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F.D.R.'s Program Wrecked
AVING accomplished practical-
ly nothing during five weeks of
wrangling, at a cost of about a mil-
lion and a half dollars, congress ad-
journed for the holi-
days. The Presi-
dent's five - point
legislative program
was left almost a to-
tal wreck, not one
of the measures he
asked for having
been finally enacted
and one of
having been
lutely defeated.
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As the time for
Yice President
Garner
House to help devise a plan of sal-
vage.
house. The topic of discussion was
what should be done with the debris
of the administration program and
congress in the next session.
Just before adjournment the sen-
ate passed the housing bill, which
actment was delayed.
Crop control bills were passed by
fered widely and early final enact-
ment was impossible because the
joint conference between commit-
tees of the two houses to reconcile
the measures could not get into ac-
tion before January.
Chairman O'Connor of the house
rules committee said that a good
deal actually was accomplished dur-
ing the special session in the way of
“spade work’ which would enable
the law makers to get along faster
with their work in the regular Jan-
uary session. This was especially
laws.
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Wage-Hour Bill Killed
V/ HEN the bill for regulation of
wages and hours, approved by
the Senate in August, came up for
action in the house the President
suffered one of his greatest legis-
lative defeats. Southern Democrats
and the Republican minority com-
bined to send the measure back to
the labor committee, which meant
its definite defeat. This bill, which
would have set up an administrator
with dictatorial powers over labor
and business management, was con-
sidered only second in importance
to the farm bill. It had the support
of the C. 1. O., so John Lewis shared
in the defeat. The A. F. of L.. had
offered a substitute which was re-
jected, as President Green had ex-
pected it would be.
No action was taken on the Presi-
dent's other “must” measures,
which were for revision of anti-
trust laws, regional planning and
federal government reorganization.
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Cummings Accuses Judge
(CONGRESS was asked by Attor-
ney General Cummings to in-
vestigate the conduct of United
States District Judge Ferdinand
Geiger of Milwaukee in connection
with the latter's discharge of a
grand jury which was investigating
the automobile finance industry.
In a letter to Chairman Sumners
of the house judiciary committee
Cummir + charged that Geiger’s
conduct 5 "'s0 obstructive to the
admin nn of justice that I could
not justify a failure to bring it to
your knowledge."
Geiger, presiding over the East-
ern Wisconsin federal district, dis-
charged the grand jury without per-
mitting it to report after a three
months’ investigation into the ac-
tivities of three companies, which,
Cummings said, were ‘“‘identified in
interest” with General Motors cor-
Chrysler corporation.
ments when it was dismissed.
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Panay Incident
W LE Washington was await-
kyo to the American notes con-
cerning the murderous attack by
airmen :
and machine gun- .
ners on the U. 8S.
gunboat Panay, it
was reported that
had taken
charge of
the matter. If true,
military
and naval factions
in the Japanese gov-
ernment which
about as they chose. It would be
an astonishing development in an-
A AS
Hirohito
Heaven has always held himself
aloof from such concerns. The
Japanese cabinet was called in ex-
traordinary session to discuss the
Panay incident and determine what
reply should be made to the Amer-
ican protests.
Washington's second note was es-
pecially sharply worded because
of the revelation that the Panay
and the boats carrying its dead and
wounded to shore were fired upon
by machine gunners in Japanese
army boats,
In Washington
in prog-
joint to protect their nationals from
Japanese attacks and to bring about
peace in the Far East.
Prime Minister Chamberlain and
Foreign Minister Eden told the
British house of commons that
Britain seeks a settlement of all
world grievances without war but
that “we are not forgetful of the
duty to protect British interests.”
Alf Landon, as head of the Re-
publican party, telegraphed Presi-
dent Roosevelt his pledge of support
of his policy in dealing with Japan,
and in accepting it the President
took occasion to condemn an isela-
tionist attitude and to assert that
“we owe some measure of co-opera-
tion and even leadership in main.
taining standards of conduct helpful
to the ultimate goal of general
peace.” .
This was especially pleasing to
the British cabinet.
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Frank B. Kellogg Passes
Jf BANK B. KELLOGG, eminent
statesman and diplomat, died at
his home in St. Paul, Minn., at the
age of eighty-one years. During his
long public service he was United
States senator, secretary of state,
ambassador to Great Britain and
member of the world court. Inter.
nationally he was best known as co-
author of the Kellogg-Briand pact
by which 64 nations were pledged to
settle their disputes without resort
to war. For this Mr. Kellogg was
awarded the Nobel peace prize for
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Utilities Conference
FTER a third conference with
heads of utility operating com-
panies, the President felt that good
progress was being made toward an
understanding. In his press confer-
ence it was disclosed that he and
the men he conferred with all ap-
proved of the “prudent investment’
theory of valuation of utility prop-
erties outlined by Justice Brandeis
13 years ago. That theory is:
“The term prudent investment is
not used in a critical sense. There
of the base,
under ordinary
would be deemed reason-
findings
which,
stances,
able.
wasteful or imprudent expenditures.
contrary is shown.”
press conference that
which all agree is responsible for
the current depression, is not fear
of administration but is a psycholo-
gy of fear being fostered by news-
papers for purposes which are a
mystery to him and to the country.
