The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 1936 Page: 2 of 8
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Bute.—Reclining on har aide,
te* body eewered with gold, gold
necklaces. on har
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discover tha wall*
preserved Mr at
an Egyptian prin
casa whose fa*
tfeer, tha Pharoah
Chephren, built
tha second big-
gest pyramid; it
was Us brother,
Chaops, who built
the largest.
Those pyramids
were tombs for
kings, and search-
tha princess in one of
them. The Nile mud seeping into
tha tomb had helped to preserve
That princess, living 9,000 years
■go, could tell an interesting story
lor tha moviea. She "built herself
• email pyramid with stones given
la har bar har many lovers." Where
do you suppose she is now? In
same strange Egyptian heaven,
perhaps, with all those admirers
around her.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Drouth Damage Estimated at $300,000,000—Steel Fight
Brings Union Labor Crisis—Landon Reconvenes
Kansas Legislature*
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
• «HUn Newspaper Uoioa.
alarmed by European
threata, issues an official
paper" explaining why—
"U relation of our own armed
tercoa to those of other great pow-
ers should be maintained at a fig-
ure high enough to enable us to
exercise our influence and authori-
ty in international affairs."
Unfortunately for all plans, the
airplane in the hands of a des-
perate nation might upset all na-
tional "authority." just as a pistol
in the hands of a desperate man
upsets individual and police au-
thority.
One bullet will stretch individ-
ual authority in the dust; 1,000 air-
planes, attacking the heart of a
great city, might cause national
"authority" to end in demoraliza-
tion.
England's new defense increase
will be largely in her air force;
that wise nation knows that the
real "ocean" in future wars will
be the ocean of the air.
In a desert of southeastern Utah,
men and women, belonging to the
cult of "truth seekers," were gath-
ered around the body of Mrs. Edith
Oakhal, who died more than a year
ago. You read about it, perhaps.
Mrs. Ogden, leader of the "truth
aeekers." prayed over the body,
which appeared marvelousiy pre-
served. The "truth seekers" be-
lieve they will bring the woman
back to life, but the pathetic fact
is that it would not in the least
matter if they did.
The important thing is to im-
prove the condition of 1.800,000,(XK)
actually living on the earth. For
one safely out of it to be brought
back would be unimportant, in
these days, and perhaps cruel.
America holds the world's "mur-
der championship" for all kinds of
murder, at all ages—quantity, qual-
ity. variety, volume.
A New Jersey boy. 16 years aid,
was sentenced to death
In Wiaconsin, a coroner reports
that little David Holl. two months
old. was killed by two boys four
and three years of uge.
They each held one hand of the
younger one, and dropped it on the
floor. It cried and would not stop.
Then, one of the small boys ex-
plained. "We pounded him."
These youngest "killers" puzzle the
law. You can't "try" a four-year-
old child.
Railroads tell the interstate com-
merce commission they would like
fares reduced to two and a half
cents a mile, instead of two cents.
The railroads should have oil possi-
ble consideration, for they have
built up this country, but at two
and • half cents a mil* they will
net compete successfully with auto-
mobiles carrying passenger* for
owf-quarter of a cent a mile.
New York proposes to fingerprint
everybody, new babies included.
The baby of the future will be
busy, with finger-printing, tonsil
and appendix removal, vaccination
far smallpox and a half dozen oth-
er diseases.
XITHILE relentless heat drove
** the nation'! farm losses from
drouth toward the $900,000,000
mark and sent grain pricea soar-
ing, long needed rains in scat-
tered regions of the drouth belt
brought temporary relief. In sec-
tions of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and
Ohio, which faced the prospect of
the disaster already confronting the
Northwest, the rains were a God-
send to sun-parched corn fields,
pastures, and crops of spring
wheat. Rains in the Northwest re-
vived portions of North and South
Dakota, Montana and Nebraska.
But a.heat wave lasting nearly a
week had brought temperatures
ranging from 00 to 114 in the Great
Plains territory.
Twenty-three states, eight of
them in the South, were listed as
suffering in some degree from the
drouth. Ten of them—North and
South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming,
Minnesota, Missouri, Tennessee,
Oklahoma, Virginia and South Car-
olina—were already in a critical
stage. Five others — Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina
and West Virginia—were borderline
cases. Eight others where the full
severity of the drouth had not yet
been felt were: Nebraaka, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Kan-
sas, Indiana and Ohio.
With the full extent of the dam-
age in the "dust bowl" area of the
Northwest not yet known, the fed-
eral government made plans to
deal with a long-range disaster.
President Roosevelt, taking person-
al command of the relief program
in Washington, announced that he
would make a personal tour of the
drouth-stricken areas within the
next few weeks.
