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awaiting results of the cabinet meeting.
Special police patrolled the street out
side.
After the cabinet meeting Attlee
was called to the foreign Office,
where Lord Halifax gave him the gov
ernment's information on the situa-
ton. 1t was believed he was con-
suited on important decisions pending.
Baron Goerg Franckensteln, the
Austrian Minister. also was called into
consultation with Lord Halifax.
Communique Issued.
This communique was issued after
the cabinet meeting:
THE cabinet discussed the events in
Austria and it was reported to it that
a protest In the strongest terms had
been made in Berlin.
Previously. the prime minister and
foreign secretary had made similar
representations to Herr Won Ribben-
trop.
1T felt the action of The German
government was bound TO have the
most disturbing effect on Anglo-Ge
man relations and on public conf
dence throughout Europe
His majesty's government are keep
ing in closest touch with the French
government and giving continuous
consideration to the situation
The ministers are remaining with
in reach of London over the week erd
and 1t is understood the cabinet will
in any case meet again Monday"
Commons probably will Cebatc the
crisis Monday. Attlee was understood
to have demanded such debate and
Lord Halifax to have undertaken to
arrange 1t.
Czech Cabinet Meets.
The Czechoslovakian cabinet met
in special session last night to study
the changed situation in Austria. Pres
ident Eduard Benes presided The
cabinet was represented as viewing
the situation calmly.
The British home and Mediter-
ranean fleets both were concentrated
at Gibraltar, with no less than 13
admirals on hand, in position to pro-
tect vital sea lanes and Mediterranean
interests. The fleets have been there
through most of the civil war in Spain.
Hungarian Nazi Move Begun.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, March IL
R,.-A Nazi movement started in
Hungary today. police and the army
were alert for duty and the guard at
the Austrian border was strength
ened.
The Hungarian Nazis, excited by the
Austrian Nazification, started to re-
organize their illegal formations and
demanded the release of arrested COL
leagues.
The ministry Of interior announced
the guard at the Austrian border had
been strengthened. Interior Minister
Sell has been conducting a vigorous
anti-Nazi campaign.
Japanese Watch Austria.
TOXIC, March IL P).-Japan
closely watched the Austrian crisis to-
day, receiving hourly radio reports on
developments.
1t was said that Japan fears greater
pressure from Soviet Russia if Ger
many should be embroiled in possible
hostilities growing out of the Nazi coup
in Austria
News from Austria completely over
shadowed important parliamentary
proceedings in the native press.
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No Home for His Pet.

LINCOLN, Neb-Mrs. Wauneita
Paul, who runs the information desk
in Lincoln's City Hall. admits she
doesn't know all the answers.
She said man with IAN overgrown
kitten under his arm" asked her re-
Gently to find home for a lion."
She took another look, changed her
guess about the kitten. and called the
zoo. Lacking accommodations, it
couldn't help out. So the caller and
his jungle pet left.
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HOUSING FUNDS SHORT
Five Authorities in PENNSYLVANIA
Seek u. S. Aid.

HARRISBURG. March 10 (P.-Five
housing authorities in PENNSYLVANIA
were faced today without immediate
prospects of funds unless the State is
granted new Federal appropriation.
Charles v. Doyle, executive director
OF the Pennsylvania Housing Author
1ty, disclosed the situation in an
nouncing an additional $4,000. 900
would be sought to continue SUM
clearance programs.
Mr.. Doyle said $28,300,00O of an
original s30,O00,000 Federal appropri-
alton was earmarked for seven local
authorities. He added he understood
the newly-appointed Reading Author
Twas. ,sy vas prepared pr Eaa I'd to esk for the re-
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Bull and Barn
Put Out to Sea
On Way to Cuba
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOclated Press.
BALTIMORE, March IA
bull and barn went avoyaging
today on the deck of the S. S.
Smaragd, bound for sunny Cuba.
The barn, 3 feet wide, 7 feet
long and 7 feet high, was loaded
on the ships deck with the 15-
month-old Holstein bull inside.
1t was bound for the Havana
estate of Senator Joe Manuel
Casanova from the United States
Soldiers Home in Washington.
Evening star., 1938-03-12

nesday. He had nothing to say about
results of the current development in
his homeland
Evening star., 1938-03-12

