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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
COKItlKAN. TEXAS, TIIDKSD.W, AU(!UST 2», J935
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President’s Program Driven Through Congress Refore
Adjournment—Mussolini Refuses to Abandon His
Projected Conquest of Ethiopia.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
<& Western Newspaper Union.
r EGISLATIVE action In both house
anil senate was fast and furious
during the closing days of the session.
White House pressure was freely used;
filibusters wore start-
ed ami stopped; sen-
ators and representa-
tives, hot and both-
ered, were Inclined to
be quarrelsome. But
congress had Its or-
ders and It wanted to
go home, so the ad-
ministration program
In general was pushed
through.
One of the most
controversial measures
on that program, the
Guffey coal bill, had been driven
through the house by orders from
above and threats of a strike, and
when It was taken up by the senate
every effort to kill It, by eliminating
the tax feature, was defeated. Dur-
ing the debate Senator Walter F.
George of Georgia, Democrat, created a
sensation by denouncing the bill In
these words:
“Outside of political circles, It Is
questionable whether there are five
reputable lawyers in the United Stntos
who would declare this measure con-
stitutional. However, that Is not the
worst feature of the bill. The worst
feature is the defect and Infirmity In
the legislative program that we are
developing. This nation cannot re-
main free ami happy, If we are to
legislate for groups, aqd beyond all
of that, If groups are to legislate for
themselves the end of things Is not
very far distant.
“That Is the situation we have con-
fronting us. And to this kind of pro-
gram the Democratic party is billing
to commit itself!”
Senator George was assailing the
proposal to set up district boards In
the coal Industry, which would make
their own laws as to trade practices
and regulate wages and hours, allo-
cate tonnages and fix prices, with re-
gard only for their own interests.
“This is the type of absolutism from
which we revolted to establish this Re-
public,” he declared.
The house gave up the light against
the “death sentence” In the utilities
bill and instructed conferees to
accept a “compromise” that was pretty
much one-sided. This moans that all
bolding companies beyond the second
degree are to he sentenced to death
by the SEC promptly after January
I, 1938. Even a holding company in
the second degree would not escape
unless its operations were confined to
n single Integrated system within a
state or within contiguous states.
Both senate and house adopted a
resolution making mandatory the em-
bargo on munitions shipments to both
belligerents In case of war. This was
what the administration did not want,
claiming it would tie the hands of the
executive so that he could exert no
Influence toward averting war.
Senate and house accepted the con-
ferees’ report on the bill increasing
the powers of TVA and legalizing that
body’s past actions and it was sent to
the White House. The senate passed
without a record vote the railway
bankruptcy amendments recommended
by Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman,
which are designed to prohibit minori-
ties from blocking reorganization plans.
TV yf USSOLIN1 is determined to con-
1* 1 (pier Ethiopia, and nil Europe is
trembling. 11 duce evidently feels that
bis personal prestige Is at stake, and
to him that means the
continuation of the
Fascist regime. An-
thony Eden and Pierre
Laval offered Italy
what would amount
to a mandate over
Haile Selassie’s realm,
but that was not
enough, so the tri-
power conference in
Paris was declared ad-
journed. The friend-
ship between France
Mussolini Mn(j Italy must be
ruptured. Great Britain will in-
sist on action by the League of Na-
tions council when it meets Septem-
ber 4. There is no reason to believe
that the council will do more than it
did In the case of Japan’s seizure of
Manchuria, but it seemingly will be
forced to denounce Italy’s action, and
that would he enough to induce Mus-
aolinl to withdraw Ids country from
the league. If and when Italy delies
the league, that pretentious body,
previously defied successfully by Japan
and Germany, will amount to little.
After Baron Pom pel Alois! had sub-
Senator
Guffey
ndttod the Anglo-French proposition to
Mussolini and had received the duce’s
reply, he told Eden and Laval that his
master would he satisfied with nothing
less than “annexation of Ethiopia In
whole or In part.” Laval was furious
and directly accused Mussolini of
breaking a personal promise made to
him when he visited Home. Eden
abruptly brought the conference to a
close.
Hurrying bnek to London, Captain
Eden took part In conferences held by
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and
the members of his cabinet, together
with various former ministers, opposi-
tion leaders and public men not In
office. The situation was admittedly
tense and the advice of such men ns
Lloyd George, Lord Cecil and Winston
Churchill was sought by the govern-
ment. Sir Samuel llonre, foreign sec-
retary, also called in representatives
of nil the self-governing dominions
It was understood tlie British govern
ment would he prepared fully to honoi
its obligations under the League ol
Nations covenant, those including the
denouncing of a nation that attacks
another member of the league. Ol
course the air In London was full ol
rumors of war, hut officials gave ns
suranee that Great Britain would move
with the greatest caution.
