what .
(ob?
yin thinks
about:
California Condors.
Local naturalists are all |
that the California condor
from here.
condor,
creature in all North America,
extinct, along with such van-
ished species of native wild life
pigeon and the lightning rod
agent,
at. For while they
may have croupiers
at Bradley's in
Palm Beach, with
eyes as keen and
bleak as the con-
dor's are, and real-
estate dealers in
Miami as greedy as
he is, our frustrated
rivals will be put to
it to dig up a bird
with a wing spread
of from nine to elev-
en feet.
H
Irvin 8. Cobb
Communism’s Gallant Foe.
rifice,
that scattered through the world are
never hear again.
enough.
But because, in the last
of him, I'm thinking many of us
gallant service by one venerable,
miliar to all
time to time, triumphing by sheer
will power, by sheer singleness of
purpose above his own suffering,
Pope Pius XI, speaking
soon must be his deathbed,
forth a clarion call for a
of communism.
\a * *
Waning Merchant Marines.
FTER we've spent
government subsidies trying to
of our own, it's just a trifle discon-
certing to read that, among the six
nations leading in maritime ship-
ping,
third in gross tonnage, fifth in sh
having a speed of twelve knots or
better, and last in ships built within
the last ten years.
But, although Los Angeles is a
great port, we have no time right
now to pester about a comparatively
trivial thing such as the threatened
vanishment of the American flag
from the seven seas—not while
we're still so uncertain about who
will have the leading parts in “Gone
With the Wind.” To date, nearly
every lady in the movie colony has
been suggested for Scarlett O'Hara
except Mae West and Jane Withers,
and as for Rhett Butler—well, it
may yet be necessary to cast that
role as a whole minstrel first part,
with an interlocutor and six end
men.
. » ®
Italians in Spain.
T MUST be slightly annoying to
those Italian soldiers who were
flung headlong upon Spain to fight
in a war in which they had no per-
sonal interest, when, through mis-
take, they are mown down in hun-
dreds by their own troops, and then
selves in the hands of the oppos-
ing government forces, who have a
they capture.
Still, it must be a great com-
fort to the confused captives—and
to the relatives of the fallen back
home as well—to have assurance
from Mussolini that they are win-
ning the way for fascist doctrines.
Until they heard that cheering mes-
sage, those battered survivors prob-
ably thought that they had been
licked.
The Height of Gall.
8 J. CAESAR remarked at the
time, all Gaul was once divid-
ed in three parts, but it is obvious
that subsequently there was a com-
plete re-consolidation.
When France, already in default
to us on one little four-billion debt,
starts scheming to peddle her new-
est issue of government securities
over here, that must indeed be re-
garded as the height of gallishness
or Gaulishness—spell it either way,
reader, it'll come out the same.
Moreover, to evade the Johnson act,
she would have American investors
send the money to Paris and buy
these French bonds there. This sort
of smacks of inviting Br'r Rabbit
to come into camp to be massacred,
instead of bunting him down with
the dogs.
IRVIN 8. COBB.
Service.
oR
By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
ALIDATION of the Wagner act
brought the administration up
a new national labor policy to pre-
vent strikes and to
determine what
course shall be fol-
lowed when collec-
tive bargaining is
unsuccessful. For
this purpose Secre-
tary of Labor Per-
kins invited 33 lead-
ers of industry and
labor to attend pri-
vate meetings in
Washington, stating
Sec. Perkins they would be asked
to discuss the need
of new safeguards for industry to
balance the gains achieved by la-
Among
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor;
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion; Myron C. Taylor, board chair-
man of United States Steel corpora-
tion; Gerard Swope, board chair-
man of General Electric corpora-
tion; Harper Sibley, president of
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce, and government officials.
Certain of the President's advis-
ers have told him a law requiring
or that at least
the government
and that unions cannot participate
Organized labor always has op-
ably would continue to fight against
Lewis thinks one result
act decisions may
sit-down
John L
act. "Under
the court's decision," says Lewis,
the
of employers,
for its protection had been conceded
Wagner labor relations act us
plan to enlarge the Supreme or
That question arose at once on an-
nouncement of the decisions and re-
ceived various answers. Opponents
of the President's bill declared the
necessity for such a measure, if it
ever existed, was entirely removed
by this showing of liberal tendencies
by a majority of the court; and
many supporters of Mr. Roosevelt
admitted that some compromise
such as the appointment of two new
justices instead of six, might be
advisable. But the President him-
self let it be known that he wished
his program pushed through without
modification. The favorable ma-
jority of one, created by the shift
of Justice Roberts, did not seem to
him safe enough.
