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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
News of Astronomy
Japan Underestimates
Air, Water, Power
Paradise for Killing
Astronomy marches on. Recent dis-
coveries include 1,700 new variable
stars, used as “yardsticks” to measure
the depths of space, also a new twin
star, a double sun, of which there are
many in the heavens, as there are
many double protons and nuclei inside
of some atoms. The double sun has an
eclipse lasting thirty days. Professor
Shapley of Cleveland tells all about it.
Some of these “yardsticks” of space
have a light fifteen times as great as
that of our sun. Try to imagine that.
Other suns are one million times as big
as our sun, which is a million times
as big as the earth.
Japan and England are friendly.
Japan will not demand naval equality
with England, only with the United
States. Japan suggests a 5-4-4 ratio,
five for England, four for the United
States, four for Japan.
In 1776 our Japanese friends were
locked up in their own islands, no
American having gone to dig them out
and introduce them to the West.
Had they been around this neighbor-
hood in that year they would now com-
pare, differently, the United States
and Britain.
Also, if they knew Franklin D. Roose-
velt, they would know that he will
build, on behalf of the United States,
whatever he thinks the United States
needs, asking no permission from Eng-
land or Japan.
President Roosevelt’s words, prais-
ing workers in the Tennessee valley
for their efficiency, made one of the
most important speeches that he, or
any President or ruler of a country,
ever made.
He promises cheap power. Not all
the plans to drive away depression
could do one-tenth as much as really
cheap power for all.
Nature gave man free air and free
water; not much else is free. If
science and wise government can add
to free air and free water power un-
limited, as nearly free as possible, that
will mean another step toward the
desired millennium.
Cheap power for farms, factories
and homes, cheap power giving the
light necessary for study, power that
means conquest of nature and her
hardships, will free men from slavery.
It is planned, Washington says, to
convert millions of acres of uneco-
nomic land, worthless for farming, into
a “hunter’s paradise.”
On the millions of acres wild ani-
mals will be encouraged to raise, their
families, that noble white men may
have the pleasure of shooting them.
Civilization does progress, but slow-
ly, when the richest and an allegedly
highly intellectual race plans an earth-
ly paradise for killing, imitating the
red Indians’ heavenly hunting ground.
What should we think of our alleged
cousins, the gorillas, if they set aside
a million acres of land in Africa for
the purpose of breeding and killing
human Africans?
Wise ones tell President Roosevelt:
“You can’t expect prosperity until you
balance the budget.”
What Is the magic In balancing the
budget? What is balancing the bud-
get? Do individuals always balance
their budgets in times of emergency?
If a capitalist is building a gigantic
hotel, to cost millions, does he balance
his budget that year or next, or does
he borrow, build, pay back when re-
turns come?
Must the government, trying to build
prosperity at a cost of billions, spend
no more than it takes In?
Isn’t it enough to avoid spending
what you can’t pay ultimately? What
is the great magic in budget balancing?
The way to solve railroad problems,
serious in the United States, with rail-
road trains empty, automobile, motor
trucks taking their business, Is to do
something.
In Germany, where stream-lined
trains were built and run, as they were
in Switzerland, long before anybody
built one here, the director of the
reicli railways announces “stream-
line, Diesel-powered freight engines,
running at 80 miles an hour.”
France considers modification of her
method of fixing the price of wheat.
This country endeavors to increase
wheat prices, and the farmers’ income,
by paying farmers not to plant so
much. Make wheat scarcer, thus make
it dearer. The French, apparently,
have some other plan, which included
encouraging the farmer to plant, all he
could, France being sometimes a wheat-
importing country.
In London, Anthony Eden, Lord
Privy Seal, tells the house of com-
mons that British troops will not be
used to help the French maintain order
in the Saar, soon to decide whether it
wants to be German or French.
The British want their dear conti-
nental friends to be as happy as pos-
sible, but in this decision about the
Saar they say to France: “If you get
into a fight with Germany you may
have that fight all to yourself, with
our best wishes for both sides thrown
in.” War is painful, expensive, and
Uncle Sam has had a ten-billion-dollar
lesson and Is not lending,
©, Kins Features Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
General Butler’s Fantastic Story of Fascist Plot to Seize
the Government—Strike in the Great Steel
P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT Is revel-
U ing in baths and rest at Warm
Springs, Ga., but he is not neglecting
the nation’s business, keeping in close
touch with Washington and receiving
many official visitors. At his first press
conference there he announced with
glad smiles that he would again “lend
his birthday,” January 80, to the na-
tional committee that arranges birth-
day balls all over the country for the
benefit of infantile paralysis sufferers.
Industry Becomes Imminent.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© by Western Newspaper Union.
