The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 47, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 March 1935 — Page 2

News Review of Current Events the World Over president’s Proposal to Eliminate Utility Holding Companies Brings Storm of Criticism —Treasury Seeks to Simplify Nation’s Currency Structure. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©. We»tern Newtpaper Union.

THE President's special message calling tor abolition of utility holding companies stirred up a storm that probably surprised even such an astute

politician as Mr. Roosevelt. The President urged legislation to abolish those holding companies which were unable to show | they were operated in the public interest. Representative Bertrand H. Snell, Republican leader, immediately attacked the message, claiming the President had de-

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nouneed propaganda against the proposed legislation, and was himself propagandizing for it Utility companies also swung into the battle, and thousands of Investors In utility stocks are reported to have sent In protests to congress. In the senate, Norris, Nebraska Republican, offered a resolution calling upon the federal trade commission to investigate propaganda regarding the legislation. The senate approved without debate. Charges were made by utility companies that because of the- administration’s campaign against public utilities "the value of utility securities has declined by three and one-half billion dollars since 1983.” Enactment of legislation to halt holding companies will cause enormous loss to the American family, one power official testified before the house Interstate commerce committee. GREECE la mopping up the loose ends of the revolt. Some fighting is reported near the Bulgarian border j where one regiment.- part of the rebellious Fourth army corps, has de- . dined to surrender, but the revolution j la -definitely over. Eleutherios Venl- i zeioa. ex-premier, and leader of the I futile revolt, was reported a refugee at Rhode*. the tiny island where Julius Caesar was interned by pirates some 2,.’i00 years agut Venizelos was trafts- ! ferred there by the Italian government . after he had been landed in Italy by ! one of the rebel warships. Gen. George I Karmenos, rebel commander, is safe ; in Bulgaria, where officials have refused extradition. Rebel prisoners are I being concentrated In camps, and j courts martial are functioning in I Saloniki, Kavaia and Larissa, and military trials have begun in Athena. It is believed that only a few of the most flagrant rebels will suffer the death penalty. Venizelos is almost certain to be court-martialed in absentia. and banished forever. His elaborate home in Athens, and his valuable library have already been confiscated and will likely be converted to public use. Italy has refused to extradite him. although it is possible that new demands will be made by the Greek government, who will claim that be took funds from a bank in Crete. Unless be Is surrendered, he will probably move to Paris where his two sons now reside. THE senate smacked down Senator Huey Long for his filibustering tactics and hla efforts to amend the administrations S4.XM».taMI.(MW work relief measure. The Kingfish had demanded alterations in Ute work relief bill which would take sl(M),utv.ooo away from the S»W.UUO.tMXI eanimrtted for CCC work and allot it to students in colleges and universities. Long’s amendment was defeated by a vote of 68 to 27. To prove that old adage of “politics makes strange bedfellows.” Long was aided by Senator Hiram Johnson of California, who de- I dared that the Semite should have something to say about methods for spending the huge sum sought by the I'residenL Johnson has heretofore been considered a supporter of the President. Long’s amendment brought forth other proptwed changes which should keep the senators busy arguing for several days. The bonus bill may be dragged in and an attempt made to make It a rider to the relief measure, and Inflationists and leaders of other “Ists” will Insist on having their say. ALL outstanding first Liberty loan bonds have been called for redemption by Secretary of the Treasury Morgen than. The FJ.d00.000.000 outstanding has been called for June 16. before which time the treasury will likely offer lower Interest-bearing securities In exchange for the first Liberties, saving the government some $14,000,000 in annual interest charges MEW Deal policies took two more batterings as Federal courts held both the AAA and NRA unconstitutional as regards intrastate buslnaaa. The administration might find some consolation in another ruling which held the radical Frasier-Lemke farm mortgage bill was valid. Federal Judge Merrill R Otis, at Kansas City, declared the Frasier-Lemke law was constitutional, “although unwise in many of Its provisions and almost Incomprehensible matter." Judge Otis said his ruling was not the first in which the set was upheld, and that an appeal was already before the United State* Supreme court and a decision might be expected abort ly. The AAA was declared invalid a* regards intrastate business by Federal Judge Ira Lloyd Letts at Provideoc*. R. L. who Issued an injunction restraining Secretary of Agriculture Wallace from enforcing the act against three Rhode Island retail milk dealers, on the grounds that their business was conducted entirely within the state, and the national government had no right to Interfere. At Newark. N J, Federal Judge Guy L Fake ruled the na ttoual recovery act unconstitutional as applied to intrastate commerce "because It attempts an unlawful deiegatfw «C legislative authority." The lat-

