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THE HOWE MESSENGER
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Friday, November 20, 1930
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Secretary Roper Plans National Census of Unemployed
—Armistice Day Duly Observed—Opening of the
Huge San Francisco-Oakland Bridge.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
VTOW that the election is over,
1^ Secretary of Commerce Roper
is laying plans for the complete
census of the unemployed in the
United States which
has so long oeen
called for. He said
he would ask con-
gress to appropriate
between 13 and 15
| million dollars for
| this count and that
it would require the
services of about 25,-
000 persons w h o
would be given spe-
z i a 1 training for
several months.
“The census would
not only take up an enumeration of
those classified as unemployed,”
said Roper, “but we want to find out
which trades or industries the un-
employed would fall into. We would
also like to help the states in clas-
sifying the unemployed from the un-
employable.
“There are many economic ques-
tions involved. Some families have
enough income to support them, but
one or more members may be out of
work. We want to obtain information
on this phase.”
The secretary intimated that the
census machinery might be made
permanent so that a close check
be kept on persons out of work, as
is done in England.
According to the American Fed-
eration of Labor 2,900,000 workers
have been re - employed since last
January.
“Employment has been gaining
steadily since January, without set-
back,” the federation said. “This
unusual development points to the
strong upward trend of business,
which was of such force as to offs'et
the usual summer layoffs.
“Comparing September this year
with September, 1935, we find 2,250,-
000 more persons employed in
American industry, indicating that
while a portion of this year’s gains
merely restored winter losses, by
far the major part represents last-
ing gain in employment recovery.
“This year’s gains (comparing
September, 1935 and 1936) have
been largest in manufacturing in-
dustries where about 675,000 wage
and salaried workers were re-em-
ployed; about ,300,000 more farm
laborers are at work, 231,000 more
in trade, 200,000 more in building
and 100,000 have been added in
railroads. Most of the other gains
were in service industries.”
I. , _
TN A joint report by the federal
bureaus of agricultural and home
economics the prediction is made
that farm cash income available
for spending in 1937 will continue
the upward trend shown in 1936.
As a basis for this expectancy the
bureaus cite increases in net in-
come from agricultural and non-
agricultural sources, lower inter-
est rates and long term financing
. of debts.
Record production of truck crops
also was forecast. All sections of
the country will share and all im-
portant truck crops will be included
except celery, onions and spinach,
it was stated, with the likelihood
that in spite of indicated larger sup-
plies, improvemeni, in consumer
buying power would help maintain
the higher prices of 1936, which
were about 10 per cent over 1935.
Sec. Wallace
also placed a wreath at the tomb,
and all stood bare headed as “taps”
was sounded precisely at 11 o'clock
eighteen years after the guns ceased
firing an the western front in
France.
Everywhere in the United States
and in all the allied countries the
anniverasry was suitably observed,
and in Poland the day was one of
especial rejoicing for it is regarded
ai the birthday of that re-born na-
tion.
An ironical note came from Gen-
eva where the League of Nations
announced that 8,200,000 men are
now permanently under arms
throughout the world. Of this total
545,000 are attached to world navies.
The league calculations show that
men under arms throughout the
world just before the outbreak of
the World war numbered 5,900,000,
not counting naval units. The figures
released show that since 1931-’32
world armies have increased 1,700,-
000 men. In Europe total armed
forces are now 4,800,000, compared
with 3,600,000 in 1931-’32.
All Roosevelt
in Second Term
CAN FRANCISCO’S dream of 38
^ years was realized when the
great bridge across the bay to Oak-
land was formally opened with elab-
orate ceremony. This longest vehic-
ular bridge in the world has been
under construction since July 19,
1933, at a cost of $77,000,000, the
funds being largely supplied by the
Reconstruction Finance corporation.
It is eight and a quarter miles long
and, except for a tunnel passage
through Yerba Buena island, is en-
tirely over water.
It is divided roughly into two
parts, mechanically speaking. The
west side, from San Francisco to
Yerba Buena, is of the suspension
type. The cables are the largest
ever spun for a bridge—nearly two
feet in diameter. The east crossing
from'Yerba Buena to Oakland is of
the cantilever type.
