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II THE DAILY-' TIMES. TUESDAY, APRIL 26. 1938 THE DAILY TIMES By THE TIMES COMPANY LIFE'S DARKEST MOMENT LOOKING BACKWARD Billets ByF.C.B. E. P.

ADLER, Publisher R. J. LEYSEN, ManaglnjEdllor Thirty Years Ago Today Delegates from Tulsa, Okla Member of the Let Newipapet Syndicate were welcomed at Davenport on their eastern tour by Mayor George Entered et the Pottofttc in Davenport Iowa, aa Second Class Matter W. Scott, President W. R.

Weir of the Comemrcial club and others. communities are without banking facilities and more money is kept at hand. Raising the minimum amount of deposits which banks will carry without charge and the imposition of other service charges, the News reports, has caused many people to discontinue checking accounts. Furthermore with from ten to twelve million unemployed, many persons who were able to maintain savings accounts now find it necessary to pay out all they receive through work relief or part time employment for their immediate expenses. With the government guaranteeing bank deposits there is no lack of confidence in the solvency of these institutions.

Since the middle of 1933 there has been a continued increase in the amount of money in the banks. All of these explanations do not completely dissolve the mystery as to why the country with a producing income comparable to that of 1935 should require a billion dollars more to carry on its business at this time. Harry Kahler of Davenport de TARDY? You're quite the lad, I must admit, And fashionable Too! There seems So much perfection In the things You say And do! Master of situation, Inspirer of rhyme, But, sir I've often wondered Who taught you To tell time? K. E. M.

feated Harry Martens in the prize shoot held by the Cumberland Gun club. Advertising RcpresenUUvet KOEK, BOTH EN BURG it ANN, INC. Chicago, New Vork, Detroit, SL Louis, Atlanta Full Leased Wirt Service of the Associated Press Member American Newspaper Publishers' Association Member of the Associated Press The Associated Prrss la exclusively entitled to the use of republication ot all newt dispatches credited to it or riot otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. More than 500 attended the re cital at Zion Evangelical Swedish Lutheran church in Rock Island and heard Miss Agnes Johnson, Mrs Edla Lund, Miss Lillie Cervin, Miss Katherint Gest and others.

The clock which runs backward Rev. D. S. Andrewartha preached in S. J.

Strlegel's barber shop at 114 West Third street in Daven at the special service held for Mo-line I. O. O. F. at the Second M.

E. church. port, is the only one like that around here as far as Mr Striegel and we know. It's constructed to run counter-clockwise and all the Twenty Years Ago Today Alderman George White has figures are reversed so that custo mers can read the clock in the mirrors which they face on the been appointed mayor pro tern to serve while the Davenport council conducts a hearing on the recount of ballots as requested by Socialist candidates. opposite wall.

This is one of a limited number of such clocks made by a man named Kramer at Miss Anna Enright is candidate Elkader, about 15 years or more ago as a center piece for. a display of advertisements, also in for treasurer of the Davenport Catholic Woman's league. reveise English. During the last Christmas season, (he proprietor's son, C. B.

Striegel, was barbering a man who said the clock be longed to him, that it had just State's Attorney Floyd E. Thompson ordered police and other peace officers to enforce the vagrancy laws in Rock Island county. Nels R. Beckstrom. 1703V2 Tenth neen placed in the shop on trial This was something of a sur prise inasmuch as the time-piece was included in a bill of sale from Eddie Thordsen, who used to run the shop.

"You can keep it, though," said the customer, a little street, Moline, fell down an embankment at Sixteenth avenue and Third street and drowned in a pool. URGES BUSINESS TO FIGHT Talking to the American Association of Advertising Agencies at White Sulphur Springs, W. Faul Willard Garrett, director of public relations ior General Motors, urged American business to fight back at the mear technique of the opposition." Let the American public know, he advised, that big business has been responsible for "the highest standard of living known to mankind." Mr Garrett's recommendations merit careful consideration and action on the part of those charged with the management of great enterprises. They ought to take their case to the public. They have been silent too long while politicians have continued to abuse and stifle legitimate business.

