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THE REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Europe Knows Our Dollar
Marrying Haphazard
One Banker, $200,000
$15 a Word, and Cheap
We don’t yet know in this country
that our dollar is only worth 59 cents,
but Europe knows it The gold franc,
worth about 3.80 cents when the dol-
lar was a gold dollar, is worth today
6.27 cents in paper dollars. Something
frightened our speculative gentlemen
In Wall Street and stocks dropped
rather violently. They will go back
again.
The cheaper dollar means a better
price for the stocks, real estate and
everything else with real value. While
the dollar changes Its value by fiat,
the other things do not change their
value.
This Is a good time to collect right
real estate and securities, if you know
how to select the right ones.
J. H. Blumensohn of Columbia uni-
versity, sent to Brazil by the Rocke-
feller foundation, found interesting In-
dians called the Kaingang tribe. These
Indians solve one of civilization’s prob-
lems by marrying both the daughter
and the mother; no mother-in-law dif-
ficulty there.
In former times the Indians prac-
ticed extensively polygamy and group
marriage, several men and several
women being married to each other
at the same time.
There is no marriage ceremony, and
when the Kaingangs kill each other In
family feuds, divorce quarrels or for
other numerous reasons, there is no
punishment provided. Also there is
no moral code.
The good will be glad to hear that
the tribe Is dying out; not expected to
last long.
Edward G. Bremer, young bank pres-
ident of St. Paul, thirty-seven years
old, is released by kidnapers. Hi's fa-
ther paid a ransom of $200,000 in $5
and $10 bills, which weighed fifty
pounds and filled two suit-boxes. Unit-
ed States detectives are looking for
“ten or twelve kidnapers.”
Repeal of prohibition has discour-
aged bootleggers, but will probably
promote kidnaping.
Charles Dickens wrote a life of
Christ in 14,000 words for his children.
They would not sell or allow it to be
published. Now the last is dead and
the brief manuscript sells for $15 a
word, $210,000, not including the orig-
inal itself in Dickens’ handwriting.
That manuscript itself will sell for a
big price some day. Dickens could not
have imagined all this when he was a
young, struggling writer in London.
“Stone walls do not a prison make,”
you all know that, “nor iron bars a
cage,” under certain conditions.
That youth, beauty and even dia-
monds do not make happiness you
learn from a young woman, a “Follies
girl,” found dead, sitting in a hotel,
registered under a false name.
She had nine diamond rings on her
fingers, $280 in loose change in her
handbag. Her lips were burned with
poison, and those burned lips will
never tell.
Mr. Schwab, of the steel company,
used to say when he saw a little dog
chasing an express train that he won-
dered what the dog would do with the
train if he caught it. You wonder
what Uncle Sam plans to do with all
the gold in the world when and if he
gets it. He can’t hold it in his lap.
The United States is gathering in-
formation about silver—who has it,
who is hoarding it, why it was bought,
why it is hoarded?
You remember what happened when
you hoarded gold, if you did. You had
to give it to the government at the
old price, and then watched it go up
$15 an ounce. Perhaps you will see
something like that in silver. One
hundred million ounces of it are said
to be held in this country for specu-
lative purposes.
The British post office shows a sur-
plus, net profit of $55,000,000 for the
year. That will interest Postmaster
General Farley, who is working to
show a profit on his job.
The interesting thing is that the
British post office owns and runs the
British telegraph system, government-
owned. and will send a telegraph mes-
sage anywhere in Great Britain for 12
cents. That was the price, at least,
when this writer was last in England.
If at any time you have violated the
prohibition law, stop worrying. The
Supreme court decided that, prohibi-
tion being dead, nobody can be tried
for violating a law that does not ex-
ist. The successful bootlegger may
rest peacefully on his laurels and
profits.
At McGraw, N. Y., four dogs led by a
police dog amused themselves with a
little girl, Joyce Hammond, six years
old, bit ber repeatedly, mangled one
of her arms. She is in the hospital. Jus-
tice of the Peace A. P. McGraw or-
dered the dogs held for a while, to
make sure that they were not afflicted
with rabies, and then shot.
Civilized beings will scarcely believe
It, but from different parts of the
country have come earnest appeals:
“Spare the poor dogs. How can you
be so cruel?” etc.
