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PAGE TWENTY THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931 FARMERS BANK SYSTEM FAVOR BYBROOKHART Washington (ft Describing the federal land and intermediate cred it tanks as In the control of Wall Street representatives," Senator Brockbs:t, republican, Iowa, sug ffest that farmers be allowed to establish a banking system of their awn. Bach a move, he said, In an ad dress over the National Broadcast ing system, would lay the founda tion for success of efforts to bring ftgrlcultre out of the depression "an established institution since 1920." The board which now controls the federal land and intermediate credit banks, Brookhart asserted, should be abolished and the insti tutions turned over to the farm board. Then the latter should be authorized to develop a complete Cooperative banking system, he added. "When this is organized and de veloped, it would supplement the necessity for government money and enable the farmers to finance their own cooperative propositions," Brookhart said. "At present they have no permission even to organ tee such a system under either the laws of the states or the United States The big financial interests have watched these laws and kept 11 such authority from them." He blamed the federal reserve board for having done "more to bring about the agricultural de pression than all other causes com bined," and said if the farm board ''does not want to be abolished" It hould bark legislation for an "ef ficient and nation-wide cooperative banking system." The simplest way to establish the srystcm, he said, would be "to amend tlie intermediate credit act and change that bank Into a national cooperative reserve oank with all the powers of the federal reserve Dank, Including the power to is sue cooperative reserve notes as currency upon the same security as the federal reserve bank Itself." "As our banking system Is now controlled," Brookhart contended, "even the surplus credit and depos its of the farmers themselves arc sent an ay to New York to be loaned to brokers in stock gambling at a low rate of Interest, as low as 1 per cent, while farmers must pay! from 6 to 12 per cent for loans to produce the food of life itself. GIRL RE-ENACTS POLICE SLAYING f i V r i J"2L IS - 1 6"- ' - f j. - $ ' - t .v4 iff. rv ; v Aaoclaied i'rest i'Aoto In the urns lonely Long Island lant where Francis "Two Gun" Crowley admit he shot to death a patrolman who Interrupted their love tryst, hie sweetheart and companion on the fatal ride, Helen Walsh, 16, re-enacted the slaying. She la shown (right) with a police matron at the scene of the killing. FRANCE DRAWS MAGNA CHARTA FOR COLONIES PKILOSOPISTS FLAN PROGRAM Philadelphia (IP) The American Philosophical society has an nounced the program for the general meeting April 23, 24 and 25 to celebrate its 204th anniver sary. The meeting will be held In the organization's 142-year-old hall. Following the general meeting there will be organized an all day eymposlum of the "Changing World" which will attempt to trace the past, present and future of the human race. The second day of the session will be behind closed doors. It will mark the balloting for new mem bers which is carried out In the aame manner that has been used lnce 1727. Last year Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Sir Oeorge Hubert Wilklns, Cyrus H. K. Curtis and Professor Albert Einstein were honored by the group. Presidents of the United Btates, who have been members of the society are Oorse Washing ton, John Adams, Thomas Jetfer on, James Madison, John Qtilncy Adams, James Buchanan, U. S. Orant. Grover Cleveland, Theo dore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson and Her bert Hoover. Jefferson was president of the ociety while president. BRAZIL LIKES 'FIVE AND TENS' Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IF) What tiiav be termed "an a II-American" Institution the five-and-ten-cents tore Ihls invaded Brazil. One year ago two Americans, James Marshal and Patterson Bo er stopped over in Rio de Janeiro. en-route from New York to Buenos Aires. The Brazilian field offered Mich a splendid opportunity that they remained here to open the first of Brazil j "five and tenners," per haps the first In South America con ducted alons American lines. Today there are three of these tores thriving In this city and one in Sao Paulo, the Chicago of Brazil. The stores are evidently fillim a long felt want in Brazil for they are croaea. Paris (tPi The French government has drawn up a 1931 "Magna Char ta" for its great overseas empire intended to gtve the colonial pos sessions a greater voice In matters of the empire government, filled with promises for the energetic develop ment of the rich territories scatter ed around the seven seas. France promises to spend hun dreds of millions of