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THE BOWTE BOOSTER
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
One King Dead. Next?
One Lynched; One Jumped
Hitler Picks Successor
Three Kinds of Gold
King Fuad. King of Egypt, deml
means nothing to Kin,000,000 AftHtrleans
w or to 15,000,000,000
other human beings
on earth. It means
much to England,
real ruler of Egypt,
now obliged to find
another king to "be-
have himself, do as
England says,’’ and
hold down Egypt’s
anti-British hatred.
lw
By Edward W. Pickard
fi*) Western Neuipaper Union
Plans Completed for the
Democratic Convention
OtfNATOK ALMEN.W. HARKLEY of
>3 Kentucky, who was temporary chair-
man of the Democratic national con-
vention In 1032 and ns such delivered
m Ihe keynote speechi
m
Some time ago George L. Berry asked
all apiana to join "Labor’s Nonpartisan
league,” the object of which, he said,
was “to put American Federation of
Labor unions on the record for-Presi-
dent Roosevelt"
pi capacity at the I’ldl-
KX-.I n.1.,1 I, I rt A/.nvnritlnfl ill
A ' mob seized
Lint Shaw, fifty-
yenr-nhl negro, and
lynched him on "Hie
usual charge," not
wtijjjng for... a trial.
Arthur KrUhnnr
Joe Bowers, sentence!!' to *L‘fi yelirS
for inalL robbery, locked In the island
fortress of Alcatraz, tried to escape by
climbing ten feet of plain wire,'two
feet pf .barbed wire,-and jumping dow n
a 60-foot elllf Into the water. Me
climbed while sharpshooter guards
pumped* builds Into liiin,- anil jumped
down the. cliff. Asked when "hooked”
at Aloatryz, “Who js to lie tiotllled If
you die?" Bowers replied: ' "Nobody;
nobody cares whether I die or not.”
Hitler uppnrently has chosdnT'his
successor "In ‘case,” In the person of
Air Minister tioei'lng, now made "as-
slstnnt dictator." with .control of two
great German problems of- raw matte
rials and foreign exchange.
In New York, 175 naval cadets from
the German cruiser Kmden, rianic well
remembered from the war,, explore
the city, guarded by detectives in case
of hostile flemo&stratians.
Commercial ' boycotts of 'Germany,„
organized In - New York, have done
more harm, to. the Nazi gsvcfiumtuf
Hum could tie-tjoFio Tty any fob ii'Jitck
on German cadets.
fe(| adelphla convention In
m ■' v
|>|, June,'outlining tbe Is-
sues of this year’s
'campaign as ItLs,-party
*1. viewy? them. Senator
■?, Joseph 'P. Itohlnson of
Arkitijstts will lie Hie
fe. pernument th.-ilrnitin
Hgnlftr Yet amiflter re-
peater will lie Fortier
Judge John H? Mack
Four years .ago he
Navy in Six-Week Drill
on the Pacific
/"'VNE hundred and fifty• vessels of
V-' Hit* United States fleet, with 450
airplanes, are now engaged. In the
Secret Panama Treaty Is ,
Cause of Concern
A HM.Y -and navy officials" were re-
> e* ported to he concerned over a new
treaty with Panama V-ltich is being secret-
ly considered by thogo.verriinent.. It was
said an uncorrected text of, the pact
showed.lt provides for "joint conver-
sations"' rather .than for defense ot
the Canal Zone In event of aggression
The'grant Jiy Panama for the “use, -oc-
cupation, and control of Innds nnd wa-
ters outside tile jurisdiction of the
Uidled States,”' If riccessury, Is re-
nounced by this country In the treaty.
Chairman Pittman of the senate for-
eign relations committee said closed
hearings’on the treaty soon would be
completed, after which the senate might
consider the dokiment In secret ses-
sion in order -to avoid Internationa)
complications.- Senator IIIrani John-
son -has said he will try to have the
text of the pact madp public before It
is taken up by the senate.
Hopkins Doing
Splendid Work
, No Taint of Graft
in Feileral Relief;
Cheap Electric ‘
Power for Farms
AT p
Wj
year’s grand maneuvers In the Pacific.
War conditions prevail and the ves?
sels and their Crews are being given
Steiwer to Be Key-Noter
for the Republicans
X* THEN- the Itepublfcans gather In
VV nntfbr
natfonnl convention at.-Cleveland
a severe test 'of. their fitness that Will. ■ 'licit June" tlieir keynote for tlielC
Sen. Barkley
t
(if New/ York,
placed Franklin It. Itiwiseveit in ii'otui-
aiilinn, amt lie .Vv.il! do. R again in
June.
