VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
FRIDAY, APRIL 22,1938
iVe its tterieu' of Current Eren to
SEVEN BILLION PLAN
President Proposes Huge Spending and Loans Program
. . . Demands United Recovery Action
Jones Ready to Loan
JONES, chairman of the
J ESSE
RFC, now has $1,500,000,000 to
lend to business men, states and
cities, and he asked the bankers of
the nation to turn over to his cor
poration the loan applications they
cannot meet.
“The security put up by borrow
ers must be reasonable,” he de
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
clared, “but naturallv we expect to
make loans which the banks consid
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Jones said he expected the loans
would make capital investments
“J Dog’s Premonition”
more attractive and would also
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forestall sacrifice disposals of sur
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plus stocks. In his insistence on
“reasonable” security, however, he
ello everybody :
warned that “we’re not going to
Do animals possess “second sight”? I mean, do they—
lend all the money in the country.”
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because they are closer to Nature—receive mysterious advance
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
H
No Peace for Labor
Because a federal statute prohibits taking of a foreign vote in the United
States or its territorial waters, the crew of the German liner Hansa voted
ot the question of Austrian “anschluss” with Germany while the ship was
in mid-ocean en route to New York. Here is the scene in the public room
of the liner during the balloting. Seated is Purser Karl Zeplein, who reg
istered the voters. Of the crew, 330 voted “jah”; six voted “nein,” and
one vote was voided.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lend and Spend Plan
/KONGRESS was asked by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to authorize the
spending and lending of a grand
total of seven billion dollars in a
special message in
which he set forth
his new program
for recovery and re
lief. Ignoring the
expressions of vari
ous leaders in oppo
sition to such vast
expenditures, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
“Our capacity is
limited only by our
ability to work to
President
gether.
What is
Roosevelt
needed is the will.
“The time has come to bring that
will into action with every driving
force at our command. And I am
determined to do my share.”
The President declared that the
will to co-operate places “on all of
us the duty of self-restraint,” and
that “there can be no dictatorship
by an individual, or by a group in
this nation save through division
fostered by hate. Such division
there must never be.”
Three groups of measures were
proposed. The first involves main
ly additional appropriations for the
coming fiscal year, as follows:
One billion two hundred and fifty
million dollars for the Works Prog
ress administration; $175,000,000 for
the Farm Security administration;
$75,000,000 for the National Youth
administration; $50,000,000 for the
Civilian Conservation corps, and the
$1,500,000,000 already made avail
able to the Reconstruction Corpo
ration for lending to business enter
prises.
In a second group of measures
Mr. Roosevelt asked:
Three hundred million dollars for
immediate expansion of the housing
and slum-clearance work of the
United States Housing authority;
$1,450,000,000 for public works loans
and grants; an additional $100,000,-
000 for public roads; an additional
$37,000,000 for flood control and re
clamation projects already autho
rized and an additional $25,000,000
for federal buildings.
A third group listed by the Chief
Executive referred to private cred
it. It involved desterilization of
$1,400,000,000 of gold and a reduc
tion by the Federal Reserve board
of member bank reserve require
ments which would add another
$750,000,000 to the credit resources
of the nation’s banks. With these
actions Mr. Roosevelt coupled a
simplification of Security commis
sion regulations to expedite small
business financing.
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finance committee, obviously dis
pleased, said:
“The President is entitled to his
views. Of course, he accords to
every one else the same right to
theirs.
“The views expressed in his letter
do not coincide with the sentiment
expressed by the overwhelming
majority of the senate. My views
are well known and need not be
repeated again in detail.
“The senate conferees will insist
in conference on the amendments
adopted in the senate.
“I believe that the repealing of
the undistributed profits tax and the
modifications of the capital gains
tax, as adopted by the senate, will
Jielp business.”
At the close of his letter the Pres
ident said:
“The repeal of the undistributed
profits tax and the reduction of the
tax on capital gains to a fraction of
the tax on other forms of income
strike at the root of fundamental
principles of taxation.
"Business will be helped, not
hurt, by these suggestions.”
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New French Government
pRANCE has a new government
1 headed by Edouard Daladier who
succeeded Leon Blum as premier
after the fall of Blum’s Popular
Front.