Paris heard unconfirmed reports that
Mussolini was trying to negotiate i
secret military alliance with Hitler.
OAMUEL B. PETTENGILL, Demo
^ cratic representative from Indiana
aroused the house to wild cheering bj
a downright attack on Tom Corcoran
the White House lob-
byist who has been
charged with trying to
Intimidate congress-
men. Pettengill chal-
lenged the house lobby
committee to summon
Corcoran again and
question him about ills
reported dealing in
utility issues on the
New York Stock ex-
change market at the
same time lie labored
for legislation against utilities at Wash
Corcorar
ington.
The Indiana representative thus
brought out Into the open the rumors
whispered about the Capitol, that ad-
ministration lobbyists were profiting
secretly by stock market deals in se-
curities affected by legislation foi
which they were exerting tremendous
efforts.
Maj.Gen.Nolan
\/f<>HE than 30,000 troops of al!
* branches of the armed service goi
well started in the great war maneu
vers in northern New York which wen
organized and direct-
ed by Maj. Gen. Den
nis E. Nolan. The reg
ular army men of the
first area and the Na-
tional Guardsmen ol
New England, New
York and New Jersey
participated, and In
muddy fields, tangled
pLne forests, hack-
woods roads, they had
a scries of “engage-
ments,” troops oppos-
ing troops under conditions closely si-
mulating real warfare. An interest
ing feature was the use of a big fleet
of taxicabs from New York city. Pine
camp, Just south of the Thousand Is-
lands region, was the center of oper-
ations. Banking high officers of the
army and military attaches of foreign
nntlons observed the maneuvers.
During the opening days the Twen-
ty-seventh New York division com-
manded by Maj. Gen. William N, Has-
kell was pitted in the eastern portion
of the 100 square mile maneuver area
against tiie Forty-third New England
division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Mor-
ris B. Payne. In the western portion
of the changing terrain the Forty-
fourth New Jersey and New York di-
vision, commanded by Maj. Gen. John
J. Toffey, opposed the Twenty-sixth
Massachusetts division.
JAPAN has been offended by our navy
** on various occasions, especially by
the staging of fleet maneuvers at Ha-
waii and the Alasknn coast. Now the
sensitive islanders should be pleased,
for Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Henry L. Roosevelt lias announced that
the fleet maneuvers of 1930 will he
held at the Panama canal and on the
western coast of Central America. Mr.
Roosevelt and the navy high conimnnd
asserted, not very convincingly, thnt
the shift was not mnde In response
to unofficial Japanese criticism.
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
A Rogers Highway
Our Policy? Here It is
Why Go to Town?
To Discourage Vice
From Tusla, ukla., in which state
horn, J. D. Under-
w o o d telegraphs
suggesting as “the
highest tribute and
a lasting memorial
to Will Rogers,”
that Highway 00,
which runs from
Rogers’ new home
in California t<» Ids
old home at Clare-
more, Ok la., he ex-
tended on to New
York, ami the whole
road named “Will
Rogers Highway.”
If every Ameri-
can highway with
friends of Will Rog-
ers living on both sides from one end
to the other were named for him,
there would he many “Will Rogers”
highways.
Thus run the headlines:
“ITALY BARS ALL PEACE TALK.”
“BRITAIN WEIGHS SANCTIONS.
WANTS TO KNOW OUR POLICY."
If she wants to know tlie* policy of
IK) out of a loo ordinary Americans,
and 100 per cent of all common sense
Americans, It would he this:
To mind our own business; let Eu-
ropean nations, alternately murdering
each other and robbing Inferior na-
tions, attend to their business, in their
way.
Our policy now, with Italy swallow-
ing Ethiopia, should he exactly what
it was when our British friends were
busy swallowing the lands of the Boers,
absorbing that country with its valu-
able gold and diamond mines. We did
nothing then. Why should we invent
a special policy for Mussolini now?
France and England “fear Mussolini
may involve three continents in the
Ethiopian war.” lias Europe heard of
the New England farmer who said:
“I’m on my way to town to get drunk,
and Lord, how I dread It!” He need
not have gone to town. European na-
tions need not he dragged into a trl
continental war if they don’t want to
be dragged.
Republicans report greatly Increased j
demand for the nomination of Senator j
Borah, since the announcement that,
if nominated, he will run. This will
l>e mournful news for some Repub-
lican corporation-best minds, Yor
whether they have to he “lashed with
scorpions,” or with something else,
would make little difference to some of
them who consider Senator Borah dis- |
tinctly In tiie “scorpion” class.
