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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
—
A1 Smith Joins “Tories” Who Demand Sound Dollar-
Opposition to Roosevelt’s Monetary Policy Grows—•
Californians Lynch Two Murdering Kidnapers*
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
Alfred E.
Smith
\/T ORE loudly every day Is heard
■*•*■*■ the demand for a return to the
“sound money” by the Increasing
number of those whom the President
has termed “tories”;
for, ns the time for
the assembling of con-
gress nears there is a
fust growing fear that
the inflationists in
that body will move
for the starting of
the money printing
presses. Between the
“tories” and the Infla-
tionists stands Mr.
Itoosevelt, still seem-
ingly unperturbed, in-
sisting on carrying
out further his gold trading pljwi for
devaluing the dollar und thus in-
creasing commodity prices, with some
form of stabilization to follow—either
a gold standard devalued dollar or a
commodity price index paper dollar.
That the dispute over the President’s
monetary policy is not partisan is em-
phasized by the stand taken by Alfred
E. Smith in an open letter written for
the December issue of the New Out-
look but released to the press in ad-
vance.
Mr. Smith expressed bis disbelief
that “the Democratic party is fnted
to be always the party of greenback-
ers, paper money printers, free silver-
ites, currency managers, rubber dollar
manufacturers, and crackpots."
He added that if this is to be so
“the issue is more than a partisan
one, because we are dealing today
with the party which actually holds
responsible government office, which
is not merely advocating cure-alls in
a campaign, but which has in Its hands
the present welfare of 1,JO,000,000 peo-
ple and the future of our most cher-
ished American institutions. . . .
"What wo need in tlds country is
absolute dependability in our money
standards. It is (lie only thing which
will restore confidence. The latest
fiscal moves of. the administration
have undermined public confidence.
They have created, uncertainty.
"Uncertainty paralyzes business, dis-
courages private initiative, drives
money Into hiding, and places the en-
tire burden of sustainipg the popula-
tion on tlie central., government.
"In the absence of anything defi-
nitely known to be better, I am for a
return to the gold standard. I am for
gold dollars as ngarnst baloney dol-
lars. I am for experience as against
experiment. If I must choose be-
tween private management of business
and management .of n government bu-
reaucracy, I am for private manage-
ment.
“I am ready to go through n certain
amount of deflation If the choice is
between this and outright money In-
flation. If I must ..choose between the
leaders of the past,, will) all the errors
they have made and with all the
selfishness they have" been guilty of,
and the inexperienced young college
professors who hold no responsible
public office, but are1 perfectly ready
to turn 130,000,000 Americans into
guinea pigs for experimentation. I am
going to be for the people who have
made the country' what It Is. And I
say tills with full knowledge of the
fact that there are many things In the
old order of society which I should
like to have changed and which I do
not applaud or evpn condone.”
PRESIDENT ROOSEVEl-T himself
* made no comment on Mr. Smith’s
letter, but It drew from General John-
son, NUA administrator, who was at
Warm Springs, n characteristically vio-
lent burst of denunciation. The gen-
eral also made an unwarranted attack
on Professor Sprague, calling him a
“hitherto obscure prqfessor” who “by
a dramatic resignation obtained his
little hour or two to strut across the
stage.” This of a man whom the Bank
of England had been paying $25,000 a
year to act as its adviser until the
President persuaded him to come home
and serve our treasury in a like ca-
pacity for $10,000 a year.
TT WAS announced by the War de-
•I partment that the low bid for
trucks for the conservation corps was
made by Chevrolet- Motor company
with an offer of $G20.19 per unit.
The next lowest bidder was North-
west Motor company of Bethesda, Md.,
a Ford dealer, whose bid was $071.10
per unit delivered at Detroit, $086.10
for deliveries at Chicago and $087.00
on deliveries at Louisville, Ky.
The Chevrolet bid was for six-cyl-
inder trucks and that of the Ford
deuler for eight-cylinder trucks. The
specifications of the War department
provided for not less tlmn six-cylinder
motors.
R. L. Sabine, head of the Ford
agency who was low bidder on n re-
cent truck offer of the Department of
Agriculture but complnined recently
that new bids had been Asked for
trucks of not less than six-cylinder
motors, said Ford deliveries could be
made with such promptness that the
itovernment would save money and de-
clared that If he did not receive the
order he would appeal to Comptroller
General McCarl.
