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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK.
Chose* Vues
I'ur*, Conscience-Proof
Caterpillars and Weeds
Wise Generosity
An able Frenchman, long stneo
dead, wrote about choses vues—
"things seen."
There are still
many things to
see and to hear,
although there is
nobody to write
about them ns
tliut old French-
man wrote.
At the head of
the London
Times' "personal
column," some,
one pays to print |
this impressive
extract from the
Psalms:
"Seek the
Arthur Brlahaae Lord and His
strength; seek His face evermore.
Remember his marvelous works
that He hath done: His wonders,
and the judgments of His mouth.”
You spend a moment wondering
what kind of English man or wom-
an, strong in faith, decided to put
that text before statesmen that to-
day seek the “face” of Hitler, Mus-
solini, Stalin, but forget the greater
power of the Creator of those gen-
tlemen.
^eAnear^
By Edward W. Pickard
(T) Weittyn^c\rsf>a^^Jnicn^
Jeffersonian Democrats
Band Together
I70RTY-THREE Democrats, most
r of them prominent nation-
ally or locally and representing
twenty states, gathered in Detroit
to toll one another
nnd the world how
much and why they
disliked the New
Deal. After two
days of conferring,
they organised
themselves as the
National Jefferson-
ian Democrats and
named Former
Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri as
J. A. Reed their national chair-
man. They decided to establish
headquarters at once in St. Louis
and to set up an organization in
every state. Then they gave out
a 1,500 word declaration or plat-
form in which they declared they
"will not support for re-election the
candidates of the Philadelphia con-
vention for President and Vice
President, and we call upon all loy-
al and sincere Democrats to con-
sider the question of their duty to
their country in the approaching
election with the same earnestness
that has guided our deliberations—
joining with us if they feel that our
conclusions are sound and our anx-
iety for the future of our party
and our country is justified."
The name of Governor London
was not mentioned in the declara-
tion, but a number of its signers
After that, you read in the same
Times this advertisement:
"Furs humanely obtained that
can be worn with a clean con-
science-full particulars from Maj.
C. Van Der Byl, Wappcnham, Tow-
cester."
i This being an ingenious and
doubtless quite sincere appeal to UUI1| „ut „ — —-----
the tender-hearted Englishwoman i are openly supporting the Republi-
who docs not like to think that the can candidate. Among these are
fur around her neck once belonged Joseph B. Ely, Col. Henry Breckin-
to an animal that suffered for days ridge, John Henry Kirby of Texas
and perhaps weeks tortured in a 'a„d Robert S. Bright of Maryland,
trap. 'However, the avowed prime ob-
Possibly the best way to "obtain jective of the Jeffersonians is the
furs humanely obtained that can be defeat of President Roosevelt and
worn with a clear conscience" is to the restoration of the Democratic
buy and wear some of the innu- party to its status before the New
merable furs, from rugged bears Dealers captured it. Their declara-
to silky chinchilla, made from the tion is unsparing in its denunciation
skins of rabbits that are nourished Qf Mr. Roosevelt’s course and the
in little hutches in the suburbs of policies of his administration.
