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Freeman Of Frankfort Frangfort-on-Main, the original | home of the Rothschilds and the stronghold of German Jewry, has added an exotic page to its rich his |tury.

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MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933.

FIGHTER WHO LEADS U.S. INDUSTRY

GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSTON

GREAT POWER WIELDS

IDEAL IS FAIRNESS FOR ALL

(By Turner Catledge.)

Herr Krebs, its Mayor, has just conferred the freedom of the city: on Captain Goering and Princel Philip of Hesse. In welcoming the "Hammer of the Jews," as Captain' Try to visualize a soldier, lawyer, labour leaders as to what makes the Goering has been called, the Mayor manufacturer, statistician, author-General act that way. said:

Washington. the questions of industralists and

a rattler of awards and maker of But many are the men in the The time has passed when plow-shares, a man who could write United States and among them is law that drafted 4,000,000 men Bernard M.: Baruch, chairman - of Frankfort can be called "The New Jerusalem. Under the control of into the army with the same under-the one-time War Industries Board of Captain Goering and Prince standing of the problems involved for judgment on the proposition Philip of Hesse the aid Imperial city as he wrote of the doings of boys who will stake their reputations that if success of the "new" deal" will soon recover its ancient glory." at school.

-Captain Goering made a gracious If you can imagine all of these depends upon skillful administra- reply. "Frankfort," he said, "is rolled up in one, wrapped in a rough, tion, the venture into industrial con- Germany's rampart in the west. Istrong casing with every little sharp trol will be played as a trump card recognise it as one of the centres edge and unvarnished spot in-junder General Johnson. of Germanism."\t

dicating some salient quality inside.

Rapid Rise To Fame Meanwhile, the French frontier then you. have some idea of General Born in Fort Scort, Kan of authorities report a recrudescence Hugh S. Johnson, the man whom Scotch-Irish ancestry. in the arrival of Jewish refugees. President Roosevelt has chosen to years ago. General Johnson has oc Most of them are said to come from shove American industry off dead cupied the role of soldier of fortune Hesse, the province in which Frank-centre.

among the vicissitudes of his own General Johnson has been sitting country. It was the part of fate fort is situated.

in the councils at Washington since that а bronze-faced Lieutenant well before anything like the Na-Johnson showed up among the Athur tional Industrial Recovery Act was shambles of blick and stone unmili-and twisted girders after the

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Alias Lord. Beaverbrook

gentleman named

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Waterhouse deserves congratula-embraced officially. This tions, if reports concerning him betary-looking military man could be earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 seen striding with a slightly limping to administer relief as a quarter- New York states gait daily through the corridors of master. 'Ten years later, as a cav- was arrested in the State Department Building, goalry Captain, he went galloping the offices of Mr. Paul Warburg,ng to and from the head office of across the Rio Grande after the the New York banker, on a charge the Roosevelt brain trust (officially Mexican bad boy.

Itrue.

A cable from that Waterhouse

was in

refuse to grant effective allevin.people by representing himself as Secretary of State"), weeks before Washington, where, as aide to Gen-

listed

of obtaining money from prominent Placarded "Mr. Moley, Assistant Hardly a year later he

discreet administration spokesmen eral Enoch H. Crowder, he con- Lord Beaverbrook. The China Mail

He has confessed, according to were ready to admit that plans were ceived and wrote the Selective Draft tion of the imports. Mr. Neville Hong Kong, Monday, July 31, 1933. Chamberlain recognises the stim-the police, to having worked this under way for the "disciplining" of Act, the fundamental legislation at Julus that would accrue to busi."racket" for the last two years. American workers and business men raising the army that turned the The quick feminine sympathy of a forewarned by the President intide of the World War. The famous draft questionnaire and regulations ness from lighter taxation but Miss Greta Garbo, when approached his inaugural address.

But now since things are ont under the Draft Act are Burden Of Taxation

defends his attitude on the by "Lord Beaverbrook," is sald to ground that Britain's financial have cost her $15 and Mr. Jack since Congress has passed the Bill among his literary attainments, and President Roosevelt has made along with "Williams of West In Britain.

position is such that no revenue Dempsey parted with $10.

