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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Senator Borah Throws His Hat in the Republican Ring-
Administration’s Revamped Farm.Bill Introduced
—Farley Assails Liberty League.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Senator Borah
TITILLIAM E. BORAH, the liberal
VV Republican senator from Idaho,
is now a full fledged candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomination.
He formally put him-
self in the running by
announcing that he
would enter the pri-
mary in Ohio which
will be held May 12.
That state requires
that the candidate
shall declare himself
in writing, and this
Mr. Borah said he
would do.
The senator’s state-
ment follows:
“After a thorough survey of the Ohio
situation I am convinced that the peo-
ple of that state should be given an
opportunity to express their choice In
the Presidential primary on May 12.
Under the so-called ‘favorite son’ plan
this privilege is denied them.
“To obtain an expression of popular
will it is my intention to place at least
eight candidates or delegates at large
In the field.
“I shall make a number of speeches
in Ohio and present the issues as I
see them.”
It Is understood by his friends that
the senator will make a contest for
delegates In almost every state having
a preference primary. He says the G. O.
P. conventions havli been dominated' by
the old conservative leaders through
the operations of the “favorite son”
scheme and this control he intends to
destroy if possible. It is his opinion
that only a liberal Republican can de-
feat President Roosevelt next fall, and
few will deny that he Is the outstand-
ing liberal in his party.
JN HIS press conference President
Roosevelt announced that a billion
dollars’ worth of lending authorized
by acts of congress would not lie car-
ried out, For example, the Home Own-
ers’ Loan corporation has passed on
nearly all proposed loans and will not
need between 500 million and a billion
dollars, the President declared. Appli-
cations for HOLC loans closed last
June 27. Outstanding loans of the
agency amount to near 2 billion 900
million dollars.
I T TEADS of various government agen-
i D Cies concerned with housing have
j submitted to the President a nation-
S wide, low cost program based on cheap
I federal loans to local communities. Ac-
i cording to authoritative sources, this
j undertaking woul.d contemplate:
j 1. A long-range building program.
2. Interest rates perhaps as low as
! 1 per cent on federal loans.
I 3. Construction of facilities for as
many as one million families.
' Full control of management and con-
demnation proceedings would be lodged
with local officials under the plan, the
aim being to decentralize activities
from Washington.
/''lONFORMING to the request of the
^ President, both senate and house
passed measures repealing the cotton,
tobacco and potato control acts. In
the house nine radicals and John J.
O’Connor of New York voted “no” as
a protest against the Supreme court
after Marcantonio of New York had
delivered a violent attack on that
tribunal.
Following this action, the senate
agriculture committee rewrote and In-
troduced the administration’s substi-
tute farm bill. The revamped meas-
ure provides that the federal govern-
ment would make grants to the states
Just as is done now under the roads
act The states in turn would desig-
nate some agency, to be approved by
the secretary of agriculture, to dis-
tribute the money to individual farmers.
This money would be distributed on a
formula taking into consideration:
Acreage of crops.
Acreage of soil Improving or erosion
preventing crops.
Changes in farming practices.
Percentage of the normal production
of any one or more agriculture com-
modities designated by the secretary
of agriculture, which equals that per-
centage of the normal national pro-
duction of the commodity.
TjWERY Presidential possibility these
■I--' days must have some plan for the
salvation of the American farmer. Sen-
ator L. J. Dickinson of Iow.a, often
mentioned for the Re-
publican nomination,
now brings out his
permanent farm pro-
gram which he says
would^ divorce the
farm 'problem from
“bureaucratic control”
In Washington. His
plan would embrace
erosion control, soil
conservation, and res-
toration of fertility of
lands. Administration
would be handled
Jointly by the states and the federal
government in a manner similar to
highway construction.
The Dickinson program, similar to
that advocated by former ;Gov. Frank
O. Lowden of Illinois, Includes pay-
ment of the balance due signers of
Senator
Dickinson
AAA contracts, a higher tariff on farm
products, continued corn loans, and ex-
tension of farm mortgages at a low
rate of Interest.
INFLATIONISTS in congress, led by
A Senator Thomas of Oklahoma and
Representative Patman of Texas, were
all prepared to wage a great battle to
force the printing of new money. They
were just waiting for the introduction
of a new tax program, declaring they
would try to block such legislation if
it were attempted. It was believed
that, if the tax Issue were not raised
soon, the fight would start over the
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgaging re-
financing bill.
The forces behind this bill, which
calls for the refinancing of farm in-
debtedness on easy terms through the
issuance of up to $3,000,000,000 in new,
money, had succeeded in getting 215
signatures on a petition to force a vote
in the house. Only 218 were needed
and its backers were pressing for the
three names.
