The Willamina times., October 26, 1933, Image 4

TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
considerable part of the total taxes
to be levied on the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic beverages should be
fastened upon the manufacturer and
upon the retailer In such form that
it cannot be shifted readily to the
consu mer."
Hitler Takes Germany Out of League of Nations and Dis­
armament Conference— Depositors in Closed
Banks to Get 50 Per Cent Payment.
\ I f l T H Florida now on the list. S3
’ ’ states have voted for repeal of
the Eighteenth amendment, and only
three more states are needed to put an
end to national prohibition. Florida
went wet by a vote of approximately
4 to 1.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
ERMANY, feeling that It Is being
treated like a second-class na­
G
tion, startled the world by withdraw­
ing from membership in the League
of Nations and from
the disarmament con­
ference. At first blush
this looked rather like
a threat of war In the
not distant future, but
sober consideration of
the facts and condi­
tions dissipated most
of the fear that armed
conflict was near. In
the first place, the
German government
Chancellor
left the way open for
Hitler
its return to the league
and conference if properly conciliated
by the other nations. More potent yet,
perhaps, is the fact that none of the
nations is financially able to support
a war at this time. Nor do the people
of any of the countries directly in­
volved wish to go to war, unless It
may be the always militaristic Prus­
sians of the reich.
Chancellor Hitler, having announced
Germany's withdrawal. President Von
Hindenburg Immediately decreed the
dissolution of the reichstag and pro­
claimed a general parliamentary elec­
tion for November 12, with a plebi­
scite at the same time to obtain the na­
tion’s approval of the government's de­
cision. All the state parliaments were
dissolved and there will be no new
state elections, so the power will be
centralized in Berlin.
Hitler’s speech of appeal to the Ger­
man people to support his policy was
full of ardor and yet was half concili­
atory and caused hopes in Great Brit­
ain and the United States, if not else­
where, that the reich might be brought
to a reconsideration of its action. The
officials of other nations refused to get
excited, and some of them admitted
privately that Hitler’s protest was
Justified, but not his methods. The
managers of the disarmament confer­
ence were naturally disconcerted and
decided to adjourn until October 25.
Some of them were ready to quit in­
definitely, but this move was blocked
by Norman H. Davis, the American
representative.
A little later Mr. Davis received in­
structions from the White House and
thereupon his position became consid­
erably more detached. In a statement
to the press he informed the European
nations that America would gladly co­
operate in any disarmament negotia­
tions but was “not interested in the
political element or any purely Euro­
pean aspect of the picture." In other
words, the United States will leave
Europe to settle its own quarrels.
Italian officials rather hoped the
disarmament negotiations could be
continued with the framework of the
four power pact, but France indicated
she would not consent to this.
President Arthur Henderson’s reply
to Foreign Minister Von Neurath’s
telegram announcing Germany's with­
drawal from the arms conference was
concocted by the managers of the con­
ference with the aid of Mr. Davis. It
refuted the German accusation that
the conference did hot intend to bring
about general disarmament and that
the former allies were unwilling to
disarm. By implication Germany was
reminded that she was still bound by
the treaty of Versailles until she has
algned a disarmament convention re­
placing It.
Just at present the German people
seem to be giving Hitler their enthusi­
astic support, but he is isolating his
country and is progressing fast on the
road to being repudiated. He may save
himself by moderating bis policies.
“B ut on the other hand, the needs
of those who are still on the rolls is
proportionately greater than it was be­
fore, and. In addition to the work of
direct relief, it is necessary for us to
continue our support of the permanent
hospital and welfare services that ex­
ist In every county and in most com­
munities."
f~ \N E billion dollars will be put Into
circulation speedily when and If
the President’s program for the liqui­
dation of closed national and state
banks Is carried out.
The depositors will
be paid about 50 per
cent of their deposits,
the m o n e y b e i n g
loaned by the Recon­
struction Finance cor­
poration. To adminis­
ter the liquidation a
special division of the
RFC is set up to
make loans to the
several thousands of
Dean Acheson closed banks. C. B.
Merriam, a director of the RFC, Is the
head of the liquidation board, and the
other members are: Jesse H. Jones,
chairman of the board of Reconstruc­
tion Finance corporation; Dean G.
