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Friday, June 22,1934
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THE REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
Page Seven
SEQUOIA’S WONDERS
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In Sequoia National park there Is
always room for superlatives. Here
Is a temple of a million giant trees,
gleaming redly among huge pines,
oaks and cedars which nestle like
children about the mighty ones.
The largest grove is the Giant for-
est where stands the oldest living
thing in the world, General Sherman
tree, estimated to be about 3,600
years old.
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National Topics Interpreted
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Washlngton.^-President Roosevelt’s
broad conception of reform In the
country’s social
Social Reform structure has now
Proeram been given the coun‘
* try. In it, he has
presented the embryonic propositions
which he intends to submit to the con-
gress that convenes in January, 1935.
Everywhere around the capital city, I
believe, it Is accepted as a statement
upon which he expects that Democrat-
ic representatives and senators will
seek to be re-elected in the November
elections. h
Disregarding for a moment the views
obtainable as to the merits of the proj-
ects which he laid down in his mes-
sage to congress outlining his social
reform program, I find that most lead-
ers look upon the Roosevelt statement
as one from which he can determine!
his future policy. It will work out this
way, I am informed: if the voters elect
a preponderance of Roosevelt support-
ers for the house and senate again this
fall, the President will consider that
the country approves of his plans. If,
on the other hand, there should be a
sharp loss of Democrats in the house,
I am told that Mr. Roosevelt would be
likely to consider that as a mandate to
slow up somewhat on the program up-
on which he has embarked.
As I reported to you several weeks
ago, Mr. Roosevelt has now rounded
out the picture of recovery and reform
as he conceives it to be necessary, or
rather as he and his advisers think the
course should be. At that time, I pre-
dicted he would find It opportune just
before congress quit for the session
to toss his ideas into the hopper for
mastication during the summer months.
It can now be said that he has elected
to go into battle with the opposition
without quarter, for his message made
it clear he felt the critics had offered
nothing as an alternative. He de-
clared they were unable to present
any plans for human happiness and
that they proposed to go back to the
“old order” which had broken down
completely in the past.
The President asserted that he pro-
posed to make the “security of the
citizen and his family” the first con-
sideration of government. And to ac-
complish that, he explained, it was
necessary to toss aside many of the
traditions and practices to which we
long have adhered.
“People,” he said, “want decent
homes to live in; they want to locate
them where they can engage in pro
ductive work; and they want some
safeguard against misfortunes which
cannot be wholly eliminated in this
man-made world of ours.”
Mr. Roosevelt’s message was decid
edly general in tone. He avoided
specifications. But the general thoughts
were certainly clear to all and sundry,
and it is upon these general thoughts
that the issues are to be drawn. In
deed, they have already been drawn.
So it cannot be doubted that
throughout the coming campaigns, we
will hear much of the New Deal’s new
social structure as presented by Mr.
Roosevelt. The Roosevelt supporters
will swear by all that is holy that it
is the only road to happiness. Repub-
licans and anti-Roosevelt spellbinders
will shout all of the invectives that
may be used to inform the country
that it is headed for government own-
ership of everything, government man
agement, destruction of property
rights, etc.
* * *
Some observers here thought there
might be some link between the deliv-
ery of the Presi-
No Link With dent’s message at
LaborDispate^^J^
threats of strikes. They professed to
see a clever move by the Chief Execu-
tive to satisfy many citizens as to his
intention to guarantee work and food
throughout the future. I am in a po-
sition to say, however, that there was
no connection between the unsettled
labor situation and the time at which
the message was delivered to congress.
It was ready at that time and was sent
along in regular course. If it has had,
or is to have, any effect on the threats
of strikes and the leaders in those
movements, it will be wholly a coin-
cidence.
The strikes have been bred of differ-
ent causes than the things about which
Mr. Roosevelt talked in his message.
He is proposing such things as old age
insurance, additional government mon-
ey for loans to persons who want to
buy homes, the transfer of those liv-
ing in barren spots (insofar as jobs
are concerned) to sections and com-
munities where work is obtainable, and
a general paternalism on the part of
the national government. In other
words, Mr. Roosevelt’s plans contem-
plate a long range development and
have no reference to NRA schemes, its
codes or what have you. It does re-
late directly to the movements under-
taken by the Agricultural Adjustment
administration which have gone a long
way—and it wants to go much farther
—in regulating the production of farms
and in controlling what farmers do
with their land.
