DES for the oll, steel and lum-
ber industries, formulated in Wash-
ington after hot discussions and with
great travail, were agreed to by the
representatives of the
industries and signed
by President Roose
velt, who thereupon
retired to his summer
home at Hyde Park,
N. Y.. to complete his
interrupted vacation,
But Geheral Johnson,
indefatigable NRA
chief, had to continue
the battling, for there
remained of the so-
called basic Indus.
tries coal and automobiles to be
brought under the wings of the blue
eagle. Despite the sometimes angry
debates over main points of divergence,
especially the open shop question,
Johnson was certain the automobile
code would be completed within a few
days. Donald Richberz, NRA general
counsel, asked that shop
clause be eliminated because It left
doubt as to whether the industry ac-
cepted the collective bargaining pro-
vision. The motor car manufacturers
seemed disposed to agree to this with-
out surrendering the policy.
Every one was anxious to
what stand Henry Ford would take,
but he maintained deep silence. Mr.
Ford is the only large automobile man.
ufacturer who is not a member of the
National Automobile Chamber of Com-
merce, Hitherto he has insisted on
his right to bargain with his workers
without the Intervention of unions
That he may alter this policy, l
Henry Ford
the open
learn
volun
tarily or otherwise, was indicated by
dispatches from Edgewater, N. I.
which said the employees of the Ford
assembling plant organiz.
Ing under the auspices of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. In the past
Mr. Ford has open
shop by meeting or exceeding the de.
mands of org ized labor in and
working conditions. It was
would
course In the matter of the blue
code.
Coal operators,
there were
maintained the
pay
possible he adopt a
according to General
Johnson, were all displaying a CO-0p-
erative that Insured an early
agreement for the bituminous industry,
and the representatives of the miners
appeared willing to com-
promises on the question in debate.
spirit
accept
Y LABOR day the oll code will go
into effect, and the industry gener-
ally will support it although it does
not completely satisfy the trade. To
a very limited extent it provides for
price fixing for gasoline. Standard Of}
of Indiana did not walt for the effec.
tive date of the code, but put all its
refineries on code schedules of hours
and wages. The part-time system was
abandoned, resulting in a 13 per cent
Increase In the total wage payment
and a corresponding increase in the
purchasing power of the refinery em-
ployees as a group,
Base rates of pay In the various re.
fineries were established as prescribed
by the code as follows: Whiting, Ind,
52 cents an hour: Wood River, IIL. 52
cents; Sugar Creek, Mo. 48
Neodosha, Kan. 48 cents:
Wyo, 50 cents. These rates are for
common labor. Proportionate adjust
ments were made In rates for skilled
labor,
cents;
casper,
ETAIL dealers who gathered In
Johnson's office for a hearing on
their code were warned by the admin-
istrator that the government would
not countenance un-
reasonable price In.
creases and were
urged to resist such
boosts from jobbers
who supply them with
their goods. He said
the national Industrial
recovery act would
Increase prices to
meet new costs im-
posed by compliance
with the trade char.
ters, but just because
of this “there is no
reason to go way beyond reason. If
you do this you just kill the goose
that lays the golden egg. The house
that we are trying to build will col
lapse like a house of cards”
In enforcing compliance with the
blue eagle provisions, Johnson assert.
ed that there would be no violence, no
man-hunting and no boycotting. But,
he said, ‘the administration would
move to uncover cheaters behind the
blue eagle and then “we are going to
move In and take the blue eagle right
off their windows,”
Human nature being what it 1s.
there naturally are lots of complaints
of *“chiseling” by persons and concerns
that have received the blue eagle,
These come most numerously to Mrs.
Mary H. Rumsey, head of the commit
tee that is supposed to protect the con
sumer—though Professor Ogburn says
it Isn't doing it—and to President Wil
lam Green of the American Federa
tion of Labor. Both of them have or.
ganized systems for watching and
eatching the code evaders, Mr, Green
has instructed all union men to keep
an eye on things throughout the coun:
try and to report to him any suspected
violation of codes; he then reports to
General Johnson. In this way a clos-
er scrutiny of code chiselers than
the government could institute is made
possible,
OME time ago Administrator John-
son hinted that the banks were not
doing their part in the recovery pro-
gram, and he has now persuaded them
to relax credit extension conditions
and thereby make money available In
the channels of general commerce.
To begin with, he conferred with mem.
bers of the federal reserve board and
Jesse Jones, chalrman of the Recon
struction Finance corporation, con-
cerning methods by which the bankers
might be induced to grant loans on
classes of security which they have not
been willing to accept.