The crowning feat alleged against the appointment, no one in Wash Point" and "Williams on Service" The patience of the taxpayer can be sacrificed yet. The Prime Waterhouse, however, is the extrac-ington can imagine how it could be two books that have given many a is proverbial, at any rate in Minister has hinted more than tion of $10 from Mr. Otto Kahn, for otherwise than that General John-boy the years to be a soldier.

General Johnson's rise $8 21 English-speaking countries. That once at his desire to lift from he is an intimate friend of Lord son should be selected to wield un-

Beaverbrook. It can only be con-paralleled power over American in-official and as a soldier was corres- may in part be due to the way industry some of that drag which cluded that Mr. Kahn, as a self-dustry.

pondingly rapid. He was building And so there he is to-day, sitting all the while on a foundation of in which that patience has, in heavy taxation lays on it. He made man, felt that a good tryer striding and banging the table in education received at the Oklahoma such countries, been strengthen recognises, as clearly as those ebould not go unrewarded..

aglass-and-steel-encased office in Northwestern Normal School the the Department of Commerce Build- Military Academy at West Paint ed by practice. The French have many others whom experience

ling, directing the most far-reaching and the University of California.

of the far-reaching ventures in- In his army career he went from augurated by the Roosevelt' ad-

the rank of Captain in 1916 to Ma- birth on husbands ministration since its

jor and Lieutenant Colonel both in March 4

1917 and thence to Bricadier-Gen- Aims Of The Ad

eral in 1918. He resigned. from the The National Industrial Recovery army at the later rank in 1919, Act, the signing of which President after winding up his affairs as chief' Roosevelt celebrated by naming of the Bureau of Purchase and Sup- General Johnson as “Administrator ply of the War Industries Board. for Industrial Recovery," declares He became associated almost_im- A kiss in time saves nine efforts that a national emergency exists mediately with George N. Peek. A girl in the back seat is worth and that it must be corrected by the now director of the new Agricul-

removal two in the front.

of obstructions to tural Adjustment Law, in the manu- People who live in glass houses free flow of interstate and foreign facture of farm implements at

commerce. It directs. that the Moline, IIL

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MODERN PROVERBS.

› should dress in the cellar.

Boys will be sheiks.

Faint heart ne'er won a tramcar

seat from a fair lady.

general welfare be served by the pro- moting of organization of industry

for a co-operative programme ́"to

Corrected The Estimates During the last few years, while induce and maintain united action keeping his connections with the of labour and management under manufacture of plows, harrows and Girl clerks filing, but only thetr adequate government sanction and hayrakes, General Johnson has been

The Office.

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other ideas. That happy im-has enlightened, how vain and Your Daily Smile munity from all taxation which false is that dream of an in- Domestic Arguments. the old nobility of France for exhaustible reservoir, into which Then. Prehistoric long enjoyed seems to have be-

every demagogue thinks he can reached for the club.

Now. They go to it. queathed its spirit to all classes dip and draw. Taxation remitted of the nation, and the preference means more employment. Leave what America Is Doing. is most marked for making in the would-be investor a respect Shaking-up for lost time. indirect form what payments able surplus, and he will seek must be made. The Briton has and find an outlet for it. He can been brought up in the habit of usually put it to better use than cash down, with no attempt at Jever the State can. To vary the] concealment. This has not given wording of a once famous resolu- him release from numerous other tion, "the power of taxation has charges and imposts, but those increased, is increasing,

and which have to be met on due dates

ought to be diminished." It! and at peremptory summons al-

there were such things as poli-! ways present themselves as the

tical collects, the taxpayer's daily most grievous burden. To the

prayer would assuredly be, nails. present generation that burden

"Lighten our taxes." His endur-Bat Winter is Over Now- has become frankly intolerable.

Slippery ice-very thin, Pretty girl-tumbled in. Could our forefathers have fora.ance is not endless, any more than his resources. He expects,

Baw a boy on a bank, Gave seen the vast amounts which are

asbrick-then she sank. and rightly, his elected rulers to

Boy on bank heard her shout, nowadays extracted from the look ahead, to see something

famped right in-helped ne aut, Now he's hers very nice, pockets of the citizens, they would more than the needs and greeds not have believed it possible of the hour. It is precisely to The public has seen a stage these latter, in their most short-Dance Music 10.30 to Midnight." reached at which it is almost sighted aspect, that the de expected to be grateful if the

magogue - always, appeals. His negative policy of "no extra taxa object is either to retard or even tion" is announced, or if, as so

of prevent the restoration recently in Britain, only the price stability, or else to gain place of beer is reduced It takes, and power by the votes of those some tell us, a wealthy nation who are least capable of taking Logic..

