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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Once He Laughed at Them,
But Things Haze Changed

A few years ago, Mr.. Roosevelt
dealt with the few editorial criti-
cisms in masterful fashion-by
laughing about them. That was the
attitude Of most department and
agency heads. But things have
changed now to the extent that edi-
torial criticisms and unfriendly sto-
ries, or stories that include informa-
ton beyond the handouts released
from government sources, become
the subject for vitriolic attack from
government quarters.
have no idea how long the cam
paign against the press may run.
1t surely has plenty Of momentum
now, and there is plenty Of money
available for ''press relations"
work. Mr.. Ickes said that the mod
ern newspapers can dish it out but
cannot take it." l wonder if Mr..
Ickes can take it, after dishing it
out
1t has been my conviction always
that the best censorship that Amer
lea can have is the censorship OF
the newspaper reader and, more re-
Gently, the censorship of the radio
listener. No newspaper can go on
and on when its columns carry I'M
truthful or unsound material. The
radio can rot go on unless its pro-
grams are proper and popular, be-
cause it continues to be easy to turn
off the switch and silence the speak
'er. Nor are we, in this country,
compelled to listen to some dema-
gogue in Washington or in state
capital.
And all of this leads up to the
question: is there an attempt being
made at censorship? If there is, it
is time for us all to know about it.
G Western Tic wspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

ed from the air waves. Mr.. Cam
eron continues on the air. Gen. Hugh
). johnson, former NRA boss, is
pain in the neck for the New Deal
as well, but nothing has happened
to him, yet.
Other rumors of the type could
be mentioned, but l was asked how
any body in the government would
dare to interfere. The same letter
asked how such ends could be
achieved.
A few paragraphs earlier, re-
ferred to governmental supervision,
licensing, etc. That is the answer
10 the question. Any radio station
gets license for only a short Pc
Rod. Renewal of that license de-
ponds. according to law, upon COM
pllance with federal communica-
tons commission regulations and
the laws provisions. This would
seem to leave only a limited dis
cretlonary power. 1t is a case, how
ever, like the army officer making
an inspection of a buck private's
barracks: if he wants to find dirt, he
will find it. In the case of the radio
station, its owners live in dread of
censure-and, suspect, they are
generally amenable to suggestions
from headquarters in Washington.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
FARM
Tories
GET HIGH YIELDS
IN USING HYBRIDS
Attention Must Be Paid
To Soil Fertility.

Called a miracle crop by some
producers, hybrid corn is not mirac-
ulous enough to produce increased
yields without making increased de-
mands on soil fertility, according
to c. M. Linsley. soils extension spe-
cialist, College of Agriculture, Uni
versity of Illinois.
AS farmers start thinking of their
supply of hybrid seed for the COM
ing cropping season, Linsley sug-
gests that some thought be given
to adjustments in soil and cropping
management to care for the in
creased drain on soil fertility made
by bodybuilding hybrid corn.
THE growing of hybrid corn is
justified by the fact that high yields
are essential to low production
COSTS" Linsley said. However, it
is essential that there be some re-
duction in acreage and more atten-
ton paid to soil fertility and the
use of legumes. By growing more
corn on fewer acres at less cost,
the land taken out of corn can very
well be devoted to soil-building leg
ume crops.
Use of adapted hybrid corn on
reduced acreage, coupled with a
sane program of mineral and or
ganic matter replenishment fits well
into the AAA farm program and
the program of soil improvement
that has been fostered for more
than a quarter of century by the
College of Agriculture.
There may be some difference
between hybrids in the amount of
minerals utilized, but miracle n.y.
birds that can produce bumper
yields without taking anything from
the soil are yet to be produced. If
such a hybrid should be discovered.
it would have little value for feed or
commercial USE"
1t is estimated that the 36l, 673,-
900 bushels of corn produced on I'LL
nois farms in 1888 used up phosphor-
us from the soils of the state to the
equivalent of $4,000 tons of rock
phosphate or 4, $40 carloads of so
tons each.
In addition to- the phosphorus,
even larger amounts of nHrogen,
potassium and lime were taken
from the soil by the 1888 Illinois
corn crop.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Pan-4merica