“Bankers ought to resume the financ-
Ing of ordinary commercial
tions,” General Johnson sald.
studied the figures on
opera
“1 have
think they indicate much loosening up
on the part of bankers.
“We are working on that now, but
listen, the ordinary banker wants
sound risks. , Most of them got pretty
badly burnt
got to establish some basis for a
ing them safety,
“I don't you can force
tension of credit by fiat
trouble in this country has been lack
of confidence by all classes of people,
and we've got to do what we can to
TIVE
believe ex.
The
and in the future back again”
AVING accomplished neatly
speedily the Job for which he was
sent to Cuba, Sumner Welles will soon
return to Washington to take again
. . his position of assist
ant secretary of st
in charge of
American affairs.
is to be succeed
ed as ambassador to
the Island republ
by Jefferson Caffery
who, from his post in
the State department,
4 50 ably seconded the
; oa efforts of Mr. Welles
Caffery, like Welles,
is a career diplomat
and was minister to
Colombia before becoming assistant
secretary of state last spring. In the
last 22 years he has held many im
portant diplomatic positions. Caffery
is from Louisiana and the favor with
which he Is looked upon by the ad
ministration Is one of the thorns in
the flesh of Senator Huey Long. His
first job In Havana will be to nego.
tiate a new United States-Cuban com-
mercial treaty. President De Cespedes
of course hopes this will include lower
duties on Cuban sugar,
the water front strike in Havana led
the new president to believe indus.
trial peace would soon be re-estab.
lished.
Most of the Machado supporters and
porristas having been killed or cap-
tured, except those who had escaped
from the island, the Cuban mobs Jet
up in thelr bloody work, Their last
grim performance in Havana was to
steal and try to burn the body of An-
tonio Anlcart, former chief of police,
who had committed suicide to avoid
capture,
Former President
Col. Carlos Mendieta,
Nationalist party, and many others
who had been driven to exile by
Machado returned to Havana and
were enthusiastically welcomed by the
people,
Jefferson
Caffery
Mario Menocal,
leader of the
EORGE N. PEEK, administrator
of the agricultural adjustment act,
put Into effect at six principal live
stock markets what has been called the
“birth control” program for pigs, the
object being the elimination of about
5,000,000 animals and the consequent
raising of prices. In Chicago, Omaha,
Sioux City, St. Paul, Kansas City and
St. Joseph, Mo., the emergency relief
administration began the purchasing
of 4000000 pigs between 25 and 100
pounds In weight each and 1.000.000
brood sows. Most of the meat ac.
cumulated was to be distributed to the
poor. A price schedule was fixed and
the farmers were to be pald the dif.
ference between this and what they
actually received, from a fund of $55.
000,000 obtained from the processing
tax on all pork. The buying opera.
tions were to be started soon at other
leading markets besides those named
above,
EREDITH NICHOLSON of In-
dianapolis Is one fortunate au.
thor. He has been appointed by Pres
Ident Roosevelt to be minister to Para.
guay and he will have, In Asuncion,
the capital, a most delightful place to
live, among pleasant people. Mr,
Meredith was summoned to Washing.
ton for prepdratory conferences and
is expected to leave for his post in
the near future,
Leo R. Sack, a Washington news
paper man, was appointed minister to
Costa tien,
OBERT H. GORE, governor of
Puerto Rico, Is not liked by
the Liberal party of the island, which
claims to represent 46 per cent of the
electorate, It hd sent to President
Roosevelt a protest against Gore's ad-
ministration, charging that he has ut-
terly failed to live up to his declara-
tions for efliciency and nonpolitical
policles and has grated on the sensi-
bilities of the people,
The message concluded that “as a
man unfamiliar with our character and
our problems, and as we believe with
the practices of government and states-
manship In general, Governor Gore is
very much on trial before the Puerto
Rican people.”
MAuaTMA GANDHI has won an-
other contest with the British
government of India. Imprisoned be-
cause he had renewed his civil dis.
obedience campaign,
he started a new
“fast unto death” and
in a week was so near
dissolution that the
authorities released
him unconditionally.
