The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 231, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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Defense
New* Review
WHO’S
te result has been
ADVENTURERS' CLUB
NEWS
HIADLINIS FROM TH! IIVIS
THIS
WEEK
SECRETARY WALLACE
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side of the stall he poured it on the brick. He poured it on with
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tory about 34 miles in length. .
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(fascism, communism, paganism,
materialism and naturalism) were
the sources of world woes. As dele-
into the feed room, and probably foundering himself. Remember
that bolt. Remember that it’s way down at the bottom of the
door, out of reach of anyone inside. That low-set bolt sensed a
It may be predicted that next win-
ter’s congress will co-ordinate and
tighten the government’s outmoded
anti-spy regulations, including the
teeth against spy
tions. Although the
indulged in peacetime spy activities,
there is speculation whether con-
gress may adopt this activity which
has been an iin portant European
BERNARD BARUCH
He wanted bdliont for de/enie.
on democracies versus dicta-
tors: "Instead of hammering
away at what are regarded as
irreconcilables they could ad-
vantageously bend their ener-
gies toward solving their com-
mon problems.”
U. 8. SEN. ARTHUR CAPPER
on government regulation of
business: "We in America
must see to it that necessary
regulation be thoroughly dem-
much turpentine in the second. The result was startling. The
turpentine sissled and filled the stall with a choking vapor. Rex
began to get restive. Then, suddenly, the turpentine burst into
heads of the German secret service
and naval intelligence, the trial is a
tial international dynamite
that U, 8. Catholics will line up vig-
orously behind German-Austrian
Catholics in the inevitable battle be-
lt was the toughest spot Mary ever was in, but all Adventures come
an end eventually. After what seemed an eternity, the stableman
came back and opened the door., Mary was out of the stall like a
streak. “We repeated the treatment later,” she says, “but this time
the brick was not red hot, and I stayed outside the stall while the tur-
pentine was being applied.” •
Fish research workers claim that
it is possible to make an extensive
collection of insects taken from the
stomachs of trout. There apparent-
self an honest and free man.—Au
bach,
and destructive of
life.”
...............
Rex Was a High-Strung Thoroughbred.
That worked out pretty well, though, for what the green stable hands '
lacked in knowledge and experience, Mary made up with her own.
Mary was born on a ranch in California and had grown up with horses,
Horses were her favorite brand of animal, and she spent a great deal of
her time in the stable seeing that they were well taken care of and not
neglected in any way.
Among the other horses was one, Rex, who was the apple of Mary’s
eye. He was a high-strung thoroughbred, but as gentle as a kitten.
"It always gave me a thrill,” says Mary, "to hear Rex’s
greeting every time he saw me. I gave him twice the care and
attention that I gave any of the other horses. Ho was clever—
almost human in his intelligence.”
And Bex’s cleverness is to take an important part in our
Quotes9
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, U. 8.
The first blood transfusion in the ■ ■ „
world was given in 1492 and was un- M
successful, medical records reveal. >
Three small
cat each for
Growing louder, this voice finally
reached White House ears, coinci-
dentally bringing comment from
Capitalist Bernard Baruch who
chairmaned the war industries
board in 1917.
Emerging from a White House
conference, Mr. Baruch started ob-
servers thinking by warning that U.
S. defenses were inadequate. Though
most Americans regard “defense"
as successful repulsion of a North
American invasion, a broader con-
ception calls for protection of the
entire Western hemisphere. Mr.
Baruch’s defense program includes:
(1) immediate construction of a
“two ocean navy”; (2) increased
air power; (3) better equipment for
400,000 regular soldiers and the na-
tional guard; (4) subsidies to pro-
tect U. S. trade interests in South
America; (5) industrial and milita-
ry mobilization law; (fl) a special
tax to pay for these expenses. .
