IVE justices of the United States Su- preme court have ruled, in the case of Prof. Douglas C. Mac- intosh of the Yale divinity school, that a foreigner who seeks American citizenship must take the oath with no reservations about taking up arms for the country In time of war. Macin- tosh refused to swear without limiting his obll- bear arms, and therefore is denied the right of naturalization. The same decision was made in the case of Miss Marie Averill Bland. Both she and Macintosh are Canadians and both saw wartime service in France. Justice Howard Sutherland, who wrote the majority opinion, held that the cases properly came within the principle laid down in tke case cf Rosika Schwimmer, pacifist leader, who was denied citizenship on virtual. ly the same grounds. He the broad omnipotent war rranted congress by the Con saying: “From Its very when necessity Justice Sutherland allegiance gation to discussed power istitut fon, nature, the calls for cations Con- principles of tolerates no qualifi tions unless found in the stitution or in internation hal law. iscientions objector,’ or limita £1 HHeahla appiicadie * Justice added, "is rel from tion to bear arms In obedl- ence titutional provis pressed or implied; but it has a ieved to no co he Cause, Iv Root Oniy Decnuse, poll hief Justice Justices Ho lissented. from T WO oth court great int Judgment of the Circuit Court of Ap- sustaining the patent granted Dr. Irving Langmuir in 1925 on vaccum tubes used in radio and other speech- reproduc owned by pany. It R week are of the he thie during One reversed erest, peals tion processes, the General Electric com- was attacked by the De Forest ad company, which con- tended that uniess the Langmuir patents were set aside General Elee- tric would have a virtual monopoly of the radio tube in common use, in the second the of the federa rae de com regulate a are restricted. The commi had orde red the Ral- Det roit to cease sity oD as nied by . that it should be taken now decision powers iission to af state ment der advice of sion held the concern comp trying to censo contention it was The com to pro public in this , but the Detroit he body was sing. this upheld Oy t Kipfer, ascendir shed 4 new recor feet In a balloon, d they reached the that th eir observa- tions will be of considerable value. They started from Augshurg, Bavaria being hermetically sealed in an alum- inum ball suspended from a large bal- Joon: 18 hours later they landed on a glacier in the Alps of Austrian Tyrol. They nearly suffocated because thelr supply of oxygen ran short, and they suffered from hunger and thirst, . ests bil ig 52,500 They convinces stratosphere and are VERY time Presi- dent Hoover takes some cabinet member to the Rapidan camp for a week-end, furth- er plans for reducing thegovernment's over. head are concocted, First came the Army anG Navy depart. ments, and then it was the turn of the Post Office department, Postmaster General Walter Brown and his assistants were the guests and the “victims,” and after the conference in the woods it was announced that a program had been adopted that would save $38,000,000 in the present fiscal year and that would produce many economies next year. However, it was emphatically stated that efficiency would be Increased instead of dim finished and that there would be no decrease In personnel, The statement indicated that the department has feit the depressig. It was estimated that due to busi. ness conditions revenues to the de. partment this year would be $08. 000,000 below the original estimates, Postmaster Gen. Brown ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Hyde seems to be forestalling these Rapidan camp operations by planning considerable gconomies In his department expenditures, though this is difficult without curtailing im- portant services. He will be alded dur. ing the year by the termination of two PICKARD emergency items—drought relief and highway construction, These totaled £160,000,000, providing aid for stricken farmers and jobs for the unemployed. Drought loans will be coliected from farmers next fall, when their crops are harvested. States which have borrcwed from the $80,000,000 emer- gency highway fund will repay the money over a five-year period through deductions from thelr regular shares of federal ald. After deducting extension service and land grant college funds, between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 remains for the department's actual expenses. HIS year's Memorial day address by President Hoover was deliv. ered In the memorial park at Valley Forge, Pennsylvanla, where George Washington and his ragged troops spent a terrible winter 153 years ago, and