The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1936 — Page 6

News Review of Current Events the World Over

Drouth Commission Gets Data for Program —Britain Moves to Protect Her Shipping From Spanish Fascists —German-Russianßreak Threatened. i By EDWARD W. PICKARD f) Western Newspaper Union.

pHAIRMAN MORRIS L. COOKE and other members of the federal great plains drouth commission are holding a series of meet-

ings in the drouth blighted states for the purpose of formulating a relief and control program and are calling in the farmers to consult with them. At the first of these sessions, in Bismarck, N. D., officials and agriculturists of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska

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and North and South Dakota heard O. W. Roberts, federal meteorologist, give the encouraging promise that ‘‘greater than normal precipitation is anticipated in those states next spring on the basis of light precipitation this fall.** Reports of existing conditions, however, showed that the situation is serious. Gov. Walter Welford, of North Dakota, told the conference that water levels throughout his state are seriously diminished, constituting a major problem for the stat? and federal governments. Another official declared that North Dakota’s live stock situation is "most deplorable,’’ that virtually no live stock is left on ranges in western sections of the state and that feed is seriously scarce in all sections. "There is no magic wand at the disposal of the government to make drouth areas bloom," Mr. Cooke said. "We came here to hear your suggestions and we hope to gain from this and similar meetings data which will guide future, helpful legislation. "The reports so far received indicate that much can be done through government assistance and expert advice." THE Mississippi Valley association, meeting in St. Louis, adopted a resolution calling for rejection of the St. Lawrence seaway treaty unless the crown colony of Newfoundland and Anticosta island are ceded to the United States by Great Britain. Os course no one thinks for a minute that Britain ever would do that. "The position of Newfoundland, astride the mouth of the St. Lawrence, is an insuperable obstacle to the treaty in its present form," the resolution said, "inasmuch as Newfoundland is a crown colony of Great Britain and is entirely separate from Canada. "This crown colony as well as the St. Lawrence plug of Anticosta I land should both be ceded to the United States to guarantee our safety in case of war.” 1 The new president of the association is Arthur J. Weaver, former governor of Nebraska and now president of the Missouri River Navigation association. /")NE thousand banqueters in Washington celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the American patent system and an announcer from a transport air liner gave them the names of America’s "twelve greatest inventors” as selected by a secret committee of prominent men. These are the inventors and their inventions: . Robert Fulton, steamboat; Eli Whitney, cotton gin; Samuel F. B. Morse, telegraph; Charles Goodyear, vulcanized rubber; Cyrus Hall McCormick, grain reaper; Elias Howe, sewing machine; George Westinghouse, airbrake; Alexander Graham Bell, telephone; Thomas Alva Edison, electric lamp, phonograph, motion pictures, and many other devices; Ottmar Mergenthaler, linotype; Charles Martin Hall, process for making cheap aluminum; Wilbur Wright, co-inventor with his brother, Orville, of the airplane. CEATTLE has a habit of recalling its mayors when they are not satisfactory. One was thus ousted in 1911 and another in 1931. Now

a movement has been started for the recall of Mayor John F. Dore, who is accused of inciting acts of violence in a labor dispute. Formal charges of misfeasance, malfeasance and violation of the oath of office were contained in a petition signed by fifteen women and eleven

Mayor John F. Dw

men. It asked the corporation counsel to draft the charges in condensed form so that an effort could be made to obtain the 24,000 signatures necessary for a special recall election. Dore, was elected in March over Arthur B. Langlie, candidate of the New Order of Cincinnatus, an independent organization of young voters seeking better municipal government.