The President announced that the
federal government had prepared
a comprehensive plan whereby
170,000 out of 204,000 farm families
impoverished by the drouth in the
Northwest would be given immedi-
ate cash assistance. He declared
that he will make his trip after the
relief program has had an opportu-
nity to get under way, to see for
himself exactly how much damage
was caused by the drouth and
whether financially-ruined families
are receiving the proper assistance.
He said that 50,000 farmers were
being given jobs immediately on
WPA projects at an average wage
of $15 per week, carrying out use-
ful work—digging wells, construct-
ing earth dams to 'old any rains
which may fall in. the near future
and building farm-to-market roads.
A livestock program is under way
which would call for the movement
of cattle from the arid sections as
a private enterprise, to protect the
foundation herds of the livestock
growers.
William
Green
ROMANCE outmaneuvered diplo-
macy in the life of Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Owen. American minis-
Denmark and former
member of con-
gress. The engage-
ment of the daugh-
ter of William Jen-
nings Bryan to Cap-
tain Boerge Rohde.
an officer of the
Danish army, was
announced in Den-
mark by the lat-
ter'# mother. Cap-
tain Rohde is a
member of King
Christian's personal
bodyguard.
Captain Rohde arrived in Amer-
ica on the liner Drottnmgholm a
day or two after hts fiancee had
reached the country. They were
married ;.t an estate on Long Island.
In political circles the opinion
was expressed tha* Mrs. Owen will
probably resign her diplomatic post
in a short time. While there are
no formal regulations which com-
pel an A nerican woman minister
to resign when she weds, it has
been customary for women in mi-
nor positions in the American for-
eign service to retire when they
marry.
Rath Bryan
Owen
Tha new treaty with France, ra-
the duty on French wines
t>rs by SO per cent, inter-
ornia and other wine
gianteg states. It should persuade
them to stabilize the production of
wines, eatabUeh Official guarantees
(d purity, freedom from adultera-
tions, mixtures, and especially
"Jssttfrteg" with alcohol
to Europe, notably in Prance.
of wines « an offense
tha Isw. With ua, K is a
/"GOVERNOR Alf M, Landon re-
turned to Topcka, Kas . after
a vacation in the Colorado moun-
tains, for the reconvening of the
atate legislature and to prepare
for the acceptance speech he will
deliver at the Republican notifica-
tion ceremonies July J3.
The Republican presidential nom-
inee appeared before a joint sea-
aion of the legislature and urged
passage of amendmenta to the atate
constitution to provide adequate so-
cial security measures. Governor
Landon declared that care of the
needy aged and others suffering
misfortunes is a "public <-bliga-
lion."
Following his address, the Kan-
sas senate adopted a constitutional
smendment by • vote erf 35 te 1,
empowering tha legislature to en-
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wise passed by a unanimous vote
another propoaed constitutional
amendment authorising the state to
levy taxee on employers and em-
ployeee tor systems of old age pen-
sions and unemployment inaurance
to which the beneficiary must con-
tribute.
Meanwhile, Governor Landon
opened a aeries of major confer-
ences with farm leaders for the
purpose of drafting a farm relief
program tor inclusion in his ac-
ceptance speech. He conferred with
former Governor Frsnk O. Lowden
of Illinois, and former Senator Otia
F. Glenn, Senator Arthur Capper of
Kapsas, Representative Clifford
Hope of Kansas and R. K. Liuben-
gayer, a Kansas farm publisher.
A S THE long-awaited campaign
f* to unionise the nation's steel
industry was under way, one of the
most seriotu crises in the history of
the American labor
movement arose
when strife broke
out between Wil-
liam Green, presi-
dent of the Ameri-
csn Federation of
Labor and John L.
Lewis, president of
the United Mine
Workers of America
and head of the
Committee for In-
dustrial Organiza-
tion, who has pro-
moted the unionization drive in the
steel industry.
Meeting in Washington, the exec-
utive council of the American Fed-
eration of Labor considered the
matter of suspending eight national
and international unions on the
ground that these eight union:, have
begun the formation of a rival, or
duel labor federation.
John L. Lewis announced that he
would not respond to a summons
of the executive council to answer
charges that he had violated the
federation's policy by trying to or-
ganize 500,000 steel workers into
one big industrial union instead of
into several unions divided by
crafts.
Should the rift widen and a break
occur, observers believe it would
split the organized labor movement
and affect its prestige and power
at a critical time.
Denouncing the action of the
Lewis group, President Green de-
clared:
"It is sincerely to be regretted
that the committee for industrial
organization thwarted the purpose
of the American Federation of La-
bor to inaugurate an organizing
campaign in the steel industry."
Back of the collision over the at-
tempted unionization of the steel
industry are two contending schools
of thought over the future of or-
ganized labor in America. One is
that sponsored by Mr. Green which
rose to power on a policy of trained
craftsmen, trained by crafts The
other is championed by John L.