Daladier’s
cabinet is the first
wholly
nonrevolu
tionist one since the
leftist landslide of
1936. Not one of his
ministers is even
pink, and there are
several outright con
servatives. Most sig
nificant of his se
lections is Georges
Bonnet, former am
Georges
bassador to the
Bonnet
United States, as
foreign minister. His choice for this
key post means synchronization of
French foreign policy with that of
Great Britain, the opening of nego
tiations with Mussolini and complete
abandonment of the Spanish repub
lic in its war with Franco’s insur-
gents.
Blum was thrown out because he
asked broad powers to rule by de
cree, but the parliament acceded
to a similar demand by Daladier,
and then adjourned until May 1,
leaving Daladier with practically
dictatorial powers to deal with the
nation's financial and economic
problems.
The new premier started imme
diately on efforts to end the wave ol
strikes, which were really based on
political motives. First he obtained
a settlement of the strikes in the
nationalized aviation factories, of
fering a pay increase in exchange
Congressmen Vexed
longer hours. He then promul-’
VÄ7’ HILE committees of the sen- for
by decree a law making a
’ ' ate and house were still try gated
secret ballot obligatory in every
ing to reconcile the widely differing factory
where conflicts arise. If a
versions of the tax
majority of the workers decide for
bill passed by the
a strike, they must evacuate the
two houses, Presi
factory, which then would be “neu
dent Roosevelt sent
tralized” pending arbitration. If,
to the chairmen a
however, thé strike is rejected by
long letter urging
a majority, the armed forces of
retention of the tax
the nation will be at the disposal of
on
undistributed
the employers to keep the plant op
profits, which had
erating.
been eliminated by
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the senate. Many
Horner
Is
Winner
members of con
gress thought the
QOV. HENRY HORNER won his
Chief Executive Sen. Harrison
second great victory over the
was intimating that he would veto Chicago Kelly-Nash machine in the
the bill if this feature were omitted. Illinois Democratic primaries. Al
That would leave in effect the pres most all his candidates were nom
ent law carpring a severe tax which inated, and the governor appears
has been widely attacked as one of to be now in complete control of
the causes of the prevailing busi the party in his state. His co-boss
ness depression.
is State's Attorney Thomas J.
The intervention by Mr. Roose Courtney of Chicago.
velt at this time and in this manner
The triumph of Horner attracted
was considered unprecedented and nation-wide attention. It even led
aroused many expressions of to a proposal that he be the Demo
amazement and indignation, espe cratic party for President in 1940.
cially among the senate conferees. This boom let was launched in con
Senator Pat Harrison, their leader gress by Representative L. F. Ar
and the chairman of the senate nold, Democrat, of Illinois.
A NY lingering hopes that the
American Federation of Labor
and the Committee for Industrial
Organization would end their civil
war were dispelled by John L. Lew
is’ announcement that the C. I. O.
was to be made a permanent or
ganization, probably under another
name. To bring this about a con
vention of the 39 Lewis unions will
be held in the fall. The time and
place were left to a committee con
sisting of Philip Murray and Sidney
Hillman, newly elected vice chair
man of C. I. O.
The heads of the C. I. O. unions,
hearing congress might adjourn by
May 14, adopted a resolution de
claring “that our 4,000,000 members
will necessarily have to consider it
a dereliction of duty and betrayal
of labor for congress to agree to
adjourn prior to enactment of a
complete legislative recovery pro
gram.”
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warnings of evil that fail to touch our less sensitive conscious
ness? Sometimes it seems that way.
A California friend of mine had a pet cat. One day a few years ago
the cat suddenly jumped on his lap, the picture of terror. Her fur was
standing' on end and she meowed excitedly and buried her head in
her master’s coat. He leaned over, surprised at her strange ac
tions, to see what was the matter, and the next minute over went the
chair, man and cat in a heap. An earthquake had struck that part of the
Pacific coast, and the cat—he is convinced—received advance warning!
All of which brings us to today’s adventurer, John W. Herbst of
Flushing, L. I. John has a dog who acted strangely on a certain day in
April, 1933. John has good reason to remember that day—the twenty
fourth—because he lost his right hand in an accident that almost took
his life.
John’s dog is a shepherd named “Pal”—and what a name! John
was a railroad conductor in those days and Pal WAS his pal. Every night,
John says, when he was ready to go to work Pal would come to him with
his rubber ball and drop it in his master’s hand to be put away in a
drawer. Then Pal would “shake hands” with his master.
Dog Wouldn’t Go Through His Tricks.
