WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
TEW YORK.—With Edward R.
Stettinius Jr. as chairman, the
newly announced war resources
board can be expected to function
. swiftly and
War Board Chief smoothly. The
Runs Days on chairman of
Belt Conveyor
the board of
the United
States Steel corporation oes from
his home at 21 East Seventy-Ninth
street to his office at Broadway and
Rector by subway to save moments,
more.
Stettinius is that reputed rar- +
ity, a rich man’s son who has
made good. His father became
an industrial leader in St. Louis,
and was invited to become a
Morgan partner. The son lost
little time after his graduation
from the University of Virginia
in beginning his business ca-
reer, not because he had to, but
because he wanted to work. He
was 24 years old when he went
into General Motors in 1924, 31
when he became vice president,
34 when he was made vice chair-
man of the finance committee
of U. 8S, Steel and 38 when he
took the top job as chairman of
the board.
"Modernity stands out in the strong |
lines of his figure, his crisp speech,
politics and business. They say he
nearly fainted when he first saw the
office furniture of the 21 floors of
the Steel Corporation building after
he became chairman. The rolitop
desks and similar items were un-
changed since the days of Judge
Gary. The refurnishing began im-
mediately under Stettinius and was
thorough.
Mr. Stettinius plays neither bridge
nor golf; he takes his exercise on
the bedroom floor, and occasionally
goes out to his 500-acre farm in Vir-
ginia.
cles
WEN A. TOMLINSON, the man
who forbade the building of
an 11-foot mound on the top of Mt.
Rainier so that it might retain its
1 thi
Holds No Honor Fy ay
Lies in Artificial tain in the
. : . United States,
Adding of Cubits Wis Obes o
captain in the Philippine scouts un-
der Gen. J. G. Harbord. Before
that he was a buck private in the
United States army, in which, al-
together, he served 14 years, parti-
cipating in the Filipino insurrection.
He was born in Whitestown, Ind., 57
ing the army, he was appointed su-
perintendent of the Rainier Nation-
al park.
i When Tomlinson, sorrowfully,
refused to permit the Tacoma
chamber of commerce to pile,
as it were, Pelion on Ossa, thus
bringing Rainier a foot higher
than Massive of Colorado, he
underwent some of the tribula-
tions that used to be his when,
as lieutenant-governor of the
sub-province of Ifugao in the
Philippines, he had some 130,000
head-hunting savages to handle,
However, report has it that pub-
lic clamor is dying down, a
tribute to Captain Tomlinson's
persuasive tact in convincing his
fellow statesmen that little
of the genuine honor lies in the
artificial adding of cubits to
stature,
—Pn
co as minister of air in the new
Moral: Talk Up
To Dictator——if
You Know How
himself as pre-
mier. So far as
advices from
Spain are con-
news concerning Yague heard since
the fall of Toledo.
Outspaken always, he is the
man who, in preliminary ma-
neuvers of the advance upon
Lerida, accused Franco of sane-
tioning the bombing of open
cities and of sounding off too elo-
quently in praise of German and
Italian contingents in the Rebel
army. For this contumacy, re-
port had him behind bars and
later a suicide—both, to quote
Mark Twain, greatly exaggerat-
ed,
Later, when he was removed from
command of his Moroccan corps, a
personal disaster, specifically, the
garrote, was reported to awaiting
him.
And so what? Nothing short of
bestowal of the aerial portfolio and
the consequent strengthening of the
falange as the backbone of post-war
Spain.
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WEEKLY NEWS
PORTER
Mobilize
their difference by
1. Direct negotiation,
2. Submission of these controver-
sies to an impartial arbitration in
which they can both have confi-
dence, or
3. Agree to the solution of these
controversies through the procedure
of conciliation, selecting as concili-
ator or moderator a national of one
of the traditionally neutral states of
Europe, or a national of one of the
American republics which are all
of them free from any connection
with or participation in European
political affairs.