francs to make the colonies better places for the natives to live in, and asks in re turn only continued loyalty to the Tricolor. Political observers in Paris see in the move another master stroke of French diplomacy in avoid ing future troubles of the kind which have rocked the British Em pire since the start of the century. In Its "bill of promises," France makes among others the following offers Develop lnter-colonlal communi cations by airplane, wireless and trans-Saliarien railway. Prospect the colonies scientifical ly and methodically for minerals and oil. Provide ft new regime creating Colonial Banks of Issue, to provide credits for agriculture and Indus try. Legislate for free-exchange be tween France and the colonics. Over-rule French laws obtained in 192J by French winegrowers and permit colonial rums to be sold in French markets, Subsidize efforts to produce In the colonies the products France is novr buying In world markets: rubber, cotton, coffee, raw silk, wool, rice, arachldc, sugar and meats. Introduce a project at the League of Nations for the creation of an International colonial bureau, un der the league, to draft ft code of colonial law. Send medical missions with most modern equipment to cleanse the colonies of fevers and epidemics. Nine million francs will be spent in 1931 In fighting "sleeping sick ness." The utmost Importance is attach ed to the clmnge from a htKh pro tective tariff in France, which keeps our colonial and foreign goods alike, to ft regime of free colonial trade. Such legislation niltiht cost the Unit ed States and Britain some of their fine.'t export markets, particularly in (X-cania and Africa where Am erican competition has practically driven French niauutactuied goods from the maiket. At present only 15 cr cent of Frances exixirt trade is with her colonies but the government has set aa its aim the equivalent of RADIO SEEN AS WORLDJATIONS Paris (LP) The creation of an In ternational broadcasting language, which will unite the United States and Europe by common bonds, is the vision of John W. Elwood, vice president of the National Broadcast ing company, of New York, who has been in Enrol arranging trans-At lantic radio programs. "We must start with the universal language music," Elwood said dur ing his Paris visit. "Just how much time would be devoted to it would depend upon the possibilities of pro gram material, for we would not want to exhaust it all at once. "The difference In time would In general make it easy for America to get European programs in the day time, but probably special programs would be arranged In America for Europe. Just as the north and south have been brought together in Am erica by the radio, so I would like to see Europe and America estab lishing new bonds by the same means. Elwood admitted that language differences was the only important difficulty to such an exchange of regular programs. Through starting with music and gradually mcreas lng the amount of language mater ial he believes that Americans will be encouraged to learn one or more foreign languages end Europeans to listen with pleasure to Engllsi Before coming to France, Elwood studied International broadcasting possibilities In England and Or many. From Paris he went to Italy. In order to achieve his project. El wood Is encouraging the European countries to Improve their equip ment, especially the construction of short-wave transmitting and recelV' ing stations of sufficient power and capacity to carry on the proposed trans-ocean exchange. "At the present time there Is, I believe, no adequate short wave transmls-slon station in France. receiving station Is to bo built soon. While here I am negotiating with the Compagulf Oenerale de Tele- granhle Sans Fll and the com papule Krancalse do Kaaiopnonie Ux)klng toward an exchange of pro grams." METEOR SURVEY WILL DETERMINE NEW STAR DATA Cambridge, Mass. (IP) Shooting stars will lure scientific expedi tion into the wide open spaces of the West next September. Dr. Harlow Sliapley of Harvard observatory will lead ft group of Harvard and Cornell university as tronomers to Flagstaff, Ariz., for what may be one of the most elab orate surveys of meteors In astron omical history. The sky studies expected to pro duce much valuable new data on the subject, will cover from one to two years, under present plans. Tire expedition has been made possible through grants by the American Academy of Arte and sciences of Boston and the Com mittee on Milton Fund grant at Harvard university. Besides Dr. Shipley, Dr. Ernest Oplk of Harvard, Professor S. L. Boothroyd of Cornell, and four young scientists yet to be selec ted, will partlctpaet "One of the principal aims of the expedition is to determine the frequency of meteors throughout the year, and, secondly to deter mine their altitude in the earth's atmosphere," Dr. Shapley