ter decision agrees with that handed down by Federal Judge Nields in the controversial Weirton steel dispute. /CHANCELLOR ADOLPH HITLER’S “diplomatic” cold is over, and be will welcome Sir John Simon. British foreign secretary, to a conference beginning March 24. Accompanying Sir John will be Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, and disarmament authority. After the Berlin visit Eden will go to Moscow to talk with Soviet leaders. The Berlin conferences will discuss legalization of Germany’s rearmament In exchange for an air Locarno pact with Great Britain. France. Italy, and Belgium, and an eastern security pact with Poland and Russia. Limitation of armament by all nations will also be taken up. The visit Is complicated by a recent announcement that Germany possesses military aviation in violation of the Versailles treaty. Because of this. France may Invoke the Rome accord with Italy and Franco-British declaration at London in support of its move to keep the relch from giving the air force official sanction. CECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MORGENTHAU revealed plans to dip Into profits from gold seizure to retire $674,625,630 of the national debt

through the use of gold certificates. Potentially Inflationary, It will deprive national banks of the power to Issue currency, and save the government an annual Interest charge of $13,500,000 Questions on Inflationary Implications were avoided by treasury officials, but thev admitted the plan would "put gold back to

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work which can be expanded." The maneuver win place tn the hands of the federal reserve banks $674,625,630 of gold certificates, which must be used as backlog for Issue of the same sum in federal reserve notes to retire the bonds. Note issue against j the bonds could be expanded if. cap rency demands warranted, to about j $1,687,500,000, since a federal reserve note need not be backed by more than 40 per cent gold or gold certificates in like percentage. What will hapi>eu will be the immediate simplification 01 our currency system. The treasury and federal reserve banks will -have all the authority to issue money. The pian involves retirement on August 1 of 8674.625.630 of 2 per cent federal securities and substitution of federal reserve notes for $657,937,080 of outstanding national bank currency, these bonds will be retired with surplus funds created by devaluing the Roosevelt dollar from 100 rents to 50.06 cents, gold. Tbe total profit was $2,812,000,000. National bank notes Issued by national banka against federal securities * represent more than one-tenth of the nation's circulating currency. The administration's program likely means the permanent abandonment of the national bank note which has been used since the Civil war. The circulation privileges expire on all bonds deposited by banks and held In trust by the treasury on July 22. 1935. except on two issues Ry calling for redemption, the treasury will retire all securities bearing "circulation privilege" and national banks wjil no longer have suitable security for issuance of their own notes pOMPLETE collapse of the admlnistration's long battle to regulate prices In the steel industry is seen in an NR A offer to give up, and in charges by the federal trade commission of a fiasco of collusion. Tbe trade commission insists that price- . fixing be scrapped, and no prosecution of steel companies under the antitrust laws. The trade commission charges that under the code the steel companies have fixed and raised prices on government contracts, in defiance of competitive bidding requirements. Blds were identical, and then steel executives slapped fines of $lO a ton on members who let the government have steel cheaper, the commission says. SAMUEL IN SULL, former utilities cur, was acquitted in a Chicago criminal court of charges of embezzling $66,000 from the treasury of one of his former companies to use in supporting a brokerage account carried by his brother. Martin. Instill was “delighted," since It probably Is the end of the Instill prosecutions, although another charge of embenllng $104,000 is pending. Further. Insull faces a charge of violating the federal bankruptcy laws, but It Is believed that tbe verdict In the criminal courts case will discourage efforts to try him. ARIZONA'S ambassador to Washington will soon take up his duties in the National Capital Bis excellency will receive $7,500 for salary and expenses, the legislature having appropriated that amount on the recommendation of Governor Mouer who said: “I need a man there every day. Our business with tbe federal government is increasing all the time, and there are many errands our senators and congressmen don't have time to run. Then, we want our share of any government money that la to be passed around." pV-MuNSTRATORS numbering ap-*-z proximately 2,000 marched into the Minnesota slate capital at St Paul and harangued legislators with demands In behalf of tbe idle ranks. Threats were made to picket the capital Wil— demands were met.