©. Kins Features Syndicate. Inc.
VV I *• o bui
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Bloody Riots in Paris Drive Out Daladier, and Doumergue
Becomes Premier—Devaluation of Dollar
Brings Flood of Gold.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Gaston
Doumergue
r?RANCE seemingly narrowly es-
* caped a civil war. Following two
days of bloody rioting in Paris and
other cities, Premier Daladier and his
cabinet capitulated
and the reins of gov-
ernment were put in
the hands of Gaston
Doumergue, the sev-
enty-one-year-old for-
mer President who
was in retirement on
his country estate.
m ^ jffij His reappearance on
fir A the political stage was
in response to the
BiaSW®™ pleadings of President
Lebrun and many oth-
er patriots who were
convinced that he alone could restore
the country to quiet. It was condi-
tioned on pledges that both chambers
of parliament would support him un-
reservedly and that the president
would give him an executive order dis-
solving the parliament and calling new
elections, to be used if he considered
it necessary. So the “iron man” of
France, as he has been dubbed, re-
turned to Paris with plans for a small
cabinet made up of former premiers
and party leaders and with power to
make himself the virtual dictator of
the country.
War veterans, Monarchists, Commu-
nists and other elements joined in the
violent demonstrations that forced out
the Daladier regime. All joined in op-
position to the government, though no
one of the groups was in accord with
any others in other respects. The
mobs were furious and fought desper-
ately with the police and the troops
that Daladier had brought into the
capital. The rioters, operating mainly
in the Place de la Concorde and the
region about the Palais Bourbon where
the chamber of deputies sits, were
raked by machine gun fire, sabered
by mounted troops and clubbed and
shot by the infantry and police. But
they returned to the fray time after
time and would not cease the struggle
until Daladier resigned. The number
of dead was estimated at * fifty, and
more than a thousand persons were
wounded. After the battles were over
the boulevards in the center of Paris
presented a scene of desolation and
destruction unequaled there since days
of the commune in 1871.
Nationalist elements resented espe-
cially the removal by Daladier of Jean
Chiappe as prefect of police, feeling
that he was being made a scapegoat
in the Bayonne bond scandal. The
Communists and Socialists accused
Chiappe of fomenting the rioting, but
the “right” elements said the “leftists”
were determined to get the Corsican
out of the way because they knew he
would block the proletarian coup d’etat
they were planning. The Royalists
were in the mix-up hopeful, as always,
that they might be able to restore the
monarchy and put on the throne the
due de Guise, head of the Bourbon
house of Orleans, who lives in exile
In Brussels. Naturally the pretender
shares in that hope, but he was quoted
as deploring the bloodshed.
EVALUATION of the dollar, and the
purchase of gold at $35 a fine ounce
caused a turmoil in the world’s money
markets and an Immediate result was a
great flow of gold bul-
lion from Europe to
the United States.
The pound sterling
and the franc made
gains, but not big
enough to suit Presi-
dent Roosevelt and
his monetary advis-
ers. Later both the
pound and franc de-
clined again, and the
confusion was made
Prof. Warren greater. The French
were alarmed by the drain on their
gold and expressed intense resentment
against the American policy, charging
that the administration was making de-
liberate efforts to embarrass France.
For the time being the administra-
tion was prevented from driving the
dollar down to its projected parity
points in foreign exchanges by the ris-
ing tide of American dollars flowing
back to this country. But most of
its financial experts were confident
that the 59.06 cents value would be
made to prevail after a reasonable
time to allow for the shakedown. As
for the $35 an ounce for gold, it is
the opinion of Prof. George F. War-
ren, chief deviser of the experiment
that is under way, that the figure
must be raised if prices of commodi-
ties are to be put up materially. Frank
E. Gannett, the Rochester newspaper
publisher, after a visit to the White
House and talking with both the
President and Professor Warren, said
in his Rochester Times-Union that he
had been convinced by those conver-
sations “that we shall continue to
raise the price of gold” and that the
$35 figure probably would succeed
only in preventing prices from slip-
ping.
