The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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TIIR CORRIGAN PRESS
Xetrs BSerierr of Current it vents
"REFORM" BILL PASSED
Measure Giving President Vast Powers Squeezes Through
Senate . . . Mussolini Ready for War
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, chairman of the senate finance
committee, is here seen telling members of the press what his committee
had done and proposed to do to the revenue measure so that it would be
less objectionable to business and to the country in general. It already
had made radical changes in the bill as it was passed by the house.
J^ucJccUbd
r'* SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Wide Powers for President
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S reor-
^ ganization bill squeezed through
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. Its speedy passage was
predicted by Majority Leader Ray-
burn.
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 of 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 engineers 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
510.000 a year assistants to the Pres-
ident.
—*—
Senators Are Angered
COMMENTING to the press on the
'-J senate’s action on the reorgan-
ization bill, the President made the
remarkable statement that it
’jfWBE proved the senate
’ IjL Lj 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 I 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 other 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
$1,000,000 to start a dam project.
When Pope and his friends indig-
nantly protested, Wheeler said he
was 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 Prospects
/CONGRESS wants to adjourn by
the first of May, but leaders
foresaw three possible obstacles to
this plan-j-the wage-hour bill, the
Sen. Johnson
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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 April. 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-
bers said that if efforts to revive the
wage-hour bill are successful, the
picture may change.
Ten Men to Probe TVA
EUVE senators and five representa-
*• lives 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
charges of malfea-
Sen. Bridges 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
a “fishing expedition” into the ac-
tivities of private utility companies
and their injunction suits 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
said.
He was answered vigorously by
Sen. Lister B. Hill of Alabama.
Italy Ready for War
p ENITO MUSSOLINI put a chip
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 in supreme command,”
Mussolini cried, thrusting out his
chest.
"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 in
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
is no longer the heart of European
politics. The heart is now Berlin.”
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK. — Leslie Hore-Be-
■LN 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-
Race to Get mand, upped the
Army Ready youngsters an d
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, to the satisfaction of all
hands. Seventy-nine-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-
j ing his elders, and still has many
of them to work
j Clever at on, as he is only
Badgering forty-three. When,
His Elders a brash young Ox-
onian, he ran for
parliament, his opponent tagged
i 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
of 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
and 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.
• • •
A T LEAST six times in the past
4a 150 years, the Rothschilds have
been counted out, and they have
always come back—like John Bar-
leycorn and Old
Conquerors King Cotton. Now
Old Stuff to the arrest of Bar-
Bank Family °n Louis von
Rothschild is re-
ported from Vienna. The era which
founded their dynasty was disquiet-
ingly like this one. The Romanoffs,
and the Hapsburgs, Matternich 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.
A few weeks later, they were
shoveling money into American
securities, and, it was reported,
snagging a stray million here
and there by a fast overseas
play on francs, an old family
custom.
Louis and his brother, Alphonse,
were living in regal splendor when
the Creditanstalt
Deer Parks failed. They had
and Castles great estates and
Faded Away niaginificent art
gallaries, shooting
lodges, a huge Franz Lehar chorus
of retainers, deer parks and a brace
of 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 132 years since Napoleon,
after Austerlitz, made mince-meat
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 of
their fortune, one of the largest
in the history of the world, were
in land, steel, coal, manufacto-
ries and munitions, and, in later
decades, in oil and hydroelectric
power.
Libraries have been written about
them, one notable record being Zo-
la’s “L’Argent.” Their continental
money matrix has been a stabilizer
at times. It is possible that the
Vienna jail door clangs the end of
a dynasty and an epoch—but not
quite certain. History will tell.
C> Consolidntnd News Feature!.
WNU Service.
Slide Fasteners for Slip Covers
IF YOU have slip covers made
* by an interior decorator and
you go in for such niceties as
slide fasteners or welted or piped
seams the bill goes up and up. If
you make the covers yourself all
these “extras” amount to very
little either in time or money.
In fact slide fasteners require less
time than a closing with snaps.
Plan the closings for a slip
cover during the final fitting when
the seams have been basted but
not stitched. Sometimes one short
placket is all that is needed.
Again openings must be left at
several points so that the cover
will slip on easily.
To apply a slide fastener to a
seam placket, turn the slip cover
inside out and crease the seam
open. Cut a facing strip 1%
inches wide and 1 inch longer than
the opening. Join the facing strip
to the back edge of the opening
as shown at A. Slash the front of
the seam edge 94 inch above the
top of the opening and crease it
over the back facing as shown at
B. When the edges of the opening
have been prepared in this way,
press the edge creases with a hot
iron. Next, baste and stitch the
fastener in place as at C sewing
close to the metal. The ma-
chine cording foot is useful for
this purpose. Do not trim away
the tape at the ends of the fasten-
er. Whip the upper ends down as
at D, and cover the lower ones
with the hem as at E.