' Though it lacks official confirma-
tion, President Roosevelt plainly fa-
vors the Baruch program. The sug-
gested tax boost comes dangerously
near election time, but administra-
tion leaders minimize this political
hazard because: (1) most Ameri-
cans regard democracy’s security
as more important thaa financial
security or political partisanship;
(2) a speeded-up military and naval
program, "financed by special tax,
would decrease relief rolls and pos-
sibly create what Germany has
been facing, an actual shortage of
labor. Thus WPA and PWA costs
could be slashed and the budget
balanced.
ture, who can remember the halcyon
days when all surplus wheat and
cotton—the two basic crops—were
bought readily by foreign nations.
But foreign markets are now glut-
ted. American farm surpluses must
either be dumped abroad at any
price foreign buyers are willing Jo
pay, or be left to rot in U. S. gran-
aries. Most people have favored the
latter policy, meanwhile deploring
the economic unbelance. that allows
many U. S. citizens to go hungry
despite bountiful crops.
The easiest remedy would be to
let low prices drive American farm-
ers off the land, but this is socially
inhumane, politically unsound and
economically foolhardy. When the
New Deal started in 1933, AAA was
formulated to pay farmers for lim-
iting their acreage. Funds came
from processing taxes levied against
manufacturers, but ultimately paid
by consumers. When the Supreme
court ruled processing taxes invalid,
a "soil conservation” program whs
sent up to pay farmers for retiring
their land, ostensibly to give it a
rest but actually to limit produc-
tion. Thirty per cent of customs
receipts were set aside to pay for it.
Last spring, with surpluses still
piling up, congress passed a new
farm law, too late to limit produc-
tion this year, which partially ac-
counted for its failure. Under it the
government may (1) control produc-
tion with consent of a majority of
farmers; (2) make payments for re-
tiring land; (3) make additional
"parity” payments as a protection
against less - than - production - cost
prices; (4) loan money against
crops. If compulsory control is en-
forced next year — as provided-
wheat and cotton acreages must be
reduced one half. Agricultural re-
bellion would result.
Still seeking the answer, Secre-
tary Wallace recently tried export
subsidies, which the state depart-
ment’s Undersecretary Francw B.
Sayre condemns as “the uneconom-
ic giving away of our substance to
foreign nations.” Though U. S.
farmers are being subsidized the
difference between export prices
and the domestic market price,
many observers consider it ridicu-
lous to sell surplus foodstuffs abroad
at a loss when several million
Americans are going hungry. Con-
sequently next winter’s congress
will be asked to adopt still another
farm bill, the most far-reaching at-
tempt yet made to kill two birds
with one stone. The birds: farm
problem and poor relief. The Wal-
lace plan: surplus farm products
would be distributed to U. S. low-
income groups instead of being
dumped abroad.
Though the federal surplus com-
Stableman Bolted the Door.
But of course that hot brick with the turpentine sauce was the prin-1
cipal cause of it all.
This is the place where the brick and the turpentine come into the
story. Rex had a cold and, try as she would, Mary couldn’t seem to
check it. She called in a veterinary and he gave her some medicine
for Rex. “And another thing you might try,” he said, "to this. Heat
a brick, pour some turpentine over it, and let the vapor get up hif
nostrils.”
Domestic
Inescapably connected with the
government’s new emphasis on mil-
itary defense against Nazi-Fascist
world powers to President Roose-
velt’s interest in espionage. For 20
years the U. S. has disregarded
spies, though the increasing fre-
quency of arrests has made Amer-
icans fearful of Germany, Italy, Ja-
pan and Russia. ' Heightening. jhe
tensjpn have been: (1) the Munich
agreement which placed democra-
cies on the defensive; (2) arrest in
mid-October of four Germans tak-
ing photographs in the Canal Zone;
(3) trial in New York of four al-
leged Nazi agents, with coincident
efforts to prove indictments against
14 others who escaped the spy net
and fled to Germany.
Greatest interest in the espionage
trial lies in red-haired, 2fl-year-old
Johanna Hoffman, who reportedly
transported spy messages from New
York to Germany while serving as
hairdresser on the liner Europa.