Mr Garrett pointed to five "fallacies" which have been allowed to grow in the minds of the public without any effort on the part of business itself .3 correct them. The first, he said, is "that industry Is a device operating for the unholy benefit of afew economic royalists." Second, "that business went en a sit-down strike to bring on the present depression and to embarass the New Deal and to embarrass labor." The third "fallacy" he listed was that "the way to spread wealth is to divide it, not multiply it." The other two were that "the machine is driving men into idleness" and that "management is overpaid at the expense of workers and that bigness in industry is synonymous with badness." Big business knows how to advertise its products. In fact, big business has been built through advertising: Now that it is being attacked, it should be relatively easy to include in its advertising its defense against the "smear technique." Some industries have made a beginning along this line. It is worthy of investigation with a view to expanding this type of advertising. sadly; "my idea didn't work out very well.

Now Mr Striegel is pretty sure that the clock belongs IOWA AND THE RAILROADS Iowa benefited substantially from the expenditures of the railroads in 1937 for materials, supplies, fuel, new equipment and payrolls, it is revealed in a special study which has just been completed by the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of American Railroads. Railway purchases in Iowa last year totaled $6,217,830, the reports shows. Of this sum, $5,354,979 was spent for "materials, supplies and fuel, while $862,851 went for new equipment (not including that built in company shops). These purchases were made in 383 towns and cities located in 96 of the 99 counties of the state. Wages paid to railway employes in Iowa during 1937 amounted to $44,089,416.

The review discloses that, for the nation as a whole, the railroads last year paid $1,113,361,468 for ihe more than 70,000 different items which they use, Materials, supplies and fuel cost $966,383,000, and expenditures for all new equipment (except that constructed in railway shops) totaled More than 12,000 towns and cities located in 2,638 of the 3,072 counties of the United States derived direct benefits from this large volume railroad buying. In 1937, the country's rail carriers also distributed $1,983,990,485 in wages to their employes, the report says. The contribution which the railroads make to each county in the state in the form of taxes forms even more impressive evidence of their value. Were the railroads to succumb to government ownership, and the burden of taxation which they now bear cast upon the shoulders of the farm and home owners of the state, the load would be staggering and it would be most painfully felt in the rural counties where in the lack of industries the railroads are the heaviest tax payers. Ten Years Ago Today Mrs H.

L. Huebotter of Davenport, chairman of the conservation leaeue of the Iowa Federation of to him. Woman's clubs, is stressing conser Mrs J. M. says she Is yearning: for the time when she'll see that a Mr Cobb is marrying- a Miss Webb, so she can say: "Cobb knew Webb was meant for him the moment he spied 'er." vation during Forestry week.s O.

C. Burrows, publisher of the Belle Flaine Union, and a candidate for the Republican nomination for state auditor, was a visitor in Davenport today. Major Kenneth B. Harmon of the manufacturing department at the Rock Island Arsenal has been transferred to the ordnance office at Washington. at This stags of THE PftOC5c5DMGS THcr R5( DROPS OFF The ROD Fully aware of the danger of starting this sort of thing, we are going to give you excerpts from a letter from Mrs "It's about our cat, Inky.

Inky is beau wjf tiful; he's slinky;" (slinky Inky) "by persistence and watchfulness, he has remained a stay-in-the- house-at-night cat; he is lovable of the cabinet by now. Last Nor vember, with warm White House ON THE RECORD approval, he announced a program flie News Behind Ihe News of retrenchment. He was sincere about it, and hasn't changed his mind since. He takes no stock in the spend-and-lend spree as a BY DOROTHY THOMPSON Un Bel Homme Sans Merci a gentleman. He observes the nice curauve measure and has fought it as hard as he could.

when it suits his mind to be lovable. We are about to leave the city and I have been informed ties. Scrupulously. Another aid and confidential secretary of Franz von Papen is dead. Baron von Ketteler was (Continued From Page One) His chief's complete reversal of policy has made him look more The making of international pacts is so prevalent nowadays that Great Britain and France hope to get the United States into an economic pact.