By the President’s devaluation stroke
a treasury deficit of $1,900,000,000 was
transformed overnight into a surplus
of $973,716,937.
lieves that excessive interest rates on
all classes of debts should be reduced
as an Important step toward reduction
of the debt structure. His viewpoint
applies to foreign debts owed to Unit-
ed States citizens, to private debts and
to those of industry. He was said to
be of the opinion that reduction of in-
terest would make payment more prob-
able, and that fixed charges also could
be cut down.
Bills before the senate, which have
house approval already, would enable
corporations and municipalities or oth-
er political subdivisions of states to
scale down the principal and interest
of their debts through an agreement
with the majority of their creditors.
Legislation is already in effect which
enables the Individual to rearrange his
debt and interest rates through a pact
with the majority of those he owes
and to give similar help to railroads.
There have been complaints that these
laws have not been particularly effec-
tive and that they need strengthening.
The President, in letting It be known
that he thought the debtor was paying
too much on obligations contracted in
better times, did not say what he be-
lieved was a fair rate nor did he speci-
fy particular charges that he regarded
as too high.
Gen. Johnson
■^■RA and the steel industry came
into sharp conflict, and the NRA
to a certain extent backed down. Ex-
ecutives of all the leading steel com-
panies met and con-
sidered the claim of
the national labor
board to authority
given by the Presi-
dent to conduct elec-
tions for employee
representatives when
a “substantial” num-
ber request that ac-
tion. To this the
steel men took excep-
tion. They issued a
statement saying the
industry intends “to resist all attacks”
upon company unions and that it holds
that the present plan of employee rep-
resentation complies with the NRA.
The statement, however, declared the
steel Industry “is co-operating whole-
heartedly with the President in his ef-
forts for national recovery and sub-
scribes fully to the principle of collec-
tive bargaining as provided in section
7 (a) of the national recovery act.”
The NRA had given out a press
statement Implying that all company
unions are dominated by employers.
This drew sharp criticism, and the
statement was retracted. Administra-
tor Johnson and NRA Counsel Don-
ald Richberg upheld the right of the
labor board as stated above. They as-
serted, however, that the executive or-
der which said that representatives
elected by a majority of workers “have
been thereby designated to represent
all the employees,” does not abridge
the rights of labor minorities to con-
duct negotiations with employers.
T WAS authoritatively stated in
Washington that the President be-
Q AMUEL INSULL, who was due to
^ be ousted from Greece on Febru-
ary 1, was permitted to remain for a
time because of ill health, but the gov-
ernment at Athens then Informed him
unofficially that he must leave before
February 13, two physicians having
reported he was able to travel with-
out danger to his life. The fugitive im-
mediately began packing up, but at
this writing it was not known where
he would go in his effort to avoid ex-
traditiou.
,T'WENTY-TWO days after he was
-I kidnaped, Edward G. Bremer,
banker of St. Paul, Minn., was set free
In Rochester, Minn., and made his way
ppji home, nervous and
'“iftMW Woun(Jg on Jjjg
head Inflicted when
he was “snatched,”
but otherwise un-
harmed. His father,
Adolf Bremer, wealthy
brewer, had paid the
$200,000 demanded by
the kidnapers, in $10
and $5 bills, through
an intermediary. Dur-
ing his captivity Bre-
E. G. Bremer mer wag jjep^ jn a
dark room and under constant guard.
State and federal law enforcement
agencies were conducting an intensive
hunt for the abductors of Bremer, who
probably numbered ten or more. It
was believed the victim was held in
either Sioux City or Kansas City.
Verne Sankey, notorious kidnaper
who was captured recently in Chicago
and taken to Sioux Falls, S. D., for
safe keeping until his trial in a fed-
eral court, committed suicide in his
cell by hanging, using a loop made
of neckties. He had admitted the ab-
duction of Charles Boettcher of Den-
ver and Haskell Bohn of St. Poul.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT called
i congressional leaders into confer-
ence and with them formulated bills
designed to bring the stock markets
of the country under federal control.
The measures were then introduced
in both house and senate. They deal
with short selling, marginal trading,
specialists, pool operations and man-
inidarPm.
Washington.—Among the character-
istics of the New Deal which Presi-
dent Roosevelt is
Dream giving us is a
Becomes Reality ^ueer admixture
of planning for
the long-range developments along
with quick action for, as well as un-
der the guise of, emergency problems.