C| OBER minded American citizens
^ find it difficult to take seriously
the fantastic story that Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler told to the. con-
gressional committee
investigating un-Amer-
ican activities. This
retired officer of ma-
rines charges that
there is a plot, en-
gineered by Wall
street men, to seize
the government of the
United States and set
up a Fascist dictator-
ship, and the chairman
of the committee,. Rep-
resentative John W.
McCormack of New
York, considered the tale of enough im-
portance to warrant the calling of wit-
nesses to prove or disprove it. General
Butler made his story public through
the columns of the New York Evening
Post, as the proceedings - of the com-
mittee are conducted in private.
If Butler is to be believed, he was
approached by Gerald P. MacGuire,
bond salesman in the stock exchange
firm of Grayson M. P. Murphy and
Company, and urged to accept the lead-
ership of a soldier organization of half
a million men “which would assem-
ble—probably a year from now—in
Washington, and that, within a few
days it could take over the functions
of the government.” MacGuire, accord-
ing to the general, thought the over-
turn of the government might be ac-
complished peacefully and suggested
that “we might even go along with
Roosevelt and do with him what Mus-
solini did with the king of Italy.”
Butler’s story continued:
“He told me he believed that at
least half of the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars would fol-
low me.
“MacGuire explained to me that they
had two other candidates for the posi-
tion of ‘Man on the White Horse.’ He
said that if I did not accept an offer
would be made to Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur, chief of staff of the United
States army, and that the third choice
would be Hanford MacNider, former
commander of the American Legion.
“So far as I know, neither General
MacArthur nor MacNider has been ap-
proached. Their names were merely
mentioned as ‘alternates.’ ”
The general said he was offered con-
siderable sums “for expenses” which he
did not accept. He said MacGuire in-
timated that among the backers of the
plan were Mr. Murphy and Col. Robert
S. Clark, a wealthy New Yorker with
offices in the Stock Exchange build-
ing; and he added that later Colonel
Clark offered him money to go to the
American Legion convention in Chi-
cago last year and make a speech for
retention of the gold standard, which
speech MacGuire had previously given
Butler.
Clark, at present In France, admit-
ted he had asked Butler “to use his
influence in favor of sound money and
against inflation,” but strongly denied
that he had sponsored a Fascist move-
ment. He declared he would take ac-
tion for libel against any person ac-
cusing him in such a connection.
Murphy and other Wall street men
said the story was absolutely false
and unutterably ridiculous, and Mac-
Guire, after being heard by the Mc-
Cormack committee, said: “It’s a joke
—a publicity stunt. I know nothing
about It. The matter is made out of
whole cloth. I deny the story complete-
ly.”
CO FAR as the great steel industry
^ is concerned, it appears that the
industrial truce asked by President
Roosevelt cannot be arranged, and the
prospect of a strike of the steel work-
ers is growing.
In behalf of the United States Steel
corporation, a proposal was made to
the American Federation of Labor that
recognition of that organization would
be granted, but that no contract would
be made. This proposal, it was said,
would be agreed to by 85 per cent of
the steel industry.
The labor spokesmen, led by William
Green, president of the A. F of L., re-
jected the tender on the ground that
it was hedged about in such a way to
permit collective bargaining with mi-
nority groups or company unions, and
that the employers were still unwilling
to accept the principle of majority rule
as set forth in the national labor re-
lations board’s decision in the Houde
case.
If a rupture comes the Federation
of Labor may find the federal govern-
ment rather unsympathetic. Mr. Green’s
Influence in the WTiite House has been
waning noticeably and he has had no
personal contacts with the President
for some time.
New Yorkers with offices In sky-
scrapers were gladdened by the news
that a threatened strike of elevator
operators had been averted and an
agreement, drafted by Mayor La
Guardia’s board of arbitration, had
been signed by representatives of the
real estate interests and the union.
The union withdrew its demand for a
closed shop; and standards of wages
and hours in various types of buildings
will be worked out by a committee of
three arbiters, with the union recog-
nized as the bargaining agent for the
employees.
t) Y ORDER of the national labor re-
lations board there will be held
soon a great workers’ election which
will determine whether organized labor
shall dominate the country’s rubber in-
dustry.
The board decreed that the Fire-
stone Tire and Rubber company and
the B. F. Goodrich company of Akron,
Ohio, must allow their employees to
ballot on the question of whether they
want a company union or an American
Federation of Labor union to represent
them in collective bargaining under the
NRA.
Twenty-one thousand workers, the
largest number ever polled by the labor
board on an NRA question, will par-
ticipate in the election. In addition
another 15,000 workers of the Good-
year Rubber company may ballot on
the same question. The Goodyear an-
gle of the case has not yet been passed
upon by the board.
