The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 124, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Ironside Visit, Credit Offer
Clinch British Aid to Poland
If Germany Moves on Danzig
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
«. Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Amazing angles turn up in
battle Roosevelt is waging
over amendment to the neu-
trality law . . . Sentiment
seems to be that Senator Nor-
ris of Nebraska is due for a
deflating . . . Monetary bill
not likely to become an issue
in the coming presidential
campaign.
will get just six cents an ounce,
roughly, more than they were get-
mon made bigger news.' New York
THIS
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RELIEF:
More Trouble
A big enough headache for one
man was WPA’s wage strike, which
hit Administrator F. C. Harrington
smack between the eyes. But no
sooner was the strike settled than
appear in a forthcoming motion pic-
Way Smoothed
For Success of
Sam's Exploit
of his rivals and
his friends. The eminent violinist's
personal aversion to the screen as
a medium of expression has long
MICHIGAN;
Sin
Eighty-year-old Gov. Luren D.
Dickinson came to office last winter
when Republican Gov. Frank Fitz-
gerald died. A Godly man, Gover-
nor Dickinson amused veteran poli-
ticians, yet many a constituent found
him refreshingly different. In June
he attended the National Conference
of Governors in New York, return-
ing home to deliver a sermon warn-
ing mothers and daughters of high
life evils: "There is more danger
than in the old saloon days."
New York’s Mayor LaGuardia
called him "a senile old fool." Ne-
braska’s Gov. R. L. Cochran thought
the convention’s only dull feature
was Governor Dickinson's speech.
A week later the governor's ser-
LITTLE WAR—Austrian Ger-
man-speaking farmers in the Ital-
ian Tyrol refuse to be Italian-
ized, yet refuse to be returned to
Germany. A profitable tourist
trade has been killed by Musso-
lini’s order evicting foreigners
from the Tyrol while he and Hit-
ler "strong-arm" the Tyrolians
into some sort of submission.
Meanwhile Italy denies rumors
that the area will be leased or
ceded to Germany.
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nizable. But often, too, it is hidden
in a vague background of contribu-
tory factors.
In Jascha Heifetz’s agreement to
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Prayer .
“I am certain that from the limo of ad-
journment until congress meet) again, the
President will pray as never before that
there will ba no new crisis in Europe."
Thus did White House Secretary
Stephen Early help Franklin Roose-
velt swallow his most bitter pill of
the year, an agreement with con- |
gress to table neutrality legislation ;
until next session. This agreement
seemed premature, however, for the
next day Secretary of State Cordell
Hull received two resolutions from
the senate foreign relations commit-
tee asking consideration of: (1) an
embargo on all U. S. war material
shipments to Japan; (2) renuncia-
tion of the U. S.-Jap trade treaty of
1911.
This done, only the President’s
$3,490,000,000 lend-spend bill barred
adjournment. While carriers them-
newsmen cornered 23-year-old Willo
Sheridan who came east as "Miss
Mchigan Aviation" by the gover-
nor's own appointment. Willo made
a good story. While shutters snapped
Willo sampled Manhattan cham-
pagne and said: "I'm having a won-
derful time here. I respect Gover-
nor Dickinson and think he's a very
fine man. But I don’t think New
York's a very wicked city."
Back home in Lansing, Republi-
can John B. Corliss Jr. started a re-
call petition against the governor
because of his "recent sounding off
about the evil he thinks he found in
high places." While Corliss' fellow
thinkers rushed to sign, the gover-
nor took them by surprise. Said
he: "I’ll sign the petition myself.
I never wanted to be governor any*
w^y."
LOUISIANA:
Both Feet
A whisper of scandal started when
Louisiana State university’s Presi-
dent James Monroe Smith fled to
Canada after allegedly bilking three
banks out of $900,000. The whisper
grew to common gossip when Smith,
LSU's Construction Superintendent
George Caldwell, LSU’s Business
Manager E. N. Jackson and Dr.
