By EDWARD W. PICKARD ENATOR ROBERT F. WAGNER of New York and Representative Henry B. Steagall of Alabama intro- duced simultaneously in the senate and house the ad- ministration bill set- ting up a program for the construction of homes for “‘fami- lies of low income." Under the measure the government may lend to state or local housing authorities $1,000,000,000, from July 1, 1937, to July . : 1, 1941, the money Sen. Wagner 4. hig purpose to be raised by bond issues and the loans to be supervised by a new department, the United States Hous- ing authority. To supplement the loans congress is asked to appropri- ate $50,000,000 to be paid in out- right grants. The loans are to bear interest at not less than the going federal rate and are to be payable over such a period, not to exceed 60 years, as the authority may de- termine. Competition with private industry is guarded against, according to the authors, ‘by insuring that housing projects shall be at all times avail- able only to families who are in the low income groups.” The four year program calls for the construction of 375,000 family dwelling units at an average cost of $4,000 a unit. Wagner and Steagall insisted that the bill called for ‘‘de- centralization.” “All the direction, planning, and management in connection with publicly assisted housing projects are to be vested in local authorities, springing from the initiative of the people in the communities con- cerned,” they stated. ‘“The federal government will merely extend its financial aid through the medium of these agencies. The only exception to the strictly decentralized admin- istration is that the federal govern- ment may set up a few demonstra- tive projects in order that local areas without adequate instrumen- talities of their own may benefit by an experience in low rent housing.” AVING virtually countenanced the sit-down strike in the case of the General Motors controversy, the administration found itself em- barrassed by that favorite ma- neuver of John Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization. Out in Monica, Calif., about 200 employees of the Douglas Air- craft corporation went on strike and ‘sat down" in the big plant, com- pletely stopping work on $24,000,000 worth of airplanes the company is building for the government. The men defied a trespass warning and an order to evacuate the plant sent them by the police, and Mr. Doug- las refused to negotiate with the union until the strikers got out of the buildings. The situation was complicated by a quarrel over worker representation between the Automobile Workers’ union, a C. I. O. group, and the Machinists’ union, allied with the A. F. of L. Finally the strikers were indicted for conspiring to violate two old California laws against forcible en- try and trespassing, and when 300 armed deputies appeared at the plant, they surrendered and were taken to Los Angeles for arraign- ment. Another big government job was halted for a time by a sit-down strike of employees of the Electric Boat company at Groton, Conn. which is building submarines for the navy. There, however, the local and state police soon evicted the trespassers and arrested them, and the rest of the employees, a large majority, resumed work. Speaking *‘not as an officer of the administration,” Secretary of Com- merce Daniel C. Roper said that any sit-down strike ‘‘that under- takes to take over private proper- ty is a very serious and fundamen- tal thing and in my opinion will not be long endured by the courts.” There was almost an epidemic of strikes throughout the country, many of them of the sit-down vari- ety. Some were settled in short order but others are still on at this writing. Among these was the strike at the Fansteel Metallurgical cor- poration in North Chicago, where the disgruntled workers refused to leave the plant. Gov. Henry Hor- ner was striving earnestly to bring about a settlement. John L. Lewis’ threat, during the General Motors strike, that “Ford and Chrysler are next,” is being carried out. The United Automobile Workers union sent to Walter P. Chrysler demands that the U. A. W. be recognized by his corporation as the sole collective bargaining agency. PEN warfare by the govern- ment on private power inter- ests will be started soon if the rec- ommendations of President Roose- velt to congressional leaders are acted upon favorably. In letters to Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, the President urged that prompt action be taken to provide for the sale of electric power from the $51,000,000 Bonne- ville project on the Columbia river in Oregon; and he intimated this might be taken as the forerunner of a national power policy. The rec- ommendations were in accord with a report from the committee on na- tional power policy and also with the position Mr. Roosevelt took in the controversy with Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, TVA chairman, who fa- vored co-operation with existing power companies and consideration for their investment. Here is what the President pro- posed: 1.—That not less than 50 per cent of the power generated at Bonne- ville be reserved for sale to public authorities, such as states, districts, counties, municipalities and other sub-divisions and to co-operative as- sociations of citizens 2.—~That the government construct itz own transmission lines, sub-sta- tions and other facilities for trans- porting power so as to make the government project independent of existing utility companies. 3.—~That the federal government control the re-sale rates to consum- ers through regulation by the fed- eral power commission. 4.