These selections were n’mile by 411(1
Other, of-
eommitl.ee on 'arrangements.
Ilcers, <if tlie, (-(invention chosen, are:
Lee tinrnes -of.Alabama, chief door-
kceper; Mrs. ,1. Borden llari'lrntin, rm-„
tlvnal domniltleewoniari of Ibe liisfrict
■of Columbia, hostess of-the convention,
Willi Mrs. Agnes Collins Ininti of New
JHampsIilxit as riaslslntit; Col. Edward
(’. Hulsey,, secretary of the •.setillte,
sergeant at arms; Representative Clar-
ence Cannon of Missouri, parliamen-
tarian,-assisted by Representative John
J. O’Connor of New York; \V. Forbes
Morgan,- secret!ify of the convention.. ,
' National Chairman Farley said that
the two-thirds iiile, Vvhicli lias pre-
vailed In Democratic-.ConvenUons Tor
.a renniry, wiU_m4 be ub,.li«b.-l. . The
re ies- committee—wilt be howled by
Senat r Bennett Clark of .Missouri hud
it. will' report, for abrogation of the-
two thirds rule ns well as’eliniiitntlon
Inst for six weeks. Tlie Panama canal
region was the first objective of the i
licet. The units'are divided into at- I
tacking and defending forces nnd some- !
filing Is doing-all’ the tithe, tiny and i
night. The naval officers tiro, trying
•to'solve the sevenfeeiilh ofli scries of
strategic problems, each based upon
-some -possible International situation,
mapped mit by naval strategists.
Presidential campaign will be sounded
by Frederick Steiwer,
the eloquent, and hand-
some United.-States
st-najor from/ Oregon.
He was selected to be
temporary jhairinttn of
the convention by
Von Starhemberg of Austria
Voices His Defiance'" "
/~MV1L 'wnjjn. Austria became.a, pns-
V—s' s?Miitit v ns 1
Cnllfornla possessett-t'tliree kinds of.
goljl" * yellow gold, (ifNihlch there Is of the.unit rule. The latter binds the
~rttr
slldlity as the quarrel between the
f ascists led by Prince Ernst'won Start
TieTrilierg and the clerical and man-
arehl.st elements be-
came acute.' Govet
incut ofUclals. h(nv-'"
ever, were trying des-
perately to patch up
the 'trouble. ;
I’rltice Von Stnr-
hemlrerg,. who is vice
chnncejior, in n de-
fiant speech aniojuT
warned his political
opponents that liis
helmwehr, or home
egnar'd, would fie dls-
By EARL GODWIN ;;'T-
"ASHINGTON. — Somehow oi
other I look on Harry Hop-
klns-ithe man who admin-
isters the federal relief cash—
(is a man whom fate has picked out
for a-territH* 1 ,-istifng'; as if he w-ert?
a ..penitent having, to.run a'gauntlet.
Because Harry is going right straight
forMlie goal set for liim and there js
not a day goes bv* that he does not
have a lash laid on him -somewhere.
lie Is doing a swelljol^.. I can’t im-
agine money b.v the,hundreds of mil-
lions; iriore nioh“.v' than- anyVither one
man ever handled since'the- dawn of
history—as-I say. I carr.'t imag.ine so
much money handled without crooked-
ness somewhere. But when Hjjfry
fells
even been heard of politically outside
of his own bailiwick.
Howe's advice was’deep and goodr '
He was faithful to his ideals. He be-
gan to build ' Roosevelt ' for bigger ,
things—not that Roosevelt .was ever a .
Number Two man or a puppet for.
Howe or anyone else—but Louis Ilowe
collided his sagacity to Roosevelt’s
crus’Njirig spirit arid together they,
scaled the periks.
But it was not always' In the sun-
light. In the dark hours of the IMness
which struck Roosevelt down several
years ago daylight al.l^ hut died. ' It was
during that-1fine tjiat Itoasevelt’s soul
was tested arid found to be great. It
was in 'that Initiation that he found
the strength to make the race; and I
imagine that‘one secret of the super-
friendship between the two -men is to
pe found In Howejs devotion to Roose-
velt during those dark hours.'
Hopkins faces his accusers nnd
them.‘that-.tlier.- isn't a i,rp"kej!,>cent;For -g.i years the old- timers In the
anywhere around, he means it.
