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Page 2 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER G eneral HUGH S. Landlubbers Will Be U. S. Ensigns Bye and Bye WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK JOHNSON Ji fcita**■ Jcuir: Itotofwww BNlAsr»wB LOANS TO FOREIGN LANDS Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON.—Poor Mr. Hoover STIMSON GIVEN FULL once set out to help our foreign AUTHORITY Henry L. Stimson, Republican trade to dispose of our surplus prod secretary of war, and the only man ucts by loans to "backward and crip in the United States who has served pled countries.” Loans to bankrupts have a way of turning sour. These in three cabinets (Taft's, Hoover’s did, and what a panning Mr. Roose- and Roosevelt's) is proceeding cau velt in 1932 gave the Great Eugineer tiously. But he has been given com for that suggestion. plete authority by Roosevelt to re Mr. Hoover was only proposing a organize the entire war department, even including the ousting of Demo policy of private loans—the money of risk-takers for profit. His project cratic appointees. The inside story of Stimson's ap was relatively piker's chicken feed. Mr. Roosevelt now wants to take pointment can now be told. It so happened that he had just $500,000.000 out of the treasury to delivered a strong pro-allied address lend to Latin-American countries to enable their governments tq buy up at the Yale uni and hold their own surplus of agri versity t om- cultural products. This is a price mencement exer pegging plan such as Mr. Wallace cises. when he has practiced in American farm got home and re products. It has never worked in ceived the long the history of the world although distance call from it has frequently been tried—notably Roosevelt inviting in Brazilian coffee. East Indian rub him to become ber, Canadian grain and American secretary of war. wheat, corn and cotton. "Mr. Presi It doesn't work because it is the dent,” replied presence (rather than the mere own Stimson. “I have ership) of unmanageable surplus just delivered an Heni., l . Stimson and the certainty of oncoming crops address which no that overhangs the market and de man in high official position should presses price. That was the basic make." fault with Mr. Wallace’s ‘‘Joseph’’ “I know aU about your speech.” or "ever-normal granary” day Roosevelt replied in effect, "and I dream. Joseph could successfully still want you to be secretary of buy and store the surplus of Egypt war.” for seven fat years and then sell it Stimson then replied that the deci at hold-up prices during seven lean sion was so momentous that he years until he owned all of Egypt wanted two or three hours to talk it He could do it because he had a over with his wife and close friends. dream-book and a direct wire to the “Take all the time you want, Hen Pearly Gates. Hhnry apparently ry,” said the President has a dream-book but no direct wire, Note—To get the full significance although the President says we are of this exchange, it is necessary to to underwrite the South American remember that Stimson and Roose surplus only for one year. How does velt had fought each other in New he know? York state politics ever since 1910, In the romantic days, when spices when Stimson ran for governor and Roosevelt just out of Harvard, ran were the only practical food preser vative and therefore invaluable, the for the state senate. After two or three hours Stim Dutch controlled much of the East son telephoned the President and Indian trade. They had a rougher If too accepted the appointment Howev remedy for market gluts. much anise, cinnamon, pepper, nut er, he added one condition. “I'm not as young as I used to meg, cloves or what-not was con be,” he said, "and I can't work 18 gesting on the wharves, they simply and 20 hours a day any more. There sank the surplus in the sea. Mr. fore I've got to have men around Wallace has tried variations of that me whom I know intimately and can also. That is why he killed the little absolutely trust. A tremendous re pigs and cattle, plowed under the sponsibility will be on my shoul cotton, paid farmers for not produc ders," Stimson added, "and I can ing and recently and more intelli not afford to fail." gently, through the food-stamp plan, To this Roosevelt replied in ban sold farm surplus to the poor at a tering tone: “Appoint anyone you great discount in price and all the want, Henry. The only thing I ask rest of us footed the grocery bilL is not to appoint too many Repub O. K. for our own people, This licans at the very first” column is for a direct federal sub- Stimson apparently did not catch sidy to a “parity price" to our the joking note in the President’s farmers for all their products that voice, for he replied: “You can can be consumed at home and also rest assured. Mr. President that for the food-stamp or any similar whether Democrats or Republicans, plan to subsidize consumption of our they will be good men.” food products to all low-income The first man Stimson asked to groups—not merely to help consume help him in Washington was a Dem our farm surplus but to relieve us ocrat Benedict Crowell, now presi of the insufferable charge of permit dent of the Central National bank of ting Americans to starve or be un Cleveland and formerly assistant dernourished in the midst of rot secretary of war