Chief reason for u S. trade back
wardness with Argentina is that
both nations sell cotton, wheat, corn
and beef. Even as Secretary of
State Cordell Hull unused over an
Argentine announcement that U. S.
imports must be reduced, another
South American nation made an op-
posite overture. From Brazil dig
gest South American nation in point
of size. population and resources)
came DR.. Oswaldo Aranha, foreign
minister, to spring pleasant sur
prise.
Whereas modern Latin American
nations have additionally COM
planned of U. S. dollar diplomacy, !"
DR.. Aranha openly invited Ameri-
can commercial participation in
Brazirs development. His COM
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Minerals for Bone Growth

The growing bird needs minerals
for bone growth, particularly cal
cium and phosphorus, about twice
as much of the first as the latter,
advises a poultry expert in the
Rural New-Yorker. The ordinary
mash will contain enough phosphor-
us to fill the birds requirements but
for the other, calcium, a supple
ment to the mash is needed. This
may easily be supplied to the flock
by the addition of ground limestone.
or oyster shells.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Balanced Fertilizer

To make a balanced fertilizer,
manure should be reinforced with
phosphates. Experiments show that
Is to 80 pounds of 20 per cent phoS-
phate added to each ton of manure
will balance the plant food supply.
Others use the lower analysis rock
phosphate applying 80 to 100 pounds
to a ton of manure. The manure
and phosphate may be spread to-
gether at one operation. The phos-
phate may also be applied to the
manure in the barn at the rate Of
one pound per day for each head Of
mature live stock, says A. w. Klein
me, Missouri college of agriculture.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Georgia

Long before he Zoomed to secre-
taryship of the Democratic national
committee, L. w. Chip Robert Jr.
was a prominent Georgia building
contractor. One of his jobs was the
SIS, 0oil 900 addition to Milledgville's
state hospital. for which Roberts
firm got per cent as a fee. This
session, Georgia's legislature began
looking for skeletons to drag from
the Robert closet. Chief skeleton
draggers were Dougherty county's
Rep. Delacey Allen and Valdosta's
Rep. H. B. (Hell BenD Edwards.
Going home from Washington to
defend himself, Chip Robert first
heard Mr.. Allen say he had stolen
the taxpayers money on his Mill
edgville contract. Next Mr.. Allen
charged Chip Robert had resigned
his assistant u. S. treasury secre-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

taryship Ito avert national scan-
DALI after Omen had gotten on
his trair' regarding Atlanta engi-
neering activities.
Next day Mr.. Robert hurried to
Dougherty county and filed charges
of SANDER against Representative
Allen. Returning, he found Hell Bent
Edwards waving his arms from the
house floor and talking like this:
ITS a shame on the state that
we've got such man as Chip Rob-
ert. It's a shame on the national
Democratic party that they allow
Chip Robert to do like this. And it S
a shame on the President of the
United States that he has allowed
Chip Robert to do what he has
DONE
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Weekly News Analysis
Closer U. S. Brazil Cooperation
Predicted after Aralhd Visit
BY Joseph w. La Bime-

ing indirectly that he had no plans
for an early balanced budget.
In the light of figures the treasury
had released one day earlier. Mr..
Roosevelt's remark was more de-
pressing. During 1938-39's first sew
en- and one-half months the u. S.
spent $3.50, 760,015. or 10000, 900
more than the entire estimated re-
ceipts for II months. Since receipts
to date are only So, 542. Col 1863, total
seven and one-half month deficit is
$2,074, 158, 146. If spending continues
as expected, reaching almost SO, 500,
100000 by June 30, the years total
deficit will approximate four billion
dollars.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02


patriot before the house ways and
means committee, defending his
plan to provide up to 5000 a month
to persons over 60 by 2 per cent
transaction tax.
Said Political Theorist Townsend:
IF we can't establish a higher
standard of living for the submerged
one-half of our people than $40
month, then certainly we're not 60
ing to be able to maintain our type
of government much longer.
Said Economist Townsend: 1--WE
have not scratched the surface of
our wealth and productive ability"
(He added that pensions might even
tually be boosted to $500 a MONTH.
Said Patriot Townsend: II wish
you could hear the expressions Of
contempt against this great govern
ment Of ours, government l love
and cherish with all my heart, a
government | would die for If
this government is going to survive,
it must not give occasion to these
people,"
Crux of DR.. Townsend's argument
is that the profit system needs over
hauling to avoid a spread of SUBJ
versive agitation prompted by pow
erty. Well do committeeman know
that U. S. poverty breeds i'll will,
but there is serious doubt that Town
sendiSm will receive congressional
precedence over the social security
revision plans President Roosevelt
offered several weeks ago, and
which the California doctor terms
1.-The height of absurdity."
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Pensions