where more than 3,08 of those patriots are buried, The exercises of the day were Two thou- sand troops acted as escort to Presi dent and Mrs. Hoover and a battery from Phoenixville fired the salute, In Hoover reviewed his in International matters his plans for the fut concerning the reduction of Impressive, ure, especi armam Ti ‘he night dent League clu quet re he was presented ofl portrait <f himself. XPERTS many lands present ternational labor ference Geneva, but th ed St resented. Secret: preceding this, the Pres! was the guest of the Union 1h of Philadelphia at a ban. wilh an from were when opened e Unit. {es was not rep- Labor Doak Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the woman's bureau, as the Amer ican delegate end she sailed May 12, the special hope conference might adopt an agree ment banning night work by women jut just after Miss Anderson reached Europe Mr. Doak sent her a eable instructing her to stay away from Geneva and giving her other missions for the department. Making his action public, the secretary merely said the partm had deemed It “wholly In advisable™ to have any one from the United ment at either in official or unofficial capacity. appoin Miss Mary th Anderson with that labor State de ent States govern MRS. HARRY PAYNE + ney's memorial typifying heroism of the with the Titanic and children men who wen in order ths ight be save was the Pot n the banks of shiington in the 1d Mrs, nent Hoover, and Persons. mson presided at the statue is the cont more than 20000 American women, ICHELE SCHIRRU, MN born natu United States, ing squad in victed of and of cere. an Italian ralized citizem of the wis executed by a fir. Rome after being con plotting to kill Mussolini other activities against Fas cism. Schirru- admitted his guilt, but said his plans had been abandoned and he was about to return to Amer fea when arrested. NYESTIGATION of the building ma terial Industry, espe cially those phases of it involved in the let. ting of contracts for government buildings, has been begun by the federal trade com. mission. It is believed that the inquiry will throw a lot of light on the long existing fight between the Indiana limestone men and the granite and marble men of New Eng land. Such, at least, is the hope of Senator Henrik SBhipstead of Minne: sota, who Introduced the resolution calling for the investigation. The trade commission, announcing that preliminary work already had been started, said: “In this Inquiry the commission will investigate and report facts re lating to the letting of contracts for the construction of government build. ings, particularly with a view of de termining whether or not there are or have been any price fixing or other agreements, understandings or com. binations of interests among individ uals, partnerships, or corporations en. gaged In the production, manufacture or sale of building materials with re spect to the prices or other terms at or under which such materials will be furnished contractors or bidders for such construction work.” Senator Shipstead sald he Intro duced the resolution because of com: plaints that such collusion between the purveyors of hullding materials did exist and because of further com. Senator Shipstead plaints, seemingly almed at the han. dling of contracts by the government itself, that specifications for buildings were so framed that they unfairly lim. ited the sources from which materials could come, The limestone-graniteemarble con. troversy falls in the latter category. The charges are that Indiana's advo- cates have been too influentisd and have somehow or other put “Indiana limestone” into the specifications for too many government bulldings, DM XILE from Rau mania and expul- sion from the royal family of that country is the fate arranged for Queen Helene, the estranged wife of King Carol. According to Patria, the official organ of the Zaranist party in Bucharest, a decree has been draft. ed for submission to the new parliament confirming Helen's exclusion and de claring that she is no longer entitied to the rights and honors accorded to royalty. Parliament is expected to adopt the measure as soon as it as sembles, and Helene will leave the country permanently soon thereafter, terminating her uncertain marital status of more than two years. Ob- servance of the queen's saint day last Thursday was forbidden in an order issued by War Minister Stephanescu and authorized by Premier Jorga. Helene divorced Carol while he was in exile In 1928 with Magda Lupescu, When he made a dramatic fiying re Bucharest last year she his overtures toward & rec astly refused tn Queen Helene turn to spurned onciliation be crowned with him, and