bruenlng, nnd Is editor and principal owner of the Catholic organ Germania. Von Papen's government, largely rightist. Is called a “feudal" cabinet by the Berlin press because it Is dominated by members of the old German nobility. The new chancellor Is expected to be a stern ruler for he has often demanded a “national dictatorship freed of parliamentary trimmings.* He Is known to favor a Franco-German union against Russia. CE. HUFF, head of the Farmers* Na • tlmal Grain corporation, recently filed charges against the Chien go Board of Trade because It denied mem bershlp to the corporation. In a communication to the Department of Agriculture Huff alleged the board was

violating the grain 1 futures law. Secretary Hyde took up the matter and announced that the grain futures commission would investigate the complaint, the hearings to begin in Washington on June 8. The commission is composed of Secretary Hyde. Attorney General William D. Mitchell and Secretary of Commerce Robert I’. Lamont. . XITRITING of the Republican na- ▼ » tional platform was intrusted by President Hoover to James R. Garfield of Ohio. son of President Garfield and secretary lof the in-

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platform to the White House and it was edited by-thO; President who deleted some portions and made several addltions. .. , ' ■ ’ So far nothing is known to the pub lie «»f the maimer in which the controversial questions will be handled. Mr. Garfield is riot known to have made ariy ’statements concerning prohibition, but he Ims already conferred with Senator Borah, an ihvetefnte dry, who had drawn tip a plank dealing with that subject'. The senator had a talk with Mrs. . Henry ,W. Peabody. . h airman of the Woman’s national committee for-law enforcement, who afterward said the semitor "agreed with me that the toice of the people Is in congress and that other matters do ;n«t concern n« deeply."* —, : Representative Bertrand H Snell <>f New. Yer’;, minority leader in the hoitse, t><] i newspaptr men he’la eer thin the prohibition plank in the !:<•■ aublicnn platform will be “liberal." Jknell said be was expressing hi* own opinion but that-’if anybody tells you the plank won t Im? liberal, don't believe them." Asked what he meant. by. "liberal." Snell, who has consistently supported dry mea-ur, >. <aid it would be “safisfactory." ■ For twm days Immediately preceding the opening of the Republican convention the Crusaders, an organization favoring prohibition r«‘peal, and the it< :i .'..:.-t national ; r»d.<i wilLstace' a’big demonstration in Chicago. <>n Sumlay there will he great paradei >'f ailYdrtnea and,water craft- and a' timss meeting under the ntiiff>lces of the: A merii a-U Federat ion of Labor; . and on Monday there will be a ground parade and another big public meetHerbert hoover having ex pressed a desire to be placed In nomination by a man from California, the grateful job has bwn given to

Joseph Scott of Los Angeles. Mr. Scott, w ho was born in England. N one of the -tate's mi'-t eminent la w vers and also is widely known in Roman Catholic circles. He was awarded the medal by the University of Notre I >a’: e In WIS and was treated a Knight of Gregory by ■ the pope in 1920 for work

during the World war. , It is not Htcely the K<-pubH-'an'con-vention will last n»>re than live days, and nominations probably will be n Friday night. The platform will lw» subn :tied on Thursday and ! t ’.to ttiay be a day of open debate on prohibition ;>t.<l s>>me otlo-r controversial questions. . . Democratic managers also are now hopeful that their convention will be abort, for they naturally w ish it to have tin appearance of harmony that would be ruined‘hv a deadlock. Franklin D. Roosevelt probably will start in with more than X majority both of delegate* and of states. At this writins be is IIP -1 rotes from 27 states and territories. Ills camp claims he w ill have-on the first bailor (%>S delegates to tsd for nil others. And he believes a few ballots will ’bring oyer enough votes to give him the 770 required for nomination tin dec the two-thirds rile. Os course there will be a recurrence of the attempts to abrogate that ancient rule. DISPATCHES from Paris say an important trade agreement was reaehe! by the French and United States governments through the efforts of Ambassador Walter E. Edge, who succeeded in convincing the French authorities that the present quotas were unfair to American shippers. The agreement, which took the form of a decree signed by Acting Premier Tardleu. grants the United States most favored nation treatment on, importations that h'ave been cur- . tailed by the French system of quotas. OCR State department gave ■ out word that the United States will participate In the world economic conference which Great Britain will call together In London, stating that “the early convocation of such a conference might be of real value in the present depression." The State detriment feels that the meeting should follow rather than precede the international debt conference at Lausanne and the British imperial conference at Ottawa, Ont

