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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
May 5, 1938
News Review of Current Events_
WPA WASTE ASSAILED
Senators Lodge and Davis Make Vigorous Minority
Report on Unemployment and Relief
Loan contract* totaling {36,657,000 (or four cities, covering not more
than 90 per cent o( the cost of proposed slum-clearance and low-rent
housing, were approved by President Roosevelt upon the recommenda-
tion of Nathan Straus, administrator of the housing authority. These will
provide approximately 6,667 family dwelling units for over 26,000 slum
dwellers. The photograph shows Senator Robert Wagner of New York
watching Mr. Straus sign the loan contracts.
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* ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Che nurgy for Production
EMBERS of the National Farm
^■*7 Chemurgic council, holding
their fourth annua] meeting In Oma-
ha, challenged the view of Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the country’s
j economic troubles are due to over-
J production.
“There need be no limits," said
Wheeler McMillcn. editor of Coun-
try Home and president of the coun-
cil. in his opening address, "to the
wealth we can produce. Freeing
farmers from the narrowness of
food and export markets, the soil
cun be enabled to produce houses
for the ill-housed and the innumer-
able desires of a great free peo-
ple. The processes of production
can create the purchasing power
for consumption.
"In no other way than by the cre-
ation of wealth can there be wealth
for all. Chemurgy calls, not upon
government, but on the triple pow-
ers of agriculture, industry and sci-
ence. We reject the cowardly coun-
sels of national poverty and pessi-
mism. We propose to apply science
and capital and labor to the soil
and its products. Chemurgy's
challenge to Americans is a chal-
lege to share in wealth by creating
wealth.”
Mine Blast Kills 45
p'XPLOSION of dust in a coal
mine on Keen mountain 12 miles
from Grundy, Va., buried the night
force of 45 men under thousands of
tons of slate and rock, wrecked the
equipment and filled up the pas-
sages to the drifts. Hundreds of
rescuers worked frantically for 20
hours and finally recovered the bod-
ies of the victims. Not one of the
gang survived. The mine was
opened only last November and was
considered one of the most modern
and safest in the United States.
Quaker Work Camp Holiday
Lodge and Davis Strike
TT ENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., of
■Tl Massachusetts and James J.
Davis of Pennsylvania made a mi-
nority report of the senate commit-
tee on unemploy-
ment and relief in
w*l*c*1 they vigorous-
^ ly attacked adminis-
j tration business and
■ relief policies and
condemned the ma-
jority report for fail-
ure to investigate al-
leged waste in the
WPA administra-
tion.
The two Republi-
Scuator Lodge can senators de-
manded that administration leaders
stop making “extravagant utter-
ances, in which whole classes of
people are insulted and nameless in-
dividuals are lambasted over the ra-
dio instead- of being prosecuted in
the courts."
They then offered these further
suggestions for immediate action:
1. Repeal of the undistributed
profits tax and modification of the
capital gains tax as proposed in the
senate tax bill and general tax re-
duction wherever possible.
2. Encourage that which is good in
business.
3. Stop congress from “wasting its
time” over consideration of "such
schemes” as the Supreme court en-
largement bill and the govern-
ment reorganization bill and allow
the legislators to concentrate on
the relief and unemployment prob-
lem.
4. Eliminate tax exempt securities
and reduce unnecessary and bur-
densome social security taxes.
5. A true unemployment census
should be taken to serve as a basis
for scientific treatment of the ques-
tion of wages and hours on a na-
tional scale.
6. End executive discretion in tar-
iff matters and return to congress
the control of the currency.
7. Reorganization of the agencies
of unemployment and relief.
8. Initiation of a new inquiry into
the relief problem during which all
persons who have constructive crit-
icism of the operations of the pres-
ent unemployment relief system
would be heard.
Wallace Is Rebuked
CECRETARY of agriculture
^ WALLACE was rebuked for star
chamber methods by the Supreme
court in a decision reversing his
order of June 14, 1933, fixing maxi-
mum rates to be charged by mar-
keting agencies at the Kansas City
stockyards.
The court's opinion, written by
Chief Justice Hughes, reverses a
decree of a three judge district
court in Kansas City, upholding the
order, on the ground that the com-
mission men were denied a fair
and open hearing and that Secre-
tary Wallace accepted the “find-
ings" of the government prosecu-
tors without even reading the
evidence.
In other decisions the Supreme
court upheld the municipal bank-
ruptcy act of 1937, and the 1923 filled
milk act which bars interstate ship-
ment of milk to which other oils or
fats have been added.
, . „ ,. For Annual Wage Guarantee
courts* would euphddCh ^ fCU U,B WHILE HhCnwhF°rHWaS uUnCh’
Mr. Roosevelt said: “Tax exemp- 1 ln* at the Wh,te House by ln'
Henry Ford
vitation of President Roosevelt, the
officials of his company were con-
sidering a plan for
the guarantee of an
annual minimum
wage, offered by the
Ford Brotherhood of
America, an inde-
pendent labor organ-
ization. Establish-
ment of such a plan
has not before been
i asked, but it has
1 been advocated by
Mr. Roosevelt and
Gov. Frank Murphy
j of Michigan.