As the climax of a four-day cele-
bration, President Roosevelt pushed
a button in his White House
office lighting two green lamps on
the bridge and officially throwing
it open for traffic.
Col. Eeck
SECRETARY of Agriculture Wal-
^ lace in an interview intimates
that for a year there may be no
new legislation for crop control
along the lines of
the outlawed AAA,
for farmers would
like to have one
really good crop
without forced cur-
tailment. But he
added: “We will
need some legisla-
tion eventually un-
less the weather
changes or the
world demand for
our products great-
ly improves.”
Wallace was asked whether the
lack of a control plan might not
result in another surplus, leaving
the administration up in the air
without any machinery to cope with
it. He said he could not estimate
a surplus ahead of time and that
he would rather wait to see what
would happen.
“It may be possible to find a solu-
tion that will prove better than the
AAA or the soil conservation act,”
he said.
D RESIDENT ROOSEVELT 1 e d
the nation in observance o f
Armistice day by going to Arling-
ton National cemetery and laying
a u'reath of chrysanthemums be-
side the tomb of the Unknown Sol-
dier. The ceremony was quiet and
simple. General Pershing, com-
mander of the American expedition-
ary forces, and Secretary of the
Navy Swanson stood by the Presi-
dent’s side and a small detach-
ment of soldiers, sailors and ma-
rines was present. General Pershing
Y^OL. JOSEF BECK, foreign min-
^ ister of Poland, concluded his
visit to London and departed with
assurances of Great Britain’s
friendliness and de-
sire to co-operate
with Poland in its
contest against Nazi
intrigues, especially
in relation to the
Free City of Dan-
zig. Foreign Minis-
ter Eden talked
with Colonel Beck
for three days and
was told by him
that Poland would
reject the overtures
of both Moscow and
Berlin, and work for the same neu-
trality in eastern Europe that Bel-
gium intends to maintain in the
west.
One feature of Poland’s celebra-
tion of its independence day was
the bestowal of a baton on Gen.
Edward Rydz-Smigley, making him
the fourth marshal in the revived
nation’s history. He thus succeeds
the late Marshal Josef Pilsudsky
and is regarded by many as the
new military dictator of Poland.
President Moscicki presented the
baton during an imposing ceremony
in the courtyard of Warsaw castle
VS7"HEN Admiral William H.
** Standley retires on January
1 from the post of chief of naval
operations, it will be filled by Ad-
miral William D. Leahy, now com-
mander of the navy battle force.
This selection by the President was
announced in Washington. Half a
dozen other high officers of the navy
will be advanced when the change
occurs.
It was also announced that Maj.
Gen. John H. Russell, commandant
of the marine corps, would be suc-
ceeded in that post when he retires
from active service December 1 by
Brig. Gen. Thomas Holcombe. The
latter will be elevated to the rank
of major general of marines.
TYING Victor of Italy had a birth-
AN. day, and President Roosevelt,
in his cabled message of congratu-
lations, was careful to follow the
American policy of not recognizing
territory acquired by force, ad-
dressing him only as “king” and
not as “emperor.” However, the
Italian conquest of Ethiopia was
formally recognized by both Aus
tria and Hungary, following Ger-
many’s example.
/CORNELL university of Ithaca, N.
^ Y., is to have a new president in
the person of Dr. Edmund E. Day,
an internationally known social
scientist and economist. He will as-
sume office June 30 next on the re-
tirement of Dr. Livingston Farrand.
Doctor Day, who is 53 years old, is
a graduate of Dartmouth and has
taught there and at Harvard and tht
University of Michigan.
Now Feels Free to
Do What He Really
Would Like to Do;
Plans Rig Program
By EARL GODWIN
J ASHINGTON.—The second
\ A / Roosevelt term is going to
V V be All Roosevelt. The first
term was somewhat clut-
tered up with the Brain Trust and
sundry political influences which
had to be considered, but if you
will go back over the events of the
past few months you will agree with
me, I’m sure, that this time Mr.
Roosevelt has nobody hanging to
his coat-tails. There might be a few
labor leaders and members of the
hastily organized Good Neighbor
League and what-not—but the ut-
terly amazing vote total gives Mr.
