/ Wants to Regain Post R. ARTHUR E. MORGAN has started a court fight to regain the chairmanship of the Tennessee Valley authority from which he was Roosevelt : for the latter ‘“‘contumacy.”’ In chancery court at Knoxville, Tenn., he filed a suit asking that he be recognized as a . i member Pa | man of the board of . i] directors of the au- thority. A.E. Morgan 1, tie bill, which named the TVA and Directors H. A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal as defendants, the former i could not be renominated. The senator was planning to run as an independent. After hearing from McNutt, the governor invited the harmony. bogged down elsewhere, too. Sena- tor George of Georgia and Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina seem likely to win renomination. In New port Congressman John J. O'Con- nor, who led the fight against the re- organization bill, and several other York members of the lower since his dismissal. recognize him as their chairman. Doctor Morgan never has recog- nized the President's right to re- move him. action, he said he would carry his fight for reinstatement to the Su- preme court if necessary. The justice department in Wash- ington withheld comment on the suit, but it was a foregone conclu- sion that the government would con- test it. Before the President re- moved Doctor Morgan he asked the within his power. acting attorney general, advised ‘““there would appear to be no ques- tion that the power of removal is in fact vested in the President.” mm nena Tells Cities to Hurry (CITIES of the nation were urged by Secretary Ickes to make haste to submit projects for PWA approval and thus play “‘a dominat- ing part in bringing about recov- ery.” At the same time he asked busi- ness to co-operate with the govern- ment in the $1,600,000,000 building program, and warned contractors and private industry not to pay ‘‘graft’”’ to corrupt officials in an at- the form of benefits from PWA con- struction. “The success of this recovery program will depend upon the speed with which our municipalities move,’ he said. to produce faster than before. They will have to draw their plans more rapidly, make decisions more quick- ly and file their applications with alacrity. “Involved are jobs for workmen, the creation of new business for industrial and commercial con- cerns, the expansion of factory pay- rolls, the rejuvenation of transpor- tation systems, the spread of pur- chasing power, the expansion of credit, the stimulation of our securi- ties and our banks.” misfl ‘Purge’ Is Hard Hit WO long distance messages came from Manila, from Paul V. McNutt, governor general of the Philippines and reputed boss of the Democrats of Indi- ana. Thereupon the New Dealers of the Hoosier state decid- ed they could not win in November unless they renomi- nated Frederick Van Nuys for the senate. That gentle- man had been marked for elimi- nation by Tommy Corcoran and his Senator fellow managers of Van Nuys the proposed ‘‘purge’ of those who had opposed any major New Deal policies and Governor Townsend had publicly announced Van Nuys defeat. TT N HIS last press conference be- fore starting on his transconti- nental and Pacific ocean trip, Pres- ident Roosevelt revealed that he was still determined to have con- a reorganization bill. not at all discouraged by the defeat of the measure in he last congress, he said he was the next session would realize that the country wants such a law and would enact it. The con- gressmen who voted to recommit the measure favored at least 90 per cent of the bill, he said, and opposed only 10 per cent of it, Trial Fase Raise EVERSING the a previous ruling, interstate commerce come- thorized eastern railroads to m- crease basic passenger coach fares from 2 to 2'% cents a mile for a trial period of 18 months. Commis- sioner Claude R. Porter cast the only dissenting vote. Railroads esti- mate that the increase will mean $40,000,000 in added revenue a year. Action was taken on an appeal by the carriers for reconsideration of the commission's initial decision on March 6, when their original plea was turned down on a six to five vote, roads contended had entered too greatly into the field of management. This view was concurred in by several of the commissioners, who dissented from the original majority opinion. v Want to Quit Austria RTHUR ROSENBERG, repre- senting the Federation of Aus- trian Exiles, told a conference of 32 nations at Evian - les - Bains, France, that four and a half million Austrians will flee Nazi rule in their country if a new homeland can be found for them and they are allowed to take a substantial part of their prop- erty with them. The conference, officially the Intergovern- mental Committee Myron Taylor on Political Refugees, was instigat- ed by President Roosevelt. The American delegation was headed by Myron C. Taylor, former head of the United States Steel cor- poration, and he took the lead in the preliminaries for settling the problem of German Jews and other refugees from the Reich. The Americans made it plain, however, that the United States’ attitude was one of helpfulness rath- er than direction. Officials said they were trying to help shape plans, but “we do not intend to be the final judges of whatever may be done.” Mr. Taylor was unanimously elect- ed president of the conference. . The Zionist Organization of Amer- ica closed its forty-first convention in Detroit with an attack on what it termed Nazi violence and brutal ity toward Jews in Austria and Ger- many. Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago was elected president. the commission { | | Radio Must Be Fair J, QUAL treatment of rival ecandi- + dates and political parties is demanded .by the Federal Commu- nications commission In new rules governing broadcasting of political speeches. Under these regulations a station may refuse time to all political candidates for an office, but if broadcasting privileges are granted to one candidate, equal time must be offered to his rivals. The rule applies to all national, state, county, and municipal office seekers. Rates shall be uniform for all candidates, the FCC rules. 