Thursday, Deceiriber 21, 1933
TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over ■
Controversy With Secretary Wallace Forces Peek Into a
New Job— Education Begun In CCC Camps—
Sumner Welles Comes Home From Cuba.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
/ ’7J.EORGE PEEK’S controversy with
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
and his assistant, Professor Tugwell,
was put up to President Roosevelt
and he speedily found
the way to settle it.
Mr. Peek was persuad
ed to resign as agri
c u ltu r a l adjustment
administrator and a
new position m u c h
more to his liking was
v devised for him. He
was called a special
assistant to the Presi
dent and named to
head a temporary com
George Peek mittee that will rec
ommend permanent machinery for co
ordination of government efforts to
expand foreign trade.
The committee also will include the
members of the two departmental
committees, the inter-departmental ad
visory board on reciprocal treaties, in
ter-departmental trade policy commit
tees, and such other individuals as
Peek may select.
In a formal statement the White
House said : “The report of the com
mittee and final action is expected
within two weeks.”
It continued : “George Peek, agri
cultural adjustment administrator,
having completed the organization
period of the AAA, is designated to
head this committee as a special as
sistant to the President on American
trade policy
The new organization “to correlate
the internal adjustment of production
with such effective foreign purchas
ing power as may be developed by
reciprocal tariffs, barter, and other in
ternational arrangements,” will be
headed by Mr. Peek when it is com
pleted.
The administration expects to bring
■ about modification of some most-fa
vored nation treaties so as to make
possible special treatment of liquor im
ports from countries agreeing to take
more of this country’s surplus farm
products. This is not regarded as a
great difficulty to Mr. Peek, as it is a
favorite theme with him that trade
amounts to “swapping my jack-knife
for your marbles.”
Trade, to him, whether on a do
mestic or international basis, is just
what the word signifies, and he says
that in its transaction “we sometimes
have to sleep with people we don’t like
and sometimes with those we like.”
He Is quoted as remarking to an
aide of the prospective liquor deals:
“Sure, we’ll take their liquor if we
can pay them with butter and pork
and other stuff.”
Mr. Peek has long felt that agri
culture has been neglected in its pos
sibilities for export, contending that
too much emphasis has been placed
during the last 15 years on the ex
portation of industrial products.
HESTER DAVIS, who was slated to
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succeed Mr. Peek as administra
tor of the AAA, has been In charge of
the crop control section. Though long
a close friend of Mr.
Peek, he sided with
Secretary W a l l a c e
and Assistant Secre
tary Tugwell in the
dispute. However, he
defended Mr. Peek
a g a i n s t assertions
that the latter’s pres
ence in the adminis
tration had delayed
prosecution of the
crop control program. Chester Davis
He pointed to the
control plans for wheat, cotton, hogs,
tobacco and other commodities placed
in operation, and said:
“The record of the past six months
would have been impossible without
the continued co-operation of Mt.
Peek. It is absolutely untrue that he
obstructed progress.” g
With Mr. Peek moved to a new
post, officials associated with him
were considering plans for extensive
revision of the methods of handling
marketing agreements in the AAA.
It has been virtually decided to scrap
the two main divisions, crop control
and processing and marketing.
GRICULTURAL leaders' from all
a for the
over the land gathered in Chicago
annual convention of the Amer
ican Farm Bureau federation, and gave
their full support and approval to the
farm relief policies of the President.
Edward A. O’Neal, president of the
federation, called the federal farm ad
justment act the “Magna Charta of
agriculture,” saying that “a t last farm
ers have the machinery and the power
to obtain a fair share of the consum
er’s dollar.” For forty years, he said,
the farmer has been getting less and
less of this dollar, but by use of the
full powers of the agricultural ad
justment administration, he declared,
this trend can be turned the other way.
A/TOST of his duties having been
transferred to Acting Secretary
of State Morgenthau, Thomas Hewes
resigned his position as assistant sec
retary and followed Dean Acheson and
Professor Sprague out of the adminis
tration. All three of those men had
been selected by Secretary Woodin,
who is never expected to resume his
duties, and Mr. Hewes is a close ally
of Attorney General Cummings.
- It was understood in Washington
that Walter J. Cummings, executive
treasury assistant, would retire very
soon to become head of the Continen
tal Illinois Bank and Trust company
of Chicago.
HEERED and honored by hundreds
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of Americans and Cubans, but
snubbed by the Grau government,
Sumner Welles departed from Havana
by plane to Miami on
his way to Washing
ton, where he re
sumes his former post
as head of the Latin
American affairs bu
reau In the Depart
ment of State. Jeffer
son Caffery, who suc
ceeds him in Havana,
will be, for the pres
ent, the personal rep
resentative of Presi
Jefferson
dent Roosevelt rather
Caffery
than a m b a s s a d o r .
Whether he will be able to do more
than Mr. Welles in the way of restor
ing peace and prosperity in Cuba is
a question.
