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By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
RADUALLY “the terrible flood
in the Ohio valley subsided,
but the yellow torrents were pour-
ing down the lower Mississippi and
the nation was mo- . ,
bilized to save the
people there. By di-
rection of the Pres-
ident and Gen. Mal-
in Craig, chief of
staff, the army
made all prepara-
tions for the evacu-
ation of all inhabi-
tants along the riv-
er between Cairo,
Ill., and New Or-
leans. The details
for this mass move-
ment were worked out to the last
point by commanding officers in the
region and thousands of motor
trucks and railroad flat cars were
collected. Headquarters for the
evacuation were set up at Jackson,
Miss.
Lieut. Col. Eugene Reybold, dis-
trict engineer at Memphis, ordered
the prompt delivery of 5,000,000 bur-
lap sacks for the erection of sand-
bag bulwarks, 15 cars of lumber, 210
outboard motorboats, 300 small
boats, 300 life jackets, and 1,500
lanterns.
The secretary
General
Malin Craig
of war authorized
the use of not only regular army
troops but also members of the
Civilian Conservation corps, the
National Guard, and the Red Cross.
General Craig said that if the bil-
lion dollar levee system, erected
after the great 1927 flocd, failed to
hold, about the same area affected
then would be inundated. Many
thousands of people already had
been removed from homes along the
Mississippi, but cities like Memphis
and Vicksburg, being on high
ground, were believed to be safe.
At New Orleans river experts re-
fused to admit danger of a super-
flood along the lower reaches of the
river. But Secretary of War Wi
ring Washington had reports
from which said the
levee system on the lower Missis-
sippi probably would not be able
to withstand the present flood when
it reaches its crest.
At this writing the effects of the
flood may be thus summarized:
Homeless, nearly a million. Dead,
probably more than 500, including
200 in Louisville. Damage, conserv-
atively estimated at more than $400,-
000,000.
Congress hurried through a defi-
ciency appropriation of $£790,000,-
000 which the President promised
would be made available for flood
relief; and the American Red Cross,
working at high speed,
a fund of $10,000,000 to which the
people of the entire country con-
tributed liberally. Supplies of food,
drinking water, clothing and medi-
od-
in
engineers
areas.
Cincinnati, Louisville,
mouth, Frankfort
were the worst sufferers;
city, town and
Ohio and its tributaries shared
the
Mill Creek district of Cincinnati and
destroyed property valued at $1,500,-
000 before the flames could be con-
trolled. Throughout the entire re-
gion transportation was crippled,
pure water and fuel supplies were
shut off or greatly reduced, and
outbreaks of typhoid and pneumonia
were threatened. In Louisville the
light and power plant was forced
to shut down.
In Frankfort, Ky., the state re-
formatory was flooded and the pris-
oners were removed to other
quarters with the aid of troops. The
convicts took advantage of the
emergency to start a riot and about
a dozen were killed. All of southern
Indiana was placed under martial
law by Governor Townsend.
ORTY THOUSAND employees of
General Motors returned to part
time work in reopened plants in
Michigan and Indiana, and were un-
molested by the
strikers. But the
deadlock was not
broken, and the sit-
down strikers con-
tinued to occupy the
plants they had
“kidnaped.” Presi-
dent Alfred P. Sloan
Jr., of General Mo-
tors had refused the
invitation of Secre-
tary of Labor Per-
kins to meet John L.
Lewis, chief of the
striking unions, while the strikers
were still in forcible possession of
plants, and President Roosevelt
ominously termed this. refusal “a
very unfortunate decision on his
part,” intimating, also, that there
was a prospect of labor legislation
unfavorable to the corporation and
to employers generally.
Sloan persisting in his attitude,
Secretary Perkins started a move
for legislation that would compel
him to meet Lewis. In identical
letters to Speaker Bankhead and
Senator Joe Robinson, majority
A. P. Sloan
leader of the senate, she asked the
prompt passage of a bill empower-
ing her department to subpoena per-
sons and papers in connection with
investigations of strikes. To the
press Miss Perkins said that once
she had this power she would sum-
mon Sloan to a meeting with Lewis
in Washington; but she was not
sure she could compel him to nego-
tiate a strike settlement.