2 Problem of the South J E-ESTABLISHING a balanced economic system in the south- ern states is considered by Presi- dent Roosevelt the No. 1 problem of the nation and he says it must and can be done. He appealed to 25 southern leaders, assembled in Washington at his request, to draft plans for the economic restoration of their section of the country. Lew- is Mellett, director of the National Emergency council, presided over the conference and read Mr. Roose- velt's letter. Though he did not comment on the effect that the new wages and hours law may have on southern industry, he did say that one of the great problems in the South is that of labor and employment. He spoke also of problems ‘‘growing out of the new industrial era and, again, of absentee ownership of the new in- dustries."”’ “It is my conviction,’ dent wrote to Mellett, ‘‘that the South presents right now the na- tion's number economic prob- lem-the nation’s problem, not merely the South's. For we have an economic unbalance in nation as a whole, due to this very condi- tion of the South. ‘“The purpose of your conference is to produce a restatement of the econ conditions of the South and their relation to the rest the Presi- one the mic of the ay do somet!l The task, Mr I braces sources of joosevelt said, em- wasted or neglected re- and abuses suffered by the soil; need for cheap fertilizer and cheap power, and problems presented by the popula- tion itself. land water; Urge Garner to Run I EFORE he left Washington for Texas, Vice President Garner told friends that he positively would not be a candidate for a third term. This started imme- diate speculation on his probable attitude toward heading the Democratic ticket in 1940. It was asserted by some of his asso- ciates that Demo- crats in all parts of the country were writing him urging him to be a candi- date for the presi- dential nomination. Senator Logan of Kentucky said if Garner should seek the presidential nomination he would be hard to beat. Senator Burke of Nebraska said he believed Garner would be in a receptive mood if he were offered the first place on the ticket. Neither of those statesmen be- lieves Mr. Roosevelt will seek a third term, and that seems to be a general belief in Washington, nfo Yanks and Johnny Rebs EVENTY-FIVE years after they faced each other in deadly con- flict, some 2,000 old soldiers gath- ered in friendly concert to celebrate the great Battle of Gettysburg. The Stars and Stripes and the Stars and Bars flew side by side on the once bloody field, and the veterans of the Northern and Southern armies that fought there in one of history's biggest battles wandered together over the hills and meadows or sat in their tented city, exchanging rem- iniscences and renewing old friend- ships. In the Gettysburg National Mili- tery park, comprising the battle- field, had been erected a Beautiful peace memorial, and President Roosevelt was there to dedicate it on the afternoon of July 3. At the top of the monument’s shaft is a 1afs it Vice President Garner plies “The Flame of Eternal Peace.” This was kindled by the President as the climax of the day's celebration. From a common platform Com- mander-in-Chief Overton H. Mennet of the Grand Army of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief John M. Claypool of the United Confederate Veterans spoke to their comrades, —f— Real Drive on Depression year the administration began ing fiscal year relief agencies, army and navy, public works departments and federal lending corporations may pour out approximately $8,500,- 000,000. Some of this money is re- turnable to the treasury. Adminisiration officials said this for every person in the nation—was needed because there are approxi- mately 10,500,000 unemployed in the Ofcials left little doubt they hope ci to get business positively on the up- grade by Labor day, although econ- omists estimated it would take a upturn to recover the lost since last summer, CENTRE HALL, PA. | | National Press Bullding WASHINGTON. — Considerable | doubt seems to be arising in many quarters whether Doubt the New Dealers Arises are quite as much concerned over uplifting living standards of the poor as they are concerned over their votes in the fall elections. These doubts which are now in the form of a flood of inquiries obvi- ously arise from two incidents which have occurred here in the nation’s capital. Rather, there were three incidents, for it was the first action that made the other two in- cidents significant. Let us take them the circumstances: First, President Roosevelt lately has signed the new wage and hour law. Under its terms, wages paid employees and the hours which they work throughout the nation now be- come a matter of federal jurisdic- tion—if the employers of those work- ers buy or sell anything outside of the state in which the plant or fac- tory actually is That is to any business operating in interstate commerce must now com- ply with a federal I: to wages paid and hours worked, and meet the regulations laid down Washington bureaucrat after the law becomes effective-—October 24, 1938, None of these may work more than (five hours) nor can they be paid less than 25 per hour during first year of the law. In the second re- located. say, hours a ce numbe 0 42 per week and the rate rises to 30 per Thereafter, the work week cents lowest > “e 3 sy ™ * at nour Add I i apg ” of manuia I jiividual turing es- of them home localit affected by the law, are privileged, for once, to pay for and not be under orders from Wash- ington. This is the law that was fought off so long by