With reference to this phase, it can
be said that Mr. Roosevelt is willing
to abandon millions of acres of land
and to have the people who own and
live upon land that Is worn out trans
ferred to good land. It is a proposi
tion that will Involve the use of untold
millions of dollars, and it is to be as-
sumed that it will be money paid into
the treasury by taxpayers, supplied the
transferred peoples on long-time credit.
I have not learned yet how the added
production resulting from these trans-
fers will be handled, but it certainly
will add to the surplus about which the
Agricultural Adjustment administra-
tion has been complaining.
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Now that we have a new law that
provides the federal government with
authority to control
Touches All the exchanges where
Our Lives stocks an(i bonds are
sold, as well as a
law by which the government controls
the issuance and sale of such securi-
ties, it seems to be a good time for
examination of the new agency that
is going to run that show. It may
seem a far cry from the stock ex-
change of Wall Street to the little
country school house, but this new law
is so far-reaching in its effect and in
its scope of jurisdiction that it touches
that little country school and the lives
of all of us. I judge from the ex-
pressions I have picked up that pass-
age of the exchange control law has
brought us to a turning point in the
matter of what we do with the extra
few dollars that we can save and in-
vest with expectation of getting a re-
turn of interest.
The consensus seems to be that
whether anything is accomplished un-
der the combination control of security
issues and stock exchange will depend
entirely on administration of the laws.
That is to say, if good is to come,
there must be reasonable interpreta-
tion of the provision of those laws, ac-
cording to the general view of those
directly affected. The stock exchange
control law underwent a major oper-
ation in congress from the manner in
which the professors of the brain trust
had drawn it, originally. Until those
objectionable features were eliminated,
there was a battle royal in house and
senate. Since the features omitted
were deemed too radical by congress,
it is to be assumed there was merit in
the claims of brokers and investors in
stocks that the bill would have
dammed up money that otherwise
could have been put to work and used
by commerce and industry which nec-
essarily has to operate to a great ex-
tent on borrowed funds, credit.
But I hear many expressions around
here that there is still a serious prob-
lem ahead in the matter of keeping the
channels open for investment funds.
It is asserted by many that “the pro-
fessorial type of mind” should not be
chosen to serve as members of the five-
man commission that is set up to rule
this phase of commerce. I think no
one can deny that there have been
abuses of confidence, trickery and oth-
er sharp practices extant in stock ex-
change operations. The new laws are
supposed to cure them, and I believe
they will do so. Yet, the thought held
by some of the real authorities is that
radical administration of the laws can
damage the field of finance beyond
measure. Selection of men for the
jobs who would exercise their author-
ity with restraint as well as with in-
telligence was imperative from the
start, or else I am convinced the whole
country would suffer because there
could be no distribution of the securi-
ties. Bonds on the little country
school house would be difficult to sell,
and mortgage lenders, who sell bonds
against those mortgages, would be
against a wall.
* * *
Numerous Democrats continued
right up to the dying gasp of the
Seventy-third con-
Still Pie gress to seek po-
Hunzrv litical pie for their
s y constituents. They
are still pie hungry now, insofar as
one attempted raid on government jobs
is concerned. A broad jump was at
tempted in the house to place several
hundred extra workers in the general
accounting office for the purpose of
auditing the expenditures of the sev-
eral dozen Roosevelt agencies that are
denominated by their critics as the
“alphabetical soup.” Up to this time,
J. R. McCarl, the comptroller general
of the United States, has had little
chance to find out what the alphabet-
ical agencies have been doing with the
vast sums appropriated for them or
allocated them by the President from
the various huge appropriations. He
has to, and does, pass on the expendi-
tures of the regularly established gov-
ernment agencies, but none o%fhe new
ones were put under his watchful eye.
