STi aboul Magazine Solicitors. OUSTON, TEXAS. — What has become of all the strug- gling collegians, ranging in age up to fifty-five, who used to so- licit magazine subscriptions so they could spend another se- mester at dear old Bushwah? We counted that day lost whose low descending sun didn't find us signing on the dot- ted line. And some- times we got the wrong magazines and sometimes we didn’t get any mag- azines at all and once in awhile we got the magazines we'd ordered and then didn't like them. But our consola- tion was that we'd Irvin S. Cobb aided all those ear- nest undergraduates to complete the education for which they panted as the hart panteth after the water- brook. Can it be that the gallant army packed the campuses until numbers got crushed in the jam? Or is it that many of them are getting too old to travel around? Lately there has been an unaccount- able falling-off in the business. We we have more time in which to lead our own lives. P. S.—I have on hand a complete file for 1935 of the Northwestern Bee Raiser which I would like to trade for a ukulele. * ® . Matriarchy's Approach. OME inspired philosopher—and that within a century women will dominate every imaginable field of human endeavor. tury? If the prophet will leave out whiskers and the knack of making a hurrah’s nest I'm saying that wom- en are already away out in front everywhere. Since Henry the Eighth, the two greatest kings England had were ria. Men thought up war and im- proved the art of war and now are a -— iy The ickard plants in the United States. The bad news was announced by President liam 8S. Knudsen. He said, however, that 205,000 men would still have their jobs and that the monthly payroll r 3 $24,000,000. President's position, said, “We must | be prepared to lick hell out of any- | one jeopardizing our safety.” He | added that he also favored substan- increase in the th of the army and navy air corps, sirens William A. that in order to Knudsen spread the work as far as plants would be operated on a three- day week for the present. _— many, and Mrs. Dodd sailed from | Hamburg for the United States. His departure from Berlin was uncere- | monious in the extreme. His re- lations with the Nazi had been strained and, at his own suggestion, the German foreign of- omitted the formal farewells wen Wee employed up to very recently by re- order to help the general economic in the midst of bloody warfares that Florence Nightingale laid the foundations and Clara Barton built the structure of mercy by method and life-saving by skill and tender- ness and sanitation. Take this country at the present moment: for energy, for readiness of speech, for range of interest, for versatility in making publicity and, incidentally, acquiring it, for endur- ance under strain, what man amongst us is to be compared with the first lady of the language, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? - * . Banishing Sectionalism. N ONE stretch of road down here—and it is not a main-trav- eled highway and this not exactly the tourist season—I saw cars bear- ing license tags of nine separate states, ranging from New Hamp- shire and Florida to Utah and Ore- gon, besides one from Hawaii and one from Puerto Rico. And next summer Texas cars will be boring into every corner of this Union and the folks riding in them will be getting acquainted with their fellow- countrymen and finding out that, when you know the other fellow, he’s not so different, after all. Like most evil things, sectional- ism and parochial prejudices and with Vermont neighbor to Virginia and the Dakotas talking it over with sown which inevitably must sprout any our land ever produced—if only we keep the tares of communism and the chaff of snobbery out of the crop, only make patriotic service a thing of elbow-grease and not of lip-movements, What price, then, the wearers of the black shirts and the white sheets; the parlor pinks, the yellow internationalists and the red flag wavers? * » \d Freedom of the Press. ICTATORS invariably cancel freedom of the press and curb freedom of education. Otherwise, they fail. Although he uttered the words over 250 years ago, Governor Berke- ley of Virginia spoke for all the breed of political tyrants when he said: “I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, for learn- ing has brought disobedience and heresy into the world, and printing has divulged them.” Foulness in drama or literature, like a skunk penned under a barrel, eventually destroys itself by just naturally choking to death on its own smell. Control of the newest medium of publicity, the radio, is easy. But information put in type keeps on traveling. No people ever stayed free once the press—and the school- teacher— had been muzzled. IRVIN 8. COBB. Copyright. —~WNU Service. plants are located,” Knudsen said. “The inventories, both in the field at the plants, HE Irish Free State went out of existence as its new constitution went into effect, and now its 26 counties are officially known as Eire in Gaelic and Ireland in English. Religious and military ceremonies | mand makes possible. creased unemployment situation. And without the old car market, there can't be a market for new cars. When general employment falls off, there's nothing we can do.” In making his announcement at a press conference, the General Mo- tors head said that in his opinion one of the main reasons for the cur- rent business recession was the fact that the price level rose too fast in the spring of 1937 and that the nation could not digest it. Commenting on the bad news about General Motors, Senator Van Nuys of Indiana declared that con- gress should act immediately to re- store business confidence. Revision of the tax on undistributed profits and the tax on capital gains so that they would be more favorable to business would have an immediate beneficial effect, he said. The continuing trade recession, to- gether with fears that another ad- ministration attack on business was impending, sent stocks plunging a a ONCERNED by the general in- ternational situation, President Roosevelt notified Chairman Taylor of the house appropriations commit- tee that he might soon ask funds for the building of additional war- ships; and he told the Washington correspondents he also was consid- ering increases of the army. At the same time the Navy de- partment announced the departure of four American cruisers to Aus- tralia. The asserted purpose of this is to participate in the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the Aus- tralian commonwealth, and the ves- sels are sent at the request of the British government. The cruisers are the Louisville, Trenton, Mil- waukee and Memphis. They will go to Sydney via Hawaii and American