The brotherhood's goal is at least
$1,500 a year for every hourly-rate
J worker in the mammoth River
Rouge plant of the Ford Motor
company in Dearborn, where it
claims a membership of 21,400. Dur-
1 ing peak production periods the fac-
: tory has nearly 90,000 employees.
William S. McDowell, Sr., broth-
erhood attorney, said that in return
for the proposed wage guarantee
F. B. A. members would sign an
FRENCH PREMIER DALADIER agreement that each would pur-
r let it be known that his govern- chase a new car ,rom 111 e company
ment will not enter into any four 1 every two years at the same Price
power European treaty that in- ! at which they are sold to dealers.
eludes Nazi Germany. In conse- | -Si-
quence, it was understood in Paris,
Prime Minister Chamberlain of Hard lighting in China
Great Britain had given up that I TAPAN’S reorganized forces
—j I Shantung province were forcing
tions through the ownership of gov-
ernment securities have operated
against the fair or effective collec- ,
tion of progressive surtaxes. In-
deed, I think it is fair to say that j
these exemptions have violated the
spirit of the tax law itself by actual- j
ly giving a greater advantage to !
those with large incomes than to
those with small incomes. . . .
"The same principles of just tax-
ation apply to tax exemptions of of- |
ficial salaries. The federal govern- j
ment does not now levy income
taxes on the hundreds of thousands
of state, county and municipal em- j
ployees. Nor do the states, under
existing decisions, levy income
taxes on the salaries of the hun- ;
dreds of thousands of federal em- !
ployees. Justice in a great democ-
racy should treat those who earn
their livelihood from government in |
the same way as it treats those who
earn -their livelihood in private em- '
ploy."
Won't Deal With Hitler
VI
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
| This Cheerful Peasant
Has Appliqued Apron
Last summer at Fayette camp.
Miss Margaret Lamont of Trenton,
N. J..rang the dinner bell thatcalled
busy campers from their tasks after a hard day at their varied tasks.
"End Tax Exemptions"
PROMPT legislation was asked of
4 congress by President Roosevelt
to remove tax exemptions on in-
come from all future government
bonds, federal, state and local, and
on all government salaries.
In his special message the Presi-
dent said existing exemptions re-
sulted from judicial decisions and
could be eliminated by a “short and
plan for the present. Daladier and
Foreign Minister Bonnet went to
London and discussed Anglo-British
relations and other matters relating
to the peace of Europe.
Henlein Warns Czechs
IZONRAD HENLEIN, leader of j
A'- Czechoslovakia's 3,500,000 Sude-
ten Germans, warned the govern-
ment of "war internally or from j
the outside" in a militant speech j
which quarters close to the govern-
ment believed bore the approval of j
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
Henlein openly proclaimed that
German Nazilsm is the "guiding
principle" of his Sudetens and de-
manded that Czechoslovakia’s for- I
eign policies be revised immediate-
ly as regards Germany.
He warned the Prague govern-
ment against placing reliance in its
military alliances with France and
Soviet Russia, and frankly asserted
that Czechoslovakia must cease re-
sisting Germany's ambitions toward
the east.
An emergency meeting of the cab-
inet council was called to consider
the grave situation created by Hen-
lein’s demands.
In Budapest 20,000 Hungarians de-
manded the dismemberment ol
Czechoslovakia at a rally of the
Hungarian Revision league.
Anglo-Irish Agreement
PRIME MINISTER EAMON DE
^ VALERA of Ireland and Prime
the Chinese back steadily despite
desperate resistance. The invaders
even crossed the border into Kiang-
su province for the first time. The
defenders claimed the Japanese suf-
fered a severe setback north of Tal-
erchwang; they also asserted they
had recaptured 15 important towns
in Shansi, Honan and Hopei prov-
inces.
One in Seven on Relief
T'WELVE million American work-
ers are totally unemployed.
More than 18,000,000 persons, or one-
seventh of the population of the
country, are receiv-
ing public assist-
ance from the fed-
eral, state or local
governments. From
1933 to 1937 inclusive
the federal and state
governments have
spent $19,400,000,000
for work relief and
other forms of pub-
lic assistance.
These far from
cheerful figures
were in a prelimi-
nary report of the senate commit-
tee on relief and unemployment sub-
mitted by Chairman Byrnes.
At the time the report came in,
Harry Hopkins. WPA administrator,
was telling the house appropriations
committee, holding hearings on the
administration’s recovery-relief pro-
gram, that the proposed $1,250,000,-
000 relief appropriation would en-
able 200,000 to be added to federal
aid rolls, bringing the total number
to 2,800,000 persons.