Los Angeles, and fed with "rabbit . -
hay,” tender young alfalfa, grown gar Association Split on
on the Mojave desert, a good deal Deal Legislation •
of it on a ranch owned and operated ...hen the American Bar as-
by this writer. W 30ciation convenes in Boston
When you buy furs, no matter S0Qn jt wilj recejve two widely dif-
what kind, with a rabbit skin foun- (ering reports from a special com-
dation, you may be sure that the miUce named to study the effects
of New Deal legislation on the
animal suffered very little, ff at rights and liberties of citizens. They
all, and when you buy that fur you werg mt de public in Washington,
also buy honest American alfalfa, The majority report, signed by
which is a vegetarian product. j0hn D. Clark, Cheyenne, Wyo.;
- , „ Fred H. Davis, Tallahassee, Fla.;
F. C. Cobb wrote from the Boy George L Buisl| charleston. S. C.,
Scout reservation at Allaire, N. J.: an(j c(,arjes P. Taft II., Cincinnati,
"The last four week-ends have ohjQ _ .-deplored” the action of
been spent by our scouts collecting president Roosevelt in reducing
tent caterpillar egg clusters from congress t0 a -rubber stamp” body
wild cherry and apple trees along through his program of
the highways of Monmouth and jegjslation
Ocean counties. Many thousands ,
of egg clusters, each containing me„tai’trends of the New Deal are
i the average 250 eggs, have been jugt ag uncertain today as they
two years ago,” the report
said. "Laws specifically proposed
•Novel legislative and govern-
on
destroyed.” were two years ago
No better work could be done sajd „Laws specmc
by scouts and other boys. It is ^ emergency measures with limit-
far better exercise than perfunc- ljfe have been declared by im-
tory "hikes,” often exhausting for p(jrtant members of the administra-
smaller boys. tion to be the beginning of perma-
The fathers of the boys, also in ^ changes in national policy,
need of exercise, can be useful „There has been a continuing
mowing weeds along highways, ex-I conflict between such officials as to
cellent work for the lungs and for whether a new social and economic
reducing the waist. jorder in the making or the old
_ —— institutions are being perfected so
Edward S. Harkness, generous th may be preserved."
young New York financier, gave to jbese findings were challenged
Lawrenceville School for Boys a Kenneth Wynne, New Haven,
sum that will make possible im- Conn , Fred L Williams, St. Louis,
portant new building, plus rebuild- ’and James g. McGowen of
ing and a more extensive system Jac^soni Ml3s. in their minority
of small-group instruction, with; report they said: “If the purpose
more teachers. i oI the resolution creating the spe-
, Z j * 1 cial committee was to get the opin-
Mr. Harkness, who does not like q{ ^ American Bar association
publicity, refused to make public ding legislative trends de-
fhe amount of his gift to Lawrerice- d tQ meet changing economic
ville, but he gave $..000,000 to Ex- ,jU the report is superficial. It
eter academy. $13,000 000 each to WJPth the problem but
Yale and Harvard, to finance their concerns itJelf with a short range
housing systems. That gives some ck on sur{ace trivialities.”
idea of the size of his gi s. | sjiarp divergence between
. . ... ____ the two reports presages a conflict
Some Americans will agree that healed discussion at the as-
It is a good thing to have men of anu 11
unusual ability accumulate wealth sociation meeting.
wisely*.8* “ Bener°US'y American Track Team
Old fashioned Americans would Victor in Olympics
rather encourage such gifts and rplGHT days of track competition
praise the givers than inculcate the £-/ that brought out many record-
notion that anybody with brains breaking performances showed that
enough to accumulate wealth in the American team was unbeatable
this country of opportunity is prob- jn the matter of total points. These
ably a thief and ought to be in jail. Yankee athletes piled up a total of
- ;203 points. Finland was second
Mussolini knows how a dictator with 80U, Germany third with
can keep his hold on the people. He ggy, and Japan fourth with
establishes 2,000 government 51 13.22. Jesse Owens, the marvel-
camps where half a million poor oUS colored lad from Ohio State
children enjoy free vacations at: university, captured four gold
sea and mountain resorts. For nine medals for firsts in the 100 meter
years Mussolini has carried on this and 200 meter runs and the broad
work.
gulshed herself by breaking the.........
world record in two heats of the praecox.
100-meter dash.
brought to an end In char-
acteristic manner his checkered
career nnd his life. He leaped to
his death from a window of his
office in Seattle shortly after he had
filed for re-nomination to the con-
gressional seat he had held for two
terms. His friends attributed the
suicide to worry over a psy-
chiatrist's advice that he take a
long rest from politics. His trouble
had been diagnosed ns dementia
Ohio State will have to get along a—.I....
ithout Owens next season, for he 1 .. . . _
without Owens next season, for he
announced that he would turn pro-
fessional after completing a post-
Olympic tour that will take him to
many European countries.