THE house appropriations committee favorably reported out the Department of Agriculture appropriations bill for the 1938 fiscal year. A cut of

was due largely to a $411,022,428 slash in the AAA Item. The total bill calls for of which $570,000,000 would go to the Agriculture Adjustment administration activities. At committee hearings it was explained that it is impossible to estimate how much would have to be obligated

because of the crop control program, but the AAA item was a rough estimate of processing tax collections and Is not controlling. Henry Wallace, secretary of agriculture, told the committee that the farmers’ share of the national income Is now about 10.2 per cent, and that it should be 13 to 18 per cent Wallace said “true prosperity” cannot come “until there has been a very material Increase in the output of physical goods, Industrial goods.” “If In some way It were possible to turn out 50 per cent more Industrial goods at a price definitely lower than the present price.” the secretary testified, “the result would bd to make it possible for agriculture to buy more with the agricultural dollar and there would be more factory workers to be fed in the cities.” LpVEN though the senate will not act immediately on the "pink slip” bill to repeal income tax publicity, income tax figures will not be available to the public for six months, according to Internal revenue officials. While it is likely the publicity act will be repealed, the house having so voted, it is not anticipated that the senate will act on the measure for some time. Even though the latter might not act favorably, there remains considerable work to be done before the figures can be made public, and income tax payers may be confident that prying neighbors cannot have Immediate access to such Information. In the senate a drive has been started for higher federal Income and corporation taxes. FRENCH have formally indicted 19 persons, including Mrs. Stavisky, for the Stavisky scandal that rocked the government after the financial debacle, which caused losses of millions of francs to investors, had broken. Stavisky, known as “Handsome Alex.” died Krom a gunshot wound as police med to arrest him in January, 1934. - A FTER twenty months of bargaining, the documents conveying full title to the Chinese Eastern railway to Manchukuo were initialed in Tokyo, thus eliminating Russia as a factor in Manchukuo. The written approval of the agreements was signed by Koki Hlrota. Japanese foreign minister; Dr. Constantine Youreneff. Soviet ambassador to Japan; and by Gen. Ting Shih-Yuan. Manchukuoan minis- ( ter of finance. The consideration was 140.000,000 yen. or about $39,300,008. The documents require that all three governments approve them before their formal signing about March Thus is ended forty years of Russo-Japanese contention for domination. ANEW gold suit Is menacing administration financing and money policies. The suit reopening the question of investors* claims for payment of 1.800 million dollars of government bonds in gold or an equivalent, is brought by Robert A. Taft, son of the late chief justice, over the sum of $1.07. Taft demands either payment of bonds In gold or suspension of all refunding of the gold clause certificates. Before going to court. Taft presented to the treasury a SSO gold clause Liberty bond and four $1.07 interest coupons attached. and demanded gold for both, but was refused. The suit may force the administration to close the loopholes left by the Supreme court decisions, If that Is possible. —l—in. % THE Mendieta administration in Cuba has established a military dictatorship over the island, constitutional law has been suspended, the death penalty for rebels imposed, and military governors designated for Havana and province*. Washington is watching the situation with keen interest. Bombings and rioting are increasing, according to reports, with ten dead and fifteen injured. The objectives of the opponents of the government Is the removal from office of President Mendieta and Colonel Fulgencio Batista, chief of the army. The strike has become almost general, nearly paralysing all activities in the Island. Repressive measures taken by the government to quell the strikers strongly resemble the strong-arm methods prevalent tn the Machado regime, according to observer*. THE senate passed the army appropriation bill, and It now goes to the house. The measure adds $20,000,000 to the original bill making the total appropriation of $400,000,000 almost a record high, and will add 4A.250 to our army strength, making the total of enlisted men 165.000. Warm talk flowed freely aa the senate debated the measure. Senator Lewis said that conflict might come between Russia and Japan and he asked: “With the army of Russia and the navy of Japan, where do we stand T* Senator McAdoo also speaking la favor of the bill said: T “Unless we want to continue to be • boob nation, we will not hesitate to make this Increase tn the army. It Is Justified by the wisdom and the necessities of national defense.” g> Y A vote of 23 to 1 the bouse ways Da nd mean* committee approved the Vinson bonus bill, and gave the rival Patman bill a possible edge. The committee instructed Chairman Doughtoa to ask a wide open rule permitting inflationists to move the Patman mean use as a substitute on the floor. Patman supporters claim the house will pas* the first bonus bill brought up. but conservative* are working to Jock ey the “printing pres* money* mess ore out of preferred position. The Via son bill Is favored by the American Legion