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. March 12-France today
seized Hitler's Austrian coup as lever
to force joint Franco British stand
to prevent similar fate for Czecho-
slovakia
The French foreign Office, fearful
the Nazis might turn next to Frances
principal Central European ally. said
efforts were under way to get Britain
to commit herself to support the mu-
tual assistance treaty linking France
with Czechoslovakia
Britain at present has no commit
ments in Central Europe and studious-
ly has avoided such entanglements.
Provides for League Step.
Frances treaty with Czechoslovakia
provides any invasion of her ally shall
be submitted to the League of Nations
Council. Failing quick League action.
France promises military consultation
with Praha.
Evening star., 1938-03-12
Airfeld in the Wilds.

At Etosha Pan. in the sand dune
country Of Southwest Africa, which
teens with wild life, an emergency
landing ground for aircraft is bein.
constructed.
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UNSEEN TAX TOLL

The Detroit Board of Commerce has compiled a
list of Al days on which many Michigan business
men will have tax matters to attend to in 1888.
These days include the dates for returns and
payments on federal income taxes state and county
property taxes sales, unemployment and other
taxes and the returns that accompany them.
A similar list should be compiled for South
Carolina .t...
That indicates one source of tax drains that
never show up in the fgures-the cost of paying
them
Every firm of any size has had to hire men
whose duty is exclusively to see that tax returns
are filed and payments made on time. .s ,..-.
Even individuals and small businesses must de-
vote an increasing amount of their time to the
mechanics of tax payment
In some cases the burden of computing the taxes
is greater than the burden of payment.
Every possible simphfcation of this business OF
paying taxes is real tax reduction without depriv-
ing the governments concerned of any needed
revenue. ''.. ..' '5..
For the time, energy and trouble spent In pre-
pairing returns, making reports, and actually MAX
ing payments, is dead loss all around, hamperlng
the payer without adding to the amount received
by government-Greenville Piedmont.
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THE ARMY OF TAxEATERS

The figures of wages and salaries paid to public
servants local. state and federal employees IN 1886,
have been compiled by the Civil Service Assembly.
They come to the appalling total of s5,l45,s73,-
900, not including the persons on work relief
That figures out to $3.50 for each American FAM
lily of four persons. 7.re.,-.' .r .-..fs. 4. ....
That figure does not sound good to thoughtful
persons. The unthinking may say, it doesn't touch
them that it is paid by the rich Every Intelligent
person knows that the taxes out of which this huge
payroll is met come out of the pockets of ordinary
citizens. 1t is substantially true that the smaller a
family's income the higher percentage of it goes
for the taxes which are included in the price of
every article of merchandise which anybody buys.
When the American taxpayer buys food for his
family, he is also buying it for some of this i'm
mense army of taxeaters. With every family kick
ing in $3.50 every year just for the wages of its
public servants, exclusive of all other government
costs, it will not be long before there more
taxeaters than taxpayers.-Gastonia Gazette.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
EpEEDOM. EN- GARDE

"Tbose who would curtail or RESTRAIN TINS Tree,
dom in anv wav whatsoever may be charac'eiNeu
as enemies of liberty" A.,
In these words, Elisha Hanson, counSel " '"e
American Newspaper Publishers ASsoclatloh' SUM-,
marzes the proper classification of those whose
aims, policies and beliefs are inrmlcal to absolute
freedom of the press. His remarks, while directed
to his immediate audience at a session OF the Al
bany chamber of commerce, deserve tue vi
necessary for proper emphasis upon the public con-
science.
Citing efforts to fetter the press hanson ue-
cared that ''t is not fantastic to assume 'hat tne
experience of the peoples of Germany, Italy, op".ii
and France will soon become ours. movements III
that dangerous direction, ultimately destructive VI
every other liberty are realities in this or any other
nation where ambitious men readily recognize tna'
only the right of free expression and free press
stand between them and autocratic power
Deploring the strange lethargy manifested by the
American people toward this and some other prih-
ciples for which their forefathers fought, Mr. HAN
SON declared: "Too many of them are prone to con-
slider the liberties as guaranteed in their Constitu
ton not worth fighting for today, while many OF
those who would destroy liberty discuss the Const
tuition as though it were but some ancient scroll
wrapped in cellophane' ... .H
The press, as he said is the only agency for
gathering and dissemination of information that Is
free from government control exercised either di-
rectly or indirectly.
As proof of that statement, he cited the fact
that radio stations are licensed by the government
and regulated by the Federal Communications COM
mission, body of political appointees Strong
censorships here found, the censorships that
might well stand between truth and propaganda,
were the press similarly muzzled.
Certainly, muzzled press would be the first
weapon employed, were such a step possible to
those selfshly motivated in any drive against the
liberties of those they profess in halowed terms to
serve. An awakened public must be constantly on
guard against the dangers thus represented.
Lethargy in this vital issue is deplorabe and in
xcusable.-Nashville Banner.
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WHAT GOVERNOR HoEY BELIEVES