Commerce Department on
Recovery and Public Debt
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
^ ROPER'S department has just
put out a "world economic review"
for 1935 which contains many
interesting state-
ments. It says, for
instance, that
future business
prospects are condi-
tioned in part upon I
narrowing the gap
between g o v e rn-
ment expenditures
and receipts. It as-
serted that "the
government deficit
springs from the
root of unemploy- “,oan
ment, which is still the major
problem confronting the country,”
and continued:
“Most of the recent increase in
the public debt has resulted from
emergency expenditures which will
be reduced ns the need diminishes.
At this date the evidences of need
are still manifest."
Saying the public debt “has con-
mount rapidly, nolwith-
Called by Death
T INCOLN STEFFENS, long prom-
A-^inent as n journalist, writ-
Uncommon
Sense
By
JOHN BLAKE
83
ff1 Doll Syndicate.—-'WNU Service.
Just outside my window I
can hoar a slight clicking every
time the mem-
Meter bers of my house-
Your Time hold turn on the
taps in their
kitchens. Thnt clicking reminds
me constantly that water is ex-
pensive down here in this seaside
cottage where I am spending a
month.
By and by, when I close the
cottage a man with a key will
l, wru- • ,
er nnd lecturer, died at Carmel. j come along, unlock a meter ana
Cnlif., at the nge of seventy. He , take its reading. . .
was creator of the so-called muck- Then just before I am S
raking school of journalism and in he will hand me a slip of PaPL
many magazine articles he exposed which will inform me what 1 owe
the corruption in municipal politics. ‘him. ,
Another ,wc-ll known American j These boys on the Maine coast
writer, Arthur B. Reeve, passed are careful, as they should be,
away at his home in Trenton. N. J. that no summer dweller gets away
He gained fame by his crime and without making matters square
mystery stories.
with that meter.
One becomes acutely aware of
the necessity for economy as the
little counting device in the meter
clocks off the pints, quarts, gal-
lons and barrels that the families
President Resents Charge
of Politics in Relief
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ---- ions ana Darren
T visibly aroused by Republican nround here use.
charges that the New Dealers were . And as the little machines click
seeking to reap political profit from out thejr information I become
the drouth conditions. At his press impressed with the fact that time
conference he broke with the usual has a valuc of which I have been
rule by permitting himself to be too lightly,
directly quoted as saying: | Why would it not be a good plan
"It is a great disservice to the <(| mcter one.s 0mc in the same
proper administration of any gov* •
ernment to link up human misery, * * * •
with partisan politics." I jf every minute, every hour
The President announced that he
are getting out of them as they
come and go.
• • •
As the poet observes of the min-
utes, "we cannot strive to grasp
them all,” but we can grasp nnd
hold many more than we do if we
remember that every click of that
meter means a second used or
lost forever.
What our time allowance is we
shall have no means of knowing.
But we can if we are careful
get more out of existence as it
passes than we usually do.
So, when you hear that meter
spinning in the cellar, or the clock
ticking on the wall, you will real-
ize that your life is being slowly
measured out to you.
Keep as careful track of it as
you are able to.
Get as much out of every work-
ing hour—and every playing hour
as it Is possible, and when It is
all over you will know that you
have made the best possible use
of a life which you might,
by heedlessness, have wantonly
squandered.
Abusus non tollit usum. (L.)
Abuse is no argument against the
proper use of anything.
Auri sacra fames. (L.) Ac-
cursed greed for gold.
Bon chien chasse de race. (P.)
A good dog hunts from instincts;
blood will tell.
Coute que coute. (F.) At any
cost.
Doux yeux. (F.) Soft glances.
Esprit des lois. (F.) The spirit
of the law.
Favete linguis. (L.) Avoid ut-
tering ill-omened words; main-
tain silence.
In nubibus. (L.) In the clouds*
not clear.
Lite pendente. (L.) During ths
trial.
Modus operandi. (L.) A mode
of operating.
Pot-pourri. (F.) A hotch-potch;
a medley.
Tempus edax rerum. (L.) Time,
the devourer of all things.
