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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE
Predict New Pact With Brazil
As U. S. Staves Off Nazi Bid
For Entree to South America
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lenge of occidental rights in the Far
East is tied inseparably with Brit-
ain’s efforts to perfect a military
alliance with Russia. Although
Germany has gloated over London’s
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Mrs. John Luther Jones, widow of the famed Casey Jones, hero of
song and story, who was killed in a historic train wreck on April 30, 1900,
shakes hands with Engineer Herbert Nicholson, who is in the cab of the
“William Mason” of 1870. Many of the trains that were operating when
Casey Jones died “with his hand on the throttle” are on exhibition at
the New York World’s fair. The song of Casey’s death has become one
of America’s best known ballads, originating with the noted engineer’s
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This 18-month-old baby elephant arrived recently at the Philadelphia,
Pa., zoo to take up temporary quarters with two antelopes. When the zoo’s
newest tenant proves to her keepers that she is accustomed to and
friendly with humans, she will be transferred to the baby zoo. The little
elephant, three-feet, nine-inches tall, was caught in Rangoon, Burma, and
is the gift of Frank B. Foster, a zoo director. Keeper Pat Cronin is
shown feeding the youngster on its arrival at the zoo.
Peggy Allin, 25-year-old girl from
Mayes, Kent, England, arrived in
New York recently after cycling
across England to Port Talbot,
Wales, where she took a freighter
to Montreal, Canada. She continued
her bicycle trip to New York, and
will cross the continent before visit-
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stiff-armed Fascist salute during ceremonies in Nuoro, Italy, Crown
Prince Umberto—who has had several tiffs with the Black Shirts—seems
to prefer the pre-Fascism military salute. The ceremonies were held
in honor of cadets who fell in the recent Spanish civil war.
out illegal combinations of manufac-
turers, wholesalers, retailers, con-
tractors and labor leaders. Once
such illegal groups are smashed,
Mr. Arnold thinks business paraly-
sis caused by high costs will cease.
His allegations regarding the busi-
ness industry:
“Producers of building materials
have fixed prices either by private
arrangement or as the principal ac-
tivity of trade associations. Owners
of patents on building materials
have used them to establish re-
strictive structures of price con-
trol, control of sales methods and
limits upon the quantities sold.”
Regarding labor unions:
“In recent years they have fre-
quently been used as the strong
arm squads for collusive agree-
ments among contractors, refusing
to supply labor where the contrac-
tors’ ring wishes labor withheld . . .
In other cases the unions them-
selves have refused to permit the
use of new products or new proc-
esses because of their fear that the
new method might make it possi-
ble to erect a new house with fewer
hours of labor than the old.”
One joker in the campaign for
which Mr. Arnold is not responsible
is that he seeks to tear down indus-
trial price fixing combines which re-
sulted directly from an earlier, less
successful New Deal venture which
fostered collusion by manufacturers
and dealers, namely, NRA.
INTERNATIONAL:
Russia’s Gain?
One hundred years ago a squab-
ble between Japan and Great Brit-
UKRAINE:
Incentive
Russia’s rich Ukraine ranges
from the Carpathian mountains of
central Europe almost to the Cas-
pian sea, embracing 360,000 square
miles and populated by 53,500,000
Russians, Slavs and Germans.
Through its east and central part
run rich valleys of the Dneiper and
Dneister rivers, which for years
have fed vast Russia. To the east,
in the Donetz river basin, lie vast
deposits of coal, iron ore and man-
ganese, ace cards in the deck of
any military nation.
If Adolf Hitler’s fascination for
the Ukraine was once a puzzle, pub-
lic interest has zoomed to such
heights since he captured Czecho-
slovakia and thus made a path to
the east, that the Ukraine’s re-
sources are now public knowledge.
Even “Mem Kampf,” which outlines
Der Fuehrer’s plans for wresting
the Ukraine from Russia, revealed
far less than a new U. S. bureau of
mines study. Data:
The Ukraine’s coal reserves are
72,300,000,000 tons; iron, 4,066,000,000
tons; ferruginous quartzite contain-
ing large iron percentage, 40,800,-
000,000 tons; manganese, 441,000,000
tons; lignite, 510,000,000 tons.
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of the world. With his mother, Mrs.