Water's Effect on Metal Is Reduced lay Clwewteal* Numerous chemical compounds added to water reduce the rate at which it corrodes metals, says the Scientific American. Among these, the so-called organic amines, chemical compounds similar to ammonia, have been found to be particularly effective even to very small pro* Prat Charles A. Mann and his coworkers at the University of Minne-

The charges against the mayor largely have to do with his actions in connection with the strike of employees of the Seattle PostIntelligencer. R EAT BRITAIN asked Gen. Francisco Franco, leader of the Spanish rebels, to establish a safety zone for neutral ships in Barcelona harbor which the Fascist chieftain had declared blockaded. Franco’s reply was not satisfactory, and besides, one of his vessels sank an unidentified ship off the capital of Catalonia. Therefore the British government promptly started a considerable number of warships toward the Mediterranean, cruisers and submarines being included. Foreign Minister Eden already had assured parliament that British shipping would be protected on the high seas with all the might of the British navy—which is something to give the Spanish Fascists pause. France took the same stand, but warned its merchantmen to conduct themselves "with extreme caution.” Excitement over the torpedo attack on a loyal Spanish cruiser by a submarine which the Madrid government more than hinted was a German vessel was allayed by the report that the undersea boat was a Spanish submarine that had gone over to the rebel side. Madrid was being continually hammered by rebel shells and bombs, and there was intense fighting daily in University City, the northwest section of the capital, where the insurgents had penetrated. The American embassy was closed on orders from Washington and Eric C. Wendelin, charge d’affaires, gave protection to those Americans who wished to go to Valencia to board a United States warship. The German and Italian embassies, abandoned by their staffs, were seized and sealed by the defense junta and a number of Fascist refugees were arrested in the former. Berlin scoffed at this action but Rome called it banditry. El. STICKLING, a German en- • gineer, was sentenced to death in Russia for sabotage which he was said to have confessed. Hitler had his ambassador in Moscow make earnest demands for postponement of the execution, and then suddenly announced that if the sentence were carried out Germany would sever diplomatic relations with the soviet government. Great Britain feared such action would seriously aggravate the European war situation and so Prime Minister Baldwin interceded. He asked German Ambassador Von Ribbentrop to urge Hitler not to bring about the open break with Russia, and he instructed the British ambassador at Moscow to appeal for mercy for Strickling. Thereafter the Soviet government commuted the German’s sentence to ten years in prison. Several of his fellow plotters were shot. The agreement directed against the communist Internationale, which angered Russia, was signed by Japan and Germany in the Berlin foreign office. Under it the two nations are to co-operate in a campaign against communism, and they invite other nations to join them.

J| OSEPH E. DAVIES, wealthy lawyer of Washington, has served the Democratic party in various ways for many years and has contributed liberally to its campaign funds, and now he Ig has been rewarded. F ' ® President Roosevelt has appointed him ’ American ambassa- ItF dor to Soviet Russia, to succeed William Mk C. Bullitt, who was transferred to tht Paris embassy. Mr. Davies, whose wife is the former j. E. Davies Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton, heiress of the big Post cereal fortune, is a native of Wisconsin and practiced law in that state until 1913, when he went to Washington. He was chairman of the federal trade commission under President Wilson in 1915-’l6, and was taken along by Wilson as an economic adviser to the Versailles conference. Before that he had served as western manager of Wilson’s campaign and as secretary of the Democratic national committee and he was offered in 1918 the ambassadorship to Russia, to Italy and the governorship of the Philippines. He declined, however, so he could run for the United States senate from Wisconsin. He was defeated. He was active during the recent campaign, serving on the advisory committee at Democratic headquarters in New York. President Roosevelt signed the Davies commission before he left on his South American cruise, but the announcement was withheld until word was received from the soviet government that Davies was persona grata at Moscow.

sota have investigated the reasons for this effectiveness and have found that the electrically charged ions formed by amines In solution attach themselves to the negatively charged surfaces of the metal in such away as to reduce Its effective contact with the liquid. They have further fmind that the amount of an amine needed to minimise corrosion Is related to the eross-sectional area of its molecule. The area covered by each motecuie jg extremely mi*