Last time he was called before a
congressional committee, Pension
eer DR.. Francis E. Townsend re-
fused, ending up with 30-day jail
sentence for contempt. President
Roosevelt pardoned him, business
got better and pension talk dwin-
died. But last summer Townsend
ism and a colorful assortment Of
other old age assistance plans bios
somed with Recession. The admin
istration fought this November cleo,
ton threat by promising to amend
social security, but by the time con-
gress assembled it was obvious pen
sioneers would have their say.
This time DR.. Townsend appeared
as political theorist, economist and
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Feeding the Dairy Cow

Dairy cows have WITNESSES, and
for that reason the palatability Of
Bossy's feed may mean the differ
ence between profit and loss. This
is a situation you may run up
against when chaffy corn is used
along with mixed dairy feed, or
when moldy hay is fed, or when an
inferior dairy ration is mixed with
grown grains. In short, OBJ
serves writer in the Farm Jour
nal, one of the primary tests of a
good dairy ration is: Does the
COW like it well enough to eat all she
needs?"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Treasury

Heading southwark to help the
feet ward off an imaginary aggres-
sor from Europe, President Roose-
welt told reporters business and in
dustry need have no fear of new
taxes, new u. S. competition in the
power field or spending beyond
budget needs. A few minutes later
he challenged budget critics to ex-
plain how the government could toss
away its red ink bottle without
boosting taxes or eliminating "es-
sentiap' federal functions.
II business need fear no new
taxes, but if more taxes are needed
to balance the budget, the Presi-
dent was Cd contradicting himself:
CD limiting that small taxpayers
could expect new levies, or CD stat
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Radio NeJus Commentators
Eliminated From Air Waves

Some things have happened lately
that bear recounting. Just as an
example, and to cite only one case,
Boake Carter is off of the air as a
news commentator. He was a Sc
we're, and, at times, a vindictive
critic of the New Deal. A former
friend of the New Deal, Dr. Stanley
High, recently wrote in the Satur
day Evening Post that Carter was
kept out of new contracts by the
administration.
There have been frequent recur-
rences Of the rumor, too, that w. j.
Cameron, who speaks for the Ford
Motor company, was marked by
administration trouble shooters as
q speaker who ought to be eliminat-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Defense

Last December President Roose-
velt's arms expansion program had
more foes than friends in the still
to-convene seventy-sixth congress.
Two months later it had more
friends, thanks to clever White
House publicity maneuvers and a
lot of saber-rattling in Europe The
house passed 367 to Is an admins
tration bill to spend S376, 600, 900 ex-
ira on defense the next two years.
(Same day, Great Britain voted
about 81 900, 100000 more for armsD
Chief features are boosting the
army's aviation force to $500 first
line planes and making the Pan
anna canal impregnable. Certain of
passage was the Vinson naval ex-
pansion bill to spend S68, 900, 900 on
naval air and submarine bases.
But there was little unity in this
new strength. Closely allied to re-
armament is the problem of U. S.
military alliances with other de-
mocracies, since the threat that in
spired American rearmament is the
same threat that makes France and
Britain jittery. After a California
air crash revealed U. S. manufac-
turers were selling military planes
to France, after President Roose-
welt denied telling a senate military
affairs committee that U. S. from
tiers are in France" the White
House-congress foreign policy de-
bate came out in full bloom. Cues
items: Cd Shall the U. S. keep its
foreign policy secret? CD Is Pres
ident Roosevelt risking involvement
deals?
After a weeks debate there pre-
sumably were no longer any secrets
about either the French deal or the
administration foreign policy. Ac-
tual cause of the rumpus was ap-
parently removed, but not congress
sional resentment.
Thundered CALIFORNIA; Sen. Hi
ram Johnson: mo epithets applied
to senators or newspapers will re-
Leve the situation of its secrecy
There is resentment among
the administration that anybody
should ask the facts. But if there
comes a war it will not be fought
by the President alone :"
Facts themselves are startling.
Faced with U. S. military orders
under the new defense bill, plane
manufacturers already have their
hands full with export orders. Start
ing with 5000, 900 in 1886, plane
exports have roughly doubled an
nually, approximating 5000, 900, 600
this year. In the past eight months
France and Britain have ordered
1000 ships. Chief congressional
wonder is which orders will get
precedence, U. S. or foreign.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

