(obb
thinks
about:
The State of the World.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—|
Up in Montreal a veteran
showman says he talks with |
chimpanzees in their own lan-
guage. I wish he'd ask one of
his chimpanzee pals what he
thinks about the present setup
of civilization.
Because I can’t find any humans |
who agree as to where we all are |
going and what the
chances are of get-
ting there. In fact,
the only two who ap-
pear to be certain
about it are young
Mr. Corcoran and
young Mr. Cohen,
and they seem to
hesitate at times—
not much, but just a
teeny-weeny bit—
which is disconcert-
ing to the lay mind.
We are likely to lose
confidence even in a comet, once it |
starts wobbling on us. i
I'm also upset by
from England's greatest star-gazer
—they call him the astronomer roy-
al, which, by coupling it with the
royal family, naturally gives astron-
omy a great soc in England
and admits it to best circles.
He says the moon 1 off
mathematically pr course
»
oe
Irvin S. Cobb |
a statement |
‘ial boost
the
S ciear iis
Cash Versus I. 0. U's.
NLY a few weeks a front
pages were carrying dis-
patches saying the adjustment
Great Britain's defaulted
just around the corner. E
and financiers had discu
of settlement. Figures were quo
~—mainly figures callin
ductions on our part, |
that. They were figures
Lately the papers hav
strangely silent on the subject. Per-
haps you the old
told on the
liams, who
Washington
men played
—mostly with t
tional products c¢
go th
remember
1
iate
Early one mort
the fam
tor met
1 an
an
coming all-nigl
“1 certainly mopped up,” !} )
claimed. “I won $3,000—and wha
more, $8.75 of it was in cash.”
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Autumn Millinery.
UST as the poor, bewildered
males are becoming reconciled
to the prevalent styles in women's
hats, up bobs a style creator in New
York warning us that what we've
thus far endured is merely a fore-
taste of what's coming. In other
words, we ain't seen nothin’!
For autumn, he predicts a
quaint number with a slanted peak
fifteen inches high, which, I take
it, will make the wearer look like
a refugee trying to escape from un-
der a collapsing pagoda.
Another is a turban entirely com-
posed of rooster feathers.
A matching coat of rooster feath-
ers goes with this design. But in
the old days they used hot tar.
A third model features for its top-
hamper a series of kalsomine
brushes sticking straight up. Nat-
urally, the hat itself will imitate a
barrel of whitewash.
But the gem of all is a dainty
lobular structure of Scotch plaid.
Can you imagine anything more be-
coming to your lady wife than an
effect suggesting that she’s balanc-
ing a hot-water bag on her brow?
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“McGuffeyisms.”
HE lieutenant-governor of Ohio
urges a return to ‘“‘McGuffey-
ism" for settling modern problems.
"Twas in a McGuffey reader that
I met those prize half-wits of lit-
erature—the Spartan boy who let
the fox gnaw his vitals; the chuckle-
headed youth who stood on the burn-
ing deck; the congenial idiot who
climbed an alp in midwinter while
wearing nothing but a night shirt.
and carrying a banner labeled ""Ex-
celsior’’ in order to freeze to death;
the skipper who, when the ship was
sinking, undertook to calm the pas-
sengers by—but wait, read the im-
mortal lines:
“We are lost!’ the captain shouted,
As he staggered down the stair.
And then the champion of all—the
the crevice and all night stayed
there. In the morning, when an
early riser came along and asked
what was the general idea, the
heroic urchin said—but let me quote
the exact language of the book:
“1 am hindering the sea from
the child.”
Simple? I'll tell
authority on hydraulics who figures
that, when the Atlantic ocean starts
boring through a crack in a mud
wall, you can hold it back by using
one small Dutch boy's arm for a
stopper.
IRVIN 8. COBB.
© Western Newspaper Union,
Bamboo Largest of Grasses
The giant bamboo is doubtless the
largest of the grasses, The arun.
dinacea grows to 100 feet high and
the variety Tulda to 70 feet high,
There are other very high varieties.
SRO I
Adjourns .
A breathing
spell! Members
of the 75th con-
gress, happy in
adjournment, at
last, file out of
the Capitol in
Washington.
