Cobb
Zhumks aboul
Semi-Nude Fashions.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Clothes may not make the
man, but leaving them off cer-
tainly makes him foolish. And
that goes double for the women.
Whence arises the present-day de-
lusion that going about dressed at
half-mast enchances
the attractiveness of
the average adult?
Our forbears of the
Victorian era wore
too much for health
or happiness or
cleanliness. But isn’t
it worse to offend
the eye all through
the lingering sum-
mer by not wearing
enough to cover up
the blotches, the
blemishes, the bulges
Irvin 8. Cobb
turity? Sun baths should be taken
corner of First and Main.
ter are the worst offenders, seems
like.
all the regalia the traffic will stand!
good, you can't tell 'em. If some-
body started the fad of going at
the game while practically nude,
inside of two weeks mumblepeg
would be the national pastime—un-
til somebody else thought up a game
to be played by folks without a
stitch on. Or anyhow, just a stitch
here and there.
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Doctoring Movie Seripts.
JSUALLY they lay these yarns
‘on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, who
thrives upon them and goes right
on turning out successes, his motto
being, “What's grammar as be-
tween friends so long as the box
office shows results?” But, for a
change, this one is ascribed to an-
other producer, who proudly de-
scribes himself as a self-made man,
which, according to his critics, is
relieving the Creator of a consider-
able responsibility and putting the
blame where the blame belongs.
They also say no self-made man
should stop with the job only partly
finished. But then Hollywood is full
of parties trying to push Humpty
Dumpty off the wall.
As the tale runs, this gentleman
entered the conference chamber at
his studio and as, with a kingly
gesture, he laid down a fat sheaf
of typewritten pages, said to the
assembled intellects of his staff:
“Jumpmen, in all my experience
in the picture business this is what
you might call unique. Here is ab-
solutely, posstiffly the only poifect
script 1 have ever read in my ontire
life. I tell you that before we start
altering it.”
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Strikes Versus Wars.
ID you ever notice how like a
war is a strike?
The operator and his operatives
are the shock troops that suffer the
heaviest casualties. The owner risks
his profits and perhaps his market
and sometimes his plant. The work-
er gives up his wages, frequently
his job, occasionally his life.
Stockholders see dividends van-
ishing and investments shrinking.
tually hungry. For, as in a war,
most grievous burdens.
Those who really garner in the
cial buzzards eager
their writs and their injunctions;
eers and
induce friendly nations to turn en-
emies so they may gain their own
selfish ends.
After it's over,
averted had common sense and
common justice ruled, rather than
greed and entrenched stubbornness
and fomented hate. And the same is
true of almost any war. For every
real benefit to humanity came out
of peace and arbitration, not out of
battle and destruction.
And here's the final parallel: Ul
timately, the supposed victor finds
himself the actual loser. Tell me
which army won any great strike
or any great war—and I'll teil you
who won the San Francisco fire and
the Galveston flood.
IRVIN 8. COBB,
©-~WNU Service,
Crater Lake in Oregon
Crater Lake in Oregon has the
most romantic geologic history of
any lake in the United States. Its
rim was once the base of a volcanic
mountain which collapsed and sank
into the earth. Later it cooled,
springs came out of the sides, snow
collected and it filled with water. It
is 6 miles in diameter and con-
tainz the bluest water known to ex-
int paturally today. There is no out-
1% 23d no streams running into it
and yet ihe water is always fresh.
lekared
'Glory Be to God!’
YING for weeks, the scheme to
of the Supreme court finally choked
its last gasp and left this world. On
vote the
senate voted to recommit the Rob-
inson substitute for the President's
original bill to the judiciary com-
mittee. The vote was 70 to 20, the
legislation has yet suffered at the
hands of a house of congress.
lier, it had been decided to let the
opposition senators write their own
bill, an innocuous measure for ‘‘ju-
dicial reform’ not dealing in any
way with the Supreme court. Sena-
tor Barkley, the new majority lead-
er, attempted to save the Presi-
dent's face by having the bill left
on the calendar, but he never had a
chance. When the roll-call came,
even Senators Ashurst of Arizona
and Minton of Indiana, two of the
ers, voted to recommit
ram Johnson (Rep., Calif.) when
the results of the roll call
made known. The applause
bellowed forth from
from California had
the veteran
majority
aie
Low Interest for Farmers
BY A vote of 71 to 19, the senate
overrode the President's veto of
It
was a defeat even more crushing
than the recommission of the court
bill, and made the bill a law with-
out the President's signature, for
the
by a two-thirds majority ever Mr
Roosevelt's veto
Senator Barkley made a
hearted attempt to stave off the
overwhelming vote, and the defeat
was accepted by many observers as
loans to farmers
Barkley's having been elected ma-
leader instead of Sen. Pat
Barkley, 38; Harrison, 37
EN. WILLIAM H. DIETERICH
of Illinois changed his mind at
ator from Kentucky,
is the majority lead-
er of the
States senate, suc-
ceeding the late Jos-
eph T. Robinson of
Arkansas. The vote
was 38 for Barkley
to 37 for Sen. Pat
Harrison of Missis-
sippi.