Acheson, undersecretary of the treas­
ury; Lewis W. Douglas, director of
the budget; J. F. T. O’Connor, control­
ler of the currency, and Walter J.
Cummings, chairman of the Deiwslt
Insurance corporation.
In general, loans to closed banks will
be limited to 50 per cent of deposits,
thus establishing a 50 per cent max­
imum for payment to depositors. In
some cases, where assets Justify, a
somewhat larger distribution may be
possible, but where assets are not
worth 50 per cent of deposits the divi­
dend will be less. In some cases, the
White House statement warned, no
dividends beyond those already paid
will be possible.
The division will make loans to
closed banks, taking over their assets
as security to the extent of the ap­
praised value of the assets. Thus a
closed bank desiring to liquidate will
not have to sell its real estate mort­
gages and other frozen and semi-fro­
zen assets at bankruptcy prices on the
open market Instead, these assets
can be held for a market more in line
with their real value, while depositors
meanwhile receive as large a propor­
tion of their tied-up deposits as they
would get if they were forced to wait
for the money.
The plan will be applicable only to
banks closed after January 1, 1933.
HEN Joseph B. Eastman, federal
co-ordinator of transportation,
announced recently that orders might
be placed soon for $30,000,000 In rails
the steel operators
were greatly cheered
up. But since study­
ing the conditions un­
der which the orders
would be placed some
of them are not so
happy. C. V. McKaig,
vice president and
genera! manager of
sales for the Carnegie
Steel company. United
States Steel corpora­
tion subsidiary, is one
of these. He quoted Eastman as say­
ing the order would be placed only if
an “expected” reduction In the price
of steel materializes.
“Such a reduction is the last thing
the operators want,” said McKaig. “I
think the present ‘pegged’ price of
$40 a ton is about right. One of the
purposes of the NRA is to assure a
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in an ad-
reasonable return to the manufac­
* dress from the White House
turer. From this observation a lower
opened the four weeks’ drive of the
price now would seem to defeat this
1933 mobilization for human needs
purpose.”
which is headed by Newton D. Baker.
Eastman said the order would put
He urged that individuals everywhere
give what they can to local organiza­ thousands of workers back in the
tions carrying on welfare services, in­ mills. McKaig said the steel manu­
stead of leaving it all to the national facturers already have contributed an
government. He re-emphasized his po­ estimated $100,000,000 annually to the
sition that state and local responsibil­ NRA in the form of increased salaries.
The announcement of the proposed
ity come first in the relief program.
“It Is true," said he, “that I have de­ plan accompanied a request for bids
clared that government must not let on $44,000 tons of rails. Such an order
any one starve this winter; but at the would be more than four times the
same time this policy is based on the total for the last year when produc­
assumption that the individual Ameri­ tion barely exceeded 200,000 tons. The
can citizen will continue to do his and capacity is 3,500,000 tons annually.
her part, even more unselfishly than
CCORDING to the Rockefeller
in the past
liquor survey, “proper” taxes on
“Let me stress that a great many
people will still need the help of relief alcoholic beverages should yield about
agencies this winter. It is true that $700,000,000 yearly.
“This estimate,” the survey said,
because of a partial, but I believe a
steadily growing, re-employment of the “does not Include the normal state,
unemployed, many families and many local, and federal taxes which the
Individuals have been taken off the liquor trade will also bear.”
The survey said it Is convinced “a
local relief rolls.
W
A
THREAD OF THOUGHT
During a history lesson the teacher
pointed out to her yonng pupils that
a surname often Indicated the trade
or profession of the ancestors of
those who bore the name.
“For Instance." she said, by way
of Illustration, "supposing your name
was Baker, that meant your ances­
tors were makers of bread. Or. as
another exnmple, supposing your
name was Smith, that meant that
your ancestors were workers In Iron
—blacksmiths, and so on.”
She pointed to one of the boys.
"What
were
your ancestors,
Webb?" she asked him.
Tliompson raised his eyebrows In­
The boy look«*«! thoughtful.
quiringly as Nobbs paused dramatic­
“Spiders, teacher," he aald, after a
ally In his tale of woe.
while.
