The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-04-28

SENATOR McNARY
He also neglected financing.
compensation and increase aid to
unemployables. Federal supervision
would continue undated, though BIZ
partisan administration would at
tempt to quiet cries of politics-in-
relief.
Many Republicans support the
Byrnes bill, but the solid congress
sional economy front may break
down under relief debate. Going
whole hog against federal supervi-
sion, Oregon's Sen. Charles L. Nc
Nary C. o. P. minority leader)
wants WPA eliminated entirely be-
cause of serious structural defects"
which inevitably produce periodic
scandals" His program: (1) Re
turn relief administration to the
states; (2) create bipartisan fed
eral boards to allocate funds; (3)
create bipartisan state boards to
disburse relief money.
Though Senator Byrnes scoffed
mainly at the impossibility of obi
partisan boards, both proposals
had one other major defect, namely,
| financing. Senator McNary would
compel states to contribute not less
than Is per cent of funds spent with
in their borders. Senator Byrnes
would have states pay one-third. The
stumbling block is that the U. S. will
not cut its tax levies, yet without
such cuts the 48 states cannot raise
their levies to reassume relief costs
which the government began easing
from their shoulders in 1888. The
hoped-for solution, already under
discussion, calls for U. S. alloca-
lions based so per cent on popula-
ton and so per cent on unemploy-
ment, proportionately higher grants
going to "sub-marginaI' states with
less than average per capita in
come.
Science
In 1877 B. c., two Chinese astrono-
mers who reported an eclipse were
beheaded for being drunk. Four
hundred years earlier an eclipse
scared the Modes and Persians into
ending their five-year war. No such
consequences resulted one mid
April day when the sun, moon and
earth staged similar phenomenon.
Passing in front of the sun as
astronomists predicted, the moon
eclipsed from one-third to three
fourths of the fiery ball in show
visible throughout most of the u. S.,
much of Europe and eastern Russia.
Asia
Discouraging to a disguised Jap
anese visitor would be modern
Chunking, new headquarters for
westward-driven China where news
men have been shown for the first
time how crafty Gen. Chang Kai-
shek is sinking the industrial roots
of new nation, while Nippon wres-
ties with war-wrecked coastal dis
tricts. ST. 4
Projects include a $4,000, 900 iron
and steel works which far-sighted
Chang began building early last
fall, where 30-ton blast furnace,
a lotion open hearth and a 10-inch
rolling mill will soon be in opera
ton. Nearby, under American
trained directors, are two Chinese
built electric furnaces making ship
anchors, rails and smaller steel
items.
Another important project is a
vegetable oil cracking plant where
experimental production will soon
start on artificial gasoline refined
from oil comparable to high grade
motor oils. At other sites in Chung
kings vast new industrial district
reporters saw silk, cotton and cleo
trio plants, while several thousand
workmen were laboring over new
| factories.
Lest Japan push westward to cap
ture Chungking, Chinese are ex-
banding their industrial life to other
places like Szechuan. Yunnan and
| Kweichow.
Miscellany
Geneva's international labor Of
fee reports u. S. unemployment
ESTIMATED at II, 52S, 000) led all 9TH
er nations in 1885 first three
months. Thirteen nations reported
increased unemployment in this pc
riod.