T> EPORTING on its annual survey, the National Child Labor committee says the improved business activity has been accompanied by a general increase in the use of child labor, with “appalling conditions" in some industries. “It appears to be hard for the individual who sees business and trade reviving," the report said, “to pause to consider the extent to which this process of creating wealth is being built upon the backs of children who need to be in school instead of having their youth ground out of them at labor." V'ARL VON OSSIETSKY, German pacifist who has been imprisoned by the Nazi government after being convicted of treason, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1935 —and the Nazis are exceedingly indignant, looking upon the award as “an impudent challenge and insult to the new Germany." Ossietsky, who is seriously ill, was released from prison recently but is under guard by the secret police. “treason” consisted in printing ah article some time ago saying the German army was secretly rearming. The peace prize for 1936 was given Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minister, recently president of the League of Nations assembly and active in ending the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay. P)RIS P. VAN SWERINGEN, the Cleveland financier who, with his late brother M. J. Van Sweringen, created a great railway empire, died suddenly while on a railroad trip to New York. In his 57 years of life he rose from being a newsboy to a commanding position in American transportation. The great depression almost ruined the brothers financially, but Oris was well on the way to complete financial recovery. DICTATOR JOSEF STALIN, in one of his exceedingly rare public speeches, presented, to his fellow countrymen the proposed constitution which he himself has written for the U. S. S. R. The document promises many new liberties and privileges to Russian citizens. These include equal suffrage, the secret ballot, the right to work, leisure, material security in old age, education, equal rights for women, universal equality of citizenry, freedom of conscience and the right to worship, freedom of speech, press, assembly and meetings and the right to organize into any group except political bodies. TIAT work relief as administered by the federal government be gradually discontinued is the recommendation of the board of

United States Chamber of Commerce. The board adopted a report of a committee headed by John W. O’Leary of Chicago which held that the work relief “proves in operation to fall far short of its purposes and to create new problems.” “The committee,"

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said the report, “does not propose sudden and instantaneous stoppage. Those gradual steps should be taken which are always essential when adjustments have to be made upon a considerable scale. “There is at present danger that, ceasing to have work for unemployed persons as its function, this activity will undertake to replace some of the functions of private enterprise in advancing recovery. There can be no substitute for private enterprise in the development of improved economic conditions."

VIEW YORK’S state’s unemployment insurance law was upheld by an equally divided United States Supreme court, Justice Harlan Fiske Stone being absent on account of illness and taking no part in consideration of the case. There was no formal opinion and no announcement of the lineup of the court. In the opinion of legal experts the 1 court’s action has wide implications i affecting not only state employment ; insurance and other social legisla- • tion, but also the administration’s I social security program. BY A vote of 21,879 to 2,043 the i convention of the American Federation of Labor approved the action of the executive council in suspending the ten union that are with John L. Lewis in his Committee for Industrial Organization movement. However the convention accepted the advice of President Green and voted to renew the council’s offer to talk peace with the rebel unions and to give the council power to call a special federation convention and expel the rebels if peace negotiations fail. The convention approved the executive council’s decision that no steps should be taken to form a labor political party. TOWARD F. McGRADY, assistant secretary of labor, was still trying to bring about a settlement of the great strike of maritime workers, but didn’t seem to be getting along very well Indeed, the situation was made worse by -nationwide strike calls to the Masters, Mates and Pilots association and the Marine Engineers union.’ Federal operation of emergency ships to Alaska and Hawaii was discussed but not decided.

Gtoema in Coal Mine Germany haw a cinema in a coal mine, two thousand feet under the surface of the earth r The cinema is in a disused pit at Oberhausen in the Ruhr. The mine is used as an industrial evhihirirtn, and has been imparted by more than 32,000 visitors. A portion of one of the main galleries is enclosed, and fitted with a rineme operating chamber and rows of tip-up seats. Here visitors to the mine are shown the different

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Explains That “Smudge” Was an Agreeable Cat at Times

®ih "" i ntw * .*> -<***? Into My Questing Finger Sank Two Sharp Teeth.