Sloan had posted in all General
Motors plants a denial that the cor-
poration was responsible for the
breakdown of negotiations and was
“shirking our moral responsibil-
ities.” He reiterated his refusal to
treat with the union so long as
the sit-down strikers held the plants,
and continued with a promise to
employees:
“We shall demand that your
rights and our rights be protected”
against “a small minority who have
seized certain plants and are hold-
ing them as ransom to enforce their
demands.
“1 say to you once more, have no
fear. Do not be misled. General
Motors will never let you down. You
will not have to pay tribute for the
privilege of working in a General
Motors plant.”
Sloan contends that more than
100,000 G. M. employees have ex-
pressed a desire to return to work.
Lewis scoffs at this claim but will
not countenance the holding of
an election to determine whether his
unions command the majority nec-
essary to constitute them the sole
collective bargaining agency. The
federal labor relations board could
order such an election but it has
not intervened, and probably will
not.
Governor Murphy of Michigan
had not modified his refusal to per-
mit the National Guardsmen sta-
tioned in Flint to be utilized in
carrying out a judicial order that
the plants be vacated by the sit-
down strikers.
HE six-week strike of 7,100 em-
ployees of the Libbey-Owens-
Ford Glass company ended with ap-
proval by the union committee and
company officials of a wage agree-
ment giving a flat eight-cent-an-hour
increase in all plants of the
pany A one-year-contract
signed.
The agreement provides for ap-
pointment
investigate wage rates of the Pitts-
burgh Plate Glass company with a
view to establishing uniformity
rates thre
dustry.
AYBE it was just a promotion
stunt for the book, but Senator
Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania,
Democrat,
a resolution calling
for an investigation
of the truth or faisi-
ty of scurrilous
charges made
against the Supreme
Court in
Men,"
thored- by
ductors of a Wash-
ington
he
resolution Guffey
saying:
“The President of
States, with his characteristic frank-
to continue a democracy.
“That problem is—whether the
Supreme court will permit congress,
the legislative branch of our gov-
ernment, which was equally trusted
with the Supreme court by the
framers of the Constitution, to per-
form its duties in making democra-
cy workable and effective.”
The senate heard Guffey’s speech
in silence and referred his resolu-
tion to the judiciary committee.
A RTIFICIAL scarcity of farm
products is abandoned as a pol-
icy for the time being by Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace. He said in
Washington that the two drouth
years of 1934 and 1936 have brought
more thought on farm production by
consumers and farmers than ever
before. While a year or two of nor-
mal weather would tumble wheat
prices, if full acreage is planted, the
time has come for a lifting of the
restrictions, he said.
“In the year immediately ahead,
1 feel that farmers should think
primarily of their duty to consum-
ers,” Wallace said. “I think that in
the coming year it is wise for us
to produce as much as we can. We
should, of course, divert a certain
amount of corn and cotton acreage
to soil conserving crops, because
that will make for greater long time
productivity of our farm land.
“But for the most part, let's fill
up the storage bins this year. It is
good policy to vary the plans for
storage of crops pan 1 the soil
ing to the pon
granary above
( BTAINING of a sweeping fed-
~ eral injunction against the
Tennessee Valley authority by nine-
teen utility companies has put an
end to efforts to form
private power transmission pool.
President Roosevelt declared in a
letter written to federal power ex-
perts and private company officials
the injunction,
transmission facility arrangement,
ue
gain that end.
The
Roosevelt's fire halted the
liciting additional customers for its
power.
ARL RADEK, noted soviet Rus-
sian journalist, and 16 other
men more or less prominent in the
affairs of Russia, went to trial as
conspirators against
the Stalin regime
and the soviet state,
and all freely con-
fessed their guilt.
They readily told
the details of the
amazing plot and as-
serted that the ex-
iled Leon Trotzky
was its chief mover,
Radek described the
: scheme b which
Karl Radek the a Bop to
overthrow Stalin and bring back a
modified capitalism to Russia. It in-
volved the wrecking of the nation's
railway system and the bringing
about of war on Russia by Japan
and Germany. Japan was to be
given the maritime provinces in
Asia and Germany was to be per-
mitted to grab the Ukraine. But
Radek added that the conspirators
hoped the war would result in a
new revolution in Russia and that
thereafter those territories could be
regained. “I am guilty of all the
charges,” said the once powerful
editor.