Through the address of Governor Hoey, Of North
Carolina, at dinner given by the Columbia State
and William Elliott in Columbia for the South Car
DINA Press ran a vein of heartening conservatism
In many of his phrases Governor Hoey was speak
ing as The News and Courier speaks. ',''.-,
For one thing, the governor said that IN oouth
Carolina as in North Carolina property rights were
assured of preservation, of protection by law FOR
another thing he said that if American clvlzatloh
were in dire peril, it would be the Souths duty 10
rescue the country from destroying politicians
Again, he emphasized that the three branches OF
the federal government are independent and CO.
ordinate and that it is vital to American liberty
that the Supreme Court of the United States should
construe laws in compliance with the constitution
in protection of minority from a ruthless ma
jority So. -,..--...-e-... ".
However, the governors address may have the
color of New Deal approval the bottom truth is
that Mr. Hoey stands for the fundamental prin-
ciples of the Democratic party and expects the
South's spokesmen in Washington to safeguard the
rights and policies of this whole section No south
ern man can believe in full protection of property
rights and in the New Deal adventures at the same
time. These are in conflict.-Chareston News and
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THE NEW DEAL,
IN WASHINGTON
-aY RODNEY BUTCHER.

VTASHINGTON.-Even the most
w pessimistic of the government
economists seem. to be agreeing
that the bottom of the business
slump was reached around the
first of the year insofar as the
next few months are concerned,
A substantial business pickup
in the spring is considered almost
inevitable. These upturns used to
appear in the business activity
curves each spring during the
depression in Hoover's admins
tration- The one now anticipated
ought to be relatively large be-
cause the current recession has
been so sharp.
But it is considerably more
problematical just how many of
the people thrown out of work
since August will get back to
work, and whether business and
government will be able to keep
the upturn going through the
summer and fall.
The uncomfortable fact which
no one can dodge is that MIR.
Roosevelt and the country, in four
months, have lost about 70 per
cent Of a "we-planned-it-that-
way" recovery, the achievement
Of which required more than four
years. .a.>
A widely-followed general bust
ness index reached a depression
low of IS points, climbed to a
high mark of III in August and
then was back down to bit
above rs at the first of the year.
Figure it out for yourself.
How much of that 70 per cent
OF lost ground is about to be re-
gained? What will be the net in
crease in the unemployed army
and the relief problem by next
fall! The most likely answer to
these and many other questions
wiz be found in the certainty
'.r.ll = -. =
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Broad River Soil
Conservation To
Be Ballot Issue
3 South Carolina Counties
Look to Referendum
February 9th e -