senators and repre- sentatives from the southern states. They demanded that some consid- the South where cidedly different from of the United States. They did not get a complete differential in scales but they obtained a compro- other parts crat, the wage administrator, to extent. Living costs in the South southern are not being as efficient. the act with areas Passage of some leeway of flexi- these problems of the South. of the incidents. Mr. Roosevelt's signature to the wage and hour bill was affixed on kins, chief of WPA, the professional reliever of the administration, is- sued an announcement. By the terms of the order he released, all unskilled workers in the 13 southern states — something like 500,000 — working on relief payrolls were treated to a pay raise. In addi. tion, some other classes of WPA workers were given a pay boost, but the numbers were not disclosed. Certainly, they are fewer than the class known as unskilled workers. The action was taken, Mr. Hop- kins explained in his announcement, “pursuant to a general administra- tion policy of bringing income lev- els of the lowest paid workers of the South more nearly in line with the income levels of such workers in other parts of the country.” » * * It will be recalled also that while the wage-hour debate was at its hot- test in congress, Mr. Roosevelt went into the deep South to lecture employers on the low wage levels. He spoke at Gainesville, Ga., in vig- orous language to the effect that the South was being held back because employers were paying wages that were too low to maintain a satis- factory standard of living. That speech came in the midst of argu- ment by southern members of con- gress that even WPA was paying Hopkins Answers compelled to accept a new drain on their production costs. Thus, we see Mr. Hopkins has an- swered both arguments. By increas- ing the WPA levels of pay, he has effectively sealed the mouths of the southern opponents of the WPA and at the same time has forced the industries about which Mr. Roose- velt complained to meet a new kind of “competition’’ for workers. Anyone who knows anything about the factors that govern wages, and they are all very human conditions, recognizes that southern industries will have to increase their pay rates—or watch WPA take over the workers. For it remains as a that certain types of persons prefer to go on WPA than ularly, even if the regular provide a somewhat greater money return each week. That condition re- sults from the fact WPA has had such a loose system of planning the work to be done and to the further fact that among the WPA labor there has been absolutely no disci- pline; no one who can compel a full day's work for a full day's pay. It is one of the tragedies, dark and dangerous, of the present system of reiief that men are taught to loaf on the job instead of working that their families may have somewhat more of food and clothes and things to enjoy life. . But, as treacherous as the Hop- kins policy appears from what has been stated, there is yet a very much worse angle. It can be traced through most easily. By raising the WPA pay levels in the South, Mr. Hopkins thereby forced new levels of pay in the industries of the South. 1 have visited many parts of the South and I believe I can safely say that manufacturing esta sh ments have been able to avoid losses in their operations during the eight years. rais the levels and brir ig about a competition for the available work- ssor Hopkins saddled upon indiietrie inousiries few : last 3y ing the added burden of expense, South, I hear that cost will mr ie plants; continue ope their money prices of their the consumers auses me to wond an From some parts of the added pay- ean the closing of others are going and try to get creasing the thie is son to ot ation Workers any y vy whe noney when length as prelude to real effect of Real WPA boost and Cbjective " we what 1 believe to be the real objec- of the New Deal If WPA and industrial pay levels are tive action. obvious that the exemptions and dif- tors and representatives thought obtained are absolutely and completely nullified. The New Deal- ers who have the President's ear that which congress re- jected as*a direct action, and they of the Democratic party straight to the wolves So, now we can consider the third doubts to arise concerning the sincerity of the program. This chorus was sung by Aubrey Wil liams, assistant WPA administrator -No. 2 man for Mr. Hopkins. He, too, made a speech. It was ad- dressed to the Workers Alliance, which is an organization that has gone so far as to participate in strikes among WPA workers to to do its bidding. The Workers Al- liance bigwigs came to Washington to fight against a proposed WPA cut in pay for artists and actors. They said they represented something like 200,000 WPA workers, and nat- urally the WPA workers must con- tribute something out of their pit. tance to support of the organization. Well, Mr. Williams advised the WPA workers *““to stick together.” He urged them to discover who are “your friends'’ at election time. “We've got to stick together,” said Mr. Williams. “We've got to keep our friends in power. I don’t need to tell you. You know your friends very well, or must know them. Just judge the folks who come and ask your support (at elec- tions) by the crowd they run with. thing are the men you are going to send to the elections’’ by winning in the primaries. There were repercussions against the Williams outburst, and the sen- ate investigating committee may call the speaker but I doubt it. The 000 borrowing-lending-spending bill that were designed to keep the dis- tributors of relief money out of poli- tics. Isn't it rather difficult to be. lieve this money is being used solely for relieving the destitute? © Western Newspaper Union. 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