Every morning when John returned, the dog would be waiting
for him. Joyously, Pal would take the morning paper up to the
house and then sit up and bark before the drawer until John gave
him his ball. This, John says, had been going on daily for years.
But on the night of April 24, 1933, as John kissed his wife and started
for work as usual, Pal was not up to his usual tricks. He paid no attention
to the rubber ball and instead of offering his paw, sat glumly re-
Wheat Allotments
'T'HE agricultural adjustment ad-
■* ministration announced it had
allotted 62,500,000 acres to 42 wheat
producing states under the 1938
farm program.
Individual acreage allotments will
be based on planting and diversion
during the past ten years.
Farmers who comply with acre
age allotments will receive benefit
payments of 12 cents a bushel for
the average yield on the allotted
acreage. A penalty tax of 90 cents
a bushel on acreage in excess of
allotments will be deducted from
any benefit payments due farmers.
This year, the AAA said, no de
ductions will be made for exceeding
wheat allotments if co-operating
farmers reduce other soil depleting
crops so as not to exceed the total
soil-depleting allotment for his
farm.
Acreage allotments for principal
wheat producing states included:
Iowa, 456,037; Kansas, 12,519,879;
Minnesota, 1,609,218; Nebraska,
3,446,075; North Dakota, 9,431,355;
South Dakota, 3,345,403.
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Pal Wouldn’t Shake Hands.
garding his master with downcast looks. This was a new one on John
and it puzzled him.
John was puzzled still more when, as he started down the stairs the
dog took hold of the leg of his overalls and PULLED HIM BACK.
“I patted him on the head,” John writes, “and tried to shake hands
with him, but he kicked up a fuss of barking and crying and when
I pushed him away he again caught hold of my leg.”
John’s Wife Thought It a Warning.
Women are more sensitive than men to things bordering on the oc
cult and John’s wife was no exception. She immediately took Pal’s
actions to be a warning and asked her husband to stay home that day.
But John laughed at the idea and promising to be careful, went to work.
Will Defend Peace
He wishes now he had listened to what he is convinced was tffreal warning.
DAN-AMERICAN day was marked
A few hours later John was taking his freight train out of Long Island
* by an address by President Roose city. He gave the starting signal to the engineer and swung on board.
velt, broadcast throughout the world, As the cars started to move John heard the sound of a brake scraping and
in which he warned all nations that locating the car he climbed aboard. And just as he released the set
the peoples of the American repub brake Fate put a stop to his railroad career.
lics will not permit aggressor nations
Lost His Hand and Almost His Life.
to threaten the peace of this hemi
The brake chain snapped—John slipped and fell under the
sphere. All of them, he asserted,
train—he saw the wheels coming too late—his hand hurt him
are firmly resolved to maintain
teiribly and the next second he was lying on the roadbed hold
peace, though this might entail sac
ing the bleeding stump of his severed right hand!
rifices—even the sacrifice of life.
Followed months in the hospital. Blood poisoning set in, and John’s
He reiterated this country’s "gooc
neighbor” policy in its relation! weight went from 179 pounds to 92.
Back home Pal was disconsolate. The dog had not been taken to see
with Central and South Americar
countries and cited this hemi his master but still he seemed to know. The rubber ball lay unheed
sphere's successful “demonstration ed on the floor; instead he guarded and nursed John’s working cap
that the rule of justice and law can that had been brought to him.
Finally on July 1 John came home. Pal was so excited that
be substituted for the rule of
they had to tie him up for fear that he would hurt his still invalid
force.”
master. After a while they let him go and the dog surprised every
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one by his actions. Instead of jumping all over John he ap
Hitler's Big Victory
proached his idol gently. He sniffed the bandage and licked John’s
L' EWER than 465,000 Germans anc
remaining hand.
1 Austrians had the courage to vote
Pal Now a Sober Guardian.
“no” in the plebiscite on Germany’s
And
from
that
day,
John says, the character of Pal changed. Instead
annexation of Austria. Nearly 49.
the playful Pal of other days he now became a sober watchdog and
000,000 qualified vol of
up a tireless vigil at his sick master’j side.
ers went to the polls took No
one can touch me to this day,” John ends. “It seems as though
and gave their ap Pal “
himself for letting me go to work that April day and now thinks
proval of the “an it his blames
duty to protect me as long as I have only one hand.”
schluss,” and thus
You’re right, John. “What an experience and—what a dog!”