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Labor Peace Parley Ends
HERE will be no early peace be-
tween the American Federation
of Labor and the C. I. O. The ne-
gotiations in Washington came to
a sudden end when the federation’s
representatives refused to consider
anything but unconditional sur-
render of the Lewis forces, which
the C. 1. O. men scornfully rejected.
The strategy of Green and his
lieutenants was dictated by informa-
tion that the C. I. O. was on the
verge of bankruptcy, that its ranks
were torn by dissension over the
communist element and that there
were numerous desertions.
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Ambassador Bingham Dies
OBERT WORTH BINGHAM,
American ambassador to Great
Britain, died in Johns Hopkins hos-
pital, Baltimore, of a rare abdom-
inal ailment. He was sixty-six years
of age and already had submitted
his resignation because of ill health.
Mr. Bingham was one of President
Roosevelt's first diplomatic ap-
pointees. Previously he had gained
considerable fame as a newspaper
publisher in Louisville, Ky. His
body was taken to that city for
burial and lay in state in the Ken-
tucky capitol in Frankfort. King
George and Queen Elizabeth of
Great Britain cabled a message of
condolence,
Another notable death was that of
Gen. Erich Von Ludendorfl, German
commander in the World war, at
He won international fame
as Von Hindenburg's chief of staff
on both the eastern and western
fronts and then was made chief
quartermaster general of the Ger-
man army. Just before the war
ended he quarreled with the kaiser
and was dismissed from his post.
In his later years the embittered old
warrior attacked all factions in
Germany, though friendly relations
with the Hohenzollerns were re-
a
PPOSITION of President Roose-
~ welt and Secretary of State Hull
was believed to have effectually
blocked the proposal of Representa-
tive Louis Ludlow for submission of
a constitutional amendment requir-
ing a popular referendum before
the declaration of war except in
case of invasion of the country.
Ludlow obtained the necessary 218
signatures to force the house to con-
sider the plan during the regular
session, but no one expects its ap-
proval in the near future.
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Wire Tapping Banned
THE Supreme court ruled the 1934
communications act prohibits
use in federal criminal proceedings
of evidence obtained by wire-tap-
ping.
The decision, delivered by Jus-
tice Roberts, reversed a ruling by
the second Circuit court of appeals
upholding the government's use of
such evidence in obtaining convic-
tion of four men on a charge of
smuggling alcohol into New York.
Justices Sutherland and McRey-
nolds dissented.
air
Frank To Help G.O.P.
R. GLENN FRANK, former
man of a committee to draft a new
policies, and National Chairman
Hamilton said the committee would
be an absolutely independent
agency of the party. Many mem-
bers of the committee have been
named by the executive commit-
tee of the national committee.
Frank is identified with the liberal
wing of the G. O. P., but he is not
friendly with the La Follettes of
Wisconsin, since they forced him
out of his post at the university.
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Spanish Loyalist Victory
PANISH government forces won
‘J a decided victory by capturing
Teruel, the key point of the rebel
salient into loyalist territory 135
miles east of Madrid. The place
had been besieged for seven days
and losses were heavy on both sides.
Madrid hailed this as the greatest
loyalist victory of the whole war.
It tends to check Franco's move-
ment toward the coast between Va
lencia and Barcelona,
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Zhimks about
After Dinner Speeches.
| OUSTON, TEXAS. — Late-
ly, for my sins, I've had to
listen to a jag of after-dinner
oratory, including plenty of
mine. I hope people like to hear
me. I do.
Feature writers say professional
That may be true in
New York, where
folks are anxious to
get the dinner over
with so they may
hurry to the night-
spots and do some
gincere and earnest
drinking in an effort
to forget what the
stock market did to
them yesterday and
what it's going to do
to them tomorrow.
But out in the hin-
terlands the new crop of native ora-
ical silver tongues of the great
neighborhoods although I might in-
clude their mouths—are con-
vinced that the sweetest on
earth is the sound of one's own
uplifted in eloquence.
An English preacher had the best
formula: Stand up to be seen, speak
up to be heard, shutup to be appre-
ciated. If he'd left out all but the
last part, "twould have been a per-
fect recipe.
still
music
voice
Tomorrow's Treasures,
WwW ANT to acquire untold wealth
for your latter years, or, any-
how, for your grateful heirs?