E* HIST of the big employers to suffer
* for Alleged violation of the Presi-
dent's re-employment argreement is
Loft, Inc., which operates a chain of
restaurants and candy stores through-
out the country. General Johnson or-
dered the company to remove ttie Blue
Engle from Its stores In Washington,
and charges made against It by the
New York compliance board were un-
der Investigation. President C. G.
Guth of the company denied the ac-
cusations.
'T'HOUSANDS of furious Califor-
A nlans stormed the jail at San Jose,
fought n desperate battle with the po-
lice and dragged out Jack Holmes and
Thomas Thurmond, confessed kidnap-
ers and murderers of Brooke L. Hart,
the young son of a prominent mer-
chant, and hanged them to trees In the
city park. Fifteen thousand persons,
many of them women and children,
witnessed the lynching and cheered on
the mob. That any of the lynchers
ever will be punished Is highly im-
probable. The crime of the two vic-
tims was peculiarly diabolical and
cold-blooded and it Is likely even the
authorities, unofficially, welcome this
reversion to old-time vigilante meth-
ods of dispensing justice. Gov. James
itolph had refused to send troops to
help the sheriff, nnd inter when told
of the lynching said:
"Tills is the best lesson that Cali-
fornia has ever given the country.
We showed the country that the state
Is not going to tolerate kidnaping!”
13 OGER TOUHY nnd three com-
panlons, tried In St. Paul for the
kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., fared
better than did the California kidnap-
ers nnd murderers. The four Chicago
gangsters were acquitted by a jury.
It was the first defeat for the federal
government in the kidnaping cases in
which it lias figured since passage of
the so-called Lindbergh law at the
last session of congress.
The Touliy crowd, however, were
still to lie tried in Chicago for the
kidnaping of “Jake the Barber” Fac-
tor.
A/IISSOURIANS followed the exam-
-L’-* pie set by the San Jose Californ-
ians and resorted to lynch law to pun-
ish the negro assailant of a young white
woman. A mob at St. Joseph battled
with tlie police anil National Guards-
men and took Lloyd Warner from the
jail and banged and burned him. Gov.
Guy B. Park declined to comment.
Governor Ritchie of Maryland sent
state troops to Princess Anne nnd they
nabbed four alleged leaders of the
crowd that lynched a negro. The local
authorities had failed to act in the
matter and the governor took it Into
his own hands. The prisoners were
taken to Baltimore after a mob had
fought to release them from the sol-
diers. But almost immediately they
were returned to Princess Anne on
habeas corpus writs and the court
there released them on the ground that
the evidence was Insufficient.
E'RANGE lias a new premier and a
” new ministry. Camille Cliautemps
has succeeded Albert Snrrnut, who was
overthrown by the chamber of depu-
ties, and lias formed a
government that in-
cludes fourteen of ttie
former ministers,
among these being
Paul-Boneour, D a 1 a-
dier and Sarraut. In
other respects his se-
lections, it is asserted
In Paris, bear the
stamp.of the influence
of Edouard Herriot,
nnd many believe the
new cabinet is de-
signed to prepare tlie
way for tlie return of that veteran So-
cialist. Herriot was turned out of the
premiership a year ago because he
wanted to pay the war debt due the
United States, and has refused to take
part in tlie government until after De-
cember 15—the anniversary of his
downfall and the date when another
Installment is due. After France has
repeated its net of repudiation, Her-
riot probably will again become pre-
mier.
Chautemps was unable to persuade
tlie dissident Socialists and the left
Republicans to enter tils cabinet, so It Is
made up of so-called radical Socialists.
Camille
Chautemps
'T'llE Co-operative Farmers National
Grain corporation, which has been
fighting for years for full membership
In the Chicago Board of Trade, pro-
posed an amendment to tlie grain ex-
change code which would compel the
hoard to grant it nuil other co-opera-
tives full trading nnd clearing priv-
ileges.
Gov. W. I. Myers of tlie federal farm
credit administration, in a letter to
Farm Administrator George N. Peek,
which went into the record, gave the
full support of the government to the
amendment.
/Two other governmental spokesmen.
Dr. J. W. T. Duvel of the grain futures
administration and Wendell Byrd, spe-
cial assistant to the attorney genet al,
likewise approved the Fnrmers’ Na-
tional proposal. In view of these mani-
festations of federal sanction, it was
regarded as virtually certain that the
amendments would be approved de-
spite the serious opposition of the
exchanges.
