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THE WEST NEWS
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
A>r* Review •/ Current Event*
"REFORM" BILL PASSED
Measure Giving President Vast Powers Squeezes Through
Senate ... Mussolini Ready for War
XTEW YORK. - Leslie Hore-Be-
»v lisha. British secretary of war,
made himself somewhat of a na-
tional hero several months ago
, . when he shook up
Britain in the army com-
Roce to Cot mand, upped the
Army Ready youngsters and
sent the oldsters
back to their club chairs. The re-
port of his ultimatum demanding a
change of foreign policy is a stand-
out in the current news.
There was something like conster-
nation among British conservatives
early in 1937, when Prime Minister
Chamberlain named the incidentally
Jewish Mr. Hore-Belisha for the
war post. There was no hint of
anti-Semitism in their attitude, but
Just then certain optimists among
them were trying to tool Britain
into the German orbit, and there
were alarmed predictions that Hit-
ler would be enraged and seek quick
vengeance.
That didn't come off. and the
new war secretary started a
whirlwind army clean up and
all-around reconditioning cam-
paign, te the satisfaction of ail
hands. Seventy-nlae-year-old Sir
lan Hamilton, who had been in
command at the Dardanelles,
said, “Thank God we are under
a proper soldier and will not be
shot sitting down.”
He has spent a lot of time badger-
ing his eiders, and still has many
of them to work
on, as he is only
forty-three. When,
a brash young Ox-
onian, he ran for
parliament, his opponent tagged
him as "the nonentity of the col-
lege bench." He nailed this on his
mast-head, spoofed the opposition
cleverly, and romped in.
He was a dispatch carrier in the
war, then a major, a reporter on
a London newspaper, with conveni-
ent underground pipelines to the
front page and the headlines.
He became financial secretary
at the treasury in 1932 and later
minister of transportation. He
is a demon for detail and has
swarmed all over England, in-
specting equipment, barracks
aad army kitchens.
He is of medium stature, round-
headed, with roached, graying hair,
unmarried and given to night for-
ays, checking this or that detail of
the military establishment
und the
ONAL
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APITAL
Carter Field ^
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the senate finance
committee, is here seen telling members ot the press what his committee
had done and proposed to do to the revenue measure se that it would be
less objectionable to business and to the country in general. It already
had made radical changes in thq, bill as it was passed by the boose.
w QnMMiPi7rc mir uunDT.r
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
e Wwt.ni N»wap,p*r Uatoa.
Wide Power* for President
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S reor-
1 ganizatkm bill squeezed through
Clooor at
Badgering
HU Elder,
A T LEAST six times in the past
ISO years, the Rothschilds have
been counted out, and they have
always come back—like John Bar-
_ _ ley com and Old
Conquerors King Cotton. Now
Old Staff to the arrest of Bar-
Bank Family »“ Louis von;
Rothschild is re- 1
ported from Vienna. The era which
founded their dynasty was disquiet-
infly like this one. The Romanoffs,
and the Hapsburgs, Mattemich and
Disraeli and all the other kings,
conquerors and statesmen came to
terms with them.
Baron Louis is the head of the
house. The catastrophic fall of the ;
Creditanstalt bank of Vienna in 1931
was supposed to have wrecked
them.
the senate by the close vote of 49
to 42, after a fierce fight. A mo-
tion to recommit, which would have
virtually killed the measure, was
defeated by a vote of 48 to 43.
Opponents of this bill are con-
vinced that it paves the way for
a dictatorship in the United States.
Mr. Roosevelt made public a let-
ter to a friend in which he dis-
claimed any intention to become a
dictator under the powers granted
him by the bill. He said he was
firmly opposed to an American dic-
tatorship and that he has none
of the qualifications which would
make him a successful dictator.
The special reorganization com-
mittee of the house reported a new
bill as a substitute for the senate
measure but differing from it only
slightly. Us speedy passage was
predicted by Majority Leader Ray-
bum.
The bill, as it was passed by the
senate, authorizes the President,
by executive order, to transfer, re-
group, co-ordinate, consolidate, seg-
regate the whole or any part ot or
abolish any of the 135 bureaus, agen-
cies, and divisions of government
Excepted from this section, how-
ever, are the federal reserve board,
the corps of engineer* of the Unit-
ed States army and the independent,
quasi-judicial and regulatory estab-
lishments, such as the board of tax
appeals, the communications com-
mission, the federal trade com-
mission, the interstate commerce
commission, and the national labor
relations board.
It abolishes the civil service com-
mission as now constituted, and the
general accounting office. It cre-
ates a new "department of wel-
fare,” and it authorizes six more
$10,000 a year assistants to the Pres-
ident.