None can say that he has failed to be
quick on the trigger when it came to
taking some kind of action when emer-
gencies had to be solved, whether one
agrees with them or not, but coupled
with this haste he has been moving in
the direction of long-range planning
with a celerity that is, to say the
least, unusual in government.
Some months ago, I wrote of the
possibilities of the transfer of human
beings, like so many cattle or chat-
tels, into new spheres of activity, into
a new locale, into places where some
of them have a chance for an even
break In the battle for subsistence.
At that time, I believed the idea, ad-
vanced to me by some of the Presi-
dent’s advisers, was largely a dream.
But It has gone past that stage and is
about to become a reality.
Harry Hopkins, who started out to
be administrator of the government’s
job of extending relief to the destitute
and who since has become one of the
President’s right-hand men, is now se-
riously planning a rehabilitation move-
ment of the very kind that, as I said,
was only a dream six months ago.
Hundreds of thousands of individual
families are involved. Their future is
all bound up in the scientific planning
or the whim, whichever you choose
to call It, of those social engineers of
the New Deal. It is experimental, ad-
mittedly, but those who are working
out the plan claim it can be carried
out successfully. With Mr. Hopkins
are Rexford Tugwell, assistant secre-
tary of agriculture and one of the pro-
fessors of the New Deal; Mordecai
Ezekiel, also of the Department of
Agriculture and also one of the pro-
fessors ; Dale K. Parrot and Conrad
H. Wirth, of the Interior department,
and Jacob Baker, of the Civil Works
administration. Their plans will be
completed within another month.
Summarized the program contem-
plates the physical transfer of thou-
sands upon thousands of men and
their families from cities and indus-
trial areas or from farming commu-
nities where the land has been worked
to death, to areas where the people
have a chance to produce their own
living instead of being, as they now
are, on roles of charitable or govern-
ment relief organizations. This trans-
planting seems to have two purposes:
First, It will provide those people who
are moved with better living condi-
tions and a fresh start and, second, It
will relieve the crowded conditions
and the demand for Jobs in the places
from which they are moved.
“We have large numbers of families
whose economic future is so discour-
aging that It seems entirely Improb-
able that they will ever again be ac-
commodated in industry, or particu-
larly In the Industry where they once
had jobs,” said Mr. Hopkins. “They
are in industries that have been
worked out, such as In the steel cen-
ters to some extent, in copper areas
and in farming country that is no long-
er productive and where no one can
make a living out of it.
“As to submarginal lands, in con-
tradistinction to timber land, we find
families living on such lands and the
government cannot go In and simply
purchase the lands and have those
families move on and go places. They
must have some place to go. So that
the plan is not only for those in cen-
ters where Industry cannot help them
but for those on submarginal land who
are In the same kind of economic stag-
nation. This plan gets into the gov-
ernment’s long-range program and into
some of the first steps that are neces-
sary to work out that program. We
are going to try, therefore, to take
those first steps in the interest of
those needy people involved and in
the Interests of a national economy
at the same time.”
* * *
Thus the picture is unfolded of a
general program that, carried to the
ultimate, means the
Remake herding of the popu-
e * I lation into the vari
Social Map Qug sections of the
country or cities as the planners in
Washington deem wise. It is a pro-
gram that is designed to remake the
social map of the nation. Those who
sponsor it go Into ecstasy in discuss-
ing the beauties of the dream and the
Ideals which are sought to obtain.
They depict for the transferred popu-
lace one permanent joy of living, or as
nearly such -as may be expected on
earth, and in listening to their expo-
sition of the plans, one will feel the
sincerity of their beliefs without half
trying. They believe it is as near
utopian in its possibilities as a gov-
ernment may produce for its people.
“But what will those people do when
they have been taken somewhere?” Mr.
Hopkins was asked.
“They may do two or three things.”
he replied promptly. “They may work
part of the time In national forests,
for example. Large numbers of men
are required for rehabilitation and re-
planning of our national forests. The
Civilian Conservation corps cannot be-
gin to get all of the work done.