•.When voTt think of the'graft in
urinninious vote of the | t},ing-s poiitlea-l since the days of the'
•arrangements .commit- | M.otdlier scandal down through'
tee -of the. national
committee after, due
consideration had been
given tlie names of
several other promt-
neat Reijjjlilicaiis.
Obssrvers Irepmint the niofrye lri
picking Steiwer was a desire of the
party leaders to give^tho-convention a
wbstorn iltinosphere at the start, with
an especial eye to agrieultnre. The sen-
ator has been actively identified with
wheat growing and his home town, Port-
land. is a center of tlie northwestern
battleground of the November elections.
Congressman Ilertrand Snell of New
was j/McMr-d to ho pernffinetif wjialr-
riinn of tlie-convention, a position he"
held in the convetitton of PJ32.
Prince Von-
Sfarhemberg .
Leftists Are_Winners.in.
plenty left .1H the eroninl : “black, cold " — slat-C
which Is the oil In, lakes 'thousands of. I codon of a majority of the delegation,
feet down, arid t lie.”\y 1^1 te gold," water A coo-riling, to Mr. Farley, these changes
from (ho monntnhis, first used to. will not"prevent ihe practically iityin-
develop'powi'r, then to Irrigate crops..1 imoiis nouiliVaf Ion of'President Rouse-
Another gold; more lnifi0rta.rit tlrifii. Velt. . .
yiose-three, 'cotnhlned, is,,t.])e gold.of ( • Present plrtns nro-to Ijp-ve Mr. ttoose-
cdTicotion. , .... i, velt--go to t’lriltidelpliin err Saturday,
Driving’ through tilts ?oi(nlry. If you • j(me, ”7, to close the convention by iic-
»ee a particularly fine ImlMIng? tall"''. eeptlng tjie nomination In a speech «le-
eolumns,. wide grounds, fields for R vered ell her In. tin! MiliRripal .stml.ium'
jicnltlig play, thut ds! it politic seliool.', ()r in 'the .University of i’ennsylvanUi
Once ..It vvou.ld have -been tlie prison
or feudal castle. A '
dead body.. .......
Cbaneellor Kurt'Schuscti'nlgg,* speak-
ing at ltaiien, retorted’ that,.."»Vustria.--
is' ijcvt' Italy-aij^ Aimtrlnns are not*
Fascist's.”
Von STilfhomTiefg asserted that If ln-
ternai foes pre- s loH-harti there will be
"n "repetition1 of I'.l'U”—jrnen tEe helm-!
welir .triumphed In a -short but bloody
.civil war .agalnsf SqciallStsi. False
friends surround Bcliuschnlgg, von.
StarliemhQrg said.> a’ml the’helmwehr
French Elec.tions
/^OMM'UNISTS and yariogs brands of
vj Socialists anneal
the whisky ring, the pqst office frauds,
wnr profits, the IlatMing adminis-
tration scandals, and the varioiis/layers
of graft represented by .almost every
brick in many a stiite cnpltol,- you.1
coilIif expect some graft to creep into
this Relief‘administration.But there
isn’t.any graft there.
Tlie place where the graft luix-lp ro-
Rpf is in state administrations,: if at
all. By grafr I do not mean stealing
—I mean pomics. You-have no,doubt
heard the Charge.tha,t .there. Is. nothing^,
hut politics in relief. It. has been
shouted find dinned into our ears lintH
power field have been willing to put
power lines' into populous..rural terri-
tory, hut said it could iuR be done in
sparsely populated’territory, r' ;
Now comes this .man -Morris Cooko
about whom I've written previously, .
and pe sits dmvn yyltjj a lithe group
of fellows -who know tlie power lnisi-"7^vs
flpcss inside out, and they work out a
Scheme * whweh.v the oi‘i prejudices -
can .lie',dissolved, power lines, built for
a third of what tlie old timers thought '
tind, to riiake.a long-story shor,t. they
have leaped 'oyer all the hurdles and
are now on their way. * '
The go.verrira.ent w'ill now- lend at •*
the rate of S4fl,(KK),00d a rear for ten
yews ($1<UKKt,0fo extra in this first
year) to farm'co-operfltlves arid, towns
yffir 'woubr 'l nirik' li t
Y ork, -mim.rity -leader -i'» the'.'.hons.-, :-v,;-iruIlir-y;f~ all ihries- but" tbal's "ju-f
wit'-b t’fie 'fmilcvfi iirril-^.ije'rt^wr-^
the -politician’s .way of trying jo edge
a'n office holder ouf-of-the way So' they
‘ can get the" jobs' 'for their own- con-
stituents. ' ’!,
♦tne--thing--tYrnnjr-3itTmTrHoTitfrTTs;'TiTfiT
lii.s crowd is that- they don’t know how
to tell, their story so" that, it-vau-ries a,
Socialists appear to. have won a-: lijgh, Hear nof« above all the .sidewalk
considerable victory in ...the French ‘ d*turWe. I Hat s one sur? sign
elections for.'Lherehamher of ('leputies, ,-JtH'.v ardd.pteHeetiiail.v In.ijest and di-s-
. . x.._____x ______, «v lntiirDctiuL « n wins tho- SHiPslruw
tliMUgh tlie -hirge nuniher-of run-off i inteotftwl
elections
necessary nmy to.irdowl, flic .crowWHrrt-altrrrris the bwrafterilion.