PHYSICISTS
* Institute
of the Massachusetts
of Technology are now
ready to proceed with their attempt
to smash the atom, for the huge gen-
erator designed by Dr. It. J. Van De
Gruff successfully passed Its test at
Itouud Hill, Mass.
A 7,000,000 volt direct current bolt
of man-made lightning split and
crackled from the two giant aluminum
cylinders which act as terminals of the
generator and flashed between each
other nnd to the roof and walls of
the converted hangar which houses It.
This first test, witnessed by a hand-
ful of distinguished scientists and the
anxious designers nnd makers of tiie
generator, more than fulfilled the
hopes of irtiyslcists who believe that
when it is in operation to its full
capacity of 10,000,(XX) volts it will tear
tlie veil from the innermost secrets
of nature.
Howe About:
DRESIDENT WILLIAM GREEN of
* tlie American Federation of Labor
says that unemployment In the United
States reached 10,070r000 In October,
an increase of 11,000 over September,
but that this Increase was exception-
ally small for that time of year. He
gives warning that unstinted co-opera-
tion of tlie citizenry will be necessary
to keep the number of jobless from
growing much larger during the win-
ter, but he sets forth these favorable
factors:
Average wages Increased slightly
from September to October, amount-
ing to $1.20 a month, or 1.4 per cent
Cost of living rose only one-half of
1 per cent, slightly reducing the In-
dividual worker’s loss of real Income
since March, bringing this down to 1.1
per cent.
Dollar buying power of workers In
October was $000,000,000 per month
above March.
Real buying power—that Is, In-
creased wages reduced by increased
cost of living—rose 23.1 per cent
above the March level.
Gen. Douglas
MacArthur
(“J EN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR,
chief of staff, in his annual re-
port to Secretary of War Dern, de-
clares that tlie army’s strength is
now “below the dan-
ger line.” He warns
that our military
standing Is seven-
teenth in world rela-
tive strength, nnd
speaks of ttie “obvi-
ous state of unrest
now prevailing
throughout tlie world.”
The general’s recom-
mendations for In-
creasing tlie nrmy’s
efficiency include:
A boost in regular
army enlisted strength from 120,000 to
105,000, with immediate exemption of
the enlisted man from the 15 per cent
government pay cut.
An expenditure of nearly $200,000,-
000 on aircraft, modernization and
motorization of the field artillery,
mechanization, anti-aircraft equip-
ment and general motorization.
Maintenance of the National Guard
at existing strength with 48 drill peri-
ods' and two weeks’ active training an-
nually.
At least 120,000 reserve officers with
two weeks’ annual training for at
least 30,000. At present there Hre
110,000 reserve officers hut only 87,000
are eligible for active duty training.
Restoration of tlie 1032 instruction
nnd personnel scale for the It. O. T.
O and C. M. T. C.
The chief of staff said the army’s
mobilization of the civilian conserva-
tion corps was In striking contrast
with the 1017 mobilization and gave
"renewed evidence of the value of
systematic preparation for emergency.”
But, be added, the heavy drain on
the army’s 12,000 regular officers in
marslialing these 300,000 men “lias
brought regular army training In the
continental United States to a virtual
standstill nnd lias almost destroyed
the readiness of units for Immediate
nnd effective employment on emergen-
cy duty."
T IEUT. COL. ABELARDO HER-
REItA, the hated chief of the Ma-
tanzas military district under the
regime of former President Machado
of Cuba, nnd four other former officers
pnld witli their lives for the many mur-
ders of which they were accused. They
were taken from San SeVerino castle
at Mntanzas, lined up before masked
men and shot to death with machine
guns. The five men had been pris-
oners since August 12, the day Ma-
chado was driven from the island.
Chief of the crimes attributed to them
was tlie killing of the five Alvarez
brothers, prominent anti-Machado rev-
olutionists, in 1932.
D OBEItT LEY, trade union commis-
sioner under the Hitler govern-
ment of Germany, tins announced plans
for tlie reorganization of Germany's
labor unions Into a giant group to
which employers nnd foreigners also
will he eleglble.
The changes will become effective
January 1, it was indicated, and mean-
while unions will not he permitted to
accept new members. Under the re-
organization scheme, every employer
must join in his own name rather than
In that of a firm.
EMtANK WILSTACH, best known ns
" a former theatrical manager and
as the compiler of a dictionary of
similes, died in New York. He was
assistant to Will Hays in the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of
America.