—That the power be sold at rates low enough to promote the widest use of electrical energy, par- ticularly to domestic and rural consumers. These rates, the Presi- dent insisted, should be fixed with relation to only that part of the to- tal $51,000,000 Bonneville investment that the government saw fit to charge to power generation. 5.—That the federal agency ad- ministering the project be author- ized to acquire by eminent domain if need be, land, franchises, exist- ing transmission lines. R. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND, the elderly Californian who de- vised the old age pension plan bearing his name, was found guilty of contempt of the house of representa- tives because he re- fused to testify be- fore a house com- nittee that was in- vestigating his scheme last spring and ‘took a walk" out of the commit tee room. The ver- dict, rendered by a jury in the District of Columbia court, made the doctor li- able to a sentence of one to twelve years in jail or a fine of from $100 to $1,000, or both. Judge Peyton Gordon deferred sentence until he could pass on a motion for a new trial. Townsend seemed rather to wel- come the verdict, saying he had expected it. ‘Lord bless you, I'll be all the more active,” he said when asked what effect a convie- tion would have on his movement. “I think it will be the general opin- ion that I have been the victim of an injustice. Our organization will be spurred to greater efforts.” Dr. Townsend OLLOWING the example set by the five operating railway broth- erhoods—engineers, firemen, con- ductors, trainmen and switchmen-— the sixteen non-operating brother- hoods, with a membership of 800.- 000, have voted to demand wage in- creases averaging 30 cents an hour. This action was taken at a meeting in Chicago of the general chair- men of the brotherhoods. Besides the pay increase, the men ask the guarantee of full time employment for all regularly assigned workers and two-thirds time for “standby”’ employees. The non-operating brotherhoods embrace the clerks, telegraphers, carmen, shop laborers, machinists, blacksmiths, dispatchers, boiler- makers, drop forgers, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, freight handlers, express and station em- ployees, maintenance of way men, signal men and sleeping car con- ductors. p LANS for the complete blockade of Spain by the other European powers, in order to starve out the civil war, met with difficulties ow- ing to the bringing up of points in- volving the national honor of France and Russia. The French made certain objections to the land patrol and the Russians to the sea patrol. The Spanish loyalists were mak- ing a desperate effort to capture Oviedo, where the insurgent garri- son was attacked , 100, the rebels were getting the worst of it, for the government N ORDER to curb “unwarranted speculation’ by members, all securities exchanges are asked to adopt certain regulations suggested by the securities and exchange com- mission. The proposed rules would put exchange members on the same trading basis as the general pub- lic. They would have to put up the 55 per cent margin required of other securities purchasers, and would be required to do this by 5 p. m. of the day of purchases. In announcing the commission's step, Chairman James M. Landis told reporters: “This procedure is in accordance with a plan of the commission to give the exchanges the opportunity to regulate the trading activities of their own members. This course, which has been adopted by the com- mission on previous occasions, will allow greater flexibility in the ad- ministration of the rules and will permit minor adaptations to the va- rious exigencies of individual ex- changes. While the responsibility will thus lie with the exchanges, the commigsion will observe both their enforcement and their ef- fectiveness.” HAIRMAN HENRY F. ASHURST of Arizona gathered together the members of his judiciary com- mittee and began formal consider- ation of President Roosevelt's proposi- tion for federal ju- diciary reform, in- cluding the packing of the Supreme court. It was under- stood the committee would arrange for public hearings at which opponents and proponents of ey the plan would be Sen. Ashurst privileged to speak their minds. Not long before, Mr. Ashurst and several other senators were called to the White House to discuss the strategy of the fight the administration faces. The Arizona senator and Majority Leader Joe Robinson of Arkansas, who was among the conferees, only recently were vociferous in declaring a con- stitutional amendment was the only proper way to accomplish the Pres- ident's purpose. But now they are obediently supporting the admini- istration measure. Senators Frazier of North Dakota, Bone of Washington and Nye of North Dakota also were summoned to the White House, but what they heard there did not change their stand against the President's plan. Mr. Nye, indeed, soon after de- livered a radio address against it. He did not especially defend the Supreme court, but said he thought there are better ways of attaining the objective in conformity to the Constitution than the way of packing 1 velt. Ex-President Herbert Hoover in an address before the Union League club of Chicago uttered solemn warning that the President's plan was a serious threat against the ultimate safeguard of liberty, and condemned any such “quick and revolutionary change in the Con- stitution.” At this writing 42 senators have declared against the bill; 32 are on record for it, and the rest have not committed themselves. The ad- ministration leaders expected to pick up at least 12 from the non- committal group, and claimed more, OHN G. WINANT, who as chair- man of the social security board had a lot of trouble