Turner's Criticism
Turner, the famous English
painter, once ridiculed his own
paintings as a salad was offered
him at a dinner party, in this
wise: "Nice cool green that let-
tuce, isn’t it? And the beetroot
pretty red — yet not quite strong
enough, and the mixture, delicate
tint of yellow that. Add some
mustard and then you have one
of my paintings.”
would hold a series of regional con-
clicked its message in my ears,
tinued to .— .
standing the substantial increase in
the national revenues,” the report,— —--- ,-
added: ernors of Iowa, Nebraska, Oklaho-
“Future business prospects are in ma and Missouri. Mr. Landon
a degree conditioned upon the pos- said he would accept the Pres-
sibility of bringing expenditures ‘ ident's invitation to such a confei-
more in line with receipts and thus; ence.
eliminating, partially at least, the |
uncertainties prevailing in connec-1 >j>en "Rebel" Unions Are
tion with future taxation and other Suspended From A. F. of L.
budgetary problems. r tnlESS John L. Lewis and his
As to “the part played in the re-11 1
covery to date by the heavy govern
fere.,ces with governor* of states j am using and just
in the drouth area and naturally much j am allowing to go to
Governor Landon. hi* Republican W0st it might be a good thing
opponent w,l be amongthose he bank account-such as it
will meet. It was believed they ^ t me to put a check
would come together . ou Ls or ^ needless escape of the one
day in Des Moines, with the gov- ith which we are all en-
to note now and then how the
years arc passing, what we are
doing with them, and what we
lowed while we live, namely, time.
When one learns to budget that
lime to devote a part of it to work
and a part of it to play, he is, or
ought to be on the way to an in-
telligent control of life—which, as
far as you and I are concerned, is
the time alloted to us from our
jum. u,. .— birth on to our disappearance
associates in the Committee for from the planet,
covery to date by the neavy govern-1 Organization repent and u would help almost everybody
ment expenditures the repor said. , ^ ,.rebelUous.. aclivities ' ” ' ~ ~-
"This question is not easily an- September 5. WVMwi
swered, but it is certain that such unions thev '
hove had an Inltamj,. W
in many directions - for example suspenslon from the
the^"growth’oTbank deposits and on American Federa-
the prevailing level of interest (*
The latter statements may well 1 h e federation s
be compared with the report of execut.ve counc.l
Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen-; "passed on the
era! Motors, to the stockholders, charges •
Business recovery throughout the ^r®y’ metaI trades
world — in which the United States ... . ,
has participated — is being gen- wa's "fomenting insurrection
crated by a combination °f various ^ rebell|on » David Dubinsky.
factors, Mr. Sloan explains. In “ garment workers, cast
this country “utomob.le mdus- «1 VQ* against the suspen-
try has been helped, he says, by
principal influences. Only one of slon ordcr-
Custard pies should first be
started to bake in a hot oven to
set the crust, then the heat of the
oven should be quickly reduced so
that the custard may cook slowly.
* • »
Never beat or stir cereals or
rice with a spoon. It makes them
pasty. Use a silver-plated fork.
* • -
After washing white silk stock-
ings or gloves and i insing them
thoroughly be sure to hang them
in the shade to dry This will keep
them white.
• • •
If the chicken is well rubbed in-
side and out with a cut lemon be-
fore being cooked it will make the
meat white, juicy and tender.
* * *
Left-over cauliflower can be dip-
ped in cracked crumbs and egg
and fried in deep fat and served
for luncheon or supper.
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In Europe, English, French, Gcr
jump and for pacing the winning
American quartet in the 400 meter
relay. The decathlon was won by
man, Italian or Czechoslovakian Glenn Morris of Denver.
will believe anything you say about
American crime, and that is hardly
surprising.
The heading “Chicago Politician
Dies Under Hail of Racketeers'
Bullets” surprises nobody. There
might be mild surprise if the head-
ing read, “Chicago Politician Does
NOT Die Under Hail of Racketeers’
Bullets."
© King Features Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service.
