Walkerton Independent, Volume 58, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 October 1933 — Page 7

Wm National Topics Interpreted /£j by William Bruckart

Washington.—lt now appears likely that the Eighteenth amendment will be out of the ConstlPonder Liquor tution by the middle Control December, and its imminent repeal has set many of the wiser heads to thinking about control of liquor sales which thereafter will be legal. It is an important problem; it is recognized as one that is exceedingly serious, and those who are really seeking to perform the proper functions of public office in state and nation seem to be moving in the right directions when they give consideration to sales control and to minimizing admitted dangers in legal liquor sales. The drys, of course, have not given up. They think they still can block repeal of the amendment. There are only half a dozen more states needed on the affirmative side of the proposition to get the amendment out of the Constitution, however, and whenever thirty-six states have expressed their views, it is made to appear as unlikely that a last-ditch .move by the drys will defeat the repeal program which President Roosevelt pledged in advance of tis election. Dry leaders here in Washington have guarded their plans with the utmost secrecy’. They will not disclose what they plan to do to hold up repeal. Undoubtedly, it will include resort to court proceedings designed to prove that the votes already taken have been void on some technical ground. And I say it is possible they may find such a basis, but inquiries among nearly all of the recognized legal authorities have failed to disclose that any of them see how the drys can be successful. In view of reports from some dryquarters that the method of voting will be attacked as illegal, it might be of interest to recall that United States District Judge Clark of New Jerseyheld a few years ago that the Eighteenth amendment never was in the Constitution at all. He decided that since the states had voted through their legislatures rather than through conventions, the amendment never had been ratified. But the learned judge was promptly overruled by the highest tribunal, which determined that the Constitution itself gave congress the utmost freedom in choosing between the ratification of a Constitutional amendment by legislatures or by the convention system. So it would seem, according to legal experts, that the drys have little hope in that direction. It is quite possible, of course, that some one or two of the states scheduled to vote between now and midDecember- may upset the applecart by voting for retention, instead of re- ( peal, of the amendment. In which event, there would be delay. Government officials tell me, however, that repeal is almost certain. So the question for consideration, then, obviously is, “how will its sale be controlled to avoid the old-time sa- , loon and its attendant evils?” In this matter, the wets will go a long way with the drys in seeing that restrictions are thrown about the sale of liquor that will remove some of the curse that admittedly was tied up with the corner saloon. An important wet leader told me . that he wanted to prevent return of the saloon and wantThumbs Downed to see some “senon Saloon sible ni ^ an s” provided for distribution, purely as a matter of long-range policy. If such action is not taken, he said, there will be another fight against prohibition staring the wets in the face at once. Since the wets want repeal, therefore, they can be counted upon, generally speaking, to propose as well as support, any system that will make for elimination of those embarrassing features of liquor sales that brought on prohibition in the first place. There are numerous schemes and systems under discussion. Thus far, none of them seems to have crystallized into a program behind which a majority of the strength can be mustered. Having seen prohibition fights in numerous instances in congress, it appears that there is likely to be much hauling and filling in the state legislatures on the questions centering around control. That statement, however, must not be understood as applying to the real leaders on either side of the problem. The small fry and the politicians who will want to feather their own nests are the folks who are going to make enactment of control legislation difficult. * ♦ * And while we are discussing prohibition repeal, it may be reported that there has been a decided difference of opinion as to how- it will become operative. Some argument has been advanced that repeal will not be operative, even after thirty-six states have ratified the new amendment, until the Department of State, here in Washington, issues a proclamation to that effect. Others have claimed that action by the thirty-sixth state automatically will relegate the Eighteenth amendment into the limbo of things that are gone but not forgotten. The Department of State, aware of the potential controversy, has made up its ponderous mind, I am informed. While officials say there is no announcement to make at this time, the Information I get is that the departhicnt has determined there must be a proclamation issued when the necessary number of states have voted repeal. But it seems to be preparing to ward off trouble by an arrangement ; providing for the date of the proclamation to be the same as the day of । the last vote. It appears, th< ■ ' that w hi n tl held, a day or so will elapse before a certificate of its acti n, r ■ '• - v Ji. tngton, and then the proclamation, ■