Both the Firestone and Goodrich
companies have opposed the elections
now7 ordered, maintaining that condi-
tions in their plants are satisfactory
and that electioneering in rival unions
would only disturb the peace among the
workers.
T-'vONALD R. RICHBERG, executive
-L' director of the national emergency
council and now perhaps the Presi-
dent’s chief adviser, addressing the As-
sociated Grocers of America at their
convention In New York, proposed the
creation of a new federal body, com-
bining functions of the NRA and the
federal trade commission, to define and
regulate concerted trade action in the
“twilight zone” under antitrust laws.
Discussing the program for perma-
nent NRA legislation, he reiterated his
opposition to control of prices and pro-
duction. He said the fixing of mini-
mum wages and maximum hours had
demonstrated its soundness for elimi-
nating the worst forms of unfair com-
petition in treatment of employees, and
that admittedly dishonest business prac-
tices should be proscribed.
PHILADELPHIA lawyers are tradl-
U tionally supposed to be able to
unravel the worst of tangles, so Presi-
has picked one to be
chairman of the na-
tional labor relations
board. He is Francis
Biddle, of the famous
family of that name,
and he succeeds Lloyd
K. Garrison, who re-
tired from the chair-
manship to resume his
duties as dean of the
law school of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.
Francis Biddle has
been engaged in law
practice as a member of the Phila-
delphia firm of Barnes, Biddle, and
Meyers. He served from 1922 to 1926
as assistant district attorney for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania. In
his new post his task will be the set-
tlement of labor disputes arising out
of the recovery act, especially those
involving collective bargaining.
rpRANCE is worried by the admitted
I1 fact that Germany has developed a
military air fleet of considerable size,
composed of modern pursuit and bomb-
ing planes, and Gen. Victor Denain,
French minister of air, estimates that
by January the reich will have from
1,000 to 1,100 of these machines, swift-
er and better than those possessed by
France. Consequently he has asked the
chamber of deputies for about $230,-
000,000 to finance a program for re-
covering the ground lost by French
aviation. The task is already under
way, $32,500,000 having been spent oul?
of an appropriation for modernization.
TTUGH R. WILSON, American am-
11 bassador to Switzerland, laid be-
fore the disarmament conference In
Geneva a proposal by the United
States for international control of
arms traffic and full publicity to pre-
vent secret arming of nations. The
proposal was well received by most
of the delegates, and it will be studied
by committees in January.
By the American plan each govern-
ment would license its manufacturers
of munitions for five year periods. No
reserve stocks would be allowed and
manufacturers would be required to
present bona fide orders before receiv-
ing a license. Details of war vessels
built for other nations would have to
be reported. Reports of licenses and
orders would be turned over to a cen-
tral committee at Geneva and made
a matter of public record. A perma-
nent commission, including a mem-
ber from each signatory nation, would
be empowered to investigate transac-
tions.
XTOTABLES of the Catholic church
gathered in Chicago from all
parts of the world to take part in the
silver jubilee of Cardinal Mundelein,
who was consecrated a bishop 25 years
ago. The pope sent his personal greet-
ings and his blessing.
/COMPTROLLER GENERAL J. R.
^ M’CARL has thrown a monkey-
wrench into part of the machinery of
Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop-
kins. Turrfing down a check from Hop-
kins to the officials of the District of
Columbia which was to have .started
work on a housing development, Mr.
McCarl held that the federal emergen-
cy relief act, providing for the grant-
ing of funds for various relief pur-
poses, could not apply to the acquisi-
tion of real estate and the construc-
tion of homes. This type of activity,
he said, would be of a permanent and
not an emergency nature, and the act
was adopted to meet emergencies.
rThe FERA already has under way
a program of “rehabilitating” 80,000
farm families in homes and on land
to be sold to them by the government.
\/TORE and more it becomes evident
•*■*■*' that President Roosevelt intends
to pursue a middle of the road policy
in his efforts for national recovery, and
that in the over-
whelmingly Democrat-
ic next congress there
will be no one faction
strong enough to dic-
tate to him. The Chief
Executive and the
business leaders of
the country are grad-
ually coming together,
and if and when they
reach an accord on
methods it will be
found that a good
many of the more radical ideas of the
brain trusters will have been discard-
ed. The best minds in industry and
finance are no longer standing back
and merely criticizing. They are tak-
ing an active part in planning for the
future welfare of the nation. Here-
with are summarized some of the im-
portant new developments in this di-
rection :
President Henry I. Harriman of the
United States Chamber of Commerce,
in pursuance of a resolution adopted
by the board of directors, has appoint-
ed a committee of six men, headed by
Silas Strawn of Chicago, to co-operate
with other business and agricultural
associations in drafting plans for the
recovery of business. The board of the
chamber endorsed the continuation of
relief and housing, but signified that
business is still opposed to the unbal-
anced budget, further reduction of
working hours as embodied in the
movement for a 30-hour week, new and
unprecedented outlays for public
works, continuance of the NRA, the
doctrine of majority rule in collective
bargaining, and unemployment insur-
ance.