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Jan.
25.-A referendum on the crea-
ton of the proposed Broad river
soil conservation district Will be
held on Tuesday, Feb. s, in Spar
tanburg, Cherokee and Union
counties, it is announced here by
f.. C. Turner of Clemson college,
secretary of the state soil con-
servation committee.
The proposed district would in
clude all the lands lying within
the three counties with the cXcep-
ton of present Incorporated cities
and owns and any cities and
towns which may be Incorporated
during the period of existence of
the district, Mr.. Turner said.
If approved in the referendum,
the proposed district will be
created as governmental subdl,,
vision and a public corporate and
polite under the provisions OF
the South Carolina soil conserva-
ton district law (Act. No. 1872 OF
the 1887 general assembly,. O..
Regulations for the holding OF
the referendum provide that all
persons, firms and corporations
holding title to land lying within
the three counties are eligible TO
vote.
The county agent in each coun-
ty will represent the state COM
mittee in conducting the refer
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that Roosevelt will try to do what.
ever he thinks necessary to put
business on the upgrade during
the election campaigns. s.
Current bright spots in tn
business picture include conspicu'
ously the fact that inventories arr
being eaten up in certain impor'
tant commodities such as steel
used cars, rugs, cotton textiles
clothing and shoes.
ON the day after Stanley Reed;
" appointment to the Suprem,
Court it became apparent to thi.
writer that Assistant Attorney
General Robert H. jackson
groomed by the administration t.
become the next governor of lIeW
York, was the logical person Il
succeed Reed as U. S. solicitor
general. 81
Jackson would thus control the
handling of all cases in which the
government is represented before
the Supreme Court. Perhaps i
was even more significant to note
that he would also become second
in command at the Department o,
Justice, and the logical successor
to Attorney General Homer S
Cummings should Cummings enter
private law practice or accept an.
other federal post.
Promotion of Jackson would BIZ
a continuance of the buildup Of
this brilliant New Dealer for the
New York governorship-and
chance at the presidency.
A FTER a succession of Demo-
cratic victories in Pennsyl.
vania, Senator James j. Davis
secretary of labor in previous Re.
publican administrations un.
derStood to have given UP hope
that he can be REELECTED this year
and may decide not to run. ~ 5SE'
copyright. 1898. NEA sarviea Inc b
d "A ' - -
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BULLET IN PIPE
DISTURBS SMOHy

REGINA. Sask.. Jan. q Il,
George Lowry, town constaBs
Woodrow, Sask., fill chdjs h
pipe and settled back in hi, 4
for a peaceful smoke.
Suddenly a loud blast >h,,
ed his pipe, scattering asho,
bacco and bits of pipe AROUND
room.
Constable Lowry had some
misplaced a bullet and s,ufte
in his pipe with the tobacco.
The letter A has stood at
head of the alphabct since
early Phocnician day.
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
By WICiESWAMBOLDT

dirt? And whep you sec a gov
eminent overrun with crooks,
shouldn't you blame those who
put them there and allow them
to stay there?
Eternal vigilance, coupled with
intelligence, is the price of every
thing worth while. ....
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RIGID REsTRIcTIoNS-If o


lowed the discussions on the COW
situation in our fair city, and my
sympathy naturally went out to
the folks who have a number of
children and not the means to
buy the milk they require from
the local diaries, but at the same
time | have observed that some
owners are rather careless in !
keeping their cows, so naturally
this placed the city administration
between the devil and the deep
blue sea-"
I wonder if my idea would solve
this affair to the satisfaction of
both the cow owners and the peo-
pie who have been annoyed in the
past.
My idea is to license all the
cows in the city limits at nomi-
nal fec of soc and at the time
they receive said license the cow
owner is handed printed card
telling him exactly how to keep
his COW. If any of the stipula-
tions on said card are violated
said license is revoked and the
owner is subject to a fine not to
exceed $25.
Stipulations: No one family can
keep more than one COW inside
the city limits. Each owner must
have a barn and keep same in a
sanitary condition. When the COW
is pasturcd in the city limits, the
owner of the cow must have
written consent from the owner
Of the land that he can let his
cow Craze on said land and nat
urally said cow must be securely
tied SO she can not wander all
over the city.
SO that the owners of cows
may not feel that the city is dis
eliminating against them and as
dogs have entered the discussion
| suggest that the. city license all
dogs also which are kept within
the city limits, but that the fee
be in this case one dollar, and the
owners of these dogs should also
receive card telling them how
to keep them so their neighbors
will not be annoyed. Naturally
there also should be a fine pro-
vided, say not to exceed $50.
l personally believe that this
would help greatly reduce the
complaint situation to the city
administration, provided the city
will fine the owners of the cows
and dogs without much ado, if
said owner is not complying with
the restrictions as imposed by the
city on them. 1.h u
Zoning would in my opinion,
be unfair to ths owptrs of rrop,
erty as it might incfdase real es-
tate values in certain parts of our
city and greatly depress real es-
tate in other parts.
Naturally this license must be
renewed each year at the same
fee mentioned. -. - ''' -
Trusting that my suggestion
may solve or be helpful in solving
this cow matter, / am,
Very truly yours,
LUDWIG. SCHALLER.
So expensive are good roads in
England that "a car travelling 60
miles an hour Will fc6Fsf, Stretch
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FANCY A NATION WITH NO DAHL
NEWSPAPERS -.'
(By BRUCE CATION