Gregori Sokolnikof!, former soviet
ambassador to England, declared
he knew as early as 1832 of a plot
to assassinate Stalin, and admitted
he was guilty of plotting to betray
the Soviet union to Germany and
Japan. Vladimir Romm, former
Washington correspondent of Iz-
vestia of Moscow, though not yet on
trial, was put on the stand and
testified that he knew of the anti-
Stalinist plot, that he carried letters
from Radek to the exiled Leon
Trotzky and that he agreed to be-
come Trotzky's undercover in-
formant.
Scores of persons implicated by
the confessions the defendants
have been arrested. Among them is
M. A. G. Beloborodoff, the veteran
Bolshevist who ordered the execu-
tion of Czar Nicholas and his fam-
ily.
The prosecutor
all the defendants.
Leon Trotzky, from his haven in
Mexico City, sent out a specific de-
of the charges that he was
head of the conspiracy.
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to
the senate the name of James
A. Farley as postmaster general for
another term, and ths senate
promptly confirmed
the nomination. It is
of
asked death for
a ember of the
cabinet, for he wants
to return to private
work. He told report-
ers in New York
that he was looking
for more than a job
as a salesman.
“If I should return
to private life,” the J. A. Farley
“1 would
like an opportunity to build up an
in a business, so I would
have something more than just a
salary for security for my family.
“l Lave had several offers al-
but they haven't been just
F REICHSFUEHRER HITLER
will co-operate with other nations
ent economic difficulties. Such was
the offer made by Premier Blum
in an address at Lyons. Blum, how-
ever, warned the Nazis that France
cannot and will not co-operate with
Germany economically or politically
“while the possibility continues to
exist that this help may be some
day turned against the country
which gave it.”
policy of making bilateral pacts,
and added: *‘I believe I am practic-
from European peace.”
German officials were pleased
by Blum's speech and said his good
intentions could not be doubted.
J AMBURG, Germany, for cen-
turies a ‘‘free city,” has lost
its freedom. Reichsfuehrer Hitler
and his cabinet have decreed that
it shall be known henceforth as
Hansa City Hamburg and placed
under control of Col. Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering in his capacity as
plan for self -
the Nazi party; Wilhelm Frick,
of finance.
freedom of Luebeck and incorporat-
ed the city with Prussia, and the
same fate was decreed for Eutin,
Cuxhaven and Birkenfeld. Wilhelms-
haven is absorbed by Oldenburg
province.
CENTRE HALL, PA.
National Topics Interpreted
Washington,—The arrival of the
ing of spring. It
does not bring
spring weather.
Nevertheless, we
Americans watch for signs all our
lives and lately there have been sev-
Danger
Signs
are worthy of notice.
There never has been a
our country's history, as far as I
have been able to discover, when
the tension surrounding labor con-
as it
is right now. 1 do not believe any-
one can forecast what the results
are going to be; what all of these
strikes and factional fights in or-
time In
thing much deeper than just dis-
satisfaction with wages or growing
pains of expanding business. In
other words, there are many stu-
dents of national affairs who
attempting to analyze current labor
conditions as signs of new times.
" Most observers with whom I have
discussed the present labor prob-
lems, are hopeful that these trou-
bles me an only 1 creases
are
cont
they "want to accep
indicative of a returning
prospe rit Y in commerce
try. det none of the
The are too many ‘ifs and
aby uncertainties for anyone
attempt a complete diagnosis of the
circumstances.
Some weeks ago 1 ventu
opinion in these
rift in organized la
liam Green as head of
can Federation of Labor
L. Lewis as Spot nsor of the
trial union idea, likely would
in serious trouble for the lab
ions themse I was
re port then that whi
at his time, namely,
schism in organized
certain to
organized labor
deed it seems
gled as it is
Wy prove t
in uni ion Jade
and sot
and
n is quite sur
too
1
VO
red the
columns that the
Wil-
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But
graver pos:
the situations
ibilitie
Grave
Possibilities
today that easil
and bloodsh
bloodshed it is only a step to revo- |
lution of a political sort
None knows exactly what
ion's labor policies
are beyond the exaggerated prom
ises made during the
dential cam pai gn. Of co urs
ident Roosev elt and the bul
Deal spokesmen are
y friendly overl; iendly som
lieve, to organized labor. The N
Dealers had organized labor wit!
them in the Jast campaign. Now,
however, it is made to ap De: ar that |
the support * labor in the cam-
paign is proving more or less em-
barrassing to the adm
which has just started on
four-year term.