Second interest lies in Guenther
Gustav Rumrich, former U. S. army
sergeant who deserted and made a
blundering attempt to secure 35
passport blanks last June. Legiti-
macy of U. S. fears was verified
when Rumrich pleaded guilty and
turned state’s witness.
Though New York’s spy trial ap-
pears commonplace, its significance
to tremendous. Not only does It
mark an emboldened U. S. defense
attitude, but legal experts also ex-
plain it to the first time America
has named a supposedly friendly
power (Germany) in direct charges.
Since indictments are filed against
J tween Naziism and the church. governmental function for 300 years.
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“Turpentine and a Brick”
Hello everybody:
Everybody has his own recipe for Adventure. Here’s
the favorite one of Mary Doner of 247 Park Ave., New York
City. Take one brick and a cupful of turpentine. Cook the brick
over a hot fire for twenty minutes. Pour the turpentine over it ™
and serve.
Does that sound appetizing? Well stick around a few minutes while
old Francois Gibbons, the Franco-Fenian maestro of the skillet and the
soup ladle, juggles the pans around a bit and dishes you out a plateful
hot from the kitchen of Old Lady Adventure’s hash house. And before
we go any farther I want to tell you that the very aroma of this delect-
able dish to enough to make a horse go crazy.
I don’t know what it will do to you—but here’s the tale of how tt
affected Mary Doner.
About 10 years ago, Mary and her husband lived in Maplewood,
N. J., and horseback riding to a popular sport out in that neck of the
woods. They kept a bunch of saddle horses for their own amusement
and since experienced grooms were impossible to get at the salary they
could afford to pay, they were forced to employ green hands ih the
stable. Y
POPE PIUS XI
He Hepped st Dictator Hithr.
gan . . . I doubt if there to any
problem in the world today that
would not find happy solution in the
spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.”
But the keynote came from Pope
Pius XI, whose six-minute broad-
cast from the Vatican was a direct
slap at Dictator Adolf Hitler, whose
lieutenants had tolerated the Vienna
outrage. Said the pontiff: "We see
many men who hold as valueless -
and reject and spurn those divine
precepts of the gospel which alone
can bring salvation to the human
race. Scarcely can we refrain from
a tear when we behold the eternal
majesty of God himself set aside
and outraged, or with unspeakable
wickedness held up, as an enemy,
to reviling and to execration.”
Sharpest words of all came from
plunging, frantic horse would be coming my way flgain.”
Afraid to Drop Red-Hot Brick.
All that time, Mary was holding the shovel. She didn’t dare set it
down, for the brick was red hot and the floor of the stall was covered
with dry straw. Once the shovel with its blazing contents touched that
straw the whole stable would go up in flames.
And why didn’t Mary just duck out the stall door? Well, there you
have the bolt again. As soon as the flames started shooting up, tho
stableman had run away in panic. The door, remember, was bolted
low down on the outside, and Mary, who to only ftve feet in height,
couldn’t reach down to it. All she could do was hang onto that blazing
shovel, keep it away from the straw—and wait. If she was lucky, th*
flames would die down eventually and Rex could be quieted.
Domestic ‘Dumping’ Favored
In New Farm Relief Proposal
any others living
man, to the author
of "It Costs to Be
’ just
published. Its
mine of previously untold stories
quickly transferred it from the book
page to the news page. Having en-
joyed a long acquaintance with Mr.
Stoddard, I dropped in at his office,
overlooking the Old Park Row which
"formed his genius.”
Close in nearly all his life with
wing-collar statesmanship, he want-
ed to talk about shirt-sleeve news-
papering. The latter allusion had
to do with Hitchcock’s Beanery,
where shirt-sleeved waiters served
ham and beans to printers, stereo-
typers, reporters, editors, and poli-
ticians, who mingled in a shirt-
sleeve forum which Mr. Stoddard
thinks helped, to galvanize the New
York newspapers of that day—from
40 to 50 years ago.