EUROPE:
Near the Abyss
Through the doorway of historic
10 Downing street stepped Neville
Chamberlain, prime minister of
Great Britain, dressed in somber
black and more grave-faced than he
has been for months, Not even the
cheers of the crowd which lined the
streets as he made his way to the
Parliament building, drove
gloom from his features.
Standing in the house of commons,
eighth time since the World war, the
premier, twisting his hands and
a speech, heard by millions of lis-
teners all over the world. No long-
er an “appeaser,” Neville Cham-
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
“Imminent peril of war.”
dition of complete readiness for
war,”” that Great Britain found it-
self “faced. with imminent peril of
war,” and that a German attack on
Poland would mean certain and im-
mediate war.
“The understanding we gave Po-
land was given before any agree-
ment was talked of with Russia,
and it was not in any way depend-
ent on any such agreement being
reached,” he said. “How can we,
tion which we had so often
plainly repeated?’’
As he went on in a cold,
voice reviewing the treaties which
“formally define our obligations but
do not in any way alter, add to or
subtract from obligations of mutual
assistance which have already been
accepted’ his listeners realized that
he was telling them that Britain
would go through with the present
crisis to the bitter end, even if that
end meant war. And the men who
““appeasers’’ who had
cheered his other ‘crisis announce-
ment’’ that he was flying to Munich
to talk to Adolf Hitler, now cheered
“appeasement’’ now.
Chamberlain opened his speech
by the declaration that “new and
the Emergency Powers
bill,
rial,
approval by parliament. Before
that time the king had held a privy
council at which he signed an order
authorizing the government to
mobilize the navy, naval reserve
and the Territorials (home guard)
when necessary.
Meanwhile the ominous tramp,
tramp, tramp of armed men was
sounding in other countries direct-
ly involved in the crisis. In Poland
500,000 more men were mobilized,
bringing the total force under arms
up to 1,700,000. In France 2,000,000
men were called to the colors.
On this side of the Atlantic Presi-
dent Roosevelt cut short his North
Atlantic fishing cruise and hurried
back to Washington to confer with
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
Undersecretary Sumner Weiles. His
first step was to send a personal
message, via Ambassador William
Phillips, to King Vittorio Emanuel
of Italy expressing the hope that
the king would find some way of
the maintenance of peace.
Five hours later Pope Pius XII,
supreme head of the Catholic
church, went on the air with an ur-
gent appeal for peace.
Twelve hours before Great Brit-
ain's parliament met in emergency
session to give Nev-
ille Chamberlain dic-
tatorial and war-
time powers, anoth-
er meeting was held
in the massive-
walled Kremlin in
Moscow. Its purpose
was to put the finish.
ing touches on an act
which had brought
Europe to the brink
of the abyss of war.
Ribbentrop Chief figures at this
meeting were Joachim von Ribben-
trop, German foreign minister, and
They
were there to sign and seal in the
tries,
ed one of the most
sensational political
rope since the World
Under its
terms, these two na-
which have
for years, have
agreed not to go to
war against each
for at least 10
A
Molotov
from
years.
Not only did
fear of ha
it free Germany
ng to fight enem
well as the wes
as she di g in the Worl d
it put an end to British
French hopes of
join them in a tri-powe
“stop Hitler.” Instead it gave 1
the “go ahead” signal for his plans
for the dismemberment of Po
and it meant that if Englan
to defend Pc
across the Er
front, war,
land, she
and her
channel wo
the support of the Sov
soldiers anc ud thous:
That is the unmi
icle of the
pact which stated th
the two ¢
ticipate in y gro
which directly or irec
ed against the other party to
agreement." Little wonder,
hail th
ally
2,500
An nds of pla nes
riet’s
akable meanin
non-ager
at “Neither of
g parties will par-
S8i10N
¥ is point-
then,
is coup
matic triumphs by Der Fuehrer.
Last act in this latest drama of
in Moscow
airplane of the saddened members
of the British and French mil
missions who for four months have
been trying to get wily Joseph Sta-
lin and his advisers to sign a mutual
capitals and saw on every hand the
cal fact that, when they left Mos-
cow, the Soviet press was hailing
the pact with Germany as
ful instrument for world peace!”