The
Democrats in the
senate had been as-
sured of 38 votes,
enough to elect Harrison, on the
eve of the secret election. But that
VicePresident
Garner
organization in Illinois, begged Har-
rison to release his pledged vote, in
order that the President's choice
might head the party in the senate.
The slim victory by no means
patched the obvious party rift. Even
the administration admitted that the
President's Supreme court bill was
virtually dead, even then. Vice Pres-
ident Garner visited Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana, leader of the
opposition forces, and invited the op-
position, which it was believed had
enough votes to recommit the sub-
stitute court bill to the judiciary
committee, to draft a new bill.
President Roosevelt then told Sen-
ators Barkley and Harrison at the
White House that four measures
“must” be passed before the Janu-
ary session: The minimum wage,
maximum hours and child labor
bill; the aw AAA and ever-normal
granary : agner housing
bill, and legislation to plug loopholes
in the federal tax laws. Congress
was all for quick adjournment, the
| President was told. The possibil-
ity of adjourning congress, then re-
calling it in special session in the
late fall, with committees continu-
ing to function in the interim, was
| then discussed, but what agreement
had been reached was not an-
| nounced.
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A Citizen Takes His Pen
RUSHING blow to the Presi-
<4 dent's court program, delivered
at the time it hurt most, was a let-
| ter written by Gov, Herbert H. Leh-
man of New York to
Sen. Robert F. Wag-
ner of that state.
The letter, made
public, revealed
Governor Lehman's
opinion ‘as a citizen
of the state of New
York’ that the bill
would be ‘“‘contra-
ry” to the “inter-
ests’’ of the people
of the state. “Its en-
actment,” the gov-
ernor wrote, “would
create a greatly dangerous prece-
dent which could be availed of by
future less well-intentioned admin-
istrations for the purpose of oppres-
gion or for the curtailment of the
rights of our citi-
| Gov. Lehman
| constitutional
| zens."
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Bloody Anniversary
'T BE Spanish civil war entered
its second year. For the popu-
lations of rebel cities, the occasion
was one for joyous celebration, with
fiestas, bull fights and concerts the
order of the day. Gen. Francisco
Franco, commander of the insur-
gent forces, publicly proclaimed it
a “year of triumph." He ordered
| that all communications and public
documents for the next twelve
months be dated as of ‘the second
year of triumph."
In the first “year of triumph,”
more than a million persons, includ-
ing women and children, were
killed. The insurgents claim to have
taken 34 of the 50 provincial capi-
tals of the country, and all of its
colonies. They have captured six
of the eleven cities of more than
100,000 inhabitants: Seville, Malaga,
Bilbao, Saragossa, Cordoba and
Granada.
The rebels lost little time in at-
tempting to regain their losses
around Madrid. Franco unleashed
the full power of his main army of
160,000 in a drive to recapture Bru-
nete and other suburbs of the loy-
alist stronghold; they were met by
at least 250,000 defending govern-
ment troops. Every weapon of war
except gas was used. There was
hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches
| and the greatest use of artillery
since the World war as the flercest
battle of the Spanish conflict raged.
The battle was opened by as sped
tacular an aerial fight as the world
has seen in years; insurgents were
reported to have lost 27 planes
against only four for the loyalists.
If there were any definite gains
made in a week's fighting, they were
probably on the side of the insur-
gents, observers reported, although
the government estimated the reb-
els had lost 10,000 men.
pe.
Japs Maul U. S. Women
ASSaulr upon two American
women by sentries in the Jap-
anese embassy in Peiping brought
vigorous protests, both orally and
in writing, from the United States
Sino-Japanese Crisis
UST after a verbal agreement
between Chinese and Japanese
military commanders had appeared
to have prevented an impending re-
newal of the Sino-Japanese war, the
Japanese government officially an-
nounced that heavy concentration of
Chinese troops had been made at
Peiping, constituting a direct act of
aggression against Japan.