This position of the President was
taken also by some of his cabinet
members. Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace declared that agriculture
could expect nothing from the Su-
preme court as now constituted, and
urged American farmers to give the
Roosevelt plan their earnest sup-
port.
Attorney General Cummings de-
clared that the four justices who dis-
sented from the court's decision
al still constitute a ‘‘battalion of
death’ and will continue to oppose
all major New Deal social legisla-
tion. .
John L. Lewis, head of the C. L
O., asserted the Supreme court had
demonstrated its ‘instability’ anew
and that the Wagner act decisions
only made more imperative the
need for enlarging the court.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois, whip of the senate, predict-
ed that the President's court plan
would emerge from the judiciary
committee ““a much compromised,
amended and generally trans-
formed measure.”
(CHIEFS of executive depart.
ments, independent officers and
other spending units of the govern-
ment were called on by President
Roosevelt to reduce expenditures up
to the end of the fiscal year June 30.
In his letter to them the President
said:
“It is apparent at this time that
the revenues of the government for
the present year will be materially
less than the amount estimated in
my budget message of last January;
and, hence, the deficit will be far
not absolutely necessary at this
time.
“You will report to me through
the acting director of the budget not
later then May 1, 1937, the steps
which you are undertaking to reduce
expenditures and the amount of the
estimated saving resulting there-
from.’
SOUTHERN congressmen found
they were no longer in the sad-
dle when the house by a vote of
276 to 119 passed the anti-lynching
bill. The debate was furious and
the representatives from the South
were deeply resentful.
“For more than 100 years the peo-
ple of the South have kept life in
the Democratic party,” declared
Representative E. E. Cox of
Georgia, “and now that that party
has grown powerful it turns upon
the South and proposes to pass
this wicked and cowardly law, This
bill is directed just as much against
the South as any reconstruction bill
passed after the Civil war.”
The bill was sponsored by Repre-
sentative Joseph Gavagan of New
York whose district includes the big
negro city of Harlem.
ders a prisoner to a mob shall be
guilty of a felony
prosecution and severe penalties. In
addition, the county in which a
lynching occurs shall be liable for
$2,000 to $10,000 damages, to be
paid to the family of the lynched
person.
Proponents of the measure were
greatly aided by a mob in Missis-
sippi that took two negroes from a
sheriff and tortured and burned
them to death. The local authori-
ties were supine and called the
shocking affair a "closed incident.”
pre-
reiterating
to
representatives from the
United States to take
part in negotiations
for settlement of the
strike in the General
Motors of Canada
plant at Oshawa,
promised to “call
out an army if nec.
essary’ to protect
the property of the
: corporation. Hugh
Thompson, U. A. W,
. a 4 A. organizer, barred
Premier by Hepburn, threat-
Hepburn ened that every Gen-
eral Motors plant in America would
be closed unless the Oshawa strike
were settled soon with recognition
of the union demands. Homer Mar-
tin, president of the U. A. W. A,
called Hepburn a number of un-
pleasant names. The Toronto Trades
and Labor Council pledged the sup-
port of its 40,000 members to the
union's strike against General Mo-
tors.
Hepburn forced two of his min-
isters to resign, charging they were
not supporting the government in
its fight “against the inroads of
the Lewis organization and commu-
nism in general.” They are David
A. Croll, who held the labor, mu-
nicipal affairs and public welfare
portfolios, and Attorney General Ar-
thur W. Roebuck. Axel Hall, young
mayor of Oshawa, who has been
friendly to the strikers and critical
of Hepburn's action, sent an “‘ulti-
matum” to President Martin of the
Automobile Workers of America de-
manding that members of the union
in the United States strike in sup-
port of the Oshawa local. The lat-
ter body adopted a resolution de-
manding that Premier Hepburn
withdraw from the negotiations to
make way for intervention by the
dominion authorities.
In Montreal 5,508 women garment
workers, members of the C. I. O. in-
ternational union, employed in 72
plants, started a strike for higher
wages; and in Fernie, B. C,, 1,000
C. 1. O. miners threatened to strike
for union recognition.
