The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 16, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 13 August 1936 — Page 4

BRISBANE THIS WEEK Choses Vues Furs, Conscience-Proof Caterpillars and Weeds Wise Generosity An able Frenchman, long since dead, wrote about choses vues—"things seen.**

There are still many things to see and to hear, although there is nobody to write about them as that old Frenchman wrote. At the head of the London Times’ “personal column,” some one pays to print this impressive extract from the Psalms: “Seek the Lord, and His

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strength; seek His face evermore. Remember his marvelous works that He hath done; His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth.” > You spend a moment wondering what kind of English man or woman, strong in faith, decided to put that text before statesmen that to- ! day seek the “face” Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, but forget the greater power of the Creator of those gentlemen. After that, you read in the same j Times this advertisement: “Furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clean conscience—full particulars from Maj. C. Van Der Byl, Wappenham, Towcester.” This being an ingenious and doubtless quite sincere appeal to the tender-hearted Englishwoman who does not like to think that the fur around neck once belonged to an animal that suffered for days/' and perhaps weeks tortured in trap. Possibly the best way to "obtain furs humanely obtained that can be worn with a clear conscience” is to buy and wear some of the innumerable furs, from rugged bears to silky chinchilla, made from the skins of rabbits that are nourished in little hutches in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and fed with “rabbit hay,” tender young alfalfa, grown on the Mojave desert, a good deal of it on a ranch owned and operated by this writer. When you buy furs, no matter what kind, with a rabbit skin foundation, you may be sure that the animal suffered very little, if at all, and whemyou buy that fur you also buy honest American alfalfa, which is a vegetarian product. F. C. Cobb wrote from the Boy Scout reservation at Allaire, N. J.: “The last four week-ends have ben spent by our scouts collecting tent caterpillar egg clusters from wild cherry and apple trees along the highways of Monmouth and Ocean counties. Many thousands of egg clusters, each containing on the average 250 eggs, have been destroyed." • _ No better work could be done by scouts and other boys. It is far be. ter exercise than perfunctory "hikea,” often exhausting for smaller boys. The fathers of the boys, also in peed of exercise, can be useful mowing weeds along highways, excellent work for the lungs and for reducing the waist. Edward S. Harkness, generous young New York financier, gave to ; Lawrenceville School for Boys a sum that will make possible important new building, plus rebuilding and a more extensive system of small-group instruction, with more teachers. Mr. Harkness, who does not like publicity, refused to make public the amount of his gift of Lawrenceville, but he gave $7,000,000 to Exeter academy, $13,000,000 each to Yale and Harvard, to finance their housing systems. That gives some idea of the size of his gifts. Some Americans will agree that it is a good thing to have men of unusual ability accumulate wealth wisely. Old-fashioned Americans would rather encourage such gifts and praise the givers than inculcate the ' notion that anybody with brains enough to accumulate wealth in this country of opportunity is probably a thief and ought to be in jail. Mussolini knows how a dictator can keep his hold on the people. He establishes 2,000 government camps where half a million poor children enjoy free vacations at sea and mountain resorts. For nine years Mussolini has carried on this work. In Europe, English, French, German, Italian or Czechoslovakian will believe anything you say about American crime, and that is hardly surprising. The heading “Chicago Politician Dies Under Hail of Racketeers' Bullets” surprises nobody. There might be mild surprise if the head- . ing read, “Chicago Politician Does NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers' Bullets.” • Kins Features Syndicate, Im, WNV j Reputation for Wisdom “Our ancient idols,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "were visited by vast throngs and gained reputation for wisdom by remaining mute and expressionless while others did the talking.” Still Waters Still waters run deep is as true of grief as it is of character; the greatest sorrows are never paraded, they are carefully hidden away as sacred things too sacred s

News Review of Current Events the World Over

Suspension of Ten Unions Voted by Federation Council— ( Many Oil Men Indicted for Conspiracy Metaxas Dictator of Greece.