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But she had to break the ice.

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And the night shall be filled

with music,

supervision."

The act also says:

intimately associated with Mr.

Baruch. He has been regarded-as-

The President may delegate any head of Mr. Baruch's research stad. of his functions and powers under "Well, I may be," growls & the this title to such officers, agents General.

and employees as he may designate Just as it seemed inevitable that for appoint, and may establish an he should show up at the earth- indestrial planning and” research quake in California, just as it ap agency to ald in carrying out his peared so fitting that he should go trouble-shooting down in. Mexicn functions under this title.at

(Continued on Page 11).

And here is where General-John- son comes into the picture. It/u also where enter the Secretary of

And the cares that infest the Commerce, the Attorney General P. & O. PASSENGER

day

the Secretary of the Interior: -the Shall seem like joys after hear Secretary of Agriculture, the Secre

fog

tary of Labour, the Director of the

LEFT BEHIND.

Wanchai

The stuff the dance bands play. Budget and the Chairman of the Found Wandering In

to stand this kind of thing. But a long view. It is easy, unfor- When a man says; he is the irony of it is that when ne tunately, to persuade numbers of understood, it usually means tions are truly prosperous, taxa people that the cutting-down of he has been found out. tion is nearly always low, and is, crushing taxation means nothing therefore, for two reasons, light to them, individually or as a ly felt. High and increasing class. It concerns, in reality, is a sign and concomitant of hard the lower wage men more direct-

Silkworm eggs are being trans- times, and there comes a pointly than it does any others, since at which it defeats its own pur. the whole hope of revitalising Ported by airplane from Chosen to space here allotted adequately to de-of events, since he land account

Manchuria to prevent the danger of scribe General Johnson and his the ship. pod pose," The politician is slow to employment is bound up with them hatching when shipped by many and varied characteristica.cable has been sent to his One might have to follow his wife, who with their two chil it. Super-taxes, and even sales mail.

meteoric career in the army, which dren and a grand-niece, are pas learn this, especially if he grew up] in times of easy prosperity, and taxes, may sound quite remote

and meaningless terms to those The population of the Virgin found him a Brigadier General slow to admit it if his eye is on

Islands has declined steadily, with when scarcely 40; go with him and scagers on the Ranpura. who cannot trace causes and slight variations, since 1855, the de- Black Jack Pershing through the At a meeting of the Sanitary sectional vote. Nevertheless, effecta But to those who can, cline since 1917 amounting to more sagebrush and mesquite after

Pancho Villa in 1916, follow his Board to be held to-morrow, a the demand for a lightening of the sure consequences of leaving than 15 per cent.

mere productive days in the War letter frm the Government relative the load is too increasingly loud mor

more and more resources in the So

The pllat sits in the nose and the Department during the World War, to, the appointment of Mr. A. 8. to be ignored. The heavy taxa-hands of the investor and em- tion in Britain constitutas, &ployer an ancient them motors are in the center of the fare and then into his manufacturing. Macklehan to be a member of the lage of novel airplane that has statistical research and legal Banitary Board during the absence crippling burden to commerce and selven, apart from the Justice of wings in the form of two triangles practice since 1919, in order to be from the Colony of Mr. LG F.

foined at their bracs.

able in the days to come, to answer! Bellamy, will be discussed industry but the Government the case.

Federal Trade Commission, who have been designated by the Pre- mis-sident, as a "Special Industrial Re-

Mr. L. Kennedy, a passenger that covery Board." But even the

formulation of this agency brings on th Ranpura, who was report- General Johnson more to the fore,ed missing when the ship sailed Facts You Did Not for it was inconformity with a plan for London on Saturday, was of organization which he worked out found yesterday at 4.p.m. walk- Know.

for the President that such a gov-ing in Gloucester Road, Wan- ernmental board was named.

chal When found by the police It would take far more than the he was unable to give any account