Lewis who visions a powerful labor
machine organized regardless' of
crafts, which includes the semi-
skilled and unskilled workers as
well as the trained craftsmen.
DEFYING the threats of Com-
munist members of the cham-
ber of deputies, the French gov-
ernment decided to use armed
force "with care" to oust French
strikers who refiu: • to evacuate
their places of business.
The announcement of this new
policy was made by Minister of
the Interior Roger Salengro, fol-
lowing the outbreak of fresh "fold-
ed arm" strikes in Psris and the
provinces. It was estimated, that
80,000 workers were still o« strike
in various industries throughout
France.
SENATOR William E. Borah,
about whose future political
plans considerable doubt exist-
ed, formally announced
would be a candi-
date for re-election
to the senate.
Several days be-
fore makii.gthis an-
nouncement the
1 d<s h o statesman
had pledged alle-
giance to the Re-
publican ticket and
platform, thus re-
moving the ex-
pressed doubts of
many political lead-
ers throughout the
country regarding his stand in the
prestdsnttal campaign. Previously
Senator Borah had commented fa
voraMy on both the Republican and
Demnttntic platforms, praising
fctfh tar the stand they had taken
on tea question of monopolies
Tha aeventy-one-year-old senator
* Ma pmttim w the Re-
- platform §■*:
tttanaf bolting the
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Third Party Leader
Advances No Real
Constructive Ideas;
Civil Service
By EARL GODWIN
ASHINGTON.—Sooner or
inter the sham in a candi-
date showa up during a
campaign—if he has a
weak spot. I'm afraid that Repre-
sentative William Lemhe of North
Dakota, candidate tor the presiden-
cy on the so-called Union party
ticket, has expoaed himself as a
political fraud before he aver had
a chance to ehow the statesman in
him.: Remember, I predicted tead-
erahip tor Bill Lemke at the time
his cheap-farm-mortgage bill was
defeated in the house? Well, he
got tha backing of the radio priest
Father Coughlin, choee a labor un-
ion attorney from Boston ss vice-
president, and announced a new
party favoring liberal ideas about
cheap money; pensions tor fifty-
year oldsters, and a lot of other
gUt promises. What he may do is
help elect reactionary Alf Landon,
and thus spoil everybody's chances
of a really liberal government for
the average man. Lemke haa no
chance of election. He has little
chance of anything in thie cam-
paign—but he is a threat to Roose-
velt if he can launch himself in
enough states with sufficient party
machinery. For that reason there
is every suspicion that Lemke, if
he is financed, will be owing the
reactionaries for his sinews of war.
Well, instead of introducing him-
self to the country with a really
constructive idea, he sails into the
limelight on pure bunk, if I ever
heard it. He promises 0,000 Iowa
farmers that if and when he is
elected, anyone can walk right in-
to his office and have a really
friendly time. He gives the im-
pression that the world can walk
right in on him and pass the time
of day.
This is a very seductive prom-
ise. It makes the average listen-
er feel that the candidate really
needs the hourly handclasp, plus
the advice of the average man,
and that the four Lemke years
would be just one grand public
reception. Every man's yearning
to tell the President of the United
States just what to do will be ful-
filled and satisfied when Bill Lem-
ke is elected!
The trouble about that is this:
You can't run the President's job
and talk casually to the mass of
people, any more than you can run
a delicate airplane and permit
everybody to come and play with
you in the control room. I think
the President's job is the most ex-
acting one in the government.
What Lemke is really aiming at
is the vice-president's job, or the
soft job of sitting outside a little
used committee room doorway in
the senate office building.
The President has to carry out
so many individual duties laid on
him by acts of congress that he
doesn't hove a chance to talk to
tiie people he would really like to
see. He has personally to sign so
many papers that hours each week
are thus consumed. He cannot del-
egate these duties to secretaries
or deputies—congress makes the
President work, and work hard. In
fact, he works so hard and so in-
tently that even members of his
own staff do not have a chance
to see him except on special oc-
casion.
Smmfm B
FULL STORY OF AAA
In the polished steel recesses of
the new Archives building, where
the government's final papers are
laid to rest, will now remain for
all time the official story of the
AAA from the moment it started to
the moment it ended under the
hammer blows of the United States
Supreme court. A 317-page report
from Chester Davis, the former ad-
ministrator for AAA, now a mem-
ber of the Federal Reserve board,
tells the whole story.
I am impressed with Chester Da-
vis' emphasis on the legal diffi-
culties. It gives me the impres-
sion that some day when we have
risen higher in national intelligence,
we will use that intelligence to lo-
cate a path of realism rather than
permit ourselves to be run by le-
gal technicalities. The AAA report
is an eloquent pier for less law,
fewer lawyers, and more light on
ways and means of doing things
directly.