Administration leaders were con-
fident they could defeat the inflationists
by a wide margin.
SENATOR VANDENBERG of Michl-
^ gan has grave doubts of the eco-
nomic necessity or value of the ship
canal that is being dug across central
Florida, and offered In the senate com-
merce committee a resolution for Inves-
tigation by a special committee. In
support of his move he produced let-
ters from eleven companies operating
steamships saying they would not use
the canal even If no tolls were charged.
They asserted the expense of employ-
ing canal pilots added to the risk of
damage to ships would offset saving
in navigation costs.
Work was started some-time ago on
the canal, which, If completed, will
cost between $140,000,000 and $200,-
000,000.
'T'WO attacks on the American Lib-
-*■ erty league were made In one day.
The strongest was by Postmaster Gen-
eral Farley who spoke at a Roosevelt
dinner in Miami, Fla.
“The Liberty league,”
said Farley, “would
f * -g rule America. It would
" " ' ' ' squeeze the worker
dry in his old age and
cast him like an orange
rind into the refuse
pail. It would con-
tinue the infamous pol-
icy of using the agen-
cies of government to
create a plutocracy
that would perpetuate
the sorry business of the Mellons and
the Morgans in reducing 95 per cent of
the people to the status of serfs at
the mercy of the exploiters at the
top.
“The American Liberty league speaks j
as conclusively for the reactionaries j
and their party as do Mr. Hoover, the j
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Manufacturers’ asso- j
ciation.
“Its program is frankly plutocratic
and asks for the rule of money over;
men, as during the 12 years before’
Roosevelt’s administration.
“It demands that workers and |
farmers be *put In their places’ and j
made to understand that they are
mere hewers of wood and carriers of j
water. • j
“Its Idea of the ‘American way’ Is
to maintain a system under which all j
the wealth of the nation was being!
concentrated in the hands of a veryj
few—5 per cent of the people.”
At their convention in Washington!
the United Mine Workers also took a:
crack at the Liberty league, adopting
a resolution denouncing the organiza-j
tion as “inimical to the interests and
people of the United States.”
Marriner S.
Eccles
17'IVE of the members of the new fed-
f eral reserve board were inducted
into office with due ceremony. A sixth,
Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, was to
arrive later and be
sworn in. The seventh
member had not yet
been named by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mar-
riner S. Eccles, ap-
pointed chairman, and
M. S. Szymczak of Chi-
cago, were holdovers.
The others besides
Morrison are Ronald
Ransom, Atlanta bank-
er; John McKee of
Ohio, former chief
bank examiner for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
and Joseph A. Broderick of New York.
The reserve board, which has been
called “a supreme court of banking,”
has powers unparalleled in American
financial history. Among these is au-
thority to double present margins that
member banks are required to main-
tain against deposits; the dominant
voice on the open-market committee—
which charts the system’s participation
in the government bond market, and
over which it had no authority under
the former law; power of veto over the
heads of the various reserve banks
which Insures the selection of a presi-
dent who will co-operate with the
board, and the power to fix margins,
governing relations between banks and
brokers.
Washington.—If ever there were a
time other than when the nation was
at war when money
Money dominated the situa-
Dominates tion at Washington,
it assuredly is now.
One can go where he chooses about
the government departments, to the
White House or to Capitol Hill and
the subject under discussion is or soon
will be money.
A .year or so ago, we heard a great
deal about money. We heard of it in
connection with an appropriation of
$4,880,000,000 — the greatest single
ppace-time voting of money In our his-
tory. And, likewise, we heard money
discussed when the President used his
power to devaluate the dollar in its
relation to gold.
Now, however, the subject of money
Is discussed in a slightly different vein.
The question that is paramount is how
can the government get the money It
needs. In other words, we are now
getting around to the question of tax-
ation, and It Is a question that neither
the President nor his lieutenants In
congress like to face. It is an election
year and a tax increase in election year
is not what the politicians would call
smoothing the highway of a campaign.
Passage of the legislation providing
Immediate payment of the veterans’
bonus brought conditions to a head.
The President vetoed the bonus bill
and congress promptly overrode that
veto. So the President promptly told
congress that something had to be done
about it; that the only funds the treas-
ury could muster would be by borrow-
ing and that since congress had yield-
ed to the vocal minority represented by
the greatest lobby ever to populate the
Capitol, It thereby captured for itself
a problem of raising the money.