By EDWARD W. PICKARD • Western Newspaper Union.

TTNLESS John L. Lewis and his associates in the Committee for Industrial Organization repent and cease their “rebellious” activities

before September 5, the ten unions they head will be under suspension from the American Federation of Labor. Such was the verdict of the federation’s executive council which passed on the charges of John P. Frey, president of the metal trades division, that the >'

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CIO was “fomenting insurrection and rebellion.” David Dubinsky, head of the garment workers, cast the only vote against the suspension order. Lewis having definitely set himself against any peace overtures, it appeared that the suspension certainly would be put into effect. The next move will be up to the Tampa convention in the fall, which will be asked to vote the expulsion of the refractory unions. The ten unions accused by Mr. Frey and found guilty are: Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Sidney Hillman, president Oil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery Workers, Harvey Fremming. president. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Thomas H. Brown, president, o Ladies’ Garment Workers, David Dubinsky, president. Textile Workers, Thomas F. McMahon, president. Flat Glass Workers, Glen McCabe, president. Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, M. F. Tighe, president. Automobile Workers, Homer Martin, president. Rubber Workers, S. H. Dalrymple, president. Action on the International Typographical union, whose presiderit C. P. Howard, is secretary of theCIO; and the United Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers, part of whom are not associated with the CIO, was deferred. The suspended unions have a membership of about one million, or nearly one-third of the total in the federation. The council stated: “This is the first attempt ever made, during the existence of the A. F. of L., covering a period of more than 50 years, to set up a dual movement within. “It was the opinion of the executive council that it could not condone the setting up of a rival organization within the officially recognized family of organized labor, or tolerate and countenance it without sacrificing its self-respect or making an unconditional surrender to a minority group composed of members who are in open rebellion to democratic procedure and majority rule, as exemplified at the late convention of the A. F. of L.” Lewis characterized the council's action as one of "incredible and crass stupidity” and said that it was "dictated by personal selfishness and frantic fear." SIX passengers and two pilots were instantly killed when a big Lockheed Electra plane of the Chicago and Southern Airlines crashed a few minutes after taking off from the airport of St. Louis, Mo. At this writing there is no explanation for the disaster' The plane was almost new and the weather not bad though skies were overcast. The plane was bound from New Orleans for Chicago, and five of the victims were residents of the latter city. One of thtrdead was Vernon Omlie, a veteran pilot and husband of Phoebe Omlie, a noted flyer. /CHARGED by the government with conspiracy to violate the anti-trust law by combining to dominate the purchasing of oil in the

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Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma fields and to fix prices of gasoline in the Middle West, 58 persons, 23 petroleum concerns and three publishing companies were indicted by a federal grand jury in Madison, Wis. Among the prominent defendants are Edward G.

Seubert of Chicago, president of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston, HL, president of the Pure Oil company, and many officials of Standard* Oil, Pure Oil, Deep Rock, So-cony-Vacuum and various other oil concerns and their subsidiaries. Also in the list are WarrenC. Platt of Cleveland, publisher of the National Petroleum News and Platt's Oilgram; his two publications and the Chicago Journjfi of Commerce. The indictment charged that the defendant oil companies formed pools in the east Texas and midcontinent fields for the purpose of purchasing gasoline at artificially high prices from independent producers, and in furtherance of such a scheme were members of associations which included the independents. Further it was charged thal independent refiners, to aid the plan, had curtailed their production of gasoline. This, said Mr. Platt, is exactly what the oil companies did with the approval of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, administrator of the NRA petroleum code, when efforts were being made to limit the production of gasoline, prevent the