Clarence A. Lorio, president of the
state medical society, were indict-
ed on a total of 29 counts. This
was only the beginning:
By mid-July federal probes were
underway regarding (1) Louisiana’s
administration of the 1937 sugar
act; (1) violations of U. S. oil regu-
lations; (3) misuse of WPA mate-
rials and labor; (4) an unannounced
subject under scrutiny by the U. S.
treasury’s department of revenues.
Meanwhile five men made great by
the late Huey Long were arraigned
* ‘ the mails to
$75,000. The
SIR IRONSIDE
He reiterated.
traced from Warsaw to London and
finally back to their birthplace at
Berlin. The rumor: That Danzig’s
problem is now subject to peaceful
negotiation.
Both Poland and Britain denied
it, and their explanations made
sense. The rumor began spreading
just as Maj. Gen. Sir Edmund Iron-
—side, inspector general of British
overseas forces, arrived in Warsaw
for Polish-British staff consultations.
Germany obviously hoped the peace
rumor would split the consultants,
Poland thinking Britain had sold
out for a German-sponsored peace.
Nothing like that happened. To
the contrary, General Ironside’s vis-
it offered the most firm reiteration
to date that Britain is ready to fight
for Poland's cause. It came sharp
on the heels of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain's guarantee to
protect Danzig as well as Poland,
plus offers of British credit to bol-
ster Warsaw's rearmament.
But even this British stiffness has
not deadened Prime Minister Charp-
berlain’s yen for appeasement. Sir
Nevile Henderson, ambassador to
Berlin, was cautiously reported un-
der instructions to "contact Hitler
and find out just what his terms are
for world peace." At the same time
rumors floated through Fleet street
about a huge British loan to Ger-
many and return of the Reich's
war-lost colonies in exchange for
peace. If this was true, Poland may
yet split with her faithless friends
in London.
served with Norris when he was
battling against Uncle Joe Cannon.
To many of the newcomers he is
just a tiresome tradition.
<B«D 8yn4te*te—WNU Service.)
blue eyes. “And
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lecsiea where, evea as a bishop, i
yea win have to borrow money I
to get from north Jersey to south
■. That was all that was said. But
next day Robeson came to his
friend, confiding his intention to
plump for the law and for voice.
KWnttcUtcd Feature*—WNU ServUM
Senator Norris
of the house military affairs com-
mittee, was enraged at Norris* un-
yielding attitude. So he issued a
statement which began: ____
"Responsibility for the present
stalemate of the house and senate
conferees . . . is squarely on the
shoulders of Sen. George W. Norris.
It is a sad commentary on our dem-
ocratic system of government that
one member of ’the most delibera-
tive body in the world* does not
know the meaning of the word com-
promise and presumes to impose his
will, arbitrarily and arrogantly,
upon the house of representatives."
No One if'inti to Get Into
Controversy With Norris
Those are pretty nearly fighting
words to the house! Or at the very
least, they are calculated to bring
about a declaration of independence.
One may wonder why Uncle George
laid himself open to the attack. Not |
by his stubbornness. No one who
knows Norris would expect anything
else. But by his very delight in the
fact that the other senate conferees
were entirely willing to leave every-
thing to him—thus putting him in the
position of one man telling the house
what it could and could not do!
It is not at all surprising that the
other senate conferees did not at-
tend the meetings. They did not
want to get involved in a controver-
sy with Norris. Nobody does. It
is not very healthy politically. When
everybody assumes that one's an-
tagonist is absolutely honest and sin-
cere one starts out with two strikes
and an unfavorable umpire. And it
was so easy to say to Norris, "You
just go ahead and chew those house
fellows up. We are behind you 100
per cent." Especially as his fellow
senators had such marvelous ex-
cuses for looking out for the inter-
r a couple of oth- eats of their fanner constituents in
easily have been the agricultural bill.
it in determining But the house members didn't like
it at all. They are very jealous
of the senate anyhow, though indi-
vidually most of them aspire to to-
gas. There is no more sure-fire ap-
peal than an appeal to the pride of
the bouse as against the senate.