This money, he said, would last
only for the first seven months of
Harry
Hopkins
Minister Neville Chamberlain of
Great Britain met again in London
and signed an agreement that brings
to a close the six-year tariff and
trade war between the two coun-
tries. The quarrel began when Ire-
land refused to pay England land [ the coming fiscal year,
tithes amounting to $25,000,000. j The senate committee report in
The agreement leaves for later j general absolved the WPA from
settlement the question of incorpora- ' charges of graft, waste and inefifl-
tion of North Ireland, or Ulster, into ! ciency, but in some respects it
the Irish republic. This now seems \ sharply criticized the administra-
possible of accomplishment for both ! tion’s relief policies.
parties in Ireland have nominated
for first president of the state un-
der the new constitution Dr. Doug-
as Hyde, a Protestant. Hyde is the
country's most distinguished Gaelic
scholar. He is the son of a former
Protestant rector in County Ros-
common and is seventy-eight years
old.
To the discomfiture of administra-
tion leaders, the committee recom-
mended that the senate’s revenue
bill repealing the undistributed prof-
its tax and modifying the capital
gains tax be adopted as a major aid
to economic recovery. Retention ol
those taxes is In the house bill
backed by President Roosevelt.
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK.—Gen. Saturnio Ce-
4- ’ dillo, the feudal chieftain of the
province of San Luis Potosi, is mov-
ing out of the ruck as the No. 1
menace to the
Gen, Cedillo Cardenas adminis-
No. 1 Menace tration, according
to Cardenas t0 a11 one can
glean at this
crossroads.
A friend of this writer, an oil op-
erator who has reasons for remain-
ing anonymous, brings news from
Mexico that the big, swarthy Mesti-
zo, the most conspicuous hold-out on
the state agrarian program, is gain-
ing a following in a long sweep of
Mexican provinces, and, in this
view, dissident factions will swarm
in behind him, if there is a further
drift toward civil war.
He has the friendship and
backing of various foreign inter-
ests, according to my Informant,
and around his huge, stolid,
grim person there is gathering
powerful opposition t* the gov-
ernment.
He is a self-made fighting man
who served his apprenticeship in va-
rious minor work-outs, before the
big upheaval of 1910, when old Por-
firio Diaz was overthrown. He
joined this revolt, but called him-
self a “conservative revolutionist.”
He never liquidated his personal
army, now numbering about 10,000,
and his autocratic
He Keeps Up state is firmly en-
Own Army of cysted in the con-
70,000 Men stitutional com-
monwealth. When
he resigned as secretary of agri-
culture on August 16, of last year,
it was reported that he had made a
truce with President Cardenas, but
that talk seems to have been pre-
mature.
He was a member of the Na-
tional Revolutionary party com-
mittee of 1934, which drafted
Mexico’s six-year agrarian and
economic plan, but has been a
determined and effective oppo-
nent of such fixings, particularly
the Cardenas agrarian plan.
My friend picks Senors Cardenas
and Cedillo as the two strong men
of Mexico, one being driven left
and the other right by the present
social tension.
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The Right Aim
The true aim of life is not so
much the accumulation and study
of facts as it is the development
and exercise of the powers and
capacities of the soul.
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TpHE Swiss bell-ringers, the one-
armed trap-drummer, the circus
ring-master and all such supposedly
busy and preoccupied people are
just snoozing along
Tap-Drummer compared to Dr.
Has Nothing Morris Fishbein,
on Fishbein g o a 1 - k e e p e r
against medical
quacks, heresies, panaceas, innova-
Cul Through Difficulties
The greatest men have been
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Still Your Duty
You can never escape a duty by
not acknowledging it.—Dr. Alex-
tions, utopias and unsanctioned ex- ander Mackenzie,
periments.
When Dr. James H. Means, retir-
ing president of the American Col-
lege of Physicians, drops a few pro-
vocative words about self-imposed
medical reform, they scarcely hit a
press wire before Dr. Fishbein
swings a devastating counter-asser-
tion.
Dr. Fishbein Is elaborately
equipped and organized for
timely blasts against any en-
croachment of subsidized or so-
cialized medicine. As editor of
the Journal of the American
Medical Association, with head-
quarters in Chicago, he com-
mands a large staff of secre-
taries and assistant secretaries,
trained like a fast ball club to
field any challenge or dissent.
He is undoubtedly the most highly
publicized medical man in America.
Through the journal, he reaches the
nation’s 125,000 doctors; through Hy-
geia, the more popularized medical
publication, he carries his message
to many more thousands and is a
prolific writer for national maga-
zines.
He wolfs hundreds of exchanges
and eight or ten medical books ev-
ery week, lec-
tures, speaks on
the radio, reviews
books, writes
books and, always
enjoying a fight, keeps up a fast
running fight against the quacks.
When he finished Rush Medical
school, at the age of twenty-three,
he had the choice of becoming a
pathologist for the state of Indiana,
or an assistant editor of the Jour,
nal of Medicine.
He chose the latter. Mrs. Fish-
bein, who was Anna Mantel,
serves through the war with
him, traveling with him and as-
sisting him in the biggest and
busiest job of medical journal-
ism ever attempted. They have
three children.
Dr. Fishbein, plump, affable,
bald, and forty-eight years old, also
is deep in art, music, literature, the
drama, bridge, golf and public af-
fairs, exercising a sharp critical
judgment in all these fields. He is
a magnificent demonstration of how
a knowing doctor can build up his
basal metabolisms.
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