; Roosevelt the perfect right now to
assume the American people have
; OK’d him on his own program.
So" you can make sure that the
I things that are in Mr. Roosevelt’s
j mind to be done “to make Ameri-
| ca a better place to live in” as he
! expressed it once, are going to be
i laid down in his messages to con-
gress. In fact, if you had time to
go over softie of the previous mes-
sages to congress you would be able
to find hints here and there of what
he would like to do when he really
got started. And remember, a pres-
ident’s first term is likely to be for
the purpose of making a record;
his second term is to make history.
* * *
PLANS BIG PROGRAM.
Roosevelt is not going to turn
Radical or Conservative. He is not
going to turn away from the pro-
gram which he has. already been
following. He is going to put down
an All-Roosevelt program which, I
am assured by those who know, will
be one of the most rigorous and
probably the most successful pro-
gram for human betterment ever
undertaken by a President of this
country. You need have no fear that
the President is going to plunge the
country into more debt; he is just
as cautious as the next fellow in
finances, but he is also bold enough
to use money freely when necessary.
He will instruct Secretary Wal-
lace to go straight ahead with a
centralized crop control plan with
price maintenance as the object.
Certainly the vote was an endorse-
ment of the administration, and
farm leaders here say it was an
endorsement of triple A. They are
not enthusiastic about the crop in-
surance plan which was hastily
thrown at them. At any rate this
country may expect a continuance
of definite centralized control of the
agricultural plans, if there is any
way of getting around the Supreme
court which has declared agri-
culture is a local matter to be ad-
ministered by the states. However,
the New Deal’s present program as
well as its original program is to
save the farmer from economic
wreckage and take farming off the
charity basis.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has certainly justified himself and
his life-long fight for a common
sense agreement between nations
on tariffs and international trade.
There was a tremendous endorse-
ment of the reciprocal trade treaty
idea; but actually these give-and-
take agreements have scarcely be-
gun to work and there are only a
dozen or so in existence. The two
conspicuous trade agreements which
have done so much to stimulate
trade and make for good feeling
are with France and with Canada.
From now on there will be just
as many new trade agreements as
we can negotiate. As I have ex-
plained heretofore, these trade
agreements are common sense
neighborly agreements to take cer-
tain quantities of specific articles
from foreign nations; to promise to
sell them as much of our goods of
certain kinds as they can absorb.
In doing so we let down the tariff
walls and everybody benefits.
* * *
\ SOCIAL BETTERMENT
Roosevelt’s great characteristic in
government is that quality that
makes him think of social better-
ment; that means improving condi-
tions. I think that one of the things
which stumped him in the first term
has been his inability to get what is
known as the “housing program”
going well. This is mainly a city
program. For at least twenty-five
years social-minded folks have been
trying to clear up the city slums
and replace the filthy dwellings of
the city poor with light, airy build-
ings of beauty in as lovely sur-
roundings as a city permits. Private
capital cannot undertake this task
because there is an extra cost in-
volved which makes it necessary
to put rents up beyond the point
that slum dwellers can afford.
I think there is now general agree-
ment that to clear out the city slums
is a task for the government; or
a combination of city, state and
federal government, which seems
to be more likely. But Roosevelt
hasn’t been able to find two people
who agree on the way to handle
such a program, an 1 it has lagged.
Mayor La Guardia of New York
seems to me to be the best fitted
man in America to undertake to
administer a nation - wide housing
problem, and if he comes into the
Roosevelt second termcabinet as has
been hinted, he may have some-
thing to do with it. However, I hear
he is slated for the post of Secretary
of Labor which would not be the
logical position from which to run
a program of brick and-mortar.
* ‘ * *
CUT USELESS BUREAUS.
Roosevelt has at least one hard
working commission working on a
plan to revamp much o* the gov-
ernment’s machinery; to do away
with useless bureaus, lost motion,
red tape and overlapping activities.
Washington is now a maze of red
tape and government inefficiency
due to the long-time continuance
of customs and the presence of un-
breakable precedents. These things
are bound to happen in government
establishments and ours has been
running now for nearly a century
and a half. Considerable money cost
will be cut out when those efficien-
cies are put into effect, but I’ll
wager that the President will have
to beat congress over the head with
a club to get it to cut ou' some of
the duplications. You see, all this
government establishment is the
child of congress. Nothing grows in
Washington without an act of con-
gress; the original authorization and
actual appropriation of every
clerical salary is an act of congress.