One obstacle may be that the United States is inclined to take pacts more seriously than Europe does. the money dished out in a hurry, than a trifle naive. But the treas ury chief is a very loyal person and, In 1916 he was German military attache in Washington. Then in his thirties. Rich, elegant, vain and amusing.

Life was amusing even if there was a war going on. He himself had an amusing role to play in that war; really it was like a detective story. Excit-ine. He was DODular. Some neonle there is no niche for Inky in the new apartment, At first I thought of taking him out in the country and leaving him near a nice farm, but I have heard tales of what happens to nice cats on nice farms.

Our alternative is a trip to the veterinaryand you cannot know how I dread that. So I am asking that you make a plea for me I want a home for Inky, with someone who will like him as we do." If the railroads fold, the passenger public may have to paste college pennants on a suit case and thumb rides from one college campus to the next. 1 imtms.1 found a corpse in the Vienna woods, once celebrated by the music of Johann Strauss, now a dangerous place to be. The list begins to be impressive. It gives Herr von Papen a unique fame, as a sort of political typhoid Mary.

He is thought his eyes were a little too Our Mr Hull lets it be known that the old 5-5-3 naval ratio is to be retained, but with a difference. Hereafter it is to be 20-20-12. THE TRI-CITIES IS WHERE: so as to check the economic slump, point to Hopkins' achievements in placing 900,000 men at work between last August and March of this year. They insist that he has the temperament and the organization. His backers head up in the United States conference of mayors, his own cronies in the White House family and friendly members of congress.

F. D. R. will probably solve the dispute by giving the job to Mr Ickes. It would be too pointed a snub for him to shift over to Hopkins without a public explanation that would embarrass everybody.

But the president is expected to hold a timeclock on the cabinet member, and if he doesn't shove the cash out fast enough, the check-writing assignment will be given to a swifter penman. A cleaner will call for, clean and press, and deliver without extra charge, three neckties for a quarter, but charges 15 cents for pickup and delivery of a dress for which the cash-and-carry price of cleaning and pressing is 80 cents. M. M. Comment and Opinion close together, giving his longish face an ape-like expression, but he was obviously a gentleman.

His job was to organize sabotage against America's shipments of arms to Europe. For, unfortunately, and since Britain ruled the waves, those arms were reaching the Allies. It might even be better to stop them at the source by blowing up the munitions works. The Americans, anyhow, are so naive. "I always say to these idiotic Yankees that they should shut their mouths, and better still be full of admiration for THE HIRED GIRL A KINDLY GENTLEMAN In the passing of Max Abrahams, Davenport mourns a figure and a personality in the business life of the community who, during the twenty years pt his association -with it, came to enjoy an exceptional measure of esteem and affection.

Quiet and retiring, his contribution to the promotion of the best interests of his city was not the less impressive. He recognized a deep sense of loyalty to community which had afforded opportunity for his sons to develop a prosperous business, prior to his removal to Davenport. A successful banker in Indiana for twenty-five years his later association with the Abrahams store in the capacity of treasurer invested its management with a mature guidance which enhanced its develoment. While he preferred that his sons represent the firm in the many civic movements undertaken by the community, his counsel was eagerly sought in the various activities of which he had a part. Modest, unassuming, dignified, courteous and kindhearted, there was a serenity of mind and spirit about him which bespoke the highest attributes of character.

Life had dealt kindly with him and his attitude toward others reflected a deep sense of gratitude which found expression in his zeal to make the way a little easier for others. A dignified reserve could not quite hide his quick and broad sympathies which were immediately discernible in his kindliness toward all with whom he came in contact. It is the contribution which' ennobled characters fis Mr Abrahams have made to the life of. this city which has made it distinctive in its tolerant, liberal and friendly spirit. Throughout his long and useful career Mr Abrahams enjoyed that exceptional measure of good health as found his only illness his last one He attained four score years without impairment of a single faculty.