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terior under President Roosevelt. He is to be chairman of the resolutions committee and has been busily gathering together the various plnnks proposed by party lead ers and building the structure on which Mr. Hoover and the party will stand. Some days ago he took a rougn draft of the

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PROF. NICHOLAS JORGA, once tutor of King Carol of Rumania, has resigned as premier and may be succeeded by Nicholas Titulescu. now minister to London. Which means that the semi-dictatorship of the country has been found a failure. The resignation of the government was the result of financial difficulties. Rumania is broke and the treasury is empty. For six months state employees have not received a cent. They have borowed from banks to buy food and clothing, but the banks have no more money to loan. France quit making loans to Rumania because graft and corruption were preventing the collection of taxes and the state expenditures were too large. WASHINGTON’S police force had a problem when the hitch-hiking army of 1.500 war veterans reached the capital city to present their, demand for immediate

payment of ■ the soldiers' bonus. The men had been conveyed most of the way from the Far West in trucks supplied by state authorities eager to get rid of them, and Senator Costigan of Colorado introduced a bill calling for immediate appropriation of $75,000 to feed and house them.

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Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, in a Memorial day address at the Washington Soldiers' home, declared that by adopting a course based on threat and coercion these veterans were causing 'heir fellow countrymen in this time of national tlistress t<> womler whether, their soldiers served for patriotism or merely for 'pay. “I w arn you as your, fellow soldier and friend," Senator Lewis <<>ntinued. “that you risk the defeat of the relief measures you now have a . right to hope for. by placing yourselves where tJ e charge can be’made. that you, have come here •to terrorize the public servants and force- their surrender through weakness or cowardice.” JAI’AN'S new: coalition government under the premiership of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito Is naturally finding its chief problems in China,

and especially- Manchuria. They planned early recognition of the new Manchurian state of Manchoukup. but surprisingly this is earnestly opposed by Count L’ chi da. president of the Sou t h Manchurian railroad and perhap' the most influential Japanese off the mainland. He says re<-' oguition should be

Premier Saito

delayed until the new state proves its ability to stand alone, and that Manchoukuo with it-s tremendous natural resources "ill continue to exist even if no nation is prepared to recognize it ns an autonomojis state, Uchidn. who may yet become foreign minister in’Saito's government, feels that Japan should continue to pdur money into Manchoukuo and that other nations should be given equal opportunity of <ommerc|al and financial penetration. Japanese military forces continued their drive against the rebels in Manchoukuo, forcing them toward the Si* Iwrian border. Hailun was bombarded from the air. and set on fire. Isvestla, organ of the Soviet Russian government, charges certain Japanese elements with seeking an invasion of eastern Siberia to "facilitate Japan’s preparations .for. xVa'r against the United States by making available for the Japanese military machine the rich natural resources of Asiatic Russia." In a sharp warning to Japan not to try to lay her hands on Siberia, the vigorous editorial pronouncement called attention to “recent demands in certain sections of the Japanese press for war against Soviet Russia." It is true that Fascist newspapers of Japan have been demanding that .Siberia be conquered now to preserve the future <«f Manchoukuo. M M. NEEI.Y, Democratic senator • from West Virginia, seldom 'speuks in that august body, but the other day, after llatwiag .to -liis colleagues, he raised hLs

voice and for fifteen minutes j.ihi tl>«’in ’in scathing lang ua g e what he thought of them and their verbosity which, he said, was losing the government more than Ss3<»*i an hour. He quoted the Bible and lambasted the Con gressional Record, and in conclusion he read into the record a 34-

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line poem on the value of terse speech. IL as he maintains, senatorial speech costs nearly S2OO per heart beat, the rhyme he recited must have set Uncle Sam back about twenty-five hundred bucks. And the whole.speech, based on his estimate of $83,000 per hour, ..•st % .<2U,000. However, the lay citizen will sympathize with Mr. Neely's indignation, though with no hope that the senators can be persuaded to talk less and do more. FORMER members of the marine corps living in the Middle West gathered in Chicago for a colorful reunion commemorating the valiant deeds of the corps in the Battle of Belleau Wqpd. In the way of entertainment the ex-leathernecks were taken on a tour of the Century of Progress exposition grounds and were given theater and baseball parties, and in the evening there was a big banquet with Maj. C. L. Fordney, U. S, M. C., as toastmaster, SETTLING a controversy that had lasted more than a century, the Supreme dourt of the United States has ruled that the President has the legal right; to sign bills within the ten days permitted by the Constitution following ain adjournment of congress. <e. 1*33. Western Nevepaper Union.)