By JAMES J. MONTAGUE A SCREAM is startling, anywhere. When it is repeated, if only once, it is at least five times as startling. When it is screamed on one’s front porch, its startlingness can only be computed by the aid of higher mathematics. But during and immediately after this particular scream I was much too startled to make use of calculus, or logarithms or any of the methods by which the scholar arrives at indisputable conclusions. I merely dropped my book, rushed to the front door, and opened it. I admit that I did not open it wide. The echoes of the scream were still replicating from house to house in the immediate vicinity. I don’t believe in ghosts or ghouls, but I would find no particular pleasure in discovering that there are such creatures by discovering one of them on my front porch. Peering warily through the aperture which exists between a door and a door jamb when the door is on a chain I surveyed as much as was possible of the surrounding dusk. Presently into the range of my vision there came a large and very white face, apparently entirely unsupported by any body. While I was striving to become accustomed to a bodyless head its mouth opened and said in a shaking voice: "The animal. It’s up there. Look. Its eyes! Its eyes!” The head from which the voice was projected was fixed on a pine tree, swaying gently in the evening wind. Following them I beheld two yellow luminous balls, which blinked occasionally like the beam of a lighthouse. I thrust forward a fearless hand, seized the nape of a furry neck, transferred the body which belonged to it to the porch floor and said reassuringly: "It’s just Smudge. Come in, Mrs. Klinefelter.” “But what is it?" said a still trembling voice. “Just a cat. A mere alley cat. Its eyes look that way when the street light shines on them. Look at it.” I stopped and lifted a black ball perhaps five inches in circumference. During its elevation the dear little creature inscribed its initials on the back of my hand. They were still there the next morning, a somewhat crude "S. C.” which was by that time outlined in iodine. Mrs. Klinefelter’s visit was brief, and she demanded an escort to her car, although when she rose to go Smudge was sitting placidly on the mantelpiece, gracefully sparring with a fly which was buzzing around her. “I am not at all sure," said the lady, "that that absurd little animal is the one that glared at me outside the door. She looks like such a sweet, gentle, little thing." The sweet, gentle, little thing coiled for a spring, which she forthwith executed. The parabola she described in the air would have brought her exactly between the shoulders of our guest had I not deflected it with swift presence of mind and diverted her to the floor. She landed on her feet, hissed venomously at me and strode out of the room. Such was her winsome nature. , Smudge was the gift of my daugh-ter-in-law, who likes cats and maintains three of them in her home. I should say maintained, for after Smudge’s arrival, two of them departed through windows never to return again, and the third, which had the spirit to stay and fight it out committed suicide I think. Anyway it was ground to atoms by a trolley car, under which it had fled in an effort to get away from the little black fury. Desiring the company of quiet, well behaved cats, Smudge’s former owner made her home safe for them by putting Smudge into a basket and conveying her up to our house. This basket she deposited in the center of the room, and diplomatically suggested that I open it. I did so without caution, supposing that the receptacle contained something edible. Out came a black head, not much larger than a billiard ball, and into my questing finger sank two sharp teeth, all the incisors

12. MS MBes of Waterways There are 13,000 miles of navigable waterways in the basin of the Yangtze Kiang and its tributary rivers, in southern China. The entire basin is accessible from the Beware of Whispers “Let us respect the man with a loud voice,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. "They who seek to «® mote otten wHtoor* era.*

that the creature possessed at that early age. Naturally I backed away . Smudge strode into the center of the room, looked around her, sneering at our furniture, and then leaped! first to a book shelf and then to thfii mantelpiece. “Come here, Smudge,” I said, “That’s a nice kitty.” I warily stretched forth my hand. In response the newcomer arched her back, walked a few steps on her extended tiptoes, danced a sort of a war-dance and then flung herself like a catapult directly at me. I fielded her deftly, clamped! my fingers around her jaws, and deposited her gently on the floor. For a few minutes she strolled about the room, holding her enlarged tail at right angles with her spine, and indicating by her expression that she had seen lots better places than the one in which she now found herself. While she was still on parade her former owner cried: "Oh pick her up. The dog! The dog!” The dog entered, smiled in anticipation of a pleasant quarter of an hour, and advanced on his prey. The prey flattened herself on the floor, revolving slowly as the dog walked around and around her. Then she lifted herself into the air, alighted exactly on her pursuer’s back, drove her claws home, and the pair of them, still firmly united, left the room. In the hall the improvised horse regained hits senses and dived under a chair scraping Smudge from his shoulders. Then he walked with a feeble swagger into the kitchen, yelped to the cook that he desired to stroll around the yard for the time being, and never returned until late in the evening. When he did come back he merely thrust his head inside the door, looked around in all directions, and then to make assurance doubly sure scuttled down the cellar stairs and found refuge in his box. In time he and Smudge buried the hatchet, but they both remembered where it was, and exhumed it on a number of occasions which were not gala occasions for the dog. It was after Smudge had been with us for about three weeks when an arrogant rat, which had roused the dog to a fury by squeaking at him savagely, and then whisking back into his hole when pursued, decided to take a walk around the dining room one night. It was an unwise decision. Smudge who was sleeping on an unoccupied guest bed at the time heard him and stepped down to find out what could be afoot at such an hour of the night. The fatal mistake made by the rat on that occasion was one which has lost great generals many a brilliant victory. He underestimated his enemy. Instead of returning prudently to his hole, which any rat moderately gifted with reason would have done, he decided to stand and fight. His cries for mercy, which were many and piteous, aroused us all from sleep, but they fell on deaf ears as far as Smudge was concerned. When we arrived to find out what had made all the riot and turned on the light we saw four legs moving slowly to and fro, as their owner lay on his back, breathing his last, and a small cat, not nearly the size of her adversary running a paw over her ears as if to shut out the dying supplications of her enemy . Such is Smudge. She is a pleasant and Agreeable cat when she wants to be. But her idea of play is not consistent with the peace or safety of the members of the family. My hands are continually inscribed with her little curlycue autographs, and I am never sure when she will step around my shoulder and nip a nick out of my ear. Still, she does it all in a spirit of good dean fun, and her gallant fighting soul, and the music of her occasional purr has insured her a home with usi as long as she shall desire it. • BeU Syndicate.—WNU Serice. Eagerness for Power “Eagerness for power,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is what has led my neighbor Hi Hat to make a public display of his weakness."