Your congressman will rant and
rave about economy during cam-
paign time; but if he has voted
consistently for economy he is an
exceptional congressman. Yet the
next congress, overwhelmingly
Democratic, owes its election t o
Franklin Roosevelt.
* * *
PERFECT RELIEF PLANS.
In his second term Roosevelt
hopes to lay down a permanent plan
which will be ready for action in
the case of another depression, fu-
ture drouths, floods, and any similar
disasters. I understand he is going
to perfect the relief machinery and
the relief plans on the basis of per-
manent unemployment rather than
take an annual bite at the problem.
There was no argument about re-
lief in the campaign except that
each of the various contenders for
the presidency believed he could
handle the problem better than any-
one else. In one of his messages to
congress two years ago the Presi-
dent outlined a long ame plan by
which in times of great unemploy-
ment great numbers of men could
go to work on jobs connected with
the conservation of resources; such
as flood control, forestry work, and
soil erosion prevention. When indus-
try picked up, these men would
gradually go back to private em-
ployment. Of course that’s what has
been happening, but there has been
no smooth working long-time plan
by which such a remedy is auto-
matic. There is one thing certain,
Roosevelt in his first term, and in
the tremendous endorsement at the
polls for a second term, has per-
petuated the principle that federal
money, power and government is
to take care of national problems
hereafter. The criticism against
the use of government in
distress seems to have failed to
arouse the voters to a sufficient
protest. From now on Uncle Sam is
the boss and also the ministering
angel.
* * *
MUCH FOR LABOR.
Labor is going to get a lot from
the second Roosevelt term—it got a
lot from the first term—that’s why
it supported the New Deal. But la-
bor liked NRA because NRA pre-
scribed hours and wages that insur-
ed a comfortable standard of living.
In many an establishment when
NRA went out the Supreme Court
window, hours lengthened and the
pay was cut. Labor organizations
began to check on tnese changes
and reported them in black and
white in various official documents.
Certain large city department
stores were reported as drastically
cutting wages and stretching hours.
Sweat shop practices began to re-
turn; child labor, which was out en-
tirely under NRA, began to appear;
and it is because of these abuses
in the large cities that labor union
leaders went out so rapidly for
Roosevelt. I understand that abuses
of this sort occurred only in a
fractional part of the total number
of establishments, but they did occur
and it made the rest of the various
industries sore. For that reason
thousands of small and large busi-
ness men pleaded with Roosevelt to
establish something as effective as
NRA if it could be done.
* * *
CABINET CHANGES.
The second term will see some
cabinet changes; and possibly gen-
eral shake up all around. I have
never been able to find much com-
fort in the cabinet as It now stands.
It is not conspicuous for ability,
although it is solidly New Deal and
one hundred per cent honest. That
sounds as if it is unusual for cab-
inets to be honest. I didn’t mean
that; but after the horrifying Tea-
pot Dome scandals of the Harding
administration and the penitentiary
sentence of a cabinet officer for ac-
cepting a bribe in that case, it is
natural to mention something about
the New Deal’s conspicuous lack
of scandal. Think of the billions
spen. and the remarkable fact that
there have been no steals.
Washington now understands that
the cabinet officers to remain are
Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agri
culture, and Cordell Hull, Secretarj
of State. Henry Morgenthau, See
retary of the Treasury, can remain
—but they tell me he wants to be
ambassador to France.
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Uniform
International
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
-LESSON
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDtjUIST.
Dean of the Moody Rible Institute
of Chicago
© Western Newspaper Union
Lesson for November 22
AN AMBASSADOR *N CHAINS
LESSON TEXT—Acts 28:16-24. 30, 31;
Romans 5:6-11.
GOLDEN TEXT—1 can do all things
through Christ which strenghthenetb me.
Phil. 4:13.
PRIMARY TOPIC — In the World’s
Greatest City.
JUNIOR TOPIC—An Ambassador in
Chains.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR
TOPIC—A Prisoner Speaks for Christ.