An old gentleman of eighty-one
strolled into a New York police sta-
tion, remarking: “I have Just walked
from Kansas City and shall walk hack
again tonight." He was removed to a
psychopathic ward. If lie had substi-
tuted the verb “fly” for “walk,” tiie
police would not have disturbed him,
for he could have flown in from Kan
sas City during tiie day very easily and
flown back again at night. If 2'
years ago he had said, “I just flow in
from Kansas City,” he would have !
been sent to tiie dangerous ward.
So there Is progress.
At Sverdlovsk, Russian government
engineers, digging sewers under tlie
city, find gold ore that Indicates a
rich gold field underlying the town.
The government owns practically all
the city, and can easily take the rest,
and a further increase In Russia’s
gold production, already more than
throe times ns great ns that of the
United Stntos, may be expected.
Those that believe In the wicked-
ness of Russia may ask:
“Why does Providence allow such
wicked people to find so much gold?’
One answer Is, “The quickest way
to make thorn stop their wickedness
is to make them rich, and gold would
do thnt.” Gold might not change rhe
existing government of Russia. But
another generation will see another
kind of government, and ownership of
such a lump of gold, ns we possess,
might make that next Russian govern-
ment consider IiCnln and Stalin “old
fashioned.”
Providence works mysteriously.
Physicians at Sr. Vincent’s hospital
In New York report the extraordinary
case of a baby, that lived for 27 days,
appearing almost normal but pos-
sessing no brain.
Disgruntled “host minds” will tel)
you there are ''babies" in Washington,
some of them full-fledged professors,
that have lived longer than 27 days
“without any brain.”
(*> King Fontnr«*s flyndlcatu, luc.
VVNU 8eivlce.
Will Rogers was
Arthur llriNhnnr
Architects Search World
for Good Building Stone
Marble Highly Valued From
Earliest Times.
Washington.—-One of the most strik-
ingly beautiful buildings in Washing-
ton is the new United States Supreme
court building. Its exterior is fabri-
cated from white marble, while its in-
terior is enhanced with columns and
panels of tiie same stone but richly
colored.
“Among tiie most ornamental of all
building stones, marble has been val-
ued by architects from earliest times,”
says the National Geographic society.
“White drums of marble from Mt.
Pentelicus reared toward the clear blue
sky of Athens, the graceful temples on
the Acropolis. Domed Byzantine
structures and Roman buildings were
floored with mosaics of varl-eolored
marbles, veined and mottled. Visitors
to tiie Pantheon may tread on a mar-
ble floor polished hv the pacings of
august Romans over 1,800 years ago.
Favored by Sculptors.
“Not only has marble been a popular
building stone, hut It is the favorite
among sculptors. From it Phidias,
Praxiteles, Cnnova, and many other
artists carved their masterpieces. Car-
rara, in northwestern Italy, which sup-
plied Michelangelo with marble for his
famous statue of David, still supplies
modern sculptors with some of their
finest working material. In Carrara,
a city of quarry men and marble cut-
ting factories, even the humblest of
the homes have white marble lintels
and steps.
“The most beautiful foreign mar-
bles come from Italy, the French
Pyrenees, and Belgium. In the United
States, marbles underlie most of tiie
eastern mountains from Vermont to
Georgia, and part of tiie Rocky moun-
tains. Vermont supplies GO per cent
of the amount quarried in this conn- ■
try.
"Marble is merely an altered form
of limestone, transformed by bent and j
strong pressure. Limestone is much |
softer than marble.
“Limestone is found in many colors
ranging from pink nnd red, through
yellow to green nnd blue. From quar-
ries in Indiana nnd Kentucky comes
the variety best known in the United
States.
“Although limestone Is durable, it
deteriorates under acids in tiie air and
rnin, especially under the sulphuric
acid contaminating the air of cities.
How waters containing chemicals af-
fect the stone is dramatically shown
In Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, where
subterranean streams have oaten away
the beds of limestone, hollowing out
vast underground caverns.
Granite Is Valuable.
“Granite, Igneous rock thnt has
cooled, Is a building stone valued for
its hardness, strength, nnd durability.
Unlike limestone, it is little affected
by chemicals in the air nnd rain, hut
abrupt changes in temperature fre-
quently cause it to crack. In regions
where tiie temperature drops 80 de-
grees in a day, granite has been known
to shatter into boulders, gravel, nnd
sand.
“Because it Is so hard, the cost of
cutting and polishing granite once pro-
hibited Its use except in a roughly
dressed state. But now that less ex-
pensive methods have been discov-
ered, It is one of the most popular
building stones.
“Porphyry, another igneous rock, us-
ually a beautiful red in color, was
prized by the Romans, but is little Pin- I
ployed by modern architects, because
of the difficulty and expense in cutting I
and polishing It.
