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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
( OltltMiAN, TEXAS, Till RSDAV. FEBRUARY l.i,
1936
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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Divide and Rule
Big Men, Light Eyes
Why Go Naked?
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Borrowing a Blimp
Mr. Oreen, American Federation of
Labor head, warns the miners* union
not to split up the
federation. Mr. Lew-
is, leader of the
miners, tells Mr.
Green, In substance,
“You mind your
own business.” A
labor split seems
near.
Union labor
should consider the
fable of the dying
peasant who sum-
moned his sons and
showed them how
they could break
small sticks sep-
arately, but could
not break them when all were tied to-
gether.
Modest Birthplace of Alf Landon
Arthur Ilrlshmie
I-ionis XI’s motto, Divide et Impera
("Divide and rule”), in dealing with
powerful nobles, Is not unknown to the
enemies of union lubor, or Goethe’s
Divide and rule! Powerful word.
Unite and lead! Cotter word.
A lonely English soldier living on
an island In the Indian ocean wrote
that he wanted a wife, saying, “I have
hazel eyes," nothing else about himself.
Already 250 English girls have offered
to marry him. The 249 disappointed
may And comfort In a better marriage,
picking out somebody with blue eyes.
It annoys many, but it must be said
that practically all the great men In
history had blue or gray eyes, even
men from darlc-eyed races, like Na-
poleon from Corsica, Caesar from
Home.
To save answering questions, hero
Is a short list: Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Itooseveit, Edison, Henry
Ford. Look up the others.
■--ad
This Is the Methodist church parsonage in Middlesex, Pa., where Alf
Landon, governor of Nebraska and receptive candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination, was horn. Ills maternal grandfather, Rev. William
U. Moss man, was at that time the pastor of the church.
Cow-Catcher’s Dogs
Puts Profits in JoL
Henniker, N. II.—John B Woods
is a cow-catcher—at $5 a head
Harried farmers look to him for re
lief when one of their cows run-
away. Woods sends his two trainee
shepherd dogs after the runawav
an J the rebellious excursion Is prac-
tically closed. One dog grabs an
ear, the other tackles a hind leg
and the cow Is held until the owuet
comes with the halter. Wood has
a record of catching 40 cows this
year and 228 since he entered the
profession.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Senator Borah Throws His Hat in the Republican Ring-
Administration’s Revamped Farm Bill Introduced
—Farley Assails Liberty League.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Cold Coming in Faster
Than It Can Be Stored
Near Tampa, Fla., a schooner loaded
with men, women, children, on the
way to establish a nudist colony in
the Virgin Islands, ran aground. Nav-
igators were unwilling to sign for a
nudist enterprise, afraid, perhaps, of
catching cold, so the ship ran ashore.
Nudism Is a queer atavistic craving.
The human lace began that way In
the Garden of Eden, and each of us
starts out as a nudist at birth. The
struggle is to keep clothed thereafter.
It is a strange demoralization that
makes some long to run about un-
dressed ; tlie more strange because
they look so hideously ugly.
Discouraged by Incompetence that
wrecked two dirigibles, tills country
decided that lighter than air machines
are not necessary. It was necessary
to borrow a small privately owned
blimp to take food to 3,000 Tangier
Islanders, cut olf from relief by ice.
No heavier than air plane could land
there before the blimp, which landed
easily.
Mussolini threatens to leave tlie
league if It includes a ban on oil In
Its sanctions. In modern war, no oil,
no war. Mussolini may buy old Amer-
ican ships to use as floating gasoline
storage tanks. Had he come a little
sooner he could have had plenty of
them at a bargain, about one thou-
sand million dollars’ worth of expen-
sive steel floating “Junk.” built when
tills country's foolish entrance Into the
World war found It unprepared.
England and Russia were getting
nlong nicely, and now the Russian en-
voy, LitvinolT, attending the late King's
funeral, commits the British unpar-
donable sin.
After talking with tlie new king, I.It-
vlnoff, Instead of expressing admira-
tion for the overwhelming royal In-
tellect, remarked that the new king,
Edward VIII, was "Just a mediocre
young Englishman" and repented what
the young king had said to him, some-
thing ‘‘not done.”
Vast Stream of Metal Flow
ing Into Country.
Washington.—A new gold rush Is on
but it's a rush of the yellow metal into
Uncle Sam’s vaults this time, and not
a rush of miners to get rlcn quick
the scene of some new "gold strike.”