—*—
A few weeks later, they were
shoveling money into American
seenntiei, and. it was reported,
snagging a stray million here
aad there by a fast overseas
play an francs, an eld family
Louis and his brother, Alphonse,
were living in regal splendor when
the Creditanstalt
Door Fork, failed. They bad
and Cootie, great estates and
Faded Away maginificent art
gallaries, shooting
lodges, a huge Franz Lehar chorus
of retainers, deer parks and a brace
ot medieval castles. Much of these
holdings slipped away, as Louis,
with somewhat less than the usual
family zest and acumen in finan-
cial affairs, turned to a study of
philosophy and the arts.
It is 13J years since Napoleon,
after Austerlitz, made mince-meal
of the Holy Roman empire and even
more ruthlessly dismembered Aus-
tria. Nathan. James and Solomon
von Rothschild, sons of Mayer Ans-
elm, founder of the line, not only
saved their holdings, but extended
their dominions to the remotest cor-
ner of Europe.
These vast ramifications id
their fortune, one af the largest
in the history of the world, were
hi land, steel, eeal, manufacto-
ries aad munitions, and, ha later
s, in oil and hydroelectric
Libraries have been written about
them, one notable record being Zo-
la’s "L*Argent.” Their continental
money matrix has been e stabilizer
at times. It to possible that the
Vienna foil door clangs the end of
n dynasty and an epoch—but not
History will tell
Senator* Are Angered
COMMENTING to the press on the
senate’s action on the reorgan-
ization bill, the President made the
remarkable statement that it
proved the senate
could not be “pur-
chased by organized
telegrams based on
direct misrepresen-
tations.”
This led to an out-
burst of indignation
in the senate. Hi-
ram Johnson of Cal-
ifornia started a hot
debate with the as-
sertion: "I don’t
know just what was
meant by this remark, but 1 do
know full well the implications which
arise from it. Did the President
mean that the senate could be pur-
chased only by promises of proj-
ects in particular states, or by mar-
shals or ether officials in particular
localities?”
Senator Wheeler of Montana said
that it was a "coincidence" that
Senator James P. Pope, Democrat,
of Idaho, had voted for the reor-
ganization bill about the same time
that he had been able to get for his
state an appropriation of close to
$7.0)9,009 to start a dam project
When Pope and his friends indig-
nantly pretested, Wheeler said he
waa satisfied there was no connec-
tion between the two matters.
The citizens who sent between
75,000 and 100,000 telegrams asking
senators to vote against the reor-
ganization measure are still to be
heard from concerning the Presi-
dent's comment
Adjournment Prospect*
f ONGRESS wants to adjourn by
V"' the first ot May, but leaders
foresaw three possible obstacle* to
this plan—the wage-hour MU, the
Hungarian debt settlement proposal
and railroad legislation.
Democratic Leader Barkley said
he hoped the senate could dispose of
the tax revision bill, the $1,100,000,-
000 naval expansion program, and
the proposed $1,000,000,000 relief
measure in AprU. This would clear
the senate calendar, he said, un-
less consideration of Hungary's debt
program should result in a lengthy
senate debate on the entire war debt
question.
Representative Rayburn, house
floor leader, said he thought that
chamber could complete its present
program by May 1. But other mem-
ber* said that If efforts to revive the
wage-hour bill are successful, the
picture may change.
Ten Men to Probe TVA
Washington.—In considering the
new naval appropriations it must be
remembered that this billion-dollar
program, as it to called, to in addi-
tion to the regular 1939 program,
which had already been provided.
Besides, it to in addition to new
building now go mg on but author-
ized previously.
For instance two battleships, to-
taling 70,000 tons, ara now under
construction. Two more of 35,000
tons each, are in the so-called regu-
lar 1939 program. But three more,
with 105,000 tons additional tonnage,
are in the so-called billion-dollar
program. This makes the total ad-
ditional tonnage to be eventually
, added to the present United States
1 navy 245,000 tonal
Incidentally even this may be
boosted. The navy has been figur-
ing on still bigger ships, and may
get an amendment in before the
keels are laid, which would make
the tonnage of each of the three
battleships provided in the new bil-
lion-dollar program as much as 43,-
000 tons. Which, if it happens, ms
it probably will, would make the
boost, in battleships alone, 248,000
tons.
No new aircraft carriers were
provided for in the regular 1939
program. But there are two now
building, with a total tonnage of
34,000. In the billion-dollar program
two more, with 30,000 total tonnage,
ere added, making four new carri-
ers and a total of 84,000 tons to be
added to the navy.