Japan captured the most highly
prized Olympic championship when
Kitei Son, young Corean student,
won the marathon race over a very
tough course and in the record time
of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds.
The distance was 20 miles and 385
yards.
Among the women contestants
Helen Stephens of Missouri distin-
these, he points out, has its roots
in the New Deal financial schemes
and he finds that particular influ-
ence a bad one because it creates
a temporary fool's paradise in
which sales and earnings are bal-
looned by extraordinary govern-
ment expenditures.
Asserting that political extrava-
gance has created a highly unde-
sirable and artificial stimulus, Mr.
Sloan urges that such spending be
halted before it is too late to stave
off disaster.
Oil Men and Companies
Accused of Conspiracy
/CHARGED by the government
Vj with conspiracy to violate the
anti-trust law by combining to dom-
inate the purchasing of oil in the
Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma fields
and to fix prices of
gasoline in the Mid-
dle West. 58 per-
sons, 23 petroleum
concerns and three
publishing compa-
nies were indicted
by a federal grand
jury in Madison.
Wis. Among the
prominent defend
II. M. Dawes ants are Edward G.
Seubert of Chicago, president of
the Standard Oil Company of Indi-
ana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston,
111., president of the Pure Oil com-
pany, and many officials of Stand-
ard Oil, Pure Oil, Deep Rock, So-
cony-Vacuum and various other oil
concerns and their subsidiaries. Al-
so in the list are Warren C. Platt
of Cleveland, publisher of the Na-
tional Petroleum News and Platt’s
Oilgram; his two publications and
the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
The Indictment charged that the
defendant oil companies formed
pools in the east Texas and mid-
continent fields for the purpose of
purchasing gasoline at artificially
high prices from independent pro-
ducers, and in furtherance of such
a scheme were members of associ-
ations which included the indepen-
dents.
This, said Mr. Platt, is exactly
what the oil companies did with the
approval of Secretary of the Interi-
or Harold L. Ickes, administrator
of the NRA petroleum code, when
efforts were being made to limit the
production of gasoline, prevent the
(low of excess quota oil into mar-
ket channels, and raise prices in
that turbulent industry.
Lewis having definitely set him-
self against any peace overtures,
it appeared that the suspension cer-
tainly would be put into effect. The
next move will be up to the Tampa
convention in the fall, which will be
asked to vote the expulsion of the
refractory unions.
Fierce Fighting in-the
Spanish Civil War
r\ESPERATE fighting for posses-
U sion of the passes in the
Guadarrama mountains north of
Madrid was going on between the
government forces and the rebel
troops. Loyalist soldiers were hur-
ried to that region, and Madrid
claimed some victories. However,
the Fascists on the northern side
of the range were said to be within
sight of the capital and in position
for a vigorous advance.
On the twentieth day of the re-
bellion the government announced
it had captured the provinces of
Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Mala-
ga, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara.
Badajoz and the northern resort
city of San Sebastian.
Senator Keyes, New Hampshire,
to Retire From Office
CENATOR HENRY W. KEYES of
3 New Hampshire has announced
that he is not a candidate for re-
clection by the Republicans, prefer
ing "to retire from active partici
pation in public affairs.” The Re
publicans therefore will choose be
tween former Senator George H,
Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges,
both of whom have announced their
candidacy for the nomination.
Kansas Republicans renominated
Senator Arthur Capper, and the
Democrats picked Omar Ketchum
of Topeka. In Kentucky the Demo-
crats renominated Senator M. M.
Logan, whose Republican opponent
in November will be Robert H.
Lucas.
Corn Crop Experts Say
Yield Will Be Small
TT'XPERT crop statisticians esti-
E-' mate that, as a result of the
record breaking drouth, this year’s
corn crop will be reduced to 1,572,-
000,000 bushels, which would be the
smallest yield since 1881 except for
the disastrous drouth year of 1934.
Argentine farmers are expected
to profit to tiie extent of $50,000,000
or more as a result of the keen
competition for corn between the
United States and Europe,
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