Of course, the President must as-
sume some responsibility even though
he vetoed the bonus for the reason that
some of the funds which must be
raised will go to pay the crop control
benefits or bonus resulting from in-
validation of the processing taxes and
the Agricultural Adjustment act. The
President, as well as the political lead-
ers in congress, want to continue that
payment and they also want to pay
farmers on commitments previously
made because they regard them as
moral obligation under the AAA con-
tracts, Yet the country is likely to
think in terms of the bonus for the
war veterans and pay little attention
to the smaller amount scheduled to go
to the farmers and, Indeed, the vet-
erans’ bonus is almost six times that
which the administration desires to pay
to the farmers*
• • *
There was in this situation a devel-
opment to which I believe attention
n| , should be called.
it s Up Through many years
to Henryn congress has been
an easy spender.
Through the same years it has avoided
at every turn laying taxes to offset the
money It voted out of the treasury.
Under the Roosevelt administration the
peak of easy spending has been reached
and congress has gone along with a
vociferous “aye” on every spending
proposal sent to the Capitol from the
White House. The congressional atti-
tude to which I have referred came up
in bulk at the time of the bonus
vote. Every time a bonus opponent In-
quired where the government would
get the money to pay the two and one-
half billion to the veterans, the answer*
from the bonus supporters was, In ef-
fect, “it’s up to Henry.”
I can recall a familiar slogan, cur-
rent when I was a boy, that was used
always when some one desired to shift
responsbilify—to pass the buck. It
was “let George do it.” In the bonus
controversy, Senator Bankhead, Demo-
crat of Alabama, was the first member
of congress whom I heard say “It’s up
to Henry.” He meant that the Job of
raising the money belonged to Henry
Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury,
but Senator Bankhead spoke more than
his own feelings when he made the
statement. He put into words a
thought which permeated the minds of
a vast majority of unthinking repre-
sentatives and senators.
Perhaps I should not say unthinking
because those men were, In truth,
thinking very deeply. Their thoughts!
instead of- turning to song in the
spring, were turning to votes In No-
vember. That was the reason for pas-
sage of the bonus. Senators and rep-
resentatives seeking re-election were
afraid to go into the battle for nom-
ination and re-election this summer
and have war veterans drag out the
skeleton of a vote in opposition to Im-
mediate payment of the bonus.
It will be a long time before those
who voted for the bonus can live it
down. A keen political maneuver has
something in it that calls for admira-
tion but an obvious political maneuver
such as was the passage of the bonus
did not give any reason for com-
mendation except, perhaps, the justifi-
cation that if the Roosevelt adminis-
tration was committed to passing out
hundreds of millions of dollars on boon-
doggling and other more or less useless
projects, then the war veterans were
entitled to be paid now the sums which
congress promised them would be paid
in 1947. That rdally is a powerful ar-
gument but if Roosevelt supporters
make that argument they are at the
same time damning the New Deal
spending policies, so I fancy that such
an argument will be rarely advanced.
* * *
It is entirely probable that there will
be no tax bill this year unless the
President’s letter to
May Be No Speaker Byrns point-
Tax Bill lag out the necessity
for raising revenue
causes an unheard of number of sena-
tors and representatives to do 'a flip-
flop. No imagination is required to
see that a representative or senator is
in a tough‘’spot when he goes back
home asking the suffrage of his con-
stituents and must tell them at 'the
same time that he added to the tax
burden which they “must pay.
Well, If that be true, how is “Henry”
going to get the money? It will have
to be borrowed and It will have to be
borrowed on government bonds which
add up into an increasing government
deficit. It means that instead of a deficit
of around three billions in the next fis-
cal year, the treasury will be con-
fronted with a deficit of more than five
billions and the public ’debt, in the
meantime, will have been correspond-
ingly increased. It means, in addition,
that the banks of the country will have
to pile more government bonds on top
of the government bonds they have
thus far absorbed in financing a policy
of spending our way out of the depres-
sion.
The tragedy of the situation In con-
gress that brought about Senator
Bankhead’s remark of “it’s up to Hen-
ry” is that It indicates that congress
has been looking upon the treasury as
a source, of revenue. It is not and it
never has been. Government is non-
productive. It can get funds only by
taxation, by taking them away from
the people—or by borrowing and if it
borrows it has to pay back. In either
event, new taxation must come and if
congress doesn’t have the nerve to pass
tax legislation In this session, it must
lay taxes in the next session.
* * •
The newspapers throughout the coun-
try have been full of reports concern-
. ing the early start of
Campaign the political cam-
Starts Early paign. The A1 Smith
speech, coming from
the man who made it, brought about
a sudden expansion In the polit-
ical fire. It really opened up the fight
and henceforth we are due to be sur-
feited with this claim or that, this
charge and that denial or counter-
charge, as the various leaders marshal
their forces.