Ted W. Swanson, the infant recently
left Northern Rhodesia, Africa, and
traveled to Seattle by air, rail and
steamer. They were en route to
Norrie, Quebec, Canada, where they
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, WILLIAM STRANG
Germany ridiculed his efforts.
up with people like the British, who
can now be kicked with impunity
even by the Japanese?”
The Reich’s second effort, obvi-
ously in desperation, has been to
push its projected military pact
with Japan. Although Tokyo’s am-
bassadors to Italy and Germany
both favor Jap participation in the
anti-Communist front, the foreign
office back home has shunned such
complications for good reason—Ja-
pan has enough ambitions and
troubles in the Far East without
getting embroiled in Europe’s woes.
Moreover, both Russia and Japan
—bitter enemies—doubt the sincerity
of a nation which tries simultane-
ously to win the friendship of both.
Hence observers predict consum-
mation of the Anglo-Russ alliance,
with Britain asking help in the Far
East as well as in Europe, thanks
to Japan’s clamping down on Lon-
don’s interests in China. For Brit-
ain this would be merely a last-
ditch defensive alliance with a
nation most Englishmen dislike.
Russia would thereby gain British
support in her projected Far East-
ern war with Japan, also winning a
comparatively free hand to expand
westward by exercising Hitler-like
pressure on Baltic states like Fin-
land, Latvia and Estonia. Out of
this, Britain may hope, will come
a German-Russian war in which Eu-
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pair of cufflinks for marrying him,
and the duchess sent him a piece of
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Walk-On Part on the net return
Historyfs Stage for the little vi-
car’s defiance
of his clerical superiors. As the cap-
tains and the kings depart, he’s
broke in Hollywood, which, some
people say, is worse than being
broke in Death Valley. Those who
liked to think they had a ringside
seat at great events projected the
plump, sandy-haired little priest in-
to history, along with the parish
priest mixed up in Napoleon’s di-
vorce and marriage—an event which
set up the “Black Cardinals” and
set churchly hierophants wrangling
ever after.
Soon forgotten was the Rev.
Mr. Jardine. His lecture tour in
this country was a failure. He
found engagements mysteriously
cancelled. He now says, “Big-
otry and persecution have fol-
lowed us across the sea. My
wife and I hardly know where
to turn, but we’re fighting on. I
found that America thus far is
a land of promises, not of prom-
ise.”
He was a low-church, Evangelical
pastor in Darlington, county of Dur-
ham, working in the slums and ap-
pealing for better conditions for the
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PAN-AMERICA:
Hair s Breadth
Many years ago when the U. S.
clamped down on immigration, mil-
lions of Germans, Italians and Jap-
anese turned to unexploited Brazil.
When Adolf Hitler came to power he
began a diligent campaign to Nazify
Brazil’s Germans, just as Benito
Mussolini tried Fascifying Brazil’s
Italians to the degree that Brazil’s
Japs were natively loyal to Tokyo.
To Hitler, one of Brazil’s major
charms was its unexplored iron de-
posits which might some day be
taken by military force. As a foun-
dation German crews began
manning German airships from
German airports established in
Brazil, an expensive commercial
aviation venture which could never
pay out except in war. But one of
Hitler’s mistakes was to barter
armaments and machinery for Bra-
zilian coffee, which he then dumped
on the markets to obtain badly
needed foreign exchange, thus un-
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not Japan, but Russia alone will
have profited when today’s inter-
national cauldron has ceased boil-
ing.
Germany has tried in two ways
to hamstring the British. While
William Strang of the London for-
eign office is conferring with Dic-
tator Josef Stalin, the Reich’s am-
bassador to Russia has been or-
dered to work for a stalemate by
offering Moscow a commercial and
credit agreement. If Germany thus
joined western democracies in beg-
ging for Russia’s friendship, it car-
ried the begging to still greater
heights during the Jap incident by
singing a siren song that went some-
thing like this: “Why should a
great power like you care to tie
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“People seem to shun me,” he
says. “I can’t quite understand
it.” He is a rather bewildered,
meager little man. He sent the
duke a cablegram congratulat-
ing him on his recent peace
speech, but got no reply. How-
ever, he has no regrets. He be-
lieves it was clearly his duty to
perform the wedding ceremony.