"I think it is time for the govern-
ment to explore this situation and
make plans aside from just giving re-
lief. If the government is going to
spend such large sums of money, a
substantial portion of it should be
spent in constructive enterprises like
this.”
And with a fund of $25,000,000 to
start, we launch on another plan for
changing our national life. Mr. Hop-
kins described the $25,000,000 as “just
a starter,” and explained that many
more millions can and will be used If
the ideas prove practicable. He thinks
they will.
* * *
But among those hardened critics
that watch Washington day after day
and who do not have
Fear It's Too to shape their ideas
Idealistic along P°litical lines>
among those who
try to be unbiased, there is a hope
that the scheme can be carried out
and a fear that it is too idealistic for
use among people with the traditions
of those of the United States. In oth-
er words, it is a guess whether the
plan will be practicable.
One hardened observer took me se-
verely to task for even assuming that
it was possible to execute the plan
without wasting many times as much
money as it could be worth by any
guage you care to set up. I called
attention that there were undoubtedly
some families that would welcome an
opportunity to get on a piece of farm
land, made available to them by the
government, for which they could pay
as they were able. *1 thought they would
learn a new joy In life itself and be-
come Independent, right-thinking citi-
zens.
“‘Some families’ is right,” he
sneered at me. “But for those ‘some’
that will make use of the change,
there will be twenty times as many
that will drift back to their old ways
of living at the first opportunity.”
* * *
It has been unusually Interesting to
watch the reverberations and reac-
tions here to the speech made recently
in Topeka, Kan., by Ogden L. Mills,
secretary of the treasury under Pres-
ident Hoover. Strange and paradoxi-
cal as it may seem, the Mills speech
put an unexpected amount of fire into
some Democrats in the administration
in support of the Roosevelt New Deal
and put fire into others to cause them
to criticize it.
Ogden Mills has tyeen derided and
ridiculed as few men have suffered In
political life. He was born an aris-
tocrat and the politicians opposed to
him have made use of that. But Og-
den Mills Is a fighter, and his Topeka
speech showed that he had lost none
of his fortitude.
It will be remembered that Mr. Mills
charged Mr. Roosevelt with “an un-
constitutional effort” to grasp power
over the country and accused the
President of destroying the rights and
liberties of the people under the Con-
stitution. I have seen much less se-
rious charges hurled at a President
to be followed by a young riot by his
supporters. There have been some
attacks on Mr. Mills thus far, but ob-
servers here thought they did not car-
ry the old-time ring of a real battle.
Of course, It Is known generally that a
goodly number of the President’s own
party have been doubtful of some of
his plans but they have been afraid
to bark too loudly because of the elec-
tions next autumn. Those individuals
lately have been a little more brave
and, when I was around the senate
and house of representatives the other
day, I heard more mutterings than
usual.
* * *
I asked some of the avid Roosevelt
supporters what it meant. Their an-
swers were almost
Getting identical: “They are
_____ not real Democrats.”
Timorous Bn( , askcl3 several
of those who had been thus catalogued
as “not real Democrats” what the sig-
nificance was of the changed atti-
tude. Their answers were down one
groove: “We are just getting afraid
of the way this man Roosevelt is lead-
ing us.”
While the Mills speech has been ac-
cepted here as being the opening gun
in the Republican campaign for next
fall, it probably will have a broader
effect than that according to the sug-
gestions I have heard most frequently.
Even the chief Democratic leaders un-
der the New Deal admit that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been busy for a
year in development of a Roosevelt
party, as distinguished from a purely
Democratic party. That being the
fact, then, I am told that Mr. Mills
has issued a rallying cry for concen-
tration of strength in opposition to the
Roosevelt policies, or many of them.
Is it not possible, then, Mr. Mills may
have started the actual formation of
a new Republican party?
As Mr. Mills set his ideas, it is
made to appear that he and those who
follow him will foster the philosophy
of wide-open competition among all,
with as little government domination
as is possible; that it will be their
contention that bureaucratic control
shall be avoided in every direction and
that the powers of the Chief Execu-
tive of the nation shall be limited to
those properly delegated by the Con-
stitution to him.
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Jones, J. L. Refugio Timely Remarks and Refugio County News (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1934, newspaper, February 16, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098216/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.