Thus far, In addition to President
Roosevelt’s Jackson day speech to the
$50-a-plate diners and Mr. Smith’s Lib-
erty league dinner outburst, we have
had active campaigning by former
President Hoover, by Governor Tal-
madge of Georgia, by Senator Borah,
the Idaho Republican; by Governor
Landon, the Kansas Republican, and
by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader in the senate, who
spoke in reply to Mr. Smith. Others
are in the offing for the Republican
and Democratic national committees
are engaging radio times in a big way.
As speeches and statements increase
in number, and as fanfare grows loud-
er, I find myself getting a bit callous
to them all. I have been wondering
whether the American people have lost
their sense of humor completely, be-
cause the situation really has a humor-
ous side. Unless the people’s sense
of humor has been dreadfully seared,
It seems to me they ought to be highly
amused over ridiculous statements
now being made on one side of the
fence or on the other. ^Take, for in-
stance, Mr. Roosevelt’s handwritten
bonus veto message. It presented
something a bit unusual because In my
time in Washington It had happened
only once before that a President ve-
toed a bill with a handwritten mes-
sage to congress. Of course, it was
Intended to be dramatic—and it was,
But the point is this: A year ago
when congress passed the bonus the
President made a personal appearance
In the halls of congress and read his
own veto message. He made his vigor-
ous fight and he rallied his supporters
in line to sustain his veto. There has
been so much talk around Washington
since the handwritten message went
to congress that the President really
was not vigorously opposing passage
of the bill over his veto that I am com-
ing to=, believe that was true. In other
words, he thought that immediate pay-
ment of the bonus was wrong but he
had a weather eye out for the forth-
coming campaign and the votes the
bonus might bring.
Then consider the activity of Sena-
tor Borah. I believe the Idaho sena-
tor is too smart to feel that he can
be the Republican nominee against Mr.
Roosevelt, but he is going through all
manner of gyrations just the same. He
has purposes and objectives in mind,
obviously, but they are not the Repub-
lican Presidential nomination as he
leads his various audiences to Infer.
It is to be recalled that Senator Borah
has not at any time actually said he
was a candidate. We have also the
circumstance of Senator Robinson re-
plying to A1 Smith over the same radio
and through substantially the same
number of broadcasting stations.
© Western Newspaper Union.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Divide and Rule
Big Men, LightrEyes
Why Go Naked?
Borrowing a Blimp
Mr. Green, American Federation of
Labor head, warns the miners’ union
not to split up the
federation. Mr. Lew-
is, leader of the
miners, tells Mr.
Green, In substance,
“You mind your
own business.” A
labor split see
near.
Union labor
should consider the
fable of the dying
peasant who sum-
moned his sons and
showed them how
they could break
small sticks sep-
arately, but could
not break them when all were tied to-
gether.
Louis XI’s motto, Divide e^impera
(“Divide and rule”)', In dealing with
powerful nobles, Is not unknown to the
enemies of union labor, or Goethe’s
Divide and rule! Powerful word.
Unite and lead! Better word.
Arthur Brisbane
A lonely English soldier living on
an Island In the Indian ocean wrote
that he wanted a wife, saying, “I have
hazel eyes,” nothing else about himself.
Already 250 English girls have offered
to marry him. The 249 disappointed
may find comfort in a better marriage,
picking out somebody with blue eyes.
It apnoys many, but It must be said
that practically all the great men In
history had blue or gray eyes, even
men from dark-eyed races, like Na-
poleon from Corsica, Caesar from
Rome.
To save answering questions, here
is a short list: Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Roosevelt, Edison, Henry
Ford. Look up the others.
Near Tampa, Fla., a schooner loaded
with men, women, children, on the
way to establish a nudist colony ^n
the Virgin Islands, ran aground. Nav-
igators were unwilling to sign for a
nudist enterprise, afraid, perhaps, of
catching cold, so the ship ran ashore.
Nudism is a queer atavistic craving.
The human race began that way in
the Garden of Eden, and each of us
starts out as a nudist at birth. The
struggle is to keep clothed thereafter.
It Is a strange demoralization that
makes some long to run about un-
dressed; the more strangp because
they look so hideously ugly.
Discouraged by Incompetence that
wrecked two dirigibles, this country
decided that lighter than air machines
are not necessary. It was necessary
to borrow a small privately owned
blimp to take food to JhOOO Tangier
Islanders, cut off‘from relief by ice.
No heavier than air plane could land
there before the blimp, which landed
easily.