stadium close to the convention hall. , plans to pro'tect him fropi -them.
" For Austria-, said Stnrhejnheijg, there
Yon see another buTTiTfhg, almost ns ' Roosevelt Addresses National'
Impressive as the high scliopl, . 'I’llaj: Is QemoCrfftjc Qub ' .
a pubiie library. -The- nccii.mHaled • p ROOSEVELT " made
l what might be,considered the*first
of Tils'- campaign speeches before the
‘National Iieinoenitle club-in ,Ne,w York
are three possibilities—a continuation
» ...... r .i- ...... . KTo-llorv,
of tlie .autfioriry of the state,-Nazlism,
or.cppiniunlsm., lie asserted the helm-
• results. TBe greatest gain Is shown
by The Cominunist's, who are likely Jo
liaveTiO seats.; but tills.(does.riot please
ihe Radical SoHijlisis for they cannot
count on the Communis.ts in forming a
government nnd fear that wlghout
them'- tlie chamber w ill ■ be Urigovern-
nm. ■
knowledge of "The world Is'free.
r
. Mrs. Grace Warren Dubois,, sixty-two
years old, was allowed to keep her spat
while the Judge sentenced her to life
iuipnlsomHeut for killing lie? son. Or-” i
(I'inarilv -eonylcts riufbt s’famt'for sen- SniUh and John J. Raskoh were con-
teriee spictiotis iiy tlu-ir iilist-nee. Jlr.-.Roose-
City. Tmnmtmy was Ihere'Jn futt forge,
lull sllfch .dlsgrtmtlCd I'eriiocratS ns AT
-wehr' Ts determined to preserve tbe
JiTiscist system and would continue as
•a separate organiintlon l»ut that other
private ■ armies.-would lie absorbed,, by
tbe regular liriuy. ,
tehee.. •
■ft Is’ Said sire , thought jier family
"too nblstocrntie” to live In such tfrites
ns these, and wished to. kill ’-them all.
.Another son testified against her.
.....
Newsboys cry "Wltat do you read?”
The Niagara, of Imoke pouring ftarat tin*
presses, a .vast majority forgot ted as
they are born, make many-ask "Whitt.
.elt declared his-purpose to bring more
food, hijjier prices and better houses
for 'tlie, jifi'iple.
"If yiMj,„i,iierease buying power,” hri
.said, "prices will go tip;' more goods
w.i 11 lie sohf, Wages oiigltt to and must
go up wllii prices. This docs got intfuri
linsourid Intliition <ir' skyToeiketing
prices; 'tills,should be. riyoiileii just 'as
Advance of the Italians
in-Ethiopia Continues
- -J
ITALY'S victorious'troops in north-
era l'tbiopia continued their ad-'
shall I read?” Of, .Ihe;--Books that every We seek; to- a void hliriltriipiey sale
one must, knovv, many nre ’unneces values.'’
fMirii.v long, will not be read, and need TuiTiiog to Ills crillds with sareaem,
condensation, in lids .day of netyspa- the I’resldent sab! Some individuals
pers, moving plelures, am! radio. tire iievey .satisfied, ’■ Referring to
■If sonic puhllslier woiild -Issue n charges of extravagance, nnd mounting
"hookslieW'’ squeezed 'down frmiv KT iletieUs, lie said people eouiplajii' to,
feet' to 2-feet, That WohUJ lie'useful. ■! hlrii .abofit "Hie. current costs of re-
- . "_i_w, —‘ j toiilding ■Aiuerica, about tlie burden op
■ Paris perceives that following recen-t fritwe Americji." lie’insisted--that the
elections extreme radicals’ will, be pow- measure should not ho the thCee-billlon,’
erf 111 in The new olin inbo'r, nnd those tlolkii- tlefiell of (Ills year .Fill The assert.