Mr. Roosevelt ordered the audit. To
do the job, however, required addi-
tional help for Mr. McCarl, and about
$1,000,000 was included in a deficiency
appropriation .bill. The pie-hunters
saw a fine chance, and they never over-
look any chance. So they slipped a
line into the appropriation bill that
said the extra workers were to be
chosen without regard for the civil
service. What a huge piece of pie, in
fact, many pieces of pie!
But something happened to the well-
laid plan. Somewhere the language
got changed to read that the comptrol-
ler general “may appoint” the extra
workers without regard for the civil
service instead of the command that
lie “shall appoint.” And, in this case,
the change is of vast importance to
maintenance of the civil service as a
government method of employment.
© by Western Newspaper Union.
LONG “VOYAGES”
OF SEA HOBOES
Drifting Derelicts a Menace
to Shipping.
The recent sighting of the “ghost
ship” Baychimo near Point Barrow,
after she had been lost to the sight
of men for a year and a half, calls
to mind one of the sea’s most capti-
vating mysteries, though a dread
menace to every sailor—the derelict,
writes Louis H. Bolander in the Bal-
timore Sun.
The Baychimo is, or was, a Hud-
son Bay steamship loaded with a
$600,000 fur cargo. In September,
1931, she was trapped in the ice off
Wainright. The following month air-
planes from Nome rescued the pas-
sengers, crew and part of the cargo.
On Christmas day a heavy storm
broke. The next day she disap-
peared, but a few days later was
sighted by Eskimos. On, their report
a trapper visited the ship and re-
moved $35,000 worth of furs. Again
she disappeared, but was seen again
by Eskimos in April, 1932. Since
then, so far as the writer knows, no
human eye has ever sighted the
sturdy steamship, clutched in the re-
morseless Arctic ice.
There is something fascinating,
something compelling in the thought
of these lonely, broken, shabby sea
hoboes drifting over the seven seas
at the mercy of wind, tide and cur-
rent. Though a menace to sober
shipping there still clings to them an
atmosphere of romance.
One of the most famous derelicts
known to seafaring men was the
schooner B. R. Woodside. She was
forsaken by officers and men some
hundreds of miles east of Savannah.
At once she headed straight for Eu-
rope, but when she neared the Ca-
naries, veered about twenty miles of
her starting point. She then mean-
dered slowly down the coast of Flor-
ida and then went zigzagging again
across the Atlantic. During her ca-
reer as a derelict she was sighted by
no fewer than forty captains of ships
in all parts of the Atlantic. Eacli
one, of course, reported her then
whereabouts to the hydrographic of-
fice in Washington. At last she was
picked up and towed to Abaco, New
Providence.
Still another famous derelict was
the Fannie E. Woolston. For three
and one-half years she wandered
over the Atlantic, covering a distance
estimated at 10,000 miles. During
her journeyings she visited the coast
of England, alia then sojourned im-
partially along the co-ast of France,
Spain and Portugal. She drifted
down to the equator and back to
America, Where she was wrecked 3
degrees north of the spot from -which
she began her career as a hobo of the
seas. This is not surprising when
we find that it is not uncommon for
a derelict to drift as much as 70
miles in 24 hours.
Earmark Identification
Earmarks rather than finger-prints
as a means of identification is pro-
posed by Prof. Henry F.. Perkins,
director of the Fleming museum of
the University of Vermont, who has
discovered nearly 150 distinct char-
acteristic formations in the human
ear.
Not necessarily connected with
the criminal, eastern monarchs have
used the thumb’s impression, the
“sign manual,” as a surety against
forgery, India’s courts have used
prints for identification and Ameri-
ican maternity hospitals for identi-
fying babies. Photography, not por-
traiture, has shown individuality in
the human ear, once thought only
found in the hands. Professor Per-
kins has called attention to this
most easily recognized means of
identifying criminals.—Literary Di-
gest.
Unprofitable Smartness
What is the use of being smart
for the benefit of the uncompre-
hending? Thoreau said, “I would
not be one of those who will foolish-
ly drive a nail into mere lath and
plaster.”
Chinese Modernity
Progress of feminism in the new
China, according to recent press dis-
patches, is indicated by the opening
of a class for tlie training of women
police at the police college of Peiping.
Upon graduation, the copperettes will
be employed in the traffic division.
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TOM,yOU MAKE ME NERV-
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