Then collect things. Collect cheap
things which are both common and
Then sit down and
objects to become
therefore priceless,
necessity is today's
ill be tomorrow's treas-
for these
and
Yesterday's
wait
obsolete
saved up old cir-
Pi river steams
whips, or
EES
or bo
ipainted slop-jars former-
i in all truly refined hon
"ord or some museum would
EE are
i at na-
he two great
t twenty years
there's real fiction for you!
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Germany's Colonies.
+ VERY nation is united in the
agnanimous attitude that to
3 be restored the
colonies taken from her by the win-
ning side in the World's war—except
the nations that acquired the said
colonies in the split-up.
That's the main hitch
than a hitch. It's a hard knot, tied
originally with hate and sealed now
with greed. In other words, sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gan-
der—unless it happens to be our
gander, which naturally alters the
case.
Nor seemingly has it occurred to
any government that the original
owners of Germany's former terri-
torial possessions might like to have
should
belong to in future. But then, if ever
we started considering the wishes of
despoiled native tribes over
noble civilization be?
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Cosmopolites.
HE last time before this that
Captain Mike Hogg and Major
Raymond Dickson returned to their
ranch at Cast Blanca, Mex., they
were just back from New York.
That night, at the bunkhouse, the
hands, mostly Texas lads, foregath-
ered to hear the bosses tell about
One
or two of them had visited New
with its sights,
“Major,”’ said one, “I reckon old
the same stand, eh?”
“And I bet the aquarium is right
“And all them tall
buildin’s.”
There was present one lanky
youth who had never been fifty
miles away from where he was
born, in a bend of the Rio Grande;
probably never had seen a town of
more than a thousand inhabitants.
But with all these seasoned trav-
elers showing off, he didn't mean to
be left out. He waited for an open-
ing.
“Cap'n Mike,” he said, “tell me,
is that there same feller still run-
nin’ the hotel in New York?”
IRVIN 8. COBB
WNU Service.
Old Center of Education
One of the oldest centers of edu-
cation in America, the University
of Havana, was founded January
8, 1728, by a Dominican priest, with
the authorization of Pope Innocent
XIII. It remained under Papal ju-
risdiction until 1842, when was
officially secularized.
Make Luncheon Sels
HE napkins and r are |
fringed and then whipped to |
keep them from ravel AN |
strengthen the edge. This !
very quick and easy finish to use |
for linens of the coarser weaves
and is in harmony with peasant
dishes and provincial furniture.
In cutting the material for the |
mats and napkins it is best to pull |
a thread to guide you
edges will be perfectly
and fringe easily. Cut right al
the little opening made
terial by drawing the thread as|
so that the |
straight
ng |
of Striped Material.
shown at A. Plan the size of the
mats and napkins so that the ma-
terial will cut to good advantage
and the stripes will arrange them-
selves in a pleasing way through
Napkins
inches square though
many people like them a little
larger than this. The mats are
mcr
the threads to make the
he edge as I have shown
3. From a half to three-
quarters of an inch ig a good depth
for the fringe. Save the threads
Every Homemaker should have
Fly in the Ointment
rney (to wife seeking
How long have your
ing off your bad habits,
Not There
new to the course
" he wailed, “this
He was
“Caddie, caddie,
is a terrible course
Caddie—You left
minutes ago.
rock garden.
Building Contractor (who Is
called upon to respond to a toast
at a public dinner)—Ladies and
gentlemen, I am not accustomed
to public speaking, and feel very
out of place here—er—my prop-
er place is on the scaffold.
the course 20
This is somebody's
That's Me
O'Flanagan (to hospital attend-
ant)—Phwat did ye say the doc-
tor's name was?
Attendant—Doctor Kilpatrick.
O'Flanagan—That settles it. No |
doctor wid that name will get a |
chance to operate on me-—not if |
I know it.
Attendant—Why not?
O'Flanagan—I'm Patrick.
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
making curtains for ev-
ery type of room and purpose.
king lampshades, rugs, otto-
ns and other useful articles for
couches;
There are no new laws of Na-
ture, but men never seem to learn
the importance of those that al-
ready exist.
If we must gossip, let us gossip
about the important people dead
gone. That's what most of
the new biographers do.
We envy the Indian for at least
one thing. He doesn’t make ex-
cuses.
Reason why it is so hard to sup-
press noise in the big city is. be-
cause big cities up to 1890 used to
It never did any good to dwell
on gloom and regret.
Almost every man is important
-{0 some one,
Why do men like to march In
parades? None of the Emersons,
Carlyles, Maupassants, Mon-
taignes, Charles Lambs or Dr.
Samuel Johnsons have ever fig-
ured out.
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
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