Eight cruisers are now under con-
struction, totaling 80,000 tons. The
regular 1938 program added two,
totaling 10,000 tons, but the billion-
dollar program adds nlna more,
with 68,754 tons additional. Thirty-
six destroyers are under way, with
a total of 56,200 tons. The regular
1939 program added eight more,
with a total of 12,000 additional tons.
Along comes the billion-dollar pro-
gram with 23 mere, adding 38,000
tons.
FIVE senators and fivt representa-
1 tives will do the investigating of
the Tennessee Valley authority, for
the resolution for a joint committee
inquiry was adopted
by the senate with-
out a dissenting
vote, and was ap-
proved unanimously
by the house. The
resolution was intro-
duced by Sen. Alben
W. Barkley of Ken-
t u c k y, majority
leader. It calls
for investigation of
a*. RfBugm ot malfea-
“*“• sance and dishon-
esty made by the ousted chairman,
A. E. Morgan, and includes eight of
the twenty-three charges originally
made by Senators Bridges and King
in their first resolution for a con-
gressional inquiry. It also calls for
fishing expedition” into the ac-
Needs New Destroyers
tivities of private utility companies
and their injunction suite against
the TVA.
Sen. H. Styles Bridges, the New
Hampshire Republican, in a radio
debate declared the administration
was trying to obscure the charges
of scandal within the TVA by forc-
ing the inquiry to cover the private
utility angle. “The administration's
strategy has been to cover up TVA
dirt by a phoney counter-attack,” he
•aid.
He was answered vigorously by
Sen. Lister B. Hill of Alabama.
Italy Ready for War
DENITO MUSSOLINI put a chip
u on his shoulder and dared any-
one to knock it off. In a speech
before the Italian senate which was
broadcast to the world, II Duce
said: "Italy's land, sea and air
forces are tuned for rapid and im-
placable war.” He warned Europe,
and especially France, of his readi-
ness and willingness to fight, and
said he subscribed to the theory
that "the best defense is offense.”
He called the Italian submarine
fleet the largest in the world, said
the nation’s air fleet was one of the
best in existence, and asserted that,
if necessary, he can put an army
of 9,000,000 men In the field.
"I will be to supreme command,"
Mussolini cried, thrusting out his
cheat.
"Military problems are funda-
mental ones," continued Mussolini.
“I dedicate the greatest part of
my day to them. Anyone who dares
to attack the rights and interests
of our fatherland will find in the
land, sea and air the immediate,
resolute and proudest answer from
the Italian people’s arms.”
France was warned also by Nazi
Propaganda Minister Goebbels to
a sensational speech in Vienna. Pro-
claiming the might of the new Ger-
many, Goebbels shouted: "Ger-
many is now strong enough to resist
any attack from France. There can
no longer be any question of a prom-
enade from Paris to Berlin. Paris
te no longer the heart of European
politics. The heart te now Berlin."
So no less than 67 destroyers are
to be added to the navy I
This is not so surprising when one
considers the history of destroyers
to the American navy. At the time
of the World war this was one type
of vessel which could be rushed to
completion with some hope that
they would be finished before the
war ended. Moreover, the destroy-
er was considered one of the most
effective agencies with which to
fight submarines, at the time the
chief danger to the allies.
So America rushed out destroy-
ers. The end of the war found the
navy with more destroyers than it
knew what to do with. Most of
them were tied up, their parts
greased, and kept in storage, so to
speak. As a result there was not
much destroyer building, especially
as the armament limitation confer-
ence came along in 1922.
But naturally these have all
grown obsolete together. So the
navy really needs a new fleet of
destroyers.
Now under construction also is
one destroyer tender, ot 9,450 tons.
The billion-dollar program adds five
more, with s total of 45,000 tons.
It also adds four seaplane tenders,
with s total of 33,200 tons to the
one authorized previously, at 8,800
tons.
In the regular 1939 program the
navy got an oiler of 8,000 tons, •
mine sweeper ot 800 tons, and a
fleet tug of 1,150 tons. To these
will be added three repair ships, to-
taling 28,500 tons, to the bilUon-dol-
lar program.
Chinese Get t Hunch
A Chinese commerce raider,
aimed at accomplishing against
Japanese commerce what the fa-
mous Confederate priveteer Ala-
bama did to United State* shipping
during the war between the states,
is under serious consideration. Offi-
cially this will be denied, of course,
but several factors to the Alabama
situation are being studied by those
interested.
The Alabama, it wtil be recalled,
was fitted out to England, and had
a very long and effective adven-
ture to destruction before she was
finally sunk by the U. S. S. Kear-
sarge off Cherbourg.