Some of the critics of the
istration are outspoken ir
statements that Mr. Roosevelt is
trying to dodge, trying to avoid, get-
ting mixed up too deeply in labor's
problems. Some of his subordinates
have been active but the President
has stayed out of the picture just
as far as he could and as long as
he could.
I am inclined to believe that these |
assertions that Mr. Roosevelt is
afraid to take leadership too fre-
quently in labor's problems are un-
fair to the President. They amount
to a statement that he lacks cour-
age—which is not true. On the con-
trary, there are many who believe
with me that Mr. Roosevelt senses
developments yet to arise in the la-
bor situation and he is, therefore,
being cautious as to is steps thus
in what threatens to be a
here
New
ite
is
second
On the other hand, it is difficult to
tions board has been so nearly qui-
escent through such strikes as the
If there ever was a situation
made to order for use of the agency
set yp under the so-called Wagner
that situation was to be found
in the two strikes just mentioned.
The board did so little in those cir-
be said to have been forgotten. It
amounted to a dead letter insofar
In
some quarters one can hear discus-
board were unwilling to have that
test at this time. I have been un-
able to confirm this thought at all
one sees indicate there is some
truth in the rumor that too much of
a burden should not be unloaded on
the board for its first real test.
Business interests never have be-
lieved the law to be constitutional.
The New Dealers, however, have
contended vociferously that it is
valid and yet we have the picture
of a New Deal agency failing to
perform the very functions for
which it was created.
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I mentioned earlier some of the
signs and portents that are visible
. in the labor situa-
“Sit Down’
tion. One of the
Strikes most important of
these is the sig-
nificance of the “sit down" type of
strike. 1 find many informed au-
thorities who refer to the “sit down”
strike as a key point in present la-
bor problems.
It is something new in this coun-
try. It is a program of striking in
which labor is, entirely passive but
by which it usurps the rights of own-
ership. The workers simply stay in
the plants, offering no trouble and
for the most part avoiding Sestruc.
tive tactics. But it is the fact that
they remain in the plants, the prop-
erty of their employers, that is caus-
ing iderable govern-
ment circl
The
strike
lies in
the se
cons worry in
why this phase of
creating concern
individ
indiv
warrant in
san 10 thin gE a %
are concerned
went
far
if a group of strikers
mine and
to stay
to your home
they expe
There is no difference ir
two situations. While the
on you or me would be
important to the country as a whol
it remains as a fact that our
would be lated hing
same manner as rights
lated
strike
or
announced ted
there.
the
fect
in
tinme y x
HONS were vic
eral Motors
thers s and fixes
i pin where are
/ person who owns
elher
is
ade no
long as
government m
break it up. As
employers organize and tread on la-
bor with a steel boot, just so long
workers rganize
ment from busi-
But it does not seem to me to
be a right of labor to actully take
private property. To that extent I
cannot feel very ki ndly t toward those
strikers at prese nt asserting such a
right through use of the “sit down"
strike.
Now,
federal
to
are entitled to o
trea
there sons why the
3
is
are
governmer
If troops were sent into private fac-
tories to drive out the *'sit down"
strikers, one can readily see what a
Jut if
government fails to enforce this in-
herent right, it is not doing its
sworn duty to the rest of the people.
And it was only a few weeks ago
that Mr. Roosevelt again took the
oath of office as President, swearing
to enforce as well as defend the
Constitution.
Then, another phase of the situa-
The Wag-
ner law says em \ployers must nego-
tiate collectively ‘‘with the major-
ity"’ organization of employees and
it decrees further that the labor re-
lations board shall determine which
is the majority organization; that
it can decide this question on evi-
dence or order an election among
employees. None can tell usually
whether union or company organiza-
tion employees are in the major-
ity in some of these strikes,
rea
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the federal
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Ill-temper costs business more
Don't map out a big program
minute as you go along. It counts
up amazingly.
Solitude may induce lonesome-
ness, but it was La Bruyere who
said, “All our misfortunes come
from our inability to be alone.”
Who finds a friend has found a
gem; who is a friend is a diadem.
You are doing pretty well if
are just. You are doing
than pretty well.
Self-Reliance and Self-Conceit
There is as much difference be-
ween self-reliance and self-con-
is between the
and south poles—all the
in the world!
A long day of hard physical la-
bor brings greater peace of mind
than any philosophy.
We travel to jar our
you
more
nortt
difference
out of.
How dull it
an end,
to shine i
were life.
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