Tuna From the Paet Sc Our supply of canned tuna fish comes largely from the warm waters of the Pacific, off the coast of Central America and Mexico. Most of the fish are caught a housand miles or so from the canneries, which axe located in a sm all territory in southern California. Raleigh’s **Hlstory es Worid** Sir Walter Raleigh wrote a monumental "History of the World” while a Drisoner in Lcndrai Toww.

On to With It Comes Boldness in New Ideas; Our Sphere of Friends and Activities Expands

A POOR salesman may be a ** genius at gardening; an indifferent stenographer sometimes never suspects her own gift for cookery, for dress design, for ability to pick up foreign languages. By thinking candidly about yourself, by being as friendly to yourself as you would be to another, you can often dra.v up a picture of your tastes, abilities, desires and hopes which will astonish you. Take an inventory of yourself, paying special attention to the things you like but which you have little of in your daily life. Then start putting them into it. From Interest to a Specialty Often we have to begin slowly —reading, or finding courses of instruction within our means, or working out a program for ourselves in solitude; but every day something can be done toward the new way of living. It can grow from an interest into a hobby, from a hobby into a side line, from a side line into a specialty. Then comes the day when the unsatisfactory work can be given up (to someone who will find it as satisfying and as absorbing as we find our own new field) and success is at last really and noticeably on its way to us—or we are on our way to it. Vitalizes Character Then living begins to be fun. We meet people with the same tastes, not just the chance acquaintances who come our way in an uncongenial profession. Having sue-

The Living Truth WE DO not need to defend the truth. Truth is its own defense. Not many years ago merchants and bankers, when they left their places of business, turned off the lights and put up great heavy shutters Today they pull aside the blinds and turn on a strong light. The greatest protection the truth of God can have is to expose it so that everyone may see what it does. Let us give up trying to guard our faith. It is better far to live it. Run away from work and you will find that work can run.

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ceeded once, we begin to show a little daring; we try new ideas more boldly, and our world ~of friends and activities expands even more. Chances we couldn’t even imagine until we got inside our real work turn up on every hand. Best of all, even a small success has a vitalizing effect on character. That is the most interesting discovery that success brings in its train: those who are living successfull. make the best friends. They are free from malice and spitefulness. They are not petty. They are full of good talk and humor.—Dorothea Brande in Cosmopolitan. Floating Derelicts Derelicts are as dangerous to navigation as submerged icebergs. As many as a thousand have been reported in the North Atlantic in a single year. Many drift great distances before they are found and sunk, the record being held, it is believed, by the Fannie E. Wolston, which—when last seen in 1893 off Savannah—had floated 7,000 miles in two and a half years.—Collier’s Weekly.

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