Moreover, there is a new genera-
tion in the house that knows not
Joseph. Almost nobody is left who
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Byrd’s forth-
coming produc-
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campaign develops that only a few
persons would have been interested.
It may be that the Republicans
will be able to make some use of ,
the continued subsidizing of foreign |
silver. Few persons Inside the Unit-
ed States are in favor of that, and
these few only exporters to silver
producing countries, of which, after
Mexico is named, there are few.
Important Factor Is if
Something Else Pops Up
But that issue also may result in
indifference on the part of the vot-
ers. The important factor there is
whether anything else happens to
ture, Samuel
Goldwyn’s pow-
ers of persua-
sion once again
excite the envy
the admiration of
probably favor France and Britain | campaign, with very little to inter-
est the voters, this foreign silver
situation just might happen to be
important, especially as none of the
rank and file of the Democrats
would be interested in defending it.
Or, if Hitler should be raising cain
at the time, with Mexico apparently
on the side of the dictatorships, it
might easily become a tremendous*
ly important issue.
Senator Norris of Nebraska
Seems Due for Deflating
It one may predict the toppling
off their pedestals of present idols
by the same rules which have gen-
erally worked in the past, Sen.
George W. Norris of Nebraska is due
for a deflating. He has run up
against that curious and hard to
understand intangible—pride in it-
self of the house of representatives.
He may or may not win this time-
in the conference row over that TV A
hundred-million-dollar bond authori-
zation. But he has hurt the pride
of the house, and the wound will not
heal. Nothing lasts forever, and the
members of the house as well as
the senate were getting a little tired
of the Norris dictatorship anyhow. ‘
So when Norris appeared as the
only senator to represent the upper
house in the confer- >
ence on the TVA J
bill, he was taking a
chance. He ought to
have realized it, but
dictators gradually
grow callous to pride
in other people.
Members of the
generally
might not ever have
known about it, but
Andrew J. May of
Kentucky, chairman
WASHINGTON .-The battle Presi-
dent Roosevelt is waging over the
amendment of the neutrality law has
some amazing angles. To begin
with, scarcely any intelligent ob-
server, unswayed by politics, really
believes that any law that congress
could possibly pass will insure keep-
ing the United States out of war.
And as to neutrality, as Bernard
M. Baruch told the senate foreign
relations committee, "There ain’t no
such animal."
Any possible law will hurt one side
or the other in any major conflict.
It is openly admitted that the sort
of law the President wants would
probably favor Fi
as against Germany and Italy in
the war everybody is afraid of right
now. And curiously enough every-
one admits that the continuance of
the present law favors China in the
struggle against Japan, as long as
it continues to be an undeclared
war, but would favor Japan the mo-
ment two-year conflict became a de-
clared .war.
But the present law, for the pres-
ervation of which a new battalion
of death has been organized in the
senate, bans shipments to belliger-
ents (in a declared war, of course)
of "arms, ammunition and imple-
ments of war." There is no mention
of food, or of steel or cotton which
can be made into explosives. And
there is very little prospect that
any determined fight will be made
to include those. Yet actually they
I are of the essence.
Food Most Important of
Articles We Might Export
Looking at the situation practical-
ly, of all the articles that this coun-
try might export to the nations men-
tioned as being favored by the Pres-
ident’s plan, food is the most impor-
tant. The rest of the things follow
so far behind as to be relatively
unimportant. In a big long drawn
out war it is starvation, both of her
army and navy and of her civilian
population, that Britain fears most.
France is pretty nearly self-support-
ing, leaving out the possibility of
extended occupation of her territory
such as occurred in the World war
Everyone knows also that lack of
foodstuffs was one of the elements pi o u s e
which operated potently to bring
Germany to her knees in the World
war. The darkest days of that war,
from the standpoint of the allies,
were those when there was terror
that the German submarine block-
ade might starve out England.