Adolf Hitler scored
Scientists, I suppose, would say it is impossible for a dog or any
a tremendous vic animal
to give such a warning as Pal did. They would use a lot of big
tory, greater than words proving
contention, too. Maybe they’re right. I don’t know.
even his lieutenants AU I know is their
THESE THINGS DO HAPPEN!
had expected.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
“This is the proud
est hour of my life,’
The Fall of Nassau
Definition of University
the Fuehrei
In 1776, during the war between
According to a well established
Adolf Hitler said
when told of the Great Britain and the American col tradition, James A. Garfield, in a
vote, and the Nazi leaders all were onists, a fleet of eight vessels was Williams college alumni address de
jubilant, and with reason. They sent by the latter to Nassau, capital livered in New York city in 1872,
said the demonstration of German of the Bahamas, with instructions to said: “My definition of a university
unity showed it was time to liberate capture the large quantities of muni is Mark Hopkins at one end of a
“our Sudeten German friends in tions believed to be stored there. log and a student at the other.”
Czechoslovakia” and that they were This force, under Admiral Hopkins, The quotation, however, does not
ready to obey Hitler's orders blind landed a detachment on the eastern occur in the speech as it was re
extremity of New Providence island corded, but a similar line of thought
ly-
It was forecast in Berlin that Hit and marched on Nassau. Forts Mon was expressed by Garfield in a let
ler would proceed at once to expand tague and Nassau surrendered with ter which he wrote the same year.
and modernize the Austrian army out resistance, and the new “Grand Mark Hopkins (1802-1887), was one
and strengthen Austria’s frontier de Union flag,” consisting of the Union of the ablest and most successful
fenses. And Vienna believed the Jack in the first quarter and thir American educators and was presi
anti-Jewish program would be in teen red and white stripes to repre dent of Williams college in Massa
sent the independent states, was chusetts when Garfield was a stu
tensified.
hoisted over Fort Nassau. The in dent there. Garfield particularly
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vaders took 100 guns and a small liked the stress which Hopkins
Orville Wright Honored
quantity of other war munitions. placed upon the development of the
individual student.
ORE than 200 of Americas But they left the following day.
leading figures in aeronautics
Grant Once Ready to Quit
This Is a Different “Law”
gathered in Detroit on the invita
During the Civil war, Ulysses S.
The "law” in "mother-in-law”
tion of Henry and Edsel Ford to
pay tribute to Orville Wright, first Grant once packed his beiongings and “father-in-law” is not the same
and was ready to start for home. word as “law” in the sense of a le
man ever to fly an airplane.
The celebration, dedicating th« He felt, as he told William T. Sher gal mother or father, but is derived
newly restored group of V/righ man, that he was in the way. But from the old English word, “lage,”
meaning “marriage.”
buildings at Ford’s Greenwich Vi! Sherman talked him into staying.
lage, was in honor of Orville Wright
and in memory of his brother Wil
Valley of Oaxaca
Naming Days of Week
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The valley of Oaxaca, in southern
Days of the week are named after
Dedication of the Wright horn« Mexico, was the abode of the highly celestial bodies and elements in Ja
and bicycle shop in which the firs civilized Zapotec and Mixtec Indi pan—Sun, Sunday; moon, Monday;
successful man-carrying airplane ans, whose cities and religious build fire. Tuesday; water, Wednesday;
was built was the chief event oi ings, covered .by the dust of many wood, Thursday; metal, Friday, and
the day.
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Less than half of the Orkney to
land, off the Scottish coast are in
habited.
The average American-born aduit
Japanese goes through 12 years of
schooling.
Metallic corrosion causes a world
economic loss estimated at $3,000..
000,000 yearly.
The world’s issue of postage
stamps totals approximately 50.006
distinct varieties.
Much of the sand used In manu
facturing glass in America is im
ported from Belgium.
Half of the more than 5,000 vari
eties of chrysanthemums have been
added to fanciers' list since 1904.
If a kitten reaches the age of two
or three months without any experi
ence with mice, It will not show a
mousing instinct later.
Tinting the nails was common
among the Egyptians, and not con
forming to the practice would have
been considered indecent.
Out of a potential electrical pow
er of 16,000,000 kilowatts on the Mis
sissippi river and its tributaries,
only 2,000,000 have been utilized.
AROUND THE WORLD
Japan is rich in the production of
copper.
India was the largest producer of
oil seed in the world last year.