He remained to the last the kindly gentleman, ever youthful in spirit, imbued with the true democracy which springs from a sense of brotherhood and a recognition of the privileges which come of citizenship in a nation founded vpon those principles and ideals which, his life so eloquently translated into action. all our heroism," he writes to hi3 Today came a note to "Billets:" "Hi, Rohesa, when did they let you in? Remember me? of Aledo." We don't know what to make of it, but suppose that "Rohesa," one of our best contributors of poetry, does and that it's all right. no matter what his personal feelings, is not at all likely to play into the hands of the opposition by walking out on the president in a fit of a pique. Mr Morgenthau is by no means the only member of the administration who doubts the efficacy of the new spending splurge as a recovery weapon. There is much unadvertised skepticism behind the New Deal scenes.

But the skeptics have to go along or quit, and the latter alternative doesn't seem to appeal to them. Pi-nioc DesPite the fireworks rrujetis on capitol hm keen New York analysts harbor no illusions that congress will block the spending program. That would be asking too much of human nature in an election year, with constituents clamoring for their share of the gravy. The only real battle will be on the question of allocating projects. Congress will insist on having plenty to say about the distribution of funds for public works.

Legislators from the big cities will agitate for slum clearance. Flood control and highway construction will be eagerly demanded by rural representatives. But no matter how much is appropriated for public works, it will take some time to get projects under way. It is unlikely that stimulative effects from this sort of spending will be felt before fall at the earliest. The WPA will be more useful politically, although its total monthly outlay will not increase much above present levels.

President Roosevelt's ivampage recent anti-depression wife in 1915 in an open letter. Which the idiotic Yankees, of course, get and read. Thf British are idiotic, too. moves nave heartened disillusioned Progressives on ranitni hill Dull fellows. Really, nothing to But he hasn't yet acted aggressively enough to satisfy the LaFol-lette and Maverick groups.

They are still meeting at out-of-the-way restaurants every night and P. V. N. of Davenport digs into her memory and asks: "Does anyone remember the autograph craze? Cardboard fans were given as souvenirs by various business firms, and the girl who secured the greatest number of boys' names on her fan was indeed popular the good old days!" Christian Science Monitor: The hired girl is vanishing, if not almost gone, according to the Bureau of Home Economics in Washington. With her going she takes one more institution that was truly American.

She was housekeeper, washerwoman, dressmaker, cook and often a valuable family counselor. The bureau lists as one of the causes that "sums paid out for household help are too meager for such service." They always were, no matter what she was paid. To many the deepest memories are those of a kindly understanding confidante of childhood. If a little boy wanted a special favor from a parent often the best way was through the good offices of Martha-May. She knew how well-behaved he had been for the past week; she conveniently forgot about last Thursday when he had tracked the kitchen with his muddy boots.

"Many a homemaker would rather spend money for a car and widen her social contacts." No doubt the modern homemaker is right. Martha-May wasn't a social success, but she was kind and a good friend. And now she is gone and in her place there are motorcars, wider social contacts, and even the mechanical "hired girl." The report lists them all. But there is still something these cold facts and figures forget. grousing.

They want F. D. R. to Iparf an other charge against congress, de WHY NOT TRY NEW WASHERS? New York experts in Charlie Meyer, Davenport's assistant postmaster admonishes you to save all correspondence if ever you suspect a mail fraud, and particularly the envelopes that's the only sure proof for the courts that the matter went through the mails. C.

O. D. swindles break out periodically like the measles. These petty crooks scan the obituary columns of the newspapers, then mail a cheap article C. O.

D. in the name of the decedent. Sentimental relatives often accept these packages, paying many times the value of the article on the assumption that the order was "one of poor John's last acts on this earth." Those who are smarter won't accept the package until they satisfy themselves that it's worth the money. truly l'Homme Fatal. Associate with him in any close political relationship, and one will surely die.