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SEA GULLS EXPERT IN AERIAL CRAFT Could Give Pointers to Army Aviators. Some six or seven years ago the Vineyard Gazette published its first story of the sea gulls, which, having discovered that the hard-surfaced roads.-erve well as a substitute for a rock, shatter scallops and quahaugs to bits by dropping them from the air to the surface of the highway. Since that time the Gazette has carried further stories, detailing the uncanny skill of these birds, who made allowance for wind velocity with the accuracy of an expert rifleman or airplane bomber, never missing the narrow road or failing to drop the shellfish from a height sufficient to shatter the shells. AU of this may be verified. Other newspapers have made similar discoveries about gulls in various places, and it has become quite the seasonable thing for them to carry an acount of the activities of these natural sky riders whenever the shellfish are easily obtainable and attract the birds. But the Gazette now presents a new angle on the Vineyard seagulls, together with the solntion of a mystery that has for long been a puzzle to islanders. For several years It has been noticed by passersby on the F.dgarfow n-oak Bluffs road that in the vicinity of Anthiers Bridge there are apt to be found the mortal remains of large rats at very frequent intervals. Where they come from, dr what causes their death, has been a subject for discussion, as in many sises the carcasses are found where the wheels of passing cars cotild not have struck them, and moreover, they always bear the appearance of having been more or. less mangled and torn. It has remained for ('apt. Chester Robinson to solve th< mystery, which the Gazette now publishes. According to the captain, who is well versed in natural history, and has spent much time jp observing the activities of sea birds, the ordinary sea gull is fond of rats and mice. The remains of shellfish, scattered along the road in this locality, act as bait, attracting these rodents from long distances. They hide in the beach grass when cars or pedestrians approach, but when the highway is clear they will scamper about the road, eating, the fragments of scallop or quahaiig that they find in the emptied shells. At this juncture the highly'efficient gulls get in their skilled and deadlywork. Soaring .aloft with a heavy quahaug in their beaks, they mount to an unusual height, and hovering and shifting their position, gauging the wind and drift to a nicety, they drop the shellfish with a precision that almost never: fails to connect with the rodent below, knocking it unconscious or killing it outright on the spot, whereupon the gulls descend and feast on fresh meat. The Vineyard may Justly claim the first actual bomb-dropping gulls ever to be reported to date, anil army nvi ators may pick up some valuable hints by studying thef-e birds and their methods.—Vineyard Gazette. . . Professional Touch Doctor —Now, young man. I’ll have to have a session with you. What have you to say for yourself? Son—How about a little local an esthetic?

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Widespread Belief in Unicorn Through Ages From very remote antiquity down to the present time, China and Japan have preserved a belief in a 'powerful one-hOrned wild animal, in the varied form of a horse, an ass or an ox. The encyclopedias tell us that Ctesias, a learned Greek physician and writer, who died about 390 B. C.. in one of his treatises speaks of white or red wild asses of beautiful shape, with long white horns upon their heads, which existed in India. He goes on gravely to inform us that drinking cups made from the horn of a unicorn rendered safely innocuous any poison poured into them, a belief which persisted into and past the Middle ages. The origin of these stories it is difficult to find. No remains of any such animal have ever been discovered, nor do writers claim to have actually seen a specimen of them. And yet the belief In their existence is so widespread tn several parts of the world that it might b.e made to appear foolish to deny that any such creature ever existed. A glance at the heraldic presentation of a unicorn in the British royal coat-of-arms should serve to show the ab surdity of attempting to identify the ancient unicori with so ungainly a one-horned animal as the rhinoceros, as would some writers. Evidence of Antiquity of Hawaiiaii Islands Ancient Hawaiian tradition often coincides to a noteworthy degree with modern scientific discovery_and conclusion. One such , tradition is that the Hawaiian Is+hnds are “so old that 1,000 generations are but youth”—in other words, that 25,000 or 30.000 years Is nothing compared to the age of the archipeiago. \ And now Dr. Arthur Starr Eakle mineralogist, of the University of California, who has been doing work, estimates Hawaii is at least 1.(100.000 years old. He finds, evidence of extreme age in the composition of rocks and soil. The islands yield no trace of silver or gold, but there are indications of copper, although not in commercial quantities. The deep red soils of the islands are rich in iron, but an almost equally large quantity of manganese prevents its commer cial use.—Exchange. Here’* One Honest Man A Berli.n cabinet marker's wif< had nothing to offer a beggar but a pair of her husband's °ld shoes, whic.h. Unknown to her, contained his entire savings.' 1.500 marks ($380). The- beggar did not inspect them ; sold them to a second hand dealer. The dealer read the owner'story in the newspaper, turned over the shoes and the money to’.the po lice, who returned them to the right owner. Humorless Count Keyserling Count Keyserlihg is one of those humorless persons who refer to their .tremendous sense of humor as ensuring their sanity in a mad world, and then make you wonder what they have done with it. “Nowadays.” he said to me one day at a luncheon party. “I only laugh.”—William Gerhardi in the Saturday Review 1 . The Lost Bird A little girl was out shopping with her -mother. Suddenly she stooped down and picked up a feather. Bhe looked' at it for a moment thought fully, and then said: “Look, mummy! This poor feather’s lost its bird !*■*—Pearson’s.