stead! Rm ot 1d retrenchment In of Japan have been de War Minister Gen, Jiro ‘hief of Staff Gen, Hanjl Kan Gen. Nal Muto, inspector general of mil education The reduced by ars devoted Min sayoshi itary personnel il be 18 will be army the best equipped » Bavit had hoped the go toward but the wa only $4,000, 04K) through the this amot ible in any 1% will greatly aid i ) on evel with that of Soviet Russia and other countries which maintain ef pped forces ing the army fectively equi new Re govern ment is far from being lized yet. Its leg, both exter nal and Internal, con. tinue to cause some cording ties In martial was pro there uneasiness, Af several have pon Francisco Aguilera nists. Al nstated Os Nn The of Don saptain is kept to sup of either in readiness ny uprisings anywhere ists of royalists, El a resulted ancisco Macia’s part) The assembly therefore will be dom inated by those who demand autonomy for Catalonia under the authority of the central government, The other day the Republicam gov. ernment issued a decree guaranteeing absolute freedom of worship to all religions, The pope regarded this as a clear violation of the concordat still in existence between Spain and the Vatican, and he sent a formal protest to Madrid after a conference with Cardinal Segura, the expelled primate of Spain, eet in complete wictors HINA appears to be on the brink of another civil war, President Chiang Kai-shek bitterly denounces the Communist rebels of Kwantung and Kwangsl provinces and says the Na- tionalist government is foreed to choose between accepting Communisy into the party, which it will not do. or resorting to war, Large bodies of troops were reported to be moving to ward Canton to attack the Insurgents, HROUGH its chalrman, J. Weston Allen, the national crime com: mission makes a report asking all states to pags a uniform law regulat. ing theft Information, ownership rec. ords and registration to check the growing evil of automobile thefts and the use of stolen ears by criminals The committee also recommends the enactment by congress of the bili which makes criminal the transports. tion in interstate or foreign commerce of property stolen or taken felon} ly by fraud or with the Inte to steal or purloin. The bill passed the house of representatives but did not reach the senate during the last ses sion of congress, AVING changed his mind about appealing from his econvietion and sentence for bribery, Alhert 1. Fall, former secretary of the interior, has asked the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the decision of the District Court of Appeals. His brief attacks the validity of ths in dietment and the sdmission of certain evidence, (®, 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE Amer day we celel ican flag, whe write on June 14, is known by a number of fig. urative names. It is probable that It was call 0 17) White and Blane” or Stars and 7 after the in accordance with passed by the Continental co June 14, 1777, "That the flag 13 stripes, thet the unios Stripes” very soon first was made resolgtion and white; 13 stars, white in senting a new The a bly Scott Key, attend bardment of Fort McHe: spired to ¥ the pax later set to ficial natios anthem. Bu via Glors”™ is a more as du st a hundred had m wi me the of t the na: and beca recent one, Years ago tha the result ed In that pper inspiration 1 i ch affectionate bestowed upon our natios Here is the "Old Glory™ got that name: From the beginning of New Eng land maritime history the Driver fam- lly of Salem, Mass, had been leaders in the shipping trade, not only al colors, slory gnilors of thelr own vessels. In the year 1831 Capt. William Driver was carrying on the family tradition. As a boy of twelve he had shipped on a galling vessel for Europe and before he was twenty he was master of the brig, Charles Baggett, one of that in- numerable fleet which sailed the Seven Seas and carried the namé of Salem to every corner of the earth. In September of that year Captain Driver was preparing to sail for a trip around the world. Just before leaving a party of his friends gath- ered to present him with a farewell gift, an American flag, because he was noted for his love for the na- tional colors and what they betokened, Captain Driver was on deck to re ceive them and a sailor, carrying the flag, folded in triangular form, stepped forward and began a carefully mem- orized speech. “In ancient times, when an ocean voyage was looked upon with super stitfous dread,” ‘he sald, “it was the custom on the eve of departure to roll the banner in the form of a tri. angle. When ready the priest stepped forward and taking the banner in hand, sprinkled it with consecrated