Mussolini threatens to leave the
league if it includes a ban on oil in
Its sanctions. In modern war, no oil,
no war. Mussolini may buy old Amer-
ican ships to use as floating gasoline
storage tanks. Had he come a little
sooner he could have had plenty of
them at a bargain, about one thou-
sand million dollars’ worth of expen-
sive steel floating “junk,” built when
this country’s foolish entrance into the
World war found it unprepared.
England and Russia were, getting
along nicely, and now the Russian en-
Voy, Lltrinoff, attending the late King’s
funeral, commits the British unpar-
donable sin.
After talking with the new king, Lit-
vlnoff, instead of expressing admira-
tion for the overwhelming royal In-
tellect, remarked that the new king,
Edward VIII, was “just a mediocre
young Englishman” and repeated what
the young king had said to him, some-
thing “not done.”
Mr. Norman Thomas of the Social-
ist left wing runs for President some-
times and says the “New Deal” is
leading to Fascism, a dictator.
In Italy Socialism, and doctrines even
more radical, led to the rise of Mus-
solini, aided by castor oil and other
methods. If our dictatorship comes,
some radicals will look back sadly to
the good old days when you could
speak your mind without being shot
or put to work.
One man’s frostbite is another man’s
good news. New Jersey fruit growers
say the extreme cold, freezing the
ground two feet deep, will destroy
orchard pests, Including the gypsy and
coddling moths. The cold, which has
not injured trees, is expected to dis-
courage larvae of the Japanese beetle.
Some day scientists will show fruit
farmers, including this writer, how to
penetrate the earth by radioactivity,
or otherwise, to the necessary depth
and kill the hibernating pests. A rem-
edy for borers would be welcome. Ra-
dio power should solve the Insect prob-
lem.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh spent his
thirty-fourth birthday in Wales, his
wife and one son with him. He must
have felt as though he had already
lived 100 years, and have wished, al-
most, that he had been content to re-
main in the airmail service, apart from
the limelight
No Distance, However Great,
Can Separate Friendship
The sun is a hundred thousand
leagues away, arid the water-roses
that open to the light of day are in
the pool; the moon, N friend of the
night-blooming lotfis, is two hundred
thousand leagues distant'. Friend-
ship knows no separataion that di-
vides it in space.—Vikramacharita.
NO UPSETS
The proper treatment
for a bilious child
THREE STEPS
] TO RELIEVING
~-1 CONSTIPATION
m
A cleansing dose today; a smaller
quantity tomorrow; less each time,
until bowels need no help at all.
A NY mother knows the reason
■^*-when her child stops playing, eats
little, is hard to manage. Constipation.
But what a pity so few know the
sensible way to set things right !
The ordinary laxatives, of even
ordinary strength, must be carefully
regulated as to dosage.
A liquid laxative is the answer,
mothers. The answer to all your
worries over constipation. A liquid
can be measured. The dose can be
^exactly suited to any age or need.
Just reduce the dose each time, until
the bowels are moving of their own
accord and need no help.
This treatment will succeed with
any child and with any^adult.
The doctors use liquid laxatives.
Hospitals use the liquid form. If it
is best for their,use, it is best for
home use. The liquid laxative most
families use is Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup
Pepsin. Any druggist has it.
Worry Defined
Worry is interest paid on trouble
before it is due.
Lack of Backbone
Lack of vitality never made a ruf-
fian.
Cardui During Middle Life
Women who are entering middle
life will be interested in the experi-
ence of Mrs. L. C. McDonald, of
Paragould, Ark., who writes: “I took
Cardui during change of life. I was
so weak, so nervous, I could hardly
go. I just dragged around, I had
fainting spells and would just give
down. My back and head hurt. I
read of Cardui. I took about seven
bottles. It gave m^ relief and
strength. I am now 60 years past,
and can do a pretty good day’s work
in the house and garden.”
Thousands of women testify Cardui bene-
fited them. If it does not benefit YOU,
consult a physician.
THE IOcSIZE CONTAINS
3\ TIMES AS MUCH
AS THE 5cSIZE/
I'lllilllll.'H
SNOW WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY
Break up that
Perhaps the surest way to prevent a cold
from "catching hold" and getting worse is,
uz . ____ at once, to Cleanse Inter-
ior* FREE nally. Do it the pleasant tea-
SAMPLE C“P F,ush *• s£te/"
n TC. with a hot cup of Garfield
col! Dept. 119 Tea—the mild, easy-to-take
Brooklyn, N. Y. liquid laxative. At drugstores
GarfieldTea
WNU—P
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Lane, Ella E.; Plageman, Cecile & Plageman, Annie Louise. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1936, newspaper, February 20, 1936; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1160970/m1/2/?q=a+message+about+food+from+the+president: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.