TAXATION:
Profit Sharing
Last autumn a special senate
committee inspired by Michigan’s
presidency-aspiring Sen. Arthur
Vandenberg began studying profit
sharing as a means of curing capi-
tal-labor trouble. The basic idea:
Industrialists would get tax credits
for sharing their profits or (if re-
garded in another light) would be
penalized if they did not share prof-
its. Though pointedly socialistic,
the idea caught fire when one wit-
ness after another told how profit
sharing had worked successfully.
Soon Republican Vandenberg’s idea
began looking good to his Demo-
cratic colleagues, Iowa’s Sen. Clyde
Herring and Colorado’s Edwin C.
Johnson, both of whom knew the
administration needed a clever card
trick to soothe tax-irritated busi-
ness.
By mid-June Mr. Vandenberg had
lost the ball entirely, for Senators
Herring and Johnson issued the
committee’s cautiously worded re-
port. Its gist was that some “pru-
dent experiments” in incentive tax-
ation could be tried “in the spirit
of exploration.” Points (with crit-
ics’ concensus in italics):
1. Exemption from all income
taxes of the payments industrialists
make to employees from accumulat-
ed profit-sharing retirement funds
or annuities. (Good idea. Although it
would temporarily make social secur-
ity a duplication, that agency would
eventually grow smaller as provision
for old age returned to private hands.)
2. Issuance and sale of govern-
ment profit-sharing bonds which
would be available only to profit-
sharing funds and would be issued
for the purpose of protecting invest-
ments by employees. (Good and bad.
W ould discourage small private in-
vestment and small banking, mean-
while providing new source of money
for government spending. May be dis-
criminatory. But would also loosen large
private capital for private investment.)
3. Specific tax credits for increased
employment by companies following
FLYING UP FROM RIO
It could become a menace.
ermining world prices and damag-
ing Brazil’s coffee trade.
Even this blunder was almost
overcome, however. Early this
year a Brazilian commercial mis-
sion was about to leave for Ber-
lin when the U. S. convinced For-
eign Minister Oswaldo Aranha he
should visit Washington. Result:
Brazil gained a loan from the U. S.,
also received aid in developing her
resources and agreed in return to
begin servicing her payments to
American bondholders during the
current summer.
‘ After this hair’s breadth escape
came another. In May Gen. Pedro
Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian
chief of staff, was about to visit
Berlin for general staff consulta-
tions leading either to a co-opera-
tive understanding or a military al-
liance. Hastily dispatched to Rio
de Janeiro was Gen George C.
Marshall, newly appointed U. S.
chief of staff. Result: Back home
in mid-June came General Marshall
with the bacon. On an American
cruiser he brought General Mon-
teiro to Washington, where observ-
ers expected a military agreement
would soon be reached between the
U. Si and Brazil.
The agreement’s substance: The
U. S. could use emergency air fields
in northern Brazil, thus perfecting
the American plan to make an
American lake out of the Carib-
bean, with bases at Puerto Rico and
Guatanamo, Cuba, serving as mini-
ature Hawaiias.
Simultaneously, the Atlantic Clip-
per’s inaugural trip to Lisbon with
30 passengers and 12 crew mem-
bers gave every layman an idea of
transatlantic aviation possibilities
and their bearing on a U. S. pact
with Brazil. Should a European
power beat us to the draw, Brazil
might easiy become an operations
base from whence bombers (after
crossing the Atlantic at its narrow-
est point) might work against the
Panama canal, Guatanamo, Puerto
Rico and even the U. S. itself
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Parvenu Nation pleasantly as-
sured that they
had dropped in on the America
of authentic British tradition and
not a parvenu nation without a past.
In the California badlands, when
Lawrence Tibbett was 7 years old,
his father, a deputy sheriff, cornered
the bandit, wild Jim McKinney, in a
Chinese joss house in Bakersfield.
At that time, McKinney ranked Billy
the Kid, previously the leading bad
man in those parts. Shooting his way
out, he killed Tibbett. Tibbett’s
brother, Bert, then sheriff of Bakers-
field, stepped in in time to land a
load of buckshot between the bandit’s
eyes.