EARNEST W. GIBSON, who formerly
*-J was a congressman from Vermont,
will go back to Washington to repre-
sent that state In the senate. He was
appointed by Governor Wilson to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Porter H. Dale.
& IMS, WMturn Newspaper Union.
Good Writing
Hypocrisy
Conservatives
By ED HOWE
'X'lIE reviewers of books mention one
A lately appearing, and written by an
old man. who begins by saying: “I
have read a great deal, and found
books so bad I am encouraged to at-
tempt one myself. What are the mis-
takes In writing to which I object?
Usually too great length, lack of clear-
ness, and of honesty. (This last fault
Is so general It Is said there has never
yet been printed an honest book.) I
have worked a long time at this writ-
ing, nnd, now that it Is complete, I find
It has the faults of those to which I
have objected; It Is at least no better
than the average, and possibly not so
good. So I have concluded the good
writing long demanded Is ho more like-
ly to become the rule than good be-
havior, good looks, good times, good
sense, or good health. I have rewrit-
ten my book three times, having heard
that genius is no more than taking
great pains, but now almost believe
the last draft worse than the first.”
• • •
Most complaints about good princi-
ples begin with charges of hypocrisy
against those who profess to practice
them. Start any man tirading, and he
will soon be declaring he Is the only
candid, honest man willing and able
to look tlie facts In the face, and pro-
pose an Intelligent remedy. . . .
That Is the way people have always
been; God has been unable to do any-
thing with ourselves. . . . Why
not try n universal suicide pact? That
might bring about the flow of blood
so long expected of rioters. . . .
Ten members of a vigilance commit-
tee once caught a horse thief, but all
hated to hang him. Finally they went
into a saloon to drink and talk it over.
When all were drunk, including the
prisoner, members of the committee
urged him to shoot himself. They said
they had families, and didn’t enre to
have blood on their hands to think
about for years. But the prisoner re-
plied that while he wished to be a
good fellow, and reasonable, ho could
not go that far. The men finally rode
away, still arguing with the prisoner.
. . . I did not hear how It finally
came out, but probably the prisoner
continued to argue he didn’t steal the
horse, was generally a better man than
those objecting to him, nnd that the
request to shoot himself was unrea-
sonable.
t * *
During the present big storm, one
of the sayings heard most frequently
Is that conservative thought has been
given up.
It will return; that Is one thing we
may depend upon.
There was never a safe storekeeper,
mechanic, father, hanker, husbnnd, cit-
izen, farmer, until he had somewhat
learned the truths of conservatism;
practice of Its rules decides the de-
gree of his promotion or failure. Con-
servatism Is hot a doctrine, but a prac-
tice nature enforces.
Nature Is conservative; ‘its worst
storms blow themselves out. Floods
and plagues have destroyed millions,
but soon the sun shines peacefully
again on greater numbers who have
somehow found shelter.
Nothing is permanently radical; al-
ways conservatism wins as n natural
law we cannot escape.
• * *
Most people are slouchy, and do not
like It when neat persons suggest that
they clean up their houses, yards, cut
the weeds In fence corners, or remove
the spots on their clothes.
* * *
Sllcrius says In his memoirs that the
principal trouble he had with his wives
was In dividing money he never had.
Women, he explains, rarely ktjow how
difficult It Is for men to make money,
and thus always believe their husbands
have more than they acknowledge.
Daughters have the same difficulty
with fathers, and SUerlus expresses
thankfulness he had none. SUerlus
was prominent In old Rome as soldier
and statesman, but nothing In his book
or life Indicates he was a money mak-
er. Few men have the gift, but wom-
en believe every man has or should
have It.
• * •
A man attacks me because I do not
like poetry. He might ns well attack
me because I am old. Our worst mod-
ern human troubles date back to poet-
ry; to refusal of early men to recog-
nize material facts, and make the best
of them. Every extreme radical either
writes poetry, or likes Its visionary ex-
pressions. The best critics are agreed
that poetry is not understandable; that
it means nothing. And the first duty
of every man Is to “know where he
Is at."
* • *
Are offlctnls of the law doing as well
In their contests with outlaws as can
be reasonably expected? Near my
town twelve officers with machine guns
lately surrounded a house In which
were only two outlaws handicapped
by having their women with them.
After considerable firing, the outlaws
got away, wounding three of their as-
sailants.....Here were thir-
teen officers pitted against two law
violators. The bandits had no advan-
tage except courage; they did not ersn
have the new steel shields with which
the officers had lately been supplied
by the county. . . . Thirteen offi-
cers to two bandits, and the bandits
won. It really seems fresh discourage-
ment for law as administered by pol-
itics.