that have money left ht'gin pjin.ielfy tin'll that the rilatlonal’ iueouit* lias risen
selling. Rank of France shares, drop thirty-live billions in id.,-’ to sixiy live
violently, ancaniiig lack of confidence*, billions In lit;>0.
in government stnbltlty, with' fear of
war in all niimls. ' i'Mew Tax Bill Battle:
- The last war. knocked the franc
varice. on Adjfis Abi(ba,‘. tliniigh it (was
soinewlittt. retarded (py tlie efforts of
Hie natives to blow up- the roadways,
and otherwise, -.hants's Ibe Invaders.'
'Hie -Itailitri motorized column’ In this
'movement Is tlie mogt'•formidable "yet.
foriiied jn litis war.and is .notable for
lliej large lu’ipiber of white, troops in-
dudi'U. .' ■
.Gxuieral' GfazTiina's southern nrrpy,.,
meanw hile, was driving toward ITarar,
second city of (he empire, in three col-
umns. .The Etlilopians were putting
up. stifT ivsistatice. .at various po'htUs'
but -crcrywhcre were’driven .buck, ad
cording to Italian dispatches.
Senate Passes Emergency ' > '
Flood Control Bril 1
IN I.SREGARDING warnings, by Seri-
SJ ■ ator Va*hdenberg of Michigan
agifinst (no hasty action, the senate
passed a bill introduced by Senator
’Overton of Louisiana authorizing the
'expenditure of $272J)00;060 f(ir (load
control work on the lower Mississippi
river, ami Its tributaries. There was
no record vote. The bill has no reln-
.tion, to tlie omnibus flood Control meas-
ure now pending, Which may, reach a
billion.- The sum named i.p the' senate
1)111 Is authorized tjaerely to Hie.appro-
priated and will have to'be put"in a
.deficiency, appropriation hill. Senator
Overton declared it was justified by
'emergency conditions. ■
In pddttion tV the 272 million dollars
there te’ authoWtwd an appropriation of
15 millions to be ■olloCajed by the sec-
retnY.v of war and'used in rescue work
i|f. repair mid maintenance of flood
’ control works.’’ .
*k -. .
Contreras Is Elected
President of Venezuela • .• •
mi-A?AR 1.0FEZ UONTliERAS. nn
IT,
the. /frijrvc , , . .
from T9 fente to. 4 cents.'’ ^\\;iint’ w-fuiid-' i Started in- House
l ejpHB lulininistnifimi’s hill to levy
auotlier war do?
aliout BOO million dolliirs, in new
jVh'en stock gambling-slnrls, it moves i Itixes yearly- was tnlrodin-cd .in' tlie
:rapidly.,. Singe March last year, stock j house by din ways rind means cqtumif-
prlces'lia.ve gone Up 60 |>er reiit, busl-' tee; and a jieive battle s t JI r t (*Ti .itmue-
ness hits Tncr'easod TS per cent., employ- : lUiitoj.v. Tlie Repulilican minority of
ment oidy 5 per cent. Net’ ftUiclT.etieer- j the coimnittue issued a report w ltie-ri
fulness ill that. * • . . . stilted thiit flic' proposed tax law was
Since"' last Mrircll' the N'ew York'' "unsoumi Jn pririei'plp,' will undermine
aHiiy olficer at lip rose to tin* rank
,'. -ofTenoni^ lifidhr tlie late dictator. Juan
Vijin'tite Gomez, is now president of
.Venezuela- The nnlioUal cotigfe^s
elected him to that cilice' by a vote of
l32 to 1 arid directed that he a sail trie
-ihe office on May 29. 'As president of
tlie cluiniher, Contreras -fiecame teih-
Rescue of Entofribed Men -:
Is Epic of Heroism
T
tub* of unselfifiJfc atuL-Jb-umir liiiinan
win i
HAT old gold urine at Moose RIyer,
Nova Scotia, provided .ftp epic
endeavor that will be. toRL for' many a
year. For- ton,' day's more, (ban a
'hundred expeideneed. miners ■ strove
unceasingly to resells tT^pee men who
had been trapped by tlie fall of. dirt
and rocks in tlie 440-foot- level of the
pornry* pfrislilent \ on . the, -tleath
Ctomez,
abandoned mine they'were/ inspecting.