Samoa. In Lis letter to Representative Taylor the President said: “The preliminary estimates sub- mitted by the director of the budget to the naval subcommittee were pre- pared some time ago and called for appropriations to commence during the fiscal year 1939 two battleships, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, and six submarines. “Since that time world events have caused me growing concern. Under the Constitution the President is commander in chief of the army and navy and has, therefore, a very specific duty to safeguard the de- fense of national interests.” Mr. Taylor, fully indorsing the 1 be followed by complete separation from Great Britain. Eamon de Valera, who has been | head of the Free State, has the new | title of taociseach, or pris — Sentenced for Bombings HIRTY-SIX men, convicted the mine bombing case in Illinois, were sentenced by | Federal Judge C. G. Briggle at Springfield to four years imprison- ment and fines of 20,000 each. This was the maximum penalty. The de- nearly all of whom are members of the Progressive Miners of America, were found guilty by a jury of conspiring to halt interstate commerce and delay the mails through train and mine bombings during the war between the two fac- tions of miners. a Boomlet for Ickes JrrOM Chicago comes the interest- ing news that friends of Secre- tary of the Interior Ickes have start- ed a small boom for him as the favorite son candi- date of Illinois for t he presidential nomination in 1940. It is said Democrat- ic leaders in Illinois have been ap proached with the plan to enter Mr. i o~ Ickes in the presi- Hel ou dential primaries. a So far there has been no enthusiastic Harold Ickes ,... nce to the pro- posal for the leaders would prefer to wait for the development of other candidacies. Besides that, the sec- retary has been notably independent of party organization control. Naturally, the proposal would car- ry no weight unless President Roosevelt makes it plain that he will follow tradition and refuse a third term. The Ickes adherents be- lieve their man would stand a fair chance in a wide open race for the nomination, and they assert his independence would add to his strength and attract many Repub- licans. in | conspiracy | a Unemployment Grows CCORDING to the Works Prog- ress administration, 2,000,000 persons have lost their jobs since September 1 and 1,000,000 more may be out of work by the end of February. The estimate was made by Leon Henderson, consulting economist, while a staff of federal employees was compilation of the mailman census of the unemployed Don Marquis Dies ON MARQUIS, one of the coun- try's well known humorists and poets, died at his home in Forest Hills, N. Y., after a long illness, at the age of fifty-eight years. He was one of the pioneer newspaper col- umnists and the creator of “Old Soak,” ‘Archie the Cockroach,” ““Mehitabel the Alley Cat” and many other highly amusing char- acters through which he expressed his wit and philosophy. *e Byrd in Battle Early OE of the big fights scheduled for the regular session of con- gress is to be over the President's reorganization bill, which aims, among other things, at abolishing the office of comptroller general, popularly known as the ‘watch dog" on federal spending. This officer is the agent of congress in seeing that expenditures are made only in accordance with law, Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir- ginia, one of the Democrats who in- sist on economy, projected himself into the battle over this measure early by issuing a public statement in which he pointed out that the new auditor established in the measure would report to congress only after money had been spent. This would be like locking the stable after the horse is stolen, Sen- ator Byrd declared. “This proposal to give the spend- ing branch of the government a free hand with upwards of $8,000,000,000 a year strikes viciously at the vital elements of good government, good business and the general welfare,” said the senator, “In the committee hearings,” he continued, ‘‘the only complaint of consequence against the comptroller general was that this official at times delayed the quick spending of public money and compelled the de- partment heads to show that the funds were to be disbursed in ac- cordance with the laws enacted by congress. No proof, however, was given that any expenditure was prevented when authorized by con- gress and made legally.” ne APAN shall has be that recurrence promised no there of the sidered closed. But Uncle Sam is going to keep close watch to see that there are no further attacks on American life and property in the war zone in China. Ambassador Jo- seph C. Grew hand- ed to Foreign Minis- ter Koki Hirota a Fe note from Secretary J. C. Grew of State Hull oY ing in the main Japan's amends for and The American note, however, re- sed to accept Tokyo's explanation at the bombing of the Panay was he result of a “mistake,” prefer- ring to rely on the findings of the ard of inquiry. The report of the board said the identity of the Panay and the three American oil that the was deliberate; that the weather was clear and the visibility perfect; that the Japanese naval planes swooped down and released their death charges on the ships flying the American flags and then fired on them with machine guns; and that Japanese river craft di- rected machine gun fire on life boats carrying the wounded from the Panay and other vessels. Under a Japanese decree estab lishing strict regulations for the con- guered areas in China, Americans and other foreigners were made sub- ject to the death penalty for crimes against the armed forces of Japan. This seems to raise the question of treaty rights of foreign powers in China, LH h ws Wn Monopolists Blamed LAME for the business slump was placed at the door of mon- opolists by Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Robert H. Jackson, and he ut- tered a warning that government spending would be increased unless prices are brought more in line with consumers’ income. Jackson, head of the Justice de- partment’s anti-trust division, said that the impression that steep price increases are traceable to wage boosts resulting from the growth of labor unions is ‘‘not accurate—or at the most, only half accurate.” As an example he cited the steel in- dustry, where wages, he said, were increased 10 per cent and prices were tilted 21 per cent from De- cember 1, 1936, to March 1, 1837. wf Newton D. Baker Is Dead EWTON D. BAKER, one of the World war men who did a tre- mendous job well, died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, of coronary thrombosis at the age of sixty-six years. 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