His wife and Miss
Madeleine Slade, one
of his “three graces”
were released
six months’ sentences
4 at Ahmedabad so they
Mahatma could attend
Gandhi Gandhi had been of
fered his freedom if he would remain
in Poona and refrain from conducting
civil disobedience propaganda. He re
fused. He demanded that he be given
unlimited facilities to conduct from
prison his campaign in a!d of the Hin-
He was told he could
carry on the campaign only if he kept
it free of politics,
“1 might as well be dear
work for them.” he sal
his fast,
until d
lented.
from
him
du untouchables
vowing he
eath unless
IN 9BMAN DAVIS, “ambassador
- large,” called on President It
velt In Hyde Park and deparfed with
fairly complete for his
in the dis
instructions
course
which reassembles In
tober 168. In general Mr. Davis will
support the British plan for limita
tion of offensive weapons: but both
Mr. Roosevelt and he believe the
French for supervision ar
control of world armaments would
a big step toward an agreement. This
plan calls
ment
Geneva on Oc
proposal
for a permanent disarma
that act as
the offi ly In complaints against
another, It
manner and
sxlon would
P
power by
ie the
shipment of arms from one n mn to
another, make
armaments and
atic check on
and
HOV
inspections of world
Carry out a
manufacture of of
defensive
system
the
fensive WOH DONK,
NGELBERT
minutive but nervy
Austria, assured of allied upport,
took steps to check the German Nazis
along the Bavarian border. where, he
was Informed, the latter were fo-
menting trouble and planning inva-
sions of Austrian territory for next
month. Dolifuss ordered the mobiliza.
tion of more than a thousand picked
marksmen in the home guards and
prepared to rush them to the frontier
DOLLFUSS, the a!
If the Nazl campaign continues The
Vienna home guard Includes only two
battalions, but thousands of volun.
teers are being recruited In eastern
and southern Austria, and all of them
are dead shots
EN. OWEN O'DUFFY'S blige.
shirted National Guard of Ireland
Valera's prohibition, and the Free
gal organization.
was set up under the public safety
act and all blue shirts who do not re
sign from the guard
raigned before it and will be liable
to death sentence. De Valera's gov-
ernment charges the National Guard
was organized for the purpose of set.
ting up a dictatorship. Minister of
Justice Ruttiedge sald he had evidence
that the guard was heavily armed and
was importing arms,
§ vCIALISTS are not happy these
\J days, and when the Second Inter-
nationale opened its world congress
in Paris there were a lot of gloomy
faces among the delegates, However,
the executive committee firmly op
posed the defeatists and pessimists
in the party. The bright spots on the
Socialist map were sald to be Spain,
where the tide of Socialism Is stead
fly rising: and the United
where in the opinion of American mem-
bers, the "new deal” Is leading to
Socialism.
oun up from the Caribbean, a
Virginia northward. About a dozen
lives were lost and immense damage
was done to property. Yachts were
peril
The storm played havoc In scores
of communities in southern New Jer
sey as well as surrounding states
From Atlantic City to Cape May ev-
ery seashore resort had flooded streets
and homes. Beach front hotels were
virtually marooned. Ocean City, N. J.,
was cut off from rail communication
with the mainland,
i
B* A vote of about 8 to 1, Mis
souri decided that prohibition
should be repealed and thus became
the twenty-second state to line up In
the wet column. Ratification by only
fourteen more states Is needed to re
peal the Eighteenth amendment,
© 1913, Western Newspaper Union.
Washington, D, C.—Inflationists are
becoming nolsy again. Rather, they
have Increased the
Deep Silence amount of their noise
on Inflation in recent weeks, The
volume has become
ominous to Washington observers who,
it seems, are quite unable to make up
their minds as to the amount of pres
sure the Inflationist element in the
country can wield. There is propa-
ganda, there are Inquiries about it, and
there are statements from those who
think they carry some water on thelr
shoulders, all to the end that there
ought to be inflation,
It is well to recall at this point that
President Roosevelt Is the sole arbiter
on the Inflation question. It was he
to whom congress delegated the su.
preme authority to use any one or all
of the several Inflationary plans that
were Included in the now famous
Thomas amendment, Thus far Pres!
dent Roosevelt has kept his own coun
sel; he has kept an eye on the eco
nomie structure and on the
levels, and has the
he has, Nor will he whether he
will or will not The resnlt
of his maneuvers has been to make the
Inflationists feel he 1s just about read,
~but not quite
price
not used powers
say
use them,
to use some of the in
fiationary proposal
gound money folks feel he is
off from
exerting every effort. It is a situ:
after all that 1s not without hus
the
on thelr toes
Is the Presi
inflation? As}
§ and to
3
mane
using those same pow
i
uneertainty
will say “Yes™
group and they
the unbiased oh:
*1 don't know."