previously drafted and signed, will be formally issued. As a practical matter, of course, the country will know pretty well what it can or cannot do long before the last convention is held, and prohibition repeal likely will be celebrated before the machinery in the Department of State gets around to grinding. a * • As the campaign to repeal prohibition approaches an end, another campaign, backed by the “Buy Now” administration and Campaign On ,ed bv , NUA ' ls ting under way. Just now, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, is trying to get the country to buy, or those who still have money are being urged to “buy now.” It is a part of the general scheme to set commercial and industrial wheels in motion, because if those millions who still have jobs and who have been holding tightly onto their money will let loose of some of it for the things they need, there will be a big difference in the total of sales in the country. It is a fact beyond peradventure of a doubt that thousands of persons, their confidence shaken, possibilities of lost jobs, funds tied up in closed banks and that sort of thing, have simply refused to buy their normal quantity of merchandise. They have been denying themselves many things which they ordinarily would buy, because of the uncertainty of the times. General Johnson is simply asking them to return to their normal ways of living. It is not confined to the individual consumer, this holding off from buying. Retailers have been running with Just as small a stock as they can, and jobbers and wholesalers have held down their inventories to the minimum. The waiting policy which the retailers, the jobbers and the wholesalers have followed, necessarily has reacted on the manufacturer. If he were willing to take the chance, he did not dare put all of his resources into raw materials from which to produce his usual output. So the seller of raw materials has had limited calls from the manufacturer, and when the raw materials folks had limited markets, the cycle could not be set in motion. General Johnson has a dual purpose in his “buy now” campaign. He has been promising those businesses that signed the NRA codes that efforts would be made to encourage new business, or a revival of old business, for them. Besides, it is imperative to most of them that they obtain a greater volume of business. They can-not meet the added expense of higher wages and other code costs unless something like old-time trade recurs. General Johnson is trying to push the “buy now” campaign on that account as much as to force business upward. If business revives, of course, it means more jobs, and more jobs means restoration of conditions like those six or eight years ago when we termed our country as prosperous. Some observers here are inclined to doubt that General Johnson will succeed in his plan. Their argument is that people are going to be governed wholly by their own circumstances and their own beliefs. If, for example, one family head is none too confident about the future, he is pretty likely to disregard the appeal from Washington. No amount of ballyhoo will cause him to change. On the other hand, undoubtedly many individuals will say they can buy a little bit more than they have been buying and they will do so. Even these small additions will total a great sum when the whole country’s purchases are added together. Surely, whatever good may come from the new campaign will be a net gain, and any net gain, it is certain, must be considered as helpful. • * * President Roosevelt’s program to buy farm surpluses for food for the country’s poor and Surplus Food destitute is probably for Needy about the mos t Popular thing he has attempted. I have heard little criticism around here. Most of the folks with whom I have talked have praised him for the move just as vigorously as they criticized him and Secretary Wallace, of the Department of Agriculture, when they announced their scheme to pay a premium for pigs and for sows about to farrow in order to force hog prices higher. A large part of the pork from that wholesale, and I believe ridiculous, slaughter of pigs went into fertilizer. It was the most wasteful thing that I have seen a government do. I believe the consensus among observers here is the same as my own. But the program of using that meat, and portions of the surplus wheat and cotton and dairy products and fruits, etc., to relieve suffering, is quite a different matter. In the first instance, everyone regards the latter course as human, a course that will do some good. The same can hardly be said of the former arrangement, despite the claims of the “brain trust” economists who argue that higher prices will prevail as a result of the plan. Present plans call for the use of about $75,000,000 of federal money, funds contributed to the treasury by taxpayers of the nation, in the purchase of the food and clothing materials. That ought to buy many meals in any language you may’ speak, and food is food however it is obtained. There are approximately 3.500,000 families on relief rolls throughout the country. That means something like 15,000,000 men, women and children are dependent entirely upon charity for the food that they have and the clothes that they wear. Heretofore, the distribution of federal money has been by the states which received sums from the national government. But in this case, food will be granted. Instead ©. 1533. Western Newspaper Union.