Rlpi
Stock exchange ••valines'* Have ,increased
by twenty thousand ''million •dollars.
Excellent "bait”. for'tliC. Ignorant,
business stability, id’another step te-
wnni reglihentatbm of all business, and
is not .designed Jo raise revenue hut,
itiiniittedly is unothor New Deaj.ex|iori-'
ment.’’. »■ -z
Conservative Denmcriits Joined wfifl^
the .Kopufriioiins in this attack agirtiist
(lie.•bill, hut tiu* administration leaders
were con tide tit 111 e meiiSure* would' pass
Supreme Count Decision,in
Stock Yards Case
i TI’IKIU'I.NG .a reijHCtlyn of rates
v1 anil charges
; . - PASSING OF HOWE
The public kiicw mile of ,I.(*nis IIov
New JersbyrnTTTzens itroppod . from
relief Tuvade legislative hulls, ; cfitiip
out, sleep im' the tloqr, promise to re-
main imtil New Jersey supplies money
and food. ( , i %
Ewing township,’ New Jersey, with j before'.May 1,
9)000 population, taking. 'doO-TfrmUies' ,
off the (Die. told- theip officially to go ' UmorD to
out and^heg- Reggltig bemg Illegal, U1K 6
mich family was,provided with a beg-
ging lispens?. ..That. -may fie "called.'
"economic relief,” ..-. ' . ' ■.».
Tokyo worries about .Russia "plot-
ting a war against Japan,”- but no.plot-
ting Is necessary. Russia knows tbe lo-
cation of every Japahese city, town and
, factory. It .would be necessary only to
declare War. and start dropping bombs,
particularly bombs that spread'fire.
Starting a war for foreign ebuntries'1
Is’as easy as "shooting up a gambling
game” among our, racketeers; bo-ae-
crccy w necessary. - *
© Klnf Featur.w Syndicate, Joe, [ Wt
\ •• ■ WNU 6ervl<f«. •
Remain Nonpartisan
\\T ILl.IAM tJUKENi president of the
Vy I'),,!,' ril t i.) n. ,ul. . RlsbiAPi
r
has sent a Setter to all affiliated unions
■urging that .they ftdh^re to the feiler-
ht-hub’s "traditional, nonpartisan poiitl-
cuf policy.” He says:
•“For obvious reasons, /labor should
avoid division even in the pursuit of its.,
political policies. Such,'division can.be
nvoLjled if working, inen and women,
loyal to the American Federation of
Labor, will refrain" from fdeutifying-
,themselves with any political movei-
ment designed to serve as a substitute
for the nonpartisan political policy of-
the American Federation of, Labor.’1
and charges at the St. 'Josepir, My„
'slockyurds,-.. tl)e Supreme court t held
that the findings made by.'Secretary of
Agriculture llonry A. TVallnrifc justified
^1)0 rates lie set .and that the stock-
yards' operators.Imil tailed to-sliow.con-,
liscatioii.
Justice Louis P. Braudels, .Harlan F. •
Storie and Behjatnin Cordozo agreed
tliat tlie rates should he 'upheld', but In
,fin opinion .by Justice _ Brandeis ex-,
pressed belief that Hie court went top •
far in padsing‘bn the fairness pf rates,
... "VvliSl
*■ ......—ti..ih •k“**"v"’*J*"’ ** rJW„.
Machinery arid other equ/pinihit \vere
brought from .far away." A diamond
drill AVitS 'driven through and through
’Tliis small, opening, communication .was
established a ruff ood w^s dropped down
but already ..one of the .three was dead
*bf buflger nnd exhauSttlon. Fjriajly the
dVap.e'r.ate efforts of Ihe rescuers, were yet lie is .the man credited with
successful and the two survivors'were ..putting Roosevriit ■in.tTie'.’tV'hifefUousi*.
brought safely to the surfnfi'e,"together jror twenty* years. Louis Ilofve. and
with .Hie hotly, of the dead riian.;Thohe ; jera-nklin Roosevelt were close, friends.
gMvi;(J were Pr.-D. E.,Robertson, famous no was the President's chief secretary
nndl beloved' surfreon of Toronto, and ! over since tlie.inauguration; .and ypt
U!.A. Scadding. The one who did not j tlie.' s_elf-eif§c(r.g habit which kept:
live wap Herman Magi'll,' also" Of j Howe out of sifiht isthe*renspn why.
I have, always, hoped for, and! done a.