It is common knowledge that Eng-
land has been stepping up her arms
and munitions and airplane produc-
tion to the point where supplies of
these war materials may not be of
pressing importance. The longer
the outbreak of war is delayed, the
less important these particular im-
ports will be. The rush buying of
planes and munitions by Britain and
France in the last year from this
country was againgt the possibility
that war might break out before
their own productive capacity was
adequate.
Of course they will continue to
need the raw materials. But none
of these is barred in the present neu-
trality law. So that the situation is
presented that the neutrality bloc in
the senate is staging a heroic battle
to prevent shipment to France and
Britain of things that they probably
will not need when war comes, and
is doing nothing to prevent ship-
ments, at that time, of things that
Germany will probably be doing her
utmost to prevent Britain
France from getting.
Monetary Bill Not Likely to
Be an issue in Campaign
There is much talk about the mon-
etary bill being an issue in the
campaign but, while it is of course
impossible to say that it will not be,
it would seem that the probabilities
arr against it. It is tar more likely
that, as far as the voters are con-
cerned, it will be forgotten.
Had the revolt against President
Roosevelt succeeded, that would
have been something else again.
Had the net result been that the gov-
ernment ceased its subsidizing of do-
mestically mined silver, that would
have been decidedly
er horses. It might
the decisive element in
who is to be the next President of
the United States.
Then, the silver mine owners and
i the silver mine employees would
' have had reason to remember, with
• resentment, the whole affair. It may
bo that the President's remarks at
Hyde Park, attacking the Republi-
cans for supporting higher silver
rices, would have redounded to the
mefit of the Republicans.
As it is, the silver mine owners
on charges of using
defraud the state of
five: Dr. Smith; Seymour Weiss,
political bigwig and millionaire; J.
Emory Adams, nephew of Dr.
Smith’s wife; Monte E. Hart, elec-
tric company official who has re-
ceived many state contracts; and
Louis Lesage, "contact" man for an
oil company.
Accumulated events offered a sig-
nal for Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith,
New Deal hater, foe of Commu-
nism and close associate of Huey
Long, to charge indictees are "bone
and tissue of the Roosevelt ma-
could offer bondholders RFC cash
and preferred stock in exchange for
outstanding bonds. Meanwhile Sec-
retary of the Treasury Henry Mor-
genthau Jr., praised the lending bill
as a "realistic approach to our eco-
nomic problem" which would "put
900,000 people to work without add-
ing to the tax burden or public
debt." New York’s Sen. James
Mead agreed to drop his bill for
loans to small business and have the
idea included in lend-spend legisla-
tion. As battle lines formed, Sen-
ate Minority Leader Charles Mc-
Nary conceded the bill would prob-
ably pass.
Also in congress:
<L House conferees sought compro-
mise between wage-hour amend-
ments offered by New Jersey's
Mary Norton and North Carolina’s
Graham Barden. Argument: Farm-
ing interests want processors of
farm products eliminated from
wage-hour supervision.
<L The senate passed the Logan bill,
embarrassingly discovering in next
morning’s Congressional Record that
it had subjected decisions of the la-
bor board and ail other quasl-judi-
cial or quasi-legislative agencies to
review by the circuit court of ap-
peals.
4 The house passed the bill of New
Mexico's Rep. John J. Dempsey and
Sen. Carl Hatch, banning use of offi-
cial authority to influence elections.
< The senate approved a resolution
authorizing investigation of the la-
bor board's administration of the
Wagner act
C The senate approved and gave
the house a bill extending federal
crop insurance to cotton farmers.