Ce IN AmerICd should organize
plant: Brazil needs, in order to
bring about a rapid development of
its wealth, the collaboration of an in
dustriai country possessing an ad-
vanced technologic position, and 1
am sorry 10 say that this collabora-
ton has not been offered heretofore
by the United States"
If U. S. Pan-American advocates
liked this, they liked DR.. Aranha's
next statement even better: Dol
shevism, Fascism and NaZiism are
only different names for the same
material conception of life which
tries to replace God by the state,
erected as the supreme aspiration
of the individual. 1t is important
that we in America should organize
against the invasion of idealogies
which are contrary to (our) basic
ideals"
Since the U. S. and Brazil repre-
sent top-flight North and South
American nations, it was immedi-
ately apparent that active trade CO.
operation between Washington and
Rio would do more for hemisphere
cal solidarity than a military alli-
ance. Expected was Brazilian
loan from the Export-Import bank
approximating 100000 also i'm
portant revisions in the existing
trade agreement and settlement of
the long-standing currency ex-
change problem.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Trend

TELEVISION - Philadelphia
manufacturers predict limited
number of television receivers
will be placed on sale in May,
with six broadcasting stations in
operation.
FORTS-Japanese are reported
building underground defenses
like Frances Maginot line along
Russian frontier in Inner Mon
golia.
COMMUNISM-Paris' Commu-
mist paper. L'Humanite, predicts
outlawry of Communism, restric-
tons on freedom of press and as
sembly and limitation of the
rights of parliament following
ApriPs presidential election.
RAILROADS u. S. carload
ings in midFebruary hit 1891
a week, 6.8 per cent greater than
in the corresponding 1888 week.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
International

In January Adolf Hitler told the
Reichstag that Germany must ex-
port or die" Britain's retaliation
was creation of an export credit
pool of S425, 000,00 Price cutting
and other forms of cut-throat COM
petition often result in trade wars
which end on the battlefield,
threat Britain recognized even while
organizing her credit pool. A devo-
tee of peace via negotiation, Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain con-
sequently arranged German-Brit-
ish trade conference which meets
at Dusseldorf March Is and may
end in U. S.-British-G erman
agreement to regulate competition.
American industries are permit
ted to participate in cartels by the
Webb-Pomerene act. On the eve of
Dusseldorf's conference the state
department intimated some Is u. S.
industries were readying them
selves to discuss such plans. Once
this three-corner agreement is COM
pleted, French, Scandinavian and
Swiss industries will be drawn into
the cartel Immediately.
Though American participation in
the plan apparently comes close to
"appeasement" of Germany as ad-
vocated by Mr.. Chamberlain, the
state department would rather
make sensible recognition of the
Reich's place under the sun than
fight upset of its reciprocal trade
program by Germany's much-de-
spised barter system.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Youths Angel
Gloomy About
NewGenerdtion

this is 1.-The era of sloppy work -
Youth is cutting corners and bun
Cling jobs.
The genial and energetic Mr..
Beck, nimble and efficient,
stocky i'm build, somewhat less
than medium height, has been
an evangel of youth for the %
years of his service with the ex-
change, in touch with thousands
of high school students and
educators all over the country.
He has been perhaps the ma
TONS most vigorous expounder
of the Alger gospel of thrift and
diligence.
This seems to be the first time he
has ever scolded the youngsters.
Motherless in his youth, he was an
errand boy at So week and en-
tered personnel work through the
Y. M. c. A. He says, Trouble
awaits us unless we can exercise
some control and influence over the
leisure time of our nations youth"
T Asst year, Miss Nadia Boulang-
IL err, fragile little French must
clan, composer, student, critic and
teacher of music, was the first wom-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst. and not
necessarily of the new spsper.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
Maestro Again
Wins Acclaim
With Her Baton