said. "In order to measure the height It will necessary to work from two stations separated by approximate ly 25 miles. At each station two observers, will continually watch the sky throughout the hours of dark' ness except when the weather con ditions of the strong moonlight Interfere. At each station one j -tan will observe the northern and one the southern sky. GIRLS IS GAME Dresden, Tcnn. (LP) Twenty four girls dressed In basketball uniforms wero used as human checker men In a checker game ftaged in the school auditorium here. Four of the county"s best checker players guided their moves. WEDDING RECORD IN KANSAS TOWN O'.atlic. Kan. (U Just why tlicy omio to Glut he to get married no- bodv seems to know; but they do. and in numbers far beyond the po mitntlon. or apparent vantage point Great Britain's over-.eas trade, half ;0e ti,ij Cftst Kansas town of some College Mistake for Some Girls Is Claim WellcKley, Moss. (tP -For some girls It Is a mistake to go to college in the opinion of Dean Alice Waite of Wellcley colleee, who is soon to retire after 35 years' service. Young women should consider their futures seriously before com mitting themselves to four years of Academic activity which mltrht prove of little benefit to them, according to Dean Walte. "I. is great pity that girls feel there la a stigma attached to not (oing to college, and tiiat once in college they feel it Is disgrace to leave and make other plans," she ays. VOTKR IS IIKAI? Dulutli, Mum., (LP) "You can't vote, you're dead," Dulutli citizen ws told when he arrived at his polling point revealed that there hod been two men of the tame name in the district and one had died. of atuch is with her dominions and colonies. TAXPAYERS KICK ON UMATILLA LEVEE Pendleton (.!" Following an open meeting at which rendleton tax payers expressed opposition to pay ing tl.n.0OO to strengthen the Uma tilla river levee Bgainst flood dan ger, the city council Wednesday had several plans under comidcratton. A concrete factnn was declared too expensive. Raising the levee, bol stering the weak sivts, and install ing a sccpeue toewall could be dune fur s.xiuoo less, the taxjmycrs Mid. Alaska Kill Would Make Marriage Easy WORLD'S SMAI.I.KST SCHOOL Olasgow, (LP) The smallest dchool house in the world, located In the Ayrshire district and with only one pupil, has been closed for reasons of economy. Juneau. Alaska, (tpi "Marrinse made easy" might be the title of a bill Introduced In the territorial lc lslatuie to permit maniage without the formality of legal or church ceremonies. MMO population. In 1J0, l'.,ii4 marriage licenses were Issued at the probate Judge's office. Of that number 1144 were Is sued to ix-rsons living in Canada and 23 states; only 130 were for resi dents of this county. And the work goes merrily on in 1SMI. For the first three months, the records show Issuance of 291 llcens- ca, an Increase of 19 over the cor responding iertod of last year. Vernon K. Campbell, tho bachelor Judge, nlftrtntcs at most of the wed dings. HLi ol flee is known as ' Cu pid's Parlor." He lives at Merram and obliges the late coiners by ask ing them into his parlor. Ho has ono liniolable rule: Don't get out of bed to tic the knot. Judge Cftniibell said if he had married ail the couples who had pounded at his door In the midnight hours, his rec ord wchiU be something to really Ixxist about Hut if he has retired, they wait until the next day or go clv where. Baxter Spi ings. Kan. art The fa mous hangman s tree here, whose branches served wrll attempt of vigilantes to stem lawlessness in the pkmcer days Is dying. It rceentlj as struck by llghmlng. Persons living more than 50 miles Approximately 50 men, most ol from a commissioner could declare theme horse thieves and dislioncst themselves married, and make it I gamblers, were hanged fiom the old binding by writing a statement. I tree In the late 80s when Baiter signed by two witnesses, etllii Sprints was a terminal on the Tex- forlh the fact of marriage. las cattle trail. Train Robbers Face Indictments Rawlins, Wyo. Train robbery charges were riled Wednssday against Oeorge A. Bachmann and Russell Howarth, youthful soldiers who held up three passengers on ft transcontinental Union Pacific train near Hanna. Wyo., Tuesday. If convicted the two youths, IB and 19 years old, would be subjeot to the death penalty or a sentence of life Imprisonment, newIatToTal party formed north china Pelping. (LP) A new political party, called the New Nationalists, has made Its appearance in North China, and has shown so much strength that government leaders have become concerned. The ruling party at Nanking, the Kuomtntang, has taken the view that there Is room for only one political party in China during the revolutionary period, but this view is being vlgourously contested by ft group of intellectuals assembled In tne