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SUPREME IN THEIR OWN ENVIRONMENT Australian Natives Masters of Woodcraft. Among the wonders of empire are living men .of the Stone age whose forefathers saw the rise and decay of all bygone civilizations. Ignorant as they seem to tis, the aborigines of Australia in their own environment are as much in advance of our most brilliant scientists as our scientists are in advance of the average man. Our cleverest men would staeve to death if dropped down without food, clothing, or weapons f!i the heart of Australia, but the ?>tone age men thrive and flourish in such conditions. They Jive solely by hunting, their knowledge of the habits of wild things being uncanny. If they were not the world's most marvelous trackers they would have died out ages ago. They can read every scratch and .mark on the ground as easily as you read this paper, and can tell whether the -creature they arip chasing is young or old. what it is doing, and where it is going. They eat anything; even -snakes nnd lizards, and onee they get on its. track a creature is doomed, for they never give up until they get it. Nor do they make the mistake, common to the whites, of trying to dig out of its burrow an animal that is hot at home. Their , crude form of writing by burning or carving dots and ( lines on sticks—stick messages—enables them to send any information by runner to distant melnbers of their tribes. Rut even more wonderful are their smoke messages. They seem to converse in smoke as easily as the airplane writes in smoke in our own skies. Starting the fire by rubbing one piece of wood against another, they select their materials in the most careful manner. Familiar , with the type of smoke given off by different woods, they make smoke of various densities and colors, thick clouds.

light spirals, or flurries in brown, yellow, black, blue, or pink; and every change of color’ and form has its meaning in their age-old code. Ancient “Cooking Pits” Unearthed in Ireland It is reported that nine “falachtda” (cooking pits) have recently been discovered in the following places around Kinsale, Ireland—Bnllintok her. . Coolcorrin, Melllnfontstown, Rlhgrone. BaUinyredig. Tigsaxon, Kippagh. Scilly Glen and Clashmore. Townshend, in his “Statistical Survey of the County Cork" qtentions that in that part of Ireland . heaps of burnt stones are found it’ great numbers, which are said to have been used by the inhabitants- in ancient times for cooking their victuals. Keating in his “History of Ireland" refers" to the mode of cooking. He says the ancient inhabitants were in the habit of digging two large pits, one of which was for washing, the other for •cooking. Stones heated’ red-hot were thrown in, and upon these were laid the meat b<u'md in' green' bulrushes; upon this again was placed another heap of hot stones, and so on, until the required, quantity , was disposed of.—Montreal’ Family Herald. i Town That Died i The town of Gretna.. Scotland, fa moils as a marrying place, ttlossomed into further prominence as a muni tions center during' the World war. It cost no less than $45,000,900 to build and equip, and turned out $75,000.000 of cordite during the war, but is now the most dismal spectacle Im aginable. The great plair is dotten with crumbling, roofless buildings The concert and dancing halls, the cinemas, institutes, and playing-fields —all are in ruins or weed-grown, an<l of the' former population of 6,000 people very few are left. Trying Hard, Though Carpenter—Well, John, have you sharpened all my tools? Apprentice—Yes—all but the saw —I haven’t quite got all of the gaps out of IL