Col. Carlos Mendieta, leading oppo
sitionist, said that the strife, with no
end in sight, is keeping the island sunk
in economic bankruptcy and threat
ened by strikes. He said the nation
resents control by a government
backed by army dictatorship and the
student directorate, composed of J1
youths with decidedly Communistic
leanings.
Augusto Saladrigas, a director of the
ABC opposition, declared that 95 per
cent of the natives are opposed to
President Grau’s fevolutiopary soci
alistic regime. Saladrigas expressed
the opinion that the only solution is
either a native revolution or United
States intervention.
A revolution
seems impossible as long as the army
remains' loyal to Grau, but failure to
meet a pay day might prove the start
of a revolt.
At the Pan-American conference in
Montevideo Angel Giraudy, Cuban min
ister of labor, attacked the Cuban pol
icy of the United States. Failure to
recognize the Grau regime, he assert
ed, was actually intervention, since it
was upholding a minority group
against the wishes of the people and
propagating revolution.
OBERT FECHNER, director of
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emergency conservation work, an
nounced that a great program for edu
cation of the 300,000 men in the civil
ian conservation corps had been ap
proved by the President and was be
ing put into effect Immediately. Edu
cational advisers to the number of
1,465 are being placed in the forest
work camps and an individual pro
gram of instruction for each camp is
being developed. To a considerable
extent the advisers are drawn from
lists of unemployed teachers that have
been submitted to Dr. George F. Zook,
federal commissioner of education, by
state directors of education.
“It is the hope of the President,”
Mr. Fechner said, “that the education
al program, by emphasizing forestry,
agriculture and like subjects, will as
sist the men in readjusting themselves
to a new mode of living—to country
life instead of city life—and to assist
them in improving themselves educa
tionally and vocationally.
“A great number of the young men
in these camps arrived at working age
at a time when there were no jobs.
Many of them had meager educational
advantages. We propose to give these
men a chance at an education and to
furnish them vocational guidance
which will aid them to earn a living.”
The opportunity for education will
be offered to all members of the corps,
but participation in the courses of in
struction will not be mandatory.
The available working hours on for
estry projects—40 hours per week—
will not be disturbed. The plan is to
utilize hours other than normal work-
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GE cannot wither James A. Reed,
who for so many years enlivened
the sessions of the senate with his
dynamic personality. The Missouri
statesman, who is seventy-two years
old, assembled 20 guests for a game
dinner in Kansas City and surprised
them by marrying, there and then, Mrs.
Nell Q. Donnelly, wealthy garment
manufacturer who has long been his
political supporter and friend. Two
years ago Mrs. Donnelly was kidnaped
and held for ransom, and Mr. Reed
helped to run down the kidnapers and
prosecute them. Later Mrs. Donnelly
divorced her husband. Mr. Reed’s
first wife died in October, 1932.
ILLIAM C. BULLITT, ambassa
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dor to Russia, was received in
Moscow in a manner entirely unpre
cedented since the establishment of
the Soviet r e g im e .
Other envoys on ar
rival at thè capital
have been accorded
little or no attention
until they have pre
sented their creden
tials; but Mr. Bullitt
was greeted with ex
traordinary e n th u s i
asm by officials and
populace alike. When
he crossed the Rus
sian frontier at Ne- Alexander A.
goreloge he was in T royanovsky
stalled in a sumptuous private car
provided by the government and in
this he traveled to Moscow. On his
arrival at Alexandrovsky station he
was met by cheering crowds and was
formally presented to Alexander A.
Troyanovsky. who is coming to Wash
ington as Russian ambassador, and to
Alexis Neuman, vice director of the
Soviet press department.
He was installed in the National
hotel, which thus became a temporary
American embassy, and atop the build
ing the Star-Spangled Banner was
raised, flying thus for the first time
in Soviet Russia.
Mr. Bullitt himself and his nine-
year-old daughter occupy an elaborate
three-room apartment which last sum
mer was tenanted by Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh.
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-Christmas ûreej
FA OWN in Montevideo the Pan-
American conference was talking
about ways of ending the Chaco war
between Bolivia and Paraguay, with
out getting anywhere. Meanwhile
the forces of those countries were ex
ceedingly bpsy fesfcthe jungle, with the
result that the Paraguayans captured
more than 13,000 Bolivian troops, with
most of their officers. In one engage
ment more than 600 Bolivians were
killed, according to the official an
nouncement. There was great rejoic
ing in Asuncion, where the Paraguay
ans marched through decorated
streets; and corresponding despair in
La Paz, the Bolivian capital.
A few days later the Paraguayans
captured Fort Saavedra, the most im
portant Bolivian stronghold in the Cha
co, and it was generally believed that
these victories meant the final defeat
of Bolivia in the war.
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l-IEN the postman delivers
another sheaf of Christmas
cards at the door during the
few days just before Christmas, how
many of the recipients give a thought
to the magnitude of the job of pre
paring sentiments for helping folks to
express a cheery word to friends and
kin at that season-?
A word about the origin of the
Christmas greeting will be interesting.