OUR CHILDREN By ANGELO PATRI TRUSTWORTHY PARENTS AKE Y ou a trustworthy parent? I I -G*- am not asking if you are truthful and all that. 1 take for granted that 1 you meet your obligations and that you are sincere in your relationships with your children as well as your , neighbors. But do the children feel that they can trust you with their whole confidence? You see. sometimes you are short with a child. He comes to you when you are busy, lie begins to beat about ' the bush in the hope of getting on I your sunny side. Y’ou don't feel like that and you snap at him. “What is . it you want, anyway?" “Nothing. I didn't want anything. I was just telling you.” i In your irritation you miss that “just j telling you.” He wanted to tell you i something but he wasn’t quite sure of | his reception. He felt you out and ' you snapped, lie retreated and held ' his own counsel. That time he found yon untrustworthy, you see. Os course, , you didn't know that it was impor- ! tant. But he doesn't know that you really were friendly underneath, away underneath, you see. ' At another time he told you a secret. It was a very childish secret about a i little girl in his class. He rather liked her and he wanted to give her something nice for her birthday, and ! he asked you about it. and you promi ised to help. You meant well about it. You enjoyed this first glimmer of his ' I interest in girls. It was so shy and so sweet that you couldn’t help smiling about it and telling it to Aunt Tillie. and he happened along and heard you. He was astounded. You see, he felt that you had betrayed his confidence. Maybe sometime one of the children got into trouble. He flounders into it because of his ignorance and inexpeI rience and his uncontrolled impulse. | He was frightened and came to you ; with his difficulty. You were so anj gry to think of all the trouble this ■ thing was going to bring to him and . to you that you lost your bead and j stormed like a pirate. The child decided it was no use to look for help I from your quarter and left home, making a bad matter worse. The worst part being that he had decided that you were not the one to help him, that you were not a trustworthy friend in time of need. No child ever grew up without giving his people some trouble. The trouble is cleared away sooner, the child I redirected earlier and w th greater cerI tainty, if he found an understanding i mind and a helping hand ready for ; him. Anger, fear, selfishness, will drive children away from us. THIS LEISURE ASIDE from the lack of work that is causing so much idleness, there is a normal leisure that has to be ■ taken into account In planning the children s education. School does not ! take all of a child's time. Home can j use very little of it, as home is organized today. That throws the child j back upon himself for several hours ' daily. “Thomas, will you stop annoying j that dog? Let him alone. I can’t stand this barking and yelping and chasing around another minute. Take him outdoors if you want to play.” “I don’t want to go outdoors. There’s nothing doing.” “Then go do something useful. A boy your age ought to be able to do something better than monkey with a dog or drum on the table.” “Tell me something to do and I’ll do it. I'm sick and tired of sticking around with nothing to do. This is a dead house and a dead ohl town anyway. I'd like to go somewhere and do something. 1 would.” “Read a book, why don't you?” “Read a book. Just as if I hadn’t read a hundred books. I want to have some fun. Tell me something to do.” That something to do is the beginning and end of our happiness in this world. So long as we have something to do we are willing to live. When we have nothing to do we have no will to live and that makes for bitterness and despair. We can save this generation i from that by training them to have l something they like to do. All little children are active. They never lack for something to do, but more often than not, we have to stop them. We cannot have the house razed, the gardens ruined, the dog and j the cat choked to death. This is no easy burden for parents i to carry. What can they teach children to do? Games come first. Housework, garden work, shop work; anij mals, collections, are next in order. ! We begin close at home and gradually extend the field of activity until the ; child settles upon something he likes to do. This is not intended to be his life work. It is his hobby. If it grows into life work, so much the better. But he must have a strong inter- : est in some field of work, play or study that will offer him contentment in his leisure hours. Let the little chap collect his cards and his stamps; help the older one to i follow his music, his painting, his pot- । tery, whatever his hands find to do. | You do not know what good thing is to come of it. You can be certain, ; however, that it is a good thing. ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Discoverer of Pike’s Peak Unknown Pikes Peak was named alter Zebu lon Pike wtio was supposed to have discovered that mountain peak in Colorado. But the Stewart commission of Colorado college says Pike did not discover it. The commission claims . । the mountain was known to white men as e rly as 1700, and that was long beI lore Pike was born. Investigators of j the commission found that Pike learned of the peak while a prisoner of the Spaniards in Santa Ee early in I the Nineteenth century.—Pathfinder ' Magazine.

Few Slang Terms Live Long': Majority of '“Catchy*’ W ords and Phrases Have Brief Period of Popularity anti Pass Quietly Into Oblivion; Some Stay to Enrich Language.

(From the Literary Digest.] People ask whore slang comes from. Perhaps the best authority is Gelett Burgess, who has invented a few, such as "goup.” “bromide,” “blurb” and “varm.” He credits Will Irwin with “high brow"; the opposite must have followed naturally. Many vaudeville performers invent new slang in cold blood, he says. “Hot cha cha” is associated with Jimmie Durante. “A sedate college professor could read Variety all ! through and not understand half its merry talk.” he writes in the New York American. He distinguishes two kinds: “One sort is metaphorical, and merely twists a well known word like ‘flop’ or tin old phrase like ‘up against it’ into a new meaning. It j may even defy syntax like ‘1 should ‘ worry' or ‘ain’t we got fun?’ The other sort of slang is neologistlc; it concocts absolutely new words to en rich the language.” Then Mr. Burgess sweeps around a wide circle: “The Elizabethan dramatists reveled in such creations. What could be more expressive of a sneaky rogue than the word ‘scroyl’ or 'dabchick' —what we call a ‘flapper?’ “The most famous of modern word coiners was Lewis Carroll. But. despite the immortal popularity of his •Jabberwocky' poem and the felicity of ‘frabjous' and ‘slithy’ and ‘mimsy.’ of all the words he made up only 'galumph' and*'chortle' have really survived. “That's the queer thing about slang. Every Paris dressmaker, you know, presents, every season, some dozen or so new gowns. But of them all only one or two models ever achieve a vogue. It's the same way with slang. Some few words catch on and gain a permanent place in the language, like the good old ‘chest i nut.' which has never been replaced, and ‘tightwad.' Some are permuted, like ‘peach’ to 'pippin.' or ‘goat’ to ‘nanny.’ and the many synonymous changes that have been run on the word ‘tipsy’—'soused.’ 'spiffed.’ ‘pie eyed.’ etc., a new one every year. “But most disappear utterly, like the 'skedaddle' of the Civil war ami that inimitable word ‘dude.' gone with the tight trousers nml high collars! “ ‘Where is the slang of yester

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