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Washington.—Most observers and thinking citizens have bee - inclined to

take little stock In the talks of Huey Long and Father Coughlin, the radio

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priest, concerning plans for redistribution of wealth. The consensus has been that their plans sooner or later would fall of their own weight But it can be denied n< longer that Long and Coughlin have developed a gigantic following of people who lack informationas to the fallacies of the arguments, however logical they sound, that have been spread by these politically smart showmen. One reason that serious attention to their proposals is now necessary is that some of their arguments are being advanced from htgL places In the federal government. I refer specifically to the testimony before the house committee on banking and currency by Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve board and as such the titular head of the nation’s banking system. Mr. Eccles did not quite take a leaf out of Huey Long’s book. He approached the position of the Louisiana senator, however, when he proposed a redistribution of income, whereas Senator Long has urged a redistribution of wealth. Mr. Eccles suggested In his testimony In effect that It would be all right for a man with say ten million dollars In capital to keep that sum, provided his income was redistributed. Mr. Eccles went back to the days Immediately following the World war to Illustrate his argument and showed that at the top of the post-war boom “one tenth of one per cent of the families at the top of the Income received as much as 42 per cent of the families at the bottom of the list” Furthermore, he said that the single average family in the big income class got as much as four hundred families at the bottom of the income list “This one-tenth of 1 per cent was unable to use all the income in consumption.” he continued. “They therefore had to find an outlet in the investment field. As a result, the capacity to produce Increased out of ail proportion to the capacity to consume.” So Mr. Eccles took the position that a solution of the depression was a redistribution of this Income with the idea that it would Increase purchasing power in the lower brackets. The governor offered no. explanation of how those in the lower income class were going to obtain possession of the redistributed income of the rich because his argument stopped at the point where the government would take this 'money by taxation. That is the recognized weakness of the programs advanced by Senator Long and Father Coughlin, and Governor Eccles showed no ability to solve the problem. • • • On top of the outbursts by Long and Coughlin and the serious testimony by

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progressive, with a bill in the senate to create a central bank. Senator Nye’s action has caused many humorous expressions. Here we have a senator who has fostered, even boasted about, progressive ideas and has called himself a liberal, it Is necessary only to recall that the father of the central bank Idea was the ultraconservative Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. Senator Nye advances a bill with the thought that the central bank would avoid hamstringing of credit. I think financial experts all agree that’ this is true. The thing which Senator Nye overlooked, however, is that Mr. Hamilton’s central bank collapsed and brought ruin and grief to thousands. The reason It collapsed was because In removing control of the banking facilities from experienced bankers, the whole thing had been turned over to the control of politicians who, generally speaking, are experienced only Id politics. It seems paradoxical that the North Dakota senator should advance as a libera! scheme the creation of a central bank which one hundred and fifty years ago represented the height of conservatism. The Nye legislation was offered In the same week that Governor Eccles had proposed in his testimony on the banking bill in the house that the Federal Reserve board should have complete control of the credit expansion and contraction in thia country. I believe most persons will have difficulty In considering the two schemes as separate and distinct They certainly fit together. It ia to be noted tuat there are at least ninety-nine radical members of the house of representatives who are convinced that the federal reserve ays- < tern has failed of its purposes. Most of them have been repeating without rhyme or reason the accusation that bankers are “refusing” to make loans. They think, therefore, that If there Is a central bank or If credit control is placed in the reserve board and taken away from the federal reserve banks where it now reposes there will be additional loans forced out of the commercial banka History Indicates, however. that this is fallacious No business is going to borrow money when it doesn’t need it and neither ia any per son in his right mind going to make a loan unless he has at least reasonable assurances of repayment. It wIU be recalled that President Rooaevelt at one time spoke disparagingly of the “refusal” of the bankers to make loans. The President subsequently learned that attempts to pump money out of banks must fall for lack of borrowers. I think everyone acquainted with conditions must agree that She Eerie* idea and the Nye legislation mean absolutely nothing In the way of recovery aids, for it has always been true, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.