Thomas Skorrock
of Leith is credit
ed by an English
journal published
prior to 1846 as the
originator of the
Christmas c a r d,
but as no copy of
his card came to
public notice, an
other source must
be found.
In 1846 J. c.
Horseley,, R. A.,
acting upon the
suggestion of Sir
(then Mr.) Henry Cole, produced a
drawing which was lithographed by
Jobbins of Warwicjt Court, Holborn.
But one thousand cards were printed,
and each was colored by hand.
From this beginning the custom of
) RESIDENT ROOSEVELT let It be
known that the interdepartmental
jmmittee on communications headed
j Secretary of Commerce Roper had
completed its study of
the matter and laid
its report before him.
This report will be
submitted to congress,
' "■ 1 an^ may resu^ in leg-
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I islation for rigid gov-
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| * ernment regulation of
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:: j tel e g r a p h, telephone
jf and radio companies,
the reorganization of
B ’ « - 9 tbe whole communica-
t i o n s industry and
Sec’y Roper gome huge mergers.
The committee favors a trend toward
monopoly subjected to strict federal
supervision.
Outright government &
ownership is an alternative.
The consensus of studies within and
without the government has been that
present conditions are unsatisfactory
both from the standpoint of national
defense and regulation of such mat
ters as rates, and that present restric
tions give foreign governments an un
due advantage over the American com
munication agencies.
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ness!” But he finally had to go.
Much time was squandered on select
ing and cutting down the tree. Mr.
Mincy raged. Finally they were ready
to start on. The road was extremely
rough, the hills steep, the car old and
dilapidated.
They came to the steepest hill of
all. One side a sheer rise of cliff; on
the other « drop to a deep gully.
By Martha Banning Thomas
“Brakes won’t hold on this,” declared
the driver, “hardly dare to go down.”
Mr. Mincy was almost violent in his
R. MINCY, like old Scrooge, said remarks.
he did not believe in Christmas.
At last a means was devised of hold
He said it was all bunk, which is the ing the car back on the steep grade.
modern term for humbug (Scrooge's The Christmas tree was lashed to the
own word for it). Mr. Mincy was six
rear, lengthwise. It dragged on the
ty-three year old and had never ex ground and its weight and branches
pended a cent of money or a drop of served to keep the Car from crashing
kindliness where it wouldn’t bring In down the hill a t a dangerous, speed.
a fine return. That was business. And
“You see,” said one of the men in a
business was all that Mr. Mincy cared slow drawl, “Christmas trees are some
for.
good after all!”
Once, however, business took Mr.
Mr. Mincy was obliged to admit they
Mincy to a far outpost in the Cana
were . . . but it was like pulling
dian woods. He found himself on the teeth to drag the acknowledgment
24th of December trying to get trans from him.
portation back to a tiny village from
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where he could take a train. The only
Yuletide
person wbo could take him was a man
who said he was on his way to get n
Christmas, of all seasons, is the one
Christmas tree for the kids.
most dedicated to forgetting ourselves
“Christmas tree!” snorted Mr. for the sake of children.—Woman’s
Mincy. “Never heard of such foolish Home Companion.
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Christmas Trees i
Good for Something
PANISH anarchists started a bloody
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revolt against the republic in the ÍH'
northeastern part of the country and
it soon spread to Madrid and further
south. There were sanguinary con
flicts between the rebels and the
troops and police and bombings In the
capital and elsewhere were frequent.
Scores were killed in street fighting,
and hundreds of agitators were placed
under arrest. After several days of
ineffectual efforts to overcome the
civil, guards the anarchists resorted
to their strongest weapon and pro
claimed. a nation-wide revolutionary
strike. The order was issued through
the National Confederation of Labor,
which is controlled by the syndicalists.
For four days the fighting contin
ued, and then the government an
nounced that both the revolt and the
general strike had failed.
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C/iarles Frederick 1fVàdsworlk>~
sending greetings at Christmas has
spread to the entire Christian world.
In an average year the output of
these concerns, approximates $90,000,-
000 at retail prices, of which a large
proportion consists of Christmas
greetings.
Sentiments usually are purchased
from free-lance writers, who submit
them to the editorial department of
the publishing company, just as fiction
and other manuscripts are submitted
to editors of magazines, though some
concerns maintain a writing staff.
Naturally, w riters'try to express a
sentiment better than the purchaser
himself could, and also to provide a
variety of sentiments which individu
als might find apfopos for a particu
lar friend or relative.
Besides the Christmas cards found
in the stores (called “counter cards”),
individual designs
and sentiments are
prepared to order
for persona I use
by society people
and others. Some
of the greetings of
this character af
fected by the Hoi
lywood movie col
ony are very elab
orate and expen
sive. Ot hers bear
merely a formal
engraved greeting
with the name of
the sender.
Another class of Christmas greet
ings is that provided by the telegraph
companies, the sentiments being sent
in code and written out in full for the
recipients on special blanks decorat
ed with Christmas designs. Telephone
greetings also, both local and long
distance, make important additions to
the big multi-million-dollar wish for
joy to the world and a Merry Christ
mas to a ll!