One OF Americas faVOrlte lnQOOr Sports
is criticizing the newspapers.
Writing letters to the editor seems to be
the hobby of a good many citizens, and
lot of the letters are directed at the news
paper itself, or its writer's.
Let comma be misplaced, word be
misspelled, statement be not quite accu-
rate, and there always are plenty of per-
sons eager to point out the error. Even
the President takes a crack at the news
papers occasionally when their policies
don't coincide with his.
But what if there were no newspapers?
What would happen if time suddenly
came when citizens no longer could obtain
their evening, morning, or weekly papers
for few pennies?
The good people of Portland, Ore, can
answer that question. A typographers'
strike closed down all three newspapers
in the city and for FIVE days Portland
squirmed.
Here are some of the results of the lack
of newspapers:
Business was adversely affected because
stores cOulQu ADVERTISE.
Sports events had to be cancelled be-
cause they could not be announced The
same was true of club and society meet
ings. -"
People got married, and divorced and
had babies, and no one knew about it ex-
cept their closest friends.
Dogs, poeketbooks, and jewels stayed
lostsbecause there were no "lost and found"
columns. '...~
Firms which wanted to hire workers
were unable to do so because neither could
advertise. -. w.. .-..
absurd and exaggerated rumors were
rife because there were no newspapers to
publish accurate information. 80
AS only the high-spots of the news were
broadcast, the populace knew few details
of,the Smo-Japanese war, the congression-
al situation, and other events. "..
No one knew what shows to go to be-
cause the theaters couldn't advertise.
Newspaper readers in Portland COM
plaihed vigorously because of discontinue
ance of comic strips When last they saw
paper, Wash Tubbs and Cap'n Easy were
trying to rescue an heiress from an island.
Readers wanted to know whether they got
away. ---,-
Thousands of regular and part-time
workers were affected by the forced shut
downs, both in the newspaper plants and
in allied industries such as paper mills, en-
craving firms, ink wholesalers, and adver-
Using agencies. 80. P, --.A.
Before the Portland newspapers re-
opened, residents found out what tremen-
dous amount of service, both paid-for and
gratuitous, newspapers really give.
Those who write letters to the editors
may well pray, even as they place pen to
paper, that the newspapers will continue
to take criticism in their stride and keep
on plugging away at the sometimes-thank-
less task of going to press every day.
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ABSOLUTELY INHUMAN!

The leaders Of the Unlt"d
States senate have determined to
crack down on the members of
that august body unless the fill
clustering ceases: They threaten
to call the senate into session at
II a. m. instead of at II noon.
Such cruelty is unbelievable!
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MORE DISCRIMINATION
is NEEDED 80 -

Al man shot two little girls,
killing one, because school chill
dren had made chalk marks on
his store building.
Better have chalk marks on
your store than rope marks on
your neck.
Most of the things we get Gil
steamed up about do not really
matter.
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TO BE HANDY

Japan should prepare her spol
ogies in printed pad form and dis
tribute them to her military bad
ers so they can be more etsil,
and quickly transmitted to I'd pre-
sentatives of foreign powers ev
cry time said powers are affHnt
ed by japanese fighting forc$
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LARGEST COIN

LONDON. (UP). new
"world's largest coin" is now
recognized by numismatists. The
coin, a Swedish 8 daler of 1869,
has been brought to London to be
auctioned. 1t measures approx
mately l by 2 feet and is of solid
copper, bearing the royal mint
mark in each corner. .....
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WHOSE THE BLAME?

When you see farm ovefI
with weeds, do you blame
weeds? When you see a dog oy
run with fleas. do you blame
fleas? When you see a home q
run with dirt, do you blame
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APPOINT A PORTIA

The exceptionally fine justice
meted out by Portia, Disguised a.
a male judge, in the tria! ID The
Merchant of Venice" might fur
nish a suggestion in the appoint