THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. roan ! Y | 3 TT B HOW to S od \\/ RUTH WYETH § Jr SPEARS ( outline as for a seam and slip cover which be taut at any point, When gathers are needed to shape the fabric over rounded parts, gather the edge and arrange the gathers : piece pinned in place as shown at C I I I A ASA ES A find charm fet set outside the This allows the inch shown at B slight ease in Lr A l | RAR should never OOTY OY op i 3) : National Topics Interpreted 6000 3 VRC NATIONAL PRESS BLDG WASHINGTON. D C in with the cover Directions for making various types of slip covers are given in my book, SEWING, for the Home Decorator; many types of dressing table covers, seventeen different types of curtains, bed- spreads, and numerous other use- ful decorative things for the | home. I shall be glad to send you a copy upon receipt of 25 cents (coins preferred). Address Mrs. | 210 S. Desplaines St., | Washington.—I have an idea that | sequent order go further than in the | most readers of newspapers over- | prior one. As precedent is built looked the impor- | upon precedent, it happens fre- tance of a recent | quently that after a period of years Hits Us All decision by the | such an agency is exercising Supreme court of | authority never intended by con- was the best reporter who ever | yo ynited States. It is only a nat- | gress. The authority has grown up worked around | ural consequence if they did read | frequently because none of the re- here. One old-tim- | it and then dismissed the matter | spondents have money to contest er was holding out from their minds. That result would | the case further. It costs money to for Roy Burton, | prove innocence when you are ac- By LEMUEL F. PARTON 1 EW YORK.—Two or three years ago, 1 was one of a group of newspaper men arguing about who aiso Decision ‘'TRIPES are for slip covers this Don't for- get to center a striped pattern in the back and the seat of a chair The crosswise use of stripes may popular season. . and Roy Burton Knew How to Spears at Fan Up Story whom he had known on the Brooklyn Eagle in the nineties. Burton, he said, was the best leg-man and digger, the most fearless, and the most gifted in fanning up a story out of nothing at all. He knew make-up, too, said the oldster. The diligent reporter has been duly rewarded. He is the Sir Pom- eroy Burton whose magnificent French chateau the duke and duchess of Windsor were looking over recently. With the Northcliffe papers in London, he became a multi-million- aire, as he transformed British jour- palism with daring American tech- niques. He became a British citizen in 1914 and was knighted in 1923, In addition to his vast newspaper interests, he is a magnate of elec- tric power and utilities. He was a printer's devil on his father's newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio, and, at the age of twelve, was knocking about country printshops in Ohio on the same job. He became a compositor on the Brooklyn Eagle. Hearing of a vacancy on the news staff, he persuaded the city editor to give him a try at reporting. He hired evening clothes to cover a society fun n. There, Colonel Boss Liked Rests Ee erro of Youth in dously im- Hired Tails pressed with the persor » young } } 5s talking, and thought he I some- ‘here. Young not re- mind the colonel that he had seen the young man iter’'s apron a few days before. He became city editor and man- aging editor of the Eagle, held im- portant executive positions with the World the New York Journal and was taken to England by Lord Northcliffe in 1904. Ten years later, he owned all but a few of the Daily Mail shares not owned by Lord Northcliffe. In the World war, he virtually headed the organization of British propaganda, and many of the most damaging anti-German stories were attributed to him, His enemies charged that he had ‘“‘debauched British journalism with degrading American sensationalism.” His friends livened and was tremer man with and and insisted he had regenerated it. makes an sional trip to Visits U. S. America with a staff of valets and With Valets secretaries, suave, dressy and still fit and impressive ai seventy-two, with more than a touch of British accent. Over here, he always hated the name Pomeroy and shortened it to Roy, but picked it up again in Eng- land He had been named for “Brick” Pomeroy, the cyclonic jour- nalistic disturber of the latter half of the last century, and he held Mr. Pomeroy in low esteem. Pom- eroy was almost, but not quite, a winner. en- He . occa- Sir Pomeroy From a Wisconsin crossroads, he rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls, and, in his old age, just through sheer animal spirits, started plug- ging a tunnel through the Rocky mountains, at Georgetown, Colo. He was flattened by the '03 de- pression and soon after, with nothing to show for his life's work but a hole in the ground. Then it was discovered that the tunnel had gouged into fabulous mineral wealth in Kelso mountain. Eight years ago, the tunnel went on through the mountain, as the Moffatt tunnel. » * » EPORTING the return of Poult ney Bigelow from a visit to his friend, the former kaiser, and his fervent approval of dictators, has . become a matter Mr. Bigelow of annual routine. Has a Yen It is an old story, for Fuehrers died but the freshness and vehemence of Mr. Bigelow's disgust with democ- racy and enthusiasm for fuehrers always makes it interesting. He is the patriarch of Malden-on- the-Hudson, with relatives and de- scendants, down to great-grandchil- dren, all up and down the river. He will be eighty-three years old on September 10. His father, John Bige- low, was American minister to France under Abraham Lincoln. He hunted birds eggs with the kaiser, forming a lifetime friend- ship. broken only by the war, whic he charged the kaiser with having started. He recanted afterward and the two old men meet annually to £a'ute "Der Tag” when only the all wise and all-just shall rule again. © Consolid: ted News Featurea rvice. obtain in many places because the average person, concerned with his | own problems, would not pause to | trace the application of a rather | obscure principle of law even though it is the expression of the highest | court. The decision to which I refer was | in the litigation that hereafter is going to be known as ‘‘the Kansas City Stockyards case.” An official | and legal title in a court proceed- | ing ordinarily f: identify it. | So, “the Kansas City Stockyards case,” it is and will be. But “the Kansas City Stockyards case’ did very much more than bring a ruling affecting the immediate parties to that litigation; it applies to every | agency of the federal government and, I suspect, its application even- | tually will be broadened to cover actions by agencies of states and lesser subdivisions of government. is to say, the decision is of | moment to you and me and every | other individual in our nation. It is | fundamental Let us see, i fails to first, what the con- troversy was in ‘‘the Kansas City | Stockyards case.” The Department of Agriculture, under a 15-year-old | law, has rather broad powers of | supervision over public stockyards, one of the greatest of is the marketing yards at Kansas City. Under that law, the ) agriculture is empowered to fix the maximum rates of fees, sions harges made against shipper livestock into the yards hi retary may establish those rat ‘after the facts have been ined,’ and consideration has rights and duties of the cerned. Several years ago, made to the department that Kansas City stockyards was charg- ing unreasonably high fees. The de- | partment had no choice other than issue itation, hold a hearing, de- | te facts and issue an order. The law required that c« But, | according to the records in the case, | the hearing that held something of a farce. All of the | complainants were heard, and the department's own investigators sub- | mitted reports It appears, however, that the stockyards com- pany allowed to sent case—did have its urt Well, the secretary of agriculture, Mr. Wal- | ssued an order fixing new | the stockyards company ap- | pealed to the federal courts and the case finally wound up in the | Supreme court of the United States. That court has row rendered its | decision, and that is the reason for this discussion. The highest court | did not mince words in overturning Mr. Wallace's rates. It did so, it explained, because of the arbitrary way in which he fixed the rates They may or may not be fair: the court did not go into that question, but the court very definitely said that any respondent or defendant was entitled to have his side of the case presented and Mr. Wallace had not permitted the stockyards com- pany its opportunity for a fair trial. It may or may not be news to the readers of this column to know that there are upwards of 50 agencies of the federal government that have authority to act as ‘legislative courts.” That is, they are fact- finding bodies and from the facts thus found, the agencies are em- powered to render decisions that are as powerful as a court decision, except that these agencies can not render a final decision unless those charged are willing to accept the That is to say, the accused or those charged may which secretary of commis~ due to all complaint was the ac urse. was was their was pre- its sid ) he not | day In cc lace, rates; orders by this flock of legislative established. * - * And why was the Supreme court's decision so important? The answer is Why So that, in that one Important? decision, the high- est court in the land laid down a rule of law that again will insure the protection of personal rights. It said, in effect, that the action by Secretary Wal- lace had been a denial of consti- tutional rights of the individual and, being such, the secretary had acted as a dictator who recognizes no law. The decision was the more impor- tant for the reason that such a large number of these legislative courts exist. They have a habit of ex- panding and extending their pow- ers; they take action which con- stitutes a precedent, and in a sub- cused by your government. Again, as to the importance of the decision from the standpoint of its scope: there has been an imme- diate and vigorous reaction by the crew started running immediately their tails between their legs and went quickly into a retreat from the bold and brazen position they had held against all who sought to challenge their au- thority. To the swagger and braggadocio transformed so sudden- ly into a meek and lowly attitude— well, any one with a sense of humor could hardly keep from laughing. There never has been a federal agency in my 20 years in Washing- ton that has relegated to itself the arrogant authority, the dictatorial authority, shown by the labor rela- tions board. If the national labor relations act were sound in every respect, the personnel that is istering it would destroy wha chance it had of suc > » * see eeding. So, when the court ruling told the with se accused or arged, the labor legislative courts to be fair Only One Side Heard of legal proceedings against members recognized that there cases it had ‘‘decided’' ths not stand the test in the a fede the respondents lowed to tell thei There were cases, where the board h investigators’ testimony, mony of several C. 1. O whose job had up trouble—and where the respondents had been informed that board had ‘“‘no interest” in what they had to say There were other where board investigators had gone ai organizers been to stir the cases taught the world by Dictator in's OGPU. Naturally, the board tried to get out from under. The board's lawyers, recognizing the dangerous ground upon which their cases in federal court were withdraw their request for court enforcement. But Mr. Henry Ford, one of those whom the board and the C. I. O.-Lewis labor group sought to punish, felt that the case should be tried in court, and he is insisting through lawyers that the proceedings The Ford lawyers happen to be the lawyers who fought the late and unlamented NRA in the famous Schechter case, and won it ~—which ended NRA. They are going after the labor relations board and when they get through, it is possible board has. Along with the Ford case, the board has other troubles. The great Inland Steel company of Chicago, and the Douglass Aircraft corpora- tion have decided they did not get a square deal from the New Deal board, They have asked federal courts to review their cases and decide whether the orders issued by the board were in accordance with the facts, and they have asked had been denied legal rights. » » » It is made to appear, therefore, that the board may have to undo a : lot of things it has This Board done. It may have on the Spot to admit, also, that in some cases there has actually been malicious- ness on the part of some of its in- vestigators. Consider the Ford case, for example. If the board withdraws its original order, it will be saying in effect that the facts upon which it based that order were not the facts at all. That will be somewhat embarrassing, it seems to me. It will be more embarrassing, how- ever, if it comes forth with a new order which is based upon a differ- ent set of facts. Either the first set of facts or the second of facts ob- viously is wrong-—not facts at all in one of the two instances. There are other instances of other boards and commissions which have been exercising all too much author- ity for the good of the country, ac- cording to the way I see things. Few of them have been so blatant about it, however, as the Devart- ment of Agriculture and the labor relations board. Some of the agen- cies, notably the interstate com- merce commission, has never been accused of unfairness, as far as I know. It may have made mis- takes, or legal questions may have been tested in court, but that agency holds the respect of railway execu- tives, shippers and labor alike. © Western Newspaper Union, also have possibilities as for the bottom of the chair here. 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