ENGLAND:
Wheat Armament
Even in 1931’s crisis British wheat
prices hit no lower than 3 shillings,
8 pence. But in mid-July of this
year came a new low of 3 shillings
8% pence (about 49% cents per
bushel). At this juncture a "pre-
paredness" parliament considered a
step which would at once relieve
price pressure, eliminate surpluses
and bolster defense. The move, sug-
gested by Economist John Waynard
Keynes: Appropriation of 100,000,000
pounds ($488,000,000) for accumula-
tion of war reserves in four catego-
ries of England’s vital imports.
About 234,000,000 bushels of wheat
would thereby be purchased. Only
catch was that British Isles storage
facilities can accommodate only
one-fourth that amount. Observers
thought parliament would compro-
mise and buy only 9,000,000 to 10,-
000,000 bushels now.
DAUL ROBESON’S magnificent
* bass voice will have adequate op-
portunity for expression in his por-
trayal of the title role of Sam
Bishop's Plight
Altered Aim of
| Paul Robeson
autnor i r o m
Roark Bradford’s John Henry sto-
ries. There will be incidental music
by Jacques Wolfe.
One often marvels at events,
apparently casual at time of oc-
currence, which are found sig-
nificantly to have affected hu-
man lives and so shaped desti-
nies. Whan Paul was a senior
at Rutgers, where be had won
high scholastic honors and .
gained for himself a national
reputation as a football end, ho
was Is string toward the cloth as
a profession. His father was a
clergyman In a small communi-
ty In New Jersey and, from boy-
hood, Robeson's Idea had boon
to follow in the paternal stope.
Not long before graduation, the
elder Robeson died and among the
funeral arrangements was a plan
to have the presiding bishop of the
church conduct the obsequies. Ac-
cordingly, the prelate came to the
scene of the funeral from his homo
in a village in the southern part of
the state and after the services he
addressed the assembled mourners
substantially as follows:
“Brothers and sisters, I had to
borrow the money to come to this
scene of sorrow and unless you all
contribute to defr
home, I am afraid
walk."
Whereupon, of course, the neces-
sary traveling fund was raised. Aft-
er a while the bereaved son met
the late Foster Sanford who was
his football coach, his guide, mentor
and friend.
"You are still headed for the min-
istry?" Sanford asked.
"Yes sir," was the reply. "I still
am, sir."
"The highest yea can oyer get
tart tt?'” Sanford asked ata
whan Rsbsssa saM that was
true, the eoach fixed him with |
so you are
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ting before. It is not important po- I
11 tic ally. Even if it were terribly
important economically, which it is
not, it would have been a settled
fact so long before tl>e heat of the
JESSE JONES
Railroads remained silent.
selves remained silent, Federal
Lending Administrator Jesse Jones
endorsed the scheme to let railroads
: lease $900,000,000 worth of new
equipment. He also suggested they
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
MEW YORK.—Within the exploits
of men of achievement may—
wnetner anything else happens to ' and often does—lie the favoring ele-
keep public interest in it alive. For ment of chance, frequently recog-
example if, during the presidential «... r.
campaign, Mexico is still being held
up to the public, because of news
events then, as treating American
capital badly—if she happens to bo
selling the oil from the wells she
confiscated from Americans, for ex-
ample, to Germany—this particular
subsidy will hurt the Democrats con-
siderably.
This subsidizing of foreign mined
silver is a very difficult thing to de-
fend, on the stump. There are busi-
ness men who favor it, business men
otk«^D?tauctai0J!!^ endured face of repeated of'
SHtuiailv hS ,e”’ Mistrust ot wund track repro-
duction of the note> ot hi« belov*<1
culatine votinv -i™. vioUn ' ioin*d with his repug-
nance to the elemental music he
believed he would be called upon to
play and, above all, was his objec-
tion to strutting the screen as an
actor. So Goldwyn’s success in
overcoming the great musician’s re-
luctance is now being proclaimed.