PAN-AMERICAN:
Argentinian Trade
To compete with the trade of
“certain European countries’’ which
have been ‘developing at our ex-
pense” and to remove the greatest
single obstacle to a united front in
the Western hemisphere, the United
States will soon sign
a reciprocal trade
agreement with Ar-
gentina. Announce-
ment of this plan
was made in Wash-
ington this week by
Sumner Welles, act-
ing secretary of
state, who said that
the negotiations
would begin at once.
Characterizing this
as "a welcome con-
structive step in these unhappy
times,” Diplomat Welles let it be
known that preliminary discus.
sions, which practically guarantee
the agreement going through, have
been completed. When it does go
through Uncle Sam will have of-
fered his strongest inducement, the
enlargement of mutual trade, to
conciliate a nation which had stood
at the other extreme of Latin Amer-
ica in policy as well as geography.
Next to Canada, Argentina was
the most important trade outlet for
the United States in the Western
hemisphere during the past year
with its imports from this country
valued at more than twice its ex-
ports to its northern neighbor, No
less important than enlarging this
trade outlet is the fact that this
new agreement roay forge another
link in Pan-American resistance to
totalitarian doctrines,
Sumner Welles
AGRICULTURE:
Milk Strike Off
New York city housewives are get-
ting milk agin for their children
after a nine-day ‘‘drouth’” but they
are paying % of a cent a quart
more for it. Afiler two days of
negotiation brought about by
Mayor Fiorello La \
Guardia, the strike
of the upstate dairy
farmers came to an
end when the C. IL.
0. - supported Dairy
Farmers’ union vot-
ed at Utica to accept
the compromise of-
fered by the New
York Metropolitan
Distributors organi-
zation.
The compromise La Guardia
provided for a blended price to
farmers of $2.15 per 100 pounds (47
quarts). The dairymen's union orig-
inally demanded $2.35 a hundred-
weight instead of the $150 they had
been getting.
Two increases in price already
had been made since the recent res-
toration of federal-state marketing
control under orders set up by Sec-
retary Henry A. Wallace,
FAR EAST:
Japan Says ‘No!
Insisting that the economic ques-
tions at Tientsin are “purely Brit-
ish-Japanese,” the Japanese foreign
office has rejected a British sugges-
tion that other powers be called in
to discuss the question. This rejec-
tion was Nippon's answer to British
rejection of the Japanese conten-
tion that Chinese silver deposited in
foreign concession banks should be
turned over to Japan and that Brit-
ish support of Chinese national cur-
rency be withdrawn. The British
had advanced the view that since
economic questions concerned other
“all parties to the nine-
an opportunity to express
Although the Japanese statement
this suggestion, it was
careful not to close the door to fur-
discussions of issues growing
Meanwhile the kil
ing of two pro-Japanes Chinese po y=
and the Wortiling of six
a British policeman im
into
in Japanese-
ced the
take a
others by
ions. Anrio
embassy “We
grave view of this affair.”
DOMESTIC:
relat
A tale of vi sits
stigatin ng un-/ mer
in the States
by Henry D. Allen of
formerly active in ti
America and one
the American
short-lived successor to
Silver Shirts in southern California.
More dramatic than the appear-
on the witness stand of the
rts of
White
the
HENRY D. ALLEN
Had Arabs Picket,
purpose of the organizations he
represented was to “fight Jewish
Communism,” was the threat of the
committee to prosecute 37-year-old
Fraser Gardner of Washington
whom they accused of seeking a
job as a committee investigator in
order to spy on its activities, Gard-
ner first denied that he had any
ley of Asheville, N. C., leader of the
Silver Shirts, but when confronted
with evidence that he was receiving
850 a week from Skyland Press,
Pelley's publishing house, he cried:
“As God is my judge and may I
never leave this seat, the Skyland
Press, Pelley or any of the people
connected with him know of my ap-
plication to this committee.” Un-
convinced, the committee asked for
action by the United States attor-
ney.