Jap Airman Courts Fate
A JAPANESE army aviator pre-
4 A cipitated the gravest intern
Far East crisis since the
began in Shanghai, anc
deed since the Boxer
ret el-
swooped down upon a
hen he
road ne gus
y automobile flying the
3 i
Jack t
from its radia-
One of the bullets the
body of Sir Hughe Natchbull-Huge
sen, Great Britian’'s a
China, sped nr
attend = . r
en ‘ Olid nee
pierced
mba
mbassacaor
as he
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Hooray! School Is Out!
EK VEN if there were more than a
+ few threats of “Wait'll I get you
after school,”
ers were happy
schoolbe
as
sion of the Seventy-fifth congress
came to a close at last.
tors and representatives,
bogged down with months of wran-
gling, much of it futile, through the
intolerable Washington
release carried the implication that
there might be a special session in
October.
But the legislators left the Capitol
just ended will probably become
known less for what it did than what
it did not do.
Four out of five of President
Roosevelt's major ‘‘must’” meas-
ures it did not pass; the fifth it
passed only with reservations which
put a new complexion upon it.
Congress did not pads the wages
and hours bill, After being passed
by the senate in unacceptable form,
with the understanding that it would
be improved in the house, the bill
was still buried with the house rules
committee when the bell rang.
Congress did not pass the new
crop control bill which includes Sec-
retary Wallace's “ever-normal
granary” project. It was agreed
that this legislation be brought up
during the first week of the January
session or the special session.
It did not pass the President's de-
sired legislation for re-organization
of the executive department. It did
vote the White House six new sec-
retaries, though.
It did not pass the proposal to
increase the merhbership of the Su-
preme court by six justices, who
would apparently be selected with a
view to insuring the constitution-
ality of New Deal measures. By a
vote of 70 to 20 it permitted a sub-
| stitute measure, which would have
added the justices one at a time,
| to die a natural death in committee.
| In addition to failing to enact this
| legislation demanded by the chief
| executive, congress defeated the
| Norris bill to create seven “little
| TVA’s,” and the crop insurance
| bill, proposing a revolving fund of
| $100,000,000. The senate failed to
| ratify the sanitary convention with
| Argentina, modifying the restric-
| tions on imports of meat and live
| stock.
However, congress did:
Pass the Wagner low-cost housing
| bill, but with restrictions on the unit
| cost which will, it is charged, make
| the program virtually unavailable
| for New York and other large cities
| which constitute the principal slum
| problems. The $526,000,000 measure
{ was on the President's “must” list.
| Pass a sugar quota which may be
vetoed by the President. He threat-
ened to veto such a bill if it limited
the output of Puerto Rico and Ha-
waii to 126,000 and 29,000 short tons
annually, and it does just that.
Extend the neutrality law to pro
nibit the shipment of arms, am-
them.
Pass the
comm
marketing
Appropriate
| work relief
Guffey act, creating a
of bituminous coal
$1,500,000,000 r
in the current fiscal
personal
other
a bill to outlaw
companies and
neans of tax evasion
d a reform bill for the lower
designed to speed appeals to
sme court and permit the
nent of Jus to intervene
rips gr
ing
tice
r of a statute.
atified the Bi Aires "peace
8," ude a consi
uenos
: Lies, which |
tive pact for common
r anywhere ti
republics.
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Nn wa reatens
an
the three
years
»d that it be
ill
ancy t to
for the ex-
. ) the first
year, the second year
| and $50,000,000 in succeeding years
Railroad Strike Threatens
neds
the
ational mediat
wr » zr
William M.
et vn
tpone
mbers
* financial condition pre-
ie granting in-
said H. A
man of the carriers’
The increase requested would add
a year to operating
costs, of which $2,000,000 would be
for extra social security taxes and
$4,000,000 for extra retirement fund
taxes, he said.
ns men
Planes Land Without Eyes
AT OAKLAND, CALIF., civilian
“ and army fliers proved that air
transport planes can now be landed
of
Enochs,
cluded ti wage
committee,
pilot from gaining the slightest
glimpse of the ground. Using only
a radio beam for “eyes,”
made 100 perfect “blind” landings
at the airport there with a Boein
247-D plane, of the type now used on
air lines.
The cockpit windows were cov-
ered with metal screens to prevent
their sneaking so much as a peek
at the field. Many pilots flew the
ship and, although some of them
had never operated that type of
plane before, not a single landing
was made outside the 200-foot run-
way.
So successful were the tests, the
bureau of air commerce, army,
navy and commercial airlines rep-
resentatives present agreed that the
country as a whole. The system,
ship safely to earth, even through
snow, rain, fog or dust, was called
by authorities the most dramatic
thing of its kind since the first flight
of the Wright brothers.
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Andrew W, Mellon Is Dead
NDREW W. MELLON, repuied-
ly one of the four richest men
in the United States and secretary
of the treasury in three cabinets,
died of uremia and bronchial pneu-
monia at the home of his son-in-law
at Southampton, N. Y. He was
eighty-two years old.
Shortly before his death he had
fulfilled the ambition of his life by
giving to the nation what he termed
the “nucleus” of one of the finest art
collections in the world. The col
lection he gave was valued at $50,-
000,000. Excavation is now under
way for a $15,000,000 building to
house the collection in Washington.
Japanese Turn Tide
| UCCEEDING in landing
transport ships,
peared ready to turn the tide of
ground battle in the undeclared war
in China, while their navy threw a
blockade around 800 miles of the
Chinese seacoast from Shanghai
nearly to Canton, in South China.
Only at terrific cost were the re-
inforcements getting ashore. Many
entire landing parties were blown to
bits as they attempted to take shore
positions under a blaze of machine
gun fire and in the face of artil-
lery shells and land mine explo-
sions.
More than a quarter of a million
men were reported engaged in the
fighting along front stretching
from Shanghai northwestward to
Tientsin, Peiping, Nankow and
Changpei, deep in Chahar province
and north to the Great Wall.
At the northern end of the front
the pro-Japanese Mongol troops of
Prince Teh battled combined Chi-
nese regular and communist
armies. Japanese reported the cap-
ture of Kalgan, capital of Chahar,
shutting off Chinese communication
Mongolia, while the routed Chi-
ps fled to the south. Jap-
rces broke through the stub-
at Nankow
ass and penetrated the Great Wall.
ried
ng narrowly a stra-
yeuver which would
00 Japanese troops
a
with
nese troo
anese fo
"hinese defenses
were rep to have suc-
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npends in the
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of the sena-
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uld not return to
Wasl ter the next elections
Burke summed up reply of the
three men attacked when he said
that if Guffey’s statement were true
“we might just as well forget about
Jefferson Island and harmony din-
and get ready for a real bat-
Wheeler, on the senate floor,
ngtor
ners
tle
. « « want to drive us out of the
Democratic party they will not have
any difficulty in doing so. I say to
| you (Guffey) that if you nominate
your governor of Pennsylvania or
| yourself for President of the United
States, you will not have to drive
us out.”
ans
Admiral Yarnell Protests
NCLE SAM was brought nearer
than ever to the unofficial war
in North China when a shell ex-
| ploded on the deck of the Augusta,
| flagship of the United States’ Asi-
atic fleet, killing Freddie John Fal-
gout, a seaman, and wounding 18
others of the cgew. The ship was
lying at anchor in the Whangpoo riv-
er in the heart of the International
Settlement of Shanghai. It was im-
possible to determine whether the
shell had been fired by the Chinese
| or Japanese.
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, com-
| mander of the fleet, warned the gov-
| ernments of both nations against
sheilfire over American and foreign
warships. The President and the
State department were inclined to
leave diplomatic overtures to the
military, naval and diplomatic offi-
cers in China. The President de-
clared that under the circumstances
accidents such as the one which
beset the Augusta were bound to
occur.
an Won
' Santander Falls to Franco
war drew one step nearer to a
close as Gen. Francisco Franco's
post on the northern coast.
Probably they were not
square.
ring” had broken.
of Franco's furious thrusts, the
city’s streets had run red with the
blood of anarchists’ victims, as
thirst, hunger and terrorism crazed
the populace. By the thousands,
civilians were fleeing by sea—the
only way-—to France. Every avail
able craft was put into service; hun.
dreds even attempted a getaway in
rowboats, canoes, dories and other
small craft, some of them using ime
provised sails made from sheets,
National Topics Interpreted
by William
National Press Bullding
Bruckart
Washington, D. C,
Washington
ber, and to
Court Now extent,
Liberal
ceeded in reorgan-
With
dent
bama
of that
the nomination by
of Sen. Hugo L.
Democrat, and confirmation
nomination by the senate,
of
of six
for liberal interpretations
Constitution by a vote
three on most questions.
While
to
it is important, of course,
to know that Senator Black, the
new justice, is
New Dealer, it much more
. Black hereafter as be-
sONS
e job
likewise
the reaso that
ns
selec-
as
osevell's
In this case,
r lesse
’ the poli
¥
appoint-
the
CS
underlying obj
stresse In order to un-
derstan ation, it
sary to v several
line and i
to exam
dents marking Mr.
in the senate
is likewise
ine various inci-
Black's career
tory on one
necessary
less defi
Along the «
or
New Deal
part for those persons and those
Deal policies.
overlook various senate investiga-
tions conducted by Senator Black
for we know that in most of these
he was carrying out orders from the
White House. That is, Senator Black
was engaged in expeditions of
vestigations, in order that if there
light of criticism.
Casting aside many of the as-
saults on Mr. Black's personal rec-
ord, and turning to the other phase
of the situation that culminated in
his selection for the court, it must
be plain to anyone knowing all the
facts that President Roosevelt had a
in selecting the
a bit of review.
-
When the President suddenly de-
manded that congress reorganize
. the Supreme court
Court Split and make provi
Party sion for the ap-
pointment of six
new justices of his own choosing, he
created an enormous split in the
Democratic party. He alienated
the same time provided many old-
munition which they could use to
positions in oppos-
ing Mr. Roosevelt on many other
phases of legislation.
I do not mean to say that all of
the’ southern Democrats turned
against the President because that
is untrue. There were possibly a
half dozen senators from the South
and an equal proportion of repre-
sentatives who are sticking by the
President and will continue to sup-
port him. That fact, however, does
not alleviate the condition.
Senator Black was among those
———
President
He never
popular mag
who stayed with the
through thick and thin,
was an exceedingly
among his colleagues, Add to this
the capacity of using harsh lan-
guage in the extreme and one finds
that he was not the most popular
choice among the senators for the
job to which he has been elev
From various quarters,
have heard obs
fect that Mr
Senator Black
of facts
| could did
bers 5
to go along
packing
Deal legislation
hours progran
nours program
rnited
knowledge
He
appol
the
and
of
groups
er to the ef-
which
k enters
I think
of
vital.
py
May Solidify
Court
examination
them is
They are important e reasons
I have set down are im-
portant from another standpoint
It is pure conjecture, course,
but I am going to mention the pos-
sibility that Senator Blaek’'s entry
into the court membership may pos-
sibly create resentment among the
other Each them will
certainly know about all of the va-
rious undercurrents, the gossip, and
the more or less ob s facts in-
volved in the appointment
I have been wondering then
whether the other members of the
court, even liberal members like
Justices Stone, Brandeis, and Car-
| dozo, may not feel that Mr. Roose-
velt has subjected them to undigni-
| fied terms. I mean by that, is there
| not a possibility of them feeling that
the President is seeking to gain de-
cisions along his own line of reason-
ing rather than on the basis of jus-
tice and law?
As I said, this is pure conjecture.
| Nevertheless, I think it will be
agreed that it is a logical thought,
because the Supreme court justices,
after all, are just as human as you
and anyone else
Carrying this thought a littie fur-
ther, what will be the effect upon
the old conservative members of the
court like Justices McReynolds and
Butler and Sutherland? Will they re-
gard the Black appointment as a di-
rect thrust at them personally? If
they do, it seems to me the logical
result would be to make them more
conservative than they now are.
I do not mean to imply dishon-
esty or unfairness to any member
of the court. I know some of them
personally and I respect every one
of them. I merely call attention to
these things as among the possible
results in the appointment of a man
to the Supreme court who may have
been not the worst appointment pos-
sible but surely, all conditions con-
sidered, it was far from the best.
Politically, the Black appointment
is likely to enter into the 1938 con-
gressional elections. There seems no
way by which the matter can be
avoided as an issue. It is only
through those elections of senators
and representatives that the people
can express themselves, and nearly
everyone agrees now that the name
of Justice Black will enter into nu-
merous state and district political
battles.
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