While Italian women give up their
gold wedding rings to help finance their
country’s military activity in Ethiopia,
gold is pouring into the United States
almost faster than it can he stored,
This country now has in its vaults an
enormous treasure of more than ten
billion dollars’ worth of monetary gold,
the most valuable gold store ever held
by the American government, and pos-
sibly by any government.
“Those gold-hungry old conquerors,
Cortes and IMzarro, and even Croesus
or Midas himself, would gasp could
they see this gold hoard of the United
States piled up In one place,” says the
National Geographic society.
“The Inca Atahunlpa of Peru sought
to purchase his freedom from Pizarro
by filling a room about 20 feet square
with treasure as high as he could
INSPECTOR GENERAL
~1
Mr. Norman Thomns of the Social-
ist left wing runs for President some-
times and says the “New Deal" Is
leading to Fascism, a dictator.
In Italy Socialism, and doctrines even
more radical, led to the rise of Mus-
solini, aided by castor oil and other
methods. If our dictatorship comes,
some radicals will look hack sadly to
the good old days when you could
speak your mind without being shot
or put to work,
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh spent his
thirty-fourth birthday In Wales, his
wife and one son with him. He must
have felt as though he had already
lived 100 years, and have wished, al-
most, that lie had been content to re-
mnln In the airmail service, apart from
the limelight.
e> Kins Filatures syndicate, Inn,
In tlie recent army promotions Wal-
ter L. Itced was made Inspector gen-
eral with the rank of major general.
reach, but America’s present gold sup-
ply would form a cube 120 feet high,
wide and deep, the size of a 12 story
building.
Production Stimulated.
“This vast golden wealth Is being
guarded with extraordinary care. Near
Fort Knox, Ky., 000 miles Inland from
the Atlantic coast, a huge new steel
and stone storage ‘fortress’ Is being
built to house much of the govern-
ment's gold supply. It will be guarded
not only by the latest type of burglar-
proof vaults but by the army's most
modern mechanized cnvulry units sta-
tioned at the fort. Another large sup-
ply of gold has been moved from San
Francisco to Denver, 1,300 miles In-
land. Though the possibility of In-
vasion Is remote, the government Is
not risking Its gold too near either
seat coast.
"Gold Is (lowing to America partly
because of Its high price, $35 per ounce,
established when the American dollar
wus devalued (gold content reduced)
at the beginning of 11)84; and because
of trade requirements and fears of gold
holders In disturbed regions of the
world. When a nation buys more from
(lie United States than It sells to her.
the difference must be made up In gold.
"The high price of gold bus stimu
luted gold production all over the world
to feverish new activity. In the first
eleven months of 1935, the world pro
dueed 20,700,000 ounces of gold. The
present stock of the United States ts
about 288,000,000 ounces. In 1934 the
entire world produced 27,300,000
ounces.
“South Africa, mining 9,900,000
ounces up to December 1, was far In
the lead in 1935. Soviet Russia, which
has Jumped to the fore only recently
In gold production, was second with
3,900,000 ounces. Third was the Unit-
ed States with 3,300,000 ounces, and
Canada came fourth with 3,000,000.
"Mines not worth working when the
price of gold is lower now can be worked
profitably. In South Africa gold mines
are being cooled by air-conditioning
plants as the miners delve down to
depths where It becomes so hot that
work otherwise .would be extremely
difficult or Impossible. Reports from
Siberia, Mancliukuo, New Guinea and
Canada tell of the opening of new
gold fields. Airplanes are carrying
mining equipment Into regions where
no roads exist.
“Gold Is found widely over the world,
even In sea water. According to some
estimates the sea contains as much as
ten billion tons of gold, but diluted
down to from five to 250 parts of gold
to 100,000,000 of water. At present It
Is not practicable to extract gold from
the sea, but chemists have predicted
that new processes will make it feasi-
ble.
Greatest Gold Hoarder.
“No one knows Just how much gold
•there Is in the world today. The
world’s monetary stock of gold—gold
coins and gold reserves held by gov-
ernments ns backing for currency—to-
tals 633,400,000 ounces, and America’s
present holdings are nearly half of
this. But there Is nearly as much
more gold scattered throughout the
world In the form of Jewelry, orna-
ments, fillings for teeth, church,
mosque, and temple ornaments, gold
leaf signs, and in privnte hoards.