norm, wno contend that a one party dictatorship Is rot beneficial to cnina. Kuomlntang representatives here have tried to prevent publication of the new party's views, and the Ul-Ieellng thus created led to the wrecking of the official Kuomln tang newspaper In Patplng, the Hua Pel Jin Pao. The new party Is so strong that police and government officials have done practically nothing to appre hend those w ho wrecked the Kuom lntang paper, and only one arrest has been made. The new party, in a statement of policy, declares that the national budget must be published, and de termined by a freely elected repre sentative body. They have adopted the American revolutionary slogan, Taxation without representation tyranny." RACKETEERING IN ENGLAND ON BASIS OF TOLLS London (LP) Beggars and book makers, tradesmen and tramps pay toll to petty racketeers In Britain today, but the "big boss" who can put racketeering on a good sound basis has not yet flashed his bullet-proof vest In Piccadilly. From an historical point of view, racketeering is In a decadent stage in the kingdom of George V. Hun dreds of years before "Big Jim1 Coloslmo organized the beer-run-ners south of Chicago's Loop, rack eteerlng was ft noble profession In these Islands and "muscling In" was was fatal social error. In those days, doughty knight would don his best steel shirt, sta tion himself at the head of a bridge and demand toll of all who passed. Merchants, monks and women in distress paid. But the knight In tum paid tribute to the biggest racketeer of them all the king of that day. The quaint old racket of paying toll survives, but In a very modest form. There ace about 100 toll gates and bridges in England and Wales, some of them bringing in only $75,000 a year. At Connel In Scotland, fee of $2.50 Is charged for every automo bile crossing the bridge. Cows cross at the rate of 25 cents. Sheep must be led over one at a time and the attendant must pay eight cents for himself each time. In the Isle of Ely. Queen Mary herself paid toll last year. But even conservative England has found some new rackets. Book makers are terrorized by race-naci. gangsters, who force them to pay exorbitant fees before they can ac cept bets. Even the chalk with which the "bookies" mark up their betting odd must be purchased from the gangs at fixed price. "Intimidation at race-tracks still persists, although he have stamped out much of It In the last two years," an official of (Scotland Yard said. "In the north of England it Is probably worse than around London. I don t know what rack eteerlng means, but maybe that's what It is." Gangsters are active In several Scottish cities. In Glasgow they have forced theater owners to con tribute to their coffers, just as Al Capone's Laundrymen's Associa tion has wrung "contributions' from the laundry proprietors of Chicago. If the theater owners refuse to "come across," their per formances are spoiled by stink bombs and rowdyism. Musicians who play for their liv ing on the streets of London, have organised a petty racket. They have divided the city Into districts, and "muscling in" is not tolerated. Even the royal family is involved in something approaching a racket although It Is almost lese majes ty to say so. Any merchant, who wishes to have his shop recognized one of the best must have the royal coat of arms over his door. Hundreds of merchants pay thou sands of dollars to the crown each year for the right to display the arms of the King, the Queen or the Prince of Wales. FORGOT HIS HOTEL Worcester, (LP) James Lyons of Easthampton registered at ft Wor cester hotel. Then he went out. Then he forgot what hotel he was stopping at and appealed to police. They located his name on the reg ister. ASSEMBLY LINE ONLY NEED FOR AUTO 'FACTORY' Cleveland, O. (,P;--If possible now to become an automobile manufacturer with only ft ware house housing an assembly line. All parts may be purchased from ' the parts manufacturer. Tills has become possible because In recent rears the manufacturer of parts and accessories has come to play an increasingly lmpartant part in the automotive Industry, due to economic conditions and the need for specialized research. These are statements of Elroy J. Kulas, president of the Otis Steel company and the Midland Steel Droducts company of Cleveland, who said that automobile parts are made in 33 states with normal employ ment of 200.000 workers, and with a total output of 1.313,570.000 In 1929. not to Include tires and bodies. "The average motorist," he said "Is quite likely to have ft ear with equipment from all parts of the nation. Some automobile manufac turers buy as mucl. as 83 per cent of their parts from suppliers, while others buy seml-ftnlshed products, such as pistons, from outside sources and machine them In their own plants. 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