“You say your wife throw a teapot
at you," he said. “Did It hit you?"
Evidently Soma Doubt
“Unfortunately, no," said Nobbs.
A doctor, attending an old man,
“Why on earth *unfortunately’?"
hnd instructed the butler In the art
asked Thompson, puzzled.
of taking his master's temperature.
“I’ll tell you," explained Nobbs.
Due morning, on arriving at the
“Instead of hitting me It hit the cat.
house, the doctor ran Into the butler.
The cat clawed down the curtains.
"I hope,“ he said, “that your mas­
The curtains fell Into the fire and
ter's temperature Is no higher?"
caught alight. In five minutes the
“I was Just hoping that myself."
whole room was ablaze. Now we're
said
the butler, solemnly. “He died
living In the toolshed at the bottom
an hour ago."
of the garden.”
ROBERT H. GORE seems to
NJ nave regained his prestige In
Puerto Rico. A coalition majority of
union Republicans and Socialists
stage«! a parade and muss meeting in
support of the government's program,
and the governor, addressing the
crowd, pledged himself to work for
the greater happiness and well being
of the Puerto Ricans.
Part of the plan for the future. Gore
said, contemplates building to prepare
to meet conditions twenty years hence
when the Island, now overcrowded,
would he burdened by a population
double present figures.
INVESTIGATION of the federal hoa
* pital at Canton. S, D„ revealed what
Secretary of the Interior Ickes calls
’’sickening and Intolerable" conditions
and the confinement
of perf«*ctly sane In-
dians among the in­
sane, Mr. Ickes la-
sued a statement se-
v e r e 1 y condemning
local p o l i t i c a l and
commercial Interests
for preventing the
removal of the sane
patients by obtain­
ing an i n j u n c t i o n
from a Canton court
and for bringing po-
litical pressure to b«-ar on officials of
the Indian bureau in Washington. The
bureau hag sought for several years to
close the institution.
“Those responsible for securing thia
injunction presumably are actuated by
a desire to save for Canton the reve­
nue that continued operation of the
institution there means." Mr. Ickes de­
clare«! “They appear to be willing
to make a profit out of the degre«latlon
of helpless Indians. They do not ob­
ject to locking up sane human beings
in an Insane asylum."
Thursday, October 26, 1933
Vicarious Virtue
A pp ro p riât«
T h e B re a k
Accumulating Damages
"That 1s an electrleal plant."
Producer—If I make you a star
"Heetns odd to call a building a
you must lead a life of strict de
, co rum.
plant."
“No, It produ«-es bullis.”—Louis-
Actress—But can’t my understudy
ville Courier-Journal.
do that?—Everybody's Weekly.
j
"What became of his wife?"
Happy Pedestrian—Now, 1 need to
“He stopped away from home so he run over only twice more aud I
can afford a car.
much that she deserted him."
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\ TEW YORK’S three-cornered fight
x ’ for the mayoralty grows hotter
daily. The registration exceeded ail
estimates, falling only a little short of
the record for the Presidential elec­
tion last year. This was Interpreted
by neutral observers as indicating a
3teudlly growing revolt against Tam­
many and its candidate. Mayor
O'Brien. La Guardia, fusion nominee, i
and Joseph V. McKee, independent, 1
seemed to be well In the lead, with the
A doctor will tell you that the care­
latter gradually catching up with La
less choice of laxatives is a common
Guardia. McKee, however, appears
cause of chronic constipation.
to have been hurt, temporarily, by
Any hospital offers evidence of the
charges of anti-Semitism made by La
Guardia who quoted a slurring refer- . harm done by harsh laxatives that
drain the system, weaken the bowel
ence to Jewish students supposedly
muscles, and even affect the liver
written by McKee in 1915 when he
and kidneys.
was a teacher. McKee Issued a denial
Fortunately, the public is fast
that he ever had attacked any race
returning to laxatives in liquid form.
and objected to the interjection of the
The dose of a liquid laxative can be
racial question into the campaign.
measured. The action can thus be
controlled. It forms no habit; you
IAM was in the throes of a rebel- [ needn't take a "double dose” a day
lion, the rebels being led by Prince 1 or two later.
Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin has
BovaredeJ, a member of the royal fam- j
the average person's bowels regular
lly. A large force attacked the cap­
as clockwork in a few weeks’ time.
ital, Bangkok, and captured and lost
Why not try it? Some pill or tablet
the airdrome on the outskirts. The
may be more convenient to carry.
rebels were recruited from up-country
But there is little "convenience” in
districts, but late dispatches said they
any cathartic which is taken so
frequently, you must carry it with
had been Joined by the navy and that
you, wherever you gol
the arsenal had been seized.
Its very taste tells you Dr. Cald­
well’s Syrup Pepsin is wholesome. A
\T E W MEXICO has a new United
delightful taste, and delightful action.
x ’ States senator in the person of
Safe for expectant mothers, and
Carl A. Hatch, who has been serving
children. All druggists, ready for
as district judge In Santa Fe. He was
use, in big bottles. Member N. R. A.
appointed by the governor to succeed
Samuel G. Bratton, who resigned from
the senate to become a federal district
Judge.
MAKES YOU LOSE
Why Doctors Favor UNHEALTHY FAT
a Liquid Laxative
S
ROM the newspapers and also from
letters the President has been
F
brought to a realization of the huge
salaries paid to stars of the movie
world and to certain of the moving
picture directors. He called General
Johnson on the telephone and directed
him to take the matter up, find out
whether these salaries are “conscion-
able” and do whatever should be done
to level them down. Johnson turned
the Inquiry over to Sol A. Rosenblatt,
NRA movie administrator. Dispatches
received from Hollywood said the film
industry was nervous over the matter,
fearing the investigation would reveal
secrets concerning salaries that have
been kept hidden during the depres­
sion.
ENATOR JAMES J. DAVIS of
Pennsylvania, director general of
S
the Loyal Order of Moose, is at last
freed of charges of violating the fed­
eral lottery law in connection with
the charity balls conducted by the
order. A jury In New York found
Davis and Theodore G. Miller of Au­
rora, 111., not guilty after a trial last­
ing nearly four weeks.
f©. 1933. W e s te rn N e w s p a p e r U n io n .
BURNS
Cooling, soothing
Mentholalum relieves
the pain. Promotes
quicker healing.
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M a k e N o M istak e — F a t Ie
Dangerous — A s k Y o u r D o cto r
«
To take off fat—take one h alf tea­
spoonful of Kruachen Salta in a glass of
hot w ater in the morning before break-
fact—one bottle laete 4 week«—get it
a t any drugstore in America. I f thia tirat
bottle fails to convince you this is the
S A F E and H A R M L E S S way to lose fat
—your money returned.
Reduces From 154 to 128
“ Leoe t h a n 4 w e e k « a «o I « la r te d t a k i n g
K ru a e h M ). I n e ig h e d IS 4 a n d fe lt t ir e d <>ot
a l l th e w h ile . N o w 1 w e ls h I t s . I fe e l ae
f a l l o f r n r r t r y I can'« aeem to w o r k f a a t
r n o o g h .” M r « . K . U . H a m ilt o n , C a rb o n d a le ,
W h ile losing fat w ith Krue-
chen you gain in physical a t­
tractiveness—you look and feel
younger—no more gas, acidity
—no more constipation.
Scales on
Scalp—Hair Fell Out
Terribly
H ta le d by Cuticura
"My scalp bothered me terribly
and there were scales as big as a
ten cent piece over IL It Itched sa
that I could not keep my hands from
my head and my hair fell out terri­
bly. I did not rest This lasted two
and one-half years.
“I saw an advertisement for Cuti­
cura Soap and Ointment and sent
for a free sample. I was surprised
at the difference in my scalp after
using, so I bought more, and I used
two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two
boxes of Cuticura Ointment and my
scalp was healed.” (Signed) Mrs.
Eugene Hunter, R. D. 1. Hunlocka
Creek, Pa.
Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c.
Talcum 25c. Sold everywhere. Ona
sample each free. Address: "Cuti­
cura Laboratories, Dept. R, Malden,
Mass.”—Adv.
A
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