As one of those observers here who
try to see which way the wind is blow
ing and what
trends
impressed by
the reasons
and develo
time
trniohion
siraighten
and
order to
one inquired whether infla.
sirk ®KOMmMe
elapse In them
out
tion could not be used to boost prices
faster, to which the secretary replied:
“Inflation would provide only tem
porary relief,
Some
That does not seem to
And that statement came, as I sald
before, from one who all has
been an inflationist. It was the first
and only, frank statement that has
edme from administration sources [It
may not have significance, but I am
inclined to regard it as having a mean
ing Inasmuch as Mr. Wallace nat.
urally is in close touch with the Presi.
dent day, and sometimes
day, would It not seem
logical to suppose that there was just
a little reflection of
views In his
observation?
along
every BEV.
the President's
agricultural secretary's
» » .
Mr. Roosevelt has repeatedly de
clared himself to be in favor of sound
money. He empha.
RumorsSpread sized it In his in
augural address:
by Speculators he repeated it to
congress and he has stated it in vary-
Ing form and In various places. But,
nevertheless, Mr, Roosevelt took an
Inflationary step when he withdrew
government support for the dollar in
International exchange by declining to
permit export of gold.
Likewise, the President announced
Is purpose of hoosting commodity
prices to the 1024.26 level. hat was
the purpose of the embargo on gold ex-
ports. Prices have gone up only to about
the 1000-10 level, of still considerably
short of the spot which Mr. Roosevelt
would like them to reach. The Infla-
tionists have been figuratively pound.
ing on the White House door and
shouting to Mr, Roosevelt to use his
inflation powers. Some of them have
been granted interviews. They come
Such was the case of
mittee on agriculture. He went to the
White House and was received by the
President, He eame out, smiling
broadly, and talked long and loudly
for a dozen or so newspaper cdrre.
spondents of the need for Inflation.
But somehow Senator Smith neglected
to say that the Chief Executive was
going to use the Thomas amendment.
I guess he forgot about it!
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, who
led the fight for the amendment, has
issued a lot of statements about the
necessity for using inflation. He at.
tacks every one who disagrees with
him about it. But, as néar as I ean
ascertain, Senator Thomas has not
heen let In on the President's secret,
So, agaln, there you are! But there
is another angle to this inflation propa.
ganda, and it has nasty aspects, There
Biave been and are now some folks who
ure using Inflation talk to make profits
out of their own speculation. Rumors
start in New York, or in Boston, or in
Chleago, or In some other large city,
that the President is ready to inflate
the currency. Ths quotations on
shares of stock zoom up, if the rumor
seems to come from any source near
the President. The premoters of the
rumor take their profit, and the mar-
ket sags. A few dull days pass, and
again the same stunt is staged,
» .
William H. Moran, chief of the
United States secret service, told me
the other day that
Bogus Money counterfeiters of coin
in Bad Times and currency had
been exceedingly ae-
tive in the last several venrs, Roughly,
he sald, the expansion of their opera.
tions had been found to be In inverse
ratio to the advance in business and
employment. Thus, again, the opera-
tions of counterfeiters seem to fully
reflect conditizne, When
there is good business, there is little
but when we have
hard times, we also have much coun-
according to Chief Moran's
economic
counterfeiting :
terfelting,
records,
The chief of the United States secret
service
*, which actually is a secret serv.
ict, a8 well as in name,
me, however, that
nas a counterfeiter
* 10 carry on thelr
I their plant is
y ONeY
ibascaied in most
» sums have been
vities of counter
tick of business con
nt depression has
worst in American history
an's records show that more
been seized
its have ginice
ny other period of the
it coins and bills
took much pride
’
BCIZUreE Of cons
they were genuir
ve heen worth S065 durin
and £500.311 in 1832
ni the figures for 1832
Moran
felters
and lack of jobs
“It i= not at all
“that
again, Chief
gnid, the activities of counter
hard times
directly reflected
strange.” the chief
should be more at
tempts at counterfeiting in hard times
than when the country
Hundreds of men have been arrested
on counterfeiting charges
found had never engaged in criminal
affairs of any kind before. They were
out of jobs, however, and while they
fing around In cities they
contact with underworld cha
The professional it
has to have help and he hnilge gn his
gang They
were not the type to do such things If
they had not for
money.”
sald, there
in prosperous
who we
were lon
into
counterfe
ters er
out of such individuals
been desperate
Most of the bogus bills and coins are
done that anyone familiar
with money can
How the ‘Queer’ detect them, but
Is ‘Shoved’ every #0 often
some real expert
gets into the counterfeiting game and
develops a bill that is most difficult to
distinguish from the genuine. These, of
course, are the dangerous ones from the
secret service standpoint. It has hap-
pened also that those making the best
reproductions of real currency usually
have developed the most carefully laid
plans for getting the money !ato ciren.
lation. The ordinary practice is for
the counterfeiters to sell the bills
wholesale to underworld characters at
a price so low that big profits tempt
men to take the chance. One instance
was found in which the countérfeiter
had sold $100 worth of billz for $2.95.