Jittlework foward,'nn exlilliitiOn of red,
wflite and. blue Anierihanisurim fedi'-ral
relief proje'ets.. To rite one of the finest
thiri'gs evemrifciK"was to. smash head-on
into The rfJpTFfision with a direct* cash
distribution to jobleg's men nnd women
—money '.right out of ^Uncle’s Sam’s
treasury. T never had any . use for'the
argument ‘that this was exclusively the
. sta tes’ .duty; If the states can - hand
it out. L--0, fc: but If they can’t why
quibble? I have always thongfft the
gentle nnd charitable' souls who run
the relief ndmlnistffltion should either
do ''mdre-jiffectiv# w'ork.in their, own
•.behalf—or should hire "brass bands.
' The country hears daily that, public
fnoney is-'.being wasted for silly proj-
ect's; and, some of it Is. But the had
stuff ls so small-in contrast to the.
•thousands of pood; projects that*! often
wonder why the -Administration's-prize
press agents- don’t start ‘a haek-fi.re .
There must lie 70.000 honest, sane, sen-
sible nnd much needed projects- now-
giving Work to Tnen and women On re-.
. lief projects;,-yet we are, likt^y to hear
over -and 'over again nbo»t»-i»(.!f25,OOQ
•- " Tuift' by
dog ponnij somewhe're, Jmitt' tiy” relief
tooney. > Silly or rjot, the.Trieri employed
mi them were’ given jobs. uTiich is in ore
than the
the CrittdS oiler to do.
' I. think Hopkins erred in Sayifig
there is no politics In relief,,for .there
•is. But it is" not. so widespreadAis 'to
1^.1 ic scandalous, and it was placed there
liy .none other than the. eongross of the
United States. SenatSr J’at.McCarnin,
Neviitlit’s pride,- got" sore tieennse Hop-
kips appointed a relief administrator'
ajiivabl .of till state- affiliations. IIe,was
ak clear-of polit ics'as a new-born babe ;
so MeCarran wdrked to. have enacted
■ftlie' paragnjjiih 'of law proyid-rng tliat
state 'relief, administrators', .m.iist'. lie
0. K’d: tiy the senate—which puts sricn
appointments under the glare of pol-
itics, to-shy'the least. I'Avish JIop-
kt’ris could have had a free hand.
Tin* idea that the administration is
building np'n‘ re-election -m'adiirie-with
relief nioftcy is untrue..
Toronto.
Black Committee Scored
by Publishes
titHAT, American.'newspaper pub-
- ■ VV- Tislfers ■f bi»k of Nk
Two Well-Known Writers
Taken by Death
i-v EATH canie to two of America’s
VJ well-known w-riters,. One was Fin-
ley Peter Uunue, creator,of "Mr: Doo-
ley," 'tjie .gctllal satirist of modern life
wiidse'witty sayings delighted twd,gen-
erations. The second was'-t’erey Ham-
mood,' veteran, dramatic critic of the
New York Herald Tribune, One^of the
foremost of the country’s commenta-
tors on matters • theatrical. Both
passed away In New. York city, ’ ,
ihe Black lobby coBimlttee was ex-
pressed forcibly and unequivocally in
resolutions adopted by their national
association at' Its annual meeting' in
The committee was
Constitution by its seizures of priyatc
communications, arid the publishers
recommended that all victims of the
committee's acts seek civil damages
and demand the “prosecution of all, in-
volved in the odious affair under-the
criminal statutes of the United States."
New York. The committee was ac:
cused of having violated the./firsti _________________
fourth and fifth amendments to thf xvhat Lincoln had In theVay of sensing
now tha( he-rests in a grave at Fall
.River, Mass., the public' scarcely real-
izes that a part of Roosevelt himself
has, gone on. , *
Howe was a newspaper- corresiiorident
country newspaper, and journalism,
was in his veins. Howie-,Jirst .met
young Roosevqjt in 1910, when Roose-
velt had jtmt been elected, to the New
York state senate from Dutchess coun-
ty. There wns in Howe that mysterious
appreciation of mass thought. He had
the common denominator of-politics;'
and .somewhere in those, early years
fie. seized upon the young man Roose-
welt as the sort of fellow he would
like to see in the \Vhlte_House ... .
and at that time Roosevelt had not
NO KICK. ON THIS ONE
Odd that a great social advance like
tlie .Tct providing for cheap electric ’
power on a' million" farms slipped *
through without much excitement. The
fact was tliat so many people are for
it that congress'voted almost unt^nl-.
fnouslv to start ‘ hujditft? 1*4111,000.QfKA
of ptibllc money so that rural areas
once considered impossible nro now to
he- (aK.oa .right Into tlio electric liglit
fold, pile New Deal measure against
•which no one is kickilfg..