“New York city’s famous 'brown-
stone fronts’ are made of sandstone,
a popular building stone composed of
grains if sand held together by a ce-
menting material.
“The new nlr-conditioned home of
the National Geographic society con-
tains stones from many states nnd
foreign countries. Its front steps are
of pink nnd gray North Carolina gran-
ite. Limestone blocks nnd columns of
tiie facade came from Bedford, Ind.,
Pilgrims Take New
Highway to Mecca
Jerusalem.—The opening of a new
direct route between Irak and the
Illjaz is causing considerable worry
in Syria.
The protest is from the merchants
of Damascus and outposts on tiie
old Syrian route. On the new
route, agreements have been reached
with the governments of Irak and
Illjaz for establishment of a sani*
tnry post and a passport office at
Idha.
To date 2,000 foreign pilgrims
have Journeyed over tiie new high-
way. Pilgrims from Mecca will not
lie allowed to carry cameras. The
reason for the ban is to prevent
photographing of the rites and
scenes sacred to the Moslem re-
ligion.
nnd green marble spandrels from the
French Alps.
“In the foyer gleam reddish-brown
pillars and pilasters of polished Rojo
Alicante marble from Spain. Walls
are of lustrous Italian Botticlno mar-
ble, a rich cream color, above a base
of Belgian black marble. Brown Sienna
and gray Roman travertine form a
large eight-pointed star in the floor.”
All-Time Record Mackinaw Trout
Justus Smith of Beulah, Mich., Is telling Miss Lucille Provencher of the
Traverse City, Mich., chamber of commerce, how be caught the nil-time record
Mackinaw trout in Grand Traverse bay. The fish weighed 43 pounds nnd
measured 43 Inches In length nnd qualified Mr. Smith for membership in the
Traverse City Che-Go-Gon, Ottawa for “big fish club.” The previous record
Mackinaw weighed 39 pounds.
Fence Posts Show Return of Prosperity
- <•--
Demand Unfailing Barometer
to Woodsmen.
Escanahn, Mich.—Woodsmen in the
upper peninsula of Michigan do not
have to read the agricultural Journals
in order to got an idea how the farm-
ers in tiie corn belt nnd other sections
William Lynn Ransom. New York
utilities lawyer, who was elected presi-
dent of tiie American Bar association
over James M. Beck, former Pennsyl-
vania member of congress nnd former
solicitor general of the United States.
Mr. Ransom was a Justice of the city
court of New York city at the age of
thirty.
of the country are faring. There is an
unfailing barometer of tiie changing
weight of tiie farmer’s poeketbook, and
that Is the Insignificant-looking fence
post.
When tiie farmer is hard pressed,
ns he lias been during the last few
depression years, he allows bis fences
to fall into a state of disrepair. But
when money starts to Jingle in his
Joans again lie takes the usual pride
in them and becomes a heavy buyer of
posts.
The peninsula division of the Chi-
cago & North Western railway Is re-
porting unusually heavy shipments of
posts this summer. A large percent-
age will he used for replacements, but
the trend toward diversification of ag-
riculture is also a factor. Western
grazing lands, for Instance, are being
converted Into small farms, necessi-
tating the construction of field enclos-
ures.
There Is a noticeable increase In the
.summer volume of pulpwood traffic.
Railroad officials attribute this up-
swing to the manufacture of many
new* pnper products, such as table cov-
ers, curtains, bakery supplies and
wrapping paper.
With tiie increasing demand for pa-
per products, the lowly Jnckpine lias
taken place beside tiie spruce and bal-
sam pulpwood. This heretofore use-
less wood Is now tiie Important ele-
ment in producing paper of fine tex-
ture such as that used for waxed pa-
pers. The United States forest serv-
ice has worked out plans for consider-
able reforestation of Jackpine ami oth-
er pulpwood to meet the demands of
tiie paper Industries in Michigan and
Wisconsin in the future years.
OXFORD LECTURER
Chief Aces Blue Engle of the Paw-
nee and Creek tribe of Oklahoma,
sailed for England on the Normandie
to lecture in Oxford on the subject
of American Indian art nnd dancing.
He is pictured In full regalia which is
part of his “props.” He is Just as
much at home In evening attire.
Four Sets of Twins in
Family of Ten Children
Orangeburg, S. C.—'When It comes
to birthdays, Hie Betsill family has to
operate on u severely reduced budget.
There are ten children In the family,
but among them thoy can only manage
to celebrate six birthdays. The rea-
son: four sets of twins.
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Gilbert, J. R. The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1935, newspaper, August 29, 1935; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth643463/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.