Sixty-two years in newspapering,
Mr. Stoddard is "up from the case,”
a printer on the New York Tribune,
an ace political reporter and for
25 years owner and publisher of the
New York Mail.
"It seems to me that every re-
porter ought to know the smell
of printer’s ink,” he said. "The .
great newspaper of today, with
all its marvelous efficiency, has
lost something stimulating and
vital in no longer having this
mingling of the crafts. I re-
member that, at HKeheoek’s, a
slovenly reporter might bo
called down by one of those om-
niscient old-time printers, or'
perhaps it would be the other
way about, with one of the news-
men berating the press room
foreman, and asking him why
he couldn’t manage a decent
make-ready.
"Theodore Roosevelt used to go to.
Hitchcock’s frequently, perhaps
with Jake Riis or Eddie Riggs of
the New York Sun, and I remember
James Creelman, Julian Ralph and
a . score of then famous politicians
and newspaper men, mingling with
the, men from the mechanical de-
partments, arguing Over the world
war scare, local and national poli-
tics—everything under the sun. It
was something like the free speech
common in early colonial America,
where you could step into the en-
closure and say what you thought
about the king or anybody or any-
thing else.
“The gusto with which T. R. would
dump a bottle of catsup and a slath-
er df mustard on a plate of ham
and beans, or corned beef and
beans, was something worth seeing
and remembering.
"Frequently, these sessions at
Hitchcock’s were a post-mortem
on the paper, just after press
time, in which any story of un-
usual distinction or a clean-cut
news Mat was sure to get a
cheer, and quite as certainly
any of us who had stubbed his
toe was in for a raking over.
My work has made me aa ob-
server of our efforts to estab-
lish true democracy In America.
I have never attempted an exact
* definition of democracy, but,
whatever It is, I am sure it
was exemplified in this craft
ideal of the old-time newspaper.
The spirit seems lost in the
highly departmentalized, mech-
anized and specialized charac-
ter of modern large-scale enter-
prise, not only of newspapers,
but of business in general.”
Stoddard’s family newspaper tra-
dition goes way back into the flat-
bed days. His great-grandfather es-
tablished the Hudson, N. Y., Regis-
ter, in 1787. He learned the print-
er’s trade in his grandfather’s print-
ing office at Hudson. A proofreader
on the Tribune at 15, he read proof
on the famous Tilden Ciper dis-
patches, a reporter soon thereafter,
on the Tribune and the Philadelphia
Press. He wrote tho first daily tele-
graph letter ever sent,out from New
York city.
ain has made plans for conscription
and new airplane factories; France
has appropriated 1,320,000,000 francs
for military spending and 887,000,000
more for her navy; Germany is
rushing fortification of her Belgian
frontier; Italy speeds barriers in the
Alps.
Few Americans have hoped that
tho U. S. can avoid similar prepara-
tions. Loudest persuasion of all has
come from Britain's Winston
Churchill, whose short wave broad-
cast ui ged the U. S. to take a com-
manding lead against dictators, to
join Britain in stopping "isms” bo-
fore it Is too late. Added impetus
has come from current U. S. espion-
age investigations (mo DOMESTIC).
The flames shot up in the stall—and so did Rex. He reared up om
his hind legs and began pawing at the air.
"And I,” says Mary, "was in that stall. Up to that time it had
seemed like a large stall to me. With this fear-maddened horse, 18
hands high, rearing and plunging about me, it seemed no bigger thaq
a telephone booth.