The better the grade of work on the
bills, the higher the price demanded
by the counterfeiter,
Chief Moran told me that several of
the counterfeit gangs which his men
had uncovered In the last several
yeird had been organized on a seale
comparable to a big business house.
They were found to have several units.
For instance, one gang had a plant
where its plates were made: it had a
plant in another city where the print.
Ing of the bogus bills was done, and
then it had a “sales” agency which
was spread out in several cities
It took exceptional work == the part
of the secret service operatives to run
this one down. Chief Moran admitted
that much, but few detalls of the
secret service operatives’ work ever
become known, 1 imagine those de.
tails would make a tale much more In.
teresting than any fiction ever written,
but It is a tradition of the secret serv.
ice to keep Ite mouth shut,
© 1982, Wertern Newspaper Union.
go crudely
How I Broke Into
The Movies
Copyright by Hal C. Herman
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
TRANCE as It may seem to his
\J friends in fandom, “Doug” didn't
Jump into the movies with one of those
hair-raising hurdles over a ten foot
walk
And stranger still, he actually en-
tered the picture game as a stage star
and not as an athlete,
His athletic proclivities came to the
surface somewhat later and only after
causing the pleture producers some
‘sleepless nights, They had plenty of
visions of thousands of feet of film
going to waste because he “moved”
toc rapidly for the “movies” —and ex.
pected to see nothing but streaks and
blurs on the screen,
However, an earlier which
ran the gamut of law, stocks and
bonds, hardware and other ady entures
including a Job as valet to
hundred cows on a cattle bout
for Europe—kept being
every so often by stage
were good
good, All however, were dill
this diligence
and eventus
through
Brady,
wud Harris,
About this time
standing the theatrica
head with his pict
a Nation” Previousls
looked down on the movi
pesky poor relations.
Then came
career
several
bound
interrupted
appearances
Some and some not so
gent, and
brought experience
ABBOCH
George
Douglas Fairbanks.
actors to the screen but
cided that he
laughs, must leap last 1
So he did
In the summer of
for D. W. Griffith
for ten
who leans
work
woek
picture called
an immediate success
which Griffith
ward with a
rom then on Fairbank
movies for keeps,
He also had a habit of
given point by the shortest
in his earlier pictures he woul
weeks ar
“The Lamb”
was the }
threes
once negotiated the other side of a
house by going over it,
Here the producers and technical
experts gave vent to grave misgivings
as to the camera's ability to revord
such rapid movement, Everything
heretofore had been done very slowly
in pictures and all gestures were de.
liberate-—like the melodramatic
However, in spite of
howls of protest, Griffith waved them
aside and waited to see wonld
old
poses,
what
The result brought forth an ava-
before long all his stories were being
and more difficult
The astonished public viewed a long
including “Double
Trouble,” “Manhattan Madness.” “The
of his old
“By this time,” Doug said, “A long
nourished desire to do other things
beside leap and smile started the urge
to produce my own pictures. What
ever success | may have gained in this
direction is most apparent in such pro-
duction as ‘The Mark of Zorro. *The
Three Musketeers,’ ‘The Black Pirate.’
‘Robin Hood,’ “The Thief of Bagdad,’
‘Don Q," “The Gaucho,’ and “The Iron
Mask.’
“What is the secret of screen sues
cess? Well now, I refuse to play the
part of preacher or one of those ‘fol.
low-me-and-get-there' men, but my own
observation Is that the way to screen
success is the same as in any other
line of endeavor,
“It takes enthusiasm, intelligence
and courage. Enthusiasm to give your
best to anything you attempt: intel
ligence to direct the enthusiasm and
courage to carry through in the face
of all obstacies™
wNY Service
From Stage to Screen
Following a noted Broadway stage
career during which she appeared In
many play hits, Marjorie Gateson
made her screen debut in 1031 In “Be
loved Bachelor” Then followed In
rapid succession Important roles In
“Husband's Holiday,” “False Madon.
na” Street of Women” “Society Girl”
and “Okay America”