NOTE: If you are making new
slip covers or curtains or doing
other Spring sewing you will want
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ book SEW-
ING for the Home Decorator.
Forty-eight pages of illustrated di-
rections for making curtains for
every type of room; dressing ta-
bles; lampshades, and numerous
other articles used daily in the
home. Send name and address,
enclosing 25 cents (coin pre-
ferred) to Mrs. Spears, 210 So.
Desplaines St., Chicago, 111.
When Using Bluing__A half cup
of sweet milk added to the bluing
water will prevent clothes from
becoming streaked during the blu-
ing process.
Flavoring Cocoa.—A pinch of
salt, a few drops of vanilla, or a
dash of cinnamon or nutmeg add
flavor to cocoa.
* * *
Cleaning Flower Vases.—A flow-
er vase should be washed clean
Mistake-O-Graph Answers
1. Question mark on banner.
2. Telephone has no receiver.
3. Lower section of bay window is night,
upper is daylight.
4. Flower appears in golf bag.
5. Picture of Rover just shows leg and
tail.
6. Natl In wall does not support picture.
7. Singer’s head appears from speaker
of radio.
8. Chair Is floating In the air.
9. Mirror on bureau is not attached to
supports.
10. Lamp plug is not connected, yet
lamp is lit.
11. Cane in bouquet of flowers.
12. Bear rug is growling.
13. Gentleman has evidently forgotten
to shave.
14. Bear skin is spotted.
15. Gentleman is wearing odd socks.
llnch J^lul
UcujA:
Virtuous Intolerance
Intolerance has its place. There
isn't enough of it employed
against indecency, injustice and
just plain vulgarity.
A youngster engaged in ruining
his life is seldom open to reason.
No fool like a young fool.
The culture that a wife can
spread on her husband who has
no taste for it is usually a very
thin veneer.
Law Books and Jails Full
Too many people think that hu-
man nature can be changed by
“Be It Enacted.”
Why shouldn’t men talk shop;
shop is what they live by.
Greatest joy in friendship is
that your friend thinks more of
you than you deserve. Only other
being that does that is your
mother.
Usually Classified as Blue
It is better to find that a man
has “feet of clay” instead of a
head of that material.
Books will be written about the
depression so long as it is not un-
derstood—which means forever.
What persons desire who don't
understand how to make or keep
money is a big fortune that some-
body else looks after. They want
the money, but not the bother.
with hot water and soap, lest
bacteria that decay the stems of
flowers should survive in the vase.
• • •
Freshening Raisins. — Raisins
used in cakes, cookies and pud-
dings should first be placed in hot
water and simmered for five min-
utes to enlarge and soften them.
• • *
Another Use for Vinegar.—Vine-
gar added to washing-up water
removes grease, brightens china,
and acts as a disinfectant,
* • •
Remove Whitewash.—Do not
paint over whitewash. Wash off
the whitewash with clear water
and allow the walls to dry thor-
oughly before painting.
* • •
Window Solves Problem.—If a I
room is dark and dreary, a new !
window will often do wonders for 1 11
it. A room that looks out on a j
covered porch frequently needs
additional lighting. This may be
accomplished by cutting a window
in the side wall which is not sur-
rounded by a porch. White wood-
work and a light paper added to
the brightening of the room.
AROUND
•h. HOUSE
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
BOTH Pepsodent Tooth Paste and Powder
contain marvelous Irium
• Millions everywhere are singing the
praises of Pepsodent containing Irium
to get teeth far brighter!
It is wonderful Irium that helps
Pepsodent gently brush away stubborn,
clinging surface-stain9 that hida the
natural brilliance of your teeth, just as
a cloud will hide the light of the sun.
With these ugly surface-stains gone,
your teeth reveal the lovely, gleaming
radiance they naturally should have!
And Pepsodent with Irium works
SAFELY —because it contains NO
BLEACH. NO GRIT, NO PUMICE. Try it!
Mistake-O-Graph
All dressed up and no place to go might well be the title of this inspiring scene. The importance of
the occasion, we fear, must have warped our artist’s mind, for the drawing is full of mistakes. Can
you find fifteen? The answers will be found above.
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Gilbert, J. R. The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1938, newspaper, April 7, 1938; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth644629/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.