"Tho vapor started to rise in a thick cloud and I couldn’t see
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW YORK.—Henry L. Stoddard,
li onset the best of all American
political reporters, friend of more
Presidents and cabinet officers than
Stoddard on
Shirt-Sleeve
Netospapering
I ALWAYS thought the reason
1 Alice Paul never stayed in jail
long was that she was just a wraith
and floated through the bars. The
_ . . wan, fragile little
TmyFemtmoC feminist. locked
Sets One Coal up many times in
For Stiff raye P«st, now
fans up her Na-
tional Woman's party to the World
Woman’s party, of which she be-
comes temporary chairftian. Its ob-
jective to the abolition of all legal
distinctions between men and wom-
en. to which goal she nariowed tri-
umphant suffrage and to which she
has held it ever since. A tiny wisp
of a woman, she to the living refu-
tation of Schopenhauer’s contention
that will and intelligence never go
together.
modities corporation already dis-
tributes potatoes, prunes, milk and
other minor products not affected by
AAA, the new plan would include
beef, pork, wheat, corn and cotton.
Broadly, it would follow New York
city’s method of selling milk to re-
lief families for eight cents a quart,
the city paying the difference. If
expanded to a national proposition,
the US would pay retailers the
difference between standard price
and cost price.
To pay for it, Secretary Wallace
asks restoration of processing taxes,
which theoretically fall on manufac-
turers but ultimately strike the con-
sumer. Opponents argue that re-
tail prices would rise, that consump-
tion would drop and substitutes
would be encouraged, thereby hurt-
ing the farmer. But since the gov-
ernment hopes to stabilize farm
prices, its counter-argument to that
producers would have steady in-
come and increased purchasing pow-
er, thereby boosting U. S. prosper-
ity. These are the arguments next
winter’s congress will hear.
Business
Even as U. S. business has been
busy reporting declined profits dur-
ing its third 1938 quarter, neighbor-
ing columns of the financial pages
have chronicled what every manu-
facturer and banker knew was com-
ing: A business upturn. At Detroit, .
General Motors led the way by plac-
ing 35,000 men back at work,'mean-
while granting 10 per cent pay
boosts to all employees making less
than $300 a month. Chrysler was a
close second, announcing recall of
34,000 men since%August 1.
The reason was a double one. Oc-
tober, November and December are
normal upturn months, especially in
the automobile industry -’here new
models begin coming off assembly
lines. The other reason, one that
made business hold its tongue in
cheek, to that the full force of U. S.
"pump priming” to just beginning
to take force. Whether this com-
bined natural - artificial stimulant
will keep business going uphill after
January 1 to anybody’s guess.
If it accomplishes nothing else,
the upturn has brought a measure of
industrial peace. Where a month
ago new strike waves were sweep-
ing the nation,- sudden calm has now
descended as industry's wheels
again start turning.
Religion
Had October’s national Eucharis-
tic congress gone' searching for a
discussion theme, it could have
found none better than that which
Nazi Germany tossed into its lap a
fortnight earlier. In Vienna, Theo-
dore Cardinal Innitzer’s St. Ste-
phen’s cathedral had been mobbed,
his palace invaded in protest against
the cardinal’** strong anti-Nazi
stand. By the time 100,000 U. S.
Roman Catholics assembled in New
Orleans, enough sentiment was
crystalized to make the Eucharistic
congress a stomping ground for de-
mocracy and an unpopular place for
dictators.
Messaged Franklin Roosevelt:
"We still remain true to the faith
of our fathers who established re-
ligious liberty when the natioh be-
Agricidture
One feature of the 1938 farm bill
calls for U. S. loans on crops af-
fected by falling prices. When crops
are sold, loans must be repaid. Due
November 1 are repayments on
loans hovering 48,000,000 bushels of
corn. But by midfOctober, with corn
selling on the farm from 33 to 38
cents, and at market for 44 cents,
disgusted farmers saw they would
be money ahead to default on loans
and give Uncle Sam their corn.
Thus, overnight, the U. S. govern-
ment became the world's largest
corn broker.
This to but one phase of a Chinese
puzzle known as the American farm
problem. Since 1933 it has been the
personal headache of Iowa’s Henry
A. Wallace, secretary of agricul-
Hq who cannot wish thst tho wb
world may think and act like hl
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