flofc of excess quota oil into market channels, and raise. prices in that turbulent industry. "The government’s charge turns on whether a practice legally started and carried on under the recent NRA petroleum code was continued in illegal manner after the NRA was killed by the United States Supreme court,” Mr. Platt said. EXPERT crop statisticians estimate that, as a result of the record breaking drouth, this year’s corn crop will be reduced to 1,572,000,000 bushels, which would be the smallest yield since 1881 except for ; the disastrous drouth year of 1934. In that year total production was 1,478.000,000, but the acreage was smaller^than it is this season. Argentine farmers are expected to profit to the extent of $50,000,000 or more as a result of the keen competition for com between the United States and Europe, which has recently lifted prices about 17 cents per bushel in the t Buenos Aires market. There are only a few other countries which figure as exporters of corn, including South Africa and the Danubian states. The South African crop this year is reported as relatively small, due to drouth, while cables recently reported severe damage in Rumania as the result of intense heat and dry weather. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was visibly aroused by Republican charges that the New Dealers were seeking to reap political profit from the drouth conditions. At his press conference he broke with the usual rule by permitting himself to be directly quoted as saying: "It is a great disservice to the proper administration of any government to link up human misery with partisan politics.” The President said he was not ready to announce his drouth rek lief program, preferring to wait unAil the great plains drouth committee, headed by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke, completes its inspection of the entire drouth belt, and its study of the national resources board reports and those of reforestation, soil erosion and similar units. THERE is another dictatorship in Europe, this time in Greece. Gen. John Metaxas, premier, announced that a general strike sos-

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t e r e d by communists was likely to lead to serious disturbances, so, with the approval df King George 11, he declared martial law, dissolved parliament, postponed • elections indefinitely and mobilized all workers in essential services such as railways, in order

that, called to the colors, they would be directly under government control. Strong guards were mounted at power stations, gas works and other vital points and all soldiers and police not on guard duty were held in barracks ready for action. Metaxas promised the enforcement of an eight hour day, a minimum wage and a social insurance system. He remodeled the cabinet, taking for himself the army, navy, air and foreign affairs portfolios. Dispatches to Bucharest said there had been clashes in the northern provinces of Greece betwepd workers and the military forces. F\ ESP ERATE fighting for possession of the passes in the Guadarrama mountains north of Madrid was going on between the government forces and the rebel troops. Loyalist soldiers were hurried to that region, and Madrid claimed some victories. However, the Fascists on the northern side : of the range were said to be within sight of the capital and in position for a vigorous advance. The rebels scored in the south by landing 2,000 Moroccan troops from Ceuta after a lively sea and air fight in which two loyalist warships were driven off. The loyalists were also reported to have met defeat near Avila, losing 600 men and 1 some tanks and trucks. On the twentieth day of the re- ’ bellion the government announced • it had captured the provinces of , Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Mala- • ga, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara, ■ Badajoz and the northern resort - city of San Sebastian. I Fascist Italy nas been accused -of aiding the Spanish rebels, and it 1 is asserted a number of Italian - bombing planes were sent to them i in Morocco. The leftist French 1 government naturally is in sympa- . thy with the Madrid government : and Frenchmen, unarmed, have i been given permission to cross the - border to aid in putting down the t rebellion. German and Russian r sympathies, also, are ranged on - opposite sides, and all this caused » fears that a general war might re- - suit. France called on all other - nations to preserve neutrality, and | Spain warned Italy and Germany ■ to keep hands oft. r Day by day the struggle in became bloodier and more ruthr less. Summary executions of priss oners were common on both sides - and these deaths were probably as r numerous as those in battle. The i government planes showered • bombs on the rebel strongholds, I virtually destroying many towns.