* mi, mi smsirat*.—wnu s«rvu«.
'■
Washington.—History shows that
many years are required for the ac
compllshment of
Realignment transition In politics.
of Voters New al!«nmunta In
party groups are sel-
dom, If ever, brought about In the span
of a lifetime. Yet, those alignments
appear now to be very near, so near,
In fact, that astute political observers
of national politics are looking for a
shnkeup that will have been virtually
completed when the time arrives for
another national election.
Because things move so slowly in
political transitions, I believe we are
generally prone to dismiss each little
incident as without particular slgnifl
cance. Nevertheless, each one counts,
and In the aggregate, if we pause to
collect them, the minor changes con-
stitute the web or pattern of a great
movement. Hence, circumstances of
the last few weeks necessarily must
be weighed, for in those circumstances
Is seen that which may verily prove t<r
be the beginning of the final stage in
a national realignment of voters. And,
as has been the case In some other
political changes among voters In the
United States, money Is the focal
point, the center about which the
whole thing revolves.
There is developing, according to the
best political judgment available in
Washington, a definite trend among
party men and women townrd affili-
ation with one party or the other sole-
ly on the basis of economic views of
the party chosen. In other words,
there are those who believe in attempt-
ing new tilings In government and in
Its relationship with commerce and in-
dustry, and there are those who be-
lieve In allowing private initiative to
lead the way and develop the changes
as human nature demands. Roughly,
the two types like to describe them-
selves as “liberals and conserv-
atives” in accordance with the respec-
tive views set out nlfove. So the po-
litical observers who study those
things day after day nnd Interpret
their meaning are' of the opinion that
Important changes are coming.
The conclusions reached by mnny
of these observers Is that perhaps as
early as the national campaign of
1936, there will be shifts from Repub-
lican rolls to Democratic rolls, and
shifts of others from Democratic rolls
to Republican rolls In sufficient num-
bers to have established one of the
parties as distinctly liberal and the
other as distinctly conservative. The
Roosevelt campaign last year devel-
oped enormous shifts; that Is, it devel-
oped a transfer of voters from Repub-
lican ranks to those of the Democrats
for permanent residence. In pointing
to the fact, I do not Include the “pro-
test” vote that went to the Roosevelt
candidacy. Much of that will be back
home in the Republican ranks If and
when Mr. Roosevelt makes the race for
President again. Excluding that pro-
test vote, there were thousands who
had checked the Republican ballots
heretofore who will never do so again.
That brings me to the present situ-
ation, the circumstance that has come
over tlie question of what sort of mon-
ey we shall have. Mr. Roosevelt’s
monetary policies have found favor in
vast areas of the country nnd they
have met with an objection ns vehe-
ment and as bitter as peace-time views
can be. The result of ail of this is
an issue has been so sharply drawn
that a decision by the country cannot
be avoided, bnrring one thing. That
one thing is a return to prosperity
nt a rate much faster than is possible
to expect.
When I said there would be par-
tisans leaving their old political haunts
to ally themselres
May Shift with what had been
Allegiance theIr opposition
party, I cannot In-
clude such men as Alfred E, Smith,
former governor of New York and
1928 Presidential candidate of the
Democratic party. Nor can It be ex-
pected that Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia will desert the affiliation of
his lifetime to turn Republican, even
though both the former governor and
the senator strongly espouse sound
money. But they serve as Illustrations
of the point 1 am trying to make: If
those two men were not so high up in
parly councils they might leave the
party. Thousands of less consequence
will do It.
Observers here contend that it Is
quite possible that the La Follette
group of Wisconsin and Its step-chil-
dren In other states and the Norris
faction In Nebraska with its kindred,
the Brookhart group in Iowa and the
Johnson Republicans of California,
among others, might logically be ex-
pected to transfer their allegiance to
the liberal party. They have been Re-
publicans only in pnrt for some years,
und Senator Norris campaigned for
Roosevelt, ns he did for Smith In
1928. While these factions and “wings”
of the Republicans may be looked up-
on as available timber for the antici-
pated liberal party, there are a great
many Democrats who are Democrats
almost solely because they happened
to have been bora, or located later, In
a thoroughly Democratic Idea. They
are conservative by birth and Instinct
an* by judgment.