The fallacies being put forward by Senator Long and Father Coughlin, and

cepted by thousands of people. Senator Long claims that at least six million persons are supporting his scheme. It would seem to be the time, therefore, for citizens to begin to analyze the trend of events, if they are influenced by such leadership. In connection with this trend. It is interesting to observe how much trouble Senator Long - and Father Coughlin already hare caused for the administration. It must be said frankly. Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers thus far have not found away to deal with It. They have tried fighting back and each time they have succeeded only in furnishing fresh ammunition for the Long-Coughlin team. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader In the senate, made one of his greatest speeches of criticism of Senator Long’s schemes, but the result was only a fresh outburst by the Louisiana senator who took Senator Robinson’s own words and converted them to his use. I reported to you previously that the administration had prepared at one time to take action against Senator Long on income tax questions. But • apparently the powers that be have decided that such a course, instead of : putting Long back in his place, would make a martyr of him. Among the observers here the belief prevails that the only way Long’s attacks can be stopped and his tactics broken up is by ridicule. No politician, however thick-skinned, can stand being made the butt of jokes. I suspect the same Is true of Mr. Long unless he Is different from other politicians. The administration has told congress that It wants to keep the NRA. Through J Donald R. Richberg, New Plans sometimes called the for NRA assistant president, the administration’s position was laid before the senate ’ committee on -finance the other day with the suggestion that the proposed ; new NRA should be confined to matters i of interstate commerce. That is. the administration proposes that in extending the NRA for two years from the coming June 16 expiration date, it • would apply only to industry engaged in lines of commerce and endeavor that carries across state lines. By the same token, the proposal would eliminate the codes of fair practices from application to the so-called service industry and could not, therefore, apply even tb hours and wages in those local plants now under codes. Mr, Richberg’s statement Immediately provoked discussion which certainly can be expected to increase in volume because it is in the nature of protests from those who claim to speak for labor. Sidney Hillman, of the NRA high command, immediately protested as did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. Each of these individuals contended that the NRA would be a worse failure than ’t is now if it were confined to the narrow definition of Interstate commerce and applied only to those Industries. Mr. Hillman, who is labor’s representative on the National Industrial Recovery board, when he learned of Mr. Richberg’s statement promptly struck back with an emphatic observation that the country would not permit such action. “It Is unthinkable.” he said. “that congress will withdraw the only protection that the three million or four million underpaid, overworked and helpless workers in the service trades now have. Some of them as a result of the NRA are for the first time in their lives getting one day of rest a week •nd something a little better than the ‘coolie wages they have been paid tn the past. “I am not interpreting the Constitution. I leave that to the Supreme Court, of the United States. But I have been impressed by opinions given by outstanding member* of the bar that a condition of keeping millions of workers at starvation wage levels does affect interstate commerce.” Thus is presented the conflict of views between administration appointees, and reconciliation of their views Is not made easier by the activity of the labor leaders. It is to be recalled that Mr. Green and some of his stalwart labor associates are not enthusiastic about Mr. Roosevelt and hla labor policies any longer. They are not going to be satisfied aa easily as they were 18 months ago when they accepted various and sundry promises believing that those promises were to solve labor’s economic problems. The administration, therefore, is confronted with genuine danger through the complexity of this political situation. Mr. Green described the administration’s proposal for renewal of NRA as “indefensible” because he contended that withdrawal of the codes from the so-called service Industries would mean a return to “long hours, minimum wages below a subsistence level and a withdrawal of the small economic protection now accorded to workers employed In those industries.” Observers agree that it la easy to see bow organized labor can popularize its opposition. Obviously no one enjoys seeing workers ground down by employers and the American Federation of Labor long has used the human side of this argument In support of Its demand*. Likewise. the American Federation of Labor still wields a tremendous Influence in congress where numerous representatives and senators actually are afraid to express an opinion contrary to labor’s views. Thus it becomes plain that, added to the problems confronting the administration, it must find some way of conpromise If It is going to obtain legislation that will keep the NRA alive after midJune. ffi. Waatero Nawa***ar Union.