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CENATOR HENRY W. KEYES of New Hampshire has announced that he is not a candidate for reelection by the Republicans, preferring "to retire from active participation in public affairs.” The Republicans therefore will choose between former Senator George H. Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges, both of whom have announced their candidacy for the nomination. Kansas Republicans renominated Senator Arthur Capper, and the Democrats picked Omar Ketchum of Topeka. In Kentucky the Democrats renominated Senator M. M. Logan, whose Republican opponent in November will be Robert H. Lucas. Marion A. Zioncheck, the eccentric congressman from Seattle, reconsidered his decision to retire and announced that, at the request of his mother, he would be a candidate to succeed himself, “to show the people that I am neither crazy nor foolish.” Five other Democrats and seven Republicans seek Zioncheck’s seat. TN THE first few days of the ' * Olympic games in Berlin the American track team piled up such an imposing number of points that it appeared certain none of the rival teams could catch up. Jesse Owens of Ohio State university lead his mates in this victorious march, winning three championships, in the 100-meter and 200-meter runs and the broad jump. In the longer dash he lowered the world and Olympic marks. Ken Carpenter of California won the discus throw with a new Olympic record of 50.48 meters, and Gordbn Dunn, also of California, was second. Earl Meadows of Texas was first in the pole vault with a new Olympic mark; and points were won by various other American athletes. Among the women contestants Helen Stephens of Missouri distinguished herself by breaking the world record in two heats of the 100-meter dash. KJEW YORK Republicans are to nominate a candidate for governor at their party convention in September, and Col. Theodore

Roosevelt has said in a letter that was made public that he is willing to accept that honor if the party so desires. Colonel Roosevelt, now forty-eight years old, was the Republican ca n - didate for governor in 1924 and was defeated by Alfred E.

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Smith. Since then he has been governor of Puerto Rico and gov-ernor-general of the Philippines. A VOLUNTARY cut of $25,861,936 in the debts of 33,906 “distressed" farmers was reported by the Resettlement administration. The debts, it said, were scaled down by creditors, through the work of voluntary farm debt com- • mittees in bringing farmers and their creditors "together in a neutral atmosphere” during the ten months ended June 30. Expenses of seeking debt readjustments, taken from a fund provided by President Roosevelt Sept. 1 last year, amounted to 1 per cent of the total amount of debts involved, the administration said. So far, $1,100,000 of the allocated $2,000,000 had been expended. DECLARING that it “will indorse no candidate” of party in the j Presidential campaign, the Ameri- I can Liberty league states: “The league is neither an adjunct i nor an ally of the Republican par- • ty. It is not an adjunct of the Democratic party, even though- many of 1 its principles harmonize with the excellent platform adopted by that party in 1932 and proclaimed as ‘a ; covenant with the people to be I faithfully kept.’ “Certainly the league is not an [ adjunct of the New Deal party which for the moment has usurped ; control of the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. It has not and will not contribute to, any campaign fund.” \l7 HILE the nations of Europe * ’ were worrying over the Span- j ish rebellion and the danger that it might bring about open rupture among the Fascist and anti-Fascist ( governments of the continent, steps were taken to assure peace. Ger- I many and Italy accepted the invitation of Grea. Britain, France and Belgium to participate in a conference this fall from which it is hoped another and better Locarno pact will emerge. No date foi the conference has been set, but it was expected to be held either just before or soon after the meeting of the league of nations assembly in Geneva in September. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS, leader of the Puerto Rico Nationalist party, and seven of his associates were found guilty at San Juan of a conspiracy to overthrow the United States government in the island by force and were sentenced by Federal Judge R. A. Cooper to prison I terms ranging from two to six years. In the first trial of these ! men the jury had disagreed. The defense attorneys gave notice of appeal. The case originated in a clash between Nationalists and police last October in which several persons were slain. Following this, Col. E. Francis Riggs, chief of insular police, was murdered, presumably in’ revenge for the killing of Nationalists in the October fight. ACCORDING to the Daily Herald of London, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has decided to abdicate, probably early next year, in favor of her daughter, Princes* Juliana. That young lady is twentyseven years old and it is expected that her engagement will soon be announced to Prince Charles erf Sweden, nephew of King Gustav V, who wdl be prince consort when Juliana ascends the throne. > Jr ■

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1936.

Younger Generation The other evening we heard a woman ask what in the world would become of the younger generation. That’s an easy one, declares the Anthony Times. They’ll fall in love, get married, have children and trouble and all that sort of thing, and as they get older they will worry about what’s to become of the younger generation.

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