( National Topics Interpreted National Press Bullding rs —— Washington.—Congress has been doing a deal of talking about help- ing business to get Much Talk, on its feet, but it No Action has not yet ac- complished much. The house ways and means com- mittee, it is true, is making some headway and a number of senators, including the powerful Senator Har- rison of Mississippi, are asserting the necessity for a reversal of fed- eral policy. But, again, there is much more talk than action, and in the meantime the country’s busi- ness is sliding lower and lower. The difficulty in the present situ- ation and the thing that probably has been more responsible for the unable to tell what the federal gov- ernment is going to do. It has be- come evident already that with a somewhat changed congress, there are many business men who are more hopeful than a month ago. Business men, big and little, are quick to there are senators and representa- tives who think the time has | consideration. And added that unless get some consideration, this current depression is going to be as bad as the last one. The federal ricultural problem and it that job into some consideration of the other half of American namely, the and try outside of a tural ; It will be recalled that during the first two years of President R velt’'s administration there flock of laws passed that of great value to the country. lany of them were of a tempor har- acter and were enacted on that basis. That would have been fine if the administration there. But it did not. ing herd of so-called thinkers who were scattered far and wide in fed- eral jobs had to have their innings. At least they thought they had to have a turn at bat. All of their pet theories had to be tried The result: experimental, dangerous, and a burden to business. With many millions of others, I expected at tha! time to see these queer looking laws shaken down, commerce roams out. many found necessary. pened. Again, the result: the coun- try’s business from the smallest general store at a cross roads or a sins investigation by the federal trade commission into ‘high prices.” “The inquiry, of course, is directed at monopoly. I have no doubt at all that there will be a blast from some government official pretty soon in which “big business'’ again will be told it is crushing the ‘little fellow" and that the public is suffering from the high prices maintained by a “trust.” There may be even a fireside chat because a President's voice penetrates everywhere. At a time, too, when the prices of bonds and shares of corporation stock are sinking like they have double pneumonia, out bursts Chair- man Douglas of the securities and exchange commission with a small cargo of dynamite about crooked dealings underneath in the stock ex. changes of the country. Fortunate. ly for the hundreds of thousands of small investors, the stock exchange quotations did not fall much further as a result of Mr. Douglas’ learned remarks. The prices already had fallen below the knees. But the Douglas statement certainly gave no confidence to those who were be- ginning to believe that congress would try to some of the wrongs previously done Just about the same time and dur- ing frequent appeals from the sen- ators and that the tax laws had to be overhauled, the President sent a report to congress. It was a report by the New York Power authority, charging the er interests with som reird mis- doings. happen to know some of aff of the power Inco representatives YW hat they know ut the power he sit- e alleged lliant ideas a, and I am Wendell who personal if netion nn Yana ion ruciion ana xpansi unems greatest corporation, like General Motors or Pennsylvania railroad, heel of the national government. The reason that congress ing signs of a movemer revise the tax structure is because these smaller businesses out through the country have now got their fill of gover: tape, that will ment red complex reports, visits of investi- gators, new tax forms and levies, or what have you. Those people are making themselves heard here in Washington. tain no doubt about the ests. As far as business has made itself felt, it is apparently only to be treated labor. last three or four sessions of con- gress have been frightened to death every time a labor up on Capitol hill. The reward given congress was the C. strikes, violence and a general mess. The condition has left a good- ly number of senators and repre- sentatives a bad taste in their mouths. equitably There is plenty of dirty linen in the business closet. It has a hard wash day ahead to restore it to the respect of the bulk of the people. Bus- iness has been smug. It has thought too little, in many instances, of its obligations to the public at large. But surely there is a point beyond which federal punishment ought not go since there is a responsibility also in the other direction. Unless business gets a reasonable chance to stand on its own feet, how is it going to re-employ workers and reduce the relief rolls? Every individual wants to earn some money. He wants a return for his labor. He dreams some day of a retirement, a lay off when he can watch the world go by. I can see no reason why the federal government should not encourage, rather than discourage, such a thing. It is the conviction of a very great many, an increasing number of people that the federal government is messing too much into business. But aside from that phase. There are a number of things happening that are difficult to understand. A‘ a time when business is sliding off like a snowball going down hill, the President steps out and orders an Messing in Business . » » The political strategy of blaming everything on “big business’ : worked well for a Different time, the Picture i demagoguery about “Wall used to inflam usands wd slapped 88 JUSL as Street” smaller ones than there are trusts monopolies, members of con- are hearing about it from men whom they went to school with at home. But what is to be done? Let con- gress repeal about five hundred laws that force business to pay more for the privilege of doing business than it gets out of its whole volume: re- duce or revise the direct taxes and bring the thousand and one items mel and gress can see and know what they are paying; cut out forty or fifty of the silly experiments that were worked Roose- half-baked and cockeyed for spending money and thereby reduce the federal expenses many more of honest If they are velt and as it employs work- state and nation. come about, I am told that Herman Oliphant, general counsel profits of corporations. When it was velt said it would force corporations to declare dividends of all of their earnings and he was for it. It did just that. But when the corporations had distributed everything to their share- holders and their volume of business fell off, they had no money left to tide them over until