Governor Eccles comes Senator Nye the North Dakota

now being nibbled at by Governor Eccles and Senator Nye obviously have been ac-

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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Pleasant News Air Fleet Controls ' Nordic Max, Jewish Max Gen. Dawes Sees Joy It is pleasant to read a Washington dispatch saying that the government will establish a ■ great airport in Hawali near Fort Kamehameha, named for the last king of Hawaii. The idea is to keep enough bombing planes there to take care of unwelcome flyefs or surface ships arriving from Asia. It will be more pleasant to read, as Arthar Briabane J OO ma - v do later, that the govern-' ment plans to establish a powerful air base on the island of Guam, which we are free to fortify, now that the Washington conference agreements have been repudiated and our silly pledge not to fortify Guam is wiped outl Thanks to airplanes, the Greek rebellion is crushed. The old Greek patriot, Venizelos, leading the revolt at the age of seventy-two, fled from his home on the Island of Crete across,the Aegean sea to aa Italian Island for refuge. Weeping, the old man vowed that he would never again set- foot on Greek soil. A rebel cruiser took Venizelos to the protection of the Italian flag. Then, last of the fleet that had rebelled. the cruiser Averoff surrendered ; to the government Max Schmeling. German heavyweight prize fighter, beat Mr. Hamas with ease and says. “Now we get Baer.” Baer, you know, is the world’s heavyweight champion. The fact that he is a Jew. and not a blue-eyed Nordic, with the back of his head as straight up and down as a board fence, is said to annoy Mr. Hitler. It will interest Hitler and others. A hard-hitting “Nordic” meets Max Baer, a tall young Jew, who laughs while he fights. The meeting will settle nothing. Racial supremacy does not depend on the fist But in New York city it ought to draw a crowd, gigantic, and a “gate” of about one million dollars. General Dawes, once Vice President, always busy, now visiting General Pershing at Tucson. Ariz., says: “America is on the verge of real economic recovery. Its natural force, and human nature, are definitely working for recovery, and in May of this year, positively not later than July, the nation will know the depression is over.” Well, it is a pleasure to have somebody at least say so, even though they may have to say it over and over year after year. The California assembly votes 58 to 17 in favor of the Townsend plan. The state senate, however, revolted and defeated the resolution calling on congress to enact the old age pension bill. It is not possible for the United States to pay twenty-four thousand million dollars every year, the total cost of giving S2OO per month to every man past sixty. It does not cost the assemblyman anything to vote for the impossible, and it makes him feel politically safe. H. G. Wells is In America to write about the New Deal. He will find some good applicable descriptive copy in his book, written long ago, "Doctor Moreau’s Island.” Doctor Moreau performs some strange and horribly cruel operations in the effort to make animals speak and otherwise act like human beings. Mr. Wells will find the new era performing strange operations on business men, to make them speak the new business language. New Yorkers are told that all workers pay In taxes in various ways the earnings of one day every week. The man who has $5,000 a year pays SI,OOO toward the support of government Some men with bigger incomes, busy jusr now borrowing money with which to pay taxes, could tell a more interesting storyWhen watches were first made a Frenchman said it was strange tjhat man, with genius and intelligence enough to make a ■ watch, should be superstitious enough to believe in ghosts. It’s more strange that the human race with sufficient intellect and will to fly. travel underneath the ocean, and talk around the world, without wires, should be feebla and foolish enough to believe in a permanent depression. The belief in ghosts Is slowly disappearing. Let’s hope and believe the depression will disappear more rapidly. The national ladies’ hairdressers’ convention, gathered in Toronto, ia informed that platinum blonds are on the wane and red-haired women, politely called “titlan,” are rising in favor. The platinum blond Is a modern Invention. a passing thing, whereas the woman with red hair antedates all the governments and civilization that we know, and may outlast them. «. Kla« Feature. Syndicate lac. WNU iKrikt. Thaaderatorma I* Bermuda Thunderstorms are very common to Bermuda and occur during all .months of the year. They are usually of short duration, however, and the loss of life and property I* not exceptional. Oecasionally, ' however, violent thunderstorms occur. Ama of the Ide of Man The arms of the Isle of Man consist of three legs in armor, flexed at the knee. The symbolism is that the Isle of Man “kneels to England, kicks at Scotland and spurns Ireland.” ”

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