The money story of AAA has
been told in several ways. Here's
the final sum total:
In ti e three AAA yeara cash in-
"ine from the five major commod-
ities under AAA—cotton, wheat, to-
bacco. corn and hogs, rose from
SI.365.000.000 in 1932 to $3,803,000.-
000 in IMS. Cash income from all
other products rose fromW,012,000.-
U00 to >4.307,000,000. Three-fourths
of the gain was from increase in
prices; the remaining 25 per cent
from benefit pnynitnts The turn-
ing paint ill agricultural fortunes
* vtth the operation
the farm
1 >L .a-
lermore. tha farm
■slues increased,
the M lMk to
Mgtairtitemqfr
toy It due te fcnpmemsnt of
farm teemis.
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Civil. 8KB VICE
Hit administration seems to mo
te be very patient under the at-
tacks of critics who keep saying
thst Roosevelt has extended the old-
fashioned political spoils system
and ruined the civil service. The
administration, by presidential or-
der or act of congress, has re-
moved the greedy hand Of the poli-
tician from 13 governmental agen-
cies—and as far as I know ho op-
ponent of theirs has ever men-
tioned it yet. Incidentally, most
of the agencies which have moved
over into the civil service are agen-
cies of social justice, carrying out
the President's good neighbor
ideal.
The list is headed by the New
Deal's flail for driving crooked
money changers out of the temple
of finance. I refer to the securities
and exchange commission, which
is daily making it harder for
crooks to flood the country with
fake stock. Old Dealers tread soft-
ly in mentioning the work of the
present sdministration in 'cleaning
up the field of stock and bond sell-
ing—because there is still plainly
visible the mark of ruin left by
•itch institutions as the Insull em-
pire.
The federal communications
commission has come under the
civil service. That commission
protects the telephone and radio
fields from piracies, and will be
a strong hand in keeping down tele-
phone rates. The socisl security
board, with its old age pension
policies, and aid to the inArm, the
aged, and underprivileged chil-
dren, is now under civil service-
far removed from the politicians'
appointing hands. The Farm Cred-
it administration, developed by this
administration into an agency po-
tentially as powerful in agriculture
as the Federal Reserve system in
other fields, is under civil service
now. There's an achievement to
be proud of, yet you never hear the
yelping critics make mention of it.
Now you would think that the
great Republican party, which has
been so pure about appointments in
the past (!) would have jumped in
the air and clapped three times
for the opportunity it had in the
last hours of congress to help put
all postmasterships in the civil
service. Most of them are there
now; but the big plums are still
appointive jobs, and politics is like-
ly to rule instead of merit. It
takes an act of congress to make
such a change, but Roosevelt has
indicated that he wants the civil
service extended as rapidly as pos-
sible. Well, the Republicans have
it on their record now that they
managed to block that bill. They
can't conscientiously charge Roose-
velt with preferring politics to mer-
it because they themselves, by par-
liamentary tactics, prevented this
reform. Apparently they would
rather have the situation just as it
is—-smearing and criticizing—but
refusing to help matters. Dogs in
the manger could not have played
a more destructive role.
• • •
ROOSEVELT'S SMART MOVE
When the emergency organiza-
tions were thrown together in 1933'
to stop the panic and feed the hun-
gry, there were not enough persons
on the civil service rolls to fill the
jobs necessary. Roosevelt did the
smart thing—he got the emergen-
cy organizations working by the
quickest method—and then looked
around to see how many should be
retained and put under civil serv-
ice. He took a look at the crip-
pled civil service commission (the
official body which secures and
distributes employees for the gov-
ernment on strict merit)—and
managed to get for it the money
urgently needed to start competi-
tive examinations throughout the
country to get trained personnel.
Politics is taboo in the civil serv-
ice commission. I have been there
several times, and honestly I'd be
just about as welcome, if I went
in to talk politics, as if I had
brought a case of smallpox with
me.
Roosevelt's critics dazzle the
public with a lot of figures which
attempt to show that the Presi-
dent has stuffed about a quarter
of a million deserving Democrats
into government Jobs instead of let-
ting the civil service appoint meri-
torious Americans regardless of
party. The facts, however, do not
bear this out. Non-civil service
jobs, as I have explained, are
emergency matters. They will lie
wiped out as the emergency dis-
solves, or if important enough to
be made permanent they will be
moved over into the civil service.
Meantime, it is becoming the rule
in Washington to require civil serv-
ice ratings and standards. All in
all, the charge that Roosevelt is
engoged in debauching the civil
service is more than bunk—it is n
dangerous lie.
Governor Landon has advocated
the extension of the merit system
in the national government. Hie
previous record is of interest in
this n nnection. Although Kansas
has on its statute books a civil
service law, no appropriation for
its enforcement has boon made
oince 1019. This include* the four
years of Governor London's ad-
ministration. There ia no record
of any effort on his part to eecuiw
such an appropriation.
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