At the same time the Nanking
government claimed that 17 Japa-
nese troop trains, carrying 30,000
soldiers,
Earlier, 12,000 Japanese
China to supplement the regular
garrison of 7,000.
At Tientsin, Gen. Sung Cheh-Yu-
political council and commander of
the Chinese forces in North China,
had complied verbally with the Jap-
anese ultimatum for peace, al-
though he refused to sign anything.
In a talk with Lieut.-Gen. Kiyoshi
Katsuki, the Japanese commander,
he apologized for the clash between
Japanese troops and the Chinese
Twenty-ninth army at Lukowkiao
July 7, the incident which perpe-
trated the new crisis, and expressed
the regrets of the Hopei-Chahar
council. He said that he would dis-
miss scveral of his officers as a
punishment.
Gen. Sung assured the Japanese
he would evacuate the area west
of Peiping, and would do his utmost
to suppress communism and anti
Japanese activities
Part of the agreement was that
both Chinese and Japanese troops
should be withdrawn from the
walled city of Wanpingshien, suburb
of Peiping. But Chinese troops re-
fused to withdraw when, they al-
leged, it became certain the Japa-
nese had no intention of withdraw-
ing, either. In the midst of many
conflicting and confusing reports the
outcome of any truce was problem-
atical to say the least.
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Europe Short on Grain
UROPE began to worry about
the possibilities of a hungry
winter as early threshing indicated
a serious grain shortage
Germany's shortage was estimat-
ed at 3,000,000 tons. The deficit will
be met partly with increased con-
sumption of potatoes and sugar
beets, and partly with cheap, plenti-
ful corn from southeastern Europe.
It is expected, even so, that Ger-
many will have to buy 1,500,000 to
2.000.000 tons from other foreign
countries. Experts estimated that
the German harvest for 18937 would
be 10 to 20 per cent below the aver
age for the years 1930-35
Poland, from which Germany has
been able to buy grain in the past,
will not be able to sell any this year,
while Hungarian, Rumanian and Ju-
goslavian crops will be smaller than
last year, because of drouth
It was believed that if the current
drouth continued the farmers of
Great Britain would likewise suffer;
rainfall in the past month has been
about one-fifth normal.
Of the Baltic countries only Lithu-
ania, it is believed, will have a crop
equal to her needs. Crops suffered
badly in Latvia, Esthonia and Fin-
land. Only Spain, in all Europe,
with increase of 15 per cent
over last year's grain harvest, ap-
pears likely enjoy a well-filled
bread basket
an
to
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De Valera Is Re-elected
F HIS party, Fianna Fail, can
keep in power that long, Eamon
de Valera will be president of the
executive council of the Irish Free
State for another five years. He
was elected to the nation’s highest
office by a vote of 82 to 52 in the
dail eireann (parliament). De Va-
lera, in favor of severing all ties
with Great Britain, won even the
vote of the labor group, which does
not endorse his party
It was believed that De Valera
would go ahead with legislation nec-
essary to implement the new con-
stitution approved in the plebiscite
of July 1. He would in that case
set up a senate and elect a president
by popular vote, as the constitution
provides. If De Valera is elected
president, to serve seven years, po-
litical experts say he will virtually
disappear from politics and his
party will break up.
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Static Wrecked Hindenburg
THE spectacular crash of the
Zeppelin Hindenburg, killing 36
at Lakehurst, N. J., last May 6, was
probably caused by an unseen spark
of static electricity which jumped
from the atmosphere to the frame of
the dirigible. At least this is the
theory of the board of inquiry which
investigated the accident and re-
ported to Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper.
NATIONAL PRESS BLDG WASHING
Washington.—Many times in these
write in praise of
Senator Joe Rob-
inson of Arkansas,
the Democratic
leader in the senate. His magnifi-
cent qualities, his capacity as a
statesman and the regard with
which he was held by Republicans
and Democrats alike were such that
further praise from this pen would
be of little value. Suffice it to say
that in Joe Robinson's death the na-
tion is the loser because “he fought
the good fight.”
3ut Senator Robinson's sudden
death a few days ago has precipi-
tated a political condition of gravest
importance. Although none of
who knew him nor those with whom
he was associated in an official
capacity could have foreseen
Great Leader
Passes On
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son may have more far-reaching in-
fluence upon
than all of his long and
guished career in public life.
is to say, fate possibly has turned
in this instance to the role it some-
times plays--the role of master
strategist,
The question may be asked:
does the deat!
80 important?
