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.)
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