'Ih'cT:'wlTirtriiTWs thp''btisii](-ss 'arid will
organize a rural power concern tliat
will meet the standards established
by the Ratal ElVcttlficriliOri adminis-
tration. Money is loaned at V/3 jier*
.-ijajlgj-IiiU-4-Lo---r('qiiii'emenf—tc—Hrat~~ttTff~
skitii, mill; goes with the or.oatn;, Wie
sparse territory, iimst be served tjlong
with the good.
This means a. great" deal..,," It means
power -'platffg’.'TOr' wells,, ice -by wiref
for .creatmTit’s: it-moans light for the-
fn-rtos -flfld-(l-t*tt»Igerj-;t)glTtt*rrprt'.
are 0,5*00,fibo farm's, and "fftny 1(i pqr
cent now have„wleciricit.v... The -pres-
ent program covers., only a million
piormsfnlftns; hut it" also' mentis that be-
fore ten years have gnne jiy therb will
probably fie much greater expangjqii,'. ,^
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STEIWER KEYNOTER"
Republicatt managers cbose.cfenfttur ’
Frederick Steiwer of Oregon hs their •* .
temporary chairman rind keynoter |pr, *
the prelude to.tbe choosing Of their
standard bearer-at Cleveland, It looks ,
'like a - move to. win-*-hr at .least, to
placate the Westi btit asiijo from -thnt
I wonder fiow the conservatives are y,
■going, to', swalk'iiv Steiwer, who has
been ri JS'C'v Dealer from time to time.. .
Moreover, these budget-balancing Wall
Streeters, who' yelled .’bloody -murder
-at the payinetij of, the bonus' (which
sfarts ■ June 15 by tlie way), sljbiild'
kndw that Steiwer wag-a leading pro-
botius man.
■'Rfit SteiWi'r will have to do a.lot of
explaining To 'others than hl,s Wall
‘Street colleagues in the. party. He
.votefi for AAA and its amendments, a_
farm, jiollcy' whj.oli. has been urider ter-
rific fire from. .OJ O. I*, - orators even
aftef the court knocked it., out. The
Tennessee Valley Authority, with its
public power and .social welfare, has
been the point of. anyattnek equal to.
pm* launched by Hie Germans against'
Verdun. TVA-is flie. i’oiver Trust night-
mare-^yet Repulilican Keynoter. Stefi
'wer voted for it.
And as for NRA, which the Repub-I
llcftu's.are UiiRlinjt ttieDemncrats about,
—Steiwer t.huuglit that was tlie comfit
way to "regiment Industry, for the
march nut of the depression; fiirNMie
4o voted, fie.certainly Iras'no idea; I
hope, nf dragging up the old Blue
■Eagle at the’Republican convention.
‘ Steiwer also voted for the Securi-
ties Exchange commission,'wlilch
drive? the crooks out of Wall" Street and
leaves tlie honest Investment hankers ,
to carry, on a docent business.-'
KILL WAR PROFITS
Some time.-ago tlie President stated -
that "Tlie tlrrie‘lias conie to* take-the
'profit--out. of \var” and, while that, is
a Huge undertaking, there is. sign.', of.
progress’ when a senate munitions lii-
v.esttgiitlng 'Wiflihifttee Reports a pro-
,posed bill to put .;he' peace time making
of American arms' tind munitions into
the government's own hands. This
wouid.irich!tie the’building of battle-
sltip?,, which'..is at "present-a. large part
of .the , qnufately owned steel business.
■it would also include' tbe making of
ail gfifis, prnvder and bullets'; shtdis.
airplanes^ etf. At. present: these are
■let-out, by contgact to.tprivate industry
and. superA'issd hy; the army and navy
There Is a great; navargim'” "
Ts-pms; . .....|
factory at Washington, a'nd there nre
other *naval planks—but 'this business
goes largely to private manufacturers!
Tlie difficulty” is that in vrar times,
the government would need (and has
needed in every past war) all the
private' exertion possible.' The army
and navy , feel' we should spread our
arms and ammunition business through*
out the country, utilizing as many prl*
gate plants as possible; so that if was,*
Cymes these many plants could be ex* :
panded. * . 7 • •
ea Wuriaro Kfiwuucr Union. *
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