Greatest of the gold hoarding coun-
tries Is India, where native princes
and rulers have stored vast sums, add-
ing to them through the centuries.
'Most of the world’s gold has been
mined in modern times, though conceiv-
ably the gold In your watch might have
come originally from the ornaments of
Test Robot in Lightship
OIF Coast of Michigan
Detroit, Mich.—The United States
lighthouse service Is experimenting
near here with a new type of robot
warning ship that may replace many
present-day lighthouses.
Light miles off the Michigan coast
In Lake St. Clair—connecting lake be-
tween Lakes Erie and Huron—a crew-
less ship performs all the functions of
warning mariners of nearby danger.
As soon as darkness closes down a
warning beacon llares, a radio beacon
sends steady calls and fog signals
blare warnings during murky weath-
er. In a lighthouse nlong the coastline
the keeper merely presses buttons to
work the apparatus.
The present ship, In operation for
the last six months, will continue as
an experiment for another year. The
success of its operation probably will
decide future policy of the govern-
ment service to seafarers.
OUSTED DIPLOMAT
Senator Borah
II7TLLIAM E. BORAH, the liberal
’ V Republican senator from Idaho,
1s now a full fledged candidate for the
Republican Presidential nomination.
He formally put him-
self In the running by
announcing that lie
would enter the pri-
mary in Ohio which
will be held May 12.
That state requires
that the candidate
shall declare himself
In writing, and this
Mr. Borah said he
would do.
The senator’s state-
ment follows:
“After a thorough survey of the Ohio
situation I am convinced that the peo-
ple of that state should he given an
opportunity to express their choice In
the Presidential primary on May 12.
Under tlie so-called ‘favorite sou’ plan
this privilege is denied them.
“To obtain an expression of popular
will It is my intention to place at least
eight candidates or delegates at lurge
In tlie field.
“I shall make a number of speeches
In Ohio and present the Issues as I
see them.”
It Is understood by his friends that
the senator will make a contest for
delegates In almost every state having
a preference primary. He says the G. O.
P. conventions have been dominated by
the old conservative leaders through
the operations of the “favorite son”
scheme and this control he Intends to
destroy if possible. It is his opinion
that only a liberal Republican can de-
feat President Roosevelt next fall, and
few will deny that he Is the outstand-
ing liberal in his party.
Full control of management and con-
demnation proceedings would ho lodged
with local officials under the plan, the
aim being to decentralize activities.
IX HIS press conference President
1 Roosevelt announced that a billion
dollars’ worth of lending authorized
by acts of congress would not he car-
ried out. For example, the Home Own-
ers’ Loan corporation has passed on
nearly all proposed loans and will not
need between 500 million and a billion
dollars, the President declared. Appli-
cations for HOLC loans closed last
June 27. Outstanding loans of the
agency amount to near 2 billion 900
million dollars.
Alexander Minkin, Soviet minister to'
Uruguay, who was given his passport
when Uruguay severed relations with
Russia. South American newspapers
charged that Minkin was responsible
for the uprisings in Brazil and other
parts of the continent.
Solomon’s temple or soma ancient
treasure ship plundered by Arabian
corsairs. When Columbus sailed for
America, all the gold In Europe was
worth less than many modern private
fortunes.
“Since 1492, when his voyage opened
the way to the rich gold supplies of
the New world, gold production has
totaled 1,1S9,400,000 ounces. But of this
amount, all but 217,000,000 ounces has
been mined since 1SG0. Nearly a bil-
lion ounces have been added to
the world’s gold store In the last 75
years, as rich new ‘strikes’ and Im-
proved mining and refining methods
have enormously speeded up produc-
tion.”
/CONFORMING to the request of the
^ President, both senate and house
passed measures repealing the cotton,
tobacco and potato control acts. In
the house nine radicals and John J.
O’Connor of New York voted “no” ns
a protest against the Supreme court
after Marcantonlo of New York had
delivered a violent attack on that
tribunal.
Following this action, the senate
agriculture committee rewrote and In-
troduced the administration’s substi-
tute farm hill. The revamped meas-
ure provides that the federal govern-
ment would make grants to the states
just as Is done now under the roads
act. The states in turn would desig-
nate some agency, to he approved by
the secretary of agriculture, to dis-
tribute the money to individual farmers.
This money would he distributed ou a
formula taking Into consideration:
Acreage of crops.
Acreage of soil improving or erosion
preventing crops.