business picked up again. Hence, some of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. I do not know where Mr. Oliphant got the idea, or how he sold it to Mr. Roosevelt. I do not know of any business connection that Mr, Oliphant ever had with any impor- tant corporation. It is important, however, to note that Mr. Oliphant has made no move whatsoever to defend this brain child that turned out to be such an unwanted baby. (And while writing about Mr. Oli- phant, it may be noted that until Secretary Morgenthau came onto the scene, there was never any need for a general counsel to the secre- tary of the treasury.) © Western Newspaper Union, ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Terror in the Air” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter I ELLO, EVERYBODY: This is the story of a bunch of young lads who built a homemade flying machine and got Oliver A. Morard, Jr., of Oak Park into more doggone trouble than he'd ever seen in his whole previous life. Back in 1930, a bunch of boys in high school at Lakewood, Ohio, got interested in gliders. Among them was Oliver Morard, whom the lads called Bud. That crowd not only got interested in gliders, but they de- signed and built one, and then learned to fly the doggone thing. They came to be known as the Lakewood Glider club. “We flew the glider for almost a year,” says Bud Morard, “without experiencing a single mishap. We thought we were so good that, when the 1931 National Air Races came to the Cleve- land airport, we persuaded the management to let us come down and demonstrate our ability to the early patrons.” Well, sir, the air races came along and the Lakewood Glider club got ready for the exhibition. The morning of September 1 was the time picked. It was a clear day, but the air was heavy and a gusty twenty- mile-an-hour wind was blowing. Several speed planes were circling the pylons, tuning up for the big races. Bud Won the Chance to Fly First. The grandstand, even at that early hour, was rapidly filling with spectators. The glider exhibit was about ready, and the boys matched coins to see who would fly the machine first. And Bud Morard won You hook one to a car cable and the car hauls it up into the air just as if it were a kite, the air currents and the operator's skill do the rest. those lads can make glider stay in the air for hours on end wind currents to propel the ship. ar. Bud got in, and they were It was up to an alti- ll, you know how those gliders operate a long 3 in the air, a else but ked the glider to th E y motor or anyt! ! started and the gl The car it, when suddenly a plane came cutting in y in Bud's path of flight. The pilot saw Bud's glider just in time and swerved in front of him, but the wash from his propellor and the rough air stirred up by the swerving plane, caused the glider to yaw from right to left. That yawing could be corrected by using the rudder, and Bud did just that, But something was wrong with the rudder medhanism-—Bud found out later that it was a faulty hinge—and instead of turning, the rudder jammed the elevators. Mei nwhile, Bud was enj ride, blissfully unaware that steering gear w Thought Warning Shouts Were Cheers. y left.” he s ying the 18 practically useless Serpe) grandstand, now fellows in t} tow car, waving are Was g pylon on n ays, * vy § PO +} vile } rvs I t filled with people I and e on, I waved were shouting, but at yelling everything seemed y vibrate i went into ething was wror hen—knew that I had to n the next few the tow cable and ana the ship began ing wil seconds sdiately 1 detached pulled the joy stick back A quick workout with the controls told me that the things that were functioning." the ground rapidly, and there didn't seem to be He had no parachute. Gliders seldom go use practical to correct the dive ailerons were Bud was h he could do about it enough to make their “I had to stick with the ship,” he says, “and at the same time I knew I wouldn't have to stick with it very long. I was about fifty feet from the ground now, and diving fast at a sixty-degree angle. “I knew 1 couldn't avoid crashing. My one idea now was to make that crash as gentle as possible. I moved the stick back into the pit of my stomach--a position that would make the left wing hit first and ab- sorb some of the shock. I would hold that position until the last second. Then I'd push the stick forward to prevent its goring me when I hit. The ground was only a few feet away now. I pushed the stick forward, covered my face with my left arm, relaxed and hoped for the best.” Did a Good Job of Crashing. And for a young fellow who had only a few seconds to do his thinking fn, Bud certainly did a good job of it. He was all set for the crash now, and he didn't have to wait more than a fraction of a second before it came, “The thud of the impact lasted only a moment,” he says. “My knees seemed to be where my arms should be and my head and body didn't have the least idea where they were. “What happened next came too fast for me to record, but I found mysedf fully ten feet in the air again, clear of the ship and coming down fast. I pulled in my neck, put out my rms, and did a tumble followed by some classy sprawling, landing twenty feet from the glider, which was now a heap of junk. “I got up and tried to walk toward the ship, but at the first step I took T fell over on my side with a numb feeling in my left leg.” And when they got Bud off the field and into a hospital, they put him right under ether. the only nearing mu high nesses state that Bud was more worried about busting up the club's glider than he was about losing a foot, and I'm glad to announce that when Bud came out of the ether, his foot was still with him. Copyright. WNU Service. Lemons Source of Electricity Experiments have demonstrated that a lemon is a source of elec- tricity. “‘Spades’ of copper and aluminum were inserted in a lemon and attached to instruments, and the fruit yielded a current of about one-half volt, and .0002 ampere. The strength of the current varied in other lemons. A curator of elec- tricity and communications at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, estimated, taking into consideration the internal resistance of the lem- ons and other factors, it would re- quire 800 lemons to light a two and one-half volt flashlight bulb —Popu- lar Mechanics $2.50 Gold Coins in 1796 The coinage of quarter-eagles, or $2.50 gold pieces, commenced at the Philadelphia mint in 1796 and was continued until 1929 except for a few years, says Popular Mechanics. Other mints, except Carson City, also have produced them at various times. The designs have been of three basic varieties, at first Liberty facing the right, then in 1808 Liberty facing the left, and finally in 1908 an Indian facing the left. Many minor changes of design were made. 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