The' dates cover a period of more than twenty years, and span the globe: 1916: The United States of America. 1917: Syria. 1932 and 1934: Berlin. 1938: Vienna. Herr von Papen is impressive from another viewpoint.

Those who associate with him die. But Herr von Papen lives. He is the greatest known survivor. Not only does he live but with each catastrophe he falls upstairs. He has a charmed career.

Somebody else always pays the bills for his intrigues. The late John W. Wheeler-Bennett, one of the closest British students of German affairs, described Franz von Papen as having "the volatility of a bird, the sublime confidence of the amateur, and the ineffable valor of ignorance." It couldn't be better said. The gentleman rider of the fashionable Baron's club, the Her-renklub, who, even on horseback rushes his fences, the ingratiating "white-headed boy" of the late President von Hindenburg, the Francophile husband of a rich lady of French extraction, who inherited ceramic interests in the Sarr, the viveur, the perennially gay, the ladies' man, is the great dilet-tant of war and revolution. 4 He forgets his briefcases and the wrong people find them.

And men die. Because he forgot a briefcase, men were shot and imprisoned in 1916 and half a generation later, because he forgets a briefcase, a political event of the first magnitude occurs, and a revolution. He collaborates to introduce a Trojan horse into the German government, serenely confident that nothing serious will come of it What came of it was the Nazi government. His collaborators under his leadership intrigue and on June 30, 1934, they are shot in a purge. One of them because he wrote a speech an eloquent, well phrased speech delivered by Franz von Papen.

But Franz von Papen lives. It is all very sad, of course but the result is that he is ambassador to Vienna. Again there is a piece of work to, be done. Not by Von Papen. By an aid.

And so, last week, they found another body in the Vienna woods. I have no doubt that Von Papen will lay a wreath on his grave: "To My Loyal Friend." Von Papen is foreign affairs say that if the Soviet Union so desires, she can wage war on Japan without using a single Red army soldier and without officially invading Japanese-controlled territory. Stalin could accomplish this paradox in international relations by reminding Outer Mongolia that, according to a treaty signed by China, Russia and Outer Mon fear from them. Von Papen pays off his saboteurs and spies. Methodically.

He writes the checks, and enters the names and dates carefully on the stubs. The idiotic Americans expell him in 1915, along with his collaborator, Captain Boy-Ed. They don't arrest him. After all, he has diplomatic immunity. But he takes along the check books, and In an open briefcase.

The liner on which he travels is searched at Falmouth, by the British, the stubs discovered. -And back In Washington, von Papen has left the most critical documents, unde-stroyed, in the hands of his young and harmless secretary. Odd, some of the people who languished in prison felt vicious about it and wrote accusing books, after the war. But Herr von Papen was decorated and promoted. So the German foreign office sent him to Syria, where he left some more information lying around for idiotic Englishmen to pick up.

But he suffered for his country. Desert tents are uncomfortable, He lived to become chancellor of Germany in the early '30s and to perform another feat of a fast horseman and hazardeur. He kicked out the Prussian Republican government. Von Papen. as chancellor had, of course, one notable foreign success.

He had cashed in on his predecessor's brilliant diplomacy. Dr. Bruening had gotten the league powers to the point where they were willing to abrogate reparations. Von Papen who with Hindenburg had intrigued to throw out "the greatest German chancellor since Bismarck." signed the papers at Lausanne, ar.d smilingly took the credit. Just the same, his government was strangely unpopular at hotr.e.

In September, 1932, things (Continued on Page F.nur) spite nis series of reverses since reelection. They have urged him to insist upon legislation setting up seven TVA's, smashing monopolies, regulating wages and hours far more thoroughly than the pending bill proposes; revising the taxation system even more radically than the measure now in conference. When he argues that he can't afford another legislative setback on the eve of a congressional election, they counter with the demand that he assail capitol hill Democrats for not carrying out their 1932 and 1936 platform promises. Politically, they would have him rampage against several key members who contributed most to sabotaging his program; these would become political guinea pigs. If he licked them, they maintain, it would insure his domination of the party when it names a presidential candidate in 1940, regardless of what happens in the meantime.