It would seem to be a situation,
therefore. In accordance with the way
as®?
seasoned observers size It up, namely,
that the Republican party eventually
will be the completely conservative
party and the Democrats will carry
the banner of the liberal thought of
the country.
Pursuing this reasoning further, it
Is made to appear that eventually we
may see the party divisions formulated
sharply in accordance with tlie type of
commerce and industry In each sec-
tion of tlie country. For example, the
manufacturing cities of the East may
be expected to be hide-bound conserv-
ative as one extreme, while hard-driv-
en farm areas In the Middle West may
as naturally be expected to go lib-
eral, If not radically liberal. Liberal
and conservative thought obviously di-
vide on economic lines. The stage
seems to be set for consummation of
that which has been in the making
since the “Bull Moose” days when
Theodore Roosevelt bolted the Repub-
licans.
• • •
General Johnson, the national re-
covery administrator, burst out with'
a new threat the-
Johnson's other day, and the
Threat chorus of chortles
that it evoked leads
me to believe he has moved out on tho
wrong foot The. general, once a.
hard-boiled cavalry officer who re-
mains hard-boiled, says that the fed-
eral government is going to “police”"
business unless business polices itself
under the codes of fair competltlon.
All of which is possible, of course, but
in my wanderings around the capital
city and in conversations with busi-
ness men from other parts of the coun-
try, I feel that the general would ha-
biting off more than he can chew if he-
proceeds far on the program implied
by his announcement.
There can be no honest doubt that
“chiseling,” as Mr. Roosevelt de-
scribed it, is taking place in almost
every community to a greater or less
extent. It is evident to anyone taking
the trouble to look about him. Thera
are hundreds of businesses that have-
signed tlie codes of fair competition
with their fingers crossed. They knew
it would be dangerous to refuse to-
sign and so they signed in order to get
the famed “blue eagle” insignia, but
they had no intention of living up to-
their obligation. It is a sad commen-
tary, yet it Is true, that a certain ela
ment of business, and quite a larga
element at that, cannot be trusted.
So, as I see the problem, perhaps.
General Johnson Is right in demanding
that business be policed. The weak-
ness of his plan, however, Is Inherent
in the scheme for controlling business.
Federal control necessarily means that
the national government has to Inject
itself Into the private affairs of all.
and that is the sort of tiling that led
up to repeul of the Eighteenth amend-
ment. People resented Interference-
from the government in their personal
affairs.
Then, there is another phase of the
problem, a difficulty as applicable to
prohibition as it Is in General John-
son’s plan. Thousands of persons will
be required for tills policing job, just
ns thousands were used in prohibition
enforcement. There will be as many, *
or more, “meddlesome nmtties” get in-
to the Johnson police ns were found
in the prohibition police, and there
will be some few straight-out crooks
get Jobs. The meddlesome individuals. -
either through fanaticism or through
misguided sense of duty, will stir
up more fuss in a few minutes than
they ought to stir up In a year.
Crooks, if any get in, will “bleed”
business which will be forced to pay
for protection, exactly as occurred in
the case of prohibition.
• * *
Washington newspaper correspond-
ents who devote their time to writing
of financial affairs
Morgenthau in the treasury have
Backs Down lately come through
a brisk, although
brief, battle with the new acting sec-
retary. l-Ienry Morgenthau, Jr. No
sooner had Mr. Morgenthau, who Is
only forty-two years old, been in-
stalled as acting secretary, than he
sought to curb the rights of the cor-
respondents by forbidding ills subor-
dinates to talk with the writers. It
was censorship, If ever censorship was
attempted. The writers rose up In
righteous wrath and with an announce-
ment that there would be no compro-
mise on the principle.
The battle lasted, as a matter of
fnct, only three days before the act-
ing secretary cnlled the correspond-
ents to his office to Invite them to
“agree” to a modification of his gag-
rule. He was met with an absolute-
refusal to “agree” to any proposal un-
less that proposal contemplated free-
dom of the writers to seek and obtain
factunl information that was a mat-
ter of record nnd properly available
the public. The new head of the
treasury was in a tough spot nnd he
yielded on all points which the writ-
ers demanded.ub their privilege, except
that he requested they avoid seeking
information on treasury policies from
the subordinate officials. Since the
correspondents never have been will-
ing to take Information on the framing
of policies from anyone In official life
excepting those who decide questions
of policy, namely, department heads,
the writers felt they had won,
were satisfied.
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Dennis, J. R. The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 7, 1933, newspaper, December 7, 1933; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth602390/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.