The answer is simple.
gon was field
Roosevelt Particu-
larly, he was the field marshal in
the greatest legislative battle
reach
the days of s
cided with
an epochal admini
President
Wh y
become
Joe Robin-
the marshal for the
avery,
them. Mr. Roosevelt then came for-
ward with a second set of reasons,
namely, that the Supreme court as
at present constituted could not and
would not hold some of his social
legislation constitutional. That set of
reasons was knocked into a cocked
hat when the Supreme court upheld
the Washington state minimum
wage law, the Wagner laber rela-
tions act and the social security
taxes. Then came the resignation
of Justice Van Devanter. Justice
Van Devanter was one of the men
whom Mr. Roosevelt had in mind
as unwilling and unlikely to see
cial legislation h th
glasses as Mr. Roosevelt saw
situation in the country.
The Van Devanter
gave the Presiden
appoint a new m
t also gave the senate an
nity to burst forth with
of its own
80~
thr .
WIrc game
the
resignation
t an opportunity to
yer to the court.
opportu-
expressions
IQCaS
ing the name
Senator
sevelt thus
vacancy,
been interpret-
among the
of the Democratic
Robinson. Bu Rox
far has failed to fill the
and this fail
leader,
senate a
Chief Executive
al justices of }
of the United States. He
upon the Arkansas senator for many
Mr. Roosevelt's administration may
well stand or fall by the success or
the judiciary of the United States.
It seems further that if the Presi-
dent fails to
approval for this plan which would
give the President domination over
the court system of the country, he
will have lost control of the legislia-
tive branch of
the of his term. Few
Presidents have been able to carry
on successfully without the co-oper-
ation of the legislative branch.
It is too es , of course,
whether ti} of Senator
son means defeat for the cour
ing program.
remainder
¢ death
Nevertheless, most
of the astute politi servers in
Washington—indeed, many of the
President's own party in the senate
~believe that the passing of the
cal ob
to the President's power in
gress. This results from
that Joe Robinson was able to mold
together many groups and cliques
and hold them by the sheer power
of his lovable personality in a co-
hesive, workable unit,
well and faithfully Joe Robinson
fought for the President and his
policies. I have said in these col-
umns heretofore and I repeat that
1 do not believe Senator Robinson
favored all of the New Deal poli
cies, in his heart. He was progres-
sive but he had sound ideas; he
stood by the President and the New
Deal with courage and capacity, but
on many occasions, I have reason
to believe, he fought for those prin-
ciples because he believed he
should either fight as a member of
his party or retire. Further, he
knew that if he would retire he
would not have the opportunity nor
the influence to persuade the radi-
cal wing of the New Dealers to pro-
pose reasonable policies. In other
words, the late Democratic leader
was attempting to be a leader in
fact as well as in name and many
are the indications where he was
able to pull the theorists and the
radical New Dealers back from the
brink of political destruction.
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In view of the facts 1 have re-
ported and the observations I have
. made above, it
Court Bill Thea be
there are many Observers who be-
lieve the court legislation will have
to be abandoned and that
will be quickly overwhelmed by that
annual desire of representatives and
senators to conclude their work and
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In any
the court
President's de-
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event, those osed to
bill contend that the
another reason
“the inevi-
he
should acces
When it became apparent that the
for six new justices
could not be passed because the
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gan of Kentucky and Hatch of New
Mexico }
year until the Supreme court num-
bered eleven members has received
the same bitter criticism that char-
acterized the first measure. Many
fight it as long as they sould have
fought the original because it will
give the Chief Executive control of
the Supreme court just as the ear-
lier one would have done.
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President Roosevelt vetoed a little
known and little discussed bill
other day. It was
Star Route ynown as “H. R.
Bill Vetoed
the
4408, An to
Provide
of Star-Route C
Four Year Intervals.”
course, will mean little
those who read thes ;
intended to do justice
underprivileged classes
Roosevelt has often
in his fireside chats over
the radio. The men who would have
this piece of legis-
those
of
and the service from
The star route
is the only means by which a good
many thousand persons are able to
receive mails on anything like a
modern basis because this service
reaches the out-of-the-way inland
towns where railroads are not yet
and possibly never will be in opera-
tion.
I watched this legislation go
through the house without dissent-
ing vote; 1 saw Senator McKellar,
Democrat, of Tennessee, attack the
bill in vicious language and then I
saw the senate pass it by a vote of
nearly two to one.
In addition, I know that the rep-
resentatives of these little known
carriers (little known except to
those whom they directly serve)
had tried for a number of years to
go broke in carrying out their con-
tracts would be amazingly large. I
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