YCUNG PEOPLE aND ADULT
TOPIC—Chained But Not Silenced.
The rescue of Paul ^om the Jew
ish mob by the Roman autnorities
resulted in consideration oi nis case
on their part to determine what
manner of man he was, and why
his words and actions provoked such
violent reactions among the Jeyvisb
subjects of Rome in Judea. When
it appeared that Festus. who was
procurator, was inclined to turn
him over to the Jews at Jerusalem.
Paul, knowing of their hatred,
makes
I. An Appeal to Caesar (Acts
28:16-19).
It was an act of great signifl
canee, and largely determined the
course of Paul’s life and ministry
until his death. It is a question
upon which there is no little dii
ference of opinion whether Paul was
right in making this aopeal. Per
haps Dr. G. Campbell Morgan has
best gathered up the truth of the
matter in saying, “His way was
that of an attitude revealing for all
time what the duty of the Christian
man is—to be true to his Lord, to
be true to his conscience, to be
loyal to the powers tha+ be, and
to make his appeal to them where
necessary, for protection, in order
that he may continue his work in
accordance with the will of his
Lord.” Paul made no appeal to
save his own life, but ne did want
to continue his ministry. And this
he was permitted to do, for after
he had come to Rome we find him
to be
II. A Prisoner Preacher (vv. 20
24. 30, 31).
He was chained, but not silenced
He was anxious that those in Rome
should “see” and “speak with” him
(v. 20). They knew ot the Christian
“sect” only by rumor as one “which
everywhere is spoken against” (v.
22). He now proclaimed the truth
to them, and with what results?
“Some believed . . . and some
disbelieved” (v. 23). Again, we see
that the greatest of all preachers
met just the same encouragement
and discouragement that wa face.
The witness and messenger is not
judged by the success that crowns
his efforts, but by the faithfulness
with which he discharges his duty.
Let us not condone our own care-
lessness or inefficiency by saying
that even Paul was unsuccessful;
but if we have been faithful and
diligent, let us be encouraged even
though some disbelieve.
Verse 30 indicates that Paul either
had a large measure of liberty, be-
ing permitted even as a prisoner
to dwell in a private house, or that
he was tried and acquitted and con-
tinued to work in Rome for a period
of years. Whichever may be true
we cannot but admire the faithful
testimony of this man upon whose
body time and trials had borne
heavily, but whose spirit was as
young and as powerful as the mes-
sage he presented. And what was
his message? We find it in his
e ii tle to the Roman church. It
was
III. Justification by Faith (Rom.
5:6-11).
Christian men and women are
those who were weak (v. 6), un-
godly (v. 6), unrighteous sinners
(v. 7, 8), and enemies ci God (v.
10). But having heen justified by
his blood (v. 9), they are “saved”
(v. 9). What a beautiful word—
“saved!” Brought back to God,
“reconciled to God through the
death of his Son” (v. 10), we are
indeed saved if we have accepted
him as our Saviour.
This was Paul’s message, and it
is our message to a lost, world.
Trust
Cloudy days are many; bright
days are few; we must catch each
day of sunlight as it comes. In the
east clouds gather, and as they roll
they hide the distant shores from
our sight. The cloud that hides our
future never lifts—blessed shadow!
Who would wish to see one step
along the way! An Unseen Hand
will guide us safely to the other side
if we take firm hold, and ca§t our
care on Him. Better to earn than to
labor; better to trust than to see.
Things Yet to Come
On the imagination God some-
times paints, by dream and sym-
bol, the likeness of things to come.
—What the foolish-wise call fanat-
icism belongs to the sarne part of
us as hope.—Each is the yearning
of the soul for the great “Beyond,”
which attests .our immortality. —.
Bulwer.
Earthly Fame
Earthly fame is shadow which
follows you when unsejught, but flees
before you as you pursue it.—Rev.
Literature a Key
The wealth of beauty to which
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If his choice is wise, it broadens
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the beautiful, teaches him sym-
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lows him to feel emotions which
inspire noble deeds, gives him
higher ambition in life, with a
sense of duty and a desire to ful-
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Bryant, Russell W. The Howe Messenger (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1936, newspaper, November 20, 1936; Howe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996183/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .