. Japs' Big Push Starts ickarnd Fiery Cross Haunts Justice PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT suf- fered what was probably the most embarrassing period of his en- tire political career as the whole country stormed over the publish- ment of what was claimed as docu- mentary proof that Hugo L. Black, recently appointed a justice of the Supreme court, was and is a mem- ber of the Ku Klux Klan. The series of articles, copyrighted by the North American Newspaper alliance and printed in the news- papers which subscribe to its serv- ice, included reproduction of Black's resignation from the hooded broth- erhood, allegedly turned in to the organization in 1925 but never made known to the public or to the Klans- men in general. It also contained reproduction of the minutes of a Klan meeting in the following year at which Black was said to have become a life member and was given a gold ‘‘passport,”’ der. they are true, are manifold. Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted that he had no knowledge that Black was a member of the Klan when the ap- pointment was made. He refused to comment further until Black re- turned from Europe, where he was vacationing. Black, hounded for a statement by the press, seclusion in London and refused to confirm or deny the accusations. Opposition to the administration lost no time in making political cap- ital of the situation. Senators who had been marked for political ex- tinction because they had dared to oppose the administration on the plan to add six new justices to the highest tribunal found it the finest kind of defense ammunition. They pointed out that the President, in his opportunity to appoint one new justice of the liberal character he desired, had appointed a man who, if it were true he belonged to the lan, was incapable of administer- ing impartial justice to Catholics, Jews and negroes. Other senators declared they never would have vot- ed for his confirmation had known he was a Klan $4 the y sman. th of office ns of correct- Showdown on 'Sub' Piracy 3 RE: AT BRITAIN and France massing the greatest de- stroyer fleet ever operated in the Mediterranean sea, to police it and safeguard neutral shipping from at- tacks by “pirate” submarines, as a re- sult of the agree- ment signed by nine powers at Nyon, near Geneva. The powers signatory to the pact also in- cluded Greece, Jugo- Slavia, Turkey, Ru- id mania, Bulgaria, M. Litvinofl © .o¢ and Russia. Italy and Germany had refused to attend the conference when Russia publicly accused Italy of operating the “pirate” submarines which sank two Russian ships, and threatened reprisals if Italy did not pay indem- nity. The principal agreement, which Germany Italy were invited to join, were: 1. Mediterranean shipping will be restricted to the regular ship lanes, which will be patrolled by French and British warships, eastern and western stretches. Italy agreed, she was to be al lowed to patrol the Tyrrhenian sea. 2. Patrolling navies will and attempt to destroy any sub- marine which attacks merchant ships other than Spanish, without first giving passengers and crew op- portunity to leave in lifeboats, as outlined in the 1938 London naval treaty. 3. Signatories expressly declare that they do not concede belligerent rights to either party in Spain. 4. Patrol ships arriving on the scene of an attack too late to pre- vent it will be authorized to attack any submarine in the vicinity, pro- vided they are satisfied it is the guilty one. 5. These measures will be execut- ed by the British and French fleets anywhere in the Mediterranean with the exception of the Adriatic. East. ern powers will protect neutral shipping in their territorial waters. 6. Signatories agree not to let any of their own submarines put to sea in the Mediterranean unless accom- panied by a surface vessel, except in certain “‘exercise’ zones. 7. Signatories will not permit for- eign submarines in their waters un- less in urgent distress or on the surface and accompanied. It was plain that delegates knew that explosions might occur in half a dozen European capitals if their vere w £ Sp provisions of the HANDS ACROSS EUROPE Jointly refusing to attend the anti-“‘piracy’” conference, Hitler (left) and Mussolini once more two Fascist governments. pact did not get into operation be- fore there were any further attacks on shipping. They were embar- rassed in conference by the Russian foreign commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, who insisted on naming Italy as the “pirate.” Russia at first refused to sign, on the grounds that the sec- ond provision was no protection at merely requiring submarine commanders to be ‘gentlemanly’ before sinking ships, and that it im- plied recognition of both Spanish parties as belligerents. Britain's Anthony Eden was reported to have convinced the signatory powers that it would be impossible for a sub- —_ on tual control of North Hopei, nese lines at Shanghai, after the most terrible fighting of a month of At ab ». heeding it the same time, th at last the ads generally they claimed } , but the Ger- y won them over asion man advisers finall to the theory that these positions had been held at a cost far out of proportion to their importance. The first strategic stage of the Chinese fighting in Shanghai—as planned by the German officers— the second, lines, and the third, to deprive the guns. Realizing what Japanese is going on, the command has cost, in an effort to change an or- As a result, the Japanese for the men, rather than the Chinese. an No Help for Munitions Ships American merchant vessels ich carry arms or other im- at their own risk, Presi- This policy applies to all of tion of May 1, 1937, when he voked the neutrality act both parties war. any government-owned vessel from carrying war materials to China or Japan. Unless war is declared he has no control over other American shipping, but he warned shippers that if ships carrying such cargo are bombed or attacked they need expect no action on the part of the United States. wn Wan Copeland Loses in Primary T WENTY-ONE arrests were made as violence dogged the polls in New York city’s most spirited may- oralty primary in years. Senator Royal 8. Copeland, who ran for the Republican nomination although he was supported by Tammany Hall, lost the honor to Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, fusion candidate for re- election. Copeland made his bid for the G. O. P. nod by bitterly oppos- ing President Roosevelt, but the stamp of Tammany precluded his nomination. The Democratic nom- ination was captured by Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who had the backing of Democratic national chairman James A. Farley. 