marked the event with unbounded
adulation, which is repeated here
as Miss Boulanger conducts the gala
concert of the Philharmonic SYM
phony society of New York. It was
not merely critical acclaim She
stirred the eager enthusiasm of her
audience almost with the first char
acteristic, Swimming, swallow-like
sweep of her baton.
She has taught many famous
musicians, but she refused to
teach George Gershwin. He
went to Paris to become her
pupil. She talked to hin. 10 min
utes, saw that his genius was
''sui generis," and told him it
could not be improved, and
might be marred by teaching.
Her father and grandfather were
professors in the Paris ConserVa-
tory of Music and she is now direc-
tor of the Ecole Normale of Paris
and the American conservatory at
Fontainebleau She came to this
country a year ago to. deliver a Sc
ries of lectures at Radcliffe college.
G Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

-
L may or may not have noticed
that Veloz and Yolanda, dark, suave
and graceful American dance team,
have just brdNght back from Europe
the carmagnole,
Dancers Bring which. when the
War Step With peasants begin
Peaceful Intent stepping II, Is
supposed to fore
tell war. They say they saw the vii
layers warming up the old dance, in
Monaco and France, and that
thoughtful citizens were uneasy. 1t
is supposed to have paced the first
frantic rhythm of the French revolu-
ton. Nobody knows just how it
started, but, when it gets going in a.
roadside bistro or on a village,
green, you'd better hunt for cover.
That's their story and they stick
to it.
These Timber young New
Workers are probably tops in
earnings as a dance team, and
are said to have been paid more
on their European trip than any
other dancers, past or present.
When they first teamed up in
1926, Frank Veloz bought a.
$3.50 tuxedo and borrowed his;
fathers white vest, which was
too big for him. YOIanda Cas-
sazi borrowed a pink ballet skirt
and slippers from friend. The
slippers were much too large.
and she had to stuff them with
tissue paper. They had much in
common, and could keep in step
with each other, but not with the
music. They lasted one week
and were fired from the next IA
jobs before they began to click.
He was an accountant for an OPP
teal company, 20 years old, when,
at dance hall, he saw the 16-year-
old Yolanda making heavy weather
with Woodworking partner He
cut in and said, Listen, tumble
loot, don be AFRAID TO loosen up
like this"
That was the beginning of
lucrative friendship. They won
40 prizes together, around the
dance halls, before their first
professional engagement. They
have now had about five years
in the box-office stratosphere,
with, as yet, no arthritis set
ting in.
AS to any hint of war-mongeringy
in bringing over the carma gnole,
they say their enlightened public
will understand this is just folk
dance and won't start any trouble.
-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

IN BOOM years, Cameron Beck,
personnel director of the New
York Stock exchange, was defending
the then supposedly flaming
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

y GU t h. N o w
h e. S gloomy
about the on
coming gener-
alton. He says
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK. - Secretary Hull
L may or may not have noticed
that Veloz and Yolanda, dark, Suave
and graceful American dance team,
have just broeght back from Europe
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-02

an ever to lead
the Boston SYM
phony Orches-
t r a. B o S on
ne VS. d a erS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-18

The lecture is being held at the Middlesex club, in Middletown today with the Middletown College club as hostess.
 A panel discussion will be held on Federal Aid to Education" with Dr. May Hall James, education chair man, in charge. Members of the panel are Miss Helen Haugh of Pennington avenue, Mrs. Floyd Morgan of Wallingford, Dr. Vera Butler, director of the education de- partment of Connecticut college, New London, Mrs. William Grumbly of Norwalk and Mrs. Ernest McVey of New Haven.
 Local members who will attend include: Mrs. E. E. Eisenwinter, Mrs. Charles Rodenbach, Miss Inez Clough, Miss Helen Haugh and Mrs. John Foster, local chairman of edu- cation.
 The second lecture Is scheduled to be held on February 8 at Vest over school in Middlebury with the Waterbury Chapter of A. A. U, w, as hostess.
 A board meeting of the local group was held yesterday afternoon at the University club of the Hotel Elton with Mrs. F. E. Eisenwinter presid- ing. Those attending were: Misses Margaret Croft, Helen Hogan, Betsy Mitchell, Geneva Page, Lillian Man. ganaro, Inez Clough and Helen Beliveau.