Through the National Association of
Manufacturers, invitations were sent
to every manufacturer in the United
States to attend a national industrial
conference in New York on December
5 to draft “constructive recommenda-
tions” for presentation to President
Roosevelt.
In a petition addressed to the Presi-
dent and congress the National Econ-
omy league has presented a definite
program for balancing the federal bud-
get in the coming fiscal year, holding
that only by balancing the budget can
sustained national recovery be accom-
plished. The petition proposes heavy
reductions in government expenditures
and additional taxes totaling $935,000,-
000.
x TOT so pleasing to the industrialists
UN were the two speeches the Presi-
dent delivered during his inspection of
the Tennessee valley project, for If his
predictions are borne out, his “revolu-
tion” will bring about the death of pri-
vate enterprise in the power industry.
At Tupelo, Miss., he declared himself
flatly for public ownership of public
utilities, saying: “What you are do-
ing here is going to be copied In every
state in the Union before we are
through”; the allusion being to the
fact that Tupelo has contracted for
TVA power.
In Birmingham the President said:
“I am aware that a few of your citizen-
ry are leaving no stone unturned to
block and harass and delay this great
national program. I am confident,
however, that these obstructionists, few
in number in comparison with the
whole population, do not reflect the
views of the overwhelming majority.
“I know, too, that the overwhelm-
ing majority of your business men, big
and little, are in hearty accord with
the great undertaking of regional plan-
ning now being carried forward.”
iyORTY-FIVE new bills were pushed
F through the Louisiana legislature
in five days with Senator Huey Long
on the rostrum telling the legislators
just what to do, but seldom stopping
to tell them why. The “Kingfish” says
he now is in position to make the state
a Utopia, or rather, in his own words,
“the kind of state nobody has dreamed
of.” It is the general belief that he
hopes his “share the wealth” program
will ultimately land him in the White
House.
The senator’s most ambitious legis-
lation is the statute proclaiming a two-
year moratorium for harassed debtors.
Another bill sets up a civil service
commission, composed of state admin-
istration leaders, with power to re-
move police and fire chiefs. That will
give Long control of virtually all mu-
nicipal policemen and firemen. Long
said the bill was intended to take them
“out of politics.”
Gen. Smedley
D. Butler
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Chair backs and arm rests in
crochet have been used for gener-
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ular for practical and decorative pur-
poses.
How much more inviting is a chair
that has this added personal touch
and in a design that stands out clear-
ly on a dark background.
This set in a conventional tulip
design is easy work even for the in-
experienced. The large filet stitch
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The chair back measures 10 by 14
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A looser stitch will produce a larg-
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Millions of Cars Junked
Fifteen million automobiles have
been junked in the United States
since 1930—and about a fifth of that
number were manufactured prior to
1927. But in spite of this, there re-
main in use some 9,000,000 automo-
biles which are more than seven
years old. The life of the average
automobile of 1934 is estimated at
eight years, as compared to an av-
erage of seven years in 1929. Since
1930 a total of about 10,200,000 new
cars have been sold.
Close View of Forces
Dame Nature Unchains
The Glacial age is past, but the
glaciers that still remain on the face
of the earth continue to put on live-
ly shows which gives us some con-
ception of the forces that carved
mountains and chasms millions of
years ago.
Visiting the huge Mendenhall
glacier a few miles out of Juneau*
Alaska, a few weeks ago, a cor-
respondent writes, we watched it
toss thousands of tons of ice from
its deep blue grotto into the rushing
Mendenhall river. Each crash of ice
falling from the roof of the cave
comes like a bombardment In the
great war. The thundering echoes
roll around the mountain sides for
10 or 15 minutes.
The brilliant blue of the glacier,
stretching away as far as the eye
can reach and farther, the turmoil
of the river and cataract, are awe-
inspiring enough. But when the roar
of breaking ice comes and the
ground quivers beneath one. while
icebergs as big as a house tear past
us down the river, it is almost too
awful for comfort—one of those
things you have nightmares about on
quiet nights, but also one of those
experiences you always want to re-
member.
He Shouldn’t
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money in the stock exchange crash.
Bessie—I bet you feel sorry for
him.
Edithe—Yes, he’ll miss me.
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