4 Keep Us Out of War! PRES! DENT ROOSEVELT, anx- ious over conditions in Europe and the Far East, cut his vacation short and returned to Washington to discuss developments with his cabi- net. After discussing the situation with Norman H. Davis, his European ambassador-at-large, and Bernard M. Baruch, and getting reports from the State department, he was said to be convinced that there was a real possibility of implication of the Unit- ed States in a foreign war, Baruch called Europe a tinder box, ready to explode at any time. In an address before an outdoor meeting of Dutchess county (N. Y.) citizens President Roosevelt had said, “World conditions are pretty serious. I am glad to say . . . that we are going to do everything we can in the United States—not only the people of the United States but the government of the United States —1t0 keep us out of war.” te Headache for the League T GENEVA, the Chinese delega- tion framed an appeal against Japanese invasion, to be presented to the League of Nations. The ap- peal, which urged peace-loving members and non-members to join in action against the “aggression, invoked Article 17 of the League covenant, which would invite Japan to sit in on the council of reply. The Chinese statement charged that since mid-August Japan has 60,000 troops into the sung-Shanghai area “The in tion of Japan . . . can- not otherwise : be interpreted than to Woo the. Japs anese i Chinese Eiji Amav Switze nad i Japan had no intention to Geneva board that discu ern hostilit Nippon from the Lea gue after judged her the aggre: vasion of Man wchuria in 1833. in $300,000,000 in New Money ECRETARY OF THE TREAS- “ URY MORGENTHAU has agreed to issue $300,000,000 in cash against an equal amount of the treasury’'s ‘'steril- y ized” gold. The move was believed to have been made because of recent weakness in the market for govern- ment bonds and a 16 per cent decline in the k n ver ssed the ies. sor in Secretary Morgenthau Loyalists Ready to Pay Up T WAS reported in Geneva that the Spanish loyalist government and the American government had agreed upon $30,000,000 as a settle ment for American claims arising This, understood, would cover nd of damage suffered by business in Spain since nning of the war, including ion and appropriation of for military pur- as well as material damages. offering a rar is still going on, a government shattered revolutionary traditions. It was be- lieved that the loyalists were anx- ious to emphasize the fact that they wot the lary govern- vernment of the begi confiscat poses, In voluntarily ment while the w settle revolution ut the real go ne nsider prompt pay- the best wave ping the respect of other na- tions. ns one of ns Wo Czechoslovakia Loses a Saint HE “little father of Czecl vakia,” Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the republic, died in Pra- ha. He was eighty-seven years old. It was the efforts of Dr. Masaryk ah YORI0- ident, ing three times re-elected. In 1935, with old age coming upon him, he resigned his office to Eduard Benes, his colleague, who was at his bed when he lost the battle against the death he philosophically considered ‘the common enemy of mankind.” He once said: “If it must come I shall at least know I died fighting it.” sn Nazis Too Busy to Fight DOLF HITLER, German dicta- tor, struck what might have been a cheerful note, in conference with foreign government represen- tatives at the Nazi rally in Nurem- berg, when he declared that Ger- many is too busy to become involved in any war. He said that the plans which he and other Nazi leaders have for the country would take from 20 to 40 years to complete, and that war might be disastrous, Samuel Morse, inventor of the electric telegraph, had only one ambition as a young man and that was to become an artist He stud. fed under Washington Allston, then the greatest painter in the United States, and with Allston went to London in 1811. There he met Benjamin West who, although an American, was president of the Royal academy, and a great fa- vorite with the king, who later made him Sir Benjamin West. West was actually at work on a portrait of the king when the lat- ter was handed the Declaration of Independence. Morse ‘heard the piquant story from West himself, says Ernest Greenwood in “From Amber to Amperes.”” Here —as related by Morse: Turning to the picture of the king, Sir Benjamin West said: “Do you see that picture, Mr, Morse? Well, sir, the king was sitting for me when the box containing the American Declara- tion of Independence was handed to him.” “Indeed!” 1 answered, ‘‘and A Worthy Object We iL L Lb wer is the mental rience exercised in ut a de sired en re than a salary to a salaried man see the position of rship, man eased award, awaken his will to vho does good swwen more good what appeared to be the emotion of the king? What did he say?” “Well, sir,” sald West, “he made a reply characteristic of the goodness of his heart,” or words to that effect. * ‘Well,’ he said, ‘if they can be happier under the government they have chosen, then under mine, I shall be hap- py!’ "0 Morse stayed four years in Eng- land where he achieved consider- able success as a portrait painter. Then returning to his native coun- try, he afterwards became presi- dent of the national academy and an eminently successful painter, his sitters becoming so numerous that he was unable to meet and fill all of his orders. It was dur- in 1832, following a second visit to it Morse got his con- ception of the telegraph. Twelve later—May 24, 1844-—he gave a public demonstration of his invention, sending a from Washir ngton n to Baltimore The rest —Kansas Ci ity Star. Funster Ought to Have ie Vere Jones in to spend ¢ K fe y Nature, and y a field , zur, » the slow re “That be oldest 'habi Just a visitor like yourself.’ no The Scales HAT goes up must come down. Or if you wish to put it in more scientific language: Ac- tion is equal to reaction and in the contrary direction, This is the law of compensation. It is the one fixed, immutable law of life and it applies to every- thing, everywhere. It cannot be evaded or avoided. The working of it may be immediate or #t may be a matter of centuries, but if we keep ourselves aware of it we may be saved disappoint- ment and disillusion. The extent to which we try to restrict that law is absurd, We speak of balanced budgets, bal- anced rations, and the balance of trade; but we quite ignore bal- anced lives and balanced sociolo- gy; in the end, Nature takes the job off our hands, with the consequent upheavals and disturb- ances. 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