The present idea is said to have
originated due to publicity for the
grievance of American fishermen
and the salmon industry generally
in the Pacific Northwest ami Alas-
ka. In fact, the germ of the idea
U said to have been sprouted when
an indignant ultion leader wanted
to know why the United States
couldn't have an "accident’' simi-
lar to the sinking of the Panay by
Japanese, and then be very, very
"sorry" in a note to Japan.
"If,” be added grimly. "Japan
ever beard about it"
A shrewd Chinese official is said
to have read this, and then remem-
bered the Alabama episode
"If the British couM fit out a pri-
vateer far the Confederates back to
tha sixties,” be te said te have rea-
soned, “why could not the United
States fit out a warship—just a lit-
tle gunboat or an obsolete destroyer
maybe—for the Chinese?”
Vigorously denying that anything
of the kind would be tolerated, an
official pointed out the rigidity of
the neutrality laws, and the Presi-
dent’s proclamation so recently re-
stated by Secretary of State Com
dell Hull, and then slyly added:
That’s Different
"Of course, if the Chinese should
succeed/to doing anything of the
sort from any other country’s ports,
it would be none of our business.
Virtually we have recognized a state
of belligerency, and even if Japan
should argue that the commerce
raider was to truth g pirate, it
seems to me we have been both-
ered, to the very recent past, with
so called pirate submarines to the
Mediterranean."
“I don't think such a thing would
annoy the Russians any," another
official commented slyly. “It just
might be that they would iend a lit-
tle help.”
This last, so far as is known
here, is not to the picture at all,
though use ot adventuresome young
Americans is said to be distinctly
a part of it. For the scheme, the
Chinese would need men experi-
enced to handling small naval guns,
though they need not be anything
liks as expert to their line as ths
American aviators already aiding
the Chinese.
The Idea of a submarine, it is
said, has been considered but re-
luctantly abandoned. Unless the
Russians would actually supply an
experienced crew, it waa consid-
ered impossible, it is understood,
to obtain men capable of operating
such a craft, even assuming the
Chinese could get possession of an
undersea boat.
But even a little gupboat, it te
contended, could cause Japanese
commerce a lot of grief before i$
was finally run down.
Reorganisation
President Roosevelt has succeed-
ed better than any but the most
optimistic of his advisers hsd
dreamed, a couple of months back,
in his drive for reorganization of
the government. It is due to one
of those strange political factors,
and is directly connected with the
President's technical defeat on tha
Supreme court enlargement battle.
Unfortunately for those who dis-
agree with the President on his re-
organization proposals — and pri-
vately the measure has very faw
friends even among the most loyal
administration Democrat* on Capi-
tol hill—the men who took the lead-
ership to the fight to hamstring it
were the same men who led the
fight against packing the Supreme
court.
At first blush this might appsar
an advantage. They were the vic-
tors in that more spectacular bat-
tle. Victory should be like a snow-
ball, growing as it rolls. As with
Napoleon up until Russia. As with
Hitler up until heaven knows when.
But this la politics, not war, and
while there are some similarities,
there are some sharp differences.
Any fight on Capitol Hill can be
won only with the aid of a very
Urge number of Democrat*, men
who are elected by the Democratic
organizations back to their states.
It so happens that the Democrats
have almost unprecedented majori-
ties to both house and sanate.
Now a Democratic senator, figur-
ing both on his renomination and
re-election fight, has to walk care-
fully.
Watch Their Step
A great many of the senators who
made the victory of the anti-court
packing leaders possible ware not
sc spectacuUr as Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler in that fight. Now they are
unwilling to side with Wheeler
again, lest to them be attributed all
the hostility to the adminUtratkm
that is connected with Senator
Wheeler's motives.
In short, if there hsd been no
court fight, the President would
have loss strength in hte present
fight to win more power for the
chief executive to the conduct of
the government.
Beyond toe shadow of a doubt,
had there been no court fight, Sen-
ator Wheeler's amendment, which
would have required the approval
of congress to any change to the
government the President might
make, would have carried Instead
of losing by a vote so close teat
the change of three senators would
have reversed tt
Had there been no court fight,
the amendment ot Sen. David I.
Wslah of Massachusetts, to exempt
the civil service commission from
the President's dictatorial power*
would have prevailed instead of be-
ing defeated. But Walsh, too, bad
some prominence to the anti-court
packing fight. Die Bay State sena-
tor te not afraid of being branded.
He knows hte state pretty well, and
baa never been accused at political
stupidity. But others, looking his
grip on their states, also lack his
courage, however they may agree
with him on this issue down to their
hearts.
• BeB SrMBute.—WKB Service.