After having uncovered plenty of
evidence of Nazi and Fascist activ-
ity in this country, the committee
will next turn its attention to Com-
munism, Chairman Dies has an-
nounced. First witness will prob-
ably be Gen, W. G. Krivitsky, for-
merly a high official of the Soviet
military intelligence division and
author of a series of magazine arti-
cles describing the work of Russian
secret and political agents. Scied-
uled for deportation last meath,
Krivitsky's departure was delayed
until the committee could question
him.
Disobedience
Often Sign of
Forgetfulness
® IMPULSIVE ACTS OF
child are made without
thought either of being obedi-
ent or disobedient. Help in
remembering often much
more necessary than any
form of punishment.
By GEORGIA LOTT SELTER
so heedless and disobedient?”
comfortably. “They behave as they
do because they are children. They
thought either of being obedient or
disobedient. You must expect such
knowledge that
brings.
experience
help in remembering
much more frequently than they
need punishment. This belief is
based partly on my own never-to-be-
forgotten childish experience with a
detested red apron. My aunt, with
whom 1 lived, made me a big red
apron from one of her old house
dresses and said: ‘Lucy, you are to
put this apron on over your school
dress each morning until your work
but several times
rushed heedlessly away to school,
flaunting the apron’s faded ugliness
for all to see. My aunt always sent
a message by an older girl who
was our neighbor, reminding me to
remove the apron. And no reproof
was ever considered complete until
these episodes of the red apron
were held up to me as evidence of
“I've never forgotten the unhappi-
ness and embarrassment they in-
curred. Yet how easily my aunt
might have prevented them. She
could have said, ‘Always come to
me before you start to school to be
sure you look nice.’ Or, ‘Always kiss
me good-by, Lucy.” My love-hungry
little heart would never have al-
lowed me to forget to do th at, you
may be sure! And there would have
been no hurting apron episode.”
“But Henry's case is different,”
said Mrs. Lance. “He is a boy and
should learn to take responsibility.
Yet he never remembers his chores
or his errands.”
“Appreciation Lightens Labor.”
‘He just needs the help of a little
reminder,” insisted Mrs. Jaynes.
“Suppose you mention it casually
before his father each time he does
his work well and without being re-
minded? Even we older folks find
that appreciation lightens labor.
“Try to make work pleasant. Nev-
er use it as a punishment.
“Let work lead naturally to suit-
able rewards. If Henry helps you
with the dishes and tidies the house,
it would be quite evident that you
would have more time. Perhaps
you could both go to the movies or
for a ride. When he has learned
to prepare food he can have picnics
and parties. If he keeps his room in
order, let him know how restful you
find it when you go in to spend a
few moments with him. If he takes
good care of his clothes, brushing
them and hanging them up neatly,
he would be happy indeed if Mother
should buy for Father and him two
articles just alike.
“If Henry is apt to forget his du-
ties, do not credit it to disobedi-
ence but study how you may make
it interesting and profitable for him
to remember. Children dread to
work alone, so make his duties, so
far as you reasonably can, some-
thing that you can share. Do not
expect results beyond the ability of
his years. Praise him when he does
well. Reward him in a natural and
sensible way. Help him remember
“And presently you will have the
quired the habit of reliability and
accepts work as a pleasant and
National Kinderga arten Association
WNU Service.)
Ben Jonson Burial
Tradition says that Ben Jonson
minster abbey was not
enough for the body to be placed
tion.
“eighteen
Charles
kept his promise and Jonson was
buried with his head toward the sky,
the only occupant of the abbey to
be so honored. The famous inscrip-
tion, “O Rare Ben Jonson,” was
cut in the slab over his grave. Many
years later a portrait bust to his
memory was placed in the Poet's
corner.
Many Violate Law
It is against the law in the United
States and Canada to open a pack
of cigarettes from the bottom; hun
dreds of thousands daily break the
federal cigarette law by failing to
destroy the tax stamp on every
pack of cigarettes consumed.
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