under Woodrow ting overabundance. Wilson. He is also a close friend But it is absolutely opposed to of Roosevelt’s, who was then assis pouring five hundred or any other tant secretary of the navy. Crowell number of millions of public money got to know Stimson when the war down any Latin-American rat holes department was under bitter Repub to subsidize our own competition and lican attack in 1920, and Stimson, a possibly to find their way into Hit Republican and an ex-secretary of ler's coffers or certainly, in no small war, defended him. degree, into the pockets of various So this time Stimson asked satellites of the assorted dictator Crowell to help him, by going to ships of the banana republics. Washington and making a quiet sur Sure, we need Pan-American sol vey of the situation inside the war idarity and friendship, but we can't department. Stimson had not yet buy it. The only thing that will been confirmed by the senate and make it on any worthwhile basis, is could not make the survey himself. cold-blooded community of interest. But he wanted to know all the facts If that isn’t there, any amount of in advance in order to waste no billions is just money thrown away. time once he took the oath of office. Mr. Roosevelt has neither right Crowell made the survey and re nor reason in calling this a “loan,” ported that the production of new intimating that one year's operation war weapons and material was pro will do the trick, or limiting his re gressing most satisfactorily. How quest to half a 'oillion. ever, he found the war department It is well known in Washington rent with feuds and the personnel that this first step is part of a two- situation badly in need of reorgani billion dollar program to make Uncle zation. Sam the international broker for all This is one of the first jobs Stim the products of the Western world. , son is tackling. There will be an That, too, is grotesque fantasy. important shakeup in high rank Its cost would eventually take us army officers. out of the multiplication tables and • • • into the field of logarithms. NEW NAVAL BOSS The eyence of all New Deal plan Col. Frank Knox, new Republican ning. statesmanship, diplomacy and secretary of the navy, already has solution of all public problems can been sized up by the admirals. They be expressed in a single phrase describe their new boss this way: “give us billions of dollars.” “Hard-boiled and seems to know his As statesmanship, that is about stuff.” as realistic as Santa Claus and Alad Naval officers frankly admit, how din’s lamp. ever, that they don’t like Knox— • • • which is a good omen. For the ad LOUIS JOHNSON mirals never like a secretary of the I returned to Washington after the navy who really runs the show. conventions to find a rumor that And in the navy today they certainly the new Tory Republican secretary need a two-fisted secretary. of war had asked his vigorous as Note—It is significant that Knox sistant, Louis Johnson, to get the is clearing all naval changes through hell out of there. Roosevelt. The President still keeps Politics marches on—ruthlessly, the navy as his governmental pet. respecting nothing, sparing nothing. • • • I have not always seen eye to eye with Mr. Johnson. At first I MERRY-GO-ROUND thought he was politicalizing and Ex-Senator George McGill of Kan New Dealizing the army. My criti sas, lame-ducked in the 1938 G. O. P. cism was well-informed but It cleanup, is hot after the Land Bank proved premature. commissionership that will become That job differs from any other vacant August 1, when incumbent sub-cabinet position. It is charged Roy Green leaves to become presi by statute with industrial mobiliza dent of the University of Colorado. tion of the whole nation in an emer McGill has the backing of American gency. My observation was that Farm bureau moguls who have Mr. Johnson did not fully appre ciate this vast problem in the be bucked the administration on land ginning. He certainly does now. bank policies—which won’t help His work here is not paralleled else McGill’s chances. where in government. Friday, August 2. 1940 j By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features— WNl! Service.! EW YORK -The first World war tipped over 20 reigning princes N and dukes, four emperors and seven ! kings, in addition to a scattering of small-fry roy- European Royalty alty whose 1» Heading Our names are • r» . now all but Way in Drove» for<oll.Q, Carol of Rumania and George of Greece were the only kings who came back, knd they aren't a good risk for Lloyd's—and perhaps Lloyd's isn't either. i Landlubbers from colleges all over the United Stales (above left) are lined up In civilian clothes In New York city as they prepare to participate in a program of training 600 young men for naval reserve ensign If the Mayflower were still afloat, it could book a full passenger list of commissions. A boatload of reservists (center) shown on their way out to the U. H. H. Wyoming, the training kings fleeing from commoners, seek I ship. Right, Robert Morgenthau, son of the secretary of the treasury, is pictured In formation with other ro- ing a haven in a new world—at any servists after donning the uniform of an apprentice seaman. rate, kings and their consorts, their courtiers' and others of princely rank. It Is understood that the Em press Zita af Austria will be la America before long. The word "former" is omitted here, tn def erence to a clever, purposeful woman, who has never admitted that she isn't still the empress. Of her son. Archduke Otto, now living in a two-room apartment in New York, she once said, "If the time ever comes when he# has but one servant, that ser vant will call him ’your majes ty.’ ” In early-day San Francisco a stately old gentleman with a splen did, kingly uniform announced that he was "Emperor Norton,” and was pleased to make San Francisco his royal domain. Nobody knew who he was or where he came from, but he looked and behaved like an emperor, so they took him up on his proposition. He held court, for years, received homage and issued decrees, and when he needed rev enue levied on the stock exchange, finding a handful of $20 gold pieces always ready. He died sitting straight upright in his little cubby hole room, wearing his full-dress uni form. The city gave him a grand funeral. San Francisco was proud of her emperor. They never did learn anything about him. This department was never par Straining every nerve to aid the mother country In her hour of need, Australian factory workers are toll ticularly partial to kings, but in ad ing day and night turning out tanks, planes, guns and ammunition that will be used In the defense of Great dition to child refugees it might be Britain. Above is a scene In a Melbourne factory where gun parts are manufactured for shipment by sea to a nice idea for each city over here porta in the United Kingdom where they will be assembled snd turned over to the defending British army. to adopt a Citie» May Bid king, or a For the Unhappy prince or duke. Holly- Royal Refugee» w o od, of course, would get Zog of Albania— now in London and fixing to sail for America, according to news reports —a “swingtime king” who installed in his Graustarkian palace a 40-piece American jazz band and became one of the best hoofers in his kingdom. Australians Turning Out Guns for tlie Empire They’re Ready to Learn American Ways r Philadelphia probably would put in a bid for the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxem burg, a thrifty homebody, now in Quebec. The news la that, if England falls, she and her six children will come to the U. 8. .A. She knits; plays the piano; to a fluent linguist and rears her children beautifully. There might not be any bidders for old Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the but terfly collector. He has a knack for pagMntry, however, which might intemt New Orleans. In case the above should appear to be a callous reference to tragic unhappiness, the main idea is that this democracy might well accord a certain respect to fugitive royalty because it appears to have some thing it really believes in. P MIAMI, FLA., IN October, 1934, John Dwight Sullivan, then commander of the New York department of the American Legion, urged the Legionnaires to concen trate less on more and bigger bonuses and to center their efforts on understanding and supporting the government in constructive under takings. He emphasized the need for co-operation as citizens rather than activity as a pressure group. His was a scholarly essay on citizen ship. Now Mr. Sullivan has placed before the convention of the New York County Legion a proposal, for a single, unified United States air force, in which all air arms of all services would be under a single command. Mr. Sullivan is chairman of the Legion’s na tional aviation committee. He is a New York lawyer, and an alumnus of Princeton university. He has been active in the further ance of civil and military aviation for many years and was appointed a member of the New York state aviation commission by Governor Roosevelt in 1930. He is 47 years of age, scholarly and ascetic in appearance, preaching social re sponsibility in the Legion for more than a decade. He Insists that the organization cannot attain its high purpose with out widening activities in political education, and an informed attitude on basic questions of domestic and foreign policy. Cleared by FBI Safe from the horrors of war are these three children of Maj. Arthur Lockhart of the British army who landed In New York city recently. They were members of another band of refugee British children seeking a haven in the United Htates. Their father is an officer In the King’s Hussars, now fighting for England against the Axis powers. The young refugees are being cared for by relatives in America. Even the Experts Spill Sometimes Proving that even the most expert of experts will spill once In a while, Ed Stanley takes a header during a practice run for the annual Catalina-Hermosa-Manhattan beach aquaplane race at Hermosa beach, Calif. Still upright and riding high to Bob Brown, who won th«* race three years ago. The event draws the champion aquaplanlsta of the Pa cific coast each year. Carl Byoir, New York public rela tions counsel who was cleared of chartes made by Rep. Wright Pat* man of Texas that he had engaged In un-American activities. The de partment of Justice declared that an FBI Investigation "disclosed no evi dence whatever" to support the al legation. Literary Exile His long hair put up In a net, Maurice Maeterlinck, famous Bel gian author of "The Bluebird," to shown soon after his arrival in the United Htates as a war refugee, foi- lowlna the German triumph.