with certain senators over patronage and whose reappointment to membership on the board had not been confirmed by the senate, sent his res- ignation to the President. Mr. Roos- evelt said Mr. Win- ant was retiring to attend to pressing private business and would be back in the | federal service be- ; fore very long. The Arthur J. former governor of Altmeyer New Hampshire has been considered a logical candidate for the post of secretary of social welfare if that - 2 President nominated Murray W. Latimer of New York, O FFERING to make peace with the Chinese communists against whom it has waged war for ten years, the National government at Nanking announced the terms on which those reds would be allowed participation in national affairs. The Kuomintang's demands are: Aboli- tion of the communist army and its incorporation in the National gow ernment forces; dissolution of the Chinese communist state and its unification with the central govern- ment; cessation of red propaganda opposed to Kuomintang principles, and stoppage of the class struggle which divides society into antagonis- tic classes and invites mutual de- struction. That the Nanking government is steadily growing stronger is made evident in the more conciliatory at. titude adopted lately by Japan. A spokesman for Hayashi's new cab- inet in Tokio indicated Japan was willing tb abate its demands for simultaneous settlement of all pend. ing Sino-Japanese ircidents and negotiate separate settlements fo each. - STL Streamlined Grandmothers. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— i { i ing what has vanished from the city landscape. I'd grown reconciled to stations where blacksmith used to be and a beauty parlor where once the livery sta- ble spread its fasci- nating perfumes. So it couldn't be that. All of a sudden it dawned on me Since coming here I've seen mighty few 1912 - model grandmothers ba r- ring in the movies, and then, with the exception of dear May Robson, they makeup. We don't so much mind the young girl who has gone prematurely old ~we're abcustomed to her—but the old woman who has gone prema- turely young, young that she seems to be advertising the ap- proach of second childhood by dressing to match it—well, that's ifferent. So now 1 know what I miss. It's the old-fashioned lady who was neither streamlined nor a four-col- Or process. service shops Irvin 8, Cobb had to wear 80 Penalties of Old Age. F, MENTALLY or physically, or both, a man of seventy has so slowed down he no longer can func- tion usefully, what are we going to do about Secretary of State Huli and Secretary Roper, and Senator Glass and Senator Norris, and both Cal- ifornia’'s senators, and a sizable pro- portion of the outstanding member- ship of either branch of congress? And, to avoid cluttering up the words, so to speak, what disposition should have been made, at seventy, of Thomas A. Edison and John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and Henry Ford and Queen Victoria and Cardinal Gibbons and Von Hindenburg and Clemenceau and Professor Eliot and Carrie Chapman Catt and Mark Twain and Elihu Root and Melville W. Fuller, just to mention a few Going still further back, one gets to thinking, among others of Henry Clay and Ben Franklin and Glad- stone and Bismarck ar Victor Hugo and Alexander Humboldt. . * . Open Season on Bears. NEW Brunswick is granting free A licenses for sportsmen to kill bears this spring. I regard this as an error. It reduces bears, which are picturesque features of forest life, and increases amateur gunners barging through the wilderness plug- ging sway at every living object they see, including guides. A green- horn might miss a sitting union depot—probably would-—-but he gar- ners him a guide nearly every time. On all counts, the black bear should have game protection. For every shoat he steals, he eats thrice his weight in grubs and ants and bugs; and he's a fine scavenger, for he likes his dead meat high. If he were 8 veteran member of a Maryland Duck club, he couldn't like it any higher. Even so, he has been preyed on until, in parts of our north woods, he's practically extinct. Yet, next to a Vermont Democrat, he's prob- ably the most inoffensive mammal found in New England. - Ad * Tyranny of the Soviets. EEPING through the Soviet em- \J bargo on free speech and free press and even free thought, stories came out that the five-vear plan shows signs of utter collapse and also that, in their striving for ab- solute despotism, Stalin and his— ants are preparing to “liquidate” by recent ruthless associates as might, through private ambitions, stand in the way of this latest desperate tyranny. Of course, we hear all sorts of tales about the real inside of the Russian situation, some inspired by hostile prejudice and some by sym- pathetic partisans. . * » Women’s New Freedom. VEN in olden days, before they broke loose, women envied us every masculine perquisite we had, except the moustache cup and pos- sibly chewing tobacco. Since eman- cipation, seems like they've taken over practically everything we ever had. The bars are crowded with wom- en, and the smoking rooms and the barber shops and the gambling clubs and the prize-fights and the wrestling matches and the political caucuses, If it weren't for them, the race-tracks and the night spots would languish and the cocktail mixers might get an occasional rest. Maybe, as a distinguished scientist now arises to proclaim, they could ciusive fields, only before this they didn’t get a chance to prove it. IRVIN 8. COBB © Western Newspaper Union. 1 HE chic young miss above, cen- | ter, says, I make my own | clothes. 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