W HEN George VI is crowned
king of Great Britain on May
12, Robert Worth Bingham, our am-
bassador to London, and James W.
Gerard, President Roosevelt's spe-
cial ambassador to the coronation,
MITCHELL HEPBURN,
mier of Ontario,
ip determination not
C1 ©,
The State department in Washing-
ton consented to a modification of
the ruling which bars American dip-
lomats from wearing gala clothes
at state functions. The costume
decided upon is not full court dress
but the duke of Norfolk, who is
earl marshal, will let it go as such.
EFORE this session of congress
closes it is probable the law pro-
viding for publication of salaries
of corporation employees who re-
ceive $15,000 or more a year will
be repealed. The house ways and
means committee already has
voted unanimously in favor of rec-
ommending such action and the
law now has few supporters in con-
gress.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton ex-
plained that much criticism has de-
or blackmail.
cutter Mendota paused briefly
north Atlantic and,
where the Titanic struck an
berg and sank 25 years ago, carry-
For nearly a quarter of a cen-
tury the coast guard cutters have
guided shipping through the danger-
ous ice area without an accident,
their motto being
Titanic disaster.” They are on the
job until the last iceberg has dis-
appeared.
Jf VE history - making decisions
were handed down by the Su-
preme court, all upholding the va-
lidity of the Wagner labor relations
act and inferentially
broadening the in-
terstate commerce
clause of the Consti-
tution. The most im-
portant ruling made
by five of the nine
justices and read
by “hief Justice
Hughes, was in the
case of the Jones &
Laughlin Steel com-
pany and directed
the reinstatement of
ten discharged em-
ployees. The de-
cision supported the constitutional
basis of the Wagner act, finding
it a legal scheme’ to protect com-
merce from injury resulting from
the denial by employers of the right
of employees to organize and “from
the refusal of employers to accept
the procedure of collective bargain-
ing."
The broad constitutionality of the
act, was strongly noted by the chief
justice. He declared that:
“We think it clear that the na-
tional labor relations act may be
construed so as to operate within
the spirit of constitutional author-
ity."
Hughes defined the right of em-
ployees to self-organization and to
select their representatives for col-
lective bargaining as '‘a fundamen-
tal right.’
Regarding the vital point of the
application of the interstate com-
merce clause of the Constitution,
Eughes declared:
“The congressional authority to
protect interstate commerce from
burdens and obstructions is not
limited to transactions which can
be deemed to be an essential part
of a ‘flow’ of interstate or foreign
commerce. Burdens or obstructions
may be due to injurious action
springing from other sources.”
In the case of the Associated
Press, concerning the dismissal of
Morris Watson, a New
torial employee, the court was split,
5 to 4. The majority opinion, read
Chief Justice
Hughes
that Watson was dismissed not be-
cause his work was unsatisfactory
reinstatement.
The three other cases, in each of
which the Wagner act was upheld,
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo
Scott Watson
© Wentern
Newspaper
Union
Founder of the Chautauqua
HERE
chautauqua was
great creations
ture.” It was literally the ‘‘uni-
versity of the people’ and it was the
self have a college education.
He was John Heyl Vincent, born
sylvanians who moved back to that
state soon after John was born.
at the age of eighteen and later was
ordained into the Methodist min-
istry. Transferred to the Rock Riv-
er, Ill, conference in 1857 he be-
came the pastor of a church at Ga-
lena, Ill., where one of his parish-
ioners was a quiet little ex-captain
the army named Ulysses 8S.
Grant.
fter a trip to the old world Vin-
cent was elected genera! agent of
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School Union in 1866 ard two years
later corresponding secretary of the
Sunday School Union and Tract So-
ciety in New York. In these offices
he did more than any other man to
shape the Ir ternational Uniform
Sunday School Lesson system
In 1874 Vincent and Lewis Miller
founded a summer assembly on
Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., for the
training of Sunday school teachers
and in 1878 the C uqua Lit
erary and Scientific Circle was in-
stituted, providing a system of pop-
ular education through home read-
ing and study. The next year the
first of the summer schools was or-
ganized and these developed rapid-
ly.
In speaking of his work at Chau-
tauqua Bishop Vincent said, “1 do
not expect to make a second Har-
vard or Yale out of Chautauqua,
but I do want to give the people of
this generation SUC h a taste of what
it ir to be intelligent that they will
see to it that their children have
the best education the country can
give."