Yet, lying baek of Heifetz’s
nape on the dotted line of a
Hollywood contract are various
imponderable factors. His wife,
for instance, who was Florence
Vidor of screen fame, may have
been the influence behind his
first appearance on any stage in
a histrionic capacity. This was ’
last spring when he took the role
of a hill-billy fiddler in the an-
nual show of a sophisticated
midtown club, of which be Is a
member. Garbed in overalls,
cotton shirt and red wig topped
by a broken down straw hat he
played “Turkey in the Straw,"
violin upon bis knees, as the
time-honored jig time has never
before been played. And for an
encore there was "Danny Boy."
So who can say that the siren
voice of Sam Goldwyn was not mere-
ly the fanning of a flame lighted
when, with gusto and amid wild ac-
claim, he sawed a violin lying across
his knee?
Bom in Vilna in 1901, Heifetz's
American debut came in October,
1917. An American citizen now, he
lives in Redding, Conn.
Sam Goldwyn It was who lured
Maxine Elliot to the screen back
in 1917 and she was but a prede-
cessor to sueh exalted artists as
Geraldine Farrar.
(EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
- Releamd by Western Newspaper Union.
Colonel Harrington faced an even
bigger headache:
Under the "anti-career" provision
in this year's relief measure, WPA
must discharge 850,000 (one-third oi
all employees) by September 1. Al-
though the law specifically states
employees who have worked 18
months must take a 30-day “vaca-
tion,” the holiday will probably be
much longer. Reason: WPA's $1,-
790,600 for 1939-40 will carry only
2,000,000 workers contrasted with
3,000,000 in 1938-39.
One good reason why congress
may lose its adjournment enthusi-
asm is that dismissals and new
wage scales will take effect just
about the time weary solons would
reach their home stamping grounds
—a pretty situation with an election
brewing. Since new pay schedules
provide no differential between
north and south, northern reliefers
will have their salaries cut and
southerners will be raised.
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EUROPE:
Stifled Rumor
At midnight 40 military supply
trucks from East Prussia rumbled
into the Free City of Danzig, their
heavy gray doors locked tight. Next
day Nazi Leader Albert Forster re-
turned from a conference with
Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. On
Danzig's outskirts a Polish customs
official was shot dead by a Free City
officer. Both Warsaw and Danzig
jails held a prisoner from the enemy
camp. To top it off, the Danzig
senate was re-
ported plan-
ning to elect
Adolf Hitler its
president and
thereby effect
nominal an-
nexation to
Germany.
This back-
ground of ha-
tred suddenly
and mysteri-
ously gave
way to a ru-
mor of peace
which news-
paper corre-
spondents
BRIEFLY...
IN NEW YORK, Gossiper Wal-
ter Winchell let it be known a re-
liable informant had told a se-
cret: That 1940's Democratic
ticket will be Roosevelt and Mc-
Nutt
IN WASHINGTON, Treasury
figures showed the U. S. had an
average deficit of $22,300,000 per
day during the new fiscal year's
first 18 days.
IN MID-PACIFIC, an American
ship helped rescue 209 from the
flaming Bokuyo Maru, Jap pas-
senger and freight liner.
IN TOKYO, British-Jap talks
concerning British rights in China
reached a hopeless deadlock and
collapsed.
IN JERUSALEM, Arabs kid-
naped Dr. Jacob Goldner, Cleve-
land minister, and his son, Ger-
ould. Later they released Dr.
Goldner to dig up $9,000 ransom
for his son.
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BIGGER WAR — Soviet-Japa-
nese disputes in Manchukuo’s
Lake Bor region are minimized
by a new dispute on Sakhalin is-
land involving Japanese leases on
Soviet coal and oil concessiona.
Sakhalin is owned half by Rus-
and half by Japan. When So-
t officiate fined Jap conces-
isirea $112,000 for failure to
ill obligations to Russian
kers, Tokyo claimed its pres-
had been insulted and de-
eded that fines be t
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 124, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1939, newspaper, July 29, 1939; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1253768/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.