Changes In farming practices.
Percentage of the normal production
of any one or more agriculture com-
modities designated by the secretary
of agriculture, which equals that per-
centage of the normal national pro-
duction of the commodity.
After Holing-Through Longest Tunnel
P'VERY Presidential possibility these
A-* days must have some plan for the
salvation of the American farmer. Sen-
ator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, often
mentioned for the Re-
publican nomination,
now brings out Ills
permanent farm pro-
gram which he says
would divorce the
farm problem from
“bureaucratic control”
In Washington. Ills
plan would embrace
erosion control, soil
conservation, and res-
toration of fertility of
lands. Administration
would be handled
Jointly by the states and the federal
government In a manner similar to
highway construction.
The Dickinson program, similar to
that advocated by former Gov. Frank
O. Lovvden of Illinois, Includes pay-
ment of the balance due signers of
AAA contracts, a higher tariff on farm
products, continued corn loans, and ex-
tension of farm mortgages at a low
rate of Interest.
T'WO attacks on the American Lib-
a erty league were made In one day.
The strongest was by Postmaster Gen-
eral Farley who spoke at a Roosevelt
dinner In Miami, Fla.
“The Liberty league,"
said Farley, “would
rule America. It would
squeeze the worker
dry In his old age and
cast him like an orange
rind Into the refuse
pall. It would con-
tinue the infumous pol-
icy of using the agen-
cies of government to
create a plutocracy
that would perpetuate
the sorry business of the Mellons and
the Morgans In reducing 95 per cent oC
the people to the status of serfs at
the mercy of the exploiters at the
top.
“The American Liberty league speaks
as conclusively for the reactionaries
and their party as do Mr. Hoover, the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Manufacturers’ asso-
ciation.
“Its program Is frankly plutocratic
and asks for the rule of money over
men, as during the 12 years before
Roosevelt’s administration.
“Its Idea of the ‘American way’ Is
to maintain a system under which all
the wealth of the nation was being
concentrated In the hands of a very;
few—5 per cent of the people.”
At their convention In Washington
the United Mine Workers also took a
crack at the Liberty league, adopting
a resolution denouncing the organiza-
tion as “Inimical to the Interests and
people of the United States.”
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Interior of the East Coachella tunnel in California, the longest tunnel In
the world, after u charge of dynamite tore out the last barrier of rock and
holed-through the 242 mile-long bore. The tunnel will carry water from the
Colorado river to Los Angeles.
r TEADS of various government agon-
1 I cles concerned with housing have
submitted to the President a nation-
wide, low cost program based on cheap
federal loans to local communllles. Ac
cording to authoritative sources, this
undertaking would contemplate:
1. A long-range building program.
2. Interest rates perhaps as low as
1 per cent on federal loans.
3. Construction of facilities for as
mnnv ns one million families.
r?lVE of the members of the new fed-
A1 eral reserve board were Inducted
Into office with due ceremony. A sixth,
Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, was to-
arrive later and be
sworn In. The seventh
member had not yet
been named by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mar-
riner S. Redes, ap-
pointed chairman, and
M. S. Szymczak of Chi-
cago, were holdovers.
The others besides
Morrison are Ronald
Ransom, Atlanta bank-
er; John McKee of
Ohio, former chief
hank examiner for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
and Joseph A. Broderick of New York.
The reserve hoard, which has been
called “a supreme court of hanking,"
has powers unparalleled in American
financial history. Among these Is au-
thority to double present margins that
member hanks are required to main-
tain against deposits; the dominant
voice on the open-market committee—
which charts the system’s participation
In the government bond market, and
over which It had no authority under
the former law; power of veto over the
heads of the various reserve banks
which Insures the selection of a presi-
dent who will co-operate with the
hoard, and the power to fix margins
governing relations between banks auil
brokers.
OENATOR VANDENBERG of Mlehi-
^ gan has grave doubts of the eco-
nomic necessity or value of the ship
canal that is being dug across central
Florida, and offered In the senate com-
merce committee a resolution fgr Inves-
tigation by a special committee. In
support of his move he produced let-
ters from eleven companies operating
steamships saying they would not use
the canal even if no tolls were charged.
They asserted the expense of employ-
ing canal pilots added to the risk of
damage to ships would offset saving
in navigation costs.
Work was started some time ago on
the canal, which, If completed, will
cost between $140,009,000 and $200,-
000,000.
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