How well he succeeded in doing
that is shown by the extension of
the idea—to the summer schools of
colleges and universities, the sum-
mer assem conferences and
schools of the various re-
Ea, and secular organization
and the summer courses of lectures
and entertainments which made the
word ‘Chautauqua’ a common
noun. It is also shown by the dec-
laration of Theodore Roosevelt that
“Chautauqua is the most American
thing in America.”
Camera Man
WwW ITH telephoto lens to aid them
in getting long distance
“shots” and high-speed film to re-
cord the scene even when the light
is poor, it's not so difficult for the
camera man of today to “cover” a
modern war. But it was very dif-
erent when the first camera man
the field to do his job.
His name was Mathew Brady,
the son of Irish immigrants to New
York stete, who was engaged in
the trade of making jewel and in-
strument cases when he became in-
dispute between the Fruehauf
Trailer Company of Detroit, Mich.,
and the United Automobile Workers
Friedmann - Harry Marks Cloth-
i
mous;
was 5 to 4.
D IPLOMATIC representatives of
20 Latin American republics
gathered in the Pan-American un-
jon building in celebration of Pan-
American day and listened to an
address by President Roosevelt.
This was formal and was broadcast
to all the republics, but it was fol-
lowed by an “off the record” talk
which the reporters were not per-
mitted to hear. It was said the
President sought to convince the
diplomats of the good faith of the
United States in its foreign peli-
cies, and that, reviewing the prom-
ises made by his administration in
JT IS the opinion of the Knights of
Columbus that communism is re-
sponsible for sitdown and other
strikes in the United States and
Canada, and that national organiza-
tion of 600,000 Catholic men there-
fore has started an *‘endless cru-
sade” against what it terms “the
most damnable organization in the
world.” The program was launched
officially by 400 delegates of cour
cils in the New York district »-
will be carried on all ov»
country by the Knights
life of ease on his income.
tion and danger on the battlefields,
to serve as his dark room in the
field, In it he had to make his
own emulsion to coat the large
glass plates that were his negatives,
for the convenient film roll had not
yet been thought of.
His wagon became a familiar
sight to all the armies. It plowed
through muddy roads, it was fer
ried over rivers in constant dan.
ger of being dumped overboard and
all his precious equipment lost.
But fortunately for
Brady came safely through all these
dangers and the United States gov-
ernment nowy owns a collection of
his negatives, which are priceless
records of one of the greatest trag-
edies in our history. It is also the
gymbol of a tragic career. After
the war was over Brady found him.
difficulties. His
Bega were sold to pay a stor
EE hts DY TeYies the
ment
char of $2.340. Brady not
Dench t by the deal but Jere quuh
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F oreign Words
and Phrases
number,
Etourderie.
an imprudent
Ricordo.
keepsake.
A contre coeur.
ly
Calembour. (F.) A pun.
Pas seul. (F.) A dance per-
formed by one person.
A la lettre. (F.)
literally.
Claqueur,
appl Ging
Coup de m
stroke,
Ex animo. (L.) Heartily.
Deo favente. (L.) With the kelp
of God.
Si non e vero, e ben trovato.
(It.) If it is not true, it is very
ingenious.
(F.) Giddy
caprice.
(It.) A so
conduct,
venir, a
(F.) Unwilling-
To the leiter,
(F.) One
al a theater
aitre. (F.) A master
paid for
Dr. Pi erce’s Pleasant Pellets made of
May Apple are effective in removing
accumulat ed body waste. —Adw
Helping Others
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less diffi Rcult for each
other?
KILLS INSECTS
ON FLOWERS « FRUITS
VEGETABLES & SHRUBS
Demand original sealed
bottles, from pour dealer
Ignorance and Knowledge
Distance sometimes endears
friendship and absence sweeteneth
Miss
REE LEEF
says:
'CAPUDINE
relieves
HEADACHE
quicker because
it's liguid...
abieady dissolved
To Our Sorrow
Reciprocation is often nothing
other than retaliation.
GOOD RELIEF
of constipation by a
GOOD LAXATIVE
Many folks get such refreshing
relief by taking Black-Draught for
constipation that they prefer it to
other laxatives and urge their friends
to try it. Black-Draught is made of
the leaves and roots of plants. It
does not disturb digestion but stime-
lates the lower bowel so that con-
stipation is relieved.
BLACK-DRAUGHT
purely vegetable laxative
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