Just the other day, Lawrence
Tibbett’s Uncle Bert gave him
the shotgun which had dropped
McKinney. The boy had a hard
scramble, getting an education
and helping support his widowed
mother and, at long last—speak-
ing in the manner of the house
of Windsor—here’s another dis-
tinctive American touch—Law-
rence Tibbett is the first Amer-
ican singer to gain fame without
European training.
Betty Lee Tibbett, his sister,
taught him his first songs, and how
to play the piano. Joseph Dupuy,
the southern California tenor, was
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Takes on a ‛T" sional teacher.
And Luck Does He knew he had
A Happy Turn a voice, but was
determined to
be a Shakespearean actor. However,
his fame as a singer grew in Los
Angeles, and he began studying with
Frank LaForge in New York. On
January 2, 1925, he stole the show
from Scotti, in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”
The record shows one score for the
numerologists. His luck wasn’t so
good until he added another “t” to
his name—it is properly Tibbet.
There’s still another touch of
quaint Americana in Mr. Tib-
bett’s .story. Whenever he has a
headache, he walks around on
his hands. He says that sluices
the blood out of his head and
stops the pain. Many a time, just
before he was to sing a specially
exacting role, members of the
Metropolitan cast have seen him
off stage, running around upside
down. Our reception to the king
and queen was necessarily rou-
tined, but they would have
learned much of interest if they
could have circulated in dis-
guise like good King Alfred who
burned the cakes.
other than capital-expenditure
work; similarly, reasonable exemp-
tion on such expenditures as plant
expansion. (Good and bad. Would
lower business taxes, but places capital
in the position of a child who will be
praised by a paternalistic government
if he does right and punished if he does
wrong. Pre-supposes that profit shar-
ing, thus far untried on a national
basis, would be substantially a cure-all
that would permit drastic reduction in
“extraordinary” government expendi-
tures.)
Essentially a successful idea in
private application, profit sharing
will probably be boosted by both
Democrats and Republicans in the
next campaign. Chief issue (and no
one yet knows which party will take
which side) will be on the applica-
tion of government incentive taxa-
tion. Said the report:
“One school of thought insists that
the taxing power should never be
used for either incentive or puni-
tive purposes, and that one is the
complement of the other. The other
school of thought insists that we al-
ready have the punitive tax and that
—confronting a condition rather
than a theory—we should also have
the incentive tax, either as an offset
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AVIATION:
Students
The world’s undisputed No. 1 air
power, Germany, can train 65,000
airmen annually. By contrast the
U. S. has but 23,000 fliers of both
sexes and all ages. Worried lest a
war in the air find America unpre-
pared, a training program will be
in full swing by October 15 designed
to teach 95,000 U. S. youths to fly
by 1944. Cost: $5,675,000 to train
15,000 in the next 12 months; $7,000,-
000 a year to teach 20,000 more an-
nually until mid-1944.
Now underway in Washington are
plans to offer “ground school” study
next autumn at 300 to 400 universi-
ties and colleges, followed by actual
flying. Students from 18 to 25 years
old will be accepted and the pro-
gram will cost the U. S. about $325
per pupil.
Biggest fear voiced last winter
when the program was broached
has already been dispelled. To test
it the civil aeronautics authority
gave primary training to 330 stu-
dents at 13 institutions, later grant-
ing private flying certificates to 173
of them. Though officials held their
breath, only one student was killed.
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BUSINESS:
Housing Doldrums
Most U. S. industrialists believe
government policy is holding back
recovery. But this belief is not
universal, for a recent Gallup poll
showed public opinion well split on
the responsibility; business itself got
plenty of blame. A few weeks later
Steelman Ernest T. Weir admitted
he thought the “principal responsi-
bility” for his industry’s nine-year
losing streak rested on the shoul-
ders of steel corporation manage-
ment.
True or not, that charge gave
Trust Buster Thurman Arnold good
justification for probing deeper into
depression’s cause. Most econo-
mists agree that the U. S. boom,
when it comes, will begin with re-
newed housing activities. Hence it
is to this field that Mr. Arnold will
look first with his new $500,000 ap-
propriation and enlarged legal per-
sonnel to “police” American busi-
ness.
Basic idea of the justice depart-
ment's drive is that a large, well-
trained anti-trust staff should ferret
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