water and dedicated it to ‘God the Father, God the gon and God the Holy host,’ turning the point of the triangle upward at the name of each, thus calling on that unity of Creator, Re- deemer and Sanctifier to bless the na- tional emblem and prosper the voy- angers and their friends. The fleg thus consecrated was then hoisted to the masthead.” He then adjusted the flag to the halyards and hoisted it to its posi. tion at the masthead. Captain Drive er, overcome with emotion, was silent for a moment, Then as he looked aloft and saw the flag which he loved so well ‘floating in the breeze he ex. claimed : “I'll eall her Old Glory, boys ; Old Glory I” And thus was the Amer mits flan an fisg chr for he and by The voyage whit istened wi new use that na wis the first to no other did he ¢ propriately nan { } original “Old Glory” into hou world he next the Old Glory ! As the dispute be and South became the Civil war drew nearer and nears er, Captain Driver became increas. | ingly unpopular with his neighbors in | Nashville because of his outspoken devotion to his country and his flag. During the Presidential campaign “Old Glory” was displayed on a rope stretched from his home to a tree across the street but the bitterness of that campaign brought to Captain Driver's ears unmistakable hints that his flag might be stolen or destroyed, so he bought another flag for digplay and retired “Old Glory” once more to | its camphorwood chest, After the secession of Tennessee from the Union, the eaptain began to fear for safety of his flag at the hands of the Confederates. Ro he took it by night to the house of a Union sympathizer named Balley and asked Mrs. Bailey and her daughters, Mary and Patience, to hide it for him #0 that it could not be found and de- stroyed if the Confederates searched his house, At the time Mary and Pa. tience Balley were making a comfort, padding It heavily with cotton, and thus suggested an ideal hiding place, So Captain Driver folded "Old Glory,” placed it between the layers of cotton in the comfort where the Balley girls tacked it in and sewed up the out side covering. Again at night Captain Driver took the comfort to his home and placed It In a large iron wash kettle In the attic of his home. There “Old Glory stayed until Union troops occupied Nashville in February, 1862. Immediately there after Captain Driver and a group of soldiers ripped open the comfort, took out the flag and hoisted it over the state capitol to the strains of "The Star-Spangled Banner,” played by a regimental band, It remained there for hours, but so fearful was Captain Driver that his flag might even then be injured by a hostile hand that he stood guard over it day and night. In the morning “Old Glory” was taken down and replaced with another Amer {ween the Nort more intense and into effect that time in this Great country of the Britain tows Determi to find imself whether this talk was by politicians for their own ends or was a genuine antipathy, Bates resolved to cross the Atlantic, start from the northern border of England and march to London bear fng aloft an unfurled American flag just as he had done the battle fields of 1861.65. His reception by the people of England would whether or not there was any founda. tion for this talk of John Bull's hos tility toward Uncle Sam, Clad Stntes, ned on show in his uniform of bine, Ser gent Bates on November 5—Guy Fawkes day and the anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman-iaft Edin burgh for Gretna Creen. At Sark bridge on the border line between Scot land and England he unfurled “Old Glory” and stood beneath it with un. covered head. Then he started on his march. That evening he tramped into Carlisle where a group of com mercial travelers at the Bush hotel gave him a hearty welcome. More than that: they sent word on ahead of his strange pilgrimage and when he came to the mining towns of Men rith and Shap, great crowds of min ers were on hand to cheer him. The warm welcome given Bates there was repeated In every place through which he traveled, The London daily press gaye much space to the American soldier on De cember 2. A dense mass packed the Guildhall yard, where a British ser geant was carrying the English stand urd. Bates was borne on the shoul ders of men into the crowded Guild hall, and then back to the carriage, from which he made a speech before reforling his flag. Dates’ reception In London was the crowning touch to his pligrimage. There was no longer any doubt of John Bull's friendliness toward Uncle Sam, at least so far as the common people of England were concerned (B® by Western Newspaper Union.) 4 J
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