Mr Roosevelt seemed to think well of the idea, but he has given no promises so far. fiffcrt ew ea Politicos ently realize that the presidential letter demanding that house and senate tax conferees support White House revenue reforms was a blunder. The latest explanation is that Mr Roosevelt denounced the senate's help-business rates so as to kill off a prospective stock market boom based on disclosure of his inflationary program gold sterilization, PWA spending, boosting of bank reserves, etc. New York By James McMullln c.onli.,. If Henry Morgenthau, golia in 1915, she is still under Waterloo Courier: A Waterloo contractor was telling us about a water pump used in his work.

Every day, he said, it was necessary for one of his men to prime the pump. The contractor had figured the amount of time consumed in pump priming over a period of a year and the cost, in terms of the wages paid the man who did the priming. "Finally," the contractor said, "we bought some new washers for 60 cents and now we don't have to prime the pump." This contractor thought his experience might be valuable to the New Deal. "If the administration would install some new washers, the recovery pump wouldn't have to be primed," he said. That is pertinent analogy.

If the leaks were stopped, if the recovery pump were made to operate more efficiently, it wouldn't have to be primed with three-billion-dollar appropriations. Of course, the Waterloo contractor ma." have had something else in mind when he proposed "new washers." He may have been including executives in the category of "washers." Chinese suzerainty although technically also an autonomous state under Russia's protectorate and should send her army to China's defense. This treaty, never repealed by the Bolsheviks because of the fear The Inmate of a Spanish prison, who used to solicit money to buy his freedom, with a promise that contributors would share riches which awaited him upon his release, Is now in a Cuban prison, according to letters recently received here. No one has fallen for this one in years. MORE MONEY IN CIRCULATION In the past the amount of money in circulation has been the measure of the nation's prosperity.

The present "recession" has provided government economists with something of a mystery in that more currency is in use in the United States fit this time than during the period of recovery in 1936. The United States News reports that such "money outstanding in April of this year totalled $6,355,503,000 as compared with $6,241,000,000 in June, 1936, when industrial production was 25 per cent greater and the volume of trade almost as greatly in excess of the present. In former periods of business stagnation the amount of money in circulation decreased in proportion to the trade slump. by midsummer of 1930 there was $200,000,000 less money out than two months before, despite widespread hoarding. The mild depression of 1920 saw the circulating medium reduced by a billion dollars.

Seeking reasons for this departure from the customary reaction to a trade recession, economists have found that as a result of the liquidation of many banks during the depression, numerous small "Just back from an automobile trip through the south," writes "Bee Eff See," "I want to say that the strategy of the American army command should be simple if ever there's an invasion by a foreign host. Tear up the regular roads, and post signs to steer the invaders on the detours we'll never hear of them again," What Business Needs Council Bluffs Nonpareil The only way that the administration offers to help business men is to help them get deeper into debt. That is not what business needs. Business men want a chance to make a little money so they can expand and put more men to work. of e'entual war with Japan, is thought to be the most unusual in international law.

Outer Mongolia borders Manchu-kuo and is strategically important to Japan because it is close, to the Trans-Siberian railroad, the most important link of the eastern Red army with its western affiliate. The Outer Mongolian tinny of 200,000 trained by Soviet officers is as adept at guerilla warfare as it is at modern troop maneuvers and could cause the Nipponese no end of trouble. The possibility is worth watching. (Copyright MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Primary Objective Oskaloosa Herald: "The only thing that's been stabilized by the Guffey coal act," says Senator Holt of West Virginia, "is the politicians on the pay roll." A motorist sitting regally behind the wheel, honking for curb service, gives you a fair Idea of a dictator's outlook on life. were made of baser metal, he would probably be out.