We Need Salt
It has been stated that the aver-
age person needs about 39 grains at
salt, but takes 90 to ISC grains per
day. Perhaps 190 grains per day
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
s
UNDAyI
chool Lesson
lUIBT.
By REV HAROLD L. LUNDOl
Dean ot th* Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for April 10
FINDING OURSELVES
IN SERVICE
LESSON TEXT—Mark *:«-*.
GOLDEN TEXT—"What ihaU It proOt a
BUI, II be shaU fain the whole world, end
km his own aoult”—Mark 1:3*.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Whet Peter Found
Out. '
JUNIOR TOPIC—Peter"! Right Anarrer
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Making Ufe Count Through Service.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC-
PhHitm the Richer! Uf* Through Service.
"Finding ourselves" seems like a
singular, almost self-contradictory,
expression, but it refers to a sound
principle recognized by psycholo
Bstefe ~ agfrulMteMfo
gifts as well as spiritual leaders. As
a matter of fact, modern psychol-
ogy has begun to recognize and use
spiritual tews and principles which
alone bring about human happinesr
and efficiency.
A word of warning- let no one
who studies this lesson fall into th*
serious error of thinking that stun*
formal religious service will bring
redemption and favor with God. W«
are saved by grace through faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ—"not ol
works, lest any man should boast."
It is then by the new birth that wt
•re “created in Christ Jesus untc
good works which God hath before
ordained that we should walk is
them" (Eph. 2:8-19).
It is the Christian who needs to
"find himself in service.” Only as
he thus yields to Christ does he
really find the life worth living. Tha
words of Jesus in verse 38 are sol-
emnly and gloriously true.
I. Clear Confession tw. 27-99).
Even those who deny to our Christ
the recognition of Hia deity, and the
devotion of life which 1s Hte just
due, must, if they are at al) in-
telligent, admit that no man ever
lived t
U a fair average. There are ap-
proximately 7,909 grains to '
who has made such an impact
on human history. Even in the days
of his life on earth those who did not
accept Him as Christ regarded Him
as the resurrected form of one of the
nation’s greatest leaders. Now un-
believing men speak of Him ns th*
great founder of Christianity, a
mighty leader, a wonderful exam-
ple, or an unequalled teacher.
It is not enough that we stand with
the mass of humanity who may thus
admire Him, but who do not count
Him aa Saviour and Lord. The ques-
tion cornea to us aa it did to the
disciples, "Whom say ye that I
am?” "Thou art the Christ”—this
•Iona suffices as the foundation for
Christian testimony and conduct
U. Corrected Erne (w. 31-33).
Although Jesus was not yet ready
to have His Messiabship proclaimed
to the public. He was prepared to
teach His disciples concerning not
only (hat important truth, but of Hia
rejection and death. "He began to
teach them that th* Son of man
roust suffer ... be rejected . . .
killed and ... rise again.”
Note th* divine "must.” White It
te true that wicked men showed
their hostility toward our God and
Hte Christ by hanging Him on Cal-
vary’* cross, yet it waa to die for
our sin* that He came into the
world. The cross ha* rightly com*
to represent God’s love to the world
rather than man's hostility to God.
Error now asserts itself, and
strangely enough it is th* very one
who had the clearest grasp of th*
truth regarding the Messiahahip of
Christ and boldly expresaed it who
now objects to the revelation of th*
coming death and resurrection of
Christ, and lends hte voice to re-
buke th* Master for epeaking of it.
Satan hates the croes and the open
grave. Jesus won th* victory over
him there. He did not want to hear
of it before it took place and used
impulsive Peter for a mouthpiece
to object. He doesn’t want to hear
about it now and uses many a
skillful and gifted preacher to apeak
against it. "Hie offense of the
cross" (Gal. 9:11) hat never ceased.
111. Ceeseersted Uf* aad Serete*
<w. 34-38).
"Let him deny himself" (v. J4),
That command we have construed
to mean that w* should perform lit-
tle acts of self-denial, foregoing
some comfort or pleasure, possibly
for s few weeks. It does not mean
that at ail—hut does mean the re-
nouncing of seif ami self-will, and a
complete yielding to God's will.
Likewise, to take up mm's cross
does oet mean to hear some of life’s
Utile disagreeable experiences; it
means again to dio to self and to
live for Christ.
Careful attention should be given
te thf solemn Questions asked and
statements made to verses 35^37.
These are not the reasonings ot a
man—they fail from the Ups ot th*
Son of God. What, He asks, wil! you
give in exchange tor your soul?
Payment
How little we pay our way in life!
Although we have our purses con-
tinually In our hand, the better
- art of service goes still unreward-
ed.
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passion and personalities be as-
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